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fflX MZDTOXD (OHZOOH) MAIL TMBUMI A. feature of th recent sryl show held u part of lh annual 4-H club fair waa prsnte tion of awards. Pictured abov ara aema of tha winnara wllh Miaa Jaaa Brooks. 4-H club agant for tha county. Shown (laft to right) ara Susan Johnston. Tabla Rock, whoso entry waa warded champion of classi Gwan Krousa, Ap- Eagle Point Group Meets Monday Night Eagle Point A discussion concerning future parties and means of financing them waa held at a monthly board meet Ins of the Eagle Point Lady Lions last Monday evening. Ten members were present at the meeting, held at the home of Mrs. L. J. Clave. The session waa conducted by Mrs. James Clarke. Members state that anyone in terested in donating games to the teen-age group may leave them at Olsen's. A auxpris sift was presented to Mrs. Donald Klnson who waa recently married. Refreshments were served by the co-hostess, Mrs. Raymond Tresham. Howard Garden Club Has Business Session Howard Garden club met at the home of Mrs. Dick Gillespie Monday, with Mrs. Don Elliott as co-hostess. The business meeting was con ducted by the president Mrs. G. W. McBee who reported on decoration of the chapel at Camp White. The decorating was done by Mrs. McBee and Mrs. H. E. Peyton. A five minute talk on care nd raising of gladiolus was giv en by Mrs. Don Elliott. The pro gram was conducted by Mrs. Paul Robertson, whose subject was perennials. The next meeting will be Sep tember 29, at the home of Mrs. Albert Stocks, 2411 Table Rock road. The co-hostess will be Mrs. Delbert Ross. The Shoe for Children Summer play can make great changes In chil dren's feet... that's why the fitting of fall shoes requires the highest degree of skill and experience. Our fitters are expertly trained to fit your child with the proper shoes regular or CorecTred. Come in today and let us help give your child the right start back-to-school I The Comer Shoe Store MAIN and CENTRAL V (ft . Britain Plans To Blanket Nation With TV Network London (U.F9 The national ized British Broadcasting Corp. is planning to blanket Britain in the next four years with a tele vision network serving 97 per cent of the nation's 50,000,000 people. The number of stations would be more than tripled. But the venture part of an over-all 10 year expansion program is vitally dependent on continued government financial support. The BBC director-general, Sir Ian Jacobs, said the density of coverage envisaged was "incom parably greater than that in any other country, including the United States. The plans he announced were strictly for the BBC, but the gov ernment of Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill already has announced that there will be commercial television, too a decision that has provoked heated controversy. Medium, Small Stations Plans for commercial tele vision are expected to be re vealed soon. The corporation now has five high-power stations operating. Plans call for the completion of five medium-power stations and eight smaller ones. The eight would be spotted over an area extending from southeastern England to Londonderry, North' ern Ireland.- When all 18 stations were operative, the corporation said, regular service would be in- COM oaday, Aeeeat SO. IMS plegaie; Miss Brooks. Grace Gall Gold Hill, champion of class antry; Sharon Gouchar. Grif fin Craak. champion of classt Doreen Bohnert Antalopa. receiving tha cup for tha grand cham pion entry in showj Elalna Sorum, Medford. champion of class, and Sandra Nelll Griffin Craak. champion of class. (Andats photo) j creased from five to seven hours a day. This would not Include time devoted to televising spec ial events, such as the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, when BBC TV ran all day. Provided the money Is forth coming and the government re laxes restrictions on capital ex penditures, the BBC said, the five medium - power outlets should be ready for business late in 1954 and the eight smaller ones by 1957. 7 000.000 Sots Seen These developments eventual ly would make possible the In auguration of a "second-string" service of stations to cater to local tastes or specialities. The ultimate aim is to put the supple mentary service on a five-hour basis, giving viewers a choice of programs during the evening, when audiences are largest. The corporation said plans for the second service depended largely on whether the govern ment would set aside the needed channels. If they were not granted, the scheme would have to' be "considerably modified.' Jacobs said he thought color TV could be introduced at aome point during the next nine years, but the bulk of programming would continue to be in black-and-white. Jacobs said current predictions were that 7,000,000 sets would be operating by the time the JO year program is completed. Despite this expected increase in TV popularity, he said, there is no intention of reducing radio services. The cost of the entire develop ment was placed in th neighbor hood of 3,000,000 pounds ($8, 400,000.) Stainless Sleel Joints Aids Pets Chicago (U.R) Household pets, crippled by bone disease or fractures