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o o 10 MAILTRIBU&, Medford, Oregon, Tuesday, July 15, 1958 USO Said Vital Part Of United Crusade Nearly 40 million visits by members of the armed forces and their dependents were made to USO clubs, lounges, and information centers around the world last year, according to the 1957 Annual Report of United Service Or ganizations, Inc. The report was received by Tom G. Polk, president of the United Med ford Crusade. Volunteers devoted 4,800, 345 hours the equivalent of 548 years of their time to the USO program of serv ing the off-duty welfare and morale needs of the armed forces. Harvey S. Firestone Jr., USO chariman, and chairman of the board, Firestone Tire and Rubber co., paid tribute to these volunteers for contin uing to recognize their re sponsibility toward the 2i million young men and wom en in the armed forces pro q tecting our country through out the world." USO voluteers are needed now as never before, he said. USO, which conducts inde pendent fund-raising drives in a few places, such as New York City and Chicago, was included in 1,465 United Fund and Community Chest cam ILLINOIS VALLEY Family On Way To Spain By RUTH RAUSCH Cave Junction Lieuten ant and Mrs. William Kester and two children are now en route to Madrid, Spain, where Kester will be stationed at the SAC base with an inter ceptor squadron. The lieutenant, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Hall, now living in Claremont, Calif., flies a Sabre F-86 jet He has been stationed for the past three years t Geiger Field, Spo kane, Wash. -Bob Kester, the Hall's younger Son, received his commission as 2nd lieutenant in the U. S. Marine Air Force at Pensacola, Fla., 'June 11. He will be an instructor in flying the T-28 at Whiting Field, Pensacola. Both Kester boys are Illi noise Valley High school graduates and were promi nent in atheletics. Bill gradu ated in 1951 and married An namae Meyer of Grants Pass in 1955. Bob graduated with the class of 1954. Mr. agd Mrs. John Brewer with Mr. and Mrs. Glen Plum mlee and children, Lonnie and Glenda, were fishing along the coast this week, camping at Castle Rock, Calif, and en going to Brookings. Mrs. Pauline Rausch is here from Hollywood, Calif., visit ing her son's family, the Roy Rausch for a month. Mrs. Clyde Moon of 0 O'Brien has written several children's stories for the Ore Farmer's magazine recently. The latest one to be published 3s a fantasy called "The Squir ral With an Ear for Music." l)n Wednesday, Roy Denni on of Gasquet, Calif., brought his daughters, Kay and Di anne, to the . Chod Hoovers for several days to participate in the 4-H horsemanship work. Classes were interrupted long enough on Friday to hold a picnic and swim party at the Hoover's ranch pasture. Mrs. Harry Moore and daughter Terressa of Redding, mother and sister of Mrs. Chod Hoover, with Mr. and PLANES BY THE POUND Farmingdale, N. Y. (UPI) The complexity of high-performance aircraft is reflected in cost per pound. Republic Aviation here reports that a World War H aircraft cost about $10 a pound, by the time of the Korean conflict it had risen to $25, and to day's supersonic planes, such as the F-105 fighter-bomber, which Republic is building for the Air Force, average about 50 a pound. Thunderchief jets require 26 times as many engineering hours as did Cbrld War II planes. Stops Constipation Pue to "Aging Colon" New laxative discovery for normal As you grow older, the internal mus cles of your colon wall also age, lose the strength that propels waste from the body. Stagnant bowel contents be come so dry and shrumten that they fail to stimulate the urge to purge. Relief, doctors say, lies in a new laxative principle. Old-style bulks and moistened may create gas, take 3 or 4 days for relief. Old-style salts and drugs cramp and gripe the entire system. Of all laxatives,, only new Colonaid gives you its special 3-way relief that works only on the lower colon (area of constipation). paigns throughout the country last year, a decided increase over 1956. At the end of the year, there were 267 USO facilities around the world, including 22 located oveseas. However, the USO execu tive director pointed out that no accurate conclusion as to, the extent of USO services for men and women in uni form could be drawn merely by counting USO clubs, loun ges, and centers. USO junior hostesses and their chaperones traveled many thousands of miles in all weather conditions to stage dances, and to make life generally more pleasant for the men. USO is a participating agency in the United Medford Crusade. There are over -1200 men and women from this area now on duty in the armed forces. Polk said. USO is a federation of six national agencies; the Young Men's Christian association, the National Catholic Com munity service, the National Jewish Welfare board, the Young Women's Christian as sociation, the