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3 51st Year' Medford United Presi f-ull Leased Wira Price 10c Tribune United Press Full Leased Wii" 2nd Section MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1957 Pages 1 to 6 North Dakota Soil Not Necessarily BestforPlants Fargo, N.D. U.Pj The rich heavy North Dakota soil that raises bumper field crops isn't necessarily the best potting ma terial for house plants. Expenental potted plants that were just managing to struggle along in heavy Fargo clay soil at the North Dakota State College greenhouses took a new lease on life when potted in sphagnum moss, reported hor ticulturist Don Hoag. Sphagnum moss is that dry, springy material you often find packed around the roots of nur sery stock prepared for trans planting, he said. Properly ferti lized, the moss has proved to be an excellent growing medium for Qnearly all popular house plants. O If you have an ailing, soil- potted plant, and household con ditions such as a gas stove or furnace can't be blamed for its lack of vigor, try potting it in sphagnum moss, advised Hoag. Retains Moisture Remove the plant from its ,-pot. and wash all clinging soil particles from its root. Repot the plant by taking bits of moss, soaked in water and squeezed dry, and packing them around the plant. Pack the moss until it is firm, but not hard. Since moss alone has little or no fertilizer value, the horticul turist said that monthly appli cations of a fertilizer solution one-half the strength normally used in soil-potted plants is ad visable. Any good quality com lete fertilizer will be satisfac tory. Sphagnum moss retains mois ture for over a month under average spring, summer and fall conditions. This means you can enjoy vacations without making special arrangements with the neighbors to water the plants In the winter, plants should be watered about once a week, de pending on the amount of hu midity In your house. On The Side By e. v. Duri.n9 (Distributed by King Feature Sradirato. Inc.) hausted and paid off the bet. Give me- a klsi now. That will hanc upon mr Hp. At iwfrt at morninR dw upon a rose And lull as long. Miaaieion. Washington (U.P.) The Sen ate has confirmed the nomina tion of John Hay (JocIO Whit ney of New York to be am bassador to Great Britain. Lincoln, Neb. U.R) Floyd Root, Wasco, Ore., rancher, has been reelected a vice president of the National Association of Wheat Growers. -2-e .-.Farrratfs today are producing nTOreOanimal and vegetable fats than can be consumed for do mestic purposes. " Among the recent aids for the relief of persons whose matri monial mates' snoring keep awake is something called a "snore mask." This keeps the snorer's jaws shut. That strikes me as rather a rough remedy. I also question its safety and be lieve it might be injurious to the health. I suggest that before tak ing any such radical step as af fixing a snore mask to a hus band or wife's face, that the book titled "How To Stop Snor ing" by David Horwich be care fully studied. Horses and Women The combined opinions of health, beauty and fashion ex perts indicate the ideal figure for women in the 18 to 25 age group is height, 5 feet, 5; weight 116; bust, 34Vi, waist 25 1-2 and hips, 35'3. If your wife has these measurements, she might have a chance to win a Mrs. Am erica title. Her chances would be better if she clipped an inch and a half off her waist. The Mrs. America title is usually won by women with a waist measurement of 24 or less. Asking Queries from clients. Q. Was George, now of Burns and Al len, ever in a dancing act? A. Yes, sir. Mr. Burns, then a very agile and graceful young fellow, was a partner in the ballroom dancing act of Jose and Burns. At the same time there were being featured in vaudeville, such ballroom dancing .acts as Carl Hyson and Dorothy Dick son, Joan Sawyer and John Jar rott, Mae Murray and Clifton Webb and Fanchon and Marco . . . Q. What was the amount of money left by the feminine fi nancial wizard, Hetty Green? A. About S100 million. Hetty was a smart financial operator ! but she was got off to a good start when her father, Edward Mott Robinson, left her $6 million. Sidelights It takes eight years to train bartender so he can be said to really understand his bus iness. So states a man who has supervised the training of many bartenders . . . When Donald Brian was the star of the" orig inal New York production of "The Merry Widow," his sal ary was $100 a week. Ethel Jackson, who played the title role, was paid $75 a week. Kissing , , How many consecutive kisses can a couple exchange before the lip muscles are exhausted? A Broadwayite once wagered he could kiss Anna Held 200 times without stopping. After 152 kisses he quit completely ex- Asides Manufacture something that people use but once and then throw away. That's the advice I heard a highly successful bus iness man give a young fellow. Keep it in mind . . . The most difficult enterprise to launch successfully is a