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LEONA GETS HER JOB Leona Gage, who was Miss
U. S. A. for a day, poses' for her husband, Gene Ennis,
with their twosons, Gene Jr., 3 (standing) and Nathan,
2. Leona, who said she lied about being married when
she entered the Miss Universe contest so she could earn
money for her family, is rehearsing for' her first night
club appearance at the Hotel Tropicana in Las Vegas, Nev.
Sea Rises, Lag
To Slowly Sin
Venice Vi The city of Ven
ice is slowly sinking.
The combined action of the in
creasing sea level throughout the
world and the lowering of the
bocom of its famed lagoon
means that isn 300 years most of
Its streets will be under water,
experts predict.
The only way to stop the Adri
atic from swallowing up Venice
would be to seal off its lagoon
from the open sea, but this
would eventually turn the la
goon into an immense marsh and
mean simply another and inglor
ious kind of death to the proud
city.
A spokesman for the Water
Magistrate's office set up more
than five centuries ago by the
chief of the lagoon gondoliers
said scientific tests show Venice
Frustration Said
Possible lor Fish
Seattle. Wash. W The U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service has
learned that fish, like humans,
become frustrated when placed
under conditions of stress and
strain.
The finding was the result of
a series of tests made here at the
Pacific Salmon Investigations
laboratory.
Fish biologists set up a six
' foot tank with three Chambers
connected at the top. One con
tained fresh water, another
brackish water and the third,
salt water.
Three fish were placed in the
fresh water and soon separated,
one fish to a chamber, apparent
ly paying no heed to the salinity
content of each chamber.
Then two other fish were
introduced, and the three which
had taken up residences fought
violently to guard their homes,
even to the extent of pulling
out scales of the newcomers. The
fourth and fifth fish, with no
place in particular to go, flicked
fins, quivered and shook in
frustration.
Next the five fish were placed
together in a large unpartitianed
pool and they quickly lost all
signs of fight or frustration and
behaved like model children.
When a block of wood was
floated on the pool, all the fish
headed for the shaded spot.
But in a short time, one strong
salmon proved himself "king"
of the school and he alone stayed
under the block of wood.
The fish denied the shady
spot took to the corners of the
pool and "shook all over," the
biologists said. They appeared
excited and were paler in color
than a normal well-adjusted fish.
French Take Toll
Of Arab Guerrillas
Algiers IW French troops
killed, wounded or captured
some 800 Arab guerrillas in the
past seven days, inflicting the
heaviest week's casualty toll of
the three-year Algerian "war"
French officials said today.
They made no mention of the
French casualties.
The Arab losses occurred in
some 200 raids carried out de
spite a heat wave that pushed
temperatures up to 133 degrees.
The largest encounters occur
red at Blida. where 98 Arabs
were killed; in the Aures Moun
tains, where 68 guerrillas per
ished and four were captured,
and in East Algeria, where thi
death toll was 47,
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K Jm1 Pit' i
oon Drops,
k Venice
is sinking at the rate of one
foot and three inches per cen
tury. This means that within three
centuries the sea level had noth
ing to do with the so-called
"aqua alta" (high water), a sort
of unpredictable tide that floods
Venice now and then. Two
thirds of Venice was flooded in
1951 because of the "high
water," and the life of this city
of 315,000 inhabitants came to
a virtual standstill despite the
activitiy of countless gondoliers.
The Venice lagoon is sinking
faster than any other points in
the Adriatic Sea or the Mediter
ranean, scientists say.
"There is nothing to do about
it" pointed out Prof. ' Augusto
Polli, manager of the Italian
Thalassographic (sea - recording
Institute, as the first vanguards
of tourists flocked through Ven
ice's narrow lanes.
"Venice is doomed to turn
from a city of canals into a
flooded city. Only after 20,000
years the phenomenon will re
verse its trend and the bottom of
the lagoon will start rising, but
of course we will not be there to
Watch Venice emering from the
waters."
The rising sea level is caused
by the slow melting away of
huge masses of ice both at the
North and South Poles, Prof.
Polli explained. The glaciers on
the Alps and other mountain
ranges are also beginning to
melt, he added.
The ground floors of some
buildings, now flooded by the
sea, were well above the lagoon
level when they were built cen
turies ago. ' The floor of St.
Mark's Basilica, well below the
level of San Marco Square is us
ually the first to be flooded
when the tidal "high water"
flows through Venice.
