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6 A TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1963 16 Picnic Committee Plans Meeting at Kim's Banquet Room MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON The last committee meet ing preparatory to Sunday's family picnic sponsored by Jackson County Democrats in TouVelle State park has been scheduled for tonight, K. C. (Swede) Wernmark, chairman, announced. He has asked all committee members to attend the session starting at 8 p.m. in Kim's banquet room. Sunday's picnic, according to Charles Crary, chairman of the Jackson County Democrat ic Central committee, has been planned to enable people to get better acquainted with out emphasis on political af filiations. They are invited to come at 10 a.m. and remain until dusk. The program, how ever, will not open officially until noon. The old time fiddlers con test will start at noon under chairmanship of Pat Graham. The finals are scheduled for 3:30 p.m. A gold panning con test, with J. E. Bishop as rhnirman. hecins at 1 n.m. The finals for trophy will be limited to six contestants, cho sen from the preliminary pan ners. . Horieihoe Tournament Tkn ha ...Ml Ua UnvanvUnA iiicic win uc iiuiaMiiuc pitching in a tournament, opening at 1 p.m. and this will be chairmaned by Jim Nistlcr. Bicycle races are scheduled for two age groups, starting at 1 p.m. The six-mile course to Table Rock Monument and return will be driven by bi cyclists 12 to 16 years of age and a 17-mile course by cy clists over 16 years. Registra tion must be made by 12:30 p.m. Selection of a princess will be made during the noon hour from entries three to six years of age. Judging will be on looks and talent and the prin cess will be crowned at 2 p.m. Committee L 'it Activities are to be directed by a long list of committees, Wernmark said, with empha sis on public safety. Bob Jones ot the YMCA has assisted the committees In obtaining life guards. The Central Point fire department and Cal Bowers will have a rescue wagon and scuba equipment at the scene nd a standby fire truck has been promised by C. L. Lisen- bee, chief of the Central Point rural fire department. Jack Sides of the Rogue Training service will furnish emergency vehicles, and Le Roy Williams, first aid assist ance. Wall Bowen is in charge of safety in the park, and DeArmond Leigh and the sheriff's auxiliary, highway safety. Dr. Thomas Rutter is medi cal representative on the safety committee. Games and Contests Pat Redmond and Tex Phil lips head the games and con tests committee and music and entertainment will be di rected by John Lusk, Pauline McDonald and Vieva Red mond. Food and serving are to be chairmaned by Walter McMahan, Hazel McMahan and Vic David. Berle Steph ens and Irene Stephens form the concessions committee. Ed Taylor has been responsible for location and coordination. Pat McCoy and Don R. Han lin will operate the public address system. Other committees are: grounds and maintenance, W. E. Morrison, Mark Norton, Charles Crary and G. O. Loo mer; finance, Pat Redmond, Tex Phillips and Berle Steph- ens; princess selection, Vieva Redmond and Pauline McDon ald; judges, Stan Smith, Gra ham Nistlcr and Bishop; pub licity, Marjorie Madden, Eliz abeth Poston and Ralph Pos-ton. V I A I DIES IN FLAMES Thich Tieu Dieu, a 71-year-old Buddhist priest, dies in flames early Friday. He was the fifth Buddhist suicide by burning during South Viet Nam's current religious crisis. Thirteen Hue uni versity students threatened to kill them selves by fire Monday, while in Saigon thousands of Buddhists continued a hunger strike at the capital city's main Xa Loi Pagoda. (UPI) Are You Forming a Committee? West Enjoys Good Crusade, But He Has Trouble Finding Worthy Cause Men's Swimming Classes to Start The YMCA is offering a men s swimming class start ing Aug. 26 at 5:15 p.m. The class, to last six weeks, will be held Mondays and Wednes days. There will be a practice swim every Friday afternoon. The men s classes will be for the very beginners through intermediates and are limited to 15 men. The sessions will be primarily individual in struction. Instructor for the class will be Ben Jensen, physical direc tor. For further information or to register call the Mcdtord YMCA, 772-fl2A5. By DICK WEST United Press International Washington - (UPI) - There is nothing like a good crusade to start the day ott right. Are you forming a commit tee to make our highways safe tor water buf falo? Count on me to be a block chair- m a n. Need someone to so licit funds for west a cam paign to rehabilitate wayward ice bergs? I'll ring a hundred doorbells before night. Here of late, however, I've been having some trouble finding worthy causes that I can identify with. The new crusades I've been asked to join all seem lacking in ap peal. Take this scheme to add a niifiiAimi nil lairr nrnrnA PUmUUIII-VHUHHI UUUU.5 SHOWROOM SHOWDOWN SALE! 