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BLM Has Trouble Getting Timberland for Washington Washington QJ.R) Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.) said Saturday the Bureau of Land Management is having dif ficulty finding enough accept able land to give to Washington state to fill a 150,000 acre com mitment due since it entered the union. Jackson said the bureau ha3 found 40,000 acceptable acres in western Washington and is now surveying the eastern and central parts of the state. Land for Schools Jackson said the grants were the result of a provision that the state was to receive 150,000 acres of land for school purposes when it entered the union. The grants were never made. The current effort to transfer the federal land to the state, Jackson said, is the result of a conference he , had with state school officials last January. He said state law provides that the land accepted from the federal government must be worth at least $10 an acre. . "Indications now are that the government does not have that much acceptable land, Jackson said. "There is little that is of suitable timber quality." Damaged Ship 450 Miles from Coast Seattle (U.PJ The freighter P&T Trader, which suffered a cracked hull in the North Pacific early Wednesday, was reported about 450 miles off Cape Flat tery, Wash., Saturday with the Coast Guard cutter Klamath es corting her. The ship is tentatively headed for Seattle and is making slow progress, the Coast Guard said. The tug Salvage Chief wa's ex pected to reach the P&T Trader sometime Saturday. THIS CHRISMAS MAKE r--r-i 4J Holiday for Mom if' ) With Easier Wasndays On a Value -Wise Budget Vi ii 1 . AUTOMATIC HOWE LAUNDRY Never before a home laundry with so many work-saving features at such a low price! Here's top dollar value combined with top performance. tfjumiiton. Automatic Washer fully automatic agiialer " action 5 separate fresh-water rinses extRHeasy on hoi water 269" jxuniiton. Automatic Dryer fastest, gentlest drying known best temperatures for every load perfect lint and moisture control 189'5 Don't settle for tess than Hamilton ask about our special purchase plan, ummm furhiture store. EASY TERMS FREE DELIVERY SIXTH and BARTLETT Phone 2-4848 or 2-4740 y NEW GADGET L. B. McKellar, (right) driver examiner for PT&T Co., and W. W. Williams, plant service foreman, Geft) measure results of a driver stop-test by a reactance timer while Sgt. Clyde Fichtner of the Medford police and Earl D. DeLisle, plant service foreman, PT&T, look on. The tests are being given all over the state to employees of PT&T. (Brainerd photo.) Driver Training and Testing Conducted for PT&T Drivers v Sunday, November 21, 1954 German firm Enters Low Bid on Dam Work Portland U.R) American Ligurian Company of New York was low of 14 bidders with an offer of $102,146 for furnishing a 30-ton gantry crane for The Dalles dam, Army engineers said Saturday. The firm represents German manufacturing interests. Lowest American bid . was $151,710 by Bedford Foundry & Machine company on an f.o.b. basis from Bedford, Ind. ' The bids were taken . under advisement. MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE WEATHER By United Press Norther California: Fair Sun day except local morning fog in valleys and some high cloudi ness over northern portion; little change in temperature. " ; When Sari Francisco's Palace Hotel reopened after the 1906 fire, the key to the main door was sent aloft, hitched to five balloons, .which drifted out to sea. ' .-- . A driver training and testing course for employees of Pacific Telephone and Telegraph com pany who drive company cars was started here recently. : L. B. McKellar, driving ex aminer for PT&T in Portland, arrived last week to administer the tests in this area. Each driver undergoes a thor ough driving examination, which covers everything from a driv er's reaction to emergency situa tions to routine parking. " The program was started three years ago by PT&T for plant de partment employees in Portland. The plan proved so successful that the program was extended to all driving employees of the company. : Vial Released Preventable accidents have been cut from 28 per month to 5, McKellar ". said. About 900 cars owned by PT&T are driven by 2,000 employes in the state. The testing involves what Mc Kellar calls the reactance timer. Accompanied by McKellar, the driver being tested must apply the brakes when McKellar pulls a cord, setting off a detonator. A vial of paint is released when the detonator is set off. Another vial is blown on the. pavement when the driver steps on the brake. The distance between the first and second daubs of paint on the pavement is the driver's re actance time or distance. Smoothness Tested Also tested is a drivers smooth ness of driving. This is done by what McKellar calls a decelero meter, which is a box of metal cylinders. The cylinders tip over with jerky drivers or stay upright with a steady driver. Also tested are smoothness of shifting, passing, stopping and starting, turning, backing, whether or not the driver ob serves traffic signals and signs, and whether the driver can park efficiently. McKellar laid out a 21-foot parking space with poles mark ing the distances. The driver must be able to park within the two poles. Purpose of the driver training program is not only to cut down on traffic accidents and repair costs, but to determine the pro ficiency and training needs, of PT&T drivers, McKellar said. The testing gives each driver a greater knowledge of his driv ing limitations, a more complete knowledge and understanding of traffic regulations, and gives each driver the knowledge as to whether