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1 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON THURSDAY. JULY 26, 1962 Theyll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo IJi5 CUSTOMER SLUMPS Down "" BELOW SEA LEVEL I ime barber was to pump up "WE CUAIH-. c King fniiitM Summit It 1W r'i(r.ii -Mtr,( "Then, and not - till then, slumpei5 STCAloUTTENS UP bOITi UP AND DOWN ALL HAIRCUT-' A, no IWwOAUlTLOUATTlP i .1511 S. So, (l4, TACOMA 9,VVASU. Colorful History Possessed By Cards New York UPD The next time your partner trumps jour ace in a bridge game, count to 10 and then let off f team by reflecting on t h e colorful history of the playing card. Consider, for example, that playing cards has been enliv ening or depressing, but al ways entertaining mankind for more than 600 years and how many aces have.been trumped, or similar booboos perpetrated in that time and your own plight may seem less bleak. As far back as the thir teenth or fourteenth century, traders from the East brought with them spices, fine cloth, gold, ivory and playing cards. And the cards had much of the elements of to day's. The expensive, rare and richly worked ancient decks were called "Tarocchi" and found mainly in medieval It aly. They consisted of a trump suit of 22 "Atouts" in addi tion to four 14-card suits. The Atouts represented the most important forces affect ing mankind, such as religion, lightning, disease, war and death. The common suits were basically the four suits of the decks we have now. They rep resented nobility, clergy, tradesmen and peasants to day's spades, hearts, diamonds and clubs, respectively. Face cards were essentially the same except that Knaves were called Cavaliers. Cards originally were made by hand of costly materials, including ivory, metal, silk and wood. Many were gold encrusted. Gutenberg, father of printing, brought his dis covery to cards and fine qual ity low cost cards began to receive wide popularity. The five standard decks of European playing cards have survived, at least in the num bers of cards in each, since the Middle Ages. Besides the Tarocchi deck, there are the Italian decks of 40 cards, the Spanish deck of 48 cards, the German deck of 32 cards and the most widely used French and English-American of 52 cards. However, playing card de signs have changed to reflect history. Rulers and soldiers were exalted on card faces during certain periods of war and empire while enemies were subject to ugly carica tures. Much of playing cards' pop ularity throughout the years has resulted from their adapt ability to many games. Such odd sounding and unusual games as Bezique, Zioncheck, Darada, Wipe-off and the Earl of Coventry hae found follow ers at one time or another. Among the 120 million Americans who play cards to day, Contract Bridge and Ca nasta are played the most. Pinochle, poker, solitaire, rummy, 500, Auction Bridge, Wagon, Pickup Crash on Highway A station wagon owned by Jackson county and a pickup truck owned by the Eagle Point irrigation district col lided on the Butte Falls high way, two miles east of Crater Lake highway, Tuesday, ac cording to state police. County Engineer Robert Carstensen Wednesday esti mated the damage to the coun ty vehicle as $200. Nobody was injured, although the sta tion wagon was carrying pas sengers. The station wagon was driv en by David Leonard Hern don, 801 Hucner lane. Jack sonville, and the pickup was dviven by James Stevens Bunker, Eagle Point. Experts Consult on Problem Of International Language By DON DILLON United Pren International New York - il'PD - As any world traveler will agree, one of the first places you run into the "language barrier" is when you come to a closed door overseas. Does the sign on it say "Men," "Women," or "Danger Keep Out'."" Travelers will be glad to know that an international study is under way to devise pictorial markings for sucn doors. The experts hope to come up with a uniform sys tem of indicating "push," "pull," "Do Not Drink This W a t e r," "Entrance" and "Exit" as well as the obvious "Men" and "Women." The decision to eliminate one more language barrier was taken recently at "The First Conference for Break ing the Language Barrier." The main question for the conference was not powder room markings but rather: When an Australian has trouble understanding the English spoken in America, when words in any language mean different things to Com munist and non-Communist, can there ever be a "univer sal language?" RECEIVING TRAINING Pvt. Gordon Fleming, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Flem ing, 706 South Holly st., is undergoing basic infantry training at the Army's Mon terey peninsula training cen ter at Fort Ord. He is a 1958 graduate of Medford High school. TO SUPPLY SCHOOL Airman Basic Gerald R. Poindexler, son of Victor Poindexter, Route 1, Gold