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.
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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.
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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.
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Olympia, WaiMngton, U.S. A.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Record Sales
CONTINUES
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(Oepeilte Rlalte Theatre)
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