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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (April 16, 1958)
Ph ( r r ill J ... i V- ' If. HECEIVES TROPHY Central Pointer David Macke, a stu dent at Crater High school, is shown receiving the trophy he received for taking first place in the extemporaneous division of the Oregon High School Speech League Tourna ment. This was the 51st annual tournament to be held on the university campus. Benny, Dinah Shore Honored as Leading TV Entertainers Hollywood (IP) Comedian Jack Benny and Singer Dinah Shore were honored as tele vision's top male and female entertainers Tuesday night at the nationally televised 10th annual Emmy awards. An estimated 70 million viewers watched the presenta tion of Emmys to "Gun- smoke" as the best dramatic series; "Playhouse 90" for its single performance of "The Comedian," and "The Phil Silvers Show" as the best comedy series. Columbia Broadcasting Sys tem won the network race for the most awards presented by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, taking 15 compared to 12 won by the National Broadcasting Com pany. ABC Takes One American B r o a d c a sting Company, creators of "Mav erick" took one of the 28 Emmys presented. Television veterans Robert Young and Jane Wyatt, co stars of "Father Knows Best," were chosen as the best actor and actress in a leading role in a dramatic or comedy series. Bearded Peter Ustinov was honored as the best actor in a single role for ,The Life of Samuel Johnson," on "Omnibus." The Emmy for the best ac tress in a single performance went to Polly Bergen for the title role in the "Playhouse 90" production of "The Helen Morgan Story." Rod Sterling" repeated as the best writer of a one hour show with "The Comedian." Technical Awards Five technical awards were presented for: best art direc tion, Rouben Ter-Arutunian, IN OUR YEAR! (APRIL 9, 1909) of Complete INSURANCE SERVICE The R. A. Holmes Agency The House of Insurance Cole and Grace Holmes Dick House THE HOLMES & HOUSE INSURANCE "Where Insurance Is a Business Not a Sideline" NO REAL ESTATE NO LOANS - NO NUTH'N But EVERY KNOWN FORM of INSURANCE and BONDS 116 South Central SP 3-36S9 "Twelfth Night," Hallmark Hall of Fame; best cinemato graphy for television, Harold E. Wellman, "Hemo the Mag nificent," a Bell Telephone science series; best live cam era work, CBS, for the entire "Playhouse 90" series; best film editing for TV, Mike Pozen,-."How to Kill a Wom an," a "Gunsmoke" program; and best engineering or tech nical achievement, "Wide Wide World." The Feb. 3, 1957, coverage of the Riker's Island, N. Y., plane crash won CBS an award for "the best coverage of an unscheduled news worthy event." Five Persons Killed In Head-on Crash San Bernardino, Calif. (IP) Five persons, including three women, were killed on Monday in a head-on auto col lision on U. S. Highway 66 six miles north of Oro Grande. California Highway Patrol officers said the two cars were traveling at a "tremen dous" speed when they smashed together. Jesse W. Sanders, Minneapo lis, was the only survivor of the grinding crash. He was reported in serious condition at St. Mary's hospittal at Ap ple Valley. The dead were identified as Frank J. Kotnour, 70, Huntington Park, Calif., his wife, Ida, and Sanders' wife, Ella, 63, all in a car driven by Kotnour. Killed in the other car were Henry Charles Lepp, 55, Mil waukee, driver of the other car, and his wife, Esther, 52. MEDFORD WINNER David Frohnmayer (right), Medford High school student, receives a first place trophy from K. E. Montgomery, director of Jhe Oregon High School Speech League Tournament which was held on the university campus April 11 and 12. Frohnmayer took first place in the im promptu division of the tournament. Grange Notes Upper Applegate Grange Members of the Jackson county court will be in the Upper Applegate area Wednesday, April 16, to in spect sites suitable for recrea tion areas, it was announced by Worthy Master Menno Bachmann at the regular meeting of Upper Applegate Grange April 11. ' Upper Applegate Grangers have considered making their major public service project for the 1958 national contest the development of such a recreation area in conjunction with the county, providing suitable arrangements can be made. A special Community Service Project committee will be named' from the Grange membership at the next meeting Bachmann stat ed. Report of the Relief Com mittee indicated Val and Helen . Haskins are ill with colds at their home in Jack sonville." Ella Dbrn is also ill and candidate-elect Hester Vnntypn is convalescing in Sacred Heart hospital follow ing major surgery. Agriculture Chairman George Redhead reported de creases in the price. paid to producers for both grade A anfl factorv milk following USDA reduction in dairy price supports. He also stated tnat the milk ring test for bangs disease in dairy herds, which has replaced blood testing, leaves veterinarians w l x n more free time to test beef herds and carry on the pro gram of calf vaccination. A quotation from Don Rerrv nublished on the farm page of the Mail Tribune, ad vising that a proper site iot a vegetable garden