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ij L . I - . REBELS SEEK REFUGE Argentine pilot and three naval officers leave their plane after landing it at a military airport at Montevideo, Uruguay. They were among those participating in the short-lived revolt against the regime of Argentina's President Juan Peron. Many of the Argentine rebels sought refuge in Uruguay. Down the Applegate ... . Two stories in June Sunset, one on Southwest Oregon, the - other on Northwest Washington, glorify the region for prospec tive summer tourists. The big feature, with wonderful pictures and maps, is on the theme of "Family Vacation in Olympic National Park." A littler story appeals to me most. It moseys off Highway 99 on Oregon State 238 and meanders around and down the Applegate River to Grants Pass. As Ike would say, i line mat. There's a stop in Jacksonville and a handsome small picture of the tree-nested Methodist church, most likely the oldest church alive in the Northwest. The story goes that in the roaring days of '54 the gamblers of Jack sonville pooled the take of one night and built the church. There .and forked nuesets into the col lection plate, legend tells. At any rate, the church itself - is true Oregon history. There it stands well built of durable Douglas fir. The rare old court house, built in 1883, is main tained as an historical museum, one of the West's best. Literary Land .... Jack London wrote a novel of the Rogue and Applegate coun irv. and it is mv recollection that . he himself once owned an or chard there. . Certainly one of novels covers this part of the country Canyon Passage, which was also made into a popular j motion picture. ills . o v i . wu'iiw v.. a.w . AmpriMn Oniric aeries nresents a lively summary of the scene and the life along State 238, as on that of other roads in South west Oregon. Every bit of de scription is bait to lead the read er into making tracks for the place. It tells that ". . . much of Jack sonville remains as it was a cen tury ago. The J. V. Brunner building, erected in 1855, was used on occasion as a refuge from the Indians; in its scales were weighed hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of gold dust. In the United States Hotel Presi dent Rutherford Burchard Hayes and General William Tecumseh . Sherman spent a night . . . The Old Barn, was used for the relay horses of the California-Oregon stage line. The Beekman bank, built in 1862, made 'express ship ments of gold to Crescent City, the California port . . ." Today the expanding rural residential areas of Medford, prosperous from timber and fruits, reach out close to old Jacksonville. Here handsome modern homes display striking contrasts to the buildings that live on from the times when gold brought eager people to the area. The Seldom Seen Park ... Harking back to the maga zine, its excellent essay on Olym pic National Park speaks plain ly on two prime facts about this vast Northwest corner area. One is that it is a "dedicated wilder ness." The greater part of it is not to be seen by the human eye except by a very fortun ate few. The second fact is "the opaque white curtain of mist between you and the scenery" which commonly prevents most of the park from being seen even from airplanes. And the Sunset article plainly reveals that the Douglas fir. for est is dying out in the park reg ion, under its present policy of use and management. 20 Lost Hikers Led To Safety Late Sunday Portland (U.R) A group of 20 hikers lost for six hours in the mountainous area above Multnomah Falls was led to safety last night. The losthikers, a Seventh Day Adventist group of 15 children and five adults, was half of a larger group that attempted to climb Larch Mountain above the falls. Half of the group returned to Multnomah Falls Lodge but the other half became overdue. Law rence Lashier, 13, and Edward Drury, both of Portland, went back up the trail with flashlights and led the party down the dan gerous route. No one was injured, but some of the lost children were badly frightened.,' The lost party re turned about 10:20 p.m. TOO LATE Torrington, Conn. (U.R) Years of debate by officials oh whether to rebuild a bridge came to an abrupt end. The bridge collapsed. Americans Can 'Look Forward To Seeing Total Eclipse of Sun on April 7, 2024 By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor New York (U.R) Buck up, Americans, and never mind en vying ship passengers on. the South China sea and residents of the environs. Millions of us will have our own total eclipse of the sun, come April 8, 2024. It will be visible from all parts of the Southern and Eastern Un ited States. But those of us who live in Rhode Island, Northeast Connecticut and Southwest Mass achusetts will have one in just over four years from now on Oct. 2, 1959. Anyway eclipses are very, very old-hat in the natural scheme of things. They happen Around Hollywood By ALINE MOSBY . United Prets Correspondent Hollywood '(U.R) Behind a screen of trees on busy Sunset Boulevard workmen today are partially des troying one of the most color ful and famous landmarks o f early Holly wood the old Garden of Al lah Hotel. In this Span ish - style hos telry flourish- Aline Mosby ed the madcap Hollywood life of the '20s and '30s, and the name of the hotel brings sighs of nostalgia from show folk everywhere. Here long - time resident Rob ert Benchley uttered his famous rainy day line, "I think I'll get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini." Writers Thomas Wolfe and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fanny Brice, John Barrymore, Charles But terworth and Gertrude Lawren ce lived in the Garden. In later years nearly every big name in show business called the garden home Humphrey Bogart and Lauren BecalL Greto Garbo, Tal lulah Bankhead,' Orson Wells, Marlene Dietrich. Britishers Laurence Olivier and Vivian Leigh once made it their West Coast headquarters. In recent years the hotel be came shabby; the stars departed. Now two loyal ex-residents, mil lionaire-movie producer Corne lius Vanderbuilt Whitney and di rector Dudley Murphy, have bought the place and are re modeling it to restore its former glory. No history of Hollywood .. is complete without the story of the Garden of Allah. The late Alia Nazimova, a siren of silent mov ies, built the place in 1922 as her country home in then-rural Hollywood. When the country road be came Sunset Boulevard, she add ed 30 villas around the swim ming pool and converted her home, into an informal hcl'l, naming it after herself. The pool was built in the shape of the Black Sea and surrounded with tall pine trees to resemble her ancestral land. Guests stayed for months, sometimes years. Life in the white stucco . villas around the pool was neighborly, to commit a staggering understatement. The walls were like paper, and telephone calls and romances sel dom were private. Tennants wandered in and out of each other's rooms. Benchley's villa was called "The Bear Trap." He conducted 24-hour bar service and every body was welcome. While peer- ingfrom Benchley's window one night, actor Butterworth made his classic remark, "Looks as if it's going to get drunk out to night." Now 'workmen are installing modern flagstone around the pool where Benchley once push ed Butterworth in a wheelbar row. Half of Miss Nazimova's house is being torn down to make way for a glassed-in din ing room. The new owners changed the AIR CONDITIONED! NEW TWO-TONE STYLINGI AND Rambler Costs Less to Buy and Run! Only in a Rambler can you enjoy complete air condi tioning the comfort of Airliner Reclining Seats and Twin Travel Beds and the economy of 500 miles on a tankful of gas at far less than the cost of an ordinary car. It's more fun to drive, too easier to park quicker on the getaway. Slip behind the wheel and find out for yourself. Drive in Cool, Refrigerated Comfort For only mere than price ef car with heater in -JIflll -THE CAR DESIGNED FOR WESTERN LIVING , He's listed under "Automobiles" in your Classified Telephone Directory 5th & Bartlett SURROZ NASH Phone 2-6185 Hey Folks! Tune in Disneyland en ABC-TV. See listing for Time and Channel. whenever the moon gets between eclipses the sun it is so far away the earth and the sun and a so lar sclipse or when ever the earth gets between the moon and the sun, a lunar eclipse. That happens with monotonous regularity. If you don't love a spectacle, vou could definitely ho-hum all eclipses. However today's eclipse was difficult to ho-hum even by people who despise spec tacles. It's totality stayed around so long for seven minutes and 7.9 seconds over the South China sea where totality lasted the longest. For duration of totality, that's terrific. Not since 717 has there been one so long, and there won't be another until next cen tury, an eclipse in 1957 will be a long one, but not that long, and it won't be seeable in our country. What make solar eclipses long or short is how close the moon is to perigee when the sun gets around behind its back. Perigee is the astronomical word for the position of the moon when it is as close to the earth as it can be, which is about 222,000 miles. The closer the moon, the big ger the shadow of it which the sun. casts upon the earth from its fiery eminence some 94,000,- 000 miles away. Today's moon over the outh China sea was near perigee. Last year's eclipse, which was total in a corner of Iowa and through Minnesota, was a matter of a couple of min utes perigee was rather re mote. Sometimes when the moon name to "Holiday House." But the bar will be callefl ..The Gar den of Allah" with special glass es for former residents. A small er bar will be built in Fitzger ald's old villa and named "A Diamond as Big as the Ritz" after the short story he wrote there. "I bought this hotel because it's always intrigued me," ex plained director Murphy as he showed me around the place. "No, we didn't find an memen tos from the old days except a bottle of champagne hidden un der one floor." from " perigee, its shadow can't reach the earth. That makes an annular eclipse we see the moon as a black disc on top of the sun. with the sun blazing around the edges. There have been two eclipses every year but there may be as many as seven. In two eclipse years, both have to be solar ec lipses. In seven-eclipse years five may be solar and two lunar, or four solar and three lunar. An eclipse of the moon can be seen anywhere on earth where night reigns at the time. An eclipse of the sun