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Christmas Dinner To Be Just Smelly Drink For Paper-Packaging Industry Shows Sales Increase NEW YORK (UPI) -The paper-packaging industry showing a trifling third-quarter increase in sales over the same period a year ago, and despite recent se lective price increases, earnings were down from 1962, a survey showed today. But the price hikes are ex pected to have an impact in the ' fourth quarter earnings state ments and paper and board production by the end of the year is expected to be about 39 million tons, at a new record level. The third quarter sales in this ; industry were seven-tenths of 1 per cent ahead of the same pe-! riod last year; in the first quar-l ter of the year they were up about 2 per cent, and for the! six months period they had ris en 1.5 per cent. The profits of 25 leading com panies for the third quarter were down 9.4 per cent from the comparable 1962 figures; they were 6.5 per cent lower at six months and 3 per cent at the end of the first three months. For the nine months, earnings! were nearly 1 per cent below those of the same 1962 period. ' The price hikes of recent months, however, cover a broad range of products. They have in- eluded linerboard, kraft, glas-i sine and greaseproof papers; they have extended into con-' verted products, corrugated shipping containers, folding car tons, selected sacks and wrap pers. Working against the industry , showing this year, however, j have been strikes in the north-1 western lumber operations, j wage increases earlier this yecar, production problems in , many new plants, high deprecia tion chargc-offs and some tem porary shutdowns of paper ma VT V- .' ' ' I tj fSX"V 'J Ik fita.ui i J? h- ki-inu . Maw. ' 1 i:i(,l:ims.'M W 119 &rm I if t l K CALLS FOR MENU - In Vacaville, Calif., Charles Davis, inmate at the medical facility, holds his container for supervising nurse Martha Long to add a spoonful of chemicals to his all-liquid diet in a NASA experiment. (UPI) By DE VAN L. S1IUMWAY United Press International VACAVILLE, Calif. (UPI) - For 18 men at the California Medical Facility, Christmas din ner will be a drink of "smelly, foul-tasting" brandy flavored liquid. It's all in the interests of sci ence. The 18 men are participating in a six-month test of a pure liquid diet, comprised of chem icals and water, as a study of the diet's future in space travel. They have been on the food wagon since Sept. 3, drinking four meals a day from a flask containing 48 chemicals. They are convicts selected from the inmates of Vacaville Prison. How are they doing? "I'm constantly thinking about food," said Jerry Lewis, a former automobile mechanic. "Chemically we all live well but you'll never replace that good old steak." "I dream about food all the time," said another prisoner. "We have pictures of food for our pinups not glamour girls." Simple To Produce The diet is so simple to pro duce that Dr. Milton Winitz, who developed it, claims it could be put together on the moon with only a laboratory and the chemical elements. It 1, BP Christmas Lasts 22 Days in Mexico MEXICO CITY (UPI) -Though Christmas comes but once a year it lasts 22 days in Mexico. Starting with the first of nine "posarias" reenactments of the Holy Family's journey to Beth lehem on Dec. 16 and ending 1 with Three King's Day on Jan. 6, Christmas in Mexico is high lighted by a huge torchlight cer emony on Dec. 12 at the shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe here. 9 ihisiuiiMiii if;iV ' , tF- - ire ft arc nrt- . II furnishes the essential amino acids of the body. The foundation is feeding the diet to the inmates under a grant of $400,000 from the Na tional Aeronautics and Space Administration. One somewhat startling effect already has been noticed. "We can vary the individual's cholesterol level on a nearly day-by-day basis," said Dr. Neil D. Gallagher, clinical director. "This discovery was like a blind man stumbling over an acorn but it's a pretty big acorn." It could assume importance in controlling the diet of heart attack victims. One other amazing result came when one inmate, who suffered from near-sightedness, complained his vision through his eyeglasses was blurry. The muscles in his eye had become more powerful and actually improved his normal vision, without glasses. Dr. Gallagher had 1,400 in mates from whom to choose. The group he picked range in age from 25 to 40 and include persons of varying ethnic back grounds, including one Negro. One was a near genius and one was illiterate. The inmates willingly admit they hoped to help themselves by participating in the experi ment. John Parks, one of the prison ers, said he entered the pro gram "to help myself and man kind" and added: "People all over the world are starving and sick. Maybe this diet will help them." The convicts agreed the liquid was "smelly and foul - tasting," and a sample furnished by a nurse proved their statements to be true. An orange flavored sampla tasted heavy, syrupy and too sweet. It was just plain sicken ingand the prisoners claim that after three months they still aren't used to it. They'va had raspberry, peach, banana, orange and coffee flavored. As one prisoner put it: "Ona swallow kills all your hunger pangs." SECTION D PAGES 1 to 10 MedfordjWTribune MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1963 can STILL be Imprinted with YOUR name in color! 217 E. MAIN Mcdford 'A I -r-fi) i n. ; " i I PENSIONS DEMANDED War wounded and widows of Some 15,000 wounded came from all over the country for men killed in the war tie up traffic m downtown Bonn as the demonstration, which amounted to the biggest parade they demonstrate to support demands for higher pensions. the West German capital has known. 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