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I n n rra .it5 t'i (x, ,": IT LOOKED COLD' Reunited to a New York police station, Mrs. Geraldine Ranne (right clings to her kidnaped baby, Diane, while Mrs. Catherine Palnore (left), in whose home Diane was found, makes friends with the 6-month-old infant No charge has been made against Mrs. Palnore, who says she took the baby borne because "It looked cold." Science U. S. Army Boasts of Record Health In 1949 Chief Surgeon Calls It Best in History By Paul F. Ellis United Press Science Writer New York, Apr. 5 (U.R) The U. S. army medical men haVe the right idea. Their aim is .to prevent illness in the first place. The result is that Uncle Sam's army had the best health in 1949 it ever had. Says Surgeon General Ma. Gen. R. W. Bliss: "The U. S. army today is not only the healthiest army in the world, but the healthiest in all history." The big reason for this robust health, according to Bliss, is the application of the army's tradi- Poster Contest Open To Green Guards Here Jackson county's hundreds of Green Guard members are be ing invited to take part in the sixth annual state-wide fire pre vention poster contest sponsored each year by the Keep Oregon Green association. Local Green Guards, the youth auxiliary of the association, may enter contest posters from April 1 to 30, according to Moore Hamilton, county Keep Oregon Green chairman. There will be six cash prizes in both the junior and senior divisions, with a $25 cash award and a trip to the Oregon state forest nursery near Corvallis to the two division first-place winners- The size of the poster will be 11 by 14 inches and only one poster may be submitted by each Green Guard. Entrants must use a fire pre vention theme and the posters will be judged on originality, relation to educational phases of fire prevention and artistic qualities. They may be in cut outs, water colors, poster paint, oils, pastels or wax crayons. All entries should be sent to the Keep Oregon Green associa tion, P. O. Box 471, Salem. VA Officials Visit Domiciliary Center Camp White, Apr. 5 Two of ficials of the veterans adminis tration were visitors at the vet erans domiciliary center here recently. Miss Mary Vocelle, VA library service. Washington, D. C, was a visitor at the center last Thursday and Friday- She was en route to San Francisco and plans to visit all VA hospitals in the Pacific coast area. Raymond J. Novotny, area di rector, special services of the veterans administration's San Francisco office, was an official visitor here Monday. Novotny is here in a supervisory capacity relative to special services and VA volunteer service programs. Nebraska produces 200 var ieties of grass a number not exceeded by any other state in the nation. at Work tional policy of preventive medi cine, something that civilian ex perts should also consider to cut down the nation's doctor bills. Rate of Admissions Bliss said the rate of admis sions for 1949 was 128 army men per 100.000 strength per average day. The admissions, he said, includes not only hospital oatients. but also all persons re lieved from duty because of ill ness or injury beyond the actual day of onset. The 1949 report also shows an improvement in army health for the fourth consecutive year since the end of the war, and com nares with an average war-time rate excluding battle casualties, of 202 admissions per 100,000 per day. There has been a steady de cline since the end of the war. In 1946, it was 178: in 1947, it was 174: and in 1948. it was 132. "This splendid achievement." Bliss said, "is even more remark able when it is realized that in the past year a larger proportion of the army was stationed in the overseas areas than in pre-war years. Diseases are much more orevalent in some of those areas than in the United States." Reaoiratory Diseases The report also shows that the number of respiratory diseases dropped during 1949. It was 43 oer cent of the normal seasonal oeak. Bliss said, and the venereal disease incidence rate was about 50 per cent lower in 1949 than the post-war peak of mid-1946. Injuries and other categories also showed improvement. Bliss said there was a consist ent decline in the death rate, par ticularly in deaths from disease. The 1949 figure for total deaths, he disclosed, was 200 per 100.000 strength per year, against 220 in 1948. and 230 for both 1946 and 1947. There were 50 deaths from disease per 100.000 per year in 1949. 60 in 1948, 70 in 1947 and 80 In 1946. Army's Health Better The army pointed out that rates released by the U. S. pub lic health service for the total civilian population in all age groups showed 989 and 1.008 deaths per 100.000 in the United States during 1947 and 1948 re spectively. Bliss said he was confident that the army's health record would be maintained during 1950. EXAM DEADLINE Persons wishing to take exam inations for caseworker I, em ployment security deputy I, and personnel assistant I positions were reminded today by the state civil service commission that their applications must be postmarked by midnight, Apr. 8, 1950, if they expect to partici pate in this year's tests. As a con venience to applicants, the tests will be administered in all parts of Oregon. Golden Gate International Ex position opened on Treasure Is land in San Francisco Bay Jan. 14, 1838. HARDWOOD FLOORING PECAN SHORTS ...$175.00 per M BEECH SHORTS . . .$175.00 per M Just Arrived Carload of No. 1 and Better Oak Shorts fAcma Telephotoi Oregon Jobless Paid 3,677,021 During Last Month j Salem, Ore., Apr. 5 (U.R) Jobless workers received unem ployment compensation totaling $3,677,021 in March, a decrease of more than one million dollars from the record amount paid out in February, the state unemploy ment compensation commission reported today. The total was nearly half a million dollars less than went out in March. 