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TheyH Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo J 7 i iu -rvY-rnP a pout my raii-you taavcu i . (SNIF-SNIF ;TME HOUSE gUKNtu wwn . EVERYTVllNG'S GONE. WROWG" X COMT c? fOJCW HOW ILL BE ABLE. 10 HAY' T6K-T5K-TSK-RX)R BOY" TMIS S PATWETICDON T WORRY -ABOUT THE BIU-" LET IT RIDE-FAY ME WHEN VOU CAN- Around Hollywood ly ALINE MOSBY United Press Correspondents Hollywood U.R) Doris Day, one of the world's top boxoffice stars, told today how she has re covered from a near nerv- l A ous break- r- f tt. - r .. 15 vtW i! because public- down she's shy. The singer with the short blonde hair and pert nose has been a mvsterv on the , Aline Mosby local scene for the past year, with rumors of an "inferiority complex" and "ill ness" peppering the gossip col umns. Today, sitting relaxed and smiling in her home, she shrug ged off the "inferiority" phase and preferred to put her. prob lem this way: At times being a movie star is frightening. The goldfish-bowl life that goes with Social Scientists Substitute Graphs New York, N.Y. 4U.P.) Henry T. Moore, president of Skidmore college, is afraid phychologists have forgotten about people. Moore, in a speech here, said social scientists are trying too hard to be scientific, and have found it "easy to substitute graphs and statistics for individ ual human beings." Instead of worrying about people, he " said, they " worry about conditioned reflexes, ani mal behavior, and intelligence quotients. They threaten, "to take the psyche out of psy chology." Moore, who once edited the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, said that "the very idea of personal responsibility has been put through some se vere strains in our time." "Mass production in business and mass slaughter in war have accustomed us to counting peo ple in large numbers, he added, charging that psychologists are falling into the same bad habit. Bright Tols Fail To Absorb Books Chicago (U.PJ Bright and skilled children often skim rap idly over too many books in stead of absorbing what the books can teach, Mrs. Alice Brooks McGuire, Austin, Tex., librarian, told a University of Chicago reading conference. Mrs. McGuire said "it is the job of the teacher to keep pace with the brighter children and to slow their reading down, if it is necessary to provide an opportunity for thoughtful read ing and a discussion of how ideas in books apply to daily life." She said "group discussions and conversations" with the brighter students "may help them sort out their ideas, cry stallize their values and grow in understanding as a result of their reading." According to the National Safety Council many home ac cidents occur on stairways. The number of these accidents is re duced when the stairs are car peted to cover the slip-prone wood surface. Use Mail Tribune Want Ads Dead line for Sunday Classiiied Is at noon Saturday. a fat paycheck and fame un nerved her. "I didn't exactly have a ner vous breakdown, but the next think to it," she said thought fully. Her husband, Marty Melcher, explained, "Doris just hates be ing stared at." Everybody Looks "When I walk into a club, everybody's looking at me," the actress said. "If I could just be Mrs. Smith, sometimes . . . "I didn't even particularly want to become a star," she went on. "When I did my first picture I man t inink about seeing my name in lights. Having the con tract gave me a certain amount of security. That's what I though about. "As I told the doctor, X used to hate going to movie premieres I love show business, and I'm grateful that people ask for auto graphs, but the crowds and when the lights go up I feel everybody turns to look at you. Haven't you ever torn up a snap shot of yourself you didn't like? Can you imagine looking at your self on the screen and feeling that way? "When I first started work at MGM this month the trouble came back but I'm all right now," she smiled. T never felt better. I've gotten to understand myself better. The goldfish life is part of show business and you have to go along with it. So Sensitive ,"But the press, when I -was sick, took such jabs at me.. And I'm so sensitive," she added. The first step for the new Day is her MGM picture, "Love Me or Leave Me," the life of Ruth Etting. "It's her first loan-out from her own studio, Warners MGM. paid more for Doris than for any loan-out star, a tribute to her boxoffice pull. In "Love Me or Leave Me" the new Doris will bravely show curves for the first time. "It used to be high necks and peter pan collars, she grinned, "I look like everybody's cousin, So I love the change to these costumes of the 30s-low-cut, beaded dresses. I even walk dif ferently in these clothes." Doris also talked excitedly about the probability of her staring in the movie version of "South Pacific" and of her new dress business with designer Lago. "I want to think of something else besides myself," said the re luctant movie star. Racing Turtle Travels One Mile in 44 Years North Chatham, N.Y. XU.P.) This is the story of a racing turtle that didn't get very far- just one mile in 44 years. Back in 1910 two brothers, George B. Woodward and Louis B. Woodward carved their ini tials on the back of a turtle they were keeping for racing pur poses. Somehow the turtle got away. John Q. Adams recently saw a turtle with initials on its back and began making inquiries. He found the turtle had been the property of the Woodward brothers when' they were youngsters. The turtle was only a mile from their home. The real name of the boxer known as Kid Gavilan is Gerar do Gonzalez. His manager once owned a Cuban saloon named El Gavilan (The Hawk). Christmas Christmas Christmas TREES! TREES! TREES! PHOENIX LIONS CLUB Will