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6 EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE S6I 'Z HiV 'Apsnx Morse Rallies Public Power Advocates In 'Last Ditch7 Fight for Federal Dam Washington 'II P L. Morse m-Ore (nHav TolHol! public power advocates for a "last ditch fight in this con gress" for the proposed Hells Canyon federal dam. The Supreme Court Monday rejected an appeal by public power interests to prevent de velopment by privately owned Idaho Power Co. of the Hells Canyon dam site of the Idaho and Oregon border. Morse said the court decision has no bear ing on the public power policy questions involved. "The sell out by the Eisen hower Administration" of pub lic power should be stopped, he said. "Gratified At Decision' T. E. Roach, president of Idaho Power, said he was "gratified at the Supreme Court's action be cause it removes another of the many obstacles which the 'pub lic power or nothing' advocates have used in their efforts to dis courage and prevent the Idaho Power Company from fulfilling its responsibility to the people of this area." Roach, in a statement made in Boise, Idaho, said the action'will be a source of gratification to the many persons throughout the northwest who have contended all along that the decision con cerning Hells Canyon should be made on an orderly fact finding basis rather than on political philosophy." However, Evelyn Cooper, at torney for the National Hells Canyon Association, said the de cision came as a "complete sur prise." She said "none of us ex pected this." Beginning of Bailie ' Although she said it was "too early" to tell whether another appeal would be made, Mrs. Cooper said the high court may have refused to review the ap peal because "it didn't want to get caught in the middle of such a hot political issue. Clyde T. Ellis, general man ager of the National Rural Elec t r i c Cooperative Association, said "tha battle for a federal Hells Canyon dam is just warm ing up." In a telegram to various lead ers of thepublic power fight for Sen. Wayne Hells Canyon, he urged them not to be discouraged. "Let's give them a real battle now," Ellis said. Portland 'U.R C. Girard Da vidson, former undersecretary of interior and now aa attorney for the National Hells Canyox Association, said toiay that a high federal dam in Hells Can yon is now up to Congress. The U.S. Supreme Court yes terday rebuffed an association move to oust Idaho Power Com pany and its three low dams from the Canyon. Davidson said "unless Con gress rises to the occasion and authorizes the high dam, and the ' Eisenhower administration permits the bill to go through, virtually our last chance for a high dam will have been lost." SLeverner Holmes Agrees In Salem, Gov. Robert D. Holmes agreed with Davidson and said "our hope now lies with Congress." Idaho Power, which has al ready started construction at Brownlee, Ore., is still involved in litigation with the state of Oregon over its private construc tion of the dams in Hells Canyon. The firm was indicted by a Baker county grand jury for go ing ahead with the project with out getting permission from the Oregon Hydroelectric Commis s i o n. The indictment was squashed by the Circuit Court but an appeal to the State, Su preme Court is pending. OLD OFFICE An old photo reproduced from the original by W. E. Thomas of Med ford shows the old telephone office on North Central ave., about 1910. To left of entrance to the Odell Furnished rooms was the Med- ford post office. Parked in front ef it wars sparkling new "horseless carriage." To left of ' the two-story stone and brick structure wai the Karnes and Ritter confectionery. - Pacific Telephoned New Service Improvements to Start April 27 Almost 59 years of telephone history for the Rogue River val ley will be in the records April 27. On that day, according to Manager Jack Creager, Pacific Arend-Roland Comet Will Be Visible To Naked Eye in April Brussels (U.R) .This month ; the world will be able to see ;t with the naked eye a brilliant I star-like comet moving majest j ically through the heavens, j . This is a rare sight, but the Arend-Roland comet -is even rarer than that. It is the only J, comet ever to have been dis- l covered because a table tennis -J tour collided with a revolution. M. Roland, its co-discoverer, 'i is 33 and the table tennis champ ;j ion of Belgium. I Last November Roland and his ; wife, Ghislaine, who is the Bel J gian woman's table tennis champ 'I ion, took part in the Yugoslav in :J ternatidnal championships. They J were invited to continue on to -J the Hungarian championships. ' "But the revolt was raging in j Budapest so we ended our tour 2 in Belgrade and came on back i home," Roland said. V "I thought that since I was J back in Brussels I might s well C go back to work and I showed - up at the laboratory Nov. 15, somewhat earlier than scheduled. . That very day my chief, Simon Arend. asked me to examine a - photograph of the sky taken the 1 night of Nov. 8." o C Cornel Confirmed 3 Roland, who started at the Royal Observatory as a calcula j 'tor five years ago, began check- ing the photograph for anything out of the ordinary. "Forty-five minutes later," he said, "I vvas pretty sure I had located an unknown comet on the picture. I. rushed back to Arend and together we started working frantically, verifying arid checking it thoroughly, and soon there was no doubt left." The Arend-Roland comet had taken its place in astronomy. German astronomers carefully chacked photographs they had takers even earlier. The path of the comet was thus traced back to summer of 1956, and through an international exchange of in formation it was possible to establish its route or trajectory. Will