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I A' I I I i i I ) Is POSSIBILITIES EXPLORED - The Big Three foreign ministers meet in New York to explore the possibilities of further East-West agree ments following the nuclear test ban. Seated Drinking Habits I Cocktail Party Rated as One of America's Leading indoor Sports Editor's Note: This is the first of five dispatches by United Press International na tional reporter Harry Fergu son on the drinking habits of 80 milion Americans. It deals with social drinkers, their preferences and habits. Bv HARRY FERGUSON WASHINGTON (UPI)- There is a widespread belief that the cocktail party was invented in America some time in the first quarter of the 20th century. Well, a writer named Critias described one form of social activity in ancient Greece like this: "They have bowls and toasts, too. They then loose their tongues to tell scandalous stor ies . . . upon their eyes a dark mist settles, memory melts away into oblivion, reason is lost completely." The fact that the cocktail par ty probably was invented in Athens, Greece, instead of Ath ens, Ala., Athens, Ohio, Athens, Ga., Athens, Pa., or Athens, Tenn., does not diminish the en thusiasm of Americans for it. GIVING INSTRUCTIONS President John F. Kennedy, right, appears to be giving instructions to California Governor Edmund G. Brown, left, near Redding. Calif., Saturday, as they are being introduced by the master of ceremonies during the dedication of the Whiskeytown Dam and Reservoir. (UPI) !ifAv, y 1 HI II I . .gStiJJ!.' and reverent care If will mean much to you fo know that in your time of bereavement we truly understand and are ready to help in every way possible to lessen your sorrow. Do call on us. PLAN AHEAD OF NEED-CAU FOR FULL DETAILS NOW ACfclhtRMrE if .OI M Bfi" cm p MEMBER BY (InMcrnalwiudcdffilinlion ofDtpcmiallcOwuwL'h'utdor We pron-ptly rcoo"d to H calls, day or n,ght CORNER SIXTH AND OAK1JALE PHONE 772-6675 'in . 1 3 'V.kfH ubii v hm fewar. i from left are Britain's Lord Hume, United States Secretary of Stale Dean Rusk and Rus sia's Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. (UPI) France and the United States : lead all nations in the rate of alcoholism, but the Americans are far ahead in organized group drinking. The cocktail party is one of our most wide spread indoor sports. There are no precise statistics on the amount of social and business drinking in this coun try. Splitting a can of beer with your neighbor over the back fence is social drinking. Busi ness drinking can be either a luncheon for two or a cocktail party with 500 guests. 80 Million Drink About 80 million Americans above the age of 15 are fairly regular drinkers of alcoholic beverages. The heaviest drink ing per capita takes place in the District of Columbia, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey and Wisconsin. The lowest per capita consumption of legal al cohol occurs in Mississippi, Ala bama, Tennessee and Geor gia. Dumping together all persons above 15 drinkers and non drinkers the average Ameri can last year consumed 1.99 gal beyond price.., PERL FUNERAL HOME INVITATION Ions of distilled spirits, 1.32 gal- lons of wine and 21.98 gallons of beer. The overwhelming amount of social drinking occurs in the American home rather than in saloons or lounges. Valid Observations To get an up-to-date picture of social drinking in the nation United Press International bu reaus across the country re sponded to a question n a i r e. Drinking preferences and hab its vary widely in different sec tions, but these general observa tions arc valid: The average cocktail party is scheduled for two hours, most frequently from 5 to 7 p.m. The party actually doesn't get under way in the sense that all guests are present and have a drink in their hands until about 5:30 p.m. It doesn't end until after 8 p.m. more often than not. one or two guests will stay until 9 o'clock. The guests will consume three and one-half drinks per person on the average if there is no terminus on the party except the clock. If it is a cocktail party preceding a dinner, it will aver- Policemen Hurt in Post-Game Fight Portland (UPI ) Three city policemen were injured, none seriously, in fighting which broke out following the Jefferson-Grant high school football game at Jefferson Saturday aft ernoon. Examined and treated at a local hospital were patrolman Bernard Schuette, William Att wood and Larry Plaisance. According to Sgt. Weston Johnson of the East Precinct, the disturbance, involving some 300 youths, broke out immedi ately following the game, sub sided, then flared anew several blocks from the high school. No persons were arrested. Johnson said a lot of "older trouble makers" were involved in the mclce as well as high school students. Jefferson lost j Ihp fnothn I a:imr 14 In fi Portland Zoo Draws About 20,000 People PORTLAND (UPI) - An esti mated 20.000 persons packed the Portland Zoo Sunday, a good portion of them to see the two new baby elephants born in the past two weeks. LIST APPROVED CONAKRY, Guinea (LTD -Conakry Radio said Sunday night 99.5 per cent of the voters in Sunday's general election ap proved the single list of candi dates presented bv President S e k o u Toure's Democratic pajty Official results have not yet been announced. MEDKORD Tropical