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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 15, 1957)
On THe Side By t v. ourimg (Distributed by King Feature Syndicate. Inc.) Women strike matches awav from themselves, men the other way. Women bite a piece of chocolate candy in half to see what is inside before eating it. oien eat tne whole piece im mediately. Women i a u r r i m toothpaste tubes from the mid dle. Men squeeze them from the bottom. The women do not put the cap of tube back on. Women look at their fingernails by hold ing the hand straight out. palm down. In surveying his finger nails a man bends his fingers over toward him. So claims a conscientious student of Horses and Women who has been check ing on the differences between men and women. I have checked hU findings. They are amazingly accurate. I am getting in touch with him immediately to find out what he knows about 'horses. Get It Right What two New York churches were involved in the incident which led to one being ever after referred to as "The Little Church Around The Corner"? So queries a .Bostonian. The churches were the Church of Atonement, at Madison ave. and 28th st. and the Church of the Transfiguration, 1 East 29th st. Rev. William T. Sabine was rector of former. Dr. George Hendric Houghton of the latter. The Rev. Sabine, according to Joseph Jefferson, declined to hold a funeral service for George Holland because he had been an actor but suggested it might be arranged at "a little church around the corner." The funeral service for George Hol land was read by Rev. George Houghton at t&s Church of the Transfiguration on Dec. 22, 1870. Asking Queries from clients. Q. Is Robert W. Service who wrote "The Shooting of Dangerous Dan McGrew" still living? A. Yes, sir. Mr. Service, now 83 years old, lives in Monte Carlo. Q. What is the height of Prin cess Margaret of England? A. Five feet, two inches. Q. Have been asked to nam&a celebrated character of literature who was married five times. I am baffled. Help, please. A. The Wife 'of Bath, in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" has been married five times. To quote the poem: "Housbondes at church-dore she hadde five." Or in modem Eng lish, "Husbands at the church door she had five." Slogans In a list of slogans I recently asked if subscribers recalled was included "The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous." That was erroneously included. Everybody knows that slogan. The slogan I had in mind was "The Beer That Made Milwau kee Jealous." I believe this was used by a Michigan brewery. Dangerous Sport Fifty men have met death in boxing rings since 1945. Many others have ended up punch drunk with an existence that is a living death. A horrible situa tion. The horror will increase as time goes on. Television spon sors want no short bouts. They want lengthy and bloody battles between "crowd pleasers." It is the "crowd pleaser" type of ringman who is most often kill ed or ends up horribly punch drunk. Sidelights The Roosevelt Raceway (Dream Track) at Westbury, L.I., is named in honr of Quentin Roosevelt. The Roosevelt Hotel, Manhattan, is named in honor of his father, Theodore Roosevelt . . . The record for the most fatalities in a collision between two passenger automobiles seems to be held by Maryland where in 1854, ten people were killed in a two car collision, five in eachscar. Briefly "Parker House Rolls" are named in honor of the Parker House, Boston, Mass. So you knew that. Did you know porter house steak is naqped in honor of the Porter House, Sandusky, Ohio?. . . It is women who make the most unkind remarks about their sex. As for example, Han nah Cowley who said, "What is woman? Only one of Nature's agreeable blunders." Use M-T Classified Ads o New Secretary of Treasury Using 'Cram Course1 to Learn About Job By LOUIS" CASSELS . system; United Press Correspondent printed wasnington (if) When Rob ert B. Anderson graduated from the University of Texas at the age of 19, he applied for a job as high school math teacher in Bur leson, Tex. The trustees hired him on condi tion that he also coach the football team. Louis Cassels Anderson had never played football and his knowledge of the sport was mea ger. But he bought a book of football rules and spent the sum mer studying it. That fall, his team went through the season undefeated. Today, at 47, Anderson is using the same "crajn course" technique of easing himself into a much bigger and tougher job as secretary of the Treasury. Knows Finance Well Anderson is not a stranger to high finance, as he was to foot ball. He has had considerable ex perience in handling large sums of other people's money as manager of the $300 million Waggoner Estate in Texas, as deputy chairman of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank, as sec retary of the Navy and deputy secretary of defense, and for the past two years as president of Ventures, Ltd., a big Canadian mining and investment firm. But Anderson, whose unaf fected humility belies what they say about Texans, does not con sider this background sufficient training for his new job. Ever since he learned in April that President Eisenhower wanted him to succeed George M. Hum phrey as. Treasury secretary, he has been boning up on the in tricate problems of federal fis cal policy. So far, he has worked his way through (1) about five feet of .books, including most of the classic texts on such subjects as debt management and the operation of the federal reserve (2) 'more pages of than 1,000 Senate and House hearings; (3) scores