Southern Oregon miner., March 25, 1948, Image 8

FIVE-YEAR CACHE
• Y. Court Decision Holds
U.S. Starts Accumulating
W ar Reserve Stockpile
WASHINGTON.—First step to
build up a 2 billion 100 million
dollar war reserve stockpile of the
‘‘critical materials we would need
first in an emergency“ have been
taken by the government. War
Undersecretary Royall reports
Contracts for the materinl are
being let by the treasury’s pro­
curement division, acting as agent
for the armed services. Funds
for the initial purchases are con­
tained in a 100 million dollar ap­
propriation included in the defi­
ciency appropriation bill voted in
closing hours of the recent ses­
sion.
Plans for the reserve war cache
which ultimately will involve pur­
chases spread over a five-year pe­
riod, were drafted on the strength
of actual war experience with
shortages.
'Too Little, Too Late’
m ,iO<
IM THESE UHITED STATES
A viation
The materials will be stored
principally in army and navy de­
pots scattered throughout the
I country.
A pledge that the purchases
will be “orderly” and made with
due regard for civilian shortages
| NEW YORK. — A mprcme court
| Justice ruled that a child born as
l the result of artificial Insemination
Is legitimate.
The ruling was innde by Justice
Henry Clay Greenberg In deciding
that the estranged husband of Mrs
Julie Strnnd, 31. hsd a right to
visit her daughter, four-yeur-old An-
tolnette, who she said was a prod­
uct of urtiflclnl Insemination.
Mrs. Strnad claimed that her hus­
band. Antoine, 42, was sterile since
| birth, an allegation he denied. She
sought to prevent him from seeing
the child on the ground Antoinette
was not the offspring of her ex-
i mate. She had won a separation
decree and principal custody of the
child last October.
A tom ic D anger Zone Posted
For Tests on Now W eapons
A 70 million dollar stockpile .’ O LLY AND HER PAL
accumulated before Pearl Harbor Charles F. Sirl, student at Bowl­
was ‘‘too little and too late.” mu­ ing Green State university,
nitions board officials declare.
Bowling Green. Ohio, is shown
Royall, who is the war depart­ with his parrot, which has be­
ment member of the army and come the pet of the campus. A l­
| navy munitions board, said the though 14 years old, the bird
board deems the stockpile a "proj­ spends most of her time qivina
ect of highest importance."
the “wolf whistle” to coeds—
Composed largely of strategic but Sirl insists she didn’t learn
materials not obtainable in this that from him.
country, the list includes some 65
critical materials as top priority.
‘O N E -F A M IL Y TO W N ’ NOW . . . Millican, Ore., had an astound­
Include« on the priority list are
ing population gain of 400 per cent when Mr. and Mrs. William
asbestos, chromite, manila and
A. Mellm and their two daughters, shown above, “bought” the
sisal fibres, jewels, lead, pepper,
town, which for years had a “one-man town" tag Inset shows
rubber, tin and zinc. Most of the
one of the three buildings comprising the town.
priority materials are not obtain­
able in this country.
Stored in Depots
Test-Tube Baby Lefitimate
notes
DUSTING E X P E R IM E N T S
WASHINGTON.—The atomic en-
ergy commission has posted a
i “ Danger—Keep Out" notice cover­
ing 30,000 square miles of the Pa-
, clflc ocean surrounding Enlwetok
atoll, site of forthcoming “ tests of
' m ilitary weapons.”
“ Hazards will exist" In a rectnn
gular area approximately 173 miles
north and south and 220 miles east
and west, the commission said.
The danger will continue through­
out 1948.
Plano Crosses Ocean W ith
Dead M o tor; Bishop Safe
SYDNEY. AUSTRALIA. - An Aus-
tralian flying boat, carrying 29 pas­
sengers and a crew of 0, landed
here safely after flying 380 miles
across the storm-tossed Tasman sea
with one of Its four engines dead.
Among the passengers were Episco­
pal Bishop G. Ashton Oldham of Al-
bany, N. Y., and his wife.
