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embership Drive by YM A month-long membership drive by the Medford Young Men's Christian association will end Friday, March 31, and Indications are that the drive will be successful, ac cording to YMCA officials. Uoal in the drive ii 1,000 new members and a total of $7,000, the amount needed to complete the budget for the new year, officials said. A victory banquet is sched uled r riday, April 7, and dur mg the week following the concentrated drive, YMCA of ficials will try to have all re ports gathered and included to determine the member ships obtained this month. ine nieorord ymua is in its 17th year. It first opened in what is now the federal building on North Riverside ave., and was located in two other buildings before mov ing into its present location in 1949. Services Expanded Since the YMCA moved into its present building, its services have expanded to in clude almost all types of re creation, club activities and other programs for both youth and adults. Ground for the building was broken in 1947, and Bes sonette and Graff Construc tion company proceeded with construction. Although finan cial assistance was slow, vol unteer labor and materials accounted for much of the work on the building. The local carpenters union mustered about 50 men, all of them volunteers, and laid 5,720 square feet of hardwood floor in three areas of the building in less than four hours. The floors finished were in the gymnasium, the social hall and the handball court. The plasterers and painting contractors volunteered much of their work, as did several other individuals and organi zations in the area. Governor Participates As a result, a building valued in 1951 at $206,000 cost the community less than $120,000 when built. The building was dedicated May 22, 1949, in ceremonies in which the late Gov. Douglas McKay participated. Funds for operation of the YMCA and its activities are derived from two sources. Membership dues, fees and projects account for about 60 per cent of the total opera tion, including camping. Con tributions through the United Medford Crusade account for about 40 per cent of the total operational costs. Fees for youth membership have consistently been able to remain low because of the community support through the United Medford Crusade, YMCA officials noted. Present enrollment of mem bers totals 1,682 persons, with 800 of them youths under 18 years old. yasssssss e.se.ase.iassssss mm rvifiw.' Builders! For New Builders Rates BE SURE TO GET YOUR TITLE REPORTS FROM THE . . . JACKSON COUNTY T TIE CO. YOUR LOCALLY OWNED TITLE COMPANY 121 Esst Sixth Street Phone SP 3-4551 TITLE INSURANCE ESCROWS Jackson County's Oldest and Most Reliable Till Company Established 1885 CA To End on .."rfl .1 UNDER CONSTRUCTION This picture shows the Medford Young Men's Christian association building on West Sixth st. under construction in 1948. Much of the work Lk-A otf wt i suns i'-rt i Mk i 1 -Jii loi illl' I NT I BUILDING TODAY This is the Medford YMCA building as it appears today. In cluded in the building is a gymnasium, a so The Week in Attempts To Stop Wilkinson From Speaking End in Failure By United Press International Frank Wilkinson, who faces prison for defying the House Committee on Un - American Activities, spoke at the Uni versity of California despite efforts to cancel his appear- ice. An overflow crowd of 5,000 students gathered at the uni versity's Wheeler hall to hear the speech. Four thousand of them had to stand outside and listen to Wilkinson over loud speakers. There were no demonstra tions. Wilkinson has been sen- WW III cial hall and other facilites activities for California tenced to a year in prison on a contempt of Congress charge for refusing to testify before the Committee on Un-American activities about possible Communist affiliations. Brings Objections His scheduled appearance at the university brought objec tions from two Baptist mini sters who went to Sacramento with an 80-car caravan in a vain attempt to have Gov. Ed mund G. Brown forbid the speech. Brown said he had no au thority to silence Wilkinson. "I think you are on dangerous ground," he said. "You are moving from one danger to another by censoring people." President Clark Kerr of the university also refused to in terfere, saying the university was "not engaged in making ideas safe for students, but in making students safe for ideas." As Wilkinson finished his speech, a student asked him, "Are you a Communist?" He replied that his princi ples could "best be served by declining to answer until such time as the courts de clare such questions, under compulsion, to be unconsti tional." Wilkinson said his case was a test made along with about 40 others. He planned to go ea east next week, but did not know when he would be or dered to begin his jail term, he said. He denied that he helped incite the demonstrations against House Committee on Un-American Activities hear ings in San Francisco last May, but said he was present. Wilkinson was graduated from the University of Cali fornia at Los Angeles in 1936. He is chairman of a Los An geles committee to preserve American freedoms, and a rep resentative of the American Committee to Abolish the House Committee on Un American Activities. His appearance at the uni versity was sponsored by SLATE, a student political or ganization, Patronize This Park DON'T FORGET TO I ICB BiBif m tUAB Medford Home Appliance Stores, USE. Main 12th ft Front MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. Fridov m was done by volunteer help. Bessonette and Graff Construction company had the con tract for building the structure. a swimming pool, along with for all types of recreation and groups and individuals. Elsewhere, there were these developments: Crash: A six-man test crew was killed when a four-engine Super - Constellation crashed and burned in a rice field near Gridley, Calif., on a shakedown flight from Mc Clellan Air Force base at Sac ramento. An Air Force spokes man said there were no clas sified weapons aboard the plane and the cause of the crash was not known. 