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rOUHTEEH MEDrORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Group Hampered By, Antarctic Cold Builds Church McMurdo Sound, Antarctic, via Syracuse, N. Y. U.R) A group of 93 Sea bees and a Cath olic priest, hampered by tem peratures more than 30 degrees below zero and 24-hour dark ness, have built the first church near the South Pole. The "Chapel in the Snow" 600 miles from the South Pole, com plete with altar, steeple and bell in the .cupola, was built by the men in "Operation Deepfreeze." The last contact with the out side world was in March, 1956, when ships left the American base. They will have contact again in October, 1956. when weather permits ships and planes to return. Word of the church came out of the Antarctic by shortwave radio. Amateur operator Paul Blum and a few associates have been operating a shortwave message service for the men in the Antarctic. Since the men get no mail, their only connec tion .with friends and relatives is through small stations such as Blum's. Conducts All Faiths - Father John Condit, 36. of Jefferson City, Mo., in an inter view with a Syracuse newsman, told how the Seabees spent their spare time designing and build ing the non - denominational church. The chapel is situated on Ross island near a cross that com memorates Capt. Richard Falcon Scott who died in 1912 while attempting to reach the South Pole. "You can see the chapel for miles around because of its blaz ing lights and its situation on a high promontory," Father Con dit said. He conducts services for all faiths, and praised the 18-man Protestant choir that "sings old-time hymns every Sunday in marvelous four-part harmony. "Of course, with the darkness and the cold it seems like we've been here an awfully long time," he said. "The morale has been an inspiration to me. We don't have any television or any other means of modern-day entertain ment. But the humor between the men and their constant good nature makes up for this," he said. (Ti- i' w J 1 uke - r LpP b4 j Lz.tiVL.i OUuDl representative josepn uiarim ui juaa chusetls, permanent chairman of the 1956 Republican National convention, sports a huge "Ike" button as he arrives in San Francisco's Cow Palace for the opening of the convention. Business Boom Seen From Wilsonville Base Salem U.R) Air Force repre sentatives revealed today that the projected Woodburn Air Force base would pour about J 10 million annually into Wil lamette valley businesses. About S5 million of the figure will be payroll for' the nearly 4.000 civilian and military per sonnel expected at the base. The other $5 million will go largely to small Willamette val ley business firms for food, gaso line, auto parts, electrical sup- plies and other items and serv ices. Air Force officials indicated that business would be passed around among small firms on some kind of rotating basis. Property acquisition at the Woodburn site is expected to start within a few weeks with $2,400,000 appropriated by Con gress. Actual construction is slated to begin late next year. Escaped Mental Patient Retaken in Clackamas Oregon City (U.R) Raymond Lee Dunlap, 29-year-old mental patient who escaped from Morn ingside hospital in Portland Monday evening, was retaken by Clackamas county sheriff's dep uties today. ike Fails To Gef Brief Platform Request San Francisco U.R) Republi can platform drafters let Presi dent Eisenhower down on one thing. They were unable to heed his request for a brief platform. It ended up at about 13,500 words, twice the length of the 1952 GOP campaign platform. Wilhelm Favors Oregon Law Change San Francisco U.R) One of the Oregon delegates to the Re publican national convention here, a supporter of Thomas E. Dewey for the vice presidential nomination, yesterday suggested that the 1957 state Legislature might do well to consider, chang ing Oregon's election laws. State Senator Rudie Wilhelm of Portland expressed objection to the binding of Oregon delega tions by a write in vote m the primary elections. "I don't question the prefer ential primary if there has been a campaign by a candidate," Wil helm said. "However, I don't think a scattering of votes should be allowed to put the delegation in the bag for one uncontested candidate, and thus have its in fluence at the convention diminished." Wilhelm said he had mention ed Dewey as a possible running mate for President Eisenhower with an eye to the future. Oregon's 18-member delega tion to the Republican conven tion is bound to Vice President Richard Nixon by virtue of the write-in vote in the primary. More Petitions Filed in Ashland Ashland Mrs. Mildred L. Ager. 63 Gresham st., has filed a petition with the city recorder to run for election this fall as park commissioner. Others who have filed peti tions with the city recorder re cently include Harry R. Morris, 1-60 Central st., and Ralph E. Koozer, 108 Nursery, for reelec