MONDAY, OCT. 10, 1949
HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
PACK NINE
h Quiet Bulldog
Crommelin, Siraight Talking
Skipper, Has Plenty of Spunk
Hr KI'TII COWAN iiffrnslve la "beliit; lillildrd tn
WAHIIINOTON, Oil. I la-t-What death'' and IU morale destroyed,
manner of nieti Cept. John (I Herrlllre
Onimmrllil Jr.T lit aald h realized ha likely wan
In appearance. Ilia key man In Uiaaiiig away navy career, but
tha currrnt uproar about navy nm- did In Ilia hop that cniiKrasa would
rala la allm, and two Inches ahurt 1 Investliiale.
of all feet. Ha wcluhe I7U pound.. tar. C'roriiinrlln, tha for
lla haa a qukk rangy itrnle. nirr Lillian t. l.amlla ol Han lJiriw,
Ha haa aanny uiona nair ana ma i .am . nave wirce ruiiciren. i ne
tolu eyaa can look at you vary j family calla Wriunipaa. Ala., home
vaunt and aharply. Ilia lined fata Hn la one of five brother., all
Indlratea hie Inner teusenraa. trailuetc of the naval academy. All
Last tsunrtay he waa 47 yeare old but one trained at pilot. Two were
jle waa born In Montgomery, Ala. killed In tha last war.
IllillniuUhrd Krrwd
lie had a dltlngulhed war rec i
ord. And very ahortly he waa duel
to be considered for promotion to!
tear admiral.
Ilia frlendi aay ha haa the teuecl
ly of bulldog. He ! positive In
itli convictions,
s Aa a pilot he la ralrd "lop.'
Rear Adin. Austin K. Doyle, head
of Uie naval air training program,
described him aa "one of the great
eat naval avlatlona o all lime."
Ilia IMS claaa yearbook at the
'naval academy described him aa
"carrying a mean wallop" In hit
Jlt. He waa Introduced aa "a typi
cal Bouthern gentlemen, fond of
vLa, llllle children and pretty
ikhmen.'
Keen foe Aviation
The young eiulgn waa keenly In
terested In aviation. Hut flral the
navy required he apend two yeara
on aea duly. Thla done, he went to
tha naval air elation at I'ensacola,
l-to.
Pront tha time he flnUhed hla .
training In IIKI6 until the outbreak;
of the war he had a variety of avl
, alKin aaauinment that gave hlin e-
tenalve training.
i When war rami he waa on duly
! In Washington. In June, IWJ. he
waa aaaigned to Uia rarrler Enter
! prlaa.
. While Crommelin eerved with the
; "Big I" It participated In the oc
' cupaUon of Guadalcanal and in the
! baltlee of the Mlewart Ulanda, the
; Holnmon Islands, and Uie Kennel
lalanda.
Cited rer Bravery
! Ha waa commended "for eapecl
J ally merltorloua pertnrmance of
duly under fire." Ilia "calm emir
! age" waa noted aa well aa Ilia akill-
ful aggreaalveneaa and fighting aplr
It ha waa credited wlih inaialling
. In tha pilota ha led.
He waa aboard Uie Dacombe Bay
! when ahe waa torpedoed and aunk
; In the Oilbert Ulanda.
In recent weeka there haa been
an outrnipplng of "lettera to edi
; Uira" about Crommelin. One of
. theaa came from a former enlisted
; man who told of Crommelln'a cour
age when the Llacomoe Bay waa
aunk.
Calm Conrage
He wrote Uiat after Crommrlm.
, badly burned, made It la a rescue
j craft he quit calmly dlacusaed
whether It waa worth while for him
', to hang on.
After the war. Crommelin had
; more Waahlnglon duly and then
J pan waa ready to go to aea he waa
. namea ner nrai saipper.
) A couple of more eaMgnmenU and.
' then, laat April, he waa attached to
! tha Joint rhlefa of ttaff, thla conn
! try'a military high command. Then
' ha publicly charged that the navy'a
Youngsters
Learn Work
Of Firemen
Ftr Marahal Roy Rowe of tha
city fire department haa takrn over
a project of organlilng atudent
firemen In the city elementary
school.
Each achool haa atudrnt chief
and aaaUUnt chief, whoae Job It la
to nveraee achool fire drllla. In
addition to the two lop JoIm, cap
lalna, room marahala, Imiiectora
and firemen are choaen In each
achool.
liadgea are fumlahed by Uie Junior
firemen. Job of tha captalna la to
check completion of drllla and
notify tha chief aa anon aa each
caplain'a aectlon la free of occu
panla. Room marahala lead their
rlaaaea out of the building, are In
formed of at least two eilta from
their aectlon of the building and ee
that all children are out of the
room.
Rowe aald the Idea of the plan l
to Impreaa upon the clly'a achool
youngsters the Imixirlance of pre
caullona agairnt fire and to mnke
them conacloua of fire dangera.
