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Christmas Season Stamps Now on Sale At Post Office H ere Postage stamps honorine the Christmas season went on sale today at the Medford post of fice and all the branches and substations, Al Bradford, acting Medford postmaster, reported. The post office department, vyhich ran out of Christmas stamps last year, the first year that a special stamp was is sued for Christmas season, has issued more than 10 times as many of the stamps this year in hopes of supplying the mail ing public as long as Christ mas mail is moving, Bradford stated. JThe national supply totals 2 billion stamps, Bradford said, and he has ordered 300,000 stanmps for the Medford de mand. Stamps Sold Out JThe Medford post office, a lqng with offices all over the nation, sold out the special stamps the first week they went on sale and requests for the stamps continued. Last year the post office de partment officials, Bradford ex plained, were a little hesitant about promoting the stamp for ff ir that it might be considered iq competition with the Tuber culosis Christmas Seals. They found there was no conflict. A postage stamp was needed to. carry TB seals to their des tination and people seemed to prefer the Christmas postage stamp for all Yuletide uses. This year the department is therefore giving the Christmas postage stamp a real push. The stamp adopted this year has a blue background and is a painting of the lighted Pres idential tree in front of the White House. It was designed by Lily Spandorf, formerly of Vienna, who has been in the United States only two years. Reminder Issued Bradford also issued a re minder today to post office pa trons regarding mail to the armed forces. Parcels and greeting cards mailed by surface transporta tion to the armed forces over seas should be in the mail by Nov. 20 to insure delivery in time for Christmas, he noted. Suggested dates for mailing airmail parcels and greeting cards are between Dec. land Dec. 10. Armed forces overseas WRESTLING Medford Armory TONITE! Nov. 14-8:30 P.M. TAG TEAM MATCH Featuring HAYSTACK CALHOUN World's Biggest Wrestler Plus 2 Other Matches Ringside $2.00 General 1.50 Children, under 12 .75 Tickets Jt Lamport's Mm GREATEST "ROCK-A-BYE" at 7 P.M. & 10:40 P.M. "SHIP" it 9 P.M. y UWIS I FUNNIEST l.y-.- '"" I I zaniesti gQJLJLL JL-A s-r-.. flagS? J i , r - ' addresses are all APO numbers or FPO numbers at San Fran cisco, New York or Seattle. . All articles should be packed in strong boxes with a heavy paper wrapping and securely tied and addressed in ink or by typewriter. Controversial Television Show Canceled by BBC LONDON (UPI)-More con troversy today greeted the news that the government-owned Brit ish Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) is canceling Britain's most con troversial television show, which once made fun of Queen Eliza beth. "That Was The Week That Was," a ribald, irreverent video satire, will go off Dec. 28 be cause general elections are scheduled next year, the BBC announced Wednesday. The cancellation of the show was announced three days after the debut of an American ver sion which was staged by the National Broadcasting Com pany. Politics make up a major por tion of the show's satire, the BBC explained, and it would be extremely difficult to treat the mattof fairly in an election year. Reaction Loud Reaction to the show's demise was prompt and loud. Sir Cyril Osborne, a conserv ative member of parliament, said he was "damn pleased. It wasn't English at all." Labor party leader Haorld Wilson charged "political pres sure" was behind the move but the BBC denied this. The BBC is a government- owned corporation, financed by annual taxes on radio and tel evision sets. But it operates in dependently and without direct control of its political content. All of London's daily news papers put the news in front page headlines and some charged that the show's death was forced by disgruntled poli ticians or embarrassed BBC ex ecutives. That Was The Week That Was which came to be known as TWTWTW and later as sim ply TW3 based its Saturday h.giiL shows on the. events of the previous week and evolved a loose-knit cabaret style that was used to poke fun at such sacred institutions as religion and royalty. I Births D'OLIVIO To Mr. and Mrs. David L., 