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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (March 3, 1950)
L .1.' iSnnVl (Acmt Teltoholol TRIPLETS BORN TO POLIO VICTIM-Girl triplets. Dora to a 30-year-old mother recovering from polio, are neld by Nurse Elizabeth Nelsor. and Dr. Edward Surowiec at Monmouth Memorial Hospital In Long Branch. N. J. The mother. Mrs. Free1 Warnke. wtte of dentist and mother of two other children, said she was "thrilled to death" at the births. Really Commissioner ' Salem, Ore., Mar. 3 (U.R) Claude H. Murphy, state real es- EATT CENTER 231 E. Sixth Street SLICED BACON .... lb. 35c HAMBURGER lb. 39c PORK SAUSAGE., lb. 39c BACON SQUARES lb. 19c HEAVY BACON lb. 29c STEAK .... lb. 49c nnnn UM&AJtr HEAD C01D NASAL CONGESTION 2 drops of Penetro Nose Drops Y in each nostril ouen ud cold- (J clogged nose fast. You breathe Vj easier quiCKiy inis -urup way. prao NOSE DROPS., 4 I Resigns In Salem late commissioner, announced to day that he has submitted his resignation to Gov. Douglas Me Kay, effective March 15. He has been real estate commissioner since 1939. Murphy said he was resign ing to devote his time to private business and to look after his real estate holdings. Murphy was named real estate commissioner by then Gov. Charles A. Sprague June 6, 1939. He later was reappointed to two four-year terms by Gov. Earl Snell. Rural School Budget Hearing Held Today A hearing on the proposed ru ral school board budget for the 1950-51 fiscal year was held in the office of the county school superintendent this morning and a similar hearing on the budget of the non-high school board will be held at the courthouse at 10:30 a. m. tomorrow. The hearings are to give the public an opportunity to Inspect or to protest proposed expendi tures of the two boards. Elk Lumber Company Given Authority To Establish Impairment Salem, Ore., Mar. 3 !U.R) State Public Utilities Commis sioner George H. Flagg today granted the Elk Lumber com pany authority to establish im pairment of standard clearances at its loading dock, at the end of its railroad spur at Medford, Ore. The company was granted permission for a horizontal clearance of 6 feet 8 inches from centerline of the track to the face of the dock at a height of 6 feet 8 inches above the top of the rail to the level of the platform deck which is about 220 feet long. Flagg said the clearances were sought to assure greater safety to employees and to facilitate loading. CROOK CROOKED Memphis, Tenn. (U.R) Mem phis policemen are wondering just whom to trust. A rookie pa trolman, Jerry V. Crook, was jailed on charges of stealing a coat while investigating another robbery at a bottling company. LOOK FORWARD WITH PLEASURE .... For the new Cosmetics: Colognes, Perfumes, Powders, etc., in Spring's most exciting new discoveries... Now ready, for your selection in our cosmetic department Every Easter Ensemble enhanced with correct cosmetics COME IN. ..SHOP... YOU'RE SO WELCOME. Marine League To Hold Installation, Commandant Here Installation ceremonies for the new Medford detachment of the Marine Corps league, will be held at the Jackson hotel tomor row, it was announced by offi cers of the group. The ceremon ies will follow a 7 p.m. dinner honoring Clay Nixon, Seattle, national commandant of the league. Nixon is stopping off here en route to Washington, D.C., where he will arrive Monday for a con ference of veterans' organiza tions called by Secretary of De fense Louis Johnson. Marines Invited All marines, members of the league's auxiliary and other friends of the marine corps are invited to attend. Nixon will preside at the ceremonies as in stalling officer. M. E. Vander linden is commandant of the lo cal unit. Aubrey Adams, former national vice-commandant of the league. Is adjutant. A staff meeting of the Oregon department will be held at the Jackson hotel Sunday morning, at which Nixon will be principal guest and speaker. Juvenile Office Has 78 Cases In February County Juvenile Officer John Richard and his deputy, Miss Helen Busenbark, last month handled a total of 78 cases of juvenile delinquency and de pendency. They made 39 visits, held 256 office interviews, and 11 court hearings. Cases closed during February totaled 21, with four children held in the county jail due to lack of other facilities and 16 detained in their own homes. Three were placed in foster homes, one in the St. Rose home, one in the Louise home, two in the boys training school at Woodburn, and one in the Hill crest school for girls. RAIN IN PARK Two and a half inches of snow have fallen at Crater lake dur ing the past 24 hours but at 8:30 a.m. today the sky at the park was overcast and it was raining. The 115 inches of snow on the ground was set and pack ed