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o o o G I O O O (ffX-flEDrORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIEUNZ Church Leaders To Request Funds ForurpIus Flow Washington (U.R) Church lexers will appeal to President Eisenhower to break a bottle neck that is restricting the flow America's surplus food to Qhungry families overseas, in formed sources said Saturday. The bottleneck is a shortage of funds to pay ocean freight on the surplus farm commodi ties the agriculture department . has offered to give to relief agencies for distribution abroad. Informants said less than $5, 00)00 is now available in the special fund Congress voted last year to pay ocean freight on re lief shipments of surplus foods. Congress provided that Presi dent Eisenhower could enlarge the fund at his discretion by q transferring to it any money that was appropriated, but not spent, 1 D I BO I E. BERT LEE o OPTOMETRIST 3G9 EAST 8TH ST. . dcai. S'S9aa . 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Workers Agree To Hourly Pay Increase Klamath Falls (U.R) Em ployees of the McCloud River Lumber company at McCloud, Calif., have accepted an average S-zi cents an hour wage increase, the Pine Industrial Relations council said it had been in formed Saturday. The wage hike, to be applied on a graduated basis, is retroac tive to Dec. 1. CIO International Woodwork ers of America local 664 which represents the McCloud work ers said the wage increase was approved by a 73 per cent ma jority. 1U1 viiici. ivicigii am ui yuji.ji Protestant, Catholic and Jew ish relief agencies, which took the lead in organizing the "share our surplus" program, are now planning a joint appeal to the President to exercise this power. They will tell him that a rela tively modest diversion of funds, say $10,000,000 or $15,000,000 out of the current overall for eign aid budget of more than $2,500,000,000, would make it possible to double or triple the flow of surplus foods to needy people in all parts of the world. They also will point out that any extra funds which the gov ernment spends on ocean freight will be recovered in the long run run by saving iarm surplus storage charges. BUY NOW FOR CHRISTMAS DOWN.. 2.50 WEEK FOR HER wants Community NEW Twilight, or 0w one of the other famous patterns. A LIMITED TlMf OFFER, so shop today and save! Coronation Scrvic: . . 8 forks 8 knives 16 teaspoon 8 salad forks 8 soup spoons 1 butter kniftt 1 sugar spoon 1 pastry server 1 serving spoon Vcold meat fork 1 pierced serving spoon Trade-marks of Oneida Ltd. ON SILVERPLATE Sunday, December 18, 1955 Bid For Stewart, 99 Light Awarded Salem (U.R) The State Highway Department awarded five contracts yesterday for road jobs in. scattered sections of the state. They included: Traffic signals at Stewart ave. and Pacific highway in Med ford. Awarded to Steek Electric Company, Roseburg, S6600. Grading and paving 6.13 miles of the Sherman highway be tween Moro and Grass Valley. Awarded to Roy L. Houck & Son, Salem, $386,230.50. Production project on The Dalles-California highway, 10 miles southeast of The Dalles. Awarded' to. C & W Crushing Company, $22,400. Grading 'and oiling 2.42 miles of McMinhville airport Dayton junction section of Three-Mile Lane secondary highway, Awarded to Roy L. Houck & Sons, Salem, $238,301. Grading 9.02 miles of North Santiam highway near Sublimity and Stayton. Awarded to Durbin Brothers, Eugene, $211,888.50. New Transformers Installed by BPA Vancouver, Wash. U.R) The Clark county PUD announ ced here Saturday that the ser vice capacity of its McLoughlin Heights substation would be doubled with activation of a new bank of transformers in stalled by the Bonneville Power administration. The Bonneville transformers will channel power through the PUD's substation on the heights and the one at Vancouver ship yards. Cutover is scheduled for early Sunday morning. Capacity will be increased from 12,000 kilovolt-amperes to 24,000 KVA. Pellet Pistols Said In County Schools Pellet pistols, highly danger ous weapons which . cannot be classed as toys, have been re ported in various county schools recently, according to the coun ty schools office. Law enforcement officials said the pistols, which sell locally for $5.98, possibly have been the cause of broken street lights and other lights in some areas, and are potentially highly danger ous. Two 14-year-olds were appre hended by one school principal who discovered the weapons in their clothing. He said it is possible to fire lead pellets at a rate to pene trate leather. fee? A GIFT WHOLE NO MONEY DOWN 50 a WEEK Open Is That So? What in the world has hap pened to our old-fashioned snowy Christmases, anyway. And with it, those delightful Christmas card scenes of snowy roads, frosty windows, and eves drip ping with icicles? Looking into the far past we know of course that some 20,000 years ago half of North America was buried under a great cover of ice while the remainder of the continent, quite likely, shivered in each winter's cold grip. Only one thing made the icecap re treat warmer weather. But bringing the subject down into our own lifetime, winters have actually been getting increasing ly genial neither are they as severe nor as long. as they were in grandfather's day. Particular- ly along the eastern third of our continent. Weather reports from such di verse points as Montreal, Can ada, Washington, D. C, and Bos ton Mass., bear this out. In Mon treal, Quebec, snowfall which averaged 130 inches 75 years ago is today averaging around 80 inches; the frequency of sub zero temperatures of the turn of the century go below zero only about half as often. In Washing ton, spring weather has moder ated considerably; during the 20 years from 1872-1892, there were a total of 354 days of freezing temperatures that averages 17.7 each spring; in the 20 years from 1913 to 1933, there were only 237 freezing days, averag ing 11.85, almost a third fewer. And this same trend toward win ter mildness holds in Boston. There the