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MEDFORDsJliTRIBUNE SECTION D MEDFORD, rO BUBBLE BURSTS For several weeks this spring a bubble, which appeared in the asphalt pavement in the driveway of the Ralph Ellis home at 527 Putnam St., Med ford, kept growing larger and larger. Final ly, one day recently the bubble burst, dis closing six large mushrooms. Diameter of the larger mushrooms was estimated at four SCHOOL NEWS Medford High School (Edited by Sue Elder. Staff: Ralph Younger, Marlene Klym, Charlotte Brown, Ed Radliff, Mike C a 1 1 a n, and Nancy Duncan.) Approximately 15 members of the Natural History club and five adults made a trip to the lava beds in northern Cali-1 fornia recently. The group spent one night camped at overnight facilities, and ex plored the many caves. A ranger - naturalist guided the group during most of the out ing. Recently the MHS year books, "The Craler," were dis tributed to students who or dered them. About 1.500 books were ordered, and about 1,450 have been issued so far. - The Future Nurses club at tended a "Career Day" at Sa cred Heart hospital recently. Students were taken on a tour through the hospital, and had an opportunity of observing b n new rice mixes n n : f'W'-JL'J&liL J&i3SU'& X Wild Rica Dishes tffrJjLi. filS 1 y-fj? That colorful OJd World j 0 tomatoes and peppers Jj x . ; . . i Rich, zesty, golden. Jf tQS;... Mi ... i ""j .'y Authentic curried J752?'!l3s' twitiWifri'gt fcKft'y;r;:,'Ky'j rice, fragrant with B j 'jjjj flfif , Jf V . -- .eJ Far Eastern herbs fU2lj'MMt I WWW First complete rice IF YOU CAN BOIL WATER, get Uncle Ben's sensational new Rice Mixes and you're all set to serve up a whole new world of delectably different. rfim'T.partr-p'rJft Wild Rice, Spanish 1 Rice, and Curried Rice dishrs! All sorts of perfect rue dihes are easy as boil int; water wifti L'ncle Ben's Rite Mixes. They're likSt most mtnpt'tr rice mix's ever made . . . with II ihe rite and spice . . . -tit l'ncle Ben's ex fit;ive 'rf .utr''. OREGON, THURSDAY. MAY inches and the stems "as big as broom sticks." What makes the natural phenomena even a little more unusual is that the asphalt, according to the Elliscs, has been there for about eight years and this is the first time that growing material has appeared. various hospital techni q u e s and equipment. A film on medical equipments and re freshments c o n eluded the day's activities. Iowa tests were adminis tered to seniors of MHS re cently in the library, aca demic center, and in various other rooms in the school. Since the tests took two days to complete, seniors were dis-! missed from their regular class schedules for the two required days. Three Medford students won awards at the State For eign Language Field day in Eugene last Saturday. Ap proximately G70 students from the state attended. Val erie Knights won second prize in second year Spanish; Craig Savage received honor able mention in second year Span ish, and Jerry Wright re ceived honorable mention in third year Spanish. The Future Teacher's of America club honored the MHS faculty at a reception in from Uncle Ben's! Perfect rice dishes . . . easy as boiling water! mixes with exclusive 24.' 1962 PAGES 1 to 8 0 the home economics depart ment last week. Medford High's acting troup, Thespians, are trying to raise money in order to send eight students to the Na tional Thespian festival in In diana this summer. "Anas tasia," the last play presented by the group, and contribu- uuns oy local merchants, have cut the remaining npenccri, figure to about S200. tne group held a sno-conc sale at the Medford Shopping Center and a plane wash at ine airport recently. The an nual Thespian award and in stallation banquet was held May 17 at Ping's. STEEL OUTPUT DIPS New York-iUni-The nation's output of steel dropped an other 5.8 per cent last week to the lowest level since April 1, 1961, the American Iron & Steel Institute reported Monday. Production for the period slipped to 1,662,000 tons from 1,765.000 a week earlier. 0 1961, Uncle ten'l, Inc. Untie Ben's Rice V ne$ lff t, tf, CajrfM I' Tht flavor Mcrtt ) In th Flavor Nuuttl Tht very ttanct of all ax : citing harbt, tpicet and flavors no otnar mix hat captured all taid in ti' cooking startt! 