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o o Medford Man Hikes From Happy Camp To O'Brien After Flood Residents o Rogue valley who have relatives and friends living in Happy Camp, Calif., were no iuied(3)today that residents of Happy Camp are all well, de spite being isolated by the re QOcent Klamath river flood. O Fiay, Jim Atkins, 313 Mary st., Medford, hiked 'over the Sis kiyous from Happy Camp to O'Brien, south of Cave Junction on Highway 199, a distance of ahgut 40'miles. Some of the hike, he said, was through snow Hats Horns Noisemakers Serpentines THE Toy House 317 East Main ranging up to more than 13 inches deep. Becomes Stranded Atkins said he was working south of Happy Camp when the Klamath river started rising. He became stranded in Happy Camp when the highway and bridges were washed out. He said residents of Happy Camp asked him to notify rela tives and friends in Rogue val ley that they were all right. At kins said several Happy Camp residents had to evacuate homes when the river flooded part of the town, but none of the homes was washed away as far as he knew. Several summer homes along the river were undermined and washed away, Atkins said. Some summer homes were in the Clear Creek area south of Happy Camp and some were nearer Happy Camp. IS Hour Hike Atkins said he left Happy Camp about 11 a.m. Friday and arrived in O'Brien about 3 a.m. Saturday. He hiked along a for est service road in Siskiyou Na tional forest. He encountered snow and wind near the top of pass over the Siskiyous, he said, but most of the time moonlight furnished enough light by which to see. Atkins said he hiked to a cafe about halfway between O'Brien and Cave Junction, where he ate breakfast and obtained a ride to Grants Pass, where he stayed with relatives before coming onto Medford. Atkins said the California Oregon Power company used the forest service road Thurs day when two trucks returned to Happy Camp after being called into the Medford-Grants Pass area for emergency repairs to power lines. FLOOD REFUGEE CHRISTMAS PARTY Red Cross and volunteer workers hold im promptu Christmas party for young evacuees from the northern California floods in the Civic auditorium at Stockton, Calif. Atkins said the superintend ent of the California state prison camp at Clear creek told him prisoners would devote full time to repairing the Klamath river road between Highway 99 and Happy Camp. Prisoners - have been working on another sec tion of a secondary highway south of Happy Camp. December 28, 1955 Around Hollywood By ALINE MOSBY United Press Correspondent awards. As Hollywood (U.R) This is the season of "the year's best" a TV fan I would like to nomi nate honors for the. f u n n i est TV boners of , the year. While TV producers are toting up their successes of the year, armchair critics at home Aline Mosby get a chuckle by remembering mistakes that millions of viewers saw. A gold engraved statuette for the all-time greatest fluff of 1955 should go to the Jackie Gleason show. Art Carney, play ing the comic's sidekick, started to enter the Gleason apartment but couldn't get the door open. The quick - thinking Carney climbed through the window. This appeared to be a stroke of genius, except it had puzzling moments for viewers. For one thing, the glassless window was supposed to have been closed. Furthermore, the Gleason apart ment allegedly was on the sec ond floor. A runner-up award could.be handed to "Climax!" In the mid dle of a stirring drama on that CBS-TV program a corpse got up and walked away in plain view of the camera. 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But James Mason outfluffed them all to take an "Oscar" for introduc tion boners when he started to introduce Rhonda Fleming on the Lux Video Theater and couldn't remember her name. Jan Sterling once said on a live TV drama, "I chose this play because of the character I be tray," instead of "portray." On other live dramas there was the usual quota of wandering stage hando and microphone shadows caught by the camera. One char acter couldn't get a fireplace to work on "Robert Montgomery Presents" and saved the day by muttering, "Damp Wood." No Safety in Film But even the filmed shows racked up boners. On "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" Joseph Cot ten was shown weeping as he was lying down in a mortuary. The tears rolled down instead of sideways in the close-up. On "Waterfront" a crew was shown loading a schooner. When it sailed out of the harbor the boat was suddenly a sloop. When it arrived in Honolulu it was a yawl. Jero Jim Arness stood in a graveyard on "Gumshoe" while the wind blew across the grass. But the tombstones revealed they were paper props when they bent in the wind, too. NBC's "Matinee Theater" has had its share of red-faced mo ments. One character talked for three minutes into the wrong end of a telephone. Another day Irene Hervey couldn't zip up her dress on cue. It stuck. She had to play the scene clutching the gap in her gown. '55 Lumber Shipments Ahead of Past Year Portland (U.R) Total 1955 shipments of lumber at Pacific Coast ports are running ahead of 1954 although shipments dur ing November declined from No vember of last year, the Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau said today. Oregon's total for the two No vembers dropped from 115,254, 309 board feet to 62,066,017. Ex ports were 13,025,183 and do mestic shipments 49,040,834 this November. British Columbia, Washington and California also showed declines in November. The U.S. Pacific Coast total for the year up to Dec. 1 was 1,917,291,120 board feet, a gain of some 200 million board feet over the first 11 months of 1954. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE TIf: Time Picks Curtice 1 As Man of the Year New York (U.R) - Time magazine yesterday named Gen eral Motors President Harlow Curtice as its 1955 "man of the year" for his "leadership in. the free, competitive, expanding American economy that is the keystone of the defense of the West against the Communist. world." The magazine said Curtice was not named because his firm is the world's largest manufac turing corportation but because of his "billion dollar bet" on prosperity which, it said, gave confidence in 1954 to a business world gloomy with a thought that the postwar boom was about i to bust. At that time, Curtice announc ed GM would spend 81,000,000, 000 to expand its plants. Musical Program At Rotary Meeting A musical program arranged by George Maddox was featured at a luncheon meeting of the Medford Rotary club Tuesday at the Jackson hotel. Sons and daughters of members were I special guests. PomeRoy Sorum, Oregon State college, clarinet; Blake Maddox, trumpet, ind Raoul Maddox, trombone, comprised an instrumental trio, with Mrs. George Maddox as accompanist. Blake Maddox attends the Uni versity of Oregon and Raoul, a graduate of the university is band and chorus director at Mapleton high school. Vocal selections by George Maddox and a reading by J. Scott Heatherington completed the program. Under the constitutional act of 1915, amended in 1920, Den mark is a constitutional heredi tary monarchy. . . " 117 S. CENTRAL .PHONE 2-6241 TONIGHT 5 to 9 Specials! WEDNESDAY NIGHT SPECIAL 1.98 to 3.98 GIRLS' DRESSES SPECIAL PRICE 1.33 TONIGHT ONLY LARGE SELECTION OF MID-SEASON DRESSES AT Bl3 SAV INGS i MANY STYLES AND FABRICS. 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