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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
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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.
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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-
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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.
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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.
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