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g g THURSDAY. AUGUST 23. 19bi Theyll Do It Every Time - By Jimmy Hatlo" 1hE FUDDLES WERE MOVING AWAV (v&sott CTlittle'.V TO ANOTHER CITV FOR POP'S NEW TT WIS TOwnNI AwAV gift-. 1 JOB,AMD7WE WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD -JftftL?! H-ar CAVE THEM A SEND-OFF"" fU SufjlILiT OACTFDAII TO GET VOU ON THE PHONE.' I THE600DRVFS. CsP GOOD NEWS FOR VOU.' THESES r,r7 ? BEN 4 CHANGE OF PLANS.' VOLffiE cStT5N. J m!m V N0T 60IN6 TO E "OKER BLUFF SELLING THE HOUSE- ?(Z OFFICE -YOU'RE STAVING THEVGOTOSAV ' &m VVT" HERE'' LOSIGTO V ' MEDPORD MAIL TH1BUHE. MEDTORD. OREGON In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In this space a few days ago, it was noted that Actor Hugh O'Bryan, playing Che min de Fer at Monte Carlo, had won $22,400 at one sit ting. He explained that he started of! with a few pen nies, and after somebody showed him how to play he just couldn't go wrong. It sounded like a good game, but all I know about Chcmin de Fer is that it is a game played at Monte Carlo and that the words "chemin de fer" are French for rail road. So I asked if anybody in our State of Jefferson knows how to play it. MRS. Harold Hayes of Klam ath Falls writes me: "The rules and objectives of Chemin de Fer are the same as in Baccarat as regards the object of the game, but the right to 'bank' moves from player to player, in rotation to the right, as follows: The first banker is selected at auc tion or by lot, and if the latter he states the amount of his bank. Other players in rota tion to the right may take all or any portion of the bank until all has been covered. If any player calls BANCO, it means that he takes the entire amount of the bank." There follows then detailed rules of play, which arc too long to be quoted here. Mrs. Hayes adds: "Nope! I haven't been play ing. I just found it in the Book of Hoylc." confusion results from the fact that it apparently has two names - Baccarat and Chemin de Fer. Phonetically, Baccarat comes out BOC-a-Rah, with the accent laid hard on the first syllable and evenly laid on the following two. Chemin de Fer is French for toy rail road train. "They are exactly the same game, only the 'bank stays with the house in the former and travels around the table (hence toy railroad) from play er to player in the latter." A FEW days later Jack Mur phy, of Central Point, wrote me: "Baccarat Chemin dc Fer rules enclosed. They are ex tracted from the Las Vegas Playground magazine. I am a recent arrival from Nevada, and can assure you that Che min de Fer (more commonly called Baccarat in Vegas) re ceives its share of the play. I know your readers will be in terested in the origin of the game." TMIE origin of Baccarat, the Lag Vcttus macazine con tinues, is unknown. Legend has it that 26 centuries ago in the Temple of Gold Hair in Etruscan Rome the Nine Gods prayed standing on tholr toes to a golden-haired virgin who cast a novcm dare (a nine- sided dice) at their feet. If her throw was an 8 or 9, she was crowned as a priestess. It she threw a 6 or 7, she was led off to the happy Tumbles ol Enchantment. But if the luck less virgin threw a 5 or under she had to walk INTO THE SEA TO HER DEATH. In the 1500's in France, the old Etruscan ritualism of the Nine Gods was adapted and made into a card game called Baccarat by a gambler named Felix Falguicre. In Falguicre's game the house banked all play, but a few years later lie introduced Chemin de Fer, which permitted the players themselves to act as bankers. MYF Delegates Visit At Camp Magruder Salem - (DPI) - Delegates to the national conference of the Methodist Youth Fellowship took a break today and visited Camp Magruder, a Methodist retreat on the Oregon coast. Wednesday the 100 dele gates were told by Rev. Cal vin McConncll, chaplain at Willamette University, that the Bible has relevant answers to "panic, suspicion, suspense and the desire to escape so prevalent today, if used prop erly." The conference ends Friday with election of officers. BREAD AND BEANS Clarion, Iowa - IUPII - Mrs. Sarah Goodge, who celebrated her 101st birthday by kissing a photographer and waltzing with a neighbor, gave this formula for longevity: "Stay in the thick of things; never take a back seat to any one; never worry; dance; take good care of your health; and eat lots of corn bread and beans." Grange News fF the game's origin and " history, the Vegas maga zine says: "Baccarat is the second old est gambling game in the world. Yet It didn't reach (he U.S. public at large until two years ago when the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas inlio duced it. "Baccarat is h game pos sibly more difficult to pro nounce than to play, and much rpilE game was brought to the U.S. sometime around the Spanish-American war by Yid dish immigrants landing at New York. They called it Shalagar Bank, or "Number Nine" (the object of the game is to come closest to the num ber 9). The only place it was ever played openly at that time was In the back room of Pattv Shea's saloon on the Bowery at Coney Island. It was nearly 30 years later before It was dealt in the fash ionable and swank places un der the more familiar French name of Chemin de Fer. SO there's the story of Che min de Fer. It's a quite interesting story. The moral of it seems to be that if you want to know something - no matter what -ask the readers of this news paper about it. They'll tell you what you want to know. ; I''l jF I 1 iB- mkwm WU1 wwj m a i v vMl - iiv y ; i V. v my 1 m -mm WITHOUT A PAUSE Manchester, Conn. - (tiPIl -As Ralph Hubbard, 51, cross ed a Manchester street Wednesday he was struck by a sports car convertible and flipped into the bucket seat next to the driver. The driver continued to Manchester Me morial hospital with his pas senger. Hubbard was reported in fair condition. Etgle