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TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, May 20, 1956 Cloud Seeding. Experiments Due By Forest Service By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribun Correipondtnt Washington The Forest Ser vice will soon start experiments in cloud seeding to see if it can reduce the number of for est fires touch ed off by light ning. Each year lightning starts more than 6 000 fires m west ern for ests, according a. Bobu smith to Forest Ser vice surveys. In the national forests of the Pacific Coast states lightning accounts for about 42 per cent of all forest fires. The foresters have determined to attack the problem with the latest scientific equipment. They have acquired a specially built mobile radar unit which is now being hauled to Coconino Na tional Forest in Arizona, where the tests will be conducted. Radar will be employed to detect approaching electric storms, track their courses and analyze them for later study. Some of the clouds in the storms will be seeded with chemicals and others will not and radar will assist in comparing the re sults oMhe seeding by compar ing what happens to each storm cloud. Cloud seeding will be on an exploratory basis only. Silver iodide will be used, being pro jected from a ground generator into ascending air currents or from an airplane. The chemical crystals foster formation of ice crystals, which in turn is ex pected to affect the lightning potential of storm clouds. Motion picture cameras mounted on fire lookout towers will record the life cycle of lightning storms. While experiments have been underway for the past three years on lightning-caused fires, this is the first time the Forest Service has used radar in forest fire control. The unit was in stalled on a truck trailer adapted for this special purpose by the U.S. Weather Bureau. ROLLER COASTER RIDE Washington U.R) Moham med Guntur Sikarno, 12-year-old son of President Sukarno of Indonesia, had a ride on a roller coaster Friday. Patricia and Julie Nixon, daughters of Vice President Riqhard Nixon, played host to the young Indonesian at nearby Glen Echo Amusement Park.' Pickin' Pears News and Notes From Camp White By BILL HURN Saturday, May 12, VA Em ployees association sponsored its first program of this seasons of ficers at Employees club build ing with a white elephant party, The program was for both chil dren and adults. Featured acts were the dunking mermaids Joan McReady of special serv ices and Carolyn Vincent of Domiciliary; musical cake-walk and other games with proceeds from entry fees going to the VAEA activity fund. Bowling trophies were award ed. The team prize went to Charles Gould's team. Bob and Vera Findley copped the indi vidual high averages for the men and the women's groups. Refreshments of hot dogs, popcorn, coffee and pop were served. A pot-luck dinner is planned for June. American Legion auxiliary 15 of Medford entertained Monday afternoon at Recreation hall with games, candy and cigar ettes. Dorothy Gilford, presi dent, Gloria Minneci, Ruth Freed, Theresa Bebz and Minnie Bryant were on the committee. - More than 6,000,000 germs can be carried by the common house fly. The May Veterans Adminis tration volunteer service meet ing was held in the newly reno vated bridge room of recreation area building 218 on Monday. May 14. F. J. Glonning, chief of spe cial services, presided, welcom ing and introducing visitors and new staff and committee mem bers. He reviewed the month's activities of accomplishments of VAVS, outlined the agenda to be considered at this meeting and reported the donation cred its of contributing organizations. H. Jaffrey, assistant manager, gave a resume of his trip to Washington, D.C., where he was a speaker at the Walter Reed Medical center there before me sessions of the Interagency Com mittee on Training and Educa tion of Federal Hospital admin istrative personnel. He also pre sented an outline of Camp White domiciliary new developments completed and surveyed needs now under consideration and progress. Four wards are now fully equipped, and back in use and the progress on the park project of the area between the build ings and the highway and ex tending from the entrance past the ball park was reported. An nouncement of a budget increase raising the quota from 820 to 860 "members was given. Tours of inspection of the fa cility by VA field staff during the recent weeks along the lines of the developments were cited. 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On the dining room chair sugges tion, volunteer response made by the ladies present provided for 250 or practically half of the needed number. Introduction of individual de partmental staff officials and new officers was made by Glon ning. Dr. Wallace J. Planka, chief medical officer, reviewed medi cal procedure of admittance, medical planning and rehabili tation services for each domicil iary member. . Chaplain Lawrence E s k a y spoke in observance of the 10th anniversary of the National Catholic Community service group and recited its accom plishments. Herbert Daniels, chief of so cial services, spoke of the work ings of Social Service Emergen cy fund for members aid. Loren Dover, registrar, report ed on his duties in this newly established post at Camp White Chaplain Feller, Miss Grace M. Stuhr, chief nurse, Mrs. Ila R. Evans, librarian, Mrs. Sue Vincent, fiscal division, Mrs. Enid Brown, secretary to Ricker, Clarence Bryan, canteen officer, R. H. Ruffin, chief domiciliary officer, H. J. Heitkamper, per sonnel officer, and Walter Lee, supply officer were introduced. Ruffin spoke of possibility of change of the hour for funeral services from 9 to 9:30 a.m. and it was voted to do so. Mrs. Mar ian Cech of Gold Star Mothers, reported on the floral fund'.