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Show rained Octopus To Be Used In SEATTLE, April 5 (U.R) Mountain-climbing octopus, Os-:r, Os-:r, IIL and his trainer, Iva Haglund, Hag-lund, were en route today to "eiimb" the mountain-infested waters ol the Alaskan gulf. , rThe 11,350 foot underwater "sea-mount" Miller was- their destination. "Discovery of giant submarine peaks 900 miles northwest of-Seattle by the U. S. coast and geodetic geo-detic survey, is responsible for Haglund's latest stunt. ."Man still has not invented a diving .suit to withstand the terrific ter-rific pressures involved," said Haglund. So the actual climbing will be done by a scientifically trained octopus." .v According to the B.aldwin aquarium-owner Oscar's greatest hazard in scaling Mt. Miller is that h' must start from the top And "climb" down. , "Ordinary mountain climbers start off fresh to scale dryland peaks. My Oscar will have to bat- . i . i i t SEATTLE, Wash., April 5 (U.R) Oscar, m, a "mountain climbing" octopus, proved today to-day there: are advantages to starting at the top and working work-ing down at least for octopL Oscar was a free octopus to day, gulping edelweiss seaweed, sea-weed, somewhere near the base of. Seamount Miller, two miles below the surface of the Alaskan Alas-kan gulf. lie apparently planned plan-ned to stay there after wriggling wriggl-ing free from a two-mile leash which connected him with the upper world. tie down to terrific pressure depths, at the halfway mark he might falter and fall all the way up to the top," he said. Oscar, it seems, has received rigorous propping for "operations seaweeds' "Twenty-five minutes immersion immer-sion in Alaskan waters would kill the toughest man. My Oscar loves it. Also--he'll probably establish a new climbing record. After all, he'll have four more limbs lhan man," he pointed out. The' incentive for Oscar and proof that he reaches the base of Mt. Miller will be his favorite dish sea-edelweiss. "Sea-edelweiss grows at great depths and is only obtained by subterranean tremors that uproot up-root the succulent help and throw it to the surface.' There fishermen gather it and send it to octopii breeders," said Haglund. Oscar is at climbing weight, achieved by a two-week starvation starva-tion diet -When the expedition glides over the peak of Mt. Miller Oscar will be. dropped overboard leashed to a two mile wire. If he comes back with a sprig oi sea-edelweiss clutched in any one of his -arms it's likely even Haglund will eat it. Utah Stream Flow To Be Normal . SALT LAKE CITY, April 5 (U.R) Stream flow in Utah during the irrigation season will be about normal because of melting snow at higher altitudes, Milton T. Wilson, district engineer of the surface water division of the U. S. geological survey revealed here today. He said the heavy snows- accumulated ac-cumulated during October and November storms will just about balance the subnormal precipitation precipita-tion since Jan. 1. Nighrrobe BT SUE BURNETT You'll find this exquisite nightdress night-dress delightfully cool for warm weather. And it's so simple to put together launders like a charm. 'Twill be an ideal gift for that engaged girl on your list. Pattern No. 8134 is for sizes 12, 14, 16. 18, 20: 40 and 42. Size 14. 3li yards of 36 or 39-inch; 5 yards ribbon. For this pattern, send 25 cents, in COINS, your name, address, size desired, and the PATTERN NUMBER to Sue Burnett (The Daily Herald) 828 Mission street, San Francisco 3, Calif. The Spring Issue of. FASHION will delight you with its wealth of sewing suggestions for every home dressmaker. Special fashions fash-ions by top-notch designers, personality per-sonality "charts, free printed pat tern in the book. 25 cents. I Survey 11 1 . f t I If r i ; J. v,; i Petroleum Chemists Find Alcohol Can Be Distilled From CrudcOil; Discover New Headaches In Guarding Every Drop Until It's Dehatur Bt NEA Service . HOUSTON, Tex. (NA) Oil comnany chemists nave aiscov ered a petroleum product thats bottled-in-bond, but tne revenoo- ers are going to make sure no body sets oiled. The product is alcohol, to be distilled from crude petroleum by Shell Oil Co. chemists here. Although it will be rendered un fit for human consumption as quickly as possible, company officials of-ficials admit the discovery is giving them headaches not usu ally associated with the oSt busi ness. For one "thing, the new plant where the ethyl alcohol will be made will have to become a bonded warehouse. Then the pipe lines leading from the plant to storage tanks and ta tanker loading load-ing docks will be bonded. And finally the storage tanks and the alcohol cargo holds on the tankers tank-ers will be bonded, all at the rate of $17.15 a gallon. Once the alcohol al-cohol becomes denatured, it is free of this bond and the government govern-ment loses interest in it as a potential source of tax money. Government revenue agents and alcohol specalists will keep track of every drop of the 18,-000,000 18,-000,000 gallons the company expects ex-pects to make each year until it reaches Sewaren, N. J. There it will be converted for industrial use. "All of it will go into products like paints and varnish, cement, anti-freezes and the like," says G. R. Monkhouse, an executive of Shell's chemical division. "In fact, most of what we expect to produce during the next few years already has been contracted contract-ed for." Bight after the war ended, Shell chemists began looking for a new way to synthesize ethyl alcohol. The industrial alcohol shortage was being complicated by shortages in sugar and grains, usual source of such alcohol. They knew that ethyl alcohol consisted of ethylene gas and water and they already had plenty of ethylene gas left over after they "cracked" crude petroleum pe-troleum to. make gasoline. What they had to discover was a way to combine the gas and water chemically and cheaply enough to sell in a competitive market. The process they finally evolved is an industrial secret. Monkhouse doesn't think the company's production will supplant sup-plant the manufacture of alcohol from grains or sugar. "Industrial consumption of alcohol al-cohol is increasing all the time. The amount of alcohol drunk as whiskey, gin, etc., is small in comparison. With an expanding market there is little question that there will be a continuing demand for a new supply of alcohol." New Influenza Cases Decline New cases of influenza reported from Utah county to the state department de-partment of health dropped sharply for the week ending Mar. 28, with the state department's depart-ment's report showing only five new cases as against 70 reported during the previous week. The report of 70 during, the week ending Mar. 21 was classed by local medical authorities as inaccurate, however, with the belief be-lief that it was an accumulation of more than one week's period. According to the health depart ment's report for the week ending end-ing Mar. 28, the five new flu cases came from Utah county points other than Provo. County points also listed four new cases of chicken pox for the week, three of pneumonia and one of syphilis. Provo reported five cases of ppeumonia and one of gonorrhea for the same week. Throughout? the entire state, there was a total of 656 resident cases of communicable diseases reported to the state department of health for the week ending Mar. 28. That-represents an in crease of over 200 cases of com municable diseases reported this week compared with the number num-ber of cases reported last week (388). The most noteworthy change was- the increase of influenza cases from 81 during the previous week to 309cases. 'Repeat Marriages Easier For Women CLEVELAND (U.R) Women get married more often than men do in Cuyahoga County the Greater Cle?land area a survey disclosed. disclos-ed. A study of 1,200 January marriage mar-riage license applications rriade by Commissioner William Jenks revealed that the. odds were three to one that persons married m that month never tried it before For every eight people divorced divorc-ed here in December, there were three who married a second, third or fourth time in January. Of the 2,400 individuals involved in-volved in Jenks study, 602 had been married at least once before. Of them, 317 were women and 285 were men. Common Pleas Judge Samuel H. Silbert, dean of the domestic relations