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TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tueiday, June 27, 1950 In the Day's News Br FRANK JENKINS This changing world note: In London the other night, an intruder broke into Marlborough House, the home of Queen Moth er Mary, stabbed her housekeep er seven times and beat up the housekeeper's helper. Queen Mary, asleep in anther part of the house, wasn't disturbed. THAT could happen in the homes of any of us common ers, whether British or Amer ican. Imagine it happening in the palace housing the mother of the king of England (whose other titles, if enumerated fully, would fill at least a couple of inches in this printed column). The first thing we know, somebody will break into the Kremlin and lift Uncle Joe's wallet. The final report showed that in this manner 168 pencil stubs were collected. EXPECT saved in the pencil stubs the big economy binge may have been worth as much as a dime and it is prob able that the printing or the mimeographing of the bulletin of instructions and the final re port on the campaign didn't cost more than $10. Isn't government wonderful? LJUMAN nature note: The teletype tells us that "Scotland Yard's HIGHEST OF FICIALS went into an immedi ate emergency conference to dis cuss the apparent laxity of secur ity arrangements around the queen's home." High and low alike, we rush to lock the stable after the horse has been stolen. GOVERNMENT economy note: The Library of Congress (perhaps after reading in the pa pers that Uncle Sam is behind with his bills and is having to increase the mortgage on the house to pay for his groceries) decided to PRACTICE ECON OMY. It selected pencil stubs as the object of its money-saving campaign. After the manner of government institutions it then issued a bulletin describing the stub-collecting process. The bul letin says: 'The routine w simple . . . Members of the staff should turn in stubs to the divisional secre taries . . . The divisional secre taries will consign them to the supply officer . . . The supply officer will In turn issue them on demand to the stack and reader service, serials division, E. T. C." GOVERNMENT progress note: Th nrmpH fnrpc nf thp United States of America have decided to "give enlisted per sonnel a cash incentive for tak ing care of their clothing." Here is how it will work: "Starting July 1, enlisted men and women of all services will be given money with which to buy clothes . . . Any saving in the clothing allowances will be pocketed by the enlisted men and women . . . the system also is expected to cut down on ad ministrative costs." VOU ex-GIs know how it usta be. You'd maybe snag a hole in your blouse. Whereupon you'd jump the supply sergeant, and if your powers of logic were good or if the sarge had a head ache and didn't feel up to a heavy argument you got a new blouse issued to you. The government's thinking is that under the new system you'll get out your little old re pair kit and stitch up the snag ged place, thus SAVING YOUR SELF DOUGH and saving Uncle Sam a blouse. ....AROUND HOLLYWOOD VtrrfnU bcPhenoa ALL this talk about heading for socialism, you sec. is just wicked republican propa ganda. Our good old uncle is leading his Gl children along the free incentive road. He's banning socialism even in the army. T VIRGINIA United Pint Hollywood, June 27 (U.R) Life in tinsel-town isn't always as glamorous as it looks to fame and fortune - hungry outsid ers. Judy Garland shocked the world last week when, de spondent over losing her job at MGM, she hacked hyster ically at her throat with the jagged edge of a broken glass. But she was only the newest victim of Hollywood's special brand of heartbreak. Many gilded beauties, their tarnished glamour rejected by a fickle public, crack up at the threatened loss of their dream world existence. Blonde sweater girl Carole Landis solved her problem of a fading career and frustrating ro mances two years ago when she gulped a fatal dose of sleeping pills. Frances Farmer, classic blonde beauty was another whose ca reer wound up in tragic ruins. She cracked up in 1943 after a losing bout with alcohol, benze drine and romance. After her marriage to actor Lief Erickson fizzled out she wound up in an insane asylum. Suicide Try Fails Blonde Jean Wallace, ex-wife of Franchot Tone, unsuccessfully tried to commit suicide by plung ing a butcher knife in her stom ach last year because, she said, she was despondent over her ca reer, the break-up of her mar riage, and the life that had be come so empty when Tone won IJORRIBLE thought: S'pose there's another war. S'pose you're in Paris and broke. S'pose you flirt with the Idea of selling your OD shirt to a black mar keteer for plenty coonyak money. IT WON'T DO YOU ANY GOOD, for you'll have to buy another shirt with your own money to replace it!) MjcPHERSOH Corroipoadtnt custody of their two little boys. Last year Madge Meredith, a dark-eyed beauty who was on her way up, saw her dreams fade suddenly when she got herself mixed up in the kidnap-beating of her former manager, Nick "The Greek" Gianaclis. A judge sentenced her to Tehachapi pris on for five years to life. Sometimes it takes a long time for an actress's dreams to die. Olive Borden, who reigned as a free-spending flapper queen in the late 20's, died almost 30 years later, penniless and alone in a "Skid Row" mission. Many Cling to Top But there are many movie queens who've clung to the top for a decade or more without making tragic headlines. Joan Crawford, Loretta Young, Claudette Colbert, Irene Dunne, Barbara Stanwyck, Ann Sheri dan, Ginger Rogers, Betty Gra able and Katherine Hepburn are a few who still are going strong. For the younger stars, a hap py marriage seems to balance i out any career frustrations. Jeanne Crain, Jane Powell, Es ther Williams, and Barbara Hale all top actresses now have so far managed to combine world-wide fame and fortune with everyday living. Ends in Divorce Shirley Temple's "storybook wedding" to John Agar ended in a sensational divorce suit. Her married life was so miserable, she testified, she once toyed with the idea of driving her expensive car off a cliff. Deanna Durbin, who went to Paris when she found jobs scarce in Hollywood, has been unhapp ily married twice. Jackie Coop er, now married to his third wife, says his career is so "jinx- ed" he supports his family only by accepting jobs on the fringes of the big-time. 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Close-out $7.98 Shop the Summer Fabric Carnival For Super Values in Summer Fabrics WED. SPECIAL Woven Cellophane TABLE MATS Wednesday Sale of 12x 18 inch Woven Plastic Cellophane Table Mats. So cool looking for summer tables. Plain and varrigated colors. Regular 39c. Special 29' Ea. MAIN FLOOR WED. SPECIAL COTTON PANTIES Wednesday Sale of Women's and Misses Cotton Panties stitched with elastic thread. They fit like a pantie girdle. Lace trimmed. Pastel shades. $1.00 value. 69 Pr. I MAIN FLOOR j WED. SPECIAL ! SHOE ! SHINE KITS S In the Shoe Shop to- I morrow Regular 50c I Shoe Shine Kits for Only 39c . . Brush and j I dauber to keep your shoes neatly shined I Special ! 39cKt I MAIN FLOOR WED. SPECIAL j NECK I SQUARES I A Wednesday Sale of Fashionable Pure Silk Neck Squares. These f are 17 inches square and come in Assorted f Colors. Regular 39c Your Choice I 25 Ea. MAIN FLOOR WED. SPECIAL SWIM SUITS On the Second Floor to morrow a one day sale of Novelty 2-piece Swim Suits. 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