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FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday. August 14. 1956 Plan for Snake Financing Told Washington (UP) Pacific Northwest Power company un folded its proposal for financing construction of a $217,400,000 hydro-electric project on the Snake river between Oregon and Idaho here yesterday. The plan was told at a Federal Power commission hearing on the com pany's application for a license :to develop the Mountain Sheep and Pleasant Valley Sites. The FPC was told the con struction would be financed by the purchase of 15 per cent equity securities by the four or ganizing companies. The four utility groups making up Pacific Northwest Power are Portland General Electric, Pa cific Power and Light. Washing ton Water Power and Montana Power company. Robinson said Pacific North west would sell approximately $32,000,000 of common stock and that arrangements would be made to borrow up to $60,000, 000 in a revolving bank loan to be reduced from time to time tiirough the sale of bonds. Ike Gives Pep Talk To Hopefuls Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower today told 21 Repub lican candidates for the House that they are fighting for a "very worthwhile cause." ' He gave the Republican hope fuls a campaign pep talk in his office, then posed for separate and group pictures with the can didates. Mrs. Florence P. Dwyer, who is campaigning for election in New Jersey, said Mr. Eisen hower told us it is a very worth-while cause we are fight ing for." Rep. Frederic R. Coudert Jr., R-NY. who is running for re election in New York City, said the President told the group "he firmly believed in the mission of the Republican party, that we represented the best judgment of the majority of the thoughtful people in the United States and that we are doing a public serv ice" by running for office. Sen. Wallace F. Bennett R Utah, who is seeking reelection this year, posed with the Presi dent Monday. Court Records polite cni RTS JnAnn JesMe Waelty, violation of batc rule. $10. Kenneth Blaze Fitzximmoni, failure to Moo at Md neht. S3. Leo Robert Ben nice, violation of batc rule. SIO. Darrell E. Stephenson, excessive oi5e. Sin. Dale Allen McKay, violation of basic rule. sio. Harold Warren Smith, failure to yeiiti right or wv, sin. Vern Edwin Hill, failure to stop at red light. K. Roy Elmer Coghill, violation of basic rule. SI5. Robert LeRoy Glathar, violation of name rule. sin. George Amos Woodcock, violation of oosic rule. 510. Charles Ray Swift, violation of basic rule. $10 John Duane Auston, violation of basic rule. sin. Lloyd Allan Shreeve, violation of Banc rule. sin. Arnold Rodney Dillon, violation of ba.tr rule. SIO Fritz Fredrick Rumble, excessive notse. sio. Helena Mae Coghill, failure to stop at ston sign. S5. Janet Lucille McKee. making a U turn in middle of block. 5. John Russell Harris, failure to stop at red light. S3. Robert Francis McAllister, violation of hnvtc rule. Sif) Howard C. Goldsmith, violation of basic rule. S 10. Donald James Robinson, excessive noixe. Sin Ona M. Niedermeyer, illegal left turn. So. Richard Arthur Steele Jr., violation of basic rule S10 Eugene Arthur Marley, violation of basic rule. Sin. Flovd Rogert Mode, violation of basic rule. sin. Donnie George Summers, excessive noise, sin. - William Achran, violation of basic rule. sio. .Iim Larcy Heath, violation of basic rule. $10. DISTRICT rol'RT Keith Edward Schroder, reckless driving S5.V Natalie Joyce MacDougal. passing on curve. $20 Harold Lee Harris, insufficient bind er chains. SIS. Richard Morris Bonney, overload. S31. Stephen Gundlach Nye. failure to stop at stoD sign. S10. Thomas Ralph" Pitlock Jr., failure to signal for left turn. S15. Claude William Dean Jr.. overheight. Si:.. James L Garrett, overload. S42. Donald Edwin Fossen, overheight. S15 Joseph Frank Fliegel. expired motor vehicle licence, S.- Terrv Dean Aldrich. failure to stop at stoo Mgn. Sio. Joe Bla5s Sullivant. violation of basic rule. Si 2 30- Anthonv Schleis. failure to operate on right side of highway. SIS. Norman Leroy Hoooer. inadequate muttler. S15. Ora Otis Guisinger Jr., no oversize permit. SIO. Beverly Ann Laughridge. no license on motor vehicle. S6. Duane Orlando Jones, overlengtn, $10; no oversize permit, $10. Krvin Chandler KnebeL wverwidth. sio. Leroy Julias Jones, operating motor vehicle while driver s license suspend ed. S30. bail forfeited. Clov Lerov Patterson, overload. SfiB. Dwight Lee Edwards, overlengtn, $10. Elwood Francis Sine, overload. S21 Paul Loren McQuade. violation Of basic rule, S13. Martin Ramsicad Rudy, no operator license. SU- crertiT coirt Leo T Tacktt vs Dorotha J. Tackett. divorce complaint. EDMUND HASS Named Vic President Hass Elected Vice President of Firm Edmund E. Hass. 1615 Crown ave.. has been elected vice presi dent of Pacific Northwest com pany, Richard H. Martin, execu tive vice president in charge of the company's offices in Ore gon, has announced. Hass joined Pacific Northwest in 1951 and has been resident manager of the Medford office since its opening January. 