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
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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. .
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Yon could probably save a
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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
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You don't see the money, can't
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if they're lost, burned or
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Every dollar you put into Sav
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worth a visit to your payroll
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Three Borneo Territories Could
Poc2 An Asian Freedom Problem
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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.
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Sinunnnre' obviously, would
be delighted to merge with
any of the Borneo territories
just as it would with the Fed-
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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.
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