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10 A MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1963 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON PRESENTS AWARD - Paul P. Schmitz (left) director gen eral ot the Loyal Order of Moose, Moosohcart, 111., presents Moose fraternity'! Distinguished Citizen awBrd to famed Comedian Danny Thomas at 75th annual International Moose convention In Chicago, III., Tuesday. Award was in grateful appreciation of Thomas's humanitarian service to all man kind. (UPI) - TheyH Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo L r V THE 1 FOR THE I CAM VA J vVW Y ( DtZZvM BRIDE'S ,CBJ?J Vj IfS A BJG OUFFAW POR THE MEM FOLK WHEM THE GALS . CA5RV OM IN THE OLD TRADITION-- Small Worlds Around Us By LYNN M. WATKINS (Rtglstar and Tribuna Syndic!, . Natural Beauty Is Unfairly Destroyed for Billboards Many people driving along the highway wondered why the group of men were cut ting down the tree. There seemed no reason for it, as It stood some distance from the edge of the highway, and at the extreme front of a vacant area. It was a beautiful tree, all of 60 feet high with a wide spreading crown. Because of its ideal posi tion, it had never been muti lated by utility companies. Most of the observing passers by who noticed the tree and the workmen, assumed the tree was being removed be cause of a proposed building on the vacant lot behind it. Yet this seemed ridiculous, the tree's presence in that particular spot would have been beneficial to any prop erty for the welcome shade It would have afforded, Branches First ' Those that regularly trav eled the highway watched the daily progress .of the tree's destruction from day to day First, the great horizontal branches were removed, then the smaller limbs. As fast as they struck the ground, crew ot men sawed them Into short lengths; trucks hauled them away. The removal of the great slump occupied Die work of several men for three days, This stump was a massive thing, the severed part Just above the roots was over three feet In diameter. It took a powerful derrick to lift it onto a low bodied truck. During the time the tree butchers were at work, an other group of men were busy digging holes and setting In a series of six, tall telephone poles, each pole 10 feel from its neighbor, and all in a row. Probably few of the motor ists that traveled the Midway took any notice ot the tail poles; all were watching the destruction of the tree. Th Answer Witli the tree gone the vista opened up, suddenly the rea son for the poles and the cllm lnation of the tree became apparent. A great, glaring billboard was being erected; for this, the tree was being destroyed. It is impossible to know how many people - millions probably over a period of a little time, consciously or sub consciously admired that tree. Now beauty has been replaced by ugliness; greedy commercialism has destroyed that which was beautiful. 'Progress" someone will yelp, but the fact remains, this raw ugliness Is accepted vandalism, depressed to its lowest depths. Blots Beauty "The highways are happy ways was a slogan we were all justifiably proud of. Trees along those highways added considerably to their charm, they were a part of an Ameri ca we were proud of. But any billboard anywhere, whatever It Is advertising, is an eye sore, a blot on the beauty of the outdoors, a menace to the driver that attempts to read the message whilo he is driving, and an obstruction to what a scenic beauty may be there, or in the distance. No message any of them could possibly give, is worth what was destroyed to allow lor their presence. Every one in lis way, detracts from what we would like to still believe Is, "America the Beautiful. But look mo PRACTICALLV START A WOT WHEN THE BPIDE TOSSES OUT HER CARTER TkkC tin i iUTotfr no 'irsfii, v Hi B" Son of Famed World War II Hero Marries ' West Point, N.Y, - (DTK - Co lin P. Kelly III. son of the famed World War II hero, took bride Saturday -. a pretty high school English teacher. Kelly was wed to Mary Margaret Cooper of Goshen, N. Y., in a simple ceremony at the U.S. military academy chapel here. Staff Appointments Announced by Bank U. S. National Bank Presi dent E. J. Kolar has an nounced staff appointments for the