Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, May 06, 1956, Image 15

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Newspaper Page TextLocal and Food Sal Central Point Gar den club will conduct a plant and cooked foods sale Tuesday, May 8, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., in the old library building at Cen tral Point. New en Staff Cora Calame who for the past 2Vi years was a member of the sales staff at Adrienne's store, now no longer In business, has joined the sales staff at Leon's store, Parker Woods, owner, has ; announced Gets Citation City police cited Al Gilhousen, route 1, box 442, Medford, at 2:40 a.m. Fri day for reckless driving after his car hit a cyclone ience at 944 South Central ave. Gilhousen was not Injured. Driver Chad Robert Earl Meyers, 15 Ashland ave., Med ford was cited for reckless dnv- ing and driving with expired op erators license early Friday after the car he was driving hit a Copco pole on Central ave., be tween Edwards st. and Clark st., city police reported. Meyers was not injured, officers said. Auumti Names Donald R. and Lu Ella Gardner have as sumed the business name S. Bar Livestock company and Maurice A. Ritchey, H. J. McCary, Jack D. Canon and Robert D. Hiatt have assumed the name Medford Development company, accord ing to records in the office of the county clerk and recorder. Braka Clinic Dealer service and repairmen of Jackson coun ty are invited to attend a brake clinic sponsored by Gray Rock division, US Asbestos corpora tion. Tuesday. Mav 8. at 7:30 d m., in the Jackson hotel. The clinic is sponsored through Lit- trell Parts company, who also will sponsor similar clinics . at Grants Pass and Brookings. School Hoads io Meet Jack son County School Superin tendents association will meet at 2 p.m. Monday In tha court house. A summary of the yearts work will be discussed and plants for next year's program will be considered. Also on the agenda Is discussion of some legislative measures to be pre sented at the 1957 legislative session. Villi Mall Tribune Den 7, Pack 2, Lincoln school, visited the Mail Tribune - Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Fredia Roth, Den Mother, Mrs. Harold Moore, assistant Den Mother. Cub Scouts were Harold Moore, Rich ard Smith, Kenan Smith, Leslie Roth, Jon Stewart, Denise Hul bert, Larry Long and Cliffors Shellabarger. . . Two Drivers Ciiad City po Friday afternoon cited Lawrence Leonard Green, 1946 Delta Waters rd., for failure to yield the right of way and Rutledge Ross Pins, 1136 West 10th st., Medford, for no operators li cense. The two were cited after ears they were operating col lided at the intersection of Penn sylvania ave., and North Peach st. No one was reported injured. Qualify George K. Bruse, 1811 East Main st., and Robert A. " Elliott, 432 Ardmore ave., representatives of the Connecti cut Mutual Life Insurance com pany, have been notified that they have qualified for the com pany's honor organization, the Dependables, in recognition of their outstanding record in pro duction and quality of life insur ance written during 1955. Both are associated with Merrifield- Mitchell agency, Portland. Mother Returns Mrs. Doro thy Thompson, Phoenix, arrived home this week from Ft. Carson, Colo., where she went April 18 after receiving news that her son, Pvt. Keith Thompson, was injured when a hand grenade exploded near him while, he was on bivouac maneuvers. Private Thompson's wife, who was em ployed at Community hospital, has remained near Ft. Carson and is living at 130 North 7th st., Colorado Springs,- Colo. Pri vate Thompson, though still in critical condition, is reported improving. He suffered internal injuries and fractures. TOfJITE! SHOW STARTS 7:45 p.m. MIGHTY STORY TT SKY-HIGH THRILLS! IDUM THI tANGI FOB KEYING! ! Personal Tricycle Stolen Fay Hogue, 319 Maple st., Medford, reported to city police Friday night the theft of a tricycle from her resi dence. Building Permits Frank Knox, 127 Portland ave., has been issued a permit to erect a $2,250 addition to his resi dence. Roy Norcross, All Mt. Pitt ave., was issued a building permit recently to construct a $1,000 addition to his residence. Food Stolen Herschel Ed ward Morris, 3008 Biddle rd., reported Thursday that frozen food has been stolen .from his locker in the Chrystal Distribu tor and Cold Storage company, 