Attain Perihelion The Arend-Roland comet is the only one of the eight discovered in the past year whic&.will be visible to the naked eye. This April it will attain its perihelion closest approach to the sun. "By that time in April," said Roland with a touch of paternal pride, "it will be as brilliant as the big stars. I figure it will be best visible in the southern hem isphere, but observatories all over the world will be able to study it. "I will ask to be on duty apt the observatory every day dur ing that period. I wouldn vat to miss the rendezvous vfti 'our' comet." : Social Security Program ; Explained at Roundtable Benefits of the bureau of old- age and survivors insurance pro gram were discussed yesterday by W. V. Nusbaum, manager of the local office, U.S. department of health, education and welfare, social security administration. Nusbaum spoke at the noon luncheon of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce Round table at the Jackson hotel. Program Explained The Social Security program, established by the Social Secur ity Act in 1935, includes un employment insurance, public as sistance such as old-age com pensation, and assistance for needy children and welfare pur poses, he said. . Explaining the insurance pro gram, Nusbaum said it provides monthly income for the worker and his family when he retires, and compensation for his family when he dies. He added that 90 per cent of receipts for the pro gram goes for benefits and only two per cent for administration purposes. Chief reason an insurance pro gram is needed, according to Nus baum, is because the American wav of life has shifted from an ' agricultural society to an in dustrialized urban one. He cited as an example that in 1790 one Telephone will complete a $630,- fall operation of all facilities 000 service improvement and ex- in Medford, Gold Hill and Jack pansion project. The project ; sonville, as well as Ashland, out of every 20 people lived, im urban areas and in 1940 six out of every 10 lived in the city. Therefore, he said, big families are no longer assets and must be provided for in some way. Another reason ,for the progra, he said, is that the life span ef an individual has increased. The amount of people over SS kas increased 242 per cent sisoe 1900, it was reported. Nusbaum estimated that y 1960 there would be abut 1?,' 000,000 people in the eouatry over 65. That many pecrjie jwst ; cannot save enough meney ; retirement, he Said. In Jackson county during 1S5 Nusbaum said payments irere made to 4,145 people totalig over S2Vi million. There gs probably a 20 per cent increase last year, he said. Nusbaum a-4-ed that 1,800 applications fer ! payments were made last ysar at . his office, which als gasras I Josephine county. ji includes 1. Placing in service the new Phoenix-Talent exchange. 2. Introducing new telephone numbers with a prefix in Med ford, Ashland, Gold Hill, Jack sonville and Phoenix-Talent. 3. Expanding the local calling area of these exchanges through an extended service program. , Telephone history books show that Medford was the first tow in the "valley to get telephone service. That was Sept. S, 1898. In Drug Stoe The telephone ffice was set up in Strang's Drug store at 206 East Main st. Charles Strang was the telephone manager, and Edna Eifert, the first operator. By the end of the year there were 22 telephones in use. Other telephone exchanges soon sprang up in the area. Sun set Telephone and Telegraph company, a subsidiary of Pacific Telephone and Telegraph, was extending long distance lines between California and Oregon. As the long distance lines prog ressed, exchanges were estab lished in towns along the route. The Ashland exchange was set up in October, 1898. Jack sonville's was -installed the fol lowing March and Gold Hill's a year later. When the long distance line between California and Oregon was completed, a local news paper dispatch described it as "the longest stretch of telephone line in the world. It covers the territory from Spokane Falls (new Spokane) to San Diego and gives connections with upwards ef S.UHU towns." AoMHtiM Description la another description of the telejj&oH service of that time a Wd wsporter remarked, "The sJ"ty sgeak ever long dis twwe lines any sfcere- largely tte lWHtfss ti$ea the stresgth of eae's oai tiwd5." fee &e8ree eetgamKiiear tw lgS5ssd, amd by 1915 fcs rofcwse ws meeded t teJk ag ttw seiy feaag d5atee vss ttj ea&uex1ieA. th gaa at toe Jacifte Csse. asrriE in 3&actford baft hath m prarTt au e By u tre WH IJ3&0 piwnes in stud j pea? iaUw iSfiW we Vaeax l.SOSk. sfcwd- S3Bewirt guratg the it HtfKte!&. But y 1323 there were 3,230 telephones Medford. Major Improvements The years 1939 and 1949 saw the next major improvements ef service in the valley area. Ash land and Gold Hill were eea- verted to dial operation iR 1939. Medford and Jacksonville &s1 dial telephones the following year. At that time, Creager was outside telephone representative with the company here. He later became the assistant manager aad thea manager. As the 1940's'drew to a close, Medford became a key point on the coaxial cable route estab lished between California and the northwest. The cable expand ed long distance calling facili ties and later was also used to carry the first television pro grams into the northwest. Microwave System Now the company's new micro wave radio relay system, placed in service last summer, carries TV programs, . and the cable is used primarily for telephone conversations. Two relay stations in the microwave systems are located near Medford at Baldy Mountain and at Siskiyou Sum mit. With almost 15,000 telephones at the end of 1956, the Medford telephone exchange was the fourth