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MEDFORD MSTL TTHBUKE. rEDFOKD. OttEOpy, THURSDAY. AUGUST 5. 1937. PAGE SETENT OF PLAY CENTERS Park Service Sets Up Or ganization To Study Rec reational Needs, Facilities Plan Has Four Phases. PORTLAND (Spl) The nation wide recreational atudy announced recently by the secretary of the In terior, Harold L. Ickea, la underway for Oregon. The national park 'serv ice with offices here Is directing the work. . An act of the 74tb congress au thorizing a recreational study on a national scale Is permanent legisla tion and Its results will likewise be permanent In effect. The atudy Ickes eald, Is the most far-reaching of Its kind ever attempted In the United States. Gov. Charles H. Martin accepted Secretary Ickes' offer to cooperate In this undertaking and called atten tion to a long-time program of state recreational development formulated by the Oregon state parks commis sion. Work Organized This undertaking Is an outgrowth of emergency conservation work co operation between the federal gov ernment and the states through which hundreds of state park and recreation areas nave been extended and developed by the civilian conser vation corps since 1933. Using emergency funds, the na tional park service has set up under Its branch of recreational planning and state cooperation a basic organ ization for initiating the atudy. It la the hope of the national park service to enlist the assistance of the Oregon state planning board and ether state, private and federal agen cies concerned with planning for present and future recreational development. Pour-Fold Study In Oregon the study will Include (1) the gathering of data relating to existing parks and facilities: (3) a study of social. Industrial and pop ulation trends: 18) an inventory of potential park, parkway and recrea tional areas; and (4) a formulation of definite plans and recommenda tions for meeting the present and future recreational needs of the peo ple, covering further development of existing areas, legislation, finance, administration and maintenance. The atudy. It was emphasised, will have Immense value In connection with emergency conservation work activities in that It provides for plan ning to produce master development programs for 30 to SO years In the various states. This procedure. It was pointed out, Is In Una with President Roosevelt's plan for a na tional program for recreation. It was further emphasized, now that there Is a definite authority for a closer cooperation between the federal, government and the states, that It la expected state and local park, parkway and reereatlonal-area planning will receive greater consid eration and that the work will be systemlsed and correlated on a state, regional and nation-wide basis. THREE PRACTICE BABES AT SCHOOL THIS FALL CORVALLI8, Aug. 5. (AP) Three babtea instead of two will be under the care of senior students in home economies at Oregon State college next winter as the result of arrange ments to maintain three home man agement houses where coeds serve as foster mothers. Increase In the senior class, each girl of whom Is required to spend six weeks in one of the training homes with five other coeds, made necessary adding the additional house. This will increase the train ing capacity from 72 to 108 students per year. GRANTS PASS CHROME GOES TO PENNSYLVANIA PORTLAND, Aug. 5. (AP) Two hundred tons of chrome ore from the Grants Pass region, the first to pass through Portland since the world war, awaited shipment At the municipal terminal, today. It Is consigned to Pennsylvania for use in tne manufacture of stain less steel. Pullman 'Tourist Sleepers A.IR-COJ with Economy lAJ-f lillava' - PORUANDROSE PA "ZZZZS "i law " " ... T3 a4 1 una . 46.00 7 OO Dnve ; ; . B7.60 7Jo0 OvioM ' 1 u, Coaches, Mil' low."'