1949 New Quarterly High Last months payments brought the 1950 total to $12,844,293, a new quartely high and more than for any entire year except 1946 and 1949. Last year's record high of $26,389,788 included $7, 021.982 paid to veterans under the GI bill of rights. The number of claimants con tinued to drop steadily, to 32, 357 last week from the early February seasonal peak of 65. 731. This compares with 39.04L a year ago and a 1949 peak of 62.816. Of the 136,780 workeri who have sought compensation since the start of the 1949-50 benefit year last July, 119,790 were found to have valid claims. Near ly 104,000 have received at least one check and more than 22,000 have received maximum bene fits. A year ago 10,597 had ex haused their benefit rights. Unemployed veterans entitled to readjustment allowances re ceived only $89,524 last month, bringing the 1950 total to $265, 030. In the first quarter of 1949, they were paid $4,300,193, but the rights of those discharged before July 25, 1947, expired last August. During the first quarter of the year, the state's unemploy ment reserves dropped nearly ten millions to $71,370,000, the lowest figure since early 1947 and slightly less than was on hand when the war ended in August, 1945- Wisecarver Seeks Job Without Working Los Angeles, Apr- 5 U.R) Sonny Wisecarver, the teen-age romeo, announced today he was looking for job which provides "living without working." "I just take it for granted that everybody doesn't work for a living," he explained. "There's a way you can make money with out being crooked and without working." So he put an ad in a news paper situations wanted section asking for offers. Wisecarver, 21, who eloped with one married woman when he was 14 and another at 16, said he had left his young wife, the former Betty Sue Reber, in Las Vegas, Nev. "I called her and said I wasn't coming home, then I hung up fast," he said. "I prefer older women." Here's Lowdown on Doctor Says It's Mote By William Warren 1 United Press Correspandent Salem, Ore., Apr. 5 (U.R) Here's the up-to-date, spring of 1950 lowdown on the flying saucer: Its mote in your eye. A lot of folks who think they do, don't see the saucers, but that doesn't n e c e s s arily mean they're in their cups, Dr. Leslie J. Carson, Salem mil Warren optometrist .said today. Most persons with a little care and concentration can see a fly ing saucer, or, as Dr. Carson put it. "This entoptic (inside the eye) phenomenon, but only when their gaze is directed at some well-lighted background, such as a clear sky or a blank wall." Fliers particularly, said Dr. SOMETHING law r TROWBRIDGE & FLYNN 214 WEST MAIN STREET Flying Saucers: in Your Eye wuimiu, are exposea iu inese conditions up in the wild goose What 4ka coa ealA thd 'MWI Mlbjr vmj oaivt till. optometrist, are muscae. voli tantes. Literally, he said, that means fleeing flies (or vice ver sa). Let's let the doctor ex plain: "The spots or discs may ap pear to be single or in groups. They float somewhat, but retain a relatively stable position. If they are near the fixation point, and the observer moves his eyes in an attempt to gaze directly at them, they move corresponding ly and cannot be overtaken. When the eye motion stops, the spots continue to float onward a s hort distance, then revert backward to their approximate original positions, thus giving the appearance of motion even though the eye is stationary at the instant. In any change of posture which the eye assumes, there is a floating lag in the mo tion of the particles in the vite ous, and therefore a correspond- NEW UNDER THE A mounting The Amazing ... . MCL'J St& W5iGM-To-$AV door n. .uiiji ,!,,,,, ,n.i.,i,..uilnuJ,,,,1 ... .!,.. ,. .. ' WtlGHSClOmtS-WVlSMONH n" $26995 NORMAL INSTALLATION ENJOY TODAY . . '1c"Mr aeal you can se sure. .if nscstinghouse COME IN! ASK US FOR A DEMONSTRATION! Wednetdar. April 3. 1950 IT'S ALL-STURGIS Sturgis, Mich. (U.R) Alice and Suzanne Sturgis of Sturgis won first and second prizes in their high school cherry pie baking contest. ing behavior of the objects seen as projected outward into space, apparently as real flying discs. "A sweep of the eye across the sky in pursuit of these muscae volitantes (fleeing flies or V.V.) requires only a second. Thaw adds up to real speed in the minds of observers if what they see is interpreted to be actual saucers in the sky. "The phenomenon is very real to someone who does not under stand it, and who is in a sugges tive frame of mind, conditioned by current developments in rock ets and jet propulsion." Okay, so that takes care of the flying saucers. But what of the little men from Mars, Venus or Uranus who have been seen in them? The doctor doesn't go into this, but perhaps it can best be accounted for by a take off on an old jingle: Little eyes have little motes Upon their flecks to guide 'em. Little motes have lesser motes And so ad infinitum. SUN! WESTINGHOUSE'S NEW LAUNDROMAT! BL ASSURtS SOAP AND WATER SAVINGS The Laundromat wash es, rirum and damp driea. The Clothes Dryer dries your clothaa either bone-dry for storage, or juat right for ironing. MEDrORD (OREOOrT) MAIL THIBUHZ SEVS FIGURING IT CLOSE Memphis, Tenn. (U.R) Identi cal bids right down to the penny were turned in by two compan ies seeking to sell poles to a Memphis utility. When the secret bids were opened, the American Creosoting Co., of Jackson, Tenn. and the Republic Creosoting Co., of Mobile, Ala., figures were $25,824.70. VICTOR Says: The other day I was listening to a lady voice her opinion at to why women had no children or maybe only one. Her thought was that they had waited for a convenient time. Why wait longer? Make this the convenient time for that per manent wave. Then when that special invitation arrives accept- ' ing it is matter of routine, not one of anxiety. CRATERIAN 41 S. Central Ave. i to Tnii Mat. ftf ACTUALLY WEIGHS CLOTHES; FIRST YOU WEIGH No more guessing. Just weigh clothes on the Weigh-to-Save Door. THEN YOU SAVE Set Water Saver to load size shown on the Indi cator "sma", "medi um", "regular". 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