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Chapel Built With Aid of Helicopter Dedicated To Men Who Died on Mountain B? HERBERT G. SPENCER ' United Pratt International Atop Mt. Grignone, Italy- (CPD-A chapel dedicated to the daring men who climb moun tains rises out of the snow of this 8,000-foot Alpine peak, thanks to the daring of a - group of mountain-hopping American airmen. The aluminum and glass "chapel was assembled on the 'wind-swept peak by Italian .mountaineers from prefabri cated sections brought up from the valley below by U.S "Army helicopters. . This is not a difficult peak by Alpine standards. There is a mule trail up one side and a lodge at the top. 'Steep Sides But the steep sides are pop ular among Alpinists from "Milan, some 65 miles away, for close-to-home climbing ex- "ercise-and mbrt than one "mountaineer has lost his life 'on the rocks of Mt. Grignone. - When the Alpine Club of Milan decided to build a chap el as a memorial to those who had lost their lives on the -peak, they realized it would take many months to haul "materials to the top by mule- back. " Then someone thought of the helicopters of the 202nd "Aviation Company, a U. &. Army unit attached to NATO forces under the Southern "European Task Force which has its headquarters in ver ; ona. The helicopter company had extensive mountain-flying ex perience, dropping Italian Al pine troops on peaks during ' war games. . Asked If Could Fly Milan alpiners asked Maj. Gen. John P. Daley if his men could fly prefabricated sec tions of the chaDel to the top of the peak, where climbers would assemble the hut. The U.S. helicopter pilots flew up to the peak for a look and the answer came back: Can do. The first construction car go flights, three in one day, wer undertaken early in Oc tober. A helicopter churned through the crisp autumn air from the valley floor with materials for the foundation and frame of the chapel sus pended by cables beneath the craft. Hovering over the peak, the helicopter lowered the materials gently to waiting workmen. Then, in mid-November, came the difficult part of the operation. Snow Covered Peak Snow already covered the peak. Harsh winds whipped the summit. Clouds and snow fog blanketed the mountain much of the time. An H-34 light cargo heli copter piloted by Chief War rant Officers Jack W. Mc Keever of Ogden, Utah, and Desmon Burnette of Danville, Va., flew up to the valley where workmen and mater ials waited. The helicopter had to sus pend operations several times because of bad weather. Fi nally, it was able to reach the - xi i! a : pea.K uiree nines, uute iu air lift workmen to receive the materials, once with prefab- This time the cargo includ ed fragile crated glass sec tions for the chapel, which had to be lowered gently onto the rocks and snow near the . site. Wash from Blades i. lie wasu uvin Lue neiiLup - ter blades sent snow flurries rm i M at t l : . from the peak into the pilots' " line of vision, making the fin al trips more hazardous. Crewmen Gerald D. Bickford !of Nassau, N.Y., and Job M. .Christopher of Paris, Texas, -stood in the craft's rear sec tions shouting instructions to '.the pilots. "It was pretty touchy for - a while," McKeever said. "At one time we were so close to 'the edge of the peak all I could see was 8,000 feet of nothing when I looked down The airlift was completed without incident, however, and on Nov. 15 members of the Alpine Club, as well as .the villagers of Pasturo far down the mountainside, hiked up to attend dedication of the ', chapel. Some . 6,000 climbers and hikers are expected to wor ship at the chapel each year. Men's Heads Said Getting Larger New York-lTD-The nation al Cap and Cloth Hat Insti tute reports that the heads of American men are getting bigger. Twenty years ago the av erage man's head size was 6Ts, according to the insti tute. Nowadays, most of the headwear purchased is IV and larger. Medical authorities attrib ute the trend toward bigger heads to the general physical growth of Americans as they take advantage of health and nutrition developments. i LOWERS SUPPLY A U.S. Army hell- is being erected by members of the Alpine copter hovers above the lodge at the sum- club of Milan as a memorial to climbers mit of Italy's Mt. Grignone after lowering who have lost their lives on Mt. Grignone. a supply of building material to workmen on the peak. The aluminum and glass chapel (UPI Telephoto) The Family Council Editor's Note: The Family Council consists of a Judge, a psychiatrist, three clergymen," a newspaper editor, a women's editor and two writers Each article is a summary of an actual rase history. The Council reports on problems that have been dealt wife by responsible agenclea and counselors. Mrs. J. L. Nancy should go out to work. Nancy K. - The ' children need me. Mrs. J. L.