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A NkhoVs Worth of . . . Comment On This and That By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United PrtM Foatare Writer Harman Nichols Washington (U.R) It's hard to cotton to the idea of tying the White House and the Wash- -'T ington Zoo to gether. But in a remote way they are re lated. . Eleanor Early, who has written a volume called "Washing ton Holiday," has made second cousins of the two. First she told what most everyone knows. How the White House came into being and how, for many years it stood the test I of time until finally the Commis sion of Public Works remarked that "this place is standing up by habit only." ; : Honest Abe Paid i That was. after Margaret Tru ' man's piano "broke through the floor in her suite. There are : other things, any kid can tell you. Like the time Mrs. Lincoln decided to do a little decorating and ran out of expense money. When the decorators demanded payment, somebody suggested an appropriation. Honest Abe rared back and said: "I'll pay for it out of my own pocket first. It would stink in the nostrils of the American people to have it said that I approved flubdubs for this house, when the soldiers can't have blankets." The big white place on Pennsyl vania, of course, has been re done. The lovely Miss Early told how she got from the White House to the zoo in one chapter It had to do with gifts that come to occupants of the White House," she said. History of the zoo goes back to 1890 when William Hornaday, chief taxidermist at the Smith soman Institute, felt pain when healthy wild animals were slain for stuffing. So 200 acres were bought. Hornaday, who was CALL COMMERCE 9940 For Soars Serv ice) on Soars Appliances Crtdspot Hocnart Afwoyt prompt,' always efficient, and always canonical. Genuine Sears parts, factory methods, trained servicemen. SearsRoebuck&Co. Grants Pass, Oregon 227 S.E. 6th made curator, had little or no money, so he solicited help. A circus donated two elephants and a tiger for a start. "The tiger," Miss Early reports, "was so mangy they had to douse him with sulphur for three months before he was fit to look at." Big Black Bear . Somebody offered the new curator a kangaroo for $75 Hornaday didn't have 75 bucks, but he had two guinea pigs and a trade was made. Then the White House began getting a lot of gift animals. Actually, way back before the zoo was started, President Jef ferson received a big black bear which he chained in the back yard at the White House until neighbors complained. The pres ent zoo curator, Dr. Bill Mann, would have loved that beast. Cal Coolidge . received a pygmy hippopotamus named Billy,, which would have seemed out of place in the East Room, so he turned it over to the zoo where there were two lady hippos. That started something. The succeeding baby hippos have all been named "Gum drop." "Gumdrop XI," I think it was, arrived just the other day. President Eisenhower received a kangaroo named "Miss," and called Doc Mann right away. Strange thing about "Miss" is that she is an albino, something rare among the animal hoppers from down under. Thcyll Do It Every Time TDp ork plays SIX KUMBERS AHD ( C 5 NOBODy (SETS UPTO DWCE-v GRANGE Upper Applegate Grange Howard Isberger of the Social Security administration, spoke at the last Upper Applegate Grange meeting on "Social Se curity for Farmers." Lecture hour was left open to visitors so that all those interested could attend. Mr. Isberger's explanation of the Social Security law and how it is supported and operated was followed by a question and an swer period wherein all phases as applicable to the individual could be touched upon. The lecturer announced that the plans to invite members of the County Court to attend a meeting in the near future. Upper Applegate 4-H clubs have planned a program to be followed by a djnee, March 26. The ways and means chairman announced that $192.50 was raised at a community dance and; turned over to Mrs. C. O. j Gearhardt, district chairman for the March of Dimes. ' The Grange secretary calls special attention to March 31 as a deadline for payment of dues. ..iH-oe. By Jimmy Hatlo f SO THEY FINISH THE SET AND GO lSO AKB A BRE4TW-. . . J Measures in Oregon Legislature GREAT DAY FOR PIGS Strawberry Point, la. (U.R) Eddie Kramer is convinced that 15 of his 27 brood sows set some kind of a record. In a 24 hour period in mid-January, the 15 sows farrowed 176 live pigs. Amazing New Safe Discovery Makes SCIENCE NOW HELPS YOU TAKE OFF YOUR FAT WHILE YOU EAT THE FOODS YOU CHOOSE FRIENDS! Let Me Ask You a Simple Question Are you too fat because you eat too much? Would you like to lose fat but you just can't control your appetite and like to eat too much of the wrong kind of food? Do you like sweets, candy, cake and are you a real glutton when it comes to butter, gravy, potatoes? 