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DISCONTINUING LUMBERING OPERATIONS, owners of Pondosa, Ore', sell entire
town, described as nearest community to new United States geographical center.
Numismatist Finds Cure for Inflation
In Three, Sources, Including Bible
A numismatist looked at in
flation here Monday, and
found its cure in the words
of Capt. John Smith, Presi
dent William McKinley and
the Holy Bible.
The numismatist, , or coin
collector, was Walter Jones,
Medford realtor and apprai
ser. He delivered a talk en
titled, "A Numismatist Looks
at Inflation," at the Jackson
County Chamber of Com
merce roundtable.
Jones discussed the history
of Spanish, French, British
and American currency to il
lustrate inflation trends.
Passes Coins
He passed several foreign
coins and bills among the au
dience, saying he wished them
to tell his message for him.
But Jones reserved for him
self a few comments about
the money situation in this
country.
After tracing inflation's de-
Wildlife Reflects
Fertility of Soil
(Editor's noie: This is an
other in a series of articles
being published in connec
tion with Conservation
Week, which was observed
throughout the county last
week. Today's article dis
cusses 'wildlife, and its role
in conservation.)
By C. R. SHEPARD
District Game Biologist
Slate Game Commission
Wildlife is a product of the
soil and reflects the fertility
or the barrenness of the habi
tat in which it lives. Sound
conservation practices with
soi land water will aid all
wildlife in its struggle for
existence.
Birds and. animals have
three basic requirements,
food, shelter, and water.
Where these are provided in
abundance wildlife responds
with increased productivity.
Jn former years much land
considered marginal for agri
culture was earmarked for
the use of wildlife with the
fond hope that such designa
tion would quickly result in
fine harvestable surpluses of
game birds and animals.
Unfortunately, poor land
raises poor food, and even
poorer cover and is apt to be
short of good water supplies
or it would not have been
deemed marginal land in the
first place. On such land wild
life production is either poor
or lacking entirely.
Our three basic require
, ments, food, shelter and wat-
Judges, Attorneys
At Eugene Meetings
Circuit Judges James M.
Main and Edward C. Kelly at
tended a meeting of the Ore
gon Judicial Council in Eu
gene last week end.
i During the meeting discus
sions were held on recent leg
islative action on matters af
fecting, the judges and the
general legal profession. Re
ports were given also on de
sirability of establishing a
family court system in Ore-
l gon and need for conciliation
served within the court sys
tern. Other reports covered
uniform circuit court rules.
pre-sentence investigation re
ports, juvenile law, court
room design and courthouse
familities, and disqualifica
tion of judges.
A large number of Jackson
county attorneys and many of
the state's circuit judges also
attended a regular spring
meeting in Eugene on a con
tinuing legal education series.
This covered evidence intro
duced into Oregon civil trials.
Quarles Buried
In Simple Rites
Washington t (UPD - Simple
military honors and burial at
. Arlineton National Cemeterv
were the final tribute Tues
day to Donald A. Quarles,
deputy defense secretary who
died Friday.
President Eisenhower a t
tended the services.
Quarles. , 64. died in his
sleep of obstructive coronary
sclerosis, a restriction of
blood vessels in the heart.
er, were enough for nature s
fine balance before man en
tered the scene. Now we must
add protection if wildlife is to
survive in adequate numbers.
' Protection does not simply
mean laws and law enforce
ment, important though these
may be, but also means toler
ance, common sense and com
passion. A brushy fence cor
ner can mean home to a brood
of quail or to an insect eating
songbird. 1
The hard to farm corner
may be better left in cover
to provide escape for some
small bird or animal. A dog
can be restrained so that
ground nesting birds may in
cubate . their eggs and raise
their brood. A car can slow
down to allow a hen pheasant
to cross a busy highway.
In the final analysis wild
life is a crop, and can safely
be harvested as a crop only
so long as conditions permit
an annual surplus. Wildlife is
a neruage,a resource, a joy,
and is worthy of your consid
eration.
Youngster Helps
Michigan Finances
Lansing, Mich. -(UPD- An 11
year-old former resident of
Michingan sent this letter and
17 cents to Gov. G. Mennen
Williams:
"Dear Governeer Will
yums: j My dad told me Michigan
was in very bad trouble we
moved to Florida about a
year ago from Detroit an we
like Michigan very much
I saved this from my lunch
money I hope it will help
you out.
Ralph Biddle,
1215 SW 1st St.,
Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
P.S. I am 11 years old
now i win vote lor you
when I am old enuff."
A spokesman for State
Treasurer Sanford A. Brown
said it has not been decided
what will be done with the
coins and bills that have been
sent to the Capitol since Mich
igan's fiscal woes started r&
ceiving such widespread attention.
velopment in the other na
tions, he said, "Is there any
reason to believe inflation
will operate any differently
for America?
