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fiefs From the Legislature
Salem (U.R) House Joint
solution 39 calling for an in
terim committee to study fish
ejraf, wildlife regulations passed
ts House 40-14 and now goes to
Senate.
Hep. W. H. Holmstrom, Gear
Mrt Democrat, said the possibil
ity of combining the present fish
vM game commissions would be
0n of the main problems stud-
art.
imms between commerical and
lsns between comercial and
Court Records
tMCIPAl. COt'RT
Vnjartiin Franklin Bmn. 34'i
Uorth Main st . Medford. dnvinB while
under the influence of intoxicating
liquor. $100
Charles Oliver Froling. drunk in
public. $10.
Francis George Nofft. drunk in
public. $10
Fritz Frederick Humble, excessive
now. $10.
Mildred Siphons Lockard. violaiton
of basic rule. $10.
Luther Martin Jacobson, violation
of bhmc rule. $10.
Pobert Walt Harrii. no operator
license, JS.
John Edward Young, disobeyed atop
lgn. $5.
Denis Malcolm Lohman. disobeyed
atop sign, $5.
Mildred Jane Weber, violation of
baic rule. $10.
Melvin J. Rotan. wrong way on one
iv street, and no driver's license.
$20
Willard Carr. violation of basic
rule. $10. '
Floyd Wayne South, violation of
basic rule. $10.
John F. Lody, violation of basic
rule. $10.
Frank Martin Konopasek. disobeyed
stop sign. $3
Fred G. Hall, violation of basic
rule. $10. .
Ralph G. Lue. violation of basic
rule. $10.
Noel Hammond Black, violation of
basic rule. $10.
James Wayne Lick, violation nf
basic rule. $io.
William Jackie Pech, improper pass
ing and lane usage. $5.
Leslie Rea Summerfield, improper
parsing and lane usage. $5.
John Paul Moffat, failure to stop
at red light. S3.
DISTRICT COCRT
Robert James Doyle Summers, no
operator's license. $10.
John Doran Weber, no mud guards.
$10. bail forfeited.
Harry Walfreri Engstrand, violation
of basic rule. $15.
Peter Sparr Johnson Jr.. overload,
49.
Leo Eugene Tuttle. no safety chain,
$6.
Cacil Charles Heard, failure to
signal. $10 .
Michael Bryce Smith, inadequate
Bluffier. $15.
Eugene Roger Richmond, failure to
atoii at stop sign. $15.
Henry Nahcs, failure to dim head
less. $10.
fhn Henry Lusk, failure to stop
am stop sign. $10
Ibart Ryder White, overload. $3.
itmn Irwin Nichols, passing in in
dtmartion. $10.
Mint JDimick Ross, no safety
sport fishermen would also be
looked at.
Salem (U.R) A memorial
asking Congress to reconsider
its granting of fast write-offs to
Idaho Power Company for- con
struction of three Snake river
dams and calling for repeal of
the 1951 fast write-off law passed
the house 50-6.
Rep. Vern Cady, Burns Dem
ocrat, said it was a "crime" large
companies like Idaho Power got
write-offs on their taxes. Cady
estimated that the write-offs
would save the company S31
million in taxes over a five-
year period.
Salem (U.R) The House
passed 51-5 House Joint Memor
ial 14 asking Congress to open
6,000 acres in the Klamath basin
to homesteadins. )
Rep. John Kerbow, Klamath
Falls Democrat, said the land
was granted to the federal gov
ernment in 1905 with the under
standing that it would eventual
ly be opened to homesteading.
Salem (U.R) A $10 raise in
basic school suport from $80 to
$90 per census school child was
approved by a joint ways and
means subcommittee today.
The subcommittee also voted
five million dollars for building
programs in distressed districts
for the next two years. The com
mittee specified that the money
should come from the general
fund rather than from the basic
school fund, as provided in the
original house bill 480.
Salem (U.R) The Senate Tax
ation Committee worked inten
sively to reach an agreement or
propose a compromise on the
House taxation program.
Its chairman, Sen 'Walter J,
Pearson, Portland Democrat, said
an effort would be made to bring
the program to the Senate floor
as soon as possible.
