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PAGE EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 26. 1936. E LOSS OF RESIDENTS HERE The house shortage that hai pre vailed here tor the past year and halt has now reached the acute atage and the city la losing potential resi dents because of tho laclt ot desirable rental quarters, it was stated today by Clinton Spencer, manager of the real estate department of Brown White. The Brown it White agency today had only two rental listings on Ha books, the tewest In nine years, jar, Spencer said. Both were In the higher brackets, one being a furnished dwell ing listed at $42.50, and the other an unfurnished residence at t48. "During the past week two fam ilies told me they were moving on to another city because they could not obtain a suitable home here," Mr Spencer said. "And I know of at least two other couples who have been Hv ini in a hotel for weeka because they cannot find a dwelling. They can't move to another place because the men were transferred here on Busi ness." Tho acute shortage la not due to an influx ot transient fruit labor, air. Hneneer asserted. "We watch our rentals very closely and have not rented a house to Inula transient this season," Mr. Spencer stated. Other agencies reported similar conditions. The Carl V. Tengwald Agency today had only al listings, all unfurnished houses, ranging up ward to 57.60 a month. Only three of them were listed under 25. "We could easily rent a number of modern, doslrable homes," Mra. Teng wald said. "Willie the greatest de mand Is for homes of moderate rent als, there is also a steady request tor residences In the 40 to 50 classifi cation." Renters, however, demand modern homes with up-to-date facilities. If they are to pay 935 or more a month they expect a central beating plant, tiled bathroom and the most modern ot kitchens, Mrs. Tengwald related, adding that they can procure such homes In cities comparable to Med ford. Renters today want no rambling house with old-fashioned construc tion find waste space of no utility, realtors agreed. While there Is some demand for spacious dwellings with three or more bedrooms, the ordinary eall ia for houses of five or six rooms, they said, but emphasis Is always placed on modem construction and up-to-date appointments and facili ties. BOOKS ON TRAVEL CHOICE OF LIFERS AT FORT MADISON, la. (UP) Per haps due to their narrow environ-; znent, prisoners of Iowa state penl- I tentlary spend many of their leisure hours reading travel books of far- away places, a survey of the penal In stitution's reading habits reveals. Prison officials note that short tenners usually read for amusement and recreation only. The long-term-era turn to more serious non-fiction material, such as philosophy, a check of circulation figures In tho prison library discloses. Literary and news magazines, too, receive the heaviest ; demand from bank-robbers and lifers,! although lighter periodical material Is available. More than 0500 volumes are avail able to the prison's population. Total book and magazine circulation for each month is near the 13.000 mark.) One-third of the total monthly clr- dilation la In hooks, while two third a of the convict library patrons check out current mngnzlnee. The mngazino circulation in the prison library mm beyond 7000 peri odicals a month. More than 350 mag azines are received by tho peniten tiary each month. A fiction catalogue, classified ac cording to author, and a nln-flctlon guide, clssnlfled according to subject matter and author, Is presented to each new Inmate when he Is ''drenacd In." A select group of convict ap pointed by the warden, serve as libra rians. News books are purchased from a fund contributed by sightseers, who are charged 2fl cents to tour the Iowa prlnon. Iate books are purchased In Inexpensive binding and are rebound In the prison bindery. Of the 3010 books In circulation during Mny, 1030. fiction volumes led In popularity, with 2900 being check ed out to Individual cells. Texts per taining to useful arts were next In popularity with the convict readers. With most of the prisoners confined for a long, long time, world travelers' descriptions of tropical Isles, strange places and peoples receive a heavy de mand. Othrr subjects which found favor with the Inmates, In order of their popularity, were: History, sociology, natural science, ethics, religion, fine art and philosophy. OUR ADl", 7. . make ?...ri n""1 Vnrncei " "V .Wi e '"' vnlnn lth 'mv of.RL r uniiiii.mm n US CALLED TO LAST REST John David Skinner, S4, pawed away at a local hospital, August 38. He waa bom In Carroll county, Mls alMippi, February 18, 1852. Mr. Skin ner's flrat marriage waa to Jan to Hill, February 