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it?? t MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, . 7 tS'S ,, CRASHING INTO ICEBERG, this Danish freighter Hans Hedtoft was subject of wide search off the coast of Greenland where it radioed its distress. Air and sea search failed to find trace of 130 persons aboard vessel. Radio contact went dead after SOS. Church Council Official Travels Throughout B7 LOUIS CASSELS ' ' United Press International At the World Council of Churches headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, the Rev. Dr. Edgar H. S. Chandler is known irreverently as "the flea." The nickname has nothing to do with Chandler's stature, which is about average for a 84-year-old man, or his man ner, which is both amiable and dignified. It alludes to the fact that he is always hop ping about the world. Chandler is a Congregation alist minister from Provi dence, R. I. Since he became director of the World Coun cil's far flung refugee serv ices nine years ago, he has visited every continent at least once, and most of them several times. His annual mileage makes John Foster Dulles seem like a fireside hugger. .This week Chandler is in the United States. His mis sion, as always, is finding homes for refugees. Specifi cally, he is asking U. S. churches to give all-out sup port to the international refu gee year which begins July 1. Sponsored By U.N. This project, sponsored by the United Nations General Assembly, has as one of its goals the resettlement of 37, 000 men, women and children who are still living in refugee camps in Europe. Many of them have been there since the end of World War n, nearly 14 years ago. Chandler has seen their despairing faces, and the memory is never very far from his mind. '. "It is a shameful thing,' he said softly, " that in this day and age so many people should be allowed to remain homeless for so long a time.' ' While clearing out the pa thetic population of' the camps is a top-priority task, Chandler said in an interview, it is by no means the only refugee problem that should be weighing on the Christian conscience. . "There are at least 250,000 other refugees in Europe who are living outside of camps, but who have not yet found permanent homes or jobs,' he said..-"They also are in LQ ft EZRA BARES HIS SOLE Following in the footprints of Adlai Stevenson, Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson sports a neat hole in his shoe (arrow) during press conference in San Francisco. Stumping for Pres. Eisenhower's farm program, Secy. Benson declared that present price supports are "unrealistic" and "long over due" for revision, Oregon, Tuesday, February 3, "5? . 7 n a,, t 4 desperate need of help." Many Arab Refugees In the Middle East, there are upwards of. 1,000,000 Arab refugees from Palestine who are living in tragic squal or in the Gaza Strip, and in Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq. And in the Far East, British Hong Kong .is crowded, liter ally to the "rooftops, with 700,000 Chinese refugees who have "voted with their feet" against Communist rule. Because of international political complications, there is very little the churches can do for the Arab and Chinese refugees at present, except to help provide them with em ergency shelter, food and medical care. But there is no barrier to resettlement of the European refugees - no barrier, that is, except the formidable task of lining up enough visas, homes jobs and funds. - Chandler is counting on American churches to lend a big hand with that task dur ing the coming "refugee year." A committee to organ ize U. S. church participation has already been formed un der the chairmanship of the Very Rev. Francis B. Sayre, dean of Washington Cathe dral. Need Special Legislation The first problem - im migration visas to admit ref ugees to America - will re quire special legislation by Congress. Chairman Francis E. Walter (D-Pa.) of the House Judiciary Committee has displayed sympathy and churchmen are optimistic that the necessary legislation will be enacted. Chandler said local church es and their members can help in two ways: 1. By "sponsoring" refugee families. Sponsors line up homes and jobs, and general ly oversee the "settling in" on refugee families in their new American communities 2. By contributing funds, Private refugee relief agen cies will need to double their budgets durmg the coming year to meet the goals of the "refugee year." Both sponsorship pledges and contributions may be made through such estab- I World lished religious organizations as Church World Service. Catholic Relief Services, the Lutheran Resettlement Serv ice, and the Jewish Hias Agency. Her Is Information About Seeds. Comparing the size of a mouse and an elephant is not half as ridiculous as the com parison of two particular seeds. To get the general idea, let's look at a petunia ' seed, or the seed of a birch tree, which takes 400,000 to make a pound, and place them be side a coconut, which is the largest true seed and may weigh several pounds. We are startled at the tremen dous difference. The size of the seed does not indicate the size of the tree which will grow from it; The acorn . is much smaller than the coco nut seed, yet the oak reaches a bulk never attained by the graceful palm. Ways of Distribution Nature devised many ways for the distribution of seeds, her idea being to carry them some distance away from the parent plant. For this purpose she uses nearly every natural force existent in her wide rep ertoire of resources. In the case of the coconuts. she uses the ocean current of the world as conveyors. One of the giant seeds dropped into the sea on the Florida coast may take root in some remote island, thousands of miles away. Many tropical land areas have been planted in this manner. The next long distance medium would be the wind which could carry small seeds for great distances, Birds play an important part in this seed-carrying program. Embedded in mud on their feet, they may be carried hun dreds of miles to fall on a foreign soil. Many seeds are equipped with horns or spurs that at tach themselves to animals and are carried to far loca tions. Some are buoyed up by downy fluffs of light ma terial that waft the seed along on the gent'e breeze of sum mer. Others stick to the par ent plant that disattaches it self from, the earth and then tumbles over the ground, as a tumble weed. - Pressure Releases Still others; are released from the pod or seed case under pressure and are force fully thrown to some dis tance. In fact, there seems to be no end to the ingenious devices that are brought into play to cast the seed upon fertile ground. Nature is extravagant in her production of seeds. Countless billions are produced for ev ery one that sprouts and reaches fruition. They go to feed birds, mammals, insects, in fact nearly every type of life. Nine-tenths of all the people of the world subsist CLEARANCE ASKED Berkeley, aClif. rtJPD Cali fornia's Gov.-elect Edmund G. Brown has been asked to get security clearance from the FBI or the Pentagon. The request was made by the State University Board of Regents, of which Brown will be ex-officio president when he takes office. An official of the board explained that the university is engaged in se cret work for the government, and the regents sometimes visit secret U.S. installations. Shorter Police Week Bill Studied Salem -(UPD- A bill provid ing a five day week for mem bers of the Oregon state po lice, scheduled to come to a vote Monday, has been, re turned to the Senate Commit tee on State and Federal Af fairs, after which it will be sent to the Joint Ways and Means Committee. The detour of the bill re sulted from a motion by Sen. Anthony Yturri (R-Ontario) who contended that the bill was improperly before the Senate and that no estimate of its cost had been made. "I think the move to give the state police a five-day week -is commendable," Ytur ri said, "but I do not like the implications in the bill that the morale of the state police is at a low ebb." End Jo Fund Raising In Legislation Eyed Salem-flJPD-A? bill prohibit ing solicitation of funds for political purposes of persons employed at the Legislature has been introduced in the state - Senate by Republican Sens. Carl Francis, Dayton, and John sD. Hare,- Hillsboro. ADDRESS UNKNOWN Memphis, Tenn. -(UPD- A puzzled truck driver asked Grace Radebaugh where they'd moved the post office to. Miss Radebaugh, who works in a building behind the old site, gave. the driver directions and saw him drive off - in his U.S. mail truck. Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkins on seeds. . - Borings made to great depth in old lake bottoms have brought to the surface tiny seeds that have laid dormant in the dry peat for many thou sands of years. Yet in a warm, damp soil, some of these little dried bits of matter have grown into tiny stunted plants unlike any other plant grow ing today.. The resultant vege tation, peculiar as it is, is not so strange as "the mysterious fact that life lay imprisoned for forgotten ages in these tiny seeds, waiting for the chemistry of light and mois ture to bring them to life. . (Released by The Register. .. and Tribune Syndicate. 