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53rd Year Medford Price 10 Cents Tribune 2nd SECTION MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1959 Pages 1-6 Nationally-Known Democratic Senator to Speak at Dinner John F. Kennedy, the na- tionally-k n o w n Democratic senator from Massachusetts, will be the principal speaker at the Roosevelt Memorial dinner Friday, March 6, at 6 p.m. at McLoughlin Junior High school. Senator Kennedy is, accord ing to a recent Ga'lup Poll, backed by 61 per cent of his party to become the next pres idential candidate of the Democratic party. Senator Kennedy has run in five elections and has been ' victorious each time. He was elected to the House of Repre sentatives 1946-1952. He de feated Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge in the senatorial race of 1952, despite an otherwise Republican sweep. He was the third Democrat ever to be elected to the Senate from Massachusetts. Reelected in 1958 In 1958, Senator Kennedy was reelected by a margin of more than 870,000 votes, the largest margin ever accorded a candidate for any office in either party in the history of Massachusetts. He carried with him the entire Democrat ic ticket and the state's first Democratic legislature. ' In 1958 he also became the first candidate in the history of Massachusetts ever to carry every city and county, regard less of its political, religious or economic complexion. . The senator is a member of the Senate Foreign Rela tions committee, the Senate Labor and Public Welfare committee, the Select commit tee to Investigate Improper Activities in the Labor or Management field and is chairman of the subcommittee on labor. Senator Kennedy has been decorated for his work in in ternational relations. These include the annual Brother hood Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews; the 1956 Patriotism award as "Outstanding States man of the Year" from Notre Dame; the Ushiva university 1957 Charter Day award; the 1957 Eire Society Gold Med al as the outstanding Irish Catholic in America; the "Man of the Year" award from the Polish Daily News; the 1957 Brotherhood Award of the Jewish Theological Seminary, and the Cardinal Gibbons Award for 1956. Foreign Decorations ' Among his decorations by foreign governments for his work in international rela tions are the Italian Star of Solidarity of the First Order, the highest honor that the Ital ian Government can bestow on any individual; the title of "Grande Officiale" of the Italian Government; and the Greek Cross of the Comman der of the Royal Order of the Phoenix. PROSPECT PTA Program Scheduled By GLADYS GOVENOR Prospect - A Founder's Day program will be held by the Prospect Parent-Teacher's as sociation Tuesday evening, Feb. 24. Theme of the pro gram will be the Oregon Cen tennial. The fourth grade students will serve dessert refresh ments. . . Dave Neville has succeeded in getting spring water piped into his new house on "Neville hill" near Richey's store. - The eight-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Irie Ring has been in the hospital recently Mr. and Mrs. Carl Spencer and her son visited Mr. and Mrs. Vance Wilson Sunday. Mary Fowler gave a snow party" at Union Creek Sunday. Celeste, Sandil and Mike Burril gave a Valentine party at their home Saturday eve ning. The Ray Maurs have moved into the Krenshaw place on Red Blanket rd., which they purchased recently. Mrs. Clarence Hedgepath is staying in Medford caring for her mother. Kennedy also is a success ful author. In 1940, he wrote "Why England Slept," a best- selling account of England s unpreparedness for war. His most recent book "Profiles in Courage," which received the Pulitzer Prize as the outstand ing work in the field of bio graphy for 1956, remained near the. top of the national best-seller list for well over a year, longer than any other non-fiction book published in 1956. It also received the Notable Book Award of the American Library Associa tion, the Christopher Book Award foe 1956, the Book Award of the Secondary, Edu cation Board and other liter ary honors. ...... In addition, he is the author of several articles in national magazines during the past sev eral years, including Life, the New York Times Magazine, Harpers, The Saturday Eve ning Post, the NEA Journal, the Progressive, the Reporter, and many others. Graduate With Honors Senator Kennedy was born May 29, 191.7. His father, Jo seph P. Kennedy, served under Franklin D.. Roosevelt as ambassdor to Great Bri tain from 1937 to 1941. The Senator attended Chaote school and Harvard univer sity, and graduated in 1940 with honors. He has also been awarded honorary degrees by 18 col leges and universities, includ ing Harvard, Syracuse, Notre Dame, Brandeis, Tufts, the University of South Carolina, and the University of New Brunswick, Canada. Frank Christian, chairman of the Democratic party, is urging all those who wish to attend to make their reserva tions early, because the dinner space is limited. Tickets may be purchased at the Labor Temple, Hudson's Pharmacy, or from James Redden, co chairman of the dinner, or any member of the Democratic committee, and at a number of ticket locations in the county. Gerald Scannell is ticket chairman and may be contacted by calling SPring 3-3582 or SPring 2-5382. 