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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 18, 1955)
Kivanians Put Final Polish on '55 Kapers Prologue of the 1955 Medford Kiwanis Kapers begins in "Heaven." In it St Gabriel sends St. Medford on a mission which provides the theme for "Tel-A-Version," a two-act musical and ski production featuring local talent and professional direc tion. The service club's seventh annual Kapers will run Wednes day, Thursday, Friday and Sat urday, Feb. 23, 24, 25 and 26 at the senior high school audi torium. St. Gabriel is played by Frank Benesh, California Oregon Pow er company district manager, and Bob Rector, furniture store dealer, is St. Medford. Gabriel orders Medford to return to this city, of which he is patron saint, to investigate the medium call ed television. Since video was given to earth people for educa .tional purposes, Gabriel wishes to know how it is being used. St. Medford then arrives on earth and he end the theater audience witness a series of shows which are versions of a number of popular TV programs. In the actual opening scene, two mad scientists, Ron Rice and Russ Jamison, sing about the trials of the invention of TV. They introduce a parade of characters of popular shows. Second scene is a highlight of comedy as the "Swan Lake" bal let is performed by an all male cast. Third scene, "Angel and Jun ior," has the Space Patrol pro gram as its basis. Western flavor is added in the fourth scene by the "Tex Wyoming Show." Then "Dragnet" the fifth scene is a take-off on the Jack Webb productions. Final scene of the first act is the "Hit or Miss Parade." The entire second act is the "Fred Herring Show" with Mrs. Charles Champlin, Mrs. Darrell Huson and Ron Rice as soloists. Tickets are already on sale at Ashland Firms Use Doubledufy Milling The story of how the Paul Workman Lumber company in Ashland did double-duty milling recently, with the adjacent Lithia Lumber company also us ing the facilities of the Work man mill, is described in the February issue of The Lumber man, forest industry trade jour nal. Lithia' s mill was destroyed by fire last August, and an ar rangement was made to lease the neighboring Workman mill, on a per shift basis. The close situation of the two mills and the convenient location of the log pond facilitated the joint operation. Paul Workman is president of the Paul Workman Lumber com pany and Robert Jeeters is mill superintendent for the firm. Paul Folks is president of Lithia Lumber company, and William H. Kietz is Lithia's foreman. v many, downtown stores where there are Kiwanis club mem bers. Reserve seats for the Thursday, Friday and Saturday night performances may be ob tained at Barker's Men's store, Main st. and Central ave., start ing, Monday, Feb. 21. Persons who have purchased the regular admission tickets may have reservations arranged at Barker's by paying an addi tional amount. No reservations will be taken by telephone. Kiwanian Dames will be at the store throughout the entire day on Monday and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. others days of the week. No seats will be reserved for the Wednesday show. Students will be admitted at a reduced rate that night and adults for the regular prltee. Wednesday will be the only night that there will.be a speciarstudent rate. Of Vermont's 14 counties there are 10 in which more than half the land is forested. Runaway Heiress Found in Illinois Evanston, LI. 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