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Smithsonian in or an Director Tells UPI Newsman By DICK WEST WASHINGTON -flJPD The Smithsonian Institution, that proud old relic hoarder, is getting sensi tive about be ing described as "the na tion's attic." "Please don't call us that," said Frank Taylor, director of. the Smithso- Dick west man s Muse- . urn of History and Technol ogy, and I promised I wouldn't. But offhand I can't thing of a better description. I dropped in on Taylor to find out about the museum the Smithsonian is building I Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF JOINING the James JCcheners, Herman "Wonts and Moss Harts on best-seller lists is a 78-year-old country doctor named D. C. Jarvis. For years Dr. Jarvis Y been prescrib ing for his patients in Vermont a reasonably unpleasant tasting potion consisting of a couple of teaspoons of cider vine gar and honey diluted in a glass of water. Finally, he enlarged on the magic possibilities of this cure in a book called "Folk Medicine" and is it sell ing! I haven't met another doctor yet who'll say more than, "I don't be lieve it can harm any body," but you show the American public a way to "get cured fast" and well, "Folk Medicine" is over the 300,000-mark, and the publishers think it's barely started! Paul Getty, reputedly the richest man in America, reluctantly admitted to a financial writer that his personal fortune exceeds a billion dollars. "You must remember, however," he added with a. note of bitterness in his voice, "that a billion dollars today doesn't go as far as it used to!" 196 by Sennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate Two County 4-H Members Chosen To Attend Meet Miss Carolyn Tiegs, Talent, and Philip Krouse, Applegate, have been selected to repre sent Jackson county in the State 4-H Club conference to be held in Salem this week, according to Glenn Klein, county extension agent 4-H club work. The 4-H'ers selected to at tend the State Club conference must have completed five years of 4-H Club work and be 16 years of age. They must have an outstanding record in their achievement and leader ship, community participation and in their scholarship abil it3r. As delegates to the state conference they will be com peting for a possible trip to the National 4-H Club con ference, Washington, D.C. Miss Tiegs, daughter of Mr. aivd Mrs. L. S. Tiegs, Talent, is in her tenth year as a 4-H club member. As a junior leader in the Talent commun ity her 4-H club activities are being fitted around her at tendance at Southern Oregon college where she is a fresh man in secondary education. Her 4-H work includes work in poultry, foods and junior leadership. Philip Krouse, son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Krouse, Ap p'cgate, is a senior at Grants Pass High school where he is active hi the Vo-Ag program and Is- a member of ihe foot ball team. He is completing his tenth year in 4-H with major emphasis in beef and sheep projects. The Oregon State-4-H Club conference is devoted to ac quainting two delegates from each county with the opera Counsel With... a Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Fred Brennan or call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP 3-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLIY ST. k. I to house part of its vast col lection of . memorabilia from America's past. I found out I had been housing a misappre hension. They're Selective Someone had told me that the Smithsonian was required by law to accept everything that was tendered to it and was forbidden to throw any thing away. I understood it had several warehouses crammed with un sightly, useless and unwanted objects that had been handed over to it for preservation. Not so, said cTaylor. He said this impression must have stemmed from var ious magazine articles that have pictured the Smithso nian as squirreling away such tion and organization of state government. They are given a chance to discuss and ques tion state officials as to what their role is in the adminis tration of state government. Selection for the conference scheduled for Feb. 4, 5 and 6, is one of the highest recogni tions that can be given a 4-H Club member.'Klein said. ProjeciorWorkshop Scheduled Tonight A motion picture projector workshop will be conducted for leaders and junior leaders of the 4-H club program, ac cording to Glenn Klein, 4-H club agent. Schedu'3d for tonight at 7:30 o'clock in the courthouse auditorium, the workshop will provide training and actual experience in the operation and maintenance of motion picture projectors. . - The school will be conduct ed by Curtis Reid and Dwight Fairbanks, Oregon State col lege visual instruction spec ialists, with assistance by Jim McDonald, director, county curriculum materials center; Gilbert Ellis, Medford public schools audio-visual aids, and Earle Jossy, county extension agent. Approximately 80 leaders and junior leaders are expected to attend. The length of a. meter was fixed by the Paris Academy of Sciences in 1791 at one-ten-millionth of what was then believed to be the distance from the Equator to the Pole. ' GROUND HOG'S SHADOWS . . . Shouldn't concern you as much as proper insurance