MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1981
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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