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Chamber Problems
Discussed During
Annual Workshop
Representatives from eight
Chambers of Commerce in south
ern Oregon and northern Cali
fornia compared problems and
discussed techniques of carrying
out organizational programs at
a Jackson County Chamber of
Commerce workship at the Jack
son hotel, Saturday.
More than 40 Chamber repre
sentatives from Ashland, Brook
ings, Cave ' Junction, Grants
Pass, Gold Hill, Yreka and Med
ford attended the all-day confer
ence. Representatives from other
areas participated in panel dis
cussions concerning Chamber fi
nancing, tourist travel and con
venton business, ad activity in
the field of taxation.
Increase in Costs
Guy E. Leonard, Portland
Chamber of Commerce, chaired
the panel on financing and the
responsibility of the board of di
rectors and Chamber staff. Leon
ard pointed out that increases in
operational costs have made an
increase in minimum dues neces
sary in most instances. Most
Chambers are willfully underfi
nanced, he said.
Dudley McClure, Cole and
Weber advertising agency, Port
land, and Eric Bergman, travel
K division, Oregon State Highway
department, served on a panel
discussion of tourist travel and
'convention business in southern
Oregon. Samuel Stewart, Ore
gon State Tax Commissioner,
participated in a discussion of
Chamber activites in the field
of taxtion.
Leith Abbott, assistant passen
ger travel and public relations
manager, Southern Pacific rail
road, Portland, was the principal
speaker at the evening dinner.
A special award was given to
representatives of the Klamath
Falls Chamber for having the
highest attendance at the confer-
Boy Scouts
Troop 16
At the last meeting of Troop
16 colored slides taken in Ger
many and France were shown
and plans were made to show
pictures of Africa at the next
meeting. The troop meets Fri
days at 7 p.m., in the Pythian
building. Parents and friends
are invited. A snow excursion is
planned for the near future.
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SHIP RAMS TEXAS T0WE2 The 5200-ton Sagitta, a military transport service ship,
rammed into the Texas Tower Radar Island 100 miles off Cape Cod while attempting to
unload supplies in heavy seas. The ship radioed it was "listing seriously" and its 42
crewmen were "standing by the lifeboats." Despite a gaping hole in her starboard side,
the Sagitta started for Boston under her own power at five knots. The tower is shown
above last November when an Air Force p arty of high ranking officers was stranded
aboard it as it was being battered by high w inds of hurricane force.
Fringe Area Sewage
Problems Discussed
Corvallis (U.R) The problem
of uncontrolled growth on the
fringes of Oregon's cities was
described graphically here last
night by Benton County Sani
taian Robert Zimmerman. He de
clared flatly that many of the
residents of the south Corvallis
fringe area were drinking
sewage.
Zimmerman said inadequate
drainage and sewerage had con
taminated 95 per cent of the
drinking water wells in the
finge area. "We put dye in the
toilets ,and it shows up in the
wells," he said.
Zimmerman was one of sev
eral city and county officials
who testified at a hearing be
fore the legislative interim com
mittee on local government and
fringe area problems at Corvallis
city hall.
Witnesses said the south Cor
vallis fringe area was one of the
most critical facing the city.
Coal production in the U. S.
during 1954 averaged about 2.5
tons for every person' in the
country.
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FREEZERS
Don't Avoid Divorce for
Sake of Children, Is Word
Berkeley, Calif. (U.R) Un
happily married parents who
avoid divorce "for the sake of
the children" may be doing the
youngsters an injustice, accord
ing to Judson T. Landis, associ
ate professor of family sociology
at the University of California
College of Agriculture.
After studying results of a
home life questionnaire answer
ed by 3,000 students from 11 col
leges and universities, Judson
said: .
"This research suggests doubt
about the desirability of parents'
remaining together for the sake
of the children."
The study showed that chil
dren of cleanly separated par
ents had certain advantages ov
er those of unhappily married
mothers and fathers. But it also
revealed that the two different
situations usually cast the
youngsters from each into just
about the same problems. This
indicates, evaluators suggest,
that it is not necessarily the act
of divorce, but the tense home
atmosphere it springs from that
will show up as children mature
and start facing life's problems.
The fact that children from
unhappy or broken homes fail
ed to display as much confi
dence in marriage and religion
was also brought out in the student-answered
survey. These
young people had more trouble
making friends of the opposite
sex in adolescence, maintained a
further separated relationship
with their parents and would
more readily accept unorthodox
marriages than children from
happy homes.
