Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, April 30, 1950, Image 19

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Newspaper Page Textr... AROUND HOLLYWOOD If VIRGINIA MjcPHIRSON United tnm Cmtpod.at Pittsburg, Cal., Apr. 29 U.R) A goggle-eyed soldier wiped Lu cille Ball's purple lipstick off his face and reported back to (J a m p Stoneman to day as the "prettiest G. I. in the army." Sgt. Arnold Svacek from west Texas, T e x., earned the kisses from the carrot-top-. ped girl last night when he won the army s first all-male Deauty contest. He got a dozen of 'em, in fact, plus a couple of bear hues, and a cardboard crown that didn't fit. Today he's getting gleeful razzberries from his buddies in Co. A Sgt. Svacek, who Is 32 and married, said he was "too excit- Virginia IbeFherwfl DRIVE in theatre TONIGHT Mon. - Tues. Adam's Rib The Biggest Comedy Hit of the Year! PLUS II King of the Olympic" NEWS CARTOON Gates Open at 6:30, Show at 7 ed to know what it's all about." "They just ordered me to re port," he gasped after Miss Ball planted the last sizzling kiss on his surprised face. "I was in combat in the South Pacific. It was hot down there. But that Was nothin' compared to this!" Aided Dedication The blue-eyed movie queen flew up to the sprawling port of embarkation lust outside San Francisco to judge the beauty contest and help dedicate the camp's sprawling new $650,000 recreation center. Twenty enlisted men, wearing colored satin streamers across their manly chests and embar rassed smirks on their faces, strutted down the ramp and pirouetted before Miss Ball as per orders from Col. David H, Blakelock, their commanding officer. She looked 'em all up and down. She leered at 'em. She whistled. "All these men!" she caroled. "This is tough, ve-r-ry tough!" The the colonel wasn t mucn help. He made her pick the win ner sight-unseen, so to speak. Wouldn't let any soldier of his parade around in bathing suits "A la Miss America." He didn't think it was dignified. In Full Uniform He said Miss Ball would just have to pick the winner while he was rigged up in full uniform and to heck witn Daring meir rippling torsos for close inspec tion. When Sgt. Svacek, hard-hair ed, brown-eyed, and husky, got the nod he turned pale under his deep tan. "I'll never live this down," he kept muttering. "Never. I dun- no if my wife 11 let me in tne house after this. She didn't think I d win. She didn t even come over for the contest. "But it sure was exciting! ' The sergeant said he's been in the army 13 years now and noth ing like this ever happened to him before. First Time As Winner "This is the first beauty con test I ever won," he grinned. After the ceremony, the 8,000 soldiers at Stoneman crowned Miss Ball "The girl we'd most like to be the favorite husband of." Set. Rav Boswell. from New York City, did the honors and he got a big kiss, too. All he could say afterwards was: wow! I've had it!" NFW AIR SECRETARY Thomas K. Flnletter (left) Is congratulated by Defense Secretary LouSTa. Johnson (right) after Flnletter took his oath of office at Washington, D. C. as Secretary for Air. In background an W. Stuart Symington (left), outgoing Secretary for Air; Secretary of State Dean Ache t son and Mrs. Flnletter. Nearly half of the world's olive oil comes from Spain. ine ancient Egyptians wor shiped cats and even built tem ples in their honor. When a fa vored cat died its body often was mummified. PHELPS' RESTAURANT 11 MILES NORTH OF MEDFORD ON HI WAY 99 PHONE GOLD HILL 501 NOW SERVING SEA FOOD DINNERS STEAKS - CHOPS - CHICKEN FRESH SEA FOOD SALADS OPEN UNTIL 9 P.M. CLOSED EVERY FRIDAY Traffic Fatalities For First Quarter Of 1950 Increase Chicago, Apr. 29 (U.R) The natibnal safety council reported today that country-wide traffic fatalities for the first quarter of 1950 are nine per cent above those for the same period last year. 