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1$ -Z'L it 12 A WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24. 1962 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON PUD Backers Meet PP&L Officials in Review of Proposal . Grants Pass Backers of a proposed Peoples Utility dis trict in Josephine county met opponents of the measure met head-on for the first time in their election campaign here Monday night. About 150 people attended -the public forum at North Junior High school to hear each side present its case and answer questions. The issue is on the Nov. 6 ballot. Questions asked by mem bers of the audience indicated that each side had supporters present, although the audience in general seemed to favor the PUD opponents a little more than its backers. Each side supported its case with figures. The PUD proponents leaned heavily on a comparison of electric rates in Josephine county with those in other parts of the northwest, show ing the local rates to be among the highest in the .area. The PUD side claimed it would be able to reduce these rates. Can Not Bo Compared The opposition charged that sparsely populated Josephine 'county could not be fairly compared with more densely populated areas, because it costs more to serve an area where electric customers are scattered over a wide, hilly area, Jack Frisbee, manager of the Salem, Ore., Electric co. operative, and Robert Stumbo of Wolf Creek, one of the can didates for member of the board if the PUD Is approved by the voters, spoke for the PUD backers, along with Rob ert Dale, Grants Pass bus inessman. The opposition was repre sented by Ray Salisbury, Grants Pass attorney speak ing in behalf of the "Commit tee Against PUD Debt and Taxes," a citizens group, and Frank Bash, PP&L vice presi dent and general manager of its Copco division. The opposition charged that the creation of a PUD would be an expensive process, irv volvlng additional property taxes for county residents to pay. Get District Started ine ruD proponents re plied that the small millage rate it would be able to charge would be "negligible" and would merely be used to get the district started. The opposition pointed to the fact that PP&L crews were called in from other areas after the recent storm to help restore service. Asked what they would have done in such an emergency, the PUD proponents said they would have brought in extra crews from other PUD's and public power agencies in the Northwest. . Both sides were to meet again this noon when they ap pear before the Grants Puss city school board for another presentation. Oceanlake Police Officer Wounded Oceanlakp mpn nnHnau iUu..w ItOSennaUm. 45. a lnnnl nn u officer, was in critical condi tion at a McMinnville hospi tal today after being shot while patrolling in search of a prowler at the home of a woman in DeiaKe. NO PhnrBP was nlanat a- " ""lu against the woman, Mrs. Irene Lou Schrock, 34, mother of three children. Rosenbaum was struck by .32 mlihPF hullnf flraA through a door from inside the woman's home. The bul let was deflected by papers in his nnnkpt. Tt hit him (n the chest and finally lodged in a kidney. Snlcm -IUPII- The State Board of Control has au thorized creation of an isola tion ward at the State Tuber culosis hospltnl here. Portland Hunters Trapped in Snow For 11 Days Portland-TOPD-Two Portland hunters told Tuesday of how they were trapped In their jeep for 11 days on Straw berry mountain near John Day because of snow. Donald Burtis and Wayne Johnson were located by state officer Douglas G. Bunch of John Day, and relatives. They returned home this week. The two men said they "lived" in sleeping bags in the Jeep and subsisted on cold canned goods, including froz en sauerkraut. Snow Becomes Deep Burtis said they had shot a deer and began to dress it when snow started to fall. Soon it was deep and they were stalled. Relatives became concerned. especially after the Oct. 12 storm. Two of Burtis' brothers and their sons left here to start the search and were met at John Day by officer Bunch, The brothers had hunted in the area and Bunch flew over it, spotting the Jeep in the snow. A ground party strug- gled through the snow to them and found them in good condition despite their ordeal. Burtis said the deer wa buried beneath snow and it is believed the Jeep cannot be moved until next spring. 80 Americans To Study Pole's Warm Waters Washington - (UPD - Some 80 American scientists will soon head south to spend the Antractic summer studying such polar puzzlers as lakes that apparently won't freeze. Investigators of the United States Antarctic Research Pro gram, sponsored by the Na tional Science Foundation here, will search for the source of curiously warm lay ers of water in two Antarctic lakes that, though covered with ice 10 to 14 feet thick, have fresh water layers with 70-degree temperatures. 