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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1955)
Forest Service Looks Proudly on 50 Years Of Conservation Work Washington (UJ9 The For est Service, created 50 years ago today, lodks back proudly at a conservation campaign that has changed , the face of the nation and assured it of all the wood it needs, V ::!-'r::- More than that, present wood production could be doubled If necessary, ; a forest expert esti mated. . ' . -,:.T ; -- . .; . ; When President Theodore To Assist Tideland Oil Drillers - Longview, Tex. U.R) . A $2,000,000 . sea - going r platform for tidelands oil' prospecting, more than half the size of a foot ball field, is being built .for a lvno livm " "... - ' R. G. : LeTourneau, Inc., of . Longview, which is building the platform, for the Zapata Petro leum Co. of Midland, Tex., says the platform will be ' equipped with three ; electrically driven stilts as high as a 12-story build ing. ' : ' ; ' : The platform will be assem- : bled at the company's Vtcks ; burg, Miss., plant on the Missis sippi river. It will be launched in thA siimmp-r ctt and then . . . . a. 1 ' 1 . . wiu De uoaiea aown .xne nver ; to the Gulf of Mexico and towed ' to its first drilling site. "' -r In the gulf, the 8,000,000-pound drilling barge will work like a huge elevator. The stilts will be lowered electrically to the ocean bottom, ' and' the platform" will raise itself on them to the de sired height. i , m ' ' wnen me weu iids ueeii cuui- pleted, the platform will lower itself . to the water again, raise the stilts from the ocean floor and be towed to a new drilling site. - -j..r.:rm- Cellophane Tiape Used In Skin Lacerations I ; : Chicago U.R Cellophane tape is now being used to close wounds and is proving superior to stitches in many cases, ac cording to science uigesi. Dr. Paul Williamson, Walsh Colo., reported in an article that he used thertape in closing 91 skin lacerations, and that 7 re sults uave oeen cntouiaguig. . : He said there is a relative ab- ; fence of cain comoared with. stitching, and the final appear ance of thewound bas"been"betr ter. Healing also is speeded up, he said. i Williamson said stitches "may soon become a cruel and archaic - way to close minor lacerations." I He added that studies already are under way on the use of cel- ; lophane tape . in closing , major surgical wounds. " " " '' . Dead line Sunday Classified - if at eon -Saturday ; 10 a.m. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 previous day. Roosevelt signed a bill an Feb. 1, 1 9 0 5, creating the service, lumberman .were chopping through , the nation's dwindling forest and leaving wastelands behind as their sawmills moved on. , , Important Agency Today; conservation - minded forest, industries manage their lands for continous production and encourage farmers to handle .trees on small Woodlots like other crops. .. 1 - The Forest Service has grown from a handful of crusading conservationists to a great land management, research and edu cational agency within the De partment of Agriculture. It has more than 6,700 permanent em ployes and about 12,7000 work ing at height of the forest .fire seasons.' r .' ' .; Half a century ago, the-few areas set aside as national for ests were in remote "back coun try" with few . roads or other facilities for fire protection and timber harvesting. T h e Forest service today operates 115 na national, forests covering ii,ioi,uuu acres in 39 states, Alaska and Puerto Rico. These forests cover 16 per cent of the nation's commercial forest land. Lumber and Grazing Under scientific management, the national forests now sumriv more than five billion board feet of timber annually and the har vest is growing. The forests also furnish seasonal grazing for mil lions ot : cattle and sheep and supply recreation for million of city-bound! citizens. The shift to scientific cutting meinoas ana replanting of cut- over lands has not been the only idcwr in reDuuaing xorest re sources, Leonard Barrett, a For est- service official,- said. The growth of fire protection sys terns under private, state and federal sponsorship has been im portant in preserving woodland tnat might otherwise have been destroyed. :-. :; --. ... In Ceramics Industry Buffalo, N.Y. .R) Zircon is best known as a beautiful semi-precious stone, but in an other form it is a real gem to the' ceramic ! industry. It : is now used as the' surface material in sandwich batts, on which porce- lainware is fired in kilns. , Engineers , of Electro Refrac tories & Abrasive Corp. who de-' veloped the batt, say zircon will not react under high tempera tures and stain the porcelain. As a refractory, zircon is more ex pensive -than many other mate rials. But its chemical inertness here is worth the price. Pure zircon ;- bodies ; lac k';- strength when hot v The silicon carbide "meat" of the sandwich pro vides 'the mechanical strength required. J ;.. ,. .... ........ ' TAKING DIVE DURING Initial sea cruise, atomic submarine USS Nautilus (from top) begins to go down, is submerged except piece of turret and deck, and finally Is fully submerged, leaving tell-tale wake. Diving trials held off New England. (International) Tuesday, January 25.. 