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'Annual Dinner Held by BPWC I The semiannual initiation din ner of the Medford Business and Professional Women's club was jield Thursday evening, Novem Jaer 18, at Tally Ho cafe in Tal Jent. The four new members in itiated were Mrs. Georgiana JBeiers, Mrs. Mildred Hughes, Mrs. Marie Pierce and Mrs. Mar fan Wood. The membership committee, Iwith Mrs. Anna McNeil as chair tanan, was in charge of the pro gram. Dr. Paul Olsen, owner of the "Enchanted Grotto" and a 'member of Roxy Ann Gem and Mineral club, spoke on gems and minerals in Oregon and exotic stones found in various parts of the world. A Christmas party for BPW members will be. held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, December 16, in the employees club room at Camp White. - . , 4 English Women -Observe Holiday; To Leave Soon Miss Jean Thompson and her mother, Mrs. James Thompson, Hanley, England, today will ob serve for their first . time the traditional American . holiday. Thanksgivings at the home of Mrs. Thompson's son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.' Harold Boss, Hartley lane. Miss Thomp son, who arrived recently in America to visit for six months with her sister, has been ill and hospitalized at Ashland Gen eral hospital. She is now con valescing at the home, of her sis ter, and her mother 'arrived to be with her daughter while she was still confined to the hos pital. Miss Thompson has improved greatly since she left the hospital and will be able to be with the rest of the family at the holiday dinner. - Others at the dinner in ad dition to Mr. and Mrs. Ross and Miss Thompson Mrs. Thompson will be the Rosses' three child- . ren, Annette, Sharon and Russell. The two English women will leave here Monday, Nov. 29 by United Air lines for New York 1 City and from there will en plane for England by Pan Amer ican air lines for London. They will arrive there Wednesday at 9 p.m. Arrangements for Miss Thompson's return trip to Eng land by air were made possible ' through the cooperation of J United Airlines officials and I George L. Lewis of Rogue Travel J service. ; :Pass Holiday in Idaho At Nampa, Ida., today are Mr. 1 and Mrs. J. A. Larson, 822 Min- 2 nesota avenue, and Ronnie Sher Jlman, who drove there to visit Zthe Larsons' sons, Bruce and S Wayne Larson, both students at i Northwest Nazarene college, and Mrs. Wayne Larson. They will 5 have dinner at the Wayne Larson - home. ; S WEATHER By United Prtss Northern California: Fog in 5 Central ' Valley along much of 5 coast; fair' otherwise except ! cloudiness extreme north. , ncieily Hall-Size Style 9009 14 244 Here are the slimming lines and smart details that trim inches off your figure! And you can sew this dress in record time it's perfectly proportioned to fit the shorter, fuller figure to eliminate alteration worries. Choose a crisp faille, soft wool. Sew this now! Pattern 9009: Half Sizes 14V, I6V2, 2OV2, 22V, 24V2. Size 16V takes 4 yards 39-inch. . This easy-to-use pattern gives perfect fit. Complete, illustrated Sew Chart shows you every step. Send thirty-five cents in coins for this pattern add 5 cents for each pattern for lst-class mailing. Send to Marian Martin, care Medford Mail Tribune, Pat tern Dept., 232 West 18th St., New York 11, N.Y. Print plain ly NAME, ADDRESS with SIZE and STYLE NUMBER. CALENDAR Calendar notices .and news for the society section of The Mail Tribune must be submitted in writing and deadline for the Sun day edition is 1 p.m. Friday. Dead line for the -weekly calendar is 9 a.m. of the day of publication, and for week day news is 3 pan. the day before publication. I Friday 12:30 p.m. Electa Social cub, Girls Community club. . Make a handy pin cushion by wrapping a heavy piece of flan nel around .the head of the sew ing machine and stitching it in place.: " . WE'RE (DIME FOR 1 m ire mew 6 L0CAT OH 341 Ho. Centra! SHOP NOW FOR REAL SAVINGS AND PLAN TO ATTEND OUR n 1180SE J) 341 N SAT.-NOV. 27th .CENTRAL Gold Star Mothers Plan Installation Friday Evening Joint installation of Officers of the Medford and Grants Pass chapters of Gold Star Mothers will be held at Camp White Friday, November 26, at 7:30 p.m. in the camp theater. The public is cordially invit ed to attend, especially members of veteran organizations . and their auxiliaries according to Mrs. James Cech, member of the Medford group and first vice president for the department of Oregon. Mrs. George Curtiss, Grants Pass, department of Oregon pres ident, will be installing officer. In California . Mrs. Darlyne Rudd, 119 North Central avenue, and her grand mother, Mrs. Fred Brandenburg, Huron, S. D., who has been a guest of Mrs. Rudd for several days, left yesterday evening for Richmond, Calif., to visit with Mrs. Rudd's brother, Daniel J. Conway. Mrs. Brandenburg will leave from Richmond for her home, and Mrs. Rudd will return to Medford Friday. - Metal Industry Top Portland Employer Portland U.R) The lumber industry no longer is the lead ing employer , in the Portland metropolitan area, a research agency said today. The Stanford Research Insti tute reported that the metal in dustry has replaced the lumber industry in this capacity. The report, prepared in co operation with the Chamber of Commerce, also said Portland didn't experience a big retrench ment after World War II. Be tween 1947 and 1955 some 600 industrial firms and branch es tablishments located in the area and about 400 firms expanded their operations. The report added that 237 of the former had since gone out of business. Cornell Makes Study Of Royal Bee Jelly Ithaca, N.Y. (U.R) Cornell University wants to know if royal jelly Is as good for people as it is for bees. The university has set up 40 bee cages on the campus and is slowly scraping out the royal jelly a sticky chemical that nurse bees make and queen bees eat. Cornell's biologists want to learn if royal jelly really cures diseases and spruces up the skin claims that have been made for it. So far, say the scientists, there is no "reliable and conclu sive research" that backs up these claims, and there won't be any for many months. The ex periments will take time. 42 Passengers Hurt In Santa Fe Wreck Needles, Calif. --CU.R) Eight of the 11 cars of the Santa, Fe Chief were derailed by a broken rail on the Mojave Desert, near here last night. Forty-two of the 95 passengers ; aboard suffered minor injuries, a railroad spokes man said. All 95 passengers resumed their trip east today aboard a: substitute train. ' The train was en route from Los Angeles to Chicago when the derailment occurred at 9:05 p.m. (PST), about 65 miles west of here. None of the eight derailed cars, comprising the rear section of the train,' overturned. The forward section, which remained on the rails, was used to bring the passengers here to board the substitute train. - Portland Youth Dies In Wreck Hear Sandy. Sandy ' (U.R) A 16-year-old Portland youth wat killed and nine other boys were shak en up yesterday when the auto in which they were riding over turned on Bluff road three miles north of Sandy. .. . t State police identified the victim as Robert Nels Hansen. He was driving the car and was thrown from the vehicle and in stantly killed as it flipped over. The 10 youths, according to state police, were returning from an afternoon trip to Mt. Hood. LIQUOR MAN CONTRIBUTES Sacramento, Calif. U.R) William G. Bonelli, longtime member of California's liquor control board, was listed today as a $50 contributor to the re cent unsuccessful political cam paign " of Edwin M. Cooper. Cooper ran for attorney general on the Prohibition ticket. . - Barkley Celebrates 77th Birth Anniversary . Brunswick,' Ga. (U.R) Sen. elect Alben Barkley of Kentucky celebrated his 77th birthday at nearby Sea Island yesterday and said fin spirit, I am still a young man.''. .... The former vice-president and Mrs. Barkley arrived at Sea Is land a week ago and took up residence in the same beachfront cottage where they honeymooned five years ago. They are resting from his successful senatorial campaign andcelebrating their fifth wedding anniversary. .Thursday', KoTember 25 I9S4 ' MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE: CIO Woodmen Plan No Contract Demands Portland (U.R) A. F. Har tung, president of the Interna tional Woodworkers of America, (CIO), said today the Northwest Regional Policy committee of the Union had decided to make no . additional demands at this time for 1955 contract negotia tions. A seven-man governors fact finding panel , is studying 1954 demands of the union. . . Hartung said the woodwork ers had asked for a 12 Vz cent-an-hour pay. increase, a third week of vacation and a job classification study. . These de mands are still before the parties he said. CIO and AFL lumber unions and employers both have pre sented their sides to the panel, with rebuttals scheduled Dec. 15-16. ' Grange Griffin Creek Grange ": There will be a square dance party at Griffin Creek Grange Saturday evening, November 27, at 8 p m. Ladies are asked to bring sandwiches. OPEN TODAY! FLASH BULBS o POLAROID FILM o FILM SODIUM BICARBONATE Lots of FREE Parking! Hudson's Pharmacy Medford's Hifcest-1 Drug Store JUST OVER THE BRIDGE ON EAST. MAIN WIFE LEFT BEHIND Kingsport, Tenn. (U.R) ' A motorist bought a tank" of gas oline at Luther Cox's service station yesterday, then drove away .and left his wife in the station restroom. He returned 15 minutes later to retrieve her., WANT TO SHIP ONE? . 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