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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (May 6, 1957)
Quotes From the News Br UNITED PRESS Washington Adlai E. Stevenson, on large - scale hydrogen bomb tests: . . Contamination without representation." Amman, Jordan King Hussein, en leftist attempts to seise control of Jordan: "We have faced the dangers and btaien the conspiracies against our country." San Francisco The Rev. Fulgence Gross, a Roman Catholic priest who recently was released after six years in Communist Chinese prisons: "I never appreciated my religion so much as those years I spent in prison. It truly was laith that kept me going." Atlanta W. E. Tyndale. a polio-crippled engineer who with his wife and two children was swept through a culvert in a flash flood: "There was absolutely nothing we could do to fight it. We were swept into the culvert, tumbling end over end under water, bang ing against the side, and then were spewed out the other ride. We didn't know if we were alive or dead, or where we were." Dudley, England Ted Westwood, in appealing to Queen Eliza beth and the courts for help in getting rid of nine ghosts a blonde spook and eight admirers which he says are roaming about hia home: . . "I never used to believe in ghosts, but when you have nine of them you have no alternative." On The Side By E. V. Durling (Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc.) I wish I could remember the first day rirst hour, Writ moment of your meeting- me. A day of dy! I let tt come and so As traceless as a thaw of byione now ' It seemed to mean so little And meant o much. Christina Bossettl Sixty years old and never had a tooth extracted. That ia the record of a New Yorker. Imag ine never havina had a tooth- ace. Nor never having heard the ominous rattling of the den tist's instruments. Of all the minor ailments, my nomination for the worst is the toothache After that, the common cold. Then a carbuncle. I have never had a headache. Diet The poet Byron was Inclined to become fat. That was a tragic situation for a man who fancied himself a great lover. So Byron frequently battled his bulges. In so doing he went on a diet of potatoes sprinkled with vinegar. It was an effective weight re ducer. There's an idea for a wife who is considering streamlining a husband so she will not be ashamed of his appearance in a bathing suit this summer. In stead of, steak to go with his baked potato just give the old boy a little vinegar to sprinkle on the spud. ' . Passing By Mae West. Last of the Brook lyn Bonfires. One of Green point's fairest daughters. Al though she specialized in por trayals of sultry, sexy sirens, Mae has always led a quiet pri vate life. She neither drinks, smokes nor stays out late. She married for a very brief period to a man named Frank' Wallace. on Sunday, May 12 remember Mom wilh Mothers Day L" Cards- from our complete collection i ft yitweas. ctaoaT Of this union she once said, "It was a kissless marriage. I am still a spinster." Briefly Thoroughbreds having Po?t Position No. Five continue to win the most races. Since 1900 horses having that post position have won the Kentucky Derby nine times. .. . . The best place to introduce and popularize a brand of cigars is in restaurants A cigar smoked after dinner seems to be from two to three times better than it really is. All You Can Eat Food prices keep rising. And rising. Yet there are still cour ageous restaurateurs operating on an "All You Can Eat" policy. In Greenwich Village, Manhat tan, one restaurant offers an "All You Can Eat" sirloin steak dinner for $2.35. Many cus tomers of this place consume the equivalent of two steak din ners at one sitting for one price. The record is five. ' Incidentally, a man and wife from the Bronx ate four steak dinners each. Also Los Angeles still has a few "All You Can Eat" restaurants. One brave fellow there offers all the smorgasbord you can eat for $2. Another offers all the roast beef, baked ham or roast turkey you can eat for $1.85. This offer includes vegetables, dessert and coffee. Retirement Men in their middle 50s are frequently advised against re tirement on the grounds that it will decrease longevity. That applies only to men so wrapped up in their business that they have no other interests. Men with hobbies and a variety of interests usually live long. Take Izaak Walton, who was a Lon don businessman when he re tired at the age of 50. He lived to be 90. He enjoyed 40 years of leisure. His hobby, as you know, was fishing. He also likd to write. The first edition of his classic "The Compleat Angler' was published when he was 60. Ha wrote a fifth edition when 83. Dogs What breed of sporting dogs is the best retriever? That's what a Baltimorean asks. I don't fe?l qualified to answer this query. However, it is difficult to top the springer spaniel as a retriev er. Some springers have such "gentle jaws" for retrieving they can carry an egg witSout break ing it. Greenland s icecap covers 700,000 square miles, an area nearly a fourth the size of the United States. In some places it is more than 10,000 feet thick. NARROW ESCAPE With head bandaged, gambling czar Frank Costello leaves New York police station after being questioned for several hours. He had been shot earlier by an unidenti fied gunman at the entrance of his home. The 66-year-old gambler apparently was the mark for a well-planned gangland assassination. Bogota Students Ask Support in General Strike Bogota U.R) Students an gered by the death of a teenager in week end rioting here called on the Colombian people today to support a 24-hour "general strike'1, against President Gus tavo Rojas Pinilla. y. Twelve opposition newspapers in various cities responded to the call by announcing that they will suspend publication indefi nitely. Two of them shut down Sunday, saying that emergency regulations made it impossible for them to publish. Sixteen-year-old Ernesto Apa ricio, who died of a throat wound Sunday, night, was the first fatality of the noisy but usually non-violent anti-government demonstrations that flared up here Jast week. 'Routine Exercise' , He is believed to have been injured by -the firing pin of a tear gas bomb . when police gassed the congregation of the Porciuncula church, whose priest -was preaching an anti government sermon. The army took over the city Saturday night, ostensibly as part of a "routine military exer cise." The disorders in Colombia were touched off- by Rojas as piration for a second term. The president, a lieutenant general seized power from Lau reano Gomez in a military coup d'etat in June, 1953. A little more than a year later, he was "elected" piesident. by a consti tutional convention. Wenalchee Hit By Flash Flood Wenatchee, Wash. (U.R) A flash flood hit Wenatchee Sundav nisht with mafor r9Vi- ing two feet deep in downtown streets before it receded. The storm and flash flood rolled out of Number Two can yon at 6 p.m. and not until near ly four hours later did the water subside. Mud and debris piled up on lawns of more than 200 homes and the basements of many downtown business houses were flooded. The flash flood forced the evacaution of a number of homes and cut off electric power in most of the city for several hours. Virtually all telephones were out of action for a time. At one point in east Wenat chee the flood gouged out a gully 10 feet wide. $64,000 Challegne . Contestants Flunk New York U.R) All four contestants on the CBS-TV "$64, 600 Challenge" quiz flunked out Sunday night but managed to haul away $24,000 among them. Metropolitan opera baritone Robert Merrill and shoemaker Michael Delia Rocca, Baldwin, N.Y failed on the $32,000 ques tion in the "opera" category. On the $8,000 .Shakespeare question, policeman Redmond O'Hanlon, New York, and Ches ter Alan Arthur, a San Fran cisco news vendor, were unable to give the right answer. Merrill and Delia Rocca split $16,000 they had won previously and. O'Hanlon and Arthur shared $8,000. Arthur is a grandson of the 21st president of the United States. Monday. May , 1937 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUKE JT7 41 BIG FREE PARKING LOTS IN BACK OF OUR STORE (Gmcn)(CffiffiiM TO ACCOMMODATE OUR MANY CUSTOMERS Whose Pay Day Is To day, May 6th, We Have Extended our Dollar Day Sale Through Wednesday May 8th Coco-Col Bottling; Compaay of Medford KIRBYCO. Sales & Service 1028 Murray, Mad. 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