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THURSDAY. MARCH 30, 1961 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOHD, ORE. School News Howard School The children In Miss Mary Klocker's room moved to the multi-purpose room tor sev eral days recently while the classroom was being painted. During an art period, the class made kites and learned safety rules about flying kites. The pupils presented a sing ing activity, "The Sleeping Princess," as their part in the PE demonstration recently. Mrs. Dorothy Arney's room has been painted pink and green. We have a new boy, Frank Keesee who came from Leba non, in our room. Janet Clark told us about her spring vacation trip to San Francisco, and , about some interesting things she saw at the aquarium. She brought back from her trip a week-old lamb named Baa Baa, who came to school one day. Janet Bailey's new puppy, Cricket, came for a short visit one day. Lorelei Peterson brought a bean plant to school, and it is growing In its glass jar. In Mrs. Margaret Mann's room- Sally Hughes, Beth Bailey, Darrel Friesen, and Gary Gresham have March birthdays.. They will go to the March birthday dinner. We made kites in art class and a pin wheel for science. In Mrs. Aina McDanlel's sec ond grade, Ivan Whlllock brought an old oriole's nest to school. Billy; Perdue brought a chameleon to school. We saw It change from a brown to a bright green, Janet Cummings brought her parakeet. She calls him "Pee-dee." In Mrs. Huldah Fisher's third grade room, there were several travelers during spring vacation. Cort Taylor attended the state basketball tournament in Eugene with his family. Jim my Dusenbury went to Coos Bay to visit his godparents. Gary Montgomery went to Oregon coast. Mike Colley and family went to Disney land and Tijuana, Mexico. Kristlne Archibald went to Florence to see her grand parents. Laurie Rawlins went to Tacoma, Wash., to see her grandparents. Mrs. Audrey Berry's third grade enjoyed our National assembly, Bill Jacobs, the one man orchestra. He played on some strange things, such as bottles partly filled with wa ter, pans, bells, and nails, as well as the marimba. We saw the movie "Nature's Half Acre." It is a science film about plants, animals and insects. Rooms Facing West Are Harder To Heat New York - IUP1I - Rooms that face west are usually harder to heat than those that face east, according to insula tion authorities at Allied Chemical corporation's Bar rett division. -The reason is that prevail ing winds in the U. S. move from west to east. Experts also advise protecting bath rooms facing west with addi tional mineral wool wall in sulation to make them easier to keep warm In winter. India to Receive Helicopters From Russians New DelhMJPD-India will soon be receiving what amounts to military aid from Russia. According to official sources, an agreement to sell a substantial, but undisclosed, number of high-flying Rus sian helicopters to India is in the final stages. The hell copters, significantly, are needed to supply the Chinese threatened northern borders. The most interesting aspect about the deal is that India will pay for the choppers in irdlan rupees, not foreign ex change. This rather clearly puts the transaction within the realm of military assist ance. Indians deny the sup position. Official sources told United Press International that the agreement is based on prac tical considerations. Last year, India purchased at least 30 C119 Flying Box- Rockets May Be Used For Advertisements Sacramento, Calif. - IUPB -It's amazing what might some day be done with a rocket, aside from the ordinary things like launching new satellites or sending a man to the moon. Someday, perhaps, a rocket might go up with a nose cone full of fluorescent powder that will be ejected in the shape of words, like "Bung's Beer Sat isfies." This message would glint in the stratosphere in definitely because there is no wind to erase it. That idea came from an of ficial of the Aerojet-General Corp., local manufacturers of rocket propulsion systems. He said that no Aerojet scientists were taking it seriously right now, but that admen might be interested. , Tremendous Cost In fact, he said, It was re ported that a Madison Ave. agency and an automobile manufacture had considered throwing a satellite into orbit for publicity purposes. It was not disclosed whether the sat ellite would be shaped like an automobile, either regular size or compact. One scientist who has re fused to take such schemes seriously is Robert C. Truax, director of advance develop ment at Aerojet's liquid rock et