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I TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, March t. 1950 MEDFORDviTRIBUNE "Everyone in Southern OreeoD" Reads The Mall Tribune" Dally Except Saturdar Published by MEDFORD PRJNTtNQ CO. 17-20 North Fir St Phone 2-SH1 ROBERT W RUHL, Editor ERNEST R GILSTRAP Manage! HERB GREY, Advertialnl Mgr. I C FERGUSON. Managing Edltoi ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Telegraph Eoilot HENHY L GREEN, Sunday Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgt An Independent Newspaper Entered af eecond class matter el Mediord. Oregon, under Act at March 3. 18S7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Dally and Sunday one year. TO 00 Dolly and Sunday el months 4.7S Daily and Sunday three mos J.5U Daily and Sunday one month 100 By Carrier In Advance Mediord Ahland. Central Point, Jacksonville Gold Hill, Phoenix. Talent and on motor routes: ..., Dally and Sunday one year. U.OO .Daily and Sunday one month I 00 All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of iackson county United Pre -Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDA Y COMPANY UMC Offices In New York Chicago De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NIWSPAPf PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Crescent City To Celebrate NATIONAL EDITORIAL I as.; c5T6N Flight o' Time Msdrord and Jackson County His tory from the filet of the) Mail Tribune 10, 20 and 34 rears ago 10 YEARS AGO TODAY , March 8, 1940 (It Was Friday War department asks for bids on proposed radio operations building at airport. Father Black Breakfast club, recently formed group of local Catholic men, to meet Sunday. Bounty payments on coyotes by county to end March 15. Hiatt lakes reported less than one-third full but enough water believed available if economy practiced, Harry Lowe directs presen tation of play "Cyclone Sally" at bams valley high. 20 YEARS AGO TODAY March 8, 1930 ' (It Wts Saturday) Early spring predicted for val ley by local prognostlcators. Floyd Young, frost expert, to arrive here March 17 for or chard duties. Phoenix defeats Talent 25 to 16 to win county basketball title In close game. William Howard Taft, form president and supreme court chief Justice, dies. 34 YEARS AGO TODAY March 8, 1916 (It Was Wednesday) Albert Crawford Gaddls awarded first prize in baby week parade held Monday. New bulldlnfts in Medford last year totaled $146,413 in value; Increase of $80,845 over year 1914. Edwin Smith, 82, pioneer of Jackson county and political leader, dies in Grants Pass. Comedy ! Prospect High To ! Present Friday Evening Prospect, Mar. 8 On March II), at 7::U) p.m. in the Prospect high school gymnasium, the stu dents of Prospect hlRh school will present the three act com edy "Ho Couldn't Many Five." The plot concerns five beau tiful sisters, all of marriageable brc, all very intent of being ca reer girls. Living In the same house with them, Is their father's old maid sisters, Etta, who, be cause of being Jilted when young, has taught the girls to be man-haters. When Mr. Barton comes home and announces that ho has invit ed his wealthy boss' son, Donald Reagan, to spend the week with them, It is a literal bombshell to them all. The girls, at first, are determined to ignore him, but arc finally persuaded to at lrat be civil to him. When he arrives, he meets each of them separately and each of them falls promptly In love with him, Donald is so attracted by their charms that he falls In love with each of them, thus highly complicating matters. The cast includes Mr. Barton, the harassed fother of tho girls, played by Warren Bnrr, a senior. Mrs. Barton, the mother, is Max ine Chandler, a Junior. Mary Gregory, a senior, Lou ise Degman, a junior, Helen Robertson, a freshman, Sonna Staggs, a senior, and Marion South, a Junior, are the sisters. Donald Reagan Is played by Richard Barber, a Junior. Etta is played by Melva Rogers, a sophomore. Granny is plaved by Margaret Taylor, a freshman. Stage manager ig Gerald Will-1 son, a senior. Over at Crescent City preparations are going forward for a big community blowout on March 18 when the coast town dedicates its new dock. Aside from the great impetus which the dock will give fish ing, lumbering and other industries of the seaport region, there is another good reason for the people there to celebrate for the pier stands as a monument to community cooperation and enort having been built on a volunteer basis by the citizens themselves. THE Del Norte Chamber of Commerce has long Koom oHi-looirni'i'mT fr. camira forloral fiiT.flo fnr construction of breakwaters and jetties in the Cres cent City harbor. The efforts have met with some success m more recent years but it became increas ingly apparent that the creation of shipping facili ties and encouraging of commerce had to be attended to by local interests if additional harbor improvement funds were to be forthcoming. So a group of businessmen, commercial fisher men and timiermen got their heads together last fall and decidecr to build their own dock. Donation of lumber, money and material, time, labor and use of trucks was pledged and it was agreed to seek the aid of alher public-spirited citizens, not only in Del Norte coOty, California, but in Curry and Josephine, the two nearby Oregon counties. THE campaign met general favor and within a week QOfin (nns -.f l-Aolr Vin hncn mvon fnf a fill 10(111 UVUU bUlJO Ul Mt-VJ, gATt.ll 1.V.1 .vvv feet long and 13 feet high. Beneiit programs were held, money was raised in taverns, theaters, clubs and other business places for the purchase of such needed material as nails, gasoline, tools, and insurance and the various and myriad items which go into a major construction job. Trees felled in all three counties went into the project, sawmills giving 350,000 board feet of timber and decking at an estimated total worth of $17,000, and hauled to the site free. Bank clerks, restaurant owners, businessmen and employees of local construction companies took up hammer and saw to add their bit in the, community enterprise. TT IS conservatively estimated that the dock, which has a main pier 900 feet long, a commercial fishing pier 222 feet long, a lumber wharf head with a 110 foot approach, and a loading platform 120 feet long, would have cost $175,000 had it been built through private contract. 1MEDFORD and this section of the Rogue River val .ley have always had a keen neighborly interest in Crescent City. Thousands from here visit the coastal city and its adjacent beaches each season and undoubtedly many will drive over to help celebrate the dock dedication. E.C.F. Crosstown by Roland Co "He'll have 10ms catnip on his instead of peanuts.' Tallest Man Admitted to Practice of Law In Oregon Texas President Of Eagles Plans Visit Here Soon Crater lake aerie, Fraternal Order of Eagles on Thursday, March 9. will entertain "Texas" lsssssssssmMSssssaiiiMi,i.,j SJr- J Jake Colca Jake Colca, Texas state Eagles' president, who is visiting to chal lenge Oregon members to a mem bership contest with Eagles of Texas, Sheriff of Dallas county, Col ca wears western garb and is said to have a pair of six shooters without which he never travels. He will be accompanied here by A. Warren Jones, past worthy president of the Oregon FOE. The visit will be the only one made by Colca in southern Ore gon and delegations from Lake view, Klamath Falls and Lake view are expected here. The meeting, and initiation Thursday will commence promptly at 8 p.m. A dutch lunch and special entertainment will conclude the evening. Dead lint Sunday Classified is si Noon Saturdays LIONS NOT WELCOME Boston (U.R) Five year old Nina Von Drewitz understands the proolems of Mary, the little girl in the nursery rhyme who owned lamb. Nina's teacher won't let her bring her pet lion cub to school. DROP, STUFFINESS ijjiii)iiiiiil -M m 2 droos of Penetro Nose Drops U in each nostril, cool, shrink J open stuffy nose. You breathe V. easier quictuy mis n-utuj way. Tg. PENETRO NOJE DROPS All may help through your RED CROSS Published in cooperation with the Jackson County Red Cron Chapter by . . PENNEY'S Throw Rocks at Them? Oregon's air raid warning network, it is now learned, will not be set up on a permanent, active basis but will be merely given a full-scale test and then packed away in mothballs to be quickly reacti vated should need arise. IJAD this bit of information been given out at the time the air raid warning system was ordered re established some weeks ago, it would have precluded much of the criticism which followed. Criticism at the outset was largely based on the fact that military and other governmental branches had given no previous indication that any emergency existed whicri would warrant re-establishment of the air raid warning system. REGON and California state officials said greater ooperation from the federal government was d in the matter, at both military and civilian levels. California spokesmen were particularly bitter. Said one: ' "Let the armed forces take somebody into their confidence. Let them take the governors of the states. If they can't trust them, let them tell the adjutants general. They wear a uniform." IT IS reassuring to learn from more recent news dis- patches that should the volunteer airplane spotters be called to duty m the coast states, they will act merely as a supplement to a $320,000,000 radar screen which is now under construction. Still more assurance would be felt if there were some fighter aircraft stationed along the possible in vasion front. As it is, an Astorian-Budget editorial rather succinctly sums up by asking who the volunteer spotters and radar operators are supposed to warn, adding: "And what will we do if the spotters spot hostile planes? Throw rocks at them?" E.C.F. 0$ neeVfec Porflander Quizzed In Attempted Holdup Portland. Ore., Mar. 8 (U.R) Detectives todnv were question. ing 23-ycnr-nld Donald Ynr- brough of Portland to determine If he played any pnrt of the at tempted grocery holdup last week-end that ended In death for two would-be bandits. Police