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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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. Ey
lands, undersecretary of agricul
ture for Iceland, completed an
eight-day visit to Oregon Stat
college and to farms in the Wil
lamette valley Friday. Eylands
is on a nationwide' tour spon
sored by the State Department.
Dead line for Sunday Classified te
at noon Saturday. r
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