35 Local Students
Will Visit OSC on
Senior Week End
Corvallis Thirty-five seniors
from the Medford area will visit
Oregon State college this week
end for a preview of college edu
cational opportunities and stu
dent activities.
The program gives graduating
seniors a chance to explore ca
reer possibilities in the various
fields of study and to get ac
quainted with college life. Talks
with staff members in the var
ious schools on job prospects are
part of the program.
The senior week end is part
of the program conducted by
all state system schools. Seniors
are guests in the OSC living
groups.
Special events include student
entertainment shows, a style
show, dances, boxing and track
and baseball contests.
Local seniors who have noti
fied OSC they will participate
are listed below. Others may be
included, since all seniors have
been invited.
They include Frank Bash,
Larry Brown, Jon Clifford, June
Couey, John Day, Charles
Kanehl. Darlene Kraening, Lan
ora Kyker, Henry Owen, Betty
Naylor, Glen Peterson, Guy
Parker, Suzanne Reichstein, Dor
othy Rhymes, Elaine Sorum,
Lloyd Shreeve, Jack Terzenbach,
Sally Walker, Donald Weber, and
Mary White, all Medford High
school.
Eagle Point High school stu
dents include Kenneth Bitterling,
Bill Caldwell, Pat Dickenson,
Kay McCorkle, Amy Johnson,
Eldon Mason, Carla Ragsdale,
Jerry Tuttle, William Wayman,
Alice Wilson and Marcia Wood
ward. Other students are Jim Mc
Abee, Dale Walter and Jay
Wood, Talent High School; and
Carl Garner, Phoenix High
school.
Song Writer Pays
Dad's Old Debts
Savannah, Ga. (U.R) When
band leader-song writer Johnny
Mercer was 18, his father's real
estate and insurance firm here
went on the rocks, leaving in
vestors high and dry to the tune
cf approximately one million
dollars.
Prior to his death in 1940,
George A. Mercer used all his
talent and personal property in
an effort to pay off the indebted
ness and reduced the 1 amount
to $300,000.
Yesterday, the late Mercer's
son Johnny, sent a check for
$300,000 to the Chatham Sav
ings Bank, the liquidating agent
for the former G. A. Mercer
Company.
Bank President George W
Hunt said today that letters to
all certificate holders of the
defunct firm are being prepared.
The chetk from Mercer, he said,
is sufficient to pay off all claims.
"This deed on the part of
Johnny Mercer can be attributed
to the bigness of his heart, his
love for his father and his de
sjre to clear the company s
name," Hunt said.
The Mercer company folded
in 1927 when it was unable to
liquidate assets rapidly enough
to meet the demands of certifi
cate holders.
; Meanwhile, young Johnny
went on to success in the music
world, achieving wealth along
with fame.
Railroad Fined $200 .
Portland (U.R) The South-
cm Pacific Company has been
fined S200 by U. S. Judge Claude
McColloch for improper mixing
of cars containing explosives
with other cars in the train. The
railroad company pleaded no
contest to a four count informa
tion.
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INHERITING TRADITION of ill-fated predecessor, raft Lehi II is taken over by Coast Guard to
satisfy judgment of $820 in fines levied because of deficiencies in Lehi I which was abandoned in
Pacific last summer after trouble-filled voyage. Departure for Hawaii is delayed, (International)
Measures in Oregon Legislature
Salem (U.R) The so-called
''balanced plan" for electing
state senators has been intro
duced at a hearing here as a
compromise to opposition to a
bill to have each country repre
sented by one, senator.
Under the plan, which was
defeated in the 1950 general
election, each of the 18 coun
tries west of the Cascades would
be represented by one senator,
while the eastern counties would
divide 12 senator seats.
Opponents to the compromise
amendment said it was, in es
sence, the same as the plan de
feated soundly in 1950.
Under present membership
based on population there are
24 senators from western Ore
gon and six from eastern Ore
gon.' The resolution would leave ths
House apportioned by popula
tion: Opponents to the measure in
troduced by Reps. Giesy and
Stunz included Mrs. Ronald K.
Campbell of Corvallis. presi
dent of "the League of "Women
Voters of Oregon; Elmer Mc
Clure, master of the state Grange
and Ken Reinke, chairman cf
the Multnomah County Demo
cratic Central Committee.
Speakers for the bill included
Giles ' French, Moro publisher
and former state representative;
George Dewey, secretary of the
Oregon Farm Bureau Federa
tion; Sen. John P. Hounsell (R
Hood River) and Rep. Joe Rog
ers (D-Independence).
Salem (U.R) A building
program recommendation has
been stalled in the House Ways
and Means Committee and con
sideration did not get beyond
the first item in the 26-project
proposal.
Sen. Gene Brown (R-Grants
Pass), in discussion on the pro
posed Portland mental hospital,
said he feared the state was try
ing to provide the best in mental
treatment when it should be
content with lower standards in
proportion to its wealth. Oregon
now ranks 24th in the standards
of treatment offered to mental
patients in the nation.
Two hours of discussion re
vealed some opposition to the
$14,900,000 building program
CAB Opens Hearing
In Crash of Airliner
Seattle (U.R) The Civil
Aeronautics Board has opened a
hearing into last month's crash
of a Pan American airways
transport in the Pacific.
The crash took the lives of two
ercw members and two passen
gers. . There were 19 survivors
of the crash which occurred
March 26.
Thirteen of the survivors were
among-, the 33 witnesses who
were summoned to testify at the
hearing here. It is expected to
continue fo two or three days.
Presiding . over the four-man
CAB inquiry panel was Robert
W. Chrisp, chief of the board's
hearing and reports division, bu
reau of safety investigation.
