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r1 r'JRlEtH MTDrOKD 'ORZOOrf) mail thibune Wednesday. June 19. 1957 4 f " A, J NEWEST KILLER TALOS," the U. S. Navy's increased range surface-to-air guided Missile, zooms off from launching platform to lock on a target guided by its mechanical brain during a test at White Sands Proving Grounds, New Mexico. The weapon will form major armament of the light cruiser Galveston undergoing conversion and later to two other cruisers, the Little Rock and Oklahoma City. Talos has registered "kills" with reliability and accuracy at distances of 25 miles. Pickin' Pears Newt and Notes Frcm Camp White Y BID HOLLINGS WORTH Camp White writers made a Eood showing in winning three cash awards and two honorary citations in the Hospitalized Vet erans Writing Project. Notifica tion was sent to Manager E. K. Ricker hy Mrs. Lyman Dunn, president, from Chicago head quarters this week. Howard Curry Watson re reived $25 for second place in the short story contest. Walter V. Grow won two limrrick prizes nd received $6. Earl J. Sweeney and David Frisch were named m the honorary awards for limericks. Sweeney alio received honor able mention for his article on rehabilitation through writing. There were 14 Camp White con testants this year. Utilization of the porches of all occupied buildings for tele vision rooms is the new con struction project under way. Two of the buildings in Section 1, arc now being equipped by the engineering division with closed in porches, reached outside by a ramp at the entry way. The porches have been ex posed to the weather and have been virtually unused, and the additional solarium will provide a special room for TV patrons. Work is proceeding on the theater remodeling program ac cording to schedule. The o 1 d stage wall has been torn away and building will start this week on the larger floor space. It will extend 13 feet back of the old wall. ford and has had department ! store and other sales experience, j She was postmaster at Bndge I port in eastern Oregon before coming to southern Oregon. Postmaster Art Scarselh re ceived a letter the other day. When he opend it, he found it j contained a newspaper clipping . about his niece, Barbara Ewert. ' 18. a freshman in East Los I Angeles Junior college. She was elected Hollywood Bowl Star- light Girl for 1957. I Miss Eweri was recognized for her proficiency at the piano and in singing. Baseball fans were somewhat undecided Sunday whether to go to Grants Pass to see the home team play tnere, or to re main for the girls Softball game between the visiting Eugene Chain Saw combination and the Rogue Valley Dairy Maids. Those who remained were fiot disappointed in the style of play displayed and while the Alilk Maids gave a better exhibition of all around playing ability, the Eugene girls went home with the reputation of being a strong team I especially with the bat. They j started off u ith a commanding j lead in the Saturday night en ! counter, grained by consistent j hitting. Portland Appears Safe From Fallout 1 Portland HI Two Reed ! college chemists indicated her? ! Tuesday that so far the Port S land area appears to be relative i ly safe from radio activity, i Dr. Arthur F. Scott said the amount of radioactivity detect ed by a Portland air monitor ling station has been ''insignifi- cant." ; Dr. Arthur Livermore. a col i league, did not comment direct ly on this region's fall-out prob lem, but both agreed they do not believe that the Hanfoid. Wash., plutonium works is ser iously polluting the Columbia river with radioactivity. Dr. Livermore told a session of the Northwest Institute of International Relations here that he doubted that "eating fish from the Columbia river is any more hazardous than breathing the radioactivity of the air. "Anyway," the doctor said, "I'm going on eating them whenever I can catch them." H. Dewey Wilson Reelected Head Of Advisory Group H. Dewey Wilson. Medford at torney, was reelected chairman of the Jackson county juvenile court advisory council and ex ecutive board Monday night at a meeting in the circuit court room of the courthouse. Wayne R. W:elty of Medford was elected vice chairman of the advisory council and execu tive board, and Mrs. Clarence E. (Bonnie) Wilson of Medford was elected seer etary-treasurer of both groups. Elected to three-year terms on the evecutive board were Mrs. Lawrence W. B u o nocore and James V. McGoodwin, both of Medford. Other members are Dr. Frederick Trost, Ashland; Mrs. Maude House, Phoenix: C. W. Abbott. Central Point; and Mrs. Henry Padgham, Mrs. C. I. Drummond, Kenneth McHngh and Mrs Una B. Inch, all of Med ford. Report on Budget A report of the county budget hearing was given and the group endorsed requests made on be half of the juvenile department. Those attending also said the in creased budget indicated for the department in 1957-58 is just ified. It was reported that the department handled 683 cases in 1956 as compared with 344 in 1954. Progress reports were made on the juvenile detention home construction. The building is ex pected to be completed in Sept ember. The program for next year also was discussed at the meeting. Next regular meeting will be held Monday. Sept. 15, although special meetings may be called in the meantime. Women 'Poisoned' By Bathing Suits New York IP Two cases of women being "poisoned"' by their bathing suits in the cur I rent heat wave have been re ! ported to the New York Health Department. A department spokesman said the Health Department's poison i control center had been asked ; for advice by doctors treating : the women. ' He said the women had been j wearing the suits to keep cool I at home and had broken out in i rashes soon after they put I them on. I The rashes were traced to al ! lergies to moth balls in which : the suits had been stored during the w inter, the spokesman said. He advised rinsing bathing suits j after taking them out of storage. Self-Expression! The uniforms worn by the Camp White baseball taam are a donation of the Oregon Elks as-1 sociation. The BPOE also has furnished a shipment of leather nd buckskin for the hobby craftsmen in this particular line. Engineer Officer B. R. Sims nd Mrs. Suns are heading south east on an extended vacation trip that wil lake them as far Cuba, returning by way of New Orleans. With stooovers arranged in St. Louis. Atlanta and in Florida. ' thev plan to be away nearly three weeks Miss Grace Stuhr. chief nurse, has announced that Mrs. Mabel Day and Mrs. Mary Guy, of the nursing staff, attended a work shop conference on "More Crea tive Nursing" held at Roseburg VA hospital recently. Nurses attending the four day institute at Southern Oregon col We. Ashland, were Mrs. Vega Burns and Mrs. Christine Bates. The fue month period be tween April and October shows the lowest sick call report, ac cording to the annual review of medical activities for the domi ciliary. The daily average for the year is 63. wuii about 15 per cent (ewer. men requiring medical at tention during May, June. July. August and September. Last ear. October was hish month with 1.744 visits to the doctors. Difficulties Remain On Soviet Satellites Moscow 'IP A leading Soviet scientist said the Soviet Union still has many technical difficulties to solve before her artificial earth satellite can be completed. Academician Yevgeni Fedo rov said Tuesday that the So viet scientists will "surely over come" the difficulties and the satellite would be launched dur ing the geophysical year which begins July 1. He refused to speculate on a target date al though Alexander Nesmeyanov. president of the Academy of Sciences said it would be within "several months." VAVS birthday parties for members, held each month, were sponsored thus far this year as follows: January-An.crican Gold Star Mothers: Fcbruary-DAV Auxili ary of Medford and Grants Pass: March-YFW Auxiliary: April American Legion A u x i 1 i a ry; May-American Red Cross: June Navy Mothers Club Mrs. Edna Brassfield has been appointed retail clerk in the can teen store. Mrs. Bra.-sfse'.d lives in Med- Worry of FALSE TEETH Slipping or Irritating? r-nt t" fTT-.Sarm.-i'd loe !' T-r.f. lu,pini: croppins or "ooojins w.n oa " t.ilii or U:ia ' r.n-l U-.-.if ATtETH on vour r e Tr.is raa: pocrr r.vfs ft tnnarkSS : otfl eo.-r.Iort nd Mrinit pr rioldlr.E ptcs more f-rr t N'o g'iTv.rr.v c-y. raT? rve pr f-llnr I- alkaltno ,r.on-clo. Crti fAcTEETH l ma) eirui counter. Oh what a day: If you're worn to a frazzle-dazzle be cheered by the sight of these comical mo tifs! Easy kitchen embroidery: Pattern 7317: Transfer of 4 motifs, about 7':x8 inches. Di rections for matching set of ap ron, toaster-cover, kitchen tow els. Send THIRTY-FIVE cents in coins for this pattern add 5 cents for each pattern for 1st class mailing. Send to Medford Mail Tribune. Household Arts Dept. P.O. Box 168, Old Chel sea Station. New York 11. N.Y Print plainly NAME. ADDRESS and PATTERN NUMBER. A bonus for our readers two FREE patterns, printed in our new Alice Brooks Ncedlecraf. Book for 1957: Plus a wonderful variety of designs to order crochet, knitting, embroidery, huck weaving, toys, dolls, oth ers. Send 25 cents for your copy of this exciting NEW needle book now! Interior May Move Northwest Office Washington 'IT The Inter ior department indicated today that it may move its Northwest regional office for commercial fisheries from Portland, Ore., to Seattle as part of its reorgani zation of the Fish and Wildlife service. But officials said that of the 100 or so employees now in the Portland office, 10 or fewer would be asked to transfer to Seattle. The remaining office will be retained for the bureau of sport fisheries and wildlife The move hinges on whether Congress provides S176.000 to set up four new regional offices. ! Standard Increases Gasoline, Oil Prices Portland itPi Another hike in gasoline and heating oil prices was foreseen today after Standard Oil Company of Cali fornia announced a .3 cent per gallon price boost on regular and premium gasoline and