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MedfoYd Kiwanis Show Starts Wednesday for 4-Night Performance A mirthful and melodious pro gram of dance chorus produc tions, song chorus numbers, solo selections, gags and specialties will take place aboard the "Good Ship Happiness" during the sec ond act when, the eighth annual Kiwanis Kapers is presented this week at the senior high school auditorium here. Medford Kiwanis club's mus ical and variety production, ' "Holiday" Review," will open Wednesday for a four-night run. Opening night will be student night with curtain time at 7'-30 o'clock. Shows on Thursday, Fri day and Saturday will begin at 8:15 p.m. Chorus of 60 . Members of the Kiwanis chor us of more than 60 voices will be prominent in the ao.".They will be passengers and crew of the ship and their songs will have generally a nautical theme. John Dellenback will be cap tain of the ship and master-of-ceremonies for the act. A chorus line of sailorettes will appear in a sailors' horn pipe and novelty routine.,. Other chorus girls will be a hula num ber and in a bathing beach ball presentation. Twenty-four girls help end the show. Sixteen men will "build" an eight by 12-foot American flag which will glow in the dark and Glenna Hobbs and Jacque Hughes will perform in a spe cialty, tap dance. Solo vocalists fof the second act will be E. Ron Rice, Dr. Abner Clark, "Dave . Ashton, Mrs. Dorothy Veal and Mrs. Donna Hogan. In Med ford's Schools McLOUGHLIN JUNIOR HIGH .' Under the new home room program at McLoughlin Junior High school, the home room in each grade having the highest number of activity points re ceives a half-holiday in recog nition. Top room for the eighth grade the first semester was Mrs. Marjorie Votaw's. The students took their vacation on Feb. 13, and first visited the Mail Trib une to see how news is gather ed and printed for; the commun ity. They then went to the YMCA where they spent the rest of the afternoon in recre ational activities. , Eldon ; Ben nett, Ronald ; Martin, .Eugene Bray, Fred JMassey, Susan Beth Reule and Frances Stout were judged the best in swimming. Chess champions were Tom Foutch and Helen Ruth. Check er games were won by Eugene Bray and Joyce Riley, "and the shuffleboard winners were Mel vin Kirkpatrick and Richard McCarty. Another group of stu dents played ping-pong. The winners in the seventh grade group were the students from Mrs. Hazel Bosshard's home room. They toured Fluh rer's bakery on Feb. 18, and then went to the YMCA. After swimming, the students played various games. Volleyball, chess and ping-pong were the favor ite sports for the group.: Some of Mrs. Votaw'i pupils presented a Washington's birth day assembly on Feb. , 22. Two short plays were given, and seventh grade home rooms co operated with a choral reading of Robert Schauffler's poem "Washington." Four members of the wrest ling squad were chosen to par . ticipate in the district meet at Ashland on Feb. 25. Those se lected from McLoughlin were Ronald O'Neill, Don Mann, Gary Heath and Robert Ash ton. The members of the "Junior Quill" staff from McLoughlin will be the guests of the Hed rick Journalism club at a Leap Year party on Feb. 29. The deans of girls and boys sponsored meetings on Monday, Feb. 27. Mrs. Gladys Loyd in troduced Mrs. Saltus ,of South ern Oregon college,: who spoke to the girls on the entertain ment value of reading. Don Darneille invited Bob Newland, track coach at Medford High school, to speak' to the Mc Loughlin boys on track activ ities. Al Huntemann took his "Hungry Five' to play for the Lions club Feb. 22. The mem bers of the instrumental group are Mike Gardner, Jackie Wab ster, Clinton Stiger, Craig Rob ison and Ronald "O'Neill. Fol lowing the musical numbers, Huntemann showed movies tak en when the high school band appeared at the East-West foot ' ball game in San Francisco. , HEDRICK JUNIOR HIGH Friday, Feb. 24 a large group of Hedrick students went to Grants Pass for the ninth grade varsity basketball game. About 170 students besides the varsity squad went in four Greytround buses. The Hedrick band and "Stingers" put on the half time show. The. majorettes also ap peared. The ninth grade yell leaders led the cheeking. Ward Smith directs the band. Mrs. Holidays of the year will be de picted in the seven scenes of the first act. Washington's and Lin coln's birthdays will be noied as will Valfintine's day and a Mexi can holiday. An faster Parade production will. range from ser ious to hilarious. Mann's Depart ment store will sponsor a style show with Southern Oregon col lege girls as models. Parts Listed Robert Voegtly will be George Washington, Irv Allen will have the part of Martha Washington and Stanley Jones will play La fayette. Ed Barriett will be Abra ham Lincoln. ' Only general admission seats will be available - Wednesday night and there will be a special student price that night. Re served seat tickets can be pur chased it Barker's Men's store. Medford Kiwanis club's pro gram of assistance to underpriv ileged youngsters and its other youth projects in the county will benefit from the Kapers. The show is the club's major fund raising activity to assure contin uation of the projects. "Holiday Review" is an all local talent production with the professional direction of Don Hansen, Lassen Theatrical pro ductions. Put-together dress re hearsal for the first act was held last night and' second act put together is tonight. '. The Friday show will be dedi cated; to Miss Shirley Kenner, Medford queen" for National Beauty week and she will for mally start the performance. Mary Ann Athanas is adviser for the "Stingers" pep club and Mrs. Dolores Rabjohn is adviser for the majorettes. . NW Mining Council Slates Meet March 1 .A meeting of. the Northwest ern Mining Council Inc., Will be held at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 1, in the Jackson county court house auditorium. Attorney Bruce Manely will report on a recent meeting of the National Western Mining Conference in Salt Lake : City, Utah, where he spoke on "Min ing in Oregon." ' -" " James Sherry and Stanford Merrifield," both of Eugene, will review mining in Alaska and Nevada where they spent sev eral years.' Council ' President Frank DeSouza . said, several members will discuss the out look for mining activity in south ern Oregon. 'vl A question and answer dis cussion on the present status of mining in this area 'will be held. Record Wheat Supply Forecast for 56-57 l Washington U.R) The Ag riculture Department today pre dicted total wheat supplies for the 1956-57 marketing year, be ginning July 1 will be a record 1,990,000,000 bushels. ' This is based on an indicated carryover of a record 1,065,000, 000 bushels, a winter crop based on seedlings reports of 735,000, 000 bushels, and an anticipated spring wheat crop of 190,000,000 bushels. This compared with 1955-56 total supplies of 1,964,000,000 bushels consisting of a July 1, 1955, carryover of 1,022,000,000 bushels, 1955 production of 938, 000,000 bushels and imports of about 4,000,000 bushels. Dead line Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday: 10 asn. Monday for' Monday: other days 530 envious day (p V DAM It AT JfouZ. CONVENIENCE! 7 Bf OW Late-Hoar Windows reran feJf f ? 1 fil BEATING 50 CONTESTANTS, Annette Hunt, 17, Indianap olis, displays cherry pie she baked,' which brought her title National Cherry Pie Queen at Chicago contest . (International) Around Hollywood Hollywood CU.PJ The shut tering of Ciro's, movietown s fancy night club on the Sunset "Strip," .will leave filmville minus a site for one-punch brawls and other social notes. Herman Hover, w h o's kept the up h o 1 stered s- loon going Aline Mosby since 1942, says he's folding May" 26 be cause two talent agencies are booking the best acts into hotels instead of his place. In case this time he ' means it, the Hollywood press will have to look elsewhere for the night life of the movie gods. The biggest story I've cover ed there was a costume party tossed for Terry Moore when she came back from a junk.et to Korea in a whitp ermine bikini. The guests were electri fied when movie mogul Darryl Zanuck stripped to the waist and chinned himself "from a trapeze at 2 a.m. Animals Attend Party . Another fabulous party was last year s Szu.UUO circus . cos tume affair- Sonja Henie gave at Ciro's. The . guests included assorted live animals and Liber ace, who came dressed as Lib erace. V - - . Ciro's also held' forth on the saloon circuit as a boxing ring. Singer Frank Sinatra punched cdlumnist-Lee .Mortimer there. Howard Duff, Oleg Cassini and Sid Luft were veterans of one punch fights. After three fights, a customer was barred. News .. has been made in the darkened room while Dick Sta bile's band beat outth6se monot onous rhumb a "and mambo rhythms. ; 1 ' . Business Transacted.. Howard Hughes negotiated at a Ciro's table to buy RKO. Dan -Topping- bought- the New York Yankees in a phone booth. Lana Turner" was courted in the dim light by husbands Artie Shaw Israel May Get US Planes Made in France Paris (U.R) The United States has agreed tentatively to allow 12' Mystere IV. jet fighter planes built, in France under the U. S.' military aid program to be delivered eventually to Israel, a French Foreign Ministry spokes man said today. ' The final decision to hand over the planes to Israel will be taken by representatives of the three Western powers now meet ing in Washington to coordinate their Middle East policies, the spokesman said.-. He .said the decision" would be made any day now. - He told a. news conference that France had informed its Western-allies of ttie Israeli order for the planes. . " .-,-. Mon. through Fri. Saturday window MEDFORD BRANCH By ALINE MOSBY United Preu Correspondent and Bob Topping, and Rita Hay worth was . wooed over cham pagne by Aly Khan. : Even the hired help at Ciro's has been in the glamour tra dition. Three shapely cigarette girls' married celebrities Tom- rmy Manville, Huntington Hart ford, and Sir Cedric Hardwicke. The bartender works by days in the movies in a gorilla suit. The waiters, parking lot boys and even the' men's room at tendant are film actors. "If I close, I'll miss this place," sighed Hover today. "I meet such interesting people." .' Olympia witli pleasore join those who enjoy Olympia . . Its the Water 'that makes the Visitors ore always welcome at "One of America's Exceptional Breweries," 'Clympia Brewing Company, Olympia,Washington, U.S. A. Library's Reference Service Increasingly In Demand by Patrons Reference .questions to the Medford " Public Library in creased sharply during the past year, . according to Librarian Helen Webster, who reported 498 questions were answered in January. "More and more persons are calling the library for answers to the many questions that come up : in everyday living," . she said. The librarian attributed the rise to increasing awareness on the part of the public of the library's reference service. .-.'. Any Question Operated by the reference sec tion,' the fact-finding service is aimed at answering any ques tion, whether unusual or matter-of-fact, which can be looked up in a book. The book may be a dictionary, encyclopedia, alma nac, atlas, or some other stand ard of reference'. The library . sometimes han dles as many as 500 inquiries a. month, ranging into practically every field of human knowl edge. Here are a few recent posers: "How do you make wire rope?" "When was the branch system of banking .started?" "How do you raise earth worms?" ' People called the library on problems of etiquette, word usage, homemaking, and how fell? - ' ? A " - t&s'&X In perfect time with the increasing tempo of the West, Olympiad flavor Is brisk as a barn dance and every bit as popular. Our famous, naturally perfect brewing water extracts only the most delicate flavors from choice hops and grains assuring Olympiad never changing quality. If good taste and consistent - product excellence are important Tuesday, February 28, 1938 to-do-it. Other questions were about spelling and pronuncia tion, abbreviations, history, sci ence, sports, quotations, dates and events, ' anniversaries and addresses. Never From Memory "Library assistants never an swer questions from memory,"' says Joyce Fuller, reference li brarian. Ask them how to spell a simple "word, or for the mean ing of "R.S.V.P.," and they w.ill look it up in the dictionary, even though they are sure of the answer. . Of course, some questions don't get answered. Some libra rians would be happy to learn the nariie of ' Lot's wife, : how many calories in a stick - of gum, the melting temperature of pumice or the freezing point of propane gas. ' . Mrs. Fuller is assisted in ref erence work by the circulation staff of .the library: Mrs. Cyn thia McKay, Mrs. Florence Per key, Charles Tarvin, Evelyn Graham and Wilma Eubanks, who . answer quickv reference questions as their other duties permit. CRAVED A SMOKE Barryton, Michi (U.R) Po lice said a 16-year-old boy broke into an auto agency, ignored $60 in cash but took' several cigar- - ' ettes from an opened pack. to you, with pleasure. difference Local BLM Acquires Mechanics at the bureau of land management shops near the fairgrounds are servicing ' 28 Navy surplus jeeps which were procured recently for the BLM from the mothball, fleet in San Francisco. They will be used to transport personnel for expanded timber Come 24 mahogany finish console, Super Mark " 10 chassis. M3054. i m MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINB Navy Surplus Jeeps sale and other BLM programs. The jeeps were procured by the BLM at no cost because of a ruling giving excess vehicles to other government agencies, according to Murl Storm, assist ant BLM forester. The only ex pense will be about $200 per vehicle for servicing. See! 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