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6yCH.J BLONDIE 1 0 Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore. Sat,, Nov. 21, 1953 Noisy Webfoots Celebrate -VI,-, .....-.-.Kin Vl''l MV CONSCIENCE BOTHERED W FIBST. IT WAS MRS. WOOOLEV.. ) II 1 't ii CM COMING OUT AND J mF 1NTHERE DOH-JG TftsJEE WHO'S C SHE WANTS ME TO COME n fTtTn wsssj 5SsHSR 3sssspm Um IT WAS A HAPPY GROUP OF STUDENTS bent on making the most noise possible as part of the annual Homecoming events Friday night on the University "BEAT THE BEAVERS" was the theme of many of the homecoming signs on the University of Oregon campus this weekend, but others expressed the theme of the (RpRlitpr-Gttarrt photos, Wiltshire engraving) THE BOY WITH THE HORN did his best to make some noise as part of the Friday ceremonies. He's Gary Peter son, university student, who presented his "act" in the noise parade. New Terms Set In Plant Sale WASHINGTON lT The General Services Administration reported Friday it has agreed to new terms In Ihe sale o( a Salem, Ore., alum ina plant In Ihe Harvey Machine Co. of Teranre, Calif. Harvey hid $32.'i,0O0 for Ihe plant which Ihe government built during World War It at a cost of five million dollars, The contract contained a provision that Har vey could not sell the plant with in five years after acquiring it. The new agreement permits re sale in Iwo years from the lime Harvey receives Ihe deed. The agreement also provides that Harvey will continue the ex periments for which Ihe plant was designed to determine whether alumna could be made from clay bearing ores in Ihe area The company now Is developing I site at The Dalles for a multi- million dollar aluminum plant The firm also has other inter ests in Salem. Lawrence Harvey, executive vice president, holds a license for KP1CTV, a UHF television slation. He is expected to start construction w ithin a few weeks. Group to Ask State Speed Limit Law PORTLAND iP Gov. Paul Pat terson and slate traffic officials said Friday that the next Legisla ture probably will be asked to approve a speed limit law. The state now has a "basic rule" lhal permits high speed providing the car Is kept under control. The statement was made at a meeting of the Highway Lifcsav- ers, an organization attempting to reduce traffic accidents, Olher speakers were Walter Lansing, of the stale police and director of traffic safety, and n. II. Baldock. State Highway Department engi neer. Autopsy Shows Infant Pneumonia Victim An autopsy has shown that the seven-mnnlhs-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter I.eerssen, 28R1 River Road, died of virus pneumonia. The husky boy died Nov. 6 while napping at Ihe home of his grand parents. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Sim mons, Marion Apartments. The autopsy surgeon said that there are four or five similar deaths in the area each year and that they ran easily happen while the parent or guardian is exer cising reasonable care. II hap pens to children so young that their "cough reflex" is not yet developed, he said, (Register-Guard photos, Wiltshire engraving) campus. Trucks loaded with students made the circuit, clanging and banging on pieces of metal and operating mechanized noiscmakers. annual Homecoming event "Alums and VVc, '7b to '53. Two of the signs arc shown above, with some of the in tricate workings improvised by the U of O students. 3 Vets Found, 2 Still Have Cash 'Coming SALEM OB Three of the five missing Oregon claimants of World War II prisoner of war benefils have been located through newspaper and radio publicity, the. State Veterans De partment has reported. The two living veterans who turned up are Albert Leo Willis, of Bandon, whose former address was Umatilla; and Charles Mur ray Roberts, Portland, who used to live m Coos Bay. The third missing claimant was Wallace Glenn Taylor, Portland, who moved to Los Angeles, and then died. His widow, now Mrs, Beverly Slaten of Los Angeles was visiling in Portland when she saw her late husband's name listed. So she filed a claim for it. The two claimants who still are missing, and their last known ad dresses, are Robert Grimes Carl ton, Portland; and Walter Amend son, 1412 Tcarl St., Eugene. Veterans who were held prison er in World War II get SI for each day they didn t get adequate food, and $1.50 for each day of inhumane treatment. The payments have amounted to as much as $2,000. Knowland Proposes Far East Meeting CHICAGO iipi Senator Major ity Leader W ilham F. Know land Friday proposed a conference of free nations in the Far East to promote, military and economic cooperation. The California Republican, who relurned recently from a six- week lour of the Far East, ad dressed Ihe Executives Club of Chicago. He said Ihe conference of Far Eastern nations should be called by Ramon Magsaysay, newly elected president of the Philip pines. Knowland said Magsaysay's election has made Ihe Philippines a symbol of freedom through out Ihe world. Dinner Slated LONG TOM Plans have been completed for the annual Long Tom Grange pre Thanksgiving dinner to he served to Ihe public naiurday. Nov. 21. Serving will be from 6 p.m. to B p.m. in the .ILL t lub hall, eight miles west of .Junction City on Ihe Ferguson Road. A lypiral - Thanksgiving menu w in be ottered. ( Register-Guard photo, Wiltshire eng.) British Revise i Regency Acts LONDON im The Duke of Ed inburgh