.,,.,ar.UmaM1 rort,a V O"- TZ-y SHIPaND Sdeuniohpauiii. Attractive New Home for Nurses in Mf - i x, K - .. Finn ak'LJ IsUftSa' HOME. EAST. ORE TUKRCULOS1S HOSftTAL The new nurses' home at the Eastern Oregon tuberculosis hospital at The Dalles was completed with PWA funds. Situated on the crest of a hill. It orer looks m rich furmlng country. CHEVROLET PRICES ADVANCE SATURDAY NIGHT, AUGUST 7TH Word of an advance In th prices A Chevrolet cars vras received here today by C. M. Hunt, one of the owners and general manager of Rogue River Chevrolet, Inc., Medford dealers. The time set for this price to become effective Is midnight Saturday night, August 7th, the fac tory telegram ststed. "We "are fortunate In having the largest stock of 1937 models on our floor In the history of this concern" Mr. Hurd said today. "Since these cara were purchased at the former price, we will offer them to southern Oregon people at present, lower prlcea until the Saturday night zero hour arrives," he announced. Just how much the Chevrolet price advance will be has not been made public by the Chevrolet Motor company. PLAN PEONY GARDEN FOR STATE COLLEGE CORVALLIS, Aug. 8. (AP) A peony garden containing 300 named varieties will be established this fall on the Oregon State college campus as the result of a gift of planting stock made by Howard E. Weed of Beaverton. The planting will be used both for decorative and experimental purposes. . Blooms from the planting will ae used In experiments In preserving cut peonies, while the many var ieties will make possible testing the suitability of the different kinds for various commercial purposes. DIAMOND BRACELET IS " QUEENS BIRTHDAY GIFT BALMORAL. Scotland, Aug. 5. (API King George gave Queen Elisabeth a diamond and emerald bracelet for her 37th birthday pree ent today. The gems were linked together in a design of Tudor roses and Scot tish thistles. The sovereigns snd their two lit tle princesses, Elisabeth and Mar garet Rose, reached Balmoral, where they will spend their summer boll day, after an overnight Journey from London. SENATOR McNARY PLANS HOME JAUNT THURSDAY WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. (API Expressing confidence the senate will have acted on the Bonneville dam bill by Thursday of next week, Senator Charles McNary of Oregon made Bis railroad reservation: for that date. COQUILLE MILL CREW IS CLAIMED FOR CIO MARSHPIELD. Aug. 8. (AP)--CJ.O. organ users, expecting to wind up their campaign among southwest ern Oregon lumber workers within the next day or two, said the Co quill local of the Lumber and Saw mill Workers' union had voted "over whelmingly' In favor of switching from the A.r.Oi. They said the central labor coun cil of Crescent City, Cal- Including five local unions, si so had applied tor a CJ.O. charter. Farmer Peppered By Tiny Shotgun ROSEBURQ, Ore.. Aug. 6, (AP) Wounded by his .410 gu age shotgun In an odd accident as he rode on a combine in a field, Delmar Murphy of Umpqua la under treatment in a Eugene hospital and reported recovering. Discharged by Impact with the ground as It fell from the combine, the gun sent Its load of shot toward Murphy, spraying his head and neck after being partly deflected by strik ing the machine. Some of the shot Is reported to have penetrated Mur phy's cheek, knocking out teeth, oth ers to have struck his throat and one passing through bis windpipe. DOHERTY SETTLES HUGE CLAIM OF STOCKHOLDERS NEW YORK. Aug. 5. (AP) Henry U Doherty, ailing utilities magnate, has settled a $20,000,000 accounting suit brought against him by Cities Service stockholders by agreeing to transfer to the company 1,360,000 In common stock. Federal Judge John W. Clancy ap proved the settlement yesterday after a majority of the stockholders voted to accept Doherty'e otter. The suit was brought by stockhold ers who complained the company had lost because of stock transac tions by Doherty and ten other com pany directors. MORE CARE NEEDED AT DEADLY INTERSECTIONS SALEM, Aug. 6. (yp Secretary f State Earl Snell said tods; that In creased vigilance by motorlata and pedestrians Is necessary to curb the rising accident toll at Portland Inter sections. Of 318 pedestrian accidents In Port. land during the first five montha of this year, 364 occuired at intersec tions. Twelve of the 14 pedestrian fatalities In the city were at Inter sections. 