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Music Lovers Brave Weather To Hear Philharmonic Society Concert Sunday By Mrs. E. E. Gore The first concert of the season by the orchestra of the Philhar monic Society of Southern Ore Son was given at the high school auditorium under the direction of Richard D. Werner, Sunday afternoon. The audience, while small, was composed of music lovers who had disregarded the inclement weather in order to hear the concert. The interest and anticipation were heightened because of the introduction of "Petite Sym phony," composed and orches trated by Mr. Werner. The num ber has strong audience appeal. Written in the accepted four movements, the motifs are gay and sprightly, pleasing and me lodious. The enjoyment of the players in presenting it was very evident. Others About Ready It is understood that Mr. Wer ner has two other symphonies about ready for public perform ance, and these will be given as opportunities arise. The orchestra is composed of experienced adult musicians from Eagle Point, Grants Pass, Ashland and Medford, and is or ganized so that competent junior musicians from high school can also gain playing experience and become familiar with the clas sics of all time. ' Concerning presentation of the director's composition, the fact that the orchestra members played from hand-written manu scripts should not be overlooked While playing from manuscript music presents difficulties which the non-musician does not appre ciate, it also provides valuable musical experience, particularly for student musicians of an or chestra. The manuscripts had all been written by Mr. Werner, with some help from Mrs. Rose Es kew of the first violin section, and represent many hours of painstaking labor. D-Minor Concerto The concerto in D-minor for two violins was supported by the string section of the orchestra and the harpsichord score, as written by Bach, the score being played with great delicacy and musicianship by Bruno Pelle grini, pianist for the Philhar monic society. This number is not only truly beautiful music but is typical of the age in which it was written; it was given with much skill and understanding of the musical, as well as the tech nical intricacies, by the two solo ists, Miss Melba Chehak and Harlalee Wilson, each of whom gave an excellent performance. It has been said "nations live and survive in their art and liter ature"; then, Mr. Werner, in se lecting the four movements of the "First Symphony in C Ma jor," by Beethoven, as his major offering, brought to his stu dents, his audience and his work en art creation very warm, vital, alive and necessary to musical culture everywhere. The rhythmic and melodious favorite, "Blue Danube Waltz," by Johann Strauss, brought the program to a completely satisfy ing close. Cold Auditorium There is no doubt that the concert would have been more enjoyable had the audience been comfortable, for it is difficult to enjoy even the best of music when feet are icy and teeth chat tering. The frigid atmosphere of the auditorium not only made the audience uncomfortable, but made playing difficult for the orchestra members. ' Personnel of the orchestra is Lane Dairymen Raise Grade A Milk Price Eugene, Ore., Jan. 17 (U.R) Lane county dairymen today raised the price of grade A milk cne-half cent a quart. F. A. Kesey, spokesman for the milk producers, said the in crease would go to producers to offset costs of importing feed during bad weather which pre vents normal grazing. The raise brings price of grade A milk to 20 cents a quart. Kesey said the new price would remain in effect until April 1 when the price will drop to the 19V cent minimum set . by the Oregon state market milk ' Vdministration. Provider Of German Munitions Succumbs Tenneck, Austria, Jan. 17 (U.R) Gustav Krupp von Bohlen, who provided German munitions In two world wars, died yester day in a servant's house on the huge Bluehnbach hunting estate near here. Paralyzed and almost blind, Krupp spent the last three years In a coma. The immediate cause of death was given as arterio sclerosis of the brain. WHY SUFFER From Arthritis, Rheumatism, Stomach Trouble USE- MEDICINE ROCK Clinically PROVEN by TWO ! NATIONALLY KNOWN I Laboratories I Ar Your Favorite Dealer In YOUR Community , Delmar Myers and Jeanette Thatcher, both Medford, flutes; Glenn