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GOLD HILL
Clubs Participate in Fair
By MRS. CLYDE KELL
Gold Hill Several young
people from Gold Hill partici
pated in the 4-H and FFA fair
in Medford.
Two girls from the Knittin'
Kitten's club, under the leader
ship of Mrs. Ed Knapp, received
the grand champion honor for
their exhibits.
Patricia Knapp received
grand champion for her knitted
TV slippers and wash cloth. She
Is In the beginners group of the
club. These exhibits will go to
the state fair.
Receiving blue ribbons for
first year knitting in this club
were Lyndel Munday and Kar
en Keys, nn their TV slippers
nd wash cloth. Bonnie Knapp
.received a red ribbon for her
first year knitting entry.
Intermediate winners second
year in knitting were Judith
Higgons who received grand
champion honor for the fringed
stole and pony tail hat that she
entered. Carol Higgons, also a
second year, mceived a red rib
bon for her knitted turtle neck
sweater.
. Mrs. Ferd Jones reports that
five of her 10 girls, who are in
the first year Just So Girl's
group of the Busy Bee 4-H Sew
ing club under her leadership,
entered exhibits in the fair.
They were Patricia Knapp. Peg
gy Dye, Sharon Wright, Carlot
ta Davis and Linda Walker.
Carolyn White and Marie
Jones participated in the style
fashion review Tuesday when
they each modeled aprons and
gathered skirts. They are taking
third year 4-H sewing in the
division group and are members
of the Charmingly Yours club
under the leadership of Mrs.
Jerald Whaley and the assistant
leader, Mrs. Sam Jones.
Girls in the 4-H fourth year
sewing group fromothe local
Teenage Miss under the leader
ship of Mrs. Al Beman also par
ticipated in the style review.
Receiving second prize for their
dresses and blouses were Miss
Vervia' Brown, Miss Bonnie
Knapp, and Miss Judith Hig
gons. Miss Judy Force and Miss
Mary Beth Bailey received third
prize on their dress and blouse
exhibits.
Miss Beman won grand cham
pion in a teenage zipper instal
lation contest.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Gray have
had as house guests recently Mr.
and Mrs. Victor Pickett and
sen, Bobbie, of Los Angeles,
Calif. Other guests at the Gray
home last week were his cousin
and wife, Mr: and Mrs. Orville
Gray and sons from the San
Francisco bay area.
A freak accident occurred, at
the Charles McKibbon home on
Sardine creek last Sunday when
Mrs. McKibbon had the misfor
tune of going through the fruit
house door, as the pruning
shears came down and cut a
large gash in her leg. The cut
required 10 stitches.
Four local youngsters visited
the museum in Jacksonville last
Tuesday. They were Linda
Parker, Patty and Bobby Boye
and Shirley Kell, who were ac
companied by Mrs. Lester Par
ker and Mrs. Clyde Kell.
Betty Joe Nealy of Grants
Pass is spending several days
visiting in the home of her
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
Ferd Jones on Sixth ave.
Mrs. Ida McReynolds ' of
Divide, Ore., and her daughter,
Mrs. Richard Knight of Eugene,
were receij guests in the home
of Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Christen-
15-Year-OId Dies in
Abandoned Mine Shalt
Timmins, Ont. m A 15-year-old
boy buried 12 hours in
an abandoned mine shift was
found -dead when rescue teams
working through rockfalls dug
him out Friday.
Tears streaked the grimy faces
of veteran gold miners when
the crushed body of Ronald
Blakemore was handed up the
shaft.
The weeping parents had left
the top of the shaft only 10 min
utes before the miners reached
the crushed body.
Another boy, Bonar Scholes,
16, also fell down the shaft but
was hoisted to safety five hours
later.
Benny The Dishwasher
Freed of Rape Charge
De Land, Fla. (m Ed
ward L. (Benny the Dishwasher)
Bedwell headed home to a "new
life" in Chicago Thursday, free
of a charge that he raped a 13-year-old
girl.
A six-man circuit court Jury
deliberated only 25 minues
Wednesday night before return
ing its verdict of innocent.
Bedwell was first arrested
in Chicago early this year after
he confessed to the brutal mur
der of two teen-age sisters. He
repudiated his confession and
was freed but immediately re
arrested on a Florida warrant
charging him with statuary rape
of a 13-year-old girl at Oak
Hill, Fla., ir March, 1956.
sen on Highway 99, north of
Gold Hill.
George Ellis returned recent
to his home in Calistoga, Calif.,
after a three week's visit in the
home of Mr. and Mrs. S. M.
Christensen. Gene Peque also
of Calistoga spent two days at
the Christrisen home.
30th Anniversary
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Average Costs Down Al Camp Domiciliary
Camp White Average daily
cost per member for operating
the Veterans Administration
domiciliary at Camp White the
fiscal year 1957-57 was $5.03,
five cents less than the average
in 1955-56. ,
Total operating cost was $1,
667,879.17 for the year ending
June 30, 1957. This compared
with $1,649,481.27 the previous
year.
These figures are compiled by
the domiciliary in a brochure
of statistics.
There were 1,179 persons ad
mitted and 1,063 discharged
during the fiscal year, compared
with 790 admitted and 863 dis
charged the previous year.
Twenty items are listed as
engineering projects completed
during the year. They include
such projects as the baseball
grandstand and lights, recrea
tion area including barbecue
pit and fish pond, pitch and putt
golf course, cafeteria, and va
rious building renovations and
office transfers.
A total of 18 individual and
17 group suggestions were re
reived under the incentive
awards program. One cash
award was paid, for $160.
The annual payroll came to
$1,033,844.64 the last fiscal
year. In 1955-56 it was $1,020,-623.45.
There are more than 50,000
Indians in New Mexico, of var
ied cultures and languages. These
includes Navajos, Apaches, Utes,
live in their traditional homelands.
Sunday, August 25, 1957
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINE
Four Members of House
Need Replacing Soon
Salem ttPI Replacement of
four members of the State House
of Representatives who served in
the 1957 regular session will be
required before the special ses
sion convenes October 28, Secre
tary of State Mark Hatfield said
Friday.
In a call from Denver, Colo.,
Hatfield said he has directed the
county courts of Clackamas,
Lane, Columbia and Baker coun
ties to convene to select replace
ments for former Rep. Herman
Chindgren, who died; Richard
Eymann, wio joined the State
Tax commission; Robert Klem
sen, who moved his residence;
and Robert Steward, who be
came director ofagriculture.
Pinball Operators in Eugene Given Notice
Eugene flJV-District Attorney
Eugene Venn Friday gave pin
ball operators 1.0 days to dispose
of their machines before they
were seized by sheriffs deputies.
Venn said in a letter mailed
to some 230 persons that he con
siders the machines as gambling
devices and therefore subject to
seizure by the sheriff and then
destruction by court order.
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