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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Is That So? Ever wonder how you latched on ta your name? There was .a time in'England when people only had first S-3- 11 names, such as Fred, William or Mary. If Mary were married to William, she might be Mary, William's wife. As people became more num erous and lived closer together confusion arose. And so, per haps, William was called Wil liam the tailor because of his occupation. Or William the stout because of his heavy build. Eventually 'the' was dropped and he became William Taylor or William Stout. Then, his chil dren would have different first names but retain the last name Sometimes, the names began with the children. Supposing there were two Freds one Richard's son, the other Wil liam's son. So when they grew up they retained the name Fred Richardson and Fred William son. ' In the days when most people could not read, signs identified shops. A locksmith might have a key for his sign and his shop called ".The Sign of the Key." And so, James who owned the locksmith was called James Key Some people took their sur names from , people or places they liked. And so, we have John King, Fred Silver, William Gold. Because some 'people had dis tinctive personal characteristics they were called. Short, Long fellow. Stout. Or for their oc cupations Baker, Siwyer (car penter) or Coward (cowherd). Or for the physical characteris tics of the place in which they lived Green (near the village green). Ridgeway (along the ridge of a hill), Beckett (along a little brook). Or from the name of the place in which they lived Lincoln, Barstow, Oglethorpe, Throckmorton. Some people got their names from nicknames Dixon (son of Richard nicknamed, Dick); Rob son (son of Robert, nicknamed Rob); Thompson (son of Thomas, nicknamed Tom). Choices sDictatad Sentimental reasons dictated the choice of other names. Dar win (from the Old English word deore for dear, and wine, for friend). The person's station in life Watch For... May 10th to 25th At Frake & Smith 315 E. Main Ph. SP 2-4564 I H i I- M M M M m M a WW M M -:-- ......: -. : .'-.: T. V FfavortomeHA m ..' M M V . : -y .: T. ---i. .i-VMC -.--. M Ai iLS vs.-.- : - .- lumberjack lif 1 I Pour smooth, mellow Lumberjack Syrup on a idli 1'J f.'ILff "III flavor target! Lumberjack's rich, wonderful, JfN,- J old-time maple flavor brings plenty of breakfast gSSI ' cheer to last the day! I Q tfV'iifI If if sN ALLEY'S , . . it's Good! For FREE RECIPES ... writ, to Hems Economics Dept., NolUy's Inc.; Toco ma. Wash. By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist supplied the names of some. Ch".d or Childs (which meant a well-bred youth, a young knight). .The most common American name, Smith, came from the one-time common occupation of smith who shaped metal while it was hot and soft. But times change and today few Smiths are engaged in their former pro fession. The most common American names are Johnson (son of John), Brown (brunet in coloring), Wil liams (son of William), Jones (Welsh, son of John), Miller (the occupation of miller), Davis (son of David), Anderson (son of An ders, another form of Andrew), Taylor (the occupation of tailor), and Moore (a place name, near the moor). (Copyright. 1957. hy Eugent 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, or the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife, a complete- 30-vol-ume set of this world-famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week new submissions will be consid ered. Sorry, I simply can't an swer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: Is That So! care Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Court Records MUNICIPAL COURT James Bernard Delsman. Ashland, driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor, S100. Orville Clarence Hale. 517 Edwards St.. Medford, driving while under the iniiuence or intoxicating liquor. $100. Andrew Dooney. drunk in Dublic. S10. Wallace wnsht Kascoc. drunk in public. $10. Artie Bob Prettvman. drunk in public. S10. itusseii ciaren Simons, drunk in public. S10. Kenneth RalDh Arnold, disobeved stop sign. S3. - Raymond Jucnard Graff, excessive noise. S10. Hovt Woodal Kedwine. failure ta stop at red light, S5. Paul