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PAGE TWELVE MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1941. PACKED INTO YULE Crowd Will Have To Circu late To See Everything, Merchants Group States, There's going to be lot of fun and thrills packed Into the hour and a half celebration that will formally herald the opening of the Christmas shopping sea son Wednesday evening. In or der to see everything, spectators were advised yesterday by the Medfurd Merchants association to get downtown early Wednes day evening. The whole celebration will start at 6:30 and will be over at 8 o'clock. Rehearsing Most of the downtown stores are rehearsing for the living model feature of the opening fete, an (novation this year. Real persons will enact home scenes In the windows and thus display the store's Yule mer chandise. In a smart apparel shop, for example, a young lady will be seen preparing to go out for the evening to a formal social function and later return ing and going through the usual preparations to retire for the night or what's left of It. As an added feature one of the department stores will pre sent a marionette show as a window attraction. Other stores were said to be working up Individual features also. Another (novation this year will be the display of new, trim 1942 motorcars in the center of Central avenue from Sixth to Eighth streets. The two block? will be roped off for public convenience and the cars will be flooded In special Illumina tion. Candy For Kiddies Santa Claus will be down town with a generous supply of candy for all the children. There will also be special music the complete program to bt worked up tomorrow. It was pointed out by Jack Matlack, celebration director, that to see everything spectators will not only have to get down town early but will have to keep circulating throughout the business district. L Portland. Nov. 22. (AP) A series of six-day training schools In work peace officers might be called on to perform In war-time emergencies will be held In Ore gon by the federal bureau of In vestigation. J. D. Swenson, Portland FBI agent, said schools were sched uled at Portland, Dec. 16; Med ford, March 9-14; Eugene, March 16-21 and Pendleton, March 23 28. Methods of handling military traffic, police control in black outs and the handling of unex ploded bombs will be among the topics discussed. A New Modern TRUCK For Faster Delivery Service ON SAMSON SUPER QUALITY FUEL OIL McClure Is Promoted By United Air Lines To New Airport Post Announcement was made yes terday of the promotion of Wil liam H. McClure from station attendant here to manager of the United Air Lines station at the new airport at Bellingham, Wash. Mr. McClure expects to be transferred to the new sta tion shortly after the first of the year. United Air Lines Is now plan ning its Bellingham airport sta tion and building is expected to be rushed as soon as the blue prints are completed. The new Bellingham airport is scheduled to be in operation by next March 6 and United Air Lines hopes to be established on the field before then, the Medford office said. The Bellingham airport, only 21 miles from the Canadian border, will be a port of entry and U. S. Immigration and customs offices will be established there. Mr. McClure has Veen with United Air Lines for seven years. He has been with the company at A'edford municipal airport for five years, being second to Max C. Henne, manager. Mr. McClure Is married and hai two children, Bonnie, 5, and Lassie, 2. Mrs. McClure is the daughter of Mrs. John W. Hoyt ana me late Kev. Mr. Hoyt, re tired Presbyterian minister, who made his home here. Since her husband's death, Mrs. Hoyt has made her home with Mr. and Mrs. McClure, who reside at 250 Beatty street, and will move with them to Bellingham. L E Further exploitation of Crater Lake area pumice is planned next summer by H. A. Hogan of Central Point. Mr Hogan. who furnished 466 cubic yards of pumice to serve as insulation at the new Medford Ice Arena, has access to a vast supply of the material In the vicinity of the Diamond Lake lodge According to Sparky Bourque, manager of the ice arena, the pumice Insulation has proved entirely satisfactory. With the growing scarcity of cork and other materials long used In insulation, Hogan said last week he believes the use of pumice may be greatly ex panded, particularly where a light, non-packing, cellular sub stance Is desired. RESCUE CAT For the second time In two days the fire department was called upon yesterday morning to rescue a cat. The cat yester day had climbed to the top of a telephone pole in the alley run ning from Ninth to Tenth street between Holly and Ivy streets. George Shreeve and LeRoy Wil liams, a volunteer fireman, went to the rescue, getting the cat to safety by means of a ladder. The previous afternoon Gordon Barker responded to a fire de partment call to rescue a tat that somehow had become trapped In the attic of the Episcopal church at North Onkdale avenue and Fifth street. Mr. Gordon located the cat and then left word that a carpenter would have to be called to do some cutting to get the cat out of Its trap. Jtmr !.'