Other major findings of the
questionnaire, were:
.1 Children from unhappy
domestic situations scored low
est in desirable and highest in
undesirable attitudes as far as
sex in wedlock was concerned.
2 The amount and quality of
sex education received in the
home by a youth depended up
on how happy and stable his par
ents were. Only 23 per cent of
the poll subjects who came from
unstrained homes received no
sex teaching.
3 The greatest number of
virgins came from happy homes,
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British Comet Jet Plane
Little Like Other Craft
By ROBERT C. MILLER
United Press Correspondent
Sydney (U.R) Come along
with me for a preview of a jet
you'll probably be riding within
four years.
The plane is de Havilland's
four-barrelled Comet III which
recently broke the London-Sydney
record on its round-the-world
flight. By 1959 these, and
similar jets, will be in regular
trans-continental and trans-ocean
service. London will be less
than a day from Australia, San
Francisco five hours from Ha
waii and Vancouver 20 hours
from Sydney.
You'll fly eight miles above
the earth with scarcely a quiver
or vibration, and only a constant
low whine from the engines.
You duck upon entering the
heavily pressurized door and
find the same deep, soft seats,
port-holed windows and plastic
interiors of today's propelled
planes.
The similarity ends with the
first movement of the plane.
No Warm-up
There are no thrashing pro
pellors, staccato roar of exhausts
or tingling vibrations. The four
Rolls Royce engines cut in with
a whistle that never builds up
into more than a conversational
sigh in the sound-proof cabin.
The plane taxis gently as the
shark-mouthed jets suck in acres
of air and thrust it back with a
potential of more than five tons.
Outside the long aluminum
wings sway noticeably, their de
ceptive strength hidden by the
flexibility of their construction.
but the margin was not great in
relation to the other groups.
This lack of notable difference,
said Landis, tended to deflate
other studies that showed sex
ually promiscuous girls to be the
products of unhappy homes.
Evangelistic Services
EVERY NIGHT, 7:30 P.M.
Except Monday and Saturday
REV. MACKEY AND REV. KUNKLE
Speaking and Singing
The public is invited
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Tuesday, January 24, 1956
There are no engine warm-ups
in this plane; no tedious waits at
the end of runways. You swing
onto the field, get clearance from
the tower and are off and flying.
The howl builds up for the
first time as the spinning blades
scoop in the air and exhale it
with a thrust so great it flattens
you against the back of , your
seat. Sail planing must be like
this.
The asphalt blurs, the land
scape rushes past and nine sec
onds later the plane is in the air.
The other half of the runway
lies unused below.
Pilot John Cunningham takes
her to the sun, but there is only
the angle of climb as an indi
cator that the great plane is now
under the urging of nearly her
full load of power.
Silence Is Strength
Outside the roar must be deaf
ening. Inside your neighbor
chats in restaurant tones, and
the drink placed on the tray has
a surface unmarred by a ripple.
The air speed indicator shows
eight miles a minute. It lies.
There's a clear sky ahead and
Cunningham highballs. He flat
tens out at 20,000 feet and the
earth moves lazily below while
you hang poised in space.
It takes a while to get used to
the silence. There is no changing
of prop pitches, no shifting of
supercharges; only that incessant
soprano high that scarcely var
ies a degree during the flight.
The descent begins more than
100 miles from your destination,
and the speed stays welL above
400 miles an hour until the flaps
go down and the 10-wheeled
landing gear snaps into place.
Your landing is .faster, but equal
ly as smooth as those by today's
transports. You'll use more run
way before coming to a stop.
At the terminal the sound dies
out completely as the engines
coast to a stop, and the flight
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Mackie Returns From
OSC Inspectors Course
. H. E. Mackie, city building in
spector and architect, returned
recently from Oregon State col
lege, where he attended a three
day course for building inspec
tors. Some 53 Oregon cities were
represented.
Instruction covered founda
tion requirements and construc
tion practices in timbers, con
crete blocks and reinforced con
crete. Speakers included repre
sentatives of lumber and allied
building industries, and staff
members from OSC.
The course, first of its kind
held by the college, was de
signed to improve knowledge of
construction and related subjects
and to bring inspectors up to date
on trends in building, Mackie
reported.
is completed. Tickets for the reg
ular service are available at the
counter about March of 1959.
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useful every day.
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