Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, May 22, 1963, Image 5

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Newspaper Page Texta CONSTRUCT SUBSTATION a big truck-mounted boom a section of the in the Cold Hill steel substation structure slides into place 4,000 to 12,000 at Pacific Power and Light Gold Hill substation. When $65,000 installation will provide for an in- Work Starts on Substation Pacific Power & Light com pany construction crews have started work on the building of a new substation at Gold Hill which will serve that community and the surround ing rural area. Total cost of the installa tion, scheduled for completion June 15, is estimated at $65,- Liz Taylor To Make $10 Million From 'Cleopatra' New York - 0IPII - An an nouncement that actress Elizabeth Taylor can expect to make nearly $10 million from the film "Cleopatra'" turned the normally staid an nual stockholders' meeting of the 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. into a catcalling, whis tling session Tuesday. The announcement, made by company president Darryl F. Zanuck, also was greeted by a demand from stockholder Evelyn Davis for the person responsible for the actress' "ridiculously large contract." "It was her going price," Zanuck explained. Screaming Argument Stockholder uioria rarKcr got into a pushing, screaming argument with Miss Davis when Miss Parker suggested that the film star be made a member of the board of di rectors because "this girl has done a lot for our corpor ation ..." Zanuck, who directed the $34 million film, promised never to make a picture "as costly as long as I am a mem ber of the board or president of the corporation." The vet eran movie director wrested control of the company iast year from Spyros P. Skouras. Nat Loss Reported Zanuck reported a net loss from the firm's operations last year of $39,786,094. He said 20th was starting to re cover from these reverses and showed earnings of $2,292,000 or 90 cents a share for the first quarter of 1963. "I will consider my job as being successful only when we have reached the point where we are logically justi fied in paying cash divi- ripnrf.c " hn said. Zanuck said Miss Taylors; salary was $1,725,000, plus 10 per cent of the gross earnings from the film. Richard Bur-: ton, her co-star, got $250,000 plus overtime, he said. To break even, the film will have ; to earn a gross of $62 million, Zanuck said. ; Russia Hopes To Launch Spocewoman Bogota, Colombla.-IUPU-Two visiting Soviet technicians said Tuesday Russia hopes soon to put the first space- woman into orbit. M. Fillipov and M. V. Romsntchenko. delegates to an international communcia tions conference here, told a press conference the Kremlin plans to end male domination of space. TO RATION CALLS Newcastle Upon Tyne. Eng-land-fPrV-Fifty girls living at a YWCA hostel here have agreed to ration their tele phone conversations because . tney only have one telephone on which to receive calls from thtir boyfriends. With aid of crease of voltage company's new greater amounts complete, the customers. 000, according to Frank Bcn esh, PP&L's Medford district manager. The new substation will complete a 12,000-volt power loop that will provide an al ternate route for delivery of power to the areas served by the Tolo, Rogue River and Gold Hill substations, Benesh said. Shortly after work is com plete on the installation, a $47,000 distribution power line conversion project will begin in the areas of Black well Hill, North Stage rd.. Galls Creek, Sardine Creek and Highway 99 west of Rock Point bridge. The operating voltage lev els on the distribution circuits in these areas will be boosted from 2,400 to 4,000 volts to 12,000 volts and be capable of handling the growing pow er needs of customers, Benesh noted. . The existing substation at Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF BEFORE SHE HIT the jackpot writer applied for the job of settled county adjoining the one The school board presi dent was relaxing on his front porch. "I know your family, miss," said the president. "Is it true that one of your cousins killed a man and your father bribed enough witnesses to save him from the chair?" "Yes, sir," ad mitted the applicant. "I'm not denying it" "Is it also true," he con tinued, "that another of your cousins killed her husband and is now serv ing a term in the peni- t tentiary?" "No, sir," blurted our heroine. "She's out! They sent her up for five years, but she got out in three for good behavior. "But," she added, "with all those facts, I don't suppose you'll want me to teach in your system." "Lady," he assured her, rising to hi feet, "you're the very one we do want. You can't hold your head above nobody!" Somebody gave John Fuller an electric toothbrush for his birthday. Fuller tested it, approved of It, then boasted, "It proves what I always suspected: the tooth is stronger than friction." Colonel Joe Duffy defines a mint Julep as a hydrogen bomb with a Southern drawl. O 1M3. y Bennett Ctrf. DUtributed by Kins ftiluni Byndlcete WANTED APPLICANTS IN THIS AREA TO PREPARE FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT POSITIONS DO NOT DELAY Rtdio fjtrol Offfctr Immigration Ottictr Highway Patrolman Port Patrol OHicar Contarvation ANNUAL INCREASE - SECURITY - PAID VACATION - SICK LEAVE - PENSIONS liparianca Not Necanary Common School Education Usually Sufficient NATIONAL PEACE OFFICER TRAINING ORGANIZATION Mall Coupon Today For Information PEACE OFFICER TRAINING P.O. lot S216, Se.rtle 7, Wtili. NAME PHONE ADDRESS CITY COUNTY AGE OCCUPATION HOURS USUALLY AT HOME If in rural area, kindly give direction to home Pleat do not inquire if you ere not sincerely interested. No obligations. Not Government connected. 1 . SSJ ' on the distribution circuits rural areas from 2,400 and volts and help supply the ol energy being used by Gold Hill presently serving PP&L customers in the area will be removed, Benesh an nounced. At the same site there will be installed equip ment to convert energy from 12,500 volts to 4,100 volts for service in the Gold Hill down town area. Reading Group Sets Wednesday Meeting Rogue Valley Council of In ternational Reading associa tion will meet at 7:3 o'clock tonight at Hedrick Junior High school. Mrs. Lucille Stroh and Mrs. Evelyn Winningham will speak on techniques of reme dial reading. Ollie Erickson, council president, will give a presentation on, "What is Speed Reading?" This is an open meeting and anyone interested is invited to attend. It will be the final meeting this school year. as a novelist, a now-famous school teacher in a sparsely where she had been reared. Border Patrloman Cuitoma Sarvica Livtttock Inspactor Sacurity Inspector Meat Inspactor STATE . MEDFORD Everest Climbers Heading for Top of Highest Mountain Katmandu, Nepal - (UPD - Two teams of American moun tain climbers struck out to wards the top of Mt. Everest, the world's highest peak, from the south and west sides today in hopes of meeting at the summit. An official spokesman for the expedition said there was "high hopes for everybody." But, he said, there was no confirmation that anyone actually had reached the peak when last word was radioed to Katmandu from the base camp today. Good News Hoped Earlier, expedition spokes man Daniel Doody had ra dioed from the base camp on the slopes of Everest that chances of a team reaching the summit by the previously unexplored west ridge route today were "very slim." But he said "we hope for good news" from a team at tempting the better - known south col, route. Outcome of the double at tempt may not be known un til Thursday due to weather and communications difficul ties, he said. 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