Four Found Shot
To Death
FORT WORTH. Ten . Oct 10 IPi
Potir person were found ahot t o
death today at their home In u-
burhan Oak Knoll
They were Identified by neighbors
aa'
Mra. Richard O. finch, about 33:
Penelope Pinch, I. her daughter:
Allan Pinch. 7. her eon: a Mra
Walker, Identified aa the children'!
maternal grandmother.
I A next door neighbor, Mra. T C.
Huklll, dlacovered the bod lea when
! ahe went to Inquire about the rhll
I dren whom aha uaually drove I o
! achool with her own child,
j Mra. Huklll aald ahe laat aaw the
family Haturday. Neighbors aald
ihe grandmother had come here re
cently from Florida.
tram tha people In old-age penalon
expenaea for that year.
Thoae In favor of the present aya-
tern argue If Uie government had
borrowed from banka or other pri
vate organualiona, by aelhng them
bonda, Uie government would have
had to pay Intercut on them any
way. So part of the Income t a I
money paid by people who alio
pay tha hoc la I aecurity tax would
have had to be uaed In paying off
Uie Interest on the bonda no matter
who had bought thoae bonda.
To Buy or Bell Uae the Want-Adil
Washington State,
Dairy Champ
PORTLAND. Oct. 10 iP-Wah-Inaum
tttale college carried off
firat honora yeaterday In Uie annual
Intercollegiate dairy Judging con
tent at the Pacific International
Livestock Exposition.
Ranking behind W. 8. C were
Unlverilty of Idaho, Oregon Bute
college. University of Britlah C o
lumbia, Colorado State college, and
Montana State college.
In the dairy product Judging, the
Utah 8UU college team Waa flral,
Unlverilty o ( Idaho team aecond
and Waahlnglon Stale college third.
About U par cent of Uie Tjreel.
denta of Uie United States hate been
of English. Welah. Scotch or Scotch
Irian extraction.
JACKETS and CRUISER COATS
Black Bear Seattle Waolrn lllrach Wrlae
All Colore and Hiiea
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TYPICAL SCHOOL FIREMEN ore these two young boys who were chosen chief ond os
sislant chief ot Fremont Junior high. From left ore City Fireman Roy Rowe who is or
ganizing the jun.or firemen, Fremont Chief Cordon Campbell, Assistont Chief Rudy Wes
tm, ond Principal Lowell Koup. A umilor progrom is being conducted in oil the city's
elementary schools.
Tax Titxy
Here's Old-Age Funds Setup,
And Arguments Pro and Con
B JAMKK MAM.OW fund. Invested In those government
WA.SHINOTON, Oct. 10 tJf' Do bonds, la earning money. So mucn
you ever wonder 'what happens to for that for a moment.
Ihe aoclal aecurlly tax you pay Into The government haa a debt of
the old-age jem.u-.n plan? ' 1244.000,000.000. II got Into that debt
There are argument over how ln " n1 fP"'on
handled. But,'"- ., . ... .
1 liai a wurji uie cwv ui iuioiiiik
the government far exceeded the
money It waa able to collect, moatly
that tux money la
Ihrre la no aign that the preaenlj
The argument will be outlined
briefly here. But, tint, here la Uie
background.
You and Boaa Pay
If you're covered by the penalon
plan, you ana your oom rain py
yearly one per cent of your aalary
I ur to the first I'lOOO
I That'a a total of two per cent you
and your bona pay. The government
i now t collecting yearly about II.-
In Income and corporation taxes.
So, aa It got further and further
Into debt and needed exua money
to keep going. It borrowed money.
It did the borrowing by selling
bonda to banka. life Insurance com
panies, you and me, and to the
aoclal aecurity reserve fund.
Interest
On all the bond It sold, of course.
13000 of aalary, also pay Income
taxea.
And part of their Income la
uaed for paying off aome of the In
terest on the debt Including the
interest on the government bonds
bought by the aoclal aecurity fund.
Double Taxation?
Critic of the present system aay
Uite la double taxauon. They suggest
that Uie old-age penalon plan be
placed on a pay-as-you-go basis,
which means:
Instead of collecting enough ao
clal aecurity taxes every year to
pay out aoclal security benefit for
Dial and allll have enough left over
to build up a reserve that can be
lnvesved ln government bonda, Uie
government ahould collect yearly
InliiHins knnili mA In IK. uwi.l
Otw.000 that way. . aecurity 'reaerv. fund, the govern-
Out of that. It a paying yearly In mr.t
. . . nl4 ntluf Kntfll b ft U I '
The original foreat area of t h e
United Blatea la estimated at S30
million acres nearly half the
country' land area.
17.000.000.000, leaving a yearly
I serve of around f 1.100,000.000.
Since 137. when It first started
. collecting this Ux. Uie aoclal se
curity system haa built up a re-
, serve of around 111.700.000.000.
I The money doesn't lie Idle. Con
gres said It should be Invested in
government bonds, which now pay
I around J' per cent Interest.
Bo the aoclal aecurlly reserve
So the government ha a double
Job ln handling that debt: to pay
off aome of the debt while at Uie
same Ume paying Interest on It.
The man and hi employer who
pays a total of two per cent aoclal
aecurity tax on the man' 1 1 r t
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