1952. He is a graduate of California State Polytechnic college and a veteran of World War II with overseas service with the third army. He earned three cam paign stars as a leader of an 81 MM squad that saw action in Ardennes. Central Germany, and the Rhineland. Hass has served on the board of directors of the Medford YMCA and the United Medford Crusade. He is a member of the Rotary club, the Elks club and the American legion. The Pacific Northwest com pany has 12 offices in Washing ton and Oregon to handle in vestment securities. Paving of Three City Streets Starts City and county crews began an asphalt paving project this morning to include three streets, Leonard Mayficld. Medford school superintendent, has, an nounced. The project will include pav ing South Holly st. from Stewart ave. to Holmes ave.. all of Holmes ave., and South Oakdale ave. from Stewart ave. to Holmes. Mayfield said the project is a combination city and county op eration, and is being financed by the Medford school district. The paving is being done .with the cooperation of property own ers in that area, he said. Area Residents Plan To Attend GOP Confab At least eight local people will be leaving this week end for San Francisco to attend the 1956, Republican convention at Cow Palate Aug. 20-24 Attending as official .delegate from here will be County Judge Rodney Keating. Mrs. Kathleen Bash and Robert Dickey will go as alternate delegates. Representing the Jackson county Republican women's or ganization will be Mrs. Robert Keeney, president, and Mrs. Wayne Stine. first vice president. Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Hopkins will be among those attending as guests. Truman Helped by Pros To Get Harriman Votes Chicago (U.R) Former Presi dent Harry S. Truman has a team of political pros helping him to woo delegate votes for New York Gov. Averell Harri man for the Democratic presi dential nomination. They include two former Dem ocratic committee chairmen William M. Boyle Jr. and Frank McKinney. Also in the group are California oil man Edwin Pauley and Donald Dawson, for mer administrative assistant to Mr. Truman when he was in the White House. ttVIRRIAGE license application James Calvin Riekrod Jr . San Francisco, and Claire Loraine Thomas. San Francisco. Bovd Oleen Josephson. Plvmouth. Utah, and Shirley Jean Johnson, 120 Washington et.. Medford. Laddie D. Livingston. 163 B st. Ash land and Sharon Lorraine Mitchell, 3284 Pacific hiehway. Medford. Clarence L. Culluo. Etna. Calif., and Coldie M. Zink. Yreka. Calif. Use Tribune Want Ads QUICK and EASYl Latin American Nations Will Recognize Korea' Seoul, Korea (U.R) Seven Latin American countries soon will extend diplomatic recogni tion to the Republic of Korea, it was reported Monday. Ambassador to Washington You Chan Yang, here to attend the inauguration of President Syngman Rhee, said Argentina. Paraquay. Colombia. Panama. Honduras, Guatemala- and Mexi co have decided to recognize the Seoul government as a result of his recent goodwill mission to Latin America. Mullinville, Kan. (U.R) The often wild winds of Kansas can celled their effect in two passes at the home of the B. C. Kalten bachs. A Monday night wind storm bent their TV antenna. The fringe of a tornado two nights later straightened th pole again. Portland Man Seeks Independent Seat Victor N. Miller, Portland, a political unknown, has filed pe titions for nomination as an in dependent candidate for the U.S. senate with the Jackson county clerk's office. Miller, according to upstate press reports, claims to have ob tained nearly 15,000 signatures for nomination from most parts of the state. Some 17,000 valid signatures are needed on his pet itions for nomination. Mrs. Bereth Hopkins, county clerk, said about 50 signatures are. on the petitions he filed here today. Her office will check them for validity, indicating if any signers are not registered voters in this county, and then will send them back to him for filing with the secretary of state before the Aug. 27 deadline. Miller's