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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 26, 1950)
Mills Urged To Prepare For Car Shortage In West ' . West coast sawmills were urg ed this week to make prepara tions for a possible un-seasonal freight car shortage If the eastern coal strike continues. In a letter to its members, the West Coast Lumbermen's asso ciation said the coal strike was already causing a curtailment of movement of empty freight cars westward by eastern railroads. This action may have a serious effect on west coast lumber ship pers by drying up the supply of freight cars moving into this territory from eastern lines, the association's traffic Kepartment advised. ' Urge Close Check Some mills in the Willamette valley are advising their sales departments to go slow on accept ing new business, and urging their production supervisors to keep a close check on inventor ies in mm stocks in the event ot a sudden drying up of first class box cars available to Oregon lumber shippers. There seem to be plenty of flat cars and gon dolas, the west coast traffic de partment stated, but a shortage ot tirst class box cars would nit the industry hard. The association urged its member mills to load every freight car to its maximum capa city so that the most lumber could be shipped in the minimum number of box cars. It urged prompt loading and dispatching of cars as soon as they are spot ted at mill loading docks. The association traffic depart ment is working closely with the region's railroads and advised its members it would keep them fully informed on the freight car supply picture as tney couia plan their production and shipping schedules as far in advance as possible. i St. Marys Club to Hear Father Robert Sweeney Father Robert H. Sweeney, vice president of the University of Portland, will address the St. Mary's Parents club at a meet ing in the school auditorium Monday, February 27, at 8 p.m. Father Sweeney's subject will be "Catholic Education." 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Ben Stafford, vice-chairman of the annual fund drive of the Jackson county chapter of the American Red Cross, said Saturday that volunteer workers are needed to assist in the drive which starts here Wednesday. Workers in the Phoenix, Tal ent, Central Point and West Side districts are particularly needed, he said. "I am sure that it is not neces sary to comment on the import ance of the American Red Cross to army personnel," Stafford said. As a retired army man, he has seen the Red Cross in action during two wars, and he said Saturday that "throughout the world our armed forces benefit daily from some Red Cross serv ice. Aid Problems "In our hospitals and at every military installation, they are constantly available in emergen cies, or to assist in the solution of an individual's personal prob lem. This world organization is deserving of our complete sup port in its 1950 campaign for funds," he concluded. The colonel originally came to Medford in 1937, and retired here after completing his army service. Two divisions of the fund drive drive organization have been at work for nearly two weeks, the office said Saturday. They are the advance gifts di vision, under the chairmanship of A. A. Lausman, and the in dustrial division, under B. L. Nutting. Chairmen Named The other groups will begin their work March 1, and Frank Van Dyke, general chairman of the drive Saturday announced a number of the division chairmen who will lead in the solicitation work. They include Allen McGee. Ashland: Wilbur Arnold and Col. H, L. Meiring, outlying dis tricts; Tvlrs. Paul Walker, west side residential: Mrs. Alber Len ox, east side residential; Darell Huson, city employees: Ralph Sweeney, county employees; Moore Hamilton, federal em ployees;; Paul Hatton, Camp White, and Colonel Stafford, clubs and special groups. The rural district solicitation will be handled through the county Granges, Van Dyke said, with Roscoe Roberts and John Gray in charge of that phase of i the organization. ' Mrs. Frank Fairweather and Mrs. James Wyatt are handling publicity for the entire organiza tion. The county goal this year is $25,000. Nurserymen, Growers Discuss Price Lists The Rogue Valley Nursery men and Growers met February 23, at the Crater Green house, the first in a series of meetings for the purpose of establishing a minimum price list. Members feel that such a list would make it possible for the growers to work in closer har mony, resulting in better qual ity plants. All licensed growers were in vited to the next meeting to be