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The great brown Monarch but terfly secretes an acid fluid which is distasteful to birds, making it immune from . their attacks. DRIVE U theatre TONIGHT - MONDAY i ACADEMY AWARD WINNER- 1 ..rinaB PLUS - um met'. ,ua rut . iw iponumt'- MEMCE Jim mumot : HUmONIUTt fmniie cuu And Ha OrcfcMM i . NEWS CARTOONS Gates Open 6:30; Show at 7:00 DINE! DANCE U AN, 771 U'K 'HT-mi ' g f mm Srfti RED BARN l s, If South of Madford V I f i On Higbwjy 99 : V I ' ONE S3 SEE HEAR dWIV ITU. T 6d AND AN ALL STAR CAST Chef Bill Deak Servat rha Bart Steaks and . Chicken in. tha Valley-Served After p.m. WE'RE OPEN 1 P.M. to 2:30 A.M. " PHONE '2-60 12 I V ...IN A BRAND NEW jwfVKtn I ymT SPRING TONIC " ' r i i SP nt ,nl ARE HERE sJ l2&' TODAY! 7 1 CONTINUOUS 55w w" $T I : - T J Lt i Portland Councilmcn OkcK Increased Transit Charge Portland U.R Portland bus fares will go ud to 15 cents at 2 a.m. Sunday as the result of approval of a fare boost m tne Portland city council. The increase in fares from the present 13 cents for a single ride gave city officials new hope that a threatened strike by Portland Traction company employees could be settled before the strike deadline Monday. Council Votes 3 to 1 The city council voted 3 to 1 Friday to raise the single ride fare to 15 cents; to fix the price of a weekly pass at $2.40, and to increase the student fare to seven cents. After the boost was approved, Gordon Steele, president of PTC, GM Diesel School Opened fo Public The General Motors mobile diesel training school will open its five day session Monday at Lilenquist Motors, 1016 North Riverside avenue, and the firm announced that the public is in vited to attend the first meet ing of the training. . The training will start at 8 a. m. and last until 5 p. m. each day. A particular invitation is ex tended to the public to see the showing of two sound movies, "Diesel, the Modern Power, and "ABC of Diesel Engines.1 They will be shown at 8 p. m. Monday. The three - cylinder GMC diesel engines that are to be used in the 2V-ton GMC trucks will be featured. Other sessions of the training school are limited to 12 men, The training unit brought here is valued at $33,000. MORE WEEK! and Harvey Thomas, AFL Street- carmen s union agent, agreed to resume contract negotiations Sat urday. The union also called a special membership meeting Sunday to consider any proposals developed in the negotiations. Spokesmen for both the union and the company have said the fare structure recommended by a citizens' advisory committee might form the basis for peace ful settlement of the labor dis pute. , Washington Picks Top Future Farm Experts for Year Pullman U.R Darrell Ric ci, a 17-year-old high school stu dent from Monroe. Saturday had the title of No. 1 Future Farmer in Washington. Ricci was selected top Future Farmer at the 21st annual con ference of the state Future Farm ers of America here Friday night.- 0 Barry Kramer of Mt. Baker was named "star dairy farmer" at the annual banquet for some 2225 FFA delegates. Ricci s records show he made $9,000 in the last three years from his supervised farming pro gram with FFA. His main enter prise is dairying, but he also raises poultry, swine and hay crops. Pullman U.PJ Three Fu ture Farmers of America won awards Saturday at the final session of the state FFA 21st annual conference at Washing ton State college. They were Ed Reser. Walla Walla, farm mechanics award; Clinton Peterson, Kent, the national farm electrification award, and Joe Agbisit, Wapato. national soil and water manage ment award. Peterson and Agbisit won $100 with their awards. The Prescott FFA chapter won the farm safety noonrs. Fifth Army Engineer Named Division Head Portland (U.R) Col. Em erson C. Itschner, 5th Army en giner with headquarters at Chi cago, Saturday was appointed North Pacific division engineer to succeed Brig. . Gen. O. E. Walsh, who was recently named Mediterranean division engineer in North Africa. Lt. Gen. Lewis A, Pick, chief of engineers in Washington, D. C, announced Itschner's ap pointment. Col. Itschner is a former Se attle district engineer. CANNIBALISTIC COMMUNIST CpL Carl E. McGee (right). . of Town Creek. Ala., has his finger bandaged, by HN Fred E. Carpenter Jr., USN. of PorterviUe. Calif., after be was bitten by a Communist soldier during a raid on a Red position in Korea. McGee received the Purple Heart for the unusual wound. Route Revealed for Annual AAA Economy Run April 14- Los Angeles The course for the 1952 Mobilgas "economy run" will be a three-day, 1,415 mile trek across four states, it was revealed Saturday by the American Automobile associa tion. Sponsored by the General Petroleum corporation, the run will be held April 14, 15 and 16. Results will be announced April 17. The route, from downtown Los Angeles to Sun Valley, Ida., longest and most rigorous ever attempted by an economy run. Final Settlement Hear On Loggers' Contract Portland (U.PJ Final set tlement was near Saturday in the season's first negotiations in the forest industries. The CIO Woodworkers of America and Weyerhaeuser Tim ber company reached a tenta tive agreement on a new con tract Friday. Subject to the union's mem bership approval, the agreement provides an hourly wage in crease of 7',i cents retroactive to April 1, three additional paid holidays and an increase of night differential from four to six cents. Loggers on the "hoot owl" or early morning shift will get the night differential. The contract also has to be approved by the wage stabiliza tion board. was held secret until the 29 competing cars were placed in final impound. The run will in clude overnight stops on the south rim of Grand Canyon in Arizona and in Salt Lake City. All - Types of Driving Every type of driving through cities, over mountains and on deserts will be experi enced. Drivers will travel 515.5 miles in a maximum of 12 hours 53 minutes the first day; 575.3 miles in a maximum of 14 hours the second day, and 324.6 miles in 8 hours 7 minutes the third day. Total elapsed driving time must not be more than 35 hours and at no time may legal speed limits or other trffic regula tions be violated. The mileage and performance test will subject the cars to more road, temperature and altitude conditions than the average mo torist would encounter in year's driving. Highest point on the route is between Marble Canyon and Jacob Lake in Ari zona, where the altitude is 8,010 feet. Lowest spot is 70 feet below sea level at the junc tion of Highways 111 and 99 near Indio, Cal. The drivers will climb above 6,000 feet 12 times during the run. Temperatures over the course have ranged from 103 degrees at Blythe, Cal., to 1.8 degrees below zero at Grand Canyon in the past, according to the United States weather bureau. Try To Smoke Out Wife Gives Man Prison Term Buffalo, N.Y.0J.R) Attempts to smoke out his wife from bedroom had a 38-year-old man headed for prison Saturday. After a family quarrel in which the wife reportedly threw a fish at her husband, Frank Reichard retaliated by tossing i flaming newspaper into the bed room barricaded by the wife. He then told her "to croak in there,' the wife. Mrs. Laura Reichard, 35. testified. Judge Carlton A. Fisher told Reichard he could give him up to 40 years for his conviction of first degree arson, but reduced it to from two to five years, fig uring the whole incident "is rtrictly a husband and wife ac tion." Dead Una en Clamlftrd Ada: S p m lor lollowlnt day. 10 am Ma day. noon Saturday tor Sunday am (or Sunday a m naalr ST0TT0T ilMlt-r' HKBtaTS ZlC 1 MUM ) its ALSO 'i J "I iatts C6r. j r.vy H 7:C0 PJXL j i m0 aataj.ai ' War. Am lus Confusion Claimed On Projected Dam Washington (U.R) Sen. Wayne Morse Saturday accused opponents of Hell's Canyon dam, including the governor of Idaho, with trying to confuse and mis lead the House Interior Affairs committee. The Oregon Republican said testimony before the commit tee this week was intended "to scare the people of Idaho" into believing there is not enough water in the Snake river for both upstream irrigation and power production at Hell's Can yon. Morse said he will testify in support of the project after the j usier recess. He said Gov. Len Jordan of Idaho, who wants to use all the Snake's water, for Idaho irriga tion, neglected to say that pow er revenues from Hell's Canyon or a similar dam are needed to repay the cost of irrigation works. i i am atas- W Donald O'Connor Debbie Reynolds Jean u - MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBTJ1TE TTfTEEH Off iter Named To Head McChord Air Force Base (U.R) Col. Philip E. Tukey, Jr., is the new commander of McChord Air Force Base, Col. T. Alan Bennett, commanding officer of the 25th Air Division, said Saturday. Tukey, formerly commanding officer of the 567th Air Base Group, succeeds CoL Bennett who was elevated to his new post Tuesday. Tukey is a former command ing officer of Larson Air Force Base, Moses Lake, Wash. He served 32 months in the Euro- MEDFORD HOTEL BREAKFAST - LUNCH DINNERS 7 A.M. to 2 P.M. 5:30 to 9 P.M. MING THE CHILDREN They Am Always Walcenaa FREE PARKING FOR MEDFORD YOU'LL BE SEEING ANOTHER GREAT MUSICAL FROM M-G-M THE COMPANY THAT WON THE ACADEMY AWARD FOR AN AMERICAN IN PARIS"!'- . a BBjaji COLOR BT Technicolor i... STARRIN6 TT JT ene Kelly WITH Hagen - Millard Mitchell and Cyd Charisse Betty Comden and Adolph green Arthur Freed nacio Herb Brown Gene Kelly and Stanley ARTHUR TRttO m M-G-M picture gen Ms avaHafaat In M-C4I Racords AJbom McChord Air Force Base pean Theater during World War II, commanding several fighter squadrons. MacArthur Leader Quits On Rallies for General Rockford. I1L(U.RX The lo cal "Fighters-for-MacAribur leader says he's not going ta hold any more rallies on b. half of the general. The reason: attendance at meeting scheduled for Friday night was sero. ASHLAND r Donen Starts Next SUNDAY
