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Newspaper Page TextTEX MEDrORD (ORE GO If) MAIL TWBUKE Hefoi Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Hail Tribune published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-4141 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor ERNEST R. GILS TRAP. Manager HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under A--t of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION BATES Mail Tn A HuBUr' Daily and Sunday one year 12 00 .Daily ana aunaay i "" - Daily and Sunday three mos. 3.50 Daily and Sunday one month 1.25 r & a v i Vrfford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville, uoia nm. rnorai Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Ti t J 6nnfatrnn VMf SIS-DO Daily and Sunday one month 1-25 Ail Terms casn in aovbi Official Paper of the City of Medford Official raper oi season i-oumj United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: htci uni i inAV rnwPAMY INC Offices in New York. Chicago. pe rron, oan r rxit-u. ia Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta NATIONAL EDITORIAL NEWSPAMt PUBUSHItS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County His tory from the files of the Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 40 years aflo. 10 TEARS AGO June 29, 1942 (It wag Monday) Registration places listed by incul draft board for all Jackson county men between the ages oi 18 and 20 to register lor arart. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The public In its war news wants the "naked truth," not even wearing a propaganda smile or fig-leaf. 20 YEARS AGO June 29, 1932 (It was Wednesday; Hottest day of the year re corded as thermometer reaches 96 degrees. State fire marshal appeals to citizens of Medford to use ex treme caution with "big" fire crackers over Fourth of July holiday. SO YEARS AGO June 29, 1922 (It was Thursday) State highway commission an nounces that all advertising signs along highway right-of-ways must be removed at once. Small amount of opium con fiscated as police raid Medford Chinese laundry. 40 YEARS AGO June 29, 1912 (It was Saturday) Twentieth annual assembly of Southern Oregon Chautauqua schedules opening in Ashland. William Jennings Bryan "tears the lid" off national Democratic convention by switching his vote from Champ Clark to Woodrow Wilson; de clares Clark has Tammany Hall backing. Buchanan Installed As Crater Lions Head Willard E. Buchanan, 1032 Woodlawn drive, recently was installed as president of the Crater Lions club. District Gov ernor Gunner Wohgen of Rogue River Lions, was the installing officer. In an acceptance speech, Bu chanan pledged that, as director of Lions club affairs for the com ing year, "our club will become recognized in southern Oregon as a progressive organization." He added that "community pro jects will be the club's main goal." Other new officers installed were Dan Dwyer, first vice president; Dr. Jack Ingram, sec ond vice-president; Norton Smith, third vice-president; Tom Shoup, secretary; Fred Kruggel, treasurer; Ralph Seeley, tail twister; Chris Christensen, lion tamer; and Lloyd Evans, Wyn Carl, Jerry Vawter and Aubrey Smith, directors. : Robert Taylor was appointed zone chairman for the Central Point, Eagle Point, Prospect, Shady Cove, Trail and Crater Lions clubs. Guests attending the installa tion were Archie Fries, recently installed president of Medford Lions; Larry Sheehan, president of Rogue River Lions, and mem bers of the Crater Lions auxil iary. . . i TO- Editorial Correspondence New York City, N.Y., June 26 In our last contribution we said "It IS the climate." Well, it still is only with reverse English- We can hardly say this record-breaking heat is worse than Washington's was a week ago, but it certainly is just as bad. (And three or four days ago "Ye Editor" was raving about the cool rain and the mercury in the 60's.) Let this item be broadcast by Jimmy Dunlevy: "Stop fighting over the climate and get down on your marrow bones and thank Almighty God you are living in Southern Oregon and NOT on the Atlantic seaboard. Stay there if you can, and don't venture east of the Rocky mountains in the summer or the winter for that matter. Let them seed clouds or NOT seed clouds; fight hail or help it; but FOR PETES SAKE stop this fault finding with what the Weather Man provides out there. The worst there is so much BETTER than the best here, that there is no com parison. Be thankful for it. AH-Men!" e e e We had no intention of taking in the Sugar Ray and Joe Maxim contest for the light-heavy title until it was postponed be cause of rain. In that announcement it was also stated some good tickets were left so we grabbed one. The show was held last night in the Yankee stadium up around 166th street which is 5 or 6 miles from our hotel, but with the assistance of several transfers we finally got there around 9:30 the title bout was scheduled for 10 p.m. A fight was going on be tween a long, lean colored boy and a stocky muscle-bound "white" but no one was paying any attention to it. They were only paying attention to the heat, and the occupants of the bleacher seats dropping over the parapet and hot-footing across the outfield grass to the so-called ring-side chairs. It was an amusing sight. The sleeves there wasn't a coat to be seen in that crowd of nearly 50,000 dropping off rather like seamen from a sinking ship, some keeping their feet, others failing to do so, but only a few nabbed by the park police who were trying to prevent the invasion but had about as much chance as a couple of debilitated cowboys might have had with a super-cattle stampede. The victims were taken to the park bastille and kept for a few minutes but were soon back again. The same thing on a smaller scale occurred' outside the stadium, when the "Dead-End kids," white, black and yellow, assembled from all over Greater Man hattan by the thousands, put on a plan of attack which contributed to their deserved reputation for nerve and resourcefulness. One group would start to scale the wall, the cops would rush in a body to frustrate the effort and then the second group would attack another section far away from a cop as possible and they would usually make it at least some of them. Our guess is the casualty list was high but the operation as a whole was a success. At that the paid admissions with the TV revenues are estimated at a half a million ($500,000) an all-time record for a light-heavy contest. . e We knew "Sugar-Ray" to be one of the most popular fighters New York ever produced he is a pal of practically all the local notables including Mayor Impelleteri himself but we were hardly prepared for the shabby treatment the defender, Joey Maxim, received. The weather was just as hard on him as it was on "Sugar" but to judge by the cheers of the crowd and even more by the sports writers reports in the morning papers, there was no com parison Sugar Ray was beaten by the humidity, and Joey nao no hand in it. The climate won he didn't! That is, in this expert's judgment, a lot of hot-air to be added to the record-breaking amount dished out by the Weather Man. Of course, on POINTS there was no comparison. Sugar Ray, un doubtedly the greatest fighting machine per pound the ring has ever produced, boxed circles around the heavier and slower Maxim as everyone expected he would do. But if he ever hurt him, it was not apparent to your correspondent, and he used the binoculars on both men pretty steadily. In factt from the start it seemed to us Sugar was preying con siderably on his nerve. Before the gong he danced around as usual, but it wasn't the sort of dance he put on in San Francisco in his fight with "Bobo" some months back. There was no "zip" in it. In the middle of the fight although we could find no mention in the morning papers "Sugar" started for Joey's corner instead of his own and had to be turned around and steered into it. That, we thought, was a pretty good tip-off. Maxim meanwhile, slow and deliberate even sluggish never showed the slightest sign of fatigue or discomfort. He was advancing on Sugar practically all the time, and while he was hit plenty, he also put on what seemed to this department, a marvelous defense. At least 60 of the blows were taken when he was retreating or spent their force on his shoulders or his gloves. e It was agreed that regardless of the outcome of this fight, there would be a return match for the loser. Well, with old Doc Kearns in the picture, this may be arranged for the money there will be in it. But if Maxim is again on the short end we advise our old i!,roi. n t tn talro all th "Suear" he can find. 0.UAJI pCil.Ciua6i; The truth, as we see it, is that heavy class and Sugar Ray just isn't. " .... . ... l I'll 9 -.A 4w. thA Sugar better be content witn third. To return to the weather which is again Topic No. 1 104 -i.Li s u- a., it -arrts lasi iiigiik ui iuc " ity should not be overlooked. high, but there is one little item to question me x..ui-3 "" There was so much moisture in the air at the Yankee Stadium that Ye Editor's binoculars had to be wiped carefully every two or three minutes with a dry cloth in order to see ANYthing. We soon ran out of dry cloths and had to fall back on pieces of the evening newspaper. It was actually like trying to see distant objects under water. u- ifsm favorite baseball team the Brooklyn Dodgers shut out the St. Louis Cardinals over at iiDDetts rieia. omuw -a hi1i Prpacher Roe shut out the two numus ouu iiuu6ti, - - . Cards Musial, Slaughter and Sisler included 7-0. Strange about Roe, he doesn't seem to nave anytning mulh-bui ayem and no apparent razzle-dazzle yet he hasn't lost a game all season, and the better the batters the more effective he seems to be. i-. i 17-T nnM avn 3 h hasphall satisfactorily, especially going to stack up on July ni-itwn. Authority Granted To Aid Timber Salvage Speedup The secretary of the interior has eranted special authority to the Pacific Northwest region of the Bureau of Land Management to remove marketing area re strictions on salvage timber sales for tracts which do not receive bids at the initial offering, it was announced Saturday. Roscoe E. Ball, regional admin istrator of Region I. said the re strictions were lifted after a re cent recommendation by the O & C Advisory Board to that ef fect, and Bell's request to Sec retary Chapman asking that the speed-up procedure be followed on tracts of dead or damaged timber which receives no bids after the first advertising. Regular Policy The regular policy of the BLM in western Oregon provides that timber must be advertised for sale and restricted to its market ing area, which in most cases means that it will receive pri mary manufacture from logs into rough lumber within the major river drainage where the tim ber grew. After being sawed into Sunday, Jons 29, 1932 bleacher-boys all In their shirt . . , . Maxim is at his best m the light- two uues mm uui ujr iw in the national caDltol. tne numia- - .j Officially it was not reported so had iho nleasure of seeing our this hP eXTJiainS mOSl UUUKB JU how the two big leagues are rough lumber, it can be trans ported anywhere for remanu facture. Under the new authority, if the timber does not sell to a mill within the marketing area, it may be sold within 90 days with out readvertising to any firm or company inside or outside the marketing area in western Ore gon, and may be removed as saw logs or any other form of forest products. It is believed that this will be an important factor in utilizing the maximum' amount of BLM salvage timber, which may reach more than one bil lion board feet. This includes the blowdown of the past two win ters, the areas burned by the 1951 forest fires or killed in the Douglas-fir bark beetle epidem ic, which has been increasing in the wind-thrown and fire-weakened privately owned timber, as well as. in government forest areas during the last two years. Dead line Sunday Classified is at 5:30 p.m- for following day: 10 ajn. noon s"tanta' Crosstown "May we play through? Matter of Fact "TAFT CHOSE IT" Washington As the Repub lican Convention comes closer and closer, one point becomes clearer and clearer. Sheer fear of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower drove Sen. Robert A. Taft's stra tegists to choose the least favor able battlefield for their finish fight at Chicago. Everyone is still counting noses for the first ballot, the second ballot, and so on. But in fact the real Taft-Eisenhower test will come before either can didate is even placed in nomina tion, when the Republican Con vention passes on the question of the stolen Southern delegates. If the Taft forces can seat their delegates from Texas and Loui siana, three quarters of the bandwagon hoppers will hop to Taft. And if the Taft steamroller breaks down on. this crucial question, everyone will know the steamroller is only a one- hoss shay after all. The question of the Southern delegates is thus the battlefield chosen by Sen. Taft's own man agers. By now, moreover, ample evidence has accumulated to prove that the Taft people do not think very well of their own choice. e e ITEM: The Taft leader in im portant Dallas county, Joe C. Thompson, Jr., (a "real Republi can" who registered to vote in the 1950 Texas Democratic Pri mary) made a bold try for a deal on a local basis. He offered the Texan Eisenhower leader, Jack Porter, nineteen of the thirty- eight Texas delegates, with the proviso that Taft's henchman, Henry Zweifel, must not be un seated as national committee man. Item: On at least two occa sions, similar approaches were made to Herbert Brownell, who handles the national delegate count for the Eisenhower camp. The second time around, a rep resentative of Sen. Taft offered to sweeten the deal for Brown ell, by seating the pro-Eisen hower delegates from Georgia as well as giving half of Texas to Eisenhower. Item: The supposedly impar tial National Republican Chair man, Guy Gabrielson, was also sent to feel out Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge on Sen. Taft's be half. This scene must have been rather .comic, since. Gabrielson approached the problem circuit- ously, and ended by urging some kind of arrangement, because