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The population of Californ ia is increasing at the rate of 1,200 every day, twice as fast as New York, three times as fast as Texas. OPEN Every NITE! mum $1 PER CAR! Local and Personal ERRa rVNN ANNA N EAGLE DAVTD FARRAR Make Up MENU Chicken-Rice Soup with Entree Baked Ham-Pine. Sauce $1.50 Breaded Veal, Cream Gravy $1.25 Roast Pork, Dressing $1.35 Roast Beef $1.25 Choice of: Fruif or Tossed Green Salad Potatoes Veg., Rolls & Coffee HOME MADE PIES 5:30 a.m. - 6 p.m. Daily TRY OUR BIG SMOKY Talk,0' the Towne At Medford Airport Patient Irs. Roma Rice, 110 Wagner it, Talent, is a medical patient at Osteopathic hospital. Surgery Patitnlt Con valescing at Rogue Valley hospital following surgery are Clifford Burton, 26 Richman ave., and Del Woodcock, 637 South Ivy st., Medford. Child Patient Ronald Haertle, 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Haertle, 208 Haven St., Medford, is con valescing at Rogue Valley hospital following a tonsillec tomy. Meeting Word Krafters Contest club will meet at Camp White Monday, Feb. 24, at 1:30 p.m. Anyone interested may contact Mrs. Edwin ag gers at SPring 3-4376 for fur ther information. Hubcaps Missing Hubert William Hewitt, 2996 Buck shot Hill rd., Medford, report ed' fa Medford police Friday the theft of two hubcaps val ued at $10 from his car. Item Taken Melvin Isaac Taylor, 619 Clark st., Med ford, reported to city police Friday the theft of an outside rear-view mirror from his car while it was . parked at his home. Meeting The regular monthly Inter - Agency Coun cil will meet at 3 p.m. Tues day, Feb. 25, at the Juvenile department home near the Fairgrounds. The juvenile problem in Jackson county will be discussed. This Sunday Enjoy BREAKFAST (Served anytime) at the HOTEL MEDFORD DINING ROOM CHILDREN ALWAYS WELCOME. Potluck Dinner The Gid eon society of the Church of the Brethern will hold its Feb ruary potluck diner at 6:45 p.m. Monday, Feb. 24, at the church, 345 North Mary St., Medford. Ashland Fire The Ash land fire department reports answering an alarm at the Mistletoe mill, South Pacific highway, Ashland, about 11:50 a.m. Saturday. They reported minor, fire damage to the hot-box. Plan Sale University of Oregon Mothers' club will hold a rummage sale Tuesday, March 4, in the Fehl building Hours will be from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Proceeds from the sale will be used for Mothers' club scholarships. . Vehicle Damaged Frank Leslie Paige, route 1, box 516, Central Point, reported to city police Friday evening that someone had been tampering with the ignition switch and carburetor on his mortorcycle while it was parked in the downtown area. Civil Defense Dr. James C. Luce will speak to the chamber of commerce round table group on Monday, Feb. 24, at the Jackson hotel Pion eer room. Dr. James recently returned from a meeting of civil defense leaders in Chi cago, HI., and will tell the group of his trip. Roundtable officials said the public is in vited to the weekly luncheon. Injured Vehicles operated by Thomas William Freeman, 81, of Grants Pass, and Don ald William Stuart, 47 of route 1, box 315K, Eagle Point, were involved in an ac cident at the intersection of Jackson st. and Central ave. about 3 p.m. Friday, accord ing to Medford police. They said Mrs. Joanna Freeman, 62, a passenger, complained of her neck hurting. No citations were issued, police added. China has 10 cities with more than a million popula tion. Corrected John William Shaw, 525 South Riverside ave., was cited for disobeying a stop sign after a pickup truck he was operating was involved in a collision with a car operated by Edland Keith Witt, 44 Orange st., and a parked car owned by Kenneth Fick Murray, 3734 Crater Lake highway, according to city police. They said the ac cident took place at Fourth and North Grape sts. about 2:14 p.m. Thursday. Nevs About Servicemen Obituaries LESTER W. TUBBS Lester W. Tubbs died yes terday at the Veterans Domi ciliary Center, Camp White Funeral services will be an nounced by Conger - Morris, funeral directors. Sunday, February 23, 1958 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVEIT. SIX MONTHS DUTY Several members of Head quarters and Headquarters company of the second bat talion of the 413 infantry di vision, local unit of the Army reserve, were expected to leave -today for six months active duty training at Ft. Ord, Calif., according to Wil liam H. Naylor, commanding officer. He said Gary L. Gus- tafson, 