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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 8, 1952)
HST Receives Honorary "Ozark Hillbilly" Award At World War I Reunion Springfield, Mo. IU.PJ While a red-jacketed quintet lang "Nothing Like a Dame" and a man in a serge suit howl td like a fox hound, President Truman became an honorary Oz ark hillbilly Saturday. The President started a busy day at the annual reunion of the 35th Division, his World War I outfit, by attending a breakfast, unusual in the fact that it fea tured a floor show. Solemn as Carnival In past reunions, the Presi- Pickers Needed For West Oregon Strawberry Crop Salem (U.R) The big strawberry harvest Season has barely started In western Ore gon, and already a shortage of X i state employment service, it said Saturday. Local offices of the service no ted the need also for 1,000 ex tra workers in pea fields, fruit thinning and gathering of early cherries. Most acute demand for berry pickers comes from the Portland area where schools will be in session for another week while the crop gradually approaches the peak. About 2,000 are asked for the Gresham district, Hills boro wants 1,000 more. Other Areas In the Willamette valley about 1,000 outside pickers are need' ed, reports from Salem, McMinn ville and Oregon City indicate, Hood River berries will not be ready until about June 11, but the district can use 100 thinners for apple and pear orchards. First calls for pea harvest workers come from Pendleton and Milton-Freewater. Work for several weeks is promised 450 more field men. Milton-Freewater also expects to find lobs for 500 cherry pickers beginning June 9. The Dalles cherry crop will be ready a few days later, but growers are not certain yet bdoui neeas. dent made a ceremonial occasion of breakfasting with the surviv ors of Battery D -which he com manded in France in 1918. This year's event, however, was about as solemn as a carnival and open to all reunion dele gates, their wives and children, plus the county Democratic or ganization and an assortment of movie stars working around the clock to tie in their new picture with the President's visit here. The President was up early and walked at 7':30 a.m. from his hotel up a hill to the Shrine Mosque where breakfast was served by red-fezzed Shriners. Ranives Special Medal The President's hosts present ed him with a special medal making him an honorary hill billy, to which he responded with a story - of how he had awarded more. Congressional Medals of Honor to war heroes than all the other presidents of the country put together. "A president," he saidr "sel dom gets a medal himself. Usu ally he gets brickbats." The President left the base ment of the Mosque where breakfast was served to attend memorial services in the up stairs auditorium joining with the men of the 35th in praying for their departed buddies and for world peace. COUNTRY THAWING OUT Kennebec, S. D. U.R) Henry Schelle and Mary Bower made news here by getting a mar riage license Thursday. It was the first issued since the bliz zards started last November. Dead line Sunday Classifieds Is at noon Saturdays. REPAIRS FOR ALL TYPES Farm Implements Plow Shim Sharpened, Pointed and Hard Surfaced DISC ROLLING All Types of Ban Made and Sharpened Bergman's Shop 11IS. Harriett Phone 1-6771 House Granted New Chance To Approve Old Age Benefits Washington (U.R) Demo crats have bowed to the demands of the old folks and agreed to give the House another chance to increase old age insurance benefits by about $5 a month. The House rejected the bill on the first round May 19 after Re publican leaders opposed it on grounds that one provision might open the way lor "socialized medicine." When those who stood to bene fit by the bill learned what had been done, they started writing critical letters to their congress men. The pressure for reconsid eration of the bill has been build ing up ever since, especially among Republicans who voted against it the first time and who are anxious not to alienate elder ly voters in an election year. Support Seen Certain Chairman Robert L. Doughton, D-N.C of the House Ways and Means Committee said he will go .before the Rules Committee next 'week to ask that the bill be re turned to the floor for reconsid eration. It appeared certain that the Republicans will support Doughton's request. The bill calls for an increase in old age insurance benefits of $5 a month or 12V4 per cent. whichever is larger, for the 4,- 500,000 persons now on the rolls. Those who go on the rolls in the future would get an increase of up to $5 a month. Mercury, Venus Invisible Bv J. HUGH PRUETT Astronomer, Extension Division Oreion Higher Education System Totally invisible to the unaid ed eye this month are the two planets nearest the sun. Mercury and Venus. At present they are apparently in a close huddle with old Sol. Mercury will be on the other side of the sun from us, superior conjunction, on June 8. Venus will be in a similar con junction June 24, and after that will be in the twilight sky, set ting after the sun. However, it will not be far enough from the sun to be easily seen for several weeks yet. Then on until the end of the year, Venus will again be our glorious "evening star." The bright planet Jupiter is now in the dawn, rising some what north of east almost two hours before sunrise. It is bright er than any starlike object In the sky at that time. Mars Conspicuous ' For objects in the evening sky, let us observe about 1V4 hours after sunet. Well up in the south the red planet Mars is still very conspicuous. A little to the rigni is the bright star Spica; still far ther right and higher, the yellow planet Saturn. Mars, Spica, and Saturn form an almost straight line of bright objects. Notice how low in the south the full moon hangs. It rises in the southeast, crosses the sky low in the south in about eight hours, and sets in the southwest. The full moon takes the sky path the sun followed six months earlier. Arctutus Mar Be Seen Only a little south of directly NEED A TRUCK OF ANY TYPE...? SEE rs MOTORS CO. Phone 2-5207 1016 North Riverside SPECIAL 1947 International $1QCA Chain Drive lJU 1950 INTERNATIONAL i4. 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Very high in the east, a little farther north than Altair and of great brilliance, Vega in the Harp twinkles splendidly. Below Vega and considerably farther north Deneb, al the head of the Northern Cross, is found, High in the heavens and near ly in the west, Regulus is shining at the end of the handle of the Sickle. This figure, looking like a reversed question mark, has its open side downward. Low in the sky, considerably north of northwest, bright Ca- pella is twinkling. This star is now moving eastward and by midnight will be due north and just about over the horizon a little above or below depending upon the observer's latitude, Rather low in the sky, nearer northwest than west, the Twins, orange Pollux and yellow Castor, stand side by side. A line drawn between them is not quite hori zontal, but is a little lower at the left. Note the Big Dipper overhead. In a few hours it will be sliding down the northwest and in 12 hours will be moving eastward along the northern horizon. 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