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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Sunday, May 3, 19S9 v Newberry Stores to Stage 'Battle Royal Newberry stores across the nation will stage a "battle royal" selling contest during May, according to Harley Wil liams, who recently moved to Medford from Raton, N.M., to take over the management of the local Newberry store. District, are battling each other and the centest is being carried down to store against store. In southern Oregon the Roseburg manager has chal lenged Williams and the Med ford store. 8 I America' taty Jaw care of o low, low prke Big 34 art Ffworrf and fteven fatro ttrf Mod lodiMrf Dig Y Feed 1948 N. Puttie Hiwar - He Snore to fitteiradl the ... and, when you go to the concession stand, be sure to ask for MILK Nature's most perfect food to pep you up with the energy to finish the day as vigorously as you started. You NEVER outgrow your need for MILK. Drink at Least- 3 Glasses of MILK a Day! Transport Workers Tie Up Manila Port Manila- (DPI) -Transport workers, striking in sympathy with a white-collar office em ployees' union, tied up the port of Manila Friday. Non-striking longshoremen honored the picket lines the transport workers threw acress the approaches to the harbor area, and work on the docks came to a full stop. The office workers' strike already has been referred to the industrial relations court for arbitration. NEW RIDIMASTEK most exciting RIDING MOWER somq Vmm Matte end $21450 & Seed Go. Phon. SP 3-3M0 $42950 TUESDAY, MAY 7 p.m. MILK """SNB " . March of Dimes Nets $14,902,97 In County Drive The January March of Dimes drive in Jackson coun ty netted $14,902.97, it was announced last week by H. Price Shafer, campaign treas urer. , Medford led the county with a net total of $8,435.68. Ash land was second with $2,417.73 and Central Point third with $1,449.32. Other county re ceipts were Prospect $859.42, Phoenix $857.13, Eagle Point $727.38, Jacksonville $267.62, Rogue River $201.91, Gold Hill $187.70 and Talent $171. 10. County campaign expenses totaled $838.52, which in cluded purchase of supplies from the National Foundation. Of the total amount collect ed in the county, 25 per cent has been sent to the National Foundation's patient aid pool. This amounted to $3,725.74. The pool assists chapters which have had such a patient care load that funds have been de pleted. Of the remainder, 50 per cent or $5,588.61 went to the National Foundation and an equal amount was retained by the local chapter for use in the county. " Major fund raising projects included individual gifts $189.34, club and organization gifts $501.50, corporate arid employer gifts $593.66, em ployee gifts $1,124.06, collec tions in schools and colleges $1,385.45, Mothers' March $2, 831.58, coin collectors $569.04, general mailings $2,847.80, ra dio and television $43.47, Teen-Age activities $4,006.81, and other special activities $1,648.78. Buffalo, N. Y.-OJPD-Buffalo police are looking for an ac commodating two-gun bandit. While he waited for a tavern waitress to fill a green satchel with more than $2,000 in cash, the bandit calmly told several customers to "keep right on drinking.". 5 p!2 league TAKES COMMAND - William O. Herring, Medford, tells James D. Parker, Klamath Falls, of a quick dive a submarine on which he served during World War II took. Herring re ceived a certificate of commanding officer of the Oregon U.S. Submarine Veterans of World War II. Parker is former commander. Herring said he believes there are about 12 Navy veterans eligible for membership in the organization. Eligible members are those who served, aboard a submarine or in a relief crewhe said. Herring is former Navy recruiter in Medford. f Grange News Butte Falls Grange Butte Falls Grange w&l hold its regular meeting at 8 p.m. May 4. The recently or ganized Girl Scouts and Brownies will present a pro gram of folk dancing and songs. Mothers of the girls and friends are invited. . Grange members have been asked to wear Centennial cos tume if they have them avail able. Upper Applegaie Grange As its contribution to the celebration of Oregon's Cen tennial, Upper Applegate Grange will hold a public din ner on Mothers Day, Sunday, May 10 honoring pioneer