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.
Of immediate local importance
to the VAVS group were proj
ects for linen chair backs for
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the 514 dining room chairs. 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
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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
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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.
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