Matthews, Ashland, oboe; W. G. Longman and Mrs. Walter Bish, Medford, clarinets; Don Hibbard, Medford, student now attending the University of Ore gon, bassoon; Maurice Bailey, Ashland, and Bob Nelson, Grants Pass, French horns; Harry Kan nasto, Ashland, and Lloyd Bun nell, Grants Pass, trumpets; Iris Thomas, Medford, tympani; Mel ba Chehak, Medford, concert mistress, Harlalee Wilson,' Ash land, assistant concertmaster, Todd Tibbut, Emma Moore, Max ine Hayes and Lloyd Halverson, Medford, Bruno Stewart, Grants Pass, first violins: Billee Bailey, Ashland, David Loman and Leah Knutsen, Grants Pass, Marion Rice and Carol Ellison, second violins; Maureen Rice and Ro bene Starcher, Medford, violas; Bernard Windt, Medford, N. Baz zet, Grants Pass, Marie and Os car BJorlie, Central Point, cellos; Harry Meyers and Carol Van Ausdall, Medford, basses; Bruno Pellegrini, Medford piano. Rose Eskew, a first vio Inist, serves as librarian. Butte Falls Butte Falls, Jan. 17 Regular meeting of Mt. Pitt club has been cancelled until January 19 at the home of Mrs. R. Capella. Members are reminded to bring gifts for girls whose birthdays fall in January. Everett Moore motored to Bandon Monday on business. Due to the heavy snow on the roof the Sam Hughes' garage and woodshed fell in. His car was in the garage. Because of weather conditions no one worked in the woods Wednesday. Schools, however, haven't missed a day. The roads are kept graded so that busses may get through. Mr. and Mrs. Jolliffe and sons have returned from their trip to Washington. Jack Hassel has returned from Texas where he has been the past month. Mrs. Hassel remain ed in Texas and will join her husband here later. The plays given by the junior and senior classes were very successful and attended by a large crowd. H.E.C. met at the home of Mrs. Fred Kincaid January 11 for their regular meeting. Mrs. Robert Beeman and Mrs. C. Jenkins served dessert. Next meeting will be February 8. Fred Kincaid entertained a group of his friends Saturday evening In observance of his birthday. Attending were Frank Carson, Everett Moore. Jack Shaw, Lloyd Tungate and Leslie Casey. The evening was spent playing cards. Mrs. Frank Car son entertained the women at her home. The Fredenburg's have been snowed in since Tuesday and Dwlght has been riding his horse to school. Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Gray were married January 14 in the Presbyterian church in Medford. Mrs. Gray, formerly Geraldine Stephenson, is employe at the General store. He is local sev enth and eighth grade teacher and -athletic coach. Mr. and Mrs. Seely Tedrick were visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. Jenkins, four miles from town. Due to the heavy snowfall they were marooned there for three days. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Ward, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Price and Bill Roynane were in Medford Satur day on business. Lou Gippert returned to work Monday after recovering from a back ailment. Mr. and Mrs. Mose Driskell and children visited Sunday at the home of her parents, Mr and Mrs. Bill Thomas. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Edmondson and children spent two days in Medford visiting his mother. School was dismissed Friday at 2 p.m. due to the approach ing storm. The Talent-Butte Falls high conference game was also cancelled. '. Roy Menteer is in San Fran cisco on business. He was ex pected home Sunday but be cause of bad weather was de tained there for three days. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Ward, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Price and Bill Roynane were in Saturday on business. Mose Driskell Jr. and family visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Thomas Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Edmondson and children spent two days in Medford visiting his mother. Charles Marton is recovering from a cracked shoulder receiv ed several weeks ago at his work. Mr. Pressjer was in Medford several days last week due to illness. He is under a doctor's care. CANTRALL'S TEXACO SERVICE STATION 4TH AND CENTRAL ANNOUNCING: Price Cut 2c Per Gallon On Gasoline Station individually owned and operated by Emmett Cantrall A veteran 'in service station business, with 20 year experience in Medford. Lubrication $1.25 and up Car Washing $1.25 to $1.50 