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J MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Sunday, November 30, 1V38 Largest Balloon Ever Launched Reaches Montana '. Bozeman, Mont.-tTPD - The .largest balloon ever success fully launched dropped a 250 pound load of cosmic ray 'plates somewhere in a snow covered forest about 55 miles louth of here yesterday. The unmanned balloon went up from the Tillamook county airport in Oregon at 12:53 pjn. (PST) Friday and its load of instruments for stdy of cosmic rays was re leased at 135,000 feet about 1:15 p.m. (MST) today. C. P. Merrell, Minneapolis, project engineer for General Mills, said a search plane was to scan the area in hopes of finding the instruments. He said the load was lost on des cent because of a heavy over cast. The load fell in a hilly, ' wooded area that was cover ed by snow from recent storms. However, Merrell . said, pilots should be able to spot it easily. The load has an orange and white parachute 28-feet in di ameter and a gondola covered . with a highly reflective alum inum foil. Merrell said the package was completely covered with re ward tags, all instructing the finder where to call. The : amount of the reward will depend on the amount of ef fort expended by the finder, Winston Churchill Celebrating 85th Westerham, England - (CPU Sir Winston Churchill's youngest grandchildren burst in on the grand old man of Britain yesterday with a sur prise present on the eve of his 84th birthday. They turned up for tea at Chartwell Manor, Churchill's country home here, and pre sented him with a cyclamen plant bought with savings from their own allowances. Today, he begins his 85th year. He will spend the day at Chartwell, surrounded by his son and daughters. One of the presents will be a 30 pound birthday cake topped by eight pounds of liquor filled chocolates. Russia Warns Japan: 'Risking Involvement' Moscow -EPD- The Soviet Union has warned Japan it is "risking involvement in war" by allowing the United States to use it as a staging area for troops and equipment destin ed for Formosa. In Tokyo, a government spokesman advised Russia not to "interfere" with Japan's in ternal affiars. ILLINOIS VALLEY Open House Scheduled he said. The balloon was launched by the office of naval research sTid General Mills for a cos mic ray study by Prof. Mar cel Schein of the University of Chicago. BUTTE FALLS Band Program Progresses By MARY JO HARRIS Butte Falls-The Butte Falls band program has advanced rapidly, with most students showing good progress. Al though this is their first year, they hope to produce a pep band to play at basketball games. The high school band has 11 members with Edwin El lis, Patsy Facey and Dannie Rem sen on clarinet; Martha Dalton playing trombone, Le Roy Thompson on the mello phone, and David Baker and Raymond Abbott on saxo phone. The drum section is composed of Jeannette Capel lo, Dixie McConochie and Earlena Vasseur. The, grade school band has 21 members. The clarinet sec tion is composed of Joe Boyd, Billy Dalton, Sharon Smith, June Reddell and Jimmy Dris kell with Mike Stratton as first chair clarinet and stu dent conductor. The cornet section is made up of Steve Stratton, Eugene Simmonds, Dalene McAlister, Arthur Rambo and Pete Webber with Ramey Johnson as first chair cornet. Jerry Brown is at mellophone while John Cham bers plays the baritone horn. The saxophone section is made up of Neil Ellis and Danny Edmondson and John Capello and Mildren Sutton play the drums. Saturday mornings are re versed for pep band practice and Dean Boggan, director, hopes to produce a band cap able of playing satisfactory music in the near future. This year two periods of industrial arts are again of fered to high school students. There are 15 freshmen and sophomores in one class and eight juniors and seniors in the other class. , At present, the beginning or first year students are doing elementary drafting. During this period, accuracy in mea surement, neatness of lines and lettering, methodical and logical working order and planning are practiced. Students who have had one year of industrial arts are making some of the most used joints. The program as offer ed here has all students using all tools in the shop by the end of the second year. The advanced class is pri marily doing woodwork. Sev eral of these students do wel ding, leathercraft and metal etching to break the steady diet of woodwork. It is planned to have the lapidary equipment mounted and operable by the end of the Christmas vacation. . Although small in size, the Butte Falls High school now makes available to students in industrial arts experiences in drafting, leathercraft, metal etching, oxyacetylene and arc welding, woodworking and soon lapidary. Recently spending several days with Mr. and Mrs. Bob Wells was Miss Ella Mae Grimm of Eugene. Miss Grimm and Mrs. Wells are sisters. The William Harris family recently visited Mrs. Harris's family, the Vern Helbigs, at Grants Pass. A guest in the Francis L. Brown home is H. D. Wurtz, of York, Neb., Mrs. Brown's father. Members of the Home Ex tension will meet Thursday, Dec. 4, at 10 ajn. at the home of Mrs. George Bray. "Hand dipped chocolates' will be demonstrated by Mrs. Alva Webster. All members are asked to make their favorite candy and bring their recipe to the meet ing. Candies will be sold as a money-making project. Plans are being made for the Jamboree planned by the grade school scheduled Dec. 5 at 6:30 p.m, at the high school gym. The six teams