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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE clhool HEDRICK JUNIOR HIGH i to plague the group as the see- By Jim Frake j ond week got under way. The National school assemblies ; Positions are open at all presented their first program at places, and competition will be Hedrick Junior High Sept. 17. 1 strong. It is hoped that several Charles Goesell of Chicago, 111., newcomers will come through presented his trained -Wonder in unexpected places, for many Dogs." Goese-11 has owned and j of them show latent ability to operated kennels for the past 15 la good f00tball. years and has personally trained . 1,000 dogs of all breeds. In the!' The first assembly was held first half of the program the i Sept. 20. Roberta Willets called dogs performed outstanding ; the meeting to order, and Dick tricks and during the second Ragsdale led the flag salute, half of the program he demon- j principal Glenn Linn then in stated to the students how they troduced the new members of could train dogs to do the same , tne McLoughlin staff. tncks- , I Officer Berle Stevens of the Vance Welty, a ninth grade student at Hedrick, had an un usual job this summer. He had the opportunity to paint some murals on the walls of the near by hamburger stand, known as "Herbs." The murals illustrated a typical class room with the typ ical pranksters found in the old time schools. Students of Hedrick went to the General Motors "Previews of Progress" at an assembly Sept. 19. John Horstmann of the GM corporation public relations staff conducted the program. He demonstrated scientific develop ments from the research labora tories. The most amazing of these were the making of syn thetic rubber and the frying of - i ijm an eg3 on acuiu aiuvc. The Hedrick faculty and their h.Kh.mri and wives bsvp a din- ner party Wednesday. Sept. 18 at the home of Vincent Bevis, principal. The party was held in honor of the six new members of the faculty and as a get-acquainted party. The Hedrick Junior High school activity program has been enlarged this year. The activities that are the same as last year are seventh grade seasonal sports, stingers, shop and glee club; eighth grade sports, science stingers and glee club; ninth grade sports, P'uture Home makers of America and stingers. The new activities are Spanish club for seventh grade, Thurs days, taught by Jerry McDou gall; shop for ninth grade girls, Tuesday, Duane Richardson as advisor; and cooking for ninth grade boys taught by Mrs. Dor othy Sneed. Those activities which are opened to all grades are art, newspaper, glee club, visual aids, Red Cross (elective), outdoor sports, intramurals, the Hive, a boys' glee club, and a hunter's safety course. An activity handbook for par ents will be sent to all parents of Hedrick students. McLOUGHLIN JUNIOR HIGH By Joel Gregory Majorettes chosen for the band are Betty Young, Louise "Willis, Stephanie Hertager, Bar bara Baccus, Sharon Smith, Bon nie Wilson, and Carolyn Denyer. Home room officers were elected last week. Student body elections will be held this week. More than 50 prospective grid ders have started their second week of football practice. Condi tioning and fundamentals have been receiving attention. Lack of timing and slow starting seemed Closing Date for Prog ram Extended Valley Forge, Pa. The clos ing date for nominations in the 1957 awards program of Free doms Foundation at Valley Forge has been extended from Sept. 17 to Oct. 15, foundation president, Dr. Kenneth D. Wells, has an nounced. Nominations, submitted by the general public, are judged by a distinguished awards jury, com prising a representative cross section of state supreme court jurists and executive officers of national patriotic, veterans and service organizations. Recipients are awarded cash and honor medals for their work in helping to bring about a bet ter understanding of the "Amer ican way of life," through patri otic projects, programs, expres sions and other efforts during 1957. TWO NEW HOMES Just Completed by Owner-Builder WILL BE SHOWN TODAY Noon Til Dark Pioneer Subdivision 3385 and 3415 Hollywood Ave. BOTH TOP QUALITY THROUGHOUT 3 Bedrooms 2 Baths Family Rooms 2 Fireplaces Patios Paved Streets News j Medford city police department was introduced, and spoke to the students. He warned students not to associate with strangers, and then reviewed safe practices for bicycle riders. He reminded students that licenses must be obtained, and that the city bi cycle code is being enforced. Violation of traffic rules will re sult in impounding of the bi cycle. Copies of the bicycle code may be obtained at the police station. YMCA fo Continue Swim Program Medford YMCA is continuing j its swimming program through i the fall and winter months, with 'its indoor pool available to peo j Pie of all ages. Instructors conduct year round lessons in a program patterned after the National YMCA Pro gressive Aquatic Tests program used by more than 700 YMCA organizations in the United States. The program is designed to teach swimming on a progres sive basis, beginning with elem entary skills and advancing to more difficult achievements. The