Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, February 03, 1961, Image 5

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Newspaper Page TextIn the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS By a vote of 217 to 212, the . house ol representatives of the new congress backs Speak er Rayburn's move to upset . the conservative majority in the important and powerful house rules committee, which has wide powers in deciding v. what bills shall come before ... the house for a final vote. It is a victory for President Kennedy's "liberal" program, but it is a narrow one. Twenty-two liberal Republicans . joined 195 liberal Democrats - for a liberal total of ?17. Sixty four conservative Democrats joined 148 conservative Re publicans for a conservative total of 212. On the basis of this vote, which follows a bit ter battle, the membership of the house of representatives in the new congress tint has just convened will be divided as follows: Liberals M7 Conservatives 212 w HICH is to ssy: , A change of only thee votes from the liberal side to the conservative side can up set the liberal majority. That's a narrow margin. 'T'HE San Francisco fire de- partment has a new gadget. It is a king-size alarm, built right into the fire alarm boxes on the streets. When the lever is pulled to sound an alarm of fire, it lets go with a clang that can be heard for blocks. So If it's a false alarm artist who pulls the lever, he is left there in FULL SIGHT OF EVERYBODY. If he pulls the lever and runs, everybody can see him running. The idea is to make it easier to catch and punish those who turn in false alarms. fFHERE have been other schemes to accomplish the same purpose. One gadget was a set of handcuffs concealed in the alarm box. When the lever was pulled to sound an alarm, a door opened and the hand cuffs reached out automatical ly and clamped around the wrists of the sounder of the . alarm. It wasn't very popular, because it worked alike on the just and the unjust. The just, who were doing their civic duty by pulling the fire alarm lever when they saw a fire were considerably annoyed when they found themselves 'Chained to the post. Another scheme for catch ing givers of false alarms was a device that smeared the hands of the lever pullers . with tan invisible dye that could be seen only under ul tra violet light. That also ap- plied both to the just and the unjust. Besides, it developed, the in spectors never could find the people with the invisible dye on their hands. f HE new device is a great 1 improvement. When the honest citizen sees a fire and pulls the lever on the alarm box, all he has to do is stand there and wait, secure In the strength of his position. The " fire will be his proof that he is an honest citizen, intent up on performing his civic duty. If the false alarm artist who pulls the lever RUNS he will be chased. If he stands pat, he will be in a bad fix. , Now if we could only find a way to tag the weird char acter who turn in false bomb . alarms, we would be making real progress. ' MEMORY LIVES ON . Norflok, Va. -(UPII- The 111-year-old "Gaiete" burlesque house, known to generations of American sailors at this key navy port will be torn down soon, but its memory will live on in an unexpected way. Owner Frasvkie Blue sold the burlesque house seats te a buyer for $1 eaeta. The seats will We tusteHeJ m feu small 3- .: tXigf ! -t O O 4 TheyH Do It Every Agenda drove sixteen shoe clerks wackv, looking for a FAIR OF SHOES TO MATCH HER, A PARTY DRESS Of United Grocers Held in Portland A report on the United Grocers branch warehouse at Medford was given at the an nual meeting held this week in Portland. Harry Thye, general man ager, told over 300 members, at the meeting that United Grocers had just closed the largest year in its 46-year history. The Medford branch warehouse, which serves southern Oregon and northern California, employs 60 per sons and covers 60,000 square feet. Thye said 39 stores have been up-graded during 1960 and several others are under going improvement. To help finance the ventures, appli cation has been filed for oper ation of a United Supermar ket Investment company. Such a company would make long term financing available for independent retailers in the area served by United. The manager said United Grocers "is dedicated to the strengthening of the indepen dent and locally owned chain stores in an economy that elsewhere in the country is concentrating more and more in the hands of large national chains." At the Portland meeting the board of directors elected Les DeJardin, West Linn, to the office of president for 1961: Odus Bales, St. Johns, vice president and two direc tors. Medford YMCA Gets Eligibility Award A tribute to the work of the Medford