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Anglers Fishing for Five Dollar Bills Hullville,. Calif. TP Anglers re fishing for trout and five- dollar biHi in Lake Pillsbury these days. Resort owners in this section of the Redwood Empire put up the money for those who catch one of the specially tagged trout among the 3,000 tagged by the California Department of Fish and Game. At the start of the eason, the department planted 13,000 catchable trout in the lake The trout season began at Lake Pillsbury on April 26. However, the season will not open on the lake's tributaries and the Eel river above and below the lake until May 30. Resort owners in the area are cooperating with the department to obtain accurate measures of re turn of catchables to the sports man's creel. Record Strawberry Crop Seen in Stale Portland U) A record 88 million pound Oregon straw berry crop was forecast today by the Department of Agriculture. This would exceed last year's output by nearly one-fourth and Is 64 per cent above the 1945-55 average. The estimated yield is 5000 pounds per acre for the state's 17.600 acres, compared to last year's 4210 pound an acre out put for some 16,800 acres. About 34,000 foreign students are enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities. $o9o If $950 W 45 Qt ft' A Pint Samovar . t VODKA ? tiruiY OKNUINg DRY VODKA 'Praducl at Qj.S-Q Booko Konponiye. jSchaol. fa. and Fresno. Co ML Mod fee Grain. SO and 100 Prool. Is That So? By EUGENE BURNS Rangcr-Naturalilt A caveman writes: "Now that you ve discussed the world s highest points, why not write about the lowest points on the earth. Including caves. And what are the greatest depths t& which man has descended?" I'll buy that. The deepest spot on earth Is in the Pacific ocean, 200 miles southwest of Guam, at 35,640 feet. In the Atlantic, the deep est spot is in the Puerto Rican trench at 28,200. In the Indian the Sundar trench is 17,850 at the deepest. As for lakes, the deepest in the world is lake Baikal, central Siberia, which .attains a depth of 5,650 feet. In the U.S., Crater Lake, Oregon, is deepest with 2,000 feet. The lowest spot In continental America is within 85 miles of the highest spot in the U.S., Mt. Whitney, in Death Valley with a minus 282 feet. In nearby Greenland, a depression of 1,200 feet below sea-level ' has been discovered recently which may well mean that the world's greatest land depths (although covered by ice) may exist here. The deepest recognized land depth at present is the Dead Sea, at 1,286 feet below sea level. Now, what- is man's deepest penetration of the earth's crust? An oil well being drilled in Pla quemines Parish, Louisiana, lo cated 35 miles south of New Or leans, at 7 a.m., Nov. 9, 1955, surpassed the previous record of 21,482, and then continued to a depth of 22,570 feet a dis tance of 4 miles and 1,450 feet. The temperature at the bottom, incidentally, was 350 degrees Fahrenheit. The world's deepest mine is the, Ooregum section of the Champion Reef Gold mine in the Kolar gold field, Mysore state, India, where the Auxil iary Main Winze is 9,811 feet below the surface. Deepest Anthracite Mine In contrast, the deepest an thracite coal mining operation is the Askan shaft of the Glen Alden Coal company, near Nan ticoke, Pa., at 2,140 feet. The deepest soft coal mine shaft is 1,004 feet at the Assumption Mine, 10 miles north of Pana, 111. The deepest water well in the U.S., incidentally, was drilled in 19.42 -at Ellsworth Air Force base, Rapid City, So. Dak., that went to a depth of 4,645 feet. Don't say the Air Force gives up easy. But as water wells go, a much deeper one exists in Springleigh, near Blackall, Queensland, Australia, which is 7,009 feet deep; It was completed in 1921. Now how deep has man gone down. The deepest salvage op eration ever reported was con ducted by the British admiralty ship Reclaim in Osiofjord from which on June 28, 1956, Boat swain G. M. Wookey descended to 1,060 feet. , In the bathyscaphe, the deep est penetration made into the ocean depths occurred Feb. 14, 1954. Lt. Cmdr. Georges S. Houe and Lt. Pierre . Henri Willm went down to the ocean floor off southwest Dakar, French West Africa, to a depth of 13,287 feet (2.52 miles). It remained at that