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TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Jef Trainer Lands Safely on Dirt Road Wendell, N.C. (U.PJ An Air Force T33 jet trainer with a "cup of fuel left" landed safe ly on a dirt road near here Fri day, narrowly missing telephone lines in bumping to a landing at 120 miles per hour. Neither Capt. Jack Geanger ard, 29, of Newburgh, N.Y., and 1st Lt. James C. Fletcher. 25, of Los Angeles, was hurt. Both are stationed at Seymour John son AFB, 40 miles south of Wen dell. Startled farmers in the tiny community of Shotwell heard the plane swoosh overhead, then jumped into trucks and cars to follow the plane's dust cloud as it bounced for more-than a mile along the narrow road. The jet's wingtips stretched - from one shoulder of the road to . the other. As he munched sardines and crackers at the Shotwell store after the landing, Geangerard said the plane's directional in struments, "went haywire" and they ran out of fuel. Evaluation Meeting Set for GD Groups All persons in Jackson county who took part in "Great De cisions . . . 1957" have been in vited to an evaluation meeting Monday, May 6, at 3 p.m. in the courthouse, auditorium. Charles O'Brien of the For eign Policy association will ar rive from Portland Monday noon to discuss the informal for eign policy study program with local residents. Similar meetings evaluating Great Decisions are being held throughout Oregon to determine needs of the program next year. All persons Interested are In vited to the meeting, according to those in charge.-' Approximately 20 informal study groups participated in the eight-week program in Jackson county, and a similar number in Josephine county. STOCK FUND MoOfce af a fa Caasscvfn DmdsaoT. Tim Boord ef Dtredon af Investors Stock Fund, Inc. has dedarad a quarterly divldead of too and owe ho If cant por dioro poyabto en May 9. 1957 to thareholdara of record ai of April 30, 1957. - - kl - ' - Jjibm W. Ambler Ph. SP 2-8918 E. John Rossi Ph. SP 3-4764 Paul J. Selby Ph. SP 2-2233 THIS IS THE YEAR FOR THE BALER YOU NEED ... HOW for as little as you can buy a FORD 250 HAY BALER 3 crop years or 30 months to pay the balance . . . op to 6 months for first payment! Choose the convenient payment plan that will best fit your own particular circumstances. And remember, these plans include life, colli sion and property insurance. Your Ford Baler can Pay (or Itself! Ford 250 Hay Balers are tops for efficient, low cost and dependable baling performance ... just right for the family size farm. PTO and engine models. SEE US NOW FOR COMPLETE DETAILS Deaver Tractor AND IMPLEMENT COMPANY "Your Ford Tractor Dealer Since 1941" 634. North Central . Phone SP 2-6425 SHADY COVE Cub Pack Meeting Held By EVALYN P. WATSON Shady Cove-Trail Highlight of the Cub Pack meeting held Monday evening, April 29 was an Indian dance put on by the Cubs. Jimmy" Brewer, 1. of Shady Cove, was awarded the Webelos badge and. advanced .to. a Boy Scout. Arthur Tepper of Shady Cove received a silver arrow badge and Joe Meyer of Trail a wo'f badge. A number of one-year service pins were given to Cuts and two den mothers, Mrs. Gene House and Mrs. Bob Hammons received one-year service pins Mr. and Mrs. Walt Streicher and daughter,. Karen, of Prine ville, Ore., are house guests of Mr. and . Mrs. Duane Jones of Shady Cove. Jack Pfeifer, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Pfeifer, Shady Cove, is attending Officer Can didate school in Oklahoma, hav ing been assigned to the Tank Artillery Guided Missile branch of the service. His wife expects to join him in June. Mr. and Mrs. John Johnson of Westport, Conn., have been visiting with Mrs. Johnson's sis ter and family, Mr. and Mrs Bob Hammons of Shady Cove. Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Peter Vachon have returned to spend the summer in Shady Cove at their summer home, "Tottering on the Rogue". Mrs. Vachon's sister. Mrs. L. A. Mclntyre of Lima, Peru, has been visiting here for the past few days. Her sister and family are moving from Peru to La Paz. Bolivia, where Mclntyre is engaged in audio-visual educa tion under the Point Sour pro gram. The Shady Cove-Trail Lady Lions held their regular meeting on Wednesday evening, May 1 at Rogue Retreat with 10 mem bers present. They are sponsor ing a rummage, plant and food sale on Saturday,-May 4 from 10- a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Shady Cove cleaners. . ' The next Committee meeting for Cub Pack 46 will be held on Monday evening, May 20, at the home of Mrs. Gene .House of Shady Cove. MBMMSV Mrs. Frank Dolenshek of Trail, made a trip to Portland with Mr. and Mrs. Bob Cham berlain, also of Trail, where she visited with her sister. Sympathies are extended to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Barber of Laurelhurst rd, Trail, upon the death of Mrs. Barber's mother, Mrs. J. D. Laidlow of Puyallup, Wash., on Monday, April 29. cash andor trade Ford Implements Are Warranted for 6 Months ' Sunday, May 5, 1957 Mr. and Mrs. Barber left next day for Puyallup. the Mrs. Cora Train, of Shady Cove, spent Tuesday of this week visiting with her daugh ter, Mrs. Albert Esten, of Trait Dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Tockstein of Derby road, Trail, have been Mr. and