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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) TO APPEAR HERE Pictured above are the three Happy Jest ers, who are scheduled for appearances at the Rogue Valley Coun try club starting Tuesday, Feb. 15, and continuing through Sun day, Feb. 20. The group, which iof popular singing groups, has radio and television shows, at and recently headlined the famous Minsky Follies show. Fire in Texas Hotel Sends 3000 into Cold s Dallas, Tex. (U.R) A stub born lire roared through part of 5 the 26-story, 1,250-room Adolph us hotels on Friday night, forc ing more than 3,000 guests into the cold. But only seven persons needed hospital treatment, five of them firemen. The hotel, one of Dallas' larg- est, is located in the heart of the city. Firemen said the blaze started in a locker room of the swank Insurance Club on the sixth floor; Mose of the fire damage was to. the club and the ornate French Room, directly below it. R. W. Scott of Eastland, Tex., said he had just entered.the hotel when he noticed smoke in the lobby. x Notified Others . 3 "I went to my room, on the sixth floor, notified others on the floor and made a hasty exit. One cute girl came dashing out a door throwing a coat over her slip. She was in a hurry and I don't blame her." Bill Ross of Goliad, Tex., said he was on the 24th floor with several others when a friend told them the hotel was on fire. o s0 needlework? 2 i i nmujiM.ii.Li. HL1.....1II V I I Send 25 cents now' for your copy of the New Alice Brooks ; Needlecraft Catalog to: Medford Mail Tribune Needlecraft Service, P.O. Box 163, Old Chelsea Station, N.Y. 11, N.Y. MAIL TRIBUNE c is well known for impersonations appeared on the Arthur Godfrey leading hotels and supper clubs, "We thought the caller was kidding. But then we smelled smoke and beat it." Officials had made no estimate of the damage. But : Fire i Mar shal W. G. Penn and Fire Chief C. N. .Penn said it would be ex tensive to the area that was burned and then water-soaked. Mostly Smoke Sickness ... The seven who were hospital ized suffered mostly from smoke sickness. In addition to the five firemen, an elderly woman and a man received treatment. The woman, Mrs. Inez Fasken of Ross, Calif., was taken to Baylor Hospital as a precaution, Hotel authorities said she had been ill. Firemen said smoke was so dense part of the time that even their smoke masks were not too effective. The smoke hindered their operations, but the fire was extinguished after a two- hour fight and guests moved back into the hotel to spend the night, Among those evacuated when the fire was at its peak were several hundred high school stu dents from all over Texas who were in Dallas for a band convention. . Get the latest 1955 Alice ' Brooks Needlecraft Book ( and see the great variety of lovely, up-to-the-minute designs created by this foremost needlecraft designer! Beautifully illustrated, these truly imaginative ideas will inspire you to send for v many of the patterns. . And follow the Alice Brooks Pattern Feature ia our pages. Every day brings you a different design- ' complementary highlights for your various outfits; decorative or practical house , hold accessories; toys ; ( and novelties to delight the children. 1 JBBSL Sunday, February 13, 1S55 Labor Chief Wants Organization of Workers on Farms Washington (U.R) The presi dent of the AFL Agricultural Workers Union called for an all out drive Saturday to organize full-time farm workers into one of the nation's biggest unions. President H. L. Mitchell said he hoped the merger of the AFL and the CIO would spark the drive to organize workers on large industrial-type farms. . He said he believed that about two-thirds of the estimated , 1, 500,000 ' full-time farm workers could be organized. Want Wage Study Meantime, an. advisory' com mittee representing both the CIO and AFL urged the Labor Department to look into the pos sibility of setting a federal mini mum wage for farm workers. . Mitchell's union now has 50, 000 members. He said the total number of U. S. farm workers, including ... family-type farmers, ranges from a low of about 5, 000,000 in mid-winter to a peak of about 8,000,000 during the summer months. " Mitchell said he agrees with AFL President George Meany that it would not be feasible to try to organize all of these work ers, most of whom are part-time employees or hired hands on small farms. Pickin' Pears News and Notes , From Camp White By SID. HOLLINGSWORTH Radio has introduced to Amer ican audiences many varieties of the "quiz show." Their popular ity has "proclaimed them a new institution in the world of en tertainment. For four years now the Myers-Holland Post of the American Legion, Central Point, has plugged along, with its unique brand of quiz show in the Veterans Hour. All the participants in the quiz program are Camp White veterans. So far as is known this is the only show of its kind in the country. An evening of entertainment is arranged each month of the year except the summer months. Special acts, are brought in, but the.features of the event is the quiz program which has been broadcast con sistently over station KYJC. Jimmy Dunlevy was for some time the master of ceremonies, and his expert handling of the timid veterans invited their ap pearances. Now there are al ways at least half a dozen mem bers ready to' respond to the questions. Jerry Girard, recrea tion director, has handled the questions during the past two years. , r Prizes are awarded at each appearance to. each contestant answering two out of three of the questions, arranged accord ing to subjects such as baseball, flowers, world capitals, etc. The merchants of Central Point sup porting the local post have do nated most of the prizes. This year the program was extended to cover all of the Fifth District of the Legion. Emil K r o e g e r, district com mander, has given the show his endorsement, and the programs have been conducted alternately by the five Legion posts in the district. These are Ashland Post 14, Clyde Smith, commander; Med ford Post 15, Herb Cram, com mander; Grants Pass Post, Bill Malloy, commander; Cave Junc tion Post, Jack Sowell, com mander, and Myers Holland Post, Dewey Gearin, com mander. Bill Keizur and his son, rep resenting the Central Point Post, were the originators of the idea. It was something of a gamble for them at first, but now the event is anticipated in the sched ule of Camp White theater pro grams with considerable inter est. In the schedule of shows to be presented in the near future are a big Elks show set for Friday, March 18,at 2 p.m. to be brought over by the Rogue Valley Coun try club, and the annual appearance- of the Young Oregon ians, from Portland, on tour un der direction of Amby Amburn. The 40 youngsters in the troupe are slated to appear in the after noon of March 18. T The outstanding, event of the season thus far was the annual benefit card party for the blind of Jackson county. It is esti mated that about $500 was raised with .no less than .250 persons participating in the vari ous games with an assorment of prizes made available through the ' generosity of local mer chants. The affair was held in the Recreation annex in . two sec tions, one for the general con testants and the other reserved for the regular ; bridge clubs sponsoring the event. These in clude the Riverside club, Camp White Bridge club and the Med ford Duplicate Bridge club. Wo Heavy Attack on Quemoy, M By CHARLES CORDDRY ', United Press Correspondent -.- Washington' ..(U.R). High military officials doubted Satur day that Red ! China will make any full-scale attempt in the im mediate future to seize Quemoy or Matsu islands now that the exacuation of the Tachen Islands is complete. ; ' ' . - The military leaders had no doubt the Communists still will try to make trouble in the For mosa area, probably with prob ing attacks in the next two or three months.' ; ; ' - Quemoy, which lies just out side the Communist mainland Port of Amoy, is directly oppos ite Formosa -and is the island where the Nationalists have their largest "garrison outside the Formosa stronghold. ' No Buildup Seen But officials said a major at tack on Quemoy would require a buildup of men and supplies on the mainland and moving air power down from the Shanghai area. No such buildup on the mainland has been reported for the past six months, Navy sources said. - The State Department an nounced here Friday night that U.S. naval and air