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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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in this picture?
You buy a refrigerator only two or three time
in your lifetime.
Yet you don't hesitate .to buy one without
getting so much as a look at the intricate "works" .
that makes it run.
How do you dare make such an important
purchase without having an expert check it over
for you? What makes you so sure you're getting
your money's worth .when you say, "I'll take
that one"?
The answer's obvious. You look for the brand
name on the refrigerator your "guarantee."
You've learned to follow this first rule of safe
and sound buying:
A good brand is your bot guarantee
No matter what kind of product you want te
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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 '
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