participating are Slk-Trail, Prospect, Shady Cove, Sams Valley, Eagle Point and Butte Falls. There will be three rounds of play per team and the championship finals will be played by the two teams hav ing the most wins. Grade school cheer leaders are Joan Ruddick, Pauline Clymer, Virginia Baker and Judy Burg. Both grade school and high school students had Thursday and Friday, Nov. 27 and 28 off for the Thanksgiving holi days. School will resume on Monday morning, Dec. 1. The school pictures will be taken Tuesday, Dec. 2. The Butte Falls Lions aux iliary will hold its Christmas exchange party Tuesday, Dec 2, following a short business meeting at Scotties cafe. Each member is asked to bring a gift, which will be numbered and exchanged at the party. By RUTH RAUSCH Cave Junction An open house at the fire department in Cave Junction- is slated for 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 20, according to a spokesman for the Illinois Valley volunteer firemen. The purpose of the . open house is to raise. money for additional equipment needed for the firemen. Asbestos suits as well as breathing equip ment used by firemen in en tering burning buildings, are among the desired items. The old pond landing at Cabax mill in Kerby is being torn down and replaced by a modern type steel landing. A new high lone pole is also be ing installed to handle logs at the pond. These and other extensive repairs and overhaul jobs will be done during the annual shut-down for this purpose. The mill closed Nov. 20 and will probably not re-open un til after the first of the year. The mill-wide repair work will keep the mechanics busy most of the time during the construction work on the new landing, according to manager Casey Piller. The Bob Rauschs spent the holiday weekend with their daughter and son-in-law, Ro nine and Howard Elder Jr., of Keddmg, Calif. A bazaar, sponsored by the St. Patrick's Altar society will be held in the building next to the bakery on Friday and Saturday, Dec. 5 and 6. On Friday, the hours are to be from 1 p.m. to 9 pjn. to accomodate those who can not shop during the day. On Saturday, the bazaar will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mrs. Robert (Helen) Bottel, as guest speaker, related her experiences as a syndicated columnist at the meeting of the Grants Pass Rotary Anns last Friday at the home of Mrs. J. R. Calvert. Jr. An appeal for parents to attend the Cub Scouts com mittee meetings, held at 7 p.m. on the first Friday of each month at the Episcopal church, has been made by Ver non Larson institutional repre sentative for the Cub Scouts In making the appeal, Lar son also said that a number of Cub dens in the valley are open for members. If anyone is interested in having his son join the Cub Scouts, contact any of the following persons: Bob Breckenridge, O'Brien; Mrs. Harold Mackey, Kerby; Mrs. Tony Stava and Mrs. William Box, Cave Junction; Mrs. Bohen, Selma or Vernon Larson. Lloyd Burnett, technician Illinois Valley Soil Conserva tion District and M. A. Sprag ue, a supervisor, will attend the regional convention of the SCD in Spokane, Wash., Dec. 3. . Ardene Hoover was elected president of the Sage Saddlers 4-H club at the meeting held on Monday, Nov. 24 at the home of the leader, Mrs. C. C. Hoover. The purpose of the meeting was to re-organize the club and hold election of officers. Elected to serve with the new president was Arlene Hoover, vice-president; Clark England, secretary; Lorraine Steimer, treasurer; Jim Burch, song leader and Barbara Shep-" ard, news reporter. It was voted to hold the next meeting on Monday, Dec. 8. Refreshments were served as the business meeting ad journed. Elections of officers will be the main item of business when the St. Mathias Guild meets on Wednesday, Dec. 3, at 1:30 p.m. at the church. A report on the recent bazaar will also be given. Larry Cushing. Cave Junc tion attorney and member, of the advisory board for the Southern Oregon College foundation, has recently been named to the board of trus tees of the college. The last sealer cap was ap plied on the new high school stage this week, making it possible for the premiere showing of the high school PTA sponsored minstrel show given on the new addition to the school. Only some minor, finishing work is still to be done and the whole project will be completed. The high school is getting a new driver's training car equipped with dual controls on a rental basis from Mock Ford Sales in Grants Pass. Any farm owner can con tact the boys of the Illinois Valley Future Farmers organ ization to take soil samples for testing. There will be no additional charge for this ser vice. The usual fee of S2.50 for mailing and wrapping costs in sending it to the state laboratories is the only cost involved. When the soil tests are re turned, the county agent will then make recommendations for suitable fertilizers. Atlas Missile Spans Ocean On First Full-Range Flight Cape Canaveral, Fla. - (UPD The Air Force confirmed yes terday that the nation took a giant stride forward in mis sile development Friday night with the first ocean-hurdling, 6,300-inile flight of a power ful intercontinental Atlas. The highly successful hop of the massive war rocket bolstered the claim of those who contended the United States never trailed Russia in the missile race, and also dem onstrated the Atlas' capabili ties as the launching vehicle for huge satellites. In a terse statement issued jointly by the Pentagon and by the Ah Force here, of ficials said the "Atlas