- Lee outlined the modernization pro gram to be submitted later. Under consideration of new business, George Perry of VFW, was added to the Park commit tee. Plans for the Memorial day observance were presented. Acknowledgment were ex pressed by Glonning of appre ciation, for the success of the VAVS anniversary observance week. The souvenir program of National headquarters observ ance was circulated. E. K. Ricker, manager, and Mrs. Ricker, and Burton R. Sims, chief engineer, with Mrs. Sims arrived at the meeting aft er meeting Glenn Stevens, direc tor of engineering service, de partment of medicine and sur gery from Washington on his first visit to Oregon and this facility, who spoke to the group. Dave Frisch, member in charge of the Jig-Saw puzzle room in building 218 was intro duced and invited the guests to visit his department. Those do ing so were presented with sou venir landscape scenes of com pleted puzzles glued to the dis carded cartons collected by members. Red Cross was in charge of recreation at the infirmary Wednesday. Gray ladies Mrs. Lillian Salade, Mrs. Martin Luther and Mrs. Amee Deuel entertained. Bill Keizur, service officer of Central Point American Legion Post 129, sponsored an open air concert of the Central Point Junior high 120 piece band Wednesday under the direction of Harry Meyers. Presentation of the group was by F. J. Glon ning, chief special services, whose staff handled arrange ments. Mrs. Ila R. Evans, librarian, was hostess for a travel talk on Mexico Wednesday at the libra ry by' Mel Krows of Medford Mr. and Mrs. Krows made a seven week, 6.000 mile auto tour along the west coast from No gales to Mexico City and back via the east route to El Paso. A question and answer period with the 50 members attending supplemented his talk. Blue Star Mothers of Grants Pass spent Wednesday with their adopted proteges of Ward one, Section A. The morning was spent in sewing, visiting and letter-writing with games, ice cream with cookies in the afternoon. Mrs. Francis Wilson, Mrs. Martha Erlitz, Mrs. Bessie Gentry, Mrs. Ruth Harmon and Mrs. Edna McKenzie comprised the visiting group. Navy Mothers of America 46 of Medford held a 25 table card party in the theater Wednesday. The ladies brought a full dele gation of partners for the card players consisting of Mesda'mes Myrtle Coggins, Laura Wicker, Doris Davies, Anna Kuhl, Lola Ludwig, Ann Rogers, Irene Stelle, Josie Hober, Fern Bean, Elsa Walker, Elsie Alexander, Nellie Gibson, Mabel Nickelson, Velma . Showers, Ann McCor mick, Ida Ireland, Minnie Col ver, Edith Orton and as their guests Mr. and Mrs. Linn Elliott. Dead line for Sunday Classified U at noon Saturday. Harlan L. F. Wendell Rotary Club Slates Talk by Du Pont Man Harlan L. P. Wendell, mana ger of the Pacific district of the Du Pont public relations depart ment extension division, will ad dress members of the Medford Rotary club Tuesay, May 22. Wendell, who has spoken to more, than 200 service clubs throughout the Pacific coast area, will tell the story of Amer ican progress and point out fac tors which create progress. He will show examples how Amer icans have "unlocked the door" to production. Wendell joined the Du Pont company in 1948 and was given a year's leave of absence in Sep tember, 1953, to accept an ap pointment as public relations ad viser to Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, former secretary of health, edu cation and welfare in the Eisen hower cabinet. He has been an assistant editor of the Du Pont company employee publication, head of the plant publication ser vice and a member of the com pany's information division. Grange Jackson County Pomona Grange The next meeting of the Jack son County Pomona Grange will be held May 26 in the Central Point Grange hall at 8 p.m., when the fifth degree will be exemplified. A rehearsal of the degree team has been called for Sunday, May 20, at 8 p.m. at' the Central Point Grange hail. All members of the team are urged to attend. Phoenix Grange Phoenix Grange will meet Tuesday, May 22, at 8 p.m. ' The Graces will have charge of the program. Eagle Point Grange Eagle Point Grange met May 15 with a large attendance from visiting Granges. The principal business was exemplification of the third and fourth degrees. The following candidates were present: Fred Breugger, Upper Rogue, Mr and Mrs. Cox, Grif fin Creek, Mr. and Mrs. Rabbet, Lake Creek, and Mr. and Mrs. Bartholomew, Eagle Point. Mrs. Paul Force was in charge of tableaux. The following masters were honored: Herb Carlton, Isabel LeVander,' Orie Moore and M. Bartling. Mrs. Beryl Hixon received a silver 25 year pin. It was reported that petitions in regard to a fire protection district have been returned and that an election will be held soon. Pipe for the sprinkler system in the Grange park has been de livered and will be laid soon. HEC will meet May 31 at 1 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Jack Huffman with Mrs. Sam Keim as co-hostess. Refreshments of pie and cookies were served by Messers and Mesdames Swingle, Ed Hayes and Ray Harnish. Gold Hill Grange The Gold Hill Grange met May 17, with a good attendance. Mr. and Mrs. Herb Carlton visit ed. He is the Pomona master. The lecture hour was a me morial program, readings by Alva Walker, and