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ft J 7 ON DISPLAY SOON The XM-Turnpike Cruiser, an experimental model created by Mercury division, will be on display Wednes day and Thursday at Medford Motors, Sixth and Ivy sts. Styled to give motorists maxi mum driving pleasure, comfort and safety as they travel the new turnpikes, it features virtually unobstructed vision in every direc tion. Transparent plastic "butterfly" roof in serts lift up automatically when doors are opened. It stands only 4.4 feet high. Gloria Swanson Recalls First Bull Fight and Meeting With Little Torero By GLORIA SWANSON Wziiten for United Press Madrid U.R) Two years ago in Madrid I saw my first bullfight and I swore, my last. I had never fainted in my life, but ... Seventeen - year - old Raphael Mariscal-torero- tossed his hat to me in the grandstand, there by dedicating his opponent, the bull, to me. Heck, I didn't want the bull or any part of him. In an attempt to win honors of an ear or a tail or something, I was sure the youngster was going to get killed. Three times he was tossed into the air . . . the last time I thought, was real ly the end of me, too. As he was being carried out by two attendants and I was passing out he suddenly leapt from their arms and rushed to ward the bull, kneeling down 10 feet in front of him. Now I was certain he had lost his mind. So, before completely losing mine, I tried to escape. But my friends, whose arms by now were black and blue from my clutches, held me, saying that the torero would be unhappy if I didn't remain until the finish. Whose Finish? "Whose finish?" I weakly muttered. Then, closing my eyes I bravely stayed, whilst brave little Mariscal won and the big bad bull bravely died. A few hours later I met Raph ael Mariscal. He was a baby, not within three inches of my five-foot-one-and-a-half inches. "What was he doing in a bull ring? Where was his mother? He was too small, too young and a lot of typically maternal dialog. "He must stop bullfight ing. Yes, I'd adopt him if he would. When I paused for breath I was stopped cold. What was Is That So? With the fishing season in full wing, mind if I dust otf a few stories pertaining to fishing? Like the one of the traveler who strolled up to a fisherman. "Having any luck, partner?" "Yup, pretty good," responded the aneler. "How many fish?" "None, yet?" "Any bites?" "Nope." "What's so good about your luck?" persisted the traveler, "Well, you see that guy over there. I've been fishing three hours but he's been here six and hasn't had a bite yet. Which reminds me of an inci dent which happened to Ben Rice of Oakland three years ago. With a group of steelhead fish ing friends, I drove up to Sal mon creek, arriving at daybreak. Ben sloshed ashore, blue-lipped and shaking with the cold. "How lone you been here, Ben? asked. 'Three hours." "Any luck." "Not yet." "Tough," I said, as he warmed himself bv our fire and inhaled a cup of hot soup. Then he duti fully waded back into the river while I went upstream, wnen I got back that noon, I met a furious man. "What's wrong, Ben?" I inquired. He finally managed to explain: "Around eleven, I got my first strike and hung a steelhead. A fine jumping fish. Would have eone over ten pounds. Then these two guys see me with a fish jumping. One of them cast over my leader. . . ' "Did the fish break?" I asked Ben nodded mutely, unhappily "Then what happened?" "Naturally, I called the guy everything I could lay my tongue on . . . and when I took time to catch my breath, his nartner savs: 'Look mister, it won't do you no good to cuss my friend. He's left his hearing aid at home." Reminded of Concert A story on Fritz Kreisler, the famous violin player, goes like this: Walking past a large fish shon with a friend, Kreisler looked in at a big catch of cod fish, arranged row upon row, with mouths open and eyes star in e. Grabbing his friend's arm, he exclaimed: "Gott in Himmel! This reminds me: I should be playing at a concert! The late David Starr Jordan famous president of Stanford University, the greatest fish ex- tert of his day, spent altogether too much of his time raising funds for the University at the exoense of his research. Once asked the name of a certain fish which he could not recall, he commented: "Every time I find a new benefactor, I forget the name of an old fish. Ever think about the decided advantage a golfer has over fisherman? He doesn't have to show anything to prove his score. According to the Saturday Evening Post, the late Robert Benchley took a course of Inter national Law at Harvard. In his final examination, he ws con fronted with this question: "Dis cuss the arbitration of tha Inter- By EUGENE BURNS Ringer-Naturalist national Fisheries problem in respect' to hatcheries' protocol and dragnet and trawl procedure as it affects (A) the point of view of the United States, and (B) the point of view of Great Britain." Fish's Point of View Benchley wrote as follows: "I know nothing about (A) the point of view of the United States in the arbitration of the International Fisheries' Problem, and (B), I know nothing about the point of view of Great Brit ain, therefore I shall (C) dis cuss the question from the point of view of the fish. Ever seen an angler with a good catch of fish go home by way of the back alley? (The person sending me the best hunting or fishing yarn will be rewarded by my judges with a free 30-volume set of the En clycopedia Americana. After all, humor is what makes this world turn, at least with less friction. (Released by The McCluie Newspaper Syndicate) (Copyright, 19SB by Eugene Burns) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wild life, a complete 30-volume set of this world famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week new sub missions will be considered, Sorry. I simply can t answer your , many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: IS THAT SO! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. he saying? He had already kill ed 250 bulls? And you are still here? He answered with a beau tiful smile and more of his story. Raphael Mariscal, at the age of 13, when really tiny, had as a spectator jumped into the arena in his home town of Gran ada. Because for years he had practised cape passes on a big police dog, he made an excep tional showing with his first bull. Only Prayer All his ' mother's prayers could not win him away from that first crowd's cheers and ap plause. All she could do was pray. She is now a bullfighter's mother, on her knees in constant prayer while her child plays dangerous tag with a bull and his life. To the youth with six years of answered prayers behind him. the applause means money money to fulfill his dreams which all evolve around what he can give his mother. This year, his lovely but not so boyish face lighted up when he proudly told me of the house he had bought her irr Granada. I can understand what his mother would prefer rather than possessions . . . LONG BLOCK Pompton Lakes, N.J. (U.R) Police said a man from nearby Midvale walked into an auto agency and asked if he could take a British sports car around the block for a trial spin. He drove to Massachusetts, where he was arrested. Population of the U.S. In creased 26,000,000 in the 1945 1955 period, which was more than the gain in the 21 years spanning the 1924-45 period. Montgomery Cliff Injured in Accident Hollywood (U.R) Movie actor Montgomery Clift was in "satisfactory" condition m a Hollywood hospital today with injuries received when his car ran into a telephone pole after a glamorous movieland party, The 35-year-old film star nar rowly escaped death early Sun day when his sedan smashed into the pole shortly after he left a gay dinner party at the home of actress Elizabeth Taylor and her husband, Michael Wilding. Clift was dragged semi-con scious from the demolished car by actor Rock Hudson, New York stage star Kevin McCar thy and others at the party. The actor was rushed to Cedars of Lebanon hospital where doctors said he was suffering from a possible concussion and numer ous cuts and bruises about the face. Officers said Clift apparently lost control of the car while driving down a steep road in Benedict Canyon overlooking Beverly Hills. The police acci dent report made no mention of whether Clift, who lives In New York between pictures, had been drinking. k CAUSE UPSET STOMACH A OuaotNUGEsnoNl I only 104 1 AROa I Most of the main east-west fed eral highways are even-numbered. SUSAN'S TOPS It's a smil ing Susan Hayward at Cannes, France as she is an nounced as the winner of the Cannes Film Festival's top award. She won the in ternational honor for the best performance as an ac tress for her interpretation as an alcoholic in the film, "I'll Cry Tomorrow." 780,595 Persons Registered To Vote In May Primaries Salem (U.R) A total of 780, 595 persons are officially regis tered for the May 18 Oregon primary election with Democrats showing a 13,350 lead over Re publicans, according to Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry. Total Democrats registered in Oregon's 36 counties were 392, 128. Republicans totaled 378, 778. Some 4076 persons registered as independents, 59 as progres sives, 132 as prohibitionists and 80 as socialists. All other parties totaled 5,342. Final figures showed the total registerad for the primary was below the 785,285 recorded in 1954, Newbry said. That year Republicans out-numbered Dem ocrats 394,821 to 378,781. Demos Lead in Multnomah In Multnomah county figures showed Democrats leading Re publicans 137,597 to 115,534. Over the state, Republicans had an edge in 14 counties and Dem ocrats in 22. Lane county reported 31,290 Democrats and 31,010 Republi cans while Marion county showed 28,659 Republicans to 18,285 Democrats. Newbry said Democrats had registration leads in Baker, Clackamas, Columbia, Coos, Crook, Curry, Deschutes, Doug las, Harney, Jefferson, Klamath, Lake, Lane, Lincoln, Linn, Mult nomah, Tillamook, Umatilla, Union, Wallowa, Wasco and Wheeler counties. Mrs. America Has Busy Slate Daytona Beach, Fla. (U.R) The new "Mrs. America," 31-year-old Mrs. Cleo Maletis of Portland, Ore, today plunged into 10 days of "work" and per sonal appearances that go with her title. The brunette mother of three sons took over the title as "Mrs. America of 1956," Sunday after noon from Mrs. Ramona Deite meyer of Lincoln, Neb., last year's winner. Mrs. Maletis said she felt "like a queen. It seems wherever I turn today, someone is popping a flashbulb at me. But it's ex citing, I'll admit." Some 48 other contestants started home Sunday after the big ball Saturday night climax ing the annual pageant to choose the nation's No. 1 wife. But Mrs. Maletis, who was accompanied by her husband, Chris, was just starting her activities. At least two balls will be held in her honor during the next few days and she said promo tion and publicity men had lined up "hours and hours of jobs" which she expects will keep her busy for another 10 days. Columbia Flood Threat Seen Reduced Portland (U.R) Officials of the weather bureau said here Saturday that the prospect of a disastrous Columbia river flood this spring is being reduced ev ery day. Elmer Fisher, the