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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.
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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.
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News, Gossip, Comment
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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