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.
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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.
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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."
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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."
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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. S. pedestrian
deaths for 1949 equaled 9,450, a
reduction of 400 from 1948.
Howell, Mich. (U.R) Burglars
who broke into the American
Legion club brought along two
iuicy pork hocks. They rifled
the place while the watchdog
feasted.
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