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- i CLOSING CEREMONIES Above is a general view of. the inside of the Basilica of St Mary Major in Rome during ceremonies closing the Marian Year, which was inaugurated a year ago by Pope Pius XII in this church. The ailing 78-year-old pontiff wound up the year of dedication to the Virgin Mary with a broadcast beamed around the world, ex pressing "gratefulness to God. v- Around Hollywood By ALINE MOSBY United Press Correspondent Hollywood U.R) Movie mag nate Howard Hughes, who once startled the world with a wood en flying boat is as excited today over his newest project an under water movie premiere. RKO is stag ing the first, and probably the last, film one nine be- Aline Mosbr neath the waves when they show a Jane Russell opus, "Underwater," 12 feet deep at Silver Springs, Fla.. Jan. 10. ' A studio spokesman revealed today that Hughes is personally supervising this excursion with I V- 4 f I f Medford Chosen For Marine Exhibit Medford is one of 51 Pacific coast cities which a traveling agent of the U. S. Marine Corps will visit on its current tour. The tractor-trailer, specially designed and constructed by the Marine Corps to give the public a -view of Leatherneck equip ment and armament, will be on display here Tuesday; Dec. 14. The exhibit will be stationed at Main st. and Central ave., and is open to the public without charge. On disnlav are models of vlanes used by Marines, the bat tle streamers of the three active divisions, medals and decora tions won by Marines, including the Medal of Honor, and a pre sentation of the new theory of vertical envelopment of an enemy-held beachhead by heli copter. The trailer is staffed by four non-commissioned officers of the Marine Corps who will explain equipment and answer any ques tions. . Medford Officers Get Training Course Five Medford city police offi cers, two of whom joined the force just last week, attended the Oregon police, off icers basic training . school Dec. 6-10 at Grants Pass, Chief Charles Champlin reported. They were Frank L. Lengele, DeLaire F. Tusow, Lee D. Rice, Frederick L. Griffith and Milton L. Hanson The classes were for officers who had not been to an official school before. New ap pointees to the department are Griffith, 21, and Hanson, 24. Chief Champlin said both are local men. They will be assigned to patrol duties. The school covered general law enforcement. Subjects in cluded laws of arrest, mechanics of arrest, report writing, traffic law enforcement, accident in vestigation and crime scene in vestigation. A written examina tion concluded, the school. In structors included city and state policemen and FBI men. PLAN SCHOOL DANCE ' Jacksonville Senior - class members of Jacksonville High school will hold a dance on New Year's eve. It will be at the Community hall and the public is invited. Bill Lively's band will provide the music. Danc ing will be from 9 p. m. to 1 a. m. There will be favors for all persons attending. Proceeds will go to the class. as much enthusiasm as when he tried to launch his plywood air machine. "He likes anything that is a spectacle," one RKO worker said. Plans to Dunk Audience Hughes' plans for dunking 170 film players and New York and Hollywood columnists in clude the first underwater mo vie screen, which will be plant ed on the lake floor. A machine in the depths of a nearby boat will project the picture through a window onto the 8x16 foot plastic screen. Underwater speakers will be placed nearby. The audience, wearing bathing suits and oxy gen .tanks, will sit on cement benches. Studio publicists insist the Florida water is "crystal clear so you can see the film perfect ly. Any 'press members wno don't wish to get wet can watch the film through the windows of six submarines. Next week invitations will go out to the press with requests for bathing suit sizes and a warning, "start practicing deep breath ing" . Huehes' staff is trying to found up waterproof typewrit ers and plastic "paper" so an underwater press room can be set up. Ballpoint pens, naturally, will be passed around for under water writing. Revives Tradition . ; ' . . Huehes' stunt revives? a tradi tion for the weird andiwonder ful film premieres that was a part of razzle-dazzle land in me rilii navs Once Hughes paid $50,000 to light the Hollywood Hills with eieantic letters spelling out "Hell's Angels" for the opening of that film. The late showman Rid Orauman installed an enxire zoo in front of his Chinese Thea ter for the premiere of "Trader Horn." Dnpe I attended a premiere Of a cartoon aboard a Los An geles streetcar as it ciangea about town. Other pictures have been premiered on airplanes and trains, in prisons ana wineries. Warner showed "The Sea Wolf aboard a destroyer but the sea was so rough that nobody saw the picture and rail space was at a premium. Air Force Reservists MayLoseCommissions Commissions of Air Force re serve officers not active in some phase of the air reserve program by Jan. 1, 1955, may be revoked, according to information receiv ed by the 2644th Air Reserve center at Vancouver barracks, Vancouver, Wash. Each reservist must earn 15 points a year under the program