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Gold Hill Scout Fund Drive Set Gold Hill - "Invest in a boy today, to develop the lead er of to-morrow," is the theme for a fund raising campaign which will be held in Gold Hill to benefit Boy Scouts. Proceeds raised locally will help meet the budget require ments of Scouting activities for Troops in the Crater Lake Area of Boy Scouts. H. D. Force and Fred Les ter attended a recent meeting in Medford, where they met with other Scout committee men to make plans for the fund raising campaign. Local campaign workers, Mrs. Robert Allen, Mrs. Paul Molloy, Mrs. Ogden Kellogg, and Mrs. Donald Meister will meet Tuesday, Sept. 8, with Force and Lester to complete arrangements for the kick-off date, Thursday, Sept 10, when soliciting will , begin in Gold Hill. Persons interested in mak ing a contribution may con tact any one of the six people Canyonville Home Plans Announced Canyonville - Plans for con struction of a six-story, 100- room retirement home at Can yonville have been announc ed. Dr. Rollin Falk, administra tor for the Forest Glen Clinic, said the home is scheduled to be in operation before the end of 1960. He said the home will be operated in conjunction with Forest- Glen Clinic, but as a separate unit. Cost of the proposed build-t Ing is estimated at $600,000 to $750,000. Dr. Falk said the home will cater to retired per sons in the lower income brac kets. Plans call for a charge of $1,500 as a membership fee and $110 to $120 a month. Flower Sale Planned By Disabled Vets The Disabled American Vet erans annual flower sale will be held in downtown Medford next Friday and Saturday, DAV officials have announc ed. . . Proceeds from the sale will go toward the Roseburg dis aster fund, they said. The sale will start at 9 a.m. each day. Lacy Y Lovely So versatile! Team this lacy blouse with day or dressy skirts. Make it in light wool or string. Love of a smart woman's life -this precious handmade blouse in pineapple design. Pas.'ern 7451: crochet direc tions Misses' sizes 32-34; 36-38 included. Send Thirty - five cents (coins) for this pattern-add 5 cents for each pattern for first-class mailing. Send to Medford Mail Tribune, House hold Arts Dept., P. O. Box 168, Old Chelsea Station, New York 11, N. Y. Print plainly NAME, ADDRESS, PAT TERN NUMBER. Our 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 occupied -a cutout doll and clothes to color. Send 25 cents for your copy of the book. Pickin' Pears News and Notes From Camp White By WALTER TOWNSEND Construction work at Camp White, now in progress, in cludes replacing water mains. "The t.-id system is being re placed throughout," Chief Engineer B. R. Sims said. The engineering depart ment is hauling in top soil for development of lawn areas to be planted this fall. Assistant Engineering Offi Eugene Bishop plans to at tend a training conference this month on housekeeping at the Veterans Administra tion 1 center, Los Angeles, Calif. . " Chief Engineer and Mrs. Sims will have as their house guests this week end Mr. and Mrs. Frank Walsh of Bel mont, Calif. : Walsh, formerly chief con struction engineer for veter ans administration hospitals on the West coast, is now chief engineer for the Kaiser Foundation, Inc. "Ribbons and Silver Cups" could be the title of this little story of Mrs. Virginia (Jen nings horse owner and eques trienne, who lives in Med ford and works at Camp White. In everyday life, she is a dental assistant -in the dental clinic. But at the Josephine coun ty fair at Grants Pass this month: she proved herself a horsewoman of glamour and skill, in tho saddle of "Den marks' Governor," a horse she owns. Her mount, an American saddler, carried off second ribbon in the l-arade class. It was not the first time that "Denmark's Governor" had been honored. Last spring, he and Mrs. Gennings captured first ribbon at, the May horse show. She wore a riding suit of bright turquoise, the judges said. It all added up to glam our and first place. On other occasions this season, Mrs. Gennings on her five-gaited mount, has won honors in hard contests. Once at Eugene and gain at Doug at Eugene and gain at the Douglas county fair Recent ly she placed high as a winr ner in Del Norte county, California. At Crescent City this sum mer she rode "her Arabian filly, "Equil," a red chest nut, in a parade contest of fine horses. She placed third in competition with Califor nia's Arabian robes, silver trappings and colorful Indian beaded suits. When Mrs. Gennine has a week end to spare from her housework, or is not attend ing Naval reserve meetings, and has a .Sunday .off from her work as a dental assist