1031 Ross lane, Med ford; Eugene W. Eccleston, Eagle Point;a nd Robert H. Pinson, Dunsmuir, Calif., will take training. COMMISSIONED Second Lt. Eugene F. Ward, son of Mr. and Mrs. Willie Ward, Eagle Point, was com missioned into the Air Force and received his pilot's wings upon graduation from the basic multi-engine pilot school at Reese Air Force base, Tex., recently. A graduate of Eagle Point High school, he served in the Army prior to entering the Air Force. ABOARD SHIP Larry G. Kidwell, seaman apprentice, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Kidwell, 100 Maple st., Phoenix, and Lynn R. Johnston, seaman appren tice, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rod Johnston, Phoenix are aboard the USS Gilligan en route to Acapulco. Both are attached to the Navy reserve electron ics unit 13-5, Medford. &&&&&& S AND OAOCHTfR 1 MUELLER To Mr. and Mrs. Bernie, 1445 Kings high way, Medford, Feb. 20, 1958 girl, 8i lbs., at Osteopathic hospital. SHREEVE To Mr. and Mrs. Leonard M., 1060 Stew art ave., Medford, Feb. 21 1958, girl, 8 lbs., at Rogue Valley hospital. you'll never run out of hot water with GAS! Heats wafer faster for less ! Nothing else keeps op with tbe hot water eeede of four family washer like Gas! It's aster b cause Gas starts heating more water as fast as yon use it. Casts less to buy, install, and operate, too! Baths for everybody on washday! Every faucet pours hot water at your house, wfea an Automatic Gas hot water heater designed to handle your family' needs. Why not let as fit one "to measure" for you? Plenty of hot water costs so little to hare ! Redding Parents Liable to Fine Redding The Redding city council recently introduced T J an ordinance wnicn wouia make parents liable to fine and imprisonment if they allow their children to loiter about the streets after 10 p.m. Judge Richard B. Eaton of Shasta county juvenile court said the new law will take from the books an "antiqu ated" law. Judge Eaton said few par ents will be prosecuted, but the threat will be "an effec tive weapon against young sters hanging around at late and unusal hours." The law pretains to juveniles under 18 years old. Under present law, auth oritiescan only talk to par ents when their children are picked up. Under the new one, parents who "willfully" permit their children to wand er may be found guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not more than $300 and three months in jail. The new law will not keep young people from attending school and church functions and other "lawful" activities. Only loitering is prohibited. 'A LOOK AT BOTH AND YOU'LL BUYUGAS! o fcesf answer the hot-water needs of your home, visit our display floor or your gas appliance dealer CALIFORNIA-PACIFIC UTILITIES COMPANY Phone SP 2-5284 Medford Grange Notes Phoenix Grange Next meeting of Phoenix Grange Tuesday, Feb. 25, will be the annual birthday cele bration. A potluck dinner will be served at 7 p.m. Those at tending should bring their own table service, and salad. desert or meat dish. The com mittee will furnish rolls, but ter and cream. Any Grange member is welcome to attend. The program will follow the dinner and will be open to the public. The speaker will be Claude Haggard, safe ty director at California Ore gon Power company. His topic will be "The Shocking Truth About Reddy Kilo watt." Any interested person, Grange member or non Grange member is urged to come and hear this informa tive lecture, which will begin at 8 p.m. or shortly there after. Regular Grange meeting will follow the lecture. Gertrude Lewin, Publicity Chairman Fay Givan Dies In Idaho Hospital Lewiston, Ida. Fay A. Givan, 62, who was born in Eagle Point, reO, died in Tri- State Memorial hospital at Clarkston Tuesday following a short illness. He was a soil conservation ist at the North Idaho Indian agency at Lapwai since 1940, and a former county agent in Montana. When he went to Lapwai, he incorporated into land lease contracts regulations governing land conservation which have since been used on other reservations throughout the country. In December, 1955, he was named professional conserva tionist of the year by the In land Empire chapter of the Soil Conservation Society of America. Mr. Givan was born in Eagle Point Sept. 11, 1895, the son of George A. and Catherine Woung Givan. Af ter serving with Navy, he re ceived a degree from Oregon State college, and another from the University of Cali fornia. He was county agent in Libby and Hamilton Mont., between 1923 and 