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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (March 13, 1959)
Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Sacramento, Calif. -Mrs. June Puckett Van Wie, 73, on learning that the man she has sued for divorce, Francis Van Wie, 72, is the 17-times-married "ding dong daddy of the 'D line": "Why I had no idea. He led me to believe he had mar Tied Only once before." Juneau, Alaska-Acting Alaskan Gov. Hugh J. Wade, remembering that Hawaiian territorial delegate Jack Burns voluntarily stepped aside last year so the Alaskan statehood bill could be pushed through Congress without competition: "Only by the unselfish action of the people of Hawaii was the way paved for us to attain our cherished goal. Now we, the 491h state, welcome ihem as Hawaii enters the por tals of statehood." Chicago-Novelist Fannie Hurst, charging that there has been a degeneration in the rugged American spirit: "Look at the popularity of the autobiographies of sick persons. Why, when I finished my autobiography, friends warned me that it wouldn't sell because I hadn't been sick." Berlin-Dieter Krause, 46-year-old West Berlin construc tion worker, voicing a typical opinion of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's promise to "liberate" Berlin: "Let him liberate the East Germans first. We don't want any mora Russians here and we don't need any liberation." Wal IStr eel Chatter New York - l?D - Further hesitation in the stock market could well ensue, says Bache & Co., but the various seg ments of strength which con tinue to appear within the price structure indicate that the upward drive is still in force. , No Barriers Developed Van Alstyne, Noel & Co. holds that no barriers have yet developed which have been strong enough to halt the market's advancing ten dencies and technically the Dow-Jones industrial average still is in the clear. A further push by most sections of the list seems in the offing, the firm adds. International Harvester 1959 net income should be substantially over the $2.69 reported for 1958, says Rey nolds & Co. The company earned $2.88 a share in 1957. There is more talk of a coming freight car shortage, and this is creating some speculative interest in the railroad equipments, accord ing to W. E. Hutton & Co., which holds that of the group Canadian Bear Hunt To Replenish Hats London (UPD The British War Office today happily ac cepted a Canadian offer to stage a bear hunt to replenish the battered bearskin hats of the Queen's Guard Brigade. The mayor of Timmins, On tario, made the offer after reading of complaints that the towering hats of some guards men look bedraggled and bare in spots. American Steel Foundries may be of better quality than some of the others. Sales Doubled Consolidated Foods, which has doubled its sales during the past decade through ac quisitions of companies in the the food industry, is expected to show earnings of more than $2 a share for fiscal year ending June 30, 1959, against $1.71 in fiscal 1958 and further gains are seen for next year, says Shearson Hammill & Co. Hatfield Will Meet Eisenhower Saturday Salem-(UPD-Gov. Mark Hat field said today he has a Sat urday appointment with Pres ident Eisenhowr. He plans to do some promotion of the Oregonial Centennial in the nation's capitol and attend the famous Gridiron banquet FLAIR FOR LUCK Las Vegas, Nev. - (UPD - A man with a flair for luck par layed a $10 bill into $112, 000 at a casino dice table here, according tp a "Strip" hotel official. Ivan Annenberg said the unidentified man held the dominoes for one hour and 55 minutes Tuesday night, one of the longest dice runs in Flamingo hotel history. An nenberg, following hotel policy, would not identify the man, saying only that he was from Beverly Hills, Calif. JOURNALIST DIES Lisbon-(UPD-Arthur Portela, 58, noted Portuguese journal ist, died Thursday of a heart ailment. Dr. Hansen Checks Fruit Storage Here Dr. Elmer Hansen, horticul turist from Oregon State col lege, arrived in the valley Wednesday. While here he checked on the storage of pears in various fruit houses. Dr. Hansen's work con cerns the ripening and stor age problems of pears. He planned to return to Corval lis Thursday. HOSTESS SLAIN Tokyo - (UPD - Police in vestigated the mysterious death of a Japanese airline stewardess today on the the ory that she may have been strangled. The shoeless-coat-less body of Tomoko Takewa wa, 27, a stewardess for the British Overseas Airways Corps, BOAC, was found Tuesday night in a lonely sec tion of Tokyo's outskirts. An autopsy showed marks on her neck which police said indi cated she probably was strangled. One manufacturer of opti cal glass, used in making eye glass lenses, makes 120 dif ferent types, using 60 ingredi ents from nine states and two foreign countries MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Friday, Mareli 13, 1939 7 CATTLE BARON DIES Dalhart, Tex. - (UPD -W. O. (Bill) Culbertson Sr., interna tionaly known cattle baron whose holdings spread over Texas, New Mexico and Colo rado, died Wednesday at the age of 77. Graham Scores Church Leaders Melbourne, Australia -(UPD-American evangelistB illy Graham last night scored "those Protestant church leaders who wash their dirty linen in public" by criticizing his Australian "crusade." "One thing you can say for the Roman Catholic church is that they don't disagree in public as Protestants do," Graham told a crowd of 10, 000 at the Melbourne show-; grounds. Graham has run into oppo sition from a few Anglican and other Protestant church leaders in Australia who crit icized his methods of evangel ism and contended his meet ings did not have a lasting effect. Porflander Wins Gin Rummy Play Las Vegas (UPD A 71-year-old retired hardware salesman from Portland today pocketed almost $20,000 for winning first place in the third annual International Gin Rummy Tournament. Harry Wilmarth's exact winnings were $19,542.91. He took the top prize by defeat ing the other finalist after two days of elimination play. In a 500-point game that lasted more than four hours, Wil marth beat D.C. Zee, Atlanta, Ga., 506-475 Thursday. Zee took home second place money amounting to $9,726.66 plus $90.91 from a player's pool. The other semi-f i n a 1 i s t s were Lorayne Lamas, Los An geles, and David Gertler, New Orleans, who was runner-up in 1957. They earned $4,029.66 each. 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