Mrs. A. Myklebye, of Trail, and Mr. and Mrs. Claude - Goodwin of Portland. Mr. Goodwin is tha owner of the old Pritchard ranch. -- Mr. and Mrs. Ranald Axtell had dinner in Medford last Fri day night with . their-- son and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. John Ax tell; Mrs. Alma Ruthstrom has re turned to her home on Elk creek after being confined to a hos pital and rest home in GibbonJ fteb., since the car accident in which she was seriously injur ed and her husband killed. Children from this area tak ing part in the Tear Blossom parade were Wilma and Wayne Jones, Carol Hale, Cecelia Ken, Donna and Linda Weitman, Ma ilyn Learning, Sheri Watson and Shirley and Louella Minor. These children were on the Shady Cove Grange float, "Around the Mulberry Bush." Gay Fashions in Vacation Land, a pre-summer fashion show, sponsored by Our Lady of Fatima club, will be held Tues day, Ma'y 21, starting at 1:00 p.m. at the Segessenman gar dens near Trail. i A salad luncheon will be ser ved. There will also be enter tainment and door prizes. Styles shown will be from Mann's De partment store under the direc tion of Mrs. Donna Doyle. Mod els will be local women from the parish. Tickets are on sale through all members of Our Lady of Fatima cliib of Shady. Cove Trail and also at Mann's from Mrs. Donna Doyle. , Jack Thomas and Howard Nutt, of Shady Cove, made - a trip to Diamond lake with then Snow-Cat recently. - - More than 100 rose bushes, including many rare and old va rieties, froze in the Axtell gar dens on Laurelhurst road durins the cold spell around April 16. Howard Ash of Shady Cove is convalescing at his home fol lowing major surgery last Mon day at the Rogue Valley Me morial hospital. Mrs. Dick Bartuss of Shady Cove entertained with a lunch eon recently, honoring her mo ther, Mrs. Lola Joyner, who is spending time here visiting with the Bartuss and Tom King fam ilies. Guests present were Mrs. Ed Strother, Mrs. M. H. Wil liams and Mrs. Tom King. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Warren, of Grants Pass, and John O'Hara and son, Dennis, of Medford, were guests on Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Dick Bartuss. Elk-Trail PTA held their reg ular monthly meeting in the rec reation room of the Elk-Trail school Friday, May 3. Installa tion services for the newly-elected officers were held. The guest speaker, Mr. Douglas Bak er, Chief Ranger at Union creek discussed what the Forest Ser vice plans are for the future sale of timber in the Elk creek and surrounding areas. Attending the VFW Installa tion at Cave Junction were sev eral members of Steelhead Post 6881 Auxiliary, Mesdames Dan Krotz, Kenneth Oliver, Dale Sawyer and Gene House. Threatened Airline Strike Is Averted Washington (U.PJ A strike that would have grounded all Capital Airlines planes Saturday was called off minutes before the deadline. International Machinists Un ion head A. J. Hayes cancelled the strike Friday night a quar ter - hour before it was to have gone into effect at 12:01 a.m. (EDT) Some 2,200 ground crew men were set to strike. Federal mediators met in round-the-clock sessions Friday with company and union offic ials. They continued into ths morning to try to reach a con tract agreement. Snjer Haalth. Kut, Comfort ul Hospitality at in Buckhorn Mineral Springs Sanitarium Qrt a nsw luu on Ufa throw th wo of oar fusoai mineral waters. Sot Warnl U( M Both for Rheumatism Arthritis. KouritH Nrvousnss. High and Low Blood Pressure and Skin Eruptions. Carkaa StoMi Too! Baths lor astasia. Eesona. Colds, Sinus ana Bronchitis. "Tow JtsaWa Is Ott lnttsm For raaamtlons or AotaJM In formation address Beekhara Miami Sprint saltarlnm. Bsekkora sarias Boad. Ashland Or. Or phono lone distant Xanaan Waal. TasaUii Chirooraetio Physician NEWS NOTES from Crater High School Joe Teeter was elected stu dent body president for next year in the general student body elections last Thursday. Other officers chosen were Warren Strauss, vice president, and Judi Davis, secretary. Pat Cowie was elected to the posi tion of student body treasure and Bill White will be sfudeat body business manager next year. Cheer lead ers were elect ed last Friday. Linda Warren, Joan Skov. JS T1U- rrt Pat Medley Sandra Ghelar---- di, and Donna Burnett were the five chosen. A complete new squad was chos en this year because all of the present squad is graduating or moving away. A yell queen will be chosen from the five hew cheer leaders at a later date. ' "Take It From Me," the spring play, was presented Friday and Saturday nights. The three-act comedy played to a full house on both nights. Ron Lamb, dra matics instructor, was director of the production, and Judy van Horn was student director, as well as playing one of the larger roles. Starring roles were held by Ron Harrison, who played Buckingham Jones, a dishonest business dealer, and Richard Evans played Professor Lucius Billingsley, his business partner. Jean Bonney played the romati tic lead of Mary Smithers, a lo cal girl who had inherited a for tune from a relative .and be came involved in the; Billingsley Enterprises, a non-existent com pany. - Two characters from this play will be nominated for the "Jer ome," Crater's answer for Hoi lywood's Oscar. These two stu dents and the two nominees from the winter