Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, October 26, 1954, Image 10

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Newspaper Page TextJXIt MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ' TheyH Do It Every Time' . . By Jimmy Hatlo I DOTT MAC TO TAKE fyf THATS TEU.IKls'WCVtRy TIME TREMBi-ECHlM SETS' f His guff! that dc rr ' vM wi,.henrismt W bawled out he MBTAuy retires- I IM 60MNA SO IH BUSINESS THIS TETWEI4T1ETH TOO BAD B6DOME IShPT A JzZ V MVSELF A MANl C4Nl & ANNIVERSARY- OF V- v MWD READER" ! x P N STAND JUST SO MUCH-K .VCUR THREATEW& -' - VVJCS-- 'gff XMUMBLEUMB- SlTlO QUIT? VlF HE WAS HIS T7XHES NCTTOO P i . "I 11 X ' vlLT"' ' gSAII- 'sore-' NOTCE MOW 1 'jiClivt-"- STAY'S "IHERE ML-rSJSCVO. -P I ' iV Xd Jg THE HATlP HAT TO C?ii?r:$ri!rV ' alfiilrj V?---l- iOU herbdegbaff. ri.,T jC ' j 1 if ASl "III Si,V5i io-26im i4Jg mt- oomi. ucrnsu, Education Board Accepts $168,128.36 ' Portland (U.R) The State Board of Higher Education today announced the acceptance of gifts and granU totaling J16B,- 128.36. ,v:i" Included In the grants was $20,000 from the Damon Run yon Memorial fund for research on malignant melanomas to lie conducted at the University of Oregon medical school, and a to tal of $18,432 from the Atomic Energy Commission for two re search chemistry projects to be continued by the University of Oregon. ! Oregon State college received (16,848 from the office of the Surgeon General, U. S.j'Army, or a study of ionization steril izing of foodstuffs, and $16,643. 30 from the Army "Ordnance Corps to extend a study of In tegral equations. . : : : -' 93 Dead Counted in Italy Flash Floods Naples U.R) Disastrous flash floods boiled down from Italy's coastal mountains today onto the tamed tourist towns of Amalfl, Sorrento, Ravello and nearby villages, crumbling build ings, , causing landslides and leaving a heavy toll of death and damage.: '-if. . Incomplete reports to federal police headquarters here listed 93 dead, more than 100 Injured and upwards of 100 missing. Landslides added to the toll of death and damage. : j,-. The floods, started by a cloud- Burst during the night, collapsed houses, washed out roads and bridges, and inundated the nar row strip ' of flat coastline at Klaerno where Gen. , Mark W. Clark's American troops stormed ashore In World War II. BREAD THIEF SHOT Dallas, Tex. (U.R) Deputy ; Sheriff Glynn St. Clair shot a thief in the act of stealing a loaf pf bread from a grocery store Monday. The victim a waddling jpossum. .. ... I U.S. coal production since J800 has exceeded 26,000,000, O00 tons. Federal Job Exams Listed by Commission : Civil service examinations for claims representative . trainee, with a salary of $3,410 a year, and junior management assis tant, with entrance salaries of S3.410 and $4,205 a year, were announced today by the federal civil service commission. Full details and application forms may be obtained at the of fice of C. W. Silliman, commis sioner examiner in charge, at his office in the Medford post office building. Fire Breaks Out At Missouri Prison Jeff erson City, Mo. (U.R) Fire broke out today in the wom en's unit of Missouri's riot-torn penal system. . ; Chief Louis Rackerg of the Jefferson City Fire Department said the fire was "set deliber ately." The third disturbance in four days occurred yesterday among the men. Warden Ralph Eidson reported the blaze was under control In 20 minutes. No one was injured, he said. ' Backers said the blaze was In a basement sewing room in the women s division. Reporters were barred from the prison. Misrepresentation Charged by Deetz ' Canby AU.B Elmer Deetz, the "Gallon Jug" dairyman from Canby, today charged the Ore gon Milk Producers Committee of "deliberate misrepresentation" in their campaign to defeat Deetz move to end milk market ing controls in the state. Deetz, who initiated a petition movement to place the milk con trol repealer on the November ballot, said the milk producers were trying' to hoodwink the public by linking milk control with sanitation. A