Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, March 24, 1950, Image 6

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    SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Friday, March 24, 1950
Local and Personal
Laavat Mrs. Bob Gilman, . In Portland Roger Shaw of
Rnti Innp. lnft Wednesday lor Shaw ADDarel shop. 34 North
Los AnKeles to visit two of her Bartlett street, left yesterday for
sisters, Mrs. William stone ana roruanu on a uuymg trip tor
Mrs. Dick Lewis, sue win re-1 tne store
turn the first of April.
Hoipitalized J. C. Cameron,
2964 Roberts road, who was ad
mitted to Community hospital
yeslerdav for medical treatment,
is reported to be progressing sat
isfactorily. Visitor Leaves Mrs. Maude
Parsons, Milwaukee, Wis., who
has been a visitor at the B. W.
Moffatt home on Spring street
for the past two weeks, left Tues
day for Olympia, Wash.
Returns Mrs. Clark Thomas,
Myers lane, returned from Port
land yesterday where she visited
Mr. and Mrs. George Vinson
and Mr. and Mrs. John Powers,
former Ashland residents.
Studio Moved Mr. and Mrs.
Sebastian Apollo have an
nounced they recently moved
their music studio from 344
North Ivv street to 29 Quince
street. The Apollo studio now
features instruction in pipe or
gan and electric organ in addi
tion to accordion ana piano in
struction.
In Okinawa Pvt. Donald
Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. N.
S. Smith, 1922 Table kock roaa
arrived on Okinawa in Febru
ary for a tour of overseas duty
in the far east. He is a former
student of Medford senior high
school.
Leaves Mrs. Addie Stauffer
of the Spokane valley in Wash
ington has left tor ner nome
cr visiting her for the past ten
days with the A. V. Hardys, 1109
East Main street. Mrs. Stauffer
was en route home after visiting
for some time in Arizona.
From Portland Fred H. Gra-
ten of Westlnghou.se Electric
Supply company, 38 North Bart
lett street has reiurnea irum
Portland where he attended a
meeting for the company's north
western personnel to view dem
onstrations of the company s
new laundry equipment.
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War Brides Southern Oregon
war brides will meet Monday at
8 p. m. at the home of Mrs. Har
lan Bosworth, 242S East Main
street, to discuss the possibility
of chartering a trip to their
home. War brides desiring infor
mation or directions to the Bos
worth home are advised to tele
phone 2-2625.
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Rummage Sale Woman's
Christian service circic oi me
Central Point Presbyterian
church will sponsor a rummage
and plant sale at Alexander
Hardware store. Central Point
Saturday, March 25, from 9 a.m.
to 5 p.m. Officers stated that
good used clothing would be on
sale and plants would dc vege
tables and flowers.
Visitors Leave Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Davis, Bend, have left aft
er visiting here with Mrs. Davis'
lister and brother-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. Mack McCargor. and
another sister, Mrs. Nelle Winue.
who make their home at the
Roger's Rogue River ranch. Mrs.
Winne has recently been releas
ed from a local hospital where
'she had been confined because
of Illness.
Purchase Home Here Mr. and
Mrs. Eugene Draper have pur
chased a home at 15 Mace road
and are expected to move there
during the coming week. The
Drapers, who have a baby daugh
ter, Barbara, are from Wilbur,
Wash., nnd decided to make
their home in Mcdford after
making a visit her recently with
Draper's aunt. Mrs. A. V. Hardy
and Mr. Hardy, Hull East Main
slrcct. They have also purchas
ed the Richfield service station
on the North Pacific highway at
Elk City.
Visiting Mrs. Charles E.
Hodges, Napa. Cnl., spent yester
day here visiting Mr. and Mrs.
K. R. Severson, 20 South New
town street, en route to Seattle.
There she will loin Mrs. H. W.
Severson and Mrs. Irene Wind
ley, 113 Norlh Ivy street who
are visiting Mrs. Windley's son
Kenneth Windley. Mrs. llodgos
is a cousin to K. R. Severson. a
niece to Mrs. H. W. Severson and
daughter of Mrs. Windley. The
partv will return to Medford
during the coining week when
Mis. Hodges will spend some
time visiting here.
Home From Trip Mr. and
Mrs. L. M. Weisenbcrgcr, Cen
tral Point, have returned from a
three-week motor trip to Calif
ornia, Arizona and Nevada as
well as Oregon cities. In Los An
geles they visited Mrs. Wein
berger's mother, Mrs. Portia
Kltto, and her brother, Harold
Kitto. In Phoenix they visited
Mr. Weisenberger's sister and
brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. H.
