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Cornell Students Design Buildings For Mining Town Ithaca, N'.Y. (U.R) A 20th century version of a frontier mining town, for the world's largest uranium center, is being designed as a class project by 30 city planning students in Cornell's College of Architecture. The students are charting modern residential, business, civ ic and recreation areas for a new city rising near Elliot Lake, Canada, in the Blind River area north of Lake Huron. Until an estimated three bil lion dollars worth of uranium ore was discovered there in 19 49, the area's chief claim of fame was its excellent hunting and have moved in, another 25,000 are expected by 1960. The kind of population in a mining community presents some problems to the young planners. About 40 per cent are single mcnt, and the turnover of mine employment is about 50 per cent a month. So a large number of transient residences nd trailer facilities are needed. The great number of French speaking persons will require separate schools, and the large Catholic population will mean more parochial schools than us ual. Unlike a mining town in the Klondike days, Elliot Lake is giving schools top priority. The one-commodity economy threatens the area with a ghost town status. Other uses for the area, in case the uranium mar ket declines, are being investi gated by the students. Among these are lumber and wood prod ucts industries, increased tour ist and recreation facilities, and a university specializing in sub jects related to uranium and lumber. The topography adds construc tion problems. A layer of gran ite is near the surface in the whole area, with outcrops in many places, and a high ridge runs parallel to Elliot Lake. The 30 students, directed by Prof. F. W. Edmonson, come from 11 countries and include persons trained in law, engin eering, economics, sociology, and floriculture, as well as in architecture and city planning. Working with them on sew age, power and other facilities are sanitary engineering stu dents in Cornell's School of Civ il Engineering and thermal en gineering students in the School j of Mechanical Engineering. The Canadian government has established the 369-square-mile Blind River area as an improve ment district under its "new town" program. The students receive data and help from D. F. Taylor, community planning di rector in the Ontario Depart ment of Planning and Develop ment. Base information about the land and its uranium deposits comes from Franc Joubin, the man who discovered the area's potentials after a 20-year search all over the world for uranium. Instruction Booklets Plug for Communism Mainz, Germany (U.R) The Communist Party, banned in West Germany, is distributing propaganda here disguised as in struction booklets for pedestri ans. After the first few pages the booklets shift from traffic tips to Communist doctrine. Last year the Reds mixed Marx with Mozart in booklets sent to music lovers. Fight Highway Program Creates Big Job For Researchers Washington (U.R) The new 33 . billion dollar highway pro gram has created a giant job for the Agriculture Research Serv ice. Problems to be solved in build ing the 41,000-mile highway sys tem in the next 15 years include planning to provide the best safe ty for motorists and making the rights-of-way more beautiful. There also are such problems as erosion control along the high ways and low-cost maintenance. Those are jobs for Agriculture Reaserch scientists. They already are cooperating with planners and engineers in many states, studying the special problems of soil, water, and plant adaptation involved in roadside development. Plantings along highways con stitute a new kind of agriculture with unique requirements, espe cially for water diversion and run-off control. Millions of tons of earth will be moved in making cuts and fills for the new highways. Sub soils frequently lacking the nu trients necessary for healthy plant growth will be uncovered and it will be an ARS job to see that these exposed surfaces are made to produce vegetative cover to prevent erosion. Road shoulders must be kept firm and smooth to provide safe emergency turnouts for motor ists. Fills must not wash out to form dangerous gullies and ditches. Erosion of cuts must be checked to keep eroding mate rials from damaging farm lands, filling reservoirs, or from wash ing onto highways to endanger occupants of fast-moving cars. Vegetative cover also is needed to reduce highway repair and maintenance costs resulting from uncontrolled erosion. Once a right-of-way has been graded, soil preparation is the first step, according to ARS en gineers and agronomists. Then proper plant nutrients must be applied to the freshly exposed subsoils. Cuts frequently require surface working with tillage ma chines before and after they are fertilized and before they are seeded. ONE OF SEVEN Newport, R.I. U.P.) Lt. Mary T. Lynch, the only woman doc tor stationed at Newport Naval hospital, is one of only seven women doctors in the U.S. Navy. Physicians Leading To Abolish Coca Chewing Lima, Peru U.RJ Two physicians are leading a fight to abolish the coca-chewing habit among Peru's four million In dians the western hemisphere's oldest narcotics "jag." Dr. Luis N. Saenz and Dr. Carlos A. Ricketts appealed to the public this week to support their Anti-Coca League (Liga Anti-Coca). They said a tour of the country, just completed, con vinced them nothing can be done to raise the living standard of the Indian until he stops chewing the juicy leaf. Spanish conquerors decreed coca for everybody 400 years ago. They thought of it as a kind of harmless poor man's tranqui lizer pill. It was supposed to keep the Indian from worrying about politics and working con ditions. Indians have been chewing coca all day, every day, ever since. They now spend 150,000, 000 soles (S7,000,000) per year on the habit, despite intense poverty. Coca is the plant from which cocaine is derived. With a wad of coca leaves in his jaw, an In dian feels happy, satisfied. He does not eat enough food. In the end his health suffers. The government set up a state monopoly of coca sales eight years igo, hoping to reduce na tional consumption by a gradual tightening of supply. Dr. Saenz said this system resulted instead in an increase in use of coca. "The monopoly has had no ef fect except to fill the govern ment's coffers with the profits of a constantly increasing con sumption of narcotic leaf," Dr Saenz told newsmen. . Dr. Saenz is seeking members for the league in Lima. Dr. Ri cketts will organize in Arequipa, P iru's second city. They hope to interest lniiuentiai citizens in their campaign to reduce plant ings and educate Indians against the habit. Dr. Saenz said the coca-chew ing Indian is holding back the material progress of all Peru. The pure-blooded Indian of the provinces' still is not an effective part of the nation's social or ec onomic community, he said. The physician said a powerful, natonwide civic organization must help the government wipe out the practice. He believes business and industry will join the league's campaign. The coca shrub grows abun dantly in Peru and Bolivia. In dians in these countries, and in adjacent parts of Brazil, sprin kle the leaves with lime and chew them like tobacco. Before the Europeans came, the Inca empire restricted the e of co ca to nobles and priests. They used it in state and religious ceremonies. Today the male Indian begins chewing coca about the time he reaches manhood. Few women are heavy users. Indians claim coca reduces hunger pangs and makes it easier to breathe in the high altitudes of the Andes. Thursday, May 9, 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE WILL THE FACE ON THE STRETCHER BE YOURS! H ''" ' "-T-r H'"BPVJ- f, "V sL!.!1 "!."" 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MEDFORD, OREGON Five-Cent Subway Ride Most Widely Used Escape Route by Berlin Anti-Communists Berlin (U.R) A five-cent sub way ride through the Iron Cur tain is the most widely used es cape route to freedom. Here in isolated Berlin anti Communists literally use an un derground railroad to flee to the West. They use the subway which still connects East and West in this split city. And usually the escape trip is as uneventful, short and fast as the 17-block ride on the New York subway from Times Square to Colum bus Circle. Since refugee records were started in 1949, the flight of 1,800,324 East Germans has been recorded in West Berlin and West Germany. Many, many thousands more fled to the West without . registering. Perhaps as many as half of those who sought asylum in West Berlin came by subway. Barriers Crashed There have been dramatic es capes. Soviet Zone residents try ing to flee have been shot on the East-W est border. Heavy trucks with open throttles have crashed through permanent bar riers erected by the Communists. Men have swum the Havel river and border canals to free dom. People have escaped on bicycles, horse-drawn carts, ca-, noes, motor boats, rowboats, i buses and excursion launches. Young children have been brought across the border in baby carriages. Older folks have been pushed across in wheel chairs. Four members of a family from Ruedersdorf, a few miles east of Berlin, asked asylum in the French sector of the city after a roundabout t h r ee-day journey of 200 miles over canals and rivers in a passenger ex cursion boat belonging to the family. A group of three f a m ilies from a village near Magdeburg rode the 75 miles to Berlin by funeral cortege. They were dres sed in black and carried wreaths their passports to freedom. In stead of going to a West Berlin cemetery , as they told border guards, they reported to a ref ugee reception center. But most of the flights are less spectacular. The great drama and dangers come when refugees try to enter West Ber lin from surrounding country side of the Soviet Zone, as dis tinguished from the Soviet sec tor of East Berlin. Only four roads are open and all are guarded. Along 75 miles of