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; mi.i 1 yai 1 ptfevA -" ill f Jr teWC CLOWNING Actress Diana Barrymore, uncle, Lionel, left. This is one of the few who died last week, is shown above in a exisitlng photographs showing ihe three to- 1942 photograph clowning with her famous gether. father, John Barrymore, and her well-known (UPI Telephoto) f8" SCHOOL NEW: Medford High School Edited by Jim Frak. Staff: Rosemary Eismar.n, Diane Mohr, Jim McCcr mack, Rita McBeth, Suty Rule, Edonna Pace. Ann MacManama and E-ther Jacobs. Student Government day for 1960 will be held Feb. 24 and 25 for all city and county high school seniors. The program is sponsored by the Elks lodge of Medford. The city officials, a mayor, seven councilmen, and the ap pointed officers, will come from Medford high. One coun eilman will be from St, Mary a High school. A steering committee will be formed with one student from each of 13 MHS Ameri can problems classes. They will decide on election dates, qualifications for candidates, and regulations for campaign ing. A banquet is being planned for that Wednesday night with Thomas Vaughn, direc- POWERFUL NEW PLUNGER CLEARS CLOGGED TOILETS in a jiffy! NEVER ACAIN that sick feeling when your toilet overflew TOILAFLEX Toilet fcjiill Plunger Ordinary plungers don't seat prop erly, forcing air and water to splash back. Thus you have a mess and you lose the very pressure needed to clear the clogging mass. fWith "Toilaflex". designed for toilets, no air or water can escape. The patented, tapered tail forms an air-tight fit: the full pressure plows through the obstruction and swishes it down. Can t miss! MUtU SIZE CUP. DOUILE-PKESSUW ESICNEO W FLEX T ANT ANCLE CENTERS ITSELF. CAN'T SXIO MOUNB guaranteed AT MOST HARDWARE STORES four Equitable representative JIM METZ 1310 Ridgaway Medford, Oregon Phone: SPring 2-4294 mm Mfl J f tor of the Oregon Historical society, speaking. On Thursday, the city offi cials will meet in the city hall with the people they repre sent. A tour of the city and county is planned for the af ternoon. To conclude the day, there will be a regular council meeting in the official cham bers. Doug Kliever and Dean Goddard, seniors, left early Wednesday to participate in the Gonzaga university foren sic tournament Jan. 28-30. At Gonzaga, in Spokane, Wash., they .competed in debate, extemporaneous and impromptu speaking, inter pretative reading and oratory. Dean and Doug were the only , representatives from Medford High. They traveled by bus. Delegates to the Interna tional Relations league con ference, to be held in Eugene Feb. 26, 27 and 28, were an nounced last week. Jim Frake, junior, was chosen as. a discussion group leader, and Jerilyn Smith, senior, way chosen as a group secretary. Therese Inglin and Reinhart Kostlin, foreign ex change students, are also dele gates. Others are Nancy Becken, Molly Barker, Marcia Wil liams, Diane Lewis, Joel Gregory, and John Alansky. Carolyn Mencke, local IRL president and state secretary will also attend. "The changing role of mili tary alliances in the United States foreign policy since World War II" i the general topic for the meeting. Each delegate will be on a panel in order to discuss further as pects of foreign policy. The group will travel to Eugene by charter bus for the week end. Housing will be provided on the caimpus by the University of Oregon, to give students a better chance to become acquainted with the university and other dele gates. Rita McBeth, senior,-, Marty Wyatt and Mary Frohrunayer, juniors; and Carl Washburn, sophomore, have been select ed as alternates from Med ford. Delegates from Grants Pass High school will accompany the MHS students to the .state convention. A new teen-age panel and dance program is being planned by KBES-TV for Medford High students on Fri day nights from 5 to 5:30. 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The annual scholastic art award competition, which measures the quality of high school art, is being held re gionally in Portland Feb. 13-27. Twenty-seven pieces of art, including oils, water colors, pencil drawings, mixed me dium, block prints, posters, illustrations, and sculptures have been entered by MHS to be judged with art from other Oregon high schools. The winners of the regional contests are then judged in national competition. MHS has had a national winner an nually for six years prior to last year. Students entered are Ursu la Bates, Stephanie Ball, San dra Boese, Janice Butts, Dick Day, Susan Ellis, Stan Hobbs, Terry Ryan, Penny Sampert, Jeri Smith and Vance Welty. Another competition which two art students are entering is the National Maritime com mission poster contest. Dick Day and Terry Ryan have a chance to win a $500 art scholarship if they paint the best poster promoting public interest and under standing in America's mer chant fleet. A local exhibit many stu dents entered was the Ameri can Association of University Women show held at the Med ford hotel. Warren Wolf, art instruc tor, expressed the hope that, through the art exhibits, com munity interest in art projects would be developed. All high school students in the United States are eligible to enter the annual high school contest based on the United Nations, according