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PAGE TWO MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MED FORD OREGON'. WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1940, MEDFORD TRAILS REST OF STATE ON SAFETY LIST First Half Year Report Lists 331 Accidents With 76 , Injuries for Jackson Co. Medford and Jackson county made relatively poor showings In the state's traffic safety cam paign in the first half of the year, it was revealed in a bulle tin Issued by the secretary of state s office. tn the Group 1 cities of the state, Medford was listed sixth and last. Last year Medford was awarded a plaque for its . safety record. For Jackson county the bulle tin shows: 331 accidents In the first six months of 1940 as com pared with 309 in the same period of 1939; 78 Injuries as compared with 48; and seven fatalities as compared with three. In the future a new method will be used in rating cities In order to attain a more ac curate picture, the bulletin said. Henceforth each month will be compared with the average of the same month of the previous three years. In the past each month has been compared with only the same month of the previous year. Salem, July 10. UP) A new record of 160 persona died in Oregon traffic accidents during the first half of 1940, being 10 more than the total for the similar period of 1937 when the previous high mark was set. .. Twenty-nine more persons were killed during the first halt of 1940 than during the first six months of last year. Secretary of State Earl Snell aid. . The June total of 3B was a new record for the month and was an increase of 10 over the June, 1939, total. ' .Of the 39 persons killed In June, eight were pedestrians. TIERNEY LEAVES FOR BOURBON CONVENTION Portland. July 10. CP) Democratic state central com mittee Chairman Frank Tierney left last night for the national convention opening . Monday in Chicago. -v- As vice-chairman of a party conference of 11 western states he will attend a pre-conventlon meeting Sunday night. Injured in Riot My Edward J. Mallen Jr., (above), of Frannl, Wyoming, was sort ously hurt in one of numerous armed clashes which marked the presidential election in Mexico City. Wallen suffered a pistol wound In the stomach, hospital authorities said. V.F.W. WOULD ERASE PROFIT FROM WAR Corvallis, July 10. (IP) Ore gon Veterans of Foreign Wars passed a resolution yesterday asking that profit be taken out of war and favoring a "steeply graduated personal and corpor ation income tax." Alexander Hamilton of the state unemployment compensa tion commission said unemploy ed veterans in OreRon would be registered for work in the na tional defense program. Freshman Week Bet. Eugene, July 10. W) Fresh man week at the University of Oregon will open September 24 and run for four days, during which all beginning students will complete necessary ent rance examinations before en rolling in regular classes. 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Sprague announced yesterday the following reap pointments to four-year terms on county public welfare com missions, the appointments ef fective July 1: W. 1(. Browning of Baker, Baker county. E. W. Wiley of Roseburg, Douglas county. Alfred S. V. Carpenter of Medford. Juckson county. C. H. Demaray of Grants Pass, Josephine county. George II. McMorran of Eu gene, Lane county. Mr. Carpenter was appointed to the original relief commis sion by Gov. Julius Meier in 1933. First meeting of the commission was held on March 3, 1933, and Mr. Carpenter served as vice-chairman until May 3, 1933, when he became chairman. He has served as chairman since. Mr. Carpenter is one of only a few county welfare commis sion chairmen of the state who have served continuously since formation of the original relief committees. Only ione other member of the Jackson county commission has served continu ously since the beginning. She is Mrs. R .E. Green. Oae UaU Tribune want ads. Nice Going, Charley! ,mic I gr Vf staff" if- iif' Vice-President Garner (right) made it a point to congratulate the Republican nominee for his Job, Sen. Charles L. McNary (R-Ore.), who was named Wendell L. Willkie's running mate at the closing session of the Republican convention. Picture shows Garner and McNary laughing as Garner told him some of the duties of the vice-president in Washington. In Grotesque Death Nanticoke, Pa. VP) One of the victims of the Susquehanna river's spring flood was a young deer, whose body was found hanging from its hind less 25 feet above the ground after the waters receded. The animal evi dently attempted to swim the river when it was at its crest but its legs caught in the branches and it drowned. WAR COSTS ENGLAND $26,000,000 DAILY; MORE TAXES NEEDED London, July 10. W) Brit ain is now spending 9.S00.000 pounds, or $38,000,000. a day, of which 6 500,000 pound or $20,000,000 is going to the army, navy and air force. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood told the house of commons today. Sir Kingsley made this an nouncement in asking a vote of credit for 1.000,000.000 pounds (about $4,000,000,000). The bouse voted this credit and then went into secret ses sion on economic warfare. The government already has been given a blank check as far as appropriations go and parliament votes it money from time to time to pay the bills. The last vote of credit was 700,000,000 pounds (about $2, 800.000,000) in March. The chancellor said 575,000, 000 pounds of this already had been spent. He warned that the gap between revenue and expenditure was widening and that additional taxes must be imposed. Rare Textbook Austin, Tex. (U.R) Oldest textbook in a 17,000 volume collection at the University of Texas is a Greek and Latin parody on the Book of Job, used In 1637. It Is one among many early textbooks presented to the University by Dr. J. L. Henderson, professor of education. 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