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TEX MEDrOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuetday, November 19, 1937 Police Say Bachelor Farmer Robbed Graves Plainfield, Wis. V Auth orities today said a bachelor farmer who admitted butchering a woman storekeeper apparent ly also robbed fresh graves and decorated his home with a grue some array of human remains. The police, who asked that their identity be withheld, said the admission by farmer Ed Gein, 51, that he robbed a number of graves "almost rules out the theory he was a mass murderer completely." Inside Gein's junk-strewn, nine-room farm house, author ities found 10 human skulls, at least one of them painted with lipstick. Authorities sought permission today to dig up graves Gein said he robbed to determined if they had been disturbed.. Mot Questioning Planned Officials of the state crime laboratory said they planned to take Gein to their headquarters in Madison, today for further questioning and lie tests. Gein admitted Monday he butchered. Mrs. Bernice Worden, 58, a Plainview hardware store owner, while in a trance. Gein said he could not rem ember slaying Mrs. Worden last Saturday, but when he came out of a "daze" he remembered drag ging her body from the store. Mrs. Wordens nude and decap itated body was found hanging in Gein's woodshed by author ities investigating her disap pearance. Coroner Russell Darby said Policeman Gives Ticket To Train Engineer Chicago iW Policeman My ron Roseman got some strenuous exercise Monday in a success ful effort to issue a traffic ticket. He raced after and leaped aboard a moving freight train to ticket' the conductor after a motorist complained the train had stopped and held up traffic at a railroad crossing for too Jong a time. the search of Gein's home was the "most revolting thing I have ever seen." Iiemized Find Among items turned up includ ed five heads wrapped in plas tic bags, 10 death masks made of skinned human heads, . and one boned and shrunken head. In questioning by authorities Monday night, Gein was quoted as saying he had gone out about 40 times on moonlight nights to rob graves at two cemeteries for a "thrill." Gein was held in jail at Wau toma on a technical charge of stealing Mrs. Worden's cash reg ister. Bond was set at 510,000 and a preliminary hearing was scheduled for next Tuesday. $2 Million Plant Approved by AEC Lakeview (IP) A $2,600,000 contract to construct a uranium processing mill at Lakeview was approved Monday by the Atomic Energy commission. The AEC said the Lakeview Mining company, operator of the only commercial uranium mine in Oregon, would finance, build and operate the plant near here. The mill, due to be completed in a year, will employ about 60 men. It will be the second of only two such mills on the west coast. The other is at Spo kane and is now getting into production. The mill will produce "yellow cake," a concentrated form of uranium ore. The ore will be shipped by the AEC to eastern plants for uranium metal pro cessing. Besides Lakeview, Oregon has three areas where uranium has been found. They are in the Steen mountains in southern Harney county, in Baker county and on Bear creek in Crook county south of Prineville. The ideographs of the Chin ese alphabet are said to number 30,000 or more. When You Se GEORGE LEWIS ROGUE TRAVEL SERVICE A FREE SERVICE We Reserve and Sell Airline and Steamship Tickets PHONE SP 2-6779 LOBBY HOTEL JACKSON Mju 4t tjWm Mtw&Mkj, 4-: SMOKING FLARES, dropped by airplanes, mark location of bodies and debris from Pan. American plane, missing since Friday with 44 persons aboard. At top right is carrier Phil ippine Sea which directed vast search northeast of Honolulu. (International Soundphoto) Mail Order Catalog of 1907 Makes Good Reading for History Student By BARBARA TIRITTLLI United Press Correspondent Chicago (W It's time we exposed mail order catalogs for what they really are: history books. Thumb through those bulky catalogs of years gone by and you'll absorb a vivid, fast and accurate picture of our nation's changing living patterns and standards. The mail order books graphically depict year-to-year-changes in the necessitites, com forts and prices that have taken place in the last half century. Let s look at the catalogs is sued 50 years ago, in 1907, by the nation's two leading mail order houses, Sears, Roebuck and company and Montgomery Ward. The Montgomery Ward cata log of that year included a mes sage of reassurance for horses and people who relied on them. Never fear, said the catalog. Those newfangled horseless car riages will never replace old Dobbin Next, the catalog went on to fill more than 20 pages with ad vertisements for buggies, cutters and sleighs. Another 40 pages displayed a wide selection of saddles, harnesses and other horse-oriented accessories. Ten more pages showed off the latest in blacksmith equipment, items you won't find in today's cata log. Slight Mention Except for an automobile tire j here and there, the 1907 catalog gave no indication that the auto mobile was here to stay. When it came to inside-the-house merchandise, our 1907 cat alog offered a slick "ball bear ing" machine that would wash "anything washable." It sold for $6.50. A young mother could buy a "swell roll design" sleeper go cart for $9.35. The new dimension in sound, still two generations removed from rock 'n roll, came out of a "solid oak cabinet complete with gold horn and large bell." This talking machines was pric-1 material," considered "very ef- ed at S9.75. fective" in a "good, sensible