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6 A SUNDAY. JULY IS. 1962 MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOBD. OREGON Annual Pear Packing School Is Scheduled in City Late in July The annual pear packing school will be held July 23 to Aug. 7 this year, according to Shelby M. Tuttle, secretary o the Fruit Growers League. Jim Semple, of Nye and Naumes Packing company, is chairman of the League com mittee for the school, which will be held In the Southern Oregon Sales plant. All applicants must be spon sored by a local packing house, and must pass an apti tude test given by the local office of the Oregon state em ployment service. "This school is unique since this is the only district that has specialized on training lo cal people for these skilled positions in the packing plants," Tuttle noted. "Prior to its Inception, we were dependent always on a large number of 'tramp' pack ers from other districts. To day it is rather rare to see non-residents packing in any Medford plant." Conducted by Groups The Medford school is con ducted by the League and the Medford Pear Shippers asso ciation. The annual gradua tion averages as few as 60 and as hi'-!h as 200. Using 1956 as a base year, the school graduated 132 stu dents from 137 applicants. To tnl expenditures for that year were $1,400. The 1956 school expended about $10 per grad uated student. "This amount is near the av enue cost per graduated stu dent over the past several years, and is considered by most people associated with the fruit industry as a very sound investment," Tuttle said. Reimburses School The state department of vo cational education reimburses the packing school for part of the instructors' salaries since it is vocational by na ture, Tuttle explained. From 1938 through 1952 the packing school was held at Pinnacle Packing company plant No. 2. In 1953, 1955, 1956 the school was held at Southern Oregon Sales. There .before a student becomes an vas no school in 1954 because j accomplished packer since on f a valley-wide freeze. The j ly the fundamentals are school was first formally or ganized in 1938. Prior to that there was only limited school ing on a vocational basis. For three years prior to 1938 Mrs. Luther Voorheis op erated a packing school at Crystal Springs Packing com pany where she taught about 60 students annually. Mrs Voorhies continued as packing instructor until she retired in 1943. Then, Mrs. Mabel Pen land became head instructor. She will head the packing school this year The school teaches such fun-, pool. taught in the school, Tuttle noted. The school started with larg er size Bartlett pears for prac tice packing. This fruit deter iorated rapidly under the con stant handling. In 1939 each packing house donated 1 per cent of its bulk fruit tonnage to the packing school. The fruit was commercially pack ed by the students under a "Medford" label and stored at SOS. Approximately 20, 000 boxes were packed and sold by the packing school damentals as correct pear wrapping, placement in t h e box, packing to correct weight and other necessary things. It may require three years more In 1940 the packing school used plaster of paris pears and in 1941 wooden pears. Artifi cial pears have been used ever since. On the Air By ELEANOR WIESE Magazine Notes Ashland Festival Growing Interest in the Shakespearean theater seems to have hit "full stride" this season, according to Business Week magazine. In a recent issue, Business Week pointed out that Shake speare is pre-emptying stages in summer theaters all across the nation. Included in the re port was "one of the major iestivals." the Oregon Shake spearean festival in Ashland. Business Week noted that Shakespeare productions range from free,' low-budget, semi professional shows to hiiihly professional perform ances such as in Stratford, Conn., whore orchestra seats cost up to $6.25. The Ashlind productions will draw about 50,000 en thusiasts this summer, accord ing to the magazine. Seated in a $275,000 Globe -style theater, spectators will sec a series of four plays, "Comedy of Errors," "Henry IV, Part 2." "As You Like 11" and "Coriolanus." The plays will require about $128,000 to produce, Business Week estimates. "But this is a small outlay compared with the resulting boost to the community's economy. Festival visitors to Ashland will drop an esti mated $5 million at stores, motels and sight-seeing spots."' The plays start in nightly rotation July 21 and continue through Sept. 2. In Stratford, Conn.. Busi ness Week reported, the American Shakespeare Festi val and Academy has brought some "hefty summer prosper ity" to town, although the fes tival itself is a money-loser. Besides watching the excit ing and historic Telstar ex perimenls this week, the eyes of television and radio execu tives and politicians too have also been on the Senate Com munications s u b c o m mittee hearings in Washington. The subcommittee is con sidering proposed legislation to enable broadcasters to pre sent mHjor party candidates without the present penalty of giving equal time to fringe or splinter party nominees. This equal time provision of Section 315 of the Com munications act was tempor arily suspended in 1960 as it applied to the Presidential and V 1 c e-Presidential candi dates. Thus, freed of the pen alty that would have required giving equal time to fourteen other Presidential candidates, broadcasters were able to pre sent "The Great Debate" be tween John F. Kennedy jnd Richard M. Nixon, as well sis other informative programs In which they figured. President Kennedy has rec ommended that the equal time requirement w i i h re spect to Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates again be suspended In the 1964 gen eral election campaign. While broadcasters unanimously fa v o r this recommendation, they go farther and urge that the exemption be made per manent. In respect to the suspension of the equal time prnvislin for candidates for other pub lic office on national, stale and local levels, TV execu tives arc not In agreement. Robert W. Sarnoff, chair man of the board of the Na tional Broadcasting company, favors complete freedom for broadcasters "to give minor party candidates the attention warranted by news Judgment and their own following in all contests . . . To give just as much time to the most friv olous or quixotic fringe candi date as to each of the two ma jor nominees strikes me as unreasonable and lopsided. However. Leonard II. Gold- enson, president of American ' mine Broadcasting -Paramount Theatres, Inc., urges the re tention of the equal time re quirement in other than the Presidential and Vice Presi dential campaigns. Protection of all qualified candidates fur public office against discrim inatory treatment, he feels, !S till in the public interest. The local broadcaster, forced to decide which candidate should be granted broadcast time, might risk the charge of unfairness or could with all good intentions overlook a significant candidate. In any case the decision taking shape in Washington at the Senate Communications subcommittee hearings will determine the nature of the political campaign broadcasts available to the American people this fall. CONCERT HALL, 2 p.m Sunday K-SHA radio. Featur ed selections include Mac Dowell's "Concerto No. 2 in D Minor" and Sir Edward Elgar's "Serenade for Strings and Orchestra No. 20. WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS, 4 p.m. Sunday KMED-TV. The Daytona "Firecracker 250" stock car race and the final holes of the British Open Golf Champion ship ai Troon, Scotland. TWENTIETH CENTURY, 3 p.m. Sunday KBES-TV. "New York in the Twenties" will be discussed by playwright Marc Connelly, publisher Al fred Knopf and newspaper man Stanley Walker as film clips show some popular fig ures of the period. THIS IS NBC NEWS, 5:30 p.m. Sunday KMED-TV. The life of a foreign correspond ent and his family in Paris Is described by newsman John Rich. GLOBAL ZOBEL, 6 p.m. Sunday KBES-TV. In Aries France, men Jump Into a ring and try to rip a red ribbon from the horns of a wild bull. STARLIGHT CONCERT. 8 p.m. Sunday KBOY-FM radio. Highlights tonight include: Arthur Rubenstein playing Grieg's "Piano Concerto in A Minor"; Arturo Toscanini con ducting the NBC Symphony in Brahm's "Symphony No. 4 in A Minor"; and Andre Kos telanetz conducting Puccini's La Traviata in orchestral form. HOLLYWOOD SPECIAL, 10:15 p.m. Sunday KBES-TV. Jeff Chandler and Jack Pa in "Ten Seconds to Hell," a drama of bomb demo lition men working in post war Berlin. ...tv ; KM II m '.t'v."v , i.UMMi.a ''iJ ' f ft ' I Iff People Needed For Jacksonville Jubilee Aug. 4 Jacksonville-People are the big need of the Jacksonville Jubilee, according to Publi city Chairman Robert Lowe. "We need people for the parade on Saturday, Aug. 4," Lowe said. "We need more queen candidates and we need more acts for the enter tainment program." Among the queen candi dates competing for prizes during the first week of com petition, Melba Graham, Jack sonville, was the top winner for selling the most Jubilee tickets. She received a musi cal jewelry box donated by Weisfield Jewelers, Medford. Nancy Maxson, Medford, was runner-up and won a crystal expansion bracelet with matching ear clips do nated by Wes Pearson Jewel ers, Medford. BUCKHORN MINERAL SPRINGS Ashland, ore. Third place winner was ville style, Pam Hart, Ruch, who rcceiv-! and meals, ed a pearl pendant on a gold : chain by Lawrence Jeweler, I Medford. All gifts will be on display at Jubilee headquar ters during the contest, Jubi lee officials said. Lowe reminded all those in terested in the parade to call the Jubilee headquarters in the U.S. Hotel in Jackson ville. This also applies to or ganizations having queen can didates, he added. , Money from the Jubilee is i being used