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o o SJ-IIDFORD (OBEGOK) MAIL TRIBUKB Sunday, February 17, 1957 dentists, Clerk Will Be Soloists In First CUvvanis Kapers Act To dentists and an office 'Vtr will be soloists during the .?. ct in the Medford Kiwanis (Club's ninth annual Kapers pre diction, "Guys 'N Disguise." next week at the Medford High fachool auditorium, to oioists for the eight scenes which trace the development of Kawanians from infants into stage personalities are Dr. Abner (Cuz) Clark, president of the service club. Dr. Billy Black stone, and Mrs. Margie Herman, who is employed by Medford Veneer and Plywood corpora tion. Fatt Moring Shew The Kapers will be presented flft Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. A fast moving show, livenid with songs, danc q es. gags and skits has been de veloped 0from local talent by Randy LaFerr, professional di rector of Lassen Productions. While a slapstick and mirth ful firsj act depicts "how a ham gets to lie a ham." the second act will have a minstrel show set ting with veteran Kapers per formers as end men and Kiwani- ans and weir wives, many or them participants in past shows, cast in the iaging chorus. High school girls, Medford sec retaries and Kiwanian Dames will appear in dance choruses. The high school chorus appears In the "On With the Show" rou tine of the opening scene. They'll be in the "Teen-Age Romance" v ene in which George Koch will be Romeo, Kris Christenson will play Juliet and Chan Drew will be the drama teacher. The girls will also be in a "Campus Cap ers" number. Chorus Girls Mrs. Herman will be soloist. Bob Reaves" director and the sec retaries form the chorus in a "No Biz Like Show Biz" pres entation. Kiwanian Dames are chorus girls in the final scene of the act, "Broadway Lullaby," and Clark and Blackstone will ling in this number. Jack Walk er, Irv Mirick and Tom Ander son will be touts and other Ki wanian will be Broadway char acters and bums. Members of the service club will form a baby chorus in one scene and other Kiwanians will be dance studio pupils In anoth er portion of the program. Allen will pjay Madame Man nerly and Dr. William Stram will be Pierre. Kiwanians will be Cub Scouts in one scene with Dr. Ernie Duce as den mother. John Pletsch, secretary-manager of Jackson County Savings and Loan association and chair man of the county planning com mittee, will be master of cere monies for the first act. Piano accompanist for the show is Max Morris and a Medford High school pep orchestra will pro vide music for the show. School Dane Girls High school dance chorus girls are Caron Leffler, Judy Wy- more, Myrna Callaway, Rose- may Doolen, Coleen Barr, Shir ley Rutherford, Mary Friend, Karen Paschke, Carol McKeown Susan Hall, Sylvia Morris and Gay Jepson. The secretaries are Gloria Smith, Gwenn Caster, Norma Denault, Lorraine Morse, Kay Jandreau, Kay Thomas and Margie Herman. Kiwanian Dames in a chorus number are Suzanne Singler, Jean Edson. Carol Clark, Jolly Anderson, Wilda Barnett, Norma Foland and Mary Jane Dellen- back. The Kapers represent the ma jor fund raising activity of the Kiwanis club. Proceeds will be used for its youth, welfare and philanthropic projects in the community. Seats can be reserved starting Monday at Barker's Men's store for the Thursday, Friday and Saturday night performances. Only general admission tickets are being sold tor Wednesday evening and only on Wednesday will there be a special rate for youngsters. Curtain time will be 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and 8:15 p.m. the other nights. Second, act of the show will be "put together" today and the first act on Monday. Dress re hearsal is set for Tuesday night. IN KITCHEN SINK; Pacoima, Calif., U.R Firemen Friday were called up on to rescue Mrs. Skip Schoen, 34, from the kitchen sink. Mrs. Schoen stuck both hands into a garbage disposal unit, which was not operating at the time, and was trapped bending over the Irv kitchen sink for two hours. O o o THE. FJrJ "e WHOLE FA o O ( v i 0r Big rvlngs cost so llttl I Ice Cream's the big buy in any size package! No other dessert is so deli cious ... so filled with good things... so easy to serve. So go ahead, live a little! Enjoy ice cream often! e --r SNIDER'S DAIRY -n-;1- tt S ty - rjl I r " SHOW BIZ These shapely choristers will be kicking up their heels at the annual Kiwanis Kapers scheduled for a four day run, Wed nesday through Saturday, at the Medford High school auditorium. In this rehearsal pro fessional director Randy Laferr shows the girls how to get more, action into their number, while Dick Phair, who acts the part of a di rector in the skit, looks on. The girls are, left to right, Margie Herman, Gloria Smith, Kay Thomas, and Kay Jandreau. Others chorus girls in the act are Gwenn Caster, Norma Deneault and Lorraine Morse. f if 1 w 1 , - ' - " c I ' LJlA l&ttlMAififtlliii- fefliatrrnit Amir .infflf runj ,t tfirf A i Building