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o 9' ' v ?;;S'jZ 'spy DUDLEY McCLURE TO ATTEND WORKSHOP Participating in the Southern Oregon Chambers of Com merce workshop here Saturday will be Dud ley McClure, Guy E. Leonard, and Leith Abbott. McClure is an account executive for Cole and Weber Advertising agency, Port land, and will discuss tourist promotion and techniques of developing good tourist folders. Chamber Workshop Lists Discussion leaders, Speakers Several speakers are sched uled to participate in the South ern Oregon-Northern California Chambers of Commerce work shop at the Jackson hotel Satur day.' The purpose of the workshop will be to acquaint newly elected Chamber officers, board mem bers, and committee members with techniques and problems confronting Chamber organiza tions in the area. The opening session will start io the Pioneer room with a panel discussion ofo"The Responsibil ity of the board of directors and the staff in a Chamber of Com merce." John Pletsch, past pres ident of the Jackson County Chamber, will preside. Discussions Listed Participating in the discussion will be Guy Leonard, manager of the membership department of the Portland Chamber, and Sidney Bazett, president of the Grants Pass and Josephine Coun ty Chamber of Commerce. Leon ard will discuss duties of the president and the board, and Bazett will discuss organizing committees for action and get ting committees to work. All discussions during the workshop will be on a round table basis to allow those attend ing to participate. Other topics scheduled include developing Southern Oregon in dustry, developing tourist travel and convention business in Southern Oregon, experiences in Chamber financing and Cham ber of Commerce activity in the field of taxation. Other Representatives . Other representatives outside this area who will appear on various panels are Eric Berg man, Oregon state travel infor mation department, Salem; Dud ley McClure, Cole and Weber Advertising agency, Portland; and Sam Stewart, Oregon state tax commissioner, Salem. Southern Oregon representa tives scheduled to appear on pan els include Warren Bennet, presi dent of Klamath County Cham ber; I. R. Perry, Grants Pass Chamber; Herb Grey, Medford; GUY E. LEONARD Leonard is assistant manager of public rela tions and manager of the membership depart ment of the Portland Chamber of Commerce. Abbott is assistant to passenger traffic and public relations manager for Southern Pacific in Portland. The workshop is scheduled for Chambers of Commerce in both southern Ore gon and northern California. Ken MacDonald, chairman mem bership committee of Jackson County Chamber; Jim Patterson and Grant Cosgrove, member ship committee, Klamath County Chamber; Ben Newman, mem bership campaign. Grants Pass Chamber; Frank VanDyke, legis lative committee, Jackson Coun ty Chamber and N. K. Herndon, chairman -tax committee of the Grants Pass Chamber. A get acquainted hour and banquet will be held Saturday night, when Leith Abbott, pub lic relations for the Portland Southern Pacific office, will speak. James Dunlevy will serve as master of ceremonies. Natural Gas Bill In Trouble in Senate Washington flj.R) Senate opponents of the natural gas bill will try to kill it with some par liamentary slight-of-hand. The party-splitting bill al ready passed by the House would exempt all independent natural gas producers from fed eral price control. Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D-Ill.), leader of the bill's opposition in a seething Senate debate, said he will introduce a substitute bill. Hill bill would leave the pres ent law intact. But, it would ex empt small producers from fed eral price control. The exemption would cover 96 per cent of the nation's natural gas producers. However, they turn out only 10 per cent of the gas.. Hood River Judge Dies After Lengthy Illness Hood River (U.R) County Judge John H. Sheldrake, who two weeks ago asked Gov. Paul Patterson to appoint a pro tem judge to handle his work, died yesterday after a long illness. Sheldrake had been county judge since 1947 and