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TWO MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thuriday, April 25. 1957 ILLINOIS VALLEY Lodge Elects Officers Br HELEN BOTTEL Cave Junction New presi dent of the Ker'oy Eagles Aerie is Dudley Andre, who was elect ed at the Thursday night meet ing. Milt Pierson was named vice president; Hank Spletstoser, sec retary; Larry Johnston, treasur er, and Louis Aller, chaplain. One-year trustees are Hal Moore Sr., Roy Mills and Everett Starks. Vern Yeargan is outgoing president. Joint installation of Eagles and auxiliary officers is tenta tively set for the first Saturday in June, when Grants Pass Eagles will conduct the ceremony. farm near Kerby, are for the most part enriching the Illinois river. During last month's heavy rains many were washed from their temporary pond and into streams which carried them to freedom. Home last Tuesday from a four-month vacation which took them 15,000 miles and into 15 states are Mr. and Mrs. Howard Davis, who say they had a near ly perfect trip with no accidents or car trouble. A new grandson, John Robert Howell, arrived while the Da vises were visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Howell, at Davenport, Iowa. Mrs. Walt Colpitts, Illinois Valley Day Camp director, and Mrs. Vern Yeargan, her assist ant, met Thursday in Grants Pass, with Lois Baker, field di rector for Girl Scouts in this area, to discuss plans for the annual summer day camp here. Dates for the local day camp at Grayback park were set for June 19, 20, 21, 24, 25 and 26. A Day Camp staff meeting is planned for Tuesday, April 23, from 10 to 2 at St. Matthias Episcopal church. Repair work on the Kerby ditch which supplies irrigation water to a considerable portion of the valley, is being done by Bud Randolph, Charles Trefe then, Gary Wylie, William Klein, George Keller, Roy Mills and Clem Robinson. Breaks at the Frank Knight property near the Q Bar X ranch and behind the slaughter house in Cave Junction have been mended. Two bulldozers are being used on the work. In charge of the annual can cer fund drive for the Illinois Valley area is Blanche Lackey, who announces the inauguration of "neighborhood envelopes'' here. The large envelopes, each con taining a number of smaller ones, will travel from house to house, with each contributor placing money in a small enve lope before passing it on. The drive got under way here last week. A going away party honoring U.S. Forest Service District Ranger Herbert Rudolph, of Powers, was given Thursday night at the Izaak Walton league clubhouse in Grants Pass. . Rudolph has been transferred to a position on the timber man agement staff in the Umpqua district at Roseburg. H. C. Obye, Siskiyou Forest Supervisor and his wife,, men bers of his office staff and other employees of the Siskiyou Na tional Forest district and their wives presented Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph with several gifts, in cluding an electric frying pan. Easter parties, egg and treas ure hunts were held in each of O'Brien school's three rooms last Friday. Bringing colored eggs, candy, cookies and other treats were Mrs. Bob Brecken ridge, Mrs. Emma Lemm, Mrs. Eugene Felton, and Mrs. George Alcorn. In the first fly-up ceremonies ever conducted by the three-year-old O'Brien Brownie troop No. 206, five little girls received their wings Thursday night at a patluck dinner meeting given by the O'Brien Parent Teacher As sociation, sponsors of the troop At the same time, the five fly-ups, together with a sixth new member, Virginia Stephens, received their Girl Scout pins in an investiture service which placed them in the newly formed Intermediate troop at O'Brien. uraauating Brownies are Leah Stephens, Kathleen and Bobette Breckenridge, Jeannie Rogers and Linda Kay Wade. Barbecued steaks were the fare at the celebration of the Easter season birthdays of Frank Gant and Harry Floyd at a potluck dinner Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Floyd in Holland. Mrs. Floyd carried out the Easter theme in her table decorations. Guests were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gant, Mr. and Mrs. How ard Bearss, Howard's father. Carl Bearss of Grants Pass, and Mr. and Mrs. Sam Bunch. Bids Opened for Grading, Paving Work Salem Two Medford firms are apparent low bidders for about three miles of grading and -paving work on Table Rock rd. and the Crater Lake highway Jacksonville rd., about two miles northeast of Central Point, ac cording to the Oregon state highway commission. Low bidders for the project were the Hughes and Dodd com pany and the Tru-Mix Equip ment company, both of Medford. They submitted a joint bid of $133,693.70 Commission acceptance of the bid is pending approval by the Jackson county court. The county also must deposit S30.300 with state as its share of pro ject's cost, according to the com mission. Other bidders were the J. C. Compton company, McMinnville, $1.57,502.70; Central Paving company. Independence, $137, 653.70; M. C. Lininger and Sons company, Medford, $138,041.70; the Central Heating company, Eugene, $138,759.20; and F. L. Somers. Medford, S171.583.70. Another Easter birthday was observed Sunday, when Mrs. Oliver Boyd was honored at a dinner for nearly 20 friends and relatives at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. Strom men at Harbor, Ore. Attending from the valley were Mr. and Mrs. Oliver. Boyd and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Boyd. Jiggs Morris is busy these days excavating a combination trout and irrigation pond on his property, the old John Valen ranch, near Takilma. Mr. and Mrs. Morris purchased the farm lands and buildings from Por tola Tree Farms, after Valen sold the big timber acreage to the Grants Pass firm several years ago. The thousand small trout, which Jiggs bought recently from the William Klein trout Another birthday party last week end, was in honor of nine-year-old Mildred Michels of O'Brien, whose mother .invited school friends at her home for an afternoon of games, gift open ing, cake, ice cream cones and punch. Guests were Patsy and Judy Mikkelsen, Linda Campbell, Shirley Campbell, Glenda Mc Donald, Kathy Bottel, Roberta Cross, Loveta Cooke, Rosemary and Georgie Michels, and "Doc Cooke. Sending a gift but un able to attend was Jeannie Rog ers. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Haslock have sold their Cave Junction home to Sgt. and Mrs. Walter Filman of the U. S. Marine Corps. They left Wednesday for month-long vacation at the home of Mrs.. Haslock's sister and Central Poini Pig Litter in Registry James L. Frink, Central Point Berkshire hog producer, has qualified his Berkshire litters of spring pigs in the Production Registry program. This program is designed to bring out the ability of a sow or gilt to farrow a good sized litter and raise them to a litter weight of 128 pounds for a litter from a gilt and 144 pounds for a sow when they reach the age of 35 days. At least eight pigs must be farrowed and . at least this many raised. The program also Is a prere quisite to the lean-meat certifi cation program designed to im prove the quality of pork. In order for a litter to be certified lean-meat, it must have qualified in Production Registry, two pies from the litter must rbe slaughtered and carcass data taken. The pigs must wei?h 200 pounds at 180 days of age; be at least 23.5 inches in length; not have more than 1.7 inches of backfat; and have at least 3.5 square inches of loin-eye (lean meat) in the pork chop. Beauticians Plan to Attend Convention Several Medford area beautic ians plan to attend the annual convention of the Oregon Beau ticians association at Gearhart May 5 to 7, according to OBA of ficials. Mildred Anderson of Cook's Beauty clinic, M e d f ord, is a member of the fash ion com mittee of the OBA. The convention will be fea tured by a parade of Oregon contest. Winner of the contest will represent Oregon at the Na tional Hairdressers and Cosmet ologists associations' convention in Pittsburgh, Penn. during July. all MORE SCIENTISTS Chicago U.R) The number of scientists and engineers in the united States had grown from 575,000 in 1947 to about 950,000 at the start of 1957. family in Detroit, Mich. bgt. Filman, who is makine the Marines his career, is the son of Mrs. Ed Yarbroueh of Cave Junction. His wife's par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Al Laborde, also live in the valley. The Fil- man's plan to live here after the sergeant retires in 15 years. May 9, 1800 was the birthday of abolitionist John Brown; Tor- rington. Conn., the place. Trout are found in ' seven states of the U.S. but College Has Russian Literature Collection Beloit Wis. (U.R) Beloit college has a representative col lection .of Russian literature by alumnus James Winkelman who gathered more than 300 books and periodicals from Russian bookstores in Austria, France and. Germany and by mail from Moscow. The group includes most of the volumes awarded the Stalin prize for literature between 1940 and 1951. There also is a set of the works of Tolstoy and several sets of Soviet dramatic works. "It's one of the most exciting acquisitions to come to Beloit in i recent years," said H. Vail Deale, director of libraries. BACK HOME Rockland, Me. U.R) John Holmes was driving along when he smelled smoke and discovered that the rear seat of his auto had been ignited by a discarded cig arette. He headed for the fire house where the blaze was extin guishd. Holmes was once a fireman. Bend Doctor President Of Medical Examiners Portland U.R) The State Board of Medical Examiners has named Dr. Max H. Hemingway of Bend as president for the coming year. Dr. George Page of Portland was named secretary-treasurer. if Less than 300,000 U.S. public school children are studying a foreign language. ALWAYS If You Don't Come In . . . You'll Be Sorry! HUBBARD .inc. 73rd Anniversary Sale ENDS SAT., APRIL 27 BROS Main and Riverside Medford To replace Harold Haslock as finance officer of Glenn Morri son Post No. 70 of the American Legion is Blake Miller, who was appointed at last week's meet ing- Dinner guests Saturday at ! "Madroak" the Kerby home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Cribb, were Mr. and Mrs. Henri Appy and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bottel: The pre-Easter event was also a going-away party for Mr. and Mrs. Appy who, with their four children, will move to southern California this summer. C. W. Woods, owner of Woods Tile company, Los Angeles, and a tile distributing company in Seattle, has purchased the Henri Appy ranch. The Woods family, who now live in San Fernando valley, do not plan to move here in the near future. The three-act play "Skimming Low," a satire of the old west, will be presented this Friday and Saturday at the Illinois Val ley Lion's club. Also on the program are var ious novelty acts. Winners of the king and queen contest will receive their awards . at the Saturday performance. Proceeds from the show will be used for the Illinois Valley summer sports program, I. V. Recreation Inc., which was start ed by the Lions club two years ago. ' . Members of the Illinois Valley High school band and choir will participate in the annual Dis trict Music Festival at McLough lin Junior high school in Med ford next Friday. The choir is scheduled to ap pear at 11:40 a.m. while the band will play at 2:30 p.m. Buses will take the students to Med ford. ' AWING H DOG MEAL I Satisfy 'iurgef-r cSLs PENNY FOR PENNY Twice the Nourishment of Prime Beef Hamburger! .SET Penny for penny . . . twice the amount of balanced, high-quality Protein . . . twice the Vitamins A, B, Bi, D, and Niacin . . . twice the Minerals Calcium, Phosphorus and Iron . . . twice the Value New Fives Burgerbits Dog Meal costs less than half as much as hamburger . . . less than a third as much as canned dog food! 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