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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (March 20, 1957)
o o O o O A gicofs IT erf S . Comment On This and That By MARMAN W. NICHOLS Wnittd Praia Ftur Writ Washington U.P! Our only lady senator admits that in the long ago she played boy games. Lovely Mar- 9 ; knuckled down t. a me of Marbles, hut a 6u aana1 at O. I. -of--: JLanni N was mora t flying a. Wrajt kveMt t.ig w vas that mmefcyele r.S. nut a nat ,office builllu 'iae'ow itn4 re marked tt it svamef Iik spring ns warble a Ml hits tims. One of air.. Smith i mala col leagues recalled hoa he used to go kicking o- a rasa1 as a kid with the tail of a kita over head are thmain that if the fite let loca and heVal for tha moon h could alviys alay a game of mii. T' lady senator snM sm had some memories alrr that line, too. All of which put this aid marble player and Kita fljar em the phone. Nary senator aula' aV-ny that at some time or other dur ing a normal youth he had not aimed an agate at a "commie" in a game of marbles. And not a few of the law makers confessed that sometimes they had "fudged" a little. History of the marbles games is Interesting. Also how the kite happened to coma by its tail and hit for the wide blue yonder. War. War Back Research reveals that marbles go back a flood way. The Nation al Geographic Society, which knows most everything, is forced to admit that tima obscures the origin of srifrblav. At ! rflta, it is known that kirk ia ncint Rome, Greece and Bt nl t try at the game. Th littla round balls have been mad "a avtrvthing from marble chin t. e!hee, handed agate to colaaM fla. Cite ol'.tars p!4on see any kids knaklinj about a finger drawn rin any more. But the young in the outlands must do a bit of marbling still. Countless millions of marbles are produced and sold each year. Fact is, garet Chase: plants in Clarksburg, w. va.. Smith of have machines that pop out 200 Maina Skow- marbles a minute. hegaa. to be i What, No Suppar? exact says Kite flying, like marbles, can that as a pig-'be a contest of skills. Not too tailed little girl' many springs ago an aproned si- not only housewife kept a kite aloft for 28 hours about six hours longer than. Sen. Wayne Morse (O-Ore.) filibustered the tideland bill in 1S53. The housewife, from Colum bus, O., would have kept her tail- flipping kite up there longer if it hadn't been grounded by an un expected snowstorm. Ia Eastern countries, like China, Korea, Japan and Burma, adults take kite flying seriously. In America, Benjamin Franklin did, too, and proved to the world that there was electricity in lightning. The kite also is a vital part of aviation history. So much so that Paul Garber, head curator of the National Air Museum here, it putting together a permanent kite collection. A Korean general, way back in 600 A D. or so, used a kite to fight off an ill-omen a shooting sir. The star was scaring the dickens out of his troops. In the dark of night he sent up a kite with a torch on its tail. The ' troops belie-ed the star was go ing back where it belonged and the next day gave the battle their best and won. Around Hollywood By ALINI MOSBY Hollywood (U.R) In this day of racial tensions, Hollywood can boast of one happy case his tory involving a beautiful Indian girl from Peru. For the past six years, the girl's foster mother has been film star Joan Fontaine, and the actress calls her inter racial family "t h e greatest lesson in my All.. MsihT life." Joan discovered little Mar tita, then 5Vi, living in a mud hut in a remote village atop the Andes in Peru while the star was touring the country. "I saw Martita sitting on the wall of this home she was the caretaker's daughter," the ac tress said at MGM on the set of "Until They Sail." Destined for Each Other "It was fate we were des tined for each other," Miss Fon taine said. "I thought, 'She's mine.' It was a spur of the mo ment impulse. She had lots of brothers and sisters so her par ents wanted me to take her be cause they said. You can give i r" " U Ql Quotes From the News Br UNITED PRESS Moscow Soviet Defense Minister Marshal Georgi Zhukov, warning there is "no place in the world" the Soviet Air Force can not attack: 'The Soviet Air Force is able to strike shattering blows at any enemy, no matter where he is or where he is hiding." Washington Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson, discussing technical military personnel who leave for civilian jobs: "We have got too many people training loo many people who don't star with ui long enough." Milwaukee, Wis. The Rev. Irving A. Deblanc, a Catholic priest, on "steady dating": "Going steady is pagan unless there is a reasonable chance of getting married within two years." London Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, leaving for his Bermuda conference with President Eisenhower: "I'm not taking my golf clubs, but I dare say I could borrow some." Charlotte, N.C. Newspaper publisher John S. Knight, on in flation: "It is useless for Eisenhower to admonish both business and labor on the subject of inflation when the government itself, by its gargantuan expenditures, is contributing to inflation." Wednesday. March 20, 19S7 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINE Yaquina Project Bill Sent To Senat Floor Washington (U.R) The Sen ate Public Works Committee yesterday sent the omnibus pub lic works bill to the Senate for action. The bill includes the $19, 800,000 Yaquina Bay project. It agined the committee's approval after Sen. Richard L. Neuberger assured committee members that there were definite com mitments to develop and en courage maritime trade and com merce of the area. Elizabeth Taylor Expecting in November Hollywood (U.R) Film Star Elizabeth Taylor has announced that she and husband Mike Todd will become parents in Novem ber. The couple was married Feb. 2 near Acapulco, Tex. Miss Tay lor is the mother of two small boys by her second husband, English actor Michael Wilding. Her first husband was hotel scion Nickey Hilton, whom she married in 1950. Multnomah Grand Jury ' Returns Indictment Portland (U.R) Multnomah county's vice-probing grand jury returned another secret indict ment yesterday and continued today the current phase of its investigation. The current grand jury re turned nine indictments last week and earlier had returned three others. Dead line Sunday noon Saturday. Classified li at Man, 72, Living Alone, Standard To Increase Prices of Gasoline San Francisco (U.R) Stand ard Oil of California has in creased its retail price on Ethyl gasoline by four-tenths nf-a cent per gallon and its Standard Chevron by two-tenths. A Standard spokesm said the increase was caused by the cost of better quality products re quired by new high compres sion motors on the market. The increase brought the re tail cost of Ethyl to 36.3 cents a gallon and of Chevron to 32.6 cents. her more advantages and we feel , this girl is worthy of opportun ities'." After arrangements were made with the parents and American consul Joan brought Martita home and became her legal guardian. "It was difficult at first," the actress admitted. "Everyone was so beastly. They accused me of doing it for publicity. They said, 'You've adopted a colored girl.' Enthralled With Child "But one by one they became as enthralled with her as I was. Soon she was playing with other little girls and within six months the situation was adjusted. She wore braces on her legs for months because they were bowed from carrying her younger broth er on her back." 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