mo thers. ' The dinner, featuring ham, will be served between 1:30 and 3:30 pin., in the Grange hall, according to Edna Saw yer, chairman of the Home Economics club. Preparations are being made to accomodate 200 guests. It is suggested that those wishing to do so, come in Centennial attire. Advance reservations are not required since tickets may be purchas ed at the door. Members of the HEC held a work day at the Grange hall Thursday in preparation for the event, and final details will be completed at the reg ular meeting of the club on Monday, May 4, which is also to be held at the hall. Grange members having small, old fashioned dishes, mugs, pitchers, sugar bov.ls and the like, which would be suitable containers for little bouquets, are being asked to lend them for use in table decorations for the dinner. They may be given to Mrs. Sawyer or brought to the next Grange meeting May 8. ; Dr. Edwin Durno, state sen ator from Jackson county, will be guest speaker on vis itation night, May 8, when Upper Applegate Grange will be host to visiting members from other subordinate Granges of the county. Senator Durno will discuss aspects of current legislation of special interest to his con stituents, and will answer questions. Other program numbers will be presented un der direction of Grange Lec turer Vieva Saltmarsh. Mem bers of the host Grange who are planning to attend are asked to bring sandwiches for the refrement hour. Four candidates, including it Provides . "k Provides . k Provides "A: Provides "A" Provides J Provides" 4 M 1 Y he1flori veeS w o VV Acee9e VcV' ' ' ' j Clarence and Hazel Roloff, and Edwin and Fannie Rut ter, were obligated in the first and second degrees dur ing a Grange meeting April 24, and arrangements were made for them -and for Cur tis and Dana Gearhart, who were obligated previously, to received the third and fourth degrees with the class of can didates initiated at Roxy Ann Grange May 1. A brief report of the visit ation of ' Roxy Ann Grange April 17, at which 10 of the Upper Applegate Grangers were present, was given by Master Kathleen Scovell and Legislative Chairman Anna Scott. Agriculture Chairman George Redhead stated no cloud seeding was contem plated by valley orchardists this year, since they felt the silver iodine generators in use previously had not given ade quate results. Gail Buffington is recover ing from major surgery in Sacred Heart hospital; Albert Collings has been ill at home and James Buckley is at home after being hospitalized for a recent illness, according to the report of the relief commit tee. A sum of $13, proceeds of a public dance, were added to the Grange treasury by the ways and means . committee headed by Fred and Ethel West. The quarterly report of the lecturer was read and' accept ed, and a brief program of humorous stories was present ed. The new members were in formally welcomed as were Ernest and Ella Dora, who have returned after spending the winter in. southern Cali fornia. Refreshments were served following adjournment by Lawrence and Dilbreth" Dun shee and Glen and Vieva Salt marsh. Foresters Society To Meet Next Friday The Siskiyou chapter of the Society of American Forest ers will meet at 7:30 p.m. Fri day, May 8, in the Jackson hotel. A children's hour will start at 6:45 p.m. Juan Schwendener of Ash land, who was engaged in for estry wqrk in Central Amer ica, will discuss forestry in Guatemala illustrated with slides of the country. Memory Gardens ' MEMORIAL SERVICE PLAN A Convenient Deposit and Low Monthly Payments Cash funds to cover Mortuary Expense. Choice of Beautiful Interment Estates Garden Mau soleum Crypt Indoor Mausoleum Crypt Cremation and Inurnment. All cemetery service charges. Bronze Memorialization of your choice. Full financial protection through CREDITORS INSUR ANCE underwritten by The Constitution Life Insur ance Co. No medical examination required. If death should occur during the term of the contract: 1. That Creditors Insurance will pay the entire bal ance owing. 