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IIX MTDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Bandar. March 23. 1SS2 Union Defendant In Damage Suit rVakima 0IB Mr. and Mrs. William E. Hembree and Mau rice Turnbull have filed suit, in Superior Court for damages to talling $260,120.83 against Lo cal 760 of the International Brotherhood of' Teamsters. Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers of America. . The suit ' was the outgrowth of a traffic collision between an automobile driven by Hembree and one operated by Lowell Hurst, a business agent of the union, January . 3. Hurst wa. killed in the accident. - Damages were asked by the plaintiffs for injuries received, medical and hospital expenses and loss of future earnings as a result of the injuries. The suit asked judgments to taling $235,051.83 for Mr. and Mrs. Hembree and $25,069 for Turnbull, a passenger in the Hembree car. The plaintiffs alleged that the crash was caused by the negli gent driving of Hurst. Los Angeles -U.R) Funeral services were held Saturday for Mrs. Laura E. MacKaye, 83, wid ow of Arthur L. MacKaye, for mer Los Angeles newspaperman. Japanese Scientist ,' Given Cancer Grant .. San Francisco U.R A prominent Japanese scientist doing cancer research at the University of California at Los Angeles - has been awarded a $3,600 grant, the California Division- of the American Cancer society announced Saturday. The society said Dr. Ryojun Kinosita has uncovered several phenomena on the nature, cause and control of experimental animal cancers. He has also ef fected a successful chemical treatment of a cancer in rats, the society disclosed. School Superintendent Resigns in Vancouver, Vancouver, Wash (U.FD The Vancouver school district Sat urday sought a successor to Dr. Paul F. Gaiser, superintendent of Vancouver schools for the past 18 years, who announced his resignation Friday. Dr. Gaiser also serves as president of Clark Junior college in Vancouver and will devote full time to that position after his resignation from the super intendent's job becomes effective at the end of August. . 1 Dr. Gaiser, who is a native of Portland, has headed the college since 1945. ivimi 1 trifh an A- Planting time near? Pasture land sodbound? Wake up the soil in a hurry. Open it up. Start it breathing and absorbing water. Allis-Chalmers field cultivators bring your land to life . . . help to free it from choking crust. Spring-action teeth kick out hard-to-kill weeds and sod. Seedbeds are loosened and mulched. let us show you the quick-mounted, hydraulically controlled field cultivators for WD, CA, B and G Tractors. Prices are so reasonable they will surprise you. Tune in Mm National Sana and Ham Mow Ivary Saturday NIC V SAUS AND SCAVICf M 1 Tractor Sales & Service 'The House of Service" 111 North Fir Street, Medford , Phone 2-5279- ALLIS-CHALMERS MINNEAPOLIS MOLINE Local and Personal lale Postponed Because of weather condition the Medford Garden club plant sale sched uled for March 28 has been post poned to Friday, April 4. Convalescing Dr. G. A. Git sen, 129 North- Grape street. Is convalescing it Sacred Heart hospital where he underwent surgery Friday. Key West (U.B President Truman signed into law Thurs day night a bill designed to curb the illegal flow of Mexican "wet back" laborers into the United States. a From California Mrs. R. T. Willard, 822 West 12th street, returned to Medford last week from Santa Monica, Cal., where she had been called by the death of her brother, Walter E. Carl son." Family Leaves Mr. and Mrs. Earl Wymore and children, Dor othy and Rickey, left yesterday for their home in Portland af ter visiting since Sunday with Mrs. Wymore's parents, Mr. and .Mrs. C. M. Hon, 213 Crater Lake avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Wymore are former Medford residents. To Hold Sale Reames Social club will hold a rummage sale in' the Pythian building, North Grape street, Monday and Tues day, March 24-25. Sale hours will be 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. Do nations for the sale are solicited and those needing, pickup serv ice are asked to call Mrs. Her bert Morris, 2-8666. - To Leave Duane M. Wisely, 852 Palm street, will leave Sun day, March 23, for Roseburg, where he will begin work for the Kraft Foods company. He was formerly employed at the Grandview Market. Mrs. Wise ly and their two daughters, Sharyn Kaye and Kathryn Ruth, will joint him shortly. Earns Honors Cadet Dwight L. Hammack, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ward Hammack, 602 North Riverside avenue, a student at Wentworth Military academy, Lexington, Mo., earned academic honors for the first six weeks of the present semester at the academy, according to an acad emy release. This qualifies him for distinction on the dean's list and to receive extra privileges. To qualify he demonstrated su periority in academic work and excelled in at least two sub jects. In Korea Robert Stuart, an Army private first class and son of Mr. and Mrs. Miles Stuart, 1029 Queen Anne avenue, is now in Korea with the headquar ters and headquarters company, chief of staff, 25th