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i 4 A "Everyone In southern Oreson Beads Trie Mll Tribune" Fubliihid Dally except Saturday by MKOKOBD PRINTING CO j3Nurtlrl.Ph7:i-6Ml ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manaier GERALD T LATHAM. Bui Mar ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mne Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women's Edltoi DALE EHICKSON, ClrcujaUonJjg An Indapendent Newapapei Entered aa second daaa matter at Medford. Oregon under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance , Dally and Sunday 1 year 118 00 Dally and Sunday & mot 10 00 Dally and Sunday 3 moa. 5 00 Sunday Only One year 5 00 Single Copy (Mailed) 30o By Carrier And Motor Route. Dally and Sunday 1 year $21.00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo. L7S Sunday Only J mo. Wo cArIiSLi,!iBdot---opy Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper ot Jackyin County United Press Internationa lull Leaied Wire U. P I Telephoto Newiplcturea "IEMBER OP AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATIONS Xdvertlsln, uvi enK ilrn Rpnrfftntatlve DN ROBERT'S & ASSOCI- A-rtrq ntriM in New York. Chi cago Detroit. Sun FrancUco. Loi Angela Seattle. Portland Denver. NATION A l EDITORIAL 3fr AsspcMTian C7 W U Memner Calllornla Newspaper Publlahera Ataoclatlon -0 Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from th files of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and SO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO July 25, 1853 (Saturday) The Bartlett pear crop in Oregon (mostly produced in the Rogue and Hood River valleys) should be consider ably above last year, and well above average, according to the U.S. Department of Agri culture. A petition asking the aid of the county court and health department in combat ting "millions of mosqultos" in the Rogue Valley Heights district is now being circulated In that area. 0 YEARS AGO July 28- HO (Sunday)1 Pear packing acliool enrolls HO, OnRruiiisHins VjJ-aIsociation From Arthur Perry a "YeJor quality tn an nems ui smudge Pot" column.- "At- ciude authors and artists, wrney joe '"Mto mirror life in America, covered from the last time, , . . ' wrestled with his boy Joe, Wednesday, and nothing was torn loose or broken." 30 YEARS AGO July 25, 1933 (Tuesday) State and federal aid civen Medford sewage disposal plant plan. Fifty-one city water users failed to turn off water when fire ilren sounded. 40 YEARS AGO July 25, 1823 (Wednesday. Man. mistakenly shot for coyote, resting at Sacred Heart hospital. East side residents complain motorists using East Main st for racetrack. SO YEARS AGO JuW 25. 1913 (Friday) Wage of $9.25 per week for women favored. Sealulls appear In Bear creek after record July rain fall. What's Your I.Q.? Nina ' tan correct Is superior; mm ar ele.h Is escellenti tlva ar sli Is taw. 1. How many Presidents of the U. S. have been ot Dutch ancestry? 2. Who composed "Melody In F?" 3. Through what three oceans does the International Date Line run? 4. At what festival was the "oift of tongues" given, ac cording to the Biblical count? 5. Correct the following; "He don't remember where he i was." 6. Should green vegetables be placed In cold water, or in boiling water to sun cook . tng? 7. Which of the earth's con- . tlnents Is largest in area? 8. What Is the meaning of pro tempore? 8. When John Alden plead ed with Priscilla, whose mar riage proposal was he plead lng? 10. Is a marmoset a bird fish, monkey, or gem stone? Answers! 1. Three (VanBu en . and. two . Roostvelts). 2 Rubinstein, 3. Arctic, Pacific Antarctic. 4. Pentecost. 5. "H ' doesn't . 6. Boiling. 7. Asi - (. For the time being. 9. Miles StandJJsh. 10. Monkey. THURSDAY, JULY 2S. 1963 Medal In September, 31 persons 29 Americans, a Spaniard and a Frenchman will be invited to the White House to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The honors list, announced on July 4 by the President, is designed to single out individuals for recognition for their "public and private" en deavors for peace and cultural advancement. The President declared : "In a period when the national government must call upon an Increasing portion of the talents and energies of Its citizens, it is clearly appropriate to provide ways to recognize and reward the work of persons who contrib ute significantly to the quality of American life." The idea is excellent. The problems posed by putting it into effect are something else again. WHY 31 instead of ten or a dozen or 50? And on what basis, using what criteria? Fame? Fortune? A listing of achievements? By measurable benefits to others and, if so, by what standard of measurement? Some of the medal winners are famous names, such as Marian Anderson, Ralph Bunche, Pablo Casals, James Conant, Felix Frankfurter, George Meany and Jean Monnet. (Casals and Monnet are the two non-Americans.) But others are less noted. Annie D. Waun eka is one of three women on the list. She is a