weather bu reau's expert on river forecast ing said "Every day its appears less likely that we will have a combination of flood waters out of the Snake and upper Colum bia rivers as we did in 1948." The high water forecast for the Portland and Vancouver harbors still stands at a mini mum of 24 feet and possible maximum of 26.5 feet, Fisher said. The exceptionally heavy run off during April and the early part of May were pointed out as the basis for the optimistic out look. During the past three weeks the Columbia has remain ed some 5 to 12 feet above the stages for the same time in 1948 when distastrous flooding wiped out Vanport village and damage ran into the millions of dollars. Use Tribune Want Ads For Best Results! Just Call 2-6147 w WHYNCHA LOOK 7 WHERE I'M GOING? Hell never look out for YOU this reckless, brainless Kid Stuff Driver who knows HE owns the road. So stay alive. Look out for him. Help police look out for him too, by demanding and supporting rigid law enforcement! 'Corele driving Is deadly KID STUFF'' Monday, May 14, 1958 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVEN Various Stars, Planets Are Visible in Skies Now By FAY VAN SCHOIACK Would you like to spend a restful evening hour during which the manifold cares of the day seem to fade into the back ground? Then find a place which affords a broad view of the sky with a minimum of city light, and observe the "forget-me-nots of the angels" deepen from silver to gold. Low in the northwest, beauti ful Capella sparkles in the deep ening darkness. Castor and Pol lux, the Heavenly Twins, stand comradely side by side, a trifle north of due west and slightly higher in the sky than Capella. Procyon, in Canis Minor, is nearer the horizon than the Twins and somewhat south of due west. These four stars form a broken line just above the western horizon. Leading Role The leading role in this celes tial drama is played by the plan et, Venus, a spectacular object high in the west, outshining ev erything in the night sky but the moon. The "goddess of love and beauty" will adorn the celes tial sphere only a few more weeks before its nearness to the sun renders it invisible to earth dwellers. After a brief absence it will appear in the east as a morning "star." Jupiter, king of planets as far as size is concerned, though less brilliant than Venus, now shines brightly high in the southwest. It is west of the meridian at dark and before midnight has slipped beneath the western horizon. Regulus, a beautiful white star twinkling at the bottom of The Sickle, lies to the left and slight ly lower in the sky than Jupiter. It is somewhat overshadowed by the steady non-twinkling light of its royal neighbor. Turning to the south we recog nize Spica, its remarkable blue white light glowing like a gem in the early evening. This first magnitude star is easy to find as there is none other of equal bril liance in that part of the heav ens. Spica lies a little east of due south and less than one-half way between the horizon and the ov erhead point. The golden-yellow beauty of Arcturus gleaming high in the southeast is in direct contrast to the blue-white glow of Spica, but is none the less lovely. Each of these giant suns is a gem in its own right. Antares, a giant red star, scin tillates rapidly low in the south east. It will be a thing of beauty in the southern heavens during all the months of summer. Vega, a sun 50 times brighter than the center of our solar system, glows and sparkles low in the north east. It is easily identified by its great brilliance and blue-white color. There are no brilliant stars In the northern sky. Polaris, the Pole Star, which we all know as the North Star is only of second magnitude. But because it ap pears to remain stationary while all the other stars move, has been of greater service to mankind than any of its more attractive neighbors. "Why do the stars vary in col or?" someone inquired recently. Astronomers say this is due to a difference in surface tempera tures. Antares is a giant red con sidered to be fairly cool with a surface temperature of about 3000 degrees Fahrenheit. As the colors range upward through or ange and yellow to white and blue-white, the temperatures be come progressively higher. Blue white stars like Spica have a surface temperature of approx imately 25,000 degrees Fahrenheit! Last of Texas Quadruplets Dies Dallas, Tex. (U.R) The last of the quadruplet girls born two weeks ago to Mr. and Mrs. George Hunter died Sunday The last victim of prematurity complications was Marie Gay, second largest of the quads. At birth, she weighed three pounds. The quadruplets were born six weeks early. The first of the quads, Melanie Fay, died after eight days. The second, Marilyn Fay, lived nine days, and the third, Avie May, died two days ago. DRAPERIES Complete Drapery Decorating Service Full Length Samples Terms Wakefield Drapery New Location 1100 Crater Lake Ave. Ph. 2-6010 Hood River, Pond Dragged for Child Hood River (U.R) Searchers dragged the Hood river about four miles south of here today and were draining the Oregon Lumber company mill pond ori the stream in an attempt to re cover the body of 10-year-old Josephine Sedgwick, feared drowned yesterday. The little girl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Sedgwick of The Dalles, was fishing on the stream with her eight-year-old sister yesterday afternoon. Her father, who was fishing nearby, heard a scream from one of the two girls and rushed to the scene to see his elder daughter vanish in the swift flowing water. 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