Again Havt A Mk Christmas Tree Lot ORDER YOUR TREE NOW! FIR OR SILVER TIP TELEPHONE 2-7915 or 3-1412 Alcatraz Light Guiding Mariners For Past 100 Years Alcatraz, Calif. -4U.R) Often a stranger peering at awesome Alcatraz through the black night thinks he's seeing a rotating searchlight scanning the bay's swirling currents for the con vict that might some day es cape from "The Rock." But the powerful light which has mystified San Francisco visitors and greeted its natives nightly for so long is much older than the federal prison that gives the name Alcatraz its familiar ring five times older in fact. One hundred years ago this month the 100,000-candlepower light began guiding mariners. Without interruption, Alcatraz Lighthouse has continued its nocturnal mission ever since. The light flashes briefly once every five seconds from atop a 214-foot tower. This accounts for the illusion that it is a searchlight illuminating the is land and its approaches. Keper a Veteran Michael Cassin was Alcatraz Light's first keeper back in 1854. He was also one of the earliest inhabitants of the island, which became an Army fort that same year after remaining un molested three-quarters of a century after its discovery. The light had been furnishing bearings in the foggy day for nearly 50 years when the fort became a disciplinary barracks around the turn of the century. The light was 80 years old when the .justice department took over -from the Army in 1934 and established on the barren rock the only maximum security penitentiary in the fed eral penal system. Today's keeper is Edward H. Schneider, 56, of Oakland, Calif., who has had the job since 1931 and wants to stay on until his retirement. A civil service employee, big, jovial Schneider plays" Santa Claus each - year for the children of the 40 families that live on the island. His asistants are two coast guardsmen, James N. Dustan, an engineman, and John H. Wien ert, a seaman., They live with their families in Coast Guard quarters on the island. 'Phone Installation At Central Point Begins This Week Installation of equipment in Central Point's new telephone office began this week, accord ing to Jack Creager, manager of Pacific Telephone and Tele graph company in this area. Western Electric company em ployees are doing the installing, under the supervision of Fore man W. D. Mold. Installation of associated facilities in the Medford office will be super vised by T. D. Killman, and a crew of 10 to 15 men will be needed. Due in April Operation date of the Central Point system, which will be con verted to dial phones, is about mid-April. Overall cost has been estimated at more than $315,000. Some of the expenditures list ed by Creager include land and building, $26,800; central office equipment, $83,000; outside dis tribution, including poles, wires and cables, $169,000, and trunk cables from Medford to Central Point, $18,000. The Central Point building is of concrete blocks, 63 by 27 feet in size. Many Men at Work Three telephone line crews totaling 14 men, under Foreman Frank Little, are now working on the new pole lines in Central Point. Cable Splicing Foreman E .S. Spence has a two-man crew at work and expects to add another later. About 35 per cent of the outside work has been completed. More than 1,200 telephones, about double the number now in use, will be served by the new dial exchange. Under the extended service arrangement with Medford and White City, the Central Point calling area will be enlarged to include more than 14,000 telephones in the three-city area without long-distance charges. Friday, December 3, 1354 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Auto Safely Bell Designed by School Rochester, N. Y. (U.R) A safety seat belt kit designed to reduce deaths and injuries in automobile accidents is being prepared for general sales. The belt was designed at the Cornell University Aeronautical laboratories here after a series of crash tests in which two dum my passengers were used. With out the belts, the dummies were knocked about in simulated crashes. But with the belts, the dummies were safe-guarded from damaging impact, such as striking the head against the windshield. The first batch of belt kits are expected to roll off (Hickok Co.) production lines here before the end of 1954. Included will be specially fabricated belt, safety buckle of the variety used m airplanes, and a steel plate, which can be bolted easily to the floor frame of an automa bile. The belt is the lap-strap type. More than. 1,714,283 pieces of correspondence were handled by the Army's military personnel records center at St. Louis, Mo., during the last 12 months. Seaway Development To End-Treasure Search Ogdensburg, N.Y. U.PJ De velopment of the St. Lawrence seaway and power project will put an end to a 200-year-old search for buried treasure on Treasure Island. The island, located below Ogdensburg in the St. Lawrence river, is supposed to have had a chest of gold buried some where on it by Lord Amherst's army in 1760. Treasure Island will be flood ed over when the big seaway and power dams are built. Dead line Sunday at noon Saturday. Classified li at THRU-EXPRESS SERVICE to SEATTLE'" This is what you pay I I I I JL PLUS FEDERAL TAX from Medford Return Trip 20 LESS.., on Round-Trip Tickets I J. A. Tomjack Agent . .... This is what you get, K Choice of 5 Daily Thru-Expres$ Schedules to Seattle -K Straight-Through travel . . . No change of bus or baggage -K Air Suspension Ride -fc Scenery at its best 212 N. Bartlett - Phone 2-2202 (3335GEQ CHECK COURTESY CHEVROLET FIRST FOR THE 1 PRICES GOOD FRI. and SAT. ONLY! IN . ' Reconditioned Used Cars! OPEN DAILY S A.M. TO 9 P.M. 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