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Theyll Do It Every Time - By Jimmy Hatlo ' tCf&.nfi & irQr-Jsill THE PLANS .ABE i?-1? a-Coc GsAsiiMg&zmzkw u. set. next "'.' - ' Capacity Crowd at Centennial Show Portland - (UPD - A capacity crowd of about 5,800 crammed into the Centennial arena here Monday night for the -Roy Rogers show. It was the larg est arena crowd so far at the 34-day Centennial exposition Centennial officials said the previous biggest house for a Centennial arena feature was about 5,600 for the Ice Ca- pades. In all, 13,370 persons visit ed the Exposition and Inter national Trade Fair Monday. One week ago the figure was 6,814-smallest since the 100- day Exposition opened. Medford Construction Firm Submits Low Bid Don Jacobs Construction company, Medford, was the apparent low bidder for an addition to the Elk - Trail Elementary, school. Jacobs basic bid was $8,376 and $940 on an alternate. The addition will include 'a band room. . Three other bids were re ceived by James K. Hoey, consulting engineer for the project. News About Servicemen CENTRAL POINT Called For Hall IN LUXEMBOURG Army - Pfc. Robert W. Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. Willard C. Smith, 1947 Ste wart ave., recently participat ed with the 8th Division's 16th Infantry in Remem brance Day ceremonies in Ettelbruck, Luxembourg. The activities commemo rated the town's liberation during World War II. Smith, a jeep driver in the infan try's Company B in Baum holder, Germany, entered the Army in August, 1958. He is a graduate of Medford High school and Southern Oregon college. TRAINING Cadet Wililam G. Frohn mayer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wililam Frohnmayer, route 2, Medford, is currently receiv ing six weeks of training at the Reserve Officer Training Corps summer camp at Fort Lewis, Wash. Frohnmayer, a member of Chi Psi fraternity at the Uni versity of Oregon, is a grad uate of Medford High school. INLAND SEAS Robert P. Ross, machinist's mate first class, U.S. Navy, son of Mrs. Amy Ross of Gold Hill, is serving aboard the destroyer USS Samuel B. Roberts. The ship is visiting Duluth, Minn., as part of Operation "Inland Seas," a Vast naval exercise to celebrate the open ing of the St. Lawrence Sea way this summer. By DORIS HUGHES Central Point-Bids will be received July 21 for construc tion of a new city hall in Cen tral Point, city officials have announced. Plans and specifi cations and other information may be obtained at the Cen tral Point city hall. Bids also have been called for construction of concrete curbs and gutters on South Second st. from Pine st. south. Bids will ba opened July 21. Mrs. Oscar Minnick, public ity chairman, announced that the Crater Grandmothers club will meet for a dessert lunch eon at 1 pjn. July 20 at the home of Mrs. Seldon Hill, 160 South Amy st., Central Point. Mrs. Arthur Foote will be co-hostess. . Guests last week end at the t). C. Mapel home were Mr. and Mrs. Herb Edwards and Karen, Doug and Brad of Chi- co, Calif Mrs. Edwards and Mrs. Mapel are sisters. Family gatherings centered around the home of the women's par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Moore of Gold Hill, The. Edwards also visited in Ashland at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Delsman and family. Visiting at the Delsman home was Mrs. Golda Edwards of Oakland. Mrs. Edwards is the mother of Mrs. Delsman and Herb Edwards. and Mrs. Charles Mannen, Lynn, Marjorie, Greg and Sherie, all of Medford. .- Mrs. Frank Richardson, who was injured in an auto mobile accident June 25, was discharged from the hospital Thursday. Last Tuesday, Mrs. O. T. Wilson, Mrs. Harry . Tonn, Mrs. :' Richard Dunn, Kathy and Dianne visited at the home of Mrs. Lewis Dusen- berry at Trail. ; Guests for Sunday dinner at the home of Mr." and Mrs. Oscar Hanson of Trail were Mrs. Harry Nicholson, Norris Lacy, and Mr. and Mrs. Ken neth Lacy . of Central Point. The group went on a swim ming party in the afternoon Recent guests at the D. C. Mapel home were Mrs. Lydia Mapel of McMinnville, and Mrs. Adarin Weigant of Port land. Mapel is a nephew of Mrs. Weigant's and Mrs. Ma pel is his mother. Mrs. Burl Johnson was host ess Friday morning for a postal shower in honor of the birthday of Mrs. Harold R. Hughes of Banks. Mrs. Hughes is a former Central Point resi dent. Guests were Mrs. George Johnson, Mrs. 