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o Thursday, Mreh IS, Hi . MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUUNE NTNE o o o o for ywir G BOYS' ETON SUIT In Silk and Rayon Textured Fabric Sizes 4 to 7 $ 12 98 . Del Monte No. 303 Fruit Cocktail or No. 303 Peaches ' 5 FOR 99 Del Monte Orange or Blend Juice 3 4T 99 Del Monte Pineapple or Tomato Juice 4 4ctf 99 FANCY DRESSES In Nylon and Cotton Sizes 98 S98 3 lo 123 to n Near the TJTq TODDLER COAT & BONNET Sett in pastel colors of corduroy and rayon gabardine . . . ALL WASHABLE. Sizes I to 3 $ Years 10 For the New Arrival Quilted Estron BABY BLANKET Regular $195 $5.95 ONLY DIAPERS Flannel or Birdseye Regular $2.98 Dozen Thrift Dept. Features For Making Your Own Easter Basket EASTER GRASS All kinds of Easter Candies by Whitman, Brown & Haley and Rogers. Easter Eggs & Bunnies Galore. BUNMIES&DOGSs-"p 77' SHOWER CURTAINS Heavy gauge plastic Size 6x6 Lovely decorator colors from which to choose Regular $1.98 Value T3 yon fri Mm J I Young Set the MEZZANINE new North Entrance RUGBY JACKET has stripe to match walking shorts. Both in linen. Sizes S ) 98 $ 98 to 3 I to 7 $ ONLY Giant Bag JL 3 PILLOWS Crushed chicken feathers chlorophyll treated High quality floral ticking. Plastic bagged Regular $3.38 Pair ONLY 89 Hats and Bonnets jjjj . fi To Suit All of the Thrift Dept. Big and Little Girls' DUSTERS To wear over their dressy togs Rayon Faille Sizes A95 m 3 to 14 IU to IH . Elf 'Jul mtm It . PLUSH' 8UNNIES 5W 9- $3.29. . M ' W $99 1 SNOW L J Shopping Center Storm Floods Rivers, Blows Snow Over Much Of Eastern Sections By UNITED PRESS A- double-barreled storm sys tem flooded rivers in West. Vir ginia and blew into New , Eng land with heavy snows today. Two more storms teamed up in the West," where wind-driven snows moved southward out of Wyoming;. From three to four inches fell from' Denver south ward, in Southeast Colorado and delayed an - Air Force mei;cy plane carrying a dying Indian girl te a hospital. The West Virginia rains to talled 2.3T inches during 24 hours. Dozens of small streams went over their banks, flooding cellars,: and earth slides and high water blocked several highways. chMla Cleted Some schools were closed be cause students couldn't get to them. Although the worst of the rains were over today, . an Ohio river erest of 41.5 feet, a foot and a half above flijod stage, was expected at Point Pleasant, W. Va. To "the north, Syracuse, N. Y., got seven inches of snow in six .hours and from three to four HILT PTA, Founders Br MRS. JOHN H. GREEN Hilt The Hilt Parent-Tea cher association's Founders day meeting was held Feb.' 29 with President Gordon Ashcraf t in charge. "-Two of the local Boy -Scouts, Terry Tallis and Kent Johnson, presented two new flags' that the PTA bought for the new Hilt 'Elementary school. There was -a short, business meeting, and two life memberships were presented to John Barber a to Chimpanzee Tours New York Rooftops New York (U.R) An anti social -chimpanzee from Detroit played King Kong for ten har ried hours Wednesday and took "an unscheduled tour of the roof tops of New York. The chimp, whose real nam' is. Mike, never made it to . the j Empire State building as did King Kong in the old movie which was shown on television last week. But he scampered up and down fire escapes and swung- from television antenna to the delight of hundreds of neighborhood youngsters. ' By the time Mike submitted te an ignominious capture in a ladies rest room, police and Humane Society officials had the feeling they wouldn't have had much more trouble with giant King Kong himself. The five-foot, 80-pound Mike began his day on the town about noon when he broke out of a cage in the apartment of Frank Quinn, a nightclub en tertainer. - Mike dived out a window and went visiting like no visitor to Manhattan's lower East- Side ever went visiting before." Tests Prove Humans Had Psittacosis Portland ' (U.R) The State fcaard of Health said today la boratory .tests have confirmed that psittacosis was involved m the illness "of several persons connected with handling of tur keys found infected last week ' Dr. Harold Erickson, state health officer, said the disease had been confirmed in two Port land-area ' flocks and suspected in the humans. He said some 40 to 50 persons, all who work in nrncessins of turkeys, were ill I .