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LUXURIANT BLOOMS Pear orchards in the Rogue River
valley will be at their showiest for the annual Pear Blossom
festival this weekend as the thousands of acres of fruit trees
reach their peak of bloom. The heavy fragrance of the blos
soms is everywhere and the occurance marks the beginning
of a new season that of pampering the forming fruit to
maturity through the warm summer months ahead. The pic
ture above "was taken in an orchard of Bartletts near the
junction of Roberts and Foothill roads. The theme of this
year's Pear Blossom festival is "All Good Things Come in
Pears," and the celebration will get underway with the
parade through Medford streets at 11 a.m. tomorrow.
FestDvaD Events '
To Get Sunshine
Fair and mild weather, and
possibly the warmest day this
year' is expected for Saturday
events of the Pear Blossom
festival. The weather bureau
forecast a high temperature
of 75 degrees for .tomorrow.
Several, 'firsts' will be in
cluded ir the blossomi parade
Saturday in conjunction with
the the two day Rogue Valley
Pear Blossom festival Satur
day and Sunday.
Power-drawn floats will be
entered in the commercial
division with the other floats
limited to a size that may be
drawn by children. In pre
vious years no motorized
floats were allowed.
The parade will be held at
11 a.m. Saturday. The morn
ing event, previously held in
Several Projects
Finished By City
Several public works proj
ects have been completed this
week, according to Vernon
Thorpe, city director of public
works.
He said work on the Eighth
and 10th sts. storm sewer was
completed Thursday when
several sections of street were
paveS. Final paving on the
project had been held up due
to area paving plans not being
open earlier in the year, he
said.
Also completed Thursday
was a section of storm sewer
between Melrose and Monroe
sts. on Fir st. The project was
to correct a drainage problem
in the area, according to
Thorpe.
Thorpe reported curbs and
gutters have been installed on
10th st., between Riverside
and Central aves., and paving
of the new street is expected
to be completed by this eve
ning. The street section will be
part of the approach to a
bridge to be constructed over
Bear creek.
The installation of a seg
ment of the Laurelhurst storm
sewer is expected to be com
pleted by this afternoon or by
Monday, Thorpe said. The
small section of the system
would complete the installa
tion of the storm sewer in the
area, he added.
Former Massachusetts
Governor Found Dead
' Cambridge, Mass. (IP)
Former Democratic Gov. Paul
R. Dever-. of Massachusetts
was found dead in his apart
ment today, apparently of a
heart seizure. He was 55.
Dever, governor from 1949
to 1953, lived at the apart
ment with his sister. He was
a bachelor.
Valsetz, Ore. (IP) Valsetz
Lumber Company will shut
down tonight throwing 52
men out of work.
DOW-JONES AVERAGES
New York UP) Dow
Jones final stock averages:
30 industrials 441.24, up
0.18; 20 rails 104.95, up
1.96; 15 utilities 75.13, up
0.30; 65 slocks 151.78. up
0.69. Sales today were
about 2.060.000 compared
with 2,000,000 Thursday.
the afternoon, has been
scheduled at this time so it
will fit into the schedule of
other events taking place the
same day, according to Fred
Beck, president of the Festi
val association.
The parade will travel east
on Main st. to Hawthorne
park where parade prizes will
be awarded.
Theme of the festival is
"all good things come in
pears."
Other Festivities
Other week end festivities
include the Crater Lions club
Sportsfair . to be -held - at the
Medford armory from noon
until 10 p.m. Saturday and
from 10 a.m. until 10 p.m.
Sunday. It will cal attention
to Southern Oregon's recrea
tional assets.
At 1 p.m. the drill team ex
hibit of the Job's Daughters
state convention will be held
at Hedrick Junior High school
gymnasium.
Sunday afternoon various
events have been scheduled at
Camp White. Included will be
the Wheel Chair parade at
1 P-m. ' .,
Medford armory was a bee
hive of activity today as
Crater Lions, exhibitors and
carpenters set up booths and
displays for the first annual
Southern Oregon Sportsfair.
Crater Lions will open the
doors to the show, which de
picts this areas recreational
assets, at noon on Saturday.
The fair will continue through
Sunday. Closing time, both
days is 10 p.m.
Primarily a boat show, the
Sportsfair, nevertheless, will
have exhibits and demonstra
tions of other outdoor activi
ties and sports of the Rogue
river valley and nearby areas.
