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.
Eight million working people are now on
the Plan saving for a home of their own,
a college education for their children, or
any of those things made possible only
through systematic saving So join the
Payroll Savings Plan right now or, if
you are self-employed, join the Bond-A-Month
Plan where you bank. Do it today!
own savings goal
to yov wont fj90fxinMtoly
This chart abowi only a
few typical example of
saving goals and how to
reach them through Pay
roll Savings. Remember,
you can save my mam yoo
wish, from ar coople of
' dollars a payday np to as
much as yon want. The
important thing is, Hart
your Pla todayt
Your Child Can Learn
There's no better way for your child to learn
thrift than by buying U. S. Savings Stamps at
school. Because Savings Stamps provide a goal to
save toward. As each album of 10c or 25c Stamps
is filled, it can be converted into a valuable U. S.
Savings Bond. Millions of children are learning
to save in the U. S. School Savings Program.
Why not start your child now? v,
C&meU mn
performed February 9 by the
Rev. William Fisher Lewis, Epis
copal bishop of Nevada.
Dead , line Sunday Classified If at
noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for
Monday: other days 8:30 Drevious day.
SNIDER'S
ICE CREAM
.i Refreshes
without
BUY A CARTON , ,
: and :
Get One Free
TODAY!
6 P.M. SUNDAYS
Thrift