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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE K-wnsMPi i ,- -fees Oregon's 1959 Centennial Exposition and International Trade Fair will look like this when the four month exposition opens June 10, 1959, in Portland. Aerial photo shows Pacific International Exposition building along Columbia river estuary in foreground. Conception of additional exhibit areas outside the P.I. building have been sketched in over photograph by centennial production designer Mel Melvyn. Fifteen thousand seat capacity aqua center is shown along water, while Lewis and Clark village, frontier town, Indian village and logging camp and other area exhibits are seen in upper left. Additional buildings will be added for industry exhibits adjacent to PJ. building. A total attendance of several million persons is anticipated. New access roads and parking areas are planned to handle large crowds. Exposition is one of major events planned in celebration of Oregon's 100th anniversary of admission into the Union. National Pun Week is Bv DOC QUIGG United Press Correspondent New York (IP) This, once again, fellow sufferers, is National Pun Week, and be fore you begin moaning it might be well to recall that some of our greatest citizens have been punsters. Foremost In the ranks is one of our most revered founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin. His most magnifi cent effort, and surely the most celebrated pun in Ameri can history, was uttered after the signing of the Declaration of Independence: "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." And of course, in the jungle, there was this tribal native gentleman who did everything backwards. Once each year the tribe would meet on the left bank of the river and ex change wives, an old tribal custom. But this gentleman showed up on the right bank of the Resolution Given For All Taxpayers By LOUIS CASSELS United Press Correspondent Washington U) The In ternal Revenue service recom mends the following resolu tion for taxpayers: "During 1958, I will keep a detailed and accurate rec ord of my business expense accounts." Taking that pledge now, an Internal Revenue official said today, may spare you a lot of grief next year when the time comes to make out your in come tax return for 1958. Like most New Year's res olutions, this one covers some thing you should be doing al ready. Since 1921, a rule re quires taxpayers to maintain records of all reimbursed business and professional ex penses and .to account for them on income tax returns. Internal Revenue has nev er enforced the rule in the past, and most taxpayers have simply ignored it. Tempting Tax Dodge Several months ago, the long dormant 1921 rule at tracted the attention of offi cials who were looking for a way to crack down on tax payers who use liberal ex pense accounts as a tajf-free source of income. ; The temptation to use this tax dodge is particularly strong, officials said, among 6wners of small and medium sized business firms, and among top executives of big corporations whose expense accounts are beyond chal lenge by their companies' auditing departments. : Internal Revenue officials said it is none of their busi hes whether a man swindles his company out of a few or many dollars by padding his pxpense accounts. ; "But any sum of expense inoney that you receive, over and above what you have ac tually spent on legitimate pusiness expenses, is taxable jncome which must be re ported, just like your salary," ft spokesman explained. Relented for This Year Internal Revenue threw a scare into a lot of taxpayers by hinting Jast fall that the rule might be enforced on 1957 tax returns the ones you must file by April 15 this year. In fact, you will find on your Form 1040 tax returns, now in the mail, a line numbered 6-A which calls for an accounting for your reimbursed expenses! Jiiimi -4.H urn .44 Tit . Tcrw- 4 ,f i river. Why? Because he didn't know which side his bride was bartered on. And They'te Off The above was authored and uttered on the radio by Henry Morgan, a man who takes his humor seriously so serious ly that he will tell you he be lieves the most famous pun is the one involving the Russian composer Shostakovich. Which one is that, Henry? "Shostakovitch small by a waterfall," he says. When Clifton Fadiman was master of ceremonies on the radio's "Information Please" program he participated in many a spontaneous outburst, including one with John Gun ther, who was discoursing on a Middle Eastern subject. Fad iman wanted to know wheth er Gunther was positive. Q. "Are you shah?" A. "Sultanly." t Franklin Was Tops Asked by this column to name the most famous Ameri san pun, Fadiman said it during 1957 But you don't have to. fill out that line this time. Heeding anguished protests that the change caught mil lions of taxpayers unpre pared, the Internal Revenue seryjce recently issued an of ficial statement saying that taxpayers on their 1957 re turns may "treat expenses as they