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ROGUE RIVER Laurel Garden Club Meets Br MYRTLE WHIPPLE Rogue River The Laurel Garden club met Wednesday, Oct. 10, at the country home of Mrs. Henry Bonney, with Mrs. Marge Guffin and Mrs. Claud Willoughby xohostesses. A des sert luncheon was served at 1 p.m. to the 14 members present and one guest, Mrs. C. J. Woodard. This meeting was in the form of a birthday party, honoring Mrs. Jerusha Moore, Mrs. Gert rude Friden, Mrs. Sophia Thie son and Myrtle Whipple. They received cards and handker chiefs. The meeting conducted by Mrs. Claude Willoughby, presi dent, opened with a prayer by chaplain, Mrs. Jim Whipple,. Roll call and minutes of the last meeting were read, and a treas urer's report was given. Several members of the club attended the flower arrange ment meeitng at Phoenix, Oct. 5, and Mrs. Esther Shock gave a demonstration of flower ar rangements she had made. After the meeting members played cards during social hour. Next meeting of the club is set for Nov. 6 at the home of Mrs. Bill White. The EAT hobby club met Oct. 3 at 'Little Joes" on Highway 99, north, with Mrs. Ralpn Franlz as hostess. After lunch there was an exchange of hobby gifts. Dr. Edward Chance and wife and daughter, Barbara, returned Wednesday from a week end in Portland. Mr. and Mrs. James Whipple were dinner guests Sunday, Oct. 7. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Breeding. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Miller, and son, Russell, were Klamath Falls visitors Friday. They went to have Russell's arm attended to, which was broken in a car acci dent July 3. Russell will have to return to the hospital for sur gery on his arm soon. Tom Wilson is expecting the arrival, Wednesday, of his niece, Mrs. Ambre Baden, of Port Townsend, Wash., who will make her home in Rogue River. Mr. and Mrs. Garfield Laws recently returned from a months trip during which they j visited friends and relatives at Eugene, Portland, Roseburg, Sa lem and Taft. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Nourse and Rollin Steihl left Friday for a trip that will take them through Colo., Utah and other states, where they will visit relatives. I Mr. and Mrs. Bob Badley re turned Sunday from a weekend spent in Salem, where they visit ed Bob's mother, Mrs. Nora Hawkins. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Towse have announced the engagement of their daughter, Myrna Ann, to Larry McBee, son of Mr. and .Mrs. George Hocking, of Savage Creek. The wedding will take place early next year. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Smith of Cantwell, Alaska, have returned to Rogue River to 'spend the winter. They were former resi dents here. A free dinner will be served Thursday, Oct. 18 at 7 p.m. at the Fellowship hall in Rogue River. The public is invited. The dinner marks the end of the first year of a fund raising cam paign for a new community church. The architect will be present to show blueprints and to bring the people up to date on the progress of the campaign. There will be no solicitation. The Rogue River Lions club will hold a pancake breakfast Sunday, Oct. 28, from 8 a.m. until noon at Live Oak Grange hall, in Rogue River. The break fast will be for the benefit of the Boy Scout troop. The school of instruction for election boards in the Rogue River area will be held Thurs day, Oct. 18 at 1:30 p.m. in the Rogue River school gym. All MARX ZH HATFIELD FOR SECRETARY OF STATE I THE EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD May 16, 1956 $aki ' Senator HatfitU "Will be best Secretary of State any State ever had . . ." "We know him well enough to know that if he is elected he'll do everything he can to be the best Secretary of State anv state ever had." members of the election boards are asked to be present. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Smith were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. James Whipple on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Denver Jones are building a cement block storeroom on their property on Cedar st. Grant Cummings returned last week to his job at Eureka, Calif., where he is painting. Grant had the misfortune of having his car wrecked while returning home last weekend. Furniture Store' Burglarized Here The Robert Kennedy Furni ture store, 1603 North Riverside ave., Medford, was burglarized of $79 worth of articles between 7 p.m. Saturday and 10:30 a.m. Monday, according to Medford police. The theft wa discovered by Robert C. Kennedy, owner of the store. Articles reported miss ing included one Winchester 30 30 carbine rifle, valued at $75 and one box of 30-30 Remington ammunition, valued at $4, police said. Entrance was made to build ing by using a small wrecking bar to pry the lock off a door at the rear of the building, offi cers reported. The bar was found by the open door by po lice, they said. Jet Pilot Kept Waiting By Slow-Moving Taxcab Birmingham, Ala. (U.R) The American Red Cross here received an urgent call from Knoxville, Tenn., for a quanti ty of rare blood. "Put the blood in a cab and get it to the airport and we'll send a National Guard jet to pick it up," the Tennessee caller said. The cabbie spent 45 minutes weaving through traffic to the a'rport. When he got there, the jet pilot who had come 200 miles asked. 'What kept you?" LAUGHED HER CROWN OFF Ready hands reach out for the crown of Miss World of 1956, Petra Schurmann, 23 (Miss Germany) after she won the title in contest in London. Petra was chosen from a field of 23 internation al beauties. Miss USA (Betty Lane of Orangeburg, S. C.) finished second. Miss Israel (Rina Weiss) was third. Action on Langley's Motion Postponed Portland 0J.R) It appear ed today that any action taken in respect to a motion filed by Multnomah County District At torney William M. Langley seek ing to have Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton held in con tempt of court would be delay ed, at least for a few days. Ten Multnomah county judges conferred on the problems posed by Langley's motion for more than an hour with Presiding -Circuit Judge Frank J. Loner- gan yesterday. Judge Lonergan said after the meeting that any decision "on a very important problem" to all concerned would not be forthcoming for a few days. Langley's motion charged that campaign material in the voter's pamphlet in behalf of Thornton was prejudicial to Langley's cases. The district attorney is un der indictment by the grand jury. Wednesday, October 17. 195S MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Rail-Served Post Offices Said Now Only 31 Per Cent San Francisco (U.R) Only 31 per cent of the nation's com munity post offices are served by railroads today and the situa tion is "becoming worse" in stead of better, according to a high postal official. Assistant Postmaster General E. George Siedle told the con vention of the National Postal Transport Association here that, as a result, the Post Office De partment must depend more and more on other forms of trans portation. Service Being Discontinued Practically every railroad in the country is discontinuing un profitable passenger trains as fast as they can get permission to do so from the federal and state regulatory bodies, Siedle said. "Where we at one time had practically every community with post offices served by rail, today only 31 per cent continue to have passenger rail service," he said. Siedle said the railroads would like to place the blame (for curtailed service) on the Post Office Department "be cause it helps them when they Presley's 'Hound Dog' Keeps Woman in Elevator Memphis, Tenn. (U.R) An elderly woman declined to leave the self-service elevator in a downtown building here until rock 'n roll Elvis Presley fin ished singing "Hound Dog." 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