bord er are barbed wire entangle ments, r o a d b 1 ocks, ditches, watch-towers and posts manned by police with tommy guns. At the 28-mile border between East and West Berlin, it is an- Red Fir Slabwood SUMMER SPECIAL 3 $0000 Loads 1 LOAD $12.00 Immediate Delivery ' Ph. SP 3-5878 or SP 2-5055 PHELPS FUEL GO. 1337 So. Peach St. Save this ad for reference other story. The Iron Curtin has great holes in it. The Reds have channeled traf fic through special checkpoints and instituted customs checks but for some reason have never placed great restrictions on traffic. Subway and elevated trains cross the border without regular checks. People cross it on foot merely by showing identity cards. East Germans excite su spicion only if they bring along suitcases. Most come with only the clothes on their backs, but one dog lover brought six dogs with her. She made six subway trips. On each trip she brought one dog. Center, Neb. (U.R) Farmer L. H. Mentel, 61, told a judge here he hadn't tried to get a driver's license in more than 35 years because he feared he would fail the eye test. Mentel said he always stayed on back roads. However, he was arrested when the State Highway Patrol made a spot check on cars in the area. Judge Ore Ballard fined him $10 and costs. 17 Builders Supply QUALITY BLOCKS Bricks, Fines, Drain Tile 727 W. McAndrews Ph. SP 2-4107 Watch Spring Inserted in Heart Detroit flJ.R) A team of sur gons has disclosed a remark able new operation in which a "wach spring" was inserted in a woman's heart. Mrs. Mabel Streeter, 34, was operated on April 5, 1956, and has carried the metal spring in her heart for more than a year. The operation, another devel opment in the rapidly expanding field of heart surgery, is de signed to correct a c o n d t ion known as "mitral insufficiency," in which the mitral valve of the heart fails to open and close properly. Prior- to her operation, doc tors gave Mrs. Streeter, a moth er of five, about six months to live. They hope now she may have a normal life expectancy, but they won't say for sure. She is the first person in his tory with a. metal spring in her heart. Use Mail Tribune Want Ada Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport 12 Court Records MUNICIPAL COURT Conrad Johnson, drunk In public, $10. B. C. Kennedy Jr, violation of ba sic rule. $10. Manfred Wood row Olson, violation of basic rule. $10. Richard Ebenezer Swan, violation of basic rule. $10. Ladale Jacob Herrmann, disobeyed stop sign. $5. Dean Wesley Allen, improper left turn, $5. Laurence Joseph Nichols, disobeyed stop sign, $5. Paul Arthur Svoboda, no muffler, $5. William A. Dyer, violation of basic rule. $10 Gerald Keith Perkins, disobeyed stop sign, $5. DISTRICT COURT Guy Leslie Warren, no mud guards, $10. bail forfeited. Jack Melvin Workman, overload. $91. Charles Ernest Bennett Jr, inade quate muffler. $10. Pint $090 m $150 aaWHWMHMM Isflw IsiiaswBswnnnnnBSjaaBnl 3 Samovar . i VODKA i - f inuv GENUINE DRY VODKA Product of Q).S.A Boota Komponiyaw Schenley. Po. ond Fresno. Colif. Mod) from Groin, 80 ond 100 Proof. ,..,u.jhiiiiliu:,,i i 1 1 . w ..in wm i ii uji ."!. nj I .mis) mii, ii Y 'J..". "..-' fi WiZ&A ' " 'inmrt lii'n luriiiii.u Unmii , ml minium n. i "m " i ySs, 111 feS-fc kt?yv H$t$$i is il ' 'V w 11 tyMWwmyimvfi'"' "Wfis , ZZ. r ' . I vuofe oa a coir com wtnfe rfa ee Thanks to the miracle of firoren hoi$ and prcpMcd miw, tbe modern housewife can bake a cherry pie or ooscoct a whole aeal "quick ae a cat can wink itt eye But what doa she U wiA ffu timt she tatm T Jnt take care of three or four kids, make slip-cover and drapes, act as family chauffeur and nurse, doe the washing and aroaatg, entertain her husband's boes, probably helps out at the local hospital or maybe serve a Den Mother : for ten husky, unruly Cub Scouts. And sht doa even more! Chances are she acts a family purchasing agent and bookkeeper. And her family's financial standing depends as much upon her ability to budget and save money as k doe on her husband's ability to earn k. That' why so many women today are helping their husband ret started on a regular savings program in U.S. Series Savings Bondc Everybody tatnts to save; but modern women face the fact that few people can do k on a hit or miss basis. Tbe secret of saving is system, and one of the easiest systems to follow is for the family breadwinner to boy Bonds through the Payroll Savings Plan. Once a wage earner signs op for this plan where he works, his money is automatically saved for him in safe and sure U.S. Savings Bonds. Help your family win financial security by encouraging your husband to join the Payroll Savings Plan or invest in Bonds regularly where he banks. He 11 thank you for at tomorrow! Tht V. S. (kmnmtnt iott mat pay far ate tkmtmmtM. Tim Trtmary Dtfmtmnt thmU, far nW aefriyic auawiua, Ac Adotrtmaf Ctmrtrnd MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE PAST OF EVERT AMERICAN'S SAYINGS BELONGS IN XL S. SAVINGS BONDS MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE
