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h I" FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday.' Oetobr li. 19SS Open House at New Elementary Schools in District 6C Sunday Central Point Central Point resident will have an opportun ity to visit the H. P. Jewett ele mentary school at Gold Hill dur ing open house between 2 and 5 p m. Sunday. H. P. Jewett, superintendent of school district 6C, explained there will he no special pro gram or formal guided tours. However, the Parent Teacher as sociations will serve coffee and tea and visitors may go through the buildings at any time during open house hours. Optn First Tim Both schools opened for the first time in September. Both buildings were designed by Rob ert Keeney, Medford architect. Frank Fairweather, also of Med ford, was contractor. Approximately 300 students are enrolled in the H. P. Jew ett school. There are six div isions of the first grade and six divisions of the second grade The S243.751 building meas ures 26.291 square feet and stands on a 12-acre site. It has 12 classrooms, library, multi purpose room, health room, tea chers room and office. Addition al classroom wings can be added as needed. Economy type concrete block construction has been used. The low pitched roof is supported by a single laminated beam running the full length of each wing. The beam is supported by steel posts concealed in room partitions. The ceiling has a heavy layer of I insulating material and is fin ished with acoustical tile. Floors are concrete slab covered with asphalt tile in the new confetti type pattern. Plaster has been completely omitted and paint was applied directly to the block. Water proofing paint was used on the exterior. Nicaragua's Beauty Belies Harsh and Fiery History Washington The Republic nf Nicaragua, thrown into a state of siege by an attempt on the life of its President, counts more than its share of drama on the pages of history Contrasted with the beauty of Nicaragua's scenery and the friendliness of its people are four centuries of violent brushes with disaster: invasion, conquest, pirate attacks, external and in ternal strife, earthquakes, floods, and volcanic eruptions. The mod ern capital, Managua, was spe cially built to withstand earth tremors and fire. A Managua park preserves one nf the most provocative archeo logical sites in the western hem isphere. EarTy Americans, appar ently fleeing from fiery lava thousands of years ago. left their footprints in the flow that hard ened to stone. On Rout ef Forty-Nineri Nicaragua with a land area of 37.143 square miles, roughly the size of Michigan is the largest of the six Central Amer ican republics. Most of its 1,225, 000 inhabitants live in the warm, steamy Pacific plain that is dom inated by blue-coned volcanoes and two huge lakes. - This region, with its San Juan river outlet to the Caribbean, has offered a convenient east west transport route since the days of the Spanish conquest. When Panama was chosen as the site of a transisthmian canal. Nicaragua was the disappointed cempetitor. Many of the forty-niners, bound for the California gold fields, crossed Nicaragua. They didn't stop to look for gold, nor had the gold-hungry conquista dors found much of the precious metal there. But today, ironical ly, gold ranks with Nicaragua's highly aromatic coffee as a lead ing export. Most of it goes by air to the united states and Canada. The Republic also exports ses ame seed, mahogany, cedar, and rosewood. Nearly three-fourths of its working force lives off the land. Nicaragua does much of its export-import business with the United States. Baseball is the national game. Managua's main street was renamed Avenue Roosevelt in 1942 to honor Pres ident Franklin D. Roosevelt. Visited by Columbus Christopher Columbus discov ered Nicaragua in 1502 on his fourth voyage to the New World. Two decades later, the first Spanish expedition called upon a powerful Indian tribe ruled by Nicarao, believed to have been the source of the Republic's name. History relates that the Spaniards' bristling beards so terrified the Indians that all the invading soldiers were ordered to grow them and those who couldn't were given false ones. After the visitation, a coloniz ing force under Francisco Fer nandez de Cordoba founded the cities of Leon and Granada. Both are still noted for their colonial charm. The Republic's monetary unit, cordoba. honors his name. Most present - day Nicaraguans stem from Spanish or Spanish Indian ancestry. The early period was marked bv warfare between the wild Mosquito Indians and the 'colo nials, by pirate attacks on treas ure ships, by the long struggle between Spain and England for mastery of the Caribbean coast. On gaining freedom from Spain in 1821, Nicaragua joined the