STEAM CLEANING Fast, Efficient, Courteous Service New Type Of Oil Filter For Autos Experiment Item Maryville, Tenn., Jan. 17 (U.R) The budget wrenching phrase "and you'd better change the oil" may soon join "get a horse" in the list of things peo ple used to say about automo biles. Take the word of an official of the Aluminum Company of America, who has been experi menting with the idea for years. J. E. Houseley, district pow er manager in charge of Alcoa dam projects, reported today that a new type of oil filter has worked so well that company cars save S300 over 40,000 miles. To Cost About $3 - Alcoa is ' working with car manufacturers" to commercial ize the filter, Housley said, and expects them to sell for about $3 each, Instead of a filter-packing of cotton waste, he said, the system uses a packing of activated alu mina, a highly porous form of aluminum which absorbs acid from oil and prevents formation of the sludge that pits cylinder walls and pistons. Oil still burns away and has to be replenished, but Housley said that as long as the filters are used and replaced when acids, the oil need not be com pletely changed. Known For Years The engineer said the ability of alumina to keep oil clean has been known for years, and that it has been used in a generator at the Choeah dam in North Carolina since 1920. The pebble-like particles are also handy for clearing rancid cooking oil, keeping shoes from molding in damp placos and taking moisture out of refriger ation gases. Wishing Urn Helps 'Dimes Fund' Drive Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y. (U.R) The fight against polio moved the "wishing urn" from the sen ior walk at the Eastern Military academy here and raised the price from a penny to a dime per wish. The attack of infantile naraly Madeline Fox of Cold Springs Hills touched the hearts of ihe schoolboy cadets of the acad emy. Jonathan A. Reed of Carmel, N. Y., an 11-year-old sixth grad er, got to thinking. He suggested that the heavy stone urn near the academy's main building, the former resi dence of the New York banker Otto Kahn, be moved to a cen tral place. Formerly tossing pen nies into the urn and making a wish was strictly a senior class man privilege. At Cadet Reed's suggestion, it became the property of all. But a wish costs a dime, and the dimes will be collected once a year and presented to the March of Dimes. Father, Son Reunion Following 26 Years Cleveland, O. (U.R) A chance word at a German airport re united Ernest Stech and his son, whom he had not seen for 26 year. Stech stopped off at Hamburg on his way back to Cleveland from a meeting of the World Government Movement in Stock holm. One of his friends spoke to him, using his last name. A young man nearby asked others in the party what Stech's first name was. Then he stepped over to Stech. "Mr. Stech," he said "I thmk you are my father." Stedh natur ally was surprised. Along with his son, Stech found -that he had three grand children. He left Germany after a divorce from his first wife, leaving his son in care of his mother and maternal grandpar ents. California were $16,121,000,000 in 1947. WORLD'S 'TM1 OtrtaiMAL HBFinin worn CHlLMKN" CARINA THC "ST. JOttPH" LARGEST SELLER I AT lOf a. 13 Per Cent Of All Farm Owners Own 41 Per Cent Of Privately-Owned Land Washington, Jan. 17 U.PJ Forty-one per cent of the nation's privately-owned farm land is held by only three per cent of all farm owners, the agriculture de partment reported today. It said the trend has been toward more owner-operated, family farms but that national objective "has been only partial ly reached." Smaller Holdings The department said a new survey showed that the three per cent are those who have holdings as large as 1,000 acres or more. The other 97 per cent who hold 59 per cent of the land have holdings of 999 acres or less. These calculations were based on the 975,000,000 acres held by individuals, about B5 per cent of all farmland. Corporations own six per cent, federal, state and local government six per cent and three per cent is in Indian lands. The survey also showed: 1. Farmland holdings tend to run larser in the south where 46 per cent of the land was in holdings of 1,000 acres and up and one-third was in holdings of 2,500 acres and up. That com pares with 41 and 28 per cent for the nation as a wnoie .including the west where cattle