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FOURTEEN MEDF0RD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Mailmen Hail Decision To End 'Junk' Mail Test Washington (U.R) The na tion's mailmen today hailed a government decision to lighten the load on their backs by end ing the "junk mail" experiment. "The. greatest news we've re ceived in 1954," said William C. Doherty, president of the Na tional Association of Letter Carriers. "A wonderful thing," said a representative mailman, Pat Ax tell, who walks a route in Beth esda, Md. Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield called a halt yes terday to the 15-month experi ment of letting circulars and other advertising matter be mailed in cities without carry ing a specific address. Deliveries of such mail will stop March 31. Doherty's union had protest ed that the volume of "junk mail" increased greatly when it was no longer necessary to put an address on it but merely mark it to "householder" or "pa tron." He said the heavier load was making "pack mules" of the carriers. The Post Office inaugurated the experiment in cities ajid vil lages in August, 1953, in an effort to cut its huge losses on bulk third class mail by saving time it takes to sort such mail when it bears addresses. Copco Contract Delay Sought by Commission Yreka - A resolution asking a delay in the renewal of a con tract between the California Oregon Power company and the Department of the Interior, governing use of the waters of Upper Klamath lake, recently was passed by the California Klamath River -commission, ac cording to William G. Haglstein, president. The present contract, signed in 1917, runs to 1967. Copco re cently requested a renewal of the present contract. . The commission's reqaest for delay was to permit o the ; inter ested groups and agencies to put forth their views on the inter grated use of Klamath water, Haglstein said. The commisison was set up to consider problems, and to. foster development,- of the Klamath basin. Oregon has a similar com mission, and the two occasional ly met together. Around Hollywood Hollywood (U.R) J The most fabulous New Year's Eve party in Hollywood used to be tossed by producer Sam Spiegel at his beautiful Beverly Hills mansion. By 4:30 a. m. more than 1500 guests from diplomats flown from Washington to movie stars and millionaires Aline Mosbjr would sip champagne. And it took the Beverly Hills garbage department a week to haul away the empty bottles. I remember the beatiful Mrs. Spiegel, glitter ing in jewels and satin, enter taining such celebrities as Errol . Flynn, Rita Hayworth and Tony Martin. Tonight the hostess is spend ing a different type of New Year's Eve. Mrs. Speigel, the former Lynn Baggett, will ring in 1955 from behind bars 'in the county jail. She is serving a 60-day term for a hit-and-run accident which re sulted in the death of a nine-year-old boy. Wearing Denim Uniform This time when I visited Lynn she was wearing a blue denim uniform and maroon sweater in stead of satin and diamonds. But, sitting on the - other side of ! the visitors' barricade, the actress still looked' poised and beautiful. "No, I won't miss my New Year's Eve party," the brown eyed blonde said. "It meant too much work for me. Sam would be out front, entertaining, but I was' always in the background, worrying about balloons and confetti. Or in the cloakroom with women crying on my shoulder. ."Wives, always cry on New 1 As a Public Service . Hudson's Pharmacy WILL BE - OPEN NEW YEAR'S DAY 1 1 A.M. to 9 P.M. The Store Where Ifs Easy To Park and Easy To Shop! Hudson's Pharmacy Open Weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 10 pjn. ' Sundays 10 ajn. to 9 p.m. . 