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Surviving Dionne Quints Will Observe 21st Birthday Saturday Callander, Ont. OJ.PJ The four surviving Dionne quintup lets will turn 21 Saturday with out a matrimonial prospect in sight. They have never had a date. Though they are just now "com ing of age," they have always seemed older than their years. They live already in an atmos phere of spinsterhood. One thing is sure. The Dionne sisters won't have to look to a husband for support. When Annette, Cecile, Marie and Yvonne celebrate their 21st birthday Saturday, each will re ceive about 5200,000 from the money they earned from adver tising and movie contracts when they and their sister Emilie, who died last August, were the world's most famous little girls. "I don't know what to do with the money," Yvonne said recent ly. "I'm not interested in it right now." She and Cecile are too busy with nurses training. Their birthday will find them on night duty at a convent hospital in Montreal. Studying Music Annette will have her birthday at a convent school, also in Mon treal. She is studying piano, and practices four hours a day. This, plus her other studies, doesn't leave much time for social life. Marie, who wanted to become a nun but gave up after eight months as a homesick novice, is at home helping care for her mother, who is convalescing from an operation. The fifth quintuplet Emilie died last Aug. 6 at a rest home of the Oblate Sisters of Mary Immaculate. She suffocated in her bed during an epileptic fit. Her doctor said she could have lived only a few years longer because of an enlarged pituitary gland. But the other four girls, born to Mrs. Elizer Dionne in a Cal lander farmhouse on May 28, Ike Asks Five-Year Alaska Flight Permits Washington U.P.) President Eisenhower has requested the Civil Aeronautics Board to grant five-year certificates to Alaska Airlines and Pacific Northern Airlines for flights between the United States and Alaska. The CAB had recommended three-year certificates. But Mr. Eisenhower, in a let ter to CAB Chairman rtoss Riz ley, said he feels that a five-year certificate would give the lines a better opportunity to finance the purchase of new equipment on a sounder basis than offered by three-year certificates. Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty made it plain that the White House expects the CAB to comply. Hagerty said he did not know whether, under law, the board could turn down the "request." no matter where you drink it Ify ilwiyi satisfying. Nothing can match the full, rich flavor and aroma of real coffee Hills Bros. Coffee fresh-brawed 1 If llwayi delicious - the matchless flavor and aroma of Hills Bros. Coffee... a skillful blend of the world's choicest coffees. If llwayi till tame. 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A shocked Ontario government voided the world's fair contract, made the quints wards of the crown, and saw to it they were raised with hygenic dignity. Nurses watched their every move. Dr. Dafoe installed them in a special hospital, a fortress against germs and tourists. The quints were cautiously displayed to cameramen, they gave their names to dolls, and the money poured in. WRONG NUMBER Denver (U.P.) Robert C. Walker, picked up by police af ter a woman complained he per sisted in trying to arrange a blind date with her over the tele phone said, "I was just-calling a trucking firm and kept getting the wrong number. ; 4 GOVERNMENT CONTROLS FOR POLIO SERUM The House commerce committee began hearings on legislation calling for federal controls on the Salk vaccine and called Surgeon General Leonard A. Scheele (center) and other top officials of the U. S. Public Health Service to testify. Shown conferring are, left to right, Roswell B. Perkins, assistant secretary of Health Education and Welfare, Dr. Scheele and Chairman Percy Priest (D., Term.). Prompt Start Asked Washington CU.R) Rep. Clair Engle (D-Calif.) has asked the House Appropriations Commit tee to allow an immediate start on the $221,000,000 Trinity river project in California, without waiting for passage of a congres sional authorization act. Engle asked the committee last month to put language a public works appropriation act that would allow $1,000,000 to be split on project construction in fiscal 1956, a transcript of a On Trinity Project closed committee hearing show ed. ' ' A bill for congressional au thorization of the project has been approved ' by the House interior committee, and the rules committee will consider- clear ing it tomorrow for House action. Portland (U.R) Funeral services will be held here to day for Frank Bryson Gill, 78-year-old accountant who was noted as a railroad historian. He died Monday. Thursday. May 26. 19SS 'Expenditure of Energy' Explanation Given for Illnesses Lacking Cause By DELOS SMITH United -Press Science Editor New, York (U.R) A doctor who has been harassed for al most 0 years by "well" persons who feel sick, passed along a little tip today concerning them to his fellow sufferers meaning doctors. The advise: Check whether these sick "well" people aren't merely overtaxing the stamina that nature built into their bodies. The author of this tip, Dr. Sol Hirsch, is known in medicine as the father of the "expenditure of energy" explanation of many illnesses that seem to have no visible cause. In his newest advocacy, he characterized as "banalities" and "medical bromides" such expla nations of illness as "constitu tional inadequacy," "general de bility," and "psychosomatic." More often than not, he said, the body merely was being required to spend its energy faster than its ability to produce energy and to store, it against future de mands. In-Take Out-Put Writing in the New York State Journal of Medicine, he said every one has a level at which energy in-take balances vith en ergy out-put, leaving more en ergy in reserve. This level varies from person to person. "I believe," he continued, "that ' the level of energy expenditure is an inherited characteristic, and we may categorize individ uals as those with optimal, av erage, and minimal levels of energy expenditure. "This is not to say that an op timal is immune to becoming a 'well patient who feels sick. If the optimal consistently over spends down to his level of energy expenditure, he runs the same risk as does the minimal or average who consistently overspends. By the same token a minimal need never become the 'well' patient who feels sick as long as he lives within his own level of energy expendi ture. "He need not bewail his lot. Too few of us, including opti mals, ever reach our potential anyway, whether it be physical Court Records DISTRICT COURT Arthur L. 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Medford. and 'Joyce Annette Bilderback. 18, of 1625 Camp Baker, rd.. Medford. Robert Leon Madderra Jr.. 30. Klam ath Falls, and Rose Marie Hardin, 17, Klamath Falls. Dead line Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday: 1 a. m. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 previous day mm trppf BEWARE OF IttlTATIOHS LOOK FOR THl HAPPY UTTUDOG MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREB or mental. Reaching it is some thing to strive for. And preven tion of depletion is a step to wards achieving it." 'Unavoidable and Avoidable' He divided the causes for an individual's spendthrift dealings with his energy level into the "unavoidable" and the "avoid able." The former included ob scure allergies, obscure malfunc lionings of the endocrine gland ular system, minor not accumu lative nutritional defects, and emotional shocks. Emotion, he said, has "a cruel way of pop ping up unexpectedly and of amplifying everything it L HEY KIDS! FRI. and SAT. 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