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OO o O o o O o The first continjentj of the UN police force have landed in the Suez canal area. They are in battie rJress, including helmets with the blue and white colors of United Nations. So far, they are a mere hand ful, an3 could b easily' overwhelmed. TJOT Over and over, since what we call civilization was organ ized, a LITTLE HANDFUL OF POLICE hat handled milling, angry crowds running into the thousand. Over and over, hunt ed criminals who have "worn never to be, taken alive have surrnded meekly to a little handful of policemen REPRE SENTING LAW AMD ORDER. There are many utrange things in tiie world, and this is one of them. So maybe this little twdy of United Nations POLICE (which is expected when com plete to number only about 10. 000 aien) may be able to handle the. Middle East situation. A T ANY rate, prices on the Now York Stock Exchange advanced at the opening, in ac tive trading. Brokers say the presence of- United Nations io.-ces at the Suez canal and fading prospects of intervention of communist "volunteers" led to a better feeling in Wall street! The Chicago Board of Trade WC swept by a burst of grain selling. The overnight improve ment in the international, situa tion, halting the war scare buy ing of commodities, was an im portant ; factor in tlie downturn of grain prices. irHY is market thinking apt " to be more dependable in ce such as this than what e rcd tnii hear? This is the reason: Money talks ... Too often, in casual conver sation, we speak without think ing. But" when our "money is concerned, we TIUNK. TTERE, in substance, is' what has happened to change the situation: o Eight Arab countries have' been holding an Arab "summit" conference at Beirut, in Leban- one Last night they apparently reached a decision NOT to ask for communist volunteers. ! ? That is to say: After talking the situation over among - themselves they eame to the conclusion that it wouldn't be wie from their standpoint to , permit the Rus sian camel to get its nose under the edge of the Arab tent. 1MJT- " At the same time They threatened flatly to uc force ARAB force, presumably if Britain. France and Israel refuse to withdraw their troops from Egyptian territory. The Arab countries hate Brit ian and France because of their long hfstorv as colonial 'im perin!iJts.o They M-tmt , to be Arabs and run their own part of the world and rake in the oil royalties that are making them rich. They hate Israel, which is a recent intruder "into the Middle East Arab world. The ancestors of the Israelis, of course, were there long" before the Arabs came, but according to-the Arab thinking that is water that long since ran under the." bridge. THIS is the big point. The Arabs hate th British and the French and the Israelis, but they are afraid that if they call in the Russians they will be in a worse mess than ever. That is significant. There are 5,200 golf courses in the United States for an esti mated four million golfers. ONLY 30 Shopping Days Til Christmas! WOW! More Christmas Bills? Don't Worry! Mako Your Christmas Morry with CASH from - 63 PACIIK tS&USTllAl Dick Hn, Manager H S. Cantral Pk. 3-5301 Despite the infinitesimal frac tion of the sun's energy inter cepted by our earth lets than one part in half a billion yet, this tiny fraction is still tre mendous, figuring up to about 200 trillion kilowatts. And that, reckoned by present U.S. con sumption, adds up to over 2,000 times the sum total of all man's energy needs. What's more, this solar power house is pouring out this energy upon our earth without let-up, and for free! And what is man doing about capturing this flood of power which costs him not one red cent? Atomic Energy Has Limits So far, scarcely, nothing. In stead . he' is still extravagantly 11-17 consuming the sun's stored energy coal and oil which will soon be gone. As for atomic energy, that too has its limits. All in all, man is using only about one per cent of the current outpourings of this tremendous powerhouse in the sky in the form of. water power, wind power, and the growing of plants tor food and shelter. It's not that man hasn't utilized the.sun's power for some time. In fact, the ancients used sunpower to evaporate sea-water to make salt and such salt water beds are still common through the Middie East. When some '2, 100 years ago Archimedes reportedly destroyed the Ro man fleet at Syracuse by concen trating the sun's rays by mirrors and lenses to obtain high heat and burn the ships. And as long ago as 1880, an enormous water rectifying plant was built in Chile to supply 5,000 gallons oi fresh water each day from salt water. Since then a few houses have been heated by solar energy; and some ovens have been per fected. But a- trifling number, really. Rapid Strides Being Made Today, rapid strides are being made to harness some of this daily wasted horsepower. One of the most astonishing discoveries of late which pushed out the frontier has been the use of super-pure silicon metal (and silicon is one of the most abun dant metals known) which by simply turning light upon it pro duces electricity. Result? Telephone lines are now being powered experi mentally with tiny solar bat teries. In another year, these solar batteries may well be in use all over the country. Many of tho future portable TV and radio sets may well be powered by these batteries. Already, a complete radio-transmitting sta tion, about the size of a package of cigarettes, has been perfected to transmit a mile or more. What's more, these tiny solar batteries are well nigh inde structible, standing up to any kind of weather and they never wear out. Better yet, they don't even need direct sunlight: day time sky suffices. And a storage cell, charged by the battery takes