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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDF'ORD. OREGON. WEDNESDAY. MAY 22. 1940. PAGE NINE ; LOCAL and Calls Kara Mn. Mary Weid man of Eagle Point wu Med ford caller yesterday. In Conrallls Miss Annli Bateman, manager of the south ern Oregon Credit bureau, is . attending Rebekah grand lodge convention in Corvallis. To Rtroof F. E. Samson of 341 North Front street applied at the city building inspector's office yesterday for a permit to eroof a shed at a stated cost oi $230. Driver Tests Examinations will be held here as usual Sat urday for persons wishing li censes or permits to operate motor vehicles. A state exam iner will be in council cham bers on the top floor of city hall from 9 to S and applicants are asked to report to him. Leaves For North Lawrence D. Pagter. division of timber management at the U. S. region al forester's office in Portland, left yesterday afternoon by stage for Umpqua national for est headquarters In Roseburg. He had worked on timber man agement plans with executives of Rogue River national forest since last Friday. Cutting Grass Fire Chief Roy Elliott reported today that business places and residents were cooperating in cutting tall grass away from buildings, along alleys and in vacant lots. Tall grass, which soon will be dry, presents a serious fire haz ard, the chief pointed out in recommending that all such grass be cleared away now be fore It becomes dry. In Hospital Mrs. Hazel Gil more is confined in Sacred Heart hospital for a week's rest and treatment for plcurosy. She is not permitted to have visi tors. Mrs. Gilmore recently un derwent a serious operation from which she is now fully re covered. She recently sold her home at 712 West Fourth street and has not yet established her self in another residence. Candidate Here Bruce Spaul ding, district attorney of Polk county and democratic candi date for attorney general, con ferred with party leaders here today. Mr. Spaulding once worked In Medford. He has been practicing law for ten years. He is a graduate of Wil lamette university at Salem and of Willamette university lew scnooi. his grandparents were Oregon pioneers. To Convention Leaving this morning by motorcars for Sea side were Frank P. Farrell, city attorney, Frank H. Rogers, city building inspector, and Earl H. York, member of the city civil service commission. At Seaside , they were to attend the annual convention of the League of i Oregon Cities and affiliated or ganizations Thursday and Fri day. Mr. Farrell was accom panied by Mrs. Farrell. Mayor' C. C. Furnas left for the con-1 vention yesterday. Pilot Qualifies Leonard S. Stenerson of Jacksonville high way this morning was awarded a private pilot's certificate by : y H. K. Bragg, Inspector of the! civil aeronautics authority. Sten-1 erson passed the required writ-j ten and flight examinations at Medford municipal airport. He I is member of the Crater Fly-1 ing club. His qualifying for the certificate augmented the stead ily growing number of local j residents who have been li censed by the government as private pilots. j Plana Passengers H. M ' Bechtel returned by Mainllner ! this forenoon from Portland. H. i B. James left by Mainllner early this morning for Port land. Miss June Nugent and T. ! S. White arrived from Portland by Mainliner last midnight. R. Burdlc arrived from San Fran cisco last night and H. P. Bush departed on the same plane for x Portland. S. E. Smith arrived from Portland on last night's southbound Mainliner. Dr. Ber tha Sawyer of Ashland left on the afternoon flagstop plane for Portland. Leaving for Portland on the regular afternoon Main liner were V. E. Rolfe and E. G. Mullins. SPEND AN EVENING AT THE riJ'VILLE CLUB GOOD EATS AND NEW FLOOR TO DANCE ON PERSONAL Medford Callar Orri Buck- waiter of Gold Hill called here this morning. Harner Here Harold Harrier, resident of Gold Hill, was business caller here today. ... To