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0 12 A. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. THURSDAY. JUNE 10. 1980 Adventist Church Room Ransacked , Burglars broke Into the ' Seventh Day Adventiat church; Beatty and Edwards ata.j sometime during the past two ' days, ransacked one . room and took several ar ticles from another, according to police. ; Medford police said four bOxes of slides, a viewer and approximately $1 in change was -, taken. In one room, burglars' pulled everything from tile; shelves and threw them on the floor, police said. .' Entry was gained by prying pen a basement door. : I The first grenades, used in the 15th century, were balls of baked earth filled with ex plosives. '. . Widow of Former Salem Mayor Dies Salem-(UPD-Mr. Edna Lives. ley, widow of former Salem Mayor Thomas A. Livesley died Wednesday night. The Livesley had been Sal' em residents since 1908. Livesley was a prominent bus inessman. Funeral services are pend ing at W. T. Rigdon mortuary DISTINGUISHED SERVER Derby, Colo.-IUPD-St. Cath erine's Roman Catholic Church here has a distinguish ed altar boy. Any more, par ishioners are not surprised to see Col. William James Allen Jr., serving early Mass for the Rev. Dominic Albino. Al len, S3, is commander of the sprawling Rocky Mountain Arsenal run by the Army northeast of Denver. I' ll' 1 1 X. S) aaaaaaaaaafiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaBaaaaaaaaaaaaaaK: ' Now everyone can afford the finest : ; . of Imported Canadian whiskies New light taste .. . new light price , . . both in one wonderful Imported whisky! IMPORTED IClub CANADIAN WHISKY ONir Cod. 10 I Therapeutic Devices Offered Demo Convention Delegates By S. A. ST. AMANT Los Angeles-ltlPIi-The best seat in the house at the Sports Arena for the Democratic Na tional Convention is hidden out of sight. The chair, for it is a chair, Is located in a small room on the east side of the building in a kind of electronic Gar den of Eden. The chair is a reclining, vibrating affair and it gently tickles your backbone, to say nothing of your risibilities. Callad Health Haven The room is called VIP Health Haven and it was built by a radio and television net work, initials of which are the first three letters of the alphabet. The vibrating chair is not the only therapeutic device at hand. There are foot mas sagers, handy little oxygen cans, and a new Gadget call ed an "ionaire' which charges the atomosphere with a mys terious pick-me-up element. The ionaire, about the size of a desk clock, contains radioactive element which sends negative ions into the air. This, in the words of the maker, "stimulates a sense of exhilaration, and contributes to clearer thinking and more positive attitude and behavior pattern. Gadget Tasttd In a preview Wednesday, the chair and the other gad gets in the room were tested Congress Clearing Decks for Recess Washington IUPD Congress began clearing the decks to day for its month-long con vention recess with some members unhappy about the -prospect and some frankly concerned about its political repercussions. Token shows of opposition wer? under discussion in both houses. No one doubled, however, that the Senate and House would override those displays if they mate rializeand recess Saturday as decreed by Democratic leaders. Before then Speaker Sam Rayburri (D-Tex.) and Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnnon (Tex.) plan an at tempt to override President Eisenhower's veto of a fed eral pay raise bill. Both Senate and House ori ginally approved the pay raise for federal workers and post office employees by bet er than the two-thirds margin required to override a presi dential veto. The Senate and House also must pass a continuing reso lution to keep money flow ing lo federal agencies after the end of the fiscal year to night and until all the regular money bills can be approved. The Rayburn-Johnson deci sion to recess was announced Wednesday. It provoked no enthusiasm, but many legisla tors felt that Congress could not complete its program or the meaningful parts of it before July 11 when the Democratic convention starts in Los Angeles. Congressional discontent at the prospect of returning to Washington on or about Aug. 8 were understandable in a year when one-third of the Senate and (he entire mem bership of the House must spend the summer running for reelection. Other congressional news: Minimum Wage: Demo cratic Leader John W. McCor mick (Mass.) predicted the House would pass today one of two rival election-year plans to hike the $l-an-hour federal minimum wage and cover additional workers. Liberal Democrats thought they could put across their measure, designed to boost the wage floor to $1.25 over three by a number of politicians who rate as VIPs and a num ber of newsmen who do not. Mark Boyar, convention fi nance chairman. Democratic delegates Ernest Debs and Edith Seros, and Jerry Pacht, a member of the host commit tee, tried out the chair and the oxygen. The oxygen was administer ed by young blonde and love ly Miss Georgine Darcy, a by product of nearby Hollywood. Stmi-Hypnotic State This correspondent took a turn in the seat and was pull ed into a semi-hypnotic state caused probably as much by the proximity of the oxygen dispenser as by the oxygen. This chair may become a piece of Americana like that bed Washington slept in, if the Democratic presidential nominee gets a crack at it. Unfortunately, Miss Darcy will not be on hand to ad minister to the weary VIPs She will be busy making a filmed TV series called "Har rigan and Son." She plays the part of a secretary who does not know how to type or take shorthand. She doesn't have to years and extend coverage to 3.S million more employees. Medical: The Senate fi nance committee held the last of two days of public hear ings on rival programs of medical care for the aged But the rush to clear a bill for Senate action sudsided with the decision of Congress to meet again in August after the political conventions. Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) opposed the modest House- passed medical plan and urged approval of a broader program based on expansion of Social Security. The American Medical Association favored the House bill. ADVERTISING RATES New York-lllPD-Adverti5ers invested a total of $1,700,- 000,000 in newspapers in 1849, less than half the $3,500,000, 00 spent in 1959, according to the American Newspaper Publishers, Inc. SAMPLE TIRE BARGAINS U4 OC PLUS TAX and racappabla at low ai ITl'Ki'iii. lilt 6.70x 15 Qrip-Sala, black, tubed. typa. 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"CHEVRON DEALERS S iff -' "it r ' i UNDERWRITERS Newly-installed officers of the Rogue Valley Life Under writers association shown above are (left to right) Glen McCullough, Provident Life, secretary-treasurer; Jerry Gastineau, Equit able Life Assurance society, president; and Dave Cutting, Northern Life, vice president. Board of directors for the term will be Ted Holmes, West Coast Life insurance; Gene Williams, 1 Standard Insurance company; William Salade, Security insurance; and Wayne Safley, Hopkins and Safley associ ates. Guest speaker for the installation meet was State Sen. Dr. Edwin R. Durno, who spoke on the bills before congress and how they affect the people in Oregon. The RVLUA will participate in the state con vention in Seaside July 21 to 23. Famed New York Opera House Draws Big Audience for final Performance Salem Civic Leader Dies at Age of 77 fealom-MPD-Funeral services were held today for Mrs. Lil lie M. Magee, 77, Salem civic leader, who died Monday night. Mrs. Magee, a former teach er, was active in numeroui organizations including the Republican party. She had been a Capital Journal newt correspondent since 1909. Wachinotnn -IUPD- President Eisenhower has urged AmerU cans to turn more to tnelr local governments than to th federal sovernment for assistance in their problems. New York-WPD-The streets were lighted by gas lamps. Hansom cabs and shiny broughams halted amid a clat ter of hoof beats before the white marble facade of the ornate Italian Renaissance style theater to discharge their passengers. The ladies were swathed in furs, ostrich plumed hats and the low cut, wasp-waisted fin ery of nearly a century ago. The gentlemen wore toppers, waistcoats, spats and heavy gold watch chains. The toasts of the town were Josie Mansfield-inamorata of railroad tycoon Jim Fisk-Lil-lian Russell and Modjeska. The place was the Grand Opera House-near 23rd st. and 8th ave. on the fringe of Hell's Kitchen-then consider ed the heart of the uptown area. Daiiroyad by Fir But that was long ago. Wednesday the dusty, desert ed shell of the opera house was swept by a five-alarm fire and destroyed. Before its demise in flames that flashed 50 feet into the air and spread to an adjoin ing, once-fashionable hotel, the Grand Opera House had deteriorated into a potpourri of small commercial enterprises. There was little left of its past glory. The box office had become a bar. The auditorium a second-rate movie house. The lobby a drug store and the plush offices that once served as headquarters for the Erie Railroad a billiard parlor. One dim ghost of its past fame, barely readable on a wall that had been obscured by a tenement until it recent ly was demolished, remained. It was a sign that proudly proclaimed: Grand Opera House The Most Elegant Theater In The World The theater had been va cated and was to be torn down to make way for an apartment house project when the fire broke out Wednesday afternoon. Five alarms were sounded and more than 180 firemen battled the blaze before it was brought under control. Ambulances were rushed to the scene but only one person - a fireman - was in jured. Tycoon. Buy Theater The theater opened in 1888 as Pike's Opera House. Its builder, Samuel N. Pike, could not make a go of the enter prise and sold it to Jim Fisk and Jay Gould, flamboyant railroad financiers of yester year. Fisk wanted the theater as a showpiece for his leading lady companion, Josie Mans field. She is said to have in sisted on having a theater of her own, Fisk and Gould moved the offices of their Erie Railroad there and then invested $250, 000 for a grand staircase, bronze statuary and other luxuries. The theater became Mis Mansfield's home after Fisk built an apartment in the building for her. He also in stalled a banquet hall. Three years later, how ever, Miss Mansfield became interested in another man, Edward J. Stokes. In a dis pute with Fisk over the at tentions of Miss Mansfield, Stokes shot and killed the railroad tycoon. Stokes went lo Jail and Miss Mansfield disappeared. She died in poverty in South Springfield To Get Planning Advance Washington -(IW- The com munity facilities administra tion today approved an S18.000 advance to Spring field, Ore., for preliminary planning of extensions and im provements to the eMMting sewage system. Construction on the pro posed $2.7 million project it expected to start July 1 Dakota The Grand Opera House's finale was a show-stopper that played to its last standing room only audience. But there was no applause when the smoke cleared-the show was over and the end of an era lay etched in smoldering ruins. 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