Navajo public health worker. The third is Gene vieve Caulfield. She is a blind teacher of the blind in Vietnam. Their achievements are un doubtedly notable and worth while. But they have not brought widespread public notice. WE ARE not carping are attempting to of making such a selection. there seems to be no real thread of logic connecting the choices. And in truth, it seems to be a list which is purely sub jective in character which is all right, since the President is the one who makes the choices, presumably with assistance and advice. Thus it is permissable to speculate on one's own list, also one a subjective basis. Lacking the research facilities of the federal government, it would almost necessarily be a list composed of people who have been in the public eye. Who would you nominate as the 31 living personages most deserving of recognition "who contribute significantly to the quality of Ameri can life?" AND how would you apply that rather nebulous i-itortrYn in maVinrr trio splpftinn? "What indeed, is the "quality of how does one contribute to it; It could include inspiring examples of cour age in difficulty, such as Helen Keller or, in a dif ferent context, the Rev. couJd include the great spired generations of American students to strive uom a greater uegiee ui greater determination to still, with all these hoose from, it seems to 31 individuals can be no more than an arbitrary exercise withal exceedingly interesting in subjective judgment. E.A. Wi nners For the benefit of those who may be curious about the full list of Medal winners, here it is: Marian Anderson, worth Bunker, industrialist and diplomat ; Pablo Casals, benevieve (Jaulneld, James B. Conant, John F. Enders, Nobel prize winner in medicine ; reux i rankfurter, Karl delinquency; Robert J. letic education; Edwin bert H. Lehman, Robert adviser and former Defense Secretary; J. Cliff ord MacDonald, pioneer retarded; John J. McCloy, banker and diplomat; George Meany, Alexander Meiklejohn, philos opher and teacher; Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, architect; Jean Monnet, Luis Munoz-Mann, gov ernor of Puerto Rico; Clarence B. Randall, in dustrialist and government adviser; Rudolph Serkin, pianist; Edward Steichen, photographer; George w. Taylor, professor and labor relations consultant; Alan T. Waterman, physicist; Mark S. Watson, newspaperman and Pulitzer prize winner; Annie D. Wauneka, E. B. White, writer; Thornton Wilder, writer; Edmund Wilson, crit ic and author, and Andrew N. Wyeth, painter. E.A. 97501 Where Are You? CiVfiyotte Miows uy oince s 11' code program is, ana mat iuorttora s1 wt py them: True, in the code number is 97501 everyone, that is (ap-i1"""""1 wp, " ' ,, . . . , x 1 : bounty was at least a wnrlhv piti ciuiy I'M-i'iu suiiif iium uuu-e cuipitiyi't.'s. We are acquainted with the man who has Medford Post Office Box No. 501. And he tells us that he's been Retting a regular trickle of mail dropped in his box, addressed to someone else'"1"9 indulge in -throwing i but bearing the code number 97501. What more I '""ny-wrencho. " j , , , " t -, ,, , . ,--,,, .. I The kaleidoscope of ar logical place for mail addressed to 9ii)01 than lofien reveals strange patterns r , t- r111 i.,.. . . j , l.KJ. DUX out; He was out of town .. u u i i i i , When he Checked lllS box a leuer atuiresseti to a rt ll-lll-l tlllUU'Wl'U III rl McllllH H rtH lUU'l L V till II apparently had been lying in the box for two or three days. Presumably the architect will receive I it some time. But the way working (or vice versa) Zip, shmip!-f-E.A. Winners at the list as much as we point out the difficulty American life?" And Martin Luther King. It teachers, who have in entieavur. u cuuia in- who have attempted and thereby inculcate , f. , iiiiiieisiaiiuiiig anu a seek improvement. fields, and others, to us that the selection of Listed Ralph J. Bunche, Ells Holton, consultant on Kiphuth, leader m ath H. Land, inventor; Her A. Lovett, Presidential in schools for mentally tins nine w iiai me postpaid program, it seems that over last week end, and ; y i i . l. t i Monday night, he found i lueciiora arcnnect wnicn the ZIP code has been don't bet on it. 4 "I Wa Hoping They Stop Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, althouqh under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or Initial for publication Is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of tra paper. In tact tha contrary is often Madison Quoted To the Editor: In reference to your "editorial" of a week or so ago I would like to pre sent here, for the defense, the following quotation from "The Federalist, No. 41," written by James Madison, often called the "Father of the Constitution." "Some, who have not de nied the necessity of the pow er of taxation, have ground ed a very fierce attack against the Constitution, on the lan guage in which it is defined. It has been urged and echoed, that the power 'to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts, and provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States,' amounts to an unlimited commission to exercise every power which may be alleged to be necessary for the common de fence or general welfare . . . "Had no utner enumeration or definition of the powers of the Congress been found in the Constitution, than the general expressions just cit ed, the authors of the object ion might have had some col or for it; though It would have Dcen diiricult to Jincl a rea son for so awkward a form of describing an authority to leg islate in all possible cases. A power to destroy the free dom of the press, the trial by Jury, or even to regulate the course of descents, or the forms of conveyances, must be very singularly expressed by the terms 'to raise money for the general welfare.' "But what color can the ob jection have, when a specifi cation of the objects alluded to by these general terms Im mediately follows, and is not even separated by a longer pause than a semicolon? If the different parts of the same instrument ought to be expounded, as to give meaning to every part which will bear it, shall one part of Hie same sentence be exclud ed altogether from a share In the meaning; and shall the more doubtful and indefinite terms be retained in their full extent, and the clear and pre cise expressions be denied any signification whatsoever? For what purpose could the enumeration o f particular powers be inserted, if these and all others wore meant to be Included In the proceeding general power? Nothing is more natural nor common than first to use a general phrase, and then to explain and qualify It by a recital of I particulars. But the Idea of an enumeration of particu lars which neither explain nor qualify the general mean ing, and can have no other effect than to confound and mislead, Is an absurdity. . , " J. R. Spocrl, 89 Janney Lane, Medford. Who IS tha Enemy? To the Editor: Nations not only used to conquer an en emy, but demand tribute as well. Today, with our foreicn example in chanty and for i giveness; but we- now realize j that it won't buy as friends. ! Even our so-called allies, such i.onerul do IiBuiic, sonie- muhi i-nusr people 10 wonoerj w T,u,a. !',e ,om 7 "a I W'b I he friend of today i too often becomes the "foe ;" tomorrow - ana vice versa. mw - nu b" ViV'iwo ai is.er welcome tin- mucin lite s - only to ill as allies. then we experienced the paradox of the Italians being "angels" at first, but becom ing "devils" at the ljl - de- MEOFOHO MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Wouldn't Schedule A Here" the case. tpite our common Christian! ty. And, speaking of religion I recall a newspaper item that I read shortly after World War I. It told of the visit of King George V to Canterbury Cathedral "to offer up thanks to Almighty God for the Al lied victory." I couldn't help thinking of how close the Kaiser came to duplicating that visit - in HIS cathedral! We stripped Spain of her last remnant of empire when we helped Cuba to become republic; nevertheless, in spite of our heralded democratic tradition, we went on to sup port Spain's autocrat, Gen eralissimo Franco. And we are still handing out billions to Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito despite his penchant for shoot ing down now and then one of our lost planes! Our hatred of the Japanese was especially deep; but that didn't stop us from bestowing our nation's highest honor upon one them - even though he once tried to devastate our Pacific Northwest! As for the Germans: We forgave them, too - at least some of them - and our Presi dent recently pledged that we shall continue to defend West Berlin, even at the risk of destruction of our own cities! We have played "off again, on again with Russia, and now face the possibility of becoming her ally in an all out war between the white and yellow races. At least It appears that Nikita Khrush chev is getting tired of hear ing Mao urge Let s you and him fight!" and is leaning .o ward the West . . . POWER POLITICS! What strange bedfellows are made in thy name? George M. Babcock 427 Hospital dr. ' Ashland, Ore. Mountains and Liquor To the Editor: We here in the Rogue valley really are creasingly evident that our privileged. While it is in creasingly evident that our population is on the increase, there is still room to live and breathe. Recently a friend returned from vacationing in the south ern part of a neighboring state. After listening to his vivid description of condi tions here, I can truthfully say we have much for which to be thankful. Perhaps it docs get a bit cooler here at times and rain more, but even so, it's much preferable to the Sodom to the south. Just yesterday the writer took his boys on a promised outing into the mountains. No, we didn't have to buck free way traffic for 50 miles to get there either. Within min utes we were up among the sweet scented evergreens, gurgling m o u n tain streams and alpine meadows