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a 0 J (fUSmtBUMt, MBm4, Oreae, WriiiMd.y, July 23, 193t 'Haiti ton's Motorists Have No Worry About Gasoline Rationing as Result of Crisis o o Vfht (Ul) The gtfcets erillioe. motorists fjoerj a tout possible pjetl) rttioeire a result gf. tht)StSle last explosion. ,ivMi if r ith Russia br out ouU he in far bfier shDe for oil supplies than forJfl War II when careful rationing had to be invoked. Responsible government of ficials gave those assurances today through United Press International. They said in event all the Middle east's oil 27 per cent of the world's supply were cut off the United States would have more than enough gasoline, fuel oil and other bv-Droducts to fill both do mestic and Western European needs. In addition vast supplies would be available from Ven ezuela, the Dutch Caribbean refineries and Mexico. Could Seize Pipelines In case of war with Russia the Eastern Seaboard would Qbe first to suffer shortages. It is almost entirely dependent on oc?an-going tankers to keep its pipelines filled Tank- O ers are vulnerable to submar ine as aptly demonstrated by U-boats in World War II. But the government has an ace in the hole. It could pre-empt from nresent owners the Big and Little Inch pipelines running parallel from Texas to Penn- svlvama to helD Keep tne Eastern Seaboard supplied These lines have a combined daily capacity of 435,000 bar rels of crude oil. They were built during World War II to ease the east era supply crisis. The govern ment sold them under a stand by clause allowing it to re claim them in an emergency. The Little Inch is now carry ing petroleum products. The Bigs Inch is carrying natural gas but could be reconverted to oil swiftly. West Coast Self -Supplied The rationing lesson learned in World War II also has paid dividends in other areas. The Midwest, for example, is now fed by pipelines rom Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Wy oming. None of these existed in the early 1940s. The West Coast has its own supplies and has nothing to worry about. There is more than enough refinery capacity from coast to coast and from Canada to Mexico to meet all emergency gasoline needs. In addition domestic oil production, cut back sharply by inroads of foreign imports, could be stepped up quickly. This was ilustrated by the 1956-57 Suez Canal crisis which forced Western Europe to get 90 per cent of its supplies from the United States. The jet warplane age also has altered the gasoline sup ply picture for the better. In 'Passports' Are Offered by Firm Portland "Passports to Oregon" are being offered to residents in the other 47 states by the Blitz-Weinhard com pany as part of a promotion al program to advertise the state centennial next year, ac cording to President W. W. Wessinger of Blitz-Weinhard. The passports offer honor ary citizenship in Oregon, ac cording to the company of ficial, and several pertinent facts about the natives and the land are printed on them. He said that each passport points out that "English is understood" in Oregon, "fra ternization (with the natives) is encouraged" and regarding "legal tefiuer dollars are still popular in Oregon (and go a long way)." ) Several "Oregon Ground Rules" are also printed on the (documents, according to Wess inger. Among the "Rules" are 0"no more than 500 colored pictures may be taken of any one strategic attraction or smilinjonative an tnere is a "2,000-pound limit on trink ets" while visiting in Oregon. Regarding the "length of visit," tl passport says "for ever, if you like. O Oregonians wanting pass ports to send as invitations to Oregon and the centennial may write Blitz-Weinhard company, post office box 4286,' Portland 8. -A$ih, i iff a. Jf s '4J PRESS CONFERENCE King Hussein of Jordan holds a press conference in the Royal Palace in Am man, Jordan. Radio broad casters from Syria, Egypt, and Iraq have appealed for an uprising against Hussein. Quotes From the News UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Washington President Eisenhower, in replying to Rus sian Premier Khrushchev's bid for an emergency summit meeting on the Middle East: "The manner in which you have chosen lo express your self is hardly calculated to promote the atmosphere of calm reasonableness which, you correctly say, should replace the presently overheated atmosphere." Rio De Janeiro Earl Belle, 26, so-called "boy. financial wizard" of Pittsburgh, Pa., reacting to a United States fed eral indictment issued