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Bureau of Object of By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington Creation of a Bureau of Older Persons in the federal government to look after the most press ing problems of the nation's senior citizens is expected to be one of the issues to come up before the 85th Congress has written its complete rec- Robt. Smite Or a. Two Northwest lawmakers Rep. Don Magnuson D-Wash.) and Rep. Edith Green (D-Ore.) are among the sponsors of legis lation that would establish for the first time an agency devoted exclusively to finding solutions to the varied problems facing older persons. Administration Opposed The Eisenhower administra tion has indicated it is opposed to creating a new bureau for this purpose, believing that the es tablished agencies which already are working in this field can do the Job. Last spring the Presi dent created a Federal Council on Aging to try to improve the effectiveness of existing govern ment agencies, each of which has a representative on the council. Its chairman is Marion B. Folsom, secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. The administration's attitude was voiced by Assistant Secre tary Roswell Perkins, whose idea the council was. He said he thought it wrong to create a bureau which would have the psychological effect of gathering under its wing every person when he reached a stage in life where he was considered "older" and no longer capable of being a part of the mainstream of American life. Becoming Important . The issue is becoming more important because of the in creasing number of older per sons In this country. There are now about 14 Kb million persons in this country who have reach ed or passed the age of 65, and the number is rapidly increas ing, thanks to medical science which is lengthening the life ex pectancy. This indicates why members of Congress are grow ing more and more responsive to the needs and desires of the na tion's older persons, who as a group represent a very sizable voting bloc. Whether or not Congress and the Eisenhower administration get together on this issue, con tinued attention will be given to improving conditions for older persons in other ways. The Labor Department recent ly started a new program to help older women gain employment after it found that about one third of the unemployed in this Society Book Reviewed At Meeting of Wednesday Club Mrs. Hazel E. Flurry reviewed "Beloved," by Vina Delmar, at the last meeting of Wednesday j Study club. Judah Phillip Ben jamin, an American politician, is the central figure in the story and the locale is the old South in the Civil War period. He serv ed in the senate, became attorney-general and later, secre tary of state to the Confederacy under, Jefferson Davis. Through these colortul scenes move such figures as Davis, Beauregard and Lee. Mrs. C. P. Thompson gave a review of the book "Marcus Whitman, M.D., Pioneer and Martyr," -by Dr. Clifford M. Drury. Dr. Whitman, one of the most romantic and colorful fig ures in the history of the north west, was born in 1802 and was killed by Indians of Oregon, November 29. 1847. A monument along tlje old Oregon Trail at Hagerman. Ida., contains the fol lowing inscription: "Commemor ating the Memory of Marcus Whitman. Pioneer Missionary, who in 1836 Brought the First Wagon over the Trappers path that afterward became the Ore gon Trail." Return ' Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Lingaas have returned to their home at 826 Oakgrove road after spend ing a vacation in the south. They wefe in southern California for a time and then continued into Mexico and La Paz, Baja Cali fornia, where Mr. Lingaas went fishing. A. Older Persons Northwest Solons country are regarded as older women. The Civil Service Com mission has taken the lead in breaking down the age barrier to employment by eliminating the age factor in hiring consid erations for federal jobs. The Housing and Home Fi nance Agency is working out new methods of encouraging construction of housing designed especially for older persons, with such features as non-skid floors and strategically placed hand grips around bathtubs and shower stalls. Working Out Terms Under a housing bill passed last year, HHFA has also been working out financial terms to permit more older persons on Bees Caught in Certain Sound Frequencies Become Inactive By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor New York (U.R) Science has learned a little more about honey bees, but this little may be all that is needed for anyone to play safely with the fascinating if dangerous little creatures. The new knowledge is that when a bee hive is caught in sound waves of certain frequen cies of high intensity, every bee in the hive stops watever it was doing and stands still. While the noise continues, you can put On The Side (Distributed by King A the delicate rose. To the sun's sweet strength Doth herself unclose Breadth and length: So spreada my heart tn vou. D. C. RossetU Are you eligible for member ship in the Borrowed