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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Actor's Son Tells
Of Lover's Quarrel
Hollywood (U.R) Edward
G. Robinson Jr. confessed today
he swallowed four sleeping pills
after a lovers' quarrel so his girl
friend "would feel sorry for me."
The 22-year-old son of the fa
mous "tough guy" actor, now in
a hit play on Broadway, told the
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interview at his bedside at Ce
dars of Lebanon Hospital.
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"suicide attempt." His pals
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ents and his concern over his
role in Marilyn Monroe's movie,
"Bus Stop."
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