'Alma Matthews, Mrs. L. C. Johnson, Mrs. Oscar Minnick; Miss Elaine Johnson, Mrs. Millie Johnson, Mrs. Charles Hughes and Jimmy, all of Central Point, and Mrs. P. E. Sim mons, Mrs. Richard Simmons Gunslinger at Centennial Weds Portiand-flJPD-The "Durango Kid" unhitched his six-shooters for a while at the Oregon Centennial Frontier Town here Monday and hitched him self to a blonde-for good. Durango, whose real name is Jean LaRoche, 21, was mar ried to Sharon Edinton, 20. Both are of San Antonio, Tex. LaRoche is a gunslinger at the Frontier town, one of a small group of entertainers who shoot up the scenery and each other every hour on the hour for the benefit of spec tators, as part of the Centen nial program. They were married in the little western style church in Frontier Town. "Doc Holli day" gave the bride away. ; Sharon said she plans to become a gunslinger herself. "He promised to get me a lighter gun," she said. LaRoche is the son of Clar ence LaRoche, managing edi tor of the San Antonio '. Express.' Cuban President Accuses Reds of Plotting Treason Havana-flJPD-President Man uel Urrutia Monday night ac cused the Communists of plot ting "treason" in Cuba. The. charge set the stage for an internal power struggle be tween right and left in Fidel Castro's revolutionary govern ment. It added up to new trouble for the regime already beset by dissension in the armed forces and national police and threatened by "counter revolutionary" c o nspiracies being uncovered throughout the country. Denounce Newspaper Urrutia, who has been seething quietly at Commu nist tactics in Cuba since the Castro revolution succeeded Jan. 1, ' denounced the 'Com munist newspaper Hoy which had criticized him. He lab eled it a "Soviet instrument in the cold war." Urrutia said the Commu nists were doing "horrible damage to Cuba . . trying to create a second front against the United States and in favor of Russia." His words were by far the harshest anyone in the Cas tro regime has used against the Communists. Premier Castro himself has refused to condemn i them, saying only that he welcomed anyone who worked for his revolution. But Urrutia insisted, for the, second time in two days, there were no differences be tween Castro and him. He said such reports were "count er-revolutionary," Senators Called "Simpletons' ' Castro reserved his harsh words fo the .U., SJ. senators who have been taking infor mation- from - Maj. Pedro' L. Diaz Lanz, ' former . chief of the air force who fled to the United States after charging there were Communists in the Cuban government. ;'. , Castro called the senators "political simpletons . ; who seek to put . a premium on treason." ' Urrutia agreed. with Castro that Diaz Lanz should be re turned here for trial. He called the former air force chief a "despicable traitor." Diaz Lanz was one of Castro's strongest ' supporters during the revolution. Portland (UPD A range fire which blackened about 2,500 acres of grazing land near Boardman Sunday was under control Monday. Washington -(UPD- Rep. Joe Holt (R-Calif.) said the Small Business Administration has declared the fireswept Laurel Canyon section of Los Ange les a disaster area. Court Records DISTRICT COURT Dwain A. Richardson, failure to make traffic stop. $10. Kenan C. Smith, ' dverload. $107. 1 James . S. Jackson, inadequate emergency brakes, $10; Gloria J. Williams, no operator's license, $10. Janet R. Sutten, failure to dim lights, $7.50. Lanara A. Rilers, failure to dim lights, $7.50. CIRCUIT COURT RECORDS Marion Louise Owen vs. Wesley E. Owen Jr., divorce complaint. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATION Bennie Leonard Wimple, 502 West Murray St., Eureka, Calif., and Don na Lee Mallams, 1013 West 12th St., Medford. Wall Street Chatter IN GREAT LAKES '. Carl W. Hall, storekeeper third class, U.S. Navy, son of Mr. and Mrs. John W. HalL route 2, Central Point, is serving aboard the heavy cruiser USS Macon which is visiting Milwaukee, Wis., Chicago, and Cleveland, Ohio in operation "Inland Seas." - The operation is to com memorate the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway. TRANSFERRED Army Capt. Gene C. Rae, son of Mrs. Selma Rae, 819 Bennett st., was transferred this month from Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, to Ft. Lee, Va., where he will at tend a six-months course in quartermaster subsistence. Captain Lee, a graduate of Medford High school and Southern Oregon college, was post quartermaster at Dug way. He was responsible for operation of the commissary store, furniture and office machine repair stores, and clothing sales store. NOV ON UNITED AIR LINES PORTLAND AND SEATTLE ARE 1 HOUR CLOSER Leave Medford at 5:05 p.m. and arrive in Portland at 6:46 p.m. or Seattle an hour later. No stop at Salem. You. save a full hour! And on United Air Lines you enjoy famous "Extra Care" at the regular fare. Service to 81 cities coast to coast and Hawaii. CALL, United Air Unas, SP ring 3-6233 or caff your travel agent. New York (UPD- The bull market still has a long way to go, according to a general consensus of the analysts" in Wall