GOLD HILL
Many Fires Cause Damage
BY MRS. SAM ELLIOTT ' roizhbors house. Ernen Nickl.
Gold Hill ThrP fir in who livs a littie ovpr a block
th.rrf day ha set a new record wpfI ca tr-p 5mok corning n:'
JACKSONVILLE
Walls Back From Long Trip
By MHS. C. S. HOSKINS ! in Kansas, Missouri, the Ozark
Jacksonville Mr. and Mrs. i mountains. Oaklahoma, and
Eton Val!. fiflT North Fifth st.. Texas. In Dennison. Texas, Mrs.
for Cold Hi'l
of the front r'oor
About 7 pm. Tuesday a grass and went to work with the hf
f;re was ignited from the
residue of a trash fire from
earlier in the day. or possibly
f lyinz sparks, on 'he Cement
plant property. The fire fairly
'exploded.'' but the -olurieers
with the safe forest sprvirp and
their equipment managed to put
It out.
About 1" p.m. a fire eviden
tly started from sparks,
ieni'ed he roof of a s'oraze
room on the M. C Hanrork
place, burning the store room
and contents. The loss ! set at
Ano'her nijhbr ?n in the
alarm, conserjuen'iy here w?s
not r.ny ex'ens;-e damage none
- Mrs T. 7.. Smith returned Sc
veek from a months va-a';r,n in
southern California tprr.T v.'i'h
Mr and Mrs. Harry Smi'h and
family. Mr. and Mrs. Jack .I.hn
ctone of Brownshoro and f.-,rr.:!y
The Harrv Smith family are
former residents rf Gold H:Ii
and are now living in Lake
wood where Smith is employed
in a large market in Be'ifio'.vcr
f)'
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Smith, also Wash
, w n . T 1 f If l .. .1 ,1. H If l. TUIII1' I VL 1111 J'. IK . , . . i . ( , iu ' ' ......
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i i r- t-: r u 1 1 Mm T 7 ?mith hi mother souia. Mont. : utner
Clyde Kell took volunteers and and remained to visit before
pack cans to assist the fighting, j returning to I.os Angles where
Kel! wishes to express bin ap-; he is employed by and electric
preciation for the volunteers ' company.
and their work Many had to Mi Linda Callahan. rj.vish
leave tneir obs to assist. Kell '"r r,f Mr. and Mrs Clarence
also stated that he wished to in-; Callahan, returned this week
form all residents in the Gold from Fresno. Caiir. where v(,r
Hill area that if they live out-; has been vacationing wi'h her
side the city limits they should : paternal grandparents
first call the forest patrol fr,r
aid in fighting the fire and then of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Gail,
call Kell. who will be happy to has returned from her months
-!! I-!.... u,. vnrntinn in Aiiiic .Tali-cn Mev-
...i. ,u ,,,;,:.. f ico where she has heen a Eoiost E rookst one. Minn., they attend-P-'-D.. where they hadn't visited
the city limits. j in the Lawrence Hartmus home
On Sunday at 2 a.m. fire dest-i Mr- and Mry- Gooref' Wa!!cr
loved the home and furniture' upper tiiver rrj., are tne parent
Miss Mildred Gail, daughter
mod a week ago Wednes-: Wall visited her old home where
from a five week. 6.259-' she played as a child with "Ike"
n-.i vacation trip. They began Eisenhower, who lived next
''"etr trip hv Diamond Lake and I door to them. The old Eisen
o Maupin. Ore., where they hower home is now a monument,
visi'ed Wall's oldest sister andi After visiting other towns in
family, Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Alex- Texas and Mexico they went
areVr. They shopped in Top-J through the California desert.
pe-..sh. Wash . where hi bro'h-'ln El Monte, Calif., they visited
er and wife. Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Wall's grandson and fam
Oeorce Wail, and a sister. Mr. '-'y and saw her two great grand
ai d Mrs Edgar Bernard, of children. At Temple City they
Tyre Valh"., joined them on j visited Wall's oldest son. M. D.
tne trio, each couple driving' Wall, and family, and Yosemite
their own car. Along the way j Park. They stopped at the home
he visited relatives in Pasco. ; of their daughter, Mr. and Mrs.
then took Kighwav 10: -lorn Neeiey, at Lake of the
Woods. "
vacationers returning
Montana towns thev 'his week were Mrs. W. L.
visited were Billing?, Miles Sutherlin and two sons Charles
Ci-v. and Bozeman. In Northland Bob. of South Third st.