'Suggestion' as Drunkenness Force Tested at Hospital I 1 r.7n war 4 ; ft J By DELOS SMITH UPI Science Editor New York -flJPD- Could it be more "suggestion" than the accumulative alcoholic force of three mar tinis which converts im bibing human beings into , silly asses? This ques- tion has been in the minds ' of some psy- ,Vto,. penologists ior . atiri -i long time. neioi smith Alcohol has power of its own, and no one would deny it. But "sugges tion is an enormously pow erful psychological force. People who drink martinis or anything alcoholic know full well they'll go "under the influence" in strict relation to the amount they drink. That is "suggestion." The question is which con tributes the most to drunken ness, "suggestion" or alcohol? Dr. Peter Hartocollis of the C. F. Menninger Memorial hospital, Topeka, Kan., made a scientific stab at answering it. He persuaded 15 young physicians to be guinea pigs. They permitted a substance of a nature unknown to them to be infused into an arm vein by the now well-known drip drip method employed for in travenous feedings in hospi tals. Blood Level Raised This substance was diluted alcohol. In an hour's time, enough of it was infused into each young man to raise his blood alcohol level to the point of intoxication. Since they didn't know what was going into them, there could have been no spe cific "suggestion" that the re sult would be drunkenness- according to the experimental design. Therefore if they did not act drunk with the re quired amount of alcohol in their blood, "suggestion" would be proved a powerful contributor to drunkenness. 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Cine for trim worth Flow. on 'gt ten itript natural briitlei, 49 FULL LENGTH DOOR MIRROR S your u If at Ofhtn ttt yow. Eaiy to imtall youritlf In min vtti. 16-x 68 $00 00 '1 w 1 WEST 6th STREET PHONE 773-8295 and he informed Rutgers Vni- verslty Center of Alcoholic Studies, New Brunswick, N.J., that "contrary to the hypothe sis that would attribute a ma jor part of alcohol effect to suggestion, it was found the subjects could look and feel drunk whether or not they knew or thought they knew they were under the influence of alcohol." Evaluation Proves Difficult His guinea pig physicians were all aware that what had been put into them, whatever it was, was producing changes in them, both emotionally and physically. Their behavior changed, too. The changes were not uniform but they were present in every man. "It proved difficult to re cord and evaluate the behav ior, which in most cases changed toward elation and excitement, subsequently qui eting down to a state of re laxation, sleep or stupor," Hartocollis reported. These changes were not dif ferent In type and variety than would have been expect ed If they had known they were taking on alcohol. But Hartocollis noted that the ele ment of "suggestion" was not entirely absent, and he de spaired of science being able to eliminate it in experiments. The subjects knew there was no point in infusing any- thing into them unless some reaction was anticipated. All of them tried to guess what the substance might be, and some guessed correctly. The others guessed it was a new hallucinating drug which if they had believed firmly in the guess would have "sug gested" behavior not too dif ferent from standard alcoholic behavior. BROODER HOUSE BURNS Newberg - (UPD - A $50,000 fire at Walker Farms in the West Chehalem area west, of here late Monday destroyed a brooder house, killing 3, 000 young turkeys. mm REPUILICAN Best Qualified . . . 'De" LEIGH f For SHERIFF I yrl. Chief Deputy Jlckton Co. 1 1 years Mai law enforcement f yean lecal euilnessman 4 yeari military Native Oregon!; 34 yean In Jackson County Pd pol. adv. W. T. Clark, P.O. Box 534, Medford, Ore, onlan I H Mm ! . . to our 200,000 customers affected by the great storm of October 12, for your patience, cooperation and many acts of kindness to weary workers who had been on the go day and night to restore your electric service. Thanks ... to our local PP&L crews who were on the job within min utes after the storm struck. Thanks ... to our Pacific Power crews from other parts of the Com pany's system, who were dispatched on the double from as far away as Casper, Wyoming, to help the storm-wrecked areas. Thanks ... to elsctric companies and electrical contractors elsewhere 5ki the West, wiio seni men and euipraeiit to I.eip repair me tremen dous storm damage. Thanks ... to ALL the hundreds of men and women whose skills and experience helped accomplish a huge task in record time. To get electric semce back as quickly as possible to all customers it was necesary to make many emer gency measures. PP&L crews still have a big job ahead to complete permanent repairs and replacements. We hope this mop-up work will not cause you any undue inconvenience. Pacific Power & Light Company I fn Wi Yiit ifHMiHIUTCUJiyiM.llil.TTm
