Is That So?
Some 300 generations ago, so
to speak, a wolf-like animal
wagged its tail, pleaded with
two soulful eyes and clearly
said: Let me share your camp-
fire and be your partner.
Into that circle of early men,
sitting about the fire, went a
wolf: after many centuries, out
stepped a dog. In those 8.000
years he has been a faithful
friend: helping man get his
game, guarding his home, col
lecting his livestock, pulling his
sled.
Today there are in North
America alone some 22,000,000
dogs. But it must come as a
cruel shock to many to know
how much downright misinfor-
mation exists about our partner,
the dog. Here then is a Fact vs.
Fallacy column. Perhaps it will
help you understand your own
dog or your neighbor's.
FALLACY: A cold nose indi
cates a healthy dog; a hot nose
a sick one.
FACT: A dog may have a
cold, wet nose and be dying of
distemper; or a hot, dry one and
may be in perfect health. There
is only one reliable way to check
a dog's condition. Take his tem
perature rectally. Normal is
around 101 degrees. When
above 103, get a veterinarian's
advice.
FALLACY: Some dogs are
just naturally born with a mean
streak in them.
FACT: Most professional dog
trainers will tell you: "There is
no such thing as a bad dog
only a bad owner." Mean
streaks develop when dogs are
neglected or punished for rea
sons they do - not understand.
Along this line, I'd like to sug
gest that you go to your library
and look up in the Reader's Di
gest 1941, the article: How to
Train Your Dog. Also for a dime
and a self-addressed return en
velope you can get a book on
scientific dog raising from the
American Society for the Pre
vention of Cruelty to Animals,
50 Madison Ave., New York
City 10.,
Dogs Equally Healthy
FALLACY: Mongrel dogs are
healthier than pure bred dogs.
FACT: They are equally
healthy says Dr. James R. Kin
ney, head of New York's Speyer
Hospital for Animals.
FALLACY: It is cruel to keep
dogs in cities.
FACT: The average city dog
lives from two to three years
longer than his country, cousin.
Besides he is usually better
groomed and more carefully
nourished.
FALLACY: Dogs can be
house-broken in infancy.
FACT: A few dogs may ac
quire house manners at three
months. The average is closer
to six.
A new puppy is no more able
to control himself than a new
baby. Spanking or rubbing a
puppy's nose in his error only
frightens and confuses him
By EUGINE BURNS
Ranger-Naturalist
During his first few months a
puppy should simply be kept in
a paper-covered playpen, or en
closed space, with a blanket at
one end. By nature, dogs are
clean and quickly learn to use
paper in preference to their
blankets. Dog experts claims
that four months is plenty early
to begin changing from paper to
true housebreaking that is tak
ing Towser outside first thing
in the morning, after meals, aft
er romps, last thing at night.
And praising him excessively
when he had done his duty as
he had oughter.
FALLACY: Summer clipping
makes a dog feel cooler.
FACT: Dogs sweat extremely
little through their skins but
mostly through their mouths
and the pads of their feet. Shear
ing a dog all over does not make
him feel a bit cooler only mis
erably uncomfortable. Besides,
clipping often renders a dog
more susceptible to colds and in
sect bites.
FALLACY: Frequent bathing
is beneficial.
FACT: Actually this can be
harmful. For that matter, pup
pies under six months should
not be bathed at all. Daily
brushing, however, against the
grain of the hair is good.
(Released by The McClure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
(Copyright, 1956, by Eugene
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Dulles Receives
Entertainment Fund
Washington (U.R) Secretary
of State John Foster Dulles now
can entertain visiting dignitaries
with government funds, rather
than using money from his own
wallet.
Although lawmakers some
times grumble about it, Con
gress for years has voted funds
to the State Department for so
called "representation allow
ances" or as some Capitol cyn
ics call it, "whisky money." This
allows American envoys over
seas to hold a diplomatic soiree
occasionally without digging too
deeply into their own pockets.
But in the past the secretary
of state has received no repre
sentation allowance, although he
does a lot of official entertain
ing. Under a bill signed by Pres
ident Eisenhower Thursday the
government will give the secre
tary one.
The bill also includes the
usual funds to buy ice water for
overseas embassies. This is nec
essary because local water in
some cases is not fit to drink.
