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10 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Wednesday, June 10, 1959 Dillon Confirmed As Undersecretary Washington - (UPD - Senate confirmation of C. Douglas Dillon as undersecretary of commerce was overshadowed for a few hours Tuesday by debate on Dillon. The Senate's okay finally came by voice vole Tuesday night after it brushed aside Sen. Russell B. Long's one man attack on Dillon's han dling of the economic foreign aid program. , Dillon succeeds Christian A. Herter in the State Depart ment's No. 2 post. Long found no support in the Foreign Relations Com mittee or on the Senate floor for his charge that Dillon's administration of the econom ic aid program' made pos , sible "huge profits by po litical favorites and corrupt heads of government around the world." The Strauss nomination bat tle was marked by disclosure 1 late Tuesday that a Florida man had admitted signing oth er people's names to 47 tele grams sent to Sen. George A. Smathers (D-Fla.) urging Strauss' confirmation. Quotes From the News Br UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL New York-Army missile expert Wernher Von Braun, on the effects of space exploration on mankind: "We ourselves and the generation to follow us will need moral and spiritual resources to withstand the shock of dis coveries which may profoundly disturb our concepts of man and of the universe." Tallahassee, Fla.-A Negro coed, on what punishment she thought should be given four men accused of raping her if they are found guilty: - "I don't know what they should get. I just believe they should get the same thing a Negro boy would get under the same circumstances." - JTront Royal, Va.-Gov. J. Lindsay Almond, on school In tegration in Virginia: "The only sure prevention of any integration anywhere in Virginia is the total abolition of every public school every where in Virginia ... I tell you now that we cannot secede from the union; we cannot overthrow the federal govern ment, and we cannot reverse a final decree of a federal court." Montpelier, Vt.-Mrs. Florence Rhein, of Rahway,. N.J., announcing she would stick by her husband despite charges he tried to hire a friend to kfll her: " " ' "My husband is a wonderful man. I know he would not do anything like this. I don't believe a word of it. It's all a ghost story." . Grange News Columnist Heard In Liberace Trial London (UPD - Columnist William Connor took the stand in his own defense to day at the Liberace libel trial and denied he ever had any intention of saying the pian ist was homosexual. Connor testified that Liber ace's performances had left him with "a feeling of aston ishment to begin with and then of nausea . . . because of the flamboyant nature of his appeacrance, the actual spec tacle of the man and then because of the cloying, sick ening nature of what he was singing and trying to put across. ' Liberace is suing the tab loid London Daily Mirror and Connor, who writes a column under the pen name of Cassan dra, for libel, charging they had implied he was a homo sexual. Liberace has denied this. Montana is three times as large as the state of New York. It is equal to the com bined areas of the United Kingdom, Belgium and Hol land. v.1 Central Point Grange Old Timers of the Rogue River valley were honored with a special program June 5 at the regular meeting of Central Point Grange. The Grange lecturer, Mrs Gaston Floux, presented cor sages and boutonnieres to Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Parker of Med ford, Mrs. Effie Caster and C. F. Smith, who were all charter members of Central Point Grange; Mr. and Mrs. Roy Cameron of Live Oak Grange, Mrs. Dusenberry of Gold Hill, Mrs.. Lottie Cing cade of Eagle Point Grange, Dee Hendrickson of Phoenix Grange, Mrs. Elizabeth Faber of Central Point and Mrs. O. T. Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Henry , Conger of Central Point Grange. The program consisted of the following numbers: Each guest gave a. few remarks about when and how they came to the Rogue River val ley. Mrs. Effie Kurtz sang two numbers dedicated to the guests. Walter Foote played a fiddle solo, "Early Days" around Central Point commu nity were disclosed by Miss Claire Hanley, in her talk about the first donation claims and their owners. "Ten Little Pioneers," an original skit written by Mrs. Scott Hamilton was given by 10 Grange ladies. "Oh . Sus anna" and "Long Long Ago" were sung - by the Double Quartet. The display table 'articles were explained by AMENDMENT EXPLAINED Washington- (UPD -Teamster President James R. Hoffa has explained the reason he be lieves so many Teamster of ficials invoke the . Fifth Amendment before the Senate Rackets Committee. The Teamster president says "it doesn't mean there is anything to hide. VThey took the pro tection of the Fifth Amend ment because