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FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday. June 10, 1955 Local and Personal Big Overload Fine Ernest Rooster To Crow A demon C. Hotho Eagle Point, was fined I stration of the Rogue River an- j- . - t ,.,! nual Rooster Crowing Contest S06O in district court jesterday, wm fee given t th JacksQn for a lumber overload of 11,100 County chamber of Commerce pounds, acording to records ok roundtable Monday noon at the ... . i t -t i i rt;;ni. ua me couri. Rummage Sala A rummage sale will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday in the Fchl building, 106 North Ivy st., un der the sponsorship of the Rogue River chapter of the National Secretary's association. To Victoria Arvid E- Al thens. Medford staff manager for the Prudential Insurance Co., will attend the company's Presi dent's Club business conference at the Empress Hotel, Victoria, B.C., June 17 and 18. Candidate Robert L. Woolf, Cold Hill, a student at the Davis campus of the University of Cal ifornia, will be a candidate at June 15 commencement exer cises for a degree of doctor of veterinary medicine. Ceremonies will be held In the Sunken gar den on the campus at 10 a.m. Flown to Home Mrs. Mabel Gunnary, North Bend, was flown there by a Mercy Flights plane yesterday. She suffered a fractured hip while visiting in Ashland earlier in the week, and had been under treament at Community hospital. She was accompanied on the flight by her husband, Herbert. Pilot on the flight was John Childers. .X So smooth it leaves you breathless mimpff tCe qreaiest name 'V0UKA 0 proof MideftomlOO' gutn neutral tpino. Sit. Pierre Smirnoff Fls. Inc.. Hartford. Conn. Jackson hotel. Officials of the contest will discuss the event, and furnish a rooster to demon strate. Logger Hurt Bob Mattson, 23, Trail Creek, was injured when a log struck him in the back about 9:30 am. today. Mattson, an employee . of the Trail Creek Lumber Co., was working on a logging operation in the Tiller-Trail area. Med ford Ambulance Service took him to the Community hospital. In Offica Dr. C. G. Van Valzah, Medford dentist, will re turn this week end from a vaca tion and will be in his office in the Fluhrer building Monday. Also returning to the office Monday will be Mrs. Gladys Hughes, dental assistant to Dr. Van Valzah, who has been con valescing following surgery. Smoke Investigation City firemen, called to Pacific Indus trial Loan company, 16 South Central ave., yesterday after noon for smoke investigation, said that a light fixture had shorted out. The fire department dispatched a truck yesterday evening to extinguish a trash fire on Lindley st. Six gasoline spills from automobile tanks were flushed- on downtown streets yesterday. m m w Appointed W. T. Mclntyre has been appointed as chief switchman in the plant depart ment of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company in Med ford, J. H. Creager, Medford manager, announced today. Mc lntyre, who has been at the com pany's Roseburg office the past four years as a switchman, re places' Carroll R. Judy, trans ferred from Medford to Salem as chief switchman. Visiting - - Mrs. Katherine Bentley, Portland, is visiting with her daughter, Mrs. Dwight Johnson, 641 South Holly st. She arrived here with Mrs. Johnson who had been visiting in Portland. Other recent vis itors at the Johnson home were their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Castle, of Portland. They left the first of the week after being here sev eral days. Dwight Johnson' is still at Sacred Heart hospital where he has been for about two weeks after suffering a frac tured ankle. He may have visitors. RETURNING to White House from West Point, N. Y., Presi dent Eisenhower wears new blue Straw homburg. (International) News About Servicemen HOUSE of MYSTERY WHERE 1 HE STEREORAMIC PHOTO ORIGINATED North of Gold Hill AT Open Throughout The Year ANY SNAPSHOT TAKEN WITHIN THE VORTEX WILL PRODUCE A 3D PICTURE. TEST IT! Summer Hours - 8 to 7 Under Founder's Management Since 1930 WAC RETURNS Cpl. Elizabeth Ronsee, daught er of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ron see, Wagner Creek, Talent, is to receive her release today from the Army after serving four years. She recently returned from Germany after