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o Long 'Cold War' for Control of Antarctic Seen interesting Issue Editor's note: The Antarctic- eonti lient has been the subject recently of the most intense scientific explorations in its history. Another kind of study of its Dontical status mav be next. The following dispatch explains the complicated political background of Antarctica and how the t'nited Nations may be called on to settle its future. By RALPH TEATSORTH Uniled Press Correspondent United Nations, N.Y. (U.R) The long "colrl war" over con trol of the Antarctic mav prove o to be one of the most interesting issues ever brought before the United Nations. Q India has proposed that the future of Antarctica be debated this year in the U.N. General Assembly. O The proposal is being received with mixed feelings. Some gov ernments and scientific circles welcome it. Argentina and Chile, which both claim certain South Polar regions, are opposing it. Those who favor U.N. inter vention point out that conflict ing claims on the Antarctic wastes constitute a knotty prob- G ls y As We Live By ELIZABETH HimOCK. PH.D. O Women Must Sometimes Sacrifice Femininity It is not always possible for women today to wear truly feminine clothes. (Q) "My wife insists upon go ing around in blue jeans, shorts and slacks. When she was younger, before our marriage I .. a j iSl4t& why she wore such clothes. She was very s 1 e n d er, had well- shaped legs and was in all sorts of athletics at school and col lege. Now she TVr Hu.wv s Z9. mother of three children and anything but thin. She wears shorts in the summer and blue jeans or slacks in the winter. "I can understand why she wears them in the house as they make it easier for her to do the housework and take care of the children. But I cannot un derstand why she doesn't change io a skirt when she goes shop ping or out to chafe with the oth er women in the neighborhood. Her argument is that she is more comfortable in shorts or slacks than in skirts and they make less laundry for her. Don't you think a woman of her agel and size should wear more i feminine clothes?" M. T. (A)When a woman has three small children and a house to take care of she must sometimes sacrifice becomingness to com fort and efficiency. Having been accustomed to wearing shorts or slacks for athletics when she was younger, it is natural for her to find skirts hampering in her busy life. ' The laundry argument hardly holds water these days because there are plenty of skirts and dresses made of materials tht require no ironing. All they need is to be hung up to dry after they are laundered. This means no more work for your wife than would be needed to keep her shorts and blue jeans clean. Looks Better in Skirts I agree a woman looks better in skirts than in shorts or slacks uen she goes to stores or to visit with her friends. As one approaches 30 it is time to dress one's age, not like a schoolgirl. ' As your children grow older, they are very likely to be criti cal of their mother, if she -continues to wear such clothes, ex cept when she is doing heavy work around the house. You might use the unbecom ingness of shorts as an argument to persuade your wife to go on a reducing diet. If she could re gain the slender figure she had when she was younger, shorts and slacks would not look so out of place. (Copyright 1956, General Features' Corp.) lem that only international ac tion can untangle. The question is one of claims and counter-claims arising from discovery and exploration. The U.N. may be called on to decide whether discovery without con quest confers a right of owner ship. Golden Age of Exploration In the golden age of European exploration the adventurer who got there first usually had the best claim to a piece of land. Empires were built this way, but in the present century such em pires have been melting away because of one big weakness: They did not take into considera tion the will of the "discovered" people. As an organization the U.N. has encouraged peoples to govern themselves and sever colonial ties. But Antarctica is another matter entirely. Antarctica was "discovered" in the true sense. There is not a single "native" human being there who could be called on to choose his own political destiny. It also must be considered that the U.N. General Assembly is a body that can merely recom mend, not command. Any na tion can ignore its recommenda tions. The assembly, among other things, might call for an inter national geographical conference to consider the probJem of Ant arctica. International Control Eight years ag-o the United States suggested that the con tinent be put under international control. It has been hinted that India may propose U.N. trustee ship. Any such proposal is sure to generate heated debate in the General Assembly. International legal brains dif fer in opinion on how claims should be established. Some have suggested that continuous oc cupation and administration should be the determining fac tors.' The United States, while mak ing no claim for itself, does not recognize any other claims. Rus sia has made it clear that it wants to be dealt in on any game of dividing the Antarctic. Brit ain has