303 North Fir st., Medford police reported Friday. Visit Mother Mr. and Mrs W. A. Hazelrigg, Alameda, Calif., have left after visiting several days with his mother, Mrs. Sue Hazelrigg, 1404 East Main st. He is associated with Southern Pacific company with offices in San Francisco and Is a former Medford resident. News About Servicemen BASIC TRAINING Pvt. George R. Click, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Click, Pros pect, is receiving basic combat training with the 8th - infantry division at Ft. Carson, Colo. Click is training with headquar ters and service company of the division's 12th engineer battal ion. The division is preparing for its move to Europe next fall as part of Operation Gyroscope. Click entered - the Army last March. PROMOTED Eugene D. Wright, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herb Wright, P.O. Box 148, Butte Falls, recently was promoted to boilerman second class in the Navy. He is serving on board the USS Charles E. Brannori, Tacoma, Wash. Wright is a 1955 graduate from Butte Falls High school. He entered the Navy in December, 1953. . HUSBAND VISITS Bernie Mueller, an Army pri vate, is visiting Mrs. Mueller at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Vera Shangle, Kings highway: after completing basic training at Ft. Ord, Calif. He ar rived here April 28 and will leave May' 10 for Camp Gordon, Ga., to attend military police school. Mrs. Mueller will remain here for the present. 'i .: - SON BORN A son was born April 18 to Mr. and Mrs. Jack W. Litton at the Navy hospital at Kodiak, Alaska. Litton is a Navy commis saryman first class, and is serv ing at the Kodiak Navy station. Mrs. Litton is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Brewster, Gold Hill. The child, named Robert Lance, is the couple's second child. Their home address is 1170 Circle drive, Kodiak. Births PFLUKE To Mr. and Mrs. Chester P., 146 South Ivy st., May 3, 1956, a girl, weight 13A pounds, at Sacred Heart hos pital. JENNINGS To Mr. and Mrs. Glenn, 2397 Jacksonville high way, May 3, 1956, a boy, weight 8 pounds, at Sacred Heart hos pital. HULL To Mr. and Mrs. Bernard, 1501 North Riverside ave., May 4, 1956, a boy, weight 6V2 pounds, at Sacred Heart hos pital. McFADDEN To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas, 225 Black Oak dr., May 4, 1956, a girl, weight 794 pounds at Sacred Heart hospital. WOOD To Mr. and Mrs. Jack, 2392 Corona ave., May 4, 1956, a girl, weight 6Vi pounds, at Sacred Heart hospital. ' TURMAN To Mr. and Mrsi Bill, 906 West 11th st., May 4, 1956, a girl, weight 7?4 pounds, at Sacred Heart hospital. fSSaa WarnkrColor Dorothy MALONE Pitjjt CASTLE a WARNRuot ncrutf j 1 ,i4eXre& WEARING HANDCUFFS, Stanley A. Gusciora (right), 36, arrives in Boston from Pennsylvania prison for arraign ment in connection with " upcoming $1,219,000 Brinks robbery trial.. Joseph .O'Keefe (left), government's star witness, conferred with Gusciora to determine what role he would play in the triaL (International Soundphote) 'New Look' Highway Los Angeles (U.R) Cali fornia's highway direction signs have a new look which is ex pected to spread to other parts of the country. The new look aims at elimin ating that awful mistake of go ing the wrong way because you thought the arrow on the high way sign pointed that way. Psychologists working with the Los Angeles Institute of Transportation and Traffic En gineering learned that motor ists often take the wrong road because they have a hard time Women Pastors Win Equal Rights in Church Minnneapolis, Minn. (U.R) Women pastors won equal clergy rights with men at the general conference of the Meth odist church Friday by a vote of 389-279 after a heated three- hour debate. The women clergymen were accorded full voting rights in the church and the right to appointment following ordina tion by delegates to the quad rennial conference. Administration Asked To Follow Up Mission Evansville, Ind. (U.R) Sen. Estes Kefauver called on the administration Friday night to "follow up" the Hammarskjold mission to the Middle East with economic aid to the Arab na tions and arms to Israel. Kefauver commented on the peace mission to the Middle East by U. N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold before boarding a plane at Jacksonville, Fla., Friday night to fly to Indiana where he will continue his cam paign