Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, March 17, 1961, Image 5

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Newspaper Page TextThey'll Do It Every Meet PERPESSOR LU0WI6 D. MINUS-OVERPAID EOlTOn OF OUC UOivr.uu nco'x...r1i-yr-- ..a,.,, . . ALL DAV AND DREAMS UP Vbu ALL SET? HOKAV HOWCUM WHEM LAND WAS BUILT House GOP Talks School Proposals Washington (UPD House Republicans talked up their own school proposals today, aware of the possibility that President Kennedy's educa tion program might founder on religious dispute. Rep. Carroll D. Kearns (R Pa.) introduced Thursday a three-part education program he said would save as much as 50 per cent of Kennedy's nearly $6 billion school pack age. A House subcommittee con sidering Kennedy's $2.4 bil lion loan and grant program for colleges and scholarships hoped to wind up its hearings today with testimony from congressmen, educators and labor spokesmen. BUILDING COLLAPSES Chicago (UP1I A four-story sausage, plant collapsed dur ing demolition today trapping at least two men and possibly a third, and injuring at least 14 others. 520O PER ACRE r!llfclll I S flW I ADuun am Aro II SCHOOLS WERE K?B!JIU J I ?J3 Nl ucubc ami II 3 STORIES SliESyi kl5v B1 I tiP TUict' II TAX RETURN! 2,00 Save Taxes. Find out your deducts. All Returns prepared on comparative basis and filed in accordance with Internal Revenue Code. Fast Service. OREGON BOOKKEEPING SERVICE 217 Fluhrer Bldg. SP 3-6874 OPEN SATURDAY TILL 1 P.M. OREGON'S LARGEST TAX SERVICE 101 MUST GO! Time QUESTIONS LIKE THESE 4WP&f-Z hfcw THAT PROPERTY J UMit IS SELLING FOR I j m rSir WSlT trtt 1 M0RE1WANFIVF II Audience Enjoys Piano Team Concert By RICHARD WERNER For its third concert the Civic Music association last night presented Nelson and Neal, Australian - American two-piano team at the high school auditorium. In a varied and interesting program these two artists demonstrated technical prow ess, interpretive sensitivity and musicianship of a high order. When Cristofori invented the pianoforte in the early 18th century he named it from its ability to play soft (piano) and loud (forte). Nel son and Neal do just that, with the various gradations. And mostly their effects were achieved by touch. There was very little pedaling. Perhaps they will show the way back to pure piano playing so that we will be relieved from lis tening to so many piano pugi lists. Opening with a Rondeau in D Major by Schubert set the up Clearance Continues SO - 9'xl2' Print Rugs at Only $3.99 Each Window Shades $1.50 Each-While They lastl Hundreds of Other Bargains Throughout 1256 SOUTH RIVERSIDE By Jimmy Hatlo Vffif tone of the whole evening. It is charming music and the beauty of it was projected by the artists as a continuing cascade of tones unmarred by the usual percussive stroke so often heard. Heavy Demands In the Brahms Sonata in F Minor, Nelson and Neal rose splendidly to the heavy de mands this music imposes. Being a virtuoso himself, Brahms wrote for virtuosi in this piece. It abounds in tech nical and rhythmical difficul ties. We know this music as a quintet (piano and string quartet) and can attest to its demands even for a violinist. It is also heavy music, not to say ponderous in parts, but this is characteristic of Brahms. One wag attributed it to Johannes' fondness for potato dumplings. This was the meat course and came at the right time in the program. A fine interpretation. After intermission came the delectable portions, beginning with Scaramouche Suite by Milhaud which is always a delight. The Vake by Arensky was performed exquisitely. The chromatic figure running through the work was project ed in just the right dynamic intensity, which adds so much color to this piece. Pupazzetti by Casella were five miniatures for marion ettes. Most delightfully played. Real Piano Music The final work, a Rondo by Chopin. Here is real piano music. No one knew the piano, its capabilities and lim itations as he did. His choice of figuration always is con genial to that portion of the keyboard whers it is best played. The fine tracery in the upper register, the sonorous chords and catelina in the middle, 2r.u the sustaining tones in the bass, all these in their proper places. Music for the piano and not adaptable very successfully to any other instrument. The audience enjoyed the team of Nelson and Neal. And Nelson (Mrs. Neal) and Neal were appreciative of the warmth of the audience. They responded with five enjoyable encores. A most pleasant eve ning. We hope they come again. Washington lUPD The na tion's industrial production held