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Russell Named
ef Year
.,0 Angeles (U.R) All
tfceSica center Bill Russell of
Francisco has been named
(gollege basketball player of the
year for the second straight sea
son by the Helms Athletic Found
ation.
Russell was honored for lead
ing San Francisco to its second
straight national championship
while stretching its victory
string to 55 consecutive games.
Only three other players have
been named player of the year
for two straight seasons by the
foundation. They are George
Mikan of De Paul in 1945-46,
George Glamack of North Caro
lina in 1940-41 and Angelo Hank
Luisetti of Stanford in 1937-38.
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Willamette Relay
Starts Tomorrow
Salem (U.R) The track for
tomorrow's Willamette relays
was reported jn good shape to
day despite unstable weather
conditions as athletes from 22
colleges and 100 high schools
prepared to strut their stuff.
Three invitational events,
topped by the Statesman mile
at 1 p.m., highlight the big track
and field day. Jim Bailey and
Bill Dellinger from the Univer
sity of Oregon, two of the coun
try's best milers, will oppose
each other in this event.
The 100-yard dash pits Gor
don Busse and Sam McWhirter,
Fort Lewis soldiers who have
been clocked in 9.6 against such
aces as Jack Morris of Oregon,
Ray Duncan of Seattle Pacific
and Sam Wesley of Oregon
State.
The high hurdles will feature
Dean Benson, Willamette's de
fending champion against such
stars as Dean Singer of Wash
ington and Dave ' Klicker of
Whitman. . - .
State To Burn Up
Cigarette Stamps
Salem (U.R) Some 11,000,000
cigarette tax stamps will go up
in smoke at a special burning
ceremony at the state incinera
tor here Tuesday.
State Tax Commissioner Ray
Smith said the commission
bought the stamps for adminis
tration of a 1941 cigarette tax
of two cents a package.
But the tax was killed in a
referendum and the commission
has saved the stamps for 15
years.
The 1955 Legislature passed
a three-cent cigarette tax, but
it too has been referred to the
people and commissioners de
spair of ever being able to use
the stamps.
Smith said the national trend
is away from using stamps, any
way. He said the commission
hopes to get back some of the
$3,500 the stamps cost by selling
some of them to collectors.
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By UNITED PRESS
Washington Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson on Ameri
can and Russian atomic stockpiles:
"Within a reasonable number of years, we are almost bound to
get into a condition sometimes described as 'atomic plenty' where
both side have-enough military power to practically wipe out the
world." "
Denver Louis B. Seltzer, editor of ihe Cleveland Press, on the
late Ernie Pyle's "inspired anxiety" for the "little fellow":
"Inspired anxiety is something we must feel every time a busi
ness trip or some other errand takes us through the slum district
of a city. It is something we must feel every time we see the ugly
face of religious and racial hatred and intolerance."
Clarksdale, Miss. The Clarksdale Press-Register on its solu
tion to most local juvenile problems:
"About 50 parents taking about 50 seconds to take 50 sets of
keys to 50 high price automobiles from 50 high school students."
New York Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People, on a southern
segregation leader's charge that the NAACP has "infiltrated" the
South's teenagers with "rock-and-roll" music:
"Some people in the South are blaming us for everything from
measles to atomic fallouts."
Is That So?
By Eugene Burnt
Ranger-Naturalist
Hor.g Kong, with Japan Air
Lines What Diamond Head is
to' Honolulu, Vesuvius to Naples,
Gibraltar to Spain, Victoria
peak is to this British colony of
Hong Kong. (Can you guess
which of these is 3,858 feet,
1,809, 1,396 and 761 feet in ele
vation?) To catch the first sunset, I
went on the funicular up Vic
toria's side. Many claim the
reward is one of the most spec
tacular views in the world. Who
could disagree?
