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TWSLYE MEDFORD (OBECOK) MAIL TRIBUNE Thuriday, July S. 1956 Council Awards Contracts for Street Paving, Sewer Projects The Medford city council Tues-1 day night awarded contracts for paving six Medford streets, and for Verde Hills and Valley View sewer projects. A contract was awarded to the E and W Construction company of Eugene for the Verd Hills ewer project. The bid was $71,750.30, 5.7 per cent above the estimate. The Verde Hills sewer proj ect calls for 15.500 feet of eight inch pipe and service connec tions. Valley Viw Sawer The council awarded a bid to Coast Construction company for the Valley View sewer proj ect. The bid was $1,336.75, 5.2 per cent above the estimate. The project calls for 310 feet of eight-inch pipe from Capitol ave. to Aloha st. A contract was awarded the Rogue River Paving company of Medford for the six paving proj ects. The company was the only bidder. The projects are North Kcene way dr., from Oregon ave. to East Jackson t., $6,866, 4.1 per cent above the estimate: Second st., from Ohio st. to McAndrews rd., $7,799.50, 1.9 per cent below the estimate: from Clark st. to West Jackson St., $11,474, 2.4 per cent below the estimate: and Kenwood ave. from Second st. to Humphrey st., S7.305,, 2.9 per cent below the estimate. Creating Funds The council also adopted ordi nances creating funds for the projects. An ordinance ordering con struction of a sanitary sewer trunk line in southeast Medford along Barnett rd., was passed. The project was referred to the finance committee to determine proper method of assessment. The council also passed an ordinance ordering the paving of Modoc ave. from East Main st. to Woodlawn dr. upon the, recommendation of the street committee. An ordinance was adopted ap proving plans and specifications for paving West 12th st. from Fir st. to the Southern Pacific railroad tracks. H. B. Murphy of the Pinnacle' Packing company was granted permission to blacktop an 8 by 200 foot area along Evergreen st. near 11th st. and to lower the curb at 11th and Fir sts. to provide o-street parking facilities. B3trict Parking The council also passed an ordinance restricting parking on the east side of South Riverside nve. According to City Manager Robert Duff large trucks and trailers parking along the curb on South Riverside ave. at the public utilities office at the Bar nett rd. intersection has been creating a hazard by blocking vision. I Vehicles entering Riverside at this point do not have sufficient sight distance when large ve hicles are parked in this loca tion. Duff said. The state high way commission will furnish signs restricting parking.' The council also passed an ordinance authorizing removal of the parking meter on East Main st. at the southeast corner of East Main and Almond sts. Duff said removal of the meter will permit a better flow of traffic at the intersection. At peak traffic periods it is some times necessary for traffic to wait for almost an entire cycle for the one vehicle to make a left turn to Hawthorne ave., he said. An ordinance that the east and west alley between Main st. and Sixth st. from Grape to Holly sts. be designated as a one-way alley was adopted. A request for the change was received by the council from property owners abutting the alley. A better flow of vehicular traffic and improved pedestrian safety were given as the reasons for the change. The traffic en gineer recommended the request be granted. The council also passed a resolution authorizing the city treasurer to invest $250,000 of city funds in U.S. treasury certi ficates. The funds will not be used by the city for more than six months. Practice 4-H Fair Slated at Phoenix Phoenix The first 4-H prac tice fair to be held this summer will be at Phoenix from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, July 7, at the Community club hall and grounds. Lunch wilt be served by the 4-H club. The 4-H community, or pre fair. is being given for the pur pose of allowing 4-H members to gain experience in showing animals and in demonstrating projects such as cooking and sewing. A style show also is planned. The Phoenix 4-H club was started last fall to meet a need for a centrally located club in the area. There are more than 50 members in the club. Leaders and projects are T. W. Carter, tractor maintenance; Mrs. T. W. Carter, canning: Mrs. Richard Ditsworth, sewing: Mrs. Opal Daujlirty. sewing, Mrs. J. L. Martin, cooking: Allen Harris, beef and swine: John Kesler, dairy: Charles Swingle, sheep: and Mr. and Mrs. Lawson Scott Jr.. forestry and miscellaneous. The Phoenix Grange provides a meeting place for the club, which meets on the second Fri day each month. The Grange also donated two scholarships to the 4-H summer school at Oregon State college in Corvallis last month. Members from other clubs will participate in the judging and showmanship contests during the fair. REMODELING SALE Camera! Viewers Binoculars Taps Recorders ANDER'S PHOTO SHOP 232 E. Main PhoM 2-5646 Mrs. Bernice Hamilton, and granddaughter of Gordon Ja cobs. Mr. and Mrs. Jacoos drove to Chico for the ceremony, and Ihen spent Father's Day at their daughter's. The new Mrr and Mrs. Oceana plan to make their home in Berkeley. Miss Florence Cameron and Mrs. William Nothelfer, both of Salem, were week end guests at the home of- their sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Walsh. Grange HORNBROOK Burtner Returns to States By MRS. H. H. CHAPMAN Hornbrook The