Farm M echanizatio n Boosts
Production to Record L evel
OMAHA, NEB — Americana are
hurvcNtlng 20 million more acres to­
day than they did In 1940. although
there are three million fewer people
doing It, and on 200.000 fewer farms.
East-growing mechanization of
farms Is largely responsible for thia
feat, Joseph A Hobnn, merchandise
manager of B F. Goodrich com-
pany. told members of Midwest Im ­
plement Dealers association. Ha
cited the fact that the nation’s trac­
tor "population" had doubled, from
j™** rnlm‘>n tO tW° m,n,on’ lu,‘ ,lnc*
Praising "the way America’!
farmers and other food producer«
had come through to ease tragla
conditions in many lands," Hoban
cited the following estimates on the
nation’s 1047 export, of foodstuffs:
392 million bushels of wheat, Ave
times the amount exported ln*1939-
88 million bushels of corn, com-
pared to 32 million In 1939, and 32»
million pounds of meat products
against 103 million In 1039.
The furm market offered "the
biggest sales opportunity" for In-
du.try In 1047. Hoban aald. adding
that "there Is no question that this
market is going forward at as great
or even greater pace In 1948 "
Hoban said that all tractors now
made are rubber-tired, and that
changing all a farm ’s rolling stock
from steel to rubber tires produced
an average saving of 24 working
days and 075 gallons of gasoline per
year, for each 150 acres worked.
How To Relieve
Bronchitis
Creomulslon relieve« promptly N»-
cause It goes right to the scat of the
trouble to help loosen nnd expel
germ laden phlegm, and old nature
to soothe and heal raw, tender. In­
flamed bronchial mucous m e m -
brones. Tell your druggist to sell you
a bottle of Creomulslon with the un­
derstanding you must like the way it
quickly allays the cough or you are
to have your money buck.
Aerial applications of insecti­
cides and fungicides by plane on
nearly 100 Indiana farms were R a ilw a y Passengers Gassed
made this summer, some for the
And Robbed in Rom ania
first time. Results of field tests
BUCHAREST. ROMANIA. - A
on corn, rye, potatoes, onions and
tomatoes are being followed by band of thieves put all the passen­
in a railway carriage to sleep
«S2!
° ,t Purdue university entomologists gers
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w u i c a uu j n i i i c a n , n "e-,
e s in u a u o n ;
and plant pathologists to deter­ by using gas and robbed the night
for Courhs. Chest Coldj. Bronchi tig
mine effectiveness of this new train from Bucharest to Iasi, the
the popula ion f his
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newspaper
Natiunea
said.
BiHv RahneasS’thetak!r 3
visit’ this was a “one-man town” with Cincinnati industrialist, who^fs method of control.
When the passengers woke up at
In the opinion of George E
iiinPf h o u
Fe3ldeR!-, ^ 0W that Mr- and Mrs. William A. civilian president of the munitions
Doesn’t it
Iasi station they found all their lug
Gould, Purdue entomologist, fur­ gage
j lu ^a' e bought the town, it s a one-family town.’’ The Mellins board.
gone.
and their two daughters, Michela ---------
ther experimentation is required
ieem more
Lee, 3*2, and Tina Ann, 6 months, lin admits that he leaves gas in K .P V t o
to determine effectiveness of
make the population total four.
aerial dusting. In many instances,
the tank when he goes to bed at
sensible?
Millican's chief claim to fame night “just in case anybody com- /■'» r »
he points out, too few applications
r
for years lay in the fact that it ing down the road is short.” In ^ 0 1 ( 1 A l M e L O S l
were made or dusting was not
was a “one-man town.” That the morning, he adds, he always
done at the proper time.
was in the days of Rahn, who was finds the money shoved under the IT f’Z/i
l rO S P QC l O r
postmaster and everything else door. “We haven't lost a gallon
OLDEST F L Y E R
connected with the town. But re­ yet,” he says.
