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o o O O o O O TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, September 8, I9S5 Springfield Man Named Chairman Of State Water Resources Board Salem (U.R) H. E. Maxey of Springfield, active for 27 years in general planning and promo tion of Willamette Basin pro jects, was chosen chairman of the newly created Water Re sources Board to serve during the organizational period of the next two months. LeC. (Jack) Binford of Port land, past president of the Ore gon division of Izaak Walton League, was named vice chair man and Don Lane of Portland, who served as secretary of the Interim Committee on Water Resources, was named secretary. Binford and Lane also were elected for the two months peri od. Each Actively Interested The seven members of the Board, created by the 1955 Leg islature, had not met each other before yesterday's first meeting of the board, although each is actively interested in conserva tion of water resources. Binford sounded the feeling of all the members when he said the legislature had handed the board the biggsst job ever given such a group "on an uncharged area of activity." The board will hold hearings throughout the state, after which Revenue Men Catch Many Bootleggers o Washington (U.R) You may not realize it, but those reve nooers of the roaring twenties are nearly as busy now as in prohibition days. The Internal Revenue Service reports that during the 11 months ending with May 11,418 sfills were seized, an increase of 1,003 over the same period aoyear earlier. During that time 9,582 arrests were made, up al most 1,000 over the same period in 1954. An Internal Revenue official Antique Phone Said 'Sfiil Good As New'. Boston (U.R) Back in 1892, just 16 years after Alexander Graham Bell invented the tele phone one block away, a tele- phonewas installed in the city clerk's office at City Hall. A newspaper account of the in stallation read: "This telephone is an out standing attraction for City Hall visitors and employees who stand long periods of time studying Mr. Bell's invention. It is expect ed the telephone will be used for many years to come." . Having survived 21 mayoralty administrations, this old-fashioned wall telephone is still do ing business at the same old s'tano? City officials have stead fastly rejected telephone com pany offers to replace it with a modern instrument. It's estimated that more than 4,000,600 calls have been made over the telephone during the past 63 years. City workers re fer to the phone affectionately as "Old 94," its extension number. City Clerk Wilfred J. Doyle Bis no idea of replacing the an tique telephone. "Why," he said, "it's still as good as new." i credits the increase to better enforcement. There were 10,863 agents on duty May 21, com pared with 10,605 the year be fore. However, the Distilled Spirits Institute here contends that bootlegging is profitable once again and consequently more of it goes on. There is a $10.50 federal tax on each 100-proof gallon of whiskey. When prohibition end ed in 1933 the first tax levied on alcohol was $2.20 per 100 proof gallon. Stills Bloom Everywhere Seizures by federal agents, which rose to 6,694,800 gallons of mash in the 11 months end ing May 31, were 75 to 80 per cent in the southeastern states, the revenue official said, though big hauls have been made in northern and midwestern cities. The Institute spokesman said that bootlegging outside the southeast is also on a large scale. Stills of 500 to 2,000 gallons daily capacity, he said, have been seized. The larger stills, he said, cost from $75,000 to $100, 000. The Internal Revenue Service official said that the 11-month period ending May 31 "was one of the largest" since prohibition from the standpoint of stills smashed and arrests made. Dur ing prohibition seizures ran as high as 23,000 stills annually, the Institute reported. This fig ure does not include scattered seizures by local officials. it will formulate and outline pol icies governing Oregon's water resources and issue a statement of regulations. Lewis A. Stanley, state engi neer and one of the members of the advisory committee, told the board it would not be long be fore some applications for hy dro-electric permits would be submitted to the board for its consideration. Medford Man on Board Members of the board are Robert H. Foley, Bend attorney and member of the Upper CO' lumbia River Basin Commis sion; Fred Merryfield of Cor vallis, professor, of sanitary en gineering at Oregon State Col lege; Wayne E. Phillips of Bak er, rancher and cattleman; John Davis of Stayton, insurance man formerly with the Bonne ville Power Administration; Robert Root of Medford, farm er and orchardist and former state representative; Maxey and Binford. The board will hold its next meeting Sept. 26, in Salem. USING HIS HEAD Milwaukee' (U.R) Seven-year-olfl Pat Managhan recent ly figured out a method of get ting past hard words when tie reads to his blind grandfather. He spells them out with his finger on his grandfather's head, and his grandfather tells him what they are. Moose Lodge Plans Safety Contest for Local Youngsters Medford Moose lodge, in co operation with the national lodge and those in Canada and Alaska, is conducting a safety awards contest for boys and girls aged six to 18 in this area. To enter, a contestant must send his name and summary of his safety work to Dewey Gear in, in care of Medford Moose lodge, 11 Newtown st. , The safety activity may be some act of hero'ism, outstanding perfor mance in school safety patrols, a safety theme, creation of a safety poster, or similar work connected with safety, especial ly of children. International Awards Local winner will compete with all other community win ners for ' four international awards. The top prizes include an all expense paid trip via airliner to New York or Chicago for an appearance on Don McNeill's Breakfast Club radio show, and a gold wrist watch. The Medford winner will be given a parchment type certifi cate, individually embossed with his or her name and signed by Paul P. Schmitz, director gen eral of the Moose, and Don Mc Neill. Phone r 2-9200 FREE9 PARKING fillip l FOOD STORE f7 915 W. McAndrews WE DELIVER SUPER WEEK-END SAVINGS M.D. TISSUE, bathroom luxury .... 