on diesel and heating oil. The increases were effective at midnight. Other major oil companies had not announced hikes but sources indicated it was likely thev would follow suit. Uncoupled Cars Hit Passenger Train Grants, N.M. W The last four cars of a moving Santa Fe Railroad streamliner became un coupled near here Tuesday night and crashed into the remaining section of the passenger train. Railroad officials said about 30 persons were "shaken up" and that one unidentified per son was "seriously injured." The Santa Fe spokesmen said the last four cars were detached when tie plates along the line flew up, severing a coupling be tween the remaining cars. They said momentum carried the de tached cars into the rear of the streamliner, the El Capitan. It was en route from Chicago to Los Angeles. The train pro ceeded to Gallup. N.M., after the accident for repairs. APPARENT SUICIDE Wil liam K. Sherwood, 41, Stan ford University research scientist died "an apparent suicide," two days before he was to appear in San Fran cisco before a House com mittee investigating Com munist "intellectual" infil tration. Mr. Sherwood lived in Pacific Grove, Calif. Directors Named for Nickel Corporation Cave Junction Directors of the newly formed Nickel Corp oration of America, were an nounced last week by Edward N. White, president of the New Delhi Mines, Ltd., Toronto, Can ada. White is president of the com pany, while John H. White, pres ident of Chemical and Metal lurgical Enterprises. Inc., Salt Lake City, is vice president. The Toronto and Utah firms own the new corporation jointly on a 50 50 basis. It has been formed to , explore and develop nickel de- posits in the Illinois Valley. Other directors are H. H. Hel Jler, Albert S. Perry and Clark Campbell, all of Toronto; John Hopkins of Salt Lake City and j Bruce Manley, of Medford. Two Grants Pass drilling out- fits have received contracts to I continue drilling in the nickel I exploration work on Woodcock ! and Eight Dollar mountains, j Both companies are operating I two crews. tNP Mail Tribune Want Ad The Community's Bici;et Marketplace wvtstoit or mcific PACIFIC , INDUSTRIAL 16 S. Central Phone if 3-530J The VODKA of VODKAS ' Tliere's a difference in vodkas and it's a difference worth know ing. Driest of the dry! THE GREATEST NAME IN VODKA I" 1 1 in I.,, Vs 0 PROOF DISTIttED fROM GRAIN STF. PIERRE SMIRNOFF Fll. (DIVISION Of HEUBLEIN). HARt FORD. CONN.. U.S.A. FRANCE. ENGLAND MEXICO ' -1 " " --Jf . -- ' for"' ' 'i"ivYfinffiWrmny WfAtmwmtftu iilrHOTrmmrnft'iji wiriwipiii.jjirjrirri1ii niti m huhIihi - - . ;-'iin'ii umnmiiKi ii-n-1 htwi ii wnnmii- n ' 'a.i'f iiSj .ii'fr'4i. i M f . l J,4'. i"- ; ? TAJ , tl" -. J - ----- . - . . . - vi , ,,. , i y, -,,.,,, ..,,..,,,.. .. i n,J Cvujck oa a oat com wk tfa .e 1 FORMER EDITOR DIES : London (U P.) Tom Clarke. 73. former editor of the Liberal News Chronicle and who repre I sented several American news ! papers during the Russo-Japa nese war. died Tuesday. PHYSICIST DIES Branford. Conn T Lawrence T. Fairhall. Dr. 63. a ; physicist who retired in 1951 as scientist director of the Na tional Institute of Health of the! U. S. Public Health Service. I died Monday. Kao-tabs Easy to use. pleasant tastine. rie pendable! Not a narcotic Ideal fr travel, home. wrk. Why carry bulky liquids'1 Why risk embar ramenf Aslt vour druESlst for KAO-TASS! Trtankt to rfi miracle of froren foods mkJ prepared mixes, the modern housewife can bake a cherry pie or concoct a whole meal "quick as a cat can wink ita eve." Bui nAaf iem tht Jo with Ihe time the. nova ? Just takei care of thret or four kids, makes slip-coveri and drapes, acts as family chauffeur and nurse, does the washing and ironing, entertain her husband's boM, probably helps out at the local hospital or maybe sent 5 as Den Mother for ten husky, unruly Cub Scouts. And sht ion ntn mart! Chances are ihe acts as family purchasing agent and bookkeeper. And her family's financial standing depends as much upon her ability to budget and save money as it does on her husband's ability to earn it. That's why to many women today are helping their hubands jrt started on a regular savings program in U.S. Series E Savings Bonds. Everybody wanls to save, but modern women face the fact that few people can do it on a hit or miss basis. The secret of saving is rystem, and one of the easiest svstems to follow is for the family breadwinner to buy Bonds through the Payroll Savings Plan. Once a wage earner sizns up for this plan where he works, his money is automatically saved for him in snfe and sure U.S. Savings Bonds. Helper familv win financial security by encouraging your husband to join the Pavroll Savings Plan or invest in Bonds regularly where he banks. He'll thank vou for it tomorrow! PART OF EVERT AMERICAN'S SAVINGS BELONGS IN U. S. SAVINGS BONDS re 0. 8. Govm nimM dott not pay tor ftto mAm limmtnt. Tht TreotKry DtpannitM Ihnnf for ffieo- tuti wtot Astatmm. tht AdMrtauif Council tn4 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE J
