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I i I- Is That So? 'Editor's Kola: In this authoritative amplnf series written .xpreiilv for tta. M4ford Mall Tribune) Ranfrr Gen Burnt dvotes two pleri to alatplnf. The flrt. eood for houte- wiTes, too, dala with btddinr: tha tr- ai. with makinf Tour bed In th woods, other camplnc artlrlra. to clip and paate up, will keep coming i Few fubjects can stir up more eampfire discussion than: "What'i best in camp bedding Rightly, too. It's very important to get the most practical, ade quate and comfortable bedding First, though, let's get this straight: no outdoor bedding of itself generates heat. The body lone furnishes heat although tnis may be helped along ex ternal! y by a campfire. Bed ding's main problem, therefore. Is to Insulate the sleeper keep fl-20-56 In body heat while his heartbeat Is down and prevent too much of it from escaping. To insulate the body properly means your bedding cannot ne glect any side of the sleeper (Ape you'd be surprised how many people don't know this: they still believe the answer is to keep heaping on more cov ers. Haven't you seen the ten derfoot sleep on a thin matress or blanket and keep piling on blankets until their very weight exhausts him by morning?) As for insulation, that does not depend so much on the ma terial itself as on the minute air cells which it contains: the fluffier the material, the small er the air cells, and the more of them, the better the insulation. But there's another thing com fortable bedding must do: that Is, carry off the body's perspira tion. Each night, even though he may "sleep cold," a man's body will give off a pint of perspiration. Now some materi als absorb moisture readily and then give it up more reluc tantly. Cotton Worst Offender Usually the worst offender Is cotton. Haven't you reached out of your camp bed, on a cold morning, for your cotton under wear and socks and found them cold and clammy from the moisture gathered from the at mosphere? Apply this to cotton covered and cotton-lined quilts w - o .aoe .. u- - a .er . .7 afI -JO-"- . tv r . S r at io ,- . e io - V ,a- on" .V By IUGINI BURNS Ranger-Naturalist and you've got the obvious re sult. To compound the fault, the cotton quilting compresses, driving out even more air space. See now why you can slip into your cotton quilt when it's dry and be warm enough but wake up during the night with the blanket cold and clammy? Some wool blankets are bet ter. I say "some" because wool comes in several types: fleecy, fine, medium, and coarse, be sides tightly woven or fluffy. Disregard Bulk If you want the best, avoid the coarse with big air cells and get fleecy, fluffy, or fine woolen blankets, despite the ob vious drawback of bulk. And avoid the closely woven army type: sure they reduce bulk, but brother they are so tightly wov en that they are just about the coldest covering per pound that you can find. Camel hair and llama are best but price makes them almost out of the question. As a rule, down quilts are best at least most experienced woodsmen prefer them. Of the down quilts, eider duck is by far the best, but these are hard to come by. However, there are other downs and the finer they are the more minute and lacy, the better the insulation because of smaller air cells. And, be cause down does not absorb moisture, the bedding will be dry when the camper wakens in the morning. These same basic principles hold true for a sleeping bag. These bags, incidentally, have their good points and bad. Good they can be unfurled almost anywhere with little trouble. In really cold weather there's al most nothing better for warm sleeping. For small children, there's no fear of them tossing off blankets in the night with dangerous exposure. Bad: they give a feeling of restraint be ing too confining. Besides most bags cannot meet the night-tonight changes of temperature, to say nothing of just one night's changes. Another drawback: if the bag is water-tight and the quilting is sewed in and difficult to air in the morning, your sleep ing bag may be fine at first but damp and uncomfortable there after. We'll discuss how to overcome some of these faults, in addition to how to get a good night's rest in next Monday's column. (Copyright, 19SS, 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 reader who sends me the ri to -..tO .VJ",JNJT, 1 'o -a frrYbur CbriVeniencer vm mi mm ALL m including Saturday for ALL Bank Services at FIRST NATIONAL BANK H Ttx only Mrvices are available 10 to 5, six days a week. This enables you to make savings and checking de posits, arrange for loans, have access to your safe deposit box. and vse the many other helpful banking of First National MEDFORD BRANCH FUCIST national bank. .00" .VJO' .t .kt-' ,' 1 U., Timberwolf Division In Field Training The Second battalion, 413th Infantry Regiment, southern Oregon's unit of the Northwest's "Timberwolf division is pre sently in field training at the YakimajFiring Center, Washing ton. The unit consisting of Head quarters and Headquarters Com pany from Medford and "E" Company, Grants Pass, is made up of men from virtually every community in southern Oregon. Commanding officer is Maj. Rob ert A. Elliott, Medford. Review Held The highlight of training for the battalion thus far had been participation in the Governors Day review on Wednesday, Aug 15. Many visitors were present for the review including Gov. Elmon Smith of Oregon, Gov, Arthur B. Langlie of Washing ton, and Maj. Gen. William J. Ennis, deputy Sixth Army com mander. Also present were several young women including two of the Seafair princesses from Seattle, Miss Yakima, Miss USAR, Miss Marine Corps Re serve and Miss