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Obituaries NORMAN A. MEEDS Norman Almand Meeds, 38, of Jacksonville, was fatally injured in a logging accident yesterday. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Conger Morris Funeral directors. , JOHN G. WOLFE The body of John G. Wolfe. 76. who died Wednesday at the Vet erans Administration Domicili ary, While City, was sent to San Diego, Calif., for services and interment, by the Ashland Mortuary. .Mr. Wolfe was born Nov. 28, 1886, in Toronto. Iowa. He was a veteran of World War I, and had been in the Domiciliary since 1962. Survivors include a sister, Mrs. Catherine Berkamp, Grand Canyon, Ariz.; and a niece, Miss Julia White, San Diego, Calif. Tokyo To London Flight Sets Mark WASHINGTON (UPI) - An American supersonic B58 bomb er landed in Britain today after flying non-stop from Tokyo in the record time of 8 hours and 35 minutes, President Kennedy announced. ;The previous record for such a' flight was more than twice the new mark 17 hours and 42 minutes, established in 1955 by a- British jet. Today's flight, which official ly finished over London at 6:34 a.m. PDT, covered 8,028 miles at an average speed of 938 statute miles per hour. The purpose of the flight, ac cording to Gen. Godfrey Mc Hugh, Air Force aide to the President, was to demonstrate the capability of a B58 Stra tegic Air Command (SAC) bomber with its regular SAC crew of three men. The plane was reluelcd five limes in the air as il raced over its west-east course. Kennedy sid: Wilson Bids High For FS Timber .Steve 0. Wilson, White City, was high bidder this week for 2,750.000 board feet of national forest timber in the Hurryon Blowdown area. Union Creek flanger district, Rogue River National Forest. Forest Supervisor C. E. Brown reported the high bid to taled $47,417. The forest serv ice appraised price for the tim ber was $17,393.50. Next high bidder in the oral auction was Olson Lawyer Lumber, Inc. Medford. The timber in the unit consist ed of 710.000 board feet of Doug las - fir bid at $30.95 per thou sand, 470,000 board feet of pines bid at $15 per thousand, 500.000 board feet of Shasta red fir bid at $14.85 per thousand, and 1 070,000 board feet of white fir and other species bid at $10.25 per thousand board feet. Pendleton Area Fire Controlled PENDLETON (UPI) - Fire fighters controlled a 500-a ere range and forest fire 30 miles east of here late Tuesday. . The blaze, which broke out Monday, had been whipped by high winds and was difficult to qheck. Tuesday afternoon crews got a fire-line around the blaze, and controlled it when t h e winds died down. Ti On Screen 7 pm & 1 1 :20 pm mi (TOR OiVES- rrnuni milt) I JAMBtWITOf MtV MSUttfH ruiiUA ' u riHiv wuuow wiwcm-MirHwit """il. riiwM v !' ra ki,wi noaraj" aaawt'Sal 2nd Wonderful Comedyl JACKIE SUN GIGDT Gold Hill Jury Fails To Bring Back Verdict GOLD HILL A jury trial for Edward George Sommcr in Gold Hill Justice Court Monday fail ed to bring a verdict because members of the jury could not agree. Sommer appeared on a charge of violation of the basic rule, according to Judge Nor man R. Mattcson. Matteson said it will now be up to the district attorney wnetner the case will be re tried. GOOD EXCUSE GONE SAVANNAH, Ga. (UPI)-The common cold no longer will be an acceptable excuse for miss ing school, the Chatham Coun ty School Board said Tuesday. Acting on a recommendation of the Georgia Medical Society, the board said that a student with a cold should go to school unless he has a temperature of 99.8 degrees or higher. Everybody's Pal Take a tip from Santa make this sock-doll now. Avoid last minute bustle. Use man's Size-12 sock for jolly, winking Santa il is just the size doll tots love. Pattern 7432: face pattern, doll clothes; directions. THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (coins) for this pattern add 15 cents for each pattern for first-class mail ing and special handling. Send to Alice Brooks, Medford Mail Tribune, Needlecraft Dept., P.O. Box 163, Old Chelsea Station, New York 11, N.Y. Print plainly NAME, ADDRESS and PAT TERN NUMBER. 