he meets requirements of the state, city and PT&T driv ing standards, he said. California Couple Refuse To Sell Valuable Painting Beverly Hills, Calif. (U.R) An American husband and wife said Saturday they were not going to sell a long-lost valuable self portrait of Elizabeth Vigree Le Brun discovered in their am ateur are collection. The painting is not for sale," said Mr. and Mrs. William M. Harris, who bought it at public auction several years ago for less than $1,000. "We liked and enjoyed it very much before we discovered its true significance." Worth $75,000 Art curators who viewed the painting since its origin has been Army Reserve Unit Men Promoted; Non-Corn at School Four enlisted men in . the Army reserve 382nd quarter master batallion here have re ceived promotions recently, ac cording to Lt. Col. Jack Hartley, commanding officer. ' . Donald I. Hunter, 18 Elm st., and Gary G. Johnston, Box 1104, have both been promoted from basic private to private. Gordon R. Gillmore, 425 South Oakdale ave., and Ted W. Landers, route 3, box 544, Coker Butte rd., Medford, have been made pri vates first class, which corres ponds to the rank of corporal under the old ratings. Sergeant Robert E. Earnest, formerly of Medford and a member of the battalion now on active duty with the Army, is now attending the adjutant gen eral's school for machine ac counting specialists at Ft. Ben jamin Harrison in Indiana, Col onel Hartley has been informed. Selected For School He graduated with honors from the Army administrative school at Ft. Ord, Calif., recent ly, and was selected for the advanced school. His address is now Company B, The AG school, Ft. Harrison, Indiana. Sergeant Earnest earned - his stripes with the reserve battal ion here, and retained them when called to active duty. He told Colonel Hartley that his training with the reserves great ly assisted him in his present assignment. Colonel Hartley said Saturday that any young man, veterans or non-veterans, would be welcome to visit the battalion's weekly meetings each Tuesday at the Federal building. verified declared it was valued up to $75,000. Harris, West Coast representa tive of a Chicago electric com pany, realized the possibility of the painting being a Mme. Le Brun self portrait when he and Mrs. Harris saw the duplicate of their painting in the Uffizi Art Gallery in Florence, Italy. Identical Portraits Investigation of records, Har ris said, disclosed Mme. Le Brun did the identical portraits in 1789 in Rome, painting one to qualify for membership in the Academy of Rome and the other for the TJffizi Gallery. Thus far, Harris had not been able to learn how his painting got to the United States and then to California. The painting is a three-quarter length self portrait of the artist while at work on a painting of Marie Antoinette, then Queen of France. Mme. Le Brun lived from 1755-1842. There's a Lot for You in . B cenM on jj Ship Being Prepared For Antarctica Trip Boston U.R) Navy crew men lined the bulkheads of the USS Atka with four inches of cork insulation Saturday amidst last-minute preparations, for the 1954 - Antarctic - expedition, which will itake the ship to snow-covered Little America. Cmdr. Glen Jacobsen, of Seat tle, disclosed that the ship, leav ing here Dec. 1 for five months of exploration near the bottom of the world, would stop Jan 1-7 at Wellington, New Zealand, to take on final supplies. Then, he said, the Atka an icebreaker would head south to the Ross Sea near Little Am erica and to the Wedell ea, south of Cape Horn. Lakes impounded by dams of the Tennessee Valley, Authority have an estimated total shore line of approximately 10,058 linear miles. . Night Club Star Loses Eye After Automobile Crash Las Vegas, Nev. U.R) Bouncy singing star Betty Hut ton insisted Saturday she still was in retirement despite the fact she replaced injured enter tainer Sammy Davis Jr. in a nightclub show. The energetic blonde, who tearfully retired from show business only 12 days ago, ap peared at the Last Frontier nightclub last night as a sub stitute for Davis, who was in jured seriously in a traffic crash. Loses Eye Davis, one of the nation's top nightclub performers, unsuccess fully underwent surgery late Friday to save the sight of an eye after his car collided with another auto on TJ. S. Highway 66 near JSan Bernardino, Calif. After Friday night's show, Miss Hutton said, "I filled in tonight only because of Sammy. I meant what I said about re tirement and I'm going to take care of my two kids. I was a replacement only for tonight." Short Retirement : However, in true Hutton style, she wisecracked, "Wow! This is the shortest retirement in the history of show business." Davis, 28, was en route from Las Vegas to Hollywood Fri day when his car collided with one driven by Mrs. Helen Bosse, 72, Van Nuys, Calif., about two miles north of San Bernardino. Davis' companion, Charles Head, 39, suffered a broken jaw while Mrs. Bosse received only minor injuries. .. LOST CAR North Haven, Conn.- (U.Fft Frank Boyle of Milford decided to be kind-hearted and offered two hitchhikers a ride to Wall ingford in his auto. On the way, Boyle stopped and got out to look at some new houses under construction. The hitchhikers kept going with Boyle's car. O DRIVE OUT TODAY-SEE HOW NICE THEY ARE ll SAMSON'S FEED PRICES Watch for this Ad each Samson's money-saving Triangle X-tra Egg Pellets... Hen Scratch Samson's Special Dairy Feed Cracked Corn Sunday for Feed Prices cwt. $5.10 cwt. 4.50 . sk. 3.10 .cwt. 4.40 ROLL ROOFING SPECIAL 90 lb. Red or Green per roll $3.60 55 lb. Smooth . .. -per roll 2.70 45.1b. 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