-I am trying to help Nancy, who lost her hus band in an accident several months ago. Nancy is 29 and has three children, the youngest 4. Fi nances are not a serious prob lem because her husband, was heavily insured and there will be compensation from the ac cident. In spite of this, I feel that Nancy should go out to work. She disagrees. My reason is that her nerves have been shattered by this tragedy and she needs to go among people. When she is alone in the house with her little girl she broods and cries. When the older ones come from school, she con stantly yells at them. I would help by taking care of the children if Nancy would go to work. Nancy K. Mother means well, but it just gets my goat when she keeps telling me to look for a job. I look like a mess and feel worse. Even if I tried hard, I doubt that I could get a job. I don't think I would even be able to type any more. Rugs From Scraps NEW RUGS from old rags! Clear instructions tell how to weave, braid, hook, or cro chet rugs at so little cost. Pattern 7331: directions for 9 different rugs; necessary patterns and a list of mater ials included. Make a rag rug! Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (coins) for this pattern-add 5 cents for each pat tern for lst-clas mailing. Send to Medford Mail Tribune, Household Arts Dept., P.O. Box 168, Old Chelsea Station. New York 11, N. Y. Print plainly NAME. ADDRESS, PATTERN NUMBER. JUST OUT! Our New I960 Alice Brooks Needlecraft Book contains THREE FREE Patterns. Plus ideas galore for home furnishings, fashions. gifts, toys, bazaar sellers-ex- ciung, unusual aesigns to cro chet, knit, sew, embroider, fe,lr Tt'av nuilt Pa five with the newest-send 25 cents nowl I know I haven't been right with children lately, but I think it's better for them to have some kind of mother than none at all. After all, the kids have been through quite a i shock It isn't easy for them to do without their father. Won't it be worse if their mother isn't around eith er? I know Mother thinks the minute I get among people I'll start going out and dating. She has hinted already. It's the last thing I want. My children are everything to me. The Council: It is a mistake to try to help anyone suffer ing from the first shock of a terrible loss by offering more than sympathy and compan ionship. The emotions must have a chance to build up their own kind of scar tissue, and no outsider can' hasten this progress. All too often outsiders offer the wrong kind of help too soon and then neglect the recovering mourn er just at the time they could be helpful. Right now, the only thing thing that seems real to Nancy is her responsiblibilty as a mother. Gradually she will recognize that this reponsibil ity extends beyond the limits of her being present at all times. It also involves keep ing herself as happy as pos sible so she'll be in the right frame of mind to manage her burdens. However, Nancy should be encouraged to get out of the house occasionally. A job is much too ambitious at this stage. She may also find it a strain being with friends, who will naturally laugh and joke and bring their husbands into the activities. Probably she would find more relief from her problems in making an earnest effort to learn some thing. Perhaps she should take a typing course to pre pare herself for some future job. She might also try taking up a new skill like practical nursing. If she has a definite program one or two nights a week, she will have some thing to look forward to and plan for. It will break the strain and tensions of her present existence. Certainly Nancy