Redlands Daily Facts from Redlands, California • Page 7

Treasurer sees better sale for SACRAMENTO (UPIV State Treasurer Ivy Baker Priest and Veterans Director Frank D. Nicolj say reduction of the prime'interest rate charged by banks will make it easier to sell state bonds. Nicol and Mrs. Priest agreed Wednesday that the reduction "definitely helps" the state's financial situation. Both the Veterans Department and the Treasurer's Office depend on he sale of state bonds to raise funds for various state programs.

When the major California banks announced they were cutting their prime rate from 6 per cent to 5.3-4 per cent it indicated to Mrs. Priest and Nicol that the nation's finacial situation was continuing to "loosen." 1 "It (the rate reduction) is characteristic of the that we will be able to sell our bonds.at faster pace," Nicol said. "If it was going the other way, we'd be dead. "When the bank interest rates go down it's characteristic of the. fact that money is becoming less expensive," he added "The' market is very volatile flexible," Priest said.

Last June voters approved a ballot proposition raising the maximum interest rate on state bonds from 5 to 7 per cnet. Prior to the increase, the Veterans Department had been unable to sell bonds for ahout two years to help finance the Oal-Vet' fram and home loan program. Wigs oil way bock in popularity after 170 years BEADED ELEGANCE was the fashion motif shared by Princess Sophie of Spain and Mrs. Richard Nixon at a White House state-dinner during the U.S. visit of the princess and her husband, Prince Juan Carlos, future Spanish king.

By United Press International CHICAGO Wig makers claim that more and more men are wearing hair pieces of all sorts, including the far-out and the way-down. Male inhibitions, the wig people say, have been lowered to the point where "he" can be as busliy as "she," and they even predect a national crania! coverup. If indeed wigs become as popular as the manufacturers hope, it will be their second time around. The wearing of wigs by both sexes dates ixom the earliest recorded times, according to Encyclopaedia Britannica, but the male wig as we know it today was a French inspiration. Louis XIV, who as a youth had abundant hair, chose to wear a wig about 1670 when he was in his 40s.

Within a few years, one historian noted, "all civilized men in Western Europe felt compelled to do the same." The English went along with the style, even when fashion dictated the "full-bottomed" wig for men. It may have been just darling but it was hot and cumbrous. Soon the "campaign" wig was invented along with the riding wig, bag wig and a plaited tail wig tied with bows at the top and bottom. By the 1740s bob wigs were replacing the long, curled king. Wigs kept getting smaller and smaller and finally ceased to be indispensable.

Gentlemen began powdering their own hair, strangely, as if it Were a wig. At about the same time wigs got mixed up in politics. They had been used to denote clas and profession. Both the French and. American revolutions brought about the abolition of many social customs, including class distinction as indicated by such things as hair styles.

Although wigs began to die out during the reign of George III, the practice held on long afterward among professional men. The most solid bitter enders: were doctors, soldiers and clergymen allied, presumably. With a' group of as- 1 sorted bigwigs. Finally, by the end of the 18th Century, practically all men had abandoned wigs of all sorts and had relumed to where they were before it all hair. Search for 'Big foot' Thursday, Feb.

18, T- Tracks of Sasquatch attract thousands of tourists AEDEN, Wash. sands of tourists have been flocking each day. to this lumbering town on Hie Canadian border to view the 16-inch long footprints of Sasquatch, the legendary 8-foot-5-inch "big foot" of the Pacific Northwest. They come to gaze at more than of the big footprints said have been made by the hairy, apelike animal who weighs an estimated 800 pounds and has a stride of SO to 55 inches. Ivan Marx, a veteran hunter and guide who has been tracking the Sasquatch for two years, said the creature walked all around Harvey Hall's grooery store', in this tiny northeastern Washington community last week, went to the city dump and then returned to the wilderness.

He said dogs were unable to pick up the scent and fQllow the huge monster because rains, which fell soon after the Sasquatch apeared, washed away any scent. "If we can get to where my dogs can pick up its scent, well take it," said Marx. "Plans are to heavily tranquilize the Sasquatch once we capture it Then we'll photograph it and scientifically document as much about the animal as possible before releasing So far, no one has been able to capture a Sasquatch, much less spot one. But Marx said he took 70 feet of motion picture film of a Sasquatch last fall and the footage has been purchased by the National Wildlife Federation. The question of whether such a man-like animal, known in Indian legend as Sasquatch really exists has been hotly debated in the Northwest for years.

