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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.
None of the cases occurred in
persons inoculated with Salk
anti-polio vaccine, a spokesman
said. There , have been 36 cases
in Oregon so far this year.
Latest cases occurred in a 35-year-old
Washington county
boy, a 2 -year-old Springfield
girl and a 6-yearold Hermiston
boy. The latter two cases were
paralytic.
Salem (U.R) Gov. Paul L.
Patterson has signed into law
House bill 427, giving the State
Racing Commission authority to
oust touts and illegal bookmak
ers from Oregon race tracks.
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