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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1963 A 5 Try and Stop Me -By BENNETT CERF- TJAPPY MEMORIES: When Ed Wynn played a waiter in A i- "Manhattan Mary" and a customer demanded Iamb chops au gratin, Wynn shouted to the kitchen, "Cheese, it, the chops" . . . When Eddie Cantor told a pair of worn-out acrobats, who invariably closed -the show in the old vau deville , houses, "Boys, if you ever expect to get anywhere in this profes sion, you'll have to dream up a new finish for your act." "New finish!" echoed one of the acrobats in dignantly. "Nobody's ever waited to see . the . oia one yet." . . . Ana when a druggist stopped Bobby Clark to ask, "Did that mudpack I suggested improve your wife's appearance?" Bobby's answer was, "It did for a couple of days, but then it wore off." George Burns recalled the story of the man who swallowed his glass eye and rushed to a stomach specialist. The latter peered down the fellow's throat and exclaimed, "I've looked into a lot of stomachs in my day, but I must say this Is the first one that iver looked back at me!1' Gene Doheny reports that a police Investigation of a nudist camp near his home bogged down completely. The local D.A. admitted, "There wasn't a soul in the entire camp I could pin , anything on.' 1963, by Bennett Cerl. Biitributed by Kins Features Syndicate Staff Changes Noted At U.S. National WW Street Torn Up ; In Typhoid Search , Zermatt, Switzerland -fflPD- The Swiss army ordered the main street of this ski resort torn up today in a hunt for the source of a typhoid fever epidemic that has caused three deaths and hospitalized almost 400 persons. Constant Cachin, chairman of the Zermatt Chamber of Commerce, said Wednesday night there was "clear but as yet inconclusive" evidence that breaks in the main sewer were dumping typhoid germs into leaking water., supply lines. , Soldiers of a Swiss army medical team already have found one break in the sewer main which lies only 18 inch es from the main water pipe under the principal street. The army found apparent proof of the water supply con tamination Wednesday when it blocked off a section of the sewer and pumped in colored water under high pressure. Water of the same color lat er came out of faucets in ho tels in the lower section of town. It was iii this section where most of (he typhoid fever vic tims stayed. Salt will make hot choco late taste even more choco- laty. . i-'C . y. -7- . it yd mm BE IN LOCAL PARADE Peter Graves, he is shown' explaining a rifle to Bobby right, star in the television film, "Fury," Diamond and William Fawcett, other stars will be grand marshall in the annual Pear in the picture. Graves is the brother of Blossom Festival parade April 20, accord- Jim Arness, star of TV's "Gunsmoke." ing to the parade committee. In the pictura Medford Student Visits Capital During Vacation Washington-Frank L. Peter son of .Medford, first winner of the Michael W. Mitchell Memorial Scholarship at Cor nell university, has discovered there was more to the award than its $350 stipend. The Cornell senior, son of Mr. and Mrs. Burton Peter son, 914 South Stage rd re ceived an invitation to visit the nation's capital during spring vacation. Host for his March 22-25 stay here was D. B. Harde man, assistant to Democratic Whip Hale Boggs in the U.S. House of Representatives and a close friend of the late Michael Mitchell. Showed Sights Hardeman showed Peterson the sights and introduced him to Louisiana Cong r e a s m a n Boggs, Oregon Sens. Wayne Morse and Maurinc Neuberg er, and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court William- O. Douglas. It was Justice Douglas who initiated the idea of a scholar ship fund in memory of the son of former Democratic Na tional Chairman Stephen Mitchell. Young Mitchell, a Cornell graduate, was killed in a New Mexico mining acci dent in 1959. The scholarship is awarded to an outstanding Cornell geology student who is also "a s t u d e n t of the world." Peterson, a 1959 graduate of Medford High school where among other tilings he played end on the varsity football team, has held a Cornell Na tional Scholarship throughout his undergraduate career and. was awarded the Buchanan Award as the top geology stu dent in the senior class. Ha, plans graduate work. SEEKS HIGHBALL ORIGIN New York - IUPU - "In the interest of historical accura