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New Manager To Assume Duties al Montgomery Ward C. A. Brown, acting manager at the Medford Montgomery Ward and company store, an nounced yesterday that A. E. Oines, formerly of the Reno, Nev., branch of Wards, has been appointed manager of the store here. He will replace P. A. Timm who has resigned because of his health. Oines is an Oregonian and has had about 15 years' managerial experience with the firm. Brown will become assistant manager on Oines' arrival. E. L. Davis, who has been act ing assistant manager at the local store, has been appointed assistant manager at the Grants Pass store where he will report Monday. Davis came to Wards from the University of Oregon a year and a half ago under the company's management training program. SAFER LOLLIPOPS NOW Gary, Ind. (U.R) Plastic now is making lollipops that are safer for children, the National Pat ent Council says. The sticks are soft, flexible and wider at one end so they can't be pulled out of the candy. MILL CAFE Hiway 99 - Central Point OPEN SUNDAY 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. On the Side-By f- v- Du,r,ng (Dirtribtited b Kin, ttturm Syndicate ImJ MiMiiiiiiimmimtiiMiim Ever hear of Lue Gim Gong? He was a Chinese known as "the Luther Burbank of Florida." He settled in Deland, Fl a., inl886. In 1889 he introduced a new variety of orange and for this was awarded the Wilder Medal by the United States Department of Agriculture. In 1892 he origin ated the Gim Gong grapefruit, which withstands ten degrees greater cold than other varieties. Gong also pollinated a currant with a grape and produced the cherry currant, which is as large as a grape. In addition, he per fected a peach for growth in green houses. Stargazers An unusual Florida settlement is the town of Orlovista. This is largely inhabited by astrolo gers. Many of these stargazers just come to Florida for the win ter, but practically all of them are always ready to furnish a horoscope for a price. Maybe I could persuade that Milwaukee checker-UDDer to visit Orlovista. He could have a horoscope made by each of one hundred astrolo gers and then compare them. That could be an interesting ex periment in checking up. u might even furnish excellent material for a magazine article. Please Note Near Orlovista is the Deer Is land pit. This is a place with a seating capacity w h ere cock fights are held regularly. The birds are matched by their weight, which is from four to six pounds. A four-pounder is a lightweight, a six-pounder a heavyweight. The fights are by rounds and the contest lasts from twenty to thirty minutes. An international tournament is held annually. In this game cocks from all over the world compete. The amount of the purse for this event varies, but it has been as high as $25,000. 4 l. "J n4 I GENUINE YOUHGSTOWN j ttitehenaider CABINET SINK j Complete with Fittings I liilallaHM Check tht woric-saving feature! OntpItu,KlIrt!l!ttngpor-ctlaht-tnomal top . . . Miy tt cltan, a pLsasvra t two. Spacious, it-iplvsh bwwl Handy, prttHtMei rariory Nobwdiog, Mttoopfag... rocosstd to and knot ipwt taws tasks at tka sink. Mm maty othor xciting IW tarts. COMB IN TODAY; u SEE FOR YQURSELFI & mr ifiTT.F.Tivir Y NULLUM NO DOWN PAYMENT UP TO 3 YEARS TO PAY Smith-Dynge Lumber Co. Eighth and Fir, Medford Phone 2-7166 Admission to the international tournament is $5. The betting is terrific. You can have my share of cockfighting. I think it is a cruel, inhuman sport. Just as bad as bullfighting. Summertime Palm Beach, which is, of course, right on the ocean, is said to be a pleasant place in the summertime. The socialites who winter there have summer homes in northern resorts. However, their Palm Beach homes are expensively furnished and they like to have them well taken care of in their absence. There fore, many couples who like Palm, Beach in the summer agree to act as caretakers in return for free rent. Thus many people in moderate circumstances live in luxurious cottages at Palm Beach, rent free, for eight months of the year. Getting It Right Have been checking up on Kis sammee, Fla. The name of this town was once erroneously men tioned on a National radio broad cast as "Kiss Me, Florida." Kis sammee is in the Florida cattle country. It has been visited for over seventy-five years by cow boys out for a good time. Kissam mee had the first bar in the country where a man could have a drink without getting off his horse. That type of bar originat ed in Kissammee in 1870. It was later copie dby