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Flats Show
Lots o women have discov
ered that they like to wear flats.
By necessity they bought them
in the teen-age departments
where they first came to fame.
However, many women wanted
a slightly sturdier flat, and one
with a little more style than the
classic ballet shoe which started
the trend.
This spring and summer they
have an almost limitless choice.
Flats seem to be in the shoe pic
ture for keeps, and the variety
of new materials and trims, plus
firmer soles and better fit makes
them both more practical and
more appealing.
Colors are wonderful. For cas
ual and weekend wear, the hot
History of Grass
In Jackson County
Traced by Agent
Starting in 1865, when alfalfa
seed was first flailed at the old
Hanley ranch in Jackson county,
the growing of grass seed has
.emerged as an important factor
in the economy of this area, Wil
liam B. Tucker, county exten
sion agent, told members of the
Medford Rotary club Tuesday.
In a luncheon address at the
Jackson hotel, Tucker outlined
important developments in seed
growing here in recent years,
starting with the widely publi
cized sowing of poa bulbosa
winter bluegrass from an air
plane on the C. C. Hoover ranch
three decades ago. Talent alfalfa,
developed here, is being widely
used throughout the west, and
seed crops have brought over
$3,000 per acre, he said.
'Universal Plant'
Grass, recognized as the uni
versal plant, has played an im
portant role in history, Tucker
said. Considered next in impor
tance to air, light and water,
grass has been responsible for
great migrations and winning
wars. Napoleon's campaign in
Russia failed because of the
shortage of forage crops. The
speaker traced the introduction
and usage of various grasses in
early colonial days, starting from
the grass crops which grew from
seed in the Mayflower's hay sup
ply for cattle.
Discovery of gold brought
farmers west with seed and
knowledge of the importance of
grass pastures, and Chilean alfal
fa became one of the most popu
lar new grasses in this sectioji of
the U. S. Alerady irrigation had
been used in early colonial days
to improve pasture crops.
John Niedermeyer, Rotary pro
gram chairman', introduced the
speaker.
'After-School' Shoes
Declared Important
Often there is so much con
centration on so-called "school
shoes" that it is sometimes for
gotten the youngsters wear
shoes after school as well,
though shoes for each purpose
.actually lead two different
"lives."
The reasons are clear on re
flection. During school hours the
child is much less active while
in classrooms.' But after school
.play is quite another matter.
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Variety
shades, in shag, in suede, in
smooth leather, in fabrics, to
wear with slacks, Bermuda
shorts and swirling cotton skirts,
Exquisite pastels in calf, kid-
skin or reptile are just the things
with the sheer cottons, batistes,
dimities and lawns the "pretty
baby" dresses which were such
a hit with grown-ups last sum
mer. Keels Add Chic
Heels add greatly to the chic
of many of the new flats. Tiny
baby heels, either pancake or
miniature French, very piquant,
especially with a slim platform
to match. Typical example, a
dress flat of palest mauve pink
kidskin with narrow platform
and baby Louis heel of black
patent. Sparkling jet nailheads
on the vamp pick up the theme.
Strawcloth makes some very
smart midsummer flats as for
instance, one of white black or
natural straw with square vamp,
narrow contrasting sale, flat
stacked leather heel and straw
flower trim.
Or a brilliant harlequin
Basque cloth on rubber sole, one
of the new washable flats for
all-around sports wear intro
duced this season.
Gay terry cloth, spattered
with big white polka dots, with
carryall bag to match is a nice
seashore or summer patio ac
cessory. Colorful fruit is a very popu
lar trim for flats for casual
wear while dressier ones go in
for pearl ornaments, clusters of
fabric or plastic flowers or em
broidered motifs.
Witty and Sophisticated
For wear and city suits, there
are some wonderful witty
sophisticated little flats that pick
up the tricks of more formal
shoes. They go in for backless
designs, for T-straps and delicate
cut-out camp treatments. Col
ored, striped or printed linings
are sometimes a feature of the
more youthful models.
City flats come in suedes, in
polished leather and reptile, or
sometimes in combinations. Al
most always the little heel and
sole contrast either in color or
material with the shoe itself.
Black and navy polished leathers
are classics. Grey suede is a
favorite. And there is interest in
the honey or ginger browns or
beiges with smart touch of black
patent. Of course red, including
the new spring flame, is a basic,
again often with the black touch.
BEER QUELLS FIRE
Comstock, Minn. (U.R) Fire
men doused a burning tavern
wall with beer to prevent the
blaze from spreading to an ad
jacent grocery store. The fire
men broke beer bottles and
splashed the contents against the
wall when they ran out of water.
SAND. SUN THEME Diamonds
for beachcombers provide sum
mer's new sand and sun theme.
