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UEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MELFOPD. OREGON FESTIVAL PLAYS Tonight: "Romeo and Monday: "Love's La bour's lost." Tueiday: "Henry V." Wadneiday: "Merry Wives of Windsor." ' Curtain time is 8:45 p.m. Bus leaves Medford ho tel and Jackson House in Medford at 7:30 p.m. Births . KATZENBACK: Mr. and Mrs. William B., 2651- How ard ave., Medford, Aug. 16, 1963, a boy, 6'4 pounds, at Rogue Valley hospital. VANDERWOOD: Mr. and Mrs. Rodney B., 538V6 South Keeneway dr., Medford, Aug. 16, 1963, a girl, 6V2 pounds, t Rogue Valley hospital. London - (UPD - The nation alized British Overseas Air ways Corp. has announced it may reduce its first - class trans-Atlantic round - trip fare from $900 to $676 in an ef fort to attract more passengers. Several Changes Announced in Britt Festival Program SUNDAY. AUGUST 1. 1113 Several program changes for the remaining week of the Peter Britt Gardens Mu sic festival in Jacksonville have been announced by Dir ector John Trudcau. Today at 4 o'clock the Festi val chorus, directed by Lynn Sjolund, Medford, will pre sent a concert and the 8 o'clock concert will be given by the Festival orchestra. So loist for the afternoon con cert will be Mira Frohnmayer, Medford contralto. She will sing numbers by Handel, Brahms, Vaughan - Williams and two Shakespearean songs by Daniel Mason. Tonight's program will open with "The Brandenburg Concerto" for flute, violin and piano and soloists will be Gretel Shanley, Charles Hei- den and Margaret Moore. Also programmed are a Mozart concerto for French horn, with Russell White as soloist; and "Psalm and Fugue for Strings" by Hovhaness and an Elizabethan suite in six movements. No program will be given Monday, Aug. 19, at 4 p.m. 533 1462 fwvv- ; 76me GATES OPEN 7:45 pm ON SCREEN at 8:30 P.M. & 12:45 A.M. HIS MOST POWERFUL ROLE! mm Bill A MAN AND AN ADVENTURE TO MATCH THE EXPLOSIVE EVENTS OF OUR TIME! I- - I rum mr-nraiil.liHtinMWir-iii 'virr"'; r ,n f 'mJ mm wmmm 1 Eastman COLOR I -I co-ilamng SANDRA CHURCH-EIJI OKADA-PATHINGLE PLUS 2ND COMEDY HIT! ON AT 1 1 P.M. THE MOST GLAMOROUS PLAYMATE OF "BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S"... AUDREY HEPBURN NOW INVITES YOU TO SHARE THE HAPPY ROMANTIC ADVENTURE THAT WON HER THE ACADEMY AWARD) At 8 p.m. the program given Sunday night will be repeated by the orchestra. Tuesday, Aug. 20, the or chestra will again play, with uavia AtKins, clarinetist, as soloist. The program will open with "Concerto for Two Trumpets and String Orches tra" with James Smith and Charles Lauer as soloists. At kins will play in the "Con certo for Clarinet and String Orchestra by Copland. Clos ing number will be a Bach suite in five movements. Concerts will be given at both 4 and 8 p.m. Wednesday Dy anzanetn Gharris, contalto Thursday, Aug. 22, the West wood Wind ensemble will present a program at 4 p.m and at 8 p.m. there will be an open rehearsal of the or chestra with patrons admitted for only $1. For the last two concerts, Aug. 23 and 24, the orchestra will play at 8 p.m. Dom days and at 4 p.m. the final day. In addition. Miss Pharris will sing and the Fes tival chorus will be presented in "Serenade to Music" with the orchestra accompanying. Tickets are available at Purucker's and Lusk's music companies; at the Festival of fice in Jacksonville or at the box office. Iceland Beauty Honored at Ball Long Beach, Calif. - Gu dron Bjarnadottir, 20-year-old statuesque fashion model from Iceland who won the title of "Miss International Beauty of 1964," was hon ored along with her runners up Saturday night at a cor onation ball. The auburn-haired girl with blue-gray eyes, who was never mentioned as a possible winner early in the beauty pageant, was crowned as the winner Friday night to the cheers of more than 7,000 spectators in Municipal Au ditorium. Along with the title, Miss Bjarnadottir, o f Kcflavik, Iceland, was presented with a check for $10,000. Runners up in the final judging were Miss England, Diana Westbury, 19; Miss Austria, Xenia Doppler, 19; Miss United States, Joyce Bryan, fl, of Miami, and Miss Korea, Yoo-Mi Choi, 20. BIG ROLE FOR CHIMP London - (UPII -- The Times of London carried