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SKTEElf MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, October 30, 1955 A Nichol's Worth of Comment On This and That are.? 'Cm mm W By HARMAN Washington (U.R The men who parachute out of airplanes hardy breed and they talk their own di alect. According to the Army, the soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division at Ft. Bragg, N. C, got a little weary of being misunderstood at the supper table while home on leave. So th8y oSme up with their own "shop-talk" dictionary. So, in case you run into one of the tough jumpers all men of courage you might paste their glossary in your bonnet. You'll know what the kid in the boots is talking about. Translated, .the airborne jar gon goes like this: "Stid and hook up" meani a man should check his equipment before hs dives head-first out the side or through a hatch in the belly of his aircraft. When a man jumps, he doesn't jump, really, he "hits the blast." They tell me that refers to the blast of air that greets him. A "DZ" is a drop zone. That, to the jumper is a cleared area where he .might have a good chance to dig his heels into the good earth, instead of a tree or a river. ' Rough Landing Wli a jumper tells you that he has "clobbered in," you can jolly5 well know, that his landing was rough. And when he says that he "landed soff'he means that everything went off fine. The jumper uses the word "gorilla" in a whisper, because to him that means the nasty, ornery characters who train paratroopers. The "canopy" is the . nylon fabric portion of a parachute assembly, the part that bal loons out. Something pretty im portant if a man is hanging by strings in midair. A "iooth knocker" is a- quick release , box a thing that re leases the parachute harness aft er the jump. Important, too. All paratroopers are known, among their clan, as f'hoods," and there is no explanation of this odd term. We'll let it rest rightere. A man who is "airborne all the way" is the right sort of a guy. A man who is "real gone" on air- W. NICHOLS Pnhw Wriftar bornei service, is a fine para trooper. Standing Soldier A "leg" is a non-paratrooper, ho does all his soldiering stand ing up instead of diving headlong into the unknown below. The traditional jump cry of the paratrooper is "Geronimo." This was the name of a famous Apache Indian chief, who was horse-borne instead of airborne. You can't prove it, but legend has it that Apache braves also cried "Geronimo" when they leaped from a horse to avoid im pending disaster. And to wind things up, it might be fitting to recite, for measure good, the classic phrase of "comfort" that is handed out to a jumper when he is issued his first parachute. s The man who issues these de vices always is a clown and al ways he says: "If it doesn't open, bring it back and we'll repack it." 4-H Club Second Session The second meeting of the year for the Central Point Beel club was held at the home o. Carol von der Hellen October 24. The main business of the evening was the election of offi cers. Bill Charley was elected president; Marilyn Cordy, vice president; Carol von der Hellen, secretary and Patsy Charley, re porter. Because of a conflict with the Pig club we decided to change our meeting date to the second Monday of each month. The next meeting is to be held at the home of Bill and Jeff Anhorn, Monday, November 14. Patsy Charley, Reporter I 31$) m r ' Or - Ul APPROVED Cavalier tapered con construc tion circulate Vs more heated air uaJhrough heating element than any other radiant convee tor type heater on the market. AVAILABLE IN 2, 3 or 4 KW SIZES. Big enough to heat large rooms orfitrt. EASY TO CLEAN IN FIVE MINUTES OR LESS o COMPLETELY AUTOMATIC ECONOMICAL TO OPERATE EASILY MOVED, SIMPLY PIU6 INTO 220240 OUTLET AVAILABLE NOW ATi ELECTRONIC SERVICE CO. M&ZLER & KELSOE 18 North Grape Phone 3-1917 Girl Scouts Lost Articles Lost articles brought from Camp Low Echo will be disposed of after November 15. Call at the Girl Scout office for msiing items before that date. Girl Scout Troop 155 of Mc Loughlin Junion High school is currently working on the tree badge. We went to Lithia park in Ashland where the S. J. Moore of the Rogue River Na tional Forest service helped us identify the trees. Twop osters were made by mounting and la beling various kinds of leaves. They have zbbeen on display in the Jackson school, public li brary and the Girl Scout office. Mrs. Jack Sanborn and Mrs. H. R. Heaton are leaders of this troop. Joyce Heaton Scribe. Dead line Sunday Classified la at noon Saturday: 10 a m Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 oreviousday RADIANT Princess Marga ret attends a gala perform ance at Covent Gardens in London. The Archbishop of Canterbury, with whom the Princess met earlier in day, also attended the affair. Medford Physician Receives License Portland Theodore P. Barss, Medford, is one of 26 physicians who was licensed to practice medicine in Oregon by the state board of medical examiners last week, according to Howard I. Bobbitt, executive secretary. Eugene V. Meyerding, of Mis sissippi, also was licensed and plans to practice in Medford, it was reported. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 orevious day Board of Health Sees End of Polio Epidemics in State Portland (U.R) Speculation that 1955 may be the last polio epidemic year in Oregon history has been advanced by the State Board of Health. The board based its tentative prediction on new statistics on the effectiveness and availabil ity of Salk vaccine. No Field Trial Cases The statistics showed no cases of polio have been reported this year among Oregon children taking part in the 1954 Salk vac cine field trials who received booster shots this year. No cases of polio have been reported among Oregon first and second graders receiving two shots of anti-polio vaccine this year, and children in the 7-9 age group received one or more inoculations showed a po lio incidence one-fifth as great as children in the same ' age group who were not inoculated. To Expand Ago Limits Dr. Harold Erickson, state health officer said that enough commercial vaccine was now available to provide shots for all children under 15 years and all pregnant women. He said the age limits would be expanded in coming months. Dr. Erickson said that be cause of increasing supplies of vaccine at least one in every five persons in Oregon could be pro tected against polio before the start of the next polio season. Doctor, Son, Declared Innocent of Trespass Yreka - Dr. Charles A. Haines, Vista, Calif., formerly of Ashland, and his son, Keith. 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