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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 26, 1956)
TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRI3UNE Tuesday. June 26. 19JS Movie Projector Returned To Owner; Found on Curb An example of Medford-born honesty was acted out ywterday by Mr. and Mrs. Val J. Fisher. Injured Three Persons Are in Crashes In Area Yeslerday Three persons were injured in accidents in Jackson county yes terday, according to state police. Al Gilhousen, 25, of route 1, box 442, Mcdford, suffered fractured necK wnen he was thrown from the motorcycle he was driving when it was involved in an accident about 9 p.m. yes terday at the intersection of Hichway 99 and Stewart ave., police said. The motorcycle was traveling north on Highway 99 and a car operated by Ellen McFae, 68, of 621 Cherry ft., Medford, was traveling east on Stewart ave.. police said. Gilhousen was thrown over the car and landed about 33 feet from the scene injuring his neck He was taken to Sacred Heart hospital by Medford Ambulance service. Two Eagle Point boys were treated and released for minor cuts and bruises at Community hospital about 7 p.m. yesterday after the motor scooter they were riding went out of control on the Brownsboro rd. near Eagle Point. Kenneth Gordon Elliott, 20. and Roy Regan. 16. Were taken to the hospital by Medford Am bulance. According to police. the boys were going west on the Brownsboro rd. when a dog jumped on one of the boys and knocked the scooter out of con trol. Minor damage resulted from an accident in which two log trucks and a car operated by the Rev. Faul Eric Johnson of Ft. Morgan, Colo., were involved about 3:30 p.m. yesterday on Highway 62, according to state police. The log trucks were operated by Carlos Ellsworth Morrison, 248 Laurel st., Ashland, and William Earl Dailey Jr., route 1, box 592, Talent. The accident happened near highway construction, where traffic was being delayed tem porarily by a flagman. Medford Man Buys Interest in Mine A. C. Van Galdcr of Medford has purchased an interest in a cinnabar mining operation in Pershing county, Nevada, ac cording to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Low of Lovelock, Nev., who an nounced the purchase. The mining property was pur chased for 5300,000, Mr. and Low said, by the Miller Basin Mining company. Officers in the Miller Basin Mining company include Hugh Brown, Virgil Hull and Henry Turk of Grants Pass and Harry Brown of Jordan Valley in addition to Van Galder. Brown and Hull, who re turned from Nevada Saturday, said four men already are doing exploration work and that the claim has a rich deposit of cin nabar. Reports indicated ore from the mine has yielded as much as $2,100 per ton. Fire Department Called To Check Smoke in Club Smoke from the chimney of the Robinson hotel on the corner of South Front and East Main sts. passed through the air con ditioning unit of the Casino Club. 17 South Front St.. and caused persons there to call the Medford fire department yester day afternoon. The fire department dispatch ed two pumpers and the aerial ladder to the scene about 12:27 p.m. Firemen discovered the cause of the smoke. Kelso. Wash. iU.R) Fred C. Snow Jr.. 16, Kelso, drowned Monday when he fell from a rail road trestle near the Pioneer bridge into the Cowlitz river. LET'S GET ACQUAINTED With DEAH and BILL COX RELIABLE CLEANERS NEW LOCATION 1826 W. Main PHONE 2-6670 FREE! China demi-tasse cup J and saucer given , with every $1.00 I Cash-and-Corry I Cleaning order! ............. J 53 Summit st. The Fishers were out walking Sunday night when they saw a motion picture pro jector on the curb of Myers lane about 15 feet from West Main st. They took it home. Yesterday morning. Fisher went back and asked at a house near where he found the projector if anyone had been packing or unpacking near there Sunday evening who could have left a motion picture projector on the curb. The people remembered that someone had been loading a car and trailer a few houses down the street. Fisher walked down to where the car and trailer were still standing parked in front of a house. He went inside and found the Rev. and Mrs. Del Grant, Seattle, visiting friends they had known when they lived in Medford 20 years ago. The Grants make tours of the country showing motion pic tures to various groups. They had lost the projector. They left it after showing pictures Sun day night at the First Baptist church. Rev. Grant had called several radio stations about the loss and Fisher had called the Mail-Tribune, planning to put in a lost-and-found ad. The projector was back with the pictures and all was well Monday afternoon. Kogap Is Low Bidder On Umpqua Timber Kogap Lumber industries of Medford was successful bidder for a tract of 2.500.000 board feet of salvage timber in the Cow creek ranger district of the Umpqua National forest. The timber was sold in Roseburg Fri day. Kogap submitted a bid of $71. 750 for the timber appraised at S55.450. Included in the pur chase were 2.000,000 feet of Douglas fir appraised at $26.10 SUGGESTION HEJZCTED Des Moines, Iowa IU.P.) State officials sympathized with Cap itol custodian Charles Wagner's complaint that 369 windows were left open during a rain storm but didn't think they could go along with his remedy. Wagner wanted to nail all the Capitol building windows shut. per thousand which sold for $34.25. Volume of white fir and other minor species was 500,000 board feet, which sold for the ap praised price of $6.50 per thousand. There were four other bidders. Douglas Shaw Takes Job In Ashland District Ashland Douglas B. Shaw, who has been with the Union creek forest service district, has been added to the Ashland dist rict of the Rogue River Nationl forest as a timber sale officer. The new position is the result of increased timber sale work in the area, Harold Thomas, district ranger, said. Shaw's duties will include cruising and administer ing sales under the direction of Thomas. 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