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Officer and Wife Honored at Dinner Lt. and Mrs. Robert Wood of Luke Air Force base, Arizona, were guests recently of the lieu tenant's uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Woods, 608 South Ivy street. The officer was a prisoner of the Communists for 23 months after being shot down over the Yalu river while serving in Ko rea. He is now an instructor for jet aircraft at the Arizona base. The Woods gave a dinner for their guests and attending were Mr. and Mrs. George Wood, Mrs. Howard McLane and Cheryl, Klamath Falls; Mr. and Mrs. George Fullerton and David, Bly, Ore.; and Mr. and Mrs. George Wood, Rogue River; Mr. and Mrs. Jack Wood, Tommy and Billy, Central Point; Mr. and Mrs. Dean Barker, Mike, Steve and Tim, Medford; Mr. and Mrs. Barnard Schultz, Keith, Dianna and Lynda, Medford. If 7T. ' if.' . ;, 1 If -S! : ABC Church Class Elects New Officers ABC Sunday school class of First Christian church elected officers at the monthly meeting - at Fellowship hall May 19. They are Mrs. J. B. Carr, president; Mrs. Walter Kindred, vice-president; Mrs. Estelle Hopkins, sec retary; Mrs. Elmer Gott, treas urer; Mrs. A. W. Denney, li brarian and Mrs. William Dugan, musician. Dessert luncheon was served with the April and May host esses in charge. The tables were attractive with Hawaiian dec orations. Mrs. William Dugan played Hawaiian recordings during the luncheon. Following the luncheon, Mrs. C. R. Alex ander gave several nummbers on the electric guitar. She was accompanied at the piano by Miss Rosemary Rawtheu. Next meeting of the class will be held at Fellowship hall June Dental Assistants To Hold Meeting Installation of officers will be held at a meeting of Southern Oregon Dental Assistants' socie ty set for tonight at 8 o clock at Mon Desir. Dinner will be served. Mrs. Madge Tingley, Portland, will be installing officer and Mrs. Sybol Prescott, conducting officer. Dr. Lee Mellish, advisor of the group, will be a guest. Taking office will be Mrs. ; Frances Rutter, president; Mrs. Betty Niedermeyer, vice-president; Mrs. Rosalie LeFleur, sec retary and Mrs. Elsie Harris, treasurer. 4 ELECTED MAYOR Vancouver, Wash. (U.R) Councilman Roy Adams was last night elected as Vancouver's third mayor under the' current council-manager form of government. REV. ALBERT S. FELLER Chaplain at Domiciliary Protestant Chaplain Arrives for Duties At VA Domiciliary Camp White The Rev. Albert Samuel Feller has assumed the duties of Protestant chaplain at the VA Domiciliary center, in place of Chaplain Henry W. An derson, who was transferred to the VA Hospital at Vancouver, Wash. Chaplain Feller was an Army chaplain for four years during World War II, prior vto joining the VA. He has been the chap lain at Roseburg VA hospital for the past nine years. Mr. Feller is a native of Illi nois, and studied at Washington university, St. Louis and Den ver university, Denver, Colo., where he received the degree of Th. M. He entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church, at Hanford and Bakers field, Calif., before entering the military service with the rank of captain. He has three grown children, Sam Jr., living at Sacramento, Mrs. Alfred Ross, whose husband is a surgeon at Iowa City, la., and Marilyn, who receives her masters degree in music at Stan ford university this June. Mrs. Feller will join her husband during the coming month. They will reside at Camp White.. Mr. Feller was chaplain and is a member of the Roseburg American Legion post. He is much interested in the prospect here of continuing his work among disabled war veterans. Luncheon, Meeting Announced by Group St. "'Mark's auxiliary-guild will meet Friday, May 27, at the church. Luncheon will be served at 12:30 o'clock by Mrs. Earl Tumy, Mrs. G. R. Ringo and Mrs. R. K. Bailey. A business meeting will fol low luncheon. lake o' Woods Road Opening Scheduled Jackson county crews will open the Lake O' Woods road to the county line by Saturday, and the county court has received word that Klamath county crews will open the remaining portion of the road. Hiatt lake rd. is open from Dead Indian rd. to Highway 66. A rock crusher has been set up near the road, and considerable improvement work is planned for the near future. The county is planning to re build the section of Dead Indian rd. from the end of construction completed last year to Deadwood during the next few months. The section rebuilt last year will be oiled. Dead Indian rd. and Hiatt lake rd. were inspected early this week by members of the county court and County Engineer Paul Rynning. Most birds move their wings in unison, but the swift, the champion speedster, beats its wings alternately. 1 J" n'13ErTffiafmw55ar f or LUQGAGB USE YOUR CHARGE ACCOUNT the "Continental" Class Prophecy comes true! d Princess Gardner starts her career in fashion 5 plus lax You'll open your heart and your handbag to this billfold purse with the French acceitf. t .1 V.r,mA rhinrr frtmMft. ment, rayon faille lined pullout bill compartment, gold tone tnmci four-window photo-card case. Polished cowhide in madcap colors. Partnership Dam Bill Eyed Favorably Washington (U.R) A sub committee . of the House Public Works Committee has reported favorably on Rep. Harris Ells worth's bill authorizing partner ship construction of Green Peter and Cougar dams. . The Oregon Republican was jubilant over the approval. But Rep. Frank Smith, Mississippi Democrat, said the margin was so narrow that he thought the bill might be defeated by the full committee. Smith said he will move be fore the public works committee that the bill be split into two parts because he feels the Green