depth for 36 minutes. Depth of 535 Feet In a flexible diving suit, Pet ty Officer William Bolland of the British Royal Navy, made the greatest descent to date at Loch Fyne, Scotland, Aug. 28, 1948. His depth was 535 feet. As for caves, quite likely the deepest one is the Gouffre Gach- tiaggia Bella system in 'the French - Italian Maritime Alps which may be more than 4,300 feet deep. However, the deep est official penetration yet made occurred in the Puits Berger, near Grenoble. There in July, 195o, six French speleologists descended td a depth of 2,959 feet. The following year a pene tration of 3,050 feet was report ed. But the record for getting the closest to the earth's core goes to none of these men. Due tp the flattening of the poles, this honor goes to the North Pole explorers Robert E. Peary, the Negro Matthew Henson, and the Eskimos Ooqueh, Ootah, Eging- wah, and Seegloo who reached the North Pole, April 6, 1909, and it is nearly 9,000 feet nearer to the earth's center than the South Pole which is on the Ant arctic plateau. (Copyright, 1957, by Eugene Burns) (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, or the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife', a complete 30-vol-ume set oft his world-famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week new submissions will be consid ered. Sorry, I simply answer your many ' friendly letters. Please address your letter to: Is That So! care of Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Patterson Holds Press Conference New York (IP) Floyd Patter son was expected to announce today that his first defense of the heavyweight crown will be made this summer for an inde pendent promoting group head ed by Emil Lence of Brooklyn. Young Patterson and Manag- MedfordU3Trib UNI SIPflPIFITS 1 1 PHYSICAL PERFECTION Mr. U. S. A. of 1957, Dick Du Bois, flexes bis muscle for Miss U. S. A., Charlene James, after they won their titles at a Contest in Los Angeles. Pioneers Eye NW Pennant By UNITED PRESS The Northwest Conference baseball pennant is up for grabs today and Lewis and Clark ap pears to have the longest reach. The Pioneers defeated Whit man 10-7 Tuesday. They can win the title outright by defeating; Pacific Thursday. i But if Lewis and Clark should falter. College of Idaho i would step into the breach. The Coyotes defeated Willamette 3-2 Tuesday. T.pwis anrf PlarV Viae a 0.5 ' mark to 8-5 for College of Idaho. But the latter team has com pleted its season because of two rained-out games with Pacific so a Lewis and Clark loss would give the Idahoans the crown. Linfield scored four runs in the 14th inning to defeat Pacif ic 9-5 in game. the' other Tuesday Wednesday, May IS, 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINI Boy Scouts Pack 40 The last pack meeting until fall oCub Scout Pack 40, Cen tral Point, was held at the little gym May 10. A carnival was held to raise money for various projects. Later in the evening the Cubs received awards. Those earning awards were: Denner badges, Lexie Hamilton, Dean McCalvey, Tommy and Jessie Denman. Assistant Denner badges: Jody j Van Horn, Larry Glen, Alex Lc- j pez and Robert Bruce. ; Wolf badges: Lexie Hamilton, Billy Wright, Grant Mallory, Pete Updike, Mike DeHaus, i Wade Laws, Steven Wars and j Orville Bails. " Bear badges: Lexie Hamilton ; and Russell Smith. j Lion badges: Charles Derevan, Donald Stiff, James Rainey, Royal Harger, Detlef Kirkendall and Stephen Davis. Three year pin: Detlef Kirken dall. Gold arrows: Billy Wright, Grant Mallory, James Rainey, Roy Fair, Detlef Kirkendall, Johnny McKee, Russell Smith, Terry Zimmerlee, Mike DeHaus and Royal Harger. Silver arrows: Dennis Ray, Charles Derevan, Jbdy Van Horn, Grant Mallory, Harvey Grissom, James Rainey, John Jennings, Larry Branch, Gerald Branch, Detlef Kirkendall, Lar ry Evans, Sammy Hughs, Lloyd Toner, John Yoakley and Billy Wright. New Bobcats are David Lee Andersen and Charles Andersen. HEARING RESEARCH . Chicago (IF) The Northwest ern University Speech school will conduct research in psycho physical characteristics of hear ing disorders. The National In stitutes of Health granted the school $23,000 to finance the first year of a five-year study. 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