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MAIL TRIBUNE, M.dfor, Or. Moafey, An,. 10, 195 Friends Send Man To Roseburg Rites Thomsonville, Conn. - (EPD - A grateful Joseph DeSues left Sunday night for blast-de vastated Roseburg, Ore., to attend the funeral of his broth er, thanks to a group of un derstanding, and generous neighbors. DeSues, an aircraft worker, spent most of his money three months ago visiting Oregon where his mother was critical ly ill. The trip cost so much he was unable to go there for her funeral when she died. . Friday,- his brother, Donald, 32, a Roseburg policeman, was among those killed when .a dynamite-laden trUckblew up But limited finances prevent ed Joseph from returning to his home town. His neighbors heard of his plight, rallied tohis support and started a fund drive. A drug store donated $100. Neighbors gave all they could afford. By mid-afternoon, De Sues was presented with $600 to cover the trip to Roseburg. HORSE LAUGHS LAST Buckfastleigh, England-ffiPB A horse named Blackburn came in last add won the race. Blackburn's jockey, Jim Ren free, said the reason he was so slow was that only he cor rectly passed a marker mid way in the course. The judges agreed. The other four horses were disqualified. Blackburn paid 8-1. . . Campaigning Year Before Time Shows Endurance in Candidate i ' j A. Kobt. lautk By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington Presidential campaigning a year before the election campaign officially Frd? opens helps 't candidates to r - (H show at least one needed trait-sheer en durance. t last t n e case of Sen. Jack Kennedy (D-Mass.), the most aggres sive and far- traveling presidential aspirmt in the country these days (if you don't count Vice , Presi dent Nixon's trek to Siberia as a campaign junket.) When Kennedy took off for Oregon via Wisconsin last week,, this reporter tagged along to watch him in action. From Washington,, D.C, to Seaside,- Ore., and back, Ken nedy & Co. crowded into four days six TV programs, three major speeches, two press con ferences, several receptions, and endless string of private luncheons, dinners and meet ings with local politicians and labor leaders, and a hand shaking sprint through the Or egon Centennial exposition. A candidate needs not only a good set of pipes and a fine face but legs of steel and a brass right arm. Kennedy ob viously has these attributes, for when we arrived back in the capital in late afternoon from this slam-bang tour, he sped off to the Senate to be sure he didn't miss any roll calls while this reporter limp ed home to bed. -More to Endure A candidate has to endure a lot more than the sound of his own voice. He must en dure the tugging cries of a woman who mistakenly calls him "Joe, Joe" and won't let go. He must endure the sort of barbershop singing that is beard at political banquets but which any self-respecting barbershop would disown. He must endure the embarrassing maneuvers of some who are hot for some other guy. He must endure concocted humor. At the. Centennial, he was hustled aboard the train that huffed its .way into the Frontier Village, where three masked hombres were waiting with six-guns drawn. The gun man ordered . Kennedy and a straight man ; off the , train, fired blanks into the ground and directed the candidate's "buddy" to disrobe, at least enough to display his red and white stropped long johns for the amused crowd. Then the can-can girls moved in, pulled their skirts highland the can didate backed away quickly behind the marshal, silently seeking mercy from his comic" assailants. Reveals Stamina Kennedy probably doesn't think of this as an endurance test, but it helps reveal wheth er a man has the stamina for SMART BIRDS Get YEAR- END 7f . 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Kennedy was stumped, the only time in four days he couldn't come baik with a sharp answer. , Kennedy takes cat naps when he can manage it; but on his feet, moving graceful ly, comfortably through crowd, he is as bright and at tractive as a new silver dol lar. Flashing his magnetic smile, he uses a kind of po litical soft sell. He grabs no one s hand m ungainly eager ness, nor does he kiss babies. To every lady voter he must look like a polite young suitor paying his first call. Snappy Precision But in the arena of political or legislative issues-on TV, m debate or m press conferences-Kennedy handles him self with the snappy precision of an IBM machine, punching out answers that were long ago dropped in from the top. He is a thinker, spending an idle moment in an airport ter minal reading the Foreign Af fairs Quarterly, or on a plane flipping through a book of Robert Frost. Kennedy's most noticeable shortcoming is in speechmak- ing technique. He gallops through his text as though the hall is on fire. But he's impressively earnest, - even erudite in quoting Churchill, Thoreau, T. S. Eliot. Kennedy has a sense of humor along with a sense of timing. To allow the candidate to appear out of the clouds at Portland