largest in the state. At the first of this year Pacific Telephone had 252 employees in Medford and last year had an annual payroll of $1,165,000 in Jackson county. Last year-, according to Crea ger, the company paid $159,420 in property taxes -to Jackson county and had 511,716,000 worth of telephone plant in the county. Medford telephone users are making about 73,000 calls on an average business day. Klamath Bus Service To Cease on April 30 Klamath Falls (U.R) ,ke wner of the Klamath Bus cem paay last night informed the city council tJ-iat the company will terminate Hs services in Uae city en April Sft. Fred Jaslia e4d eity eoweeft-: ma tbai tbe eempany had beem oporatifig jut the red fa? feur )ws a&d has te quit kesase iarta ef pass.eRigerc and moiiig The Low Cost Way To Se uenas eu Io Longer Need HOUSE Expert Jerviie WALLS - CIlLtWC WOODWORK - JLCSOSS Phone 2-758 L ROGUE f RAVEL SERVICE & F.REE SERVICE 'Wg 'te.? m$ -Sell Airline and Steamship Tickets lMnx!B 3,677S f LOBBY HOTEL JACKSON Burglar Posing as Manager Robs Store Cincinnati (U.R) A lazy bur glar posing as an assistant store manager hired a locksmith to open a shore store safe for him while two policemen kibitzed, authorities said today. The manager of the store, Wayne Betz, said he found out about the burglary Monday when the locksmith, ' Joseph Schmidt, called him to ask what he "wanted done with the safe door." Pressed for more details, Schmidt said he was called Sun day by a man who identified himself as the assistant manager of the store to fix a "stuck" door on the safe. Schmidt said he removed the door while Patrolmen Ed Beck er and Robert Ramstetter, who knew him, stopped by to ask "what was going on." Schmidt said he took- the door home and "I was going to send them a bill for $60." The burglar got away with $3,698 in cash and $107 in checks. STAMP OF APPROVAL Des Moines, Iowa U.R) Six Garden Grove, Iowa, high school students who found a package of state-owned postage stamps valued at $328 and turned them in will be rewarded for their honesty. The state will give each of them a certificate commend ing them for the virtue. Scientific Accomplishment' Seen As Aid To Overdoses of Radiation BY DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor New York (U.R) Science now can keep the bone marrow cells of mice alive outside mice bodies for three weeks. This justifies a reasonable hope that some day there will be a specific remedy for the sure death results of mas sive doses of radiation. That's news in a world where there is a chance of the day com ing when large numbers of peo ple will receive these massive doses willy nilly from bursting atomic bombs. ' As scientific knowledge stands right now, no thing could be done to save the lives of those people. Can Save Mice But under laboratory condi tions, a mouse's life can be saved right now. First, you have a supply of fresh mouse bone mar row cells ready, which entailed the sacrifice of other mice. Then you irridiate mice with x rays in doses- large enough to kill them all. Some you inject with the fresh mouse bone marrow cells. The others you leave alone. The lat ter die, the former survive. Its wonderful. No remedy could be more specific. The radiation de stroyed the blood making cells of the marrow. Substitute cells arc put into the mouse, and it lives. Presumably what can be done to help mice with mouse cells, could be done to help people; with human cells. But when out side the body, these cells are extremely fragile and short lived. Obviously if the method is ever to become practical, there have to be supplies available 'at all times. This means methods have to be found for .culturing these cells outside animal bodies and keep ing them alive indefinitely. That's why it's important that Dr. Daniel Billen of the Oak Ridge, Tenn., National Labor atory, has succeeded in keeping mouse marrow cells alive in culture jars for three weeks. Used Chemical 'Soup' That's a phenomonally long Bishop's Company to Present Play Thursday The Bishop's company, a na tional church drama group, will present the play "Cry, the Be loved Country" Thursday, April 4, at 8 p.m. at the First Meth odist church in Ashland. The company, which present ed four plays at the Medford Presbyterian and First Meth odist churches last year, has played in 35 states and traveled 110,000 miles. The play will be given by an all professional cast. time, it gives hope that ways will be found of keeping them alive indefinitely. Dr. Billen did it by working out a favorable chem ical cultural medium or "soup" in which to suspend them and combining it with an incubation temperature which helped the medium along. 'You can see the. progress of his laboratory work from these figures: cells cultured for four days in medium "C" when in jected uito irradiated mice per mitted 92 per cent to survive 30 days. But after nine 3ay in the medium the cells no longer helped any irradiated mice. Work Continues ' But medium "E" after 14 days of culture yielded cells which gave 58 per cent of irradiated mice a 30 day survival. Finally he worked out another medium which after 21 days still con tained life giving cells. There his work stands for the moment, so far as he has re ported on it to the scientific world. But he is deep into two other vital phases of the matter. He is trying to identify the type or types of bone marrow cells which permit mice to recover from lethal doses of irradiation, and he is working on methods of multiplyig bone marrow cells outside animal bodies. Those phases he will report on later. J mm LL TTIBniBIUMIE real new ravu're mum fu -co or roles a a WONDERFUL READING .v.. for ALL the Family! 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