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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (April 23, 1956)
TEN MTDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBTTWZ Monday. April 23. 1938 -UK-." TAKING WRAPS OFF America's rocket engine power developed for intercontinental and space travel, North American Aviation engineers set off mighty blast for newsmen t test center in Santa Susana Mountains, near Los Angeles. (International Smndphoto) Newlyweds Sit Down To Big Breakfast With No Consideration for Calories By H. D. QUIGG United Press Correspondent New York U.R) This is a month of big marriages. A bride and groom who came here on their honeymoon and stayed for breakfast are right in stride. Their combined weight is 1005 pounds. At a time when much of America is at war with the cal orie, it's a pleasure when one of them mates up with a trencher- woman. A breakfast interview with Mr. and Mrs. William D. Cowan left no doubt that some people still know how to eat in the grand manner. The bride weighs 365 pounds; the bridegroom, 640. The Cowans - were brought here from a street side show in Tennessee as sort of a press agent's dream for a honeymoon breakfast at a local restaurant. The publicity declared that Cow an alone would "consume 8 to 10 regular chickens or 18 pounds of steak, 15 pounds of potatoes, three quarts of buttermilk, a lemon meringue pie, etc." When the happy couple arriv ed for breakfast, the board was groaning before them with ap proximately: 15 pounds of T bone steak, six two-pound broil ed chickens, 14 pounds of fried potatoes, three quarts of milk, six long french loaves of bread, a small mountain of tossed salad, and a towering wedding cake. Growling Photographers The couple dived in, while photographers snapped and growled Cowan, who is six-feet- one and 23 years old, eats steak by dropping slices into his mouth with his left hand, spurn ing the fork. Mrs. Cowan does likewise. She's five-feet-seven and 21. TV and newsreel photogra phers directed each bite, arguing apace with each other. "You fel lows always fight like that?" asked Cowan. "We love each other like brothers," a photogra pher told him. The eaters finished, wiping their lips. It was apparent that the press agent had dreamed if that is the word too big. Most of the food was still in front of them, untouched. A reporter ap proached and asked Cowan if he ever could eat that much. "Nah," he said. "Hell, there isn't any four men in their right minds could eat all that." The bride had announced they planned to go on a diet. Queried about what kind of a diet, she re plied: "Lemon juice and love." Cowan was asked how come the diet plans. "It's just a gag more'n anything else," he said. The reporter asked just what he did eat to keep his weight up. Two Meals "Two big meals a day," said Cowan. "About 9-10 a.m., a box of cold cereal with a couple ba nanas cut up on it, half a quart of milk, and six or eight soft boiled eggs. During the day I eat four to six grapefruit. Then, about 5-6 p.m., I'll eat two pounds of beef with lots of vege tables." Through some inscrutable reasoning process, the thin man at the circus, Glen Pulley, also was brought in to the breakfast. Pulley is six-feet-two and weighs 60 pounds and looks ev ery inch his weight. He ordered milk and cookies. The milk came. The publicity man left and, after a time, returned with the cookies. "What a great bit!" he grin ned, eyes a-gleam. "Here we're in Maisel's, one of the biggest restaurant chains, and we want cookies no cookies! I had to go out to the automat and get some." He seemed real happy. So did the photographers. So did the newlyweds. Drug Shows Promise In Cancer Treatment San Francisco (U.P.) A new drug similar to the deadly mustard gas used in World War I has shown promise in the treatment of Hodgkin's disease and other forms of lymphatic Ike, GOP leaders To Discuss Taxes Washington U.R President Eisenhower will huddle with Republican Congressional lead ers Tuesday to discuss recent forecasts of budget surpluses and accompanying pressures for an election-year tax cut. Sen. Styles Bridges (R-N. H.) disclosed Saturday that the budget situation will get priority at Mr. Eisenhower's weekly White House meeting with Re publican legislative leaders. Bridges said Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey also will be present. Bridges said he has conferred already with Treasury depart ment officials and with the Pres ident's aides. It was understood that the purpose of the White House hud wio would be to make plans for playing down any talk of tax cuts at least for tne time being. The administration first wants to take a close look at govern ment spending ana receipts in late May. Stevenson Asks Bomb Tests Be Cancelled Washington (U.R) Adlai E. Stevenson said in a speech Satur day that the administration should consider calling off the H-bomb tests in the Pacific next month. America is losing friends around the world because of a growing reputation as a "mili tarist" nation, the Democratic presidential aspirant said. "I believe," he said at a lunch eon meeting of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, "we should give prompt and earnest consideration to stopping further tests of the hydrogen bomb ... I question the sense in multiplying and enlarging weapons of a destructive power already almost incomprehensible." cancer, it was announced Sat urday. The Ameican Cancer Society said two University of California scientists have found that the sulfur mustard drug "also ap pears to have beneficial effects in certain patients with lung cancer. It was empnasizea tnat the findings are based only on extensive animal experiments and tests on 27 human patients. y vi : NEA Tefcphot SUBDUED Sheriff Arthur Johns, bleeding from cut under eye, subdues Jack Dempsey demons, 32, Burr Oak, Mich., who struck Johns when latter was trying to arrest him. Clemons, while on a drunken spree, visited his ex wife, Mrs. Grace Bratcher, 24, near Peru, Ind., to see two children couple had when together. While there, Clemons threatened Mrs. Bratcher's new husband. Police were called and in the ensuing tussle, Clemons hit Johns in te eye with a rock. - Around Hollywood By ALINE MOSBY United Press Correspondent Hollywood vU.R After 53 years of high living and then quiet old age, one of Hollywood's ? famous land- marks the Hollywood Ho tel has been condemned to oblivion. Since 1949 the new own ers have been threatening to tear down the Alme Mosby faded, crumb ling hotel on the corner of Holly wood blvd. and Highland ave. Next month they'll at last' get around to it and put up an office building and a new hotel. I dropped in for a last look at the landmark and found Mana ger Leslie Jeffries waving tour- ists around the lobby. "Hundreds come here every day for a last look since the razing was announced," he said. End Foreseen "We knew the end was com ing. But," he sighed, "it was quite a blow." The Hollywood hotel is the symbol of early Hollywood. Then stars were truly flamboy ant, there was no television and southern California was young and smogless. The hotel opened May 3, 1903. Hollywood then was country. Barley fields and orange groves surrounded the hotel and cows wandered down the dusty road out in front. The hostelry was an hour's ride from Los Angeles. In 1912 wild men of the mo vies replaced the wild oranges and Hollywood became a hust ling place. Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson, Pola Negri, Charlie Murray and Mary Pick ford were among stars who thronged to the hotel. Gay Life Told Life was gay in Hollywood then. Once the manager had to nail the first floor windows shut to train merry guests to come in the front door. There was a movie and radio show cabled "The Hollywood Hotel." But when plushier ho tels were built in other parts of the city, the Hollywood Hotel became an inexpensive home for tourists" and elderly film work ers. Actor Grant Mitchell is one of 80 permanent residents now searching for another place to live. Today the old hotel sits out its last days almost unnoticed while streetcars clang by. Use Tribune Want Ads KtwToik U.P3 Labor columnist Victor Riesel still was under constant medical examin ation and treatment Saturday and his chances of seeing again with his acid-burned eyes were "dangerously uncertain." Read and Use Classified Ad Dead line Sunday Classified u at noon Saturday. 10 a.m Monday for Monday other days 5:30 oreviousdav. Builders Supply Buy At x5L QUALITY BLOCKS Bricks. Fluea Drain Tile 7 W. 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