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TheylL Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo To HE4R THEM TELL tT, SHRINKING VIOLET'S ' GAL FRIENDS ARE GOINS TO LEAVE MO MAti INTURNED UNTIL TMEV GET HERAURWEDOFF- VIOLET-ITS HISM twe you GOT WE'VE DECIDED TO FIND "ME R1SUT MAti FOR YOU- 'YOU'RE JUST TOO B4SH- FULTHE first nice ' FELLOW WHO SHOWS UP UROUMD HE i?Ei WE'RE GOING i TO SEE TO IT HE POPS THE -S"$L QUESTION- GETTING ' DmD wn ft 17 , UlTCMED IS AW NUMBER ONE PROJECT WeU-,4M ELIGIBLE' MAH DID 4PPE4R ON THE HORIZON- 4NDWH4T CH4NCE DIDVl'Se4L FHLS SIVE HER? YOU GUESSED IT WATCHER I'VE EVER MET- h 1 TOMORROW I'LL RACK A HIKE TO EA&Lfc KCX,KrjL 1 you MUST 'HEAR MY RECORD ' COLLECTION-DO COME TO DINNER TOMORROW N'SMT" LOOKS LIKE VI IS 'GETTING THE , IRON CURTAIN LTREATMENT- IKS. KING FEATURES SYNDICATE. W . WORLD BIGHTS BE5EEVED A Nichol's Worth of Comment On This and That By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United P'M fwtaw Writar Washineton (U.R) What's new in Washington: The problem of a language barrier came 71 up when nine college kids were being briefed about their trip to South . Ameri ca ca on an ex change of young farm ers. Farmer ette Mary Lou ise Ansberry Herman NicfaoU of San Ardo, Calif., on her way to Uruguay, said she didn't think any of the nine in the group would have any -trouble. All of them know how to pitch hay and milk a cow. Language would be no Droblem. either, the black- haired lady said. "Pass the but ter is Em international phrase," she said, "and not only that, we all know how to reach across the table." 10 Speaking of lovely ladies, Betty Jane Owen is one gov ernment gal who can tell you that the spoils system doesn't mean tod much. She was "spoiled" from her job in the Agriculture Department when the Republicans came in. Mean ing that she got a notice saying her particular job was being abolished. But under Civil Serv ice she switched to another sec tion of the Agriculture Depart ment and - has gone up four grades. A' lot more take home. Better still, she wound up mar rying the son of her boss. One of the oldest bars in Wash ington is the "Old Ebbitt" which has been in business since the Civil War. It still exhibits a sign which says: "One man on bis feet is worth two on his seat." The point is that since the repeal of prohibition it has been against the law in Washington to stand on your feet at a bar. ' There are some new rules for new would-be cab drivers in the District of Columbia. One is that a hacker has to be able to read, write and speak the English language. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover made a plea not long ago for better , salaries for police of ficers. He made the statement that in one town at least,' a be ginning garbage collector gath ered more take home than a rookie cop. J. E. H. made it clear that he had nothing against garbage collectors. Nonetheless he got a flock of mail from wives of rookie garbage collectors, not to mention posies from the spouses of rookie coppers. , There was a hearing on Cap itol Hill which had to do with automation. Some folks feared that using more machines put a lot of nice people out of work. Well, at one point Prof. Wal ter J. Bucking, assistant profes sor at Georgia Tech, fell to talk ing about what happens when a big outfit puts in automation. He used the work "automo tizes." , Right on his feet was John Diebold, a New York manage ment consultant and self-styled elder . statesman of automation, with a correction. ' "I respect the profesor," said Diebold, "and I hold Mm in great regard. But I would like to say that when anybody goes into automation, he 'automates', for sure he doesn't 'automize.' " New Jersey in 1865 became the first state to designate offi cially all of its militia units as the National Guard. Corncobs are now being used for furfural, a chemical needed to make nylon, synthetic rubber, pharmaceuticals and resins. QUICK and EASY! For Action, Use Tribune Wet Ads University Honors Petroleum Engineer Pittsburgh U.R) Forty years of pioneering paid off for Fred erick , A. Johnson when he walked across a platform at the University of Pittsburgh and re