Salvation Army, and the National Traveler's Aid association. Mrs. Jim Mueller of Mt. Shas ta, Mrs. Hoove's sister and brother-in-law, stopped Satur day for a week's visit' with the Hoovers. In the same par ty is a cousin, Miss Virginia Washington, o f Richmond, Calif. On Sunday the Hoovers and their guests, including Miss Washington, who is 85 years old, went through the Ore gon caves. Mrs. Marion Herther and daughter, Nickie, daughter and granddaughter of Mrs. Walter Kirtley of Kerby, are visitors from San Francisco. Mrs. Herther plans to stay until her husband joins her in August. Miss Laura Reynolds and Miss Edna Golay of North Hollywood, Calif., stopped in the valley for several days to visit with the Hugh Fosters on their way to Portland and Canada. Mr. and Mrs. Melville Dut cher of Kerby have with them for a two weeks vacation their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Jones, and son, Garry, of Alder ville, Wash. The Illinois Valley Soil Conservation District meeting Friday evening July 11 was attended by 12 members. Walley Eichler, the new Illinois Valley High school vo-ag teacher, addressed the meeting and gave particulars covering the Youth Ranch Management camp to be held at the Dairy Creek Guard station in Fremont National forest Aug. 4 through 8. One of the four boys to be chosen from this district will be an Illinois Valley Youth. To be elegible, the boys must be between 14 and 18 years old. Applications must be in the office of the Illinois Valley SCD office by July 15. Applications will be screened and selected by the Josephine County Range Management committee. The Illinois Valey Lions club and the SCD will share equally in sponsoring the $25 exspenses to send the youth selected from Illinois Valley. - The July 8 meeting of the World War I Buddies, Caves Barracks 146, and auxiliary, at the VFW hall in Cave Junc tion was attended by guests from Grants Pass, Medford and Ashland. A potluck dinner was serv ed. The first picnic was held at Browntown mines on May 4 and the second picnic will be at Grayback park on July 20. Those attending are asked to bring a potluck dish and table service. The regular meeting of the World War I veterans is held every second and fourth Tues day at 8 p.m. in the VFW hall at Cave Junction. Visitors are urged to attend. re-creates 3 essentials regularity. (1) Colonaid moisturizes dry, hardened waste for easy passage with out pain or strain. (2) Colonatd's unequalled rebulking action helps re tone flabby colon muscles. (3) And Colonaid acts gently, on the nerve reflexes that stimulate the vital "mass movement" of your lower colon. Colonaid relieves even chronic constipation overnight; is so gentle it was hospital proved safe even for women in critical stages of pregnancy. And Colonaid won't interfere with absorption of vitamins or other food nutrients. Get Colonaid, today! GUILTY OF DUNKING These five British seamen, accused of throwing a bosun's mate in the Columbia River, left Portland, Ore., by commercial airline on the first leg of their return to England. Charged with attempted murder by the British vice consul in Portland, the prisoners were put aboard the plane without escort or super vision because airlines will not fly a "prisoner." The five are, left to right: John Mo Gartland, Thomas Bavis, Malcolm MacDonald, Alexander Leslie, and James Tiffney. 9 DESPAIRING MOTHER Mrs. Helen Smith breathes into the mouth "of her baby, Althea, 13 months, in a vain effort to save her life after a heavy delivery truck ran over her carriage (right) in New York. On arrival at hospital the little girl was pronounced dead of a fractured skull. . Man With Idea Gets Chicago (UPI) i One of those fellows whose ideas were laughed at 30 years ago has been summoned from re tirement presumably to give him the last laugh. Neal Begley, 75, now lives in Los Angeles. A former ex ecutive of the Hertz Corpor WP " f 8 ft " BW rhniea 01 8 ry ' - Tfir Mil r:: bm 50 mu.c n -"-j etooi mesn dvaniKn " . J. nnnl ma"" 0, ncludeo. ffTl fo Fo iy)o)o) Last Laugh ation, he originated the idea of renting private airplanes back in 1927. At that time the proposal seemed ridic ulous. But Hertz began a rent-a-plane service in 56 American cities in May. Begley was summoned here to be honored enough WJSJI w in r i. ' . v 1 LST Utt M" -nacitt. 0U1 . i .dolne aU atounu. -r-- tt m -t.. -as ninor ouu". ... oVe Krene ile jou - QUrs liu" " - r to move onj any place ou Store n n,v' CYCILI by the firm at a luncheon at tended by airline officials, avi ation industry executives and transportation men. j Begley's idea of commer cially rented airplanes created wide publicity in the nation's press in the 1920's, but trans portation experts of the time called it "Neal's nightmare" or "Begley's blunder." V Jim HOLLYWOOD STAR ' J A ,1 i 1 1 & v .