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O MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford. Or. Sunday, Jan. 31, 1960 Two Reelected as Directors of Loan Association Here . H. J. Field and E. H. Sing master were reelected direc tors of the Jackson County Federal Savings and Loan as sociation at the group's an nual meeting here last week. Other members of the board of directors are V. J. Warner, Glenn O. Taylor, J. H. Pletsch, John P. Moffat and Seth M. Bullis. Pletsch, who also is secre tary, reported that the asso ciation had a successful year last year, when the organiza tion observed its 50th anni versary. Pletsch reported that on Dec. 31, 1959, total assets amounted to $17,035,116.42, an increase of 12.7 per cent over the 1958 total. The in crease was from an inflow of savings totaling $1,952,- 515.91. Reserves Reported Reserves in the association were increased $147,782.72, he said, and added that total reserves and undivided prof its were 10.35 per cent of the total savings. The association processed 615 conventional and Federal Home administration mort gage loans, totaling $4,485,- 178.54, an increase of $2, 055.697.25 over 1958. The in crease in home financing, he said, automatically adds to the economic progress through the purchasing of materials and services used in home building. Warner, president of the firm, said that in order to provide more modern service in home financing and sav ings, the association opened a branch in Ashland, and construction started recently on a new home office in Medford. I A dividend of 4 per cent per annum was declared Dec. 31. 1959, and the association has paid $529,030.02 in divi dends during 1959. Local Man Gets Distinguished Citizen in Safety Award by MSCIrJir Russ Jamison received the Medford Safety Council's dis tinguished citizen safety award and Gulf Red Cedar Mill of Central Point received the Frank Hull trophy for safety improvement in the past year. The awards were presented along with others at the safe ty council's annual awards banquet held at the Rogue Valley Country club Friday night. Some 187 persons attended the banquet to see the safety awards presented and hear Roseburg Chief of Police Ver non Murdoch Jr., tell of that city's reaction to the August 7 explosion which took 15 lives and did $10 million worth of property damage. Jamison, a locaT public re lations consultant and active in civic affairs, received the award from C. D. (S w e d e) safety council who recognized Jamison as the real '-workhorse" of the council and for his outstanding service to safety both as secretary of the council for the past two years and as a citizen. Frank Hull Award Gulf Red Cedar Mill re ceived the Frank Hull safety improvement award for not having a lost work time acci dent at the plant in 1959 compared to eight lost-time ac cidents in 1958. The award was presented -by Jackson County Sheriff Joe Walsh. Berry Bigham, a past presi dent of the safety council and a member of the board of di rectors presented Saved-A-Life awards to seven persons who are responsible for sav ing lives in 1959. Paul Quinn, Ashland, and Joe Bodak, Central Point, re ceived awards for saving Al- Larson, 1959 president of the fred Dillon, 18, from drown- Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERE A Woman Announces For State Treasurer Portland-ilTD - State Rep. Shirley Field (R-Portland) said Saturday she would be a candidate for nomination for Oregon state treasurer in the May Republican primary. The post is now held by Howard Belton, who was ap pointed by Gov. Mark Hat field to fill out the unexpired term of Sig Unander, who re- N ELDERLY BRITISH COUPLE picked a time for their first visit to America when the dock workers v, r;e out on strike. It was actually the third vice-presidert c! the steamship company, standing by for the emer gency, who carried their baggage off the ship. The grey-haired Eng lishman obviously was impressed. "You see," he whispered to his wife, "in America even the porters are well-dressed!" When Sister Madeleine wheeled the portable li brary up to Cue bedside of a. perky young lady in the hospital near Holyoke, Mass., the young lady asked mischievously, 'Got any thing here that's been banned lately in Boston, Sister?" "My dear girl," answered Sister Madeleine with a twinkle, "we haven't even got anything here that was WRITTEN In Bostonl" I960, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Featurei Syadicata Three Candidates File for Offices Salem - (LTD - State Sen. R. F. Chapman (D-Coos Bay) filed Friday afternoon as a candidate for re-election. He represents the Seventh dis trict, Coos and Curry counties. Thomas R. Mahoney, Port land, filed for state senator from Multnomah county. He was a state senator from 1939 to 1951. Ethel M. Gould, Portland, filed for state representative ceived a federal appointment, in the Seventh district. 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Main FOR All YOUR AWNING NEEDS SP 2-4472 Annual Meeting Of Jeddeloh Mill Held Wednesday Gold Hill The annual meeting of the share holders of Jeddeloh Brothers Sweed Mills, Inc., in Gold Hill was held Wednesday at the com pany's offices here. President Fred Jeddeloh gave his review of the past year. He pointed out that 1959 was a year of big decisions for the company due to the heavy influx of orders for the particular machinery that the company produces and intense expansion program instituted. The company manufactures machinery for saw mille, in cluding gang saws. He presented a comparison with conditions that existed at the time when the company was formed. For instance he said in 1956, the company had sales of approximately $160, 000. In 1959 the sales jumped to $1,000,000. The pay roll from $66,000 dollars in 1956 to $380,000 in 1959. Employ ment increased from eight in the beginning of 1956 to 65 at the end of 1959, he added. He stated that all in all, approximately 10,000 square feet of floor space was added to