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TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday. April 10. 1956 On The Side By E. V.'Durling (Distributed by King Features Syndicate. Inc.) Which is the major factor in a kilt of that color? How about the success of a popular song, the words or music? My vote ii for the words. Consider the. importance of the words in such smash hits as "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now," "Just A Wearyin' for You'and "People Will Say We're in Love." Irving Berlin once wrote a song that was a complete flop. Several years later he wrote new words to this song but kept the same tune. The result was that ter rific hit titled "Easter Parade." Horses and Women History tells us the bridal at tire of the sister of Frederick the Great weighed 100 pounds. No details as to what the attire consisted of are given. Might be interesting to know what the "something borrowed" and some thing blue" articles ' weighed. Also how did this bride get to the altar under all that weight? Did she walk or did her father wheel her in? This reminds me. I recently said that well dressed women of the yesteryear wore 35 pieces of attire as compared to seven worn by today's fash ionable females. Now a group of young women of Manhattan gay the claim is ridiculous and challenge me to name the 35 pieces aforementioned or send them a box of stogies to distrib ute among their husbands. The historian I quoted didn't furnish this detail. So I am baffled. I have asked our horses and wo men department to check it but all I have so far is a report that Mid-Victorian women often wore as many as eight petticoats. Horses and women are certainly a very difficult pair of subjects. At tin.es the women are actually harder to figure than the horses. Fleast Note It is said that a man with the measurements that follow has the best chance of easily getting a well fitting, ready made suit: Height, 5 feet 9; chest 38; waist, 35;. arms, 32, and legs (inside measurement), 303,i. Asides Is your name Smith and are you of Scotch descent? Are you familiar with the Clan Smith tartan? It is blue and green with a check of red and yellow. How do you think you would look in your wife? ... As for long song titles, do you recall that touch ing ballad titled "You Can Have Him, I Don't Want Him. Didn't Love Him Anyhow Blues?" Asking Queries from clients. Q. What was the name of the doctor who did the plastic surgery for Mme. Jacqueline Auriol, the French aviatrix? A. The operations re ferred to, 22 in all, were su pervised by ! Dr. John Marquis Converse of the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital. . . . Q. In what part of Ireland are best race horses bred? A. The County Kildare. Incidentally, Nasrullah, Khaled and Alibhai, the three leading sires of last year in the United States, wore all bred in the County Kildare. So They Say The flower of those born under Gemini (May 22-June 21) is the rose. . . . The lucky number of Aries (March 21-April 20) people is nine. . . . Taurus (April 21 May 21) women are overemo tional and extremely affec tionate. Secretaries born under Taurus are most liRely to enjoy taking dictation while sitting on the lap of the boss. Or, so say the stargazers. Victoria Shaken By Earth Tremors Victoria, B.C. (U.R) Two earth tremors shook Victoria, neighboring communities and a small town on the British Co lumbia mainland yesterday. No damage was reported. Homes in Victoria, Saanich, Oak Bay, Esquimau, Gordon Head, Langford, Colwood, and Ladner, on the mainland, were shaken by the tremors that hit the areas over a 20-second per iod. Professor Frank Newmann, seismologist at the University of Washington at Seattle, said the quake was of a "moderate or sharp" intensity, and said it was "not of the destructive variety." Newmann placed the center of the tremor as "probably orig inating in the waters near Vic toria, or perhaps even in the San Juan Islands." ' Theyll Do It Every Time i L-- By Jimmy Hatlo ?MIM SNEAKER IS THE OFFICE SPRINTER WHO JETS OUT OF THE JOINT AT FIVE CBUT 0M ft VTICHTS ItSfTRVirp TWEtf well lo4f h promt of the BUILDING FOP A H4LF-HOUI? WAITING FOR HIS CAR-POOL B3LS TO COME OUT- Back Stairs: Tourists at White House By MERRIMAN SMITH Washington (U.R) Back stairs at the White House: This is the boom season for visitors at the White House. Tourists are going through the public rooms each morning at a rate of about 4000 an hour (the Executive Mansion is open to the public for two hours of each day). One morning last week, three nuns escorted a group of out-of-town parochial school children through the Executive Mansion. As they left and walked out into the balmy spring sunshine, one of of the sisters turned to her charges and said, "I told you we should have brought our bathing suits." Robert Montgomery, President Eisenhower's television and radio coach, is back on the scene after three weeks of skiing with his family in Switzerland. He's probably consulting on campaign plans. Another recent White House returnee: chief speech writer Kevin McMann, back, from a long visit to Ohio where he is president-on-leave of the Defi ance Coolege. At 11:30 a.m. last