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!
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Pipe Wrench
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Lumps of Thyroid -Found
in Autopsies
Portland (U.R) Lumps of the
thyroid gland were discovered
in almost half of some 1,500
autopsy examinations by Dr.
Frank B. Queenv professor of
pathology at the University of
Oregon medical school and Hoyo
Migaki, a medical student.
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
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