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O D Q Sunsst Accident Kills Elderly Woman Portland U.R) An elderly wor&an died in a local hospital last" night several hours after the car in which she was rid ing was involved in an accident on the Sunset highway. The victim was identified as Mrs. Marian McCroskey, 74. Her husband, LeForest McCros key, 71, was hospitalized with possible head and body injur ies. State Policeman Fred Gibson said McCroskey told him he was going east when he apparently fell asleep and lost control of the car, which went across the highway and struck a parked car. Imported Communists Win San Marino Election Republic of San Marino (U.Ri The Communists imported some 1,600 voters Sunday to beat the Democrats in a show down election and retain con trol of the only Red-dominated state in Western Europe. By winning, the Reds thwarted a concerted drive by an American delegation and the tiny republic's non-voting wom en to replace Communism with democracy. The electoral o f I i c e an nounced 3,003 votes for- the Communists and their Socialist allies, and 2,358 for the Chris tian Democratic and Social Democratic opposition. Lai1 woftmIYoods IpppjdlH STEVENS 2sgr LOGS WANTED o Ponderosa Pine, Sugar Pine. Douglas Fir, White Fir o and Cedar for Delivery to the JACKSON CREEK LUMBER COMPANY MILL AT JACKSONVILLE Accurate Grade Accurate Scale Top Prices ' - CONTACT - Southern Oregon Planing Mill Beall Lane Phone 2-5251 Sawdust Empire ... Next winter or spring Alfred A. Knopf who published "Paul Bunyan" and other books of mine in the 1920s will bring forth a new volume on the Pacific Northwest, entitled "Sawdust Empire." It is by Howard M. Brier, journalism professor at the University of Washington, author of many popular juve nile stores, and former director of the Keep Washington Green Association. Thousands of young husbands and fathers of today all over the U. S. A. swore by Brier's stories of flying and industry in their high school years. None of them can doubt that the Brier ability to keep a story sailing while cit ing educational items about the passing scenes and people will be at work in his adult story of the Northwest. Howard Brier's groundwork knowledge of the Pacific North west country was gained, in large part, through service with "Keep Green." As Assistant KWG direc tor under Stewart Holbrook in 1943, Brier traveled around and around Washington state. Then as Holbrook's successor he added excursions into Oregon, J) GQXKzXZJOSJOS V mesm r , (SiiS " o Mi KV 1 , still T Kip N! L h FOR ONLY J -M- """l l A WEEK M mmmmimm 'mm rim itrnana 'tmum Nuumi umi mm man 1m mm tuptt miii with Golden Bake fin d Golden I Broil Catrod units Time Center Control U. Attention Contestants - WHO ENTERED IN OUR T! Ill range 00 KITES Due to the tremendous response to our OLD RANGE CONTEST . . . We will not be able to announce the winner for several weeks! To be absolutely "sure we pick the oldest range in use, we are checking with the range manufacturers for model and serial numbers of all ranges submitted. The winner will be announced as .soon as possible. While the Old Range Round-Up for the free range ended August 15 ... WE STILL WON'T BE OUT-TRADED! If you have an old range . . . call us or Come In and see about trading it in. You will be surprised to v find what your old range is worth on a Trade-In on a new HOTPOINT r Electric Range at . . . -City Appliance, Inc. "Medford's Exclusive 'HOTPOINT' Dealers" 127 North Central-Across from Penney's-3-5306 Idaho, Northern California and British Columbia. With his own writing and a full-time university teaching job, Brier's hands over flowed with work to do, as Keep Green grew on and on into a powerful conservation move ment. So he retired to just two jobs. In education, Brier's specialty was high school journalism. For several years he has conducted an immensely successful annual convocation of western high school journalists and faculty advisers at the University of Washington, under the banner of "Pacific Slope Press." A long time member and former presi dent of Seattle Free Lances, the grand lodge of the region's pro fessional writers, Literatus Brier spends a splendid share of what he solemnly calls his "idle time" in teaching the wjriting of juve nile fiction to extension classes. The title of the forthcoming Knopf book by busy Brier sug gests that at last there's to be a volume on the nation's north west corner that puts the forest industry out front as the region's economic powerhouse, with lum ber the big wheel of our "Saw dust Empire." Publisher with Bark On ... Alfred Knopf told me about "Sawdust Empire" on a drive that began at dawn, up from Seattle and around Rainier Na tional Park. It was a rare ex perience to hear him hold forth with such enthusiasm about west ern forests and mountains and books, and to cogitate that for nigh on 40 years Knopf fame has grown as the chief American publisher of the great modern books of Europe. The Scandinavian countries are particularly in debt to Al fred A. Knopf and to his wife, Blanche W. Knopf, who has been his working partner all the way through for making the finest writers of the old countries known to American readers. Re cently Alfred flew to Switzerland to help celebrate the 80th 'birth day of the mightiest man of the written word on his list Thom as Mann. At the same time, the Knopfs have searched all corners of the United States for writers with things new, significant, or simply amusing to say about their native land and its lore. They have just published a small book with big values by Stewart Holbrook on James J. Hill, for example. Alfred is serving his last year as chairman of the Advisory Board on National "Parks, His toric Sites, Buildings and Monu ments. He is primed with first hand facts. on most of these U.S. Government reservations, large and little. With Super. Preston Macy and Snoqualmie National Forest Su pervisor Lawrence Barrett lead ing the way, and the weather shining bright, the publisher of Thomas Mann and Howard Brier had himself a great day in our Cascade Mountains. His final comment was not literary but it came from the heart: "Well, you people , have got yourselves a mountain." Author of Famous Reader, Tuesday. August is. 1955 Was Poor Businessman Appeal Considered In Railroad Ruling Salem (U.R) Public Utilities Commission Charles H. Heltzel said yesterday an appeal was un der consideration from a Circuit Court decision which gave the Portland Traction Company the right to reduce interurban runs without approval of the Public Utilities Commission. Heltzel said he would study the problem with John McCul lough, his counsel, before mak ing a decision. The official said hearings on the traction company service cut and on abandonment of railroad passenger service by Southern Pacific from Portland to Ash land would be scheduled. If need for service is shown, re storation of schedules may be ordered. WANTS STORM BOMBS Wilmington, N.C. (U.R) George Brown, of Los Angeles, suggested today in a letter to the Wilmington Chamber of Commerce that "man-made old style bombs" fired into the cen ter of Hurricane Diane would dissipate the storm. He said that the Los Angeles chamber send on the same remedy for the late Hurricane Connie but said they didn't do so. Detroit flJ.R) The man who wrote America's all-time best selling book was a noted scholar but a poor businessman. The author, William Holmes McGuffey, sold his famous "Ec lectic Readers" to his publisher with the agreement he would re ceive a 10 per cent royalty until the sum reached 51,000, after which the books became the pub lisher's property. If McGuffey had received only a penny a copy ,he would have collected more than $1,220,000 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THIBTZUI REDS TO MOSCOW Taipeh, Formosa (U.R) Two Communist Chinese leaders, Liu Shao Chi and Chen Yi, have been summoned to Moscow for an emergency meeting, Tatao News Agency reported Monday night. The Nationalist Chinese news agency said the Reds would stay in the Soviet capital for about 10 days. It gave no de tails about the visit. for his famous McGuffey grade school readers. Norwegian Consul Probes Ship Explosion .. San Francisco (U.R) Acting Norwegian Consul General An ton Smith-Meyer prepared to day to open a hearing into an engine room explosion aboard the Norwegian freighter Tan cred that killed two crew mem bers and injured four others last Saturday. The proceedings were to be held in the consulate offices. They were to be closed to the public. Smith-Meyer said he would call all witnesses who could help determine the cause " of the mysterious explosion. A spokesman for the U.S. Coast Guard said that the Coast Guard will hold no investiga tion because the accident took place outside its jurisdiction. The scene of the accident was 120 miles west of San Francis co. The Tancred was bound for San Francisco from Yokohama at the time. 1 jjM Km. ym S PE C I A Lthis week . W53ri JsFEjsff - 1 COLORED ALUMINUM BjJ Td BEVERAGE PITCHER CWw sSTfJJH tTTfl REG. 2.39 VALUE U Easy, quick, low-cost building! You. can do all your own construction with light, easy-to-'apply Kaiser Alu minum Roofing! 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