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EIGHT MEDFOHD (OREGON) Loan Program for Veterans Passes 5,000 Granted Salem, Ore., Apr. 19 U.R Oregon's farm and loan program lor veterans of World War II has passed the 5,000 mark in numbers of loans granted, the state department of veterans' af fairs disclosed today. Loan No. 5,000 was granted to Edward John Lindstrom of Eugene, who saw service in the late war as a navy radarman in the south Pacific. Lindstrom, now a Greyhound bus driver, bor rowed $5,250 from the state vet erans' department to apply on the purchase of a six-room house In North Eugene. Four Per Cent Loan The state veterans' loan is available to any veteran who lived in Oregon before World War II service, who served 90 days or more and was honorably discharged. The loan act provides for a four percent loan not to exceed 75 per cent of the ap praised value of the property and not to exceed $6,000. Cur rent policy limits the repayment period to 15 years. The state veterans' department said a total of $20,462,189 in loans has been made since 1945, of which more than $8 million was loaned in the past 12 months ending March 31, for a monthly average of $672,400. The aver age amount of each loan is run ning slightly more than $4,000. SOC Students Plan Mothers' Week-End Ashland, Apr. 19 Invitations have been sent to mothers of all Southern Oregon college stu dents to attend a mothers' week end program that will include a luncheon, style show, music re cital and program, honor assem bly, reception tea and tour of the campus and Lincoln labora tory school. Plans for the week-end are un der the direction of Barbara Or vis, general chairman, and Mrs. Mabel Winston, registrar. Other committee members are Mari anne Bronner, Jackie Schmidt, Adele Sheldon, Pauline Bursik, Phyllis Wallen, Serlva McCoy, Rosemary Ring, Joanne Galland, Marilyn Gorbett and Marilyn Matheny. About 150 mothers are expect ed to attend. PEAR GROWERS Your Fruit Growers League board of director! invites you to attend any of its regular meetings and pre sent any ideas and suggestions you may have for the betterment of the pear industry. This group of 18 growers meets Friday, April 21, in the Industry Council room in the Holland Hotel at 2:00 P.M. Why not plan to attend this meeting and make sug gestions? FRED MORLAN, Secretary xr JI ". i fr;' OL V I 'A rVSw g ' ' j MAIL TRIBUNE 'Nerve Gas' Seen As Future Weapon for Detroit. Apr. 19 U.R) Amer icans may use a "nerve gas" to smash a future enemy's will to resist without bloodshed or de struction, according to Mai. Gen Anthony C. McAulife, chief of the army chemical corps. He described the fantastic bloodless warfare to the AmerP can Chemical society last night. "The military concept of anni hilating the enemy's military Unemployment Group Occupies New Office Space Salem, Ore., Apr. 19 (U.R) Employees of the state unem ployment commission have moved into the new state public service building here and al ready are busily at work. They were the first to move into the structure, which officially was opened only last Saturday noon. The commission, which has more than 200 employes, made the move with all its heavy and com plicated machinery in time to be at work full scale Monday morning. The unemployment compensa tion commission occupied all of the fifth floor the top floor and half of the fourth. The state industrial accident commission, which is slated to move to the new structure Wednesday, will occupy the other half of the fourth floor and all of the third. PUC on Second Foor The public utilities commis sion will take over the second floor. And on the first floor will be the state police, the state board of control and the state civil service commission. The five-story office building is across Court street from the capitol and across a quadrangle from the state library building. All three structures have marble exteriors as will other buildings in the capitol zone. A new struc ture for the state highway de partment is rising just north of the new public service building. Berkeley, Ca., Apr. 19 (U.R) The University of California re ported today that a moderate earthquake centered in the Aleutian islands at 8:45 a.m. and lasted over an hour. Wednesday. April It. 1880 U.S. Soldiers might and destroying his indus trial potential has been drastical ly altered since the end of World War II," McAuliffe told the so ciety's 117th annual convention. "The weapons developed, or now being developed, by us pro vide an opportunity at the small est logistical