should have good drainage and be free from rocks brought a Dig laugh from the listeners, since few if any possible garden sites in all the Upper Apple- gate region have less tnan bushels of rocks to the acre in all sizes from pebbles to boulders. Home Economics chairman Edna Sawyer read her quar terly reDort to Pomona and State Grange showing of seven new HEC members and three new Grange members re ceived during the quarter, with eight entries in the Na tional Grange sewing contest and two in the state contest to date. Mrs. Sawyer present ed the National Grange Cer tificate of Merit awarded to her for HEC accomplishments during 1957 to Bachmann, suitably framed for display in the Grange hall, and dedi cated it to vhe members of the 1957 Home Economics club. The regular HEC meeting has been postponed from April 14 to April 21, and is to be held in the Grange hall. The quarterly report of the Secretary to Pomona and State Grange was read and accepted showing a present total membership of 78. The House Committee chair man, James Winningham, re norted that the well had been thoroughly cleaned, flushed out and re-sealed. A note of thanks was authorized . to be sent to Hunter and Best for the loan of equipment used in the well cleaning opera tion. Purchase of necessary materials was also authorized to complete additional shelves for the Grange hall storeroom. Balloting for State Grange officers was completed and permission was granted the Ruch Parent-Teacher associa tion to use the Grange hall on Saturday evening, April 26, Mario Lanza's Cancellation Booed Hamburg, Germany (IP) A crowd of 400 disgruntled music fans marched on Mario Lanza's hotel Tuesday night and booed the singer's cancel lation of a scheduled perform ance. Lanza's manager, John Coast, said doctors advised him not to sing because of a severe cold. The cancellation was not announced until the Ham burg City Music Hall was filled to capacity. ' If all the land underlain with coal in the U.S. could be placed side by side, it would cover an area larger than Great Britian, Erie and France combined. for their benefit Talent Show, an annual community event. Announcement was also made of the style revue and exhibit scheduled jointly by the Upper Applegate and Ap plegate Home Extension units for Saturday evening, April 19, at 8 p.m. in the Grange hall. The public is invited and there will be a program and refreshments, it was stat ed, in addition to a variety of exhibits and the fashion show, in which all those who participated in the recent Cotton Dress workshop will model their dresses. A brief report of' the sur prise visitation to Live Oak Grange on Thursday evening, April 10, was given. Eight members - were in attendance from Upper Applegate Grange including Master Bachmann, Maude Bachmann, Irene Culy, Verna Culy, Anna Scott, Pearl Whitney, Ella Russell and Omar Culy. Lecturer Anna Scott gave a resume of the lecturers' school held at Southern Ore gon college March 31-April 1, which she attended. Follow ing her report, she conducted a quiz on Grange ritual. Refreshments of coffee and cake with hot custard .sauce were served by a committee consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Finley and Mr. and Mrs. Clar ence Buck and Edward Fin ley who were assisted by Kathleen Scovell. No further meetings of Upper Applegate Grange will be held in April due to the fact that Jackson County Po mona Grange is scheduled to hold an all-day session in the Upper Applegate Grange hall Saturday, April 26. The an nual Grange memorial serv ice honoring deceased mem bers will be a feature, of this meeting. Grace N. Pearson, Publicity Chairman. If you need money for medical bills, vacation, or to consoli date small bills . . . see -us for a personal loan. PACIFIC 'A INDUSTRIAL 16 S. Central Ph. SP 3-5308 Dick Hans, Manager NAMED PRESIDENT Donald Lacey (far right) of Central Point's Crater High was elected president of the Oregon High school Speech League at the group's 51st annual state tournament. The tournament was held on the University of Oregon campus April 11-12. Also elected were Edith Engel of David Douglas High school in Portland, firslr vice presi-. dent, and Norman Anderson of Grants Pass High, second vice president. ' Television's Emmy Show Uninspired Production; Chance for Honor Flubbed By WILLIAM EWALD United Press Correspondent New York (IP) Televis ion flubbed its chance Tues day night to come up with a show that would do honor to itself. I'm sure that many of those associated with the 10th an ual "Emmy" award show seen on NBC-TV will be laying the blame on Milton Berle today for his outrageous hogging of the camera. Berle spur out an extended mono logue (to give him his due, it was quite funny) that forced everyone else to cut short their routines and seem ed to throw the show into a kind of panic. But it seemed to me the. show's troubles were more basic. To put it simply, it was an uninspired production. Like the Hollywood "Os car" show a few weeks back, the Emmy awards were pre sented against a bare back drop while confusion ran rampant on the teleprompter and on camera. There seemed to be an excessive amount of audio bugs, the