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PAGE EIGHT CITY FIRE LOSS $7,571 IN 1941 mm told Annual Report Shows 63.5 Cents Per Capita One Death, 4 Injuries Caused. Total fir Ion last year wi $7,571 or 83-112 cents per capi ta, it wai ihown in the annual report tiled with the city coun cil but night by Chief Roy El liott. ThU compare with $1,388.04 or 13 cents per capita In 1940, lowest In the state and lowest on record here. A series of fires early in the year ruined the . chance of equaling the 1940 rec ord, though the outcome for the entire year was considered high' ly satisfactory. Evincing an interest In inspec tion service, Councilman James C. Collins asked Chief Elliott if two of the three fires caused by electric wiring last year were not in places under construction and the chief replied that he thought such was the case. Chief Elliott added, however, that he would not be able to give details without checking his records Mr. Collins' question seemed to Indicate a curiosity about how electric wiring (ires could occur In places being constructed. One Death Estimated value of the prop erty involved in fires last year was riven in the report as $868, 000.87, Insurance carried on the property amounting to $694,124. On death and four injuries were caused by fire in 1941, the report said. It showed that the chief made I9S personal inspec tions of buildings and other pro perty during the year and had on hazard removed. All schools were Inspected and fire drills held at each. Last year the department re sponded to 172 alarms. Included were 43 chimney fires, ten pub He buildings, three apartments, IS residences, nine cars, a barn, four cases of children playing with matches, ten rubbish and 22 grass blazes, a garage, three cases of fires from electric wir ing, three from electric motors, one from an electric heater, two from gas water heaters, one from fireerackers, one trom hot ashes and one from hot grease. The report thanked the public lor its cooperation. REGULATOR TROUBLE MAKES LIGHT FLICK Trouble In a regulator at a local California-Oregon Power company sub-station caused electric lights In the downtown section to flicker on and off for about three minutes at 5 p. m. yesterday. The trouble was soon remedied and uninterrupted power service resumed. Population of Hong Kong, not counting military person nel, totals 1.050,256 but with out the Chinese refugees, It is only about 730,000. A bullet case can be made by a lipstick case company but the bullet case has to be more carefully put together. You trust its Brothers Seeking lo Share Dad's Estate With Ignored Sister Roseburg, Ore., Jan. 7 (IP) In an unusual court action, In which two brothers are seeking to give away part of their in heritance to a sister who early In life Incurred the displeasure of their father and was cut off with a small part of his estate, as distributed by his will, was being heard in circuit court here today, Charles G. and Cyrus Hedden, two of the four beneficiaries of the will of their father, the late John Hedden, pioneer Scotts burg merchant, are seeking a court order breaking the will and dividing the estate of ap proximately $85,000, into five equal parts. The late Mr. Hedden's will bequeaths only $300 to a daugh ter, Mrs. June Sachenberger, who was estranged from her father many years ago, and di rects that the balance of the estate be divided equally be tween a second daughter, Miss Emma Hedden; the two sons, and an adopted daughter, Fanny Loralne Goldson, a daughter of Mrs. Sachenberger. T BIKE TAG Bicycle license plate number one will adorn the vehicle of Venita Gardner, 9, of 223 South Front street during the coming year. The little girl drew the coveted number from the box this morning as bike owners streamed into city police station to obtain their 1942 licenses. Reese Baughman o f 524 Plum street, mailman, drew number 2, and Vern Cannon, city hall Janitor, was lucky enough to get number 3. Num bers 1 to 100 were to be drawn, the latter numeral already hav ing gone to Robert Webster, 12 of 422 South Riverside avenue Up to 1:30 this afternoon 07 numbers had been drawn from the box. All bicycles In the city must be licensed by city police. MARIAN E. STANCLIFFE OF PHOENIX PASSES Marian E. Stancliffe, well- known resident of Phoenix, Ore., passed away at Sunland, Calif., this morning after a brief ill ness. A complete obituary will be published later. Perl Funeral Home is in charge. NEW GOYA Washington (UP) Newly added to the Francisco Goya col lection of the National Gallery of Art here Is a painting by that Spanish artist of a contemporary of his, Don Bartolome Surcda. According-to the 'gallery, the painting Illustrates a phase of the artist's development not for merly shown in the collection. A popular theory about the Christmas star Is that It may have been a configuration of the three planets Mars, Jupiter and Saturn; this triple arrange ment happens once every 800 years. quality MEDFORD MAIL LOSSJHRAINS City and County Officials And Chamber Commerce Officers To Sign Letter. Formal protest against discon tinuing the two Southern Paci fic trains linking southern Ore gon and California was to be signed today by city and county officials and chamber of com merce officers and dispatched Immediately to the interstate commerce commission and the Oregon state public utilities commission. The protest, voted at meet ing of the officials and commu nity leaders In the Hotel Med ford yesterday afternoon, also petitions the interstate com merce commission to issue an order desisting the Southern Pacific company from carrying out its Intention to drop its only two remaining southern Oregon California trains January 12 unless "it shall appear to the interstate commerce commission that such discontinuance is ne cessary as a matter of military necessity." Many To Sign The document embodying the protest was to be signed by the mayors of Medford, Ashland and Grants Pass, the judges of Jackson and Josephine counties and the presidents of the cham bers of commerce in Medford, Ashland and Grants Pass. Be cause of the shortness of time before the Southern Pacific company's effective date in dis continuing the trains, the inter state commerce commission was to be notified of the protest by telegraph with notice that the signed document was en route by mail. The gist of the protest was embodied in a motion introduced at yesterday's meeting by George M. Roberts after Claude E. Peterson, assistant to the vice president at the company's San Francisco office, informed the group that discontinuance of the two trains