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o FOOD PLACE TO START New Orleans TO An artist who painted a prize-winning "modernistic embrace" in a lo cal show explained Saturday why she chose the field of mod em art. 'Its the only thing I can draw," said , 7-year-old Lynne AUiver. o ' On The Side By E. V. Durling 0 (Distributed by King Features Syndicate Inc.) Sunday, August 25, 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEiC How old can a man be and still become a father? Such is the query of a Philadelphia hus band, who gives his age as 74. Dr. B. Belonosckiss of Stock holm, Sweden, checked exten- World's First Transistor POCKET RAM o Imagineered for Better Style, Performance and Value By ... . 7 (T7T IN A STUNNING "NEVABREAK" CABINET! X ffMi ,!ffiWv''S here's 'Emerson $4,41,00 NO MONEY DOWN ONLY 1.00 A WEEK Outperforms any other pocket radio made. Will breakable co-ordinated transistors make possible play where others fail. Eight, yes eight tiny un the most powerful, full-performing radio ever packed into a pocket-sized case. The Emerson "888'" has rich full-fidelity sound and years ahead styling. Priced at less than 5 transistor pocket radios The Emerson "888" is the value sensa tion of a lifetime. OPEN EVERY MONDAY TILL 9 P.M. 122 E. Main Phone SP 3-5348 sively on this interesting ques tion. He found that it was pos sible for a man of 92 years of age to become a proud papa. Dr. Belonosckiss was unable to find a man who was too old to be come a father and at the con clusion of his investigation said, "In the human male there is no biologically established limit at which the reproductive function of his reproductive glands cease. Passing By Jay Coogan, Debonair descend ant of the New York City fam ily after which that historic Har lem spot called Coogan's Bluff was named. The Coogan family own the site of the Polo Grounds and leased it to the N.Y. Giants for many years. Gordon Coogan now lives in New Jersey. No longer interested in baseball he is a regular at the Freehold Raceway, harness horse track. The Giants will play their last baseball game at the Polo Grounds this year. What was the most exciting ball game ever staged at the Polo Grounds? My nomination is one game play-off for the pennant between the Gi- , ants and the Chicago Cubs in 1908. The Cubs won by a score of four to two. Mathewson pitch ed for the Giants. Jack Pfeister started for the Cubs and was re lieved by "Three Fingered" Mor decai Brown. Many other sport ing events besides baseball games took place at the Polo Grounds. How about the topper in excitement in those events? My nomination is the Dempsey Firpo fight in 1923. Asking Queries from clients. Q. What is this country's oldest automo bile manufacturing concern? A. Oldsmobile. Incidentally, it was in 1905 that Gus Edwards and Vincent Bryan wrote the hit song titled In My Merr: Olds mobile." Q. For what organiza tion did "Diamond Jim" Brady work as a salesman? What did he sell? A. Brady was connectr ed with the firm of Manning, Maxwell and Moore. The first item he sold successfully was a hand saw used for cutting steel rails. After that he sold a va riety of railroad supplies. He worked on commission only. It is said that at times Brady's commissions on sales totaled as high as $20,000. Get It Right Among the Biblical quotations which are constantly subject to misquotation is "Money is the root of all evil." The quotation .appearing In I Timothy 6-10 is "The love of money is the root of all evil." That is an observa tion with a radically different meaning. Mark Twain once amended it to read "The lack of money is the root of all evil." Great Lover Note Lord Byron referred to as "The 19th Century's greatest lover." Perhaps Byron was a ereat lover but he was also something of a cad and heel. tie onen jcissea and told. .And when married spoke disparag ingly of his wife to other peo ple. Only a very low grade heel does things like that. Black Market The French government is re ported unable to eliminate the dealers in black currency. Mus solini,' confronted with a simi lar difficulty in the 1930s in Italy, established legislation which made death the penalty for dealing in black market cur rency. That. stopped it. Texas Again - Texas is in again with some thing for Brooklyn and even California to try to top. The Lone Star State, claim is that Dr. John B. Cummins of Fort Worth, Tex., is the oldest prac ticing physician in the United States. Dr. Cummins, who is 99 years old, is at his office from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. six days a week. Pickets Close Down Evans Products Plant Coos Bay HP) The Evans Products company plant, em ploying about 500 persons in its Coos Bay operations, was closed down at noon Friday when pick ets were posted by members of Local 2621, Plywood, Veneer and Box Workers union. Dortha Voeller, president of the local, said the union's con tract with Evans had been open since April and that the com pany had refused to negotiate on an accumulation of grievances. No strike vote had been taken, however, and a number of em ployes expressed ignorance of what the dispute was about. Evans officials szii they had not been contacted by the union and did not know the purpose of th2 strike. Enjor Health. Rest, Comfort aod Hospitality at the Bnckhorn Mineral Springs Sanitarium Get a neer lease on Ufa through th mse of our famous mineral waters. Sot for Rheumatism Arthritis. Neuritis Verrosssess, Sigh and Low Blood Pressure ane Skin Eruptions. Oarbo Blosaa Taper Betas lor Asthma, Eesctna, Colds. Sinus and Bronchitis. "Ton Hoar Ov Basin." For nserraltoas er detailed formation address BseUterB Mineral Springs Sanitarian, txtt Bsekhera Sprints Bead. Ashland Ore. Or phone loef distance Be. Kerens Wesler, Mrea Chiropraetie Physician lOPEII MONDAY 'TIL 9 P.M. 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