took over the regency rights of Princess Margaret Fri day as amendments to the 1937 Regency Acts won final approval. Queen Elizabeth II assented to Ihe new legislation Thursday night shortly after its final pas sage by the House of Lords. The House of Commons had unani mously approved the bill 10 days ago. Now, if the Queen dies or be comes incapacitated before her 5- year-old son Prince Charles is 18, her husband would become regent ahead of her sister. In the succession to the throne. however, Princess Margaret still slands third in line, after Charles and his baby sister, Princess Anne. The Parliament rushed passage of the bill so action would be completed before the Queen and Ihe duke leave on a Common wealth tour. They are scheduled to depart Monday, going first to Bermuda. Lioness Saves Trainer, Then Killed by Tiger MILAN, Italy iff, A circus lion ess, which fought oft an enraged tiger lo save her trainer, lost her life Friday in a wild new battle with the same tiger. Roger, Ihe tiger, attacked train er Leonida casartolll in a cage during a circus performance at Acqm Nov. 1R. Niagara, the lion ess came to the rescue and held the tiger at bay. Casarlclli reported that Friday while traveling between Acciui and Nov! Ligure, he heard wild roars in the wild animals cage and stopped the caravan. He found Ihe loyal lioness dead, torn lo pieces by Roger. Southern Pacific Co. Sponsors Essay Contest Children whose parents work for the Southern Pacific Co. arc given a chance lo earn a $100 bond and further the company's safely program. "What My Dad's Safety Means to Me" is Ihe title of an essay contest recently announced bv SP To be eligible, a child's par ent must be employed by SP or by a subsidiary and the child must be 16 years of age or young er. Deadline for the 200-word es say is midnight Dec. 15. Further details are in Ihe cur rent issue of the SP Bulletin. Philly Board Fires Teachers PHILADELPHIA Wl The Board of Education has suspend ed 27 teachers because they re fused to answer questions about alleged Communist connections. Bluntly, the board said tnc teachers "do not recognize or do not understand that public office is a public trust" and said their conduct had jeopardized the rep utation of 8,000 Philadelphia pub lic school employes. ANNOUNCED FRIDAY The suspension of 26 was an nounced Friday. One teacher had been suspended two weeks ago. Sixteen of the educators had been witnesses before a house un-American activities subcom mittee this week which came here to investigate alleged Red infiltration among the Quaker City's teachers. All had refused to give information about alleged Communist connections, invoking the 1st, 5th, 9th and 10th amend ments. Leon J. Obermayer, acting board oresident, said those sus- nended had shown "a shocking disregard for their responsibili ties as teachers of our children.' Meantime, a prominent New York attorney, Morris L. Ernst, general counsel of the American Civil Liberties Union, condemned "tawdry" and "stupid" the sub committee probe hearings headed by Rep. Harold Velde (R.-Ill). The hearings had Been televised locally. UNEASY CLIMATE 'Committees such as this one have given the country a climate where you either have to whisper on account of fear or shout be cause of insecurity," Ernst said. Obermayer pointed out the sus pended teachers will be Riven hearings to determine whether any, or all, should be fired. He said the public should be "fair and patient. Dean Named Army Deputy WASHINGTON W Maj. Gen, William Dean, of Korean War fame, has been appointed deputy commander of the 6th Army at San Francisco, the Army an nounced Friday. Dean will take up his post Jan, 1, relieving Mai. Gen. Frank H. Partridge, who will retire at ihe end of this year. Dean has been receiving medi cal treatment at the Army s Wal ter Reed Hospital here for sev eral weeks after his release from more than three years of captivity by the Communists. He was the first American to be awarded the Medal of Honor for valor in Korea, among the first to be captured and one of the last to be exchanged after the armistice. Mrs. Klinge Endorsed By Lane Educators The Lane County Division of the Oregon Education Assn. has endorsed Mrs. Lucille L. Klinge, county superintendent of schools, as a candidate for pres ident of the department of rural education of the National Educa tion Assn. She is one of five educators in the nation who have been nominated. An election among NEA members in the 48 states will be held in January to select a president. The Lane division of OEA the educators' professional group met this week at the Osburn Hotel for a business session. Joe Stewart, superintendent of schools at Coburg, is presi dent. Acoustics Dispute PHILADELPHIA Mi-Embroiled in a controversy over acoustics, the Philadelphia Orchestra will play half of its concert Friday night from the conventional shell at Ihe Academy of Music and half on the open stage. Season ticket holders will be asked to say which sounds best. H1CKEY-FREEMAN CLOTHES McDonald Theater Bids. ON ALL MATTERS PALMISTRY READINGS FORTUNE TELLER ADVICE OPEN DAILY -4410 Franklin Blvd. Glenwood Phone 4-1519 Common For Every r orm of Life By DELOS SMITH United rresi Slatf Writer NEW YORK API A world-fam ous scientist wno soivca one 01 nature's toughest riddles has said that all forms of life, whether an imal or vegetable, have a basic unity which