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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, April 4. 1955 TheyH Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo V&EX MAWK6 OUT HIS FIRM'S JjODME TAX REFOKT; 8ISDOME BTHE . VA6UEST a-r tvs ACT TPLL VOLl. fylSCEUJWBOUS EXPENSES, EXPENSES, $30000 '-THB4 PUT SoNUK fOOS.BOSS" I'M SURE ZtJfVlL GILL YOU TO MAKE BfTOM HIS PERSONALiaX RETURN HES GOT EVERYTHING TABBED, TICKETED AND NOTARIZED DOWN To THE UST CENTIME- vM' WE CiM DEDUCT TUP 8 eptftK cnv TAX X PAID OH CISARS-UIBJ TUH?f WAS 4 Wit I LOST IN A CAB NOVEMBER I7TM- ihsn UNDER CHARTnES" 1.25 TO THE COMMUNITY FUND-SO CENTS TO THE StfOESMlNE BOY- IVE GOT RECEIPTS FOR ALLTHESE ITEMS, BY THE W- TOM rs tain v-ra rrv i , in Old Indian Fighter Dies in Portland Portland (U.R) Col. Clar ence Eugene Dentler, 97, an old time Indian fighter' who was believed to be the oldest living graduate of West Point, died here Saturday. Col. Dentler graduated from the point in 1884 and moved out with the 11th Infantry to pur sue wild Indians in Arizona. In 1894 he was in charge of military training at Oregon Agriculture college. When the Spanish-American War came along, the future col onel accompanied the Miles ex pedition to Cuba and Puerto Rico. From 1901 to 1903 he served in the Philippines. After assignments at the Army War College in Washington, in China and in the Oregon Na tional Guard, the colonel retired to the life insurance business here in 1923. His survivors include a bro ther, John Dentler, of Hood River, Ore. Truman May Testify On Charier Revision Washington (U.R) Sen. Walter F. George, (D-Ga.), said yesterday that former President Truman hopes to testify April 18 before the Senate Foreign Relations committee on possible revisions of the United Nations charter. George, who invited Mr. Tru man to appear, said the former President replied that April 18 would be most convenient. .He will be in Washington on that date for a dinner honoring Speaker Sam Rayburn. George said he also had invit ed former President Hoover and Adlai E. Stevenson, 1952 Demo cratic presidential candidate, to testify. He said Mr. Hoover probably will submit his views in a writ ten statement rather than appear personally. Stevenson probably won't be able to testify April 18 but "may appear later," George said. Agadir, Morocco, has a golf course frequented by goats that sometimes mistake golf balls for food. It's a club rule that any ball swallowed by a goat can be replaced without loss of, stroke or distance. Names of geographical areas abroad are reflected in United States towns. Some of them are: Arabia. Ky.; Argentine, Penn.; Bavaria, Kans.; Belgium, Wis.; Bohemia. N.Y.; Bolivia, No. Car.; Siberia, Ind.; and Russia, O. (Heartburn!) f -and Dam the Luck. j I Forgot My TUMS J K is? When Acid Indigestion strikes, nothing beats a handy roll of Turns in pocket or purse. For Turns give fast, on-the-spot re lief from gas, heartburn, acid stomach. No water, no mixing needed. Take Turns anywhere. Tunis can't over-alkalize can't cause acid rebound. Get a roll today! I vuf- s I fr"-z. L S J y Pakistan Recovery Hurts Black Market Operators 3-ro pig- 2St TUMS Mt V TUMMT Karachi (U.R) Ask any black market operator in town. He will tell you the "sad news" about his business Pakistan is on the road to economic recov ery. He doesn't have to refer to a pile of statistics prepared by eco nomic experts. His is an old, seldom-failing barometer the collapse in the black markef rate for American dollars and other foreign currencies. Take Yusuf Mohammed for example, who runs a hole-in-the-wall haberdashery in the main section of town as a front for his lucrative business of illegal deal ings in foreign exchange and sale of scarce items 'at a price.' Lost 1,500 Rupees Over a weekend he lost a tidy 1,500 rupees when he bought 3,000 American dollars at the going rate of 5.50 rupees per dol lar (versus the official rate of 3.30). But his agent forgot to tell him that a sudden drop was in sight and he wouldn't be in business on Monday for dollars bought at a rate above five ru pees per dollar. In fact Yusuf was playing it safe. He could have picked up twice that amount but he'd been expecting a further drop in the black market rate. For the past month it has been dropping grad ually from an all-time high es tablished last November-December when an- American dollar brought 6.50 rupees (double the official rate). -.The latest