206 HANDICRAFT HITS in our big, big, new 1964 Needlecraft Catalog, out now! See toys, fash ions, crewelwork, heirlooms, gifts, bazaar hits everything to crochet, knit, sew, weave, em broider, quilt, smock. Send 25c right now. Weather FORECASTS t in-imlv Fair tn night and Thunday, except for morning low nouas or log. mnu niRht 45. Hish Thursday nrar 80. wesiern uiek morning log or low clouds. Sunny Thursday afternoon. Continued I ... tnmirht 44-A2. Hich Thursday 64-74. Northern caliiornia: rair i night and Thursday. Utile temper ature change. l.m Al. U.A 1 .1 day 37; above normal 2. Record high tnis naie nn in i:"" Record low this date 27 In 1938. KMW.iri iniiui". " ....... - midnight. .01 Inch. Midnight to 10 'Total this month .43 Inch. .38 Inch below normal. Total since :epi. i, -on mm. Inch below normal. HUMIDITY: Lowest yesterday 58'., highest thii a m 86. city Yester- a.m. Hr. day Low Trer. BrnnbinH 61 M -16 36 .12 35 36 48 46 S3" 46 nr. nl Pass .... 63 .13 .10 Howard Prairie .. Klamath Falls .. . 62 MEDFORD 66 Portland . ... 72 Seattle '2 Spokane 72 Yaki ma . -77 Eureka 61 Red Bluff 6"1 ar-ramntn 73 San Francisco . 64 70 Los Angeles sn 62 Phoenix J3 Denver ,n Chicago 74 Miami Beach fin New York 19 Washington. D C 77 36 44 FIVE-DAY FOnETAST (Thrnuch on. 21): WMtfrn OrtconWfifrn Wash ington Tempf ratm-M vrginf hove normal. Hichs niosllv in fin., and low 70$ in wwt?rn Wah incton nd in 70i in wmlern Orr Enn Lou? m 40s und low 5 A few ihower penooV mostly about Thursday and Sunday. Vnrihfrn California Nn prrnp- Itntton hkfly. excfpt pnibility of truce north portion aMr half of f prrlod. Temperatures nfr normal. 7432 Vj3 Full Length Color Movie Expedition -Queen of Shcba Dr. Wendell Phillips Public Invited Wed., Oct. 16, 7: JO PJft. first Presbyterian Charch 8th ami Hlly Streeti Man Steps Into -Third Dimensional Living, Fry Says Men have now stepped into third dimensional living area and thinking can no longer be on a two dimensional level. This view was expressed by Daniel W. Fry, author and for mer missile engineering execu tive in a luncheon address here Tuesday before the Medford Ro tary club. There is scientific and statis tical basis for the knowledge that this planet has been under observation of people from oth er planets for many thousands of years, Fry claimed. There is specific evidence in the Bible of at least 18 visits to earth by material craft from outer space. Once the people of this planet believed themselves to be the center of the universe, the speaker said in his address at the Rogue Valley Country club. Their ego took a blow when they discovered that the earth merelv revolves arnunrl the sun. An even greater jolt to smug uui ignorani inuauj i a n i s oi earth was the understanding that the sun is an insignificant star in a galaxy that has 100 billion stars. An even greater blow was suf fered when it was discovered that the earth's galaxy is but one of at least 100 billion gal axies known today. Fry said. "The time is here when we must move out of our own back yard," Fry told Rotar i a n s. Space craft as the public knows them today are obsolete, he em phasized, in predicting the de velopment of a inter - planetary vehicle which will utilize the gravitational field mechanism method of propulsion. News About Servicemen ABOARD SHIP Gunner's Male Second Class Garrett L. Larson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe L. Larson, Prospect, is serving aboard the destroyer tender USS Isle Roy alc. operating out of Long Beach, Calif. ADVANCED TRAINING Army Pvt. Howard E. John son, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Johnson, 534 Fairvicw St., Ash land, has completed advanced training in tactical combat skills at Ford Hood, Tex. He is a graduate of Ashland High school. AT SCHOOL Army Pvt. Michael C. Red head, whose wife lives at route 1, Central Point, completed an eight-week radio relay and car rier operation course at the Southeastern Signal school, Ft. Gordon, Ga., in September. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. Robert Redhead live at 241 Vilas rd., west. Redhead entered the Army in April this year and completed basic combat training at Ft. Ord, Calif. He is a 1962 graduate of Crater High school. PARTICIPATES Marine Pvt. James H. Row den, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Rowden, route 1. Jacksonville, serving with the First battalion, Seventh Marine regiment, First Marine division, participated in amphibious operations conduct ed off the California coast. 4-H NEWS Antelope Livestock Cluh EAGLE POINT Next meet ing of the Antelope Livestock club will be held at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 9 at the Eagle Point Grange hall. The Nov. 9 meeting will be the achievement night and pot luck dinner. During its recent meeting in the Antelope school house, the club members discussed the 4-H summer school and fair. Four new members were in troduced: Susan Lathrop, Ward Conger, both in beef; Ron Mor ficld and Darlene Barton, both in dairy. Jary Hansen talked about the Rogue Valley Junior Hereford association and asked people to join. Leader Ron Anderson urged everyone with Hcrcfords for a beef project to join. Kathy Pritchard, Reporter mm "FOR LOVE OR MONEY" and "List o the Adrian Messenger" MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON HELICOPTER CRASHES A New York Airways helicopter crashed at Idlcwild Airport in New York Monday, claiming six lives. The engine is shown in the foreground. (UPI) Child Health Gains Achieved in Area In Past 12 Years Marked gains in child health have been achieved in Medford over a 12-year period, accord ing to the latest Government figures. As a result, a baby born in the local area today has a much better chance of weathering his first year of life and of coping with the hazards of early child hood than did his father and mother, when they were born. Special interest attaches to the matter of infant mortality at this time because of the re cent loss of the Kennedy baby, shortly after birth. The nationwide figures, re leased by the National office of Vital Statistics, reveal that there has been a drop of 31.1 per cent since 1948 in the mor tality rate among Medford chil dren under the age of one. Died Before One At that time, exclusive of stillbirths and deaths of non residents, 44.4 out of every 1,000 local children died before reach ing their first birthday. By way of comparison, : the figures show that the rate had been brought down to 30.6 per 1,000 by 1960. Throughout (he rest of the Step-Down Station Completed bvPP&UI i it Eagle Point's electric energy needs are being supplied from a new facility following the com pletion of Pacific Power and Light company's new step-down station located cast of town, the company announced. tEagle Point distribution sys -Camp White substation near COMPANY ANNOUNCED. The installation will be fed from PP&L's new 12.000 volt distribution feeder from lhe tamp wnitc substation near White City. The station will con vert the 12.000 - volt energy to 4.000 volts for delivery over the Eagle Point distribution sys tem. Frank Bencsh, Medford district manager, explained. The step down tower and transformers are located along the route of the new distribution line which was finished a few months ago at a cost of about $50,000. Installation of the new facility will help ensure dependable service to PP&L customers in the Eagle Point area, Benesh noted. The old step-down bank, serving the town since 1912, will be dismantled and removed. LAST BIG WEEK! MISS "NORWAY" ANN INGE-The West's Most Beautiful Harem Dancer Appearing in 3 Shows Nightly Bringing Exotic Dances From tha Far East Pepper Neeley Capitol Recording Star, Popular Singer and writer of such songs as "Kansas City," "Cadillac Car" and others also in 3 Shows Nitely. HI All On the Same Big Bill at the Popular HOTEL MEDFORD iiiWiiii aft country, the infant death rate varies over a wide range. The state with the best record is Utah, with a rate of 19.6 for every 1,000 live births. Lowest on the list is Mississippi, with 11.6. Alaska is next, with 40.5. The United Stales average is 26.0. For the Pacific