1953, MEDFORD IOREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Back Stairs: New Appointment Secretary By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press White Houm Writer Washington (U.R) Back stairs at the White House: President Eisenhower. ..within the next few months, will have to select a new appointment secretary. v Thomas E. Stephens is leaving the White House, but he has set no date for his departure. Stephens, a highly regarded member" of " the Eisenhower team, has no plans for taking an other political job, a possibility widely reported last week. He does not plan to join the Repub lican National :: Committee. In stead, he wil return to private life and legal practice. " Tom in recent weeks has been in something less than booming good health and ': while; he has made no decision: on .when he leaves and where he goes, he is -determined to get away from his ulcerous job , . . .: Most of the information about his departureJErom his job comes from people outsidd the White House, n Asked personally about tnese reports, Stephens says, "there is nothing to report"- "In the days of far-sailing whal ing snips ana seal nunters irom New England's old -ports, a cer tain bleak Patagonian, beach be came widely, known ,as ."New Haven Green." There New -Ha ven, Connecticut sealers ; dried skins before taking them west to China in lucrative trade. Who "succeeds Stephens? The White. House isn't talking, but there is this known fact when Stephens must take time off, his replacement is Murray Snyder, the former New " York Herald Tribune reporter who is assist ant to Press Secretary James C. Hagerty. Odds and ends in the wake of Mr. Eisenhower's first photo graphed news conference: v The White' House is amazed, even shocked, by criticism be cause it 'released only 24 min utes of film and sound tape out or a dz-minute news conference. This was more than 'normal. The White House frequently .has. re leased brief portions of sound tape after a , news conference, but last Wednesday marked the first time in history that a presi dential press conference ever has been put before the public in pictures. To the grumblings that the conference ..was "censored," White House officials point out that reporters were permitted, as u s u a 1, to transmit to the world an indirect acoount of everything the President said. They also noted that the White House permited direct quotation of most of what - the President said far more than usual. Thus, they say, if all of the conference was not relased on film", to the newsreels and television net works,. it hardly could be de scribed as. censorship. ,. ; What Hagerty did was elimi nate filmed versions of relative-, ly minor questions and answers last Wednesday, --.. - -i Before the first filmed ' con ferenoe was staged, Hagerty and , some of the network and news- reel representatives held a "dry; run" ar rehearsal. The reporters asked questions to. get lights and : sound adjusted. The m a k e-be- lieve president in ; this session last Monday started out as Hag erty, but the cameras finally ; switched to Hugo Johnson of . Paramount News because in i size, . coloring . and girth he re-' sembles the President more than ; does Hagerty. t -. - - - - w m ' m se . - i INSTRUCTIONS in LEATHER CRAFT and WOOD FIBRE FLOWER MAKING Leather Classes Monday Evenings Starting Jan. 31st Flower Classes ... . BeginnersTuesday Afternoon and Evenings . Starting Jan. 25th Advanced Thursday Afternoon and Evenings . Starting Jan. 27th SIMS CYCLE & HOBBY! SHOP . On N.. Fir St.: Next to Mail Tribune O . . . ' Phone 2-2472 A Nichol's Worth of . .;. Comment On This and That By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United PrM Fastar Writer Washington U.R) What's new in Washington: . Vice-President Eichard M. Nixon, who seldom : wears a hat, is thinking about chang ing his head gear habits. If for no other f reason, to stop the; flood of mail he has been getting on the subject. The latest let ter, from his home.' state of Herman Nichols C a 1 i f o r n i a said: -"This is from one who wishes you well. It might make you mad and say it is nobody's business. But get a , nice hat. It will add to , the .charm you need." ; i . ' ; "- ; Experts in the business .. of honor-saving claim that when President Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua challenged President Jose Figueres of Costa Rica to a duel, he violated two basic rules of the code duello. - First, he challenged Figueres direct, in stead of through seconds. Also he specified revolvers, - instead of letting the challenged : man choose the weapons. . .. 0 -o-x'-i- "' a -v.--'.