Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, May 15, 1955, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextriGHT MZDTOKD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, May 15, 195S Local and Personal To Meet Roxy Ann HEC will meet Wednesday, May 18, at 8 p.m. at Roxy Ann Grange hall. Hostesses will be Mesdames Verda Quackenbush and Mae Moore. To Display Posters The American Legion auxiliary an nounces that the winning posters in the annual poppy poster con test will be on display this week at Weeks and Orr furniture com pany. Accountants to Meet A din ner meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Monday at the Elks' dining room in Ashland by the Rogue Valley chapter of the Oregon Association of Public Account ants, it was announced Satur day by Chapter Chairman Clay ton Lewis. Copy Writer Miss Joan Sea ver, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Foster A. Seaver, Talent, began work last week as a copy writer at radio station KMED, replac ing Mrs. Norman Oberst, who re cently resigned after being copy writer there for the past year. Mrs. Oberst's resignation will be effective the end of this week. Funeral Service Mrs. Frank Chapman announced yesterday that all members of Olive Re bekah lodge are asked to attend the funeral of Mrs. Marie Han sen, lodge member, Monday. The service is set for 1 p.m. in Conger-Morris chapel and lodge members are asked to be at the chapel at 12:45 p.m. Move Here Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Platts and sons, Michael, 5, and Bill, 3, arrived here re cently to live. Platts is a repre sentative for the Medford area for Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical sup plies. They are living at 210 Crater Lake ave. They formerly lived for five years at Fairbanks, Alaska. Platts arrived here about April 1 and his family moved here last week. a Insurance Meeting Four Medford people attended a din ner meeting for representatives of the National Public Service Insurance company on Thursday evening at the Redwoods hotel in Grants Pass. They were Don ald Carlon, supervisor, and Mrs. Carlon, Mrs. Opal Note, repre sentative, and Mrs. Robert Wil cox. Elvy Cecil, Salem, division manager, was present. To Make Trip Mr. and Mrs. C. Ivan Burton, 26 Richmond ave. plan to leave Tuesday by plane for Portland where they will visit friends and observe the Burton's wedding anniver sary. From there they will go to Detroit, Mich., and later they will visit their former home and relatives at Waterloo, la., and relatives in Kansas. Cars Pilfered Harry H. Reams, 112 King st., informed city police Saturday morning that a number of items had been taken from used cars at the Courtesy Chevrolet lot. Ninth st. and Central ave. Permit Issued Jackson coun ty court Friday issued an over width and overheight permit to Guy Cox to move a 20 by 24 by 16-foot building from a lot on Biddle rd. down McAndrews rd. and to the end of the first street west of Crater Lake ave. Family Arrives Mrs. S. D. Ward and three children arrived recently from Sonoma, Calif., to join Ward who. came to Medford in early January to open offices here as district manager for Montgomery Ward and com pany. They are living at 2308 Hillcrest dr. At Osteopathic Miss Myrna Bailey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Bailey, 1120 West Ninth st., is convalescing from emer gency appendctomy which she underwent Saturday at Osteo pathic hospital, according to attendants. Moves Mrs. Agnes E. Ev ans, formerly of 530 South Grape st., moved Friday to 185 Black Oak dr., into a new home recently built for her by her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. T. W. McFadden, who live next door at 225 Black Oak dr. An earlier report of the move stated that the McFaddens moved to the former address. At Sacred Heart Medical patients listed Saturday at Sa cred Heart hospital included Mrs. Elsie Wilson, 425 Berry dale ave.; Mrs. M. G. Oetken, 723 Marshall st.; Mrs. Hannah Johnson, Box 603, Hilt, Calif.; Casey Jones, 2215 Springbrook rd., and Harry W. Dalton, Butte Falls. Leg Broken B. C. Boyd, 53, of 720 East 11th st., Medford, was taken to Community hos pital by Medford ambulance ser vice Friday afternoon after he suffered a broken leg while at work at the Magnolia Lumber company mill in Rogue River, according to hospital and ambu lance service reports. He was said to