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Penifenle Sect Resumes Secret Self-Torture Rites for Holy Week Higbee, Colo., Apr. 6 (U.R) Members of the Pcnitente sect are participating once more in , their secret 400-year-old rites, expiating themselves of sin dur ing the holy week through bru tal self-torture, oldtime residents believed today. Laws intended to suppress the barbaric ceremonies have forced members of the deeply religious Spanish-American sect to per form the rites in secrecy. Practice Persists Nevertheless, the practice has persisted throughout remote sec tions of the southwest. Activity at a long-abandoned Penitente chapel near here led residents to believe the ancient rites were in progress once more. The practice began early in the 16th century. Wearing black cowls and cotton shorts, the Pen itentes carry rude crosses on long journeys, beating them selves constantly with yucca whips. The custom varies in dif ferent localities. A long-time resident of this rough mesa country said local Penitentes crawl across a field where crude wooden crosses have been planted. At each sta tion, the sinner chants a hymn of contrition before going for ward on his hands and knees. Braided Yucca Used He flogs himself rhythmically with braided yucca strands as he crawls, the observer said, first wielding the whip over one shoulder, then over the other. Guards usually are posted at the scene of the ceremonies, but several residents of the area have in the past been allowed to watch from a distance. They said that the shrill pip ing of a flute-like instrument called a "pito" accompanies the rite, making a high, thin refrain for the deep chant of the worshippers. kJfe I l-ST mmt r I I tX" The fliaqtaq automatic washer gets your clothes clean! lucky you if you've waited for the wonderful Maytag Automatic wash " er. For this automatic washes clothes really clean. They're ready for the line in just 25 min utes. See a demonstra tion today 1 111111 T R A D I I N AST PAYMINTS L YOUNGER APPLIANCE 31 N. BARTLETT PHONE 2-6419 COOKING TIME ASK YOUR ECONOMICAL DELICIOUS GROCER HEALTHFUL nourishing maty to pnpan Mexican President Now Member of Local Happy Club E. C- "Jerry" .Jerome" one of the multitude of vice-presidents of Medford's Are You Happy club, returned this week from a trip to Louisville, Ky., 'with the news that Miguel Aleman, presi dent of the Republic of Mexico, is one of the newest vice-presidents in the far-flung member ship of the club. Jerome, who attended a Shrine ceremonial in the Ken tucky city, and who reported favorably on the hospitality of Louisville's citizens, said that much of his time was 'devoted to proselyting for the Medford Happy organization. He brought back with him an impressive list of new members, including Charles Farnsley, mayor of Louisville, subject to a recent article in Life magazine. To Present Card President Aleman's member ship card was to be presented to him by William Oldenburger, a Shriner who resides in Mexico City. With the membership now reaching for the 2,000 mark, and with vice-presidents in the presi dential palace in Mexico and in both houses of the United States congress, club enthusiasts are now considering enlisting other high government officials of the North American continent and possibly Europe. Feelers have already been ex tended, through the press, to the unhappiest man of them all Joseph Stalin. Sun Given Top Billing As Number One Power Source Seattle, Apr. 6 (U.R) A har-l nessed sun not atomic energy may well become our number one source of power, a Westing house Electric Corp., engineer ing executive said today Frank R. Benedict, manager of headquarters engineering for the company at Pittsburgh, fa., added that heat from the depths of the earth is another tremen dous energy potential "If we can learn how to get hold of it." Given Top Billing The sun was given top billing over all other forms of energy, including the atomic kind, by Benedict in a speech before the Seattle rotary club. He said development of solar energy as a continuous source of power "will come anyway, so we might as well lay a solid groundwork for the coming generations. "When our dwindling supplies of coal, oil, and gas are gone, harnessed sunshine may well be our number one source of energy. "Limited amounts of the two fissionable elements uranium and thorium will control the broad scale applications of atomic power. But it seems very unlikely that atomic power will ever supply any large proportion of our total energy require ment." Practical Way Cited Benedict said one practical way of capturing the energy now lost when the sun's rays are re flected off the earth's surface is by optical means, ''the old mag nifying glass principle." "In