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LEAVING prison after 32 years, Floyd Hall, 51, noto rious gunman and killer of two in Twenties, pledges he'll "go Straight" (International) Genera! Motors Lists Record Pay Detroit, Mich. KU.R) General Motors reported today workers in its United States plants re ceived an all-time record week ly pay averaging $102.41 during , 1955. "General Motors people had a good year in 1955," Harlow H. Curtice, company president, and Alfred P. Sloan, chairman of the board, reported in a special statement made in advance of the company's annual report. The pay of the workers was up an average of nearly $11 a week from 1954, when the weekly average pay was $91.44 The number of workers draw ing the pay checks also was up sharply. In 1954 hourly-rate em ployment averaged 367,462 in United States plants. In 1955 hourly-rate employment was up to 410,022. Workers in the car, truck, body and assembly divisions did even better than the average for all General Motors ' workers They drew weekly pay checks averaging $104.77. In 1954 their checks had averaged $95.34. Total employment in all GM plants throughout the world was 624,011 salaried and hourly-rate workers, who earned $3,' 127.145,514, the report said. India To Ask Antarctic To Be UN Trust Territory New Delhi, India (U.R) India will ask the next General As- sembly of the United Nations to proclaim the entire Antarctic area as a U.N. trust territory, government officials said today. Indian delegates to the United Nations said overlapping terri torial claims in the Antarctic could "open up a new cold war arena." Is That So? Welcome quizzees! Collect a score of 95 on this Natural His tory roundup of foregoing col umns and you rate the degree, Park Naturalist; 85 qualifies you as a Ranger Naturalist; 75 as a Ranger! below that, 65 makes you a Woodsman, 50 a Dude Wrangler; and 35, a lowly Drug store Cowpoke. Answers with their values follow questions. Leave us essay it! (Five each; 50 points.) I. As long as you live and breathe, people will bombard you with astonishing facts. By nature you should believe some, disbelieve others. What about the following ten? Which are false? 1. The smallest new-born mammal in the world is the young of the opossum. 2. The ' male gaff-topsail cat fish incubates the female's eggs 1-20-56 in his mouth; and in doing so, may abstain from food for 80 days. 3. To serve as ballast, a sea lion has been known to carry a six-pound load of rocks, many as large as hen's eggs) in his stomach. 4. A single cornstalk during one growing season . has been known to give off a quarter ton of moisture. 5. There is no spot within the 48 states which is absolutely exempt from frost. 6. Owls regurgitate tightly- packed pellets, about three inches long and one across, which contains such unpalatable things as rabbit's teeth, bird's claws, feathers and fur. 7. A ruffed grouse may drum during the middle of the night. 8. The night hawk, a close rel ative of the whippoorwill, is an insect feeder. Dig Tunnels 9. The belted kingfishers dig tunnels in a bankside which may be 10 feet long, at the end of which they incubate the eggs. 10. An early frost can be de cidedly beneficial to a fruit tree even after it has started to blossom. 'II. Everyone knows there are ,a lot of birds on this earth. Of the following figures, which one comes closest to the approximate total number: 100,000,000,000; 10,000,000,000; 1,0 0 0,0 0 0,0 0 0 500,000,000; 10,000,000 (Fifteen points), ' m. Some fish reproduce in as tonishing ways, including the By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist Siamese fighting fish; sea catfish; the convoy fish; the sea horse; and the grunion. Match the ap propriate fish with the statement which applies. (Seven each; 35 points.) 1. He builds a bubble nest. 2. The male incubates the eggs in a special abdominal pouch. 3. When danger threatens her young, the female opens her mouth and lets the young take refuge in it. After danger is over, she releases them. 4. This female lays her eggs during the night high up on a sandy beach out of the water. 5. Among several kinds of this fish, the male takes the fe male's narble-sized eggs in his mouth and hatches them there. Answers: I. Among these ten, 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 are correct. No. 3 is wrong the rocks are there to help digest the food; and 5 is wrong because in some Key West islands it has never frosted. H. 1. 100,000,000,000 birds, in. 1. Siamese fighting fish; 2. sea horse; 3, convoy fish; 4. grunion; 5. sea catfish. Now, start counting! (Copyright, 1956, by Eugene Burns) (Released by McClura Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of 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. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to IS THAT SO! co MedfoiJ Mail Tribune, , Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. ' "- - Portland Factory To Be Plywood Plant : Portland (U.R) Meyer Win kleman, executive officer for Doernbecher Properties, Inc.,,an nounced Saturday the formation of the Rose City Plywood Cor poration to operate the plant of the long closed down Doern becher furniture factory here. Winklemari said the corpora tion would be a worker co-operative with approximately 100 working shareholders at the be ginning and twice that number a? the company reaches its po tential goals. The new plywood organization, capitalized at $600,000 was formed .by Mark H. . Renhard,. a veteran plywood organizer in the Northwest. Monday, February 20, 195B MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THRES COMFORTS DYING WIFE Edwin Larson holds head of his dying wife as ambulance attendants try to cull him away. Larson and his wife were walking along a country road near Seattle when they were struck by a car dr'ven by Antone J. Himple. Police charged him with hit and run driving. Use Mail Tribune Want Adi Lockheed Machinists Authorize Strike Hollywood (U.R) Members of the International Association of Machinists yesterday voted their negotiating committee power to call a strike against Lockheed Aircraft Corp. Union officials estimated 7500 members of Lodge 727 of the IAM attended the mass meeting in Hollywood Legion Stadium. They said vote for the strike au thorization was more than 96 per