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Imprisoned Bishop's Read Like By HERBERT G. SPENCER United Press International Vatican City-(DPD-"They have isolated me as if I were a contagious leper. "They are trying to tear the faith out of the hearts of priests and faithful. ." Thus did Roman Catholic Bishop Simon Tsu describe his last, hard years in Com munist China years that brought increasing persecu tion, house arrest and finally death at the age of 91. Trees ... By JOHN GRIBBLE (Editor's note: The fol lowing comments on trees, particularly those adapta ble to street use in Medford. have been prepared by John Gribble, well - known re tired forester, and will be run ia a series during the 'tree planting season" here, aow vnder way.) Paul's Scarlet Hawthorne, Crataegus oxyacantha Pauli. This is the "May"of English literature. This haw, only 15 ft. tell, grows wild in Europe anl North Africa. It has stout jines one inch long. The ftrotd triangular leaves, 34 to inches long, are wedge qfhtped at base, with 3 to 5 wad lobes. The fruit is scar let and has two stones. ?here are three or four va rious of this hawthorne which have dark red, light red, tnd bright scarlet double f lovers. the Crataegus oxyacantha Ituli, is for Mt. Pitt ave. and Hurray ave., 40 to 50 feet ipert, on Narcissus, 50 to 60 tt apart, and on Winchester, JO to 50 feet apart. IMMEDIATE MODELS Af Medford Motors Two Door Sedan ...:....$! 998 Four Door Sedan $2053 Two Door Wagon $2310 Four Door Wagon $2365 Plus Freight Frank Girl The two telling sentences were contained in 1 e 1 1 e rs smuggled from the church man's closely guarded resi dence near Nanking. The Vat ican released the entire cor respondence Tuesday, more than a year after the last letter was received, saying it came from the pen of a "martyr." Tsu, ordained by Pope Pius XI in 1926 as one of the first Chinese bishops, refused until the last to knuckle under to his country's new Communist masters. He rejected attempts to per suade him to join the "pa-triots"-a pseudo-religious or ganization designed to replace loyal Roman Catholic church men with those faithful to the Communist Party. Even when the Communists "re tired" him in 1958, he refused to surrender the cross and ring which were symbols of his office under the Pope. Read Like Frank Diary In many ways Bishop Tsu's letters read like the diary of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who was forced to live with her family in an attic to es cape Nazi persecution and who finally died in a con centration camp in the last days of World War II. Some excerpts: March 23, 1956: "Since Sept. 8, 1955 I have been de nied all liberty. Guarded and confined to my room. Repeat- 4-H NEWS Daffy Dills The monthly meeting of the Daffy Dills 4-H club was held at Mrs. C. W. Anhorn's home Saturday, March 5. Cheryl Swanson read a poem. The yearbooks were passed out; they were made by Cheryl Swanson, Patti McCue. and Carolyn Sidener. We went to the Crater Greenhouse, which Ken Mea dows showed to us. He show ed us how to seed and water a flat. Refreshments were served by Linda, Barbara and Susie Vincent. Then we fixed up a display for 4-H week in the Variety Show window. James Anhorn, Reporter COMET iO)J UiJ Li Last Word s Diary ed pressure is being put on me to join the patriots. . . I have obstinately refused. For a month and a half. . . under the strict surveillance of an armed guard in my house. I had to undergo interroga tions each day. They reviled me. . ." Dec. 5, 1957: "I still have eight priests in prison. . . one died. . . All the sisters are very courageous. . . pray for us and have many others pray. . ." March 3, 1958: "Certain of my associates have been hyp notized by our friends . . ." June 3, 1958: "I am still alive despite the continuous attacks and vexations. . . It is due to my age that I am not in prison. But I am equiv alents guarded and spied upon." Condemned as Reactionary Sept. 3, 1958: "I am con demned as a political reac tionary because I have disap proved of the attacks against the Pope. . . They have iso lated me as if I were a con tagious leper. . . My priests are stopped from seeing and consulting me. . . I am kept in solitary confinement. I beg you to help me by your pray ers. . . That the hour of de liverance may be hastened." Jan. 15, 1959: "Pray and have others pray much for the Catholic religion in China. The future is very dis turbing. They are trying to tear the faith out of the hearts of priests. . . I am still in quarantine in Haimen and the isolation is almost total." That was the final letter from Bishop Tsu. Recently word arrived that his "hour of deliverance" had 'come. He was dead. HOW TO DO IT Houston, Tex. -(UPD- Nearly everybody wants to know how you've lived so long when you reach the age of 110. John Henry Brett of Houston explains his longevi ty by saying, "I try to do by everybody like I want them to do by me." Chicago '- (UPD - Commercial airline pilots over 60 years old became victims of the jet age Tuesday when the Feder al Aviation Agency ordered them grounded. the BRIGHT NEW LOOK . . . RIGHT NEW SIZE ... Comet has fine car styling for the economy-wise, and it's priced squarely within the range of the smaller American cars! Comet is two feet shorter than conventional cars, yet its 1 1 4-inch wheelbase is just right for sure-footed stability and a feeling of solid security. , They 11 Do It Every In summer, the raineckers irritate the neighbors passing bv with- this gimmick Old Wall Street Adage Getting Workout on Revision Forecasts By ELMER C. WALZER UPI Financial Editor New York (UPD The old Wall Street adage that when any group is unanimous in any thing it usually is wrong is get i n g quite a workout these days. Recall back not long ago late 1959 -when there was monoton ous unanimi Elmer Walzer ty that 1960 would be a bois terous year of business gain, embellished by a new spurt in the bull market. Those predictions, in line with the admonition of the old adage, were wrong. Things just didn't shape up as pre dicted. Then came a new