Decolletage National Geographic, in Bv DICK WEST WASHINGTON (UPD-Let us join today in extending felicita tions to the National Geographic Magazine, which is ob serving its 75th anni v e r s a r y this month. Actual ly, the first is sue of the Geo graphic, which came out in 1HH8, carried an net X'tober Date. But, as everyone knows maga zines dated October are pub lished in September, if not in August or July. So now is the time to cele brate. The National Geographic Soci ety, which publishes the maga zine, has long been approxi mately my favorite institution, give or take home cooking and Marlene Dietrich's legs. In a moment of levity, I once described the society as 'a non profit educational and scientific association dedicated to proving age two drinks per person. The reason for that is that at a cer- j tain time the dinner gong sounds and the bar shuts down. Martini Best Seller The dry martini is a best seller at cocktail parties, but people have stopped being fana tics about how it is made. A few years ago the martini drinkers insisted on dry-dry-dry concoc tions of about eight parts gin and one part vermouth. Many bartenders met this demand by merely pouring straight gin. The martini of four parts gin and one part vermouth now is generally accepted nationwide. Americans still cling tenaci ously to two fallacies about drinking (1) That mixing drinks will make you drunk quicker and give you a worse hang-over and (2) That black coffee will sober you up. No matter how many different kinds of drinks you consume, they all become mere alcohol when they start through the blood stream to ward the brain. As one physi cian put is: "All black coffee does is turn a sleepy drunk into a wide - awake drunk. The man is still drunk." There has been a heavy in crease in the drinking of vodka and in the demand for so-called "lighter" whiskey, namely, whiskey with lower proof. New Trend in Chicago The old-fashioned bartender who bought every third drink has ceased to exist. But Chicago reports a new trend to lure the customers into bars with "cock tail hours." From 4 to 7 p.m. all types of drinks are 50 cents. Dallas notes the rise of the "poolsitle party" in which occu pants of big apartment houses assemble around the swimming pool. Each family brings its own bottle, ice and mixings and the party lasts indefinitely with a constant change of cast. P e a n u t s, mi xed nuts, shrimp on a toothpick and dev iled eggs are the most popular hors d'ouevres because they are easy to fix. There is a current! fad for dips into which you plunge potato chips. The most frequent topics of conversation at cocktail parties are busines, sports and sexy stories. Chicago notes: "This or der tends to reverse itself as the evening progresses." Next: Case history of a social drinker. College Board Exam Needed for Academy High school graduates inter ested in attending the Coast Guard academy should take the college entrance board exami nation Dec. 7. It was stated that the Coast Guard has forgone its annual special examination in favor of the more convenient college board exam. Deadline for applying is Nov. 8. Age limit (or cadetship at the academy is 17 to 22. Appli cations may be obtained by writing to Coast Guard Cadet, 618 Second ave., Seattle 4, Wash. Tulelake Rancher Heads Potato Group . KLAMATH FALLS fUPI) - Wesley St. Peter of Tulclake, Calif., a rancher, h.'inbeen elect ed chairman of the Oregon California Potato Committee at the group's annual meeting here Archie Mastcrson of Redmond was chosen as vice chairman and F J. Carpenter of Madras was picked as secretary-treasurer. TRAVEL BAN EYED WASHINGTON (L'P!) - The chairman of the House Com mittee on un-American Activi ties plans to introduce legisla tion in about two weeks that would give the government spe nfic powers to curb travel abroad by U.S. citizens. 3 MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDl'OIlD, that the female members of cer tain tribes in Africa wear no brassieres." In reality, of course, the society is much more than that, its sphere of interest em braces anything that walks, talks, swims, crawls, flies or just sits there and rines noth ing. I'll confess, however, that an 'occasional glimpse of the femi ' nine rib cage in its natural i state was what first attracted Six Accidents Checked in City On Week End Six vehicle accidents in Med ford were investigated by city police during a three-day period from Friday to Sunday, accord ing to reports. One slight injury was reported and three citations were issued, officers said. Nicholas Sebastion Thcis, 47, of 325 Vancouver St., was treat ed at Sacred Heart hospital Sunday for injuries he received when his car collided with a ve hicle operated by Mansel Wiley Milam, 54, Central Point, about 7:44 p.m. at Highway 66 and Interstate 5. Milam was cited for disobeying a traffic signal. In one of three accidents Sat-! urday, Iris Lea Wright, 2873Vi Table Rock rd., was cited by police for defective equipment after her car collided with a vehicle operated by Jess Oliver Bigs, Del Paso Heights, Calif., about 10:30 a.m. at Court st. and McAndrcws rd. A vehicle driven by Dorothy Vivian Mathcny, 3126 Madrona St., struck a parked motorbike owned by Ronald Lee Harris, 138 Ashland ave. The mishap occurred about 5:45 p.m. at Sixth and Front sts. Freeway