Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 05, 1958, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextTWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, January 3, 1958 Portland W! Will Gib $on, Portland city auditor since 1938. announced Friday he would not seek re-election. He said he expected to retire to a cottage he has long owned on th Alsea river 10 miles upstream from Walport. "ELEMENTARY, MY DEAR WATSON -m '(Author's Nams Below) : Resolve now that you will purchase all your medicines and health-aids from your pharmacist for these important reasons. First You are safer because our skilled train ing enables us to protect you more. Second We eharge.no more than food and var iety stores, despite the fact that we give a more per sonal service. Third If drug stores do not get these pur chases it may become im possible fo keep open so many hours. Long after most stores close, your pharmacy is serving you. j Isn't It elementary that you should obtain every medicine and health-aid from your pharmacist? YOUR PHYSICIAN CAN PHONE SP 2-6239 WHEN YOU NEED A MEDICINE Pick up your prescrip tion if shopping near us, or let us deliver promptly without extra charge. A great many people entrust us with their prescriptions. May we compound yours? 1 1 r i t-i ir i i ncA i n j J Medical Center PHARMACY I 33 North Central Quotation by Sir Arthur Conon Doyle (1859-1930) Copyright 1958(1 WD ILLINOIS VALLEY Accident Mars Record By HELEN BOTTEL Cave Junction Illinois valley's perfect record of no holiday accidents was only slightly marred New Years eve when a car belonging to Henry Tomseth, superintend ent of Moore's mill at O'Brien was damaged in a one-car ac cident north of Rough and Ready bridge on the Caves highway. No serious injuries were re ported, according to Deputy Sheriff Lester Tythcott. Twenty-Nine Palms. His son, Larry, went home with him after spending several months with his grandparents. That the first teenage dance sponsored by the Illinois Val ley Grange was a slam-bang success was indicated by the crowd of more than 100 young people who gathered at the Grange hall in Bridgeview on New Year's eve. So well received was the dance that tentative plans are being made to hold others during the year. Here for the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Smith of Cave Junction were their son Dr. Kenneth Smith of Lu cerne Valley and their grand sons, Arthur and Walter Smith, who came down from Milo Academy. Also visiting the Smiths for a few days before she went on to Hugo, was a sister, In ez Lillard of Riverside, Calif. Smith and his son and grand sons made a trip up the coast to Coos Bay and Drain dur ing their stay here. Installation of officers is planned at an open meeting of Jobs Daughters Bethel No. 36 Monday, Jan. 6, at 8 p.m. at the Masonic temple in Kerby. Carolyn DeMersseman will take her chair as honored queen, replacing Linda Dea-ton. Sgt. and Mrs. Bill Free man and family left last week for their home in Twenty Nine Palms, Calif., after spen ding the Christmas holidays with their friends, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Michels in O'Brien. At the George Michels for the holidays was their son, George Michels Jr., also of Dr. June Wilson left Mon day for Florence, Ore., to vis it her daughter and family, who have a dairy ranch there. The Illinois Valley Mineral Hobbies club plans a potluck supper and delayed Christ mas party Tuesday evening at 6:30 p.m. at the American Legion Auxiiary rooms In Cave Junction. Because of the joint Parent-Teachers association meet scheduled for Jan. 9, Troop 70's Court of Honor is being postponed until Jan. 16, Scoutmaster Gene Pulley announced. The court is to be held at 8 p.m. at the Legion hall in Cav Junction. the hospital. A telephone con versation with his wife indi cated he was doing well. Mr. and Mrs. Wes Vahren wald entertained Mrs. Vah renwald's sister and family, Mr. and Mrs. Al Boucher, for Christmas dinner. Fruit for O'Brien children's Christmas treats was provid ed for by Mr. and Mrs. Karl Preston of the O'Brien store and Mr. and Mrs. Vilbert Kir,k of the Waldo store. For several years past the two families have given a box of oranges and a box of apples as their contribution toward the Parent-Teachers association Christmas party Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Cog- burn and family of O'Brien returned last week from Mina, Ark., where they visited with friends and relatives. Mr. and Mrs. John Smith and John's father, John W Smith, returned Monday from Los Alamos, N.M. The two men drove south Dec. 21 to meet Mrs. Smith who had made the trip by air earlier in the mouth to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hermino Sandoval at Los Alamos. Mrs. John W. Smith spent Christmas with her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Manie Porter at Roseburg. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Smith received word from Washing ton. D.C., last week that their son, Lt. Comm. Harry O. Smith Jr., spent Christmas in mm Announcing Our Appointment as Dealer for SALES and SERVICE on Ford Industrial Engines SEE US FOR ALL YOUR POWER NEEDS Hew hwtmasfer 4-Plow power for low cost, big capacity performance! These new, more powerful Ford Tractors can handle 4-bottom plows, and other comparable work loads in many soils. All-purpose, row crop and special utility models. Hew Workmaster 2-3 Plow tractors that are unusually versatile . . . well spited for a wide variety of light to medium power requirements. All-purpose, row crop and special utility models. H.-I.IlHr-TKTm.'MI.'IdH . . . now more powerful than ever V 9 Yes, Ford has a great new fine of tractors for '58 and they're here! Available in new, improved models, they're the finest and most powerful in Ford's history. If you're interested in getting more work done easier and at lower cost stop in and see these new tractors. Let us demonstrate the model of your choice, on your own farm. Drive it a few rounds and see for yourself how its per formance can bring new speed and efficiency to your farm operation. Easy credit terms available. v p Before yon buy... See as and compare! TRACTOR AND IMPLEMENT CO. 634 No. Central 'Tour Ford Tractor Dealer Since 1941" SP 2-6425 Mr. and Mrs. Delbert O'Brien spent the holidays in Los Angeles with their daugh ter and family, Mr. and Mrs Calvin .Stevenson. At the James Payne home for Christmas were their daughtersa nd families, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Halm, Susie and Richard of Grants Pass; and Mr. and Mrs. Monte Heald, Sandra, Fred and Jennie of Cave Junction and Heald's mother, Mrs. Margar et Heald, also of the valley. Virgil Brown and his daughter, Jewell, left Dec. 23 by air for Clinton, Wis. where they are visiting Brown's son, Pete, and his family during the Christmas and New Years holidays. Although the skies cleared for part of Christmas day, it has been raining almost con stantly here ever since. Pow er was off in the Lone Moun tain Valley area Thursday for about 20 minues due to a line break as Copco men were clearing right-of-ways. A gal out our way sayi the vibrating "relaxo-chair" she got her husband for Christ mas pays off better than any slot machine she ever en countered. Almost every day she collects loose change "vi brated" out of unwary pock ets into a convenient space be low the cushion. Mrs. Duth Dougherty and her son, Russell, are home from a Christmas vacation in central California where they visited her daughter and fam ily, Mr. and Mrs. Phil Stover at Napa; her two sons, Victor and Jack, at San Francisco and another daughter and fa mily, Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Lawson, at Berkeley. Driving down with Mrs Dougherty was her grandson, Richard Lynch, who had been visiting her since his dis charge from the Air Force at Amarillo, Tex. He is the son of Mrs. Phil Stover, and will make his home at Napa. Mrs. Dougherty reports her uncle, H. M. Smith, a former resident of the valley, is still in serious condition at his home at 1209 East Park St., Grants Pass. Letters and vis its from his valley friends have been greatly appreciat ed by both Mr. and Mrs. Smith. . Dr. Joseph Meyer, Cave Junction dentist will discuss dental health and new tech niques in dentistry at the joint grade school Parent- Teacher association meeting Jan. 9 at 8 p.m. at Evergreen school, Cave Junction. The meeting combines PTA Fun in Knitting Band or cap will be wel comed by "girls" of all ages. The band, knitted in garter stitch, is enhanced by cable. Snowflake cap has sequin ac cent. Pattern 7059: Directions for knitting band (a 4-ounce skein of worsted); cap . in sport yarn. Send Thirty -five Cents (coins) for this pattern add 5 cents for each pattern for lst-class mailing. Send to Medford Mail Tribune, House hold Arts Dept., P.O. Box 168, Old Chelsea Station, New York 11, N.Y. Print plainly NAME, ADDRESS, PATTERN NUMBER. Send Twenty - five cents more for a copy of our Alice Brooks Needlecraft Cata logue. Two complete patterns are printed right in the book . . . plus a variety of designs that you will want to order: crochet, knitting, embroidery, huck weaving, quilts, toys, dolls. groups from Evergreen, Ker by, O'Brien and Selma, and is open to everyone in the valley. Refreshments will be served by a committee repre senting all the participating schools. Visitors at the James Al len home at the airport are Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. Jen kins of Longview, Wash., par ents of Mrs. Allen. Ther were in the valley for Christmas and New Year's with their children and grandchildren. Mr. a nd Mrs. Allen enter tained the Rev. and Mrs. Bob Kingsbury and children at a New Year's day dinner. Christmas dinner Bursts at. the home of Mr .a' nd Mrs. Bill Raines on River road were their daughters and fa milies, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Mes sineer and two children and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Jolly and three children, all of Cave Junction; Mrs. Bertha Messin eer of Kerbv: Milton Snod- grass, Provolt, Mr. and Mrs. iJuford Snodgrass (a bride of four days), Portland, and Le Moine Ferrell of Walla. Wal la, Wash. Sgt. Lewis Donald Raines telephoned his parents from Ft. Lewis, Wash., on Christ mas eve to tell them that he will probably ship out for Germany next month. Local Bank Assefs Show Big Increase Total assets for the Rogue Valley State bank have almost tripled since the bank moved to Medford from Eagle Point three years ago, according to Ralph E. Pierce, vice presi dent. Assets listed in a bank state ment for Dec. 31, 1957, totaled $4,040,008.67, compared with about $1,500,000 in Dec, 1954. DeDOsits at the bank Dec. 31 totaled $3,793,356.05, a sub stantial increase over that re ported in the last statement by the Federal Reserve sys tem of Oct. 11. 1957. DeDosits then totaled $3,502,032.58. Savings accounts, which are included in total deriosits. also have shown an increase, Pierce said. Loaus and discounts listed in the Dec. 31 statement, total. ed $1,117,068.99, compared With $1,105,683.44 on Oct. 11. The locally-owned bank was estbalished in 1911. ALARMS FALSE Portland (IP) A series of 10 false fire alarms kept firemen on the run during a five-hour period here early Saturday. The alarms started in the southwest area and spread to the northwest and Dedication of New Termincl Scheduled Klamath Falls Formal dedication will be held Wed nesday, Jan. 8, at a public ceremony and open house of the new $125,000 Greyhound bus terminal at the inter-section of Commercial, First and Klamath aves., Klamath Falls. Outgrown by the needs of Klamath Falls for over- the rad public transportation, the old Greyhound deDot at 904 Klamath ave. is superseded by a modern pumice block and stucco terminal. TAYLOR TOURS Washington (IP) Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor will make a four-week tour of U.S. Army units in nine countries and attend the Baghdad Pact mili tary committee meeting in Turkey this month, the Army announced Friday. The Army chief of staff, accompanied by six staff officers and . Mrs. Taylor, will leave Sunday for visits to Spain, Libya, Iraq. Iran, India, Pakistan,. Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia and Turkey. He will represent the U.S. De fense Department at the Bagh dad meeting. Non-Aggression Pad Suggested London (IP) Prime Minister Harold Macmillan Saturday suggested a western nonagres sion pact with Russia as a start toward disarmament, and negotiations "to get the path ready" for 'an East-West sum mit conference. Macmillan, in an address to his nation on the recent NATO summit conference in Paris, said the West must remain strong in the face of the Com munist threat. "But there is a second way that is "just as important," he said. "The way of negotiation, of conciliation. "We intend to go on seek ing for some agreement with the Russians for disarmament and for the relief of tension in the world," he said. "We could start by a sol emn pact of noaggression. This has been done before. It would not do harm. It might do good." HOW CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALS Station KWIN 1400 K.C. Sundays 10:13 A.M. northeast districts. There were two actual fires during the time but . losses were small. ANNOUNCING! Swem's Bonus Record Club Ask About It Next Time -You're Buying Records At 7k h BOOKS GIFTS RECORDS 1 , ' Your family comes first " in our healthy financial picture Yes, your family comes first, in our financial balance sheet first to share the profits I Your savings dollars flow into first mortgage, monthly payment home loans in your community. This investment has a better record of safety, and of economical administra tion, than any other way of investing savings. A two-fold benefit results: home buyers find funds available to borrow on practical terms; savers and investors receive more for the use of their money. A savings year here adds up to impressive financial prog ress for your family. You enjoy above-average earnings twice yearly. You feel secure with safety insured to $10,000 from the minute you make savings "a family affair" To meet your current needs, we have at hand Cash and U. S. government securities. Finally -to back up your sav ings account, we are required by law to establish substan tial reserves... and ours more than meet this provision. If you do not have an account here, why don't you enjoy finan cial health and progress, too? Semi-Annual FINANCIAL STATEMENT December 31, 1957 ASSETS First Mortgage Loam Loans on Savings Accounts Other Loans Properties Sold on Contract Real Estate Owned and in Judgment Investments and Securities United States Government Bonds Cash on Hand and in Banks Office Building and Equipment . Deferred Charges and Other Assets .$10,474,679.50 147,578.36 15,419.79 21,335.65 14,882.75 186,700.00 931,308.67 584,734.52 57,064.48 83,819.15 LIABILITIES Savings Accounts . Loans in Process . Other Liabilities Specific Reserves ; General Reserves . Undivided Profits $12,517,522.87 .$11,001,984.17 160,145.02 47,978.84 16,005.37 . 1,059,082.50 232,326.97 $12,517',522.87 Zur& 5f ip fa. put SAVINGS 126 East Main Medford mm ft 9 ft LOAN ASSOC - ATION "Where You Are Paid To Save" A dividend at the rate of VA per annum and an extra dividend at the rate of !i"o per annum has been declared for the six month pe riod ending Decem ber 31, 1957.