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SIX MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tutiday, June 25, 1957 They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo Revolutionary woes ox TOP WHAT A 5GOJ TO LVM3A30 SUFFERERS SOLD 7 1 - tr'L ' L4T.3T-T0POF THE YZAA ! P -j lO, f.'iifS? SET TUSS&.' WOS5U4T- fwH DD'T S I ST" 1 ' tpH NO BEK'DS-NO Ks'EELifJG.' J ' THEV THi II a I V. , . ''V fr EVE!?y DL AHO BJTTOJ OF THIS II iaLL .S' ME " Birr get rr home mo Tpy to FlKO THE D4LS.VMTH EVERYBODy'S JUK PILED TOPSIDE- TV Stimulates Readining by Children, Author of Children's Books Declares 'Double Blind' Test Shows Cobra Venom Not Pain Killer BY WILLIAM EWALD United Pril Correspondent New York !IP Sunshine, oatmeal and rich old uncles aren't the only things good for growing kids. TV it, too. At last that's the word from Mrs. Nora Kramer, author, lec turer and adviser to publishers in the field of children's books. Mrs. Kramer, a member of the children's book committee of the Child Study Association of America, feels TV stimulates reading for small fry. "Anyone who says that TV is APPLEGATE-JACKSONVILLE fcSafive Plants Studied By HELGA MITCHELL ' AppIegte-Jacksonville The O Applejate valley and adjacent ' areas of the Siskiyous consti- ' tute one of the most uniquo , (pot in the world, as far as na- O lue plnt life is concerned, and Xew are aware of it, according rlo Mercel Le Piniec, who oper- e th Garden Center nursery at Phoenix. Le Piniec, a botanist, lectured on wild plent life in night classes tponeored by the Medford cham ber of commerce at the senior high school this spring. Mr. nd Mrs. Ed Ramsey, own ers of a Grade A dairy here, de- uring to revive a hobby that en- iViRed their interest during the earlier part of their life in South ern California, attended the classes, and now are launched upon a hobby that has started them and a few other local peo ple to combing the mountainous regions of the Siskiyou area in eearch of wild fiower life to transplant in their garden. Contributing to the basic study of this area were lectures by C. Warren Fairbanks, naturalist of Crater national park, who gave the geological history of the Siskiyous, and talks by Dr. Elmo " Stephenson of SOCE on princi pals of botany. Boyd Klein of Medford, authority on native lilies, taught that subject at the classes. Field trips have been made to Illinois valley and Oregon moun tain areas, where azalea and darlingtonia plants were ob served. Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey, .ho enjoyed photography in earlier years, are combining modern photography, and are taking moving pictures of field fevents. Further trips will be made to Dead Indian, Union ; creek, Dutchman's peak and ; "W h i s k e y peak. Mrs. Harry Helms, veteran air raid watcher -jin Whiskey Peak during World War II, will lead an expedition to that area. Delmar Smith, well known rock collector and nature observer of Central Point accom panies the group on field trips. Mrs. Lance Offenbacher also ac companied the group, and it is expected that others in the com munity will join the search for plants. The group has learned J to pack their uprooted plants for a safe journey home. several days on a business trip in Seattle. There are numerous "tall" tales from Texas, but one was verified this week in a letter ancP clipping from Mrs. Walter Rhodes, formerly of this com munity, which stated that 11 oil wells have been drilled on a city garbage dump there, and that drilling will start soon on a c:ty prison farm. Women of the Little Apple g.te sewing club announce that tr eir . June meeting has been cancelled. A program at the Ruch com munity church Sunday morn ing completed a successful week of daily vacation Bible school, which had an average attend ance of 83 youngsters. Church attendance Sunday totaled 138. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. "Red" Ran ney and daughter Sharon return ed a few days ago from a two week's motor trip to Flaxton, N.D., where they visited Mrs. Ranney's father. Otto Brandt, a retired railroad man. In the 18 year period since Mrs. Ranney had visited her home state, she said that over 10U0 oil wells have sprung up in the rolling prairies of North Dakota and neighboring Saskatchewan. Contrary to this picture of progress, Mrs. Ranney stated that the grade school which she attended, had not changed, and she visited with several of her primary teachers. Mr. Ranney also visited the scene of his early school days, in Wenatchee, and said that the school there had not changed. The Ranneys vis ited relatives in Seattle and viewed Yeliowstone national park, coming into intimate con tact with the park bears. They camped out on the trip. Youngsters of the Junior boys', club of the church, accompanied by the Rev. Earl Best, went on an overnight camping trip to Squaw Lake Thursday with cat fishing as a special activity. The nine boys went prepared to do their own cooking, and one boy was reported to have been prac ticing breaking an eag before he left home. This week the Junior girl's club will take a camping trip to Hiatt lake. Mrs. Jaceqi'.eline Lewis and Mrs. Virginia West of Kansas City. Mo., recently spent a week with Mrs. Lewis' parents, Mr. and Mrs. James E. Bishop, of Jacksonville. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Farrand re ported a son, David Wayne, was born to their son and daughter-in-law. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Far rand of Orland, Calif. Mrs. Lloyd Shannon is con fined to her home with a broken ankle, which occurred when she fell on the steps of the Medford public library a short time ago. The Harold Reed place, near Copper, was sold this month to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hackett of Foots creek. The deal was trans acted by Edward Kubli of T. J. Hight realty company. Mr. and Mrs. Hackett, who have a daugh ter and two sons of grade school age are residing on their new ranch, formerly known as the Dorn place. Mr. and Mrs. Reed are residing in Jacksonville, where he is employed at the cold storage plant. killing off reading among child ren is just uninformed," bristled Mrs. Kramee. "Studies on this thing have been made in librar ies all over the country and they show just the opposite. - "Nature and science books are very big now among children and much of this impetus comes from TV shows. Biographies are in demand by children because of their exposure to hero-type adventure stories on TV. Shows like 'Disneyland' and 'Robin Hood' constantly stimulate reading-. "Up until this yast year, tales of fantasy were moving every slowly. But suddenly fairy tale books have become hugely suc cessful. Why? Well, in the past year TV has turned to many fairy tales for its spectaculars." Mrs. Kramer, who has three children and five grandchildren brushes off those who decry violence in children's shows. "I'm not a pussyfooter about this," she said. "I don't object to adventure stories with lots of action. Action provides a release for children. It does them a lot of good to get up and stomp around. "They need this excitement within the bounds of good taste by this, I mean without things like mutilation or the showing of blood in color. But I see nothing wrong with shooting in Western shows. "There's no reason why par ents should be afraid of sadness or human emotion in children's TV shows. There's no reason why parents should be afraid of show ing death. We shouldn't shield our children from human ex periences. They're much tougher than we think." TV, said Mrs. Kramer, has proved a boon in other areas of child education. "It's certainly improved the vocabularly of children," she said. "Words they may have read, but didn't quite understand are suddenly illumin ated when these words are used on TV. "And TV illuminates life it self for children. It fill in corn ers of their minds. Quiz shows, I thing, have done a wonderful job of stimulating children. When that little Robert Strom boy was on 'The S64.000 Ques tion' I think many children ident ified themselves with him and become more curious about ideas." However. Mrs. Kramer does have one big reservation about TV she dislikes the attitude of many family-type situation comedy shows. "They show the father or moth er as fumbling idiots," she said. "They don't treat parents as warm human beings, but just look at them contemptuously, j This type of show is far more ; of a danger than any shooting Western." BY DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor New York IT The "double blind" test, which is used by scientists in seeking unchal lengeable truth, has tested the poisonous venom of the cobra as a pain-reliever in human beings and found it wanting. It also provided additional proof thabthere is a quirk in hu man nature which permits peo ple to "gibe up" their plans, in order to please some person who is sympathetic, understanding and trying to do something to help them. For some 25 years there have been reports that a very little corba venom had the magical power to relieve pain from such undoubted pain-causers as arthri tis and cancer. ' Enthusiastic Reports Appear Cobra venom was prepared in vials mixed with formic and sil icic acid. E n t husiastic reports began appearing in medical liter ature. But there was no "double blind" .test. That was under taken by Drs. Lf-onard E. Meise las and Austin A. Schlecker of the State University of New York Medical School in Brook lyn. They had a batch of vials prepared which were labeled "A", "B" and "C." The "A" vials contained formic acid only, the "B" vials cobra venom mixed with formic and silicic acid, and the "C" vials contained the acids without the venom. It was impossible to tell the vials apart except by their letters. Now the stage was prepared Supreme Court Term Sets New Marks for Individual Freedoms 1UI uie paui-;uiicuug fHUlIiUL human beings. When the "double blind" was removed, it was revealed that formic acid alone and formic and silicic acid together had af forded "considerable" pain re lief for as many patients as has ' the two combined with cobra venom and no one has ever found either acid to be a pain reliever. But either alone or together, they afforded "some" relief to more patients than they did when combined with cobra venom. And the same numbers of patients found no relief for their pain from any of the three. The report of the doctors was published by the Medical Soc iety of the State of New York. Their results, the doctors said, "emphasizes that the continued interest of the physician, the participation of thq patient in a research project, and his desire to please the physician by re sponding to the drug may be some of the factors that are re sponsible for his positive reaction." Slenderizing Mrs. Bill Barker underwent treatment in the Ashland hos pital for several days last week. Information on rose culture was brought to 18 Applegate Valley Garden club members Wednesday by Mrs. Robert Sorb er who showed rose branches with various infections and ex hibited numerous bugs and pests which damage roses. A talk on insecticides was given by Mrs. Ed Goodwin. The club will be inactive through July and Aug ust and will meet again in September. During the absence of this columnist next week, those hav ing news items to contribute are asked to telephone TW 9-1333. Recent guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Twiss at Star Ranger station are Mr. and Mrs. Joe Foss of Long Beach. th2 latter a former resident, and Mr. Tw'ss's brother and family. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Twiss. of Red lands. Calif. Robert Colvin is spending Rural reflection: With the re-; turn of the warm season, a feathered friend has appeared for the third year at the home j of Mrs. Stella Winningham. This : is a one-legged black bird who refused to divulge the secrets of i his winter w hereabouts. Another unaccountable bit of doings in the bird world occurred when a local banty rooster by the name of "Pearson" went to the roost er crow at Rogue River and dis-1 graced his folks. "He will crow ; at home, but he wouldn't open ! his cock-eyed bill down there," j said a spokesman for the family. 1 Girls See Festival Play Rehearsal Ashland Twenty two junior and seenior high school girls of the Mcintosh Girls Pipe band, en route from their home in Vednon, B. C. to San Francisco witnessed a rehearsal of "Henry VIII'' at the Elizabethan Thea tre in Ashland Saturday night. The bagpipe and drum unit will appear in several events at the Lions International Conven tion in San Francisco June 25 to 29. They will be representing all the Lions Clus from Dawson Creek. B. C. to Othello. Wash. Now in its tenth year, the pipe band tours extensively. While in the Rogue Valley, they played at the Medford junior high, during the regional Lions conclave at the Craterian Thea ter, and also paraded through Medford streets. Following the Saturday night rehearsal, the girls collected autographs from the Festival company, and con tinued on to the Bay Area via chartered bus. yuyo 34-48 try TfWi IfsiT See the clever curved seam ing? See how it minimizes your waist gives the larger figure such a lovely slender line! Cas ual, or dressy with embroidery its easy sewing with a Printed Pattern! Printed Pattern 9098: Wom en's Sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48. 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"I made application and was told that, as yet, no newsmen was permitted by our govern ment to visit Communist China," Mrs. Roosevelt said in her col umn. My Day. The column is distributed by United Features Syndicate, Inc. "I stil hope that the State Department may find it possible to allow all correspondents who wish to gather news from this area of the world to go there if the Chinese will allow them to enter. "I beljeve it might be easier to learn some things in, China than in the Soviet Union. But I am anxious to go to the Soviet Union, too," she said. "Since I cannot now go to China, I hope that I will be able to visit the Soviet Union in the near future." LOGGER KILLED White-" Salmon, Wash. (IP Louis McKenzie, 55, White Salmr on, was killed Monday in a log ging accident north of here. Washington UP The Su preme Court today looked back on a long, arduous term which set new landmarks for individ ual freedoms under the Consti tution. The justices will sit again July 8 to hear the case of GI William S. Girard, whom the government wants to turn over to Japan for a manslaughter trial. Except for that, their work is finished. The term has already lasted longer than most. This term saw the addition of two new members Justice William J. Brennan Jr., who re placed retiring Justice Sherman Minton last October; and Jus-i tice Charles E. Whittaker, who took the seat of retiring Justice Stanley F. Reed in March. DuPont Rapped One recent decision included a new interpretation of anti-j trust law with a finding that the huge DuPont Corporation : has been guilty of monopoly j tactics. Du Pont owns 23 peri cent of the stock in General Motors. Only last week, in three de cisions which are still echoing through the capitol, the court slapped down both the execu tive and legislative branches of the government. Ordering the acquittal of five California Communists convict ed of conspiracy and a new trial for nine others, the court laid down new principles for prosecutions under the Smith Act. Speaking for the court. ! Justice John M. Harlan said the law does not bar preaching the violent overthrow of the gov- ernment, even with evil intent, unless some concrete action to ward that end is involved. In another precedent-shatter-; ing opinion, Chief Justice Earl ' Warren reversed the contempt: j of Congress conviction of Illin ! ois labor leader John T. Wat-1 kins, who had refused to Identi ! fy persons he had previously j known in the Communist move- ment. Warren said legislators who encounter an unwilling wit ness must tell him "the subject under inquiry at. the time and the manner in which the pro pounded questions are pertinent thereto." Another Harlan opinion set! aside the 1951 firing of veteran j career diplomat John Stewart Service by former Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Harlan found the secretary had violat ed the regulations he himself set up for such discharges. Must Reveal Reports Earlier this month, Brennan spoke for the court in an area long the subject of intense con troversy the circumstance1! under which the FBI must re veal secret reports. Brennan held that if the gov ernment puts an informer on the witness stand at a criminal trial it must also supply on de mand the reports about the ac cused made by the informer to the FBI. The report can be used to check on whether the witness is telling the truth. If the government objects to this procedure, it can drop the prosecution, Brennan said. The court also this term freed two women convicted of mur der by overseas military courts maritial on the ground that they were entitled to a civilian trial Obscenity was one of the few areas where the court cracked down on individuals. Monday it upheld the constitutionality of the Federal Obscenity Law as well as New York and CalifornH statutes. 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