restaurant. One of every three restaurants es tablished in this country fails the first year. Common Cold Garlic is said to be a very ef fective common cold preventive. It is claimed if you take it reg ularly you will never have a cold. The way to take garlic as a cold preventive is to chop it up fine, make it into bread pills and take one pill with water daily two hours before breakfast. When garlic is taken this way it has no effect on the breath. Uranium Mining May Be Cancer Cause Chicago 1U.P.) Uranium min ing is being investigated as a possible cause of cancer. Evidence is not conclusive that uranium mining is harmful to the miners, but experience in Europe makes it suspect. To safeguard American min ers, a medical study into the after-effects of uranium mining, described to the - 44th National Safety Congress, is being con ducted. Duncan A. Holaday, director of Public Health Service at Salt Lake City, said approximately 1,300 men with known experi ence in underground mining were examined in the summer of 1954, and their health status and occupational histories re corded. The Medical studies will be repeated every three years. Dur ing the intervening years, a cen sus will be taken to see how many of the group are still em ployed in the mines and to keep in touch with those who have left the industry. The ultimate hope is to accu mulate data which will give esti mates of the levels of radio active dust and gas which are actually present in the mines during periods of operation, said Holaday. The file will cover some 500 mines listed as having shipped ore during the first three months of 1956. Such information was missing in the European case history, he pointed out, leaving conclusions about the toxic effects on hu mans inconclusive. . created to coordinate with sportswear I new flight-footed O O fashion for an on-the-go .you... AIRWAY by Risque aKV7 J . U 7 7 X Nationally Advertised I Mfffif In CHARM If&ff S f 5e? a Five ounces of flexible comfort in Risque's Powder Puff calf. Favorite new de sign completes your sports wear picture. For smart suburban or in-town wear. $11.95 V Parker Woods' Home of Future Vastly Different San Francisco (UP.) If an experimental home near here is a proper sample, the home of the future will be as different from the home of the present as the Model-T from the 1957 luxury auto. The structure is Eichler Home X-100, which further develops the modern architectural con cept that a house design should be based on the normal activit ies of its occupants. The X-100 rejects the notion that a house should be an ornamental box which necessarily limits the ac tivities of the people inside. Following are some features of the X-100: Skydomes and other great ex panses make the visual distinc tion between indoors and out virtually non-existent. Gardens are enclosed inside the building to further incorp orate the interior with nature. An exposed steel frame bears most of the structure's weight and makes possible the use of glass and plastic walls. Composition cabinet doors can be reversed within seconds so that a housewife can change the color scheme of her kitchen. A reversible fireplace can be Education by Mail Seen as Effective Madison, Wis. flJ.R) An experiment at the University of Wisconsin indicates that educa tion by mail may be as effective as classroom study. The experiment used an Intro ductory psychology course for its comparisons. Students taking the course in university exten sion classrooms used the same text and were given the same exam as their counterparts using the mails. The test results put the "mail bag" students on a par with their competition who could lis ten to lecturers and question the professor face-to-face. The correspondent student made up for this disadvantage by getting the normal written critiques on assignments. This might mean more individual at tention than the campus student normally gels, the university said. Profs. Dale Dysinger and Charles Bridgman noted some limitations to their experiment. They said that while students on campus and at the other end of the mails got the same exams and texts, they could not be equated as to scholastic ability Neuberger Attacks John Day Dam Stand Washington (U.PJ Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.), has attacked the administration for sticking to "the discredited partnership scheme" for John Day on the Columbia river. North Hollywood (U.R) Sing- j er Yvonne King, one of the four I rung Sisters, and bandleader Del Courtney were married here Sunday. More fish are used In the U.S. each year for industrial processing than for food. About 400.000 persons are ill of pneumonia in the U.S. each year. There are about 1,300 rail tun nels in the U.S. with total length of 320 miles. A person is injured in a homes accident every six and one-half seconds. The letter "R" at the start of a doctor's prescription stands for Latin "recipe." 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