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Six Members Join Toastmasters Club The Medford Toastmasters club accepted six new members Monday night at the Medford Hotel, according to Tom Ander on, president. New members are Dave Irv ing, Ernest Duece, Paul Jorgen son, Kurt Butterfield. Glen Jen nings and Joe Platz. W. G- Beard, in welcoming new members, dis cussed the club's purpose in teaching public speaking through constructive criticism, planned programs, and participation every week. Jack Canon, the topicmaster, presented two-minute topics for the members. Toastmaster Mur ray Dumas introduced Tom An derson. Russ Mitchell, Doug Roach, and Cliff Ouellette, main speakers at the meeting. General critic for the even ing was Lou Skinner with in dividual criticism on the main speakers by Gaylen Knox, W. G. Beard, Cap Vandagrift, and Dan Hull. The program was evaluat ed by Robert Kyle. Ralph Hibbs is scheduled as toastmaster for April 30. The speakers will be Al Bradford, Ron Cardon, Dan Hull and Lou Skinner. Tax Group Findings Reported at Luncheon Frank Van Dyke, chairman of the legislative committee of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, reported at the chamber roundtable Monday the committee's findings of a tax study. General findings of the com mittee were published several weeks ago. The tax report included nine recommendations in which the committee urged the repeal of the 6 per cent limitation, an in crease in the number of quali fied personnel in the county as sessor's office, and the creation of a tax supervisory and conser vation commission in counties of more than 50,000 population to have authority over taxing bodies within the counties. Residents intending to file complaints coicerning their taxes in order to be heard be fore the board of equalization are asked to file them by May 14, Van Dyke said. Extensive Oil Search Under Way By American Firm in Egypt Desert Plans Near Comoletion For Mock Convention Eugene Plans are nearing Completion for the mock political convention May 11 at the Univer sity of Oregon. It will be a Dem ocratic convention, similar to the mock Republican convention four years ago. Delegates to the mock Dem ocratic convention will nominate a candidate for the November presidential race. Each univer sity living organization will rep resent a different state and del egate will be assigned in propor tion to the actual population of the state. By PETER WEBB United Press Correspondent Cairo (U.R) The world's most extensive search for oil is tak ing place in the Egyptian desert over one of the most famous battlefields of World War II El Alamein. It is a dangerous search be cause one false step means sud den death. There are still nearly 6,000.000 landmines, boobytraps and unexploded shells littering the area where Britain's "Desert Rats" and Rommel's Afrika Korps fought. But underneath could be one of the world's richest oil fields. Its discovery would change the economic face of Egypt and dras tically affect her policy toward both Russia and the Western world. The search is being conducted by the American-owned Sahara Petroleum Co., representing four of three biggest United States oil concerns t h e Continental Oil Co., the Ohio Oil Company, Cities Service Company and the Rich field Oil Corporation. Already they have ploughed nearly $20,000,000 into an ex ploration which extends over 90, 000 square miles from the Nile to Libya. No oil has been found yet but research has confirmed the presence of rock formations which could contain oil deposits comparable to the other great Mid-East fields. The search was described by one company official as the "most intensive ever carried out in the history of oil." There are 12 ground parties in the field and complete aerial surveys have been made. What makes it unique is that every foot of land has first to be cleared of mines laid in a crazy jigsaw pattern by British, Germans and Italians. As one engineer put it, "You play out in that desert as though you were in a nest of rattlesnakes." Around El Alamein alone three thousands of war dead lie in two giant cemeteries beside the desert road there are 900,000 unexploded mines. Thousands more surround such battlefields at Sidi Barrani and Mersa Mat ruh every one of them still deadly after 15 years beneath the desert sands. Americans Clear Mines The mine clearing is being conducted by a crack team of American demolition experts who learned their trade from Germany to Guadalcanal. They already have destroyed 80,000 tons of mines and shells in a year. The area cleared represents a 20-foot wide path 3750 miles long more than the distance across the United States. "So far we have not had any casualties," the engineer said. "But it's a job where you can't afford to get careless. "At first we used to lift the mines by hand but booby traps and uncertain effects of age and weather made that too danger ous. Now we blow them up with dynamite, as we find them." The chance of discovering oil makes the risks worthwhile since it could completely change Egypt's rickety economy and provide Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser with the money he needs for such projects as the giant Aswan Dam. It would also make him inde pendent of both East and West and confirm Egypt's leadership of the Arab world. While his armies face Israel in Egypt's eastern desert, the real solution of his problems may be buried beneath the battlefields where thousands already have died. 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