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Local and Personal Kuraraigt Sal A rummage ul will b held by Chapter DG of the PEO Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 4 p m. in the Fehl building. 1(9 North Ivy it. Council Mtating A meeting of Medford Building Trades Council will be held at the Med ford Labor Temple Wednesday at S p.m. HERE'S 72 tip! pn HAPPY HARRY "Borrow The . . . American Way LOANS $25 t. $1,500 AUTO SALARY FURNITURE for Any Warthwhtla Purpeia ttymtntt Ta Fit Yaul Budget! American Finance Corp. ha SPring 2-8886 11J W. Miia Mtdferd Muscular Dystrophy A reg ular monthly meeting of the Muscular Dystrophy association will be held at the Eagles aux iliary hall, 27 West Main it., Monday. Wood Thaft Jaequtlina A. McGee reported to sheriff's of ficers Friday that fire wood had been stolen from Jackson Hot Springs on Highway 99, north of Ashland. Right of War Fixa A grass and brush fire, caused by a hot box on a Southern Pacific train, burned a strip one mile long and 100 feet wide three miles south of Gold Hill Saturday afternoon, according to forestry department officials. Accidant Raportad John Wil lard Morgan, 1117 Murray st., reported to city police Saturday morning that a pickup owned by Seven-Up Bottling company, 306 South Fir st., had been struck by an unidentifed vehicle. The pickup was parked on South Fir st. between Tenth and Elev enth st., police reported. Daughlar Born Mr. and Mrs. William Swofford, Arcada, Calif, are parents of a girl born Aug. 8. Mrs. Swoffordi s the former Miss Shirley Keplinger, daugh ter of Mrs. Henry Keplinger, 107 South Newtown ave. Visiting at hethe Swoford home were Mrs. Keplinger and her two children, Miss Linda Sharon and Phillip Henry Keplinger. They recently returned to Medford after a six weeks visit. WEATHER United Press Northern California: Fair ex cept local coastal fog; slightly warmer. h.MfAHii 2 GREAT HITS! aa.Tu,7j.rmKiJ 1st Drive In Run SHOW AT 7:33 TONITEI " HEPBURN Fred ASTA1RE " Plus Th SENSATIONAL expose' of the fight racket! i MumDnrev k DUV7AM fft-l XfT JAN STERLING ROD STEIGER Festival Plays Tonight: "Othallo." Monday: '"Two Gantla men of Verona." Tuesday: "Henry VIIL" Wednesdayi "As You Like It." Curtain time for all plays is 8:30 p.m. Obiiuaries JAMES A. BRADSHAW James A. Bradshaw, 86, of 159 Second st., Ashland, died late Saturday afternoon. He was born on March 3, 1871 in Lathany, 111. He is survived by his wife, Alice L. Bradshaw. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Litwiller'i Funer al Home. News About Servicemen RATING ADVANCED Ellis Feinstein, Ashland, a member of Naval reserve elec tronics division 13-5, Medford, was recently advanced to petty officer rating as electronics tech nician third class, from electron ics seaman. ON ACTIVE DUTY Five memberi of Naval re serve electronics division 13-5, Medford, go on active duty Aug. 22. They are Gerald Gilbert and Daniel R. Mackay, Ashland, and Montana B. Facey, Eugene D. Henshaw and Bruce E. Plngle, all of Butte Falls. . The men will serve two-year toun of duty. Tlfey will go to Seattle Aug. 22 to receive assignment. CAMP BOUND Twenty-eight enlisted men and officers of headquarters and headquarters company, second battalion, 413th infantry regi ment, Medford, leave sere Sun day for two weeks of summer training at Yakima Training Center, Yakima, Wash. The group will travel by pri vate car. Commander of the unit is Major Robert A. Elliott, 432 Ardmore ave. ! Also at the camp will be Com ; pany E of the same unit, Grants Pass, with 33 men. CHAPMAN ON TEAM Marine staff "sergeant Wayne Li Chapman, son of Mr. and jMrs. Robert V. Chapman, 343 ! Mae st., is competing as a mem j ber of' the Marine corps rifle ! and pistol team in the 1957 na tional rifle and pistol matches at Camp Perry, Ohio. Chapman is one of 110 Mar ines in the event, which lasts Aug. 9 through Sept. 10. I POLICE WOUND SELVES ! Los Angeles OPt Two off j duty policemen wounded them ! selves with the same revolver ! Friday when a man tried to hold them up. The gun went off and wounded officers R. J. Steele and J. K. Sherratt when they both reached for it as it lay on the auto seat between them. The would-be holdup man fled. DONT MISS THE FUN OF JACKSON COUNTY'S BIGGEST FALL EVENT! WILLIAM C. McKINNIS William C. McKinnis, 69. 