Dakota they saw the bad lands They drove to Tucson, Ariz.,
and were forced by car trouble ; where they visited three days
,'n !!l degree heat to stop over j with relatives, Mr. and Mrs.
a day in Tappen, .'. D. In Sand-j Frank Broyies. They also visit
rone. Minn., they saw the 1000 led New Mexico, Lousiana, parts
i.-.kes area and experienced a j nf Arkansas and Texas. They
sudden storm with hailstones as, drove 5.500 miles and took 16
large as gnlfballs. which dented rn'ls of film. They left here the
their car roof. They al?0 v isited i 16th of June.
Wall's half brother whom hej Also home this week from a
had'nt seen in 47 years. In vacation trip back to England.
ed a family reunion of distant ; sirce coming here 15 years ago.
i relatives at the home of Mr. ! were Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Ras-
i and Mrs. Ftvsu?. Twentv-piaht : mussen and two children, David
of Mr. and Mrs. Hancock, just
of
girl born July 11 weigh- relatives were present.
ind Beatrice, of Rasmussen's
west, of the citv limits. It started 1 in 5 '4 P""nri:- Hf!r Parents :
from faulty wiring, damaged
ihave named her Trudie Ma;.
They have made plans for a
week at the Lake Tahoe where
the Havilands and the Turks
from the electric storm. Mr. and anp n" ,nur "rnmors. um
Mrs. Hancock were alone at vn"ner':t bpmK 9 -VPar!: "lri
the time of the fire but Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hart
Hancock had not yet retired. 1 nick and daughter, Naomi, or plan to meet.
She stated that she smelled j Covina, Calif., are guests thisj Mrs. Laurence Kell. former
smoke but did not locate it in j week at the home of Mr. and ; resident of Gold Hill but now
time to save the house. The Mrs. Howard Haviland. Mrs. living in Medford. was taken to
fire started in the attic. The! Hartnick is Mrs. Haviland s the veterans hospital in Port
cement plant immediately sent i daughter. Hartnick is superin- land for major suraery. Mrs.
aid, and they had their own ' tendent of the Aero Foundry in ; Kell was a WAAC during the i raaf!-
V..C. i.Hg
The Walls made other stops ' Super Service station in Jack-
j sonville. The Rasmussens were
accompanied on the trip by his
mother. Mrs. Lena Rasmussen.
of 1019 West Main st., in Med
ford. En route the Rasmussens vis
ited Glacier National Park and
Rushmore Memorial in the
Black Hills, and the 'Peace
Gardens', a park between Can
ada and North Dakota, with a
on one side of
8undT, July 23. 195S
MlJDrORD (OHEOO?n MAIL THTB TTWE SBTTIf
EAGLE POINT
Washington Family Visits
AILMENTS TRACED
Central Intelligence Agency
men have traced cause of re
curring illnesses of Ambas
sador to Italy Clare Boothe
Luce (above) to arsenic poi
soning from white -painted
roses on her Embassy bed
room ceiling in Rome. Time
magazine, in next issue, will
say that for 20 months Mrs.
Luce had been breathing
fumes, eating food and
drinking coffee powdered
with the deadly white dust.
By PEARL HENDERSON
Eagle Point Mr. and Mrs.
Lyle Smith and two sons of
Olympia, Wash., have been visit
ing here with his father, Roy
Smith, his sister, Barbara Hick
man and family, and other rel
atives for a few days while on
their way home from a trip to
Salt Lake City. Utah, Yellow
stone park and other points
along the way. They will leave
for home Sunday, July 22.
Eagle Point post office has
been undergoing a general re
modeling operation for the past
week with light colored pan
eling, stamp window, general
delivery window, and many
other up-to-date improvements,
making it one to do justice to
any city, and Postmaster James
Wallace and assistant, Ralph
Keeslcr.
