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FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, April 11, 195S U. S. railroads in 1954 estab lished a passenger fatality safe ty mark of .07 per 100,000,000 passenger miles. tEEiaaii'iMSW W So smooth it leaves you breathless SSI mirnoff tte areaiest name J -VODKA to proof M!e from 1 00 "5 grain ntutra! spina Si. Pierre Smirnoff Fl. Inc.. Hartford. Conn Copco Motion Picture Shown at Rotary Club A motion picture showing the California Oregon Power com pany's extensive development of the Umpqua river and its tribu taries, was shown at Tuesday's luncheon meeting of the Med ford Rotary club. The filmv shown at the Jack son hotel, was produced by Mor-rison-Knudson, contracting firm participating in the Copco Ump qua hydroelectric program. John Boyle, Copco general manager, was chairman and commented on the company's long range Sock Arguments Delayed By Court Until April 18 Salem UP) The State Su preme Court has postponed until Aprli 18 the date for attorneys to present arguments in the ap pealed case of George Sack, under death sentence for the 1954 slaying of his wife.i Goldie. The arguments originally were scheduled to be heard to morrow. The delay was requested by Sack's attorney, J. P. Hannon, who is defending Wey Him Fong in Fong's retrial for murder in Portland. For Goodness Sake . . . Eat Here Top Notch Cafe Next Craterian Beauty 5100,000,000 power development of the southern Oregon-northern California area. George W. Mimnaugh, state sales director for savings bonds for the U. S. treasury department in Portland, presented a five year pin to Morris B. Leonard Sr., Jackson county savings bonds chairman, for long and noteworthy service in bonds sales here. Wanted: Teacher Who Likes To Row Boaf Bloomingdale, N. J. (U.R) A Bloomingdale ichool prin cipal is casting about for a teacher who like to row boats. The problem facing Princi pal Walter Bergen of the Bloomington school is this: Bruce Dumont, 12, sixth grade student broke a leg while skiing recently. The boy lives with his family on an is land in nearby Glenwild lake. Bruce needs tutoring three times weekly, but the teacher must row to the boy's home because the island is accessi ble only by boat. Ike's Donkey Held Up By Customs Authorities . Washington !U.P.) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said Tuesday night a donkey sent to President Eisenhower by Gener alissimo Franco of Spain is be ing temporarily held up by cus toms authorities in New York. But Dulles assured guests at a dinner for Spanish Foreign Minister Alberto Martin Artajo the donkey is not being held up because it is a "symbol of the Democratic party." Comly Rich s $375 House . . . and a $40,000,000,000 business! On April 11, 1831, Comly Rich borrowed $375 and bought a home. That was the beginning of America's Sayings and Loan Associations a $40,000,000,000 business today. Comly Rich was a young Philadelphia comb maker; he was also a lamplighter and a member of the "watch." He was a man of modest means, but he needed a home. So he turned to the newly-formed Oxford Provident Building Associa tion for financial help. Today, Comly Rich's home still stands at 4276 Orchard Street, Philadelphia a monument to a vast service organization which started modestly and grew great but whose objectives have never changed. More than 6,000 Savings and Loan Associations throughout America still encourage sys tematic savings still make it possible for a man of average means to own his own home. Through trm help of local Savings and Loan Associations such as Jackson County Fed eral, America has become a nation of home owners. Today, over 50 of all American fami lies own their own homes. Here in our own Southern Oregon, Jackson County Fed eral, your home-owned Savings and loan Association, serves hundreds of mod ern Comly Riches. Seldom is a loan so modest as his but the results are the same: the average man can own his own home as easily as he pays rent by doing business with his local Savings and Loan Association. IT J SAVINGS 126 East Main Medford tr LOAN ASSOC s;e new ATION Building With Jackson County Sine 1909 WALKING TO PLANE, President Eisenhower smiles at well-wishers as he departs' from Washington for golfing vacation in Augusta, Ga. With him are Mrs. John S. Doud, Mrs. Eisenhower and Lt. Col. William Draper, Air Force aide. (International) District 49 Board Discusses Merger; Budget Meeting Set Board members of Medford School District 49 will soon meet with directors of West Side and Oak Grove school districts to lay plans for merger of the three districts. Consolidation, which was over whelmingly approved by Oak Grove, West Side and Medford voters Monday, was a major dis cussion topic at the Tuesday night District 49 board meeting. No date has been set for the joint board session. Three Budgets Three separate budgets will be drawn up and voted on by the individual districts. These bud gets will be administered from the Medford school district. A single budget will be estab lished for the consolidated dis trict the following year. Meanwhile, board members set April 24 for the first Medford school . budget committee meet ing. The board will hold a pre liminary budget meeting on April 17. Three vacancies exist on the budget committee and school directors discussed several possi ble candidates. New members will be selected to replace Herb Gray and John Dellenback, whose terms have expired, and William Barker, who is now a school board member and is in eligible to serve on the commit tee. Barker's replacement will serve for one year and the others will serve for three years. Still on the committee are Dr. Lee Mel ish and Hugh Coleman. Renovations Planned The board authorized Superin tendent Leonard Mayfield to study feasibility of renovations to Medford High school and addi tions to Hedrick Junior high, and report his findings at the May 8 board meeting. The changes have been under consideration for more than a year. At Medford High school pro posed changes are addition of classroom space by removing spectator seating facilities in the gymnasium, and construction of two more classrooms, to accomo date expected enrollment in creases. Spectator seating facil ities in the high school gymnas ium are no longer needed since the games are now played at Hedrick Junior high. Proposed changes at Hedrick Junior high include completion of four basement rooms to ac comodate increased enrollment of students in that area. The