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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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