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TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday. August 1. 19SS They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo DlMWIDCV IS THE . DOLT WHO ALWAYS GETS OUT OF MIS CAQ OM "WE TP4FRC SIDE- i SOMEBODY- JUST PUT IN A NEW L4WN NE4R WPto'l "ME CURB-- On The Side By E. V. Durling (Dittribufcd by King Features Svndicete. Inc.) In a Brussels trial, the defend ant, a man. had three women lawyers. One blonde and two brunettes. This inspires the ques tion as to how an all-woman jury reacts to the plea of a feminine lawyer. Also which are the best women lawyers, blondes or brun ettes? How about the red-haired legal lights? I would like to see Colgate's new aerosol type insecticide kills fifes mosquito roaches 3nTS and other bugs faster easier L'J'f" than any yV. yotfi&r type and it smefls good, too KEEPS DOOMS riEE Of FLYING INSECTS lonceri Kan-kil Bus Kjller is easy lo use no spray sun necessary, no fuss, no mra! . . . Jut press the tMjnon. kan-kil Bug killer is non inflammable. ..contains no DOT... end it smells pood. loo. Leaves no tvpical insecticide odor. Proved fast, easy, effective. At all stores, knottier dependable Colgate Product a trial with a blonde barrister opposing a brunette. Or be on hand when a brunette female lawyer was cross-examining a green-eyed, red-haired feminine witness. What a battle of wits that should be! So They Say Aries (March 21-April 20) wom en are wild about dancing. When the music starts they can't keep still. At home they will fox trot with a broom to the tune of re cordings or the radio. The theme song of Aries wives is"Papa won"t you dance with me." Next to wanting a husband who may buy her a mink coat, the Aries girl wantsonewho will take her danc ing at least twice a week. Gem ini (May 22-June 21) females are excessivley active. Always fuss ing around. The most trivial de tail of home management throws them into a frenzy. Gemini wom en drive husbands who like to relax wild and cause them to re tire to their dens or go out to the neighborhood pub in search of a little peace and quiet. Or so say the stargazers. Asking Queries from clients. Q. So you are a student of percentage and the law of probabilities. If I offered to bet it would rain in New York City on your birthday in July, 1957, what odds would you give me that it wouldn't? A. Two and a half to one. Q. Has Kate Smith ever used any other professional name during her career as an entertainer? A. Yes, sir. In the beginning Kate was a comedienne and was billed as "Tiny Litl'e." When she aban doned the comedy angle and concentrated o n singing she started using her real name which is Kathryn Elizabeth Smith. Says She "That scale of tips for hair dressers you quoted is all out of line," writes a Boston beauty shop operator. "So is the assump tion that women are good tip pers. They are outrageously bad tippers. For example, a perm, a three-hour job usually nets us a quarter tip. Same for a color job. Skilled hairdressers are paid $10 a day. Nothing for overtime. If absent because of sickness they don't get paid. Let's get this settled. Who is Aviation Brigade Completes Night Training Problem The 517th Engineer Aviation Brigade, which is undergoing two weeks summer field training at Yakima Firing Center, Wash., completed an overnight field problem yesterday. The camp will finish its summer training Saturday. The 417lh, made up of officers and men from Ashland, Grants Pass, and Medford, as well as other Rogue valley communities, has 32 officers and men at the camp. Members of other units, in cluding three men from Klam ath Falls, whose unit is not at tending camp this year, brings the overall total to 155 officers and men. Headquarters in Medford Units making up the 417th are from Oregon, Washington and Idaho. The brigade is headquar tered at Medford, and is com manded by Col. William H. Prentice, a California Oregon Power company official. The reservists performed var ious engineering projects around th Firing Center before going on the field problem. The projects are actual jobs which the post engineer has been doing to im prove the post. Two projects are being carried out by the 255th Engineer Bat talion made up of men from Sa lem, Coos Bay and the Vancouver-Portland areas. Another proj ect has been worked on by the 453rd Engineering Battalion of Pullman and Spokane. Other units having projects are the 455th Engineer Aviation com pany, of Olympia, Wash., and the 442nd Transportation Battalion from Eugene. I'm no Bar-B-QBum He minds his picnic manners especially when it's barbecued beef on de licious Holsum the