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TWO MEDFORD (OREGON MAIL TRIBUNE 1954 Achievements Renew Faith in Hopes To Wipe Out Diseases - Br DELOS SMITH ' United Press Science Editor New York U.R) This year ef 1954 renewed faith in sci ence's chances of some day un derstanding the chemistry of the body. You can't be sure it ever will, but if and when it does, disease will disappear and people will die only when they wear out or get themselves killed in wars or automobile accidents. "When you consider the stag gering mysteries of chemistry, Sot instance, the ever-renewing jniracle of reproduction, you be gin doubting that complete un derstanding u even possible. Yet just a little more understanding of just a little part of the whole, right now is promising to wipe out polio. . Opening Craeks Furthermore, the body chem ists or biochemists are opening cracks into the mysteries of how the billions upon billions of in dividual body cells maintain themselves and how the secre tions of the internal glands act end interact upon the chemistry of the whole body. When these mysteries are solved if they are, we'll be able to deal effectively with cancer. Dr. Jona;i-E. Salk, father of the vaccine which was injected Jnto some 500,000 children last spring, acquired a little more un derstanding of the body's immun ological chemistry, the processes . that make the body forever im mune to certain disease-causing snicro-organisms once the body lias ben invaded by them and has succeeded in overcoming them. Polio Knowledge He learned that the three polio viruses don't have to be "alive" and thus be capable of causing the disease, .in order to stimu late the chemistry into manufac turing end - maintaining anti bodies against them. He also learned that the number of anti bodies to be found in the blood etream at any given time, was not a true index to whether or siot the chemistry was hair-trig Dr. Laughead Still on Firm Ground aS Prediction Fails For Second Time in 4 Days -Chicago (U.R) Dr. Charles Laughead wouldn't have been sur prised if his friends the "connoiters" had yanked him into outer space Friday night. But he kept his feet on the ground. As 100 persons watched, Laughead and some fellow believers ,ang Christmas carols and waited to be "lifted up" from the earth. 'Spirits Lifted Laughead commented afterwards "I think maybe It was our epirits that were lifted." If this was so, Mrs. Dorothy Martin's latest prediction came off better than did her forecast of a tidal wave last Tuesday. Mrs. Martin, who relays "messages" from outer space to Laughead, warned Chicago that it was due for destruction. But, aside from a few snow flurries, Chicago didn't even get damp. ' Friday the 53 -year -old grandmother announced that she, Laughead, and any one who wanted to go along would be "lifted up" from her front lawn in suburban Oak Park at exactly 6 p.m. - Later, Mrs. Martin said she was speaking in the spiritual sense, but Laughead apparently felt he might spend Christmas in outer space. Packed and Wailing The ousted Michigan State College doctor said the space men, he calls them "connoiters," "sent a message that we should be packed and waiting at 6 p.m. Christmas eve." He admitted he couldn't be sure he would blast off because "these space boys, they're unpredictable." Laughead, Mrs. Martin and a few others turned up on the front lawn on schedule. Follow ing the "connoiters " instructions, they sang Christmas carols. Neighborhood children passed up the televised space adven tures of "Captain Video" to be on hand in case the spacemen showed up. But, as the deadline passed, Laughead said it looked like no one was coming. Maybe the crowd scared the space men away, he said. . As he returned to Mrs. Martin's home, Laughead said "as far as we know" he would spend Christmas on the earth, "We Just live from.day to day," Laughead said. ; Patient in Mental Hospital Climbs Tower; Norman, Okla. (U.R) A men tal patient at Central State Hos pital climbed 100 feet up a water tower Saturday and 'demanded to see his wife. and three chil dren. He climbed down again ' .,- Thundering Explosion Rocks Denver Region Denver (U.R)-arA thundering explosion, felt three miles away, rocked a normally quiet Denver neighborhood