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eienta, were kUled in the accident. $8,000 Pledged for Purchase Of Rural District Fire Truck Central Point. Apr. 25 Re porting $8,000 pledged to date for purchase of a fire truck for a rural fire district surrounding Central Point, Richard Krupp, president of the Central Point volunteer firemen, announced to day that the group has formed new plans for financing the maintenance of the truck. Under the new arrangement those who contribute toward the truck will be members of the district. They will be paid up for one year. After that they will be assessed $1 to $2 per year for maintenance and there will be no fee for fire calls. Non-Mtmber Cost However, a varied fee, def.end ing on the type of property, will be charged for calls originating from non-contributors or non members. Krupp said the rates may range between $25 and S50. The volunteers intend to put this money from non-members into a fund for replacement of the truck when it is worn out and outmoded. Charging for all calls was first contemplated. "We are anxious to have any one who has been missed or has changed his mind and wishes to contribute do so," Krupp de clared. Goal of the drive is $8,500. There are one or two "good prospects" yet to be con tacted, Krupp reported, indicat ing that the goal will be attained. To Mail Checks Collectors will not call for the Public Warned New Sleep Drugs Effects Lake Success, N. Y. (U.R) The World Health organization has issued a warning that cer tain pain-relieving and sleep producing drugs may lead to ad diction. The WHO, agency of the Unit ed Nations, recently convened its expert committee on habit forming drugs at Geneva, Swit zerland. The committee chair man, Dr. Nathan B. Eddy, prin cipal pharmacologist to the Na tional Institute of Health at Bethesda, Md.. warned that cer tain new substances devised to replace morphine may lead to drug addiction as readily as mor phine itself. He said the excessive use of barbiturates, the usual sleep producing drugs, is reaching alarming proportions, especially in the United States, where pro duction now exceeds medical re quirements. Since 1940, he said, an increasing number of mor phine addicts, who also were taking large amounts of barbi turates, have been admitted to hospitals. ' New York Employee Js Hired to Address Many Birthday Cards New York (U.R) Miss Adele Lehman has the unusual job of sending out 75,000 birthday cards a year, all addressed in longhand. Sometime this year she'll address envelope No. 500, 000 in behalf of the Hotel New Yorker, which likes to remem ber its guests. Miss Lehman says that, on the basis of her records, more hotel guests seem to have been born in July than any other month. She sent out 6,789 July cards in 1949. August was a close second with 6.538 cards. February and June appear to be the least pop ular months, with 5,459 and 5.689 respectively. money as originally planned and firemen are asking all persons who made pledges to mail their checks to the city recorder's of fice or to call there with the money by a May 10 deadline. Letters are being mailed to pledged donors asking that the money be sent in. About 400 persons have signed up in the campaign with the average pledge about S20. Prom ises include Southern Oregon Sugar Pine corporation, $1,000; Southern Oregon Planing mill. $350; Lininger Sand and Gravel plant, $250; Table Rock Lumber company, $250. and Alfred Car penter and Garland Jones, S200. About 20 firms and persons have pledged more than $50 each. See Bigger Truck Contributions totaling $8,500 will permit purchase of a truck bigger and better than first plan ned, Krupp said. A three-stage pumper with 300 to 400-gallon capacity and 1,000 feet of hose is being considered. The truck will be manned and maintained by the Central Point volunteers. In anticipation of added duties the volunteer mem bership has been expanded from 15 to 20 men and the fire hall has been renovated to house the vehicle. Marion Prisoners Remain at Large Salem. Ore., Apr. 25 (U.R) Three escaped Marion county prisoners were still at large to day but two were returned to the county jail late Sunday after a few hours of freedom. Donald Jay Barker, 21, and William Hector Lovejoy, 54, were captured on foot near Brooks, seven miles south of here, by Sheriff Denver Young. Both are Salem residents, charged with felonies. Robert W. Morrow, 40, and Donald Elmer Floodstrom. 