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i MAIL TRIBUNE, Medferd, Orefon, Sunday, May 11, 193S PHOENIX Woman Returns From Trip . By LILLIAN KNIGHT Phoenix ' Mrs. B. A. Montgomery returned home Saturday, May 4, after visit ing two weeks with her daughter and family, Mr. and Mrs. M. O. Baker in Vancou ver, Wash. Mrs. Baker and daughter, Penny brought her home and stayed over the weekend with her. A pink and blue shower for Mrs. Noble Day was given at the Nazarene personage May 1 with Mrs. Lenora Coffman and Mrs. Marvin Lumley as hostesses. Attending were Mrs. Nolen Day and daughter, Carol, Mrs. Verl Michael, Mrs. Edith Sul livan, Mrs. May Murphy and daughter, Mrs. Lou Day, Mrs. Opel Yorton, Mrs. Viola Homer, Mrs. Ginger Vinson Let's Keep an Experienced Fair and Competent Judge on the Bench! VOTE FOR Judge Edward C. (Incumbent)' ,4 CIRCUIT COURT ' POSITION No. 3 (Non-Partsan Judicial Ballet) PRIMARY ELECTION, MAY 16 Remember! Vote! . 43-X - Edward C. Kelly "Incumbent. Judge Kally xpri nced by thirty years varied active practice. Pd, Adv. Kelly for Circuit Judge Committee, Otto J. Frohnmayer, Chairman, 1656 Spring "St. Med ford. KELLY (TMDSIEH) ' All Dy ' Monday and Tuesday MAY 12 and 13 Graiid Opening your new Wednesday and three children, Mrs. Toby Dorsey, mother of Mrs. Day, Mrs. Wilma Oldham, Mrs. Ann Aldredge, the hostesses, Mrs. Coffman and Mrs. Lum ley, and the guest of honor, Mrs. Noble Day. Several peo ple, who were unable to at tend, sent gifts. First Lieutenant Gary Den zer has returned to his base in Ogden, Utah, after spend ing a furlough visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Stancliffe and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Denzer, and going fish ing several times at Willow lake. Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Mac intosh are vacationing this week in San Francisco. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ger mer . are visiting Germer's sister, Mrs. Mary Papworth, in San Francisco this week. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Furry have taken their trailer house and are spending several days vacationing at Willow Lake. Arthur Smith of Orindo, Calif., is' here visiting his sis ter", Mrs. Minnie Dietrich, for several weeks. Donald Korth is home from Sacred Heart hospital recup erating from major , surgery and may have visitors. v r Harold Locke was home over last ' weekend visiting from Crescent City, Calif., where he is employed at the Del Norte golf course. ; Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kan asto and daughter have Sought the Walter Bolz prop erty on G st. which they will make their home. They are both teachers in the Phoe nix school system. - Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wil liams, aunt and uncle of Mrs. Harry Kanasto, will make their home with the Kanas tos. They are from 'O'Brien, Ore., and still retain their home there. Williams is spending the weekend at their home in O'Brien. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Schmelzer and family have moved from Third st. to Bolz rd. Schmelzer is the new au thorized applicator and deal er for Lloyd-Fry Roofing co. and has rented the building at 3629 S. Pacific highway for the business. The business deals in pre fabricated garages, small farm buildings and small com mercial buildings. Schmelzer has a contract with the mill for the purchase of 130,000 feet of lumber for the under structure of the buildings and is expecting the first ship ment of metal Diamond ribs for the sides and roofing of the buildings from the J. Henry Kaiser factory in Ta coma, Wash. News of the new business was carried by the various newspapers and trade jour nals as far as.' the east coast, resulting in so many telephone calls that they have orders ahead, for the northern Cali fornia and southern Oregon MONTGOMERY 4 ' it' I "i & f i HARRY K. EBY Plans Medford Visit National Director Of Scouts Plans Medford Visit Harry K. Eby, national di rector of school service of the Boy Scouts of America, will visit the Crater Lake Coun cil Thursday and Friday, May 15 and 16. The purpose of his visit is to help local school officials, Parent Teacher association representatives and officers of the local Scout Council in the use of the Boy Scout pro gram. He will meet with Jackson county school offi cials and Parent Teacher as sociation representatives on Thursday at 2:30 p.m. at the First