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Church Requests Approval for New Gold Hill Building Gold Hill Plans will be sub mitted by the Catholic church to the Gold Hill city council in the near future for approval and a building permit for construc tion of a building for Catholic school students who desire one hour of religious instruction per week. The building would be located at the corner of Sixth ave. and 10th st., a lot which was pur chased by the church recently from George P. and Jessie Mar O tin. The structure will accommo date students who desire re leased time for religion instruc tion for one hour during each school year week. The location is near the present. VoU Regular Meetings Also at Monday's council meet ing, theecouncil voted to meet at 7 p.m. regular meetings dur ing the months October through April. Councilmen also discussed re moval of trees from streets, and decided that removal should be done by city employees. Several 'f residents recently have inquired - about removing trees which were extensively damaged dur ing a heavy wind storm Labor Day weekend. Frank Benesh, representing California Oregon Power com pany, discussed with the council the recent power shortage caused In Gold Hill by heavy winds and nearby forest fires. He pointed out that power was not restored as promptly as company offic ials would like because em ployees were needed elsewhere to restore power. Blaze Nothing New In Way of Inventions London (U.P.) Members of the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors thought someone was showing a new in vention Tuesday when a cloth covering their meeting table sud denly caught fire. Then they discovered that the sun's rays, concentrated by a beaker of liquid, had set the cloth ablaze. They put out the fire, moved the beaker and con tinued the meeting. Lewiston Protests Passenger Train Halt Boise (U.PJ A delegation from Lewiston meets with the public utilities commission to day to protest Union Pacific rail road's application to discontinue passenger service out of Lewis ton and Moscow. The PUC is to hold a formal hearing on the application in Lewiston Oct. 18. The group, headed by James McMonigle, met with Gov. Rob ert E. Smylie yesterday after noon. James Givens, Lewiston city attorney and a member of the delegation, later told reporters the area served. by the Lewiston , and Moscow' passenger trains has a population of more than 114,- ooo: A. B. Barnes, president of the Lewiston chamber of Commerce, said discontinuation of the ser vice would leave both Lewiston and Moscow without direct rail passenger service to the Pacific coast, eastern Oregon, southern Idaho, Utah, California and other points. Knight Would Head Presidential Ticket In California Sacramento, Calif. U.R) If President Eisenhower does not run again, Gov. Goodwin J. Knight said today he will head up a favorite son ticket in the California presidential primary next June even if Vice-President Richard M. Nixon files a com peting slate. At an interview marking the start of his third year in office as governor, Knight made it clear that he expects to control the 70-vote California delegation next year regardless of anything Nixon does. At Political Odds Knight and Nixon, both Cali fornians, have been at political odds for years and the governor has never endorsed Nixon for reelection other than to say that "If Ike wants him;' that's all right with me." Asked if his plans to run as a favorite son presidential can didate would be changed in any way by the possible filing of a Nixon for President ticket in California, Knight said: "Not in the slighest. We are going all the way regardless of what Mr. Nixon does." The governor stressed, how ever, that he is for Mr. Eisen hower "first and foremost" and that if the President runs again, Knight expects to head up a delegation pledged to Mr. Eisen hower's reelection. Greater Floods Threaten Texas; Many Flee Homes By UNITED PRESS Rain-swollen flood waters drove 500 persons from their homes in Wichita Falls, Tex., to day and even greater floods threatened to spill out of the ris ing Red river. To the south, meanwhile, the disaster at flood-devastated Tam pico, Mexico, mounted. Fourteen U S. Navy helicopters flew hun dreds of persons from a tiny island in the heart of the city. But there were 60,000 persons in the area and the waters were rising. . Rains in this country contin ued from the Mississippi Valley to Central Oklahoma and spread over most of the Great Lakes re gion today. The heaviest recent rains included 1.99 inches at Ho bart, Okla., and 1.50 inches at Lawton, Okla. The autumn rains had already done their flooding work at Wichita Falls, where water spill ed over the banks of Holiday creek and spread over 100 resi dential blocks. The creek, fed by swollen Lake. Wichita, rose steadily and was expected to reach a 21.22 crest today. It was 'the highest flood stage since 1950 and water already stood seven feet deep on two golf courses. On the Red river, the princi pal boundary between Texas and Oklahoma, the water was run ning 18 feet deep and rose 11 inches within three hours. Worse floods could follow if the river keeps rising and thus turns back the runoff from the swollen Wichita river. More flooding was feared in Oklahoma along the Wasita river from Clinton to Carnegie. Vancouver Chef Held On Charge of Murder Portland (U.R) Police to day booked a 53-year-old Van couver, Wash., chef on a mur der charge after they found an unemployed Portland waitress fatally knifed on the floor of her apartment. Miss Mary , Marks, 46, ' was found dying pa the floor of her apartment and neighbors said a man they knew to be Quinton Robert Gault was seen leaving the building shortly after Miss Marks' screams were heard. Gault was picked up two hours later in his car as he drove to ward eastern Oregon. Photogra phic negatives found in the Marks apartment also put detec tives on Gault's trail. No wea pon was found. Pair Trapped in Car In Good Condition Portland (U.R) Two men, freed from the wreckage of an old model coupe after being trapped for two hours last night, were reported in good condition in a local hospital today. . Donald Phillips, 43, Hood Riv er, and Robert Bartol, 28, of Iowa, were trapped when the car overturned on the new Ban field expressway and was struck and smashed by a giant semi trailer. It took 40 rescuers two hours to free the pair. Bud Thomp son, driver of the big truck, said the car had passed him' at high speed and then rolled over in front of him. POLIO VICTIM DIES Baker, Ore. (U.R) Baker county marked up its first 1955 