to a recently received bulletin. The contest consists of tak ing a test on the UN. The test will be given March 3 under the direction of Jo Anne Smith, social studies depart ment head. The three best tests from MHS will be submitted to the national committee. More in formation about the test and material for study can be ob tained from Mrs. Smith. The first prize is a four week trip to Europe, or $500; and the second prize is a trip G3333 Diana BarrymoreY Apartment Was Full Of Pictures of Her Father Actor, John Editor's note: The wild and tragie career of Diana Barrymore has ended in death at the age of 38. This dispatch tells of her fight to live up to ihe name of the theater's "royal family" -and her family's comments about her life. By H. D. QUIGG United Press International New York-flJPD-Diana Bar rymore had a way of denying that her soul was tormented by failure to measure up con sistently to the stature of one of the stage's most famous names. "The fact that I came from a long line of Barrymores isn't going to make me feel that I must always keep striv ing to live up to their accom plishments," she said. Highway Littered By Ocean Waves Rockaway (UPD Waves broke over Highway 101 about a mile south of here Sunday, leaving water and debris on the highway. Water undermined the rail way tracks running parallel to the highway on the ocean side. Rocks and boulders were strewn along the highway. The highway was not closed to through traffic but vehicles had to proceed with caution. Meanwhile, the town of Ne halem was mopping up after a high tide late Friday. The tide and strong winds confined the normal runoff of the Neha lem river to flood several business establishments. The water remained at crest about an hour. to Mexico, or $200. Other prizes will be awarded. Deadline for the office to mail the senior diploma list is Feb. 1. The list was posted for corrections, and these are to be made before 10 a.m. Monday. o ver And yet, set alone on a prefatory page of her auto biography, is a quotation from the preface of the Tem ple edition of Hamlet: . . Shakespeare sought to depict a great deed laid upon a soul unequal to the performance of it." Investigators who thronged her apartment after she was found dead in her bed last Iron Fireman Official Killed Portland-TOPD-Frank S. He cox, 61, vice president and treasurer of Iron Fireman Manufacturing Company of Portland, was killed Sunday in a two-car collision about' two miles west of Multnomah Falls on Hghway 30. Five other persons were in jured. Multnomah county police said Hecox' car was involved in a collision with one driven by Robert Teufel, 42, Beaver ton. Teufel, his wife, Marjorie, 41; a son, Robert, 17; and daughters, Alice 16, and Helen 12, were taken to Gresham general hospital'. Their conditions were re ported satisfactory. Indonesia Demands Death for Floridan Jakarta, Indonesia-OJPB-The prosecution demanded the death sentence today for Al len L. Pope, of Homestead, Fla., who is being tried on charges ,of flying bombing missions for the Indonesian rebels. The demand was presented to the court martial trying the 34-year-old soldier of fortune at its 12th session. . Pope was captured May 18, 1958, when his twin-engined B-26 bomber was shot down by Indonesian anti-aircraft guns. The trial began on Dec. 28. New Bell System Operating Unit comes to Pacific Northwest PACIFIC TELEPHONE-NORTHWEST born to better serve J:he growing needs of a growing land the years we've learned that "community of interest" has a special meaning where good telephone service is concerned. That's why so many geographically unified areas telephone companies within the Bell System. These locally managed, separate companies, we've found, not only better understand their communities and customers, but can be more flexible to their needs. They participate in com munity affairs more helpfully, and enjoy closer relations with employees. We've all watched the rapid growth of Washington, Oregon and Northern Idaho. As they have grown, and as their horizons expand, the job of keeping telephone service in step has pointed clearly to a separate telephone organization. The time has come. Pacific Telephone-Northwest is a reality; an independent operating unit of Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company ; with its own press dent and a management staff whose concern will be the Pacific Northwest and its need. SLW MANAGEMENT Bi E. Bowling, Vice President fvd General Manager for Wasoingto and Idaho. Monday found it crowded with pictures of her father, John Barrymore, acclaimed the greatest actor of his time with Hamlet his crowning achievement. And there were pictures of her renowned aunt and uncle, Ethel and Lionel Barrymore, and memento of the other acting Barrymores and Drews who had given her a heritage of four generations of theo ter greatness in America and England. Baby Treated It was Dolores Costello Barrymore, D ia n a ' s step mother, who said on Liana's death that "she was badly treated all her life." Diana's half-sister, Dolores Barrymore Bedell, comment ed this week in California: "I think it's time someone said something good about Diana. Only my mother (Do- Hubbard Youngster Rescued From Rock Depoe Bay (UPD Rickie Grim, 11, Hubbard, was res