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NEW AMERICAN FLAG This is the design of the new 49-star American Flag re
leased by the White House after President Eisenhower signed an executive order
' formally admitting Alaska to the Union. The stars in the new banner are arranged
in seven staggered rows of seven stars each in the bhie field, with the historic 13
red and white stripes unchanged.
$2 Million Sought
For Birthday Plans
Portland-flJPD- The Oregon after the legislature convenes
Centennial Commission's leg
islative committee has re
commended that the state be
asked for $2,012,825 to com
plete plans for the big 1959
birthday show.
The commission began a
study of the committee's re
port but there appeared little
doubt that it would be adopt
ed and the request made soon
Chicago Daily
News Purchased
By Marshal Field
Chicago -flJPD- The purchase
of the Chicago Daily News
-the city's second top news
paper shift in 28 months
today left Chicago's four
large metropolitan dailies un
der two owners.
They are Field Enterprises,
Inc., Monday's buyer, and the
Chicago Tribune, Inc., pub
lishers of the Tribune and
the Chicago American, pur
chased from the Hearst corp
oration in October, 1956.
Marshall Field Jr., Field
Enterprises president, an
nounced the purchase of the
afternoon Daily News from
John S. Knight for $50 a
share.
The estimated sale price
for the paper's controlling in
terest, which Knight bought
In 1944 for $2,150,000, was
18 million dollars. The 481,
293 outstanding shares of the
Daily News stock total more
than 24 million dollars at the
$50 figure.
Basis of Competition
Field said the Daily News
would continue on a basis of
"vigorous competition" with
the Field-owned Sun-Times,
the product of a marger be
tween Marshall Field Sr.'s
Chicago Sun and the after
noon Chicago Times two
years after World War II.
Until Field bought the
Times In 1947, Chicago had
five major dailies, all separ
ately owned.
The merchandising heir
started the Sun on Dec. 7,
1941, at the outbreak of the
war and published it as a
morning paper until January
1948. The combination Sun
Times published around-the-.
clock for several years.
The Hearst-owned Herald
American changed its name
In 1953 to the American, and
three years later was bought
by the Tribune ownership but
continued as an afternoon
daily.
The American was in turn
the product of several Hearst
mergers of the. paper dating
back as far as 1854.
Marshall Field Jr., new edi
tor and publisher of the
Daily News, cited rising pub
lishing costs for his purchase
decision.
Gas War May Be On
Way Out in Portland
Portland UPD Portland's
gas war may be on its way
out. At many service stations
Monday gasoline was selling
up five cents from the gas war
lows.
At least three companies an
nounced the price hike. They
were Standard stations, Shell
and Tidewater Oil company.
Court Records
DISTRICT COIRT
James A. Pelhey. overhang. $15.
John B. Childress, truck speed,
teg $15.
Simone p. Petard, violation basic
rule. $15.
Ruth I. Arndt, no operator's li
cense. $10.
Earl B. Stewart, no operator's
license, $10.
William E. Raines,, failure to
stop, $10.
MARRIAGE LICENSE
APPLICATION
Donald Rele Gray, 832 Dakota
aye.. Medford. and Frances L.
Simmons. Statesboro. Ga.
Elvin Emil Bianconi, Redding.
Calif., and Marjie Ann Pastorino,
Project City. Calif.
Jan. 12.
The state already has allot
ted $830,000 to the Centen
nial, But this has been spent
or earmarked, mostly for re
novation of the Centennial
coliseum here.
Biggest Request
The biggest request item
was $459,000, for arena shows
at the coliseum, but Com
mission Chairman Anthony
Brandenthaler said most of
this i would be returned in
gate receipts.
Other items recommended
included $180,000 for debts
already incurred, $50,000 for
a "Garden of Tomorrow,"
$65,000 for special events;
$250,000 for advertising,
$280,385 for state cultural
committees; $75,000 for re
ligion events; $23,860 for ele
mentary and secondary
school participation; $30,000
for higher education, $6,570
for the history committee;
$248,879 for construction
work on the 10-acre parking
lot near the coliseum.
Most of the money request
ed for religious activities
would go for a non-denomination
chapel in the Garden of
Tomorrow. Cultural items in
clude $189,570 for musical
programs; $19,505 for photo
graphic shows, $24,000 for
drama, $16,000 for literature,
and $311,310 for painting and
other visual arts.
Brandenthaler and several
other commissioners said to
day they could submit their
resignations to Gov. - Elect
Mark Hatfield this week, to
give him a free hand in
naming his own commission.
All said they would be happy
to continue, however, if Hat
field asks them to.
American Airlines
Pilots Remain Down
Washington -TOPD- American
Airlines remained grounded
by a pilots strike for the 17th
day today, but a federal medi
ator, said he was "encour
aged" by tentative agree
ments on some points reached
at "Monday's bargaining ses
sion. He declined to predict when
a final settlement might be
reached. Even Monday's
agreements "could blow up at
any time," he declared. t
Eighteen Injured in
Ferry Boat Mishap
New York (DPD Eighteen
persons were injured Monday
night when a ferry boat car
rying 1,800 commuters from
Manhattan to Staten Island
was rammed broadside in
New York Harbor by a gaso
line barge cast adrift by gale
force winds.
