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evs About Books From the By MISS HELEN WEBSTER Medford Librarian We must have clubs! Organ ized groups can achieve much that individuals working alone cannot. Anyone who doubts that women's clubs have accomplish ed a great deal and are now ar.romnlishinz even more should check the record. To be a successful and effec tice club member takes plenty of know-how in these times, some of which your Medford Public Library stands ready to supply. Practical Advice One of the newest books on its shelves is ' How to Run a Club," by Harry Simmons. Here club leaders will find a wealth of practical advice on how to solve legal and financial problems, how to increase mem bership, how to obtain and handle speakers, how to build attendance at meetings, how to plan interesting programs, and similar problems involved in running a club. Two other titles giving gen eral advice on club management are "How to Be a Clubwoman," by Helen Le Cron and Edith Mc Elroy, and -Let's Make Plan?," by Elizabeth Downs. Money Making Making money is often quite as essential as making plans in club work. To help you with "Projects that Pay" the library olfers the book of that title by Jane Kirk, as well as "McCall's Complete Eook of Bazaars" and "Money Raising; How to Do It," by Irene Gerlinger. This last book has suggestions not only for clubs but for churches, col leges, philanthropies, and com munity hospitals. If church or Grange suppers are one of your money-raising activities, you'll find another book by Jane Kirk helpful. "What's Cooking?" supplies a wide choice of recipes for cook ing in quantity for picnics, com munity dinners, or for institu tions. Program Helps Two books that will help you when it's your turn to plan the program are a "Handbook of Skits and Stunts", by Helen and I Always good t" loved by everybody!' si ' - - V' S ""-I f; " 1 I I ' f)i..''VJr2,li::-' ' . " 1 k. ,-"5. .1 1 C a; t -"5 wm:-::-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-; Library Larry Eisenberg and '"The Pro gram Encyclopedia," by Clem ent A. Duran. The latter volume catalogs more than 5.000 pro gram ideas covering social fun, sports, hobbies, adventures in religion, cultural activities, spe cial days and weeks, service ' ar-tiviT ip; and mnnev raiinf projects. This book will be kept available for use in the library's reference collection: all other titles mentioned in this column will circulate and should be re served in advance of need. Once you are drawn into club work, you are likely to find yourself president. Some of the things you had better know are set forth for you in Virginia Bailard's "So You Were Elected" and in Helen Peffer's "Madam Chairman, Members and Guests." Helen Hokinson car- iuuiis enliven nubs i-eiici s uuun. Edward Hegarty passes along some good pointers on ways to make club meetings more suc cessful in his book, "How To Run a Meeting." Other sugges tions along this line will be found in "New Ways to Better Meetings" by Bert and Frances Strauss. TV Literature Shov Changes Time Monday Dr. Arthur Kreisman's tele vision program, "Adventures in Literature" has been moved up 15 minutes from 6 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. Mondays, it was announced Saturday. The program is spon sored by the Oregon state exten sion division. Credit is given for the course which has, according to station officials, one of the highest viewer ratings in the area. Because of his success and ex perience in this field, Kreisman has been selected to plan the world literature correspondence course to be used throughout all the state institutions of higher learning. Kreisman, head of the depart ment of humanities at Southern Oregon college, presented the first of his televised lectures in Traffic Mishaps Hit 43,000 in 9 Months ; Salem (U.P.) More than ' 43.000 traffic accidents were re corded in Oregon in the first nine months of this year, accord ing to Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry. September, last month for which complete figures are avail able, saw 4.844 accidents, injur ingl.221 persons. Portland city traffic accounted for 2.038 of the September crashes and other urban areas reported 1,449. There were 1,357 accidents in rural localities. The 1955 accident total is running ahead of 1954, Newbry said. Court Records POLICE COURT Charles Lindberg Mayes, operating moior vehicle while operator's iicense revoked. S50; operating moior vehicle with switched license plates. S25. Earl Ellsworth Thielke, violation of basic rule. S10. John Putney Dickson, violation of basic rule. S10. basic rule. S10 Fred Henry Graten, failure to stop at stop light. S5. Sammv Lee Kelly, violation of basic rule. Sid. Ester