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10 YEARS AGO
March 31, 1942
(It was Tuesday)
Medford Mayor H. S. Deuel
proclaims April 6 as "Total War"
day; event takes place of an
nual "Army" day.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: What can
you expect of a day which be
gins with getting up in the
morning?
20 YEARS AGO
March 31, 1932
(It was Thursday)
Mrs. Carl J. Rasmussen, Pros
pect, suffers broken back and
shoulder in 200-foot fall over
cliff at Red Blanket falls.
Oregon state highway com
mission orders relief work halt
ed on Jackson county roads for
an indefinite period.
SO YEARS AGO
March 31, 1922
(It was Friday)
Pacific and Eastern railroad
officials report work on line to
Butte Falls is "progressing nice
ly." Johnny Weismuller, "17-year-old
aquatic star," equal's world's
record lor 220 yards.
40 YEARS AGO
March 31, 1912
(It was Sunday)
Prospector reports making a
"very valuable gold strike" on
Williams creek; believes he has
located vein of ore in addition
to a large "pocket."
Evans Creek man reported in
critical condition after his team
of horses runs away and throws
him when frightened by auto
mobile. Millenium Warning
Given by Evangelist
v Describing history as a drama
in which the entire world is the
stage and every member of the
human family an actor, Evan
gelist Harold E. Metcalf told a
capacity crowd in the Bible aud
itorium, 910 South Central, Sun
day night that the long-looked
for time of peace will be ex
perienced by those only who en
list with Christ before he comes
on his triumphal tour.
He declared that the opinion
held by many that the world's
conversion would usher in the
millenium was refute! by the
Bible, which, he said, shows that
the nearer the end of the world
approaches, the more wicked, un
believing and God-defying the
world will become.
Using visual aids, Mr. Metcalf
told his audience that there
would be only two classes, those
who believe the devil, and those
who have faith in Christ's writ
ten guarantee of an eternity of
peace, happiness and security.
Sou f hem Oregon Stamp
Club Slates Meeting
A meeting of the Southern
Oregon Stamp club will be held
at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 3, at
the Girls Community club.
Charles W. Hill win be the
speaker, and will tell of his own
stamp collection, which is top
ical and which features religious
stamps. ; .
: Members are showing interest
in a stamp auction being planned
by Roland Beach, reports said.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Editorial Correspondence
San Franciaco, March 28 As
went all-out for isolationism in
No "yes-buts." He threw away his 1 frounce gloves and went after
the United Nations, the Marshall Plan, economic and military aid
to Europe and all the rest of the enlightened collective-security
plan with bare knuckles.
WHY did the Senator from
tion in VS. News & World Report play down his isolationism al
most to the vanishing point, and even sanction war with Russia
(in case of attack); while in Wisconsin he returned to his pre-cam-paign
proposal of national "selfishness" letting Europe fight her
own battles, and Uncle Sam shrewdly husband his resources for a
rainy dayT
, The answer is simple. Ever since World War I Wisconsin has
been known as the leading isolationist state in the country. The
large foreign population there, particularly of German origin, has
been consistently and militantly
such a stand will bring him votes.
ine having in the White House at such a critical time, as this, a
man who would descend to such cheap demagoguery as that?
a e
Senator Wayne florae has come and gone. We would have
liked to have seen him but he was in too much of a rush, giving a
speech and holding one press conference, at hours and places that
couldn't be adjusted to Ye Editor's schedule. According to "The
Chronicle" our junior Senator said he is strong FOR Eisenhower
and strongly AGAINST Taft Morse thinks if the former gets the
GOP nomination he will be elected by the greatest plurality ever
given an American President, while if the GOP politicians gang
up at Chicago and prevent this, the
ion of this department Wayne as usual is 100 right ASSUMING,
of course, that the same politicians nominate the Senator from
Ohio. We are not so sure if Governor Warren should be chosen as
a compromise GOP candidate. The more we learn regarding War
ren the better we like him. (It's a small matter but we do wish he
would stop calling his attractive daughter "Honey Bear," just as
we wish H.S.T. would stop calling HIS attractive daughter "Baby.")
e e e e
However, with a Daddie's "BABY" in the White House, it
would not be quite so incongruous to have a "Honey-BEAR" there.