432 Ray Lane, Ash land, Nov. 12, 19G3, a girl, 6 pounds, at Rogue Valley Hos pital. MILLARD - To Mr. and Mis. Jerome Dee, 1118 S. Holly St., Medford, Nov. 12, 1963, a girl, 9 pounds, at Rogue Valley Hos pital. WHEELER To Mr. and Mrs. Russell Ned, 403!! DeBarr Ave., Medford, Nov. 12, 1963, a boy, 8V4 pounds, at Rogue Val ley Hospital. Hedrick Jr. Hi Gym Medford TUESDAY-NOV. 19 8:00 P.M. Reserved $2.00 General $1.50 Students $1.00 Children 50 Tickets at lAMPORT'S BUD'S TIRE EXCHANGE illilHWlUI Kennedy Starts Five-Day Trip; Address Slated WASHINGTON (UPI)-Presi-dent Kennedy departs today on a five-day trip that will find him speaking before business and labor groups, watching a Polaris missile-firing at sea, and delivering a major address on Latin America. The Chief Executive arranged his schedule to combine brief ings on the nation's military readiness with a relaxing week end at his Palm Beach, Fla., winter retreat. Kennedy begins his journey with a helicopter hop to the Maryland - Delaware state line this afternoon for a ribbon cutting ceremony officially opening a - new toll road de signed to reduce the driving time between New York and Washington. The new route, a 59-mile seg ment known as the Northeast ern Expressway Interstate Route 95, is located parallel to old U.S. Route 40, a neon lighted road long considered one of the most hideous as well as dangerous stretches of high way in the East. Governors To Participate Govs. J. Millard Tawes of Maryland and Elbert N. Carvel of Delaware will participate in the ceremonies. The President will then heli copter to the Great Wilming ton, Del., Airport to board a DC6 for the flight to New York's Laguardia Airport. The White House said Ken nedy had decided to dispense with the usual police' motorcy cle escort and would motor from Laguardia to the Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan without the usual accompaniment of screaming sirens. Kennedy is scheduled to ap pear at 11 a.m. EST Friday at the AFL-CIO's fifth biennial convention to address the 1,200 delegates. AFL-CIO President George Meany and Walter P. Reuther, president of the Unit ed Auto Workers and an AFL CIO vice president, are strong Kennedy backers. The President planned to fly from New York to Palm Beach Friday afternoon. Plans Canaveral Visit On Saturday mornine. his schedule included a brief but busy trip to Cape Canaveral, his first since Sept. 11, 1962. Be sides a helicopter look at the Merritt Island moon shot site. he will be briefed by National Aeronautics and Space Admin istration (NASA) and Air Force officials on the mighty Saturn rocket that will be used in the moon probe. Moving to other launch com plexes by car, he will get the latest word on the two-man or bital Gemini program and the Titan II booster for that pre- Apollo shot, expected sometime in 19(55. Finally, from the deck of a missile support ship 25 miles at sea, Kennedy will view the fir ing of a Polaris missile under water from the new nuclear powered submarine Andrew Jackson. From there the president will fly to Palm Beach for a quiet weekend. Weather FORECASTS Mcrirord and vicinity: Showers tonight. Rainy and cooler Friday with snow level lowering to 4.000 feet. Low tonight 38. High Friday 47. We;.tern OreRon: Cloudy with in Icrniittent rain tonight and Fri day. Cooler with low tonight 40 45. High Friday 46-52. Northern California: Rain over entire area tonight. Showers Fri day. Snow level In mountains down to 5.000 feet in extreme north. I.OCAI, DATA TEMPERATURE: Mean ycsler dav 52; above normal 8. Record high this date 68 in 1D34. Record low this date 10 in 1016, PRECIPITATION: 24 hours to midnight, .02 inch. Midnight to 10 a.m., 1.30 inch. Total this month 2 27 inches. 1.23 inch above normal. Total since Sept. I. 3.04 inches, .36 inch above normal. HUMIDITY: Lowest yesterday 55'r, highest this am. 100';. High 4:00 21- CITY Yefctrr- a.m. hr. dav Low Pror. Brookings 50 .")4 1.07 Crater Lake 40 .'12 1.3f Grants Pass 5B 48 .88 Howard Prairie ,. 47 3!) -41 Klamath Falls .... 48 4'2 .11 MEDFORD 50 50 .07 Portland .53 48 .77 48 ""48 44 44 56 Seattle 51 Spokane 47 Yakima 51 Eureka Red Bluff Sacramento San Francisco Los Angeles 58 67 (.5 64 Phoenix 82 Denver ... ... 40 Chicago 42 Miami Beach . ... 