the follow ing advertisement in the clas sified section on its front page: "Twentieth Century - Fox Film Co. Ltd., are searching for a monkey or a chimpanzee that can paint, to take a prom inent part in a new major pro duction in Hollywood . . ." Weather FORECASTS Medford and vicinitv: fair and mild through Monday. Afternoon winds northwesterly IS milt per nour. man toaay 87: iow tonisnt 48. High Monday 85. Western Oregon: Mostly sunny today and Monday, except possible scattered showers north part late toaay ana monaay. not quite so warm over the north interior. High both days 76 to 88 in interior, and 62 to 68 on the coast. Low tonight SO to 58. northern California: Fair today and Monday, except patches of fog and low clouds on the Coast, Lit tle temperature change. LUIIIj JIjVJ A TEMPERATURE: Mean vesterdav 69: a hove normal 2. Record high this dat 101 in 19B1. Record tow this date 41 In 1913. PRECIPITATION: 24 hours to midnight 5 in. Total this month .01 in.. .07 in. below normal. Total since Sent. 1. 26.74 in.. 7.06 in. above normal. HUMIDITY: Lowest yesterday 16. CITY Brookings Klamath Falls MEDFORD 89 Portland 79 76 68 01 62" High 4:00 24 Ye iter- a.m. nr. d a y Low Prer. 48 49 Seattle Spokan Yakima 91 Eureka Red Bluff Sacramento San Francisco Los Angel en R7 Phoenix 90 Denver 75 Chicago 61 Miami Beach 90 New York Washington, D. C. 78 SO 52 S3 63 S7 54 67 72 SS SR 83 63 65 Sunday, August 18 Sunset today 8:10 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 6:21 a.m. I lie muun is tun nrar me oun I to be seen; New Moon tomorrow 12:35 a m. : The unseen stars In the hack ; ground of the Sun and Moon today ' are of the constellation, Leo; the i brightest "star" in the sky tonight j is the planet, Jupiter. OBITUARIES EDWARD PRICE Funeral services for Ed ward Price, 74, Central Point, who died Thursday, will be held at 8 p.m. Monday at Perl Funeral home. Chaplain John Frazee, of the Veterans Domi ciliary, White City, will offi ciate. Interment will be pri vate in Hillcrest Memorial park. Mr. Price was born July 18, 1888, in Lannon, Wis. He was employed as a logger most of his life. He was a veteran of World War I serving as a sergeant in the Army, 10th company, 20th engineers. He entered service at Marteniz, Calif., Nov. 25, 1917, and was dis charged June 17, 1919. Survivors include one sis ter, Mrs. Glen Hunt, Milwau kee, Wis., and one brother, George Treder, Milwaukee, Wis. ROBERT FORCE Private funeral services for Robert Force, 62, who died Thursday at his home, 5098 Table Rock rd., will be Tues day at 10 a.m. at the Perl Funeral home. The Rev. D. E. Millard of Eagle Point will officiate. Mr. Force has been a life time resident of southern Ore gon. He was born May 19, 1901, at Tolo, Ore. He was a veteran of World War II. Survivors include four brothers, Paul Force, Eagle Point; Bruce Force, Central Point; William R. and H. D. Force, both of Gold Hill. MARTIN WITTE Martin Witte, 71, died Sat urday in a local nursing home. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Perl Funeral home. KATHY AND KAREN WALD Word was received here this week of the death in Spo kane, Wash., of infant daugh ters, Kathy Veann Wald and Karen Veone Wald, who were born July 29 and died the same day. Survivors are the pa-rents, Diana Marie Wald, Spokane, Wash., and Kenneth Vernon Wald Jr., Central Point; and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence E. Black, Jackson ville, and Mr. and Mrs. Ken neth Vernon Wald Sr., Cen tral Point. ELMER N. NESS Elmer N. Ness, 70, of 1108 Winchester ave., Medford, died in a local convalescent home Saturday. Mr. Ness was a retired park service employee. He was as sistant chief park ranger of Glacier National park. Funeral arrangements are entrusted to Siskiyou Funeral Service directors of the Chapel in the Trees mortuary. CLARENCE J. HOQUEN Clarence Jackson Hoquen, 336 Crater Lake ave., died Saturday in a local hospital. Funeral arrangements are be ing made by Perl Funeral home. CHARLES THOMAS SUSICK Charles Thomas Susick, of 550 Fairview street, Ashland, died Thursday in Roseville, Calif. The remains will be returned to Ashland for serv ices and interment. Ash land Mortuary is in charge of arrangements. ZELLA TINGLEAF Mrs. Zella Beryl Tingleaf, of Salem, formerly of Shady Cove, died Friday in a Med ford hospital. Conger - Morris Funeral Home is in charge of funeral arrangements. MRS. ANTHONY GRIMM Ashland - Mrs. Anthony (Tony) Grimm, 87, a resident of Phoenix until June, 1963, when she moved to Klamath Falls, died there Aug. 16. She was born in Nebraska on Feb. 28, 1876. Her husband died at Phoenix in 1947. Graveside services will be held at 1:30 p.m., Monday, Aug. 19, in the Phoenix cem etery with the Rev. B. J. Hol land officiating. Litwiller Fu neral Home of Ashland is in charge of arrangements. EARL SHORTHILL Ashland - Earl V. Short hill, 67, a resident of the Camp White Domiciliary, died there Aug. 16. He was born June 26, 1896, at Liv ingston, Mont, and was a vet eran of World War I. He is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Mardis Lemon and Mrs. UNUSUAL OPPORTUNITY MEN - WOMEN TRAINEES URGENTLY NEEDED, ,'IBM MACHINE TRAINING I I Persons selected can be (rained in a program whir-.h need not interfere with present job. If you nualify tram in can be financed. Write today, please include home prion and age. AUTOMATION TRAINING lei 294SD in Car of This Paper E. H. Warren, both of Cor vallis; and Mrs. Warren Buet tner of Otis Air Force Base, Mass. Funeral services will be announced later by the Lit willer Funeral home. BENJAMIN BALIS Ashland - Benjamin B. Bal is, 86, a resident of the Rogue Valley manor for the past three years, died Aug. 16. He was born in Eldorado county, Calif., on Sept. 19, 1877. He was a retired con ductor for the Southern Pa cific railroad. He came to Ashland from Dunsmuir in 1916, making his home ihore until the death of his wife, Gertrude Balis, in 1950, when he went to reside with his daughter, Mrs. Jean B. An derson of Central Point, who survives. Also surviving is another daughter, Mrs, K. B. Hobson, Wright - Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, snd three grandchildren. He was a member of tne Ashland Elks Lodge No. 944. Funeral services will be held in Litwiller's Mountain View chapel with the Elks Lodge officiating Tucsdav, Aug. 20 at 10:30 a.m. Friends, who wish, may call to pay their respects Monday from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Lit willer's Mountain View cha pel. Interment will be in the Mountain View cemetery in Ashland. Servicemen With Third Battalion Marine Pvt. Olson M. Robert, son of Mrs. Edna S. Dison, 2512 Ross Lane, Medford, re cently participated in "look on' training with the Third Battalion, Seventh Marines of the First Marine Division at Camp Pendleton, Calif. The six-week training peri od progresses from basic fire team tactics to company and battalion maneuvers. Wins DrWer'i Badge Army Specialist Four Ivan D. Black, son of Gerald G. Black, Talent, was awarded a driver's badge at Fort Hood, Tex., for attaining a high de gree of skill in the mainten ance and operation of motor vehicles while assigned to the 1st Armored Division. Spec ialist Black is a truck driver in Company B of the divi sion's 501st Supply and Trans portation Battalion. Local and Personal Transferred to Vietnam M. Sgt. Gene F. Davis was recently transferred from Vancouver Barracks, Vancou ver, Wash., to central Viet nam. He had been stationed at Vancouver since 1956. His previous tour of duty was in Okinawa. A native of Medford, Sgt. Davis graduated from Phoe nix High school In 1940. He was a member of the local Company A, 186th Infantry and was mobilized with the unit in September 1940. He also was Army and Air Force rcaruiter in Medford from December 1946 until July 1951. His family will remain in Vancouver until comple tion of his tour in Vietnam. Tentatively he plans to retire in Medford in 1964. Girls Held - Two girls, each 14 years of age, were taken into custody Saturday afternoon by city police at the J. C. Penney Co. store. They were charged with shop lifting. They were released to their parents later in the day. Returned Home - John C. Knopsnyder, Ophir, Ore., was flown to Gold Beach Thurs day by Mercy Flights Inc., af ter he had been a surgery pa tient at Sacred Heart hospital here. He was 1,607th patient flown by the non-profit air ambulance service since it was started. To Attend