they didn't have the formal education to com pete with the lawyers and didn't want . to run the risk of perjury," he told United Press International. Mrs. i Henry Conger and Mrs Edwin Walters. - Overseer Charles More house presided in the Master's chair during the business ses sion. Mr. and Mrs. Thurman Barnes were given the third and fourth degree obligation. HEC chairman, Mrs. C. Jant zer, announced the club will meet June 24 at the home of Mrs. William Straus on Bur sell rd. , During . the evening Mrs. O. T. Wilson assisted the mem bers of the Juvenile Grange to reorganize and all children are especially urged to attend on the next regular Grange meet ing night. Members and hon arary members are reminded they may pay their 1959 Juve nile Grange dues then. Serving committee for the evening included Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Caster, Mr." and Mrs. Stanley Lydiard, and Mr. and Mrs. Homer Jeffries. 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Hear "Gunsmoke" Sunday 5:30 p.m. KYJC Dial SP 2-6165 For FREE Pickup and Delivery Service Ml IMItOdf mm&ik LAUNDRY & DRY CLEANERS $0-32 HkfgvtUide, . IHedMOup Serving The Rogue River Valley For Over 50 Years!! By RUTH RAUSCH ' Cave Junction -The board of directors of the Illinois Val ley Centennial committee met Thursday to review the list of applications received for personnel to man the Centen nial information booth. From the list submitted, five were chosen for personal interviews, from which four were selected. It was agreed to maintain the booth 14 hours a day for the 100 days of the official Centennial observ ance. It was also decreed, the at tendants will wear Centennial costumes. There will also be a guest book at the booth for visitors to sign. Roadsign signs were going up in the valley this week in preparation for the Centennial visitors. The Chamber of Commerce and the Water Re sources group were cospon sors of the two signs marking the location of the Sucker Creek irrigation district. Another sign to mark the Centennial Gardens on Caves Highway is being prepared. It will be similar in design to that used by the forest serv ice. The timber used was do nated by the Rough and Ready Lumber company. Mrs. Carolyn Moore of San Francisco is spending a week with her mother, Mrs. Esther Patton, and visiting friends in the valley. Mrs. John Smith and Mrs. James Payne, cochairmen for the annual garden show spon-. sored by the Illinois Valley Methodist church, announced the list of chairmen for the show. Mrs. H. O. Smith, schedule; Mrs. J. J. Villaiar, staging and placing; Mrs. George Webb, properties; Mrs. F. E. Wells, entries; Mrs. Chris Wendt, classification; Mrs. H. O. Smith, chairman of judges; Mrs. Lucius Robinson and Mrs. C. A. Spieth, guest book; Mrs. Lew Krauss,5 conserva tion; Mrs. L. W. Archer, hos pitality; Mrs. H. R. Floyd, publicity; Mrs. L. W. Monroe and Mrs. Caleb Dreier, silver tea; , Mrs.' Clay Ramsey, wild flower display and Mrs. Mar ian Bendixsen, candy. The reading club, which started Monday, is for chil dren from the first through eighth grades. Thomas Huden of Kirkland, Wash., traveled the greatest distance to attend the first Old Timer's reunion of Illi nois valley residents prior to 1900. The reunion was held recently in Kerby. Out-of-county guests in cluded Melvin and Mercedes Lewis of Portland; Maude Gil- more urown and daughter, Mrs. Marie Marsh. William E. and Daisy Howard Gil more, all of Eureka, Calif.; J. G. and Lena Revnolds Houch and Wesley Woodcock from Ashland; Kitty Egger SoweU and Chet and Mamie Baldwin Leonard of Medford; Belle Skeeters of Talent; Har old Christy of Newberg; Charles and Hattie Gilmore Hogue from Gold , Beach; Frank and Kitty Hogue from Klamath Falls; Elsie Shaffer Ayris of Central Point and her daughter, Frances Ayris Brown of Gold Hill. Forty-two students in the 1959 Illinois - Valley High school graduataing class re ceived their diplomas June 4. Michael McDermott, son of Mr. and Mrs. James McDer mott, was salutatorian, and Patrick Michael Whiteley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Pat Whitley, was valedictorian. Donald Lewis, business manager at Southern Oregon college delivered the com mencement address, in which he advised the development of three channels through which the young people could work to insure the continued heritage of freedom. The presentation of diplo mas was made by James Mc Dermott, publisher of the Illi nois Valley news. Graduates were Jeanetta Adams, Eddie Barnes,. Russell Beem, Gary Bell, Robert Buh ler, Mike Burnett, Joe Bush, Bertha Chamney Cook, Fred Davis, John Davis, Grant Dickey, Clark England, Lor rayne Frost, Myrna Gibbons, Sandra "Hare, Steve Hooey, William Hoskins, Robert How-' land, Marilyn Mayfield, Mi chael McDermott, Nancy Pipe, Sharon Miller, Donald Morgan, Ronald Morgan, Howard Ollis, Joy Perkinson, Byron