play will be the candidates for the ;election o the best actress and actor of the year, who will receive "Jerome, The four students who were Crater High finalists in the re cent Elks scholarship and lead Chinese Reds Order 'Close to Masses' Washington (U.R) Chinesa Communist officials have been ordered to get "close to the mass es" by taking part-time jobs as laborers in fields and factories. This "close association with the masses" helped the Reds win control of China. The party's central committee said in a directive broadcast at Peiping and recorded here that "close association with the masses" helped the Reds win control of China. "But during recent years, iot a few comrades have degenerat ed in this respect," the coni mittee noted. The order applies to desk bound "leading personnel who hold key positions at all levels in the party, the government, and the military service, and who are fit for physical labor." Health Supervisor ip Resigns of Umatilla Pendleton (U.PJ Mrs. Ma rie Berg; Umatilla county public health supervisor, resigned her position Friday to join her hus band. Dr. E. E. Berg, recently appointed Coos county medical officer, at Coquille. Mrs. Jane Thom, Pendleton, succeeds Mrs. Berg as public health supervisor for Umatilla county. CLOSE Yankton, S.D.OJ.R) Mr. and Mrs. Bennett Lowe's three chil dren are within eight minutes of having the same birthday an niversary date. A boy was born to the Lowes at 11:52 pjn., Feb. 26. The birth date of his brother, Mike, 7, and sister, Patty, 4, is Feb. 27. IRRIGATION PUL1PS to 60 H.P. m $OQ50 . From MmW. up Vi H.P. SHALLOW WELL $8950 H.P. DEEP WELL $9500 Siskiyou Hardware Ph. SP 2-2939225 W. Main MEDFORD, OREGON We Give S&H Green Stamps ership contests have received watches engraved with their names and their positions in the contest. Lary Smith and Grace Gail were the scholarship final ists. Grace " won the district award. Sally -and Bob Elden were the Crater finalists in th2 leadership contest. - The Comettes selected 3$ new members last week. The candi dates were given pep marching instruction by " the drill leader for two days before they tried out tor tne old members. Each year the number of graduating Comettes determines the num ber of new girls that may be admitted. Of the 35 selected, only 25 will be regular members and 10 will .be on the "waiting list" m the event that regular members should drop out or be unable to march with the group. Future Teachers of America are participating in an Obser vation Day. Central Point ele mentary and junior high schools are cooperating with the organ ization on Tuesday.. Each mem' ber taking part in the observa tion will sit in on the class that interests him most, and tak notes on methods of teaching and other points of interest. Questionnaires and record forms are to be filled out by each men tor participating and three will be compared later. Mrs. Carol Ash adviser of FTA. and Charles Meyer, principal of the grade and junior high schools, were responsible for the organ izing of Observation Day. The annual Junior-Senior prom will be held Saturday, May 11. Ed Logan is the general chairman for the prom and sit committees function under the direction of Logan and Warren Holbrook, art instructor and fac ulty adviser of the prom. The theme has not been revealed, and the gym, where the prom is held, will be closed to all stu dents next week, to insure secrecy. At la I fill Navy Announces Plans for Bomber Washington alU.R) The Navy announced Saturday it will go ahead with production of a re designed seamster jet bomber following crashes of the first two experimental models. Tests flights of the new model are scheduled for late next fall. The first production versions should be delivered to the Navy by the Martin Co., Baltimore, Md., in the spring of 1958. ; In revealing its plans for pro duction of the four-jet seaplanes, the Navy made public an ex haustive report on its . investi gation of the accident which claimed the second P6M Sea master. It crashed south of Wil mington, Del., last Nov. 9, but the four . crew members were able to parachute to safety. The reports said there was no connection between that crash and the one in December, 1955, which took the lives of . three Martin crew, members and a naval officer. Tokyo Cemeteries May Have No Vacancy Signs Tokyo - (U.R) The Tokyo metropolitan government report ed Saturday that public ceme teries are becoming so crowded "no vacancy" signs will be put out in two years. Things have come to such ' a pass that one cemetery will hold public drawing for ' graves. Around the clock, around the season, and around the most fashion-wide shoulders every where will be a bevy of beauti ful sweaters. For this spring, sweaters are the smartest cover- ups especially in the "shorti- gan the cropped cardigan! See "Shady" for SHADES VENETIAN and ROLL Wakefield Drapery 1100 Crater Lake Ave., SP 2-6010 mm mm imm mm an sr M ft i t i It It ti AUL'THD Every Safeway Store in Oregon and Southwest Washington I &tgSSHS EES? GB ? w wflm I r C Step right up, ladies and gentlemen! The greatest value show on earth at the Safeway store' in your " neighbor hood. You'll thrill at the tremendous array of reduced prices. You'll have fun saving like never before. 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