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S-IEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Tuesday. May 14. 1957
DEVELOPED RADIATION DRUG Thanks to the work
of Dr. Richard R. Ovenrian (left), physiologist at the
University of Tennessee in Memphis, a drug for nuclear
radiation is now undergoing tests on human beings. The
drug, known as A-E-T, was developed at Oak Ridge Na
tional Laboratories. It was tested on monkies in Memphis
and found to be 100 per cent effective against radiation
death when certain doses were given. Shown with Dr.
Overman is his assistant, B. G. Crouch-
Is That So?
By EUGENE BURNS
Ringer-Naturalist
To stem the advance of the
army of Alexander the Great,
aout 320 B.C., Indians used ele
phants much as we do tanks to
day mounting several archers
In each howdah to support the
Infantry with added firepower.
To protect the great beasts, they
were often, elaborately bedeck
ed with iron plates fastened to
gether with rings and chains.
In the Battle of Heraclea, 280
B.C., King Pyrrhus used ele
phants in a new way as heavy
cavalry, sending them in massed
charges to trample down the op-
rv
posing Roman Infantry. The ef
fects was terrifying on the Ro
mans. However, the end result
was ruinous to Pyrrhus he
lost so many men that his vic
tory was hollow hence the
phrase "pyrrhic victory."
- Much better publicized was
the use of elephants by the Car
thaginian general, Hannibal,
when he used elephants to help
, win one of the great decisive
battles of history during the
Punic wars. 218 B.C. To gain
it, he marched a herd of ele
phants African at that, which
are more difficult to train than
Indian elephants across the
Alps to invade Italy not by sea
as was expected by the Romans
but through Spain and southern
France.
As the Carthaginians ad
vanced, true enough the sight
of the elephants struck terror
into the hearts of their oppon
ents but actually, Hannibal
didn't have much luck with his
five-ton beasts. Upon landing in
Spain, he had 50; by the time
he got to the river Rhone, he
' had 37; after crossing the south
ern Alps in midwinter these
were reduced to eight: and of
these only one survived the
campaign.
Elephants in World War II
As for the late World War II,
6.400 elephants participated in
the China-India-Burma theater,
when the Japanese overran
Burma they captured 6,000
prized Indian elephants and im
mediately pressed the huge
beasts into war service in the
dense jungles and difficult
mountain terrain where modern
machines could not go.
Fortunately for the Allies, the
overbearing conquerors knew
little about handling these huge
beasts with "gentle reasonable
ness." Japanese officers curtly
demanded that the seemingly
stubborn native drivers, mah
outs, work the captured ele
phants the day long, beginning
at dawn; they expected work the
week through, Sundays, includ
ed, and the year around, parti
cularly during the good sunny
months.
Now elephants can't be
handled this way. For an ex
ample, when an elephant is
wakened suddenly and put to
heavy work, he is out of sorts
and ugly. He likes to stand there
and dawdle while he thinks
about getting under way. The
native driver, knowing this,
will spend up to a half hour even
talking to the great gray moun
tain of a beast until surh a time
as it eondescends to rouse itself
from its early morning semi
torpor. Tirns Needed To Eat
Also, because of its tremen
dous bulk, it requires plenty of
time to fill its stomach with a
quarter ton of greens each day
grass canes, fruit, tubers, bark
and tender twigs and branches
with 50 gallons or so of water to
swill it down. Such an appetite
means that the animals' hours
must be limited, say to six a day.
Or if it works overtime, say up
J to eight hours daily, that for
every three full days work it
knock off two days to feed it
self back into condition.
And despite its inch-thick
hide it is extremely "sensitive
skinned" that is why it keeps
fcirever blowing dust on its
back and sides to shoo away flies
and mosquitoes. In chilly
weather, it must be kept warm
even a slight frost will give
it a bad case of cramps; and
during hot summer months,- it
must loll in the shade or it may
suffer heatstroke.
