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0 o Portland May Vofe On Exposition Center Portland CU.R) Portlanders may decide by vote what site they want for the city's 58,000, 000 exposition-recreation center, if it isn't too late by voting time. Homer Allen, executive secre tary of the Citizens Committee for a Greater Portland, said he would ask the city council to place the issue on next May's primary ' ballot. He said if this was rejected his group would start an initiative action for a vote. This would require 13,316 signatures. The city council last week in effect turned down the Delta Park site by refusing to approve its transfer from the city park bureau to the Exposition-Recreation Commission. But there appeared one stum bling block. City Attorney Alexander Brown said that the E-R commis sion, in his opinion, could select a site at any time before the pri mary election and that this site would be the legal one. QUITS DRIVING Quincy, Mass. (U.R) After driving for 49 years without a traffic law violation. Albert M. Willis, 90, voluntarily turned in his license and sold his 1931 car. Yugoslavia Releases Last Catholic Churchman Belgrade, Yugoslavia -U.R) The semi-official news agency Yugopress reported today that Yugoslavia had conditionally re leased the last high-ranking Catholic chucchman still held in jail. The news agency said Dr. Peter Cule, bishop of Mostar, had been paroled from, a 1948 conviction for "hostile activi ties during the war." Newspapers May Be Forced To Up Prices New York The bitterly de nounced S5-a-ton increase in newsprint prices went into ef fect today despite warnings the price you pay for your favorite newspaper may have to be raised. The possibility of a congres sional investigation of the news print industry loomed in the background. The price hike, first an nounced Oct. 18 by St. Lawrence Corp., Canada's fourth largest newsprint producer, brings the price in New York to $131 a ton. Delivered prices across the coun try vary only slightly from those in New York. CHEYENN A7 Grey Tan E $!095 Spirited as a COLT! Fast -stepping oxford out to capture busy feet. It's cushioned for carefree comfort! There's news in the little, round heel. ..the wafer thin platform. Qofuttioa atd Stewart Q The Corner Shoe Store Main at Central Medford Anti-Polio Shots Start in Nyssa Area Nyssa (U.R) Emergency gam ma globulin inoculations to stamp out a polio epidemic in the Nyssa school district got un derway today with some 3000 persons scheduled for shots. The five-day program was to inoculate persons up to 3 o years of age and pregnant women of all ages. So far this year, 38 per sons have been stricken and three have died of polio in Mal heur county. Twenty-seven of the victims were residents ot Nyssa school district. Dr. Grant Hughes, Malheur county health officer, said doc tors and about 600 volunteers would handle the injections with gamma globulin supplied by the National Foundation for Infan tile Paralysis. Minnesota Man Gets Six Months Jail Term Virgil Lloyd Carrigan, 39, Wert, Minn., was sentenced to six months in Jackson county jail Monday by District Judge Rawles Moore. Carrigan stole an undeter mined amount of money from Edward Charles Hillingsworth, Portland, while the two men were staying in a local motel Saturday night. According to a citv police re port, Carrigan was hitch-hiking south from Portland when pick ed up by Hillingsworth. They stopped at a Medford hotel and Carrigan took the money from Hillingsworth's pocket. Carrigan was arrested at 7 a.m. in Central Point by city police. Eight Communicable Disease Cases Listed Eight cases of communicable diseases were reported in Jack son county during the week ended Oct. 29, according to the county health department. Leading the list were two cases of measles, with one each in Ashland and Gold Hill; two cases of trench mouth, with one each in Rogue River and Phoe nix, and two cases of pneumonia, with one from Ashland and the other involving a resident of Happy Camp, Calif. Also reported were one case of chicken pox in Ashland, and one case of influenza in Medford. Two Soldiers Given U. S. Heroism Award Yokohama, Japan '(U.R) Two American soldiers received the highest U. S: peacetime award for heroism Monday, one for preventing the explosion of an ammunition ship and the other for saving a Japanese boy from drowning. Awards went to M-Sgt. Mur phy M. Williams, Oakland, Calif., and Cpl. Billie Nyman Jr., of Potter, Neb. FRENCH QUARTER i ' NEW EXCITING wi'tR the gaiety of Mardi Gras, trie excitement of a stolen kiss . . . for you who live life to the hilt! COLOGNE PERFUME containing a mysterious Mend of precious oils from tKc four corners of the world. 