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Vr 1 SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday. May 1)1. 19S7 Mr. and Mrs. William Shep herd of Harbor City, Calif., are house guests of their son and family, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Shep herd, of Shady Cove. Also visit ing the Shepherd's is Mrs. . Morris of Harbor City, Calif. Mrs. William Shepherd Sr. and Mrs. Morris are greatgrandmoth ers of Dcnice and Danny Worthy. John Peterson of Shady Cove was initiated in the first and sec ond degree in the Shady Cove Grange 931 at a meeting Wed nesday evening. May 8, at the Shady Cove school. The public is invited to attend the next social meeting on Wednesday, May 22, at 8 p.m. The State Highway Division will present a highway safety program with speakers and films. Invitations have been sent to other organi zations in the area. Local girls taking tap dancing from Colleen Hope appeared on the TV program Tuesday, May i - Eet makes you i '- dance weeth joy! it fandango ICE CREAM 1 7. Those participating from Shady Cove were Linda and Donna Weitman, Cecelia Kee, Marilyn Learning and Carol Hale in a tap dance number, Tennessee Wig Walk. The regular meeting of the Shady Cove PTA will be held Tuesday evening. May 14, at Shady Cove school. Installation of newly-elected officers will be held. Models for Show Listed SHADY COVE-TRAIL By EVALYN P. WATSON Shady Cove-Trail Names of the models who will take part in the pre-summer style show, "Gay Fashions in Vacation Land," to be held on Tuesday, May 21, starting at 1 p.m. at the Segessenman gardens just be low Trail have been announced. Teenagers modeling will be Mary and Judy Leekey of Far Hills Ranch, Shady Cove. Ladies modeling will be Mesdames Isa bel Wunderlich, Pearl Adair, Bill Leekey, Vic Conover, and Ole Hornseth, ail of Shady Cove; Fred Morgan, Dick Brewer, Roy Anderson, Frank Selto and Lee Buchwald, all of Trail and Marie Shere of Central Point. There will be entertainment with the St. Mary's Choralette's of St. Mary's in Medford singing several numbers, and John Lusk of the Baldwin Piano House of Medford is bringing out a Bald win Spinet Organ which he will play. A salad luncheon will be serv ed. Door prizes have been donat ed by local and Medford mer chants. Tickets are on sale now through all members of Our . Lady of Fatima club of Shady Cove-Trail and are also avail able from Mrs. Donna Doyle at Mann's Department store. It is hoped that those planning to attend will make their reserva tions early as seating arrange ments limit the attendance to 50 tables. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Burdett of Shady Cove went to Eugene with their daughter, Mrs. Mil dred Frisbie and friend, Floyd Corliss, over the Mother's Day week end where they visited another daughter and family, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Walker. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Lane of King City, Calif., former resi dents of Shady Cove, are expect ed to arrive for a visit this week with Lane's sister and family, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Shep herd, of Shady Cove. Mrs. Clara Thurman and Mrs. Dolf Larson of Shady Cove spent Sunday rock hunting in the Lake Creek area. Norman Vermillion of Port land has been visiting his uncle and family, Mr. and Mrs. Athel Dudley, of Shady Cove. Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Grow and son, Mark, of Shady Cove, made a trip to Yakima, Wash., over the Mother's Day week end, tak ing their female Weimarencr dog which they plan to leave at a kennels there for several months for training purposes. Mr. and Mrs. Scottie Parrick of Trail have returned from Clear Lake, Calif., where they went for medical treatment and advice. While there they visited their neice, LaVonne Levy, and her friend, Master Sgt. Ada Ver-ney. Sixty-five teenagers attended the Teen Age Dance Friday, May 3 at the Parish hall in Shady Cove. The hall was dec orated with crepe paper and bal loons. Members of the adult advisory board sold tickets and served refreshments without charge. Members of the club have under discussion different projects and will choose one to workt oward this year. Parents and adults in the community are invited to attend meetings of the club. Members of Our Lady of Fati ma club will appear on KBES TV on Thursday evening, April 16, to discuss the coming pre summer fashion show Tuesday, May 21, at the Segessenman gardens. Mrs. Flois Bessonnette of St. Paul, Minn., has been spending a few days visiting her friends, Mr. and Mrs. Art Hutcheson, of the Shady Cove area. Mrs. Adeline Carl has return ed to Shady Cove after spending the winter in southern California. Dr. Vernon Bryant of McKin