But when the 11-century-old
church possibly second only to
St. Peter's in Rome in its unbe
lievable richness was built in
832, builders claimed it was
"safe and free from the danger
of the waves," a prediction
which will be proved false with
in a few centuries unless a spe
cial dam is built around the
church to protect it.
. The Venice lagoon has three
mouths, through which clear
sea water flows in and out four
times a day. Scientists said that
the tide ebbs from the lagoon at
a speed of six feet, eight inches
per second, much faster than it
flows in.
"Our lagoon is the life of Ven
ice, and the tide is its blood," a
Venetian expert said. "Let us
suppose that the three lagoon
mouths are closed by three huge
dams to avoid our slow sinking.
It would mean Venice's death,
because the lack of tide would
turn the lagoon into a huge
marsh and our canals into sew
ers." Experts' predictions are con
firmed by a "tele-sea-meter," a
sort of tide-recording apparatus
set at the ground level in St.
Mark's steeple, which has been
recording for several decades.
Cecil B. DeMille
Marks 76th Birthday
Hollywood (IB Vetpran
movie-maker Cecil B. DeMille
took time off Monday to cele
brate his 76th birthday.
DeMille said he is too husv tr.
even think of retiring. T h
producer has been making plans
for the worldwide release of
"The Ten Commandments" and
a,lso is making a choice of mater
ial from the Bible for his next
film epic.
Pump Demonstrates
Functioning of
Circulatory System
Omaha TO An Omaha elec
trician believes a law govern
ing the flow of electrons in wires
can be applied in medicine to
enable doctors to help millions
suffering from high blood pres
sure. Harry Lobel, 47, said he al
ready ha3 rigged a pump that ac
curately demonstrates the func
tioning of the human circulatory
system. By means of controls,
the device can be made to act
like a sick heart, he said.
Lobel has been conducting his
own experiments with facilities
of the Clreighton University's
medical school, whose officials
have given him time and en
couragement. Also giving him
support is the Nebraska Heart
association.
It has been estimated that his
project, now about two years
old. has cost the university about
$10,000.
Scientists in this country and
abroad have expressed interest
in Lobel's theory. They include
Dr. R. W. Stacy, Ohio State Uni
versity; Dr. J. E. Randall, assist
ant professor at the University
of Missouri school of medicine,
and Dr. J. R. Womersley, St.
Bartholomew's medical college,
London.
Dr. Pierre Moret, Centre de
Cardiologie, Geneva, Switzer
land, requested information from
Lobel to look into the theory.
Lobel, owner of the Lobel
Electric Co., is college-trained
and the son of an inventor. He
first started working on his the
ory while attending Park Col
lege in Missouri.
"There is a back voltage in an
electrical system under certain
conditions which is called im
pedance," Lobel said. "There is
definitely back-pressure or im
pedance in a hydraulic system
under certain conditions.
"In an electrical system, im
pedance causes a leading of the
generator and lines," Label said.
"In an hydraulic system, imped
ance causes a strain on the pump
and an increase of pressure on
the tubes.
"The hypothesis is that im
pedance in the circulation causes
a strain on the heart and high
blood pressure results." H
Lobel said the circulation nor
mally protects itself by means of
nerve controls against imped
ance, but in some disorders, in
cluding high blood pressure,
these controls are impaired.
The Omahan said he would
file a patent on an instrument
with which doctors can measure
impedance directly. He said they
could thus predict impending
circulatory failure before the pa
tient is in serious condition.
Drs. Stacy and Randall pub
lished a report in Oct., 1956, in
the American Jaurnal of Phy
siology in which the. re-evalu-a'ed
their old experiments on
blood flow and confirmed the
presence of impedance in the
arteries.
Dr. Womersley also said he
found a basis of comparison be
tween the circulatory system and
an electrical system.
Progr
ram To Enlist Young
Men for Government
Washington HP) Presi
dent Eisenhower has set up a
new program designed to enlist
able young businessmen and
other promising persons for ca
reers in the federal govern
ment. He issued an executive order
creating a special committee to
meet the special needs of the
federal government in selection,
pay and effective use of top
career civil service workers. The
plan originally was recommend
ed by the Hoover Commission
on government reorganization.
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RAYMOND PETTEY
Regional Representative
Peffey Named to
Regional Position
Portland The appointment
of Raymond E. Pettey to serve
as regional representative in the
southern regional office of th'e
general extension division in
Ashland has been announced by
Dr. James W. Sherburne, dean
of the division, Portland.
