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i EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday. August 10, 195S State Equipment To Test Fuel Oil Meters in Area The state department of ag riculture fuel oil meter truck will be in the southern Oregon area for the next two and a half weeks, according to the Salem office. The equipment was set up this week at the Mcdford Associated oil plant to test all meters through which fuel oil and gaso line bulk and wholesale deliv eries are made, including gaso line deliveries to service stations as well as fuel oil deliveries to homes and businesses. J. E. Kitchen is in charge of the equipment. Special Truck The special testing truck is on the road throughout the year and visits all wholesale plants at least once a year. The meter truck schedules visits to deliv ery trucks in the area on a schedule which is arranged to interfere as little as possible with plant delivery activity. The inspector has reported that so far this year tests re veal that meters are in good shape. Meters which test all ryiht are sealed and seal goes on in such a manner that the meter can not be disturbed without breaking the seal. Meters which do not measure correctly must be corrected be fore the seal is attached. The test truck will be in Grants Pass in two weeks at the Standard oil plant and will move to Cave Junction later. A Nichol's Worth of . . Pacific Employment Has 86,700 Increase San Francisco (U.R) Wage nd salary employment in the three Pacific Coast states in mid June totaled 5.518.900, ah in crease of 86.700 over the mid May level, the U. S. Department of Labor reported Thursday. Max D. Kossoris, western re . gional director of the depart ment's Bureau of Labor Statis tics, said the mid-June total was 261.200 greater than in June a year ago. California employment in creased by 53.700 over the May level to a total of 4.240.900: Washington was up 14.000 for a total of 779,000, and Oregon showed a monthly gain of 19,000 workers. Kossoris said the average weekly earnings in the three slates was close to $90, well above the national average of $79.40. He said the difference between the two was due main ly to industrial competition and the number of hours worked and did not reflect substantially higher hourly earnings. Young Stock Wizard To Attend Convention Tujunga, Calif. (U.R) Leon ard Ross, the 12-year-old stock market wizard, plans to get an early start in launching his career as a politician by attend ing the Democratic National Convention at Chicago. Young Ross, whose knowledge of the stock market won him $100,000 recently on a television quiz program, has accepted an invitation to attend the conven tion. He and his mother, Mrs Pauline Ross, will fly to Chi cago Sunday. Despite his vast knowledge of finance, Ross told a television audience while appearing on '"The Big Surprise" that he is a Democrat and will enter politics. He will be on television for the Democrats during convention programs next week. Bridge Columnist Leads in Play-off New York (U.R) Popular bridge columnist Charles Goren of Miami Beach led his team to Victory early today in a three team playoff for the masters team of four bridge champion ship of the United States. The team will meet Italy, who became European champion this week in Stockholm, in interna tional competition in New York next January. Trailing midway through its final match, the Goren team ral lied to win by the narrow mar gin of 140 points. Other mem bers of the team are William Seamon of Miami Beach. Mrs. Helen Sobel, Harold Ogust. Boris Koytchou and Peter Lev entritt of New York. They edged a team composed of Alvin Roth of Washington. Harry Harkavy of Miami Beach. Tobias Stone. Ira Rubin and Vic tor Mitchell of New York. CONFUSED STREET Cambridge, Mass. (U.R) A street that was both one-way and two-way created chaos here. The Cambridge-Somerville city line passed through White Street. But when Cambridge decided to make White street a one-way street, it neglected to notify Somerville. It was several days before the confusion was ended. , Comment On This and That Br HARMAM United Preis F Washington 'U.R) Riding herd on a bunch of college stu dents is a far cry from putting on pajamas and looking over the foot lights at a cri tic a 1 theater mob. But Mar guerite Shaw has played both roles and loved both. Be fore she join j ,1.. j Harm NirhnU r u i u troupe of the play "The Pajama VV. NICHOLS eatura Writer Game" she was dean of students at the .American University here. Although she was no stranger to acting Marguerite had never thought of making a career of it before "The Pajama Game." Up to then acting was strictly for relaxation. Had it not been for a little prodding from her sister. Reta, a long time professional in the theater. Marguerite would not be where she is now. Rcta played the part of "Ma bel" in "The Pajama Game" on 1 Broadway. When the road com pany was organized she sug gested her sister for the same role. Nobody is sorry Reta did. The theme of the play is set in a pajama factory and the plot is wound around a spat between labor and management over a 7 '.4 cent an hour boost in pay for the hired hands. Fun is poked at both sides in balanced doses. Phone Rang Late As "Mabel" the bookkeeper. Marguerite gets herself into a number of pretty funny jams. "I've had some bad moments, though," she told me during a chat backstage at the National Theater. "Like the time I picked up the phone before it rang and almost jumped out of my P.J.s when it finally went off in the middle of a sentence. I ad libbed out of it and the audience laugh ed. I guess the customers thought it was part of the act."' And another time she and Buster West were doing a soft shoe dance and our gal did a prat fall. Buster gathered her up and that took a bit of doing. No lady likes to admit that she stretches the scales to 180 pounds, even in flimsies like pajamas. Marguerite can lay claim to a fine education. She holds an A.B. degree from Bates College and has a master's degree from Columbia University. She calls South Paris, Me., her' home town. Uses Good Luck Charm Maybe you have wondered how show people doll up for a performance. Applying the lip rouge and such. The "book keeper" showed me her own system. First, she washes her face, then applies some grease paint. After that she puts on some wet rouge, and next the eye shadow. Face powder is smoothed on and she sees that the brows of the eye are free of paint and powder. "Then," she said, 'I dab some rouge under the chin shying away from the second one." Marguerite, incidentally, has a good luck piece which she uses regularly. It's a rabbit's foot Reta gave her before she started off on an 18-month tour, dur ing which she completed 650 performances without ever hav ing to call upon either of her two stand ins. She uses the bunny paw to smooth her face after the make up is on. Biggest thrill she has had came the other night when some of her former pupils in the gal lery here flashed an American University banner. Use Tribune Want Ads QUICK RESULTS Norwich, Conn. (U.R) After broadcasting an appeal from the parents of a missing boy. an nouncer Tom Phalen recalled seeing a lad outside the studio a few minutes before. He dashed out and sure enough, it was the missing boy. NEW HAT Brockton, Mass. 'U.R) Judge Anthony Kupka told Gordon H. Scully Jr., acquitted on charges of shooting a raccoon after explaining he thought it might bite his children, to "skin the animal and make a hat for yourself." "The Amazing Volkswagon" It doesn't cost to own a Volkswagon . . . IT PAYS! MORSE MOTORS 1201 N. 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