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o MAIL TRIBUNI, AT SCHOOL Nearly 2,000 Oregon 4-H club members and their leaders formed this giant club symbol last week at the 43rd annual 4-H club summer school at Oregon State college. Soma 1,250 girls and 625 boys from all of Oregon's counties are enrolled in classes at the six-day school, which ended today. The H's stand for head, heart, hands and health. The Oregon 4-H summer school is one of the largest of its kind in the nation. American Priests Express Opposing Views on Charges : Hong Kong (UPI) Two American priests returned to the free world from five years of - imprisonment in Red China Saturday with strong lv opposing views on the v lidity of charges brought against them by the Commu nists. ! Shortly after arriving here aboard a British ship, Fatners Cyril Wagner of Pittsburgh . and Joseph McCormack of 0- sining, N.Y., held a news con ference. " - When Father Wagner tolfi reporters "I don't deny" the Communist charges, Father McCormack spoke up to ie- dare "he's talkinf through his hat" Seeminff shc&gai 4At fa ther e Wagner tlmitUI ta guilt, the Nev pviaat cut short th interriev wr ing "this mfn Tataar Vai ner) is sick. H f o't Imet what he is tli jefcimt. Te God's sake strig eal ahai he, aid. His trl lm Va ridiculous-" Asked mSou marges that he "sabottgal" the. Chine economy- by fleftliaf in black market monaf, TtAe Wa ner regliet: Q!Wt) Va mm Black mart. ftoyle fera letvinf the country tat I accepted their money. JP aetnovladga I've dono Vnt ft i i con tra ventios o CHiaaas regula tions." Santanca (SUjgvfent. Vat . Father Vggna, lejnerinf his colleagu' etvlaj) t to answer a question afiout whether his ntnct wac just, said he thought he would receive a two-and-a-half year sentence instead of the five- year sentence he actually got Father McCormack then told the newsmen all the Communist charges were false. "They can't tell the truth even when it serves their own purposes." He added that he was ac cused of "everything under the sun" including collabora tion with Father Wagner, which "absolutely was not true" "I any all their charges," h aaid, although adding that conditions were so bad in China "one couldn't exist with the worthless paper money tney had." JTattier McCormack, who aras la charge ot finances for Homan Catholic diocese in Maaaluria, said the Chinese h4 yefuaed him permission fc borrow money and later Vurnei down his request for a ait visa. Finally, ha- said, he bor rowed money from a Euro pean, "but they did not ar rest tha European or question him." loth priests, the last Amer ica clergymen imprisoned in Bed China, were released on June 15, exactly five years after their arrests. They looked tired and pale but otherwise cheerful when they arrived yesterday after-aooa. Father Wagner, 52, spent three of his five years im grieonment in a hospital for treatment of asthma. Hatfield Calls on Holmes About His Position on Power Salem (UPI) Secretary of State Mark Hatfield called upon Gov. Robert D. Holmes Friday to indicate whether his statement about Hatfield's po sition on a regional power cor poration was "an indication of the type of campaign based on deliberate falsehood we can anticipate in the fall or igno rance of the facts." Holmes, in a press confer ence earlier Saturday, said Hatfield had been silent on the regional power corpora tion issue. i Hatfield maintained his po sition on the corporation was announced early in the pri mary campaign and had ap peared in the press "numer ous" times. Holds Advantages Hatfield said his position was that a regional corpora tion holds the advantages of adequate financing of North west development and order ly planning for maximum use. However, he said the final proposal should provide ade quate regional control of plan ning and policy and equitable distribution of power pro duced with the assurance that each area may for itself deter mine the method of distribution. "Unless he has been badly mis-informed, or misquoted, the Governor has fired the first volley of untruth in the coming political campaign," the Republican Secretary said. Gem and Mineral Show Open at McLoughlin This Afternoon An average passenger in a New York subway rides about 7.5 miles each day. CALfLOW ALL KIIBS WIM A Km PH.ZE G Three Grand Prizes will be awarded to the boy or girl who sell the most tickets to the big ... 4flii off My Fireworks SHOW! And ... if you sell only 10 Tickets you get one FREE! Contest closes July 2, 1 958. Ticket sellers must hove O written permission from O parent. 6! Tic&OlD and Further Information n! file T.M.C.A., 200 West 6th St. Advertisement Courtesy of CRATSft LAKE MOTORS GIT t 5 you 11 TICjttlTJ HOW! Of Mother Nature displays her jewelry at McLoughlin Junior High school in Medford for a last showing from noon to, 5 p.m. today. The Eighth Annual South ern Oregon Gem and Mineral show includes a vast array of everything from agates to sea shells, to Indian artifacts. Each display is artistically ar ranged by the "rock hounds" from Oregon,. Washington and California. The show is spon sored by the Southern Oregon Gem and Mineral society which includes clubs of Med ford, Ashland and Grants Pass. The 12-inch gold cup for the best club display outside of Medford was won by the Del norte Rock Hounds, Inc., Cres cent City, Calif., Saturday. The trophy was presented to Mrs Gertrude Penn, club rep resentative. One of the more colorful displays by the main entrance to the gymnasium is the Ore gon map with a different col ored stones representing each county. Bright lights