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! . MEDFORD MATTj TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1940. Medford was virtually de serted today at resident! poured out of town in search of excite- ment in cities celebrating the Fourth or of serenity at forest. mountain and lake resorts. The neatest city having a big Fourth of July celebration, Ash land, attracted hundreds of Med ford residents. Ashland's annual show started this morning with a colorful street parade. A crowded three-day program has been arranged. A concert by the Ashland Municipal band was scheduled . for 4 o'clock this afternoon in Lithia park. Time of other vents today: 8:00 p. m. Mack LUlard's wrestling card, Elizabethan thea ter. 8:30 p. m. Cavalcade of the Siskiyous, a pageant to be pre sented each night of the three day celebration at the high school field. 10:30 p. m. Aerial fireworks display which may be seen from any part of Ashland. ' For Friday the program la dudes these events: 9 a. m. Gasoline model air plane contest, Ashland jolf course. 2 p. m. Queen's tea, Lithia Hotel. 9 p. m. Queen's ball, Cha teau. . Saturday's program includes a soap box derby at 9 a. m., chil dren's games and races in Lithia park at 10:30 a. m., and various other events throughout the day and evening. CAR STOLEN HERE A 1939 Chevrolet sedan owned by P. Dalporto of 412 East Main atreet, stolen from a hotel park ing lot between 7:30 p. m. yes terday and 7:45 a. m. today, was recovered at Yreka, Cal., this morning and California authori ties have in custody Roy Potter- son, alias Eugene LaBarre of Moston, Wisconsin, according to local state police. Potterson, according to ln- lormaiion received by state po lice, Is on parole from Illinois for auto theft. The case has been turned over to the F. B. I. be cause it involves transporting the car across a state line. Po lice stated that Potterson ad mitted stealing the Dalporto sedan. APPLEGATE BLAZE A fire In brush and second growth late yesterday afternoon threatened a barn on the Cal houn ranch on Sterling creek in the Applcgate. The blaze came within five feet of the barn be fore that corner of the fire could be put out. The fire, of undetermined origin, covered an acre. Star ranger station of the Rogue River national forest dispatched 13 CCC enrollees, three foremen and one of its own executives to the fire. A pumper was used for two hours. The fire occurred at 3 p. m., and was not out until 9 p. m. It was confined entirely to the Calhoun ranch. 2:30SATURDAY Funeral services for Miss Alice Hanley, beloved and wide ly known pioneer of the Rogue River valley who died yesterday noon, will be held Saturday af ternoon at 2:30 at Perl Funeral parlors. Dr. Sherman L. Divine, pastor of the First Presbyterian church will officiate. Honorary pallbearers will be A. Evan Reames. George Dunn, Ralph Billings, Emll Bntt. Her bert Hanna. J. A. Perry, Victor Bursell and Dr. James C. Hayes. Active pallbearers will in clude Charles Hoover, John Wll klnson. Westley Hartley, Arnold Bohnert, Don Stanley and R. A. Skinner. TRY OUR HERBS WHEN OTHERS FAIL Rrrommenilel for rmiihe. Rheumailam. Inflames. Ilr reter. Run Don Conitltlim. HIo.n1 rrmiiit, Klilne;, stomach. C he ti, Smmtntn. lAvrt ana Female Trouble, THE CHINA HERB CO. Office Hours Dallr 10 a.m. i p.m.. except Sunday. 235 E. Main St.. Medford Society Clara Mary Davis Miss Freed to Attend Meeting Miss Joyce Freed, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Freed, left this week for Berkeley, Cal., with a group of Alpha Delta Pi sorority sisters from the north, to attend tlie soror ity national convention. She Is a University of Oregon stu dent and a graduate of Med ford high school. - Following the convention. Miss Freed will continue on to Los Angeles to' visit for a month with friends and rela tives. Accompanying her to the convention were Miss Betty Jane VanOellen of The Dalles, Kathleen, Phyllis and Mrs. F. F. Brady of Marshfield, Miss Fontelle Mitchell of Eugene and Betty Workman of Sunny side, Wash. The group were house guests at the Freed home overnight before leaving by motorcar for the south. Arthurs Visit At Simpson Home Expected to arrive In Med ford tomorrow to be the house guests of Mr. and Mrs. R. Jack Simpson at their home on How ard street, are Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Arthur and two children Harold and Donna of Crescent City, Cal. The group will spend the week-end at the Simpson home and later continue on north for a more extended vacation The Arthurs are well known here. Mrs. Arthur and Mrs. Simpson are sisters. Girls to Enter Archery Tourney Misses Mary Bruce Crane and Ada Nakagiri plan to leave to morrow for Drain to attend the state archery tournament. The two Medford girls have been trained In archery by Mrs. Conrad P. Wessela