Street. Many of them are talking about the Dow-Jones indus trial average reaching the 700 level. The. average now is around 663. However, brokers continue to caution investors to buy stocks- on a selective basis, noting that not all groups nor individual issues in any group will participate in the rise. Clarke, Dodge & Co. says it still is convinced the indus trial average will reach the 750 level. Investors Research Co. says the bull market rise could carry the avearge to 720 by falL -. . y Prentice-Hall sees the 700 mark being achieved this year but warns that the real test for the bull market seems due in 1960. It says next year may mark an important reversal for stock prices. . The current demand for stocks can be explained by the numerous reassuring eco nomic and political develop ments and in this environment it seems logical to expect pro longation of the recovery af ter a minor technical correc tion, according to Hornblower & Weeks. INVITATION TO JAPAN London-tDPD-Visiting Japan ese Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi has invited British Prime Minister Harold Mac millan to visit Japan, the Lon don Daily Mail reported to day. "Details of the visit will be worked out later," the Mail said. Japanese delegation sources had no - immediate comment on the report. CUP OF TREASON London (UPD Alina Correa Ribeiro, 17, of Brazil, said Monday on completing two years at a finishing school here that she now likes tea much better than coffee.-But she's not sure whether she'll brew any when she gets home. Her father is one of Brazil's leading coffee producers. Manslaughter Charged in Deaths Salem - (UPD - A charge of manslaughter was filed in dis trict court here Monday against James, Perry Spring stead, 26,, driver of a car in which two Salem men were killed in an early morning crash into a boxcar here Sun day. . District Attorney H a 1 1 i e Bratzel Kremen said the charge was . based on police reports that Springstead, also of Salem, was speeding, driv ing recklessly and without lights when he ran into the boxcar about 1 a.m. Killed were Robert Noble Felix and Thomas Norwest, both 24. They were being pursued by a policeman after leaving a downtown tavern when the crash occurred. : Mrs. Kremen said Spring stead, who is listed in "fair" condition from injuries suf fered in the crash, is on pro bation of two and a half years on conviction of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. STEAMER FARES UP New York (UPD In-season passenger fares between the United States, Canada and Eu rope will be increased next year, it was announced Mon day. The Transatlantic Pas senger Steamship conference, representing 26 steamship lines, said summer season minimum fares will be raised $10 in first class and $15 in cabin or tourist class. 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For a pair of these Chevrolet sixes with Powerglide walked away with the first two places in their class, getting the best mpg figure a whopping 22.38 of any ' full-size car. And here are more expert, impartial opinions and on-the-record facts backing us up on Chevy's other six bests: BEST TRADE-IN Check the figures in any N.A.D.A. Guide Book. Chevro let used car prices last year averaged up to $128 higher than comparable models of the "other two." ; . BEST STYLE It's the only car of the leading low-priced 3 that's unmistak ably modern in every line. "In its price class," says POPULAR SCIENCE magazine, "a new high in daring styling." BEST BRAKES In direct competitive tests of repeated stops from highway speeds, conducted by NASCARt, Chevrolet outstepped both of the other leading low-priced cars and why not: Chevy brakes' are far larger, built with bonded lin ings, to help lengthen brake life by as much as 66. . BEST ROOM Official dimensions reported to A.M.A.$ make this clear. For. example, Chevy front seat hip room is up to 5.9 inches wider than comparable cars. BEST ENGINE Every motor magazine has given Chevrolet's standard and Cor vette V8's unstinted praise. As SPORTS CARS ILLUSTRATED puts it: "Indeed this device is surely the most wonderfully re sponsive engine available today at any price." BEST RIDE MOTOR TREND magazine calls Chevy "... the smoothest, most quiet, softest riding car in its price class." You'll be able to tell this yourself, instantly. And your Chevrolet dealer can tell you about a long list of other advan tages besides these 7 big ones! 'National Automobile Dealers As sociation National Association for Stock Car Advancement and Research Automobile Manufacturers Association .Visit the General Motors Exhibit at the Oregon Centennial Exposition in Portland, and see your local authorized Chevrolet dealer SWV7 iMlc,nIlo)in Ic"i7 9th at BARTLETT MEDFORD SP 2-6115 WiyjbiiULQe