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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) They'll Do It Every CHIEF you THlWK IVE worked n-soK4y?you? OM THE NEW PRESEJ4T4TOJ FOP? THE NO- I LL. MAKE TrIE DECISIONS SSOUhiD HERE G4LL A MEETING OF THE HE4DS OF ALL DEPARTMENTS HOLE DOUGH NUT ,dCCGUNT- rrs o4y- Spring Winds iEI fAi lk": u Aloft; Two Crossed Sticks Most Popular By EVERETT R. IRWIN United Press Correspondent Chicago (U.RJ Spring is well along today and there's a sort of relaxed, familiar look to the lower levels of the jet-furrowed skies. Kites, thousands of the gaudy things, each- attaching a little chunk of sky to a small boy or a small girl, are floating in the winds blowing up from the South. . And, toy jobbers, parents and kids agree, these kites sort of represent a setback to all this talk about the jet age being here. Most of them, and the biggest sellers this year, are just the plain old two crossed sticks and paper type. They sell for 10 to 35 cents and nearly any piggy bank can produce what's need ed. Shaped Like Parachute Of course, there are newer ones, too, like the rhumba kite. An ultra-modern job of vinyl plastic and shaped like a para chute, it cost more and rhum bas, naturally according to my well-informed source. That's my nine-year-old, Linda. She wants a rhumba. "It's amazing," said Ira Sing er, owner of the United Notion Supply Company. "The demand for kites is just as big today at it was when my father start ed selling them 35 years ago. Millions are sold every year in Chicago alone." Is That So? Tokyo, with Japan Air Lines This is Japan. Roaming about shrines and temples in Nara Park are some 150 tame deer. They go about unmolested, revered as divine messengers. If ever animals beg ged for food, these creatures with their soft eyes seem, to im plore handouts. For a rare treat, time yourself to be in the park towards sundown. A trumpeter comes out then to sumrrfon them and when he plays they hurry to the pens in groups. Every year, come the middle of October, the antlers of these deer are cut, the occasion being something of a festival. To the animal, of course, there is no pain any more than getting your hair or your fingernails trimmed. One of the thousand kinds of silk producing moths exudes a natural green-tinted silk. This silk is prized and used mainly for embroidery. Among the climatic disasters to which Japan is prey typhoons are the No. 1 killer. During 1954's two-month season, Aug ust and September five typhoons in a, row smashed into the Jap anese Islands. They left behind 1,508 persons killed, 506 injur ed; 2,221 houses destroyed and more than 1,000 vessels either sunk or washed away. The great est single loss of life was sus tained when a ferry boat cap sized with a loss of over 1,000. Differ from Real Pearls . The cultured pearls of Japan differ from real pearls in only one way the center. In real pearls some irritant, perhaps a grain of sand;" is the nucleus: in artificial pearls, tiny pearl-like irritants are introduced by man and upon this the oyster depos its layer upon layer of nacre or pearl, f What every Boy Scout should know: rice, when cooked, ex pands about 300 per cent. Among toe first trees of the 4-2-56 MAIL TRIBUNE Time THE ONLY DECISION BIGDOME EVEP?M4kES IS IVHrTE OR RYE ip rr was RAINING HE WOULDN'T PUT OM MIS RUBBERS & if rr was V-VBUCKEroo- X !J RAJNING HE Vf'n WOULDN'T PUT 1 !CtUp Upiv I LI WITHOUT A II r7,,,E,M.rtrr f 3 1 1 Put Thousands of Kites Kite flying is no Johnny-come-lately. Tradition has it that Archytas of Tarentum invented the pastime four centuries be fore Christ. Koreans attribute the first kite to a general who sent up a crude "dragon" with a lantern attach ed. His soldiers, thinking the flickering light was a heavenly omen, charged the enemy and won the battle, 'tis said. Kites Flown in Asia Most Asiatic peoples have flown kites since time immem orial. Maoris attached religious significance to them. Some Asi atics still keep whining, "mus ical" kites flying over their homes nightlong to frighten away evil spirits. In 1752 Ben Franklin experi mented and . . . but every school boy knows what Ben found out. Capt. B.F.S. Baden-Powell of the Scots Guards successfully lifted a man with a 36-foot kite in 1894. Over West Virginia in 1910, a train of ten kites climbed to a height of four and a half miles. And in 1929 kites turned loose in Chicago pulled heavy logs across Lake Micigan to Saugatuck, Mich., in 12 days. Kile Flying Record That was the year that John Garmon and Trueman Diem, who didn't believe in flagpole sitting, set a new world's record by keeping their kite "Old Glory" in the sky over New Hoi- By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist year to blossom are the single white and pink cherry trees. Af ter the single blossoms, the doubles bloom the blossoms lasting about two weeks. Japan ese cherry trees, incidentally, do not bear fruit. Their single mis sion in life is to be beautiful and that's ample. When a person dies the body is always laid out with the head toward the north. Therefore, people when sleeping avoid get ting into that head-to-the-north position presumably for fear that they may die in their sleep. In summer men as well as wo men carry fans and use 'em. A spider appearing in the house in the morning is a good luck omen. Instead of "hurrah," Japan ese say, "banzai." "Ban" means 10,000 and "sai" or "zai" means years. Hence 10,000 years!" If you really want