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Stars Flipping Flapjacks Said Taking Glamour Out Of Film Making Business By NATALIE WOOD Written for UPI Hollywood - (UPD - Keep the stars out of the kitchen. That's my motto. Not that film stars are necessarily flops in things culinary. Some of us whip up a pretty mean hamburger, but I think that pots and pans are ruining the business. Glamour in Hollywood is in danger of going the way of the horse - drawn carriage. It is going out of style, and if it does, so will the fancy profits to which movie-mak- Albino Bison Dies In Montana Portland Big Medicine is dead. The men of the U. S. fish and wildlife service of the department of interior and conservationists everywhere were saddened today by the news that one of the most famous of all albinos, .an American Bison known as Big Medicine, had died on the National Bison Range in Mon tant. Big Medicine was 26. A bit grey in latter years, Big Medicine in his youth was pure white except for the wooly knob between his horns, which was the normal buffalo dark brown. He was the only white buffalo on the National Bison Range, offic ials of the bureau of sport fisheries and wildlife said. There appears to be an albino strain in the range's herd, however, since albino calves have been born in a herd at Big Delta, Alaska, formed from stock shipped from the Montana range in the 'twenties. A second al bino born on the Montana range was sent to the Wash ington, D. C, zoo in 1937 but this one died several years ago. Since the National Bison Range was founded near Moiese, Mont., 51 years ago the buffalo herd has been built up to a normal 350 to 400. It is thinned each Oc tober to keep it from over grazing the range. Arrangements are being made to mount Big Medicine for display in the museum of the Montana Historical So ciety at Helena, Mont. ers have been accustomed. It is hard to open a fan magazine without seeing some box office star flipping a flapjack, mowing a lawn or doing-it-himself in some other field of domestic endeavor. Cooking for Husband Sure, stars flip flapjacks and all the other homey things. I do it myself. But when I do it, it is for my husband's stomach and not for the benefit of some photographer. Here is the simple fact The public pays to see things it can't see at home. The fact that I slave over a hot stove may inspire sympathy, but it isn't about to inspire the sale of many tickets. Glamour has long been a Hollywood staple, and that is something too many people in the film colony have forgot ten. The heyday of the film in dustry was also the day of its peak glamour appeal. Stars like Theda Bar a, Gloria Swansbn, and later Jean Har lowe Rita Hayworth and Joan Crawford never made a point of their flapjack flip ping abilities. Glamour Pays Off They put the emphasis on glamour and the result was a steady ring of cash registers at the box office. Why are people more interested in film stars than in the girl next door. Because the girl next door leads basically the same type of life as they (please don't take that too literally). A few decades back, the big rush to the boxoffice was for the gals who made a habit of lying about on tiger and leopard skins. I'm not arguing for renewal of this filmland fad. I'm sim ply pointing out the public expects its stars to be a little inaccessible, sometimes slight ly eccentric, different and ex citing ... in short, glamor ous. Italian Urns Given To Stanford Stanford, Calif. (UPD Two ancient ceramic urns discov ered in a sunken Roman gal leon off Viareggio, Italy, have been given to the Stanford University museum. The urns were donated by Stanley Slotkin, San Fran cisco businessman who fi nanced the 1956 diving expe dition that recovered the arti facts. The gray earthenware with reddish-brown colors were used for carrying both liquids and grains. They were strung along the sides of galleys as an additional bulwark against arrows and spears. Salem (UPD E. B. Lemon, Corvallis, retired dean of ad ministration at Oregon State College, , has been chosen chairman of the new State Scholarship Commission at an organizational meeting here. Killing Wasps Tricky Business Washington, (Science Serv-ice)-Destroying wasp nests in the back yard is a precise and exacting task, the Department of Agriculture reports. You should wait until an hour after full darkness, creep up on the nest by flashlight and then thoroughly dust or spray the nest with a solution of DDT )T chlordane. The darkness will not nec essarily protect the sprayer but it will insure that all the wasps are home and bedded down for the night. A comb-like nest may be treated by covering the open cells with a dust containing five percent chlordane or five to 10 per cent DDT, the USDA says. To kill hornets or yellow jackets in their paper-like globular nests, you must spray a water emulsion of two per cent chlordane or five per cent DDT into the one opening in the nest. A few precutionary meas ures: put your flashlight on the ground because the wasps will come out and follow the beam of light; wear dark clothes, and work fast. Single