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Tuesday. December 14, 1954 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE FIRST SWIMMING LESSON is about to be given Bubbles by proud mama, Marie, at Philadel phia Zoo Marie, 3, was child bride at time she married Jimmy, 19. (International Soundphoto) Omitting Title May Cause Hard Feelings in Vienna Vienna (U.R) When you step into a Vienna taxicab, you'll receive a bow and be greeted respectfully as "Doctor" or "Baron." It confuses tourists at first. Americans are apt to mutter something like, "You've got the wrong man, chum." But gradua ally they grow used to it, for this, they learn, is a city where everyone has a title. Even those Viennese engaged in the lowliest occupations ad dress each other as "Herr Kol lege" meaning "Mr. Col league." The Viennese, schooled in courtly courtesy from ancient Hapsburg empire days, take their titles seriously. Everyone who has been to a university is "Herr Doctor" (or "Frau Doctor.") If he's only a business school man, it's "Herr Diplomkaufmann." If he has two university degrees, he's "Herr Doctor, Doctor," written as "DDR" before his name. If he's an engineer, call him "Herr En giner." And so on. You risk hard feelings by omit ting the title. And in cases where someone has more than one title, you must take care to use the highest. A Vienna University student addressed his professor unthink ingly one day as "Herr Profes sor," which is a notch above i "Doctor." It was a terrible mis take because the professor really ranked as "Herr Court Council lor." "Next time you'll be address ing me as plain Otto," the pro fessor said coldly. "Leave the class!" Taxi drivers and waiters go to extremes to avoid giving offense. The drivers' form of address de pends on whether or not you are wearing eyeglasses Herr Doc tor" if so, "Herr Baron" if not. Waiters usually use the safe "Herr Che f ," - meaning "Mr, Chief." In return, you address the waiter as -"Herr Ober," or "Mr, High One." In the old days this was reserved for head waiters only, but inflation has hit the Viennese title field like every thing else. Head waiters nowa days rate the grander-sounding "Herr Oberkellher," though it really means about the same as "Herr Ober." On newspaper staffs, things have reached the point where ordinary reporters greet each other as "Mr. Chief Editor." Probably the longest and grandest title in Austria is the one reserved for Danube River steamship captains. It is (take a deep breath) "Donaudampfschiff- ahrtsgesellschaftkapitaen." And, if he's a university man as well, don't forget to add the "Doctor." Or go by train. Ireland Village Boasts of Church fit J ' 'Within Church' Moneen, Ireland (U.R) Many a town can boast a" fine church, but this village in County Clare has a "church" within a church. To the casual visitor, the inner "church" is just a rough wooden box 11 feet long, nine feet wide and eight feet high, with win dows on either side of a door. But to the local people who know the history of the 102-year-old curio, it is the "Little Ark," a symbol of faith that triumphed over obstacles. The "Little Ark" was first used for mass in 1852 after a landlord had refused Father Michael Meehan, the then parish priest of Kilbaha, a site for erec tion of a proper church. Father Meehan used farmers' houses to celebrate mass, but the farmers were warned that they would be evicted if they allowed the priest to continue. An aban doned house was converted into St. Patrick's church, but the landlord took eviction proceed ings, and the house was torn down. .. Seaside Worship It was then that Father Mee han took to saying mass on a makeshift altar by the roadside, but he was threatened with sum monses for "obstruction." So the kindly people of the nearby village of Carrigaholt got their carpenter, Owen Collins, to build the "Little Ark" which was carried down to the sea shore and erected in a "no-man's- land" between the high and low watermarks on the strand. It was at this seaside "church" that Father Meehan continued to say I mass, baptize children and con duct funeral and wedding cere monies. Publicity given by Irish and English newspapers to the land lord's attitude forced him to give a site for the church which was built with funds raised in Ire land,' England and the United States. In 1857 the "Little Ark" was brought up from the seashore for the last time and reverently placed in a wing of the newly opened church here. There it is still preserved while nearby the house of the landlord stands in gaunt ruin against the sky. wtth Canterbury's more vigorous flavor "When you've had enough of housework relax with Canterbury. Notice its golden color of cap tured sunlight ... its invigorating, full flavor. Notice, too, how Canterbury's bright refresh ment brings you new life. So, stop ...go re freshed with Canterbury. It's the one fine tea that always costs you less . . . 754 1 iG8 at SAFEWAY Guatemala Launches Huge Highway Building Program Guatemala City (U.R) Presi dent Carlos Castillo Armas has launched a vast road-building program designed to open the long-blocked Pan American Highway within a year and erase "unknown territory" from the Guatemalan map. Within two days after the United States granted $6,425, 000 in economic aid, this Central American nation resumed work on the final 20 miles of the highway left unfinished be cause the former Communist re gime sought to prevent a flood of tourists from the north. Castillo' Armas, planning to spend $3,000,000 this year and a total of $21,000,000 to com plete the intercontinental road link, said it will be open and passable within 12 months, and paved within 24. The 20 miles which the Reds refused to complete cross jungle country between the Mexican border village of El Ocotal and a spot "somewhere to the north" of Guatemala's Huehuetenango. Easy Communications Guatemalan road crews also will improve the highway in the south, where a 100-mile trip from the El Salvador border north sometimes can take up to 12 hours because of the poor present condition of