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o Monday, August 19, 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THIRTEEN W'W'U' H I i n ,m r ' , f v. If - JUIJ : 1 ir ' - .v 1! i -'if X l it!: 'M - - - I ' ' - Z I ft-fi " il t ' " -it CONFESSING SHOTGUN SLAYING of Guy F. Roberts (right), 45, meat packing execu tive, Charles Guy (left), 22, says he is unable to explain Santa Monica, Calif., motel shoot ing. Roberts occupied motel with Mrs. Nina James Angus (center), 37. They planned to marry next week. Mrs. Angus formerly practiced law in Dunn, N. C. (International) Sailors in Operation Deepfreeze Tunnel Ice to Get Fresh Water Br DICK GROWALD United Presi Correspondent Syracuse, N.Y. TO Ice, ice, everywhere, but it might as well be parched land as far as drink ing water is concerned for 18 Americans making scientific studies at the bottom of the world. The sailors of Operation Deep Freeze have to tunnel through the Ice to reach fresh clean snow which they melt for drinking water, a ham radio operator .here in contact with the expedi tion said today. The warmest outside work is in the snow. It's usually a rela tively warm 60 degrees below zero. The average South Polar temperature last month was 80 Is That So? A pocketful of wry: In space all objects, big and little, float at the same speed side by side around the earth. Without fuel to 6hoot them out of this path, they will gc right on floating around the earth. Nothing on earth ever stays the same. Everything changes slowly in shape, size or consis tency. A steel ball will bounce high er than a rubber ball. It dents just like a rubber ball when it hits a hefti surface, but it snaps back into shape faster than a rubber ball. It is the snapping back into shape that makes a ball bounce. Smoke is not a necessary part of fire. It just means that the fire is not burning properly. Bits of unburned material are escaDinz into the air. The mixture of all colors from the sun makes white. The ab sence of all colors makes black It is just the opposite with paint pigments. A mixture of the three primary colors makes black whereas absence of all three makes white. The reason men's hats have a little book inside them is that at one time hats were made to fit by loosening or tightening a drawstring. We taste sweet and salty things with the tips of our tongues, sour and salty things with the middle parts of our tongues, and bitter things with the back parts. To swallow a bitter pill, therefore, place it on the tip of the tongue and "chase" it with a gulp of water. A leopard may not be able to change his spots but some fish can. When flounders swim over sand their spots become small but when they swim over rocks or pebbles their spots grow larger. This, of course, makes it more A'ficult for their enemies to find them. Put Fledgling Back If you find a fledgling out of its nest, the best way to save its life is to put it back into the nest if you can. There is no thuth in the belief that if you do this the parents will not go near the nest again through fear of hu man smell. Most birds, you know, have no sense of smell and a very rudimentary sense of taste. But birds do see in col or something most mammals cannot do. A day-old pronghorn antelope can outrun a man. A sperm whale is one of the few lopsided animals known. It has its blowhole on the left side. The chemicals in one's body are exactly the same as those in the sea . . . only, happily, the amounts of these chemicals vary considerably. Bending light rays changes the color of things. For example, an object which looks red on dry land looks bright green in deep water. The custom of shaking hands started long ago when men used to offer their right, or weapon hands, in greeting to show that they were not carrying weap ons. For some more wry, better look into Surprising Facts by Francis N. Chrjstie (Watts, N. ' " 1 , f below. "An hour is about the longest period we can stay out side, Lt. Jack Tuck of Auburn Mass., commanding the Navy's antarctic international geophysi cal year station, reported by ra dio. Disdaint Sleep The story of the frigid life at the South Pole filtered 9,000 miles to the $10,000 amateur radio station of ham Paul M Blum, a man who disdains sleep is "mere habit." Blum's radio is the only link the polar crew has to -the warmer world other than official Navy communica tion. Through Blum's radio came Tuck's baritone describing the wacmest day of the past month By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist Y.). And now, one to close on: About one-tenth of the surface of the earth is covered with melting ice. Scientists say that in about 18,000 years the oceans wili rise 100 feet. This of course would place most seaports, such as New York, London, and Cape Town, competely under water. (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, the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife, a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous refer ence work in a handsome Seal- craft binding. Each week new submissions will be reconsid ered. Sorry I simply can't answer you- many friendly let ters. Please address your letter to: is That so! co Meaiord JViau Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, California. Fashion Scoop! 