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PAGE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1942. )1xbforiU3&Tribuxi l Um UaU Trlaae. Dells aieee hi Pubi4 , HBDFUIIU PaiNTINO CO. t-N Wane ril (L PhoM BoHtRT w HI ML, Seller. lKbl II OIUKAf yeeaaee. aa leneeen-tent Nevepaper. Eetere ee eecon eteee mailer at Mad iera. Ores-. an1e ael af Mere S. U aiHa,-a PYlllM I1TKI Br elau-le aa'eacei Dallf aa Sunrtar I uanr ana ' - -. . . - -- Dailv ea liartar ia fnaaiha... lee LW'IF ' . ri.il. aunila ana manth.. Ta Br farrier la 1aaca WAIo'O. e lea. Central Pel". Jee"a"'l'e. Oal altiL Hitaua ei-er, Pneeela, Teleel ' en aa mala reuiee, Pall, la aaa raar. . .. .IS tJ, ana aunnar -an fnonih... All larma aaa" ta en.enee. mnrlal raaat al Iha file M OffUlal raan a Jarknae) Celt aiiiiiaa ran law .. Tna aaeariale K.eee la eeciuei.eil .amia la iha aaa far auUleeilee al all a.-a aieraithee ereaue la " "' .P.4naa ta inta paper, and alaa u tna l"cal auhliahaa aarala. ail rlama far puellcellen ;peell dlepelehee haraia a. a alaa ..aereed wtUHin or unitep paaa MlaiaBa OP AUUIT PIIRBAU U CP CIRCULATIONS Alaartlalnf. Reereannletl-e WaT HUI.I.in OIP Of'"",. N.. Vara. CWM. De.ren. a.a Praneieee. baa An.ie aaam. t"ue.! U.H atlee.e. Veeeeii.e,. 0lld0MLWlr7ll Plllltl't!4i5tiUTIM Ye Smudge Pot By Arthui Perrf t ..Mania of timbered areas hereabouts, upon learning of the .,tH fuel famine next win- tear, fear they will have to come to town to get warm. Report! from upstate Indicate a number of Fifth Columnist dogs have itarted sabotaging Victory gardens. The esteemed Bend Bulletin rises to ask If the report Gen. Homma of the Nipponese army in the Philippines committed hari-kari, can be classed as "Hommaclde." The local social whirl has been adorned and enlivened by the arrival of a number of charming gals from the Frisco Bay area. Some handle a cigar ette like they had dead rat by the tall. YE ED BOILS (Corvallls Gazette-Times) "Some day enough of us will get mad enough to go down to the legislature and clean out a whole lot of school exerescenses which are now nothing but warts on the edu cational program." Removal of traffic buttons to save tires Is advocated and un der way In many cities. Here is something the most daredev lllih speed Idiot, for all his reckless intrepidity, has never been able to knock loose. News Is scarce anent the Portland ball team. The out look, however, is so dark it shines. In the gloom synthetic, or otherwise, enfolding the world. There Isn't a pitcher with any more prospects than a British general in the Orient, aaa Cuffless pants for males has a loophole. They can buy a pair of overalls too long in the legs, and turn up to suit. a a DRY SERMON ANTIDOTE (Eugene News) "If you are mentally un equal to wrestling with the finer points of theology, per mit me to suggest an "out." Some Sundny when your spir itual advisor Is bent on giv ing you technical points In doctrine, try watching the bird life which continually flutters past the church win dow." ShorWe of everything con tinues. The nntion will soon be bark to the first World War level, when there was a sur plus of nothing but beans and 2nd loots. a a One of the things feared af ter the war, if and when, is an epidemic of Utopian notions, some commentators, in their dissertations claim. It is apt to be like "the dark days of 1933." when every man was going to be his own mint financially and after dinner. a "A flu la th eld Oolden Rule Hotal at ona o'clock today had ttie effrontery to amok to exceea, and a flecy column was seen to ariee ron tu top of th building. Th draad alarm ot tin was lvan and tna be'.l rung. The department was aoon out In lull fore, and Iha usual cn of xettement was presented. When th boy war preparing to Sous th tire-Mmd a-llh llbaral doa of water from th ngtn and hydrants tny found that It waa only a chimny burning out. and rurd to houaa thair apparatus. Th occasion waa anltvanad by muale from th Athn band. (Pndltoa an Ortfonlan. SO Tr. Ao Col.) But no flam danetd. Cloalnt tima for cjiriMd Ada s a. m. Too lata to Ciaaufy 13 40 ! Roses for "Rosy!" So "Rosie" has quit the S. P. and retired! It will be about as easy for the community to adjust itself to this startling announcement, as if Roxy Anne should suddenly decide to move to the other side of Oriitcr Lflakc For through the many years, "RoBey" alias A. S. Rosenbaum, has become something more than a faithful and obliging representative of the Southern Pacific; he has become a local INSTITUTION. And a very important and comforting institution, not only in his special field of rail transportation, but in every conceivable movement of a progressively civic nature, as well as in