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4 Rhumba Said Dying Out in Favor of Cuban Gyrations New York, June 10 (U.R) Rhumba King Xavier Cugat said today the dance that brought him fame and fortune was vir tually dead. The rhumba, he said, has giv en way to "a disgusting exhibi tion called the 'mambo.' " "What is the mambo?" he la mented. "Just the thought of it makes me shudder. But, here is what it is: It is an oversexed rhumba with no inhibitions! Originated in Cuba "The mambo originated in the carnivals of Cuba, where mobs of people dance in the street for days at a time to a simple drum beat, which gets more frenzied and sensuous as the hours go on." In the mambo, he said, the cou ples dance apart and "each does his and her own interpretation of trying to shake aloose all the bones and joints in the body at once." Cugat said he began to pop ularize the rhumba 22 years ago, but that it didn't really catch on until 1940. Just another band leader until that time, Cugat now draws $4,000 a week for concerts; 512,500 a week for the ater engagements and $8,500 a week for club appearances. No Fears of Future Cugat said that although the rhumba was dying, he had no fears for the future. "It will come back." he pre dicted. "You see, the rhumba is essentially an elegant and simple dance. It is a dance for the business-man and the middle a(?d couples who want to dance but do not like the 'kid stuff.' " The ladies, he said, made the rhumba popular "and they will revive it. (Acme Radio-Telephoto) SAVE 4 IN NORTH SEA B-29 CRASH Sergeant Warren Ebert (foreground, second from left), one of 11 D. S. airmen aboard a B-29 bomber when It crashed into the North Sea, is helped along the dock to waiting ambulance at Lowestoft, England, after being picked up. Three other crewmen have been res cued, six are missing and one l dead. Pickin' Pears News, Gossip, Comment From Camp Whit yheatre TONIGHT MONDAY - TUESDAY iriidm ii tie lifkt f ...mtUrs...iiee'erert Tig. ....llflif k li tl lash mi (l mm i ROBERT PRESTON - CHILL WILLS ui Introduclac luwiWinnooucToi It (afk in fees tram Plus "MAGGIE and JIGGS IN SOCIETY" NEWS - CARTOON Gates Open at 7:30, Show at Dusk By L. J. "Tick" Malarkey He isn't the huskiest bum nn this station, but he's one of the workingest Greybeards that ever came out to the plains of White. And he looks to be the happiest. The name of the go-getter is James "Jimmy" Lundsford. It has been partly through his ef forts that "Sears Half Acre" was developed, where the twilight programs are held, and the horse shoe pitchings pits are now in fu.II swing. Jimmy has given hours of his time to these pro jects. If the weather is hot he erins out from under a huge straw hat. If the mornings are chilly an engineer's cap and coveralls are his attire. At the social hours "Jimmy" is in there pitching he doesn't miss anything from ball games to dancing. Will leave soon for Nebraska where he will spend a furlough with relatives. His projects for spring are com pleted and a vacation earned. William G. "Bill" Lawrence, of the Southern Oregon News Review. Bill was in his office a day or so ago, sweating out a "deadline" before his Ashland weekly newspaper hit the street Didn't have much time to visit. But this Kid of World War II attended the University of Ore gon and while there met one of the Hill girls from Astoria. They were married before he went overseas to England. Four young sters are around the dining table now. While in England Bill made 31 bombing missions over Germany. He was a bombardier and was discharged a first lieutenant. After finishing at Oregon, a hitch in the insurance business was spent in Medford. Now a newspaper man, he has all the enthusiasm of youth and he and his partner Wallace G. Iverson are doing themselves a job in Medford's neighboring city. John Conwell is the new com mander of Camp White Post 6412, Veterans of Foreign Wars. He presided this week at an open meeting for the first time since his election June 8. In earlier days Conwell was a timber beast in the Oregon country, having run yarder for the Saddle Mountain Logging company not far out of Astoria. He was in Astoria the night the town burned down. December 8, 1922. During the