ceived a citation as the world's first graduate petroleum en gineer. Johnson, of Oil City, Pa., said that when he became the first person to receive a degree in his field at Pitt's June com mencement in 1915, "I cast my lot with the then unknown." He pointed out how un known" his field was by recall ing his first interview for a job. A Standard Oil official asked, "What is a petroleum engineer?" He said during the early days the road of the petroleum engin eer was not an easy one. He had considerable difficulty convinc ing hard-headed oil operators that a petroleum engineer could be useful. "Petroleum engineering' has come a long way since those early days," Johnson commented with a glance at the honorary memorial certificate. Distaste for Math Puzzles Professors Davis, Calif. (U.R) Why Jimmy doesn't like the third of the "three R's" has professors wondering and working here. A child development special ist, Thomas Poffenberger, and a mathematician, Donald A. Nor ton, both of the faculty of the University of California College of Agriculture, are trying to learn what, besides natural abil ity, affects a student's mathe matics aptitude. Norton said that in spite of more and more need for engi neers, chemists and physicists, proportionately fewer students are entering these fields in col leges and universities. "We may not be able to make mathematics any easier to un derstand," he said, "but we hope to find out why so many stu dents don't like the subject." Hi1 SIEG1ER USES HEAT THAT'S FT) 71 on w ni MM OVER YHRJ?LOORS! Look at these exclusive SIEGLER FEATURES! 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To his dismay he found that the part dealing with those mar red in May had been clipped from the copy of the calendar in our files. It is suspected some May bride has gained access to our files and for reasons of her own clipped the mention of her group from the Bridal Calendar. Anyway, there will be a slight delay in our report on May brides until we obtain another calendar. Asking Queries from clients. Q. Is the railroad of which Gypsy Rose Lee, the strip tease dancer, is a vice president in active oper ation? A. Yes, sir. It is the Lan caster and Chester railway,' that regularly operates as a freight carrier . between the towns of Chester and Lancaster in South Carolina, a distance of 29 miles . . . Q. Who owned Ballyhoo Bey, the horse Ted Sloan rode to win the Sheepshead Bay Fu turity? I say W. C. Whitney. My brother says J. E. Madden. A. Whitney owned Ballyhoo Bey. Madden trained him. However, Yankee, winner, of the 1901 Fu turity, was owned and trained by Madden . . . Q. Did Marguerite Clark appear in a stage musical with Eddie Foy? A. Yes, sir. It was titled "The Wild Rose." Eve lyn Nesbit was in it too. Veteran Car Today I saw in operation a Model T. Ford. It must be at least 28 years old. The last Mod el T was made in 1927. There were about 15,000,000 Model T cars manufactured between 1908 and 1927. The first Model T cars manufactured between 1908 and 1927. The first Model T was pric ed at $850 FOB Detroit. In 1928 when the Model A replaced the Model T somebody wrote a pop ular song titled "Henry's Made a Lady Out 'of Lizzie." I never have known why the name Liz zie was saddled on the Model T, as in "Tin Lizzie." Series Thrill "Following the victory of our gallant Dodgers in the World Series," writes a Brooklynite, "it was really something to see those Yankee fans walking out of the stadium with their heads bowed down like a little dog with his tail between his legs. That was the thrill of the Series for -me, the silencing of those loudmouth ed Yankee fans. They didn't even have enough spirit or guts to "shout: 'Wait until next year'!" Rugged Fellow Have only been in a hospital overnight once in my life. That was after an automobile acci dent in Paris. I just heard of a man who had never been in a hospital until he was 99 years old. At that age he underwent an abdominal operation and sur vived! A real rugged old fel low. Incidentally, this man still reads the newspaper without the aid of spectacles. Passing By Tuesday, October 18, 19SS MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE TITS Man Proves Point; River Turns Green Wichita, Kan. (U.R) Some official faces turned red because water of the Little Arkansas River turned green. Wichita recently spent $10, 000 plugging holes in Riverside Park Dam. City officials thought the job a success. But an Arkansas man, diver Julian Arpin, proved otherwise with a package of green dye and a 69-cent Army mess kit. Trini Reyes, one of the world's greatest Flamenco dancers. She is the only woman in that dance group known as Los Chaveles de Espana. The other members are eleven men from Barcelona. Tri ni is an American. I wish I could say that Trini like Sidney Frank lin, one of the world's greatest bullfighters, is from Brooklyn. But she isn't. She is from New York City. Among The Married You have no doubt heard of women who have had eight hus bands. But have you heard of a woman who has been married eight times and never had a di vorce? It has happened.: A Brit ish woman, recently married for the eighth time, was widowed seven times. She married for the first time at the age of 20. For the eighth time at the age of 74. Sidelights Another of the amazing num ber of great men born under the sign of Leo was Henry Ford As for the lightest college foot ball player a Pennsylvanian says it was Audie McFarland, quar terback for Washington and Jef ferson in 1905. Audie weighed 105 pounds. He put a package of Navy dye in the messkit, punched the kit full of holes and lowered it into the river just above the dam.- Within 10 minutes bright green dye came floating up in the water below the dam. Arpin said his test showed one "big leak" was not repaired. He conducted the experiment after Wichita officials last spring turned down his $999 bid to explore the face of the dam beneath the river surface for leaks. He said his work would permit the city to make "a real istic estimate of the repair costs." .. The work on the dam, after Arpin's turndown, was declared an . emergency and a private company was hired for $10,000 to. plug the leaks. Over one-half of 63 major US markets receive 90 per cent, or more, of livestock ,via highway transportation. : Ten markets re ceive all livestock by truck. Read and Use Classified Ad. PAJNT WITH u IteaMiliitei BURGESS PAINT & WALLPAPER STORE Corner 6th & Holly, Diagonally Across from the Post Office We Give S&H Green Stamps PHONE 2-9321 . 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Helps prevent injuries in case of impact against the instrument panel. 5. new safety door locks are designed to hold doors closed under three times as much impact as former locks. Safety research shows there is much less likelihood of serious injury in accidents if passengers are not thrown from the cars. 6. rear door safety lockino device is available in 4-door models. Children cannot unlock and jopen doors until the driver uses a key to trip the safety catch. 7-8. NEW CUSHIONED SUN VISORS, NEW FULl-SWIVEl SAFETY REARVIEW MIRROR are extra safeguards for driver and passengers. O-IO. NEW 225- AND 210-HP SAFETY-SURGE V-i ENGINEStAND IMPROVED safety-grip brakes. You enjoy more usable power than ever for split-second pickup, safer passing, easier hill climbing. Stop ping action is smoother, surer, too. 'Optional - v - I r. .. ,,,.,, Everywhere you look in the big m for 1956, there's something new to see or try. , For instance, the big m's new 12-volt electrical system lets you start faster than ever. Mercury's exclusive-in-its-field ball-joint front suspension is further improved to give you even more superb handling ease and comfort. And the big M is styled new in dozens of exciting ways, from bumper to bumper. To accent its extra length, there' spectacular Flo-Tone color styling. Insidej fabrics are even more colorful, durable, luxurious. , For hardtop fans, the best news of all is that Mercury's famous low-silhouette beauty is now available in every series Montclair, Monterey and Custom. See and drive the big M at your Mercury dealer's. Come in today! r-or 1956 The big move is to THE BIG llfJERCURY J Don't miss the big television hit, Ed Sullivan's "TOAST OF THE TOWN," Sunday evening, 8:00 to 9:00. Station KBES-TV, Channel 5. 6th b Ivy o Phone 2-6157