75 New York 4t Washington, D. C. 32 MEDFORD Broadway Theater League Opens Its Season in Medford There's a line in "A Thousand Clowns" in which Donald Barry., playing the role of an insecure television actor, says "maybe I'm just having an off-day." Well, maybe that line could be applied to last night's perform ance of "Clowns" which opened the season here for the Medford Broadway Theater League. Per haps the cast was just having an off-night. This play by Herb Gardner, whom we are told has been hailed by New York critics and playgoers as an "important new talent," does have its moments. The playwright may have no significant message, but many of the lines are pungent and the situations should be sure - fire with audiences at least they are the same situations which we have been meeting in the so called Broadway comedy for quite a few years now. The play's main claim f o r worth is to point up the un realistic attitudes and confused methods which sometimes infil trate social service work. John Ireland, in the role of Murray Burns, a rebel who has tired of his job as a television writer and is a little sick of the world in general, is billed as the star. Ireland is a competent actor who has had scores of good roles in television, movies and on the stage, but a star should shine, and he didn't last night. His performance, how ever, was much better than those of his supporting cast. Considerable Appeal Young Gregg Weir, cast as Murray's nephew whom ho is trying to raise with some of his uncle's rebel viewpoints, has considerable appeal but many of his lines were lost to the audi ence because of poor diction and his Brooklyn or maybe it is Bronx accent. Nancy Douglas is cast as San dra Markowitz, a young welfare worker who decides that she isn't fitted for her job because she becomes too emotionally in volved in the lives of her cases. The audience is willing to agree on this point, since she in volves" herself to the point of Hit, Run Reported Hazel Cora Larson, 774 Queens Drive, Medford, reported a hit and run accident which resulted in damage to her car while it was parked on Sixth Street between Riverside Avenue and Bartlett Street, according to city police report Tuesday. Tools Missing Barney A. Nunley, 59 Rose Ave., Medford, reported the theft of tools, val ued at $150, from a pickup parked at his residence to city police Tuesday. M. Houston Hurt, 2629 Table Rock Road, Medford, reported the theft of two tires, tubes and wheels, val ued at $160. Laird Cilcd Philip Marvin Laird, 2397 N. Eighth St., Coos Bay, was cited by city police for making an improper left turn in connection with a non injury accident in Medford Tuesday. The Laird vehicle col lided with one operated by John Brooks Spain, Medford, at Jack son Street and North Central Avenue. Fence Permitted The Ore gon Bank was issued a building permit Wednesday for construc tion of a fence at 1025 Court St., Medford, at a cost of $1,200. Business Names The busi ness name The Sugar Shack at 414 E. Main St., has been as sumed by Floyd Courtright, 401 S. Peach St., and George Lovcn borg, 618 Dakota Ave., accord ing to records in the Jackson County recorder's office. Flown North Two valley residents were recently flown to Veterans Administration Hospi tal for medical treatment. Flown by Mercy Flights Inc., Tuesday was Robert Wallace of the Rob inson Hotel, Medford, who went to Vancouver, Wash. He was the 1,639th patient to be flown by the non profit air ambulance service since it was organized. The other patient, flown to Port land, was Ashland Police Of ficer Glenn Cathcy. Electrical Short Medford firemen were dispatched to the residence of Robert L. Merritt, 32 N. Peach St., about 9:05 p.m. yesterday when an electrical short was reported. They said there was no fire apparent and stood by until an electrician ar rived to determine the location of the short. Surgery Patient Wallace E. Shields, 4074 S Pacific Highway, Medford, is a surgery patient at Sacred Heart Hospital. "Woman of the World" end Merlon Brendo in "The Ugly American" !p 1 I Locals MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON spending the night with a man sne met only that morning. We're willing to believe that Miss Douglas has talent, but perhaps it is poor direction that allows her to play almost the entire evening with a wide-eyed stare, a fixed smile and a mo notonous