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Agenda Drawn Up For County-Wide Schools Meeting A preliminary steering com mittee met yesterday in the of fice of the county school super intendent to draw up a tentative agenda for a meeting of all Jackson county school board member to be held later this month. Purpose of the larger meeting will be to study conditions ef fecting the various school dis tricts and especially efficient school district organization and school' financing. To Aid Legislation Information derived from the rogeting of all school .board members will be used by an in terim committee, established by the House Joint Resolution 19, to aid it in drafting remedial legislation for presentation be fore the 49th legislative assem bly. Those present at yesterday's meeting were Alf B. Mekvold, county school superintendent; chairmen of the first class dis trict boards; chairmen of the rural and non-high boards; and president of Jackson county rural school boards association. Taste Puts Turtles In Kettle of Soup Sebewaing, Mich. (U.R) The fact that Michigan snapping turtles taste so much better than Florida cousins has' literally fut them in a fine kettle of soup. t ' A local restaurant owner and turtl Soup connoisseur. Dan fehtff r, said customers come from M far away as Ohio just iO Mmplt his . turtls soup. He utd nothing but Michigan snap pers lit preparing the dish. "Our Michigan turtles weigh only Grom " 12 to 18 pounds apiece," he said, "and the Florida ones usually average about 100 pounds." , Shafer said the Florida turtles have much darker meat and "have a muddy taste that is far Inferior to the state of Michigan snappers." Bay At Builders Supply QUALITY BLOCKS Bricks. Flues Drain Tile 12? W. McAndrews Phone 2-4107 On The Side By E. V. Durling (Distributed by Kinfl Fwtaraa Syndicate, lac) What men of medicine refer to as a common cold should have a more impressive name. The present designation tends to" be little the disabling powers of that irritating and extremely un comfortable ailment. Then con sider that it is acknowledged there is no cure for the common cold. It comes upon you and there is nothing much to be done but to grin and bear it for a period of at least seven days. There are preparations that can make it easier to bear but for an affliction, so disparagingly referred to as the "common cold" it can be quite a trouble maker. As you may have guessed I have a "common cold." ' Plaasa Not How many different brands of cigarettes does your favorite tobacconist carry? There s a shop on the Avenue of the Amer icas in Manhattan that has reg ularly in stock 130 different brands of cigarettes. That's quite a stock. However, Geneva, Switzerland, .that had in stock 415 different brands of cigar ettes. Just as Good When I told the pharmacist I wanted another brand of as pirin than the one he offered me, he said: "Why pay more for the same thing? All aspirin is alike. This brand is just as good as any." I insisted on hav ing my favorite brand. I don't know anything about the manu facture of aspirin tablets but I believe it might be possible for one firm to make a better prod uct than another even if using the same ingredients. By the way, what product was it that used the slogan: "A parrot can say 'just as good' but it won't know what it is talking about Asking Queries from clients. Q. Do you believe in lucky numbers? A. No, sir. However, many suc cessful people do. For example, Gabrielle Chanel, the prosperous Parisienne, has always believed five is her lucky number. It cer tainly has been lucky for her. . . i Q. Have you- ever met a man whose first name was So crates? A. No, sir. But I know a dog named Socrates. He is one of the most popular dogs in his neighborhood. Everybody calls him "Socky." Reading Seems to be considerable cur rent dissatisfaction at the read ing ability of youngsters. How old were you when you learned to read? I don't remember when I started. However, I recall when around 9 or 10 years old I was reading such classics as "Old King Brady," "The Opium Ring," "Frank . Merriwell at Yale," "The James Boys in Mis souri" and "Frank Reade, the Boy Inventor." After that I re call reading "Around the World in Eighty Days," by Jules Verne, "For the Honour of the School," by Ralph Henry Barbour and "Rodney Stone," by Con an Doyle. When 12 I tackled some advanced reading. I began read ing the Racing Form. Vamps " A current, satirical musical comedy titled, "The Vamp," deals with the "vampire" type actress 'of the silent film days. Of -course, everybody has heard of Theda Bara. But how about some of the other "vamp" film specialists? The top three next to Theda were Valeska Suratt, Virginia Pearson and Louise Glaum. The last named was the original "Tiger Woman." Changed Mama. - Note a young female has at tered the name Shirley to SherlL Well, I can stand that. I can even stand a change from Edith to Edythe. Or from Rose to Rosye. The change, that really antagonizes me is . when that grand old name of Mary is changed to Marye. Passing By Craig Claiborne. Food expert. Specializing in teaching women how to cook. Mr. Claiborne is said to be the country's leading' authority on the preparation of cheese beignets.' Largest Aluminum Contract Awarded Chicago U.R , The largest aluminum contract ever award ed for apartment building con