10 rolls $1.00 APRICOTS CALIROSE Unpeeled 4 cans .....98c CASE $5.19 PEACHES MECO FREESTONE 3 cans 89c CASE $6.89" PIUEAPPLE Party-Time, Crushed 4 Cans 98c CASE c$5.1 9 V-8 Vegetable Juice 40 oz. can 39c M. CP. PECTIN 2 "a- 25 TANG Saland Dressing Quart 37c KARO Waffle Syrup FULL QUART 47c PEARS Party-Time Bartlerts 3 cans .....89c CASE $$6.89 CIIEEZE-VHIZ By KRAFT Pound Jar . .57c Our Produce Is Always Ice Cold, Fresh and Crisp AVOCADOS, Black Gems ea. 19c CELERY HEARTS, cello bag ea. 29c CARROTS, No. 1 cello bag 2 for 25c Another load of RED SPUDS $1.98 per 100 KOOL-AID PORK & BEANS Famous Van Camps No. 2 12 Cans 5 $1.00 All Flavors 49 Doz. POP-CORN 3-Minute Yellow or White 21b Plastic Bag 39c BEEF POT ROAST lb. 35c RIB STEAKS, Good Quality lb. 59c PORK STEAKS, lean cuts lb. 49c FRANKFURTERS Old-Fashioned Roasters 3 lbs $1.00 GROUND ROUND, all lean beef ......... .lb. 49c SLICED BACON ENDS season or . 2 lb, 49c AWAIT RESCUE Stranded flood victims prepare to climb aboard makeshift rafts to escape rising waters from two rivers swollen by rains from tropical storm (Gladys) which flooded part of Mexico City. At least nine children drowned and some 30,000 persons were left homeless. In parts of city water was 12 feet deep. WESTERN BEAUTIES Proving that putting three heads together make it narder to choose one are, left to right. Miss Oregon (Dorothy Mae Johnson), Miss Utah (Suzanne Poulton) and Miss Canada (Dalyce Gail Smith). The girls are putting those three pretty heads together at Atlantic City, N. J., as the 1956 Miss America contest gets underway. Milwaukee Hastens Preventive Plan as Polio Epidemic Rages Milwaukee, Wis. U.R) Mil waukee county authorities, fight ing the second polio epidemic in a major; American .cuy xnis year, today rushed plans to give emergency shots of gamma glob ulin to about 100,000 children. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis announced late yesterday that polio had reached epidemic proportions in Milwaukee. It sent 700,000 shots of gamma globulin, a temporary polio pre ventive, to be used in protect ing children in the city of Mil waukee and its suburbs. Milwaukee Health Officer E R. Krumbiegel, who had request ed the kamma globulin, said 600,000 of the shots would be used to inoculate about 89,000 children between the ages of one and nine in Milwaukee. The remaining 100,000 shots will go to suburban children. School Postponed The starting date for the mass inoculation program was not set. But the opening of the first to seventh grades of public and parochial schools, scheduled yes terday, has already been post poned. The Milwaukee polio outbreak built up during the record Aug ust heat wave and has already claimed 39 lives in the county. There have been 402 polio cases, surpassing a 1951: record, and the polio rate in Wisconsin as a whole is 357 per cent higher than last year. Milwaukee is the second big city to be afflicted by a major polio outbreak this summer. Earlier, emergency tactics were used to fight a polio outbreak Ecuador Tells of Peru Invasion Plan Washington (U.R) Ecuador told the Council of the Organiz ation of American States today it is facing "imminent invasion" from Peru. Ecuadorean -Ambassador Jose R. Chiriboga told a council meet ing that thousands of Peruvian troops are poised on the frontiers ready to march into his country. "Ecuador will make no ag gressive gesture," he said in a speech. "But if called upon we will defend our country up to the last man." He said he was speaking to alert all the Americas to the existing situation and that he is hopefui that a four-nation Bor der Commission already in ex istence will act promptly to pre vent an armed clash, v , The commission, established in Rio de Janeiro in 1942, is com posed of representatives - of the United States, Brazil, Argentina and Chile. - . in Boston The Wisconsin city was named, an epidemic area when K.rum biegel reported that polio cases had reached a rate of 37 per 100,000 residents. The infantile paralysis foundation said a 20 per 100,000 rate is counted as an epidemic. Earlier this summer, ' Krum biegei balked at allowing mass inoculations of Salk polio vac cine among Milwaukee young sters. Krumbiegel blocked the mass inoculations when some children elsewhere in the nation became ill with polio after receiving inoculations of vaccine made by the Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, Calif. Polio was not running at a high rate in Milwaukee or the rest of Wisconsin at the time. But since then, the disease rate has jumped in the state's' south ern and eastern sections. . Government OKs Guaranteed Wage Plan in Industry Washington U.R) The gov ernment gave an initial okay today to the so-called "guaran teed wage" plans set up in the auto and can industries this year. Secretary of Labor James B. Mitchell announced that depart ment lawyers have ruled that the five cents an hour contribu tions made by the Ford Motor Co. to its employment compensa tion fund will not be counted as part of the base pay under the federal fair labor standards act. Could Have Killed Plan If the ruling had gone the other way, it could have killed the Ford plan and similar plans The Ford contract with the CIO United Auto Workers was con ditional upon the department ruling that the- contribution would not be counted as wages. Mitchell said the new ruling is consistent with past rulings on comparable matters. He said Ford asked for a new statement, and other industries will get the same answer if they ask. Question Studied Mitchell told a news confer ence he still is studying the Question of advising states to change present laws which make the lay-off pay plans illegal. An other Question, relating to the taxability of the company con. tributions, is also still pending. Mitchell declined an opinion as to whether the government believes guaranteed wage plans are good or bad. He said they are "strictly a bargaining mat ter between companies and unions in particular industries.' Many Episcopal Clergymen Said To Be Unequipped Honolulu (U.R) Episcopal Bishop Horace Donegan of New York declared yesterday that many Episcopal clergymen were "theologically" and "emotion ally unequipped" to deal with i women church workers. The bishop noted churchmen too often treated women work ers like "second or third class citizens." His remarks were greeted with loud applause by many of the women attending the joint ses sion of the 58th general conven tion of the Protestant Episcopal Church meeting here. Many Unequipped "At 'present we train women for work in the church knowing more than likely they will be treated as second or third class citizens when thev undertake their work'" he said. "An alarming percentage of our clergy are theologically as well as emotionally unequipped to work with women a fact which may well indicate inade quacy in other areas." Presiding Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill suggested the church should use money donated1 to mite boxes by children for a special project instead of adding it to the general fund. "We should be ashamed to take financial offerings of children," Sherrill said. "We should choese a project realisticallv suDDorted by the children. They have long been under the impression their offerings went to a special proj ect, but instead it has always gone into the general fund." Last year 900,000 mite boxes were distributed among church children to collect $600,000 of their allowance money contrib uted during Lent. Business Leaders Meet in Portland Portland (U.PJ Business and industrial leaders from 11 western states met here today for opening of the 2nd annual Western Area Development Con ference. Theme of the two-day confer ence is "Industry Looks to the Future." Speakers include Govs. Sam uel Wilder King of Hawaii and H. Frank Heintzleman of Alas ka; W. O. Twaits, vice president ot imperial Oil Limited of Tor onto, Can.; Jesse V. Tapp, chair man of the board of the Bank of America, and George G. Man- ov of the Atomic Energy Com mission. There also will be two panel discussions. The conference is sponsored by the Standard Research In stitute in cooperation with the American Industrial Develop ment Council and Pacific North west Trade Association. Signs of Autumn Reported in State . By UNITED PRESS Signs of autumn multiplied in Oregon today as temperatures slid to more seasonable levels, a 39-day dry spell ended, in the northwestern part of the state, and southbound flights of geese were reported. A light drizzle in Portland yes terday morning and evening added up to a total of .02 of an inch at the downtown station and thecmaximum temperature dropped 30 decrees in three days. q Forecast for the next two days is for more sunshine but mild temperatures in the mid 705 for rSuch of western Oregon and cooler weather in all parts of the state. SOW AND REAP Wilbur, Wash. (U.R) R. K. Maiden lost his wallet while plowing in a field in April, 1953. Plowing the same field this year, Maiden turned up the wallet, torn and rotted. He took it into the. bank to see if at least part of the $90 he thought it contained could be salvaged. He received $94. Salem U.R) Fire struck again Tuesday at the ware house in North Salem formerly occupied by the Oregon Feed Co., and Fire Chief Ellsworth L. Smith said it was arson. ENJOY ennisons CHILI CON CARNE CD-flllM &N CABNE IWIW MANS) Z 4 A Chock foil of tender pieces of pure beeL.like real 'home-style chili Dermison's simmers the plump red beam to just die right tenderness uses only lean, tender beef free of all fat and gristle. And blends the beef and red beans in a rich full-bodied sauce with just the tangi ness to please the whole family. Costs mere pennies per serving for this tasty one-dish meaL Buy Denni son's today and treat your whole family to this better home-style chili. Try At BIG MEW TA IB. SIZE... priced to give you on EXTRA SERVING KJl Also at your grocer's in fee tegular LSVi etsixo can. SPECIAL SALE THIS WEEKEND 4?N I 4-H AND F.F.A. SEWJ BEEF Round Steak . . . lb. Rump Roasts . . . lb. 69 Chuck Blade Roast lb. 45 t t T-Bones . . . . . lb. I05 Top Sirloin, boneless, lb. J25 Standing Rib Roast, lb. 75 This show Jbeef will be sold at our regular low prices HUBBY . . . SUPPLY IS LIMITED 1 i i i i i r m la
