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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.
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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
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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
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