'This sudden and unexpected increase in 195U shows the dan' ger of complacency," the coun cil's president, Ned H. Dearborn, said. March Up 15 Per Cent After reporting that March fatalities alone rose 15 per cent, Dearborn said that "at this rate, the 1950 traffic toll will exceed 34,000 more than the postwar traffic spree of 1946 and all the nard-won gains will be wiped out." The total highway deaths for the first three months of this year was 7,060, of which 2,440 occurred in March, as compared to 2,120 in March, 1949, the counJ cil said. "All of this year's increase," the council said, "is occurring in rural areas and small towns while cities of more than 10,000 population have a composite slightly better than last year." Texas Towns Lead No traffic fatalities during the quarter were registered by 208 of the 477 cities checked by the council. The largest cities in the quar terly no-fatality group were Cor pus Christi, Tex.; Austin, rex., and Allentown, Pa., while Oma ha, Neb.; Worcester, Mass., and Syracuse, N. Y., were the larg est in the March class with a perfect record. Among the outsize wildlife now extinct are the dinosaur, the moa, the great auk and the dodo. Ozone Reflects Sounds of Meteors HIS HEALTH HIS FUTURE IS IN YOUR HANDS The Federal Government proposes a form of Socialized Medicine for citizens of the U.S.A. Now, before it becomes a law, look at the children in England (where since the war) they have "Nationalized" medioine. Study the actual figures. Then ask yourself if you want your family to "Enjoy" "Federalized" medicine. Why Don't You Get the Facts---Before it Is Too Late The Future is Up to You Right Now! Study the Government Plan . . . Compare the Record in England. Know what has actually happened, is happening under Socialized Medicine Your family Doctor is a Family Friend, independent, skilled competent and not, subject to orders from a "Bureau Chief" or minor official. WHEN DID YOU LAST WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMAN? By J. Hugh Pruett Astronomer, Extension Division, Oregon Higher Education System Last week we explained that the sound most commonly heard from meteorites in flight is not the thud when they strike the earth or the final explosion in the air. Rather, it is' due to the intense "shock wave'' they create when tearing through the upper air at speeds of 20 to 40 miles per second. Often an observer does not connect the gutteral rumbling with the visual meteor since the sound may arrive two to five minutes after the fireball is seen. In the cold upper air, sound travels approximately 11 miles a minute. If the sound arrives three minutes after the visual appearance, the nearest cause originated about 33 miles from the obesrver. Sounds Reflected According to the recent re searches on upper air conditions, meteoric detonations are not apt to reach the earth when the commotion producing them takes place more than 30 or 35 miles above ground. The warm ozone layer extending down from there for several miles would reflect sound originating above that height back into the higher atmospheric regions. That produced below this would reach the earth. Every meteor tracer is famil iar with the fact that five or ten Talent Talent, Apr. 28. Lions auxil iary members lunching at the Elks temple April 21 were Mrs. Charles Lakey, Mrs. Ira Culver, Mrs. Frank Christian, Mrs. P. J. McAbee and Mrs. Ernest White. A special meeting of the Lady Tinnc ilia, linlrl of tht hnmO nf Mrs. Frank Christian April 2d. Twenty-nine children are talc ing the first aid course under Mrs. Harry Lowe on Wednesday evenings. Mr. and Mrs. Charles .Lakey attended the wedding of Bob Sut ton in Ashland April 23. Leila Lindstrom, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Lindstrom, and Ralph Connor, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kudy Conner, were married at a garden ceremony April 23 at the bride's home. Many friends attended the cere mony and reception wnicn fol lowed. A number of friends attended house warming at the new home of Mr. and Mrs. John Sey mour near Phoenix. The Assembly of God church has finished pouring the con crete floor in the new edifice they are building on Wagner street. A new Union Oil gas station is being built on Highway 09 op posite Skecters garage. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Learning are parents of a boy born April 25 at the Medford community hospital. O.D.O. club will meet May 5 at the home 'of Mabel Dunkin. The Ideal market was broken into over the week-end and four boxes of candy stolen. Garden club will meet Tues day, May 2, at Mrs. Claude Word's home. "Lucky" Gilbreath is 111 at home with the flu. Mrs. Jesse Brown and daugh ter are visiting at the home of Mrs. Brown's parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Yarnell. Talent P.