613 E. MAIN - JUST OVER THE BRIDGE PHONE 3-5345 As We Live Privilege of Proposing Man's Exclusive Right When a .girl is very much in love with a young man who does not ask her to marry him, even after they have been going steady' for a long time, should she suggest to him that they be come engaged? A young girl writes: (Q) "I have been going steady with a boy in my class in high school since our soph-, omoie year. We are both sen iors now, and I would like to become engaged. He has never mentioned marriage to me. We may have discussed it a little, but he never said right out that I was going tc be his wife some day. I knoi I am not the one to bring up the subject. You may think I am loo young. But shouldn't I know what I want after dating this boy and going steady with him for- so long? He has never told me what he plans to do when he grad uates. He has said when he expects to work and other things but nothing about when he intends to marry. Please give me your advice." , (A) Under no conditions should you be the one to bring up the subject of marriage. That is a man s pre rogative and should never be usurped by a girl. Even if you have to wait until Doomsday for him to ask you, you should do so. Have you Dr. Hurlock ever stopped to consider that a boy who is not yet finished with his educa tion is in no position to consider marriage except in an abstract way? How" could he possibly Audrey Hepburn Happy, Wants Baby Some Day London 4U.R) Actress Aud rey Hepburn said last night she would like to have a baby some day. "If and when one comes," she eaiH ."it will be the greatest thing in my life greater even than my success. Every woman knows what a baby means." Her husband, actor Mel Fer rer, told reporters that "what attracted me was the simple enthusiasm and unspoiled out look she kept even after reach ing the stars." , "I've made a fine marriage," Miss Hepburn said. "Three months have gone by and I nave no regrets. What more can a girl ask?" By ALINE MOSBY United Press Correspondent Year's. Eve, you" know," she added with a smile. While inmates marched through the huge prison dining room on their way to lunch, the former hostess spoke of her party with its six bartenders, or chestra, bouncer to check invita tions and detectives to watch the jewels. "We had to move out of the house for three days while the servants aired out the smell," she sighed. Regular Jail Dinner This New Year's Eve Lynn and 250 other inmates at the women's jail on Terminal Island will have their regular dinner. "I doubt if we'll stay up late because we'll have to get up just as early the next morning 5:30," she said. New Year's Day the' actress will scrub her dormitory floor and spend the day in the sewing room, patching convicts' uni forms. The inmates staged a show on Christmas but Lynn was just in the audience. "I received nice Christmas cards from the Bogarts, director -Jean Negulesco and many people I did not know who were very understanding," she said. She has never heard from her estranged husband. "I still don't feel I belong here, but in a way the judge did me a favor. "This is the end of a cycle of bad luck for me. The past three years I have been filled with anxiety because ' of my marital problems. When I get out I will divorce Sam, try to re establish my personal life and try to work again. I've been in another jail of sorts the past three years. "No, I don't miss my New Year's Eve party. Being here is a change." Friday, December 31, 1934 By ELIZABETH HURLOCK, PH.D. support a wife now unless he were one of the very few who had an inherited income? At the moment his first prob lenf is to decide what he wants to do in the business world when he graduates from school. Then he must see if he can get a job to his liking, if he can make good in it, and if he likes it well enough to stay in it. After that he must accumu late enough money to support a wife before he can ask you or anyone else to marry him. You must count on two or three years after graduation before he will be ready to ask you. In the meantime, he may ask you to "wait" for him, but I doubt if he will want to be formally en gaged. (Copyright 1954, General Features Corp.) Thorfon Favors Employee Probe Salem U.R) Oregon Attor ney General Robert Y. Thornton, said yesterday that a grand jury investigation is in order into the "entire subject" of the alleged acceptance of gratuities by em ployees of the state liquor con trol commission. Thornton also criticized - the commission for what he said amounted to a "refusal" to turn over documents needed by the attorney general's office for its own investigation of commission personnel. He referred specifi cally to a report by two Port land attorneys hired, by Gov. Paul Patterson to investigate admitted acceptance of gratui ties by the commission's assist ant administrator