behind the display make the translu cent'bits of stone shine. Next to this display is a colorfuli group of transparencies ar ranged by John Ross, Med ford. Placed on an ornate pedes tal is the Lucky Day Dend rite, one of the largest ever found, according to guide Le- land O. (Cap) Mentzer. This dendrite measures six inches by three inches. It's called 1 dendrite because fern-like de signs are embedded in the translucent rock. Near it was what was de scribed as the world's small est tumbler, lhis agate con tains a small pocket of sand in the center of it. Lamp Shade Another colorful display, also by John Boss, was a lamp shade made of wood and mul- ti-hued agates or transparen cies embedded in it. The wooden base of the lamp was ornately carved, demonstrat ing this "rock hound's" skill with the knife as well as with the rock-cutting saw. A small wooden windmill by Lee Wright, Jacksonville, embedded with agate slices and powered by electricity, also attracted a good deal of attention Arthur Johnson's collection of cabochon stones, small smoothly polished stones - for rings, brooches and other types of jewelry, attracted many a woman's attention Other displays contained highly p o 1 i s h e d petrified woods, crystals and polished slices of agates. Three or four cases of dendrites,' agates with dark fern-like imprints made a large attractive display, This type of rock formation, Mentzer explained, are formed by manganese oxide forming in the rock and silica jelly flowing over the rock. Some of the moss-like or fern-like formations made a design. One was called "the thinker" since it resembled a man with his chin in the palm of his hand. Dinner Table Glen Nash, Eureka, a "rock hound" with considerable im agination, had arranged his stones like a dinner table lad en with food. On the plates were rocks resembling steaks, potatoes and other foods. In a bowl was a rock resembling cauliflower. Nearby were "martinis" and a box of rocks resembling candy. Tom Riley, Eagle Point, had one of the largest sections of petrified palms and woods. Most of his petrified palms were from Texas. In the col lection was a rare petrified section of -Joshua tree from southern California. In this same display were some petri fied cycads. These plants grew at the time of the dino saurs Riley also has in his display a dinosaur vertebra from Utah, and a fossil Gingko tree from Washington. This is now extinct in the United States. Desert Glass A vast array of purple-hued desert glass caught the atten tion of all those interested in glassware. The intense violet rays of the suncolored candle holders, glasses, pitchers and various other pieces of glass ware. This particular display contained from 90 to 100 pieces. Those who still like to go hunting for arrow-heads were attracted to the Indian arti facts display set off by bas kets, a blanket or two and even av cigar store Indian. Much of these collections' by Trevelle Turpin, Medford, and Vern Decker, Ashland, were taken from Pennsylvania, Michigan and Grand Coulee. Another ingenious collec tion are stones set in long thin wood slides so they may be handled the same way as photo negatives. This way, the colorful, intricate designs could be more easily traced by the naked eye. George Howard, Medford, had on display a 14-ounce gold nugget taken from the Alt house creek area near Grants Pass. Eighteen -year -old Arthur Albin, Corvallis, showed a case of faceted gems stones cut like diamonds. These were just a few of the outstanding displays which covered the large junior high school gym floor. 'Largest Clock' Set for Centennial Portland (UPI)A floral clock, "largest in the world," will be constructed in the heart of the Oregon Centen nial Exposition International Garden of Tomorrow, which goes on display June 10, 1959, according to Eddie Boatright, garden-of-tomorrow chairman. Boatright said the giant clock will keep time and its huge hands will point to num bers formed by flowers and plant material to be land scaped into the face of the clock. Behind the clock will stand the "world's largest candle," a towering column which will burn the entire hundred days of the centennial cele bration, symbolizing the birth day of the state of Oregon, Boatright said. Plant material will be sup plied from major countries of the world, he said. The floral clock idea is patterned after a similar clock at Christchurch in New Zealand. Kennewick Youth Drowns In Coumfc8 o Kennewick (UPI) Paul P. Calhoun, 17, Kennewick, drowned in the Columbia, riv er just below here Friday aft ernoon. Calhoun was swimming back from a rock 30 yards from shore. Efforts to revive him were unsuccessful. There are about l,200,0t0 high school graduates in the I U. S. annually. CHRIST'S TEENS CDUSADE! 8:00 p.m. Nightly MONDAY-FRIDAY - JUHI Jacksonville Community MajJ Speaktr Rtv. Glenn Fry (Dan, Cannon Beach Youth ConferB) Song Leader-1 Rust Carr (Young Life Leader) Organ Mrs. Genevieve Browa Keeuafc Miss Marjorie Edens . Various Rural Churches Participating - Parents Welcome New Trial Motion Denied in Portland Portland (UPI) A motion for a new trial for Lee Parker in the Robert Holloway mur der case was denied Friday by Circuit Judge Frank J. Loner gan. The motion was based on grounds of perjured testi mony during Parker' first de gree murder trial. Mrs. Violet Bostwick signed an affidavit that she gave false testimony in Parker's trial for the murder of cement finisher Robert Holloway, Portland, whose body was found in an abandoned Ver nonia well last winter. 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