Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, April 05, 1950, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextSIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday. April 8, 1950 ....AROUND HOLLYWOOD By VIRGINIA MiePHERSON United Pratt Correspondent Hollywood, Apr. 5 (U.R The "singing telegram" Is back and for one whole day the An drews aisiers went with it. Every wire that came in to the local West ern Union of fice sent them warbling "hap p y birthday" over the tele phone to some goggle - eyed listener on the other end. And, at the are coining money these days we was getting something like $5,000 worth of free entertain figure every birthday celebrant ment for 30 seconds. The recipients must have fig ured the same thing. Because 9 Virginia KacPherwa Gloomy Wall? a m VjErf Sf stwai tf USE (mgm m ."-ar- ear- You'd take pride in the warm beauty, colorful charm of bath rooms, showers, kitchens glam orized with new, luxurious AlUMIWAU. Thousands of smart home-owners do. Choose from 13 gay, harmonizing or contrasting colors, baked In for Bfe and a oy to keep clean. Easy to Install yourself or we'll gladly do it. Fully guaranteed. Get our free estimate today. BARNARD'S FLOOR COVERING SPECIALISTS 317 I. Main Phone 2-5487 Hnn man AVM hllflff llt Hfl VtTl something nobody's done to the Andrews bisters since iney mi the Big lime m years as"- A rtai tha first ehnrk most v erybody recovered long enough to sputter a few "oohs" and "aaahs." One enterprising wolf rppnvered in time to ask em for their telephone number. Bang-Up Rt-Opening All In all, according to F. I. Sanders, general sales manager, it ...as a hnno.iin rp-nneninff for a service that got "bumped off" the wires ngni aner fan n bor. "We used to send boys out to people's homes," he explained. "But we ran into a lot of trouble that way with female wolves. They used to get their eye on a handsome messenger and then send themselves telegrams so he'd deliver them." Now Western Union sends out its "happy birthday's" by tele phone. When the Andrews Sisters agreed to kick off the singing telegrams they worked hours river a fancv arrangement of the birthday song. Figured they m Eht's well do tne tning up right. . No Shenanigans That's when they bumped smack into the federal commun ications commission. No siree, said the FCC, They had to sing it the way it's always been sung and no shenanigans about it. Singing messages must con tain only straight lyrics of the tune as paid for by the sender without any embellishments, the FCC ruled. But even the old-fashioned way sounded good coming out of Patti Mnvinp nnri I.avprne. One of the listeners said it was "the best birthday I've ever naa. Four-year-old Bobby wanted 'em to rush right over to his party. Another, a surgeon, didn't tarry long to listen. "We probably caught him rioht In thp mirlrlle nf nn opera tion," Patti giggled. "Imagine, having somebody opened up ana a nurse comes in to say: There's a singing telegram for you, doc tor.' " In the pre-war days the West ern Union singers got a buck per birthday. All the Andrews Sisters got were three sore throats. "And a lot of laughs," Max ine added. "At least nobody asked 'who're you'?" JUST IN TIME Tucson, Ariz. (U.R) Norrls Murdock wasn't a moment too soon. He took out a complete automobile insurance policy at a downtown office. After the pa pers were sinned he left the 1 building and found someone had stolcnt his automobile. Actress To lose Boston Accent in Cowtown Location By Patricia Clary United Press Correspondent Hollywood U.PJ Ruth Roman left for a cowtown movie loca tion talking like the late George Apley and expects to come back drawling like Gene Autry. "It's one way to get rid of my Boston accent," she shrugged. "I lust hang around the cowboys and listen to them talk. Wal, pardner, I kin tell ya, it shore do worn. Miss Koman had been trying to strain Boston out of her voice for several years before she went to visit the cowpokes at Victorville, Cel.. a desert ranch town where nobody comes from Boston. The "Lightning Strikes Twice" company from Warner Bros, was shooting on the North Verde ranch near there. "It was only a few days before I Improved my 'r's," she said. "They're hard as a wrangler's now. She's also losing those broad "a's" and other ' Boston-bred tones cowboys never use. No Accent Best An actress, Miss Roman be lieves, ought to talk with a uni versal accent, by which she means no accent at all. "Then she can play almost any kind of role," she said, "and not have to worry about sound ing like she's from Boston when she's supposed to have been born in the bouth Seas. "I've been working on my speech industriously ever since I decided to become an actress but it s pretty hard to get your native locale out of it." Miss Roman finds the best nlnce to hear un-Boston talk is the Main street drug store. That's where all the townsfolk and ranchers gather for coffee and a cigarette. 'The great danger Is in listen ing too much and too long." she said. 'Then I'll start talking like Calamity Jane. And my only future on the screen will be tak ing second billing to Trigger or Champion." Atomic Energy Used As Rat Exterminator Atlanta (U.R) In a sort of Pied Piper routine, the U. S. public health service is turning atomic energy on rats. Harry Essick, of the typhus control division, says supersonic waves, so high on the scale you can't hear them, "drive the rats as nuts as a person who was shut up in a closet with a blaring auto horn." Then something called "black light" locates the rats while they are still alive. They are poisoned with radio-isotopes. The drawbacks, Essick said, are expense and danger to hu mans'fighting the rodents. AHOY OLIVE DID YA KNOW EASTER SEALS TO HELP THE CRIPPLED KIDS WENT i ol CM tr r ONI SALE TODAY? LET'S eo BUY OURS RIGHT NOW Copr. 1950, King Features Syndicate, Inc., World rights reserved. Taft-Hartley Labor Law Produces 304 Lawsuits During First Two Years Washington (U.R) The Taft- Hartley labor law has produced 304 law suits during the first two years of its life, a survey shows. The government started 65. The statute was passed by a republican congress June 23, 1H47. During its nrst year. through June 30, 1948, 153 suits were filed in federal courts. The