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o CO VWELYS MEDFORD 30HEG01T) Public Hearings Are Called On Rezoning Southeast Property The Medford city council last night adopted ordinances calling public hearings April 16 on pro posals to rezone seven acres in southeast Medford and an area on Barneburg Hill. Th) council will consider jailer the hearings, rezoning bom class IA (single family) to class IIA (ultiple family; the area occupied by the Rogue Val ley Retirement Home Inc., on Oiarneburg Hill. 'rrlMYIJ'T: YOU NEVEI OUTGROW YOUt NEED Irut FOODS MADE EROM MUX O Drink ,3 glasses milk every day SNIDER'S GOLD AWARD WINNING MILK Let us demonstrate the world's most useful vehicles It's good insurance and good business to own a vehicle that will help you get more work done every day in the year that's a 'Jeep' 4-Theel-Drive vehicle. On the highway, it travels at road speeds in 2-wheel drive a simple shift gives the extra traction of 4-wheel drive for rough travel, on or off the roads. With power take-off, these rugged vehicles operate many kinds of special equipment. There's a 'Jeep e vchic that will fill your specific needs and serve you best. The MAIL TRIBUNE A public hearing was set April 16 for rezoning from class IA (single family to class IIIA (lim ited commercial) five acres south of Barnett rd. and east of Black Oak drive, and two acres south of Barnett rd. and west of Black Oak drive. The planning com mission recommended both re zoning proposals. Resolution Passed A resolution was passed re questing the planning commis sion to expedite action on a pro posed addition to the recom mendation. The proposal calls for a 4-to-l parking ratio in the area. If adopted, the proposal would require setting aside four acres of parking area for each acre of building. The com mission will hold a public hear ing on the proposal March 11. Feenaughty Machinery com pany, Portland, was awarded a contract to furnish a new street sweeper. Cost to the city for the four cubic yard sweeper will be $11,635, according to City Manager Robert Duff. Duff said the amount included a S530 trade-in value from the present sweeper, which he said, would be too expensive for the city to maintain as an auxiliary sweeper. Two other bids were submitted. Tide Water Associated Oil company, Medford, was award ed a contract to supply regular and ethyl gasoline, diesel fuel and kerosene to the city. Seven other companies submitted bids. Land Leased Between four to five acres of agriculture land at the city's old sawage plant on Biddle rd. was leased to G. B. Bowman. 2402 Table Rock rd., Medford. Eowman will pay the city $30 annually as rental. The lease is effective for one year. Bowman will be required to spray and control weeds and star thistles on the tract as best as possible, Duff said. An ordinance was adopted di recting Duff to prepare plans and specifications for paving, installation of curbs, gutters and a sanitary sewer on South Grape st. from Melrose to Stewart aves. Duff said the city was fortun ate in acquiring authority for the improvement because South Grape st. is a street planned for expansion in the arterial street program. Approve Amendment The council approved an amendment to the South Bear Creek Sanitary district contract with Medford to exclude sewage gallonage of the new ' National Guard armory from the district's system. The district said armory sew age combined with the sanitary district's flow might exceed capacity limits. Medford facil ities will relieve the district of armory sewage. An ordinance was adopted as sessing property owners on Boardmen st. for paving from Ohio st. to McAndrews rd. Cost of .the prjoect was $8,707.65, compared to an estimated cost of $8,656. The property will be assessed on a $7.09 per ' front foot basis. The council also adopted an ordinance accepting as complete paving of Modoc ave. from East Main st. to Woodlawn drive. family of 4-Wheel-Drive WILLYS... world's larjsst makers if 4 - Ask us for & demonstration now STEVENS AUTO SALES, INC. 505 North Control - "Your Friendly Willys Dealer" - Phone 3-3655 Wednesday, February 20, 1957 lift At Ball room Hawkshaw Hawkins, . recording star . and star of the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tenn., will appear at the Rogue Valley Ballroom south of Medford for dancing and a show between 9 a.m. and 1 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 21. Also in the show will be Jean