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SIX MEDOFRD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, January 13, 1953 An Open Letter To Mrs. Jones "SUNNY JIM" CREAMY Peanut Butter CAMPBELL'S TOMATO Slip ' y nrW Ml f 12h)Z. ) SNO FUN FOR THE QUEEN Earl Purdy of Dodge Ridge.l Cahf., presents bouquet (left) to Darlene Cowden, 21, after he crowned her Miss Snow Fun. At right Darlene, who is ' a member of the Palo Alto Ski Club, thaws out. Seven lovely contestants paraded in bathing suits in a snow storm while the temperature read an uncomfortable 27 ' degrees. Hundreds of skiers, bundled in parkas and furs, .watched the novel contest A Nichol's Worth of ... Comment On This and That S By HARMAN United Press o Washington fU.R) A de fective for the Bureau of Cus toms has to have the usual six senses, plus a lot of horse sense on the side. "We catch a lot of profes sional crooks" said George Coffelt, infor mation officer of the Bureau of Customs limi l Z Harmon Nichols ere. nwi 'what we look for mostly. , He admitted that an honest looking tourist may sometimes slip through if he's the gambler-type who's willing to risk his reputation and a heavy fine to escape an import duty. . A traveler may be bringing . back an extra fifth of cognac or champagne, above the one gal lon of beverage he is allowed duty free. The customs men may loqk into only one bag, if vnn haup an hnnpst pve. If the " extra bottle is not in that bag, the tourist has managed to Ccheat Uncle Sam out. of a few cents. If it is in the bag well, Jie's been caught smuggling, valued Possessions When I went through customs safter a trip to Paris, the man asked what was in this and that bag, and I told Jiim. He asked; me to open only my duffle which contained only dirty 'underwear and some carbon paper. Maybe I could have sneaked in a trink et or two. But how did I know which bag he would ask me to open? I'm glad I didn't try any pettyjarceny. 1UU CllCACIJ.X.X OIC OilUHtu only $500 worth of goods per person duty-free when return ing from a foreign country. Pres ident Eisenhower asked Cong ress this week to raise that to mnn : During the last year, there were more than $17,000 inves tigations, both civil and crimin al. There were 615 arrests and 388 convictions. There were about 1000 seizures of goods worth over $15,000,000. Fines of . over Sl.300,000 were levied. Coffelt opened his files. One party was caught with the in nards of $10,000 worth of Swiss watch movements concealed in the false bottom of a box con taining X-ray equipment. This fellow was caught, fined and jailed. "Ordinarilv." Coffelt said. W. NICHOLS Feature Writer "when a crook is coming in we are tipped off in advance by our agents overseas. . It's a simple matter to greet him when he docks." Many Tricks People will try anything to get away with cheating.-Women tie things like drugs and jewels under their girdlesi Or they hold diamonds under their tongues. (These are dumb and , g e t caught when they are asked questions). . A lot of big folks travel with heavy loads. If they- are- legiti mate, the customs people see that the stuff is inspected ahead of time. Their gear is looked into and sealed under government bond to speed up operations. Back in the early 30s when the late MGM movie director W. S. Van Dyke was about to leave for Africa to film "Trader Horn," he had gathered tons of equipment" for a seven-months journey into the Dark Contin ent. Since most of the equipment was to be returned to this coun try, the customs people check ed it out in advance and put it under bond to ease their burden when it was returned. Sometimes folks get caught for not. knowing what they can bring back and what they can't. Everything brought back must be declared. One passenger- re cently thought he was smuggling a bunch of saffron (yellow color ing) into the country. He ,had gone to a lot of trouble to "con ceal it. . He caught himself a " penalty for concealing ' things. Plain truth was, it could have come in duty free. , Salem Thread Mill Will Move Factory Salem (U.R) The Miles linen thread1 company here has an nolncediit. is liquidaingits opera tion and moving equipment to other factories. - '. David L. Malcolm Jr.,"' vice president, said equipment would be transferred to plants at Chi cago, Baltimore and Paterson, N.J. The company employed about 50 persons. The spinning mill was the sec ond in Salem to close in recent months. - Salem U.R) Gov. Paul L. Patterson said he has reappoint ed Robert T. Mautz of Portland as a member .of the State Racing Commission. YOUR FOOD BUDGEL-with PORTER'S FRIL-LETS! . rtavw we e e fjjMejjjjjj sjjjj- - COOKING TIMI ' ' AISO TRY Spaghetti. Solod.n.,-Macaroni, Sea Shell Kurle-Q-Noodle end letagne. 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