TUCSON, Ariz.—Adding an­
an-
Candidate for the title v,
• In N R (N a tu re ’s Remedy) T ab le t»
of
tirement age for postmasters
As evidence of his enthusiasm other weird stop, to western folk­ Britain’s oldest flyer is Edward
there are no chemicals, no m ineral»
forced Rahn's retirement in 1942, for building up his town, Mellin lore, reports indicate that the Douglas
no phenol derivative«. N R Tablet« «re
80 years old.
and the postoffice died with his has petitioned to have the post secret of another “lost” Spanish Fawcett, Fawcett,
different—a d different. P o rtly v r g f
SORETONE Linim ent’»
who plans to buy his
departure.
labl/—» combination o f 10 vegetable
office restored. The postoffice, gold mine may be locked forever own plane soon, is taking a
H e a t in g P a d A c tio n
ingredient» formulated over 50 yrarg
‘Buys’ Entire Town
he explains, would benefit ranch- in the mind of Albert (Rabbit) refresher course in straight fly ­
ago. Uncoated or candy coated, theig
Now the “one-man town” tag ers in the area who occasionally Johnson, weather-beaten pros- ing and acrobatics before ap­
G iv e » Q u ic k R e lie f !
action it dependable, thorough, yeg
on Millican has been lost, prob­ stop at the Mellin store.
pector, missing and believed dead plying for renewal of his license.
dh'^n.fi d f K T 'i’ P<>?U,e pul T ' “ ' 1' ,n
'«■a-
gentle, a» million» o f N R ’» hava
ably for good, with the advent of _
¿oZkT? b
lu th ‘ yn pio m i qutcklv
proved. Get a ¿5* box. U te as directed.
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*? -the desert wastes of central
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wah the liniment »pectally nude lot this purpo»Z
the Mellins. Mellin, 28-year-old Boys «1.—7
Find Dynamite
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navy veteran, now owns—lock, a c L o <!oll
,nF'cd'<’n»* •h»t act like glowing wamith
Da n n ,,
A fter
Prospector’s disap-
stock and barrel—the entire T
Another testimonial to the biCSi w p p i;n | p i d ’ * * " *
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bacne, Dell at Fenny
pearance, Quinton Ford of Phoe-
town, a desert community located
PORTLAND, Ore.—Dynamite, nix reported that Johnson had courage and spirit of America's
Sotetone i t in a d a u by itself Fast eentle
26 miles east of Bend. He bought stolen from a cache at a rock confided to him that he had fighting men who were perma­
ALW AYS C A R A Y
WU,ed °’ **"•
**■'
QUICK RELIEF
the town from George T. Petry, quarry, was being sold for a found one of Arizona’s fabulous nently disabled on the battlefronts K m J
s FOR ACID
successor to Rahn. “Buying” the penny a stick by a local juvenile “lost” mines.
is contained in the story of the
‘ iNOIGESTMNi
town consisted solely of the pur­ ring, police reported in warning
Johnson was one of dozens of accomplishments of Charles Col
chase of the three buildings lo­ Portland parents that some of it men who, believing the maps and well of Greenfield, Ind.
cated here.
The 23-year-old ex-serviceman,
may have been stored in homes, strange tales of hidden wealth
The Mellins operate the town
The police broke up the ring handed down from one genera- who lost both legs from mortar
grocery store, gas pump, tourist after Patrolman Earl Shinn had tion to another, had set out in the fire in the German front, was de­
camp—two small cabins—handle found a 17-year-old boy with six futile and tragic quest for wealth, termined he would not permit hia
repairs on tourists’ cars and Mrs. sticks of dynamite, for which he
Some of the prospectors, ac- physical handicap to get him
Mellin furnishes hot lunches upon had paid six cents. The boy led cording to western legends, ’ seek down.
request.
As the first step, he took up
police to a rock quarry where the a mine where a rusty revolver
“There’s nothing like owning teen-agers had broken into a marks the site of a wide vein of flying, because he felt it would
I heir fresh golden com flavor
your own town to boost your cache and scattered the explo- almost pure gold.
facilitate "getting around.” After
makes
Kellogg’s Corn Flakes the
faith in human nature,” the Mel­ sives about the area.
It was long before Johnson’s seven and one-half hours of in­
favorite.
