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Drug Recommended
As Childbirth Aid
Mexico City-(Science Serv
ice) - Numorphan, a new syn
thetic derivative of morphine,
is more effective and safer
for use during childbirth than
other analgesics, or pain kill
er?, uch i meperidine, ec
cording to a report at the Pan
American Medical association
meeting here.
Drs. Donald L. Snow and
Edward Satlenspiel, of the
Maricopa County General hos
pital, Phoenix. Ariz., present
ed a paper showing that
high percentage of patients
obtained marked relief from
pain and discomfort faster
than possible with other
drugs. Shortened labor and
an almost negligible depress
ing effect on infants are nota
ble advantages.
Previous studies showed a
close relationship between in
fant suffocation at birth and
later defects in children caus
ed by analgesic drugs requir
ing strong doses. Numorphan,
discovered and produced by
E n d o laboratories of Rich
mond Hill, N. Y., was given
to 349 patients in labor dur
ing the study, which was un
dertaken on all obstetric pa
tients admitted to the Mari
copa hospital from Oct. 1,
1959, to April 15. 1960. Ages
of the women ranged from 13
to 42.
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Small Worlds
Around Us
By Lynn M. Welkin
to frib right end left; we
could see tht silvery flash
of small fish in the birds'
bills. They were chumming:
deliberately baiting the fish
to father around within easy
reach of their darting beaks.
It was an interesting spec
tacle, and It brought up
many omsiions for which
there are no answers.
Would it be sensible to be
lieve that some wise old sea
gull, more observant than
his mates, some time or oth
er, watched a human fisher
man crumbling up bread and
chumming the water to lure
A school of minnows over
his waiting net? How else
would a sea gull know that
bread crumbs were good for
such a purpose? Perhaps as
sociation of ideas, or imita-
MAIL TRIIUNI, Meffertl. Or.
Friday. Mar 11.
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tion of others' actions, are
not entirely exclusive hu
man traits after all.
(Rslaiad by The Register
and Tribune Syndicate. 1960)
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ACTRESS IN HOSPITAL - Motion picture actress Kim No
vak, undergoing a physical checkup, sniffs a white rose in
Doctor's Hospital at New York. The 27-year-old actress
complained she hadn't been feeling well for about a month,
and her doctor ordered her to the hospital. He believes she
is suffering from fatigue. (UPI Telephoto)
Alaska Seeking
Walrus Islands
Juneau, Alaska - (UPD - Alas
ka's Gov. William A. Egan
has described state action to
obtain the Walrus Islands in
Bristol Bay as a major step
in a firm conservation pro
gram for the 49th state.
A claim for the group of Is
lands, just off the coast of
Alaska, has been filed under
the state's land selection pro
gram by the department of
natural resources. The request
for the claim was made by
the Alaska Board of Fish and
Game.
The islands are frequented
each summer by a herd of
1,000 to 3,000 walruses and
represent the last remaining
site under the United States
flag where walruses haul out
on land.
FPC Said Neglecting
Job of Regulating
Power Industry
The five largest United
States corporations in sales
and assets are General Motors,
Standard Oil of New Jersey,
Ford Motor Company, United
States Steel Corporation and
General Electric Company.
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LIVER ' MEAT
KIDNEY' MEAT
CHICKEN
MEATY MIX
CHOPPED FISH
Washington (UPD - Rep.
John D. Dingell called the
Federal Power Commission
an "irresponsible do-nothing"
agency which is neglecting its
job of regulating the power
industry.
The attack by the liberal
Michigan Democrat came as
House investigators held hear
ings on whether there have
been back-door attempts to in-
Business Paper
Plans Pacific Issue
New York - T!PD - The Jour
nal of Commerce will issue
its first Pacific edition Satur
day in Tokyo for service to
Far Eastern subscribers, it
was announced today.
Publisher Eric Ridder said
the initial 24-page issue will
be the second major expan
sion move by the Journal of
Commerce in six months. In
December, 1959, the business
daily inaugurated its Euro
pean edition, distributed from
Holland.
The Pacific edition will be
printed by the Nihon Keizai
Shimbun, a Japanese business
paper. The editorial comment
will be the same as in the
international edition now
printed in New York.
Ridder said studies are un
derway "looking toward the
creation of a Latin American
edition."
HARK! SHE HARKED
Hickman, Ky. - (CPU - Mrs.
Bearl Darnell, wife of the
Fulton county school super
intendent, has been indicated
by a grand jury on charges
of trying to eassdrop on a
school board meeting to de
cide whether to renew her
husband's contract. The in
dictment charged that Mrs.
Darnell "did crawl or wrig
gle her way on her all fours
into a tiny crevice under the
floor of the meeting house
and did then and there harken
after the discourse . . ."
How Did Tha Ses Culls
Know Enough To Fish?
It took sixty loaves of
bread and three entire days'
time to prove it, and none
of the bread we cast upon the
waters ever came back: but
the fishes did and so did the
sea gulls.
Several careful observers
had told us that the sea gulls
use bread for something else
besides filling for their stom
achs. On the strength of these
arguments we decided to cast
any quantity of bread neces
sary to satisfy our curiosity
about what we should have
believed in the first place.
Sea gulls prefer fish to any
LINCOLN AUTHORITY DIES
Madison, Wis. - lUPH - Louis
W. Bridgman. 77, nationally
known authority on Abraham
Lincoln and retired editor for
the University of Wisconsin
extension division, died
Wednesday.
Half of the fresh oranges
exported from the United
States last year were sold to
Canada. Most of the rest went
to the Netherlands, Belgium
and West Germany.
fluence the FPC's rate-fixing
decisions.