considered itself an Ant arctic power since Capt. James Cook circled the continent in 1773. Many Claims To Antarctic Britain, France, Norway, Aus tralia and New Zealand have proclaimed their sovereignty over parts of the Antarctic. Ar gentina and Chile are in a tri angular dispute with Britain over that part of the Antarctic nearest South America. Ger many, Japan, South Africa and Belgium also have, shown keen interest at times in the con tinent. The issue of the conflicting claims is more pressing now than ever, not so much because of Antarctica's material or strategic importance today but because of the role it may play tomorrow. Among questions being asked are these: Will control of Ant arctica be an essential of any global war? Will trans-polar air travel require permanent air and weather bases there? Are minerals, uranium for instance, available there to a commercial extent? , Is That So? (Editor's note: Eugene Burns has just returned from a six weeks' tour of the Orient "with Japan Air Lines. As a result of his many experiences and conversations with fellow-naturalists, writers, university professors, zoo di rectors, .JAL pilots, friendly innkeep ers, anglers and hunters, he has amassed a wealth of material to share with our readers, topics such as: The world's oldest wooden buildings, China Typhoon. Keeping cut flowers fresh, Moon-viewing and Writing Japanese poetry. Bathing in hot springs. The lei of the island, Animals have no pol itics. Transplanting centtiry-old coco nut palms. Princess Kaiulani's mouth watering pineapple recipes, New Eng land forests in old Japan. Caged insect singers. Big Island Volcano House. Cer tainly these coming weeks promise some interesting new viewpoints. Ap propriately his first piece is Pacific Biggest of Oceans. Fasten your seat belts! We're adventure-bound.) Over the wide Pacific. Coat off, sweater on: shoes off, JAL flight-issue socks on; steaming hot towel to wipe face and hands and ease the tension; a dainty cup of warm sake (Japanase rice wine) presented by a petite kimono-clad Japanese stewardess, Pilots Walk Away From Mt. Fuji Crash Tokyo (U.R) A U.S. Air Force transport slammed into a snowbank on the side of Mount Fuji today but its two pilots walked away, unharmed, the Air Force reported. The two-engined C47 crashed in 20 feet of snow about 1,000 feet from the top of the sacred mountain. An Air Force spokesman said the deep snow padded the shock of the crash, enabling the two pilots to crawl out and walk to a Japanese weather station a short distance away. They were (identified as Maj. John C. Fowle, of Lakeworth, Fla., and Capt. Earl Preston Kelley, of Clear Springs, Md. Swiss Males Vote To Keep Women From Polls Bern, Switzerland U.R) Male citizens voted for the 24th time here Sunday to keep wom en out of politics. They rejected by a vote of 62,971 to 52,929 a law which would have introduced women suffrage in the cnton of Bern. 3-5-56 an exciting travel book (After You, Marco Polo by Jean Bowie Shor) and I'm off. to the Orient in surroundings already redo lent of the Far East. To latch on to a tailwind, we are crusing at 22,000 feet. This will swish our four - engined magic carpet through the air at an incredible 6V miles a min ute a mile for every nine sec onds As I stand in the cockpit, our American pilot, Capt. Robert G. Judd, who has some 2,500,000 miles of piloting under his belt, tells me that from our four-mile high elevation in our pressur ized plane, the circle of our hori zon is pushed out to where we can see 196 miles in every di rection. "Stop right there," I tell him. "You mean, Captain, I'm look ing at an area as great as all New England rolled together?" Bigger Than Oregon "And then some," he says, pulling out his slide rule. "Roughly, 120,500 square miles about twice as big as New England. Bigger than Oregon. Slightly smalelr than Montana!" Calling over the intercom for a weather map from his naviga tor, he traced our DC-6'Bs course with his index finger: "You see, we are going some 300 miles north of the direct route to allow for the earth's curva ture plus a storm brewing in this area. "Airplanes today not only fly around storms, but mostly over them." I asked him to pinpoint the "visible horizon." After deliber ating, he drew a small circle. "Roughly ,an hour and twenty minutes flying time. Of course, IP -m f OK f MARKET ' 1202 North Riverside j 1 OPEN EVERY j v NIGHT TIL M l&v MIDNIGHT By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist when we take delivery of our Douglas jets, we'll cover the same distance in half the time in forty minutes at around 600 miles per hour!" 64,000,000 Square Miles Although the Captain's circle represents an area bigger than Arizona, in the illimitable Paci fic greatest of oceans it is swallowed up. Stretching 7,300 miles from the Aleutians to the Antarctic and 10,500 miles from Panama to Malaya, the Pacific totals 64,000,000 square miles. About two-thirds of all the worlds other bodies of water. Big? Man alive! Upon this tremendous ocean, one can place 21 countries the size of the U.S. Or, for that mat ter, all of the continents, Africa, Antarctica, .Asia, . Australia, Europe, North America and South America combined and