against him Tuesday on charges of fraud and conspiracy: "I did nothing wrong. J don'l understand this." ' Harrisburg, 111. Fred Hallwood of Millington, Mich., for giving the policeman who shot and killed his eloping daugh ter during a high speed auto chase: "I know what they (the police) did was in the line of duty and I have no ill feeling toward these men." Newark, N.J. Jack L. Marks, director of the Portland, Ore., Zoological Gardens, complaining about the treatment he received from one of four beavers which arrived at New ark airport Tuesday en route to the Bussels World's Fair, where they will be traded to Russia for four bear cubs: "I was trying lo get the water pan from the cage when one of the beavers resented the intrusion and chewed my finger." Hollywood Pianist Oscar Levant, telling a television audience Tuesday night about his widely publicized quarrel and reconciliation with his wife, who had said earlier that she probably would withdraw her divorce suit against her husband: "I'm the house-broken cobra who made headline stories today. I had a minor domestic difference which ended when I ran out of lighter fluid and clean shirts." Is That So? By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist Amman The jerboa, some times called a "two-legged mouse," is a friendly looking little fellow who seems more like a diminutive kangaroo than anything else. ' They live in the desert areas usually beginning their day at sunset when they come out of their labyrinthine tun- -5A 7-23 nels to hunt for the seeds and insects on which they feed. I watched one the other sunset as he sat on a stone, munching a seed held be tween his tiny forepaws. He seemed to be quite at peace, but not for long. Suddenly he took off in a long bound, and disappeared behind another stone. The cause of his sudden flight soon appeared. It seemed to be a large brown rat, one of the very same kind found in the United States and in nearly every country of the world. He was hunting the jerboa, as he soon showed by the way he tried to follow him. Later when I examined another brown rat killed on the edge of the desert by one of the men, there was no doubt of the rat's identity. In light of j the brown rat's history he is sometimes called Norwegian and for no good reason it is not surpris ing to find them in the desert. Up to 250 years ago, he was pretty well confined to China or Central Asia. At the time, a somewhat smaller rat, darker and with out the short rounded ears of the brown, was the dominant rodent of the rest of the Eura sian and North African land mass. He had been ever since the 1200s .when he, too, came out of Asia taking control of rodent society and bringing the plague with him. Followed Black Rat But in the early 1700s, the brown rat followed the black one, mercilessly wiping out his smaller predecessor to the point where he is compara tively scarce today. A main cause of the brown rat's exodus from Central Asia was the need for food combined with a birth rate of 20 to 50 a year. And because rodent control measures in the Near and Middle East are primitive to put it mildly, their population growth alone would compel some of these rats to take to the desert areas in their struggle to survive. (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, the best natur observation, or the best question on ature and wild ilfe, a 30-volume set of this world-famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft bind ing. Each weekx new' submis sions will be considered. Sor ry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: Is That So! co Medford Mail Tri bune, Box 1069, San Fran cisco, Calif. Selection of Grand Jury Is Completed District Attorney Thomas Reeder recently completed se lection of a new seven-man Jackson county grand jury. Eugene J. DeVoe, 2200 Woodlawn ave., Medford, was chosen foreman of the group, Selected to serve with htm were Mary Morgan, post of fice box 246, Jacksonville; Marie M. Bosworth, 2425 East Main st., Medford; J. Blaine Beardsley, 116 South Keeneway dr., Medford; La dene Chiamulera, post office box 251, Rogue River; Elmer L. Landing, 2957 Barbara st., Ashland, and George K. Frie sen, 115 Reager st., Medford. Four grand juries are cho sen every year, each for a three month period. Free: By special arrange ment with the editors of the Court Records DISTRICT COURT Jack Webster Baker, no emer gency brake. $10. Andy C. Mead, overwidth, $15. Young I. Shim, fail to dim lights, Ruth J. Sullivan,'fail to stop, $10 Paul