.) i. . isi j -And ERROR-PROOF BRODIMATIC Printing Meter 4th and Front T SLICK SISKIYOU Slippery pavement on the Pa cific highway over the Siskiyou mountains caused two automo biles accidents Saturday, Injur ing four persons, three of them members of the 30th Infantry, U. S. Army, en route In a convoy of 290 vehicles to Ft. Lewis from the Presidio in San Francisco. The army truck, according to state police, skidded on a slick spot on the highway three miles this side of the summit about 12:30 p. m., turned on its nose in a ditch and caused injuries to Prvt. John H. Knowles, driv er; a Prvt. Maynard and a Sgt. Ferguson. The victims, none of them seriously hurt, were placed in an army ambulance and pro ceeded north with the convoy, which camped at Grants Pass last night. John Stilanos, 47, of Portland suffered a fractured left leg near the ankle and chest Injuries when his northbound machine struck a slippery portion of the highway three miles this side of the summit about 9:30 a.m. and turned over on the highway twice. He was taken In an am bulance to Ashland Community nospnai, and was not believed to be critically injured. SPATZ PHEASANT Maurice Spatz, partner with his brother Ward in the Crystal Springs Packing unmiunv voa. tcrday told of his company's shipment of 18 complete Oregon pheasant dinners by air express to a Cleveland hllina man 4nf a Thanksgiving dinner for a group oi nis associates. The air exoress cost of hln- plng the order was exactly $188.16, Mr. Spatz said, this, of course, not Including the cost of the merchandise. The complete pheasant dinner Is one of the rhrldmn. aill boxes betas featured thi. by the Crystal SDrings Packing company. The Cleveland busi ness man happened to see one of the company's folders pictur ing and otherwise describing the line of Yule gift packages being T.ut out this vear. Th nhpn.unt dinner, complete from soup to nuts, serves six persons and so the Cleveland host could have had more than 100 itipi Mr Spatz related. NEWPORT WINS NeWDort. Nov 3atj NeWDOrt hlffh nrhr.nl T.lnM.1 county champion, defeated the Arlington football team here to day, 39-13. OVERLIN EASY WINNER New York. Nnv 99 fa Seldom has any ranking fighter received a more thorough, more humiliating beating than was handed out to Al Hostak former N. B. A. middleweight cham nlnn hv thm v.t.r.n Van rt... lln Friday night at Madison square uarclen. Lauritz Melrhinl th t.nn. has a hobby of collecting ant lers. V Vjm tun) r To Assure Full Measure A EVERY GALLON ef ell dtllr ared to you is METERED and mechanically recorded on a PRINT ED JLIP It it YOUR protection a PLUS SERVICE that goes with reliable, dun and courteous oil delivery. Ba sure to get YOUR Verified Mstar-Pr inttd Dtlivary Ra ctiptl SAMSON FUEL OIL SERVICE Phone 3756 R. J. Simpson Returns To Enter Insurance Business In Medford After a short absence. Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Simpson were being welcomed back to Medford yes terday as friends learned of Mr. Simpson's appointment as assistant general agent for the Aetna Life Insurance company with full supervision over and responsibility for organization and production in southern Ore gon. At the same time the company announced the advancement of O. O. Alenderfer to district supervisor. The announcement said that Mr. Alenderfer has made an outstanding record since his appointment to the company office here in June, 1939. For the past 10 years Mr. Slmoson has been manager of the special products division of the Standard Oil Company of California, his territory embrac ing northern California and southern Oregon. Prior to his Medford residence he managed operations of the company in Spokane, Wash., and San Fran cisco. Mr. Simpson Is a member of the Rogue River Valley Golf association and is active in the Presbyterian church. His son. Clinton Odell, is a member of the Cub Scouts and a pupil at Roosevelt school. Mrs. Simpson Is a member of the Eastside Circle and immediate past presi dent of the Parent-Teachers association of Roosevelt school. She has been active in Commu nity Chest and Red Cross work here. The Simpsons have taken up residence at 819 Minnesota avenue. IT FOR TAX DEPUTY McMinnvllle, Nov. 22. (fP)-r-Harold Messinger reflected rue fully on his task as Yamhill county tax deputy today. M. J. Trubey, Portland attorney. dropped a sack weighing 30 pounds on his desk to redeem tax-foreclosed property. Messinger counted out 495 silver dollars. Trubey said col lecting them was a hobby. Several months ago the navy discontinued requiring full dress uniforms for duration of the pre sent emergency. IPHERCE AOT LEAP TTHIE JIR rtjsjrrs . HI flf If ' '4 fli V" ' HCAW.I6HT g iv. : ,rSi ' f T , V. V ';. ' - c - - 1 v OIn a nation-wide safety contest sponsored by the National Safety Council and the American Trucking Association, Pierce Auto Freight Lines, Inc., won FIRST PLACE for consistent safe operation during the past year. The above display, now in the windows of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce building in Medford, shows various types of safety equipment used by Pierce Auto Freight Lines, Inc., on its fleet of trucks between Portland, Oregon and San Francisco, California. In the lower center of this display are shown the National Safety Council award (center), the Safety Engineers' award (left) and the American Trucking Association award (right) PIERCE AUTO FREIGHT LINES, INC. ARREST TACOMANSIHEAVY DOWNPOUR ON LADY'S CLAIM OF KIDNAP. RAPE Tacoma, Nov. 22. (JP) Kid naping and rape charges were filed in Justice - court today against three young Tacomans following their arrest on the complaint of a Tacoma woman who alleges she was kidnaped from a downtown street and subsequently attacked five times by the trio. The three, held In Jail with bail set at $23,000 each, are Loren Hinton, 20, Russell Do- lan, 26, and Ed Gaines, 26. The woman, whose name was withheld by police, said she was forced into the car at the cor ner of 13th and Commerce street, taken