TWO MEDFOHD (OHECON) MAIL THIBUNE
Wednesday. Jinu.rr IS. 1150
Water Short Communities
Can Learn From U.S. Navy
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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
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KUPTUM (H.rnio)
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FDra" Duritl took) 0rrm4
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THE DEAN CLINIC
in oua 40' tia
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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.
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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.
Whniounr synthetic mica mav
mnan in thp modern World, it
can't be any hotter stuff, rela
tively speaKing, man isingiaaa
was back in the base-burner
days.
3 30 pm for following day: 10 a m
Monday lor monoay. iiuui, j
for Sunday a.m
'JOCK TIME"
yie, ready for you soon... the
I bock beer Lucky Lager, brew
masters are still ageing and
mellowing with loving care for
all bock lovers to enjoy I
So, come March, come
and get the choicest,
heartiest bock beer
get
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Diitributed By
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53 Summit Ave. Ph. 3-1792
Medford, Oregon
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clean slate. Pay those Holi
day bills with cash. Loans on
your salary, furniture or
automobile. With payments
to fit your income.
Loans from $50 to $500
On Your
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Up to 24 Months to Repay
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Room 210-211 Ltvetem Bldg.
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BEFORE YOU RENEW
INVESTIGATE
FARMERS MONEY SAVING PLAN
Over 400,000 satisfied policyholders . , ,
twenty year of tervice and stability . . ,
National Standard, No Alienable Policy
with o mileage restrictions. Compare this
rate with your present coit.
EACH i MONTHS
(Currant Ratal)
lg 11.00 No.
RacurtUa. Policy Fee
at dictation
of Foliey
$5,000. S 10,000
Bodily Injury
$5,000 Property
Damaaa Liability
$1Q10
20 DISCOUNT TO RANCHERS & FARMERS
Call, Write or Coma l for Rare.
R. C. Boatty, Diit. Agent
Hugh Hamlin, Local Agent
204 W. Main Phone 2-7157
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GOWNS Mid
PAJAMAS
Nice Warm Hannel
' Gowns and Pajamas . . .
Also Shorty Gowns in
Flannel and in Rayon . .
Values to 4.95 NOW
ROCES and
HOUSE COATS
P99
We are reducing
these Robes away
below cost ... the
House Coats are m J
brand new. . . iir
BRAS
Nationally known
brands . . We have
all Colors 'and
Sizes.
BRUSHED
. RAYON
P. Js
?49
.s.arsjiifVN
4
New Spring
COTTON
DRESSES
We have just receiv
ed 15 Doz. Brand
New Cottons . . . and
we are showing them
, for the first time and
at a special price.
Reg. 6.95 Value .
A 99
SWEATERS
We have all our Sweaters in two group!
. . . Values to 10.95 . . You will find
long and short sleeve pullover also long
and short sleeve cardigans . . .
-J99
A"
NYLON
HOSIERY
Yes they are First Quality
.,,31-15 and 51-30... All
Good Shades and Sizes 8'j
to lOVi . . . They are all
Well Known Brands ....
Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Remember
These Cute Little
99
SHOES
Sure . . . You have always
wanted a pair . . . Well we
have just received a new
shipment . . . and Thursday,
Friday and Saturday they are
only . .
5.49
100 Wool
SCARFS
Nice Big Ones . . . Lots of
Colors to select from , , Now
is the time . . . . aa.
Regular Hi fjl H
Value Only f r (j
OXFORDS
Crepe Rubber Soles .. . Rubber
Soled Saddles . . and Wedge
Soled Casual ""N
ci - V.l
to 8.95 Now i
99
THRIFTY THURSDAY
RED TAG DAY
Friday and Saturday
LEON'S
TOTS TO TEENS
Boys' and Girls' I ft fl
COATS A,3a
Values to 12.95 u A"d "
Tackets 2
Girls' Corduroy QQ
JACKETS ry
Boys' and Girls' 1
Rain , I (
BOOTS
Boys' Heavy fAQ
CORDS $
SLEEPERS 449
With Feet
Nice Warm fi)f
BED SOX "TO
Boys' Ii QQ
SUITS
Boys' gg
Sweaters
Sweaters 149
Pullover and Cardigans I
Big Girls' r OQ
DRESSES L
SKIRTS T49
Size 2 to 6 .
ROBES j 99
I And ua
Boys & Girls' "OQ
SLIPPERS j?..
BLOUSES C
SLIPS ggc
tivm a i imumm vonrouw