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o o o TEH MEDTORD (OREGOH) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuetday. February 12. 1957 O STREAKING OFF ON INITIAL FLIGHT, this is new F-101B ultrasonic two-seater Lockheed Starfighter as it leaves Burbank, Cam. ruinvay. It is designed to serve either as dual cockpit tactical fighter or combat proficiency trainer. (International SoundpkoLo) Ordinance Proposed to Permit Tree Planting on Public Land o o o o o Preliminary draft of a pro posed ordinance0to permit tree planting in parkin? strips and other" public property was mone items resented to the rTedford planning commission at its meeting last night. O The proposed ordinance is nc9 n ast he "street tree ordin ance." It would repeal an ex isting ordinance, which prohib its planting of trees in parking Cftrips or on other public prop CD erty- The proposed ordinance stip ulates that trees planted in these places must conform to a city wide plan for beautification. which is now bring prepared. It also provides that permission from e city administration would have to be obtained be foij certain species of trees were planted. This is because some trees become detrimental to cjwcrs, sidewalks, streets and (Bjmilar public installations, it f( explained. ther acquirements Public safety, clearance for utility lines and clearance for 6.v are also noted as require ments in the proposed ordin ance. Nailing signs on trees or otherwise abusing them would prohibited. Violation of the ordinance would be punishable by 50 fine or jail imprison jpeS not to exceed 20 days. Th ordinance draft was read f!tr Mrs. 8dith Eden, former Hutnnirujt commissioner, gave a progress report on a proposed city-wide street tree planning program. She has been, working on the program with landscape architects. The program is being plan ned on a section-by-section bas is, she said. She presented a map to the commission showing rec ommendations for street tree planting in the Verde Hills-Eastwood areas. Country Club Man or and an area in extreme south west Medford bounded by Peach st.. Dakota St., and Stewart ave. Proposed Program The proposed program would call for a planting of uniform species of trees in certain areas, as specified by the overall plan No other type of tree could be planted on public property in the areas, although property owners would have the right to plant any other species of trees on their private property. In areas where planting of any tree on parking strips or other public property would be detrimental, the property owner would be urged, but not requir ed, to plant on his own property a species of tree conforming to the city street tree plan. The program, which has been adopted in many cities in the county, would begin first in young subdivisions, Mrs. Eden said. The street tree plan could not begin unless the present ord inance, prohibiting planting of Family In Car All Night f ROSPECT o CO o o t :EtIL iPRUILL Prospect Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Bclta and children Billy, Sue and Judy returned home early JrJondaJ morning Feb. 4 after spending the night in their car which had run into acsnow bank near Annt Springs in Crater C-lke National park Sunday eve O ning. Tli family was returning 'So their home after spending the day in Kipmath Falls. The lights failed on their car and Betts was tunable to see the road. No one auffered any ill effects except they had difficulty keeping Mr. and Mrs. Don Speilman (Jnd daughters Carmileta and Lenjta, have been spending sev eraT days at the home of Mrs. Spellman's parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. Rea Bonds, of Antone, Ore. LeRoy Stuck spent the semes ter week end at home. He was taken back to Nampa. Ida., by his brothers Verlyn and Vern. Mrs. Raymond Artmire re ceived word that "her cousin. George Rae, fiad passed away at q his home in Jasper. Minn. Mrs. Artmire visited with her cousin last summer. Mrs. Joe Shoon from Prineville, Ore., was a week end guest at the Artmire home. home after spending several week in California. Visiting with friends and rela tives in Prospect and Cascade Gorge over. the week end were Mr. and Mrs. Caral Moore, of Lakeview, Ore. The Upper Rogue Grange Home Economics club will hold a meeting Feb. 14 at 10 a.m. Business matters will be dis cussed, a lunch will be served at noon, and there will be a valen tine exchange. David Neville and Bob Conger were returning home from Med ford Thursday with a load of lumber. The lumber shifted and was scattered all over the high way near the Herb Carlton home. The truck received con siderable damage. The Prospect Cougars won over Rogue River basketball team 77 to 22 last week. Only one of eight men regis tered for the draft during World War I actually became a mem ber of the nation's various mili tary forces. The Prospect High school drama club presented a three act plajj. "If Mother Only Knew," Thursday, Feb. 7, at the school