of the hip, can be helped to walk normally again on stainless steel joints. Spokesmen for the American Veterniary Medical Association said the operation was first used on -human beings 10 years ago Its adaptation for use on cats and dogs is a recent one, they said. The operation replaces the dis eased or broken part of the hip with a steel ball and shaft. The AVMA referred to a re port by Dr. Rogre E. Brown, veterinary graduate student at Michigan State College, on the techniques used to make the substitution. X-rays are first taken to deter mine the size needed for the re placement part. After the ball and shaft are shaped to fit. surgery is performed under anesthetic to remove the dis eased or broken bones. The re placement part is then installed. NOW! SUMMER CLEARANCE 2 GROUPS Starting Prices l2oo & 2qoo Potpourri... July nd August have gone by on wings, and now tne xau rush is on. Already tha college students are beginning to leave, tha Shakespearean festival has but two more performances, to night and Monday, and reluctant vacationers are returning from lake and seashore. As we write the rain falls on the street outside, and wa are doubly glad that the family took time for a trip Into the moun tains last week end. It was one of' our favorite launts, up to the slopes of Mt. Ashland and around the loop road and home again by way of the Appiegate, It was almost dusk as the Jeep crawled up the steep mountain road Saturday night and twice we saw deer, a doe and two fawns one time. We had hoped that the wind would not be blowing down the mountain, as it Is mostly in the evening, but it was, and everyone hustled to unload and set uo camp. A neighborly camper had thought fully left wood to start a fire in the camp stove, and before long there was hot coffee and sizzling hamburgers to cheer and warm us. Tippy, the terrier, needed no cheering, however. He was out of the pickup before it had stop ped and was off on a Joyous hunt. With stubby tail quivering and ears upright, he investigated every inch of the area with nil fings and barkings. It was Tippy, too, who ac companied us on- a trip down the road In the very early mor ning to a spot where the trees did not hide the brilliant east ern sky. While he roamed the hillside we watched the stars gradually fade, and the sweep of hills to the east and south came Into view with majestic Mt. Shasta crowning the blue and purple of the foothills. Later in the day the jeep car ried us to almost the top of Mt. Ashland from where the moun tains in all directions are re vealed. The Ashland loop trip may not be for the timid driver or passenger, but the vast view of the mountains, the slopes covered with thousands of wild- flowers, the glimpses of snow patches and the towering trees make it a most rewarding trip for those not worried by the steep road. This time the family chose to drive down to the Wrangle Gap campground for lunch and there we found a group of motorcycle club enthusiasts who had camp ed out overnight. Breakfast over, the riders were having fun with motorcycle games. A row of tin cans, strung across the open area by the campground and topped with rocks aroused our curios ity but an explanation was soon given. The cyclists rode along beside the cans, removed the rocks and put them in a pocket, then raced up a hill and around a tree and down again to put all the rocks back on the tops of the cans. The quickest, of course, was the winner. Potoourrl Is always regretful when the Shakespearean festival season closes, when the curtain comes down on the last play and a the actors begin to scatter far and wide. The colorful plays and the actors add zest to the sum mer scene. Dr. Margery Bailey is one of the most interesting of the actors and staff members, and festival fans feel lucky when included in a group with this witty professor from Stanford university. Dr. Bailey was a guest at a gather ing Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Paul Janney, and with Mrs. Janney, whose tongue is on a par with the professor when it comes to bright conver sation, kept up a lively flow of words. Dr. Bailey, who admitted once while relating a festival anec dote that she "loved to opinion ate," doesn't confine her conver sation to Shakespeare and the plays but talked vividly about books, movies, politics, birds and dozen other topics. The knit ting also fascinates the listeners. for Dr. Bailey seems to knit end lessly with huge wooden needles and what looks like twine. The product, we might add, becomes chain mail for the costumes of the festival which require armour. She must by now have knitted miles of it. $1.00 OFF EACH DAY until CLEARED! All Summer Merchandise REDUCED 30 , 50 BertPree 526 E. Main - Ph. 2-8139 The festival music of last year and this was compared by the women at the party and they seemed to agree that this year's music has been excellent. Two or three spoke of how ef fective has been Director Windt's use of the brasses and the drums for the plays, and said they felt his restraint in training the madrigal singers had resulted in a relaxed, In formal type of singing which was pleasing to the audience and