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
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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.
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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. The sale area
will be made accessible from
Illinois valley by roads to be
constructed during the life
time of the sale.
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