Hughes Biggs, defective equip ment. SS. Ronald Christian Nelson, failure to stop at red light, 83. Norman Mackintosh Harwell, defec tive equipment, S3. jonn micnaei .Bauer, inadequate muffler. $10. Medford C. Pittman. disobeyed stop sign. S3. I rank oufek, defective equipment, S2.S0. Anthony Schleiss. violation ef basic rule. 10. carol Marie Robertson, failure to stop at red light. S3. treaerick Wesley Hawkins, improp er left turn, S3. DISTRICT COURT Jess Cummings, failure to stop at stop sign. $10. John Alden Smith, passinf without sufficient clearance, SIS. Roger John Ferrell. violation basic rule. SIS. Merle Leroy Carder, overload, 131. Myrtle Geneva Pankey, no opera tor's license, S6. Eugene Patrick Cook, failure to ston at stop sign. $10. Elbert Dean Kelly, unlawful poses sion of weapon, S3. Charles Elmer Cooper, no oversize permit. $15. bail forfeited. Dean Richard Chamberlain, viola tion basic rule, $20, bail forfeited. Clyde Leroy Foutch, overload, $42, bail forfeited. Robert Bennle Wylder, willful and wanton waste of game fish $30. Jack Dwight McCoy, violation basic rule. $15. David Champv McCollum, angling without a license. $30. Henry Harold Hillyer, angling closed area, S5. Bernard -Dale Thackery, angling closed area. $3. Hyle Dillard Medford,' angling pro hibited methods, $30. CIRCUIT COURT Dorothy Lucille Yorton vs. Delbert Roy Yorton. divorce complaint. The First Marine Aircraft Wing was commissioned on July 7, 1941 at Quantico, Va. This was the first wing in the history of Marine Corps aviation. su,uc" niiiiwca ami you u nit your f L4 'J 1 1 f f 1 Tuesday, May 7. HS7 Visionaires Slated'to Present Program Here The Visionaires male quartet, formerly known as The "Four Flats, will appear at the Friends church at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in a program of music, includ ing a report on their missionary trip to the Philippines in Janu ary. The quartet has sung to more than a million people in 2,500 meetings in the past 10 years, appearing with such evangelists as Dr. Billy Graham, Bob Pierce, Jack Shuler, Merv Rosell, and Oswald Smith. Graduates of George Fox college, Newberg, they were twice winners of the Pacific- Northwest barbershop ballad contest while students there. Russian Parliament To Hear Khrushchev Moscow U.R) The two houses of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) meet in joint ses sion today to hear a report by Communist Party leader Nikita S. Khrushchev on reorganiza tion of the management of So viet industry. Although it is not on the agenda, it would not be sur prising if the Soviet leaders took advantage of the parliamentary session today to make a major foreign policy pronouncement. The parliamentary session was called to give final approval to the drastic changes in the over all planning and management of Soviet industry which calls for the transfer of management and planning from federal to local control. The shifts are based chiefly on the decentralization plans an nounced by Khrushchev on March 30. Today's was the second meet ing this year of the Supreme Soviet. Explosions Rock Fireworks Plant Dayton, Ohio Ufi) Two spectacular explosions rocked the United Fireworks Co. Mon day night only hours after a visiting Japanese fireworks man ufacturer praised the plant for its safety features. Officials - estimated the loss of two buildings destroyed in the blasts at $40,000. One fireman was injured slightly and was treated at the scene. The last shift had left the plant more than .four hours before. -Arthur Hinkle, the night watchman, said he was in a car several hundred yards from the explosions. "Flames shot way up into the sky with flowers and clusters of fireworks all over the place," he said. "It was beautiful in a way. The explosion was tre mendous and shook the ground." Walter Beachler, owner of the plant, could offer no explana tion of the explosions, which occurred about 8:30 p.m. MACHINE AGE Hamilton, N. Y. (U.R) Char les R. Kirkley, a pre-engineer ing student at Colgate Univer sity, has mechanized the ancient' game of tic-tac-toe so it can be played by a simple system of switches. "It really works J.' said Kirkley and just think no part ner, no paper, no pencils." And no fun either, Kirkley admitted the machine always wins. ! 