As the brilliant sunset faded,
lifting from the smooth harbor
and out of the many island tops,
lights came on: first, it seemed
on the many ferries .interweav-
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ing between this island of Hong
Kong to Kowloon peninsula;
then the ships lighted; finally
the streets, and then the homes.
The many-colored neon lights
were striking yet something
seemed missing, and then you
knew: unlike those which play
on the Ginza in Tokyo, these
neon lights are unmoving.
Distance tones down the glare
of the lights and they look like
a brilliant scattering of jewels.
All the buildings you look at
are less than 100 years old. That
is because a hundred years ago,
the population was less than
5,000 living in dingy huts. To
day Hong Kong is a modern city
with a population greater than
Philadelphia's, 2,750,000. Many
are refugees from Red China
they have given up most of their
worldly goods to hold tight to
something more precious, per
sonal freedom.
Hong Kong is a city that ships
built it was ceded by China to
England in 1841 and became a
free port. ,It is still a shipping
city; in fact, today it depends
upon ships to bring it bread and
butter.
Pottery and stone unearthed
in Hong Kong confirm that the
city was inhabited about 3,000
years ago. In Chinese, Hong
Kong means fragrant harbor.
Running Water Unlimited
Water is scarce: due to over
crowding running water is ob
tainable in my hotel, the Penin
sula, from 5-7 p.m. only.
There are thousands of junks
mostly with russet-colored sails
made up of old flour bags, bits
of sacking, ordinary blue coolie
cloth. Patches on patches.
Many are the uses of these
junks: for lightering, for fish
ing, for fetching provisions from
adjacent islands or the main
land; but many are shore-based,
the permanent homes of large
families who carry their posses
sion with them and eat and sleep
within the narrow confines
among chickens, pots, ropes, etc.
The small children of these
"water squatters" seem to get
their sea-legs almost before they
can walk, and have a paddle in
their hands soon after. They
seldom cry. Smiles are frequent.
About once a month, junk
owners clean down the hull and
burn grass under it to destroy
the toredo worm, a devastating
tropical borer which drills a hole
about the size of a .303 bullet
even though the wood be teak.
Hong Kong's climate, not un
like Honolulu's, is best from
September through March; the
rainy season is mainly from May
through July; the warmest, hu
mid months from June through
August. It is near the Tropic,
of Cancer almost as the same
latitude as Havana, Honolulu,
Calcutta, and Mecca in Saudi
Arabia.
Downpours Damaging
Typhoons giant twisters
with incredible violence de
velop in the tropical Pacific al
most the year 'round, but they
usually strike the South China
coast between June and Novem
ber, mostly September. Winds
may reach 110-mile an hour ve
locities; but it is usually the tor
rential downpours which do the
most damage.
Now in spring, while the
northward migration is on, it is
possible when beginning at
dawn's first blush to count up
wards of 50 varieties of birds,
many singers.
In the valleys, it is not un
usual to see porcupine and bark
ing deer; civet cats and pango
lines scaly ant-eaters also
rove the bleak hills. Occasion
ally, one may see a monkey, fox
and a mongoose. Rarely, a l0
pard or tiger. Although highly
dangerous cobras and pythons
are fairly numerous, they are
seldom seen and records of snake
bites are exceedingly rare.
About those elevations Ve
suvius, 3,858 feet; Victoria, 1,809;
Gibraltar, 1,396; Diamond Head,
761 feet. Outside of Vesuvius,
were you' correct?. Me, I lost a
dinner wager on it.
(Copyright, 1956,
by Eugene Burns)
(Released by McClure
Newspaper Syndicate)
Friday, March 30, 1958
A Nkhol's Worth of . . .
Comment On This and That
MEDFORD (OREGON MAIL TRIBUNE THIRTEEN
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
United Press Feature Writer
Washington (U.R) The gov
ernment has been fussing with
its big wheels for a long time
about scuttling
gobbled y
gook. Long
sentences, de
pendent clau
ses and met
aphors and
other bits of
c o m p o s i
tion that don't
mate up have
plagued them
Harman Nichols tr years.