campaign for the nom ination has attracted little at tention statewide. If successful in obtaining the necessary num ber of signatures for the inde pendent nomination, his name would appear on the Nov. 6 bal lot along with those of Sen. Wayne L. Morse (D) and Doug las McKay (R), the party nominees. $3,203,316 Collected In Six Months in County The Jackson county sheriff's office has turned over tax col lections totaling S3.203.316.82 to Treasurer Karl Janouch in the first six months of 1956, Sheriff Howard Gault reported today. Of the total, 53,002,040.22 rep resented current taxes collected by sheriff's officers. The remain der was back taxes. Other col lections by the sheriff's office in the first six months of the year totaled S2.588.58. Services and miscellaneous fees totaled Sl, 546.49; gun permits $119; pris oners, board S64.90; and trans porting convicts $858.19. Pan-American Highway Link Being Surveyed Mexico City (U.R) Engineers from nine nations are surveying the Darien district of Southern Panama in preparation for clos ing the final gap in the Pan American Highway linking Alaska with Argentina, a Mexi can official said Monday. Romulo O'Farrel, head of the Pan-American Highway Com mission in Mexico, said the 250 mile section of highway through dense Panama jungles would cost some $110 million to build. It is considered one of the most difficult stretches. Use Tribune Want Ads Man, Daughter Hunted In Mountain Area Libby, Mont. (U.R! A large search party combed the rug ged Cabinet mountain primitive area five miles east of here to day for an Oregon man and his young daughter, apparently lost while on a cross-country hike. A spokesman reported this morning that the search had failed to turn up any trace of Paul E. Phillips, 53. of Portland and his 10-year-old daughter, Kay. The couple left Aug. 5 on a cross country hike between Lee and Granite lakes. They were expected to return last Thurs day. Friends said they searched the high lake area Saturday and Sunday without success. Forest service officials were worried over reports of several large snowslides in the area in the past two days. They said Phillips and his daughter may have been trapped or forced to turn back by snow. Power Failure Affects Medford, Other Areas An electric power failure at mid-morning today affected a large portion of Medford and communities north of here as far as Roseburg for intermediate per iods. California Oregon Power com pany officials this morning had not pinpointed the exact cause of the outage, but believed it or iginated in the Roseburg-Toketee Falls area on a transmission line. Power was off for up to 10 minutes in much of Medford. AUTO GLASS TIP San Francisco (U.R) Auto glass can be easily scratched by the grit that gathers on cloth used to clean the car body. The National Automobile Club ad vises that a special chamois be used to clean the glass, rather than the same grit-filled cloth used to clean metal parts. Des Moines, la. IU.R) A boy walked into the office of a Des Moines theater manager and asked him for some pin-ups. Fig uring that one of Gina Lollobri gida would be just the thing, the manager offered the lad one. "Ain't you got some of the mon sters that you had in the picture last week?" he asked, referring to a recent horror movie. New York harbor covers 1,500 square miles, says the National Geographic Society. Sprawled across parts of two states, the port handles about half the na tion's foreign trade in dollar value. Of the 4,000.000 persons gainfully employed in the New York-New Jersey area, one out of every eight makes his living directly or indirectly from port commerce. New York Central 38 Penney J C 894 Penn RR 237s Radio Corporation 43; 8 Richfield Oil 77 Socony Vacuum 57 Southern Co 22' i Southern Pacific SO's Southern California 52' i Standard Indiana 64'i First Fire Bricks Manufactured in 18 12 Buffalo, N.Y. (U.R) The first brickyards in this country were erected by Dutch settlers on Long Island in 1640. But it wasn't until some 170 years later that the first bricks to withstand .high temperatures were produced. Known as fire bricks, they were first manufactured at a plant in New Jersey in 1812. Their development founded a modern industry that supplies refractory furnace linings for steel, metal, glass, cement and numerous other industries, ac cording to researchers of Elec tro Refractories & Abrasives Corp. Dear! tine Sunday. Classified Is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 oreviousday Tex Pac Land Trust Trasamerican Trans West Air 205s Industrials Make Up Monday