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i . ,ruu 111, - in JTw,WWlWWjjMimw a -U - JTXu 1 it - -4 Wtiwliltt----vf--''?'--.iiii liM-fil iiiiii rim Kiiimin iiimn Jl NEW OFFICES - Headquartesrs for the Jackson County Public Welfare commission and the Oregon State Tax Commission is this building recently completed at the cor ner of Fourth and Grape sts., Medford. The building, owned by the firm of Wilson McCabe, is leased to the two agencies. The modern building affords more efficient op eration and will be directly responsible for a saving in operating cost of several thous and dollars a year, according to James Pullman, welfare administrator. Rows of scanlon maple and Modesto ash have been planted in the parking along two sides of the building under the Medford street tree program. Joint Ways, Means Committee May Finish Budgets This Week Salem -(UPfl- Robert Stew ard, secretary of the Joint Ways and Means committee, said yesterday there was a possibility the committee could complete work on its budgets this week. Some 30 budgets remain to be acted on and 15 of those are scheduled on Tuesday' agenda. ' Stewards said he was pleas ed with the progress of Ways and Means in disposing of its . bills. Big budgets to be acted on Include higher education, ed ucation and welfare. So far the committee has approved appropriations to taling $42,993,421, a cut of about one million dollars front ex-Gov. Robert D. Holmes' budget recommendations. Still to be decided on is the institution of higher educa tion building program, with on possible solution a long range $50 million bonding program. Three hearings were set for Monday, including one on House Bill 646 regulating trading stamps and putting a $6,000 annual fee on sellers of the stamps. This hearing will be held at 8 ajn. before the House Committee on State and Fed eral affairs. The Senate Elections com mittee meets at 8:30 a.m. on Monday to discuss a bill (SB 482) making it illegal for any person owning the majority of stock in a financial insti tution, insurance company or public utility company to con tribute money to promote the success or defeat of any mea sure submitted to the people. The bill would be an am endment to the Corrupt Prac tices act. Auction Bill The House Commerce and Utilities committees will hear two bills regulating auctions, particularly jewelry auctions, at 1 p.m. Monday. Before s adjourning Friday, the 89th day of the session, Plans for Benefit Program in Ashland Hearing Completion , Ashland-Plam for the Ash land High school band bene fit program which will be presented Saturday, April 18, in Churchill hall on the Southern Oregon college cam pus, are nearing completion, Thelma Tabor, president of the Ashland High Band Boost ers club, has announced. The program is being pre sented to raise funds to send the Ashland band, majorettes, and flag girls and the float to the Junior Rose parade in Portland. Cooperating with the band boosters club in ' sponsoring the show is the Ashland Chamber of Commerce. The program will include the melodrama, "He Ain't BIO GREEN RED FIR Slabwood $200 $1400 Doable Load 300 co. ft Jumbo Load 400 co. ft Order Early - Quick Dalivary Phelps Fuel Go. SP 3-5878 X Done Right bv Our Nell," staged by the Southern Or egon collge Players. Perform ances will be given at 2:30 n.m. and at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. in Churchill hall, April 18. Included In Cast . Included in the cast for the melodrama will be Joan Tay lor, Ashland; Patricia Brown, Prineville; Carolyn Edwards, Gold Hill; Barbara Stamper, Medford; Mervyn Newell, North Bend; Wallace Gober, Klamath Falls; and John Nor lin. Gold Beach. Dr. Dorothy Stolp of South ern Oregon college is direct ing the play, which was writ ten by. Wilbur Braun. Also on the program will be a dance in Churchill hall auditorium starting at 9:30 D.m.. and a box social at 11:30' P-m. Bill Bray of Mid way Auction Yards. Medford, will be auctioneer during the box social. Participating in the booster campaign are the Ashland Rotary club, which has charge of .ticket sales in the down town area; the Garden club, H7h5rv will he rt rharse of decorations; and the Sorop timists club, which will pre pare 15 complimentary box lunches for the high school dance band. the House Tax committee