energy white bread in the orange red wrapper. MAKE IT TASTE BETTER Serve it with Holsum Bread Medford Girl Gains Finals in Contest Wynne Hazel Jenkins, 906 King st., Medford, has submitted a winning entry in the Sealy $500,000 posturepedic contest, Sealy, Inc., Chicago, manufac turers of mattresses and con vertible sleep furniture, has an nounced. She will receive a posturpedic mattress from Gates Furniture, 341 North Central ave., where the contest was offered locally. Her entry is now being consid ered for a grand prize of $20,000 in cash or common stocks or an expense-paid vacation for two in Jamaica. Entrants were asked to choose a name for the Sealy posture pedic girl, widely used in adver tising the mattress. Grand prize winners will be announced in mid-August. OLDEST TWINST Great Bend, Kan. (U.P.) Mrs. Amelia Sandman Essmiller of Great Bend and Mrs. Adelia Sandman Bratberg of Holman, Wis., both widows, believe they are the nation's oldest twins. They are 95. the oldest practicing physician in the United States? My nomina tion is Dr. John Sturgeon, Un iontown. Pa., who is 102 and still going strong. Incidentally, Dr. -Sturgeon has ushered over 4,000 infants Into the world. That may also be a record. Food Which are most expensive In your section, iamb chops or veal cutlets. In New York lamb is de creasing is popularity. Veal is increasing. So lamb chops are $1.29 a pound. Veal cutlets $1.35 a pound. I favor veal cutlets. Breaded veal cutlet with a lit tle spaghetti on the side. Breeding Mrs. John D. Hertz, breeder of many celebrated thoroughbreds, says the mare is of 70 per cent importance in a breeding regard less of who the sire is. As I have previously said, a similar situa tion is claimed to exist in hu man. The mother is most impor tant. However, whether or not she is as high as 70 per cent im portant, I cannot say. Is That So? Apart from the violent abuses man has inflicted upon man in northern Siberia, it is a most amazing land. And in today's mail, I received a letter from Alexander Zoueff, a New York engineer, who knows this little known region very well. During this hot spell of summer, he tells of ice that forms in the bottom of rivers and lifts rocks to the surface. "I was born in Irkutsk, the capital of Siberia, near Lake Baikal," writes Zoeff. "During 8-1-56 my boyhood I used to visit and swim in this lake many times. Later I became a member of an exploration staff in Eastern Si beria and during my last year in that country I was in charge of a small expedition. From his unpublished manu script, he quotes: Baikal, the sacred sea of Siberia, is more than one mile deep making it the deepest lake in the world. This huge lake, largest fresh water lake in Asia, is 400 miles long and from 20 to 40 miles wide. v The water is famous for its color and transparency: shore bottom can be seen clearly 140 feet deep. On clear summer days the mountains surrounding, the lake shine with their snow covered summits, making a grand panorama reflected in the clear waters. Flora and fauna are many and varied: there are 1.800 different forms of life in Baikal, many found nowhere else. One curious oily fish, Golomyanka, is almost completely transparent. No one ever saw this fish alive, as it lives deep down and is thrown out on the shore in great quanti ties by storms. If left on shore, the sun's rays melt most of this fish. It is not edible but is used for machine oil. There are stur geons also. But even stranger, many seals live in this fresh - water lake which is thousands of miles from both Arctic and Pacific oceans How they got thehre, no one knows but it is believed they have been there millions of years. One River Flows Out Although 300 rivers and creeks flow into Baikal only one, the Angara flows out of it. It floods in late fall instead of spring and then a curious thing may happen: ice forms at the bottom of the river first on the stones and then floats up to the sur face lifting the stones with it. As for Lake Baikal, it often freezes as smooth as a mirror. The strong winds may carry an inexperienced man or a horse with a sledge for several miles without stop on its slick surface. During cold spells the shrink ing ice sometimes cracks, mak ing a sharp report like the crack of a pistol shot. The coldest temperature ever By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist recorded in the world is at Verk hoyansk, a village on the Yana river. The all-time low was -90 degrees Fahrenheit, w-hich is 122 degrees below freezing! Brrrr! Here in this "pole of cold" trees are sometimes frozen so hard that when a branch is struck it may break like glass or when