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Teen-Age Pinafrock 9253 to II Coolest dress in captivity, Teener! Cutest, too it's the new Pinafrock. Cut out for sunshine sleeveless, with ruffly wings. It's step-in style and sew-easy! Pattern 9253, Teen-age sizes 10, 12, 14. 16. Size 12, sleeveless dress, 4 yards 35-inch fabric. This easy-to-use pattern gives perfect fit. Complete, illustrated Sew Chart shows you everv step. Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS in coins for this pattern to MARIAN MARTIN, care of Med ford Mail Tribune, Pattern Dept., P. O. Box 6740. Chicago 80, 111. Print plainlv YOUR NAME, AD DRESS, SIZE, STYLE NUMBER. LOOK! A book of easy-sew Marian Martin Patterns for Spring. Send Twenty Cents in coins for your copy and plan all the lovely new clothes you want! Patterns for everybody, plus a Free Pattern printed in the book. WHITE ELEPHANT Boston (U.R) When the city of Boston tried to sell an old steam pump, two concerns said they would charge about $15,000 just to take the apparatus off municipal hands. The city was saved turtner embarrassment when a third firm agreed to pay $5,225 for the pump. Boston (U.R) Many of Great er Boston's 2.000,000 residents can get a quick weather forecast merely by looking at the beacon lights atop the ab-story John Hancock building. A steady red light indicates rain: flashing red snow; steady blue, clear, and flashing blue, cloudy. Egg Hunt Slated For Kids of City Saturday Morning One of the major events of the Easter season in Medford is scheduled for Saturday when the Kiwanis club stages its an nual egg hunt at the high school baseball field for youngsters of the entire county. The hunt is set for 8:30 a. m., following the Easter bunny's principal visit to Medford. Chair man Tom Shepard said that the hunt will be held "rain or shine." About 3,000 eggs have been cooked at Domestic Laundry, and will be colored by Kiwan ians at 7 p. m. today at the Sal vation Army citadel. Because of the large number of eggs, shep ard said that club members will try to see that no child goes away empty Handed. Manv Prizes Hundreds of prizes will be given for youngsters finding spe cially marked eggs and there will be three grand prizes for eacn ot the four divisions. Chil dren will be grouped as follows: Two, three and four years of age; five and six; seven, eight and nine, and 10, 11 and 12. Those under seven years of age are asked to congregate near the baseball grandstand and those seven and older in the area by the tennis courts. The Sloppy Six. a schoolboy novelty band, will provide en tertainment at the hunt and Boy scouts will patrol the area prior to the hunt. E. Ron Rice will be master of ceremonies. Eggs were purchased from Valley Farm products. Lumber Orders Up Over Previous Week Portland, Ore., Apr. 7 lU.R) Lumber orders and shipments were higher for the week ending April 1 than the preceding week on Idaho white pine, Ponderosa pine, sugar pine, and associated species, the Western Pine asso ciation reported today. The information was based on reports from 103 identical mills. Orders totaled 78,299,000 feet, compared with 73,265,000 feet for the previous week, and 66, 604,000 for the corresponding week last year. Similar comparisons for ship ments were 72,663,000 feet, 64, 524,000 feet, and 55,709,000 feet. Production figures were 57, 101.000 feet, 59,863,000 feet, and 51.287,000 feet. For the year to date orders are 28 per cent more than for the same period of 1949, shipments show an increase of 36 per cent, and production an increase of 24 per cent. Weekly averages for March during the three preceding years were 70,171,000 teet for orders, 62.157.000 feet for shipments, and 54,646,000 feet for pro duction. Guest-Best Linens Columbus was 41 when he sailed for America. I K4 Say "welcome" to house guests with exquisite bedroom and bath linens! These are crochet and em broidery such interesting work! Make a matched set towels and scarf! Pattern 7100; transfer 5 motifs 5x11 in.; crochet direa tions. Our improved pattern visual with easy-to-see charts and pho tos and complete directions makes needlework easy. Send TWENTY CENTS in coins for this pattern to Medford Mail Tribune, Household Arts Dept., P. O. Box 5640, Chicago 80. 