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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, October 9, 1953 News About Books From the Library BY MISS HELEN WEBSTER Medford Librarian Each week some of the lead ing Sook review journals re ceive reports from the country's booksellers as to which titles in fiction and non-fiction are leading in sales.. According to their latest reports the best selling titles in fiction current are these: "Marjorie Morningstar," by Herman Wouk (author of "The Caine . Mutimy"). This is the q story of a beautiful New York middle-class Jewish girl, of her dreams of becoming an actress and her adventures in finding the Right Man. "Auntie Mame,""V Patrick Dennis, subtitled "an irreverent episode." Nothing is saered and little is spared in this highly entertaining account of the ad ventures of a pair in progressive school. If you like to laugh, this is for you. African Novel "Something of Value," by Robert' Ruark is a controversial but compelling noy,el of Kenya in Africa, "a story of people, black and white, caught between yesterday and tomorrow and presented with deep compas sion." "The Man in the Gray Flan nel Suit." by Sloan Wilson, a study of the typical post-war American, has been previously discussed in this column, as has Mac Hyman's "No Time for Sergeants", recounting the hil arious adventures of a "Georgia cracker" drafted into the Air Force. Hyman's book, has re mained on the best-seller lits for a year. Breeding Heifers as Yearlings Successful Dixon Springs, 111. (U.R) Farmers can get an extra calf out of the lifetime of a cow by breeding beef heifers as yearl ings to calve at about two years of age, experiments here have shown. R. J. Webb, superindendent of the University of Illinois' ex periment station here, said stud ies carried on since 1943 show ed it was practical to breed beef heifers to calve as two-year olds. About 100 heifers were used in the study. Half of them were first bred as yearlings, the other half as two-year-olds. Cows in each group have been kept through 10 years of age. Webb said the group bred as yearlings had weaned an aver age of six calves for each orig inal heifer. The group has wean ed an average of only five calves. Dead line for Sunday, Classified Is at noon Saturday tialur gives you You clean Wall Insert and Surface Mounted Cavaliers this way IN MINU1 IN MINUTES OR LISS U. L APPROVED is ft mm WW USKt TO I Tq i HEMES LOWER a J (r -m m Bii ALL MODELS AVAILABLE AT TROWBRIDGE & FLYNN 214 West Main Phone 2-5211 GIRL SCOUTS AT WORK The scene above is typical of the many activities of the Girl Scouts in the Medford area, which are supported through contributions to the United Medford Crusade. Shown are members of Girl Scout Troop 151 working on a layette to be sent to a South American family. Left to right are Carolyn Finch, Mrs. Dick Finch and Ann Barker. (Landis-Shangle photo.) 100 Girl Scout Troops Set Fall Activities, Assisted by United Medford Crusade ette for a needy South American family. They received cooking badges by preparing food for a tea, a dinner and two parties. Other activities included serving and assisting at adult scout meet ings and aiding younger troops. Two senior girl scouts will be chosen to attend the Natiftnal Girl Scout convention at San Francisco on Nov. 1. Girl scouts from 7 to 17 in the Medford area are benefited by funds from the United Medford Crusade. (Editor's Note: This is an noiher in a series of brief ar ticles describing the agencies which benefit from the United Medford Crusade fund drive, now under way. Material is supplied by the agencies themselves.) More than 1,000 Medford girls will have an opportunity to learn new outdoor and indoor skills when 100 Girl Scout troops start functioning this fall. Girl Scout activities include cooking, sewing, investigating cultural programs, and assisting the underprivileged and handi capped. Work being done in Troop 151 of Medford, led by Mrs. Dick Fink and Mrs. William Prentice, is an example of troop activity. Girls of the troop earned their sewing badge by making a lay- Cowlitz County Has Three New Polio Cases Kelso, Wash. U.R) Three cases of polio have been report ed in Cowlitz county during the past week, according to Dr. D. A. Champaign, district health officer. Dr. Champaign said 14 cases of polio have been reported in the district so far this year, com pared to 18 cases for the same period last year. Latest victims were a 17-year-old girl, a 24-year-old man and a four-year-old boy, all of Long-view. Upholsters Accept Contract Agreement Portland '(U.R) Federal Mediator Clyde W. Deal Satur day announced Portland uphol sters have reached a two-year contract agreement with em ployers. , Deal said a majority of Port land and 'Seattle upholsters accepted the agreement, which calls for pay increases, but Seattle-Tacoma manufacturers have yet to approve the contract. The 700 Northwest upholsters involved would receive 5 per cent pay increases effective last Sept. 1, and a 6-cent increase Sept. 1, 1956. A 2 per cent increase, for a pension program, would be granted June 1, 1956. Seattle-Tacoma manufacturers are expected to meet in Seattle Monday to review the contract, Deal said. Dead line for Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday . dsmcnxDiETriEmM sixTH AND GRAPE STREETS o 5 BIG FREE PARKING LOTS Stall (frrnte !(fflW I X. II II g 11 V m i I I I V 1 VV M M V III V- 4 'WHO You Dont' Have To Over-Buy To Get CASE LOT PRICES SAVE TODAY and ALL MEJtT WEEK On Del Monte - The World's BEST LIKED Canned Foods Complete Price Lists Posted for Your Easy Inspection rail With Any $10.00 Purchase in one day through Sunday, October 16th DINNER TICKETS USEABLE THROUGH OCTOBER 22 First Semester of Adult Classes Set By City Schools The schedule for the first semester of adult self-improvement classes, sponsored by the city schools, was announced Sat urday. The tailoring class I will meet from 1 to 4 p.m. on Tuesdays, beginning Oct. 11, at the Jackson County Housing project recrea tion room on McAndrews rd and Priddy st. Registration fee for the class is $3. Mrs. Hazen McKinstry will instruct the i class. Tailoring II Tailinring II class will meet from 7 to 10 p.m. each Wednes day, beginning Oct. 12. The class will be conducted in Room 6 at Medford Senior High school. Registration fee is $3. Mrs. Hazel McKinstry will instruct the class. The drawing and sketching class will begin Oct. 11, at 7:30 p.m. in Room 7, McLoughlin Junior high school. Steve Bay less will instruct the class. There are five more openings in this group. Individuals interested may enroll at the class Tuesday. Watercolor painting work shop, instructed by Warren Wolf, will begin Oct. ' 11 with classes from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. The workshop will be in Room 5 in Medford High school. Clothing Class A class in clothing construc tion, taught by Mrs. Ronald James, will begin Tuesday, Oct. 11, in Room 6, Medford High school. Classes will be from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Registration fee is $2.50. An adult woodshop class will be offered in the second semes ter at McLoughlin Junior High school. Vern Voss will be the instructor. Details concerning this class will be announced later. Zoo Animals Tour County in Wagon Milwaukee (U.R) Every year the small animals of the Washington Park zoo here visit each park in the county in a rebuilt cirens wagon. Attendants go along with the menagerie to Use Mall Tribune Want Ads Marshall Dana Slated To Speak at Ephrata Ephrata (U.R) Marshall Dana, former editor of the Ore gon Journal at Portland and the first president of the National Reclamation Association, will be banquet speaker at the Western Sugar Beet Growers Association convention here, it was announc ed Saturday. Dana will speak Nov. 15 at the end of the first day of the two day convention. answer questions. This year's caravan included a red fox, a mother racoon and four baby raccoons, several rab bits, some guinea pigs, a three foot alligator, turtles, a porcu pine, a "dehydrated" skunk, par rots, owls and doves, some op possums and a Siamese cat pd four kittens. The only unusual animal in, the touring zoo was an agouti, a large South American rodent. 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