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o Monday, decbmber s. i960 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. J4 :- 5 I . ; - - i vtl M Kf V- 1 ' DRUG' CHANGES COLOR Dr. Robert Stoler, a Washing ton, D.C., skin specialist, is shown after he produced evi dence at a meeting of the American Medical Association that a drue called "monobenzyl some cases can make white white. He was accompanied to Negro woman who said that been white for 15 years. Medford High School Girls Win Sweepstakes Award At Speech Tournament Medford High school speech students returned victoriously early Sunday morning from the annual Pacific University high school speech tournament in Forest Grove. v DeVere Taylor, MHS debate coach, announced today the winning of two trophies, sev eral top winners, and numer ous finalists. Some 24 high school speakers made the three-day trip. The students left by char tered bus Thursday afternoon with several debators from Ashland High school and their Rebate coach, Herb Lewis. Tavlor accompanied the dele gation.. Participants competed in debate; extemporaneous speaking, oratory, and serious and humorous interpretative speaking. State GOP Picks Minority Leaders Salem - (UPI) - Sen. Anthony Yturri (R.-Ontario) and Rep. F. F. Montgomery (R-Eugene) will provide the Republican leadership at the 1961 Oregon legislature. ; Yturri and Montgomery were chosen here Saturday at separate Republican caucuses as minority leaders, respec tively, in the Senate and House. Montgomery was unani mously selected over Rep, Harry C. Elliott (R-Tillamook) and Yturri was unopposed for reelection. Montgomery will succeed Rep. Robert Elfstrom, Salem, who did not seek reelection ' Montgomery i m m ediately announced that he would meet with the Democratic speaker as soon as one is named "in an effort to get good committee appointments for Republicans. jjjij Services at Perl's are a sacred responsibility. Iftrftil jj&V'E The smallest details are ScMIl cared for by competent I PERL '. Funeral Home ether of hydroquinone" in people black or black people the meeting by s white-skinned under his treatment she had (UPI Telephoto) Saturday evening at the presentation of awards, Med ford was presented with the first place sweepstakes award in the women's division. The trophy is given to the school earning the most points by having top winners in the di vision, In addition, two Medford women's debate teams tied for first place in women's divi sion debate. Top debators were Suzy Thomoson, Judy Sims, JoAnn Johnson and Nancy Duncan. Individual top winners in clude Sue Jahn, second, wom en's oratory: Jim Frake, sec ond', men's extemporaneous speaking, and JoAnn Johnson, third, women's serious inter pretative speaking. Other Finalists Judy Sims was also a final ist in women's extemporane ous competition, and Suzy Thompson and Sharon Koblik were semifinalists in the same event. Oratory semifinalists included Sandra Gannon and Marilyn Conrad, women's di vision, and Mike Phillips in men's division. Fred Lorish and Bill Dames were semifinalists in men's humorous interpretative speaking, according to the debate coach. Specific ratings and results of all speaking events are to be released by Professor A. C. Hingston, tourney director, later this week. Hingston said Saturday that some 595 stu dents from 40 Oregon high schools competed in the 15th annual contest. Hillsboro Man, 64, Killed in Accident Portland-IUPII-Clifton Jones Terry, 64, Hillsboro, was kill ed early Sunday in a one-car accident on Germantown ra about one mile west of Sky line blvd. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Financial note: Last year India converted its monetary system to the decimal system. South Africa changes in February. New Zealand expects to drop its pounds, shillings and pence system by 1964. There is even talk of Australia following suit at a not too distant date. WHY these changes? The answer is simple. These countries have imme morial!)' been usiug the ster ling system (known rather generally as the English sys tem) which has three basic monetary units-the pound, the shilling and the penny. A pound sterling equals 20 shillings. A shilling equals 12 pennies-or pence ra the plural. They're used to it, and hate to change. But- This system involves a lot of complication in the way of addition and subtraction when you make a purchase, tender more money than your pur chase comes to and then start to figure out how much change you have coming. T70R example: you're visiting London - as all Americans hope to do. Suppose you go into one of the big London stores and make a purchase amounting to 40 pounds, 12 shillings and 8 pence. Suppose you tender a 50 pound note in payment. Naturally, you want to know if you're getting back the right change. So you start to s u b t r a ct 40 pounds, 12 shillings and 8 pence from 50 pounds. If you put it down on paper, here is how your problem will look; L S P 50 0 0 40 12 8 Your job is to subtract the smaller sum (the amount of