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Don't be fat. Take off fat this new. easy, safe, simple way. FOR EASY REDUCING, get ALL-IN-ONE CAPSULES TODAY! MaUOtdtntUUd Western '-nriff 30 N. CENTRAL PHONE 3-5371 Salem U.R) A bill to raise the level of self-liquidating higher education bond issues by $6,700,000 for nine building proj ects on six college campuses was supported before the Joint Ways and Means Committee of the Legislature here by Chancellor elect John P. Richards. A special plea for married stu dent housing for 100 students each at University of Oregon and Oregon State College to re place present temporary quar ters was made. Each project would cost $600,000. Richards said there are 876 married stu dents at Eugene, 944 at Corval lis and about 150 on the married housing waiting list at each institution. Richards said that as of June 30, 1955, there will be $7,184, 000 in outstanding bonds on self-liquidating, buildings such as dormitories, the university student union and the OSC coli seurri. Proposed are the following: U of O dormitory for 325, for $1,200,000; University married housing, $600,000; OSC dormi tories, for $1,900,000; OSC mar ried housing, $600,000; Oregon College of Education at Mon mouth dormitory for 100, .at $225,000. Southern Oregon College at Ashland, memorial court altera tions, $225,000; Eastern Oregon College of Education at La Grande, dormitory for 180, at $400,000; Portland State Exten sion Center, $550,000; OSC stu dent union addition and remod eling, $1,000,000. Salem -KU.R) Farmers and im plement dealers have expressed themselves as favoring removal of the provision of law that re quires them to have a flag man in front and one behind any farm implement more than nine feet wide traveling on a public highway. But they had different views at to methods. Several farmers appeared at a hearing in favor of House bill 125 which would make it legal for a farmer to move implements such as com bines, from one farm operation to another, without a flagman. Dealers and a growing num ber of farmers expressed them selves as favoring instead Senate bill 221 which would permit the movement without flag men of an implement not more than 10 feet wide. And implement from 10 to 12 feet wide would need only one flag man preceding it. And any implement over 12 feet wide would still require two flag men, one in front and one behind. Salem " (U.R) Standards for setting up new political sub districts have been submitted to the Senate State and Federal Affairs Committee by an ad visory committee. The criteria are relative to proposals to bring about the redivision of Multnomah, Mari on and Lane counties. Sen. Mark Hatfield, Salem Republican, said Marion and Lane counties would be omitted from the bill and a separate measure drawn up for Multnomah county. Salem (U.R) The House Tax Committee has rejected a pro posed bill to extend from April 15 to May 15' the deadline for payment of state income taxes. Salem (U.R) The Oregon Senate yesterday passed four bills already approved by the House designed to , strengthen the state's fish and game laws. One would give the Game Commission authority to regu late the importation, transporta tion and release of fish, and was designed to aid the commission in scientific reproduction and control of game fish. v , Another would regulate the taking and disposing of fish in More Comfort Wearing FALSE TEETH Here is a pleasant way to overcome loose plate discomfort. PASTEETH, an improved powder, sprinkled on . upper and lower plates holds them firmer so that they feel more com fortable. No gummy, gooey, pasty taste or feeling. It's alkaline (non acid). Does not sour. Checks "plate odor" (denture breath). Get PAS TEETH today at any drug counter. private hatcheries, making a bill of sale for fish instead of a metal tag. Salem (U.R) The House has passed a bill that would permit the warden of the state peniten tiary to provide escorts for in mates to attend funerals of rela tives or to visit the bedsides of seriously ill relatives. The bill was previously approved in the Senate. Also passed was a measure that would impose a $5 tax on shopkeepers who are not drug gists selling such simple reme dies as aspirin. Salem (U.R) A bill approved for introduction by the House Rules