Fairgoers will view commer
cial and sports group displays
and exhibtions in some 64
spaces in the armory and 10
outside. .
Exhibits Listed ' '
These include style show
ing, archery, rifle, pistol, mos
quito trapshooting, boating,
fishing, camping, swimming,
skin-diving, water and snow
skiing, golfing, bullet-making,
leather-tooling, taxidermy and
pony riding.
A nominal admission fee
will be charged for adults
with smaller fee for students.
Children six years of age and
under will be admitted free.
Activities, will be free except
for food concesions and the
fishing for live trout in a 30
by 10-foot pond four feet deep.
There will be numerous
prizes offered. Among them
are a week's fishing with
cabin, boat and motor pro
vided at Fish and Willow
lakes. These are offered by
Lloyd Morris, proprietor of
the resorts. Others include
cameras from Ander's Photo
shop, a rod and reel from the
Big Y shopping center, a tent
from Dunham's and member
ships from the YMCA.
Dr. Frank Wilson, chairman
for the fair, praised the co
operation offered by groups
and individuals to the Lions
and declared that' enthusiasm
for the Sportsfair has been
terrific."
For route suggested for
viewing the pear blossoms see
map and story on Page 9.
Tax Levies Set
For $1,613,763
For Coming Year
Two New Schools
Make Up Main Rise
A budget for the Medford
school district totaling
$2,525,441.17 was approved
last night by the district budg
et committee.
Anticipated revenues will
total $1,007,035.84, leaving to
be raised $1,518,405.33,
which, adding $95,358.21 as
an amount estimated that will
not be collected in taxes,
leaves a total of $1,613,763.54
to be levied as taxes during
the coming year.
This total compares with
$1,528,168.08 for the current
taxing year, an increase of
$85,595.46.
As a result, the millage tax
rate will be increased an esti
mated 2.4 mills based on cur
rent assessed valuation from
44.3 this year to 46.7 for the
coming year.
However, School Board
Chairman Frank Bash pointed
out that an increase in the
state basic school support fund
(which cannot as yet be in
cluded in the budget), will
bring in sufficient revenue to
reduce the millage to approxi
mately 44.7 or an increase
of only .4 of a mill.
Actual Millage Uncertain
He explained that the ac
tual millage is uncertain be
cause of recent changes in
state low, and because the as
sessed valuation of the dis
trict, now listed at $34,555,
728.22, may change somewhat
for the coming year. But he
said that the best estimates
available indicate the only
school tax increase in the dis
trict will be the .2 of a mill,
plus the county school equali
zation f undr new this year,
over which the district has no
control.
The school budget commit
tee includes regular members
of the school board, plus five
citizen-members appointed for
budget review only.. Board
members are Bash, William
Barker, Edward Branchfield,
Otto Ewaldsen and Keith
Hockersmith. Budget mem
bers are Dr. D. Kirkland
West, chairman, Robert Cun
ningham, secretary, and Mrs.
Sara Fay Puhl, Robert Taylor
and Phil Humphreys.
The budget had been under
preparation for several
months, and the members last
night went over the adminis
tration's proposals in detail.
It will be published in full
on April 18 and 25, and an
election for approval of the
budget will be held rtther
June 3 or 4.
It is necessary to vote on
the budget because of the
fact that the district's school
base, established many years
ago, has for a long time been
too small to permit collection
of the necessary taxes with
out approval of the voters.
By far the largest portion
of the budget is in the gen
eral fund, for operation,
maintenance and capital out
lay. The amount in the sink
ing fund and bond interest,
paying for new construction
in the district, totals $162,
923.44, compared to a general
fund total of $1,450,840.10.
In preparing the budget,
School Superintendent Leon
ard Mayfield said, a number
of items deemed desirable but
not immediately pressing,
were eliminated. These items
totaled more than $87,000, he
said.
Salary Increases Included
Most ofthe increase is at
tributable to the fact that two
new schools will be in opera
tion during the coming school
year. Part of the increase also
is because of increased teach
er salaries.
Mayfield said that one rea
son the increase was not great
er was a sharp cut in capital
outlay expenditures, from
$182,871 last year, to $71,758
this year. The decrease was
largely due to the fact that
niv school site acquisitions are
planned this year, and no ma
jor additions to existing build
ings are planned from this
year's budget.
Largest single item, this
year as in the past, is in the
instructional- budget, which
this year totals $1,652,507.91,
up from $1,440,245.23 last
year.