and became interested In the sport while attending Girl Scout camp. Mrs. Wessela will also attend the tournament, as will Charlie Davis, president of the state archery association, who will drive the two girls to Drain. The competition will continue over Sunday. Helen Schoeni Visits Valley A visitor In Medford Is Miss Helen Schoeni, niece of Mrs. A. E. Lyman, who has been the house guest at the summer home on Rogue river of Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Daniels and Mr. and Mrs. Billy Wallace of Ash land. Miss Schoeni spent ten days vacationing in southern Cali fornia with a group of students from the Cornish school of dra matics In Seattle, where she has been director for the past year. Miss Schoeni expects to re turn to Seattle the latter part of the week. Her brother, Ar thur Schoeni, well known In Medford and a former resident, is located at Olympla, Wash , where he is head of the United Press in the Capitol building. Miss Collier Visits Here Miss Phyllis Collier of Klam ath Falls is spending several days In Medford as the house guest of Miss Mary Shreve, who is "Queen Elizabeth" of the Shakespeare Festival associa tlon which opens next month in Ashland. Miss Collier Is the Klamath member of the queen's court. Juvenile Club Will Convene Degree of Honor Juvenile club will convene Saturday afternoon from 4 to 8 o'clock at the home of the director, Mrs. Ida M. Wilson, 7 Chestnut street. A welnle roast will be en joyed after the business ses sion. All members are asked to attend and to bring guests. Lambs Visit ' Friends Here Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lamb expect to leave today for their home In Los Angeles after hav ing visited here with Mr. and Mrs. Paul Turner and Mr Lamb's brother, William Lamb. The visitors formerly made their home In this city. Clubs Hammett'Ford Marriage Told The Presbyterian manse was the scene of the wedding last evening at 9 o'clock of Marie Hammett and Robert N. Ford Dr. Sherman L. Divine united the couple in marriage in the presence of friends and rela tives. The couple was attend ed by Mr. and Mrs. George Payant. Mr. and Mrs. Ford will make their home in Redding, Cal., where Mr. Ford is associated with the Southern Pacific com pany. -4 Pocahontas Has Meeting Pocahontas lodge met recent ly In the Redman hall to ob serve "Past Chiefs" night, with Esther Dooms, Evelyn Stagg. Velma Singler and Ed Schacklc In the stations. Frank Martin received the attendance prize. . Birthday gifts for June were presented and the remainder of the evening was spent in play ing cards. . Buckles Home From Vacation Mr. and Mrs. Robert Buckles returned to their home on South Newtown atreet recently from a three weeks' vacation spent in North and South Dakota where they visited friends and rela tives. PASSES. AGED 72 Mrs. Martha Combs, resident of Medford for the past 20 years, died at Packwood, Wash., July 1 after a brief illness, word was received here today. Mrs. Combs was 72 years old She was the mother of Mrs. Kenneth F. Murray of Eagle Point Star route. Mr. and Mrs. Murray and their young daugh ter, Marjo, left here last Satur day for lackwood to be with Mrs. Combs. For the past two months Mrs. Combs had been visiting her sons, J. A. and Sher man Combs who reside In Pack wood. Mrs. Combs owned sever al parcels of property here and in Packwood. Other survivors are two daughters, Anna Linnell of San Francisco and Mrs. M. F. Nolan of Powell Butte. 13 grandchild ren and two great-grandchildren. No word was received here regarding the 'funeral. When he retires at a not dis tant date to private life, C. E. MacQuigjt, college dean of Co lumbus, Ohio, will establish a home somewhere in southern Oregon. He so definitely stated to Trcffle R. LaScney, manager of the Shasta-Cascade Wonder land exhibit building at the Golden Gate international ex position. During a visit to the building, Mr. and Mrs. Mac Quigg were tremendously at tracted by the exhibit materials of Jackson, Klamath and Lake counties. "I have always been attract ed to southern Oregon and have considered that region as the possible location of a home for our declining years," he said. "What I have seen here decides me to investigate and give seri ous thought to the idea." Dr. MacQtiigg was given all available Information on Jack son, Lake and Klamath coun ties and a routing that would take he and Mrs. MncQuIgg leisurely up U. S. highway 99. visiting interesting points en route. Into Medford and Ash land, thence to Crater lake, back into Klamath Falls and thence to Lakcvlew. GREEN PINE SLABS FACTORY BLOCKS BUNDLED KINDLING Or fill your car or trailer at our fuel yard on the corner of North Central Ave and McAndrews Road. Timber Products Company Phone 7 JACKSON CO. CENSUS TO BE KNQWN SOON, ASSERTS HAMILTON Census figures for Jackson