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V'a - . ''iff - i VOIDING UPRAISED AKJI of Southern Methodist player, Harold Perry (23), University C&f San Francisco, starts leap toward basket and another two points. Dons downed Mus . (gangs, 86-68, to enter finals of N. C. A. A. tourney in Evanston, I1L (International) Russell Named ef Year .,0 Angeles (U.R) All tfceSica center Bill Russell of Francisco has been named (gollege basketball player of the year for the second straight sea son by the Helms Athletic Found ation. Russell was honored for lead ing San Francisco to its second straight national championship while stretching its victory string to 55 consecutive games. Only three other players have been named player of the year for two straight seasons by the foundation. They are George Mikan of De Paul in 1945-46, George Glamack of North Caro lina in 1940-41 and Angelo Hank Luisetti of Stanford in 1937-38. Medford For Acton, Use Tribune Want Ads! I " "Comrade Ivonovilch muit b dreaming again. Note toys leave one bottle of OLD Mr. BOSTON VODKA." : $065 U 45 OT. g) PROOF DIST. FROM GRAIN fR. BOSTON DIST. INC, BOSTON No tell-tale breath bmgo!d Co. Mat No. OM 2770E .Tribune Willamette Relay Starts Tomorrow Salem (U.R) The track for tomorrow's Willamette relays was reported jn good shape to day despite unstable weather conditions as athletes from 22 colleges and 100 high schools prepared to strut their stuff. Three invitational events, topped by the Statesman mile at 1 p.m., highlight the big track and field day. Jim Bailey and Bill Dellinger from the Univer sity of Oregon, two of the coun try's best milers, will oppose each other in this event. The 100-yard dash pits Gor don Busse and Sam McWhirter, Fort Lewis soldiers who have been clocked in 9.6 against such aces as Jack Morris of Oregon, Ray Duncan of Seattle Pacific and Sam Wesley of Oregon State. The high hurdles will feature Dean Benson, Willamette's de fending champion against such stars as Dean Singer of Wash ington and Dave ' Klicker of Whitman. . - . State To Burn Up Cigarette Stamps Salem (U.R) Some 11,000,000 cigarette tax stamps will go up in smoke at a special burning ceremony at the state incinera tor here Tuesday. State Tax Commissioner Ray Smith said the commission bought the stamps for adminis tration of a 1941 cigarette tax of two cents a package. But the tax was killed in a referendum and the commission has saved the stamps for 15 years. The 1955 Legislature passed a three-cent cigarette tax, but it too has been referred to the people and commissioners de spair of ever being able to use the stamps. Smith said the national trend is away from using stamps, any way. He said the commission hopes to get back some of the $3,500 the stamps cost by selling some of them to collectors. Use Tribune Want Ads uotes rro m the lews By UNITED PRESS Washington Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson on Ameri can and Russian atomic stockpiles: "Within a reasonable number of years, we are almost bound to get into a condition sometimes described as 'atomic plenty' where both side have-enough military power to practically wipe out the world." " Denver Louis B. Seltzer, editor of ihe Cleveland Press, on the late Ernie Pyle's "inspired anxiety" for the "little fellow": "Inspired anxiety is something we must feel every time a busi ness trip or some other errand takes us through the slum district of a city. It is something we must feel every time we see the ugly face of religious and racial hatred and intolerance." Clarksdale, Miss. The Clarksdale Press-Register on its solu tion to most local juvenile problems: "About 50 parents taking about 50 seconds to take 50 sets of keys to 50 high price automobiles from 50 high school students." New York Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, on a southern segregation leader's charge that the NAACP has "infiltrated" the South's teenagers with "rock-and-roll" music: "Some people in the South are blaming us for everything from measles to atomic fallouts." Is That So? By Eugene Burnt Ranger-Naturalist Hor.g Kong, with Japan Air Lines What Diamond Head is to' Honolulu, Vesuvius to Naples, Gibraltar to Spain, Victoria peak is to this British colony of Hong Kong. (Can you guess which of these is 3,858 feet, 1,809, 1,396 and 761 feet in ele vation?) To catch the first sunset, I went on the