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TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, December 25, 1955 Pickin' Pears News and Notes From Camp White By BILL HURN Tuesday evening brought the regular American Legion meet ing of Medford Post 15 to Camp White. A formal opening, short business session and initiation of eight Camp White new mem bers was followed by introduc tions and responses by Albert Eugene Orr, commander of the 13th district and national execu tive committeeman, and Medford Police Chief Charles Champlin. An award of a merit citation was made to Linn Nesmith for his meritorious service as cor respondent to the Oregon Le gionaire. Due to Nesmith's hos pitalization Mr. Glonning of spe cial services received the award in Nesmith's behalf. Before leav ing Medford, Orr announced the appointment of Nesmith as pub lic relations secretary to the 13th district commander. VFW auxiliary presented a variety show Wednesday night under the direction of Mrs. Helen Lusk. Vocal numbers by Donna Lou Bfnister, reading impersona tions by Mrs. Bauson, Bob Ayers orchestral sextette, dancers from Miss Pat's studio with tap va rieties, hula and Egyptian ballet, Mrs. Widen with her dogs, Laurie, Phillett and Mitzi, participated. From Wednesday until Friday IF CONSTIPATION IS YOUR PROBLEM TRY NATURE'S GREAT FOOD COMBINATION FOR FITNESS AND REGULARITY the VAVS committees under the direction of Mrs. Thelma Wil liams and Mrs. Marian Cech with volunteer helpers were wrapping, tagging and boxing for the Friday evening consolida tion on wards of the gifts to be distributed by Santa on Christmas eve following the Theatre party. Visitations each night of carol ing groups have come from Scout Dens 5 and 7 of Central Point, First Methodist church, Lutheran Sunday school and Young Peoples chorus of Apo stolic Faith church of Medford, and the instrumental quartette and chorus of Community Bible's Young people of Central Point. The accordianas of the Eve Pren tice studios worked in groups of five to a ward during the gift presentation Saturday eve ning. , The Navy and the Blue Star Mothers have had charge of dec oration of trees in individual wards and Garden, club mem bers made a fruit basket distri bution to the 24 wards as part of the Saturday program. Dinner menu souvenir furnish ed by the Legion auxiliary bears greetings from Manager Ricker and Mrs. Klock and has every thing from turkey through rel ishes, treats and sweets which go with those dinners her de partment can arrange. Camp White Garden club met at Recreation center with rou tine business, introduction of visitors from other valley clubs, and a short program followed by refreshments. You get much more than a fine-tasting dish for fitness and flavor when you (jpt All-Bran with milk. Kellogg's All- B;n, the original whole bran laxative cereal, is scientifically milled to bring you natural food bulk in its most effective form. Besides that, All-Bran milk give 9 body-builders you need: phosphorus, iron, calcium, thia mine, riboflavin, niacin, vitamins A and D as well as high-quality protein. All-Bran k famous for its effective relief of constipation due to lack of dietary bulk. So get the original the one and only, Kellogg's All-Bran. It Teamworks. Double your money back if a daily dish of All-Bran and milk doesn't have you regular within 10 days. That' a promise from Kellogg's of Battle Creek, Michigan. Holiday greeting messages are in profusion. Former members have sent cards to old pals which go up. on bulletin boards. The December issue of Dominews, the Camp publication, has greet ings from administrative staff and department executives. A typed format of a Christmas tree has an interlinear greeting message from Manager Ricker and Special Service Chief Glon ning. Each member has received from the White House a letter from President Eisenhower, and one from National Legion Com mander Wagner from Indianap olis. A tape recording bearing messages from the VA adminis trator and the chief medical di rector will be released Satur day evening at the Theatre with copies of their talks handed out to each one as his gift is presented. The kick-off of an eventful week at Camp White was in augurated by the Christmas party "Dance of the Year" of VFW auxiliary. A formal grand march was led by Manager and Mrs. E. K. Ricker with F. J. Glonning, chief of special serv ices escorting Mrs. Lelia Burch of Shady Cove, and Bud Ash. A side-line count disclosed 47 