court, commenting on the fact that women marry more often than men, said, "grass widows wid-ows can get husbands much more easily than single girls. "They know the psychology of men and are usually not so timid, he said. ; TEXAS TAKES BACK SEAT AUSTIN, Tex. (U.R) Texans who like to brag that 1 1 per cent of the cattle and calves in the nation can be found on its farms and ranches are blushing at a survey made public by the census bureau. It shows that only , nine lexas counties figured among the 100 leading cattle counties in the United States. Harris county led ia Texas in cattle oroduction with ' 107,000 head but 1L ranks only 26th nationally. Hango ver You can get moonshine out of this maze of pipes and towers, tow-ers, scientists have discovered. Chemists found that cracking process which takes place here to make crude oil yield gaso-Ine gaso-Ine also makes it yield the basis for pure alcohol. But they'll denature it. Easter Business Closely Yatched WASHINGTON, April 5 (U.R) Easter trade has government economists watching the business indexes as closely as a budgeting housewife follows sale advertisements. adver-tisements. Informal reports of slipping business and pre-Easter clearance sales already are beginning to reflect themselves in statistics, a survey showed today. The Federal Reserve bank of New York, which keeps a weekly tab on sales of 17 apparel stores, reported that they started doing less business than a year ago during dur-ing the second week of February and that the slump continued through the last week of March. The report is significant because be-cause New York is the leading U. S. retail center and the most important stores in the survey sell mostly women's goods, which make up the bulk of Easter sales. The tabulation was based on dollar volume and the per cent of change compared with the same month a year earlier. Pre vious to February the pr cent of change had been consistently on the plus side. College Teachers Dating Technique BOWLING GREEN. O. (U.R) The learn-as-you-go technique in dating," according to Dr. Samuel Harman Lowrie, is all wrong. He says this activity demands an intelligent in-telligent approach. Dr. Lowrie, chairman of the sociology department of Bowling Green State university here, is doing just that. The gray-haired father of two children introduced a sociology course at Bowling Green this semester devoted en tirely to "dating." ine co-educational class is limited to 30 first-year students, giving college credit, which makes it the first of its kind in the country, the instructor be lieves. "During the 25 years I have conducted marriage and family classes," Dr. Lowrie said, "the need for fundamental education in 'dating' before young people date, rather than after, has be come apparent. Help In Choosing Mates "In discussing marriage before adult groups, I have become aware of an almost unanimous desire for an intelligent approach to helping young people in dat ing," he said. Dr. Lowrie further believes the course will aid students in pick ing a husband or wife. "Social mingling permits young people to judge and choose among themselves," he explained. "They should realize that love is not the only thing involved in the selection of a life-time part ner. "Marriage for most people is the most important decision of their lives, yet they know little about it. Not much effort has been made to teach young people to choose a bride or bridegroom intelligently." Dr. Lowrie is writing a textbook text-book on dating problems which he hopes will encourage other universities to establish similar courses. Vegas Cracks Down On Rubber Checks LAS VEGAS, Nev. (U.R) Wide-open Wide-open Las Vegas warns its visitors that it is cracking down on bad checks for gambling debts. District Attorney Robert E. Jones said Californians have passed more than $100,000 in bad checks, at the resort's hotel casinos casi-nos in the last six months. Jones said that visitors apparently had the mistaken idea that gambling debts were illegal and consequently conse-quently can be paid with rubber checks. "What they forget is that gambling gam-bling is legal in Nevada and that gambling debts also are legally