steady in February, snapping a six-month decline, the Federal Reserve Board re ported today. lWltf rMtui SjdfaU. tne, V! FLOOR COVER SHOP jfri MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. Fire Hose Disagreement at Meeting It was an unhappy fire chief who left the Medford city council chambers last night after the council over ruled his recommendation for the purchase of new fire hose. By a vote of 4 to 2, the council elected to purchase 2,900 feet of fire hose from the American Rubber com pany for a bid price of $3, 810. Fire Chief Gordon Bark er had recommended that the council purchase the hose from the Munnell and Sher rlll company at a bid price of $4,498-a difference in cost of $588. The council voted to re quire that before the Ameri can Rubber company hose is accepted, the company should give the city a satisfactory guarantee that the hose will last a minimum of 10 years. Although the Munnell and Sherrlll hose cost more, Chief Barker contended it is supe rior in quality and meets the city's specifications, whereas the American Rubber com pany hose does not. City Manager Robert A. Duff claimed that the Ameri can Rubber company hose does meet the specifications, and he suggested that if the city did not accept the low bid on the hose "it puts us on the spot." He did not elabo rate on tills comment. Four Bids Received The city had advertised for 2,500 feet of 2V4-inch hose and 400 feet of l'i-inch hose. Four bids were received with American Rubber company's bid being the lowest and Mun nell and Sherill's bid the sec ond lowest. (An in between bid was received, but it came in late.) The fire chief cited two McGahan Day, Finds By LYLE C. WILSON Washington (UPD Several St. Patricks days ago, the Hon. Paul McGahan was honoring the occasion as a good Irish man should honor it. He is a Washing ton c o r r e s- pondent of the P h i ladelphia Inquirer. Col. (World War I and II) Wllion McGahan was in the National Press Club bar. The time was mid-afternoon ami Sam, the split-trick bartender, had no other customers a situation that the normal thirsts and working habits of this capi tal's newsmen was bound to correct, and soon. Col. McGahan is a bourbon m a n bourbon-and-splash to be precise. With time on his hands, on one hand, you mighi say, and his cup of cheer in the other, Col. McOa- han was re-t e 1 1 1 n g past heroics. He safely escorted Sam through the hell of the Belleau Woods and Chateau Thierrys of World War I. Past Recalled Together, they marched with the colonel's division in the 1919 homecoming parade. Sam, too young to be a parti cipant in World War I, was getting a bullet by bullet ac count of the ruckus fit for a history book, with Interrup tions from time to time dur ing which the bartender sloshed a dollop of Virginia Gentleman into the colonel's glass and splashed the Ice with water. Virginia Gentleman Is sip pin' stuff that is distilled in nearby Virginia. It is the standard bar product of the Press Club bar. Squeezed, you mieht say, in the historic precincts of eastern Virginia, this elixir of corn tends to turn men's minds backward toward the events of the past. So it was with Col. Mc Gahan as Sam replenished the gentleman's glass with Gentleman at ever briefer In tervals. The colonel talked Sam through the postwar days of peace and depression and into and through World War II, with special emphasis on how times had changed and never would be again the same. On Thing Mining In looking backward. Col. McGahan found all rather rlRht with the world until of late. But in calling off the splendors and happy times of the good old dnvs around the turn of the century, the colo nel was reminded of i shock ing thing Of somethine that no proud Irishman cmld con template without anger. "The shame of it." the colo nel exclaimed to Sam. "The shocking, ungrateful, back-of-the-hand shame of it." "The shame of what, suh?" Inquired the puzzled Sam, an easy-going, Southern drawl Ing centlcmnn of Italian descent. At this point, another custo mer hove In. He was Henry Flynn of the old Washington Times-Herald come to hoist a flagon to the good saint, as all Irishers should. 