9341 v v You're twice pretty with our PRINTED Pattern! Sew this graceful dress with scoop neck line for evening, with mandarin collar for more casual wear. See the smart diagonal buttoning and slimming lines of the skirt. Printed Pattern 9341: Misses' Sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20. Size 16 takes 3?8 yards 39-inch fabric. Printed directions on each pattern part. Easier, accurate. Send FIFTY CENTS (coins) for this pattern add 5 cents for each pattern for lst-class mail ing. Send to Marian Martin, care of Medford Mail Tribune. Pat tern Dept.. 232 West 18th sl New York 11. N.Y. Print plainly NAME. ADDRESS with SIZE and STYLE NUMBER. -if a as a "balmy 41 degrees below zero." The weathered-in crew takes a Texan's pride in a recent 98-below zero reading. Blum, a senior buyer for the General Electric company, dur ing the day, uses the night to funnel messages to and from the pole and six other Antarc tic naval stations. Blum and four friends handled their 10,- 000th message this week. After three hours' sleep Blum rises at midnight, steps into his cellar radio room and sits down. Pole Flickers In After jiggling a panel of dials and knobs Blum switches on the microphone, glances at the chunk of polar rock atop the set and chants into the universe, "W2KCR calling KC4USN." The coldest spot on earth flickers in. "Hello, Paul," says KC4USN. Blum, shuttling between the radio, a teletype machine and a facsimile machine for sending photographs to the pole, begins his seven-hour vigil. First he copies messages from Antarctica for the folks back home. "I'm thinking of staying an other year ... I feel great . . . I can't deep very well . . . tell everyone hello . . . tell Myra to learn shorthand . . . happy birth day ..." . Then he reads to the polar operator the short messages, ga thered by the Red Cross, which invariably contain the word 'love." Low-Down on Social Life "Some of the boys down there talked a Russian scientist into giving us a message for trans mission to Russia," Blum said. After I sent it through the Red Cross to Russia we got a reply." Through Blum's radio have come the story of polar social life: Three nights a week movies. Two weekly lectures on medi cine. Old Antarctica hand Dr. Paul Siple talks three nights a week on his favorite subject, Antarctica. Some sailors spend spare time studying for advancement in rank. Nearly all the polar crew are camera bugs. "They tell me they've a million pictures of the stars," Blum said. The photo fans work under handicaps. "I went outside to day to take a photograph," ra dioed sailor Bill McPherson of Long Meadow, R. I. "My camera froze and a finger froze to the shutter. But I got my picture." Men Leading in Fathead Division Columbus, Ohio (IP! Men are fatheads, but on them it looks good. This is one finding of a scien tific study made by Dr. Stanley M. Garn, associate professor of anthropology at Antioch college, Yellow Springs, Ohio. Dr. Garn based his conclu sions on a study of 81 men, age 40, and 107 women, age 39. He concluded that men have more fat in their heads than women. Another weighty conclusion the doctor reached in his survey is that women are 41 per cent fatter than men. Nearly one fourth of female weight is fat. With men, fat accounts for about one-sixth of the total weight. It's obvious women have more outer fat," Dr. Garn pointed out. "This you can see. It makes life more interesting." On the other hand, the "inner fat" that can't be seen on men may be shortening their lives and endangering their health. "Women are like polar bears," Garn said. "They have an outer fat which serves as insulation." Then he theorized that it may be that fat orf women on the outside and at a lower tempera ture increases their life span. Garn's study was part of a continuing research project on fat, its effect on metabolism and growth. His "guinea pigs in the ex periment were from the south ern Ohio area. For women who want to lose some of their fat, Dr. Garn's ad vice is not to lose too much weight at once. A rapid initial loss of weight won't bring de sired contour changes. "We may be fatheads," he said, "but we like you just the way you are." Painting Season . The painters were overdue. The last two summers the old boompond shack had lured us away too often to date the brush men up ahead, so we had shut our eyes to blisters and cracks on the bevel siding and around kitchen and laundry window frames. Three metal downspouts were falling apart. So we called up Ed Wyman at last, he came down and climbed around the six - room house, and then gave us the bad news. But first he said, pretty grimly: "It's plain to be seen that you ought to stop drying clothes in the basement. Get a dryer that will pipe out the dew. Or you might even save money in the long run by sending your wash to the laundry on a rough-dry deal. Other things you can do, like putting keyhole ventilators in your siding. Just don't play around with vapor in the house anyhow, not when it's raining all summer." Then he said he could give our walls a new start for 3520, including replacements for the corroded and crumbling down spouts. We took him up. Hope in Sight . . . Meanwhile, I had the oppor tunity -to put paint questions to forest products men who have been working on the problem for many years. They had no new answers but hoped that the na tion's paint manufacturers had them coming, in improved for mulas for house paints to meet modern requirements paints that would allow the housewife to go her way rejoicing with automatic washers of all descrip tions and even to hang the wash ing up to dry indoors. "And these will be real, true, beautiful, durable paints," I was a jdif c 1 at&te . RED TIPSTER? Mrs. Martha Dodd Stern, daugh ter of the late William E. Dodd, one-time U. S. Am bassador to Germany, has reportedly flown behind the Iron Curtain with her hus band, Alfred Stern, and son, Robert, 11. U. S. offi cials want the Sterns for questioning in connection with Soviet espionage. Sen ate investigators in Wash ington are expected to quiz movie producer Boris Mor ros on the possibility that Mrs. Stern was the "prom inent American woman" who tipped off the Russian Embassy in Washington that Moros was an FBI counter-spy. "Why did daddy have to die?" How can you explain it to a heartbroken child? Most traffic accidents don't have to happen. Yet last year, 40,000 died on our high ways. This tragic killing can be stopped if you help. Here's how you can help: Drtvt safely, courteously yourself. Observe speed limits, warning signs. Where traffic lews are obeyed, deaths go DOWNI Insist on strict enforcement of ad traffic laws. They work for you, not against you. Where traffic lews art ' strictly enforced, deaths go DOWNI Support four total Safety Council Published at a public'teract in cooperation with The Advertising Council and the Newspaper Advertising Executives Association - I JUS STEVENS assured. "The new house paints will be tough in texture yet able to conduct moisture through from the interior wall and dis sipate it in the atmosphere." When I told veteran painting contractor Ed Wyman about these prophecies, he said that this might be so. A scientific age that could work the wonders it has with electronics and atom splitting should easily lick all house paint problems, Ed said. Complications ... The problems in choosing ex terior finishes arise today from the non-wood wall as well as from the house with exterior of beautiful bevel cedar siding. Masonry and stucco walls are now coated with a variety of paints and sealers. Metal walls have their specialty coatings vinyl, neoprene, epoxy, poly ester, with zinc chromates and iron oxides among standard primers. Most of us like the wood wall best, even with paint troubles of yesterday and today. On our own old- house blisters came first with wartime paints. The last job, done in 1950, has held up well, despite the old coats of paint accumulated since 1925. Now Ed Wyman has the little old house looking just as we want it to look gleaming ivory white with forest-green trim. We expect to keep it that way. A first move is to write Lenore Kent, 1500 Rhode Island ave., N. W., Washington, D. C, for two free booklets on how to protect house walls wood, brick, ce ment, masonry or metal against sweating. They are the work of the National Paint, Var nish and Lacquer Association. In simple terms, they will tell you what to do on a paint protection program of your own. ' Election Prospects Good for Adenauer Berlin (IP! Election pros pects looked brighter Saturday for West German chancellor Konrad Adenauer as a result of the savage attacks made on him by Soviet Communist leader Nikita Khrushchev. Western observers, who heard Khrushchev lambaste Adenauer during his recent East German tour, believed the attacks, which ranged from comparing Aden auer with Adolf Hitler to warn ing he -was leading Germany along the road to war, have vir tually clinched the Sept. 15 elections for Adenauer. Use M-T Classified Ads m . ms5e&frw'?ssi9Sf&s(i&-t ,srr w -vars . ... Mtr Quigg: A Decentralized Executive By DOC QUIGG United Press Correspondent Greenwich, Conn. (IP) Vic tor Muscat says you can talk all you want to about decentraliz ing industry, but he's the only man he knows of who's a de centralized executive. He works at home and likes it. What's the sense of wasting a couple of hours each day com muting to a hectic office in a jammed place called New York when you can sit with a seven line phone and secretary beside your swimming pool and work serenely while your wife and three kids splash happily in the foreground and birds tottle tend erly in the background? Thafs a good question. It's one Muscat asked himself three years ago. He's been working at home ever since. Think More Clearly "I've found you . can think much more clearly work out ; your problems much better, away from the center of activi ty," he said. "And I can get on the phone and give orders just Kuykendal! Named Power Chairman Washington (IPI President Eisenhower Saturday designated Jerone K. Kuykendall as chair man of the Federal Power com mission for another five-year term. The Senate approved Kuyken dall's reappointment to the com mission Thursday night after a lengthy debate. Sen. - Wayne Morse (D.-Ore.), in leading the fight against Kuykendall, charg ed that the President's appoint ment of him "regged" the FPC on the side of private power in terests. Kuykendall's first five-year term expired June 22. About one-third of this coun try's tractor fatalities occur on highways. Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport 1 W." 11 11 1 eTirseiw f iTieeeJi 1 1 1 1 1! ' is? but fhjf soE$d 0 freedom These fwo escaped -but 70 million others re main captive behind the Iron Curtain. And these are the people at whom Radio Free Europe beams its daily broadcasts. Escape is not its aim. Radio Free Europe penetrates the Iron Curtain to spread truth ... to strengthen hope and resistance. Said the youths above, "It ( Radio Free Europe added courage and strength to strained nerves." It offered us ... a hope for a better future," said a young nurse who fled to the West Support Radio Free Europe Send your Trulh MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE as well here in Greenwich as I can from any central office." One of the things he's been thinking about is where tubes are going. He's in toothpaste tubes. He has 11 factories dotted around the United States, Cana da, and Venezuela, and is presi dent of the Victor Metal Prod ucts Corp. He's in tubes up to his well, to the tune of 200, 000,000 a year made for tooth paste, shaving, and cosmetics outfits. As I say, he's been thinking, and I'm afraid I got him going on the subject of whither tubes are drifting by asking what was intended to be a nonsense ques tion. Why couldn't the ketchup problem how to get it out of the bottle be solved by putting it in tubes? Biggest Future "Certainly!" he said. "We ex pect that to be the biggest future use of tubes not only ketchup but all the condiments, peanut butter, jams and jellies, mustard, soft cheeses . . . why, it's all done in Europe right now. In AROUND a; THE WORLDS Times have changed since gas bags floated through the blue. But travel is still high adventure and part of the fun of life. Do you have a dream trip? Make it come true with regular savings at U. S. National. Save with U. S.! The Uniled Slates Nolionol Bonk of Portland Msmbw feiftrol OeeoiA InswaKt Co'poieiiei They had never flown befgre. But early one morning Zdnelc Machilner, 19, and Karel Kucera, 20, tied up a Czech guard and wobbled to the safety of West Germany in a stolen plane. r "Everybody Is listening even the Communists" said an escaped Czech skating champion. From 29 powerful transmitters, Radio Free Europe broadcasts up to 20 hours of truth a day to five key satellite countries Poland, Czecho slovakia, Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria. And how the Communist bosses fear it I F.ach dollar vou contribute srxmsors a Minute of Truth on Radio t ree fcurope. How f ( ennnv mintlfoC Will I71UP? ? Dollars to: CRUSADE , for FREEDOM o Local i Switzerland, for instance, that's the biggest . use of tubes. You can get butter in tubes there. "You have to keep it the right temserature in the refrigerator. It comes out in a long string like toothpaste. "And peanut butter is a na turaL A mother can let the child make a sandwich all by himself, . without leaving a knife around, by just leaving a tube and some bread on the table. 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