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Leaking Propane Threatens Block Portland-CPD-More than a block in the industrial area of Southeast Portland was threatened when Propane gas leaked from a tank Friday. The gas threatened an explo sion for more than an hour. Two persons suffered vapor burns and a fireman was treated for inhaling too much of the poisonous gas. Driver of the propane truck, Harold Newkirk, suf fered vapor burns and fire man Phil York suffered frost bite and vapor burns. Newkirk said he was pump ing 100 gallons of liquid pro pane into the truck to test the meter on the Burns truck sta tion tank when the overflow valve on the truck came open. Jacksonville Man Wins Farm Building Contest Philadelphia-Edmund Ram lay, route 1, box 45, Jackson ville, has been named one of Jie winners in the $10,000 Farm Building Improvement contest sponsored jointly by the National Lumber Manu facturers association and Farm Journal magazine. Ramsay, who received $100 for his design of a loose-housing system, was one of 24 prize winners in the "B" division of the nationwide contest for projects using more than $500 worth of lumber and millwok. . ii i ! ' ' $ f i"rJ&& jJ ' - ill ' ' ' Money Makes More Money deposited in a savings account at Jackson County Federal makes MORE ... be cause it's wisely rein vested in Jackson Coun- IT MAKES SENSE tc save where you art paid MORE to save. SEES COUGAR - Terry Turner, a sophomore at Crater High school, who was armed only with a camera and not prepared for an encounter with a mountain lion, thinks she set an all-time speed record for a two or three mile section of mountain trail near Gold Hill recently. She was about eight feet from the cougar when she stopped to take a picture of a snow scene, she said. L r L . . LOAN JUUJCIAIVI 126 E. Main - Medford Snake Withdrawal Action Postponed Salem-flJPD-The state water resource board Friday voted to delay for one month any action to withdraw waters of the Snake and Imnaha rivers. The action came after a fish by-pass canal designed to carry migratory salmon both upstream and downstream and completely around the short Imnaha arm of the lake be hind a proposed 670-foot high Mountain Sheep dam on the Snake river was outlined to the board. Pacific Northwest Power company said a fish screen capable of handling the entire flow of the Imnaha river would be installed in the stream at the upper end of the 9-mile arm to assure that all fingerling salman headed downstream are directed into the canal and safely around the proposed dam. , Hugh Smith, Portland at torney for PNP, noted the Tonsorial Tonsils In Quartet Contest Forest Grove-ttJPD - Eight quartets went into the finals last night in the annual Gay Nineties Festival and Barber shop Ballad contest here. The finalists were named Friday night as an opening day feature of the two-day fes tival. Chosen as the Gay Nineties Belle was Sonya Yunker of Forest Grove. She reigned over concluding ceremonies yesterday. Quartet finalists Included the Capitol Chordsmen, Sal em; the Quarternotes, Van couver, Wash., and the Delta Four of University of Oregon, Eugene. Corps of Engineers had design ed High Mountain Sheep as the key propect for the mid dle Snake in its newest recom mendations for comprehensive development of the Columbia Basin. Monday Doorbusters All Day 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Ladies Bouffant Slips Reg. $3.98 5Q33 Special JJ Three tier and 3 skirts of nylon net. Ray on top with elastic waist band. Colors white, pink, blue and multi. Sizes small, med. & large. Buy now for Easter. Ladies' Half Slips Your Choice 47 i Rayon acetate with fancy 2 Inch lace on bottom. You'd expect to pay 79c, or more. Sm., med., Ig. White, green, blue, pink. 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MONDAY NIGHT ONLY. 77c Ogreish Cougar Fails to Foil Lass With Lens Terry Turner, a resident of Gold Hill and a sophomore at Crater High school, is as fond of cats as the next person, but even if she'd have had a saucer of milk handy she wouldn't have stopped to feed the one she saw on a mountain trail recently. Terry said she had taken a hike on the seven-mile Boy Scout trail near Gold Hill to take pictures of snow scenes and had paused to aim her camera when she heard a deep growl behind her. She said she glanced over her shoulder and saw a cou gar lying about eight feet from her in the shelter of some underbrush. The snarl ing animal had its teeth bared, Terry said, but made no mo tion to charge. Nearly Frozen Trying to act nonchalant, while nearly frozen wth fright, Terry said she con tinued to whistle, aimed her camera at the scene she in tended to take and snapped the shutter. Then, still trying to show unconcern, she walk ed slowly to a point some dis tance from the animal before breaking into a run. She told her grandmother, Mrs. Har riet Elliott, that she probably broke all speed records for that two or three mile section of trail back to town. Terry added that not click ing the camera at the cougar itself, at that short range, might have saved her from being attacked, although she admits a portrait of the ani mal would have been undis putable evidence to back up her story. The cougar has been known to charge human beings when cornered. Seen, Heard A resident of Gold Hill re ported seeing a cougar recent ly on the hill behind the Ideal cement plant and a woman said she heard what she thought was the cry of a cougar early one morning, which seemed to come from the hill north east of town. Guide Dogs Given Privilege by Law Olympia-IUPD - Legislation to permit blind persons to take their guide dogs into public places where other dogs are prohibited was signed into law by Gov. Albert D. Rosellini Friday. Another measure signed in to law authorizes theState to contract with the federal gov ernment for confinement of prisoners sentenced to the state reformatory as well as for the penitentiary. Other new acts provide for the settlement of disputes con cerning the domicile of de ceased persons on tax cases; redefine certain sections of the motor vehicle code relating to explosives; authorize certain state employees to examine court records to determine fin ancial responsibility for the case of the mentally ill, and make a deficiency appropria tion of $300,000 to cover social security for teachers retroac tive to Jan. 1, 1956. Man Stricken on Ship Reported Seriously III Honolulu - (UPD - Anthony Maness, 49, Seattle, was de scribed in serious condition at Tripler Army Hospital yester day after being flown here aboard a MATS plane from the freighter Oregon. Maness was taken to Mid way infirmary from the Ore gon Thursday night suffering from peritonitis. He had been examined by a doctor from the Coast Guard cutter Chautauqua. i even j the boss i I won't know I You're at your best in any sit uation with Sonotone's latest a slim-trim eyeglass hearing aid. Only eyeglass hearing aid with exclusive AVC (Auto matic Volume Control) to soften sudden, loud noises. Fashion-thin temples for both men and women. Also latest "Tuck-A-Way" styles for those who don't wear glasses. COME IN. SEE AND HEAR SONOTONE C. R. ADAMSON, Mgr. 839 E. Jackson SP 2-5904 New Loading Tong Invented in Lebanon Logging equipment dealers of southern Oregon are ex pected to start handling a new type log-loading tong in about 30 days, R. F. Jenkins, Lebanon, inventor of the tongs, has announced. The "Doroy" tongs, Jen kins said, has the same func tion as other tongs, but differ in that they are operated by the loader operator rather than a second man specifically for that purpose, thus elimin ating a safety hazard responsi ble for many accidents. Jenkins, who has been in the logging business for 15 years, said the idea for a "safer and faster" loading tong had been worked out over a number of years. Opening and closing the jaws which grip the log is controlled by a single cable while the lift is made by a second cable. All operations are conduct ed from the cab of the loader, Jenkins said. Capaciy of the tong built on an experimental basis is a 42 inch log, he said. Escaped Convicts Are Arrested in Portland Portland-(UPD-Two convicts who escaped from Larch mountain honor camp in south-western Washington Fri day were arrested early yes terday in the railroad yards near the Union Station in Portland. A special agent of the rail road apprehended the two, who were identified as John Francis Kelley and Glenn Vernon Rowe, both 34. They were being held for Washing ton State. New Minesweeper Will Enter Service Monday Seattle - (UPD - The USS Cape, a new class minesweep er designed for operations close inshore, will be placed in service at ceremonies at Pier 91 Monday. The vessel, built by the Bellingham Shipyard Co. at a cost of about $750,000, will be assigned to Commander Mine Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet, Long Beach, Calif. About 600,000 matches are stuck every minute of the day in the United States. Wallowa Papers' Merger Announced Enterprise - d'PD - Wallowa county's two weekly news papers will merge into one publication, it was announced yesterday. Gwen Coffin, publisher of the Wallowa Chieftain, said yesterday that the paper will merge with the Chief Joseph Herald March 1. The name of the paper un der the merger will be "Wal lowa County Chieftain." Gwen Coffin will be pub lisher of the consolidated newspaper and Dwight Hin shaw, publisher of the Chief Joseph Herald, will become associate editor and advertis ing manager. No financial con sideration was made known on the merger. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Sunday, March T, 1959 9 Young Slayer Hears Verdict Impassively HE LIKES KHRUSH- Burton-On-Trent, England-(UPD-Britain's director-general of civil defense likes Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. "Whenever things slow up a bit, Khrushchev makes a frightful speech and I get some more money," he explained. Seattle-OJPD - A 22-year-old admitted slayer listened im passively Friday as a jury an nounced it found him guilty of murder in the first degree. Alfred James Brunetto, who had been described by Deputy Prosecutor Charles Z. Smith as " a savage little man who lived by the law of the jungle," was quiet as the ver dict was read. Brunetto had admitted that last September he shot and killed his wife, Lorraine, 19, and a neighbor girl, Zehrel Georgia-Pacific Offers Tree for White House Washington (UPD Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) said Friday that the Georgia Pacific timber corporation has offered to provide an Oregon tree as the Christmas tree for the annual White House Pageant of Peace in 1960. Neuberger said he had re ferred the question to Gov. Mark Hatfield and Dwight L. Phillips, Oregon State forester. McKrill, 16. The defense had contended that at the time of the shooting Brunetto was insane, and could not tell right and wrong. The jury did not recom mend the death sentence in announcing its finding. WESTERN MUSEUM PLANN Fort Worth, Tex. - (CPD - A million dollar museum of western art will be built here with money left by Amon Carter, publisher of the Fort Worth Star Telegram at the time of his death. MODERNIZE Your BATHROOM With a Glass Shower Door Phone SP 3-3613 GLASS CO. 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