classification of skills for boys and girls are, in order, be- gmers, minnows, fish, flying fish, shark, and junior and senior life saving. There are also swimming class es for men and women. In the program for boys and girls, sev eral play swim periods are in corporated. Several hours are set aside each week in which men and women can practice swimming. The YMCA indoor pool is heat ed in 80 degrees fahrenheit. Lumbermen Schedule Meeting This Week Jackson and Klamath county sawmill operators will meet at the Jackson hotel in Medford Wednesday, Sept. 25, for a West Coast Lumbermen's association meeting. A no-host dinner at 7 p.m. will follow a social hour beginning at 6 p.m., according to T. K. Oliver of Timber Products company, who will serve as chairman. All lumber manufacturers in southern Oregon and northern California are invited to attend, Oliver said. Current activities in trade promotion, public relations and advertising will be discussed by Robert E. Mahaffay, trade pro motion manager. K. C. Batcheld- er, traffic manager, will tell of new developments in traffic. Beverage Convention Set For Klamath Falls Klamath Falls (IP) The Oregon Licensed Beverage asso ciation will hold its 16th annual convention here starting Mon day, according to President Al Harris of the Portsmouth club in Portland. Principle speakers will be C. LeRoy Jensen, president of the National Licensed Beverage as sociation, Jackson Hole, Wyo., Clarence Dufek, of the Licensed Beverage Industries' Public Ac tivities division, and Joseph Nance, administrator of the Ore gon Liquor Control commission. The average American farm er is getting older. In 1940 he was 48 years old. In 1954 he was 49.6 years old. Hardwood Paneling Built-in Appliances Large 100x170 Lots Slide-by Windows Oversize Double Garage Sliding Glass Patio Doors Sunday, September 22, 1957 TO VISIT HERE Franci3 Bak er, Oregon state president of the Eagles, will pay his official visit to Crater Lake Aerie 2093 of Medford Monday, Sept. 23. He is past president of the Hood River Aerie, and has served as district chairman, region four president, and on Grand Aerie committees. He lives in Pendle ton. A special meeting has been planned for the visit, with a dinner starting at 6:30 p.m. Dick Clark Named Chief of Order of Arrow in Scouts Dick Clark, Mazuma Lodge chief, was selected the state-wide chief of Order of the Arrow at the recent Area 11A conference. He is the third Medford boy to be selected area chief. Craig Phillips and James Boyd were the fourth and sixth annual con ference chiefs. This year, not only will Clark be in charge of the seventh an nual conference but he will trav el to the national conference planning meeting in Laurence, Kans. during Christmas vaca tion. In August he, with the help of adult Scouters of the Crater Lake council, will lead a bus load of Scouts from southern Oregon and northern California to the University of Kansas for the national meeting of the Or der of the Arrow. Highlight of Conference Clark said the "highlight of the conference was not the Ira quois dance team from Portland, athletics, discussions, or displays but a 'let's do something when we get home' attitude." Since the conference, a dance team, under the direction of N. H. Gladfelter has been established in Medford. Within a month or two the team will be able to perform for any civic or frater nal group, Clark said. . In this council the Order of the Arrow is divided into three j chapters serving Jackson, Jose-! phine, and Siskiyou counties. Mazama Lodge members are available in each of the counties to serve scouting or community groups. Chet Wilcox, Gene Schmidt, and Jim Gordon are the chiefs of the three districts. Patents Available Include Many Items j Patents covering 139 inven- j tions now availble to small busi-1 ness firms under sale or licens-1 ing include such items as a port- j able tire inflator, safety pin, I fuel pump, educational toy and puzzle, a low voltage guide light and five Atomic Energy commis- j sion patents, according to the . September issue of the Small I Business administration products list circular. The privately and government-owned inventions are des- ; cribed in the monthly circular j to provide information on new : and improved products and j processes which may be of in-; terest to small companies for j manufacture, expansion or di-: versification of their lines. Privately - owned inventions listed in the circular are offered by the owners for commercial j development and distribution through outright sale, licensing or other arrangements. Government-owned inventions are ordi narily available for licensing on a royalty - free, non - exclusive basis. ' 26 Cases of Measles Reported Last Week Jackson county health depart ment received reports of 26 cas es of influenza in Medford dur ing the week ending Sept. 20. Eight other cases of influenza were reported in other areas of the county. Other cases of com municable disease in the county I reported to the health depart- j : ment included five infectious : hepatitis, four scalp ringworm, i four strep throat, two impetigo, : two German measles, two pneu-. monia, one mumps and