So the General Service Admin
istration is advocating a set of
rules for writing. Mostly it has
to do with how to write a letter.
In our profession it is preached
from the pulpit every day that
writing a news story is some
thing like writing a letter. You
just sit down and tell your type
writer what happened. If you
have a smart typewriter, some
times things come out spelled
right and make a little sense.
A Rose Is a Rose
Our leaders tell us sensible
things about never using a word
you can't spell. And we're told
not to get the folks mixed up by
calling a cat a feline when every
body knows a cat is a cat. The
same goes for dogs and canines;
a dog is a dog.
Well, the GSA has taken a
step forward with 17 rules for
plainly Written letters in down
to earth English.
Here are some of the GSA's
dos and donts:
Don't make a habit of repeat
ing what is said in the letter you
answer.
Avoid needless words and
needless information.
Beware of roundabout preposi
tional phrases, such as "with
regard to" and "in reference to."
Don't qualify your statements
with irrelevant "ifs"
Know your subject so well
that you can discuss it naturally
and confidently.
Violate Own Rules
Be compact. Don't seperate
closely related parts of sentences.
Tie thoughts together so your
reader can follow you from one
to another without getting lost.
Milwaukee Columnist
Innocent of Libel
Oregon City (U.R) A Cir
cuit Court jury yesterday re
turned an innocent verdict in
the $30,000 libel suit trial of J.
H. Van Winkle, one time colum
nist for the Milwaukie Review.
The newspaper was not a de
fendant in the action.
The action had been brought
by Robert B. Jones, former
Clackamas county commissioner,
who claimed his reputation was
brought into "disgrace and con
tempt" by a Van Winkle column
reporting courthouse activities.
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Use more active verbs.
Don't hedge. Avoid expres
sions like "it appears."
Use words that stand for hu
man beings, like the names of
persons, and the personal pro
nouns like "you, he, she, we and
the like."
Admit your mistakes. Don't
hide them behind meaningless
words.
The GSA winds up with this
word of advice: "Do not be obse
quious or arrogant." Sort of
violates rule No. 7 which says
"use only short words."
"Arrogant," of course, means
bossy. But that other one sent
this tired old hand to the dic
tionary. "Obsequious," it seems,
means fawning or servile.
Now if these GSA fellows
would only practice what they
preach.
Dippers Head for Banks
Of Sandy for Smelt Run
Troutdale, Ore. (U.R) Dip
pers by the hundreds flocked to
the banks of the Sandy river to
day as a "heavy" smelt run head
ed upstream.
The smelt entered the Sandy
shortly after 6 p.m. yesterday.
The sheriff's office reported the
run was big and that the silvery
little fish were thick at the
mouth of the stream.
A big weekend "take" was ex
pected by both amateur and com
mercial fishermen before the
stream closes for 24 hours at
midnight Sunday.
Ike May Send Envoy
To Monaco Wedding
Washington (U.R) Presi
dent Eisenhower is thinking
about sending a personal repre
sentative to attend Grace Kelly's
wedding to the Prince of Monaco,
April 19.
Survivors Quizzed
In Philadelphia Blast
Philadelphia (U.R) Fire
Department investigators ques
tioned survivors today in an at
tempt to learn what caused
Wednesday night's grain ele
vator explosion that killed at
least two men, injured 84 other
Fire Marshal William Eckles
said the earth-shaking blast ap
parently was a grain dust ex
plosion, but there was consid
erable doubt as to what ignited
the dust. He. mentioned the
lighting of a gas-operated grain
dryer or a spark from repair
equipment in the grain elevator
as possible causes.
Wilfred Sutton, superintend
ent of the granary, said he doubt
ed the theory of a dust explosion.
He said both ends of the un
heated grain warehouse were
open and that' dust in the air
would have to be "very dense"
to cause such a blast.,
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