western cattle towns. Sidelights Among the wide variety of ac tivities in Florida is frog farm ing. A frog lays from ten to thirty thousand eggs a year. The frogs are not marketed until they are two years old. Insects The grapefruit and fish are not the only things that grow to huge proportions in Florida. They have some formidable looking spiders around here. Taking a shower this morning I was amazed to see climbing up the wall a spider as large as a crab. The house we are living in was recently built and is in the best residential section of this part of Florida. There are also quite a few ants around here. The mos quitoes seem to have been eliminated. What's In A Nam. The DoDulation of Christmas, Fla., is only 250, but it's post of fice does a terrific business dur ing the Christmas season. Many people send gift packages to the town to be forwarded to various sections of the country so they can bear the Christmas post mark. Throughout the year there is a demand tor cards irom col lectors of unusual Dost marks. Jacksonville, Fla., once had more moving picture studios within its limits than Hollywood Calif. That was in the eaily days of the silent film era. The period when Owen, Matt and Tom Moore, Alice Joyce, Arthur Johnson, Wally Van, Flora Finch. Lillian Walker and John Bunny were the leading film stars. It was the custom at that time for all the companies hav ing studios in New York to go south for the winter. Most of them located in Jacksonville. Joker Plays 'Meanie' And Rubs ft in Too Greensboro, N. C. (U.R) Roger Tilley paid plenty for that new car and he didn't want it to sound just like a bug of bolts. A dealer check-over failed to elimi nate an annoying rattle. Tilley delivered an ultimatum, eliminate rattle, or provide new car. He and the dealer watched the mechanic going over the shiny sedan and they heard a muffled yelp of triumph from beneath a fender. Out came a small bag containing loose nuts and bolts and the following note: "Bet you had a heck of a time finding this." $ IN MEDFORD FOR YOUR W Logging-Sawmill and Construction Supplies and Equipment CALL ROGUE EQUIPMENT SALES, Inc. Hiway 99 North Phone 3-1506 REPRESENTING Henry Disston and Son Band and Circle Saws Filet and Hacksaw Blades Planer Knives and Philbrick Heads Larson Logging Tools Most Complete Stock in S. 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Wayne Chase Leo Ghilardi Medford Phone 2-9896 Nite Calls Central Point Phone 30X3 WE'RE LOCATED ACROSS FROM YOUR LOCAL CATERPILLAR DEALER yfc ' I "iilWMi'wi'iV"W1-'' "i ' ' 1 AIDED BY EASTER SEALS Gene Noland. 10. La Grande. victim of cerebral palsy, is shown above receiving special leg exer cises from Mrs. Jeanne Huffstutler, physical therapist, at the Chil dren's Hospital school in Eugene. The school, which is open to crippled children from all sections of the state, is financed by sales ot taster seals. Origin of the Planetary System By J. Hugh Pru.it Astronomer, Extension Division, Oregon Higher EducaUon System "Please discus the prevailing theory regarding the formation of the planets." (W. J. D., Sioux Falls, S. D.) Seven years ago Dr. C. H. Cleminshaw of the Griffith ob servatory in Los Angeles wrote, "At present there is no accepted explanation of the origin of the planets." Today the older theor ies are crumbling and new ones are clamoring for recognition before the scientific world. Easiest Way Out The easiest way out, the one which would require no knowl edge of the deep mathematical and physical laws of Nature's methods of operation, would be to assume that "in the begin ning" the planets, complete in their present forms, were placed in their existing orbits never to change in any way. But our tele scopes show us that changes are taking place before our eyes in some of the stars as they are rent asunder in what we call novas nnri minernnvas. In 1775, Immanuel Kant, the German scientist and philoso- nhpr nrooosed n olanetarv lor mation theory. This was put into more tangible form 20 years later by the brilliant French mathematician Laplace. This was called the nebular hypothesis. Laplace suggested that the space from the sun to the farthest plan et was once occupied dv a oisk of hot gaseous material. As this rotated, contracted and cooieo, rings were left behind which finally collected Into the various planets, and with the central portion becoming the sun. This beautiful theory had almost un disputed sway until about 1900. Ot the beginning ot tnis cen. turv. Chamberlin and Moulton of tne University of Chicago pro pounded the