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o O ! O Q EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) Military Convoy Goes Through City A military convoy including 98 vehicles and 550 men of the 82nd anti-aircraft artillery bat talion of the Second infantry di vision went through Medford this morning. The convoy was en route from Fort Lewis, Wash., to a mock battleground at Camp Polk, La., where a nationwide troop train ing maneuver, "Operation Sage brush," the largest since World War II, is scheduled. The Big Y Market Will Be Closed THURSDAY Until 1P.M. in 6 Memory of L. A. "Mac" McCormick e 117 S. Terrific Savings But Hurry, Because Quantities are Limited 200 ft. Rotary ALUMINUM HEVER RUSTS! Excellent value ... a leading seller! Use It out doors with ground box (included) or indoors with portable stand (extra). Makes any day washday, rain or shine! Big capacity . . . holds the equivalent of 26 full-size . sheets. Collapses lik)an umbrella for easy carrying. O Rotates ANOTHER SPECIAL BUYI 20-line SELF-ADJUSTING LINES , G " ' Full-size continuous-line Dryer gives you about 1 50 ft. of drying space, plenty for average fam ily. Outdoor ground box included. Can be used indoors with stand (extra). Clean, strong plastic lines. Sturdy steel construction. LARGER 26-LINE SIZE : 13.88 251 5 MAIL TRIBUNE U.S. Civil Service Announces Job Exams , Examinations to fill several positions with the federal gov ernment were announced today by the U. S. Civil Service com mission. The posts, and annual salaries, include international informa tion specialist, $5,440 to $11,345; information and editorial posi tions, $5,440 to $11,610; engin eer, $4,345 to $5,440. Further information,' includ ing instructions on applying may be obtained from Chester W. Silliman, local representa- Central Phone 2 EDryer (13.88, INDOOR , STAND$2 SalMocking k Lightweight Ground Box Wednesday, October 28. 1955 Timber Sale Hearing In Medford Nov. 16 Portland (U.R) Sen. Richard L. Neuberger's office today an nounced a change of schedule for forthcoming congressional hearings on federal timber sale policies in Oregon. Portland phase of the hearings were changed from Nov. 28, 29 and 30 to Nov. 21, 22 and 23. Other Northwest hearings will be held - Nov. 14 at Redding, Calif.; Nov. 15 at Klamath Falls; Nov. 16 at Medford; Nov. 17 at Roseburg; Nov. 18 at Eugene; Nov. 28 at Aberdeen, Wash.; Nov. 29 and 30 at Seattle; and Dec. 1 at Spokane, Child Feels Premonition That His Twin Needs Help Bismarck, N. D. (U.R) Mrs. Pat Crotty was feeding her three-year-old son when he said his twin brother was crying and needed him. At the same time, a motorist stopped his car and jumped into the Crotty car, which the other boy had started rolling downhill by releasing , t h e emergency brake. Mrs. Crotty was so flustered she didn't get the man's name. But she had a word about her son. "That kid must be psychic," she said. tive for the Civil Service com mission, at his office in the Med ford post office building. - 6241 J7! - Use It Rain or Shine ( 5 fii9 ) INDOOR STAND$2 Benson's Speech May Give Tip on Handling Labor Washington (U.R) Insid ers will be listening for Agri culture Secretary Ezra T. Ben son's Moorehead, Minn., speech this week for a tip on Republi can plans for dealing with or ganized labor in next year's presidential campaign. Benson is scheduled to speak before a farm audience Friday evening. His last speech on farm prices aroused CIO President Walter Reuther to sharp reply. Not All Blame That speech was given Sept. 20 in New Orleans before 'the Farm Equipment institute. Ben son did not place all the blame for the high price of farm equipment on union labor wage gains. But he squarely placed some of the blame there. Reuther challenged instantly, inviting Benson to join him in urging congressional investiga tion of wages, prices, and profits in the steel, automobile and farm equipment industries. Meantime, the word in Wash ington was that Benson had not cleared his speech with the White House where some of the staff was -represented as upset by the secretary's potshot at union leadership. Politically Explosive Theme But some of Benson's advis ers were unimpressed. They have urged the secretary to stick to the theme that some of labor's gains have been unwarranted and unfair to both the farmer and the consumer. That is a del icate and politically explosive proposition. Benson stated