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TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday. January 31, 1955 vm Hot, Svampy Country Marks Pa Of Oil Wells in Booming Venezuela Maracaibo, Venezuela (U.FD The hot, svampy country around this "city of palms" is t the payoff area of booming Venezuela. Oil : wells in the Itmffla 'an1 rt A av V 4iitVhi4 ura. ters of Lake Maracaibo foot! most of the bill for a $71,000,000 highway, a $40,000,000 hospital, an $8,000,000 hotel and the oth er grondiose projects changing the face of glamorous Caracas,' the . nation's capital, and other places. The . liquid gold from this area accounts for .' 73 per cent of Venezuela's huge out put and has been the country's biggest money-getter since 1922. "Something old, something new" is always on tap here at the same time. Item: A burro, weighed down by two wooden boxes almost as big as itself, holding up a line of sleek cars on the road from the airport while a somebrero-wearing peas ant tries to coax it to one side. And it happens in : front of the most modern Sears Roebuck store you'll find anywhere. , Ateen airport architects: The one here, called Grano de Oro Youths Should Learn of Worse Thing Than 'Chicken' Chino, Calif. U.R) Today's parents better know how to ex plain to their teen-age children that there are worse things than being called "chicken' by other teen-agers, according to Frank Graves, youth authority. Graves is director of Boys Re public, about an hour's drive from Los Angeles. He feels that teen-agers get into trouble in most cases because they are more atraid of being called "chicken" today s equivalent of "yeuow belly" than -they; are afraid of police. ' " v";U . Confronted With Situation ,. . ; Parents of the teen-agers who start breaking society's ; laws rather ;than their own "gang" laws are confronted with a situ ation ' that , requires immediate action, Graves said. He, warned also that pre-teens frequently are spurred to their first illegal acts by the same fear. Graves bases his views on his general background, .; training and experience at Boys Repub lic, a privately .supported insti tution for boys who are under privileged, , come, from . -broken homes or are "pre-delinquents.' ffllilDIUiail'r 1 in & on m M There are five questions that parents who are worried about their children should ask' them selves, Graves said, if they are to ' explain that maybe ' "being chicken" isn't always so bad. " 1. As a child, did you ever do something similar to the one your child has committee? If you did, it should be easier for you to give the child sympathy and understanding before you be come morally righteous and in dignant. : '-; ; - 2. Can he expect sneers and reprisals from others, and what will happen to his self-respect if he does not give in to pressures and has to stand alone? This is another opportunity for under- standing from a mature adult you-r-whp have fewer moral de cisions to make, per day. But you wouldn't want your friends to call you a coward or poor sport, would you? : 3. , Who . are the . bad influ ences? You may be able to point tactfully to associates after learning they are unhealthy in fluences like bullies or cheats or cowards rather than heroes. Or perhaps you can help the bad in fluences, or learn enough about them to ; advise your teen-ager ho wto win others approval. ; 4. How can a son realize the real consequences of his act? Try to explain how a fatal accident can occur with guns or automo biles how even experts have ac cidents, y y r-:isc, .M 5. Are you proof 'that "every teen-ager in trouble is an indict ment of his parents?" Thinking objectively ," a n d realistically about your . children will show you a way to prove to them that parents love them and are more loyal than any gang and will help rather , than censure them. grain , of gold, . features an : in terior patio with a garden of colorful tropical i foliage. The airline ticket counters ring the romantic scene. - ; : The bar3 in the poorer sec tions of this town, which is an exotic' mixture of modern, air conditioned homes and old, multi-colored; stucco houses with barred windows, have swinging doors,-Not because they're old fashioned. The swinging : doors were ordered up a few years ago to give; the cops a better looksee into the places. ' 7 Seen and heard on a plane flying west across the lake and over jungles where Indians still live in .a primitive state. The pilot spots a clearing, swoops low and banks the . plane L for the benefit of camera bugs. Not a sign of life around the brown thatched huts, only well-marked trails from the low entrances of the nearby jungles. The pilot rights the plane and as it climbs somebody puts his hand , to the floor, grabs r an imaginary .'