camera shots often ran behind the announc ing, and there was a frantic air of "how the heck am I going to get down the aisle" about it all. Any Fresh Ideas? It seems puzzling that an industry equipped with the sort of production brains capable of turning out the Dinah Shore, Perry Como and Steve Allen shows is unable to handle a simple award din ner with dignity, distinction and fresh ideas. Only the most groping of efforts was made to add pro duction values to the show. That wonderful motley mili tary miscellany the Phil Silvers platoon was parad ed onstage to the tune of the "March from the River Kwai." Once, a four-way! Lawn Furniture Needs! DEECO & NT I IMPERIAL Chaise Lounges Plastic Webbed Chairs Padded Club Chairs FEATURING . . . California 0495 Umbrellas up Umbrella Tables Plastic Foam We Give 314 East Main Burks screen was tried unsuc cessfully while Jill Corey, Shirley MacLaine, James Gar ner and Louis Nye tackled a parody of "Love and Mar riage." I would say the showonly registered on one count it had a kind of homey air about it, an off-the-cuff informality that was pleasing at times. But its informality teetered too often on the edge of chaos. It boils down to this: TV simply will have to make up its mind about the Emmys and set itself for an overhaul of both the awards and the award show. For one thing, the categor ies are unwieldy. A category like "best continuing per formance (female) in a series by a comedienne, singer, hostess, dancer, MC, announc er, narrator, panelist, or any person who essentially plays herself" is a patent absurdity. The category should be sliced to about half their number or better still, done away with entirely and awards just pre sented to those shows or per formers who merit them. There is something very wrong with a system that de cides "The Comedian" on "Playhouse 90" is the best single show of the year, that bestows an award on "Omni bus" and is forced to slough off "See It Now," that gives a statue to "Schultzy" of "The Bob Cummings Show" and forgets "The Edsel Show," "The Miracle Worker," Jack Parr, Sid Caesar and "Hall mark Hall of Fame." And secondly, TV should organize its awards as a show free of commercials, not as a kind of subway competition for seats, .a cheap scramble that looks more like a kiss-off than what it should be: A tasteful, imaginative extrava ganza that the TV industry can point to with pride. Recovers Terry Cloth Chaise Butterfly Chair Bucket Chair Umbrella Lawn Swing Plastic CHAIR WEBBING Assorted Colors Seat Pads Green Stamps for all your canvas needs Phone SP 2-4472 Shotgun Blast Kills Unborn Child Toledo, Ohio API Mrs. Arietta Brahier, 26, who po lice said killed her unborn child by shooting herself in the stomach with a 16-gauge shotgun, was in "critical con dition" at the Flower hospital early today. Her husband, Maurice Bra hier, told authorities his wife had been pregnant for about eight and a half months. Mrs. Brahier was found bleeding just inside the door of her house by a neighbor. Brahier, a factory worker, said his wife suffered from a heart ailment. The sheriff's office said she may have shot herself because she was ill. Authorities still have not been able to talk to her, however. TRANSIT REVENUE DOWN NeW York (IP) Passen ger revenue on New York City's subways dropped $4, 304,543 in a nine-month per iod ending March 31, the Transit Authority announced today. The drop was blamed primarily on the recession. mmm yow This is not a missprint! For only $66 per month (or $16.50 per week), plus regular down payment, you can own a brand new Olds 88 Holiday coupe or 4-door sedan-equipped with whitewall tires, hydramatic, heater and defroster, oil filter-licensed, polished, full of gas and ready to drive home! The following is the easy month ly payment schedule for addi tional equipment if desired: Item Per Mo. Radio : $1.90 Power Steering " $1.9S Power Brakes 90e Tinted Glass' 90c SEE Darrell Miller Co. 415 SOUTH RIVERSIDE Come in and take a demonstration ride and get a free Rocket color book for your children! MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon. Wednesday, April 16, 1958 S NEW SOVIET TRADE PACT Moscow (IP) A new Soviet-Iranian commercial agree ment "will greatly increase the volume of trade between the two countries," the Tass News Agency reported today. Representatives of the two nations signed the . pact in Tehran, capital of Iran, Tuesday. You're Invited To Attend a NO-HOST BREAKFAST HOTEL JACKSON Friday, April 18 7:30 a.m. S-r WARREN GILL Republican Candidate for Governor PLEASE CALL JACKSON HOTEL FOR RESERVATION Paid Adv. Jackson County Gill for Governor Committee, Dick House, Chairman, .15 Corning Ct., Medford, Oregon TO OWN AN You Also Get: Lowest Finance Possible Highest Trade-in Allowance This is no gimmick the only re quirement is that you be of good character and have established credit. US TOMORROW WEEK END IN THE SUN Panama City, Fla. (IP) A group of 80 physically handicapped children will get a week end in the Florida sun, starting Thursday. The group, from a crippled chil dren's clinic in Birmingham, Ala., will be the non-paying guests of a local beachside hotel. pay. a a 1
