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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. THURSDAY, JULY 21. 1000 They'll Do It Every Time Vju take great pleasure in purposely missinis a program that 6ivesm3u a pain in the neck' .. By Jimmy Hatlo Then everybody au. day long insists on rehashing it blow by blow ad infinitum and then some Appendix Said Useful For Cancer Victims nOPETRIFIEd jjjLSS" NTORTHATfe l? EE-CASPER PUNK PRESENTS KTZN cSpR SarSSn?- ,t0I l THE SPECIAL Aii.1$VrV he slips on A 1 WITH THIS RICH SPECULAR.. Y "A 1 i BANANA PEEL- ,HEc I DIMWI0DV5 DEMISE" 1 f?Is LA RALLS INTO THIS . &NJa?HE. I STARRIN6 CASPER A sl l 1 REVOLVING DOOR- V WAS ALIVE J lBWT: p V THENS Letter Describes Conditions In Leopoldville, The Congo (Edltor'i note: The follow ing are excerpts from a let in dated July 12 from Rue- , tell Ultich. ion of Mn. . Lewis Uliich. 839 Minne (ota are., Medford. who ii an asiistant (uperiniendent of meteorology for Pan American Air lines. Ulrica was recently caught in the , strife-torn area of Leopold Title, in the Republic of. Congo. Africa, and has writ ten his experiences to his mother. He had been in the area while on a business trip along with two other Pan Am employees, who all took refuge in the American embassy, and finally evacu ated by the Military Trans port service. By RUSSELL ULRICH We left Johannesburg (South Africa) on Tuesday, July 5, on a French Airline . . -,' to Brazzaville. This is the city across from the Beligum Con go city of Leopoldville. We arrived late in the afternoon, too late to catch the last boat for Leopoldville so we spent the night Brazzaville. ' The next morning ... we took the ferry to Leopoldville end met our station manager (Pan Am official) who show ' ed us around the city and out to the airport where we conducted our business . . . We got a good briefing on the political situation in the Con go which at the time was fairly quiet. Thursday we conducted more business and heard rumors that the Army was dissatisifed with its Belgian officers and also there were numerous groups of people gathering to listen to speeches in the street . . . As yet there was no evidence of trouble, Friday Lost Day Friday was a lost day which started out with all of us hav ing to prove at breakfast to an armed Congolese soldier who could neither read nor write that we were not Bel gian officers. It seems that during the night the Army had revolted against the Bel gian officers and they were rounding them , all up. One fellow got taken away just be cause he had khaki pants on- he was later released. From then on the day was full of bad news as we heard the airport was taken over by the Army and closed so our plane had to return to Johannesburg . . . stranding us completely. Also the boat to Brazzaville was closed so there was no way out of the Congo . . . We stood by the PAA office which was in the hotel where we were staying, along with a lot of Congolese ministers, and watched the troops go by in jeeps and trucks and loads of Belgians headed for their em bassy across the street from the hotel. , ' Needless to say the rumors ware terrifflc, - particularly since there was . shooting across the street caused by trigger happy soldiers being careless with their guns. Center of Activity The hotel where we are staying is right in the center of all the activitiy and an NOW OPEN ONE OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST'S FINEST CuXURY MOTOR HOTELS REATHTAKINGLY BEAUTIFUL jBf . j Heated Sieomnwwj Pool Dining e Cockull Lounge Open to the Public On Hlfbway M .1 1 CaHa. Im, lvlaf .. . a M lelMfMlnitawiM tMlk f 1.1..., OnfN Far rtaarvatlafla, write' ' THI VILLA OC 6RIIN f. O. m, C.H.f . Cravt, Onfaa, a. aha,,; WHHnty 1-MM open air cafe in front of the hotel provided a good place to sit and watch until things got too hot and too many soldiers were waving guns around. Our airport manager made it out to the airport to tell the plane not to stop here but on the way back he was pulled out of the car several times by soldiers and roughed up a bit so he stopped half way back to town and held up in a hotel . ... He is a Brit isher who speaks French and could be easily mistaken for a Belgian officer. These are the fellows that the Congolese Army is after. Also photo graphers, we saw several ci vilians stripped of their cam eras and searched for arms. The city is very tense to night with jeep loads of sol diers patrolling the streets and it would take little to set the entire situation off in a big explosion where people could get hurt. Separate for Night Clark Bassett, Dick Arvld- son (PAA. associates) and I have been sticking together but our rooms are not adjoin ing so we had to separate for the night with a rendevous at breakfast, if there is any rood by. then. Have no idea of when we will be able to get out of here, the next PAA plane is a week from today. We hope to get across the river to Brazzaville and to get a plane to anywhere from there. Saturday, July 9 Today is much of a repetition of yester day but we have moved tem porarily to the American Em bassy a few blocks from the hotel. Because of the crowds around the . . . PAA office, the PAA manager decided to move the office to the Embas sy since any evacuation of personnel would be organized from this place. Last night was quiet except for the Army trucks patrol ling up and down and only a few occasional shots. Our air port manager got safely- in from the hotel near the air port where he spent the night locked in his room. Land at Brazzaville Our plane yesterday land ed at Brazzaville across the river in French territory, at least it used to be French and is now independent; there were no passengers to pick up so they flew on to Luanda in Portuguese Angola and! Pasudonn, Calif. (Science Service) - The appendix, long considered nti obsolete organ, may have a purpose after oil, It may help save cancer victims. Research conducted here by California Institute of Tccli- nology