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TElf MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday. April 14, 1957 EAST EVANS CREEK-MEADOWS Easter Theme of Luncheon By MRS. NELLIE BERGMAN East Evans Creek-Meadows TheFriend.'y Neigbhors held a luncheon meeting at the home of Mrs. Pat Ejshop April 10. Tables were decorated with the Easter bunnies and Easter eggs. Mr. O. M, Matteson of Canby, Ore., is a visitor at the home of his son and family, Mr. Paul Matteson. Mr. and Mrs. Jess Terry and family visited at the home of Mr. Ben Dawson of Ashland, Ore., recently. Mr. and Mrs. Vince Hunt and family visited Saturday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Haworth, A the Butte Falls high way. Mr3. Haworth is Mrs. Hunt's sister. Mr. and Mrs. Hill have return ed from California where they were called by the . illness of Hill's mother Sidney Mapleden visited over night at the home of some of his school friends. Mr. and Mrs. Emery Stingley visited Sunday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Mayfield in Sams Valley. A few cases of measles have been reported in the Meadows area recently. Mr. and Mrs. August Singler visited old friends around Jack sonville one day last week. Several farmers are hurrying to get theii' spring crops in as it has been a late and wet season. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Bishop be came the grandparents of anoth er baby girl recently. IDENTIFICATION ' Newton, Iowa (U.R) Attor ney Marion Hammer drives a business car with a sketch of a hammer and the name "Marion" printed on the handle. SOME SCORE Amherst, Mass. (U.R) Am herst and Williams introduced baseball to intercollegiate ath letics at Pittsfield, Mass., in 1859. Amherst won 73-32. Guam is the largest of the Mariana islands. OMVESTjTJlEKnr No other investment yields so much pleasure. No other pleasure is such an investment Steinway the choice of Concert Artists! "The Steinway Piano is Excellent. It gives every satisfaction to the Artist and to the Listener." GIN A BACHAUER Visit our piano department Choose Yours Now! Purucker Piano House 111 North Central Home of Phone 2-5702 STEINWAY CHICKERING FISCHER KNABE WURLITZER HAMMOND ORGAN School Mevs McLOUGHLIN JUNIOR HIGH Band members recorded a pro gram for radio station KMED April 11. Clinton Stiger served as student announcer and intro duced the instrumental numbers played by Richard Champion, Mike Gifford, Sandra Elrod, Lin da Wicker and Julie Faught. The letterman's dance was held April 12 in the Girls' Gym. Spring Fever was the theme for the program and decorations. Blue and pink crepe paper dec orations were used, and refresh ments were served during the evening. The vocal music department will present the operetta "Miss Starlight" May 3. It is a comedy of the roaring '20s. Pat Bigham, Barbara Tyler, Marian Parsons, Rosalind Randies, Lynn Knight, Ken Durkee, Skip Bennett, San dra Semple, Janet .Willarding, Charlene Highland and Pat New bry will play leading roles. The operetta is being directed by Ray Lewis, assisted by Don Darneille, Marvel Yung and Coral Stone. The ninth grade tennis team played Eagle Point April 5. Single matches were won for McLoughlin by John Shaw, Gary Cummings and David Ryn. Eagle Point was victorious in two doubles and one singles. The Mc Loughlin boys played the high school second team April 11. Mc Loughlin won four out of five singles matches and one of the two y doubles matches. Bulldog winners were John Shaw, Gary Cummings; David Ryn, Bud Quinney and Craig Robinson. The girls sextette sang at in stallation ceremonies at the Ma sonic Temple April 6. Members of the group are Charlene High land, Pam White, Barbara Tyler, Pat Bigham, Sarah Hinkle and Rosalinda Ripfl. the Dark." It will be held in the Phoenix High school gym the afternoon of April 16 and the evening of April 17. Richard Dickenson is the new director of the Mask club. The Phoenix High Triple Trio sang "Heavenly Father" at the PTA meeting Friday, April 5, in the high school gym. Members are Charlotte Keene, Alicia Abbott, Pat Kidwell, Wa va Glasscock, Alma Stovall, Nancy Stewart, Mary Daniels, Gayle Larson, and Bonnie Mol-lineaux. Is That So? Surely a bird banked against the blue heaven, slicing air and piling it up under outspread wing, is one of the most sub lime sights on earth. To me, much of the beauty is in the eficiency of the bird's fly ing machine which depends not only upon the complex motion of wing, but also upon the very shape of the bird and upon light ness of the skeleton in which feathers sometimes outweigh air Lane Hoxworth's Poppy Pos ter has been awarded first place in the junipr high division of the American Legion auxiliary's an nual contest. His poster will be entered in the state contest in July. PHOENIX ; HIGH SCHOOL Riley Winchell and Charles Peil, Southern Oregon college students, are practice teaching at Phoenix High ' school. Winchell is teaching journalism and