and its super visor of stores and agencies. Thornton said "my own brief investigation already indicates that a substantial number of gifts and gratuities, ranging from stadium blankets and portable radio sets to bottles and even cases of gift whiskey, have been received from distillery representatives by commission personnel over an extended pe riod in direct violation of the law. I feel that the entire sub ject should be investigated by the Multnomah county grand Jury'" -. - - Morgan Announces Demo Committee Portland U.R) Oregon Dem ocratic Chairman-Howard Mor gan today announced final ap pointments to a legislative steer ing committee charged with se curing the passage of Democrat ic proposals in the 1955 state legislature. Morgan said the party does not "propose to overburden the committee but it does want an organization within the legisla ture which can screen, criticize and perfect the few proposals which the party may wish to present to the legislature." Democrats will enjoy their greatest strength in the legisla ture in nearly 20 years during the coming session. They will have 25 members in the 60 member house and six members in the1 30-member senate. Morgan's committee will , be composed of five legislators and three Democratic county chair men. Sen. Robert Holmes of Gearhart will be chairman. Other members are Sen. Mon roe Sweetland, Milwaukie; Rep. Alfred Corbett,' Portland, Rep. Robert R. Kemsen, St. Helens; Rep. Robert J. Seward, Keating; Oscar Kendall, Corvallis; John Horn, Salem, and Cliff Driscoll, Grants Pass. PAYS FOE'S FINE Detroit Lakes, Minn. (U.R) Harrison Brown and August Tommerdahl were brought into court Thursday on charges of fighting. When Brown said he couldn't pay the $5 fine, Tom merdahl paid both fines so they would be able to celebrate New Year's Day properly. FOR - 1955 To all our wonderful friends and patrons . . . we wish a happy and prosperous New Year, filled with the bless ings of ; warmth and good cheer. Happy New Year everyone! OREGON NEVADA CALIFORNIA 1 FAST FREIGHT, Inc. Medford, Oregon PLACING CROWN ON HEAD, Elmer M. Wilson, Tournament of Roses Association president, formally starts reign of Marilyn Smuin, 19, as 1955 queen at Pasadena's coronation pageant. Ladies in waiting, from left: Joanne Martin, Sheila Breault, Rosanne Boyd, Susan Quarness, Joan Gentry and Pat Scott. Crown contained 1,300 glittering jewels. (International Soundphoto A Nichol's Worth of . . . Comment On By HARMAN United Pratt Washington (U.R) The elevator girls at the Department of Agriculture did as. well as Sec retary Ezra T.' Ben son.. Three boxes of fancy assorted cheeses came in as Christ mas gifts. The' man f r o m Utah got one box. The ele vator opera tors ; got the Haxman Nichol . , . other two. Inspector Archie M. Winf ree, who heads the Metropolitan Po lice Academy here, has a word or two to say to Christian A. Volk, a Danish-born doctor. Somehow the doctor's comments about drunks got into a Mary land State Police highway safety bulletin. The good doctor al- We've seen some high peaks of interest in our new cars over the years -but never anything like this. Since the day we unveiled these glamorous new Buicks, people have been coming in not only to see and study and sit in these great cars- ' but, very definitely, to drive them. 'They want, it seems, a firsthand taste of the thrills that Buick engi neers have conjured up for this new year. And who can blame them? For the word's around that Buick has what no other car in the world' has-ra new kind of performance from a new kind of transmission. It's called Variable Pitch Dynaflow , Drive. It uses the principle of the ' MM BETTER AUTOMORJUS ARE iutlT BUICK WU BUU MB- . DRIVE FROM FACTORY SAVE UP TO $00 See Your BUICK Dealer " m " 2 This and That W. NICHOLS FhiN Writor leged that tipplers are like babies. They list toward the east, following the direction in which the Earth turns. Winf ree would have the good doctor know that, drunks, par ticularly around his precincts in Washington, don't know which way they are . turning or the Earth either for that matter. "AH the local topers know is that the Earth is turning awful fast," the police academy man said. "And that it's one heck of a job hanging in." ; Sen. Karl R. Mundt, the