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Smuggling of Narcotics Among Chief Mid-East Trouble Sources Cairo - (CPD - Smuggling of narcotics-mainly hashish and opium - provides the Middle East with fewer headlines but almost as many troubles as the area"s hodgepodge of po litical rivalries. And today, as in ancient times, one of the main car riers of the smuggled goods is' the legendary "ship of the desert," the camel. Pitched battles on the des ert between fast-striking pa trolmen of the Camel Corps and Bedouin smugglers are a frequent occurrence in Egypt. But the smugglers are shrewd and know many tricks, and the traffic continues on an amazing scale. , One trick of the desert smugglers is to feed bars of the narcotics to camels in waterproof sacks. When the shipment reaches its destina tion, the animals are slaugh tered and the narcotics re covered. Sliffest Penalties Although the Egyptian nar cotics law tarries probably TV Cartoon Characters Under Close Censorship Bv VERNON SCOTT VPI Hollywood Correspondent Hollywood-dTD-Real actors can swear, get drunk, beat women and commit murder before the TV -cameras, but cartoon characters innocent little rabbits, birds and dogs are the most strictly cen sored performers in history. Walter Lantz, creator of Woody Woodpecker and a dozen other cartoon charac ters, has daily battles with the blue pencil boys to prevent Woody from corrupting the morals of youthful t e 1 e viewers. "It's getting worse every year," says the mild-mannered cartoonist. "Violence is the basis of cartoon humor, now they're cutting it out. Harris Blames Only Adams : Washington-IUPD-Rep. Oren Harris said Tuesday that Sherman Adams and "no one else is to blame" for the dif ficulties which prompted him to resign as the President's top assistant. The Arkansas Democrat re jected Adam's complaint that the House influence - investi gating subcommittee, which Harris heads, had participated in a "campaign of vilification" against Adams. It was the House group which first publicized Adams' gift-exchanging relations with New England industrialist Bernard Goldfine. In his res ignation speech Monday'night Adams accused the subcom mittee of airing "irresponsible testimony." The subcommittee "is not responsible for Mr. Adams' difficulty," Harris told a news conference. "He brought it on himself. He has no one else to blame, however good his in tentions were." watches our Woody show tunes in on 'Wyatt Earp' and other westerns and horror shows. The heroes can drink redeye whiskey, but Woody isn't allowed to drink cider. Dialects Censored "And that's not all. We can't show a cow's udders. All dialects are censored and that old standby, the navel, is taboo. "Most of the films on our show were seen in theaters years ago. But they are strict-. ly censored for TV "For instance, one of our six-minute cartoons depicted a grasshopper chewing tobac co and spitting. Network cen sors said it was bad for kids, so we were forced to hack out six scenes showing the spit ting grasshopper. "In other shows characters spit in one another's faces." Lanta was chastized by tje State Department for show ing Mexican cartoon charac ters without shoes. "I painted their feet black and called 'em shoes and we managed to get by," he grinned. Sexy Scenes Banned "There is no written code for cartoon censorship, so you can never tell what will up set the censors. It' all right for Woody to kiss another woodpecker, but he's not al lowed ' to kiss a girl. Sexy scenes are absolutely out, naturally. "When we played an old rerun of "Three Blind Mice" we had to leave out dialogue about the mice being blind. Another time we had to de lete a scene showing hospital attendants in white coats." Lantz argues that children watch "adult" shows on TV regularly, including- programs in which glamour girls appear wearing next to nothing. "We aren't allowed to show a cartoon character in a bare midriff costume," he laughed, "navel or no navel." FREE - LESSON! With each Instrument! No Risk But the Rent! KENT ' A Brand New Top Brand INSTRUMENT! (Rent may apply on purchase if desired) By top brands we mean the instruments most chosen by school musicians and top professionals! Conn Olds Buescher Buffet OPEN EVENINGS THROUGH OCT. 2 Particularly for the convenience of those parents whose children are expecting to participate in their school band program. Bring your child in tonightl See your music man March Now to . . . PUMJCKER 111 North Central j Music House Phone SP 2-5702 the stiffest penalties in the world, Egypt is the biggest victim of the traffic in the Mideast, with an estimated 600,000 addicts. Peddlers face up to life imprisonment, and fines run to $30,000. Addicts are treated only slightly less leniently, with prison terms ranging up to 15 years. Despite the risks for sellers and users alike, it is said that in the illegal narcotics trade, "all roads lead to Egypt." . According to the Egyptian director of the Arab League's permanent anti-narcotics bu reau, Maj. Gen. Abdel Aziz Safwat, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria and Israel contribute either as sources or as "chan nels" for the smuggling of narcotics to Egypt. One-Fifth Seized Government records show that 11,406 kilograms (25,093 pounds) of hashish were seized in Egypt in 1957. But, as Safwat said, only one-fifth of the total amount of nar cotics smuggled into Egypt was seized. Safwat estimates that drug addicts in Egypt spent $41, 000,000 on hashish alone last year. The big wheels operating this baleful racket in the land of the Nile are the smugglers with international contacts, and the traffickers who con trol the local marketing of the narcotics. The dirty work is done by the carriers of the drugs across the borders to the interior, and by the re tailers and peddlers. An impressive array of gov ernment forces is used in Egypt in the anti-narcotics fight. Operating all over the country, , and cooperating whenever necessary are the Coast Guard, the Camel Corps and the Cairo-based Anti-Narcotics Squad. Narcotics are smuggled into the country from countless points along Egypt's Red Sea and Mediterranean coasts and in the Sinai Peninsula. Camel Chief Means Whether the narcotics are brought overland or by sea, the camel is the preferred means of transporting the loads to the cities across the vast desert stretches separat ing the clendestine entry points from the Nile Valley. For days, sometimes, Gov ernment troops chase smug glers across sand dunes and flats. But the fierce engage ment with dead and wound ed on both sides, do not al ways result in the capture of the entire party of smugglers. 