the more intimate realm of personal relationships, particularly that of promot ing amity among the younger generation. YES it is hard to see how the "valley" can get along without "Rosey". It is even harder to see how the S. P. can survive. - For it is this department s considered opinion that no soulless corporation in human history ever had a more faithful servant, and more invaluable contact man than the Southern Pacific has had in A. S. Rosen baum, during the past thirty or forty years. The record in our judgment is unique I For during all that time, no public utility serving Southern Oregon has been more UNpopular with the people than the selfish and reactionary S. P., while no CITIZEN has PERSONALLY been MORE POP ular with the SAME people than its kindly and public-spirited representative, A.S.R. THAT isn't any swan-song apple sauce. It happens to be literally true. It is equally true, that while "Rosey", throughout his service invariably acted on the principle the cus tomer is always right, while he worked his head off night and day, to give the best possible service to this community in every conceivable way, there was never the slightest deviation in his 100 loyalty and devotion to the corporation he served, which reso lutely refused to follow any such enlightened course; in fact with apparent deliberation adopted an exactly contrary one. MOW we maintain that is SOME achievement! And we don't care who may achieve it, when the achiever decides to call it a day, he deserves what we venture to say the master he has served so devot edly and unselfishly all these years, will never give him: A special vote of thanks, and a rose-entwined acco lade impressed upon his serene and unwrinkled brow ! The Better Way Admiral Hart's remarks at Secretary Knox's press conference yesterday were refreshing. W wonder whv sirhilar candor, has not been ob served from the same source, heretofore, finlv three or four weeks aero, at a similar press conference, it was soberly stated, that while the sneak Jap attack at Pearl Harbor was damaging, damage reports had been exaggerated, there was nothing particularly devastating about it, while the naval losses of Japan in Macassar Straits and their own mandated islands, more than made up for it,, in tonnage and in men. The remainder of the eYplnsivelv to recountincr U. S. aviation arm, over that of Japan, the ratio in fntnlitips vnno-inc from ten to one. to twentv to one. the natural conclusion being that a hundred U. S. planes would be .nore than a match for a thousand Japs, anywhere, anytime. THE conference news made the front pages, but in Via. nrosQ rrnllnrv trip nnininn wns frpplv Pimrpssed that instead of giving out the facta, the department had decided the situation called for a hand-out of canned propaganda. Admiral Hart, former commander of the U. S. Asiatic fleet just returned from the scene of conflict, wasted no time in propaganda, in mincing matters nor sugar coating the pill. He frankly stated the United States has suffered defeat in the first round against Japan, and as frank ly cave the reason: superior power in the air. The big job for the United States, therefore, he declared, is to overcome this superior air power (which with American superiority of facilities of pro duction certainly can be done), assume the offensive, and "with more ships, more guns, more everything" go out "and win this war!" MOW we maintain, facing the situation as it is, and " telling the truth about it, as Admiral Hart has done, is far more beneficial, far better "PROPA GANDA" if you please, than the sort of thing that was dished out from the same source in February and has been dished out so often before When the Tide Turns Meanwhile, as all sport experts will admit, the underdog role is a great aid in final victory. It is hard to take of course, but the plain truth is, the United States today is the "underdog" in the Far East conflict, with General MacArthur's "hold-out" as the only approach to an important victory. But this is also true. As Admiral Hart points out not only have Japan's losses been tremendous, but even more important, as the fight goes on, Japan can't help but get weaker and weaker, the United States STRONGER AND STRONGER. A ND what is true of Japan and the United States. " is also true of the Axis and the allies as a period was devoted almost the vast superiority of the whole, the former bound to grow weaker, the lat ter with overwhelming natural resources, similarly bound to grow steadily stronger. And when the point is reached, as ultimately it MUST be, where the superiority Admiral Hart de plores no longer holds, then the importance of that underdog role will come