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PAOE THREE SETAIL COUNCIL ORGANIZED HERE President Roosevelt and Cabinet Pose for Picture necessary support to the publicity program for the following week. Chamber of commerce officials be lieve this to be one of the finest publicity program in w.hlch Med ford ha ever participated and It la expected that New Year'a greetings from the Medford chamber of com merce will be sent to a far greater field than has been the city's priv ilege before. BUILT BY CI AS MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREO OX. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 3. 1034. FU TO Should mother nature In the fu ture pour rain onto the c y c Medford with the generosity the has ahown In sections to the north and south, the retaining wall, now un der construction under tfie CWA along the banks of Bear creek. Is ex pected to do much toward prevent ing the repetition of flood conditions known here in 1927. The fifty men at work on the pro ject, which Is one of fifty-three un der way In Jackson county, are also changing the channel of the creek, which will do still more toward In suring safety here during .high wat er levels. The rock retaining wal), which will also be an attractive addition to the city, will be constructed from Tenth to Jackson street on both sides of the creek. The channel will be widened for considerable distance to prevent the break over, against which constant, although minor ef fort, has been exerted by Vie city during the past six years. In addition to Improving the looks and safety of the Bear creek region, the CWA workers will level the play ground, adjacent to the creek, on the east side, filling In the corner for a rock garden and parkway. All the Improvements are being accomplished with hand labor with exrepttnn of th trucking of rocks to the scene of the project. They are loaded and unloaded by hand, keeping the fifty men at work. Picks and shovels and shiny wheelbarrows. synonymous with other times, when the United States did not have mil lions of unemployed, are much In evidence on the grounds, and they are all in motion. While the men are receiving the work and their pay in real money every week, the city Is at the same time realizing In a gift from the government, as It were, Improve ments which have long been needed and for which municipal funds would have in time been spent if the CWA had not made them pos sible during the present. AH money expended on 1tie project is coming from Washington, D. C, and most of It Is going to hand laborers. FEDERAL AID FOR FARMER WILL BE Notices have gone out from the Regional Credit corporation to all persons who have applied for, and all who have had loans, concerning the meeting here at 10 a. m. Thurs day at the courthouse. County Agent R. a. Fowler stated this afternoon. L. J. Norton oi the Regional Agri cultural corporation, with headquar ters In Spokane, Wash., will be, the chief speaker and a session of bene fit to all Is anticipated. CORVALLIS, Ore., Jan. 3. Orga nization of federal production credit corporations In two regions in Ore gon will be discussed at two meetings this week In southern Oregon, ac cording to notlflcatoln received here today by members of the agricul tural staff of Oregon State college, who have been working with the farm credit administration. The first meeting will be at Med ford, Thursday, January 4, for Jack son, Josephine end Curry counties. The second will be held the next day at Klamath Palls, for Klamath and Lake counties, Both meetings will be In the court house, and each wtl start at 10 a. m. They will be open to all persons In terested In agricultural credit, par ticularly on farms, and to leaders of agricultural organizations. When the production credit asso ciations are set up they will take over the functions of various present gov ernmental agencies which have been handling short term farmers' loans. John A. Sehoonover Is the newly apolnted head of the regional pro duction credit bank at Spokane. The production credit bank is one of four unified agencies under the re organization which will handle all governmental credit to agriculture under a plan similar to that of fed eral loan banks, bringing private cap ital into the cooperative credit struc - ture under governmental sxipervlslon. State collff;? experts explained. Assassin's Victim Buried Rumania BUCHAREST. Jan. 3. fVPr Ion O. Duc-a. assiwlnated Rumanian