is visible only to those persons within the moon's shad ow, or in the general area, when it is seen as "partial." The moon is so small its shadow isn't much. Astronomers agree that there is nothing of scienctific moment to be learned from eclipses, of either kind. Scientifically, ec lipses are small-time because there are such wonderful tech niques for studying the sun or the moon at any time. But there is not an astronomer who would not have given a hundred astro nomical tables to have been on a ship in the South China sea today. There's no spectacle in nature which even approaches a total eclipse and which re minds man so romantically that he isn't even a speck in the uni verse. (See Story on Page 1) Medford Firm Earns California Road Job Yreka Pete Kiewit Sons construction company, Medford has submitted low bids on two Siskiyou county, California high way projects. The company will reinforce the surface and provide smooth er paving on a total of 24.5 miles of the Weed-Yreka and Weed Klamath Falls highway. Torrington, Conn. (U.R) Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Di Mauro reported that two months after they moved from Island Park, L. I., 120 miles away, their year old cocker ' spaniel, which had been ' left behind, walked into their yard. Monday, June 20, 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE- Backstairs: Grandchildren To Visit Ike By MERRIMAN SMITH UP White House Writer Washington (U.R) Back stairs at the White House: The President's three grand children arrive any minute for their summer visit at the White House. "Don't plan anything that will interfere with .the kids," the President told his staff the oth er day. The White Hduse was be mused, to say the least, by the Chicago antics of V. M. Molo tov, the Soviet foreign policy expert who knew Mr. Eisenhow er in Europe during World War II. Mr. Eisenhower read about Molotov walking through the Lake Shore boulevard traffic in Chicago arid remarked casually: "He doesn't understand our traffic. The President got a kick this week out of opposing articles in Look magazine and the U.S. News and World Report on his political future. Look led off with a piece by its Washington correspondent, Richard Wilson, saying "Why Ike Doesn't "Want a Second Term." U.S. News car ried an impressive yellow and blue cover declaring "Why Ike Will Run Again.". When White House photogra phers speak of "Mutt and Jeff," they refer to the Senate Repub- Mohtov Has at Least One Friend in America San Francisco (U.R) So viet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov made at least one friend during his train trip here from New York to attend the 10th anniversary meeting of the United Nations. J. B. Carlton. 42 year -old porter, said he wu preparing to arrange Molotov's linens when the ' foreign minister "told me politely and firmly that I didn't have to." A Russian woman took over the housekeeping duties but Carlton got a $17 tip from hit distinguished charge. iican leader, William F. Know land, and House GOP Leader Joseph F. Martin Jr. - Knowland, Martin and 'other GOP congressional leaders go to the White ' House on Tuesday morning for a legislative confer ence with the Chief Executive. Knowland and Martin usually speak later for the group. Last Tuesday, as Knowland and Martin left the President's office an irreverent camerman shouted, "Who wants Mutt and Jeff?" An informant left over from the War Between the States re- ports from Gettysburg that the President has joined a group of Pennsylvania antique automo bile owners. The club sent the President a handsome, gold em bossed card of membership and he accepted happily. How Mr. Eisenhower quali fies for membership is another matter. He has no antique ear. The electric go-carts for over-N age golfers at the Gettysburg Country club rent for $6 per 18 holes. Mr. Eisenhower, however, doesn't pay. He's on the house, thanks to the club's generous board of directors. I'm Wild about the way my Plymouth performs with entirely new grade Mobilgas Nine out of every ten owners of pre 1955 Plymouths and many other cars get smooth, knock-free mileage when tliey use new grade Mobilgas which sells in the price range of regular. Look for this sign. IPS A PSYCHOLOGICAL FACT: PLEASURE HELPS YOUR DISPOSITION otit (our disposition iodaci CROSS AS A BEAR? That's only natural - when little annoyances heckle you. But keep this in mind : it's a psychological fact that pleasure helps your disposition. That means everyday pleasures, like smoking for instance, are important. That's why, if you're a smoker, you ought to enjoy the most pleasurable cigarette. Camel, every time! . Va2 Sx ' IP c IIP' ,g W'fci-p! ' ' ' ty . W mwww-w .... .. ...... T ffigflgi pure pleasure-have a It makes sense to choose your cigarette for the pleasure it gives you. It's a psychological fact that pleasure helps your disposition. And more people smoke Camels and get more pure pleasure from ' Camels than from any other cigarette.' Because, for one thing, no other cigarette is so rich-tasting, yet so mild as Camel!' -.- Yes, Camels are your wise choice for more pure pleasure. So have a Camel! B. J. Benoldf TobtaoCoanuft Wtoium-SilKB. M. a eeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeaeeeee
