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E, MUCH ADO Part of an estimated crowd of 100,000 carrying flags and slogan-tanners and including members of the new East-German Army witness a farewell parade of Soviet troops in Brandenburg. Parade was honoring Russian 200th Air Division transfer back to Russia. The Soviets sent 174 flyers back to Russia in obsolete t lanes amid a fanfare of publicity to mark the start of announced withdrawal of 3,000 Red Army troops from East Germany. Shy Marie Dionne Kept Busy Signing Cards in Little Montreal Flower Shop By BERT L. MARSH Montreal (U.R) The motherly-looking woman wearing a convention badge bustled into the florist shop, selected a few condolence and greeting cards and went up to a small blonde at tendant. "Say, your speak English?" the woman asked. The shopgirl nodded. "Well. I came up here all the way from Kentucky," the wom an said. "Where's Marie? I want her to sign these cards. Just sign 'em, that's all. She needn't write anything else . . . ." jSo smooth k leaves you , Mfyjy breathless mirnoff tJu rmzhst nam -VODKA VProottHttrntrffromcraln Ste.PltrrtSmknotf fit. (On. of Htublein). Hartford, Conn., U.S. A. The blonde let out an audible sign, iuuk uie carus anu whikcu back past the glass-doored flow er refrigerators to a rear room. She was back shortly with the cards on which was scrawled "Marie D." The visitor beamed, cooed her thanks and left. She was one of the hundreds who come every day to the shop opened last month by Marie Dionne not to buy anything but just out of cur iosity about the famous quintup lets. Maries' shop does fairly well on regular orders but the unend ing flow of sighteseers is such that the first quint to try her hand at business remains almost constantly in the seclusion of the back room. The shop is called "Salone Em ilie, Fleuriste." The name is in memory of Emilie Dionne, who died in 1954. On the pastel blue walls, are an oil painting of Emi lie in a blue dress and another five by seven foot portrait of the quints when they were two years old. AU the Girls Busy The remaining four girls, now 22, all live in the Montreal area. Marie has a two-bedroom apart-' ment. Yvonne and Cecile are nurses in training at l'Esperance hospital where they live in most of the time. Annette is studying music under nuns at a college at Nicolet not far from here. Marie reluctantly received this reporter. She was asked what she and her sisters do for entertainment. She shuffled from one foot to the other, smoothed her long, brown skirt and plain white blouse and said: "Well, we get together at the apartment. Sometimes we go to the movies. We try to pick the times when there wont' be a lot of people staring at us, although weidon't mind that now, really. "Now and then we eat out. But we never go nightclubbing be cause we don't drink and we never seem to want to go to a club." The girls no longer dress alike. When they go shopping, they do so separately so they will not draw crowds. So far as is known none of them has any romances. Yvonne, the most attractive of the girls, was reported about a year ago to have become engaged to a Mon treal boy. Papa Dionne imme diately called a press conference at their Callander birthplace to deny the reports. Resented Actions The quints were said to have resented their father's action, not because there was any en gagement in prospect but be cause they want him to let them mind their own affairs. Dionne has never come to Montreal to see their apartment or to visit the flower shop. The man they lean most to for advice is L. M. Edwards, an exe cutive of a trust company which handles the more than $1,000,000 in gilt-edged securities which the girls came into at 21. Edwards and his wife occasionally have the girls out for dinner or an evening drive. "I think they are gradually coming out of their shell," he says. "They probably still feel strange, but who wouldn't feel a little out of place after a life time of being the focal point of everyone's eyes?" are your valuables? A desk drawer provides little protection for your hard-to-zeplace valuables. Yet that's the "filing" place for many insurance policies, wills, deeds, or titles, discbarge papea, even savings bonds. Fire and theft are constant threats but they can't harm the valuables you keep in a Safe Deposit Box at U. S. National. Your valuables receive baok-i twit pfoeectjoa...aod yam ace an of absolnte privacy. Rent your Safe Deposit Box now at U. S. National ml peaet of wumd or Kttit smm tbtm ptmmj dty! Aerial Photos Aid In Solving Highway Problems Los Angeles (U.R) Knotty problems in freeway and high way construction can now be solved quickly anj inexpensive ly by an aerial photography electronic computation system, according to Bendix Aviation Computer Division Corp., offi cials. Tle G-1S General Purpose computer was produced by Ben dix and was demonstrated re cently with a photo - mapping operation used by the engineer ing firm of Lockwood, Kessler & Bartlett, of Syosset, Long Island. The new system, combining the two operations, utilizes four basic steps. 