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0 O TWO MTDrORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, October 18, 19S5 i7nA$& hpm ink w rv ''Z'JJi wsl Si fM I y '', rW hum mcz& - ' : f . fel? lifcd js ! DEMONSTRATING AGAINST FRENCH, mfth in Rahat Frennli Mnmrrn h - , . v,, vuaig linesemanding freedom from foreign rule. Disorders caused resignation of deputy resi dent general. French troops are moving against rebel tribesmen. (International) ' ' : . Blue Cheese Gives Life To Aging Cats Chicago (U.R) A veterinarian recommends feeding your cat blue cheese. This will make his ninth life as eventful as his first, said Dr. Robert J. Cyrog. Cyrog said blue cheese is es pecially beneficial to elderly felines who have forsaken the back alleys for nightly naps un der the kitchen stove. "When a cat loses his stalking Interests, it's usually because old age has hit him right in the stomach," said Cyrog. "In that respect a cat is some thing like a human being he's as old as his stomach feels.". - Cyrog blamed bacteriological disorders in the stomach for Old Tom's declining vigor. "Blue cheese corrects these common disorders," Cyrog said, "ancr a healthy cat well, he just naturally starts acting like a healthy cat." -' ' Fire Alarm Prefered To Dial Telephones Hammonton, N. J. U.R) This township prefers fire pro tection to a dial telephone sys tem. . ... The dialesystem, scheduled to be installed soon, would elimi nate the local telephone oper ator, and she Js ihe key person' In the chain alarm system which alerts 50 firemen. - , Councilmen recently appeared before the New Jersey Public Utilities Commission and ex jalned. At present, when a fire breaks out, the operator touches off the town's two sirens and rings a bell in the fire chiefs home. The chief throws a switch which rings a bell in each of the firemen's homes. Officials asked the PUC to force the company, the New Jersey Bell Telephone Co., to continue the present service which was granted in 1905. Schoolhouse Changed To Comfortable Home New port, N. Y. (U.R) Jack Franklin, a state highway en gineer, is determined that a man's home is his "castle" even if it's only an Old school- house. With prices soaring at the end of World Wv II, Franklin set tled for an old stone schoolhouse near this Herkimer County vil lage, and since 1949 he has work ed evenings, Saturdays and holi days to make it into a home for his wife and three children. The building, more than 100 Dollar Devaluation Was Ancient Problem Columbus, O. U.R) An Ohio State Uniiversity chemistry professor believes that the kings of ancient Parthia in the Middle East , had their money problems too. ' A study by. Prof. Earle R. Caley shows how silver money was debased some 2,000 years ago in that western Asiatic coun try. A number of the coins studied were from a hoard unearthed in 1923 near Tabriz, Iran. Among themvwere several types of silver drachmas issued by Orodes I, the only Parthian king whom Caley believes was guilty of serious coin debasement. Under Orodes, the silver con tent of coins dropped as low as 40 per cent, well under that Of coins before and after his reign. Caley thinks this was the, re sult of a struggle for power be tween Orodes and his brother Mithradates II, who alternated on the throne until the latter died in 54 B.C. Military campaigns against the Roman Empire and Syria also were thought to be contributing factors. ' "It may well have been that the available supply of pure sil ver could not keep pace- with the increased demand for coins dur ing the reign of Orodes," Caley said. I O el Opportunity eto head Medford General Agency of old established Pacific Coast life insurance company. Local man with excellent references, successful life insurance experience, and sincere desire for permanent management career. Age 2840, college educated, 'married. ; e Write, giving qualifications, to "Medford General Agency," care of this paper. Correspondence confidential. years old, had not been used as a school since 1877 and didn't even have a roof when Franklin bought it. Today, it has an upstairs and downstairs, a cellar, automatic heat, electric lights and other modern improvements, along with a two-stall garage which Franklin built. Motorists Ignorant Of Accident Causes Boston (U.R) More than 50 per cent of all American motor ists appear to be ignorant of the real causes of auto accidents that kill more than 35,000 and injure 1,250,000 on the nation's highways each year. The Institute For Safer Living so reported after a survey cover ing a typical group of more than 500 motorists. Each motorist was asked: "What, in your opinion, is the biggest single cause of highway accidents?" More than 53 per cent blamed highway mishaps on "road hogs," "impatience," "teenagers," "pok ey drivers," "modern cars," "women drivers" and "wrong laws." . Only 47 per cent gave the causes which have been estab lished by safety authorities as fundamental causes of highway destruction. Chief among these are speeding, passing in the wrong place and wrong way, pulling in and out of traffic, mechanical failure of cars, and failure to heed traffic signs and signals. Old Wall Etching Proves Valuable Art Otisco, N. Y. (U.R) An ar tist poking around the ruins of an old home uncovered a rare art treasure on the walls. Not a portrait or a landscape, but the walls themselves. Lee B. Coye, of Syracuse, dis covered what was described as an "extremely rare" type of wall etching the chief method of home decorating before the in vention of wallpaper. Sprinkled with eight-point stars in red, orange and green between pillars painted in green and black the plaster panelling extended from floor to ceiling. The paints were made of color ed dirt mixed with oil. A well-preserved section of wall was salvaged for the Om ondaga County Historical Asso ciation, Richard . Wright presi dent, said the specimen prob ably was painted between 1810 and 1820. College Fund Raisers Form Organization Chicago (U.R) Officials re sponsible for raising money for institutions of higher learning throughout the United States have banded together for mutual aid. More than 75 colleges and uni versities have representatives in the new organization, which was formed at the recent annual ses sion of the American College Public Relations Association. The body will invite as mem bers directors of development and fund raising for colleges and universities throughout this country and Canada and operate as a section of the ACPRA.