cou ples, an all time high for this year. Refreshments were served by the VFW ladies. Engineering Staff Chief Bert R. Sims reports the completion of the program of holiday deco rations and display, with the placing of the Santa and rein deer group near the main en trance. There are now lights on the big trees, a lighted church spire atop the bus stop shelter making it a primitive Pilgrim Regular Periodical Service Resumed By Medford Library Medford Public library has an nounced it has resumed regular service in back issues of period icals, and has extended services in current magazines. Leo Thomas of the- City Park department has cooperated in furnishing labor and trucks to move and shelve collected files of periodicals so they are now accessible to library employees. Periodicals published within a year may be obtained quickly, but those published more than a year ago are stored in base ment archives and 24 hours no tice is required. Issues Available Shelving has been arranged to make current issues available without requesting them at the desk. A newspaper and period ical reading room has been cre ated in the northwest section of the main floor. The most recent issues of per iodicals are available at a cen tral display rack with tables ad jacent. The six latest issues of more popular magazines are available, and may be borrowed for home use. The Medford Public library will receive 66 different period icals during the calendar year, 1956. 'Some 18 different maga zines will be received at each of the eight larger county branches. The task of moving and shelv ing the library's magazine files has been planned and supervised by Mrs. Charlene Tarvin. She has been assisted by Curtis Cook, library page, and. by Johnny Dyer and Fred Grow of the park department. Pancake Festival Planned By Eagles Plans for a pancake festival to be held Saturday, Jan. 21, at the YMCA, have been announced by Floyd Leith, president of Crater Lake Aerie 2093, Eagles lodge. Proceeds will be used to pur chase needed equipment for the Jackson County Disaster Car. The Eagles will be aided in staging the festival by the Med ford Fire Fighters, sponsors of the disaster car. Advance ticket sales and appointment of com mittee chairmen for the event will be held after New Year's. church, the chapel yard with its lighted Madonna and Child plaque, and the Nativity scene at the highway entrance to the grounds. Lightsare on from dusk till 11 p.m. and will remain until after New Years. The Nativity plaques and pan els are assembled under con cealed floodlights. An old-style rail fence pasturing two burros for donkeys and seven sheep have added an effective touch. The fence was given to VA by Meyers of Little Butte road, cut from cedar trees by his grandfather who split them -by hand and carted them by ox team for the first fence on his homestead. The animals came from the ranch of Sims. Thelma Williams of the Legion office reports the distribution of $2w checks to 90 men for their first 1,000 Buddy Poppies. A goal of 250,000 has been set for Poppy Day. 1 t -c T." " i Your fds your fih -"- - " VT I - " -" A REAL SINGING TREE Members of the 65-voice glee club at West High School .n Denver, Colo., form a living Christmas tree. The "tree" has been one of the features of the school's Christmas celebration since 1939. O G O M$ OWM SfAT6WID- ft-AMC ews About Books From the Library By MISS HELEN WEBSTER Medford Librarian Now that Christmas has at last arrived, you're entitled to take it easy for an hour or two. Why don't you slip those tired shoppers' feet into the new slip pers and curl up with something light and easy to read? ' Something like the New Yorker magazine's delight f u 1 1950-1955 album of cartoons, for instance. There's a chuckle on every page. Or pick up that big gest and funniest collection of international wit, the "Cartoon Treasury," edited by Lucy (and Dyke Johnson. Or for a taste of playful British wit, there's the even newer collection of car toons from "Punch." Humorous Side The humorous side of jobs, myopia, New Year's Eve celebra tions that fizzled, flying lessons, and matchmaking are sample subjects of chapters in Hilde garde Dolson's "Sorry to Be So Cheerful." Emily Kimbrough, in her inimitable, witty style, con veys humorously and vividly the pleasures and pitfalls of being a tourist in "So Near and Yet So Far," as she jauntily explores the by-ways of Louisiana. Animal-collecting adventures, with amusingly pointed charac terizations