M. Bullock, failure to stop at stop sien. S5. Clark Christnon Killian. expired li cense pla'.es. S5. George Lewis Frasier, failure to stop at red lipht. So. Ralph Eugene Faber. failure to stay stepped at red light, S5. Jared Lee Black, violation of basic rule. S10. Herman William Ufer, violation of basic rule. $10. DISTRICT COURT Edwin Louis Knopf, overload. $295. William Vance Zimmerlee, no PUC permit. $15. Donald Ray Johnson, exceeding bag limit of ducks and geese, S30. Waldo Vernon Beach, violation of basic rule. S15. Paul Revere Yocum, failure to stop at stop sign, S10. Merlin Wayne Fjarli. overload. S97. Lyle Dwaine Branson, violation of the basic rule, S20. Rex Lee Johnson, failure to stop at a stop sign, S10. Kenneth Harold McManama. no operator's license. S6. Fred Lee Bennett, no motor ve hicle license, $10. (bail forfeiture) Charles Dean Cook, no tail light, $10. (bail forfeiture) Donald Eugene Beers, inadequate muffler. S15. Benjamin Leon Lockwood. truck speeding, S10. Robert Eli Norcross, violation of the basic rule, $25. (bail forfeiture). CIRCUIT COURT Bobbie Arlene Kinkade vs. Jack Oliver Kinkade, complaint for separate maintenance. Gloria R. Weideman vs. Fred. S. Weideman, divorce complaint. Lila Jane Rockey vs. Richard K. Rockey, divorce complaint. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday. 10 a.m Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 previous day 1 jlpj GON ENSEY ; TABLE ROCK Birds Vanish Table Rock Our average through the years has been two pheasants during the open sea son but this time we got none, although several friends prom ised to get us one while hunting on our farm, but failed to even get one for themselves. When the shooting began at the sea son's opening, the chinks took off for parts unknown, but Tues day morning the three big roos ters raised in the berry patch were back, marching over the lawn daring us to shoot. The Sams Valley Gospel church, erected by donations of labor and material, has teen in operation for some time. The members meet each Sunday for church services and Sunday school. The 30 by 40-foot build ing is located on the northeast corner of the Ralph James prop erty, the site being donated by him. The building will soon be enlarged by adding another room for the Sunday school. At last Sunday's session of the school, members voted to donate S4.00 a week to the American S.S. union. During Mr. Hill's last visit here he informed mem bers of the Sunday school that the union would have to discon tinue furnishing a missionary in this area, unless more money is made available. He stated that many of the denominational churches of the valley in the past contributed to this work, but are now using these funds for their own missionary work. It seems to those who believe that a Sun day school is an asset to a com munity, in keeping down juve nile delinquency, and teaching the growing generation that there are God-made and man made laws that must be obeyed in order to become honest, worthwhile citizens, will have to be more liberal with time and money toward this work. So far no clues have been turned up as to the loss of five head of cattle fnom the river bottom pastures of the Darlings, or the killing and theft of a beef animal in the pastures of the Table Top ranch. The latter must have been done by ama teurs, according to workmen on the ranch, as the animal was shot through the shoulder, not properly bled, and about half of During Season the meat, including some of the best cuts, were left on the ground. ... Those who attended last week's cattle auction report that cattle prices hit a new low. ..It has been some little time since we have heard implement deal ers telling how many steers will buy a tractor, or how many trac tors it would take to buy a steer. R. V. Beall, the sage of Beall lane, was telling us that a party who read our items about his father's discovery of Crater Lake, wrote to him and wanted him to write the story for a radio program to be aired over station KFI in Hollywood. Mr. Beall said his father and the party, consisting of his father's brother and five other men led by Jim Hillman of Jacksonville, were really in search for the Lost Cabin mine, which a man on his death bed had told of finding, which was fabulously rich in gold, and located about 90 miles northeast of Jacksonville.' The Hillman party was wandering around through the jack pines in their search when they stum bled onto Crater Lake. The Lost Cabin mine, claimed to be a real ity, was searched for by many in days gone by, but was never found. We saw a notice on the TV set at the Bosworth home the other night which read "TV to be turn ed on only at request of guests," and we thought this might be