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o o o Theyll Do It Every Time t W'l -IL - By Jimmy Hatlo WilEtf TJE PRrzE IS drJWOUMCED WOWTHE MdKE rt sound BIG V'OU MdVE JUST WOrt 4 SALES PITCH- PRICE-SCARCELY I SMJLLRoRTUNE.M KiUG'S ) 4NO THE SJME MORE TH4M THE GMSOM.' TWO TUOUSAHO I AMOOHT OF COST OF 4 week- II FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS m, ri -njpv end vac-moa-ONLy I TO BE DELIVERED TO YOU 6V 1 1 I 4 MERE TWEMTV. I U I " ... m.ppriTPAU.';cnPT'TCa) MAKE SOUND Five HUMORED A WWWWFFl ME-WU4T DO V'OU PLAti J UKE PE4NUTS . D0LL4-v i A Nkhol's Worth of . . . Comment On This and That By HARMAN W. NICHOLS Unittd Prut FtJlur Writtr Washington (U.R) The of ficial congressional physician Dr. George W. Calver, is pretty well pleased with his charges so far this year lv For nearly L w o aecaaes. Dr. Calver has been feeling the pulses of law makers wrapping up sore thumbs and putting salve to in O Hirmu Nlclv u grown toe nails. He operates out of a small office in the Capitol behind sign that sayS "Quiet, medical center." "Right now," he said during an interview, "you can hoot and holler all you want. Every, body seerrg to be in fine fettle." Everybody, meaning mem bers of the House and Senate who have come around for a check up. The legislators are not compelled to come in for a chest thump, but when the word gets arouni that Dr. Calver is ready with his stethoscope most of O them drop in. qTwo Sick Senators There are, of course, some ill nesses. Two senators are in the Bethesda, Md., Naval Medical Center. Sen. William Langer (R.-N.D.) aged 70, is seriously ill with pneumonia. Eighty-two-year-old Sen. Matthew M. Neely (D.-W.Va.) has been in the hos pital for weeks recovering from a hip injury but is gradually mending and goes to the Capitol occasionally. Also, aging Rep. James B. Bowman (D.-Ill.) has been pre vented by illness from returning to Washington since the current congressional session began Bowler was sworn in at Chicago in an unusual precedent for the House. Trouble with most congress men, Dr. Calver said, is that they are overfed. "They run around- stuffing themselves with lace panty chicken every night," he said "then they tumble and roll all night and next thing you know they come running to me with a belly ache or something. Still in Navy Dr. Calver who is still an ac tive rear admiral in the Navy, realizes that the lawgivers have to make a lot of speeches and before speaking have to do a lot of eating. When diet is indicated for fat men, the good doctor has one ready, although he wouldn't say what it was. He did not, however, make a secret of the fact that he is a great one to prescribe exercise. Work in the gymnasium for the younger such as Sen. Frank Church of Idaho, who is hurry ing on to 33. For elder statesmen the doc tor prescribes what he preaches. Walking. He walks at a fairly good pace for at least an hour every morning. "Until a person gets used to using shank's ponies instead of exercising only one foot on the foot pedal of a high powered car," he said, "I recommend 15 Touring Editor in Seoul; Guest of Envoy Seoul !U.R) Walker Stone, editor-in-chief of the Scripps- Howard newspapers, arrived here today on the first leg of an Asian tour which will take him to more than a dozen nations. Stone was to be a guest of U. S. Ambassador Walter C. Dowling during his two-day stay in the Republic of Korea. The newspaperman planned to call on President Syngman Rhee and tour the Korean truce line before leaving for Tokyo Wednesday. John Wayne Feared To Have Broken Leg Rome U.R Actor John Wayne is feared to have broken his leg while making a picture in Tripoli, Libya, film officials said today. " Production headquarters said they received a cable from Trip oli reporting that Wayne fell from the top of some ruins of an ancient Roman forum at Leptis Magna Sunday morning. Wayne is fuming the picture "The Legend of The Lost" with Italy's Sophia Loren. Doctors from the U. S. Air Base near Tripoli were reported treating Wayne. minutes a day at first. He'll get used to it. Calver pointed out that Sen. Theodore Francis Green (D. R.I.) often walks to the Capitol from his quarters at the Univer sity club, more than two miles. Green is 89. Pendleton Member Of Oregon House Dies Pendleton. Ore. U.f? Ir vin Mann, 58-year-old Republi can member of the Oregon House of Representatives, died here Saturday. Mann was hospitalized in De cember with an old back injury. He spent five weeks in St. Vin cent hospital in Portland before being returned to St. Anthony hospital here last December. A prominent cattle rancher at Adams, Mann represented the 23rd District of Oregon in the Legislature. In December he ex pressed the hope that he would be well enough to be present at this session. Gov. Robert D. Holmes said "The death of Mann means a great loss to Umatilla county where he resided and to the en tire state to which he had de voted his interest. Monday, February 25. 