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Totem Poles Again Emergi ling As 'Art' In Far Northwest Washington. Indian braves of the far northwest have taken to carrying totem poles again only this time it's on the colle giate, not the tribal, level. For the first time in educa tional history a formal course in totem carving has been included in a college curriculum. Squamish Life college, British Columbia's all-Indian school in North Vancouver, lists the course. It furnishes the teaching of a professorial chief-carver to any student brave interested in learning the almost forgotten ancestral art of embellishing a large log with symbolic fish heads and eagle beaks. Many Still Stand Squamish offers the course more or less as a form of "cul tural reforestation" of Ameri ca's "totem-polar region." Weath , er-beaten pole clusters still stand in southeast Alaska and along the British Columbia coast. But no new crop of poles has arisen since the turn of the cen tury, when totem carving be came almost a lost art. Less than a century ago, there was no problem of "reforesta tion." Totem poles were going up all over the northwest land scape as fast as the tribal chiefs could afford them. The great splurge in totem poles a century ago was nothing but a race for social pre-eminence among the chiefs of the northwestern tribes the Haida, Tsimshian and Tlingit. Contrary to popular belief, there was no religious or sacred symbolism at tached to the garnished logs. In fact, totem poles were noth ing but the social registers of the day, and simply represented a chief's claim to wealth and fame. The larger the pole, the more grotesque representations of whales, bears, ravens, fish, and eagles were carved on it. International Alarm For Aga Kahn Robber Paris, Jan. 21 (U.R) French police sent out an international alarm today for three men want ed in the $710,000 jewel robbery of the Aga Khan, for which six already were in custody. Italian, Belgium and Swiss po lice joined those of France in the hunt for Albert Gianme, 37, Paul Leca, 44, and Charles Vin cioeoni, 49. Redwood Empire Ass' n Commemorative Stamps Santa Rosa, Cal., Jan. 21 (U.R) The executixe board of the Red wood Empire association, has en listed the aid of Rep. Hubert Scudder, (R., Cal.) in seeking to persuade the U. S. government to issue a special commemorative stamp in recognition of Califor nia's giant Sequoia trees, it was announced today. LOANS Start the New Year with a 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 Salary, Furnirura or Automobile Up to 24 Months to Repay SEE AMERICAN FINANCE CORPORATION Room 210-211 License M-362 Laveratta Bldg. License S-285 PHONE 2-8886 Announcement . . . I am permanently located in my old dental offices Rooms 312-314, MEDFORD CENTER BUILDING. 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NOTHING TO DREAD IN The change of life (meno pause) marks the decline of the child-bearing period of life, noth- ing more, mere is no reason why one should dread its ap proach or ex istence, in the thought that dire diseases, such as cancer or insanity are more prone to develop at this period than at any other. Normally, or. oradv the menopause Is ushered in by a period of men strual irregularity, followed soon by complete disappearance of the menstrual periods. During this period, normally, no other disorder or change of any sort is apparent and no function is dis turbed, other than the ability to bear a child. Even the latter function is often surprisingly persistent, and more than an occasional woman, laboring under the belief that with the advent of the meno pause she is sterile, is either chagrined or delighted to dis cover tnat sne is pregnant. There is no reason to believe that a "menopause baby" has less chance of survival or healthful existance that one born early in me. Abnormal menopause may give rise to a variable array of symptoms. Abnormal meno pause does not indicate the de velopment of other disease. A woman may have a highly ab normal menopause and live to be a hundred years old, follow ing it. The menopause may be ex pected to commence at about the age of forty-five sometimes earlier, sometimes later. In ab normal menopause, one of the disturbing symptoms that may persist for a long time, is the hot flash. This symptom, in some instances, may persist for years after the termination of the final menstrual period. It is due, as are other menopausal symptoms, to a delay or malad justment of tile functions of the endocrine glands, of wnicn tne ovaries are a part. The ovaries commence to at rophy or shrink with the onset of the menopause, but no simi lar process develops in any of the other associated endocrine elands. Alone with the shrink- !ace. there occurs a decrease in the ovarian hormones, and many of the symptoms of abnormal menopause appear to be linked directly with this deficit. The belief that a woman is destined to get fat as a result of the menopause is nonsense. The only reason any woman gets fat is because she eats more than she needs. There are millions of women who did not get fat dur ing