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I i 1 s :: : : t ..v ar - km i x-r twiiii wn.-g ;vt.:. 's: -aw. & 1 r. - " i t: Us TIEVOLUTION CRUSHERS' Armed workers from the Communist Militia crouch De hind armored car and fire blank cartridges during demonstration in East Berlin, staged by the Reds to show their design for quelling "Hungarian-type uprisings." They went thorough war-like maneuvers in the theory they were trying to overcome "an armed counter-revolutionary group that had undertaken a provocation." Conference Set on Damage Suits Over Jalk Vaccinq Use Oakland, Calif. U.R) A roup of 11 damage cases Brought by parents in Hawaii, Sdaho and California against the tutter Laboratories, Berkeley, Resulting from fatal use of Salk vaccine is scheduled for a pre trial conference here April 25. The conference will be held oBt Alameda County Superior 3Purt and may set the pattern ? settlement in approximately (g cases, including the 11, in &4iich death resulted to the vic- Swis in 1955 following use of Sire vaccine. gtaants Seek $150,375 One of the cases was brought !By Mr. and Mrs. John Verbiske 8., Hilo. Hawaii, whose son, Sfteven. 7. died May 5, 1955, gheut 10 days after being in oculated. The parents seek $150, 87S damages. "We feel that ours is one of be best cases to come up at the pre-trial conference," said Henry oiinson, San Francisco at torney representing the Ver biskes. "It comes from an island where polio was not prevalent and the victim s infection could have come from no other source than the vaccine." Settlements Possible Robinson indicated that out-of-court settlements might be sought before the pre-trial. Cutter Laboratories were pro tected by liability insurance under-written with three com panies and totaling approximate ly $2 million. A spokesman for Keith, Creede and Sedgwick, San Francisco attor neys rep resenting the i n s u r ance com panies, said no out-of-court set tlements in any of the cases in volving use of vaccine have been made. Is That Day in and day out the na tural processes of evaporation and precipitation take place and in hundreds of places right now it is raining heavily. How ever, in Canada and the U.S., this is the month least likely to establish a heavy record rain fall. Many of the world's rec ords, however, have been estab lished in July. The world aver- Nugget Confectionery In Jacksonville Sold Mr. and Mrs. William Kayser, 1905 Westerland drive, Medford, have reported their recent sale of the Nugget Confectionary at Jacksonville. Rose L. Zimmerman and Joyce J. Fields of Jacksonville are the new owners. Mr. and Mrs. Kayser operated the estab lishment for about three years. They plan a brief vacation in California before returning to their home in Medford. Holland has 200 miles of sand dunes which serve well as nat ural dikes. age, by the way, is right around 28Vi inches a year. In discussing world records, remember of course that the likelihood of having a rain gauge handy at the rainiest spot during a cloudburst is high ly unlikely. Officially speaking, the most intense rainfall for the world for one minute fell right here in the U.S. at Jefferson, Iowa, July 10, 1911, with a 0.69 inch precipitation. J For a 24-hour period, Baguio, on Luzon Island, The Philip pines, had a slight hemorrhage of rain which measured 45.99 inches on July 14-15, 1911. This figures right around 3,000,000 tons of water for every square miles. Texas gets the highest rating in the U.S. (unfortunately it is unofficial): a day-long rain fall of 38.2 inches feU at Thrall on Sept. 9-10, 1951. For a month, the highest fig ure in the world was recorded in Cherrapungji, in northeast India, with 366.14 inches av eraging almost a foot a day. The same station has recorded the highest ever for a year, namely 1,041.78 inches between Aug. 1, 1860 and July 31, the following year. 'And the same spot captures the record for a calendar year with 905.12 inches for 1861. But times have changed. Since 1882, this station has averaged a mere 450 inches a year and is thus surpassed by an American record: at the top of Mt. Waial eale, Kauai, Hawaii, the average has run 471 inches since 1912. Curiously enough - the place where this occurs on the moun tain top is boggy you'd think the rain would wash everything away. s 5 4 You can be the best provider on your street (without the biggest salary!) Your salary may not be tremendous but a tre mendous amount of good living for your family depends on it. Let us show you how you can assure this good life for your family through a balanced insurance program one with no gaps or expensive overlaps. It's the plan you've read about in Travelers ad vertising in Life, Post, Time, and Newsweek. 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The rainiest wea ther station reporting is Bahia Felix in southern Chile -with a 325-days-of-rain-a-year average. In 1916, there were only 17 dry days. And now hear this. In this same land is the driest spot on earth. Climatologists assert that there has been no significant rainfall in parts of the Atacama desert for the last 400 years. In nearby Africa, the annual aver age during the past 43 years has been 0.02 inches, the lowest recorded. This means it would take 50 years to produce an inch of rain. As for the lowest anrfual rain fall recorded in the U.S. that was 1.66 inches for the past 46 years at Greenland ranch, Death Valley, Calif., where you can look up at Mt. Whitney which is snow-covered the year round. The driest state, speaking rainwise, is Nevada which has average 8.61 inches during the past 50 years although in 1928 it went down to 4.87 inches. As for the longest drought, that is without a measurable amount falling, that occurred at Bagdad, Calif., and lasted from Oct. 3, 1912, to Nov. 1914767 days. (Copyright. 