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The Times from San Mateo, California • Page 27

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24--San Mateo Times Monday, May 11, 1959 One Of the Best Government Buildings Designed for $500 By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) Things, a columnist might never know if he didn't open his mail: The average U.S. wife today can look forward to being a widow for 10 years. Her actual life span is only six to seven years longer than that of her husband, but she usually marries a man three years older than herself. James Hoban, the man who designed the White House, was paid only $500 for the job--one of the best government investments in history. Wisdom in capsule: "Recessions begin and end in the minds of G.

Mortimer, president of General Foods. Do you have trouble sticking to a diet? Some snakes can live from one to two years without food. They absorb the fat from their own bodies. The price of cartoon comedy zoomed. Thirty years ago Walt Disney could produce a Mickey Mouse one-reeler for $7,000.

Now an animated one reel film costs $60,000 or more. How vital is blood to you? It amounts only to about one sixteenth to one twentieth of your body weight. But ordinarily the loss of one third of your blood, unless replaced, will cause death. Lightning Odds The odds against lighting striking your television antenna during a thunderstorm range from 10 million to 1 to 220 million to 1, depending on how many sets there are in your community. So quit worrying! Remember the famous poem about the purple cow? It ended, "I'd rather see than be one." Actually, the only animal purple in color is the blesbok, a small South African antelope.

A good wife and a happy home life are a man's best forms of mental health insurance. Nearly 90 per cent of the men admitted to mental hospitals are unmarried. Our quotable notables: "The If Baldness Ached You'd See Us MIGHTY FAST! S. I. TUROFF Director, 9 Calif.

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(Suite 211) NO APPOINTMENT NECESSARY Hours: Daily 11 A.M.-8 P.M.; 10 A.M.-3 P.M.; Closed Wed. woman's work that's never done, says Dorothy Shay, "is most like ly the work she asked her hus band to do." America's sweet tooth seems 1 be getting sweeter. More tha 2000 types of candy are turne out yearly in this It's billion dollar business. Cane made of honey, spices, an chopped nuts and fruits was sol in Egypt as early as 1500 B.C. Women now outnumber men i 100 to 98.4.

But they can still ou talk them two to one! Largest Organ Can you name the largest 01 gan of the human body. It's th skin. And, except for the brain it is perhaps the most compl cated. Consioling fact: Despite hig prices, the average American ca buy nearly three times as muc food an hour's pay as grandfather could back in 19H Infant mortality is still a bi problem down on the farm. Twen ty-three per cent of all pigs di before they are weaned.

Marital bargain: The owner the famed Meramec Caverns a Stanton, is offering free un derground weddings during June But what couple wants to star with a marriage on the rocks? No matter how bad the weatl er is where you live, the man ir the moon has it worse. Luna temperatures vary from 215 de grees above zero in the down to 240 degrees below zero ir the dark. It was Robert Louis Stevenso who observed: "So long as love we serve; so long as we ar loved by others, I would almos say that we are indispensable and no man is useless while has a friend." Julie Andrew! Wed in London LONDON (UPD--Julie Andrews 23, of "My Fair Lady" fame too off from London Airport toda with her new husband, Tony Wa ton, for a California honeymoon The actress, who capture American and British audience as Eliza Doolittle, was capture herself by her childhood sweet heart Saturday. They were mar ried at St. Mary's Church, nea the Thames River at Oatlands Three thousand cheering fan created such a traffic jam arounc the church that Stanley Holloway who brought down the house every time he sang "Get Me to Th Church on Time," nearly didn make it.

Miss Andrews herself was nin minutes late for the ceremony be cause of the crush of fans. Negroes, Whites Clash in England ECCLES, England (API--Gang of white and Negro youth clashe with knives and brass knuckles a bloody street fight here Sunda; night. Two white boys were hospitalized with stab wounds. A Ne gro was treated for head injuries. Police broke up the fight ant hauled in several youths for questioning.

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Brown's water program is unde fire in the Senate. And plainly th administration is not going to ge its full 256 million dollar tax pla through without a fight. Up to this point, the Legislator has shown surprising cordialit toward Brown's first year pr gram. Brimming with good wil the governor has developed an maintained excellent relations wit most lawmakers of both parties Critical Period The next and final six weeks the session will be critical fo Brown's major objectives. The are: to get enough new revenu to balance the state budget an to start building the long-discusse water projects.