planetesimal hypo thesis in an attempt to overcome definite imperfections in the older theory. They assumed that the sun was once an isolated star without planets. Another blazing star charged into the solarn neighborhood and by gravita. tional attraction tore off huge masses of material from "our star." The visiting sun went on its way into the depths of space and the loose material collected into planets. A little later, Jeff reys assumed that the visiting star actually "side-swiped" our sun and splashed material off, Within the past few years von Weizsacker has advocated that Children Urged to Walk Across Street Not Run In NeBraska City Lincoln, Neb. (U.R) Mothers should teach their children to walk, never run, across the street. That Is the belief of Charles Armstrong, Omaha safety engineer. "They won't be hit If they walk, he explained. It they walk in front of an automobile, the car will have a chance to stop." Anderson views with alarm the mothers who teach their youngsters to look both ways and then run as fast as they can across the street. "Eventually they forget to look both ways, then dart out from between cars and are hit," he said. United Nations Family Now Set Up in South Miami, Fla. (U.R) Mr. and Mrs. Louis Sutcras adopted twins and claimed they have a happy "united nations" in their modest home here. The twins, an 11-months-old boy and girl, bring the total of the Suteras family to six chil dren, all adopted. The family represents seven nationalities English, Scotch, Irish, French, German, Polish and Italian, Sutcras, a milkman, is of Italian descent and his wife claims a "little Indian blood." "Your Office Boy" Since 1927 SALES SERVICE Royal Typewriters, Victor Adding Machines, G. F. Desks, Chairs, Files Across from the Rialto Theatre the primitive sun was surround ed by a shell which changed to rotating disk that finally be came planets in a "sweeping up1 process. Then came WhiDDle s dust-cloud hypothesis in which light pressure played a large part In assembling the mighty suns and the lesser worlds. Struvo s Suggestion in a recent article Struve sue- gester that planets possible are formed from the dissipation of me common envelope of mater ial which surrounds certain double stars when they combine into one. until recently it has generally been considered that planetary systems were rare in tne universe, But Struve states that the most recent theories in dicate the "process of planet for mation is not unusual." Next week we shall discuss the most recently announced theory, that of Dr. Gerard Kuiper of the University of Chicago. . Sunday, April 9. 1950 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THIRTEEN Stock Market Reaches Highest Since 1930 New York, Apr. 8 (U.R) The stock market culminated a steady rise since last June today when the Dow Jones industrial average reached a new nign since October, 1930. In one of the most active ses sions of the year, the industrial component finally broke through Its wartime bull market high ot $212.50 established in May 1946, tODoing it by five cents to $212.55. The 1946 high had been the best since October 3. 1950. With the market closed Friday in observance of Good Friday and shut down tomorrow In the usual Sunday closing, traders rushed to execute orders which had accumulated since Thurs day's close with the result that first hour volume was tne neavi est since May, 1048. Dow Jones closing stock aver ages: 30 industries 212.55 up 0.45; 20 railroads 56.36 up 0.13; 15 utilities 43.25 up 0.05, and 65 stocks 76.18 up 0.15. Sales spurted to 1,090,000 shares from 680,000 shares traded last Saturday. Salem Students Not To Return on Monday Salem, Ore., Apr. 8 (U.R) Eighteen Salem high school stu dents who were suspended last fall for belonging to what the school board called a secret so ciety will not be permitted to return to their classes Monday, when spring vacation will be over, board officials said today. Expulsion was made effective Friday for the boys who were members of the ABC, which they first said was the American Boys club, but which was called, in testimony in a recent circuit court trial here, the Alpha Beta Chi. The board said it would grant the boys full credit for school work done while they attended classes uncter a temporary injunction. When seeds of the American holly sprout, only about one tenth produce female trees. Only female trees produce berries. STREET DEATHS DOWN Chicago U.R) The American Automobile Association esti timates that U. 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