coverage. Check with us for, health, life, accident, fire and other types of INSURANCE COVERAGE. Bill Fish J attic attic treasures as old bird cages, broken baseball bats and portraits of maiden aunts. "Actually, we're pretty se lective in what we take," he said. Tne Smithsonian does, m fact, have several million ar ticles in storage. But Taylor explained that this reflected a shortage of display space rather than any desire to keep them hidden. He said the public tends to think of the Smithsonian in terms of those two medieval- looking buildings that stand on the mall betwen the Cap itol and the Washington Mon ument. This is a misconcep tion. Even A Zoo The institution institutes on a far-flung scale, operating three museums, two art gal leries, a fine arts collection, a bureau of ethnology, an as- trophysical observatory, a bi ological center, an interna tional exchange service and a zoo. I presume all of them have space troubles. However, the problem in Taylors history and technology baliliwick will be largely solved when the new 36-million-dollar mu seum is competed in 1962. It will be situated near the two castle-like eyesores on the mall. But it won't look anything like them. It will be a marble structure of con temporary design. There will be three exhibition floors laid out for such things as a steam locomotive, the desk on which Jefferson drafted the Declara tion of Independence, Wash ington's sword and Jane Ap ple t o n Pierce's inaugural gown. I think Taylor is right in resenting the traditional de scription of the Smithsonian. Whoever heard of an attic with a locomotive? Gas-Laden Truck Upsets in Portland Portland-(UPD-A semi-truck and trailer loaded with gaso line tipped over in northeast Portland Monday afternoon. Driver of the truck, George H. Rowe II, 44, Portland, was not seriously injured. He was taken to Emanuel hospital where he was treated for cuts and bruises. Rowe told police that as he was pulling ground a corner he felt the trailer tip. He said he pulled over to the curb and the trailer pulled the truck over on its side on to the lawn of two houses. Gasoline spilled on to the street and police barricaded it. There was no fire. The fire department washed the street free of gasoline. Jiffy Wrap-on T4 9048 12-20 This pretty dress wraps and ties-slip into it in a jiffy. Sew-easy, gay casual halter neckline is so cool and flatter ing. Opens flat for speedy ironing. Choose gay contrast trim. Printed Pattern 9048: Miss es' Sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20. Size 16 takes 4V6 yards 35 inch fabric. Send FIFTY CENTS (coins) for this pattern - add 10 cents for each pattern for first- class mailing. Send to Marian Martin. Medford Mail Tri bune, Pattern Dept., 232 West 18th St., New York 11, N.Y. Print plainly NAME, AD DRESS with ZONE, SIZE and STYLE NUMBER. JUST OUT! Big, new 1960 Spring and Summer Pattern Catalog in vivid, full-color. Over 100 smart styles ... all sizes ... all occasions. Send now! Only 25c. Two Injured in Accidents on County's Roads Robert Lawrence Canty, 37, of 215 Valley lane, Jackson ville, received head injuries when his bicycle was struck by a car at the intersection of Voorhies and South Stage rds., Sunday, state police said. Canty was reported in fair condition today at Sacred Heart hospital by hospital at tendants. Canty was riding his bike north on Voorhies rd. and crossed in front of a car driv en by Carl Wesley Wilson, 43, of 895 Casino rd. The Wilson c?r was headed east on the South Stage rd. when the acci dent occurred. Ernest Kenneth Stephenson, 47, of 1324 Winchester st, Medford, injured his left shoulder in a one-car accident on the Butte Falls highway Sunday 3V2 miles east of the Crater Lake highway. Lost Control The car apparently was westbound on the Butte Falls rd. when the driver lost con trol of the vehicle on a right curve and landed in a ditch. Vehicles driven by Rufus Edward Gould, 80, of 402 West Jackson st., Medford and William Henry Head, 62, Grants Pass, collided at the intersection of South Stage rd. and Sunset dr. Sunday, state police said. Minor damage resulted to both cars and no injuries were reported, state police stated. Gould was informed by police that a complaint would be filed against him for failure to yield the right of way. Oregonian Buys McMinnville (UPD M. J Frey, published of the Ore- gonian, said Monday night the newspaper had purchased an M. A. N. automatic plate casting machine. The new type machine is one of the issues in the cur rent newspaper strike here. The Stereotypers Union charged when it went on strike last Nov. 10 that man agement wanted .to pre-deter- mine how many men it would take to man the machine Management said the union demanded that four men be Kired to run a machine which needs only one operator. Frey told the Chamber of Commerce here he signed the order for the German- made machine Monday and that it would be delivered and installed in the Ore- gonian plant April 1. Frey also referred briefly to a request by Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) tht the news papers submit the diipute to fact-finding commission. He said, "We've hd some bitter experiences tith fact finders. People who have never met a payroll in their lives try to tell you hoT to run your business." Russians Ahead of America Washington-(UPD-The aver age Frenchman and Britisher thinks Russia is ahead of the United States in over-all mil itary strength. West Germans are pretty well divided on the issue. The Italian man in the street feels the U.S. is ahead. This was revealed by a series of polls conducted by private agencies during the last four years. The results were compiled and released Monday for the JLT.S. Informa tion Agency. The heretofore confidential polls indicated the' U.S. never regained the scientific pres tige it lost in France, Italy and particularly India when Russia launched Sputnik I. But U.S. prestige in Britain and West Germany shot up again after the U.S. launched its own earth satellites. Eugene Students To Face Charges Eugene (UPD Warrants charging seven Eugene area youths with disorderly con duct were filed in Lane coun ty District Court Monday af ternoon. The warrants stem from complaints of four Roseburg high school students who said they were roughed up follow ing a Willamette high-Rose-burg basketball game Satur day night in Eugene. The complaint signed by Daniel Foree, 18, Roseburg, charged the seven " with dis orderly conduct and abusive language. Bail was set for each of the seven involved at $75. The Roseburg students claimed they were stopped twice on their way back to Roseburg, roughed up and windows in the car broken. Terrors of To Be Tigment of Imagination' Washington - (UPD - Swiss scientist Jacques Piccard says that his record seven - mile dive to the bottom of the Pa cific ocean in a U.S. Navy Bathyscaph convinced him the terrors of the deep "seem largely a figment of the imag ination." He also told United Press International that the Bathy scaph, a steel sphere feet in diameter, would lead the way to development of sub marines that could operate "deeper and deeper" in the ocean vastness. Descended 37.800 Feet The Bathyscaph went 47 MISS PHOTOFLASH Miss Charlene Lundberg, 19, of Joliet, 111., was crowned Miss Photoflast of 1960 at the annual contest sponsored by the Chicago Press Photographers' Association. Miss Lundberg is five feet, six inches tall and measures 34-23-35. She will receive a trip to Hollywood where she will appear on a television program and will also preside as Miss Dreamboat at the Chicago Boat Show. (UPI Telephoto) Wind, Rain Leave M inor Damage in Northern San Francisco-(UPD-A wind and ram storm left wide spread minor damage in "its wake through northern Cali fornia today, and two San Francisco bay area families mourned the loss of young boys lured to their deaths by the attraction of rushing water. A third death, that of Frenz William Pope, 57, of Tracy, Calif., may also have been caused by the storm. He fell to his death from a power pole near Tracy which he had climbed to repair a storm-damaged power line. The rains and strong winds slacked off Monday night, but the weather bureau predicted occasional rain today. Minor Flooding In the San Francisco bay area, where winds were clocked as high as 50 miles an nour during the storm, trees were damaged, power and telephone lines broken, and some minor flooding re ported. Three-year-old Peter Scott Monteith, son of a prominent San Francisco insurance bro ker, was swept away by the rushing waters of a drainage ditch near his Atherton Calif, home Monday morning. The boy slipped out of the house about 10 a.m. during a heavy rain. Michael Brown, 10, of San Jose, and two companions, were playing with improvised rafts on Guadalupe creek late Monday when Michael's raft capsized. His body was re covered from the stream a half hour later. In Marin county, winds up to 90 miles an hour were re corded on Mt. Tamalpais. Mainmast Broken The mainmast of the Nor wegian sailing vessel Gjoa, an historical trophy in Golden Gate park, San Francisco, was broken by the wind. In BA? Builders Supply QUALITY BLOCKS Drain Til Bricks, Flues 727 W. McAndrews Phone SP 3-4575 or SP 2-4107 r - 9 "v3l Ocean Depth Found times as deep in its record- breaking dive a week ago as conventional submarines oper ate at this time. It descended 37,800 feet in the Marianas Trench 210 miles southwest of Guam. Piccard, still in the Marian as, told UPI in a radioed in terview that he found red shrimp-like animals and flat bony fish swimming at the ocean bottom when he made his dive with U.S. Navy Lt.. Don Walsh, of San Diego. Through the six-inch plexi glass portholes of the Bathy scaph, aided by mercury vapor lamps that 'lit up the ocean California Burlingame the roof of the P. T. Hotchkiss residence was blown off and landed on a parked car. A 90-foot antenna was blown over in Sacramento. Homer's Nose in Califor nia's Sequoia National park got its name in 1872 when surveyors jokingly suggested the mountain resembled the nose of Joseph Homer, a mem ber of the surveying party. Maine lobstermen fish over 525,000 traps. Kt 'Wand 4 Pt. depths, the scientist was able to make out shrimp-like ani mals one inch long swimming six feet off the bottom. Brilliant While He also saw a type of flat fish one foot long. "It was definitely a true teleost fish (the group com prising most living fishes) and was not an elasmobranch (the group including sharks and rays with cartilagenous skel etons)," he said. The fish were brilliant white, nearly like silver, Pic card said, and were swimming at the level of the "ooze" or "dust" detected at the ocean bottom. Piccard said this was more than 12,000 feet deeper than fish previously were known to have been seen. He described the sediment at the ocean bottom as ivory white and easily stirred up. A marine geologist, ha said, identified it as a tropical type of diatom - microscopic algae occurring in fresh and salt water and in soil. Deeper and Deeper Piccard said that calcula tions still were being made to be certain of the depth the Bathyscaph achieved but it was, in any event, "deeper than any previous known spot in the world." He was asked whether the Bathyscaph, Greek for "deep boat," was a forerunner of submarines able to go to great depths. He answered: "As airplanes must for ever go higher and higher, submersibles must go deeper and deeper. The terrors of the inky, crushing, frigid abyss would seem largely a figment of the imagination." Life, aided by technical means of protecting itself can accommodate itself to the pressures of the deep as it does to the rigors of flight at extreme altitudes, the scien tist said. Grange Notes Phoenix Grange The visitation meeting of the Phoenix Grange was held Jan. 26, with 99 members attending from all parts of the county. The evening started with a short entertainment program. Mrs. Amos McDaniels played a medley of waltzes on the piano followed by Mrs. Mat tesvillis Beard doing three vocal numbers accompanied by Mrs. McDaniels. Other musical numbers were Mrs, Fred Meadows and Mrs, Henry Nahss playing accordi ons while Meadows played the mandolin. A reading was given by Mrs. Raymond Cyr. During the business meet ing Roscoe Roberts, ' county deputy, reported on liability insurance. Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Grimes were elected to be come new members. Mrs. Bernice Janosky was reported ill. Refreshments were served by Mr. and Mrs. Claude Hut ton, Mr. and Mrs. Warren Loffer, Mr. and Mrs. Mervin Hixon and Mrs. Dinsmore. The Phoenix degree team was invited to put on the first and second degree work at Gold Hill, Feb. 3, at 8 p.m. The next visitation meeting will be at Central Point Grange, Feb. 5, at 8 p.m. Wtury Club mtucky "u -finest of Utucb bonk mis smooth 450 Of. NATIONAL DISTILLERS PRODUCTS COMPANY. NEW YORK 4-H Club News Jacksonville Club The January meeting of the Jacksonville 4-H club was held at the Smith home. The meeting was called to order by president Dick Wilson. Members discussed several ideas of raising money to put in the clubhouse. It was announced that the Beef club members were in vited to attend the next meet ing of the Antelope Beef club. There was some discussion on splitting the club into a live stock club and a home eco nomics club, at the present time the group meets togeth er. Refreshments were served by the Smith family. The club members liked their new meeting place and thanked Jim Smith for his work and efforts in remodeling his shop into a clubhouse for the 4-Hers. Pat Neal, Reporter. A REAL PEACH St. Paul, Minn. -0.TII- They may claim they believe in snow and ice but the current St. Paul winter carvnival's Miss Majorette of America is a languid beauty, Barbara Emminger, 19, from the Uni versity of Georgia. it x f & 1831 The first home loan hy a Savings aid Loan Association was granted to a lamplighter in Frankford, Pennsylvania, now part of Philadelphia. Last year, Insured Savings and Loan Associations like ours, made home loans to more American families than did all other financial institutions combined .. .well over 1 million loans totaling $15 billion. Whether you are opening a savings account for a down payment on a home of your own or want financing to buy or build your home, we suggest you see us first. CURRENT DIVIDEND 4 PER ANNUM Open a Savings Account Now FIRST FEDERAL Savings & Loan Assn. cf Bedford 29 North Ivy Street Robert F. Ky!e, Manager I) I ) KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WH'SKLY.86 PROOF MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Tuesday, Feb. 2, 1960 Russian Boats Said In Yukon Vicinity ".Vashington 1TPI1 Sen War ren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.) said Monday he had learned through the Bureau of Fish eries that 50 Russian fishing boats were in the North Pa cific, near the Yukon river and north of Bristol Bay. Magnuson said the Russian boats were located nearly in the path of the salmon run that will head for the Yukcn, and about 200 miles away from the route the Bristol Bay fish will travel. He said the boats appar ently were equipped for bot tom fishing, but could ready themselves for salmon by simply changing gear. San Diego - HT'i - Dallas Shalben Akers. 52. asserted he was a "modern-day Robin Hood'' when he was arrested on burglary charges. But po lice said his dealings with the poor didn't fill the bill. "Ac tually. Akers sold the items he stole at a discount to the poor." said Detective Vernon Hyatt. "I don't think he's much of a 'Robin Hood'." 'v B v -J ft 2 1 ,,,, . ? - r- 4 i- ,M H "53 ' - Mi J ft 1 I WW mm 1 i
