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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 29, 1958)
O g MAIL TRIBUNE Me.fW. Oregon, Sunday, June 29, 1938 Grange News Roxy Ann Grange Roxy Ann Grange met Fri day, June 20, with Master Al Sims presiding. There were two officers absent. HEC chairman Verda Quackenbush reported that 20 members were present at the meeting. Mrs. Eleanor Man kins and Mrs. Paul Dalton were hostesses. Agricultural chairman Charlie AJhitcher reported that rain has made the price of hay go ujp in the valley and that cattle market prices are slipping while sheep and wool prices are climbing. Glen Rader reported on the surplus of money in the coun ty and also stated that the federal government has ap gjjroximately nine billion dol in pld in reserve. Kci1lity chairman Marie (Fh;te welcomed Marianne JSfcwT? who has just gradu dtt4 ffoft Oregon State col lide it home for a brief ietica tfore going to San lattcoto live. Also wel c!?.cd tthe meeting were Mr. r Sirs. Glen Rader, MiS tn Gordon and Mr. and Mr9. ifrn. ' S?atr Al Sims told about tr Grange convention to be held in Eugene. The Grange votel to cancel the next meet ing hich falls on July 4. The3 Home Economics club will meet July 2 at the home of Mrs. Glen Rader, with Mrs. R. J. Ritchey as co-hostess. . The Roxy Ann Grange pic nic will be held July 20. The place will be announced later. The women served pie and ice cream to the men in honor of Father's day. HIS PROJECT Hingham, Mass. (UPI) What's the graphic relation ship between temperature and the metabolism of snakes? That was picked by Peter Johnson, a Hingham High school senior, as a project in a science competition. e WESTINGHOUSE COMBINATION WASHER -DRYER ira vim ! Revolving Agitator clothes dewier, rinses better. telL The identical Revolving 4fitfttar wkI in every Westinghouse 9 WISHING DOOR , 4 WATER SAVER 4 FLEXIBLE CONTROL fcOCR SAFETY SWITCH TRANSMISSION GUARANTEED 3 wu cam isugi...n:iT Westinghouse 214 W. Main ' M Y APPLIANCE CENTER o 4o At Dig Y Shopping Center O Phone SP 3-3052 Reverse Trend in Aluminum Sought Washington (UPI) Sen ators from aluminum proces sing states Friday asked seven federal agencies to arrange an early meeting to take "con structive" steps to reverse the downward trend in the do mestic aluminum industry, Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (D Wash.) said Friday. In a letter to the Secre taries of State, Commerce, Treasury, Interior, Defense, and the Office of Defense Mobilization and the General Services Administration, Mag nuson, Sen. Henry M. Jack son (D-Wash.) and 11 other senators said one-third of the nation's productive capacity in aluminum is now shut down. The senators said the shut downs had been caused part ly because of increased alum inum imports "principally from friendly countries whose aluminum markets are ef fectively closed to U.S. manu facturers." Since World War II, they sa'd, the domestic aluminum industry 'has invested more than two and one-half billion dollars of private capital to build primary and fabricating facilities. Most of it has been invested in futherance of government mobilization ex pansion programs, they added. Contract for Sewer In Klamath Awarded Klamath Falls (UPI) Contract for the construction of a south suburban sc.vage system has been awarded to Lee Hoffman Construction company, of Beaverton, it was announced Friday by the South Suburban Sanitary dis trict. Hoffman company was low bidder at 51,615,672.40. Work is expected to be completed by September. Lira BICTRIC and SEASONAL INCREASE Washington (UPI) A sea sonal increase in outdoor jobs was credited Saturday with a new 1958 low in the number of jobless workers drawing unemployment bene fits. The Labor Department re ported a decrease of 113,000 workers drawing the benefits during the week ended June 14. It reduced the total compensation-drawing workers to $2,704,600. MINERS TRAPPED Tagawa, Japan (UPI) Rescue squads worked desper. ately Saturday to reach 25 miners trapped in a flooded shaft of a coal mine near this town in Kyushu since Friday afternoon. Virtually all hope of saving the men was gone but the op erations, were continuing. It was estimated that it would take at least two days to pump the water out of the mine. LOWER PRICES Washington (UPI) Low er prices for vegetables, wheat, cattle and potatoes sent the nation's farmers home from market with less money this month. The Agriculture Depart ment reported prices received by farmers for their crops and livestock dropped more than 3 per cent in the month end ed June 15. The cost of things farmers must buy to live and produce their goods dropped one-third of 1 per cent. SATELLITE DYING Cambridge, Mass. flJPT) Smithsonian Astro physical observatory said Saturday a Memphis, Tenn., report indi cated that America's dying Explorer III satellite still has not fallen to earth. The bullet-shaped, 31-pound satellite probably will die be fore Sunday night, a spokes man said. ' ml Faster Drying! Direct Air Flow Dry ing dries dothes faster, fluffier, thrifti er. Saves current because it dries faster. AUTOMATIC DRY DIAL DAMP SETTINGS FOR IRONING SAVES SPACE -32" WIDE DRIES FASTER -SAVES MONEY 5 YEARS CO Phone SP 3-6241 irieffs... NO CLOSER Washington (UPI) High American officials said Sat urday the United tSates and Russia are no closer to an all-out "shooting war" than before Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev switched to his new tough Stalinist line. At the same time they dis closed that President Eisen hower will send Khrushchev a letter today, or Monday re stating the American attitude toward a summit conference and firmly rejecting Moscow charges the United States has "sabotaged" the meeting. The U.S. terms call for "advance preparation" before a confer ence is held. NEW FAD Tokyo (UPI) Police Sat urday reported a new fad among Tokyo's juvenile, de linquents: carving "scars of courage" on their arms with sharp knives or razors. According to the police, some scars measure as much as four inches. They said the teen-agers hold ' that the big ger the scar, the greater its bearer's courage. CHANGE OF CLIMATE ( London (UPI) American Negro singer Paul Robeson told the London Communist Daily Worker Saturday that his victory in an eight-year fight to win a passport from the state department signaled a "change of climate" in the United States. Robeson, who had been de nied the passport because of bis leftwing political tenden cies, said he had plans to visit Russia and Britain as well as other nations abroad. ADMITS ATTEMPT London (UPI) A British diplomat admitted Saturday he tried to smuggle' a Czech friend out of Czechoslovakia in the trunk of his car but got caught. The cloak-and-dagger ad venture cost the diplomat, Eric page Bedford, his job. The Communists expelled him from Czechoslovakia and he resigned from the Foreign Service when he returned home. REBUKES YUGOSLAVIA London (UPI) Polish Communist party leader Wladyslaw Gomulka Saturday sharply rebuked Yugoslavia for standing alone in the Com munist world and denounced the Western defenders of exe cuted Hungarian freedom Pre mier Imre Nagy. ' Gomulka, who had been re ported grieved by the execu tion of Nagy and his Hungar ian rebel compatriots, had been considered a "liberal" Communist who demanded a measure of independence for Poland since he took over the country from the Stalinists in a bloodless coup Oct. 19, 1956, four days before the Hungar ian revolution. PASSES BILL Washington (UPI) The House passed a bill late Fri day to aid the nation's finan cially pressed railroads by providing temporary govern ment guarantees of an unlim ited amount of private loans for capital improvements and maintenance programs. The vote was 348 to 2. The bill now goes to the Senate, which passed a dif ferent version earlier limit ing guarantees to 700 million dollars. CHILDREN DIE Newton, Kan. (UPI) Three children died Saturday when they were trapped in upstairs bedrooms of a farm home that was destroyed in a butane fire. Authorities said the parents were awakened about 4:30 a.m. by screams from the children. When they rushed to investigate they found the stair blocked by flames from a butane tank. BECOME OPERATIONAL McGuire Air Force Base, N.J. (UPD Air Force Gen. Earle E. Partridge, Continen tal Air Defense commander, said Friday that some of the new atom-equipped Hercules missiles will become opera tional in the next few days. At .a news conference fol lowing dedication oft he first of a billion dollars' worth of Air Force "SAGE" computers here, Partridge also said the Army's Nike anti-aircraft mis siles have a 50 per cent "kill probability" even without atomic warheads. MURDER RAMPAGE Lagos, Nigeria (UPI) The Abakaliki area of east ern Nigeria is in the throes of a murder wave -which has re sulted in at least 109 deaths so far, police reported Satur day. Police said all the slay ings were under investigation in hopes that some pattern might emerge and lead to a solution to the crimes. One murder was said to have been strangulation with a bicycle chain and two involved local tribal chiefs. , Wafer Released fo Release River Boat Lewiston, Idaho (UPI) Idaho Power company crews Saturday released an extra surge of water down the Snake river from the Brown lee dam pool in an effort to free the standed river boat "Wenaha." The 52 -foot craft became stuck in the river Wednesday when the flow was reduced to fill Brownlee reservoir. Ten passengers on the ex cursion boat were taken off and then flown from the low er Snake river canyon. The Wenaha was hung on a rock along the shore about five miles downstream from the proposed Pleasant Valley project. Workers at Oxbow, the second of Idaho's Power com pany's three projected dams in the Hells Canyon area, mm THERE'S NEVER BEEN A PAINT LIKE IT BEFORE.,, fi The original formula was developed in 1951. 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Firemen, who worked late into the night to keep the blaze from extending to other grain fields, say the fire ap parently started from light ning striking a field south of Prosser and being fanned by brisk winds. The fire was de scribed by firefighters as the biggest rural fire in the area in recent years. managed to close a cofferdam across the Snake river Friday and sent the full flow through the project's diversion tunnel. Michigan maintains 600 public fishing sites. WW Revolutionary new kind of paint for wood ! Gives your home a fresh new-paifited look for 2 years longer than the finest paint you've ever used! Holds its colors, keeps its gloss for years! Spreads faster, easier than the best of them ! Dries hours sooner ! And costs no more than ordinary house paint ! Teletype Service Rate Boost Asked Washington (UPI) The American Telephone & Tele graph Co. and Western Union have asked the Federal Com munications Commission for increases in their teletype service rates. 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