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Miss Ann Mertwetfaer, the "Miss America of 1955" Is an enthusiast
for the U. S. Savings Bonds program. The regular purchase of Savings
Stamps and Bonds daring school years provided the money necessary
for her college education. And first on her list of Christmas presents
is a C. S. Savings Bond. As "Miss America" she snggests to every
one: "This Christmas, give Savings Bonds. They keep growing
through the years and promise a brighter tomorrow. Ours is a price
less heritage, one which was built upon thrift and the privilege of shar
ing security with those we love. Share this security by giving them
the best present of all a V. S. Savings Bond. And enclose it in
Treasury Christmas gift folder available at your bank.!'
Founder of Hooper Rating System Killed
Salt Lake City (U.R) C. E.
Hooper, 56, originator of the
widely used Hooper ratings in
radio and television, was killed
here yesterday when he fell
against the propeller of a boat
in Great Salt Lake.
Hooper, of Norwalk, Conn.,
came here .two days ago on a
business trip. He was hunting
ducks with two companions
when the accident occurred.
They reported Jie fell against
the propeller while attempting
to push the boat from a shallow,
area into deeper water,
Hooper still was alive when
his companions, FranK mc-
Clatchey, sales manager for a
Utah Radio Service Corporation,
and Dr. Harry R. Nordberg, Salt
Lake City dentist, rushed him
to a hospital. He died shortly
after arrival. - :
Hooper founded and was pres
ident of C. E. Hooper Surveys,
Inc.
The duration of a simple cold
is about five days.
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(M What Amnieiricaini ..Seventh Fleet WM Bo
Taipeh, Formosa U.R) The big
Communist Chinese have been
working at it for four months
but they have yet to solve the
riddie of what the American
Seventh Fleet will do if the
Reds attack Nationalist islands
off the China coast. -
The Communists and the U. S.
Navy just keep playing a deadly
game of cat and mouse.
There is no question but that
the fleet will protect Formosa
itself and the Pescadores.- That
was made clear in the recent
Sino - American mutual defense
pact. Military men believe the
Reds would have tried to in
vade the Chiang Kai-shek bas
tion long ago if the Seventh
Fleet had not been there.
-The cat and mouse game is
taking place among the hun
dreds of little islands off. the
China coast, some of them stra
tegically important such as Que
moy, Tachen, Matsu and White
Dog.
Official American policy is to
say nothing of what the Seventh
Fleet will do in case of invasion
of one of those islands. And if
Chiang's military commanders
themselves know, they are keep
ing it quiet. ,
Prowling Fleet
The only thing the Commu
nists know for sure is that the
warships are prowling out
there somewhere in the For
mosa straits with enough power
to make nightmares for any com
mander planning an amphibious
operation.
The Reds, apparently frustrat
ed by the American pokerface,
have tried during recent months
to make our Navy show its hand.
First, in September, they be
gan artillery bombardment of
little Quemoy Island, four miles
off the Red Chinese - port of
Amoy. The Americans did noth
ing but Chiang's own small but
RR Blood Drive
Assisted by Many
Rogue River This communi
ty went "all out" Tuesday for
the first visit of the Red Cross
bloodmobile, when 103 pints of
blood were collected.
A house-to-house canvass on
every street and nearby road
was conducted beforehand by
a crew of volunteer women, and
signs were posted on every
street into town, pointing the
way to the bloodmobile station.
The signs were made by fourth
and fifth graders in the Rogue
River school.
Tables at the blood collection
center were decorated in a
Christmas theme. Coffee, dough
nuts and fruit juice was donated
by the Rogue River Booster club.
Mrs. W. C. Zieser was chair
man of the committee which ar
ranged the event, with Mrs. H.
Stephens in charge of recruit
ing; Mrs. William White, can
teen; Mrs. John Dixon, staff
aides; Mrs. Cedric Rambb, nurses
and Mrs. Ed Burkett, hostesses.
Boy Scouts served as helpers
and messengers, and Girl Scouts
baby-sat during the event.
crack air force roared out of (land, a tiny speck in the Straits
Formosa and counter-attacked
with.- surprising sting.
Stymied at Quemoy, the Reds
turned their attention to the
north and brought the Tachen
Island - chain under pressure.
They shelled the Nationalist
islands, made invasion feints and
sent bombers over.