set which, in their unanimity, boiled down to this: The year 1960 will be a good year but not a sensational one. We'll have new production records with out the zip predicted earlier. Steady Decline Here is what happened: The stock market fell steadily to bright Time -- Well.now the sprinklers out of season-so they come up with a new sidewalk hurdle 'lM Inc. ''' new lows for more than a year, and business wavered on several fronts,- notably steel and automobiles. Rails lacked vitality. Then came a revision of the revision of the predictions. The latest revision forecast a big push. "Everyone is waiting for a brisk spring recovery in busi ness," says Humphrey B. Neill, "so probably everybody will be disappointed." Neill is an advocate of con trary opinion. In fact as the old Vermont ruminator he in vented this expression. He publishes his material under the title "Neill Letters of Con trary Opinion." Just now he sees the lead ing indicators suggesting "that business activity is likely to turn down, rather than up, this spring." He doesn't follow the Dow theory which recently signal ed the beginning of a bear market, but he deems the tim ing of that signal important and he would hesitate to ig nore it. He holds it confirms, or will confirm, "the delusion of un interrupted booms.. a brand new car by the new star of the new-size cars By Jimmy Hatlo "It also dispells the illusion that the 1960's will witness an other plateau of permanent prosperity which we heard so much about 31 years ago. Changing Viewpoint "It is going to be difficult to keep from weather vaning - from shifting your view point back and forth. "Don't be in too much of a hurry to shift your contrary opinions. Thoughtless think ers will talk about 'overdone pessimism,' and 'Wall Street is crying the blues,' and so on. Recall that just before the market spill, street opinions were counting on an inter mediate recovery to last into spring. "So I suggest you hold our former contrary opinions at least until we see if business men pull back, now that the Dow theory has given its bear ish confirmations.' "Businessmen will restudy their programs, and we may soon have another confirma tion: "That the generally expect ed recession of 1961 has al ready commenced in the first half of 1960." Many a conservative agrees Lincoln-Mercury On the inside there's living room for six passengers. (Lavish is the word for Comet fabrics and appointments). You ride in quiet, too with sound hushing, heavy insula tion all around. y Sedan or wagon Comet is just right for you! Plan to .come in Thursday to see your next car! Length of Umbilical Cord Gives Insight Into Human History By DELOS SMITH UPI Science Editor New York -(UPD Two scien tists were seeking new facts about a basic circumstance of parlv human life when they set out to de t e r mine by stati s t i c a 1 means, how long an um bilical cord must be to as sure the safe and normal Delos Smith deliverv of a mother and her child. They found it could be as short as seven inches or as long as 48 but the usual length is around 21 inches. To the scientists this gave an insight into the unknown primitive history of . the race when human beings were born without the help of doc tors or midwives, and most likely into a danger-filled en vironment. Well Adapted "In most mammals the um bilical cord is reasonably well adapted to the immediate post - natal requirements of mother and child," the scien tists reported. "We suggest that while the length of the cord is, within wide limits, unimportant for gestation and parturition (birth),, there may be an advantage .immediately after the birth of a child in having a long cord. "We submit the theory that the human cord is long in order to allow the mother to pick up her helpless newborn child and carry it away from danger without exerting harmful traction- on the pla centa. "Further, a cord of more than 18 inches will allow the child to be put to the breast with the placenta in utero and that the reflex stimula- with the contrary opinion conclusions of Neill up to a point. Not a few, however, be lieve that the mere fact that the market has been disap pointing so many will pro duce the caution necessary to prevent excesses that could set off a recession. Division of Ford Full price $1998.00 Freight. .$ 119.25 MEDFORD PRICE..$21 17.25 tion of suckling may promote an easy third stage." The placenta is the medical name given to the temporary organ to which the other end of the umbilical cord is at tached and which is the inter mediary between a mother and her unborn child. Its dis card is the third and final stage of labor. The scientists are C. W. Walker and B. Gillian Pye of Cambridge University, Eng land. Their statistics came from measurements of the umbilical cords of infants born in spontaneous normal deliveries in a maternity hos pital over a period of five months. - Most text books say a cord of less than 14 inches is not compatiable with normal de livery. In their series, this was not the case. The author ities also assert that where the cord is relatively long, it will be looped around the baby, usually its neck, in about one third of the cases. The scientists found it was looped around the neck in about 17 per cent of theirs, and in most instances did not endanger the infant as it was being born. 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They also found that the length of the cord was not related to the height or weight of the mother; to whether she was having her first chile or her ninth; to her age or her blood composition; nor to ih length of her pregnancy. These negative findings were why they reported that the length of the cord seemed to have nothing to do with gestation or birth. They re ported, however, that the mean lengths of the cords of boys was an inch or so greater than of girls. They did not know what this meant, if any thing. Bloody Mary 80 PROOF. E5 "oeeo" 6 MEPFCMD Your Dependable Mercury-Lincoln-Comet-Willys Dealer 225 . overside, RMiford If 111 1 I I I I I I 171 1 INCORPORATED t 4- ii ii ii ii ii ii r xx