of both human and animal associates fill Gerald Durrell's "Three Tickets to Ad venture, continuing the exploits and fun of "The Bafut Beagles" and "The Overloaded Ark." Less polite and more sophisticated en tertainment is afforded in "Auntie Mame; an irreverent es capade in biography," by Pat rick Dennis, pseud. Family Life Elizabeth Cadell's latest book, "The Lark Shall Sing," is a warm, humorous comedy ro mance in which a family with little money acts to save the old household. "Papa's Wife," by Thyra Bjorn is another portrait of wholesome family life that is full of warmth and humor and Christmas feeling. "Sunday's Children," a memoir by James Knox of his childhood as a min ister's son is another delightful and thoroughly real picture of family life, full of warmth and dry humor. We might suggest several oth er books that combine pleasant, easy reading with themes of more significance, instances of the Christmas spirit at work in human living. More Serious Books One of these is Frank Baker's "Nearer to Heaven," the story of a vicar of a poor and rural parish in England who is told that because of a heart ailment he has a year to live, how he faces that news, and becomes his true self. Jo Sinclair's "The Changelings" probes deeply and meaningfully into racial preju dice in its portrait of a delight ful gallery of people. "The Lost Sheep," by the distinguished French novelist, is-the story of humility, forgiveness, and a mir acle in the hearts of mountain villagers. All. these books are at the Medford Public Library. Seven Men ReceiveJenlences In Busy Circuit Courl Day Seven men were sentenced to the Oregon state penitentiary dna tour received suspended sentences in circuit court Fri day before Judge H. K. Hanna. Two cases were continued pend ing reports from the federal bureau of investieation and one woman was sentenced to the county jail. Bert Glenn Parrack. 50 Al len hotel, was sentenced to three years on a charge of for gery, ae also was held as a parole violator. Wayne Harding. 20. Central Point, was sentenced to 18 months on a charge of petty larceny. He was chareed with the theft of an American Cancer society container from a Talent grocery store. Probation Violator James Rowden. 24. Medford. was sentenced to three vears for breaking probation. He was arrested with John N. Boyce, 32, Medford, last week. Boyce was sentenced in district court to six months in jail for larceny of four automobile batteries and two radiators. Earl R. Schneider. 56. and Roy L. Thurman, 58, of 1728 JNorth Riverside ave., both of whom pleaded guilty earlier to charges of burelarv not in a dwelling, were sentenced to 18 months and one year, respectively. Florence E. Donev. 46. Talent. who was charged with conceal ing stolen property, was sen tenced to six months in iail after the charge was reduced to a misdemeanor. Livestock Larceny Hubert Bruton, 37, and Mae Bruton, 23, Brawley, Calif., re ceived suspended sentences of three years and one vear. re spectively. They were charged with larceny of livestock. Sentenced to two years was C. R. Lowry, 35, of route 2, box 53V&; on a charge 'of forgery. Ralph A. Pearson, 31, of 30 South Central ave., was sentenced to two-years on a charge of grand larceny of an auto and Roy B. Armstrong, 21, Medford, who was arrested with Pearson, re ceived a three-year suspended sentence. He was placed on pro bation. K. R. Murphy, Spokane, who was charged with forgery, was given a two-year suspended sen tence and placed on probation. Denzil L. Dye, 46, of 116 Lin coln st., received a three-year suspended sentence on a charge of contributing to the delin quency of a minor. He also was placed on probation. George W. Layman, 29, Ash land, received a three-year sus pended sentence on a charge of obtaining money under false pre tenses. All the cases were presented with information from the office of District Attoreny Walter Nun ley. Cases pending receipt of FBI reports are those of James West cott, Grants Pass, charged with obtaining money undef falsa pretenses; and Robert L. McCal louch, 20, Klamath Falls, who is charged with forgery. DR. ROBERT E. 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LOW III PRICE May your heart be filled with the joy of Christmas . . , tree-trimming with the whole family . . . opening gifts Christmas morning ... a thankful prayer before the family dinner . . . may all these dreams come true when we say, "Merry Christmas. A ALL OF US AT 9 '04 ff DAIRY PRODUCTS