130 DIE IN TYPHOON IN NORTHERN KOREA KEIJO, Korea, Aug. o. (IP) One hundred thirty persons were killed and 13 Injured today by a typhoon which caused wldespresd property dsmsge In northern Koree. Union Indians. PITTSBURGH. Allegheny county offered a tribe of Salmanca. N. Y In. dlans 13 a day each to perform tribal dances at the annual fair. They re fused. "These Indians won't give a whoop except at prevailing unljn rates," a fair representative reported back, lie explained the braves were earning $4 a day from the WPA. The county hired 40 at the 4 rate. A Hall FellowrWeiTMet. BURLINOTON, Colo. Amos Ho: land, a carpenter, looked akyward during a storm. A large hailstone struck him In the mouth, knocked out two of his teeth and out his Up. DOUBLE aeim wihtes mo summer ran 2 mroiE runs iiihcs von this WHISKEY WITH "NO MUCH EDGES" 'J". 7tLJ fi& Ii SPifc " KP in good spirits ... keep to TEN HIGH, rTFC J t6 &&Z?A 5 h'bourt-l'eywithnorougb sVl - MM WPY7$&0' "loubU-meUowb,..fuSy ' f ii I v'ijy J r atC? I i h mi mif H hrs B7f$m3 0ivsV4sa4pnws4iaMiicVHnvfl' win ",an ii p a. tee- - " -- ton. Peorls. Illinois : Walkrrvllle. Ontario! Glasgow. Scotland. tH' WMIKIY It t VIA Ol BLOCK UNION SCHOOL BY RESTRAINT ORDER GRANTS PASS. Aug. 6. (AP) The Josephine county boundary board waa blocked today from form ing a five-district union high school In the northern part of the county when an attorney for Prank Price, Grave creek, tiled a temporary re straining order. Petitions from Wolf Creek, Karg, Placer, Leland and Grave Creek ele mentary district hsd asked the board to form the district, which It could do If protest were not leg ally filed. In that event an election might be ordered. Protest petitions were filed a week ago but the pro testing group said today that they could not obtain enough legal signatures. ' The complaint which brought the restraining order charged that those favoring the district had gone about the matter "quietly" and "secretly, and charged they led signers to be lieve an election would be held. It further declared that several peti tioners wished to change their sig natures. The boundary board was ordered to appear before Circuit Judge H. D. Norton at 10 a. m. Saturday, August 7. Riviera RIVIERA, Aug. 5. (Spl.) Mr. and Mrs. Derry of San Lssndro were vis itor, at the Otto Puhrman home Sat urday. The Derrya were accompanied by his father and mother. John Flemmlng was an overnight guest of John Osrr at Oravea Creek July 31, Mrs, Fennel son of Portland Is visiting at the home of her brother, M. C. Boomslulter. Also a guest at the Boomslulter home la their dsugh. ter. Mrs. Leona Miller of Carson. Washington. Mrs. Stsnley Pratt spent several days laat week with her stater, Mrs. Norman Baxter, returning to her home In Medford August 3. Mr. and Mrs. Marlon Hodges ot Moscow. Idaho, stopped Friday July 30 en rout to Eureka. Calif., to see his niece Mrs. Letsy Miller. Mr. and Mrs. Donahue were Med ford shoppers July 31. Mr. Mason of Orante Pass waa a guest st the Tom Henderson home July 81. then Joined In the picnic held by the Sunday school In the Orante Pass park. Several from the Colony attended Pomona Orange at Applegat last Saturday, July 81. Among those were Mr. and Mrs. RIcter, Mrs. Howes and Otto Puhrman. Mesdames Rowen Oall and two mall sons of Portlsnd, Albert and Cecil Oall of Medford, called at the R. L. Miller home August I. Phyllis Miller returned home Aug 4, having been away for several daya visiting frlends-and relatives in vai lelo and San Francisco. Oeorge Hutchlna has begun work on the Flick house. They are ad ding an addition to their present home. rashlon Note No. JC4J. LOS ANOELES. Mrs. Ana Slegel won silk palsmas Into court when aha obtained a divorce from Bert Sie gel, wealthy New York poultry mer chant, on charges ot cruelty. Judge Thurriond Clarke observed he had never seen anyone so attired In his court, but added: "l supost there