in. When the turn of the tide DOES set in, and the underdog becomes the TOP-dog, watch the ex-top dog crumble! Personal Health Service By William Stinad tottm pcrtalntn. to aartonal health and hyglnw. aot to dlaaaaa Slafnoal. or traalmtnt, will b aniwerad by Or. Brady If a stamp sddrraed ntlop I ncloara Lallan thould b brief and written In Ink Owlnt to th larf nam bar of totters norma only a fw ran to aniarrrd brrs. N reply can b made to qotrte aot eonrormlni to Uutraetloaa. Addras Dr. William Brady. MS tl Camln. Bmrly Hills. Cif. HOME MADE An epidemic of infantile par alysis brought twelve children to a hospital In northern Mich igan where there was one respirator. All twelve chil d r e n needed the help of a respirator. One of the trustees of the hospital turned his pri vate machine shop into a re spiratory lab oratory. Cab inet makers and machinists immediately set to work and within a few hours were able to complete workable respirators and deliver them to the hospital. They made the first respirator out of two gaso line drums welded together and fitted with a hand manip ulated valve. For thirty-six hours volunteer women ot the community worked the hand valves constantly until an auto matic valve could be construct ed. The home-made respirators were attached by hose to the one available respirator in the hospital as trailers. The trustees who thus solved the problem of providing the twelve children with the great assistance of a respirator in an emergency where only one could have been given the boon otherwise, Mr. M. K. Reynolds. prepared a complete set of drawings with instructions for building such home made res pirators . Mr. Reynolds says such respirators can be made within a few hours in any school manual training shop, should an emergency occur. The home made respirator is not intended to take the place of the stand ard respirators now available In many hospitals but certain ly offer a means of taking care of such emergencies. Mr. Reynolds has authorized publication of a pamphlet giv ing complete drawings and spec ifications for building the re spiratory. A copy of the pamph let may be obtained for ID cents by writing to the Coun cil of Physical Therapy, Amer ican Medical Association, Chi cago, 111. The pampniet is en- Prospect, March IJ (Special) Chauncey Arant, night fire man for the George L. Jantzer Lumber Co., met with a painful accident Friday morning, when his clothing caiight in the shaft of the dry kiln engine and tore off his coat before throwing him clear, with a dislocated arm He blew the mill whistle, to summon help, and was taken to Medford for medical treatment Mr. Peterson from Shsay Cove has taken over his work. Mrs. B. B. Fraedrlck. Jr., entertain ed th Prospect bridge club at her home at the Copco plant, Thursday. HU;h and low econ prises wer awarded to Mrs James H. Oner and Mr. Ployd Kelley. respectively. Mrs. L. Rogers atibatuutad for Mrs. Dean Tate, who Is a patient at the Sacred Heart hospital at Medford. Others attending wer Mr. lmr Clemens. Mrs. Mary Orleve. Mrs. Earl Ulrlch and Mrs. Wallace Dlnkens. A number of local peopl want to Mrdford to ee the local bora, who war drafted In the army, off on th troop train, early Monday morning Among thoee leaving from thla lo cality wen Hetler and Clrltt Carroll. John Palrchlld, and Harold Kludl; Burton Train, from Medford, who al so left. Is a former Pros part boy. and a eraduaw of th local high school. Reuben Moore, who haa worked on the maintenance crew for th Crater Lake hlshwey. for a number of year, quit last week, and haa accepted work aa firemen for the Ooets Lbr. Co. Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Haljht ot Tracy. Calif., spent last week vulUng the letter's parents. Mr. and Mrs. c. V. Tl-de. at Herman's camp Mr. and Mra Leon mine wer called to Santa Ana. Calif.. March t. bv the death of the former's father. They were accompanied by their daughter. Miss Mary, son-in-law. dstafhter, and grandson. Mr. and Mrv Lloyd Johnaon and Oordan. Returnln. from Ashland Saturdsy. when they had attended and partici pated tn the basketball tournament, wer the Proepect high school plsv ers. Including Elcho and Bob Red dtne. rVb Dickey. Bugen Dunsgan. - n sjrf rout Til t,$. fil 3t sVI 9ltCTt. clou: secrM0 'PENETROS Prospect i Brady. M. D. RESPIRATOR titled "Simple Workable Re spirators." CjirSTTONS ANSWERS able Bnlld-l'p Boy on trrp to wood got a wound or scratch. dmlopd tatanua (rock law) and dld of It. About th Urn Id boy died a dog down, tat acted quoarly dog's head sent to stat laboratorylaboratory reported dog had rable. Belltv It or not, th boy then died of rableat (A. ) Answer I don't belle It. but no doubt eom