be "doing nicely" at the hospital Saturday. Fingers Amputated Mrs. Al vah Dodson, 1502 Thomas rd., was admitted Saturday after noon to the Osteopathic hospital for medical treatment following the amputation of . two fingers Friday when she was operating a skill saw, according to attend ants. She received treatment at the time of the accident. Mrs. Dodson is reported to have been using the saw to free some kit tens in a wall when the accident occurred. ffllmile lAcCooKa- o o o Is a lucky reptile . . . he's born with his own, in dividual, private roof and doesn't have to worry about shelter from the elements. PeOPLE are faced with a different situation. Usually, they have to build a roof for themselves. Some people never acquire their own, individual, private roof. Pi EOPLE in Jackson Countv. how ever, have found that they can often ac quire that roof of their own more easilv than they thought, through Home Loans from their home-owned Savings & Loan Association. Loans at Jackson County Federal are INDIVIDUAL loans tailored to fit your needs and your budget. SAVINGS 124 I. Main St. 9 ATION LOAN ASSOC Sinct ISO Medford CONSTRUCTION COLLAPSES Rescuers search the rubble for trapped workmen after two stories of New York's 20-million-dollar Coliseum collapsed during con struction. Forty-two men were injured. Dulles To Report Tuesday on Plans For Big Four Meet Washington (U.R) Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles will report on the proposed Big Four meeting and other inter national affairs to President Eis enhower and to the public on Tuesday night, it was announced Saturday. White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said Dulles' report will be carried on all four television networks from 7 to 7:30 p.m. (EDT). The tele cast will be from the President's office. To Return Monday Dulles will return to Washing ton sometime Monday from the NATO meetings in Paris and the signing of the Austrian peace treaty Sunday in Vienna. It was reported that Dulles' speech would cover the NATO meetings, where Germany sat in for the first time as a sovereign nation; the long-delayed signing of the Austrian peace treaty; and the proposed Big Four meeting "at the summit." His report to the public will mark the first telecast ever made from the President's office. The Cabinet' report last Octo ber, after the signing of the Paris agreements, originated in the cabinet room. Dulles is expected to go be fore the House and Senate For eign Relations committees prior to his public report. (See Story Page 1) Obituaries GEORGE MURPHY George Daniel Murphy,' 82, of Bonanza, Ore., died in local hos pital where he had been a patient for the past two months. Funeral services wtfl be held in Klam ath Falls, where Ward's Klamath funeral home will be in charge. Local arrangements were handled by Chapel mortuary. Mr. Murphy was born in Flint, Mich., Dec. 12, 1872. He had been farming near Dairy and Klamath Falls for many years. He was not married, and only distant relatives survive. EMMA REINTS Funeral services for Mm. Emma May Reints. 419 North Fourth st., Central Point, are pending at Perl Funeral home. Mrs. Reints died in Jacksonville Saturdav morning. She is sur vived by a daughter, Mrs. Mary Langston. MARIE HANSEN Services for Mrs. Marie Han sen, 22 West Jackson st., who died Thursday, will be held in the Conger-Morris Chapel Mon day at 1 p.m. with the Reverend Willis J. Loar officiating. Inter ment will be in Mt. View ceme tery, Ashland. Mrs. Hansen was born in Phil lipsburg, Kansas, Aug. 18, 1890, and had made her home in southern Oregon since 1910. She was a member of the Eastwood Baptist church, and the Rebecca lodge, Medford. Surviving is her husband, Al bert; a brother, Lloyd Cole, and a sister, Mrs. Emma Barnett, both of Denver. Investigate Smoke Firemen were called to the Credit Bureau building, 223 West Sixth st., Medford, to investigate smoke reported. There was no fire. An Illinois congressman was the youngest American soldier at the siege of Santiago in the Spanish-American war. He is Chicago Democrat Barratt O'Hara. whn pnlistoH in iha in. fan try when he was 15! Southern Telephone Strike Continues; Now in Ninth Week Atlanta (U.R) The drawnout Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co. strike ended its ninth week Saturday just as it began with no sign of a break and with repeated vandalism. The bitter