17, 1876 at Grand View, Texas, and two children survive this union, Jessie Franklin Skinner, El Puo, Texas, and Jeffle J. Skinner, Medford, Ore. His wife passed away in November, 1883. Hla aecond mar riage waa to Mary Elizabeth Hodge. October 10, 188Q at Mulllns, Mill county, Texas. Three children were born to this - union, Ester Vistula Chapman who passed away In April, 1028, Robert Arlon Skinner, Medford, and Mrs, Johnnie Inda Adams of Porterville, California. He Is survived by his wife Mary Elisabeth and the above children, also nine grand children and two great grand children, one brother. Larkln Eaaton Skinner, Fletcher, Oklahoma, and one sister, Mrs. Flora Weathered, Rockdale, Texas. Mr, and Mrs. Skinner lived one year In Milts county, Texas, moving to their ranch at Rotan, Texas and living there from February 1888 to 1009 when they moved to Medford. For many years he was a member of the Baptist church. He was a large stock rancher In Fisher county, Texas. He was a member of Fisher ledge No. 703, Roby, Texas. Later demo ting to Rotan lodge No. 930, then dcmlttlng to Medford lodge No. 103 on taking up his residence In Med ford, March 18, 1010. He also be longed to Crater Lake chapter R. A. M. and Table Rock council No. 15, and was greatly Instrumental In helping finance the present lodge building. i Funeral services will be held at the Perl Funeral Home, Friday at 2:30 p. m Rev, W. H. Eaton officiating. Interment In Medford I. "O. O. F. cemetery. Services at the graveside will be In charge of Medford lodge No 103, A. F. & A, M. Mr. Skinner's son, Jessie Franklin Skinner of El Paso, Texas, and daugh ter Mrs. Johnnie Tnda Adams, of Porterville, California will come to attend his funeral. f Old School at Fort. OLD POINT COMFORT, Va. (TJP) The Coast Artillery school at Fort Monroe Is the oldest military specialty training school in tne country, hav- ; lug been organized In 1834. and In I continuous existence ever since. Edgar Allen Poe was enrolled In the school for a short time In 1838 under tho assumed name of E. A. Ferry. Blame for Headache. L )NDON, Ont. (UP) The "morn ing after" headache Is caused by spinal fluid, Dr. J. Milton Robb, of Detroit, told the Ontario Medical as sociation at lta annual meeting here. He said alcohol promotes the secre tion of the fluid, and either too much of It, or too lltlfl; causes headaches, Closing Urns for Too Late to Clae slfy Ads Is 1:30 p. m. Fate In Doubt Dr. George Wallace Humphrey of the Spanish department of the Uni versity of Washington mailed a let ter In war-torn Bilbao. Spain, July 10 and hss not btn heard from since. His family feara ha hss met with trouble In tht civil war. (Asso ciated Presa Photo) ll I If 1 1 llll I I f li l I I Gulden Wedding 90 PROOF-BLENDED STRAIGHT WHISKIES -BOURBON PINT 1.10 No. 300 QUART $2.15 3 distinctive whiskies blended Into Ameri ca's finest whiskey. AVAILABLE IN OREGON Also CORONET Distilled Dry Gin 55 L It p...!. DIHUl.s frta IC0 REBEL COMMANDER IN SPAIN INSPECTS TROOPS General Mola, 8panlah rebel commander, Inspects troops drawn up In Burgos, Many of the soldiers it Burgos are former members of the 8panlsh civil guard who went over to the Insurgents. Note the toreador-like caps worn by the troops. (Associated Press Phot FRANTIC EFFORT TO SAVE HARVEST (Continued from Page One) around a 400-acra field, separated from the Inundated area by a low c'ike. In, nn effort to harvest as much of the uncut grain as possible be- fore the water breaks through. There was littlo hope of continuing this operation beyond noon today. ' More Land Pangered. Efforts were made to strengthen the dikes to hold the water In the Cox brothers lease. Hasktns broth on the north, were particularly In danger, Both have rich harvests ot ore on the south and Louis Kandra grain. Tills Is all government land, theor etically In the sump which was set eslde when Tula lake was drained for reclamation purposes. It has been leased to private operators, who havo thrown up dikes against the water to confine It In a smaller sump of about 10,000 acres. Increasing mois ture and Irrigation run-off has add ed to the water Impounded In the actual sump until It could no longer hold It, and Tule lake, once a 06,000- acre body of water, spread out over more of Its old lake bed at the ex pense of the grain growers, who ex pected this year one of the blggesi cash returns from their crop In the history of the basin. L. J. Bran, director of the Paciflo wooden box campaign, with head quarters In Klamath Falls, was tho main speaker today before the Lions club at their non luncheon. Bean stated that the wooden box move ment la gaining momentum rapidly, and that thousands of persons di rectly or indirectly affected