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.
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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. Owen has a cat which
strayed into the duck pen a year
ago and was accepted by the
ducks and ducklings. Today it
quacks and hisses.
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