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ARMY’S FAMED 2nd DIVISION
TO BE INACTIVATED NOV. 8
Col. Allen Clark Will Be
Engineer In Charge of
North Pacific Division
Col. Allen F. Clark Jr., 47, will
(become division engineer, North
Pacific Division effective Dec. 1,
it was announced last week by
Maj. Gen. E. C. Itschner, chief
engineer.
The North Pacific Division has
jurisdiction over Corps of Engi
neers activities in Alaska, Oregon,
Washington, Idaho and western
Montana.
Col. Clark, who is now serving
«s district engineer, Philadelphia,
succeeds Brig. Gen. Louis H.
Foote, who is retiring from active
service Nov. 30.
Col. Clark’s headquarters will
toe in Portland, Ore.
Lt. Col. Gordon Gray
Is New Commander
Of ACS in Anchorage
SEATTLE—Lt. Col. Gordon D.
Gray left here last week to replace
Lt. Col. Glenn M. Vinquist as dep
mty commander of the Alaska
Communication System in An
chorage. The announcement was
made by Col. Carl H. Hatch, ACS
commander.
Lt. Col. Vinquist, who has been
deputy commander since 1955,
will attend the Armed Forces
Staff College in the States.
„ A hearing was held on Ed Web
ster. old pioneer prospector who
has mined for many years on the
side of Anvil Mountain where he!
has his camp.
It is planned to send him to the
States for medical care and at
tention.
* FT. LEWIS, UR—Troops of the
1 battle-born 2nd Division marched
their final review here Saturday,
their cadence echoing a muffled
tribute to the thousands of dead
colleagues they lost in the battle
fields of Korea.
The division, with elements
here and in Alaska, is slated for
inactivation Nov. 8.
Organized in France during
World War I, the Indian Head di
vision was one of only two Amer
ican commands to be awarded the
French Fouraguerre, the red and
green shoulder cord worn by 2nd
Division soldiers.
Some 50,000 men were with the
division in Korea. Its battle losses
were heavy. Thousands of its men
were killed, wounded or captured
when the Chinese Reds stormed
down from the north during the
bitter winter of 1950-51.
Those who were returned from
captivity reported inhuman treat
ment by their captors during sub
zero weather. They told of being
starved and deprived of ordinary
necessities of life as part of a
brain washing program.
Two major elements of the 2nd
Division participated in the last
review. Other major elements of
the division are in Alaska. Two
infantry regiments are to be con
verted to battle groups, the
Army’s new streamlined basic
unit for fighting atomic wars.
The elements of the division
here will be transferred to other
army units, most of them here
om the post.
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Palmquist j
are leaving very soon for the j
States due to the fact that their!
infant son Stephen has a serious |
heart condition and it is neces- j
sary to be near specialists. They!
expect to winter in Seattle. !
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Athletes Abduct |
Campus Queen
But All in Fun
CORVALLIS, Ore., MB — Pearl j
Friel, the Oregon State College
homecoming queen, was back on
the campus today after being ab
ducted as a prank by four Uni
versity of Oregon lettermen ath- j
letes.
Miss Friel, from Hawaii, said
she had a wonderful time. So did
her princesses, Luann Mullen, Al
bany, Ore., and Verle Pilling of
Portland, who also were ab
ducted. In fact, the princesses
kissed their abductors goodbye i
after they were released.
The abduction took place on the
Oregon State College campus
shortly after noon. The four Uni
versity of Oregon athletes—base
ball catcher Ron Dodge, track
star Steve Anderson, miler Jim
Grelle and golfer Bob Prall —
posed as reporters and photogra
phers from a Seattle newspaper
and talked the girls into getting
into a car.
They drove the girls to Prall’s
home at Salem, Ore., where they
were chaperoned by Prall’s par
ents. When word got around that
the girls were at the Prall home,
I they were taken to another resi
dence — where again they were
chaperoned.
Then the men began worrying
about the consequences of what
they had done and acceded to the
girls’ wish to be returned to the
OSC campus.
It could not be learned what
penalty, if any, would be imposed
upon the abductors.
NLRB Rules Union
Can’t Bargain for
Its Own Employes
WASHINGTON, UP) — The Na
tional Labor Relations Board has
ruled a union cannot act as bar
gaining representative for its own
employes.
The ruling came Friday in an
NLRB decision which found the
Teamsters Union—hnd several of
its affiliates — guilty of unfair
labor practices in dealing with its
employes.
The board found the Teamsters
International and several affiliates
joined to prevent Portland, Ore.,
office employes of the union from
joining another union.
The board ordered the Team
sters to offer new jobs and back
pay to five women found to have
been fired illegally to discourage
their union activities.
North Korean Airman
Who Defected to West
Joined in U.S. by Mother
SEATTLE, UP)—Unemotionally
and with but few words, Saing
Kum Ko has rejoined the son who
gained fame and $100,000 when he
defected from the North Korean
Air Force in his Russian-built
Mig fighter in 1953.
The mother arrived in Seattle
Saturday by plane a day after her
son, Kenneth Rowe, arrived here
on a short vacation from his
studies at the University of Dela
ware. Mrs. Ko is the first immi
grant to enter the United States
under the new refugee law.
Rowe told newsmen his mother
said she was glad to be in this
country and it was like the ful
fillment of a dream.
Rowe was No Kum Sok when
he flew to South Korean territory
in 1953. Since coming here, the
pilot Americanized his name and
has made continual efforts to
bring his mother to the U.S.
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Ray Horton Starts j
White Alice Training ,
Three members of a new class
of technician trainees starting last.
week on a White Alice course will i
probably find they know much!
about their first subject, arctic
indoctrination.
Already experienced Alaskans
are K. Phillip (Ray) Horton of
Nome, Sidney Porter of Spenard,
and Harold Ostrosky of Naknek.
Besides learning conditions at
the various White Alice sites, the
trainees receive instruction in
how to live with the country, and
how to meet any emergency which
might conceivably arrise.
Passengers Escape Thru
Chute as Plane’s Engine
Catches Fire on Takeoff
NEW YORK, UP) —A London
bound plane’s 21 passengers and
eight crew members escaped in
jury Friday night when one en
| gine of a Trans World airliner
caught fire on an Idlewild iVir
i port runway.
j The plane had taxied several
j thousand feet of the 8,000-foot
j runway when the blaze broke out.
The pilot immediately brought
the craft to a halt, and all aboard
scrambled to safety through the I
Constellation’s emergency chute. |
The cause of the fire was not
immediately determined.
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Search Abandoned
For Mystery Ship
Sunk Off Vancouver
SEATTLE, UPt—The search for
survivors of a large fishing vessel
which reportedly burned and sank
40 miles off Vancouver Island
Saturday was ended by the Coast
Guard last night after bits of
i burned wreckage were found
floating in the North Pacifc.
A Japanese freighter inbound
to Vancouver, B.C., reported see
ing the burning fishing vessel
Saturday. The stricken vessel
was described as being about 70
feet long and painted white.
A fishing boat of that size nor
'mally would carry a crew of five
to ten men.
An intensive air and sea search*
by the U.S. Coast Guard and Ca- I
nadian search craft failed to turn i
up a single clue as to the fishing!
boat’s identity or the fate of her '
crew. No fishing vessels have been
reported overdue. i
Did You Know?
NORMAN WAS MANAGING
and maintaining the Juke Box
es and Amusement Machines
for Juke Box Steve.
O' course Norm has Johnny
as his 1st assistant—you know
the Doc—with the Black Bag.
But the bag has only a few
tools, 'cause Norm and Johnny
have Plenty of Savvy and
know-how.
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