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'n-MfM4k ML MiA mmp) GIVING GALS A LOOK at his bachelor, Is lone male to reach finals In national cooking contest at New York. From left: Mrs. C. L. Comstock, Millbrae, CaL; Mrs. Paul Scheffer, Port Island, Ore., and Mrs. Lillian Ballenger, Chapel Hill, N. C. There were 100 contestants. (International Soundphoto) Five-Legged Frog May Become Champion , Rochester, N. Y. (U.R) Thir: teen-year-old! Gerard Gerstner. tbe envy of his playmates, may Jiave a champion jumping frog. ' Young Gerard is the proud possessor of a frog that has five legs. The youth, a frog-hunting enthusiast, found Freddie when the latter was just a tadpole. - "People may. laugh at Freddie because he's got five legs," he said. "But just wait until he becomes the champion." . Gerard hopes . that ' Freddie, with the extra jump-off power afforded by the fifth leg, some day will beat the 9-foot, cham pionship leap made by- Gas House Gus in Sarasota, Fla, 1936. in boy scouts -m Pack 8 Pack 8 Cub Scouts will hold their monthly meeting at Jack son school, gym at , 7:30 o'clock tonight. A bob cat ceremony is scheduled and all parents "of Cubs are urged to attend. There will be games for both Cubs and their parents. . WRONG MAIL BOX Durango, Colo. (U.F9 Post master Schuyler Parker asked city officials Wednesday to move a new trash bin away from the Durango post office because peo- pie Keep mailing vurisimas cards in it. CHRISTMAS BELL Developed byTi&nCodKfA. of General Mills RECIPE FOR BELL AND TREE COOKIES Mix walfa Vi cop Snowdrift V cup sugar 1 gg .. 1 teaspoon vanilla Sift together, then stir irt 1 Vi cups sifted Gold Modal Flour teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon salt If you use Gold Medal Setf-RUing Flour, omit soda and salt. Yield: about 5 dozen cookies. , Save cup of white dough . to form bell clappers or tree trunks. Roll out rest of white . dough on waxed paper into ' a 10x5" rectangle large enough to cover colored , dough. Trim edges. . Wrap around colored dough. Chill, No other shortening at any price is so creaniy, so digestible and so light : SmidDrjdlrffftl; 100 PURE ALUVEGETABIE SHORTENING MADE BY THE WESSON Oil PEOPLE specialty, wild rice casserole, Andrew Wilson. St. Paul. Minn . Iron Curtain Mean Just What They Say Mogersdorf, Austria (U.R) A few hundred yards from this village there's a bend in the road where Communist Hungary touches Austria."- You can walk up to the Iron Curtain and act ually touch it. . .It's, peaceful looking' f2a2r2m country, , and as you approach the Curtain it looks at first like an ordinary , barbed wire farm fence. Then you see the black-arid-white signs: "Achtung, Drahtverhau, , Vermint" mean ing "Beware, Barbed Wire, Mined." The signs mean what they say. An Austrian woman and her two children -were blown to pieces near here by the pressure of one child's body against the fence. This , Soviet-occupied part of Austria is out of bounds to all non-Austrian westerners except diplomatic personnel and'accred- ited newsmen who have four power passes signed by the Rus sians. ' "Belt 'of Daaih". ' Armed with such a pass, you can approach in relative safety, but Austrian ' gendarmes warn you to take no pictures and not to linger; Here is what'the Iron Curtain looks' like from an arm's length: The barbed wire fence is a double 'one, two spiky barriers about five feet high strung on stout wooden posts. There is a AND TREE COOKIES Color 'a of dough' red or green. Mold this into .lMxlO" roll and.chilL.For. Bell Shape: squeeze top half together, leaving lower half flared and curving like bell. For Tree Shape, squeeze into triangle. Chill. . Slice dough with sharp knife , ys" thick. Place on un greased baking sheet, H" apart.-Press tiny balls of ' white dough to bottom of . bells to form clappers or to . trees to form trunks. Bake 8 to 10 minutes at 375. Fence Signs space of about five feet between the barriers, and beyond them a 20-foot-wide strip of grass and weeds. After that comes the "belt of death" which has killed and maimed countless refugees be fore they could reach the barbed wire. It is neatly plowed soil about 30 feet wide and it stretch es like a highway along hun dreds of miles of Hungarian frontier. Buried in this plowed belt lie the heaviest "concentration of Communist land mines. The Aus trian gendarmes say your chances of crossing the belt safe ly at Mogersdorf would be nil without a blueprint of the hid den minefield. Peaceful? Beyond the "belt of death" the Hungarian countryside ap pears serene. Farmers move across their fields in the dis tance, and smoke curls gently up from farm chimneys. Church spires in the town of St. Gott hard rise above faraway trees. But in ' the placid scenery there are more reminders that you are looking into one of Eu rope's most tightly controlled police states. Standing at that bend of the road, you see three Communist watchtowers within a mile. . They stand several, hundred yards back from the fence tall, rickety structures on legs, poor ly camouflaged with brush. You can see moving heads silhouet ted in the windows at the top. The Austrians say each tower is equipped with powerful lights as well as weapons, and that often at night the countryside turns suddenly white as the big elec tric beams sweep the fence in unison. ......... Driver.Voiuntarily Gives Up License - Salem, Ore. (U.R) A driver voluntarily turned in his driver's license to the secretary of state's office here after admitting he was wrong. He said he hit a log truck and got a ticket for failure to yield right of way. He wrote: "I always said that if I was to blame for an accident I would never drive another car, so I'm sending my, driver's license back. It's no good to me." "I'm 77, so it's time to quit." .. AMAZING MILK DISCOVERY! not Like c Not a powder only Carnation has - Mag 7 that t ! mm imiiMMiii i iJl ' fr'n iv f if I mm mhhhmk 1 -lJg w Further Cut Seen ' In Armed Forces Washington (U.R) The ad ministration plans a further cut in the size of the armed forces in line with its belief that the threat of an immediate' war has subsided. , Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson announced Wednesday night that ' military manpower will be reduced to ''something less" than the 3,047,000-man level he had decreed earlier for the new fiscal year beginning July 1. This reduction would be apart from any cut that might result if Congress adopts the President's proposed new plan ; for .greatly enlarging military reserve forces. Assistant Defense Secretary Carter L. Burgess' emphasized, however, that adoption of the Broadened reserve program "will not give us a chance, to do a lot of immediate cutting" in active military strength, ' Wilson said he could not give any "particular figure right now" on the extent of the new cut in active military forces. The services currently are undergo ing a reduction of 210,266 men which will be completed by June 30. Landslide Covers v Union Pacific Line The Dalles (U.R) A land slide during a blasting- operation covered about 100 yards of the Union Pacific's main line about 24 miles east of here yesterday. Heavy equipment was brought in to. clear the right-of-way where rock-had been piled 10 feet deep in places. - Union Pacific trains were re routed temporarily to the Wash ington side of the Columbia river onto Spokane, Partland and Se attle railroad tracks. ' The blasting was part of a project to relocate tracks in the area of The Dalles dam. It was the third such accident during the building of The Dalles dam. The mishap occurred one mile east of Biggs junction at a point where the Oregon Trail highway was blocked for several weeks in 1951. ' .. Co for Paddy Wagon Brings 29 Fire Fighters r, Milwaukee (U.R) When Patrolman Everett Lieske arrest ed two men here recently, he de cided they were top "drunk and disorderly" to leaved so he asked a passing soldier to pull the hook for the paddy wagon at the next corner. The obliging soldier pulled a hook the fire hook that is part of the same box and 29 firemen and two policemen answered the call in .three fire engines, two battalion, chief's cars and a po lice squad car. The soldier watched the proceedings quietly and then melted into the night. Process Makes. Safer , 7 Track for Railroads Champaign, Inn. flJ.R) ' The University of Illinois claims 90,000 track miles of railroad laid with tracks made safe by 'a university-invented process. The U. of I. claims credit for perfecting controlled cooling of the molded rails to prevent rail "cancer" or 'the breakup of rails started by minute1 "shatter cracks" under the rail surface. The controlled cooling process has been used since 1936, but railroads still, send rails with suspected failures to the Univer sity of Illinois for testing, so the cause may, be determined. any other! not a flake that burst Into delicious nonrat miiKi mm m DISSOLVES INSTANTLY - FRESH MILK FLAVOR READY TO DRINK DOES NOT CAKE Save Won Milk Bills Sausalito Opposes Parking Of Houseboats Sausalito, Calif. (U.R) If you must live on a houseboat, don't park it on the. city streets. So says Sausalito s city coun cil, and that's what all the fuss is about in this picturesque com munity that-is 20 minutes from downtown San Francisco but eems as far removed as Venice. And like Venice, Sausalito has a few watery streets. To be sure, they are not gondola-laden canals. But the law calls them streets, and