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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.
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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
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Delivery
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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.
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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.
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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
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county champion, defeated the
Arlington football team here to
day, 39-13.
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received a more thorough, more
humiliating beating than was
handed out to Al Hostak former
N. B. A. middleweight cham
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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'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.
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