Valuation Exceeds $1 Million Portland Medford was one of six cities in the Pacific north west reporting a building valua tion m January of more than SI million, according to a statis tical report of the Equitable Sav ings and Loan association, Port land. Value of buildine in Medfnrri last month wne million Portland and Seattle building valuations both were S4.8 mil lion. Other northwest cities nam ed were Vancouver, B.C.; Ta coma, Wash.; and Pocatello, Ida. Medford's $1,957,425 Rogue Valley Memorial hnsnital listed as the project of greatest vaiue now under construction in the northwest. Medford's January total this year was 1,237 per cent greater man in iaob when the valuation was 5166,140 and 535 per cent greater than the December, 1956, total of .8349,575, accord ing to the report. Course on Siskiyou Plants Schedule. A five-week course on native plants of the Siskiyous will be held starting March 14, the Jack son County Chamber of Com merce sponsors of the course, have announced. The two-hour lecture course will be held Thursday nights starting at 7:30 p.m. at Medford High school. Enrollment fee is $10, Chamber officials said. The course was arranged after discussing possibilities of the lec tures with Marcel LePiniec. The course will include guest lec turers, and each class will be provided with a mimeographed outline of the lecture prior to the class. First lecture will include basic elements of botany, and the sec ond class will include basic elements of plant photography as well as a lecture and demon, stration on how to collect plant material. Other lectufts will cover Siskiyou Wild Lilies, plants of the Siskiyous, where they grow, and what time of the year they blossom, and a demon stration on how to plant a gar den for native Siskiyou plants. Chamber officials said. RUDELY TREATED Chicago U.R) An Istruder was treated rather rudely Friday night in the Chicago and North western depot by passengers who tied him up and fed him cabbages. The intruder was a stray goat. ' : .'- his passenger, Dave Brown, 16, Central Point, just before he lost control of .the car. Neither Van derpool nor Brown was report ed injured. JIMyS MEATS 83S West McAndrews Road Phone 3-1666. All MEATS ARE INSPECTED ' - TOP QUALITY LOCKER MEATS V4 or Whole Beef Hind Quarter Front Quarter CUT - WRAPPED Family Budget Order !33c lb. 39e lb. .. -, 32e Jb. 24-lb. $10.00 WHOOPS Medford businessman Ron Rice, a feature perfor mer In the Kiwanis Kapers Feb. 20 through 23 at the Medford High school auditorium, typifies the kind of high jinks that will take place when the men put on a "chorus girl" act of their own. Rice appears In several numbers of the variety show including the minstrel act. Benefits from the show will go toward Kiwanis youth, welfare and philanthropic projects. Music will be furnished by the Medford High school band. ROGUE RIVER Birthday Reception Held By MRS. MYRTLE WHIPPLE Rogue River . About 50 friends of Mrs. Lois Morgan met at Fellowship hall Sunday after noon for a reception in observ ance of her birthday anniver sary. A pink dogwood tree was pre sented her and on it was a dis play of dollar bills. Mrs. Morgan and her son, Hurst, are building a new home so the money is for something for the new home and the dogwood tree is for the yard. The card party given by the Laurel Garden club Thursday afternoon was attended by 57 women. Many came from Grants Pass. A luncheon was served at 12 noon. Bridge, canasta and pinochle were played and prizes were given. . In bridge Mrs. Vivian Brinkley won high and Mrs. Una Miller won low prize. In pin ochole Mrs. Marie Hurly won high and Mrs. Lee Demary low. In canasta Mrs. Mildred Golder won high and Mrs. Evelyn Peres won low. All wer Grants Pass ladies except Mrs. Demary. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Linstead and son. of Sutherlin, were Sun day callers at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Golding. Nick Niquette of the Nick's Quality market has been named to the city council to replace Don Stamm who is moving away. Niquette took office Tues day night, Feb. 5. Mrs. Isa Forsyth returned last week from a stay of several weeks with her son, Tom Webb, and family, at San Diego, Calif. Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Smith stop ped entoute to Los Angeles and spent the weekend at the home of Mr. Smith's brother Lloyd and Mrs. Snlith. cue work at the scene of an ac cident. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Zelka, who formerly operated the Zelka rug cleaning service here lost all their cleaning equipment and home in a fire recently at Smith river where they have been since leaving Rogue River. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. White en tertained Mr. and Mrs. Bill Hart Sunday, Feb. 3, in honor of the Harts' 40th wedding anniver sary. The Harts were married at Hermitage, Mo., and came to Rogue River in 1943 from Klam ath Falls. Other guests were Mr. and Mrs. John Breeding, Mrs. Harts' mother, Mrs. Frances Coo per, and Mrs. Jerusha Moore. Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Cummings of Keno were in Rogue River over the weekend and were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Milton. They also called on Mrs. Cummings' mother, Mrs. Mae Shults, at the Parkview Rest Home in Grants Pass. Oregonians Named To Sawmill Posts Seattle (U.PJ Two Oregon men, one from Eugene and one from Portland, were elected to top posts in the Western Coun cil of the AFL-CIO Lumber and Sawmill Workers union Thurs day as the council wound up its annual convention here. John Gamblin of Eugene was named president and Earl Hart ley of Portland elected execu tive secretary-treasurer. In the closing day's session, the council voted in favor of in creased benefits for injured workmen and reaffirmed opposi tion to "right to work" laws among other resolutions adopted. Three Are Injured, Poles Damaged in One-Car Accidents Three people were injured, two power poles were damaged and one mail box was knocked down Friday and Saturday in three one-car accidents in Jack son county, according to state police. Norman Campbell, 80, Gold Hill, and a passenger in his car, Mrs. Beatrice Cleff, Tacoma, Wash., were hospitalized Friday with injuries suffered in an ac cident near Rock Point bridge on Highway 99 about 5:21 p.m. According to state police, Campbell was driving across the bridge when the sun apparently blinded him and his car hit a power pole on the shoulder of the highway. Campbell received' chest In juries and Mrs. Cleff received head cuts. They were taken to Rogue Valley hospital by Med ford Ambulance service. Out of Control Elvis Mitchell, 21, of 872 Iowa St., Ashland, was injured at 6:36 p.m. Friday, when the car he was driving went out of control, hit a mail box and turned over near Crowson rd., south of Ash land on Highway 66, according to police. , Mitchell was taken to Ashland General hospital for treatment of shoulder, chest, and leg In juries. None of his four passen gers were injured. A vehicle operated by James Vanderpool, 20, of 415 Edwards st., Medford, went out of control and struck a power pole north of the Gold Kill underpass on Highway 99 at 1:45 a.m. Sat urday, state police said. Officers quoted Vanderpool as saying he had turned to talk to violation Mr. and Mrs. Carl Magerle have 'purchased the property known as the Elmer Magnuson place at the corner of First and Cedar'streets in Rogue River. Court Records MUNICIPAL COURT Ralph Duncan McCullocn, Ol Dasic ruie, w. Dean H. Allen, excessive noise. S10. Rose Rita Rochelle, failure to stop at stop sign, S5. Raymond Douglas Doran, violation of basic rule, S10. Claude Gabbard, no drlver'i li cense. $5. John Hurshel Bean, failure to atop at red light. $5. Gary A. Winetrout. failure to stop at stop sign, and no operator's license. S1Eart Stanley Robbins, violation of basic rule. S10. - Robert Vernon Chapman, violation of basic rule. S10. Wesley Victor McArthur, failure to stop at stop sign. S3 ... Fred A, lewis, violation of basic rule, S10. . H. M. Bell, failure to stop at red light S5. ' Charles William Tourville, failure to stop at stop sign, S5. Robert Frank Rupert, failure to stop at stop sign, $5. AJvin Chester Snyder, failure to stop at red light $5. Rex Jay Voweil, failure to atop at stop sign. $5. Bert Huston Cooper, violation of basic rule, S10. DISTRICT COURT , Norman Jay Nutter, defective emergency brake, St. Allen Duane McCoy, failure to stop at stop sign. S10. Arthur Edwin Hume, violation of basic rule. S10. Ronald Frederick Greathead. no PUC permit. S15. James Theodore Stewart, drunk on public highway. $30. Cleve Fredrick Kendall, failure to displav PUC permit. $15. Charles Otis Strawn. truck speed ing. S10. CIRCUIT COURT Margaret Breckenndge vs. Ernest Breckenridge, divorce complaint. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS Frank Rav Stew-art. Klamath Falls, and Alice Faye Atkinson, Klamath "aDudler Dan Solomon. 506 South Oregon st., Jacksonville, and Virginia Rae Hiatt, route 2. box 568. Central Point. Harry Hill, Rogue River real tor, is in the Veteran's hospital in Portland. His address is Ward 1A, Room 115. Ray Holmes, who has been in the Sacred Heart hospital for some time, is home and reported, to be in fair condition. Holmes accidently fell in the Rogue River while viewing res- Can I Buy a PONTIAC for s2572 ? ?????? tssaja ill I VI I I - t"f' 1 n. i. ir ,-t -" - t - - f .rffcXtjl ZEINI ADVERTISING DISPLAY by Products Corp.- 1228 Court St. Medford How This Newspaper Helps Advertisers... Ring up Sales You have at your disposal the finest advertising research" system ever devised the cash register.. When you run an advertisement, you listen to the eaJh register the next day. If it rings merrily, you know that your advertising was effective. Sales, in the final analysis, are the main reason why most people advertise. 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