t asnion - conscious women! style." could order a hat for $2.59 and receive an item "made of good WILL THE FACE Oil THE STRETCHER BE YOURS! Housing Policies Of Administration Attacked by Morse Florence (IP) Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) attacked the Ei senhower administration's hous ing policies in a dinner address here Monday night and present ed a five-point housing program of his own. Morse said the president and his "would-be monetary mechan ics have fiddled and meddled with the monetary and credit aspects of this nation's economy so that, for all practical pur poses, they have rendered the government-supported housing programs ineffective." Charges Small Group He charged that the influence of a small group who have large investments in housing "has re sulted in the administration's op position to federal housing pro grams." He added that the ad ministration has "blindly" ac cepted the "unsound theory" that the nation has overbuilt its housing needs. Morse's plan: 1. Eenact legislation to au thorize the VA-guaranteed and VA direct lending programs to continue through 1960, and give authority to the Federal Na tional Mortgage association to purchase at par 200 million dol lars of VA-guaranteed loans. 2. Seek through congression al action a realistic public hous ing program, visualizing a mini mum of 235,000 low-rent units per year, with special emphasis on housing for the aged. Urban Renewal 3. Adopt a long-range urban renewal program to insure each community sufficient funds, and streamline the operation of the program to reduce red tape. 4., Establish a moderate in come housing program within the National Housing act with an insurance program having a maximum interest rate of four per cent and a down payment of not more than $200 together with authority for FNMA to purchase these mortgages at par. 5. Place the program under another branch of government other than the Department of Agriculture "capable of admin istering" a vigorous program within the concept of the legis lation which created it. Old Armorsides It cost 62 cents for a box of "Rose's Complexion Tabules." For $1.47, you could order the latest cinch in "armorside cor sets." What there was of today's Ivy League look in men's fashion could be discerned in "great black thibet suits" or worsted suits of "faint shadow check," made to measure for $13.95. Long underwear was featured prominently in the 1907 mail order book. The airplane, mostly an inno vation to make jokes about, was shown by' 1907 cartoonists as a great boon to the iceman or coal hauler. They were shown de livering their supplies by air and dropping them down chutes. A "modern bathroom outfit" cost $48. A potbelly stove could be yours for $21.33. And to top off a meal, how about a beverage listed as "genuine malt extract tonic." It was peptonized! Noth ing around today can make that statement. Paramecium's Sex Life Said Important Los Angeles (IP) - The pecular sex life of the Para mecium is helping scientists to understand more about the gen eral problem of cellular differ entiation, the way in which a single fertilized egg cell splits into the many cell types that make up higher animal and plant life. , Paramecia mate in the best animal tradition, but. cell divi sion occurs in a vegetable-like way. Several generations 'must live before the paramecia are again capable of -mating. The way the sexually immature cells give rise to progeny in the course of division is comparable to tis sue differentiation in higher forms. Genetic factors control the du ration of the immaturity in par amecia, although the principle reason for the transition from maturity to immaturity seems to involve alternate physiologi cal states of the cell nucleus. A somewhat similar mechan ism in more complex plants and animals might explain their cel lular differentiation. This is the way the undifferentiated embry onic cells in dividing become trunk or leaf or eye or nose cells. Youngsters Prefer Science En Their Outside Reading This is National Book week with the theme, "Exploring With Books." As usual, the youngsters have gone the adults who set this theme one better. According to Miss Helen Web ster, head librarian of the local library, the younger set is ex ploring not only this world but other worlds, too. "And they're not only inter ested in Sputniks, other planets and atoms, but also in prehis toric animals," , Miss Webster laughed. Even the fourth-graders can pronounce the names which run into four syllables." "Why do they like prehistoric animals? Why, I think it's be cause it's something out of this world," Miss Webster remarked. The head librarian seemed to have a reassuring word for those earthbound parents and grandparents who still believe a child's fancy should still fol low the fairies. Like Fairy Stories "They like those fairy stories, too,"' she answered. Miss Webster said this inter est in science has been growing for some time, but said she be lieved that science hitting the Total of 126,175 Receive Benelits A total of 126,175 persons in Oregon were receiving $6,928, 496 in monthly payments under old-age and survivors insurance program as of June 30, 1957, it was announced today by W. V. Nusbaum, manager of the Med ford office of the Social Security Administration. Oregon ranks eighth among the 48 states in the number of persons, per 1,000 of those past 65, receiving benefits with 613. It is exceeded only by Nevada and five New England states. The national average is 524. In contrast to the above, Ore gon ranks 39th among the states in