. ot ject and quips: "Anyone want an arrow?" ' GETS APPOINTMENT Washington U.R) Appoint ment of Jon L. Sullivan, Salem, Orev as U. S. Executive Secre tary of the Joint United States Canada Civil Defense Commit tee has been announced, by Val Peterson, Civil Defense Ad ministrator, v Sullivan will con tinue in his present post as spe cial . assistant to Harold A. Aitken, Peterson's executive as sistant administrator. On a road leading west to ward the Colombian . border, pelicans swim in an adjacent stream. Perched high on a water tower a dozen big vultures look down. People watchers? .-:-, International departments: Watching palm trees wave in a breeze from the lake while sip ping Heineken beer and listen ing to an orchestra that's play ing " "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling." ;: y From the air again il der ricks, tanks, pipes, jungle. More derrick's, tanks, pipes'. It's noth ing like beautiful Caracas, but it's what picks, up the biggest tab for. the boom in this amaz ing country. -, - : f - lj f k$jr?:f:j I F , "V- C7- - f . - : J I AY 7 - . . : r Tr- ;" -- -Th-s WIDESPREAD HUNT IS ON for two "rough looking" men who trailed Serge Rubinstein, 46, mil lionaire financier when he left night club shortly before his strangled body was found in bed room of mansion. Body was found near bed (arrow). Top arrow points to where He left tuxedo. Betty Reed (right), is one of several friends questioned by police. (ltrnattinutf. SoundpKoto) Fort McClellan Loses Gl Appearance As WACs M Fort McClellan,. Ala. (U.R) Thousands of. GIs who trained here as riflemen during World War H would never recognize their old camp. ; ' The drab "open bay" barracks are. gone. They have been -replaced by buildings in delicate pastel shades. :-:' ."' No stained green fatigues flap from the clotheslines. Only soft, feminine things. vVvc. Fort McClellan has become a' woman's world.. It is the "West Point of the Wacs," the perman ent home which the .Women's Army Corps wanted 12 years to get. - '-r .y-w :;; '.; f The Army has spent $7,300, 000 remodeling the old Fort Mc Clellan, an infantry basic train- On Way To Vief Nam Pos! San Francisco (U.R) Wolf Ladejinsky, central figure in a recent "security" ; controversy arrived in San Francisco last night on his way to Viet Nam, where he will serve as a land reform expert for the U. S. For eign Operations Administration. Ladejinsky planned to go to Tokyo first to wind up some per sonal affairs there. He : flew to San Francisco aboard ' the same- plane as his boss FOA Director Harold E. Stassen, who came to the West Coast to make two speeches this week. Ladejinsky said it was a "coincidence" that he and Stas sen took the same plane. I The Agriculture Department fired Ladejinsky as an agricul tural attache in Tokyo "ks a se curity risk. Howevef, the FOA said it found no grounds to ques tion his security and hired him as adviser to its Indochina mission. National Forest Harvest Sets Record Washington (U.R) Umber harvested from national forests during the Oct. 1-Dec. 31, 1954, period totaled 2,300,970,000 board feet, a new record not likely to be exceeded for many years, the Agriculture Depart ment reported today. The harvest for the final quar ter- of last year surpassed - by one-half billion board, feet the previous "record set during . the July 1-Sept. 30, 1953, quarter; , ; Ira J. Mason, chief of timber management for the Forest Ser vice, said the . value of timber cut during the final 1954 quarter was $25,071,110. ing center during World War H, into a pleasant training center for WAC recruits and officers. Not Like Army "It's not a bit like ' the old Army," said, one WAC officer. "It wasn't intendend ; to be." To stimulate enlistments, the WACs have tried to give their center an atmosphere of "home The barracks are partitioned into rooms. There is a : kitchen in each building. WAC trainees sleep in comfortable beds , in stead of GI cots. " The center, commanded by Lt Col. Eleanore C. Sullivan of Lawrence, Mass., receives all new recruits and gives . them basic training. It . also provides officer.; candidate : courses, ad vanced courses for officers and special instruction in - clerical procedures and stenography. ' y Basic trainees are taught to march, make beds - Army - style, and the fundamentals of. Army life and discipline." They ;. can learn to shoot a rifle .if they want to. - v-vi ;yyv;; y.::-'--:; :;v 16 Graduates y Sixteen officers were grad uated from the feminine "West Point" ; this taonth. They were the , first to receive bars since WAC training