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Thursday, October II, I95S MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVEH V 1 I f WS v -A Shown above examining plans and a mode! of Oregon's proposed Science Center are four of a group of men who will direct "Project Science' a campaign to obtain funds, materials and services needed for construction of a new Oregon Museum of Science and Industry building in Portland. From left they re Robert Welch, vice-president of the Oregon Museum and general chairman of th campaign: Clyde L. Keller. Jr.. president of Oregon Building Congress; Harold HaJvorsen. chairman of materials procure ment committee set up by the Portland Building and Construction Trades council and Clell Hams, secretary of the Portland district council of carpenters and vice-chairman of the campaign. Start of construction is set for this fall. Construction of Science Center In Portland Set to Start Soon Portland The biggest "barn raising" in Oregon's history in the interest of science education is scheduled lor the coming fall and winter months. Dr. Samuel L. Diack, president of the Ore gon museum of science and in dustry, announced this week. Or. Diack said that labor and management in Oregon have pledged support for a major drive to obtain materials and services required for construc tion of a major science center on a four-acre tract of land near the entrance to a $4,000,000 municipal zoo now under con itruction in Portland. The building site was leased to the museum organization by the city of Portland. Spearheading Campaign The museum president, who has been spearheading a cam paign to raise $200,000 needed to assure completion of the central unit of the new youth center, pointed out that $125,000 already is available. Supplement ing the fund drive, however, will be a major effort to obtain the cement, steel, lumber, glass, hardware, plumbing and other items on a gift or cost basis from Oregon business and in dustry. Dr. Diack said both the Ore gon building congress, which represents the building industry, and the building and construc tion trades council of Portland and vicinity have pledged sup port for the construction drive. The museum plan to supple ment its fund drive with a direct search for materials and services is known as 'Project Science." General chairman of the procure ment effort is Robert Welch of Portland and vice chairman is Clell Harris, executive-secretary of the Portland district council of carpenters and joiners. Handling the job of chnirman of procurement for the Oregon building congress will be Kevin T. Cadigan, a Portland General Electric company industrial sales engineer. General coordinator of the big construction job will be Henry M. Mason, a Portland contractor whose recent projects include remodeling of the Mult nomah stadium into a combined football-baseball center. Mason expressed a hope that construc tion may get underway by Nov 1 if weather permits. Dr. Diack pointed out that the new science center, which will cost about $350,000. probably will be built for $200,000 goal of the current fund drive as a result of the materials procure ment effort. Unusual Crochet Sjaf 7132 A graceful swan in sparkling white crochet what prettier design to decorate your dining table! Perfect for fruit, flowers. Pattern 7132: Crochet direc tions for "swan" centerpiece: body about 13x7' i inches. Use heavy jiffv cotton starch stiffly- Send TWENTY - FIVE cents in coins for this pattern add 5 cents for each pattern for 1st class mailing. Send to Medford Mail Tribune. Household Arts Dept.. P. O. Box- 168. Old Chelsea Station. New York 11. N. Y. Print plainlv NAME. ADDRESS and PATTERN NUMBER. Two FREE patterns printed in our ALICE BROOKS Needle craft book stunning designs for yourself, for your home just for you, our readers! Dozens of other designs to order all easy, fascinating hand- work! Send 25 cents for your copy of this wonderful book right away: State Republicans 'Make Hay During Stevenson's Visit By UNITED PRESS Democrats stole the show on Oregon's political bill of fare yesterday but Republican office seekers failed to let Democratic presidential nominee Adlai Ste venson slow down their own cam paigns. With most of the statewide Democratic candidates gathered in Portland where Stevenson paid an eight-hour visit yester day. Republicans set out to make hay In the other 35 counties. McKay in Klamath Falls Douglas McKay. Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate, car ried his campaign to Klamath Falls yesterday and planned to Garden Notes Br C. B. CORDY County Extension Agent foi Horticulture Our growing weather is now over for the year so this is a good time to prepare for the winter months ahead. Some of our winter vegetables such as carrots, cabbage and brusel sprouts can be left in the gar den during the winter and used as needed. These vegetables are damaged only in our most severe win ters. A little additional p-otec-tion can be given to carrots by mounding up a small amount of soil against the tops. Squash should be brought in and stored in a room which is dry and somewhat warm. Damp ness and frost will both ruin squash. If the squash is harvest ed carefully so that the skin is not damaged it will keep until iate winter in good shape. Heated Basement A heated basement, an attic or burring in a pile of straw in a shed are all acceptable methods of storage. If squash is placed n the attic it should be placed on several layers of newspaper to protect the ceiling in case one of the squashes should rot. Some of our tender flowering plants also need protection Dahlias and gladiolus are very sensitive to winter cold. In the case of dahlias storage of the tubers is rather difficult so if the soil is well drained they will store much more satisfac torily if left in the ground. Again, additional protection can be afforded if the hills are cov ered with a little sawdust or soil. Gladiolus Gladiolus should be dug up. dried and stored indoors where they will not freeze. They will dry best with the tops left on. After being dried the tops and loose scales should be removed and burned to destroy diseases. The bulbs tin then be placed in a paper sack, one teaspoon of DDT poured over them and shaken so that they will be thoroughly covered. If stored in this manner good control of gladiolus thrips can be main tained. Plants such as roses and rasp berries which need protection in some of the more severe cli mates overwinter in this area ; with no form of protection. ' be in Lakeview today. Meanwhile, two Portland law 3'ers, Don Walker and William A. Palmer, went to bat for Mc Kay in the Portland area, criti cizing Sen. Wayne Morse s rec ord and what they called the "change' in the senator. In a televised address. Walker said, "Morse once believed in a gov ernment of checks and balances, but today he's on the other side the side of highly centralized government." Morse himself was busy meet ing with Democratic state lead ers and accompanying Steven, son. Robert Holmes, Democratic nominee for governor, found time yesterday to address a Vet erans luncheon meeting in Port land. He lauded the Democratic party's stand on pensions, educa tional opportunities, health pro grams and welfare and said his party's record proved they were more interested in those prob lems than were the Republicans. McKay, speaking before a group of Republican workers in Klamath county last night, elabo rated on the Eisenhower theme of "peace, prosperity and prog ress." He criticized Democratic atti tudes toward spending and call ed for the divorce of the farm problem from politics. Civil Defense Said To Be 'Make Believe' Washington U.R) Rep. Chet Holifield (D-Calif.) has charged that reliance on evacua tion for the nation's civil defense is a "sham and a delusion." Holifield who headed an in vestigation of Civil Defense planning this year, said the United States has only "a kind of make-believe Civil Defense directed by well meaning bu reaucrats in Washington." He said they "scurry around with an important air but . . . don't quite know what they are about. He said in a speech prepared for delivery before the U. S. Civil Defense Council fifth an nual conference that President Eisenhower should "lay the facts on the line to the American peo ple and by positive leadership" work for "a real Civil Defense." OSC ENROLLMENT UP Corvallis ;U.PJ Fall term reg istration at Oregon State college has climbed to 6780, fifth high est fall term total in the 89-year history of the college, school offi cials said today. Hemorrhoids (Piles) Fistula Colitis Pruri tus (itching) Prolapse. Treat ed without surgical operation or hospitalization or loss of time from work. If you have health problem of this nature it will pay you to investigate. Dr. Herman Wexler Chiropractic Physician 44 E. Main Pioneer BIdg. Ph. 2-3391 Ashland, Ore. Successful Shoplifter Manages