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PAGE EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1940. WILL CONFER HERE mm P J Dp. Harry C Munro of Chi cago to Meet Ministers, Sunday School Leaders, Dr. Harry C. Munro of Chi- ' cago will meet leaders of churches and Sunday schools of Medford and the Rogue river valley In an informal confer ence on adult work In the church and organization and administration of religious edu cation in the local church, in the Presbyterian church parlor next Sunday at 2:30 p. m. Dr. Munro is director of adult work for the International Council of Religious Education and executive secretary of the United Christian Adult Move ment of America. These two groups represent the approach ff united Protestantism to the (field of Christian adult educa tion. He Is author of a num ber of books widely used as texts for interdenominational training schools, seminaries and colleges, and Is a popular con ference and discussion group leader. The Medford Ministerial as sociation is sponsoring Dr. Mun ro'i conference here. Ministers, superintendents of Sunday scnoois, adult teachers and of ficers, official board members, educational committee members and others interested in the educational program of the church are Invited to be pres ent. Dr. Munro Is visiting the Pa cific coast to arrange three United Christian adult confer ences or next summer. They arc being planned for south ern California and Arizona; northern California, Nevada and Utah, and Oregon, Washington and Idaho. He is stopping here en route to Seattle and will be guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. G Smith while In the city. Oh Mall Trlhuno want ad J. Meteorological Report Forecast! Medford and vicinity: Unsettled with Intermittent reins tonight and Thursday, Uttle change Id temper ature. Oregon: Unsettled tonight and Thursday, Intermittent light rslns or snows east portion and rains west portion, snows In high mountains. Uttle change In temperature, in creasing southeast winds off the coast. Loral Data Temperature a. year ago today Highest. 49; lowest, 30. Total monthly precipitation, .08 Inches. Deficiency for the month, .14 Inches. Total precipitation since Sept. 1, 1030, 0.20 Inches. Excess for the season, 1.48 Inches. Relative humidity at 6 p. m. yes terday, 88; 6 a. m. today, 100 Tomorrow: Sunrise, 7:30 a. m sunset, 4:63 p. m. I SUP SALE AT .0. SET Obserratlons Taken at 5 a. m.. 120 Meridian Time. Srf Q -d zS iff n is c Boise H 01 40 .36 Cloudy Boston 35 18 .. Pt. Cldjr. Chicago 16 4 .... Clear Denver 44 39 Cloudy Eureka 60 46 .40 Cloudy Havre 17 13 .01 Foggy Los Angeles...M 60 66 .OS Cloudy Mrdford A3 34 .07 Foggy New York 39 16 .... Clear Omaha 13 1 .01 Snow Phoenix 71 41 .. Pt. Cldy. Portland SO 40 .13 Clear Reno 48 38 .78 Cloudy Roscburg .......... 69 38 .28 Cloudy Salt Lake 43 37 1.18 Rain San Francisco.. 63 48 .38 Cloudy Seattle 64 41 .33 Clear Spokane 38 36 .36 Rain Wash., D. C 39 16 .... Pt. Cldy. Wonatchee 36 33 .01 Clear DINING AND DANCING NIGHTLY AT CHATEAU The Chateau, popular dining and dancing resort on the Paci fic highway, north of Ashland, will now be open every night, according to an announcement by W. M. Walls. Ralph Brick ley's Rocking Rhythm Boys will supply the music for dancing each evening. Most of the 16,000,000 ounces of Hold produced annually In South Africa Is obtained by treating the ore with cyanide, then precipitating and refining It. Total of $35,639 Compare With $27,495 in Last Quarter Previous Year, Final quarter of 1939 estab lished a new record for stamp sales at Medford postoffice, it was announced today by Post master Frank DeSouza. The December quarter sales totaled $35,639.37 as compared with $34,271.18 in 1938, an in crease of $1,388.21 or 4 per cent. The 1938 final quarter was the previous high. Stamp sales in the last quar ter of 1939 compared with $27, 495.94 In the same period of 1930, an increase of S8.143.43 or 34 per cent. Mr. DeSouza made this comparison because 1930 was the peak year for stamp sales in the prosperity era of the late 1920's. Sales totaled only $25,649.12 in the last quarter of 1929, the year that in most lines of business attained all-time peaks before the prosperity bubble burst. Stamp sales in December, 1939, totaled $14,822.73 as com pared with $11,407.25 in the same month of 1930. an increase of $3,415.48 or 33 per cent. Airmail showed a tremendous gain last month over that of December. 