can do without hints about possible future dating. This may come in good time, but Mrs. J. L. is aggravating her daughter's wounds by bringing it up now. She does not help Nancy by criticizing her mourning or by trying to force her out of it at this early stage. The children must now put up with their mother's grief as best they can. There's- no point in making believe it doesn't exist. (Copyright I960, General Features Corp.) Boon to Nighttime Navigators Found San Francisco-dlPB-LuHiin- ous radar plotters used on commercial freighters and tankers are proving a boon to nightime navigators. The "glow-in-the-lark" plot ters eliminate the need for bright lights which greatly hamper night vision, accord ing to officials of the Cali fornia Shopping company tanker division. Mariners report the lumin ous instruments allow the eye to shift quickly from radar scopes to plotting tables and then out the sea ahead with maximimum effective vision and maximum safety in ship operation. Capitol Memo From Salem By DOUGLAS GRIPP United Press International Salem (DPD Secretary of State Howell Appling St., will announce the middle of next month whether he will seek election to the state's second highest office. He said this week he hasn't decided for sure whether he wants to be a candidate. The post is for four years. Several weeks ago Appling indicated there is a pretty good chance that he will run. Top - echelon Republicans, including the man who ap pointed him a year ago - Gov. Mark Hatfield - have high hopes that he will. Right now the field is wide open. Will Oregon voters pass the referendum this year to raise legislators' salaries from $600 a year to $2,100? If past records are any in dication, the answer is: No. The $600 figure was set in 1950 by the people. The State Supreme Court has ruled that only the people can change it. Since 1950, a raise request has gone to the polls three times and three times it has been defeated - the last being the most pronounced. The referendum of 1954 failed by 79,463 votes. The closest margin was two years later when only 17,463 votes killed it. But in 1958 the elec torate sank the chances by 80, 437 - or 316,437 to 236,000. Everything is in place for the Democratic state platform convention here this week end. Delegates begin regis tering at 8 o'clock Friday morning. Senior Sen. Wayne Morse kicks the thing off at noon that day. Although an an nounced candidate for presi dent, Morse vows that his keynote will be a "party pro gram presentation, not a cam paign speech." Climax will be a Saturday evening banquet for National Chairman Paul Butler, at $10 a plate. Blind Man Uses Sense of Feeling Peterborough, N.H.-4UPD-"A blind man doesn't develop ex tra senses after losing his sight; he gust makes 'better use of the ones he still has." This is why Bob Sterling, blinded by sharpnel during World War II, is relied upon for super critical inspection of miniature ball bearings made by New Hampshire Ball Bearings, Inc. By using one of his remain ing senses, touch, Sterling checks bearings so small that nine of them would fit, side by side, on one aspirin tablet. It is a heavy repsonsibility because these tiny, bearings are used in gyroscopes that keep ballistic missiles on course or in the control sys tem of an electronic brain. Sterling is competing with an elaborate and - expensive electronic device designed to perform the same test he does. In some tests, Sterling is more reliable because his sen sitive fingers are more accur ate and the comany depends upon him to locate flaws too fine for even the electronic equipment to detect. DEODORANT SPRAYS Fort Worth, Tex.