inter continental ballistic missile launched Friday was success fully test fired for the first time over the .full intercont inental range, a distance of approximately 5,500 nautical miles." That distance, the equival ent of 6,325 statute miles, put the impact area of the nose cone aeoui ouu v" - southwest coast of Africa and miles soumeasi island in the about 1,100 of Ascension South Atlantic. Additional Significance The Air Force's feat as sumed additional significance in view of defense secretary Neil H. McElroy's recent statement that "the farther you go down the road with ICBM, the less interesting it is to employ additional inter mediate range- ballistic mis siles." A radio Moscow broadcast, monitored in London yester day, reported without com ment on the successful firing of the U. S. ICBM. The Soviets hav claimed oossession of such missiles for more than a year, and it has been spec ulated that they used them to hurl their heavy satellites into orbit. The intermediate range weapons would have to be based abroad. Atlases based in the United States could reach the world bkZ anywhere in m u "Dove th yesterday's .r mention in the Atlas n when erational. ria becom. h an aggressor. "8 against erational, readv me op" ped with a HpL ?-be .-"UHB hvHrn- Hatfield Expected At Hawaii Parley Carson City, Nev. (DPD field confirmed he would at- gen warhead an aggressor nrinS Tj,,t rv . which is makingX0!' weapons on a limitoj uu tion-line basis hd p!.duc- Calif., said that la test flights, lay iZiF? hnnph the mi Boil. " t can go thetaS Pven route, its reuS??1 established beforV handed over to Strateg?6. Command troopg. 8 c Air There have been persist.,, reports that the Atlufu used to fire a satellite bigger Sputnik III within the X year. Spain had an eight per cent overall increase in its pain crops last year. Gov.-elect Mark Hatfield of Oregon, who handed the GOP one of its few wins in this year's elections, will tell the Western Republican confer ence in Honolulu how he did it, it was announced yester day. Arrangements chairman Mrs. Kenneth Johnson, Nevada GOP national committeewom an and conference vice chair man, said the youthful Hat- tend the week-long session in the island territory Dec 8-15. Hatfield, who unseated in cumbent Democratic Gov. Robert Holmes, was termed "one of the trend stoppers in the west" by Mrs. Johnson. Known as a strong advo cate of statehood for Hawaii, Hatfield leaves Portland Dec. 7 for the islands with Ore gon's 10-member delegation, Mrs. Johnson said. You and your friends are invited to attend it ASSIGNMENT: MANKIND A FREE color film in sound of "A day in the life of the Monitor," narrated by England's distinguished actor-director, Anthony Quayle. " This is the first motion picture ever produced about The Christian Science Monitor and its world-wide staff. 8 P.M., Monday, December 1st at -.- First Church of Christ, Scientist 100 Windsor Ave. Medford, Or. 1 1 1 rr- -x The Bill Baskins had with them this holiday week their son and family, Mr. and Mrs. William Baskin, Jr., Larry, and Todd from Whittier, Calif. The family arrived last Sat urday, and expect to stay un til Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Phil lips with their daughter's fam ily, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Stevens of Grants Pass, spent Thanksgiving Day with a sec ond daughter's family, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Milton of Rogue River. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Eddy shared their turkey with the Wes Peters family. Election of oficers will be the main item of business when the Illinois Valley Dem ocratic club meets Monday evening in the Auxiliary rooms of the American Le gion hall. Lee Brennan of Hazel's Beauty salon, left Wednesday evening for an extended holi day weekend with friends in Medford. She will be back in the shop on Tuesday, Dec. 2. DC-8 Jetliner In Maiden Flight Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.-(DPD - A DC-8 jetliner, described by Douglas Air craft Co. as the most powerful and fastest jet transport ever flown, was tested successfully yesterday. Test Pilot A. G. Heimer dinger tested the white, blue-and-red-trimmed jet in a 55 minute maiden flight from Long Beach municipal air port to this desert test center. Spokesmen for the plane firm said the plane was pow ered by four Pratt & Whitney (J-75) turbojet engines cap able of driving it at 585 miles an hour with 135 passengers and cargo. U.S. Base In Cuba Pressured By Rebels Havana -IUPD- The U.S. Na val base at Guantanamo on the southeast coast of Oriente Province was under new pressure yesterday from the Cuban Rebels who have cut off the base water supplies twice this week. Informed sources said Reb el troops moved into positions near the Yateras Aqueduct eight miles east of the base after Cuban Army troops were withdrawn 11 days ago. "The Campbells Are Com ing," a three-act comedy by Jay Tobias, was presented to ; the public Nov. 17 by the ; students of Butte Falls High under the direction of Mrs. i Bob Cupples. ! Members of the cast were Priscilla Poole, Martha Dal ton, Linda Webster, Ira Ram bo, Darrell Hawkins, Ken Ka din, Jerry Ferguson, Linda Hawkins, Raymond Abbott and Jeanette Capello. Both the afternoon and eve ning performances showed a financial profit for the Stu dent Body Fund. the PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY of Southern Oregon presents in concert The Symphony Orchestra Richard D. 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