Chairman Told for
" Public Employees
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Elliott D. Becken, one of
United Medford Crusade's
. most active workers, and the
chairman of the public em
ployees division for the 1959
drive, has announced the ap
pointment of sub-chairmen for
all sections in the division.
Heading the - federal em
ployees section will be John
Carnegie. Other section heads
are: Jack Holmes, state em
ployees; M. R. Hubbell, coun
ty employees; Mrs. Dorothy
Snodden, city employees;
Mark, Bogart, Camp White
personnel; Robert Sage and
Lester Harris, ministerial or
ganizations; and Hugh Shurt-
leff, school districts. .
The public employees divi
sion, under Becken's chair
manship for tr. past six
years, has always been the
first UMC division to reach
'its goal in the annual fund
raising campaign. Last year's
$11,000 goal for the division
was over-subscribed by almost
$1,000. This year's division
goal will be somewhat higher
tc help meet United Medford
Crusade's - increased goal of
$133,782:
Active in First Drive
Becken was active in Jhe
organization of UMC, and was
campaign chairman for the
first drive in 1953-For three
years he served as a board
member and is now an hon
orary member of the board.
Among other civic activities
are his membership in the
Medford Lions club and Elks
lodge, and on the Medford
Library board and Safety
Council.
v Becken has been- assistant
superintendent of schools in
Medford since he and his wife
cam here from Astoria in
1948. The Beckens have two
children, Nancy, 17, a senior
at Medford High school, and
Gregory, 12, a student at Hed
rick Junior High school.
Price 10 Cents
Medford
Third Section'
-MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1959
Pages 1-8
Area's Trails, Roads
Topic of New Book
"Pack Saddles and Rolling
Wheels," a book on early
trails and roads in southern
Oregon and northern Califor
nia, has been written by Don
M. Chase, Sacramento, and
Marjorie Neill Helms, Grants
Pass. -: ' -
The story-, printed by , the
Del Norte Triplicate, Crescent
City, is "the essence of travel
and transportation all over
Oregon except along the Col
umbia river," according to the
authors.
It describes the road from
southern Oregon, especially
the Jacksonville gold mining
area, to the cosst. The coming
of the auto and the Grants
Pass-Crescent City stage are
among topics. , , .
Pictures include scenes of
Jacksonville, Kerbyville and
Grants Pass in the mid-1 800s
Copies of the book are
available . only by writing
Chase at 5348 Valparaiso cir
cle, Sacramento 21, Calif.
Chessman Refused Rehearing by Court
San Francisco (UPD . The
California Supreme .Court on
Wednesday refused to grant a
rehearing to author-convict
Caryl Chessman, the kidnap
rapist who has , avoided the
San " Quentin death chamber
for 11 years.
The high court will return
the case Friday-to the trial
court in Los Angeles county
which is expected sometime
next week to fix a new execu
tion date for Chessman.
Under normal procedures
Chessman's new date with the
gas chamber would be set
sometime in the middle of Oc
tober. - - "
, Chessman, 38, has said that
if denied a rehearing he
would appeal to the U.S. Su
preme Court and seek a stay
of any new execution date. It
would be the eighth time that
he has- carried his cause to
the highest tribunal. ' -
An aircraftparts manufac
turer has built an electronic
gauge (delicate enough , to
measure the depth of a
mouse's footprint on a strand
of wire. '
Magistrate Fines
Himself on Charge
. - Mismarck, N.D.-(UPB-A Bis
marck polide magistrate fined
himself $30 on a traffic
charge recently and gave him
self a thorough tongue-lashing
besides.
The magistrate, I. M. Oseth,
arrested himself for careless
driving after he drove his car
partway through a red light.
' During a lecture to himself
in the presence of the chief or
police, he said, "The defend
ant should be ashamed of him
self and is."
Oseth then completed the
usual procedure in such traf
fic violations he punched
his drievr's license and sent
a report of the incident to the
stata patrol.
There afe 450 square miles
of lakes, rivers, ponds and
streams in Vermont.
TV-Stereo Designed
For Small Space ' '
Chicago -flJPD- A space sav
ing combination television set
and stereophonic record play
er was introduced at the sum
mer International Home Fur
nishings Show here.
The set, manufactured.by
Hoffman Electronics, contains
six speakersof TV sound and
input jacks' into which an
AMFM . tuner' or record
changer can be plugged.
The stereophonic sound sys
tem faithfully reproduces ei
ther monophonic or stereo
recordings, engineers said,
while claiming a minimum
amount of room space.
The original painting of
"Washington Crossing the
Delaware" by Emanuel
Leutze, who sold it to the
German government, was de
stroyed in 1942 during an Al
lied air raid in Bremen.
Tips for Sensible Vacation Are Noted
Boston (UPD-The Automobile
Legal association offers these
tips for sensible planning of
your vacation, trip: . '
Don't aim too high for daily
mileage; always reserve a few
days at vacation's end for rest
and relaxation; use 40 m.p.h.,
not 50, as average speed in
planning advance reservations
for overnight stops.
" If you expect to use ferries,
obtain the latest schedules
and time your dock arrival
accordingly; allow for toll
costs, which may be higher
than you think; get a complete
set of current maps; start ear
ly and stop early each day;
and have a complete , car
checkup before starting out.
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
Rogue Villa Trailer Park
ON THE ROGUE RIVER
Gold Hill, Oregon. Phone UL 5-1287
Two Blocks Off Highway 99
Just Completed Space For Large Trailers
Good Fishing ' -
Cool And Shady By Beautiful Rogue River
Sam DeFranco
OUT OF DANGER Deanne Poison, 15, smiles from her
bed at St, Joseph Hospital in Wichita, Kansas, where she
is recovering from over four hours of open-heart surgery
done under hypnotic Anesthesia. According to attending
physicians, hers was only the eighth reported case of
heart surgery done entirely under hypnosis. She has been
pronounced 'out of danger,' following the operation to
correct a hole between the two upper chambers of the
heart and to reroute a vein which was emptying into the
wrong chamber. - V
Registration for
Practical Nursing
Course Underway
Applications for the school
of practica1 nursing, ' spon
sored , by Medford Public
schools, .must ' be received in
August, according to . Lindsay
M.' Vinsel, vocational director.
- The ' course-is availSble "to
all persons between 17 and 50
years of age who have gradu
ated from high school or can
pass the general educational
development test. It consists
of 510 hours of classroom in
struction and 1,440 hours of
clinical training.
Registrations also are being
taken for two-year courses in
automotive mechanics arid in
electronics. They will begin in
September. The automotive
course will include all phases
of auto mechanics and the
electronics course is designed
to prepare persons for em
ployment as highly " skilled
technicians.
Application forms for all
Ohio Man Builds
Better Mouse Trap
' Cleveland-(DPD-Casimir Gu
zik of. suburban Bedford,
Ohio, expects the world to be
gin beating a path to his door
any day now because he's in
vented a better rat trap.
Guzik's. contraption features
tunnels at both ends because
the inventor remembered that
rates like to run in tunnels.
But after being lured into
the tunnels, the rat steps on
a trigger which closes both-
doors., Attracted deeper into
the trap by small holes which
admit light, the rat runs up a
ladder where another trip
trigger dumps him in a tank
of water.
Guzik, who says his large
economy-size trap might ac-i
commodate as many as 100
rats, is looking for a rat-infested
area to try it out in and for
a manufacturing sponsor to
get his invention on the mar
ket. classes may be obtained at the
adult education office of Med
ford High school or by tele
phoning SPrir.g 3-5341.
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