Point Garngi James Wilson, local attor ney, discussed wills and estates at a meeting of the Eagle Point Grange this week. Several members of the Shady Cove Grange attended the meeting. Roscoe Roberts, State overseer, and Johnie Minor, master of the Shady Cove Grange, were escorted to the master's station and intro duced. Verne Matthews, reporting for the agricultural commit tee, said that cattle prices are good at the local auetion yards and that the local feed er sales will be held earlier this year. Community Service Chair man C. C. Hoover thanked all those who have helped in get ting the community service report ready to send to the State Grange, especially those who were not Grange members. Clarence Davics read the report giving the main proj ects as the tree planting pro gram, bird feeding during the inclement weather last win ter, the Old Time political rally, the part the Eagle Point Grange took in the Jacksonville Jubilee, the help women of the Grange have given the men at the domicili ary and many other services included in the report. The reception committee Introduced visitors from Shady Cove as well as one from the Sams Valley Grange. The next HEC meeting will be held at the home of Agnes Hubbell Aug. 29. It will be preceded by a covered dish luncheon at noon. Mrs. John Huffman report ed on the recent 4-H fair. The National Baking con test will be held at the dis trict level Friday, Sept. 7, at I p.m. in the extension con ference room at the Douglas county courthouse in Rose- burg. Recipes must accom pany each entrant and the re cipe of the winners will be sent to Portland by Sept. 20 for judging. Needlework and canning contests will be held on the Pomona level. The Jackson county Pomona con test will be held in Eagle Point October 27. At the close of the meeting, Minor complimented the Grange on its community service program' and an- j nounced that on Sept. IS the Shady Cove Grange is spon- j soring square dance lessons j open to Grange members. ! State Overseer Roberts com- mentcd on the good that ; Granges can do who partici pate in community service Authorities Press Hunt for Woman in San Francisco Area ?1 V v. W ).J ARRAIGNED - Wilbur Irvcn Trout, 51. hangs Ins head in shame at the U S. Commissioner's office in San Francisco after he turned himself in and was arraigned on charges of attempting to extort $12,000 from Nevada resort owner Wil liam Harrah. The airline employee said he had already ad mitted his guilt to a charge of mailing a threat to blow up Harrah's Lake Tahoc Casino. He (aces a possible two-year sentence and a $300 fine. (UPI) San Franrisco-dlPII-Authorities intensified their search today for a stocky woman with a limp, and described as an habitual liar, whom they hope can truthfully clarify the mystery of two bodies found buried In the basement of her San Francisco home. The woman was known simply as Mrs. Iva Kroeger, 44. when the body of Jay Arenson, a 70-year-old invalid retired army major, w a s found under the concrete in the basement Monday night. However, the mystery of Mrs. Kroecer had grown con siderably by Tuesday, when police unearthed a trunk con taining a second body, believ ed to be that of Arneson's wife, Mildred, 5R. Police records showed that Mrs. Kroeger was born in Kentucky as Lucille Huffman, arrested as Taula Byrd in Texas in 11)47. involved in (rand theft In San Francisco as Paula Pearson in 1054, took over operation of the Arne sons' motel in Santa Rosr, Calif., as Mrs. Iva Long early this year, and was remember ed in Florida as late as a month ago as Mrs. Paula Shoe maker. Mrs. Kroegor's h u s b a n d. Ralph, fil. has been charged with murder In connection with the discovery of the bodies in the basement, but the one-time ranchhand in sists "I don't know a damn thln about it." Mrs. Arnoson disappeared in mid-December and her hus band vanished in January. A short time later, Mrs. Krocver took over the motel which her friends, the Ann-sons, had op erated in Santa Rosa. Mrs Kroeger left Santa Rosa in May of Ibis year after she threatened a bill collector with a pistol. A chai-fie of as sault with a deadly weapon was filed against her. and the I present warrant for her arrest ' is based on that charge, j A posse of police and FBI I ngcnls concentrated Its search ! in nearhv Oakland Wednesday ' when Mrs. Kroeser's t w o grandchildren were found wandering on the streets there. i The boys, Kenneth C. Allen Jr., 4. and his brother Wil liam. 3. are the children of Mr. and Mrs Kenneth C. Al- ' Irn of Ticc. Kla., a rural com munity near Fort Myers. The couple have a daughter Hi years old and Mrs. Allen is six months pregnant. She said that her husband's mother, using the name Mrs. Paula Shoemaker, took the two boys during an overnight visit to Fort Myers on July 31. Mrs. Allen said the grand mother, who "was always changing names." promised to send for the rest of the Allen family to Join her in San Fran cisco. Mrs. Allen said In Fort Myers that during a telephone conversation with her sons Wednesday, one kept inquir ing about her and explained later that "grandma told us you were killed in a wreck." Meanwhile. Allen's brother, Patrick Allen of Louisville, Ky.. revealed that he had a similar experience with Mrs. Shoemaker during a visit there. She persuaded the Louis ville Aliens to let her take a teen-ase daughter "for a visit to California." The girl tele phoned her family two days later and said her grandmoth er had abandoned her in a car In Chicago. So Mrs. Kroeger is known to many people by many dif ferent names, but San Fran cisco police appear certain of one thing. The all-points bulle tin (or her arrest reads: "Use extreme caution." TOPS IN QUALITY! LOW IN PRICE GIANT SIZE .. ALL DETERGENT 3 ELECTROSAL DISHWASHER DETERGENT 5100 pkgs. a AWARD MARGARINE Mb. 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