The A.A.A. box-fight tournament formerly the "Golden
Gloves" ended last night with as fine a program of the art of self
defense and concentrated MAYHEM as your correspondent has
ever had the privilege of witnessing. There were 19 final matches,
each of three rounds and 99 of them, touch-and-go, punch-and-counter-punch,
slam-and-be-slammed from the first gong to the
last Ira Blue one of our favorite sports announcers was one of
the judges (the best looking and best dressed one, incidentally) and
he plugged the show over the air as something no true box-fight
fan should miss. Ira was right. Instead of having to fork up $50
moreover for a ring-side seat the maximum was $3!
The one outstanding contribution of this performance was the
absence of professionalism the genuine amateur spirit which in
sports, is as Ty Cobb recently remarked, the "sine qua non." When
the amateur spirit goes the life-blood of sport goes. The boys did not
get money, they got medals (if they won) and a probable free trip
to Boston. (Only the more promising will be on the final team,
however.) How these lads did work for that free trip and the medal
they were in there literally willing to die for dear old Rutgers all
the time. Some that failed just couldn't keep back the tears. Some
that won couldn't repress a war dance to the dressing rooms.
(Where is Mac L. now? Hope he still reads the M.T. wherever he is.)
ee.ee
There was, however, one surprising and depressing factor
the poor physical condition of so many of the contestants. With the
desire to win so intense this was hard to understand. Why did so
few of the boys cut out cigarets and seriously train? Our guess is
99 of those who did, won, and poor condition was the main cause
of the defeats. Is it true as army records indicate that American
youth is deteriorating physically. Let us hope and pray not, for
when physical deterioration starts, moral deterioration is not far
behind and vice versa!
If "Mr. Republican" can't get the Maine delegation, just what
can he get outside of those colored boys in the Solid South that can
be bought? He might win (by the aid of McCarthyism) in Wiscon
sin, and still be a hopeless "Also Ran" before the Chicago conven
tion opens.
Just how dumb will the voters of Wisconsin prove to be?
How many will vote for Taf t's isolationism on the assumption
that such a theory of national selfishness and cowardice will be
to their self-interest?
Once again Mr. Republican maintains we can recall all Ameri
can troops from Europe, rely solely on our navy and air force and
still keep the Russians the other side of the iron curtain. WHAT
WITH? Any grade school student of history could pulverize this
sort of specious argument in a 100-word thesis. What happened in
Korea when we had complete control of the air and sea? The U.S-A.
suffered one of the most complete and humiliating defeats in its
history. Without U.S. ground troop aid no country or countries in
Europe could stop the Russian march to the English channel for a
minute much less throw it back. And nothing is more certain than
this: Once assured that the Taf t program would be carried out, the
Kremlin would do what it has always done when weakness present
ed the opportunity MARCH IN
FIFTH COLUMN TAKE OVER! Ask the people of Czechoslovakia,
Poland, Finland, Lithuania, Esthonia, Bulgaria and Rumania what
they think of such a policy? It is incredible that any American
statesman or any sane American adult for that matter could
seriously advance any such suicidal policy with the facts of lif e
and history what they are.
Presumably the voters of Wisconsin dont want another world
war, the people of America certainly don't.
But could ANY program more surely guarantee It than this
notice to the world, that the United States in case of a Russian
attack, would refuse to raise a hand to stop it, EXCEPT via naval
and air support?
Imagine wriat the cynical and shrewd old boys in the Politburo
are saying to themselves as they read this sort of prospectus by
the leader of one of the two major political parties in the United
States and a man who is still confident that this sort of cheap
poltroonery will land him a free room-and-bath in the White House!
(With a third World War on their hands where would the people
of Wisconsin file those political promises of world peace and re
duced taxes, of March 1952?)
Three days ago it was 83 in the shade. This morning, the sun
is still shining, but the mercury only a short time ago was only
ten degrees above freezing. No wonder the clothing stores around
the bay do a land-office business. Those who dress according to
the weather instead of the calendar and most people do surely
have to have a varied assortment in their wardrobes, all the way
from cotton cords to red flannels from shorts to mint;.
Much amused to observe the scare-head banners on the morn
ing papers with the shocking and even more SURPRISING an
nouncement that a killer whale hit hnnt in turr, 4k. .w
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shores of Petaluma.
That IS something for the honlr fnr nutcia "Tuinu ntv
who ever saw a "KILLER whale." and whoever heard f anv
whale with TEETH? Yet the news stories quote one of the Peta
luma chicken exnerts as having a full
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array of molars and bicuspids.
have heard of sharks and dolphins with teeth, but unless
our professor in Zoology I was a liar, even Jonah admitted whales
have whalebone sieves in their mouths not teeth nor even lower
and upper plates! If TJR. were here he would have something to
say about "nature fakers" and the "wayward press." R.WJI.