2. That all payments made prior to death be returned fo the survivor. News About Books From the Library . During April, 354 volumes wee added to the. Jackson County library. New books purchased for-junior readers amounted, to 102, while 194 were bought for teen-aged and adult patrons of the li brary. Gifts of 58 books were also made to the adult 'collec tion by Carl Bjordahl, Mrs. Florence Harvey, George Distell and Wayne L. Elder. Listed below are the 79 new titles added during the past two weeks: ' The West: Thunder . Roll ing, Miller;. Tecumseh, Des tiny's Warrior, Cooke; Jour ney Through the Rocky Moun tains and the Humboldt Moun tains to the Pacific Ocean, Schiel; A Courier of Empire, Whiteon. . Religion: 20 Centuries . of C h r i s t i anity, Hutchinson; Warriors of God, Nigg; Above All a Shepherd, Groppi. Business and Technology: What Every Supervisor Should Know, Bittel; Trading Stamp Practice and Pricing Policy, Haring; As the Pro Flies,' Hoyt; American High-, ways Today, Tyler; Wood Handbook, U.S. Dept. of Ag riculture; Successfully Find ing Yourself and Your Job, Magoun. . Humor; Momento Mot i, Spark; Doctor and Son, Gor don; Kids Say the Darndest Things! Linkletter. ' 1 Fine Arts: Illustrating and Cartooning, Zaidenberg; An Atlas of Anatomy for Artists, Schider; A Simplified Guide to Collecting American Coins, Knight; City and Suburban Housing, Tyler; Rock Garden Plants, Klaber; A Picture History of Furniture, Davis; Comedy Stunts for Laughing Purposes, Tarbell. Travel and Adventure: The Springs of Adventure, Noyce; Great Sea Rescues and Tales of Survival, Snow; Love and the Caribbean, Waugh; Give Me a Ship to Sail, Villiers; Alaska, Adams. Science and Health: What Women Want to Know, Imer man; Orbit, Ruchlis; Between Earth and Space, Orr; My Best Friends Are Apes, Ober johann. , Biography: Williamstown Branch, Duffus; One Saint and Seven Sinners, Hall; Bor stal Boy, Behan; Breakdown, Dahl: The Leaf and the Flame, Parton. . - Other Non-Fiction: The World of Psychic Phenomena, Edsall; Marine Corps Recruit Depot,- San Diego, Calif.; Other Schools and Ours, King. Teen-age: Second .Nature, Stolz; Too Nead the Throne, Haycraft; A Boy and Five Huskies, Guillot; The Barque of the Brothers, Baumann. Teamsters Strike Tillamook Factory Tillamook-rtJPD-A strike by members of the Teamsters un ion continued at the huge Til lamook county cheese factory here Friday. The wage dis pute had idled more than 200 workers since Thursday. The dispute involves some 20 employes of the fluid milk department. They asked a 15 cent per hour increase, over their present $2.24 anhour rate and turned down a seven cent an hour boost offered by the Tillamook County Cream ery association, which oper ates the plant. No bargaining sessions have been scheduled. For your peace of mind .... Phone SP 3-7338 or writ or in quire at MEMORY GARDENS MEMORIAL PARK 1395 Arnold Lane Complete information will be pro vided without cost or obligation. Historical Romance: High Are the Mountains, Closs; The Wilderness, Vaughan; The Chinese Box, Eyre; The Quality of Mercy, Downes. Serious Fiction: Measure My : Love,. Sandburg-, The Good Wife, Levi; Cave of Ice, Mortimer; I Am a Village, Conte; This Fiery Night. Vat- sek. , - Adventure Stories: Trail to Troublesome, Field; The Third Rider, Germano; Men ace From the Moon, Walters; The Wreck of the Grosvenor, Russell; Epitaph for, An En emy, Barr; The Thirt Statue, Martin; Providence Island, Hawkes; The Manchurian Candidate, Condon. , . '. Romance: At Granada Court, Gaddis; Doctor Valen tine, Aspinall; A Woman of Thirty, Chang. " ' Mysteries: The Case of the Nameless Corpse, Kelland; The Case of the Screaming Woman (and other novels), Gardner; The Fatal Amateur, Mathews; For Old Crime's Sake, Ames; Dead Man, Dead, Alexander; The Man in My Grave (and other novels), Tucker; Inspector Maigret and the Dead Girl (and other novels), Simenon; Two-Thirds of a Ghost (and other novels), McCloy; The Case of the Long-Legged Models (and other' novels), Gardner; The Case of the Daring Decoy (and other novels), Gardner; The Count of Nine (and other novels), Fair; You Can Die Laughing (and other novels); Fair: The Girl From the Mi mosa Club (and other novels), Brown. Other Fiction: More, Guys and Dolls, Runyon; Four Sto ries, Undset. for the tops b TV IWMWMBIMMJ..JW - y " J - 0 w 9 0 - . "you'll never run out of hot water -with GAS!" Bonus Allowance For Your Old WATER HEATER! 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