collectible," Jones said. . Loss to casino operators has been so heavy that they have arranged ar-ranged to fly the night's checks to Los Angeles each morning to clear, them before the signers get out of town. U r J v'i -r5 : " - "A i at os; At . s .A :- . v By I . :,': , ;..: ? . t , r rnr 'G v-v-v 4 1 'A " 1 I : m Pleasant Grove High Lists 64 Potential Grads PLEASANT; GROVE-Gradua tlon exercises at . Pleasant Grove high -school ha ve been -set ' f or the night of 'May 22 in the high school auditorium,; according to " Karl Banks, principal. ' The v 64 seniors V who . are. po tential graduates' are as follows: Boyd Anderson, Robert Ad am- son, warren Anaerson, . avan Brady, Richard Deveraux- Doyle Harris, Robert HUton, Eugene Holman, Chris Hreinson, Andy Johnson, Royce Matthews,. Reese Merrill, Wenzie Morrill. Dean Pederson, Joe Peterson," Kay Peterson, Glen Robinson, Lyman Smith, Delbert Steele, Bud Teague, Ray Viklund, Glen Walker, Walk-er, Robert Warnick, Robert West, Jaek Westover, Wayne Winters, Eugene Sidwell, Duane Payne, Paul Whiteley, Geniel . Adams, Eloise S. Adamson, Shirley Bax ter, Bonnie Christensen, Jo Ann Crease, Delna Evans, Betty Man ning,' Lela Green, Bonnie Ha- mann, Madge Harris, Kamona Harris. Joyce Hooley. Shirley Huntsman, Bonnie Ivers, Barbara Jarmon, Marilyn King, Dolly Mc-Candless, Mc-Candless, Elaine .Olpin, Donna Wf . . A. Si 1 f uisen, ,veiyn -rocior, viene rvas-mussen, rvas-mussen, Glenda Richins, Jean Rogers, Jewell -Rogers, Evelyn Smith Larsen, Carol Stark, Diane Thome, Doris Wadley, Burdene Walker, Doris Walker, . Elaine Weeks, Barbara Lyn West, Walker, Ina Willett and Winters. Carole Susan RITKS AMBASSADOR NOT LEA VINO r.RF.F.rK LONDON, April 5 (U.R) The; doctor until he establishes p. home, and while the doctor might not Exchange Telegraph reported 'and practice in Rangely. 'be concerned about schools yet, from Athens today that Russian' "I hope it works," Sethman j "He does except safe water and Ambassador Konstantin Rodionov commented. "Knowing the sit- milk supply, sanitary sewers,and said he was not leaving Greece, as uation is critical, I've spread the a modern hospital for his family," had been reported. word far and wide. Even in Chi-' Sethman continued. , I I 1' " 'Jti 1 X i -sV , v'i1?'?.! s-f 2-i VA i " -''' ) I- C-'X A f vvV U"" ,.'.tr 1'mV l "v- t' A u i- vv-1 v;4- -Aj A J -;w . -4 ;a;7 a$ is a IWiii vig On Army Pay, 1 947 ... for the sake of those who have given their lives to safeguard liberty and put an end to war ...and for the sake of my children and their children's children ... I make this resolve: 1 will do my utmost to support my country's efforts toward a just arid lasting peace throughout the world. I will cultivate a spirit of friendship and understanding for the peoples of other lands. I will help to make American democracy work, fulfilling its destiny as a guiding light to all nations. And, until peace is established by world organization, I will do my part to maintain an adequate military defense against possible aggression. SPACE FOR THIS ADVERTISEMENT IS Reds Lecture NEA Reginald Kenny, left, NEA photographer covering the Moscow foreign ministers meeting, stopped to take pictures of a Russian market place. That was a mistake. The Soviet militia took Kenny and Cecil Djckson, right, of the Gannett newspapers, who was with Kenny, into custody. After a half-hour lecture in Russian, 4vhich neither man understood, they were released. Kenny's pictures from Moscow have been appearing in this newspaper. Rangely In Need Of DENVER, April 5 (U.R) Range- ly, Colo., the state's oil -booming city, today was characterized as one of the "desperation points"! sethman said the lack of ph5?s-ito the next floor. The whole con-of con-of the nation in its unfilled de- icians in Rangely was not a mat-; struction provides a large oval mand for a resident physician. tor of finance. j stairwell with a roomy, elaborate Harvey T. Sethman, executive! "Rangely could provide two effect. secretary or tne Colorado State Medical society, revealed that so. desperate was the plight of the booming community that the Rangely chamber of commerce had offered free rent and finan- ;cial backing for