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SIX MTOFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, August 191952 Radiant Heating To Be Available to Eskimos New York (U.R) The same Eskimos who bought ice boxes are about to get another modern invention. t Only this time the developers hope Eskimos won't be so ingen ious in adapting the product to daily requirements of lite above the Arctic Circle. "They use refrigerators to store food so it won't freeze," admitted Tex Ziegler, 30-year-old pilot from Pennsylvania who has spent the last seven years flying everything from pressure cookers to ogruk skins in and out of the frozen north. To Have Heat Panels Tuesday Tex takes off in his small plane with a supply of radiant heat panels and a couple of brand new combination light and heat fixtures called therm o lieties. Destination: Kotzebue, an Alaskan village some 50 miles above the Arctic Circle. This seems a radical change for an igloo formerly heated by burning seal oil or maybe wil low branches. Yet one of the overhead heat-light fixtures is earmarked for the one-room sod igloo of an aging Eskimo wom an. Can Pay With Dolls "She can pay for it by making Eskimo dolls," Tex explained. "I can sell those to post exchanges. She has arthritis, and electric heating will do her a world of good." Electricity Is provided from the town's generator. The cost of seal oil being what it is today, Armchair As Quake Detector Puzzles Expert An armchair had a quake ex pert guessing Friday. Prof. L. Donald Leet in charge of the Harvard University seis mological station couldn't be lieve that Leonard Barisano's armchair could detect earth quakes. Barisano was sitting In It Sun day when he felt two "shoves," he said, and immediately called a newspaper. "Where's the earthquake?" he asked and got a negative answer. "Positively an earthquake somewhere," Barisano said. "I'm sitting in this chair, a big com fortable chair, and I get two shoves, 30 seconds apart." Dr. Leet confirmed that the Harvard seismograph recorded two tremors about 2,000 miles away about the time Barisano was disturbed and asked where the reporter got the tip. From a man siting in "a large, overstuffed chair," the reporter said. Unfelt by Neighbors "A large overstuffed chair?" asked Dr. Leet. "Are you sure?" None of Barisano's neighbors felt anything and he said he would have been willing to for get it but the chair shook twice. "One shimmy in the chair coincidence," Barisano said. "Two shimmiei an earth quake." -v Mrs. Hamilton Named Candidate Chairman Mrs. Moore Hamilton, 43 Rose , avenue, has been appointed Jackson county chairman of the "Lambert for State Treasurer" committee, it was announced to day by Francis Lambert, Demo cratic candidate for treasurer. Mrs. Hamilton took the chair manship, she said, "after becom ing familiar with the candidate's outstanding record as treasurer of Multnomah county, and with his civic leadership in Portland." Lambert was president of the Oregon Historical society last year and state chairman of the United Services to China in 194? and 1948. His numerous other civic and community activities include participation in Red Cross and cancer drives. Lambert was in Medford to at tend a testimonial picnic honor ing Judge Frank TouVelle. He also was here during the spring to attend a Franklin Roosevelt memorial dinner, according to Mrs. Hamilton. Dead line" Sunday Classifieds Is at S:30 p.m. for following day: 10 a.m Monday for Monday: noon Saturday for Sunday a.m. 'This Is A Special For People With a Budget and No Garden ARE YOU HAVING FOOD COST TROUBLES?. CUT YOUR FOOD COSTS 30 WITH THE SELCO FOOD-FREEZER PLAN 3536 N. Pacific Highway Phone 2-2849 Zeigler figures the Eskimos will regard electric heating as a sav ing. "The electriglas heating pan els will go in Archie Ferguson's house first," the flying trader explained, "He used to run the trading post in Kotzebue. I need some skins from him anyway." Traded For Skins Ziegler traded most of the re frigerators for reindeer skins. The Eskimos promptly discov ered that insulated boxes were ideal for thawing out meat. Pres sure cookers have become a popular kitchen item in the sparsely-populated area, too. Es kimo women use those in the accepted fashion. The igloos around Kotzebue are made of sod blocks instead of ice blocks, so for the time being, there is no possibility of a gullible Eskimo turning his house into a puddle by installing wall radiant heating. "They like to keep up with the Joneses the same as we do," said the former GI, who owns his own trading post at Igloo, halfway between Nome and Kotzebue. "From seal oil to ra diant heating isn't as far-fetched as it sounds." Legion Department Appointments OK'd Portland (U.R) The Ameri can Legion's state executive com mittee has approved Commander Karl L. Wagner's appointment of six Oregon department offi cers and elected an arrangements committee for the 1953 conven tion. . Tom Collins, Portland, was re appointed state adjutant, and William Bartle, Eugene, was lamed judge advocate. Others were Cy Hawyer, Portland, his torian; George Viaene, Multno mah, ser geant-at-arms; Ed Schultze," Portland, and Arthur A. Erlckson, Eugene, assistant sergeants-at-arms. Seaside's bid for the 1953 con vention site was referred to the convention committee made up of Pat Kilby, Klamath Falls; Onas Olson, Salem; Sid Tews bury, Seaside; Everett Hopkins, Prineville, and J. L. Haynes, Grants Pass. Salem U.R) Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry Monday accepted a plaque from the Na tional Safety Council, awarded in recognition of "outstanding achievement" in the field " of driver licensing, control and improvement. Lucky You : by Dick Shavr 1 Lucky yon yon impressed your friends without killing them Drug Found Jo React Favorably On Mental Illness Anoka, Minn. U.R) A physi cian who reported he accident ally learned that the drug (pyri cidin" brought "striking and un expected" improvement in sev eral severe mental cases said he hoped it would be the "key" to a cure for mental illness. Dr. A. E. Krieser reported he was administering the drug to mental patients afflicted with tu berculosis to learn if it was ef fective against that disease when he noticed the patients' mental conditions were undergoing a favorable change. Favorable Change Noted Krieser, head of the tubercu losis control unit of Minnesota's division of public institutions, reported his findings to the man ufacturer of the drug in New York. "The study was barely under way," he said, "before we noted many of the patients' mental symtoms are changing." Krieser and his staff were "pleasantly surprised to find a number of patients displayed definite improvement in their mental behavior after having re ceived daily dosages of the drug for two to three weeks," he said. Porllanders Arrested For Child Neglect Portland (U.R) Three Portland parents were in jail Tuesday on charges including causing the dependency of seven minor children. Arrested were Howard Pat rick Moran 33, his wife, Coleen, 26, and Mrs. Billie Kennedy, 27. Police said the three had left their seven children, some of them ill and without proper clo thing, alone in an untidy house while they went out drinking beer Sunday. Additional charges of disord erly conduct also were filed againts the Morans and their bail was set at $1250 each. Mrs. Ken nedy also was charged with drunkeness with bail set at $1100. The children ranged in age from 11 to threfc months. President Silent on Stevenson's Statement Washington (U.R) The White House said Monday that President Truman has no com ment on a letter in which Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson promised to "clean up the mess in Washing ton" if he is elected president. 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