Re publican from South . Dakota who was temporary chairman of the last Joe McCarthy hear ings, started his Christmas card greetings off with "A point of order, please . . ." And then, of course added a Merry Christ mas, and "A point of privilege." It was signed "Karl and Mary New Year's lxn' umn SEEING THE SIGHTS Allegan, Mich. U.R)--Several wild turkeys imported from Pennsylvania turned out not to be so wild after all. Four of them found their way into the heart of Allegan from a nearby game refuge. Mundt." The kids at Fort Benning, Ga., according to the Army, are still giggling over the chewing out Sgt. Silas Savell got. , , Savell showed up wearing an off -color tie. His shire tail was showing. His jacket was unbut toned and his pants were rolled up and his cap was cocked at a rackish angle on the back of his pate. AH very un-military. The lacing was kept up until Savell explained that he looked the way he did because, he had been chosen to be a model in a class on "how not to look in uniform." When he showed up for a drill on the double there were not even enough moments leit even to roll down his pant legs. - , resolution that pays off in thritte .v )77f)(d7 ttCS) omen modern airplane's variable pitch propeller. And it does m oil what that aeronautical marvel does in air. At one pitch of the blades inside the Dynaflow unit, you get more fuel efficiency in normal cruising and driving which means better gas mileage, pure and simple. But push the gas pedal beyond the full throttle position and you switch the pitch. Instantly, you get electrify ing response a sudden safety-surge of accelerating power to get you quickly out of a tight spot-and with SB? 143 SOUTH RIVERSIDE Knowles Sentenced Five Years for Theft Sacramento, Calif. (U.R) Harry C. Knowles under life sentence in Oregon for second degree murder, will serve a five year term for auto theft first. Federal Judge Sherrill Halbert sentenced Knowles yesterday"; Knowles will be turned over to Oregon authorities after he com pletes the five-year term. Knowles admitted killing Al bert Stuart of Wickenberg, Ariz. The admission came after he had beei arrested on a stolen car charge. He ; was sentenced to a life term in prison in Wasco county this week. British House Turning Into Epsom Salts London (U.R) - Sulphur fumes emanating from potteries across the Thames river slowly are turning Britain's House of Parliament into Epsom salts, Sir Frank Whittle said Thursday. Sir Frank, pioneer jet engine designer whose hobby is geo logy, said the sulphur reacts on the dolomite stone of Parliament to form magnesium sulphate, better knowns as Epsom salts. 3 DMttEHDft Why not let us assist you in placing your savings in First Mortgages or Contracts (at no expense to you) with ample security and ; net you . . . , 6 TO 10 MORTGAGE DISCOUNT COMPANY 230 WEST MAIN W3 the absolute smoothness that is con stant in Dynaflow Drive. Maybe you, too, have made a mental resolution to drive a '55 Buick but why wait? We're ready, willing and eager to let you try one feel the spectacular new power that gives life to this bounteous beauty and see for yourself that here is a performance-thrill too exciting to miss. Drop in on us thi3 week, won't you? Standari on Roadmaster, optiond 4 tan toe oh othr Series. ' . - J - 1 Jr . . PHONE 2 Oregon Wheat Loans Higher Portland (U.R) Loans un der the government's price sup port program were eight per cent larger on Oregon's 1954 wheat crop than a year ago,' while .Washington crop, loans were up 26 per cent, the U. S. Department of Agriculture re ported today. ; Some 55 per cent of Oregon's 25,023,000 bushel crop is cov ered by loans, compared with 47 per cent of the 23,000,298 crop in 1953. On December 15, the USDA's stabilization, and1, conservation service said 13,609,009 bushels of Oregon wheat war e under loan or covered by purchase agreements. Formers had repaid loans on 21,661 bushels, leaving 13,677,605 bushels v outstanding under the support program. In Washington, 57 per cent of the 72,444,000 bushel 1954 wheat crop was under loan, com pared with 54V per cent of the 84,150,000 bushel crop a year ago.; .- . - t- Some 41,476,050 bushels on the 1954 Washington crop were outstanding under loan and pur chase agreements on Dec. 15. - 6265