Shep ard, Jimmy Newman and Jim my Davis, as well as the Night- hawks, and eight-piece recording Dana. Talent Students Get Quill, Scroll Pins Talent Quill and Scroll, the national honorary Journalism fraternity, last week received nine Talent High school students for membership. Pins were presented at an as sembly, at which Hugh W. Simp son, of Southern Oregon college, was speaker. "Equality of Races" was Simpson's topic. Requirements for membership in the Quill and Scroll are at least junior status in high school, upper-third scholastic standing, and outstanding work in the field of journalism. In addition, the candidate must be recom mended by the adviser and ac cepted by the national secretary. Quill and Scroll president, Ethel Culver, presided at the assembly and presented pins to Priscilla Welch, Hi-Life editor; Dave Spangler, assistant sports editor; Bob Lucier, staff pho tographer, Peggy Walls, business manager; Christine Knudsen, assistant editor; Dixie Jennings, assistant business manager, and Mary Ka Olson, copy editor, all cf the yearbook staff. Newspaper staff members were given their pins by Miss Welch. They were Charmian Tipsword, news writer; Gloria Quackenbush, business manager; and Jim Spangler, sports editor. Nationalist China Bothered by Remarks Taipeh, Formosa (U.R) Statements by Sen. Theodore Green (D-R.I.) and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles shook Nationalist Chinese government today. Government circles were ser iously disturbed over Green's statement that the United States "should recognize Red China sooner or later." They were almost equally dis pleased at part of Dulles' reply to Green that it was "prema ture" to talk of U.S. recognition of Red China. It was Dulles' choice of the word premature that bothered government circles here. The Na tionalists felt Dulles gave the implication that America is now considering recognition of Red China. MORE TOBACCO USED London (U.R) British to bacco consumption increased by 7 million pounds last year de spite cancer warnings from Brit ish medical researchers, customs reports showed today. Britain consumed 239 million pounds of tobacco, on which the govern ment collected taxes amounting to $1,871,900,000. Thi Universal 'Jeep'... does hundr of jobs. "rm - it fe. Tht 'Jtip' Truck . . . America's lowest-priced 4-wheel drire truck. Tht 'Jeep' Utility Wjzon. . dual purpose vehicles Wheel - Drira vehicles Appelman Speaks At Rotary Meeting It is not America's vastness, her resources and technical know-how that has made this country great. Instead, it is be cause this nation was founded for a religious purpose. This view was voiced by Hy man Appelman in a luncheon address Tuesday before the Med ford Rotary club at the Hotel Jackson. Appelman now a Chi cago lawyer, was born a Jew in Russia and left that country at the age of 13. He is currently conducting a series of lectures at the First Baptist church in Medford. The Puritans came to New England, the Dutch to New York, the Quakers to Pennsyl vania, Roman Catholics to Mary land and the Huguenots and Methodists to the southern col onies to seek religious freedom, the speaker reminded Rotarians. America's great educational sys tem, an important factor in the nation's greatness, has its roots in religion. The governments of virtually all nations of the world have changed since the U. S. was founded, yet this nation con tinues to forge forward with basically no change in the in itial form of government. Appelman was introduced by James W. Neely, pastor of the First Baptist church who, in turn, was introduced by Rotary program chairman Ben Schmidt. Valley View Area Residents to Meet Ashland Women of the Val ley View Community club will sponsor a Valley View Rural Fire Protective association meeting at 7 p.m. today in the club house, formerly known as the Valley View school. Speakers will include W. P. Roble and Mervin Gilson, dep uty state fire marshals from Salem, Curtis Nesheim, district warden of the forestry service; Charles Davis. Ashland fire chief Gordon Barker, Medford fire chief; and Sidney Ains worth, attorney and legal advis er for the city of Ashland The meeting will be open to I all residents of the Valley View area who are interested in estab lishment of a rural fire protec t i v e association, committee members said. Tuberculosis Cases Reported Last Week Two cases of tuberculosis were reported in Jackson county for the week ending Feb. 