Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, October 27, 1954, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextTWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE, Wednesday, October VI, 1884 Yashtub Cruiser Gives Up Voyage As Shaft Springs Whidbey Island,- Wash. (U.B Rov Berso's cruise to Alaska In baby's bathtub was aU wash ed up today when mechanical trouble forced bim back to shore her?. miles from his goal. The 50-year-old mariner told the Coast Guard he was turning ' to shore at Double Bluff and obtain transportation home; He had negotiated 12 miles of his : planned voyage In the galvan ized tub equipped with a two horsepower outboard motor. - He said the propeller shaft of the motor became sprung and be could not continue. After spending the chilly night at Double Bluff, he left for Port Angeles, Wash., at 7:05 a.m. Twenty minutes later he. pulled alongside a Coat Guard patrol . boat assigned to shadow him and said he was giving up. . Bergo expressed confidence not shared by the Coast Guard yesterday when bis galvanized iron ."vessel" left Edmonds, Wash., and puttered 12 placid , miles across Puget Sound to the southern tip of Whidbey Island. "I'm going to make it all the way to Anchorage, Alaska," he said after accepting a kiss and a blank check from his wife. "I have the utmost confidence - in my ability and my judgment in the weather." CROSS OVER THE BRIDGE COATS . Short, average, tall. All popular fabrics.. . ' Sizes 8 to 18 $34.95 to $59.95 RAINCOATS i. Some with halt and umbrellas. Many Mil ium lined. All colon - and sizes Only $22.95 to $29.95 BERT PREE'S Fashion. 826 last Main , r!m Milt l . - MS s ; I- it jt" W. . Rill : 'A n n-i'va'' r ill a. : . . - 'Man SuHeh Hurts - In Two-Truck Aeccfenf Edgard Adam Everline, route 2, box 252, Medford, suffered neck injuries early yesterday afternooa when the pickup truck he was driving was hit by an emDtv log truck at the intersec tion of Highway 62 and Antelope i rd., according to state police. The truck was driven by Au gustine Fred Lewis, Eagle Point. Everline told police he stopped on Antelope rd. before entering the highway, but did not see the truck coming. The pickup was badly smashed, officers said, and the truck was dam aged somewhat. No citations were Issued. A 17B7 resolution authorized an Army of 700 men. OPEN TO PUBLIC VIEW In a history-making TV appearance, the members of President Elsenhower's Cabinet are seen by the viewing public during a special meeting to hear Secy, of State John Foster Dulles give his report on the Paris conference. Clockwise starting at left: Presidential Aide Maj. Gen. Wilton Persons, Under Secy, of State Herbert Hoover Jr.. Interior Secy. Douelas McKay, Treasury secy, ueorge Mumpnrey, Any. uen. MerDen Browneil JD J Fl( irv Secv. Georee Jr., Commerce Secy. Sinclair Weeks, Welfare Secy. Oveta Culp Hobby, Civil Service Commissioner Philip C. Young, Budget Dir. Rowland R. Hughes, Defense Mobilizer Arthur S. Fleming, Labor Secy.. James P. Mitchell, Postmaster: uen. Artnur summemeia, secy, of state uuiies, tne nresiueni, ueivwsa oecy. naries c. wuson, Agncuiiure aecv. Ezra Taft Benson, U. N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Presidential Aide Maxwell Rabb and Presidential Asst. Sherman Adams. - - - Pavement Finishing On Highway to North Postponed to Spring 'A base pavement of asphaltic- concrete will probably be ap plied this winter on sections of the new lour-jane iiignway section from Medford to Wil low Springs, according to W. B. Merrill, resident state highway engineer. -This will wind up paving on the project until ; next spring, except for top paving to be ap plied near Crater high school at Central Point if the weather permits. More Work Heeded At the present, base pavement work still needs to be done be tween Medford and Central .. AN RCA Victor TELEVISION For CHRISTMAS We Will Hold the Set fit Our Warehouse for Christmas Delivery . , 21 inch 289 with "Ail-Clear" Picture You can enjoy this great new RCA Victor Television advance at amazingly low price! New aluminiud "AU Clear" picture tube give you blackest blacks and whitest whites you've ever seen on TV. Dark-tone safety glass killi outside glare, And you get the new "Easy-See" VHF tuning dial 69 greater readability I New "Magic Monitor" chassis gives you finest reception possible. New tonal depth and ciarny wim lamous "Odden Throat" Fidelity Sound. i See new RCA Victor TV here today I I Open Wednesday Nights til 9 Feldman & Olson ELECTRIC STORE Main and Bartlett Phone 2-2456 i . . . 1 - .. ' ' . v.W .... ...... Point. For this winter, the top, or final course, will be on the west two lanes, with a base course on the east two lanes. This will leave the west lanes slightly higher, but no trouble is expected because two lanes each way are provided. Paving from Central Point to Willow Springs will be revers ed, with the top coat on the east side and base cost on the west. Paying is nearing completion on the Willow Springs intersec tion where the new section over Blackwell hill begins. This sec tion will be opened to traffic Thursday night, Merrill stated. Varies In Width The hill section has two lanes from Willow Springs toHhe base of the hill, three lanes on the summit approach, and four lanes on the top; three lanes down the west side and two lanes into the Blackwell hill-Rock Point section completed last year. Both base and , top coats through the city of Central Point are completed. Four lanes are provided for through travel, with a parking lane on each side. Only street intersection ap proach work remain to be done. Target date on the project was originally Oct. 31, but an extension will now be asked for next summer. The R. A., Heintz company, Portland, is doing the grading and paving, and Besson ette and Graff, Medford, con structed the three overpasses. A portion- of the work began in November, 1953. Most of it has been done since last spring. Finishing ' work ' will probably begin around April, 1955, if the weather permits. Building Construction Started at Gardens" . Construction has started on a headquarters and office build ing at the Memory Gardens Me morial Park, Arnold lane and Bellinger rd., it was announced today by William S. Ferris, who with Carroll W. Smith is operat ing the new cemetery, The building, designed by Architect Ben H. Todd, wUl be of flagstone and glass construc tion, .on one story. Ferris has invited Inspection of the area, and pointed out that it was carefully chosen for favor able characteristics for the purpose. Access Roads Help Annual Timber Cut Portland U.R) Access roads in national forests are helping to bring the annual timber cut in the United States closer to the annual tree growth, accord ing to Ira J. Mason, chief of the forest service division of management. Mason, In a Teport to the 45th annual Pacific Logging Congress here yesterday, however, said that federal and private opinions still differed on the estimated $194,000,000 worth of access roads yet to be built. . Mason said the national forest timber harvest two years ago was 5,200,000,000 board feet aealnst an annual growth of 6,000,000,000 feet. The harvest increased by 200,000,000 last year, but the lumber strike this year will probably mean no in crease, Mason said. ' Belfy Mutton Rests From Night Club Act Las .Vegas (U.B Actress Betty Hutton was replaced in her show here last night by two other Las Vegas headline acts because she felt on the verge of collapse from nervous exhaus tion. Marlene Dietrich, appearing at the Sahara hotel, offered to take Miss Hutton's first show while Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy, appearing at the Sands, took over Miss Hutton's second show. "It wasn't that I had collap sed," Miss Hutton said, "but I folt that I could at any moment so-1 asked the-Desert Inn for the night off." : Miss Hutton Is half way through a four-week engage ment which she says will be her last before retiring from show business. GOOD SUGGESTION Toronto U.m A 72-year-old grandmother told police today how to handle men who accost ladies on the street at night. Mrs. Tonette Fontaine said that when a "heavy-set fellow" grab bed her by the arm as she waited for a streetcar she grab bed a rock, hit him "a whack on the head he won't forget" and then got on her streetcar. MEDFORD TRUTH CENTER Presents , . , Frances Wilshire Author of "You" Friday, Oct. 29th 10:30 A.M. Room 203 Hollr Thettrt ulldinf 2nd Floor - During World War II, the Dutch underground used the name of Scheveningen, a coastal city, for a modern shibbolet to unmask German agents, Only a Netherlander can pronounce it correctly. 4-H'Achievemenl Awards Presented At Monday Dinner Achievement awards were presented Monday night to 44 'members of Griffin Creek and Southwest Medford 4-H clubs, according to Glenn Klein, coun ty asent fdr 4-H club work. The presentations were made by Elwood C. Hedberg, manager of the . Medford branch, First National bank, in the cafeteria of Griffin Creek school. Awards winners included: First year pins Constance Patterson, Barbara Walker, Bon nie Lee Goehring, Karlene Neill, Diane Evernham, Barbara Johnson, Jeanne Warnock, Judy Maxson, Sylvia Meritt, Michael Redmond, James Albright, Lyn da Knips, Elizabeth Clark, Lois Wright, Barbara Thomas, Shar on Thomas and Christy Ailing- ham. Second Year Second year cards Dicte Ann Farmer, Elise Eskew, Jan Ice Evernham, Delores Meyer, Janice Sessler, Harold Knips, Robert Allen, Jeannette Robert son, Diane Walker, Ann Dar land, Leanette Nouguier, Bonnie Alllngham, Janet Snodgrass, Raymond Nouguier, Norman Renner, and Charles Shaw. Third year pins Sharon Goucher, Phyllis Wright, Mavis Strom, Sheila Couey and Bruce Boldenow. Four year cards Carolce Brantley, Judith Nelson, Don Smith, and Stephen Smith. Fifth year pin Dee Ann Clark. Eighth year card Beverly Nelson. 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