Saturday morning, injuring two persons and causing at least $35,000 damage. The blast demolished the Val derde Feed store, and shattered windows in- homes - and busi? nesses as far as four blocks away. The feed store was stocked with farm equipment and grains which went up in a spectacular blaze following the blast, caused by leaking gas. ' Milwaukee Changes Mind About Old Law Milwaukee, Wis. (U.R) The Milwaukee Common Council's License ; committee discovered a new law when it attempted to draft an erd- inance concerning the employ ment of minors. Aldermen learned that fe male entertainers aren't al lowed in the city's taverns, and night clubs. They agreed the law should be changed. Dead line Sunaay Classified Is t noon Saturday : 10 m. Monday for atonday;. other days 3t Breviousdar. gered to manufacture anti-bodies in wholesale lots, the instant it was challenged by one or anoth er of the viruses. Thus, he learned how to give seeming immunity to polio with out risking the body to death or crippling by polio, and how to ready the chemistry for whole sale manufacture of antibodies to polio viruses and how to trigger the chemistry into frenzied ac tivity. In laboratory experiments, first with monkeys, then with human beings, he demonstrated this know how rather conclusive ly. The mass vaccination of chil dren is intended to prove it be yond questioning. Immense Unknown But like most scientists, Salk is quick to point to the immensi ty of what isn't known about im munologic chemistry when com pared to the little which is. For example, what is a virus? If it can be "killed" and yet remain enough "alive" to stimulate the making of antibodies, then' was it ever alive in the sense in which we understand life? But if it was never alive, then how does it reproduce itself, some times in astronomical ratios? A virus conceivably could be a chemical compound, with par ticular affinities and disaff inities for chemical compounds pro duced by the body. AH this only indicates the depths of the mys tery. Nevertheless what Dr. . Salk learned about polio immunology should be applicable against oth er viruses causing other diseases. He is at work with influenza viruses right now. If the nature of viruses is a $64 question, the questions of cell maintenance and glandular secretions are $6,400,000 ques tions. To live and to reproduce, the cell is in the same position as the sum total of all the cells the body. The cell must have the correct foods - in the correct amounts at the right time. That goes for abnormal cells of cancer as well as for normal cells. Gets Request four hours later when his family appeared. Oklahoma Highway Patrol men rushed the family here from Ardmore, Okla., 84 miles south, at the request of Hospi tal Superintendent Dr. Harold B. Whitten. .Whitten refused to release the patient's full name. Family Brought Here The patient's wife, Mrs. Lillian King, and their three children arrived at the base of the tower in two - patrol cars at 12 noon. The youngsters, two boys and a girl of 10, huddled around the mother and looked at their 40-year-old father on the catwalk high above. " ; -. "Look, we have . your family here now," Whitten said. "Come on down and have Christmas dinner." - The patient stared briefly then carefully removed his glass es and pocketed them, and made a sure descent down a steel ladder. Donnie, 10 years old, broke from his mother and ran to the father as he reached the ground. The boy and his father embraced happily. ' ' . ' Ritzville, Wash. KU.PJ The newly organized Washington As sociation of Wheat Growers is taking steps toward incorpora tion, President John Stephenson of Benge said Friday. He added that efforts to organize county units will begin early, next month. The association was formed recently when the Wash ington Wheat League disbanded. Sunday, December 26, 1954 Christmas Tree Ignites; Two Die In Roaring Blaze Atlanta (U.R) Flames from Christmas tree lights flashed through a frame home and killed a man and his wife Fri day nieht. firemen reDorted. Earl Davis, 42, , was found dead in a chair and his wife Helen, 4i, died under a bed where she apparently sought refuge from the blaze, firemen said.-; . ... Investigators believed the fire was caused by an overheated Christmas tree light circuit. A neighbor told inspectors that Davis had burned the lights al most constantly for three weeks. A box of .22 caliber cartridges that had been placed under the tree as a gift went off "like an arsenal," according to a passer by who tried to enter the flam ing house before firemen reach ed it. 'Ifi i W The cartridges were a gift of the Davises to their son, Ernest, 15, who was working as a de livery boy or a drug store at the time of the fire. Passerby Saves Woman . Another passerby broke into a rear entrance of the dwelling and led the elder Davis' mother Mrs. Mae Fuller, to safety, de tectives said. J. Harris, a Negro, was credi ted with an attempt to save the victims. He saw the flames while walking past the house and kicked in the front door, invesi- gators said. "Fire jumped out at me and it sounded like a whole arsenal went off in there," Harris said. Board of Chamber To Meet Jan. 6 V An organizational meeting for the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce's new officers will be held Thursday, Jan. - 6, at noon in the Medford hotel, ac cording to Don McNeil, chamber manager. The new meeting date has been set as the-.first "Thursday in each month for the chamber board of directors, instead of the last Friday as in 1954. Purpose of the first meeting in 1955 will be to crystalize cham ber policies, lay out committee organization and plan immedi ate, action for important cham ber projects carried over from 1954 as uncompleted. Officers for the coming year are John Pletsch, president; R. B. Thierolf, ' vice-president, and Elwood Hedberg, treasurer, t "McNeil also announced a workshop session in' Portland Feb. 6-8, which will be ', a joint meeting with Oregon and Wash ington chambers. The: session will be geared especially for chamber officers and board members, the manager added. U.S. Sends Gifts Behind Iron Curtain Augusta, Ga. (U.R) - The United States government sent gifts of food behind the Iron Curtain Saturday. - - The White House ' reported that four ships are expected to arrive at Iron Curtain, ports this Christmas Day with food . for peoples still left hungry , by floods last spring.. ,. ' The shipments are part of an eight and one-half million dol ar program set up by the govern ment some months ago. The report said the ships are arriving at Settin, Poland, and Rijeka, Yugoslavia with cargoes of American wheat and corn for Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Yugoslavia. A shipment of 203 tons of butter for Yugoslavia is sched uled to arrive before the new year. SAMSON'S FEED PRICES Watch for this Ad each Samson's money-saving THIS WEEK'S SPECIALS Hen Scratch '4"eS Triangle X-tra Egg Pellets:: Samson's Special Dairy Feed.... Cracked Corn Cottonseed Pellets ' . . ... - . Triangle Range Cubes .:.....sk. Rolled Oats . L.sk. Ground Oats and BarleyJ. .:..cwt. Ground Barley . , ...c wt. Rolled ' Barley r .l..k. F. E. SAMSON CO., Inc. - Feeds & Seeds Fuel Oil Transfer fc Storage 4TH & FRONT .. MEDFORD Phone 2-5295 m ,Vvi!:v'' - ' SUFFERING SPIN AT. ATT.lWPHJm may ever "SS Mass. is carried from New York hospital where MmSLS,'; surgery, bound for convalescence. His wif ?S : broiX? Z fl Mckground as he is lifted into ambtfanT SSSsSLg Santa, Helpers Make Tot's Holiday Bright - Madison, Wis. (U.R) Santa Claus had a good start Saturday toward making "everything come out all right" for 5-year-old Martina Whit, who was burned saving her baby brother from fire in the bare flat. Dolls and toys plied up in the little Indian girl's hospital room, The gifts came in "by the bag ful " nurses said. City officials reported they would start a trust fund for Martina and her infant brother Armand, with cash contribu tions that poured in from coast to coast. : Pitcher Receives Unexpected Gift Milwaukee (U.R) The wife of Milwaukee Braves pitcher Lew Burdette presented him with an unexpected Christmas gift. In fact, everybody was sur prised by the suddenness, in cluding police officers, who de livered a six-pound, 15-ounce baby for Mrs. Mary Burdette Saturday .morning. Burdette said his wife was not expecting their second child until the first week in January. But an emergancy call to sub urban West Allis, Wis., police was necessary Saturday morn ing. The