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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1956)
i G o " LATEST SUBJECT of gossip by London papers m connec tion with Princess Margaret's activities is the Rev. Simon Phipps, 34, with whom she had tea in his quarters at Trinity , College where he is serving as chaplain. (International) A Nichol's Wortk of ... - Comment On This and That By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Ptet Fulur Writer Washington (U.R) What's new in Washington: The Continental Hotel near the Capitol has a nickel apple vending machine in the lobby. It seems a lot of con gressmen and senators like apples. : f Ofc f?i hi ikli,k:d A bunch of singers, spon sored bv RCA Harmon Nichols victor, have been touring this part of the country in the interest of the 5 March of Dimes. The other night they got a little bored by their own company and kicked up a poker game on their way to Washington, using their own money, of course. Crooner Eddie Fisher wound up a $2200 winner. He pulled out at Pittsburgh to fill an en gagement, plunked down a small pile of his loot at the sta tion for all available copies of two books. One was "Prospect ing for Uranium." The other was "How to Play Poker." He scattered the books all over the train and fled. His fellow warblers say Eddie ...turned the rest of his profits to help the kids who are hurting from polio. Norman E. Brown, manager of the radio station at Walter Reed hospital, went home a little ear ly because he was coming down with a bug. He fell upon his couch, removed his partial den tal plate, and had himself a nap. When he awoke, he found the teeth all over the floor.His houiTd dog, Muffin, had gotten a little too curious. Rep. H. R. Gross, the Republi can from Waterloo, Iowa, claims there is a new tractor under construction whicli has no seat. He says it is about to go on the market "at a reduced price." The Iowa lawmaker says that he "understands it will be called the Benson and is designed for farmers who lost their pants on farm prices last fall." Rep. Sidney R. Yates, the Democrat from Illinois, recalls this story about President Cleve land in his newsletter. It seems that when Cleveland's second child was born, the doctor ask ed the big man to fetch a scale to weigh the infant. Cleveland O couldn't find one at first but fin ally remembered an old thing in his cellar he had used to weigh fish he had caught. The doc put the baby aboard and found it "weighed" 25 pounds. An elevator operator who runs the lift for the press in the House side of the Capitol bawl ed out a new scribe the other day for pitching a match on the floor. "Watch that, bub," said the man, on- the car.'-Reporters don't like that sort of thing." The operator apparently never had been in a city room. Decision Postponed on Mental Hospital Site Salem .(U.R) The State Board of Control has postponed de cision on a site for the $14,000, 000 mental hospital to be built in the Portland area because of fear that proposed location of an Army-Navy jet plane base somewhere between Salem and Portland might place either of the two proposed Wilsonville sites in the flyway of such a base. Hollywood U.R) Actor singer Dean Martin and his wife have announced that a recon ciliation attempt after their f our-month separation has failed LA TJ m it Unitea Press Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wire Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1956 Pages 1-6 Around Hollywood By ALINE MOSBY United Press Correspondent Hollywood (U.R) One of the annual false alarms of show business is that the Marx Broth ers will work together again but Chico hop es it actually will happen on TV this year. The three fa mous comed ians all are working on an Aline Mosby NBC spectacu lar Jan. 29, "The Beverly Hills Story" but they appear in se parate bits, not together. But Chico revealed today the team may yet reunite during 1956 in a color spectacular based on their famous movie hit, "Ani mal Crackers." Chico Tells Possibility The oldest of the Marx Broth ers announced this hope as he sat on the living room couch of his small Brentwood home. He's lived alone for the past 20 years since he and his wife separated. "This is nothing," frowned Chico with a flip of his hand at the script for the Jan. 20 "spec." March of Dimes Coming Events Events scheduled throughout Jackson county in the next few days to raise March of Dimes funds for the fight against polio include the following: Tonight Square dance spon sored by Jackson County square dance association at YMCA, 9 p.m. Policemen vs. Firemen basketball game at Medford high school, preliminary Yellow Cab vs. Hawkinson's, 7:30 p.m. Crater Lions club auction KBES-TV, 9:30 p.m. Jan. 26 Radio auction, at KWIN, Ashland. Jan. 27 Radio Auction, KWIN, Ashland. Yoggi Hussane and Texas wrestling, with lady referees, 8:30 p.m., Ashland junior high gym,' sponsored by Ashland Lions club. Phoenix Lady Lions dance at Commun ity clubhouse. Music by Melody Wranglers. Local talent show at intermission. Modern dance at Rogue River. Baked food sale by Crater high' school students. Jan. 28 Dance, entertainment at Rogue River VFW hall, 9 p.m. Square dance, Legion hall, Cent ral Point. Lions club dance, City hall, Talent, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Merchant's breakfast, Legion hall, Central Point, 7 a.m. Cent ral Mile o' Dimes by Crater high school students. Breakfast and broom sale sponsored by Ash land Lions club at Lithia hotel, all day. Carnival, Jacksonville Community hall, 7:30 p.m. Mod ern dance, Prospect Community hall, music by Jimmy Letterman band, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Teen-age dance at Medford YMCA, spon soredN by Medford high school junior class, music by Bob Ayers sextet. 