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4 TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, April 10, 1957 t . 1 -J HE AINT HEAVY, HE'S MY LITTLE BROTHER An Army H-23 helicopter is given a lift by big brother, an H-24 'copter after the smaller craft developed tail rotor trouble during Exercise King Cole and was forced down near Minden, La. The "big brother"' of the 64th Sky Cav alry picked up the H-23 and "lifted" it to the airstrip at Fort Polk, La. in about an hour for a normally four hour ground trip. GOLD HILL Clinic Set For April 27 BY MRS. CLYDE KELL Gold Hill At the last meeting of the Gold Hill Health unit, Miss Elizabeth McGalliard, school nurse, announced that the pre-school clinic for children entering the first grade at the Patrick School next fall will be held April 24 from 9 a.m. until 12 noon in the basement of the Community Methodist c h u rch. Dr. Erin Merkel will be the ex amining physician. Immuniza tions will be offered at this time. Appointments are not necessary. The meeting was held at the home of Mrs. Erwin Hoffman, with Mrs. Ed Knapp and Mrs. Tom Gray assisting as co-hostes-es. During the business session, which was conducted by the pre sident of the unit, Mrs. Knapp, it was announced that the annual meeting of the Jackson County Health association will be held April 11 at a 1 p.m. luncheon at the Jackson Hotel in Medford. A talk on radioactive fall out will be given. The State Health association will meet in Portland May 21 and 22. Mrs. Knapp appointed Mrs. Melvin Burnett, Mrs. Alfred Bai- f o n I y minutes J ROSEBURG $5S' p. us tax ffmunss ley and Mrs. Clyde Kell to the nominating committee.. The hospital bed will be stored at the Odd Fellows hall and the mattress will be stored at the home of Mrs. George Smith on Sardine creek. The cancer literature was pre pared for mailing at this meet ing. Mrs. Genneth Fluck is chair man of the cancer program of the unit. Plans were made at this time for the annual picnic, which will be held at the home of Mrs. W. S. Dickinson, on Sardine Creek road. May 7 has been set as the date of this affair. A dessert luncheon was ser ved to eighteen members, prior to the business session, by the hostess and the two co-hostesses. The three children of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Coday have re cently entered the Gold Hill school. The Coday family are now residents of the Blackwell hill area. They came to this com munity from Medford. The Junior Police have start ed cleaning the upper part of the city hall, which they will use for a meeting place. It has been several years since this part of 'the building has been used. A demonstration on the use of weapons, finger printing de vices, radios and other police equipment was presented to the boys at the last meeting by Chief Deputy Sheriff, Joe Walsh, of Medford. The Junior Police accepted the by-laws at this meeting. There were 29 young men between the ages of 12 and 18 who attended the last meeting, which Included six new members. The total en- rollement is now 36. New mem bers are Johny Andrews, Jim McKibbon, David Molloy, Dennis Bailey, James Netzel, and David Bowen. Refreshments were furnished by Mrs. Theron Boen, Mrs. Leroy Dungey, and Mrs. William Price for this meeting. Chief of Police, Taylor has appointed mayor Ernie Cooper, councilman Floyd Lance, and fire chief Clyde Kell to serve on the advisory board for the Junior Police. $27.45 was realized from the food sale given Saturday April 6 at Gail's Market for the Junior Police. The funds derived from this will be used to buy base ball equipment. Mrs. Floyd Tay lor was assisted at the sale by Mrs. Theron Boen, Mrs. Paul Molloy and Mrs. Clarence Freeman. Annoying Ginkgo Tree May Be Used To Treat Cancer Washington (U.R) The evil sr.ielling ginkgo tree, long a source of annoyance to residents here, is being studied by science to see if it might possibly be of use in treating cancer. The city's tree department re cently shipped a crate of the ginkgo tree's fruit to the Eliza beth Strok Kramer Foundation in Wilmington, Del., for cancer research. Research Director William Kra mer said fruit from the much maligned tree may contain an alkaloid for use in treating can cer. He said all insects are re pulsed by ginkgoes and if there is a cancer virus, it might also be repulsed. The nation's capital has some 6,000 ginkgoes scattered through out the city, by far the largest amount in the United States. Some cities have a few of the trees for ornamental or shading purposes. The substance being sought by the foundation is believed to be contained in the smelly fruit nut shed by the female tree in the autumn. A ginkgo is either male of female. A Hardy Tre ' The fruit is about the size and