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0 O 0 12 MAIL T.gUUfi aoM4i erg.a VeJiesiay, June 18, 19S8 jj- c4 ,, fax I i. 2 STATE EMERGSBCF Water from the flooding Wabash River seeps through a levee Terre Haute, Ind., vnere about 5000 persons are engaged in round-the-clock sand bagging to prevent f itW duasje. Indiana's Governor Harold Handley has declared an emergency. ' ..... Annual Shortage of Blood Soon To Be jFelft By Supply Centers r --r x.ouis Casse2 By LOUIS CASSEL United Press Internalienal Washington (UPI) Some where in America, in the next few weeks, newspapers will carry g head line that will shock many readers. It will say, in effect: "Blood shortage forces local hospitals to suspend all operations ex cept emergencies." "It happens every sum mer," an official cf the Amer ican Re? Cross explained. "The regular donors go away on vacajon and the supply of blood falls off. Then thi hos pitals encounter an unueuel run of accidents or furgical cases, and the region. I blood bank finds its reserve sockt dropping t8 the danger point." The Red ros usually it able to meet the crista by Ap pealing throvh ntwspapere and broadcasting stetione tor blood donors to coml on tf run. And if the worie comet to worst, th temporarily bankrupblood bfnfc ctn tDr-! row go (emergency eupply fro another retinal ,cenie?. But p trennil rtcuP rence rk tittle horttget dem onstrate tli ngrrow mtrjin that altt eit between ,the amount e)f blocaJ thtt hos- apita netS, at tht tmount that hSS'lft. American trt willing, t Qirt ftPough the Red CrosS other egtncict. rg$ ci s eie ven ( t$mgfTarj interrup tion oi $ugly at tht giving en cg'i fee seriout. Slood ctn bitar4 oftij 51 ty berbre jCut tieriortt. Aft er gfiit it Ctn be used to pro due $3v4 f?efconl such ts Piel io& gtmmt globulin. Bg5 it ) alttt for whole bloog tetu$ion. te lift lint Ailed hgs) gecoftit nt f Uit major re.o?.itiiiVi of tht Rtd Cros sict its civilian blood prqgrm t ntugurtt 10 years go. Through ikt 91 regional blood cnttrg. tht ltd Crost collect! tftout 0 ptr cent of all tht fcloct ustfl in hospi tals thmStWM, by communi ty blood bants operated by non-profit tjencie other than the Re Cross, gn by com mercial !loof btntt- Commtrcigl bancs charge from f5 to tbout 160 pint fSbloof. fftt average price is abou4 fJS pint. These barifcs coi'ct ftlood from paid donor Th ag4 Cro tvtr charg es gennj for blood. This statemgnf, ofttn made and often cflalltnged, requires some espltngtion. It costs the Red Cbs ttboui tl a pint to collect n distribute blood, even though tht blood itself is n iV9y volunteer donors. rSonty goes to pay nurStt n tfoctort who staff th9 fJloo centers, for bottles, syfcnget. .an other equiprrit, n tof 4ht pro cessir, sgorot tnl transpor tation of thg bloo. C0t0 tm Afet cgnts o itt goet for tht fruit juicg with -which doirs gr jplied fcefore they bareetheir grms, gnd for the doughnut gnd coffee that (5await tem when they finish. For tlge past sevtral years, hospitfts in many parts of the country have bean underwrit ing) part of th collecting costs. The rest is paid by the Red Cross out of tht funds contributed by the American public in its annual appeal- Ptprdly a day pastes, how ever, without some outraged citizen getting the idea that the Red Cross is running tome Vind of racket with its blood program. What outrages the citizen is the discovery that a hoepital has billed him for a blood transfusion. The explan ation, which the Red Cross patiently offers over and ov er, is. that the blood itself is free. But the Red Cross has no control over any charge that a hospital may make for administering it. DEFEATING MANY BEAUTIES, Donna Kay Brooks (center) stands with runners-up after winning "Miss Cali fornia" title at Anaheim. She will represent state at "Miss Vniverae" contest at Long Beach in July. (UPI Telepkoto) Commission Opens Bids on $4,600,000 In Highway Projects Is That So? By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist Alexandria Every major city in the states occasionally ha a m ild cat or some other of the larger forms of wild life appear in the outskirts, fcut that didn't prepare me to meet a hyena, though a tame one, only 40 miles or so from tht great city. The uncouth beast had been captured as a baby by its Arab master a few miles out in the Libyan desert. But ttme as he was, the most im pressive thing about him was hit look of sneaky power. The hyena, which may reach a weight of 200 pounds, is grotesque. Its large, short head, powerful forequarters and massive teeth give it a look of ferocity, but its weak- 4-l-3 appearing hindquarters sug gest that it prefers guile to force. But force, or guile, its amell makes it hard to see how he would get a chance to use either. The Arab owner assured me his pet smelled only be cause he was excited and in a defensive reflex had released some fluid from a glandular pouch all hyenas have ' near the base of the tail. Maybe so. . The animal looked clean enough, and the