15, ac-1 cording to Dr. A. Erin Merkel, ' nilhlip hpalth nhvsirian One tuberculosis case was In j . Ashland and the other in Med ford. Twenty-six cases of measles were also reported in the county with 14 in Sams Valley, 11 in Medford and one in Ashland. Other communicable diseases re ported during the week were chicken pox, Medford, 16, and Prospect, two; pneumonia, Cen tral Point, one, jand Eagle Point, one; mumps, Medford, one; and influenza, Jacksonville, two. CROCHET CHAMP Nashville, Tenn. U.R) For five consecutive years, Ernest Moon, 67, has won a prize at the state fair here for cro cheting. Moon, of near Murfrees- boro, Tenn., said he's been cro cheting for 41 years, starting the second year he was married 3 vehicle for business and familr,- Examinations Slaied For Civil Service Jobs Examinations are now being held for apprentice at the Puget Sound Naval shipyard, Bremer ton, Wash., according to the civil service commission. Applications are also being accepted for electronic mainten ance technicians, electronic in stallation technician and civil aeronautics administration, the commission has announced. Ad ditional information and appli cations can be obtained from Chester Silliman, at the Med ford post office. Eugene Orr to Attend Washington Meeting Eugene Orr, Medford will rep resent Oregon American Legion members at its annual National Rehabilitation conference Feb. 25 throught March 1 in Wash ington, D. C. Orr is one of five representa tives on the rehabilitation com mittee from 11 western states. About l.OQO state, district and post rehabilitation service of ficers of the American legion plan to attend. Issues to be discussed during the conference include decentral ization of death claims, impact of social security legislation on the veterans' benefit program and administrative difficulties of the new survivors benefit law. Highlight of the National Re habilitation conference will be an address of National Com mander Dan Daniel of Danville, Va., Feb. 28. Robert McCurdy, of Pasadena, Calif., chairman of the legion's National Rehabilita tion commission, will preside at the meetings. Orr will leave Saturday, Feb. 23, for the week-long conference. Store Employees Get Chest X-Rays Here Hubbard Brothers hardware store completed its employee chest x-ray program last week, according to the Jackson County Public Health association, which operates the chest x-ray clinic at Sacred Heart hospital. The company is among several businesses which provide the x-rays for employees each year astFar,,) health programs, Health authorities recommend annual chest x-rays as an ef fective means of discovering early tuberculosis while it is in its easily curable stages, the as sociation stated. They feel that I it is especially important for people who meet the public to have the x-rays. The x-rays also disclose other chest and heart conditions, they said. Probe of Nursing Home Fire Continues warrenton. Mo. (U.R)-State .'police officials resumed ques- l tioning of witnesses and surviv ors today m an effort to find the cause of a nursing home fire that killed 72 persons. Highway patrol authorities in vestigating the Sunday after noon blaze at the Katie Jane Memorial home said the fire started in a linen closet under a stairway in an annex to the main dormitory. But the source of the flames that flashed through the old, three-story brick building with in minutes remained a mystery. Tillamook May Be Blimp Radar Base Oakland, Calif. (U.R) The Navy will build a base within a i year either at Moffett Naval Air Station, Calif., or Tillamook, Ore., for six blimps which will serve as flying radar stations off the coast, it was reported today. Cmdr. Rogers P. Emmons, chief of the lighter than' air un it based at Oakland Naval Sta tion, said the "blimp squadron will supplement picket ships, radar-equipped aircraft and coastal radar stations now used to warn against possible enemy attacks. He said the $6 million airships will be able to stay in the air more than a week at a time. Present aerial radar units con sist of Air Force Constellations stationed at McClellan Air Force Base near Sacramento. HAIR-RAISING JOB HnllvwonH (U.R) A VOuth- ful actor, Jan "Merlin, says his life lately has been a case of hair today and gone tomorrow. Last week he was cast as a cadet in a CBS-TV "West Point" story which required a nearly cue- ball-like haircut. 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