S.vm. Mrs. M. Dey has returned to O her home after spending several days visiting with friends and relatives in southern California. It has been reported that Jeff Richey. who owns and operates the Wildwood store, just west of Prospect, has been very ill the past month. Fire Breaks Out in Hold of Coastal Ship Portland (U.R). Fire broke out in the hold of the Coast wise Lines - freighter Auburn at Portland's Swan Island dry dock last night but was exting uished after doing minor dam age. A welding torch was blamed for the fire in the vicinity of the fuel tanks. Dense smoke poured out of the hatches and six pieces of fire equipment re sponded to the alarm. Mr. and Mrs. James Carlson of Long Lake, Minn., are the parents of a baby son. Mrs. Carl son is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Chandler of Tros-pect. Mrs. Eugene Burrell has re turned home from a Medford hospital with her new baby daughter. Clarence and Mary Lue Nev ille traveled to Mt. Shasta over the week end to do some skiing. A group of young people of the Church of the Nazarene spent Saturday at Union creek. O some of them doinc some skiing, others using sleds and tobog gans. The children were accom panied by the Rev. and Mrs. Gerald Gardener. Saturday evening at the Com munity hall, the Lions club spon sored an old-timers roller skat ing party, with proceeds going to the March of Dimes. Dewey Hill has returned to his DAILY WEATHER REPORT FORECASTS Medford and vicinity: Variable hiEh cloudiness throueh Wednesdav. Low tonight 28-30. High Wednesday near 60 Western Orceon: Generally fair throueh Wednesday with patches of late night and morning fog. Little chance in temperature. Low tonight 28-38 High Wednesday so-.-jS. Northern California: Cloudy through Wednesday with scattered sprinkles. Little change in temperature. LOf.lt. DATA TEMPERATURE: Mean yesterday 41: below normal I. Record high this date 66 in lf!3t. Record low this date 18 in 1948. PRECIPITATION: 24 hours to mid night 0 in. Midnight to 10 a.m. 0 in. Total this month .20 in.. .63 . in. below normal. Total since Sept. 1 1166 in.. .04 in below normal. HUMIDITY: Lowest yesterday 44 'V, h i ghest this a m. P3'.. High 4T30 34 City Tester- a.m. Hr. day Low Tree. Brookings 54 41 Crater Lake 40 23 Grants Pass S7 26 Klamath Falls 46 23 MEDFORD S.I 25 Portland 52 27 Seattle 46 36 .22 Spokane 37 29 Yakima - 49 21 Eureka 50 37 Red Bluff 6-5 38 Sacramento 63 46 San Francsico 61 49 Los Angeles 78 65 Phoenix 82 57 Denver 64 36 Chicago 33 31 .10 Miami 83 60 New York 34 19 Washington. D C 43 25 trees on public property, is re pealed by the city council and the proposed new ordinance ad opted. Other Business In other business last night, the commission agreed to hold a public hearing at its next reg ular meeting concerning a re quest for change of zone from single family, (class zone from single family (class 1A) to limited commercial (class IIIA) of property at each cor ner of the Ellendale drive and Barnett rd. intersection in south east Medford. The commission previously received a petition signed by property owners in the area. The commission recommended to the city council a change of zone from single family (class IA) to multiple family (class II) for Rogue Valley manor prop erty. Final item of business at the meeting was reading of a letter fromi Ralph E. fierce, 9 South Groveland ave., requesting the commission's approval to dedi cate to the city of a 60-foot wide street. The street wnuld start at the intersection of Black Oak drive and Juanipero st., proceeding west with contour at the base of Barneburg hill and continuing west to the border of his prop erty. At that point it would meet Betty Lane st., a proposed street, in Park Terrace unit No. 1 subdivision. The commission took no action on the letter. Easier to Cut, Sew and Fit ;i7f; 9306 2-8 Printed attern This Printed Pattern makes a darling three - piece set for daughter! Favorite smock has roomy pockets to hold her toys easy sewing, opens flat for easy ironing too. Make the shoits and pedal pushers to match, or contrast! Printed Pattern 9306: Chil dren's Sizes 2, 4, 6, 8. Size 6 smock and shorts take 2 yards 35-inch. Printed directions on each pattern part. Easier, faster, ac curate. ' Send Thirty-five cents in coins for this pattern add 5 cents for each pattern for lst-class mail ing. Send to Marian Martin, care of Medford Mail Tribune, Pat tern Dept., 232 West 18th St., New York 11. N.Y. Print plain ly NAME. ADDRESS with SIZE and STYLE NUMBER. START SAVING NOW f MARKET I 1102 Norrk Riverside I OPEN EVERY NIGHT TIL MIDNIGHT Leslie I. Kellow Dies Monday Night Leslie I. Kellow. 