thick, heavy hair, almost forming a mane along its spine, was bristling a little. But I also thought I detected the odor of rotten flesh. Probably that was due to my imagination and the hy ena is such a carrion eater eater. On that score the hy ena is suhc a carrion eater that he has often invaded cemeteries to eat the newly buried dead. He will kill sheep, goats and other small animals as the opportunity offers. Vegetarian Diet ms particular nyena wasJ a vegetarian, the owner saidfl and I am perfectly, willing to believe it since it is afact that some tame lions have been conditioned to a strictly vegetarian diet. In studying the animal it was easy to see how so many tuperstitions have grown up around him. His appearance, his eating habits and the fact that he is rarely seen by day all tend to surround him with a certain black magic quality. One of the wildest supersti tions is the belief, still held in various native areas, that the hyena changes its sex every year. It probably stems from an attempt to rational ize the hyena's success in re sisting attempts to eliminate him. (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrange ment with the editors of the Encyclopedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, the best na ture observation, or the best question on nature and wild life, a complete 30-volume set of - this, world-famous refer ence work, in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week new submissions will be con sidered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: Is That So! co Med ford Mail Tribune, Box 1609, San Francisco, Calif. Mining Claim Filed For Area in Applegate Dr. W. G. Bishop, 118 Ver nada place, Medford, has filed a quartz mining claim in the Jackson county record ing department for approxi mately 20 acres in the Apple gate area. k Dr. Bishop said he has not had the claim analyzed yet. The doctor is an amateur pros pector and has another man working the claim for him, he said. Arnold Bennett, the English novelist and playwright who died in 1931, started his ca reer as a law solicitor. STUBBORN SOIL? Lew Rates en Sawdust Mulch ' McGINTY FUEL CO. Phone SP 3-6297 Salem (UPI) Bids on $6, 400,000 in highway projects were opened by the State Highway Commission here Tuesday. Contracts will be' awarded June 19 in Portland. Apparent low bidder on the largest project was Roy L. Houck, Salem, who bid $890,440 for .45 miles of grad ing and paving on Harbor drive in Portland. Apparent low bidders on the remaining 25 projects by counties included: Benton: Tom Lilebo, Reeds port, $27,120 for a. 133-foot deck girder bridge over Luckiamute river about one mile east of Hoskins. Clatsop: Slate and Hall, Portland, $468,830 for 2.34 miles grading and paving on the Wauna-Westport section of the Columbia river nigh way about 23 miles east of Astoria. Coast High way. Work Clatsop: United Contract ing company, Portland, $154, 785 for 1.98 miles grading and paving on the ' Seaside section of the Oregon Coast highway. Coos: Sig Anderson, Coos Bay, $128,156 for a 443-foot bridge over the north fork of the Coquille river near Myr tle Point. Coos: Woodward and Sons, Coquille, $14,972 for .23 miles paving in Coquille. Crook: Keystone construe tion company, Prineville, $296,021 for 7.18 (miles grad ing and oiling on the Paulina secondary highway just west of Post. Deschutes: Babler Brothers, Portland, $109,500. for oiling projects on 12 county roads. D o u z 1 a s: Tom Lilebo. Reedsport, $105,965 for Myr tle Creek inter-change struc ture on the Myrtle Creek- Canyonville section of Pacific highway. Jackson County Jobc Jackson: Babler Brothers, Portland, $353,602 for 4.52 miles grading, paving and structure on Green Springs highway about four miles southeast of Ashland. Jackson: Rogue River Pav ing company, Medford, $45,- 533 for 1.95 miles paving on Table Rock county road about six miles north of Medford. Lane: T. C. Wildish, Eu gene, $42,901 for .78 miles grading and paving on Mc Kenzie highway in Spring field. Linn: Morris Brothers, Leb anon, $58,820. for 3.63 miles paving and stone shoulders on the Albany - Brownsville county road about two miles south of Albany. . QSEQ You can paint and live in a drcssi ream with Mr? THI DI LUXI lATfX WALL PAINT 6 39 Deep Tones Gallon $6.69 Gal. Goes on over any interior surface Eaay to apply with brush er Rolier-Koater Gallon doea walk of an average room Dries within an hour Guaranteed waahable ' Wide range of lovely eolora 245 S. Central ot 10th Phone SP 2-5201 - FREE PARKING! Marion: John A. Pfeifer, Silverton, $14,998 for a main tenance building at Silverton. Marion: Central Paving, Independence, $161,555 for 3.09 miles grading and pav ing on Liberty county ,road about one mile south of Sa lem. Powder River Bid Union: C. E. Leseburg, Nys sa, $53,257 for 4.23 miles stone base and oiling on North Powder. Union: Tom Lilebo, Reeds port, $569,819 for two con crete structures on the Old Oregon Trail highway near La Grande. Wallowa: J. F. K o n e n, Portland, $13,606 for 2.68 miles oiling on the Flora spur county road easterly from Flora. Wheeler: Newport Con struction company, Portland, $521,615 for four structures and 7.19 miles grading and oiling on John Day highway about, four miles west of Spray. Yamhill: O. C. Yokum, Mc Minnville, $194,852 for 1.94 miles grading and oiling on three mile lane highway three miles east of McMinn ville. : Argentina took over British-owned railroads in that country ten years ago. Today all of the Argentine railway system is state-owned. It is divided into seven separate operating units. Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Washington Rep. Charles S. Gubser (R.-Calif.) after ex pressing dismay at the "obvious glee" which he aid news men showed at the gift-getting difficulties of Presidential Aide Sherman Adams: "There is no greater group of freeloaders in the world ihan the press." Trenton, N.J. Gov. Robert B. Meyner of New Jersey, after revealing that he received a bolt of cloth at the 1955 governors' conference in Chicago, but didn't know whether it came from Boston industrialist Bernard Goldfine: "People send me bolls of cloth from time lo time. Frank ly, I don't 'like to receive them. I. prefer to buy my suits ready-made." Ottawa John Reitman, grand-uncle of two-year-old Joel Reitman, heir to a chain store fortune, after the child had been found unharmed after his abduction: "The press was terrific. Nobody broke the release and nobody bothered us too much. They were Tery understand ing. They were just wonderful." Youths Fined in District Donald D. Jones, 18, of 235 Laurel st., Central Point and Eugene Edward Feldman, 18 of Thomas . rd., Medford, pleaded guilty in district court Monday afternoon to charges of petty larceny. They were fined $55 each Court and given a suspended sen tence of one year in the coun ty jail. ' They were charged with taking radio knobs from, the Rogue Service garage, 609 West McAndrews rd., Med ford, on June 14, according to police. ' . 0 IB mm 0 0 Red Fir Slabs Next Winter Big Double Load 12 or 16 inch Order Early Be Happy MEDFORD FUEL CO. Telephone SP 2-2111 Court & McAndrews 200 Mexicans Feared Drotmd Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico (UPI) Two hundred Mexican fishermen were feared drown ed in a storm Monday-off the Pacific coast near Oxeca state when a sudden storm sank their fleet. Chiapas state officials said the men, aboard 21 boats, dis appeared without a trace when the storm caught them by sur prise. If all were drowned it would constitute the worst maritime disaster in Mexican history, they .said. First reports of the disaster came from Capt. Sabino Ortiz whose fishing boat went aground after five of his seven crewmen had been washed overboard. Q "The waves g e fesht mare," Ortiz ssL "Pt took us two hours te yearh the beach. Twenty-one, ethjr boalp just disappeared ant I'm sure all aboard them re lojt" The family cet nvty not b as closely relateat to the tiger in the zoo a he has hem be lieved. Blood tests show that the cheetah shofs 4 76 pjr cent relationship, . thil thej tiger showed only- 9 0 De cent relationship . In 1923, Mustaphm femal Ataturk chose AnMra as the capital of Turkey. OR FOR ANY OTHER FURtCSf We Offer Every PIqr Oregon Finance Co. Gene Themes, Mgr. - Friendly Heme Owned If dependent 45 South Central SP 2-4433 . . .... Directors -ToNlTe Does Your Family, Inc. have an annual report? In some ways it certainly makes a let of sense io look at your family as a business. . ' For instance, businesses set aside money each year to meet .their future needs. Your family should, too, because you'll have a lot of future needs . . . college educations for the children ... . a new house . . a retirement fund. ' '; ! You might call the money you'll need for these things a reserve for future operating expenses. And you should start building that reserve righjt now. . .: One of the best ways to do this is by regular purchase of U.S.' Savings Bonds. They're a safe, sure invest-' ment that's backed by the strength of the greatest nation on earth. - j ' Sayings Bonds are absolutely indestructible. !f stolen, lost or destroyed -they'll be replaced without charge by the U. S. Treasury. And now they're better than ever. . Every U. S. Series E Savings Bond purchased sioce February 1, 1957 pays 3X interest when held to maturity. R matures earlier, too in only 8 years and 11 months-and pays higher interest in the earlier years. So this year look at your family's finances with a businessman's eye And make it your New Year's Resolution to start building a fund for the future! by buying Savings Bonds through the Payroll Savings Ran at work or regularly where you bank. - , PART OF EVERY AMERICAN'S SAVINGS BELONGS IN U. S. SAVINGS BONDS Th V. S. Government does jm aey for this advertising. The Treasury Deport ment thanks, for their patriotic dona tion, th Advertising Council mni MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE
