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G FOUH MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, December 6, 1955 Powdered Milk Makers Tried for Poisoning Tokyo U.P.) Two officials of a powdered milk company are being tried for criminal negli gence in an accidental arsenic poisoning case which resulted in the death of 50 infants last sum mer. q The prosecution charged Mon day that the milk plant's former superintendent and the produc tion chief -were criminally negli gent in not thoroughly examin ing dibasic sodium phosphate used in the production of powd ered milk. Chemical analysis re vealed traces of arsenic in the dibasic sodium phosphate. A Nichol's Worth of . . . Comment On This and That By HARMAN W. 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Name Phone Address How Long City Zone State Husband's or wife's first name Employed by How long Credit References mr J i i I By VILLIAM EWALD United Press Correspondent New York (U.R) Television of how the hu-1 is a hungry monster. In the past, it has gobbled up such performers as Wally Cox, Imogene Coca and Red Buttons. It has boosted such programs as Harman Nichols man windpipe works than in C h r istmas or the com i n g s and goings of Congress. A full col umn in the W a s h i n gton Evening Star told all about the tube we , Boiled down, breathe through. the item said the pipe was, and still is, "a tube through which the air of breath passes to and from the lungs." There was very little mention of the Yuletide in the ads during Franklin Pierce's administration, although there were some hints. The year 1850 was a little be fore Christmas was so commer cial, although the spirit of giving abounded. Folks in those days were of the do-it-and-grow-it-yourself pioneers. Fir trees were grown out back. .Mamas made rag dolls for little girls and papas split logs to make sleds. The gingerbread boy mostly came out of the oven instead of a store-bought story book. Tricks Advertised Around Yule time in the long ago, , the papers advertised the likes of this: "Fancy work boxes horse blankets spoke and wheel brushes." Likewise: "Gamblers tricks with cards exposed and explained by J. H. Green, 25 cents." One of the few really Christ masy items read: "Kris Kringle addresses you: "He has all kinds of notions: Gifts and toys: for seniors as well as girls and boys." That part of it rhymed. But the end of the ad sort of limped: "And those who would some handsome gifts secure can al ways find them at the 7th Street Stewer store." A small hint of Christmas came in an ad in another paper by W. F. Seymour, which stated that the firm has on hand some "dark Canada mink sables, man tillas as cheap as $150, which will be sold much cheaper for cash." Things hadn't gone up much in price in those days. You still could put a fin on the line and get a "fairly good fiddle with instructions." The Washington Daily Union carried an adver tisement on page 1 saying that there was for hire English tui tion, board, lodging and washing for five months for S90. "Music and languages a little extra." Spirit of Christmas This has nothing to do with politics, but maybe it was in the spirit of Christmas. One store asked the ladies to please pre serve their teeth by using "Down den's dental fluid." On the editorial page of one one the Washington papers, the editor reprinted a story from a New Jersey paper. The editor up there claimed one of his snoopers had found a graveyard in which stood a tombstone on which was inscribed: "He was a good egg." That inspired the Washington paper to compose the following postscript: "Tread lightly o'er this nest we beg; or else perhaps you'll smash the egg." The local paper went all out on that and said it knew of a fellow up in New England who spotted a whole row of tomb stones, and running in order they said: "He was a brick." "He was a perfect horse, "He was a whole team" and "He was some pumpkin." "Dragnet," "I Love Lucy" and Milton Berle show to the dizzy top, then gnawed them down to a comfortable level. And now, it seems to be nib bling on the edges of TV's most popular program "The $64,000 Question." Television's most widely-talked about show has now passed the half-year mark. Over its first 26 airings, it has passed out $295,584, five convertibles and sent at least seven contest ants on to a fair measure of fame. Stardom for Hal March It has harvested more pub licity than any other show in history, made a top star out of emcee Hal March and added several new phrases to the lexi con $64,000 question," "isola tion booth," "the first plateau," "go for the summit" and "lovely Barbara Briton." It has sold its sponsor's prod ucts like crazy, turned a bank vice-president into a national celebrity with four fan clubs and forced other quiz shows to jack up their pots.. It has proved that ordinary citizens can be conversant with such esoterica as jazz, the Bible, Shakespeare, poetry and fisticuffs. It has shackled as many as 50,000.000 citizens to their sets each Tuesday evening an all time high for a regularly sched uled program. But tor some weeks now, there have been indications that it may be ready to settle to a less heady level still one of TV's top shows, but less fan tastic in its drawing power. Reached Record Audience When the CBS show began June 7, it racked up a modest 13.0 rating (in other words, 13 per cent of TV owners were watching it). But from this low point, it climbed fast. On July 12, when Mrs. Cath erine Kreitzer, a Bible expert, took her $32,000, it hit 43.0. When M a ri n e Capt. Richard McCutciieon won his $64,000 it reached 49.6. And it notched a giddy all time high of 54.1 on Sept. 27 when Mrs. Myrt Power took her $32,000 as a reward for knowing her baseball. . But the ratings dropped stead ily from that night on. Last week, when contestant Steven Frohlich had a chance to shoot for top money, the Trendix fig ures showed 37.1 for the show, pretty good - but not phenom enal about what Ed Sullivan gets on a click night. In fact, interest has lagged to the extent that CBS announced last week that it no longer plan ned to air "The $64,000 Ques tion" on radio. The program had a run in that medium for nine weeks. Sure Way To Test Bus Driven Ability Buffalo, N.Y. U.R) Is the driver who's operating the bus you're boarding an expert at his job or below par? ' There's one quick way to find out, says James L. Weeks. Just take a glance around at the passengers. "If people look relaxed and axe reading or talking with friends, they are riding with a safe, vskillful driver," he said, but if people look tense, if the bus weaves sharply into and out of stops and makes leapfrog starts, it's driven by a cowboy driver." Weeks, who spoke here at a meeting of the American Tran sit Association, is qualified to rate drivers. He is safety di- Use Tribune Want Ads QUICK and EASYl Low in cost The . Ottoman Turks first ap peared in the earJy 13th cen tury" A.D. and at the height of their power the empire stretched from the Persian Gulf to the Polish frontier and from the shores of the Caspian Sea to Oran in Algeria. rector of the South Carolina Electric & Gas Co., which op erates bus lines in Columbia, S.C. ' - What about Santa's Pack... .jt&sm i Pr-- r u- Store Hours: 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Wed. 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport 3 Next Christmas? Plan now for an even merrier Christmas in 1956 .. join U. National's Christmas Savings Club. 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