Salem (U.R) The Oregon
Senate approved Senate bill 470,
which would create a Bureau
of Criminal Identification and In
vestigation in the department of
State Police.
Around Hollywood
Editor's note: Aline Mosbv is on
vacation. Before English star Kav
Kendall left for New York and sched
uled July wedding to Rex Harrison,
she wrote the following guest column.
CXDCIT COIRT
Butt? A. Lyter vs. Thelma A.
divorce decree.
2csa Ann Lewellen vs. Willard Otis
SjrvnT. divorce decree.
km stasey vs. Michael p Day
1ft r liorce decree.
ynw J. Irvin vs. Larry W. Irvin,
tivore eomplaint.
lricia Adel Barger vs. Ray Wil
liaa Btrper. divorce decree.
Haeal McCoy McDaniel vs. Pat
rick cDaniel. divorce decree.
BY KAY KENDALL
Written for the United Press
Hollywood U.P.) Winding
up ' four months in Hollywood
and heading for New York and
then England, I find my emo
tions are first visit to the fabul
ous town, I've been asked re
peatedly to give my impressions
of it. ,
Although "Les Girls." MGM's
big musical in which I've been
working has kept me busy, I
have squeezed in a bit of sight
seeing. I've been to Palm
Springs (found it healthful but
dull) and San Francisco (loved
it) ; gone shopping in Beverly
Hills (expensive); dined at Don
the Beachcomber's (best drinks
in the world) and Dominick's
(tiny and out of the way but
probably the most fabulous food
I've ever eaten); and been en-
Mt. Carmcl, III. UR) When
Ralph K. Bradford, 54-year-old
deaf mute from Indianapolis,
visited here recently, it marked
the 6956th city he's called at in
the last 25 years. He started out
to travel a million miles gather
ing material for a "Book of Cities."
The average person is expect
ed to eat about 83 pounds of
beef this year.
By ALINE MOSBY
United Press Correspondent
tertained in homes that seem
more like places to me.
But I shall be glad to leave.
For one thing, New York is
still the most exciting city in
the world and I expect to be
there the next few months to
get married before going to
London (which I also adore) to
complete my contract with J.
Arthur Rank by making three
films in a row. For another, I'm
a little weary of sunshine. I'm
a girl who likes to feel of rain
in my face occasionally. 3
Then there's the matter of
traffic. After being driven (I've
been too frightened to sit be
hind ,a wheel myself) over its
miles of freeways and crowded
streets I've begun to wonder
how anyone in Los Angeles lives
beyond the age of 20.
Adjustment Not Complete
I still haven't gotten used to
calling everybody "Darling" and
being called "Dear" by every
one in return. And I just can't
become accustomed to reading
the Hollywood Reporter and the
Daily Variety with coffee
every morning. As a matter of
fact, I'd rather not read what
the g o s s ip columnists in the
papers are writing about me and
my neighbors.
However, it has been fun. And
I hope I'm asked back again.
I'll keep in trim by sprinkling
my speech with an occasional
"Darling" and I'll get out in the
sunshine once in a while.
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, ML,
At the time of the '49 gold
rush to California,, a surveyor
in India took readings of a
mountain named Kang Chamo
lung and three years later com
puted its height at 29,002 feet
making it the highest point of
land on the face of the earth. (It
was renamed Alt. Everest in
1856 for his boss, Sir George Ev
erest:) The survey was off 158 feet
actually-Everest is 29,160 feet.
The first attempt to climb it
was made in 1921 and 11 lives
were lost until Edmund P. Hil
lary of New Zealand, 33, and
the native-born Tensing Norkay
of the Himalaya regions, 39,
planted a flag on its tip-top at
11:30 a.m., Alay 29, 1953.
Outside -of Asia the next high
est point is in dispute. It's be
tween two Andean peaks in
South America. Heretofore Alt.
Aconcagua at 23,096 has been
accepted but in February, 1956,
a Chilean claim has been made
for Ojos del Salado with 23,293
feet.
A yet higher peak was "dis
covered" by the Soviet survey
ors in northeast Siberia and an
nounced Feb. 16, 1955. They
claimed it was 24,664 feet high
higher than any in the Ameri
cas, Africa, Europe or Australia.
