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xMIHIT -MtUf URD (0AEG01T) MAIL THIBUHE Sunday, July 3, 195S BENEFIT FOR NURSES TRAINING Med ford's Mayor Earl Miller is given the first free ticket for a drawing en a "brand new" Model T Ford to be given away by the 40 and 8 organization here in a project to raise funds to start three local girls in nurses trainings. Donations to the group's child welfare fund are solicited at the time the tickets are given. The group shown above it standing in front of the completely-renovated old Ford, which is equipped with "old timer" license plaes, and. is all ready to go. Left to right, above, are Col. H. J. Meiring, Ernie Winkle, both 40 and 8 leaders. Mayor Miller, Clyde Fichtner, head of the child wel fare committee; Bud Fisher, Post 15 Legion commander, and Gene Orr, Legion official and 40 and 8 member. (Brainerd photo) AO and 8 Planning To Raise Funds for Nurses Training A program of nurses training In Jackson county is being plan ned under the sponsorship , of the 40 and 8 here, is was an nounced last week. Costs of tht program will be underwritten by the American Legion's fun and honor 'organi zation, and projects are . under way to raise the money, which Is administered by the child welfare committee of the ' 40 and 8. The program will allow for training as a nurse in any class A hospital, according , to Ernest Winkle, 40 and 8 presi dent "The goal is three girls", Winkle added. "They will re ceive training at hospitals either In Portland or Eugene". To Give Away Ford The current fund-raising plan Is a "give-away" project, with the big prize a "brand-new" Model T Ford. The Ford is com plete with a new paint job, new tires, new battery, and a reno vated starter, generator, runn ing gear and motor, with paints and labor mostly donated by Mitchell's Paint. Shop, Staats Service Station, Nickle Silver Battery Co., Electric Supply Co, and Macks Garage. It is equip ped witn via rimers license plates and is "all ready to go Free tickets for the drawing en July 30 are available from any member of the 40 and 8 in Medford, Ashland and Central Point. Donation to the fund are solicited. Mayor Receives First Mayor Earl Miller, recipient of the first ticket to be given away by the 40 and 8, lauded the- group for their program,: de claring that the entire commu nity should get back of the nurses training program.' "My dollar may be the one that, would start a girl in nurses training who later might be the nurse to save my life", Mayor Miller said. Ernie Winkle, chief of the 40 and! 8 here, urged everyone to get the free tickets on -the Model T. All donations will be used in their entirety for this program, with no deductions for expenses or administration costs, Winkle added. Nurses training programs are 1 being sponsored by the 40 and 8 ail over the state. Multnomah Welfare Chairman. Selected Salem (U.R) 7 Gov. Paul Patterson today announced the appointment of W. Talbot Sin-, clair to be chairman of the Mult nomah County Public Welfare commission. He succeeds Natt McDougall Jr., resigned. Gov. Patterson did. not indi cate whom he would appoint to bring the ' seven-member com- Lnission to full strength. Guernsey Breeders Tour 3-Js Farm Gold Hill The Three .Jays Guernsey farm" was visited by a number of officials and breeders of guernsey cattle re cently. ... The farm,' owned and operated by Mr. and Mrs. John Jaksch and son Johnnie, has been oper ated as a dairy farm the past three years. The guests included E. J. Meadows, Portland, field rep resentative , of the American Guernsey association: Harold Ewalt, dairy specialist from OSC Corvallis; Earle Jossy, Jackson county agricluture agent; Keith Hockersmith, of the Grange Co- Op; R. J. McCarty, county agent, Josephine county, and son Jim my; and others from Josephine county. The tour included the milking parlor, the cooler, the pasteur izer room, and the walk-in cold storage room, After viewing the 20-acre farm and the herd of 28 guern sey cattle, the guests gathered in the Jaksch yard for a picnic lunch. .. r 1 TO THE Rogue Valley Ballroom TOES.