for the Democratic presi dential nomination. Air Passenger Service Starts To Moscow Buenos Aires (U.R) Direct air passenger service has been established between Buenos Aires and Moscow for the first time, it was announced Friday. The local Scandinavian Air ways System office said the ser vice was made possible through an agreement reached between the SAS and Russia's state air line. MARITIME MISS Barbara Brennan, 20, holds trophy she was awarded along with the title "Miss Golden Gate of 1956" in San Francisco. She'll reign over the annua Golden Gate Trade and Maritime Festival in San Francisco May 21-27. She's a neat 34-23-33. fetor heoHk. rest, conrfo end heptqW amidst pteimmt urrourdinas. Cotnpwwy Ftmnhed Sleeping ond Housekeeping Cat. wh oil modem tec'"1''5. HOT MINERAL mat MOO BATHS Fee Mieewtiiei, Arttiriti. NMf. Sciatica, Nenroosness . K. . .invmr w A DAD R1T1K Are excelteiit for Ecu mo. Sines, Skin Eroa- I Meea, Hie oad lev Bteod Pressare , "Your Heolth U Our Business' SeiUmie Mineral Serins, Kt. 1, Ashlaad, Oreesa ee Flione Lang Distance. Br. Herman wexter, uirecro- WplSilllSIl Signs Find Favor separating directions while in a moving vehicle. To eliminate the misdirection, the institute suggested adding a heavy black line to the sign. The line separates place names in one direction from place names in the opposite direction. The heavy line prevents skip ping from one group to the oth er. Also . eliminated are all four place name signs. The psycholo gists tested 80 persons and learned that signs with three place names caused significant ly fewer errors than those with four. Last Customer Quits; Rail Line Folds Up Huntington, Pa. (U.R) The East Broadtop Railroad and Coal Co,, which has operated a nar row guage line in the Alleghe ny Mountains for 100 years, has asked permission to go out of business because it has lost its last customer. In the petition to the state Public Utiltiy Commission, the company said it lost $66,000 in the first 10 months of 1955 by operating its lone locomotive over the 38 miles of track still in use. Founded in 1856, the road served coal mines in Bedford, Huntington and Fulton counties and did a flourishing business. Hard times fell upon the com pany when the mines were work ed out. " Qfr1- nrraair'ir'i it J wftw i i 1 1 wm - w m m m m ARRIVING WITH DAUGHTER, Mrs. Wildon Barron, at Foundry Methodist Church, Mrs. Alben Barkley, widow of Kentucky's senator, attends services at Washington's Foundry Methodist Church. (International Soundpheto) Everyday TAKE-OUT SPECIAL! E.s" HAMBURGERS 5 WITH ALL THE TRIMMINGS PARK PLACE CAFE 302 W. MAIN ACROSS FROM THE OLD CITY PARK T DANC Medford Musicians Annual Benefit Danes Monday Night, May 7 MUSICIANS CLUB 415 E. Main, Medford 2 bands will play for your dancing pleasure: ROGUE VALLEY BOYS - 7 Piece Orchestra Led by Dick Spain, will start playing at 9 p.m. JOHN LUSK - 6 Piece Orchestra Led by John Lusk, will start playing at 11 p.m. Dancing 9 to 1 a.m. Men $1.00 Ladies and Children -Free Teenage Boys Get Lost in Coal Mine Tarentum, Pa. U.R Two teenaged boys who wandered for nearly 24 hours in a vast coal mine pledged Saturday they will "never go in a mine or play hookey again." Joseph Pitksvich, 18, and Paul Crawford, 15, were rescued Fri day after they entered the- Alle gheny Coal and Coke Co. mine and became separated from four other hookey-playing compan ions from Har - Brack High school. The search for the two boys be gan Thursday night after they failed to return to the mine en trance where their four compan ions waited. Parents and neigh bors kept an all-night vigil while rescuers made a foot-by-foot search of 10 miles of winding tunnels. . Delinquent Taxpayer Takes Care in Payment Wichita, Kan. i(U.R) One of Uncle Sam's delinquent taxpay ers proved to be careful as well as contrite. With an unsigned letter re ceived at the U. S. District In ternal Revenue office were ten $100 bills. Postmarked Kansas City, Mo., the envelope " con tained the old, worn ' currency and a hand-lettered note, which said: "I want to get right with you and God. Please save serial numbers I have." Gus Koehler, the office direc tor, said the sender undoubtedly wanted to make sure the pay ment could be proved should the need ever arise. . Didn't Make Vaccine London (U.R) The Russians finally admitted Saturday that the United States beat them to the draw on something an ef fective polio vaccine. Radion . Moscow broadcast an interview with Prof. Mikhail Chumakov, head of the .Soviet Institute for the Study of Polio. "We are convinced that it is an effective vaccine and we, too, are going to produee it here in the Soviet Union," he said. Navy Seaplanes Being Towed to Hawaii Port Honolulu U.R) Two Navy seaplanes which ditched on the open sea when they ran low on fuel were being towed into port at Hilo, Hawaii, Saturday. The planes, each carrying crew of nine, ditched 40 and 120 miles east of Hilo, respectively, yesterday after a losing battle with strong headwinds near the end of a 14-hour flight from San Diego to Barber's Point Naval Air Station here. . FORKS' OF THE YEAR! Bring Yeur Family and Enjoy An Evening of Variety! n. iiVi0--i 11111 Sunday. May 1. 1951 1 f ItJ GOES TO HER HEAD Mrs. Marie Gamble of Louisville.' gets into the Kentucky erby spirit by wearing this hat to the races at Churchill Downs. Surrounding horse , on her hat, is a gold horse- v shoe with seven roses. Permits Issued for Two Nuclear Plants Washington (U.R) Private industry will begin actual con struction this year on its first two large-scale nuclear plants to provide electricity for commer cial use. Consolidated Edison Co., New York, and Commonwealth Edi son Co., Chicago, made its plans public after receiving permits Friday from the Atomic Energy Commission. Consolidated Edison said it ex pects to break ground this fall for a $55 million atomic power plant in Westchester county.' Its atomic reactor should begin gen erating electricity in 1960. H. R. Searing, chairman of the board and chief executive of the company, said "With the permit in hand, we will place orders for the turbine and elec trical equipment, pieces of ap paratus which will take a con siderable time to build." ' Hearings Start on Judicial Nominatoin Washington (U.R) A Senate Judiciary subcommittee opened long-stalled hearings Saturday on the judicial nomination of Solicitor General Simon E. So- beloff, winner of the Supreme Court school integration deci sion. President Eisenhower sent the nomination of the Baltimore lawyer to the U. S. Circuit Court for the second time Jan. 12. The nomination remained in a Ju diciary Committee pigeonhole until the hearing yesterday morning. Us Mail Tribune Want Adf Tonight Only Famous Recording Star Our apologin t Bur mny customers whs ware disappointed' whan Chuck Millar was unabla to appaar last Sunday! , Ha will positively be hart) TONIGHT ONLY . . . so coma on out to the . . . Y-CIU! 2 SHOWS .First Show About 10:30 PHONE 2-4800 COMING: "Sons of tha Golden Watt" mm Now GREAT in Hit CONTINUOUS TODAY FROM 12:45 P.M. MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TMBTJNE flTTlZH Scripps-Howard Buys Cincinnati Paper Cincinnati (U.R) Roger H. Ferger, publisher of the Cincin nati Enquirer, said Friday that Scripps-Howard - now owns a controlling interest in the news paper. Scripps-Howard now, in addi tion to complete ownership of the Post, owns a controlling in terest in the . Enquirer but the two papers will operate inde pendently -and competitively as they operated prior to Scripps Howard's acquisition of the ma jor stock interest in the Cincin nati Enquirer, Inc." he added. Ferger said he had met in New York with Roy W. Howard, chairman; Jack Howard, presi dent; ' Mark Ferree, executive vice president of the Scripps Howard newspapers; and Charl es E. Scripps, chairman of the E. W. . Scripps Co. He said their meeting was "entirely satisfac tory and most encouraging." 'Hazing' of Recruits Banned at Basic Camp Camp Pendleton, Calif. U.FD "Hazing'.' of recruits was ban ned Saturday at this Marine training camp on orders of Maj. Gen. Joseph McQueen, base commander. The order was issued after McQueen's return Friday from a Washington conference with Gen. . Randolph Pate, Marine Corps commandant, on the drowning of six trainees at Par ris Island, S. C. McQueen also said 34 addit ional officers and 116 noncoms had been assigned to the recruit depot to provide "closer inspec tion." Use Tribune Want Ads 5 JO to tiOO P. M. CRAB LOUIE $JJ50 BREAKFAST AND LUNCH 7 tm. to 2 p-m. mfmm : HOTEL-- jr 1 uii i W . Chuck Miller Bring tha entire family out for a delicious dinner! Din ing room open at 5 p.m. daily U. S. 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