Staff Cuts Planned
In OPS Northwest
Regional Offices
. Portland (U.R) Drastic cuts
in the staffs of the Office of
Price Stabilization in the Paci
fic Northwest region were an
nounced here Thursday by Carl
C. Donough, Oregon district
director.
The staff reductions will be
effective September 1.
Donough said separation no
tices will be delivered to em
ployees whose jobs will be dis
continued by August 1.
Donough called the reduction
a "tentative staffing pattern,"
since it has been appealed to
Washington.
Offices concerned are Seattle,
Portland, Boise, and Spokane.
1 the Portland office, 57 will
be left of a former 114-person
allowance.
Remaining will be the district
director, nine persons in en
forcement work, 20 in the price
branch, two attorneys, two in
management, and two in the in
formation branch.
Donough said the present
plans call for only two or three
persons in the Spokane office.
OPS spent 569.000,000 last
year ,he said. This year only
$37,000,000 was appropriated by
Congress for the ten-month per
iod from July 1, 1952, to April
30, 1953.
Partner Joins Feed
Store in Medford
A new partner of F. E. Sam
son of the Samson Feed com
pany is M. E. Sylvester, former
ly of Portland, it was announced
today.
Sylvester, who started in his
new position Tuesday, is re
placing Elton Waldron, now em
ployed as a salesman for the
Charles H. Lilly Seed company.
Waldron had been with the
Samson company for nine years.
Sylvester formerly owned the
Foster Road Feed store in Port
land for 3Vi years, and before
that did experimental work
with the W. R. Grace company.
Sylvester did some of his work
with test plots in the Medford
area at that time.
Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester now
live at 714 West Palm street.
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IKE LIKE LINCOLN The log cabin (above) where Ike Eisenhower will spend a week just fishing,
loafing and doing his own cooking. The cabin is on the ranch of Aksel Nielsen, a friend, near Fraser,
Colo., 72 miles west of Denver. . . '
Parents Refuse Custody of
Their Two-Day-Old Infant
Chicago (U.R) A quarreling
husband and wife both insisted
Wednesday neither wanted their
tiny, newborn baby.
Mrs. Frank Stegert rested in
her hospital bed and stuck by
her statement that the two-day-
old boy should be placed in his
father's custody. She said she
didn't want him.
Still Determined
Her husband's lawyer said
that Stegert had not changed his
mind and was still determined
to give up the child.
Superior Court Judge George
M. Fisher, who must decide the
strange case, was baffled by the
demands of the parents. He said
he had never before sat in judg
ment of such a case.
Fisher postponed the case till
next Tuesday in the hope that
the father would change his
mind and accept the baby.
Separate Maintenance
Last month Mrs. Stegert, v
was then pregnant, filed a suit
for separate maintenance in
Fisher's court.
She said she did not want her
Knitter Goes to Jail
On Bad Check Charge
Chicago (U.R) Miss Emily
Mae Konieczny started a five
year jail sentence Thursday be
cause of the way she tended her
knitting.
Police said the 42-year-old
woman was in the habit of snitch
ing checks from mail boxes and
cashing them under a forged
signature. As local store keepers
glnnced suspiciously at the
check, she would whip out her
knitting, and murmur:
"Knitting for Boys"
"I'm knitting things, for the
boys in service."
The clicking needles and her
motherly look lulled the store
keepers and they generally cash
ed checks for the woman. But
after a while they started re
membering the patriotic check-
passer, and it wasn't long before
police picked her up.
As she was led away from
U. S. District Court, after plead
ing guilty, observers noted she
was minus one thing her
knitting bag.
ALUMNI OUT IN FORCE
Quincy, Mich. (U.R) Every
graduating class from 1898
through 1952 was represented at
a Quincy High school alumni re
union. All seven of the 1902
graduates were on hand.
baby because she had no place
to keep him.
"What's more I want him to
have the baby so he can be re
minded of me," she said.
She also said she wanted noth
ing that would remind her of
her husband, not even his child.
Medford People
Attend Meeting
A number of Medford people
are attending the annual 10-day
camp meeting of the Oregon
Seventh-day Adventists, which
opens today at Gladstone park,
10 miles south of Portland.
Among them are Floyd Yost,
who is a delegate to a lay work
ers' conference the first three
days; Pastor O. E. Schnepper
and his assistants, Melvin Thorn
kins and Lyle Cornforth, who
have been helping to erect the
camp for the past 10 days, and
G. E. FjarU, F. V. Cook, Wil
liam Riemer, June Hoefft, G.
J. Lang, C. A. Jones, Frank
Archer, Earl Young and Helen
Barrow.
The meeting is on a 70-acre
tract purchased by the church
in 1932, and some 7,000 persons
will attend, with 4,000 more
expected on week-ends, with ad
ditional one-day commuters
bringing total week-end attend
ance to an estimated 15,000. -
Most Lake Camps
Now Open to Public
All Crater Lake National park
camp grounds except the rim
camping area are open to the
public now, D. D. Crumley, chief
park clerk, said Thursday.
Annie Spring, Cold Spring,
and Lost Creek have all been
cleared of snow, but the rim
camp ground still has several
feet of snow on it.
The only section of road still
closed is the rim road from the
north entrance junction around
the east side to the east entrance
junction. This part of the road
is expected to be open within
week, Crumley said.
1 ravel so far this year is
showing a decided increase over
1951 travel, ' Crumley reported
Long-Time Resident
Of Talent Passes
Talent Mrs. Frances Olson,
79, a resident of Talent for the
past 30 years, died this morning
after a long illness.
