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Girls at Eagle Point High Slate Banquet; Activities Announced Eagle Point The annual Girls Athletic association will sponsor a banquet for Eagle Point High school athletic letter winners at 8 p.m. Friday in the Elks temple in Ashland, Tessie Ragsdale, president of GAA, has announced. Principal speaker on the pro gram will be Dr. Alex Petersen, coach at Southern Oregon col lege at Ashland. Also on the program Gerald Mosby, Eagle Point High school coach, will award basketball let ters to eligible team members, and present a trophy to the most inspirational player on the team. The trophy, which will have the athlete's name en graved on it, will remain in the school's trophy case. Miss Lilah Tartzog, GAA ad visor, will present symbolic pins to four outsanding senior girls of the Girls Athletic association. They are Jeannie Berquist, Paul ine DeHass, Carole Nelsen, and Tessie Ragsdale. Miss Tartzog also will make other awards to association members. . About 85 students and teach ers are expected to attend the banquet. The band will accompany solos and duets, which include pieces by Bill Caldwell, Ted Daw, Margaret Cearley, a flute duet by Kay McCorkle and Di ana Gardner, and a clarinet solo by Claudia Griffin accompanied by Dorothy Shearin at the piano. Kay McCorkle and Claudia Griffin have been selected to participate in the annual "Music in May" festival at Forest Grove, Ore., May 12-14. The fes tival is for ' deserving and capable high school musicians. Eagle Point Members of the Eagle Point High school student council yesterday discussed ways to help people realize their responsibility in driving, and selected winners of the school's contest for driving codes. Winners will be announced later. Entries in the contest will be entered in a state contest, and the code submitted should set forth the teenagers' ideals in My Responsibility On the High ways." ' Members of the ' Eagle Point High school junior class will usher during Baccalaureate and Graduation exercises for the , seniors this year. Adrian . Elrod and Corrina Rogers will escort the senior class at graduation. Six ushers will be Barbara Jackson, Linda Mallory, Judy Gardner, Mane Walters, Glenna Johnson and Raedene Hicks. About 80 members of Eagle Point High school band and chorus , will participate in the annual spring concert at 8 p.m. Friday, May t 6, in the school gymnasium. Steve Whipple will . direct the concert. Negotiations Slated On CP Building Bids Central Point The Central Point city council will meet to night to negotiate with the two lowest of seven bidders who sub mitted bids for construction of a fire hall and library here. All seven bids submitted, in cluding deductions on alternate plans, exceeded the amount available for construction. Cen tral Point residents recently voted $20,000 for the structure, and about $2,000 was already available for the project. Low bidders were A. L. Pur dy, Central Point, and Minshall Construction Co., Jacksonville. Other bidders include Bessonette Construction Co., Medford; H. G. Carl Construction Co., Salem; Frank Fairweather, Medford; Myron Corcoran, Medford; and Brooks Electric Co., Medford. - Patterson Signs Newspaper Libel Bill Salem (U.R) Gov. Paul Pat terson yesterday signed into law a bill freeing newspapers, radio stations, television stations and periodicals from the threat" of general damages arising out -of inadvertent libel. The new law will become ef fective 90 days after the end of the legislative session. It would permit persons libelled by error to bring action for specific damages but would deny them the right to sue for general or punitive damages, providing the offending station or publication printed a retraction. in TKe Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Presiding officers of the Ore gon legislature are trying to end the session this week, but re ports from Salem say the moun tain of work ahead makes this doubtful. Today will be the 100th day. The longest Oregon session was the 116-day meeting in 1951. The Oregon session of 1953 (the last one before this) holds the record for number of bills introduced. The legislature got a total of 1,263 that year. So far in the 1955 session, 1,246 bills have been introduced. If 18 more are tossed in the hopper, a new record will be set. THE Oregon legislature is strug gling with the problem of tax ation. We need a lot more money. WHERE IS IT TQ COME FROM? Most of us want it to COME FROM THE OTHER FELLOW. IS THAT possible? . I doubt it. Taxes have to be added to the cost of production. In the long run, they have to be added to prices. So, you see, in the final washout we all pay our share of taxes. , IN CALIFORNIA, WATER over shadows every other problem before the legislature that is now in session at Sacramento. ; Action on tax bills has been delayed. The state budget is still under study. Oil legislation re mains in a preliminary phase. The legislators have only until June 8 to consider 6,000 bills. But, the dispatches say,- the California lawmakers are taking time out to talk about WATER. Everything else must wait. TWO key problems are under consideration in Sacramento: 1. The Trinity-San Luis pro ject. 2. The IV2 billion dollar Feath er river project. In the years to come, water will be a primary raw material in the conversion of the FIBER in trees into all the various products that are made from wood fiber. THE Feather river project, which has already been au thorized as a state of California undertaking contemplates the funneling of the Feather river from a dam five miles above Oro ville to as far south as San Diego. In effect, it sets apart that much Northern California water for use in far Southern Cali fornia. Water, you see, is already a commodity that CAN be shipped around from one area to another. A DUTCH scientist Professor Wilhelm F. J. M. Krul, from the Technical University of Hol land at Delft tells a reporter in Albuquerque . that mechanical means have been perfected for extracting fresh water from the salt water of the sea All that is missing, he says, is the necessary power to' make the process of ex traction cheap enough to be feas ible. Krul says that four, main meth ods have been used in the at tempt to find a way of getting pot able water from the sea: He lists these as distillation, urification by electricity, purification . by chemicals and use of the sun's rays for evaporation. - TIE SAYS it is possible to make "soft water from medium brackish water at a cost of about 20 cents per 100 gallons. More power to him! THE Trinity-San. Luis project contemplates diversion of a considerable part of the flow of the Trinity from the watershed of the Klamath river to the Sac ramento watershed.- The upper Klamath basin in Oregon is only academically in terested in this diversion because it will occur BELOW the point at which Southern Oregon will be through with the waters of the Klamath.- We are concerned with it only as setting another precedent for diverting water from one river valley to another. The lower end of the Klamath river has a more direct interest. STOLEN! One li H.P. M.W. 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Two and one-half per cent of these lumps were caused by can cer. The study showed that age brings thryroid lumps. Lu m p s which could be felt were non existent in people under 30. However, from 72 to 85 per cent of those over 60 had thyroid lumps. Men and women had about the same number of lumps, but wo men .fiad three times as many large ones. Thyroid cancer accounts for 0.1 per cent of all deaths in the United States. Thursday, April 28. 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUHB FIT COSTLY JOB Indianapolis, Ind. -y- (U.R) John Ross, 42, tired of hearing city and state officials argue over who should cut the grass in Uni versity Park, decided to do it himself. As he worked, police stuck a $2 parking ticket on his car. Crater High School Tells 'Prom' Plans Central Point Preparations are being made by the Crater High school junior class for the annual Junior - Senior prom which will be held in the school gymnasium Saturday, May 14. Gary Croucher, president of the junior class, is general chair man for the prom, and Warren Holbrook is the advisor. Nine Airmen Killed' In Crash of Bomber Tokyo (U.R) A U.S. Air Force B29 bomber crashed in flames killing nine airmen near Naha, Okinawa, while on a routine flight today, Far East Air Force headquarters reported. An Air Force spokesman said only the briefest details were available here. He said reports reaching To kyo said that the American bomber crashed in an open field in the vicinity of Naha. The plane, which was on a routine mission, was based on Okinawa. The spokesman said nine U.S. airmen were killed but he did not know if others were aboard. Driver Survives Plunge in Log Truck Longview (U.R) Aubrey White, 39, Kalama, Wash., rode his log truck down a near verti cal 250-foot bank into a swollen creek yesterday and got out under his own power. He was reported in good con dition at Cowlitz general hospi tal in Longview. The truck, owned by James Groce, Kelso, Wash., was listed as a total Joss. White was driving a truck loaded with 16-foot logs about 2:30 p.m. when he attempted to pass a road grader on a narrow road 10 miles west of Longview. A soft shoulder gave way. The truck landed with the cab out of water and White crawled out and called for help from the grader operator, E. W. Anderson of Longview. REALLY DICK TRACY Edinburg, Tex. (U.R) Dick Tracy of San Juan, Tex., got a ticket for speeding through Edin burg. Police said today a charge of traveling under an alias was dropped when Tracy produced his driver's license to prove his identity. v DUNDEE CLING PEACHES - 3 f"79 0 HALVES No. 2Vi Tin DUNDEE BLUE LAKE Cut Green Beams 2 ,or 3S0 No. 303 Tin HORMEL'S Chopped! SEEF S for L0 12-Oz. 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