dis cussed the "free port" bill which has already passed the Senate. The bill (SB 424) would ex empt from taxation personal property in transit through Oregon to out-of-state destin ations. Such property in Ore gon warehouses consigned out of state would, also be tax free. Senators who passed the bill thought it would stimu late commerce and the ware house business. Construction in Forest Progressing Butte Falls-Construction of an office addition and equip ment storage building is un der way at the Butte Falls ranger station, according to Carroll Brown, superintend end of the Rogue River Na tional forest. The work is being done by the Rogue Valley Construction company. The new Prospect Ranger station is nearing completion. It includes an office and four residences. Contractors are Fordyce Brothers. Bids will be opened at the Regional forester's offices, 229 Oregon st., Portland, April 16 for construction of a new resi dence at Star Ranger station on the Applegate river. Plans, specifications and bid forms may be obtained at the super visor's office in the post office building in Medford or from the district ranger, Star Ran ger station. Boy Scout Troop Holds Court of Honor In Medford Approximately 100 persons attended the annual charter dinner of Troop 8 last week at the St. Mark's Guild hall. Invocations was given by Scoutmaster Elwood Hedberg. After a potluck dinner pre pared by mothers and troop committee members ' guests were introduced. They in cluded Col. W. H. Paine, Mrs Winifred Vail, Mr. and Mrs. Judso.n Compton, Mr. and Mrs. Darl Gleed, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. McDougall, Mr. and Mrs.R. D. Church, Rev. and Mrs. George R. V. Bolster, and Mrs. Elwood Hedberg. At a Court of Honor, awards were given. Harry Barneburg and his team from the troop held a tenderfoot investiture and presented the following boys with their Tenderfoot badges, neckerchiefs and slides: Bill Kirby, James Bry an, Mike McDonald, Gary Harper and Ted Dawson. Others were: second class scouts, Ward Conger and Jim Brinson; first class scouts, Bob Bennett, Steve Davis and Tim O'Mara and Billy Ed wards. Merit badges: Tim. O'Mara, scholarship, citizenship in the nation, cooking and soil and water conservation; Billy Edwards, citizenship in the community, home repairs and soil and water conservation; Steve, Swartzley, citizenship in the community; Steve ' Davis, home repairs.- Service awards: one year service stars, Steve Davis, Bob Bennett, Larry Humphreys, Jim Moir, Johnny Johnson and Dale Powell; . two-year service stars, Don Kengla and John Moir; three-year service stars, Billy Edwards, Steve Swartzley, Tim O'Mara and Tom LeFaive. Perfect attendance awards: one-year, Bob Bennett and Dale Powell; two-year, Tim O'Mara; three-year, Steve Swartzley- Post 8 awards: organization: advisor, Bob Frick; president, Joe LeFaive; vice president, Bill Dahlstrom; secretary treasurer, Gene Lantz; repre sentatives, Richard Knight and Terry Coulter; cooking, Joe LeFaive; operation icicle, Joe LeFaive, Gene Lantz, Richard .Knight and Terry Coulter. Service awards: 5-year serv ice star, Joe LeFaive and Gene Lantz; five-year perfect at tendance, Joe LeFaive and Gene Lantz. Southern Oregon Gets 'Corvette' Ashland - Southern Oregon college's library has a Cormac "Corvette," an all-purpose, all automatic copying machine that makes copies up to 11 inches wide by any length, Miss Myrtle Funkhouser, li brarian, has announced. Producing dry, black-on-white facsimilies from opaque or translucent originals, from pencil, ink or colors, the ma chine needs no dark room fa cilities. In addition, the library now has the new Cormac book printer which copies any page size up to 11 by 17 inches clear to the binding, without dam age to the book or binding. Students may make ar rangements for copying ma terial at the circulation desk, with either Mrs. Mildred John son or Mrs. Helen Sinko, and requests for material should be made three days in advance of the time needed, Miss Funkhouser said. In producing copies for in dividuals, the library plans to follow the policy in practice at the Oregon State college library, charging 20 cents per page for on - campus service and 25 cents per page for off campus service requiring mail ing, she announced. Progress on Work Of Project