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TWO MEDFOHD (OHECON) MAIL THIBUNE Wednesday. Jinu.rr IS. 1150 Water Short Communities Can Learn From U.S. Navy .. YS...1 V Fills United Pr.it Sci.nc. Editor Guantanamo, Cuba, Jan. 18 U.R) The city of New York and other American communities with a water shortage can learn a few things from the United States navy. , The navy's ships, particularly the bl(? combat vessels, have the water problem at all times but something is done about it. and American ships have water so pure that it couin De lnjcciea into your veins with no harm done. ConveU Water Fiitt, the navy has brand new equjTinent that converts salt wa ter into fresh. It's too expensive for the communities to adopt now but the technique some day may be practical. Second, the navy known lor Its cleanliness knows how to conserve water. On all the big ships, such as the Carrier Franklin D. Roose velt of the Atlantic fleet which anchored off this island for two days on a West Indies cruise, the most modern fresh water "fac tory" can be found. The type on the Roosevelt produces up to 1(50.000 even 200,000 gallons of fresh water each day from alt sea water, sucked up from the ocean. When the Roosevelt leaves a port it carries 206,000 gallons piped in from land sources but that lasts only one day or so, and the ship's fresh water system goes into action. Sucked into Ship The Roosevelt system has four units, each capable of producing 50,000 gallons of fresh water from sea water daily. The ocoan water is sucked into the ship through six-inch pipes that pro trude from the bottom of the vessel. It goes Into each unit at the rate of 600 gallons a minute. And each unit produces about 40 gallons of fresh water a minute. The cost, according to Cmdr. Raymond Payne, South Bend, Ind engineering officer of the Roosevelt, is about one cent for 10 gallons. That may sound high for the ordinary water user but it's the cheapest by far in the cost of making fresh water from salt water. The research in the navy may some day lead even to cheaper costs. Payne and his division engi neer, Lt. Yorick N. Fontcnot, are experts on this matter of making fresh water, and they also de pend a lot on Chief Petty Officer John L. Smithers, of Bowling Green, Va., who Is directly as- Thank God For Muscle-Rub! wrllti Ruth ChloH, lot AnfjtUi Advises tvery suffenr from Rheumatism Arthritic Sciatic -Neurit. e Palm to try Muscle-Rub Hue'i tin trut story of t woman who took treatment!, uitd alt klndt of rmtdles for her iclattc. neurltlc pntm without balnt helped In Iht iliRlitent dtxre Ruth Chlntl, U2i North Orange Grnve Dr., Los Augelei, suffered ngony from pains In tier hipknee calf or legs, The pain t times was so had that she couldn't it down Bhs tried several different medicines, all of which did her no good She couldn't work. Life was misery for her. Then one day she saw an advertise ment of Muscle-Rub the doctor's pre script Ion and In desperation bought a bottle. She used It as directed and In I days the pains were relieved and Ruth Chlstl wns back on the Job. No wonder she advises every rheu matic sufferer to try Muscle. Rub for fast pain relief. Get a bottle today at fINNY.WISI WESTERN THRIFT And Other Drug Stores Oat foln Relief er Mensy lock Remember, Muiclt-Rub Is sold on . this money back guarantee. If only half a bottle dnesnrt bring relief your druggist Is authorized to return your money. Quintuplsts Ilea 'Mustcrolc For Chcct Colds! to relieve cough achy mutclet The Dionne Quints have always had the best care. Ever since they were babies, they've used Musterole to promptly relieve coughs and local congestion of colds. Be sure iour kid dies enjoy Musterole's great bonofllsl RELIEF AT LAST For Your COUGH Creomulsion relieves promptly becamt it goes right to the seat of the trouble; to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm and aid nature to soothe and heal taw, tender, inflamed bronchial mucous membranes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with the understanding you must like the way it quickiy allays the cough or vou are to have vour money hack. CREOMULSION for Coughs, ChestColds.Bronchitil Smooth Away Dltcomfort of Chafed, Itchy Skin Yen. It's simple as that! Bathe with mild Steitnol Soap, then spread on medicated Rpunol. Wonderful how quickly and Jently the soothing ingredients in this amoua ointment give blissful relief. PILES HEMORRHOIDS an lh, (tool Dliidari COION... STOMACH KUPTUM (H.rnio) llllttf WllMll IlllltH Optllttll M,00 .Mil SiOO M.n