still have enough space left to accommodate a second South American continent. And deep! Not only does it have the deepest spot of all the oceans over six and a half miles down at the Challenger deep off Mindanao, east of the Philippines, but its average depth is 1,000 feet greater than any other ocean almost three miles. As color slowly draws out of the sky and we are swallowed in Stygian darkness, the Japa nese stewardess presents the wine list preparatory to dinner at the Honolulu airport cham pagne from France, sake from Japan, beer from Denmark, scotch from need I say where? bourbon from Kentucky, wine from California ... We are losing altitude. Still out of sight at Oahu's lights, the purser announces: "Prepare for landing at Honolulu Interna tional airport. We're only one hundred miles out we'll be landing in thirty minutes." (Released by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate) (Copyright, 1956. by Eugene Burns) 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 Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Military Flying Becoming Safer Despite Crashes Washington (U.R) The Air Force contends figures show military flying is becoming safer despite eight crashes in two months. The crash of a giant Globe master Friday in the Atlantic off Iceland brought to 45 the num ber of airmen killed in Air Force crashes since Jan. 4. The Air Force Sunday made the figures available to allay public anxiety and concern in its own ranks. The figures in dicated that military plane acci dents are declining in the face of a vast expansion in flight op erations. Air Refueling Cited For example, the Air Force said an average of 360 Strategic Air Command bombers are re fueled in flight from aerial tank ers every day or one every four minutes regardless of weather. It also pointed out that some jet fighter bases have 1,440 land ings and takeoffs a day, or one every minute. Nellis Air Force Base, the gunnery training cen ter at Las Vegas, Nev., has a landing or takeoff every 42 seconds, it said. Last year, the Air Force said, it flew more than 2Vz times as many hours as this country's domestic and international sched uled airlines. Much of its fly ing is done in complicated new planes, under hazardous weather conditions and in all parts of the world. Despite this, the Air Force said its major accident rate last year was 17 per 100,000 hours flown, three fewer thaji in 1954. There were four fatal accidents and nine fatalities per 100,000 hours, the same as in 1954, the lowest rates in Air Force history. "A tentative check indicates the accident rate so far this year is lower than it was on this date last year," the Air Force said. ! Monday, March 5, 1956 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE Air Force in Need of Responsible Leaders Dallas, Tex. 0J.R) Respon sible leadership, not mechanical ingenuity is the great need of the Air Force, Flying Training Air Force, Maj. Gabriel P. Diso- sway thinks. Disosway addressed some 500 officers and cadets who had just completed the Lackland pre flight course. He told them- that airplanes are aloft seven years after the dgawing-board stage, "but it takes at least 20 years to get the men to fly them." Although the Air Force uses almost fantastic equipment, its operation is simple compared to obtaining leaders to make pro per use of the new machines. "What the world needs today," the general said, "is more men of courage, integrity and perse verance than any time in history." 4-H Club Hews Gold Hill Sewing Club The Dashing Seamstresses 4-H Sewing club met March 1, in the Gold Hill School sewing room. The meeting was called to order by Dianne Jore, presi dent. Bonnie Knapp led the 4-H pledge, and Judith Force led the flag salute. Roll call was answered by members naming their favorite- cake. Refresh ments were served by Judy Higgins. The meeting was adjourned and turned over to Mrs. Al Be man. Mrs. John Jore and our visitor, Mrs. Fred Jones, who passed out last year's record books. Judith Force, Reporter. Eagle Point Cooking Club The Eagle Point Cheerful cookers met Feb. 27 in the Home Economics room' of the high school at 3:30 p.m. Twelve mem bers were present. After the business meeting Ellen Hay and Sharon Sommons demonstrated how to make pea nut butter cookies. The cookies were served for refreshments after the meeting. On Monday night the group took a trip into the new Piggly Wiggly market in Medford. They went mainly to see the vegetable display. The manager explained about the different types of pro duce and what to look for when purchasing vegetables. All the members benefited from this tour and enjoyed themselves. The next meeting will be held March 12 in the high school -at 3:30 p.m. Plans for a mother's tea to be held in May will be made at this meeting, Susie Carroll, Acting Reporter. The Westside Stitchers The Westside 4-H Sewing club held its last meeting Feb. 15 at the home of our leader, Mrs. Franek. Mrs. Franek gave out our record books and gave some assignments. The first year we learned to pull thread. The next year learned to hem a dish towel. The next year learned how to cut and sew on potholders. 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