Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, October 09, 1963, Image 15

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Newspaper Page TextWEDNESDAY, OCTOBER . 1S t 6 Wil I": 11'' gMggSg i MEDFORD MAIL OREGON SAFEWAY STOKE OPENS Oregon Shake spearean Festival Director Angus Bowmer, fore ground, and Clarence Lane, right, also known as Mr. Ashland, officiated Tuesday at the open ing of the new Safeway Store on Siskiyou blvd., Ashland. Looking on as the two men cut the ribbon is William Patton, left, president of the Ashland Chamber of Commerce, and Henry Cavallo, store manager. The new quarter of a million dollar building features mosaic tile her aldic shields and abstract design of the Ore gon Shakespearean Festival theater on its front and two sides. The tile design was made for the company at a cost of more than $25,000. (Knackstedt photo) Education Board Welcomes Probe COOS BAY (UPI) - William Walsh, president of the State Board of Higher Education, Tuesday welcomed an investiga tion of the system's fiscal con trol procedures. "The Board of Higher Educa tion welcomes any responsible investigation of the state sys tem," Walsh said. "State law provides for continuing audits of the state system as it pro vides for audits of all state agencies." Slate Sen. Walter Pearson (D Porlland) called for the inves tigation in a speech at a meet ing of the Washington County Public Forum at Beavcrton Monday. Walsh, an attorney, said, "We have worked with the legisla tive fiscal interim committees in past years and prior to the last session on many studies in cluding the subject of increas ing use o( our classroom space and we are continuing to work with the legislative fiscal of fice." "We are constantly engaged In cooperative efforts with the Department of Finance and Ad ministration in the executive de partment," he added. Walsh said "We have been working very closely, with Sec retary of State Howell Appling's office in examination of our fi nancial procedures" and "the audits have not revealed to us any unethical or dishonest prac tices by any employee in the state system." Innocence Voiced In Portland Death PORTLAND (UPI) Roboil Evans, 27, Honolulu, pleaded in nocent in Circuit Court Tuesday to a charge of first degree mur der in the strangulation slaying of an Idaho cattle heiress. The partially clad body of Mrs. Irene Davis, 41, Payette, was found in a bathtub in a room at the Portland Hilton ho tel Aug. 6.. Evans later was ar rested in Fremont, Neb. ' Circuit Judge Charles Red ding ordered the case set for trial. Multnomah County Dist. Atty. George Van Hoomissen said Evans probably would go on trial the week of Oct. 2d. GEN OA, Italy (UPI)-An Italian scientist said tonight supersonic transport planes could replace the first stage of rockets in the launching of satellites. r State Officials At Kelsay Funeral ROSEBURG (UPI) Gov. Mark Hatfield, House Speaker Clarence Barton, and other stale officials and business and labor leaders from Oregon were honorary pall bearers at the fu neral of State Rep. William Kelsay (D-Roseburg) Tuesday. The 50-ycar-old legislator was killed in an auto accident last Friday near Klamath Falls. Former Gov. Robert Holmes also attended the service, which was held in the First Presbyte rian church here. Graveside service was in Eugene Tuesday afternoon. STEEI, IMPORTS NEW YORK (UPI) Steel imports swelled to 2,368,000 tons in the first six month of this year from 2,056,000 (m) tons in the -same 1962 period. Industry officials say imports may ex ceed 4.7 million tons this year, compared with 4.1 million tons in 1062 and the record 4.4 million tons in 1959. WILL SEE GAME WASHINGTON (UPI) Presi dent Kennedy plans to fly to Chicago Nov. 2 to attend the Army-Air Force football game, a contest he helped arrange to be played in Soldier Field. Airdrop inVietnarh Jungles Is Hazardous Operation (Bible Teaching By ROBERT C. .MILLER SAIGON (UPI) Mule Train delivered the groceries to Polei Jor Tuk Buk, 12 tons of them. The shopping list included "C" rations, barbed wire, ammuni tion, bales of burlap and all the household commodities needed to create a home away from home in the jungles of Vietnam. Mule Train is the 315th Troop Carrier group whose C-123s car ry out the Air Force's supply missions in Vietnam. Polei Jor Tuk Buk was the delivery point for this cargo. It was largely a California operation with Capts. Charles Gonzales, Sacramento and Rich ard Ivers, Sacramento as pilot and co-pilot, and TSGT. Melvin Halvorson, Riverside as load master. Canario Hinton, Hono lulu represented Hawaii. The other two non-coms were Roy Whaley, Birmingham, Ala., and R. Bratcher, Auburn, Neb. It was Lt. Dorman Warren's job to find the tennis court - sized drop zone in the jungles and mountains where the ground troops were hungrily awaiting the three twin-engined Fair childs. The delivery boys on mule train wear a special uniform the iron jock straps and some times flack vests to protect them against enemy ground fire, which is an expected haz ard for just about any mission anywhere in Vietnam. I "If it has to be air dropped," j explained the brown-eyed Gon zales, "it means there are prob ably Viet Congs in the area. And if the VC are around, we get shot at." i j i ri i Three things combine to i increases as Gonzales and com-. Vietnamese crewers know this , the updrafts move the plane up , mPR llnOS r 131111011 make the Polei Jor Tuk Buk I pany dodge the towering thun- i is a dirty one and shake their ; and down like a yo yo. But the drop hazardous. The terrain, derheads and zig zag up the ! heads. , hookups are made in time and ! The Rev. De Vern Fromke of the distance and the size of the drop zone. The briefing to the pilots was short and to the point: "Find the DZ. If there is a smoke signal, drop. If