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TWELVE MEDrORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNS ' Wdnidar Mar 18, I9SS sj ' iPL ifKiMi CITED FOR HER outstanding work in fighting Juvenile delinquency, Mrs. Nellie Maze Brocierson receives "Clubwoman of the Year" award from Sen. Estes Kefauver (D) Tenn. (right) in cer mony in Washington. As result of Santa Clara, Calif., clubwoman's efforts her city has appro priated $750,000 for new facilities for wayward youngsters in trouble with law. Representative Chet Holifleld (D) Calif., is a witness at the presentation. (InttrnattonalSoundphoto) Girls in Lausanne Have No Need for Reducing Craze Now Sweeping America By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Correspondent Lausanne, Switzerland U.R) I noticed (and who could help it) on a recent visit to New York that a furious reducing craze is underway. My favorite restaurants of fered me low calorie spaghetti, non - fattening pizza, ersatz whipped cream, beer guaran teed, they said, not to add a millimeter to the waistline. I saw a candy store with a display of low calorie chocolates. Boiled Rica Urged My friends discussed dieting like they used to discuss opera tions. I was examined critically by a casual acquaintance and ad vised to try nothing but boiled rice for two days. Well, sir, maybe we Ameri cans need it. Only the other day a columnist In the London Daily Telegraph advised his countrymen you could identify an American woman in Europe by her plump hips. But this is what I want to know: How is it that these ladies in Lausanne are so lissome when they eat like Oregon lumber jacks through a fried cuisine heaped with fried potatoes? Famous for Figures This is not a personal discov ery of mine. The girls of Laus anne were famous for their fig ures, carriage and appetites way back when Lord Byron, the poet and loverboy, came here to look over the talent. And these nights when the girls swar? r round the main drag, Place Sv "rancois at Board of Equalization To Resume Tomorrow The Jackson county board of equalization will resume sessions Thursday in the county clerk's office in the county courthouse, it was announced today. No board meetings are scheduled for today. Due to the large number of requests for appointments to ap pear before the board to peti tion for correction of assessed valuations, the time for filing requests has been extended to Saturday, May 21, according to Mrs. Bereth Hopkins, county clerk. No requests for appoint ments will be accepted after that time, she said. However, written petitions for correction of assessed valuation may be mailed to the board of equalization not later than Sat urday, May 28. Forms may be obtained at the county clerk's office. . The board, composed of Coun ty Judge Rodney Keating, Arn old Bohnert, and' Ralph Cook, started its, sessions on May 9. 6 p.m., it looks like a chorus call for a Broadway musical. But we Americans shy hyster ically away from the same food these girls exist on. The good will of meetings at the summit is in danger of being frittered away ty misunderstandings around the midriff. Foretaste of Events In the Bellevue Restaurant here the other night, I actually saw an American tourist using a calorie counter. She asked for "no-cal souce bernaise!" This is a foretaste of what will be hap pening all over Europe this tour ist season. The passion of Ameri cans for reducing will collide with the pride of foreign restau rants in displaying their most elaborate cookery. I ran across a typical 1955 American tourist, dark-eyed Geri Langsner of the Bronx. She was sipping tea in one of the finest restaurants in Montreux. It was her entire lunch. "Look, brother," she said, "I'm seeing the old world but I'm going to keep the old shape while doing it." Portland (U.R) Funeral serv ices will be held Thursday for Sarah Elizabeth Bell, daughter of early Oregon pioneers, who died yesterday at the age of 88. CHURCHILL ATTACKED London (U.R) Radio Mos cow broadcast an attack on for mer Prime Minister Winston Churchill's speech at- Woodford Monday night even before Chur chill had finished speaking. The radio commentary was by Vya cheslav Rostovsev who appar ently monitored press association advance texts of the speech. Long-Handled Fish Nets Used To Round Up Rabbits in Washington Friday Harbor, Wash. (U.R) Hunters who lean out of bounc ing hotrod "Bunny Buggies" swinging long-handled fish nets expect to round up 10,000 rab bits this summer on San Juan Island. A unique kind of rabbit hunt ing has become a profitable past time for farmers who share the 55 square mile island with thous ands of long-eared neighbors. A "Bunny Buggy" is an an cient automobile stripped down to its engine and frame. Two tractor seats are welded onto each side so the buggy can ac commodate a three-man hunting team a driver, a spotter and a net man. These buggies cruise the island at night. The spotter pokes the beam of a spotlight into the darkness until a rabbit is caught in the glare. Then the driver bears down on the rabbit and the net man leans out to scoop it up in a salmon net on an eight foot pole. "The rabbit usually freezes in the light," said-Terry Jack son, a veteran spotter. "But sometimes they break and run. I've chased them across the field at 30 miles an hour. Once in a while they outrun us." A hard working team can net as many as 200 rabbits a night. They are shipped out for sale as food or for use in training hunt ing dogs. Farmers look on the rabbit population with mixed emotions. The rabbits do some damage to truck gardens and grain, but a farmer with a "Bunny Buggy" can make several hundred dol lars a year marketing them. "Actually," rabbit exporter R. E. Schafer said, "the island is the world's biggest rabbit hutch. We harvest them like any other crop." The San Juan rabbit is a dis tinctive breed, unlike the com mon American jackrabbit or cot tontail. It is a domestic European rabbit gone native, mixed with the strains of the Flemish Giant and the New Zealand Red. Average Five Pounds Since the San Juan rabbit is a more formidable beast than most rabbits, averaging five pounds, some naturalists claim they might ruin U.S. agriculture if they ever started multiplying on the mainland. "We've shipped them alive to Mt. Angel Man Fined For Beating of Abbot Salem (U.R) . Constantine Paulus, 64, of Mt. Angel was fined $100 and given a 30-day suspended sentence in Marion county District Court Monday after he was convicted of assault and battery against the abbot of Mt. Angel abbey, the Right Rev. Thomas Meier. Paulus was accused of striking the abbot several times last month after he was chided for killing a dog. 28 states in the past 30 years,' Schafer said in defense of the rabbits. "I haven't heard of any farmers being eaten out of house and home. Hunters from as far away as Pennsylvania have brought their hounds and guns to hunt on San Juan Island. But the farmers discourage hunting the rabbits with a gun. "Some trigger-happy main lander heard we had pretty good-sized rabbits here and he shot my cow," one farmer com plained. Four Cases of P00 Reported n Oregon Portland (U.R) The State woman, a 6-year-old Portland Board of Health has- reported that four cases of polio have been reported in Oregon during the past week. 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