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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 16, 1955)
i On TKe Side By E. V. Durling (Distributed by King fttturt Syndicate. The truest joys they seldom prove Vfho free from quarrels live; ''Ms the most tender part of love Each other to forgive. Sheffield. Women outnumber men in the United States. That is, generally speaking. However, in the agri cultural districts men outnumber women. It is in the cities where the females are in the majority. So, young women having diffi culty in arranging a matrimonial alliance in the city, might switch their husband hunting to the rural sections. Of course, the city girls may not care for coun try life. Still it is better having a husband on the farm than be ing an old maid In the city. Or is it? Asides Am very reliably informed that those many bachelors in , Anchorage, Alaska, are still much interested in meeting girls they might marry. Blondes pre ferred . . . Those who should know say a book having some very helpful hints for mothers with youngsters between the ages of 5 and 10 is the one titled, "The Child from 5 to 10," by Arnold Gesell and Frances Ilg. Sidelights N. S. Hand's classic book on horse handicapping is no longer orm the shelves of the Congress ional Library, Washington, D. C., but I understand it is available at the New York Public library . . . An extremely unusual fam Union To Ask More Of American Motors Detroit (U.R) The CIO United Auto Workers said yesterday it would ask for a greater wage guarantee from American Mo tors Corp. then it received from Ford and General Motors "be cause this company needs it more." Leonard Woodcock, UAW vice President in charge of Ameri can Motors, said the union would ask for a full guarantee of 100 per cent of pay for 52 weeks a year. This was the union's origi nal guaranteed wage demand from Ford and General Motors , but the guarantee was whittled down to between 60 and 65 per cent for 26 weeks in the final agreements with the two auto motive giants. ACTOR UNDER KNJFE Oxnard, Calif. (U.R) Film actor George Brent, 52, wa re ported in "good condition" at . St. John's hospital today follow ing minor surgery of an undis closed nature. Physicians at the .frequently in the Bible but -the hospital said Brent was expected to be released in a few days. Brent underwent surgery Tues day afternoon. Inc.) ily is that of the Arthur Grisers, of Pitcairn, Pa. The Grisers are the parents of four sets of twins. Streamlining Women who consider them selves too plump and have a de sire to streamline their figures should organize. , For example, 12 women, who are interested in weight reduction, should get together and see which could first achieve a streamlined fig ure. I understand there is such an organization called "Tops." That name means "to take pounds off sensibly." It is said one "Tops' group was made up of women who "each weighed around 150. By exercise and diet they all got their weight down to 120 or less in a period of about two years. Briefly Tom Mix was the first film star to have his footprints in the forecourt of Hollywood's Chinese theater ... Don't get too close to your TV set. It is bad for the eyesight. Four feet away is about right. Draw a line at that spot in front of your set. Horses and Women Over 70,000,000 pairs of so- called "falsies" were sold in the United States last year. That record is expected to be broken this year. Things were different in the middle 1920's. At that time women with figures a la Jane Russel were flattening out their forms to be in style. They were trying to achieve something call ed "the boyish silhouette. That style was originated by, that extremely nicturesque Parisi- enne, Gabriel Bonheur Chanel. Young old timers will recall with a shudder the peculiar ap pearance of our countrywomen when they featured the boyish silhouette." Asking Queries from clients. Q. What artist was responsible for the painting titled "Nude Descend ing a Staircase?" A. Painting re ferred to was of Cubist school Artist is Marcel Duchamp. It can be seen in the Philadelphia Museum of Art . . . Q. Ih what show did Anna Held sing "I Just Can't Make My Eyes Behave?" A. Anna sang that one in the piece titled "The Parisian Mod el." Gus Edwards wrote it. Almost Confidential Most flirtatious females of the Zodiac are Gemini (May 20 June 21). They play the field when bachelorettes and their eyes continue to rove a little even after marriage. Or, so say the stargazers . . . The popular ity of the cat has never been very great. The dog is praised MEDF0RD United Press Full Leased Wire Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1955 Pages 1-12 cat isn't even mentioned. That despite the fact that the cat was domesticated 4,000 years before the Christian era. I STANDING IN JEEP, Geia. Maxwell D. Taylor, new U. S. Army chief of staff, reviews 40.0QO of Free China's fighting men at a base somewhere in southern Formosa. (International) U. S. Steel Schedules Reply Next Monday Pittsburgh U.R) U. S. Steel major producers time to draft Corp.. the nation's No. 1 steel producer, will reply next Mon day to the CIO United Steel workers' arguments for a "sub stantial" wage increase. U. S. Steel was the first of the "Big Six" steelmakers with which the union held prelimi nary wage negotiations last week to schedule a second-round ses sion. The USW opened bargaining with smaller basic steel concerns this week after talks with U. S. Steel, Bethlehem, Republic, Jones and Laughlin, Youngstown Sheet and Tube and Inland Steel harf been recessed to give the their answers and offers. Heirs File Suit Against Pierce Widow La Grande (U.R) Heirs and co-executors of the will of the late former Oregon governor and Congressman Walter M. Pierce have filed suit against his wid ow, Cornelia Marvin Pierce, in Union County Circuit Court here. The suit asks for a declaratory judgment on an agreement Mrs. Pierce was purported to have entered into with her husband whereby she acquired title to Pierce's two farms. It also asks that Mrs. Pierce be restrained from selling or conveying prop erty held under the. purported agreement until the proper dis posal of income can be deter mined. Plaintiffs in the suit included Pierce's four daughters: Lucile Pierce Hall and 1 Edith Pierce Whitten, of Portland; Lorraine Pierce Stadelman of The Dalles, and Helen Pierce Wilson of New Jersey. ACTRESS TO WED Hollywood (U.R) Actress Julia Dorsey, 23, daughter of bandleader Jimmy Dorsey, said today she would be married Fri day to Robert C. Hilton, 27, an electrical company executive. Two Trains Kill Transient at Eugene Eugene (U.R) A 56-year-old transient identified as Charles Dewey Stanton was killed at a Eugene rail crossing yesterday when he was struck by two trains. Lane County Coroner Fred Buell and Eugene police said the man was walking along the tracks with his eyes downcast and failed to see an approach ing passenger train. He jumped aside just as the passenger train reached him but into the path of a freight train on an adjacent track. He jumped a second time, again into the path of the pass enger train which struck him and hurled him under the freight train. NIGHT SHIFT New. Britain, Conn. (U.R) John Yurko began to think he had found a bottomless pit. He told police he worked on an excavation each day, but the hole never seemed to get any bigger. Police learned that some one had been shoveling dirt back into the hole each night after Yurko went home. 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NO CHARGE For Cutting and Wrapping BLOWOUT IGNITES FIRE Detroit (U.R) One out of every four emergency calls re ceived by the American Automo bile Club last year involved tire troubles, the AAA reported. Of the 46,000,000 emergency calls the AAA received,' 11,500,000 were caused by tire trouble. Bat tery and electrical failures rank ed second. " . I LUCKY, UNLUCKY "Maxwell, Neb. (U.R) When Niels Cannersgard's Pick up truck went off the road on his 71st birthday, he escaped in jury. But when he walked across the road to get a fence post to help pry the truck from the ditch he slipped, fell and broke his left leg. iv BAD TIMING Ottawa Lake, Mich (U.R) Mr. and Mrs. Christian J. Schmidt are the parents of girl twins but they could daim only one as an exemption on their 1954 income tax. Catherine Jean was born at 11:30 p.m. last Dec. 31; Candice Jean arrived at 12:58 a.m. - SpecBaD Salle! WE NEED MORE ROOM! 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