144 Fourth St., Ashland, died Satur day at an Ashland hospital. Mr. McKinnis has been in the shoe repair business for many years in Ashland. Further funer al announcement will be made Monday by Litwiller Funeral liome in Ashland. SUSIE E. SHERRIFF Services for Mrs. Susie E. her riff, 70, of Wimer, who died in a local hospital Saturday, will be held in the Conger-Morris Chap el Monday at 3 p.m. The Rev. George A. Trobough, of the First Methodist church will officiate. Committal will be in Memory Gardens. Mri. Sherriff wai born in Whitehorse, Montana, Dee. 3, 1887. She had made her home in the Rogue valley for the past seven years.. ' She is aurvived by her hus band. Earl Sherriff, of Wimer; a son Arthur Sherriff, Portland; a brother, Randolph Butts, Atas cadero, Calif.; two sisters, Mrs. Edith Knight, Portland, and Mrs. Hattie Old, Medford, and four grandchildren. . 1 RICHARD LANDERS Graveside services for Richard Vernon Landers, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. James Landers, of Central Point, were held yester day morning at Siskiyou Memo rial park. Conger-Morris Funeral home was in charge. Survivors besides the parents include three sisters, Connee Ma rie, Cathe Elizabeth, and Cynde Ann; and grandparents, Mrs. John Claybaugh, Eoketee Falls and Jess Cohen, Los Angeles; and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lentz, Medford. Preliminary Permit For Dam to Be Filed Seattle (IB The Washington Public. Power Supply System this week will file with the Fed eral Power commission a pre liminary permit application for the proposed 585,000 kilowatt Ben Franklin dam on the Colum bia river, it was announced Fri day. The system, composed of 17 state Public Utility districts, de cided to file the application in response to a request by the Benton County PUD last week. Grover C. Greimes, president of the system, said the prelimi nary premit "would give WPPSS a three-year priority period in which to perfect detailed plans for the fullest possible benefits from this section of the river and to prepare for a construction license application." The dam. would be located about eight miles upstream from Richland. Sunday, August 18, 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE riTTgEW KIWANIS TOWN & COUNTRY HOLIDAY MEDFORD ARMORY .AUG. 22, 23, 24 & 25 Thursday, Friday, Saturday fir Sunday " FEATURES INCLUDE DAILY STAGE SHOWS STARRING EDDIE PEABODY KING OF THE BANJO o o AS k f IK )- PLUS A FAST MOVING VARIETY SHOW AND TALENT SEARCH FOREIGN & SPORTS CARS HOME & FARM DISPLAYS ARMED FORCES EXHIBITS HOBBIES & CRAFTS FARM PRODUCTS BOOTH CONCESSIONS & RIDES LOCAL TALENT SEARCH SATURDAY NIGHT DANCE DEMONSTRATIONS PLUS A HOST OF SPECIAL EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES! C. ROY COFFMAN Funeral services for C. Roy Coffman, 75, who died Thursday, will be held in Ashland Mortuary chapel Monday at 1:30 p.m. The Rev. B. J. Holland of the First Presbyterian church will offici ate. Masonic graveside services will be held at the Stearns ceme tery. Talent. Mr. Coffman was born Nov. 1, 1881, in Lebanon, Mo. He was married to Edith Coleman, who preceded him in death in Feb ruary this year. He came to the Rogue valley in 1907. He lived in Talent be fore moving to Ashland three years ago. While living in Talent he was town marshal. Mr. Coff man belonged to Ashland lodge AF and AM. Survivors include three sisters Mrs. Victoria Carter, Pauls Val ley; Okla., Mrs. O. Jean Strick land, and Mrs. Laura Barnes, both of Los Angeles; two broth ers, Clarence W. Coffman, Pauls Valley, Okla., and Paul W. Coff man, Los Angeles; a step-daughter, Mrs. George Holt, Ashland and a step-son, E. H. Cochrane, Klamath Falls. Nobel Prize Winner Dies in Mass. Friday Falmouth, Mass. (ffl Dr. Irv ing Langmuir, 78, world-renowned scientist and winner of the Nobel Prize, died Friday at the summer home of his nephew. Langmuir, who retired after serving 41 years with the Gen eral Electric company in Sche nectady. N.Y., in 1950, won the Nobel Prize in 1932 for research in chemistry. He made his home in Schenectady. - The icientist'i research was said to have saved the American public billions of dollars a year in electric light bills and to have helped estabish modern radio and television broadcasting. Langmuir's experiments with oil films on water opened an en tirely new field of chemistry, known as two-dimensional or surface chemistry. The scientist also made significant contribu tions to th. developing science of weather control. Woodlawn, Tenn. Iff) Harold Foster got a surprise when he opened a door of a cabinet where hia wife keeps canned goods. A live opossum was calmly lying in the cabinet. Notbody knows how he got there. Court Dismisses Appeal from Indians San Francisco HB The U. S. Court of Appeals Friday dismissed an appeal by the Cowlitz Tribe who sought to enjoin the city of Tacoma from building