local health authority aid so. That's th way th (am Is played. How the experts acquire the intuition necessary to make th trick diagnosis Is a mysury beyond th ken of mere medical sclenc. Weak Ryes I am 89 years old, do office work, study a lot night, have good deal of eyestrain altho I wear glaaaee for reading. Will y exercise or vitamin strengthen my yst (W. I. R.) Aniwer Best ey xrcl0 is norm al uae of th eyes. Mora tim you spend in open air In daytime the better for your eyesight. Vitamin will do no harm, may Improve gen eral functional health and Indirectly yslght especially vitamin B com plex and vitamin A. Han Baby At Rom Puzzled over your ad vie to have baby at horn. Isn't th antiseptic condlUon In a hospital much afrf (Mrs. E. R.) Answer In my opinion a fairly cleanly horn la alwaya safer than sny hospital for mother and ehlld. I fear you have th movie conception of the antlieptlo condition. Solution Preferabl Raw found unexpected relief from chronic sinus trouble by following th advlc In your pamphlet 'Rellef tor Allergy". Pruxgtst recommends 'enterte coated" pot. chlorld. Is that totter than th solution' (V.K.) Answer No. solution la preferable. Brady Baby Book After Marly four years of mar riage w(had begun to despair of hav ing children, but now. we are happy to say, we are expecting our first du about th middle of July. What ever advice or suggestions you may hav for expectant mothers and on can of the newborn will be greatly welcomed. (Mrs. T. M.). Answer My best wishes. Bend ten cent and stamped envelope bearing your address, for booklet "Preparing for Maternity". If you want also a copy of the "Brady Baby Book" In eloe ten cent additional. (Copyright U43, John P. Din Co.) Ed. Note: Person wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. William Brady. M. D tss El Camlno. Beverly Hills. Calif. Darwin Bevens. Ted Fraedrlck, Mel vill Hornbuckl Jr.. Jackie Carlton. Wendell Vaughn, and Bud Abbott, manager, and Edward Ellartaen. coach. Mr. and Mrs. Merlyn Hornbuckle spent th week-end In Roeeburg with Mr. Hornbuckl' brother, Ralph Herman, who will lean for Los Ange les, Thursday, when h will enter the navy a a motor mechsnlc. Du to th lnenaa m Prospect grad school pupils, th school board ha bind Mrs. Jewell Power Reed, of Jacksonville, to teach th second grad. Mra. Reed Is a gradual of Northwestern Oklahoma Teacher' college. Than an IIS pupils In th first eight grades, and S7 enrolled tn high school, with fin teachers for each eehool. Mrs, Ceford Oaroutt and baby daughter. Olenda Oayle, returned to their home at Cascade Oorge, from th Sacred Heart hospital of Mad ford. March 4. Milton Sanderson of Shadv Con haa been hired to drive the big bus belonging to ths Prospect school, on the Proepect-Shsdy Con run. Mr. and Mrs. Oeorg Jntser spent Wednesday and Thuradsy at Klam ath Palls attending to business mat ters. Mrs. Ethel M. Thompson. Proepect grade school principal, who has been 111 for everal deys. waa taken to the Sacred Heart hospital, at Medford. Mondsy. Sunday visitors at th Dunacin horn wen Mrs. Dunaans nephew. Kenneth Cardln. and Mia Betty Vsn Hoy, of Rogue River. OREGON SUNK Havana, Cuba, March 1J (&) Authorities permitted disclo sure today that the steamship Oregon, whose port of registry they gave as Wilmington, Del., and whose owners were listed as the West Indies Fruit com pany, had been shelled and sunk recently off Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic. MATERIALS DIG PINES LUMBER GO. Ith and TIR STS. PHONE 3030 Kelly's Comment From Washington. D. C. Fur Farmers Hit By War Frugality Gun and Shells Eat Up Taxes Alpha Cellulose Plans Revived By John W. rellr Washington, D. C, March 12. Fur farmers ot the northwest (their investment probably rep resents $6,000,000) find them selves in the embarrassing pre dicament of having thousands of pelts to sell with almost no market, as furs are not consid ered necessary to war. In one county (Tillamook) there are 71 ranches which produced this year 30,000 mink skins. In Ore gon there are probably 70,000 mink skins on the market which, originally, would repre sent i 1,500,000. Farm raised mink skins which have been "stickers" at previ ous sales, moved to the extent of 42,000 of the 34,000 pelts in the sale of the Seattle Fur Ex change in February. This inter est in mink was quite a change and while prices were below those of last year, the fine extra large mink pelts sold for from $15 to $19 and ordinary skins at $9 to $13. Farm raised mink fur is now selling about 10 percent below last year's prices. The coast section of the north west states is particularly adapt ed to fur farming due to natural conditions, such as food and