it at New Orleans, with special ref erence to farm equipment and some parts of the food industry in which he cited specifically higher wages, handling and transportation costs.' Benson Gets Advice ' It has been suggested by some persons to Benson that he pro ceed further, direct his fire more directly at Reuther and spell out what-he considers to have been the effect of CIO wage in creases recently gained in the packing and farm equipment in dustries. There has been no hint from the Agriculture Department that Benson will accept such advice or, m&re important, that the Eis enhower strategy board would permit him to accept it. What Benson has been urged to do is precisely what a group of Re publican senators- already has done i seek to carry political warfare to such union leaders as Reuther without taking on all of his union members. CIO Woodworker Ballot Count Set Portland U.R) A balloting committee from the Internation al Woodworkers of America (CIO) arrived at international headquarters here today to start counting ballots cast in the un ion's election of officers. The counting was estimated to take from four to five days. A. F. Hartung, incumbent president is opposed to J. E. Fad- ling of the western Washington council of the IWA. Incumbent vice - presidents James E. Dicey and Claude R, Ballard are opposed by Burk Christie of the IWA plywood dis tricts and Walter Allen of the British Columbia district. Unions throughout the United States and Canada participated in the election. Ashland Highway ' Bids To Be Opened Portland (U.R) The Ore gon State Highway Commission will meet here Nov. 3 and 4 to open bids on 30 projects that will cost an estimated $6,200,000. One of the projects involves completion of the final link of the mammoth relocation and re construction project on the new Highway 99 between Eugene and -Myrtle Point. It is the Shady- Booth Ranch unit of Pacific highway from a point four miles south of Roseburg to a point four miles north of Myrtle Point. Completion is scheduled for fall of 1956. The commission said it would also receive bids for construc tion of the' north bound lanes of a new one-way highway system in Ashland. Most of the primary kaolin produced in the U.S. comes from North Carolina. It is used in the manufacture of porcelain and china. , Jt CAr aa enn a 4orTOeEdeMOKstTatiox...call or write, McKay in Oregon After Visiting Ike Portland (U.R) Interior Secretary Douglas McKay ar rived here by plane from Den ver last night after a visit yes terday with President Eisen hower and said "the president looked very, very good." McKay, who has a busy sched ule in the Northwest until he leaves for Washington again Nov. 6, said Mr. Eisenhower sent his regards to Mrs. McKay for the angel food cake she sent to the president's birthday earlier this month. The interior secretary, who went to Salem after his arrival here, is scheduled to receive an honorary degree at Oregon State College and attend the Western Republican Conference in Port land before leaving for Wash ington. U. of California Chemists Find Key To Photosynthesis Berkeley, Calif. (U.R) Two University of California scien tists have discovered the answer to one of nature's most baffling mysteries how plants capture sunlight and turn it into energy and the food we eat. " The process in nature is called photosynthesis. Until the use of atomic energy was introduced in laboratories, it was almost a com plete mystery. Scientists knew in general that green plants somehow com bined sunlight, carbon dioxide and water into complex sugars, starches .and other energy-bear ing materials that support all life. However, there had been no way to learn what happened be tween the intake of the various materials and the formation of the finished energy 'compounds, To solve the problem, two chemists, Dr. Melvin Calvin and J. A. Bassham, began work in 1946 using radioactive carbon 14. This "hot element" could trace the intermediate chemical steps in photosynthesis. Future Possibilities In all, the scientists found, there are 11 intermediate com pounds between the plant's in take of the simple ingredients and the formation of energy com pounds. There are 11 different enzy matic steps in which at least eight "different enzymes, complex organic substances which hurry chemical processes, participate. ' The findings of the two doc tors, which took nine years of research, Were reported to the