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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
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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
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Winter Schedule a
Jacksonville Museum
Set; Visitors Listed
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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
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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.
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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.
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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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tion with the 1954 death of 16-year-old
Diane Hank whose body
was found near Washougal,
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