being there for a year. Corporal Ronsee has been doing office work during her tour of duty and while in Germany she studied piano and voice. She plans to continue her education in music at Southern Oregon college, where she will be working toward a degree. En route to the west she will visit relatives and friends' in Wash ington, D.C., Detroit, Mich., and Sydney - Mines, Cape Breton Nova Scotia. At Community Roy Han son, Ashland, is a medical pa tient at Community and Mrs. Joseph Arterburn, .Klamath Falls, is there for surgery, at tendants said today. Club to Meat The Pioneer club will meet Saturday night at Kershaw s square. John Nied ermeyer and Gordon Kershaw will call, and potluck refresh ments will be served. It is stated that air conditioning has been installed in the hall. a . Parakeet Lost Mr. and Mrs. Howard Bush, 202 North Barne burg rd., reported this morning that the family parakeet had flown from the house last even ing and is believed to be lost somewhere in ftoe neighborhood. A blue male, the bird talks and can say his name, "Petie-Pie" and a "number of other words. Anyone seeing or finding the bird is asked to call the Bushes, 2-4675. , Daughter Born Mrs. W. A. Harper, 820 Broad st., arrived home this week from Portland where she visited her son-in-law and daughter, Sgt. and Mrs. Gerald Duane, and their infant daughter, Sherrie Lynne, born May 23. The mother is the for er Miss 'Virginia Payne of Port land. The father is stationed at the Portland Air base as a jet mechanic. He is a 1950 Medford High school . graduate and worked atthe Groceteria before entering , the service. He served for 10 months in Korea. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday lor Monday other riavs 5:30 previous dav MILT BAY TO SAVE FREE TICKETS! i..7 r - Just Drive In Day or N NO NEED TO BUY TO TRY! raisis juiie 30 WHY PAY MORE FOR GAS? All Approved Credit Cards Accepted PRIZE WINNING SERVICE STATION '.'On the Point" SOUTH CENTRAL & SOUTH RIVERSIDE 1 Ford Tickets Also at Central Mkt., Central Drugs, tr ... , Crater Lake Ford - ? SPORTS Swaps, Nashua Rematch Talked Chicago (U.R) Swaps and Nashua may get another chance to prove which is the better horse in a "Kentucky Derby re match" here late this summer if their owners can agree on a date. Both owners indicated they would like a duel again if a date could be arranged which would n't conflict with their present schedules. Swaps beat Nashua by a length and a half in the Derby, but was not entered in the Preak ness, which Nashua won, or in the Belmont Stakes which Nash ua is favored to win this week end. Benjamin F. Lindheimer, exe cutive director of Washington Park, said a match race between the nation's outstanding three-year-olds "looks promising" at Washington Park in late August. The race would be for a purse of S75.000, winner take all, over the Derby distance of a mile and a quarter on a flat track. Solons Close Gap On Wena tehee By UNITED PRESS The Salem Senators, some what rude guests, left We natchee last night and nobody was happier to see them depart than the league-leading Chiefs. Salem battered the Chiefs 15 4 last night with a big eight-run splurge in the seventh to slice the margin between the two clubs to but two games. - Eugene moved up a game on the pacesetters with a 10-2 ver dict over Tri-City. Jim Benton scattered eight hits as Lewiston downed Spo kane 6-3 at Spokane. Ray Cops Extra In State Shoot Portland (U.R) Morris Ray, John Day cattle rancher, defeat ed ace trapshot artist Arnold lieigger of Seattle, in a shoot off for 16-yard honors yesterday in the opening round of the Ore gon State Pacific International Trapshooting association compe tition at the Portland Gun club. Ray and Reigger each had 99 out of 100 targets in regular shooting. KID SOUGHT Portland (U.R) Harry Mat thews, who recently announced he was returning to the ring, is being sought as an opponent for the winner of Saturday night's heavyweight fight here between Johnny Arthur and Bob Dun lap, Promoter Tex Salkeld said today. Matthews had been sched uled to fight Chuck Woodworth in Boise June 17 but the fight was postponed when he hurt his hand in training. TO JOIN TIGERS Detroit (U.R) . James Brady, a 19-year-old lefthanded pitcher from Jersey City, N.J., who was sought by seven major league