Time club? Those who have lived for years after the doctors gave up hope for them and people who have had narrow escapes from death are eligible for that club. As for example, Sim T. Webb, fire man on the Cannonball Express of which Casey Jones was the engineer. Sim jumped to safety a second or two before the ex press hit that freight train. An other eligible is Betty Oliver. She was operating the elevator at the 80th floor of the Empire State building when that bomb er hit the structure and cut the cables. Betty and the elevator dropped 80 stories or about 1,000 feet! Betty survived. Horses and Women - A New Yorker who is highly regarded as a discerning judge of horses and women, especially women, has sent us an extreme ly enthusiastic report regarding the pulchritude of the girls of Guadalajara, Mexico, where he is spending the winter. He rates Teachers Discuss Basic Studies At PTA Meeting Central Point A panel dis cussion featured a meeting of Central Point Parent Teacher as sociation last Thursday evening in the Junior High school library. A panel of ten teachers parti cipated in a discussion on the basic studies, which also in cluded art and music, activities as a group, learning the proper methods in using the library, and general information of what is expected of a child of third and fourth grade age. Principal Charles Meyer an nounced that S360 had been turned in to the March of Dimes by students of the elementary school. January 24 from 9 to 11 a.m., polio vaccine shots will be given at the Central Point Junior High school. Anyone interested in re ceiving the vaccine or anyone having any questions concerning these shots may call the school before Wednesday. Principal George Johns of Jewett Primary school announc ed that a tape recorder had been purchased with the money donated by the PTA. This re corder will be used to record the voices of the ' children, especially those having speech difficulties. MOBILIZE PRINCIPAL Anaheim, Calif. W.P.' The PTA of the new 42-room Jonas Salk School, largest elementary ?hool in California, has mobil ized the school's principal. They gav Principal Melvin Miller a pair -f gilded roller skates Mon day. He had complained of sore feet caused by making his daily classroom tour. An immediate estate for your family protection is yours os soon os you become a policyholder of the SUN LIFE OF CANADA CHARLES E. JONES Local Agent PHONE 2-9772 limited incomes to purchase modest, pleasant homes. This is to cope with the situation today which finds 19 per cent of the men and 31 per cent of the wom en who have reached 65 not hav ing homes of their own in which to enjoy their years of retire ment. The problem is basically because the average income of older couples is $1,500 annually. Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) has said he will try to get the age of women to receive social security benefits reduced to 60 years. Congress last session dropped it from 65 to 62. Other proposals are expected in the weeks ahead, as Congress pays increasing attention to the con cerns of senior citizens. your naked hands into the hive without the least wory the bees seem paralyzed. An odd thing is that sound waves below or above those fre quencies or of lesser intensity, do nothing to the bees. They seem to ignore those waves and with undiminished energy hast en to defend the home-hive against any and all threats. Sound Waves Felt Hubert Frings and Franklin Little of Pennsylvania State University, who acquired this in- By E. v DurKng Features Syndicate, Inc.) them above the Milan, Italy, blondes, the brunettes of Seville, Spain, and the Edinburgh, Scot land, redheads. However, he fails to mention whether these Guadalajara glanjour girls are amiable and frigndly to visitors to their fair city. I am check ing on this angle immediately for the benefit of our bachelor clientele. Please Note A Philadelphian says his fav orite breakfast is fried catfish covered with maple syrup. That certainly is a curious culinary combination. I have noticed that people who are fond of maple syrup have no control over them selves. I know a fellow who puts maple syrup on poached eggs. Sidelights It was Daphne Drake, who said, "Men don't seem to under stand that a woman likes to get used to them by degrees" . . . My favorite comic song of all time is "Waiting at the Church" as sung by Vesta Victoria . . . Ac cording to a medical authority there are 27 different types of headaches. Listed among these is one described as the "Mother in-Law Headache." It is further said that wives are the worst sufferers from "Mother-in-Law Headache." Eating A clever woman after long practice can manage to eat spa ghetti gracefully but no woman can possibly continue to look charming while eating corn on the cob. That is why that de lightful delicacy is never served at dinner parties. Literary Note Do you want to be a novelist? Are you interested in art or money? If the latter, consider the career of Ruby . M. Ayres, who wrote 150 money making nrvels. Her income was about S60.000 a year. All her