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PAGE FIVE Arizona Town Stages Gold Rush for Public SHIPS 'PUT IN A GROOVE'; SPEED BOOSTED ONE-FIFTH Awaits Red Move Opera Star Tells of History, Folklorei Behind the Diamond Ring You Treasure, a Blanche Thebom Reveals Superstitions Regarding Gems EVENING HERALD, SHENANDOAH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1957. Ifew By BLANCHE THEBOM Metropolitan Opera Star Written Especially for Central Press Association and This Newspaper NEW VORK There isn't a female breathing who doesn't simply adore jewelry, but I've been luckier than most in being able to acquire quite a collection. To me, however, jewels are not just beautiful symbols of luxury; they have a meaning, too. Have you ever wondered why, of all gems, diamonds are the symbol of devotion and why a man presents a diamond to a woman most often in a ring rather than in a pin or bracelet? Well, it seems that diamonds probably have come to represent the idea of steadfastness in love because they themselves are so hard, so imperishable and indestructible. And rings are the ideal setting for them as an expression of love" because rings are round like true love, they continue on and on without end.

There even seems to be a reason why the engagement or wedding ring goes on a certain finger, the fourth digit of the left hand. In the old days, it was thought that a special vein in this fingerran directly to the heart; by pitting a ring on this finger, the lover was encircling forever the source of the woman's affection for him. Here's how John McMillan's idea works a deep, horizontal groove (1) channels water to propeller, through which it must pass before converging (2) behind ship. In the groove the water creates a "pinching effect" which helps drive craft forward. A flat steel plate (3), extending from the vessel's keel, prevents entrance of water from below, eliminating any drag ordinarily caused by propeller "digging in." fa ST Gold fever knows no ae.

His Arizona fathers before him canned for the glittering dust so does he! By ART CROCKETT 1 me By FRANKLIN JOHNSON Central Press Association Correspondent MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. Some- two fingers of a watermelon seed," that causes it to shoot forward, McMillan explains. The propeller is placed imme- thing new under the waterhne diately at the end of the two promises to put ships' propellers grooves so that the channels of literally "in the groove," and to, water pass through the propeller boost their power and speed as before they converge behind the much as 20 per cent. i ship. This, plus in some cases a What is described by ship de- cone.shaped "housing" around signers as the first major inno- the propeller, produces the jet-vation in ship propulsion in many like force which adds to the for- iv7iut specmuy jot tin rat rress ana inis newspaper WHEN A HARDY German-born prospector named Henry Wicken-burg tossed a rock at a nosy buzzard back in 1863 he stumbled across what later became the Vulture mine, the richest gold lode ever discovered in Arizona.

Some $30 million in bullion was produced before the yellow dust finally waned. What Wickenburg failed to envision was that nearly 100 years later the magic word gold would still attract thousands of '-prospectors" to the town that had sprung up before his eyes and bore his name. One January, for instance, an estimated 15,000 excited tourists squatted at placer ditches along the Hassayampa river and panned for color. The only gold left in the region is of a low-grade variety, assaying at $25 to $30 a ton and mighty hard to come by. However, with a an antique gold and diamond of her remarkable collection.

ANCIENT PEOPLES believed that the diamond had a spirit of its own, that it resented being sold, and must be given freely out of love, which is another rea son why it has probably come to be considered the correct stone for engagement and wedding yeais is the invention of John H. McMillan, of this city, an industrialist who essentially is an "amateur" but a great hobby- 1st nautical mtteis. McMillan did have a chance, however, to give his idea a practical tryout on two towboats operated by the concern he heads, the Cargill company, which is one of the nation's largest waterway users and grain exporters. The results were so good that McMillan has applied for a U. S.

patent. The inventor believes it will be equally applicable to ocean-go ing cargo and passenger vessels lake boats, river tow-boats and pleasure craft. He describes it as "quite simple concept, combm-ing two effects to get the added thrust one jet-like and the other pinch-like." THE NEW DESIGN affects the hull far below the waterhne, so no changes will be seen in the con ventional appearance of a ship using it Some of the problems and principles involved are fami liar to outboard motor users. lward push. A FLAT STEEL plate extend- mg from the keel of the vessel be- neath the two water grooves and beneath the propeller enables the vessel to use only water from the sidesthat is, water that produce the pinch and jet effects to obtain the forward drive.