Hill, has been selected for the Air Force technical training course for supply specialists at Amaraillo Air Force base, Texas. Hearts and Gin Rummy also are favorites. SUMMER SALES FIESTA Now ... at Walker the WeepersI Fantastic price reductions en America's finest mobile homes. Join the crowd now at Walker the Weeper'i (So. Oregon's Trailer Headquarters). Bank financing for your convenience. ra i - -Br,:! -F ! LOOKIT the Value LOOKIT the Variety LOOKIT the Savings LOOKIT the Quality 9 Your KIT TROJAN provides all the true satisfaction of conventional home ownership ... at much less cost. It also affords security and independence to those couples who, by reason of age or reduced income, might not be eligible to purchase an expensive dwelling. See the KIT TROJAN today and start living the "life of Riley". 55 Foot Two Bedroom Deluxe Kit Trojan complete with all furnishings, glass door, all provincial interiors, carpeted living room, insulated for the coldest climates in the Northwest. FIRST TIME PRICES HAVE BEEN SLASHED - AT WALKER the WEEPERS BUY NOW AND SAVE! List Price $6,542.00 Fiesta Price $5,692.00 YOU SAVE : . .S850 WALKER the WEEPER 1243 South Riverside Phone 773-4553 Grand Jury Probe 01 Withdrawn Drug Under Way Washington - IUPP - A fed eral grand jury is investi gating c i r c u m stances sur rounding govern ment ap proval of a drug which was withdrawn from public use after two years because of dangerous side effects. The investigation of the drug, used to retard formation of cholesterol, was disclosed in a letter to a congressman from Commissioner George P. Larrick of the Food and Drug Administration. Inquiry In Progress The Justice Department ac knowledged that a grand jury inquiry was in progress. Neither Larrick nor the Jus tice Department said where the grand jury was located or what type of evidence was being collected. Larrick said in a previous letter, however, that the case was being investigated "to de termine whether false state ments were made in connec tion with new drug applica tions or whether there was a failure to disclose material facts." The FDA first gave its ten tative approval of the medi cine April 19. 1960. The drug, MER 29, was withdrawn by its manufacturer April 11, 1962. The side effects caused by MER-29 included formation of eye cataracts and the loss of hair. "The MER-29 matter is un der consideration by a federal grand jury." Larrick said in a letter dated July 16 to Chairman L. H. Fountain (D N.C.) of a House government operations subcommittee. Files Opened In a second major develop ment, Larrick bowed to con gressional pressure and open ed to House investigators FDA files concerning MER-29 and another drug, Flcxin, also withdrawn because of danger ous side effects. Flcxin was used about five years for the treatment of gout and as a muscle relaxant but has recently been suspect ed of being linked with cases of infectious hepatitis. Probably not. according to conference participants. But they felt a lot can and must be done to reduce the world Babel. The conference brought to gether 100 experts from 20 countries in International house, Columbia university. It was organized by Soichi Ka'.o of the International institute of Japan. The experts agreed that everybody should-but won't lcarn a universally - agreed single language besides his own - a tongue in which Arab could talk to Finn, Portugese to Filipino, etc. As a small first start the conference agreed to design pictorial signs and seek their universal use in the hope this would encourage worldwide study of the need for a com mon tongue. Most of the conferees agreed that English has made the most progress as a world wide language, with French or Esperanto in second place. Hall Written Frank C. Laubach. the noted fighter of world il literacy, reported that less than half of the world's lan guages have been put into writing. He said former Brit ish colonial efforts to encour age use of native languages in African schools met with a curious resistance: "The popu lace accused the British of us ing this device to keep them uneducated; they wanted to learn English." Miss Yoshiko Kajino of Ja pan and other proponents of Esperanto argued that diffi culties of spelling and pro nunciation prevent English from becoming the ideal com mon language. Mark Starr of the International Labor or ganization agreed that Eng lish is very widely spoken "but it carries the stigma of imperialism the language spoken in the embassies and social clubs. We must remem ber that in the world's flood of nationalism there is a lot of resentment that English-speaking people are too lazy 1o learn another man's lan guage." New York university Pro fessor of Linguistics William F. Marquardt noted that na tional radio and television net works have helped standard ize American pronunciations "so it's not so hard now for a man