s
Increase
On Watershed
Being Sought
I Can. the amount of .snow de
posited on a mountain watershed
be increased by artificial means?
: A scientific answer to this ques
tion is sought this winter by the
Oregon State college agricultural
. experiment station working In co-
Deration with the irrigation divi
cion of the Soil Conservation ser
vice and. three irrigation districts
- In the Rogue River valley.
Dfotrlcts '.Finance Project
. Financed largely by funds con-
f Hbuted by the irrigation districts,
the project will make use of two
ex-navy flyers who worked this
past summer for the Rogue River
Valley Traffic association on an
ernerimental hail control cam
paign. By attacking certain cloud
Xormatlons, or "thunderheads. as
they formed around the rim of
the valley, the aviators believe
they stopped at least eight dam
aging hailstorms during the sea
son. Valley fruit shippers and allied
industries were so impressed by
the apparent success of the venture
that they have contacted with the
two flyers to continue their work
next season. Whether the crotec
tive work was responsible or not
the fact is there were no hail
storms in the fruit area from May
14 to September 30 while the
fivers operated, compared with an
average in past years of nine
thunder storms per season each
, a potential hail storm. Hail fell
this season in nearby foothills
outside the "protected" area. i
More Snow Wanted
The project aimed at increasing
.anow fajl on (he. watershed will
Involve different methods, accord
ing to the two . flyers, Harvey
Brandau and Eugene KooserV In
hail control work they try to dis
sipate cumulus clouds that "stack"
to great heights. In inducing more
anow they will seed dry Ice
through thick i stratoform clouds
that already hold moisture want
ed on the watershed. ".
The SCS engineers have laid
out a syitem of measuring; points
over an area of some 250 square
miles which will be checked dir
ectly after flights are made. Snow
measuring stations outside the
area will serve as a check against
the observations made within the
watershed.
Although large scale experi
ments in weather - control made
in the middle west by govern
ment agencies gave results con
sidered impractical economically,
the local experiment is designed
to show i whether conditions in"
the Pacific northwest are enough
different to hold possibilities of
valuable weather manipulation.
"ELECTION NOV. 30
BUENA VISTA The November
JO meeting of the Buena Vista
Woman's club will feature a no
host dinner at noon and a regular
business meeting in the afternoon.
Officers for the coming year will
be elected.
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Stockton last night 'after a mock bombing ran on the) central California city. The other crashed two
oiilea aay. ten or more of the crews of 21 died. Associated Press wirephote to The SUtesman.)
Story on pe ftT S '
Magazine Lauds
Military Display
At Oregon Fair
A story publicizing the armed
forces exhibit at the 1949 state
fair in Salem is displayed promi
nently in a recent issue of Man
power, official journal of the sixth
army recruiting service.
The exhibit, sponsored by the
Salem military manpower com
mittee, was noted 1 as the "largest
ever held in the west and prob
ably in the entire country."!
The journal paid tribute to
outstanding work of local man
power committee ! members, who
are pictured alongj with Mayor R.
I Elfstrom, Gov. Douglas McKay
and ranking Pacific coast mili
tary officials. :
The Controversial B-36
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VISIT IN IDAHO
SPRING VAIXEY W- Mr. ana
Mrs. Harvey McLaughlin and Don-.
na, accompanied by Ray McLaugh
lin of Wobdburn, were week-end
guests at the home of Mr, and Mrs.
Max Schlottman, Parma. Idaho.
Mrs. Schlottman is a daughter of
Ray McLaughlin and ' niece . of
Harvey McLaughlin.
KIDS DAY PLANNED f
"KEIZER Keizer Community
church will respond to Kids Day
by providing a free films program
for all children of Keizer on Sat
urday morning, November! 19, at
10:30 a.m. Plans are underway to
make this a regular weekly feature
if funds can berraised to purchase
a projector. i '
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Our New Friends
Sale
"Mom Were Wonderful!
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YYour reception, to our debut in Salem was most ;
inspiring ... a truly great compliment for which
we extend our heartfelt thanks.' We accept your
cordial welcome and in so: doing we assume an obliga
tion ... to render the best possible Fashion service pos
sible .... having the things you want at prices you j
want to pay .. . . anil offering courteous, helpful shop
.ping service through our staff of fashion-conscious sales
I ; 'people. "We. were thrilled with, your welcome . . .we j
i . .want, to merit your continued patronage and friend-
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We again restate our policy
. "To sell the BEST FASHIONS procurable at the LOW- j
, ' . ;EST, PRICES? with Satisfalioii guaranteed with every !
purchase or your MONEY jREFUNDED with no ques-
HOMEMAKERS TO MEET
Mrs. Virgil Sexton's adult
homemakers class met for a
flower show and arrangement
session at the Coca-Cola building
in Salem. The class will com
plete its first phase of training
with the show. The remaining
three classes will be devoted to
fruit arrangements and Christ
mas greens. Mrs. Charles Cole
will judge the flower arrange
ments and corsages.
Filipino Folklore Gathered
By $alem Teacher Published
Thm Stat man. Sale-m, Ofgon. Friday, Noramber It, I34fr-1
Aga
tions asked.
in.
thank
you
To the hundreds who could; not ,he served on, our open-
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Filipino folklore, gathered dur
ing a sojourn in the islands more
than 40 years ago by Mrs. C. A,
Ratdiff of 170 Ratcliff dr, Salem,
is published . in detail in a recent
issue of the Journal of American
Folklore.
Forty-two stories, including legr
ends of the; Philippines and the
island versions of fairytales and
superstitions,; are included in the
edition.
Mrs. Ratcliff was a teacher in
the Philippines for the United
States government in 1908 in a
provincial high school in Pagsan
jan, Laguna. The stories were pro
vided by her pupils after Mrs.
Ratcliff had! suggested that one
of her classes, which had been
studying Washington Irvings "Al
hambra," collect local folk tales.
An editor's note in the Journal
of American Folklore explains
that:
These folk tales, collected by
Mrs. Lucetta Kellenbarger Rat
cliff and her students more than
40 years ago, were accepted for
publication in the Journal in 1939
by its then editor, the late Ruth
Benedict Since Dr. Benedict re
tired from the editorship at the
end of the same year, the tales
were not published, but handed
down in the backlog (of stories)
to subsequent editors. . . . The
editors have . . . chosen to in
clude them in the Pacific Num
ber because of their wide variety
of types and motifs," -
Oil refineries in the United
States refine 37 billion gallons of
motor fuel annually.
School Survey Groups
To Meet Here Friday j
"PORTLAND Nov. n-iJP)-tL D.
advisory committee will 'meet
with the state board of education
in Salem Friday to decide what to;
do about its survey of Oregon 's)
elementary schools. if i j
Attorney-General George Neu-
ner has said that the committee on
education lacks authority to- hire:
an educational rexpert to survey;
the school ! system. He suggested;
the committee study the set-up -it
self.
Conscientious, Dignified
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