- , Lumber accounts for 60 per cent - of the wood used in the United States. kW "SELH "HZ 'Ji Pencil Mightier Than Pen; U.S. Consumes VA Billion Washington In these days of peace the pencil is mightier than the pen, at least in num bers. And in two notable in stances it was not the pen, nor even the sword, but the pencil that wrote history in wartime. Today the same instrument that set down the first drafts of "The Star-Spangled Banner" and the Gettysburg Address sells at the rate of nine to one over all other types of writing tools. Americans now buy a record breaking 1V4 billion pencils or 8Vfc per person per year. The standard 7-inch model is made of 25 or more products from around the globe. It con tains wax from Brazil, clay from England, gum from Iran, zinc from New Jersey, graphite from Mexico and Ceylon, and sperm whale oil from the South Pa cific. -t Tennessee supplied most of the wood until its stands of red cedar were exhaused.' Now the casings come from incense cedars in California and Oregon. Dyed a rosy pink to simulate red cedar, incense cedar offers all the ad vantages of the original Tenn essee product. Straight-grained, it whittles easily. It also smells like pencils. No Lead in Lead Pencil The average tree yields about 172,000 pencils. The wood is cut into 7-inch slats, 6 to 7 pen cils wide and a half-pencil thick. The slats are grooved and leaded, then sandwiched together in pairs with glue, and finally sliced lengthwise. The so-called lead encased within . actually is graphite. Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians used discs of real lead for ruling lines on -papyrus, and 14th-century artists made fine line draw ings with lead. But since. 1564 lead has been associated with writing in name only. In that year a graphite de posit was discovered at Borrow dale, England, and the ore was named Plumbago "that which acts like lead"). So valuable was it that Parliament put the mine under armed guard. The graphite had only to be sawed into sticks to be used as it was. When England's supply gave out, the problem was to find a way to use powdered graphite. In 1795, a Frenchman, Nicholas Jacques Conte, mixed such graphite with powdered clay and fired the mixture in a kiln.. Re sult: the modern pencil. -Today's school-desk pencil contains 7 part of clay to 10 of graphite. Harder pencils have more clay. Seventeen grades of hardness are made from soft est 6B to super-hard 9H for tomb stone designers. Pencils for Skin, Steel, Glass Altogether there are 350 styles and types of pencils. Some write on white-hot steel. Others cut into glass. And still others cam ouflage furniture nicks and scratches. Surgeons map out operation areas with special skin pencils, while chemists mark their glass ware with wax pencils that melt at 300. Women use one type on their eyebrows and : various others for writing on children's boots, jelly glasses, and freezer food packages. Butchers can get a knurled meat pencil that won't slip out of greasy fingers even j a kosher model guaranteed free of pork-derived products. Heaviest consumers are indus trial concerns fled by Bell Tele phone Company), followed by school children and government employees. Since the average yellow pen cil (yellow is preferred four to one) can draw a line at least 35 miles long, the year's crop of all pencils in the United States can trace the distance to the moon and back 100,000 times. Moral Fears Delayed Apartment Housing New Haven, Conn. (U.R) Jt took a hundred years for Amer icans to adopt the European idea of apartment houses because of fears that it would lead to a "breakdown of the family." Two Yale University city planners, Christopher Tunnard and Henry H. Reed, Jr., wrote in their recent book, "American Skyline," that when the first apartment building opened in New York City 90 years ago It was difficult to obtain tenants. The writers explained" that "the name itself suggested - a dangerous and racy way of life. The moral threat in sharing a building with so many other peo ple and the promiscuity encour aged by several families living on the same floor raised further objections from many New York ers." ; . Dean fir Taylor Pontiac 6th & Grape M.dfonl, Ore. Only water like this ... can create the rare and refreshing flavor you enjoy in Olympia Beer. "It's the water" flowing cool and clear from our artesian wells, that makes this refreshing difference-water with exceptional brew ing qualities. Only water like this can extract the delicate flavors from premium hops and grains . ... assuring Olympia's constant purity and never-changing good taste. In all the world there are but few known sources of such water. One of these is at the home of the . Olympia Brewing Company near Olympia, Washington. Visitors'are always welcome at "One of America't Exceptional Breweries," Olympia Brewing Company, Olympia, Washington, U.S.A. Oly IS j.. 7;'te-fSf-',; ; A. ... &M&&rAt u ' Ar '.'.-Ail- X V s - 77 It's the Water that makes Olympia refreshingly different
