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12 The News-Revlew, Rosebura, Ore. Thuri., Dec. 8, 1949 Sight Restored To Teacher Blinded By Atom Rays PITTSBURGH UP A college prolessor, Minaea a year ago uy atom rays, can see today thanks to medical science. He Is Dr. Alexander J. Allen, 48, In charge of the University o pitfthurgh' atom-busting cy clotron. Neutron radiation maim ed his eyes and he didn't even know It until later. Last July he went to New York's Columbia Presbyterian medical center. There Dr. Alger non Reese removed the togged lens of Dr. Allen's right eye. The atom expert now sees with the aid of heavy-lensed spectacles. Dr. Allen exclaimed: "It's getting better every day. I'm going to have a second op eration to have my left eye cor rected. I can't go now, though. I'm teaching again. I have a class In nucleonics now. I'll try to have the other operation next summer during vacation." ACCIDENTS' HUGE COST PORTLAND UP) Every 16 seconds industry Injuries a work er. Kvery tour minutes one is crippled or killed. That's what Cyril Alnsworth of the American Standards associa tion, New York City, told the gov ernor's Industrial safety confer ence here. "We know how to prevent more than 90 per cent of these acci dents, but the toll continues," he said. Hoke Simpson. New YorK exec utive of General Foods corpora tion, added that most "are caused by damn foolishness." tie urgea a campaign 10 puim Education Aid, Like Gl Bill, Suggested SPOKANE UP) The federal government should take a tip from the GI bill of rights If it wants to help higher education, the finance committee of the Northwest regional conference on higher education stated. The committee suggested that "If federal aid Is necessary for permanent construction," ft should be in the form of low In terest loans. Other aids should be In the form of scholarships and fellowships to individuals out paid to the schools of the student's choice, the committee said. out to management the economies accruing from safety practices. 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James Faught, center, declared he was "no cook" as he pass ed out slices of the bird. His customers were inclined to disagree with him, with his display proving one of the most popular commercial exhibits at the show. Also pictured are Bill Cox, behind reil, Dan Fosgate, right, and two of the salesmen's wives. ( Staff photo). atPENNEY'S i A WORLD OP Hundreds of new dresses at only 2 FUIX SKIRTS IN NEW BRENTWOOD COTTONS -TliirMtyaw 79 ififW And ,when we say terrific ... we mean terrific! Here, two examples from a big, varied collection ... street dresses, house dresses, every one a real C&C buy! Left, mitered stripes, emphasize skirt fullness . , . right, a best seller with 40" covered zipper front. Many more. 12-52. 279 VAlUsUl Basuto Ritual Murders Worry British Justice By R. F. S. DEWDNEY JOHANNESBURG, South Afri ca UP) Ritual murders In Ba sutoland are presenting British authorities with one of their most Uii!cu!t problems in African ad ministration. In this normally law abiding country, where half the popula tion are Christians, the bodies of 293 victims of ritual murders have been found by police In the last seven years. There is reason to believe at least twice as many cases have gone undetected. In the same period 121 Basutos have been convicted of ritual murders and 72 acquitted. Judges of Basutoland high court have sentenced both men and women to death In batches from five to 17, but it has made little lmpres slon. The gruesome killings go on. A ritual murder, as practiced bv the Basutos. consists of .seiz ing a victim and cutting various. portions oil ms body, possioiy skinning and scalping him, while he is still alive. "Medicine" made from the blood or the body after death Is considered useless. When mutilation is comlete the victim Is knocked on the head, throttled or flung over a cliff. Wall of 8ilenoe In trying to stamp out these crimes colonial authorities find themselves up against a blanket of silence. Villagers will not tes tify or give evidence against one another .and refuse to incrimi nate the witch doctors and chiefs believed responsible. The natives are tongue-tied bv fear and superstition. This makes convictions so difficult that Jus tice F. E. T. Krause, in sentenc ing one Basuto to death and ac quitting lour others recently, sug gested provision be made In the law for a verdict of "not proven" to enable police to charge a man a second time if additional evi dence becomes available. In this particular case an old woman nearly 100 was slain. Her son, aged 73, told the court he agreed to sell his mother to the accused lor 40 pounds ($112K The motives behind the mur ders are obscrure, but generally are attributed to the desire of chiefs and witch doctors to re gain their former powers, weak ened under Christianity and mod ern progress. To do so they have fallen back on age old customs and superstitions that are still only just under the surface of most Basuto skins. DARING SURGERY WINS LOUISVILLE, Ky.