to make it stick, say: "Ban-bazai." That's good for ten times 10,000! A big bamboo cage full of birds is often carried behind the coffin. These birds are set free after the burial presumably in the belief that the kind act of freeing the birds may release the departed soul from an etern ity in hell. At a wedding dinner, sea bream, a red fish, must be serv ed each guest whole to cut the fish is ominous of inconv pleteness, separation. In posing for. a picture in the U.S., a person usually smiles; in Japan he looks dead serious. Since olden times hawks have been trained to retrieve birds for their trainer even such large ones as cranes, the symbol, incidentally, of Japan Air Lines. (Copyright, 1956, by Eugene Burns) (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) By special arrangements with the editors of the Encyclopedia Americana, my panel of judges wiu award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-hfe nature adventure, the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife, a complete 20-volume set of this world - famous refer ence work in a handsome Seal- craft binding. Each week new submissions will be .considered Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: IS THAT SO! care of Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausa- lito, Calif. Monday, April 2. 195S I By Jimmy Hatlo HE'S ALWAYS CAUJUoWk MEETINGS-THEN IF "There's one of THESE MEETlNG UAPPY 6UYS ti EVERY OFFICE CLOSET-THEylL DO rr EVERY CRISIS land, Pa.,;, for 71 hours and 13 minutes. Only last year, X 0-year-old Dave Keddie of Chicago made kite history. A police squad made him pull in his kite. "It's a menace to aviation," they chided. "Planes are flying under it." Davy reeled in 16,000 feet of twine. a. ii-ttni? uvn i r-4' i wis rufMiri rv-p; ncp..cSiij Citizens Who Suffered World II Property Loss Must File Claim Soon Washington U.R) Unless 1 thousands of American citizens who suffered World War .II property losses act soon, they stand to lose some $41,000,000. But apparently few of the legiti mate claimants care. The Foreign Settlement Com mission says claims for war los ses against Bulgaria, Hungary, Rumania and Italy must be filed with it before Sept. 30, 1956. Claims against the Soviet Union for losses before Nov. 16, 1933, must be filed before March 31, 1956. Congress authorized the filing of these claims with Public Law 285, approved on Aug. 9, 1955. The five countries involved have set money aside to settle their old debts. The commission said, however, that Americans "have been slow in asserting their claims" and "unless they do so before the scheduled filing dead lines, the efforts of Congress to provide them some measure of compensation will be wasted." Commission Chairman Whit ney Gillilland said the commis sion has sent out more than 8,000 notices to the people who previously queried the State de Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS Vatican City Pop Pius XII in his annual Easter message on the atomic arms race: "Every day is a melancholy step forward in this tragic road, is a hastening on to arrive alone, first, with greater advantage. And the human race almost loses hope of being able to stop this homi cidal, this suicidal madness." Vatican City Pope Pius XII in a first public reference to Rus sia's new anti-Stalin campaign: "The enemy of peace . . . today exalts his myths, tomorrow de rides them . . . today announces a new system, to return tomor row to the old." Washington Sen. Olin D. Johnson (D.-S.C.) on President Eisen hower and the compromise omnibus farm bill: ". . . If I were in his position, I'd want to do something for the farmers who are in such a desperate situation. I'd take that into consideration before, I vetoed anything." Springfield, 111. John Asher, Illinois Democratic state com mitteeman, on Adlai Stevenson running for president: ". . . If we ran him again we would be making the same mis lake the Republicans made in running Dewey twice." Pittsburgh Businessman T. J. O'Malley, who survived a TWA plane crash at Greater Pittsburgh airport which killed 21, on his experience: "I had the feeling right after our wheels left the ground that something was wrong." WHO'S Q Who makes or takes, A driving dare Is a chicken for sure And a "cluck" for fair. He has feathers for brains And he's ready to pluck His friends should tell him He's crowding his luck! rCoreless driving is deadly KID STUFF" m f k I travelers foivew rorK win To Popular TV By WILLIAM EWALD United Press Correspondent New York (U.R) If you're planning a trip here this spring, you can just about give up any notions of seeing Ed Sullivan, Perry Como or the Arthur God frey morning show. Tickets can't be had. However, a letter to the net works right now will get you free seats to see Phil Silvers, Sid Caesar, Steve Allen, Garry Moore and both evening shows of Arthur Godfrey. In fact, TV tickets are available for just about everything except the few really "hot" shows and Charlie Chan movies. CBS says Sullivan and God frey in the morning are booked up for the next six months. NBC isn't even accepting requests any more for the Como show this season. Skipping around the networks, the ticket situation here breaks down like this: Silvers' Available CBS (485 Madison Ave.) God frey tickets are available for his "Talent Scouts" and "Friends" shows. Talent Scouts is the easier ticket to get. Jackie Gleason is no longer shootfng his "Honey mooners" films, but Phil Silvers will continue shooting