1938. In December, 1939, outgoing airmail totaled 1,929 pounds In comparison with 803 pounds in the same months the previous year, an increase of 1,006 pounds or more than 123 per cent. It is calculated that on the average a pound contains 30 letters New Books SNOW NEEDED 10 Though showery conditions prevail over the floor of Ihr. vaucy, the Mcdford-Talent Irri. gation office reported today they had received no word of snow in hills, which Is ncprlorl to provide additional storage water lor Irrigation next sum. mer. There was a surplus at uie ena ot the season, but th spring run-off of snow Is what piles up water In the reservoirs. Rain has been reported falllne at Fish lake the past three days. oimuar conditions prevailed at Hiatt lake and Emigrant. ten years ago this month, a storm left five inches of snow in the valley, and piled it up in the hills. Wintry conditions prevailed for nearly three weeks and the mercury in this city on one day dropped to two de grees below zero. It Is hoped the weatherman repeats this year at least In the mountains. Closing time for Too Late to Clas sify Ads Is 1:30 p. m. New books at the Jackson County Library for January In clude: Fiction. Bacon, The Root and the Flower; Brand, The Heroes; Clarke, Wild Animals; Fisher, Children of God; Griswold, A Sea Island Lady; Lancaster. Bride of a Thousand Cedars; Lewis, Portraits from a Chinese Scroll; Lin, Moment In Peking; Rice, Our Ernie; Walpole, The Sea Tower; White, To the End of the World. Non-Ficilon. Turnbull, History of Oregon Newspapers; Fletcher, Master ing Your Nerves; Potter, Be yond the Senses; Gruenberg, We, the Parents; Hart, Play and Toys in Nursery Years; Shridharani, War Without Vio lence; Fed. Writer's ProJ., Our Federal Government and How It Functions; M a y a 1 1, Sundials; Harrison, Atoms in Action; Hoo- ton, Twilight of Man; Schmid, Interviewing Animals; William son, The Sky's Their Highway: B e r n h e i m. Medicine at the Crossroads; Ellsberg, Men Un der the Sea; Burbank, Partner of Nature; Connors, Chemical Gardening for the Amateur; Jamer, Fundamentals and The ory of Beauty Culture; Borth. Pioneers of Plenty; Newton. An Introduction to Metallurgy; Dorr Cyanidatlon and Concentration of Gold and Silver Ores; Wilson, Clay Modeling and Pottery; Wilder, The Garden in Color; Arch. Plan Service, Small Homes; White, Camps and Cot tages; Smith, Engineering Draft ing; Cochrane, Baseball: the Fan's Game; Collier, To Meet the Spring; Stefansson, Iceland, the First American Republic: Kaulback, Salween; Dorrance, Where the Rivers Meet; Flexncr, Doctors on Horseback; Clinton. Man of Glory, Simon Bolivar; Bakeless, Master of the Wilder ness, Daniel Boone; Harding, Imperial Twilight; Chase, A Goodly Fellowship; Kelly, Flow ing Stream; Manncs, Music Is My Faith; Mora, In Place of Splendor; Singh, Nehru, the Rising Star of India; Coffin, C a p t a in Abby and Captain John: Churchill, Step by Step, i3B-i3H; voigt, Unto Caesar. Pamphlets. O.S.A.C. Extension Service: (1) Propagation and Improve ment of Horticultural Plants: (2) Grafting and Budding; (3) Grafting and Budding Contests. U. S. Department of Agricul turc: (1) Soybeans, Culture and Varieties; (2) The Stablcflv: How to Prevent Its Annoyance and Its Losses to Livestock; (3) Southern Pines Pay; (4) Fire proofing Christmas Trees; (5) Cotton Shirts for Men and Boys; (6) Psocids: (7) Strawberry Va rieties in the United States. TO HIT FAST PACE T TOLD BY OFFICER