first World War days, Greybeard Conwell enlisted in Minnesota with an outfit of engineers and made the trip to France. Built roads on all fronts and was not discharged from the army until June, 1919. Alaska has been the new Vf w commander's home for the past 15 years. Up north he logged and followed big construction. An accident two years ago, where he rode a pile driver cab over a far reach while driving f THE Opening of the Completely Remodeled OWL CLUB Our New Location 32 NORTH FRONT Lunch Counter Open 24 Hours Per Day Hunting and Fishing Licenses Fishing Supplies, etc. piling for a log dump, nearly cost John his life. Back and chest injuries have put him "on the beach" and his caulk shoes are hung up for good. After two months spent at Barnes VA in Vancouver, Wash., and now well on the road to "sundown comfort," Commander Conwell was trans ferred here three months past. Employed as a member in the engineering department under Burton R. Sims, he does a daily hitch as a "trouble shooter." The young man who boasts of his 68 years, is getting along fine now and under his leadership plans for an enlarged VFW post are under way. Chief of Nurses Miss Grace Stuhr has returned from a 30-day annual leave. During the month she was away, she attended the nurse's convention in San Fran cisco. Some 8.000 nurses attend ed this event. Following the con vention she visited friends in Los Angeles and in North Dakota she saw her father and other relatives. . While Corp. Howard Miles of the front office staff is doing his "squads right and left" with a Medford national guard company at Fort Lewis, Mrs. Miles and their two children will vacation with her mother at Hot Springs, S. D. The corporal's father will come home with Mrs. Miles for a visit at Camp Whie. His home is also at Hot Springs. We have a Casey Jones out here at White. He works the afternoon shift from the front office volunteer detail and his title is domiciliary messenger. Casey is personally known to most members, past and present, for he is the lad who takes them "through the mill" after admit tance credentials have been OKd. Franklin Girard. editor of Camp White's Domincws. has penned a short short story which he has titled "Casey's Catas trophe." With the permission of both its author and its hero it is offered to readers of this column: "One day last week precisely which one doesn't matter, since this is not a scientific treatise a very remarkable thing occur red at Camp White. "Now Casey Jones, in common with others, is very fond of food and sleep. Which of these two he loves most is a question. It is the opinion of usually reliable sources, however, that his fond ness for BOTH exceeds the nor mal capacities of most men. As we started out lo say, one dav last week it was noised about that fried chicken would grace the dinner table. When the news reached Casey he fairly sprinted up and down the halls in the execution of his duties as dom iciliary messenger. Some say he wneitea nis ap petite more than he did the soles of his feet. Be that as it may, j as the noon hour approached I Casey had built up a fair surplus ! of gastric juices. At 11:50 a.m., ! with barely 10 minutes to go, he reclined from his labors. I Then it happened. "Encircled in the tender arms of Morpheus. Casey snored con- tentedly while his buddies gnawed generous s u p p 1 i e of I buff Orpington drum sticks and j ! other choice pieces of f ri e d j ; chicken. Finally he was awak ' ened by the sound of tramping leet returning from mess. "Casey looked at his stuffed comrades and with tears in his voice wailed: 'Nobody would wake me up for ?hicken. Co operation around here is at low ebb." " McLeod McLeod, June 10 Guests of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Anderton are Mrs. Nora Bean and Mrs. George Bean and son Jimmy of Winchester, 111., also Miss Mary Bean of Saipnn where she has been teaching the past year. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Allen of Jacksonville called on neigh bors here recently. The Aliens used to live in McLeod. Frank Pettigrew has returned from a business trip to River side. Calif. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Billingsley who sold their home recently have left for Carson Citv, Nev. The annual Masonic picnic; will be held at "Folding Hills" i ranch Sunday, June 11. Mr. and Mrs. Herb Carlton and daughter Elva left June 1.0 for Ontario. Ore., to attend the Grange state convention. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Harding will stay on the Carlton ranch dur ing their absence. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Anderton are moving into the Frank Petti grew place on Rogue river. Friends and neighbors ex tend their heartfelt sympathy to Mrs. Addic Vincent in the loss of her husband Richard. Mr. and Mrs. Vincent are old time resi dents of this area. John Dunlap was called to Los Angeles at the death of his sister Zella, who was well known here. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cham berlain have returned from a business trip to Boise, Idaho. Robert Anderson of Seattle has been the guest of his cousin, Mrs. Minnie Eastin. Bennie Collier who has been attending Willamette University is nome nere now ana will spend the summer with his mother and sister. U. R. Wagler and Clyde Staf ford are building a guest house and garage on the property for merly owned by Mr. Wagler. Several neighbors had the road in front of their homes oil ed by the county road crew, which does away with a lot of dust. Mongold Cow County's Top Producer in May Design Golden Shirley, a cow owned by Delbert Mongold, was the top producing cow in Jack son county last month, according to Earle Jossy, county extension agent. She produced 2.130 pounds of milk containing 103.2 pounds of butterfat. The five top dairy herds in the county during May were those owned bv Mongold. H. H. Higday, Jim Tate, M. H. Kclley and H. C. Callihan. Jossy said 36 dairy herds were tested under the dairy herd im provement plan during the month. The herds included 1.024 cows which produced an average of 846 pounds of milk and 37.45 pounds of butterfat per cow. Washington. June 9 (U.R) The National Labor Relations board has thrown out a wage contract at the Hanford, Wash., atomic plant because it was signed before a majority of the workers were hired. Such is the sad. sad story of Casey the little Irishman who missed a meal. But who caught up on his sleep. Industrial Atom As Miracle of America Foreseen Washington, June 10 (U.R) David E. Lilienthal said today that the atom can produce "an other American miracle of indus trial growth" and prosperity If the government will set it free. The former chairman of the atomic energy commission urged congress to break the govern ment's monopoly and turn the iiiuumiiui aiom over lu private enterprise for development. Should Be Done Now He said this should be done at once "to make the industrial atom really sprout and flourish within the next decade or so." The time "for the first industrial applications of atomic knowl edge." he said, "is overdue." i Writing in Collier's magazine, Lilienthal said this country can not beat Russia to fulfillment of the atom's peacetime promises as long as we hang on to a rigid government control system "that more nearly resembles the Rus sian system than it does our own." Industry Stifled The government monopoly im posed by the atomic energy act of 1946, Lilienthal said, has sti fled industrial interest in the new frontier. He called for "thoroughgoing revision of the law." He said it should be re-written to state "flatly and without equivocation, as fundamental policy of this country, that development of the industrial atom small be in ac cord with the American system." Lilienthal said American in dustry never would have got where it is if the government hart grabbed control of say. chem icals, aircraft, and electrical now- er on grounds they have military uses. Atom 'Supermunition' The atom is a "supermunition" but to say it is nothing else. Lil ienthal asserted, "is as great an error as to think that the Chi cago fire is a typical example of the use of fire." Sunday, June 11, 1950 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNETUMI .... AROUND HOLLYWOOD B, VIRGINIA MaePHERSON United Pratt Correspondent VlrftnU UcPhenosl Hollywood, June 10 (U.R) A houseful of hopeful beauties wait ing for their big movie chance killed time to day by