Have Bale DA.V. auxil iary will hold a cooked-food and candy sale at the Safeway store, Bartlett and Sixth streets. Caturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Higher Rating William Haw kins of Ashland was today given a 2-S rating as a private pilot by H. K. Bragg, civil aeronau tics authority inspector, at Med ford municipal airport. The rat ing permits Hawkins to fly planes one weight class above Taylor Cubs, planes such as Fairchilds. Hawkins is one of the students of the Southern Oregon College of Education en rolled for the government's ci vilian pilot training program. At Airport Today's arrivals at Medford municipal airport in cluded Lieut. D. S. Cox. Seat tle. Wash., to Oakland. Cal., in a North American basic train ing plane; C. E. West, lieuten ant in the California national guard, Seattle to Sacramento Cal., in a Douglas observation plane; Capt. J. C. Croswaite of Maxwell field, Ala.. Seattle to Sacramento in a Curtiss pur sultt plane: and H. K. Bragg inspector of the civil aeronau tics authority who arrived from Portland in a Fairchild plane and was to leave this evening for Eugene after giving a num ber of examinations here. Late arrivals yesterday were Lieut Graham West, Vancouver Wash., to Sunnyvale, Cal., in a Curtiss pursuit plane; and MaJ. Carlton Bond, Vancouver to Medford and return in a North American basic combat plane. Births Born at Community hospital this morning to Mr. and Mrs. Alvin L. McMaster of Ashland a baby girl weighing 6 pounds 3 ounces. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Roy Walters of Route 2 in Com munity hospital May 20 a baby girl weighing 8 pounds 4 ounces. Father, Daughters Fly New Orleans U.R Civil Judge Nat W. Bond and his two daughters have sprouted wings, so to speak. The Judge is one of the very few pilot-jurists in the country and his daughters take after him. Dm Mall Tribune wut ads. TWO MAJOR FEATURES OH EVERY PROGRAM ...It's That Henry Aldrich Brat Again! TODAY and Thursday Two Features Feared By All Criminals! 2 and by all beautiful women millions 4 Vwr of radio 4jFv uTf ''itffr listeners Jam! V i , J te8 ,lY V. "Of Mice And I. 11 l" "J" Betty Fields and Burgess Meredith, as Mae and George. play important roles in the pic turization of John Steinbeck's famous "Of Mice and Men", which comes to the Craterian Theatre Sunday for a three day run. Lon Chaney. Jr., as the muddle-headed Lennie with the big heart and strong hands, shares top honors. One of the most sensational In Radio Role t, ,.i.:. r,nn 1a 4h Roxy Theatre for today and j i in tomorrow only in the screen role of Henry Aldrich, favorite radio character now a film star in "What a Life", based on the adventures of young Aid rich. Betty Field plays opposite as his favorite girl friend. "The Saint in London", new est of the George Sanders Simon Templer stories, plays as the added feature with "What a Life". On Saturdays in good weath er, a group of men In Frank lington, N. C, play marbles. The oldest player In 84. si .:& r. :r tv Their Most Uproarious Hit Now that they're broke . . they're really having funl . . . You can't keep America's favorite fun family down for longl " .... wirn Spring BYINGTON r Ken HOWEll George ERNEST June CARLSON Florence ROBERTS Billy M AH AN LnaSS I Two ,l,u" ' -iSSfe .v boV .t;; Mitt at l:l Adults . . IV LCM V KldDIri . . 1- Men" Coming 1 I ATtrav" v. stage plays in years, the film adaptation is a direct refutation of those scoffers who main tained that the picture could never be made to follow the story. The picture retains all the power, the drama and sus pense of Stainbeck's heroic story of a couple of "bindle stiffs". one of whose brute strength and weak mind have often upset their "best laid plans". Joneses Back America's first screen family, the Jones, have lost their money and their home and their dad is laid up in a hospital, AH they have left is their car and their trailer but they're having a grand time in their new fun film, 'On Their Own," which heads the double bill playing for today and tomorrow only at the New Rialto theater. They head for California ,and things happen so fast, according to advance re- ports, that they have trouble keeping up with the march of events that take place.