Other divisions of the budg
et include general control,
$47,640.97; operation, $207,
316.01; maintenance and re-
Russia Agrees To
Ambassadorial
Meet Next Week
Terms Amount To
Veto of Proposals
Moscow (IP) Russia to
day accepted the West's pro
posal to start pre-summit
ambassadorial talks this
month, but on condition a
summit conference be held
regarless of how the pre
liminaries turn out.
Washington (IP) Russia
agreed today to an ambassa
dorial meeting next week to
take the first step toward a
summit conference. But the
White House said Russia is
still imposing terms that
amount to rejection of the
Western proposals.
The White House said the
Soviet note, delivered to Pres
ident Eisenhower this morn
ing, proposes "diplomatic
preparations which shall not
deal at all with a summit
meeting but only with the
time, place and composition
of a subsequent meeting of
foreign ministers." ,
"The Soviet reply is mani
festly not an acceptance of
the Western proposal," the
White House said.
Identical Notes
The United States, Britain
and France proposed in ident
ical notes March 31 that Rus
sia agree to ambassador-level
talks in Moscow the second
half of April to "determine
whether a summit conference
would serve a useful pur
pose." The Soviet reply, inform
ants said, agreed to an am
bassadorial meeting and sug
gested that it begin April 17.
At first glance this appear
ed to be a concession to West
ern views that careful pre
paratory work must precede
any top level meeting to ease
the cold war.
Secretary of State John Fos
ter Dulles took a rough trans
lation of the note to President
Eisenhower this morning. The
President delayed his depart
ure for a week end at Augus
ta, Ga., to discuss it with
Dulles.
Planning Meeting
Sets Coordination
City Manager Robert Duff
and Medford Planning. Tech
nician Ned Langford met
Thursday with the county
court and planning commis
sion concerning co-ordinated
city and county planning.
Duff said the group dis
cussed possibilities for urban
planning which would avoid
duplication and aid in devel
opment of maps and land use
studies.
1 The work eventually would
.lead to location of streets,
roads, parks and other proj
ects. The proposed endeavor
also could receive federal aid
under certain conditions, Duff
said.
Two Girls Escape
From Hillcrest School
Salem HP) Sheets were
used by two teen-aged girls to
escape from Hillcrest school
here Thursday night.
The escape was not noticed
until this morning.
Missing are a 16-year-old
Gresham girl and a 17-year-old
from Portland. .
pairs, $147,961; auxiliary
agencies (including transpor
tation, lunch program, health
services and supplies) $58,
827; fixed charges, (including
insurance, rent, retirement
and social security) $120,393.
40; capital outlays, $71,758;.
and non-bonded debt service
and emergency fund, $15,700.
Total bonded indebtedness
of the district is now $2,523,
750. Schools operated include
one high school, two junior
high schools, and seven ele
mentary schools, housing
5,529 students as of today.
Bakers' Local
Hearing and
Bakers' Union Local 404 is
now waiting for the National
Labor Relations board to con
duct an election to reaffirm
one held within the local,
William P. Conner, Medford,
local president, said this
morning.
He said the local which
covers Klamath Falls, Med
ford and Roseburg, voted to
withdraw from the old Bak
ery and Confectionary Work
ers International Union of
America. Local 404, which in
cludes 78 members, voted to
affiliate with the American
Bakers and Confectionary
Workers International Union
AFL and CIO.-
GOVERNOR'S CLEMEKICY
RIGHTS: HELD. BY-COURT
53rd Year
Medford
26 Pages MEDFORD,
Sfompanafo's
Death Justified,
Jury Verdict Says
Hearing Slated for
Lana Turner's Child
. Hollywood (IP) A cor
oner's jury ruled today that
the death of Lana Turner's
lover, Johnny Stompanto, at
the hands of her 14-year-old
daughter, was "justifiable
homicide."
The verdict of the 10 man,
two woman jury came 28 min
utes after they received the
case. It followed the dramatic
re-telling of the fateful Good
Friday night in the Turner
household by the dazzling star
herself.
Neither the star, nor her
daughter, Cheryl, were in the
courtroom to hear the verdict,
which is tantamount of clear
ing the slim, shy beauty of
responsibility in the slaying.
Leaves Courtroom
Lana left the courtroom im
mediately after the case went
to the coroner's jury at 11:45
a.m., shrouded by her at
torney, Jerry Giesler, and his
assistant Louis Blau. The jury
returned at 12:13 p.m.
