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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.
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Comment On This and That
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Hungry Monster of Television Nibbling
On Popularity of '$64,000 Question'
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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.
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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-
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