short-lived Mexican Empire, then the equally ill-fated feder ation of Central American re publics. When strife dissolved the latter union, Nicaragua de clared itself independent in 1838. Each of the two classroom wings has north lighting and each room has an exterior door opening onto a covered porch area. Rooms have been provided with sinks, drinking fountains, work counters, shelving ward robe, teachers closet, and bullet in boards. Each of the first grade rooms has a small toilet room. A central oil heating unit has been installed and heat is pro vided to a unit ventilator in each room. These ventilator heating units have fan circula tion of air and provide for mix ing fresh air with heated air. They may also be used as cool ing units in hot weather. Indirect Lighting The building features indirect incandescent light. Desk and chair type furniture is movable. The 577,334 Margaret F. Pat rick elementary school measures 7,293 square feet and stands on an eight-acre site. About 85 first, second and third graders are en rolled. There are four classrooms, health room, teachers room and office. This is the first unit of a building which will expand to an 8 or 12-room unit as needed. At present, children are trans ported by bus each noon to the cafeteria at the Hanby school. Construction at this school is similar to construction of the Jewett school. Exterior paint at the Patrick school is the new polyvinyl acetate type, guaran teeing water proofing and non fading colors. North Lighting Each room has north lighting and clerestory lighting is also provided. Rooms are equipped with sinks, drinking fountains teachers, closet, shelving, ward robe, work counters, bulletin boards and chalk boards. Each room has an outside door open ing onto a covered porch which serves as a play area during bad weather. The building has circulating oil heat, similar to that in the Jewett school, indirect incan descent lighting and moveable desk and chair type furniture. NEW TRUCK L. C. Lisenbee, chief of the Central Point Rural Fire Protection district, drives the department's new American-La-France 1,000 gallon pumper off a freight car after its arrival in Medford this week from Elmira, N.Y. The truck, which is expected to be tested next week, and placed into service soon, includes a 300 gallon water tank and holds about 350 feet of various sized hoses. The vehicle cost a little more than $19,000, Lisenbee said. It will be stationed at the main station just south of Central Point, and gives the department its third pumper. The district also has two tank trucks, a jeep and a pickup truck. Scientists Discover Antibiotic Effective Against Cancer in Mice Washington (U.R Scien tists today reported the discov ery of a new antibiotic which has proved effective against can cer in mice. They warned there is no evi dence yet that it will be any help in human tumors. But they said it is a hopeful new indica tion that the wonder drugs may some day provide man with an effective weapon against cancer. The new antibiotic, alazopep tin, was unveiled at the fourth annual symposium on antibiotics here. Several hundred experts from the United States and nine other nations are taking part in the three-day conference. Isolated From Obscure Strain Researchers for Lederle Labor atories, a division of the Ameri can Cyanamid Co., said alazopep tin was isolated from an obscure strain of the same soil bacteria which produced established drugs like streptomycin. Dr. James H. Williams, assist ant to the director of Lederle, said the drug was found active against experimental cancer in mice. Some transplanted tumors stopped growing. Others with ered away and some even disappeared. Bow and Arrow Mold Man to be Charged Providence, R. I. tU.R) A teen-ager, who said he used a crossbow to hold up a Los An geles liquor store last month be cause it wras ''noiseless," is ex pected to waive extradition to day. Michael Yosick, 18, oj San Diego is wanted in Los Ar.geles for the wounding of liquor store clerk William Allen with a 14 inch, steeltipped arrow fired from the crossbow Sept. 19. Yosick has been held here in 510,000 bail ' since his arraign ment on a fugitive charge. He will be charged in California with assault with intent to com mit murder. Lady Sends Daughter To School When Jailed Jefferson City, Mo. iU.PJ A few hours in a jail cell Wednes day convinced Mrs. Mary Schoenheit she should send her daughter to public schools, which she claimed turned out "trained seals" instead of .bril liant children. Mrs. Schoenheit, a 42-year-old former teacher who moved half way across the continent in an attempt to tutor her own child rather than have her in the pub lic schools, either had to capitu late or spend 10 days in jail. ! Moniteau County Magistrate W. G. Heibreder