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00 GD0R 0 o G3 o O O (I'D '" 0 O U O . (7) ( ) o Dick West Finds Bricklaying Contest Less Than Thrilling hi By DICK WEST Washington-ilTO-For action-1 packed thrills that makes the spine tingle and bring a cheer r"n-i.- to the throat, I wouldn't six-day brick laying contest. Such an event is going on here at the AFL-CIO un ion industries show, and okk west 1 n 1 n K 1 n 2 I might be stirred by the clas sic struggle of man against mortar, I went out to watch the first heat. Possibly a real dried-in-the-kiln fan of brick masonry could have found something to shout "ole!" about, but I doubt it. Any excitement that a bricklaying contest gener ates is pretty well confined to the bricklayers. As a specta tor sport, it ranks somewhere between quilting bees and hourglass watching. Many Watch Contest Nevertheless, a goodly crowd was on hand for the start of the contest, which is being sponsored by the Brick layers Union as a means of selecting the 1960 "apprentice of the year." At some other exhibits in the show, union-made articles were being given away to spectators and I suspect this partly accounted for the turn out at the bricklaying con test. As I was being elbowed aside by a couple of women carrying shopping bags, I heard one of them ask: "What do they give you here, a brick wall?" I don't know how those la-diwork to correct some mis- i 81 ?' -P .1 ' if dies figured on getting brick walls into their shopping bags but I expect they would have managed it somehow. More than 40 apprentice! country arc competing for 1300 in prize money and vari ous other emoluments that accrue to contest winners. Twice daily, six of them take positions at a brick pile and, at a signal from the judges, begin erecting things as called for in the contest blueprints. This goes on for six days. Has "Early Foot" I don't know a thing about handicaping bricklayers, but if there had been a book maker handy I would have put my money on No. 6, a tall, dark-haired young man from New Haven, Conn. As the racing writers say, he had good "early foot." While the other contestants were taking preliminary measurements and drawing lines on the floor, No. 6 sim ply slapped down some mor tar and began laying on the bricks. He was well ahead of the field when I returned from the scene to inspect some of the other exhibits. When I returned, drops of perspiration were cascading off No. 6's nose and he was tearing down part of his han- take he had made. The first heat still had two hours to go and I didn't wait to see how it turned out. As Have suggested, a little bvicklayiitg goes a lung way, particularly when it develops into a hare-and-tortoise race. Statm Samking Two Prison Pward The Oregon state civil serv ice commission has announced recruitment for two prison stewards. Vacancies now ex ist at the state penitentiary and at the correctional insti tution, Salem. Applications may be ob tained at any field office of Uie ueptu tnieltt uf cuipioy-j ment or at the civil service commission in Salem or Portland. Try and Stop Me : By BENNETT CERF BEEFEATER BEEFEATER T the imported English Gin that doubles your martini pleasure Unequalled since 1820 BEEFEATER GIN S4 PROOF . 100 GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS KOBRANO CORPORATION . NEW YORK 1, N. Y. Urology Institute Set May 18 at RC Building Here An institute on urology will be held in Mcdford Wednes day. May 18, at the Red Cross building. 60 Hawthorne ave., sponsored by the general duty nurses of the Oregon Nurses association, District 4. Four physicians will serve on a panel and discuss the medical, surgical and nursing care of the urologic patient. A registered nurse will serve as moderator. Panel members and their tooics will include Dr. Laurel G. Case, urology in general practice and obstetrics; Dr. William J. Miller, urologic problems in pediatrics; Dr. Florain J. Shasky, urosurgery, and Dr. Martin L. Vorheis, the role of the internist in man agement of the pre-and post operative urosurgicai patient. Mrs. Jane Anders, RN, will speak on nursing care of the urology patient. All nurses, practical nurses, nurses aides, office assistants and anyone working in the medical fields are invited to attend. The institute will be held from 7 to 10 p.m. A fee will be charged for non-association members. Chairman of the event is Miss Loretto Costello assisted by Mrs. Joan Jensen, Ashland, and Mrs. Christine Bates. TVTEAR THE BROOKLYN Navy Yard, a young tailor i ' spotted a pair of lovely chicks and happily began fol lowing them. They ignored him completely for four block. Then one wheeled about sharnlv and instructed. "Listen, sonny boy. Either stop following us or get another sailor!" "What does that 'O' on your sweater stand for?" inquired a wide-eyed young thing. The great big he nsan explained, "That's the letter I won for football at Northwestern." "But North western begins with 'NT aha protested. "Naturally," agreed the he-man, "but I played on the second team." m A famous professional gambler gave his son, Jtmt out of ert lege, two pieces of invaluable advice: 1: Never bet on anything that can talk; 2. Don't gamble with people who have bo visible means of support. O I960, by Bennett Cert Distributed by Klnt Feature! Syndicate Washington Report By WILLIAM S. WHITE Smith Says GOP Must Sell Party Bend OJPD Former Gov. Elmo Smith, a candidate for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senator, told Deschutes county Republican workers Monday night that positive selling pan elrt Rpniiblirans this fall. "If we nominate people who can tell the Republican story we're going to elect a lot of candidates this fall," he said. "The time has come for us to quit simply criticizing the Democrats and instead tell the people what is right with the Republican party. We have more to offer many registered Democrats than the Demo cratic candidates themselves," he said. Smith predicted that Repub lican voters this fall will se lect candiates who represent the broad base of public inter ests rather than being tied to any special interests for Re publicans at the expense of other