held at the same location at 7 p.m., March 2. Officers named at the meeting included M. L. Schmidlin, presi dent, of Rogue Valley Green house; Ken Meadows, vice-president, of Crater Green house, and J. Vernon Marshall, secretary treasurer, of Marshall nursery. Butte Falls Butte Falls, Feb. 25 Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bradford visited in Pasco and Walla Walla, Wash, last week. Jerry Arnold Is in a Medford hospital with pneumonia. Mr. and Mrs. Perry Woods and Jackie visited friends and relatives here Sunday and Mon day. The Woods are former Butte Falls residents now living in Cot tonwood, Cal. Mrs. , Vern Stephenson has been confined to her home with the flu.w Mrs. Florence Best and chil dren visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Klneaid, Sunday. Mrs. Ernest Smith has been ill the past week. Mrs. Glenn Prultt visited her mother, Mrs. Hughes, here, Mon day. Mrs. Ben Edmondson has been ill with a severe cold. . Bob Marshall visited his sis ter, Mrs. Sally Walker, over the week-end. A large number of basketball fans attended the tournament in Eagle Point last Thursday, Fri day and Saturday. The people are proud of the local high school team which won second place. Mrs. Floyd Price was In Ash land over the week-end visiting her sister. Mr. Rambo took his son, Ar thur, to the doctor Monday. The boy was suffering from muscle sprain. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Tun gate and children from Milwau kie. Ore., are visiting friends and relatives here. Butte Falls Grange held a so cial evening Monday. Friends of Grangers were invited This was the first meeting of this type but every other meeting from now on will be social. H. E. C. served refreshments. Wl RINT- Adding Machine! Typewriter Medford Office Equip. Co. 41 S. Grsot Ph. 2-4100 l aar (Acme Teltphoto, FIRED ON Rear Admiral Eric Longley-Cook (above), director ot British Naval Intelligence, was fired on as he drove through a London suburb in what may have been an assassination attempt. Uninjured, he sped after the car from which the shots were firea but lost It. Authorities discour aged any speculation linking the incident with the Soviet -atomic espionage case Involving Dr. Klaus Fuchs. Manila Suggested For Japanese Treaty Manila, P. I., Feb. 25 U.P.) President Elpidio Quirino of the Philippines disclosed today that he had suggested Manila to Presi dent Truman as the site of the Japanese peace conferenct. Quirino said tlie Philippines had "not changed a bit" in its i.ttitude toward Japan and re mained strongly opposed to Japan's revival as a military power. But he said the Philip pines desired an early peace treaty. .... AROUND Bv VIRGINIA United Praas Hollywood, Feb. 25 (U.R) Hollywood had better step a lit-! tie fancier. Palm Springs is hop ping on the premiere band They're work ing up to the million - dollar epic and search light - a n d -mink class in easy stages. But from the looks of their first one, they'll be right in there before very long. The tiny sun drenched village on the edge of the desert is where most of the stars hang out now, anyhow. Get ting celebrities to put in an ap pearance is the least of the town's worries. Palm Springs can do it cheap er, too. They don't have to splurge on searchlights. The city fathers would probably be shanghaied to the Los Angeles "smog" if they passed up their publicized sunshine and staged a shindig at night. So it was that Palm Springs' first movie premiere in almost 20 years got under way before sun down. And it wasn't a super duper Hollywood epic that filled the Plaza theater, either. It was a 20-minute public service film on safe driving. It's called "Last Date," and the peo ple behind it are unknown so far as Hollywood's concerned. The producer is James S. Kem per, an elderly millionaire who likes to spend big chunks of his loose change making drivers slow down on the highways. The star is 20-year-old Joan Taylor, a sweater-girl cutie who began getting offers from movie moguls two hours after her deserf debut. Kemper only spent $37,000 to scare teen-agers into keeping their "hot-rods" under control. But the idea was enough lo pull stars like Bob Hope, Charles Farrell, Jane Russell and Bob Waterficld away from their swimming pools long enough to put on a show for the natives. j 4 - sJ Virginia MacPherwa Most men have known at least one Thelma Jordon... Nothing Stops Thelma Jordon . . . She'll Lie . . . Kill ... or Kiss her way out of anything Technicolor Color Cartoon WANNA BE A SAILOR" PICTORIAL NtWS Gold Hill Meeting Set To Discuss Tax Equalization Gold