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B & JAN 20 V-f- 9-J0.56-59ri kO-64-71 AQUARIUS LAN 21 PEfl! 19 5. 7-13-26JTl C9-450-87U PISCES 20?k r-cas FEB MAR 21 1- 3- 6-17411 18-20-55 No Definite Goal By Science in Study Of Depths of Ocean Lisbon (LTD While some scientists have spent this In ternational Geophysical Year hurling satellites into . space, other dedicated men have been sweating out the I.G.Y. looking at the bottom of the deep blue sea. What do they hope to find there This is a question that the men most concerned -scientists aboard the 1,000-ton British Royal Research Ship Discovery II-hesitate to an swer directly. "Any chance of unearthing vast new reserves of metals down, there?" a reporter asked M. N. Hill, geologist of Cambridge university, who is with the shiD making a sur vey off the Portuguese coast. "We are working in water much too deep for practical purposes like that," Hill an swered. "But one day perhaps science will be able to exploit such underwater ores?" the newsman persisted. "I would rather not go into that," Hill said. Lost Continent? - Do they expect to find the lost continent of Atlantis? Hill and his men are not dreamers. But they know that the Azores are merely the tops of mighty underwater mountains, and that the ocean bed of the Atlantic is studded with other mountain chains. "We have found some that are 10,000 and 12,000 " feet high," Hill said. "They are all deep and well below the surface. We noted some about 120 miles northwest from Oporto that might have once formed part of a protruding land mass." The British scientists get their clues from rocks and mud and slime they haul up from the sea bottom in tubes rammed 21 feet into the sea mud, from magnetic surveys and from the study of temper atures at the sea bottom. They have a cable rig 30, 000 feet in length, plus mod ern sounding devices, and one of their number, Dr. A. S. Laughton, formerly of Cam bridge, is a specialist in under water photography. His flash light shots expose the secrets of the depths. "We think you can learn about the bottom of the sea without going down in a bathyscope," Hill said. Business in Infancy He said the business of charting the ocean bed is in its infancy-a science that in terested nobody until World War II. J. C. Swallow of the Na tional Institute of Oceano graphy is aboard Discovery II studying currents. He has an igenious new method for determining the flow of deep currents - an apparatus is lowered to a set depth and then floats with the current emitting radio signals which operators in the ship pick up, enabling the course of the appartus to be checked. " Swallow has established that in some places the vast deep sea water mass 15,000 feet below the surface some times moves as much as three miles in a day, but usually less. There seems to be no set pattern for its movement. It varies from place to place 'in both speed and direction and(, measurements made in the same area several weeks apart show marked changes.' No Immediate Application Ask Swallow what practi cal application this knowledge has and he answers: "None immediately. It keeps indirectly to an under standing of fishery problems because the deep waters are rich in the nutrium salts on which fish depend. It also helps perhaps to further our understanding of climatic con ditions because of the influ ence of water on air tempera tures." Why then a lifetime of dedi cation to the study of water on the ocean floor? "Well," said Swallow," we scientists 1 i k e to know as much about the world as pos sible and one never knows what one is going to stumble across next." simm Tfc Mark XII. New Stereo-Or-thophonic "Vie- trola." Plays all records new stereo and standard monaural. Auxili ary speaker (SHS12 shewn), or speaker in your TV or ra dio completes stereo system. 4 finishes. Model SHP12. 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That is another of the many names for the plant, the com monest being the poinciana after M. de Poinci, a governor of the Antilles in the mid 1600s and a man with a great interest in botany. But though the plant is common in the West Indies where it got its most widely known names, it is actually an invader of the Western Hemi sphere. Its place of origin was possibly the lost continent of Mascarene, the surviving part of which are the islands of Madagascar, Mauritius, Re union and a few others. In any case, it is native to those is lands, western India and parts of East Africa. While today it is regarded as an ornamental, in Gov. de Poinci's time it was consider ed important for other rea sons. Its leaves and flowers were thought to have important medical properties. They were extensively used in the treat ment of fevers, a a purgative, and externally, in the form of poultices, for the treatment of wounds. Other Uses Found Still other uses were found for it. Those were the days when people used quill Dens and had to make their own ink, and it was soon discov ered that a very effective ink could be made from the poin ciana's pods. It was learned that a fine yellow dye could be made by combining its juices with aluminum or iron salts. As to the noisy bursting of the pod when the seeds are shot out for several feet, that is the way in which the plant re-seeds itself. By throwing out its seeds, the poinciana seeks to extend its territory in the perennial struggle for sur vival against other plants. (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrange ment with the editors of the Encyclopedia Americana, my panel of judges will award MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Ore., Wednesday, September 24, 1 958 1 J each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life na ture adventure, the best na ture observation, or the best question on nature and wild life, a 30-volume set of this world-famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft bind ing. 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