111. Print plainlv NAME, AD DRESS with PATTERN NUM BER. Our ALICE BROOKS Needle work catalogue is the best ever! Send fifteen cents, in coins, now, for your copy. Illustrations of designe for crocheting, knitting, embroidery, toys, quilts, chil dren's clothes. Free needlework pattern is printed in book. Body Found After Two-Day Search Baker, Ore., Apr. 7 U.R) The two-day search for 82-year-old W. O. Stone ended yesterday when two boys found the elderly man's body in the Powder river here. County Coroner Thad Beatty attributed Stone's death to drowning. State and local police had been searching for Stone since Tuesday, but Joe Clark Jr. and Herchel Patton found Stone's body as they patrolled the river in a rubber boat. Beatty said there was no in lication of foul play. Prospect Association Plans Amateur Play; Cast Names Announced Prospect A gay, modern mys tery farce, "Mumbo-Jumbo," will be presented by the Pros pect Parent-Teacher association April 14 in the Prospect high school gymnasium. Mrs. Nina Hollenbeak will direct the pro duction and Jack Hollenbeak will be property manager. The plot involves Dick, played by William Schulz, and Pee-Wee, portrayed by James Popp, two college boys who arrive at the home of Dick's uncle in the country while the uncle is away. Needing money, they decide to turn the country place into a hotel. They soon have a houseful of ill-assorted guests, including Harold Custer (Lewis South), a timid young man, and his fright ened mother, played by Mrs. Jake Jones; Peaches Gi'eeding (Alta Goode), a chorus girl; Mr. Beamish (Harry Goode), a mys terious blind man; Dr. Omahan dra (Norman Haliburton). a West Indian mystic; Kay Sainedi (Jan ice Popp). his beautiful and strange patient, and Madame Celesta (Mrs. Victor Chapman), a Haitian witch doctor. A guest is slain and the sher iff of Milburn (Ralph Goode), ar rives to take charge of the in vestigation and so does Miss Emma (Florence Shafer). the sheriff of Hopetown, for the house is built on the county line, which bisects the living room, leaving the corpse in one county and the evidence in another. Also in the cast are Daisy (Sharon Schmidt), who helps solve tne crime; Mrs. baran Key nolds (Kathryn South!, Uncle John's wife: Tweety (Madeline Clark), a hired girl: Monahan 'Jake Jones), a state trooper. Medford Women Assist New Grants Pass Club; Toastmistress To Meet Mrs. George Mclntyre, chair man of council seven of Oregon Toastmistress clubs, was in Grants Pass Tuesday night to start organization plans for a club in that city. She was ac companied by Mrs. James J. Boyle, treasurer of the Medford club, and Miss Abbie Sturtcvant, club member. A dinner was held at the Cave restaurant in Grants Pass and Mrs. Leo Sauers was named tern- p o r a r y chairman. Gladiolus Toastmistress club was proposed as the name of the new group. Prospective members of the club have been invited to attend a meeting of the Medford club April 24. Mrs. Mclntyre and a group of Medford club members will also visit the Ashland club April 11 the meeting to be held in the Lithia hotel at 7:30 p.m. Pres idents of other women s or ganizations, including church groups and PTA's, have been in vited to attend. Friday, April 7. 1950 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE BUY WITH CONFIDENCE A-a USEE) CAES '49 Ford Sla. 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Pickup $295 '37 DodSe PickuP $395 1947 Motor MANY MORE TO CHOOSE FROM WE TRADE BANK TERMS CRATER LAKE motors 817 N.Riverside USED CAR LOT Phone 2-6297 Next meeting of the Medford club will be Monday, April 10, at the Scout house. The pro gram is announced as an open discussion on social security and Angell on Vacation; Upholds McCarthy Portland, Ore., Apr. 7 (U.R) Rep. Homer D. Angell (R., Ore.) was home today for the Easter recess of the house and with a )at on the back for Wisconsin's republican Sen. Joseph R. Mc Carthy. "The state department needs a good house cleaning," said Angell. He said, however, he thought the FBI was right in refusing to give up its files because some of the reports might reflect on in nocent people . . . "but I can not see there is any reason why the loyalty reports by the state department should not be given to the committee." Angell said Mrs. Angell would remain in Portland temporarily to recover from a serious operation. Atomic Energy Gets Scientific Chill its benefits, and each member attending is to speak briefly on some phase of the subject. Mrs. Lola Reed will be discus sion leader. 1 VICTOR Says: Well, it's here again, that beautiful time of year, Easter, I would like to forget business this week and recall to you a few words from one of America's great minds, Harry Emer son Fosdick. It has always appealed to me as much more than just a saying, rather It is something that the more you read it the closer you get to its real meaning. And now to quote, "Real prayer always does one of two things: It either frees us from the trouble we fear or else it gives us the strength and courage to meet the trouble when it comes." 41 S. CRATERIAN BEAUTY SALON Central At. 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