county may be announced from the Eugene office in the next few days, said Moore Hamilton, assistant to the state supervisor of census who returned last night from Salem to his home, 43 Rose avenue. For the next few days Mr. Hamilton and Cyrela Schooling, assistant supervisor. for the Eu gene district, will make a clean up of Jackson county farm and irrigation schedules that were turned in by enumerators in In complete form, Mr. Hamilton said. The Incompleteness of these schedules has nothing to do with the population count, he emphasized. After working In Jackson county for a few days with Mr. Schooling, Mr. Hamilton will go north again to complete his cen sus work. He expects to resume editorship of the News, weekly newspaper, in the near future. For the first time In several months, the regular army air corps is accepting recruits. Staff Sgt. Willis S. Estep announced today. Estep is in charge of the recruiting station at Medford city hall. Recruits enlisted now for the air corps will be sent to Moffett field, Riverside, Cal., or Stock ton, Cal., for training before as signment to an air corps unit, Estep related. Full information regarding air corps enlistments may be obtained from the ser geant at city hall. General enlistments made through the Medford office in June totaled 12. Latest to en list were David B. Allen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Parlce P. Allen of Route 4, for the 14th coast artillery at Fort Worden, Wash., and Carl J. Reed, son of Neva L. Sain of route 4, for the 11th cavalry, Presidio of Monterev, Cal. Second annual "Rural Mail Box Improvement Week" was announced today by the post office department as the first seven days in August. A postoffice department cir cular emphasized that unsight ly rural mail boxes and posts mar the scenic beauty of the countryside and asserted that old-fashioned and damaged mail boxes delay the delivery of mail. It was suggested that the standardized box recommended by the department be used. Postmaster Frank DeSouza asked the cooperation of all country residents in improving the appearance and usefulness of, their mall boxes. CONVINKKT COMFORTABLE ECONOMIC! 3 0 0 CUBIC TOOT LOAD r - -3 LOCAL and Going North Mayor C. C. Furnas plans to leave tomor row on a short business trip to Portland. Hanley Here Ed B. Hanley arrived in Medford this morn ing by train from Seattle. Mr. Hanley is a brother of Miss Alice Hanley, well-known south ern Oregon pioneer, who died yesterday noon. False Alarm In answer to o call, the fire department's chem ical crew rushed to Mistletoe street between Ninth and Tenth streets about 8:30 this morning to put out a grass fire, but the firemen found the grass was being burned off under permit and the blaze was being properly attended. A neighbor, becoming frightened at the sight of smoke, telephoned the alarm, firemen said. ... Minor Aecldenis Robert Nel son of Jacksonville and O. E. Goddard of Talent drove cars involved In a slight accident at North Central avenue and Mc Andrews road Wednesday after noon, a report on file said to day. Willed E. Wilson, Jr., of Grants Pass and Maxine E. Robertson of Portland operated vehicles colliding with slight damage two miles south of Rogue River on the Pacific highway Wednesday morning, a report said today. Plane Passengers G. M. Huber and L. P. Older left by United Mainliner early this morning for Portland. Arrivals on the southbound midnight Mainliner were Curtis Bonney and Ray Russell, from Seattle, and R. Olsen and Miss E. Si mon, from Portland. George Phillips and Mrs. M. Furhman arrived from San Francisco last night and Mrs. W. Wilkinson and T. P. Franco departed on the same plane for Portland. Arrivals from Portland on the evening flagstop Mainliner were H. Lewis, Miss E. Allen. Bruce Walton and L. Hinman. Ar rivals from San Francisco yes terday afternoon were Mr. and Mrs. Nion Tucker and their guest. A. Lowery. The party left the airport immediately for Rogues' Roost, the Tuckers' summer home on the upper Rogue river. Charles L. Devine left for Portland on the after noon plane. mum mm Buib Condensed Statement of Head Office and 41 Branches June 29, 1940 RESOURCES Cash on Hand and Due from Banks $46,743,168.31 United States Bonds ut at ar er Uss) 24,419.183.49 $71,162,351.80 ' Municipal Bonds and Warrants 3,720,945.17 Other Bonds '.. ......... . 4.290,399.87 Loans and Discounts - Money at Work In Oregon . . 46,365,082.49 Stock in Federal Reserve Bank . 180,000.00 Bank Premises, Furniture and Fixtures. .T.TTTT. 2,603,555.12 Other Real Estate. .7.T.Y. 1 00 Real Estate Sold Under Contract. .7X7.?".? 1.09 Customers Liability on Acceptances . TTTff 21,947.55 Interest Earned JTTfTf. 401,066.34 Other Resources :. .::. .. ;:;:T:r. 48,730.82 I Total Resources. T. 128,794,081.16 LIABILITIES Capital .-.-.-.-.-.