plant. He pointed to the tre mendous costs involved, say ing that a single Atlas missile costs approximately $3 mil lion. But he also said that the At las could become obsolete, in which case the government might decide to sell a few at reduced prices. Such sales, he said, could make possible a Fourth of July fireworks display oyer Kan sas that would be visible over the entire nation. The fire works would be carried up 250 miles over mid-Kansas, where they would be trigger ed and seen simultaneously in New York and Los Angeles, he said after checking his slide rule. Truax has a project of his own that has nothing to do with spectacular displays. He .suggested putting a time cap sule in orbit, one that would contain information now bur ied in the cornerstones of buildings. "It would obviously be much safer up there," he added. car cargo planes from the United States for much the same reason-rapid availabil ity. The cargo planes, which are already in use In the Kashmir-Ladakh border areas, were paid for in dollars, not rupees. Gensral Service The Russian helicopter un der discussion is the Ml 16 a general service chopper which can carry 10 passengers or a payload of 2,643 pounds The helicopter's main selling point is that it has a service ceiling of 16,000 feet and can fly higher. In the Himalayan region, this Is essential. The Indo-Soviet deal will be at the immediate expense of the American Sikorsky company which has been dem onstrating its Sikorsky 62 helicopter here all year.' The Sikorsky model has about the same features as the Russian helicopter, but Is available only for dollars. Military sources said the immediate agreement would not rule out future purchases of American helicopters. The sources said eventually India probably would build its own helicopters using either the American or Russian model as the prototype. Besides the helicopter deal, official sources confirmed In dia is negotiating with Russia for purchase of small trans port planes to further strengthen northern border communications. The plane is b?Ileved to be the Ilyushin 14-the Soviet equivalent of the Dakota or DC3. . PRODUCTION MARK Fort Madison, Iowa - (UPD W. A. Sheaf fer Pen Coj has reached a milestone in its 53 year history - the manufac ture of its one-hundred-mil lionth fountain pen. One visit and yon never need worry about saving again Buying U. S. Savings Bonds on the Payroll Flan makes you a member of the world's handiest savings club Yon could probably save a great deal of money if you'd let your payroll clerk give you a band. That's what has happened to mora than 8 million Americans. Through their payroll depart ments, they buy about $2 bil lion in U.S. Savings Bonds a year for vacations, furniture, new homes, education for their children, and even retirement. You save in spite of yourself. When you sign up for the Pay roll Savings Plan, you choose how much you want to invest regularly in Savings Bonds. The rest is automatic. Each payday an "installment" is set aside. As the money accumulates, your Bonds are bought and delivered to you. You don't see the money, can't spend it, and before long, don't even miss it. Betterthan money. U.S. Sav ings Bonds are guaranteed to pay 3 interest compound- ' ed semi-annually when held to maturity. You can get your money plus interest anytime you wish. And you can't lose your equity in Savings Bonds if they're lost, burned or stolen, you get new ones free. Every dollar you put into Sav ings Bonds helps keep our country strong. Isn't that worth a visit to your payroll clerk today?, Three Borneo Territories Could Poc2 An Asian Freedom Problem tlumtmntd to mmm. K lfcwvti btwin Mtminf i " " Singapore-fUPD-One of the most interesting, , but seldom talked about, questions in Asia today is what is going to happen to the three British territories in North Borneo after they achieve independ ence? The three territories, Sara wak, Brunei and British North Borneo, seemed des ti cd to gain independence within the next 15 years. Many observers believe this vast and sparsely populated land mass could become the scene of some international power politics. Prof. Lee Yong Leng of the University of Malaya in Sing apore has written that in the future there will be two main pressures on Borneo. "One is the same age-old movement of peoples from the Asian mainland, the other a recent phenomenon arising from Indonesian independ-ence-Pan-Indonesianism . . ," Lee said in a recent article for the Strait times. Prime Interest Oil The prime interests of both those pressure groups, Lee said, will be oil and the wide open