Heirienreirh, former Medford
residents. They returned by way
of Reno and Las Vrgas and '
to Hood River, where they visit
ed their son-in-law and daugh
ter. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Weisen
bcrgcr. On their return limne
they spent some time with their
daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Hayner In Roseburg.
"Your Office Boy'
Since 1927
DESKS FILES
SAFES
TYPEWRITERS
ADDINC MACHINES
Across from the Rialto
Theatre
Californians Visit Mr. and
Mrs. Dealous Cox and son, Del
ano, Cal., are visitors at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Cox
in Talent.
Newcomer Richard Melhasc
has recently moved from Klam
ath Falls to make his home at
311 Laurel street. He is employ
ed as a teller at the Medford
branch of the First National
bank.
Shop Moved Mrs. George
Pence, operator of the Thrift
Shop which has been located at
404 East Main street, has an
nounced removal of her shop
from that location to 827 West
Jackson boulevard.
Fire Reported Fire apparent
ly originating from hot ashes or
sparks burned a sizeable hole in
the floor of the E. H. Mann com
pany's older building at 1729
North Riverside avenue yester
day, according to reports from
Mann and the fire department.
The fire, located near a sawdust
burner, occurred about 5:20 p. m.
Hits Rail State police said
that a pick-up truck operated by
Fredrick Jackson Rock, 220
South Grape street, sheared the
north guard rail completely off
the county bridge on East Mc
Andrews road about 6 p. m. yes
terday. They reported little
damage to the vehicle.
Special Meeting Ladies' aux
iliary to the Fraternal Order of
Eagles will hold a special meet
ing Sunday, March 26 at the
FOE hall at 2 p. m. It is stated
that there will be balloting and
initiation of candidates, with en
tertainment following. A bene
fit dinner will be served at 6:30
p. m.
Drunkenness Charged City
police said they charged Roy
Willard Atwood, 130 South
Grape street, with being drunk
on a public highway after in
vestigating an accident at 523
North Riverside avenue last
night. They said a sedan regis
tered to Atwood and a parked
car registered to M. G. Becker,
523 North Riverside, were found
badly damaged.
Building Permits C. A. Lusk
applied at the city building in
spector's office yesterday for a
permit to make $500 renovations
to a residence at 10 Portland
avenue. California Pacific util
ities asked to build a $300 con
crete support for a tank. H. M.
Olson asked this morning to
make $50 renovations to a gar
age at 515 King street,
Teacher Here Mrs. Vera
Thompson, home teacher for the
Oregon commission for the blind,
is spending several days in Med
ford visiting the blind and inter
viewing persons with visual han
dicaps. Mrs. Thompson makes
periodic visits to the valley to
aid the adult blind and she states
that any visually handicapped
person needing aid may contact
her at the Jackson hotel or by
calling Mrs. Chris Zink, 2-8034
Mrs. Thompson will be here until
Tuesday.
Brother 01 Local
Woman Author Of
Magazine Article
An article entitled "The
OLIVIA DeHAVILAND, BRODERICK CRAWFORD
GIVEN OSCARS; 'KING'S MEN' RATED BEST
INSIDE OLIVIA 4 col hed ..
Hollywood, Mar. 24 0J.fi)
Olivia De Haviland, winner of
two "Oscars'' in three years, and
Brodcrick Crawford, who's been
Chaos of Congress," written by ! kicking around in westerns for
Albert L. Warner, brother of!12- .are sitLnK n top i t,he
,13 t, j movie world today as Holly-
Mrs. C. Rcase Braley of Medford, w00d s "best actress and actor"
is carried in the March issue of ! for 1949.
Harper's magazine. I The dark-eyed star, beautiful
Warner writinn ahnnf lh n ! and dignified in billowing white
ca.Yed'Taw tinkled with sequin
of congress, states th:it the nnlv
tanglible results of the act was U. f Im UL,, -to
raise the pay of congressmen j 11 U HUC Y fly MCWC
ntlH In rl-rttMi'lr t-nt irnrrtArtt nan.
K' ' tint n. (Jvii-
sions for them, even though cer-,
tain improvements and reforms
were made.
He comments on the "utter
lack of financial responsibility
of congress," and the fact that
the reorganization law did not
Improve the committee system of
congress, which the sponsors of
the bill had hoped. He wrote "It
left untouched the biggest evil
of the present committee system,
the hoary system of seniority
that sits upon the committees
like an old man of the sea."