Peacnes and Cream. ' Prior to the parade the young women toured the post visiting the troops in the field. After the parade Governor Smith, along with the girls, visited the recruit area. The girls even stayed for evening chow. The training at Yakima con sists of basic training for the men who have had no prior military service, plus advanced and on the job training for pre vious service men. Start Training Basic trainees on their arrival were billeted in "tent city" along with basics or the rest of the division. After being settled Sunday evening they started full time training Monday morning. Their first "training consisted of general subjects such as dis mounted drill, military courtesy, first aid and customs of the serv ice. They they started full time training with the rifle learning mechanical training then going 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 S75, Sausalito, Calif. IT--" 1 o" 1 r . .-rU" to startowfd bonk wfwr ALL at your convenience. OF PORTLAND trrs unto osteon togcthm '-,hC- r..1 .i - -to 1 . c' -JO"" -a.- lav" -.err . lO 1' ii A Niehol's Worth of . . . Comment On Br HAP. MAN W. NICHOLS United Press future Writer Washington U.R What's new in Washington. Vice President Richard M. Nixon has been getting a lot of mail on the campaign of Harold E. Stassen and others to dump him. One let ter from Indi ana said: "If the Stassen Uarman Nlcnola Clump - nixuu truck comes through our town, I'll let the air out of the tires." On Capitol Hill, there is no oratory. Nothing but tourists touring the empty hallowed halls, and painters putting brush to ceiling and walls. Across the Capitol Plaza, there are amateur painters, doing their best to put a likeness of the Capitol on can vas. Some of them dress like they do in New York's parks and Greenwich Village smocks and berets. Things were pretty quiet at the Pentagon, too. On one eight-hour trick during the dark hours, only two telephone calls came in and none went out. "Golly," one op erator said, "all there was to do was drink coffee and play soli taire." The United Mine Workers Journal has a cute cartoon. It shows a fat miner coming home from work, iron hat cocked. Mama is standing at the window with guests watching his ap proach. She says: "Here comes 16 tons now." Brig. Gen. Dale O. Smith has written a book called "U. S. Mili tary Doctrine." It was for cir culation here and the Air Force Concrete ties are being Intro duced on British Railways with the rails fastened in position by rubber washers which absorb vibration and add to the comfort of passing trains. on to the preliminary rifle in struction circle to practice dry firing. The rest of the last week in camp will be taken up with tact ical training. While the basics were going through their phase of training the advanced men were work ing at their regular jobs or were attending various schools to as sist them in their work. The unit will finish training at Saturday noon, Aug. 25, and arrive home on Sunday, Aug. 26. art? w JO- . .jo"- ,D"' -at eVV n:.,o" o1, . MO 1 . .0'"vJ IO O' io s t rf) ,j6-lO 4 ,lO .0 .1 .10' LiO' T' iv.jS.0.--,cvv T.-m-' .1 " This and That general didn't think he would make a nickel on it. He has learned, however, that his brain child has showed up behind the big curtain in Russia. The Rus sians, it seems, are plugging the volume as something that would be good reading for all Russian officers. The book has a lot to do with American military think ing. The Reading Railroad uses this one: "It looks like rain." "Not here in California." "Look at the clouds up there." "They don't mean anything. They're just empties coming back from Florida." The publication called "The Machinist" reports: "Aw, pop, I don't want to study arithmetic." "What! A son of mine grow up and not be able to figure foot ball scores, batting averages and racetrack odds!" According to Bill Gold of the Washington Post, a local lawyer has a two-year-old, who is hep on animal identification. He does fine on the tiger and the anteater and the rest except the ele phant. The kid insists on identi fying the flap-eared pachyderm "Republican." TWO-BURNER HOT PLATE Dominion Brand hot plate it fast and easy to keep clean . . . 1650 watt total. 1000 watt burner has high, medium and low switch, 650 watt burner has on-off switch. Full top is chroma plated. 13 We have the right Garden Hose for your home! PLASTIC or RUBBER Garden Rose Hubbard Bros, stock only full sixe garden hoses, capable of delivering am ple water for all lawn sprinklers. All famous, well advertised brands by B. F. Goodrich Co., United States Rubber Co. and AMEPCO. 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House Speaker Edward Geary, Klamath Falls, took over as act ing governor Monday in the ab sence of Gov. Elmo Smith at the Republican National convention in San Francisco.. However, Geary was to leave on a business trip to California Tuesday night and State Treas urer Sig Unander will serve un til Gov. Smith returns from the GOP convention Thursday night. Oregon law provides that suc cession to the governorship shall run from president of the Sen ate to speaker of the House to secretary of state to state treas urer. However, Oregon has been without a senate president since Gov. Smith advance from that post upon the death of Gov. Paul Patterson. WATER WELL SPOUTS OIL Georgetown, Tex. (U.PJ Mrs. W. H. Percy of the draught hit community of Jonah, seven miles east "of here, wasn't too happy for a woman who had drilled for water and struck oil. The draught had already ruined her grass, shrubs and trees. And now, she said, she can't even run her air conditioner on oil. 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