cent. ; . . The members also rejected a company proposal to settle nego tiations. The - contract between Lockheed and the union expired last Wednesday. The machinists seek a 10 per cent pay boost, protection of job security in event of plant disper sal and a retirement program. John Siiider, president of the union, said a strike would be called as a last resort and not without another mass meeting of the workers. The first - photo-electric cell, forerunner of modern television transmission and reception, was developed in 1888. Your PKFecr Servant, (Mf. to our part of the great Northwest, home-makers spell ELECTRIC CLOTHES DRYER with tour letters ..... jiff HE WORLD'S GREATEST WIFE-SAVER saves time, saves lifting saves wear and tear on clothes, ' saves on c othes buvinn rs-.A? 27 w -(especially in the families featuring kids) - No mom buying sfx pairs of everythinq to get Junior through the week buy two wash them and dry them at night- . have them ready again in the morning ; . . wjth towels,, sheets, Junior's levis, and many other items, Clothes come from the dryer so smooth - ' . they don't need ironing! SEE YOUR FAVORITE APPLIANCE DEALER WT AHbCLOTHES DRYER TOMORROW ask about law cost ... ask for a demonstration THE CALIFORNIA OREGON POWER COMPANY A Western Company owned and operated by Western People The supreme court ban on school segregation affects the District of Columbia and 17 states where segregation was compulsory . and four states where it was optional. ; ; Pickin' Pears News nd Notes From Camp White By SID HOLLINGSWORTH Los Angeles There are few world war veterans in these United States who have not heard of Sawtelle, and many of them have spent some time in the environs of the present VA Center located on the site- of the old soldiers home, now re Ccflled only in memories. But there are not many domic iliary members at Camp White or elsewhere who know just why the name Sawtelle persistsAct ually, the facility is bisected by Sawtelle blvd., but this does not account for the name. At the beginning of the cen tury a small town was located in what is now West Los Angeles called Barrett. Since there was another place in California called Bassett, the post office objected and so the town was named after its leading citizen of the time, W. E. Sawtelle. '- The Santa Monica Outlook re views the story of the founding of ' the veterans home, and in many respects the story is simi lar to the incidents leading up to the establishment of Camp White in the Rogue River Valley. "Many political maneuvers marked the selection of the pres ent site of what earlier . was known as the Soldiers Home. Cities in all parts of the state vied for it, but a group of Santa Monicans, headed by Senator John P. Jones, wort out by offer ing the government 640 acres and some cash," according to this report. A legend still persists that the land was deeded by Leo Carril lo's family with the stipulation that it was' to remain in. per petuity as a soldiers home. And so today the heart and center of "Sawtelle" is the domiciliary which remains like a dwelling house in a city surrounded by tall office buildings. The home itself is completely surrounded by hospital facilities. Work started on the first build ing here in 1888. "Ward Memor ial Hall, primarily an amuse ment . building - and boasting a stage, was opened in 1898 and was the scene of many plays and concerts," the Review states. "Members were not idle, either, but worked their acreage. They raised hay, grain, citrus fruits, cattle, horses and hogs and sold . the surplus. During the 1903-04 growing season thoy netted $25,069 from farm products.- Another bit of history is-related as follows: Col. A. G. Smith was trans ferred to the home in April, 1897, from " the Leavenworth Home. He was a strict disciplin arian and made numerous rules and regulations for the conduct of the men. Needless to say, he was not overpopular," many of the resi dents taking the attitude that he was interfering with their per sonal liberty. One man, who had been wavering on the brink of insanity, settled the matter once and for all. As Col. Smith walked through the grounds on Sept. 26, 1898, the man shot him. He recovered, but his health was gone and he resigned the following January. The present manager is Col. R. A. Bringham, who-has become an institution. He is a West Granqe Gold Hill Grange The Gold Hill Grange met Feb. 16, with a good attendance and sll officers present. Business consisted of commit tee reports, buying of music box, and motions to take part in com munity projects, including the improvement of the grange grounds, and the cleaning up and maintaining of the rinlr? will cemetery. The box social given Feb. 11 was a success and enjoyed by all. Boxes were sold and games and dancing furnished the enter tainment. Tl, 1 4-. 1. ' " .me icuiuici program was celebrating Lincoln's and Wash ington's birthdays, also a valen tine exchange. ,7 A gift was presented to th Rev. and Mrs." Dierdorff and Master Herman Kamping gave them their Grange pins.. They are moving away from Gold Hill to Medford. The Grange closed atihe reg ular time, with the retiring drill. The lunch, served in the dining room, consisted of pie, ice cream and coffee, and was enjoyed by all. - Point trained officer, now re tired, and has won the respect of all. The street flanking the west approach to the station, now in course of construction, is to be named Bringham avenue in his honor. Not many of the original build ings and houses of Sawtelle re main. The chapel and three of the wooden structures in - the domiciliary area were designed by the famous architect Stanford White. Dead line Sunday Classified i t noon Saturday; 10 am. Monday for Monday; other days 5:30 ore vious day. plays with the toaster instead of eating Make breakfast taste better Serve it with EEoIsum JVo need to consult a book on child psychology. Just pop a slice of fresh Holsum Bread into the toaster. Then watch her eyes sparkle when she tastes Holsum's tender goodness. Eating is fun when it's Hot buttered Holsum toast spread with jelly. No wonder breakfast tastes better. .( c She's bright as a new pair of shoes all morning long now that she's getting Holsum energy. Buy a loaf for your little miss moppet today. MAKE IT TASTE BETTER Sezve M with E33gmEE&