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Langham
and daughter, who came to
i Medford a month ago from
I La Habra, Calif., purchased a
; lot on West Sixth st. here from
j Darling and Blair real estate
; brokers, and are building a five
I room house on it. which he ex
I pects to have ready to move into
in about six weeks.
Mrs. Mary Plasha left Medford
by plane to San Francisco last
Coal was the only fuel to be
used for the generation of elec
tric power in Michigan during
1954.
Sunday evening, where she will
stay with a sister and husband
for awhile. Mrs. Plasha is the
mother of Mrs. Don McGovern,
of Eagle Point, and had been
with her for a couple of months,
and took care of the home until
the McGovern's returned from
month's vacation in Hawaii.
WAKEFIELD DRAPERY
Complete
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Full Length Samples
Terms Free, Easy Parking
1 1 00 Crater Lake Ave. (Not Highway)
water from an electric pump i Burbang. Calif. While here the i war.
but the house was too far gone,; men have been enioying fish-; Mr. and Mrs. Fd
" n-niocKS iosi everyming j ing in me nogue river ana in oi .w.uy, ..,.,,. n-vBum.; nrt ,he United States
jiniiiuiiiK h wrii impn (utp ; iiirtiiv ihkf's. hip wrmiPn ;irn w' s hi uk im iiimh uu i ;
frppp, refrigerator and all other ! visiting many .pl.ires of inters. ilfmf. Mr?. NauEhtrn is th
I ho rnarl inrl n A , -; ., r t .
Naughten ' " ,7 .
juwi, Muiiin is mat
Three Killed in Crash
Near Port Orchard
Port Orchard (U.R) Three
young Marines from the Bremer
ton Marine Barracks were killed
instantly here early Saturday
when their car failed to make a
turn and crashed into a utility
pole.
Killed were Thomas W. Gar
rity, 21. Ocean City, Wash.,
Cyrus Yellowmule, 22, Wyola,
Mont., and Manuel Nevarez, 23,
El Paso, Tex. Garrity was the
driver.
I will never be at war.
furniture
Another fire which may have
started in a box near a wood
stove, damaged the home of
Mrs Mina Raworth, on sixth
st. The house was occupied by
Mrs. Betty Nickle and two small
sons. The N'ickles had gone to a
including the Jacksonville! sister of Kendall Dufer and also
Museum, Lithia Park and House
nf Mystery. Dr. and Mrs. Arnold
Turk of Long Beach, Calif.,
have also been guests at Mrs.
Haviland's home. The Turks
stopped enroute to Portland
Turk is a cancer specialist.
a niecp of Mrs. Carrie Fuhl ana
Lih- MrKay.
The Hugh Bailey? have vis
itors from Yu.iia. Ariz., Bailey's
sister, Mrs. Odell Fletcher, her
husband and son Jimmy. They
plan to spend a week here.
Dr.
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DRESSES -GOATS -SUITS 1
Sale Started Friday By
Monday Each Dress, Suit and
Coat will be Reduced 3 more
dollars and a $1.00 Each day
Thereafter!
50.100.195.295.395
Values $1.00 to $14.95
95.595
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SKIRTS - Now 5395 to $995
Values $5.95 to $19.95
Iffiiw 'ft iliimi iiiTi-ii -1,1, Timet' t irw-i-'uNM- ir iii ian.. , -fti-ir'-4 ,
BLOUSES-Now S95 io 5595
Values $3.95 to $10.95
Mrs. Lena Ka-inusscn remain
ed in Xorth Dakota to visit
friends and will return by train.
The Earnest Rasmussen return
ed home through Yellowstone
Park.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Wall at
tended a picnic held at Casey
State park honoring Mrs. E. D.
Davis on her 84th birthday last
Sunciay. There were 30 guests
present. Mrs. Davis is an old
ime resident nf Jacksonville
now living in Shady Cove.
Mr. and Mrs. Vern Vincent
Kashafer of Shreveport. La.,
were visitors at the home of
his cousins. Mrs. Lloyd Lamb,
on Magnolia ave., last week.
They also visited at the Bud
Keinking home in Meriforrl.