Committee would provide financial . assistance to high schools providing driver train ing courses. Another bill would eliminate the State Game Commission's pewer of eminent domain in ac quiring land for public hunting grounds. Establishment of such lands would require the approv al of county courts. . Salem (U.R) A bill up for second reading in the House would permit proposals for a city tax to support and maintain orchestras and bands to be placed on the ballot by majority vote of city councils. As We Live In recent years parents have been advised to allow a child to "express himself." They have been warned to refrain from "frustrating" him for fear of de veloping a warped personality. A member of the older genera tion expresses her opinion of this: - (Q) "I am getting sick and tired of the way parents of today allow their children to run wild. The children in our neighborhood do just as they please, talk back to their el ders, make life miserable for their teachers, and get into all kinds of mischief. I have brought up three children and; they are ail good citizens, but they are allowing their chil dren to run wild like the oth er children do. "When I tell them their children will never amount to anything if they are not curb ' ed, they tell me I am old fashioned. Perhaps I am, but I feel that children must obey rules and must learn that the world is not just for them. No wonder we have so much ju venile delinquency today. A child who is allowed to do just as he pleases is bound to get into trouble sooner or later, and it is parents' fault not his. Am I being old-f ash- By ELIZABETH HURLOCK, PH.D. ioned in my ideas? I would like to have your opinion." (A) I agree with you in prin ciple.. Children must learn to obey rules and to realize that the world must be shared. They must leam to live happily with the rest of the popula tion,' allow i n g the others to live happily too. How ever, I suspect that I Dr. Hurlock differ from you as to the means of gaining this end. You sound very authoritarian; the modern trend is toward being demo cratic. The difference is that the first approach forces the child to be good, while the second trains him to want to be good because it is the fair thing to do and because he will benefit from it as everyone else will. The parents you are criticiz ing are going to extremes by not teaching the child what he will seme day have to learn the hard way. And if he never learns it, he will discover that he is the cne who suffers most. Society will stand just so much. (Copyright 1955. . General Features Corp.) Wednesday, February 23, 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE WHO CAN HELP YOUR HEARING? I AM A TRAINED SONOTONE HEARING AID CONSULTANT C. R. Adamson BY TRAINING and long experience, I have helped hundreds to better hearing. Now I have a wonder ful new hearing aid to help you break through that iron curtain of deafness, and bring back conversa tion, music - the laughter of life. This is the brilliant, new Sonotone "1200." Here, for the first time, Sonotone has put not three but FOUR transistors in a hearing aid to bring you DOUBLE hearing help 1. MORE POWER than ever before, for easier . hearing -NOW. ;; 2. RESERVE POWER, so you can use this Sono tone for years to come. 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About 65,000 gallons of water are required to produce a ton of finished steel." HEY KIDS! BRING YOUR PARENTS WITH YOU AND GET A FREE KITE at Hudson's Pharmacy! : O SUPPLY IS LIMITED ;-;v:;:v.-i 613 E. MAIN MEDFORD PHONE 3-5345 There is no obligation, but only children accompanied by one of their parents are eligible to receive a FREE KITE! IS 99 Hope it tastes as good as it smells II ;3S itwillf ..MMbMUf IPlaira Now To Meirad Tine . '7th Amiiraimall CC 0 w IMS 4 Hg Mogfe FEBRUARY 23-24-25-26 -r-Presentliig.- The Kiwanis Version of TV's More Popular Shows! On stage at the ... Medford Sr. High School Auditorium THURS., FRI., and SAT. Curtain Time - 8:15 p.m. BRIGHT SONGS and DANCES LOTS OF COMEDY! The Cast Is Made Up of Local People! DONT MISS THESE KAPERS! You will thoroughly enjoy the entertainment and at the tame time b helping a worthy cause. This it the only Kiwanis Fund Raising Program for the entire year, to raise money for their underprivileged children work. Buy Your Ticket From Any Member or At Barker's Men Store STUDENTS & CHILDREN WEDNESDAY NIGHT is Students Night 50" Curtain at 7:30 p.m. o GENERAL ADMISSION $1.10 o . RESERVED SEATS $1.65 Reserved Seats are on sale at BARKER'S ONLY! MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE
