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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1956)
ii.JjjHiiHMiii.il,...,iiiilJ a ii i,i.,ni,,,iUgi mj, jp mi )iu.i, w.mmmw'mVMWiivmmxmnmmmmmii mimtt ;j jji. .11, jnmf EJ, Ti .G ?H1Nl1,ba? soldiers surround slain revolutioniaries and their bullet nddled truck (left) following attack on army garrison headquarters inMatanzas. fcieven persons were killed and a like number injured in the fighting The eovern ment announced that the uprising had been quelled. Musical Comedy Set Af McLoughlin High The vocal music department of McLoughlin Junior High school will present "Belle of the West" at the school at 8 p.m., Friday, May 4. The musical comedy plot in volves a lady barber, played by Rosemary Doolen, who goes to the western town of Roaring Creek. Other lead rolls will be played by Dennis Barr, Shirley Lilly, Don Marshall, George Koch, Judy McGrew, Larry Nolte, Karen Lytle, Mike Mur ray, Sylvia Smith, Caron Leff ler, Nancy Picard, Barbara Reich, Pat Dougherty, Ruby Rowan and Bonnie Broadbeck. Choruses with more than 200 voices will participate. Ray Lewis is directing music, Don Darneille is coaching dra matic parts, and Anne Gentle and Mrs. Marvel Yung are sup ervisoring costumes. Stage set ting and lighting is being plan ned by Steve Bayless. Melody Pierce, a ninth grade student, 'will play a piano accompaniment. Camp White Beds Discussed by Vets Improvement of hospitaliza tion facilities for southern Ore gon and northern California vet erans was discussed at a meet ing of the veterans allied coun cil of Jackson county yesterday in the Veterans of Foreign War's hall. A resolution was passed favor ing installation of surgical and medical facilities at the Camp Whife Veterans Administration Domiciliary to make up the dif ference of equipment which was removed to the VA hospital in Portland. The meeting was the first for the veterans council after sev eral months of inactivity. Officers elected were Merril Beneka, chairman of parades and observance committee; Ray Huson, American Legion post 15, president; Prentice Petty, Veterans of Foreign Wars 1833, vice-president; Ed Smith, VFW 1833,' treasurer; and Pat Gra ham, Disabled American Vet erans 8, secretary. Albany Zirconium Production Slated Washington (U.R) The Atomic Energy Commission has ordered the construction of three new plants to produce zirconium for ihe rapidly increasing de mands of the nation's atomic pro grams. The plants will be built at Parkersburg, W. Va., Pensacola, Fla., and Ashtabula, O. They are expected to turn out some 11 million pounds of high purity zirconium metal in a five-year period. The AEC also announced that the Bureau of Mines plant at Al bany, Ore. the pilot zirconium production plant in this country is being reactivated to pro duce about 300,000 pounds an nually beginning in August. The plant will be operated by the Wah Chang Corporation under a contract which will expire June 30, 1958. Zamboanga in the Philippines perhaps has the greatest area of any city in the world. Its area of 1,159 square miles is almost equal to that of the whole state of Rhode Island. GRANDVIEW-LONE PINE Navy Man Returns To Duty By LILLIAN KNIGHT Grandview - Lone Pine Le land Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Johnson, returned to San Francisco recently for as signment, after spending a 15 day leave from the San Diego training base with his parents and other relatives here. He ex pects to receive ship duty in the near future. Walter Johnsen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Icel Johnson, will leave May 1 for his physical and then to Parks Air Force base in Cali fornia. Mrs. Agnes Keady and her daughter, Mary, of Seal Rock, Ore., arrived last Monday night at the home of her sister-in-law, Mrs. Cecil Hall. She attended the dinner, in honor of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and returned home Wednesday. With her was Mrs. Cleo Shopp of Toledo, Ore., sister of Victor Frost, White City, and Miss Bertha Beck, Cor vallis. Also with her and at tending the dinner were Mrs. Lela MacDougal, Agate Beach, Ore., and Mrs. Minnie McFar land, Depoe Bay, Ore., commit teewomen for the Democratic party. These were house guests of the Victor Frosts while they were here. Mrs. Paul Dalton and daugh ter, Coralee, returned last Thurs day from San Diego and Camp Pendleton. At San Diego they visited with two aunts of Mrs. Dalton and at Camp Pendleton they visited with Calvin, their son and brother. Calvin left Sat urday for overseas duty in Ja pan. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Griffin of Alturas spent last week end at the Burle Griffin home. The Burle Redpath family is building a new two bedroom and basement home at the cor ner of Ridgeway and Modoc. It is to be finished with redwood and plywood paneling. The C. W. Johnson Jr. family is building a new home on Rob erts rd. They hope to be able to get moved into the home by May 10. They have two children. Johnson is a carpenter. Thursday evening was the oc casion for a family dinner at the Robert Stokes home. Honored were Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lamb of Pasadena. He is a nephew of Mrs. Stokes. They were recently married and are visiting the Stokes' and other relatives here. Attending in addition to the Lambs were Mr. and Mrs. Ron ald Lamb, and Mrs. Constance Skinner and her two little boys. Charles and Ronald Lamb are nephews of Mrs. Stokes. On April 14 Mr. and Mrs. Stokes were surprised by a group of employees of the state forest patrol and their wives at their home where they held a farewell party for Stokes, who recently resigned his position with the patrol and is now af filiated with the Medford Realty Co. He had been with the state in the southwestern district for seven years. He was presented a leather brief case and Mrs. Stokes was given a leather purse, each having their names on them engraved in gold. Death Valley, in California is six to 20 miles in width and is about 150 miles in length. It averages about 279 feet below sea level. Wednesday. May 2, 1958 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINE Applications Filed To Protect SS Rights A total of 495 applications to protect the social security bene fit rights of disabled workers have been filed with the Med ford offiee of the social security administration, W. V. Nusbaum, district manager, has announced. The applications were filed under the disability provision of the 1954 amendments to the social security act which per mits "freezing" the account of totally disabled workers under 65 during their periods of dis ability. 1 Applications prior to June, 1957 will be retroactive to the original date of the disability, Nusbaum said. Applications taken after June, 1957 will be retroactive for a period of only one year. Leaflets explaining the dis ability "freeze" are available at the Medford social security of fice at 33 North Riverside ave. All of the outstanding stock oj Northwest Envelope Manufacturing Co. Seattle, Washington has been acquired by Carpenter Paper Company Omaha, Nebraska Negotiations leading to the acquisition were conducted by Pacific Northwest Company Investment Securities SEATTLE SPOKANE PORTLAND TACOMA ABERDEEN BELLINGHAM WENATCHEB YAKIMA EUGENE WALLA WALLA MEDFORD April 27,1936 Cleveland, O. (U.R) The 75 women patients in Ward 3 of Cleveland State (mental) Hos pital are receiving beauty treat ments and advice on appearance from a television beauty expert and his 15 assistants. WORD SAVIJiS Des Moines, la. (U.PJ Note found in a Drake University classroom: "I really wanted to take the course in conservation, but my husband says no. He says I need one in listening." For MOTHER'S DAY . . . 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