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TEW MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, Mty 8, 1957 Murder of Americans Focuses Attention on Asian Desert Region Washington The ambush- murder of three Americani by outlaw Baluchi tribesmen has focused world attention on one of Asia's most desolate regions. Persian Baluchistan, scene of the slayings and dramatic pur suit, is Iran's poorest, least pop ulated, and wildest district. Dominated by the warlike Ba luchi tribe, the area is also in habited by Arab, Turkish, and Kurdish nomads. Intertribal raids are common, strangers are mistrusted, and banditry flourishes. In fact, the local name for the region is Yaghistan, or country of out laws. Wind-Whipped Plains' Abutting the Pakistani border in southeast Iran, Persian Ba luchistan is slightly larger than the state of Georgia. The terrain slopes upward from the hot, steamy coast of the gulf of Oman to the mountainous high lands of Sarhad where the air is dry and bracing. However, from May to September a dust laden wind whips across the uplands, occasionally reaching a velocity of 70 miles an hour. In the very center of the re gion is snow-capped Kuh-i-Taf- the Great, who crossed Baluchi- tan, a three-era tered volcano towering 13,262 feet Elsewhere, wrote one explorer, the country is "a waterless waste, with plains or valleys devoid of all trees and with nothing to rest the eye from the glare and the endless brown, burnt-up soil." As farming is possible in only a few valleys fed by seasonal rivers, the majority of the tribes follow the existence of nomadic herdsmen. Generally they live in tents of striped wool or camel hair, although some build Quonset-like huts of reeds. Sheep and goat milk in various forms is the central item of diet, supplemented by bread and dates. Meat is eaten only on special occasions. Tribetmtn Superstitious . Although the tribesmen are nominally Moslems of the Sun ni sect, supersitition rather than doctrine seems to shape their re ligious life. Polygamy is rare. Tribal women enjoy greater respect and independence than their sis ters in certain more orthodox Islamic areas. Since the time of Alexander Two Scientists Say Children Exposed to Radiation Needlessly Washington U.R Two American scientists have con cluded that thousands of U.S. in fants and children "are need lessly exposed to more radiation in one year than would be al lowed atomic energy workers in a lifetime." The scientists are Dr. Jack Schuber, an authority on radio active poisons formerly attached to the Atomic Energy Commis sion's Argonne National labora tory, and Dr. Ralph E. Lapp, au thor and lecturer on nuclear af fairs. They beleive the U.S. govern ment should enact a "radiation controll bill" to govern medical and other peacetime uses of ra diation and that the United Na tions should adopt a plan to end all nuclear tests. Writ Book Schubert and Lapp have writ ten a book, "dadiation: What It Is and How It Affects You," which will be published May 17 by the Viking Press, New York. The publication date precedes by 10 days the start of hearings on bomb test radioactivity by the congressional A t o mic Energy committee. In calling for the federal con trol law and the U. N. plan to ban atomic tests, the authors said that "each door we open reveals new hazards and more terrible consequences for humanity" from radiation. They accept X-rays and radi um as useful tools for diagnosis of many ills and for treatment of cancer. But they condemn "spreading overuse and misuse of these tools." Radiation haz ards generally from medical, military, and industrial sources are multiplying according to Lapp and Schubert. They said children more and more are being subjected to "ha bitual X-raying." This piles up dangers for "our irradiated chil dren" which, because of the ir reversible and cumulative effect of radiation on heredity, will be passed on to future genera . tions. , Public Health Reports The authors cite public health service reports that there are some 10,000 X-ray shoe-fitting machines in use in this country. Use of such machines, they said, "cannot be condemned too . strongly." From these and other radia tion sources, American infants and children are getting more ; radiation in a single year than the Atomic Energy commission permits its workers to receive in a lifetime, according to Schu bert and Lapp. Many doctors, the . authors said, do not know the radiation output of their X-ray machines and "operate them at higher than necessary levels." The authors said that even small doses of radiation can dam age not only the germ cells but the body as a whofe. A dose of 10 radiation units (roentgens) would produce no immediately detectable effect. . ' But "we can assume," said the authors, "that irradiation of the whole body or a substantial part of the body shortens life about one month for every 10 roent gens of radiation exposure." stan in 325 B.C. after his expe dition to India, violence has been no stranger to the barren uplands. Kerman, capital of the Iranian province embracing Per sian Baluchistan, has been over run by conquerers, including Genghis Khan and Timur. In 1794 when Kerman was sacked by Shah Mohammed, 30,000 people were carried into slavery, 20.000 men were blind ed and 900 were executed to provide a pyramid of skulls as a suitable war memorial. Nine Ghosts Said Too Many Ghosts . Dudley, England OJ.R) The Westwood family has written to Queen Elizabeth and the Lord Chief Justice of England com plaining that they are being haunted by a beautiful blonde ghost and her eight ghostly ad mirers. Ted Westwood, his wife and three strapping sons moved into an old inn here four years ago where they said they discovered a ghost haunting the house, the ghost of a beautiful blonde Vic torian. That was all right, Westwood said, but she attracted eight ghostly admirers including the bowler-hatted former licensee of the inn. - Westwood complained that the blonde ghost has a "particu larly upsetting" effect on his sons and not only keeps them awake at night but has "insert ed a devil-may-care atmosphere that lures them into deeds of wildness." He said he had written in his plea for help, - "I never used to believe in ghosts, but when you have nine of them you have no alternative." Clackamas Man Killed As Tractor Rolls Over Oregon City (U.R) Al bert Morris Notz, 53, Clackamas, was killed Sunday when he acci dentally backed a tractor into a drainage ditch. The tractor roll ed on top of him and crushed his chest. ' . Some People Allergic To Gin and Tonic; Even To Cashew Nuts Chicago tU.R) Some people are allergic to gin and tonic, and even to cashew nuts, the American Medical Association reported today.1 Nobody likes to be a kill-joy, and the AMA acknowledged that both conditions . are "un usual." Drs. Frederick G. Ovy Jr., and Gordon R. Lamb of Oak land, Calif., reporting in the AMA Journal, told of a patient who couldn't stand 'gin and tonic. Gin doesn't bother him, but the quinine water sent him to a hospital. Knew of Ssnsitirity The doctors said the patient knew about his sensitivity, but went to a party where only gin and . tonic was served. Three hours and several drinks later he broke out in a rash. The doctors estimated he con sumed only about 45 milligrams of quinine, yet he -developed a severe skin reaction with erup tions, redness and swelling all over his body. At the end of 16 days, includ ing six in a hospital, the erup tion had cleared up except for a few spots on his hands and feet. The case of the cashew nut reaction was reported by-Drs. and her jewels with THE PRINCESS jewel Ca fhnedby 00X1 LARGE SELECTION OF . . . STYLES COLORS AND PRICES Carroll S. Wright and Donald N. Tschan, Temple University Medical Center, Philadelphia. Stvtr Inflammation ' The patient picked cashew nuts while traveling in Ceylon. She promptly developed a se vere inflammation on the hands, neck and face. The cause was undetermined until she came home, opened some cashew nuts she had brought with her and broke out all over again. Federal Employees Schedule Convention Seven delegates will be select ed from the Medford local, Na tional Federation of Federal Employees, for the federation's 15th annual convention May 17 and 18 at Chemawa Indian school. Each member local is permit ted seven delegates, including four alternates, ' to the conven tion. Guests and non-member locals of the state federation may also attend, it was pointed out. Reservations for delegates and guests are being made at the Senator hotel, Salem. - Registration will begin Fri day night, May 17, at the hotel. Later that evening, there will be a meeting of officers and del egates for committee appoint ments and presentation of resolutions. In addition to the Christian religion, there are ten other liv ing or growing religions in the world. They are Hinduism, Ju dasim, Shintoism, Zoroastrian ism or the Parsee religion. Tao ism, Jainism, Buddhism, Confu canism, Mohammedanism or the religion of Islam, and Sikhism. These religions are found mostly in India, Japan, China, Persia, the Soviet Union, and the Mos lem countries. Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport hroFTHd'ooDx (ST-Jia STEVENS West Coast lumber has been making news in fields where all varieties of timber products were no better than wayfaring strangers in times past. This is the field of national advertising. A brave effort was made in 1916. World War I halted it. Another foray into nation-wide product advertising was organized by West Coast lumbermen in the late 1920s. The great economic depression turned it back. And so for 30 years the lum ber industry of Western Wash ington and Oregon labored along, selling' its products in the traditional way of. the frontier forest industry . on a "come and get it" policy. It was not until 1946 that the West Coast Lumbermen's association decid ed to "go . modern" in nation wide advertising of Douglas fir, west coast hemlock, western red cedar and . Sitka spruce lumber to the American consumer. Nw Partner All the. while, lumber "substi tutes' were streaming into tha home-building market. Early in the 1920s one of the largest producers of non-wood building materials employed a famous New York public relations firm to broadcast the story that the forests were practically cut out, and that lumber was an-all but obsolete ' material. "Go modern!" was the appeal to retail suppliers of building materials. "Get away from a material that is all but dead and gone. Help save the forests that are left by educating your cus tomers in the values and uses of non-wood building materials." These smart lads set Paul Bunyan over on his heels and had him going backward when building was strangled by the depression. Old Paul really got going again in World War II. And then he called in Johnny Inkslinger to help