Pickle, George Savage, Barbara Hart, Dan Slanaker, Joan Welcome, Ida Stow, Leona Waldo, Nathan Welsh, Dennis Wheeler, Carmel White, Mike Whiteley, Vernon Wilder, Jackie Williams, Rob ert Wright, Tom Yates, Glen da Young. ' Queen Ann Coram of Eu gene made her official visit to the Illinois Valley Zulleima Nile club recently. The Queen's .court attendants were: Mrs. Charles Cook, Medford, princess recorder; Mrs. Arthur Peters, Ashland, princess Tirzah. Recognized was Mrs. Pat Dunn, Ashland, past queen. , A bon voyage party was given for Mrs. David Wilson of O'Brien recently at the home of Mrs. Robert Bottel. Mrs. Wilson, who is leaving June 16 for a summer trip to Europe, plans to visit rela tives in Norway. -Mrs. Gene Pulley's father, Bon Ward of San Francisco, arrived recently to visit the Pulleys at their home in O'Brien.. ' House guests at the Robert Bottel home in O'Brien re cently were Mr. and Mrs. Steve Law of Hesperia, Calif. Mrs. Don Orton of the Ker by her mother, have left&e by teaching staff, accompa nied, by her mother, have left for Bemidji, Minn., ; where Mrs. Orton will spend the summer in college. A story hour once a week and a vacation reading club will be a part of the vacation program at the Illinois Val ley branch of the county li iionel Simard of Toronto, Canada, is in the valley doing assessment work for the Nickel -Corporation of Amer ica on their interests in Eight Dollar Mountain, Mansfield Mountain and Woodcock Mountain. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Bunch, Mrs. Mattie Seyferth, Mrs. John Wilber and Mrs. Earl Boyd attended the Azalea Fes tival and rock show in Brook ings recently. ' A KEY ERROR Dallas, Tex. (UPD - Charles Dean Scott, 23, was so busy trying to get the wrong key mto the ignition he didn't no tice the return of the car's owner. The owner, Police Capt. Chris Kockos, arrested him for attempted theft. this week were Mr. and Mrs. Howard Parker of Prineville. Mr. and Mrs. L. Diehl of Melbourne, Iowa, stopped in the Valley for a day this week with Mr. and Mrs. Sam Bunch. C. H. Boyd of Crescent City stopped Saturday at the Earl Boyds on his way to Butte Falls to spend the Memorial Day weekend with the Oliver Boyds. . Rebekah District President Ruth Vose, accompanied by her Marshall- Arlene Hahn, made her official visit to the Kerby Rebekah Lodge this week. - Asurprise handkerchief shower for retiring President Isyl Clayton, marking the last meeting of her term of office, was the highlight of the regu lar meeting of the American L e g i p n auxiliary recently. Delegates and alternate dele gates to the state Auxiliary convention in July in Salem were appointed. They are del egates Mesdames Gilbert Clay ton, Harold Crowl, Les Henry, Art Kellert, and alternates Mesdames Earl Sturgis, Wal ter Henry, Hugh White and Fred Salvage. At the Roland Treshams Mrs. Ken Mann was in stalled president of the Civic Women's League Wednesday at an installation dinner held in Grants Pass. Portland Man Stabbed in Back Portland (UPD - Clarence "Smoky" Williams, 44, Port land shoe shine man, wasstab bed to death in a downtown Portland restaurant and tav ern Tuesday night. He was dead on arrival at Good Sa maritan Hospital. Police held Ralph' Peraito, Portland, for questioning. Bartender Alex Elizendro, 42, told police that just before the stabbing, he broke up a fight at the bar between Wil liams and Peraito. Elizendro told police he or dered Peraito out of the place. He said the man subsequently re-entered the tavern several times and was put out each time. Another witness told police that the last time Peraito en tered, Williams was walking down the bar, and was stab bed in the back. He said Wil liams ran out of the building with Peraito following. Wil liams collapsed around the corner with two knife wounds in the back. EX-COLLEGE HEAD DIES New York -(UPD -The Very Rev. Brother Jerome, 62, president of St. Francis col lege of Brooklyn from 1952 to 1958, died Sunday after a long illness. Wafer Resources Redraft Considered Seattle -(UPD- A third re draft of a proposed water re sources program was consid ered by the Columbia River Interstate Compact Commis sion at a meeting here Tues day. No final action was taken. The compact would have to be approved by Idaho, Mon tana, Washington and Ore gon to be effective. Nevada, Utah and Wyoming also be long to the seven-member commission but their approv al would not be required. Earlier drafts failed to win the approval of Oregon and Washington. HOSPITAL TRUSTEE DIES San Francisco-flJPD-Dr. Clar ence P. Thompson, .73, president-emeritus of the board of trustees of St. Francis hospi tal, died of a heart attack Tuesday. Garden Sandasl McGinty Fuel Co. Ph. SP 3-6297 THIEF ANSWERS SERMON Wisbech, England-(UPD-The Rev. Colin Hayes preached. a sermon on the text: "What Lack I?" 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