These are in washable sailcloth.
(By Oomphies).
Flattering flats to perk
up your shoe wardrobe!
From California they're
colorful and gay and oh,
so light on your feet . . .
Priced to own more than
one pair.
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WEDGE NEW SCOOP The new scoop of the season is the
"hollowed" wedge. Most of them like the pair shown above,
are exceptionally light and flexible, adding comfort to good
looks. (By Cobblers.)
U.S. Money Said Used
To Make Gun Sights
Sold To Chinese Reds
Berlin (U.ftt American
dollars helped finance a West
Berlin comDanv charged with
selling artillery sights to the
Chinese Communists during the
Korean war, U.S. authorities dis
closed today.
A State Department spokes
man identified the firm as the
Askania Works, manufacturers
of optical instruments, and said
it sold the sights that directed
Church Opposes
Child Status Bill
Salem (U.R) The Roman
Catholic church yesterday en
tered vigorous opposition to a
bill which would give legal
status and the same rights to
all children, regardless of the
marital status of their parents
Leo Smith, Portland attorney
who said he was representing
Archbishop Edward D. Howard
of the Roman Catholic Arch
diocese of Portland, said the
bill would give legal sanctity to
illicit relationships.
Such a sanction would, he
said, "threaten the breakdown
of the sanctity of marriage."
The measure, sponsored by
Rep. Jean L. Lewis of Portland,
was backed by Protestant min
isters. Rev. Richard M. Steiner
of Portland's First Unitarian
Church, argued that the bill
would discourage illicit relation
ships, rather than encourage
then.
Companion bills would re
move the word "illegitimate"
from all Oregon laws.
Smith, Legislature
Thanked by President
Salem (U.R) The Oregon
Legislature has a high compli
ment and Senate President Elmo
E. Smith of John Day a valued
letter from America's No. 1 citi
zen.
President Eisenhower wrote
President Smith, a "thank you"
to the Oregon Legislature for the
"unequivocal" backing it gave
him and the Congress on estab
lished Formosa policy.
President Eisenhower's letter,
read to the Senate yesterday af
ternoon, said in part:
"I am deeply gratified by this
expression of confidence, and I
hope you will convey my thanks
and appreciation to the mem
bers of the Oregon Legislature
for their support. Such support
is an important element of
strength in our policy."
Reserve Fleet Plan
Satisfies Sen. Morse
Washington (U.R) Sen.
Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) has ex
pressed satisfaction in the de
cision handed down by directors
of the Commodity Credit Cor
poration to retain 75 ships of
the Maritime reserve fleet at
Astoria for surplus grain stor
age. He said that the CCC decision
"substantially relieves the con
gested wheat storage conditions
of eastern Oregon and permits
the wheat to follow its natural
flow down the Columbia Basin."
Morse also praised support of
Oregon representatives of indus
try, labor and the public in
pressing the ease with govern
ment officials.
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Chinese artillery fire on Ameri
can soldiers.
Harald Quilitzsch, former gen
eral manager of Askania, and
two assistants, were on trial be
fore a West Berlin court today
accused of selling $437,000
worth of instruments to the Pei-
ping government during the
war.
The shipments were discover
ed when American troops in
North Korea captured an ore
mine and found theodolites
surveying instruments used to
measure angles bearing the
Askania trademark.
A State Department spokes
man said Askania received $1,-
200,000 in defense contracts plus
the same grant in marks as Ger
man counterpart funds a total
of $2,400,000 during the Ko
rean war.
American officials said Quilit
zsch and his assistants had a
greed to abide by U.S. rules for
bidding strategic trade with the
Iron Curtain countries and speci
fically with Red China which
was at war with the United Na
tions.
Shipments Checked
But after the sights were
found in Korea, Berlin customs
officials began checking
company shipments. The three
directors were suspended last
spring and later fired when cus
toms detected several shipments
of embargoed precision instru
ments going into East Germany.
The shipments were being smug
gled to the Communists in pas
senger cars.
Rooster Survives
Rough Treatment
Portland (U.R) Poppy Red,
a tough young bantam rooster,
strutted about happily today at
his home on the Sunset highway
west of here, despite enough
rough experience to make him
wonder if it was worth while.
According to accounts, Poppy
Red was walking across the high
way on a recent Saturday and
was struck by a pickup truck.
A- witness, not wanting to see
Poppy- suffer, wrung his neck.
Two boys, who were fond of
him, hit him with an axe handle.
Then the boys dug a shallow
grave and buried him under
moss and dirt.
The next Tuesday, one of the
boys, out of curiosity, exhumed
the remains.
Poppy was still alive.
A few hours later, after eat
ing water - soaked bread, Poppy
gave his first crow.
Poppy Red is owned by Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence Nelson who
operate a service station and
tourist cabins on the Hamlet
route section of the highway.
Spring Enrollment ,
At SOC Starts Monday
, Ashland Enrollment for the
spring quarter at Southern Ore
gon college will begin Mon
day, March 21, Registrar Mabel
W. Winston said today.
Course offerings at the col
lege have been expanded, Mrs.
Winston said, to accomodate an
increasing enrollment. Liberal
arts, teacher education, pre-pro-fessional
and semi-professional
courses are among those now be
ing given.
About 4S ner cent of all U.S.
raw timber is government-own
ed.
furnishings
Wedgies Boast
Special Flare
Wedgies have come . a long
way from their utilitarian start.
Today they're the shoe that you
pick to highlight a special cos
tume the shoe that lends flair
to everything from shorts to pa
tio dance frocks.
There's a fine Italian hand
around in the opened up look,
the lighter construction, the
dramatic handling of strap treat
ments, of colors and leathers.
The platform is less cumbersome,
a style feature making use of
materials, color contrast and
other devices to add chic to the
shoe ... as well as the comfort
for which wedgies were origin
ally designed.
Colors are wonderful. Scarlet,
bright cornflower blue or paler
wedgewood, soft mauve pinks,
pale greens and yellows in plain
or lustred kidskin, the new
creamy anilines, suedes, pastel
dark or bright, polished leathers
in beige to brown. In fact, in
this particular category, shoes
can really go the limit in fashion
excitement.
Not all the wedgies are so friv
olous. There's still a place for
the classic ties and oxfords, on
higher platforms, but these too
combine smart styling with the
maximum of comfort.
They come in basic black and
navy, and there's a strong lean
ing toward the natural, beige or
neutral brown shades. Here
again red is a favorite, with the
very bright spring shade in the
lead.
216 Letter Boxes
In at Rogue River
Rogue River A total of 216
new combination letter boxes
have been installed at the Rogue
River post office, according to
F. G. Petrie, acting postmaster.
Some 150- of the new boxes
will replace obsolete boxes,
some of them almost 50 years
old, which were smashed about
three months ago in an attempt
ed robbery.
The remaining 66 new boxes
are needed because of a growth
in the post office patronage, Pet-
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Wednesdar, March 18, 1958
Oceahographer Wishes for
At Battle of
By ROBERT MUSEL
United Press Correspondent
Wormley, England (U.R)
Down in the sightless depths of
the sea collossal whales and
squids are fighting to the death
and Robert Clarke wishes he
were at ringside. He can have my
seat.
"You should be more adven
turous," chided the jaunty scien
tist, screwing a monocle into his
left eye. It added a bizarre touch
to a costume which already in
cluded a very small cap, maroon
cowboy shirt and string tie.
But they pick 'em for knowl
edge, not style, at the National
Institute of Oceanography here
and Clarke knows as much
about whales as any man alive.
He has hunted them, studied
them in all the oceans, eaten
every part of them. He insists
on that last statement. '
Pretty Fair Eating
"Whale heart is a bit tough,"
he said reflectively. "I pickled
whale blubber in vinegar and
spices and it made a good cock
tail hors d'ouvres. Some other
areas taste like sausage."
When he isn't eating whales,
Clarke worries about the gradual
disappearance of the great 100
foot blue whale, "the largest
living being since the beginning
of time."
He isn't worried about the
sperm whale whose mighty jaws
are lined with terrifying rows
of 10 inch teeth. It is the sperm
whale ho picks the fights with
the nightmare cephalopod or
giant squid that Clarke would
like to watch.
Winner Eats Loser
Sperm whales run about 60
feet long and almost thatvmany
tons in weight. The cephalopod,
largest member of the octopus
family, can reach a length of
over 55 feet. It has 10 arms, two
By requiring its truck drivers
to make 10-minute coffee stops
every two hours the Army re
duced its accident rate by near
ly 40 per cent. ,
rie said. The new boxes bring
.the total at the Rogue River post
office to 370.
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of which, longer than the others,
are lined with suckers the size
of dinner plates and tipped with
sharp, horny hooks.
A monster this size can wrap
himself around a two story
house. There may be even big
ger squids below for recently
in the stomach of a sperm whale
fishermen found an eyeball 12
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Giant Squid
find in the stomachs of the sperm
whales. That's where the loser
in sea battles winds up, in the
stomach. From this we believe
the whale always wins unless the
squid can hurt him badly and
make its escape. ,
"This it must sometimes do for
we find harpooned sperm whales
with huge sores which squid
suckers tore and skin and deep
furrows gouged by the razor
like hooks on the squid's arms."
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