BTX MEDFOBD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
W.dnoidsy. Jun 3. 1957
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Tracks Believed Madei Mark Twn'? I J
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May Be Made Available by Estate
By Missing Portlander
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Molalla V New tracks be
lieved to be those of an elderly
man missing since last Friday
were found Tuesday night as a
ground and air search contin
ued. Missing is Mark Francklin. 79,
Portland, who was last seen Fri
day night when he stopped to
inquire about directions from a
lumber company official. H i s
car was found abandoned Sat
urday night about 15 miles
southeast of here.
j Bloodhounds were put on the
; new tracks Tuesday night. They
were several miles up a moun
tain from where the car was
found.
Airplanes and an Air Force
helicopter also joined in the
search Tuesday.
Berkeley, Calif. HP A mil
lion and a half words from the
prolific pen of Mark Twain lie
unpublished and untapped in 11 University Press will soon pub
filing cabinets held by the au- j lish a book of the 40-year cor-
thor's estate. respondence between Twain and
Tom Among the Indians and l available for historians, scholars
"Tom Sawver's Conspiracy." j and,.others interested in the life
In addition, the Harvard and woruks this reat Amcri-
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SKIW DIVIR DHOWNED Limp form of William Orner, 19, of South San Francisco
hangs from Navy helicopter after he was snatched from surf off Carmel, Calif., and
airlifted to a resuscitator crew ashore. A 45-minute struggle to save the stricken skin
diver failed. Note swimmers (left) who searched water for 30 minutes before finding
Orner in 50 feet of water.
Colorful Similes in American Language
Often Traced To Meat and Livestock
Chiraco 'P English is i
meaty language.
For example, you can 50
whole hog and take th bull by
the horns. You can also bring
hom the bacon.
Of course you mifht rale a
cold shoulder, in which else
you'd do some beefing.
Long before jive-talk, Ameri
cans were coining colorful simi
les about meat and livestock.
Old Phrasw
According to the magazine
National Live Stock Producer,
ome of these phrases date back
300 years. Others were Imported
nd go back to antiquity.
Here's how some of the best
known sayings began:
Great horn spoon-a phrase de
noting soup ladles, strainers
and mixing spoons once carved
from the horns of cows or sheep.
In the 1R50. somebody adopted
it as a mild cuss word which
could be used in the presence of
ladies.
Hell for leather-The beating
a leather saddle takes when a
eowpoke rides at top speed.
End of your rope-farmers used
to stake horses and cows out to
pasture on a rope. The animals
grazed in a circle around the
stake. When they came to the
end of ihe rope they obviously
eould go no farther.
Big Money
Whole hog-In colonial days a
hilling was nicknamed a "hog."
Later the American dime was
given the same name. Prices
were lower then, and when a
fellow spent a "whole hog" he
was living It up.
Cut a dido-Dido, the mythical
queen who founded Carthage,
agreed to settle only as much
land as she could enclose with
a bull's hide. So she cut the hide
j into hair-like cords long enough
to encircle enough land to build
the city of Carthage.
Synonym for Actor
Hammy . Ministrel singers
rubbed their faces with burnt
cork for Nego impersonations.
Later the synonym for mediocre
actor became simply, "ham."
Bring home the bacon-Bacon
was esscntinl family fare, and
the ability to bring it home in
dicated a steady income. The
monks of Dunmow in Essex,
England, would give bacon to
any man who knelt before the
church door and swore that "for
12 months and a day, I have
never had a household brawl
nor wished myself unmarried."
1 Union Pacific To
I Have Traffic Control
Portland tp A program for
installation of centralized traf
fic control on the Union Pacific
railroad s main line in western
Idaho and eastern Oregon was
announced today by Union Pac
ific officials.
The new construction, between
Huntington, Ore. and Glenns
Ferry, Idaho, will complete one
of the longest stretches of rail
road traffic control in the na
tion. Union Pacific said the
work will ecompass 288.7 track
miles of installation and close
the control gap in the 756 miles
of main line track between
Granger, Wyo., and Hinkle, Ore.
But if the plans of Prof.
Henry Nash Smith materialize.
Twain fans will have to build
new shelves for their libraries.
There is even a bit more Tom
Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn to
come.
Smith, fourth literary editor
of the Twain estate, wants to
publish six volumes of the un
published material.
Two Unfinished Pieces
Work has already started on
am ther volume containing docu
ments related to the composition
of the Tom Sawyer and Huck
Finn books. Edited by Walter
Blair of the University of Chic
ago, it will Include two unfinish
ed pieces entitled, "Huck and
Novelist-editor Willi am Dean
Howells.