-- )iu. . Exposure of Female To Measles When Young Gives Immunity By DELOS SMITH UPI Science Editor New York (UPI) In the 17 years since medical science first realized it is dangerous for ! expectant m o thers t o catch German measles, it has discovered no better way of i avoiding the danger than exrjosinff fe males to the Deioi smith disease when they are children. That is on the word of Dr's. Saul Krugman and Robert Ward, professors at New York University, who are accepted as authorities on one of the oddest of the odd set-ups be tween human beings and the viruses which cause many of their ills. The German measles virus is rather harmless as viruses go, except in pregnant wom en. Almost always is cause only a mild illness and once you've had it, you never -4- or just about never have it again. But it has poorly under stood power to damage the unborn. Damage To Tissues Assembling the odds and ends of what science has dis covered about this power to date, Krugman and Ward found the damage usually is to those of the unborn babe's tissues which are developing most rapidly at the time the mother has German measles. If it's in the sixth week of pregnancy, the damage may be to the eyes; if in the ninth week, the ears; if between the fifth and tenth weeks, the heart. The first three months of pregnancy are those of danger. If the woman catches German measles after that, there usually is no damage to the babe. There has beer confusion as to how often German meas les strikes at the unborn, and Krugman and Ward clarified the question. The first statis tics indicated it happened in 90 per cent of the women who caught the disease during the dangerous months. But their analysis of later though con tradictory statistics indicated the "attack rate" was about 12 per cent Exposure Best Method On the vital question of what to do, they recommend ed large injections of gamma globulin where there was the slightest suspicion that a preg nant woman who had never had German measles had been exposed to it. Gamma globu lin is the fraction of the blood A which carries the antibodies that bestow immunity to spe cific diseases. But "the best method" of prevention is the long-range one, they continued, and that is "the deliberate exposure of young girls" to the virus because "one attack of this benign disease in childhood is generally followed by immunity." Is That So? Amman Except for a splash of green the wadi look ed like a continuation of the stony desert that covers so much of eastern Jordan. Other than a cluster of doms wild palms the green was mainly due to a low grey cliff. As we strolled up the watercourse, bone-dry in most places, I noticed here and there what seemed like scratch marks of a bird under the stunted trees. It was a bird, too. When we caught sight of him a little later, I thought it might be a cross between the legendary phoenix and the dodo. He took up as much space as a turkey gobler. His portly appearance was accentuated by the dis proportionate shortness of his legs. His walk had something of a barnyard gait to it, and for the best of reasons he was studying the ground for seeds. It was a bustard. The white bristly feathers at the base of his bill, his size and shape, and the russet and brown-barred coloration of his back were the give-away. Something alarmed him as I trained my glasses on him and he took off around a tree. A second later he was air borne. With a canniness that seemed peculiar in a bird that couldn't have been shot SHOP AND wir i'ir'ii Conveniently Located s " If , ' - m u l''.3ni T1 ' B "SfeB fessaiag 2 LU ISffiT II I f ! 41 , ".. .1 AT Phone SP 2-2472 The New England Journal of Medicine, which published their report, pointed out the virus is not particularly catch able. Therefore, many more persons acquire immunity to other childhood diseases when they, should, in childhood, whereas German measles "plagues the high schools and colleges and, unhappily, the young married set." By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist at very often, he flew low for a hundred yards or so, then I climbed for maybe 40 feet ' before beginning a glide that brought him down far up the valley. Others Reluctant The others were reluctant to see him get away, and quite understandably. Bus tards are regarded as wonder ful eating througout much of Europe and most of Asia and Africa. Despite their weight range of 20 to 35 pounds, which makes them bigger on the average than our wild turkeys, they have a powerful flight. That and their eating qualities have en deared them to sportsmen so much in certain areas their hunting has been restricted to the nobility. , . - One of the Arabs told me that a year or so ago he had come across some bustards in another wadi when he went to investigate a booming noise he had heard. He evidently didn't expect me to believe him, judging from the vehe mence with which he spoke. I believe him, however. 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