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MEDFORD MATL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON. SUNDAY; AUUUST '29, 1937 PAGE SEVEN LOCAL and PERSONAL From Ashland Mrs. Ear! Leever of Ashland was a Medford visitor yes terday. Recovering Mrs. Cora Wllaon, who , underwent a major operation at Com munity hospital last Tuesday, U re ported recovering nicely. New Position Myrtle Chandler has accepted a position at the new Wine land beauty shop In the Jackson ho tel barber shop. Visit Relatives Mrs. Ray Ward and son Richard of Klamath Falls are spending the week-end with relai tlves here. Mrs. Ward formerly re sided In Medford. Twin Cucumbers Siamese twin cu cumbers were placed on display at the Jackson County Chamber of Com merce yesterday. They were grown by Henry Manklna of Jacksonville. Hedge Fire The fire department's chemical crew put out a hedge blaze at 60ft Park street at 3:16 yesterday afternoon without damage. A bon- lire Srv Dy n- wi rrico oemnu i residence Ignited the hedge, the fire department reported. Visiting Here Mrs. OUle Kelser of Rio Linda. Cal.. a suburb of Sacra mento, arrived In Medford Friday to spend a few days visiting with her nieces. Olive Curry. Eleanor Curry and Mrs. Harold Vessey. and her nephew. City Judge Allen D. Curry. Meeting Tomorrow Knights of Pythias will hold a watermelon fes tival and Initiation for third rank In their hall at Fifth and Grape streets at 8 o'clock Monday night. Clyde Flchtner. chancellor command er, will preside. All local and visit ing members are asked to attend. Visiting Parents M. M. Sheets of Houston, Texas, arrived Friday morn ing by United airliner to spend a vacation here at the home of hts parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Sheets. He to t geologist with the Standard Oil company of Texas In the Gulf of Mexico territory. Car Seat Burned The rear seat cushion of a car owned by Don Fred rlckson was burned Friday night as the machine was parked at 18S West Mais street. Cause of the fire was not determined. The blaze was put outp by the fire department's chem ical crew which answered the call at 1:40. Guest from Topeka Miss Nellie Wilson of Topeka. Kas., Is a guest at the home of the Rev. C. Edwin and Mrs. Cox In the Valley school on East Main street. Miss Wilson is a cousin of Mrs. Cox. She arrived by train yesterday morning for a few days' stay. She Is a school teacher and will teach this year In Laramlt, Wyo. On Chamber Staff Aftei being employed In a temporary capacity for several months. Miss Florence Scher rer was yesterday added to the per manent office staff of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. Pre viously she had been employed In the office of Olen Arnsplger, manager of the Medford Irrigation district and chamber president. On Practice Flight Nine Douglas observation planes of the Washing ton national guard were refueled at Medford municipal airport yesterday morning. The squadron, under com mand of Capt. Claude Owen, arrived from Felts field, Spokane, and de parted for Griffith park, Lea An geles. The filers were making a rou tine practice flight. Visits Fat net MaJ. Earl L. House of Washington. D. C, left Friday evening for San Francisco vafter vis iting bis father. L. W. House of 328 North Riverside avenue, for two days. Major House is CCC and WPA coordi nator of the federal theater project. To Salt Lake City Mrs. Mark Goldy left by United airliner yester day morning for Salt Lake City to visit her parents. Mr. and Mrs. C H. Ackerman. She expected to be gone two months. She was accom panied by her young son, Mark, Jr. Week-Ending at Lodge Ralph Schlsler, manager of a Los Angeles produce' company, arrived at Medford municipal airport In his Stlnson from Oakland. Cal., Friday evening. He proceeded immediately to the Rogue River Lodge near Trail where he Is J spending the week-end. Preparing Exhibit A Jackson ooun- ty exhibit for the state fair In Salem, September 6 to 12, la being prepared by Fletcher Fish, federal fruit in spector. Mr. Fish Is being assisted by Robert G. Fowler, county agent, and Clifford B. Cordy. county hor ticulturist. Nature of the exhibit will be disclosed later, Mr. Fish said. To Radio Institute Mr. and Mrs. Verl G. Walker will leave today for Spokane where Mr. Walker will at tend the Institute of Radio Engineers and the convention of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Sep tember 1 to 3. Mr. Walker is one of 19 members of 'the Institute in Oregon. There are 5,10ft In the world. Papers by outstanding electrical and radio engineers will be read and dis cussed at the convention. . . . Ktwanls Speakers Irving P. Bees ley, Boy Scout executive, and Frank Hull, Jr.. will be guest speakers at tomorrow's weekly luncheon-meeting of the Kiwants club In the Hotel Medford at 12:16. , Beesley will tell of the Boy Scout national Jamboree in Washington, D. C. Hull will dis cuss the Beaver boys state which he attended