ant, she trailers her two hot bloods to some nearby town, and almost every time, -returns with either a ribbon, Kiewil Submits Low Bid for Road Work ' Portland-Peter Kiewit Sons' company, Medford, was ap parent low bidder for grading 4,464 miles of the Lake of the Woods highway in Jackson county, the bureau of public roads has announced. Kiewit bid f$295,434 on Al ternate B, which calls for the contractor to dispose of timber cleared. from the right-of-way. Kiewit did not bid on Alter nate A, under which timber would be stacked. Government estimate for either alternate was $538,771. The section to be graded ex tends eastward from the west boundary of Rogue River Na tional forest, paralleling the north fork of Little Butte creek. There were 21 bidders sub mitting bids ranging up to $772,283. Youths Spread Shaving Cream on Vehicles Ashland - Four teen-agers had a brush with the law here Thursday night, in an incident that left the owners of seven cars in a lather. The youths - three from Ashland and one from Califor nia - spread shaving cream from an "instant" spray can on the vehicles. They are to appear to answer charges of disorderly conduct in munici pal court here Sept. 11. About three million persons in the world annually die of malaria, according to current statistics. DBILdDX 12" and Tt Mixed Big Double Loads Summer Prices S & H Green Stamps MEDFORD FUEL CO. Telephone SP 2-21 11 or a silver cup. When asked how she man ages to do it all, she said, "I don' know, it just comes easy to me, I guess, I've been used to horses all my life in the middle west." Rudolph A. Adler, father of Dr. George Adler, is out of the infirmary now and is convalescing from double pneumonia. He was stricken with the attack on his birth day, April 27, at which time he was 88 years of age. He is up and about now, and said, "The medical aides are sure fine p.ople and treated me fine, for the three months I was under their care." The tumbling act of the young actresses in the varie ty show held in the theater last night brought repeated applause from the audience The highlight of the enter tainment, however, was the "can can," which came at the end and stunned the mem bers to silence. "Best show ever been here," one of the wheel chair members said. The clever innovations in the acts were under the di rection of Ethel Mars. She brought the ' t r o u p from Grants Pass. The show was sponsored by the VFW auxiliary.; 1 e MAIL TRIBUNE, M4forJ, Or. IDA Sunday, Sept.. 6, 1959 ewy n , Mfi y nr Mk' if TOUNG FLYER Cadet Corporal D. G. Pugh, 14, climbs into the cockpit of a two-place Hunter Jet fighter at the Royal "Air Force sta tion in Chivenor, England before being taken on a ride through the sound barrier by Flying Officer P. West ropp. Pugh was chosen to make the flight from a group of cadets at the annual train ing camp.-. , SAWDUST S&H Green Stamps, Tee! MEDFORD FUEL GO. Telephone SP 2-21 11 Children's Rally Slated on Tuesday The Rev. Riedar M. Kal land, associate national direct or of the Child Evangelism Fellowship, Los Angeles, will conduct a city-wide children's rally Tuesday, Sept. 8, at "2 p.m. at the Jackson school gymnasium. Featured will be ventriloqu ism and a puppet. Local child ren will provide special music al numbers, and all children are invited. . .Mr. Kalland holds evangelis tic rallies for children and teachers training conferences in the six western states for the national Fellowship. He also will deliver a mes sage, "For Such A Time as This," at the annual Child Evangelism potluck dinner at 6:30 p jn. Tuesday at the Jack son county American Red Cross chapter house, 60 Haw thorne ave. The Medford Fellowship which sponsors the events is located at 609 Pine st. In a recent sampling of per sons 65 years or older, 85 per cent had some illness or other health complaint during a four-week period, but only one out of three of those ail ing saw a doctor. 77 Disease Cases Reported in County Seventeen cases of com municable diseases were re ported to the Jackson county health department last week, according to Dr. C. I. Drum mond, public health physician. Four cases of influenza were reported in Medford, 2 in Ash land and 1 in Phoenix. Other cases of diseases reported in cluded measles, Camp White 2, Ashland, Central Point and Medford 1 each: chicken box' Central Point and Ashland, 1 each; salmonellosis, Ashland 1: pneumonia. Central Point 1: and scarlet fever, Medford 1. H u H V) CITY WIDE CHILDREN'S RAWLY SEE AND HEAR Reverend Riedar Kalland of, Los Angeles VENTRILOQUIST 1 GOSPEL MAGIC SPECIAL MUSIC JACKSON SCHOOL GYM Tuesday September 8-2 P.M. 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