Methodist church. Later in the day Thursday and on Friday, he will visit school people in Josephine and Siskiyou counties. Eby has been in profession al Scouting since his gradua tion from Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio, in 1923. . From 1937 to 1947 he serv ed on the National Council staff as the director of volun teer . training and since 1947 has served in his present posi tion. ; Eby's visit will be the first visit of a National Council staff member in several years. SEE U. S. BALLETS Warsaw, Poland (IP) Mod ern American ballet made its debut in ' the Soviet bloc Saturday night when the Bal let Theater presented "Fancy Free" and "The Fall River Legend." The American com pany arrived Thursday and will stay here until May 18 before moving on to Ham burg, Germany. areas for some time to come. ' Mr. and Mrs. Everett Bar low and their three children and Barlow's mother have moved into the home on Church st. recently vacated by the E. L. Mason family and owned by a Mr. Holman in Ashland. Barlow is employed by the Bureau of Land Re clamation in Medford. They came from Bridgeport, Wash. Barlow is a model airplane enthusiast. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Wrede, daughter and son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Furry, have moved into the home at 208 Third st., recent ly vacated by the Eugene Schmlezer family. WARD Moon ie Local Montgomery Ward Store The Medford Montgomery Ward company store, at South Central ave. and Eighth st will observe its 30th year in Medford when they open at noon Wednesday after com pletely remodeling the store. The store will have been in Medford 30 years in October. ' Remodeling . work on the store building started last Oc tober and has continued through the past seven months with the store remaining open for business. Total cost of the remodeling will run .about $150,000, according to Med ford Manager Joe Materie. He said a ribbon cutting ceremony would take place at. noon Wednesday for the grand reopening. He added that Mayor John Snider, Chamber of Commerce Pres ident Otto Frohnmayer, and other officials would be pres ent at the ribbon cutting. . Reopening Sale. '. . A reopening sale will be held from Wednesday noon until May 24, Materie added. Several contests are planned for store patrons during the first days of the sale, he noted. Carnations and tickets for the "Wishing Well" will be given away to everyone en tering the front doors, where hostesses will be stationed, he said. He " added that key cases will be given to people who visit the boat, outdoor furniture, wading pool aqd playground equipment display which is in the store parking lot. t. The lot is located at the Honor Contract Union Leaders ' Tell Dam Labor Boise Iff) Spokesmen for Idaho unions whose mem bers are employed at the Brownlee" dam said Saturday that every effort was being made to honor existing Idaho contracts involving the pro ject despite the strike of Ore gon union members. ' Cobie Wheeler of Boise, chairman of the. Idaho State District Council of Laborers, said that "immediately upon learning of the establishment of the picket line at Brown- lee by the Oregon Council of Laborers, he advised all members of the Idaho labor ers' union that they had a contract in force arrd they were expected to honor that contract." ; ;:: Wheeler said that .as a re sult of the establishment of the picket line by Oregon strikers, only a few 1 mem bers of the Idaho local were on the job Tuesday. But since that time, increasing numbers returned to work so that by Friday virtually the full crew was back on the pro ject. : At the same time Wheeler revealed that international of ficers of the . laborers' union ordered members on both the Oregon and Idaho sides to re turn to work immediately to handle any work of an em ergency nature. This : work, Wheeler said, was the- result of the -seasonal runoff of wa ter affecting the constructfon work at the dam. Agrees To Cut Bakersfield (IP) The Kern County Potato Growers association announced Friday the Transcontinental Freight bureau has. agreed to the in dustry's application for some freight rate reductions. Francis P. Pusateri, execu-, tive manager of the associa tion, reported the bureau ad vised it has 'granted the fol lowing schedule: A reduction of eight cents per hundredweight on 40,000 pound loads; 13 cents on 43, 000 pounds, and. 21 cents on 50,000 pounds, "restricted