Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, December 30, 1958, Image 3

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Newspaper Page TextSubscription Rates For Mercy Flights Will Be Increased Family subscriptions to the pre-paid air ambulance serv ice of Mercy Flights, Inc., will be increased $1 per year from $4 to So effective Jan. 1, it was announced today by the board of directors of the non-profit air ambulance cor poration. Rising costs of operation and maintenance were cited as the reason for the increase. At the same time, subscription costs for single persons will go from 82 to $3. Mercy Flights, the only or ganization of it type in the United States, was organized and started service here nine years ago next month. Its first plane was purchased through donations, but within a few years it was found that gifts and at-cost fees for transpor- - H. A. Grant, Central Point, was flown lo San Francisco today for emer gency surgery at the Ma rine hospital there. He was the 895th patient carried by Mercy Flights, Inc., planes in the past nine years. As a subscriber, the flight cost him nothing. , tationof patients was not enough to maintain the serv ice. At this time the prepaid plan was placed in effect, of fering free air transportation within a 400-mile distance of Medford in cases of medical emergencies to all subscrib ers. At first the subscriptions were $2 for a family unit, $1 for an individual, but three years ago rising costs made an increase to $4 and $2 neces sary. All subscribers fly. free in medical emergencies, ' and all non-subscribers living in Jack son county are carried at cost. Higher charges are mode for non-subscribers in other areas, but Mercy Flights policy does not permit competition with commercial air ambulance services. In its nine years, the cor poration's planes have car ried 895 patients, many of whose lives have been saved by quick transportation to medical facilities. With the completion of Rogue Valley Memorial hospital, an increas ing number of flights have been made from other areas to Medford, although many flights still are made from here to medical centers in Portland and San Francisco for conditions requiring med ical services not readily avail able here. . The air ambulance service National Airlines Has Strike Threat By United Press International Federal mediators moved today to forestall a threatened strike of 1,500 administrative workers which could cripple a third airline during the Jan uary back to work travel rush. Officials of National Air lines announced Monday in Miami that a government ar biter would be asked to help settle a dispute over a Nation al ticket agent's firing in New York. , Meanwhile international representative Pat Cain, Air Line Agents association, said about 1,500 agents and other clerical workers would walk out in the next two weeks un less a settlement is reached, Most Oregon Roads Said Free of. Snow Salem - (UPD Most Oregon pavements were free of snow today but the State Highway Department reported icy spots at some locations. Ice was reported at Green Springs, Lapine, Willamette pass, Che mult, and Baker. ' Chain were required at Austin where packed snow was on the road. There was slush at Seneca. now has three planes in serv ice, a light twin-engine Cess na, used for short-haul flights, particularly into small air fields, and two twin-engine Beechcraft planes, used for longer or bad-weather flights. The service also has its own hangar, built largely with do nated materials and labor. Its pilots serve voluntarily, and receive only token expense payments for their time. The corporation is governed by a 12 -member board of trustees. George Milligan, principal founder of Mercy Flights, is its chairman. Destructive Winds Lash So. California Los Angeles - (UPD - Destruc tive winds of up to 75 miles an hour lashed across south ern California Monday, fell ing trees, toppling Ipads from trucks and pitting car exteri ors. The U.S. Weather Bureau said strong desert winds would continue today. The hot, dry winds sucked the humidity from large sec tions of forest and brush lands and caused extremely dangerous fire conditions in the southland which already has had two disastrous fires this month that blackened more than 80,000 . acres of brush and destroyed upwards of 50 homes. Two separate fires raged out of control in the Santa Paula area about 80 miles north of here. Prineville Man Dies Of Auto Crash Injuries Prineville (UPD Robert Toney, 34, Prineville, was in jured-fatally Monday night in a two . car collision in downtown Prineville. Neither Benjamin Brook ings, 23, Bend, driver of the second car, nor his passenger, Mike Larson, Bend, was in jured. Toney is survived by his widow and three children. He has been employed at the First National Bank here for the past 2Vz years. Court Records Otho Cox. box 205, Talent, drunk in public, $10. Jockobuvnst Solokas, transient, vagrancy, 5 davs. Harry Artis Allan. 