B. Wilson, fail to stop, $10. Wendell H. Session, fail to stop, Lester McFall. fail to stop, $10. Elmer L. Raber. overload. $50. Edward A. Ekwall, fail to stop, Paul E. Jones, Insufficient bind ers. $10. Dwight L. Edwards, overload, $177. James Stewart, no operator's li cense, $10. CIRCUIT COURT Frances J. Biddle vs. Richard F. Biddle. divorce decree. Byron E. Craven vs. Shirley Craven, divorce decree. Grace Leora Elkins vs. Joel Don ald Elkins, divorce complaint. Lula May Marsh vs. Roger C. Marsh, divorce complaint. May Irene Drinkwater vs. Reggy Drinkwater, divorce complaint. Barbara Joan Calkins vs. Elvind Dean Calkins, divorce complaint. Joyce Delores Oden vs. James Russell Oden, divorce complaint. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS Robert LeRoy VanSickle, 53 Myers Court. Medford, and Iris Lenore Hill Pierce, box 334, Cen tral Point. Dale Mead Chapman and Joan MacHenry, both of Prospect. James Joseph Wehren, 520 Crater Lake ave., Medford, and Patricia Louise Minnis. 1022 West 10th St., Medford. HUNTERS BE SURE TO EXTINGUISH YOUR WARMW6.V- FIRES(1 1 JStJ World War II there were no jets and military demands for gasoline were tremendous. Now the military uses jet fuel ordinary kerosene al most exclusively. Gas and Jet Fuel Gasoline must be extracted before the fuel becomes kero sene. Hence every gallon of jet fuel produced means more gasoline for other use. Storage tanks currently are bursting with it. There also is an ample sup ply of 'high octane aviation gasoline. The military uses this in its transports and other conventional planes but now it would prove only a small' drag on civilian supplies in an emergency. Domestic crude oil output is now about 6,500,000 bar rels a day. Full capacity is 9,500,000 barrels. This means the 21 producing states, top ped by Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma, have idle capacity of about three million bar rels a day. Medford Man Fined, Sentenced in Court Ralph Wendell Wier, 22, of route 4, box 375, Medfofd, pleaded guilty Monday to a charge of furnishing liquor to minors and was sentenced to six months in jail and fined $100 plus costs by Judge James M. Main in district court. The jail term is subject to suspension with Wier then be ing placed on parole if the fine is paid. In other court action Judge Main continued until July 28 the case involving Joel Don ald Elkins, 1464 Orchard Home dr., Medford. Elkins, charged with assault and bat tery, requested time to secure an attorney. Bail was set at $105. ; e SITTING on Dallas, Tex., curb, Mrs. Robert Collins awaits Col. Collins, com mandant of James Connally Air Force Base, who drove 50 "'miles without realizing he had left her behind. School District Gets Permit to Remodel Medford school district re cently was issued a building permit for $356,770 for re modeling work at Medford High school. Other permits were issued to Armin Richter for an $8,000 residence at 369 O'Gara ave.; C. W. Brooks for a $14,000 residence at 248 North Barne burg rd., and a $16,000 resi dence at 248 North Barne burg rd.; Rogue Valley Con struction company for a $13, 000 residence at 1556 South Jasper St.; and Owen Kunkel for a $15,000 residence at 1411 East McAndrews rd. Openings Available In Swimming Class Openings still are available in the Tiny Tot swimming classes at the Medford YMCA, according to Wilson Gilinsky, acquatic director. Openings are in classes starting at 9 a.m. different week days. Tiny Tot ages are 6 and 7 years old. Gilinsky said registration for the classes is limited. Ad ditional details may be ob tained from the YMCA at SPring 2-6295. PATIENCE PAYS Maud, Tex. (UPD Justice of the Peace Paul Jones didn't succeed on his first attempt, so he searched the waters of Lake Texarkana every day for a month and a half. He proved the time - honored theory that persistance pays off by finding a wallet he had dropped in the lake six weeks ago. Cockroaches! Insect Pests of all kinds California's Great Insect Powder 80 rears Old still Best and Safest. Be Sure You Gef Sf laiy Te Use Iconamicoi B U II AC II SPACE MEN Two Navy pilots, in Space Man suits, enter a small gondola for a 24-hour isolation test and trial run, prior to an actual high-altitude balloon flight to be made July 24 from Crosby, Minn. The Office of Naval Research has announced that the two men will pilot the balloon to an altitude of about 16 miles, in order to test equipment for later flights. Shown climbing through the hatch is U. S. Navy Cmdr. Malcolm