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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
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ASK YOUR
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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?"
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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.
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Thursday Mar 1. 1950
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THIRTEEN
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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! In tax collection with nominal
Increase In expense
fa A high standard of efficiency in service and execution of Circuit
Court processes
fa A Jail rated by Federal Bureau of Prisons at best in Oregon out
side Multnomah County.
fa A good record of law enforcement
fa Effective cooperation with all other enforcement departments
fa An outstanding record of over-all efficiency, though operating
on one of smallest budgets in the state That Meant Saving
for Jackson County Tax Payers!
No Other Candidate Can Match His
Training, Experience or Record
Pd. Adv. Jackson County Howard Gault for Sheriff Committee
C. C. Clement, Chairman
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