States it is 23.6. While great progress has been made over the years in reducing the toll, there is still a long way to go, the report points out. Lags Behind This country lags behind 10 other nations, notably the Neth erlands and Sweden, who lead the world with a rate of 15.3. Among the others are Norway, with in. 9, Australia, 19.5, and the United Kingdom, 22.1. Those with poorer records than ours include Japan, Canada and Ger many. According to Mrs. Kathcrine B. Octtinger, chief of the U. S. Children's Bureau, inadequate prenatal care is a major factor in the failure to reduce infant mortality more rapidly. The 31.1 per cent reduction recorded in Medford in a period of 12 years is relatively good It compares favorably with the 18.7 per cent drop in the United States and with the 15.7 drop in the Pacific States. Locals Flue Fire Medford firemen were called about 1:15 o'clock this morning when a flue fire occurred at the home of Joe E. Nikodym, 1115 Pinccroft ave. They put out a trash fire at 2 White Oak dr. about 9:15 p.m. yesterday. Car Fire Hood and fenders of a car were scorched by fire about 6:15 p.m. yesterday at 27 Hawthorne ave., Medford firc ment reported. They said gaso line, leaking from the carbure tor, caused wiring to ignite. Car owner was Mrs. Dora Rogers, firemen said. Clothing Drive The United Clothing Appeal of Church World Service now is under way in Oregon. Usable clean cloth ing, blankets and men's and children's shoes are needed. Items may be turned in at any church, Mrs. C. C. Peter son, drive chairman for Med ford states. Additional informa tion may be obtained from her at 664-1749. lod The "Merritones" fitting the evening with the most danceeble music in town. They play your kind of music and lend terrific V I backgrour 1 I to all 6 J every nig und Support actt ight. School News Jackson School Reporters: Julia Beach, Deborah Axtrll There are 30 members in band this year. There are 17 girls and 13 boys. There are 10 sixth graders and 20 beginners. lhe band will be separated for a couple of months, the ad vanced band will meet on Tues day and the beginners' band on Thursday. By Christmas, most or the players in the beginners' band should be able to join the ad vanced band for the Christmas program. The Jackson school orchestra is off to a good start with 18 members. At present time, the group is divided into eight ex perienced players and 10 new players. Our beginning group meets during activity period on Tuesday and the advanced class during the activity period on Thursday. Students wanting ex tra help may also come on Thursday morning. There is a new teacher at Jackson school. Her name is Mrs. Wayne Jamison. This is her first year of teaching. Mrs. Jamison has lived in Medford since 1918. She attended the University of Oregon and South ern Oregon college. The new secretary's name is Shirley Monroe. She has lived in Medford five years. She came from St. Louis, Mo. National School lunch pro gram will be observed at Jack son school. Invitations have been sent to parents, school board members, and central of fice personnel to view our lunch program. Hedrick Junior High The eighth grade spelling team tied the McLoughlin team in a spelldown on KM ED-TV recently. Team members from Hedrick were Jan Price, Jan Torheim, Charlotte Whalen and Larry Six. Next Thursday evening s spelldown will be between the ninth grade teams from the two junior high schools. The Hed rick ninth grade team members are Tom Durante, Jo Anne Longmore, Joan Hinkle and Tom Bolton. The spelldown will be telecast at 6:30 p.m. On Fridav. Oct. 18, the scv. enth crade will hold its annual dance and parly in ine scnooi cafeteria. Refreshments will be served and live entertainment will be provided by various students, among which are Neva Rich, Steve Horton, Bill Stump and a German band called the "Hungry Five." Various committee members are decorations, Joan Leonard and David Orr; entertainment, Linda Lcmly and Orval Endi- rott: Ickcts. Urea unocri, re freshments, Marcy Martcll; and J records, Shelly Mitchell. A number of other students also are helping on the committees. Both Hedrick and McLoughlin Junior High schools are giving free "please do not disturt) signs for any homes of elderly or sick people who do not wish in hs disturbed on Halloween. These signs may be obtained by calling the junior high school in your area. Students at all schools are being instructed to respect the signs when . "trick or treating." JOE OR IVAN ROME (UPI) Italian par ents soon may be able to name their children Joe or Ivan. The cabinet voted Tuesday night to submit a bill repealing an old Fascist law that Italian children could not be given for eign first names. CHUCK MOR 1016 N. Riverside - Ph. 773-3681 COMPLETE Parties Organizations Croups Recoptions Timber Salvaging By BLM Proceeding According to Plan Salvage of timber damaged by the Columbus Day storm in 1962 is proceeding on schedule, ac cording to managers of the five bureau of land management dis tricts in western Oregon. The managers recently met in Eugene to assess the prog ress of work being done to get windthrown trees out of the woods. Soon after the storm hit a year ago, foresters estimated that about l'i billion board feet of timber had been damaged on BLM administered lands in western Oregon. Job Placements High in September GRANTS PASS More place ments were made last month through the Grants Pass office of the state employment serv ice than during any other Sep tember since 1955, according to Don Stifflcr, manager of the local office which services Jose phine county, Glcndale and Rogue River areas. Local unemployment totals started on a slight uptrend by the last of the month, however, with out-of-state, claimants con tinuing to dominate unemploy ed insurance activities. Out-of-state workers accounted for 52.6 per cent of all claims taken during the month. Jobs vacated by students re turning to school were a main source of local employment op portunities during September. Stifflcr said. Another significant source was 32 new jobs created by local accelerated public works projects. The majority of retailers re ported a better than usual Sep tember after a spotty summer. City building permits issued dur ing the month held up well, to taling $133,450. Stifflcr said that although tourist industry employers will begin staff reductions retailers will add extra workers, and em ployment should remain strong through October. Mrs. E. B. Hanley Dies in Seattle Mrs. E. B. (Elizabeth) Hanley of Hanley Lands, Ross Lane, widow of the late E. B. Handley, member of the pioneer Hanley family and long time industrial ist of Seattle and Alaska, died early Wednesday morning in Se attle. Mrs. Hanley and her daughter, Mrs. Katheryn Hanley Hcffer nan, went to Seattle this week to visit her son, E. B. Hanley Jr. Word of her unexpected death was received by her grandson, Robert D. Heffernan Jr., Med ford lawyer, who left immedi ately for the northern city. Also surviving are two nieces, Miss Martha Hanley and Miss Mary Hanley of Jacksonville. LEARN TO SQUARE DANCE ms WAGON fffflfCff 10 2 P-m- Weekdays You May Tike all you can eal 2W0S2&L'r. r Served 12 to 8 Sundays and Holidays "RED CARPET" Sheltored, Carpeted entrance to the Main Door WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 16, 1963 State Director Russell E. Get ty announced this week that es sentially all of the damaged timber has now been prepared for sale and in addition another half billion board feet of inter mingled green timber had been included in sale plans. Sales Are Completed Sale of l's billion board feet has actually been completed during the year since the storm and about half that much has been logged by timber purchas ers, Getty said. By December, essentially all timber damaged in the Columbus day storm will have been offered for bids. About 10 per cent of the to tal amount of damaged timber is scattered in remote, inacces sible locations and will be sal vaged later during' the normal harvesting process. Work still remains to be done, according to Getty, in offering some ad ditional timber which was wind- thrown during a storm on March 27. Wind