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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.
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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
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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.
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"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.
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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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