1929. Survivors include his wid ow, Dorris, whom be married at Havre, Mont., in 1932; three brothers, Tom Givan, Charlie Givan and Dewey Givan, all of Eagle Point; and a sister, Mrs. A. B. Kneass of Medford. Leopold Gives Plans To Donate Proceeds Chicago HP Nathan Leo pold has announced plans to turn over the proceeds of his autobiography to the society that awarded him the 'mercy I did not show." Through his attorney, Em mer Gertz, Leopold said the bulk of revenue earned from his book will be donated to the cause of helping disturbed children and fighting juvenile Jobless Benefits Said Declining Washington HP) New claims for unemployment benefits an indicator of lay- Gffs declined by 31,500 to 425,300 last week, the labor department reported Satur day. Workers claiming benefits after being laid off for a week or more totaled 2,971,800 in the week ending Feb. 8, an in crease of 32,400 from the previous week. However, the department's bureau of employment securi ty said the decline is initial claims reflected a slow-up in firings by auto plants and ap parel firms. The rise in insured unem ployment, the bureau said, was caused mainly by the us ual winter downturn work and further cutbacks in the metals, machinery and trans portation equipment indus tries. x The insured unemployment rate was 7.1 per cent, com pared to 4.4 per cent a year ago, when the figure reached 1,743,000. HORNBROOK Music Club Members Meet By MRS. H. H. CHAPMAN Hornbrook Mrs. Paul Greene's Music club held its regular meeting Saturday at her studio. Pupils attending were Mar cia Cavin, Janet Benson, Rob ert Laustalot, Judith and Lin da Fremd, Pat Fox, Marilyn Thompson and Paula East man, all from Hilts, and Penny Barnum, Danny Metzen, and Linda and Lydia Greene from Hornbrook. Each youngster took part in the program, playing eith er the piano or accordion. A discussion on "folk songs of the southwest" was held in connection with the scrap- books the pupils are prepar ing. After the discussion, Mrs. Greene presented a Columbia recording of folk songs - by Susan Reed. Friday evening Mr. and Mrs. Greene and granddaugh ters Linda and Lydia, and their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. David Mallow, attended the concert present ed, in Yreka by the Nievw Amsterdam trio,' and spon sored by the pommunity con cert association. Also attend ing from Hornbrook was Mrs. Henley Clawson. building new ones, or getting in a "whack" or two on their spring plowing and discing. As Arthur Perry said it in his Smudge Pot column in the M.-T. 20 years ago, "The weather the past week has en countered difficulty making up its mind what it wants to be." Mrs. Mary Cardoza, mother of Frank Cardoza, was taken by ambulance to the Siskiyou General hospital in Yreka last Tuesday. Mrs. Cardoza has been in failing health for some time. Friday morning in the hos pital she suffered a stroke, and was given the last rites of the church, but by Friday evening she had improved to the point where she may be able to return home in a few days. Mrs. Will Rogers of Klam ath river, who has been criti cally ill in the Mt. Shasta hospital for the past week, was released from the hospi tal Friday, and "is convalesc ing here at the home of her sister, Mrs. Bertha Bradley. Fire losses in the forests, wildlife ranges and migra tory waterfowl nesting grounds of Alaska during the summer of 1957 were the hea viest since 1940. Construction is due to be gin soon on the new home Mr. and Mrs. Duane Hamner are to build at the site of the Ted Gessler home which was destroyed by fire Dec. 24. The contractor has been hired, the rubble hauled away, and part of the lumber has been de livered. Building is expected to start next week. Saturday evening, Feb. 15, a group of friends gathered at the L. F. Madison home to extend a "welcome home" to their daughter, Mrs. R. J. No waczyk, who, accompanied by her mother, was returned home from the hospital in Sioux Falls, S.D., where she had been confined since Christmas eve. Spending the evening with her were Mr. and Mrs. Alfred (Punky) Spearin and three children, Mr. and Mrs. Lauran Paine and son Lornie, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bear, Mr. and Mrs Frank Cardoza and two children, Leonard Bear and John Sylva. The evening was spent vis iting and playing cards and Mrs. Nowaczyk showed pic tures of her wedding which had taken place in the San Francisco Bay area just a month before she and her hus band sustained critical injur ies in a car accident near Sioux