-JULY 1 5 y Popular Demand and me Request of His Many Friends and Fans Who Missed Seeing Him Last Saturday Night Duo to the largo Crowd. " Disss Frca Obi D::rs 0;:a d 0 IN PERSON AMIIKA-f PXVOMTf POCK ABTOT NATION'S N.1 MAR MM ON CAMTOt RKOftM - DAIICE To The Music of HO. 1 WESTEM Sl'O DAHD OF THE UNITED STATES Corps of Engineers Lists Expenditures tor Region Totalling $270,500,000 Portland (U.R) Civil and military expenditures by the Army Corps of Engineers in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska during the fiscal year ending June 30 totalled $270,500,000. Col. L. H. Foote, North Pacific Division Engineer, said civil ex penditures during the period amounted to $135,000,000 or more than one. quarter dt the nationwide Corps expenditures. Slight Decline Army and Air Force construc tion projects in the Northwest and Alaska accounted for an other $135,000,000, Col. Foote said, which represented a slight decline from the previous fiscal PrtO&i'tiCT QuLfcu oONicaiAnTs The young ladies shown above are the six candidates for queen, of the fifth annual Hill Billy Jamboree in Prospect. Inset at left is Genivra Mather; top center is Sue Colley; left above is JoAnn Cooper; left below is Janet Bean; right above is Mary Ann Hubbard, and right below is Beverly Beans. (Large photo by Brainerd) Prospect Sets Fifth Annual Hill-Billy Jamboree July 23-24 Prospect The fifth annual Hill-Billy Jamboree will be con ducted here July 23 and 24, it was announced last week. Plans for the community-wide event are well along, sponsors said. The jamboree is a unique plan of the small mountain commun ity, and raises funds for a "com munity fund" to "keep things going" during the winter months, when logging shut-downs often create unemployment here. is administered by the commun ity club, and is used to. finance activities and charities. The jamobree will begin at noon on Saturday, the 23rd, with a Darade through town, ending at the Jamboree grounds, where entertainment is planned throughout the afternoon. Square and ballroom dancing will be featured in the evening, following the crowning of the Jamboree queen. On Sunday, a variety of con tests and entertainment will be featured in , conjunction with a community - wide old-fashioned "family picnic." . Six girls of the Prospect area are competing in the queen con- Ho Delay Planned On Coast Highway Portland CJ.R) Preliminary work on the new' coast highway route between Astoria and Sea side will not be delayed, despite Friday's objections by a Clatsop county delegation, the state highway commission announced. Chief Highway Engineer R H. Baldock's recommendation that the road should be rebuilt over a proposed two-lane bridge across Youngs bay southwest ward from Smith point, was ap proved Thursday by the commis sion. The decision was protested by Francis H. Harrington, a Port land attorney representing Clats op County Development League. " Harrington - said the group wanted time to present figures on an alternate route along the Lewis and . Clark river which had also been considered for the relocation. The commission plans to formally - approve the Smith Point rule when It meets July Four Ashlanders Hurt In Car-Truck Mishap Boise, Ida. U.R) Four vaca tioning Ashland, Ore., residents suffered minor injuries Friday when their car collided with an oil truck tanker west of here. Suffering cuts - and - bruises were Mr.' and Mrs. Shelby M. Wilcox, Mrs. Mabel Ross and Mrs. Nora Laurent, all of Ash Their car hit a telephone pole after the collision and was de molished. The'Oregonians were enroute to,-North Dakota on a vacation. ; . Two Seattle Fishermen Believed Lost at Sea Seattle U.PJ A treacherous early-season storm on Alaska's Bristol bay has apparently claimed the lives of two veteran Seattle fishermen. The capsized gillnet boat of Martin Jurseth. 50. and Nels Aurdal,. 57, was found Wednes day. .Word of the incident reached the Alaska Fishermen's Union here Friday. - The two partners: were -out on one, of the year s first trips when caught by the storm. They were fishing out of Egegik for the Alaska Packer Association Lithia Warehouse Destroyed by Fire Ashland OJ.R)' Fire late Friday destroyed the warehouse of the White Fir Lumber com pany here on a site adjacent to the Southern Pacific railroad tracks. The building was owned by Dave Whittle and was used by the lumber company for storage Tt ' - A ! Ti r purposes, wnue i ir manage Jiid Moores said the , loss was covered by insurance but he was unable to estimate exact dam ages.