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o o Recommended A story detcribing the cere mony linking California and Oregon y railroad, and a brief history of the Siskiyou line ap pears on page It of today'i Mail Tribune. 64 Pages Combined Program IPBanned by Schools The first combined Christmas orosram bv secondary schools in Medford will be held starting at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 18, at Hedrick Junior High school's ' gymnasium. The production will be staged by 800 students, including a 150 piece orchestra, and a chorus of 680 voices from MeJford High and Hedrick and McLoughlin Junior High schools. ' Jerry L. Dyrud, vocal music supervisor of Medford public schools, is directing the produc tion, the first of its kind in the system. Assisting him are Lyn Sjolund, high school vocal mu sic director; Ray Lewis, Mc Loughlin vocal music depart ment; Bob Anderson, also of Mc Loughlin; Carroll Graber, Hed rick vocal music department; and John Drysdale, orchestra di rector. The program will be in two parts, Dyrud said. The first part is the legend of Christmas, and the second is the A'doration of Christ. 300 Voce Choir Included The legend part will include a 300-voice choir on stage support ed by 380 voices in front and be side the stage. Selections will range from spirituals, and tradi tional Christmas carols to P. I. Tschaikovsky's "Nut Cracker Suite" which will feature orches tra, chorus and a special dance figuration adapted to "Dance of the Reed Flutes," Dyrud said. Three dimensional effects in stage decoration have been achieved by Miss Catherine Fon ken of the Hedrick art depart ment, and Jack Teeter of Mc- mem, u o I larceny involving union iunas. Loughlin's art department. Spe- b The . reached verdict af liwhtinw effects havi been , i j cial lighting effects hav been achieved by Jerry Aicuougai, Hedrick Junior High, and stu dent technicians for various por tions of the program, Dyrud not ed. The set of the second part, the (Adoration of Christ, is so con structed as to depict the life of Christ from birth to death. A se lect choir of 150 voices.will serve as background for the setting, as they and the other 530 voices bring the portrayal through the medium of Roy Ringwald's set ting of "Song of Christmas. Narrator for the second por tion will be Dennis Barr. Christmas programs are sched uled in six elementary schools in the Medford district. All of them are scheduled Thursday, Dec 19 Jefferson school students will present a program including "The Shoemaker's Christmas" and choral speaking, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Jefferson audi torium. Mrs. Ann Stoughton is directing the program. "Christmas Is Remembering" is the theme for the program for Washington school auditorium. Mrs. Alpha Jane Butler is gen eral chairman of the program. Operetta Included A story, "The Capture of San 4 riatis." an operetta for chil- 4 van u ill be included in the program at Jackson school audi- toriunVat 7 p.m. inursaay. mis Sara Watson, Mrs. Lillian Bohr r Mrs. Mvrna Dean and Mrs Louella Schneider are in charge of various phases of the program A "Children's Dream of Christ tf ' - ill KwUWTAIN OF MAIL The Christmas season always means a lot of extra work for Post Office employees and this year is no exception. Above, Post Office Clerk Gerald Cramer, left, and supervisor of mails William Rose throw down sacks of mail to be loaded on the special Southern Pacific Santa Claus car that runs through Medford each day. So far the volume of mail seems to be about equal to last years, according to Postmaster Moore Hamilton, but he predicts that next week could be the heaviest on (Record due to the fact Christmas falls in the middle of the follow ing week. 52nd Year MEDFORD United Pres Pull Leased Wif mas," a story written by Lincoln School Principal Roy Gilbert- son, will be presented by prim ary grades at Lincoln school gymnasium at 1:15 p.m. Thurs day. A special third grade chor us will sing and band and or chestra will play selected Christ mas music during the program. An all-school production is scheduled at Oak Grove school starting at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Title of the production is "The Little Fir Tree," with Mrs. Lois Seitz as general chairman. Dena Taylor will be featured soloist. Each room at the West Side school will present a Christmas play in a program starting at 7:00 p.m. Thursday at the West Side school. Rooms will feature vocal groups and speaking choirs, and the entire student body will participate in a musi cal scene from the life of Christ. Mrs. Eleanor Hamilton and Mrs. Marjorie Blaar will