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Watch Those May Wind Up By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor New York (U.R) An ear lobe alert has gone out to the medical profession, and doctors are star ing suspiciously at those parts of the female anatomy where the ear rings hang. . They're looking for the first signs of split ear lobes. The suspicion is that women are going to pay this distressing penalty for wearing heavier and heavier ear rings unless they are persuaded otherwise. The heavier the ring, the more powerful must be the clip which Wheat Growers in 36 States Vote Saturday On Marketing Quotas By GAYLORD P. GODWIN United Press Correspondent Washington U.R) Wheat growers in 36 states will vote Saturday whether to accept gov ernment marketing quotas lor their 1956 crop, The outcome may determine whether there will be unrestrict ed wheat production in 1956 which would add to an already huge surplus. If quotas are approved by two thirds of those voting, producers in the 36 commercial wheat states who stay within the acre , age allotted for their farmers will be eligible for price support loans at $1.81 a bushel. This would be 76 per cent of parity Those who exceed their acre age allotment will be subject to marketing penalties of 45 per cent of Darity price on wheat grown on their excess land. Croo Restriction If quotas are not approved, present law provides for sup port at 50 per cent of parity, or $1.19 a bushel for producers who stav within their acreage allot ments. If the quotas are voted out, farmers can exceed their allotment without penalty. But if they do exceed acreage allot ments, they will get no price suDDort loans. Under law, the wheat crop is restricted-to 55, 000,000 acres. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson has called the voting proposition a "difficult choice." He has not asked farmers to vote for or against quotas. Ear lier this week he told a meeting of the National Association of Television and Radio Farm Di rectors he would suggest a new wheat price support plan to Con gress if farmers reject quotas, lie did not elaborate. The department's wheat ex perts say the voting "will be close." Approximately 950,000 farmers are eligible to vote dur ing 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. local time in the polling booths maintained by county agricultural stabiliza tion and conservation (ASC) committees. To be eligible, a farmer must grow more than 15 acres of wheat. One department expert made an "educated guess" that "because of the apparent wide interest, 400,000 to 500,000 farmers will vote." Last year, 285,000 farmers voted, 73.3 per cent of them in favor of quotas. The highest number ever voting on quotas was 560,000 in 1941, with 81 per cent in favor. There were more wheat farmers then than there are now. The quota system is an at tempt to cope with the huge sur plus of the nation's most impor tant bread grain. Behind the 76 per cent parity price level is a school of thought that such a guaranteed return is not enough to cause the indviidual farmer to keep on growing more and more wheat as his major source Austrian Authorized To Discard ID Cards Vienna, Austria (U.R) Aus trians were authorized today to discard the four power identity cards they were compelled to carry during 10 years of Allied occupation. The Austrian Ministry of In terior announced Thursday that the cards are not necessary since signing of the "Austrian state treaty. CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT FOR RENT Motor Cranes Back Hoes Motor Graders Draglines Clamshells Shovel Fronts Crawler Type Tractors with Dozers 105 Air Compressor 315 Air Compressor Wagon Drill Paving Breakers Jack Hammers MACHINE TRENCHING Gas Water Sewer Drain Installation or Repair . C. LIUinGER & SOUS MEDFORD, OREGON - PHONE 2-5336 or 2-5897 Heavy Ear Rings Gals, You With Two Cauliflower Ears holds it to the ear. And the more powerful the clip, the more chance of killing the body cells where the pressure is applied. When an appreciable number of cells have been killed, a tiny hole appears in the lobe. If the pressure continues at the same place, the hole enlarges. Finally it is large enough to split the lobe and milady has a feminine version of the cauliflower ear. The alert was sent out in aJ scientific publication of the Ab bott laboratories which is mailed to every licensed physician in the country. It was based upon of income. It is designed to en courage him to try other crops in place of wheat for a cash re turn and thus reduce the wheat surplus enough now on hand and in prospect to care for this country's needs for two years. Wheat Farmers Vote On Quotas Saturday Jackson county wheat farm ers vote Saturday on marketing quotas for the 1956 