30 South Cen tral ave., drunk in public. $10. Ernest Hall Williams, Camp White, drunk in public. $15. Frank Lee Johnson, transient, drunk in public, $10. William Foster Doak. 847 East Ninth st.. drunk in public, $10. Mariland Jane Doak, drunk in public. $10. David Russell Monia. 47 Laurel st.. Central Point, operating a ve hicle while operator's license sus pended. $75. Richard Clarence Clark, dis obeyed red light. $5. William Harvey Walker, dis obeyed red light, $5. Richard Clarence Clark, viola tion of basic rule. $10. John Jackson Harding, violation of basic rule. $10. Charles Preston Labe, violation of basic rule, $10. Leo Carol Blackburn, violation of basic rule. $10. Lloyd Mortensen Miles, violation of basic rule. $10. Allen Leroy Whitehead, viola tion of basic rule. $10. Henry Alan Dahlke, excessive tire noise. $5. Clem B. Rose, disobeyed stop sign. $5. Paul Bradley Newcomb, dis obeyed stop sign. $5. Darrell La Verne Fariss Jr., dis obeyed red light. $5. Richard Eugene Salter, disobeyed stop sign. $5. Robert Lewis Taylor, wrong way on one way street, $5. Check of Clue In Missing Family Proves Fruitless Portland-(UPD-A report that a station wagon similar to the one belonging to the missing Ken Martin family was seen here Monday night touched off a brief flurry of excite ment. Police set up roadblocks at Cascade Locks and on the Mt. Hood highway after a service station attendant east of here reported selling gasoline to two men in a 1954 Ford sta tion wagon painted cream with a red trim. This was the type of car Martin was driv ing when he and his wife and three daughters, of Portland, vanished Dec. 7 after going on a Christmas tree hunting trip. Search Fruitless However, search for a ve hicle bearing the Martin's li cense n u m b e r IG-7 1 5(5 proved fruitless. The attend ant had said the digits 7156 "seemed to stick" in his mind. Later a similar vehicle was re ported to have stopped at a Troutdale store. Meanwhile, authorities were ready to write off as a possible clue an abandoned 1951 car found east of Cascade Locks, the car, belonging to Mario Alvarez of Los Angeles, was reported Monday to have been in Los Angeles Dec. 9, two days after the Martins dis appeared. Alvarez said he loaned the car to Lester Price. A service station operator in Los Angeles reported selling Price gasoline Dec. 9 and said he had a credit slip signed by Price. Price also picked up his pay check Dec. 8 at a printing firm, according to a spokesman for the firm. Leads Being Checked Two other possible leads still were being checked out. A woman's glove found near the highway east of Cascade locks was sent to the FBI lab for checking. Two hunters reported they had seen a vehicle resembling the Martin car in the Lolo Pass area northwest of Mt. Hood Dec. 7. A re-check of this area was scheduled. The best clues to the Mar tin's disappearance was a credit slip indicating they purchased gasoline at Cascade Locks, east of here on the Co lumbia River highway, the day they vanished. DISTRICT COURT Dwight H. Findley. passing with insufficient clearance, $15. Walter R. Speare Jr., no horn, $10. Edmond R. Birge, sifting and leaking loads. $15. Raymond G. Hilton, overwidth, $15. Charles Bowe, route 1. box 164F, Eagle Point, drunk on public high way, $30. Melvin H. Lewis. Camp White do miciliary, drunk on public highway, $30. Alva F. Muse, switched license tabs. $30. Harold C. McCotlom, failure to yield right of way, $15. CIRCUIT COl'RT May Louise Van Hoosen vs. Merle E. Van Hoosen. divorce complaint. Iris L. Hurd vs. Robert L. Hurd, divorce complaint. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATION Jerry Wayne Turner and Verda Louise Conner, both 1013 North Central ave, Medford. New Year's 5 Eve Party Reserve A Table Now Sparkling entertainment dancing, delicious drinks your choice of steak, prime rib, chicken or prawns. Complete dinner fun, favors, hats and noisemakers at $5.00 per person. Highway 99 at Gold Hill Overpass Abboll fo Teach -Underwriters Class C. W. (Bill) Abbott will in struct a local class of the Life Underwriters Training Coun cil's course in accident sick ness insurance, the Rogue Val ley Life Underwriters associa tion, sponsors of the course, has announced. Enrollment is open to all qualified insurance men who