copies of "Wasps, How to Control Them" (Leaf let 365) are available free from the Office of Informa tion, U. S. Department of Agri culture, Washington 25, D.C Price 10 Cents " Medford 54th Year Tribune 3rd Section MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1959 Pages 1 - 8 r lPP ( I - Y o ; n ' ' - v O HARD BARGAIN Five days of hard bargaining brought House -Senate conferees to the now-or-never stage in their efforts to draft a compromise labor control bill which is now about nine-tenths complete. Shown as they prepared to resume deliberations are left to right: Rep. William H. Ayres IR-O.); Sen. John F. Kennedy iD-Massj, and Sen, Barry Gold water (R-Ariz.). Old Coal Mine Used To Grow Mushrooms Santa Fe, N.M. (UPD Luke Roy, 42, a former New York er, runs a mushroom farm 200 feet below the surface of the earth in an abandoned coal mine 20 miles south of Santa Fe. He has been at it four months and can't fill the or ders that come in at S3.50 a pound. Roy may have the best paying coal mine in the state. He had bought and cooked mushrooms for 20 years as a chef when he decided to raise them. His boss thought he was crazy. But he has been so success ful that one buyer has tried to contract for his entire crop- at a premium price. . Roy turned him down. "So I make real good for a year or two," he said. "Then what if they cancel on me? I'd a lot rather have 13 small ac counts than one big one." Roy thinks mushroom rais ing is easy in a mine like his, "I've got a beautiful strain of pink mushroom," he said. "They're much more succu lent than those pale white ones you get all the time." " CHINA LAOTIAN PROBLEM Top defease officials considered new moves to help the Lao tian government suppress Communist - led rebels, who are causing panic according to reports from Luang Pra bang, royal capital of Laos. Washington authorities rec ognize that the Communists of North Viet Nam have vi olated the 1954 Geneva agreement which ended the Indo-China War. .Viet Nam, Laos, and Cambodia made up what was Indo-China. Trusting Teachers Claimed Essential Cleveland, Ohio-UPD-Virgil M. Hancher, president of Iowa State University, be lieves . Americans must learn to trust teachers as they do doctors if they want U.S. schools to improve. Hancher told a recent con vention of the National Edu cation Association here that teachers belong to one of the great professions. But he add ed that their skills are woe fully misunderstood. "Not many parents would venture to tell a surgeon how Long Maris Birthday? Seeks Campaign funds New Orleans-(UPD-Gov. Earl K. Long celebrated his 64th birthday Wednesday with the hope that his presents would include "a - little campaign money." to perform an operation, or a dentist how to save a tooth," Hancher said. "Many parents find it diffi cult to cope with three or four children for a few hours a day. Yet they feel compe tent to tell a teacher how to handle 20 to 40 such children during school hours." Buttermilk Sniffer's Quality DAIRY FOODS About 1,000 Idled At Reynolds Plant Troutdale, Ore. -(UPD- About 1,000 men were idled at the Reynolds Metals Company aluminum plant here Wednes day because of a labor dis pute between the firm and the Steelworkers Union. A union spokesman said employees were dissatisfied with an increasing number of warning notices the company has issued in recent weeks. He charged the notices per tained to disciplinary matters and reflected a "general har rassment" of workers. There was no immediate comment from the company. Lee Caldwell, international representative of the union, said he was informed at 1 a.m. the men planned to strike to day. He said local union offi cials had just about convinced the men to go to work when the company manager decided to shut down the plant. Roseburg Adopts Three Ordinances Roseburg -(UPD Three emer gency ordinances have been adopted by the city council as an outgrowth of the Aug. 7 explosion and fire here. Councilmen approved a sug gested regulation of the Na tional Fire Protective associa tion affecting the ' storage, transportation and handling of explosive materials. They also re-established a No. 1 fire zone and amended the munic ipal building code. City Manager John War burton offered the newest Na tional Fire Protective associa tion booklet as a formula for an ordinance, which won quick approval under emer gency powers. The ordinance restricts storage of potential ly explosive materials in the city limits and defines meth ods of transporting them around populated areas. In establishing a new and wider fire zone No. 1 the council wrote into the build ing code more stringent con ditions for future construction. MOST OF THE SUITS ON Jp, I SALE AT II BARKERS J jfepk $34-99 I AND UP, k ,J? '-. " I Y ARE AS LOW Y jL AS $15.99! Jfljf Sw Main and Jr S y "N Central ILLINOIS VALLEY Visitors Are Listed By MARGARET CROWL ( Cave Junction Visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. , Earl Boyd this week were Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Voll mer of Hendersonville, N. C, and Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Voll mer from Glendale, Calif. During their visit here, a birthday party was held at the Earl Boyd's honoring Mrs. William A. Hoskins. Mrs. H. W. Vollmer is a sister of Edna Hoskins and Mrs. Earl Boyd, and 'daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Wilber. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Vollmer went to Portland to attend the Oregon Centennial. Before leaving for their home in Glendale, the H. W. Vollmers accompanied by Mrs. E. J. Wilber and Mrs. Earl Boyd, spent a day in Medford visiting Audrey Hill Dunlap and the Oral Tuckers. j Mr. and Mrs. Joe Reedy of Takilma have returned from an eightday vacation that took ihem up the coashigh way to Astoria, Portland, and to Pendleton. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mel low, of Cave Junction, joined friends at the beach in Cresc ent City over the week end where they attended the fair. Firemen were called at 7:30 p.m. Monday for a fire reported at the back of the Cabax mill at Kerby. It proved to be a false alarm. Johannesburg Has Smog Trouble, Too Johannesburg, South Africa -(UPD-Smog is even bedevil ling Johannesburg, which is generally considered to have one of the finest all-around climates in the world. To keep tabs on the situa tion, the South African Coun cil for Scientific and Indus trial Research is using a bar rage balloon that once played an important part in defend ing the Normandy invasion beaches against German air attack during World War II. The balloon takes regular air readings over Johannes burg and Pretoria. According to the research council, it found that 200 tons of sulphur dioxide, 30 tons of smoke and 20 tons of gasoline vapor pol lute the air over Johannes burg each day. The only real answer to the problem, according to Dr. E. C. Halliday, head of the coun cil's division of general phy sics, is carefully planned legis lation to cut down on the in dustrial and other sources of dirty air. Passenger Traffic Rise Noted by Airline Passenger and cargo traffic flown by United Air Lines into and out of Medford in the first six months of 1959 was the highest for any half-year period in company history, K. W. Cook, ground services manager, reported today. United boarded and deplan ed 22,471 passengers at Mu nicipal airport, an increase of 6 per cent over the same per iod last year, he said. Com bined air express and freight totaled 122,974 pounds, up 55 per cent from the first six months of 1958. Mail was off 9 per cent at 42,903' pounds. A swimming party and pot luck supper was held Aug. 23 at the William Burch home, south of' Cave Junction, for pupils of the first and second grades at Selma and their families. Mrs. Burch is the primary teacher at Selma grade school. Scout Troops 123 and 124 went on an over night trip to Hoover lake in Jackson county Friday, Aug. 21. There were 13boys and their two leaders, W. O. Burch and Walter Lamb. . Centennial Cuts Promotion Staff Portland - (UPD - The Ore gon Centennial Commission has voted to cut member ship of its promotion depart ment from 11 to 6 effective Sept. 1 to save money. Commissioner C. Howard Lane-voted against the" cut, saying." "' "What you have done is abolish the promotion depart ment." The move is expected to save about $2,000 in sal aries. The vote was 5-1. Lane argued that the de partment should be left intact during the final three weeks of the Exposition. Attendance Tuesday was 10,028, bringing the total so far to 1,040,979. Mexico To Unveil Symbol of Liberty Mexico City -(UPD- Mexico's 14,000-pound gold-plated sym bol of liberty, shattered last year during a violent earth quake, will be dedicated for a second time in September. Called the Angel of Inde pendence, the statue is a 26 foot winged figure holding a laurel wreath in one hand. To the Mexican, it is what the Statue of Liberty is to an American and the Arc de Tri omphe to a Frenchman. The Angel, first unveiled by President Porfirio Diaz in 1910, fell 120 feet from its platform atop a stone column during the earthquake of July 28, 1957. The government has spent one million pesos-about $80, 000 to repair the statue. One of Mexico's finest sculptors, Jose M. Fernandez Urbina, has devoted 10 months to making certain the figure will be identical to the one dedi cated 48 years ago. The rededication will be the highlight of Mexican In dependence Day ceremonies on Sept. 15. r Midget Prices TOM Thursday, Friday, Saturday Table Rock' Road at 4 Corners M In OPEN 8 a.m.-8:30 EVERY DAY We reserve the right to limit UMB WE GIVE S&H GREEN STAMPS RED SNAPPER FILLETS PORK SPARE RIBS .lb, OREGON SLICED BACON SWIFT'S PREMIUM FRANKS GOOD CHUCK STEAK 25' 35c 45 49 59 lb. Jb, WE GIVE S&H GREEN STAMPS 59 AjitUMissileMissile Test Ends in Failure Washington -UPD-The first effort to test an Army Nike zeus anti-missile missile end ed in failure Wednesday-when the missile blew up over White Sands, N.M. Portland (UPD A one-year contract has been signed by the International Chemical Workers Union with Bruno's Studios in four Oregon and Washington cities. You'll Like... 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