DURING NEXT YEAR IN CURRENT MAG Peacetime Record Broken in 1939 But 1940 Output Expected Even Greater Darkened. Alhambra. Cal. (U.R) This city will have no more midnight horror shows" at its moving picture houses, which allegedly have kept young peo ple away from home until 4 in the morning. The agree ment was made between the owners of all movie houses in the city and a committee of city fathers. JACKSON COUNTY FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION 126 East Main $26,670.33 DIVIDENDS dlitrlbulod to hold ers of savings and Investment share ac counts for lha year 1939 I Ihe rat of 1 Directors! C. M. KIDD JOHN C. MANN R. E. GREEN GLENN O. TAYLOR W. J. WARNER A. P. BUTLER H. J. FIELD FINANCIAL STATEMENT. DECEMBER SI. 1939 ASSETS First Mortgage Loans J818 Loans Secured by Shares of this Association!."!!!!.!! 2 Real Estate Sold on Contract ... 139 Real Estate Owned and in Foreclosure 23 Stock in Federal Home Loan Bank 12 Cash on Hand and in Banks 28 Home Office Building 24 furniture and Fixtures 1 Other Assets 974.73 343.75 .040.77 .803.71 000.00 064.78 .715.68 585.12 174.22 TOTAL ASSETS 848.502.74 LIABILITIES Savings and Investment Accounts $704,349.40 Funds from Federal Home Loan Bank 7o!ooo!o0 Dividends for Cash Payment, January 1, 1940 . 11,003.68 Loans in Process M 2.458.14 Reserves and Undivided Profits ..!T 1! 59 386 61 Other Liabilities 704.91 TOTAL LIABILITIES $848,502.74 Savings in this Association are insured to $5,000 foi each person by the Federal Savings & Loan Insurance Corporation Washington, ' Jan. 3. JP) The navy broke its peacetime records in warship building during 1939 and is preparing to step up the rate of riveting Officials listed today 30 cruis ers, destroyers and submarines that were completed and put in commission during the past year, compared with 18 in 1938 and 24 the year before. With 130 major fighting ships, auxiliaries and small "mosquito fleet" motor torpedo boats and submarine chasers already un der construction or ordered, the navy has asked decided in creases in the building estimates prepared for congress. Navy Going Ahead. Well-informed administration quarters have heard the navy's budget as approved by Presi dent Roosevelt includes a sup plemental fund of some $160. 000,000 largely to advance con struction, aside from increased sums to carry on work already in progress. Chairman Vinson (D.-Ga.) of the house naval committee has proposed authorization for 96 more warships, and others in congress have suggested that 65,000-ton battleships be under taken. Without awaiting action on such proposals, the navy is going ahead with the two capital ships of 45,000 tons. voted at the last session. The keel of the $88,000,000 battleship Iowa is to be laid at the New York navy yard this month. The sister ship New Jersey is to be started in the spring at the Philadelphia navy yard. One Near Launching. The North Carolina, farthest advanced of a fleet of six 35,-000,000-ton battleships, probab ly will slide down the ways at the New York yard in May. It is not expected to be in service, however, until the end of 1941. Government and commercial yards are jammed with mari time commission as well as navy shipbuilding. During 1939 navy yard employment increased gradually from 76,000 to nearly 100,000. Although Secretary Edison re ported recently "everything pos sible" was being done to hasten construction, there are hints progress can be quickened ma terially by such means as dou ble and triple shifts and more efficient use of available build ing ways. Regardless of the quickened pace, navy officials contend the fleet actually is falling behind temporarily in under-age ton nage, because of the years dur ing which there were no re placements of obsolescent craft. 