4-H Club News HOWARD FEEDERS ' The meeting of the Howard Feeders at Mr. Newman's house Feb. 7 was called to order by President Woody Newman. We discussed the things we would have to accomplish in the coming year. We are in vited ' to Mr. James' rabbit club March 1. We will discuss showmanship and judging. March 28 we will decorate the window of Medford Radi ator shop for H-H week. It was voted that the club have dues. We decided on 10 cents. We also charge for mis conduct. The next meeting will be Feb. 28. , Cathy Carlson, Reporter TEA TIMERS The first meeting of t h e Tea Timers was held Feb. 19 at the leaders' home. Judy Gus was elected president; Susan -Englund, vice presi dent; Louella Dewey, secre tary; Edna Peterson, recrea tional leader; and Anna Maria Thompson, reporter. Ten members were present, Meetings will be held the first and third Thursdays of each month at the leader's and junior leader's home. Mrs. Stevens and Terry served refreshments. Anna Thompson, Reporter BEEF CLUB The regular meeting of the Central Point Beef club was held Monday, Feb. 16, at the Central Point grade school gym. We opened the meeting by singing a few songs. We set April 4 for going to a meat packing plant.- After the meeting we had to name the parts of a beef animal. Refreshments were served, Carolyn Sidener, Reporter. WILLING WORKERS The Willing Workers 4-H club had a valentine party at a meeting Saturday, Feb. 14, Members showed how far they have progressed on their scarves and were shown how they should look when finish-ed." A demonstration was given by one of the members on how to sew on an apron pock et. Rose Trautman, Reporter. Bill McEllmerry smashed his fineer while at work re cently, Angela Bishop is re ported to be down with a case of measles and Bonnie Bliss is also on the sick list. Mrs. Sherman Poole has al so been ill and Mrs. S. W ChaDman has been working in her place in the school lunch rom. Also absent from school is Janet Hooper, who has the mumps. Mr. and Mrs. Darwin Bean are visiting friends and rela tives here and in the valley. i Mrs. Boyd Powers gave a party for the young people of the Full Gospel church re cently. A group of young people had a party at the clubnouse at Matson's mill Saturday eve ning. Mike Larson was an over night guest of Larry Moore re cently. Pr.ospect residents are . re minded of the "community store" to be held at the com munity hall the second Mon day of each month. Donations for the store will be gladly accepted. Ronnie Robinson visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ethan Robinson, on Sunday. The Prospect Girl Scouts meet at the community hall every Thursday, with Mrs. Rochester, Mrs. Byden and Mrs. Rick as leaders. The girls sold cookies last Saturday. The Prospect Lady Lions met a; Beckie's cafe Feb. 11. Alta Goode was elected as sec retary, taking Mrs. Ressler's place. The group is scheduled to hold an executive board meeting at the home of Mar garet Grieve. Miss Suzanne Rogers of Copco went to Portland to at tend the leadership training conference of the Episcopal church last month. Mr. and Mrs. Pete Frizon went to Redding, Calif., to at tend the lumbermen's conven tion recently. North America has more lakes than any other continent. SQUELCH SQM THE SQUINTS that come to squander ers on near-sighted, lowbrowed, wiper woozy windshields. The windshield on anything less than a '59 Mercury. '59 Mercury squelches all squints with a windshield that takes in a quarter of the universe in one breathtaking sweep. A clean sweep, too, when the weather man is mad, with Mercury's five-foot expanse of uninterrupted wiper area! . You'll go for Mercury's walk-in doors, stretchout interiors, and travel-designed trunk. Mercury's only diminished fea ture is the floor hump-it's only half as big, while competitions' got bigger! For everything ailing the middle price field, Mercury has the cure. Come in and treat your eyes! R MERCURY MEDFORD MOTORS, INC. Negro Schoolboy , May Become Page Washington - (UPD - Negro schoolboy Jimmy Johnson Jr. has received word that he will attend the . Congres sional page boy school after all. .... . Five Congressmen, four Democrats and one Republi can, are arranging to put the 14-year-old Chicago boy on their government-financed of fice payrolls as a messenger March " 1. -That - would make "Jimmy eligible to achieve his dream of attending the page boy school as well as receive ap proximately a page boy's sal ary $337.28 a month. . ,The soft spoken boy came to Washington last month un der the impression that he had been appointed a House page, probably the first in history. However, he didn't get the GETS TOO FRIENDLY London (UPD - Christopher Fink, told a judge yesterday that a group of American air men he met on a subway train had offered him drinks from their bottle of whisky , "as a token of Anglo - American friendship." 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