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0fOC8TEE-5PrOiD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday. March 18. I3S7 ft Vaccine Is Is That So? AfjibbleforYA Ctfcop 'hite Veterans ad min s9'i'i mployccs at Camp V(i' inoculated with plio vaccine on a vol un'ri h -is when requested to coo:i0.;qc ilh state or local micl thirties. E. K. Ricker, narjnj r.f VA domiciliary atam "hil. has announced. (:d Dr. R. A. Wolford. rirputy chief medical director, VA ccntr! office. Washington, D.C.. h; notif:d him the in oculations will be made by phys icians of VA hospitals and clin ics. The Veterans administration is cooperating with he AMA in a nation-wide program for mass immnizsfeon f the population against polio. Dr. Wolford said physicians of VA hospitals and clinics will inoculate VA employees with the Saik polio vaccine on a vol untary basis when requested to cooperate by state or local medi cal societies. The medical societies are ppearheading the AMA-sponsor-ed campaign to accomplish mass immunization with the Salk vaccine before summer and early fall, the seasons when a rise in the incidence of polio occurs. Dr. Wolford said VA em ployees who choose to receive the Salk injections will procure the vaccine at no cost to the government. The vaccine will be administered without charge by VA physicians who volunteer for the duty at participating VA hos pitals and clinics. A total 129 species of wood are found in Arkansas. Whether worn in the finger, in the nose, ear, lip or around the arm, ankle, toe, or neck, the ring has been a familiar adorn ment for men and women since ancient times. Its magic charms were many: for bestowing strength upon the hunter, for curing ills, for win ning the favor nf a loved one. Whether a plain round lo"p or an elaborately chased metal ring set with precious stones, the ring symbolically represent ed the magic circle through which no evil could enter. Its origin has been ascribed to the mysterious knot a tremen dous invention for a primitive people with the supposed magic of thwarting evil. As for its antiquity, we know the signet ring was used 8,000 years ago developing from the ancient Egyptian scarab which was carried as a seal and was first fastened into a ring, per haps both for convenience and safekeeping. Paired engagement rings, or betrothal rings to prevent evil from entering both the wooer and the wooed also were passed on to us from the Egyptians by 7- J fr 6 "y..: H Quickest way to California! FLY UNITED TO SAN FRANCISCO LOS ANGELES 2 flights daily: Leave 11:30 a.m., or 5:55 p.m. And on United's Convairs you enjoy the added smoothness and on-time dependability of all-weather radar equipment. Next trip, fly United. By EUGENE BURNS Rjnger-Naturalist ' way of the Creeks and then the j Romans who took the custom to England. For decoration, the I ring oftentimes contained a val ; uable gum not a diamond ! which came along much later in the 17th century. And should an j engagment be broken, then the engagement ring too was sup posed to be broken, i The diamond, so grcatlv prized today that in one song it has been called a girl's best friend was at the time of the master craftsman, Bcnuvenuto Cellini, much less prized than the emer ald and ruby. He also placed the sapphire fur down the scale. On faultless one carat stones, Celleni set these prices in 1568: Ruby, 800 gold crowns; emerald, 400; diamond, 100. sapphire, 10 crowns. (The jewelers' carat, in cidentally, derives from the Arabian quirat which means bean.) Wedding Ring of Iron The wedding ring, which sym bolizes the eternity of the vows but also wards off the en trance of evil is made of gold today but in earlier times it was made of all metals includ ing iron, or for that matter of straw or grass. As a gesture of bestowing honor or favor, men bestowed rings on other men, too. Thus we have Pharaoh pulling the ring from his own hand and plac ing it on the hand of Joseph wiien he made him ruler over Egypt. In Rome, a man's rank was proclaimed by his ring: free born citizens wore gold rings: Ircedmen, silver rings; slaves, iron rings. From olden times, rings were reputed to have medicinal quali ties. Ancient Hebrews wore cop per rings inscribed with mystic symbols which gave them heal ing power or other magic proper tics. Ging Solomon had one through which he could listen to the universe and converse with all animals. Ring To Cure Epilepsy In the Middle Ages, medicinal rings were inscribed with the names of saints. King Edward, the Confessor, had a famous ring which was believed to cure epi lepsy. In the Middle Ages, gold and silver rings were prescribed by physicians in England to ward off cramps. For that mat ter, people in this country wore rings against gout well into the last century. And some, even to day wear copper rings which conducts electricity, to cure rheumatism. , For luck, silver rings are con sidered to be lucky in most parts of the world today; but, without question, the luckiest of all is an iron ring made from a com mon horseshoe nail! (Copyright, 1957. by Eugene Burns) (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) uppinmun vuneu To Senate Bill Salem (U.R) Opposition to Senate bill 274 to place con trol of changes in freight ser vice under the public utility commissioner was expressed in a resolution unanimously adopt- ' ed by the Pacific Northwest Shippers Advisory board meet ing here Friday. The resolution adopted by the shippers said that provisions in the bill would impair the flexi bility of local freight and switch ing services to meet changing shippers demands. The responsibility for determ ining the type of service given, the resolution said, should re main a matter of agreement be tween the railroads and the ship pers. A. W. Schoennaucr, chairman of the board's legislative commit tee who presented the resolu tion, said the bill was the "worst" he had seen. The bill was introduced by Sens. Philip Lowry of Medford, Dan Dimick of Roseburg, Mon roe Sweetland of Milwaukie and Rudie Wilhelm Jr. of Portland, and Reps. E. A. Littrell of Med ford and Tom Monaghan of Mil waukie. The measure now is before the Senate committee on commerce and utilities. It will be the sub ject of a special hearing follow ing adjournment of the Senate next Wednesday. Around Hollywood By ALINE MOSBY United Pre Correspondent Germans Pay Tribute To Jewish Nazi Dead I Bergen-Bclsen, Germany i (U.R) More than 1,000 young Germans braved a rainstorm on Sunday at the mass graves of 30.000 former Jewish Nazi con centration camp prisoners. One of the dead resting be neath the grass-covered sand hills at the former Bergcn-Bcl-sen concentration camp ceme tery is Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who became a symbol of her persecuted race by the post war publication of her diary of the days of terror more than 13 years ago. s g Airport Ttrmmah f. I en etherizd Irov. agent. Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will awprd each week to the reader who sends me the best tru-life nature adventure, the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wild life, a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week new submis sions 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. Cramer Trial Opens In Klamath Court Klamath Falls (U.R) The trial of Guy Earl (Bill) Cramer, 76-year-old pensioner, for the first degree murder of Fred Peterson, 75, Klamath county welfare commissioner, opened today in the Circuit Court here. Selection of a jury from 73 veniremen summoned by Cir cuit Court Judge David R. Van denberg was the first order of business. Special prosecutor Charles Raymond of Portland who was employed by the county at the request of District Attorney Richard Becslcy has indicated he will ask for the death penalty. r Glass sand, manganese, slate, tripoli. zinc and lead are mined in northern Arkansas. Israeli's Mrs. Me'ir Satisfied at Meeting Paris (U.R) Israeli Foreign Minister Mrs. Golda Meir emerg ed "very satisfied" Saturday from a series of surprise meet ings with French Premier Guy Mollet and his defense minister on the Gaza crisis. Mrs. Meir stopped over in Paris en route to New York for urgent week end conferences with United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold and U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles on the Egyptian reoccupation of Gaza. She said she would see Dulles today. Hollywood U.R) as a blonde, Carolyn Jones was just another Hollywood beginner "5 whose hair was more im portant than she was, but as a brunette she's destined for fame as a young Bette Davis. When movie fans see Caro- Aline Mosby '" sniuc uu the screen as a man-hungry Greenwich Village neurotic in "The Bachelor Party" this year's "Marty," they may sense a new dramatic actress has arrived. Carolyn, a part-Indian beauty from Amarillo, Tex., has the in tense eyes and definite manner of Bette Davis. But before Caro lyn dyed her hair black she was playing unnoticed "blonde vil lainesses." No Set Decoration "I shouldn't compete on the blonde level with Marilyn and Jayne." argues Carolyn. "I re-1 sent playing women who are just set decorations. I resent having j my hair precede me into the i room. ! "I changed the color for 'The i Bachelor Party' so people would j notice me instead of my hair, j Brunettes have a more lasting ; sex appeal. If you see a blonde you look for only a few minutes it's a shock value that doesn't last." Carolyn, whose great-grcat- &TCai clUItl WelS el tUl I Id uci it: an- j dian, studied drama at the near by Pasadena Playhouse. She won a brief contract at Paramount Studio and roles in "House of i Wax" (She was Joan of Arc in wax), "The Tender Trap" and "The Opposite Sex" before strik ing it big in Hecht-Hill-Lancasl-er s "The Bachelor Party." TV viewers also have seen her in such dramas as "Lux Video Theater," "Wire Service" and "Panic." She appeared o n "Schlitz Playhouse" last Friday. Being compared to La Davis doesn't bother Carolyn, except she refuses to see Davis movies for fear she'll pick up some of her physical gestures. "Since I was a baby I've had these large eyeballs and I guess that's the resemblance," she smiled. "I would love to do the roles she's performed. Every role she plays is for an actress, not ! a personality." J Like Julius Caesar ! Unlike the unhappy New York j play girl she portrays in "The Bachelor Party," Carolyn lives I happily in a new home with a 1 swimming pool in the San Fer- j nando Valley. But in some ways ; the girl in the black Julius Cae- j sar hair-do reminds you of a i young, big city intellectual type. I She says with intensity, "The I problem is that people are afraid to reach out and touch each oth er. The girl in 'The Bachelor Party' felt loneliness and a need for human contact ..." Or, "If somebody catches me staring at them. I don't look away. I keep looking until I'm finished." Speaking of her husband, writ er Aaron Spelling, she says brightly, "The best-looking dress es are the kind you have to have help to get into. That's why I got married four years ago so Aaron could zip me up in back!" Tidal Waves Damage Houses in Japan Tokyo U.R) Big tidal waves, coinciding with the peak of the monthly lunar cycle, ripped sea walls, damaged houses and flood ed homes along Japan's Pacific sea coast before dawn Saturday. The waves, described by some Japanese news reports as "10 meters (30 feet) high, tore a 350 yard gap in the sea wall at His anohama Beach, in Fukushima prefecture and pounded the beaches of Ibaraki prefecture north of Tokyo. Officials at the Central Mete orological Obescrvatory believed an unusual low-pressure area over the North Pacific, amoun ing almost to a typhoon center, caused the waves. IRISH GIVEN 'AIR' Santa Barbara, Calif. (U.PJ In observance of St. Patrick's Day, radio station KIST ran an Irish Free State flag to the top of its 180-foot antenna Sunday, and changed station identifica tion to "Radi O'Kist." Lady . . . 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