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53rd Year Medford 2nd SECTION Sensory Deprivation On HumanMind May Affect Soace Travel Los Angeles-a?B-The- big gest obstacle to manned space flight may be the effect of "prolonged" sensory depriva tion" on the human mind, ac cording to a neurosurgeon. Dr. John D. French, coord inator of the mental health training program at the UCLA Medical Center and a leader in the school's vast brain re search program, explained sensory deprivation simply man's lack of "familiar earth rhythms, sights, sounds, smells and pressures. French was appointed this week to the executive council of the Armed Forces Nation al Research Council Commit tee on bio-astronautics, set up to promote research aimed at "establishing space as an op erational medium for man." Hard to Think The scientist said research shows "man's ability to think properly deteriorates pretty rapidly when he is subjected to sensory deprivation, a man deprived of his sense of bal ance, which could happen dur ing "weightless" space flight, might find it quite difficult to think properly." French described two clas sical experiments: "Human subjects wearing ear plugs were locked in dark rooms, unable to see or hear anything of the "outside" world. "They soon developed hal lucination," French said. "Minor stimulation of the tenses produced exaggerated mental reactions. They placed undue importance on small things. For instance, interest might become centered on a ' bead of sweat running down the face." A scientist, using a breath ing tube, lay at the bottom of a swimming pool for hours. He soon reported strange hal lucinations. May Go Insane Of course, man is going to carry as much of his environ ment into space as possible, Sprinkle, Spread or Try All TEN Delicious Flavors! 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How?- Through use of drugs sleeping pills (weightless ness may produce insomnia), tranquilizers, perhaps drugs to anesthetize a man during blast off from earth and pills to, help a "weightless" man keep his sense of balance. "I feel it is urgent that we conduct as much research as possible into this problem with animals before the first men go into space," French concluded. Explosion Kills Two at Los Alamos Los Alamos, N. M.-flJPD-In-vestigators attempted to de termine the cause of an ex plosion which killed two em ployees of the Los Alamos scientific laboratory Tuesday night. The victims were Leo G. Guerin, 35, and Raymond A. Means, 31.. A spokesman for the top secret atomic laboratory said no radioactive material or ra diation was involved in the blast. The men, he said, were en gaged in a "normal machin ing operation of chemical ex plosives, used by the labora tory to study the physical phenomena of shock waves." The blast occurred inside a building. The men were kill ed instantly. " ...about 'Borden's Cheese for meatless meals! Slice! You'll get extra nourishment and flavor with Borden's I ift '--ii ntfiiin iijiiilnil n iiiiiniiilftiiMirtll llnlTlftmrnimiHUlrtur r if nfl M n . . . -.. . .w-.....t . . ....... ................a.., , " " ' M Borden's Parmesan and costly ... to give you true The Family Council Editor! note: The F-mily Council consists ot a judge a psychiatrist, tlree clergymen, a newspaper editor a women's editor and two writers. Each article is a summary ' an actual report. The Family Council does not give advice: it merely reports on problems that have been dealt with by responsible agencies and counselors. Paul R. - It's still Christ mas at our house. Rose R. - This is the worst part. Paul R. In our house Christmas lasts about . four months - two months before, and two after. And I don't like it! My wife goes absolutely crazy figuring out gifts for everyone and trying to budget each person according to a lot of different factors. Then she stays awake nig hts trying to figure out what each per son spent on the gifts they gave her so that she'll give them back in equal measure next year. Sometimes she goes around talking to her self because she gets so mad at some mistake she made in giving a too-cheap or too-expensive gift. It's gotten so bad that I'm just about ready to stage a disappearing act for four months of the year. The after math is the worst part, so I'm ready to take off now. Rose R. Paul takes no re sponsibility at all for this very important matter. The whole burden is on my shoul ders and he won't even talk it over with me. It just happens that there are some poor relatives and some very wealthy ones in both our families. Some of the poorer ones give us nicer gifts than the wealthier ones, but you can't give a wealthy person a cheap gift in return because he has so many good things of his own he won't pay any attention to your gift. The post-Christmas letdown sure is the worst part. That's when I start realizing that at least half the things I did were wrong. If Paul talked it over with me in advance I wouldn't make so many mis takes. The Council: We are fairly certain that Rose's "Christ mas neurosis" isn't confined Borden's Cheese