tion to the city council. Koozer is head of Bagley Can ning company and has served a total of 12 years on the coun cil, not consecutively. Morris is owner of the Oak Street Tank and Steel com pany and has been on the coun cil four years. Others who have filed with the city recorder for reelection to their posts as park commis sioners include Frank H. Barnt house, Eldon Scripter and Archie Fries Jr. The Ashland city government has a total of five park commissioners. Several Items Listed Stolen From Room Rollie Louis Piper. Owl Club. 32 North Front st., has reported to city police the theft of sev eral articles from his room be tween 8 and 9 p.m. Monday. Articles reported stolen were two blankets valued at $5 each, a man's auit, S85; a tarpaulin, $3.95; a moleskin jacket, $10; and several shirts, police re ported. Medford police are investigat ing, they said. 5C S Exposure Roll... PENNYVISE 323 E. Main Wednesday, Aueruit 22, 1958 i i' ujupcianuii Urged To Improve Student Writing Hamilton, N. Y. (U.R) Closer cooperation between teachers of English and of other subjects is being urged to improve the qual ity of student writing and to make the teaching job easier and more effective for all. Members of the New York State English Council are cam paigning for acceptance on a school-wide basis of the doctrine that "maintaining to digest possi ble quality of student writing is a general obligation that can be achieved only if everybody ack nowledges his share in it." Dr. Strang Lawson, chairman of the English Department at Colgate University where such a program has been in operation for several years, has written on the proposal in the Council's publication, The English Record. "A whole school staff can by mutual consultation come to agreement on the minimal com petence to be expected on each grade level in spelling, grammar, and paragraph organization, and issue a mimeographed check list telling students what is expected of them in writing for any class," Lawson said. For Functional Approach ' English teachers, primarily re sponsible for leadership in the task, he continued, should take an intelligent interest in the commuication problems or oth er departments, offering help for all students and particularly for those with serious deficiencies. Such a functional approach is of immeasurable benefit to the student and will be particularly important in future years when swollen enrollments make indi- i vidual attention difficult, he added. "Language is a Tnalter of daily custom, social circumstance, and response to the judgment of our peersand superiors," La wson con cluded. "Teachers of other sub jects can help make respectable writing habitual by requiring students to apply functionally, in their fields, what has been taught directly by the English teachers." At Colgate, students must main tain the same high quality of communication in all subjects that they do in English courses, and their grades are partly gov erned by the quality of their writing. As Lawson put it, "Any teach er can say, 'Use simpler lan guage, expressing what you really think'." Or, for example, a social studies teacher could say, " 'All the facts are here, but I can't see the facts for the gram matical errors the grade is F" Wizard Creek Area Timber Auctioned At an oral auction Monday, Steve Wilson, Trail, was high bidder on 19,400,000 board feet of timber in the Wizard Creek area of the Union Creek Ranger district on the Rogue River Na tional forest. Wilson's bid of $445,290 was the only oral bid received. Five qualified bidders had submitted sealed bids at the beinning of the auction. Two of these were four amount in excess of the advertised minimum acceptable bid price. Second highest bidder was Southern Oregon Plywoods of Grants Pass. The next Rogue River Nation al Forest sale offering is sched uled for 2 p.m., Aug. 31, when 100,000 board feet of blowdown salvage timber will be sold by sealed bid, officials reported. This timber is located on the Ashland Ranger district. On Sept. 4, three separate sales of timber on the Union Creek Ranger district will be offered. The first, at 10 a.m., will be by oral auction for 550, 000 board feet of timber in the Needle Creek watershed. One hundred thousand board feet of salvage timber along Grey Rock road in the Swanson Creek wa tershed, will be sold by sealed bid at 1 p.m. The third sale is to be by oral auction at 2 p.m., for 700.000 board feet of timber in the vicinity of Hall's Point. Court Reverses Bailey Conviction Salem (U.R) The convic tion of Richard G. Bailey, Eu gene, for conspiracy to obtain money under false pretenses was reversed today by the State Su preme Court. , Bailey was charged with con spiring with his brother Alfred to deceive the First National Bank of Eugene into making loans to the Bailey Lumber com pany by presenting the bank with false invoices. Alfred Bailey, president of the lumber firm, appealed his con viction on