Good- m-m-m!
lins insist on the basis of their
Some of the dynamite, the boy time when a prospector, lost in struction, he made his first solo
venture.
flight
told police, had been thrown one of the state’s frequent sand-
Faith in Humanity
against rocks in hopes of an ex- storms, took shelter in a cave at
As evidence of that faith, Mel­ plosion.
the base of a hill. Idly picking R E C T IF IE S STA IN
at the rock as he sat out the
Service is the keynote of air
storm, he discovered that the rock transportation, a fact which made
was unbelievably rich ore.
it possible for Judge Lee Knous
When the storm had died, the of the Colorado court to uphold
prospector’s water was almost his sartorial judicial dignity. En
MOTHER KN0W5/8EST/
gone but he stuffed his pockets route to Cheyenne, Wyo., by plane
with ore, left his gun as a claim- to attend the annual Frontier
marker and tried to find his way Days celebration, Judge Knous
back to civilization.
spilled a cup of coffee on his
When found, he was dying from shirt. The pilot radioed the
f
ain knots
up with
thirst and was beyond speaking. judge’s plight ahead to Cheyenne
With his samples of ore was a and, when the judge stepped off
note giving a rough description of the plane, he was presented a new
the hill of gold. Many have tried, shirt.
but none have found the revolver
or the rich mine
Oregon Town Loses ’One-man
Tag; Now ‘One-family’ Affair
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Women and Rat Provide Lively Trolley Drama
DETROIT, Mich.—The combi­
nation of women and a rat al­
ways makes news. This little
drama was played against a met­
ropolitan backdrop, with a Detroit
trolley car as the setting.
The characters were Motorman
Walter Williams, his near-capac­
ity load of female passengers,
Tom Woodishec and an uniden­
tified rat.
Williams stopped his trolley to
pick up Woodishec. At that mo­
TROUSDALE, Kas.—Setting up
housekeeping on a shoestring
may be out of style for the mod­
ern generation—but not for
bluejays around this Kansas
community.
Mrs. C. R. Wood recently
washed the baby’s shoestrings
and hung them on a line to dry.
When she went to get them, the
strings had disappeared.
An older son, wise to the ways
of bluejays, climbed a tree in the
back yard and found the shoe­ FLYIN G M AIL CARS . . . Con­
strings neatly woven into a blue- cept of a future mail plane
jay’s nest.
shows a typical sorting unit,
e e •
Bachelor Seeks Wife,
ment a rat ran at Woodishec. A
timely kick sent the rat sailing ‘Safe’ in Jail Instead
through the air and through the
HAMMOND, Ind.—When Wil­
trolley’s front window.
helm John Siebert, 76-year-old
The rodent landed beside a bachelor, went looking for a wife
woman in the front of the car. he landed in jail instead.
She promptly took off for the Now prospective wives are
rear of the car. So did the rat. looking
for Siebert—and he won’t
Terror-stricken women screamed, get out of jail. He likes it.
jammed the aisle and performed
Jailers report that willing
trapeze acts on the straps.
widows, eager to wed the old-
Williams came back on stage timer, had written 18 letters and
with a broom. Exit the rat.
made four telephone calls.
'Pere.R, 'P
you
MUSCIE ACHE
Start on Shoestring-
Birds, at Least, Do
M U T U A L ASSISTANCE . . . This is a daily brother and sister
act at the Israel Orphan home at Far Rockaway, L. I., N. Y,
The seven children from the same family, ranging from 3 to 8%
years of age, help each other to dress in a hurry in their own
version of the assembly line.
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NEW HELICOPTER
Development of a twin-engined
helicopter which its makers claim
is the first of its kind ready for
short-haul commercial use was
announced by Kellett Aircraft
corporation of North Wale, Pa.
The craft, which can operate on
a field the size of a baseball dia­
mond, is known as the KH-2. It
carries 10 passengers in addition
to a crew of two, or cargo loads
of one ton or more. It is an all-
m e ta l « ra ft
MOT
rtu S U? in gent,y-jw “ ln c soothing Ben-Gay for fort
menthol-famous
doctor—than five other widely
18alicy,ate and
tO ?VCry
MM far Mild Ben-Oay fer Children.
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