him keep it up, in the shape of the giant American advertising business. They were a team by 1946. Johnny Inkslinger Today The business of advertising in the United States is valued at 510,000,000.000, according to the Saturday Review magazine, which posts annual awards for the most "distinguished adver tising in the public interest." This year there were 26 national advertisers who won awards for their 1956 advertising efforts. The Weyerhaeuser Timber co., with headquarters in Tacoma, topped the list which includ ed some of the largest U. S. cor porations. Their agen.cy. Cole and Weber, of Portland, Tacoma and Seattle, is completely a West Coast firm. Cole and Weber also won the "MacWilkins Award" from the Oregon Advertising club with the national trade promotion ad vertising of the West Coast Lum bermen's association. . Old advertising . men have marveled at these two spring time items of news in their trade because of the basic pro duct involved ' in both West Coast lumber, the same old species of lumber that have been shipped to world market for a solid century and more. The as sociation's advertising was -and is aimed mainly at the home- building market.-. The - Weyer haeuser advertisements - feature tree farms and their multiple promise for continued tree grow ing and for outdoor recreation and other land uses as well, The new Johnny Inkslinger of the lumber woods is serving old Paul Bunyan mighty well. And this means better payrolls for all the Pacific Northwest. At the business session of the General Board of the National Council of Churches it was re ported that 11 out of the 12 vol umes of the Interpreter's Bible have been published. A transla tion of the Apocrypha is under way in addition to preparation of Revised Standard Version Ref erence Bible. Vie Mail Tribune Want Ads Miss Monroe Silent Oh Maternity Rumor New York U.P.) Marilyn Monroe denied today, more or less on both counts, that she had turned down a long cherished movie role because she is preg nant. An official of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios had been quoted in Hollywood as saying Miss Monroe was offered the part of Grushenka in the studio's film ing of "The Brothers Kara mazov" and had declined it. - "It is not true," Miss Monroe said in New York. "I haven't even seen a script." Her agent said negotiations between MGM and Miss Monroe never got so far as an offer from the studio. Miss Monroe has no contractural relations with MGM, he said, and is in fact signed up to make her next pic ture for 20th Century-Fox. As to reports of expectant motherhood, Miss Monroe's answer was the same as it was two months ago, "no comment." She was busy today posing for publicity pictures for her forth coming picture . "The Prince And The Showgirl." When Lt. Alfred A. Cunning ham received order for duty in volving "land flying" on June 1, 1916, he became the first Mar ine Corps aviator to be assign ed this type of aviation training. For Your Convenience . . Robinson Bros. nvSL HAS A 24 Hour Rental Service On Formal Wear TUXEDOS . WHITE DINNER JACKETS FORMAL TROUSERS ACCESSORIES Robinson Bros. Next to Pick's Apparel The Buds For Quality Duds Medford m-mim i ., Mii ,m i mmtt mnrn n ' . m,, y.mm ... www- -;-r ' --- m R eiiee .Reifel She wants' to know what we did with the $401,518,000 Renee Reifel is a secretary in the market ing department of Union Oil. She is also through our Employees' Incentive Plan one of our 5,906 employees who hold shares in the firm. This entitles her (along with' over 65,000 other people who own shares in Union Oil) fo a report on the 66th year of business of the 47th largest industrial company in -the country. How we spent it In 1956 our customers paid us the record amount of $401,518,000. , . We spent 72.1 of this-or $289,481,000 -with over sixteen thousand other com panies and individuals with whom we do business. . ' ?" " .' ' The more than 1000 tax collecting agen cies took another 3.7 or $14,830,000. This does not include the $74,120,000 we collected from our customers as fuel taxes and turned over to governmental agencies. - Wages and other benefits for our. workers and their families amounted to 15.7, or $62,966,000 of our income. The net profit This left'8.5-or'$34;241,000 as net profit. Slightly more than half of these earn ings $18,261,315 were paid in cash divi dends to Renee Reifel and our other 65,000 share owners. (Note that our share owners received only about three and a half million dollars more than the various tax agencies, which contributed nothing to the business.) The balance of our net earnings equal to 4.0 "of our customers', dollars we reinvested in the business to expand and modernize facilities. It seems to us that this report does more than give an account of our stewardship to Renee Reifel and our other share 'owners. It points up the broader base of owner ship of American business. In the last four years, for example, the shareholders of all companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange increased by 33. Union Oil did even better 41.: This could happen only in a freely com petitive economy that encourages and re wards individual effort. your comments are in'vited. Write: The Chair' man of the Board, Union Oil Company, Union Oil Building, 677 West' 7lk Street, Los Angeles 17, Calif. Union il Company JL OF CALIFORNIA. MANUFACTURERS OF ROYAL TRITON.. THE AMAZING PURPLE MOTOR OIL X
