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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1941
L SELL
! American Veterans organizations I
! are country-wide in scope and ,
, the sale of these flowers will be j
! carried on throughout the en-'
Soldiers Take Posts at Plant
It's an Old
American Qastom
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FORGET-ME-NOTS
tire county. Your hearty and
sympathetic cooperation will be
well placed."
MITCHELL STATES
FRIDAY. SATURDAY PHOENIX STUDENTS
TO GIVE PLAYS ID:
HIGH GYM FRIDAYl
Miner-Writer Resents 'Con
Annual Campaign To Raise
Funds For Rehabilitation
Of Veterans Is Object.
demnation' of This Area
For Mineral Prospects.
01V. WIL
Br Russell Mitchell
(Jacksonville. Ore.)
Mercury (quicksilver) is one
of the ' most amazing of all
metals In that it is fluid at ord
inary temperatures. Most metals
have to be heated to a high
temperature before they become
liquid. Mercury is not like other
liquids In that it does not wet
or stick to such solids as glass
or wood. A temperature of -39
degrees Fahrenheit is required
to solidify mercury. Its high
necifle gravity (13.S) and its
Ugh boiling point (high for
liquids) makes it very useful
for thermometers and barom
eters. Mercury Is found In many
parts of the world, but in spite
bf its wide diffusion It is one
of the rare metals, its present
price being $198 per flask of
76 pounds. Large quantities are
mined in this country, particu
larly in California and Oregon.
Soma large bodies of mercury-
bearing rock were recently
found in Arkansas and Idaho,
The principal ore of mercury
is cinnabar, the red sulphide of
mercury. Free mercury is often
found In ' veins in the west
sometimes associated with gold
nd silver. "Pockets" of free
mercury are not uncommon. ,
i Useful Metal
' Mercury is one of the most
useful of all metals. It has an
Important place In the arts,
medicine and Industry. Its red
sulphide has long been used as
pigment for paint. In this
form it is called vermlllion.
Two well-known chemicals are
calomel and corrosive sublim
ate, both chlorides of mercury.
Large quantities of mercury
are used in times of war to pro
duce explosives. In the form
used It is known as mercuric
fulminate, a highly explosive
substance which Is detonated by
friction or by Jarring. The ful
minate is the explosive sub
stance In detonating caps. It is
produced by the action of alco
hol in a solution of mercury
dissolved In nitric acid. i
Thm inrilnefll with whlcl
mercury unites with some other,
metals makes it very useful Id
Industry. It can hardly be dls
pensed with in mining gold and
silver.
Much Seen Hera
Southern Oregon contains
huge quantities of mercury
Almost any highly fractured
t .-Jti. . .r i, A r'li" if
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Soldiers on guard at the Air Associates. In:., plant at Bendix. N. J., took up positions In
front of a company sign. The factory was taken over by order of President Roosevelt.
AT FORT LEWIS
TOPS KITH
Hospital Rate Only 27 Per
Thousand Against 40
Average Give 4 Reasons
Fort Lewis. 0 The health
of the 50,000 officers and men
of the 0th army corps tops that
of any similar army post in the
United States.
Last month the rate of admis
sion to the fort hospital was
only 27 per thousand, compared
with the usual army rate of 40.
Officers said a soldier was
hospitalized as soon as he showed
signs of being ill, or having a
cold in contrast to the usual
civilian practice of cohtlnuing
work with a cold.
Charts Show Drop
With the exception of one
period during the nation-wide
outbreak of Influenza late lost
fall, the health of the men In
the 3rd and 41st divisions of the
0th army corps here has been
steadily Improving for the past
year.
Up-to-the-minute charts on the
walls of the corps surgeon, Col.
R. P. Williams, show a steady
decline in all types of sickness.
Venereal disease at Fort Lewis
rone in soumern pnbabj ls the lowest of any
ty may carry some cinnabar. It .. , ,u. . ..,h.
occurs in place in the urusn
creek section In an altered
greenstone. It is also found on
8quaw creek In the same type
of rock. Around Cinnabar
Springs it Is associated with
some quartz. I have also seen
tome very good specimens In
quartz from lower down the
Applegate. We have free mer
cury in a gold vein In serpen
tine. Cinnabar ls found In the older
schists on Elliot creek, in argil
lite on Carberry and Steves
creeks, In greenstone on Brush
creek, and in the sandstones of
the Chlco and Umpqua forma
tions. According to Francis O.
army post in the country, regard
less of size. For the 9th army
corps area the rate ls 7.0 per
1,000 men, compared with an
average of 34.4 for the entire
army.
During the recent Louisiana
war games the sick rate in
creased but when maneuvers
were held in the Pacific north
west last August the sick rate
declined.
