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MARKET TIPS Little (faaiqe By LEROY INMAN Business News Dspf. Editor Except for minor flucluations in some items due to seasonal chang es, there was nothing startling on the market situation this week." The egg market was reported strength ening just a bit, the price on some grades rising a cent, but with no major change seen in the current great amount of eggs available fur sale. . Likewise little change was seen in meats. Pork and smoked meats remained among the better buys. Beef continues a bit high, but has not shown much change at the re tail level. Salmon is found on some local super markets but the sup ply is short and the price to retail ers is high. Spring lambs, making their appearance in increasing amounts, will be featured by some markets this week. OLD POTATOES will soon be a thing of the past in about 10 days. The Deschutes crop is al ready through. Increased ship ments from new California, dis tricts are dropping the price of new Shatter potatoes, coming in from Edison, Bakersfield and Was co. Shipments and qualitv are im proving daily and the market is reported weakening from that of a week ago when prices reflected sharply upward. I PICKLES CARROTS continue plentiful and the market is firm. The demand for turnips is off, although the qual ity is good. Parsnips and rutabag as are through for the season. The market is off this week on dry onions. Increased shipments from southern California regions have reduced the price to consum ers considerably. LETTUCE continues plentiful and very reasonably priced from several California shipping dis tricts and the quality remains good. Celery also remains good, but the market is a bit higher this week. CORN from the imperial and Coachilla valleys is coming in in increased amounts, and the quality is reported much improved. Peas are about through in Bakersfield, and there will be no good ones un til the Northern California crop conies on. Beans, also, are scarco. None are being produced on the coast, and only a few are coming through from Mexico. ARTICHOKES are another spring crop which is about through for the season, utter an excellent run. Broccoli remains scarce, and what there is is too mature for best quality. There is an abun dance of cauliflower, however, but because of a comparitively high demand, the price stays high. It's coming from Irvington and the Cal ifornia Bay area. The cabbage market is weakening, and the qual ity remains good. OREGON ASPARAGUS out of Independence is tops on the coast for quality. There is also a good supply from Washington. It is rea sonably priced. PEPPERS out of Indio are pric ed lower this week and the qual ity is much improved. Egg plant, Is Holed Situation . , -pi -.ft- , -v " . t 4 t v r - -v- r t !;" ' .'i ( , t , !t,A, ,f. ) ; AN AFTER-IHmST iV"v, KnUO UnDlfl AUTHORITY Or THI QUIfTT COUrANT T V - i Fullcrton Beverage Company Bus. Rr. 99 South OS 9-5002 too. is plentiful and the quali'y good, although the size is smaller than usual. RADISHES AND GREEN ON IONS from the Bay area are in large supply and the quality is good. Butter lettuce is through, but romaine, endive and red lettuce is still very reasonably priced. The market is down on cucumbers with heavy shipments from lower Cali fornia and the consumer can see a continual drop in price the next six weeks. Winter avocados are scarce. Some summer varieties are showing up but the price will remain higher at the retail level. THE TOMATO market dropped sharply. Hot weather in the Im perial Valley has ripened tomatoes rapidly and the supply will be much greater and the price con siderably lower than that of the past three months. Woman Escapes Husband's Fate 5IOAB, Utah (AP) A woman feared drowned on the turbulent Culorado River was rescued Tues day by helicopter. Mrs. Frank A. Hich, 61, of l.akewood Village, Calif, was brought to a hospital here. Her husband still was miss ing. Mrs. Rich's son. Dr. Delbert F. Rich of Cedar City, Utah, said searchers had not found any sign of his tattler. Dr. Rich. 41. and his 35-year iThey had last seen Dr. Rich's par ents Sunday as they bobbed away through the dangerous rapids of Cataract Canyon, 40 miles from Moab. "Thank God she is all right," Dr. Rich said. "She is in very good condition after being out in the open two days and nights. She has only a bruise on her right knee." He said his mother apparently floated to shore after being swept through a second set of rapids in dangerous Cataract Canyon. "She told me tho last she saw PRODUCTION OF WATERMEL. LONS is up but the demand down with the current cooler wetther. There are lots to be had and the demand should pick up with bet ter weather. The cantaloupes from the Imperial Valley are greatly improved. They are reported much better than those of last year at this time. LOCAL RHUBARB clean lip this week, held back by cold weather but should be coming on again in about a week. There is some on the market from the Portland area. STRAWBERRIES were in short supply early this week, because of intense rains in the shipping areas of Santa Maria, Salinas, Watson ville, Fresno and Florin. Shipments are expected to