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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
THURSDAY. JULY 26, 1962
Theyll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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':!?
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