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THURSDAY. Pickin'. Pears VFW Post 5288 and S'.'xil iary, ol Mt. Shasta, Calif., had the honor of opening the fall festivity with a dance revue furnished by eight girls from the Daryle School of Dance, Yreka, Sunday afternoon. A repertoir of 23 numbers was executed with grace and rhythm by the group of Susi Q's: Nicki Evans, Mary Bio sotti, Jul! Haraden, Chereen Ferber, Carleen Declerk and Charlene Cordes. Carol and Glena, instruct' ors, appeared before the clos ing number to do a rendition of Shadrack. The party left immediately after the per formance to make the long trip back to California. Interest was divided Sun day between the stage show and the Eagle Point Desert Pegasus "Horse-arama" held at the Memorial Stadium en trance. This was the sixth semi-annual performance held at White City by the 4-H club riders juniors, seniors and adults. There were 32 in all irom Rogue River to Hilt. Trophies were awarded to the high point riders In each age group. The jewelry trophy award ed each winner In horseman. ship was donated by Elmer Johnson, domiciliary hobby shop member. Alyce Kram bcal, novice: Regina Kram. beal, junior; and Laura Mae Noble, senior, were winners In horsemanship. A special event for children under nine years of age fea turcd the program. In add! tion to horsemanship, the pro gram included figure eight stake, scurry, musical chairs and a Texas barrel. The judge was Vic Stewart. The scats set up for member spectators were tilled. The fall schedule of theatre attractions presented by the volunteer Services is begin ning to take shape. During the summer months, the theater Is dark with movies the main feature. One exception was the Tal ent Show In mid-August spon sored by the American Legion auxiliary, department of Ore gon. The members showed rare stage presence in this ac tivity which Recreation Chief Bethel plans to continue dur ing the fall and winter months. The season gets under way with a VFW dance Monday evening, Sept. 17. T,he regular schedule of VFW auxiliary dances is set for the first and third Mondays of each month. DAV theater programs are scheduled lor Friday, Sept. 28. and Nov. 23. The American Legion auxil iary will resume the musical quiz program which precedes the afternoon show of movies. The recreation department will conduct this program, which is held twice a month Instead of weekly as before. A Red Cross Travel Talk has been set for the second Monday afternoon with the Muzzioll accordionists at night. Three variety shows have been scheduled by the F.Iks, the Red Cross and I he VFW auxiliary for Wednesday nights. The October program, which is tentative, includes the opening show of the local VFW Post Oct. 12. The WW 1 auxiliary and Barracks also plan an occasional variety show. WW I auxiliary dnncrs are listed for fifth Mondays, i The usual Halloween carnival is being arranged. ; Frances Zundci, VAVS rep resentative and hospital chair man of the Ladies auxiliary, Veterans of Foreign Wars, de partment of Oregon, is work ing out details of activities of her group through Christmas. This includes sponsorship of the October birthday pnrtv. The VFW auxillnry will furn ish Thanksgiving menus this year. It was necessary to cancel the planned trip to Oregon Caves, scheduled for the last of this month, but the open ing barbecue picnic at the domiciliary which the auxil iary held In June was a huge success. Other trips were spon sored, she said. Among the workers at the domiciliary is one who has been on the job since the he ginning and Is almost indis pensable. He is Frank Rich ardson. Frank is often seen hurry ing down the hall with his tools responding to a call to repair a broken piece of equipment. He Is listed as a machinist and welder, but he Is the "Handy Andy" as a me chanic, and he always comes up smiling. Richardson has a little shop In the engineering section and there he was found after Labor Day, bright and early, fixing a dismembered wheel chair. He is always busy and with all the new gadgets and complicated units to tend, when they don't run, he has his hands full. There is a compensating factor, however, as he recalls, when the old cast-off machin ery was In operation and the frequency of break-downs was greater than it is today with all new equipment. Frank calls Meddird his home. "That's where I enlist ed In the Army," he says. He V 10 A SEPTEMBER 13. 1962 ISE. applied for a job at Camp White when the VA took possession an dslarted in the boiler room. He soon was shifted to his present position and is a important wheel in the machinery that keeps the station running smoothly. Major Installation Possible at Baker Portland - IBPIl - The office of Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) said Wednesday there was a possibility of a "major federal installation" at Baker, Ore., that would involve in excess of $20 million in construction costs. Bill Berg, Morse's adminis trative assistant, said nature of the project could not be disclosed at this time. But he said when completed it would be permanent in nature and would involve "substantial" employment. Berg said Morse has been working on the project for some time. He indicated it would be 10 days or two woeks before formal announcement would be forthcoming. .7 MAN WITHOUT COUNTRY - country" is Wong Let Poy, 1 1 r. Cleveland as she docked In Snn Francisco. The Immigration Service discovered recently that Poy, a crewman with the line since 1038, had obtained U. S. citizenship by fraudulent means. He has now been refused permission to work aboard the ship or to debark at any U. S. port or in Hong Kong where his wife lives. 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Recognized as the ablest investigative re porter in Washington (he is a Pulitzer Prize winner in this field), Mollenhoff docu mcnts brilliantly how the Washington cove r-up has been managed under presi dents of both parties. it, - 4 tO A modern - day "man without shown aboard the President A v. BOYS' DEPT LOWER FLOOR FINE COMBED 50 w nylon reinforced neckband . from WHITE LO-CENTRAL JITS by Ball-Brand . . . famous for fine quality frorr 2'? to large 1 3 absorbent CQtf 7 What he is saying, in short, is that there is an inherent compulsion on the part of the executive branch to hide its mistakes, even from duly con stituted congressional investi gating committees and a watchdog agency, the U. S. General Accounting Office, sometimes in patent violation of law. On the premise that such secrecy fosters corruption, favoritism and mismanage ment at the very least, and threatens arbitrary, possibly dictatorial, government, Mol lenhoff calls for more vigi lance and criminal penalties against cover-up practi tioners. Off To Wobbly Start Citing chapter and verse, the author reports how stall ing hampered the investiga tion of tax fixing in the Tru man administration; and he believes the Kennedy admin istration has got off to a "wobbly start" in denying Congress full information on who was censoring the speeches of military leaders. But Mollenhoff indicts the E 1 8 e n hower administration with drawing down the heav iest "secrecy curtain" in his tory. It began during the Army McCarthy congressional in SEE NOW ON DISPLAY a genuine Don't miss this rare exhibit in our lobby to help celebrate MemtMr FOIC Rogue Valley Branch 1109 Court St. 773-53391 V .' 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