must be a first time for everything ' Bam Sale Set. PENDLETON. Aug. . yp) The tenth annual Oregon ram sale, unaer auspices of the Oregon Wool Growers association, will be held August 30 In the round-up arena here. It was announced today. It Is expecteo breeders from Utah, Montana, Wash' Ington and Oregon will be repr sented. Weather. Northern Csllfornia: Fair tonight snd Frldsy, but fog on the coast' slightly oooler In Interior Friday: gen tle northwest wind off the coast. Aiwmn! Fair tonieht and Friday hut Aftnftlri.rahle cloudiness In nortn w..t nnrtlnn and on tne coast: sllKbl. ly cooler In Interior of northwest ana warmer In northeast portion tonight: mwjw in east nortlon Friday: mod erate northwest wind 'jft the coast. E AERIAL DEFENSE IN PACIFIC AREA Fleet of Giant Bombers Is Planned for North, East and South Outposts As Operation Scope Widens 8AN DIEGO. Cel. (UP) The navy Is lengthening and strengthening its "first line of defense" in the Pacific. Before the end of 1036 huge patrol bombing planes, most powerful air fighters of their type In the world. will be droning along almost dally over some part of an area embracing some 5.000.000 square miles. The planes will be stationed so ss to be Instantly available should trouble rise In the Pacific. It Is the plan of the navy to have 140 of these most modern fighting craft on duty in the great semi circle extending from the Aleutian Islands, through Guam, Wake and Midway to the Hawaiian group and then bending eastward to Panama before another 13 months pass. Planes designated for this duty are the PBY-3's, with a cruising range of nearly 4000 miles, a top speed of 160 miles an hour, with a full load. The full load consists of at least 10.000 pounds of gasoline, a crew of six or seven men. machine guns, munitions, and more than a ton of bombs. Massed Flights Planned. In order to have these fighters at strategic points, the navy, during the next few months, will sponsor at least nine long distance, mass flight similar to the three carried out already this years as "routine transfers." Hardly had the planes of the VP Z'T squadron landed at Coco Solo, O. Z after a 3065 -nautical mile flight from Ban Diego than It be came known at least two more Pan ama flight are to be undertaken in the near future, with the crews al ready here for Intensive training. The new PBY-3's are to be ferried to the Canal Zone In each Instance to re place older, less formidable patrol bombers. Three more flights across the 3500 nautical miles from Ban Diego to Pearl Harbor are being planned, with two already successfully completed since January 1. Seattle, near the Canadian border, and the operating base for the Ber ing sea and far northern waters, also Is to receive two squadrons of the powerful new flghttng craft. Squadrons at Norfolk. On the east coast, at Norfolk. Va the navy will station two more squadrons of the planes which are vital dreadnoughts of the air. They will be for the protection of the Atlantic seaboard. In all, the navy la building 10 squadrons of the patrol bombers, and 14 will be stationed In the semi circular "first line of defense area." Of those, 14 squadrons, of 13 planes each, to be stationed la the Paeifla area, five will be In Hawaii, three in Panama, two in Seattle, and four In San Diego. The navy la closely guarding the actual construction and operating details of the huge bombers, and likewise is maintaining strict secrecy to the time of the pending "de livery flights." Plan Love Feast For Capital Dems WASHINGTON. Aug. S--(AP) Democratic senators, bsdly split la recent legislative quarrels, arranged today a 'harmony" dinner for next Tueadsy night at a local hotel, and Invited Preslde.it Roosevelt to attend. The dinner will be a stsg affair. Mrs. Caraway, the Arkansas senator, jvaa not tnvlted, but those tn charge) said virtually all other Damoeratla senators had accepted. Vice President Garner will preside) at the affair, which waa described as purely social. 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