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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
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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
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the demanding1 role of presi
dent. On this point, when ask
ed about his age, Kennedy
once said: "Youth is no assur
ance of vitality, or age of wis
dom."
At 42, Kennedy could tell a
questioner on TV that Tom
Dewey was even younger
when he ran for president.
"But he didn't make it," re
ported his impetuous Repub
lican questioner. 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;
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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."
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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
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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. .
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