filled with tiger lilies greeted our eyes. Nature has a wonderful way of even healing the scar red logged-otf areas. From rambling coast type wild blackberry, ferns and what havc-you. the denuded spots were even taking a new look then higher up we even chanced on a few remaining snow banks. The high coun try along the Siskiyous is profuse with greenery and colorful wiidfiowers. At 7000 feet one gets a bit shortwind- cd if he tries to keep up w th 14 vearold bovs. rt uur snort atternoon trip ?a m,mp " ,'n, 0,,e 1,u- Hon not so pleasant. As we passed the new ski area being built I stopped briefly apd chatted with a group of work ers. V'pon asking where the lodge would be I was pointed to the spot. At this point one chap chirped up, "the bar isn't open yet " The statement wa said i - De Gaulle His Views By JOSEPH W. GRIGG United Press International Paris - HiPD - President Charles de Gaulle risks find ing himself left out in the cold in the fast developing recon ciliation between Moscow and the West. There was no emp ty chair waiting for France in the current East-West nu clear test ban talks in Mos cow. There simply was no chair at all. There is a growing feeling in Western capitals that a summit meeting of President Kennedy, British Prime Min ister Harold Macmillan and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev might result next winter if a test ban agree ment, even a limited one, is signed. But, curiously, little or nothing has been said about the possibility of de Gaulle taking part, too. It simply is assumed he would not. In fact, de Gaulle's whole Strictly Personal By Sydney J, Harris fc- Field Enterprises, Inc. PERSONAL PREJUDICES The ability to go fast cre ates a kind of dishonesty, like that of the normally law-abiding motorist who, in speeding along the highway, tries to deceive and outwit the police; it is perhaps no accident that the classical god Mercury, who flew with wings at his heels, was at once the god of speed and the god of thieves. Those who praise "ac tion" too often have a eon tempt tor thought: this is why the "man of action" eventually runs the risk of becoming the man of vio lence, which is action for its own sake, with no rational end or purpose. - Most of the disappoint ments of later life could be lightened immeasurably if we could learn (and truly be lieve) early in life that what we confusedly call "happi ness is a direction and not a place. The one says, "You must change man to change soci ety"; the other says, "You must change society in or der to change man"; and neither can see that each has hold of only one-half of the iruih, that the two seem ing oppositions are recipro cal, and we can never achieve the one without working on the other. The most foolish philoso phers are those who hold the doctrine that most people are fools; when people seem to be stupid it is because they are preoccupied, because their minds are closed by fears or anxieties; but it is a very great mistake to think that a closed mind is an empty one consider, for instance, chil dren who seem "stupid" in school because their interest hasn't been awakened, but who are skillful and lively in the games that do interest them. "Our souls are not much hidden," wrote Charles H. Cooloy, in a passage I often return to. "Nothing is truer to experience or more wholesome to recognise than that the impression we make comas trom what we are, in inmost desira and habit, and not from what we may try to seem to be." We know that lovers come to resemble each other; what we fail to see is that enemies, after a while, also come to resemble each other, but on the lowest plane, not on the highest; read of the war be tween Athens and Sparta and it will be hard to tell the "democracy" from the "dic tatorship." Most of us would agree that it it unnatural and un wholesome to live in soli tude; yet those who live in tha present, who draw no nourishment or ieeling of continuity from history, are alienattd Irom the past, and live in a kind of temporal solitude. jokingly, of course, but yours truly did some thinking." Part of it was out loud expressing my convictions. "Well, they have to make money some way," one fellow said. Why is it that human be ings made In God's own image seem so intent on pro moting drunkeness? Is money more important than the souls of men? Why in the name of common sense and reasoning is liquor needed up at a ski lodge? Will the return trip to the valley over icy roads be made safer by drinking? Not even the sickening liquor drenched head on crashes daily on our highways seem to awaken us. We are our brother's keeper. Let's think Henry Johnson Jr. 231 5 Highway 66 Ashland, Oi. " Excluded Awaited At July 29 Session attitude toward the cold war and reconciliation with Mos cow has done little to encour age his Allies to try to get him in on the act. He has refused consistently to have any part in diplomatic "probing" talks with the Rus sians in the past Is months. He boycotted the Geneva disarmament conference on the ground that it would achieve nothing. He has cold-shouldered the talks on a nuclear test ban. His argument was that any test ban agreement would be useless unless all existing nuc lear stockpiles and the ve hicles for launching nuclear weapons are destroyed. In fact, he obviously is determ ined to stay out of any East West nuclear agreement until France has its own independ ent nuclear striking force. Recently, Khrushchev, in a private message conveyed by his Paris Ambassador, Sergei Vinogradov, tried to get de Matter of Fact y jePh auoP (c New York Herald Tribune Syndicate WHERE WE STAND Washington - The most obvious effect of the agree ment on a nuclear test ban is to freeze the existing A m e r i can and Soviet nu clear weapons systems e x -cept in the limited areas where prog ress can be made by u n derground lUtnp testing. We are undoubtedly due to hear much heated ar gument about the advantages and risks of this nuclear ver sion of the old children's game called "still pond, no more moving." Hence it may may be in order to offer a cool assessment of the pres ent stage of U.S. and Soviet nuclear weapons develop ment. In the current stage of the grim nuclear art, it must be noted, the test of success is not mere destructiveness. The main test is, rather, what some of the scientists call the weight-to-bang ratio. IN OTHER words, if you can pack more kilotonnage or megatonnage of destructive power into a given weight of bomb than your rival has man aged to do, you are in the lead. The weight - to - bang ratio is so important, in turn, because light bomb - weights make for simpler delivery systems; and the delivery sys tems nowadays count far more than bomb stocks in all calculations of the balance of nuclear striking power. When this test of the weight - to - bang ratio is ap plied to U.S. and Soviet nu clear weapons development what emerges is quite won derfully banal. We are ahead of the Soviets in the kind of weapons we want, and have therefore tried extra - hard to develop. And the Soviets are ahead of us in the kind of weapons they want, and have therefore emphasized in their development program. Nothing could be less un expected. Yet the cry is al ready being raised in some quarters that the nuclear test ban has been agreed to when "the Soviets are ahead." In hard - nosed Soviet circles, meanwhile, one may be pret ty sure that there is grum bling about a test ban's be ing agreed to when "the U.S. is ahead." In both cases, the question to ask is, "Ahead, how and where?" rro BE MORE specific, the - Soviets are ahead, in terms of the weight to - bang ratio, in the development of weap ons of very high megatonnage. Railroads Asked To Continue Nut Rates Salem -lUTD- The Southern Pacific and Spokane, Portland and Seattle railroads have been urged to continue car load rates now in effect on edible nuts shipped from Ore gon and Washington to Cali fornia. The request that the prcs- ; ent rate be retained was made by the public utility commis sioner and the state depart ment of agriculture. Southbound rates on the carload nut shipments are set for cancellation Aug. 1 when reduced rates now in effect j will apply only to nuts ship- ped north out of California. ) The two agencies told the I rail lines there is enough car : load movements of filberts and walnuts to California packing plants to warrant continued use of the rates and that Oregon and California shippers should be treated equally. a US From Summit Talk; Gaulle to abandon his own nuclear testing if the United States, Britain and riussia reach an agreement to do so too. De Gaulle's reply was not made public. But it apparent ly showed no disposition to unbend on his part . v The French leader has made his position clear on a pos sible reconciliation between Moscow and the West. He will not negotiate until Russia quits threatening the West, particularly over Ber lin. He believes a reconciliation will come some day and that it will be hastened by the Moscow-Peking quarrel over world Communist leadership. But so far he has not indi cated he sees any sign that Russia is ready yet to talk turkey without threats or duress. DeGaulle has kept silent on these and other major foreign policy issues since his Jan. 14 They have tested a 100-mega-ton bomb; but its estimated weight of hundreds of thou sands of pounds, though fair ly low for its destructive power, still forbids the use of this bomb in combination with a rocket - delivery sys tem. More important, the Sovi ets have also tested a 30-meg-aton bomb, whose weight is thought to be low enough to make it deliverable by their very large, powerful but cum bersome, intercontinental bal listic missiles. Warheads of this pattern may well be used for some, at least, of the sec ond generation Soviet ICBMs comparable to our late model Titans, which are now begin ning to be deployed in Rus sia. The American military the orists, in contrast, have con sistently held