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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.
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tone flabby colon muscles. (3) And
Colonaid acts gently, on the nerve
reflexes that stimulate the vital "mass
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Colonaid relieves even chronic
constipation overnight; is so gentle it
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women in critical stages of pregnancy.
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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.
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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.
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in Los Angeles. A former ex
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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
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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
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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. The
bird has long been said to
make a booming noise during
the mating season. There is
a difference of opinion as to
how he does it, but since full
grown males have a pouch
under their tongue, it maybe
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called and he learned he had
taken a tire from someone
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