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rr; '7ff pmam Wft fTJ-J OM THE READY Viet Namese paratroopers prepare to advance on rebel Binh Xuyen position during recent fight ing in the Saigon area in Indo-China. Strong rebel forces attacked government troops in the southern "Rice Bowl" of free Viet Nam, ending a week-long lull in the civil war. Southern Pacific Elects Directors Wilmington, Del. (U.PJ Henry T. Mudd, Los Angeles, has been elected a director of the Southern Pacific Company. The announcement was made yesterday al the annual meeting of the railroad's stockholders here. Reelected directors include: S. D. Bechtel, James B. Black, George L. Boland, Allen L. Chickering, Henry L. Corbett, W. W. Crocker, Everette L. Deg olyer, Cleveland E. Dodge, Ken neth L. Isaacs, William Manice, Richard S. Perkins, V. H. Ros setti. D. J. Russell and Landon K-Thome. Announcement was also made of the adoption of a contributory retirement plan for salaried em ployees of Southern Pacific Com pany and its designated subsidiaries. Women Buy Shoes In Interest of Style - Rockland, Mass. (U.R) Wom en buy shoes in the interest of style, while men buy shoes for comfort, a survey by the Nation al Foot Health council reveals. A person's f eet differ in. size, . and the survey showed that men buy shoes for the bigger foot, but women buy their footgear for the smaller one. The council's study said shoes should not be sold by the pair but fitted individually to each foot even if one foot is a size or two larger than theh other. Bear Creeks Orchards Plans Office Building Construction is under way on a one -story, fireproof of fice building at Bear Creek Or chards on Highway 99 south of Medford, on front of the present buildings. Harry Holmes, of the Harry and David firm, said that be cause of the rapid growth of the gift business the present office quarters have become inade quate, and that a new building will provide more room, as well as offering employees with mod ern, air - conditioned working quarters. ' Leslie Poole, Portland, is the general contractor. Completion is expected by the first of October. is Portugal Seeking Radioactive Materials Lisbon (U.R) Portugal launching , a widespread search for radioactive minerals. Under the direction of the year-old National Board of Nu clear energy, the search will start in the north of metropoli tan Portugal and later will ex tend to Portugal's widespread African possessions. "In continental Portugal the zone laid out for the first phase of the search totals about 12,000 square kilometers south of the Douro river," said Jose Frederi co Ulrich, president of the board. Rogerio Cavaca, who will head the search, said "we feel Portugal will yield (uranium) re serves sufficient for our needs." Medford united fre -Full Leases wire Tribune United frei i'uii Leased Wire Section Two MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1955 Pages 1-8 Charlie Chaplin, in Swiss Hideaway, Playing Part of Man Who Doesn't Care By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Correspondent Corsier, Switzerland (U.R) Charlie Chaplin said he didn't want to talk to me and, after thinking it over, I decided I couldn't blame him. His present and perhaps greatest role, is the kind of real life part that is strictly for audiences and not for critics. He is playing the part of the man who doesn't care. The audiences, his friends and neighbors in this mountain area above lovely Lake Leman, have been completely enchanted by the characterization. How happy and gay -and satisfied is Charles, they say, and how he delights in taking a basket down the slope to Vevy and shopping among the peasants. Sad Look Sometimes But how sad he is sometimes, said a more perceptive friend. And how often he looks from his white colonnaded Manoir du Ban across to the snow-capped peaks of the Haute Savoie in France and far, far beyond them perhaps to Hollywood and the happy, rewarding years in America. Charlie was more deeply hurt than his pride would ever per mit him to admit when he re linquished his status as an Am erican resident. So, because work is a soother and healer, he has plunged furiously into a new film which he is beginning to feel may be in the tradition of his greatest successes. The taxi driver looked at me with sudden respect when I an nounced I wanted to go to Man oir du Ban. But, when we got there, at the doorway was a white-coated butler saying ap ologetically that Monsieur had suddenly plunged into work. Stiff Note Expresses Regret I sent in a stiff note express ing regret that I had once cried so hard my mother was forced to take me to the Bronx, N. Y. premiere of "The Kid." Chap lin's secretary, Mrs. Eileen Bur ney, indicated Chaplin felt he had been roughly handled by the press recently in . a. story about-having a tantrum because brown tiles arrived for his swimming pool instead of blue ones. I gathered too that the screen play needed urgent attention because the plot still lacked a happy (or sad) ending. The story thus far concerns a king in a Was -JZm fQ gf Schwinn Flying Star J eC4U4Cf . jGii i I II H' wfti I low epkeep-betft UfifffitlX "ifl Meltf-Speed Gears I ' jsSS ffll J Service Part Avail- 1 JwSST Jf llirkM In oble everywhere flh vlumyS Hi9,,Tro,,t, jyr f(Jraj SoUbyrefiaWe : C' rfgf 4!aZP?J1 I frwKhised dealers MX- . ft mt:. . -1 eVeS m ... SEE OUR SELECTION ... of fin Schwinn Bikes . . . speedy new middle weights . . . 3-speed light weights . . . sturdy balloon tired models ... all colors . all sizes for boys or girls ... all prices. ir try , ana ngy your Dike trom a I, repetable bike dealer. 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Or should he stay in Lausanne and become as devoted a husband as he was a king. Children's Toys Scattered Around Chaplin's own house were scattered the toys of his five children by Oona O'Neill, daughter of the late playwright, Eugene O'Neill. Michael, ( 9, goes to the local school; Geral dine, 8, to a Catholic school in Lausanne; Josephine, 5, to a school in Montreux. Victoria, 4, and Eugene, 2, stay home. Chaplin is the subject of many anecdotes among his admiring neighbors. They tell of a Sunday dinner party when his new but ler brought in a dish of cabbage. Charlie immediately assumed the furtive demeanor of "the tramp." As soon as the butler disappeared, he dumped the cabbage into a flower pot. "I hate the stuff," he confid ed, "but I don't want to hurt his feelings." Everybody laughed. But it must have been a pretty faint echo of the millions who used to laugh in the long ago. QUICK DESCENT Lafayette, Ind. (U.R) Stan Davenport didn't have a chance to answer when Mrs. Cora M. Hay, 79, solicited church dona tions at his kitchen door. She posed the question, stepped through the doorway and fell out of sight down a basement stairway. She was treated at a hospital and released. New Era in Oregon Tuberculosis Control Portland (U.R) A new era in tuberculosis control has dawn ed in Oregon, according to Dr. J. Arthur Myers, professor of medi cine at University of Minnesota Medical School. Dr. Myers spoke yesterday to about 500 delegates to the annual convention of the Oregon Tuber culosis and Health Association. The state's accomplishment's in tuberculosis control were "phenomenal," the doctor said. He said Oregon's tuberculosis problem was limited "to those Dersons now harboring tubercle bacilli." The new era demands refine ment in tracking down tubercle bacilli and keeping them "cor alled," Dr. Myers said, he said it would require more funds and more workers than before. POLICE PRAISED Edmonton, Alta. (U.R) James V. 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