- With Dad out of the running Grandma and son Roger take over the command of the family. Florence Roberts plays Granny and George Ernest plays Roger. Others are Spring Byington as Ma Jones, Ken Howell, June Carlson and John Qualen. Alice Duer Miller's story of two sisters who fenced with each other for the affection of a man they both loved, "And One Was Beautiful," plays as few TODAY THURSDAY 2 Fun Hits! r I ljri i M JjTl m M WW" - Mm tin :4V:I tvf . . IV ijt ... 4 Or h'KtlM . I r the companion feature with "On Their Own." Laraine Day. Robert Cummings, Jean Muir and BiUie Burke have the fea tured leads in the popular Sat urday Evening Post novel. Technicolor Drama On Craterian Bill Thrilling Audience No mightier fury has ever been filmed than the hurricane sequence which gives a thrilling climax to the technicolor ads'en-ture-romance "Typhoon" now playing with Dorothy Lamour. Robert Preston, Lynne Overman and J. Carrol Naish at the Cra terian theater. The sudden anger of the ty phoon swoops down on a myth leal isle in the Dutch East Indies pearling grounds, and its torren tial rains are lashed down by a breath-taking gale. Whole palm trees are uprooted, and go flying past the camera. Capping the devastation, mounting crests of tidal waves boil in, the final crest topping fifty feet. This stunning spectacle cli maxes the suspense of a roaring Jungle fire, that threatens to burn the entire Island, and to cremate sarong-clad Dorothy, Robert Preston, Lynne Overman and Dorothy's trained chimpan zee, Skippy. .Lynne Overman and Koko, th Lynne Overman and Koko. the trained chimpanzee, supply catching comedy. Revamp Curlew Berkeley, Cal. 01 R Co-eds at the University of California solved with almost child-like simplicity the "honor" problem of violating the curfew ruling which requires them on their nights out to be in bed by 1 o'clock, and then winking at the violation. They Just voted to extend the curfew hour to 2:30. Buffalo. N. Y. (U.R The 80-year-old tug International. Rip Van Winkle of Niagara river boats, will slumber here no longer. It will be sold "down the river" for wha'ever it will bring. iTt'fluillV Mmm9 rm , i mr, m . I 1 M.rUMI 1 I 1 (PVa " S I Ye"1 I ahain f.llr at 1:4 H and EDUCATORS TRY AS STUDENT AID Harrisburg, Pa. 0J.R) A group of Pennsylvania high school teachers this summer will be taught how to make classroom instruction more useful for stu-j dents who cannot go to college. A "workshop" will be estab lished for some 150 teachers at Pennsylvania State college. The Idea, unique in commonwealth educational annals, was con ceived on the theory that high schools cater too much to the pre-collcge minority. Fewer than 20 per cent of high school graduates go to college. One prime principle is that many students need schooling in such general matters as news paper reading, household duties and family relationships. Those things, a number of educators hold, are needed by those stu dents more than a knowledge of profound works of literature or mathematical systems. 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Cm il.U Tribune want u. BUT DESOTO NOW LOWER PRICED HUMPHREY MOTORS 33 SOUTH RIVERSIDE J a: tr S sr In Signals fee Dinner Montpeller, Vt. tU.R) When Capt. Walter Cleveland, an ar my pilot, wants to tell his wife he is coming home to dinner, he dips his plane's wings sharp ly as he passes his house on the edge of the airport here. Closing t!m. rot Too Lste to C1aa Ur Ada u 140 p. m. fl" 1W " .a?1 COUPE DELIVERED IN MEDFORD ONLY '1058 Price ef CtuM 4HtwW hate Federal tai 1bcIu44. Sute. leeaJ Uses (if mmri are extra. PHONE 414 r frrmnitMijl ROBIRT CARROL Mallnrn XW Bifnlnst 4n Klddlrl IOC D WIGHT HARTMAN
