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0 Older Drivers Blamed For Most Accidents Chicago (U.E) Inexperi enced drivers are far safer than those who've been at it a long time, a Chicago Park District survey shows. Drivers with less than a year's experience were responsible for only 28, or about 1 of the 2,424 traffic accidens in the Chi cago area in one month, the survey revealed. Drivers with between 10 and 30 years experi ence were the cause of 1,077 or about 44 of the accidents. A Nichols? Worth of - 0 . Comment On Tpis and That MARBLE FOR THE HOME FIREPLACES TABLE TOPS NIGHT STANDS KITCHENS THE Oregon Gra-nite Co. Fourth and Front km mu IY HARMAN W. UaittJ Pmm Pi Washington U.R-The 'teen age, or low-heel, set is moaning over a new screen hero. ' He is Tony Curtis. He will be 27 come the end of June. He gof to Hol lywood by way of Hell's Kitch en, New York.' He is hand some, has ink black hair, and is 5 feet, 101A inches HaxmoB Nichols tan. He also is cocky as they come and has a gift, which Hollywood esteems, for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. Tony, who gets rapturous boots and hollers from the young set every time he appears any place in person, can hardly believe it. "Man," he told me at lunch eon, "this stuff is crazy. The red carpet, yet." Father Wa Actor Tony Curtis, whose real name is Bernard Schwartz, was born in a Hell's Kitchen tenement. i His father, Mono Schwartz, had been an actor in Budapest. He crossed the water to make a for tune but somehow didn't. He took up tailoring. His son took up street fight ing. By the time he was 11, he belonged to some of the toughest kid gangs on Manhattan Island. But all that was changed by JMICHOLS iWat Writar the time Tony was 12. He be came a Boy Scout and learned how to tie a knot or pitch a tent with the best of them. That was the year a man named Paul Schwartz no kin took a hand. Paul received Tony in what was called the Jones Memorial Settlement house. Paul was a man 'who knew how to take the chips off the shoulders of the very young. He showed Tony the error of his ways. : ' ' V Served on Submarine Tony learned fast. He decided to quit the streets and complete his education. He went to high school, but World War . H inter rupted that. -., After serving aboard a sub marine and getting himself hurt pretty bad, he came back to finish his education. He fin ished high school and decided to take advantage of the GI Bill of Rights. He enrolled in what was known as the Dramatic Workhouse. . ". " He did fairly well there, and in other ventures, including a role with the Cherry Lane play ers in Greenwich Village. -A fel low named Robert Goldstein saw him at the Cherry Lane one day. Goldstein is a Universal International eastern talent scout. Bob liked what he saw. On Way to Hollywood Before the youngster knew what was up he was in an air cooled compartment on his way Ice Harbor Dam Fight Scheduled Walla Walla (U.R) The In land Empire Waterways associ ation planned Thursday to launch a new fight for approval of Ice Harbor dam at the April D meeting of the Columbia Basin Inter-agency committee here. Herbert West, association pres ident, said he was organizing regional support for construc tion of the dam on the Snake river near Pasco. He said the waterways associ ation program would be to de mand that the interagency com mittee take a positive position either for or against authorized dams and "stop being even less than a debating society. Ice Harbor is one of four dams authorized by Congress several years ago, but opposi tion by fisheries interests has blocked construction. to Hollywood. A long, black car met him at the station. He was put up in a fancy hotel suite, had his eggs and orange juice in bed, and was treated generally like a king. After the buildup, the let downbit parts for peanuts. But the parts got better and so did the pay. . That morning when he arrived in Hollywood Tony had $4.12 in his wallet. He has a lot more than that now. He also has something else he didn't have then. A beauti ful wife. Name of Janet Leigh. i Magazine Article Tells 9f Medford's Big Biitte Pipeline A three-page story, with pic tures and maps, on the recently completed second line of Med ford's Big Butte springs water supply, appears in the March is sue of Western Construction magazine. The story was written by City Superintendent Robert Duff and Assistant -Water Super intendent Robert L. Lee. The article explains that since 1940 the population served by the Medford water system has risen from 13,000 to 23,000. The peak amourtt of water needed to supply this population has in creased from 7,000,000 gallons a day to 12,500,000 gallons a day, it states. Mora Growth Expected Growth studies conducted in 1948 showed that within the next 50 years Medford's population could be expected to reach 50, 000, at which time the water de mand would be 24 million gal lons a day, according to the ar ticle. Designs for the increased Medford water supply were based on these future needs, it says. The article tells the history of the pipeline following approval of a $2,800,000 bond issue in May, 1950. In general, it deals with the technical aspects of con struction of the line. Thundar. March 20. 1933 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBTTNE TTVE Easter Seals help crippled children become independent, productive adults. Vj)85 MCKA6E Offlp ( FA PEE ) . W iialnlMP 1 of extra cost when you buy 1 large- J -4FlIl Car) I f lALl JARLr" I size or 1 giant-size Fab at regular CHStySIL T I VriVrr-ta-. price. Use your free Fab coupon! Get jgS&CSS jD &&'. 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Methodist Minister Assists in Mission The Rev. Meredith Groves, pastor of the First Methodist church here, returned this week from Salem, where he assistpH in a United Evangelistic mission at the Jason Lee Methodist church. The mission is part of a move ment in which all Methodist churches in Oregon, Washington and Idaho are takine nart. Mr- Groves instructed laymen who are calling on people in their communitv. and was euest preacher during Sunday services ana eacn evening last week. The work in the Pacific north west is part of a nationwide movement'sponsored by the Methodist church. Bishop Gerald Kennedy of Portland is ppnpral chairman for the northwestern mission, and the Rev. O. J. Beadles, Seattle, is executive chairman. Last week. Mr. Groves report ed, 2,693 church laymen visited 15,550 members of their own communities throughout the mree states involved. Easter Seal contributions fi nance diagnostic ' clinics, treat ment centers and special schools. 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