Marx believes five such animals are living in this area and vary in size. He says all are substantially larger than a bear. Marx 'said the Sasquatch which walked into Arden had a little toe missing oh its left foot. Marx, who has seen that particular track before, surmised the animal fell victim to a steel'trap several years ago; "Last Oct. 7, I was called to Bosburg (near- here) where a train had struck Sasquatch.

I rushed there and took approximately 70 feet of film of the animal. I have since made 640 slides from the footage. "He screamed twice at me while I was shooting footage. I swear that animal thought I was going to kill was more scared of me than I was of him." The hunter, said the accident occurred late in the evening and the Sasquatch escaped when it became dark. NOW YOU KNOW Indians in what is now the eastern United States used wampum, tubular shell beads, as money until the 18th century when machines to mass produce it caused widespread New discovery in acne cause found at UCLA LOS ANGELES (UPI)-The discovery that the skin of acne victims handles the male sex hormone differently than normal skin in natural hormone activity may offer a promising new approach to treating the disorder, two UCLA Medical School doctors today.

Ronald M. Reisner and Gail Sansome said they found that acne-bearing skin converts the male sex hormone, or androgens, into its tissue-active. form at a greater irate than normal skin. Acne develops during the teens when the skins oil glands are en'arging and putting out more oil. The converted form of male sex hormone, or testosterone, greatly increased in acne skin hiay cause an excessive output of oil in the acne-prone persons, they said.

The scientists speculated that jin acne victims trie oil glands were- especially sensitive to testosterone. The discovery, according to the two, should eventually result in anti- androgen drugs. Customer feels sorry Dudke says it's between quality or quantify LOS ANGELES (UPD California's state colleges may be forced to choose between quality education or quantity education unless next year's budget is increased, Chancellor Glenn S. Dumke warned Wednesday. Dumke told some 85 members of his advisory council that the 19-campus system not only was "fiscally constrained but we're expected to take on more than 20,000 new students." He: said if it became to' 1 'choose between lowering the quality of education or limiting the number of students, "we would prefer the latter." Dumke said asked for $369 million for the next fiscal year but governor's proposed budget called for only $315 million with the present budget of $310 million.

Some'of the new programs included in his budget request would enable the college system to handle more students with the facilities and staff and would enable the extension service to offer degrees, which would make it possible for students to obtain their degrees six to 18 months sooner than under the present system. Mojave nian held for stabbing wife MOJAVE' dep- puties chased and subdued a 35- year-old man Wednesday after he allegedly stabbed his six times and anoither man during an altercation that first took place outside and then inside of a supermarket Charged with attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon was Charles Richard Evans, 35, Mojave, who was booked after he assertedly stabbed his estranged wife; Marjorie, 30, in the head, the shoulder, the leg, the elbow and the foot as they sat in a parked pickup truck. The woman escaped and made her way into a nearby supermarket where Evans allegedly stabbed her again, this time in the ear. Ah unidentified shopper who tried to subdue Evans" also was slashed and was in fair condition at a local hospital. Mrs.

Evans also was in fair condition in a Tebachapi hos Hold-up man selects wrong victim DETROIT A young man stopped Harry Hill recently and asked to borrow a match. When Hill reached into the youth gulled a gun and announced a holdup. What -Hill pulled from his pocket wasn't a was police revolver. Hill is a homicide, bureau detective sergeant: The 'two men struggled and estranged was gunman fled, but police responding to the. shooting report arrested a suspect a short time LUTON, England jeweler who misread a manufacturer's price -list and sold two gold lighters for $38.16 instead of $403.20 each got one of them back Wednesday.

It was returned' to Anthony Judkins by. Anthony Peirson of Luton who said later: "I Jelt Shop Harris Monday arid Friday 9:30 A. M. to 9 P.M Other Days 9:30 A.M. to 5:30 PM.

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