with a crust. All roads in the park area are open but with some ice in spots. if GOVERNMENT 'GIVE-AWAY' Here's how the OovrZVentTrZ, to give away 1 16.000,000 worth of surplus milk and eggs looks to one artist. The surplus food, purchased to support farm prices, is offerea free of charge at warehouse points to Federal, state and local public welfare agencies, the school lunch program and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. So2 CLAY NIXON Marine Leader Visitor Upper Rogue Group Plans Dinner Party Shady Cove-Trail, Mar. 3, The first dinner party to be giv en by the Upper Rogue River Association since its formation a year ago will be held at Rogue River Lodge on Monday, March 6, at 8 p.m. for members and guests. Principal speaker will be Cole Rivers, Rogue river biologist who will speak on the present fish ing conditions of the Rogue riv er, and future plans of the Game Commission for the Rogue. Al though no stand is taken either pro or con by the association as regards the dam projects of the Rogue river, the association does interest itself in the betterment of the entire Upper Rogue area. A great deal has already been accomplished in improving road conditions, providing more infor mation for tourists, stressing the importance of better Iismng regulations, etc. The remainder of the evening will be devoted to games and square dancing. Another Dog Treated For Poisoning Here A dog owned by Marshall B. Sweet, 624 East Main street, was being treated today for poi soning last night, and another dog of Sweet's escaped poison ing, city police reported. Another dog in the same block and three altogether in the gen eral neighborhood have died from poisoning recently. SUPER-GIVEAWAY MARKET SPECIAL free!! 73,000,000 LBS POWDERED EGGS. .(EQUAL TO 17 EGGS FOR EVERY PERSON IN THE UNITED STATES.) free!! 169,000.000 LBS. POWDERED MILK. (EQUAL TO ABOUT 6 QTS. FOR EVERY PERSON IN THE UNITED STATES.) OUR LOSS. $1 16,000,000 VA Will Discharge 7,800 Workers Soon Washington, Mar. 3 (U.R) The veterans' administration an nounced today that it is firing 7,800 employees to get within the agency's budget for the fiscal year starting July 1. The employees will get a 30 day notice of their discharge a week from today. The VA said the reduction In personnel will be nation-wide and will affect all branches of the agency. The biggest cut, however, will come in employees of veterans' hospitals and out-patient serv ices. No doctors or nurses will be fired but about 3,000 workers In other branches of the med ical services will get notices. Patients with m.nl.1 Ulna.,.. occupy half the available hospi tal beds In the United States, oiannaro limp was established in me united tuates in mB4. Police Arrest 4 Young Hoodlums For Bank Holdup Maybrook, N. Y., Mar. 3 U,R Police today arrested the four bandits who were routed in tears from the Maybrook bank by a cussing church elder who ignored the bullets they shot at him. Police rounded up the four inept youths within 12 hours after they crawled out the door of the one-story bank yesterday, stumbled blindly to their stolen car and headed for the country side. Young Hoodlums They turned out to be four young hoodlums from Brook lyn, N. Y who cased the May brook National bank as a soft touch but found their country cousins were protected by big city methods. The bullets they fired at Cashier Charles Crist, 50, a mild mannered church elder, spattered on shatter-proof glass around his cage. Crist told the robbers "to go to hell," then calmly stepped over to the wall and pressed a button, flooding the bank with tear gas. Police arrested two of the youths in the Brooklyn apart ment of a 23-year-old girl just after midnight as they packed six suitcases for a quick trip to Florida. The others were nabbed at a state police road block at nearby Monroe, N. Y., a short distance from the bank. Men Identified State Trooper Capt. E. F. Glasheen identified the four con fessed bandits as: William Teller, 21, an unem ployed presscr; Thomas Stokes, 20, a burglar alarm installer; Frank Malfatone, 21, and Paul J. Defiore, 20. Painting Of Madonna Sells For $27,500 New York, Mar. 3 (U.R) A 445-year-old painting of the Ma donna by Raphael sold for $27, 500 last night and art dealers to day blamed "the increasing pop ularity of modern art" for its cut rate price. The famed "Peruzzl Madonna" was sold at the Parke-Bernet auction galleries with a collec tion of Frans Hals, Rubens, Van Dycks, Gainsboroughs and Tur ners. None of the pictures brought even half the price it was worth 30 years ago, auction officials said. "I can remember when a Raphael brought six figures at a sale in Europe," said an elder ly art dealer attending the sale. "That was in pre-Picasso days, of course." Raphael's tender painting of a sweet-faced mother and child was sold to Andrew J. Nisbet, an art agent for a private col lector. It was the second Raphael ever to be auctioned in the Unit ed States. Eye Doctor Opening Office In Medford Dr. Mary Jane Fowler, physi cian and surgeon, today an nounced she Is opening an of fice in Room 308, Leverette building for the practice of ophthalmology. Her practice will be limited to care of the eye, both diseases and refraction work, she said. Hours will be 10 a.m. to noon, and 2 to 4 p.m. each day except Wednesday, and Saturday after noon. Dr. Fowler's residence is at 49 Valley View drive. 