under sponsorship of Med ford post of the American Legion. Robert Frame Is program chairman. Enlists In Army Gene LaDue of 1021 Nlantlc street was enlisted in the United States army at Vancouver Barracks. Wash., Friday, aoordlng to word received here yesterday. He Is to serve in the medical department at Fort Missoula, Mont. He was accept ed tentatively for enlistment on Au gust 25 by Sgt. Willis 8. Estep at the recruiting station In city hall here. His final qualifying examinations were passed at Vancouver Barracks. . Guests from Alaska Cecil Robe, professor of history at the Alaska Agriculture college In Fairbanks, and hts wife were overnight guests Fri day of Mr. Robe's brother. Carrol Robe, junior assistant technician of the Rogue River national forest at Butte Falls. Mr. and Mrs, Robe were returning to Fairbanks after spend ing the summer at Washington. D. C where Mr. Robe worked on a his tory of Alaska for the Rockefeller In stitute. They arrived by motorcar Friday evening and left yesterday morning whence they will depart for Alaska by steamer. Visits Caves Recent Medford vis itors to the Oregon Caves chateau included Miss Barbara Holt, who vis ited friends there last week. Visit Here Mr. and Mrs. David De Armorw and three sons of Lake view arrived Friday evening for a short visit with relatives and friends here. Completes Park Work J. D. Bow- dtsh. Medford builder, has completed his summer construction work at Crater Lake national park and re turned Friday evening to hts home at 1200 Sunset avenue. He plans to leave this afternoon for a private Job In Klamath Falls. Visit Health Department Dr. J. D Dunshee, former state health officer of Idaho and California, was In Med ford yesterday on an Inspection of the county health unit. Visiting the unit Friday was Mrs. Khthertne Mc- Csbe. state supervisor of nurses in Idaho. Returns from Vacation City Police Officer and Mrs. Joe Cave and their nine-year-old son Jimmy returned to Medford yesterday from a week's camping and fishing trip on Little river, 3ft miles east of Roseburg. Mrs. A. D. Hulbert of Roseburg, twin sis ter of Mrs. Cave, accompanied them on the outing. Committee Meeting Inter-city vis itation committee of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce will meet at 7:30 Tuesday evening at the Medford Federal Savings i Loan as sociation, 126 East Main street. Pur pose la to arrange for Jackson coun ty's participation In the Oave City miners Jubilee, Yreka gold rush days, Josephine county fair In Grants Pass and the northwest Jackson county fair at Gold Hill. It Is expected that the Crater club will aslst. Promote Jubilee A party of 32 per sons visited here Friday afternoon to promote Interest In the Cave City miners' Jubilee, September 4, 5 and 6. Several candidates for queen of the jubilee were In the party, all dresesd In the colorful attire of the frontier mining days. The group was greeted at a luncheon In Valentine s cafe by H. J. Fletcher, chairman of the Jack son County Chamber of Commerce inter-clty committee: Dwlght L. Houghton, committee member, and A. H. Banwell, chamber, manager. The program for the three-day Jubilee In Cave City Includes a rodeo, pageant. dancing, parade, games, contest and a queen's ball. Airport Arrivals Yesterday's ar rivals at Medford municipal airport included W. P. Fuller, Jr., and his pilot. Fred Hammer, In a Stlnson. They were en route from Portland to Gravelly Valley. Cal. Fuller Is ad vertising and promotion manager of the Fuller Paint company. Arrivals late Friday included Col. Jacob Flckel, air officer of the 9th army corps who was returning In a Doug las observation plane from Fort Lewis, Wash., to his post at the Presidio In San Francisco; Dave Lewis, from the Boeing aviation school in Oakland, Cal., who was on his way In a Fair child to Grants Pass to visit rela tives: and L. H. Tilse, enroute from Portland to Crescent City, Cal , In a Curtlss-Robln. UNION FROWNS ON WARMER WEATHER NO CU1MANT FOR PLAN 10 OPEN UP PORTLAND MILLS PORTLAND. Aug. 28. (AP) The policy committee of the Portland central labor council rejected as "unsatisfactory" today a settlement designed to open seven sawmills In the Portland area. Charles W. Hope, regional direc tor of the national labor relations board, said the operators and em ployes agreed to the truce last night. The closure followed a Jurledic tlonal dispute between the CJ.O. and A.F.L. Operators shut down when A.F.L. pickets appeared to protest the handling of lumber by the rival organization's members. The truce called for resumption of operation under conditions existing July 1. The C.I.O. agreed "to make no demands on the employers in volved until such time as the ques tion of representation had been set tled by the national labor relations board" It also called for return ot the employes "as affiliates of the A.F.L." A.F.L. leader have claimed the labor relations board has no Juris diction in the controversy. Hope