cli mate. The fur farms are found from northern section of Wash ington to lower Oregon, with invasions in the Columbia river region. These farmers are won dering what is to become of their business in which so much money is Invested in breeding stock, plant and equipment. a e e FISH and Wildlife service says that the problem arising out of the war which affect fur farmers were called to their nt tention at the annual meeting in Seattle last August. The princi pal trouble is speculation. Last June the demand for fur appar el was great and stores ordered much more than in 1940. Prices were too high, and when the 10 percent excise tax was added a strong customer resistance de veloped. Dealers found them selves "stuck" in the last three months ot last year. Someone started the report among the trappers and collect ors that prices for raw fur would be fancy. Later, however, the raw fur dealers refused to purchase at the extravagant prices and this attitude was re fleeted throughout the industry, and came the slump. At present, according to the government bureau of market reports, there is a buying movement at re duced prices. The steady de mand for fur coats is attributed to reduction in retail prices and to a desire to meet future con ditions. There appears to be a good supply of wild-caught mink furs at lower prices than the farm-raised mink and many customers are purchasing the former. A BATTERY of four 3-inch anti-aircraft guns will soon be hidden away in spots along the northwest coast ready to plop explosives into an enemy plane. One gun will shoot 25 rounds a minute, or 100 rounds for the battery. To shoot these guns it costs $22.37 for one round. It it costs Uncle Sam (which it does) $1 an hour for each person working on ammunition for the anti-aircraft guns, one hour's blast represents the labor ot 134,000 men. This would equal the combined effort for a single hour of all the population of Beltlngham, Everett. Olympia and Yakima; the combined ef fort of the people ot Albany Salem, Eugene, Pendleton, The Dalles and Bend. Take the .50 caliber gun which shoots 600 per minute (every fifth one a tracer) and can pierce a 1.3-inch steel plate. Cost of ammunition for one hour is $3,000, or three times the annual income of millions of American taxpayers. This gun will require the labor of 3,000 men for one hour each to keep it in ammunition, and it is being produced by the hundreds ot thousands and will be fired re gardless. Before cens o r s h I p cracked down the output of these .30 caliber shells was one million an hour. Here is where some of your tax money Is going: heavy bomber of tour engines costs $500,000 (with armament $750, 0001; a heavy submarine costs $6,000,000; a light tank $27,000; medium tank $67,000, and the heavy tank, with only one built to date, $114,000. Time fuses for heavy ord nance, to be produced by the million, have a mechanism like a watch and the fire control costs more than the gun. That is where the tax money Is going. THERE Is an Insufficient amount ot cotton linters for the manufacture of smokeless pow der. Government is in tho mar ket for alpha oelulose, which might be obtainable from some of the wood pulp mills in Ore gon and Washington. At one time the government was so anxious to obtain a supply that it had experts working on blue prints for a plant and 'looking for a suitable site. One site that attracted was in the northwest corner of Washington, another near the confluence of the Co lumbia and Willamette. So far as known, this plan Is pigeon holed, but other plans of twp years ago, supposed to have been abandoned, are coming to life. News Behind The News by Paul Malloo ; Can On lied Prom Psg On) tion arises as to whether an adequate substitute has been provided to furnish the same full spur. Is personal incentive being blunted? Is the maximum driving force of the nation being maintained? No one here seems worried. They expect to get the pro duction job done better than planned. Yet the cumulative effects 'on the public mind of the peculiar new hope-killing ways in which the government, through necessity, is going about the purely non-military aspects ot this war may be a subject for investigation by Mr. MacLeish. MTRATH Is rising In the war " department at delay in get ting new air fields started, weeks and months after the decision to build them has been announced. Temperature around air corps headquarters here is so high that the staff has been warned, upon threat of court martial, not to talk. All types of red tape, result ing from conflicting authority between the air corps and engi neers, is responsible in some instances. Projects involved: Rapid City, Pueblo, Klamath