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. Father son basketball game, other spirts events, Griffin Creek school, 7:30 p.m. O See the Two Most Exciting, New '56 Cars at Your Products of r American Motors 13 yp Dealer's Mow 30 wi3 56 RAMBLER The smart, new All-American Rambler is king-size inside, still Rambler-size outside, and it outparks, outmaneuvers, outhandles . all other cars. HORNET Alive with new V-8 power, distinctive with new V-Line styling, it's, more than ever, the most beautiful performer of them all. TUNE IN "DISNEYLAND" ABC-TV NETWORK See Them at Your HUDSON Dealer's Now! STEVENS AUTO SALES, SMC. 505 North Central Phone 3-3655 "Why, I don't even play the piano. This one line here this is my biggest scene. But we're talking about 'Animal Crackers' for U4 hours," he said. "The mu sic was good, the jokes up to date, only the costumes would have to be changed. It would n't be tough. We even remem ber the episodes." The Marx clan hasn't per formed together for nine years. Pictures Become Boring "We just got tired of making pictures, it got boresome. Not to me, but to Groucho. Harpo was non-committal," Chico said. Since then Chico, the brother who wears a peaked cap and speaks with an Italian accent, conducted his own band for two years. He and Harpo also tour ed nightclubs together while Groucho soared to new success on his "You Bet Your Life" TV radio program. The sad note about the end of the Marx team is that the era of teams apparently is over. The only new group today is Martin and Lewis, if they survive their various arguments. Use Mail Tribune Want Ada L. A. Train Wreck Recalls Washington Rail Disaster Seattle (U.R) The train wreck that took 29 livs in Los Angeles Sunday brought to mind the third worst railroad disaster in the nation's history. It occur red in the state of Washington March 1, 1910 at Wellington. You won't find Wellington on the map anymore. The tiny town and two trains were swept into a canyon 1,000 feet deep by a gi gantic avalanche. The death toll was 96. Buili on Shelf Wellington was built on a shelf 200 feet wide at the west mouth of the Great Northern tunnel in the Cascades. It was flanked by steep cliffs 3,000 feet high on one side and the deep canyon on the other. It was near what is " now known as Scenic. Slides had been plaguing the Great Northern line for several days and passenger train No. 25 and fast mail No. 26 had been stranded in Wellington for a week. The engineer of the pas senger train moved his train in to the tunnel as a precaution, but the passengers talked him and the conductor into moving out for the purpose of making a run out of the mountains. Then new slides occurred and the trains were blocked again. : Avalanche Loosened Suddenly, in the middle of the night, during a terrific electric al storm ..the tremendous aval anche swept down- the mountain side with' a roar that could e heard for miles.'. Telegraph lines were swept away, and first word of the disaster came many hours later from John Wentzel of Wel lington, who snowshoed 10 miles to Skykomish. Rescuers found most of the dead buried under 40 feet of snow. Patterson Supports Water Resources Board Salem (U.R) The' State Water Resources- Board had the back ing of Gov. Paul Patterson' today in its request that federal agen cies expedite flood control; sur veys on three southwestern Ore gon rivers. ' ' , The three streams are the Rogue, Umpqua and Coquille. Disarmament Talks In London Possible United " Nations, N.Y. (Un united Nations diplomats yester day expected the world's five major atomic powers to agree to resume private disarmament talks in London next March. The U.N. Disarmament Com mission met Monday to consti tute the United States, Great Britain, France, Canada and the Soviet Union as a subcommittee to explore disarmament propos als with special emphasis on President Eisenhowers open sky" aerial inspection plan. Almost one-half of all the ele mentary schools in thfe U.S. are still of the one-room variety, but in the last year, they had only five per cent of the total grade school enrollment. Negroes comprised 20 per cent of the total U. S. population in 1900, but only a few years later the total had shrunk to less than 10 per cent of the total, the census revealed. 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