novels were about love. Very passion ate love. She had a formula. She wrote for women. First she de cided on a title. As for example "The Remembered Kiss." Then she decided on the characters. After that the plot. All her nov els had happy endings. Her hero ines were all sweet, wide-eyed and innocent. Her heroes were all somwhat arrogant and slight ly brutal. That type of charac ter. Ruby claimed, has a very strong appeal to women. Any way, it seems to have been a major factor in aiding her to write 150 best sellers. Keep it in mind when you start to write yovir first novel. Edmund E. Vice-President Rcmc Northwest Stece 1913 HOTEL MEDFORD LOBBY Consult With Mr. Hass on INVESTMENT and RETIREMENT Programs Using the Securities of . . . Utilities Banks Insurance Industrial Investment Company Shares. Dependable Incomes of 5 to 6 Can tie Obtained. 'Other offices in Portland, Salem. Eugene. Seattle. Spokane, Tacoma, Aberdeen. Bellingham, Yakima. Wenatchee and Walla Walla. Civil Service Offers Job Examinations The 11th civil service region, 302 Federal Office building, Seattle, Wash., has announced an examination for the position of training officer, paying 55, 440 to S6.390 a year. Position to be filled are in the states of Idaho, Montana, Ore gon and Washington. Applica tions will be accepted until Feb. 14. The central board of civil ser vice examiners, Bureau of Re clamation, Denver, Colo., will accept application until further notice for the position of soil scientist for land classification and survey, paying $3,670 a year. The announcement is primarily for the department of the inter ior and positions are located in the 17 western states, including Idaho. Montana, Oregon and Washington. formation through careful ex perimentation, thought the bees felt the sound waves in their legs rather than heard them. So far as is known, bees don't hear in the sense that we hear, but it has been known since the days of the ancient Greeks that sounds mean things to them. For instance, the old Greeks knew honey bees themselves made sounds while doing cer tain things. Since no activity of the bee represents waste, those sounds must mean things to other bees. Bee scientists have never ceased to argue over what those things might be. Frings and Little put their sound oscillators either against or close to the hives, so that the vibrations of sound waves actually vibrated the hive. They noticed throughout that bees outside the hive and bees in the entrance seemed to be entirly unaffected. Frequencies beginning at 300 cycles per second and upward to 1,000 cycles at intensities be tween 107 and 116 decibles, made the bees stand still. '"The quiescence of the bees was so complete," they said in their re port to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, "that a beekeeper could safely open the hive and carry out routine servicing." They experimented first with bees in experimental hives which had glass sides so they could see what was going on within. Switching to standard .hives, they found no differences in what happened. They repeated the experiments over several months with the same groups of bees and found that the bees didn't stop reacting. Their sound making equip ment was expensive, as it has to be when frequencies and inten sities can be varied and precise ly controlled. Therefore, it hard ly would pay to buy it merely to use it on bees. Professional beekeepers now use smoke to make bees logy and harmless, but that requires skill and trouble. The scientists suggested that inexpensive vibrators could be attached to hives and might work as well. However, nearby human ears would have to be plugged sounds of such fre quencies and intensities are most unpleasant. Ouellette Appointed Committee Chairman Clifford Ouellete has been ap pointed chairman, of the local veterans legislation committee, Charles Holbrook, commander of American Legion post 15, has announced. Frank VanDyke, Robert Dames and Joe Flegel will assist on the committee. These men will work with the state veterans legisla tion committee and will be in touch with legislative develop ments in Salem, it was reported. Seawolf Operating Under Nuclear Power Groton, Conn. (U.R) The Seawolf, second atomic powered submarine built for the Navy, is operating at sea under nuclear power, it was learned today. There was no indication as to how long the Seawolf had been at sea as a part of its builders' trials. Hass Compant Phone 2-8379 I: t SMILING Ingrid Bergman steps from plane in New York for first return in seven years. She came to get film award for performance in Anastasia. (International) lr , i I - 4 5 I I i CONSOLE sg III 1 TELEVISION KlgiSWil, f MOENEY- 1 Mf - 3 1 !! SAVING a - PRICE! f ""f8! A I One-year guarantee on all parts, ' : y4 wf.j tubes and picture tube VvV' '--It Aluminijed picture tube - 0 'Set and forget volume control extra light ... 9 in. screen I Q Fine furn iture wood cabinet G-E PORTABLE TV v r . O Superior fringe area performance Travelized steel cabinet with .' 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