bank's new Interstate and Going branch in Port land. Robert L. Price was named manager of the new branch which will open July 12, and Riichard A. -Walbert will serve as assistant man6i. Walbert is being transfer red to the new branch from the bank's head office in Portland where he has been since March of this year. Be fore then he was assistant manager at the North Med ford branch. He began with the bank in 1952. ASKS AUTHORITY Portland - IT - The North. . west Natural Gas Co. of Port. ' land has asked the State Pub- ( iTtiiitv commissioner for J authority to sell 100,000 shares of its authorized dui unissuea common stock. : . SAID CUBANS DISARMED " Washington - (DPI) - An anti. Castro publication has report, ed that Soviet military com. ' manders are disarming Cu ban militiamen to prevent an anti-Communist uprising. Excessive, Habitual Drinkers Pay for it by Dying Sooner By DELOS SMITH UPI Selene Editor New York - OIPIl - It now him heon demonstrated with hard figures that those who Hrink excessively and habit ually pay for it by dying sooner than they would have otherwise. Munv oeonle have always believed it but usually they're not alcoholic. Heretofore mathematical proof - or dis proof - has been lacking. Vi tal statistics do not say wheth er their subjects were alco holic or non-alcoholic. Mlrhlkn Taxh ro. a statisti cian, and Dr. Wendell R. Lip smmh had the makings for such an unique set of figures in the records ot tne uamor nia State Alcoholic Rehabili tation Drcnnization. Thev are members of Its scientific staff. Living and Dead Tn Its four alcohol sm treat ment centers 1,692 men and women were admitted In a three-year period beginning In 1054. Tashlro and Lips comb checked back on them ill anri scnaratcd the nresent- ly living from the dead. This gave them two sets of statistics, a survival table and a mortality table. These they compared to the same tables for the California population as a whole, making proper statistical and adjustments for age, sex and race in order to get mathematically precise comparisons. For the five year period un der consideration, the heavy drinkers survived only 91 per cent as well as their opposite numbers in the general popu lation, demonstrating, the sc- entists said, that "alcoholics do not live as many years" as they mililu. Death Rales Compared To verify this, they com pared mortality tables. The average annual death rate of the alcoholics figured out to 26 per 1,000. In the general population the rale was 11 per 1,000. Thus, the death rate among alcoholics was almost 2Va to 1. As to the causes of death, 24 per cent of the alcoholics died of violence accidents and suicides and for the general population violent deaths U.S. Delegation to Coronation Named Washington -llpri- President Kennedy has named Chief Justice Earl Warren and Sen ate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield to head the U. S. delegation to the coronation of New Pope Paul VI. White House picks secretary said that other members of the delegation which probab ly will number four will be named within the next few days. Kennedy himself was ex pected to arrive in Rome on June 30, the scheduled date of the ceremonies Installing me new Pope. THIS fVEEK The 'j? Honor Flies r of... t- Vefewn 5 I ,i CARL w nmsoN i fckfo 4k .. "Ju off Jacktonvillo Highway" MEMORIAL PARK FUNERAL HOME WEDDING CHAPEL MAUSOLEUM COLUMBARIUM V CREMATIONS 1395 Arnold ln ' Phone 7737338 Family Council Editor's Notet The Family Coun cil cumuli or judge, a psyrnm CrlHt, Uiree clrrayuicit, a newspaper editor, a women'! editor, and two wrlteri. Kuril artlrle Is a luminary of an artiul case history. The Council reports on problem that nave neen neau wiin oy respon sible aienctei and counselors. (Copyright 193 General Features Corp.) Ken R. - They're Just Idlers and I don't want to sec them. Viola R. - He's envious. He'd be the same if he were rich. . e Ken R, - My wife's cous ins are coming to town again and, to me, they are the world's worst bores. He made his pile in real estate before he was 40 and all he does now Is travel around, bother ing the likes of me who still have to put in a full day's work. This time I don't want to reserve a week end to at?- company them to the hot spots. 