of gov ernment reports and Treasury documents. Still Doing Homework Although he assumed active command of the Treasury July 29, Anderson is still plugging away at his self-assigned home work. ' One of his first acts was to call in the Treasury's 14 divi sion heads, and ask for a de tailed report from each of them on the "issues and problems", confronting his division. These confidential reports were pre pared, at his request, in the same kind of looseleaf notebooks that students use, and "are kept up to date with frequent inserts and substitutions. Anderson keeps them in his desk drawer for ready refer ence, but he has already mem orized most of their contents. He has the kind of memory that is sometimes called photo graphic, and has trained him self to be an extremely rapid reader. One of his aides, who saw him flipping through the pages of a highly technical re port, assumed that Anderson was merely pretending to. read it. The aide was startled some days later to hear the secretary cite specific dates and figures from the report. His Knowledge Incredible Over the years, Anderson has stocked his retentive mind with an incredible variety of informa tion. He learned one profession law in the usual way at col lege. Other subjects he has picked up along the way, in pre paring himself for various jobs or just out of curiosity. He taught himself petroleum geology be cause the vast Waggoner ranch, which he managed for 11 years, had more than 2,000 oil wells. He mastered the fine points of submarine design, because he felt that ' a Texas . landlubber should be able to talk the ad mirals' language when he be came secretary of the Navy. He can hold his own with experts in conversations about English poetry, cotton farming, Canadian mining, Texas politics and trap shooting. "If we could get this guy on a television quiz program," one awed Treasury official said re cently, "we would have the an swer to the federal debt." j Short of Solution Since no TV program has yet come forward with a $270 bil lion question, Anderson prob ably will have to find some other answer. His most urgent problem right now is refinanc ing the $72 billion worth of gov ernment bonds due to mature during the current fiscal year. The Treasury had to offer 4 per cent interest highest rate since the 1930s to ease its last big issue into the tight money mar ket. Still feeling his way" into the Thursday, August IS, 19S7 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE deep waters of federal finance, Anderson isn't ready to say what he plans to do about interest rates in the future. But he is turning into a demon bond salesman. Two minutes after he took his oath at the White House, he sold a $100 savings bond to Humphrey, who had been ineligible to own govern ment securities while he was Secretary of the Treasury. Reporter Also Buys, He subsequently chalked up sales to a reporter who came to interview him, and the janitor who cleans his office. Anderson knows it will take a lot of salesmanship to keep the public buying "E" bonds, with their 3V4 per cent interest rate, in a period when more attractive yields are readily available on many other invest ments, including some issues of government securities. But he is counting on old fashioned patriotism to help him sell bonds. "You should see the mail I've received since I took this job," he said, toward the close of a long interview. "Old friends, business acquaintances, even to tal strangers write to say that they are buying savings bonds to help me out. "Most of them are dead seri ous about it. It has convinced me there are millions of Ameri cans who still consider it part of their patriotic duty to help the government move some of its debt out of the banks, where it contributes to inflationary pres sures, and into longterm savings held by individuals." Virginia Paper Had 1776 Scoop Williamsburg, Va. (IP) Al exander Purdie scooped the world with America's greatest news story here 181 years ago.. Purdie, publisher of the Vir ginia Gazette, printed the com plete Declaration of Independ ence on the front, page of his July 26, 1776, edition, only three weeks after it was signed in Philadelphia fast work in co lonial days. Sidebar stories told of the re action to the Declaration in oth er colonies. In Trenton, N.J., the militia, the provincial con gress and a "large concourse of inhabitants" greeted the news with 'loud acclamations." New York City's celebrants re acted with "loud huzzas and ut most demonstrations of joy," ac cording to the Gazette. And they went in' for a bit of patriotic van dalism, ripping down the eques trian statue of King George III and melting down the pieces for bullets for the militia. The Gazette, the colony's first newspaper, was established here Aug. 6, 1637, and has been pub lished almost continuously ever since as a family-owned-and-op-erated weekly. Purdie learned printing in his native Scotland, worked for vari ous publishers of the Gazette and became publisher -himself in 1775. He continued to run the paper Use M-T Classif ied Ads through the hard-pressed dayi of the revolution until his death in 1779. ' Colonial Williamsburg, Inc., is reconstructing the first Gazette printing office as part of the restoration of the 18th century colonial capital. The reconstructed printing of fice will display colonial type which may have been used by the paper's first publisher and was uncovered on the site of the plant. . " QMSL BEWARE OF IMITATIONS LOOK fOU THE HAPPY UTTLE DOG tfCPrf TOPS IN QUALITY! 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