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Medford United Press FuU Leased Wire Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1955 Pages! -6 Subscribers To report improper or non -delivery of the Mail Tribune phone 2-6141 before 6:43 pjn. daily and 10 JO am. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives short ly after you call please notify of fice thUS Hminnting SDCCial mes senger service. On The Side By E. V. Durling (Distributed by Kiafl Feature Syndicate. Inc.) Alaska is still a happy hus band hunting ground for smart bachelorettes. In southern Alas ka the men outnumber the women lour to one. In northern Alaska it is twelve to one. If a girl can't get a husband in Alas ka it is possible she will never get a husband at all. There are 25,000 bachelors in Fairbanks, Alaska. This includes civilians and men in the United States armed forces. Single men, eager to acquire a spouse, are also reported plentiful in Anchorage, Alaska. The husband hunter who has a knowledeg of stenography and typewriting has a definite advantage. She can get a position paying from $70 to $90 a week and take her time in looking over the eligible bachelor situation. Briefly Italian Cinema Actress Anna Maria Alberehetti recently said, "The thing I love most about Hollywood is its banana splits." Medical history has recorded the birth of fifty-seven sets of quintuplets. However, only three sets of these quintuplets have survived infancy. Larceny How low and petty can larceny set? Recently reported was the arrest of a man charged with stealing gold irom ine teem oi a corpse. It is said there is about $20,000,000 in buried gold teeth in the United States. seen on the side of the house on Synge street: "Bernard Shaw, author of many plays, was born in this house 26th July, 1886." Asides Phineas T. Barnum, who said "There's a sucker born every minute," put thousands of dol lars in a real estate failure in a town named after him. The vil lage of Barnum is still on the map. But I forgot where . . .Life expectancy experts say if you want to get an idea of how long you are going to live add the age of your parents and four grandparents and divide it by six. First Word How about your first baby? At what age did the infant begin to speak? How about the first ' word? Have just heard of a baby who spoke for the first time at the age of 6 months. This child's first word was "Myxomatosis." Sounds impossible doesn't .it? However, not when you know the facts. Myxomatosis is the 'name of the child's toy rabbit. tAiking Queries from clients. Q. Is Aldous Huxley, author of that .book on how to improve the eye isight, still living? If so, where? :A. Last I heard of Mr. Huxley :he was living in California, somewhere near the Mohave Desert. Sidelights . ' " At one time while Grover 'Cleveland was president of the United States the government had a surplus revenue of $140, 000,000 and Mr. Cleveland did a lot of worrying as to what could be done with it . . . Sophia Loren, that red-haired Italian cinema luminary known as "The Siz zler," is an accomplished cook. Her specialty is pizza pie. So phia's culinary talent makes her quite unusual. Red-haired wo men are rarely good cooks. As It Was Twenty-three years ago, in the 1932-1933 season, the ten best film stars at the box office were: 1 Marie Dressier. 2 Will Rog ers. 3 Janet Gaynor. 4 Eddie Cantor. 5 Wallace Beery. 6 Jean Harlow. 7 Clark Gable. 8 Mae West. 9 Norma Shear er. 10 Joan Crawford. Clothes Horse How much attire does the well dressed cinema cutie require? One does not look up Debbie Reynolds as a "clothes horse" type, still for her recent trip to England Debbie had a wardrobe consisting of 124 pairs of shoes, twenty-four evening gowns, fif teen suits, thirty skirts, forty five blouses and a vast amount of lingerie. Also a platinum mink coat and a beaver coat. Literary Not That brilliant! Irishman, George Bernard Shaw, was con sidered somewhat conceited by many people. In reality he was a very modest roan. Shaw was born at 33 Synge street, Dublin. When it was decided to place a tablet on the Shavian birth place, many inscriptions em bodying words of high praise were suggested. Finally Shaw was asked what he would like on the tablet. He suggested the following, which now can be Among the married It was Samuel Smiles who said, "After the first year, mar ried people rarely think of each other's features and whether they are classically beautiful or otherwise. But they never fail to be cognizant of each other's temper." Copyright, 1955, King Features Synd. Ine. Vinson Sees Win For Reserve Bill Washington U.R) Rep. Carl Vinson (D-Ga.) confidently pre dicted Saturday that the House will pass a. compromise version of President Eisenhower's com pulsory military reserve bill de spite threats of a new row over racial segregation. Vinsen, Chairman of the House Armed Services commit tee which will vote on the meas ure Tuesday, said the committee will approve it. The measure would compel every man who goes into mili tary service to spend a combined total of at least five years on ac tive duty and in the ready re serve. That 1 would mean a draftee would spend two years on active duty and three in the ready reserve . It also would inaugurate a new six months training plan for pre-draft-age youths, fol lowed by IVt years in the ready reserve. Kansas City, Mo. U.R) Former President Harry S. 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Dag 'Hammarsk jold covers a half-yawn as Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov (center) gestures as he confers with his interpreter, Mr. Troy ?.ovs.t& .dug Colomoian delegation dinner honoring the 10th anniversary session of tne UN in San Francisco. ...,' . . J Earl Warren Ouidraws Big Commie Meeting Helsinki, Finland (U.R) Chief Justice Earl Warren and an American festival completed successfully here Saturday night with a international Communist meeting. Mr. Warren told a large audience that freedom is "a culmination of all the construc tive forces of civilization." He spoke at the opening ceremony of a two-day "America Days Festival." Across town delegates to the Communist "world peace festi val" heard their fourth day of party line speeches. The public was barred from the Red con vention hall, providing a con trast to the American affair which was open to ail. ' Newsmen who shuttled back and forth between the two meet ings reported the American one was by far the more successful. 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