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Helicopier From Medford Firm to Be at Exposition The role of the helicopter in modern-day transportation will be demonstrated at the Oregon Centennial Exposition starting in June when Jan rick of Oregon Inc., Medford, will have one of its 47-J Bell Rangers at the Centennial grounds. The company's helicopter will take visitors and tourists on flights over the Columbia river and other picturesque Oregon scenery. In addition, Janrick has an nounced it is sponsoring a model contest for youngsters aged 8 to 18. First prize is a helicopter flight course which will give the winner 40 hours instruction and a private pi lot's rating. Started Her The contest, which was launched at the Sportsfair last week here, will be continued through the first weeks of the Centennial and models must be completed by August 1 for showing and judging at the exposition grounds. Second prize is an Italian Fiat 600 automobile; third prize, use of a helicopter at no expense for an entire week end; fourth, use of a helicop ter for four hours; and fifth, two days at the Centennial with expenses paid. Five runners-up will re ceive portable television sets or radios. Chicago - (UPD - U. S. Cus toms officials Wednesday auc tioned off unclaimed and re jected items collected over the past year. Among the items was a 1958 calendar, which an unidentified man bought for a nickel. News About Books From the Library At the conclusion of Na tional Library Week we are grateful indeed to the many warm friends and supporters of the Jackson County library who did so much to help us celebrate. In every commun ity served by the county li brary response was quick and enthusiastic to invitations to participate. It is not possible in this Bob Mead is SOC Student President Ashland - Bob Mead, Klam ath Falls, was elected student body president of Southern Oregon college last Wednes day. More than 500 students cast ballots in the student body election for next year's officers. Jim Ocha, editor of the col lege newspaper, reported that the election race between in cumbent Richard Clark; Med ford, and Mead, was hotly con- testedj with Mead defeating Clark's second-term bid by a vote of 294 to 221. Ron Legget, Bonanza, was elected second vice president; Maureen McCurdy, Medford, treasurer; Janet Meyer, Klam ath Falls, secretary; Larry Hall, Medford, yell king; and Ona Liles, Roseburg, Larry Barleen, Klamath Falls, Alvin Born, Henley district, Klam ath Falls, and Ron Fader, Ash land, representatives-at-large. A run-off election to de termine the firset vice-president will fake place Wednes day between Rick Pastega and George Olson, both of Klam ath Falls. (3? I fit rih rr a mm w h ii really no secret, but a fact that you can see illustrated every day: The folks who land "on top" are usually successful savers; and the successful savers are usually those who keep everlastingly at it. space to name the many per sons to whom we should like to express our oppreciation, but we cannot let the week close without mentioning our special thanks to Dunbar Car penter, chairman of the Na tional Library Week commit tee; Mrs. Harry Fuller, Mrs. Harold Cook, Mrs. Edwin Gebhardt, Miss Mary Pat Lucy, and John Williams. We are grateful too to other library friends who donated books to the library during the past month. These in clude Miss Anna Livingston, Arthur H. Thompson, Mrs. Rolland Jory, and Mrs. R. K. Ha'mmons, Shady Cove. Do nated books total 27; pur chased books, 141 of which 53 were for junior readers, 115 for adults. These include 89 new titles as follows: Reference: The Public Li brary in the Political Process, Garceau; A Forum on the Public Library Inquiry, As heim; Blue Book of Pacific Northwest Industry; Editor & Publisher International Year Book; Official Congressional Directory, 1959, U. S. Con gress; Political Handbook of the World, 1959, Mallory. History and Biography: Baker's Biographical Diction ary of Musicians, Baker; Dic tionary of American Biog raphy, Schuyler; The Far East, Peffer; I Remember, Pasternak; Gramercy Park, Brooks; My Valley in the Sky, Van Der Veer. Travel and Adventure Northwest to Fortune, Stefan- son; Jet Pilot, Lent; The Two Germanies, McClellan. Other Non-Fiction: Using Chemistry, Lanford; Basic Or ganic Chemistry, Fieser; Mili tary Handbook; Lumber and Allied Products, U. S. Dept, of the Army; The American Quarter Horse, Widmer. Serious Fiction: Every Eye, English; The Politician, Long street; The Lion and the Rose, Oliver; Claudelle Inglish, Caldwell; Acres of Afternoon, Deal. Adventure stories: Adams of the Bounty, Wilson; The Typhoon's Eye, Schoyer; The Dark Road, Cross; The Devil at Four o'clock, Catto. Mysteries: Murder in New Guinea, Vandercook; The Smasher, Powell; The Dark Fantastic, Masterson; Killer's Wedge, McBain; I'll Be Judge, I'll Be , Jury, Hely; Duo, Armstrong; Three Detec tive Novels, Carr. Other fiction: Endurance, Lansing; The Angers of Spring, Whitehill. WE INVITE ALL OUR YOUNG FARM NEIGH BORS TO SAVE FOR THE FUTURE AT OUR BANK! Your funds are insured here up to $10,000 by Fesrt Deposit Insurance Corporation. Your savings earn inter est at 2Vi semi-annually. Interest on three year cer tificates of deposit 3. , 1109 COURT STREET MEDFORD Article Tells Of Wagon Train Routes "Wagons Head Westward," an article on Oregon and the early wagon train route from Missouri, appears in the cur rent issue of Life magazine. It is accompanied by numer ous paintings and drawings of the early west. The article tells of the ar rival of the American ship, Columbia, to the Oregon coast' from Boston, and the estab lishment of trading posts. The article is part of a series of Life articles on the west. HERB KENAGA Traveler-Photographer Alaskan Traveler To Give Programs Herb Kenaga, Alaskan trav eler and photographer, will show slides of Alaska, and the Yukon territory at programs April 23, 24 and 25 at the Girls Community club, 229 North ' Bartlett st. The local chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America will spon sor the shows. Kenaga will present stereo phonic animal-sound record ings at 7 p.m. preceding the 8 p.m. slide collection and talk. His pictures include, scen ery of highway travel from the United States through Canada to Alaska by two routes, old ghost towns of the 1898 gold rush in northern British Columbia, more of the Yukon territory including the 550-mile gold stampede trail from Skagway to the Klon dike and Dawson City. Other topics include Eski mo life," whale, walrus, seal and polar bear hunting, ice fishing and northern scenery. Local Sheep Raisers Plan Monday Meet A meeting of Jackson coun ty sheep raisers will be held at 8 p.m. Monday in the Jack son county extension agent's office in the courthouse, ac cording to Earle Jossy, county agent. A pool shipment of lambs to market may be arranged as a result of the meeting, he said. It's felt by some of thp raisers that the buyers would prefer to pick up a truckload at a time. However, most of the raisers are not large enough to form their own truckload," Jossy explained. Majority of the sheep rais ers in the county have from 50 to 100 head, he said. The informal meeting will consid er various problems facing the sheep owners. PROGRESS REPORT Smuteye, Ala.-(UPD-Dial tele phones are coming to Smut eye. The Union Springs Tele phone company has announc ed it will convert its entire system to dial phones by sum mer, including service in Smuteye, Blue, Old Stand, Simsville and other small Ala bama towns. In the three centuries from 1650 to 1950 the total popula tion of the world has more than quadrupled. . I " .. V . .. . t I J WALL PI A Q U IS Embossed Design For your home or for a gift Ordinarily sells for 1.98 ca. BUT NOW DURING THIS SPECIAL SALE two scenes ONLY (0)0 c 1 EACH HOSTESS SERVING MY ot gleaming mirror -polisked auminum Quality At Lowest Prices! FREE CUSTOMER PARKING! 0 i0o SPECIALISTS IN HOMEWARESI 245 South Central at 10th Phone SP 2-5201 Dry Land Crops Hurl By Lack of Rainfall Yreka - Crop on dry land farms in Siskiyou county will suffer unless rain is received within the next few weeks, county farm advisors in the area reported last week. M. V. Maxwell, farm ad visor, reported that only 72 per cent of the average amount of rainfall is expected this year. Dry land farms will be par ticularly hurt by the lack of rain since fall planted grain crops are now at the critical period when the number of heads of grain per plant is determined according to avail able moisture. All irrigation districts in the county are reported to have an adequate supply of water. Servicemen IN EXERCISE Three Medford Navy men recently took part in the Pa cific Fleet's second 1959 am phibious landing exercise, Op eration Big Land, off the coast of southern California. The men are Frederick J. K n o w 1 e s, boatswain's mate third class, son of Mr. and Mrs. John J. Knowles, 611 South Riverside ave., and Rob ert P. Graham, chief quarter master, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Graham, 175 Jeannette st., both serving aboard the attack transport USS George CJymer, and Sammie L. Hop kins, seaman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hopkins, 808 South Central ave., serving with landing craft utility division 18. 4-H Club News Beef Club The regular meeting of the Central Point Beef club was held Monday, April 7, at the Central Point Grade school gymnasium. The meeting was called to order by President Jeff Anhprn. Under old business we talked about going to the meat packing house and set the date as April 18. The fol lowing Sunday we are going to have our steers weighed. The next meeting will be April 18 and at that meeting we will learn about the dif ferent cuts of meat and how to cut up a steer. Carolyn Sidener, Reporter. Filet Crochet Set "K .f v, .-'"A f: 4. Spring-inspired! See how the tulips, pansies and roses are accented by lacy mesh con trast. Gather compliments for this filet-crochet chair, buffet set. Pattern 7169: directions, charts, for 12Vxl6-inch chair back, 6x12 armrest in No. 50. Send Thirty - five cents (coins) for this pattern-add 5 cents for each pattern for 1st class mailing. Send to Med ford Mail Tribune, Household Arts Dept., P.O. Box 168, Old Chelsea Station, New York 11, N.Y. Print plainly NAME, ADDRESS, PATTERN NUM BER. Our new 1959 Alice Brooks Needlecraft Catalogue has many lovely designs to order: crocheting, knitting, embroi dery, quilts, dolls, weaving. A special gift, in the catalog to keep a child happily occu-pifid-a cutout doll and clothes to color. Send 25 cents for your copy of the book. I CHRISTIAN j I SCIENCE J HEALSvf 10:15 A.M. Sundays Station KWIN 1400 K.C. TO RECREATE HISTORY Amherst, Mass. - (UPD - Am herst and Williams will re create the game of baseball as it was played in 1859 to celebrate the 100th anniver sary of the first jntercolleg- iate baseball game. Amherst defeated Williams in that struggle which went 26 inn ings and took three and a half hours with a final score of 33 to 32. Thirteen-man teams from the two colleges, using MAIL TRIBUNE, MedforJ, Oregon, Sunday. April 19, 1959 S the old rules and the old equipment, will play an ab breviated version of the game during a two-day celebration May 15-16. There'll also b a replay of the chess match held in conjunction with th 1859 baseball game. J For hospitable Warmth - Choose MODULAR PIECES . . . MODESTLY PRICED Mirror 3-Drawer Chest" Corner Table Dresser 32.00 55.00 -55.00 189.00 3-Drawer Chest 79.00 Cabinet : L 64.50 Bookcase (2 shown) 49.95 Now on display in our windows! 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