To Escape Eyes of Her Pupils New York U.R; Mrs. Mary Dargoti has been shoplifting $300 to $400 worth of goods a week for six months and hasn't been caught yet. This saddens her. She wants to be caught. Mrs. Dragoti teaches salesgirls how to catch shoplifters. As part of the course, she wanders around the store seeing how many items she can snatch from the counters. Then, in class, she confronts the sales personnel with the stuff that has been thefted from under their noses. She explains to them how she did it. Next week she comes back and does it again. Mrs. Dragoti's training pro gram includes instructing the employees of the Hess Brothers department store in Allentown, Pa., in the tricks that shoplifters use. The fact that she hasn't been caught in a theft yet is a tribute to her expertness. As a store detective for the last 10 years, she's mastered the wiles of shop lifting. Mrs. Dragoti wears a face mask in class so that none of the pupils will recognize her as she wanders unmasked around the store doing her shoplifting du ties. It's The Women What type of person does shoplifting? Well, hang it all, we might as well be blunt. The ma jor guilt is draped, like a great limp dishrag, about an Ameri can institution: the housewife. Matter of fact, Mrs. Dragoti says, women out-lift men 5 to 1. However, during her decade of detecting. Mrs. Dragoti has arrested all types of persons, from children to lawyers to clergymen. Yes, clergymen. She has caught two men of the cloth. Both said they didn't know what came over them. Neither did a very good job of lifting, she says. Amateurs, obviously. As for the professionals, they do some amazing things. In a New York department store, two men shoplifted a rowboat. At another store, a shoplifter posed as a window display man, picked up "a mannequin with a S5.000 mink coat, and walked it from the window to his waiting truck. But the common, or house wifely, shoplifting employs standard methods which you may want to study. The most common device is the shopping bag. You just get close to the counter and. working quickly, brush stuff into the bag. Most Common. Method The next most common meth-i od is what Mrs. Dragoti calls "wearing out." Thus: "You try on several skirts and then put your own skirt over it and walk out. This is good because there are no packages. You can take several garments: you just look a little heavier, that's all.7 No. 3 method is the trick box. Use a box wrapped in the paper the store uses and tied up as if you had bought something. Have a slit cut in one side, big enough to thrust folded stuff into. Hold the box by the cord with the slit toward your body. Work fast. , There are many other decives, such as extra pockets in coats, or putting shower hooks on a belt and hanging loot on them, or "ticket switching." This last involves taking, say, a $5 price ticket and switching it to a $20 journal, Oregonian Strike Authorized Portland U.P The Portland Newspaper Guild yesterday re ceived authorization for a strike against the Oregon Journal and item and paying only S5. The guilty women ' seem to feel this isn't actually stealing just reducing the merchandise." The Oregonian. Portland's two daily newspapers. Strike author ization was granted by the lo cal's international union, the American Newspaper Guild. Negotiations were scheduled to continue today in an effort to reach agreement on a new con tract between employees and the two newspapers expired June 1. & fjATERFILL U1 RAZIER THE 0Qj)JJi OF KENTUCKY BOURBON v SINCE 1810 1 AMD Proof m w anx e'5i WHUFIll 0 FIAZIEI DISIIUEIT COMPAHT. MtDSTOWM. HtNIUCO I BfiCK THE! UNITE! PWV m BEDFORD I CRUSADE: m 0pm 4i Aet. f : wm mm. I umlmJb h it sf Who's there? It could be an abandoned child, an old woman, the sick of body, the sick of mind. It could be a crippled boy, a handicapped worker, a young mother. Or a kid who never had a chance, or an old man who needs another one. No, it's not these people who knock at your door. Just one man knocks your Red Feather volun teer. But be speaks for them and for all the others in our town who need help so much and can't ask. What will you tell him when he comes? This year, let your heart answer. This year tell him, ''Sure, neighbor, IH help." Let's oR join hands ' UNITED RED FEATHER CAMPAIGN ' Everybody benefits... Everybody gives i- XA Published in cooperation with the United Medford Crusade Committee by . . . Your FORD Dealer Main and Fir Streets