walkout started March 14 when thousands of telephone workers left their jobs in nine southern states in a dis pute over a no-strike clause in the new contract. Southern Bell insisted on a no-strike contract but the com munications Workers of Ameri ca (CIO) said it would not ac cept the provision unless the company agreed to include some means of arbitrating grievances Since that time, countless vio lent incidents, including' cable cuttings, dynamitings, gunfire and disputes between strikers and non-strikers have high lighted the strike. Some 130 workers have been fired by Southern Bell as a result. ' Representatives of both par ties have met frequently during the walkout in an effort to break the deadlock but neither would back down on the no-strike pro vision. BIRTHS OSBORNE To Mr. and Mrs. Ralph, Shady Cove, May 14, 1955, boy, pounds at Sacred Heart hospital. BARTELL To Mr. and Mrs John, 603 North Bartlett st., May 14, 1955, boy, 6 pounds, at Sacred Heart hospital. CHAMBERLAIN To Mr. and Mrs. Dean, Box 873. Central Point, May 14, 1955, boy, 5Vfe pounds at Sacred Heart hospital. Tom don't want gadgets if you have trouble hearing you need the help of an experienced, local hearing aid expert, backed by a nationwide organization producing fine in struments year in and year out. That's what you wiH g for your money when you piace your trust in Sonotone, world's leading hear ing aid manufacturer and distrib utor. No high pressure selling but friendly help in finding the right hearing. We have helped hundreds of yourneighbors-wecan belpyou. Before you buy any hearing instru ment, find how good hear ing can be th Sonotone way. C. R. Adamson District Manager . 839 East Jackson Blvd. Idaho Twin Boys Receive Complete Changes of Blood Lewiston, Ida. (UP.) Identi cal twin boys born Wednesday j were reported "getting along fine" Saturday after one had had a complete change of blood twice and the other once. . The tiny babies Lannie and Lonnie White had to have their entire blood supplies changed within hours after their birth be cause their blood hsd an R-H pos itive factor while their mother, Agriculture Behind Iron Curtain Said Having Difficulty Washington (U.R) The U.S. Information Agency reports "fresh indications of agricultural difficulties" behind the Iron Cur tain. - In Hungary, the chief party newspaper complained that "many students of agricultural schools refuse to work in the country after concluding their studies. ' , In Poland, delays occured in spring sowing "as a result of unfavorable weather and serious organizational s h o rt comings." All labor reserves, including women and youth, must be used; two 1-hour shifts must be worked, and "work must also proceed on Sundays and holi days." ' In Czechoslovakia, the party paper urged housewives and young people in villages to take up farm work as a "patriotic duty." In Bulgaria, the party paper scored "poor farming methods, unharvested crops and poor live stock husbandry." It blamed bu reaucracy, corruption and em bezzlement in villages and col lective farms. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday : 10 a.m. Monday for Mondav: other days 5:30 Drevious da" Mrs. Lloyd White, Lewiston, had R-H negative blood. ' Given Second Transfusion Lannie, who weighed only four pounds, one ounce at birth, underwent a second transfusion Friday. Lonnie, Who weighed four pounds, 10 ounces at birth, did not require the second blood change. Attendants at St. Joseph's hos pital said, however, blood counts were being taken to determine whether another transfusion might be required for both. The hospital said such blood trans fusions for twins was "exterme ly rare." Mr. and Mrs. White have two older boys, but neither had the R-H factor which required blood transfusions. Carpenters Slate Meeting on Offers Portland (U.R) Portland district of the Council of Car penters announced Saturday that its affiliated locals with a mem bership of 8,000 will meet May 31 to vote on any new offers contractors might make. If no new offers are made by Portland's three large contrac tor groups, locals will vote on the old offer or decide whether or not to go on strike June 1. A strike would be directed on ly against those firms which have not granted the district council's demands for a 10-cent hourly wage increase and addi tional travel pay. 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