International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy in Geneva recently. There are two promising possi ble applications resulting form their study: , The complete picture as pre sented by Calvin and Bassham may be used to improve photo synthesis carried on in plants grown by farmers.' And once the sunlight conver sion process is clearly under stood, it may be possible to build factories to duplicate the photosynthetic process, to pro duce food by chemical synthesis, and to liberate man from his dependence on. plants. Psychological Followups Could Prevent Suicides . San Francisco (U.R) Most suicides are preventable, accord ing to Dr. A. E. Bennet, asso ciate clinical professor of psy chiatry at the University of Cali fornia Medical Center here. Bennett, in a recent radio se ries, said that many deaths could be prevented by compulsory psy chiatric followups on all persons who attempt suicide. At present, he said, most suicidal patients are released from emergency hospitals when they are out of physical danger, and many of them later succeed in killing themselves. Bennett said many lives also could be save if physicians and the public more often recognized and acted upon the danger sig nals of severe depression which precede most attempts at suicide. Coqnskin Cap Set Causes Rise in Trapper Profits San Francisco U.R) Since the Davy Crockett craze has taken hold of our young, the men who catch and skin wild animals for a living have been reaping a neat profit from heretofore mostly useless pelts. Rabbit, gray fox, coyote and raccoon skins, usually very slow moving items on the fur market, are now being used in the manu facture of Crockett caps for the small fry. AFL President Rapped by Head Of Pilots' Union Chicago '(U.R) An AFL- affiliated union president today charged AFL President George Meany with making "ridiculous, half-cocked and uninformed," statements. Clarence Sayen, who heads the Air Line Pilots association; re plied to Meany's charges that hL' union was working against an other union on strike against United Air Lines. Meany sent Sayen a telegram charging the Pilots' association with "collusion" with the com-, pany against the AFL Flight En gineers International association. Violation Charged Meany said that pilots have been crossing picket lines and filling in for the striking engin eers in "clear violation of all trade union principles." He summoned Sayen to appear be fore the AFL Executive council in New York. Sayen said that "Meany's state ments are ridiculous, half-cocked and uninformed." He said he planned to appear before, the council to present his union's position in the dispute but did not know when he would go. The flight engineers have been on strike against United for four days. Pilots and ground crew personnel have stuck to their jobs, however, and a UAL spokesman said the line is main taining 95 per cent of its normal mileage. An . engineers' spokesman countered that United was forc ed to cancel 23 flights yesterday and that the strike "is causing a decided pinch." About 500 engineers walked out Sunday night in opposition to a company rule that all flight engineers must be qualified pilots. Bride Carries Fan Woven For Czarina 60 Years Ago DesMoines, la. (U.R) When Mrs. Gordon Osbrink got mar ried, the "something old" she carried was a fan of white satin specially woven for Russia's last Czarina 60 years ago. The square of. satin, brocaded with silver thread in a , poppy pattern was a coronation sou venir. The souvenir was given by a Russian officer to a French officer, whose wife in 1929 sent it to a granddaughter here, Mrs, Cuson Emery. .. , Mrs. Emery gave it to . "the little girl next door," when she became Mrs. Gordon Osbrink. Learge Liberia n Forests Opened for Development Washington (U.R) The rich forest lands, of Liberia are now open for industrial concessions. Liberia's vast forest areas of fer tremendous possibilities for development, according to the Liberian embassy here. It said only a few concessions in the 9,000,000 acres have been ap plied for and granted by the Liberian government to date. Liberia plans to produce two to three bilJion board feet of timber a year, "valued at $12, 000,000," the publication said. New York's municipally-owned transit system, including sub ways, elevated trains, buses and trolleys covers a total of 819 route miles. 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