Tuesday. May 17, 1955
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREJ
Theyll Do It Every Time
By Jimmy Hatlo
By E. V. Durling
Pastures. Syndicate., Inc.)
4 BRONZE BUST
TRY AND
IT LOOKS LIKE ONE
Officer Unimpressed
By Reason for Kiss
Long Beach, Calif. U.R)
Jet Blowers, 35, Wilmington,
Calif., stopped traffic when his
girl accepted his marriage pro
posal. Blowers, as soon as the. girl
said "yes," stopped his car at
an intersection and kissed her.
It was a lingering kiss.
Too lingering, said Officer
Bland Watkins. Blowers ex
plained the circumstances,
Watkins was unmored. He cit
ed Blowers for failure to ob
serve traffic signals.
Wisconsin dairy herds produce
about one-seventh of the nation's
milk output.
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TRACE JTTUE
BOOK END TO AAESO
For they alone have need t
lorrow.
And they alone are poor.
For whom in life, love'i holy
angel.
Hath opened not her door.
Mary Clemmer.
novocaine, he took out his own
appendix. The operation took
four and a half hours.
Asides
Do you consider yourself a
well informed film fan? If so,
tell us quick as a half a flash
what movie star's real name is
Spangler Arlington Brugh . . .
The patron saint of women who
work for a living is St. Margar
et. There is a shrine dedicated
to her in Bridgeport, Conn.
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More than 18,580,000 persons
bought fishing licenses in the
United States in fiscal 1954.
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Wood Railroad
On land or water, travel in the
Pacific Northwest was on wood
in the old days. The fact stands
out in a record left by John M.
Murphy, Esq. of Dublin, a travel
writer for a London publisher
in the early 1870s. His journeys
brought him tc Oregon, then up
the Columbia by sternwheel
steamboat sloutly made of ce
dar and fir. He was heading for
the Orofino mines.
Landing at Wallula, Murphy
could find no conveyance to
Walla Walla but a plank flat
, mr pulled by Dorsey Baker's
dinky locomotive on Douglas fir
rails topped by iron scraps. Wood
vas its fuel. Because of the
ftraps. Murphy was warned to
ride aloft, else something from
below might puncture him. The
dinky had a squawling whistle,
often sounded, striking Murphy's
ears like the ycwl of an enraged
tomcat.
"Once in motion," wrote Mur
phy, "it dashed on at a headlong
speed of two miles an hour, and
rocked like a canoe in a cross
sea .... I saw why I was not
permitted to stand on the floor
of the truck, for a piece of hoop
iron, which coverea the wooden
rails in some places, curled up
into what is called a snake-head
and pushed through the floor
with such force that it nearly
stopped the train. . .
Wild Walla Walla
There, were seven hours of
this, with smoke searing Mur
phy's eyes and sparks setting his
"silk hat and broadcloth coat on
fire several times. It was desert
country but the freight trail
wound along by the railroad.
"Immense prairie schooners,
as the wooden wagons are called,
drawn by teams of seven or eight
pairs of mules or horses, or ten
of oxen, wound in long serpentine
lines over its bluish surface; and
some of the drivers had the
temerity to challenge the presi
dent of the railway line to run a
race with them in his old ma
chine; but he scorned their hr
sinuations, and kept walking
quietly beside his train."
Murphy was the talk of tha
town in Walla Walla, with his
plug hat a sieve from the holes
burned in it and his fine coat
equally well opened to the -atmosphere.
He was made the
butt of many a jest and the
recipient of many a toast in
Bourbon and Rye, Walla Walla
being what it was in those days.
The Wood Wagons
The jurney of John M. Mur
phy, Esq. followed the route of
i. stage and freighting system
! from Wallula Gateway to north
ern Washington and Idaho. It
also had branches to Baker City,
Ore., the settlements in the
Grande Ronde Valley, and the
gold camps of the Boise Basin.
In the 1862-1882 period there
were more ox teams than horses
and mules, the oxen being more
steady and reliable on the ter
rible mountain roads. At the
best, even with horses, a dozen
miles with loaded wagons was a
fair distance for a day's freight
haul.
The freighters, as Murphy de
scribed them, were habitually
red-shirted, with holstered re
volvers and sheathed Bowie
knives thonged to their belts,
bullwhips coiled about their
necks. They boasted such nick
names as Blacksnake Baker and
King Bolt Jack. They were com
monly powerful tobacco chew
ers, they "were' profane and ob
scene in speech, yet were able
and useful men.
An unholy lot of the haul east
was whiskey in wood barrels.
Freighters proved that they were
clever men, in the ways they
devised to extract whiskey from
a barrel and replace it with pure
and wholesome spring water.