damaged timber nlus sold totaled 1,457,912.7 thousand I me intermingled green timber, board feet for a total price of $34,473,900.08. Of this total, 21, 110.7 thousand board feet of timber was from the Medford district. It brought $531,823:84. Woods Work Completed Woods work was completed on nearly two billion board feet of timber during the same period. The salvage sales represented 77 per cent of the total volume sold in Oregon during the past 12 months. The total volume amounted to 1,901.345,300 board feet valued at $42,858,153.91. Sales normally would have to taled about 1.2 billion board feet had it not been necessary to salvage the storm damaged tim ber, the state director explained. About 20 foresters and other qualified personnel from east ern Oregon and other places were temporarily detailed to the districts hardest hit to assist in planning roads, locating bound ary lines, and estimating tim- U.. ..l..mn nntl., oirl All ....."". i . ' if last month. BLM operations arc returning to normal now although limber nurchasers are continuing on a major cftort to Ret tne logs out of the woods as soon as pos sible. 'Bosses Night' Set By Medford Jaycees "Bosses Night" will be ob served by the Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in North's Chuck Wagon restaurant. The annual event Is planned to honor employers of Jaycees and to give them an opportunity to become better acquainted with the organization. The proj ects launched by the Jaycees (or the "good of the commu nity" are highlighted at this annual mcct'-g, according to Jaycce officials. Starting Monday Oct. 14, 8 to 10 pm FIRST 2 LESSONS FREE! (then 50c per perion per lesson) AT COUNTRY SQUARE TALENT Squire Dance Hall. One mile west of Talent Junction on Colver Road. Instructor Floyd Workman Sponsored by Buckles & Bows Square Dance Club tor information call 5351 150 CHILDREN'S PRICES TREATMENT Facilities avablahje (or school groans, Wm, church groups, prMpn use or catering 1 Safeway Store In Ashland Serves As Pilot Program ASHLAND - The new Safe way store in Ashland is serving as a pilot operation for the Safe way company in an expanded non-foods section, according to Henry Cavallo, store manager, in a talk for the Ashland Cham ber of Commerce Tuesday. This is the first store in tha Portland division of Safeway to carry such a large non-foods section in a "rural" area, Caval lo explained. The store has an expanded toy section, sporting goods, drapery, hardware, glassware and men's and women's wear, items not us ually found in Safeway stores except in some large metropoli tan areas. Large Outdoor Murals Another unusual aspect of the Ashland store, the manager said, is the presence of several large outdoor murals, designed in a Shakespearean theme to tis in with the Ashland area. Cavallo, who has lived most of his life in eastern Oregon, said he was surprised at the "phenomenal growth" that ap pears to be taking place in l'o Rogue valley. He said the Safe way company had a survey J"8?0 w!)ich Indicated that Med ium miu AMiianu are ine iwo fastest growing areas in Oregon. The new store has 41 em ployees, 30 of them full-time. Many of them are local persons, he said. As a further boost for the Ash land area, Cavallo reported thtt a photo of the new store is scheduled to appear on the cover of Safcway's annual report to its stockholders. Donations Near Half Way Mark in Drive Donations to the United Cru sade in Jackson county ap proached the 50 per cent mark: this week with $82,811, or 46 per cent of the $180,040 goal, turned in. Chairman Jerry Mc Grew reported. Largest gain during the past week was made by Forest Prod- ucts under Division Leader An effort is being made to reach the $100,000 level by the next report meeting, scheduled Oct. 21 at the American Red Cross chapter house, the chair man said. at . . - ..... MM CJaTvJ'' i SUSAN PETER HAYWARD FINCH THURS. FRI. SAT. MARLON MONTGOMERY! BRANDO - CLIFT -MARTIN. CiNa .scope -A I I JUl CUIM NtCHMO MUU 11 I llPf MURPHY, CROWLEY DRAKE HMOU) ISTONI'SllIf H0XI1CR 3 ) C0NtNJu LOUNGE (j T.".1!1 parking CO