to a deserted spot and attacked by all three men. The trio then took her to an other place and two of them at tacked her again, she reported. She escaped while they were repairing a flat tire and a pass ing motorist brought her to the police station. She is being treated in a local hospital. Tacoma, Nov. 22. (JP) Theft of a package containing $3,000 worth of negotiable papers, including $263.73 in cash, from an American Rail way Express truck while it was parked on a downtown street this morning, was revealed to night by police. The package belonged to the Northern Pacific railway and was to have been delivered to a bank. It contained 19 rail way remittance envelopes be sides the cash and other papers. The robbery, which occurred between 7:30 and 8:30 a. m., was reported by G. A. Gallo way, driver of the truck, who noticed the package was missing from its place Inside the cowl of his machine after he return ed from a store where he had made a delivery. Sheep breeding on a grand scale is to be carried out In the Chinese northwestern provinces. Imported sheep will be crossed with local stock. Safely Equipment7 used Mr.mmnm i SJssVMssW'W ; rwig IAH IN DESERT AIDS BRITISH ATTACK By Godfrey Anderson British Journalist. With British Troops In Libya, Nov. 18 (Delayed) A phenom inal rainstorm one of the heav iest of ' years in the desert ! bogged German planes aground and gave British fliers decisive help on this first day of the new drive into Libya. Aerial scouts reported the development, which apparently accounted for the little air op position seen by the force I accompanied. By nightfall we were 70 miles Inside Libya from the Egyptian frontier and still going strong. The rain swept the Libyan coastal regions Monday night. We could see the lightning flashes splitting the sky along the Mediterranean coast from the British assembly zone. The water, pouring into the dry sand, converted airports into quivering masses that pre vented Nazi planes from taking off. The motors of Stuka dive bombers roared angrily, but could not lift the craft The storm had spent Its fury by the time it swept on east ward to the Egyptian border. United States-built aircraft dropped heavy bombs on the Derna airfield Just as it was drying up. AMERICAN TANKS Carlo, Egypt, Nov. 22. (AP) American-made tanks, receiv ing their first real test under war conditions In the British of fensive in Libya, drew this tri bute tonight from a British of ficial: - -' "They have proved very fast, absolutely reliable and fully jus tified themselves. In a word, they've done fine work and we are glad to acknowledge it." New York, Nov. 22. (AP) The American field service dis closed today that 124 volunteers had sailed recently for service with the British Middle East forces as ambulance drivers. DM Mall mourn want ta. FEEHGHT LUKES DJAUTON HKf SAFETY! FIRST PLAGE NoiioNfii Flee J SorETV Contest by Pierce Auio folM Lines, Inc. WELDERS OBJECT FOR SETTLEMENT Los Angeles, Nov. 22. fe west coast welders who aired their, union-membership griev ances in a recent shipyard strike expressed sharp displeasure to day at an asserted settlement an nounced in Washington by Sid ney Hillman, OPM associate di rector general. The settlement was In effect no settlement at all, leaders of the welders said, and efforts will be continued to place the differences before congress. Hillman said that nine AFL metal trades unions had agreed to grant welders "one-card" pri vileges and to cease alleged dis criminations against welders who took part in the strike. Hillman added that he hoped the action would satisfy the welders. , 13, VICT Medical Lake, Nov. 22. (JP) Deputy Sheriff Bill Reilly said tonight Shirley Schustra, 13, was critically wounded by the acci dental discharge of a shotgun In the hands of a 16-year-old duck hunter. Reilly said the girl stood in a doorway "kidding" three boys who were walking by on a hunt and that one playfully raised his gun. The weapon fired and the charge struck Shirley in the right hip. The boy reported his glove "somehow caught in the trigger," Reilly said. If you plan to buy or sell let us finance the transaction. JACKSON WINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION , " ' 'DAVID HUM' OF SPOKANE PASSES Spokane, Wash., Nov. 22. (JP) Mitchell (Mike) Barmon, 68. trading store proprietor who once tried to take his horse into a motion picture theater to see a "western," died today of a broken neck received in an auto mobile accident Thanksgiving day. Known as 'Trading Mike," Barmon was the - area's David Harum 25 years ago. As hors trading faded from the seen Barmon gradually developed his business into a general swapping enterprise and was operating "Mike's Trading Store" at the time of his death. There he bought, sold or traded, accord ing to the customer's desire. Years ago Mike owned a palo mino horse, a five-gaited animal he had taught to come at his whistle, to kneel and to shake hands. Mike was an admirer of Tox Mix and thought his palo mino would enjoy a glimpse of the actor's horse, Tony. When he tried to ride into theater the management turned a derisive thumb downward. Mike then offered to buy a block, of seats for the horse, but the picture was over before he could reach an agreement with tha manager. CALLED 10 NAVY Redmond, Nov. 22. (IP) Joa C. Brown, editor of the Red mond Spokesman recently called into active service as an ensign in the navy, left Seattle last night for a month's training at Washington, D. C. He will ba stationed at Seattle afterward. COUNTY FEDERAL 126 EAST MAIN ' Loans V Homes J