clubs, has signed a bonus con tract estimated at $35,000 with the Detroit Tigers. Brady, who will complete the present semest er at Notre Dame next week, will join the Tigers in New York June 14. THREE OVERSEAS TEAMS New York (U.R) Three track and field teams will be sent overseas this summer by the Amateur Athletic Union to com pete in international meets. Of ficials of the AAU said that about 24 athletes will be picked and selections will be made on merit alone. The AAU holds its nation al championships at Boulder, Colo., June 24-25. BASEBALL SHOWERS Detroit (U.R) The City Coun cil promised Dennis A. Shado of suburban Hamtramck relief today from a shower of baseballs around his home. The council agreed to build a higher fence between Shados home and. ad joinging Memorial Park after he presented the council with 42 baseballs which had landed in his yard and crashed through his windows the past two weeks. PHILS GET GREEN Philadelphia (U.R) Dallas Green, a righthanded pitcher from the University of Delaware, has signed a "moderate" bonus with the Philadelphia Phillies. The 20-year-old Green, from Wil mington, Del., was- assigned to the Syracuse club of the Inter national League. TRAPPERS' FUTURE BRIGHT New Orleans (U.R) "There's a bright future for trappers," Chief Ted O'Neill of the Louis iana Wildlife commission said today and they owe it all to Davy Crockett; 'The popularity of Davy Crockett coonskin caps has boosted the price of raccoon pelts from 50 cents to $3.50, O'Neill said. World rice production is . ap- ' proximately 7.6 billion bushels. I TYPEWRITERS & ADDING MACHINES Repaired MEDFORD OFFICE ' EQUIPMENT COMPANY 41 S. Grape Phone 2-4100 ffflJ LODGE LEADER Roy W. Mc- Neal, above, professor of geo graphy at Southern Oregon col lege, Ashland, will have a lead ing role in the 105th annual communication of the grand lodge of Masons in Oregon in Portland June 15 to 17. Pro fessor McNeal is the most wor shipful grand master of the lodge, and will present his re port to the assemblage the morn ing of Wednesday, June 15. Ex-German POW Here To Be on Radio Show A recorded interview between Werner Baeckcr, of Hamburg, Germany, who was a prisoner of war at Camp White during World War II, and James Dun levy, manager of radio station KYJC, will be broadcast over the station Saturday, June 11, at 10:30 a.m. Baecker, currently represent ing the northwest German net work, is in America to gather information from radio and tele vision operations with the idea of improving service in north west Germany. Though radio there operates in similar ways, it is maintained through taxes on each receiving set, Baecker said. While in the valley as a POW he studied journalism by correspondence course from the University of Oregon. Obifuaries Firemen in Utah Find Chores Varied FREDERICK SHERE Recitation of the rosary will! be held Sunday, June 12, at 8 p.m. at Perl's Funeral home for Frederick Charles Shere, who died Wednesday. Funeral ser vices will be held at 9 a.m. Wed nesday at Sacred Heart church, when the requiem mass will be conducted by the Rev. Nicholas Deis. Graveside services will be conducted by the Elks lodge and members of the American Legion will be pall bearers. The deceased had lived in Trail for 12 years He was born June 19, 1900, at Hood River and was a World War I veteran. Survivors include his wife, Marie J.; a daughter, Mrs. David Win ans, Medford; a son, W. K., Ash land; seven grandchildren; three brothers, S. J., Portland; A. B.t Longview, Wash., and Jack, Port land, and a sister, Mrs. Ashley Wilson, Seattle, Wash. Salt Lake City U.R) Fire men in some Utah communities do many things beside fight fires. At the mining community of Eureka, the pumper truck was pressed into service recently to carry water to Mammoth, sev eral miles away, after the 17 mile long pipeline bringing water to Mammoth froze. Mam moth is too small to maintain its own fire department. In Price, the fire wagons roll every time it rains heavily. Their pumps are needed to empty water out of the main U. S. 50 underpass at the north end of town. During one flash flood, Chet Mills, Price's only full-time fire man, had to rescue five young sters who were trapped in a car. The pumping and rescue jobs are listed by Mills as "unusual." On his "usual" list are routine expeditions to get children out of locked bathrooms and pluck stranded cats from treetops. American Indians used petrol eum as a medicine. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday; 1 a. m. Monday for Monday: other days 530 oreviousday. Maj. Gen. Montgomery Resigns From Air Force Fort Worth, Tex. (U.R) Maj. Gen. John B. Montgomery, re garded as a rising young officer in the Strategic Air Command, gave "compelling reasons" today as the motive for his sudden resignation. Secretary of Air Harold E. Talbott accepted the resination of the 43-year-old Montgomery "with regret." The Air Force said only that Montgomery, com manding general of the Eighth Air Force, resigned "for personal reasons" having to do with the future security of his family led him to resign his $14,000 a year commission. He declined to elab orate further. HIGHER WATER RATES Portland (U.R) The city council yesterday approved an increase in Portland water rates which will amount to about $1.80 a year more for about half the city's water users. DINE at the SSUEG1 mil 403 East Main .... At Beautiful ' Hawthorne Park ' For Your Added Pleasure ROOT BEER BARREL and ' SWEDEN CREAM Has Been Newly Installed ITTIE BURGESS Private funeral services for Kittie Pearl Burgess, 78, of 412 South Oakdale ave,, who died today, will be held at Chapel mortuary Monday. The deceased was the mother of Ralph C. Bur gess, Ashland, and for many, years she and her late husband, Arthur, were prominent mem bers of the old Andrews Opera ConiDanv.' I ORVAL LaMERE i Graveside funeral servicesf or Orval Floyd LaMere, 10, son of Mr. and Mrs. George LaMere, Hauser, Ore., who drowned in Eel lake Tuesday, will be held in Jacksonville cemetery Satur day at 11 a.m. with the Rev. D. Kirkland West, pastor of the First Presbyaterian church, officiat ing. Perl funeral home is' in charge of local arrangements. DDAMCIE SATURDAY NIGHT At Walker's Popular ' The Finest of Modern Music I Good Floor Good .Crowd ENJOY AN EVENING OF FUN1 Slight Letup Seen In Boxcar Shortage Portland (U.R) A slight let up in the railway boxcar short age in western Oregon was re ported by railroad officials to day but they predicted no per manent solution. They said fewer complaints had been received this week but they said the shortage was na tionwide and could be expected to get worse before the summer was over. Use Mail Tribune Want Ads , MEDFORD Co. Fairgrounds One Day Only, Aft. & Nirs TIIU. JUN. U Spon. Allied Veterans Council At the JACKSONVILLE COMMUNITY HALL Saturday Night Music by BILL LIVELY and the WESTERN SWING BAND LADIES ADMITTED FREE UNTIL 9 P.M. I SGAffTC 3RIH$ RAILROAD ' :-4 eh V ' tL wwnnuiBr 5 g &rS hub ' I HUCO ZACCHINI H,m,n pwiet. Me. Shat the length af Mw Me Teat Hi y CANNON. CS.EAT LINARES Suia's nw smttM Star Mm Svot Straad. H ANNE FORDS lirfamaHmal Mt RMing Stan. Many aHMr NEW fttmm. 400 Armfc Umn. IS Camas. Twico Daily, 2:30 ft t P.M. Popular Doors Optn 1:30. It 7 P.M. , Pncas Central admission and rasorvad chair tickers on sale Circus Day only at Central Kcsall Drug, Main & Central. HEREIN PERSON Alvadean and SANDY iff COKER ABBOTT Recording Artists SAT.rNightJUNE11 Hear them sing and play "We're Gonna Bop," "Do Deo Oodlo Dee Do," "Meadow Lark Melody," "Toss Over," and many others. Rogue Valley Ballroom . Air Conditioned Hall Lots of Free Parking rCl y Goker ! 1 Band' : I ""-v M Don't Miss M CiSv J Danc X-R I Show... Jy I Th.- 1 1 Kids are xsM- Raa,,y- N Vfrfca-,., I Talented AMM UNRESERVED SEATS ClmJ EACH PERFORMANCE Children 75c I Adults $1.35 Includes All Taxes Extra Added Attraction Doug Autry "Singing Cowboy" and His Congress of Riders & Ropers DANCE AT McKEE BRIDGE UPPER APPLEGATE Saturday, June 11 ' "CHAP'S ROADSIDE RASCALS" MUSIC YOU'LL DANCE TO . 1 I irauini's aff FOOD SERVED 6 A.M. - 9 P.M. Diningroom Service-Families .Welcome! Bill and Jane Invito You to Com in and Try Their Good Food Choice Steaks Mexican Food Merchants Lunches Served from 1 1 :00 A.M. to 7:00 PJA. BREAKFAST SERVED ALL DAY Closed Sundays Ed Dahack PRESENTS . Mig Anniversary EMM (E IE SATURDAY NIGHT EAGLE POINT -Guest Star -JIMMY ASHER A REAL FINE SINGER Music by DICK SPAIN and the Rogue Valley Boys Special Anniversary Offer ... Ladies Admitted FREE Till 10 P.M. AIR CONDITIONED! Tune In KMED Sat. Eve.-6:30 P.M. a