to cartons only. . Rate schedules for 30,000 and 36,000 pound loads will remain the same. ' Pusateri notified the bur eau the reductions were ac cepted by the industry "with extreme reluctance and dis appoinment." The industry had" . requested reductions ranging from 10 cents on .36, ooo pound loads to 41 cents on 50,000 pounds. The new rates will be ef fective from central and south ern California to Chicago, St. Louis and points west, south west and southeast. Pusateri said the industry has asked carriers to petition the In terstate Commerce commis sion to make the reductions effective by next Thursday. Three thousand islands,' cays, and rocks comprise, the Bahamas, the British colony southeast of Florida!' The Ba hamian Constitution, ,dating from 1729, provides a form of government similiar to that in the North American Colonies before the Revolution. Freight Bureau rear of the building on Bart- lett st. An entrance has been made from the parking lot to the store for easy customer access Materie said. Montgomery Ward officials who will be present for the opening will be Western Re gional General Manager E. E. Peterson, of Oakland; Mer chandise Manager S. D. Ward, of Oakland; and District Gen eral Manager W. R. Burk. ." ' Supervised Construction Local ' store construction was supervised by Al Thies LIGHTING INSTALLED A new system of is even and from two to three times brighter flourescent lighting has been installed than the old system, according to Local throughout the Montgomery Ward company Manager Joe Materie. He noted the. addi store as part of its recent remodeling pro-ytion of seVeral spotlights in the ceiling of gram. Light of the store, as shown above, the store to highlight floor displays. MARQUEE INSTALLED Part of the re modeling program of .. the. Medford Mont gomery Ward store calls for the installation of a marquee, (the flat structure above the windows). A special amendment to the city building code to allow the all-metal struc ture was necessary before installation could 1958 Wheat Crop Heads For Record Washington -flP) The 1958 winter wheat crop is headed for a bumper harvest and a record surplus supply.' , The Agriculture ' . Depart ment estimated Friday the growing winter wheat crop will total" 1,P10,000,000 bush els, the 'third largest of rec ord and only slightly smaller Against Shift For E-R Center Portland (IP) The East Side Commercial club, a lead er in the vote campaign that forced the city of, Portland to locate its proposed Exposition-Recreation center on the east side of the Willam ette river, Friday disavowed support of the current attempt to locate the center at Delta park, north of Portland." - Directors of the club said they had withdrawn all sup port from a movement head ed by Joe Dobbins, an east side used car dealer who has spearheaded the Delta Park campaign and who is a for mer director of the club. William H. Boland, presi dent of the commercial club, charged that Dobbins was us ing the E-R issue to get him self elected as mayor. An east side site between the Broadway " and , Steel bridges has been cleared for the multi-million-dollar glass and timber center and con struction is about ready to begin. - BUSINESS PROVES IT . Castellammare Di Stabia', Italy HP) The Fimi Ma chine Tool company issued a statement Friday rejecting Communist newspaper charges that the company profited from having as its president Industry Minister Silvio Gava. It said the com pany's business in 1957 while Gava was president was low er tHan in previous years when he wasn't president. and Roy Lee . both of the Oakland regional office, Ma terie said. Lee was in charge of display construction and Thies of the general construc tion of the building. " Several demonstrations dur ing reopening are planned. Cooking by Bev Lyons of the California Oregon Power com pany, shopsmith tools, Sun beam appliances, sewing ma chines, auto seat covers, paint, fishing fly tieing and outdoor barbecue demonstrations will be given, Materie noted. than the billion-bushel-plus crops of 1947 and 1952. The estimated crop, if it material izes; would be 43 per cent larger than the 1957 output and 19 per cent more than the 10-year average. ; Department officials have said a 225-million - bushel spring wheat crop is possible, although no official estimate has been made. But assum ing a spring wheat crop of that size, a " total all-wheat crop of 1,25,000,000 bushels is possible. This means that the wheat Carryover, ' or surplus, by July 1, 1959, would rise to a record 1,132,000,000 bushels. This would be 45 million bushels more of surplus than the department calculated in its "wheat situation" report two weeks ago. The department's general crop report as of May 1 said "a larger winter wheat crop and excellent hay and forage crops 'are early standouts among 1958 crop prospects." It sad the winter wheat crop throughout much of the great plains looks "the best ever as fields wave with lusty growth." The . department estimated the yield at a record 24 bush els an. acre. This compared with 22.4 bushels in 1957. But while "new high per acre yields sgem -"almost assured on many-fields,'.', the depart ment warned that the wheat still mustireach maturity. It cautioned against disease loss and storms. - Sales Rentals Folding WHEEL CHAIRS Open Sundays and Holidays 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. HUDSON'S PHARMACY 613 E. Main Ph. SP 3-5345 1 Block East Hawthorn Park Schedules The store is the firm's first one on the west coast to com plete a remodeling program in 1958, Lee explained. He said the company is presently attempt to either remodel, rehabilitate or rebuild all branch stores. , New Feature A. new feature in the build ing is .-a complete installation of air-conditioning through out. Eight units which are capable of cooling a total of 90;000 feet of air per minule have been installed on the be completed. The box-like structure, near the corner of the building, is one of eight air-conditioners installed on the roof.. .The eight units are capable of cooling 90,000 feet of air per minute. Grand reopening for the store is scheduled at noon Wednesday. XP'ERI JOHN SNIDER has.vPROVEN HIS ABILITY in GOOD GOVERNMENT. His VALUABLE EXPERIENCE IN City Government, Highways, Education and Agriculture QUALIFY him to ABLY REPRESENT Jackson County in the State Senate. - " ! "- ' ' JOHN SNIDER has wide BUSINESS EXPERIENCE, heads two firms op erating throughout Jackson County, and is a substantia Itaxpayer. His wide business experience and long concern with tax problems further qualify-him for State Senate. . ' JOHN SNIDER wants to make Oregon an even BETTER PLACE IN WHICH TO LIVE-better SCHOOLS for children,, better JOB OPPORTUNITIES for workmen better HIGHWAYS to draw tourists and their dollars, better WELFARE FACILITIES for needy and aged, better TAX CLIMATE for busmess and .industry! , JOHN SNIDER HAS THE EXPERIENCE IN GOVERNMENT AND ABILITY TO BEST REPRESENT EVERY PART OF JACKSON COUNTY at SALEM! Pd. Adv. Snider for Senator Committee. 36 South Barneburg Rd., Medford. Grand Reopening roof of the building: Also new is a store-wide system of fluorescent lighting which furnish two to three times more light, Lee noted. He said the building also has been repainted and repapered throughout. , . All departments in the store have been changed by mov ing, being enlarged or being reduced to the size the vol ume warrants, he explained. Materie said departments which have been considerably enlarged are the drapery and curtain, the baby and girls' clothing and the fashion de partments. He added that sev eral new fitting rooms have beemconstructed. Materie said new displays for bathroom equipment have been built in the store. A serv ice ' station has been opened directly behind the store on CCYJC Monday-8:00 p.m. State Senator ' State Representative County Clerk Circuit Court Judges ' District Judge Tuesday -6:30 p.m. Coroner County Judge (Republican) Sheriff (Republican) County Commissioner i ; Wednesddy-6:30 p.m. . County Judge (Democrat) Sheriff (Democrat)' ' VOTE for J0HFH7. mm REPUBLICAN D Tom Wray, Chairman, EKE Bartlett st. with the old serv ice station location at the rear of the building turned into a larger shoe department, he explained. Other New Features . Other new features at the building include lighted direc tional signs in all parts of the building, built-in storage for small items, new entrances; remodeled display windows, new tile floors and installa tion of new carpeting. A new marquee has been installed on the front of the building, Lee said plans call for hanging a large sign from the side of the building and a hor izontal sign to be installed. The local store has about 75 regular employees, Materie noted. He said employment has been more than 150 at times for special-sales and rush seasons. 3. CANDIDATE FOR L
