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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON TUESDAY, APRIL 16. 1963 Headless Circuit Rider From Oregon Capitol Grounds Rests in Man's Yard Vancouver, Wash.-niPl-In the front yard of his low, ranch style house in Van couver's suburban fringe, James Lee Hansen has a ton headless horseman. It's the statue of the Cir cuit Rider, toppled at the Oregon Capitol in Salem by the Columbus Day storm. The head is inside Han sen's cluttered shop, where he laboriously is preparing to recast it, part of a long project to repair the wrack ed and cracked statue. A tree, uprooted last Oct. 12, crashed into the statue, which had adorned the cap itol grounds at Salem for 39 years. The head was wrenched almost from the body. The face was left distorted by the blow. And a dozen scams in the statue opened. Hansen, a sculptor whose work includes decorative paneling on Portland's Sheraton Hotel, is rebuild ing the head first. Work Involved From a rubber mold tak en of the head, he corrected the distortion resulting from the fall and cast a new model of the head from wax. From a mold taken of this wax head will be cast the bronze replacement which will be welded in place. The cracks in the scams will be repaired by arc welding. But the two big prob lems will be replacing the head at exactly the same cant as the original and finishing the surface of the new head and the welded seams to blend in with the patina of the older part of the statue. Hansen figures it will take about three months to finish the work. The cost to Oregon will be somewhere between $3,800 and $5,400. This is not Hansen's first try at refinishing the work of bygone days. He was hired by the city of Port land to refinish the malign ed Skidmore Fountain sev eral years ago after an at tempt to clean it with acid left it a vivid green and orange. As yet, the c'atue's pres ence just outsid the front door hasn't caused too much trouble. Except, perhaps, to a neighbor. He drove by the house the morning after the statue was trucked in, did a double-take and drove off the road into some blackberry bushes. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF- GYPSY ROSE LEE wins this week's o-pun championship by telling of a sketch she played in an old revue that called for the property man's ringing a deep gong offstage at a certain stage of the proceedings. One day the prop man displaced his gong and in desperation shook a little dinner bell he found on a shelf. The unexpected silvery tinkle caused Gypsy to burst out laughing, and the punch line of the sketch was lost as a consequence. When she returned to the wings, Miss Lee demand ed that the prop man be fired forthwith. "It's ob vious," she explained, "that he ain't done right by our little knell!" "One of my most challenging wartime experiences," recalled a not-too-reliable sea captain, "came in the icy North Atlantic. I was torpedoed and lived for nine days on one can of sardines " "Remarkable," nodded the man next to him at the bar. "How did you keep from falling off?" The secretary to a college dean married the richest man in the state and returned triumphantly from her honeymoon literally smothered in diamonds. The dean's wife, whose nose was definite ly out of joint, sniffed, "That girl has gotten too big for her brooches." O 1963. by Bennett Cert. Distributed by Kins Feature Syndlcsts Reynolds Voters Pass School Budgef Portland - WPP - Voters in the Reynolds School District Monday approved a $1,530. 259 budget for the next school year. The vote was 658 to 443. The budget is $296,404 above the six per cent limitation. 'Weightlessness' Questioned During Biology Colloquium AUTOMATIC Transmissions Exclusively ltR$ ASSO Minor or Major Repairt Factory Units in Stock 100 Financing MEDFORD TRANSMISSION REBUILD ERS 1910 Tible Rock M. 773-774 Fist Efficient Service Across From Mm Y Msrket Corvallis - Man's ability to withstand the "weight less ness" of space flights for long periods of time was question ed last week at Oregon State university. Weightlessness and i n a c -tivity of planetary space flights may produce complex circulatory problems, serious ly reduce the normal sensory communication to the brain, bring on dizziness and per haps kidney problems, and get space travelers "re-adjusted" to the point they cannot stand the forces of gravity on re-entry into the earth's at mosphere. These possibilities were posed by Dr. Ncllo Pace, pro fessor of physiology at Uni versity of Califo-nia, Berke ley. He spoke at the 24th an nual Biology Colloquium, which had "Space Biology" as its theme this year. Astronaut adjustments for short flights up to now have been good for the most part, but there have been some sug gestions of flight sickness and other problems of balance and circulation, Pace said. Make Extensive Studies Pace and other scientists in the University of California department of physiology are making extensive studies on the effects of weightlessness on mammals. The problem may pose even greater com plications than radiation in long space flights of the fu ture, it is believed. Some highly important ear i and brain functions are tied I to gravity. Pace explained. and body adjustments to space i flights are complex. Healthy persons put to bed : for three weeks point up the j problem, he noted. Blood cir I culation slows and there is a marked decrease in bone and muscle activity and in heart I size. Dizziness persists for sev- eral days after leaving bed and the blackout threshold is j not far removed for a time. Monkty Being Used Once the body adjusts to i the conditions of space flight, re-entry into the gravity field I of the earth will be a shock j to the body, he continued, j Kidney problems might arise in space flights because of I body element losses. Counsel With . . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan If FOR ALL YOUR INSURANCE NEEDS, SELECT A CERTIFIED INSURANCE AGENT. F. R. Brennan, C.I.A. QUALIFIED ALL LINES WRITTEN MEDFORD INSURANCE Agency PHONE 773-7343 27 North Holly Street A pigtailcd monkey is being used in tests to try and best approach the problems in volved in man, Pace said. There is some indication that the Russians now wish they had used an upright animal in their orbit tests rather than a dog because the results might have had more value. The search for extraterres trial life is undoubtedly the most intriguing part of the bio-science program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Dr. Orr Reynolds of Washington, D.C., reported. High altitude balloons are being used now and delicate instruments prepared in hopes they can be landed on other planets to send back informa tion about existence of life. Reynolds said. Large numbers of bacterial organisms were found at 65000 feet in July, 1962, in high altitude balloon tests. But under different weather conditions in Octo ber, very few organisms were found at the same height. Landing Is Remote Chances of landing a life detecting device on Mars are extremely remote as of now, he said. The adage, "never throw anything away because vou never can tell when you might need it again," will take on special meaning for the men who explore space, according to Dr. Allen H. Brown, Uni versity of Minnesota. Everything space travelers take with them will have to be used over and over again, he emphasized, including food, air and water. The problem of how to recycle water has largely been solved by using special air filters and distill ing apparatus, but food and oxygen present problems which remain to be solved. Algae will likely play a part as a converter of carbon di oxide and water to oxygen and food. A diet of algae might not contain all of the crew's food requirements, however, Brown noted. PLC Cyclists Win Marathon Jaunt Tacoma - IUP1- A trio of bicyclists from Pacific Luth eran College shaded their rivals from California Luth eran College by 19 minutes in a 1,187 mile marathon race. The PLC cyclists arrived at the CLC campus at Thousand Oaks, Calif., at 1:20 p.m. Sat urday, while the CLC contin gent was clocked in at the PLC campus here at 1:39, about a week and eight hours after the two teams started out from their respective campuses. Bring the glory to PLC wcr-- John Ellickson, Monta bella, Calif., William Flack, Yakima. Wash., and Lynn Berg, Eugene, Ore. Running a close second were CLC s Skip Anderson and Ed Hol sten, both of Los Angeles, and Mike Cerda, Pasadena. lusions Destroyed National Geographic Debunks West's Belief in Salt Mines, Sea Turtles By DICK WEST Washington - IDN - The Na tional Geographic Society is in every respect an honorable institution. It has been al most like a second father lo me, I love the Geograph ic and all that it stands (or, but there are times when I think it is Loo West starkly realis tic for its own good. Or at least for my good. Some of the information the Geographic distributes leaves me feeling sort of lost and lonely. It undermines my se- curity by destroying my U : lusions. t Recently, illusions have ' been failing about me like so ! many daisy petals. For instance, after a glor ious trip to South America I returned to the old grind saying, as everyone does un der such circumstances, "Well, back lo the salt mines." Then I picked up a Geo graphic press release and re ceived a rude shock. Accord ing to the Geographic, salt mines actually are rather pleasant places to go back to. They have mild tempera tures the year around, the humidity is low and the ..til crystals arc pretty and shiny. Furthermore, the air is said to be good for colds, asthma and hangovers. I still was recovering from this blow when I re ceived another release that sent me reeling again. Sea turtles, it said, do not really weep when they come ashore to lay eggs. Man and boy, I had accept ed as pure gospel the canard that sea turtles were big cry babies. I trusted it as implicity as I trusted the Easter Bunny, the Loch Ness monster and the Abdominablc Snowman. Now I must spend the rest of my days haunted by the knowledge that a sea turtle's tears are nothing but an un emotional salt-sccreting function. Portland - (UPD - Robert P. Crimmins, 54, Oregon City, an organizer for the Interna- A 5 tional Woodworkers of Amer ica's Regional Council 3. died at Missoula, Mont., Sunday. Kerby Firm Bids High for limber Yrcka - Cabax Mills of Kerby, Ore. was high bidder for 17.200.000 board feet of national forest timber in an oral auction held in Yrcka. Five other bidders partici pated, three being from the Klamath river area and two from Oregon. Harry Hopkins, Klamath National forest, announced volumes appraised and bid rates as follows: 2,400,000 board feet of sugar pine ap praised and bid at S9.60 per thousand: 2.600.000 board feet of white fir appraised and bid at X2.60 per thousand board fect: 12,000,000 board feet of Douglas fir appraised at S8.95 and bid at $11.80 per thousand board fect; 200, 000 board feet of incense ce dar appraised and bid at $2.60 per thousand. Total appraised value was $137,720 and total bid value was $171,20. This sale, called the Green Creek unit, is located approx imately 12 miles north of Happy Camp. 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