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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!
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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. He il
lustrated many of the classics
and designed the George V
silver jubilee stamp.
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Man Admits Part in
Portland Bank Holdup
Portland (IP) Police said
Monday that Edward Joseph
Dillon, 28, had admitted his
part in the $5001 armed rob
bery of the Foster - Powel
branch of the First National
Bank of Portland here last
month.
Tha other man accused of
complicity in the crime is Rob
ert Newell Lovelace, 36, Port
land taxi-cab driver.
Plane Wreckage
Found in River
Nevada City, Calif. OP)
The bodies of seven persons
killed three weeks ago in the
crash of a chartered plane
awaited positive identification
today at a funeral home.
Searchers recovered the
bodies of the six men and a
woman from the demolished
plane Sunday, three weeks
after it crashed on the Middle
Fork of Yuba river, 25 miles
northeast of here.
Three miners, Sam New
port, Bob Bance and Tim Tim
blin, sighted the wreckage
while on their way to visit Ed
ward Bergin, 58, owner of the
German bar gold mine near
by. Victims of the crash were
Edward A. Rost, 38, Castro
Valley, Calif., the pilot; Ar
thur Giesler, 38, Hayward, the
copilot; Donald J. Conway and
Jerry Cunningham, 21, Ala
meda; Mrs. Elen Lalzell, 65,
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EX-ARMY MAN DIES
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84, judge advocate general of
the United States Army from
1933 to 1937, died Friday in
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