She was en route to her
luxurious Beverly Hills man
sion when the verdict was
read.
Lana held center stage for
more than 30 minutes this
morning as she re-told the
"horror" of the knifing of her
Latin lover, small-time hood
lum, Stompanato.
Told of Threats
The glamorous movie star
told the coroner's inquest that
her daughter sprang at Stom
panato with an eight-inch
bladed butcher knife after he
had threatened her violently
and told her she would never
get away from him.
The District Attorney s of
fice said, after the verdict,
that "at this time" they plan
ned to go ahead with the juve
nile hearing, the equivalent of
a trial, in Santa Monica,
April 24.
Muttnik Expected
To Fall Saturday
By UNITED PRESS
Russia's little dead space
dog is expected to come back
to earth this week end in a
blaze of glory
The expected demise of
Sputnik II has already
brought "eye-witness" ac
counts of its fall from Lou
isiana and Australia's "out
back" land. But whatever
those witnesses saw, it wasn't
the dying satellite.
But American astrophysi
cists figured its bright streak
of death may provide a spec
tacle for New England.
Dr. Luigi Jacchia, of the
Smithsonian Astrophy s i c a 1
Observatory at Cambridge,
Mass., calculated the satellite
should enter the burning fric
tion of the earth's atmosphere
somewhere over New Eng
land about 9 p.m. Saturday.
It is already slightly past its
originally calculated life of
five months.
Salem OP) The new 4-H
and FFA buildings at the Ore
gon State fairgrounds here
should be ready for the fair's
opening Aug. 28.
Now Awaiting NLRB
Election Planned Soon
Local 404 remains the
same, he said, but it will
affiliate with the internation
al union. The AFL-CIO re
cently expelled Bakery, and
Confectionary Workers Inter
national Union of America on
charges of corruption.
The NLRB sponsored elec
tion will be conducted among
all of the employees of the
five wholesale bakeries in the
tri-city area. It probably will
not affect retail bakery opera
tors at this time, the union
local official said.
The NLRB hearing and
election is ' expected in the
near future, according to local
reports
OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL
'When Do We Get Out
VFW Events Sunday
Planned for 1,000
More than 1,000 persons
are expected to attend instal
lation ceremonies for Veterans
of Foreign Wars post officers
Sunday afternoon during the
official visit here of Richard
L. Roudebush, Indianapolis,
Ind., commander-in-chief of
VFW.
Roudebush "will arrive in
Medford at the airport at
11:53 a7m. Sunday. He will be
met by city and veteran's or
ganization ' officials. Accom-
Dinner Meeting
Set For Porter
Rep. Charles O. Porter will
give a report on the current
session of Congress at a meet
ing today at 7:30 p.m. in the
Medford hotel.
Reservations may be made
by contacting William Death
erage at SPring 3-4498. The
public is invited to attend the
dinner-meeting which is spon
sored by the Democratic So
cial club, according to Death
era ge.
Porter will speak on Con
gressional . action on several
important subjects, answer
questions and talk about im
portant local issues at the
evening meeting.
He plans to tour facilities
at Camp White and the Tuck
er Sno-Cat company on Sat
urday before returning to his
home city of Eugene. Ap
pointments to see Porter can
be made by contacting James
Redden and Bernard Kelly.
WEATHER
FORECAST: Fair and mild
through Saurday. Low tonight
40. High Saturday 75.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday 66
Lowest this Morning 36
Our Skies Tonight
Sunrise
5:38 a.m.
Sunset 6:48 p.m.
Moonrise Saturday 2.19 a.m.
New Moon April 18
There will be three eclipses
this year,' two of the Sun and
one of the Moon. The first, of
the Sun, occurs at the next
New Moon and will be visible
in the Indian Ocean and in the
Western Pacific.
The Bakery Operators As
sociation of Southern Oregon
petitioned the NLRB to con
duct the representation elec
tion. Purpose is to determine
with whom the bakery opera
tors will negotiate with in the
future. - ,
The Eugene bakery local
has also voted to withdraw
from the international union.
The Eugene and Medford lo
cals were the first in Oregon
to pull out of the bakery inter
national Other locals are also
considering pulling out and
joining the new internation
al, according to Chet Dusten,
AFL-CIO director of region
21 in the Pacific Northwest.
Price 10 Cents
Tribune
11, 1958
No. 18
Of This Depression?"
panying the commander to
Medford will be John L.