Falls. Nowaczyk is in the Veter ans' hospital at San Antonio, Tex., still in a semi-conscious condition. He is expected to have to remain in the hospi tal for a year. delinquency. The book, "Life Plus 99 Years," is due for publication March 6, roughly the same time Leopold will be released from Stateville penitentiary near Joliet, 111. Leopold's autobiography is his personal account of the "Crime of the Century," the senseless slaying of a 14-year-old boy in 1924. The 53-year-old convcit tells how he and his adored friend, Richard Loeb, tried to demonstrate their contempt for ordinary standards of behavir by murd ering a child at random. Leopold was 19, Leob 18, and both were intellectually gifted and wealthy. Believing themselves apart from and above society, they attempted the "perfect crime." A neighbor boy, Bobby Franks,' was the victim of their . "superman" theories. The pair abducted Bobby and slew him with a chise. They were captured within three days because Leopold left his glasses at the scene of the crime. War Planes Bomb Rebel Station Padang, Sumatra, Sunday (IP) Four aging warplanes of the Indonesian Government bombed radio stations here and at Bukittinggi Saturday and silenced the revolution ary movements transmitters in both cities. No casulties were reported in the second day of minor air attacks on rebel-held Su matra. However, revolution ary sources in Singapore rer ported another raid on Mena do, main port of Northern Celebes, with possible heavy casualties. Leaders on both sides fear the raids may be a prelude to a fullscale civil war be tween the middle-of-the-road Sukarno Government and the anti-Communist rebels. Maryland farmers oftei? turn their turkeys loose tk their tobacco fields to eat the worms and other insects which might damage the plants. The gooseberry is related to the currant. Tunnel Predicted For Border Area Crescent City State Sen. Randolph Collier, long active in highway work in California predicted that a new tunnel under Oregon mountain on the Oregon-California border would be constructed soon. The tunnel, planned to be only about sa of a mile long, would eliminate about six miles of twisting, mountain highway, the most difficult driving on the entire stretch of Highway. 199 between Grants Pass and Crescent City, it was explained. Collier said he would re turn to Crescent City soon to detail the plan, and added that future expansion of the Crescent City harbor depends on improving transportation facilities from inland. Such a tunnel has long been an objective of people in the Illinois Valley area, as has cutoff from the Oregon Caves highway into the Ap plegate valley by way of Wil liams. Conference Set On Curriculum Salem JW A four-day cur riculum conference will con vene at Gearhart Sunday, the State Department of Educa tion said Saturday. The three main topics scheduled for study are the process of group dynamics as it is related to curriculum de velopment, the meaning of research in improving curric ulum and the nature of chil dren's thinking. Dr. Donald Nylen, assistant superintendent for instruc tion, guidance and curricu-r lum research, Seattle public schools, will direct the study of the group process and di agnostic training. A symposium also' will be presented on "the educations! implications of the space age." 1 n m I ENDS TODAY Continuous From 1:00 TWO ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATION WINNERS IN THE : SAME GREAT SHOWT IT EXPLODES ...Like 12 sticks of dynamite LEE J. COBB E0 BEGLEY CO-FEATURE Bachelor ftrhr mm 13 ' 1 Ashland Man Hurt In Auto Collision Yreka, Calif. (IP) Les lie Howard Wilson, 56, of Ashland, Ore., was in Siski you General Hospital here Saturday recovering from in- uries suffered m a head-on collision on State road 89, known as the Yreka-Montaeue road. Hospital attendants said he was not seriously hurt and was expected to be re leased this weekend. More seriously hurt was David Kellogg Raab, 24, of Montague, Calif., but his con dition was reported improving today. California State High way patrolmen were investi gating the crash. San Francisco FOOD & ATMOSPHERE in Medford at MON DESIR OPEN EVERY EVENING Except Monday Ph. NO 4-2513 NOW PLAYINGI 1 ATj not wewee ANN BLYTH PAUL NEWMAN 1 l-ltMEMScOP PLUS VIOLENT DRAMA " onnBg y Bids Scheduled For Road Mix The state highway commis sion will receive bids for fur nishing 9,200 cubic yards of crushed material in stock piles at its meeting in Port land Feb. 28. 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