Scholars, Not Snoopers
Or Sirens, Rated Best
For Intelligence Work
Br CLARKE BLACK I
WASHINGTON, July 11 (!')
Lack of trained imrcr person
nel tended lo make United
States Intelligence activities be
fore war rather amatour
lh, lilt and nilsa enterprise.
Thin lo Hume extent la bring
corrected. From li'iuuma learned
In (ha war, tlio national Intnlll
lienca authority (NIA), uur new
foreign lulollltlntica ytnn, It
proceeding on broad, realistic
linen,
The emphasis today la on
large a t a ( ( a of tcholura and
technlcul specialists, rtitlier than
on sinister Internnllonul snoop
era and wily female charmers.
"Nlnuty per cent or more of
Inlolllgence la freely available
to anybody who wanla It," anya
William Benton, assistant acc
retary of atate for pulillc a(
falra. "You can gut It In librar
ies and b(Mkiihopi and on ncwa
stauda, from Indlvldtiala and
from our accredited missions
abroad. Il'a open Inlulllgvnce."
Musses of audi (lain are chan
neled back lo tliln country to
secretaries of stale, war and
navy, who compose NIA, and
vnrluui other government agen
cies. Often the most prosaic gov
ernment announcements regard
ing contracts, shipments and as
signment of personnel reveul
Information of high strategic
value.
Much Avallabl He,
Within the United States are
hidden mines of Information
about foreign powers. In fact,
officials of the now disbanded
office of strategic service (OSS)
estimated that 110 per cent of
the Information used In the air
war against Japan wus obtained
within tills country from the
files of banks, Insurance com
nanles. engineering companies.
business firms of all kinds and
the private records of Indlvldu
Is.
The navy obtained highly Im
porlaut Information regarding
tne beachea of Okinawa from
shell collector living In the
midst of the Arizona desert. Mo
had spent yeurs on Oklnuwu
studying I ho shells.
' Under Or. William 1.. ling
er, former Harvard historian
who during the war was chief
of the research and analysis
branch of OSS, the atute de
partment la organizing a unit
employing hundreds of scholars,
formerly lit OSS.
They will muko broad, syste
matic studies covering many
areaa and Including ull phuses
of a subject: economic, ethnol
ogical, historical, political, etc.
Subjects will cover those with
which dlplomuts, occupation ol
flclali and military men must
deal, such as the Itulir, the
Turkish straits and the Itullun
situation.
Vocational Guidance
Offered By Gl Bill
Veterans attending school or
learning a trade or profession
under the Gl bill may now re
ceive the advantages of experi
enced vocational nud education
al guidance. Zcno Dent, veter
ans administration representa
tive In this area, has announced.
The servlcea of the guidance
section, Zcnt explained, have
been devoted largely up to now
to advising disabled veterans,
since the procedure is re
quirement of the law for these
men before they take advantage
of educational or training bene
fits. However, the law pro
vides that VA guidance facili
ties ahull be available to all vet
erans, and with the bulk of the
"urgent" cases out of the way,
personnel and facilities are now
available for all veteruns wish
ing to take advantage of them,
Dent sold.
'Mongold' Proposed
At Dam Town Name
I'OHTLANI). July II ''
The mi i im of Mongold for the
Detroit dum protect town on
the North Siuilluin river bus
been approved by the chief of
army engineers at Washington
U. (J.
The niunn will honor Claude
C, Mongold, Eugene, a member
of thu preliminary survey party
who wua killed April , lut.i, in
mi auto while returning from
the river alto to hla Eugene of
fice, Caldwell Quits
Lakeview Post
LAKEVIEW. Ore., July 11
C, C. Caldwell, superintendent
of the Lukovlcw school system
since April, 1U43, handed in his
resignation to the school board
and left Tuesday for Anchorage,
Alasku, where he will become
stiier!uteiident of the Anchoraga
school system.
Supt. Caldwell came lo Lake
view from Wasco, Ore., where
he served as superintendent of
schools. His superiiitcndency at
Anchorage is a promotion, and
enrollment In the schools there
consists of 423 high school pu
pils and BOO or more In grudc
schools.
If the necessary permit can
he secured, Caldwell pluns on
driving the Aleun highway.
During his lime In Lukeview
many new Improvements huve
been added to the school sys
tem.
The school board has named
I David Bates, principal of Cen
tral school tne past year, lo suc
ceed Caldwell to the superin-
tendency. Hates Is well qualified
for hla new oosltion. having
graduated from Iowa State
Teachers college at Cedar Falls
and the University of Michigan
wllh majors in education and ad
ministration. Ills teaching ex
perience includes two yenrs at
Filer, Idu.; six years at Cedar
Fulls, la.: one year at Bclding,
Mich., and nine years at Harbor
Springs, Mich., during part of
which limp ho also served as
superintendent.
Ten Girls Enter Contest
For Red Cross Princess
aaAi.p j, wawa, aun rin. o. TnnasoAT, jur ii, mt, tnn
In San Joaquin valley, Calif.,
carp fish. In Irrigation ditches
where food Is scarce, climb the
banks and eat grass.
Old cara and high speed are
a dangerous combination. B
careful. Insure with Hans Nor
land. 123 N. 6th St.
Ten young Klamath girls
have entered llio ited Cross
princess contest, each with high
hopes of reigning over the pro
grain und auction sale Sunday
ut 1 p. m. ul the county fair
grounds.
The girls, ranging In age
from II to 13, are Dolores
Hunt, 3IIS Hillside; JoAnn Hut
ler, 20:i0 Luvey; I'atsy Sum
mers, 201 8 Auburn; Murilyn
Miller, 4:2 N. Ulh; Frances
Stearns, 745 Pacific Terrace;
Juliet Drcldorss, 1 5211 Dayton;
lleverley Eels, Chelsea addi
tion; Charlotte Hc-up, 417 Lin
coln; Gloria Vunderhoff, Wo
cus, and Betty I'inniger, 1152
Crescent.
Other contestants should con
tact Helen Perry, Beth Chase or
Frank Hurd. Entry may be
made until noon, Sunday, the
day of the sale. Entries need
not own a horse, but should
have one available since Judg
ing will be on both personality
and horsemanship. Judges are
members of the Klamath Sad
dle club. Any unmarried girl
in Klamath county may enter.
A complete western riding out
fit will be presented to the prin
cess from the Town shop.
Entries should reqort at the
fnirgrounda to Helen Perry or
Beth Chase of the Saddle club.
'Time' Raises Price
To 20 Cents A Copy
a i
Cheated luf QiajjtimeK
DR. BYRON FRIEDMAN Registered Optometrist in Charge
THE WEST'S LARGEST MANUFACTURING AND DISPENSING OPTICIANS
OREGON WASHINGTON UTAH IDAHO
NEW YORK, July 11 W ! S, Vk VS' f
Time magazine today an-1 A dV ft.-fl
nounced it was raising Its price (AT C I Vi J L?s
to 20 cents on newsstands or i rr vt l Jri- W
$8.50 for yearly subscriptions, j f S.-SF'f
"Time has held to its original x fJF'fl- '
price all during the war years, fffff i I
und now reluctantly makes this "l 1 I ., -1 i. J : 1
announcement because of great- If" mfvh 1 1 I
ly Increased cost," said an an- m I II : I i I
nouncemcnt In the July 15 la- i f) fi . 4 , M M i V I
s . : i yOJLy CJrc3mh A
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II 18.50 11
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