direct the program scheduled at the Roosevelt school annex starting at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Some 300 students will participate in the program, which will include solos and ensembles. Teamster President Receives Conviction On Grand Larceny Seattle IP) Teamster Presi dent Dave Beck was convicted Saturday on a charge of grand ter more than eight hours of de liberation. The maximum sentence for grand larceny in Washington state is 15 years. Neither the judge nor attorneys would di vulge what they discussed in the post-verdict meeting. Beck, 63, was accused of put ting into his own bank account $1,900 obtained from the sale of a Cadillac owned by the West ern Conference of Teamsters. The Teamsters boss admitted he authorized the sale of the car and that the money was placed in his private account. However, the defense contended tne mon ey was used by the union lor contributing to political candi dates. The lurv received the case al ter judge George H. Revelle de nied a mistrial motion Dy oe fense attorney Charles S. Burdell who accused deputy prosecutor Laurence Regal of "inflamatory and prejudicial" statements. . Regal had described Burdell's summation as "frantic." However, he also described the stocky defense attorney as "the old master." "I know where I'll go if I get into trouble. Regal said, looking at Burdell. "He's done a magni ficent job with nothing to work on. Washington (tPI Two members of the Senate Rackets committee said today the em bezzlement conviction of Team sters President Dave Beck is a "vindication" of the committee's work. Governor Expected To Arrive Here For Home Opening Speeches Set fo'r 2 P.M. At Fairgrounds Location Gov. Robert D. Holmes is ex about 11:25 a.m. today for a luncheona nd to give the dedi cation address for the new Jack son county juvenile detention home .this afternoon. The detention home will be dedicated in ceremonies start ing at 2 p.m. today. The new 590,000 building is on the old Jackson county fairgrounds site behind the new Medford Nation al Guard armory. In addition to Governor Holmes, Judge William S. Fort of the Lane county circuit court also will speak. Judge Fort handles most of the juvenile cases in Lane county. Governor Holmes, who will be met by a group of local Demo crats, will be honored at a lun cheon at the Medford hotel at 12:30 p.m. according to James Redden, Democratic Central Committee chairman. The pub lic has been invited to the lun cheon. The detention home will be open for public inspection be tween 2 and 9 p.m. today, the second day of the open house. It was open yesterday afternoon and last night, and will be open between 2 and.-9 p.m. Monday. The new home will be used fol lowing open house. The new building includes a juvenile courtroom, judge's chamber and offices for profes sional staff. It also includes quarters for Mr. and Mrs. Rob ert Swan, superintendent and matron for the home. HMMMM Buying Christmas gifts for the women-folk in his family seems to be some what of a problem for Art Longan who is being shown in a pair of pajamas in the picture above by clerk Marty Barclay of Pick's Apparel. The Longan family, who now TREE SHOPPERS Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without a tree for the children and it takes a lot of looking to find just the right size, and shape. Some families like to cut their own out in the woods but its much easier to buy one at one of the many lots in town. Helping their mother, Mrs. Curt Butterfield, pick cut a tree above are Lynee, 6, Pete, 3, and Joe, 1. The children seem to be visualizing how the tree will look all covered with tinsel and lights, standing by the window in their living room. The Butterfield's other son, Roger, 5, was not on the tree-hunting expedition. MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1957 "Let's Look At It Takes Us Off The (Herblock Is Friday Closing Set For All Jackson county schools will close Friday afternoon, Dec. 20, for the Christmas vacation, according to the Jackson county school office. Vacation periods will vary this year, but most schools will resume classes Jan. 2, officials said. Classes resume in Medford, Jacksonville, Griffin Creek, Ruch, Phoenix, Ashland, Apple gate, Prospect, Evans Valley, - : . " - mm . i J nrn It This Way. Hook On This Mess. CoprriKbt 1987. The Pulitzer Hublishtoit Co. at. Louis Post-Dispatch on Vacation) County Schools Eutte Falls, Howard and District 6C on Thursday, Jan. 2. District 6C includes Central Point, Gold Hill and Sams Valley. Classes resuming Monday, Jan. 6, are Eagle Point, Lone Pine, Rogue River, Elk Trail, Shady Cove, and Pinehurst