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
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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!"
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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'."
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