baby was born on the way to the hospital. Thirty-three - year - bid police patrolman and ambulance driver Clarence Long performed the de livery in the back of the ambu lance. It was his second such performance of duty. Patrolman Harry Stobba assisted. Burdette and police said there were no complications. " 1 Burdette, a leading left hand er on the Braves' staff, said "It was a fine Christmas present.' Progress Report Jacksonville City Attorney Ervin - Hpgan reported to the city council last week that the state of Oregon has money available to purchase the city's proposed sewage bond issue at the present time, according to B. J. Christianson, city recorder. Certain state legislation aids municipalities in sewage system development, providing funds are available. Approximate cost of .TaeVsnn. ville's new , system would be $100,000 for the line and $60,000 for the disposal svstem. with possible federal aid, the recorder continued. No further action was taken on the progress report by Hogan. - in otner nusines, the council decided 4t6 1 consider on Jan. 4 the condemnation of the old Barkley place on Third st. for use as a residence: Fire hazard is themain objection tn th building. ' I I Sunday for Feed Prices ..cwt. $5.05 sw. 3.05 . cwt. .ewt. 4,40 4.70 3.15 2.75 3.60 3.35 2.50 ft Find Way to M. B. Bernstein, East Orange, N. J. sent $25 and Glen Trosher, Tictorville, Calif., sent $10. The gifts and money came in response to Martina's confidence that "Santa Claus will make everything come out all right." Own Clothing Afire ; The little girl carried Armand from their unlighted third floor flat Wednesday night while her own clothing was blazing. Martina apparently started the fire herself when she tried to light a candle for light in the flat, furnished only with a cot. The children's mother was away at a tavern and at first was charged with intoxication and child neglect. Later she was released, but authorities said juvenile officials would decide what to do with the children. Washington Pair Die In Automobile Crash Kalispell, Mont. (U.R) Ben T. Sieben, 47, and his wife Pearl, Dallesport, Wash., were killed Friday night when their car plunged off U. S. Highway 2, 20 miles east of West Glacier, Mont. The Sieben car was approach ing a horseshoe curve on the narrow winding highway skirt ing the southern edge of Glacier Park when their car skidded on the snow-packed road, teetered on the edge, then plunged 130 feet down the canyon wall that falls off into Flathead River. The couple was en route to the home of relatives in Cut Bank, Mont., when the accident occurred. t Smart hostesses know that setting milk on social occasions is just r 1 sound as t be familiar advice ..." G33CD mill PROBUGERS'.LEAfiU Ohio Man Sends Out Cards To Repay for Early Help By WILLIAM H. MEYERS UP Staff .'Correspondent - Chicago (U.R)- Those "fine people in Ohio,", who have been receiving a Christmas card from A. Sander for "many years, are going to stay on his holiday greeting list as long as he lives. The cards have turned up reg ularly - each year in the Ohio Secretary of State's office. They ask the secretary to pass on to the people of the Buckeye state the greetings of "A. Sander." Oregon's Vehicle Insurance Rates Under U.S. Average Portland Oregon policy holders paid less than the nation al average for automobile insur ance during 1953, according to statistics just released by The Spectator, " national : insurance trade journal. : Oregon insurance buyers paid an average of $71.73 for liability and physical and property dam erage was $78.35. Oregon, with 1.01 per cent of the national population, accoun ted for 1.36 per cent of the reg istered vehicles, and 1.26 per cent of the automobile premi ums written. . . s Figures compiled by The Spectator show Oregon had a total of 663,788 registered pas senger vehicles, for the period on which the figures are based. During the same period, . the number of registered passenger vehicles in Washington was 847, 121, and the California total was 4,435,500. The average Washington pre mium was $67.94, and the Calif ornia average was $87.19. Christmas Eve Blast Kills Eleven Persons Parkin. Ark. (U.R) A Christmas Eve party involving two Mexican farm families pre paring hot