return to the i states from Japan of MSgt. and Mrs. Edwin R. Burtner Jr., and their four children, was the oc casion for a family reunion the past two weeks at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Chapman. Mrs. Burtner is the former Madeline Chapman. Coming from Lodi were Mr. and Mrs. W. B. (Bill) Chapman and their two children, and from Medford Mr. and Mrs. Herb Dungey (Marilyn Chapman) and their two children. On June 24 a family picnic was held at Lithia park in Ash land, where they were joined by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kimell and daughter, Joyce, who were enroute to their home in Can yonville after a two weeks' va cation in the Los Angeles area. After the picnic, the family gathered at the Dungey home in Medford where Burtner showed slides of Japan which he had taken while on his three year tour of duty with the Air Force. During the week, a number of former schoolmates and other friends called ' and renewed ac quaintances, as this was the first time in almost 10 years that all the family had been together, and the first time that "Grand father" Chapman had had all eight grandchildren under his roof at one time. A "back-yard" picnic was held Wednesday eve ning and Friday, morning, the Burtner family left for a trip down the California coast en route to Grass Valley where Uicy plan to spend 10 days at the home ot Burtner's parents, alter which they will be at home at Mountain Home, Idaho. The Bill Chapmans left for home Friday evening, and their other son, Oliver Fick, left Sat urday morning for a few days' vacation in Canyonville. TTie only member of the . family absent from the reunion was Frank Fick, who is in the Air Force, and at present stationed at Amarillo Air Force base, Texas. Jimmy Hodge was a recent visitor at the home of his grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. James W. Hodse. Jimmy, who celebrated his 9th birthday while he was here, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Hodge of Dixon, Calif., and made the trip to Hornbrook alone on the Streamliner. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Smith and daughter Dorothy returned re cently from a trip to Rupert, Idaho, where they visited their son and brother, Robert. Before moving to Idaho where he is ranching. Bob was employed in the Copco office in Medford. Guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Breceda are Mrs. Breceda's brother, Don Conley. and his wife and two children of Berkeley, Calif., and their moth er. Mrs. Ellena Conley, of Sac ramento. During their stay here, the Don Conleys spent a few days camping at Crater lake. A wedding of interest here took place June 16 at the First Presbyterian church in Chico, Calif., where Miss Barbara Ham ilton and John Oceana were mar ried. Barbara is the daughter of Hhhway Commission To Open 46 Project Bids Salem (U.R) The State Highway commission will meet in Portland July 12 and 13 to open bids on 46 highway, bridge, illumination, and highway im provement projects, including re pair of last winter's flood dam age. Scheduled for bidding are 12.92 miles of grading, 17.65 miles of stone base, 17 miles of asphaltic concrete paving and 30 miles of oiling, plus construction of a ferry terminal and six com mission buildings. Central Point Grange Central Point Grange will meet Friday. July 6, at 8 p.m. Master Harold Gebhard will pre side over the business meeting, and the lecture hour will have the HEC chairman, Mrs. Mar shall Weidmen in charge. A guest will be the Pomona HEC chairman, Mrs. Olin s V. Poe, who will give the high lights on the State Grange con vention, and will also explain amout the state Grange canning contest. Mrs. Walter Jensen, and Mrs. O. O. Wilson, the Grange musician, will render a piano solo. The display table will be the bird houses made by members of the Juvenile Grange, and will be displayed again at the annual flower show of the Central Point Garden club, which will be com petitive. Serving committe will be the Chester Wendts, Homer Congers and Henry Congers. Three in Narrow Escape at Bandon Bandon, Ore. U.R) A man and two teen-age boys narrowly escaped drowning here yester day evening -before they were pulled from a water surrounded rock as tide waters crept up on their vantage point. ' A Bandon police officer, Rich ard Bain, pulled the trio from the rock, the first time he had found a chance to use his new 12-foot boat. Stranded after spending a day fishing were Victor Perkon, 44; his son Raymond, 13, both of Myrtle Point, and Joseph Bel heimer, 15, of Indianapolis, Ind., a nephew and cousin of the pair. The trio had spent most of the day fishing from the rock. About 7 p.m. they realized they were in danger as the tide started rising. Their calls for help were an swered by Bain.' SUMMER GOAL Newton, la. (U.R) Mrs. Ber tha Griebeling Graham said she is spending every spare minute doing her spring" rlousecleaning and , getting her garden into shape. She said she wants to get all those jobs out of the way so :she can buy a television set andwatch the presidential con ventions this summer. Mrs. Gra ham is 96 years old. Subgroup Meetings On Teacher Agenda At Portland Conclave . Portland (U.R) A host of sub group and committee meetings were on the agenda for today as the National Education Asso ciation conveniton readied itself for tomorrow's final sessions and action on resolutions and the election of national officers. Resolutions ranging from stands on integration to teacher rest periods