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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
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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.
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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.
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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. .
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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. ' .
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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 .
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