soph omore English, and Peil is teach ing American and world history. Marva Suit, senior at PHS, and her mother, attended a con vention of the Job's Daughters in Portland April 9-13. The con vention included scheduled ac tivities of the organizations and guided tours. They returned home early Sunday morning, April 14. The Mask club of Phoenix High is presenting its annual performance on April 18 and 17. This year's play will be a three-act mystery, "Afraid of am 5y means health for the WHOLE FAMILY! Young in years or young at heart, everyone needs lots of fresh, wholesome milk to feel his best and keep on the go . . . get the 'most out of life! And milk tastes so good . . . plain or flavored! Mother and son agree: there's nothing like a "milk break", for a perk-up! Drink at Least Glasses of Milk a Day! MILK Producers leagt tie California achievement tests were given to PHS juniors April 2 and 3 in order to determine their scholastic standing. The test consisted of math, reading, science, spelling, and vocabulary. These tests were given on a timed basis. The tests will be graded by an IBM machine. The tests also determine the IQ of each student. Investure of new - members into the National Honor Society was held Friday, April 5, in the high, school gym following the regular PTA meeting. Two sen iors and seven juniors received pins and membership cards dur ing the candlelight ceremony. An introductory speech des cribing the purpose and quali fications of the National Honor Society was presented by Reba Hensley, president. Dorothy Bean, Jim James, Betty Med ford and Charlotte Stovall gave speeches on character, scholar ship, leadership, and service, re spectively. The new members are Barbara Blankenship and Larry Glidden, seniors; Nadine Brood, Alice Hendrickson, Elizabeth Praman, Rose Mary Kusel, Larry Smith, Charles Swingle, and Alma Sto vall, juniors. Navy, Army, Air Force and Marine representatives were at Phoenix High April 9 to explain advantages each branch of the service has to offer. . Juniors.have appointed a chair man and committees for the Junior-Senior prom. Juniors select ed Wanda Oetkin as chairman. She and Mrs:' Mildred James, class advisor, selected the rest of the committees which are: Invitations, Marilyn Beeson, Mary Daniels; .-miscellaneous, Glenna Smoth, Dale Haggard, Gary Simmonds, and Jim Stout; decorations, Betty Rupp, Ron Daugherty, Jim Heath, Janice Grove, Roxie Shea, Jim Stout, Carole Anderson; carpenter work, Don Wallace, Larry Kid- well, Lester Schleigh; queen's committee, Peggy Chisum, Car ole Anderson, and Janice Grove. The date of the junior-senior prom has been changed from May 10 to May 31 to permit the boys on the track team to attend. Boys on the team would not have been permitted to at tend the prom because of the track meet scheduled for May 11 which determines the parti cipants who will qualify for the state meet. Six members of the PHS Fu ture Teachers of America chap ter attended the FTA regional chapter held at Southern Ore gon college April 5-6. , The conference program of fered different activities to visi ting delegates. Friday afternoon the students attended various classes on the campus and re ceived a general view of what college is like. Friday evening a banquet was held in the Ash land Elks Temple. Saturday the students attended study groups in which different topics per taining to the local club were discussed, including scholarship, membership and finance. Members of the Phoenix FTA chapter who attended were Jean Floyd, Charlotte Unruh, Mary Ellen Mitchell, Rosemary Kusel, filled bones! In short, a machine in which structure and function are exquisitely and efficiently attuned. For mechanical efficiency con sider a banded plover's flight. After a 2,400 mile flight, non stop, the bird arrived in South America from Nova Scotia in 48 hours. And it had lost only two ounces! The machine which drives the golden plover and all other flight birds, of course, it the en ormous breast muscle. But first, the breast bone to which this muscle is attached. Unlike a hu man's which is small, flat, nar row and confined to the region of the chest, a bird's is long and broad encompassing a good share of the bird and reaching from neck almost to the root of the tail As for the breast-muscle, this powerful engine extends from neck to tail and out to the tip of each wing. In some species, breast muscles outweigh all oth er muscles combined. Wing-Stroke Varies Birds' wing-stroke varies: the sparrow beats his about 13 times a second; the swift, 10; the duck, nine; the pigeon, eight; the screech owl, five; the bluejay, 3 13; the heron and stork, two; and the pelican is slowest with a wingbeat averaging . 1 l16th times a second. For sheer joy of motion poetic motion give me the al batross, a gliding bird who moves mostly on outstretched Lola Good, and Virginia Martin OAK GROVE SCHOOL Thursday, April . 