the number of persons, of each 1,000 of the population past 65, receiving assistance, or wel fare payments, with 110. The na tional average is 168. The statistics compiled by the social security administration show that Washington had 574 persons per 1,000 past 65, receiv ing insurance payments, with 220 receiving assistance pay ments. In California 538 were receiving insurance payments while 226 aged individuals per 1,000 were receiving assistance payments. Since Jan. 1, 1957, the Med ford office of the social security administration has forwarded 1,704 applications for payment under the old-age and survivors insurance program, Nusbaum stated. As of Dec. 31, 1956, the last date for which figures are available, 4,748 persons in Jack son county and 2-182 persons in Josephine county were receiving payments under the program. Civil Defense Director Threatens to Resign Darien, Conn. (IP) Larien Civil Defense Director Joseph Ward and his chief warden, Mrs. Edward J. Wynkoop, threatened to resign Monday blaming too many cocktail parties for the town's lagging civil t defense program.- - ' t , "Cocktail parties, morning and afternoon teas and coffee take up far too much of the time of the residents of this community," Ward complained angrily. ' headlines gave it fresh impetus. The librarian listed several titles of those books dealing with the scientific world "Rockets, Missiles, Moons," by Charles Coombs; "Space Ship to the Moon," -by Jack Coggins and Fletcher Pratt; "Complete Book of Space Travel by Man," by Albro Gaul and "All About Rockets," by Fletcher Pratt. Blending the creative and sci entific trend are books on model plane building and jet planes, Miss Webster said. Asked about books on atoms and electronics, Miss Webster commented, "Oh, they ,start pretty young. The youngsters have to explain the books to their parents I've heard." Other books which appear popular for readers up to and through the intermediate grade level are those on medicine and engineering. The rush on the library starts after school and on Saturdays, the librarian said. The peak of reading, however, is done during vacation time, she explained. Then another peak is reached after vacation. The young male readers are interested in both sports 'and animals. The girls appear more interested in horses than the boys, she added. However, both boys and girls like to read about horses and dogs, she said. "We just don't seem to get in . enough books on animals," she commented. To help ease this shortage of books on animals,. Eleanor Brown, librarian in Bend, is writing popular animal stories. Miss Webster has one about a dog underway but reports she doubts if the book will ever be finished. Neuberger Say Ag Fund Pays Big Farms Silverton (IP) Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.), told a potluck dinner of Marion county Democrats here Monday night that too much of the govern ment's agricultural benefits pay ments go to "big one-crop farm ers in midwest and southern states rather than to average farmers all over the nation." Neuberger also criticized what he termed the "absurd" practice of subsidizing such a crop as to bacco, while farmers growing nutritious products such as eggs, fruit and vegetables go without any federal supports whatsoever. He said he hoped greater stress would be placed on a "really far-reaching agricultural policy" designed to protect the diversi fied family farm against econ omic and natural disasters. : In Oregon, he said, about two thirds of farm income derives from commodities with no fed eral support. Neuberger said that a program of industrialization, bringing new workers and new payrolls into Oregon would help to create a larger home market for the state's farm products, thus par tially offsetting the "disadvan tage" of high shipping costs to eastern markets. WHEAT TO POLAND . Warsaw, Poland (IP) More than 280,000 tons of American wheat have arrived . in Poland since July 23 under the Polish American economic agreement, the Polish News Agency said to day. The agency also said that 9,800 tons of soya beans, 96,000 bales of cotton and 15,000 tons of fats had arrived from the United States. Each week at least three Rogue Valley residents are flown to or from j hospital by Mercy Flights. It could be you. As a subscriber to Mercy Flights an emergency trip would be free. You can help both yourself and Mercy Flights (an Oregon non-profit corporation) by subscribing for your entire family at a cost of only $4.00 year. Here is a unique service. 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' With signing of the bill, the governor said he hoped to clear his desk of all legislation ap proved at the special session by Thursday. Meat Cutters Strike Ends in Washington Seattle HP A meat cutters strike in 175 retail markets in King and Kitsap counties ended Monday night when members of Local ,81 of the Meat Cutters Union voted to accept a S6 weekly pay raise this year and an equal raise next year. Employees also agreed to ac- cept a S4 weekly boost this year ; and a S5 increase next year for women. The vote for acceptance ' was 448 to 126. ! PHOENIX GRANGE A turkey dinner and carnival will be held at Phoenix Grange hall Saturday, Nov. 23. Prices for the dinner, which will be served from 5 p.m. until '8 p.m., will be $1.35 for adults 1 and 75 cents for children. ARE THESE QUESTIONS ON YOUR MIND! What is Sputnik's impact on' the investment world? Who leads the Race in Atomic Energy development? How serious is the Russian challenge? 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