-IUPD-Jl.. Robinson, superintendent of Fort Worth's new sewage dis posal plant, Tuesday an nounced the city will try dull: ing odors from the plant with deodorants from nine giant sprayers. MAIL TRIIUNE, MeeVere, Oi. A Thursday, Jan. 21, 190 H.S. Conference On SOC Campus Friday, Saturday Ashland - About 129 high school students and ten coach es will visit Southern Oregon college, Friday and Saturday, Jan. 29 and 30, for the twelfth annual invitational high school speech conference. The public is invited to at tend all the speaking events, it was reported by Leon C. Mulling, coordinator of the conference. Specific room assignments for the speeches will be found on bulletin boards in all cam pus buildings. The rogram for the two-day event is as fol lows: Friday, 2 p.m., Debat ing I; 3 p.m., Oratory I; 4 p.m., Impromptu I and Extempor aneous I; Saturday, 9 a.m.. Debating II; 10 a.m., Oratory H; 11 a-m., Radio I, Poetry Reading I, Impromptu U, Ex temporaneous II; 1 p.m., De bating III; 2 p.m., Oratory III; 3 p.m., Radio n, Poetry Reading II, Impromptu III, Extemporaneous III. Students from Ashland who will attend the conference in clude Gerry Burns, Joan Dra ger, Betty Duffy, Judy Eber hart, Pete Kreisman, Bill Lawrence, Jim Lewis, Linda Lewis, Linda Neal, Steve Peterson, Karen Schopf and Glen Tabor. Crater High will be repre sented by Julie Ashton, John Caster, Patsy Charles, Randy Clark, Alice Craxton, Don Denning, John Doherty, Ruth Ellis, David Foote, Alvin Kroon, Perry Le Clerc, Rich ard Lichte, Shirley McAllis ter, Gary More, Doyle Ne sheim, Nathan Parrish, Nancy Schwebs, and Darlene Tom linson. Students from Eagle Point will be Paul Evers, Rolf Gus land, Jackie Hume, Joey Hume, Aedene Jensen, Lana McGraw, Madison Patrick, Bill Pfeifer, and Gary Wil liams. The Medford forensic team includes John Alansky, Mar cia Belknap, Bonnie Cheney, Bill Dames, Nancy Duncan, Vicky Enders, Jim Frake, Joel Gregory, Sunny Gasti- neau, Mike Higgs, Susan Hall, Joann Johnson, Diane Lewis, Bonnie Lawry, Ruth Mulli gan, Mike Phillips, Delores Smith, Martha Simpson, Suzy Thompson and Carl Wasburn. Phoenix will enter Barbara Beer, Ernie Bolz, Kay De- Mers, Rod Fowler, Barbara Gysin, Jack Hoffbur, Jackie Howard, Dan Lumley, Becky McAlaster,' Eldon Mitchell, Bill Oldham and Joyce Stock still. Local Student Receives Honors Central Point - Nathan C Douthit, 3116 Sunnyvale rd., Central Point, is one of 27 Harvard college senior stu dents from the west who have been honored for their high scholastic achievements by be ing awarded Harvard college honorary scholarships, accord ing to a release from the university. To receive the award Douth it was required to maintain a Group H standing with five As and three Bs for the entire academic year, 1958-59. The student is a son of Mr. and "Mrs. J. W. Douthit and his father is employed at Hau pert Tractor company. Young Douthit was valedic torian of his class in 1956 when he was graduated from Crater High school and is a1 tending Harvard under a Navy plan scholarship. He has been majoring in history and has taken an active part in drama at the university. Recently ne transfer red from NROTC to Marine corps training and upon graduation from the university next June will be commissioned a secqnd lieutenant in the Marine corps and report to the corps base at Quantico, Va., for active service. Vitamin A Diet For Chicks Studied . , Manhattan, Kans. - (Science Service) - Alfalfa meal may be used as the only source of vitamin A for poultry, studies at Kansas State university here indicate. In one test, chicks whose body stores of vitamin A had been depleted gained three pounds or more between the second and ninth weeks using carotene in alfal fa meal as the sole source of vitamin A. Other chicks, also depleted of body vitamin A stores, received carotene in alfalfa meal as the only source of vitamin A throughout per iods of growth plus a full year, of egg production. Those receiving only 1,500 units to a pound of feed had an egg production rate of 49 per cent for the year. Those receiving 2,000 units starting at 18 weeks had a 7-month egg pro duction rate of 65 per cent. jimmm-m-mm mi mm kjii m i wif.i nmur mmu:imm.u w i m r ' f CHECK SNOW - Members of the U.S. Navy area will handle about 12,000 cars and con snow compaction team check the snow sur- sists of compacted snow mixed with saw rounding their area in preparation for the dust. At left can be seen Squaw Peak. VIII Olympic Winter games at Squaw Val ley, Calif. The specially prepared parking (UPI Telephoto) Stock Market Regarded by Wall Street As By ELMER C. WALZER UPI Financial Editor New York-(UPD-Wall Street regards the stock market as a business barometer and hence is keeping a close tab on it to determine a change in trend