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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.
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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,
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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." ..
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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.
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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
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more guilty . of over-parking
than the yacht harbor, .which
also is esconced on city streets;
but is not .faced wifn eviction.
Meanwhile, Ehlen has asked
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into the problem. He says , the .
whole thing smells so much he's
wondering if it might not also
be a bit unsanitary. , .. ,
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