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o Union Thanksgiving Services Planned The Medford Ministerial asso ciation made plans Tuesday for a community-wide Thanksgiving service to be held at 10 a.m. in the First Eaptist church on Thanksgiving day. The Rev. Wil liam C. Piper, minister of the First Christian church, will be the speaker. Members of the First Baptist choir will furnish music. A meeting was held today at First Methodist church for min isters and laymen interested in promotion and use of the Bible. Dr .Gerald LaRue of the Oregon Council pf Churches, and pro fessor atthe Pacific School of Religion, was main speaker. Walter Nunley, district attor ney, spoke Tuesday to the minis ters on the legal aspects of mar riage, divorce, and the custody of children. A statement of endorsement of the Rogue Valley Memorial hos pital building program was pre sented by the Rev. George R. V. Bolster, and passed by the asso tion. The ministers agreed "that all in a position to do so should cooperate in the movement to build this memorial hospital." Medford United Press Full Leased Wire Tribune United PreSB Full Leased Wire Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1955 Pages 1-10 Coos Bay Man Goes To Trial in Tax Case Portland U.R) Albert Bick, Coos Bay, went on trial in Port land Federal Court yesterday on a charge of evading S5000 in federal income taxes over a three-year period. Bick was being tried by Judge William East without a jury. Dead line Sunriay Classified is at noon Saturday: 10 a m Monday for Monday: other davs 5:30 previous day 1 1 PAINT WITH M Winter Schedule a Jacksonville Museum Set; Visitors Listed PAINT WITH "a 1 1 " mm MEDFORD PAINT & WALLPAPER STORE Formerly Burgess Paint and Wallpaper Store Corner 6th & Holly, Diagonally Across from the Post Office Wo Give S&H Green Stamps PHONE 2-9321 Jacksonville The Jackson ville museum will go on its winter schedule effective next Monday, it was announced to' day by Miss Mary Hanley,. curator. Until March 1, the museum will be closed each Monday. The rest of the week it will be open from noon to 4 p.m. Miss Hanley reported the 200 uuuth visitor to the museum since it opened came in on Oct. 10. She was Mrs. V. L. Gritsch, San Francisco, and was pre sented with a souvenir pen by Miss Hanley as a momento. Other Visitors Other visitors during October came from 33 states, Scotland, Germany, England, Arabia, sev eral provinces of Canada, and Hawaii and Alaska. Several school classes visited the mu seum during the month. October visitors totaled 2,041, compared to 2,081 during October, 1954. Miss Hanley reported a num ber of gifts to the museum dur ing the month. A book entitled "California in the Fifties" was presented by Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Ferguson. It is from the collection of Glenn A. Schaefer of Pasadena, Calif., Ferguson's cousin. A collection of old dishes, cups, bowls, saucers, sauce dishes and a plate, and a silk dress nearly 100 years old and a brooch were presented by Mrs. A. S. V. Carpenter, who also brought a large ironstone salad plate, a loan from Mrs. B. A. Daugherty. Brooch Given James E. Dean, Springfield, Ore., presented a gift because he said he thought the Jackson ville museum was the nicest to leave it with. It is a hand carved ivory brooch which was very old when it was brought to the United States from Ger many by the parents of Mary Angeline'Talmadge. She brought it across the plains with her when she and her husband came west in 1852 to settle near Lodi, Calif. Other articles, Miss Hanley said, are an Indian ceremonial knife, found in the Grants Pass area, and an opium weighing scale. These are loaned by Jack Sutton, Grants Pass, who also gave the top of the old mill at Gold Hill once owned by J. J. Houck, and a picture of the first jail authorized and built at Kerbyville in 1857. A picture of Sampson McConnell, a miner and farmer of 1852, also was presented. He was a member of Company B, 2nd mounted volunteers, in the Indian wars Handicapped Scouts Receive Advancement Eugene U.R) Six mem bers of what is believed io be the only Boy Scout troop in the nation composed entirely of handicapped youngsters were advanced from tender foot and second class scout at the troop's first court of honor. here last night. Troop 301 of Eugene and Springfield is made up of IS boys. Troop Chairman Paul' Landsdowne of Eugene said that the boys have shown ex ceptional ability considering their handicap. He said some of the normal scouting re quirements have been waived, but that each lad is required to do all his condition per mits. , Arabian Ambassador Recalled from London London (U.R) Recall of Sau di Arabia's ambassador has stir red concern that the desert nation might break off diplomat ic relations with Britain because of British reoccupation of the disputed Buraimi oasis. Sheikh Hafiz Wahba, the Saudi Arabian envoy here for 25 years, informed the British Foreign office Tuesday that he will soon return to Jeddah. He did not indicate how long he I Ws, Imuran -rTriM l N. T. STODDARD Heads 1956 Drive N. Thomas Stoddard Stale MOD Leader Portland N. Thomas Stod dard, Portland