pick up later this week for weekend shoppers. LOTS OF WINESAP apples and a few Roman Beauties and New towns remain, but Delicious ap ples are through. Water peaches are being produced in California, but none are being brought in due lo poor quality. NAVEL ORANGES are through, but Valencias are in heavy supply from all parts of California, and the quality is comparable to that of the navels. A few Coachilla Valley pink and white grapefruit remain and the last of the Arizona 8-pound-bag bulk fruit is seen. After that only the California variety, a much in ferior fruit, will be on the market for a time. BANANAS are again plentiful, but the price remains little chang ed. Tropical fruits pineapples, papayas and mangos are also available from the Hawaiian islands. Idaho Approves Water Program BOISE (AP) George N. bar ter, state reclamation engineer, has signed for Idaho an applica tion for federal aid in developing a co-operative Idaho-Oregon proj ect under the small watershed act. Tho application involves land along Sucker Creek which orig inates in Idaho, flows into Oregon, then returns to Idaho before it empties into the Snake River near Homcdale. The application carries also sig natures for the Owyhee Soil Con servation District in Idaho, the Adrian Soil Conservation District in Oregon and the South Board of Control, in Oregon. Construction of reservoirs with storage capacity of from 8,000 to 10.000 acre feet is proposed along with the development of drainage system and a more efficient dis tribution system that is now available. Iff A iTii iiiiilYlff LICK. ETY-SPLlT Two small sisters lick the warm weather in Albany, N.Y. Lee, 4, left, and Dlanna Van Mierop, 3, share cooling ice cream cone. WA N EGGS for a iissrfy breakfast m V'. of father was when ho floated by hanging onto the back of the boat. Ho (father) probably went through another rapids." Dr. Rich said the helicopter also spotted the wrecked boat in Gyp sum Canyon, below Cataract Can yon. The helicopter was to land by the wrecked boat and see il there were signs of life or tracks leading away: "Going over the Cataracts he might have lost hold of the boat." Dr. Rich said. "But they were both in good physical condition and both were wearing life pre servers. ...... . -. (if 1 V, w..i: NEA Tttphol RETIRING Johnny Par sons, 40, of Van Nuys, Calif., is pictured in Indianapolis shortly after he announced he is retiring from the big car championship circuit. Parsons, winner of the 500 Mile Memorial Day Race in 1950, said, "I'm getting a tit old for this game." Blind Students Cited By Ike WASHINGTON (AP) Pres ident Eisenhower today gave awards to four blind college stu dents for outstanding scAolastic achievement. Then he remarked with a churckle: "There are too many brains around here for me. In presenting grants of S500 to each of the students, jiisennower also disclosed how he keeps his own grandchildren on their toes scholastically. With a grin, ho said he gives each of the children S2 for every "A" they get, but nothing for anything less. And if they get any thing below a "B," then they have to give him a dollar. Today's awards to blind stu dents went to: Richard O. Cowan, a graduate student at Stanford University in California. He has a straight "A" record in his graduate study and is a Phi Beta Kappa member. James R. Slagle of Brooklyn, N.Y., who is receiving a doctor's degree in higher mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology. He has had a straight "A" record during the last three se mesters. Bianca C. Stewart of Jackson Heights, Queens, N.Y., who is graduating from Queens College at Flushing, N.Y. She also is a Phi Beta Kappa and has been on tho dean's honor list for three years. Robert J. Winn Jr. of North Texas State College at Denton, Tex. He has been an honor stu dent each semester and is presi dent of the student body. The $500 grants were presented by Eisenhower on behalf of an organization called "Recording for the Blind, Inc." The organi zation provides free recorded textbooks. Ton Of Mercury Taken' NEWARK, N.J. (AP)-Thicves carted away more than a ton of liquid mercury Tuesday from a factory after smashing through 14-inch concrete walls to get at it. The mercury, valued at $7,300, was stored in 33 metal flasks at the Troy Chemical Co. Detectives dispose of the loot on a flourishing gray market. fM My" Cowboy Fingers Convict 'Father' I.OS ANGELES (AP) - Rodeo cowboy Casey Tibbs says a man serving time in Arizona's stale prison actually fathered a rodeo queen's child. Tibbs, named In a paternity suit by Miss Leah J. Conner, Tuesday introduced a deposition by convict Donald Gene lloag, who admits intimacies in July, August and September, 1954, with Miss Conner. Tibbs denies pater nity. The deposition indicated Boag was a friend of Tibbs and that liiiDs lent him money several times. Thur., May 21, 1959 The News-Review, Roteburg, Ort, 7 it mm Vote for a recine . . .i" ' , ; win aE v- 'n. -- vt i ,:' v:: It S i ft .- - '7 -i 4 Nothing to write ...no recipes to send in. It's a drawing with 2,025 General Electric Prizes til 1 1 Pillsburys BEST :: ..xxxx.. ... 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