'The shame Is this, the J. Colonel contributed whenEij MEDFORD, ORE Purchase main instances where he said the American Rubber com pany hose fails to meet city specifications: One, the city required that the rubber in the hose have a minimum thickness of 45 thousandths of an inch. Bark er said the American Rubber hose has a thickness of only 40-thousandths of an inch. Two, the city specifications asked that each bidder bid on its top-quality hose. However, the American Rubber com pany submitted a bid on its fourth-grade hose, the chief said. As if to emphasize a point that the quality of the Ameri can Rubber company hose is not up to the standards de sired by the Medford fire de partment, Barker pointed out that the same kind of hose "failed" at a fire in Grants Pass last year. He said the American Rub ber company denied responsi bility for the failure, claiming it was due to an "air burn." Department's Experience The chief claimed that the Medford department's own experience shows the Mun nell and Sherrill hose will last upwards of 20 years, whereas he said he doesn't believe the American Rubber company hose "will last 10 years." He added that the costlier hose would be cheap er in the long run. Except to say that he be lieves the American Rubber hose does meet city specifica tions, Duff did not comment on those points where Barker claimed it didn't meet the spe cifications. Councilman R. L. Van Sickle, apparently agreeing Celebrating St. Pat's Book on Sam returned from brimming Flynn's glass, "it is that there is no book proclaiming the virtues of Irishmen in Amerl- No tale of their great deeds in building the nation on the handle ends of picks and shovels, nothing of their contribution to the nation in the sciences, the arts, hus bandry of all sorts. There are such books about the Scots, Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF A WOMAN STAR of a new musical smash, assured that a three or four year run in New York was in the bag, leased a swank duplex apartment on Sutton Place, and had a complete redecorating job done on it. To give the painter added incen tive, the star slipped him a pair of tickets in the third row center seats that were practically un obtainable even from speculators. The first of the follow ing month the star was staggered by this item in her bill from the painter: "Wednesday night: four hours' overtime watching customer sing and dance: $36." T Dick Clark says he once lived living room got overheated every toaster. HEY KIDS... f ,1 Elk's KEN JENSEN IS BACK AND THE SHOW IS BIGGER and BETTER THAN EVER! MONDAY, MARCH 20 Medford Armory Circus fun is the greatest! See bears walk like men; see men fly like birds! Have the time of your life . . . two com plete shows 4 P.M. and 8 P.M. Regular Prices Adults $1.50 Children 50 Causes with Duff, said: "If we're go ing to throw out a bid for rea sons not in the specifications, then there's no reason for ask ing for bids in the first place." He indicated that if the city wants superior hose, then it should make this clear in its specifications. Councilman Donald Hanson concurred with Van Sickle on tills point, and said if the low bid was not accepted then "the whole process (of bid ding) becomes broken down." Two Support Chief Councilman Robert Baccus, who, along with Councilman Jimmy Dunlevy, were the only ones to support Barker's recommendation, said he be lieves that the public interest would be better served by having a better brand of fire hose. Councilman Bill Singler did an about face in his posi tion on the hose within a space of five minutes. At first he said: "It's an inconsistency in the 'specs' when you have fourth grade compared to top grade." Minutes later, how ever, he agreed with the other councilmen that the American Rubber company hose does meet the specifications. After a vote to accept the Munnell and Sherrill bid had been defeated also by a 4 to 2 vote, Councilman Dunlevy commented in obvious disap pointment: "I don't think we're qualified to know the technicalities of fire hose, and if we can't back up our fire chief, then maybe we should get a new fire chief." Councilman Al Bradford voted with the majority. Councilmen Fred Robinson and Stanley Stark were ab sent from the meeting. Irishmen the Germans, the British, the French and the like of that." McGahan's complaint had become a wail and then a keen resounding through the bar. Flynn heard it and challenged. "There is a book," Flynn called out. "A book of the Irish. "It's name is known Burke's Steerage." In an apartment so small the time he turned on the electric DON'T MISS IT "124" '' "i ? WWW. VV34 ' . . t it1; Circus fen BIG SIZE SAVINGS VITAMIN A VkVU 51-29 VITAMIN C so mg.. .49 VITAMIN G ioo mg. .. .69 VITAMIN G 250 mg $1.19 VITAMIN G soo mg. VITAMIN g 1, ms VITAMIN B,. 50 mg. VITAMIN B6 CALCIUM 5 gr. 10 gr. LACTATE nnimiiM qr-can nth Vlt. D Milk of Ma O" Tablets mint onrrn OUUH Tablets ASPIRIN USPSgr. RvAUJAIifi VaI 250 uicviGio i caai Tablets NOW! 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