D. Ross, 38, while waiting his turn is retired Cmdr. M. Lee Lewis, 45. Geographic Cenler Oi Nation To Shift Washington" (UPI) When Alaska becomes a state j the country s geographical center will shift from Smith county, Kansas, to somewhere in - southeastern Montana or western South Dakota. . Officials of the geological survey and the Coast and Ge odetic Survey aren't yet sure exactly where the new center will be. But the betting, on the basis of preliminary rough calcu lations, is that it will be on a line between Rapid City, S. D., and Miles City, Mont., with the chances likely that it will be just inside one state or the other. The calculation is tough be cause no one is exactly sure wljere the geographical cen ter1 of Alaska is. That has to be figured first. Washington (DPD Desig nation, of Champoeg state park in Marion county, Ore., as a national historical site has been asked,by Rep. Walt er Norblad (R-Ore.). SMITH-DYNGE Lumber Co. Fir St. r ML Woman Jailed After Clatsop County Death Astoria (UPD Mrs. Helen Berna Freeman was being held in Clatsop county jail to day in connection with the fa tal shooting of her husband, Hubert Freeman, 53-year-old Milwaukie .truck driver, at their beach home south of here Sunday night. No charge had been filed. Mrs. Freeman told Clatsop County Sheriff Paul Kearney that the shooting climaxed an argument, and that she shot in self defense. The worlds' largest natural arch soars across a dry creek in the canyon country of southern Utah, the National Geographic Magazine says. Known as Rainbow Bridge, the arch is almost as long as a football field and wide enough to carry a two-lane highway President William Howard Taft in 1910 pro claimed it. a1 national monument. Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport Sen. McClellan's Son Dies in Plane Crash Conway, Ark (UPD Four men, including James M. Mo Clellan, 25, son of Sen. John L. McClellan of Arkansas, were killed Tuesday in the crash of a twin-engine plane 10 miles south of here. Salem IUPB Gov. Robert D. Holmes plans a flying trip to Alaska, possibly next month. PLANER BLOX Clean Quick Delivery Medford Fuel Co. C 1 Do you know what Frankenstein said his teenage son, "Frankie" (he always calls him Frankie)? No you can't go to The Craterian to see "THE FLY"I Ifs too scarey even for you it might scare the bolt out of your headl ' (8(uM(li) S:$:i: piiiiilii :::::::::x::::;:::w fi " ' ..,.. iiiftriMnftwm i . Mil"' ' " " '''''' ',, 4000 MORE BRIDES DAILY MEAN MORE BUSINESS COAST-TO-COAST 4000 new families a day ! They'll need homes-and everything . that goes into them. Meeting these needs means bigger-than-ever opportunities for all of us. In 1956 America's 53 million families spent an average of: $1350 for Food $475 for Clothes $1300 for Homes $575 for Transportation . Now multiply these figures by 60 million-the number of families there will be by 1965. This will give you some idea of America's growing needs and your opportunities. 7 BIG REASONS FOR CONFIDENCE IN AMERICA'S FUTURE 1. More People . . Four million babies yearly. U.S. population has doubled in last 50 years ! And our prosperity curve has always followed our population carve. 2. More Job . - Though employment m some areas has fallen off, there are 15 million more jobs than in 1939 - and there will be 22 million more by 1975 than today. 3. More Income . . . Family income after taxes is at an afl-tinie high of $5300 is expected to pass $7000 by 1975. 4. More Production . . . U. S. production doubles every fcu years. We win require millions more people to make, sell and distribute oar products. 5. More Savings . . . Individual savings are at highest level ever $SU0 bilUonA record amount available for spending 6. More Research ...$10 billion spent each year win pay off in more jobs, better living, whole new industries ! ' 7. More Needs ... In the next few years we will need $500 bUlion worth of schools, highways, homes, durable equipment. Meeting these needs will create new opportunities for everyone. Add them wp and yoa have the makings of another big upswing. v Wise planners, builders and buyers will act now to get ready for it. FREE! Send for this new 24 page ifiris trated booklet, "Tonr Great Future m a Growing. America." Every American should know these facts. Drop a post card today to; Advertising Council, Box 30, Midtown Station, New York 18, H. Y. low rCratFMM t GfUWIUf Anenct MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Encyclopedia Americana, my KEEP DR6DILJGREJL