Spreads ! So perfect for your snacks, salads and sandwiches. Packaged in new Easy-Twist Cap jars. Only Borden's offers all ten delicious flavors ... try all of them now during Lent. Keep a big supply on hand. Featured at your grocer's ! Lhateau Price 10 Cents Tribune 1959 Pages 1-6 to the holiday season and its aftermath. This season is merely the occasion for an intensification of her ordi nary, everyday feelings. She undoubtedly spends a good part of her time ' thinking about whether or not others are treating her "right" and punishing herself for real or fancied offenses she has com mitted against others. Rose's behavior shows that at bottom she is still wallow ing in childish feelings of envy and greed. She is deeply engrossed in the question of whether others love her enough to give her her due and she is overwhelmed by the problem of having to con ceal her basic selfishness. She probably resents the power of her rich relatives and would like to "put them in their place" by giving them a better gift than they gave her, yet she is furious at what she interprets as their scorn of her in giving her a small, inexpensive gift. Quite possib ly she would like to "lord it over" the poor relatives by giving . them a fine gift, but is disconcerted when they fail her by being generous with their gift. There is only one way ouf of such a dilemma and that is to make a change in basic at titudes and relationships. Rose might try making her Christ mas project a 12-month one this year. She should make a real effort to conquer her pettiness and try to like and understand others. The more she thinks about them, the less will she be concerned about herself and their . atti tude toward her. If she succeeds in doing this, we believe Rose and her husband may begin to ex perience the pleasures of the holiday for the first time when Christmas 1959 draws near. (Copyright 1959. General Features Corp.) There is more forest than farm acreage in the U.S. : - THE ALL-PURPOSE CHEESE! Borden's Chateau pasteurized process cheese food! High in protein, low in calories. Use in all your made with -cheese recipes... now when you prepare so many meatless Lenten meals. Wonderful, too, for children's lunch time sandwiches. WINNING TOP HONORS in twenty-seventh annual .Na tional Cherry Pie Baking Contest, Chicago, Karen Gun ning, 16, Mulberry, Ind., samples her product. She will receive college scholarship, trip to Washington for victory. ft M There is an unsavory mem ber of the strange world, of the fungi that comes about as close to being an ogre or a ghoul as any living thing can. Even the habitat and the sur roundings in which it grows are gruesome and weird to the point of being eerie and actually spectral. Even the beliefs and super stitions that have been built up around it are. ugly and re pulsive. They concern them selves with mysterious and un canny meetings between it and venomous serpents during the dark hours of night, for many people believe that ground rattlesnakes gather about this plant and hold some sort of mysterious rites known only to the lowly creatures of the world. This uncanny plant is call ed, "stink horn." It belongs to the fungus family. Unless you know differently you would think this plant grew from an egg. For up from the ground, in dark, un pleasant places, first appears a round, egg-shaped case, dirt y white in color often about the size of a pullet egg. If you touch it, it feels like dead skin. French Songstress Undergoes Surgery New York-flJPD-French sing er Edith Piaf, 43, was report ed recovering -satisfactorily today . from surgery to halt internal bleeding caused by gastric ulcers. Surgeons operated on the tiny chanteuse Tuesday night at' the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical center where she had been rushed earlier in the day from her hotel suite. She became ill last Wednes day and was forced to cancel her singing engagement in the Waldorf - Astoria hotel's Empire room, a Carnegie Hall concert and an appear ance on the Ed Sullivan TV show. The former Paris street singer is the composer of sev eral modern French classics including "La Vie En Rose" and "If You Loved Me." School News... Shady Cove School Rita Spain, Editor Shady Cove school observ ed the birthday of Oregon Feb. 14. Most of the girls in the seventh and eighth grad es and all the women teach ers wore old time dresses. The eighth grade has paint ed two large pictures of Ore gon for the lunch room show ing Oregon in pioneer days and in modern days. The third grade had a col lection of pioneer articles in cluding a bell worn by a cow crossing the plains in 1853 and an old brass candle stick, that came across then. The first and second grades have collected pictures and are learning songs of Oregon in olden times and the Ore gon song. Fourth, fifth and sixth grades have collected pictures of Oregon and of pioneers then and now. The seventh grade has a bulletin board of Oregon; the lunch room has a large display of valentines made by the seventh grade. We Give dtf GREEN STAMPS CENTRAL REXALL DRUG Main and