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AP rJvf m:sL Ifw """"M"""" HHMHMMiHBiHHMMMHBBHIIHHHi IWWlWl MJJUJI J, M IM KII IIH I I m III ljlll i - J: NEW DIRECTORS Pictured above are the newly elected directors of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. They are, left, to right, top row, Eric Allen Jr., N. B. Bender, and W.rB. Brill. Second row, left to right,' are Hugh Coleman, George Flanagan, and Ronald Gandee. Bottom, how, left to right, .are Mrs. Bert Pree,, John Snider, and Frank Van Dyke. All but .Bender were named for three-year terms. Bender will serve a one-year term. The nine were elected from 18 nominees chosen earlier by chamber members. Holdover members of the board of directors are W. A. Barker, Frank Bash, L. W. Bates, H. D. Christensen, John G. Crawford, J. H. Creager, E. B. DeVoe, Otto Ewaldsen, Everett Faber, Otto Frohn mayer, Mark Goldy, Dwight Houghton,; Joe Naumes, John Pletsch, and R. B. Thierolf. (Brainerd Photos). ; uregon tnaiKS up Fourth Accident Death Since S-D . By UNITED PRESS - Oregon Saturday chalked up its fourth .traffic fatality since its deathless Safe Driving day mark on Wednesday. . ; . ' ? ; , Two persons died in traffic ac cidents Friday and two others were killed Thursday. The death of a Tillamook woman in. an other mishap was believed, at least indirectly caused by a traf fic accident. Two Car Crash Walter Jennings, 65, Oregon City was killed in a two-car collision late Friday two miles south of Oregon City on the Mo lalla highway. Bernald Walden, 48, Portland, was killed early Friday when his car skidded on ice hear Burlington on the Lower Columbia River high way and struck a tree. Hazel White, 46, Tillamook, was dead on arrival at a Forest Grove hospital late Friday af ter she collapsed following a mi nor traffic accident. The coro ner's 'office said an autopsy would be conducted. On Thursday, John W. Scott, 40, Roseburg, was killed when his lumber carrier was hit by a train, - and John Dunne ; Keller, 7, Albany, died when; struck by a car.". '.,,'-:. r Chicle was once exported to the U.S. as a substitute for rub ber. ;; . ' .-. 'Uranium Tunnel7 Display Closed by State Injunction Long Rock, Wis. (U.R) Ken neth Crook's "uranium, tunnel" display,; which attracted persons seeking cures 'for ailments, has been closed down by a state in junction, tli K Milo Ottow,- a -representative of the Wisconsin attorney gene ral's office, arrived Friday to serve the injunction closing the "tunnel" which Crook had set up in an old drug store. Follows Court Action ' The action resulted from a rul ing earlier this month by Circuit Judge A. W. Kopp that Crook, 36, was attempting to treat the sick without the required certi ficate in the basic sciences. Kopp agreed with the state's contention that the operation was illegal. . Similar "tunnels" have sprung up throughout : the state since Crook packed the walls of the drug store with low grade ura nium ore he brought back from Arizona earlier this year. . He charged visitors $1 an hour to visit the 16 foot enclosure and sit on benches upholstered with bags containing the ore. Deny Operation illegal Crook and his attorneys denied the operation was illegal on grounds that Crook made no written or spoken claims and never - tried to diagnose his ' More than 400,000 beds are available in Berlin hotels, inns, and boarding houses, ,11 per cent more, than in, 1953. . ;. i ii MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY with Toys to put , . sparkle! in young eyes and laughter in young hearts The Toy House 28 South Bartlett clients ailments. But Kopp said Crook . accomplished : the same thing by posting articles in his window telling of uranium's ef fects on the body and testimon ials for other "tunnels.".:. Two Waiting Trial Will Retain Jobs, Declare Colleges Bpston ' - U.R) A Harvard physics professor and a McGill university psychologist charged with contemnt of th IT. ,S. Sen ate were assured Saturday they can remain at their jobs vnue awaiting .trial in U. S. District Court here. Assistant Harvard Prof. Wen dell :H.. Furry, 47, and Leon J. Kamin. 26. were indicted by a federal Grand Jury Friday for refusmg to, name former Com' .munist associates when ques' tinned bv Sen. Josenh R. Mc Carthy (R-Wis.) last Jan. 15 and 16. No date was set for arraign ment of the men to plead the indictments. At the hearing both men re fused to testify on grounds of "conscience." Commenting on the indict ment of Furry on 10 counts Harvard President Nathan M Pusey said Furry was indicted for refusing to answer questions "about other people." . "He testified under oath he dropped out of the Communist party a number of years ago," Pusev said. Furrv is on a three- year probation period at Har vard for what the university called . "grave misconduct in employing the fifth amendment in . an earlier nearing. rie is a resident of Belmont. T)r fVril .Tames, nrincinal of McGill, said "the university will do nothing until he (Kaminj is tried." Kamin was indicted on six counts. He was formerly a research assistant at .HarvarjI. Iran Launches Plan To Bolster Economy San Francisco (U.R) The Shah of Iran told a press con ference Friday that his country has .launched a $1,000,000,000 "seven year plan", to revitalize its lagging economy, and is look ins for orivate American invest ment to aid the program. Shah Mohammed Reza Pahleyi told newsmen the most import ant part of his current U. S. tour was to encourage private Ameri can investment to make up the deficit that oil royalties will not be able to provide during the" first few years of the plan. The Iranian monarch said the recent anglo-Iranian oil settle ment would eive his nation an annual income of about .150 mil lion dollars, but he said part of these royalties were earmark ed for other official : expendi tures. The seven year plan, he said, is expectea to be tne -turning point" in Iran's long history, and private capital investment in the country "would be profitable for both sides." The shah said he and his beau tiful empress Soraya would go to Los Angeles on the 24th and then to Sun Valley, Idaho, for skiing. MEN'S SANFORIZED BRUSHED FRENCH FLANNEL fort Shirts $ JJJ7 2 for $5.00 AKmT" I will 'J Regularly McKay Schedules Series Of Talks' in Oregon Portland U.R) Interior Secretary Douglas McKay, who was scheduled to arrive in Sa lem this weekend for the holi days, will make Portland speech es Dec. 27 and 29. He will speak before the Chamber of Commerce on Dec. 27 and two days later will talk at a meeting of the Multnomah county cnapter of ; the Oregon Republican club.- .." German Girl Gets' American Secrets From U.S. Officers Berlin-J(U.R) A voluptuous German beauty who used her charms so effectively she work ed her way into the American security - system f will be ar raigned Tuesday on charges of spying for the Communists. The Ii. S. High Commission charges that the girl, Irmgard Margarethe Schmidt, 24, learn ed from susceptible American officers the identify of Ameri can secret agents, the meetings places of underground agents, the way anti-Communists ag ents are. smuggled into the East, how anti-Communist ag ents are trained and methods used by the United States to learn the Soviet army "order of battle." , Worked for Security Man Informed sources : said she used her beauty so effectively she got a job workmg for an American security officer. Conviction on the spying charge could bring the death penalty. Names of the officers the girl was friendly with were not dis closed. However, at 'least one highly placed Air Force officer was transierred back to the United States suddenly because of his relations with Miss Schmidt. - She was arrested on ' a tin from a jealous German boy friend. Sunday, December 19, 1954 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN Sharing St ored U.S. Surpluses Urged by Group New York America's farm surpluses, which now cost the nation $256,000,000 a year in storage bills, could be brought to the free world's hungry peo ples at a cost of a nickel a day for each person given full feed ings i- . v: If used to add 500 calories a day- to .the food supplies of the many peoples whose diets are seriously deficient by . that amount, the cost would be two cents per person or less. ; Those figures are cited in a survey issued by 16 leading U. S. businessmen, members of the National Advisory Committee for CARE,' who urge a worldwide- "food crusade" to distribute surpluses ; as a ; major arm of American diplomacy. Famine, Surpluses Compared Entitled "Feast and Famine," the survey contrasts the facts of world hunger against the U.S. government's current holdings of nearly; $6,000,000,000 worth OJ edible surpluses, or 26.000, 000 gross tons of foods. The an nual storage expense, it notes, is "four times the cost of running our Congress." Cost estimates for foreign dis tribution, including processing and shipping, are based ,on re cent CARE experiences. Pilot project for the global crusade, the : Committee points out, 5 CARE's Christmas appeal . to Americans to donate $1 to send two, packages of surplus food to needy, families abroad. NOTHING IN A NAME . , Saratoga Springs, N. : Y. U.R) The fortunes of. a Fort Plains, N.Y. man aren't quite up to his name. State Police here report ed they recovered a stolen car found overturned in a ditch and badly damaged. The vehicle was owned by M. T. Luck of Fort Plain. Oregon Child Flown 200 Miles for Surgery Walla Walla (U.PJ ,.A 15- month-old child was flown more than 200 miles to Walla Walla Friday night for an operation that succeeded in removing a peanut that had lodged in a lung and seriously hampered his brea tfcjng. Attendants at a hospital here said today James Neal Campbell, Seneca, Ore.j was in good con dition and resting comfortably following the bronchoscopy, a delicate operation of which a tube and wire clamps are insert ed into the lung. The child swallowed the pea nut earlier Friday. , . ' Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday ; 10 ajn. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 previous day - Industry uses nine times more castor oil than is required by medicine. v.,. ErsIrineV Piano Store Will Be CLOSED for about two weeks beginning Dec. 21. 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IN THE C. Lyall Fidler HOTEL JACKSON Building, Medford Phone 2-5532 I IS -A 1 - $ $ A Jsl Gordon S. MacKenzie With the merger of the 'C LYALL FIDLER AGENCY & the GORDON S. MACKENZIE AGENCY with our main office in the Jackson Hotel Building and a Branch Office next door to the Post Office in Phoenix, we offer the finest insurance and real estate service in Southern Oregon. Visit our office for your every insurance need. . Insurance Department We represent old line Board Companies with complete facilities for every known kind of fire, automobile and liability coverages. Featuring strong mutual and dividend pay ing companies and writing bonds of every kind at competitive rates. AUTO LIABILITY COVERAGES: ; Coverage in strong companies at rates com parable with the lowest in the" State with all claims paid promptly by local adjusters. Real Estate Department Our real estate department, under the manage ment of Bill Kerr, offers a complete service; sell ing homes and business, farms and ranches. We will assist with financing, handle your rentals and appraise your property. Our listings are shared with other leading REALTORS thru a multiple listing plan assuring you of the best efforts of several offices in the sale of your property. A - HBESTT AU1EIE WMN MTOIEin HBY.. Fidler-MacECenzie Agency, I GDC 122 EAST EIGHTH ST. JACKSON HOTEL BLDG. PHONE 2-5532