All this, despite the fact that
Smith and his three predecessors
as literary editor of the estate
Albert Bigclow Paine, Bernard
DeVoto and Dixon Wecter have
already published 19 volumes
since Twain's death in 1910.
At that time Twain left all
his unpublished writings to be
administered by the estate, with
the profits of publication to go
to his daughter, Clara, who lives
in San Diego. Calif.
Scholarly Phase
"It is possible that there is
little of commercial trade value
left," Smith says, "but there
is much that should be made
" 1 have now reached the scholarly
phase of the publication of
works."
Smith is professor of English I
at the University of California,
whose press recently published
his "Mark Twain of the Enter
prize," a volume taken from
Twain's writings for the Virginia
City, Nev., Territorial Enter
prise. The university press said
the book sold out within a month
of publication. j
West Germany To Pay
For Upkeep of Troops
Bonn, Germany itp West
Germany has agreed to pay thS
United States S77.480.OOo" for
upkeep of American troops in
Germany this year, informed
Bonn government sources said
today.
The United States originally
asked S154. 760.000 and retains
the right to reopen negotiations,
the sources said.
SINGER SEES RED
Los Angeles HP Singer
Darla Hood divorced her hus
band, Robert, Tuesday. Miss
Hood, who recently recorded "I
Wanna Be Free." decided on a
divorce after her husband told
her the tell-tale marks on his
shirt collar was red ink.
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Use Tribune Went
Around Hollywood
By ALINE MOSBY
United Press Correspondent
Las Vegas. Nev. IP After a
decade of trying to convince
Hollywood she should be in mu
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Mother, Son To
Get College Degrees
Portland IP A Portland
mother and her son will receive
college degrees here together j acting "The Gunf ight at the OK
shaking, onto
the stage of the
biggest h otel
in Las Vegas
"to prove
something to
myself."
Aim mosdt The result
was so startling that one critic
noted it wasn't an atomic bomb
that shook this desert city but
Rhonda Fleming.
In a white lame-and-lace gown
slashed to her waist, she is one
of the most beautiful singers to
grace a nightclub stage. She
also has a fine voice of the musi
cal comedy type. These nights
the tourists come to Las Vegas
with a show-me attitude to be
pleasantly surprised both at
Rhonda and at Marie McDonald,
singing at the Desert Inn down
the street. .
Experience Limited
"Marie was a band singer
years ago with Tommy Dorsey.
after all, but I had sung only
in a movie, 'The Connecticut
Yankee.'" explained Rhonda.
"I wanted to be a singer when
I was little and I started study
ing opera at 14. But David O.
Selzxiick put me in movies as an
actress, my first film being
Spellbound.' "
Since then Rhonda's lush
figure and bright red hair have
been a fixture in swashbucklers,
adventure thrillers and big color
westerns such as Paramount s
comedy. But Rhonda didn't get
a chance to unveil her pipes
until she traveled to the Tropi-
sicals, Rhon- cana Hotel to hear Eddie Fisher
da F 1 e m i n g I sing. Impressario Monte Proser
gave up and heard she had a voice and hired
walked, knees I her on the spot.
Chiang Kai-shek Should
Visit U. S., Paper Says
Taipeh ilp A Taipeh news
paper, the Ta Hua Evening
News, suggested Tuesday that
President Chiang Kai-shek
should visit the United States.
It said that among all leaders of
democratic countries, "Chiang
is probably the only one who
has not visited the United
States."
Free Lecture on Christian Science
Under the auspices of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Medford
Entitled
The Liberating Power of Divine Love
Revealed in Christian Science"
By Lela May Aultman, C.S.B. of Denver, Colorado
Member of the Board of Lectureship of the Mother Church,
The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts
Thursday, June 6, 1957-8P.M.
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Windsor and Oahvood Dike
It is open to the public. No charge is made, no money is solicited at a Christian Science Lecture
Ability Overlooked
"They didn't even know if I
could really sing," laughed the
actress. 'My agent kept telling
them I could.
"We had only three weeks to
get ready. I didn't know what
to sing. People had heard of me
as a movie star what would
they want to hear? Finally we
got up here in one piece and
opened. I was walking around in
a daze, like a zombie, after 17
hours of rehearsal.
"After 30 pictures, opening in
Las Vegas was the biggest thrill
of my life. The reviews were
great and I'm so excited and
happy."