Losses New York U.R) Industrial Standard NJ shares all but made up Monday's I Sun Mines losses in a quiet session todav. I exas viuii ... Metal' issues, oils, and steels featured. There were strong spots in the chemicals, building shares, amusements, and special issues. Oils with a stake in the Mid dle East ruled strong. Dow-Jones Averages " Dow-Jones final stock aver ages: 30 industrials 517.27, up 2.87; 20 railroads 166.34, off 0.10; 15 utilities 70.78, up 0.29, and 65 stocks 182.23, up 0.68. Sales today were about 1,790, 000 shares compared with 1, 730,000 shares Monday. Today's prices on selected stocks: American Chemical 109i American Can 451 AT&T 183H Anaconda Copper 83 Bethlehem Steel 1644 Caterpillar Corp .. 91'i Chrysler Corp 70'a Continental Can 5358 Crown Zellerbach 63',-s Curtiss Wright 38 Vi Du Pont 214'2 Eastman Kodak . 973i General Electric , 63 3 s General Foods 487s General Motors 47 7 a Georgia Pacific 73 '4 Graham Paige 178 Homestake Mining 345 b Kaiser Frazer unquoted Kennecott Copper 138'-s Lockheed Aircraft 484 M and M Wood unquoted Katy Pfd 64' s Montgomery Ward 4334 57?4 93s 33Ts 8 '-i 383i LOST BRIDEGROOM Saginaw, Mich. U.R) Bron son LaMoure, 44, Jacksonville, Fla., three days married, had to have state police help to rejoin his bride at their honeymoon motel. He had come here to do some shopping, then spent most of the night trying to find the motel, whose name and location he had forgoten. Police found him searching after a phone call to them by the worried bride. Trout have been caught on worms, flies, salmon eggs, spin ning tackle and assorted artific ial lures. A personal invitation to the people .MEDFORD of ( 4 '3. 0 from the innkeeper of the Benson on Broadway in Portland, Oregon On behalf of all of the members of the staff of t)ie new London Grill and Piccadilly Bar in the Hotel Benson, I'm proud to extend a warm invitation to visit our hotel on your next trip to Portland. I know that you will be pleased with the English atmosphere the antique tin rooster, the ancient weather vane, the huge British scales in our completely new London Grill, and 1 am sure that the highlight of your trip will be the dinner that we serve you. Those of your friends who have dined with ns have told you that the London Grill is Portland's finest, and we know that you will agree with them. We have a collection of cartoons from Punch magazine -- as well as an original oil painting by the famous Punch cartoonist, Rowland mett and decorations that would make the London Grill a fascinating place to visit even if it weren't for the wonderful menu. Here- are some of the foods on our menn many of them pre pared right at your table and it makes my mouth water just to write them: Shish Kabob; Butterfly Mew York Cut Steak; Char-broiled Golden Broad-breast Chicken Half; Tresh Pacific ' Lobster: London Style Planked Char-broiled Ground Sirloin y. i Steak; ton -- It? Caesar Salad: Limestone Lettuce Salad and on, and on Coffee Welling- f -' On your next visit to Portland, please drop in and look around. You'll be pleasantly surprised, I know and yon will be very welcome. The BENSdN" on broafway WWW ?v? e.. CrO 0 Q : 00 0O )3 t I lis iiI mmmmmim ' -fa One of the reasons why your out-of-town calls go through so fast and depend ably is that the "Telephone Patrol" time and again beats trouble to the punch. Your local calls to merchants, friends, and the like are protected in the same way. Line crews and testboardmen keep a close check on voiceways all over town. Day or night, every part of your tele phone system is under watchful eyes whose job it is to safeguard your service. This is one reason you can count on help from your phone in so many ways. Meet Mae McCoy ol the "Telephone Patrol". You may sot know them, but men like Mac McCoy have a lot to do with your telephone service. Their job: patrolling cross-country lines to spot potential trouble before it can affect your service. Their work .goes on in winter or summer, bad weather or good . . . and mostly off the beaten path. Mac patrols transcontinental lines crossing the desert in Southern California. You might see some of his buddies patrolling in a railroad handcar in Oregon's timber country. Others ride Sno-Cats in California's High Sierra, or a cable car over the Columbia River, or a helicopter in Nevada. All are on the lookout for anything that might threaten cables or poles. Their aim: To keep your service ready to go whenever you need it. Pacific Telephone. The men and women of Pacific Telephone work to make your telephone more useful very day
