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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (July 14, 1952)
Around Hollywood ' Hollywood U.PJ On the back lot at Warner studio they are burying the corpses of thous- anas ui suns that made their exit in W e dnesday's fire. They never posed for cheesecake or had dialogue. But the 150 roll top desks . . . the rou lette tables Alin. Mosby from the Napoleonic era . . and the tiny miniatures of cars and airplanes for trick scenes con tributed to the magic of the mov ies, too. A two - story warehouse filled with props, collected during 30 years of movie-making, is ashes and rubble now. "We'll have to start from cratch and. build the props as 'we need them," shrugged Ar mor Marlowe, assistant to the head of the prop department. "It will take 20 years to get the prop supply almost back to what it was. Many item's can t be replaced." An old-fashioned peanut veil ing machine, complete with a whistle, took its last bow in "The Story of Will Rogers". It's a charred mess now. Oihsrs Gone Other props which will never see celluloid again include show cases for 1910 meat market sets, Joan Crawford's lucite dressing table from "Flamingo Road," gymnasium equipment, an old fashioned soda fountain and sev en different sets of chairs and tables for French sidewalk cafes. The prop men also are minus 10,000 arrows and 100 bows and quivers, 5,000 spears and lances, 1,500 Vienesse chairs, gas chan deliers and the inside of a sub marine. Two authentic Civil War cannon are blobs of metal. The remains of the outdoor street sets and the prop ware house stood silent and black un der the sun, and it could have been a set for an atomic war movie. A hot wind swirled ash es around 1,000 burned World War II Army helmets. $10,000 Coach "For the 'Iron Mistress' we made this beautiful 1850 coach T17S. 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Why, you can't even buy the material any more." City's Residents Aiding Clean-Up After Big Fire Battle Ground, Wash 0J.R) Resident of Battle Ground Mon day turned out to help clean up debris from a fire which de stroyed property valued in ex cess of $200,000 Sunday, The fire totally destroyed the Clark County Dairymen's Asso ciation grain elevator and a food market owned by Ernie Dun ning, and caused damaged to the Red and White Food store own ed by John Reick who estimated his at $60,000. Threaten Post Offies For a time the flames threat ened to wipe out the post office and theater. The fire broke out about 1 rj.m. in the warehouse, one of the largest in the northwest, and spread to Dunning's market and to the Red and White store across the street. Sparks from the burning grain in the elevator placed the entire town in danger. The fire departments of Van couver, Hockinson, and Battle Ground battled the blaze with help of numerous volunteer fire fighters. 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The Blu Riband Trophy rests in an antique shop in Hanley, Eng land, having never been claimed by the owners of the Queen Mary which set the previous record in 1938. GOP Veep Candidate Target of Red Press Moscow U.R) Sen. Richard M. Nixon, American Republican vice presidential nominee, has been characterized in the Soviet press as an "extremely reaction ary who supported repressive legislation." Newspapers printed a Tass Agency report saying Nixon "played a most active role in persecution of trade union lead' ers and intellectuals suspected of progressive views." They described his nomina tion as a rubber-stamp affair, with Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhow er, the presidential nominee, se lecting Nixon in a conference with several political bosses. Phone 2-6241 "1 GAEEQN PAINT Shady Cove-Trail News Shady Cove-Trail Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Wagner of Lincoln Valley, N.D., were recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. Grant Hubbell of Trail on their way to Lodi, Calif. Other guests of the Hub bell's have been Mr. and Mrs. John Clark of Long Beach, Cal. and Mr. and Mrs. Al Kusler of Grants Pass. Mrs. Kusler is a sister of Mrs. Hubbell and the Hubbell's and Kuslers spent the July 4 week-end .at the Hub bell's home at Trail. Guests of the Harold Barbers of Trail have been Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wait and daughter, Sylva of Sumner, Wash., and Kenneth Schwab and Lewis Combs of Sherman Oaks, Calif. Guests over July 4 were Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pierce and Mr. and Mrs. B. Reno, of Sumner, Wash. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Green of Sacramento, Calif, were present for the birthday dinner, July 4 of Mrs. Green's sister, Mrs. Dale Sawyer of Shady Cove: Also at tending was Jim Sawyer of Trail brother of Dale Sawyer. Delegates from Steelhead Post No. 6881 VFW to the VFW convention in Astoria were John ny Walker and Kenneth Oliver, post commander; Zuba Walker, district president of the auxil iaries; Pat Close, president of Steelhead Post auxiliary and Ed na Bryson, Jr., vice president of the auxiliary, and Dorothea Gus tafson, conductress. Mrs. Gloria Carr and daugh ter, Derithe, are staying with Mrs. Carr's sister and husband. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Oliver of Shady Cove a time while Mrs. Carr's husband is in Korea. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Wilson and family of Shady Cove spent the July 4 week-end attending the rodeo at Klamath Falls accomp anied by Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Dusenberry and children of Sams Valley. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Clark of Big Butte, Trail, had a picnic on Clark's creek the 4th with their son and family, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Clark of Medford and $2,226,000,000 NEWSPAPERS OF TOTAL 34.0 Miscellaneous media: 25.5 brings total to new higfc 6H billion dollars. Figures include production costs. Dailies only fweekdav and Sundays). Source : Preliminary wtimates for 1951 published by Printers' Ink, Jan. 11. 