a splendid plan, as we remembered that George Loftin, the Beagle Democrat, and optimist, told us one time that he felt out of place when visiting friends with a TV set, especially if they had it turned on when he arrived. Gerald Mitchell, cattleman and timber worker of the Mead ows district, a recent visitor here, states that his regular fall sale of cattle brought him about enough money to pay his taxes, so he is now working in the tim ber for funds to buy his winter's hay. A large grey eagle measuring 6 feet 6 inches from tip to tip was killed recently by some trigger-happy hunter on the Nealon farm. The bird was picked up by Lloyd Dusenberry, who was falling timber in the vicinity and heard the shot some distance awaV. Eagles are protected , in the state of Oregon, and a pen alty would be meted out to any one found guilty of destroying them. A Table Rock man starts to town, a black cat runs across the road in front of his car, he hesi tates, for a brief moment, but goes on, gets a traffic ticket while in town, so now is con vinced he should have heeded the black cat's warning and turned back. The Lininger Construction Co. of Medford is trucking gravel out of a pit recently opened on the north bank of Rogue river, west of the State park. The surplus of farm crops, which some say was brought about by price supports, was with us more than 70 years ago. Along about the time the Peo ples party was organized, from one-fourth to one-third of the nation's wheat crop was surplus, and some politicians claimed that the surplus set the price on the whole crop, which they claimed was unjust. Lowering the support to cut down produc tion would have worked the oth er way at that time as nearly all farmers had loans on their prop erty that required so many bush els of wheat, then the principal cash crop, to pay thetinterest. If it took 1,000 bushels of 50-cent wheat, and the price dropped to 40 cents, they had to raise 1,250 bushels to turn : the trick. In those days a 50-cent bushel of wheat would buy a pair of over alls with the galluses thrown in, three pounds of Arbuckle coffee and six squares of Star tobacco Three bushels would buy a pair of shoes, and six to seven bushels an all-wool suit of clothes. We used to have one of the old Peo ples party banners with the let ters F. A. & I. U. which meant Farmers Alliance and Independ ent union. Along about the close of World War II, a -member of the Sams Valley Grange who liked to talk, and was a good talker, made a speech about world conditions and stated that the time had come when farmers would never again have to worry about sur pluses, that our problem from now on would be to grow enough food to feed the world. It sound- BEWARE OF IMITATIONS LOOK FOR THE HAPPY UTTLE DOG Sunday, November 20, 1955 f 81 t r ws W - I - MEETING NEWSMEN in Chicago, Adlai Stevenson intro duces James Fmnegan, Pennsylvania secretary of state, who will manage campaign for Democratic nomination for Presi dent. Stevenson will enter Minnesota primary.ftttemationaU Speakers Named For Annual JC Educational Conference Frank Mclntyre, assistant sec retary and director of public re lations of the California Teach ers' association, will srjeak on "Cabbages and Kings" at the first general session of the Jack son County Educational confer ence at Medford High school Wednesday, Nov. 23. Mclntyre's talk will follow registration of educators and ad ministrators from all Jackson county schools. Also on the morning program is an electrical safety demonstra tion by Claude C. Haggard, di rector of safety of the California Oregon Power company, and short talks from the Oregon Edu cation Association and state de partment. William Ruck is pres ident of the Jackson county divi sion of the OEA. Richards to Sneak Dr. John Richards, chancellor of the Oregon State System of Higher Education, will speak on Schools, Colleges and Kids" at the morning session, and Dr. Elmo Stevenson, president of Southern Oregon college, will speak at the .afternoon general session. Dr. James Miller, director and lecturer from the Good Citizen ship Foundation, also will speak at the afternoon session. Music will be furnished by the ed good and we all heaved a sigh of relief. Since then the speaker has sold his farm, and is study ing to be a lawyer. Iff ' M ' r '1 f; ' BUY NOW FOR CHRISTMAS AT THESE REMARKABLE SAVINGS Has automatic light and dark control and a convenient crumb tray for easy cleaning. In chrome. U.L. Approved! Only 25c a Week Weisfield's, 122 E. Main St., Medford Please send me the Automatic Toaster adver- tied at 8.88. I am enclosing S. i and will send S er month or S per week until the entire balance is paid. 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