cy, we are trying to discover how the highball began," the ad reads. "Somebody should get the credit. Who?" The ad was the beginning of a cam paign launched Wednesday by the French National Associ ation of Cognac Producers. Mr. Sam Roberts Representing J. C. GILL CO. . Will Be Giving An . Art Demonstration April 1, 2, 3 & 4-10 a.m. to S p.m. FREE OF CHARGE Sims Gvcle & Hohbv Shon m r pg 23 N. Fir ; Ph. 772-2472 fg mmvWtfW i""' i J'-" .I'lMWWPW s " 1 ' , 4 f (J LA tsu FLOYD R. EASTWOOD Bank Personnel Changes RICHARD A. W ALBERT Two staff changes at U. S. National Bank's North Med ford branch have been an nounced by E. J. Kolar, bank president. Agreement Near On College Bi Washington - IUPU - The House education subcommit tee was close today to reach ing bipartisan agreement on a $2.7 billion college con struction and student aid bill, the only new education pro posal by President Kennedy given a chance of passage. The measure, expected to be approved this week, probably will have White House sup port even though it will dif fer from the administration's original request for a $5.3 billion 'education bill. The bill also is likely to re ceive substantial Republican support. Sponsored by Mrs. Edith Green (D-Ore.), the measure would provide Sl.l billion in . five years for direct grants to public, private and church related colleges for construc tion of libraries, science and engineering classrooms and laboratories. Federal grants would not exceed one-third of the total cost. Junior colleges and college-level technical schools also would be eligible for the grants. Richard A. Walbert, assist ant manager, has been trans ferred to the bank's head of fice in Portland, and Floyd R. Eastwood has rejoined the branch staff as assistant man ager. Eastwood first joined U. S. National at the Medford branch in 1947, became as sistant manager in 1957, and later moved to Commerce In vestment, Inc., as branch man ager in Medford., Walbert began work with U. S. National in 1952, spent eight years at the Union ave. branch, followed by a year of training and an assistant man ager's appointment at the Medford branch. He was em ployed by the Bank of Cali fornia before joining the U. S. Navy in 1948. Active in community af fairs, Eastwood is organiza tion and extension chairman for '.the Big Pines District, Boy Scouts of America; chair man, Jackson County "Bowl Down" cancer drive; United Crusade, Medford Chamber of Commerce and Medford Lions club. While in Medford, Walbert was on the finance and mem bership committee of the chamber of commerce, affili ated with the Boy Scouts and a member of the Medford Lions club. ' MOVING SALE! RECORDS y2 PRICE Tape Recorders Components Electric Organ Tapes ON SALE 711 E. JACKSON Neil lo Oregon Bank Aquarium Society Elects Officers Temporary officers to head the Rogue Valley Aquarium Society were elected at the organizational meeting cently in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Beattie. 40 South Second at., Central Point. There were 33 persons at tending with visitors from Grants Pass, Rogue River, Ashland and Astoria. Officers chosen are presi dent, Wayne Beattie; vice president, Dennis Pfaff, and secretary treasurer, Barbara Pfaff, all of Central Point. Officers will serve for three months. New candidates will then be nominated and elect ed and i board of directors chosen and a program com mittee appointed. Beattie discussed with the group the possibility of mak ing trips to the Oregon coast to gather sea shells and reefs. He announced that two let ters of inquiry will be mailed to the San Francisco Aquari um Society for information regarding by-laws and for ad dresses of former California Aquarium club members, now residing in Oregon. Invitations will be mailed to Dersons for the April 28 meeting, at which a program on brine shrimp will be presented by Steve Dodge of Medford. MEDFORD SHOPPING CENTER New clothes looks rate new shoe looks by dualiCraft! - Check the new clothes-mostly young, alive, alert . . . requiring shoes perfectly suited, simple yet distinctive . . . shoemaking at its ' most refined, and expensive, if it weren't for our exclusive QualiCraft! Shoe-shapes enhanced by cut-work, scoops, scallops, perfs; atop heels tall or tiny; in leathers smooth, textured or patent glossed in blacks, whites, neutrals, vibrants, or combinations. See. 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