49, route 1, box 178 (Beall lane), ' Central Point, died at his home Monday night. Mr. Kellow has been a well known real estate dealer in southern Oregon for the past several years and operated his business from his home. He was previously a carpenter and be came a member of the carpent er's union local 2067 in 1942. He has been an active member of the Medford Realty board in recent years.. He was born in the Grants Pass area on June 19, 1908. and has spent most of his life in southern Oregon. Survivors in clude his wife. Fern. Conger-Morris Funeral home is in charge of arrangements. I JWH'.""J1" in wmji ihiiiih.hu ii mi m. w mm 1 1- -ii H - , . p Credit Association Stockholders to Meet The annual stockholders meet ing of the Southern Oregon Pro duction Credit association will be held at the Gold Hill Grange starting at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow. The meeting will be the third this week. Other meetings were held at Coquille Monday, and at Roseburg today. This is the first fully member owned meetings of the associa tion. Registration starts at 10:30 a.m., with dinner scheduled at 11:30 a.m. The meeting will close at 2:30 p.m. Births DAWSON To Mr. and Mrs. Samuel, post office box 416, Jacksonville, Feb. 11, 195t. a boy, 934 pounds, at Sacred Heart hospital. DAVIS To Mr. and Mrs. Douglas, 1337 Spring st., Med ford, Feb. 11, 1957. a boy, 834 pounds, at Sacred Heart hospital. RAGSDALE To Mr. and Mrs. Jack, 850 Palm st., Med ford. Feb. 12, 1957, a boy, 8 pounds, at Sacred Heart hospital. WILLIAMS To Mr. and Mrs. Vernon, 319 S. Newtown St., Feb. 12, J957, a girl, 8 pounds, at Rogue Valley hospital. LESLIE KELLOW Dies at. Home Monday Morse's Bill Would Repay Depoe Bay Man Washington (U.R) Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) said to day he is sponsoring a bill be fore the Senate judiciary com mittee to reimburse Ray Wilkin son nf Depoe Bay, Ore., for ex penses' in constructing a sea wall. Morse saiJ Wilkinson's retain ing wall "was made necessary as the result of certain work performed by the corps of en gineers. United States Army, in connection with the Depoe Bay project." ? The bill seeks compensation of $2980. . An average adult person dis' charges through the pores of the skin from 25 to 75 ounces. of perspiration during a normal period of 24 hours. Babies born in the United States in 1951 had a life expec tancy of 67.6 years, based on f igures then. Attack by Moslem Rebels Fought Off Algiers (U.R) Civilians and soldiers fought off a rebel attack earlv today on the vil lage of Ferme Blanche. Reports said the Moslem reb- French Jet Fighter Tops Air Speed Mark Paris (U.R) -p A French jet fighter has unofficially topped the world air speed record held by Great Britain it was report ed today. A reliable source said the twin-engine Miracle 03 has reached a speed of 1.143 miles on hour in level flight. Britain's Fairey Delta FD2 set the official record at 1,140 miles an hour last year. The United States still holds the unofficial flight record of 1.218 by the Grumann XF2. bels, armed with machine tuna and Molotov cocktails, charged out of the desert and launched their first assault before mid night. Villagers and French Infantry fired back from rooftops and windows before organizing a counterattack. At least two civ ilians were reported killed and serveral wounded. In Portland, it's the DANMOORE HOTEL A Home Away from Home. All rooms remodeled and refurnished . . Free Garage. Free T.V.'s in most room. DeSot0...piices now start a Just above the lowest fee. the sharpest looking car on the road can be parked in your driveway for just a few dollars more than you'd expect to pay for a low-priced car. Make it a point to drive and price a De Soto before you decide. Truly, it's the most exciting car in the world today 1 THREE GREAT LINES TO CHOOSE FROM: FIRESWEEP FIREDOME 245 hp 270 hp Bin-vatas Md in m-pr i r $ for 'ST priced iust pcmkw " above tba lowest. exciting new beauty. FIREFLITE 295 hp Wigh-pnwrpH Itmirr for '.V thw lst word in deign and power. YOUR DESOTO DEALER PRESENTS OROUCHO MARX IN "YOU BET YOUR LIFT" ON RADIO AND TELEVISION i i NBC NETWORKS. DICK KNIGHT CO. 33 South Riverside, Medford, Ore. ' i ..; Imagine phoning four people cross country at once! That's just what you can do with a Long Distance Conference Call. The Conference Operator can connect your group together so all of you can talk back and forth as if you were in the same room. Some of you may even be talking Irom as far away as Singapore or London. The secret is a device known as VOLCAS. It lloriirig together to serve you better was developed by telephone people to over come the problem of voice loss when people in several cities are connected on the same line. Now more people can take part in a conversation than before. The Conference Call, with VOLCAS, has made your telephone even more useful. In this and other ways phone people work to improve your service year in and year out The men and women of Pacific Telephone in Medford four busmeii office: 131 N. Bartlett St. Tel. 2-6101 HOW TO MAKE YOUR TELEPHONE EVEN MORE USEFUL " r iTTtf i.4 L3M mmmmm'mamm t Keep out-of-town numbers handy in a telephone number, booklet. For when you give the operator your party' number, we con connect you twice oi tost. Ajk our ouii- J ft