Because the Japanese refused
to observe these basic rules, the
native drivers went "over the
hill" with 1,653 to join allied
forces. And of the elephants
used about 30 per cent of the
world's supply of Indian ele
phants about 2,000 died,
largely through misuse.
(Copyright, 1957 by
Eugene Burns)
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Juvenile Smoking
Ban To Be Enforced
Hillsboro (IT) Washington
county District Attorney Fran
cis W. Linklater said Monday
he would enforce the state law
prohibiting minors from smok
ing or buying cigarettes.
Linklater called on all law
enforcement officers in the coun
ty to begin making arrests in ac
cordance with the seldom-en
forced law. He asked for a re
port by May 31 on progress of
the anti-smoking drive.
The district attorney explain
ed that "the incidence of ju
venile smoking in public places
in violation of Oregon statutes
has increased to an alarming
proportion."
He added, "The Oregon stat
utes allow no discretion in en
forcement of the juvenile smok
ing laws and provide that it is
a crime for any proprietor to
allow any minor to smoke on
his premises."
Plane Disintegration
Probe To Continue
Portland (IP) The Civil Aero
nautics Administration today
continued an investigation into
the cause of the crash of a small
plane in southeast Portland Sun
day in which Willis Allen Wood,
21, Oregon State college student
from Salem, was killed.
John Gebelin, supervisor of
the local CAA office, said he
had formed no opinion of the
cause as yet. He asked residents
over a 30 to 40 block area who
found pieces of wreckage to re
turn them.
Some witnesses said the plane
may have gone out of control
in low-hanging clouds or ex
treme turbulence before its disintegrated.
INSECT REPELLENT PAPER
Philadelphia OP) A paper
prepared by three British scien
tists, consisting of 33 pages of
typewritten copy plus 11 pages
of graphs and charts was read
to scientists Monday at the mid
year meeting of the American
Petroleum Institute. It was all
about beetles and flies and how
to kill them.
its $-
TESTIFYING before Senate
probers, Stewart Krieger,
Seattle Teamsters union
official, says union paid
his salary and expenses
while ' he worked for bev
erage firm owned by Dave
Beck's family. (International)
Body of Girl, 9r
Located in Thicket
Wolcott, Conn. (IP) The body
of a pretty blonde nine-year-old
girl wa3 found in a thicket
alongside a country road Mon
day night, her sweater knotted
around her neck and 17 stab
wounds in her chest.
. Police said Brenda Jean Dou
cette apparently had. been ab
ducted while walking to school
in nearby Bristol Monday morn
ing. Her body was found about
three miles from the Fall Moun
tain school where she was in the
third grade.
An autopsy showed she had
not been raped, according to
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By UNITED PRESS
Gettysburg, Pa. President Eisenhower, on the state of his
golf game:
"Sinct I've been lick, I have never had a really good golf
game."
New York Former model Judith Morgan, 50, en slabbing a
tilHman she mistook for a federal judge against whom the had
a grudge:
"I'm sorry I hit the wrong man."
New. York Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, Britain's World
War II military chief, on President Eisenhower's ability as su
preme commander:
"Where he shone was in his ability to handle Allied forces, to
treat them all with strict impartiality and to. get the best out of
an inter-allied force. -
Birmingham, Ala, Dublin's Lord Mayor Robert Briscoe, on
the celebration marking the establishment of the state of Israel:
"The Zionist day celebration is the Jewish equivalent of St.
Pairiek'i day." ,
Washington The Atomic Energy commission on the precau
tions being taken to protect the public against radiation during
this summer's nuclear tests:
"As a result of improved controls and procedures, radioactive
fallout in the area around the test site is expected to be even lower
than the levels which resulted from previous tests in Nevada."
Boy Dies in Swollen
Creek Near Joseph
Joseph 0J.R) Robert David
Quinn, 3, drowned in a small
branch" of the swollen McCulley
creek near his home here about
12:30 p.m. Sunday.
