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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
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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.
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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.
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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!
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