1952. This and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Weber of Trail. Mrs. Don Wallace and children of Newport Beach, Calif, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Henry of Shady Cove recently. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Hess and son, Richard, made a trip to their farm at Estacada and expect to be moved there before school starts. Hess is at present taking treatments at Deer Lick Min eral Springs in California. Captain and Mrs. Percy Berg erson and son, Kenneth, of San Francisco were recent visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Watson of Shady Cove. Bergerson has been captain of the Nowalk Vic tory and has made many trips into Korean waters and to Japan since the beginning of the Kor- ean war. He is employed by the" American President lines. Oth er visitors of the Watsons over the 4th were Mr. and Mrs. Cass Bergerson of Vernonia, Ore. Airman Shot by Friend In Scuffle Over Gun Portland (U.R) Vernon Wil son Pond, 17, of Grand Junction, Colo., was dead Monday and a hometown buddy was being held on a charge of manslaughter as a result of a playful scuffle over a gun. Sheriff's deputies said young Pond, an airman 3-c, stationed at the Portland International air-! port, was the victim of what "probably was an accident." Lawrence Leroy Rice, also an airman 3-c, from Grand Junc tion, said he and Pond were in a wooded area near Viking park, target practicing with a .22 re volver. He said he thought he had emptied the weapon and then he and Pond struggled for possession of it. Rice said he pulled the trigger six' or seven times before the gun fired, striking Pond in the side. m j!fi &1I mm e&a m f&rff& wm mm m fSfB Ay Of7? 4 J v&Li uM VMS &b&r VsX I 1 1 I 1 1 TO 1 OVER DIRECT MAIL $920,50O0O0 DIRECT MAIL 14.0 It takes a lot of confidence and all kinds of people to spend two and a quarter billion dollars' worth of advertising. It takes everybody from big VP's with heavy ad budgets to housewives with rooms to rent. It takes chain-store executives and neighborhood merchants. . It takes local business people those who spend only their own money for ads, and those who also spend big money contributed by manufacturers. But most of all it takes an advertising medium that can do the job a complete job : NEWSPAPERS. message prepared by BUREAU OF ADVERTISING, American published In the interests of fuller understanding of newspapers Monday, July If. 1952 Democrats Dig Up Washington uJ.R) Admin istration foreign policy experts and Democratic party strate gists are digging up what they hope will be convincing answers to Republican complaints about the Korean war. The ' intensive search for a counter attack against the 30P platform reflects administration belief that the war and the year Georgia GOP Filed Atlanta (U.R) A bitter fued between Georgia Republi can factions which spilled over into last week's GOP National convention ended Monday. Ray Foster, head of a pro Taft group recognized by a Geor gia court and two Republican National committees but repud iated by the full convention, is sued a statement saying 'the fight is over." Foster urged an opposition group headed by W. R. Tucker SPEND m q t v. - PHONE MEDFORD 2-5851 y I 3 TO I OVER v J v All RADIO iraiBlliSil , ALL RADIO 10.5 Only newspapers can give you full value for your ad vertising dollar because only newspapers reach everybody who can possibly buy. If you're a retailer or wholesaler, demand news paper advertising before you place an order. If you're a salesman or district manager, ask your management for newspaper advertising to move out" the products you sell. And , if you're a manufacturer, remember this: In 1951 One-Third Of All The Advertising Dollars In The Nation Were Entrusted to Newspapers. The newspaper is Answers to Korean War Criticisms long truce talks with the Com munists will be a hot issue in the forthcoming presidential campaign. Informed sources say the ad ministration, from President Truman and Secretary of State Dean Acheson on down, is will ing to air its side of the Korean issue regardless of whether a truce is achieved during the summer. Declared Settled to accept his support in the coming presidential campaign and asked that the two factions "unite in a common effort to establish a two-party system in visa ..la. Lexington, Tenn. (U.R) Jack son Massey, who seeks election to the state railroad and public utilities commission, came up with this slogan: "What this country needs is a good five-cent phone call." DAY Back to Medford same evening ? i re?f y-a p yi fa A TO 1 OVER MAGAZINES 562,30U,UOU ; . - MAGAZINES 8.6 W 'f, K always "first with the most Newspaper Publishers Association by MEDFORD MAIL TRIEUNE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINE Advance word on the admin istration counter-offensive indi cates that answers to the GOP charges will be pinned to the Republican statements and ac tions before and after the war began on June 25, 1950. The foreign policy plank ap proved by the Republican con vention last week charged the administration with pulling oc cupation troops out of Korea too soon, declaring that Korea "was of no concern to us," and then deciding to fight back. It also complained of "hampering or ders" producing "stalemates and ignominous bartering" which offer "no hope of victory." Tele-fun by Warren Goodrich "I've told you a thousand times to throw away that an dent number list and look up numbers before you call I". . . Keep your personal number list up-to-date by checking it with the latest directory ... Pacific Telephone. 4 TO ! OVER .-.5 wm 5434,400,000 AIL TV 7.4 Medford MaU-Tribune . . . . -.