tamales, ended in a kerosene stove explosion, killing 11 persons. Five members of t h e tenant farm families were injured in the explosion at 10:30 p.m. 12 miles south of here.' Authorities said the Ruel Mon tana and Pete Santana families were firing up the stove to pre pare hot tamales for their Eve, celebration. ; ' HHS HOSTESS Usually, the cards have born the ' inscription, : "God Bless America." But, except for the return address, here has been nothing to identify Sander. Found by Reporter , ?;...; Friday, a United Press report er found the retiring greetings sender and learne4 why he has sent the cards and why he will continue to send them. "A. Sander" is Anthony Sand er, a 65-year-old bachelor, who lives with his sister and works in the salvage freight depot of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. 1 came to this country from Krakow, Poland in 1905," Sand er ?said. "My uncle sent me tickets from his home on, the farm of Tom Humphrey near Flughins, Q. Worked in Card 'As soon as I got to Flushing I went to work in a coal mine. I'll never forget how good the men of Flushing were to me, a poor immigrant boy-and their wives too. There wasn't a qay that the men didn't try 4o help make my Work easier." .. - t . -9 ri XI aanaer leu ms nome on Humhphrey farm after three years and came to Chicago. He worked first for the Soo line and then for the Northwestern, which has employed him more than 40 years. i "I was so grateful to the peo ple of Ohio for being . so' nice to me that I always send the secretary of state a Christmas card to tell the people thanks," Sander said. ; v Sentence Suspended,' But Watch It Brother Spokane (U.R) Police Judge Gordon Lower had the Christmas spirit Friday. He suspended sentences for all men brought before him on charges of drunkenness. But he also warned them his Christmas spirit was short . lived. If they were back be fore Monday, the judge said, they would go lo jail. LISTEN This Morning and Every -SUNDAY at 9:45 a.m. to an ACTUAL EXPERIENCE of HOW CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALS Tune In Radio Station KYJC, Medford, 1230 kilo. December 26 - "BRIDGING THE BARRIERS OF PREJUDICE" "WITH THKj She's the one who can make you feel ' at home, even though you're away from home. She's the one who takes a second look at the foods and beverages most generally associated with your home life, then shrewdly serves them up to you right in her own home, v Milk is certainly a "must" in everybody's home. That's why it's about the friendliest, most welcome beverage you can serve your, guests. And milk goes with everything...itom p2stry to cheese and crackers, from candy to TV tidbits. Union Official la in Tampa, Fla. U.R) An official of ; the AFL seaman's union charged Saturday that he was falsely accused of a murder plot 1 against another official o h could be . "drummed out of the union." ; j Ray White, union vort asent here denied as "just a big smear" the charge that he instigated a plot to murder Paul Haul, of Hackensack. N.J.. an eononent for the post of union secretary treasurer.; Never Heard of Plot White said he never heard ef the alleged plot on Hall, the in cumbent, secretary-treasurer, un til he was arrested three nights ago at the request of Hackensack authorities. He said Hall himself had "rin ged" a phony plot to discredit his charge that HSU had refused to allow "proper government au thorities to investigate, port by yvit,, um vuuiv wcuim pro gram." v.- . Hall wanted him "drummed out of the union," White claimed. Could Not Benefit White said that ' under the union constitution he could not benefit from Hall's death be- " cause it would cause the forth-. coming election of a secretary treasurer to be called off, al- though the death would hurt his cnances wnen tne election might finally be held. White admitted that he was acquainted with James E ' Cobb. who was arrested in Hackensack t two days ago as the accused gun- -man in the murder plot He said C he had in the past hired Cobb as a "janitor." ' " Cour D'Alene, Ida (U.F9 Francis J. Russett, 37, Spokane, brakeman for the Milwaukee Road, was fatally injured Fri-, day afternoon when he fell be-, tween an engine and freight. car uuriug swiicnuig operations near here. ' .. ,' - 1