3?4 Pound Youngster Born At Hospital A boy weighing three and three-fourths pounds was born to Mr. and Mrs. Edward Walter, Central Point, at Community hospital today, the hospital re ported. The youngster was delivered about 9 a. m. and placed in an incubator, it was reported. Hos pital attendants stated that the baby appeared to be getting along all right. Huge Flooding Project To Flush Out More Oil Bartlesville. Okla. (U.R) The biggest, deepest and most ex pensive water flooding oil proj ect ever undertaken Is getting under way In the 24,913-acre Burbank oil field in Osage and Kay counties. Thirteen oil companies are en gaged in the project on the oil lands held by the Osage Indian nittion. Aim of the water flood ing is to increase dally produc-: tlon from the field from the pres ent 4,400 barrels daily to a high of about 20,000 barrels per day. In English dialect a common Jail Is called a kitty. Vv J? Friday, March 3, 195S ( Acm TeUphota TESTIFIES Mervyn Rathoome (above), one-time friend of Harry Bridges and a high-ranking offi cer In the CIO. took the witness stand in San Francisco to testify against Bridges, who Is on trial tor perjury. Rathbome's appearance on the stand Is expected to prolong the already lengthy trial by at least another week or 10 days. Sale Of Timber Set Here Monday By Forest Office Details of the sale of approxi mately 11 million board feet of timber on 2.260 acres of the Whiskey creek area in Rogue River national forest will be dis cussed Monday at a meeting set for 10 a. m. in the courtroom of the Medford Federal build ing. At 2 p. m. Monday bids, both sealed and verbal, will be ac cepted by the forest service from interested purchasers able to meet the contractual condi tions of the sale. Deposit Required A deposit of $10,000, to be ap plied on the purchase price, re funded or retained in part as liquidated damages, according to conditions of the sale, must ac company each sealed bid and must be shown to be in the pos session of oral bidders as a quali fication for auction bidding. Most of the timber Involved in the sale is "generally better than average," according to For ester M. I. Tedrow. Species avail able in the two blocks of sale area are white pine, sugar pine, white fir, hemlock, lodgepole pine and incense cedar. Successful bidders must cut and remove timber by Dec. 31, 1051, with a minimum amount of 5 million feet to be cut and removed by the end of this year. STREET WORK BEGUN Ashland, Mar. 3 Street work here has begun to repair dam age to roadways by the harsh winter, it was reported by Street Superintendent Bert Day. Five men and equipment are being used to patch paving. SIPEHN SIPEOALS Sweet Peas Lg, Pkg. Containing 8 Reg. Sc Pkg. 29' 40c VALUE Glad Bulbs OREGON GROWN ASSORTED COLORS 35 do z. WORK SOCKS Oath Of Loyalty Said Proposed To Save University Berkeley, Cal., Mar. 3 (U.R) The controversial "special" loy alty oath proposed for Univer sity of California professors and other employees was the result of a suggestion to forestall a "dangerous" bill In the Califor nia legislature, a university of ficial admitted today. James H. Corley, vice-president of the university, comptrol ler and business manager, said he recommended the special oath to President Robert Gordon Sproul in January, 1949. He said it was presented to the board of regents, not to af firm the patriotism of the uni versity's faculty, but to "save the state university from being wrecked by possible political in fluences." Corley said under an amend ment introduced in the legisla ture last year by Jack Tenney, then chairman of the state un American activities committee, the legislature would have con trol over the university's funds and over the loyalty of its facul ty and employees. "On assurance from university officials that we would reaffirm our 1940 declaration of policy, pledging to keep our institution free of communistic influences, the bill was not pressed in the legislature," Corley said. He pointed out that the uni versity was much indebted to the legislature because of its gene rous appropriations. 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