we don't want to wash our dirty linen in public. "Whose dirty linen?" Sen Lodge is reported to have in quired crisply. "We haven't got any dirty linen, and if the Taft people want their dirty linen washed in public, why that's their choice." AFTER these various feelers had been rejected, Sen. Taft said angrily, "Lodge would rath er have the issue than the dele gates," which in a sense is per fectly true. The reason for this can be seen on the face of the figures. If the main test is coming on the Southern delegations, contested Southern delegates have got to participate in this main test in order to be of any use to Sen. Taft. One way or another, the Senator's minority delegates have got to vote to legitimize themselves. To be sure they would be able to do so, was the Taft purpose in naming Walter Hallanan as the Republican Con vention's Temporary Chairman. One cannot calculate today just how many of the contested Southern delegates will partici pate in the main test vote. There is the question of Georgia, for example, where national com mitteeman Harry Sommers has a promise from Taft's Southern pro-consul, . Brazilla .Carroll Reece, that the pro-Eisenhower delegation will be recognized. There is also the question of just whaf the, , test vote will be By Roland Co FSMEdJ' 9jy SUsWtHm 9tfaj ajetaaj She has a cake in the oven.' By Jotspb and Stewart Altop whtether on a rule, or on a spe cific delegation, in which cases the delegates from this one state may be ruled off the floor. At a guess, however, Sen. Taft's net gain from using his steamroller to seat his minority Southern delegations should not pass forty to forty-five votes on the test roll call. e "DUT AGAINST this gain of forty to forty-five votes in the big test, the Taft people now have to offset certain intangible but vitally important losses. In New York and Maryland, for one thing, Governors Thomas E. Dewey and Theodore R. McKel din can tell their people, "Go for Taft if you must when the nomi nations are made, but stay with us on this Texas-Louisiana steal." Such an appeal will be very hard for even ardent Taft enthusiasts to resist. By the same token, Gov. Earl Warren of California should find it far easier to vote his big dele gation solidly against Taft A on the Texas-Louisiana issue, than to carry the whole delegation into the Eisenhower camp. And in the Taft states, the rather numerous pro-Taft delegates who have been impressed and attracted by Gen. Eisenhower will find it easy to say, "I'm still for the Senator for the nomina tion, but I just can't help feel ing his people have sold him a sour apple on this Texas thing." For these reasons, the Eisen hower people think they will gain many more votes than they will lose, by having the main test on the Southern delegates. And of course, if the nomination nonetheless goes to Sen. Taft by straight steamroller-power, its value will be -greatly im paired. (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribunt Inc.) Oregon's Foreign White Population Shows Decrease Washington (U.PJ Oregon's foreign born white population declined 23,103 in the 20 years between 1930 and 1950, the Bur eau of the Census reported Fri day. The bureau said in 1930 Ore gon's foreign born whites num bered 106,175. By 1950 this seg ment of the state's population had dropped to 83,612. Of these, 55,831 were located in urban areas; 17,462 in rural non-farm areas, and 10,319 on farms. Canada contributed 17,614 of the foreign born whites with ad dition 'of 1,171 from French Can ada. Next largest group, 7,930, came from .Germany with 6,904 coming from Sweden. England and Wales . contributed 6,482; Russia, 5,645; Norway, 5,318; Italy, 3,581; Finland, 3,530; Ire land, 2,179; Denmark, 2,521; Switzerland, 2,465; Austria, 2,125; Poland, 1,312, and Greece, 1,230. Teen-Agers Said Most Dangerous Drivers Salem (UP) Watch out for teen-age drivers. The state traffic safety divi sion said Friday that Oregon's most dangerous driver still is a teenager or driver in his early twenties. Drivers 15 to 24 years old were involved in 28,532 smash ups last year, 1 25 of which dealt death to one or more persons. Drivers between 30 and 39 years old had more accidents 30,778, but only 101 mishaps involving drivers in this group proved fa tal. The division said: "High speed, youthful chance- taking, and driver inexperience are the big factors in the num ber of fatal- accidents reported by younger drivers." In the Day's News Pre-convention politics: Henry Cabot Lodge, J., Ike's campaign manager, says in Washington "the jig is up" for Senator Taft. Not unexpectedly, that r'iles David Ingalls, Mr. Taft's cam paign manager. He retorts blunt ly: "It just Isn't so!" Continuing the differences of opinion (which, it is gener