Dr. Sherburne also announced
the appointment of Donald S.
Bryant to the northwest region
al office at Monmouth and
Charles A. Ivie to the eastern
regional office at LaGrande. All
the new appointees are assist
ant professors.
Pettey has served as head of
the veterans educational pro
gram for the state since July,
1953, and has had experience
as an elementary school teacher
and principal in Oregon.
Opening the regional offices
will provide closer communica
tion between the people of Ore
gon and the units of the state
system of higher education, Dr.
Sherburne said.
Mexican Building
Inspector Suicides
Mexico City (IP) A build
ing inspector who had failed to
detect any flaws in an apart
ment house before it collapsed
in last month's earthquake, kill
ing 33 persons, committed sui
cide in a jail cell here Monday
night, police announced today.
Teodoro Vega Garriga, the in
spector, and other persons con
nected with the construction of
the building have been arrested
pending investigation of charg
es of negligence.
The building collapse is be
lieved by authorities to have
been caused by defective con
struction and inferior materials.
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Conservative Move
In Neckties Worries
Italian Tailors .
Rome (IB Artists have
moved into the conservative
field of necktie design, and
Italian tailors, jealous of an an
cient tradition and prosperous
trade, are worried about future
styles.
Grave debates over neckties
and their future were touched
off by a recent show of so-called
"artistic neckties" organized by
a group of painters.
The jury, which awarded a
top prize of 250,000 lire (400
dollars), included men of proven
good taste, such as fashion
wizard Guglielmo Battistoni,
painter and art critic Renato
Guttuso and tailors Gustavo Gat
tinoni and Franco Gentilini. But
the exhibitors belonged to a
controversial school of modern,
extravagant artists.
Milanese painter Lucio Font
ana won the contest with a
"summer composition" of black
and yellow splashes on a grey,
blotting-paper - like background.
Painter La Regina snatched the
second prize with a fire-red
necktie toned down with touches
of green. The jury called it "a
bit vivacious" but "very sexy."
Women Compete
A young woman painter, San
drina D'Aroma, took on herself
the difficult task of disproving
the theory that women have' no
taste in cravats. She won praise
with a relatively conservative
black and gray creation.
Another woman, Bona de
Pisis, submitted three designs,
the best of which was described
by a local newspaper as 'a cul
ture of Protozoa in a bowl of
blue water."
No less drastically, the news
paper said of the necktie de
signed by Italo-American paint
er Salvatore Meo:
"He pasted a dozen gravel
stones on a piece of mosaic . . .
at first we thought it was an
ancient fragment picked up
from the courtyard of Palazzo
Caffarelli" the historic build
ing where the exhibition was
held.
Many Italians fear the neck
tie business an important ex
port factor will be hurt by
"interference" from outside.
It appears that this year's
edition of the necktie contest
will be followed next year by
another show with A top prize
as high as 1,000,000 lire (1,600
dollars).
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FLINCHING AS THEY APPEAR for sentence in New York
federal court are convicted Soviet spies Jack Soble, right,
and wife, Myra. She got 55 years in prison, his sentence
was postponed to Sept. 18. The third member of the ring
also got hVi years in prison. (International Soundphoto)
Home Purchased for
Governor's Mansion
Salem (IP1 A four-bedroom
colonial house in the extend
ed Capitol Mall area here ap
peared the most likely candidate
for a governor's mansion today.
The 35-year-old McGilchrist
house has been purchased from
its current owners by the Stale
Board of Control for $23,000.
Final action on the deal can
not be completed however until
Aug. 20 when a law opening up
the extended mall area for state
purchases becomes effective.
The house, set on spacious
grounds, will be remodeled, ac
cording to Board Secretary Wil
liam Ryan.
Long-range mall development
plans call for a new executive
mansion, but Ryan said this de
velopment was "far in the fu
ture." Salem (IP) First steps in
listing cut-over forest lands for
deferred taxation under Ore
gon's yield tax law are now un
der way.
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One Out of 34 Made
Income Tax Mistakes
Chicago (IPl One of every 34
individuals probably made mis
takes in figuring his income tax;
according to the Commerce
Clearing House, national tax re
porters. For some the mistakes will
pay off, and they will receive re
funds, but for others a bill will
come from Uncle Sam for more
tax, the firm said.
If the pattern is the same as
last year, more than 1,300,000
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Hollywood (IP) Tim Whelan,
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