1 Aerial photographs of a proposed highway route or "strips" are made with correc tions to allow for variations in the plane's flight. 2 The photographs are match ed to provide a true location and elevation of every terrain feature common to them. This is first established by ground control points. 3 Drawings of a three-dimensional "stereopticon" contour map are made so vertical, hori zontal and depth measurements can be taken along the route. 4 The necessary measure ment data is taken from the con tour map and fed into the com puter which translates the data into precise engineering infor mation such as the location and size of each earth cut and fill within any specific section of the route. At that point, the section of highway is ready for staking and bulldozing. Earth moving equipment can then begin opera tions on the pattern provided by the computer's answer. This Is a major portion of field surveying and can now be eliminated by the new camera-to-computer technique. With the new system, authori ties say a time-saving of as much as 30 to 1 is achieved and a cost swing of 15 to 1 is realized. More than 500 express trains are now operated on British rail ways, 150 more than before World War II. Wednesday, June 27, 1956 MEDFORD (OREOOH) MAIL TrUBTTHB-JTllKIl Muwatallis Actually Won Kadesh Battle 2,352 Years Ago, Archaeologists Reveal By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor New York (U.R) Because news remains until everyone knows about it, it is news that the real victor in the battle of Kadesh, which settled the fate of much of the known world for generations, was not the mighty pharoah, Ramses II, but a fellow of whom only a handful of scien tists ever heard and they only recently. Since the battle of Kadesh was fought 2,352 years ago, this news goes to show that although truth will always out, it sometimes takes a long time. Ramses and his bootlicking historians have had the wool over our eyes from that day until the present age. Not only was the victor a present-day unknown he was the smart and brave king of a peo ple and of a world power which also got lost for almost 3,000 years in the incessant shuffling of generations of human beings. i The people were the Hittites, ! their nation was Hattusas. The ; victor at Kadesh was King Mu- j watallis. Their resurrection from the j grave of thousands of years is one of the least known and more fascinating triumphs of modern i science the science of archae ology which has dug out their : long-buried cities and now, after generations ' of fruitless trying, ' has succeeded in deciphering their writings which were carved into stone and clay. New Book Tells of Work C. W. Ceram, which is the pen name of a well known German archaeologist, has put their work together in a book "The Secret , Of The Hittites," which reveals i what was going on in Asia Min or, the "cradle of civilization," thousands of years before Christ was born. What these scientists have dug up is knowledge that was un known to the so-called "ancient" Greeks and Romans and in the days of Christ. In their days, the Hittites were already so very an cient that they were both for gotten and obliterated. The way science has figured it out, the Hittite kingdom came into being around 1900 B.C. or 3,856 years ago. So when Muwatallis came to the throne in 1308 B.C., he pre sided over a very old people who had become one of the three great powers of the then known world. The others were Egypt and Babylonia. For a long time there had been much 'trouble along Egypt's Asia Minor border. Army Moves Out Ramses set forth at the head of an army of some 20,000 to put down a people he deigned to no tice only as a "rebellious tribe." Muwatallis at the head of an army of equal strength (and such armies were enormous then) was encamped at Kadesh in the southwest corner of Asia Minor, and operating over 300 miles from his capital. The armies clashed. Ramses proved to be an amateur and a fool. He was encircled and barely avoided capture. The Egyptians were routed. But wise Muwatal lis imposed a peace treaty which endured for generations. Ramses went home and boasted of a stu pendous victory. The news was carved into stone scholars have believed it ever since. But now science has dug out and read the Hittite side which clear ly is truth. Air compression for airplane cockpits becomes impractical at 80,000 feet. The machinery re quired becomes too large and generates too much heat. 300 LBS FREE Worried about taking va cation clothes and gear? Take all yon need on UNION PAOFTCa Fam ily Plan. In addition to hand luggage needed en route, you can check 300 pounds ofbaggage ... ab solutely FREE. For Action, Use Tribune Want Ads take the children to the Big Fireworks Display WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 4th Senior High Stadium BENEFIT YMCA CAMP This Space donated by wet Dick Fanger, 1760 N. Riverside Walt Kingman, mgr., 144 S. 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