The United States operat
ed on a solid currency until
March 5, 1933 (when it went
off the gold standard) and it
never has since," Jones stated.
Turning to silver dollars,
he added, "At the rate silver
is going up, anyone owning
silver dollars can melt them
down in afew years and
make a profit."
;On the subject of U.S. pa
per money, he noted that to
day there are generally a lot
of crisp new, $5 federal re
serve notes "in circulation,
while most $5 silver certifi
cates are found to be old and
worn.
Back lo Gold Standard
Jones, who said he has un
proved placer claims in Na-
vada, stated afterward the
United States will' "have to'
go back on the gold standard
He deplored in his talk
what he called the breakdown
of the two-party system in
this country. To : Democrats,
he said, money is a medium of
exchange. To Republicans, he
added, it is impounded labor.
He asserted that a carpenter
working an hour and a half
earns today just what he
earned 100 years ago, a 50
pound sack of flour. But today
the flour is worth a lot more,
he added.
Jones urged everyone to do
everything they can to stop
inflation. As for solutions, he
first quoted Capt. John Smith,
founder of the Virginia col
ony: "No work, no eat."
Next, he turned to William
McKinley, 25th president of
the United States, quoting
him as saying, "Root hog, or
die." !
Turns to Bible
Finally, Jones turned to the
Book of Ecclesiastes: "What
soever your hand finds to do,
do it with your might, for
there is no work .or thought
or knowledge or wisdom in
Sheol, . to which you are
going."
"Sheol," he said, has been
defined as "the insatiable re
ceptacle which cries give, give
and never saith it is enough
Jones said he did not know
any better definition of infla
tion than that. ;
Prolonged insomnia is suspect
ed as precipitating some cases
of schizophrenia, three Salt
Lake City physicians suggest
ed here.
Schizophrenia is' called the
"split personality" mental dis
ease. Victims become dis
oriented and lose contact with
reality.
Many persons on the brink
of a phychotic break suffer
from severe insomnia, the in
ability to sleep. A few pass
through a prolonged period
of wakefulness as the schizo
phrenic process unfolds, the
doctors reported in the Ar
chives of Neurology and Psy
chiatry.
Interests Aroused
Such sleep deprivation,
when combined with isolation
and incapacitating anxiety,
may have an illness-causing
potential that has not been
fully appreciated.
Experience with two pa
tients who suffered severe
emotional disturbances cou
pled with sleeplessness and
followed by outright psychot
ic attacks aroused the doctors'
interests.
Both patients were "racked
with intense psychological
pain and overwhelmed by
seemingly insoluble prob
lems." Both failed to sleep
for several days, emotionally
isolated themselves, and be
came psychotic. The schizo
phrenic episode was brief in
each case, and the patients re
covered rapidly with treat
ment, Drs. Eugene L. Bliss,
Lincoln D. Clark and, Charles
D. West of the University of
Utah' College of Medicine and
the Veterans Administration
Hospital, Salt Lake City, re
ported. Confusion Results
Further tests on medical
students revealed that, sleep
deprivation for 72 hours re
sulted in confusion, inability
to judge the passage of time,
and other intellectual deteri
oration to their minds.
The doctors said that no
subject became psychotic.
"One can only infer that if
these changes were to occur
in someone who was also pro
foundly anxious and deprived
of group support, more seri
ous psychopathological seque
lae (consequences) might re
sult," the doctors suggested.
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Body of Doctor
Found in Motel
Portland -(UPD- City detec
tives Monday found the body
of a Portland physician, Dr.
Thomas P. Staats, 49, in a
Southwest Portland motel. He
had been missing since April
:o.
Police said there was a bul
let wound in the victim's head
believed self-inflicted. The
door of the room was locked
and a .32 caliber pistol was
on the floor nearby.
Officers said the doctor
checked into the motel Sun
day about 12:30 a.m. He had
been dead about 12 hours
when the body "was discover
ed. The motel owner called
authorities after recognizing
a car outside as the one own
ed by the doctor.
Failure To Pay
Charged To Duncan
Ventura, Cali (UPD A
funeral home has charged that
attorney Frank Duncan reneg
ed on a promise to pay for
cremation expenses of his
slain wife, Olga.
' The Mayr Funeral Home
has filed an attachment writ
against the ' slain woman's
bank account which it claim
ed contained $290.
Olga was killed last Nov.
18 by two men hired by her
mother-in-law, Mrs. Elizabeth
Duncan. Both men and Mrs.
Duncan have been sentenced
to die in the gas chamber.
The funeral home said Dun
can, who has moved his law
practice from Santa Barbara,
Calif., to Los Angeles since
the murder, also failed to pick
up Olga's ashes.
Bill Kupszyk, Manitoba,
Canada, a brother of the slain
nurse, claimed the ashes last
week.
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