less wearing on the muslcl ians. The informal program given for the second concert has been highly praised, also, and Pot pourri tor one hopes that anoth er such program will be given next year. The few critics of the program pointed out that It showed ' a lack of proper re hearsal, which w inevitable with the crowded schedule of play rehearsals, and said that the reading of scripts detracted from the numbers. a Interesting conversation also marked a small luncheon given by Bernice Kunzman last week for her sister, visiting here from Wenatchee. Mrs. Kunzman was prompted to speak about mod ern music and art, and said that in the case of music, at least, young people should have some basis 4ft appreciation since the public schools now give such a fine foundation in music. Someone asked Marjorie Hop kins, Girl Scout executive, if she saw any change in the young people who attend camp when it comes to music. Mrs. H. said no, that everyone, young and old alike, still knows and loves to sing the old favorites such as "A Long, Long Trail," "Down by the Old MUlstream," and "Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet." She also mused on the fact that the young people are al ways surprised that the old sters like to sing the same songs they do. "Young people tend to think that they Just discovered all the good songs," added Mrs. Hopkins, who has been a soloist and song leader for many a year. O. S. Ammunition One Of Safest Industries Joliet, 111. (U.R) Ammunition production Is one of the nation's safest Industries, according to statistics of the National Safety Council and information re leased by the Ordnance Ammu nition Center. In 1952, jobs in an army am munition plant were only one fourth as hazardous as work in the average industrial factory. Of all the major industries whose accident experience is tabulated by the National Safety Council, only one the commu nications industry has a lower accident-frequency rate than the 22 Army Ordnance Corps am munition Installations under the jurisdiction of the Ordnance Am munition Center. The 100,000 workers in these ammunition factories are only one-third as likely to be injured on their jobs as they are in auto mobiles. They are only one-fifth as likely to be killed as they would be If they were farm workers, Safety Council figures showed. The ammunition plants turn out nearly all the artillery shells, rockets, bombs, mines and grenades produced in the U.S. Last year only six workers lost their lives in accidents at tributable to explosives. "THE TOAST OF tnfrrtoHonony fomoes as She right brod for low-eolori dtots. HOLLYWOOD brod Is Ughtapre)n.YcV tow.te ervnehy nut-Ilk flavor BAKED FOR YOU 4 1 "" an loir Y i If III I Success of West Germany Toward Domocracy Lauded By WELLINGTON LONG United Press Correspondent Bonn, Germany (U.R) The West German parliament, first freely-elected federal legislative body In this country since 1832, has Just completed Its first four year session, offering a good point at which to discuss wheth er Germany has found demo cracy. The answer, most experts, both foreign and German, agree, is a resounding yes. The machinery 61 a demo cracy has been established, with all Its checks and balances, and it works without too much squeaking. , Since the first West-German parliament was seated In Sep tember, 1049, the lower house (Bundestag) and upper house, (Bundesrats) have approved al most 490 laws. Compared to the number of laws adopted by oth er national parliaments in a similar period, this may not ap pear to have involved a great amount of work. Had to Rewrite Laws But In West Germany, almost all laws which regulate public life had to be rewritten, because those of the Weimar Republic and of the Kaiserreich before that had been badly distorted by the Nazi regime. Even the criminal code had to be revised. Bundestag and Bundesrat meetings have been almost com pletely free from the scuffing and fighting that characterizes, for instance, the Italian parlia ment, although a group of Soc ialist deputies did two years ago badly maul a neo-Nazi anti-Semite just outside the parliament ary chamber. Can't Throw Inkwells Angry deputies do occasional ly rap the tops of their desks to drown out an opposition speak er, but when the chamber, was built, someone wisely bolted all desks and chairs to the floor and imbedded the inkwells deep in the desk tops so that deputies couldn't throw them. The court system has been re established, and seems to work pretty well, although the Consti tutional court In Karlsruhe is alleged to be not entirely free of political pressure. That court, for instance, has refused to de cide whether rearmament is constitutional, pending the out come of the Sept. 6 federal parl iamentary elections, when re! armament will be on of the chief issues. Despite rumors to th coo! . I , at . vast corruption or graft has yet been made, although a half daa en deputies hare been, eaut padding the expects accounts.. The most noted cas develop ed right after t&is parliament was seated in 13-U- wts a weekly news raagaxin g9i that a group of Bavarian dpi ties had taken money la return for voting to piac th