have in the past" that is, ignore them. Now Internal revenue is giving everyone a full year's fair warning so nobody can complain in early 1959 that he wasn't told that he would need a complete record of how much he spent, and how much he ' was reim bursed, on expense accounts. Huge Blast Peels Cliff for 5P Work Promontory Point, Utah (IP) A 300-foot cliff lurched under the convulsive force of 2,138,000 pounds of explo sives Sunday as engineers successfully touched off the world's largest non - atomic blast. The explosion on this Great Salt Lake peninsula was one in a series begun two years ago. It provided 5,500, 000 tons of crushed rock for the Southern Pacific rail roads $49 million rock fill causeway across the lake. The 12.6 mile stretch will replace the 50-year-old wood en trestle of SP's Lucin cut off in 1959. The cutoff speeds trains between San Francisco and Ogden. Howard Willard, SP proj ect engineer, said the "very efficient" explosion had pro vided "almost enough rock to finish the job." Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport Tueidty, January 7, 1958 w Noted By would be either Franklin's "hang" quip or his remark at the end of the Constitution al convention. Looking at the speaker's chair, where there was depicted a sun with out spreading rays, Franklin said he often had wondered wheth er it was a rising or setting sun but that now he was sure it was a rising sun. There may be some doubt whether there is a pun in Cancer Researcher Needles Colleagues By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor New York (IP) A VPiire science" cancer research man has needled his colleagues over the fact that all sorts of cancer-causing ubstances may be floating around in the un natural "environment" we live in, but very little is being done about identifying them. "A few obvious sources of carcinogens (cancer - causers) have received all the blame," said Dr. Ivor Cornman, "and the skeptics are now forcing us to admit that we don't know which of the myriad substances we have created may subequently turn upon us." He reminded his fellow "pure science" laboratory sci entists -that what to them was "an exciting new carcinogen with fascinating theoretical implications, is just another anxiety for the industrial hy gienist. And there is still fur ther caue for his concern: How many unexciting car cinogens go undiscovered be cause they do not arouse in terest?" Wants Screening Cornman proposed that cancer research scientists set up a committee to formulate techniques for carcinogenic "screening" that would be simple enough for widespread application to hosts of man made chemical products in all kinds of laboratories. He granted this would be only a beginning toward deal ing with a question whose "enormity" is staggering. He said some of his col leagues assert: " 'Let us wait until we understand cancer, and we can then discover everything likely to cause cancer.' " Because of the Then . . . Call Commercial - LOANS FROM - $25.00 2500.00 AUTOMOBILE FURNITURE SALARY COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL FINANCE CORP. Phone SP 3-4564 Sparta Bldg. Medford 1 Quigg volved in that last one, but it was the remark proper at that historic moment. Bennett Cerf, a punster of repute, is proud of his effort concerning the small boy who said, he had stopped saving stamps because a neighbor boy copied every stamp-saving thing he did. His father comforted him: "Remember, imitation is the sincerest form of philately." many studies into the funda mental nature of cancer which are in progress, this attitude is "logically defensi ble and is the most satisfying to the intellect," he said. . Evaluation Needed Nevertheless, "We are in a very real sense submerged in carcinogens, few of which we can recognize." Therefore, cancer research scientists should sort out the techniques "best qualified to give us some speedy evaluation of possible carcinogens." With these minimum stand ards, "laboratories concerned with determining the safety of products of modern com merce can routinely observe carcinogenesis just as they do other symptoms of toxicity," he said. "If we face the fact that the findings, like any other pre liminary results, only indicate definitive work to be done, this screening will not be a source of complacent false se curity." Cornman addressed his col leagues through the technical organ of the American Asocia tion for Cancer Research His research base is the Hazleton laboratories, Falls Church, Va. Articles Filed For Medford Company Salem Articles of incor poration, were filed here Fri day for the Crater Glass and Seat Cover company, 214 East Fourth st., Medford. The company was formerly known as the Medford Auto Cover company, 214 East Fourth st. The articles were signed by Elwin L. Jackson, Robert G. Smith and Henry H. Dorig. Contemplating? NEED A Loan? Death Ray Machine Demonstrated Once In Days of W.W.I By ROBERT MTTSFT. United Press Correspondent London (IP) The mys terious inventor twirled the dials