1937 MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIFUNE THREE Derbyshire, England U.R Police and doctors have over 15 clues to the identity of an am nesia victim here but they still can not find out who he is. The clues are tattooes and include: Two daggers, two birds, two ris ing suns, palm trees, the skull and crossbones, the words Malta, Colombo Aden, Singapore and Malaya and the date 1953. Man's Search for 'Meaningf ulness' Provides Chance for Sincere Converts By LOUIS CASSELS United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) A noted theologian said today modern man's "desperate search for meariingfulness" has given the churches the greatest opportun ity in three centuries to win sin cere converts to Christianity. But Dr. Albert T. Mollegen said the opportunity will be lost, and the present religious revival will degenerate, into "dangerous idolatry" if church es try to satisfy deep spiritual hunger with "peace of mind" preaching or other "pagan" sub stitutes for classic Christian gos pel. Dr. Mollegen is professor of New Testament literature at the Protestant Episcopal Theolo gical Seminary at Alexandria, Va. His books on Christian apol ogetics and his popular evening lecture courses for laymen a'. Washington cathedral have won him a national reputation as an "apostle to intellectuals." End of an Era The United Press asked Dr. Mollegen. in an interview to ap- Is That So? So when you start talking about whales you naturally be gin stretching your arms out good and wide and using words like immense, enormous, titanic, stupendous, monstrous, gigantic, elephantine, mammoth, colos sal and Gargantuan every adjective Hollywood has already burned the meaning out of. So you add hyper-super to colossal and what do you have? You're still far from adequate ly describing the bulk of the largest of all mammals, the blue Read and Use Classified Ads INTRODUCTORY OFFER SAV1 7W Regular Price $349.95 SALE PRICE s27995 PHILCO-BENDIX LIMITED TIME ONLY Custom Automatic Washer Never Before Such Complete ' FREEDOM from Washday Drudgery! Save- On Money On Hot Water On Detergent On Clothes Wear On Total Gallons Water Used o The Most Automatic Washer Ever Built! For the first time on any washer . . . Separate 3-Temperature selection of SOAK, WASH AND RINSE WATER! Automatic Soak .". . warm, cold or in between Wash Water ... Hot, warm or in between Rinse Water . . . Warm, cold or in between Washing Time ... 1 to 14 minutes - Saves up to 20 Gallons of water on full 9 lb. load. The Most Complete Laundry Store in Medford TERMS To Suit You at . . . 225 3-5433 whale, also known as the sulphur-bottom whale, found in all waters. That is because this greatest of all mammals has the bulk and weight of more than battalion of 800 infantrymen in full battle equipment that average 300 pounds per man. The largest recorded blue whale ever taken, a female, was 113 feet long. Weights were not recorded. But we do have the precise figures for an 89-foot blue some 24 feet shorter. (At this size, those extra 24 feet count for dozens of tons, too!) This 89-footer, a fairly large one as they come, was weigh ed and measured piece by piece at Stomness Whaling station South Georgia in the south po lar region, Nov. 8, 1926, the day after it was killed, reports R B. Robertson in Of Whales and Men (Knopf, N.Y.). Perhaps this is the only oc casion in whaling history that such an operation has ever been performed and recorded, asserts Dr. Robertson. The overall measurements of this whale are: Length, 89 feet; height, lying on side, 10 feet; circumference, 46 feet; jawbone length, 23 feet; flukes 18 feet; fins 8V4 feet. The weights of this whale broken . down are: blubber, 54, 000 pounds; meat, 112,000 pounds; bone 44,000 pounds; tongue, 6,000 pounds; lungs, 2, 000 pounds; heart, 1,000 pounds; kidneys, 1,000 pounds; stomach, 1,000 pounds, intestines 3,000 pounds; liver, 2,000 pounds; blood, 16,000 pounds. Not Extraordinarly Large Jawbone, 4,000 pounds, skull 9,000 pounds; backbone 20,000 pounds; ribs, 8,000 pounds; flukes, 2,000 pounds; fins, 2,000 pounds. This gives this 89-footer and remember this was not an extraordinarily large blue whale approximately 240,000 pounds or 120 tons. ' Reduced to blubber, meat and bone oil this female was convert ed into 54,000 pounds. Translating these figures: this whale's weight is that of ap proximately 50 elephants. Its length, height