your purchase) from the larg er sum (the amount of money you tendered). In this illus tration, the L stands 'for pounds, the S for shillings and the P for pence. s O far, it all looks simple enough. But hold your breath. You ain't seen nothin' yet. XTATURALYY enough, you -l' start in at the right hand side, subtracting the 8 from the 0. Being an American, your thought is to borrow ONE from' the figure to the left, In the shilling column. Under the sterling system, that CAN'T BE DONE. You can't borrow just one penny. You have to borrow a WHOLE SHILLING. So you borrow one from the number of shillings. There are 12 pence in a shilling. So you put the 12 pence in the pence column. You then subtract 8 pence from 12 pence, leaving 4 pence. With that out of the way, you move over to the middle column. You can't subtract 12 from 0, so again you have to borrow. You have to borrow a whole pound from the pound column and there are 20 shillings in a pound. BUT you've already used ONE shilling in your pence column, so you put down 19 shillings in your middle column. That leaves only 49 pounds. DO . . . your final problem, as you have put it down on paper, will look like this after you have made your final subtraction: : L S 49 19 40 12 P 12 8 9 lyHICH is to say: ' ' You s h o uld get nine pounds, seven shillings and fourpence in change. If you want to prove you problem, to assure yourself you haven't been gypped, you can add the amount of your change to the amount of your purchase and if everything is on the up and up the total you get will ex actly balance the 50 pound note you tendered in payment. But, by this time, the chances are, it's TEA TIME. And, besides, your head is go ing round and round after your bout with the change fig ures. So you shove the nine quid, seven and fourpence into your pocket and hope for the best. ROBERTS, KELLINGTON, BRANCHFIELD and HEFFERNAN announce the removal of tbeir Law Offices from U.S. National Bank Building to STANDARD INSURANCE BLDG. ' 71 1 East Main Street Medford, Oregon December 1, 1960 -i : 4 S IT any wonder that India has already converted its pound, shillings and pence y s t e m to the decimal ystem and that South Africa, New Zealand and Australia are planning to do so soon? The wonder is that the British don't do it. I suppose the anwser is that the British are strong on tradition and the sterling system has a long tradition back of it. Besides, the British have adding and subtracting ma chines that handle the prob lem. WSSmnmmmmmmmMmwmmm mimmmmmmmMrmmmmn-mmmmi wimm mm nit CLAY STATUES FOUND Ex-jockey turn ed art dealer Bill Pearson sits among three of four life-size clay statues of an ancient king he uncovered during digging at Tierra Blanca, near Vera Cruz, Mexico. The sculp Flirtation Suggested As Substitute Men's Habit London-fflPD - Middle-aged men tempted to reach for a cigarette to ease the worries of everyday life were advised today to reach instead for a blonde, or a brunette. The suggestion came from a British medical expert who said that in his opinion there was nothing like a flirtation for taking a man's mind off his routine troubles. Dr. Alistair MacKinnon, 45, father of fvie children, offer ed his "don't smoke flirt" theory in an article in the medical cagazine, The Practi tioner. Seeker Healthier Vice In the article. Dr. MacKin non took the view that if mid dle-aged men must have a minor voice" they should try to find a healthier one than smoking for example, a light romance. 'I wouldn't suggest flirta tion as an alternative to smok ing for younger men, he said. That could be dangerous. Youth, he went on, could take up chess, or drink beer or engage in a series of "pla tonic" friendships, preferably Meeting Planned For New Association An organizational meeting of a northern California and southern Oregon Oregon Quar ter Horse owners association will be held in Grants Pass Monday, Dec. 12, at 8 p.m. at the fairgrounds. The group first met Nov. 29. Permanent officers will be elected and the meeting is open to all interested persons. Jim Wilson, Grants Pass, was elected temporary presi dent at the last meeting. Other officers serving on a tempo rary basis are Marvin Roark, vice president: Raymond Rice, secretary; and Cecil Norris, Medford; Phil Davis, Yreka Joe Burrow, Ashland, and Chester Eide, Grants Pass board of directors. Tentatively chosen as the name of the association is the State of Jefferson Quarter I Horse association. Salem Policeman Bitten on Seat But Gets His Man Salem - !PII - Salem Po liceman Herbert Hale said he was bitten on the seat of the pants by the man he arrested Sunday night. Hale came upon Robin Miimion Williams, 21, Greenville, Calif., sleeping in a parked car in north east Salem and woke him up. There began a struggle and Halo. had to sit on the man io handcuff him. That was when the offi cer was bitten. Williams was charged with disorderly conduct and carrying a concealed weap- tures of Totamacian culture from the fifth century, B.C., are placed at a value of $100, 000. Pearson came to light as an expert on art and sculpture on a TV quiz show. (UPI Telephoto) (or of Smoking several at the same time. At his home, Dr. MacKin non who is a nonsmoker- amplified his somewhat orig inal ideas. ' "People look upon smoking as a tranquillizer, tie said "For the man over 40 who shouldn't, smoke for health reasons I think flirting is a suitable alternative. "Smoking is said to be sign of emotional immaturity. Pleasant Relationship "This feeling of uncertainty could be conuteracted by a pleasant emotional relation like a flirtation. 