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Ground Wafer Levels in State Not Declining Salem-iUPP-Contrary to pop ular belief, ground water lev els in Oregon are not general ly declining, Slate Engineer Chris Wheeler said Tuesday. His statement came in a re port on a series of wells which his office is observing. A law passed in 1961 set up a network of observation welis where the water level is measured periodically to de termine ground water sup plies. Checks are now being mack on 560 wells, many of them in the Willamette Valley. Wheeler said that while in some parts of the vallley the level has been lowered by summertime pumping, that winter and spring rains have been more than ample to re fill the ground reservoirs. Some Declines ' - The water tables have de clined in some places such as The Dalles area and Cow Val ley in Malheur county which have been declared "critical ground water areas" and have been closed to further ground water development except for domestic and stock purposes. Wated levels also have been declining in deep wells in the Salem Heights area south of Salem and tests are being made by the U. S. Geological Survey to determine the feasi bility of recharging the ground water reservoir with winter runoff from the San tiam river. In the Fort Rock Basin in Lake county ground water levels arc at a record high. ON SHOPPING TOUR Mrs. Shcrri Finkbine, center, of Phoenix, Ariz., is accompanied by two unidentified news women as she walks the streets during a shopping spree in Stockholm, Sweden. Mrs. Finkbine and her husband. Robert, are seeking a legal abortion, as they, fear their child will be born deformed as a result of her having used the drug, Thalidomide. (UPI) Vacancies Listed By Army Recruited Here Master . Sgt. Warren M. Long, local Army recruiter, announces that enlistment va cancies now exist in several vocational fields, including the military 'police corps, ar mored and artillery corps, en gineers, signal corps, airborne, and foreign duty assignments. Numerous vocational school courses also are available for qualified men and women Those who want further in formation may obtain it at the Army recruiting station in the Mcdford Post Office building or by calling 772-5022. Origin, Results of Marshall Plan For Rescue of Western Europe Traced Editor's note: France re cently repaid the last of iti Marshall Plan loans - 26 years ahead of the due date. The following dispatch dealt with the origins and results of that historic ex periment, without which Western Europe might to day be part of the Commu nist empire. . By HENRY KEYS Washington -itlPil- Fourteen years agti the United States Congress approved a plan to spend $12 billion to help a poverty-stricken and starving Europe pull itself out of the ruins of World War II. Surprising enough was that Congress would authorize such an outlay on the heels of this country's staggering war time spending. Even more surprising was the fact that the plan was cleared by the Republican controlled 80th Congress which was at odds with Demo- cratic President Harry S. Tru man over nearly every detail of domestic policy. Led by the late Sen. Robert A. Taft and then Speaker Joseph W. Martin, the 80th Congress passed the Taft- Hartley labor-management law over Truman's veto and pushed through a major tax reduction program against his wishes. They feuded over spending and a host of other items. But there was near unani mity among Republican and Democratic leaders over the need for the Marshall Plan, Musicians Entertain At Tuesday Session Five musicians, now fea tured in the current Shake spearean Festival plays at Ashland, entertained members of the Mcdford Rotary club Tuesday at the Rogue Valley Country club. Musical selections popular during the age of William Shakespeare, were presented as the aid program quickly become known. Only a Beginning Actually, as time has proved, it was only a begin ning. U. S. aid spread to country after country - some militantly anti - Communist and some determined only to preserve their cold war neu trality - until it now totals some S93 billion. Some was in the form of loans, such as the Marshall Plan credits to France. But most of it was in direct grants. The Marshall Plan has been praised as an unparalleled ex periment In international hu manitarianism. It has been damned as a thankless give away of money better spent al hnmo Rut fn, titn.,1,1 during the luncheon program. in(lu(mce on the course o iiiiiuui-u iii me giuup wuic Marilyn Baker of Rodondo Beach, Calif.; Lucille Mclinat of Chicago; Judy Bjorlie, Ash land; Lynn Sohler, also Ash land, and Shanne Crouch of Boulder, Colo. Also featured on the Rotary club's noon program was Miss Martha Louise Wyatt, Jacksonville, a graduate of Mcdford High school, selected to represent Oregon at the Atlantic City Miss America contest. Her parents and her chaperonc, Mrs. Marjorie Green, were among the guests at Tuesday's meeting. world affairs, The pattern for the vast aid program was set by Gen. George C. Marshall, who was one of the principal architects of Allied victory in World War II as chairman of the combined chiefs of staff and who later served as secretary of state under Truman. The scholarly soldier statesman spoke for the con science of a nation, once known for its isolationism, in a speech at Harvard univer sity on June 5, 1947. While declaring that Euro p e a n s must help themselves, he said: MedforDsJHITribune SECTION B MEDFORD. OREGON. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 8. 1962 PAGES 1 to 14 1 r; ,: -. - 1 : I t -. . uwsaiteiai sl-tiiiv.i;-, -.i-,J t- .... wewtyiM' .jjWi, m wwJMtw'.'