TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Monday. January 31, 1955
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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
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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.'
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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
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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
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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
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- "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
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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." ,
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