Cites 'Slow Motion'
Exploded In Arizona
Hyder, Ariz., Mar. 24 (U.Rt
The hot Arizona sun beat down
today on the twisted wreckage
of a giant B-50 Superfortress that
exploded "like a bomb in the
sky, killing 12 crewmen.
Only the bombardier and co
pilot parachuted to safety. And
they could give no clew to why
the huge plane suddenly blew
up. except that one engine
caught fire and another quit.
Wreckage was thrown over a
two-mile square area of the cas
tllS.ctitHHnrl rlnenrl
The writer also mentions the j Drooped Out Plane
"slow motion in the senate" j The co-pilot. First Lt. W. T
which he states results from the : Gentry, 26, Kokomo, Ind., said
rule of unlimited debate. War-"I just had my chute on and
ner also comments on the ex-! dropped through the hatch."
treme demands made upon con-1 Capt. J. N. Lee, 29, Gaestra,
gressmen by their individual con-! Mich., the bombardier, said the
stituents, writing that "the non-lblast blew him out of the fuscl
legiFlative workload of errands iaSe- After a long fall, he man
and chores takes 80 per cent of ,aSed to open his chute,
the time of some members of Neither was hurt seriously.
congress.
Warner for many years was
head of the Washington bureau
of the New York Herald Tribune,
later was with Columbia Broad
casting company, leaving Colum
bia to be chief of war informa
tion during the war. After the
war he was first with NBC and is
now witli ABC.
Scout Leaders Attend
Regional Conference
A group of scout leaders from
this area left-today for Portland
where they will attend a lay
men's conference for Region 11,
Boy Scouts of America, tomor
row. From Medford those attending
will be H. D. Christensen, Cra
ter Lake area council president,
and Mrs. Christensen; Scout Ex
ecutive Cliff Hanson and Mrs.
Hanson and Scout Commission
ers John Danforth and Charles
Adnmson.
Other council leaders include
Executive Jim Harpolc, Ed Mc
Alvage, Joe Stoy and-Ed Bur
key, Grants Pass, and Martin
Webb, Robert Morris and Execu
tive Larry Lundin, Yrcka.
Two national scout leaders
will talk during the session. They
are Harold F. Pote, national
personnel director, and Klrnnar
Uakkcn, rural scouting director,
and assistant director of public
relations.
Boy Scouts To Collect
Aluminum Licenses
Boy scouts of the Medford dis
trict will make a collection of
aluminum license plates to raise
I tunds to send scouts to the rta
! tional scout jamboree and to
summer camp at Camp McLough
Iin, it was announced today by
scout leaders.
The collection will be made
by troops, and the plates will be
brought in on Saturday, April 8,
for weighing so that proper
credit can be assigned to the
collecting units.
Scout Neighborhood Commis
sioner John Eddy is in charge of
the project.
BIRTHS
STUNTZ To Mr. and Mrs.
W. G.. 1832 North Riverside ave
nue. Mar. 23, 1950. a boy, 7
pounds, at Sacred Heart hospital.
Twin Brothers Sought
By California Woman
Mrs. Dick G. Weaver, Stock
ton, Cal., has asked, city police
here for help in locating her 46-year-old
twin brothers, Herbert
and Herman Johnson.
She said she had not seen Her
bert for 17 years nor Herman
since lust June. Herbert was de
scribed as being of light com
plexion and medium build. He
went by the nicknames of John
ny or Swede. Herbert, a fruit
worker and former railroad em
ployee, is darker.
Mail Tribune Foreman
Burned By Hot Metal
Robert Gilstrap, acting fore
man of the printing department
ot The Mail Tribune, was injured
yesterday afternoon when molten
type metal splashed over his face
and shoulders from a type cast
ing machine he was repairing at
the Medford Printing company's
plant.
While the hot metal was
"squirted" from the machine di
rectly into his face, entering one
eye and his mouth, physicians
say that Gilstrap was painfully
but not seriously Injured. He
was badly burned and is now
confined to his home at 35 Gen
eva street.
daisies, collected her second
ciety of double-award winners,
with Bette Davis and Luise Rai
ner, the only other owners of
two "best actress" statues. Miss
De Havillaud got her first one
three years ago for "To Each His
Own.
Crawford's triumph came after
he talked himself out of cowboy
movies and into the winning
role of a crooked politician in
"All the King's Men."
That same picture won an
other "Oscar" as the "best movie
of the year."