until the end of April. Some tickets are available for Silvers. "What's My Line," "Beat the Clock," "I've Got a Secret" and "Two for the Money" are next most in demand, but can be had if you apply about one month in advance. "The $64,000 ' Question" . is booked solidly four or five weeks ahead. This is the only show for which you must send a self-addressed envelope if you want partment about their losses. The response consisted of "only a handfull of claims." Under Public Law 285, U. S citizens or corporations or ganized in accordance with Am erican laws in which U. S. citi zens held more than 50 per cent of the stock at the time of the loss may file claims in three general categories: 1. Against the governments of Bulgaria, Hungary and Rumania for war damage, nationalization and pre-war governmental debt (bond). 2. Against the government of Italy for losses arising out of World War II and not otherwise provided for in the Italian peace treaty. 3. Against the Soviet govern ment for losses before Nov. 16, 1933, and claims against Russian nations secured by liens on cer tain assets before the transfer of these assets to the United States on the same date. Paris (U.R) A government spokesman said Saturday reports that France is flying jet-fighter planes to Israel are untrue. W I llff Shows Are Hard To Obtain tickets. NBC (30 Rockefeller Plaza) after Como, Sid Caesar is most difficult. Five weeks wait for this one. There is also a long list of customers for Steve Allen's Friday night show. The other four "Tonight" shows are not difficult. About the only other difficult ticket here is "The Big Surprise," but a month's notice should suffice. Hit Parade Out There are no tickets avail able for "Your Hit Parade" be cause the show has no audience. (The applause and whistles are faked.) There are rarely any tickets to be had for spectacu lars either. ABC (7 West 66th St.) There are no more tickets for "Super Circus" this season. Other tough tickets here are "Dollar a Washington Residents Are Subject to Double Taxes Salem (U.R) Claims that several thousand persons living in Washington but working full time in Oregon were subject to double taxation" were made at a meeting of the Legislative In terim Tax Study Committee here Saturday. Dean Ratzman, an Interior De partment employee who lives in Vancouver, Wash., and works in Portland, appealed to the tax group to consider an offset to Washington residents for esti mated sales tax paid in that state on their Oregon personal income tax returns. Ratzman also declared that under terms of the 1953 Oregon tax law, standard deductions al lowed Oregon income tax payers were not allowed citizens who live in Washington and work in Oregon. The effect, Ratzman said, was that the out-of-state residents paid nearly twice as much state taxes. Consider Proposals Sen. Rudie Wilhelm, chairman of the Tax Study Committee, said the group would give care ful consideration to Ratzman's proposals. He said he was not too opti mistic about working out a re ciprocal agreement to offset the Washington sales tax, but said he thought out-of-state residents might be granted standard deduc EARLY THUGS SURPRISED Davenport, la. (U.R) Two thieves tried to steal a march on police by robbing the safe of a store two days before its sched uled opening. Police also paid a surprise visit to the store and arrested the men who were working on the safe by candlelight. to A You don't Wave te break yoof bk ' Phia'trt1?? wm '""dry tta morning rush how. Once, the homemaker hd to do the JA'iX fl7 laundry early, to get it dry. But no more. s 5F (PMl With automatre sunshine in the house, f "'f,,' t J?v!yf&3!()HfV '(f r Mn you can do your laundry in the after- ''"" " 'VTitffpT JoSl yl V noon, or after the evening meal ' f ' 1 F-n-ffif 'f I ff7fc9 9 ' while you do sornething eke. .j HAVE FUN AND RELAX WHILE YOUR PERFECT ELECTRIC SERVANT, Reddy XiUwAtt, AND YOUR SUcttU Vnp WORK AUTOMATICALLY FOR YOU I THE B - l - rina fiercer Second" and "The Original Ama teur Hour." Three weeks notice, however, should be enough. Other tickets offered by ABC are "Break the Bank," "Mas querade Party," "Down You Go" and "Ethel and Albert." There are a limited number of tickets for the "Voice of Firestone" tele casts and three weeks notice is necessary here, too. And perhaps one final note should be added on a telecast for which it is quite impossible to get tickets. It's NBC's "Howdy Doody" which reports a waiting period of from one-and-a-half to two years. In fact, says NBC, the situa tion is so bad that women, who used to ask to be put on the wait ing list when they gave birth, now write in as soon as they be come pregnant. tions accorded to Oregon resi dents. The group also studied com parative figures showing indi vidual taxes in Oregon, Wash ington and California. Wilhelm said a second series of letters to Chambers of Com merce had been dispatched re questing information as to wheth er Oregon's income tax was re sponsible for keeping business out of the state. He said only 20 replies had been received from 102 letters sent out last October. MISSING Mrs. Gretta June Dicus, 20 (above), is object of search since discovery of body X)f her daughter, Shirley Ann, 3, in rockpile near Kansas City, Mo. Miss ing with the mother is an other baby daughter, one-year-old Mozelle. The father, Lloyd A. Dicus, 31, former Texas convict, is be ing sought on first degree' murder charge. 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