division, ac cording to news received by his family. At the present time he is assigned to driving army of ficers to and from front lines. Some time ago he requested his family to send him a subscription to The Medford Mail Tribune. He wrote repeatedly that no is sues had arrived. Finally 23 papers came in one day's mail. He told his parents "It was an awful lot of reading for one time, but it least it was news about the home folks." To Meet Central Point HEC will meet Wednesday, March 26, at 1:30 p. m. at the home of Mrs. Clem Auld, Taylor road. Firemen Called Firemen were called to the home of R. J. Vowell, 1219 Queen Ann avenue, Saturday morning to. extinguish a flue fire. There was no damage, firemen said. 1 " In Eugene Mr. and Mrs. Tom MacLeod and Mr. and Mrs. Dick Schad attended the state basket ball final games last night at Eugene. MacLeod Is sports di rector for radio station KYJC and Schad is assistant sports di rector. Home Kenneth Brown, U. S. Navy, is in Medford to spend a 10-day leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Orrin L. Brown, 1203 Queen Anne avenue. He will leave here April 2 to report at San Diego for reassignment To Move Mr. and Mrs. James E. Cornutt, Old Stage road, Gold Hill, plan to move this week to Moses Lake, Wash. Cornutt plans to be -employed there. The family previously leased a home where they will live. Visiting Here Mr. W. H. Smith, Portland, is spending the week-end with her sister, Mrs. R. L. Younger, 316 South Peach street, and is also visiting her son, Francis Smith, Beall lane. Mrs. Smith's husband died re cently in Portland. Pedestrian Mishap Dixie V. Rolls, 915 Mt. Pitt street, said in an accident report filed with city police yesterday that Rich ard Teal, Jacksonville, a pedes trian, ran into the side of the car she was driving about 3 p.m. yesterday at Main and Oakdale avenue. Extent of the pedestrian injuries, if any, were not told. Return Mr. and Mrs. Ivcl Settell and daughter, Loleta, re turned Friday from Omaha. Neb., where they were called by the death of Mr. Settell's father. B. R. Settell of Thurman, la While away Mrs. Settell visited her mother, Mrs. Laura Eccles. formerly of Medford and now of Salina, Kan. To Hold Sale The American Legion auxiliary will hold a rummage and plant sale March 26 and 27 at 309 East Eight street. The sale will be held from 1 p. m. to 5 p. m. Wednes day and 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. Thurs day Anyone who wants rum mage picked up Is asked to call Mrs. H. J. Meiring, phone 2-8190 or Mrs. Roy Stoy, phone 2-6946 Son Born A son, Michae Wayne, was born March 19 to Sgt. and Mrs. Larry Solomon at Tooele, Utah, relatives here saif" yesterday. The mother is th' former Miss Loveta Andersc daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elr Anderson, 414 Union avenu The infant's paternal gran mother lives in Jacksonville Sergeant Solomon is stationet with the Air Force at Tooele. , Dea4 line on Classified Ada Monday lor Monday noon Saturday 3U p m for following day 10 a ax 'or Sunday Construction Application : For NW Gas Pipeline Filed m Washington (U.R) West- coast Transmission Inc., Wil mington, Del., has filed a new Obituary EMMA SMEDLET Funeral services for Emma Smedley. 62. who died at her home -Friday, will be conduct ed from Perl Funeral ' home Monday at 2 p. m. with the Rev Shelvy Anglemyer, pastor oi the First Christian church, offi ciating. Interment .will be in Siskiyou Memorial park. Mrs. Smedley was born June 7, 1889 at Riceville. Iowa. She was a resident of Medford for the past 42 years and was mar ried here Sept. 2, 1919, to Earl A. Smedley, who survives. She attended the First Christian church. Other survivors include daughter, Mrs. Helen Smedley Fagone, Medford; a son, Leon ard Smedley, Oakland, Calif.; two sisters, Mrs. ' Belle Green, Alsea, Ore., and Mrs. Mae Mc Kinnis, Corvallis; a brother. Charles Maltby, Alsea and three grandchildren. ANNA M. HINTHORN Mrs. Anna May Hinthorn died at her home, 1793 Orchard Home drive, Saturday" Funeral arrangements are in care ot Conger-Morris funeral home. ' HENRIETTA STRONG Services for Mrs. Henrietta Strong, 85, who died Friday in Portland, will be held in Con ser-Morris Chanel Monday at 2:30 p. m., with Elder O. E Schnepper, of the Seventh Day Adventist church, officiating Committal will be in Jackson ville cemetery. Mrs. Strnn was born Sept. It. 1866, in Indiana. She came to Medford from Idaho about 1930. leaving here in 1937 to go to Portland. She had been a mem ber of the Adventist church for many years. She is survived by five daugh ters, Mrs. Ruth Burkart. Bend: Mrs. Rhoda Noel, Sisters; Mrs Orpha Steeves, Trinidad, Calif.: Mrs. Hazel Wagner, Ashland; and Mrs. Geneva Taft, Ocean Park, Wash.; one son, Robert, Sweet Home, Ida.; 13 grandchil dren and 13 great-grandchildren KARLA KAHL Karla Marie Kahl, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold D. Kahl. 19 Lincoln street, died in Portland Friday night Fun eral arrangements are in care of the Conger-Morris funeral home. application with the Federal Power Commission for a natural gas transmission system to serve the Pacific