by the timber Industry, are demanding their merchants buy supplies boxed In wooden contolners. Ho said that many of tht cheap tibre boxes now In us, are shipped into this country duty free, and con stitute a menace to the lumber trade. Carol Hays was In charge of en tertainment, and presented sound movies of the construction of the big San Francisco bay bridge from start to present development. Hay is manager of the. Associated Oil com nany here, and the films were through the courtesy of that company. Walter Rtchert, district manager of union state Life Insurance company, waa guest at the meeting. arala n.virel islrlta 90C rKINt STATE SAYS BEDE "Taxpayers In counties that had i heavy tax delinquency during the de pression are realizing the danger In the proposed state power measure that will be up In the November elec tlon," said Elbert Bede, Cottage Orove newspaperman, who was a visitor here today. Mr. Bede, who represents Oregon Business and Investors, a state-wide organization, said that In his swing over the state he has found counties that would have had to default on bond payments except for tax pay ments by utilities. "They didn't pay dividends, but they kept their taxes paid," said Mr. Bed e. "With state ownership of millions and mil lions of dollars of property now own ed by power utilities, many millions would be taken from the tax rolls, the burden to go to remaining taxpay ers, many of whom would have to default during another depression. "I have found business interests generally opposed to the state going Into business,' said Bede. "The sen timent Is to gat the best power rates that can be secured through legal means which we already have and to let private utilities have power de veloped by Uncle 8am, rates to the users to be based upon the prlco ot power delivered to such private util ities." FURNITURE DEALERS TO DISCUSS CREDIT SALES PORTLAND, Aug. 36. (AP) J. King Bryon, managing director of the Retail Furniture Dealers 'of Oregon. said a state-wldo meeting will be held here September 15 to discuss long term' credit "plain business- suicide" and said sentiment was developing for curtailment of credit extension to not more than 18 months. FRED KELLY IS NAMED ROOSEVELT CLUB HEAD PORTLAND, Aug. 36. (ff Fred C. Donaugh, director of Roosovelt-for- Presldent clubs, appointed county di rectors today. Including O. P. Mc- Cord. Baker; Fred W. Kelly. Medford; Charles H. Mack. Klamath Falls. Frank Brooks, LaQrande, and I. E. Snyder, Enterprise. Veterinarians say many "mad" dogs are merely doga running around look ing for a drink of water In hot wea ther. Closing time for Too Late to Clas slfy Ads la 1:30 p. m. 7-e XT T. T 1 ;tJ.-f. 90 PROOF-STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY For those whfl n atch pennies yet relish teat luxury, Kentucky's old time diititlers have n ideal Bourbon thii "douMr rich" itrainhl whiskey Schcn Icy'i Cream of Kentucky! AVAILABLE IN OREGON FARE POORLY IN (Continued from Pago One) the Townsend candidate, who ran on the Republican ticket, led Carl Hln ahaw, 2375 to 3083 In 186 of 535 pre cincts. Rep. Hoeppel dropped to third place among 10 candidates seeking the Democratic nomination In re turns from 109 of 488 precincts. The Democratic leader waa H. J. Voorhls, San Dlmaa teacher, who had 2136 votes. . In this same district, the Towns end backed Republican candidate, W. R. Peeler, trailed F. F. Houser, Al hambra attorney, 036 to 1857. Downey Plsuppolntcd Downey, In conceding defeat to Buck, expressed himself as deeply disappointed, not chiefly because of my personal loss, but because of the refusal of the voters to accept the economic - principles which I espouse," From S. J. Margett, state Townsend mcnoger, came a statement declaring tho final figures would show 14 en dorsees qualified for the November general election. Townsend -backed Incumbents who had good leads or were not opposed for their party's nomination were Reps. Harry Englebrlght, R. J. Welch, A. B. Carter, B. W. Gearhart, Repub licans: J. J. McGrath, H. E. Stubbs, J, If. Tolan, and Charles Kramer, Demo crats Townsend -opposed Incumbents who had no party opposition or establish ed Impressive lends were Florence P. Kahn, and S. L. Collins, Republicans; C. P. Lea, Buck, McOroarty, Thomas Ford, John M. Costello, J. F. Dock well er, Charles J. Golden, and Byron n. ecott. Lea Trailing Nelson B. Van Matre, Townacndlte candid a to In the first district, led Rep. Clarence F. Lea 12.703 to 10,700 for the Republican nomination on returns from 415 of 749 precinct. Lea, a Democrat, waa unopposed, for that party's nomination. Harry R. SheppaiU. Townsend can didate, was far ahead of Rep, Sam L. Collins, Republican, for Democra tic nomination In the nineteenth district. The vote In, 376 of 761 pre cincta waa Sheppird 10,667; Cell Ins, 3200. Collins had a two to one lead over his nearest opponent for the Republi can nomination. WW I fcfsgtrl IB STATE PLANNERS TO STUDY NEEDS OF COUNTY HERE ' (Continued from Psge One) problems will be discussed bj J. C. Moore, chalrmAn of the land use committee of the state planning board, Herbert P. Byram, research as sistant, and V. B. Stanbrey, executive secretary. Otiiera scheduled to speak at the afternoon session Include Olen Am aplger, manager of the Medford and Talent Irrigation districts. Reed Car ter, secretary-treasurer of the Grants Pass irrigation district, E. H. Judd, manager of the Eagle Point and Rogue River irrigation districts, snd p. J. Hayden, supervisor of. Irrigation In the Klamath basin. The Jackson oounty planning com mission la preparing to present a numer of matters to the meeting and It la expected that other districts will do likewise. Public officials of Jackson, Jose phine, Douglas and Klamath counties have been Invited to the luncheon and afternoon meeting. The Ashlsnd Chamber of Commerce is planning to be represented by a delegation. The public meeting Is to conclude at 4:30. Members of the stats board will then be escorted on a motor tour of the valley so that they may pro cure fLrst-hand knowledge of lrrlgt tlon, farming -and mining require ments here. i Members of the board will remain here overnight. They will leave Satur day morning for Grants Pass where the board will meet again. Members of the board expected to attend the sessions here are Ormond R. Bean, Portland, chairman; o. J. Buck, Portland, regional United States forester, vice chairman; Jamie-son- Parker, Portland, secretary; J. w. Burns; Judge Guy Boylngton, Astoria; Leonard Carpenter, Medford; E. W. Miller. Marshfleld: Prof. Philip A. Parsons. Eugene. Also attending will be V. B. stanbery, executive secre tary, and C. W. Reynolds, executive assistant. Those-at the conference thla morn ing that made arrangements for the board meeting here were County Judge Earr B. Day. County Commissioners Ralph Billings and h: A. caster, Mr. Carpenter, Mr. Arnsplger, president of the Jackson ounty Chamber of Commerce, and Paul Rynnlng, coun ty engineer. Mr. Reynolds Is due to arrive here tonight. He will confer tomorrow re gardl.ig the board meetings here with A. H. BAnwell, chamber manager. . IN SACE TITLE MIXUP The county courts of Jackson and Josephine counties. District Attorney George A. Codding, and State Sena tor Jnmee Chlnnock of Grants Pass, attorney for the state land board, will visit the federal transient cump ftt STRAIGHT WHISKEY AS 'YOU PREFER IN BOURBON OR RYE 14 YoiTdon't have to be Rich to enjoy Rich whiskey Why spend a barrel of money? OldQuakergives a barrel of quality in every bottle and it doesn't take a barrel of money to buy it. You'll prefer it. 90 PROOF AVAILABLE IN OREGON Sciienley Dtimbutori, lnc. New Yotk. Savags Rapids this afternoon, In in effort to straighten out a tangle aris ing out of the sale of a portion of the land. The project was a Joint one between Jackson and Josephine counties, but all the land la located In Jackson county. When the transient camp was es tablished, according to the district at torney, a portion of the buildings were located by error on atate-owneo land. A Callfornlan entered Into a contract with the state land board for purchase of the state land, not knowing It waa occupied by the tran sient camp, now abandoned. District Attorney Codding said It was his Im pression the power plant was on the property In question. During tho recent honwmakers' rec reational camp held at the site, the error was discovered, aad brought to the attention of the county court. County Judge Earl B. Day said sn effort would be made to have the contract to sell rescinded and have the land revert to the county. Use Mall Tribune-want ads. -oVCIEJD Schilling TCcl has morc flavor because Ws toasted MEDICINE MAN FIRST ON THE MARKET... FIRST IN DEMAND! Moiquitoe.,, flies, moths and other Inject pasts disappear from your horn, when you use fragrant Fly.Tox. GUARANTEED GREATER STRENGTH. (Th Gtituln.) Fierce In his paint and rai ment, weird In his ceremonial , dance, the pagan medicine man played upon the superstition, fear, and Ignorance of his fel low men to kill more often than cure. Today, modern science has re placed quackery. , The physi cian Is forever tracking down diseases, learning their origin, and discovering scientific rem edies for them. We cooperate with the physicians of this community by translating their ' prescriptions Into scientific medicines and by stocking the drugs, biological s and, surgical Items needed In their work