sentenced Mrs. Schoenheit to that term in jail. plus a $5 fine, but said he would suspend the sentence "if she brings her daughter to school on Monday morning and keeps her there." For a time, Mrs. Schoenheit continued her . defiance. She went to jail and her 7-year-old daughter Mary, was taken away by welfare officers. After two hours in jail, Mn. Schoenheit gave in. Several other antibiotics pre viously have been reported to be active against mice tumors ac- tinomycin C&D, puromycin, az aserine, and something with the nickname Don. Some Doubt 'Drugs' Help But the jump from mice to men is a big one. The effective ness of these drugs on human cancers has been less than con clusive. Some investigators have reported some favorable activity but others have doubted the drugs' help. Nevertheless, Dr. Nestor Bo honos of Lederle said among all the drugs being tested a higher percentage of antibiotics are showing anti - cancer activity than are non-antibiotic com pounds. The significance of alazopep tin, he said, is not that it may be effective in human patients but that it provides further evi dence that antibiotics probably are a promising trail to follow in the search for the answer to CAA Lists Several Openings Available The Civil Aeronautics admin istration has openings for grad uate civil, aeronautical and elec tronic engineers, electronic tech nicions. air traffic controllers, and radio communicators. The CAA is undertaking a program of expansion and de velopment of the nation's air navigation and communication facilities. Information regarding career appointments in the field may be obtained by contacting Grant Bourquin, chief, (jAA, at the control tower, or Eugene Whitlock, supervising electron ics specialist, at the Medford ariport. when you drive the '57 PLYMOUTH suddenly it's I960 Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport $f Waterfill Crazier r n r. i i . j. THE lMOfljllX Ol KENTUCKY BOURBON Pim( Around Hollywood Hollywood (U.R) James Cagney, a man with a famous face, virtually will shed his own for his next movie when he por trays the late Lon Chaney. Eut Chin ey's own weird makeups, Cag ney admits, were much tougher. Aline Mtwbr In "The Man with 1.000 Faces" Cagney will put on special disguises to re create the roles that made Chan ney immortal and brought shiv ers to countless movie-goers "T h e Hunchback of Notre Dame." "The Phantom of the Opera." "The Miracle Man" "The Unholy Three" and "Laugh, Clown. Laugh." Jimmy's "faces' will be put on in one piece. They will be rubberiike masks, courtesy the modern wizards of Universal International studio's makeup department. But Chaney. who died in 1930. suffered true agony in wearing his hideous visages for horror pictures. Dedicated Actor "This was a dedicated man." said Cagney. "It took him a good two hours to put on a face. I'm using pre-fabs. His makeup was a secret. He never let anybody see him put it on." Cagney read the story of Chancy's life and saw the late stars old pictures before at tempting this difficult assign ment. "For the 'Hunchback' I think he made his left eye look torn by gluing a piece o balsa wood underneath the eye." Cagney went on. "I will use a false plas tic eye. His back was twisted by a special harness to make him look crippled. His doctor ad vised him not to wear it more than 20 minutes at a time. But Chaney kept it oh as long as an hour despite tile pain." Hunchback Appearance Cagney's appearance as a hunchback will be furnished via more modern and comfortable appliances. As the everyday Chancy. Jimmy also will wear makeup plastic pieces to make his face appear longer and to lengthen his nose. Br ALINI MOSBY Unittd Prass Corraipondant producer and a hoofer so I get to dance," said Cagney. "His papa and mama were mutes. He started life talking with his hands, and he wound up with cancer of the throat, caused when a piece of artificial snow from a movie set lodged in his throat. "He was a fine actor," Cag ney added. "You saw nothing but those masks. But the elo quence of hands and body con veyed the messages required. I hope I can do justice to the role." 2,616 Cars of Pears Shipped Last Month Salem Pears accounted for 47 per cent of the shipping point inspections of fresh fruits and vegetables in Oregon during September according to the state department of agriculture. Total certifications for the month were 2,616 carloads. which is 863 below the number of cars certified during the same period last year. Pears led the September in spections list with 1,222 cars. checked. The inspections were 308 cars more than the number inspected in September last year. Apple inspections underwent a considerable decrease from 116 cars in September, 1955 to 10 cars last month. 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