1957 by Eugene Burns) (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife, a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous refer ence work in a handsome Seal craft binding. Each week new submissions will be consider ed. Sorry, I simply can't an swer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: Is That So! co Medford Mail Tribune, . Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Arrest of Judgment For Langley Held Up Portland U.R) Circuit Judge Frank J. Lonergan has held in abeyance action on a motion by District Attorney William M. Langley for an ar rest of judgment on his neglect of duty conviction last Satur day. Defense attorneys also asked that the judge set aside the con viction and order a new trial. Judge Lonergan said that he would take the matter up again Wednesday after the attorney general's office had filed a coun ter affidavit to Langley's arrest of judgment motion. W. H. CONRAD CO., Inc. BONDED & LICENSED Wjter and Sewer Lines Culverts and Underground Construction Estimates Without Obligations Phone 2-4141 or 2-5272 HONEST - DEPENDABLE All Work Guaranteed Pope Pius Warns Newsmen Against Big Temptations Vatican City OI.R) Pope Pi us XII warned newsmen in an address made public yesterday against the temptation of the "one-inch headline" based on "Calumny and slander." The Pope made his remarks on journalistic ethics during an audience Monday to a group of 21 American newsmen traveling through Europe on a tourist flight. He addressed them as "gentlemen of the press and of the skies." Held Close To Earth "But your profession holds you very close to this earth with its restless, often enough be wildered, blinded masses and the day by day uncertain promises and hopes and menaces," the Pope said. "You understand the grave re sponsibility resting on you. Be conscious of it when you write. You have your ethical principles worthy of a noble art. Yet you will agree there is an evil press aboard that scorns these norms. Bring the weight of your honor able loyalty and fearless ex amples to thwart the harm it can do. "Calumny and scandal, how quick-footed they are!" Whisper Blown Up "A whisper, harmless perhaps, though unwarranted, is blown up to a one-inch headline, and what havoc it can wreak in family life, in the lives of in dividuals and nations. A scoop is not worth the deep sense of shame that should come to one guilty of such conduct." The Pope said "one may well shudder at the flood of error. . . let loose by the communications media today." He urged newsmen to think of the "thousands and millions of people who may be affected by what you write," and "give them at all times the truth, as far as your serious research can ascertain it." HANGOVER CAUGHT UP Minneapolis, Minn. (U.R) Harry Gellman began serving a 30-year sentence Monday on a 19 2 7 bootlegging conviction. Gellman was arrested Sunday as a fugitive from a conviction ob tained during prohibition days. Wednesday. April 17, 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Russia Said in Grip of Great Economic Turmoil New York Soviet Russia is in the midst of one of the great economic crises of all time which has been brought about by its overwhelming ambition to over take and surpass the West, ac cording to a special report in Fortune magazine. "Never in modern history," asserts Fortune, "has a big econ omy vouchsafed so few crumbs to so many consumers." The forced and unnatural growth of the Soviet economy, the report says, has reached "the cracking point." Fortune editors Gilbert Burck and Sanford S. Parker prepared the article as part of a special section in the magazine's Febru ary issue entitled "Communism's Crisis." It represents the first analysis yet made of the de veloping economic dilemma in the Kremlin. Fortune says excessive em phasis on heavy industry and a huge military establishment have retarded investment in ag riculture' and its productivity. Low agricultural productivity has retarded the movement of manpower from the farms to the factories and insufficient man power and incentive have in turn retarded industrial productivity. "The new crisis boils down to this dilemma," according to the report. "Because popular resent ment is actually beginning to affect production, the Kremlin must now make real concessions to consumers. But if the Kremlin makes such concessions, it can not keep pace with, much less surpass, the military and econ omic progress of the U.S." In what the editors describe as one of the "most colossal ironies of all history," Stalin converted his country into what is, in the worst (Marxian) sense, "one of the most capitalistic states of all time." "Under the capitalism of the USSR, 'primitive accumulation of capital' has been pursued by dedicated, single-minded tyrants who made the caricatures of U.S. capitalists in the New Masses look like benign socialists." "In the name of the people, the Kremlin has denied almost everything to its people," For tune says. But now, the maga zine adds, cruel exploitation of the worker, command economy 'and terror are beginning to tell within Russia, and have back fired on the Soviets in the form of an economic crisis. "The Kremlin, of course, can make a disarmament deal with the U.S., or subject arid harness the economy of western Europe. But barring these, it is confront ed with only two clear choices: it must either stick with its heavy industry policy, or it must relax that policy far beyond any thing yet suggested either by Malenkov or anybody else in the Communist Party's Central com mittee. The former course would probably end in violent revolu tion and the destruction of the dictatorship; while the . latter would end the myth of the neces sity of absolutism, and pave, the way for the destruction of the Communist party." Fortune recalls Khrushchev's statement made last year that anyone expecting the Soviets to abandon Communism and its emphasis on the primacy of in vestment in heavy industry would have to wait "until shrimps learn to whistle. And yet the time may soon cpme, says Fortune, "when Soviet shrimps try to learn to whistle." 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