Nell McCloy and tableaux. The floral decorations for the meeting were of the many, flow ers now blooming. The display table was a collection of Mr. and Mrs. Walker. The Grange presented a gift to the Kampings for their little daughter. Grange closed with their re tiring drill. The next serving committee will be Mrs. Elliot and the Rev. and Mrs. Dierdorff. Each August, townsmen' of Bayonne, France, set fighting bulls free to roam the streets. Amateur bullfighters delight in risking injury or even death by exposing themselves as moving targets. Dr. Ralph S. Anderson CHIROPRACTIC PHYSICIAN Has Opened Offices At 100 MADISON PLACE Between Queen Ann and Jackson Street BY APPOINTMENT ONLY! PHONE 2-5997 Tourist Promotion Plan Is Adopted Directors of the Oregon Motor Court association from the state adopted a five-year tourist pro motion program at a board meet ing in Portland last Monday and Tuesday. The program was proposed by a committee of which Ed Bolt, Gold Hill, is chairman. The committee suggested a meeting of all business interests of the state to examine the value of the tourist dollar and to plan for the development of a comprehensive public relations program for Ore gon as a vacation land. Objectives of the program are to bring more out-of-state travel ers and vacationists to Oregon; to encourage out-of-state tourists to spend more vacation time in Oregon; and to inspire Oregon ians to spend more vacations, holidays and week ends within the state. First step in reaching these ob jectives, the association pointed out, will be to conduct a large scale survey of present tourist promotion efforts. The survey will be conducted on a regional, state, sectional, community and individual basis. , Twenty-seven of the officers and 36 directors of the state's trade association Jor motels, re sorts and trailer parks, repre senting all counties in Oregon, attended the session. Authorities Study Students' Charges Orange, Calif. (U.R) Chap man college authorities are in vestigating two Panama ex change students' charges that they were ordered to move from their apartment because they are "colored." The students, Mavis Peart, 26, and , Eunice Mason, 20,' both of Panama City, Panama, said Fri day the owner of the apartment, Dr. E. V. Lewis, made the order on the ground that he received complaints from other . tenants. The women said Lewis told them other tenants complained they "did not want to live in the same building with Negroes." The girls quoted Lewis as saying "it would be better all around if you left." It was less than five miles away in another section of Or ange county that Olympic div ing champion Sammy Lee was refused a home because of his Korean ancestry. Lee, however, move'd to nearby Anaheim where UUI!UWII.4J(IUMiiUlil" U."W IWUW UWUIUWUI n? RECEIVES SCHOLARSHIP Murray S Gardiner, assistant manager of the California-Pacific Utilities company southern Oregon and Shasta divisions has been awarded a scholarship to a public utility executives course at the University of Idaho July 10-August 3 in Moscow, Idaho. Gardiner is one of four company employees receiving scholarship this year. Included in factors for scholarship winner selection - is outstanding job performance. 4-H Club News Phoenix 4-H Club The Phoenix 4-H Club met May 11. We made $34 on the pie social and everyone had a lot of fun. We decided to sponsor a summer school scholarship since' five of our members are going. They are Virginia Martin, Ron Daugherty, Charles Swingle, Bobby Holt, and Henry Scott. We also decided to give S5 to the May Festival queen. We are going to sponsor a booth at the festival which Bobby Holt, Charles Swingle and Henry Scott are building. For a float in the parade Gene Holt, Nedra Harris, Virginia Marten and Bobby Holt are working together. For entertainment, Jimmy Higginbothom on a clarinet and Freddy Swingle on a trumpet played a duet. Freddy also played a solo. A play by the Sheep club was given. The actors were Charles Martin, Jeff Fow ler, Lorna Fowler and Renee Johnson, and Virginia Daugherty said a poem. Virginia Martin Reporter American Becomes Japanese Citizen Tokyo (U.R) A 33-year-old former American soldier who .fought against the Japanese in World War II disclosed Saturday he has become a naturalized Jap anese citizen. Robert Sager, 33, of Bradley, Mich., said he got his final pa pers May 7. He is the first Amer ican to be granted Japanese citi zenship since the end of the war. Sager fought the Japanese in the Philippines and New Guinea. He came to Japan with the occu pation forces in October, 1945, and decided he liked it. He went to the United States and completed his college educa tion in Portland, Ore., and then returned to Japan in 1952 to stay. He is married to a Japan ese girl and they have a young daughter. He teaches English at Waseda university. residents welcomed the former major and his wife. FALLING TANK Portland (U.R) A huge tank holding thousands of gallons of waterSaturday plunged from the reof of the Roberts Bros, depart ment store here before business hours and tore a gaping hole through the center of the build ing as it went through three stories to the basement. Officials of the firm said damage to the building and merchandise was extensive. Average person in the U. S. u"--;.s ubi ut 20 pounds of tex tiles each year. One of five Australians is a resident either of Sydney or Melbourne. HOW CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALS Station KWIN 1400 K.C. Sundays 10:15. 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