Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, April 28, 1957, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextTWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday. April 21, 1957 Ashland Couple Hurt in Accident Ashland An elderly Ashland couple were hospitalized last Wednesday afternoon when the jeep in which they were riding wag wrecked eight miles west of here. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert A. Tay lor, of box 614, Ashland,, were returning from their mine when they narrowly escaped death in the crash. Taylor, 76, summoned aid for his wife after making his way down rough roads for five miles, according to police. Three hours after the accident the couple was removed to Ash land General hospital. Examina tions showed that Mrs. Taylor, 72, had suffered a leg fracture and her husband lacerations, cuts, bruises and broken ribs. Thursday the injured woman was taken to Sacred Heart hos pital, Medford, for further treat ment. Taylor is still hospitalized in Ashland. WEATHER By United PrM Northern California: Fair Sun day but patches of morning fog on coast. Little change in temperature. Need Ready CASH? COUNT ON US WHEN YOU NEED MONEYI Borrow The American Way! LOANS S25 to S1.500 AUTO SALARY FURNITURE For Any Worthwhile Purpose PAYMENTS TO FIT YOUR BUDGET! American Finance Corp. Phon SPring 2-8886 123 W. Main Madferd TRUCK PARTS STORE Opening of a new truck parts store at 3230 North Pacific highway has been announced by H. W. Roberts, president of Roberts Motor company. The firm, to be known as Roberts Motor Incorporated of Oregon, has pur chased an acre of land and has remodeled a modern concrete building to serve as a parts store and sales area for Kenworth trucks. Wes Forler, who has been with Roberts in Portland for the past 11 years, will serve as parts manager of the new Medford firm, which will serve southwestern Oregon. SOC Choir Sets Concert Tour Ashland The southern Ore gon college choir, under direc tion of Oscar C. Bjorlie, is mak ing preparations for its annual tour Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, ' May 1-3. The choir plans to sing at Canyonville and Wintson on Wednesday, stay overnight at Coquille, then sing at Myrtle Point, Port Orford and Gold Beach Thursday, and spend that night in Gold Beach. Returning homeward, they will sing at Brookings and Cave Junction, returning to Ashland in time for the evening concert Friday, May 3, at 8 p.m. The public is in vited to this event, college of ficials said. Included in their program will be "Dark Water," "O Sacred Head," "Who's Gonna Work for Me?", "Listen to the Lambs," "Send Forth Thy Spirit," "Salv ation is Created," "When the Saints Go Marching In," ;"The Music of Life," "Waters Ripple and Flow." "I Wish I Wuz," "The King and I," and Oklahoma." The octet, quartet, and sextet will sing additional numbers, and Judy Farrar will perform several numbers on her accordion. Belgrade, Yugoslavia (U.R) Marshal Tito and his wife head ed home Saturday after a month of suntanning and relaxing on the President's resort island of Brioni. UHF Station to go OK Air Tuesday Portland (U.R) The na tion's first commercial ultra high frequency television station will go off the air here Tuesday at conclusion of the day's broadcasting. KPTV will air its final pro grams Tuesday night and then will be merged with UHF KLOR which will take over as Port land's NBC outlet on Channel 12. Both stations were recently purchased by George Haggarty, a Detroit attorney and Texas oilman, who invested a sum re ported to be nearly 4-million dollars to affect the merger and eliminate the UHF channel. Haggarty, on his arrival here Friday said he had decided which signal tower and which call letters to use for his merged station but he was not yet ready to make the decision public. In addition to marking the advent of UHF into the commer cial field, KPTV was Portland's and Oregon's first television sta tion when it went on the air September 30, 1952. It was then owned by Herbert Mayer who later sold to the George B. Stor er interests. KLOR went on the air for the first time March 9, 1955. . Mews Briefs SEES GAINS Providence, R.I. U.R) Re publican National Chairman Meade Alcorn Saturday predict ed bi GOP gains in next year s elections in New England after sampling "grass roots" opinion in a three-day Republican re gional conference. Alcorn said the party could "within reason hope to effect a net gain of five house seats" of the 27 up for election in New England if an election was held today. CONGRESS DENOUNCED Indianapolis, Ind. (U.R) Re publican Rep. Richard M. Simp son (Pa.) denounced the Demo cratic-controlled congress Sat urday for failing to slash Presi dent Eisenhower's budget . the way the GOP used to cut Presi dent Truman s. Simpson, a key member of the tax-writing house ways and means committee, said that when the Republicans control led congress they "took Harry Truman's 'untouchable' budget and cut it to ribbons." PLAN DINNER Washington (U.R) The Democratic National Committee announced plans Saturday for a three-day rally here next week end including speeches by for mer president Truman and Ad lai E. Stevenson. National Chairman Paul M. Butler said there will be a meet ing of the national committee, a conference of Democratic gov ernors and a meeting of the Dem ocratic advisory council, topped off with the annual $100-a-plate fund-raising dinner Saturday night. ESTABLISH DOMINATION Vienna (U.R) The Buda pest radio indicated Saturday Red Hungary's puppet regime is trying to establish domination of the Roman Catholic church. The broadcast said Hungary's Catholic bishops have "agreed in principle to the reinstatement of the Catholic priests' peace committee." Nearly 30,000 Canadians be come citizens of the United States every year. PRIVATE AUDIENCE Vatican City (U.R) Pope Pius XII Saturday received American movie and TV actress Loretta Young in a private au dience. Miss Young, a Roman Catho lic, is in Rome on vacation. ington, W.Va., who served six months in an Israeli prison as a "spy," will leave for home today, authorities here announced. Miss Hagen was released after serving half of the one-year sen tence imposed on her for "vio lating the off icial secrets act." She was released on condition that she return home immediately," CAUSE CRASH ; Manila (U.R) The chief of the Philippine constabulary said Saturday that metal fatigue caused the plane crash in which President Ramon Magsaysay and 25 other persons died March 17. Brig. Gen. Manuel F. Cabal told a senate investigating com mittee that the possibility of direct or indirect"' sabotage had been ruled out. He said the army assumed full responsibility for the disaster and had "no alibi." 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Friday Ben Mosher, of Johny Walker Attractions, a Portland firm, announced a Medford Home and Auto show would be held May 30 through June 2 'at the new warehouse of the Nye and Naumes Packing company, 741 South Fir St.. Medford. It as orieinally scheduled for the new armory. Jointly Produced The show is to be jointly pro duced by the Portland firm and Bill Dawkins, of Pierce -Dawkins Inc., Medford advertising firm. Milnes said the dates for Ki wanis home show were postpon ed until later to eliminate any conflict of dates and promotion with the earlier home show. He emphasized the Kiwanis were in no way opposing the home show of the Portland firm. Other advantages of holding the home show later was that during August the valley it. at , its economic peak and there are more out of town people in the area because of the Ashland Shakespearean festival, Milnes said. ' He added that both the home show and the 4-H fair would be benefited by holding their events in conjunction. The show, the theme of which will be "Har vest Home Fair," will include local as well as nationally known talent, Milnes said. A professional director also will V" retained to help promote the show, he said. The chairman said that proceeds from the show will be contributed to local j youth activities. Program for Annual Meeting of Oregon UN Group Slated The program for the annual meeting of Oregon United Na tions' association in Medford next week end has been an nounced. It was outlined by George Rode, president of the Medford chapter, and Dr. Karlin Capper Johnson, Portland, state presi dent. The convention opens Satur day, May 4, with registration at the Jackson hotel. At noon a j 'uncheon will be sponsored joint-! ly by Medford League of Wom-i en Voters and the UN, with Dr. ! Charles Schleicher, professor of ; political science at the Univers-1 ity of Oregon, as speaker. Cqmmittt Work The afternoon will be devoted : to committee work and reports, ! and a social hour will be held j at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Padgham on Springbrook rd., from 5 to 7 p.m. Speaker for the dinner Sat urday night will be Mrs. Hazel Robertson of the Ford Founda tion. Mrs. Robertson has been i spending most of her time in the Middle East countries in re- i cent years and her topic will be 'The Changeless Middle East j Changes." Sunday morning will be devot ed to work sessions and at 12:30 p.m. a luncheon will be served in the Pioneer room. A panel discussion on "The United Nat tions Forceful or Forceless" will follow, with Dr. Elmo Ste venson of Southern Oregon col lege as moderator. The Department of Agricul ture is making a study to deter mine the effect of jet plane noises on the production of eggs, milk and meat. Portland (U.R) Congress woman Edith Green Friday, charged that some Federal agen cies have been diverting funds for other purposes than those for which they had been appropri ated. She made the charges during a discussion of the proposed na tional budget before a group of Portland realtors. Mrs. Green said that $225,000 appropriated for the state de partment to buy passport ma chinery was used to open a pass port office in Los Angeles. She also cited that the USIA fnnrte tn send free subscriptions of newspapers to members of the British parliament although the funds were not appropriated for the purpose. University Freshman Named Roundup Queen Pendleton (U.R) Terry Hill, 18, a freshman at the University of Oregon was selected as the 1957 Roundup i Queen, the Pen dleton Roundup association an nounced here Friday night. The Queen's court will be composed of Linda Pearson, of Pendleton; Susan King, Helix; Judge Fieher, The Dalles and Gayle Austin, Arlington. 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