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Frank Pratt, 50, Coos Bay, was fnlally injured in a three-vehicle accident in the Coos County community of Empire. His car hit a pickup truck head-on after clipping a car. He died 4(1 minutes after the accident at a Coos Bay hospital. Kenneth Failles, 1R, Klam ath Falls, was killed in a one car accident on Slate High way 27(1 about 25 miles north west ot Klamath Falls. His car hit a bridge abutment over a water-filled irrigation canal. Lester McDotilan, 67. Wald port, drowned at Yaquina Bay when he stepped in an underwater hole while walk ing ahead of an incoming tide. He had brrn digging clams with his wife and Mrs. Leslie Beret h of Seal Rock. A search for his body con tinued today. BOLT KiTlsTbHOTHERS Posadas. Argentina - ItirH -Three hrothets praying at the altar of a village church were killed last week when light ning struck the steeple, it was reported today. Reports reaching here said the bolt of lightning which struck Holy Mary Chapel in Picada Galitzniana traveled down the chains which held orna mental lamps over the altar and killed Pablo, Francisco and F.astchan Atnmnnuk. YOUR NAME IS THERE! CHRYSLER MOroKI C0HPOMMIM DICK KNIGHT CO. A 33 S. Riverside, Medford, Oregon A Yes, the odds rc 1 0 lo 1 lh.it YOUR NAME IS THIRE. You get List service, when you want to chatge. You have difficulty buying on credit. NOW IS IMS. TIME to do some thing about it. Pav promptly .0 the Redhonk will show v" with a record ol prompt pay ment. CREDIT BUREAU of MEDFORD prefabricated breakfast to the line of frozen TV dinners. Some experts are predicting that it will destroy the last remnants of Western civiliza tion. Have Offsetting Factors I agree that a TV breakfast will further weaken the fab ric of our society, but there are offsetting factors that de ter me from enlisting in the campaign against it. I have found that the alumi num trays the meals come in are just dandy for coloring Easter eggs. It is much the same with an appeal for help that I re ceived from William L. Hop per, crusading assistant city editor of the Greenville (Ohio) Advocate. "My lofty position enables me to spread my influence to quite a number of readers," Hopper wrote, "but there may be a few million readers outside my sphere." Cut Away Untruth Therefore, he urged that I draw upon my experience as a crusader lo help "cut away a veil of untruth" that is be ing draped across the nation in the daily press. "This cancerous fiction that becomes more wide spread each day is the way that 'the weatherman' is used in papers from coast to coast," Hopper explained. His crusade is directed at news stories which read: "The weatherman dumped seven inches ot rain here last night before bringing in 102-degree temperatures today. For to night and tomorrow, the weatherman will bring hail mixed with sleet, partly fol lowed by tornadoes." It is his contention that a weatherman couldn't possibly cause such abrupt climatic changes. In the interest of sci entific accuracy, he says, such stories should read: "The weatherwoman, etc." Although it pains me to turn down a colleague, I 111 us turn down a colleague, I must regretfully reject the Hopper crusade on. grounds that it likewise is based on a fal lacy. In order to be meteorolog ically correct, the stories would have to read: "The weather committee, etc." Local Participation In Oregon Program Reviewed at Lunch The Medford project in the Oregon Program for the Im provement of Education was presented to the Medford Chamber of Commerce Roundlable Monday at lunch eon at North's Chuck Wagon by William Ruck, director. Miss Patricia Leclair of the four - member Lexington, Mass. team, here for the work shop, which has moved into its second week at the Hoover school, was also a luncheon guest. Miss Leclair told the cham ber of commerce group that she