the trunk of a tree is hit with an ax, it may give off a shower of sparks. The air is so still and it Is so quiet, adds Engi neer Zoeff, that the crunching of a sled can be heard two miles away. During very cold nights, a faint but continuous rustle is heard natives call it "the whisper of the star." Oftentimes the ice of the riv ers is so .strong and deep that railroad tracks, during emer gencies, can be put on it and it will support loaded trains! Gold in Siberia There is gold in Siberia the richest gold mines being in the Lena river basin. "Strikes" in the upper Aldan river are com parable to those of the Klondike in America. . Ivory tusks of many mam moths have been found in north ern Siberia and for many years a thriving business was conduct ed in this ivory. In addition to tusks, one perfectly preserved specimen including bones, flesh and even the undigested contents of its stomach was found in 1901. Animals now living include the Siberian tiger perhaps the world's biggest and most fero cious cat, panthers, leopards, po lar bears, polar foxes, wolves and seals. , For some curious reason the natives of northern Siberia called Yakuts, speak a language similar to Turkish. In conclusion, Mr.' Zoueff gives us a pleasant word of this land: during the short summers of northern Siberia, there are many colorful flowers and good tasting berries, some being very fragrant, growing in great abun dance. (Copyright, 1956, by Eugene Burns) (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the readers who send me the best true-life nature adventures, the best nature obsrvation, 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. Sor ry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please ad dress your letter to: Is That So! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. THE LURE Des Moines (U.R) Kirk Doug las Weaver, 8, knew just what to do when his one-year-old brother, Kelly, crawled through a hole in a fence while he was taking care of him. Kirk ran into the house, grabbed Kelly's bottle of milk and dashed after his brother. Then, holding the bottle a few feet in front of Kelly, Kirk led his brother down the street and into the house. Talent Sets School Opening Sept. 10 Talent ' The Talent public schools will open Monday, Sept. 10, according to R. B. Parr, su perintendent. Changes in the faculty include Mrs. Lucille Offutt teaching English and speech in the high school, Richard Thorpe teaching in the elementary school and will serve as head football and baseball coach and assistant bas ketball coach, and Mrs. Esther Newcomb will replace Mr. Charles Jones in the elementary school. The faculty for the 1956-57 school year in the elementary school includes Eugene Farthing, principal; and Merle Atkinson, Ida Bowman, Ralph Carroll, Mary Ann Conger, Doris Corry, Ruth Dews. Cecile Fifield, Char lotte Hannan, Genevieve Hold rige, K. Yvonne Mearns, W. D. Mearns, Esther Newcomb, Rich ard Reum, Virginia Schopf, Rich- ard Thorpe, Alfleda Wheeler and Nellie Young. Faculty for the high school in cludes Eugene Vinckel, princi pal; and George Bray, Mildred Briggs, Ina Freeman, Gordon Hart, Ruby Messenger, Irma Parr, Irving Thomas and Lucille Offutt. Sweetland, Hatfield Tells Views on Office Portland (U.R) Democrat ic Monroe Sweetland and ' Re publican Mark Hatfield, candi dates for secretary of state, yes terday presented their views on qualifications for the office. Speaking at a noon luncheon of the Junior Chamber of Com merce. Hatfield said he was a firm believer in the "Little Hoover commission," which was set up to reorganize the state government on more efficient lines. He said he also was inter ested in reapportionment of the Legislature to provide true rep resentation of the people. Sweetland cited his adminis trative, business and legislative experience, as qualifications. As publisher of a weekly newspa per, the Milwaukie Review, he said he "knew what it was to meet a payroll every Friday." Sweetland added that he and Hatfield have similar legisla tive careers, each entering tht Legislature at the same time. Allegan. Mich. (U.R) In 1895. an insurance company refused to issue a policy to Mrs. Lucinda West because she had a heart condition. Recently, she observ ed her 90th birthday. r your out-dated fur coat con be a stunning fur stole 4 f a glamorous fur jacket For Only $ 47 50 For Most Furs RESTYLE YOUR FURS! See what. magic our skilled furriers con perform with your old fur eoati Youll love the year-round luxury ond versatility of a "little fur" . . . and how sensible to re-enlist hat out-moded fur coat! 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