Accident A non-injury accident occur red about 8:15 p.m. Saturday on the Interstate 5 overpass when a vehicle operated by Jill Margaret Crawford, 17, of 1503 East Main st., swerved to avoid an object in the roadway and crashed into a guardrail. No citation was issued, officers said. In one of two accidents Fri day, John Gray Uerlings, 36, Central Point, was cited for not having an operator's license in his possession after his vehicle collided with a car driven by Gerald Clifton Rook, 49, Shady Cove. The mishap occurred about 7:35 p.m. at North River side ave. and Walnut st. Vehicles operated by Perry Lou Hulse, 17, of route 3, box 204A, and Jessie Myrtle Minear, 78, of Rogue Valley Manor, col lided about 2:30 p.m. Friday at Black Oak dr. and Barnett rd., according to police reports. Mobile X-Ray in Josephine County GRANTS PASS-A mobile x ray unit will be stationed at three different Josephine county locations this week, Dr. E. C. Wall, county health officer, an nounced today. The unit will he at the Provolt Seed and Feed store Tuesday from 2 to 6 p.m.; at the Cave Junction Shell station Wednes day from 1 to 7 p.m. and at the county courthouse in Grants Pass, room 100, Thursday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dr. Wall said he hoped all adults in the county would take advantage of the x-ray services, which can detect early tuber culosis, cancer, emphysema I and heart disease. "These con ditions are becoming more prevalent in the older age groups," he noted. "It is important for those known to have been exposed to TB sometime in their lives to have annual x-rays." Dr. Wall added. "If you are not sure, have a chest x-ray anyway. It takes only a few minutes." I Bids To Be Opened i Ocf. 9 for Vehicles J Bids will be opened by the county court on Oct. 9 for 15 county vehicles. County Pur chasing Coordinator William Cochran said today. These cover six sheriff's cars, two passenger cars for the j county court, and one car and i six pickups for the county road : department. Bids will be received for the whole group or for sections of it, Cochran said. AUTOMATIC COW TAKEN ELIZABETH, X.J. (UPD-A police posse was looking today for the rustlers who stole a big red automatic cow weighing BOO pounds and mure than 6 feet tall. The theft was discovered Sunday when a complaint call came to the New Jersey Auto matic Dairy Service, Inc. Two repairmen went to the location of one outdoor milk dispensing machine and found that some one had carried the machine I oil in broad daylight. OREGON 75th Year, me to youth. the macazine in my I became a Geographic read-: er after my parents imposed an embargo on mv subscription to "Capt. Billy's Whizbang." The Geographic being a highly re spected publication, I could ogle its photographs of tropical de colletage with impunity. The world-wide explorations, expeditions, studies and investi gations sponsored by the society are legion. Some day 1 hope it will underwrite a study of why magazines dated October are published in September, if not in August or July. Such a project would by no means be outside its scope. When it is not contributing to Peary's visit to the North Pole, or to a scaling of Ml. Everest, the Geographic pokes around in obscure nooks and crannies with amazing results. Here are some of the tilings I have learned from the Geograp- Vancouver Fire Loss Set at $23,000 VANCOUVER, Wash. (UPD Loss was estimated at $23,000 today from a fire late Sunday which destroyed the home of the H. E. Huggins family. Two firemen, Vince Meyer and Richard O'Rourke, were treated for smoke inhalation. The blaze apparently started near a clothes drier. The family was away visiting in Salem. N 10 T j AUTOMATIC, WARM 5-YEAR ACRILAN" BLANKET Sit CF! Acrilan Acrylic Machina f ilc Automatic. Color Choico. tt g 80.84" Singli Control, 19.98 34.98 80.84" 2 Controls 24 98 LESS 10 WHENI'PURCHASJP One of West's Favorite Institutions ! ic over the years: Contrary to all that Holly- wood has taught us a fugitive from a chain gang cannot throw the bloodhounds off the scent by wading through a stream. V 7 PKKSIDENT POINTS President John F. Ken nedy points to the glory hole at Whiskeytown Dam and Reservoir near Redding, Calif., Satur day during the dedication ceremonies. Behind nom ANY CREDIT DOS IPUiCIHA INSTANT CREDIT! Open Your Special Night Opening 6:30 and save an extra 10 on all Reg. 27.98 17.98 66.84" TWIN SINGLE CONTROL ON CREDIT. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30. 1963 I Chimpanzees catch termites in much the same way that men i catch fish i Chocolate sodas were in- i vented by the Aztec Indians some time in the 16th century, i i 117 S. Central 773-7301 wily! AY CT. 1 CUMT charge Account at Wards tomorrow! to 9:30. Join the crowds at Wards your credit purchases. "Csquttta" PlHf rn MELAMINE! STYLE HOUSE DINNERWARE SERVES 8 Melamine is stain-and-chip-resist-anl; easy to clean . . , detergent proof. 45-pc. sal. LESS 10 WHEN PURCHASED A 5 These are things a boy nor mally learns from his parents, but mine never had the time to tell me. They were too busy in tercepting my copies of "Whiz- bang." 1 t Kennedy is California Governor Edmund G. Brown. At Kennedy's left is R. J. Pafford Jr., regional director of reclamation. (UPI) "Krlili" P.ft.rn Reg. 18.50 13.88 ON CREDIT. in r . to-1: 1 1 LHfc-.' m