cost, to reduce a potential enemy's will to resist and thereby obtain victory with out the enormous destruction of his economy," the general said. McAuliffe warned, however, that "we are not the sole posses sors of the offensive and defen sive secrets of the new nerve gases." McAuliffe, famed for his reply of "nuts" to a German surrender demand at Bostogne in the Bat tle of the Bulge in World War II, said that biological and radio logical agents as weapons have not yet been proven in war. But he said that the U.S. can not ignore such trends "because there is evidence that other na tions have experimented with new and untried forms of toxic chemical warfare." Medford Firm Gets Roseburg Contract Rosebure. Ore.. Aor. 19 (U.R) The Douglas county court today awarded a contract to the Mike Harris Construction company of Grants Pass as low bidder for the new Douglas county home on a basic bid of $144,999. Other low bids included the H. E. Hawk Plumbing company. Medford, with $33,679 for plumb ing and heating, and the Trow bridge Electric company, Rose burg, with $8,925 for electrical work. The combined bid of $187,693 was well within estimates of Architect William Laing, Medford. Many Astorians See Homes Slide Down Coxcomb' Hill Astoria, Ore., Apr. 19 (U.R) Coxcomb Hill was on the move again today and the creaking, grinding noise warned Mrs. A. E. Johnson that soon she must move away from the hill with its spectacular view. Nine Feet Daily The surface of the hill, over looking this city of 18,000, is slipping nine feet daily as rain soaked tonsoil skids over slabs of wet clay-shale underlying the area. The hillside's slow, inevitable slippage has brought personal tragedy to scores of persons who have watched their homes be destroyed, their pretty gar dens crumble and their land in vestments disappear. Twenly-three homes were wrecked, damaged or threatened by the chunk of hill, 1,000 by 300 feet in size. "It's all like a bad dream," Mrs. Anderson said. "Our beauti ful yard is gone. I can't sleep. A crack in the earth ran right under our house, split the foun- Dunlevy Reelected Rotary President For Coming Year James Dunlevy, manager of radio station KYJC, was elected president of the Medford Rotary ft . sti ii ill r . James Dunlevy club at the regular meeting of the club Tuesday at the Jackson hotel. Dunlevy, who served dur ing the unexpired term of H. L. Brown as president during the past few months, will hold office for the ensuing year. George Gates, Medford furniture store owner and operator, was elected vice-president; William Caldwell was re-elected secretary, and Ed Hall was chosen as sergeant-at- arms. New members of the Rotary club board of directors elected to serve during the 1950-51 sea son are Jorgen Jorgensen, Jack H. Creager, Joseph Lester. Col. Herman J. Heiring, George Gates and Herb Grey. An early meeting of officers and directors will be called by Dunlevy to dations and tipped over our oil furnace. I heard creaking noises wnue watching cracks lorm out side the house. Home Abandoned The earth flow damaged the home of Charles Ordway, a printer for the Astorian Budget, and he finally abandoned it when cracks appeared in the walls. He had invested his sav ings for 15 years in the house. Some residents were moving their houses to sate ground. But they complained they d never find a scenic site like Coxcomb hill. "My family used to enjoy watching the hundreds of fish ing boats in the Columbia river during the salmon derby," said Francis Robinson. John H. Claussen said "We could see 15 miles of the river on clear days." Six Yean Wasted "John spent six years building our home," his wife said. "We bought the timber as we got the money. And now this it's sick ening." Mrs. Lawrence Jackson barely escaped when a neighbor's home crumbled a few feet from her as she dug up expensive flower bulbs in her garden. "All that's left on our land Is a cedar tree, crushed rabbit hutches, and a tangled clothes line," said Mrs. E. E. Rorabaugh. "We had a lot of fun in our home. But all we have to show for our land is a piece of paper saying '!lt5 Irving Avenue. Episcopal Women Refused Diocese Vote Portland. Ore., Apr. 19 (U.R) The all-male delegation to the 62nd annual, convention of the Episcopal diocese of Oregon to day refused women Episcopalians any voice in convention or of ficial diocesan matters. An amendment to the diocesan constitution, proposed by the Rev. Alexander Anderson, rector of St. David's church, Portland, was killed. The amendment would have changed the