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They'll Do It Every J EVER NOTICE? "THE EMPTY-HANDED TRAVELERS 41 L RIGHT THROUGH THE G4TE-N0 TROUBLE WH4TSO.' Is That So? . Few outdoor pleasures can be so stimulating and refreshing as swimming. Many's the time I've peeled off my fishing clothes, taken a cool dip with my part ner, lunched on a sandwich, dried prunes and chocolate, stretched, out in the shade to study the wildlife, and then th.nkfully picked up my box of flies and rod and finished out a perfect day. But unfortunately this sum mer, as in all summers, swim ming accidents will occur most of them unnecessary. So right now, resolve to do something about it. And I mean, resolve not just to learn how to swim. but how to avoid a broken neck, or perhaps how to save your friends lue. Remember, even the best swimmers can and do get into trouble. The person who cannot swim should get instruction, prefer ably from a competent instruc tor in a supervised pool. You'll be amazed how quick ly you can learn to swim. That's because the human comes by it naturally, as do all mammals. It is not unusual for a child to learn to swim faster than he can learn to walk! Learn How To Float First, learn how to float. You'd be surprised how many people will have to be rescued this summer because they could not float. Others will drown, simply because in their panic they forget to keep hands and arms under water, and do what comes naturally float. (For a few persons, it is impossible to float they've got big bones and heavy muscles. This may even include some of the world's greatest swimmers. So, if you can't float, don't worry.) Once you learn to swim, learn the backstroke. Many a tired swimmer might have collapsed had he not known the back stroke to rest fatigued muscles. And now, because drowning persons might often enough be rescued; and because would-be rescuers are all too often drown ed, here are some common-sense rules I learned when I was a First Class Scout and before I became a forest ranger. They are still good. Before you go to the rescue, strip to your shorts. Remove your shoes. Practice beforehand taking your camp clothes off in a hurry. I used to do it before bedding down for the night. At first, it may take you 45 sec onds; then 30 and, eventually. you'll trim it down to 15 sec onds without losing a button. Because most accidents occur near shore, see if you can ef fect the rescue with a stick, branch, or your shirt knotted to your pants leg. If you must get into the wa ter, always jump in feet first. G4TE-N0 TROUBLE I UA.M; K0 KlDOlM' ? mh Mm jgi Announcing THE OPENING of Swem's BIG Y RECORD and BOOK SHOP for Your Convenience NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS. Watch For Grand Opening ANNOUNCEMENT Time Sut P0ORP4CXX THE HUMAN MOVING YOU MBdM TU4T ctnusn m tub VilN-HE GETS THE WH04-4ND-SHOW TRE4TMEMT By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist Never dive. In strange water you never know what may be sticking up under the water to break your neck. Practice jump ing in beforehand until you can get under way without even get ting your head wet. Because many a frightened person in frenzied panic grasps, claws and pulls at a would-be rescuer, approach the drowning person from behind. Assure him calmly: "Take it easy, we'll be out in a minute." Better yet, and for your own safety, learn to swim with your shirt in your teeth. Then, as you 7-2.-56 approach the struggling person, throw the shirt end to him and tow him in. Many Lives To Be Lost Many a life will be lost this summer in sinking boats, rafts, or upset canoes. A wind may spring up, the craft may develop a leak, or become waterlogged. Again, if dressed, peel off your clothes and shoes. Then, by all means, stay by your craft. Even when full of water, a wooden boat without an engine, a can vas and wood boat, or a wooden canoe, will hold up more people in the water when full of vater than it will carry when empty. Keep all those who were in the boat from trying to swim ashore. Right the boat. If neces sary, let the weakest swimmer remain in the boat. Then keep ing as low in the water as pos sible, the others can grab hold of the boat with one hand and swim with the other to safety. For a safe swim, I must add these precautions."' Memorize them. 1. Always jump feet first into water over your head in depth. I 2. Learn to swim fifty yards. 3. Never swim alone. 4. Wait until two hours after a meal. 5. Never dive into strange water. 6. Nev er take a dare to show off; or JUMBO CAUSES JAM Chicago (U.R) State police didn't quite know what to do Sunday when called to clear a suburban traffic jam caused by a 9,000-pound elephant. The elephant and the police just stood there until the animal's handler, George W. Boone, ar rived to explain he went for help after using the elephant, Big Babe, to haul his stalled truck off the street. By Jimmy Hatlo SHOWVOUR TICKETS ALL PASSENGERS MUST SHOW THEIR I JCKETS.' horse-play in the water. 