a county official for 30 years. Arvo Hu kari was named by the governor to the pro tem position. SWvegetaHes aie so earefelly "brouit up... so perfectly put up... so enjoyably 'et up LEITH ABBOTT Housewife Seis Diving Record in 270-Foot Plunge Hollywood Beach, Fla. (U.R) A spunky Indianapolis housewife plunged 270 feet beneath the Atlantic Ocean yesterday to set a new world skin driving record for women. ' Mrs. Barbara Jacobs, 33, ap parently wasn't bothered by the mysterious "rapture of the deep" that snuffed out the life of Mi ami Attorney Hope Root when he tried a similar dive off Miami Beach two years ago. With instructor Ed Townsend of Hollywood Beach accomp anying her and her husband waiting above on a boat, Mrs. Jacobs yesterday swam down a 400-foot anchor line and tied a marker at 270-feet down. Her dive beat the record of 209 ieet set on the Pacific Coast last year by Zale Perry. Deeper Dive Vetoed Townsend remembering Root's fate, wouldn't let the attractive mother of two boys take a chance by going deeper. Root, trying to break the men's skin diving record, passed the 400-foot mark and their ap parently let his breathing appar atus slip off. He never came back. "I was frightened until I found my equipment was in good shape," Mrs. Jacobs said after she clambered back into the boat. "I remember one inci dent very well down below the 200-foot mark . . . my red fing ernail polish turned blue." Townsend explained that red color is filtered out at such depths. Helped Into Boat The attractive brunette was exhausted when she reached the surface and had to be helped into the boat by Townsend and her husband, who runs a men's wear store at Indianapolis. But after the men massaged her cramped arms and legs, she quickly recovered. Mrs. Jacobs and Townsend, an AAU representative, tied a mar ker on the anchor line at the 270-foot level and had the mark measured and confirmed later by dock master Nestor Cramata. Use Mail Tribune Want Ad Miller, Duff Discuss Municipal Problems At Kiwanian Meeting Mayor Earl Miller and City Manager Robert Duff pointed to Medford's sound financial condi tion but brought out the serious ness of the arterial street and downtown parking problems during talks to Kiwanis club members at Rogue Valley Coun try club yesterday noon. Miller, mentioning the S1.902, 900.30 cost of city government last year, praised city depart ments and both elected and ap pointive officials for their work. Done Their Best He said the various depart ments have done their best with in their limitations to give a dollar's worth of service for every dollar spent. The mayor added that he believed that city officials are doing their level best to give residents the finest service they can. Medford is in excellent finan cial condition, the mayor de clared. Miller said, nevertheless, "We must do something about the arterial streets immediately." He and Duff spoke of the estimated 9,000 motor vehicles using Med ford streets with the indications that the total will be 17,000 by 1970 at Medford's present growth rate. Arterial Street Progarm Duff said that state highway engineers have, through a sur vey, outlined about 4,uuu,uuu worth of arterial street work. This plan is an "ideal situation," the manager stated, saying that Medford probably will have to get along on less. He reported that modifications to fit the city are being studied and that the situation is getting critical. On the parking problem, Duff Actress Pier Angeli Suffers Broken Ankle Hollywood (U.R) Actress Pier Angeli, who suffered a seri ous pelvis injury last year, again was on Hollywood's sick list today with her left foot in a cast. The Italian-born star broke a bene in her - left ankle Tuesday night in a fall on the stairway of her home. Shortly after her marriage to singer Vic Damone last year, the actress' pelvis was broken in a plane accident. MGM spokesmen said Miss Angeli was scheduled to begin work this week in "Somebody Up There Likes Me," the Rocky Graziano story. The studio will shoot scenes in which she is not needed until her expected return to work in three weeks. Jack Benny To Play Violin at Carnegie Hall Hollywood (U.R) Jack Ben ny will fulfill a likelong ambi tion Oct. 2 when he plays his violin at Carnegie Hall with the New York Symphony Orches tra. His appearance will be at a benefit concert to "save Carne gie Hall," he said. "I shall try to sound like I think I'm good enough to play with the symphony even though everyone in the audience knows I'm not," said the comedian. "I have been practicing with the hope something like this would happen. It takes practice even to play lousy." - Use Mail Tribune Want Ads Simply Wonderful T 1 ; ' i 1 warned, "Unless we do some thing soon, we're going to be sorry." Miller said that commit teemen are hard at work on an off-street parking program, with no definite plan as yet. Miller spoke of park and li brary improvements and both men declared that the municipal airport is in excellent shape. Duff said the facility has an estimated revenue of $45,000 for the year with costs listed at $25,000. East Side Station The mayor said that the long delayed east side fire station is a "must" this year and mention ed, also, that the situation may be better located with the annex ation of the large southeast area. He reported that it is hoped to start construction of a new arm ory sometime this spring and to have funds for a brighter street lighting system in the 1956-1957 j budget. Kiwanis committees named for j the year by President Irv Mirick j are: ! Agriculture and conservation Chan ' Drew, chairman, Les DeArmond, Gene ! Peterson and Ralph Cook. Interclub : relations Tom Anderson, chairman, Boyd Budge, Everett Faber, Al Dum- ' as. Hugh Coleman, H. D. McClure. Er nest DeVoe and Tom Shepard. Boys' and girls' work Lou McLaughlin, ; chairman. Bob Johnson. Ed Hoppe, Dick Phair, Harold Gregory, Lou ; Cranston, Richard Field and Al Leigh- ! ton. j Spiritual aims Fred Gatter, chair- j man, John Dellenback and John Rey- i r,olds. Auto show Vic Milnes, chair- j man, Dick Payne, Bill Warner, and , Sam Taylor. Program Fred Sears, I chairman, George Ketchum, Don Fab- 1 er, Ed Hoppe, Harold Gregory. Abby Green, Cliff Lacy, George Polski. Bob I Johnson, Bob Messelbeck, George I Rode, Harold Hulse and Jack Burpee. I Key club Jack Fitzgerald, chair man, Tony Manno. Bill Singler and Charles Champlin. Gum ball ma chines Abner Clark, chairman. Ken Swartz, Stan Jones and Bill Bracker. Underprivileged children Dwight Houghton, chairman, John Crawford, Irv Allen. E. R. Duce, Ray Anders, Seth Bull is. Jim Hoey, O. H. Beng tson. Paul Dix, L. W. Buonocore and Del Berg. Attendance and membership D. J. Bolton, chairman. Jack Edson, Ray Wise and Willard Hunter. Kiwanis Kapers Bill Mitchell and Tom Shep ard. House George Harrington, chair man, G. A. Dierdorff. Vocational guid ance Emerson Anderson, chairman, Jennings Pierce, Bill Ruffner and Jer ry McGee. Kiwanis education and fel lowship Paul Walker, chairman, Vern Thorpe, George Ketchum, Paul Selby and Gordon MacKenzie. Music E. W. Sickels, chairman, Ron Rice, Abby Green, and Milo Kubalek. Reception Jack Walker. chairman, Frank Perl, John Pletsch and Jim Am bler. Public relations Flash Fidler, chairman. Jack Moreland. Charles Pas- i ke and Ray More. Business and public I affairs George Stacy, chairman. Bill! Peek and Byron Page. Thursday, January 19, 195S Lithuania Premier Removed by Russia Moscow (U.R) Russia today removed the Premier who has ruled Lithuania since it was in corporated into the Soviet Union in 1940. An official announcement said the Lithuanian Supreme Soviet dismissed Mechislovas Gedvilas from office. No reason was given. The announcement said Ged vilas was replaced by Moteyus Shumauskas. Gedvilas, 54,- a former school teacher, had been a member of the Communist party since 1934. He had been Premier of Lith uania since Russia absorbed it. He led the underground parti san movement during the Ger man occupation of Lithuania in World War II. Gedvilas also was a member of the USSR Su preme Soviet and an alternate member of the Soviet Commun ist Party Central Committee. 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