ney, Texas, Mr. Vestal of Texas, and Tom Riley of Eagle Point and Mrs. Holmes of Medford were visitors at the home of the Carroll Watsons of Shady Cove Thursday. Dr. Bryant, Tom Riley and Carroll Watson have taken many rock trips to gether to Utah and Texas. Barn owls are valuable rat catchers and are seldom seen be cause they carry on their activi ties at night. Quitkest way to California! FLY UNITED TO SAM FRANCISCO LOS ANGELES 2 flights daily: Leave 10:55 a.m., or 4:45 p.m. And on United's Convaira you enjoy the added smoothness and on-time dependability of all-weather radar equipment. Next trip, fly United. Local times quoted. CALL SPring 3-6233 CraMiaWMNli Miller on Trial on Contempt Charge Washington (in Pulitzer Prize winner Arthur Miller play wright husband of actress Mari lyn Monroe, went on trial in district federal court today for refusing to tell Congress names of authors at Communist meet ings he attended in 1939. Marilyn's press agent said she did not plan to attend. The curvaceous actress was not in the courtroom March 1 when Miller pleaded innocent to contempt of Congress charges and was released on $1,000 bail. If convicted, he faces a maxi mum penalty of two years in prison and $2,000 fine. The lanky playwright was cit ed for contempt last July 25 for refusing to tell the House Committee on Un-American Ac tivities the names of persons who attended meetings of Communist writers. A federal grand jury indicted him for contempt Feb. 18. During his appearance before the committee last June, Miller testified freely about his own activities. He admitted attending the meetings but said he was never under Communist Party "discipline." But he refused "on grounds of 'conscience' " to identify per sons he saw at the meetings. Expulsion of Envoy Claimed Retaliation Berlin fW American diplo mat Martin S. Bowe Jr. said to day his expulsion from Russia was "pure retaliation" for the ouster of a Soviet diplomat from the United States. Bowe, Holyoke, Mass., ar rived here by train from Moscow today with his wife and two children. He said he believed he would be reassigned to a post in Frankfort, Germany. "There is no question but that my ouster was pure retaliation," Bowe said. "The grounds on which I was ordered to leave were ridiculous." He said the Soviets accused him of "being insulting to the Soviet Union with the intent to undermine the social structure." Bowe said "they could make that charge against all foreigners in Moscow and a good many Russians as well." Korean Teachers Told To Avoid Flashy Clothes Seoul, Korea (IP) The Minis try of Education today instruct ed women teachers to avoid flashy clothes and makeup that might "tend to give undesirable stimulation" to young students. "Don't wear makeup, don't dress colorfully, don't expose too much of the body," the ministry ordered. Rainbow trout is the most mi gratory of all trout and is a native of the West Coast. Schrunk, Reporter Indictments Rapped Portland W Indictments re turned by the March Multno mah county grand jury against Mayor Terry Schrunk and Ore gon Journal reporter Brad Wil liams came under fire in Cir cuit court Monday by attorneys for the two men. Manley B. Strayer, attorney for Williams, challenged Attor ney General Robert Y. Thornton to resubmit a group of indict ments returned by the March grand jury to a new grand jury. Strayer called the recent grand jury work "a crusade to publi cize various defamatory mat ter." Edwin D. Hicks, attorney for Schrunk, told the court he ap proved of Strayer's blistering atack on the grand jury report. He also asked the court for per jnission to withdraw innocent pleas entered by Schrunk to bribery and perjury charges so that these indictments also could be challenged. Judge Charles Redding postponed a decision. The indictments under attack Monday charge Schrunk and Williams with illegally obtain ing telecommunciations. The at torneys are seeking to have them dismissed. Hicks also indicated he ex pected to file motions for con tinuance of Schrunk's first scheduled trial set for May 22 on the perjury charge. SHOOTING CHARGED Tokyo (IB The Commun ist military command in North Korea charged Monday that Un ited ' States naval vessels fired on fishing vessels in North Ko rean territorial waters and seiz ed seven fishermen April 27. Court Records MUNICIPAL COURT Eugene Kelson Mee. Jacksonville, driving while under the influence of intoxicatitng liquor. $100. Glenn Allen Williams, drunk in public. $20. Carl Hogan Blair, drunk in public. $10. Vera Lester Johnson, drunk in public, S10. Roy Raymond Wilson, drunk in public, $10. Jim Boutwell. vagrancy, $10. Irwin Max Stockford. failure to maintain proper lookout, $10. Donald Lee Pearson, violation of basic rule. $10. Jack Wayne Thornton, violation of basic rule, $1S. John Joseph Breeze, allowing un licensed driver to operate motor ve hicle, $10. Reginald Paul Breeze, no operators license, $10. Donald Francis Pack, no operators license on person. $5. George William Rod, disobeyed stop sign. S3. James Webster Fairchild, failure to stop at red light, $3. Keith Ellis Bailey, violation of basic rule, $10. Governor Plugs for Additional Justices Salem (If) The backlog of cases before the State Supreme Court will continue to grow and the judicial rights of the public thwarted unless the Senate re vives a bill to increase the num ber of justices, Gov. Robert D. Holmes asserted Monday. "I think the Senate will be derelict in its duty to the public if it fails to provide an orderly solution which Senate bill 10 offers," the governor said. He added that it was not a partisan matter. Senate bill JO, which would increase the seven man court by two members, is currently held in the Senate Judiciary Com mittee. The committee has sub stituted a measure to provide two court commissioners to as sist the present justices. Gov. Holmes said both the court and the Oregon Bar Asso ciation wanted the increase and plan. nave opposed the commissioner Lane County Judge Bill Passes House Salem HP) A b ill giving Lane county a second district judge passed the House Monday and was sent to the governor. Rep. Keith D. Skelton. Eugene Democrat, said the present dis trict judge was handling more than twice as many civil and criminal cases as . other district judges. Skelton said 165 cases were now on the docket and the 1,000 civil cases alone were filed in the first five months of 1956. The new Lane county courthouse will include rooms for two district courts, he "added. Also passing the House and going to the Senate was House bill 563 splitting the second ju dicial district which includes Lane, Douglas, Coos and Curry counties. DISTRICT COURT Alford Lowman Cooper, overload, $61. Eldon Byron Holmes, failure to stop at stop sign, $10. Edward Donald Oswald, failure to operate vehicle on right side of high way. $15. Roger John Ferrell, violation basic rule, $20. David Alan Hutchison,, violation basic rule. $10. Herbert Earl Worman, angling with out a license, $30. CIRCUIT COURT Marthina V. Pence vs. Noel M. Pence, divorce complaint. Laughs of the Day... New Britain, Conn. (U.R) Fire chief George Scarlett wait ed several years for the depart ment to assign him a plush new automobile. Finally it came, and Scarlett parked it in front of the fire station. An alarm sounded and the hook and ladder roared into action and into the front of Scarlett's new car. Tulsa, Okla. (U.R) A $29,785 lawsuit was filed h r by a blacksmith who contended h. suffered injuries when ho was "kicked in the rump with both feet" by a mare named Kick apoe Princess. The plaintiff said he was attempting to shoe the mare when she attacked him from the rear. Rockville, Conn. U.R) Young Steven Whitehead com plained his feet hurt after he missed the school bus and walk ed seven and a half mile to school. His teacher told him his feet might not have hurt so badly had he put the shoes on the right feet. Salt Lake City '(U.R) Before delivering a copy of the ' Book of Mormon, left by and unident ified woman for a Salt Lak coun ty jail inmate, jailer Kreih Ju retich thumbed through it, re moved a hacksaw blade glued in side the back cover, then fol lowed instructions scribbled on a note: "Please deliver this to Ted Keener and have a talk with him." Naugatuck, Conn. '(U.R) Po lice unsnarled a mile-long string of honking motorists when they found the motorist at the head of the procession, where he had halted for a stop sign, fast asleep. Middletown, Conn. U.R) Two juveniles whipped up a batch of trouble for themselves when they swiped some cant from a parked truck. The cans contained instant whipped cream which they sprayed on 25 cars in a parking lot before being collared by a policeman. Memphis, Tenn. U.R) "I've been pickin strawberries, not loafing," the defendant told Judge Beverly Bouse. The man was charged with loitering. "Let's see your hands," the judge said. "Why they're clean er than mine." "Yes, sir," said the defendant, "I washed mine this morning." Bouse' laughed and dismissed the case. ' Paterson. N. J. OJ.R) Mat thew Nowotad pleaded innocent to a charge of parking lets than 25 feet from a street corner. He insisted he had measured off the distance with six-feet ruler. But Magistrate Joseph J. De Lue cia fined Nowosad five dollars after Nowosad explained that his measurement had been "three and a half lengths" ef the ruler. The . eourt decided . that was 21 feet. AS USUAL Flowers O Gifts 26 S. 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