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IX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday. August 14, 1I5C School Teacher Puts! Tourists in Gay Mood By Injun Act Wisconsin Dells, Wis. -UR)- A country school teacher with a dual personality is putting tourists in a romantic mood with Indian love songs this summer He is Chief Little Eagle known to his grade-school pu pils as Roger Tallmadge. As Little Eagle, the dignified school teacher dons feathers and beads to preside over a '"Sunset Tour" through the Dells of the Wisconsin river. Standing in the bow of an excursion boat, he chants Sioux legends and bal lads with a beat that has prompt ed other guides to call him "the wild man of the river." When the tourists leave, Tall madge dresses up in his business suit and teaches a country school in Adams county. Wis. In addition to being teacher and principal, "Mr. Tallmadge" is a Sunday school superintendent and businessman. In both roles, Tallmadge is proud of "his people" the Indi ans. Because of the long lapses between the short tourist sea sons, the tribes "catch as catch can" and many live in near pov erty through the winter months. Tallmadge' built a successful business in Denver, Colo., fol lowing his graduation from col . lege 10 years ago. But the out break of the Korean war "killed the business" when he was re called to the Marine corps. After the war, he and his wife, a dark-eyed Winnebago beauty named Sah-nay-min-a-cha, decid ed to return to "their old stamp ing grounds' in Wisconsin to start over again. The best and practically only business in the Dells area was entertaining tourists. Tallmadge reverted to his tribal name "Little. Eagle" and signed with one of the tour companies as . boat pilot, guide and singer. His nightly "Sunset Tours" are crowded with honeymoon- r s, TV - educated youngsters who are surprised to find there ara "good Indians who don't shoot at the marshal," and their parents. Come September, the feathers and beads will be stored away and Tallmadge will teach sixth graders at a country school. Old Florentine Bridge in Italy Threatens Collapse HANDKERCHIEF SOS Boston (U.R) Massachusetts motorists have devised an im provised ''SOS" to bring police aid when their cars break down on super-highways. The wide spreading idea is that police will atop and help if the motorist has a white handkerchief tied to his antenna or door handle. Florence. Italy (U.R) The old Florentine bridge, Ponte Vec chio, which has brought an at mosphere of the Middle Ages into modern times, is threatening to collapse into the swirling wa ters of the Arno River. Sketched and painted by thou sands of artists, t written about by great writers and cherished in the memories of millions of visitors to Italy's great art cradle of the Renaissance, the ancient bridge is now being harnessed together by the Italian army en gineering corps as it has been showing definite signs of tired ness. Specialized army workers, who have already saved hun dreds of famous monuments old er than the Ponte Vecchio, have started building iron supports to keep the upper structure of the bridge from caving in. In Two Sections The bridge is built in two sec tions a bottom support consist ing of three arches based on a sturdy Roman foundation and a top part cluttered with shops and dwellings. This part of the bridge is topped by a passageway which is considered the real dan ger because of careless building in centuries gone by. Among the ideas being studied now, is the old favorite of cem ent injections, which proved ex cellent in the cases of the Lean ing Tower of Pisa, the Colos seum and many ancient arches which dot the Italian peninsula. The basic part of the bridge, consisting of three graceful arch es spanning the river, is sound enough and in no particular dan ger, according to superintendents of monuments in Tuscany. They say that careless build ing, rebuilding and expansion work by the bridge shopkeepers over the years has seriously weakened the supports under the famedi "Vasari corridor" a sort of covered passage running over the shops on the upstream side of the bridge. This tile-roofed passageway leads from the Uffizi Gallery on the north side of the river to the Pitti palace on the south side. It takes its name from the famed man who designed it, Gio rgio Vasari. Historians say that Vasari, or the building contractor if he had one, didn't do the best possible job of cpnstruction. They said the work was carried out on a "fixed fee" contract with a spec ific deadline fixed by the first Cosimo of the Medici family, which ruled the city. The upshot was that the buil der, to save time and keep costs low, used whatever new or sec ond-hand material he could find in the immediate vicinity. Nobody accuses Vasari or the builder of doing a downright poor job. The fact that the cor ridor, built in 1560, has stood for almost 400 years on top of the 600-year old Ponte Vecchio is testimony enough. Shortcomings Magnified ' But the constant remodeling of the shops of the goldsmiths underneath, plus the expansion of some of them to jut out over the river, has magnified the or iginal shortcomings until today, when the "Vasari corridor" is threatening to cause the entire bridge to collapse. , Another reason for the weak ening of the bridge dates back to the last war when the "treas ure chest of Italian art" felt the sting of allied bombs. But the real responsibility most likely lies on the retreat ing German army which, on Aug. 4, 1944, blew up all the bridges spanning the river but spared the Ponte Vecchio. No official explanation was ever given for this act of clem ency. The bridges were blown up in an attempt to slow down the Allied onslaught towards the northern industrial and keypoint cities of Milan and Turin. The Florentines say that the German general in charge of blowing up the bridges felt the irresistible attraction of the beautiful bridge with its cutter ing shops of craftsmen renown ed for their work of wrought gold and silver and embossed leather. But the general did blow up everything at the approaches of both ends of the Ponte Vecchio, thus weakening it considerably. Morse To Stand By Decision of Voters Chicago (U.P) Sen. Wayne Morse says he "stands by the decision, of the voters in his choice for a Democratic presi dential candidate. Oregon Democrats supported Adlai Stevenson of Illinois in the May primary and the state's 16 member delegation is pledged to him. Morse, who is scheduled to speak tonight, told an Oregon Journal reporter by telephone from Washington, D. C, yester day that "I feel, even though I am not a delegate, that I should stand with the voters of Oregon." His statement ended specula tion as to his stand in view of former President Truman's sup- port of Gov. 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He had been expected to spend most of the week end in jail, but was taken to St. John's Hospital shortly after being examined by a psychiatrist, Dr.' Paul M. Cald well. Meanwhile, the former dapper businessman was stripped of all his possessions. Attorneys for Hodge, at a conference in the slate attorney general's office, turned over assets totaling about S663.000 in partial restitution for Hodge's estimated 51,000,000 raid on the state treasury. The Railway Express Agency has retired the last of its electric powered trucks. The compjany used battery - driven vehicles since 1910. Good Honey In Tips If You Have Know-How Boston (U.R) There's good money in "tips"' if you have the know-how. If you know that someone U going to try to smuggle some thing into the United States, you can go to the nearest U.S. Cus toms office, give the tip, and collect your reward. 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