two dams on the Cow litz river. The court held that the In dians had no title to the land or water through treaty or other rights and that the United States occupied the land "sovereign and possessor and has acted as the proprietor ... of all the lands involved for a century." The court also said Tacoma had gained title to some of the lands by release of portions of the area by the federal govern ment. The Indians had sued in Fed eral District Court for the in junction to halt construction of Mayfield and Mossy Rock dams on the ground that they had an "aboriginal" right to the area. The District Court dismissed the suit on the ground that there was no federal question involved. Government Cracks Whip on Schedules Washington HP) The gov ernment cracked the whip Sat urday over the nation's com mercial airlines to provide "re alistic" passenger flight sched ules. It handed a major victory to the Airline Pilots association (ALP A), which had complained to the Civil Aeronautics Board that "phony flight schedules were a threat to safety." The ALPA had charged that schedules put out by a number of airlines listed flight times which were incapable of being met "even a small percentage of the time." ,' It said that- trying to "accom plish impossible schedules re sults in a threat to safety." An airline spokesman denied the charge. California Couple Looking for Son A letter seeking a missing California boy was received by the Mail Tribune Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Little, of Plinfield, Calif., reported to sheriff's deputies there that their son, Patrick, 13, left home Sat urday, Aug. 10, after wrecking his father's pickup truck. He was reportedly last seen on highway 99 west near Dunni gan. Calif., hitchhiking north. He is described as five feet two inches tall, wearing a white T shirt and a brown ' leaaher jacket.-His parents estimated he had some $40. ', Anyone seeing the boy is ask ed to call MO 2-5872, "Woodland, Calif. AVA ESCAPES INJURY Madrid (IP) Movie star Ava Gardner escaped unhurt when her car collided with a taxi at an intersection Friday. Both cars were damaged severely, but no one was reported injured. OPEN TO THE PUBLIC ' Zotolla's Country Club locatid n Grants Pan Golf Coursa SERVING DINNERS DAILY Ftaturing FIN I ITALIAN FOOD and PIZZA Yugoslavia Refugees Flooding Austria Vienna (IPl The influx of: refugees from Communist Yugo slavia to Austria has reached the "character of a mass flight" in the past weeks, Austrian In terior Minister Oskar Helmer said Saturday. Helmer said the Yugoslva j refugees are pouring into Austria i at a rate of 80 to 100 daily, jam ming all Yugoslav refugee camps in this country. The num ber increased from 1,500 in June to 2,600 in July and is likely to exceed 3,500 in Aug ust, he said. Suez Company Taking Court Action for Money Paris (If) The old Suez Canal company said Saturday it was taking court action in Switzerland to regain assets seized by the Egyptian govern ment after the nationalization of the waterway. A spokesman said the com pany asked a Swiss bank hold ing assets to transfer them to the company, but the Egyptian government opposed the request. He said "in consequence, it will be up to the Swiss courts." EGYPT DELIVERS PLANES Cairo IW Egypt hai de livered another group of fighter aircraft to Saudi Arabia under the provisions of the 1958 joint defense pact, Cairo Radio re ported today. nior Maaita. iHt, aajfart mat XaavltaJltr Buckhorn Mineral Springs Sanitarium at a aw Jaaaa Ufa throat tat MlfMr LU minaral nun fr Rhaam&tll Arthrttla. KnrtUl MarTMmau, HI eh u Law Blood Praanra and Ikla Braptlana. Carta Blaartii tar Asthma. Enaiia. 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SEE TUESDAYS MAIL TRIBUNE FOR FULL DETAILS! COMBINED WITH ANNUAL 4-H F.F.A. FAIR JACKSON COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS AUG. 20-24 r LET'S ALL GO TO THE FAIR! HOUSE of MYSTERY North of Gold Hill AT Open Throughout The Year On Display - One of the West's Finest Collections of Gold Dust and Nuggets Summer Hours 8 to 6 Under Founder's Management Sine 1930 TODAY -CONTINUOUS FROM 1:00 P.M. mMMMmiEBsmfmmii n ,A ii He thought he was quite a man... until he ran into that adorable doll who had 20 MEN IN HER PAST I iiiinREY Cu& hepburh; MAURICE CHEVAUltK i2 haktW m Kncla) aj BILLY WILDER PLUS EXCITING CO-HIT ONLY A MARINE KNOWS WAR AND WOMEN LIKE THIS! m 9 bf anaaa. PAYNE MONA FREEMAN BACK THE j NIGHT W Ki.iwn.rrrMirDTrmi MAMIE VAN DOftEN LOB NELSON wmm m man . mol imi 2ND EXCITING HIT ZACHARY SCOn PEGGIE CASTLE STARTS TONITE PLUS -V m EBSJU BOCHAMAN V a mi
