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Thursday. April 19. 195B Port Huron, Mich W.B A slender man walked into the Western Union Telegraph Office here, filled out a telegram form and handed it to Margaret Allen, 19, a clerk. Miss Alton bended the man $516. The man had written "give me your money" on the form and backed up the demand by drawing a pistol. Calendar Date for Spring Not Always Reliable; Other Signs Not Dependable By H. D. QUIGG it into his poem as a prop. He ing gear stuck in the last snow of Always first in spring to pocus ing and weeping her girlish laughter and tears, the young man's fancy starts to turn, and up pops as Jim Thomson has said "Gentle spring! Ethereal mildness!" Just Plain Logic No less an American per sonage than Ralph Waldo Emer son has summed up the whole thing with irrefutable Emerson ian logic: The April winds are magical And thrill our tuneful frames: The garden-walks are pas sional To bachelors-and dames. If nature is not to be trusted for spring signs in New York, there are other signs of the sea son. The tinkle of the ice cream cart replaces the aroma of the hot roasted chestnut wagon. Kids begin sidewalk hopscotch, a game known in Brooklyn as "potsy." The first convertible rolls with top down. Ad agencies get giddy with icky prose. The first whiff of hot breath comes from bus exhausts har binger of gaseous days ahead. Soft wind puffs through Rocke feller Center, tickling the top coats of thousands of tourists. The smell of the circus billows out of Madison Square Garden. Spring in the big city is a little girl with patsy face, look ing soberly out a tenement win dow over a lone potted flower. New York U R) How can you tell when spring is here? The calendar date for spring ob viously is a fraud and a delu sion. Well, how about the time-honored "sign of spring?" Are they hep? Let's see. In the spring, as everybody knows, "a livelier iris changes on the burnished dove." That's what the poet says. But it's a suspect line. It's 2-to-1 that Lord Tennyson just burnished up a dove and shoved wanted to bring on his next and justly famous line. He des perately needed a dove to rhyme with the thing (inthe next line) that, in the spring, a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of. So that explodes the dove the ory. How about the robin theory? When the first red robin comes bobbin' along, is it always spring? No indeedy. More often than not this eager beaver pilot of the bird flyways gets his land- winter. Robins are notorious for jump ing the gun and getting their rudders so iced up that they can't steer . . . and making crash land ings. . . and living on the bread crums charity of old maids and moppets till worm-thaw. Well, if not the birds, how about the bees? Tell you the truth, bees don't get a buzz on until the flowers start flying the proper signal flags and flowers are awful liars about spring. E. B. Whife once hailed the first spring flower, if memory serves, as follows: A bulbous plant, the little cro cus, Head up. But even a crocus will croak in the freeze that follows the first false spring. So scrap the bird-bee-flower theories. What time honored signs are left? Love and April. And both seems to be fairly reliable. Let's consider the month first. Sam Coleridge pointed out: " 'Tis the month before the month of May, and spring comes slowly up this way." Bob Brown ing longed "Oh, to be in Eng land, now that April's there." Jeff Chaucer allowed it was a fine month for pilgrimages. Some time during the mag ical 30 days that April is laugh YOUR FAMILY WILL ENJOY THE FAMOUS NOODLE THAT YON'T SLIDE OFF THE FORK Quotes From the News HNEST IN OUAUIY " SINCf 191 TEH MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE l''':Uyf I jl M ."jUy HomM,yIe f9S Noodl' fiTo" jvla'I'J'ljl Ctrinest Egg NoodlM r ENRICHED! j By UNITED PRESS Washington Rep. W. R. Poage (D-Tex.) on the majority House rejection of the attempt to override President Eisenhower's farm bill veto: i "Ike's coattails are the safest place to be in this election j year." Pittsburgh Adlai Stevenson on Sen. Estes Kefauver'i poor J thowing in the New Jersey primary: "I was beaten in Minnesota; I have no alibis for that. But after j New Jersey, evidently I am not eliminated after all." j New York Margaret Truman on her coming marriage, only j three days after the international hubub of Grace Kelly's Monaco j wedding: j "I feel that marriage vows are sacred, and I hope that mine i will be spared the hurly-burly attending a news event." Los Angeles Councilman Don A. Allen when told Council- ; women Rosalind Wyman expects to become s mother in November: : "This is the first time a city father will become a mother." London Lady Elizabeth Pakenham, Roman Catholic repre sentative, at a debate on birth control: "Before I came here tonight the oldest of my eight children told me, 'Mother it's up to you to prove we're here by choice and rot by chance'." Washington Ludwell Denny, Scripps-Howard foreign editor, on U.S. foreign policy: "It's insane the American idea that we can cure everything with a few billion aid dollars, a few Madison Avenue advertising stunts, few divisions and bomber bases abroad all without sacrifice of luxury living at home." McAlester, Okla. Convict Jacob B. Fidelman, who escaped j from Minnesota State Penitentiary, on walking into a police station and surrendering: I "I'm just tired of walking and running away. I've dodged and j ducked the police so long I'm tired of it and want to get it over with." Heavy Snow Pack in Northwest Mountains Make Experts Worry Portland, Ore. (U.R) One of the heaviest snow packs on rec ord in the Northwest's mountains has caused alarm among officials of three states that spring floods may be as bad or worse than in 1948 when the community of Vanport was wiped out. The mighty Columbia river, which cuts through eastern Washington from Canada and borders both Oregon and Wash ington farther downstream, an nually goes above flood stage. The period from May to mid June usually is considered the most dangerous along the Col umbia. Sometimes Good Sign Some tributary streams go over flood stage earlier. Some times this is a good sign, how ever, because it means the snow pack is melting gradually. What officials feat is a sudden late spring thaw accompanied by heavy rains. In 1948, a mighty crest spilled through into Vanport, a war- built housing area. Several per sons drowned and the area was finished as a place to live The weather bureau and Soil Conservation Service both have issued early warnings that this year s snow pack has produced a situation which could cause even higher water than that of eight years ago. Officials Prepare Civil defense officials through out nothern Idaho, Washington and Oregon are busy making plans to cope with emergencies. Army engineers have been alert ed as a matter of formality, ready to step in at the first sign ot disaster. Mate government of ficials have met with city of ficials to map flood plans. Flood stage varies along the Columbia. At Vancouver, Wash., just across the stream from Port land, the flood mark is 15 feet, x,i.ii spring me stream rises above that mark, but the situa tion doesn't become serious until it is several feet over flood stage. Willamette Adds To Worries Adding to worries around Portland is the Willamette river which flows through the heart of the city. The Willamette gets backwater from the Columbia. In 1948 the crest in the Portland area was about 27.5 feet when Vanport was inundated. Predic tions this year call for crests of from 25 to 28 feet. Additional upstream storage space made possible by new dams will help somewhat, but if reservoirs should be full when a thaw and rain strike, there would be no place to hold the extra water. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS LOOK FOR THE HAPPY little DOG KIPft TOPS IN QUALITY! LOW IN PRICE COACHING BRAIN Philadelphia (U.R) Haver ford College's 93rd intercol legiate cricket season looks bright with eight returning let termen (out of the team of 11) and A. Brain as coach. The sub urban Philadelphia Quaker col lege has secured the coaching services of the visiting professor of Latin, Arthur Brain of Ash bury College, Ottawa. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday. 10 a.m Monday foi Monday: other days 5:30 previous day Be SuccessfuiN 2D 331 -32.1. 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