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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1955)
Nation's Defense Needs Will Not Take Back Seat To Administration Effort To Balance Budget, Nixon Says Wednesday. September 21. I9S3 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUKE WOT FOUR IN FIVE Hope, Kan. (U.R) Mrs. Julia Riffel, widow of a Kansas cattle man, acquired four great-grandchildren Jn five days three girls and a boy. The births increased to 29 the number of her living great-grandchildren. Mother of 12, Mrs. Riffel has 47 grandchil dren. WINE FOR TREES Kent, O. (U.R) Ancient Ro mans considered it a great honor to sit in the shade of planetrees that were watered with wine, according to Don Fowler (of the Davey Tree Expert Co.) Egypt ians, who actually venerated planetrees, demonstrated their affection in more teetotaling fashion. They simply brought of ferings of jars of water. TYPEWRITERS ADDING MACHINES Repaired MEDFORD OFFICE EQUIPMENT COMPANY 41 S. Grape Ph. 2-41 SO Omaha, Neb. U.R) Vice Pres ident Richard M. Nixon said last night that the nation's defense 9 needs will not take a back seat behind administration budget cutting plans. "This administration will nev er put its desire to balance the budget ahead of its determina tion to maintain adequate mili tary strength," Nixon said. Nixon's speech before the In ternational Association of Fire Chiefs was an apparent answer to Democratic charges that pro posed administration budget cuts would weaken the nation's straight" on the Eisenhower ad ministration's foreign policy. "The Geneva conference has not changed our estimate one iota as to the necessary level of free world military strength," he said. . ' "T h a t " estimate will not change until we witness signifi cant deeds as well as words in the Geneva spirit." Nixon added that the United States and the free world are now stronger than they have been 'at any time since World War II, "strong enough to meet and defeat attack by any poten tial aggressor." military might, U. S. military strength . will be maintained even if it means a deficit in national spending, Nixon said. The vice also wanted president said he to "set the record Harvey Contract Said Awarded After lawsuit Threatened Washington (U.R) Harvey Machine Co. of California got a contract to build its Oregon aluminum plant with govern ment financial help and a guar anteed market after threatening to sue the government for $70, 000,000. Government officials disclosed today that the proposed suit maintained that the govern ment had repudiated a contract authorizing Harvey to proceed with construction of an alumi num plant at the Dalles. The suit was prepared by the New York law firm headed by former Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. After the company agreed to waive all claims against the gov ernment, a final contract with Harvey was announced by the Photosynthesis Said Step Nearer Solution . Pasadena, Calif. (U.R) One of the world's greatest mysteries how plants make food from sun light, air and water is a step nearer solution. , University of California sci entists who last year achieved the first photosynthesis outside a plant cell have cleared another hurdle in their effort to dupli cate nature's trick. Mary B. Allen, assistant re earch biochemist, described to the American Association for the Advancement of Science the "new achievement. She told how she and four colleagues broke into chloroplasts without dis turbing photosynthesis action. 'Chloroplasts are themselves highly complex entities," shej said. "To make further progress we had to take them apart and reduce them to simpler units. The first step in this analysis has now been accomplished. Broken chloroplasts not only carried on the regular functions ff photosynthesis but did them about six times better than whole chloroplasts." Berkeley plant nutritionists succeeded about a year ago in taking the tiny light-converting particles out of plant leaves without damaging them. The particles chloroplasts kept right on manufacturing starch and sugar from carbon dioxide and water in the presence of sunshine. . OHIO TURNPIKE Columbus. O. (U.R) Enguv eers reporr that despite delays, Ohio's 241 turnpike across the northern part of the state will open as scheduled on Oct. 1. The turnpike will connect with the Pennsylvania turnpike near Youngstown, O., and will pro vide turnpike service from the Ohio-Indiana border near Toledo to the Atlantic coast. FISH TALE South China, Me. (U.R) Alan B. Wigley of Newton, Mass caught a six-pound brown trout In China Lake using a pumpkin seed for bait Department of Interior and Gen eral Services Administration Sept. 13. Reach Agreement In return for the waiver, of ficials of the Interior Depart ment, Office of Defense Mobili zation, Budget Bureau and Gen eral Services Administration agreed that the government would: 1. Provide power facilities and give adequate assurances that he power would be avail able when construction of the aluminum plant was completed 2. Through loans or repayable advance payments assist in fi nancing the Harvey project to the minimum extent necessary for the firm to proceed. James .. Nickerson, repre senting the New York law firm of Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer and Wood arranged the new contract. He said private financing had been available at the time GSA issued a letter of intent May IS, 1953, but that the government's repudiation of the power contract had caused the bankers to lose confidence and withdraw. Will Honor Contract Nickerson gave this informa tion to the government June 8 On June 22, ODM, Interior, Budget Bureau and GSA offi cials conferred. They concluded the govern ment had made a firm contract to supply Harvey with power and the firm probably would win a court decision if it filed suit. As a result, the government officials decided it was in the best interests of the government both financially and as part of its obligation to live up to its contracts. - ( Under the agreement, Harvey will proceed with construction of a $65,000,000 aluminum plant near The Dalles with what gov ernment assistance is necessary to complete the project. California Fertilizer Daily Use Said Great Sacramento, Calif. (U.R) If you ever waited in your auto mobile while a 100-car freight train passed by, you have an idea how much commercial fer tilizer is used in California every day.. . . Allen B. Lemmon, chief of the chemistry bureau of the state's department of agriculture, said that is how much fertilizer is used by California farmers every day of the year. Lemmon also pointed out that the greatest agricultural state in the nation, with the total value of crops at $2,491,000,000 last year, is making a revolutionary change to liquid plant food. Sales of "aqua ammonia," the liquor fertilizer, amounts to about 103,000 tons years, about 18 per cent of the half million tons of fertilizer used. Use of the liquid is increasing about five per cent a year, Lemmon added. WE GUARANTEE - YOU'LL IMPROVI AWT RtCIM THAT CALLS FOR FLOUR WITH KITCHEN CRAFT 1 1 ' frim FLOUR WoadMfal for pics, cakes, cookits. kinds, biscuits 1 3 BIG (5 II TL TIB DAYS, THURSDAY, FRIDAY and SATURDAY OPEN TONIGHT TILL 9 PM. ( Sparkling 15 Diamond Ladies' King REG. 75.00 5950 No Money Down Exquisite ASTRID Wedding Band See this unusually beautiful wedding band. It is brilliant with diamonds and set in 14-karat gold. PAY ONLY 1.25 WEEK 'Suj!T. " I sr - Si? ' I Special Purchase! 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