funicular up Vic toria's side. Many claim the reward is one of the most spec tacular views in the world. Who could disagree? As the brilliant sunset faded, lifting from the smooth harbor and out of the many island tops, lights came on: first, it seemed on the many ferries .interweav- s JuDG it from any angle power . quality construction . . . joodera advance ments . . . ease of handling ... operator's comfort . . . all-around economy . . .' and equipment. You'll tgree the new "420" topsgthem all. Set it! DriTg it! There's a model for you. My we demonstrate? HUBBARD-WRA 25 South Riverside Avenue Y CO., Inc. Phone 2-4011 .3-30-5 ing between this island of Hong Kong to Kowloon peninsula; then the ships lighted; finally the streets, and then the homes. The many-colored neon lights were striking yet something seemed missing, and then you knew: unlike those which play on the Ginza in Tokyo, these neon lights are unmoving. Distance tones down the glare of the lights and they look like a brilliant scattering of jewels. All the buildings you look at are less than 100 years old. That is because a hundred years ago, the population was less than 5,000 living in dingy huts. To day Hong Kong is a modern city with a population greater than Philadelphia's, 2,750,000. Many are refugees from Red China they have given up most of their worldly goods to hold tight to something more precious, per sonal freedom. Hong Kong is a city that ships built it was ceded by China to England in 1841 and became a free port. ,It is still a shipping city; in fact, today it depends upon ships to bring it bread and butter. Pottery and stone unearthed in Hong Kong confirm that the city was inhabited about 3,000 years ago. In Chinese, Hong Kong means fragrant harbor. Running Water Unlimited Water is scarce: due to over crowding running water is ob tainable in my hotel, the Penin sula, from 5-7 p.m. only. There are thousands of junks mostly with russet-colored sails made up of old flour bags, bits of sacking, ordinary blue coolie cloth. Patches on patches. Many are the uses of these junks: for lightering, for fish ing, for fetching provisions from adjacent islands or the main land; but many are shore-based, the permanent homes of large families who carry their posses sion with them and eat and sleep within the narrow confines among chickens, pots, ropes, etc. The small children of these "water squatters" seem to get their sea-legs almost before they can walk, and have a paddle in their hands soon after. They seldom cry. Smiles are frequent. About once a month, junk owners clean down the hull and burn grass under it to destroy the toredo worm, a devastating tropical borer which drills a hole about the size of a .303 bullet even though the wood be teak. Hong Kong's climate, not un like Honolulu's, is best from September through March; the rainy season is mainly from May through July; the warmest, hu mid months from June through August. It is near the Tropic, of Cancer almost as the same latitude as Havana, Honolulu, Calcutta, and Mecca in Saudi Arabia. Downpours Damaging Typhoons giant twisters with incredible violence de velop in the tropical Pacific al most the year 'round, but they usually strike the South China coast between June and Novem ber, mostly September. Winds may reach 110-mile an hour ve locities; but it is usually the tor rential downpours which do the most damage. Now in spring, while the northward migration is on, it is possible when beginning at dawn's first blush to count up wards of 50 varieties of birds, many singers. In the valleys, it is not un usual to see porcupine and bark ing deer; civet cats and pango lines scaly ant-eaters also rove the bleak hills. Occasion ally, one may see a monkey, fox and a mongoose. Rarely, a l0 pard or tiger. Although highly dangerous cobras and pythons are fairly numerous, they are seldom seen and records of snake bites are exceedingly rare. About those elevations Ve suvius, 3,858 feet; Victoria, 1,809; Gibraltar, 1,396; Diamond Head, 761 feet. Outside of Vesuvius, were you' correct?. Me, I lost a dinner wager on it. (Copyright, 1956, by Eugene Burns) (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Friday, March 30, 1958 A Nkhol's Worth of . . . Comment On This and That MEDFORD (OREGON MAIL TRIBUNE THIRTEEN By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Press Feature Writer Washington (U.R) The gov ernment has been fussing with its big wheels for a long time about scuttling gobbled y gook. Long sentences, de pendent clau ses and met aphors and other bits of c o m p o s i tion that don't mate up have plagued them Harman Nichols tr years. So the General Service Admin istration is advocating a set of rules for writing. Mostly it has to do with how to write a letter. In our profession it is preached from the pulpit every day that writing a news story is some thing like writing a letter. You just sit down and tell your type writer what happened. If you have a smart typewriter, some times things come out spelled right and make a little sense. A Rose Is a Rose Our leaders tell us sensible things about never using a word you can't spell. And we're told not to get the folks mixed up by calling a cat a feline when every body knows a cat is a cat. The same goes for dogs and canines; a dog is a dog. Well, the GSA has taken a step forward with 17 rules for plainly Written letters in down to earth English. Here are some of the GSA's dos and donts: Don't make a habit of repeat ing what is said in the letter you answer. Avoid needless words and needless information. Beware of roundabout preposi tional phrases, such as "with regard to" and "in reference to." Don't qualify your statements with irrelevant "ifs" Know your subject so well that you can discuss it naturally and confidently. Violate Own Rules Be compact. Don't seperate closely related parts of sentences. Tie thoughts together so your reader can follow you from one to another without getting lost. Milwaukee Columnist Innocent of Libel Oregon City (U.R) A Cir cuit Court jury yesterday re turned an innocent verdict in the $30,000 libel suit trial of J. H. Van Winkle, one time colum nist for the Milwaukie Review. The newspaper was not a de fendant in the action. The action had been brought by Robert B. Jones, former Clackamas county commissioner, who claimed his reputation was brought into "disgrace and con tempt" by a Van Winkle column reporting courthouse activities. For Action, Use Tribune Want Ads Use more active verbs. Don't hedge. Avoid expres sions like "it appears." Use words that stand for hu man beings, like the names of persons, and the personal pro nouns like "you, he, she, we and the like." Admit your mistakes. Don't hide them behind meaningless words. The GSA winds up with this word of advice: "Do not be obse quious or arrogant." Sort of violates rule No. 7 which says "use only short words." "Arrogant," of course, means bossy. But that other one sent this tired old hand to the dic tionary. "Obsequious," it seems, means fawning or servile. Now if these GSA fellows would only practice what they preach. Dippers Head for Banks Of Sandy for Smelt Run Troutdale, Ore. (U.R) Dip pers by the hundreds flocked to the banks of the Sandy river to day as a "heavy" smelt run head ed upstream. The smelt entered the Sandy shortly after 6 p.m. yesterday. The sheriff's office reported the run was big and that the silvery little fish were thick at the mouth of the stream. A big weekend "take" was ex pected by both amateur and com mercial fishermen before the stream closes for 24 hours at midnight Sunday. Ike May Send Envoy To Monaco Wedding Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower is thinking about sending a personal repre sentative to attend Grace Kelly's wedding to the Prince of Monaco, April 19. Survivors Quizzed In Philadelphia Blast Philadelphia (U.R) Fire Department investigators ques tioned survivors today in an at tempt to learn what caused Wednesday night's grain ele vator explosion that killed at least two men, injured 84 other Fire Marshal William Eckles said the earth-shaking blast ap parently was a grain dust ex plosion, but there was consid erable doubt as to what ignited the dust. He. mentioned the lighting of a gas-operated grain dryer or a spark from repair equipment in the grain elevator as possible causes. Wilfred Sutton, superintend ent of the granary, said he doubt ed the theory of a dust explosion. He said both ends of the un heated grain warehouse were open and that' dust in the air would have to be "very dense" to cause such a blast., liMr ' "w" ',a blonde." No matter what model the gentleman prefers, he'll find the best used car variety at his Chevrolet dealer's. 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