business execu tive, has been named to head the 1956 March of Dimes in Oregon. Basil O'Connor, president of the National Foundation for Infan tile Paralysis, announced in New York today. Stoddard replaces John J. Gurian, also of Portland, who re signed the state dimes post after accepting a position with his firm in New York City. "We are most pleased to an nounce Mr. Stoddard has agreed to step into this position of leadership," O'Connor said. "We know the January campaign will continue to have the strong sup port it had under Mr. Gurian's guidance." O'Connor pointed out that some 70,000 victims of polio from this and previous years are dependent on the March of Dimes for assistance in their fight toward recovery. SPECIALS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, NOV. 1 1-12 1 BETTER FOOD BUYS . :J 1 PILLSBURY'S BEST CI AIID 1 Vb" Ba ft lc 1 I Bleached Enriched iLUUff I y Only 1 mm m m m m m a a t f.:m H W B Udlld it UI H Mli 1 Hi 1 X5W is I mir I f AH 97 I I W" - 1 I. A. Mirick Elected Kiwanis President Irving A. Mirick will serve in 1956 as president of Medford Kiwanis club. He was elected yesterday at the noon luncheon of the service organization at Rogue Valley Country club. Mirick, supervisor of instrumental music in Med ford public schools, will succeed John Dellenback. As immediate past president Dellenback will become a member of the Ki wanis board of directors. Other officers selected were Robert Voegtly, vice-president, ands Emerson Anderson, Frank Benesh, Dr. Abner Clark and Jack Walker, directors. Holdover directors are Dwight Houghton, Robert Church, Ray Johnson and Chester Hubbard. Installation ceremonies will be conducted in late December or early January. BLM Schedules Sale Of Timber Tracts Oral auction of two tracts of timber, one in Josephine county and the other in Klamath coun ty, is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 17, in the Bu reau of Land Management of fices in Medford city hall, it was announced this week. The Josephine county tract, made up largely of douglas fir, includes 3.818,000 board feet of timber with an appraised price of S82,564.85. The Klamath county tract in cludes 3,296,000 board feet of timber with an appraised price of $73,696.70. It is about equal ly made up of douglas fir, white fir, and other species. No bid for less than the ap praised price will be accepted on either tract. Deposits will be required. Walls Acquitted Of Gold Charge Portland (U.R) Hotelman Wilbur M. Walls Tuesday was acquitted by a Federal Court jury here of a charge of acquir ing and possessing gold bullion without a treasury license. The trial came more than a year after Walls' arrest. Stephen Crippen and Wood row Wilson Atwood, both of Medford, were also arrested by secret service agents in connec tion with the bullion case. Crip pen was found innocent at an earlier trial and Atwood was placed on six months' probation after pleading guilty. Annua! Education Conference Slated Here for Nov. 23rd The annual Jackson County Educational conference will be held in Medford high scheel start ing at 8 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 23, County Superintendent of Schools Alf B. Mekvold has an nounced. The conference is for all school personnel and administra tors. Among speakers at the confer ence will be Frank Mclntyre, public relations director of Cali f ornia Teachers association; John R. Richards, chancellor of the Oregon system of higher educa tion; Dr. James Millar, director and lecturer for the Good Citizen ship Foundation; and Claude C. Haggard, director of safety of the California Oregon Power company. Topics Given Richards will speak on "Fu ture Education in Oregon," Dr. Millar will speak on "The World For Which We Educate," and Haggard will discuss and demon- Relative of Queen Found Unconscious London '(U.R) Lady Nancy Blair, 37, cousin of the Queen and a good friend of Princess Margaret was found unconscious early Wednesday in a sleeping car of a train just arrived from Scotland. Nancy, twin sister of the Earl of Strathmore, was ill three years ago of an overdose of sleeping tablets. The twice-wed Lady Blair was returning to London from a visit with her uncle, the Duke of Leeds. strate electrical safety. Music will be furnished by the Medford High school band and the Southern Oregon college quartet. A luncheon for school adminis trators and others interested will be held at noon in' honor of the guest speakers, and Mekvold said other groups' interested in sched uling luncheons should notify the superintendent's office to have them scheduled on the program. Japanese Burglat Picks Wrong Place Tokyo (U.R) Tyoichi Okama, 23, stole into a big two story apartment intent on iheft. It was a police dormitory. PICTURE TUBES REJUVENATED Is yeur picture tube dull and weak? Most picture tubes can be restored to original brightness at only a fraction of the cost of replacement. For further information CALL Electronic Service 18 N. GRAPE PH. 3-1971 Creswell (U.R) The body of Jack William Quinn, 19, Cres well, was recovered Wednesday in the coast fork of the Willam ette river. 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