forces in the Formosa area had completed their task of assisting and cov-( ering the evacuation of. the Tachens. TYPEWRITERS & ADDING MACHINES Repaired . MEDFORD OFFICE EQUIPMENT COMPANY 41 S. Grape Phone 2-4100 atsu Seen "These U. S. forces will now resume their normal operations but will be alert to any concen tration or employment of Com munist Chinese forces obviously undertaking to facilitate attack upon Formosa and will be pre pared to take appropriate action if required," the announcement warned. The Navy assembled under the 7th Fleet command .of Adm. Alfred M. Pride is the greatest naval force to help in the evacu ation since 261 ships were used in the Inchon invasion in Korea in September, 1950. The evacu ation force included six aircraft carriers with about 450 air planes, three cruisers and 36 de stroyers. With , thev help of Chinese Na tionalist ships, 14,000 civilians, 10,000 Nationalist regular troops and several thousand guerillas were evacuated to Formosa. The Communists shot down one plane which "misnavigated" over one of their islands and fired an oc casional anti-aircraft burst but otherwise' did not interfere in the evacuation. ' , .. 0Q2C There is an easy way to send your child to college! - than, The Medford MaU Tribune Dr. Raymond Smith C Reported Improved The condition of Dr. Raymond G. Smith, Medford dentist now in Mazatlan, Mexico, is said to be improved according to Mr. and Mrs. Dolph Phipps, friends of the Smiths. News from Mrs. Smith is to the effect that . Dr. Smith is still seriously ill, but that plans were being made to return him to Medford by air. The Medford dentist sufered a severe paralytic stroke while the two' were traveling in Mexico. Washington -(U.R)-- The gov ernment has authorized tax benefits on 85 per cent of the $58,000,000 cost of constructing, a second , railroad crossing of the Great Salt Lake, an Office of Defense Mobilization official said Saturday. . -.. '. Clean Up! Trade in Your EnPTY BOTTLES Today at the OK Mkt.! All Popular Brands of Soda and Beverage Empties Are Welcome in Trade Here! WE GIVE GOLD ARROW STAMPS 1202 N. RIVERSIDE This simple plan will Are you determined to give your child the benefits of a college education yet worried about money? Then why not do what more and more farsighted parents are doing? Start getting tjjat money together now the safe, sure, automatic way -4 through the Payroll Savings Plan! It's simple! Just tell your company's pay office how much you want to save any where from a few dollars a payday up to as much as you want. This sum is then saved for you every payday. It is invested in U. S. Series 'E Savings Bonds which are turned over to you, and which earn good interest for you. v ; ; t Iff systematic! Just think if you sign up to save $3.75 a week, in 5 years you'll Choose your , - $5,000 $10,000 j $25,000 Each wek for 9 yere and v. Smooths, $8.80 $U-73 $45.00 Each week for 19 years and ' . Smorths.sa. $3.75 $7.50 $18.75 How lwr babjj99 future starts today when you save with United States Savings Dotxdo through the Pugroll Savings Plan! . . j M mhtmtimim. Tim far Hmr patrmbe iomhou. tht Adotrtum Robert C. Strang Ordained in Nevada Robert Crawford Strang, who lived in Medford for many years, was recently ordained to the priesthood of the Episcopal church in a ceremony held at St. Philip's in the ; Desert, Haw thorne, Nev. The minister, is a son of Mr., and Mrs. Robert ,B., Strang, Reno, Nev.; is' a nephew of Fred and Virgil Strang and Mrs. R. H.' Holmes, all Medford. The Rev. Mr. Strang, who lived here until 1935,; was bap tized at St." Mark's ; Episcopal church here and for many years was a member of- the Sunday school class of the late John G, Mann. He is a graduate of the University of Nevada and of the Episcopal . divinity school at Berkeley, Calif. , : , ; ; The .ordination ceremony was OPEN TILL do the" trick- if you start right now! have $1,025.95 in 9 years 8 months, $2,137.30 and in 19 years 8 months youH have $5,153.72. It's sure! Once you join, your 'saving is automatically done for you before you draw your pay. You don't have to do a, thing. And your child's education will be provided for by money you don't even miss now. 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