Early Training Cited
Officers advanced four reasons
for the good health of the north
west soldiers:
(1.) Intensive training and
hardening. Perhaps no other
troops in the country had such
an early start In being hardened
Wells all these deposits liei.eain;t weather and disease.
within a few miles of the late Corps and division commanders
Tertiary volcanic rocks and re-1 gave the soldiers early intensive
lated rocks. To the prospector, training.
this does not mean much. Be- (2.) Favorable ellmMIc con
cause a prospect lies close to'ditlons in the Pacific northwest,
such rocks does not make It a I No sudden or great change in
good mine. If the mineral Is temperatures aided the health
present, the miner has to make I program.
the mine. If the mineral is not (3.) The athletic programs
present, its closeness to Tertiary arranged for troops of the 8th
army corps.
(4.) Recreation on fort
grounds and In Pacific northwest
cities.
Debt Burden Now
Over 54 Billions
rocks will not make it of com
anerclal value, regnrdless of how
much work Is done on It.
I do not go much on geology
and geological theories. No mine
or section of the country should
be condemned because some Ill
Informed geologist declares it
unfavorable. Some would-be j Washington, Nov. 8 OP)
geologists long ago condemned The treasury, announced today
southern Oregon as a mining its debt has gone over $34,000,
country and the condemnation 1000,000.
has stuck in spite of the huge Th t r e a u ry 'i obligations
amounts of mineral already lumped overnight by 8S00.047,
found and converted Into cash.: 881 to a record total of 154.083.
There are more minerals of 093.7.12 because of the issuance
value and less mining in south- of new treasury notes to refund
em Oregon than in any other ! approximately a half bi llon dol
section of America. It is largely ' Reconstruction Finance
up to Oregonlans to realize the Corporation and Commodity
Immense possibilities that here ,Cr'dl Corporation notes,
present themselves and, once
we are sold on them, we shall
have no difficulty in selling
them to outsiders. Money will
come in sufficient quantities If
50 Polish Workers
Executed By Nazis
London, Nov. 5. OP) The
we will develnn Ih. nr,.n-t. Polish Telegraphic agency said
that are already found.
Boy's Pride
Hemsworth, Eng. (UP)
SAFETY CONTEST
Led By Tillamook Tn Division
Two State Record For
Year To Date Better.
Brunkow, 36, who was shot.
County Attorney S. S. Diedrichs
said, after taunting Fong with
-it will be different when Hitler
gets hold of you."
Brunkow, a naturalized citi
zen, came to this country from
Germany 13 years ago. Died
richs said he would file homicide
charges against Fong.
F rench Reported
Holding British
Vichy, Unoccupied France,
Nov. 8 (JP) The United States
embassy is investigating a report
: that Z4 fcnglishmen, including
the son of L. S. Amery, British
secretary for India, have been
(Spl.) Clackamas, arrested by the French as re
prisal for arrests of Frenchmen
in Syria.
The arrests have not been re
ported by the French to the em
bassy, which is charged with
protecting British interests in
France. The men were said to
be held at Fal-Les-Bains.
Salem
Tillamook and Josephine coun
ties held first place in the three
divisions of the 1041 counties
traffic safety contest at the end
of the first eight months of this
year, It was announced at the
office of the secretary of state,
sponsor of the contest.
In the first division, Clacka
mas was followed by Marion in
second place and Multnomah In
third. In the second group, Til
lamook was followed by Jack
son in second and Lincoln in
third. In the third division,
Josephine was followed by
Baker in second and Deschutes
m -third place.
' The traffic death rate for the
first eight months was 18.3 per
cent under the rate for the same
period a year ago. Computed
on gasoline consumption in the
state, traffic accidents claimed a
toll of 8.9 lives per one hundred
million miles of travel compared
to a rate of 10.9 for the corres
ponding period last year. For
the nation as whole, the death
rate was up about 17 per cent.
Safety Rules Given
Citizens in Oregon were urged
to observe these rules to avoid
becoming involved in accidents
during the remainder of the
year:
1. Reduce speed before ent
ering curves.
2. Reduce speed when road
surfaces are slippery and when
visibility ls restricted by weather
conditions.
3. Be on the alert for unex
pected Icy spots during cold
weather.
4. Yield the right-of-way to
pedestrians in crosswalks.
Patience Advised
B. When caught in a long
line of cars, don't be impatient
to pass; be sure there ls adequate
distance before starting around
the car in front.
6. Remember that a distance
of approximately 1,000' feet
ahead is needed to pass a rapidly-moving
vehicle and be sure
that distance la clear before
starting to pass.
7. Pedestrians must cross
street only at crosswalks; on
highways, walk to the left, fac
ing oncoming traffic. At night,
wear or carry something white
or display lighted flashlight.
Nazi Sympathizer
Killed by Veteran
North Platte. Neb., Nov 8.
