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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 2, 1955)
0 A NUhol's Worth of ... Comment On This and That y HARMAN W. NICHOLS United ree "eerere Writer Hitman Nichols Washington 'U.Rj I can (Pardly wait tcvsit down in the (fciazzy press room at the new building put !' y N J ud bv the Na tional Associa tion of Home Builders. It has every thing a news man could ask for but hot and cold running bartenders. The housing people are moving into fiVipi S2.500.000 hom thia very (f y,ndtb gawking public will S a Jffafc at the finished prod-tttrly-in October at the offi ?ninf. The worker who 9f putting on the last touches f Jin and wax for the floor tisil fh home buildera would liotia.ff 0 few years. The lathers (39 h paintera and tha elec lci rwver had it to food. Jli! Conditioning Ai conditioning had to be Jut ahead of the touches that ifcjiish off a building. As Billy J?Mell, 1" electrician who wa Sigginj some cables for (fbmeiights, put ft: '6u don't have it ao good in f$is ind of weather nowhere ph9re i hav ever worked." 3 a)the press room Xo'fdy, me! There 'are half a aJozen"desto, with new chairs. A Seleyhone at each spot. An ice Dg. stove for cooking. A place la hang the coats. And better Oll, during the day-daylight. No ;Seei, to put on the soft lights jMtthiad. Ijghetfc IS a little sound - proof (loom off stage with the news Ackers of the world's great news Sgenci. A Man can sit there, if he is of a mind, and do tois chore ithout stirring much. Colors are nice, too. Every fing done up in a symphony of ijitfc yellow and black. Nothing 'to' hurt the eye. Of course, pave ment pounders won't find much Lewis-Clark Caravan Bound f or Astoria Pomeroy, Wash. (U.R) TTi Lewis and Qark motorcade hich started in North Dakota uly rgftor Astoria, will arrive here tomorrow. About 100 members of the 'group, which has been follow ing the route Merriwether Lewis and William Clark took in their 1805 expedition, will be guests of the Pomeroy Kiwanis club. They will breakfast at the city nark near the leeation where Nez Perce Chief Big Horn met Lewis and Clark. excuse to sit and slumD on this sixth floor retreat of the newest building in the capital. But the lads who sweat for the housing trade papers, many with no of fice bf their own, "will find at a haven. You also can save a lot of dimes if you have a free phone at your shirt-sleeve. Furniture Costly o Furniture for the new building set the builders back a neat $80,- 000. Robert F. Loftus. the builders public relations chief who used to be a newsDaoerman himself, would have us know that some 10,000,000 people look at some thin? resembline housing each week. Knowing Bob, who can disDute it? And who among us can count by ones up to 10,000,- 000. Bob, bless his bones, has a nir little hovel of his own. When the delivery man came, just before we completed the m snection. he was worried be tween a burnt orange or some thing speckled in black tor a rocking chair. Bob is from the old school. He rocks while he types. He claims rocking leads to good, solid thinking. Grandma, Donkey En Route To Glacier Spokane U.P.) Grandma Walker and her Donkey "Uran ium," who hiked from Pasco to. Spokane this year, left Spokane today for a trip to Glacier Na tional Park. Grandma Walker, who is real ly Mrs. Tom Court, will take Uranium in a trailer as far as Kalispell while she and her dog "buck" ride in a truck with her husband. From Kalispell Grandma, the donkey and the dog will begin walking. Uranium will pull a small covered wagon and artist's materials with which Grandma will paint landscapes. Grandma was told by forest officials she can not walk along the park highway but they have scheduled a route for- her along park horse trails. Or she may follow U. S. highway 2 which borders the southern tip of the park. CLERICAL GOLF Minneapolis (U.R) Mayor Eric Hoyer, who recently vetoed a proposal that the park board let clergymen play golf free on week days, suggested instead "passing" the plate" at Minnea polis churches for "golfing money." He also suggested giv ing clergymen reduced rates one or two days each weeK. Dead line Sundae Classified is t noon Saturday: 10 a m Monday toi Mondav: other days 5:30 previous day Changes in Potato Regulations Delayed Ontario f'J.P.) Members of the Idaho-Eastern Oregon Potato Market Control committee voted in Ontario yesterday to post pone any changes in marketing regulations for potatoes at this time. ; There had. been talk of with drawing number two potatoes from the market in an attempt to- better seriously depressed prices. However, some 100 grow ers from Idaho and Eastern Ore gon recommended no changes be made. The action rules out a possible cooperative effort with the state of Washington to withdraw certain grades to up prices. Washington has already with drawn number two spuds from the market. Growers said they have not yet given up hope for this year's crop although prices are so low they wouldn't cover the cost oi! digging. I'D 4 - - LOGGER DROWNS Reedsport IU.R) John Frank Mihulke, 34-year-old logger from North Bend, drowned yesterday in Tahkenitch lake between Florence and Reedsport. Police were still investigating today. SUCCEEDS MRS. HOBBY Pointing to his seat at cabinet table, Pres. Eisenhower congratulates Marion B. Folsom .who was sworn in as secretary of health, education and welfare at ceremony in White House cabinet room. Folsom succeeds Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby who resigned. THEY FLIPPED Providence, R.I. (U.R) Trailer trucks apparently have an affinity for Providence Pub lic Library. Two fJipped over ii. front of the library in one month. Tuesday, August 2, ,1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUI FIVE DOUBLE CELEBRATION Marcellus, . Mich. (U.R) Charles Decker, a retired bar ber, had a big day recently when he observed both his 75th wedding anniversary and 100th birthday on the same day. Bit of Home Going To Fliers Tokyo (U.R) The Au- Fcrce is flying a little bit of home to Hong Kong for the 11 American airmen on their way to freedom. The Air Force announced it is sending two transport planes to Hong Kong with three doc tors, steak, ice cream, soap and shaving gear. ' . In Hong Kong, the United States consulate said the men due to arrive Thursday will start home to their families within three hours after they cross to freedom. An Air ' Force liaison officer will meet the fliers at; the bor der and take them to the plush Hong Kong Jockey club for baths, driftks and clean clothes. If everything follows sched ule, the men should cross through the bamboo curtain be tween 8:30 and 9 a.m. (PST) Thursday. The families of the 11 men probably will meet their loved ones in Honolulu. President Eisenhower promised that the men and their families would be Harriman Predicts Stevenson Election Dublin. Ireland (U.R) Gov ernor Averrell Harriman of New York predicts that Adlai Stevenson will be elected presi dent of the United States next year, even if he has to oppose President Eisenhower. Harriman said he himself would not seek the 1956 Demo cratic nomination. HarrimarO told a news con ference in CDublin that he is satisfied the Democratic party will win next year's presidential election and that Stevenson will become chief executive '"regardless of who runs under the Republican banner." !j Harriman is on a months-long European' tour. SALMON EGGS Sacramento, Calif. (U.R) The state's fish and game de partment expects to take and average of 47,000.000 salmon eggs annually at the Mimbus Hatchery, now under construc tion on the American river near here. RETIRES Norman L. 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