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After he mailed the stickers around the country, Manny be gan to wonder. Maybe his origi nal sticker indicated, as he put it, "political connotations." Whereupon he came up with a new batch of stickers which say "Get well Ike and please relax." m Winter scene at Lorwy Air Force Base: Just outside the White House offices is a large apple tree. Children of Air Force personnel on the way home from school stop off to shake the fruit from the tree. One of the President's friends who saw him in the last few days came away from Fitsimons Army Hospital with the idea that the chief executive might remain in Denver as late as Nov. 15. Sept. 24, asking if he could be of assistance. He did not reach Mrs. Eisen hower, but someone in her be half apparently relayed to him a suggestion of gratitude for any prayers offered in the Presi dent's behalf. Elson then relayed the sug gestion to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington. He also called "a leading rabbi." The article in Collier's shows some of the problems a president faces in following his faith in any semblance of dignity. Once at the National Presbyterian Church off Connecticut ave. irt Washington, one worshipper was so enthusiastic about the President's presence that he lifted his wife high in the air as the rest of the congregation was bowed in prayer. GOOD DEED Harrison, Me. (U.R) Dave Card, 41, a Chinese laundryman,, raised $2,669 during a 17-month, one-man drive to buy a new elec tric organ for the Calvary Com munity church. Card isn't a member. Need a New T.V. PICTURE TUBE? Call JOHNSTON STORES Electronics engineers say a TV image has "Picture Snap" when it's alive . . . vital . . . real You'll say, "The performers seem to be in the room with me!" When your TV set needs a new picture tube, ask us to replace it with a new RCA "SILVERAMA" AIu minized Picture Tube - for the most faithful TV image your set is capable of delivering! 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He called several times during the night of LEGAL NOTICES NATIONAL FOREST TIMBER FOR SALE Sealed bids will be received by the forest supervisor or his authorized rpnresentative at the Forest Service oflice. Post Office Building, Medford, Oregon, December 2, ISoo, tor ail merchantable dead timber located in three separate and distinct units with in the Kogue River National Forest, Oregon, as particularized below. Wil low Prairie No. 1: Sealed bids will be received up to and not later than 10:00 a.m. Area embraces aDout uu acres within Sections 30. 31, & 32. T. 36 S., R. 4 E:, W.M. Estimated volumes are 300 M board leet more or less of Douglas-fir and 100 M board feet more or less of white fir and other species of sawtimber. No bid of less than S4.00 per M board feet for Douglas fir and S2.00 per M board feet for white fir and other species will be con sidered. Willow Prairie No. 2: Sealed bids will be received up to and not later than 11:00 a.m. Area embraces about 400 acres within Sections 29, 30, 31, & 32, T. 36 S.. R. 4 E., W.M. Estimated volumes are 300 M board feet more or less of Douglas-fir and 100 M board feet more or less ot white fir and other species of sawtimber. No bid of less than S4.00 per M board feet for Douglas-fir and S2.00 per M board feet for white fir and other spe cies will be considered. Willow Prairie No. 3: Sealed bids will be received up to and not later than 2:00 p.m. Area embraces about 640 acres within Sec tion 19. T. 36 S., R. 4 .. W.M. Esti mated volumes are 450 M board feet more or less of Douglas-fir and lou M board feet more or less of white fir and other species of sawtimber. No bid of less than 53.45 per M board feet for Douglas-fir and S 2.00 per M hoard feet for white fir and other species will be considered. In addi tion to the prices ma tor stumpage for each sale area, a cooperative de- I posit of S0.50 per M board feet, to be used by the Forest Service for pay ing the cost of slash disposal, for the , total cut of sawtimber under the terms i of the agreement, will be required. A money order, bank draft, or certified check m tne amount oi ouu.uu must accompany each bid for each sale area, to be applied on the purchaser price, refunded, or retained as liqui dated damages, according to the con ditions of sale. The right to reject any and all bids is reserved. Before bids are submitted, full information con cerning the timber, the conditions of sale, and the submission of bids should be obtained irom tne forest super visor. Medford. Oregon, or the Dist rict Ranger, Butte Falls, Oregon. Chapman's SCOOP THE MARKET AGAIN GRAY BARK YES! 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