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i MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Sunday, April 20, 1958 PAY ON SPOT Madison, Wis. OP) The Wisconsin Judicial Council has come up with a cash-and-carry suggestion for stream lining state courts. The coun cil suggested police motor cycle policemen carry cash boxes for fast collection of trafic fines. Cop Saves Fish On Way To School Birmingham, England OF) There was Derrick Strahan, driving his goldfish to school. As they drew near the school for spastic children where Strahan's wife teaches and where he was going to show the children the gold fish, Derrick pulled up sharp ly at an intersection. A basket containing a bowl, water and the goldfish fell off the front seat, and the gold fish flapped around on the floor. Strahan bent down to res cue the fish and its bowl. His foot slipped off the brake and the car rolled on into an other automobile that a po liceman was parking. The policeman, described in court as "decent and hu mane," first attended to the unhappy goldfish. He got water for the goldfish. Then he charged Strahan with careless driving. Strahan was fined $5.60 Thursday. Life Saving Set By Ashland YMCA Ashland A life saving course sponsored by the Ash land YMCA will begin Thurs day, April 24, at Jackson Hot springs. The ten-week course will teach swimming skills the first three sessions. Bill War ren will be instructor. Those who pass will receive their YMCA junior or senior rating, as well as Red Cross and Boy Scout ratings if de sired. Persons interested may call the YMCA, MUdrock 5-8616, for further details. Children and adults are eligible. BAUSCH & LOMB OPTICAL CO., Rochester, N.Y. Proved: REVOLVING AGITATOR WASHES BEST CENTER POST AGITATOR . Magnified photo of cloth after "washing in center-post auto matic Notice gold particles 'Still cling to cloth. REVOLVING AGITATOR 'Photo of cloth after washing in the revolving agitator I Laundromat. Every speck of I jrold cashed out and recovered from wash and rinse water. 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Jones road Purpose of the meeting was to formulate plans for the an nual spring camporee which is scheduled to be held above Hilts next weekend, Mrs. Rachel Martin and Mrs. Ruth Cummins of the local grammer school, and Charles Brock of Yreka High school are enrolled at SOC for the spring term. All are taking a graduate course in research and child develop ment. The dinner meeting of the northern section of the Cali fornia Teachers association held at Montague Tuesday night was attended by all four teachers of the Horn brook school, Mrs. Jeanne Cunningham, Mrs. Ruth Cum mins, Mrs. Rachel Martin, and principal Harley Baker. Work is progressing satis factorily on the remodeling of the older part of Hornbrook school, and the building is expected to be ready for oc cupancy in the very near fu ture. Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Funk of Delta, Calif., were here over the weekend visiting friends and their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Al King and daughter, Terry. Funk was track foreman for the SP iiere for a number of years. He was transferred to Delta March 1. ?ch'n?ouse Studio April 14',J0t,,e amaxi"8 swayze Lomb, st0ryf the word's largest one of tne w optical manufacturers ol equipment. A"uged by cloths that a"ming ma driinng and 'become chine Pat0'ith small, impregnated w" almost gold tides. Bauscn t"is valu ant to reclaim tn aEitlior ma- nter-post , chines, but touno end of the . mled, were 8U" . ' fr , Laundromat results were ;"Vd was , I out of the cioin- I They "T-,, ters and re- ana ,old. covered - - YOUR CLOTHES TOOI BETTER! CLEANS ITSELF! s5 $3.32 Per Week Overnight Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Jeter drove to the coast last week end, where they stayed with friends, Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam Buckner, at Crescent City, and visited other friends at Smith River.. - Saturday evening, with their friends, they attended a Republican rally at Cres cent City at which Caalifor nia State Senator Randolph Collier of Yreka was the principal speaker. Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Wells and daughter, Melissa, made a business trip last week to Ft. Dick, Calif., where they visited Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Garrett, former Hornbrook residents. Enroute home they were overnight guests in Brookings of Mrs. Wells' sis ter, Mr. Bill Goodman, and in Smith River they visited with friends, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tomkinson. A2C and Mrs. Oliver Fick of Fairfield, Calif., spent the weekend here with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Chapman. Dinner guests of the family Saturday evening were Steve Leonard and Er min Bear. On Sunday, Mrs. Fick's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rimell, drove down from their home in Canyon ville, Ore., and when the Ficks returned to Fairfield on Monday, Mrs. Rimell ac companied them ror a short visit. Mrs. Mabel Sanders return ed this week from a three weeks' visit in Sacramento and Stockton, Calif. In Sac ramento she was the guest of Mrs. Mary Kabler and her daughter and son-in-law. Mrs. Kabler lived in Hornbrook for a number of years. In Stockton, Mrs. Sanders visited her sister, Mrs. Ed gar Young. On Tuesday, Mrs. Sanders and her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Sanders, and three chil dren, drove to Ashland where they visited Mrs. Bill San ders' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charley Dailey. Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Madi son are moving from town this week to the Frank Car doza ranch, where Maadison is foreman. Bert Robertson of Hemet, Calif., who recently bought the Luke Lange ranch, has arrived here and after doing a little work on the house, plans to return to Hemet for Mrs. Robertson. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Blanken- ship and three children have moved to the place across old Highway 99 from Mrs. Mary Kurt's store. For the past eight years, they have lived in Mrs. Grace Quigley's small house on Henley Lane. Moving into the house va cated by the Blankenship's will be Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Willingham. Mrs. Priscilla Augsberger has sold her ranch on the Klamath river and moved this week to the Mendes house on old Highway 99. Mrs. Dave Holland has taken a position at the Siski you General hospital in Yreka. She is a registered nurse. The Contract Bridge club met Wednesday for the first time in several weeks. Hos tess was Mrs. Grace Quigley. Members present were Mrs. Bertha Bradley, Mrs. John Griffin, Mrs. Ed Smith, Mrs. Laura Swinnerton, Mrs. Mar shall Horn, Mrs. Lester Nye, Mrs. Duane Hamner, and Mrs. Fred Mills. Mrs. Smith held high score, and Mrs. Griffin second high. A dessert luncheon preceded the after noon's play. Jess Cummins returned to work last week after recov ering from critical injuries sustained in a logging acci dent near Ft. Jones several weeks ago. Mrs. Cecelia Thompson is operating the recently open ed Snack Bar at the Henley Way Motel. Willis (Willie) Jones, son of Mrs. Gladys Jones, and a student at SOC at Ashland. returned Thursday from San Francisco, where he took his physical examination for in duction in the army. Mrs. Emma Kenny of Klam ath Falls visited here last weekend with her mother, Mrs. Mary Shinar, and her ! brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. John Shinar. The annual spring recital Sawdust Medford Fuel Go. Tel. SP 2-21 1 1 Court & McAnd. Grange Hews Lake Creek Grange The need for care with fires during summer was pointed out by Murray Bartling, fire insurance agent, at the recent Lake Creek Grange meeting. He said no serious fires have started in the area since he has been here. Loyd George told the group about a petition being circu lated in the area which con cerns the state and the opera tion of a electrical business. All dues have been paid for the current year, according to the secretary's report at the meeting. Voting was held fo the Ore gon State Grange officers fol lowed by a guessing game con test. Pearl Bartling was pre sented a birthday cake at the meeting. Secretary, Ellyn Charley Live Oak Grange Members of Live Oak Grange were surprised at their last meeting s April 10, when 68 Grangers from seven Jackson county Granges dropped in. . Larry Sheehan, legislative chairman, gave a report on current events and introduced Medford Resident Has Same P. 0. Box It would be difficult for Glenn A. Abbott, 525 Albert street, Medford, to forget the number of his post office box. He has had the same box num ber for 47 years, according to Moore Hamilton, Medford postmaster. The Abbotts came to Med ford from Trimble, Ohio, in 1911, and rented a post office box when the post office was in the building that is now occupied by the Western Thrift store on North Central, Hamilton said. When the new post office was built on its pre sent location, the Abbotts re tained the same box number and still have it. Abbott worked at carpenter work when he first came here, but for the past 26 years has been employed by the Med ford Irrigation district. Hamil ton added. In April the Ab botts go to the intake, on the North Fork of Little Butte creek, and remain there for the summer, returning to Med ford early in October. Mrs. Abbott knows every good fish ing spot on the creek from the canyon above the Connelly place on down. of Mrs. Paul Green's music students will be held Sunday, April 27, at 4 p.m. in Horn brook at a place to be an nounced the first of next week. Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Jeter received a telephone call Thursday evening from their son, A3C Bill Jeter, who is stationed at Ft. Momouth, N. J., advising them that he is graduating Friday April 18 from basic electronics school and is being transferred to Huntsville, Ala., for an addi tional 12 weeks of schooling. About 90 per cent of all the writing jobs in the U.S. are done by pencil, according to the pencil industry. MORE DEPTH Enjoy the thrilling depth of "binaural or "both-ear" hearing. 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An invitation was received from Bellview Grange to at tend their mortgage burning ceremony, Sunday, April 20. The HEC meeting at noon April 17 will be potluck. The next Grange meeting will be Thursday, April 24, at 8 p.m. Butte Falls Grange Plans for a style show and silver tea in the community church on May 6, at 2 p.m., have been made by the HEC unit of the Grange. The show will include en tries in the National Grange and Singer contests. "Extension unit members and the high school sewing class will be in cluded at the show. A "work day" was an nounced by officials for April 19. All members were asked to ' take part. A potluck din ner is planned at noon at the community hall. A movie, "Realms of the Wild," shown by Lyle Per kins of the forest service, highlighted the last regular meeting of the Grange. Other activities at the meeting in cluded a candlelight object lesson depicting the character istics of the 12 disciples by Mrs. Harry Dalton, a duet by Debra Kay McAlister and Bobbie . Cramer and three numbers by the Butte Falls community church choir. The next meeting of the group will be May 5. The serving committee will be an nounced at a later date by of ficials. Warren Fairbanks, chief naturalist at Crater Lake Na tional park, will speak at the next meeting of Phoenix Grange, Tuesday, April 22 at 8 p.m. This part of the meeting will be open to the public, and anyone interested may at tend, according to Lecturer Mrs. Willis House. Following the wogram reg ular Grange meeting will be Articles Filed For Pool Company Salem (IP) Articles of in corporation were filed here Thursday for the bwimpooi company of Medford. : They were signed by H..L Rush Jr.. Janet M. Crawford John G. Crawford and Lylith M. Bush. The Swimpool company onprators reDresent the Estner Williams Swimming v oot. company as dealers and soon will open downtown Medford offices, Bush said today. They nnw are installing several of the pools in me area. . equip ment, for the noois is soia in "package" form and a feature is a vinvl lininc which keeps the water clean and free from algae. AIDS KtMtt4. Oregon held. The first and second de grees will be given to a group of .candidates. Master Charles Johnson ex-, tends an invitation to other Granges having candidates to initiate, to bring them to this meeting. Mrs. Sol Cox . will have charge of the display table. Gertrude Lewin, Publicity Chairman. Bellview Grange The April 15 meeting of the Belview Grange, presided over by Master Frank Malin, included the final prepara tions for the mortgage burn ing ceremony to be held at the hall April 20 from 2 to 5 p.m. Visitors are expected from all the neighboring granges in Jackson and Klamath counties and a cor dial invitation was extended to all non-grangers. All Bell view Grange women are again reminded i;o bring their fanciest cookies for this fes tival occasion. Final plans were also made for the rummage sale at the old fire station on Saturday, April 19, .starting at 9 a.m. Other important dates to Ve member are April 25 when Belview Grange holds their second public spring dance under the direction of Mr. John Grubb. April 26 there will be a Pomona Grange and Memorial service at the Up per Applegate . Grange hall starting at 10 a.m. Also on April 26 .there will be a pub lic card party at the Bellview Grange, 8 p.m. The Bellview Grange has always given a scholarship to a worthy 4-H youngster and B-Poece I 1 A FAMILY Take your choice of lovely bronze-tone or Mack Nubian finish on smart Viko tubular steel pieces! Seating pieces covered in a wide range of decorator right textured tweed or leather-like plastic covers that wipe clean with a damp cloth. Table tojpa in grey or mahogany stain and dent resistant plastic A sensa tional buy for den, recreation room, playroom! Other Chairs and Rockers Priced from 9.95 to 19.95 . ( . EASY TERMS NO CARRYIING CHARGES OR INTEREST wiemks & ($mm ' Southern Oregon's Oldest and Largest Furniture Store another one will be given this year. Mrs. Clint Baughman, chaplain, announced that Wil liam Kerr and Mrs. Oarus McGee are both on the road to recovery after recent ill nesses. During the Lecturer's hour Mrs. Frances Worth showed many colored slides of her recent visit to Mexico. As the slides were shown Mrs. Worth narated and told of several comical incidents that occur red on their trip. At the close of the meet ing refreshments were served by Mr. and Mrs. James W. Parsons, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Retter, Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Ring and Mr. and Mrs. Rob ert Rosenbaum. May F. Malin, Rreporter Gold Hill Grang Gold Hill Grange met in regular session Thursday, April 17. Reports were given by standing committees. The ag ricultural chairman stated beef and potatoes are still high.' He also said that there is a disease affecting the pear blossoms for which we should watch. Master Charles Foote stat ed that spring lambs are bringing $24.75 the highest he has ever known. Delegates were elected to the State Grange session, which is to be held June 9-13 in Eugene. A card of thanks for the use of the Grange hall for a Christian Science lecture was read from the Gold Hill Chris tian Science society. A card was also received v S cT from Robert Bush thanking the Grange for the plant sent him in his recent illness. The Grange members were shocked to learn of the sud den passing of Harold Geb hard, member of Central Point Grange and also a Po mona Grange officer. An invitation was received from the Bellview Grange, to attend their mortgage burn ing ceremony Sunday, April 20. The lecturer's program fea tured a skit put on by a group of the members, entitled "Too Tired to Move." On account of the "Grange Movement", was red from the encyclopedia. This account brought out that the National Grange of the Patrons of Hus bandry was begun in 1857, under the leadership of Oliver H. Kelley. The legislative . chairman had previously announced that the Kelley farm in Min nesota had been given to the Grange in honor of the Kelley VOTE FOR (LX CI iengtson For State Representative KNOW HOW IS IMPORTANT. O. H. BENGTSON it the only can didate for Stare Representative with experience of two former ses sions. Vote for O. H. Bengtson the man who saved Camp White Hospital for Vers Domiciliary. , t Paid adv. Committee for O. H. Bengtson for State Representative, George Tucker, Chairman ' 525 N. Riverside. . Y" , All for ancestor who founded th Grange, and that a resolution will be presented to the next session of Congress to make this farm a National Shrine, 32 senators having already expressed themselves as favor ing this measure, it was re ported. The lecturer's program closed with a contest on Bib lical proverbs. Refreshments were served by the Hal Bishops. i CHRISTIAN 1 SCIENCE J HEALS Station Sundays KWIN 10:15 1400 K.C. A.M. 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