inmiuiinlogist Dr. Die tcr H. Sussdorf indicates that the appendix may piny an important role in the body's defenses agnlnst infection This fact Is particularly rele vant to radintion therapy for cancer, in which high doses of total body radiation often temporarily- paralyze the In- fection-fighting system. Heart Defects Told Before Birth Chicago - (Science Service) - Heart block in three unborn babies has been diagnosed with an electrocardiograph. Drs. Saul D. Larks, Uni versity of California, Los An geles, and Lawrence Longo of the Los Angeles County Gen eral hospital reported in the Journal of the American Med ical association that this unique use of the electro cardiograph may permit sur geons to prepare for corrective surgery immediately after de livery. , They said the technique may help uncover the cause of such inborn defects. Recent improvements in the use of the electrocardiograph permit physicians to make accurate charts of the current produced bv the contraction of an in fant's heart muscle as early as the 22nd week of preg nancy. - PAA made a good try to get Americans out. About 2 p.m. we found out that the boats to Brazzaville were running again so all of the PAA people left the Amer ican Embassy and drove to the docks where we were pas sed through customs and im migration and on to the boat. It left at 2:30 and IS minutes later we were safely in Braz zaville. The dock was quite a sight all was directed to ward the accommodation of the hundreds of whites that were arriving by boats and the American Embassy was on the job collecting baggage and getting everyone onto trucks to go to a French military camp .where . we would be housed until we got out We separated from the rest took taxis out to the airport to see what planes were avail able, but all planes were shuttling back and forth be tween Brazzaville and Leo poldville bringing out Europeans- About 6:30 p.m. a hugh USAF Globemaster came in from Tripoli and it was de-. cided to fly us all to Accra, Ghana,, the next day in this plane. On Straw Mattresses We went to . . . the Foreign Legion barracks to spend the night on straw mattresses and under mosquitoes nets. All of the hotels were completely jammed with refugees . . . the French were very hospit able and helpful as were the black Congolese on the French side of the river. About 11 a.m. we went out to the air port and at 1:30 p.m. we all 65 Americans and Belgians got aboard the C-129 USAF Globemaster. We arrived there (Accra) about 7 p.m. lha' evening. All planes out of Ghana to ward New York were sold out with long waiting lists so we found space on a BOAC plane going north across the desert to Rome. We left at 6 p.m. Monday and made one no one had made it to there! stop in Kano, Nigeria, and ar- so they-came back to Brazza ville and still no evaucees had made it across the river, so the- plane continued on to ward New York. At least rived at Rome at 6 a.m. Tues day. We checked into a hotel for about, six hours, then at 3:30 p.m.- left for Paris on a Pan Am jet. ' Before the body recovers enough to fight buck, bacteria and foreign substances culled antigens may run rampant, and the victim may dio - not of cancer but of infection. For this reason, paralysis of the antibody - producing mechan ism is a major cause of radia tion deaths. , Groator Protection Systematically cover ing with lead shields one organ and then another, durum ra diation "treatment (or cancer, Dr. busuclorf found that shield ing only the appendix gave greater protection than did shielding of any other single organ. The puzzling thing was that the appendix itself is not di rcctly Involved in antibody formation. From this Dr. Suss dorf concluded that the up- nendi some how hud some thing to do with the spleen's nblllty to recover from radin tion dnmngc. The spleen is a blood-storing orgun rich in lymphoid tissue and is usually the first organ to react against infec tion by producing anti-bodies. After the spleen has triggered the defense mechanism, the Business Bureau Warns Buyers New York ttlPD - The Na tional Better Business bureau has warned buyers to beware of "Buy One - Get One Free" deals. In a bulletin to Its members, the NBBB said it had found after a nationwide investiga tion of current advertising of "two gallons of paint for the price of one," that such deals are deceptive if two units are laways uttered at a single stated price. " A question arises as to whether this method of sell ing paint, or any other com modity, involves the sale of one unit and the gift of an. other, or whether, in reality, two units at a time are reg ularly and customarily sold for a single stated price, said Kenneth B. Willson, NBBB president. Willson said the bureau be lieves that public understand ing of "Two-for-One-Sales" Is that, for a limited time, two articles are being offered for the usual price at which one has been' sold as a single unit in the recent regular course of business. - ..... "When two articles are al ways offered together for a stated price, and cannot be secured individually in the normal course of business," he said, "the customary unit of sale is two, and to imply that the state price is the regular price for one, and the other is tree Is fallacious. Mercury Capsule Has Glass Shield Corning, N.Y. -(Science Service) - Thin shields of glass will be used on the Mer cury capsule in which one of the U.S.'s seven astronauts will orbit the earth. Corning Glass Works reported here that the firm is making the shields to protect transmit ting and receiving antennas but permit their radio signals to pass. The firms 96 per cent silica glass will form a ring about . the neck of the capsule. This glass will not break even when plunged from high heat into Icy water. Radio signals streaming back to earth through the an tenna shields will carry criti cal information about the chosen astronaut's heart rate, blood pressure and body tem perature. 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