ally agreed, are what make horse races) Mr. Taft says he ALREADY has the 604 votes necessary for nomination on the first ballot. Mr. Lodge claims Ike will get more than 500 on the first ballot. If we accept that as gospel, we must conclude that Governor Warren, Harold Stassen and all the favorite son hopefuls will have only 102 delegate votes to divide among them. Personally, I'm inclined to doubt that. fn the Democratic side, we v read in the political col umns, the professionals have al ready ruled out Kefauver, who up to now has more delegates in his bag than anybody else and who has shown great strength in the primaries. Kefauver just "ain't got a chance," the big boys say. Neither, they pontificate, has Russell, or Kerr, or Harriman. They're just OUT, period. Ste venson, they insist, is the fair haired boy. (Stevenson says he doesn't want it, but carefully re frains from stating categorical ly that he won't have it if it is handed to him on a silver plat ter.) The professionals prophesy that if Stevenson backs firmly out of the picture Veep Barkley will be IT. And so on ad infinitum or ad nauseam, whichever way you choose to look at it. T wonder if we aren't seeing at - least the beginning of the end of the convention system of nominating candidates for Presi dent. We started out by choosing electors one elector in each state for each senator and repre sentative. The electors got to gether and chose the President. That didn't work too well. The states decided on the methods of choosing the electors. In a lot of them, the electors were chosen by the state legislature. In some of the states, a group of the "right people" just got together and picked the electors. You can imagine, I think, the amount of finagling that must have gone on. Anyway, the system began to smell, and the odor wasn't too pleasant in the nostrils of the public. So we invented the poli tical party convention system under which the parties at their conventions choose their candi dates and at the general election the people choose AMONG the candidates. That system, it seems to me, is in its turn beginning to decay slightly at the edges. Anyway, as a sniff the political winds, I seem to detect something faintly resembling the effluvience of a dead whale several miles up wind. It certainly isn't the odor of violets and roses that floats downwind these days from the highly political doings and utter ances of the highly political pro fessionals on both sides of the fence. Take the case of Pennsylvania, for example. Pennsylvania has 70 delegates to the Republi can convention. Quite a large number of these delegates are supposed to be held in the hol low of the hand of the governor of Pennsylvania. When the gov ernor gives the nod and holds up a. finger, this body of delegates is supposed to vote however the governor says. Experience tells me that un der such conditions it would be little less than astonishing if the governor of Pennsylvania didn't do quite a little dickering on his own account before he gave the final and decisive signal. The whole party system lends itself to a whale of a lot of such dickering. It gives too much power to the PROFESSIONALS. It seems to me that any system that puts that much power in that few hands isn't too good. I'm not starry-eyed about the iHaa nf a national Prpsiripntial primary, conducted simultan eously in all the states. I'm not even positive that such a system would get better men than the present system gives us. I just find myself less and less enthu siastic about the party conven tion system of making Presiden tial nominations. Anyway, I imagine quite a lot of people are beginning to feel the same way and if so we're likely to try something else be fore too long. C. OF C. BLUSHES Morehead City, N.C. (U.R) Officials of the Chamber of Commerce were red faced Fri day, and not necessarily from the heat. After the chamber ran newspaper advertisements de claring the temperature never reaches 100 degrees in Morehead City, the mercury hit 107 Thurs day. - , Confronting of Reds With Early Precedent Highlights Good News By PHIL NEWSOM .United Press Foreign Analyst The week's balance sheet be tween the good and bad news in the hot and cold wars: THE GOOD 1. The Reds stubbed their toe in the Korean truce talks. After screaming for weeks that the Al lied plan of voluntary repatria tion of war prisoners was illegal and a violation of the Geneva Convention, the Reds suddenly were confronted with the fact that the Russians set the prece dent in 1943 when they offered German prisoners repatriation to "any country" they desired. It probably won't have much in fluence on the chances for an early truce, but it was pleasant to see the Reds squirm. Ridgway Visits Germany 2. Gen. Metthew B. Ridgway visited his forces in Germany as he continued the tour of his new NATO command. The or ganizational phase of NATO has been completed, he said, and now will go ahead the business of setting up an army of some 50 divisions by-the end of this year. As in Italy last week, Communist attempts to organ ize demonstrations against Ridg way fizzled. 3. Jean Letourneau, French cabinet minister for the Assoc iated States of Indo-China, could report in Paris that more U. S. aid will be forthcoming . next year in the fight against the Communist-led rebel forces of Ho Chi Minh. The aid probably will be stepped up from $300, 000,000 to $450,000,000 and it will help the French build up the native Vietnamese forces. Eventually, it is hoped, the na tive troops will relieve the French of much of their burden in Indo-China. THE BAD 1. The British were both fear ful and resentful over the U. S. bombing of the Yalu river pow er plants which feed Red Chin ese Manchurian industries. The British did not believe the bomb ing would hurry the Chinese into an early Korean truce, but fear ed the attack might actually ex tend the war. They were resentful because they believed the United States deliberately concealed from them plans to bomb the vital hydro-electric installations. Acheson Must Explain 2. Explaining the Yalu attack was not the only job facing Sec retary of State Dean Acheson in his London visit. He also had to explain the U. S. attitude against an earlv four - nower conference with Russia, at least until the Russians gave guaran tee that any such conference would not be m-oloneeH Intn another Panmunjon. Meanwhile, he would attempt to hurry the French into a settlement of their Tunisian problem and the Brit- lsn oi tneir quarrel with Egypt over the Sudan and Suez. 3. As' the UN and Communists continued to seek a truce at Panmunjom, trouble continued to brew behind their backs. A 70-year-old Korean confessed to "Al ou drink Jorgensen's Homogenized Multi-Vitamin', MulH Mineral Milk TOO, I see!" 32031 MEED CASH m We're here to serve you. Let us help you with the necessary amount. A personal loan here is in the strictest of confidence. No co-signers necessary. We say yes to 4 out of 5. Oregon Finance Co. Craterian Bldg. 45 South Central Phone 2-4433 Lic.S-211 M-217 a plot to assassinate Korean Pres ident Syngman Rhee who is ia a fight with the South Korean Assembly over an extension of his time in office. For the plot ter, Kim Shi Yan, it was the second time he had missed. He said he also tried to kill the emperor of Japan 30 years ago. Rogue River Rogue River Last Wednes day, the fire siren blew at prac tice time, but for a different cause. When four-year-old Lee Johnson was missing late in the afternoon, firemen were called out to aid in the search. The boy was found asleep In the weeds, near his home. Because of a typographical error on one of the posted copies giving notice of the recent elec tion, Assessor Meyers declared the election on the lighting of the athletic field to be illegal. New notices were posted Thurs day and the public will again vote on the issue. Polls will be open at the high school from 7 to 9 p.m., July 18. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Frantz have just received word their son Ray was made a master ser geant on June 1. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Atkinson of Denver, Colo., are visiting the Howard Millers. The two couples met and became friends while spending the winter of 1948 in Florida. Mrs. Walter Lee of the Red wood Manufacturing company and her sister, Otelia Stephen oon, Glendale, Calif., who is a guest at the Lee home, spent Thursday shopping and sight seeing in Medford. Ralph Sieger, Duluth, Minn., arrived here unexpectedly Thursday evening. He is visiting his brother, Rudy Sieger and family. Recent guests at the R. S. Frantz ranch home on Foots creek were Mr. and Mrs. I. G. Hoight and daughter from Tale quah, Okla.; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Roberts, Vancouver, Wash.; Mrs. H. C. Chapman and Victor Vir onda of Los Angeles, Calif. At the special council meeting held Wednesday evening, Harry Nelson was appointed council man to fill the vacancy left by resignation of Lloyd Smith who is helping build the new city hall. Bills for the fiscal year were paid and funds were set aside for city improvement which will include fencing the reser voir and some work on the city hall. It was stated one room, the city office, will be completed now, and the remainder of the building will be finished when funds are available. Mayor Dengler stated a city building code will be taken up at the next meeting of the coun cil, July 1. Regular meetings are held on the first Tuesday of each month. ! Right Now!