Still ' not a " quiver from the
Seventh Fleet.
Then they gathered together
a hundred or so junks, accord
ing to official Nationalist claims,
and circled around Wuchiu Is-
A NichoVs Worth of . . .
Comment On This and That
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
United Press Feature Writer
interest you to know that there
are twice as many left-handed
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Festival's Season
Rate Expires Soon
Ashland William Patton, gen
eral mana'ser for the Oresron
Shakespeare festival, reminded
patrons today that the special
membership rate of $12 for sea
son tickets would be in effect
only until December 24.
After Christmas, season tick-
ets for the world famous festival
will be $15, Patton said.
Patton said that the special
price offer and the growing idea
of giving festival subscriptions
as Christmas gifts had led to the
best early subscription sale in
the event's history this year.
Season's subscriptions ' to be
ued as gifts come with a special
greeting card showing an ar
tist's rendering of the festival
stage and carrying the line
"Season's Greetings." An addi
tional 25 cents is charged for
handling gifts subscriptions.
Extra Fare Eliminated
From Crack SP Train
San Francisco The "City of
San Francisco," Southern Paci
fic's crack streamliner to Chica
go, will be operated without
extra fare starting Jan. ' 9, the
SP has announced. '
-Elimination of the extra fare
will not curtail the train's serv
ice, the announcement said, and
it will continue to run on the
fastest San Francisco-Chicago
schedule, almost seven hours
faster than other trains.
little boys as
there are left
handed little
girls.
That is ac
cording to Miss
Jerlyn Madi
son, a hand
writing expert,
who has been
run n i n g
around -the
Harman Nichols country and
.writing letters
to 'school teachers looking into
the question of who is portsided
and who isn't.
Jerlyn, who works for a pen
company, learned what every
body else knew before the pen
people spent all that money on
research nobody knows what
makes a person left-handed!
Great Painters
"But," she added, "if you
have a left-handed child you
have nothing to worry about.
Point the kids up to a hero.
Leonardo da Vinci and Michel
angelo, two , of the greatest
painters of all times, were left
handed. And how about Babe
Ruth and Robert Moses (Lefty)
Grove." - V
But, Miss Madison said, a left-
handed child does have a mild
problem ... he lives in a world
where an awful lot of things
are designed with only right
handers in mind.
In the old day, school masters
even gave a lefty tihe ruler-cure
over ' the knuckled. Thejr don't
do that any more.
Now if a kid writes with his
left hand, they let him. And
the pen people are trying to
help. Out comes now a left
handed fountain pen. The point
is slanted the other way for the
southpaw who writes straight
Washington (U.R) It may 1 up and down. There is another
complicated point ior tnose wno
practically stand on their heads
when they sign their names.
Shorthand Problem
Some children when they get
to high school have trouble with
shorthand if they are left-handed.
Some seem to get along fine.
One of the old-time stenogra
phers in Congress, who refused
to learn how to use the . newr
fangled mechanical stenotype
machines, still uses a dip pen
and does right good at it with
his left-hand shorthand. '
If your young'un' is left-handed.
Miss Madison has a few
little suggestions. -
"He has to learn an entirely
different techniquie," she told
me. "When he is very . young
leave him alone. If he picks up
his spoon with the left hand, it's
all right. But give him all the
help you can."
And when he goes to school
talk with the teacher and let
her know his problem."
"There is no reason why he
can't live a fine normal life,"
she said.
After all, as my pen pal points
out: . -
"Maybe he will grew up to be
President. President Garfield
was a lefty."
of Formosa so small it does not
show on most mapsr . .
Guns Loaded But Silent
Through it all, the Seventh
Fleet, probably the most power
ful gathering of naval - might
in the world today, . kept its
guns loaded but silent. Planes
from carriers -patrolled the
coastline for any signs of really
big Communist preparationsand
destroyers ran their regular pa
trol missions. - ,
The riddle has two sides, of j
course. ; '
Military observers in Formosa
must ponder whether the Reds'
will face up to the possibility
of active American intervention
with all its far reaching im
plications and risk an amphibi
ous assault on one of the .tiny
islands.
The Communists have given
no sign of calling off their
pledge to ."liberate" Formosa.
The way there lies through
those little " islands and, up to
now, the Communists have made
no headway. Military observers
believe the Seventh Fleet, mo
bile, powerful and mysterious,
is largely responsible.
Mystic Revelers Society
Plans New Year's Party
Mempnis,' Tenn. (U.R) Some
500 persons have received invi
tations to a masquerade "ball on
New Year's Eve.
Invitations were signed "Se
cret Society of the Mystic Rev
elers." A post office box num
ber was given for replies. Those
invited said they probably
wouldn't know who their host is
until the unmasking. , ,'
Santa Claus Refused
Ride in Helicopter
, ' Fort Devens,. Mass. (U.R)
City officials of Ayer, Mass,
asked the Army if it would bring
Santa Claus to a children's party
in a helicopter.
. The Army refused on grounds
Santa Claus is a civilian and
Army regulations provide that
only servicemen may be '.trans
ported in Army helicopters.
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Tugman Resigns
From Eugene Paper
Eugene (U.R) William M.
Tugman has resigned as editor
of the Eugene Register-Guard
after an association of 27 years
with the newspaper in order
to publish the weekly Port Ump
qua Courier at Reedsport, Ore.,
it was announced today.
Alton F. Baker, president and
published of the Guard Publish
ing Company and Tugman an
nounced the resignation jointly.
They said the announcement
was timed so that it could ap
pear simultaneously in the Eu
gene and Reedsport newspapers.
Tugman's first edition was to be
published today. .
Tugman said he purchased the
Courier outright last Friday.
The paper was purchased from
John G. Weiss and Harold A.
Pruitt for an undisclosed sum.
Pickpockets Pick
Wrong Place To Hide
Chicago (U.R) Three sus-
peciea picKpocKeis sought re
fuge m a men's rest room at a
subway station when they were
ioiiowed by two policewomen,
. One policewoman stood guard
outside the door while the other
telephoned for help. Two male
officers responded to the call
and arrested the suspects.
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Signature of Dogs
Forged by Husband
Chicago U.R) Mrs. Georgia
Miller, 34, believes her husband
should be cited for contempt of
court because he forged the sig
nature of their two dogs.
Mrs. Miller complained Tues
day her husband sent her notes
signed by "Skippy and Teddy,"
their ' two dogs, after he had
been enjoined from molesting or
communicating .with her.
She is seeking a divorce.
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Butte Falls District
Ranger Announced
Brittain H. Ash this week will
take over his new duties as dist
rict ranger at Butte Falls, it was
announced today by the Rogue
River National forest head
quarters.
Ash succeeds Robert M. Bee
man, who last month was as
signed to Wenatchee forest in
Washington as fire control of
ficer.
Ash is a forestry graduate of
Oregon State college, and began
his forest career in 1941 as jun
ior forester on Mt. Hood Na
tional forest. After work on sev
eral forests, he was promoted in
1946 to district ranger at Mc-
Kenzie Bridge in the Willamette
National forest, and comes to
the Rogue forest from there..
Mr. and Mrs. Ash are the par
ents of two boys, Donald, 10,
and Terry, 8. . . ,
Eisenhower Mails
Christmas Cards
Washington U.R) President
and Mrs. Eisenhower's Christ
mas cards, were in the mail to
day. The cards are white. On the
first . shee the presidential seal
is executed in color . and the
words "season's greetings" em
bossed in gold. '
The message on the inside of
the cards reads "The President
and Mrs. Eisenhower extend
theirbest wishes for Christmas
and the New Year.".
The White House also said
Mr. . Eisenhower will speak to
morrow for about six minutes at
the capital's . annual yuletide
pageant tree lighting ceremony
just south of the White House
grounds.
Children Drown in
Pool at Canyonville
Roseburg U.R) Two small
children, a brother and a sister,
drowned last night at Canyon
ville about " 30 miles south of
here, Douglas County Coroner
L. Jim Powers reported.
The victims were identified
as Thomas Paul Acosta, 4, and
his sister, Christine, 3. They
were the children of Mr. and
Mrs. Paul G. Acosta of Canyon
ville. Powers said the children were
playing near a pond when they
apparently slipped and fell in.
They were pulled from the water
and the fire deartment " worked
over ' young i Thomas for more
than an hour in a futile effort
to revive him. The little girl
was taken to a hospital and died
later last night, apparently from
the effects of the water. Powers
said. . '
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