Northwest. The new plan would include 349 miles of pipeline in Washing ton and Oregon and one com pressor station to be constructed at a cost of $17,142,000. The firm said it still plans to obtain gas from its associate, Westcoast Transmission Co., Ltd., which has fuel in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada. 277-Mile Lin Under the new plan the Amer ican company would build a 277 mile main line from the interna tional boundary near Sumas, Wash., to Portland. It would have short branches to Belling ham, Mt Vernon, Everett Belle vue, Seattle, Tacoma - Olympia, Centralia - Chehalis, and Kelso Longview, all in Washington, and St. Helens in Oregon. The proposed line would have a capacity of 80,000,000 cubic feet daily at first and 200,000,000 cubic feet eventually. Planned Two Lines Originally Westcoast planned to build two main lines the Sumas-Portland line and another extending from Osoyoos, British Columbia, to serve both Spokane and the atomic energy plant at Hanford, Wash. The project would cost $25,690,000 and would have a capacity of 221, 000,000 cubic feet of gas daily in its fifth year of operation. The amended application said another company, Trans-Northwest Gas, Inc., will file an appli cation . with the FPC seeking authority to build a line to serve Spokane and the Hanford plant. Engineer's Parachute Falls from Airplane Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash. (U.R) An embarrassed B-36 flight engineer appealed to north side Spokane residents Saturday to help him locate his parachute. The officer, who asked to re main anonyomus, said he climb ed down into a narrow wheel well Thursday night while hit plane was preparing for a land ing. The chute got away, and opened by the wind, floated gently to earth. The bomber engineer faces the prospect of finding the chute or paying $200 to replace it Hie flier said he was unable to ex plain how the carried chute feli through the wheel well into the clear. . New Mayor's Campaign Expenses Were $54,000 Seattle (U.R) Mayor-elect Allan Pomeroy spent $54,000 in his preelection campaigns, es corting to affidavits filed with the city comptroller. . Mayor William F. Devin said his total expenses for the prim ary and final campaigns were 144,000. Pomeroy said his campaign contributions totaled $31,000. The election winner took the formal oath of office in the city hall Friday, but he will not take over his municipal duties until June 2. - Large Tunnel To Feed Water Into Ontario Niagara Falls, Ont. (U.R) A tunnel large enough to "swal low" a four-story building, stretching for more than five miles, will be built to feed water into Ontario Hydro's new gen erating plant at Queenston, Ont. The $182,000,000 power proj ect, expected to stretch over the next four years, is one of the largest engineering jobs in the world today. When completed, the new underground waterway will be the largest of its kind anywhere. The development involves, be sides construction of the long pressure tunnel, the building of an open-cut canal about two and one-half miles long and the erec tion of a generating station with seven 100,000-horsepower units giving a total output of 525,000 kilowatts. It was made possible last year when the United States and Canada signed a 50-year treaty. After sufficient water has been provided to assure the scenic character of the majectic falls, the two countries share the re mainder. ' Seattle Living Costs Advance Last Quarter San Francisco (U.R) Retail prices of goods and services purchased by moderate income families in Seattle rose .4 per cent over the November-Febru ary quarter, according to the U. S. . Department of Labor's bureau of labor statistics. At 195.3, the consumers price index for Seattle was at an ail time high, 3.7 per cent above February a year ago, and 12 per cent above the May, 1950, leveL The increase, due to high er prices for rent and miscel laneous goods and services, more than offset declines in the prices of apparel and house furnishings. RETURNS FROM MEETING Carlos W. Morris, Medford funeral director, returned here Friday after attending a regional conference of the National Se lected Morticians in Yakima, Wash. Morris is co-owner of Conger-Morris funeral home here. The organization is an interna-, tional association of representa tive funeral service firms throughout the United States. CHOSEN QUEEN Spokane (U.R) Judges crowned Carol Haas, 18-year-old dark-eyed brunette, queen of the spring lilac festival here Friday night She was chosen from 35 contestants sponsored by var ious civic and garden organiza tions throughout the city to reign over the annual parade and festival in May. QUAKE RECORDED Berkeley (U.R) A small earthquake lasting 45 seconds, occurred about 25 miles from here, probably near Hayward, at 10:46.11 a.m. PST Saturday, ac cording to the University of Cal ifornia seismographic station. TRENCHOE WORK DRAINAGE DITCHES PIPELINE EXCAVATING IRRIGATION SUMPS BASEMENT EXCAVATION BEN DEN HERDER Excavator 1110 West 10th Street Phone 2-9926 c 3 ONE-MAN OPERATION... LOW UPKEEP ... FULL 100 H.P. 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