this way, sunlight can be concentrated about 50,000 times to produce very high-tempera ture furnaces. Russia is reported to have a solar boiler operating with super-heated steam at al most 900 degrees fahrenheit " He said direct conversion of the sun's radiation Into electrical henergy is the engineer's dream. He added that intensive research in photo-chemistry, thermo-electricity and photo-electricity is now under way in several of the nation's universities. He said the earth alone was capable of supplying 10 times our total annual energy require ment. However, with the earth still radiating more energy than it receives from the sun, Benedict said ideas for tapping the huge heat reservoir have been "absurdly expensive." Benedict estimated that by im proving utilizing devices and im porting oil. we may struggle along for about 200 years," per haps a maximum of 600 years," on unrenewable fuels like coal, oil and natural gas. Central Oregon Water Outlook 'Satisfactory' Policeman's Son Admits Murdering Sweetheart Because of 'Two-Timing' Martinez, Cal., April 6 ftl.R) The 19-year-old son of a police man will be charged today with strangling his sweetheart in a lovers' lane "because she went out with other guys." Arthur Eldon Prindle was held under a suicide guard at Contra Costa County hospital, recover ing from an overdose of sleep ing pills and loss of blood suf fered when he slashed his wrists in a suicide attempt. Body Found in Car His victim was Sally Ann Humphreys, 18-year-old daugh ter of a Berkeley, Cal., and San Francisco lawyer. Her battered body was found in the front seat of a convertible yesterday. Prin dle lay unconscious in the back seat. The youth awoke last night and mumbled out a confession to his father. Lester Prindle, a member of the Oakland police force. His mother, Melba, also was in the hospital room, a handkerchief held to her eyes. "Tell us what happened, Art," said the father. 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I thought someone might come before the sleeping pills worked, so I took Sally's mirror and cut my wrists with the sharp corner. "I couldn't feel anything, but I bled a lot. I must have passed out." Heart Attack Fatal to Prominent Bend Man Sacramento ,Apr. 6 (U.R) Harry Keyes Brooks, 73, a orominent manufacturing lum berman from Bend, Ore., dropped dead of a heart attack as he registered at a hotel here last night, coroner's deputies re ported today. Brooks, a widower, had spent the winter at Palm Springs, Cal., with Louis Weber, also of Bend. They were returning to Bend when they stopped here for the night. Survivors include a son, Thomas Brooks, now managing the lumber firm. Rayon for draperies and furni ture covering is made from wood pulp. Thursday, April I. 1950 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE Council Opposed to Daylight Saving Time Canby, Ore., Apr, 6 (U.R) City fathers here said they would adopt daylight saving time beginning April 30, but they let Portlanders know they did not like being kicked around by the big city. The sharply-worded resolution addressed to Portland's mayor and city commissioners and to the League of Oregon Cities cried: "Whereas the city of Portland has adopted so-called daylight saving time effective April 30 without regard to the wishes or convenience of neighboring cities or of rural residents; and "Whereas a council of the city of Canby, Ore., regards so-called daylight saving time as a public nuisance and an unnecessary subterfuge; and "Whereas an even greater nuisance to the people of the Canby community would result from any attempt to maintain two standards of time; "Now, therefore, be it re solved that the council hereby reluctuiV directs the adoption of daylight saving time , . . On the first Arbor day Ne braskans planted over one mil lion trees. Portland Defenders of Bridges Send Money Portland. Ore., Apr. 6 (U.R) A $1600 check has been sent to the San Francisco headquarters of the Bridges, Robertson and Schmidt defense committee by the Portland branch of the or ganization "as an indication of our determination to finance this case to the highest courts." Francis J. Murnane, secretary treasurer of the Portland branch, said Portland unionists and oth er International Longshoremen and Warehousemen's union friends contributed to the fund. Property Owners Meet Mem bers of the Jackson County Property Owners association will meet at the Girls' Community club today at 7:30 p.m. The pub lic is invited to hear discussioni of soot and smoke control, the Medford school system, and oth- er matters of interest to property owners, omcers saia. For exquisite, delicate flavor use this furt Vanilla in cake recipei. 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