at the most pro pitious moment for. a good morning reception, his plane was brought down .at Miles City, Mont., and parked at the darkened airport for five hours. In the silence a mem ber of the traveling contin gent rent the night air with snores that brought . every head off its pillow. Looking about to note the noisy of fender, Kennedy observed: "It will be quieter when they start the engines again." FIRE DEATH RECORDED . Chicago (UPD - A 14-year-old boy Sunday night became the 95th victim of last De cember's fire at Our Lady of the Angels School. William Eddington, an eighth-grade pupil, had been the last one still hospitalized as a result of the blaze which flashed through the grammar school minutes before classes were to be dismissed. The" fire's death toll now stands at 92 children and 3 nuns; Quick to Crochet WT 740O liT The cardigan coat grand for autumn, summer; spring. Easy crochet in a nubby tex ture. Quick crochet in knitting worsted with a large crochet hook. Choose coat or jacket length. Pattern 7400: direc tions for sizes 32-34; 36-38 in cluded. Send Thirty-five cents (coins) for this pattern add 5 cents for each pattern for lst-class mailing. Send to Med ford Mail Tribune, Household Arts Dept., P.O. Box 168, Old Chelsea Station, New York 11, N.Y. Print plainly NAME, ADDRESS, ZONE, PATTERN NUMBER. , Our 1959 ALICE, BROOKS Needlecraft Catalogue many lovely designs to order: cro cheting, knitting, embroidery, quilts, dolls, weaving. A spe cial gift, in the catalogue to keep a child happily occupied a cutout doll and clothes to color. Send 25 cents for your copy of the book. . Try and Stop Me -By BENNETT CERF- FARMER JOSH HEIMERDINGER limped into the general store one morning covered with bandages and plasters. "What happened?" chorused his cronies around the old pot bellied stove. "It was my fool wife," groaned Farmer Heimerdin ger. "She got plumb tired of wrapping me around her little finger, so last night she wrapped me around the front bumper." Poet Walter Landor had a publisher in London who in sisted upon "editing" and changing whole stanzas - in the verse he submitted. A commiserating friend of the poet wrote: """" "Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art!" Roared Mr. Landor from his inmost heart; Wrote Landor's publisher, "Of course, we'd rather Tou used the more refined form namely, Arthur." w Mw, oy fiuuett Cert. Distributed by King Features Syndicate. y Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkins This Univalve Survives; Evan Has 'Homing Instinct' Thousands of children; as well as many adults, on their vacation to the seashore this summer will pick up some of the common little shells call ed Chinese hats or Volcano shells. Hats, because they do re semble; in shape, an oriental hat, dTfSyolcano, because the shell resembles, in miniature, a tiny, steep-sloped mountain with an ash-crater in the top, like a Lilliputian volcano. Univalve It is a univalve or single shelled mollusk, living its en tire . life which may be sev eral years, under favorable conditions, without getting over three feet from its origir nal resting place. That select ed resting place is usually on a rock sometimes near the edge of the sea where the mighty waves come crashing in 24 hours a day. The rock on which it lives, along with a colony of its fel lows, furnishes the floor of its "home," its soft body in contact with the support, its shell over arM above, protect ing it from its enemies and the crashing seas. By either moving constant ly round and round or from side to side, or by some chem ical secreted by the mollusk body, a slight depression is worn in the solid rock that exactly fits the body size. The depression may be but a frac tion of an inch deep, but it is the selected "home" of that individual limpet. The one place in all the wide ocean or the world where the lowly creature desires to be, and to it will always return. Great Suction A considerable suction is exerted on the rock by the animal, so great that only a stout-bladed knife, under con siderable pressure, can pry it loose. Pounding, waves that can destroy a pier or a sea wall wash harmlessly over the the little volcano shells. Through the tiny opening at the apex of the shell, fine filaments extend, sensitive to vibration as well as to vary ing degrees of light. Underneath, in direct con tact with the rock, is the mouth. The food enjoyed by the mollusk is algae and vege table matter that usually grows profusely on the water washed stone. The volcano shell grazes, like a tiny mol- luscan cow, on this forage. .' There are many, occasions when: the shell may have to range out a short distance on the rock in order to find new. and v fresher pastures, but when its appetite is satisfied it crawls slowly back to its own individual depression. Here is a soft-bodied, blood less, brainless, almost sense less creature, with no eyes, ears, feet, or. fins.'with a large amount of mental inertness, yet gifted with enough "hom ing instinct" to find its way back to a chosen square inch of wave-pounded rock. (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1959) Group Studies Roseburg Blast Roseburg (DPD - A three man board of inquiry repre senting the National Manu facturing Chemists Associa tion was here to investigate Friday's disastrous explosion. The trio, Paul Tucker, Ralph Miller and Don Strom- quist, said the mixture on the truck which blew up was called nitro-carbonitrate, a mixture of ammonium nitrate and diesel oil. They said it was not a fertilizer. They explained that am monium nitrate itself will not explode. When ammonium ni trate is mixed with fuel oil it is used only as a blasting agent. --..