Rhonda now will hit the cafe
singers' trail "to get some money
back as I've invested a lot in
my act." Then she plans a movie
musical.
here next Sunday, nd for the
mother it will be a climax of 31
years of intermittent academic
effort.
Mfl. Russell A. Pierson and
her son, Ellery. both graduate
from Portland State college June
9. The mother will take a degree
In elementary education. Her
son wjjnts to be a sociologist, and
Corral." But no musicals.
Once composer Richard Rog
ers (of R Sc Hammerstein) told
hei she was born for musical
Court Records
MINICIPAI. COl'RT
Lertn Stihitz Miliar Rnhinsnn hotpt.
has been accented as a trraduate 'n E Medford. disorderly ,
Grants Pass Railroad
Complaint Dismissed
Portland (IP A complaint
by three business firms seeking
damages from the city of Grants
Pass for abandonment of a 15
mile railroad has been dismissed
by Federal Judge Gus Solomon.
In 1942 the city of Grants
Pass was decreed owner of the
California anVl Oregon coast rail
road, -extending from Grants
Pass to Waters creek. Twelve
years later the city abandoned
operation of the line.
Two lumber companies and a
gas company formerly served by
the line sued for damages. After
their complaint was filed the In
terstate Commerce commission
gave the city permission to
abandon the railroad.
Judge Solomon found that his
court had no jurisdiction.
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student at Stanford.
Mn Piersnn first enrolled us Apt 2,
, duct. $2S.
I freshman in 1926 at Oregon ; Eucne
Xnrmnl now Orcffnn College of ' th wronu idf if th street. S5
:
Education at Monmouth.
said responsibilities of a family I
kept her from finishing her ad
vanced schooling.
Medford. disorderly con- 1
Anderson, operating on i
treet. S5 i "
Prettyman. no vehicle ! i
no driver's license, i
-If you can stand the
Noise and Confusion . .
Come in
and
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5ne registration. SS
.lames w. Lick.
sin
i Albert John Hall, violation of basic
rule. Si
Aiicr UKiiut-is mu tnc joint girt-isic rule. Sin
duation "wasn't planned." b u 1 1 Ij(!'rJ snw'"'"m Robbln- no tail
that she and her son realized it j Myrtle Eva McKee. violation of basic
would happen last spring wh n rulf . , . , . , ,
, t . Ben D. Lrai. violation of basic rule.
wiry loidiiru out wui wie mtr.sin
Rlossom Loraine Governor, failure
Here are some outstanding Values!
number of credit hours.
Tax Structure in
Oregon Draws Rap
to stop at red light. (5.
INSURE?
SAffci
u i ft WEST
DIVIDENDS
DISTRICT COl'RT
Denis G. Hauler, improper muffler.
S15
David W Husband, exceeding daily
i bag limit trout, s.in
i Gordon B Bowman, failure to atop
Portland '1? The president Clarence V Hacilund. failure to
ef a r.iw inenranoa onmnani- cairt dim hems. $10
Tuesday Oregon should have a
greater diversification of indus
try but that its taxes are too
high.
Carrol M. Shanks, head of
Prudential insurance company,
said Oregon s unfavorable tax
structure was the main reason
the state hadn't fared as well
Washington and California in
attracting new industry.
"It's the income tax that
hurts." he said. "Industrv does
rot like to send people where
Baker, failure to dim
failure to stop at
Kenneth
lights. S10.
Walter G Lewis,
red hsht Sin
Harold A. Davis, truck speeding. SIS
Gerald L. Young, violauon of basic
rule. S15.
Charles R Germeroth. recklesa driv
ing s:to.
William McGowan Hunting, over
load. S201.
Clar-
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' C1RCI IT COl'RT
Barbara Ann Bemheiset vs
Bcrnheisel. divorce decree.
Winona Marjorie Cross vs
ence M. Cross, divorce decree
Elaine Maureen MarN'eiil vs
las Rav MacNeiU. divorce decree
Louise M Martin vs. Gecree
' Marnn. divorce decree
tW. i. 9 H!r inm- .v Tnlne. . . iainry n ijarma n vs uioyo
oi?. ........t ....UK.- i Harold oarman. divorce complaint.
tries wiii sena xneir people xo i
the states with the best tax pic
ture. He added that most business
meg and industrialists favor the
states which have a sales tax.
Shanks said that he believed
new housing starts would help
Oregon's lumber industry toon, wuk
Savings Deposited
by June 10
earn Dividends from
June 1
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