said, however, the mills would operate. FOR VALLEY SEEN A gradual warm-up was expected to succeed the week-end chilly spell as weather officials forecast fair weather Sunday and Monday with slowly rising temperatures. Saturday morning's minimum of 41 degrees was the lowest ever recorded on August 28 and only one degree higher than the all-time record low for the entire month, weather rec ords show. Yesterday's maximum was 7ft degrees. A check of weather statistics shows that below -eighty maximum temper atures during the month of August are not at all uncommon, occurring almost yearly. Douglas Pair Paroled. ROSEBURG. Aug. 28. LoUlS Wright and Kenneth erdue, arrested June 21 on charges of burglary not In a dwelling, were paroled In cir cuit court this morning from sen tences of two years each In the state penitentiary. The population of the world was estimated at more than 2,000.000,000 in 1030. State and city police are attempt ing to locate the owner of a physi cians medicine kit found on the old Bast Main street road In Ashland Friday night. The bag was picked up by a passing motorist and taken to Ashland city police station, then brought to city police station here by the state police. It contained many small surgical Instrument and supplies, but no narcotics. Four medicine kits belonging to local physicians have been stolen rrom their parked cars during the last week, but none claimed owner ship to the one found near Ashland. Neither did It belong to Ashland doctors, It was stated. City police believe the baga hare were all stolen by a transient drug addict. PORTLAND, Aug. 28. The lazy college student kas born 30 years too late. In the opinion of Dr. James Bry ant Conant, president of Harvard uni versity, who addressed the Harvard university club here last night. "A generation ago people loafed through college," Dr. Conant said "They can't do this any more. "Brains are needed today more than they ever were. The race in ths econ omic and the professional worlds Is a real one, and the college Is the trial heat." The right order of Shakespeare's sonnets has never been determined. Mexican coin silver Is not pur silver. PP1 Klamath Show Opl. KLAMATH FALLS, Aug. 28. (Pi A thr-dy Junior llvwtoclt uid bt bet how will opan at ths KUmath eounty fairground, tomorrow. Tout H clubs and Future Farmers of Amer ica are ths chief exhibitors. POLAR EXPLORERS DRIFT 350 MILES SOVIET NORTH POLE CAMP (By radio to Moscow), Aug. 28. (ffi The ice floe on which the Soviet expedi tion Is camped today had drifted a total of 930 miles in a zigzag line since Its tent were pitched 100 days ago. It was estimated If the drift continued, the floe might reach the Sultzbergen latitude or be carried to the Greenland sea by the end of the winter. There haa been continuous snow fall. The visibility today was 1.640.4 feet: the temperature, 30.2 degrees Fahrenheit: the barometer reading, 29.38 Inches. COPENHAGEN, Denmark. Aug. 38. (JP) Fifty members of an Arctic ex pedition led by Dr. Lauge Koch, Dan ish polar explorer, abandoned their ship today after she was menaced by Ice pack off eastern Greenland- I IadHko ka ihln ha "luet Ualn the 50 explorers, including 20 scient ists of several nationalities, made off across the Ice for Bcoreeby Sound. Truck Driver Perlnhes. B1EBER, Cal., Aug. 38. (p) Ryan Pranger, a Rlpon, Cal., gasoline truck driver, was burned to a, crisp late last night when his cargo exploded and caught fire on the Reddlng-AI-turas highway five miles southwest of here. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT Beginning Monday. Aug. 30, Both Safe way Stores in Med ford will open at 8 a. m. and close at 6 p. m. sharp, ex cept Saturday from 8 a. m. to 8 p. m. PEACHES Clings Now Ready HALES and ELBERTAS LATER MORROW ORCHARD 1 mile Northeast Medford. Turn last Across Bear Creek on McAndrews Road and then North. 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Here you will find first-class used furniture, all reconditioned and certified, also low priced new furniture and unfinished furniture. Cupp's Furniture maintains the Exchange to enable them to take your old furniture in trade on new and offer it for sale again at our Furniture Ex change, 407 East Main. &a Vjri rmm We have a Few Pieces DAMAGED by our recent Fire at Ridiculously Low Prices. T IT'S EASY TO BUY AT CUPP'S Furniture Store Mct your new furniture, Own trad ia your old furniture at market value. Your old furni ture Ii the tame as eaeb in purchMing new merchandise at Cupp'i. Mm ( I THIS IS THE SERVICE CUPP'S GIVE YOU The finest selected stock of new furniture in southern Oregon at our main store, 317-319 East Main. 9 An opportunity to trade your old furniture on new. A used furniture store, 407 East Main, where you can buy good used furniture and, at the same store, good low priced new furniture. Reasonable terms can be arranged at CuppV CUPP'S FURNITURE STORE THE STORE THAT IS ALWAYS AHEAD 317-319 East Main Phone 505
