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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1981 ".is-: ;rv . t - vs U i ill ?; -i.v . - AVALANCHE A car, right foreground, lies beneath wrecKage of a building in Moulin Sous Fleron, Belgium, after a slag heap avalanche swept down on this mining village Friday. Six bodies already were recovered and at least eigth other persons were reported missing and pre sumed dead. (UPI Telephoto) Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF TF YOU'RE NOT convinced that this is an age of specializa l tion, consider the case of an airline that has trained an ordinary white chicken to sit on top of elephants in flight. That's right: I said ele- phants in flight. It was discovered that an ele phant tends to get a bit nervous aboard a moving plane, but that a chicken on its back, for some weird reason, appears to exert a soothing influ ence. The airline's chick en, trained for this pur pose, bears the appro priate name of "Elephant Girl." A detective in the South ern Pacific yard in Eureka, California, spotted a strange-looking cord dangling out of a freight car on a siding. He climbed into the car to investigate, and found a comfort-loving tramp peacefully asleep under an electric blanket! D 1961, by Bennett Cert. Distributed by King Features Syndicate In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The Salem Statesman re ports that the Elsinore Thea ter in its town "has been the focal point of a traffic jam this past week end that must rival the great days of movie attendance B.T. (before tele vision). The theater has been packed at every showing with customers lining up for blocks and in some cases waiting an hour or more to get in. Walt Disney's 'Swiss Family Robin son' is causing this sudden outpouring of movie fans." THAT'S good news. When the clean story of a clean hard-working family that is shipwrecked on a remote tropical island and by ingenu ity and hard work creates for itself a pleasant and reward ing way of life can line the customers up for blocks and interest them so deeply that they will wait for hours to get the Affiliation of PERL r- r unera I H ome CORNER SIXTH AND OAKDALE This is an important announcement, because mem bership in the Order is open only to funeral directors of high professional standing: it is a distinction shared by carefully selected funeral directors throughout the world. An application for membership cannot be passed upon by the Order itself; membership is granted only after the Order has made direct contact with those who are in the best possible position to know whether the applicant is worthy: families served, and the busi ness and professional men of the community in which the applicant lives. The Symbol which appears below is the identifying emblem of membership, and all users of this Symbol are pledged to give modern, comprehensive service, to advise wisely, and keep all charges moderate. The Order is happy to present and recommend, this firm to the people of this community and the sur rounding territory, and takes pride in making this pub lic announcement of the appointment into the theater, it's a sign that it doesn't take blood and thunder and off-color morals to attract paying audiences in these days. That's worth knowing. WllE Statesman adds: book only insofar as it jams the world's flora and fauna together on a South Seas is land to be put at the disposal of the Robinson family that is shipwrecked there. Disney tosses into the formula a ship load of throat-cutting pirates, a jungleful of adventure and a bundle of romance in a suc cessful attempt to prove that some things can be made TOO BIG tor a 21-inch picture iudo. OF SMITH & MEN Bv Jac k Smith (cl 1960 Times-Mirror Syndicate TN OTHER words. Disney set out to produce for the life size movie screen something that would be too big in sheer size to be copied by TV. That sounds like shrewd business. am me lnlercstine Doint that he chose for his king-size screen opus a clean, delight ful, family -life story whose moral, if any, is that hard work, buttressed by a good educational background, can be made to pay off in a big way. One can't help hoping that "Swiss Family Robinson" pays off at the box office in a big way. That would prove something that in this day and age needs to be proved. TJERE'S a quiz question: A See if you can answer it offhand, without looking it up in the book. Who wrote "Swiss Family Robinson?" T0 SAVE your time, here is the answer: "Swiss Family Robinson" was written, somewhat more than a century ago, by Johann Rudolf Wyss, a Swiss educator and author. It is probably the best of the many stories that were written along about that time in imitation of Daniel DeFoe's "Robinson Crusoe." Wyss heard the story of the Swiss family named Robinson from his father and wrote it into a book at a considerably later time. TOHANN Rudolf Wyss was " born at Bern, in Switzer land, in 1743, and became a professor of philosophy at the university there. His works, incidentally, in clude the Swiss national an them: "Rufst du, mein Valer land?" (Are You Calling, My Fatherland?) New York - IUP1I - Stewart Johnson. 42, New Yorker mag azine editor, died Saturday at Presbyterian Hospital. 4sa tef "n not s i J?Y COLO REGISTRAR C4n3nlerimiwiutlCnjjdimim of DtpmaMkUiwenufDutdorJ 1 I IS 10' 1:1 My friend Al, the deep thinker, phoned again the other day and asked me to meet him at the Chinese res taurant for Rinch. This always means he's made a new intellectual break through. Al's hobby is pure thought. He doesn't fool with ideas unless they are related to the destiny of the entire human race. It was Al who first got me to worrying about the popula tion explosion. He figures there will be six billion peo ple on the planet by AD 2000. He says the race will have to evolve in reverse and sink back in the sea. Al is also responsible for the theory that there is al ready a highly developed clan of beings on the moon, but they are hiding from us by living on the dark side, biding their time. "What is it this time. Al?" I asked when the waiter had padded away with our orders. Al insists on meeting me in the Chinese restaurant when he has a new theory. He thinks the waiters can't understand English. "Listen," he said. He leaned over close to me so nobody could overhear in the next booth. "You ever worry about peace?" "Worry?" I said. "Well, I think about peace, all right. But I guess I worry more about war." "That's the whole trouble," Al said. "Everybody worries about war. That's foolish. There isn't going to be any war. And if we don't have war, what do we have? Peace!" "So what's wrong with that?" I asked. 