The governor has scored signi icant victories on FEPC, repeal of cross-filing, consumer's counsel, smog control and 65 mile pe hour highway speed. He has take lickings on a minimum wage anc a Purity of Elections act. The water dispute is enough strain any honeymoon. Brown ha a powerful selling job ahead an issue rippling with politica and sectional complications. He must convince at least senators--and then the Assembl and California voters, in tha order--to accept his billio Baby Survives 3-Story Fall SAN FRANCISCO (AF--A 16 month-old baby survived a fa from a third-story window Sunday although he suffered serious in juries.

Mrs. Celia Mingus told polic she was romping on the bed wit her son, Dorian, and turned awa from the infant for a moment. She turned back just as Dorian ran to the unscreened, low-sillec window and tumbled out. The boy landed on a dirt path, 45 feet be low and only inches from a con crete walkway. The baby was taken to Mission Emergency Hospital for treat ment of head, back and interna injuries.

Twins Chosen BeautyQueens At Palo Alto PALO ALTO (AP)--Judges a the Miss California pageant in Santa Cruz will look twice at Miss Palo Alto. The Palp Alto contender for thi Miss California crown will be twins--Patricia Norma and Leisha Jane Gullison. The girls, 19-year-old daughters of Mrs. Elsie Gullison of Menlo Park, were picked in the Saturday night Miss Palo Alto finals sponsored by the Junior Chamber of tommerce. "There's no rule against enter- ng twins," said Alvin Janklow Junior Chamber president.

"AI we'll have to do is pay a double entrance fee." The Gullison girls are identical dark-haired twins with identica measurements--36-24-36. Bride Killed In Collision BATTLE MOUNTAIN, Nev. AP) Two new cars one en route from California to Ohio and he other en route from Ohio to California--collided on flat desert and east of here Sunday, killing bride of 24 hours. Dead is Mrs. Harriett Jean Strother Burt of nd Van Wert, Ohio.

She had seen married only the day before it Pittsburg to Robert Keely Burt, 4. The couple was en route to 'an West on a honeymoon. Burt, ireman for the Continental Can 'o. in Pittsburg, was cut and ruised. The Burt car and one driven by ack Schmidt of Wooster, Ohio, rashed headon in the center of J.S.

Highway 40. Schmidt was eriously hurt. His wife, 14-month- Id baby and passenger 1 escaped ith cuts and bruises. Constable Marvin Syme of Bate Mountain said it appeared ichmidt may have- fallen asleep. 'e said Burt told him he saw the ncoming car swing into the iTong lane, so swung his own car the opposite side in an effort to void the crash.

The two cars met the center line. Barbara Whiting And Ad Man Marry BEVERLY HILLS (AP) Relaves of Barbara Whiting, 37, have isclosed her marriage to adver- sing man, Gail Smith. The ceremony was performed Thursday night. was the first marriage for the actress, a sister if singer Margaret Whiting and iie second marriage for Smith, 41. The couple will live at Bloomfield Hills, a Detroit suburb.

dollar bond issue for the biggest water undertaking ever conceived. Brown says he thinks he has the votes. His opponents challenge this. (If you add up both claims, you come up with more senators than elected.) The governor is trying to put his water financing over without" plunging the Legislature into renewed bickering over a constitutional amendment on water rights or contracts. Can't Afford Delay "We cannot afford to disagree for another year," he It's evident, however, that California's North--with the water-and South--with the population- still don't trust each other.

Each side 'continues to demand conditions or terms. Brown's task is to persuade these factions that: There is plenty of surplus water in the North; the South won't drain the North dry, and the North won't turn the tap off once the facilities are built. A group of northern senators balked right off when Brown increased the proposed bond issue from 960 million to. its present size. They are drafting amendments which they feel are necessary to safeguard northern rights.

South io Caucus Brown contends his program would protect both the areas of origin and the areas of import, chiefly the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California. The northern bloc is far from satisfied with these assurances. The Southern California caucus meets Tuesday night to decide on its course; It previously whittled down its demands for a water rights constitutional amendment to one to guarantee the sanctity of state project water contracts. Some legislators are gloomy about Brown's chances of working out a stttlement in the closing weeks of the session, with all the distractions of side issues? But the governor, with typjjgjl bustling confidence, is staking political prestige on they're wrong. It may mean setting his record of harmony.

says, however, nothing is important to California's, than seeing to it then is water for everyone. OPEN 8a.m. Till lOpJn. 5 FREE DELIVERIES DAILY SUNDAY 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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