-".".-:; $3,000,000.00 surplus .ft'fr..v.rr.rrit.T:-. 3,000.000.00 Undivided Profits . . . . 2.178.176.86 Reserves (or Contingencies .'. . .' 1.756.779.15 $ 9.934,956.01 Reserves Allocated for Taxes, Interest, etc 430,718.88 Acceptances .-. ...TJ, 23,198.55 Interest Collected in Advance.. tTV.tf.".., 453,729.43 Other Liabilities ..".TTT.VlTr:'. 42,716.66 Deposits .'Trrrrrr. n 7,908.76 1.63 Total Liabilities??????.. 128.794,081.16 41 BRANCHES SERVING OREGON TBI EIBSY HBYIBIBIj IHBB OF PORTLAND, OREGON I I a l I O t I T I N I U I S M C I C 0 I O I a T t 0 M PERSONAL Eads Away Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Eads are spending thr day in Ashland attending the Fourth of July celebration. They left by train this morn ing. To Portland Fred W. Schef fcl, city superintendent, and Frank Hull, manager of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, were to leave to day for Portland to transact business. They expected to be Joined in Portland for the trip home by Glenn L. Jackson, president of the chamber of commerce, who has been in the east. Court Citations Joe Dallaire of route 2 was cited by city police yesterday to appear in city court. July 6, charged with failure to stop at Riverside ave nue and Main street. Alva E. Mansfield of 712 Cedar street was cited to appear July 5, charged with driving a ear with void license plates. Paul J. Selby of 10S Crater Lake ave nue was cited to appear later, charged with failure to stop at West Main and Hamilton streets. L 10:30 SATURDAY Funeral services for Albert Sylvester Schnurr have been changed, and will be conducted from the Perl Funeral home Saturday at 10:30 a. m Crater Lake Aerie, Medford Eagles, will have charge of the services. In terment will be in Siskiyou Memorial Park. NO MORE NICKEL BEER IN MARION, POLK AREA Salem. Ore., July 4. (U.R) The nickel beer is just a glor ious memory in Polk and Mari on counties last night. The bev erage dispensers' association of the two counties abolished the five cent beer at a meeting here. Weather Northern California: Fair to night and Friday but foggy or cloudy on coast: slightly cooler in Interior valleys: moderate to fresh northwest wind off coast. Over $46,000,000 of our deposits are at work in Oregon an all-time record for any Oregon bank. We are proud of our loan record. We want to put more money to work. Dollars at Work Mean Men at Work! F SLIGHT SO FAR Losses from fires In the first six months of 1940 totaled $729.03 as compared with 42, 827.32 in the same period last year, it was disclosed by a tab ulation made today at fire de partment headquarters. Last year the $40,000 Medford Ice Sc Storage company-fire occur red on June 30. Assessed value of the prop erty on fire in the first half of this year was listed at $462. 050, on which insurance of $196,300 was carried, fire de partment records showed. In the first half of 1939 the as sessed value of the property on fire was recorded as $1,114,662. on which insurance of $952, 399.80 was carried. By an odd coincidence, the fire department answered the same numbers of calls, 79, in both half year periods. Portland. Ore.. July 4. (!P) A costly fire at the Southern Pacific Railroad company siding left a black scar along Portland's Willamette river harbor today. E. L. King, Southern Pacific superintendent, estimated the damage to the loading dock at about $75,000. The loss included eight box cars, three flat cars, rails and switches. Thirty pieces of fire equip ment battled the flames late yes terday from the shore and har bor. Investigators are examining the possibility the fire might have been started by a fire cracker. Uee Mall Tribune want ada. Too Late to Classify FOR SALE 160 acrea land, pine and fir timber. 15 mllea N.E. Ashland. 6 mllea off gravel road. $2200 cash. E. U B?1L Remote. Oregon. HIGHEST CASH PRICES PAIS tor SCRAP IRON AND METAL i. all klnda. batteries, radiators, alumi num, copper, brass; also bldea pelta and wool. Medford Bargain House. 37 N Grape Phone 1063 1 1 FOR RENT ilety furnlahed dup'.ei Eleclrte refrigerator, Uaytaf. : me tric range and oil Beater. Adulle 70t Pine. RADIO HEP AIRING at very reaaon. an. ratea. geverln Electric, 1S0S N. Riverside. Phone 390. FOR RENT Spacious and attractive four-room downstairs ault In tha Holly Apartments. Completely fur nlabed eicept dlahee and lines. Uarase aeoond door aorta of poetofflee. Adult only. S40. Avail able now. 6ee manager la rear or phona 1397-&. BETTER Kodak Finishing 4c each print EXPERT ADVICE FOR BETTER PICTURES Wilfley Studio And CAMERA SHOP Across from Craterlaa in LOS flflGElES ITS I iiuntouin d( comfortable, quiet room y all with baths Prom 12.50, Double from S3 .60. New lnner-sprlng mattresaea la 1 e p-compelllng beds). New soft-bell hand tele phones. 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