7. Nev er swim distances without being accompanied by a boat 8. As a ranger who has been summoned needlessly and aged thereby by boys faking drowning and calling for help, may I add: Never call for help unless you need it. But vhen you need it, call with might and main, and keep calling! (Copyright, 1956. by Eugene Burns) Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the readers who send me the best true-life nature adventure, the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife, a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous refer ence work in a handsome Seal craft binding. Each week new submissions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: Is That So! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Penitentiary Inmates Clean Riot Wreckage Pendleton, Ind. U.R) Prison ers today cleaned up the wreck age left by 25 rioting inmates in the Indiana State Reformatory mess hall. Two guards and seven in mates were wounded, none se riously, in the half-hour uprising Sunday. Damage to the mess hall and an adjoining storeroom was estimated at $1000. The riot began during a base ball game between the prison team and a visiting industrial KEES7.DI?aMErt8 Electric Range o $1QQ95 ) VfStt Tt' I V jf OLD RANGE It's A Fully Automatic Electric Range 11 tO I' At A Price Anyone Can Afford I - Hr g A Really Deluxe VScvtcvaR V ' " cpgjlhrJrry'-4i DRIVE I" PPKiwfrT??r Jjfc&u Stalin Popularity Prevented Rebuff During Lifetime Moscow (U.R) Russia's Communist leaders said today it was "no lack of personal cour age" that prevented them from opposing Josef Stalin's "cult of personality" while he lived. They said the Russian people would have misunderstood. Stalin was too popular. They also slapped the wrists of satellite party leaders who had reproved the Moscow leader ship for not stopping Stalin while he lived. The explanation came in a long declaration by the Commu nist Party's Central Committee published in the official party organ Pravda and broadcast by. radio Moscow. The statement covered two full pages in Pravda. , Replies To Criticism The declaration, adopted by the powerful committee June 30, replied to criticisms voiced by Communist parties abroad against the campaign to dis credit Stalin. Some foreign Communist leaders have asked why the present Soviet leaders tolerated Stalin. Pravda carried such criticism this week in re printing an editorial from the New York Daily Worker. It was no "lack of personal courage" that prevented the present leaders from "taking an cpen stand against Stalin and removing him from leadership," the statement asserted. Say Acts Restricted It said that "since the success of socialist construction and the consolidation of the USSR were attributed to Stalin . . . any action against him . . . would not have been understood by the people." The statement claimed, how ever that during the war years "individual acts of Stalin were sharply restricted . . ." It said that during this pe riod Central Committee mem bers and "outstanding Soviet war commanders" made "in dependent" decisions "in the rear and at the front." But after the victory, it added, "the nega tive consequences of the cult of personality re-emerged with great force." Bulk tanks have replaced the old milk pan on at least 15,000 U.S. dairy farms. Most of this chore-saving change has taken place since 1951, says the U.S. Department of Agriculture. squad. A group of prisoners arose from bleachers seating al most the entire prison popula tion of 2300 and stormed the sol itary confinement building. It ended when the inmates emerged from the ransacked mess hall into a hail of shotgun fire from guards posted along the walls. The guards fired low, inflicting wounds in the legs of the prisoners. DELUXE AUTOMATIC Si Seven Babies a Minute . . . ' Early in the 1920s, when for est industry at Port Angeles began to clean up the messes left by the U.S. Spruce Corpora tion of World War I and by the coastal hurricane of 1921, the national consumption of pa per was down around 150 pounds per person each year. Rising to a couple of hundred pounds per capita in 1929, paper consump tion coasted with the economic depressibn years, then climbed to 1955 paper use at the rate of 418 pounds for each man, woman and child in the U.S.A. J. D. Zellerbach cited these figures to the members of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce the other Friday, and hitched to them the prediction that paper consumption would dou ble in the next 20 years. He said that the guess was, "if anything, on the conservative side." And he added, "Just look at our bumper crop of babies. The current birth rate in the United States is seven babies a minute. To keep up with the needs of this growing population our Ameri can economy is pushing through to ever higher levels of produc tion. Every baby born today cre ates a lifetime demand for at least 15 tons of paper." Sawmill Leftovers . . . And even so the prospects loom ahead for lumber, plywood, shingles, hardboard and other wood products. Lumber is hold ing its own as the basic building material, according to recent studies in forest economics the Stanford University Report, for example. The president of the Crown Zellerbach Corpora tion, in his Seattle talk, looked to lumber as an essential part ner in the coming age of paper. He pointed out that his com pany started 30 years ago in finding ways and means to con vert sawmill leftovers and ply wood cores into pulp for paper. "Today," he