22, both of Salem, and Edward May nard Sharlow, 28, of Oakland. Cal., were the objects of a wid ening search by state, county and city officers. Sharlow is a noted car thief, according to police, and was re cently extradited from Califor nia for that offense. Morrow was accused of for gery and Floodstrom, an ex convict, was serving a sentence for drunken driving. MEDFORD PHARMACY 127 E. 6th Just Off Central 9 A.M. - 10:30 P.M. For Complete Prescription Service DAY and Night 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 PARTY FOODS AND SPECIAL TREATS FOR SPECIAL DINNERS FRENCH BREAD GENUINE OLD STYLE SOUR Made in San Francisco Large Selection of WINES and MIXERS BEER Any Kind By the case or bottle PHONE 2-462S for Free Delivery of Been and Mixers OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK 9 A.M. TO MIDNIGHT Bell's Beverage Shop 124 South Central Murray Bell, Owner College Grads Resort to Fancy Ways of Finding Jobs Chicago, Apr. 25 (U.R) Col lege students are using elaborate advertising and fancy gimmicks in their search for jobs. They are invading the tighten ing labor market with every thing from billboard advertising to personalized match covers de signed to attract the attention of employers. At East Lansing, Mich., Michi gan State college Senior Art Mil ler set up a 14-by-7-foot sign in forming employers that he was a mechanical engineer "trained in better methods. He's Still Looking Dwayne Brown, who was grad uated from Creighton university in Omaha in January with a ma jor in journalism, was plying editors with match covers con taining his picture, name, ad dress and catch phrases. At last report he was still looking for a job. A University of Missouri stu dent sent out a brochure with a headline reading. "Ed English hits labor market." English in cluded five cartoons, one show ing him being kicked out of school with diploma in hand. Standard Oil of California re ceived a brochure with a mir ror attached in one corner. A big arrow pointed to the mirror with the inscription, "Are you look ing for this man?" Another ar row pointed to a picture of the applicant with the question, "Or are you looking for this man?" The personnel director of Kai ser Corp. at Oakland, Cal., re ceived a brochure with a dol lar bill attached. The brochure informed him that the applicant would bring dollars to the com pany. Pitches Haven't Worked Bill Gorski of the University of Washington said he approaches all personnel managers with the blunt statement, "I want your job." "It throws them for a loss for a minute and I can start my pitch," Gorski said. But so far his pitches haven't landed him a Job. Illinois Valley Men Ask Control of Creek Grants Pass, Ore., Apr. 25 (U.R) Some 103 farmers in the Illinois valley, 30 miles west of Grants Pass, today petitioned the U. S. army engineers at Port land for aid in controlling the waters of Deer creek. An accompanying letter from the Illinois soil conservation dis trict supervisors said the prob lem was an "emergency" and urged immediate action. The farmers live on 5000 acres of land and represent almost all of the landowners living in the long valley which extends from Selma to the upper portion of Deer creek. Ray Nickerson, Cave Junc tion, chairman of the supervi sors, said the stream regularly overflows and damages valuable farmlands. He asked help in re aligning and straightening the present, channel, which is clogged with debris and fallen trees. HOW TO BE A BIG SHOT Hastings, Neb. ,U.R) Robert Gray, Hastings College business administration professor, be lieves there are more important things than just text books and classroom work in preparation for a career. Gray insists that his students wear suits and ties for all Friday classes so they will know how to act like executives when they get out of school. Tuesday, April 25. 1950 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE HIKE Ranch Employee Held In Shotgun Slaying John Day, Ore., Apr. 25 (U.R) George Parrish, a ranch em ployee who had to be bombarded with tear gas before he submit ted to arrest, was held here to day pending investigation of the shotgun slaying of Lee E. Bad ger Sunday. Badger, also employed at the Byron Lemmons ranch two miles west of Mt. Vernon, died aboard a plane bound for a Portland hospital. Sheriff Oliver Calhoun said he went to the ranch to investi gate the shooting just before noon Sunday. Parrish was barri caded in the bunkhouse and the gas projectiles were necessary to bring him out. Critically wounded, Badger was loaded aboard the plane here. The pilot turned back 15 minutes after takeoff when he discovered Badger had died. Sheriff Calhoun said Parish and Badger were employed at the ranch about a week, DIDN'T GET AWAY WITH IT .. Birmingham, Ala. (U.R) Rup ert Holland, 67, said he went shoplifting "just to see if I could get away with it." Judge Ralph Parker took a less whimsical at titude, fining him $50 and giving him a 180-day suspended jail sentence. CHURCH THIEVES FOOLED Salem, Ore. (U.R) Prowlers who broke into the First Evan gelical church here made a bad bargain. They stole $8 worth of one-cent stamps, but the itamps were pre-canceled for mailing church bulletins and were value less without a special mailing permit. A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE Sturgis, Mich. (U.R) A high school mechanical drawing teacher tried to teach his stu dents something useful. He learned how successful he had been when a pupil was arrested charged with breaking and en tering. The boy had spent his class time drawing plans of a grocery so other boys could find their way around in the dark to steal candy. CAT GOES "QUACK-QUACK" Perth, Australia (U.R) Mrs. D. A. 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