space where overcrowd ed neighboring countries might unload excess population. Lee said that the three ter ritories might well become an issue between Red China and Indonesia. With the independence of the three territories inevit able, there has been consid erable talk of forming a fed eration of Borneo States. There are numerous road blocks to such a move, how ever. In the first place, the 470,- 000 people who live in the three territories have widely divergent interests; there are large groups of Chinese, Ma lays, Indians and indigenous peoples there who have little in common. Little Brunei, the smallest but richest of the three states, does not seem inclined to go along with plans for merger. Bruneis vast oil resources make it easily the richest per capita nation in all Asia. It is not interested in sharing that wealth with the neigh boring territories. A stronger possibility ex ists that British North Borneo and Sarawak might merge into one state. British North Borneo is rich in lumber, but so far it has shown little zeal for independence and there are not now any political parties there. Sarawak, the poorest of the three states, is turning into a hot political arena, and the cries for independence are quite real, and no doubt soon will be answered. Meanwhile, neighboring Singapore, with a population of 1,611,000, which is esti mated to reach between 8 and 8 million within 40 years, has its eye on the three territories as a possible avenue to chan nel off its excess population. Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew recently re turned from a week-long trip to the three territories where he urged continued coopera tion among the territories, Singapore and Malaya. All five areas were once under the British flag and they still have a common currency and close economical relations. Out of Question Sinunnnre' obviously, would be delighted to merge with any of the Borneo territories just as it would with the Fed- tnuirwt Um Amy you buy Itmn. A Utl cm the back ibowi thtr growth progtw aiisiDt by the UA Govarama. You save more than money with IIS. BOKTBS Buy them where you work or bank Lobsters Lead Maine Shellfish Industry Augusta, Maine - (UPD r The lowly seaworm placed second in value to the Maine lobster in sales of the Maine Shellfish Industry last year. The sale of bloodworms and sandworms to sports fisher men amounted to $706,117 as compared with a whopping $11,252,685 return on lobster. Next In value among the crus taceans were sea scallops ($575,479) and clams ($547, 789). PHILIPPINE IMPORT New York - (UPD - Philip pine cigars are gaining favor in the United states wun im ports of Havana stogies in doubt. Several importers re port rising demand for cigars from the Pacific nation, which only recently had. enough smokes for export. FIRE CAUSE Ottawa - Careless smokers are blamed for most of the fire loss in Canadian forest. eration of Malaya, but that at present seems out of the question. All Singapore has to offer is its population, which might be regarded as a grave deficit right now. Indonesia, which controls the southern half of Borneo, has not yet begun a campaign to make any of the three ter ritories part of that sprawling republic of more than 2,000 islands. But many observers believe that if and when In donesia gets West New Guinea from the Dutch, there is a good chance it will launch some kind of campaign for the territories. The threat of communism in the territories does not now appear great, although the Sarawak colonial government recently issued a white paper warning the people that there was an ..active Communist Pa:-ty in Sarawak dedicated to taking over the govern ment. Whether the Communists could take over in Sarawak ;ems doubtful, but it is sig nificant that the government warned the people of the danger. Chinese in Sarawak and the other territories are generally suspect and the Sarawak gov ernment has deported to China a 23-year-old man for subversive activities even though he had been born in Sarawak. 1 The course of future events in the North Borneo territo ries seem hazy to most ob servers at present, but there would appear to be a good chance that Borneo for the first time in its history could become a point of world at tention in the coming years. The significant factors to watch will not only be the internal political develop ments, but also the develop ments in the surrounding nations. NOW- Medford's Newest and Finest Automatic Transmission Rebuilding WATCH FOR OUR GRAND OPENING! MEDFORD TRANSMISSION 1910 T,U D,L. 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