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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.
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"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.
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