wording of the constitution to include "fe males" and to double the num ber of delegates to give women an equal voice in diocesan af fairs. MEDFORD PHARMACY 127 E. 6th Just Off Central 9 A.M. 10:30 P.M For Complete Prescription Service DAY and ight Call 2-6253 If No Answer Call 2-8582 Prompt Free Delivery Baby Needs Sick Room Supplies Rentals JIM GORDON Bidgood Hudson Medford'i Own Modern Pharmacy Wife, Lover To Airplane Los Angeles, Apr. 19 (U.R) The wife he plotted to murder and the sweetheart he strung along with promises of marriage both said today they would stand by time-bomb Lothario John W. Grant. i Dark-haired Mrs. Betty Grant and golden-haired airline stew ardess Elizabeth buomeia botn pledged themselves to help the 31 -year -old aircraft engineer who plotted to time-bomb last Monday an airliner with 16 per sons aboard to collect $25,000 insurance on his wife and two children. Caused by Love The curly-haired Grant, in jail facing 16 counts of attempted murder, complained that all his troubles stemmed from love. He said he planned to collect the insurance money to pay off $8,000 in debts from another love entanglement a paternity suit he lost in New York three years ago to Helene Kozicka Hansen, a tall dark secretary. At that time he admitted he was the father of her baby girl and agreed to pay her $10 a week for the baby's support. Former fellow -employees of plan the club's program for the ensuing year. Members of the debate team of the University of Oregon pre sented the Tuesday program under the direction of Program Chairman Frank J. Van Dyke. The question of nationalization of basic industries was argued. It was pointed out that govern ment control creates the largest, tightest, most inefficient monop olies whose policies and prac tices would be continually af fected by four year elections, and that such a course would seriously hamper free enter prize and individual incentive. On the other hand, advocates of government control stressed the need for nationalization of power and communications af fecting the lives of the public as a whole, and scored the "sharp business practices , cut-throat tactics and monopolistic trends in big business." THE BIG, , , of court, It' 1 i you can the N j!' Balanced Heat 5 1 7 PERFECT BAKING IN I lL0P P55ANY RACK POSmoN! I I I ' """""v Quick, Radiant Broiling ' Jj 1 at yor I Vestnousc 1 deolertod to Lend Aid Bomb Plotter Grant in New York and Califor nia said he was noted for the many girls he liked to take out for a good time. But his wife and his sweet heart, Miss Suomela, who have never met each other, said they would not abandon him. Women To Help "I intend to stand by him," said plump and motherly-looking Betty Grant, 29. "I don't feel bit ter toward him. I don't have any feelings." "I want to help him if I can. I did love him." Even as Miss Suomela vowed to aid her lover, he told police he "was just stringing her along with a pack of lies" to keep their three-year affair alive. He re peatedly discounted the possibil ity that he put a time bomb aboard the United Air lines DC-3 in order to pave the way for his marriage to the 31-year-old stewardess. Agent Suggests Spray To Stop Apple Pests The pink bud spray for apples should be applied at this time, County Agent C. B. Cordy an nounced yesterday. Pests to be controlled with this spray are scab, mildew, green fruitworm and woolly aphis. Lime sulphur would be the most effective material for scab and mildew control but it may injure red delicious buds. Cordy warned, and it is not compatible with parathion. Since parathion is about the only effective spray material available for control of woolly aphis, it should be used and materials which are compat ible with it will have to be added for control of scab and mildew. Cordy recommends one pound of parathion, three pounds of wettable sulphur and three-quarters pound of ferbam per 100 gal lons for effective control of all four pests. On varieties other than red delicious apples, a cheaper mixture is six pounds of wettable sulphur and one pound of parathion per 100 gallons. il BEAUTIFULVStillgh0USe You'll tlirill to the beauty and per formance of this full, 40-inch Champion Speed-Electric Range. Completely automatic, with built in Electric Timer for watchless con trol of cooking , . . Four, full-sized tfecln'cf be sure. .if WEATHER By United Press Northern California: Fair to day, tonight and Thursday, with patches of fog morning hours. North to northwest winds 10-20 mph. 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