1 have more interest ing things to do, like read and rest for Instance. Viola R. - Ken can road and rest any time. These cousins are great fun they have been all over the world and are now cn route to Maine for the summer. We're the only New York relations and they count on us to plun their stops. Ken seems to hold it against them that they have money, but they spend it in stead of hoarding, and the world needs people like that. The Council - Our overall views on leisure arc: It must be earned and it must be part of a plan, else how does one differ from a toy poodle? To most ol us leisure time ar rives In its De Luxe form at late middle age, with re tirement as the dessert in the dinner of lite, but Viola's cousin hit the jackpot in his youth, and his dilettante way of life irks Ken. However, Ken, this chap earned his early leisure. What he docs with It Is his own business. so long as li s nut illegal. The rub you object to Is that his Plan is sn different from your Plan, which leads us to suggest a possible eventual! I.v: Suppose you Join up with the visitors this time - hob nobbing with the "Idle rich" can't be a total blank. At IraM you can learn a little geography and gossip from their name-dropping. As for next year, perhaps they II have wearied of doing nothing and have a new Plan which includes some dogooding. If not, If it s still more of same Viola should respect your wishes. Surely the cousins can tie up with other friends, like-minded folk In the "loll Ing'' business. Ken feels best among the toilers. Scholarslip Awarded By Pepperdine College rrank E. Balch, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Balch, 953 Kcnyon avc., has been awarded a one -half tuition academic scholarship for the 1DH3-04 school year by Pep perdine college, Los Angeles. Balch Is a graduate of Med ford High school and has at tended Southern Oregon col lege nnd Oregon Stale col lege. He will enter Pepper- dine as a junior religion major. amounted to 9 per cent. The next most common cause of death In alcoholics was heart disease, 23 per cent. Then came cirrhosis of the liver, 14 per cent. The comparable per centages for the general pop ulation was 4 and 3. Tashiro and Lipscomb were struck by how hard it had been to ascertain the actual cause of death in most of the 124 deceased alcoholics. The autopsy rate reached 73 per cent compared to 34 per cent in the general population and they reminded that autopsies usually are performed when there is some doubt as to the cause of death. This could only mean "the morbid conditions of the alco holics were frequently so complex that the cause of death was difficult to deter mine," they said in their re port to the Center for Alcohol Studies at Rutgers Univer sity, New Brunswick, N. J. Police Break Up Riot; Arrest 60 Elkhart Lake, Wis. - IUPII - Police, backed by the threat of tear gas, made some 60 arrests and broke up a riot of more than 2,000 teen-agers and college students in this Sheboygan county town Sat urday night. Sheriff Robert Freiwert said the arrests appeared to have slowed down the mob, but several youths still lin gered in huge circles around deputies' squad cars. Deputies, with gas mask on, stood ready with tear gas bombs. if Tomato At Your Friendly MARK'S No Sale to Dealers 6th and Grape Thrifty Green Stamps PLENTY FREE PARKING Banquet - Beef, Turkey and Chicken Frozen Dinners Sea Mist or Coastal Frozen Lemonade Nalley's Mayonnaise Sjlbs. W Frozeiv I Fruit Pies Ml . Peach, Apple, Cherry IJtt w Boysenberry & Blueberry Jim Fels Naptha BAR SOAP 2 or 25 412.., Qpc Tins QO Full Quart 47' I I Smoke House 15-oz. Tin BBQ BEANS 5 for $J T Bits 0' Honey ;"'V-;V ...but the best tiling to take is money! Like so many other good things, a family vacation is much nunc fun when you save for it in advance and avoid debt. It's all pleas ure when it's paid for. Dan to make your next vacation carefree. Open a savings ac count with us anil add to it regularly. Ex cellent earnings help your savings grow. CURRENT DIVIDEND 4'S PER ANNUM and LOAN ASSOCIATION 201 West 6th Free Cutlomar Parking in Our lot Robert F. Kyle, Mgr. Peas DIAPER SWEET 303 Tin 1 Lb. Pkg. ' La Choy NOODLES 2'2 Tin 33 E Majorette ELBOW MAC jf no. iyiiPi Produce department w JjWJH VjN. for many more Jw. V?m "lv& NFarm Fresh
