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Scouting Exposition Slated Saturday; Details Announced Final details for the largest Boy scout exposition ever to be presented in Medford were com pleted at a meeting last night, it was reported today by N. H. "Duke" Gladfelter, chairman of the event. The event will be held at the Medford armory Saturday eve ning. The latest addition to the pro gram is the sea scout ship "Rogue," of Grants Pass, Glad felter said. About 400 cubs, scouts, explorers and leaders will take part in the "Scouting Ad venture" exposition, which has been planned for many months. James Dunlevy, chairman of the Big Pines Scout district, said that the central attraction will be a display of scout camping, conservation and pioneering, with ropes and logs used to con struct two 18-foot towers, and 20-foot log bridges. A 50-f.oot "monkey bridge" will span the width of the Medford armory, constructed by Troop 10. Displays Listed Larry N. Schade, district com m i s s i o n e r and participation chairman, said the list of skills and activities to be displayed will include astronomy, axeman ship, archery, marksmanship, wild west shows, minstrels, out door cooking, realistic first aid, rope making, woodcraft, carving and a special demonstration of the Boy scout advancement pro gram sponsored by Troop 9 of flieatoro. Doors will open at 7:30 p.m., and the flag-raising ceremony is scheduled for 8 p.m., featuring the new drum and bugle corps of Troop 40, Central Point, and Troop 19, Prospect. The closing ceremony, featur ing the year's scout theme, "Strengthen the Arm of Liber ty," will be at 9:15 p.m., after presentation of ribbons to the booths and activities. To Give Awards The President s award, given by Council President H. D. ChrLstensen, will go to the most outstanding booth, and blue rib bons will be won by the best demonstrations of cubbing and scouting. Red ribbons will be awarded to the next-best dis plays, and participating ribbons will go to all units entered. John Eddy, neighborhood commission er, will be in charge of presen tation. Streamers will be awarded by Commissioner John Patton to merchants who have had the Roy Rogers Schedules National Safety Test ' Hollywood, Apr. 14 flJ.PJ Western Star Roy Rogers ,today announced plans for his second annual national safety awards campaign for elementary schools. The campaign is held in co operation with the National Safety Council and Parent Teacher associations. Rogers will award three trophies to the schools having the best accident prevention records during the 1945-50 school term ending June 30. He said more than 5,000 scnools will enter the competi tion for the awards. best window displays during Boy scout week. The exposition committee in cludes R, C. Beatty, in charge of the food booth, assisted by the 20-30 club; Ed Borg and the Car penter's union, physical facili ties: Roy Huson, finance, and Eddy, Schade and Gladfelter. Councilman To Tell City Money Problems City finances will be the sub ject of a talk by City Council man Dwight Houghton at a la dies night dinner meeting of the Methodist Men's club at 6:30 p.m. Monday at the First Meth odist church. Houghton is also expected to talk briefly on water and fire department problems. There will be brief talks by Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Frost. Music will be provided by the men's quartet. Dr. J. S. Heatherington, Dr. G. A. Dierdorff, Horace Doo- len and Dwight Warner, and the chapel trio. Miss Lois Colton, Miss Arlene Brood and Miss Harriett Walker, accompanied by Mrs. C. K. Adamson. Circle 7 of the Women's So ciety of Christian Service is pre paring a buffet dinner. Doolittle Raiders Gather for Reunion Palm Desert. Cal.. Apr. 14 (U.PJ Lt. Gen. Jimmy Doolittle and 38 of his 80 "Tokyo raiders" gather here today for a reunion to observe tne eigntn anniver sary of the first U. S. attack against the Japanese mainland in worm war u. The meeting will be partly so cial but Raider Ted Lawson said the group also will discuss two plans. One is to gather and re cord the experiences of the fliers before, during and after the his toric Apr. 18, 1942, air attack on Tokyo. The other