Smith, director of public re
lations with the national VFW
headquarters, Kansas City,
Mo.
Post officers for District 5
and 7 and possibly districts
4 and a will be installed at
4 p.m. Sunday in the Hedrick
junior high school gymnasium.
'Department Auxiliary Pres
i d e n t Harriett Shoemaker,
Portland, will install the aux
iliary officers. Department
Commander Harry Birch will
preside over the installations.
The public is invited to at
tend. Also scheduled during Rou
debush's visit here is an in
spection of the buildings at
the Camp White Domiciliary.
He will be inducted into the
Order of the Cavemen of
Grants Pass at 6 p.m. Sunday
prior to a banquet in the jun
ior high school at 6:30 p.m.
Main Rebel Body
Isolated in Cuba
Havana (IP) Loyal troops,
striking back at insurgents
whose hit-a n d-i un attacks
caused nearly 100 deaths this
week, have isolated the "main
rebel body" in the mountains
of eastern Cuba, the army
announced today.
A communique said "many"
rebels have been taken pris
oner by troops pursuing them
into the Sierra Maestras
where insurgent leader Fidel
Castro has been hiding out for
16 months.
-,' A government spokesman
said the "all-out attack"
threatened for this week by
the rebels has fizzled out,
making their eventual defeat
certain. He said loyal troops
probably will be able to wipe
out the last vestiges of resis
tance within two months.
Neuberger Warns
Izaak Walton League
Portland (IP) Sen. Richard
L. Neuberger (D.-Ore.) warn
ed the Izaak Walton League
here today that the licensing
authority of the Federal Pow
er Commission would have to
be restrained "or the great
spawning realms of the Sal
mon, Clearwater and Imnaha
rivers could be permanently
blockaded by high dams."
Washington 0PI President
Eisenhower was to leave
Washington today for a brief
week end at the Augusta, Ga.,
National Golf club.
TV Highlights
A change in Saturday
morning's televised base
ball game was announced
early this afternoon by sta
tion KBES-TV. The game
between Cleveland and the
San Francisco Giants will
start at 10:25 a.m. It re-
. places the Philadelphia
New York game, previously.
- scheduled for 11 a.m.
Decision Expected
To Alter Sentence
For Billy Nunn
Thornton Upheld
In Marion Court
Walter Nunley. Medford.
attorney for John E. and
Lillie M. Eacret of Klam
, ath Falls, said today a Mari
on county Circuit Court
decision upholding Gov.
Robert D. Holmes' right to '
commute the death sentence
of Billy Junior Nunn would
be appealed to the State
Supreme Court.
The Eacrets' 14-year-old
son, Alrin, was slain, two
years ago.
Salem (IP) Marion County
Circuit Judge Val D. Sloper
Thursday afternoon upheld a
demurrer brought by the
state of Oregon against a com
plaint filed by John E. and
Lillie M. Eacret, Klamath
Falls, who were seeking to
prevent Gov. Robert D.
Holmes from commuting the
death sentence of Billy Junior
Nunn.
The action made it virtual
ly certain that Nunn, convict
ed of the murder of 14-year-old
Alvin Eacret two years
ago, would not die in the state
prison gas chamber.
No Jurisdiction Contended
Attorney General Robert Y.
Thornton filed the demurrer
for the state contending that
the court had no jurisdiction
in the matter and that the
complaint did not state suffic
ient facts.
"The Supreme Court has
recognized the right of the
governor to commute," Judge
Sloper said in upholding
Thornton.
Date Extended
"It is not the purpose to
either approve or disapprove
the manner in which the gov
ernor exercises his constitu
tional power of clemency, for
in the final analysis this
power of great responsibility
and attendant pressure vested
in him by the constitution can
only be exercised by the lone
ly man in the governor's
chair," Judge Sloper added.
The governor had extended
the time -of Nunn's execution
to April 28 pending the out
come of the suit. He already
has commuted two dath sen
tences since taking office.
Gov. Holmes has not an
nounced whether he plans to
commute Nunn's sentence, al
though when -in Medford re
cently, he said he has seen no
reason why he should not
follow his policy of commut
ing death sentences in the
Nunn case.
Verdict Favors
Insurance Men
A circuit court jury return
ed a verdict in favor of the
defendants Gilbert S. and
Earl S. Tumy late Thursday
night following a four-day
trial before Judge Edward
Kelly.