Falls, Richmond (Va.), Topeka, Lampoc Maria (Cal.), Greenville (S. C.) Hattiesburg (Miss.), Fort Worth, Spokane. Congress appropriates money for the fields and then the army decides the exact site. This de cision is generally announced through senators and representa tives, in order that they may get publicity back home. But politics about the choice of local land sometimes becomes involved. Then the air corps and engineers are supposed ta inspect the site and agree on installations, but agreement haa not been easy. It has been four months since the Greenville project was an nounced, three months since Lampoc Maria, two since Pue blo, Rapid City and Richmond yet work has not started. In another case, the army planned a field at Vero Beach, Fla., but the navy claimed this was too near one of its fields, and forced the army to move 25 miles south to Ft. Pierce. Jehovah Minister Now Facing Jail Los Angeles, March 12 IP Theodore W. Veuhnff lni. wood, was convicted in federal court yesterday of failing to re port at Cascade Locks in lieu of Induction into the army. Veuhoff claimed exemption on the ground he was a minister of Jehovah's Witnesses. A camp for conscientious ob jectors is located at Cascade Locks. Cm Mall Tribune want ad. fhy be satisfied with le9 than the best, when you can get this famous Kentucky whiskey at go moderate a price! I ou cap I I m . , gm vsgajr v aBBBsr . . la- . .it" agt - - elrAJaJrl. ( Brmir 100 Proof .,,fMj Di,tillen Presort, Corp, N. Y. Flight o Time Medford and J ark sow County History from In file af th Mall Tribune IS and SS veer ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY March 12. 1(33 Ot was Saturday) Underworld agent says Lind bergh baby sate, but refuses to divulge source of information. Prohibition Issue left square ly at President Hoover's door, but turn in political winds frets G.O.P. German voters choosing be tween Paul von Hindenburg, dedicated to preservation of German republic and Adolf Hit ler, advocate of its overthrow. , Cloudy with probable rain. High 59, low 38 degrees. Local weekly closed as libel suit judgment tiled. Spirit of agitation sweeps county. American Legion to hold St. Patrick's Day dance. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY March 12. 1122 (It was Sunday) Many farmers attend tractor school at Gates Auto company. "Ben Ellis is detained st home by a mixture ot flu and farm work" (Applegate Items.) Roseburg high basketball team en route here for game with Ashland is arrested tor speeding near Gold Hill. Ash land defeat Medford, 37 to 29, in playoff game at Ashland. Primary election ballots for the Chamber of Commerce are sent out. Marshal Joffre of France to visit America in April. Worst of panic is over, and business improves throughout the nation. More showers. High 84, low 37 degrees. Rogue River School Budget Drawn With Boost for Teachers Rogue River, March 12. (Spl) At a recent meeting of the budget committee ot Rogue River public schools a budget for the school year beginning July 1, 1942, and ending June 30, 1943, was prepared. The committee's policy was to reduce expenditures in sup plies, maintenance and repairs, capital outlay and auxiliary agencies, and to Increase the appropriations for personal ser vices Including both Instruc tional and non-Instructional. Five salaries were adjusted to a new higher base, and then the entire new staff was given a 10 percent increase over the adjusted base. It is expected that most of the present em ployees will sign contracts for next year. The budget committee, it was reported, expressed satisfaction in t policies of the adminis tration, which has made possible a curtailment In maintenance and repair expenses and other non-instructional costs. During the,. past four years all replace-m-wU of -furniture and equip eSrWl Wl new purchases IW, bseaaV '-ierfully' selected and purer. thought toward perrn, - and continuous use. yr - - Members of the flMttman orientation class, with their -In structor, Walter V. Dennis, worked on the preparation of sand bags for use in equipping tne school building with fire fighting equipment. Already 24 torty-pound bags of dry sand are located tn strategic places m tne Building. Two new water pumps, four barrels of water, eight new water buckets, and two chemical fire fighting tanks have been purchased and lo cated in the building. INVENTOR BOSCH DIES Berlin (from German broad casts) March 12 (Robert A. Bosch, 80, German Inventor, Industrialist and founder of the Bosch manufacturing firm, died today after a short Illness at Stuttgart, where his firm made . the well known Bosch magneto ' and other automotive machin ery. SkTal a. " . J3S W BOD Ot