shape of an olive. Its odor fends off insects and birds as well as man. During the season, the fruit drops, forming slippery and ugly patches on sidewalks. Many a Washington motorist and tourist has learned never to park under the obnoxious trees. In recent years, horticulturists have tried to soften the unpleas ant smell through the use of chemical sprays but have had little or no success. Most cities plant the tree be cause of its hardy nature. The ginkgo, with its pale gold leaves shaped like a duck's foot, is im mune to smoke and fungus dis eases that injure other trees. The National Geographic So ciety says the ginkgo is called a "living fossil" because of its link between the present age and the remote past. Scientists be lieve today's tree is similar to the ginkgo that grew about 200 million years ago. Occasionally, a ginkgo throw back to pre-historic times occurs. One leaf was found near the White House bearing a shape al most exactly like its Cretaceous Age ancestor. TheyTl Do It Every Tims By Jimmy Hatlo WALTZ TMEWE 6EEM IIL-I SMSAPEABOWz$ MR. AHD MISSUS ftf rf I fLv When terpley w4S COUCTlKG ULNA THEy" danced every uanu from tune-up to 'GOOD NIGHT, mOIES'"' Dr. William J. Thompson, Med ford optometrist, will be guest speaker at the April 12 meeting of the Medford Safety council, according to Aubrey Loper, pres Dr. Thompson, a past president of the council, will present an il lustrated talk on the relationship of vision to safety. It will in clude a report on the recent color perception tests conducted by the optometric associations of Ore gon, Washington and California Around Hollywood By ALINE MOSBY United Press Correspondent from a dead man. to a San Fran cisco movie fan has put in a claim for Hol 1 y w o o d ' s "H o m eless" Oscar, but pro ducer F r a nk King still c 1 a ims it be longs to a my sterious man named Robert Rich. Aline Mosby r. i c ii w a a voted an Oscar for writing the best original movie story of 1956, "The Brave One," made by the King Brothers. But when Rich wasn't in town to collect the award, movieland developed a first-class who-wrote-it mystery: Is Rich man or myth? "I've received phone calls from more people," sighed King in his office before rushing off to New York. "One man in San Francisco claims he wrote it. So does a fellow in Salinas, Calif. A fellow in Boston swears his uncle wrote it before he died. Story Bought in Germany "We bought the story from Rich years ago in Germany. We've sent wires all over Europe to track him down but no answer yet. My brother, Maury, is go ing to Europe in two weeks to advertise in the papers there for him." Even the late Robert Flaherty The Family Council Editor's note: The Family Council consists of a Judge, a psychiatrist, three clergymen, a newspaper editor, a women's editor and two writers Each article is a summary ol an actual report. The Family Council does not give advice; it merely reports on problems that have been dealt with by responsible afencles and counselors. Hollywood (U.R) Everybody i has been named as the man who snouia get mai uscar. xopmgni director Fred Zinneman reveals the deceased director wrote an identical story of a little Mex ican boy and a bull, "Benito and the Bull," in Santa Fe, N. M. in 1928. "Flaherty told me the story when we were in Germany in 1931," Zinneman said. "It may be pure coincidence." Flaherty, says Zinneman, later sold the story to Orson Welles. Welles says he filmed it as "My Friend Benito" in Mexico for RKO in 1945 but after a change in management, "I was fired and the picture was shelved and writ ten off as a tax loss." Success Pleases Welles 'I have no hard feelings about it and I'm not suing," added Wel les. "I'm glad that someone else had success with the story." Other Hollywoodites are con vinced the tale was penned by some screenwriter unable to work under his own name be cause of a Communist past. So far the motion picture trade pa pers have busily tracked down denials from Dalton Trumbo, Michael Wilson and Hugo But ler. Nassour Broth ers sued the King Brothers for $750,000, claiming King stole "The Brave One" from a script the Nassours owned. The case was settled out of court for an undisclosed sum. 