schools. Talent school students will re turn to classes Monday, Dec. 30, officials said. live in Brookings are former Medford resi dents and made the trip from the coast this week to do some Christmas shopping. Lon gan was formerly a partner in Modern Plumbing company of Medford. NO PROBLEM There is not much doubt about what two-year-old Sheryl Lee Wells, above, wants Santa Claus to bring her for Christmas. She headed straight fort he doll section when she and her mother entered the toy department of a downtown store one day last week. While her mother looked at other toys, Sheryl was busy trying a doll first in a toy crib and then in a high chair. With a. lot of people doing their Christmas shopping ahead of time, the top departments in some Medford stores already look bare compared to what they did earlier in the season. RIBUN Special Session Held For Transfer Of County Funds To Pay For Fixtures, Furniture In Home The Jackson county budget committee, called into special session Friday afternoon by the county court, authorized a trans fer of $14,500 in county funds to pay for fixtures and furnishings for the new juvenile detention home to be dedicated today. A public hearing to validate the action has been called for Monday, Jan. 13, according to the county court. The court, in a prepared state ment following the budget com mittee meeting, said: v "Funds were collected during the tax year 1956-57 in accord ance with a special three-tenths of a mill levy enacted by the people in 1954. These funds had reverted to the general county fund at the end of fiscal year 1956-57." No Funds Budgeted Members of the court explain ed that no funds were budgeted for furniture, fixtures and some equipment at the detention home for the current fiscal year be cause it was their understanding at budget time that needed mon ies could be appropriated from the emergency fund. They said it was the idea of the budget committee that the expenses should be handled this way. Later, however, they deter mined that there is some ques tion as to this procedure, and as a result they called Friday's meeting and the Jan. 13 hearing, they reported. The fund transfer was approved unanimously by the court and three citizen mem bers of the budget committee, they said. The court's statement added, "This action will have no effect on the tax rate in Jackson coun ty, and is basically a bookkeep ing transaction, and will involve the collection of no additional taxes. It was taken in accordance with local budget law." The fixtures, furniture and equipment in question has al ready been ordered and installed in the detention home, but has not yet been paid for, the court said. County Clerk Bereth Hop kins refused to draw . warrants in payment for the material due to the legal question involved, court members added," and their decision to settle the" question by calling the budget committee into session resuled. WEATHER . FORECAST: Fog or low clouds with occasional light rain throufeh Sunday morning, in termittent rain Sunday after noon through Monday morn ing, partial clearing Monday afternoon. Snow in mountains on Sunday. High today 42, low tonight 35, high Monday 45. TEMP. Highest Yesterday 38 Lowest this Morning ...... 33 To 10 p.m. Yesterday trace Our Skies Tonight Sunrise . 7:14 a.m. Sunset 4:40 p.m. The Moon rises Monday 2:34 a.m. in the constellation, Virgo, and appears quite near its principal star, Spica. The much brighter "star" to the left of the Moon and Spica is Jupiter, the largest planet. Price 10 United Press Full Leased Wire Eisenhower Lands To Paris (IB President Eisen hower, who liberated Paris from the Nazi armies 13 years ago, came back Saturday to lead the Atlantic Alliance against the challenge of "despotic" Com munism. Agreement Made On Work Schedule For Road Link An informal agreement that the proposed Klamath Falls -Medford route, by way of Lake of the Woods, should be "im proved without long delay" was made last week in Portland, according to a Salem newspap erman. x James D. Olson, who writes a weekly column for several Ore gon newspapers, reported in Friday's issue of the Klamath Falls Herald and News that the state highway commission took "the first official step towards modernization" of the route at a joint meeting of the commis sion with representatives of the U. S. forest service and the bur eau of public roads. The forest service agreed to send an inspection crew to ga ther data on costs to improve the 20-mile sections needing im provement, which lies in the forest reserve. The section lies between Lakecreek and Lake of the Woods. The route is paved from Medford to about Lake