from Maine to under stand a man from Georgia." He predicted International radio-TV will have the same effect globally. y VfrV' Vr f f ...V GUARANTEED BEARS - Two six-monlh-old female polar bear cubs arrived at the St. Louis zoo from the Soviet Union. They will soon be joined by a third cub, and will become part of the zoo's new bear display when renovation of the bear pits Is com pleted. The new acquisitions were born in a Russion zoo and cost $2,300. They carry a 30-day guarantee. (UPI) DIDN'T WASTE TIME West Burlington, Iowa-ltll'll-Eighteen-year-old Ralph Cor nick doesn't believe in wast ing time. When he found he was locked in a curbside tele phone boolh after concluding a call tn a girl friend, he non chalantly called the girl back and resumed the conversation until police came to rescue him. TO CRUISE Airman Herman D. Hig day, a member of Attack Squadron 55, left Norfolk, Va., recently aboard the USS Constellation. The ship will travel to her new home port in San Diego, Calif., Yv way of South America. Higday is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman H. Higday, 1501 Prune st., Medford. ON CORAL SEA Raymond C. Nelson, avia tion fire control technician second class, USN, is serving with Fighter Squadron 151 aboard the attack aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea, which returned to its home port, Alameda, Calif., July 17. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Nelson, 240 North Holly .it. ss.sasii,,aa Smylie Said Afraid To Leave Idaho Craigmont, I d a h o WPIl Democartic Lt. Gov. William E. Drevlow says Republican Gov. Robert E. Smylie is afraid to leave the state. Drevlow commented Smylie is afraid to attend funeral services in Washington today for Sen. Henry Dworshak, for fear Drevlow, in his capacity as acting governor, might ap point a successor to the late senator. With Smylie out of the stale. Drevlow could name a Democrat to the Senate va cancy. "A dozen people remarked to me that the governor docs not dare leave the state until the appointment is maac. Drevlow said. , Drevlow refused t o com- j ment on what he might do if ! Smylie did leave the state , COULDN'T BE SWAYED St. Louis, Mo.-CTI-"Duke." ; a member of the police canine ! corps, must be having some j second thoughts today. Carry- j ing out his assigned task of marijuana sniffing during a narcotics raid at a restaurant J Wednesday. Duke came upon i 10 pounds of frankfurters in j the refrigerator. He impatient-1 ly brushed aside the meat and I under it he (ound eight pack-1 ages of marijuana, by farm labor using common wootlworkim tools. gTtHin 1 1 . V':!? r K ill y w Rtlco arch frame buildings can be costly erected These Jactory-engincercd structures enable farmers equipment under cover quickly and economically. From Weyerhaeuser tree farms . . . Rilco laminated wood arches bring new efficiency and economy to farm building l '. 1 'y.j, y- Today, as improved equipment and modern methods bring increased efficiency to American agriculture, new forms of wood are also giving better answers to farm building problems. One example is the use of Weyerhaeuser glue-laminaied wood arches. These extra-strong structural members form a unified framework from foundation to roof ridge. Interior posts and bearing walls arc eliminated, permitting total use of all enclosed space. Erection of the factory-cut and prc-drilled pieces with connecting hardware is fast, easy and simple. Completed structures give years of ' dependable service with almost no maintcnanc:. Rilco designs include more than fifty sizes of barns, machine and crop storage sheds, poultry and hog houses and utility buildings. Skilled Weyerhaeuser workmen fabricate Rilco wood beams and arches from structurally graded lumber grown on the company's sustained yield tree farms. Laminated with waterproof glue as strong as the wood itself, they are precision formed into various shapes and sizes. In addition to farm buildings, Rilco engi neered wood products are used in school, church, commercial and residential construction throughout the country. This is one more example of how Weyer haeuser helps meet our nation's need for better buildings and, at the same time, makes a valuable contribution to the Northwest economy. ANOTHER PAYROLL BUILDER FROM NORTHWEST FORESTS As products flow from Northwest forests to mar ken ihroughoul the nation, they set in motion a rrlurn now of money that provides local jobs, payrolls and lues. In fact, the production and Mk of forest products support about onehalf of the entire economy of this region. This Is one mson why it is so important that the North west's induslnal forests should be managed tn insure a reUiively steady and endless flow of wood, year after year. Weyerhaeuser lands are managed under this sustained yield policy. A ZEE 3 Weyerhaeuser Symbol of quality in the world of wood