said Yarlinuigh hud ad mitted driving a car the holdup men planned to use . In the escape. His companions. Henrv Doug las Smith, ;t. and Jny V. Har ris, 25, were shot and killed by Eugene Archibald, fluycar-old grocer. Archibald and his son-in-law, Marvin K. Bt-hrens, had been playing cribuage In the back of the store when the two men en tered and made the robbery attempt. Detective Capt. Howard Kelly said Yarbrough waited for the holdup men in a stolen cur and drove away when he heard sirens. Campus Chest Contest Lacting In Appeal To North Carolina Pupils Chapel Hill. N. C. U.R) The "campus chest" beauty contest turned out a total bust at the University of North Carolina. The campus chest fund was de signed for tho relief of needy American and foreign students. To pep tin contributions to the cause, sponsors decided on a beauty contest in connection with thp February 8-10 drive. Sororities balked at the idea of furnishing candidates for the contest after a second look. "What girl wants to be known as 'Miss Campus Chest ?" said Marie Nusshaum, a Pi Beta Phi. Subscribers To report Improper or non delivery of the Mali Tribune phone t-tlel belore IS p. m. dalle and 10:30 a. m. Sunday. H reiuiar d titter? arrives shortly after yon rail, please notlty oltire, thus ellmlnstlni speelsl mtssenier service. By William Warren United Press Correspondent Salem, Ore., Mar. 8 (U.R) The tallest man in the world swore to support the constitu tions and laws of the United States and of the state of Ore gon and was admitted to the practice of law in this state Tuesday. Clifford Marshall Thompson, 45, who is eight feet, -seven inches tall, was granted the right to practice law in Oregon in brief but impressive ceremonies in the Oregon supreme court chambers. The man who moved that he be admitted to the bar was Ken neth Kraemer, Portland attor ney who is five feet, six inches tall. Others Small The oath of attorney was read by Arthur S. Benson, clerk of the supreme court who stands up to five feet, four inches. And Thompson was sworn in as an Oregon attorney by Chief Justice Hall S. Lusk, who stands well, shall we say? he's the least tall of the high bench. Thompson, who traveled with circusscs for 13 years, billed as1 'the tallest man in the world. will practice law in Portland. His office, at 2425 N. Killings- worth street, is also his home, and the furniture and fixings are built to king size so that he has no added problem of furnishing a downtown office. He practiced law in Iola, Wis., about four years before coming to Portland last August. He got his law degree at.Marquette uni versity in Milwaukie, Wis. Size 22 Shoes Thompson, who wears size 22 shoes and has his suits tailor made when he can find a tailor who has the perceptive, was with the Al G. Barnes and Cole Bros, circuses. Traveling around, he has had quite a problem in the matter of hotel accommodations. Hotels just don't have nine-foot beds. "At home I have a special made bed," Thompson said. "When I have to stay in a hotel. I order a room with two beds side by side. I sleep mostly in one bed and stretch out my feet in the other." How about the matter of feed for a frame that size? For breakfast Thompson will eat a big bowl of oat meal, four eggs, four pieces of toast, three doughnuts and a pot of coffee. He'll eat a substantial lunch, varying with his desire. Then for dinner, he'll have a two-pound steak preferably T bone or tenderloin. With this will go two baked potatoes, a vege table of one sort or another, six slices of bread, two pieces of pie and a quart of milk. Also Notary Public After being admitted to prac tice law in Oregon, Thompson went over to the capitol build ing, to the office of Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry, and took the necessary steps to be come also a notary public. Then he and Kraemer went out to Court street and got into Thompson's special built car. It's a standard club coupe (Chrys ler) but Thompson has had the front seats removed and uses the back seat for the front seat. The seats are cut down and slanted back. A foot or so has been added to the steering wheel. The added room enables Thompson to reach the clutch and brake without difficulty. And as Kraemer observed as they started the drive back to Portland, "when you're riding in the front seat of this car, you feel like . you're riding in the back seat." $50 to $800 CASH STAN STARK Yet Man Tell us how much you need and a few facts about your credit and job in person or by phone if you're busy. Then when approved you sign without endors ers and get the cash. Proof 4 out of 5 who ask us for a loan, get it! Then repay in monthly installments which you select to fit your purse. Oregon Finance Co. Phone 2-4433 Craterian Bldg. 45 S. Central Lie S-211 . M-217 S953110 T Delivered here state and local taxes, any, and white sidewalls ($21), extra. Prices piay vary slightly in adjoining areas because of transportation charges anu prce near don't late less than a faefcaft! ! 1 -iS. 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