Institute - John E. Myers of the First Federal Savings and Loan association in Medford will attend the fourth annual American Sav ings and Loan Institute school for executive development at the University of Washington from Sept. 1 through 14. The two-week program empha sizes individual development with studies concentrated in the areas of finance, econom ics and the behavioral sci ences. Roundiable Speaker - Bill Ruck, director of the Oregon Program for School District 549C, will address the Mon day noon luncheon of the Medford Chamber of Com merce Roundtablc. Ruck will discuss the Oregon program and the district's intent to in corporate elements of team teaching and flexible schedul ing into its plans. The Round table meets at North's Chuck Wagon. Meeting Set - Medford Toastmasters will meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 19, for nominations for new officers, and a meeting of the picnic committee. Jack Hoffbuhr will be toastmastcr, and Jack Thomson, Tom Rutter, and Pete Morlenscn will be the speakers. Flown to California - Miss Marvelle Lichtenslein, 18, of route 1, box 103, Gold Hill, was flown to the Stanford University hospital at Palo Alto, Calif., Friday for treat ment following surgery at the Josephine General hospital. She was the 1,608th patient flown by Mercy Flights Inc., non-profit air ambulance, since it was started. Surgery Patients - Surgery patients listed at Sacred Heart hospital Friday Included Thomas G. Houston, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Houston, Talent, and Elmer Kness, route 2, box 1004, Talent. Car Robbed - Stephen Gil bert Crlppen Jr., of 710 Faith St., Ashland, reported to Med ford police Saturday that his car was entered on a Medford street and robbed of 15 white shirts, a sport coat, a tool box, a green sport shirt, and a coin collecting box. The car was parked on Front st. at Main st., when it was entered ac cording to the police report. Entry was gained by breaking glass. To Meet - Jackson toast masters will meet at 6:30 a.m. Monday, Aug. 19, at Sambo's restaurant with Dana Collins as toastmaster. Speakers are Ray Johnsen, Lloyd Bishop, and Craig Horton. Windows Broken - Four windows were broken in a house on Wilson rd.. Central Point, by a "malicious" throwing of rocks, Frances McGinty, owner, reported to the Jackson county sheriff's office Saturday. The window glass was valued at $15. Gold Hill, Ashland Justices Elected Tillamook - (UPD - Thomas Swanton of Coos Bay has been elected president of the Oregon Justice of the Peace Association at the close of the group's two - day annual conference here. Also elected were Norman Matteson of Gold Hill, first vice president; Harold Deck er of La Grande, second vice president, and Francis Galla tin of Ashland, secretary treasurer. La Grande was picked as the site of next year's meeting. Ford Hopes for Early Settlement Detroit -(UPD- Ford Motor Co. officials Saturday said they hoped for an early settle ment of a strike in their Chi cago Heights, 111., stamping plant before it leads to more layoffs throughout the coun try. The workers in the vital stamping plant went out on strike Friday in the midst of negotiations over safety conditions. Sewer Assessment Item on Agenda Jacksonville - The Jackson ville city council is expected to consider an ordinance re garding sewer assessments at its meeting Tuesday evening. Once the ordinance is pass ed the city recorder will send by registered mail, lntteri stating individual amounts. It will give notice that the prop erty owner has 30 days for making application for Ban croft bonding. Under Bancroft bonding the person makes 20 equal payments for a period of 10 years at 6 per cent in terest per annum. The Jacksonville city coun cil explained that the first payment will be due Dec. 15, 1963, the second, June 15, 1964, and each six months thereafter. A 7 ESCAPE TRY FAILS Mansoura, U. A, R. - (UPD -Mohamcd Z a k i Abdullah jumped from the third - floor window of his house to es cape police searching for nar cotics. He landed on top of the police van outside and broke his leg. Washington (UPD Presi dent Kennedy has announced he will appoint Joseph H. 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