drop in rates brings the black market within a few annas of the rate prevailing in the good old days of plenty back in 1952-53. Black market oper ators, again consulting their own barometer, expect it to level off Oregon Units Have Part in Test Alert Salem (U.R) Gqv. Paul Patterson has announced that Oregon Army and Air National Guard units will take part soon in a nation-wide surprise alert. The alert is called "Operation Minuteman" and will be the first such national test of guard read iness in history. Exact time is being kept secret. Patterson said Saturday he had directed Maj. Gen. Thomas E. Rilea, state adjutant general, to cooperate fully. "I want to emphasize that this is a pre-planned test alert and should because for no alarm to our citizens," he said. Dog Due for Surprise When Pups Grow Up San Diego, Calif (U.R) Susie, a mongrel foster mother, will be a mighty confused dog when her "puppies" grow up and she finds them to be wolves, the only maned wolves ever born in the United States. The whelps were born at the San Diego Zoo recently to the only maned wolves in this coun try. The . parents, native of South America, were sent to San Diego from Rio de Janiero in 1951. When their mother refused to nurse them, zoo officials appeal ed for help and Susie, with two puppies of her own, was sent from the dog pound to the zoo. The entjre family appeared to be contented for the time being. at the then prevailing rate ru pees 4.75 to the dollar. This is the official Indian rate and with the low pegging of the official exchange rate there is always an outlet for dollars at this rate. Yusuf and his black market compeers know that their ba rometer readings on the current prices .for foreign exchange are a sign of the times. Low rates for foreign exchange means that it's no longer profitable to pay high rates for exchange which would be used for the purchase and smuggling of goods into a commodity scarce market. This improved outlook for Pakistan's economic position is primarily due to extensive Amer ican economic assistance granted for the current fiscal year and improvement in Pakistan's own foreign exchange position which promises extensive commodity improvement during the next six months. Reacts on Promises To date the market has re acted almost entirely only on this promise of plenty. Few of the new imports have reached the market, but black marketeers and hoarders are already unload ing at reduced prices in the be lief that the writing is there on tne wan. Prices of related locally pro duced goods are also showing a down-trend because many of the imports permitted over the next six months and products to come from the United States aid grant are directed at breaking the high prices fixed by local man ufacturers in a commodity short market. But it still costs $1.25 per bot tle of locally produced beer and $15 per fifth of imported Scotch that's legal under the govern ment program for "prohibition by taxation." Coffee $2 a Pound It still costs $2 a pound for coffee and $1.60 for a 14-ounce tin of cheese. A medium-size tube of toothpaste sells for 60 to 70 cents. Two months ago it was $1.25. Even locally produced items are comparatively prohibitive. A pound of butter costs $1, a loaf of bread (made with milk) 33 cents, a No. 2 can of peas (grown and tinned in Pakistan) 90 cents. Meat is still cheap, as meat prices go around the world, about 30 cents a pound untrimmed you tell the butcher which side of the-cow appeals to you and he scatters the flies and cuts away. But 30 cents a pound is 40 to 50 per cent higher than it was back in 1952-53. Most of these prices, as is true of commodity goods prices in general, are 20 to 100 per cent below what they were two months ago ample evidence that the downward trend is there and the black market operators' days are numbered. SAVE MONEY! DO IT YOURSELF! RESTORE BEAUTY J Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport TO YOUR FLOORS WITH A RENTED SANDER Easy to Operate Clean and Dustless Low Rental Rates W handle everything you need for floor refinishing No Ticket Needed to Ride World's Shortest Railroad Washington (U.R) You don't need a ticket on the world s shortest railroad. If you're a taxpayer, you own a share in the line. The railroad was installed some 40 years ago as a conven ience for the senators of the United States. It winds under ground from the Senate office building to the Capitol a dis tance of 700 feet. At a breezy 15 miles an hour, a round-trip takes about two and a half min utes. The line operates two cars each on a single rail. The cars reminiscent of the old-time open-air trolleys with cane seats carry 13 passengers and no standers. Since 1912 Jessie Williams, who super vises the line, said that near the close of the 1953 session the cars made over 900 trips in one day and carried more than 5,000 passengers. Williams didn't keep track during last summer's fili buster, but he's sure at least 6,000 rode the cars in one day. The underground line was in stalled in 1912 as a bad weather convenience and also to speed senators from their offices to the Senate floor. Each car has a motorman, and the current comes from an overhead trolley like line. The line is probably the most pampered railroad in existence. Every morning each car gets a grease job and a brake check. Then it goes through a trail run. This ritual takes about an hour and a half before the line opens for business at 8:45 a.m. Tourist Attraclion The cars run until 5 p.m. or until half an hour after the Senate usually has recessed. If the Senate holds night sessions, the operators stay on the job all night, if necessary. While the railroad hauls some of the world's most controversial figures, Williams said the law makers, as a rule, leave their differences on the Senate floor. Sometimes the bitterest political opponents find themselves face to face on the railway and make the short trip in good humor. The pint-sized railway is a great tourist attraction. School children who pour into Wash ington by the thousands during the spring manage a ride on the railroad. But Williams said that adult tourists get a bigger bang out of the short ride. At least, they make more noise when they ride it, he commented. ' " Fallout Injuries Surprises Strauss Washington (U.R) Chair man Lewis L. Strauss of the At omic Energy Commission brand ed as "irresponsible" yesterday talk that there has been human injury from radio active fallout in the Nevada atomic tests. The nation's top experts on the effects of radiation agree, Strauss said, that the Nevada tests have been conducted "well within any danger zone." He said any fallout would have had no more effect on an individual than an ordinary chest X-ray. The Defense Department re ported Friday that four persons suffered eye injuries during tests in 1952 and 1953. Strauss said if there were any eye injuries they didn't occur from radioactive fallout arid may have been the fault of the ot servers. SIGNING CONTRACT covering 15,000 workers in 16 plants, Dave Beck (left), president of International Brotherhood of Team sters (AFL) and Sewell Avery, chairman, Montgomery Ward & Co., exchange quips during Chicago meeting. Beck said union would vote its stock for Avery in control fight. (International) SENT TO PURGATORY Newark, N. J. (U.R) Rutgers University announced Sunday that 10 of its students are being sent to look over a rock pile in purgatory. The geology students will examine some 250,000,000 year-old rocks at Purgatory, R.I. Water Heaters All the HOT WATER Tou Want Whenever Yon Want It No Down Payment on Approved Credit Only $020 O A Month "Medford' Exclusive Hotpoint Dealer" City Appliance, Inc. 127 North Central Phone 3-5743 Acrost From Penney't CORRESPONDENT DIES Washington (U.R) Robert Eurns Armstrong Jr., 52, Wash ington correspondent for the St. Louis- Globe Democrat for the past 10 years, died yesterday of a heart ailment. Brazil boasts the largest stad ium in the world, Maracana, which seats more than 150,000 spectators. Completed in 1950 and built of reinforced concrete, it provides an impressive setting for soccer games, Brazil's na tional sport. . Damage Suit Filed Against Osteopath Patricia Hadden Hendrickson has brought suit in circuit court here against Dr. George S. Jen nings, Medford osteopathic phy sician and surgeon. She asks a total of $27,646.55 for alleged damages received as the result of an operation on her wrist. The plaintiff charges that her wrist became infected fol lowing an operation on Sept. 18, 1953. The complaint charges that her wrist and right arm L5came permanently disabled because of the infection." She asks $25,000 general damages, and $2,646.55 special damages for medical ex penses and loss of wages. She is represented by the Med ford legal firm of Neff, Frohn mayer and Lowry. Conserve Moisture! 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