no smoke, get the hell out of there." It's early afternoon before the lumbering Fairchild reaches the general area. Halvorson opens the tail gate. Spread out below is the juicy green earth. It's a gold mine for botanists with its giant trees, under brush, clinging vines, ferns and bushes; a collector's paradise for zoologists with its snakes, leopards, bears and reptiles, but a living hell for the men who have to fight, live and some times die in it. The spectacular beauty of the rolling countryside changes as the plane drops lower and low er among the valleys and hills. For it's then that you can see the mass of vegetation, the density of the jungle and the sharp peaks and straight-edged valleys that are interior Viet nam. The mid - afternoon heat reaches up and the turbulence On the run lor the roses, the second pass is made the , Mount Vernon, Mo., is return Gonzales repeats his steeple- way the book prescribes. Gon- jng t0 Medford with a Bible chase cou.se. slides down the : "JtTy M teaching ministry it was an- ridge and rings the bell just as e DZ e bei rings anfj wjth j nounced today, and will hold his they level off over the spotted i a heave the four loaders send . first meeting Thursday, Oct. 10 sweat, cussing as they lurch ! panels. Massed feet, shoulders , u 0ff. This time there are wide j jn the YMCA hall in Medford. about the bouncing plane and j and arms above at the cargo i grins all around as the orange j Tne meetjngs wju contjnue oiiuul mauuiiga dllu uiucra lu aa iianuiawi uiuiuuiu uic i c- anu mine auipcu vuuti-a each other over the din of the straining strap. At that moment their packages right on valley. Even on the ground it's tough work moving the tonnage aft to the fan tail and prepar ing it for the drop. This after noon it is stevedoring at its worst. The crew drips with laboring engines. Warren spots the glade and reports panels and smoke that show the men on the ground are ready and waiting. There's to be one dry run and then three more runs to dump the load. Static lines are hitched, the red light comes on and the bulky crates of rations teeter precariously on the edge of space, held on by one thin strap. The dry run is an indicator of what's to come. The prop pitch is changed and the racket becomes even more deafening as the big blades bite deeper in to the air. Gonzales pogo sticks over the ridge, banks sharply to miss a mountain and levels off just seconds before they are over the panels. Even the two the freighter hits an air pocket that pushes the tail up, and for a split second it's debatable whether the load is going out the back or crashes forward against the straining crew. Gonzales guns the engines, pulls up the nose and the pallets swish out the back. The white chutes open, the plywood pal lets sail along glider fashion and Gonzales heads around the track for the second pass. But there's no happiness aboard, for the chutes drop into the jun gle about 500 feet beyond the glade. There's no time for lamenting, either. The second load has to be moved into posi tion and ready for the drop by signees and "almost exactly" the time the Fairchild comes ! where they ordered it spotted, over the DZ again. Twice the That's Mule Train, freight for hcavy loads nearly escape as warders extraordinary. the doorstep The third and final drop is a repetition of the second with an even narrower escape for Bratcher who just gets his leg out of tha way as a careening load of ammunition sails down the conveyor and crashes into the restraining strap. Three minutes later the plane is empty, the chutes have low ered their cargoes on the glade again and the job is done. The two other freighters will follow us in with their loads and enough material will arrive at Polei Jor Tuk Buk to supply a general store. Delivered exact ly when requested by the con Monday through Friday at 7:30 p.m. There also will be morning meetings Monday through Sat urday beginning Oct. 11. These sessions will open at 10 a.m. in the YMCA hall. Mr. Fromke is the author of several books and is the editor of the magazine. The Ultimate. He formerly held meetings in several valley churches and will minister in some churches again during his Medford stav. His church schedule has not been completed. Daily, beginning Oct. 14, at 10 a.m., Mr. Fromke will pre sent a radio program on station KRVC. Montevideo contains one-third of all of Uruguay's population. Allocation Voted For Medicine Men KUALA LUMPUR (UPI) -The Perak State Assembly ap proved an allocation Tuesday for the hiring of two royal medi cine men for the Sultan of Pe rak. Theii duties include sprinkling rose water on hot water at royal wedding and royal circumci sions. The chief medicine man will receive a salary of $25 per month, while his deputy will get $16.67 per month. During a debate on the appro-, priation, the Perak Chief Minis- ter Dato Shaari assured the j House that the medicine men i were appointed in keeping with j Malay and Perak royal customs j and not for treating the otillan NEW FALSE TEETH LONDON (UPI) National Health Service officials disclos ed today they had approved a new set of false teeth for a Scotsman who swallowed his old ones while sleeping. tiki "7 I M I I 11 0 1 V m MISS BYLINE Ellen McCormack, 18, of Vnllev Stream, Long Island, N.Y., poses after being selected "Miss Byline of l!Hi:l." She will reign at the Byline Ball held bv the Newspaper Reporters Association on Nov. 2. (UPI) On Display . . . The Largest Selection of GAS HEATING EQUIPMENT In Southern Oregon Space Haatari Wall HtaKn Wall Ftirnacat Fercad Air Furnact Suipcnd.it Furnacai Intra Rtd Htattn Comb. Gal Heattr t Air Conditiantr A larjt Stltcrlon tl Mtkei and Modali Autfiorlitd Csltmar, Daalar NATURAL GAS EQUIPMENT CO. 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