voice level. There's another line in the play which we recall, one where Sidney Rayder, another welfare worker, says in effect, "This sounds like I wrote it out just before I said it." He did, indeed, sound that way much of the time and so did Miss Douglas. Enlivens Things Donald Barry was Chuckles the Chipmunk, a pitiful actor who knows how terrible his show is and admits that even his own children don't think he's very funny. He enlivens things a bit, but since he doesn't come on stage until the play is more than half over, and has only one scene, he doesn't have much of an opportunity to prove his worth. Then there's Murray's broth er, the solid citizen who does everything right and who tries to help. Robert Alvin does well in the meager role. . The applause at the end of the performance was perfunc tory, and so was the acknowl edgment from the cast. Even the bows and smiles seemed routine, and w it h o u t real warmth. It must have been an off-night. They really do happen in the theater. It might be well to remembe; that most of the productions brought here by the Broadway Theater League the past two seasons have been worth seeing, and that t h u three remaining plays should offer more than this first one. "A Man for All Seasons" has been generally ac claimed by both critics and playgoers as a fine drama, and "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" has been exceptionally well receiv ed. The season could still be a good one. O.S. Obituaries JACK J. WEDDLE Funeral services for Jack J Weddle, 67, of 1059 Morrow Koad, who died Tuesdav. will be held al 1:30 p.m. Friday at Perl Funeral Home. The Rev. George R. V. Bol ster, rector ol St. Mark s EpiS' copal Church, will officiate. Committal services at Siskivnu Memorial Park will be conduct ed by officers of the Medford Uiks Lodge. Mr. Weddle was born June 4, 1896, in Florence, Ore. He lived in Portland for 25 years where he was employed in wholesale lumber sales. He moved to Med ford in 1947 and was sales man ager at White City Lumber Co. for five years. For the past six years, he had been sales manager for Delah Timber Products. He was a member of the Medford Elks Lodge, the Lake view Masonic Lodge, Scottish Rite and Hillah Temple Shrine. On Dec. 29, 1916, in Vancou ver, Wash., he was married to Fanny Belle Clark, who sur vives. Other survivors include one son, Robert J. Weddle, Van Nuys, Calif.; three daughters, Mrs. Joyce Elbon, Seaside, Ore.; Mrs. Jean Freeman, Portland, Ore.; Mrs. Donna Hess, Med ford; two brothers, Ernest Wed dle, Portland, Gilbert Weddle, Los Angeles, Calif.; six grand children and one great grand child. Honorary casket bearers will be Wayne Chase, Dr. Charles Lemery, Elbert F. Coleman, R. 0. Stevenson, George G. Moore, Ernie Devoe, John Mc- Cabe, William Schie, Lloyd Bish op, Bob Rupert, 0. D. Martin and Bob Lockwood. Active bearers will be Pete Petrehn, Ed Pease, Tex Bewlcy, Wesley H. Riley, George Loven burg and John Graves. FRANK II. SANKEY Funeral services for Frank B. Sankey, 79, of 237 N. Grapi St., Pablo's MEXICAN DINNERS ; 1789 Stewart Ave. Ph. 779-1328 ! 5 to 10 P.M. Daily Except Mon, New Hampshire Senator Accepts Goldwater Delay WASHINGTON (UPI) - Sen. Norris Cotton, R-N.H., said to day he had accepted Sen. Bar ry Goldwater's decision to wait until January before announc ing his decision whether to run for president. But Cotton, who has urged Goldwater to declare himself sooner, said he still thought an earlier announcement would be helpful to the Arizona Republi can in the March 10 New Hampshire primary. "He's looking at it from a na tional viewpoint while I'm look ing at it from the viewpoint of a man trying to carry the New Hampshire primary for him," said Cotton. "He makes his own decisions. That's why I'm for him." Cotton is the leader of the Goldwater-for-presidcnt forces in New Hampshire although the Arizona senator has not yet announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination. Announced Entrance Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York announced his can didacy last week and then flew to New Hampshire to open cam paign headquarters. He also an nounced he would enter the New Hampshire p r e s idential pri mary, the nation s first. Since the Rockefeller an nouncement, Goldwater has re iterated that he would not