ranges commonly must run more than 1,000 acres to provide a living for a farm family. Most Owners Older 2. Relatively few persons ac quire farms while they are young and only one out of four farm owners is under 45. There is a Miss Junior America To Wed School Chum Phoenix, Ariz., Jan. 17 (U.R) Miss Junior America will follow fellow Arizonan and Senior Na tional Beauty Queen Jacque Mer cer Cook into matrimony Friday when she weds her high school sweetheart. Shirley Arnow, 19-year-old brunette, who won her title last June in Los Angeles, announced she will marry William C. Pom eroy, 20, Mesa, Ariz., in the Ari zona State college at Tempe chapel. Miss America of 1949 became Mrs. Doug Cook late last month, just before her 20th birthday, in a surprise wedding at Litchfield Park, Ariz. NicknanOf'olf' Jacked On Motorist After Street Mishap Oklahoma City. Okla.. Jan. 17 (U.R) Willie H. Franklin picked ud the nickname of "Wolf to day, but not because he whistles at the girls. Franklin, 40, stopped his car yesterday when he thought he hit a pedestrian. A 36-pound wolf lay dead in the street beside his fender. The steel and concrete anch orage of the San Francisco-Oakland bay bridge rises 502 feet from the rock tloor of the bay, Coming FRIDAY and JANUARY 20 and 21 TWO BIG tendency in most regions "for the size of the holdings to increase with advancing age.1' 3, Most farmers do not be come owners by climbing the "agricultural ladder.' Less than one-third of all owners gained experience both as farm worker and tenant. 4. Only 80 per cent of all privately-owned land is held by farmers and retired farmers. Fourteen per cent is owned by business-professional people (av erage farm value $14,857), two per cent by housewives (average value $9,568) and three per cent by clerical and laboring people (average value $6,000), Value Less The value of the farmland owned by active farmers aver aged $11,308, or less than that held by business and profession al people. On the- other hand, the average value of retired farmers holdings was $13,142, topping all groups. mm iieppw VISITORS WflCOMI J- On of Amcrtca'i f xctptronaf lwf)rli 31YMPIA BREWING COMPANY Olympia, WaiMngton, U.S. A. X dALEd Tuesday, January 17, 1950 x fv 1 " Arme Trlenhotai WENT BERSERK - Apparently maddened by an Impending di vorce, Felix Samas (above), 37, according to police, vent berserk and shot or stabbed to death his wife, two children and another couple at Hammond, Ind., then set fire to his home and killed himself. a. j n im a m m mm w.im.m. hw h m m Medford Merchants ' Trades Body Blames Government Policies Portland, Ore., Jan. 17 U.R) The Pacific coast metal trades council blames the federal gov ernment's shipping policies for the moratorium qji west coast ship building. Thomas A. Rottell, Portland, executive secretary, yesterday said three years have elapsed since the laying of a new keel on the west coast. He told the 140 delegates to the council's convention here that operators of coast ship yards had "ignored" invitation to bid on new construction be cause of inability to compete with Atlantic coast yards. Coupon books good for 1,000 miles of travel on British rail ways and the steamers operated by them, obtainable only in the United States, reduce fares first and third class up to 40 per cent. Women spend 80 per cent of the national Income. oo Water makes up 66 of the weight of the human body Yes, man is actually little more than a porous sack' of water. Would you believe that even our bones are more than half liquid? And, too, ALL WATIRS ARI NOT THI SAME It takes a particular type of constantly pure water to make good beer. One of the few places in America where this exceptional type of water can be found is at Tumwater, Washington, Here, from deep subterranean wells, the Olympia Brewing Company famous delicate flavor of Olympia. JtS SATURDAY City-Wide Buying Shop In Medford MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE Ancient Egyptians stopped toothache by taking a mixture of honey, oil and powdered stone. PRUITT'S RECORD SALE To End All Record Sales CONTINUES Pruitt's Music Center 111 W. MAIN ST. (Oepeilte Rlalte Theatre) SERVICE On Frigldaire ranges and refriger tort, Bendix washers. Mentag furnaces, by factory trained men. LEONARD ELECTRIC CO. Phone 2-4427 30 I. Mala -lb- tlt wwtttCf Opportunity and Save! errs ,S.V. 3 3
