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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.
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" 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.
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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
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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)
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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
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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.
Robert Smith, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Ed Smith, returned last
Thursday from his ranch near
Rupert, Idaho. Bob expects to
be in this part of the country
until about March, when he will
return to Idaho.
On Sunday, he and his par
ents, and sister, Miss Dorothy
Smith, drove to Orland, Calif.,
where they visited his brother
and family, Dr. and Mrs. E. M.
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