'A man loves his wife more for having other women friends." Dr. MacKinnon may not know it but some housewives will not agree with him. Mrs. Audrey Tebble, for example, was asked by UPI what she would do if her husband gave up his cigarettes in favor of flirtations. "I'd wallop him," she de clared. I You Plus Personal Attention from Oregon Finance Company A HOME-OWNED INDEPENDENT COMPANY 32 years in tame location, Central & 8th GENE THOMAS, Mgr. OPEN SATURDAY MORNINGS DECEMBER 3, 10 and 17 ALWAYS MONDAY THRU FRIDAY TIL 5:30 ass HI Severe Storms Lash London - WPD - Britain and Europe staggered under the impact of violent prewinter storms today and prepared for worse to come. Reports indicated that at least six persons were killed as a result of the storm - two in England and four inA Hol land. Sixty - mile an hour gales with torrential rains swept coastal regions from France to Scandinavia over the week end and roared eastward as far-, as Austria. In Britain, it was regarded as one of the worst storms on record. In some places floods were the most devastating in more than a century. Bartender Forced To Give Drinks Silverton - (UPD Marion county sheriff's deputies said an armed man Sunday claim ed to be Johnny Yuma, a tele vision personality, and forced the bartender at Shorty s tav ern here to give drinks on the house for 30 minutes be fore he was overpowered. John Marvin Johnson, 32 Silverton, was arrested on charges of drunkenness and disorderly conduct. Although no one was hurt officers said the man fired shots into the ceiling and floor. The bartender, Edward Buchheit, finally was able to hit the man on the head with a club and other patrons grab bed Johnson. WINS RACE, DATE London - (UPI) - Traveling salesman Peter Beschorner, 19, and auctioneer's assistant Roger Wright, 20, Sunday held a swimming race in win try temperatures across Hyde Park's Serpentine lake. Wright won the prize - a date with Vaudine Agassiz, 17. t Cash Meed Europe Across the English Channel on the continent the picture was pretty much the same -flooded roads, fields and homes, shattered communica tions, fallen trees and tele phone poles. The weather eased some what today but forecasters said more wind, snow and cold was on the way. Hiroshima Plane Pilot Missing Waco, Tex. -HIPD- Claude R. Eatherly, 41, troubled by a guilt complex since he flew the reconnaisance plane which led the dropping of the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima, has been missing from the Vet erans Administration Hospital in Waco since Oct. 22, hospital officials said today. Dr. George T. McMahan of the VA hospital said Eather- ly's presence in the hospital was voluntary, although he wasn't supposed to leave with out permission. "We can't do anything about getting him back," Mc Mahan said. "He should not have left without permission, but his status at the hospital was that he could leave any time. He was just supposed to report to us that he was going to do so." McMahon said Eatherly's brother, Joe, who lives in Van Alstyne, Tex., had been noti fied that Eatherly was gone from the hospital. Eatherly, who was a majcr, piloted a B29 observation plane and it was his respon sibility to designate a target for the bombing plane, Enola Gay, to drop her A-bomb pay load on. State Police Check wo Auto Accidents One person was injured tn one of two automobile acci dents Saturday, state police said. Ruby Arlean Bechtel, 35 of route 1, box 371, Talent, suffered a possible ankle in jury during a collision on the South Pacific highway in front ol the Bear Creek or chards south, parking lot. She was. treated by a local doctor. state police reported. Ruby Bechtel was riding In a car driven by David Calvin Bechtel, 38, of route 1, box 371, Talent, when it struck the rear of a car driven by Mary Ann Asleson, 16, of 393 Walker ave., Ashland. Police said the Asleson car had stop ped and was signalling lor left turn. Both vehicles were dam aged. A similar accident occurred on the Green Springs highway when a car driven by Henry George Buzza, 49, Klamath Falls Star route, Ashland, started to make a left turn and was hit by a car driven by William Louise Poole, 23, of 925 Siskiyou blvd., Ashland. Made in ONLY Grants Pass Daily deliv. Complete glamorous by PRINCESS GARDNER ' star brite matched accessories f Goldrn motif enhanced with brilliants. ..on Gahna " Luitre Cowhide. , . 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