Thirteen of the injured
were treated at a Staten Island
hospital for cuts and bruises,
while the other five declined
medical treatment.
First Southern
Oregon Auforama
Slated Jan. 17-18
Automobiles of almost every
description will be on display
at the first annual Southern
Oregon Autorama, at the
Medford Armory Saturday
and Sunday, Jan. 17 and 18
Mike Batinich, Grants Pass
cherry rancher and manager
of the Autorama, said 19 clas
sifications of custom cars,
speedway competition cars,
dragsters, pickups, antique
cars, and motorcycles, will be
on exhibit during the show,
from 1 to 11 p.m. each day.
Entertainment for all auto
mobile and racing fans will
be provided. The entire 12,
000 square feet of exhibit
space in the Armory will be
utilized in showing various
cars, making up the first of
what is expected to be an an
nual event for the area.
Entries Included
Already the entries include
cars from the recent auto
show in Portland. Custom car
owners and exhibit show cars
and builders from Medford,
Klamath Falls, Sacramento,
Oakland, San Jose and other
cities of northern California
and southern Oregon will
participate in the show, Bati
nich said.
To interest racing fans
there will be midgets, Indian
apolis type cars, hard tops,
and even the new quarter
midgets which the youngsters
drive. Films of Indianapolis
Speedway 500 mile races will
be shown.
Custom classifications in
clude sports cars, roadsters,
convertibles, and similar
types of specially - designed
and custom-built machines.
Trophies will be awarded
for best hot-rod, best uphol
stery job, best engineering,
for the ''people's choice," for
the 'sweepstake winner, and
for a special classification of
"local" cars, those from with
in a 75-mile radius of Med
ford, Batinich said. Every en
trant will receive a trophy,
an award, or a plaque.
Awards will be based on
originality, construction and
beauty and commercial ex
hibitors will compete for spe
cial awards.
Womanhood Breathes
Sigh of Relief
Mendor.a, Argentina-tUPD
Argentine woman hood
breathed a sigh of relief to
day. The swift kick man is
in jail.
The swift kick man was
Humberio Victor Hidalog,
34, who was identified at
'the police station by a
dozen of the young ladies
he had annoyed.
Hidalgo operated by
dropping a coin on the
sidewalk. If a young lady
stopped to pick it up, the
q u e s t i o nable Don Juan
would dash out of his hid
ing place, administer a swift
kick and flee on his bicyle.
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Inexhaustible Sea Waters May
Become Available at Cheap Cost
By DELOS SMITH
UPI Science Editor
New York-UPD - The inex
haustible waters of the seas
may soon become available to
make soon become available
to make deserts bloom and
supply vast industrial needs
thanks to a scienific invention
which can extract the salt
from it with a high efficiency
at relatively small cost.
This is the word circulating
among interested scientists
who understand the invention
of - their Israeli colleague,
Alexander Zarchm, has been
proved practical for large
scale application after more
than two years of pilot-plant
testing and experimentation.
Zarchin's invention is a
technical process which can-
italizes on a nhenomenon
known for untold centuries
frozen sea water is salt-free
as it melts under certain con
ditions. The extremely diffi
cult technical problem was to
organize and control this na
tural chemistry.
Uses Complex Process
The technical process which
does it is complex. This has
made for legalistic difficulties
in setting up world-wide pat
ent protection, it was said.
Israel financed the research
and testing, and its govern
ment will not divulge any of
the finer techniques involved
in the process until all patent
problems are settled, this re
porter learned.
The worth of the invention
depends upon how much you
need water since this controls
how much you can pay for
it. Israel and the entire arid
Middle East need water des
perately, especially Israel
which is striving to develop
an extensive agriculture and
industry.
Much of Israel's water now
comes from deep wells and it
costs eight to nine cents a
cubic foot to get it to the sur
face. It was estimated that
the Zarchin process could de
salt sea water at one half this
cost. There are several other
ways of desalting. The Zarchin
was was said to cost one tenth
or less than the other ways.
Plan Unsuited To U.S.
No less an authority than
Dr. R. L. Nace of the U.S.
Geological Survey believes
that the wholesale conversion
of sea water is not economic
ally feasible for this country
in the near future. The arid
sections are too far removed
from the oceans. But for arid
nations bordering on seas, it
would be economic salvation.
The Sahara borders on the
Mediterranean, for instance.
What powers the process is
electricity and the only .auth
oritative estimate of cost was
in terms of kilowatt hours, i
Experimentally three kilowatt
hours will process one ton of
sea water and produce a high
yield of fresh water. The cost
of generating a kilowatt hour
of electricy is quite high in
the Middle East.
Generation by water power
is the cheapest method which
would seem to rule out cheap
electricity for arid countries.
But development of the head
waters of the River Jordan
could generate it for transmis
sion to sea water conversion
plants along the coasts. So
could Egypt's projected high
dam on the head waters of the
Nile.
Legon Commander
Sees Need for Funds
Los Angeles -flJPD- The na
tional commander of the
American Legion says at least
five billion dollars should be
added to the new defense bud
get. .
Preston J. Moore, 38, esti
mated that the administration
would seek a defense budget
of $41,200,000,000, which he
labeled as not enough.
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