have been licensed to write life insurance for one year or more. The course will consist of a 12-week period of train ing with classes to start in February. The final examina tion will be held in May and a certificate will be awarded those who successfully com plete the course, the associa tion said. Purpose of the course is to better equip life insurance agents to advise their clients concerning their need for all forms of health and accident insurance coverage. The Feb ruary class will be the first organized by the Rogue Valley association. Abbott will attend a two day regional instructors con ference in San Francisco early next month. Block Alford Move Appears Doomed Washington-(UPD-Some House Democrats said today Speaker Sam Rayburn may have doomed a drive to deny Dem ocratic recognition to Rep.- elect Dale Alford, the Little Rock segregationist. Rayburn was disclosed Mon day to have warned a sponsor of the anti-Alford move that it would be a "major operation" to bar Alford from the party if he presented himself as a Democrat. Rep. Lee Metcalf (D-Mont.) said he interpreted Rayburn's remark, in a letter to John A. Blatnik (D-Minn.), as mean ing, "Don't try it, fellows." Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF A GAMBLING GAG had it that the way the kiddies in Las Vegas learned to count was, "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, jack, queen, king.' Now they've shifted the scene to Cape CanaveraL There the bright young things recite, "Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, zero ch darn it to hemlock!" X customer bought a copy of John O'Hara's" new novel, "From the Terrace," but when he got home he found that by some mechanical error, it was the pages of The Memoirs of Casanova" that were bound Into the O'Hara cover. The bookseller readily exchanged the defective copy for a per fect one, and assured his cus tomer, "This isn't the first time Casanova's been found under the wrong covers!" In Chicago, a merchant decided to stop advertising to save money. His wily ad executive asked, "Why don't you also stop your watch to save time ?" O 195$, by Bennett Cert Distributed by Kins Features Syndicate. CENTRAL POINT Holiday Celebrated By DORIS HUGHES Central Point A White Christmas was celebrated by the Central Point elementary and junior high school Tues day. The 850 students marched around the 16-ft. Christmas tree, placing beneath it their gifts of wrapped canned food for the needyi All tree decor ations, including many un usual ornaments as well as the traditional chains and stars, were made by the stu dents. The assembly sang, "O Lit tle Town of Bethlehem," and "Oh Come All Ye Faithful." The Junior High chorus sang special numbers and each class sang Christmas carols as students from another room placed their gifts beneath the tree. Mrs. Mary Gardner led the singing accompanied on the piano by Mrs, Lorna Meyer. Charles A. Meyer, principal, commended the children on their unselfish desire to give to others in preference to a gift exchange among themselves. Don Denning, Crater Fu ture Farmers of America re porter, announced that a spe cial project at the agriculture shop was being constructed by Pete Melsted. Melsted, who is the Chapter treasurer, is con structing a utility trailer 8 feet long and 4 feet wide. He has been working on the trail er two weeks. His late start on the project was due to the fact that he was preparing a speech for the District Soil Conservation Public Speaking contest. He placed third in the contest. He will use the trailer to haul implements around the farm. Mrs. John Blackford report ed that her daughter-in-law and granddaughter, Mrs. Don Morgan and daughter Cynthia, are visiting here over the hol idays from Davis, Calif. Mor gan, who is in his final year at the veterinary school there, will be here for New Year's day. He remained at the school to be on duty at the vetbarn during the Christmas holidays. John Blackford is recuper ating from an injured elbow. Last week while sawing a limb from a tree, Blackford slipped and fell from the roof of the house. He was knocked unconscious in the fall. Boys, who were passing by, saw the accident and re ported it to state police who were near and aid was sum moned. Blackford escaped ser ious injury in the fall. Dance Scheduled Af Medford YMCA A dance will be held at the Young Men's Christian asso-i ciation on New Year's Eve for high school and college students. Sponsored by the YMCA youth council, it is one of the regularly scheduled dance ac tivities at the' YMCA. Chair man for the dance will be Miss Dewanda Winchell. Ad ult advisor is Mrs. Edith Bak er. . Dance activities will get un derway at 8:30 p.m. Music will be supplied by record. Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Meyer and daughter, Charla Jo, are spending the Christmas vacation visiting Mrs. Meyer's folks in Salem and Meyer's mother at Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Rollie Clark and son of Seattle were holi day guests at the home of Clark's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Clark. This was the first trip for the Clark's grandson, David, to Central Point. He was born Oct. 21. Celebrating Christmas eve at the home of Mrs. Millie Johnson were her five chil dren and their families. Pres ent were Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Johnson and Elaine and Lar ry of Central Point, Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Simmons and sons, Elwin and Terry, of Medford, Mr. and Mrs. Burl Johnson of Eureka, Calif., Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hughes and sons, Sammy and Jimmy, of Central Point, and Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Hooker of Medford. Jerry Leonard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Leonard of Snowy Butte rd., is home on vacation from the Salem academy. Mrs. Jean Miller of Albany was a guest Christmas day at the home of her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Don Millers, 118 South Ninth st. The Rock Busters 4-H rock and mineral club had a Christ mas party Monday at the home of their leader, Mrs. L. C. Johnson. The members had a gift exchange. Games were played and refreshments served. Attending were Gary Schwab, Jimmy Rozelle, Rod ney Curtis, Stephen Ryerson and Larry Johnson. , Guests for dinner Christmas dayat the Clifford Bailey home were Mrs. Bailey's fath er, Jim Jones, of the Green Springs, her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Jones Jr., and Peggy and Julia of Central Point, Bailey's fath er, Saylor H. Bailey, and sons, Dick and Ed Bailey, of Moun tain View. Mrs. G.A.Roach and daugh ters, Carol and Shirley, spent Christmas Day visiting Roach, who is in Salem. Roach is re ported to be much improved. Mr. and Mrs. Harold R. Hughes and sons, Pat and Gary, spent the holidays visit ing relatives in Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Wyatt and children, Stevie, Paul and Teresa, spent Christmas in their new home in Medford. The Wyatts, whose residence was on Alder st. in Central Point, had a new home built on Sunrise ave. in Medford. Weather . FORECASTS Medford and vicinity: Consider able cloudiness this afternoon with fog or low cloudiness tonight and Wednesday morning becoming partly cloudy Wednesday after noon. Low tonight 37; high tomor row 48. Western Oregon: Considerable cloudiness with occasional light drizzle, but partly sunny periods tnis atternoon ana weanesaay. io cal valley fog during night and morning hours. Mild temperatures. Low tonight 42-50; high tomorrow 48-58. Northern California: Tair tonight and Wednesday, except fog night and morning in central vauey. lit tle change in temperature. LOCAL DATA TEMPERATURE: Mean yesterday 44; above normal 7. Record high tins date 61 in 1926. Record low this date 9 in 1916. PRECIPITATION: 24 hours to midnight, .01 inch. Midnight to 10 a.m., trace. Total this month 2.51 inches, .44 inch below norma. Total since Sept. 1, 4.84 inches, 3.34 inches below normal. HUMIDITY: Lowest yesterday 80, highest this a.m. 98. High 4:30 24- Clty Yester- a.m. hr. day Low Prec. Brookings 60 49 .07 Crater Lake 37 32 .15 Grants Pass 49 40 .03 Klamath Falls 41 32 MEDFORD 48 40 .01 Portland 54 45 2.2 Seattle 52 51 .47 Spokane 39 34. .29 Yakima 42 35 Eureka.... 57 46 Red Bluff 66 Sacramento , 54 37 San Francisco 53 50 Los Angeles 71 46 Phoenix 60 42 Denver 30 10 Chicago 41 29 Miami Beach 70 54 New York 41 37 Washington. D. C. 47 41 1.02 EXPENSIVE TAXES Detroit-ffiPD-When Boleslaw Gawel pays his taxes, the city loses money. Because of a veteran's exemption, Gawel's tax is only seven cents. The city treasurer says it costs the city 50 cents to bill him. We Will Be CLOSED FRIDAY & SATURDAY January 2nd & 3rd FOR INVENTORY Sims Cycle & Hobby Shop Banning New Car Sales Included in Anti-Smog Plans , Los Angeles ttlPD City offi cials smarting under the com bined effects of eye-irritating smog and citizen complaints about air pollution, have un leashed a series of anti-smog proposals including banning sale of new autos in this sprawling car-dependent city. Councilman Everett G. Burkhalter, who took the lead Monday in an attack on the auto industry, announced he would investigate the possi bility of stopping the