rooms would be for book repair, special education and public speaking purposes and one reg ular classroom. This phase of the building was not included in the original construction bid. Carpenters Ponder Shorter Work Week San Francisco U.R) Mem bers of the Carpenters union will soon consider asking for a shorter work week in addition to a shorter work day. Frank Chapman, treasurer and director of organization of the union, said carpenters are seeking a seven-hour day in the San Francisco bay area. "The time is coming when we will have to consider asking for a shorter work week, as well," he said. Chapman spoke yesterday be fore the Northwestern Council of the . Lumber and Sawmill workers', a division of the Car penters union. Ready io Diseuss Merger Chapman also said the car penters are ready to discuss merger with the CIO Wood workers, who claim 40,000 mem bers in the Northwest. He said the union is curently negotiating merger with the CIO United Furniture workers. The Northwestern council is made up of lumber and sawmill locals in Montana, Idaho, Wash ington, Oregon, California and Nevada. Chapman said locals in Arizona and New Mexico will soon be invited to join. The council's major function is to ne gotiate contracts for its mem bers. . School directors also author ized Mayfield to propose adjust ments in salaries of ianitors. cafeteria personnel and secre taries to bring them in line with salaries of similar personnel in 17 other school districts. After considerable discussion on deeding of roads leading to Jefferson school, the board au thorized Mayfield to discuss the matter with city and county of ficials. During the meeting the board hired William Ruck as an addi tional faculty member for Med ford High school. He has taught at Phoenix High school for three years and at Crater High school and Central Point Junior high for three years. In other business the board dis cussed selection of an auditor. policy on placing the district's in surance business and summer band plans, and approved bills totalling $42,809.59. It was reported that Miss Irene Hallberg, elementary school su pervisor for the state department of education, will be in Medford April 16-20 to evaluate elemeh tary schools here. A report was also made on the Oregon state janitors' school which will be held in Medford June 14-16. Approximately 200 are expected to attend the ses sions. ' A guest at the meeting was Harold Beall, superintendent of Springfield public schools. Hearing Scheduled In Mistake Shooting Las. Vegas (U.R) The pre liminary hearing for Mrs. Dor othy Pursley, 44, accused of shooting her former stepdaugh ter by mistake in an attempt on a rival's life has been set for April 30. Mrs. Pursley, Phoenix, faces an attempted murder change in the wounding of Paula A. Purs ley, 26, a Berkeley, Calif., Girl Scout field director, March 14 in a hotel room here. Police said Mrs. Pursley ad mitted wounding Miss Pursley by mistake in an attempt to shoot Patricia Pratt, Seattle, the bride of the suspects' former husband, William A. Pursley, 51 The suspect threw open a ho tel room door and opened fire with a revolver at a woman she saw standing inside, police : ported. . Miss Pursley had a kidney re moved after the shooting. Mother Says Death Of Child Accidental Los Angeles (U.R) A for mer mental patient has denied she murdered her four-year-old daughter and insisted the child died in an accident caused by es caping heater fumes. , Mrs. Jean E. Shaw, 35, has been arraigned on a charge of murdering her daughter, Susan. The girl s body was found Sun day m a suitcase on a vacant lot. Mrs. Shaw previously told po lice she first poisoned and then gassed the child. The suspect; however, yesterday declared her innocence. There are 36 letters in the Russian alphabet. Selection Starts For Top Young Agriculturists Pittsburgh (U.R) The na tion's steel capital became the farm capital of the country today. The top young agriculturalist of the nation met here to climax a search for the four outstanding farmers of the United States. selection of the four top farm ers in the 21-35 age group will be made from 48 state winners at an awards banquet Thursday night. ' The 48 winners represent eve ry state in the union with the exception of Delaware. Also rep resented was the territory of Hawaii. Selected by Jaycees The second annual search for the four top farmers began last uecember when more than 600 chapters of the U. S. Junior Chamber of Commerce selected the outstanding farmer of their communities. The 48 finalists were weeded out through local and state eliminations. The finalists were selected on the basis of farming achieve ment, practice of soil conserva tion and service to their commun ities. Winners of the first annual talent search sponsored by the Jaycees and the American Pe- iroieum institute last year in cluded a farmer who developed a lb7-acre swampland into $100,000 top grade farm of 620 acres and a truck farmer who created his farm from raw, l developed alkaline land. Major Forms Covered This year's finalists cover all the major forms of American ag riculture from livestock breed ing to fruit farming. The finalists gave President Eisenhower's farm views a boost when a poll revealed they fa vored flexible price supports in stead of rigid supports. . Two-thirds of the young farm ers also revealed in the poll they believed the proposed soil bank will become a strong factor in reducing agriculture surpluses. Three Men Appear In Circuit Court A pre-sentence investigation was ordered for Lee James Pot ter, 40, route 1, box 276, Central Point, who appeared in circuit court this morning' after previ ously pleading guilty to a dis t r i c t attorney's information charging embezzlement. Potter was released on his own recognizance and that of a Medford citizen. He was ordered to return to court on notifica tion by the : district attorney's office. Archie - George Loomis, 23, Grants Pass, pleaded guilty to a charge of burglary and his case - was continued pending re cepit of federal bureau of in vestigation reports. Otto Holmes, 46, Klamath Falls, pleaded guilty to a charge of obtaining money by false pre tenses. His case was also order ed continued pending receipt of FBI reports. Klamath Man Selected IWA Council President Klamath Falls U.R)- H. E. Geiger, Klamath Falls, has been named president of the Klamath Basin district council of the International Woodworkers of America. 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