The flat plate, by denying en. trance to water from beneath the boat, also prevents drag ordinarily caused by a propeller's "digging in." Outboard motor operators also know this as "cavitation," or a futile spinning of the propeller, when the air and the water form a whirlpool around it, and a small semi-plate of this type sometimes has been incorporated into their design, although this is the first time that the principle has been employed for big boats. Variations of the new design are suitable for multi-screw as well as single-screw vessels, and for either deep or shallow-draught operation, the inventor says. With the size and streamlining of modern liners apparently at rings. Those women who, more sensible than look with greater favor on large, perfect diamonds than on smaller, less-than perfect stones, may be spiritually descended from the Hindus.

Ages ago, the Hindus believed that poor diamonds were worse than none at all, and that they could cause jaundice, pleurisy, leprosy, lameness and all manner of other misfortune. As for the ancient belief that a diamond was poison if swallowed, any such attempt today would certainly bring out a doctor though he would probably be a psychiatrist, not a physician. If one has grown weary of a diamond-pensh the thoughts there are more profitable ways of disposing of it than by way of the alimentary canal! discreet sprinkling of about $4,000 worth of richer dust gathered elsewhere by the Roundup club (Chamber of Commerce) the pie-pan prospectors are kept interested and they can keep all the gold they find. The idea started in 1949 when John L. Perkins, a native An- zonian, figured wisely that gold fever plays no Why, he reasoned, should the pleasure of finding gold be confined to hardbitten old sourdoughs? 1 Perkins' thought about that un-! wanted gold developed into Wick-; enburg's Annual Gold Rush celebration, which is held during the last weekend in January.

PREPARATIONS for the big celebration begin early in October. Civic committees are formed and chin stubble is permitted to sprout all male citizens to lend authenticity to the town that still clings to the Old West traditions. Real prospectors who have discovered low-grade ore in the surrounding countryside mark off the locations for the ore committee. The ore is then taken to the ditches along the Hassayampa nver for dumping. Promptly at 9 a.m.

on a Satur PERFECT DIAMONDS, are quite scarce, but there would be more of them in the world today except for the once common belief that a perfect gem could only be broken by goat's blood not A deep, horizontal groove is; the ultimate, the now propeller etched into each side of the ves- principle may be the source of sel's stern to channel water to-1 new trans-oceanic speed records ward the propeller. When the 'of the future. This includes the craft is in motion, the pressure new atomic-powered vessels and of the water inwiard along the submarines now on the drawing grooves has "a pinching effect, boards, since all use the propel-not unlike the pinching between ler-dnven principle. OKINAWA MOTHER JOINS FAMILY Teddy On The Banister He Wouldn't Listen To Knarf And Hiawatha By MAX TRELl Emphasize Blanch Thebom here wears necklace, a treasured part with a hammer and anvil! Ac cording to other traditions, a per feet diamond could be found only at night and that it grew and grew the longer you left it under the soil. As for rings, the ancient Welsh believed that a certain diamond ring would make you invisible if you clenched it, in the palm of your hand.

The British museum has a bronze ring dating to about 500 B.C. which has an eye engraved on the stone; this is supposed to jprotect the wearer against the "evil eye." QUEEN ELIZABETH I had a coronation ring she was supposed to wear whenever she ascended the throne, but it became too tight and had to be filed off. This was considered a disaster, and there' after any bad luck during her reign was attributed to this ring. In the Sixteenth Century, the finger on which you wore a ring depended on your calling life. A doctor wore a ring on his thumb; a merchant, on the index finger; students, the fourth finger, and the little finger was for rings given as pledges of love.

In this era, lovers' rings were worn on the pinkie because this finger is the daintiest and therefore akin to love, the most delicate emotion. The English thought a gold Slim Waist than they ought to be. Another tip for fatties Is this: Don't wear your belt too tight "in BOB3Y FISCHER, 14, of New York, junior chess champion, studies his next move as he awaits a visa) so that he can compete with Russian players. The U. Chess Federation has cabled Communist leader Nikita Khrushchev a reminder of his TV statement urging cultural exchange, along with a request he speed up visas for Bobby and Edmar Mednis, who is intercollegiate champion.