suggests a common origin. The unity of micro-organism, the green pea, bird, fish and the man is in one universal cycle" by which Ihey they produce chem ically the energy which is the proof of their life, said Dr. Hans Adolf Krebs, of the University of Sheffield, Eng., co-winner of this year's Nobel prize in medicine. Discoverer of the celebrated Krebs energy cycle," he said he could now demonstrate its exist ence in mammals, birds, fish, in pea and bean seedlings, and the microscopic animals, protozoa and he believed it existed in all liie on earth, whatever its form. Possibly there are some uni cellular organisms which are ex ceptions but there is no evidence that there are and there is no evidence of the existence of an other mechanism," he said. He was here to receive another and purely American recognition a Lasker award of Ihe Amen can Public Health Assn. He spoke at an interview granted in con nection with that occasion Speculation on the origin of life, he said, was more in the Weight Helps Cushion Shock PHILADELPHIA W-Her ox cess weight may have helped save the life of a 45-year-old woman who fell, 13 stories from a hotel window, Jefferson Hospital phy sicians say. That, plus the facts that a skylight broke her fall and she landed in a sitting position, Staff doctors said Mrs. Betty Green Kaskin s plumpness cush ioned the shock. And while in a sitting position, they explained, the body is best able to diffuse shock. The woman, who is reported re covering from the fall Nov. 13 suffered a number of cracked vertebrae, broken ribs, a torn kidney and compound fractures of the right leg. Yeggs Given Prison Terms ROSEBURG W) Three men who blew a market safe and stole $450 worth of cigarettes were given prison terms here Friday. George R. Barber, 44, of Port land, whose record shows five previous felony convictions, in cluding one which resulted in a 15 year sentence in the Washington Slate Penitentiary, was given 25 years. John Daugherty, 42, of San Irancisco, and George Schneider, 28, of Seattle, each were given three years. They blew a safe, which was empty, in the Neilsen Market Oct. 26. The cigarettes were re covered the same day the men were arrested. Square Dance MOHAWK - McKENZIE Grange will sponsor a square dance at the hall Saturday, Nov. 21. Doors will open at 8 p.m. for instruction and practice, and the dance will begin at 9 p.m. Serving commit tee is Mrs. P. W. Robinson and Mrs. Earle Gallup. Reack for fii f!loi 111 ''T ' 1650 W. 8th Origin BelieveJ realm of "philosophy" lhan lhal. of science yet speculation was scientifically useful because sci ence grew from concepts and concepts grew from philosophy. Had life meaning Ihe phenom enon of living by which bacteri um, Ihe dormant seed in which no lite can be demonstrated, and the highly complicated man are 11 "alive resulted from chance? That, said Dr. Krebs, was "a genuine problem." This far he would go if life had to start again from scratch from the chemical stew in which there was no life the present 'higher forms would not be du plicated. From this he went on to rea son that earth's forms of life, al least Ihe higher forms were absolutely unique in Ihe universe and could not exist on any other planet He granted Ihe possibility that some of the lower- forms might possibly have reached other planets and thus now existed elsewhere in the universe. Some microorganisms have displayed their ability to withstand the cold and the heat "especially the heat that would be countered in migrations through inner-stellar space. But the Espionage Ageu Fight Savage Wc FRANKFURT, Germany 11 Allied Intelligence men are deep a constant espionage war which knows no international boundaries and is fought for the most part in secret. It is a savage conflict. The Rus sians spew out spies regardless of losses in their efforts to pierce the security of the West. Only the big cases reach the public. FIVE ARRESTED The Russian atom spy ring in Canada started it. Just recently, Rudolph Roessler, master Rus sian spy, was netted in Switzer land. Norway's security battle flared into the open this week with the arrest of five persons in a Soviet spy roundup. , In the background a network of intelligence specialists in Western Europe quietly pushes the fight. It is a campaign fought on Economics Club Sets Food Sale JUNCTION CITY-Home Econ omics Club of the Grange will hold a cooked food sale at Gun- son's Appliance Store Saturday Nov. 21. from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Pie and coffee will be served all day and members are to ne sure and bring pie for refresh ments as well as food for the sale. Serving on the committee arc: Mrs. Oran Wells, Mrs. Dewey Nickcrson, Mrs. J. T. Lorang and Mrs. Ralph Witcher. Workers and their hours are: :30 to 11:30 a.m. Mrs. Ed Lyons, Mrs. John Dieck hoff and Mrs. Chris Wilde; 11:30 to 1:30 p.m., Mrs. Lawrence Wells, Mrs. Glenn Lee and Mrs L. W. Forcht; 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Mrs. A. G. Johnson, Mrs. James McMullcn and Mrs. Mary Free man; 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., Mrs. War ren Owings, Mrs. Max Nielsen and Mrs. Roscoe Paine. Cashiers are Mrs. Raymond Butzbach and Mrs. Clarence Pitney. CcL Spring fa W GOLDEN GUERNSEY The largest selling premium in America and sold onlyW Echo Spring Dairy. Miiphoi- .. 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