She. was born in Holland,
Mich., on Feb. 24, 1873. She was
married to Andrew Olson in
1900 m Marshfield, Ore. Her
husband preceded her in death
in 1935.
survivors include two sons,
Hollis D., and Ivan E. Olson,
both Talent; a sister, Mrs. .John
Southard, Las Molinas, Calif.,
and a brother, Delbert Strawen
jans, Holland, Mich.
' Funeral services will be con
ducted at 10 a.m. Saturday with
tne Kev. Alice May Wolley,
Talent, officiating. Burial will
follow in the Mt. View cemetery.
Nectar Berries
Are Here!
Escaped Convict
Held in Portland
Portland (U.R) An ex
convict who escaped from the
Hood River jail four days ago
Thursday was held in Portland
city jail for Hood River auth
orities. Edward J. Harris, 39, was cap
tured by Detectives William
Brian and Michael O'Leary Wed
nesday as he emerged from a
downtown tavern.
Harris escaped from the Hood
River jail by breaking away
from a prisoner breakfast line.
Harris served three previous
terms in Oregon State prison,
all on larceny convictions. He
told detectives he feared return
ing to the penitentiary as a hab
itual criminal. That would mean
a life sentence for a four-time
"loser."
Hood River authorities were
holding Harris on a first degree
forgery charge involving two
bad checks, each for $67.
BLM Expanding Operations
To Halt Beetle Infestation
Portland (U.R) The Bureau
of Land Management is expand
ing its division of forestry in a
campaign against the Douglas
fir bark beetle and in an effort
to salvage 1,000,000,000 board
feet of wind-thrown, fire and insect-killed
timber.
Northwest Regional Adminis
trator Roscoe E. Bell said Thurs
day seven days of intensive field
training and orientation for a
group of new foresters has just
been completed.
The training session was held
at Swisshome and on logging
operations in the area.
Bell said the 1,000,000,000
board feet of dead and dying
timber on BLM lands must
come out as fast as possible.
The beetle infestation has been
estimated as covering 1, 500,000
acres of private timber, 1,000,000
acres of national forest and 600,-
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xuc ocuiciny uj. me xmeuui
recenuy approved aumonxy ior
the bureau to grant emergency
short-term rights-of-way permits
across lands administered by
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Festival Director
Tells Kiwanians
Of Artist's Role
The artist is a valuable mem
ber of society and tne purpose
of the arts is to show the rela
tionship of man to God, the uni
verse and man, Angus Bowmer,
producing director of the Ore
gon Shakespearean festival, de
clared in a talk to Kiwanians on
Wednesday at Rogue Valley
Country club.
Bowmer, pointing out the
aesthetic and material values of
the festival, held annually at
Ashland, outlined to Kiwanians
why they should be interested
in the festival and Shakespeare.
The speaker said that Shakes
peare, next to the King James
version of the Bible, has had
the greatest influence on Amer
ican culture. Drama, Bowmer
explained, shows man in action.
People can see the causes and
results of 'action and see what
makes man do the thing he
does. However, Bowmer brought
out that the enjoyment gained
from the productions is reason
enough for the festival.
The festival, owned by residents-
of the valley, has shown
financial advancement each year
and a large increase this year is
foreseen, Bowmer reported. He
said that last year 51 per cent
of the audience was from outside
the valley and that hotel and
motel owners estimated that vis
itors spent $255,000 here.
. Ticket sale percentages this
year are running 75 per cent
from outside the vallev and ac
cording to Bowmer. .He said that
money from admissions to the
festival goes into expansion of
the project.
Kiwanians and families will
picnic next Wednesday after
noon and evening at Table Rock
estates. There will be a lunch
eon at the country club but it
will not be a regular meet
ing.
The Folsom point, a curious
ly flaked javelin head, unearth
ed in New Mexico, is one of the
earliest known implements made
by human beings in the New
World.
the bureau for removal of pri
vate salvage timber.
Salem Man Dies After
Oklahoma Auto Crash
Stillwater, Okla. (U.R)
Arthur Ben ton Cooksey, 56, of
Salem, Ore., died at a Still
well hospital Wednesday from
injuries suffered when the au
tomobile in which he was rid
ing plowed into a herd of cattle
on U. S. Highway 59 near here,
overturned and burned.
Cooksey and the driver of the
car, John (Bud) Eads, 43, a Still
well school teacher, and Keith
Foreman, 63, of Stillwell were
pulled from the burning auto
mobile by a passerby.
Cooksey suffered, fatal inter
nal injuries, Oklahoma highway
patrolman C. E. Trigg said. Eads
neck was broken
Jim Bottomly drove in a doz
en runs in a single game for the
St. Louis Cardinals in 1924.
Thursday, July 17, 195i.
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TROUBLED LOVE - Mrs. Vir
ginia La Tourneau, 28, and James
Eldon Sherwin, 17, embrace at
Burbank, Calif., after police re
turned them from 'Arizona. Au
thorities question their romance,
since the boy is under age.
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4-H Community Fair
Scheduled Saturday
At Gebhard's Ranch
. Central Point The Central
Point 4-H clubs will hold their
annual community fair on Sat
urday, July 19. It will be held
at the Harold Gebhard ranch on
Kirkland road, one place east
of the Kirkland Farms on the
same side of the road.
Judging and exhibiting of
livestock will commence at
10:30 a.m. The food booth will
be open and exhibits will be on
display throughout the day. The
public is cordially invited.
Calves have 32 permanent
teeth, the same as humans.
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H.E.C. of Butte Falls Grange
met at the home of Lois Ram
sen. Leona Moore turned in
S13.47 for cards sold and $4 for
handwork.
Jackson county Pomona
Grange will hold its July meet
ing in Butte Falls on Saturday,
July 26, 8 p.m. All members are
urged to attend.
Next H.E.C. meeting will be
August 13, a potluck dinner at
12 o'clock at the home of Min
nie Green's. -
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