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
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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
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(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.
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.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
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