Young Men's Chris tian association developed this week through the award of the 1961-1962-1963 Eligibility Cer tificate granted by the Nation al Council of YMCAs through the National Physical Educa tion committee. The certificate Is recogni tion of the Medford YMCA's policies, plans, and organiza tion in physical education and acknowledgment of its accom plishment in this field. Only those YMCAs holding eligibility certificates are per mitted under the principles and rules of the National Council of the YMCA to par ticipate in certain types of inter-association athletic com petition. However the certificate is an honor award, showing that the YMCA adheres to speci fied high purposes and ideals, and follows standards of per formance and accomplishment in keeping with the YMCA's objectives. ...but soviet to our jellownStn. 9 AcrMl Iron iH. Cowrlfcoui. BANK MOHOAN - HAHOIO SNODO.ASS, FUHHAl OKICTOM DAV OR NIGHT PHONE SP 2-5030 Ask Us About the OREGON FUNERAL INSURANCE PLAN Which We Heartily Recommend and Endorse MEDFOHD Time -.-. .be happens (f l a puce and a T I VIOLET-SEE 1 THE DANCE? THEV Jl V&StT I I imUBDI,ss" GET KICKED IN A 1 SArpeiftt0 CORNER SO ASGV IfOTfl wSuatk to CAN ROCK N ROLL IJlMa A LIGHT BLUE IN HER STOCKING dSaSPjWSfl&fl K AT THE TOE. FEET' 2015151 Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Recife, Brazill Cecil Robert Harberson, 36, of Lincoln, Neb., a passenger on the Santa Maria, recalling his feelings when he first saw a U.S. naval plane fly over the runaway ship: "I will never again object to paying income taxes." New York Malcolm Dooley, brother of the late Dr. Tom Dooley, stating his determination to continue the work of MEDICO sending medical aid and assistance to medically backward countries: "My brother wouldn't want to be memorialized. MEDICO is his living legacy, not a memorial to a life that is finished." New York Frederick Schuster, chairman of Automatic Canteen Co., predicting that vending machines will be used some day to seal mutual fund shares: "Lots of people are afraid of high pressure mutual fund salesmen and would prefer to deal with the impersonal machine." London Minister of War John Profumo, admitting to the House of Commons that there are some loopholes in the law prohibiting soldiers from selling arms and ammunition to get spare cash. "A chap could flog (sell) a tank if he wanted to and you couldn't bring a charge against him under the existing conditions." . Time Marches on ! But Cattails Endure Probably the cattail is as much a part of the rural youngster's childhood as any plant that grows. It was the first plant they could easily identify, and whose habits and simple beauty were evident in every marshy place. The home of the cattail is different from that of dry land flowers; its aquatic existence is not as well known. The farmer may know his land like the palm of his hand. But if there is a marshy area, then there are strangers in his midst. Here in the waters of the swamp are plants and animals as different from the rest of his holdings as day is from night. The waters may teem with fish, bugs, frogs, sala manders, newts and water plants, all mixed in a glorious hodgepodge. There they live, there they mate, eat, and die in unnoticed silence. Noisemakers The farmer knows the frogs, the noisemakers of the marshy places. He knows the tall green leaves, and brown candle-like fruit of the cat tails. He may have watched them, nodding stiffly in the breeze. He may have ob served how the leaves wrap around one another, below and above the root and sepa rate above; the leaves being longer than the round, smooth stem that holds the cattails Early in the spring the is 5r cr 0 MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD. ORE. By Jimmy Hatlo Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkins . (Bcglstar and Tribune Syndicate, 1961) leaves begin to sprout among the old dead leaves of last year. In September when most other plants have bloomed and gone, the big brown cat tails wave and bow. Later they swell and burst like slen der ears of corn, and the seeds are wind-borne to other marshy places. Falls By Own Weight The flowers are simple, be ing composed of seed produc ing parts; a light colored part supplies the pollen which falls by its own weight onto the spike and pollinates it. The cattail does not have to de pend on birds or other agen cies: it takes advantage of gravity. Nature varies habits and characteristics so completely that even the life stories of two plants are as different as the names they bear, or the environment in which they live. The arrangement the cat tail uses for the pollination of its seed is different from that of any other plant. More Than One Kind There are, of course, more than one kind of cattail. One variety has its flower stalk divided by a little bare space It looks as if two "tails were growing on one stem. Two im portant varieties of cattail are called the ' common and the "narrow-leaved." Time has marched relent lessly onward. Things have changed a great deal, but the cattail, the dweller of the wet places, still stands stiffly alongside many country roads; even by the side of paved highways where cars stab the night with glaring headliohts never noticing the cattails st-aaaUasg there, still maintaaa ing tkair eeaecaess vigil. 