one . ! chicken pox. ; BOY SCOUTS ; I Troop 15 ! Boy Scout Troop 15 of Phoe-1 ! nix is planning a bottle drive i Sunday, Sept. 22. starting at 1:30 j ! p.m. Proceeds from the drive i : will go toward purchasing scout : compasses for the troop. Scouts i . will pick up the bottles, accord i ing to Scoutmaster O. R. Caster. ! Five Oregonians Killed On Turnpike In Head-On Crash Pittsburgh (IP Five Ore gon persons, including two young children, were killed Fri day evening when their automo bile crossed the medial strip on the Pennsylvania Turnpike and collided headon with a tractor trailer. The dead were identified ten tatively as John M. Kelly, 26, of 525 East Fairfield St., Gladstone, his wife, Hazel, 27, and their daughter. Susan, 1, and Mrs. Bar bara E. Young, 22, of Route 1, Box 87, Beaver Creek, and her daughter, Patricia, 18 months. The victims were enroute from Brooklyn, N.Y., to Cleveland to meet Mrs. Young's husband, Donald, who was a brother of Mrs Kelly. Families Moved State police said the two fami lies had moved from Oregon about two weeks ago to Brook lyn. Donald Young continued at his job in Oregon and was to re join his family later. State police said the victims' auto, bearing California plates and driven by Kelly, apparently skidded in the rain on the turn pike near the Pittsburgh inter change. It veered across the me dial strip and collided with a tractor-trailer operated by Thur man D. Korns, Stoyestown, Som erset county, Pa., who was not injured. First tentative identification of the victims was made in a telephone call to state police at the Gibsonia, Pa., barracks from Mrs. Robert Young, Cleveland, a relative of the Young family. Further identification came from relatives in Oregon. Woodburn Man Killed Walking On Tracks Woodburn HP) A 45-year-old Woodburn area man was killed Friday when he was struck by a train of the Oregon Electric line three miles west of here. Train crewmembers said Lar ry Bittencourt was walking be tween the tracks and the engi need did not see him in time to stop. United Med 'Carrie' Going Strong Far Out in Atlantic Washington OP) Still dan gerous hurricane Carrie barreled far out into the Atlantic Satur day with no sign of dying out. The Weather Bureau estimat ed the center of the storm was 1,300 miles east of Bermuda and moving along at a forward speed of 15 miles an hour at 6 a.m. edt. Sibelius Mourned By Finnish People As Great Musician Helsinki (IP! Finland mourned Saturday the death of composer Jean Sibelius whose stirring music helped inspire the nation in its struggle for free dom from Russia more than 60 years ago. Sibelius, who would have been 92 on Dec. 8, died of a brain hemorrhage at his country home Friday night even as Brit ish conductor Sir Malcolm Sar gent was lifting his baton to conduct Sibelius' Fifth Sym phony at University Hall in Hel sinki. Flags Flutter Flags fluttered at half staff today throughout inland and a state funeral was planned for the man who was revered as the country's leading citizen. He was considered by many as the greatest composer of sym phonies since Beethoven. His last symphony, the Seventh, appear ed as far back as 1925, but there were recurrent rumors in musi cal circles the old master was working on his eighth. It never appeared. His last years have been spent at Ainola, the home he built 50 years ago in the mountain fast ness outside Helsinki and which became a shrine for music lov ers though he received only a chosen few in his later years. COME FOR BATH Hampton, Conn. (IP! A rec ord drought has resulted in a new version of "come as you are" parties. More fortunate residents whose wells haven't gone dry invite friends over for "bath and dinner." GIVE ONCE GENEROUSLY FOR ALL THE CALIFORNIA OREGON POWER COMPANY A Western Company owned and operated by Western People Las Vegas, Nev. (tB Unfa vorable winds Saturday forced the Atomic Energy Commission to call another 24-hour delay in JAMES M. LYNCH Resident Manager NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE AMERICAN STOCK EXCHANGE PACIFIC COAST STOCK EXCHANGE MIDWEST STOCK EXCHANGE NEW YORK COTTON EXCHANGE ft ford Crusade Its "Whitney" nuclear shot from) a 500-foot steel tower. The shot, finale of the 22-shot summer se-1 ries, was rescheduled for 5:30 I Walstou &Co. Inc. Announces the opening of new, modern ground floor-offices at 127 E. 6TH STREET MEDFORD, OREGON Telephone SPring 2-7194 Our faciVities for your use Include NEW YORK STOCK TICKER DOW JONES TICKER TRANSLUX BOARDROOM DIRECT PRIVATE WIRE TO FLOOR OF NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE STATISTICAL LIBRARY MEMBERS CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE COMMODITY EXCHANGE, INC. NEW YORK PRODUCE EXCHANGE CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE PHILADELPHIA-BALTIMORE STOCK EXCHANGE You are invited to come in and meet our Registered Representatives and inspect our new facilities 52 OFFICES FROM EUROPE TO HAWAII (Other Oregon Offices in Portland and Eugene)-- ' - . ' a.m. p.d.t Sunday. Present wind conditions could have resulted in fallout over populated areas, the AEC said. JAMES M. RAGLAND Registered Representative ! 4 1 J .4 -i I !