is to locate ana neip the Chinese who aided the fliers when they landed in China after the Tokvo raid. The social portion of the pro gram will be a dinner hosted by Flovd Odium and his wife, Avia- trix Jacaueline Cochrane, at their nearby ranch, and a goit tour nament and anotner party at tne Shadow Mountain club, which is host for the reunion. Sen. Wherry Lashes At Truman's Record Washington. Apr. 14 (U.R) Senate republican Floor Leader Kenneth S. Wherry said today that President Truman "has nothing to crow about" in his five-year White House record. The president, marking the start of his sixth year in office, told a news conference yester day that the country is in good shape at home and abroad and that he deserves the credit. The Nebraskan emphatically did not agree. "He (Mr. Truman) congratu lates himself every time he turns around," Wherry snapped. "He's been patting himself on the back for the past five years, but the important thing is what the peo ole will say in the election next fall." Dead Una on Classified Ads: van n.m for following day. 10 am Monday for Monday; noon Saturday for Sunday a.m. Friday. April ?4, 13S8 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE Douglas Winging Way Back to Washington La urande, Ore., Apr. 14 (U.PJ Associate Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas was on his way back to Washington today by air after being feted last night by more than 600 persons at a chuck wagon banquet in the La Grande armory. The dinner netted $115 for the "Your Office Boy" Since 1927 SALES SERVICE Royal Typewriters, Victor Adding Machinal, G. F. Desks, Chairs, Files Across from the Riarto Theatre cancer drive. Douglas evaded all his time with lifelong friends in serious questions on national hl nron and international affairs to spend itxfricro 8 TUBEROUS $i BEGONIAS X Exotic Imported doubla Camalia typa, In S brilliint colon: RED. SCARLET, RINK, ROSE, WHITE, YELLOW. SALMON and COPPER. Stat foil Paid. 8 Doubla Begonia bulbs, worth up to $3. . .only $1.00 24 Bulbs, of quality worth up to $9 only $2.50 FREE! A beautiful PEONY with each $2.50 order. -Postpaid MT. BAKER BULB CO. Dept. 549 1109 POST ST. SEATTLE, WASHINSTM 'Workable' Flying Saucer Designed 23 Years Ago Monterey, Cal., Apr. 14 U.R) A "workable" flying saucer, de signed 23 years ago and rejected during World War II as "too advanced." was described today by its inventor. In a story copyrighted by the Monterey Peninsula Herald, Al exander G. Weygers said his fly ing disk, which he calls a "dis kopter," was patented in 1944 The OPENING of Luci lie's Needle Art Shop SATURDAY, APRIL 15 FREE COFFEE and CAKE Will Be Served 315 EAST MAIN Over Runtz Paint Store three years before the first fly ing saucer report came out of Oregon. In Design Stage Weygers, a Dutch-born engi neer and sculptor, admits his saucer is still in the paper-design stage. He has never made a model of it. But the design, he insists, is aeronautically sound. Blueprints show a craft that resembles a percolator top or a covered shallow bowl with a bubble on top. The bubble would be the pilot's compartment, which Weygers said could be enlarged for "unlimited passen gers." Enclosed in the circular metal frame or rim are gasoline engine driven rotor blades, similar to the rotors of a helicopter. The oush of the rotor would propel Weygers' craft Just like the heli copter. Holes in Top The rotors and power-plant compartments are enclosed in the discopter, the designer said. The craft has holes on its top through which air is drawn by the rotors, giving it the needed thrust out of the bottom expulsion holes. Weygers said he believes jets 'an be used in place of the rotors. He said his design was reject ed by Consolidated Vultee in a letter dated April, 1945, as "too advanced." Requires Great Study "Obviously," the letter read, "a true analysis of an invention as revolutionary in its scope as yours would require far greater study and experimentation than can be afforded at this time. We are not undertaking, therefore, to even comment and are mere ly advising you that its magni tude is beyond our present ca pacity." 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