Americans. He said the I960 election will be won at the precinct level. Two-Parts Perfect Whooping Cranes Head for Canada Washington-!tPI-The Inter ior Department said today all but two of the world's last flock of whooping cranes ap parently have left their win ter range in the Aransas wild life refuge in Texas for their summer nesting grounds in northern Canada. The flock numbers cranes. PEDIATRIC! DISS New York-itPll-Dr. Howard H. Mason, 81, a pediatrician and former clinical professor at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, died Sunday. A department spokesman said an aerial survey May 6 of the "whooper route" at Aransas and nearby Mata gordo island showed 13 cf in I the big birds still in winter I quarters. Sunday there were S3 ! only seven in view. Early I Monday tlirre were only two. A fiEV5 1 Stitch In Time Shawn Caperna led the pledge of allegiance to the flag at the recent meeting of the Stitch in Time 4-H club. Margaret Carnegie led the -l-II piedge. The ?rntip talked shout go ing to the old people's home. They started aprons for a club project. They talked about the MAIL TRUUNI, MnKerA 0r. Tenalay, My It, ! charter and secretary books of last year. Club members practiced good posture on sitting, stand ing and walking. They plan to finish their aprons meeting which will be at Marlene Nnugtiier'?, Shawn Caperna, Reporter next held About one-half the people of Formosa are farmers. Buenos Aires has five subways. 1? j t Wt ..W: -V put th ey on " imal TIDES OF CHANGE Washington-There is grave new from across the Atlantic. It suggests how deeply the tides of change are sweeping across the old British Empire. It is seri ously recom mended that the British their mon- on the dec- system similar to what we have in this coun- tru T1dii William S. , j. wuite where a dime is the tenth part of a dollar, everythings is mathematically reasonable. But in England there is an insipred madness in coinage which had been the despair, if not the envy, of all the world. There is a guinea. This is a pound plus one shilling. A pound is 20 shillings, which in U.S. money comes to $2.80. There is a one-shilling coin called a bob. There is a tan ner, which is a six-pence. There is a half-crown, which is two shillings plus six-pence. (There is, naturally, no full crown). There is a thruppeny bit, which is three pence. There is a hapenny (half-penny). And then there is a far thing. When you don't give a farthing for something, you really don't care much. For farthing penny. is one-quarter of SPEAKING FOR MODERN OIL HEAT. "We Know Oil Heat's the Cleanest, Safest Heat" 5k 5r XM1 "Safety and cleanliness are very important to baby and me. We both sleep soundly and comfortably while the depend able oil furnace keeps the bedroom temperature just right. We like the clean, fresh-air comfort of gently circulating air . . . no drafts or stuffy corners in our house. It's a good, secure feeling to have a modern oil furnace working for us downstairs." . In MEDFORD, the fiiitt homes us modern oil heat . . . e for safety e fordnDendability for economy for comfort rHlAT all this might at this late date be changed into a system readily sensible to a foreigner is surely a hideous prospect. Any man who has spent years In learning to break the ancient code is bound to feel defrauded If his hard-won skill is now to be made no longer relevant It would be as though all the endless generations of Lat in students had awakened to hear that Latin was about to be abolished, down to and in cluding the Latin of Caesar's Gallic wars. , Hundeds of thousands of Americans, generations of Americans, have put vast ef fort into threading the mystic mazes of that extra-ordinary thing called "British money When a fellow has finally grasped, in toil and sweat, how to avoid either under tipping or over-tipping (and in England over-tipping is much the worse crime of the two), it seems a hard thing to have his expertise sudden ly made obsolete. INDEED, if the British are ffnlntr tn Hn thi in uc mone tary experts from afar, they are going to give us, intel lectually, a bloody nose. They are going to put us on sticky wicket. Visits to England will be, hereafter, simply too tickety-boo for words; no challenge will be left. It well may be that the British will draw back from this still quite unbelievable reform. Though the reformers have massive forces the as sociation for the advancement of science all is not yet lost. This correspondent is told by British friends here who are authorltiative sources and informed circles that it is too early to let fear have the field. Changing the British coinage has been "up for dis cussion" these past 50 years. Nevertheless, they do warn "But the movement is devel oping a bit more force all the time. A LREADY the British have made many concessions to their allies. They allow the U.S. to take the lead in for eign policy except when Prime Minister Harold Mac millan feels he really must take it himself. They have accepted American dominance in other transitory things, like nuclear policy and world trade. But they have not, thus far, surrendered what has really counted - such as their determination to drive on the left-hand side of the road; their resolve to call all for eign places by good, sound English names, no matter If him For town or country, sew this easy - to - make dress 'n' bolero that travels the sea sons smartly. Note cool neck line, diagonal bodice button ing and easy skirt. Printed Pattern 9102: Misses Sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20; 40, 42, 44, 46, 48. Size 1A dress and bolero requires 4s yards 39-inch. Send FIFTY CENTS (coins) for this pattern-add 10 cents for each pattern for first-class mailing. Send to Marian Mar tin, Medford Mail Tribune, Pattern Dept., 232 West 18th St., New York 11, N.Y. Print plainly NAME, ADDRESS with SIZE and STYLE NUM BER. JUST OUT! Big, new 1960 Spring and Summer Pattern Catalog in vivid, full-color. Over 100 smart styles ... all sizes ... all occasions. Send now! Only 25 cents. MODERATOR DIES Princeton, N.J. - IUPH - Dr. Charles R. 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