that migh precede a business dip. The financial district re calls how the market fell in advance of the recession of 1957-1958 and how it rallied long before the business dip had touched bottom in April of 1958 to anticipate a re covery movement. According to Miron Nac manie, analyst for Green, El lis & Anderson, the year 1960 will be a good year, "but its rate of growth may not be as good as last. We are, after all, in a later stage of cyclical expension. Recent profit-taking could be a di rect consequence of this real ization." Sound Economy to Prevail He believes a basically sound economy will probably work against any deep-seated market correction in the months ahead. "But," he adds, "there's nothing that says it has to propel stocks higher thaii they are now. Don't forget that earnings of each share on the big board rose 60 per cent between the market peaks of 1949 and 1959 while prices went up 292 per cent." Nacmanie sees a record high in steel production in 1960 with most of the com panies having no trouble doubling their estimated 1959 earnings. He sees good business ahead for the truck producers with trucks taking big chunks of the nation's transportation business. Passenger care out put of close to seven million units would turn 1960 into the second best year for that industry, he notes. Chemicals appear to be heading higher, aided by plas tic which had a wide growth in 1959, he says. He finds drugs looking like chemicals. Oil Fulure Bright And he has some good things to say about the oil industry and feels that this year will see generally high er earnings and even a num ber of dividend increases for the industry. "In the two years after the 1949 recession," he says, "en ergy demand rose an average of 11 per cent. During the same period following the 1954 recession it rose 10 per cent. But so far the come back in demand from the latest recession, has been at a rate only about half as good. "The steel strike was a de pressing factor, leaving lots of pent-up demand. That's why as much as a 6 per cent .' , f . r , Business Barometer increase in petroleum demand is being predicted by indus try sources for 1960." He looks for a good per formance from companies making electric appliances, electronic equipment, radio OREGON FOOD STORES OPEN 9 A.M. to 9 P.M. -7 DAYS A WEEK O Items Listed Below Good Through Sunday O 1475 Siskiyou Blvd. Ashland BONELESS - TENDER Eggs Sugar ' Margarine Hulade AA Large Spreckels Delrich .salad Mayonnaise Syrup DRESSING 0R00N f00D MARKET OREGON FOOD wnewn.rvw Mapje Favor Qt. I Qt W I sW, FLAPJACK Mjik BisCliitS FLOUR BORDEN'S rfcWWIX CAPITOL BRAND ALBER'S Reg. or Buttermilk GRAPHS. Jtfr EMPEROR FRESH LOCAL c6m and TV sets, household fur nishings, and from copper miners. Residential housing starts will be off about 10 per cent, he estimates, "but this should be offset by other types of CASCADE EASTERN PORK (L Pkg. U vJ , Ci IBS. J ... AND FOR ADDED SAVINGS GBEEN STAMPS Federal Funds Said Needed for Growers Washington - (UPD - ReD. Charles O. Porter (D-Ore.) said Wednesday Kenneth W. Sawyer, Fanners Home Ad ministration director for Ore gon, believed federal emer gency loans were needed by Oregon cranberry growers. bucn loans already have been authorized for some other cranberry -producing states. Porter said Sawyer would confer week after next with growers in Coos countv where most of Oregon"s cran berries are raised. A final de cision on making emergency loans for Oregon will be de ferred until then. Porter said the Oreeon situ ation was misunderstood in the Washington, D.C. FHA of fice. Apparently, he said, some growers thought the loan program would interfere with possible indemnity legis lation. Porter said in his opin ion this was "negligible." The cranberry growers suf fered losses after a govern ment report before Thanks giving that a weed-killer used on some berries had produced cancer m laboratory rats. construction, particularly in dustrial outlays for new plant and equipment." He estimates corporation profits around $27 billion, some 13 per cent ahead of last year. He indicates that the mar ket's recent selloff seems ex cessive beside the near-term business picture now taking form. Thick Slice