Dingell said the inquiry by
the House subcommittee on
legislative oversight "high
lights a particularly unsavory
situation" in the FPC. He re
ferred to a system which al
lows natural gas pipeline
companies seeking rate boosts
to proceed with increasing
their charges temporarily
pending a decision by the
FPC.
New Petitions Due
By this, he said pipeline
firms have collected $662 mil
lion through "self-imposed
rale increases which have not
yet been passed on" by the
FPC. This will climb past $1
billion later this year as pipe
lines file new rate boost pe
titions faster than the agency
rules upon them.
"This immense backlog of
pending gas rate cases stems
in almost equal parts trom
lack of ability on the part of
members of the commission
and from an outright disin
terest in any real or effective
regulation of the industry," he
charged.
"The inaction, disinterest
and disregard of responsi
bility in this agency have
caused hardship on the con
sumers and on the industry
regulated alike," Dingell said.
He said experience has
shown that only about 40 per
cent of these rate hikes even
tually will be allowed and the
balance later ordered refund
ed to consumers. Meanwhile,
however, the pipelines are
free to use the money col
lected temporarily for ex
pansion, he said.
To Continue To Climb
Dingell said pipeline rate
boosts have run 20 to 40 per
cent and will continue to
climb as long as the FPC runs
its shop "in this slapdash,
slovenly and irresponsible
manner."
He listed the Tennessee Gas
Transmission Co. as the leader
in increasing rates, with three
boosts totaling $70,700,000 a
year - a 36 per cent hike
since 1957.
Tennessee Gas Transmission
is the parent firm of Mid
western Gas Transmission
Co., which figures prominent
ly in the House hearings. A
key topic of the investigation
is off-record talks by Thomas
G. (Tommy the Cork) Corcor
an, one-time New Deal brain
truster and now a lawyer for
Midwester, with FPC mem
bers while the firm had a
case pending before the
agency.
High Court Rules
On Local Cases
Among the opinions hand
ed down Wednesday by the
Oregon supreme court were
two cases which had been ap
pealed from Jackson county.
The supreme court upheld
a rule by the former Circuit
Judge H. K. Hanna in a 1957
case in which a new trial had
been ordered after a juror in
the assault and battery trial
was charged with misconduct.
The suit was brought by
Clifford Eckel, by his guard
ian Paul O. Eckle, Happy
Valley dr., Medford, against
John J. Breeze, 921 Murray
ave.
The supreme court also af
firmed Judge Hanna's ruling
setting aside $5,000 damages.
The opinion was written by
Justice George Rossman.
A new trial was also order
ed for the case of John B.
Hamacher, Medford and San
Francisco, against Earl S.
Tumy and Gilbert S. Tumy,
Medford.
The opinion, written by
Justice Keith O'Connel, re
verses a ruling in favor of the
broker by Circuit Judge Ed
ward C. Kelly.
The action brought by Ham
acher, a sawmill operator, is
against the insurance brokers
to recover $33,430 in a fire
loss not reimbursed by insur
ance due to alleged failure
of the broker to procure ad
ditional coverage.
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Portland (UPD Palmberg
Construction Co., Astoria, Was
low of three bidders at $35,
800 for maintenance dredging
frnm tho Florence and North
Fork Shoals in the Siuslaw
river upstream from the Flor
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ether ii.r.i ct feed. Both to
day's gulls and their ancestors
were brought up on a diet of
seafood. Only within the last
few years has other food, such
as bread, popcorn, and crack
ers in generous quantities
been offered them.
So for three days we arriv
ed early on the beach loaded
with bread. We fed the gulls
all they could eat. The ate
until they choked and had to
wash the dry crusts down
with seawater. When com
pletely full most of them sat
down on the warm sand,
shut their eyes and went to
sleep. They woke up hun
gry. We were there to pass
out more bread. All they
had to do was eat, and eat
they did. For three days this
went on.
By noon of the third day
we could see that we were
getting somewhere. Many of
the gulls were beginning to
show a reluctance to eat.
Several of them just sat on
the sand and looked at half
a slice of bread without eat
ing. Then some of them
would grab a piece and fly
away, cruising close to the
water's surface. Selecting a
likely spot they came to rest.
Begin lo Grab
Through our glasses we
watched the birds breaking
up the bread and dropping
it. Then for a few minutes
they sat very still on the
water. Suddenly they began
'Shooting Stars'
Pieces of Comets
Washington - (Science Serv
ice) - All the "shooting stars"
bright enough to be seen by
the naked eye are caused by
tiny bits of comets hurtling
through the earth's atmos
phere. Comets also supply most of
the tiny particles known as
meteoroids that may be a
danger to operating space ve
hicles, Dr. Fred L. Whipple.
director of the Smithsonian
Institution's Astrophysical ob
servatory, Cambridge. Mass.,
reported to the National Acad
emy of Sciences here. The
definite determination of the
source of meteors in the visual
range is based on analysis of
several hundred meteor pho
tographs taken with the Baker
Super - Schmidt cameras in
New Mexico. The cometary
meteors are extremely fragile,
and the density varies greatly
from one meteor to another.
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Telephones Mayor
Dallas, Tex. - X'PR - A fast-
talking young man arrested
for speeding had the brash
ness to telephone Dallas May
or R. L. Thornton in the mid
dle of the night and demand
release from jail.
Jerry Mixon, 20, told the
mayor he was the son of City
Councilman George Mixon.
The mayor got the chief of
police to order the release of
his caller.
The next day police discov
ered that Jerry Mixon was
not the son of the city coun
cilman and had been arrested
before for not having a driv
er's license and using loud
mufflers on his car. He was
arrested again.
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