- - and were being treated. Dr.- ErickS"on . added that it would not be possible to deter mine if recent deaths of two uersons were caused by psitta cosis or something else.. The disease was suspected belatedly when discovered in the turkeys I MEW j PILATOR : The Different : Hot Cereal! : MOMNOUHISHINttl WX1ATIHI COOKS WUTAMTlYt Now better than everl Made with famous Idaho Baart Wheat Gives you all the B-vitamins, plus protein ; and iron! For rich flavor, whole wheat nourishment, ; in$tant cooking, look for the new red and white ; package at your grocery store today! '. CARNATION INSTANT WH1AT inches of snow fell in a belt from lower Michigan northeast ward into New England. From two to eight inches more snow was expected in Maine. The western weather was dominated by a disturbance over New Mexico and another storm center in the western Gulf of Mexico. They were expected to pro duce more snow in New Mexico today, plus snow or rain from the central plains into Missouri and Texas. Net Hear? The Colorado snows were not ' heavy, but they cost an Air Force mercy plane six prec ious hours. The plane was rushing an In dian girl, Phoebe Running Horse, from the Rosebud Indian reservation near Rapid City, S.D., to a Denver hospital. She is afflicted with tuberculosis and is given little chance io live. The Air Force C47 couldn't land at Denver's Lowry Air Force base because of the blow ing snow. It had to set down at Cheyenne, Wyo., 105 miles away, and wait until the weath er cleared. Day Marked Mrs. Opal Ward and Mrs. Ann Van De Weghe. ' Named to nominate officers for the coming year were the Mesdames Lucille Hofer, Dor othy Green, June Dragoo, Opal Ward and John Barbera. Mrs. P. Thompson had as a guest, Tony , Marin, who provided en tertainment with his accordion. Fefreshments were served with a Founders day cake as center piece, by the hostess for the evening, Mrs. Stella Eastman and Mrs. Lucille Hofer. The: Duke Duchess club of Hilt attended the movies in Ashland last Friday night. Tak ing part and supplying transpor tation were W. Tallis, W. Fox and R. Black. Club members at tending were Linda Shueh, Di ana Miehelon, Jeri Johnson, Lina Foggiato, Rita Middleton, Cheryl Smith, Dorothy Fox, John Foggiato, Tim Nunes, Ter ry Tallis and Kent Johnson. The Girl Scout Leap Year dance was held March 2, spon sored , by the Duke Duchess club. The Worth Lanford family spent a week end in Placerville recently, visiting relatives. 0 The Misses Lina Foggiato and Diana Miehelson recently drove to Weed to play basketball' with Yreka girls. SP Reports Income Of $6.22 Per Share San Francisco (U.R) The Southern Pacific company re ported today its net income for 1955 amounted to $56,246,000, equivalent to $6.22 a share. This compared to a net in come for 1955 of $48,703,000, equivalent to $5.38 a share. The net income included $51,- 645.00C reported by the SP transportation system and $4, 601,000 reported from its solely controlled affiliated companies. Dividend . distribution for 1955 amounted to $27,140,000, or $3 a share. Crown Zellerbach Nels $44,128,000 San Francisco (U.R) Crown Zellerbach reports its net in come for 1955 was $44,128,000, compared to $36,515,000 for 1954. ' "The corporation said in its annual report that 1955 was the most successful year in its his tory. r The net income for 1955 was equal to $3.11 a share of com mon stock, compared to $2.58 a share in 1954. Net sales last year were $414,080,000, com pared to $383,782,000 in 1954.
