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J II rOTOTgglT jgPrOHU tOBEOOsT) MAIL TMBUH Tuesdir. Julr IS' 1933 Touring Soviet Farm Experts Treated To Picnic, Yankee Style Des Moines, la. (U.R) Twelve spring roosters, potatoes, gravy, potato salad, corn on the cob, country Saturday and will spend their time trying to learn how 100 or so newsmen and photog made a plea for peace and ex He admitted ' some Russian farms were downright "lousy" and jotted down copious notes as he toured the fields. . Russian agricultural experts sat down to a neighborhood picnic today with 25 Iowa farm folk. The picnic was held on the simple dirt farm of George Hora, six miles north of Washington, la., about 100 miles southeast of here. The menu was distinctly American. It included a dozen . plump raphers whom Vladimir Katske vich, chief of the delegation and first deputy minister of Russian agriculture, said "got in the way of the cows" yesterday.: Impreued by Farm In addition to his visit with the delegation to the farm of Richard L. Alleman, a 25-year-old Army veteran, and his run ning barbs at the newsmen, he plained the desperate straits of Russian agriculture. Matskevich was far more im pressed with Alle man's farm near Slater, la, north of here, than he was with the newsmen. Bouncing across - Alleman s 160-acre farm in a tractor-drawn flatbed wagon with his compan ions, he said the crop layout was "very impressive." . hot rolls and farm butter, straw berry jam, three kinds of pie, cake and iced tea. The occasion was another visit to a "typical family-owned farm home" by the Soviet delegation on its month-long tour of the nation's bread basket. Newsmen Tag Along The Russians arrived in this America builds up its huge food surpluses while Soviet produc tion lags. Hora's 160-acre farm was sin gled out for inspection because it was the first honored by Iowa State College for master swine production. Hora raises about 800 hogs. Also on hand today were the Portland (U.R) Robert E. Phelps, former . grade .. school principal here and director of public relations for the Oregon Education Association, has been named regional . vice president of the National School, Public Relations Association. It. 1 r www -' J II 1 S- in -jc .1 "TEXAS TOWER" radar station, first of its kind, is pulled by tugs to permanent sea site in Atlantic about 110 miles off Cape Cod. Tower will be first outpost in 1,500-mile radar network protecting coast (InUrrationel Soundphet ) Was 'Step dac toamf SDfleir, IFDyciiii) SMe Deleting $66,512 from Med-1 dents rejected a proposed gen ford's general fund budget for eral fund budget $66,510 over fiscal year 195o-56 was a "step the 6 per cent limitation in an backward" in a year when it election July 5. was most needed because of a change in government from mayor to city manager form, ex Mayor Diamond Flynn said yes terday. He pointed out that many city services -will be hampered be cause of the cut-back, which was necessary when Medford resi- New Domiciliary Librarian Named, Manager Reports Camp White, Miss Rae M. Boyles has been appointed li brarian for the Veterans Admin istration Domiciliary center re placing Mrs. . Dorothea Glass, who retires this month after 30 years government service, Man ager E. K. Ricker announced today. ?- Miss Boyles is returning to Camp White where she served as assistant librarian for the U. S. Army hospital here dur ing 1943 and 1944. She will report for duty Aug. 7, it was announced. Miss Boyles has been a chief librarian with the Veterans Ad ministration since 1944, and has held that position at the VA Center, Bay Pines, Fla., during the past five years. Once Lived Hare . She was at Roseburg, Walla Walla, and Vancouver VA hos pitals before going to Bay Pines in 1950. She was assistant' li brarian at the Medford Public library for a short period in 1943. Miss Boyles was a teacher of languages in high school before going into library work in 1937 as a cataloguer and library as sistant with the Oregon state board of education at Salem, . She is a graduate of teachers college. University of Oregon, and the library school of San Jose State college, Calif. She also has post graduate training Planes' Believed In Mid-Air Crash Baltimore (U.R) A B-25 Air Force bomber and another - military plane apparently col lided in the ah today several miles east of Friendship Airport near Baltimore. The' B-25, with a crew of two, crash landed 1000 feet off a run way of Friendship Airport. One wing struck a house in landing. Both crew members escaped with minor injuries. The fate of the other plane and its crew was not immediate ly known. Chief Patroller F. A. Kane of Friendship Airport said the sec ond plane crashed about seven miles east of Baltimore. . He said no one was injured in the house struck by the B-25. "The two crewmen came out of it okay," he said. "They1 al most made it to the runway." Kane said both planes were military. He said he was not sure what forced the two planes down, but guessed that it must have been a collision. Flynn and Mayor Earl Miller discussed the decreased budget at the Chamber of Commerce roundtable yesterday. 'Backing Up Mayor Miller said, "If the people had got out and voted. Medford would be progressing instead of backing up . . . and would be meeting the expenses of a growing city." The proposed budget was de feated by a vote of 636 to 207. The 843 total is a comparatively small number of about 9.0001 registered voters in the city, he pointed out. miner aaaea, "We will col aneaa, and do the best we can." but that some departments "will feel it pretty bad." He added 'I hope no catastrophe happens to cut into the emergency fund.' The emergency fund totals $10,- 000 of the $559,690 general rund budget filed in the Jackson I county assessor's office last Fri day. Reviews Cut Items The mavor reviewed malor ; items which will suffer because of deletions, among them the airport fund, the fire and police departments, and city hall re pairs. "The city manager will be deprived of a raise which was promised him," Miller said, and one wnich he deserves because of the amount of work he does. Miller pointed out the airport, which serves the entire valley, will, suffer because $10,000 which was Medford's share. with federal participation for ranway clearance, was deleted. The runway clearance is need ed before federal agencies will participate in expansion pro grams oi municipal airoorts. Both Miller and Flynn agreed xnat mere "should be an educa tion program to point out that tne money was needed" and that the people should know "where tneir tax money is going. Phoenix Woman Hurt V noemx Mrs. Lloyd Hood, 40, Box 265, Phoenix( suffered head injuries and other bruises when the pickup truck she was oxivuig couiaea witn a car driv en by Robert Charles Cresap, 28,' of 1115 West Second St., Medford, on highway 99 just north of Phoenix about 4:20 p.m. yesterday. Mrs. Hood was given emer gency first aid treatment at the scene by a doctor. State police said the car driv en.-by Cresap, traveling north on Highway ,99;- collided with the left side of the truck, which was pulling from a market at the corner of Highway 99 and Fern Valley rd. The impact spun the truck around, police said. Mrs. Hood was taken to Sa cred Heart hospital in Medford by Medford ambulance and was released last night. KEWWMilLFOGL WASHER Now 22995 50 Gal. Glass lined Water Ilcatcr SPECIAL PRICE 119 MARINE-MARVAIR Make Mann's your shopping head quarters for , Rev Ion and Hazel Bishop beauty products. .... r3-! 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