or after the menopause. Emotional instability some times occurs during the meno pause. In some instances it is difficult to determine whether this symptom is due to psycho logical convictions or to endo crine imbalance. It is probable that a good portion of it is psy chological under any cimcum stances. Some women ignorantly enter tain the notion that the meno pause marks the end of their feminine attractiveness, and find the thought so intorable that they may resort to emotion al "sprees," in an effort to es cape their foolish convictions. Modern hormone therapy in variably controls the symptoms of abnormal menopause. A great many women deprive them selves of this help because of the fear that hormone therapy stim ulates the development of can cer. This stems from some un fortunate publicity attending the discovery that actual cancer may be stimulated by certain hor mones in doses far exceeding those ordinarily employed in treating abnormal menopause. Hormone therapy of abnormal menopause is an accepted ana valuable method of treatment. If the supposed dangers which w THE CHANGE OF LIFE some people fancy actually ex isted, the treatment would nev er be used. Many women who have exper ienced much discomfort from hot flashes have reported satis factorily results from the prac tice of supplementing thejr or dinary diet with a daily ration of C and D essentials of good nutrition which the refined diet of most persons fails to provide in sufficient quantity. For in structions consult the pamphlet on ine Menopause, available on written request (do not use a clipping, please) if you provide stamped self-addressed . enve lope. QUESTIONS ANSWERS Cure for High Blood Prenuref Anxious to get a copy of article stating there Is no known euro lor high blood pressure. (C. A. H.) Answer 1 have no such article or copy. Of course there la no cure for high blood pressure which Is not a disease but Just one manifestation of numerous aliments. You may get a better understanding of it by reading uie dookici v.-v-u, aoout neart ana artery diseases. For copy send twen-ty-five cents and stamped self-addressed envelope. Wassermann Test Is a posiUve Wassermann test prool of venereal disease? Answer No. it is evidence, thoueh not absolute, of the presence of syph ilis which is often not venereal. Night Cramps Ceased Having suffered for years wlui cramps in my legs and feet nights, 1 sent for your pamphlet and followed ine aavice tnereln It brought com plete relief within two wek nnri have had no further trouble now for many months. (Mrs. T. C.) Answer ask for the pamphlet by name ADULT TETANY AND GROW ING PAINS and lnclniu, lUmMl n. velope bearing your address. (Copyright 19.10 by John F. Dllle Co.) State Industry Safety Group Okays Proposals Portland, Ore., Jan. 21 (U.R) The state industrial safety com mittee today announced it had adopted a seven-point program outlined by Gov. Douglas Mc Kay. The program included special attention to "high hazard indus tries as well as small plants and plans for scheduling conferences with various industry representa tives. Figures presented at the meet ing indicated that during 1948 sawmill and logging operations accounted for more accidents than any other industry. Odds and Ends Discussed By J. Hugh Pruttt Astronomer, Extension Division Oreson Higher Education System I. On Dec. 21, 1949, we heard over radio that a news agency in Czecho-Slovakia was dissem inating the line that "Stalin is akin to the sun, and on the day he was born 70 years earlier, the sun actually stood still in the heavens." This would surely be quite misleading to multitudes who were uninformed on mat ters astronomical and perhaps it was meant to be. But is was true in a certain sense. Stalin was born on the shortest day of the year, or with in a day of it if records are cor rect, tne time tnat is Known as the winter soltice. This word means sun stands still. Old Sol has two apparent motions in the sky. One is from east to west, which is a daily affair. Then there is the motion from north to south and back to north, requiring a year. Moves Across Sky About June 22, the sun daily moves across the sky in a seem ing path that is as far northward as it ever gets in our latitudes. Then each succeeding day it crosses the heavens on a curve a little farther south. This con tinues until the winter soltice when it is very low in the south and "stands still" just before starting back for another six- montns trip nortnward. atalin was thus born at the time the "sun stands still." But it took some latter-dav mind to figure that this orderly annual feat of Old Sol was an obeisance of a heavenly body to a baby because he was to become a mighty man of the earth. It might have made better pub licity material had he been born at the summer soltice when the sun was at its greatest ascend ency in the starry skies. Cam On Both Days 2. A radio announcer said re cently that he was not sure whether the winter soltice in 1949 came on December 21 or 22. "Some dispatches give one day; some, the other." It came on both days, but not in any one locality. In