barrage of billboard ads, radio commercials and speeches were trying to make the, voters believe a vote against milk control would also be a vote against a sanitary milk supply, Deetz said. He added, "Milk control and milk sanitation are governed by entirely separate laws that are administered by entirely sepa rate agencies. Marion Davies To File Divorce Suit Hollywood U.R) Former screen star Marlon Davis will file a divorce suit against Capt. Horace Brown either today or tomorrow, her attorney, Bernard Sllbert, revealed today. The lawyer said the one-time actress and Brown separated Friday, a little more than a week before their third wedding anni versary. A spokesman for Miss Davies said the captain had gone to San Francisco. Silbert said the charge on the divorce suit, to be filed in Santa Monica, would be mental cruel ty. There is no community prop erty or any kind of a property settlement, he added. GUARD AGAINST DOUBLE-ACTION ADDITIVE Keeps burners clean 'pnvnb sludging : 'antl-nntlng FLYIHG HEATING OIL riOl WATII AS tOCI AT t Oil COMPANY BEDFORD FUEL GO. Your Distributor Since 1937 Court ana McAndrewf . Talephon 2-2111 Tuesday October M. 193411 I H Ult 'i' ricmuciv: Given Achievement Awards at Dinner. Thirty-six club members re ceived achievement awards at a Saturday dinner, according to the county extension office. They were presented by Ches ter Irish, staff member of the Medford branch of the First Naj tional Bank of foniana. receiv ing first year pins from Apple gate were Cha Del Elam, Vir ginia Gapen, LaVerne Guches, Betty Jean Nielsen, Christina Tolle, Don Davidson, Les Pear son and Wally Pearson; from Ruch, Ellen Cheadle, Jimmy Til ford, Sharon Larson, Kothrine Flesher and Gary Fossen. Second year cards ApplegateJ Stanley Smltn, David unnsten- sen, Norman Hoffman and Mar vin Gibson; Ruch, Romelle Fos sen, John Winnihgham,. Jerry Winningham end Sharon Ran ney. , , Third year pins Applegate, Miriam Gapen and Russell El more; Ruch, Mary Beth Ramsey and Noel Dunlap. Fourth year card Applegate, Gary Smith, Philip Krouse and Stephen Hoffman; Ruch, Shirley Dunlap. Fifth Year Fifth Year Pins Applegate, Gwen Krouse, Dona Lee Brown and Truman Elmore. . ' Sixth year cards Applegate, Anita Kubli and Charles Elmore. Seventh year cards Apple- gate, Francis Krouse. . Eighth year cards Ruch, Nan cy Lou Redhead. A potluck dinner was held and for a program, a guessing game, "4.nis is My uiub," was held. . Oil, Lard Surplus Seen by Department . Washington U.R) The Agri culture Department has predict ed that a surplus of edible oils and lard this season may lower prices, Increase exports of soy bean oil, and boost the amount of cottonseed oil put under price support. The department predicted that the output of oils and lard may be about 3,000,000 pounds above estimated use and- commercial exports, Increasing soybean oil exports and "probably" increas ing cottonseed oil price supports, However, it predicted that for the 1954-55 season as a whole, prices for most food fats during a large part of this crop year are likely to average "near pres ent levels , . . somewhat lower than a year earlier.' Peanut oil is the only oil of which a shortage was forecast. Subpoenas Ordered For Patterson, Cordon Salem (U.R) State Real Estate Commissioner R a g n o r Johnson yesterday ordered subpoenas is sued to Gov. Paul Patterson, Sen. Guy Cordon and Rep. Sam Coon, ordering them to appear at tomorrow's hearing in Baker involving the practices of the Curfman-Ullman real estate firm. Al UUman, Democratic candi date for congress, had charged that the real estate commission er's charge against his firm was based on a political motive, and demanded that the three Repub lican officials testify at the hear ing. The hearing Is to investigate charges that the Baker firm re ported to the veterans adminis tration that property bought by Ferrin Woll was sold for $6800,. while the actual price, according to Johnson, was $7750. Johnson, denied a political basis for the hearing. -.