-T.A. met in special session April 18. Officers elected were: President, Mrs. Bernard Smith; vice-president, Mrs. For est Jennings; secretary, Mrs. Wayne Reichstein; treasurer, Mrs. Earl Weinhold. Loren Cas hier and Bernard Smith were per cent of all reports on a big fireball will mention that a whizzing noise like a sky rocket was heard at the time the meteor was seen in flight. These sounds have long been called "psychol ogical", and were thought to be Hue to sudden excitement on the part of the observer and imper fect memory of the event later. Dr. Wylie of Iowa says "college professors have never heard them." (But such men are noted for extreme absent-mindedness.) Known laws of sound propaga tion permit no such instantane ous transmission. Gaining Supporters But the advocates of "hissing" meteors are gradually gaining supporters. Dr. H. H. Nininger, the national expert on such mat ters, is definitely convinced that such sounds are sometimes heard. The present writer, once a scoffer at the idea, after studying 2000 or 3000 reports received " during the past 18 years, is almost convinced. Dr. Nininger does not believe such sounds travel on air waves, but that some electrical effects are induced in the proper materials on the earth near the observer which are transformed into vi brations. Such electro-magnetic waves traveling at the speed of light, 186,300 miles a second, would seem instantaneous. If a current of electricity Is started in a coil of wire, another coil nearby but with no wire connections with the first will have a current "induced in it. Radio waves in space are trans formed into sound by a properly constructed receiver. Une man claimed constant annoyance from a radio station after having silver fillings put into his teeth. A snap is sometimes heard some where simultaneously with a flash of lightning. Perhaps some persons are bet ter attuned than the general run to detect certain unexplained phenomena. Svndar. April 30, 1930 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THWE1 hosts for the evening. Crater Lake Campfire Girls were guests April 25 of the girls in their group working for their Firemaker's rank. Preparing and serving the supper were Jayle Thoresen, Barbara Brannen, Rosemary Sullivan and Doreen and Barbara Burnette. Mrs. Roy Burnette, the guardian, and Mrs. H. H. Lowe, were guests. Talent Community club met April 26 and voted for two of the group, Mrs. Jason Ottinger and Miss Bertha Haymon, who work ed on the x-ray unit, to attend the luncheon in Medford. word of appreciation was received from Mrs. E. D. Partch for help given in the Easter Seal drive, also from the Federated Clubs of Oregon for helping with the club history. It was voted to buy one copy of the history for club use. It was also voted to in struct Roy Coghill to finish the tennis court. Mrs. Roy Burnette and Mrs. Beryl Settlemier were appointed to attend the Phoenix carnival meeting Sunday at 2 p. m. Mrs. Lulah Boyers of the Tal ent Greenhouse has offered to build a rock garden at the city hall. The Community club haj ac cepted Mrs. Roy Burnette's resig nation as chairman of the chest drive and Mrs. Cedrlc Scharffe was appointed to the office. Mrs. Tillie Burnette was to leave April 28 with her niece, Miss Gofdle Abbott, to visit rela tives in Gridley, Cal. Mrs. Howard Combs is home again alter undergoing surgery last week. Mrs. Joanna Bouldln suffered minor bruises when her car went out of control near Wagner creek school Saturday. June Storey Sets New-Type Program On Station KYJC Something new in the way of local western programs will be inaugurated over station KYJC starting tomorrow at 8 p.m. June Storey, former leading lady with Gene Autry, Ken Curtis and other western stars, will present her own half-hour show, featuring top cowboy songs, and information regarding the careers of her former associ ates in the horse operas. To Make Phone Calls Highlights of the story will be the phone calls made to young sters who send their name and phone number to June, at KYJC. The cards will be drawn from one of Gene Autrey's hats and the boy or girl called will have an opportunity to answer a rid dle concerning one of the cow boy stars or their famous horses. Prizes will be awarded to those who are able to solve the riddle. June invites all local young sters to send in their phone numbers right now so that they may be called tomorrow. A guest star from local ama teur ranks, specializing in wes tern music, will appear with June Storey each Monday even ing. The program that will be sponsored by Jorgensen's dairy and the Andy Maurer Realty company of Eagle Point. Outdoor recreation accidents mi Minnesota in 1949 cost 183 lives. Gun accidents killed 30 in dividuals and 153 were drowned. Dead line Sunday Classified la ai Noon Saturdays. The largest wild fowl on the North American continent 1 the trumpeter swan. 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