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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (March 14, 1950)
Toast masters Hear i AFL Teamsters Boss Winning Talk Records Medford Toastmastcrs, at their Monday evening meeting, heard wire recordings of prizewinning speeches given at the area speech contest held at Klamath Falls last week-end. Winner of the contest was Harry Skorry Jr., Ashland city attorney, who will represent this area in the state contests in Corvallis in May. Skerry's talk, "An Elephant's Epitaph," had to do with the re publican party. Second place winner was Bob Duncan, Med ford. Speakers from Klamath Falls, Ashland and Medford com peted in the contest. Speakers at last night's meet ing here included Bill Mantee, new member, making his "ice breaker" speech; Mr. Merle Wig gins, speaking on "Socialism": John Pletsch, who pointed out the habits of children in relation to strange environments, and George Distell, whose topic was "Gremlins," and who dealt with popular superstitions which, he said, are but contorted manifes tations of man's conscience. DINNER FOR NEWSY New Bedford, Mass. (U.R) A crippled newsboy who supports his elderly parents was given a testimonial dinner here by some 350 admirers. The, honor guest, John Furtado, has been selling papers at the same street cor ner for nearly 30 years. Trm your oil healing unit to the heft. Let US give It that lummer rltin-up. Next winter It'll be DEPENDABLE. CALL Medford 2-2I5I DEPENDABLE OIL HEATING SERVICE Turns Eye To Hawaii Honolulu, Mar. 14 (U.R) Dave Beck, burly western boss of the AFL Teamsters, is looking over the island stronghold of an old enemy, the International Longshoremen's and Warehouse men's union. And, despite assurances from both sides that they "aren't look ing for a fight," Hawaii wonders whether its rolling cane fields and pineapple plantations are marked for jurisdictional battle grounds. Beck is in Hawaii primarily to check a rift in local AFL leader ship. His second mission is a sur vey of opportunities to add to teamster membership. He's hunting in a reserve that has belonged by default to his bitter enemv, Harry Bridges, president of the ILWU, since the left-wing union signed up some 30,000 key laborers in a post-war organizing surge. During a press conference. Beck said he was here to build up his own union and not to tear down anyone else's. He denied interest in sugar and pineapple and said he was shooting only for some 10,000 non-union island ers. CHANNEL TO LOOT East St. Louis, 111. (U.R) Wary burglars took no chances when they stole $500 from a tavern here. To avoid numerous door-and-window burglar alarms they forced an unprotected basement windDW and gained entrance to the tavern by crawling through a furnace hot air pipe. More than 22 billion pounds of meat, almost half of it pork, were produced by the packing indus try in 1949. Plant Our Tod Gradt tWY FIELD SEED For Top Production Mora and mora, fitld tacdt ara becoming specialized to grow best in certain soils and climates, and under local farming conditions. Sine this increaiet yields, you should be sura you're get ting the right itraim and types for your farm. Wa carry all the kinds of seed that ara adapted fo our growing conditions here. Wa keep up with tha recom mendations of the County Agents and the experiment stations to be sura we get the best seed for local use. For the latest, best information stop In. BASUL Use it for treating wheat to control smut NITRAGIN Innoculate legume seed for a better stand i'75S ill Tuesday, March 14, 1950 (Acme Telephotol CYCLOTRON BURNS-Firemen peer into dnmsRCd cyclotron in Palmer Laboratory at Princeton University, Princeton, N. J., after a fire wrecked the wiring of the 18-mtllion-volt atom smasher. The cyclotron is valued at (400,000, Sheer Delight IllPlll Sheer to keep you cool! 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The film is in the form of a travelogue, and includes many interesting and scenic shots. The public has been invited to attend, with a special invitation to those of Scandinavian ances try. 31 Diseases Listed In County For Week Thirty-one eases of disease, headed by 10 of mumps, were listed in the county for the week ending March 11, it was report ed today by the county health officer. The list included: Mumps, eight in Medford. one each in Prospect and Ashland; german measles, four in Medford; chick enpox, five in Central Point, one each in Ashland and Medford; tuberculosis, one in Jacksonville; erysipelas, one in Central Point; poliomyelitis, one in Medford: infectious mononucleosis, two each in Medford and Union Creek, one in Butte Falls; strep throat infection, one in Medford; influenza, one in Eagle Point. ford Mail Tribune. Pattern Dept., P. O. Box 6740, Chicago 80, 111. Print plainly YOUR NME. AD DRESS, SIZE, STYLE NUMBER. LOOK! 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