Eisenhower Boom Spreads to Japan
Yokohama, Japan (UK The trail a 150 -foot -long streamer
.cosemiuwer Doom nas sianea in
Japan.
Three GIs Monday rented a
Japanese advertising balloon
which they . intend to hoist- at
noon Wednesday over their Yo
kohama "Eisenhower for Presi
dent headquarters." .. .
The giant yellow balloon will
. March SI, IMS
was to be expected Senator Tift
Wisconsin. No douDie-iauc mere.
Ohio to his recent official declara
isolationist, so Tan is convinced
And he may be right. But imag
Democrats will win. In the opin
AND WITH THE -AID OF A
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calling oa GI to "vote for Ike."
"This is a private affair, not
connected with the Army," said
22-year-old CpL Francis Bliz
zard, Chester, Pa. The three of
us paid $80 to rent the balloon.
"The main idea is to get out
the toldier vote," fa said. '
Crosstovn
"When you can't get away some Saturday afternoon In June
for a gam of golf, don't say I didn't warn your -.
Matter of Fact
THE FRIGHTENED
PROFESSIONALS
Washington One more dis
aster to the candidacy of Sen.
Robert A. Taft, like the major
setbacks in New Hampshire,
Minnesota and New Jersey, and
the political base on which Taft
stands is likely to turn into
quicksand. This political base
has consisted, of course, of the
support of the orthodox Repub
lican regulars nationally, and of
the key organization men in the
states. And this base is by no
means made of solid rock, and
never has been.
The great majority of the Re
publican regulars whose support
is absolutely essential to Taft
have been a good deal more
cautious than is generally real
ized. A check in Taft's own spe
cial bailiwick, the United States
Senate, shows how very care
ful those generally identified as
Taft men have in fact been.
Consider the following list of
names: Senators Butler, Cain,
Case, Condon, Dworshak, Ecton,
Hickenlooper, Jenner, Kem, Ma
lone, Martin, Mundt, Seaton,
Welker, Williams and Young.
Surely the political and ideologi
cal leader of these men is Sen.
Taft, and they might be expect
ed to be out on the firing lines,
doing battle for their hero. Not
a single one of these Taft col
leagues is publicly committed to
support of the Taft candidacy,
although almost all of them
would certainly like to see him
nominated. Even Sen. Joseph
McCarthy has conspicuously
failed to return Sen. Taft's pub
lic embrace.
WHAT is true of the Taft
minded men in the Senate
is just as true of the key organi
zation regulars in the states. If
anything, indeed, they have
been more cautious. An occas
ional professional, like Henry
Zweifel, of Texas, or John E.
Jackson, of Louisiana, is pub
licly committed to Taft, just as
an occasional senator, like
Homer Capehart, of Indiana,
and Everett Dirksen, of Illinois,
has made the leap. But the great
majority of the organization men
have carefully left themselves
an escape hatch, however much
they may favor Taft in private.
Moreover, a certain tentative
groping towards the escape
hatch has very recently become
noticeable. Pennsylvania's Ma
son Owlett, for example, of the
famous Grundy-Owlett machine,
and Michigan's shrewd National
Committeeman, - Arthur . Sum
merfield, have both been con
sidered strongly Taft-minded,
especially the former. Now they
are reported in "friendly con
tact" with the Eisenhower
forces. And this groping for the
escape hatch is certainly going
on elsewhere. .
A couple of . months before
the New Hampshire primary
Time magazine published a
state-by-state report of the com
parative strength of Taft and
Eisenhower. In its current issue,
"Newsweek" does the same
thing. The two reports make
some interesting contrasts in a
number of states. For example:
ALABAMA. Time": Taft
has eight or ten." "Newsweek":
"Eisenhower has at least nine
of the state's eleven votes. He
may get all eleven."
GEORGIA. "Time": "National
Committeemen Harry Sommers
has made the jump for Taft."
Newsweek": "It s now probable
that Taft won't get more than
one or two of the seventeen
delegates, with Eisenhower get
ting the rest"
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TLLINOIS. Time": "All Taft"
A "Newsweek": "Now it's prob
able that pro-Ike delegates will
be elected in three districts."
MONTANA. Time": Taft
will get the Montana delegation
unless there is a dramatic move
for Die." "Newsweek": "It's
likely that five will be for Ike,
three for Taft"
SOUTH CAROLINA. Time":
"All Taft" ; "Newsweek": How
the state votes will depend on
which group (pro-Taft or pro-
Eisenhower) the courts recog
nize." VIRGINIA. Tim t": Taft
Cy Poland Co)
r
Stewart A bee
claims the state. . . ." "News
week": Virginia "probably will
vote for whoever seems most
likely to win."
And so on. What this means,
of course, is that the profession
als are getting nervous, espe
cially in the south, where being
for the winner is all important.
Any loud noise like the noise
of Taft falling flat on his face
in Nebraska or Wisconsin
could flush the professionals in
a covey, like so many fright
ened quail, in the direction of
Eisenhower. This is, of course,
precisely the objective of the
Eisenhower forces, who might
also flush the covey by pulling
off a grand slam, by publicly
capturing a. couple of key states
like Pennsylvania and Michi
gan. Here it must be said, of
course, that Taft still holds the
bulk of the professionals and
organization men , nervous
though they may be, and that
he still holds the lead in com
mitted or half-committed dele
gates. He is certainly not to be
counted out this early in the
game. But it is at least true
that he has lost his room for
maneuver. In New Hampshire,
Minnesota and New Jersey he
took three long steps backward.
He cannot afford any more such
setbacks. Now he can only move
forward, if he is to move at all.
(Copyright, 1952,
New York Herald Tribune, Inc.)
Alaska Narcotics
Situation Claimed
Horrible by Police
Anchorage, Alaska (U.R)
Anchorage Police Chief T. H.
Miller says the narcotics situa
tion in Alaska is "horrible." He
attributed the "rampant growth"
of the trade to neglect of Alaska
law enforcements by officials in
Washington, D. C.
"I asked the American Legion
post here Friday to help me in
getting some action," he said.
"Outside of Anchorage narcotics
peddlers and criminals are oper
ating at will. It s a horrible sit
uation." Washington "Unconcerned'
Miller complained that Wash-
l n g t o n "seems unconcerned"
about the Alaska narcotics prob
lem. He said he had sent a letter
to the treasury department urg
ing that additional federal agents
be sent to the territory, "but
nothing was done."
- There now is only one federal
narcotics agent in the entire ter
ritory, he said. .
End Asked to Enlisted
Men Used as Servants
Washington CU.R) House in
vestigators demanded Monday
that the armed forces stop using
enlisted men as domestic ser
vants. They also said admirals and
generals should not be allowed
to move 12 tons of personal
goods at government expense
when being transferred. '
Chairman Herbert C. Bonner,
D.-N.C, of a House executive
expenditures subcommittee call
ed on the House military appro
priations subcommittee to cut
military funds by 10 per cent to
eliminate "doo-daddles and du
plication." Bonner, whose group has been
investigating military spending
for more than 18 months, made
his plea before a secret session
of the appropriations group last
Friday.
Dogs of Eagle Point
Ordered Restricted
Eagle Point City Recorder
Sam F. Coy today called atten
tion of dog owners to the city
ordinance which requires ' all
dogs being kept on leash or tm
the owner's premises during the
period from April 1 to July L
n the Day's Hem
By FRANK JENKINS S
Ho! Hum!
The news, as this is written,
it strictly that kind of news.
KOREA, for instance:
In Washington, Vfce-Ad-miral
Cassady tells the . House
Appropriations committee that
naval aviation is doing more
shooting in Korea THAN IT DID
IN THE OFFICIAL WAR
AGAINST JAPAN.
He adds:
" "So far to Korea we've fired
about half as much ammunition,
dropped two-thirds as many
bombs and fired MORE rockets
than we did in the entire Pacific
war from 1941 through 1945.
. . . Up to now in Korea, 309
navy planes have been lost to
enemy action, all but one to
ground fire."
WE COULD take another war,
if one was forced on us.
But heaven preserve us from
another police action.'
P LITICS:
Governor Stevenson of Il
linois tells a reporter four rea
sons why he doesn't want to run
for president (on the Democratic
ticket):
1. He can't let down the men
who have joined him in his state
of Illinois administration.
2. He doesn't want to go
through the struggle of deciding
whether to seek, another job.
3. His work as governor of
Illinois is not yet finished.
4. His withdrawal from the
Illinois primary (for governor)
would - cause complete chaos
among the people supporting
him. i
TN THE interest of complete
candor he should have added:
"But I'll TAKE the presiden
tial nomination if it's handed
to me on a platter."
piTHICS:
Up in Tacoma a young
woman (age 26) heaved a rock
through a tavern window and
made off with EIGHT STEAKS.