452.000 Tons Building. Altogether about 452.nnn inn. of fighting ships are being built, of which 46,000 tons are 1940. In this year, however, about 68,000 tons now rated as under-age will pass the arbi trary treaty-set limit of maxi mum military usefulness. Because of the comparatively small prospective net gains, it will not be until 1944 that the navy expects to reach its auth orized strength. ' The stark drama of the Banks-Fehl era in' Medford and Jackson county is recreated in an article appearing in the T r u e Detective magazine for February, on sale at newsstands here Friday. The article, said by the maga zine to be the first comnletfi story of the cause celebre to could remember when Lake be published at one time, was i Placid and adjoining Mirror eral family picnics New Year's day. However, no citizen has as yet felt the urge to grab a spade, and start gardening in his back yard. In some of the orchards the buds have started to swell, ac cording to Fruit Inspector How ard Warner, and on some trees are advanced to the usunl March stage. If present condi tions continue over an extended period there may be an early budding. Use Freak Ice. Lake Placid, N. Y. (U.R) Five hundred youngsters skated safely on four inches of ice while motorboats churned open water a few rods away during a freak freeze-up in this Adi-; rondack resort. Few old-timers i cumulated nickels weighed 82Vi pounds. Seems io Be Safe. Pasadena, Cal. (U.R) Dr. Fritz Zwicky, noted astrophyic ist of the California Institute of Technology, as the result of new astronomical photographs, tests and calculations, discounts absolutely the existing theory that the universe is expanding and may some day blow up. Talk Leads io Jail. Okanogan, Wash. (U.R) A Mason City. Wash., youth was jailed for talking too much. He went to a hotel and called a girl in Oakland. Cal., by tele phone. He talked to her an hour and four mirfutes. The bill was more than S50, but the youth only had $15, so the hotel proprietor had him arrested. Paddles Along. Waterloo, la. (U.R) Adolf Biderman claims to have the invention to end all river-going inventions. He christened it the aquabike. It is a tandem bi cycle mounted on montoons in stead of wheels that runs at a maximum speed of two miles an hour. written by James R. O'Brien, who at the time of the Banks Fehl turmoil was detective ser geant of the Oregon state police stationed here, and as such took a leading part in investigations of the string of crimes that ended in murder. The article is profusely illus trated with photographs and dotted with the names of the leading characters in the vio lent drama, including the of ficials who were charged with the duty of investigating and prosecuting crime and crim inals. Among those pictured in the article are Banks, Officer George Prescott. who was shot and killed by Banks, Henrietta Martin, Mrs. Banks, Earl H. Fehl, George Codding, then dis trict attorney, George Neilson, his deputy, and Circuit Judge n. u, Norton. PhotocraDhed also are the courthouse build ing, the courthouse vault from which ballots were stolen, a crowd being exhorted by Fehl, names nome on West Main street and the courthouse fur nace in which most of the stolen ballots were burned. Banks is serving a life sen tence in the state penitentiary for the murder of Officer Pres cott and Fehl is a patient in the state hospital for the insane. SI BUDS, BEES The bees at the Jim Stewart apiary have been buzzing around afternoons, ants at the golf course have bestirred them selves, and pussywillow buds have started to swell along Bear creek, untimely signs of spring the past week. Young lambs are cavorting on Applegate district meadows, and there were sev- lake had not frozen over together. Bought With Nickels. St. Maries, Ida. (U.R) Stan-', ley Resor saved for two years ; to get enough money to buy a ' new car, and paid for it in cash all nickels. Resor walk- ; ed into an automobile display I room, selected his car, then plunked down his money and demanded a receipt. The ac- YickSoHerbCo. Hours 10 a. m. to 6 p. m. Monday, Tuesday. 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