they are made of nothing but water. Sausalito's officials are mighty tired of seeing houseboats park ed in the middle of them. Specifically, there are eight of these streets, created in .1870 when the state of California made a tidelands grant to Sau salito. The city has the option of filling this area which it doesn't choose to' do but "ac cess by the people to navigable water shall be kept clear." That is state law. Crossed br Arterial Four of these streets Mono, Turney, Pine and Johnson run vertically from . the waterfront to San Francisco bay. They are crossed by four arterials parallel ing the shoreline. Like any other streets, these aquatic thoroughfares divide' the area into a series of "blocks." It's okay with, the city if the arks moor -there just so a strong tide doesn't carry them out into the streets where they begin cluttering up the right-of-way. Down through the years the city has judiciously treated the watery streets just like their paved counterparts elsewhere in the town. When it was neces sary to post notices of some pro ceeding or assessment, city of ficials hopped in a boat, rowed down-the streets and sank posts into the muddy bottom 12 feet, below the surface of the streets. Thereon they posted the notices. Sausalito police have never purchased a seagoing squad car to patrol the salty beat, but City Suit Seeks $55,000 FromJacksonvilleMan , Coquille '. A man whose leg was injured in a shooting near Powers, Ore., last. July 22, has filed suit in Coos cdunty circuit court here asking $55,000 dam ages from Harold S. Bush, for merly of Medf ord and now of Jacksonville. Raymond Helton filed the suit and asks $30,000 general dam ages and $25,000 punitive dam ages. His complaint says his leg was permanently crippled by a bullet wound. Court records here show that Bush pleaded guilty last Oct. 19 to a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon, and was released on probation, with sen tencing delayed two years. Bush now operates a health center in Jacksonville. Premature Baby Born; -Marine Seeking Leave Marine Corps. Pfc. Frank D. Martin is applying through the Jackson county chapter of the Red Cross for emergency, leave from his new station at El Toro Marine base, Santa Ana, Calif., so that he can be with his wife, who gave premature birth to a daughter yesterday at . Osteo pathic hospital. The couple was en route from their home at Scobey, Mont., to the base and stayed in Medford Tuesday night at the Bear Creek motel. Mrs. Martin, early Wed nesday, was taken to the hospital where the child was born. The baby,' which was about . two months early, weighed 4 pounds and 3J4 ounces. Hospital reports indicate that the infant and Mrs. Martin are in satisfactory con dition. , . '.i : This Woman Confused On Her Geography Lake Placid, N. Y. (U.R) East is west and west is east in a letter that the Lake Placid Cham ber of Commerce just received. "I write to you for informa tion with reference to Sun Val ley, Idaho," a woman wrote. "I understand that this is up in the Adirondack Mountains." j, TURNS AWAY With 1 don't care to look at them," Dr. Samuel Sheppard turns bis head away as Chief Pros ecutor John J. Mahon offers a photograph of murdered Marilyn Sheppard on. her deathbed for him to see. (Courtroom sketch by NEA Artist Ed Kudlaty Thursday, Deceiver 11-1354 Attorney John : Ehlen says it may be necessary, in the future. The houseboat . battle started several years ago when one Don lcn J. Arques decided adverse possession or "squatters rights" entitled him to stay put street or no. - . Ehlen went to bat for the city and dug up the musty statute holding that access to navigable water must be -kept clear. A "superior court judge ruled that the city had title to the under water streets and it was a mis demeanor worth $500 and 30 days in jail to trespass on said streets. Decision Upheld v . " California appellate courts re- centlv unheld th ripri.cinn and the city council thought it had the guns to evict the 20 to 30 arks and their 100 inhabitants. The ark dwellers were given notice to shift ship into some designated city block or put out in quest of a less restricted resi dential area. The quaint armada manned chiefly by artists stoutly refused to sail so the city brought legal action: - It sued Mrs Hjoris Hadges, skipper of the good- ship Mayo on Litho Street. Mrs. Hadges irately countered that she is no &73trr- Morrell's Palac Fr$h . r i Sliced Bacon lb. 59c Ground Beef lbj10Q ! W Carry Only Th ORDER YOUR D & LI Turkey Now Best Hams FINEST QUALITY IUTIFISK STOCK FISH GOOD, TENDER AND JUICY ROUND OR SIRLOIN HEINZ . PENNANT KETCHUP 19c C1IIIGE MEAT 43c 14 oz. BoHle . 26 oz. 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