care of night-time needs. Could anything.be handier? Another good use. During World War II a plastic "balloon" was developed which could be used by airmen and others adrift on the ocean in rubber lifeboats. By; simply filling the balloon with sea water and letting the sun distill the liquid into a sep arate container, adequate sup plies of drinking water could be made. Adaptations of this prin ciple now supply some of the water used in the Carribean is lands during dry periods. Converted Into Cookers In many of the hot Middle East countries where fuel is scarce, the sun's heat is converted into cookers. In India where cow dung is the chief fuel, such solar cookers may well solve a grave economic problem and permit the use of the dung for much- Treasury Bond Sales Lower in County Ssles- of United States Trea sury Savings bonds in Jackson county during the month of Oc tober totaled 5107,239, it was announced this week. This total is S18.019 below sales during October, 1955. The sales through October of this year total SI. 018. 020 as compar ed, with Sl.025,742 at this same time last year. Sales of treasury bonds for the state of Oregon totaled S3, 761,938 for the month of Octob er, an increase of 7 per cent over last year's October sales. LETTER REDDENS FACES - Washington aj.PJ The state department announced in a newsletter to its diplomats around the world it is consider ing granting an extra allowance to compensate them for the ris ing cost of loving. Friday the department hurriedly corrected i "loving" to '"living.'" In the Day's News Is That So? By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-N.iuratist needed fertilization. In Central Africa, the sun's power is used to pump out mines; in Central and South America to pump water for irrigation. In several U.S. laboratories, great brilliantly polished alumi num mirrors are being used to concentrate the solar energy on to tiny dime-sized surfaces. The result? Temperatures exceeding 7,500 degrees Fahrenheit which will consume, in a flash, any known substance. There fur naces are particularly useful in studying metal alloys which must withstand high heat as do the metals in jet engines. Unfortunately, most solar ma chines used today are both heavy and unwieldy; in time perhaps they will be smaller and we may well live to see the day that they will help us harnes part of that tremendous, invariable 200 trillion kilowatts of heat be ing wasted upon us. (Copyright, 1956, by Eugene Burns) 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 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 575, Sausalito, Calif. HORNBROOK Rider Places En SF Rodeo Sunday, November 18, H58 MTDFORD (OREGON) MfILcTI8Ulft-!!TE By MRS. H. H. CHAPMAN Hornbrook Bill Jesperson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Allan Jesp erson. has returned from San Francisco where he took part in the rodeo at the Grand Na tional Livestock Exposition in the Cow Palace. Bill took sec ond place out of a total of 78 entrees in the Brahma bull rid ing contest. Olin Hall, a resident of Horn brook many years ago, passed away last week in Klamath Falls at the age of 76. He was a re tired railroad worker. Funeral services were held in Klamath Falls Monday and burial was in the family plot in the Henley-Hornbrook cem etery. Hall is survived by his sister. Miss Nona Hall, with whom he made his home. Smith and small son. They were accompanied as far as Redding by Mrs. Smith's mother, Mrs. Dora Marlahan, of Ft. Jones, who visited her daughter there, Mrs. Clay Williams. Returning Monday, the entire family including Dr. and Mrs. Smith, had dinner together in Redding. Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Howard, of Seattle, Wash., are visiting their daughter and her family, Mr. and Mrs. Loren Cummins and children. Miss Mary Lee Rutledge, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Rutledge, was one of the leading members of the cast of the Senior play, "A Full House" presented at Yreka High school Two 4-H Youths To Start Trip Soon Charles Elmore, Applegate, and Linda Malloroy, Eagle Point, will be among 19 teenagers com prising Oregon's delegation to the National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago Nov. 25-29. The delegates, accompanied by three extension agents, will last weekend. Mrs. L. C. Walsh took a group of local 4-H members to Mon tague Saturday, where they par ticipated in the county-wide observance of the 4-H National Achievement day at the Com munity hall. In the group were Penny Barnum, Linda Rue, Lor raine White, and. Shirley Mof-fett. leave Portland by train on Thanksgivinj day. Agents ac companying the delegation' will be Gary Thompson, Umatilla county, H. Joe Myers, Linn coun ty, and Mrs. Rosalie Warrick, state extension s(aff member. Attending the congress will be representatives from all states, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Alaska. The trips were awarded for out standing 4-H achievements. One oil field in Saudi Arabia the Ghawar is believed to contain as much oil as all the proved reserves of theh North American continent. COMMOU FIGHT Huntington) cW . Va. UiP.l Police broke up" a fi.t at a Huntington, residence TliSrsday night -,i which an' 80-year-old woman nvas re;rtedly beating her 85-year-old sister or the head witti half of a iSick. neigh bors told poKc'e that it was a common occurrence RUGS I PHQLSTERY Cleaned By the Rague o Duraclean Service Use Aqainthe Same Day PHONE 0. 4-2043 In the obituary for Mrs. Alice A. Tyrrell, which appeared in ! the Medford Mail Tribune Sun-, day, Nov. 11, the names of two sisters were inadvertently omit ted from the list of survivors. They are Mrs. Eva True of Med ford, and Mrs. Celia Andrews of Ashland. 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