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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 14, 1955)
o O On The Side By L V. DURLING , (Distributed by King Features Syndicate. Inc.) Insofar as Horses' and Women are concerned I am doing all right with the horses. I did have two losing tickets one day last week but it was a very muddy track. As for women I am having a little difficulty with them in addition to trying to understand them. Various groups of fern- t inine subscribers indignantly say this department is unfair to them. Not long ago many brunettes were complaining that we are prejudiced in favor of redheads. Then many Capricorn women complained they were being ne glected in the stargazer reports, .. Now, I have a number of bitter complaints from feminine sub scribers whose wedding days were in May. They say that in my recent report as to the brides calendar the May brides were omitted. "Why so?" asks one Milwaukee May bride, "Are we so bad that a report on our char acters is unprintable?" It was just an oversight. What more can I say, when I say I am sorry? The report on May brides will . appear in an early issue. Passing By Stan Musial. The highest sal aried major league ballplayer, with an annual salary of $85,000 a year. That's somewhat cStu pendous. But don't forget that over 25 years ago Ty Cobb was paid $75,000 a season by Connie Mack of the Athletics. And the dollar then had three times its current guying power. The in come tax was also much lower. Anyway, Stan is progressing very nicely financially. Owns an Interest in three profitable res taurants in St. Louis and also a share in some valuable income property. Please Note How about your dentist? Do his feet hurt? Is he wearing com fortable shoes? Does he feature footgear that keeps him well balanced? If not he may let the drill slip while working on your, or have a similar mishap. A bar ber should also be comfortably shod. Or he is liable to let the shears or razor slip. Or, so says an expert on the problems of the pedal extremities. So to Bed Do you find your bed is ex pertly made? Is your wife clever that way? How about your teen aged daughter? I have just heard from a feminine subscriber who says she learned how to make a bed properly when reading "Uncle Tom's Cabin." In that classic there is a passage which tells in detail how Topsy was taught to make a bed properly. Songs The writer of several popular songs has an opportunity to achieve a lifetime income from them. The British composer Tol chard Evans keeps reviving songs he wrote 20 or more years ago and is collecting much money in current royalties. Some of the songs he has revived are: "Lady of Madrid," written 20 years ago; the three songs titled, respectively, "If," "Faith" and "Unless," all written in 1934; and "Lady of Spain" and "Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing," written in 1931. Asides One of my favorite combina tions is breaded veal cutlet and spaghetti. The spaghetti is bet ter this year than last. Makers are using a better grade of ma terial. . . '.. In Los Angeles the carpenters are now being paid $2.90 'an hour. That makes $116 for a five day week and there is quite a little opportunity for overtime. Horses and Women Looking over the statistics of the 43 finalists in a beauty con test I noted 39 had waist meas urements of 24 inches or less. Of the other four, two had 26 inch waists and two had 25 inch. Keep this in mind if you are thinking of streamlining your wife to compete for the Mrs. America title. -Sidelights The Caswell Massey drug store on Lexington ave., Manhattan, established in 1752, claims to be "the oldest drug store in Amer ica." Any challengers? -. . . Says ..a Brooklynite of Irish birth: "John O'Daly, of Lisadell, Sligo, wrote the song 'Eillen Aroon and the Scots stole it and called it Robin Adair'." - ' I MULTI-TRANSISTOR HEARING AID ? 50 . Dramatically compact, lightweight, efficient! Zenith's finest quality throughout! A multi-transistor hear ing aid with all the power and per formance of some aids twice its size and many selling for 4 times its price! Super-sensitive Permaphone. smooth-flow Volume Control, noise limiting anodizcd Case. Costs only about 10 a week to operate. JO-Day Momv-BocI: Guarantee, On Ymar Warranty, fiva-Tcar Srvk Ham George E. White Hearing Aids 131 West Main, Medford, Ore. Evangeline's People May Face Another Deportation Washington After 200 years . torn from French people and In their loved land of deep i any, no," or "I like 1 Friday, October 14, 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TMTONE THREE Washington After 200 years the possibility of another de portation confronts Acadians the people of Longfellow's 'Evangeline," story of a wan dering girl who suffered much for love. This time many Acadian fam ilies will be uprooted if a pro posed Navy air station is built in the Evangeline country around New Iberia, La. Generations of Acadians have prospered there while holding to traditions rooted in distant France and Nova Scotia.- The Louisiana Acadians de scend from several thousand men and women of French extraction expelled by the British from Nova Scotia during a mid-18th century embroilment with France for possession of North America. Groups were random ly settled from Massachusetts to Georgia. . Some wandered to southern Louisiana and found again the atmosphere they were torn from French people French ways of life. Wanted to be Let Alone As migrants finally settled in a hospitable and fertile land, the gravitated to what they knew best; farming. In the Wolf ville and Grand Pre countrysides of Nova Scotia they had tended orchards, grown wheat and peas, raised black-horned cattle and sheep. In Louisiana they turned to small farming and cattle rais ing. They built meeting houses and strove to re-create their former life in as much seclusion as possible in the water-streaked back country. They flourished especially around quiet St. Martinville in the New Iberia area. There stands the Evangeline Oak, re putedly marking the landing place of the Acadians and the meeting . place of Emmeline Labiche and Louis Arcenaux, the Evangeline and Gabriel of Longfellow's "Evangeline." shadows and live oak, the Aca dians cling to their speech with the tenacity of the Pennsylvania Dutch. Many fifth - generation Americans have little if any grasp of English. Drill sergeants in World War II were unbeliev ing when Louisiana Acadians said "Je ne comprends pas." Dialects stemming from France, Canada and Louisiana are heard in homes and business places, all softened in Southern accent. Some terms are traceable to French villages of the late 1500's, with borrowings from Spanish, English and Indian. Voice intonations and hand ges tures enliven the speech. English Somehow Spoken Attempts at English sometimes bring strange results along the bayous. How is a friend feeling? "Jolliment all right." Was an an cient amusing? "I laugh till I bus', me." Emphasis often comes with finality as "I don' want any, no," or "I like that, yes." Thrifty farmers, merchants, stock raisers and traders, the Acadians find the New Iberia area bountiful with temperate and subtropic plants. Economic depressions have . largely by passed the region of which Long- fellow said: "Beautiful is the land, with its prairies and forests of fruit trees, "Under the feet a garden of flowers, and the bluest of heavens ... "They who dwell there have named it the Eden of Louisiana." GOOD SECURITY Sidney, Neb. (U.R) Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Likins, Portland. Ore., were unable to pay a $50 speeding fine here, so they gave the judge a diamond wedding ring and a wristwatch as se curity. The ring alone was worth about $400. BACKFIRE Barre, Vt.--(U.R) A new York hat salesman, Robert Barber, heard this city's air defense alert signal, stopped his car and rushed to a Civil Defense shelt er. 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