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O O c-oc - - O o o Go o o o o - oro o 51st Yeir (3 Medford oo o u erx..h r. . ' i ' - v ; J, Price 10c Tribune United Press f-ull Leased Wlr Third Section -n fe- MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER -5, 1956 8 Pages IWA Director Dies At Home in Portland Portland jr., Tim Sullivan, 47, asrtant director of organ ization fpr the International Woodworkers of America, died (-at his home Tuesday, from a Tiearj) attack, he was Vfonva O lescina from a lung octratiorj. ' C National Broadcasting Company Plans Whoop-de-do To Mark 30th Anniversary By WILLIAM EWALD United Press- Correspondent New York U.E; This is a belated birthday greeting to the Nation$J Broadcasting Company, Central, Eastern Oregon Road Work in Commission Plans o Salejp f, Plans to spend S44,34u,000 in central and east err Oregon x,n iaterstate pri mary antf srcondar' routes have been nnounced by the State l:hway Department. Earlier, Jate Highway En gineer W. C. Williams had siud that S30,7.000-of ,the amount woiiM ginto four and two-lane projcHs along U. S. Highway :i0 from Stanfield Junction to the Idaho border. r) "In additioa to that amount NovembercColder and Drier Than Average o Noveaiber was both colder 0 andr-Hrlrr than normal and the number of days of ticavy fog 9bove 5vera. Medfnrd l weathrj brJCeau records show. ine mnn was 4" I degrees, oc 4 1 belo'lormar!, Preipjtation 'to taled, l icn, which ft 1.7S be lrfri'mal. There were 17 dajs heavy fap, cpmparefl to a normal of ,vcn iys. lighest temrfratifre in No vembewas 59 'gtees on tov.' 23 and 24. and the low .was 22. degrees nn Nov. 3d an'd 5 Thrf vefe 15 dai in, which the mininum iemperaturf was 32 or belo6eit dpys inre than formal. " . . .." '- Despite last month's fog, there were sevrji clea days,coriipared to one clear day normally. Four da$, were partly clfjuji', and 19 were cloudy.There normally is we plan to invest S6.633.000 on the area's primary' roads, S6,- 31(3.000 on secondary roads and"' S572.000 on urban improve-! ments,"' Williams-said.- "Thr two major pitmary high wiry improvement projects in volve grading and paying 22.11 miles of the John Day highway between Fossil and Service creek at an estimated cost of $2,600, OUii and grading and paving sec tions of the Central Oregon high way between Juntura and Vale at a cost.of $2,135,000,': he said. Oilier primary projects: Grading and paving seven miles of the Wallowa Lake high way in the canyon between Mi nam and Rock creek. $675,000; grading and paving 1.6 miles of the Lostine section of the Wallo wa' Lake route, $133,000; and grading and paving another Jour miles of the same high way. be tween RJunehart . and Elgin, the oldest of our networks. This year, NBC is celebrating its 30th anniversary, an occasion it will mark with much whoop-de-do in Miami Beach next week when it trundles three of its TV shows and a fistful of executives and TV columnists to the sump tuous new Americana Hotel. fAU new Florida hotels are sumptuous.) . . - ' . It was back on Nov. 15. 1926, that Gen. David Sarnoff un wrapped for the general public a four-and-orre-half hour radio extravaganza that would . do credit today to an Ed Sullivan, if NBC will pardon the expres sion. Will Rogers Featured That first network radio show, fed to 25 stations, featured Will Rogers, Mary Garden, Dr. Wal ter Damrosch and the New. York Symphony, Weber and Fields, and the bands of Ben Bernie, B. A. Rolfe ajid Vincent Lopez. It was 'beamed. on a hookup that, stretched from Portland, Me., to Washington, and as far west as Kansas City. Today, of course, NBC stretches in -more directions than an old girdle it boasts 118 .radio and 207 TV affiliates. ' Over the years, NBC has rack ed up a number of firsts. In 1929, it introduced the adenoidal tone clusters, of Rude Vallee to rndio along with a touple of fel lows named "Am'os'n Andy!" Fred Allen dropped into NBC in 1930. A couple of years laier, i NBC coaxed Ed Wynn, Jack Ben ny, Jack Pearl and Groucho Marx into its parlor as regulars , or guests. Then, of course, there was Bob Hope (he made his bow as a radio guest in 19.33).-"Fibber Mc-1 Gee and Molly" (1935) and Ed gar Bergen and Charlie McCar thy (1937). NBC's oldest show it "The Na-1 tional Radio Pulpit.'' which was launched on the network in June', 1928. NBC-TV Boss In 1939 NBC gave birth to its TV baby I back in April. 1939, at the New York's World's Fair. A few days later, regular studid program service was kicked off. Fred i Warning and. his Pennsylvanians starred in the studio premiere along with Mitzi Green. NBC can lay claim to televis- i g the first .football game, the i first baseball game, the first box ing match,, the first tennis cham pionship, the first national poli tical convention (1940), the first religious services, the first elec- i tion returns and Pinky Lee. It also has brought us Dinah Shore,- Steve Allen, Sid Caesar, Kraft Theatre (TV's oldest dra-1 ma), "Dragnet," Milton Berle, Jimmy Durante and. on at least one occasion. Elvis Presley. So, happy 30th birthday, NBC. And may .you have -30,000 more. ' 25 cloudy days u). November. A trace ofssnflw -rfas rcorled Urban projects, included in on oneWav. compared toa nor- th prograrn, Williams said, in- mal of tUree djiys with snow in j cjude $160,000 in improvements" November. 1 and paving of Campbell street in Baker, widening and paving "Major single secondary high way project planned for this division . will be seven miles of grading nd paving on the east ern unit of the Baker-Homestead Jiighwa y . between Black ' Bridge and Richland- at a cost of some $875,000;: Williams said. Other Projects Scheduled Other' secondary highway pro jects are scheduled for the Kim herly-Long creek highway, the Ukiah Hilgard highway, the Wasco - Heppner highway, the Idaho-Orcson - Nevada highway way, the Haines-Anthony . high- Sumpter Valley high Little Sheep creek and the Weston-Elgin v,ay, the way, the highway highway. Urban Salem UiSi, Gov. Elmo SiWth has rigsignated Friday, Dec. asear Ifcirbor day and suggcs'Qd that Oregonians mak s."iable observarfcetof this "date of infamy." 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