1 I!!", .AMI o Federal Program Offers Aid Editor's note: How does a town or community go about taking advantage of the many federal programs designed to help them build a park, a new water works, a flood control proj ect or other facilities? It is fairly easy when you know the procedure as explained in the following dispatch. By NORMAN RUNNION Washington -l?li- The town j fathers of Clutc, Texas, sur-! veyed their community's i needs not long ago and de-' cided they could use a new I main street, a park with soft-: ball and baseball diamonds for the kids, and a better sewage 1 system and waterworks. I Clutc, which lies 50 miles , south of Houston in Brazoria county, is only a speck on the map of Texas. But the community of 5,000 citizens - and countless other towns like it from Oregon to Maine - is as important to the U.S. Community Facilities ad ministration as Laos is to the State Department. Therefore at 7:30 p.m. last Jan. 29, the Clute city council met and adopted a resolution authorizing the filing of an "application for public facility j loan" with the Housing and j Home Finance agency - the ! parent body of the Commu nity Facilities administration. As a result, Clute is going to have its asphalt-covered main street repaved with ce ment. A park will be built, complete with two ball dia monds. Waterworks and sew age facilities will be im proved. To Be Paid By Bonds All of this will be paid for by bonds purchased by pri vate investors under a pro cedure set up by the federal government. In many ways it is typical of what slate and local governments can do if they know how to take advan tage of countless federal pro grams available to them. According to the U.S. budg et, federal financial assist ance to state and local gov ernments in 1963, under exist ing or proposed programs, will total an estimated S9.9 billion. A 1961 Congressional study listed 35 major programs of federal grants-in-aid to state AT YOUR GROCER'S NOW-FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY! COPPER COLORED CANISTER Maxwell re-usable A PRODUCT OF and local governments, name-iance ly: Aid to state soldiers homes; agriculture extension work; agricultural marketing serv ices; agricultural research; airport construction; assist-1 'Winds of Change' Do Not Blow in Barotseland By PETER LYNCH United Press International Mongu, Barotseland - iUPO -Barotseland is one place in Africa where the "winds of change" don't blow. lis tough old feudal ruler. Sir Mwanawina Lewanka III, has made certain of that. While independence move menu have swept the conti nent. Sir Mwanawina, the Litunga, or supreme rulert has continued to govern his poor, marshy kingdom in much the same fashion as his ancestors. He does not toler ate this new-fangled thing called African nationalism. In Barrotseland. politics are taboo and so are politicians. African nationalists infil trating the Litunga's domain from neighboring Northern Rhodesia are summarly ar rested by the Litunga's police, tried in the Litunga's courts and then banished from his territory - usually after serv ing a spell in one of the Litunga's jails. Though administcrd from Northern Rhodesia and a part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Barotseland is a protectorate within a pro tectorate. It is linked lo Britain by tribal treaties signed by Sir Mwanawina'9 ancestors and Queen Victoria. The Crown agreed to pro tect Barotseland from outside interference and attack and to provide postal and transport facilities. But the day to day running of the country re mained in the hands of the Barotse royal house. The present Litunga's ances tor, Lcwanika I, first gave Britain its foothold in Barotse land. In 1902 he went to Lon don to attend the coronation of Edward VII. While there the British government rig '. n i, Buy the 2 -lb. size of delicious House Western Blend Coffee and get the handsome, copper-colored canister it comes in absolutely free! GENERAL FOOD3 to state marine schools: child welfare services; civil defense contributions: crippled children's 9rvic"': defense ed ucational activities? Distribution of educational materials for the blind; do- ged Lcwanika in a navy blue I gold-braided uniform, not un like that of a British admiral, with a plumed cocked hat. It still is the official uni-; form worn by the Litunga on I state occasions. In his gold braid and cocket hat. the I Litunga is easily the Feder-I ation's most colorful African ruler and his subjects accord him due deference. Any tribesman wishing to see the Litunga must make the first approach through the Ngam bela (prime minister). If the Ngambela approves the visit the tribesman sits outside the courtyard of the palace, call- I ing the traditional greeting I "yo sho, yo sho." j He keeps this cry up until jan Induna (royal councillor)! I conies out to announce the Litunga has heard him. Then I the tribesman enters the I courtyard and starts to ap ! proach the palace, j On the way he must stop I frequently and clap his hands above his head. Before he I reaches the presence of the j Litunga he must go down on I his knees and when the tribes- man actually gets before the Litunga nc must lower his forehead to the ground and chant "yo sho, yo sho" again. Finally, before and after talk ing to the Litunga, he must clasp his hands again and make a similar slow retreat. The Litunga travels on the Zambezi river between his two palaces in a gaily decor ated royal barge propelled by 60 husky paddlers dressed in kilt type lion cloths of skins with red turbans surmounted by lion manes. The rhythm for the pad dlers is set by the royal band and any tribesman who pad dles out of time is promptly I thrown overboard. 