- .mk I Ml I - A prevenUn treatment , J :l f 'Z - Ite National Foundation foe Infantile Paralysis mBDMPIHUID. MIMIL , TOIIIHJtlME The Costa Rican Embassy has received a lot of mail from Americans, men offering to vol unteer for service against invad ers of Costa Rica.. All told the Embassy they were willing ; to serve for bread and bed, without pay.. The Embassy replied - that it would not recruit U.S. citizens and ; what Costa Rica needs is guns, not men. One fellow from Oregon wrote that he was a vet eran combat pilot and added "I am offering my services to Costa Rica, first", y " ;:vv- . r Ambassador Jose A. Mora of Uruguay, . chairman of the Or ganization' of American ' States, was called but of a barber chair by Ambassador Antonio A. Fa cio of Costa Rica. . Facio wanted an emergency ; meeting of the organization on air raids and night bombing : against ... open. Costa Rican towns. - With the barber sheet still' wrapped about his middle and the face lather; fast drying Mora got on, the; phone, and made the necessary: arrangements: ... ; And then he climbed back into the- barber chair for a relather and the oth er half of his interrupted shave. The- other . afternoon, ' some orange juice folks .introduced some new . crystals at a press party. 'The press was to - take samples of the crystals and sim ply add water and ice. Happened there was another?." bar. in the same : suite, : with a man in a white apron ladling but some thing a little stronger, and do ing' a pretty good business, too. About that time Secretary . of Agriculture . '-. Ezra T. Benson showed up. One reported had just set his empty glass down at the liquor bar. Hasn't this man had a drink yet?" asked Benson. Next thing the scribe knew, he had been pushed to the other bar and was holding, a glass full of orange juice. : Goldie Ahearn, a local fight promoter, mentioned to the man from whom hex buys, his boxing gloves that he was about to be come a grandfather, perhaps the granddaddy of a new champion. The gloves man, with an eye on new business, gave Goldie a lit tle present in advance of the big event. A set of miniature boxing gloves . and a tiny -: pair of fighting trunks. At last Gol die is a- grandfather of a kid they named Nancy. . o 74-HouPWarSeen In Russian Plans Portland : (U.PJ A reta-ed Air Force general said last night he does not Relieve the Chinese Communists; , will invade For mosa liinless Russia is prepared to wage an all-out nuclear war against America. Gen.-George C. Kennedy, re tired commander of the Strate gic Air Command, said he be lieves Russia ? plans a ?. surprise "24-hour" war against the -Uni ted States. "After the first raid there will be. 20.000,000 dead hand another 20,000,000 doomed to die from radiation," he said. Gen. Kenney said that present defense of this country are not enough to stop such a blow.: He plans a four-day stay In Oregon in behalf of the Arthritis and ' Rheumatism .' foundation fund. :r::'-&tfWM One - of America's largest breeding colonies of white peli cans." bis! and lovely birds of eight- to ten-foot wingspread, flourish curiously:; enough V in Pyramid" Lake, Nevada, in the midst of seared desert and bitter THIS EEKS SPECIAL SANTA ANITA MODERNE. COLORED COFFEE MUGS Colors t Choice of 4 VALUE FROM ' .NEW SUNBEAM CHROME MIXMASTER No enamel to scratch or chtpl (75 Complete with Juicer j White l I Elephant Xt9 lf Values! ly SPECIAL! "MARY PRCCTOR- Iron Tabic All meta!, adjustable height ironing table with offset stand ard to allow knee room when ironing sitting down. Complete with pad and cover set. The Annual Inventory showed up a number of items that have been with us too long-or are "One of a Kind." COME IN AND LOOK OYER OUR SPECIAL TABLES . , . ' ALL ITEMS ARE , ; arked Down Drastically SPECIAL GROUPS IN AIL DEPARTMENTS . . KOFFEE MAKER KADDY Holds upper bowls of metal or glass vacuum coffee maker. Has drip catcher. NEW LOW PRICES! ELECTRIC TOASTERS TOASTMASTER ($23.00 Model) , GENERAL ELECTRIC ($21.95 Model) , Both, are very popular two slice, fully automatic electric toasters. Your Choice Onlfiy? E-MST OVCN CUANEI Tb FAST C!:-:r ... ... . . . .j Loosens: baked on grease and drippings in an aver ago of only. 30 minutes! v LARCIV-.- JAR )(o)a DELTAH0MECRAFT 8" TILTING-ARCQ3 SAW Bdi-beazing siboc Cast-uoo table. . j Bench model per- . lotto ail operations done by larger ma : fhinrt of its type. Cross-cuts and rips stock u to 2V4 thick. rti Aixessones available for all dado and ; moulding operatioBS. Cwu miet this Dells Hmmcuft CircuUr Smm Orblfal Sander For the finest finish tn tho shortest Hmo! XftJ 1M nroduoBS a fine I finish 10 times faster than hand ! sanding. Sands with, against, , across the grain without marring. '- Driven by a powerful motor, this -Porter-Cable Sander j fe n won't stall even on 4-H" those tough jobs. - Help Fight Polio JOIN THE . ' - March of Dimes I ,; ; Today! , ; n ov oy " nv u ; o uu, UKJTER ORCHARD SUPPLIES PRUNING SHEARS - : Corona, Hickok and CarN wright. PRUNING SAWS Fanno. ' POLE PRUNERS . Wood and aluminum pole by Wells and Wade. REPAIRS for shears and g pruners. , TREE SEAL Graftine and pruninQ compound in quarts, gallons and 5's. MAKE - HUBBARD " EROS. YOUR HEADQUARTER FOR ALL YOUR ORCHARD NEEDS. . , MAIN AND RIVERSIDE to) MEDFORD Fliers 2-6K? For our friends who live at higher elevations , . Her is just what the , doctor orvj dered! 11 ROTARY SK0YJ PLOW ' Here Is food medicine for the piw who is sick of shoveling -i heavy snow. New desipi fea- - ' tures five the Jacobsen Rotary . ? Snow Plow a snow-snovinf ' capadtynever hefore achieved . ; In a'onit of this size.; Clears i about 85 sq. ft. per misate in average snow np to 10 Inches . deep ....is Ught and easy to ; liandle. :' ? Let us show you why a ; Jacobsen is the outstanding buy in rotary snow plows. chemical-laden waters. : r, Sr3 -A