and girth that of a railway passenger car. An elephant could walk under its up-ended jawbone without touching. Its fins are the size and weight of a pretty large dining table, and its flukes would make an excellent pair of wings for a fighter aircraft, naturally streamlined, too. j Its blubber would keep all i the votary candles burning in St. Peter's of Rome for a cen tury or more; and its meat would supply a hamburger to San Francisco U.R) An , in-1 dustrious burglar Sunday ' sur- j mounted such obstacles as a: wall, a toilet bowl and the door; of a four-foot safe to success-! fully rob a supermarket of, 52,400. . He laboriously cut a three-foot square hole in the rear wall of the market only to find his path blocked by a toilet bowl. He re moved the plumbing then ripped the door off the .ae and escaped with this loot. Br EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist every person in Boston. (And a good one, too, because I've eat en and liked whale meat). Its tongue would overload a fair-sized truck and it would take six very s'trong men to lift its heart. Its skull is the size and weight of a motor car and its blood would fill seven thous and quart milk bottles.' All this is run by a brain the size of a carburetor. (Copyright, 1957, 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 reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife, a. complete 30-volume set of this world-famous refer ence work in a handsome Seal craft binding. Each week new submissions will be-considered. Sorry, I Simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: Is That So; care of Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. praise the cause and the possible future course of -the great up surge of religious interest that has carried U. S. church mem bership 'to an all-time high. He said western culture has reached "the end of the ration alist era," which began in the 17th century, in which man sought to rule God out of the universe. The implication, borne home by two world wars and the shadow of the H-bomb, he said, is that human life is essen tially meaningless, and that man is an infinitely unimportant speck of matter "stuck on a cool ing star with a queer type of ce ment called gravity." Dr. Mollegen said men have found intolerable the "radical sense of rationalist philosophy" and are seeking to build de fenses against it in two ways: "Edge of the Abyss" By filling their lives with "sensation." TClvis Presley, tele vision addiction, the tremendous popularity of specator sports, all are symptoms of this .unconsci ous desire to cram existence with so much "feeling" that no one has time to think about "sit ting on the edge of the abyss. ' By re-examining "a 1 m o s t every religious alternative known to the western tradi tion." Some, like philosopher Bertrand Russell, have embrac ed Greek stoicism. Others have taken up eastern mysticism. For most, however, this quest for "meaningfulness" has found its national expression in a return to Christianity. Because so many people are genuinely searching for an in tellectually - honest religious faith that can give - purpose,' meaning and hope to human ex istence, Dr. Mollegen said, the churches have "their greatest opportunity" in modern times to expound the full gospel of class ic Christianity to a receptive au dience. Religious Froth Are they doing it? Some are and some aren't, Dr. Mollegen said. "You can't escape the fact that there is a lot of froth to our pre sent, 'religious revival." There is a tendency to treat religion as a formula for getting what we want. "Some almost without quali fication, promise people that God will give them what they want. Now I don't deny that this 'peace in mind' religion, which treats God as a means to our ends, may have some social value. It may help to cure alco holics or overcome inferiority complexes. But you still have to say that this is paganism, not Christianity." Another symptom of incipient "idolatry," he said, is "the dis position to confuse religion with patriotism, and to worship 'God and free enterprise' in the same breath." A Re-Examination "Mere religiosity," he said, "which is not rooted in Chris tian humility and a profound sense of living under God's judgment, can turn into a dang erous, even a demoniacal thing. It leads to witch hunts, to per sonal pride and national self righteousness." When all is said, however. Dr. Mollegen still sees "much that is sound, true and hopeful" in American religious life to day. . "Beneath the froth, there is encouraging evidence of a real, substantial return to classic Christianity on the part of many people. 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