creek and between Lake of the Woods and Klamath Falls. It is i planned to pay for. the modernization out of forest road funds and state secondary road funds, with federal aid. Olson quoted Charles H. Rey nolds, La Grande, chairman of the highway commission, as say ing - he .considered this project one of the most important in the state. He said it would take a considerable amount of the Springs route (Highway 66) when completed. Initial plans call for it to be a low-gradient, all-weather road, with many fewer curves and grades than the Green Springs. Forestry officials, Olson said, explained that after estimates have been made of the forest service share of the costs, the new road would be added to the list of forest service road pro jects. It was estimated that it would be a year before any funds would be available for construction. Sports Bulletin North Bend North Bend turned back the Medford high basketbalUieam 68 to 64 here last night, pulling ahead from a 57-all deadlock. Quarter tal lies favored the Bulldogs 20 to 13, 30 to 26 and 50 to 45. Bil bee Lane of the Medford Tor nado was high scorer with 22 points while Tom Younker had 18 for North Bend. St Francis (Eugene) 44, St. Mary's (Medford) 28 Lead I..'... .4lr$&Ko6Mvw... AwTilMfl - f CHRISTMAS SPIRIT Giving help to the needy is a tradition at Christmas time and the Salvation Army, with the money collected int hese kettles on downtown Medford streets, help many families have a better Christmas. Manning the kettle above is Mrs. George Smith, who has been with the Salvation Army here for 11 years. Attracted by the jingling of her bell, Mrs. Ken Corliss and her two children, Nancy and Anita, who were just starting out on a shopping trip, stop to drop in a coin. Subscribers To report Improper or non-delivery of the Mail Tribune tn Med ford phone SP 2-6141 Ashland MU 2-1f21. Yreka S41W before 6-45 Dm daily and 1030 am Sunday tf regular deliver arrive short iv after vou call please notify of fice thus eliminating special mes sangar service No. 202 Alliance The President saidthe Com munist threat would be met 'effectively and in unity." In a 700-word arrival speech that set the tone for the NATO Summit conference opening Monday he offered the worried statesmen of Western Europe the? leadership they had hoped for. His voice was vibrant and loud as he spoke at Orly airport. He stumbled only twice over words the only outward sign thats might be attributed to his mild stroke suffered less than three weeks ago. "It is for us, together," he said, "to determine whether men shall continue to live in freeQ dom and in dignity or whether they are to become mere vassals of an all-powerful state." He said NATO was the West's weapon "needed to neutralize the despotic and continuing) threat from the East." To Aanalyxe Challenge "The heads of NATO are meet ing this beautiful Paris to an alyze, the challenge we now face," he said. "We shall meet it effectively. We shall meet it in unity." He re-stated the belief upon which NATO was founded that the Western Nations sought their own security "and above all . . . peace with justice and with honor." . O It was an older, thinner and grayer Eisenhower who landed in a cold, raw wind at Orly airport. It was his first visit to Paris in the five years since he served at NATO commander. And it was 13 years since the August day in 1944 when he freed the city from the German army. White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said the Presi dent suffered no ill effects from the airport ceremony and the 13 mile drive to the U.S. embassy, despite the weather. Feels Fine Hagerty said the - President "felt fine" and quoted his phy sician, Maj. Gen. Howard Mcc. Snyder as saying "the President is feeling in very good condition. He did not have the slightest chill." Hagerty said it was the Presi dent's own decision to go through with the airport formal ities despite the chilling 15 MPH gusts. He spurned the use of the air port's VIP lounge so newly dec orated that it still smelled ' of wet paint. The presidential plane Col umbine III" nosed down at 2:53 p.m. (8:53 a.m. EST). Precisely at 3 p.m., as his timetable called for, the plane wheeled up to the apron where President Rene Coty and other Western digni taries including John Foster Dul les were waiting. Gaillard welcomed the Presi dent in a brief speech receiving him "on the soil you know so know so well," the soil you once liberated . . . "The people of France wel come you with joy," Gaillard said. ' - In his reply, the President went out of his way to praise France unhappy over U.S. arms shipments to Tunisia. Sliir V My Uj ST i o o O
