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o O o TWO MEDFORD (ORSGOIT) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, December IS, 1957 SHADY COVE-TRAIL Housevarming Party Held Bt evalyn p. watsok Shady Cove-Trail A group of friends of the Bert Conner fam ily of Shady Cove held a sur prise housewarming for them on Saturday evening at their new hometm the Crater Lake highway. Gifts of an electric clock, a set of TV trays, rug and clock radio were presented to them. Refreshments were brought by those attending. Calling on the Connon were Mr. and Mrs. Jack Ross of Trail, Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Segessen- jnan, Mrs. Josephine Leabo and grandsons Mike and Danny Casey, Mr. and Mrs. Tex Burnett and family, Mr. and Mrs. Dave Bergren and Mrs. Isabelle Wun- derlich and daughter, Gail, of Shady Cove, Mr. and Mrs. Chet Pfluke of Santa Rosa, Calif., Mr. . and Mrs. P. J. McAbee and daughter of Talent, Mrs. Minnie BlaJp and Mr. and Mrs. Bob HJaess 01 Mediord. Bud Weisbrod, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Weisbrod of Shady Cove, has been elected president of the Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers, Los Angeles branch. Bud works for Douglas aircraft and he and his wife and family live In Los Angeles. Mr. and Mrs. John Frampton of Trail are expecting to have Mrs. Frampton's sister, Mrs Myrtle Speer, of Medford spend the Christmas holidays with them. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Lewellen of Denver, Colo., arrived Tues day for a short visit with Jack's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Lewellen of Shady Cove. The "Missionaries" Society of the Trail Community church held a potluck meeting and Christmas party at the church Thursday, Dec. 5. Installation of new .officers was held with a corsage being presented to each one by "the retiring officers. The past presi dent, Mrs. Shirel Cuddy, was presented with a gift in recogni tion of her work for the past two years. Newly elected offi cers installed by past presi dent Mrs. Cuddy were president, Mrs. Eddie Barlow; vice presi dent, Mrs. Bob Dawson; secre tary, Mrs. Russell Elder and treasurer, Mrs. Willis Hawkini. For the program a reading was given by Mrs. Walt Messecar, a duet was sung by Mrs. Wayne Ash and Mrs. Ernest Evers, and a skit presented by Mrs. Bob Sanderson, Mrs. Rod Perry, Mrs. Eddie Barlow and Mrs. Shirel Cuddy. The skit was about Christmas observed by the Nica raguan Indians. There was an exchange of gifts with secret pals for the past year being re vealed .and new ones drawn for the coming year. Mr. and" Mrs. Leon Close of Medford, who are well known in this area as they spend a good deal of their time in the summer up at their place on Big Butte Creek, have had as a house guest Philip Ryan of Melburne, Australia. Philip met their son, Wayne Close, in Trondheim, Nor way when Wayne was making a tour of Europe after he fin ished high school. Philip is mak ing a trip around the world working in various places and his next port of call was sched uled to be New Zealond. Wayne was home on vacation from San Francisco State college and so got to see his friend while here. Word has been received here by friends that O. O. Willson, a former resident of Elk Creek, Trail and more recently of Eagle Point, suffered a smashed foot when a rock fell on it while on the job at Oakridge. At last reports he was convalescing well. Shady Cove-Trail Mr. and Mrs." John Lowery and children, Johnny, Stevie and Edie of Shady Cove moved to Garber ville, Calif. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Bartuss of Shady Cove were dinner guests on Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Callahan of Medford. Other guests were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Blaar of, Medford. A group of friends held a sur prise birthday party for Mrs. Carroll Watson of Shady Cove at her home on Friday evening, Dec. 6. Bridge was played dur ing the evening with prize for high score going to Mrs. Pat Hawks and for low score ot Mrs Dolf Larson. A gift was pre sented to Mrs. Watson and re freshments served. Hi-fi records were played during the refresh ment period. Those present were Mesdames Bob Vincent, Dolf Larson, Arley Spain, Floyd Kelley, Max Hawks, Pat Hawks and Clara Thurman. The HEC of the Upper Rogue Grange will meet at the home of Mrs. Rick Eastin Thursday, Dec. 12, at 11 a.m. There will. be a potluck dinner. Pollyannas will be revealed and a gift ex change held. Members of the Country Play house will hold a regular meet ing Friday evening, Dec. 13, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Hanson of Elk Creek-Trail. Host esses will be Mrs. Grant Hubbell and Mrs. Robert Work. Work has been progressing on the playhouse building. The siding is on, the main floor is down and roof is on. Visitors who called on Mrs. Dale Sawyer of Shady Cove dur ing her recent stay at home, due to illness, were Mrs. Fred Lawrence and Mr. and Mrs. Dick Schulz of Medford. Friends of Mrs. Jim Hopkins of Shady Cove paid her a sur prise visit and held a party on the occasion of her birthday. Those who called on Mary were Mesdames Gene House, Ole Hornseth, Dale Sawyer and Joe Waltz. St. Martin's Guild held their regular monthly meeting at the home of Mrs. Bob Vincent with 15 members and two guests present. The Rev. Bruce Mac Henry and Mrs. MacHenry of Prospect were also present. Plans were made for future projects. Election of officers was held with the following members being elected: presi dent, Mrs. Everard Brown; vice president, Mrs. Oscar Hanson; secretary, Mrs. Sheldon Hughes; treasurer, Mrs. Dale Sawyer. Refreshments were served fol lowing the meeting. Mrs. Warren Barr of the Roguedale Cash Market, Shady Cove, is ill and confined at home. Pat Barr stayed for a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Allen Rodgers while she was convales cing from the flu. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Oliver of Shady Cove are planning to spend the Christmas holidays in southern California around Lan caster and Los Angeles. The Shady Cove school board will hold the regular meeting on Friday, Dec. 13 at 8 p.m. at the Shady Cove school. Discus sion will be held on the reorgan ization of Oregon school dis tricts. Such reorganization will have a far reaching effect on the operation of our school dis trict both academically and fi nancially. The PTA will provide entertainment for the children. A meeting of the Oregon Sportsmen club will be held Monday, Dec. 16 starting at 7:30 p.m. at the VFW hall. Elec tion of officers will be held. Re freshments will be served. Mr. and Mrs. Charles More head of Trail are planning to spend the Christmas holidays in San Francisco. Mr. and Mrs. Henry' Kirby of Shady Cove will spend the Christmas holidays in Lodi, Calif., with their son and family, Mr. and Mrs. George Kirby and in Stockton with Mrs. Kirby's brother and family, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Inman. Ginger Hinkle, daughter of Mrs. Leona Hinkle of Trail and Betty Lee Dawson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Dawson, en tertained with accordion num bers at the Camp White Domi ciliary center last week. Mrs. Hinkle is expecting her brother and family, Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Brewerington, of Med ford, to spend the Christmas holidays with them. Immediate ly following Christmas she and Ginger will go to San Francisco to meet her husband whose boat, the tanker J. H. MacGaragill, is due to dock ther Dec. 26. The ship is returning from a run to South America. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Mackley will go with their daughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Edward August and family, of Grants Pass, to Elsinore, Calif., to spend the Christmas holidays and for a family reunion. Mrs. Mackley's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Walter will celebrate their 53rd wedding an niversary Christmas eve. Hank Davis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Davis of Shady Cove, has had a long seige of Blocks Of Timber Scheduled For Sale On Revested Lands Portland A total of 824,216, 000 board feet of timber will be offered for sale in the five Oregon and California revested land districts during 1958, Virgil T. Heath, state supervisor of the bureau of land management, has announced. Some 160,300,000 board feet will be offered for sale in the Medford district, he said. Timber will be offered in 44 tracts of five units in the Medford dis trict. Largest harvest from the Med ford district will be in the North Josephine unit, where 64,500 mil lion board feet in 16 tracts will be offered. Other units include North Jackson, 13 tracts, 55,800 million board feet; South Jack son, 6 tracts,. 19,200 million board feet; South Josephine, 4 tracts, 6,800 million board feet; and Klamath, 5 tracts, 14 mil lion board feet. In other districts, 204,666,000 board feet will be offered in the Salem district, 143,550,000 in Eu gene, 148,400,000 in Roseburg, and 167,300,000 in the Coos Bay district. Heath said. Heath said the offering is sub stantially above the allowable cut on lands. In 1957, the offer ing amounted to more than 759, 336,000 board feet, and about 624,505,000 were sold, he said. Pay Television Said Part Of Movement Washington (IF) The Ameri can Citizens Television commit tee said Friday that pay TV is "a deliberate and well-financed movement" to make Americans pay for what they "are now getting for nothing." But "pay-TV," it said, "can become an American reality if congress does not pass specific legislation to outlaw it and fore stall tests authorized by the Fed eral Communications commis sion." It said Congress will not act "unless the people rxpress their will in tangible terms." staying at home in bed, having been out of school for the last weeks. Hank gets lonesome being- away from the other chil dren at school and it has been suggested that his schoolmates and others would send him a card at Christmas. Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Grow of Shady Cove have sold the Asso ciated Service station in Shady Cove to Mr. and Mrs. Dolf Lar son, who took possession last week. The condition of Billy Pfeifer, who is confined to the Sacred Heart hospital in Medford, is greatly improved although he will have to remain in the hos pital for awhile. Mrs. Pfeifer is staying with him at night at the hospital. Horse, Pickup Involved In Crash in County A pickup truck operated by Roscoe T. Arent, 53, Butte Falls, star route box 31, Eagle Point, struck a horse owned by R. H. Telkamp, Butte Falls star route box 210, Eagle Point, about 6 p.m. yesterday about a mile west of the Midway station on the Butte Falls highway, according to state police. Police said Arent drove around a curve, and the horse was stand ing on the highway. The truck sustained minor damage, they said, and the horse had to be shot. New Base Planned For ICBM In Maine Log Pond Blasted In Search For Boys Missing Three Days Crescent City (IP) Sheriff's officers touched off a charge of dynamite in a 50,000. square foot log pond Saturday on the chance that the concussion would bring to the surface the bodies of two boys missing" since Thursday. But the blast produced no trace of Timmy Turner, 6, and Patrick Surgeon, 7' objects of an intensive search by more than 200 persons and three blood hounds. The pond was located within treacherous swamp land a half mile south of this north coast lumbering community. Del Norte County Sheriff Os wald Hovgaard said deputies, firement, police, coast guards men, boy scouts and townspeople had made a thorough search of the four square-mile swamp by starting from its perimeter and working toward the center. Dragging operations and skin divers' efforts also failed to yield "as much as a shoe," the sheriff said. Checking Mills "We haven't ruled out the swamp area and if the kids are in there I guess there would be little hope," Hovgaard said. "However, we have begun checking out some of the old abandoned mills and refriger ator rooms around the log swamp area." The sheriff said the dogs seemed to get the scent of the boys and head straight through the swamp to a parking lot at the end of Second st. in the city where they lost it. The boys wore only light shirts and jeans, but authorities said the 45 to 50 degree night temperature would not endang- EMERGENCY NUMBERS FIRE POLICE MONEY SP 2-2333 SP 3-3636 SP 3-5308 PACIFIC, INDUSTRIAL-" 16 S. CENTRAL Washington OP) The Air Force will build a new base in Maine for the nation's first scheduled operational intercon tinental missile capable of strik ing deep into Russia. TheiAir Force said the 12 mil lion dollar facility would be built at the Presaue Isla Air Force base to handle its 5,000- mile Snark guided missile. The service said it would be er them from exposure. Searchers had all but written off the chance that the voune- sters were on Whaler Island, joined to the city by a rock jetty, where Coast Guardsmen saw two small boys late Thurs day. gin acquiring additional land to start construction" at Presque Isle next month. Snark units assigned to the base will be under the Strategic Air Command's Eighth Air Force. The announcement said a Snark unit normally would num ber 740 men. The Snark, which is armed with nuclear warheads, is a pi lotless bomber which travels through the atmosphere at speeds slower than that of sound. BANQUET SCHEDULED Salem H. B. Glaisyer, secre tary for the Oregon State High way commission, has announced that all present and past em ployees of the highway depart ment have been invited to attend a farewell banquet honoring W. W. Stiffler,. assistant state highway engineer, who is retir ing atfer 36 years of service. The banquet will be held at te Mar ion hotel at 7:15 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 19, in Salem. Reservations may be made by contacting Glaisyer in Salem. HOTO CHRISTIAN SCIENCf HIAH Station KWIN 1400 K.C. o sf3 Will deliver for CHRISTMAS . . . s ROYAL DELUXE 3 TWIN-PACK SSr -o 4 mm o . PORTABLE Typewriter Balance 24 Payments $00 Per Mo. Or Silent Super T -AIL K ' Corona! o Exclusive OLYMPIA PORTABLE 4CH 4 4 Other Models TERMS ARRANGED r We Carry Our Own Contracts $6.00 Down Balance 20 Payments Per Month 4 YOUR OFFICE BOY" 5 115 West Main Street Across From Weeks & Orr ff$f$f$f0f0ff0fO!$f$f$f$f$fOf0f$f$f$f$f$fi$fff0i$f$fO!$f$!Of$f 1 In "RELIGION IS THE TRIUMPH OF THE INTELLECT, THE FAITH OE THE HEART" m '(Author's Nam Below) : O Most of us are presently engaged in preparations for the coming holidays. Every one is trying to make their friends happier by extend ing the Season's Greeting and best wishes for happi ness during the New Year. Ajl ofs here sincerely hope that you will have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. May we also remind you that the coming holidays of fer the opportunity to renew spiritual faith by attend ing the church or temple of our choice, where we all can find peace and tranquility. HEATH'S Medical Center PHARMACY 33 North Central Quotation by James Schouler q (1839-1920) Copyright 1957 (12W3) sy r-ir j jl J 0 ) y x --w - - "W. u I.I - Uw V J I I I I I I I A 9 MAKE THIS A REAL FAMILY CHRISTMAS GIVE FURNITURE Ml My LRU AT JOHN CUPP'S BIG FURNITURE BARN! Beauty rest Mattresses Not - On Sal MEW MERCHANDISE ARRIVING EVERY DAY! - We're PULLING NO PUNCHES! All Goes at SALE PRICES! GIVE FURNITURE GIFTS All the Family WILL ENJOY! FREE PARKING - EASY SHOPPING-BRING YOUR CASH Free Delivery All Special Orders for January Delivery Will Be At Sale Prices SORRY NO REFUNDS NO RETURNS HO TRADE-INS 7 vo ) A FINE $225.00 DAVENO & CHAIR uGiven Awav Dec. 24 '- and they're BEAUTIES will be given away ABSOLUTELY FREE. Come in and register that's all you have to do. You don't have to buy to participate. MUM w r?3 A. fa JOHN CUPP, Owner Phone NO 4-2243 Highway 99 North 4