that 10 mega tons was about the limit of the really useful explosive power of a nuclear weapon. Hence the U.S. nuclear weap ons program has emphasized warheads' and bombs of pow ers up to 10 megatons, and in this range, the U.S. has the lead. The weight-to-bang ratio of the American weapons is par ticularly good, as might be expected, in the warheads de signed for use with Polaris and Minuteman missiles. The numbers of Polaris and Min uteman missiles in the Amer ican program considerably ex ceed the numbers of second generation ICBMs being de ployed by the Soviets. THE U. S. missiles are small er, more dependable, and much more accurate - advant ages considered greatly to out weigh their smaller warheads. And in this range of destruc tive power, the Soviets have not tested any warheads as efficient as ours which means that they will not find it easy to go forward as we have gone, from liquid-fuelled to solid-fuelled rockets. Such, then, are the main features of the balance sheet. Even if we were to test an improved American warhead comparable to the Soviet 30 megaton type, we would not have any rockets capable of delivering it, unless we made the retrograde step of return ing to a liquid-fuelled deliv ery system. Meanwhile, as noted, the So viets have somewhat handi capped themselves for the for ward step to a solid-fuelled rocket delivcrey system. In practical terms, therefore, it is hard to see why the U.S. will lose by the ban. And this is all the more true since the omission of under ground tests will keep the Atomic Energy Commission's weapons development labora tories in being and at work. A complete ban. which would all but annihilate the labora tories, would be a very dif ferent proposition. flfej I" r (I &ra?4 l I T "Gentlemen, with tensions increasing, it would be wisa le have a procedure tor imposing martial law when called upon. Now, after securing a city. Ml ug an officer'i club. . . ." a, sneaa news conterence. He has scheduled another one July 29. French officials and foreign diplomats are waiting with interest to see whether the tough uncompromising de Gaulle of last winter may have thawed out enough to join in bringing East-West re lations out of the deep freeze. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS As this is written, the bulk of the big news is still up in the air. In Moscow, U.S., British and Soviet negotiators are report ed to be near agreement on a limited nuclear test ban treaty. Latest reports in the Soviet capital are that initial ing of the treaty might come at any time. But it hasn't been initialed yet. N Washington, President Kennedy has asked Con gress for legislation to head off the threatened railway strike by putting the work rules dispute before the In terstate Commerce Commis sion for settlement. But that involves the ticklish question of FORCED ARBITRATION. There is a lot of opposition to forced arbitration. So Con gress is apt to take a lot of time in deciding whether or not to tackle such a drastic solution. And so on. CO O Let's news. turn to the little DOWN in Mill Valley, Mrs. Genevieve Earl was cut ting greens in her garden when she felt something jab her ankle. She looked down and saw that she was ' STANDING ON A TWO f FOOT LONG RATTLE-j SNAKE! She screamed, and her hus band came running from the house. FORTUNATELY, he knew his snake bite techniques. He applied a tourniquet -tieing his handkerchief at the corners, putting it around her ankle above the bite and twisting it tightly to prevent the circulation of blood con taining the snake venom. He then dashed back into the house for a razor blade, with which he made a cut where the snake's fangs had pierced the skin, applied his iips to the wound and sucked out the venom - which, of course, he spat out. He then rushed his wife to the hospital, where anti-venom serum was administered to her. She was doing all right at last reports. TT was a good example of knowing what to do in an emergency - and DOING IT QUICKLY. The accepted pro cedures in the case of snake bite by a poisonous reptile are to call a doctor - but, if no doctor is near, apply a tourniquet above the wound. Then cut open the fang marks with a sterilized knife or raz- t or blade (a flame wil sterilize S the knife if nothing better is t at hand). Apply suction to the cuts ' to remove the poison and spit it out. The suction may be f needed for about 15 minutes ' in each hour for several f hours. Between these periods ; cover the wound with hot Ep- v som salt or table salt com presses. If the poison spreads before the doctor comes, the : bandage should be moved higher and other cuts made ; where the swelling is bad. Epsom salts and plenty of f water may be taken by ! mouth. Whiskey should NOT .' be given, but in case of col- ! lapse the patient may take ; strong, hot coffee or aromatic ; spirits of ammonia every half -hour. CONGRATULATIONS to Mr. Earl. He knew what to do and how to do it. So he saved a precious life. i
