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I fife ..tSr IpH (Acmt Ttlephoto) FIEE FLOODED AREA With only those possessions they can carry. St. Boniface ev a c u e e s crowd around the train during the clearing of the flooded Canadian city. The town's entire population of 25, 000 persons was ordered to move when experts decided that there was danger the dike might not with stand rising waters of the Red River. Salvation Army Officers fo Hold Youth Services Brigadier Frank Wilmer, young peoples' secretary for the western territory of the Salva tion Army, will be In Medford tomorrow through Sunday to conduct a series of meetings at the Salvation Army hall. Friday and Saturday meetings will be devoted to a Corps Cadet council. Young people from Eu gene, Roseburg, Coos Bay, Klamath Falls and Medford will join In the series of meetings. Brigadier Wilmer, whose ter ritory includes the Pacific coast states, Alaska. Hawaii and the Philippine islands, was born in South Africa, where his parents were missionary officers. He is a former divisional youth secre tary, a past principal of the Army's training college for of ficers at San Francisco, and has served as a divisional com mander. Senior Capt. and Mrs. Captain Anderson, divisional young peo ples' secretaries for Oregon and southern Idaho will also be here Encampment Dates Set For Oregon National Guard Salem, Ore., May 18 (UP) . Maj. Gen. Thomas E. Rilea, ad jutant general of Oregon, an nounced the dates and sites to day of Oregon national guard summer encampment for both air and army units as confirmed by the national guard bureau. Oregon guardsmen will at tend five camps, of which two will be located in Oregon. Camp Clatsop To Be Used About 1.400 guardsmen from both Oregon and Washington will attend camp at Camp Clat sop. Ore., which will be used for training anti-aircraft troons. Ore gon units will be the 237th AAA group, the 732nd AAA gun bat talion and the 722nd AAA gun battalion. These troops will re ceive a total of $50,394.91 in pay ment. An additional S19.068.34 will be spent for feeding the men and maintaining the camp. The smallest group attending camp will be the headquarters and headquarters detachment of th Oregon national guard, which will stay at the Portland armory. This unit of 87 officers and men will draw $4,321.24 in pay. The largest group, Oregon's share of the famed 41st infantry division, will train at Ft. Lewis, Wash., where thev will be paid a total of S308.237.35 for the two week period. Air Unit To Train Oregon's air national guard The Grange Central Point Grange Arguments for and against CVA were discussed by the legis lative committee, A. T. Lathrop, Eula Foley and Sally Puhl, at the regular meeting of Central Point Grange may 5. Mothers day was remembered, corsages being presented to mothers present. Gifts were pre sented to the most recent Grange newlyweds, Mr. and Mrs. Cleo Young, and a wedding cake was baked for them by Maxine Ham mond, chairman of the refresh ment committee. Refreshments were served by Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Hammond, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hammond. Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Eicher and Mildred Hilkey. Guests were Mr. and Mrs. Henry Conger, Jack sonville, Mr. and Mrs. James Ly tle, Bellview and Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Maust, Phoenix. Chaplain Eudora Bohnert will have a short memorial program at the next regular meeting, Fri day, May 19. Members are re quested to bring as many flowers s they can spare. Topic of the display table is to be "Our Moth ers' Pictures" and members are also asked to bring pictures. Serving committee will be Mr. and Mrs. Homer Conger, Mr. and Mrs. Ross Twedcll, Margaret Dai ley and Mr. and Mrs. G. W. McBee. Or. Stevenson to Address Graduates Union. Ore.. May 18 (U.R) Dr. Elmo Stevenson, president of Southern Oregon college at Ashland, will speak for Union high school's commencement ex ercises tomorrow night. ....AROUND HOLLYWOOD will be trained at two locations, the 142nd aircraft control and warning squadron will go to Paine field, near Everett, Wash., while all other units will receive their training at Walla Walla. Wash., in conjunction with or ganizations of the Washington. Idaho and Montana air national guard. The 900 Oregon air guardsmen will be paid a total i Of SB7.870. General Rilea said all units will train between June 10 and 24. All of the army units will be taken to camp by train or motor convoy. The air national guard units will be airlifted to both camp locations, with their heavy equipment moved by motor con voy. Sgt. Walbert Flackus of the Medford unit of the national guard said this morning that be tween 90 and 100 men will leave here by train at 5 p.m. on June 9 and will train at Fort Lewis. 60P Women"Meet Here Next Monday May meeting of Jackson County Republican Women will be a luncheon at the Medford hotel May 22 at 12 noon, it was announced today by the presi dent, Mrs. M. Allison. Moulton. Mrs. G. Q. D'Albinl will be main speaker and will discuss world government. During the business meeting a committee will be appointed for a luncheon and "Gay Nineties" style show to be held in connection with the June meeting. Reservations are to be made by calling Mrs. Ben Stafford at 2-8932. Anyone interested is in vited to attend. B) VIRGINIA MacPHERSON United PraM Corrttpoadanf Hollywood, May 18 -You've heard about "dreaming up' . (U.PJ people ' Well, a gent really State 40 and 8 Head Visit Set Saturday The grand chef de gare of Oregon, W. E. Wilkins, La Grande, will be in Medford Sat urday for the "Bogus Creek wreck" of Voiture 165 of the 40 and 8, according to word re ceived today by S. S. Humph ries, chef of the Medford group. James Forsyth, Portland, grand correspondent, will also attena the initiation ceremonies. Two past state chefs. Dr. F. J. Ernest and A. H. S. Haffenden, both Portland, will have charge of parts of the ritualistic work. Harry Goold, commander of Legion post 15, is grand drapeau of the state organization. Street stunts for "poor goofs" will start at 4:30 p.m., Saturday, and the wreck will start at 7 p.m. in the upstairs hall of the Acme hardware building. Mrs. H. J. Meiring will be in charge of a party for visiting wives at the country club Sat urday evening. Mt. Vernon, Wash., May 18 (U.R) The San Juan island can nery here was destroyed by fire today and firemen estimated the loss at $150,000. COOKING TIME ffmHUTSi ASK YOUR GROCER ECONOMICAL DELICIOUS HEALTHFUL "NOURISHING lasy to proper VtrgtoU HacPherwS gags here's who does it His name's Zeno Klinker and with him it's no gag. (Neither is that name.) " Klinker writes jokes for Edgar Ber gen in his sleep. Has been, for 13 years now. squint at Bergen s is enough to con- those aren t An done hooper-rating vince . anybody nightmares Klinker goes in for. He explains it this way: "Day and night I'm thinking ahnut kpenins Bereen and Char lie and Mortimer funny. It's on 8uy can even learn a foreign Ian guage while you sleep. You just snooze away while a tape recorder repeats the lan guage over and over and wham, when you wake up you can rattle off everything you've learnea during your nap. Method Works Fin "But this is old stuff to me." Klinker says. "I got the idea 15 years ago when I discovered the navy was teaching the Morse code that way. It's worked fine with me. Klinker is an unusual guy in more ways than one. With his briefcase, his shiny, rimless spectacles, his dark, double breasted suits, and his slow, de liberate speech, hes a far cry from the general conception of the fast-talkin', wise-crackin Hollywood gag man. "How could I be a flip, breezy he asks plaintively, "with my mind all the time, fcven when I sleep. And when he sleeps he dreams about fantastic situations for those painted little dummies. Four or five times a night the dreams get so interesting they wake him up. "Seems like they build up some kind of a pressure in my subconscious," Klinker says mournfully. "Anyhow, there they are." They have been, every Sun: dav afternoon for years and years. "I keen two dictating ma chines by my bed," he explain- ed.""And every time I have a dream I wake up and yap into it, If the ideas fit into the pro cram I'm working on. I yap in to one machine. If they're just stray plots or disconnectea gags, I yap into the other, Recordings Typed Comes the dawn and he lugs the recordings downstairs, where his secretary types em and relavs 'em to Bergen. This is a very special fancy brand of dreaming because in the nast 10 years Bergen's turn ed over almost the whole show to Klinkers nocturnal note-taking. "Dreaming up" things is the latest rage these days, anyhow Scientists have discovered you ! a name like Zeno Klinker?" EASY MONTHLY PAYMENTS WHEN YOU INSTALL Johns-Manville ASBESTOS SIDEWALLS On Your House Gives Your Horn NEW BEAUTY added Insulation . . and is FIRE-RESISTANT! NOTHING DOWN Only $ 99 Per Month BIG PINES Lumber Co. 6th md fit Phone 2-6251 LEADERS SINCE 1908 St. Louis (U.R) Slight confu sion reigned for a time in the ue Paul hospital here. Two Mrs Mary Catherine Johnsons were receiving each others flowers, gifts and messages of congratu lations after each had given birth to a baby. 1 J is -w Thursday Mar 1. 1950 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THIRTEEN '?v; 0 f i . fit. I i r BRIGADIER FRANK WILMER Youth Officer To Visit tin this week-end, and with Briga dier Wilmer will conduct the Sunday morning service on be half of the Girl Guards troop, Sunbeam troop and Boy scout Troop 11. The Sunday morning services company meeting at 9:45 a.m. and devine service at 11 a.m. are the only meetings open to the public. CAP Unit Inspected During Drill Period Lt. Cmdr, Rodney Keating, USNR, Ashland, inspected mem bers of Medford's prizewinning civil air patrol squadron last night, during the public drill demonstration held downtown in connection with National Se curity week. Members of Bliss Heine's drum corps furnished the marching tempo, and the Eagles drill team patrolled the area. A small crowd watched the drill. Last-minute details of the Armed Forces day parade will be discussed at a meeting of participating organization rep resenatives to be held at the courthouse auditorium at 8 p.m. today, according to Capt. Wil liam O'Brien, project officer for the observance. GOODBYE EVIDENCE Memphis, Tenn. (U.R) A sus pected moonshiner found the pursuit hot and dashed Inside the house with a gallon Jug. Moments later police captured the suspect but couldn't find the Jug. Then an explosion in the stove set fire to the house and the evidence was destroyed. He's Doing A Good Job! RETAIN HOWARD for SHERIFF On the Republican Ticket Primaries May 19 YES, SHERIFF GAULT IS DOING AN EXCELLENT JOB - HERE ARE SOME OF HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS fa Several major Improvement! 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