polio fatality today with the death in Portland of Ronnie Bowers, 5, from bulbar polio. The boy had not received polio vaccine inoculations. He was flown to Portland a week be fore his death. Railroad Trainmen Granted Wage Boost U.R) An agree-1 tra week vacation in the last Chicago ment was reached early today granting a lOVt cent hourly wage increase to trainmen on the nation's 130 Class I rail roads. The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen said that 175,000 members would benefit, but a spokesman for the railroads said the raise would affect 110,000 employees. A negotiation session of near ly 15 hours produced the agree ment shortly after midnight. The settlement with the train men came as another operating union, the Brotherhod of Loco motive Firemen and Enginemen, was taking a strike vote among members on most of the nation's major railroads. The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, the largest union among the operating brother hoods, originally demanded an across the board increase of about 31 cents an hour. Shorter Work Week The trainmen's agreement provides what the union said was an extra 13Vfe cent hourly increase for 45,000 members who will shift Dec. 1 from the 48-hour week to a 40-hour week. A railroad spokesman said that the additional payment for workers changing to the 40-hour week would be $1.30 a day for yard conductors, $1.13 a day for yard brakemen and 82 cents a day for switch tenders. Both union and railroad offi cials agreed that about- 45,000 workers would go on the short er work week. The trainmen received a five cent hourly increase and an ex- Kaiser Announces Expansion Program Oakland, Calif. (U.R) Kai ser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation has announced the start of a $90,000,000 expansion program involving five of the company's biggest manufactur ing plants. Vice-President and General Manager D. A. Rhoades said the major emphasis of the program will be centered at the firm's new plant at Ravenswood, W. Va., where an additional $75, 000,000 will be spent to enlarge and complete the initial facil ities now under construction. He said the expansion will in crease Ravenswood's annual ca pacity from 250,000,000 pounds to 333,500,000 pounds of com mercial sheet and foil products, thus making it the largest alum inum fabricating plant to be built in the nation since World War II. In addition, the company will increase capacity at its extru sion plant in Halethorpe, Md., and its reduction plants at Mead and Tacoma. and install new fa cilities at its reduction plant at Chalmette, La. "L00UH1G FOR A BMMMI1?" Your Bargain Place Store Look! We Are Open Tonight Until 9 :00 Limited Stock of Washers, Dryers 1 955 G-E AUTOMATIC WASHERS "Filter-Flo," Big Capacity Automatic G-E Washers. Five Year Protection Plan. Easy Terms. The lowest price you've teen for O G-E "Filter-Flo" Washers. 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In other negotiations, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen "is le gally free to call out 60,000 of its members. Other unions In current ne gotiations include the Brother hood of Locomotive Engineers with 80,0000 members, the AFL Switchmen's union with 10,000 and a group of 11 non-operating unions with a total of 800,000. Wednesday. Oetobar S, 195S MEDFORD (OREGON) M&IL TRIBUNE rTXNH Ground Observers Discus Air Defene Hamilton Air Force Ease, Calif. (U.PJ Top Ground Ob server Corps state coordinators and military officials met here today to discuss civil air defense planning for California, Nevada, Washington. Idaho and Utah. CoL Henry . Tyler, Air De fense force civil air defense boss, presided over the one-day meeting. He reported that 1955 was an eventful year for the GOC. Biggest forward step of the period was Continental Air De fense command's decision to ex pand the GOC to cover all 48 states. As part of the expansion, the requirement for volunteers was stepped up to about 1,500, 000 from 500,000. The 26-inning, 1-1 tie game be tween Brooklyn and Boston on May 1, 1920, is the longest game in major league history. U of 0 Develops Sun Tan Pill Portland (U.R) A pill which if used properly will help per sons get a sun tan but if used improperly will lead to a sun burn has been developed by Uni versity of Oregon medical school researchers, it was announced today. The pill contains a drug call ed 8 methoxpsolaren (8-MOP). Researchers said the drug in creases a persons tanning ability and therefore the tolerance of the skin to direct exposure to sunlight Several persons who took va cations in the Caribbean last year reported getting good sun tans after taking the pills, the medical school said. Doctors said the discovery was made when treating patients suf fering from vitiligo, a disease which disfigures the skin with white blotches. They said how ever, that general uses of the drug obtainable only by pre- s scription was not recommended at present. . . j Doctors said the drug must be taken in careful, controlled, amounts and exposure must be limited during the first few days.. Dead line for -Sunday Classified 1m' noon Saturday; 0 a.m. Monday fori Monday: other days 5:30 previous day.' Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport I I w Often Copied, NEVER DUPLICATED 7t LJ THERE IS ONLY ONE ORIGINAL lc SALE! THE FAMOUS -' ' ' Q ' ' ' Starts Monday, Oct. 17 and Runs Thru Oct. 23 ( IT WILL PAY YOU TO WAIT! Centra CORNER MAIN AND CENTRAL Cen yo find She "urp?" in this picture?- You buy a refrigerator only two or three timee in your lifetime. Yet you don't hesitate to buy one without getting so much as a look at the intricate "works" that makes it run. How do you dare make such an important purchase without having an expert check it over for you? What makes you so sure you're getting your money's worth when you say, "I'll take that one"? The answer's obvious. You look for the brand name on the refrigerator your "guarantee." You've learned to follow this first rule of safe and sound buying: A good brand is your best guarantee Ho matter what kind of product you want to buy, you know a good brand won't let you down. You know the maker stands back of it guar-" antees it And so, when you buy a good brand you know you're right. Read this newspaper to find out which are the good brands (and the stores that sell them.) The more good brands you know, the surer you are about all your shopping. BRAND NAMES FOUNDATION Incorporated , A Non-Profit Educational Foundation 37 West 67th Street, New York 19, New York . MIS 3t Mi:VM MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE
