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
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BEATING 50 CONTESTANTS, Annette Hunt, 17, Indianap
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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
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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." .'
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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