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MEDFOT?D MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1989. PAGE FIVE I 'I Finns Put It on the Line HELD AT IEIG OF MEDF For the first time in the his tory of boy scouting here, a court of honor was held at a meeting of a different organiza tion here last night when troop 3 bestowed honors at the regu lar weekly dinner-meeting of the Lions club in the Hotel Med ford. Awards made to the Boy Scouts were: tenderfoot investi tures. Donald Nissen, Bill Pat ton and Billy Sims, with tender foot mothers' pins presented to their mothers; second class rank, Jack Thompson and Lyle Wil cox, their mothers receiving the corresponding pins; second class merit badges, Dick Alford, for handicraft, Marvin Doty, for handicraft, and Bruce McKay, for wood carving; first class merit badges, Ralph Burgess, for first aid to animals and scholar ship, and Richard McElhose, for bird study. The troop presented a desk lamp and fountain pen et to Scoutmaster Jack Thompson as a Christmas gift. Committee presiding at the court of honor was composed of Eston Humphrey, Frank Runtz. J. A. McDougall and Rexford M. Schino. Troop 3 is sponsored by the Lions club. FIRE CHIEF DIES BATTLING BLAZE Colfax, Wash., Dec. 20. (P) A fire department captain was killed and a householder critic ally burned in fighting a fire which destroyed a residence here Tuesday. H. W. (Pat) Walker, 38, fire captain and director of the Southeast Washington Firemen's association, died of suffocation after he was overcome by smoke while working on the lee side of the fire. Fay Kelso, 23, was so seri ously burned he was not ex pected to live after he had dash ed into the flames seeking his wife and her two children, who already had fled to safety. Tillamook Pioneer Woman Dies Aged 95 Tillamook, Ore., Dec. 20. UP) Tillamook county's beloved pio neer, "Aunt" Rhoda Johnson, 95, who as a child witnessed the terrors of an Indian raid on the midwestern plains, will be buried here tomorrow. Mrs. Johnson died at McMinn vllle Sunday. She left Illinois in a covered wagon in 1852. The famly, forced to turn back because of hostile Indians, win tered in Iowa and reached Ore gon in the autumn of 1853. f - J Q -' H jr" PVI Finland's war with Russia did not prevent Finnish minis ter to Washington Hjalmar J. Procope (left) from paying his country's war debt installment, handing Secretary of the Treas ury Henry J. Morgenthau (right) a check for $234,693. Other nations said they couldn't pay. TRY NEW STIMULANT FOR CONSTRUCTION OF LOW COST HOIS Washington, Dec. 20. P) The federal loan agency, through Administrator Jesse H. Jones, announced today the RFC mortgage company would pur ches up to $2,500 loans made to finance the construction of new houses. The plan, officials said, was developed in an effort to stim ulate the construction of low cost homes. Jones said the RFC mortgage company would purchase class 3, title one, loans bearing 4V4 per cent interest and a service charge of per. cent, where the entire proceeds are used to finance new homes, the con struction of which is started January 1, 1940. Officials said the willingness of the RFC mortgage company to purchase these loans un doubtedly would result in pri vate lending agencies being will ing to make such loans. In the past, only a comparatively small number of such loans have been made. This was largely due, officials felt, to the fact that there was no federal agency willing to provide a secondary mortgage for the loans. SGT. HOWARD PROMOTED IN STATE POLICE RANK Salem, Dec. 20. (IP) State Police Sgt. R. G. Howard of Bend was promoted to lieuten ant today and assigned to the Salem district, succeeding Lieut. Max Alford, who was promoted to captain yesterday to succeed Capt. Clyde Warren at state police headquarters. Captain Warren recently was appointed head of the law en forcement division of the state liquor control commission. MRS. ROOSEVELT URGED AS BRYN MAWR PREXY Philadelphia. Dec. 20. UP) The Evening Bulletin said to day "some prominent alumnae" of Bryn Mawr college are urg ing the appointment of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt as next president of the college. Dr. Marion Edwards Park, incumbent, is due to retire next year, the Bulletin said. She has been president since 1922. . PUT THEIR MONEY IN Washington, Dec. 20. t.!P) Thrifty Oregon residents placed $300,417 in new savings in 22 insured savings and loan asso ciations in the state during No vember, it was reported by the Federal Savings and Loan In surance corporation today. The amount increased their total savings as of November 30 to $8,049,000 and the num ber of depositors to 14.488. The associations made 173 loans amounting to $327,969 in the month, compared with 120 loans totaling $237,969 in No vember a year ago. Assets of the associations at the end of the month were $14, 761,000, an increase of $2,505, 000 in 12 months. The United States distributes 6,000,000,000 fish annually, be ing far ahead of other countries in fish cultural work. S WILL GET 100 CENTS ON DOLLAR OF New York, Dec. 20. (SpU Every dollar collected in Amer ica for the relief of non-combatant civilians of war-torn Fin land will actually reach the Finnish sufferers, with all ad ministration expenses borne by ' private subscription, former President Herbert Hoover, chair man of the Finnish Relief Fund. Inc., announced today. i At the same time. Mr. Hoover disclosed that Bernard M. Ba ruch, former chairman of the war industries board, had sent a check for $5,000 to the New York chapter of the fund, with i the comment that he "regards it as a privilege to be included among the many Americans who are giving evidence of their sympathy by contributions to her support." Revealing that he had ar ranged for outside interests to bear administration costs for the Finnish drive. Mr. Hoover said: "Expenses of the Finnish re lief fund will be very small. But I have further arranged that such expenses of adminis tration as there are will Be wholly paid for outside the fund. Therefore, every dollar of donations will go one hun dred cents to the Finns. I have arranged that a leading firm of auditors will not only audit the accounts, but will actually keep all the books." S Kfatofo oWj Those wishing to contribute ! in MedCord mav dn sin Ivu rt I positing their money in the local banks, which in turn forward the funds to the Finnish Relief Fund, Inc., in New York. ED FRENCH WAR EXPENSE Paris, Dec. 20. UP) The gov ernment tonight asked the fi nance committee of the chamber of deputies to approve military credits for the first three months of 1940 amounting to 55,034. 000,000 francs (about $1,265, 000,000). 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