the Pa cific Standard time zone the clocks read 8:24 p.m., December 21, at the time the sun was "standing still." In the Eastern Standard 'time zone, this was 11:24 p.m. of that same day. In London, however, the time was 4:24 a.m. December 22. And it was December 22 in all of Eur ope, Asia, Africa and on east ward to the International date line a little east of New Zealand. SUFFER FROM RHEUMATIC PAINS OR ARTHRITIS? TRY MEDICINE ROCK Relief at last In new local discovery, gaining nation-wide attention. A fam ous clinical laboratory's eihsuitive rests show It holds great hap far rheumatism and arthritis auHerers. Many local people greatly benefitted. Your Favorite Southern Oregon Drug Store Has It! Fred Stroble Faces Sentence of Death Los Angeles, Jan. 21 (U.R) A superior judge will pronounce a sentence of death Friday on Fred Stroble, 67-year-old murderer of JLinda Joyce Ulucoft, 6. The unemployed baker faces an automatic death sentence be cause the jury which convicted him of first-degree murder failed to recommend leniency. Judge Rules San Stroble, who pleaded innocent and innocent by reason of insan ity, lost a chance for commitment to an asylum yesterday when Superior Judge Charles W. Fricke instead of the Jury de cided Stroble's sanity. "The court finds nothing in the record that tends to show that the defendant was insane at the time of his crime," he jurist ruled seven minutes after the hearing started. A Nichols' Worth of Comment On By HARMAN United Press Washington, Jan. 21-U.PJ Joe Darst, mayor of St. Louis, is a big little man in a big town. Uown there along the Mis sissippi river they don't pay much a 1 1 e n tion to proto col. Not like they do In by invitation. Well, Joe was in our town the other UarnuD Nichols day. He w a s big enough (St. Louis is in Mis souri) to get into the White House to see H.S.T. His assignment was simule. All he wanted was a few million for relief of a couple of the slum areas in fat. Louis known as "Kerry Patch" and "Goat Hill." If you ve ever prowled around St. Louis as I have, you know these sections could stand a little fixing up. Anyhow, Joe Darst did his duty at the White House and then wandered over to the Stat ler hotel where he was to pitch a fine of St. Louis hoe-down for a lot of DeoDle. Thev innhirlprl I the three congressmen from St. 3. And what is this date line? This is an imaginary line run ning from pole to pole close to tne iHinn meridian from Green wich, but deviating from it in places so as not to touch land. This is the place "where the day begins. Immediately to the west of this line it is practically the same time of day as immedi ately east of it, but always one ciay later. Instruction Courses Offered Reservists A number of two - week or longer tours of active duty are now open to officers and enlisted men of the organized army re serve corps, it was announced today by Maj. Walter Fingerhut, ORC Instruction here. Among them are an eight-week course in automotive mechanics for enlisted reservists at Fort Ord, Cal.; on-the-job training for a company and field grade offi cers at the same army post, and duty at the office of army field forces, for field grade officers with experience as unit com manders or staff officers. Two-week courses for all grades in various amphibious techniques, including courses in communication, naval gunfire supnort, intelligence, landing craft control, and a general course on the subject of amphi bious warfare indoctrination are also available. Further information may be obtained from Major Fingerhut at ORC headquarters at the cor ner of Sixth street and River side avenue. BAGS COUGAR Harry (Vernon) DunlaD. 1216 Saling avenue, shot and killed a cougar on the little AnDlegate river Friday. DunlaD credited his hounds, particularly two pups "Elmer and "Jiggs." eight months old, for his success and stated that "Elmer" was respons ible for treeing the animal and holding it at bay until Dunlap was able to shoot it. The nation's only municipally owned opera house is in San Francisco. E (J; M'i w a snington ; V-Z--- vl where you i r J" 1 w " 1 ' e-'ie or 71 I sport -slack it The 9Q and 9 CAFE and TAVERN Will RE-OPEN MONDAY, JAN. 23 Completely Remodeled and Redecorated We Sincerely Appreciate your generous patronage which hat made this im provement program possible. We'll welcome you back with 90 and 9's usual hospitality, friendly service, fine foods and beverages. 