Aired Cave Junction The latest developments from the re gional office of the bureau of reclamation in Boise, Ida., on the progress of the work on the Sucker Creek Irrigation project were heard at a meet ing of the chamber of com merce board of directors. Regional Director Harold Nelson said in a letter that the regional office .is suffici ently assured of the inten tions of the people to develop the land for the irrigation project in view of the over whelming vote irt favor of the district. ; On this basis, the regional director made his report to the commissioner's office in Washington, D. C, in which he outlined the additional survey work to be done, re sulting from changes in the original boundaries of the newly formed irrigation dis trict. The report noted that an appropriation of $40,000 would be needed and a period of six or seven months in which to make the new sur vey. The chamber board voted to lend its support in any way possible in order to get the Sunday, April 12, 1959 S MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon necessary appropriations con sidered during the present session of Congress. FOR RENT Largo Refrigerated - Room suitable for any kind of frozen food. Plenty of park ing space for trucks. Harper Meats Phone SP 3-1715 or 2-6381 Mrs. Bell Takes Over Club Managership Mrs. Margaret Bell, Central Point, former assistant mana ger of the Medford Health club, is now manager of the club, according to Gerry Washburn, representative of the P. !.W. Investment com pany,. Eugene. The Eugene company pur chased the club last month from the Health-All corpora tion, which started the club here last year. It was reported that new equipment has been added at the club,, located at 3 West Sixth st. Elizabethton, Tenn. (DPD -Mrs. Ann Snavely called po lice to rout a skunk colony under her house and ended up in full retreat herself. The po lice fired tear gas pellets un der the house, chasing out Mrs. Snavely but not the skunks. LOCKE APPROVED PORK 6-lbs. Pork Chops 6-lbs. Pork Steak "Jl 98 CrWft a 1 6-lbs. Pork Roast 3-lbs. Sausage II II SPECIAL 3-lbs. Bacon U U Half 200-250 lbs.. BEEF 25 lb. Order of BEEF 49 lb. $1098 136 LB. FREEZER SPECIAL 30 lbs. Roasts 15 lbs. Short Ribs 5 lbs. Boneless Stew Cubes 20 lbs. Ground Beef 10 lbs. Round Steak 10 lbs. Rib Steak 8250 10 lbs. T-Bone Steak 6 lbs. Pork Shoulder Roast 18 lbs. Pork Chops 6 lbs. Ham 6 lbs. Fryer 1500 Per Mo , 6 Mos. Cutting, Wrapping,'Quick Freezing Included! iVSTflL MEAT GOT. 4th and Fir Phone SP 2-7315 Wafer May Be Limited in Ashland Ashland Mayor Richard Neill last week told the coun cil that Ashland residents may be asked to conserve water "if we have a dry summer." He said the council and city would be "sticking its neck ouf'if it granted a petition re questing city water outside the city when residents within the city may have to conserve water this summer. Carlton Abbott, represent ing Mr. and Mrs. Henry Padrta of Oregon City, re quested the water be extend ed for domestic purposes only to property betwen the rail road, the cemetery and an old eating establishment. Abbott said the Padrtas planned to open a green house and nursery on the property, and Talent Irrigation district water was available for use. But, he said, Mrs. Padrta said she did not care to drink wat er from a well so near the cemetery. Music Fraternity Initiates Members Ashland - Members of Delta Phi Alpha, honorary music fraternity at Southern Oregon college, recently initiated Aleen Bessonette, Ashland; Karen Elle, Lakeview; Eliza beth Pramann, Phoenix; Shei la Adler, Medford; and Julie Joy, Ashland, Miss Helene M. Robinson, faculty adviser, has announced. Candlelight ceremonies were read by officers, May nard Hadley, Medford; Lorna Vance, Roseburg; Donna Mc Farland, Klamath Falls; Car ole Osterman, Lakeview; and Miss Robinson. Delta Phi Alpha is the only undergraduate music honorary of more than local scope in the United States which ac cepts both men and women students. The purposes of the organization are to stimulate appreciation of good music and of high standards of per formance, and t to develop qualities of leadership through musical activities, Miss Robin son explained. WRONG IMPRESSION Manchester, England (UPD Ernest C. 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