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Show The LEADER Thursday, January 24, 1952 3 g.Q i WASHINGTON, D C. -- The north ern part of Mexico's Baja (Lower) California has enjoyed decade of phenomenal population growth and is sow seeking promotion to statehood. Mexico at present has 28 states and three territories. The latter are Baja California, North District; Baja California, South District; and Quintana Roo, on the Yucatan peninsula. Northern' Baja California, whose capital is Mexicali in the rich Imperial Valley, would become the 11th state in area and the 27th in population if admitted. Under the Mexican constitution, elevation of a territory to statehood must be approved by tne Congress. A bill to admit the northern part of the narrow, arid and mountainous peninsula that extends south from U.S. California bas oeen sent to the national legislature by President Miguel Aleman. The northern territory of the peninsula, has an area a little larger than West Virginia. Its population in 1950 was 225,000. nearly triple that shown by the 1940 census, far outstripping gains made by any other area of Mexico. The closest comparable increase was that of the Distrito Federal around Mexico City, the seat of government similar to the U.S. District of Columbia. Here the decade's population growth was about 67 per s 8-Hi o 3 fcr- POHIO BENE Seeking Admission As Mexican State 2 o jo Baja California - 1 s. B.R.H.S. Gym We Sat Jan. 26 - ffigg need your help to raise our area quota. Further contributions will be greatly appreciated. Tickets are available at Tremonton business houses, Jaycee members or contact Earl Fuhriman. Pplio victims need your help! ... aiiiiMiiiii cent. The proposed new state extends southward from the U.S border to the 28th parallel, which cuts Baja California's length approximately in half. It contains the border cities of Tijuana and Mexicali, as well as the resort center of on the Pacific coast. Much of the agriculture of Baja California is limited to irrigated regions in the North District, not only in the Imperial Valley, but also in the area of San Quintin Bay on the Pacific Coast, some 190 miles by road from the border. 810-mi- le Wife Helps Husband Trap To Augment Family Income HALL'S LANDING, Ont. One enterprising family is managing to defeat the high cost of living by trapping and hunting. City life became too "expensive" five years ago for the family of Mrs. George McClus-keso tho family moved to Hall's Landing, 20 miles north of Peterborough, where Mrs. y, McCluskey augments the family income by helping her husband trap and hunt various kinds of T -- X ' animals. On a selling trip to Peterborough she brought 11 raccoon pelts, her first results, and all bagged within three nights. Selling the pelts, she learned, is tougher than acquiring them. After some difficulties, she managed to dispose of her first catch for $11 a buck a pelt. Heart Ceases to Beat 25 Minutes Man Recovers CHICAGO The complete recov- ery of a man whose heart stopped beating for 25 minutes during an operation was reported in the De cember Journal of the American Medical Association. The patient, 63, was undergoing chest surgery when his color became very dark and his heart stopped beating, according to Dr. Max G. Carter, of the Boston City Hospital, Boston. Life was maintained by massaging the heart, injecting heart stimulants and apply, lng artificial respiration. Adequate flow of blood to the brain and heart was maintained, according to the report, by manual closing of the aorta beyond the point of exit of the left subclavian artery while the massaging was performed. The closing of this part of the main artery leaving the heart stopped the flow of blood to the lower portion of the body and forked it to the upper section and brain. In heart stoppage cases, the flow of blood to the brain is of utmost importance in order to prevent damage to the brain should the patient recover otherwise. "The maintenance of massage at an adequate rate of around 50 to 60 contractions per minute was so fatiguing that the surgeon and the first assistant alternated for periods of five .minutes each," the report said. i The patient recovered completely and was discharged 11 days after the operation, Dr. Carter stated. have Subsequent examinations shown him to be as mentally sound and alert as at the time of the operation. Marina Mistakes la Korea Bet Careful Attentions 5 Victim X, whose name will never be known, was the 1,000,000th highway traflic fatality in the United States since 1900. Victim X may have been man, woman or child it might I r ' have been you! This life, sacrificed to carelessness, was snuffed out in an automobile accident late in 195 1. "GI-X- " Only a few months earlier, another unknown met his death on a Korean battlefield. country since the Battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775. It took seven United States wars and the' conflict in Korea to count a toll of 1,000,000 Americans who died in the cause of freedom and independence. It took only 52 years for another million to be killed on the streets and highways of our country. Besides these dead in traffic accidents, 35,000,000 more were injured, maimed or disfigured, for life, Automobiles will claim their second million victims much sooner, possibly in the next was the millionth soldier to die for his 25 years, unless you and 60,000,000 other drivers get seriously safety conscious. Carelessness causes nine out of every ten accidents. Speeding, drinking-and-drivin- g, are major causes of auto fatalities and serious violation of rules of the road and right-of-wa- y, accidents. Lack of alertness by pedestrians contributes its toll to the death statistics. Drive safely walk safely. Save your own life and the lives of others. Drive As Though Your Life Depends On It - - IT DOtSI -- WITH THE FIRST MARINE DIMarinas to VISION IN KOREA Korea sport the most luxurious mustaches this aide of an early American melodrama. The apparent la a bushy Job with long, twisted poinu . . . the longer the better. At first, the points presented a problem: What to use for a wax. Early experiments found collodion, chap sticks and axle grease lacking in one or more respects. Today, however, the problem is no more, and lucky Leatherneck! can twirl their prUes with the best of old vlUians. The final answer GI saddle soap. SERVING rttHMMtt'W'ffW THE BEAR IB J RIVER VALLEY fir ;! |