grounds the decision was prejudiced by the Circuit Court's refusal to permit his counsel to cross examine cer tain employees of the lumber company who admitted taking part in the conspiracy. The high court agreed. In another case the court ac cepted jurisdiction of a manda mus proceeding sought by the State Highway Commission against Circuit Judge A. T. Good win requiring him to cease fur ther proceedings in an action brought against the commission in Curry county. Ten days were allowed the judge to make a re turn to the writ. Fire Near Falls City Brought Under Control Falls City JvUR) A fire west of here that burned between 200 and 400 acres of brush and green timber was reported un der control today. Volunteers and firemen from Dallas, Falls City and the forest service headed off the blaze last night before crops could be damaged. Cause of the fire was not determined. Bend Man Files for Stale Senate Seat . Salem-Uu.R) Bill Baer, Bend, filed yesterday as an independ ent candated for the state Senate from Deschutes, Crook, Jeffer son and Lake counties. Dave 'O'Hara, state elections chief, said the only other candi date filing as an independent in the general election so far was Henry Semon, Klamath county. He is . seeking return to the House of Representatives where he has served 12 terms as a Democrat O'Hara said deadline for fil ing as an independent candidate for the November election is Aug. 27. Oregon Heat Wave Boosts Fire Danger By UNITED PRESS Oregonians sweltered again to day in temperatures passing 100 degrees while danger mounted to drying forests. The weather bureau said highs up to 102 degrees were expected in some sections east of the Cas cades with interior parts of west ern Oregon getting readings from 85 to 95 degrees. It was cool only along the coast with temperatures frorn 60 to 70 degrees forecast. Low humidities and the threat of more thunderstorms added to the fire danger. Numerous small blazes have been reported in the Fremont, Klamath and Rogue national forests and smoke jump ers were being flown to northern California to battle lightning set blazes in Siskiyou, Humboldt and Del Norte counties. The Dalles was the hot spot in Oregon yesterday with 102. Port land had 89 while it was a cool 60 at Newport. Cool Air Drops Mercury in East By UNITED PRESS Cool air dropped temperatures : in the eastern third of the nation again early today while a warm ing trend prevailed in the cen tral and northwest sectors. A second straight night of lower temperatures blanketed the section of the nation east ward from the Ohio Valley to the Atlantic Coast and south ward to the Gulf of Mexico. Temperatures were generally In . .the 50s, with a few scattered readings in the 40s in the north. Fair skies were to dominate most of the nation, with the , only general rainy area confined to the Upper Great Lakes region. Rice Almost Used To Make Irish Stew at Jail Pittsburgh (U.R) Prisoners in the Allegheny county jail almost had to endure Irish stew made with rice. Potatoes cost too much. The lowest bid to supply the prison with potatoes was $5.45 per 100 pounds, compared with $1.90 last December. County officials briefly con sidered switching to rice, then thought how stew matle with rice would taste, and placed an order for S981 worth of potatoes. No Bids Received On Siphon Project No bids were received this morning for construction of two concrete siphons and removal of existing metal flumes on the main canal serving the Medford and Rogue Valley Irrigation dis tricts, according Jo bureau of reclamation officials here. Bids were to be opened at 10 a.m. this morning at the Camp White office of the bureau of reclamation which is doing the rehabilitation work for the two districts under a contract. Another bid opening for the projects will be announced later, bureau officials said. ( Show me America's first Nx family sports car! Here it is . . . the fabulous Golden Hawk, 275-hp., leader of Studebakers Hawk line! See these four exciting family cars now, during "Show Me" month at your Studebaker Dealer! NOWi is the time to buy STUDEBAKER OPEN Wednesday NIGHTS for your shopping convenience THE HOUSE 317 East Main JUMBO MILK SHAKES 20c JUMBO SHAKE ' JACK'S DRIVE-UP A Short Briva Out North Riveraid Medf ord's Largest 19c Hamburger Palace "Trii Maca to Mm and Eat" 1c SALE Each Wednesday Watch this space each Wednesday for JACK'S FAMILY NIGHT SPECIAL! 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You know the maker stands back of it guar antees it. And so, when you buy a good brand you know you're right r ' Read this newspaper to find out which are the good brands (and the stores "that sell them.) The more good brands you know, the surer you are about all your shopping. . BRAND NAMES FOUNDATION Incorporated A Non-Profit Educational foundation $7 Weat 57th Street, New York 19, New York Ch Leigh Motors' 134 South Rirtrside, Medford, Ore. Medford Mail Tribune