In New Air Post MARSHAL C. Roy Slcmon, Canada's Chief of the Air Staff, is scheduled to take over in Colorado Springs, as deputy commander in chief of the Canadian-U. Air Force command. The post was created carry out integrated operational control of air defense forces of America, Canada and Alaska. Wgcjs a Welcome RICHARD SKELTON, 9, son of comedian Red Skelton, clutches his pet poodle, "Paganini," who was overjoyed to see his ailing master arrive home in Hollywood.

Richard, a leukemia victim whose days are numbered, was on a three-week tour of Europe with his parents and sister to see some of the world before time runs out (International; Visits First Lady A BROAD SMILE on the face of President Eisenhower announces that all is well' with the First Lady after he visited her at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington. Mrs. Eisenhower underwent surgery for an undisclosed ailment, but the White House reported that it was "nothing seri- ous" and she was resting well, iti-t rtttmt i ifiifi i 'til a day morning the gold rush begins. Swarms of "prospectors" are turned loose with their pie-pans, dishes, paper plates and gold pans to get the ore that had been dumped into the water-filled ditcfies the day before. MILLIONAIRES, laborers, clerks, cowboys and Indians squat on their haunches hip to hip, all thoroughly enjoying the gold-fever bug.

Although one '60-year-old woman once walked away from a panning site with $30 worth of gold, no one as yet has struck it voh. Many of the city-bred tourists with cramped muscles train squatting soon discover there is more to see in Wickenburg than the sand the bottom of a pan. mi. i j. lie iiui ae is as common a sigm as the automobile and cowboys swagger along the streets acting as vigilante committees rounding up unwestemized dandies.

There is also the Buckaroo roundup, a rodeo restricted to teenage cowpokes, jack-drilling and mucking contests and stagecoach tours. Althsugh there is much to see in Wickenburg, officials agree that the one thing that attracts tourists is the Gold Rush itself. Teddy slid down so fast, he sailed out the door. At last he Put a flowerpot on Down the Stairs ToHrfw troA tn nniot possible. Everything was going well until at last, just as he was putting his leg over the banister, the flowerpot fell off the milk bottle and the milk bottle fell off the snoebox and the snoebox t.lnnpn nvw nnrt all nf tnpra wpnr.

d0Wn tne stairs It wai late or Teddy to stop nimseir. Down tne Danister ne ont tnr "Stop yourself Knarf. "I can't" yelled Teddy. riw xrnrt nt it anA tmh a y.om Ho mini Scratched and Bruised Knarf and Hiawatha found Tpridv all scratched and bruised 'and covered with black-and-blue marks, "in never do it again." Teddy TEDDY, The Stuffed Bear, was standing at the top of the land-i ing, looking down the stairs. It; was at that moment that Knarf; The Shadow Boy, and Hiawatha, The Wooden Indian Boy, came along.

"HI, Teddy," said Knarf. "How, Teddy!" greeted Hiawatha, which is the same as except that it's in Indian language. Teddy, The Stuffed Bear, returned the greetings of his two friends. "I was just thinking of something," he said to them. Tried to Guess Knarf and Hiawatha tried to guess what Teddy was thinking as he stood at the ton nf the stairs.

They finally gave up. wedding ring rubbed on a sty would cure it Some believed that only your mother's wedding ring would perform this magic, but others admitted no such restrictions. In the county of Lancashire, it was believed that silver rings made from coffin hinges would cure and prevent rheumatism, cramps and fits! LAUGH if you will, but even; the Pennsylvania Dutch of our; country still have remnants of ring superstitions. Rings made of horse-shoe nails, for instance, are supposed to be lucky charms, the good luck inherent in horse-shoes apparently extending to the nails, as well. My favorite superstition in volves using a wedding ring to predict if a girl will marry.

You're supposed to borrow the ring from some happily-married woman and suspend it over a glass of water by a hair from the girl's head. If the ring hits the rim of the glass, the girl is doomed to be an old maid; if it turns around quickly, she will marry, and if it turns slowly, she'll have two husbandsat different times, of course! What I like best about this superstition is that it presents such opportunities for manipulating the result to suit, Slays Father of 5 HELPED by a matron, Mrs. Beatrice E. CasteUuzzo (left), 34, a divorcee and mother of two children, leaves the courthousa Portland, Me, after her arraignment Mrs. CasteUuzzo is being held in connection with, the fatal shooting of James R.