Hauled in by the cops, she ex
plained that she took the steaks
because she was hungry.
SO WAS HER DOG, she
added.
I SUPPOSE it never occurred
to her to GET A JOB (wash
ing dishes or something) and pay
for the steaks.
Such is the modern world.
Work is about the last thing
we think of.
T AW enforcement:
The federal government
sold a Portland building for
merly owned by two Oregon
SLOT MACHINE OPERATORS
who are now serving federal
prison terms for TAX FRAUD.
. . . The government says they
owed $997,000 IN FEDERAL
TAXES.
TN OREGON, we forbid gam-
bling in every possible way
starting with the state consti
tution and going on down
through state law and munic
ipal ordinances.
But we LOOK THE OTHER
WAY while a couple of slot ma
chine racketeers take from the
people so much gambling money
that their FEDERAL TAXES
ALONE run up to nearly a mil
lion dollars.
IT SEEMS to me it's about
time for Oregon to become an
honest woman either stop gam
bling or legalize it
'C'CONOMICs!
In Corvallis Paul V. Maris,
former director of the Oregon
Extension service, outlines at a
banquet five general objectives
for rural leaders:
1. Understand world-wide re
lationships. - - .
2. Know what it means to
feed the world's ever-increasing
population.
3. Realize that concepts must
be continually changed to meet
changing conditions.
- 4. Have greater consideration
for the community and social
aspects of rural life.
5. Consider the changes forced
on us by having achieved a con
siderable degree of agricultural
maturity.
TIE SHOULD have added one
more:
Realize that there is no such
thing as something for nothing.
If we accept subsidies from gov
ernment, WE'LL HAVE TO
GIVE UP SOME OF OUR LIB
ERTIES. February Traffic
Accidents increase
Chicago (U.R) The National
Safety Council has announced
that traffic accidents took an up
ward turn in February, killing
12 per cent more persons than
during the corresponding month
last year.
Automobile accidents took 2,
530 lives this February as com
pared with 2,260 for the same
month in 1951, the council said.
Even if February lasted its
usual 28 days there would still
have been an increase of eight
per cent, the safety council said.
WEATHER By United Press
North California: Fair south
and partly cloudy north portion
Monday and Tuesday with scat
tered showers vicinity Ukiah
Red Bluff northward; little
change in temperature.
Truman's Retirement
May I ncrease Chance
For Party Harmony
By LYLE C WILSON
Washington (U.PJ The great
political organization Franklin
D. Roosevelt created and willed
to Harry S. Truman was leader-
less Monday and dividing for
bitter North-South conflict over
party policies-
Platform principles seemed to
outweigh personalities in the
first confusion following Presi
dent Truman s announcement
that he would retire.
Better Harmony Seen
But some Democrats including
men of the South hope and be
lieve Mr. Truman's retirement
offered a better chance for even
tual party harmony than had
existed before.
The president withheld en
dorsement of a Democrat to suc
ceed him.
Mr. Truman's choice, how
ever, was reported to be 52-year-old
Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson of
Illinois. A White House official
stated that to be a fact. The
president himself made no hint
of his choice when he revealed
Saturday night that he would
not run again.
Stevenson Silent
Stevenson told the United
Press that "I can't discuss what
has transpired" between him
and the president. He said he
had not talked to Mr. Truman
since his retirement announce
ment, but that other Democratic
leaders had brought consider
able pressure on me to run."
He insisted that the only poli
tical job he "seeks" is reelection
as governor. Asked directly
whether he would accept the
nomination. if it were offered to
him, he replied that "I'll have
On The Side
(Distributed by Kinj
If I were dead, and in my place
Some fresher youth designed
To warm you with new fires and
grace
Those arms I left behind:
Fortune and good looks you might
find
And greater men than I:
But my true resolved mind
They never shall come nigh.
For I not for an hour did love.
Or for a day desire.
But with my soul had from above
Thus endless, holy fire.
Vanghaa.
Am still active in trying to
assemble a greater number of
songs for a Father's Day medley.
The complaint as to the scarcity
of father songs in comparison to
the plentitude-of mother songs
has long been voiced. However,
nobody seems to do much about
it. Incidentally, when John Mc
Cormack was in his heyday he
invited his father and mother to
attend a concert he was giving
in Dublin. John's singing of
"Mother Machree" was the hit
of the occasion. After the con
cert John's father said to him:
"Have you no father songs to
sing?" At the next concert which
his father and mother attended
John sang that touching ballad
titled "A Father's Early Love."