pre mier, wu burled Tuesday with mili tary pemp. His coffin, adorned with a wreath of red lilies from King Carol, wis borne throuah the street of the cap ita! on a gun csrrlace drawn by etx horses. The Mall Tribune Job Dept. would like to have the adiress of John Elcher, who operatM the Sunset Fur nace and Chimney Co. For FUEL OIL dei.very. Phone J3J Relnking Trucking Co. Pump ad lens hce we give 8 St H stamp President Roosevelt and hit cabinet are shown as they were photographed at the White House. Seated, left to right: George Dern, secre tary of war; Cordell Hull, secretary of. state; the President; William H. Wodin, secretary of the treasury; Homer S. Gumming,, attorney general. Rear row, left to right: Henry A. Wallace, secretary of agriculture; Harold L. Ickes, secretary of the Interior; Claude A. Swanson, secretary of the navy; James A. Farley, postmaster-general; Daniel C. Roper, secretary of commerce, and Frances Perkins, secretary of labor. (Associated Press Photo) CANDACE PANKEY of centra: 10 LAST Candace Pankey, beloved resident of Central Point and southern Oregon, years, passed aay at a local hospital where she had lived for the past 48 Tuesday at 10 a. m., after a lingering Illness of the past several months. She fell arid fractured her hip some time aso, and had never completely recovered from the injury. Her late husband, Obedtah Pankey. passed away on New Years eve of la-st year. She will be remembered by her host of friends throughout south ern Oregon for her though tf illness and her Christian deeds. She was the mother of 10 children, nine of whom ae living, six daugh ters, Mrs. Mary Grieve of Prospect, Mrs. Ouy Tex of Central Point, Mrs. Rose Jackson of Los Angeles, Mrs. Ethel MrKlnzle of Riverside. Cal.. Mrs. Fay Flick of Sacramento. Mrs. Minnie Crance of Medford; sons, Louis Pan key of Ashland, Willis ind Art Pan key of Sprague River, Ore., one step son. Charles Pankey of Azalea, Ore., also several grandchildren. Funeral services will be held from the Perl Funeral Home, Thursday at 3 p. m.. Rev. J. M. Johnson or Cen tral Point officiating. Interment will take place in the Pankey cemetery in Sams Valley. ACTIVE CLUBBERS ON COMMITTEES Committees for the new year were named last night at the meeting of the Active club by the newly elected president, Glen Fabrlck. at the din ner session held at tue Colonial club. They Include: Entertainment, Ken neth Anthony. Howard Leclerc; social, Dr. Dwight Flndley, Jack Walker. Jack Butler, and the newly initiated mem ber. Al Seekatz: membership. Chester Hubbard, Gordon Pratt and Ralph Bailey: publicity, Kenneth Anderson and Wilbert Crum. Plans for the party to be held in the near future, at which the non- charter members will entertain the charter members, were discussed. More definite plans will be made at the next meeting, which will be held TueFday at the Hotel Holland at 6:30 o'clock. P. U. C. RULES OUT UNDERPASS PLEA 8ALEM. Jan. 3. IAP) The pub lic utilities commissioner today dis missed the request of the state .highway commission for permission and authortration for construction of an underbade crossing under the tracks of the Southern Pacific line north of the city limits of Ashland. Protest acainst the plans lor re allocation of the hlchwny and con struction of the crossing had been filed and new plans subsequent to the ordinal application by the highway commission were given as the renfion.for dismissing the pro-oeeedines. PHONE COMPANY STOCK WILL PAY NEAR $5.05 SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 3. ,P The Dow Jones Ticker Service says Pa cific Telephone ansi Telegraph Co. "can be expected to" show earnings of "close to 5.05 a share" on the common stock for 1933. after meet- prior claims, common was In 1932 the 6.25 a share. Ing preferred dividends and other i money. Don't buy calendars and advertis ing novelties now for next year from traveling solicitore. Walt until later to order. The Commercial Printing Dept. of the Mail Tribune will carry complete line and will save you Oregon Weather. Unsettled east and occasional rains west portion tonight and Thursday; snow In mountains: moderate tem perature: fresh south and southwest winds offshore. Heating costs cab be reduced. Fo: complete heating service call Arc Schmtdll. 