-jra S 4 lOVa Jt 1 -' ' ' , i 1 " ' i ; - At 5 1 r r . pmWM : i Kl 28 Here's what Mrs. Dean Payne of Yreka says about electric living . "Electricity gives us more comfort and convenience than anything else we buy" "With two youngsters in the family, a homemaker's time is more precious than ever. It's really wonder ful to have lots of electric helpers. I often have as many as five appliances working at once and that's not counting the automatic jol like water heating, refrigeration and light. And for all the service we get, we think electric service is our biggest value." Thousands of other Pacific Power & Light custo mers, like Mrs. Payne and her family, live better because they make generous and effective use of modem electric service. How aboui you - are you making full use of Reddy Kilowatt's helpful service? In the typical U.S ho"! Reddy works 332 hours per roonth. In the average Pacific Powerland home Reddy works 732 hours per month. ."- . V'732 KWH r : :u In Mrs. Payne's home Reddy works 1348 hours per month! 1 ;Tr.'. ' ;-'frrt!r,"' ' 'X""" fBfV&WS ' " '-.-' . ' , 1 1343 KWH j , . Pacific Power & Light Company ELECTRIC APPLIANCES Here's how electricity helps the Payne family: vf Range Water Heater yj Refrigerator-Freezer y! Dryer K Washer yf Television lyf Radio yjlron fvVacuum Cleaner vfMixer Electric Blankets-2 (yf Ventilating Fan yf Portable Fan (yf Toaster yj Fry Pan 0 Hot Plate Sandwich Grill riff Waffle Iron 65 Heating Pad vf Sewing Machine ryj Power Tools (y Lighting Jj Air Cooler yj Shavers-2 yf Corn Popper (V Barbecue Spit And the Payne family has now added electric heat. How many of these appliances work for you in your home? You Live Better . . . Electrically! "At this critical point in history, we of the United States are deeply conscious of our responsibilities toward the world. We know that in this trying period, between a war that is over and a peace that is not yet secure, the destitute and oppressed of the earth look chiefly to us for suste nance and support until they can again face life with self confidence and self-reliance." Some in the United Stales and abroad saw the Marshall Plan primarily as a weapon against the postwar surge of Communist influence in a broken and embittered Europe. Marshall disavowed any such idea. "Our policy is not directed against any country or doc trine, but against hunger, poverty, d e s peratlon and chaos." Unquestionably because of a combination of both motives - humanitarianism and self interest - Congress to months later in April, 1948, author ized the spending of $12 bil lion in 18 European nations during the ensuing 3 years. The Europe of 1948 was largely a Europe without hope. The cream of Its young manhood was dead. Its fac tories were in ruins, agricul ture was at a standstill. Mil lions were unemployed. Hun- ger was commonplace. Cloth- ng, shelter and fuel were scarce. Europe dcsneralelv needed help, not only to feed itself As food and materials flow ed Into Europe the drabness of life began to disappear. Men were at work again driv ing tractors and harvesters over tile farmlands, flinging up dams in huge irrigation and hydroelectric schemes, re storing or making new roads. producing suits and socks and shoes and dresses. Belts which had been tight ened against empty bellies be gan to loosen, and malnutri tion began to disappear along with the near starvation-diet ration books. The price tag of the Mar. hall Plan was vast inriperi $13.3 billion in all. Of this, $12 billion was in the form of grants. The other $1.3 bil lion was in repayable loans. The Marshall Plan, of course, was only the begin ning of this country's vast venture In foreign aid. All told, it has distributed more than $93 billion overseas since World War II $64 billion in economic loans and grants and $29 billion in military as sistance. Was it all worth It? There Is some disagreement on that. But one writer has likened the dollars distributed under the Marshall Plan to seeds, the harvest from which is being reaped today. And at least one result is the fact that Western Europe now is helping less fortunate nations in other areas of the world move toward the eco nomic strength and self dig nity it has attained with t he help of U.S. aid dollars. For George Catlctt Marsh all, if he were still alive, it would be a complete revolu tion of the wheel. ANDYS AUGUST specials fYnit ClioiteNNf t200" Professor Gives Paper On Poison Eugene - Dr. Virgil C. Boekclheide, pro fessor of chemistry at the University of Oregon, will present a paper on the structure of curare, the South American arrow poison, at an International meeting to be held In Prague. Czechoslo vakia, from Aug. 27 to Sept. 2. The meeting is being held under the auspices of the In ternational Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, the spon soring body for all interna tional research in chemistry. Co-authors of the paper are Dr. David Nelson, instructor In chemistry, and Dr. Marcel Grdinic, who is at the uni versity on leave from the In stitute Rudjer Boskovlc in Za greb, the Yugoslavian equiv alent of the Atomic Energy commission. Neither will at--tend the Prague meeting. i Title of the paper is "Struc-1 turnl Elucidation of the Cala bash Curare Alkaloids U.-ing Specific Deuterium Labeling and Nuclear Magnetic Reso nance Studies." For several years, Dr. Boekclheide has been studying the structure of these alkaloids and attempt ing to find out why minute amounts of this substance in terrupt the transmission of nerve impulses to the mus cles, causing paralysis. Before going to Prague, Dr. Boekclheide will visit the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Sweden, and after the close of the meet ing, he will spend several days at the Institute Rudjer Boskovic in Zagreb. He will deliver lectures at both In stitutes. 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