Andrea Doria Crew
Defended Against
Cowardice Charges
New York (U.R) Charges of
incompetence and cowardice
against crewmen of the Italian
liner Andrea Doria were con
demned today by some seamen
from the SS Cape Ann, the first
ship to reach the scene of the
collision off Nantucket nine days
ago.
The Pilot, official newspaper
of the National Maritime Union
quoted NMU members who were
aboard the Cape Ann as saying
the Doria crew performed in "as
seamanlike a manner as possible
under the difficult circum
stances."
No Signs of Stampede
Norman Yon, an able seaman,
told the Pilot he saw "no signs of
n.ad stampede or panic" among
Doria crewmen. He said that
most of the stories "maligning"
the Italian crew were put into
the mouths of "bewildered pas
sengers" by "overzealous news
papermen.
The Pilot said the charges
against the Doria crewmen that
they were first in the lifeboats
could be explained by "what
was not apparent to the sea-
mens' critics, that some crew
men must get into the boats first,
both to man the oars and to help
the passengers."
Crew 'Did Fine Job'
A member of a Cape Ann life
boat crew, able seaman Sidney
Miller, said the Italian crew did
"a fine job" of providing emer
gency lowering gear of rope,
line, fire hoses, and nets for the
passengers to clamber down the
Doria's steep side.
Meanwhile, damage suits total
ing $827,000 were filed Thurs
day by passengers and a textile
firm claiming losses in the sink
ing of the Doria July 26, after it
collided with the Stockholm the
night before. Suits for ' more
than 700,000 were to be filed
today.
It takes nature from 500 to
1,000 years to make an inch of
good topsoil.
Public Relations
Director Murdered
Hollywood U.R) A public
relations director was found
murdered early today in his
home off the Sunset Strip. He
apparently had been pistol-whipped
and his skull was crushed.
William C. Wescott Jr., 30,
director of publicity for the Out
door Greek theater in the Holly
wood Hills, attended a party at
the Brown Derby restaurant
after Thursday night's show. His
body was found by a caretaker
at about 4:20 a.m.
Police said the killer was be
lieved to have fled in Wescott's
white 1954 Lincoln convertible.
Robbery may have been the
motive, police said, because Wes
cott's pockets were pulled inside
out.
Paul Trebitsch, manager of
the theater where the victim
had worked for the past five
years, said he understood Wes
cott, who was unmarried, was
the son of a . wealthy retired
manufacturer now living at
Sarasota, Fla. .
USE TRIBUNE WANT ADS
FOR RESULTS
Quotes From the News
By UNITED PRESS
United Nations, N. Y. U.N. Secretary General Dag Ham
marskjold on his refusal to comment about private talks with
Soviet leaders Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev:
"I never discuss discussions."
Washington President Eisenhower on the death of 109-year-old
Albert Woolson, last member of the Union Army:
"The American people have lost the last personal link with
the Union Army."
North Hollywood. Calif. Boxer-turned-actor Pat Comiskey
on his redheaded six-foot, two-inch girl friend who shot him in
the thigh as he lay in bed:
"I guess this is what you call true love. She didn't have any
other way of expressing herself, so she shot me."
t
- London Secretary of State John Foster Dulles on the Suez
Canal talks with Britain and France:
"I think we have made solid progress."
Hollywood liver Brumfield, campaign manager for blonde,
curvaceous actress Cleo Moore on her plans to run for governor
of Louisiana in 1958:
"She's serious about it, but this doesn't mean she'll have to
retire as an actress. She still could make one picture a year if
she wins."
Monaco Prince Rainier III to his people on the baby his
wife, former actress Grace Kelly, expects in February:
"The princess and I take great joy in associating you with
this great , happiness."
Parris Island S-Sgt. Matthew C. McKeon, on trial for the
death of six Marines in a swrmp during a night march, on retired
Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Chesty Puller, tough, much-decorated leather
neck, who testified for the defense:
"Oh, God, I'd follow that old man to hell."
Slant, Va. John Sailing, 110, one of three survivors of the
Confederate army, on the death of 109-year-old Albert Woolson,
the last survivor of the Union army:
"God bless you, Yankee. I hope you go to rest. I hope to
see you sometime."
Around Hollywood
By ALINE MOSBT '
United Press Correspondent
Aline Motor
beautiful wife,
Hollywood (U.R) Actor John
Ireland now is a resort owner,
too. But what price big business.
His fancy new
tennis club, he
confessed to
day, is what he
thinks caused
th e "black
snag in his
marriage.