Hill, Feb. 25 The real estate tax valuation protest com mittees of Gold Hill, Central Point, Rogue River and Black well Hill will hold a meeting Monday, February 27, at 7:30 p.m., at the Gold Hill city hall according to announcement made by Mrs. Daniel H. Stewart, chair man of the combined group of tax committees. Harry J. Loggan, supervising appraisal engineer and Arthur W. Sellander, chief appraisal en gineer, members of the State Tax commission, will meet with the committees Monday night to dis cuss equalization of property valuations in the three towns and on Blackwell Hill. The meeting will be for committee members and will not be open to the general public. Meetings will be arranged by Mr. Loggan and Mr. Sellander to be held later with the tax committees In their own terri tories to make plans for re-appraising individual pieces of property judged by the commit tees to be out of line with prop erty valuations as a whole in their respective towns. Maps have been furnished by the tax commission to the com mittee members of the afore mentioned places showing valua tion of every piece of property in their towns to be used by them in making recommenda tions for achieving equalization of tax valuation. This work hav-; ing been completed the commit tees will submit their recommen dations to the appraisal engi neers. Property owners who are not i satisfied with the results of this : equalization work may make their appeals to the tax equaliza tion board when it meets in the spring. HOLLYWOOD MacPHERSON Correspondent Hope waltzed on stage with his arm in a cast and said he was there as a "guest example." A few weeks ago, he said, he was "flying low" en route from Palm Springs and collided with a tree. Producer Kemper said his movie may have been short, but it had a message. "In 1947 some 7.100 teen agers were killed and 320.000 more were injured,' he added. "This led us to coin a new word: 'Teenicidc.' I means death caused by an automobile driver under 20." 1 KILL THE TICKET TAX loin tht Crusade Against the Unfair Excise Taxes VRITE YOUR CONGRESSMAN NOW! VI mmmw MP JUll?-sf PLUS IMG iiliriiHifpi-ii iMITCHUMCI "Thl v J MMSZ Sunday, February 26, 1950 1 'Arm Tetephora. R 5 VEALS MURDER -Diana Heancy Johnson. 18, of Llnwood, Calif., strikes a pensive pose after she revealed to police In Washing ton, D. C that her husband, Evald 29. beat and choked to death wealthy Texas oilman W. A. (Tex) Thornton last June 23 in a tourist camp near Amarillo, Tex. She 1J oelng held as a fugitive tor Ama rillo authorities. (Exclusive Dhotc by Washington Tunes-Heraid.) ALL THEATRES CONTINUOUS From 12:45 P.M. OPENS HERE TODAY &ING AND 1 ride herd on The Headless Horseman! WALT OlSNEV present rat mix ur awmd ihmi turn "SEAL ISIAKD" nut um uvmnm -phmiiciiwcmm JSE2B3E V-ejMBMiHMMMa MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THESS Fries Treasurer Of Easter Seal Sale Appointment of A. C. Fries Jr. of Medford as Jackson county treasurer of the 1950 Easter Seal sale sponsored by the Oregon So city for Crippled Children and Adults. Inc.. was announced to day by Mrs. C. B. Partch of Med- tora, county chairman. The chairman explained that Fries' position as treasurer takes on added significance this year because of the fact each county will be responsible for its returns from Easter Seal sales. In past years all returns have been made to headquarters of the Easter Seal agency in Portland. Jackson county residents pur chasing Easter Seals will send their returns to Fries, at the Medford branch, U. S. 'National Bank, where they will be de posited. The chairman reported this is the fourth Easter Seal sale in Oregon and that it will run from March 9 through April 9. The Easter Seals will be placed in the mail in early March, Portland, Ore., Feb. 25 U.R) Mrs. Alexander Thompson, 86, long prominent in Oregon and national politics, women's clubs and , welfare work, died Thurs day at the Troutdale Tubercu losis hospital. MO mm .... s? inuu FIRST MEDFORD SHOWING! Xf9M Biggest Story m &mwF,mrm"" mat nv ' r.i 1 A I KID.. .A CITT... I ACTION All the Way : SHADY COVE DANCE CLASS Shady Cove, Feb. 25 Colleen Hope of the Colleen Hope Dane studio of Medford will give dance Instruction for Girl scout troop 22 and the scouts' guesti Monday, February 27. The clasi will be held at the Shady Cove school house, starting at 7:30 p.m., and there will be no charge. CHINESE NOODLES Luncheons 4 Short Orders Orders to Take Out SuM Yaki Chop Suey, Chow Mein Phone 3-9011 J. N. CAFE Across from S P Freight Depot 229 South Front to WW"! - ,iE ALIAII MIAN i Mi 4T fi,' 4.iM
