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o Q a TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, December 14, 1955 o Most Unusual Classroom Located At Submarine Base " New London, Conn. (U.R) One of the world's most unusual "classrooms" is located at the U.S. Submarine Base here. It's a 120-foot high steel tank that contains nearly 250,000 gallons of fresh water. Here the sailors are taught how to emerge frem a sunken submarine and ascend to the surface in reason- O able safety. Inside this silo-shaped water tank, sailors learn how to use an underwater breathing de vice, commonly called the Mom- sen Lung, under conditions such a3 would exist in a sunken sub marine. Trainees at the school and crew are sent to the training tank at the rate of 100 a day. This acquatic. classroom was built at a cost of $90,000 and was first used by submarine stu dents in 1930. There's only one other lik it in the world, and it's at Pearl Harbor. Three Levels The 18-foot wide tank has three gde escape hatches, or locks, so trainees can enter the Sater at different levels and ascend to the surface. The locks are at "the 13, 50 and 100-foot levQs. "o After passing stiff physical ex aminations, the candidates are gives a pressure test in the de r W,.,-,.i i i Ti wuipicaaiun uiidiuuer iouowea by a thorough lecture and dem O ' onstration on the principle of operation of the Submarine Es cape Appliance. A minimum of two descents are made from the 18-foot depth, the trainees are given the 50 foot test, and then one from the bottom. Every 18 Months instructors are constantly In the water when trainees are as cending, but the man is left alone to put into ie the instruc tions and training he has re ceived at the shallower depths. The students do not make a free -ascent bu are guided to the surface by a fixed line, an chored to a buoy at the top. They are instructed that if they run into trouble, such as losing a mouthpiece, they should stop on the line, expel all the air from their lungs, and let the Instructor take them off the line Into either the locks or the ob servation compartments. Qualified submariners must repeat the training in' the use of the lung every 18 months In the 18 and 50-fcot ascents. Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS Bonn, Germany Chancellor Konrad Adenauer on the myste rious return of Dr. Otto John to West Germany after he had fled to the Communists 17 months ago: "He had reasons for being afraid." Ullm'an Announces Congress Candidacy Ontario (U.R) Albert C. Ullm'an of Baker yesterday an nounced he will again seek the second district Democratic nom ination for Congress in 1956. Ullman, a realtor, was defeat ed by Rep. Sam Coon, a Repub lican, in &ie 1954 Congressional race. Ullman announced his inten tion in an address delivered to a meeting of the Ontario Demo cratic club. "My many friends throughout eastern Oregon and Klamath d&unty have urged me to make this announcement now so that plans could get underway for e early and vigorous cam paign," he said. United Nations, N.Y. U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodg Jr., on the Russian attitude towards the U.N. membership of 17 new countries: "If everybody Is rigid and you just have head-on collisions. there is no use in having the U.N. Youngsville, N.C. Mrs. Ada Ward, bank teller, who said she is asking for transfer to a .bigger bank after facing gunmen for the third time: "That's the last time it's going to happen to me. Scared to death three times is enough." Alden, Minn. Mrs. Portia Howe, mother of American turn coat soldier Richard Tenneson, on the return of her son from Com munist China in time for Christmas: "Thank God he is out of China. My prayers have been an swered. We've been waiting so long for this day and praying so hard." New York Mrs. Henry Jorgensen, a Portland, Ore., housewife on winning the $2,000 first prize and title "Cook of the Year" in the Pillsbury flour mills contest: "I try to enter some contest every year. This is my seventh time to try for this one, and I wondered if I shouldn't stop if I didn't win this year." San Diego. Calif. Sen. Estes Kefauver (D.-Ten.) In an attack on the Republican record in education: "They haven't built so much as one little red schoolhouse." Washington Republican House Leader Joseph W. Martin on whether Congress should pass tax cut legislation when it returns next month: I think it's quite doubtful we can have any substantial tax cut. If there is a tax cut, it would have to be a modest one." New York Star pitcher Bob Feller of Cleveland, in asking a larger voice for players in the operation of baseball: "Everything in baseball now is set up so that the player has little or nothing to say about what goes on. If you, as a player, don't agree with the way the owners want to operate, you just don't play. Period." Around Hollywood By ALINE MOSBY United Press Correspondent K if Hollywood U.R) Hollywood- ites nearly swallowed their cof fee cups this morning when they pi? i saw movie- 3 n r n ' s fun. niest gag in years a poke at Hollywood's "n e w faces" campaign b y that salty character, Humphrey Bo-gart. Aline Mosby Several stu dios recently began a spirited drive for the press, public and theaters to cooperate in the "building of new stars." But Bogie counter-attacked with an equally spirited defense of the old ones. In the movie trade papers ap peared a photograph of Bogart, Max Baer and Jersey Joe Wal cott, three un-young workers in the boxing expose picture, "The Harder They Fall." The caption read: "Nails Bo gart, Spike Baer and Tack Wal cott the oldest permanent new faces now available." Bogart is wearing a Brando-type torn sweatshirt and the others have Tony Curtis-type bow ties. Bogie Speaks His Mind Today the perpetrator of this spoof sat in his dressing, room and, while getting a haircut, ex plained in his informal and cen sorable language why he de clared war on the "new faces" search. "Why don't they lift the old "Why donf they lift the old faces? "The studios are full of hot air. Every couple of years studio heads say this. If they're going to make new stars, why haven't they made them by now? Brando and Jimm Dean weren't made stars by studios. Studios can't make stars. After Marilyn Mon roe left Fox they made some 'new star' as a substitute, but her name escapes me. "Every time I had a fight with Jack Warner when I was under contract to him he'd say, 'Why, I'll make two new Bogarts.' Af ter I left he tried, with Dane Clark and some other guy." Bogart's claim is backed se cretly by agents and producers. There are only a handful of top big-name stars for the best pic tures and most are middle aged players who have been stars, like Bogart, since the early 30s. Fox tried to make Sheree North another Marilyn Monroe, Universal-International attempt ed the same with Mamie Van Doren. Paramount is grooming Carol Ohmart as a "star," but these ladies have yet to ignite. "They want to get another Jimmy Stewart at half the price," growled Bogart. "They think we're too expensive. But a star is born, not made. It's something to do with person ality and color Something Ga ble has and Gary Cooper and Duke Wayne. Marilyn Monroe has it, and she was a star when she couldn't act her way out of a paper bag. Fox didn't make her a star. "The old faces are in great shape. I'd rather watch Spencer Tracy act than those Tabs, Races, Rocks and Lances, whatever their names are. "Those Tabs and Lances are gone in four or five years. And for new actors from New York They scratch themselves in various places. 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The speaker Friday will be Alf Mekvold, county superintendent of schools. Ear lier meetings have gone into the problems of budgeting and tax ation in School District 49, in the county government, and in the Medford city government. The sessions will not be held during the two-week holiday period, but will resume at the same time on Friday, Jan. 6, when county assessment proce dures will be the subject. Safecrackers To Play Motion Picture Role Portland, Ore.(U.R) Under a system devised by Detective Sgt. Myron Warren, all safe cracker suspects caught here will have motion pictures taken of them plying their trade. Warren decided that the cus tomary ''mug" shots and finger printing do not give police enough information in making positive identifications in all cases, especially if the suspect is wanted in other cities. So, he set up a movie set where the suspect, dressed in his working clothes, is told to go to work on a "prop" safe with his safecracking tools. 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