the company's manufactur ing facilities to bring the total to approximately 24,000 square feet. In addition a 1,500 square foot engineering building was constructed and furnished with the most mod ern drafting equipment and staffed with competent peo ple. In 1959 the company was able to design and put on the market quite a number of ad ditional products which will give the company a consider able amount of stability and will make sales outlook for the future bright, he conclud ed. Fred Jeddeloh, Otto G. Jed deloh and Dale S. Collins were reelected as directors. Pacific Power Co. Will Issue Notes Washington -(UPD- The Fed eral Power Commission Fri day authorized Pacific Power and Light Co., Portland, to issue $20 million in unsecured promissory notes. Proceeds from the notes will be used to temporarily finance a portion of the company's construction expenditures for this year and next, estimated at a total of $61 million. Oswestry in Wales has a history stretching from far earlier than its first civic char ter in 1300. Poison Oak? Try a Bottle of ZEMACOL You must b satisfied or your manty cheerfully refunds)!. Gat ettie today at WESTERN THRIFT ing in Jackson Hot Springs j The traffic engineering swimming pool Sept. 6 when commendation was presented they pulled Dillon from the pool and gave him artificial respiration. Sgt. Raymond Seely of the Medford police department received an award for saving the life of Mitchell Smith, 2, by giving him mouth, to mouth artificial respiration af ter he had been overcome by fumes from a gas heater, Dec. 20. Mrs. Arlene Kornstad. and Mrs. Ethel Kornstad, both from Medford, received the award for their prompt action which saved Danny Kornstad, 2V2, after he fell in a well April 18. The women kept the child afloat until help ar rived. Kenneth Phillips, Medford, received the award for rescu ing Edward Love, 8, from the Lake of the Woods where he was drowning, last July 4. The seventh Saved-A-Life award went to Patrolman Dennis Perkins of the Med ford Police department who, on May 23, crawled under a burning box car and pulled out Russell Jackson who would have burned to death. to the City of Medford Traf fic Engineering department by Medford Police Capt. Clyde Fichtner, past treasurer of the safety council, who said the award is given to the city for . its outstanding contribu tions to public safety through its traffic engineering pro gram. Accept Award Ray Vaughan, assistant city engineer, accepted the award on behalf of the engineering department. - Ollie Smeltz, of the state industrial accident commis sion, presented industrial safe ty awards to Gulf Red Cedar, for its safety improvement in the past year, to Ideal Ce ment, Gold Hill, for going 1,270 days without a lost-time ing Terry Love, 8, from the accident, to the California Pacific Utilities company, for going 1,481 . days without a lost -time accident, and to Jeddeloh Brothers Sweed Mills, Gold Hill, a , rela tively new company employ ing 70 to 80 persons, for go ing the entire year without a lost-time accident and for the safety program at their plant. Special safety citations were issued by Sheriff Walsh to McGrew Brothers Sawmill, Bruce Blew Logging company and Steve Wilson Logging company for their outstand ing driver safety and . safety education programs. Ralph Matthews was in stalled Friday night as the 1960 president of the safety council. He told the group that the council, which is the only active safety council in Oregon, will continue to carry on its program of contributing to community safety. v Matthews outlined the three main functions of the council. The first is to recognize the individual contributions . to safety of, firms, individuals, and the school safety patrol. The second function is to call attention, to safety haz ards in the community and work towards their elimina tion, and the third is to co operate with other groups in the promotion of safety. Other Officers Besides Matthews other of ficers installed at Friday night's banquet were Rudy Tetrault, vice president, Greg Orr, treasurer, Russ Jamison, secretary, and Paul Bettiol, C. D. Larson and Buford John son, to the board of directors. Capt. Fichtner, who was general chairman of Friday night's banquet, introduced Chief Murdoch or Roseburg, saying one of the things that surprised him and other Med ford police officers when they visited the Roseburg area shortly after the explosion, was the way things were' or ganized. Chief Murdoch said that co operation of the various agen cies, the police, county, Civil Defense, National Guard, Red Cross and state police was the one factor that contributed most to the orderly and or ganized manner in which the people of Roseburg met the challenge presented by the disaster. He reviewed the events leading up to the explosion of the dynamite truck and the disaster that followed. He also showed the group several slides showing scenes of the devastation caused by the explosion which leveled sev eral blocks in the . heart of downtown Roseburg. In District Court Ray Duane Hoskins, 24, and Edward Kenneth Rogers, 21, both of Talent, appeared in district court Friday on charg es of burglary not in a dwel ling and were bound over to the grand jury. They were being held in the Jackson county jail on $3,000 bail each. Rogers also was arraigned in district court with Dora Beth Powers. 18, Corvallis. on charges of lewd cohabitation. Both pleaded guilty and were sentenced to six months in jail. All three were arrested in Talent Thursday after a coop erative effort by sheriff's dep uties, and Medford and Tal ent city police. The two men had admitted to police they burglarized the 99 Tavern, 1234 North River- ! side ave., and the New Pas time Tavern, 2742 North Pa cific highway early Thursday. They also admitted they were responsible for the $500 burg lary of the Tally Ho Dining Room in Talent last Jan. 19, and two tavern burglaries in Corvallis. 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