to meet minimum requirements. These points, additional to the 15 received by all reservists, may be achieved through training with an Air Reserve unit or through enrollment in a corre spondence course. Jacksonville Council Agrees to Water Fee Jacksonville The Jackson ville city council agreed last week to charge $165 for each water, connection outside the city limits. An extra charge will also be made for installation of any pipe line over the usual distance to the residence, according to Re corder B. J. Christianson. The council also approved be ginning of the annual audit by Leland Knox, Medford. CLIP THIS AD and Save a Buck ... ON ANY APPLIANCE REPAIR! WE SERVICE Heaters Mixers Vacuum Cleaners Coffee Makers Irons Toasters Just Any Household Appliance WILL PICK UP! CALL DAN NEILL APPLIANCE REPAIR CO. 627 N. Central Phone 3-4901 Offer Expires Dec. 31 Court Records CIRCUIT COURT Delia Irene Thompson vs. Kenneth Oliver Thompson, complaint in suit for separate maintenance fpreviously listed incorrectly as divorce com plaint.) , The Southern Gross By J. HUGH PRUETT "Astronomer. Extension Division ' Oregon Higher Education System At times we in northern lati tudes hear the expression "under the Southern Cross," or we see references to a sky figure by that name. All such sound poetical but very far away since this group of stars can be seen from nowhere in our country except ing in southern Florida ' and Texas, and then only indistinct ly. The Southern Cross is the envy of northern star-gazers. In Dante's Divine Comedy we find a reference to this constel lation: "I turned and fixed my mind on the other pole attentive where I saw four stars never seen before save by the ken of our first parents. Heaven of their rays seemed joyous: Oh thou northern site! Bereft indeed and widowed since of these de prived!" Composed of Four Start The Southern Cross, a stellar figure small enough to fit easily inside the bowl of our well known Big Dipper, is composed of four stars, three of them quite bright. When seen due south the cross stands almost upright. Alpha, at the foot, is the bright est and about a standard first magnitude white star. Beta and Delta, at the ends of the cross arm, are also white and of mag nitudes 1.5 and 3.1. (The higher the magnitude number, the dim mer the star.) The relative faint ness of Delta at the right of the cross arm is the only detraction from the glory of this celebrated asterism. Gamma, magnitude, 1.6, is a splendid, reddish orange jewel, blazing from the top of the cross. To add to the charm of the Southern Cross, the entire figure is enmeshed in a dense part of the Milky Way, that'pathway in the heavens paved with count less stars so distant that they Lpnnot be seen individually ex cepting wiin optical aid. Always Seen in Uruguay We sometimes read of the anticipation of seeing the South ern' Cross by those taking their first voyage into the southern seas. But the traveler cannot ex-, pect to see this figure in the early evening skies at all times of the year unless i he goes as far south as Uruguay. There the Southern Cross like our Big Dipper here is always above the horizon. But anyway in southern latitudes, and , even farther north, it is highest and due south at 9 p.m. during the Sunday, December 12, 1954 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE FIRE CONTROLLED Portland (U.R) A three- alarm fire was reported at 11:17 a.m. Saturday at the Northwest Copper Co.' here.- Firemen said the blaze was under control at 12:04 p.m. There t was no im mediate damage estimate. middle of May. At the - equator this starry cross is always above the horizon for 12 hours daily so will be somewhere in the visible sky at this 9 p.m.hour from February to August. Plan your trip ' to South American during this time. Mrs. Isabel Lewis thinks re ports of dissatisfaction with the Southern Cross , come mostly from those who have. seen it from no farther south than Mex ico or Cuba, where it is greatly dimmed by the haze along the horizon. Her view from the high lands of Ecuador . on a clear moonless night with a meteor shooting across the sky ful filled her fondest expectations. Returned to Medford Dr. ROBT. E. LEE, Optometrist OFFICES NOW OPEN AT THE BIG Y MARKET BUILDING 1912 N. Pacific Hwy. Phone 3-5923 EASY PARKING Medford Couple's Son Earns Promotion Dale Throckmorton, son 6f Mr. and Mrs. Lester Throckmorton, 407 North ' Holly st.,1 has been appointed regional manager for Dodge automobile sales for the Dallas, Tex., region, it was re ported last week. He has been regional business manager for the firm in the Omaha region since 1953. v A graduate of Oregon State college, he was with a Portland tractor firm and later with a Klamath Falls tractor and im plement company before going to the midwest. He" also served as an instructor in agriculture at Newberg Union High school and the Oregon Technical in stitute. ' His new sales region includes all of Texas except the pan handle. ... A native of Medford, he was graduated in 1939 from Eagle Point High school. He is mar ried and the couple has thec children. COMPLETES VISIT Corvallis (U.R) Ami G. 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