Recent guests at the Ross
Crowley home were Mrs. Frank
Marsdcn of Springfield, sister
r.t TH r- T 1 .1
i .-j. iiu;. iuit?y, a uiouier.
r Morris Jackson of Bend, and
OS Mrs. Crowley's parents. Mr. and
ei Mrs. Ira Jackson of Kelso.
Wash. Mrs. Crowley is steadily
improving from her recent op
eration. Mr. and Mrs. Warren Hazen
returned Wednesday from a few
days fishing at Plush, Ore., in
Warner valley.
All former residents of Penn
sylvania are invited to a pic
nic at TouVelle Park July 29
at 1 p.m. Those attending are
,to bring their own table service
and a covered dish. Coffee will
be furnished.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Peak
and children of the San Fran
cisco area were visitors this
week at the home of Mrs. James
Fretwell and other relatives in
Jacksonville. Mrs. Peak and
Mrs. Fretwell are sisters.
Miss Joan Fretwell has been
4 away this week at Camp Ma-
' cruder, Barview, Ore., attend-
;J3 ing the School of Missions spon-
M sored by the Women Society of
g Christian Service of Methodist
ijS churches. Miss Fretwell was one
'fl of 16 girls chosen from the Med-
rwj ford area.
Bob Finney Is In the Com
munity hospital this week re
covering from surgery.
Lee Hodson i hack this week
I after visiting his son in Los
: rtngeies.
Mr anr! Mrs Martv Perreard
and family are in New Jersey
on a three week vacation trip
.3 visiting Mrs. Perrard's parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Harlin Ftolie
and children, Tommy, Susie and
Kay of Corning, Calif., were
visitors July 4 at the home of
Mrs. Rolie's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Lee Hardy.
Miss Caroline Owens of Spo
kane. Wash., formerly of Jack
sonville, was a one day 'drop
in' visitor at the Lee Hardys
last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Hardy spent
Sunday in Grants Pass visiting
their son and his wife, Mr. and
Mrs. Marion Hardy.
Dr. Robert Van Galder of
Valle.jo Navy base is visiting
at the home of his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. A. C. Van Galder, this
week. Mrs. Robert Van Galder
flew to Montana to visit her
parents.
Rhoda Serry of Medford spent
this week in Jacksonville with
her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
Daniel E. Serry.
Jacksonville Royal Neighbors
lodge gave a baby shower July
17 honoring Mrs. Ted Hewlett
and her month-old daughter.
Holie J. About 20 guests were
present. Refreshments were serv
ed and gifts presented to Mrs.
Hewlett. The committee in
charge included Mrs. Virgil
Moon, Mrs. Fay Dawson, Mrs.
Gordon Kirtland and Mrs. Earn
est Mclntyre.
Mr. and Mrs. William Blagden
and children of New Westmin
ister, B. C, and Henry New
comb of Vancouver, B. C, were
house guests ten days at the
Quintin Jordon home. They are
cousins of Mrs. Jordon. While
here they made several sight
seeing trips wdth the Jordons
including Crescent City, Crater
lake and Diamond lake.
David Jordon is visiting in
Castro Valley near San Fran
cisco at the home of his aunt
and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne
Sills.
Alc Robert C. Misner. sta
tioned at Mitchell Air Force
base, N. Y., is a house guest at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Leon
ard Wicks ten, Jacksonville.
Misener and Roberta Lee Wick
sten were to be married Satur
day evening, July 21. Misener
is the son of Mrs. Thelma Misen
er and is a graduate of Jackson
ville High school in 1952.
The Bay bridge from Oakland
to San Francisco has been a toll
revenue success and as a result
the rates have been reduced sev
eral times.
Shop Closes SAT., JULY 28
Everything Priced To Sell!
Entire Stock Must Be Sold
By Saturday So Hurry!
GIRLS Here's Your Chance
to Complete Your School
Wardrobe at Huge Savings!
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And it's not a gum. It's used In compounding some
prescriptions that your good Doctor writes. Hundreds
of other products of the earth once grown by monks
in their monastery garden are also used in filling
prescriptions. Our Registered Pharmacists know
exactly the right one to use and follow out your
Doctor's order to the letter! When you have a prescrip
ton to be filled send or bring it to us. Our service is
quick, efficient and dependable.
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