have been prepared for presentation before the final business session of the largest teacher organization in the na tion tomorrow. One stand by the convention already was concrete. The group strongly favored some form of federal aid to the nation's public schools. To Ask Special Message Delegates yesterday unani mously voted to ask President Eisenhower to go to congress with a special message aimed at securing federal funds for edu cation. The legislative commission of the association drafted a tele gram to the president, calling for his personal intervention. The some 5000 official delegates also heard James L. McCaskill. Washington, D.C., secretary of the legislative commission, tell them to lay down a barrage of telegrams to Washington, urging their congressmen to -support the Kelley bill, tentatively scheduled for action on the house floor, today. McCaskill expressed the hope that the $1,500,000,000 bill which provides federal grants for school building construction, would be passed by this session of Congress, despite an anti- segregation amendment that has been attached to the bill. In other action yesterday, the convention chose Philadelphia as the site for next year's 95th an nual meeting and centennial year of the NEA. William G. Carr, executive secretary of the association, warned that if a bill providing federal aid to education does not get through Congress this year ,the subject will be a major campaign issue in the November elections. John Lester Buford, president of the Association, addressed the group last night in what was the convention s second general as sembly. Buford pointed out that teacher's salaries have increased to a level of respectability and cited many items other than money, in which teachers are re warded for their work. Mrs. Rollin Brown, Los An geles, president of the National Congress of Parents and Teach ers, was another featured speak er at last night's general assembly. Johannesburg, South Africa Zurk Kruger. 83, who has gone to school only one day in his life, enrolled in a typewriting course Wednesday because he wants to write his life story Oregon Woof Growers' Receipts, Above Average Portland (U.R) Oregon wool growers received an average price of 66.7 cents a pound, in cluding the government's incen tive payment, for the 1955 mar keting .period April, 1955 to March, 1956, the USDA crop and livestock reporting service said today. This was 4.7 cents above the national average, the service said. Two Have Close Call As Skiff Overturns Garibaldi, Ore. OJ.R) Two young men set out in a 15-foot skiff from Tillamook bay yester day, bound for Netarts bay, about ten miles distant, on the open ocean. The small boat was caught in the surf and overturned, spilling m T Hilps and Wallace Worden, both of Manhattan Beach, into the sea. ' The accident was witnessed by Mrs. Ed Laurs from the beach, cho nntifipri Ted Comett, opera tor of Chuck's Landing, who made the rescue 10 minutes later. Man Blames Liquor For Kidnaping Woman Shawnee, Okla. (U.R) Floyd (Red) Moutaw, 30, a hulk ing bulldozer operator, said to day the only reason he could give for kidnapping a shapely blonde housewife whose husband is overseas was that he was drunk. Moutaw was held without bond. He is charged with kid napping Mrs. Katherine Hudgins 23, a former girl friend who jilted him; and with felonious assault on her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Duggan. "He threatened to kill me, and he forced me to yield to him sev eral times," Mrs. Hudgins told Sheriff Jim Harrington and Dep uty Hugh Crow when they res cued her in a plum thicket 10 miles southwest of Shawnee early Wednesday. She had been held a captive in the woods for 28 hours. He took her from a bedroom at her parents' Tecumseh home at 3 a.m. Tuesday after beating them unconscious with a lug wrench. The parents, age 58 and 54, remained unconscious today. I Man, Crescent Vanilla I sure makes the cake! ivhat other CRESCENT FLAVORMATES do you need? CP. Juvenile Grange The Central Point Juvenile Grange will meet Friday. July 6, at 8:30 p.m. All birdhouses should be finished and on display at this meeting. The dues pen nant was received .from State Grange this .year and ithis will be the last pennant presented by State Grange. A red ribbon was received by the Juveniles for the Good of the Order Con test for 1955. Bobbie Kuest won a blue ribbon on his poster on agriculture in Jackson county. Judy Frink a fifth place ribbon on her head scarf. The scrap book on History of the Grange received honorable mention. 4-H Club News Ruehetiet The Ruchettes meet at the home of Mrs. Williams, our leader. The meeting was opened by Leona Buffington in absence of our president. The next meeting will be held at the Fossens' at 6 p.m., July 11, 1956. Bring sack lunch. The dessert will be served. Those de siring to go swimming can do so. Reporter, Leona Buffington, FOOT SHIFT Carmi, 111. (U.R) File this ad vice away for use next winter: Don Stallings showed up one late winter day walking care fully over icy walks, wearing his rubber boots reversed right boot on left foot and vice versa. Stallings told puzzled friends someone told him he would be less likely to slip if he wore them that way. Get NESBITT'S at your Favorite GROCER For Picnic Feasting Shop OK Market Fresh Fruits Sajad Fixins Drinks of All Kinds Good Meats in Fine Variety Always at Lowest Prices! WEEK END SPECIALS THUMPIN' RED RIPE Watermelons 18-20 Lbs. 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