Timing a Kiss
How munch shorter is the kiss
a man gives his sister, his aunt
or his cousin than the one he
bestows upon his sweetheart?
How long must a kiss last to be
accurately described as "passion
ate"? This question came up in
a recent divorce case. A husband
who spied on his wife saw her
kissing another man. He testified
the kiss lasted thirty seconds.
The judge said a kiss lating that
long could rightly be decribed
as "a passionate embrace.' How
long did that goodbye kiss you
gave your wife this, morning
last? It's none of my business
but you had better watch out.
Your wife may start clocking
your kisses to check whether or
not your love is growing cold.
Argument
As to whether whisky is young
or old, the average drinker can
not determine by the taste. He
goes by the label. That's what
one group of distillers of Scotch
whisky claimed. They practical
ly proved their point by a test
participated in by some eminent
British drinkers. Much to the
surprise of these drinkers .they
found themselves unable to dis
tinguish between young and old
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CONGER - MORRIS
- Funeral Directors Ambulance Service -West
Main at Sixth Medford
Member National Selected Morticians by Invitation
to cross that bridge when I
come to it"
Friends believe Vice President
Alben W. Barkley will become
a candidate. One of them said
Barkley probably would an
nounce his decision early this
week. He thought it would be
yes. Barkley is 74 years old.
Three United States senators
Kefauver of Tennessee, Russell
of Georgia and Kerr of Oklaho
ma already were avowed can
didates when Mr. Truman an
nounced he would quit. Their
campaigns quickened instantly.
Favorite sons and other candi
dacies were popping up like
spring's tulips.
Republicans took the Truman
news with mixed emotions.
Some agreed with Sen. Robert
A. Taft that Mr. Truman would
be the Democrat's strongest can
didate. Others speculated on a
weakening of the Southern Dem
ocratic rebellion with Mr. Tru
man going to the showers. Some
Eisenhower-for-president men
believe Southern Democratic
discontent could make votes for
Ike.
Means Little to Congress
Mr. T r u m a n's retirement
meant little so far as this session
of congress was concerned. His
general domestic program was
stymied, anyway. Congress
planned to deal with must ap
propriations and foreign busi
ness before scattering to cam
paign. From the deep South came
warning that Mr. Truman's re
tirement was not enough. The
1952 Democratic platform must
also acknowledge state's rights
if bitter party strife is to be
avoided .
By f. V. Durling
Feat u ret Wdicate, tnc)
whisky. The discussion was in
spired by the fact that the
Scotch Distillers Association op
poses the export of any whisky
less than three years old. The
Independent Distillers Associa
tion of Great Britain urges the
export of younger liquor, claim
ing drinkers, especially those in
the United States of America
wouldn't know the difference.
So They Say
The lucky numbers of Aquar
ius (January 20-February 18)
people are three and four. Lucky
day is Wednesday. However, if
you are an Aquarian and you go
out to Jamaica on a Wednesday
and play three and four, in the
daily double and lose, don't
blame me. Blame the stargazers.
Scorpio (October 23-November
21) people are often fortunate in
inheriting wealth and property.
But if they want to live long to
enjoy it they should avoid highly
seasoned foods and alcoholic liq
uors. A Libra (September 23-Oc-tober
22) woman is usually hap
py when married to a man born
under Leo, Saggitarius, Aquarius
or Gemini. But never complete
ly so unless her husband earns
more than $10,000 a year and she
doesn't have to do any house
work. A Libra woman would
rather have a maid than a tele
vision set. A Cancer (June 21
July 22) woman would rather
have the television set. Or so
say the stargazers.
Best Dressed
The world's best dressed
Duchess is the Duchess of Kent
This smart looking noblewoman
is 45 years old and is known as
"the elegant Duchess." She is
five feet, six inches in height and
has a figure like Rhonda Flem
ing. She believes that, to some
extent, she owes the permanent
possession of her youthful con
tour to a Scotch masseuse. It is
said the Scotch massage experts
are even better than the Scandi
navians. The Duchess is slightly
superstitious. She favors sap
phires as jewelry, thinks they
are lucky. By the way, how did
Turkish cigarets lose so much
of their popularity?
The Overland Telegraph com
pany established communication
between San Francisco and New
York on Oct. 24, 1861.
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