1959) Garter Snake May Contain Clue To Disease Survival Hamilton, Monti (Science Service The garter snake may be the culprit in keep ing one kind of sleeping sickness virus going through out the cold winter. Scientists have already es tablished that during the summer western equine en cephalomyelitis is spread through, a mosquito-bird-mo- quito cycle. However, an ac ceptable explanation for how the virus was maintained during the winter migrating birds studied did not contain the virus was lacking. Now, three U. S. Public Health Service scientists have found, there is evidence that the hibernating garter snake plays a role in overwintering of the virus. Field studies showed the mosquito, Culex tarsalis, that transmits the virus spends the winter in rock piles also inhabited by snakes. Labora tory tests proved that the mo squito did feed on the snakes, also that garter snakes are susceptible to infection with the virus. First Evidence ' "This is the first evidence," the scientists reported, "to the best of our knowledge, that a virus which is an im portant parasite of avian and mammalian hosts can infect a cold-blooded vertebrate." Virus was detected in very high dilutions of whole blood and tests indicated that . the virus remained in the blood for a long time. Leo A. Thomas, Ca5l M. EkluncLand William A. Rush, all of the National Institute of Allergy, Rocky Mountain Laboratory here, did the re search reported in the Pro ceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (Dec), which has just been published. Admiral George Dewey, hero of Manila Bay, was the son of Dr. Julius Dewey, founder of the National Life Insurance Company. ! The Republic of India is the world's second largest pro ducer of manganese-ore. It is the leading supplier of man ganese to the United States. FACE TRIAL FOR TREASON John and Sylvia Powell (left) and Julian Schuman are pictured outside Federal Court in San Francisco after their sedition trial was declared a mistrial Granted by Federal Judge Louis E. Goodman, the mistrial was based on a defense motion citing newspaper reports of some remarks by the judge that the government had made out something of a treason trial against the three. The trio will be returned to the Federal Grand Jury for possible indictment for treason. Flag Makers Worry Over Admission of Hawaii To Union New York - (DPD-The flag makers of America are in a bit of a flap.' ' No sooner do they start pro ducing 49-star flags than Con gress starts talking about Ha waiian statehood and a 50- star model. The flag manufac turers know from experience that such talk inhibits busi ness. "Sales began to dip after the Alaskan admission last year, and our last six months of 1958 were bad ones," said the sales manager of a major flag company. "People stopped buying 48- star flags completely and waited for the 49-star flag. We hope the same thing doesn't happen with Hawaii." ' While some of our modern- day Betsy Rosses give the Hawaiian question . a why worry?" answer, others re port the uncertainty . is def initely complicating produc tion plans. "Out payroll planning and equipment needs are affected by Hawaii's chances for state hood," an executive explain ed. "Right now, it's hard to make a decision about ex panding our plant." Good for Year. At Least As part of the campaign to stimulate immediate flag- buying, most flag makers say that even if Hawaii were to be admitted later this year, the new 50-star flag would not become official until July 4, 1960. That would allow at least one year's -use for the 49-star flag. They also urge us to buy and display the 49-star model toda. "It is perfectly proper to display the new flag now, W are now, in fact, 49 states and there is no law that says you must not display the flag before July 4. That's just a day for formal dedication of the flag," said Sam Schatz, an owner of the National Flag and Display Co. The major flag makers re port they ' are busier now than at any time since World War n. Annin & Co., the old est flag company in America, reports a " staggering . back log of order's" to fill. College ville Flag of Collegeville, Pa., expects its 1959 sales volume to double that of 1958. Det tra Flag, Valley Forge and National, three other large firms, also report significant gains in orders and sales, in creased payrolls and equip ment. Orders are from the usual government depart ments as well as from schools, retailers, libraries, offices and clubs. Sales Estimates Vary The .'manufacturers, who guard sales figures rather closely, have ho industry wide trade association for liaison and estimates vary where sales volume is ' con cerned. Some manufacturers place the volume at seven million dollars while other lower it for six million. The factories are located in the East in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York Grapes have been culti vated so long that the plant's place of origin cannot be ac curately determined. Egyp tians evidently grew grapes and made wine 6,000 years ago. . Fewer than one sightless person in six can read Braille with ease. There are an esti mated 350,000 blind persons in the United States. but a few have been establish ed in the South and Cali fornia. Besides the star- spangled banner, the firms turn out signal flags, banners, grave marker flags, union Jacks, pennants and indus trial flags of all sizes, shapes, colors and description. Since