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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.
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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
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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.
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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. ,
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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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Price Competition Wars
Invade Insurance Field
Chicago (U.R) Price competi
tion is "hurting out all over"
in the ordinary life insurance
business, a top insurance execu
tive reports.
Robert E.vDineen, vice-president
of the Northwestern Mu
tual Life Insurance Co., Milwau
kee, Wis., said much of this
price competition centers in the
so-called . ''specials," many of
which represent the application
to life insurance of principles
long familiar in the fire and
casualty lines.
Wallet Put Through Mill
Before Return to Owner
Millston. Wis. (U.R) Walter
Johnson got his wallet back a
month after losing it and the
purse really had been "through
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Johnson hauls pulp wood for
a paper company and lost the
wallet while loading logs in the
woods. It apparently got to Port
Edwards with the load of wood
and went through the saw mill.
It was bathed in a barking drum
and thrown on a conveyor to
the -saw which rips logs into
chips.
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