next year there were 151. There were no criminal ac tions. The great bulk of the cases were between employers and un ions. Many of them were dis missed before opposing parties could face each other in court. This trend suggests that the law thus far has had greater effect outside the court room than as a means of redress for harm actu ally suffered. The government used the law 56 times against unions and five times against employers. Two suits were brought against both at the same time, and two against a state commission. The actions were taken to require obedience to subpoenas; to force collective bargaining, and to enjoin strikes, lockouts and unfair labor prac tices banned in the law. Cases Still Pending All the cases have not been concluded. But the government has won 18 of its suits against unions and lost 10. Nine were dismissed. It won three com pany cases and lost one. One was dismissed. A & " III 1 MACK'S Penny-Wise Drug Store Shop Tonight, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday for Easter CANASTA SETS Two decks of cards plastic tray, rules, books of score sheets, two pencils, every thing ,ou need for Canasta fun! Complete $1.33 CANDY SPECIAL! What finer rtmtmbrinca for l tr than a box of tutcioui Brown and Haley or Hoaffler Centennial Chocolatei? 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Phont 2-2479 24 HOUR FREE DELIVERY Phone Nights 2-2701 In one suit against both com pany and union the government successfully prevented a strike at the Oak Ridge atomic plant. Its most famous case was the suc cessful one against John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, in the spring of 1948. Both unions and employers have sued the government, most ly over election procedures of the National Labor Relations board. Records do not show thry won any of the 29 cases started during the two-year period. Com panies brought six cases and lost four. Unions started 21 and lost 11. Some are still undecided and some have been dismissed. In industrial disputes where the government was not in volved, management filed about twice as many suits as did un ions. The proportion changed sharply from the first year to the second. Employers brought 72 suits against unions the first year, almost three times the num ber that unions filed against them, 25. But the second year employers filed only 50 suits, and unions, 36. Other suits showed individual workers bringing actions against both companies and unions. A few suits were brought against state labor relations boards by both labor and management. Many Issues Raised Actions between employers and unions were brought to en Join strikes, picketing, lockouts, and secondary boycotts; to col lect damages caused by strikes; to compel arbitration of disputes; to demand redress for alleged breach of contract, and the like. Of the 122 suits filed by em ployers against unions during the two years, 80 have been dis posed of. Only six cases actu ally came to trial. The employer won two and lost four. Sixty nine cases were dismissed, 38 before an answer even was filed. Six dismissals were at union re quest. Five cases were remanded to state courts. Of the 61 suits brought by un ions against employers, 38 have been concluded, 31 by dismissal. Twelve dismissals , however, were on motion of fhe employer. The unions won four judgments and lost three. New York federal courts led the states in number of cases filed with 69. Pennsylvania and California had 27 each: Ohio. 18; Indiana. 14; Illinois, 13; New Jersey, 12; Missouri and the Di trict of Columbia, 10 each; and Massachusetts. 9. You can clean the cork handle of your fishing rod very easily by gently rubbing it with line steel wool. EW Slectut DREMEL SANDER AND POIISHER my SAVES TIME SAVES EFFORT e Sfjndtni oen be fun with the new MOTO SANDKR developed by Dremet. Thit hwipenuve tool dflivert 7.100 fett trokee a minute. . .gete Into hard to rrsKh placet nd doea a magically em oath )eh of nd k. MOTO-SANPKR hat only 3 moving pent . . . needs no othnt or adjustment. Cam-type clamp permits chanting paper sa matter of seconds. FINE FINISHES FAST Using etther sheepsktn or felt polishing pad, which are furnished, converts MO TO SANDER Into POLISHER. 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(U.R) A baby food formula cost a Uni versity of Miami law professor $450. Prof. George H. Pickar was fined that amount in munici pal court for disturbing the peace. He said a quarrel with his wife started when he -found that she had hiked the pablum con tent of their baby's formula with out getting the doctor's approval. BREAKS COME FAST Fort Worth, Tex. (U.R) Rob ert Lloyd Green, 18, entered a hospital here for the eighth time with a broken leg. The eighth break occurred when he over turned on a motor scooter near his home. 5,7 EUKEKA ?H CAH SgMENDOCINO I NEV. t f fUKICISCO SSSLtGHTSSSgS LOS ANGELES ggggCATALINA ? MEGO Acme Teteohotot SUB SEARCH -Navy search planes are criss-crossing the area around Arguello light station (1) Calif., where Coast Guardsmen reported seeing a surfaced subma rine eight miles offshore. The strange sub was seen ISO miles north of Catalina Harbor (2) from which Theodore Donay, a convicted traitor, disappeared after renting a motorboat and sailing seaward. Earlier a Navy patrol plane re ported spotting a strange sub 40 miles off Cape Mendocino (3). Fishermen at Eureka (4) had made a similar report. He Just Wanted To Have Ample Security Menomonie, Wis. (U.R) For the loan of $130, all the collat eral Walter Jump wanted was the following: A chattel mortgage on a 1947 truck; A load of lumber hauled from Popple creek to Wheeler; Two trailers hauled from Wil son to Wheeler, about 30 miles; Twenty-five dollars in cash; Tea per cent interest on the loan. When Oscar Beckwith protest ed the terms, Jump cut the price to the 10 per cent interest and the trailer delivery, or the $25. Either way, a Menomonie jury said, it added up to usury. Jump was fined $50 with no interest. St. Louis, Mo., is one of the nation's largest fur markets. The altitude of San Francisco varies from six to 956 feet. "Your Office Boy" Since 1927 SALES SERVICE Royal Typewriters, Victor Adding Machines, G. F. 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