The boy had been playing in
the yard with children of visitors
and apparently climbed through
a hole in the fence of the yard
and went to the creek when bis
parents were not looking.
A dairy cow will drink at
much as 35 . gallons of water
daily, and old hens need about
one-third more feed than a pullet
to produce a dozen eggs.
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How Standard put $4,282,372
to work every day last year
..and what this meant to people in the Western Hemisphere
Port Of Spain, Trinidad Exploration
for possible new sources of oil covered
millions of acres in the U.S., Central and
South America, Canada, Alaska and the
Bahama Islands. Seeking oil for your fu
ture use is one of our biggest expenditures
... $324,789 on an average day. Again last
year we found more new oil than our wells
pumped from the ground. --'
Gulf Of Mexico We completed better
than two new wells a day ... 101 of them
off the Texas and Louisiana coasts where
drilling costs up to six times as much as
on land. An average day's bill for drilling
came to $431,516. This huge expenditure
was necessary because a well may cost
from $125,000 to over $1,000,000 and one
out of every six wells drilled was dry.
Perth Amboy, New Jersey Standard
and its operating companies from New
Jersey to California, from Alaska to Vene
zuela hired 2,485 new employees last year.
Our working family grew to a new high of
38,854. The wages and salaries they earned
added to the economic health of commu
nities in 46 of the 48 states arid in many
other nations of the Western Hemisphere.
U. S. A. Our Federal, State and other
taxes amounted to $325,424 a day ...
enough to buy a helicopter for rescue work,
or pay for complete training of three jet
pilots every day. In addition to paying
these direct taxes, in 1956 Standard col
lected for and passed on to Municipal,
Provincial, State and Federal agencies
$193,460,383 as sales and gasoline taxes.
Vancouver, British Columbia On an
average day we spent $517,446 .to keep
equipment in repair and up to date . . . ex
tending a wharf at Vancouver, adding to a
refinery in El Paso, Texas or a pipe line to
Boise, Idaho. This woijk provided employ
ment for thousands of construction and
maintenance workers as well as for the
employees of firms supplying equipment.
El PaSO, Texas Purchases of crude oil
took $949,853 a day in areas suck as El
Paso, Texas and Bakersfield, California.
Even though our own Western Hemisphere
production was at a new high, we bought
oil from many small and medium sized
producers. To these people and their em
ployees Standard was a good customer
and an impdrtant source of income.
Salt Lake City, Utah Our 738 em
ployees in Utah were among the total of
38,854 Standard Oilers who participated
in benefit plans at the rate of $119,082 a
day. One was our Stock Purchase Plan to
which Standard added nearly twice the
a mount an employee deposited. Some other
plans included sickness benefits, retirement
pay and Company-paid life insurance.
Bajo Grande, Venezuela Increasing
refinery output and improvingthe quality
of our products are never-endiag jobs.
Last year one of our operating companies
completed a new asphalt refinery in Vene
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ture refinery near Everett, Washington.
New equipment for our manufacturing
plants called for investing $107,741 a day.
Portland, Oregon Although 43.5 of
Standard's owners live in the West, Alaska
and Hawaii, you'll find them almost every
where. Stockholders include colleges,
churches and banks, but most of them are
individuals. Of every dollar we took in,
6-610 cents or $285,028 a day was dis
tributed among Standard's 137,381
stockholders who own the Company.
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE $1,567,348,030 STANDARD
TOOK IN LAST YEAR can best be told in terms of people
... many people in many lands. For example, Standard was a
customer of more than 10,000 Western firms last year. One major
item such as a refinery unit required the services of people in
cores of other industries.
Moreover, many of the 1250 products we made from petroleum
were raw materials for other manufacturers . . . from paints to
cosmetics, from detergents to synthetic fabrics. Thus you'd never
be able to count the people who benefited directly or indirectly
from the $4,282,372 Standard put to work every day last year.
Through afftSofvd companies operating in the
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expansion and development programs that
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