- '-" . .-..' Quick action by railroad crews saved several box cars on a near by siding. " test. The one selling the largest number of jamboree tickets will be the queen, and the other girls will be members of her court. Six Girls The girls are . Sue Colley daughter 1 of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Colley, Prospect, sponsored by the Lettermen's club; JoAnn Cooper, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Al Cooper, sponsored by the Shady Cove-Trail Lions club: Mary Ann Hubbard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Hubbard sponsored by the Prospect Lions club auxiliary; Genivra, Mather, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.- R Mather, sponsored by the Pros pect Parent Teacher association, and Janet and Beverly Bean, daughters of Mr. and Mrs.. Rich ard Bean. Janet is sponsored by the Prospect 4-H club, and Bever ly by the Prospect Lions club 80-Year-Old Makes Cross Country Jaunt On Motorscooter . Portland (U.R) -Eighty-year-old Burt - Thompson of Enid, Okla.. is convinced the best way to travel from Okla homa -to Portland without being bothered by hitchhikers is to make the trip in a motor scooter. And. he's done just that. . Thompson, who quips that he's too young to drive a car, arrived hero Friday to visit his foster son, Leo Schneider. Ifs his second trip to the Pacific Northwest on his ancient, um brella - equipped . scooter. Thompson said that last time; the trip cost him about $40 for gas and oiL . "But I had to change spark plugs oyer so often. This time I'm burning ethyl and climb ing the hills in high. I can make high onto 25 miles an hour now," he says. Thompson expects to put about 5000 miles on his speed ometer this trip, . returning home by way of Casper, Wyo. year. , . - " - Larges single cost item on the Corps' production sheet was The Dalles dam, where construction activity reached its peak dur ing the fiscal year. A total of $63,000,000 was spent on the project, with 4,200 workers em ployed at the site. y Corps spending on other dam projects included: Chief Joseph, $25,000,000; Lookout Point, $6, 000,000; Albeni Falls, $2,000,000; Lucky Peak, $1,600,000, and De troit, $500,000. Pipeline Project The,- Corps of 'Engineers re ported that workjon the $35,000,- uuu peiroieum proaucis pipeline between Haines, Alaska, and Army and Air Force installa tions near Big Delta-and Fair banks, Alaska was rapidly near- ing completion. ?.. ., The bulk of the division's mil itary construction .work was, in the Alaska, regidnt; most ' of the civil spendingvwas done on pro jects in the-Portland district, where The Dalles, .Lookout Point and Detroit dams were under construction. -"V. - V tjf HO Vl GUEST STAR Miss Norma Robinson, (above), Vancouver, Wash., this -week was the guest star at the annual "Miss Canada" contest in London, Ont. She is to return this week end to Med ford, where she is appearing at the Rogue Valley Country club. Last year Miss Robinson was a contestant in. the -Miss Canada contest, -and -won first place in the talent .contest and second place in the beauty contest Her summer guest appearance at the clftb is with Abby Green, Glenn Parker and Keith Mirick. Wilsonville Youngster Dies After Quarry Fall Wilsonville, Ore. (U.R) - An 11-year-old boy was fatally, in jured in a quarry' here Friday when he fell from a rock crusher on which he had been playing. David Lee Wilson, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Wilson of Wilson ville, was rushed to a Portland hospital, but died in surgery. Dead line Sunday Classified . Is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 previous day Strictly For The Male . SPECIAL LUNCHEONS Now .Being Served in The Smart, New . . . PALO t J 0 ROOM JACKSON HOTEL r Uosdays, Tcssdays tzi Xlciizzi sjs . - LUNCHEONS SERVED. 12 to 1:30 "A Quiet Spot To Talk Over That ; ; ' Big Business Doal" You're Sure To Enjoy the Privacy and Fine Food Ed Dahack Presents 111 TDES., JULY 5 ASDS : EAGLE POINT o n IE dr ie mm MODW 9 o Southern Oregon's ORIGINAL I Wnl v n r i mlAm That Delighted Rogue In Recent Years At y alley . - i r- 4 - r DDiEsnm. 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