crop. Any producer having more than 15 acres of wheat for harvest as grain is eligible to cast a bal lot. Polls in the Agricultural Sta bilization and Conservation Com mittee office in the courthouse, will be open from 9 a.m. to 8 p m. . Local farmers will join wheat producers throughout the nation in deciding whether they want a 76 per cent parity, or $1.81 per bushel price support to go into effect. Those who stay with in the government acreage allot ments will receive the price sup port. If quotas are not approved, the law provides for a wheat support level at 50 per cent par ity, or $1.19 per bushel. Talbert Sehorn is secretary for the local ASCS. Nation in Throes of Severe Shortage of Quality Banjos By ROBERT SIMMERMAN New York (U.R) There aren't many shortages in this land of plenty nowadays and it comes as a real shock to learn we're in the throes of a severe banjo shortage. You'd never guess it by listen ing to the radio. There hasn't been so much banjo music in the air since the 1920's, when ban joists like Harry Riser, . Roy Smeck and Eddie Peabody were men of the hour. But that's why there's a short age. A series of hit records fea turing banjos solo or en masse has revived the primitive cross between a guitar and a tambour ine which has been described as the only musical instrument that is truly America's own. "I can't get enough of them," said Eddie . Bell, a purveyor of banjos, new and used, in the theatrical district of Manhattan. "Between the musicians trying to rent them and the college kids trying to buy them I'm hunting good banjos all the time." The new boom was not an over night affair. The instrument had been popular in the 20's but then gave way to the guitar, an instru ment that is generally less ex pensive and more versatile in providing accompaniment for a vocalist. When New Orleans jazz en joyed its postwar revival, the banjo did too. It is a staple in many New Orleans jazz groups. Not until last year, however, did the banjo itself begin to hog the spotlight. An Ames Brothers recording of "The Man with the Banjo" be came a hit Then followed "Hey Mr. Banjo," recorded by the Sunnysiders. Banjoist Somethin' Smith turned the old tune "It's i Sin to Tell a Lie" into a new the fact that at least two cases of split ear lobes have appeared. Ceiling Needed "Danger of split ear lobes ought to impose some sort of practical ceiling on the size and weight of ear rings," it was re marked. "But fashion is fash ion!" The two cases cited occurred in Great Britain where the fash ion for heavier and heavier ear rings preceded the current fashion for them in this country, according to an expert on the subject consulted by the writer. Until these two cases, there had been no cases of ear lobes being split by habitual use of clipped-on ear rings. The alert pointed out that during all the years when women's lobes were pierced for ear rings, only two cases of split lobes were re ported. The two new cases were a girl of 19 who had worn clipped-on ear, rings for five years and a woman of 26 who had worn them for eight years. They were reported by a British surgeon, L. R., McLaren. The girl's lobes began splitting at the tips, he said. Needed .Help "Because she had very little pain or bleeding, she kept on wearing the ear rings for many months, even though the pro gressing deformity caused her great psychological distress. For six months before seeking medi cal help she had become afraid to go out without having both ears completely hidden by a scarf," the report said. The . other patient began hav ing trouble three years after she became addicted to heavy clipped-on rings. The trouble began "as a small hole at the point of maximal spring pressure. To hide the holes, she persisted in wearing the "ear rings." After five years, the lobes were split. The doctor sewed the lobes together quite neatly, modestly saying that he had "produced good cosmetic results." The alert to the doctors re marked that "clipping ear rings to the ear lobes instead of slip ping them through. holes bored in the lobes may appear less 'barbarous' and less risky." But that's only the way it appears in this day of "heavy ear rings with correspondingly powerful spring clips." record hit ranking 8th this week on Billboard's list of tunes most often played on juke boxes. Television helped out. Jackie Gleason staged a production number using 15 banjos. Sammy Kaye's band is scheduled to ap pear on' television this Saturday night with an array of banjos playing "The Banjo's Back in Town." Banjo-dealer Bell is doing a brisk business in new banjos, which sell for as high as $250, and used ones, which can be had for $25. Good banjos are so scarce that part of his job is getting old, neglected banjos back into playing trim. $40,600,000 