make a decision until Januray about whether to seek the presiden- i tial nomination or to run for re election to the Senate. Cotton said an earlier Gold water announcement for the presidency would be helpful in a number of ways. For exam' pie, he said, a Goldwater head quarters would be established in New Hampshire in a week or so but there would be no candidate to open it as there was the Rockefeller headquar ters. Recruiting Difficult Without an announced candi date, he said, it also is difficult to recruit Republicans for campaign organization or to line up pro-Goldwater national convention delegate candidates to run in the primary. Although New Hampshire will have only 14 of the 1,314 GOP national convention delegates, supporters of both Rockefeller and Goldwater regard it as crucial test. Goldwater is now rated the favorite to win. A defeat for Rockefeller would be an almost fatal blow to his already weak prospects for win ning the nomination. Goldwater backers believe their candidate could virtually wrap up the nomination by victory in New Hampshire. They fear that Rockefeller may pull up on Goldwater in that state because of head start in the campaign. SUPPORT URGED PORTLAND fUPD-The leg islative committee of the Ore gon School Boards Association has recommended that mem bers support a bill before the special session of the legislature that would cut state aid to local school districts by $12 million. who died Tuesday, will be held at 1 p.m. Friday in Conger-Morris Chapel, with the Ashland Elks Lodge officiating. Commit tal will be in Mountain View Cemetery, Ashland. Mr. Sankey was born July 13, 1884, in Missouri, and had lived in Southern Oregon for 41 years. He was a long-time member of the Ashland Elks Lodge. He was married May 13, 1909, in Med ford, to Genevieve Goodwyn, who preceded him in death. Survivors Include a daughter, Mrs. W. G. McCarthy, Napa, Calif.; a son, Frank Sankey Jr., Walnut Creek, Calif.; four grand children, one great grandson, and a niece. Casket bearers will be from the Elks Lodge. SQUARE DANCE LESSONS STAR PROMENADERS Introductory Session SUNDAY, NOV. 17th 2:00 TILL 5:00 P.M. COUNTRY SQUARE CLOVER LANE -TALENT Come as our guest First 2 lessons FREE FOR INFORMATION CAll DAYS 773-6355 EVENINGS 779-1801 Thit Specs Courteiy SAMBO'S PANCAKES Litterbugs Cost Taxpayers $100 Million Each Year NEW YORK, N. Y. - The needless expenditure of a hun dred million tax dollars each year is making a growing num ber of U. S. taxpayers hot un der the collar. This is the assertion of Fed eral Highway Adminis t r a t o r Rex M. Whitton, in estimating (lie nation's yearly highway clean-up bills. Litter in bits, pieces, hand- fuls, heaps and mounds is adding up to a mountainous waste of public funds. "And why?" irate citizens might ask. The answer, irom goveri:ir.ent officials and crusading individu als, is this: "Simply because the motoring public seems to consider the countryside its own private dumping ground." A powerful enemy of the American litterbug. Secretary of Commerce Luther H. Hodges says, "More money, more cars. more good roads together tney spell more litter. Litter is a problem of an Record Timber Cut Noted in Quarter A record timber cut in the Rogue River National Forest has resulted from the efforts of tim ber purchasers to remove blow down timber felled by the 1962 Columbus Day storm, the Med ford office reported this week, releasing figures for the quar ter ending Sept. 30. During this quarter, 105,760,- 960 board feet of timber valued at $1,606,502.13 was logged. The previous high quarter cut was Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, in 1961, when 67,883,000 board feet val ued at $1,399,167 was cut. Timber purchasers worked steadily to remove the timber before deterioration of wood and beetle infestation occurred, C. E. Brown, supervisor of Rogue River National Forest empha sized. Work Extra Hours Log scalers worked extra Payments Balance In Spectacular Dip WASHINGTON (UPI) - The U.S. balance of payments def icit showed an almost spectacu lar decline during the third quarter of the year, the govern ment reported today. The deficit rate fell to an esti mated annual rate of $1.5 bil lion $3.7 billion less than rate for the second quarter, the the Commerce Department said. The report, covering the