The airliner, a Boeing strato-
cruiser, crasnea aoout zo mues
west of North Bend, Ore., after
one of its four engines had torn
out of the wing.
Coos Bay Youth Pleads
Guilty To Watch Theft
Portland (U.R) Jackie D.
Maxey, 20,-Coos Bay, has plead
ed guilty to theft of five gov
ernment owned wrist watches
from a Marine Corps store in San
Diego and U: S." Judge Claude
McColloch imposed a one year
probation. Maxey was discharged
from the Marines last February
after combat service in Korea.
among members of the joint
committee and a meeting of the
Senate Taxation Committee
brought out other objections that
the total was too high.
There was no mention of
financing plans. Senate Taxation
Committee members said they
would be unable to complete
work on their revenue measure
until they knew whether the
proposed building program was
to be financed out of current
appropriations or by a bond
ifsue.
Sen. Rudie Wilhelm (R-Port-land),
chairman of the Senate
Assessment and Taxation Com
mittee, told members he would
expect a final decision on income
tax increases by Thursday.
Sen. Phil Lowry (R-Medford),
indicated he would prefer a
sales tax over an income tax in
crease that might go as high as
60 or 70 per cent. He said he
would rather delay action on
the income tax bill until the
house sales tax proposal had
been studied.
Salem (U.R) The Senate
has approved a budget of S5,
777,390 for the State Unemploy
ment Compensation Commission.
The measure, House bill 656,
provides for $4,422,617 for sal
aries and . wages; $259,228 for
other personal services; $1,029,
529 for materials and services,
and $66,016 for capital outlay.
The bill now goes to the gov
ernor. The Senate also passed a
House approved appropriation
of $183,783 to the State Board
of Education for the Indian edu
cation and training program.
This is to finance the program
frcm the first of this year to
June 30, 1955.
Salem (U.R) Authorization
for the use of $174,000 in wel
fare funds for the case of wel
fare patients at the University
of Oregon medical school out
patient clinic has been approved
by the House.
Members also voted for an
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A 4? ill'
appropriation measure to pro
vide $3000 for development of
parking areas in the vicinity of
the state capitol building. Prop
erty already owned by the state
would be used.
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find your best meat value at Safeway!
For example: Each Pot Roast you buy at
Safeway is aged so you taste its full
natural tenderness and flavor.
To assure you properly aged meat,
Safeway built in this area a
million dollar Central Meat Plant.
Here Safeway meats are held in
air-conditioned aging rooms, at
controlled temperatures,
the exact number of days required
to develop peak goodness.
Around Hollywood
Hollywood (U.R) Recipe
for a comedian: George Gobel
started being funny when he
was a boy because his school
mates teased him about his size.
- "A good many comics start
cut with a complex when they're
small," is the theory he ad
vanced today.
"I was the smallest kid in my j
class (He's only 5'5" today). You
figure out some defense for this
and you start getting laughs. '
The chuckles George won
helped mold his personality. He
was, and is, quiet but with a
pixie-ish expression, when he
talks, the slow, dry humor and
relaxed quips work easily into
his conversation.
Though Gobel's success ap
pears sudden, he worked 20
years to reach the top.
First Job at 12
His first job was at the age of
12. He was a boy soprano in an
Episcopal church in Chicago,
where his father ran a neighbor
hood grocery store. One day the
choir sang on a Chicago radio
station. The program director
invited George to sing alone on
other shows.
He graduated to the famed
"National Barn Dance" network
program as "Little Georgie Go
bel" with a guitar. He earned
$15 a week. Later he toured
county fairs with that show,
working with such stars as Gene
Autry and Pat Buttram. During
that period George developed
his Midwestern drawl and sim
ple, folksy approach.
"Things were pretty tough
then and I was able to help my
folks," he said. "I was too old
to start learning anything else.
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Wednesday, April 20, 19SS
By ALINE MOSBY
United Prest Correspondent
I was kinda stuck with show bus
iness. I kinda drifted into it."
After high school he sang and
strummed his guitar on the
radio in Chattanooga and St.
Louis. Then he formed a trio and
played cocktail lounges in the
Midwest.
It was the GIs who made a
comic out of Gobel.
Comic Emerges
During the war he instructed
B-29 pilots at Frederick, Okla.
He also entertained at post par
ties and the students roared at
his jokes. Thereafter he did
mere talking and less singing.
George wanted to be a pilot
after the war, but the only offer
was with a charter service at
S275 a month. He decided to be
a comedian. He worked at con
ventions and - hotels, first in
small towns and gradually in big
cities in the Midwest and South.
It took eight years of strenuous
stands before his agent got him
guest spots on the Gary Moore
and Ed Sullivan TV programs.
When he was appearing at the
Statler hotel here, an NBC exe
cutive signed him for the Hoagy
Carmichael summer show.
Gobel won his own program
which started a year later, on
Oct. 2. On Oct. 3 he was a star
finally at the age of 34.
"Every time you move up a
step you get a little more con
fidence," he says. "This is what
I need more than anything else.
' I'm glad it took years to get
there. I would have been un
glued completely if it really had
happened to me overnight."
About nine-tenths of all the
people of the U.S were living
in family units during the 1950
federal census.
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MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE
Accountants Planning
Post Tax-Season Meet
The post-tax season meeting of
the board of governors of the
Oregon Association of Public Ac
countants will be held in Eugene
Saturday, according to R. A.
Brewer, Medford, a member of
the board.
A sizable southern Oregon
delegation will be in attendance,
he said. Among topics on the
agenda will be the 1955 Southern
Oregon-Northern California Tax
conference, which has been spon
sored by the three chapters of
the OAPA in this area.
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