'There was no word from the plane at all - it just disappeared," he said. The crash happened in a swamp area three miles from the nearest paved road and 300 yards from the near est dirt road. Heavy rains made the crash scene impass able to vehicles. Veterans: A state official charged that California's home for veterans in Yount ville was run under a loose ad ministration that encouraged drunkenness among the aged inmates. The charge came from Joseph H. Farber, direct or of the department of vet erans affairs, whose report on the Napa county institution went to Gov. Edmund G. Brown. Farber said his nine month Investigation showed that 1,854 inmates of the home "come and go as they please" and many "consume a lot of alcohol in Yountville tav erns." Brown said he enthusi astically end orsed reforms proposed by Farber. Reward: Douglas W. John son of Los Angedes chose $10, 000 for "urgent" family needs rather than security as a $90--a - week guard as his reward for returning S240.000 he found laying in the middle of the street. Most of the money will go for a house for John son and his family. Johnson, 50, part-time maintenance Job ber for building contractors, took 10 days to make up his mind. He was looking for a job on March 10 when he saw a canvas bag containing $240, 000 In unmarked bills in the middle of the street. It had fallen through the open door of a Brink's armored car. & SHOP MEMBER APCO. Open House Slated At VA Domiciliary White City Southern Ovs- gon and northern California residents will be welcomed Sunday, April 9, between noon and 5 p.m. at an "open house" and reception at the Veterans Administration, White City, Manager Henry C. Herzog has announced. "We are doing our utmost to make this open house and reception worthy of the sup port we receive throughout this large territory," Herzog said. "We feel this is the op portunity for the public to meet the staff of this large Veterans Administration fa cility and to become personal ly acquainted with the instal lation, its programs and ob jectives." Conducted tours which will show the public the domicili ary library, dining rooms, a representative ward housing members and the newly dec orated and refurbished build ings for hobbyists and recrea tion. The areas which are used by representatives of the 22 volunteer organizations providing services which in clude recreation and games through free sewing and re pairing work are Included on the tours. Herzog poined out that most communities are rapid ly becoming more and more aware of the approaching problems of the aged and the retired as the United States and local populations age. "We also feel that officials and residents will be inter ested in the multitude of ac tivities sponsored by the Vet erans Administration and the nationwide organizations of volunteer workers for the dis abled retired," he said. "The problems of retire ment are urgent and real to all citizens and here at White City we are prepared to show the various programs of re creation, entertainment, hob bies, gardening, arts and crafts, music, art, writing and a host of other activities which point the way towards happier and more productive retirements." The annual arts, crafts and hobby fair exhibits will be shown on the floor of the theater building, Herzog pointed out. Refreshments will be served throughout the afternoon in this area, he said. During 1960's reception more than 2,500 people, in mk Mi libwl wwtL Jackson County Federal has allocated $550,000 for high percentage loans for the construction or purchase of homes less than TO years old ... in approved areas. $250,000 for 95 FHA HOME LOANS $300,000 for 700 VETERANS LOANS Come in right away and talk over your home financing FREE CUSTOMER PARKING The JCF Parking Lot is leased to "Alabam" Moore, who operates a Shop lot, and furnishes JCF with free parking for their customers. Just present the ticket. "Alabam" hands you to the JCF employee waiting on you, so we may validate it. Jackson County Federal SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION 2 East Main St. - Medford 337 East Main - Ashland cluding the officials of gov ernments, civic and fraternal organizations, visited the VA domiciliary. Veterans organi zations and auxiliary mem bers work the year around pointing efforts to the success ful display of domiciliary memebrs' arts and crafts. Herzog stressed. "Fine hand weaving, loom work and hand arts and crafts of all kinds bring back a part of history that is swiftly dis appearing from our lives," he further pointed out. "We have men here who have been master craftsmen one is a descendant of the fine masters of Switzerland, O. R. Kipfer Sr. w hose skills have come down PORT INDUSTRY New York - New York City has about 550 miles of devel oped water front and employs an estimated 250,000 persons in the import-export business. LAKE WATERS Washington - It Is esti mated if all of the lake water in the world was poured into the oceans, the sea level would be raised by only about two feet. : V-.l .in ry j JCF SUNDAY, MARCH 26, 1961 through the centuries from the historical guilds. 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