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'"""" rrrrrrrrrrrrrffiiijjjom Med Sreasiffe lirsi Government Postage Stamp Issued July 1, 1847 "I found these stamps 20 yean come across it again only a few ago? Maybe you can tell me if days before. 3 ' ... ,. I pointed out that the cancel- they are worth anything. lation date was 1845 and that it On glance at the envelope was consequently had an unusual enough to indicate it was some- premium value because the first thing of a find. The yellowed, faded missive was addressed to a man in St Louis and carried a pair of blu ish colored stamps which I rec oznized immediately as New United States stamp was not is sued until July 1, 1847. I also called attention' to the fact that the stamps had been cancelled by a clerk who initialed them in red ink with the letters A.C.M. That done, it was a pleasure ,,, m,- turn to the appropriate pages jive-ieui WUviaiUi.a. bi Scott's specialized catalogue tamp is identified by an oval arvd read to the lady that stamps portrait of Washington directly initialed by Alonzo Castle Mon- above which are the words Post son, of the New York post office, Office, and below, Five Cents. In were valued, when on a cover, at small type in the upper corners a minimum of S30 each. As a are the words New York. pair, however, they were worth I asked why she had waited more at least $250. 20 years to find out about the " When I think," she said, "of stamps. Her answer was that she all the times I could have used had mislaid the envelope soon that money and I didn't even after first finding it and had know I had it." PHENOMENAL BARGAIN FOR GENUINE DUTCH CRUET "That's $7.50," the proprietor to a friend of mine, an expert in aid. Obviously, the cruet stand ceramics, he took one look and was imitation Japanese prob- exclaimed "Dutch!" ably turned out in the '90s. I asked what he meant. "Why, And yet it did have-a certain the O and A on those two bottles beauty. or pitchers or whatever they The colors, for example, were are stand for olie-oil-and azijn really unusual red, blue, green, vinegar," he said, turning the black and gold against a pure stand over. And then: white background. Despite the "Why, look here. This is the dust layers on the two pitchers mark of Adriaen Pijnacker, of that were almost seven inches Delft." He was pointing to the high, on the nearer one the Jap- initials APK in a monogram, anese gentleman seemed almost He was quite correct. And alive as he looked at a butterfly knowing that my cruet was through the blossoms of a plum branch held in one hand. I handed over the money. But I was lucky. When I showed it $325 for it. LITERARY MERIT NOT SOLE STANDARD FOR BOOK VALUE Delft, and 18th century at that, it wasn't difficult to establish a value. So far. I have refused He is known as Mort, not so tained the story of "four days much because his first name is march beyond the ridge of the Mortimer as because he is such Rocky Mountains, and by the a lugubrious looking fellow al- only one who has returned to most as cheerful as a death's New England." head. Consequently, when I saw him smiling to himself, I was so mys tified that I had to go over to talk jtvith him. "You would be happy, too, Gage, if you had just acquired one of the rarer and most salable books in the West. Look at this." Recalling nothing about the book or the author, I read a few pages here and there. It was fair ly interesting, but not of any great merit, and I said as much. "I don't care a rap whether it has literary value or not, Gage," Mort said. "I am quite content to know that I shall sell it today. He produced a small dog-eared just as soon as the bank opens, volume bound in scuffed leather and for a very good price." with the one word Oregon on The night before Mort had he back. come across the book in a small I opened it carefully to find collection, he had paid $20 for it. that the condition on the inside As soon as he had authenticated was excellent, except for a few it, he had called a man who had penciled notes. Full title of the unsuccessfully offered $300 for work, by John B. Wyeth and a copy the year before. rinted at Cambridge, Mass., in "The offer still stands,? Mort 833, was "Oregon or a short his- said. "And the $300 I'll get is ex- tory of a long journey from the actly $50 more than the last re- Atlantic Ocean to the Region of ported auction price." the Pacific." There was more to (Released by McCIur the effect that the volume con- Newspaper Syndicate) Around Hollywood By ALINE MOSBY United PrtM Correspondent Hollywood (U.R) Susan Hay ward'a attempted suicide is one near-tragedy that can't be pinned on Hollywood. A psychiatrist aaid today she probably suffers from an "isolation" complex that could happen to any house wife any-where. Aline Motby The question of why the famous and beautiful film queen swallowed sleeping pills Tuesday has brought forth many an armchair second fuesser. Evangelist Billy Gra ham declared in Scotland she tried to kill herself because "moviestars are miserable, un happy people." But a leading psychiatrist I queried (who did not wish his name used) said her movie ca reer "has only incidentally to do with her unhappiness." "I would say her suicide at tempt was a despair reaction from her feelings of complete isolation," the doctor said.. Bailie Was Trigger The trigger that set off her death try was the unpleasant battle with her ex-husband over their children. She also suffers from overwork. But the sadness that has been building up inside of her, the psychiatrist went on, is due to her inability to have close rela tionships with people. "It would not be correct to say she is unhappy because of her ambition or career, or be cause she is a working woman who should be a housewife. This does not seem to be the usual case of career versus marriage, or of sudden fame and wealth. "This neurosis occurs also in women who are housewives and mothers in ordinary cities. "Miss Hayward seems to be maladjusted and withdrawn. She can't seem to make a go of relations with anybody. From people I have talked to who know her, her relations with friends and do-workers are strained. She is given to de pressions. She can't make any contact with anybody. That's why she holds onto her children and her mother. Close to Nobody "Sometimes such a person gets a little desperate because of that feeling of isolation. She has great trouble feeling close to anybody and she goes into sui cidal depressions." Susan's co-workers at 20th Century Fox support that theo ry. They call her "a close mouthed woman nobody really knows so hard to get close to." Seme second-guessers insist Susan is unhappy over a new romance. But the actress not only does not want to see ex husband Jess Barker but appa rently has no wish for a new love. Since the Barkers separa ted two years ago, she has had only casual dates with Howard Hughes, actor Richard Egan. Director Stanley Hough and Jeff Chandler. Down the years several ac tresses have been drawn to sui cide. Diana Barrymore is a re cent case. The accidental sleep ing pill death of Tommye Adams and the suicide try of Judy Gar land probably can be attributed On The Side By E. V. DURLING (Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc.) THERE are no times like the old times, They shall never be forgot. There is no place like the old place Keep green the dear old spot! There are no friends like the old friends May Heaven prolong their lives! There are no loves like our old loves, God bless our loving wives! Holmes. Jimmy Stewart is to portray Lindbergh in the film based' on the flyer's life. Wonder who will play I. O. Biffle. Haven't forgot ten" Biffle have you? He taught Lindbergh how to fly. That was in Lincoln, Neb., in 1922. Lind bergh was 20 at that time. Be in teresting to see how Jimmy Stew art is made up to look 20 years old. Asking Queries from clients. Q. Who' wrote the song titled "Has Any body Here Seen Kelly?" A. William McKenna. Was intro duced in 1909 by Nora Bayes in a musical show called "The Jolly Bachelors." Q. Our first baby has arrived. We think it far above the average. You quoted some statistics on 'the average baby. Could you repeat for a pair of newly weds husband 21, and wife, 18? A The average length of a baby at birth is 20 inches. A baby smiles at four weeks, laughs aloud at four months, starts reaching for things at six months, has first tooth at ten months, walks at 15 months. That's what the baby experts say. Sidelights Herb Shriner, airwave enter tainer, who is regularly intro duced on his program as "that humorous fellow from Indiana," was born in Toledo, Ohio. . . . There are over six million girls named Mary in this country It tops the list by a wide margin. Most other feminine names are in order named Elizabeth, Ann and Frances. Among the Married How much of an opposite to you is your wife? It has long been maintained that in seeking a mat rimonial mate most men and women are attracted by oppo sites. Said Schoepenhauer, "the most masculine men seek the most feminine women; while small and feeble men love large and strong women; people with short noses prefer those with long noses; tall and thin men pre fer short and stout women." Asides Not all bread is fattening. A feminine subscriber of 40 who says she still has her schoolgirl figure, claims you can eat all the pumpernickel you want and n won't make you fat. . . Sports scribe said Knute Rockne was "an all America end in his play ing days at Notre Dame." That's wrong. First Notre Dame player to make the all America team was George Gipp. That was in 1920. Please Note - Who was Clark Gable's first leading lady? Give up? It was that beautiful Brooklynite, Helen Twelvetrees. Now I'll give you an easy query. What was the name of the film for which was used the slogan: "Gable's back and Garson's got him"? Lie Detector How accurate and efficient is the lie detector? Dr. Leonard Keller, inventor of that remark able device, once said he and his wife considered it so efficient they made an agreement never to use it on each other. How about it, madame? If you had a lie detector handy could you re sist the temptation to use it on your husband occasionally? Would you worry about his using it on you? Briefly Kate Smith made her first hit in Washington, D. C, singing a ditty titled "Nobody Konws What a Red Headed Mama Can Do." . . . Vegetarians generally have considerable trouble with their teeth They are great denture customers. Eskimos, who are ex clusively meat eaters, never have any dental troubles. Passing By Carl Brisson. The perennally debonair Dane. Carl and his charming wife, Cleo, must have made a very interesting bride and groom. Carl was 16 when married, Cleo was 14. The Bris- sons have been happily married for 44 years! ... Zeppo Marx. Only one of the five Marx broth ers who is a millionaire. Zeppo acquired his wealth in industry To be exact, in the aircraft parts industry. Sunday. May. I, 195S MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIFTEEN TheyTl Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo TwiKKLETDES, FLOOR AUHASER OF OF ALLTHOSE WIRES OUTUE FLOOR- W7? BlTrvrr MOME.F TUEBE'S ONE CONNECTION HE M4SNT RJJB-FOOTED, XT MUST BE OM7WE ROOF MSflP tot (s&y I '" Grange Eagle Point Grange A literary program, which will be open to the public, will be presented prior to the Grange meeting on May 3, starting at 8 o'clock. In observance of soil conserva tion week a film entitled "Prom ise of the Trees" will be shown, by Jack Crump. Another fea ture of the program will be dancing numbers by, pupils of Colleen Hope's classes. DISTINCTION OF BEING assigned to closest position to nuclear blast ever occupied by sex is held by these members of Women's Corps of Civilian Defense, 3,500 feet from "Ground Zero" near Las Vegas. From left: Mrs. Shirley Smith and Mrs. Carmen Goad, Oakland, Cal.; Mrs. Robert Ives, Topeka; Mrs. Oracle Doebler, Tucson; Mrs. Jean Fuller, Los Angeles; Miss Helen Leininger, New York; Mrs. Lydia Durst, Silver Spring, Md. (International) to the unhappy side of Holly wood. Carole Landis and Lupe Valez killed themselves over unhappy romances. Mary Astor tried sui cide because of ill health. Corinne Calvet took pills after her divorce, but insisted it was an accident. SCIENCE AT WORK New York (U.R) Three scien tists devoted to the hen believe she could become an instrument of science second to none, and they have presented their nomi nation to members of the Ameri can Association for the Advance ment of Science. The role these men of the Uni versity of Minnesota have in mird for her is that of living test tube for various agricultural cnemicals whose slight, accumu lative, and incidental toxic or poisionous properties are in exactly or even poorly under stood. Their evidence came from strange occurrences in the hen pens of "at least six" Minnesota farms last summer. The farmers were licked, and they sum moned P. E. Waibel, B. S. Pom eroy, and Elton L. Johnson, of the university's departments of poultry husbandry and veteri nary science. Some 75,000 hens had sud denly started laying eggs of many strange shapes. The rea son for the strange shapes was that the shells no longer were hard, and so the eggs came out every which way. TMTD The scientists suspected any one of several diseases which in fluence the hardness of the shell, but they very quickly elimi nated all of them. Then they suspected the cause had to be in something the hens were eating. By a process of elimination, they found that the cause was seed corn grown on the farms. This corn had been . treated against fungus infection with tetramethylthiuram dis u 1 f i d e, which is the active ingredient of a number of agricultural fungi cide.-. It was this chemical com pound, present on the corn in the barest (or "trace") amounts thai had made 75.000 egg-laying machines all awry. 1MTD, as it is called for short, is one of an interesting chemical series. In addition to By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Ediloi being a fungicide, it will hasten the vulcanization of rubber. Re place the methyl in its molecule with ethyl and you have tha active ingredient of Antabuse which makes alcoholic beverages extremely distasteful, even to alcoholics. Value of Hen . Their studies showed that TMTD, in a- proportion of only 50 parts per million parts, could "produce disastrous effects" on the shells of hens. As soon as there "trace" amounts of TMTD were removed from what the hens were eating, the shells hardened and the eggs became egg-shaped again. The three scientists seemed enthusiastic over the conclusive ness of their experimental re sults, and the ease with which they obtained them. That caused them to nominate the hen as a test tube for chemical com pounds which may be toxic in trace amounts. She has a "rapid reproductive rate," they pointed out 200 to 300 eggs a year. She is easy to keep and feed, and she has "a sensitive reproductive mechan ism." That "would seem" to make her "an ideal subject for tox icologic studies," especially since methods now routinely used "leave much to be de sired in the evaluation of po tentially toxic substances." Arms Makers Seek Method To Keep Machines Buzzing Tokyo (U.P.) Arms manu facturers are searching for ways to keep their machines humming in the face of an almost certain sharp, if not drastic, reduction in U.S. Army buying in Japan. In Asia, they see little possi bility for sales. They discount Formosa because the coastal war there "appears unlikely to as sume greater proportions at the present moment." Looking backward to the Ko rean war days, they see that American Army orders totalled $75,000,000 between May, 1952 and June, 1953, and $65,000,000 from July, 1953, to June 1954. From July, 1954 to June 1955 some industrialists say that the orders will be only $40,000,000, while the more optimistic peg them at $60,000,000. Domestic Policy Unclear But few believe that the U.S. Army will continue to buy arms in Japan at anything like the previous amounts. They think it will have to consider what is best for it, and that its actions will be governed by political and economic considerations in Wash ington. .... The arms manufacturers hope to convert to civilian production or begin to make weapons for Japan's small defense force. The rapid change in the. polit ical picture following the rise of Prime Minister Ichiro Hatoyama and the post-election disorganiz ation and lack of a clear policy on military defense makes diffi cult planning or even guessing on this market prospect. The manufacturers must wait this period out. Meanwhile, a few are placing high hopes on selling war weap ons to Southeast Asia. They are particularly encouraged by the SEATO conference in Bangkok which gave the defense organiz ation a more positive form. But nothing at the moment is definite. The arms special pro curement industry remains un easy about its future. Shady Cove Grange A potluck supper preceded the regular meeting of Shady Cove Grange April 27. Master McKay thanked Mrs. Edd Learning and Elizabeth Hale for aiding the Grange ladies in making the float which was en tered in the pear festival pa rade. Gene Weitman was reported doing nicely after a serious ope ration. Cecil Kee gave a talk on safety during the lecture hour. Jokes were told by Travis Lit tlefield. The next HEC meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Cecil Kee on May .10. Roll call will be answered with a short poem and garden ideas will be ex changed. The Grange will hold its next meeting May 11 at 8 p.m. at the school gym. Corvallis Firemen To Protect OSC Buidings Corvallis (U.R) The Corval lis fire department has agreed to protect Oregon State College buildings west of the city that are outside the distric boundary. City Manager James Convil said. The problem cropped up earlier this week whea a turkey brooder house and .equipment worth, an estimated $60,000 were destroyed by fire. Dead line for Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday. CUSTOM KILLING at your place and ' delivery to your locker Phone 2-6219 MEDFORD ICE & STORAGE CO. HAYSTACK USEFUL St. Louis U.R) Lt. Col. Bernard Trum of the Atomic Energy Commission told a state convention of veterinarians here that a haystack would protect both man and beast from fall out of radio-active particles from an atomic explosion. In fact, he said, a haystack would provide the most practical shel ter for rural dwellers. There were about 1,480,000 marriages in the U.S. during 1954, a decrease of about 60,000 below the 1953 figure, and far below the record. FOR SALE 7-year-old 2-Bedroom MODERN HOUSE Wall-to-wall carpet, fenced back yard, close in, owner 805 Taylor Buy At Builders Supply QUALITY BLOCKS Bricks, Flues Drain Tile 727 W. McAndrews Phone 2-4107 More . than 1,000 different types of radio tubes have been developed and put on the mar ket, and most of them can still be purchased, according to re cent trade consumer reports. FOR RENT 410 Square Feet of Office Space in the FLUHRER BUILDING DOUGLAS FIR - WHITE FIR LOGS WANTED For Delivery at Eaglo Point Mill MOGAN LUMBER CO. White City phone Talbot 6-2711 RASE VOLUME AHiesbury; Mass. (U.R) A first edition, once part of John Greenleaf Whittier's library, is now considered a collector's item. The book narrates the his tory of the mythical Indian city of Norurafeega and was presented to the peet by the author, E. N. Horsford. The volume has been presented to the Amesbury Pub' lie Library. 4 An average dentist in the U.S, has an annual income of $7,820 net per year, while an average physician's income runs to $13,' 432 before taxes. DAIRY HEIFER & SPRINGER COW D There are more than 47,000 Minnesota boys and girls in 4-H clubs. n LEGAL NOTICES INVITATION FOR BIDS Atphalt Tile en Floors - Jefferson School Bids for installation of asohalt tile floors and Vinyl plastic counter tops for the new Jefferson Elementary School are invited . Specifications may be obtained from the office of the Board of Education, 500 Monroe Street. Medford. Oregon. Bids are to be submitted on or be fore 5:00 P.M., Tues.. May 10. 1955. Asphalt tile floor bids are to be in one sum for a complete job according to plans and specifications, with unit costs, of the different kinds of tile, per square foot, installed, submitted. Counter tops will be bid separately from asphalt tile floors but a com bined bid for both tile and floors may be submitted if desired. Bidders bond or certified check to amount of 5 of the bid must ac company this proposal. The Board reserves the right to reject any or all bids. s REBECCA JENSEN Clerk, School ijist. No. 49 Jackson 'County. Oregon April 30, 1955 TUESDAY -MAY 3 -1:00 PH. AT THE MfliWAY Auction Yard 3 Miles North of MEDFORD on Table Rock Road 100 - IIOLSTEIN HEIFERS -100 including 20 HEAD BIG TYPEY, SPRINGERS Artificial insemination by American Breeders Service NEPTUNE 20 HEAD BIG 2 YEAR OLD BRED HEIFERS Same breeding as above." 40 GOOD QUALITY YEARLING HEIFERS 20 GOOD HOLSTEIN WEANER CALVES ALSO 40 GUERNSEY HEIFERS 20 GUERNSEY SPRINGER COWS 4 HOLSTEIN BULLS Sale Open to Consignment Bring in your Heifers and Springer Cows on MONDAY, MAY 2nd, if possible XI. J. BILL BRAY, Auctioneer Phone NOrmandy 4-2213 or Valley 64874 Economy Grade $10.00 Per M CHENEY CTUD MILL CENTRAL POINT TRUCK add 'TRAILS Short Logger or Lumber 1951 CHEVROLET CAB OVER MODEL TRACTOR WITH SINGLE AXLE TRAILER 09:00x20 Rubber Two Speed Timken or ls; w Complete For Only COUKF m . m. u - ESY METOIUET 9TH AND BARRETT MEDFORD, ORE.