Flour, clothing, tools and
other supplies for mining and
farming made up the main body
of freight, of course. These were
bedrock necessities of life and
progress in the camps and settle
ments. Man and beast and wagon
got them through until the rail
roads came. It was a life of labor
that bred a saying "hell on
wheels." And the wheels were
wood. The West floated and roll
ed on wood in the good old days
of Travelin' John Murphy of
Dublin.
Refinery Produces 4
Ounces of Oil Weekly
Elgin, 111. (U.R) A little re
finery here modeled after those
in the country's oil centers pro
duces four ounces of the world's
most expensive oil each week.
The oil, valued at $7,650 a gal
lon, is a joint product of research
by the Mellon Institute in Pitts
burgh, Pa., and the Elgin Na
tional Watch Co.
Two drops of the precious lu
bricant are the eight-hour ration
of watch workers who must use
it, and they are enough to smooth
the 18,700 jeweled bearings in
1,100 watches.
The little refining unit, con
tained in 10 square feet, has an
annual output of four gallons. It's
enough to lubricate all the
watches manufactured in the
United States each year, with
enough left over to oil a few
thousand alarm clocks.
Research men rate the oil, of
ficially termed LT 71, a giant
step forward from the traditional
timepiece oils such as neatsfoot
and porpoise jaw. It required 16
years of intensive search.
The oil was discovered while
the laboratory me were trying
to improve M-56b, another oil,
and has shown marked resistance
to cold.
For this reason, it is expected
to be of special value to military
operations in the Arctic, since it
flows efficiently at temperatures
of 100 below zero or colder.
Retired Man Raises
Funds for Hospitals
Memphis, Tenn. U.R)
Retirement failed to stop Dr.
Charles E. Diehl, 79, who started
getting a hospital built after he
qilit being a college president.
Since he retired as president
of Southwestern, Diehl has:
1. Raised funds for Japan
Christian university.
2. Talked Tennessee into al
locating about $1,000,000 for a
state hospital for the feeble
minded at Dickson, Tenn.
3. Helped with a program to
rehabilitate ex-convicts.
The American Institute of
Cooperation will hold its 27th
annual summer conference on
farmer cooperative problems at
Purdue University, Lafayette,
Ind., Aug. 7-11.
The color psychologists have
recently been emphasing the fact
that a color having great powers
of male attraction is pink. Es
pecially salmon pink. Conse
quently many women have been
featuring that color in their at
tire. And now, what? Well, sir,
it is repqrted that salmon pink
colored swim suits will be pop
ular at the beaches this sum
mer. That Gam
'Here in Dubuque, la.," writes
John W. Hird, "I am jobless aft
er 55 years with the same firm.
That firm, H. B. Glover, gar
ment manufacturers, folded aft
er 99 years in business. Richard
Bissell once managed the Glov
er factory, thus deriving ma
terial for his Book of the Month
club novel titled "Seven and
One Half Cents," which in turn
V'as recreated as the musical,
"Pajama Game."
Pleas Not
Of course, you know and can ;
quote offhand the Twenty-third '
Psalm? How about the Fifty
first Psalm? Anyway, in a recent
divorce case in England, the
husband testified that when he
read the Fifty-first Psalm to his
wife she suddenly broke down
and confessed she had been un
faithful to him 30 years ago.
And that he was not the father
of their son.
Sidelights
On the restaurant orders of
bacon and eggs usually only two
eggs are included. Should be
three eggs. That is the custom in
Ireland where the idea of com
bining eggs and bacon originat
ed .. . Get it right! It was not
Horace Greeley, but J. L. B.
Soule, editor of the Terre Haute
(Ind.) Express, who first said,
"Go West, young man, and
grow ip with the country."
Asking
Queries from clients. Q. Is
the author of "Forever Amber"
American or British? A. Kath
leen Windsor, author of the tor
rid novel you mention, was born
in Olivia, Minn. Q. What major
league ballplayer was nicknam
ed "Wildfire"? A. Frank Schulte
of the Chicago Cubs. Q. What
zodiac sign was Rudolph Valen
tino born under? A. Taurus
(April 21-May 20). Q. Who play
ed the title role in the original
stage production of "The Great
Gatsby"? A. dames Rennie.
By Their Stars
Marlene Dietrich is a believer
in astrology. When meeting a
man who inspires her interest
it has been Marlene's practice
to ascertain the exact hour and
date of his birth. She then sends
this to her astrologer, Carroll
Richter, to have the gentleman's
horoscope read. This to be used
as a guide on how to handle the
man. Marlene also presents the
gentleman with a variety of gifts
such as cufflinks, tie pins, etc.,
inscribed with his zodiac sign.
No wonder Miss Dietrich has
had so many admirers. You may
recall she once entered a Holly
wood night club accompanied by
six handsome male escorts!
Unusual Surgery
No doubt you have heard of
dentists extracting their own
teeth? Ever here of a surgeon
who operated on himself for ap
pendicitis? It happened. Dr.
Theodor Herr of Hamdorf, Ger
many did it. With the use of
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