Peter project between the gov ernment and Pacific Power and Light Company to be "ill ad vised." Ellsworth, however, was con fident the measure would go to the House floor with no more than minor amendments. No date has been set for full com mittee action. A Nichol's Worth of . . . Comment On This and That By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Pretf ftmr Writer Harman Nichols DEATH INVESTIGATED Portland (U.R) Portland detectives and the coroner's of fice are investigating the death of Edwin Benson Woertendyke, 61, who was found at the bottom of a basement stairway at his residence yesterday. It was be lieved the man fell accidentally, or suffered a heart attack. Washington (U.R) If you want to be a roustaboout and travel with the "greatest show . ' ' 'l on earth, you can sign up at any stop. The R i n g 1 i n g i Brothers Bar- l num & Bailey i people . are short ot neip. As Frank B r a d e n and Beverly Kelly, my old friends, who are pros in the press agentry that keeps a circus going, were saying: "Things have changed." ; A roustabout doesn't have to do much rousting these days. There are power drivers that put the stakes for the big top into the ground and some more power to pull out the stakes and stack them on the flat cars when the big show moves along. Take Home Pay "These fellows get $18 a week, which isn"t much. But they live kinda high on the hog. They get three squares a day, and good squares, too. Eggs and ham and maybe pancakes for a wake-up, and a nice little working man's lunch. Sometimes, even, a steak for supper, with A-l sauce on the side and French fries, plus ice cream. While they are on location, they have a place to sleep on the circus ground. And when they are traveling they sleep in bunks on the train. The 18 bucks is take home, minus smokes and a couple of dime beers, which, the way you look at it, is tleir problem." "Trouble is," Bev Kelley butt ed in, "we hire these guys at every stop, and when we leave town, we look around arid they have gone back- to the filling station and the little woman. Roustabouts aren't to be found any more. It's easier to find ele phants. And did you hear that we have the biggest herd of ele phants ever assembled outside Africa?" I had heard and the conversa tion went on. The stubby little cigar-smoking Braden, who barks like a prairie dog with a sore throat when he talks, picked up the thread from there. "These rousties don't know how good they could have it," he said. "Of course the star enter tainers get a little more sugar, but a lot of them started out putting a sledge over a tent pole. The kids we get are really roust abouts. One roust and they are ready to hit back for the home barn. Of course, 18 onion skins a week ain't much, but with your keep it ain't bad." Busy Press Agents But how about the lot of the press agent? There came a chorus from both Frank and Bev. It is a little rough. They get a few weeks off during the winter months at the winter quarters in Sarasota, Fla. "Even then," Bev said, "we have to worry about what .new spangles and acts we have com ing up for next year. We are supposed to keep the greatest show on earth the greatest." Bev admitted, with proper modesty, that the Ringlings have the bestest of the most. '"But," he added, "we have to keep on trying to improve. It's something like doing a fast re write on 'War And Peace' or Shakespeare, even. Ever try that? Also, did you ever try mak ing 170 towns a year, sleeping in flea traps, riding buses, worrying about whether you have a clean shirt, and .washing your own, sometimes?" No, I never did. I'm not afraid of flea bags or buses, but that guy Shakespeare stops me. Wednesday. May 23,. 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE ilot Robber Gels Year on Probation Las Vegas, Nev. (U.R) A young Navy pilot today faced a year's probation on his convic tion of robbing Henry Mintz, of New York City, of $1400 at a resort hotel here last April 17. The pilot, Donald W. Robbins, 26, an honor Annapolis graduate with 10 years service, pleaded guilty at his arraignment yes terday on a." charge of grand larceny. On recommendation of District Attorney George Dickerson, Dis trict Judge A. S. Henderson gave Robbins a two to 14-year sus pended prison sentence and plac ed him on a year's probation. Dickerson said Robbins, the son of an Oregon lumber execu tive, blamed domestic difficul ties and the fact that he had been drinking at the time of the robbery for his troubles. Rob bins was separated from his wife three months ago and she is liv ing in Portland, Ore., Dickerson said. Japanese Workers On Aleutians Denied Seattle (U.R) The U. S. im migration service yesterday de nied a petition from the Bankers Life and Casualty Co. which had sought to import 250 Japanese nationals to salvage scrap iron in the Aleutian islands. The order said there was in sufficient information in sup porting documents to establish that the aliens were of "distin guished merit or ability." The order also pointed out that the petition did not have documents from the U. S. Employment Ser vice to show that sufficient American labor could riot be ob tained. Aleutian natives, alarmed over the plan had stated that they were prepared to use force if necessary to keep the Japan ese workmen off the islands. WHITE ICING HOME ' FREEZER no Hermetically scaled unit Separate rapid frceie section Easy-to lift lid with built-in light Convenient baskets and dividers 5 year protection plan warranty Save on Food Costs Now More Than Ever. There's so much convenient storage space that you can really load up on food when in season and low in price. 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