Merger Of Oil Firms Revealed Houston, Tex. (U.R) A mer ger of Johnston Oil & Gas Co. and Texas Oil & Gas Co., involv ing property and leases esti mated at $40,000,000, was re ported today. Directors of the two Houston concerns were reported to have agreed on the merger contingent on approval of stockholders. (5 us I PROUD KISS Is given Redmond CHanlon, New York policeman, by wife as he displays check for $16,000 won on television show for answering questions about Shakespeare. (International) Hardwood That Resists All Cigaret, Alcohol Damage To Be on Market by Fall By TERESA REESE U. P. Staff Correspondent Chicago (U.R) Genuine hardwood furniture tops that re sist burning cigarets and alcohol will be in the stores by fall, the Fine Hardwoods Association predicted today. Auto Workers Meet With Motor Firm In Five Cities Detroit (U.R) American Motors and CIO United Auto Workers negotiators met at the local level in five cities today with the first phase of their national contract completed. . The negotiators adjourned the national level talks until July 12 Thursday after reaching tenta tive agreement on a paid vaca tion plan for 22,000 AMC work ers. Spokesmen said the recess in the national talks was called to allow negotiators to meet locally at AMC plants in Detroit and Grand Rapids, Mich., Milwaukee and Kenosha, Wis., and El Se gundo, Calif. - The vacation plan agreement concluded the first phase of the talks on the national level. Leon ard Woodcock, director of the union's AMC department, said the vacation plan was the only issue discussed so far in the national contract talks. Meanwhile, Chrysler Corp., the only member of the auto in dustry's "Big Three" which has not reached agreement on a new contract with the UAW, has an nounced it will begin negotia tions Monday, a week earlier than scheduled. ENROLL NOW Secretarial & Accounting Courses ': . 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The association said you can burn a cigaret completely to ash, spill nail polish, polish remover, alcohol or fruit juice on the hard wood surfaces without damaging them. "For example," said the asso ciation, ' "in the alcohol . proof tests, pure 100-proof and even unlikely-to-be-spilled 190 proof alcohol were used in addition to the standard whiskies, without surface marking occurring." Association President Burdett Green said the hardwood sur faces are made with a combina tion of "approved finishes and a process of laminating aluminums foil into hardwood plywood con struction." Many Can Use The advantage, he said, is that any plant which makes plywood can use - the new process. The furniture tops can be constructed with the rest of the piece and fin ished, at the same time. He said that 28 firms making walnut, mahogany, oak and cher ry furniture are in "various stages of production" and will have somen of the hardwood pieces on the retail market "within a few months." The association so far has ap proved the finishes of five man ufacturers for use in the process. "It's a synthetic finish," he said. "It's not a varnish or a lacquer." He said that furniture tops made with the new process can be finished in a high gloss, a dull patina or one of the hew natural open-pore "in-the-wood" finishes. - Conditioned. Phone 3-4264 cJirfich RUBIER TRIADS . Friday. June 24, 1955 Vote of Confidence in Salk Vaccine May Speed Up Program By MICHAEL J. O'NEILL United Press Staff Writer Washington (U.R) The gov ernment's ringing new vote of confidence in the safety and ef fectiveness of Salk vaccine seemed 'to signal clear sailing again today for the nation's polio vaccination program. Jn a formal statement, UiS. Surgeon General . Leonard A. Scheele officially reaffirmed his faith in the vaccine even though its safety was challenged this week by three of America's most distinguished polio scientists. "The Public Health Service re peats its belief that the. present Salk vaccine is effective and is safe for use," Scheele declared. "In short, we continue to endorse the manufacture and use of this vaccine." He emphasized his confidence by calling the government's vac cine clearance committee into secret session Thursday night to consider millions of doses of vac cine which have beep, submitted for federal approval. Immediate Release Doubtful Insiders said they doubt that much, if any, vaccine will be re leased immediately since testing data on most , of the batches is incomplete. But tire committee's study is expected to lay the groundwork for the release of a great deal of vaccine in the near future. Scheele issued his statement lafe Thursday after a panel of polio experts voted 8-3 in favor of the vaccine at a round table hearing before a House com merce subcommittee. 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