thru.h ti. U.HI 1,00 IU..WU fil CJ.IWVl FDra" Duritl took) 0rrm4 rnct w,. ,. iHiifw THE DEAN CLINIC in oua 40' tia . N.I. Comar I. tumtiea n4 Oraaa' Aa. Ttlaationa IA1I It 1 1 r.rlli, 14, On. signed to the water converter system. Exhaust Steam Used In the navy system, which was riesiKiied and built by Griscom Russel, New York, exhaust steam steam that already has been used furnishes the heat to boil the salt water. There are numerous steps. The steam goes into a first chamber via tubes, and its heat boils the water, caus ins it to chanao to vanor. The vapor passes on to two other similar cnamocrs ana xinauy goes to a distilling condenser, where it turns to liquid. Then the liquid goes through a testing chamber. The water is cooled, and then sent to storage tanks located in the deepest part of the ship. The whole process does not require three minutes. The wa ter, the purest you ever drank, ii used both for the boilers and for drinking, cooking and all other purposes aboard this big ship. 1949 FruifCrop Said Second Largest Ever In 1949, United States grow ers produced the second largest fruit crop on record, according to the weekly fruit and nut crops review prepared by the Oregon State college extension service from United States de partment of agriculture reports and other data. The 1949 pear crop was a rec ord high. National production was estimated at two - fifths above the small 1948 crop and about one-fifth above average. In the three Pacific coast states, bartlctt production was half again as large as the 1948 crop and almost a third more th'an average, the department of ag riculture figures showed. Fall and winter pears in the three states were about a fifth more than last year's average crop and these estimates Include un usually large amounts of pears not utilized. The apple crop was more than double that of 1948 and the larg est since 1939, the extension service reported. Ten million bushels of apples were left un harvested from the 1949 crop. The bureau of agricultural economics has estimated that in 1949 each person in the nation consumed an average of about 25 pounds of fresh apples, 47 pounds of fresh citrus fruit, and 57 pounds of other fresh fruit. Per capita consumption of all frulis during the year amounted to Z1B pounds per person. Farm Prices Continue Slide In December Oregon farm prices continued to slide during the month end ing December 15, according to the weekly farm review pre pared by the Oregon State col log extension service from Unit ed States department of agricul ture reports and other data. This is the third consecutive month in which prices received by Ore gon farmers have shown a de cline. Although prices fluctuated somewhat during 1949, the gen eral trend for the entire year was in a downward direction. The general level on December 15 was 12 per cent below a year earlier, and 24 per cent below the peak readied In June ishb. Declines during the year have been general in all of Oregon's meat animal and poultry prod ucts. Most of the state's princi pal crops are also bringing prices below those of a year ago. Ex ceptions are barley and potatoes, rye and hay. But declines at the retail level lagged over the entire country, according to bureau of labor sta tistics. Consumers are paying only three per cent less for food than they did a year ago. On November 15, 1949, it took $2 to buy the same amount of food that $1 would buy before the war. Dagwooal ful-IIOWjllJiTTMW. M4W009 rf a uTumv -V o cun cm vrcm wcax o th .l evunT rtuofj MAJKMOf.PMMl Features Slated For " Red Tag Days Here With two special features. In cluding appearances of the American Legion Kilty band from Ashland and a two-day kitchen clinic, added to the many bargains lo be offered dur ing Red Tag days Friday and Saturday, Medford shoppers will be given an Interesting two days In the business section, according to Robert Agard. chairman of the chamber of commerce's re tail trade committee. Food stores are cooperating in the January Red Tag observance. Agard said, making it a city wide event. The Kilty band will play on downtown streets Saturday aft ernoon, to call attention to the community March of Dimes dance which will be held at Merrick's ballroom on Friday, January 27. The kitchen clinic will be con ducted by Miss B. J. Christen sen, home economist, at the Home Appliance company Fri day and Saturday. Included will be a home laundry demonstra tion, rooking school and a dish washer and garbage disposal demonstration. WOLVJEN who feel NEHUDUS eiusid by functional 'middli-agi'l Do you suffer from hot flashes. Weak, nervous. Irritable clammy friinns due to the function, 'middle -uga period peculiar to women (38-5) yrs.)