Frank Fong, American born
Chinese cook who served as a
machine gunner in the World
war, was held today in connec
tion with the (laying of Eric
IIIIIIPP
itiiu-
Eleven-year-old Philip Julian
Griffiths, grandson of George
Griffiths, Socialist M.D. for
Hemsworth, Yorkshire, has an
autograph book containing the
today that 50 Polish workmen
were executed after Heimich
Himmler, chief of the German
secret police, hurried to Poland
recently to investigate sabotage.
The agency said sabotage was
especially serious In industrial
districts where the Germans had
built up a large aircraft indus-
signatures of the members of the try. Experts brought from Ger-
War Cabinet and 270 members many were reported killed in
of Parliament. lines and explosions.
u
AW
' SOUNDS FIRE ALARM
Binghampton, N. Y. (UP)
Sleepy residents of a Chenango
onage neignDornood were
wrathful. A noisy motorist kept
honking his horn at 6:15 a. m.
The first person to investigate,
however, called the fire depart
ment Instead of the police. A
short-circuit caused the prolong
ed noise from a car in a garage,
but It had also started a fire.
Wear a Forget-Me-Not," will
be the plea of many volunteer
workers on the streets of Med
ford November 7 and 8 when the
annual forget-me-not flower sale
of Jackson county chapter of
the Disabled American Veterans
of the World war opens. It will
be an urge for the civic minded
citizens who have not forgotten
their war-time promises to wear
the dainty little boutjnnleres,
the blue flower of remembrance.
The campaign ls being con
ducted by the local chapter to
raise funds to take care of
the emergency relief problems
among the war-time disabled and
to aid the work of rehabilitation
Including that of maintaining a
full-time rehabilitation officer to
serve as a special advocate or
attorney. In fact, for the dis
abled veterans. '
'The veterans organization Is
a congresslonally chartered
spokesman of, by, and for the
disabled soldier," said Frank
J. Holbrook, commander of the
Jackson county chapter. "Our
purpose ls to render a distinctive
service to the war-time dis
abled comrades through the local
chapter and the national or
ganization. We take care of the
immediate needs of the incapaci
tated veteran and his depen
dents, and we try to put him on
his feet once more or render him
a service that may make of him
a civic asset instead of a public
liability by securing for him the
relief he is entitled to through
governmental compensation."
The following statement in re
gard to the forget-me-not sale
was given by Mayor H. S. Deuel
of Medford:
"On Friday and Saturday the
Disabled American Veterans will
conduct their annual forget-me-not
sale for the purpose of rais
ing money to carry on their re
habilitation work. This sale is
absolutely authentic, and you
need not hesitate in purchasing
your flowers from them.
"Sale of these little flowers ls
the principal means afforded the
Disabled Veterans to carry out
their numerous worthy activi
ties, and it is sincerely hoped
that our citizens will purchase
a forget-me-not. The Disabled
Phoenix, .Nov. S. (Spl.) The
annual three one-act plays will
be presented Friday at 8 p. m.
in the Phoenix high school gym
nasium. The sophomore presentation
Is 'Enter Dora, Exit Dad," a
comedy by Freeman Tilden.
The director ls Mrs. Evelyn
Skyrman.
The Juniors are presenting
Henry'a Mall Order Wife," a
comedy by Freda Graham
Bundy, directed by Miss Isabelle
Miller.
"Poor Father," the senior
contribution, is a comedy, orig
inal copy by Bob Stedman, a
former student of Phoenix high
school. The play is directed by
Floyd Barrett.
The orchestra directed by
Harry Meyers will play three
numbers, "Songs of Yesterday,
'Gold and Silver Waltz," and
"Poem."
Between the frst and second
acts the chorus, under direction
of Mr. Meyers, will sing three
numbers. They are "Gypsy
Love Song," "Pale Moon" and
"Tea for Two."
A nominal price will be
charged and student body tick
ets will be honored. Proceeds
of the evening will go to the
Phoenix high school student
body.
Dm Mall rriouM woi ids.
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Remember your first camera? We bet you thought
it was swelL But cameras didn't stop improving.
Think of your pocket-size "miniatures" today.
This quaint Object was once the family bathtub. Few
people thought it needed improving. But compare
it to the porcelain beauties of 1941.
Making a good thing better is an old American cus
tom! And it's an old custom of Kellogg's, world
famous makers of cereals. Over the last 25 years
untold Americans have praised the goodness of
kellogg's all-bran. But now a marvelous bran
from one of the world's softest wheats gives all-bran
new lightness, new crispness, new flavor!
Tie String to your finger and ask your grocer for
the improved "golden soft" all-bran. You'll find it
just as effective and twice as delicious as all-bran ;
has ever been. If you'd like to ward off constipation
due to lack of "bulk" in the diet, eat all-bran every
day, drink plenty of water and "Join the Regulars.'
7lie Improved
'Doubly Delicious
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