cued from a rock in the Pa cific ocean adjacent to Fog arty Creek state park Sunday afternoon by Coast Guards men. ' The youngster became trap ped on the rock after making his way to it just as the tide was coming in. Moments after he was on the rock, water completely circled it. Clifford Moodry, a Coast Guardsman from Oregon City, made his way through shoul der high water to the youth. They stayed on the rock for 3V& hours until the tide was low enough to enable tlvn. to get back to dry land safely. SPUTNIK STILL ORBITING Moscow - (UPD - Russia's Sputnik III completed its 9, 000th orbit around the world Sunday night, Tass reported. The satellite, launched 627 days ago, has traveled more than 244 million miles, ac cording to Tass. of the country have their own TEAM FOR PACIFIC NORTHWEST'S OWN TELEPHONE ORGANIZATION Wafcer W. Straley, President, Pacific Telephone-Northwest, and Director of Pacific Tetepbeac B PACIFIC TELEPHONE-NORTHWEST lores Costello Barrymore) and I ever had anything good to say about her. Mother said you can sum up the story of Diana's life in two words: 'Nobody cared.' Oh, she came to us all right, but it was too late. She didn't come to us as a child but as a beaten woman. 'Nobody cared' should have been the title of her book. The incomparable Aunt Ethel once told Diana: "Nev er, never, never stop trying to improve yourself. Any role can be bettered. Do it." Once, Diana took this ad vice lightly-and drank and caroused herself right out of the movie and off the stage. But some four years before her death, she was studying and working. And when on the comeback trail she opened in "The Ivory Branch" off Broadway, Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times wrote of her: ". . . Any time she wants to stop fooling around and learn the difference between acting and performing, she can be an exciting actress. The stuff is there." Trying Hard A year after that, Diana ended her autobiography with these words: "I. promise. You'll see. You will indeed, Mr. Atkinson! Perhaps I have begun to find my way." Perhaps she had. Some crit ics said that for the first time in her life she was trying hard to become an actress. Her last time out, she rang the bell. That was in Chi cago. On her previous ap pearance there, in 1954, a crit ic wrote she was "coarse and strident enough to make ev eryone who loves the theater wish she were named some thing else." But last spring when she appeared there - a changed woman - in Tennessee Wil liams' "The Garden District," critic Sidney J. Karris wrote it was "the restoration of a great name to the American tneater." However, recently she had Pacific Telephone-Northwest will be staffed, equipped, and operated within the Bell System as a separate company as far as practicable. Most work now done for this region at Pacific Telephone in San Francisco will be transferred gradually to the Pacific Northwest. Walter Straley, President of the new unit, with head quarters at Seattle, will also maintain an ofoce in Portland. Key members of the Pacific Northwest management team will be Ben E. Bowl ing, Vice President and General Manager for Washington-Idaho; and Francis M. Mitchetl, Vice President and General Manager for Oregon. Each has had more than thirty years of Bell Telephone service in his area. They wiM work closely with Walter Straley m initiating policy and making decisions based upon first-hand familiarity with local situations. This is another forward step to make your telephone a more useful servant, and the company that brings it to you a nore helpfal member of tmr Pacific Northwest community. if Prxncin M. MitcHefl, Tice President and General Manage for Oregon, been Idle, had become de pressed, and had been drink ing again, although she had been warned this would kill her. There now are three mem bers of the family left who have Barrymore as their last name. In an effort to shed some of the burden of his name, Diana's half-brother, John Barrymore Jr., changed it to John Drew Barrymore. His son is John Blyth Barry more Jr., and his mother is Dolores Costello Barrymore. Left Diana's Mother John Barrymore, the "Great Lover," who died at 60 of diseases connected with imbibing, left Diana's mother, poetess Michael Strange, two years after the, only child's birth. He wasn't around Diana much after that. And her mother had a busy career. John's divorce came through in 1928. In 1935, he got into the bi- ALL DAY TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY MAIL TRIBUNE, MedTbrd, Or. Monday, Feb. 1, 1960 zarre "Caliban and Ariel" pursuit of him across country by his young protege, Elaine Barrie. They were married in 1936 and toured in a play, with much comic by-play. When the play stopped in Chicago, Diana had a brief reunion with the father she idojized-a brief meeting, with press photographers. Later, when she moved to Holly wood for the movies, she saw him more frequently. Diana was about to get an other chance to prove her comeback. Her manager tele phoned her apartment to tell her the good news-she had been offered a road company starring role in "A Streetcar Named Desire." A maid took the news to the bedroom. The offer was too late. Diana Bar rymore was dead. MAIN AT CENTRAL Ifaaaa AMn tjlhll'IlllW'failll'Tp'lif- ferna.!