the' road. Castillo Armas believes the the most important steps he has road-building program is one of taken since he ousted Guate mala's Communist government and became president. "We can progress only when there is easy communication with all parts of the nation," he said. "At present, there is no Broderick Crawford Pays Fine in Court t Hollywood ' (U.R) Academy award-winning actor Broderick Crawford was fined $250 yester day on his second drunk arrest in two fears. The 44-year-old actor meekly paid the fine instead of going to jail for 25 days when he ap peared in court after having been arrested with actress Abi gail Adams, 37, and New York actor Myron McCormick, 47. Police arrested the threesome Sunday morning after Craw ford's car rammed into a fence in Manderville Canyon. McCor mick paid a $50 fine yesterday, while Miss Adams, free on $20 bail, was to appear in court to day. Eisenhower Draff Seen by Hagerfy Washington (U.R) White House secretary James C. Hag- erty believes the Republicans must draft President Eisenhower to run in 1956. . He thinks any other course would be "foolhardy" because Mr. Eisenhower is "the man best suited, at this time in our history to guide the affairs of our na tion." Hagerty expressed these views during an interview on the Mu tual Broadcasting System's "Re porters Roundup" last night and emphasized he was voicing his own personal opinion. He saia his words should not be inter preted as indicating "what the President is going to do." Some time-makers have up to 6,000 different molds for var ious tire sizes and types. Government Larders Loaded With Whey After Price Propping Washington (U.R) The gov ernment, like Little Miss Muffet, has its hands full of whey. And it wonders why. No one dreamed just seven short months ago when they be came the government's newest venture in price propping that a whopping 41,000,000 pounds of the by-product of cheese making would end up in federal larders. 'Although the $2,500,000 tied up in whey is chickenfeed com pared with the close to $7,000, 000,000 tied up in all price sup port operations, it's considerably more than the "little or nothing" officials expected the program to cost them. Began With Milk Surplus It all started last spring when the government wanted to un load some of its mountainous stocks of dried milk at cut-rate prices for livestock feed. The whey people figured that was unfair competition since whey is fed to the animal population. So after much deliberation the department announced that any whey makers who were hurt by the dried milk program could sell whey to the government. They did. Now the department is plagued with unloading the whey as well as the dried milk. Sales Made at Loss So far it has been able to sell about 14,800,000 pounds of the piled up whey, but selling it for export at about half the price it paid for it. So far the sales have meant about a $518,000 loss. If the 20,000,000 remaining pounds are sold at the same rate, losses would total a cozy $1,428, 000. Meantime, the dried milk for livestock feed program went great guns. The department has un loaded about 580,000,000 pounds of the item that started the vi cious circle. The cut-rate priqe for which it sold it has meant about a $73, 000,000 loss. It still has, however, about 105,000,000 pounds of the dried milk piled up in storage. Now, the whey buying has ground to a halt along with the dried milk for feed program and the department is almost right back where it was last spring, minus a few million dollars. BOY SCOUTS Tzoop 1 Troop I members spent last week end in the sunshine at the Jim Miller ranch cabin at Dead Indian. Twenty-one Scouts parti cipated led by Scoutmaster Jim Baumer, assisted by George Davy. Miller furnished transpor tation and had a pickup truck standby for emergency use. Sev eral Scouts completed their sec ond class hike of five miles. : Arnold Depner, Scribe. The longest railway bridge of any kind in the world is the 12-mile Lucin Cutoff, a wooden pile structure carrying the Southern Pacific tracks over Great Salt Lake. in Vtab. . . , highway, rail or airolane com munication with many areas of Guatemala. During their nine years in power, the Communists did nothing to improve the sit uation because they were trying to sabotage the country. Now we must build and rapidly." Completion of the highway will make it possible for tour ists to drive from Alaska to Costa Rica as early as next year and eventually to Panama to reach the South American sec tion of the projected continental linking automobile artery. Other Road Work In addition to the main north- $14,000,000 needed to push south highway, Guatemala has through jungles and mountains, four other major road projects A highway to the almost-un-that will be rushed to comole- known northern territory of tion as part of Castillo Armas campaign to develop communi cations. The east-west Pacific High way, roughly paralleling the Pan American along the Pacific Coast, will be opened to traffic within two years at a total cost of $15,000,000. The transconti nental Atlantic Highway, from the Caribbean port of Barrios to Guatemala City, will take 1 three years to finish, with about Peten and cross-connecting link running across northern Guate mala to the Pan American High way are expected to open rich forest areas to development for the first time. . Work on country and feeder roads also will proceed, but at a' slower pace. Much of the funds for fi nancing Guatemala's extensive road program will come from loans by the i United States. United Starts Non-Stop Seattle-Chicago Flight Chicago (U.R) Civic leaders and press representatives from Washington, Oregon and Canada will preview United Air Lines, new non-stop flight service from : Regular DC-7 non-stop service between Seattle and Chicago will begin Jan. 9. Among those aboard the pre view flight today will be Mayor Fred L. Peterson, Portland. Mayor Arthur R. Meehan, Spok ane, and Mayor H. J. Toilefson, Tacoma. . Shop Hubbard Bros, for ON YOUR CHRISTMAS LIST! 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