pe riod July through September, attributed the improvement to a reduction In the amount ot capital flowing overseas from this country. A deficit occurs in the bal ance of payments when the American government, together with businessmen and tourists, spends more dollars overseas than foreigners spend here. Last year's deficit ran to $2.2 billion. Thrusfon Morton Visiting Oregon PORTLAND (UPI) - Sen. Thruston B. Morton, R-Ky., is paying a hurried three-day visit to this area. Morton, former GOP national chairman, is scheduled to speak at a dinner in Vancouver, Wash., tonight. Friday, he speaks at Portland State College and the University of Portland before addressing a $100-dollar-a-plate fund- raising dinner in here that night. Morton will speak to the Til lamook County Central Commit tee in Tillamook Saturday eve ning and then return to Portland to catch a flight for Washington later that night. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1963 affluent society," he adds. While most . motorists con sider their cars pretty well equipped when they have a clock, an FM radio, fancy seat covers, an air conditioner, even a telephone most of them never think to add one of the most necessary accessories of all a simple litterbag for their "travel trash." "Why use a litterbag," seems to be the attitude, "when it's so easy to roll down the window and toss things out?" It's no wonder , a highway maintenance worker for the Arizona State Highway Depart ment recently grumbled, "Some people drop things like this was the city dump." From North Dallas, Texas, there's this comment: "It's a puzzling paradox that people whose houses and lawns are im maculate, whose cars shine in side and out, often are the ones who keep them clean by throw ing out (their trash) everywhere hours measuring the truckloads of logs as they left the forest. Over 250 truckloads per dav were measured at the Prospect log scaling station. The log scalers measure length and di ameter of logs and estimate losses from rot and defect to de termine the board feet in each log. This footage is the basis of stumpage payments to the For est Service. The total volume of blowdown timber sold has reached 133, 175,000 board feet and 35,734,000 remains to be sold this winter. The .original estimate of blow down damage was 81,000,000 board feet and it was made from aerial surveys. Many of the blowdown trees were not visible from the air so the estimate was only 50 per cent correct. Approx 1 m at e 1 y 103.000.000 board feet of the blowdown tim ber has been logged. This rep resents 64 per cent of the esti mated total and shows good progress toward keeping down insect and decay losses. Brown said. 1 he rapid progress of the logging and the end of the fire season will help minimize tim ber damage and losses from the storm, ne concluded. FRI.. I FREE IN-CAR SAT., SUN. HEATERS mnmiwm W,Um (mm RE0tlEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT s , gram and a km I Ml i LS to personal problems. Join Abigail Van Buren, the charm ing counselor who cares. Dial Monday Through Friday at 11:30 A.M. KYJC1230 A 11 they go . . America, with scen ery as lovely as any in the world, deserves better treat ment." States report their highway clean-up costs are staggering. Louisiana's highway director says they spent $227,000 last year to pick up trash, with 'the average cost ranging from $14 a mile to $300 a mile per year in some busy areas. Maine spends over $300,000 a year for street and highway litter re moval, while Washington state tags its bill at $400,000 annually. Bleak as the picture is, there's reason for hope, according to Allen H. Seed, Jr., executive vice president of Keep America Beautiful, Inc., This is the na tional non-profit organization spearheading litter - prevention programs with the aid and co operation of government, indus try, labor, and public - interest groups throughout the country. "People are aroused," Allen Seed commented.'They're wa king up to the fact that the care less habit of littering is not only defacing our priceless 'America the Beautiful' but it's draining off tax dollars that could better be spent for more shcools and hospitals, added police and fire protection . all the services that are crying our. for more funds." 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