to refurbish the hotel. A balcony is now being erected around two sides of the hotel to give the building its original appearance. Eventual aim of the Siski you Pioneer Sites Foundation, which is sponsoring the hotel restoration, is to lease the ho- j tel to someone who would op-1 providing rooms erate it in early day Jackson- Enjoy hralth. nil. comlori, and hospitality amidst pleas ant aurr-undinrs. HOT MINERAL BATHS for Rheumatism, Arthritis. Neu- rllii and Nervousness. CARHON DIOXIDE VAPOR nvi'llS (or HlRh and Low lllood eress-jre, Slnua. and Skin Eruptions. t I. Q D li R AND LIGHT IIOUSKKKEI'ING CABINS at Reasonable Rates. Write for Reservations PHONK LONG DISTANCE Buckhorn Mineral Sprlnss DR. HERMAN WEXLER, D.C.' Director 2304 Buckhorn sprints Road Ashland. Oregon SAY THREE WORDS Medford telephone operators like Jean Sharp will say just three words, "Your number, please?", on DDD (direct distance dialing) calls that four and eight-party line customers have dialed from Medford to distant points. Then the operators tap the keys to record the Med ford phone number. All other information, such as the place and number called, is automatically recorded. Operators in the background will continue to handle person-to-person, collect and other special long dis tance calls. Marines Expected In City on Monday Two U.S. Marines from the Marine Corps Recruit depot, San Diego, Calif., are expect-' cd to "peddle" inlo southern j Oregon Monday en route to the 1962 Seattle World's fair. SSgt. Lawrence M. Day and LCpl. Frederick J. Sim-1 oneau began the 12-day bike ride to Seattle July 9. Their journey is to stress physical fitness. They are wearing bright-colored shirts bearing the legends "The Marine I Corps Builds Men" and "San Diego to Seattle." The servicemen plan to make the trip in 100-mile seg ments with stops scheduled for major metropolitan areas along their route. They are ex pected to pass through Med ford Monday and spend the evening in Grants Pass. Tcyi expect to arrive In Seattle July 20. - 1 "l"mmmmn si urns pssssiswiii s m ii.ni w wsi.ap mi ' I' " ' 'in hi i ii- mtmaJSDi 'rAIfy LEADS THE WAY.. I ;.' ( 1 I JfezUU UusrfaJiL H i m i rnp czd bezi r j P OE LZZD LE LZZD L 1 ' fj on signature only . W, ' V- LmS U Sfim p iy park nd SH0P led ? .t?KNl-i? "ifi I jr the Parade to Graaior gL'J- 11 lit. . nuoSb' j'-;:y I f Values and Greater Se- PVQ)sQt ' f !?3r V lection In Downtown 'i CRATER FINANCE ) Ay 135 PINE "BBS- 664-1273 g Ktt --"2; K2 1 STSS ' XXsStOsrCSrsWji iP- V Pleasure. Member Stores Validate Your Ticket With t XyOCQ(Q li Ur Minimum $2.00 Purchase! "' "hi .aaaaaaireaRMaMi.7T S HANDY HUNDRED $ Loam to $1 500 Homt Owned l Operated "MONEY FROM CRATER FINANCE Is like MONEY FROM HOME" Smoker Blamed for Fire in Portland Portland 11'PH A throe alarm fire caused $.1,500 dam age to a thrce-.story apart ment house in northwest Portland Thursday aflernoon. Twenty por:-ons were evac uated from the huildinu The fire began in a tra?h box out side the structure and dam aged apartments on all three floors. THE PEACE CORPS IN TANGANYIKA, 9 p.m. Mon day KMED-TV. The traininR of a group of young Peace Corps volunteers Is shown as they prepare for a two-year assignment In Tanganyika. (Repeat) ARMSTRONG CIRCLE THEATRE, fl p.m. Wednesday KBES-TV. A dramatic study of how teen-agers are lured into drug addiction. DAVID B R I N K L E Y S JOURNAL. DUO p.m. Wed nesday KMED-TV. Topics to night include Americans' credit buying and foreign TV commercials WORLD OKJIMMY DOO LITTLE. 8 Hi) pin. Fridtv KMED-TV. The life of this famed aviator is pictured. They'll Do It Every Time - By Jimmy Uatlo At tue Amusement parks- EcaaS!mm THERE'S FORTY" WINDOWS f v WHERE VOU BUY TICKETS TICKETS I Them the ccavo is -, . - '-'" ri BOTTLENECKED DOWW IVJ TO ONE LONE TICKET Ag v y5 . TAKER. "if mmfU4 VdCdflOn BoUnd? We HP You Have a Wonderful Time . . . but before you leave ask for the Mail Tribune Wm,wmw at t,mt ss unit-- :1 ' .: -aa" VACATION SERVICE We will hold the Mail Tribune while you are on your vacation. Each issue will be held in our office while you are away and will ivered to you personally by your carrier upon your return. No papers to pile up on your porch. You -."II be able to catch-up en all local news and special features when you return. When you leave on your vacation just complete this handy order, and either give if to your carrier . . . mail if ... or just bring II in lo the office. WE Will. DO THE REST . . . iiiiiiiiiaiiiiin- Free Service THE MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Medford Mail Tribune Circulation Department Medford, Oregon VACATION PAK ORDER Pleast saa my Mail Tnbunt while I am on vacation Complete This Vacation Pak Order Today or Phone the Circulation Department. 7726141 hen I return or certain, p'eaw call Mjif Tribunt Nam . beginning ,...nd dNvr all of lerr. to mt ,. (If date un- htn yotf return') City fct-.BWw.N.y.y.'