'The latest word is that a pro ducer in New York thinks this controversy is so funny he wants to do a play on Broadway about it," said King. "NOW IS THE TIME" ADD THAT PATIO, SIDEWALK, CARPORT OR ANY TYPE OF CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION CALL FOR LININGER'S READY-MIX CONCRETE ALWAYS UNIFORM IN QUALITY To Insure Our Customers Prompt Service, All Mixer Trucks Are Equipped With Two-Way Radio ASK US FOR ESTIMATES LININGER'S. READY-MIX CONCRETE PHONE MED. 2-5336 or 2-5897 PHONE ASH. 8121 Leona F I can't take farm life. Dan F. I can't make a liv ing in the city. Leona F. I have been mar ried ten years and have two young children. It is for their sake I am now trying to keep my marriage together, although I really don't see how I can go on with it. I am a city-bred woman and have a good education. After I got out of college I went to teach in a small community. There I met my husband, who ran a small and not - too successful farm. From the first I recog nized there were too many dif ferences in our background. Dan hasn't much education and. his tastes were very diferent from mine. But he was thoughtful and intelligent and adored me. I thought I could teach him things and gradually the gap between us would be bridged. I'm afraid I haven't been very successful. We tried life on the farm for five years. I was miserable and Dan finally agreed to move to the city. Dan took a selling job but .wasn't too successful in it. I opened a small antique busi ness, which turned out to be quite successful. Dan resents this. He is unhappy and wants to move back to the farm a life I feel I can't take. Dan F. In the first place, I don't resent Leona's success with her shop. What I can't stand is the fact that I can't sup port my own family. I guess I just wasn't cut out for city life I don't know my way around here. Does Leona expect me to stay home and take care of the house and kids while she sup ports us? I love and respect my wife and I was glad t learn thines from her, but I can't see that we are so far apart in our tastes. I always enjoy the books she suggests and we are both great music lovers. It seems as though the only thing we really disa gree about in where to live. I feel we can enjoy as many things on the farm as we can in the city. True, there isn't as much cultural activity in some ways, but we could make trips to the city every now and then. Leona believes that if I went to school here for a while, I would "improve" myself enough to enjoy and get along in city life. But, how can I trot off to school while my wife supports the family? She calls me stub born, but it seems to me she's at least as stubborn as I am. The Council: Logic appears to be on Dan's side of the argue ment and if Leona is serious about wanting to keep her mar raige intact, she'd do well to take a more objective look at herself and her marriage prob lem. Her preference for city life is a matter of taste, but her hus band's preference for farm life is a matter of survival. In the city he is deprived of his man hood because he cannot make a living for his family. He is be ing pretty much canceled out as a human being under present conditions. It is quite understandable that he should resent having to "trot off to school" ' while his wife supports the family. This is quite a different case from the sort of financial help many wives gave young husbands who were studying under the G.I. Bill. In contemporary America, life on the farm is far from isolated and nobody has to live there in a cutural vacuum. Leona is far too rigid in her ideas about the "differences" between herself and her husband, and farm life and city life. It is she who .should make a strenuous effort to adjust to the life she unreas onpbly disdains. (Copyright 1957, General Fea tures Corporation) W- M AHMRD) AND SMALL APPLIANCES MIEFAnM! Work Guaranteed CALL 2-5211 TROWBRIDGE & FLYNN ELECTRIC CO. Helicopter Chalks Up 'First' for Aviation Buffalo, N. Y. '(U.R) A new Model 47J helicopter has chalk ed up another aviation "first" for Bell Aircraft Corp. The rotor-winged craft, only the second of its type off the as sembly line, made the initial helicopter crossing of the Andes Mountains by way of the famed Christo Pass during a tour of 15 Central and South American countries. Joseph Mashman, Bell's as sistant director of contracts, was at the controls during the 17,- 000-mile tour that proved one of the most grueling perfor mance tests ever attempted by a helicopter. The "egg-beater" cruised at 17,000 feet for the life-saving evacuation of a critically injured girl from a Peruvian copper min ing town and for its Andes cross ing. Flying ' through all kinds of weather and over rugged terrain, the new model known as the "Silver Hummingbird" logged a total of 250 trouble-free hours When -the four-place utility copt er began the tour, it carried an extra set of spark plugs, fan belt and distributor points. Only the spark plugs and the fan belt were put to use, and then changed only as a precautionary measure for the high altitude Andes evacuation mission. Only 40 hours of maintenance were required for the extended I tour, which took about 11 weeks. Dr. Thompson to Talk At Safety Council in cooperation with the Armed Forces. 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