For nearly
two years the
rugged-looking
actor and his
actress Joanne
Dru. have been busy readying
their S340.000 Paradise Valley
Racquet club in a swank suburb
of Phoenix, Ariz., for its Oct. 9
opening.
But the actor says the strain
of the project caused the explo
sion that ended with Joanne in
the hospital with black eyes and
Ireland in another room recov
ering from some sleeping pills.
He took two pills to sleep, ne
explained, "and as I had taken
two earlier 'on the plane they
knocked me out." Her insury
was "three fourths from an acci
dent when I jammed on the car
brakes too hard."
But the basic reason for their
separation, he reasons, was his
excursion into business.
"If I knew two years ago what
I know now I would prefer not
to invest in business," Ireland
reflected at NBC-TV where he
was rehearsing for today's "Mat
inee Theater."
"From now on. I will concen
trate on acting. We'll go to the
club on week ends, but we're
hiring a manager and will lease
the bar and restaurant. Now that
Friday, August 3. 1958
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE
Air Force Rocket
Makes 1900 MPH
Washington U.R An Air
Force stainless steel X2 rocket
plane has streaked over Califor
nia at more than 1,900 miles an
hour an all-time high speed
mark for piloted aircraft.
Authorities disclosed Thurs
day night that Lt. Col. Frank
Everest, chief of flight test at
Edwards Air Force Base. Calif.,
set the speed mark July 25 in the
X2 research airplane. He trav
eled almost three times the speed
of sound.
The X2 was designed to inves
tigate the so-called "thermal bar
rier" the enormous heat gen
erated on the skin of a high
speed airplane by air friction.
Bell Aircraft Corp. built the
plane.
Normal aluminum alloys
would be dangerously weakened
by the 600-degree temperatures
generated by a 2,000 miles an
hour velocity.
The X2 has a high stainless
steel content which can with
stand temperatures up to about
1,600 degrees. Friction would
cause that temperature at about
a 3.300 mile an hour speed.
Everest's speed can not be en
tered as a new world speed rec
ord because the flight was of
short duration, was not clocked
by official timers and the plane
was carried aloft by a bomber
and released at high altitude.
The present world speed rec
ord is 1,150 miles an hour. It
was set over a measured course
by a British experimental airplane.
Nude Woman Goes
Unnoticed by Press
Cleveland (U.R) There
wasn't much doing in the wee
hours of the morning, so re
porters in the press room at
Central Police Station were hav
ing a card game.
The press room is on the first
floor, just off the main corridor.
So the newsmen thought it no
more than routine when a
young woman stuck her head
into the room and asked "Where
can I find a policeman?"
One of the reporters directed
her to the proper office. The
others continued the card game,
taking little notice of the fact
the lady was naked.
She told the officers her hus
band tore off her clothing dur
ing an argument.
HUGE REUNION
Los Angeles (U.R) Los An
geles International Airport was
-the scene of a large family re
union Thursday night. Three-year-old
Suzie rubbed trunks
with her 15-month-old sister,
just arrived from Singapore. The
two elephants are with the Pan
American Amusement Company.
K SKIMPY BUDGET
Bingham, England (U.R)
A judge suspended sentence
against Mrs. Myrtle Carrington
Thursday when an attorney said
her husband assisted her in the
theft of sheets from a hospital
where she worked, then told
police she stole them. What's
more, the attorney said, her hus
band gave her only $28 in house
keeping money over a three
year period.
CADDIES THREATEN STRIKE
Detroit (U.R) Golfers at
Lochmore Golf club in suburban
Grosse Point Woods may have
more than the normal hazards
to hurdle today. Club caddies
have threatened to strike and
throw up picket lines unless
they get higher pay.
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for my next movie at RKO."
The club, according to photo
graphs, appears, to be a beautiful
addition to resort life. The Ire
lands luckily picked up several
acres of the desert wasteland
two and a half years ago at !
SI, 600 an acre. Now it's selling
for 510,000 an acre.
The couple decided to build a
tennis club with their savings
plus $190,000 borrowed from a
bank. The result includes a huge
swimming pool and five tennis
courts with seats for 2,500
people.
"I don't know whether actors
investing in business is a good
idea," he said. "It depends on ;
how things work out at home. If I
they do for me, my first move j
will be to tear out the office in I
our house and make it a nice !
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