had found Medford the most hospitable place she had ever been and that she was particularly happy with the weather. Emphasizing that team teaching is "not mass instruc tion but provides more oppor tunity for individual instruc tion," Ruck devoted most of his time to the senior high school phases of the project. The workshop at Hoover school, however, he explained, it "strictly elementary." Under the flexible schedul ing that has been adopted as part of the project, Ruck re vealed, Medford teachers, who have had not more than 10 minutes for lunch will have a duty free lunch hour. They will be the only ones in the state, he commented, to have this lunch hour. Some will have an 11 a.m. to noon lunch hour and others noon to 1 p.m. Students will be offered four lunch periods, each 30 minutes in length, and a special group guidance pro gram, which will run concur rently. To be specific, Rusk said, 500 students will be at lunch while another 500 are in the group guidance session and the other 1,000 in class rooms. When they exchange places everyone will have been cared for and instructors will have had what many ex perts have maintained they need - a duty free lunch hour. Question Is Asked The explanation came when someone asked "When do teachers eat?" demonstrating that this situation also has been of concern to chamber of commerce members. The sliding schedule which will enable students to start the school day at three differ ent times was explained by the director, who emphasized that provision, however, will be made for the student who wants to come early and stay late. Another area in which the Medford project is unique in the Oregon program, Ruck said, is in the extension of the teacher intern or associate teacher program to two years instead of one. Making clear his conten tion that team teaching is not mass education, Rusk used a projector and chart, demon strating the manner in which the large lecture group is broken down into normal class size and into much small er seminar groups to give every student an opportunity for active participation. Dr. Leonard B. Mayfield, superintendent of Med ford schools, added that he is con- Daughter Persuades Father to Give Up Russelville, Ala. - HIPP - A moonshiner who killed a sher iff and a police chief with a single shotgun blast walked out of the woods with his hands held high Monday when his teen-age daughter begged him to surrender. "I'm very, very sorry it all happened," said Troy Thornton, 40, who gave up without a fight when he heard his daughter, Carolyn, 18, plead with him to sur render over a highway patrol car loudspeaker. Thornton, who was placed in jail here, faces first degree murder charges in the Sun day afternoon shooting. A slender man who has twice been convicted of moon shining, Thornton had been told by his doctor he has can cer and has only a few months to live, his relatives said. "He thought he didn't have vinced that the schools are doing a better job of basic education through the Oregon Program, obtained and ap proved by the state board of education, and that "history is being made in Oregon." anything to lose," his wife told officers. Thornton was accused of killing Sheriff Herman (Red) Cook and Littlcville Police Chief Neil Pace with a singla shotgun blast and critically wounding Deputy Don Files with a rifle shot. Another deputy who had gone to Thornton's house to investi gate was not hurt. AGENT DIES New York fUPD Funeral services were scheduled today for Sam Homsey Jr., 29, who at 16 was a successful public relations agent in Manhattan. He died Sunday of a stomach ailment. The New Yorker magazine in 1950 profiled him as "probably the youngest press agent in the world." CALL ON CUBAN PORTS Washington-IUPD-Rep. Paul Rogers (D-Ala.) told tha House the number of Allied vessels visiting Cuba out" numbers Russian ships. Rog ers said that in June - the last complete month recorded -43 "free world" ships called on Cuban ports against 31 Soviet ships. COME ON IN . . . THE SAVINGS ARE GREAT! DURING OUR ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION BEAVER ELECTRIC & PLUMBING SUPPLY 2740 No. Pac. Hwy. General Maddux to Philippine Post Maj. Gen. Sam Maddux Jr., recently assumed command of the Thirteenth Air Force in the Philippines, which also has units at Formosa, Viet Nam and in Thailand. 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