?ThtnDuuyLydiaB Ptnkham'a Vwtable Compound to relieve tuch svmptomit It also has whst Doctors rail a stomachic tomo iiWti Mvnur Piwkuiu'c yiciu,,! I In the Day's News By Frank Jenkins I've just read a piece on the teletype that intrigues me. It's from Washington, and it says: Government scientists have developed synthetic or artifi cial mica, relieving U.S. depend ence upon imports for that im portant electrical insulation ma terial. . . Commerce Secretary Sawyer announced it with a de claration that "this discovery is of immense importance to the United Mates. ... he Implied that the development is an ad dition to national security, since it phomises an ample supply of a material that becomes critical in the pinches. I he dispatch adds: "Mica con sists of transparent crystals. It is popularly termed isinglass. AH ME! How that takes us oldsters, especially those of us who came from the Mississip pi valley, vack into the olden golden days! MAYBE Isinglass is a strategic material now. Maybe it might save our bacon in case of another war. Maybe it will en able us to twiddle our fingers at nations that have plenty of mica in the natural state where as we are short of it. These are problems of the modern time. There was a won derous period in this nation's nistory when we didn't give two hoots down a rain-barrel for strategic war materials. In those days we weren't afraid of any other nation. We didn't regard ourselves as the national keeper of any brother. We Just went ahead and hoed our own row of corn and let the people of other countries hoe their row. We didn't get the jitters every time we read the international news. As a matter of fact, WE NEVER READ THE INTERNATIONAL NEWS. We regarded such things as sissy business. It was In those days that isinglass REALLY MATTERED. It mattered because it made base burners possible. YOU children never heard of a base-burner, of course. Nor, I suppose, did any native son of the Golden West. So I reckon I'd better elucidate. A base-burner was a squat, pot-bellied stove that burned an thracite which, for the further enlightenment of Western folk, is hard, slow-burning, clean coal. The fire was in the bottom of the base-burner, and in the upper part was a hopper that could be filled with anthracite of the "nut" size. As the coal burned out at the bottom, more filtered down from the hopper at the top so that, If you filled the hopper at night, THERE WOULD BE A NICE, WARM FIRE IN THE BASE - BURNER THE NEXT MORNING and the room would be nice and cozy. THAT doesn't mean anything to you children. You have a plethora of modern gadgets, including furnaces controlled by a thermostat that you set when you go to bed and with no further monkey-business it keeps the house warm as toast all night so that you don't freeze your little tootsies when you get up to a cold house in the morning. It was different back when the base-burner was Invented. People then got up to houses that were Just four degrees colder in the wee small hours of the dark mornings than the North Pole and the only way to relieve the cold was to BUILD A FIRE. By the time the fire was built you Ashland Club Feafurerf By Kiwanis Magazine An article in the current Issue of The Kiwanis Magazine, the nalinnnl mnnthlv nuhlieatlon nf Vitianic intprnatinnul. features a story about the Ashland Boys Atnietic ciud, sponsored in Asn land by the Kiwanis club. Details of tne ciuds opera tion are told in the article. Oth er service clubs in Ashland have joined the Kiwanians in spon soring the athletic organization. were frozen stiff, but as the stove got to drawing well and be came red all over you came slow ly back to life and motion. It was into a world such as this that the base-burner came and changed morning from a terrible'ordeal to a pleasant ex perience. WHERE does the isinglass come in? Oh, yes. I'd for gotten. The bottom part of these base burners was made of little square u,inrlnur in flip rant. Iron frame of the thing and these windows were filled with isinglass wnicn miraculously resisted the fire and permitted the rosy light of the burning anthracite to come glowing through. It was wonder ful in thA olnamini in that macic hour before the kerosene lamps were lighted, and it was even more wonderful when you toast ed your toes in front of it the next morning. 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