cooking up a "cold shoulder" poll and wound up with five fa mous bachelors they "wouldn't marry if he was the last man . . , etc." Crooner Vic Damone topped the list, fol lowed by Mil lionaire How ard Hughes, G-Man J. Edgar Hoover, and Football Star Glenn Davis. This will probably come as a refreshing switch to all these gents, who spend most of their time combing would-be wives out of their hair. But they'll get no chasing from the luscious lassies at Holly wood's Studio club, where young actresses park their curves be tween trips to casting offices. At least, that's what the girls say. "We mean it," added Kay Cur tis, who canvassed her house-sisters during a dull morning. "Take Vic Damone. for instance. "Married life with him would be awful. A girl'd have to sleep with one eye open and a baseball bat handy to beat off the compe tition. A million women are in love with that voice." second, she explained, for the same reason. Too many dames are after the man who's a multi millionaire and also the boss of a big movie studio. "Think of the mental and phys ical effort it'd take to discourage those females," Kay sighed. "Why, he could make his wife a movie star in two seconds!" J. Edgar Hoover gets the "thumbs down" treatment be cause he's too good at his job. No Chance To Fib "Most brides, have to fib a lit tle now and then . . . about the budget and things," she con fessed. "But what chance- would a girl have with a guy who's the world's best crook-catcher?' All-American Glenn Davis got a unanimous "no" as a bride groom because: "An athlete leaves all his pep and zing behind him on the foot ball field," Kay giggled. "When he comes home he needs liniment . , . not love." Former Minister Here Gets Honorary Degree The Rev. Harry W. Hansen, pastor of the First Presbyterian church here for many years, was given a degree of doctor of di vinity at the annual commence. mentfeeremony of the Bible In stitute of Los Angeles June 6. The Rev. Mr. Hansen is now pastor of Trinity Presbyterian The girls put Howard Hughes church at Santa Cruz, Cal j555B DOORS Saai-aft 'iHfirtttum fiehnn iaBiaiaM cw.a iiraalMasMaeMi POLIO CASE REPORTED A 10-year-old Medford girl . was taken to Sacred Heart hos-! pital in Eugene last week for ' treatment of poliomyelitis, the attending physician reported Sat- j urday. There was some weakness i noted in the case, the doctor j said, but he believes the outlook j for her successful recovery is good. i HERE'S A GREAT ACTION PICTURE OF DESERT FIGHTING FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION "DESERT COMMAND" with JOHN WAYNE Pi UUI jot mmiu iratm uitm vavCte mam: CONTINUOUS SHOW From 12:45 P.M. Today sirring LLOYD BRIDGES OSA MASSEN JOHN EMERY NOAH BEERY, JR. -HUGH O'BRI AN with Morris Ankrum Vacation Bible School Set by Presbyterians A vacation Bible school will begin Monday, June 12, at the Presbyterian church and con tinue for two weeks. Classes will be held for children of kindergarten, primary and junior departments with Bible stories, missionary stories, sing ing, games, handcraft and strip films being featured in taeh department. The hours for the 10-day school are from 9 until 11:30 a.m. with a demonstration pro gram in the concluding eveningi June 23. Mrs. J. R. Sides, tem porary director of Christian edu cation, is in charge of the session. BILL RYAN Is Playing the Hammond Organ Every Night Except Monday at ROGUE RIVER LODGE Crater Lake Hwy. Near TnH I (I HELD OVER! Ill" 15 " 'u Ella Raines Watt Open 7 P.M. Show at Daak T.LjVKLi IS tWCUMMK$S AND- V "VINCENT mCt EUEN DttW Bring the Kids for early evening fun and recrea tion ... a real Miniature Train . . . and Medford's most complete playground n ASHLAND ENJOY YOU SUNDAY DINNER Served Throughout the Summer At Beautiful MILL MAR LODGE and GUEST RANCH 15 Miles N. E. of Butte Falls NO RESERVATION NECESSARY "0 m a m ot-stfrnt, in action... 'fit i I llsa 17' rr' i "r- .. e-r; I '-aW.it'.aV tw sm m i w ava JSSSfl Lx'J H ? in the war-torn Mediterranean . . . the American soldier who never laid down his guns . . . until the wartime betrayal of his buddy and : his sweetheart of th underground was avenged! rsut WANDA HENDRIX Lederer- Caiieia- TODAY I2:4S P.M. MMkRaaaaaaSMIM 1