-. Weekly Newspaper Sets Publication A Medford edition of the Rogue River Times, a pictorial weekly newspaper, will be in the mall this Thursday, accord ing to Maxwell L. and Mnrcia E. Thayer, publisher and editor of The Times. The edition will be sent free to all city and rural route resi dents, they said. The newspaper will be entire ly Independent from the Rogue River operation. Thayer said yesterday the Medford edition would support the Republican I ticket in the general election. He said politics would not be overly stressed in the special issue "any more than usual." LADY ASHLEY TO WED New York (U.R) Lady Sylvia Ashley, whose marriage to movie actor Clark Gable ended in di vorce In 1952, will wed exiled Russian Prince Dimitri Djord Jadze "sometime before Christ mas," ihs announced yesterday. Armed Services Split On 'Brainwash' Trials Washington U.R) A funda mental split has developed be tween the Air Force and the other three services on what standards of conduct to expect of American prisoners subjected to Communist "brainwashing." The Air Force has adopted a more lenient attitude, ready to forgive those who broke under Communist pressure. The Army, with the support of the other services, is maintaining a sterner policy of punishing those pris oners guilty of gross misconduct for the sake of future military discipline. The split was apparent this week end when the Army an nounced it plans to court-martial some 40 returned prisoners, in cluding several officers, on gen eral charges that they collab orated with the Communists while in Red prison camps.. Logging Congress Told of Road Needs Portland (U.R) Roads are the first requisite of good forestry, the Pacific Logging Congress was told yesterday at its annual meeting here. Roy A. Gould, president of the congress, said that without roads fires and forest enemies cannot be adequately controlled and harvesting of ripe or mature trees cannot be carried on. Gould called the latter "the most important factor, and one that has been overlooked in the past ..." He said that while he did not want to belittle the poten tial destructive power of fires, "I am confident that far more timber is destroyed each year by conk rot and natural forms of decay that attack trees after they have reached maturity than all other destructive forces combined . ." LAMB MEETS WULF Covington, Va. (U.R) "Lamb" and a "Wulf" were all alone in the nursery of a hospital here today. The babies belong to Mr. and Mrs. Donald O. Lamb and Mr. and Mrs. William Wulf and were born over the week end. Special Devices Warn 0 Excessive Heat Johnsville, Pa. 0J.R) Two special devices which warn of excessive heat and humidity pro tect the Navy's giant $2,000,000 electronic brain from summer heat waves. The electronic recording In struments constantly monitor the temperature and humidity in the air conditioned building housing the huge computer and sound alarms . when they be come too high. The cqmputer, known as "ty phoon," is making three-dimensional flight studies of aircraft and missiles. Navy officials said it has a human-like susceptibility to heat and humidity and the slightest change will throw off Its calculations. Oregon Historical Officers Reelected .Portland (U.R) The Oregon Historical Society last night re elected all present officers and directors at its annual dinner meeting here. . The Society also heard Dr. O. Meredith Wilson, president of the University of Oregon, ex plain that America has become great because of its vast land area. Now that the lands have. become populated, he said, the nation's hope of increasing Its raw materials lies in education. Education will be the factor that will increase human effi ciency and productivity, Dr. Wil son said. Officers retained by the So ciety for the next year Included Burt Brown Barker, president; David Mason, vice-president; C. B. Stephenson, treasurer, all of Portland, and Alva C. Goodrich, Bend, secretary. Food Costs Take Slight Decline San Francisco U.R) , Food costs for the moderate income consumer ; dropped in every major city on the Pacific Coast except Los Angeles during Sep- lemer, 11 was disclosed today. - Max D. Kossoris. reffional rit. rector of the U. S. Department Labor, said retail food prices Seattle wera lnwpp than at anV Other tima in 1051 tirlmir. ily because of a decline In fruit ana vegeiame prices. - Dairy Products Sam Dairv rjroducta anri roronle ro. mained essentially the same, he said, but meats, fish and poultry were slightly lower. The same was true of Portland and San Francisco, where dairy products, bakery goods,, fruits and vegetables and mnii nil took a slight decline. In San Francisco certain pro ducts. SUCh fia xhlxlran chuck roast and apples, took a Busut upswing. Kossoris said this was offset by lower prices for coffee, potatoes and other items. Portland Prices Down Portland nrirpq oonorsii., a. clined slightly more than 1 per cent. However, in Los ArnrMn the story was different. Kossoris said. Food prices took .a barely perceptible upswing, but that was helped bv notahlv Motm prices for apparel and transpor tation. : But. said Kossnria fh is still lower than September, , . ... Easy To Crochet Skirt of the seasonl Rows and rows of crazy shell stitches baby shells at the waist grow bigger and bigger toward the hem! It's the stitch you love- easy to dot Crochet Pattern 7190; Misses' waist sizes 20-22; 24-26; 28-30 Inches included. Matching stole. Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS in coins for this pattern add 9 cents for each pattern for 1st class mailing. Send to Medford Mail Tribune, Household Arts Dept., P.O. Box 5640, Chicago 80, 111. Print plainly NAME, AD DRESS with PATTERN NUM BER. - v. Brimful of thrifty gift Ideas . . . our Alice Brooks Needle- craft Catalog ... 82 of the most popular embroidery, crochet, sewing, color-transfer designs to send for. Plus 4 patterns printed in book. Send 20 cents for your copy. Ideas for gifts,- bazaars, fashions. rv r U Get your m mum in m ANOTHER 1 GREAT JELL-WELL m BARGAIN . HMufijauRummiin Imported South Anwrtun polished raxwood . handln with tubular brau rMts "Butchar-stylV blde for boning, slicing, paring Otnuiri UlnlM ttMl bltdx honod razor iharp - Mad by famous Washington Forg FULL DETAIL AT HAND-BLENDED FLAVOR mks wondarful dlffsranc tn thosa salads and dassarts you'll soon ba serving io gtv balanca to heavy fall meet. VevrtatMaan TSJ1X It's J LI.-WILL. I aauTln neetirra wt nuima m utarairr roaamea timora uMwm aTAetoeaa MOLOTOV MEETS SMITH Moscow (U.R) Foreign Min ister Vyacheslav M. Molotov re ceived Sen. Margaret Chase Smith today at the Soviet For eign Office Mrs. Smith applied for an interview with Molotov shortly after her arrival in Mos cow last week on her brief visit to this country. She also hopes to meet Soviet Premier Georgi Malenkov. Less than 6,000,000 pounds of organic chemicals were obtain ed from petroleum in 1925. By 1950 the total had increased to about 14,500,000,000 pounds. Retired Professor At Oregon State Dies Corvallis (U.R) Mrs. Bea trice Beebe, 68, retired professor of English at Oregon ataie Al lege, died in a Corvallis hospital last night after collapsing on the street. Mrs. Beebe, who was almost totally blind, was walking with her seeing-eye dog when strick en. She had been on the Oregon State faculty from 1934 until her retirement in 1952. Before joing the OSC staff she had taught in high schools at Eugene, Tualatin, Beaverton, Hillsboro, Gresham and SutheK lln. - ' . ' Mrs. Beebe as the author of more than 25 poems, 12 trans lated plays, and numerous artfc cles and monographs. if Dean's Pontiac Sales & Service th & N. Grapa Phona 2-5241 Know why we're getting compliments? IMiw , .. m . n : 1 brine you the sir ellcious apples are perhaps the finest of all apples for family munching, salads and box lunches. And Safeway buyers at famous orchards are getting top-pick of the crop. These prize apnls travel to us in refrigerated cars. You get them crisp, fragrant and perfect Come in for a bagful and learn why folk. , tay-Safeway't the best place in town to buy apples!