1258 South Riverside Telephone 3-9095 Mother, 2 Children Die in Maine Blaze York, Me., Jan. 21 (U.R) A mother and two children burned to death early today when a port able oil stove exploded in their bedroom, splattering them with me Diazing num. Those killed in the blaze which burned out their five-room frame home were Mrs. Thomas McDon ald, 41, and her sons Arthur, 5 and Richard, 7. ine woman s husband was burned seriously when he opened the door to the bedroom as the oil stove blew up. Doctors said he also suffered a heart attack and shock. Two other children, Thomas Jr., 18. and Sheila, 11, fled un- narmea. The oldest building standing in San Francisco is the Officer's club in the Presidio. This and That W. NICHOLS feature Writes Louis: Frank Karsten, John Sul livan and Raymond Karst all good, deserving democrats. Reall The Rules The mayor read all about Washington protocol. He didn't want to make any mistakes. Carolyn Hagner Shaw in her lit tle book had set down the rules, and he read them' all. Sit the big shot first, the next big shot, and go on from there, the book said. Down in St. Louis no small town, mind you they just sit down as they come in and tuck a napkin under the chin and paddle into the soup. Same as you do in most places except Washington. But Joe Darst likes to follow the rules of the Romans when in Rome, etc. So lie looked over at his assembled guests. There was A. B. Silverman, assistant commissioner of field operations, area C, of the Public housing administration. Where to sit him? Other Big Shots There was John Taylor Eagan, the commissioner of public hous ing. Put him on the mayor's left or right? There were other big shots, and small shots, many of whom could do St. Louis a fine turn. How about them? It was all so confusing the mayor soon was having trouble telling a big shot from a little one. So he started counting noses. There were old friends po litical friends and new friends he'd just met. There this, guy from the White House and that one from his own ward in St. Louis. So many, in fact, his eyes be gan to blur. What to do? Darst called Sullivan into a huddle and whispered something about procotol. "Why don't you do it this way?" Sullivan whispered back. Mayor Bellowed The mayor did. He pulled himself up to his full height and bellowed: "Soup's onl" There was a scramble for the few available seats. Clerks got in ahead of congressmen and Commissioner Eagan wound up at the foot of the table. But the celery was good. Also tVw stctik. Mayor Darst grinned his way through it allbig city style and gave forth with a speech to make St. Louis proud. Decorated Sugar Cubes Marketed World-Wide Minneapolis (U.R) Mrs. Miki Barnes has develooed an interna tional business of decorating sug ar cubes. Using a pastry tube wltn extra fine points, she puts colored- frosting in various designs on the cubes. Her "sugars," as she calls them, have 'been sold in every state except Arizona and have been shipped to Denmark, Eng land. France, Germany, Hawaii and Iceland. Bar Association Talks Planning for Estates Trip Southern Oregon Bar as sociation, composed of attorneys from Jackson ana josepmne counties, met In Grants Pass Thursday to hear discussions of estate planning and analyses and will-drafting by four officers of the trust department of the First National bank of Portland. The speakers were George W. Stewart, Lawrence L. Clark, C. W Hastlnirs and Hul Dolson. The meeting was followed by dinner and dancing at the Grants Pass Country club. Use Mail Tribune Want Ads Sunday, January 22, 1950 $1,500,000 HOLDUP Detective Inspects the vault of Brink's, Inc, and some of the sacks of coins not touched In the $1,600,000 holdup of the armored trucking firm's Boston branch. The nine masked robbers preferred "folding money" because it was lighter. Brink's has offered a $100,000 reward for the capture of the bandits dead or alive. .... AROUND By VIRGINIA United Press Hollywood, Jan. 21 (U.R) Movietown now has the nation's first college for picking the Horses. Every movie set is swarm ing with horse players, and a veteran liandi capper has started the two - dollar -tech to teach them why they lose their money. The general idea is that it takes nn nrln. Virginia, MacFherwra cation to out-smart a horse and even then you have to be lucky. "There are definite and pre dictable factors a person ought to know before he picks a race," Dean of Students Ned North said. "Horse picking is a sci ence. "Plenty of guys have been shoving their money over the mutuel windows for 40 years, and they don't know that when a horse wins by a nose the rest of him wins too." Pictures Of Horses Broke and beaten track fans crowd Into North's classroom, complete with college chairs and blackboard, to hear four profes sors lecture on blood lines, breeding, speed and pace. There are pictures of famous horses on the walls and a miniature race track for re-running the last race at hnnla Anita. After the 10-hour course, you'll be able to lose money like a professional. Some of the scholars are con nected with the movie business, including a studio doctor and a former cameraman. North won't say how many are, but Para mount studio around the corner complained that its employes keep sneaking out to catch a class. Some Prominent "Some of our students are prominent businessmen who won't give us their real names," worm acmeci. r-ossioiy py coin assss-asaekilij! ipORMENTIDBYLOVE! )i H?!J H THE INTIMATE STORY SnJW .I OF A DOCTOR'S i hJM ijmz. a lfVY PRIVATE H Leo Gorcey The Bowery Bays 1 WF&ffiw IQU lwm Sis ,.?' 'ril 1 I, CllSrk nwa : or the haiw U VJ L J J .1 V H I 1 M kM JL H 1 rVlkl HOLLYWOOD MacPHIRSON Correspondent cidence, there's a rear entrance. 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