Best As Supporters
Awards for best supporting
actress and actor went to Mer
cedes McCambridge, for her
"Oscar" last night. She won it
for her role of the love-starved
maiden in "The Heiress."
Two Others Alio
This ups her to the select so
work as the fast-talking secre
tary in "All the King's Men,''
and Dean Jagger, for his portray
al of the kindly, balding major
in "Twelve o'clock High."
Best director of the year was
Joseph L. Mankiewicz for "A
Letter to Three Wives."
Boats Search River
For Missing Person
Longview, Wash., Mar. 24
(U.R) A fleet of five river boats
searched the mouth of the Cow
litz river today for the body of
W. F. Aberle, Keiso, who
drowned Sunday when a Sea
Scout sailboat capsized in rough
water.
Aberle was the father of 16-year-old
Ruth Aberle, who at
tracted naationwide attention
last December when she was lost
for 36 hours in the Cascade
mountains.
The body of 19-year-old Dave
Ammons, Longview, who
drowned with Aberle. was found
35 feet below the river surface
yesterday by George Jessee,
Rainier, Ore.
Earl Edison To Be
Sentenced Tomorrow
Earl Gorman Edison, 51, con
victed rapist of a 15-year-old
Medford girl, will appear before
Circuit Judge H. K. Hanna at
9:30 a. m. tomorrow to be sen
tenced. The former foreman of
Medford Corporation's railroad
faces a term of from 3 to 20 years
in the state penitentiary'.
Me was found guiliy of the
crime, said to have been com
mitted July 17. 1949, by a circuit
court jury last Wednesday night
and is being held in county jail
in lieu of $5,000 bond.
Local Oil Dealers
To See Anniversary
Show Saturday Eve
Union Oil Company of Cali
fornia's 60th anniversary show
for employees and dealers will
have its Medford showing at the
senior high school auditorium
Saturday evening, March 25, J.
H. Fisher, Medford district sales
manager, announced today.
A "live" review, depicting 60
years of progress and a motion
picture are being presented by
the company to employees and
their families in 29 cities in Cali
fornia. Ari7ona and the north
west. The 40-minute film, "Con
stant Challenge," produced by
Hal Roach studios, portrays the
industrial and economic advan
tages America has realized
through its oil industry.
The anniversary show is con
sidered an entirely new approach
to employees and dealers rela
tions. Fisher reported.
Other Features
Sixtieth year celebrations
commenced last month with
pround breaking for Union oil's
S3 million research center a l
Brea, Cal.
Another feature of the year
will be completion of the com
pany's oil museum dedicated to
the growth of the industry in
California since its start in 1870.
The museum will be in the ori
ginal Union oil building-at Santa
i'aula, Cal., birthplace of the
firm in 1890. It will be the first
museum of its kind in the west.
Additional anniversary events
will be the publication of a com
pany history by Frank J. Taylor,
prominent national magazine
writer, and the annual report.
The five top winners this year ;
came as a complete surprise to i
practically nobody but all the
winners were jubilant as their
names echoed through the star
studded Hollywood Pantages
theater in 22nd annual academy i
awards festivities last night. ,
Walks Slowly Down 1
All the winners, that is, except I
Miss De Havilland.
News of her victory sent the !
2.800 spectators into a thunder-!
ous ovation. But instead of run-;
ning down the aisle to the stage
she walked sedately and slowly.
No sign of a smile flashed from
her face.
Mankiewicz was the only cele
brity to gallop down the aisle
for two "Oscars." In addition
to being named "best director"
he won another award for best
screen play of the year, "A Let
ter to Three Wives."
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'BIG' LAKE REGULATION
Boston. Mar. 24 (U.R) The
clerk of the Massachusetts house
of representatives breathed a
sigh of relief today as he re
ceived a report that the legislat
ors had killed a bill which would
have regulated the waters of
Lake Chargoggagoddnumchaug-gagoggchaubbuuagungamaugg.
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Last name starting with the letters
A, H and C will be called Monday
mornings il 00 to 1:00. 13, E and F,
Monday afternoons 1 00 to 4 00. G, H
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U Tuesday 1 00 to 4 00. M. N and O,
Wednesday t 00 to VI 00. P, t and H.
Wednesday t On to 4 00; S. Thursday
POO to 12 00; T and V. Thursday 100
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X. Y and Z. Friday 1 00 to 4 00 The
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in the directory so that, for example,
nil the A s chosen will be exhausted
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Bi will b exhausted before any Cs
are called. 3d calls will be made dur
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