was based on the necessity of utilizing equipment and employes for military pur poses. Rawles Moore, however, asserted that he could not be lieve that the military emerg ency was so acute that any ef fective help could be provided by the couple of old locomotives and the few dilapidated passen ger cars comprising the two train. Promise Return Mr. Peterson said the trains would be restored as "soon as the present emergency Is over." H. B. Murphy asked about ship ments of fruit next year but Mr. Peterson said that he could not look so far ahead, that every thing depended upon war condi tions at the time. He added, however, that he could not fancy the present military bur den on the Southern Pacific continuing more than three months. Mr. Peterson pointed out that Workers, In factory and office, know thai a much needed pause, now and then, needs refreshment, too. With Ice-cold Coca-Cola near at hand, it's easy to turn to refreshment . taste-good, feel-good refreshment . . . without turning from work. Mora work, and better work follows the pause that nfnsht. lOllllt UHBIS AUTNOIIIT Of THI COCHCOl COMPANY IT COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY OF MEDFORD TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. arrangements had been made for bus service connecting south ern Oregon and northern Cali fornia communities with Klam ath Falls division trains at Dunsmuir, Cal. In reply to a question by Postmaster Frank DeSouza, he stated that trucks would transport mall when the two trains are discontinued. Gus Newbury, when told there were four trains daily each way at Klamath Falls, wanted to know why one of those trains could not be routed through Medford. There was no reply but Mr. Peterson previously had said there already had been much curtailment of passenger train service elsewhere and more was in prospect. CAPTAIN NIELSEN TO RESIDE HERE Captain Lester Nielsen, with his wife and two sons, Brice and Douglas, returned to Medford this week from Taft, Calif., where Captain Nielsen has been serving as provost marshall at the air corps basic flying school. Captain Nielsen, a reserve of ficer In the air corps, was called to active duty last August 1. In October he went to Hoff Gen eral hospital in Santa Barbara, Calif., for observation and treat ment, and there it was found he was suffering from a disqualify- I ing kidney condition. On Nov i ember 23 a board of medical of Ificers found Captain Nielsen in capacitated for military service and he was retired because of physical disability. Although expressing his keen disappointment in being forced to leave the service at this time. Captain Nielsen said he was glad to return to Medford and greet his friends. Captain Nielsen will resume his duties as manager of the Big Y market immediately, he said. Returning with the Nielsen's for an extended visit was Mrs. Nielsen's mother, Mrs. Josie Hazen of Sacramento. The Niel sen's will make their home at 39 Summitt avenue. "TODAY'S SPECIAL" Roseville, Cal. (UP) A used car dealer here was surprised to discover that the shiny new automobile he had displayed on his "Today's Special" platform wasn't there when he looked for it. With the surrounding busi ness district Jammed with pedes trians a bold thief merely step ped in and drove the car away. Formosa is the oldest colony of Japan and probably the most useful economically. WAKE UP YOUR LIVER BILE- rVithouf CaWI-And You'll Jut Out f Bed in tht Mormnf Rarin' to G Th Utot tboold poor t plots of MW Me Into your bowtrU ovary day. If this bit It not ftowinf frwljr, jrour food mar not dt foot. It may juat decay In the) bowel. The a (a bloat up your stomach. You got eon atlpatcd. Yon tM sour, sunk and tho world looks punk. It Uku those rood, old Carter' Little Llw Pills to st Unas I pint of bil flow. In freely to make you feci "up and up." Hot parkas today. Tak a directed. Effective in making bil flow freely. Ask for Cartsr's UtUs Llvr Pills. 10 sad 264, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1942. AUTOIST INJURED WHEN CAR DIVES OFF FT. BANK William Ziegler, 37, Elliott Creek Dweller, Owes Life To Passing Motorists. Trapped in his car wiiich skidded on slippery Swayne grade and plunged over a 40 foot embankment on the Unn r Applegate road 22 miles from Jacksonville late Tuesday morn ing, William Ziegler, 37, who resides on Elliott creek, owes his life to two passing motorists who extricated, him from the wreckage by tearing a hole in the top of his automobile. Ziegler was confined in Com munity hospital tcay with a broken arm, between the shoul der and elbow, and severe, bruises. According to Lee Port, dis trict ranger at the Star ranger station who employs Ziegler every summer, the latter was driving his two-door sedan toward Jacksonville when the accident occurred. Steep, crook ed Swayne grade was covered with ice, and in attempting to negotiate a curve Ziegler lost control of his car and it skidded . hi A- M Good advertising copy and attractive layouts are, of course, essential to the success of your advertising. But from the standpoint o' final results the answer depends upon the distribution of your advertising. When you buy newspaper advertising you are paying for an opportunity to talk to people about your merchandise and sen-ice. What you get for your money, therefore, depends upon how many people there are in yorr audience, where they are, how this audience was obtained, and many other facts that indicate the value of the circulation as a market for what you have to sell. A. B. C. AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS FACTS AS A MEASURE OF ADVERTISING VALUE off the road and lodged against some logs 40 feet below the highway. Port said he learped. Driver Trapped Ziegler, Port said, was trap ped and cramped in the car in such a way as to be unable to reach the ignition switch to turn off the motor. The engine con tinued to run. Port said, until all the water was used up In the radiator, most of it having leaked out through a hole caused by the crash. Mrs. Edith Crow and Guy Watkins, both of Copper, no ticed the wrecked car as th.y drove by, and immediately went to Ziegler'a aid. Port stated. Unable to open either door, they finally ripped hole in the top of the car and pulled Ziegler to safety Just as the motor, run ning without water, was about to catch on fire, Port said. Singapore was leased In per petuity to Sir Stamford Raffles for the East India company in 1924 by the Sultan of Tohore. Jw Mall TrlbuiM want ads. GREEN FIR SLABS a.- 53.00 Medford Fuel Co. 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