0 To Towns nation of surplus agricultural commodities; employment service and unemployment compensation; fish and wild life restoration and manage mt'i; flood prmention and watershed protection. Other Programs Highway construction: hos pital and medical facilities survey and construction; li brary services for rural areas; major disaster relief; mater nal and child health services: public assistance; public health services; low-rent pub lic housing; resident instruc tion in land-grant colleges. School construction in federally-affected areas; school operation and maintenance in federally affected areas; school lunch programs; special milk; slum clearance and ur ban renewal; state and pri vate forestry cooperation; ur ban planning; vocational edu cation; vocational rehabilita tion; waste treatment facili ties, and water pollution con trol. Many towns, when they want federal help, turn to the Communities Facilities admin islration. The CFA paid out nearly $10 million in fiscal 1961 through its four pro grams: college housing loans; advances for public works planning; public facility loans, and senior citizens housing loans. IN EXERCISE Five members of the Army National Guard from southern Oregon are participating in Exercise Mesa Drive, a joint Army-Air Force training ma neuver, at the Yakima, Wash., Firing center. They are Specialist Four Frank L. Gidney, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Gidney, 848 Dakota si.; Pfc. John R. Pool, son of Mrs. Corinne V. Keith, 902 Queen Anne ave., and Pfc. Arlyn K. Granger, son of Mrs. Nellie M. Granger, 2303 Spring st., all Medford: Pfc. Willie T. Erwin, son of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Er win, 3624 Williams highway. Grants Pass, and Pfc. Frank D. Coleman, husband of Jua nita Coleman, Merlin, Ore. 101 Here's kitchen cookies 0 Honest for Development Trt nimlifv. n lnunnrh as . - j , . . Clute-must have a population I of less than 50.000. These com munities can get loans from the CFA where they wouldn't be able to do so through pri vate institutions. Clute's needs were rather typical. Incorporated in 1952, it serves primarily as a resi dential area for those who work in the Dow Chemical Co. plant eight miles away. The population in 1960 was 4.501. and now it is 5.040. The average value of its homes is $6,500. The citizens were presented with four bond proposals-fur the street, water, park and sewagc-and voted approval by roughly the same margin on each case. For the street bonds there were 263 "FOR" voles to 123 "AGAINST." Street Deteriorated When the town filed its ap plication with the Community Facilities Administration, it said the main street "has de teriorated to the extent that further patching and main tenance is not considered feas ible. Excessive money is being spent for automobile upkeep by the traveling public be cause of dust and chug holes." For a cost of around $20,000, it proposed to con struct j a concrete pavement from East Lake Jackson road to State Highway No. 288. Along this stretch most of Clute's business is located. The town's application was reviewed by the Ft. Worth District Office of the Com munity Facilities administra tions, approved, and sent to Washington, where it also was approved. The loan would have been for 25 years, at an interest rate of 3')s per cent. But once NOW! STEWING HENS l (J Each in quantities lU of 5 or more! KORKEI HUM Corner of Duggan Rd. t FREE? Buy'this 2-lb..size of Maxwell House Western Blend Coffee and get the canister at no extra cost! uses around the house the Bmart way to store sugar, flour, knick-knacks to keep your spices and first-day fresh 1 Coffee-pot fhvor!Y CFA loans are approved, the law requires that private in vestors be given a chance to take part. The bonds must be advertised for private sale. In Clute's case, they were bought privately, and no Federal loan was needed. Such federal help to the states and local communities is a fairly new development. It traces its beginnings back 100 yvars, to the 1862 enact ment of the Morrill Act. This established land grant col leges and instituted certain federally -required minimum standards. In the last 10 years, how ever, (here has been an enormous growth in Federal programs. In 1963, they will total nearly $10 billion. In 1953, they were $2.9 billion. WPPl 50 Each Bring Crate Fill your lacker Call 855-1190 Hwy. 234, Sams Valley 2 ogscats o o