Speirs, Jr 36, also divorced and father of five. International) His 95th Goal AMOSAtONZO STAGC, grand old man of five gridiron, holds a football beartnylhe numeral "95" as an indication nis 95th i birthday, which will be cele-1 bra ted in Stockton, Calif, Aug. 16. (International Soundphoto) Il mm I It it jjl "I was thinking," said Teddy, iP 01 we miiK Doiue on top oi "that the banisters on these stairs the shoebox and stood on one leg aren't just for holding on when at tne toP of tne flowerpot, you walk up or down. They're fori This time he just managed to sliding down.

jreach the top of the banister MRS. AIKO AZUMA TAYLOR of Okinawa smiles happily as she is reunited with her chiltiren, Maria, 6, and Helen, 4, in the Waltham, home of her late husband's ex-wife, Mrs. Edith Taylor, who looks on in background. While on duty in Okinawa, Karl Taylor divorced Edith to wed Aiko. When he died of cancer, the first Mrs.

Taylor brought Aiko's children to her New England home to raise as Americans, but the youngsters wanted their mother, so she sent for Aiko too. (Boston Record-Sunday Advertiser International) TELL US ABOUT AMERICA! "Oh no, they aren't!" said Knarf. "Not eood slide down banister" said Hiawatha. "Better to slide down tree." But Teddy insisted that sliding down the banister was sure to be: lots of fun. Laterthatmorning while Knarf and Hiawatha were sitting their they were startled by a series of 20th Ctntury Pos A WIDE LEATHER BELT is worn by attractive Movie Star Virginia Leith to emphasize her waist and give separates a costume look.

By JEANNE D'ARCY BELT'S a big word in fashlonicontrast will only call attention has been for some time. to measurements that are more thumps. They rushed out te the Half-way down, Teddy saw hall just to time to see tteteiKnarf and Hiawatha come rush-friend Teddy come tumbling ing ouL That's because top designers, have taken these waistline' markers in hand and given them oowu meBvairs AUCJ ILlkCU 111111 U. "I'm not hurt," he said. "You were sUding down banister!" said Knarf.

I un no, i wasn saw reaay. he saUed straight out of the ke Idoor and landed in a small mul- Well, id Teddys" washer? tree outside.The next min-startlng to cUmb up to the banis-'ute he feU of the tree. ier wnen i must nave iauen on. i "Better not do it aeain." said Knarf. 0' He Supped Atwry They made Teddy come with them and help them make bows the deluxe treatment.

They're, It will give you that bag-of-smart accessories that have1 laundry-tied-ln-the-middle look. worked themselves into the same Not pretty! Instead, wear it corn-category with handbags, fortably loose, hats and other finishing touches tjso jjen Loops for costumes. I Fat or thin, be sure you use To Emphasize Waist ibelt loops. They're put on dresses, 'There's nothing like a belt for skirts, slacks and shorts for a calling attention to a tiny waists! reason. It's to keep your belt line what slim girl doesn't know-neatly where it belongs, around this trick? She can choose her the waistline.

Minus loops, belts belt, slim or wide, in brilliant are apt to ride up or slide down bright pastels, glowing orange and neither is chic. -and be sure it's a beauty asset. I Often leather belts come with Her plump sister has to be a frock. In the course of time, carefful. A contrasting color belt' they're apt to get a bit worn, eren is out.

Bright shades aren't the'out of shape. right line for her to take aroundj When they do, discard them the waist, either. and invest in new belt. A bat- She's wiser to wear a self -belt, 'tered one detracts from your one that matches her dress. Any, smart appearance.

If Vw arrows, but aftera while he said. managed to slip away. He tip-) "You mean slide down the ban-toed up to the top of the stairs, lister?" said Knarf. "I'm still going to slide down "I mean, fall out of a tree," that banister," he said to himself, said Teddy. The banister was high over his Knarf and Hiawatha got the head.

Teddy dragged over a marks off with box and stood on it. It still wasn't soap and water, high enough. So he put a milk That's one of the good things bottle on top of the shoebox and about being a Teddy Bear. You It still wasn't high enough. can wash off all your bruises.

ANNE HOBSON of Richmond, Is center of a sidewalk throng in Moscow as she is queried about America at the World Youth festival. The Russians, it seems, are eager fot uuoiiii jn about the U. S. and American ways. (International Soundplwto).