duration of snow on the ground has lessened seven days during the past 50 years and the mean winter tempera ture for December, January and February has risen three-and-one-half degrees in the last 100 years. To return to Montreal for the moment, the mean tempera ture there for March has gone up even . more, nearly four de grees. ' Would Bring Ice Age For those who may think this 3 to 4 degree rise in temperature trivial, weather experts hasten to say that a drop of only 10 to 15 degrees Fahrenheit would bring back the ice age! Besides the ' indisputable figr ures of weather stations, there are other signs of our temper ing winter climate. During the past 25 years, bird watchers have found a considerable in tap FOR THE FAMILY 122 E. Main Street Medford Next Week 9:30 a.m. to ly EUGENI BURNS Ranger-Naturalist crease in the number of species of birds wintering in our north eastern states and provinces and considerably north, too, of their traditional ranges birds such as cardinals, tufted tit mouses, turkey vultures, blue winged warblers and Carolina wrens. And of the mammals, not ably the oppossum. There is of course the counter argument that warm-blooded birds and mammals can adapt! themselves to. colder .tempera tures. But what of trees?. These, too, seem to be on the north ward trek. Explorers are bring ing back reports that larches and birches are colonizing new ground well beyond the timber line in northern Quebec, and in former areas they are growing much faster than they did 40 years ago. Demonstrably, too, northern waters are growing warmer. For example, Hudson Bay and Hud son Strait are now ice-free for several . weeks longer on the av erage and West Greenlanders are 1 now catching cod in abundance 750 miles up beyond Cdpe Fare well, southern Grenland, where formerly the cod was seldom found. To return then to our white Christmases. As it stands today, as the winters are moderating, the odds against waking up to falling snow on Christmas morn ing are remote for about three fourths of the U. S. In the Mis sissippi Valley it may mean go ing as far north as St. Louis, Mis souri; along the Western Coast, perhaps it may be necessary to go as far north as Alaska and even there, to take binoculars to see it up in the mountains; along the Eastern Seaboard, as far north as New York City and even here, snow has fallen only seven times on Christmas Day in the 50 years from 1903 to 1953 and only on seven others was it on the streets. Prospect Always Present Despite the apparent modera tion of winter; the possibility of having a good, old-fashioned Christmas" is always present and far from being a thing of the past. After all, Boston had the most snowy winter of its en tire history during 1947-48 and, unfortunately, I happened to be timber cruising in New Hamp- shire when the temperature dropped to 53 below zero,'Jamr ary, 1934. And me in a tent! However, the writing seems to be on the wall. For versifiers at least. The search must go on to find words to rhyme with "green" and not "white" when it concerns Christmas and out side of serene and scene they are not easy to come by. (Copyright, 1955, by Eugene Burns Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) . 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They were held under S75.000 bond on charges of attempting to injure persons and properties with explosives. They are sched uled to be arraigned Tuesday. It was disclosed Saturday that Peddicord had hired Attorney James Hafey to represent him. Nicholas Granet, who recently defended Victor Laurence Wolf in a murder hearing, said he also would be connected wiih the Peddicord defense. To Be Examined Granet said that as soon as the "confusion" was straightened out he would ask the court to aD- pomt two psychiatrists to exam ine Peddicord. "There is no question but what Peddicord suffers from a persecution complex," the at torney said. ' It was also brought out that judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife, a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous refer ence work in a handsome Seal- craft binding. Each week new submissions will be considered. 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His general health is good and heart action is "fairly well stabilized." Fatigue The fatigue reported after an' examination in Washington last Saturday had nothing to do with the President's heart condition. It ' probably was a "nervous . symptom" connected with his increased official activities. Trip South Recommended Trip A trip south probably to Augusta, Ga., was rec- -ommended to give the President a chance to get more exercise. Cold and inclement weather has restricted him here. The President probably will do some chipping and putting but will not play a full game of golf. The idea of more exercise is to prepare the President for resuming a full work load. Work Schedule The President should be able to return to the White House by Jan. 9 and resume a fairly normal work load. Some time in mid-February he will be examined again to see how well he stands up to his first truly heavy work schedule. Complete Recovery Mid February Complete Recovery It will be about mid-February before physicians will be able to tell how complete the President's recovery has been. Second Term? White said the President will have to . decide himself whether to run for a second term, that as a physician he had no political prognosis. "The future rests in the laps of the Gods as it more or less does with all of us. . . " White said, "with average luck and common sense care it is possible for the President to live for years and be fully active." o efforts of the Portland Better Business bureau to stop the blind chemist's quick money making schemes ultimately led to his arrest Thursday night. Peddicord, father of five chil dren, was selling distributor ships for auto battery additives and nylon stocking "washes," Robert R. Blyth, assistant mana ger of the bureau, said. 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