At last reports, it still carried
the name Stalin peak.
. The highest point in the North
American continent is Alt. AIc
Kinley, 20,300 feet, in Alaska,
first climbed in 1911. In the con
tinental U.S., the highest is Alt.
Whitney, Calif., 14,495, first
climbed in 1872. But there are
23 higher in North America in
cluding Mt. Logan, Canada (19,
850); Citlaltepetl, Mexico, (18,
696); St. Elias, Alaska-Canada,
(18,008); Popocatepetl, Alexico,
(17,883), etc.
In the eastern U.S., the high
est point is Alt. Alitchell, 6,684,
while the highest east of our
Rockies is Harney Peak, 7,242,
in the Black Hills of North Da
kota. Colorado Elevation Highest
(Incidentally,' the state with
the highest mean elevation . is
Colorado,' at 6.800 feet. Its 49
peaks over 14,000 feet help. The
low-downest state is Delaware
with a mean average of 60 feet.)
The highest uriclimbed moun
tain in the world, as far as I can
determine, is Dhaulagiri (White
Alountain) in the Himalayas,
right around 27,000 feet. On
June 20, 1954, an Argentine ex
pedition got to within 700 feet
of the top in an attempt . in
which their leader, Francisco
Ibanez, died after frostbite am
putations. But measured from base to
peak, the honor for the world's
tallest mountain goes to compar
atively unknown Alauna Kea,
Hawaii, which is 30,750 feet of
which 13,784 is above sea level.
Its base, almost 15,000 feet be
low sea level, has been estimat
ed to be 74 miles in diameter.
While we're wrapped up in
mountains, the world's largest
glacier undoubtedly exists some
where in the six million square
miles of Antarctica, states Sup
erlatives (Superlatives, Inc., 270
Madison Ave'., N.Y.), which con
tains about 87 per cent of the
world's glaciated surface. But
the world's largest known single
glacier of the . northern hemi
sphere is Aluir Glacier, south
east Alaska, with an area of
about 350 square miles. The Ala
laspina glacier, on the Gulf of
Alaska, between Juneau and
Cordova, which results from the
junction of several "expanded
foot" glaciers, covers an area of
1,400 square miles.
It has been estimated that if
returned to the sea, the 11,000,
OpO cubic miles of the world's
ice sheets would raise the sea
level by 160 feet covering all
of the world's known seaports,
and then some! And as eons go,
not so long ago jungle-like for
ests existed at both oles!
Copyright 1957 by Eugene
Burns)
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Sorry, I simply can't answer
your many friendly letters.
Grange Notes
Gold Hill Grange
A meeting of the Gold Hill
Grange was held Alay 2. Three
visitors were present, Air. and
Airs. Carmackle from Eugene
and Air. Darwin from Griffin
Creek Grange.
The minutes were read and
approved, committee reports
given and grange business was
taken care of.
Alva Walker gave a report
on flood control and Carmackle
said that Charles Porter was do
ing all he could to get something
done about it.
The master presented a pin
to Mrs. Edna Foote for her 25
year membership in the Grange.
The lecture hour was spent in
weaving the May pole. The mast
er presented Herman Kamping
with a past master's pin for
three year's service as master.
Members of the Grange voted
to have one buster night, which
will be held in the fall1 in con
nection with the flower show.
The next serving committee
will be Betty Molloy and Barb
ara AI o s e r. Grange closed at
10:30 p.m.
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Four-Cenl Lelfer Moves Step Closer"
Washington (U.R) The four
cent letter moved a step closer to
reality Tuesday.
The House Post Office Commit
tee approved President Eisen
hower's request for a one-cent
increase in rates for mailing first
class letters. A similar increase
was approved for air mail letters
and postcards.
The committee was to act
today on the President's re
quest to raise second class news
papers and magazines and third
class advertising matter postal
rates.
Tuesday's action was taken by
the committee at a closed meet
ing. If finally approved by Con
gress, the government would get
$365,800,000 additional annual
revenue.
DANGEROUS LITERATURE
New York (U.R) A Green
wich Village couple who receiv
ed an eviction notice because the
weight of their library of 1.000
books constituted a safety haz
ard plan tomove today.
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