sale of new cars in the city until an anti-smog device is developed. Progress Report Asked In other anti-smog actions: -Three leading auto manu facturing representatives will be asked to appear here be fore the county board of su pervisors to report on progress the auto industry is making in developing anti-smog de vices for autos. -A study of downtown traf fic policemen was proposed to see if smog-caused exhaust emitted by autos affected offi cers' health. -Burkhalter will seek funds and the use of city-owned cars to test anti-smog devices now being developed. Mayor Norris Poulson start ed the present wave of anti smog action when he refused acceptance of a large Cadillac last week and chose instead a small rambler. He said, big cars with their heavier en gines are among the major causes of the area's smog problem. Burkhalter was named head of a specal city council com mittee appointed to go before the county board of super visors to get action in the fight against smog. The supervisors direct the smog fight through the Air Pollution Control District. Easton, Md.-(DPD- Capt. Wal ter N. Davis, 86, a leading marine salvage expert, died Sunday after a short illness. Methodist Homes Plans Hospital Portland-flJPD-Oregon Meth odist" Homes, Inc., announced Monday a S3 million hospital and health center for the chrorucally ill will be built. The Methodist group also built Willamette View Manor. Willamette View Manor, in preparation for construction of the hospital, has been trans ferred to a new corporation, and Oregon Methodist Homes will devote its full effort to building and operating the Riverview hospital and Health Center. Site of the hospital and health center is near Wil lamette View Manor, a retire ment home for the elderly. The new hospital will have a maximum capacity of 300 beds. First unit to be built will have a capacity of 140 beds. Construction will start next fall. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Tuesday, December SO, 195S Vermont Boy Top Cherry Pie Baker Burlington, Vt. -4UPD- Philip Gassett, 17, a farm boy, won the state cherry pie baking contest. His prize was a string of pearls. Former Phoenix Resident Dies Phoenix W ord has been received here of the death of Robert E. Fowler, 68, former Phoenix resident, in the Vet erans administration hospital in Portland recently. He is survived by a son, Da vid; a daughter, Mrs. Wanda Rutter, both of Klamath Falls. Mr. Fowler lived in this area about 12 years. He en tered the Veterans hospital Nov. 1. Assault Charges Bring Six Years Portland (UPD Pvt. Alfred Gust, 21, Houston, Tex., Mon day was sentenced to six years in prison for assault with a deadly weapon. Gust was arrested in Au gust after three women were slashed on downtown Port land streets wtih a knife. He was stationed at Fort Lewis, Wash., at the time of the at tacks. ' One of the victims was 19-year-old Patricia Grimes who later told police she was in love with Gust. Gust's attorney announced Monday that Miss Grimes and the youth are engaged to be married. After hearing of the sentence the young woman said she would wait until he is released and then marry him. LAST CHANCE for fresh-killed Turkeys! We are killing the last of our hens for the New Year . . . now is a good time to order for your New Year's dinner or to put in your freezer. We Will Deliver FREE in Medford & Central Point. We also will have smoked Turkeys for your New Year's Party ... Only 85c a pound. Turkeys may be picked up at Savage Turkey Farm, ft w Village Dairysmith, Quality Market or Rose Grocery " Ve Wish You All a Happy Hew Year! TURKEY FARM PHONE NO 4-1411 - On Old Highway 99 4 Miles North of Central Point SAVAGE First National offers for 1959 . PERSONAL Bj MTEREST Much as we'd like to, we can't quite claim a spotless record for personal interest, because one of our people recently forgot to smile and greet a customer You see, his wife broke the fried eggs that morning, the dog chewed up the paper gp...and...well, it was an unusual case. Well keep working, of course, toward 100 personal interest in 1959. This, along with such things as convenient locations, dozens af handy bank ser vices and the comfort of that "bank i!f) safety n feeling, is what makes more people n Oregon save at First National than at any other place. For the highest interest in you, bank with First National Bank of Oregon. BANK WHERE YOU CAN BORROW. MsittfioirDS.II EJ enroll FOtTlANB uiR imuiMiem wuuwi cmmwim "My Bank" for over 600,000 Oregon Peopo hMMl hkmtf art to b tmhmi vrtk umv artmrt. whick a a bi 2 V, a pillar javinat. and a gmna im Smringi OrMaUm bdd to aaftnly.