18 has been designated Beginner's Day at Oak Grove school. All children who will enter the first grade at Oak Grove in September, 19 57, and their parents have been invited to come to the school at 1:15 p. m. to become acquainted with the school. - An hour and 15 minutes of class experience, tour of the building, and refreshments has been planned for the afternoon. Parents will be introduced to the school personnel and PTA officers. Bruce Metzer, principal, will give an informal talk on the philosophy and program of the school and conduct ques tion and answer period for parents. By EUGENE BURNS Ringar-Nihiralist wing, riding the air currents for all that's in him. With the biggest wingspread of 12 feet, he is the world's best glider. And, as you might suspect, he roams the breadth of the world ond you'll find him, according to season, where winds are blow ing most lively. (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, the best native observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife, a complete 30-volume set of this world famous refer ence work in a handsome Seal craft binding. Each week new submissions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendlv letters. Ad- dress your letter to: Is That So! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Death of Picture Star's Daughter Blamed on Hunger Hollywood (U.R) Televi sion and film star Larry (Buster) Crabbe Friday blamed the mys terous death of his 20-year-old daughter on the "subconscious condition in her mind that -just wouldn't let her eat." Crabbe, a husky former U.S. Olympic swimming champion, told authorities his daughter, Caren Lynn Crabbe, 20, appar ently starved to death as a re sult of an emotional disturbance which made food distasteful to her. An attending physician was quoted by police as saying the swimmer's daughter, a graduate of Marlborough School for Girls and recently a student at the University of Southern Californ ia, apparently died after a five week fast that left her weighing only 60 pounds. Hadn't Been Well The girl died Wednesday at the home of her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Held, whose only comment was, "Car en hadn't been well for some time." Friends of the girl said they were unable to explain the case. Crabbe and his wife rushed here by plane from New York after hearing of their daughter's strange death. . "We took her out of school about a month ago because' she was not strong enough to at tend," he said. "She was emo tionally disturbed and there just didn't seem to be anything that Health Officials Attend KF Meeting . Several Jackson county offi cials rerpntlv hearH T)r Pnrtia B. Hume, deputy director of the community services, California department of mental hygiene, speak at a meeting of the Klam- atn t-ounty Child Advisory coun cil in Klamath Falls. Attending were several staff members of the Jackson eonntv heatlh department and board members of the local clinic of the Southern Oregon Child Guidance Clinic association. Health officials from Klamath Falls, Josephine, Douglas and Lane counties, and the state board of health Dlan tn hpar Tir Brock Chisholm, former director- general, world health organiza tion of the United Nations, speak at a clinic association meeting at i. o p.m. xnursaay, April 25, in the Hedrick Junior High school cafeteria. Dr. Chisholm will speak on "Growing Up in a New Kind of World." A dinner will pre cede the talk at 6:30 p.m. Reser vations may be made through the local clinic office by tele phoning 3-3174. They will be accepted until Monday, April 22. Infant Found Dead On Back Seat of Auto Bend (U.R) The three-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.' Eugene Oziah was found dead in the back seat of the couple's car east of here early Friday. A physician here said death could have been caused by a virus or by smothering. Speci mens have been sent to a labora tory for study to determine cause of death. Winnipeg has grown to be' Canada's fourth largest city. doctors or psychiatrists could do about it." Q Q 4 m " L Hedrick Junior High Hedrick Junior High school had home room, club and group pictures taken Wednesday, April 10, by the Leon A. Glunz photo studio. , A . . The speech classes of Hedrick sponsored a costume dance for the ninth grade, Friday, April 12. The theme was "I Dreamed." The program consisted of a duet by Joy Olson and Karen Mor lan. Prizes were awarded for the most original and funniest cos tume. A "fun house" provided the nightmare part of the dream. On April 10, John Frohnmay er, student body president, and Nancy "Becken, vice president, accepted the gift of a sycamore tree from L. R. Thomas, presi dent of the Medford Garden club. A delegation of 10 mem bers of the Garden club attended the presentation ceremony. NB& VATEItLess SHAMPOO FOR PETS A new all Weather shampoo for dogs. No fuss ... no muss. You simph rob Dry Bath on your pet and towel off. 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