Tuesday, the President, in a speech to the Advertising Council, said, "gov ernment officials are busy. They are constantly putting out 'fires' on Capitol hill." The President didn't know it but at the very moment he was speaking, secret service agents and police were trying to track down a woman mental patient who was busily setting fires in the executive offices. Normally, the White House staff mess on the lower floor of the west wing offices is strict ly a male proposition. Female guests are rare in the small din ing room. An enthusiastic exception was made last week, however, for Lt. Col. Edythe F. Turner, the chief nurse for Fitzsimons Army Hospital in Denver where the president was a patient for seven weeks last year. She and Col. Inez Haynes chief of the Army Nurse Corps You'll hear all sorts of claims when you're out looking 'em over. But before you actually make the move . . . I This isn't just "big" talk. Dodge actually is bigger all around up to 7.7 inches longer than cars in its own field, 14.5 inches longer than cars in the "low price" field. Dodge is bigger inside, too. More legroom front and rear! More hiproom front and rear! Dodge gives you plenty of room to relax in comfort. v 4 "1THH- aim ' Dodge push-button PowerFlite makes every other way of driving old-fashioned, it's mechanically perfect the easiest, safest, surest way of driving ever developed. Just touch a button and gol r -u ; ... IMMMWHMUHnMh Dodge is powered for to day's driving! Aircraft type 260 hp. V-8 engine develops tremendous br-ik-away power! Solid-that'S the way Dodge builds 'em! om the frame right os up. Dodge is engineered to take the roughest punishment. EXAMPLE: Box-section side rails provide greater strength and ruggedness than common I-beam or U-channel type used in most other car frames. Crossmembers are extra heavy. Here's solid dependability. Who says parking Isn't fun? Dodge power steering does 80 f the work, takes fetrer turn of the wheel than other cars. .' Mmtitm - I'WsniiiiifcMiwi ii anion' . ill mi inirmi You can stop on a dime with Dodge power brakes. Front wheel brakes have two cylinders, two anchors for positive, predictable stops. It's America's performance champion! No other car has ever given such proof of superior performance. In a 14 day run at Bonneville, Dodge outclassed American stock cars and European sports cars both shattered 306 AAA records in all, including 27 world records. COME IN AND HIT THE DISCOVERY JACKPOT ON A NEW '56 DODGE Btg rwwllwwn m yaur ear If Kxfc-bortom prif n '36 Oedg jf low down paymonf, tqty monrtily rormt COME IN TODAY! 315 E. 5th St. (next to greyhound depot) phone 3-3687 lunched with Sherman Adams, the assistant to the President; Maj. Gen. Howard McC. Snyder, the White House physician, and other ranking members of Mr. Eisenhower's official family. There may be tentative dis cussings of a possible president ial vacation in Wisconsin this summer, but the folks out in Colorado won't listen to such talk. A report from Pat Patterson of the Arapaho Ranch at Fraser, Colo., says he has it from the horse's mouth that the Presid ent's return to the western slope of the Rockies "is already plan- ned." And Pat has a lot of horses to hear from. The President put in some long hours at his desk last week, working later than 7 p.m. sev eral days. One of the girls on the staff, wearily closing up her desk a little before 8 o'clock, observed: "The Democrats call him a part-time president. Hck, it's time and a half." , SINKING PATIENTS Indianapolis ttJJ?) Gen eral Hospital was promised new operating tables when the sup erintendent reported the old ones wouldn't stay put. Supt. Robert Lowe said attendants had to keep jacking them up during opera tions because of worn-out hy draulic lifts. Sometimes, he said, surgeons had the unnerving ex perience of watching their pa tients "sink." HE CAN TAKE IT Marion. Mich. (U.R) Jake Eisenga, pinned when a tree he was chopping solit in half. worked himself free, crawled to his tractor and drove to the road where his car was parked. He then drove his car home and was taken to a hospital in Cadil lac. He suffered eight broken ribs and a punctured lung. Royally Turns Out For Munich Wedding Munich, Germany U.R) The princes, ex-kings and nobles who are boycotting Grace Kelly's nuptials next week turned out today to witness the wedding of a cousin-by-marriage of Britain's Queen Elizabeth to a nephew of Austria-Hungary's last emperor. Helen (Countess Zu) Toerring Jettenbach, 18, and Archduke Ferdinand of Hapsburg, 37, said their vows at 11 a.m. in the ba roque chapel of 1,100-year-old castle Seefeld, overlooking the Pilsensee. The only reigning monarch on hand was Prince Franz Josef of Liechtenstein. Ex-king Umberto of Italy, Britain's Duchess of Kent, an aunt of the bride, and Archduke Otto, pretender to the Austrian throne, also were among 72 guests who witnessed the actual wedding and attend ed the reception that followed. Dead line Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m Monday for Monday, other days 530 previous day. Buy At Builders Supply QUALITY BLOCKS Bricks. Flue -Drain Tile V27 W. 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