of his "Death Ray Ma chine." Forty feet away a rat in a cage fell dead, a tiny wisp of smoke curling above its body. Three times the dials were turned and three times rats in their cages died in a most curious way, collapsing into shrivelled heaps. Then the in ventor crumpled up a pile of newspapers and placed it across the rented room in Ox ford street. Again he switched on his machine and the paper puff ed instantly into ash. Believes It Was Real M. E. Ricketts recalled the scene today, one of the strangest stories of World War I, because of a news item that the U.S. Defense Department was "in the mar ket" for a death ray. What he and a group of witnesses say in that room in 1915 was certainly, he believes, a work ing "death ray." Ricketts is a high official of the big Chappell's publish ing and manufacturing com bine. He was one of the pio neers who introduced the phonograph to Britain and in. this phase of his career help ed an inventive genius named Ernest Clifton. Clifton patented a signifi cant advance in the early phonograph, e x p e rimented with wireless before Marconi and was one of the first to record sound on film, accord ing to Rickeets. It was Clif ton who, highly excited, brought the mysterious in ventor to the attention of sev eral of his friends. Seeks 5.000 Pounds His idea was they would finance the "death ray" and sell it to the Britsh war office. The inventor himself, a shadowy figure in Rickett's mind over the gap of 43 years, spoke hardly at all except to say at one point: "For 5,000 pounds, then $20,00D I can build a machine that will wipe out a quarter of London." "We thought it had such frigtening possibilities," he GET THIS AUTHENTIC SCALE MODEL EDSEL-FREE! II P m j . .... .. - . m,JJ VV W ' Bo$ed on monyfoctuf t uagftlttd Edul Citation 2-ooor I 1 "r 7 li prica of th. Ed..l tang.r. , 1 GET TODAY'S DRIVE-IT-HOME PRICE ON THE WORLD'S NEWEST CAR! SEE YOUR EDSEL DEALER NOW! COLEMAN EDSEL SALES. INC. Sixth and Fir IN OTHER AREAS SEE YOUR LOCAL EDSEL DEALER said, "that we insisted it be shown to the war office. But that was before the first World War really got going and perhaps the inventor did not meet with much en couragement. Where does he think the plan might be now? "I 'don't like to think," said Ricketts. "The H-bomb and the intercontinental mis sile are quite enough' to worry about for the moment, thank you." Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS" London A spokesman for the General Post Office Engi neering Union, commenting on the questioning of two Brit ish telephone repairmen at gunpoint by American Air Force personnel at Sculthorpe airbase: "I think some of the guards think they are back in Chi cago. They go around with their guns cocked all the time." Chicago Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks, urging American business men to work harder to maintain economic supremacy: "We are in a grim, prolonged contest for world economic leadership. We havea good lead, but we have to put on addi tional steam to keep it." London Prof. A. C. B. Lovell, Britain's leading expert on Sputniks, commenting on the report that the Soviets have launched a manned missile: "It's quite fantastic; so fantastic that it is almost unbe lievable." Norfolk, Va. Nick Copeland, a witness of the crash of a four-engined Navy patrol bomber into a residential area here, commenting on the pilot's attempt to land on a desert ed beach:. "He must have overshot. It seemed like one engine was revved up more than the others, pulling it aside. He seemed like he was trying to pull up. I took off running because I knew he wouldn't make it." Washington Lt. Gen. James M. Gavin, chief of army re search, in explaining to Senate investigators Monday why he wanted to retire: "I was told I was no longer being considered for promo tion ... to a more responsible position." IKE GETS RARE DOGS Kathmandu, Nepal (IP) Animal handlers prepared to day to ship two rare Tibetan dogs to President Eisenhower as a gift of the Nepalese gov ernment. The dogs, Sharpa mastiffs, came . from across the Himalayas and were re ported to be the first shipped to the United States. NEWEST CAR IN THE WORLD-YET PRICED BELOW 32 V-8 MODELS OF THE "LOW-PRICED THREE!" Ira Gershwin Said Improving Hollywood (IP) Song writer Ira Gershwin, brother of the late composer George Gershwin, was reported in "satisfactory" condition today at Cedars of Lebanon hospital where he underwent surgery for "gangrenous appendici tis." Hospital attendants said Gershwin was "feeling much better and showing lots of improvement." He underwent surgery Christmas Eve, suf fered a relapse later in the week and then rallied. Gershwin's br other, George, died here more than 20 years ago after a brain tumor operation. PAINTER DIES London (IP) Barnett Freed man, 56, one of Britain's lead ing painters and illustrators, died here Saturday. Freed man was official artist to the British expeditonary force in the British Admiralty. 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