- - - . The chemists also said that the explosion was not caused by exactly the same substance which touched off the 1947 Texas City disaster. That, they said, was wax-coated ammon ium nitrate which is no longer manufactured. . ULCER SURGERY York, England - (UPD - Too much sugar may be more of a factor than the stress and strain of business life in caus ing ulcers, a group of doctors said today. A survey, con ducted among 2,600 ulcer suf fers showed more ulcers among townspeople than among country folk. Research ers said these, might be some connection in the fact that town dwellers eat more sugar than country residents. Johnson City, N. Y. - (UPD -Charles F. Johnson, 71, board chairman of the Endicott John son Company, shoe manufac turers, died Sunday. Young Boy Chained To Keep Him Home Compton, Calif. - (UPD - A 37-year-old jobless Puerto Rican facing charges of cruel and inhuman treatment to a child told police today he chained his 13-year-old son to the wall so the youth wouldn't run away. Antonio Martinez said his son, Ignacio, was in the habit of going around to other homes in the area in search of food while he was away. He said he chained him to keep him at home while he went in search of a job. Sheriffs deputies found the ragged youth shackled to the wall of the small .Martinez home Saturday. . A six-foot chain was clamped around Ignacio's left -ankle arid Tiam mered into .the wall with nails. He had been chained for about six hours when deputies arrived. Deputies said the youth complained that in addition to being chained his. father also beat him with the flat side of a machete. RUSHING THE SEASON London (UPD The London Times, this 10th day of Au gust, carried this advertise ment: "Father Christmas with own costume wanted immediately." Wall Street Chatter New York - (UPD - Wall Street continues to talk about the possible influence on the stock market of the Eisen-hower-Khrurhchev exchange of visits. The experts view talk of easing tensions as mar ket influences to be more of an excuse than a real reason for recent selling. Miracles Not Expected R. E. Buchsbaum, analyst for W. E. Hutton & Co., notes we' have had periods of re duced tension before and all have been short-lived. "There is no reason to expect miracles this time," he adds. Any un usual market weakness, Buchsbaum holds, should be regarded as a buying oppor tunity in favored stocks. Business Week finds few observers who believe the recent decline in prices has been any more than a tem porary affair and it quotes art observer: "The market's just using the peace talk as an excuse. We've been overdue for a correction for some time." More frequent correc tions - some may go to 10 per cent - are expected. Bus iness Week holds. , May Dampen Enthusiasm Martin Gilbert, analyst for Van Alstyne, Noel & Co., says the Eisenhower-Khrushchev visits may dampen the en thusiasm of both investors and traders for a while long er, but he believes this fac tor and any desultory effect on defense issues soon will be discounted. ? About two million persons in the U.S. are stricken an nually by malaria. 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Entrant agrees to abide by all the roles of the local and state contests now In effect or announced hereafter. Entrant agrees that the time, manner, and method of judging -the contest shall be solely within the discretion of the KIWANIS CENTENNIAL FAIR COMMITTEE, and that the decision of the JUDGES WILL BE FINAL. Entrant must be a resident of Jackson County for the past six months; or if resi dence is out of the county or state, must be enrolled in a college or university in the county where contest is held. .Entrant must possess and display in a three-minute routine Talent. This talent may be singing, dancing, playing a musical instrument, dramatics, art display etc. Entrant may be either amateur or professional. . I hereby acknowledge that I have read the official rules and regulations and , that I am complying with them in every way, and that the personal' data as herein set forth is correct. SIGNED. DATE. Contest will be held at lihe Jackson County Armory, August 20th thru 23rd. All entries must be postmarked by midnight, August 10th, 1959. Mail entries to: Kiwanis Centennial Fair, Dick Lqmont, Talent Chairman, 1221 Court St., Medford, Oregon. " MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE
