Blossom Festival
Committee to Meet;
Parade Entries In
Discussion of plans for the
Pear Blossom Festival, to be held
here April 23, will be discussed
by the festival committee at a
7:30 a. m. breakfast meeting to
morrow. Fourteen entries for the pa
rade have already been filed at
the chamber of commerce office,
and the dealine is not until April
21, two days before the parade.
A large number of small floats
are expected.
Committee members have
pointed out that with the parade
limited to small floats, pets and
walking groups, which can be
prepared at little cost, there is
reason to believe there will be a
large number of entries.
Floats Inexpensive
' One sample float, constructed
at a cost of less than $2, is on
display at Crater Lake Motor
company, at Fir and Main sts.
There is no entry fee for parade
floats.
Votes are now being received
at the chamber office, 5 South
Riverside ave., for queen of the
festival. Candidates' pictures
were printed in last Sunday's
Mail Tribune, together with a
ballot form. Deadline for voting
at the chamber office is 5 p. m.
Thursday, April 14.
The five top queen contestants
will be announced Sunday. The
queen will be chosen from the
top five by a committee Of
judges, and will be announced
Thursday, April 21.
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MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1955
Section Two
Measures in Oregon Legislature
MH5 Speech Student
Entered in Contest
Dan Kellington, son of Mr. and
Mrs. G. W. Kellington, 87 Perry
dale ave., and a Medford High
school student, will enter the
annual high school state public
speaking tournament at Oregon
State college in Corvallis Friday
and Saturday.
Kellington, who has taken top
honors in local public speaking
contests, will participate in radio
speaking competition. Devere
Taylor, high school speech coach,
will accompany Kellington.
Some 160 students from all
parts of the state will participate.
Salem (U.R) House com
mittee action yesterday featur
ed hearings on a bill to permit
police officers to make arrests
for drunk driving without a war
rant, even if they- did not wit
ness the offense, and on a bill
to require banks to close their
doors on ' Saturdays.
Marshall N. Dana and Walter
W. R. May, both speaking for
the Highway Lifesavers of Ore
gon, favored the bill on arrests
as one that would simplify ar
rest procedures without threat
ening the rights of citizens. They
contend the accused would still
have his rights to a hearing in
court and added that injured
persons should have their rights
protected as well as the accused.
The hearing was before the
House Judiciary committee that
accepted an amendment from
Rep. Al Loucks (R-Salem) which
would make arrests without war
rants possible in accidents where
injury or property damage had
occurred.
The House Committee on Fi
nancial Institutions heard testi
mony on a bill that independent
banks said they-needed to pro
tect them from competition of
a large banking chain which
maintains Saturday business
hours.
Virgil Solso of the Citizens
Bank of Oswego said small
banks could not afford the ad
ditional staff needed to oper
ate six days a week. C. B. Ste
phenson of the First National
Bank of Portland, which re
mains open on Saturdays, said
"those who serve will survive."
He told the committee that
his bank considered itself a re
tailer and that it should be open
when the demand for banking
service was greatest.
Neither committee took action
on the bills.
Salem (U.R) A resolution
proposing that each county in
Oregon be given a single senator
in the state Legislature, regard
less of its population, has been
sent back to the committee on
elections and reapportionment,
Salem (U.R) A resolution
proposing that each county in
Oregon be given a single senator
in the state Legislature, regard
less of its population, has been
sent back to the committee on
elections and reapportionment.
By a vote of 33 to 25 the
House accepted the arguments
of Reps. Robert Jensen (R-Port-land)
and Alfred Corbett (D-
Portland), members of the elec
tions committee who contended
the bill was rushed through the
committee with no chance for
complete discussion or public
hearing. Jensen said the bill
reached the committee at a morn
ing meeting and was reported
out the same afternoon.
Rep. E. H. Mann (R-Medford),
chairman of the committee,
denied the charge that the bill
was forced through the commit
tee and asserted there had been
every opportunity for members
to discuss it before reporting it
out favorably.
Motion for re-referral to com
mittee was on majority and min-
Chiang Gets Glimpse
Of Chinese Mainland
Taipeh, Formosa U.R) Gen
eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek vis
ited shell torn Quemoy Island
four miles from the Communist
held mainland yesterday for his
first sight of China since he fled
to Formosa more than five years
ago.
On his first visit to the off
shore island Chiang was closer to
the mainland than at any time
since the Chinese Communists
overran China. He spent more
than six hours there although
Nationalist sources said the Com
munists shelled Quemoy today
for the third consecutive day.
ority reports on the resolution.
Salem (U.R) The Senate
has sounded the death knell of
the Battleship Oregon Commis
sion by voting down a bill to ap
propriate $7,500 for it.
Sen. Warren McMinimee (R
Tillamook) said that in 1943 the
commission said an appropriation
in 1945 would be the last it
would ask of the Legislature. But
each session of the Legislature
since then has been asked to ap
propriate and has appropriated
money for the commission creat
ed to honor veterans of the Span
ish American War.
Relics from the Civil War and
the Spanish American War in
possession of the Battleship Ore
gon Commission, now housed in
a dwelling in east Portland, are
expected to be consolidated with
those in the Oregon Historical
Society. Affairs of the Battle
ship Oregon commission are ex
pected to be wound up in the
next few months.
Salem (U.R) The Joint Ways
and Means committee has re
ceived a recommendation from'
its salary subcommittee that Su
preme and Circuit Court judges
get a $1000 per year pay in
crease. This would give Supreme
Court justices $13,000 and Cir
cuit Court judges $11,000 a year.
The court salary bills originally
called for a boost to, $15,000 for
Supreme Court justices and to
$13,000 for Circuit Court judges.
Salem (U.R) A bill on school
textbooks which would end .the
exclusive jurisdiction of school
people has been introduced by
Sen. Pat Lonergan at the request
of the Daughters of the Ameri
can Revolution.
. The bill would partially staff
the present textbook commission
with laymen, instead of all pro
fessional school people as at pres
ent.
An estimated 19.3 million
Americans are able to play the
piano.
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AGAINST WAR RISK Adlai
E. Stevenson, former Demo
cratic presidential candidate,
speaks out in radio address
from Chicago against risks of
a third war in defense of
Chinese Nationalist islands of
Quemoy and Matsu. He
warned the U. S. to shun
lonely stand of the islands in
favor of a united free world
defense of Formosa.
McLeod
McLeod Guests of Mr. and
Mrs. George Tockstein are Mrs.
Neil Price and two sons and
Donald McClean, all of Eureka,
Calif.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Denninger
have moved into the Elrod
house on Crowfoot rd. and Mr.
and Mrs. Howard Hansel wHo
used to live there have gone to
Hamilton, O.
Guests at Harding's Paradise
are Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Kober-
nik of Roseburg. The Hardings
are parents of Mrs. Kobernik,
Overnight guests April 8 of
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hume were
Wayne and Sonda Vaughn of
Prospect.
Evangelist Graham Draws Record Crowd
Glosgow, Scotland (U.R)
Billy Graham drew the biggest
crowd of his "Tell Scotland"
crusade Monday night.
A record breaking 17,540 per
sons jammed Kelvin hall to hear
the American evangelist preach
the evening services. The turn
out boosted the total for the
crusade here to 350,000.
After the services 401 persons
stepped forward to take "de
cisions for Christ," increasing
the total of converts to 8412.
Motor Vehicle Bill
Approved by House
Salem (U.R) House yester
day approved a bill taking the.
motor vehicles division away
from the secretary of state and
putting it under the governor. .
The measure has already been
approved by the Senate and was
passed by the House by a vote of
39 to 19.
Graham set another record
high yesterday, but it was one
he wasn't too proud about. It
was his golf score.
Graham beat a member of his
crusade staff, Lee Fisher, in the
match at the famed Gleneagles
course in Perth. But his score
was so high, it was not disclosed.
Cropland in the U.S. has re
mained at about 400 million
acres since 1920 while the popu
lation of the U.S. has increased
by at least 50 percent.
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