was moveu here from Fort Lee, Va. J Ever since the Women's Army Corps was organized in 1942 its headquarters had been.Vpushed around" from place to place. The permanent S headquarters : here was dedicated last September by Chief of Staff Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway. ;:.:-r : . "In time,", Ridgway said, "the center will occupy the place in the history of the Women's Army Corps that Fort Benning does r - d . - f ii i t ( 14 I v--s h i'Nf f . : h tfL fe'Mi '! Kt-w!ei SPY ABOUT WINSTON f W$ HA . should1. L : f ( A ttke cigarette snou j . if f2K V y V yJff fc&i 't& , . MTMLM TOSACCO C for . the Infantry, Fort Sill for the Artillery and Fort Knox for Armor. . ... - "Women have . proved they can perform capably and effici ently many of the tasks that had formerly been considered exclu sively within the province of the male soldier." Five Persons Hurt In Portland Crash : Portland i7-(U.P.)-r-Five persons were injured, two critically, in a three-car tangle on the Broad way bridge early Sunday morn ing. V . fcv?: . ; :-y- ":-;y, f. Eugene Orr, 29, Portland, was in critical ' condition ; at Eman uel hospital with a fractured pelvis and internal injuries, and his wife, Ef f ie, 33, -was suffer ing from a fractured right arm and other: injuries. . . Others injured, were , George N. Hensley Jr., 26, Fort .Lewis, Wash.; Lillian Montegue, 32, Seattle, and Kathleen Marpert, 40,' of Portland. y Officers said Orr's car went into a skid on the steel decking of the bridge, and swerved into two - oncoming cars. One was driven by Hensley and the other by ; Raymond Marpert, 44, who was uninjured. V v HE'LL WALK NOW - Galveston, Tex. (U.R) Six- year-old . Phillips Valot V has promised police and his parents that he'll walk home from now on. When officers noticed a truck moving through the down town Galveston area with no ap parent driver they investigated and found the boy ' behind the wheel, y He said "I had to go home and didn't want to walk." Texas Longhorn Cattle, Once Nearly Extinct Breed, Being Saved in Nebraska Valentine, Neb.- (U.R) Texas longhorn cattle, whose . breed once ranged the dusty plains of the Southwest,: are being saved from extinction in the strange northern climate of Nebraska. . Being the ornery critters they re, they take to blizzards ; like they did to Texas sandstorms. - A herd of 100 longhorns is sheltered in the Niobrara Na tional Wildlife Refuge here as a living museum exhibit. Until the government .stepped in to save them" they were going the way of their prairie cousin, the. bison. John Connors, manager of the Niobrara refuge, said the long horns have become more accus tomed to fences than they were when they snorted and stam peded across the barren ranges to the south.. And they "came through just fine" during the severe cold and blizzards, of 1948-1949. . .: y;'.-y ' ' "They're much meaner - than ordinary cattle," Connors said. "But their respect for a man is increased considerably when the man is perched on the horse. None of my cowhands has ever been hurt." . iy The two chief herds of long horns remaining in the United States are here and at the Wich ita y Mountains Refuge near Cache, k Okla.-, where there are 376 head. The : animals were brought to North America from Spain in 1521. . . - "the ' hot-tempered v longhorns spread from Vera Cruz through the old . Spanish provinces -that now- make - up ; the American Southwest Cowboys in the wild west era would drive them up the Chisholm Tail by the thous ands to railheads in Kansas and Nebraska. :- Cattlemen finally abandoned the longhorn in favor of breeds that had shorter horns but more meat. By ; 1920, the longhorn was virtually extinct. . Wildlife authorities admit the longhorn is not a game animal like others it protects, but the species is being preserved ' be cause it is "so prominently iden tified with the early history of the West." , FOR THE YOUNG , OR YOUNG fN HEART .! iMD . ..to say howmuch you ' care : We have all kind QUALIFY YOURSELF ENROLL ON ANY MONDAY Pay Classes - Monday Thru Friday 9 to 4 Secretary and Accounting Courses Evening Classes Monday and Thursday -7 to 10 pjn. SUBJECT INSTRUCTOR Public Speaking ........ J. N. Yobin , Accounting ......i... Clyde Gwaltney Typewritfng ,M...;:L.lJ..w. 'Mary McLoughlin Shorthand .... .;. Stewart Hopper Business Machines: . IBM Electric Typewriters; Marchant, Friden, and Monroe Calculators, and Dictaphone. Robertson School of Business 40-42 N. Riverside Ph. 3-4264 , o Medford . Slabs and Rough Blox Green Dandy to Burn with Dry Wood ' Big Doublo Load or Singlo Load r.3EBFElE) FEJEKi S. 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