a satisfactory, Photographer Doctor Badly ;cago the opening remains listed witn no takers. A Meeker phys ician is giving part-time service; hut that isn't pnnuoh " resident physicians with adequate professional incomes. But the available men for the job are young doctors, recently out of military service." Most of these, he continued were married and had a family CONTRIBUTED AS A PUBLIC SERVICE BYs 187 WEST CENTER SUNDAY HERALD Famous Ylying Staircase' Seeking Someone To Build House Around It BOSTON (U.R) A 156-year-old Bulfinch "Flying Staircase" thai would .look well in almost any house has been offered for public sale through the New England Trust Co. of Boston. ' The bank's idea is for someone to buy the 32-foot staircase and build a house around it. It was done, before to this very set of steps. - The" Flying Staircase got its name from its appearance. Its dramatic lines sweep upward to the right and left, giving a spec- 4tacular effect. It is built to be dis- ptayea in m spacious naiiway wiw a ceiling at two-floor height. The mahogany ' staircase is free-standing" that is, it stands away from any wall and is at tached only at the top and bottom. bot-tom. It gives, the spectator the impression of flight. Miniature Stare The stairs are approached from both sides with about eight steps leading to the central platform a sort 'of miniature stage from which to survey the rooms below. Then the steps go up about eight more from the landing, and the ascent is completed with turns frnm ihf- rfnipr and nn hnth siris The staircase has a lone history. In l91 a wealthy Boston merchant mer-chant named Joseph Bar re 11 decided de-cided to build the "most complete and sumptuous country-seat" on Pleasant Hill in Somerville. He hired his good friend, the famous architect, Charles Bulfinch, who designed the rtouse, the central feature of which was the Flying Staircase. The Barrell residence, being no hut. was bought by Massachusetts ARMY' DAY ; k, Hundreds of thousands of patriotic young men have tamed their high resolve into positive action by joining either the Regular Army, the National Guard of the United States, the Organized Reserve Corps or the R.O.T.C. On Army Day and throughout the week yoa-ctft salute these men bf visiting the exhibits and events they have planned for your community. These display will give you aa opportunity to find out what the organizations do . . . the n-aining and experience they give to their members . . their accomplishments in many Interesting field. : . But even more important, Army Day exhibits will enable you to see the fine type of men and women who wear the U. S. mif orm to show them that you are interested in what they are doing to safeguard your country. Sunday, April 6, 1947 general hospital in 1818 and used as the doctors home. In 1896, when the hospital mov ed and the buildings were demol ished, some bright- art-lover- thought of saving the graceful; The staircase was bought byt one. Francis Shaw, who used it as, the nucleus of his famuloua man--sion in Wayland. - ' 1 " But, as all things must, the Shaw mansion in 1937 was doom-' ed to demolition. Again the stair--case was saved, this time by the" New England Trust Co., trustees of the Shaw estate. " . Now the Bulfinch masterpiece I conservatively valued at $10,000,, is stored in about 100 cratesan.su Waltham warehouse and the bank is stuck with it- Blind Girl Clicks As Radio 'Ham' ROCHESTER, N. Y. (UJ) Rochester Ro-chester claims a rarity a blind woman amateur radio operator. She is 23-year-old Lucille Sweet, who maintains that her experience experi-ence suggests rehabilitation aid' to blinded veterans. Almost immediately after a 100-watt transmitter was set up in her home, she contacted ama--teur stations in Texas, Nebraska, Arkansas and a boat in the Gulf of Mexico.. She learned the art of radio operation and the mysteries of the circuit theory by means of wires strung, over cardboard. She holds a Class B operator's license. Radio is not her only interest. Besides holding a job as machine operator at Kodak Park, where she is the, company's only blind employee, she is currently taking lessons in tap dancing. APRIL 7-12, 1947 Si 3 : |