struction in the United States has been announced by develop ers who will build six glass and aluminum skyscrapers on the lakefront here. ' Builders Herbert S. Green wald and Samuel N. Katzin said the order was placed with the Reynolds Metals Co., of Louis ville, Ky. , More than 1,400,000 pounds of aluminum will be used for exter iors in the first four towers to be built. The other two will be built at a later date. Twin ' structures at one site will be 20 stories tall and will contain a total of 533 apart ments. Twin towers' at another site will be 28 stories high with 750 apartments. The exterior of the buildings will consist of a series of pre fabricated aluminum grids, 9x21 feet, designed to - eliminate as many fielderection joints as pos sible. Specially designed tinted glass will be set into tha grids for windows. HOME PRODUCT Milwaukee (U.R) Wiscons in, known far and wide as the Badger State, wasn't embarrass ed at its state fair this year. Fair officials had to borrow a badger from Iowa for one recent fair, but this year they had their own, a home-grown one. OUT OF THE NIGHT Eugene Lyle, stunned by tragedy, comforts his wife after a private plane crashed into a North Hollywood apartment house, killing their daughter, Mrs. Betty Wolf, an 18-year-old bride. Also killed were a 2-month-old baby who had been baptized only two hours earlier and millionaire sportsman Joel W. Thome, 40, pilot of the plane. Wadnatdar, Oeiobar 19, 19SS MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUN&-SEVEH Language Difference Small Barrier for Tourists on Dominican Republic Jaunt , By H. D. QUIGG Unitad Prats Corraspondent Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic (U.R) The language barrier, like a woman, is a some time thing. But it can lead to some charm-' ing situations. . . English-speaking people who come to this tropical country in the Caribbean for a vacation find some natives who speak a lot of English in addition to their native Spanish and some who speak and understand not-so-much. To get right down to it, my roommate in the palatial Jar agua Hotel here spent a morn ing sun-soaking at the swimming pool, and in the afternoon he went spear fishing. Watch Out for Sun And at night when he came home, he was doing a slow burn. Doing? His legs were done to a turn. At 18 degrees of latitude above the equator, you have to watch out for the hard-working sun. He asked me if I had anything good for sunburn. I said no but that maybe he should ask the hotel. So he picked up the phone to get the desk. A lady answered. She was Spanish-speaking, but she knew enough English to get along. "Do you have anything for sunburn?" my roommate asked, without wasting time on pre liminary conversation. "Un momento, and I'll see if we have," she replied. There was a wait of a minute or so. And then the lady was back on the phone. "No,, nothing for you, Mr. Sunburn," she said cheerily. Well, this is a true story. But it was not typical, because every where you go you find plenty of persons who can chatter with you in English. The country is making a bid for the tourist trade. A $25,000, 000 Dominican Republic Fair for Peace and Progress is a building on 125 acres beside the Caribbean. It opens Dec. 20 and lasts into spring. Ciudad Trujillo, the capital, is a clean city. You can drink the water right out of the tap a condition that does not prevail in many countries. NEBRASKA FARM STANDARD Lincoln, Neb. (U.R) The standard of living of Nebraska farm families has increased 74 per cent since 1945, a University of Nebraska economist reported." The index was based on the per centage of farms with electricity, telephones and automobiles and the value of products aold. Dead line Sunday Classified la at noon Saturday. 10 ajn Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 oreviousday. Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport rADAAP-DQ J erPaVkA f i CAiieo deOMS tpur dirtiest" eqaipwieM.f. . . . CHEAPER FATTER BETTER. forWsB demoKstratiox .. .call or write. OAK ST. TANK STEEL CO j ASHLAND, OREGON , ASHIMAD 2-1221 3 28,000-Mile Jaunt Enough for Bride Hamburg (U.R) Mrs. Albert J. Faustini is ready to settle down in one spot after "honey mooning" for a year in a one room apartment on wheels that took her and her husband on a 23,000-yiile jaunt through the United States, Canada and Mex ico. Faustini, an electronics engi neer for five years before the couple was wed in May, '1954, bought a 1947 walk-in panel truck for $575. Then he and his wife spent $300 more and put in nearly three months work to convert the inside into living quarters. The do-it-your-selfers then gave a. coat of green paint to their mobile home, lettered "The Happy Wanderers" in yellow on the conveyance, and took off. -- Now Mrs. Faustini says she's had enough of her home-on-wheels for awhile. "I'm going to convert from a truck-wife to a housewife," she said. OOMINQ IN TH B 'BO OUD8MI A BRAND NEW CONC NSMISSIONS I E PT IN AUTOMATIC TRA DRIVE AU. THai JEOHS ALU THB (o O IM-UID., QEAR8 I Jetatcay! : : : rocketing yonr way in the dazzling new Oldsmobiles for 1956! Jetaway! . . . powerfully new, powerfully smooth an entirely new idea in automatic transmissions! Jetaway! . . . just one of the many major advancements yon can count on in Olds for '56! 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