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Medford Tribune Pages 1-6 MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1955 Second Section San Francisco Offering 20 Cable Cars For Safe at Forthcoming Public Auction San Francisco (U.PJ Just Powell Street line that straddles Nob Hill is using the 19th cen tury models, while the surplus cars come down the defunct Jones-Hyde-O'Farrell line." This line lost all its cars in the fire and earthquake of 1906. It had to be rebuilt following the disaster, and the offering of surplus cars are these post-1906 models. . V" v" "'V ' ' what we always wanted a San Francisco cable car for our very own! Whether you react this way to cable cars or not, certainly you must know someone who does. Tell him right away he can now buy one for . keeps straight off a San Francisco hill side. As casually as the Army casts off old sleeping bags and oil drums, San Francisco is selling 20 cable cars as surplus proper ty. They will go to the highest bidders. Think of the possibilities an outdoor bar or barbecue pit in cable car decor, or an indestruc tible toy for the youngsters. The price? Well, Public Utili ties Manager James H. Turner had figured $300 would be a pretty saf a bid but now he's not so sure. Interest in the auction has been mounting. His office is getting lots of mail and phone calls from would-be buyers. In Use Since 1870s San Franciscans and visitors have been admiring the "dink kies" ever since they began their --hill climbing in the 1870s. They don't fit into the traffic pattern too well any more, but there was a public furore recently when it was suggested they be abandoned. The cable cars are not being abandoned but the service has been curtailed. The city owns about 60 of the steel and wood cars, some dating back to the 1880s, and only 30 are in use. Ten are going to be kept in re serve and the. other 20 sold. Sealed bids are being accepted now for the first group of 10 to go on the b'lock. At a future date still unannounced the bids will be opened and the 10 high est bidders will be the owners of surplus dinkies, F.O.B., the car barn. Los Angeles Buys One In a special transaction, the City of Los Angeles already has made off with one surplus car. Los Angeles bought one for $300 to. display in Griffith Park and to cart around for publicity pur poses. This car . did not .'come from the 20 being auctioned, however. . t ' Potential bidders are being advised the surplus cars actually are the newest in the flje The, GRANTING EXCLUSIVE interview to William Randolph Hearst, Jr. and aides, Svetlana Stalin, only' daughter of late Soviet die- tator is photographed with her son and daughter in a mod : est Moscow apartment. ; (World Copyright International) Around Hollywood fi"e552i (Vodka in orange juice) ft It leaves you breathless 125t fig) mirnoff tfue qreaiest name "VODKA SO proof . Midef rom 1 00 grain neutral spirits. Sre.PierreSmirnoffFls.Inc.Haxtford.Conn. E -Ji nniiiMnriiilli Hollywood (U.R) Television's biggest controversy today is whether viewers .' prefer their shows live or on film, with the anti - live group collect ing TV "bloop ers" as ammu nition. N e t w o rks admit the trend for filmed shows . - .Aline Mosbr ; -g lo wi n g, Jackie .Gieason arid George: Go bel plan to try filming their pro grams. Donald O'Connor and Ed die Cantor already have put theirs on celluloid, and one New York dramatic program, "You Are There," has moved to Holly wood to be filmed. But many of the big programs stillare live, resulting in fluffs that provide lively conversation in parlors of the Plaster City. Boom Booms . One actor moans that a micro phone boom crashed to the floor in the middle of his tender scenes in "The Penny Serenade" on the Lux Video Theater. On . the U.S. Steel Hour's production of "The Bogeyman," the camera showed Celeste Holm silent, but a pre recorded line of her dialogue had. her ; yelling, "Tony, the cane!" v"V' r- The. prize for the most no ticed fluff goes to a "corpse" who got up and walked away in the middle of a Kraft Theater dramatic program. One live TV director here ad mits, "On live shows you deal with human beings, and we can't eradicate all their errors." - Viewers chuckled , the night veteran movie star James Ma son forgot the name of the star he was introducing on the Lux show. On "The Hit Parade" vet eran singer ' Snooky Lansing couldn't remember the words to a Christmas caroL One local -TV columnist sug gests an award be given to the actor who can parlay a fluff into a successful piece of business on the show. On a recent Jackie Gleason epic,, .for example, -.the 1; comic slammed a door so hard' It jammed. Art Carney, due to en ter the scene, couldn't get the door open. He gracefully climb ed through the window. " This quick recovery, however, was marred by the fact he forgot to open the window but stepped through the glass-less frame, to the giggles of both audience and cast. " 'Unbreakable' Breaks Comedian . Steve - Allen once was demonstrating an "un breakable", fibreglass chair by hitting it with, a hammer. The chair broke. ; "This must be a fibreglass hammer," he quipped. , The pro-live supporters, how ever, insist such fluffs "give the show spontaniety and excite ment." "On live dramatic shows you have story, performance drama and ; background noises," says one network executive. "On film shows you have no story, no per formance, no drama and no noise. Which do you want? "You remember the stars who appear on live dramatic shows but you can't remember, their performance on film." DUE TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE NEW ARMORY AT THE FAIRGROUNDS ... OUR WARE HOUSE AND OTHER BUILDINGS MUST BE REMOVED! . . . 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