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TWELVE MEDFORD (OHECOK) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday. July II. 19SS Handicapped Flock To Texas Uranium Pond To Be Cured Comanche, Tex.- The halt and the lame came by the hun dreds today to the ranch of Jesse F. Reese to cover themselves, at a cost of more than a dollar an hour with dirt from a mildly radio-active pond he has. Reese, 52, a farmer, is mak ing $200 or $300 a day from sick persons who hope to get some benefit from dust the Atomic Energy Commission won't bother with. He lives 12 miles from Comanche at the end of a dusty, mesquite covered road called "Uranium Avenue." The sign was put up, he said, by Mrs. Fred Hall, a neighbor, who got tired of visitors asking her where his farm is. Reese now has three buildings on his 260 acre ranch where persons with arthritis, . rheumatism, spastic colon, headaches, sinus and can cer ait from morning until late at night. Their feet arc covered with dust by an attendant They can bury their hands in a box of dust in their lap. For those with neck and head ailments, there re socks full of dust which they can drape around their necks or cross their skulls. Reese will not say that this will help them at all. Sign Statement . In fact, before he will let them - ait down, he makes them sign a statement that they are visiting his ranch voluntarily, that they assume full responsibility for the "treatment," that nobody has asked them to come to the farm and nobody has promised them that they will be helped by the dust. Nevertheless, people flocked to Reese's place and the number is growing every day. He charges each visitor $2 for burying his hands and feet an hour and a half. He said experts have ad : vised him that this is about as . long as the visitors should cover their bands and feet with the : dust. . Reese estimates 5,000 or 6,000 persons have visited the ranch sine one day in 1953 when a ;' man from Washington state knocked at his door and asked : whether he could sit in his pond. According to Reese; uranium ; hunters flew over his place in a plane three or four years ago rand noted some radioactivity. : "I found out about it," he said, 1 "and got me a geiger counter. It worked a little. I had had phle bitis a big open sore on my leg for 15 years," he said. Completely WeU Now . "I noticed it was getting bet- Negotiations Start . In Chile Labor Dispute Santiago, Chile (U.B Nego tiations for new contracts for railway, postal and telegraph workers were to begin today under a threat of more stoppages if the workers' demands are not met. The workers agreed during the week end to end their nine-day strike when the government promised to accept most of their wage demands. Some 60,000 gov ernment employees were in volved. President Carlos Ibanez insisted the workers return to work before formal negotiations began. Use Tribune Want Ads REINFORCED PLASTIC GARDEN HOSE SUPPLEX GARDEN l.0S VISIBLE mi. con REINFORCEMENT IWl y SUfflP m nMr mmmn 1m m hatto mm far 4mm. AII-pUtlc SUPPIU Is Halt, mik mmf. mmm m $6.49 ft Parkiaf I ftmm Owveryi SPECIALISTS IN HOMEWARES CENTRAL POINT ' MEDFOIO ter. It's completely well now. I don't know what cured it any more than the man in the moon, but I had been on crutches part of-the time." Reese said he didn't start to charge until about half of the total number who have visited the ranch had paid him a call. After he started charging for the privilege, his business continued to grow. "If business continues to in crease, he said, "I'll increase my facilities. What we want to do with it (the money) is build a boy's ranch. The Lord gave it to us and we're going to give it back to Him," he said. Disabled Airliner Finally Lands Safely Houston, Tex. (U.R) A Pan American ' Constellation loaded with passengers circled International airport for more than an hour today, unable to land when the plane's warning light system failed to indicate whether or not the - landing wheels were down. The plane, out of Panama via New Orleans, arrived over the airport at 7:15 a.m., and the pi-, lot asked the control tower to have crash wagons standing by. After an hour of circling, the pilot made one pass at the field but pulled up when within five feet' of the ground. However he made another pass after circling twice and landed the big plane safely at 8:30 a.m. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday; 10 a.m. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 srevious day. "DISTANT EARLY WARNING" line running through Arctic will be patroled by USS Guardian, first of large radar picket ships. The U. S. is building radar stations near North Pole andwill have ships for protection on sea links in the Pacific and Atantic.(Internationat) Police Called lo Two Week End Accidents State police were called to two accidents over the week end, both of which resulted in minor damage and injuries. At 12:55 a jn. Sunday a car driven by Ralph Allen Andrews, 22, of Newberg, Ore., went out of control and rolled over several times near Birdseye creek on Highway 99, police said. An drews suffered cuts and abra sions. , v . . .' Two vehicles were involved in an accident on Highway 234 three miles south of Gold Hill about 7:30 p.m. Sunday. Oper ators of the cars, Loyd Johnson, 33, of 1832 North Riverside ave., and Ben Day, 43, Sams Valley, were uninjured. Minor damage was sustained by the autos. Robber flies feed on soma of the worst pests that plague man kind but have no taste for warm blooded creatures. Now Blooming All Colors LEWIS NURSERY Jacksonville Turn right at Drug Star mil en Old Stag Road, North. V WcS 1 fW iLl U If 1 ana FRIGID AIRE APPLIANCES Arc BUILT and BACKED by General Motors Tomorrow Starts Lasts Thru Saturday, July 16 FOR OUR LADY GUESTS FamouQ Tmd Cologne' yooll come in and see the new iouauUETHfi wan uaasai u Bail l MHWaaw "TSJtf I b to If. 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