said, "these left overs, some of them from Seattle area sawmills, provide 99.7 per cent of -the wood consumed at our Port Townsend pulp mill. In our Washington and Oregon mills alone we are saving the equivalent of 100 million cubic feet of standing timber a year by salvaging the wood residuals of other forest industries." The things Crown Zellerbach is doing in wood research, cou pled with the equally significant work of a great many other forest products industries, hold much new promise for Washing ton and Oregon, Zellerbach said. "They mean new products, new payrolls, new capital in vestments and a constantly im proving market for your timber resources, technical know-how and merchandising skills." Transition Time ... From 1912 to 1938 Washing ton was the No. 1 lumber pro ducing state, then Oregon took Monday, July 2, 1956 JIU STEVENS .sg the lead while the Evergreen State proceeded to wrest the crown for woodpulp production from Louisiana. .This was a nat ural process of transition from old forests to new, and this is now well stabilized, with ob jectives clearly in sight and con trols and guide lines for going forward in good order. Seattle's Chamber of Com merce speaker cited a few items of business that the city derived from just one forest property the Neah Bay Tree Farm. In one year the tree farm purchased from Seattle firms $26,000 worth of wire rope, explosives amount ing to $15,000, culverts costing 520,000, and $40,000 worth of truck tires and tubes. And in Seattle, for the one year, the Neah Bay Tree Farm spent $60,000 for trucks and logging equipment, $65,000 for cook house and commissary- supplies, and $130,000 for hardware and spare parts. All this from just one tree farm, spent in one city in a sin gle year. The record might be multiplied many times over, in terms of tree farms large and small of Western Washington, in various private ownerships. And so it would go in relation to Portland, and to Oregon tree farms. This is business apart from that transacted locally in tree farm towns, where wages and taxes are paid, supplies are bought, farm markets are sup ported, and good works ere fostered. 4-H Club News Antelope Dairy Club On June 26,. the Antelope 4-H Dairy club held a special prac tice night at the Bitterling home. We practiced judging two classes of dairy cows and then Ken Bitterling, Linda Malloroy and Judy Bradshaw gave a short explanation of how to show a dairy animal in a showmanship class. Each of the members pres ent took an animal and practiced leading it around the ring and placing it. Ken Bitterling acted as judge. After the practice, punch, home made ice cream and cookies were served. Jo Anna Malloroy Reporter Beware Wash Tub Wilt When Summer Cottons Are Home Laundered! let the Sanitone COTTON CLINIC Keep your pretty dresses as crisp and nice as new Never before an equal for our Sanitone Cotton Clinic Service to keep dainty Summer cottons at their loveliest. Time after time, it restores the original beauty of colors, patterns and textures at the same time eliminating every trace of dirt, spots and even per spiration. So why not avoid the risk and drudgery of home wash ing? Call for Cotton Clinic Service today. Some States Said Given School Help Above Actual Cost Washington (U.R) Some states getting federal help for school buildings near defense installations received a higher payment rate than the construc tion cost. House staff investiga tors charged today. They said the U.S. Office of Education set a higher rate for federal assistance in some states than was requested and set a rate in some, particularly in the South, to "appease the states" and "to avoid hard feelings." Charges Denied The accusations were denied by officials of the Office of Edu cation. They won praise from House Appropriation Subcom mittee members looking into the program. Under fire was the education office's handling of the program of federal school construction assistance to school districts near military or defense estab lishments. The federal govern ment aids these districts, some 3000 throughout the county, to compensate for increased school enrollment resulting from the federal activity. Contrary To Law In testimony before a House Appropriations Subcommittee released today, a subcommittee staff report said in 1951 and WSJt 1L JP Nil A ni u . .ur j h y w COTTON CLINIC New scientific way to keep dainty cottons immaculate fully restores original body of even the daintiest fabrics. MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREB 1952 that "contrary to the law, entitlement rates for the states were not computed on the basis of actual construction cost of school facilities for the preced ing year." "Rates were established in some instances to appease states," the staff study declared. "In particular, the southeastern states were given identical or similar rates to avoid ill feel ings. "In some instances, states were given a rate which was higher than the rate originally established for the state." Delaware experiment station poultrymen have discovered that broiler rations containing a new drug will prevent heavy hens from producing the rich" pig ment that colors egg shells. 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