Central Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkins By the time two-thirds of the egg rises above the damp earth, the leathery skin breaks open and a grotesque series of twisted branches or fingers slowly unroll and writhe, like a creature in agony. These "fingers"' look like a badly crippled hand. Bright red in color, the outer surface is pebbled with tiny holes that look like magnified pores in unhealthy skin. Should you be foolish enough to get close to this plant you would detect a pu trid odor, like decayed flesh, rising from it the reason, of course, why this fungus is called "stinkhorn." Within a few hours the bent and twist ed "arms" begin to collapse. At the same time a black, mu cus material begins forming on the lower sections of the plant. It is this substance that superstition associates with the charm the plant has for venomous snakes. By the end of 24 hours the eerie arms have shriveled and collapsed into -a mass of de caying vegetation. The brief life of this plant has ended But clustred around this dy ing one, on the damp, mouldy ground in ugly bumps and hid eous distortions, other "eggs" are opening. Other soft, clam my "arms" are resting them selves, ready to spring into the warm, damp air. The race of the plant ogres know as "stinkhorn" are pur suing their evil ways; com pleting their weird and ghoul ish existence. No wonder strange tales are told about this repulsive character with the cold, clammy skin that hatches from an "egg" in dark and gruesome places. (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1959) "Fixing" the Cheer up! You can find... New Clocks A Fix-It service or Scrap Metal Dealers in the Yellow Pages of your phone book. You can shop for brand names, too! They're listed under the general head ing of the product or service you want. Whatever you need, you'll find it fast in the Slaying of In 1900 Continues as By JAMES R. RENNEISEN Frankfort, Ky.-flJPD-A rifle cracked. The frock-coated fig ure staggered and fell. Four days later, after being sworn in as governor of Kentucky, William Goebel died of a bul let that had pierced his body. Who fired the fatal shot? Though these events took place 59 years ago, the iden tity of the assassin is still cloaked in mystery and doubt. On Jan. 30, 1900, Goebel was walking to the Statehouse to attend a joint session of the Legislature which he confi dently expected would upset the results of the 1899 elec tion and declare him gover nor. Election Contested Three months before, Re publican William S. Taylor had defeated Goebel by 2,383 votes in a bitterly-disputed gubernatorial election. Goebel charged fraud and contested the election in the Democratic controlled legislature. An army of mountaineers flowed into Frankfort from eastern Kentucky when it seemed certain that Taylor would be unseated. For more than a week, groups of gaunt, rifle-toting mountain men roamed the capital's streets muttering threats at Demo cratic legislators. Secretary Arrested Then came the fatal shot. Virtual anarchy followed as Goebel died after lingering four days in a room of the Capitol Hotel. Secretary of State Caleb Powers, from whose office the shot was fired, was arrested by state troopers on a train bound for Louisville. The Leg islature, barred from the Statehouse by troops, met at the hotel and named Goebel governor. On May 21, the Su preme Court upheld the ac tion, and Governor Taylor fled to Indiana to escape prosecution for conspiracy. Three men were tried and convicted, but all were par- Mother Saves Young Girl From Flames Pittsburgh- (UPD -A 12-year- old girl, turned into a human torch Tuesday when her clothes caught fire, was saved from death by her crippled mother who smothered the flames with a blanket. Marilyn McElroy had stayed home from school because she had a cold. The girl was dress ing to go see a doctor when she apparently got too close to an open gas fire which ig nited her clothes. Marilyn was listed in ser ious condition at Allegheny General hospital with second and third degree burns over 30 per cent of her body. Mrs. McElroy, who has been a wheel chair victim since contracting polio 11 years ago, said her daughter ran down the steps in panic, her clothes afire, following the accident. The mother smothered the flames and called a neighbor who con tacted police. Marilyn's father is a guard at Western Penitentiary. clock, George Sf Kentucky doned by subsequent gover nors. Powers was sentenced to hang at one of his four trials for conspiracy, but after his pardon he served four terms in the U.S. House of Repre sentatives from a Republican district in eastern Kentucky. Henry Youtsey, a State- house clerk, and Jim Howard, a mountain feudist, were both convicted of the shooting. Both denied firing the shot, although Youtsey testified he pointed Goebel out to Howard and handed him a rifle. 'Confession Heard' In recent years, an elderly mountain woman has claimed she heard a man named Tur ner Igo confess the shooting at a family reunion in 1903. 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