'll tWJ-" SHE'S ALL CHARGED UP-Jane Powell really turns on the heat during a performance at the Desert Inn in Las Vegas, Nev. Static electricity appears to be leaping from the stage as the once demure singing star switches character and turns on the heat. We'll let you camera wizards figure it out but photographer Jack Meehan, who took the picture, thinks he got it by changing film Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS Dallas, Tex. Suspended Jockey Willie Shoemaker, on what he thought when he realized he misjudged the Kentucky Derby finish line Saturday to possibly cost Gallant Man a victory over winner Iron Liege: "I called myself a batch of names the newspapers couldn't print. I thought, 'Oh hell, how stupid can I be. " Washington The Rev. William J. Await, the priest who mar ried the late Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, to the senator's former colleagues: ; "The Senate was his wife." I Boston Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D.-Va.) on President Eisenhower's record $71,800,000,000 budget: "I say with all sincerity that from a fiscal standpoint, it is the most irresponsible budget submitted in my day." New York Sen. John F. Kennedy (D.-Mass.) calling for a new American policy toward Russian satellites which would in clude loans to Communist Poland: . "Other satellites, we may be sure, are watching, and if we fail to help the Poles, who else will dare stand up to the Russians arid look westward?" Chicago Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, on gov ernment control of some farm commodities: "After 25 years of controlling agriculture, we have failed." MANACLED AS HE LEAVES COURT in Detroit is Leonard Ewing Scott, accused slayer of his 65-year-ol(J wife in Los Angeles in 1955. (International Soundphoto) You'll find pert Randy Stuart, co-starring in " The Incredible Shrinking Man," up to expectations. She's scrumptious! Up- to your expectations, too, is famous Hollywood Special Formula Bread. A secret blend of 16 grain and vege k Baked without shortening 'Tfafotnlfomdwb,nwiuM radniwly FLUHRER I Und lutma sy Nifhrnij VQ RANDY STUART co-stirring in "THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN' UnivartoMntornational Kefur Up-nr table flours, it's a real treat to eat . . . meal after meal. Baked without shortening, this sensible bread is a must on the menus of millions of beauty -conscious women. Insist on the genuine. FRIII Holtrwaod Did mni Coleri. did. Writs I Elranor Day, 100 Wsst Msnro Sirssf, Cliicaga 3, liliaais. 7wm kinds: LIGHT end DARK FOR TOU by BArvcRIES ttkm Stiviees..lne, Chiei Hi'1... .lasL.,1 ' .IV The Family Council Editor's note: The Family Council consists ot a Jodie, a psycnlitrlft, tare clerfymen, a nswspaper editor, a women's editor and two writers tach artldo is a summary of an actual report. The Family Council does not givs advice; it merely reports on problems Uut have been dealt with by responsible asenclcs and counselors. Mr. G. H, Is this woman a chronic liar and deceiver? Mrs. T. M. I'm not that sort? Mr. G. H. I am a widower in my 50s very much in love with a widow of about my own age. We have been going around together for nearly two years and I want very much to marry her. but she says she is just not sure about me. What concerns me about this woman is that she constantly lies to me both in trivial and im portant things. I have caught her in such silly lies. She'll tell me she is going to be at her sister's home one evening and then I meet her on the street and she has been out shopping. Or she'll tell me she has sold cer tain business interests and then six months later I'll discover she still owns them. I - care ' for this woman .very deeply, but I wonder whether she is a chronic liar and deceiv er, whether she is seeing other men, or something. I just can't seem to find out where I stand with her, but I feel I cannot give her up. Mrs. "T. M. I was not very happy in my first marriage and I want to be cautious about any step I take in the future. This man has been very kind and helpful to me and I 'alue his companionship, but I just don't see myself taking the plunge into marriage with him. I am not a deceiver and I am not seeing any Other man. These suspicions get on my nerves be cause I am just not that sort of woman. Why should he accuse me and bother me in this way? I don't want to lie to any one, but my friend keeps ask ing me so many questions, some times I tell him anything just to give him an answer. The fact is that I have become so mixed up in all these silly lies, I don't even remember the truth my self any more. I am not trying to string this man along. He doesn't; have to see me if he doesn't like me as I am. The Council Mr. G. H., a rather possessive man, has ap parently chosen just thewoman most likely to frustrate him one who values her independ ence above all else at this par ticular time. He refuses to accept the fact that she has told him where he stands with her. She is "not sure.". He is so determined in his own mind to marry her that he feels he already has some rights over her. Because she is grateful for his help and friend ship, Mrs. T. M. evidently is in timidated by his attitude. The fact is, that Mrs. T. M. A better milk! A better buy ! r if r m n (MM ' cS&p has a perfect right to her pri vacy and does not have to an swer any of his personal ques tions. She does not have to ac count for her time and she has every right to see other men if she chooses to do so. This does not make her any "sort of wom an" at all. She has a legal and moral right to make friends of. either sex. , As a matter of fact, this is precisely what Mrs. T. M. ought to do. Without meaning to, she has become deeply . embroiled with Mr. G. H. -to the point where they both know she has no resources but him. A wider circle of friends and interests will make it clear to him that, for the time being at least, he can be nothing more than one of many friends. Mr. G. H. should recognize this for his own sake, and cease asking her questions he has no right to ask. ' . - - (Copyright 1957. General Features Corp.) Australian Students 'Capture' U.S. Boat Sydney, Australia U.R) Ten Sydney University students in pirate garb "captured" the U.S. carrief Benningtton early today' in a dawn prank that left Amer ican naval - officers more em barrassed than amused. '- Armed with cardboard cut lasses and, carrying a skull and crossbones flag, the students rowed .to the carrier's side, climbed the ladder and walked through the sleeping ship .un challenged. They found their way to her empty bridge and sounded the chemical warfare alarm. Startled sailors tumbled from their bunks and the Benning ton's 2,500 officers and men dashed to their stations. The Sydney Mirror said the "pirates" held their ground against- overwhelming odds on the ship's bridge before they were "arrested" by Marines and led off the ship. : : ' : : : : r ' ' - . . Lj J.w j --a'!") lire -- 'Viv ij Let your family tnjoy this finer, money saving milk every day! Lucerne is truly a better milk because it gives your family! a bonus in quality a. bonus in extra purity, ' extra richness and extra good flavor. Yet Lucerne costs no more than ordinary milks and even less than home-delivered milk. So for a better milk and a better buy... Come to Safeway regularly for Lucerne 1 Enjoy the Bonus Quality Milk and all the fine dairy products that bear the distin guished name Lucerne. Louisiana Residents Building Up Leveesu f Shreveport, La. IU.R Emir gency workers labored through out the night to build up levees protecting - four Louisiana conv munities1 from the Surging flood waters of the Red river. - The "threat of the towns 6f East Point, Powhatan, Campti and Clarence all south . of Shreveport constituted the fi nal destructive efforts of a se ries of floods that have pounded the Southwest since April -19, causing an estimated $57,500, 000 damage. : ' The Red River's crest was ex pected this afternoon. : The river was spread) three miles across low'ands in places. Around Powhatan, Campti and Clarence, 60,000 acres are mil der water. An estimated 100,000 acres are covered by floodwater in Louisiana now. J ; About 200 persons have left their homes in -the Powhatan-Campti-Clarence area, and most of the 200 persons in East Pont moved out their belongings over the week end. . i t ' -. On Dec. 5, 1929, a Marine av iator, Capt. Alton N. Parker, be came the first pilot to fly over the Antarctic continent . 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