5 fjfexnaoad- ee4anr loi fWa. S 9 VijHk, pexfbct jJ:'eV jfft cer- taimafcti MiMkd ey local MNeciKeaM v.e be auctioned it ; event. Prwcais will he donated to the Sacred Heart hospital building fund. Telcpone do nations will be accepted dur ing the auction and at least eight circuits will be set up to accept telephone bids. Pre bidding on items may be done on any item prior to auction time. In addition to small mer chandise and gift certificates, vacation trips, furniture itd appliances will be offered. Auctioneers will be Man ville Heiscl, Walsh and TV tation personnel. Multi-Purpose Building Planned for New Federal Structure, Speaker Says Construction of a new fed eral building in Medford is "now more certain," accord ing to a report made to0the board o the Medford Cham ber of Commerce Thursday. Medford Ristmaster Moore Hamilton told the directors that the general services ad ministration is now certain that the propose property be tween South Central and South Rivers. aves. soul of 10th st. ie its ' as." loca tion. Hamilk. afcetlete?' t'aafi there w a rumor ttaot WniUcrs a! a preneseel nic4sl are fa. nk he secure tke aurw site, htrt ke stud tkat in his imi tW?re k exuh recwa for koth foireraJ building anil aaotel in the aoacral location. KMM-Pwpess 9cniiiinu Tke astnaser rcvorhdl Wiot the new federal building is ln-eseirtly wtennefi ob a mul-ti- purpose structure, with the st effice the first floor anil offices oh the second. Plans alse call for renovation of the present post office, with only a small service office of the post office remaining with other offices on the first floor. The federal court would re main on the second floor. The board approved unani mously a recommendation from the legislative commit NEW 2 () Jl)uftfscmj AUTOMATIC DRYER ONLY $17995 SKI IM ot tudwutks Q ind C bj Whiilpool oiMlio. minulattmer ol RCA WHIRLPOOL pplrincei. luthotiMd lv RfOtUi ycva,l0n ofcneecie Your Old Washer Will Appliance Parts & Service For RCA Whirlpool, Hotpoint, Kelvinator, Maytag and All Makes of Television JOHNSTON STORE 112 South Riverside tee that the chamber oppose the transfer of Oregon parks from the state highway de partment to a proposed new state department of natural resources. Clarence Young, committee chairman, gavels reasons for the opposition the fact that Oregon has one of the finest and most efficient park sys tems it) t'a country, with fiee; eetivaMS fneaa ties high way ieara-ti 'ea.ir). The oaa,'.tk. n;ai also 'mi o the prw?'j'aJ ieaeiiitjae of 1 hot? fj:rorR!-t tVarta.l which TfW Trtrijrw.i'a? c rovitioa fcv ttw fcacooW tua. Vieinio - HI - Thin Czechs vaaaly tried seiaff a plane at gunpvint te escape to the Vest, the Awri.- Xa- tional Press Agency rcpoctoa; Thursday! The agency, quot ing travelers from Chechoslo vakia, said the plane's pilot looped Vhe craft, throwing Hie men off balance, iwid then overpowered them with tile aid of other crewmen and pas sengers. PLEASE GROWL Dallas, Tex. - IUPB - A sign on the door of an East Dallas animal hospital says: "If after hours - please growl." - CYCLE $5 Down No more stooping, stretching to hang clothes on the line! No more drip drying in your basement or bathroom! Far less iron ing, too! 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VITA-HEALTH 11 VITAMINS 11 AI1NERALS Regular $1.79 Kfl'c 25 Day 89c ww a su ppiy- Rreular $3.89 130's r $1.95 Regular $6.89 OCfi'e 130 Day CU S Supply.... $3.45 Taxable Merchandise 37C WrHWn ffiriftiHimin-ri i Package of 50 RQp Cards & Envelopes " 36 vn!...:..... 25c n COlVoil" i t i m a si A mr-u so A 5 Chefline Jumbo Pack 25c 2 22 Count - 29c professional haircuts at home! S pc. Fostoria FAMILY BARBER HERE'S WHAT YOU GET. powerful electric clipper with professional type clipper blades barber shears barber comb tapering attachment Instruction booklet Remember with FEBRUARY T 14th GIVE THE FAMOUS $2.25 and $4.50 BROWN 4 HALEY AND OTHER HEART BOXES Selected Chocolates 65c to $5.00 TUSSY LIPSTACK 5 Luscious Lipstick Cfl 7 Colors Vlsl J SHADQ-RAfilA 6 Hue Eye-Cue fl1 7R Color Accent V v COSMETIC BAGS eulllul Prinl. All with Zlpp.rl Altort.d Colon A . Poll.rni 6'," X 4" SPECIAL 494 Free Delivery in Medford r 9m ffTTPP ..... DIAL "t-STITI -