'What's wrong with it!" Al said. "It's impossible! The hu man race doesn't understand peace. It hasn't had enough practice with it. We'd do everything wrong." Why, peace ought to be a snap," I said. "You just live it. If there wasn't any war, life would be like a walk through Disneyland. "Don't kid yourself," Al said. "We'd have chaos. What'd we do with all the peo ple in the military forces and defense work? What would happen to all that energy?" "Why, I suppose it could be channeled into more construc tive activities," I said. "Little theater groups. Cave explora tion. Mushroom cultivation. All sorts of healthful outlets." Maybe so," Al said. "But how would we settle interna tional disputes without any armed forces?" at about the UN"" ' asked. :i't be naive," Ai spi: . "Law doesn't mean a thing without armed force to back it up. And if everybody has armed forces you know what it means? War." "But you said war is im possible now," I reminded him. "It is! That's the whole point. Don't you get it? The nuclear age has made war impossible. That makes peace inevitable. But peace is im possible." 1 "We do seem to be in a dilemma," I admitted. "How will it all end, Al?" He blew into his teacup, steaming his glasses, and thought a moment. "We have to think up a new dimension for the human race to live in," he said. "On earth?" I asked. "Maybe so," he said doubt fully. "M a y b e somewhere else. History is a crazy road map, see? Somewhere back there we took the wrong turn. Survival was down the other road." "You think we can go back, Al?" "I don't know yet, Jack," he said. "I'm working on it. You want some more egg foo yong?" Duncan Chilly On Stamp Bill Salem-iWll - House Speaker Robert Duncan (Medford) said today someone would have to show him evidence of abuses before he could support a bill to regulate trading stamps in Oregon. Such a bill, sponsored by the Oregon Business Council, is due to be introduced this week or the first part of next. "I have never been enthusi astic about trading stamps," he said. "But 1 would have to be convinced there are abuses before I would support regulation." A spokesman for the Ore gon Independent Retail Groc ers association indicated his group might push to put more teeth into the proposed bill. 11. G. Carlson of Portland, association secretary, said he would like to see another fca hire added taxation of stamp companies by the state. Among other things ihe Oregon bill would make stamps redeemable in cash or merchandise, and stamp com panics would be required to do away with their exclusive franchise system. STEAL RED LIGHT Omro, Wis. - (UPD Thieves stole a revolving red light Sunday from atop Police Chief Richard Dehn's car in front of the Omro Youth Center. Powder Puff Derby Route Announced San Diego -IUPU The route for the 1961 all-women Trans continental Powder Puff Der by air race was announced to day. Mrs. Betty Willes, Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., race board chairman, said the starting point will be San Diego and the finishing point Atlantic City, N.J. It will be held July 8-12. 5 Eisenhowers Leave For California Harrisburg, Pa. -IUPD- For mer President Dwight D. Ei senhower and Mrs. Eisenhow er left here today on a trans continental train trip for a two-month vacation in Cali fornia. The Eisenhowers will stay at the El Dorado Country club at Palm Springs. LOAN for Mortgage Looking for money to borrow? Commonwealth offer mortgage loans on homes, commercial and industrial property, apartments and projects for senior citizens. Wc represent 17 life insurance companies, eastern sav ings banks and pension funds. We have the money, terms and rates to meet your requirements. Quick, efficient, courteous service. Contact our nearest office; Commonwealth, Inc. 200 EquiUbl Building, 421 S. W. 6th Av., Irtlnrf 198 Liberty Strttt, S. E., Salm 1218 Villa Avtnut, Boist, IcUh Painting, Ceramics Courses Available The Medford Recreation de partment is now offering courses in painting and ceram ics. The class instructor is Ed Logan, and the classes will be held in the Medford YMCA arts and crafts room. The painting class includes instruction in water colors, oils, casiens, tempera, gou ache, basic composition and picture framing. It will be offered on Wednesdays from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. and on Sat urdays from 9 a.m. to noon, and from 1 to 3 p.m. The class in ceramics will include instruction in the vari ous methods and procedures of pottery making. The class will be offered on Mondays from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. and on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon, and 1 to 3 p.m. Additional information may be obtained by contacting the recreation department in the Medford city hall. FOR TASTIER CANDY London -IW'II- The Union of Retail Confectioners appealed to the government Sunday to permit candy stores to sell liqueur-flavored chocolates. A spokesman for the group naid "t h e alcoholic content of liquercd chocolates is never above 6 per cent, so there is hardly any danger of encour aging drunken orgies." gf Wj$ SPECIAL ON RUGS! SAVE 5c A LB. NOW Shag Rugs up to 50 lbs. and up to 9x12 Size we will clean for only . . , WASHED, DRYED AND FOLDED lb. We Will Pick Up and Deliver No Wool Please, Reg. 15c lb. LAUNDERETTE 327 No. Fir St? Medford, Oregon Phone SP 2-2565 We Reserve the Right to Limit Quantities. 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