-l!B Ever ett Mills, 60, will walk again, thanks to daring s'trgery. While watching a power saw demonstration Oct. 8, Mills step ped too close; the saw slipped and nearly severed his legs above the ankles. Nichols hospital for veterans was nearby, and the Jefferson county farmer was taken there. An examination showed the heel cords and arteries In Mills' legs were intact, and physicians decid ed to gamble on a 1,000 to one shot They won. Days and weeks af ter the operation, Mills' feet re mained warm. Now, he's looking forward to going home a differ ent man from the one who mut tered after the accident "I don't want to go on living without my feet" Japanese Papers Tell Of 'Apology' From U. S. Flier TOKYO, VP) Japanese newspapers tried to picture Tom Lanphler, 34, former American fighter pilot, as apologizing for shooting down Japan's top war admiral. . During a stopover here on a global flight to commemorate the Wright brothrs' Kitty Hawk feat 46 years ago, Lanphler was persuaded by Japanese newsmen, at the airport to meet the widow of Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto. Lanphler's guns . cut down Yamamoto, then commander in chief of Japan's combined fleet and planner of the Pearl Harbor attack, on an inspection trip to Bougainville in April of 1943. The widow, Mrs. Fei Yamam oto, 53, was presented to Lan phler at the airport A leading afternoon newspaper splashed a story later that the American had presented a bou quet to Mrs. Yamamoto "in memory of the late admiral." Another newspaper, missing that angle, said Lanphler promised to help the admiral's son go to an American school. To most Japanese this would have meant an apology by, Lan phler. Officials of Pan-American Air ways said this is what heppened: Japanese photographers broueht Mrs.Yamamotot o the airport and persuaded LanphieK' to meet her. They also producea; a bouquet and asked the Amerl-! can to hand it to the admiral's widow while cameras snapped: busily. . Later Mrs. Yamamoto said she wanted to send her son to an. American school. Lanphelr re plied if the boy reached the Unit-" ed States he would be glad to meet him. A throng of Japanese newsmen wanted to hear details from Lan phler of how he shot down a seaplane bearing Yamamoto and others to Bougainville. The Jap anese government has never of ficially described how Yamamoto died. The American government withheld the news of (he inci dent during most of the war to f prevent the Japanese from know ng American experts had brok en their code. - (The actual sortie that result ed in Yamamoto's death was planned under the direction of the late Adm. Marc Mltcher, who was in command of American air in the Solomons at the time. Yamamoto's plane was shot down by army planes which caught it off Bougainville o n April 18, 1943 one year to the day after the Doolittle raid on Tokyo.) Lanphler. from 1945 until last summer editor of the Boise, Ida, Statesman and now a partner in an atomic research corporation in Colorado Springs, Is flying on to Honolulu. He makes his home In Washington, D.C. . , CALL OF WILD TOO WILD PASADENA, Calif .-) B i 1 1, the raccoon portion of the Bill Sherman family. Is back home. He tasted freedom with his wild brethren and they can have The pet 'coon broke out of his pen at the Sherman's mountain cabin. But three weeks later came a scratching at the door. Outside, the Shermans saw Bill, bloody, torn and whimpering. The family's theory: Bill tan gled with wild cousins who didn't take to his sleek, home-fed appearance. it. x atPENNEY'S' . A WORLD OP Thrifty Gifts STAMPED PILLOW CASES 1.79 pair A new shipment of 42" pil low tubing 66" long, enough for one pair of cases. 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