The plaintiff, John B.
Hamacher, doing business as
Talent Sawmills, sought $33,
430.70 from Gilbert S. and
Earl S. Tumy, doing busi
ness as the Tumy Insurance
agency.
After approximately four
hours, the jury returned a ver
dict that Hamacher was "en
titled to no damages."
The suit resulted from an
insurance disagreement fol
lowing a fire which destroyed
the Talent sawmill Jan. 6,
1956.
$493,293 Received
From License Fund
" Jackson county received a
total of $493,293.15 from the
state motor vehicle license
fund for the fiscal year 1957
58, according to County
Treasurer Karl Janouch.
A total of $9,044.09 was
received by the county from
the alcoholic beverage tax.
Both amounts were higher
than the previous year, Jan
ouch said. The figures were
reported following receipt for
the final quarter of the year.
The license fundi amount is
based oh the number of motor
vehicle registrations in the
county and the beverage tax
on census figures.
Orders Apply To
Any Unauthorized
Citizens of U.S.
Action Unprecedented
In History of Tests
Washington OP) The Atom
ic Energy Commission issued
orders today barring from the
vicinity of its Pacific Proving
Grounds a small group of
Quakers now en route to pro
test against the imminent nu
clear tests.
The orders apply to any
unauthorized persons who
are U.S. citizens or subject
to U.S. jurisdiction. But they
were specifically designed, it
was learned, to forestall a
tiny group now on its way
to the proving grounds via
Honolulu aboard a 30-foot
ketch named "The Golden
Rule."
Action Unprecedented
The AEC's announcement
of the regulations, issued in
an action unprecedented in
the history of U.S. atomic,
weapons tests, was such as
to indicate possibility that
the United States wants to
get the 1958 test series over
with as quickly as possible.
The orders do not apply
to any foreigners because the
country cannot make regula
tions applicable on the high
seas to citizens of other coun
tries. If any foreign aircraft
or ships should enter the
390,000 square mile danger
zone they would, however, be
warned of the potential haz
ard and told how to get out
in the shortest possible time.
The Golden Rule is now
somewhere in the Pacific be
tween San Francisco and
Honolulu, where they planned
a brief stopover to replenish
supplies.
Future Action Undecided
In Pasadena, Calif., the
Committee for Non Violent
Action Against Nuclear Weap
ons said it had no immediate
plans on what action it would
take in regard to the ban
against its protest "picket
line" in the Proving Ground.
Members of the crew are
Albert Bigelow, 51, Cos Cob,
Conn.; William R. Hunting
ton, 51, St. James, L.L, Ne-v
York; George Willoughby, 43,
Blackwood Terrace, N.J.; and
Orion Sherwood, 28-year-old
science teacher at Oakwood
School, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
March Employed
Shows Rise Here
Employment during March
showed a definite improve
ment over February, accord
ing to John J. Patton, man-
ager of the Oregon state em
ployment service in Medford.
He said in spite of bad wea
ther which interfered with
logging operations, there was
an increase in employment.
Little new hiring of men was
noted but many firms called
back regular employees who
had been laid off.
General prospects for em
ployment in summer are good,
he noted, with agriculture and
construction work appearing
to look very good.
Unemployment compensa
tion claimants filed for 11 per
cent fewer weeks of insur
ance benefits than during Feb
ruary, he explained. The pro
longed unemployment experi
enced during the winter had
caused a larger number of
claimants' to exhaust their
available benefits.
The reduction of claims
filed was due to the "back-to-work"
movement which was
noticed during the second half
of March, he said. Unemploy
ment in the county on March.
13 was estimated at 2,830 or
about a 9 per cent reduction
from February. This figure is
about 28 per cent more than
last year, Patton said.
He said the Medford office
is nearing completion of its
annual program for aptitude
testing in Jackson county high
schools senior classes. Em
ployers are invited to contact
Patton at the office for assist
ance in securing the students.
Ashland Over Top
In Blood Drive
Ashland A total of 234
pints of blood were contribut
ed by volunteers at the Red
Cross Bloodmobile in Ash
land Wednesday, putting the
city well over the top of its
150 quota.
The Red Cross collected 173
pints in Medford, 117 short of
the 290 pint quota.
Much credit was given stu
dents and faculty at Southern
Oregon college, who contrib
uted 66 pints. The school was
in a contest with students at
Oregon Techincial Institute
in Klamath Falls.
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