418-1662. In keeping with the request of the administrator d the national re covery administration a retail trade council was organized last week by the chamber of commerce. It was an nounced by John Moffntt. chairman of the retail trnde committee. The committee selected to the Medford retail council Is as follows: J. R. Woodford, W. F. Isaacs. E. O. Roseborough, Jimmte Valentine. E. E. Wilson, H. A. T'lierolf, Ralph Bur gess ? T. Steward, C. A, Meeker, Le lnd trophy and O. O. Alemlerfer. At the first meeting held laat Fri day. E. E. Wllsm was elected chair man and W. F. Isaacs, vice chair man. A secretary will be elected at the next meetlnn. The local retail trade council Is expected to receive and adjust com plaints filed with it regarding the retail business but those complaints relating to hours and wages or oth er labor provisions of the retail code must be forwarded to the district compliance director In Portland. In other words, it is the duty of Vie retail council to take care of only those matters relating to fair business practices. The local council Is In no sense to be a prosecuting agency nnd its Instructions nro to secure compli ance with the retail code through explanation, conference and adjust ment. Names of the members of the com mittee have beeen submitted to the national retail council, Washington, D. C, and when approved by the administrator a certiflcattion au thorizing the council to perform Its designated functions will be issued. Retail trade councils have been set up in every community throughout the United States and Its through these councils that the administra tion expects the retail code to function. FUEL OIL when you want it. Phone 315, EADS TRANSFER. One of the biggest ideas ever attempted in Medford will be put Into operation next Saturday, January 6t h. it was announced by chamber of commerce officials today. Through the cooperation of the Am ateur Radio Club of Southern Ore gon, a transmitter and receiver la to be installed In the window of t,he chamber of commerce on Saturday and each day for one week an oper ator will be on hand sending New Year's greetings from the Medford chamber of commerco all over the world. The operators will be on duty all day and during the even ing. Those who will send and receive the messages are: E. Caster, Gor don Turner, K. Nichols and R. Mer rlfleld. The members of the Radio Club of Southern Oregon .have during the past few months contacted practic ally every country In the world and It is believed that next week the messages from the Medford chamber of commerre will enter the homes of many foreign countries. An exhibit i of cards from foreign countries will be maintained in the window also during the week. Immediately a contact is made, a card will be forwarded to the party by the Medford chamber of com merce and te recipient also sends a card back. In this woy, during the next few weeks it will be possible to tell how mny ptAres were con tacted and In what countries. ( Another feature of the radiogram publicity service will be that those members of the chamber of com merce who wish a message sent to their friends anywhere in the world may do bo upon application at the chamber of commerce office. Prior to the Installation of the apparatus on Saturday morning ft meeting will be held of the amatuer radio operators on Friday night at 7:00 at the house of Vic Mllnes, 620 Narrlgan street, and ft good attend ance la urged in order to give the Expert Woodsmen Hired For Camps Rogue River national forestry offices today announced that the 30 appli cations for positions of experienced woodsmen in the CCC camps have already been received, and that no more will be taken by the office. The men accepted for the positions will fio to Camps South Fork of Rogue River, Evans Creek, Carberry Creek and Elk Creek. 4 Real estate or Insurance leave It to Jones. Phone 696. SHORTER COLDSg PROVED BY 2 GENERATIONS DR. A. F. KRESSE has moved from Palmer Bldg, to MEDFORD CENTER BLD Rooms 103 and 404 1934 MEMBERSHIPS are now available SWEM'S BOOKCLUB You will Always find new and In terest lug books to read here no matter what your taste may be. 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THERM ALIZING is the name given Shell's combination of processes by which gasoline is made to deliver full power in a cold engine. Origi nally produced under terrific heat, Super Shell is redistilled, made 20 more concentrated. Every gallon for your community is Thermalized for local temperatures. SHELL SERVICE INC. STATIONS AND SHELL DEALERS try TAjzkmafigeet super shell these January mornings!