the advent of the 49 star flags, some fast-buck op erators have tried to move in. "The hope to put out the new flag in a hurry, making deals with retailers, and get out of the business after the hullabaloo dies down," a manufacturer said. "We will have nothing to do with them." In the same way that sterling on silver signifies a standard of known value, so is the A.B.C. em blem a symbol of integrity for the circulation of newspapers and periodicals. It means that circu lation so identified is measured according to the rules and standards of the Audit Bureau of Circulations The A.B.C. is a cooperative and non-profit association of 3,450 publishers, advertisers and advertising agencies. Organized in 1914, these buyers and sellers of advertising brought order out of advertising chaos by setting up standards for paid circulation and establishing rules and methods for measuring, auditing and report ing circulations. Therefore, the work of the A.B.C., of which this newspaper is proud to C REPORTS - Bad Check Said Being Careless Operators Washington-(UPD-Bad check artists are doing a record business, FBI director J. Ed gar Hoover has reported in the law enforcement bulletin. Furthermore, he said, they are getting a big assist from careless shopkeepers and oth er victims. To. illustrate, Hoover said, one gullible storekeeper re cently cashed a check signed U. R. Stuck." Another cash ed was drawn on .the "East Bank of the Mississippi." The plague of fraudulent check passers is assuming proportions of a national pes tilence," the FBI chief said. Take Runs High He added that in 1957 the take from fraudulent checks was 535 million. He said that in fiscal 1957 the FBI examined 30,903 bad checks having a face value of $5,053,846. The figures mounted in fiscal 1958 to 33,- 027 bad checks totalling $7,- 933,827.. Hoover said these figures are only part of the picture since countless worthless checks go unreported by vic tims. To combat the problem, he urged businessmen to forget the theory that acceptance of checks without specific iden tification of the writer is a necessary business gamble. He reported that one na tionwide chain store organi zation recently figured its loses $700,000 a year through bad checks. He also said the bogus artist "gets by" be cause many merchants and other victims are reluctant to prosecute if the offender makes restitution. 'Elite' of Criminals V Hoover said that the bad check artist is considered the BRILL METAL WORKS Commercial Industrial Residential Sheet Metal Work Stainless, Galvanized and Copper Fabrication 2287 West Main PHONE SP 2-4440 3 MEMO TO ADVERTISERSC W A i)fiu0 iMiiliiii er o MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE FACTS AS A BASIC Artists Aided by "elite" of the criminal world. He does not have to faee dan ger of physical violence con fronting the armed robber. He makes his living by his wits and skill. "A counter attack must be intensified on a nationwide scale," Hoover said. "Care lessness of the victims them selves must be a primary tar get. The united efforts of merchants, the public, and law enforcement authorities are essential." Barteis Appointment Confirmed by Senate Salem -flJPD- By a unani mous vote, the Senate has confirmed the reappointment by Gov. Mark Hatfield of Dr. Herbert Goodman, Portland Denists, to the State Board of Health. The Senate also confirmed appointments to the board of three other physicians. They are Dr. A. S. Jackson, Forest Grove; Dr. Brandt Barteis, Medford, and Dr. Wendell H. Hutchens, Portland. Use Tribune Want Ads VODKA MARTINI or BLOODY MARY? Both drinb are best made with smooth, flawless Smirnoff. Just be sure you use the Vodka of Vodkas ... ond have if your own way! him it leaves you breathless tiamJllr 10 1 100 Proof. Oistillid from rail. Sli. Piarri )J (irculahon be a member, provides you with a direct and valuable service. You can buy advertising as you would make any other sound business investment on the basis of well known standards, known values! , At regular intervals one of the Bureau's large staff of experienced circulation auditors makes a thorough audit of our circulation records. Thaj results of this exacting audit show: How much circulation we have; where our circulation goes; how it was obtained; and many other facts that you need in order to know just what you get for your advertising dollars. This audited information is pub lished by the Bureau in easy-to-read A.B.C. reports which are available to our advertisers on request. Ask for a copy of our latest A.B.C. report. MEASURE OUTADVERTISING VALUI Iff MISSING since Jan. 17 when he drove his expensive auto mobile to Santa Anita race track, wealthy Grady Van Hooser, 54, Compton, Calif, is subject of wide search. He's president of American Oil Service Corporation. fame, 1 M mirnoffvoDM Smirnoff fit. (Dir. if HeuMeio). Hartford, Com Qalt ue 1