capital in Bonn. Th Investigation of the charges dragged on for months but no on was ever tried or expelled from parlia ment, for evidence waa lacking. Liaison Lacking Th press and radio are free, although the government haa twice ordered the confiscation of newstand copies of publica tions carrying what were offic ially considered to be libelous articles about Chancellor Ade nauer. Copies sent through the post office, however, were not disturbed. Th most serious failure of the new West German democracy would appear to b that there are almost no links between the parliament and the people. It is difficult to determine where the fault lies. Forty per cent of the 401 deputies of the Alexis Smith a-arrlnt hi IKCl SPLIT SECOND" HOLLYWOOD" EXCLUSIVELY BY first narliament war mmrmA under the proportional repre- sentatlon system, so have no con stituencies to report on. Many Socialist opposition dep uties' sole Income comes from parliament and the party; so It becomes a bread-and-butter mat ter for them to vote as tha party chieftains tell them, not as they would wish to. To oppose the party line would mean these deputies would not receive official party support In the coming election, and Independent candidates in Germany are notoriously unsuc cessful the present parliament had but one. Interest Flags The same goes for the 40 per cent elected under the propor tional representation system, be cause seats In tha new parlia ment depend entirely on the whims of the party leaders. On tha other hand, the West German people ara extremely apathetic to politics. Deputies representing rural constitu encies say their voters are in terested only in the price of their produce. Even German re-unification doesn't -Interest these farmers, unless they hap pen to own some land in Soviet occuplied East Germany. For two years, the govern ment and the opposition have fought bitterly about whether to rearm within the European Defense community. Yet a re cent survey by a public opinion group showed that 75 per cent of the West Germans did not know the meanings of the 'EVG' which stand for the German equivalent of "European De fense Community." Fifty seven per cent did not know the meaning of the init ials VUN." Despite Socialist cries that under the European Defense community, West Ger many would lose her "national sovereignty," 53 per cent could not define these two words. For the past two years, par liament has struggled to write an election law. It was the sub ject of bitter debates, numer ous committee sessions, party bargaining, front-page newspa per stories and brooding edit orials about the destruction of democracy if this or that ver sion prevslled. Yet a check of 20 representative deputies by this correspondent showed that not on has ever received a single letter from a cocstituent concerain Ia mhith. dtmin horcr that ennaSitut5 caald si hi ielttiz to car- Iiaaient.. Shock Waves Used To Study Cemku&iarr Process Cincinnati.. Oi. 0L31 SUuc&i waves,, similar ;o- thus rf aa atomic; axplomim. ara bving used !T engineers at Cmwnl Siuutrur Co.' Svniaie plant ajir itaa to stuiy combustion; ycwMswa, Tt sbwfc ttvnts, cretti tst a newly devised tut" ar photographed aad studied K determine th ertect el eueh wavea on th combustion pro- GIRLS-These Are Tops for Back to School! NewestGJoVS Soft coloced $tiede$ smart light and long wearing cush-n-cropo soles Here b the greatest value in any Teen-Age wardrobe. 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The report said that Phil, adelphia probably will treat gar bage now being fed to hogs at th city's reduction plant Land-fill disposal methods will b used by 27 cities responding to the survey, and 14 other cities are considering or already have awarded contracts for inciner ator disposal.' The land-fill method will be used temporarily at Boston until an incinerator system is set up the report said. Several Detroit suburbs have Joined in construct ing or planning new Incinerator plants. The changes in disposal prac tices result from legislation in 35 states prohibiting feeding raw garbage to swine. The legis lation was aimed at halting tha spread of vesicular exanthema. Judge Lifts Order on Wafer Fluoridation Bend U.R) Grant County Circuit Judge E. B Howell of Canyon City Saturday lifted a temporary restraining order against proposed fluoridation of Bend's drinking water and gave William J. Baer 80 days in which to file an appeal for his case against the city with the Ore gon Supreme Court The judge made his decision after conferring with Baer's at torney, Craig C. Coyner, and City Attorney Harry A. English. Baer said he "definitely" would appeal to the Supreme Court. Baer filed suit to prevent th city from fluoridating its water on grounds of constitutionality. The temporary restraining order was Issued Feb. 24. ceft in jet engines. Th studies will make it pos sible to determine more efficient rutthodi of combustion at the extretnely high speeds at which J eaines operate in flight n m vomit S- GRABOVTS JEWELERS 10S East Mais) Diamond Engagement Mnge )AA9 and Up Budget Tei $95 u IN BLUI BLACK BROWN 3 ar a antic 15 SOUTH CENTRAL FLUHRER BUILDING
