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PEDFCVRD MATT, TKTBTTNT:. 'MTC'DFO'RT), (YREOON'. TTETCTSDAY. T)E(TrRER 21, IPSA. PAGE FIVE CCC ENROLLEES DEPART FOR HOME AS QUARTER ENDS Local Youths Complete En rollment, Trains Leave for East, South New Period Begins January 1 The routine quarterly discharge and movement of CCC enrollees were under way here today, 250 youths otf the Bth corps area departing for their homes, having choren not to re-enrol! or having become Ineligible for re enrollment. The 9th corps area con tingent Includes youths from Jackson county, Portland and San Francisco. Pour trains have already left here to take enrollees to the east and south for discharge or re-enrollment and two trains are to depart In the next few days. One train will leave Saturday eve ning with 227 enrollees for Fort Mc pherson, Ga. There will be 73 enrol ' lees on the train from the Medford CCC district. The others will be from Sacramento, Fresno and Los Angeles districts, headquarters here announced. Gentle Goes South Capt. HJalmar T. Gentle, district surgeon, will make the trip to Fo.-t McPherson and Lieut. Clarence L. Shewalter of Medford headquarters staff will go as far as Sacramento whence he will return to Medford. The remaining train officers will be provided by the other districts. The second train will leave here Christmas night for Camp Beaure gard, La., taking 220 men from the Medford district, 50 from the Vancou ver Barracks districts, 41 from the Sacramento district and 44 from the Douglas district. Capt. Charles B. Robinson, commanding Camp Apple gate, will be in charge. Relief Committee Enrolls One of the four trains that have already left went to Camp Dix, N. J., with 183 enrollees aboard. Among the officers In charge was Capt. A. Ahrena of the Medford district. Another train left here for Fort Benjamin Harrison. Ind., with 157 enrollees. Ma. Paul H. Welland and Lieut. Harold Johnson being among the train officers. One of the trains left from Burns for Fort Benjamin Harrison with 97 Medford district enrollees aboard. Capt. James Koepke was one of the train officers. Fourteen Medford district men left on the train destined tor Fort Knox, Ky. The new CCC enrollment period opens January 1 and continued until January 20. New enrollees will be registered during that period. Enroll ment for Jackson county la done through the county relief committee. Any eligible youth desiring to enrod should consult the relief committee and not apply to CCC headquarters. It was emphasized. . ONE GIFT PUZZLE m - Watch to tell (he hours long after Christ inns lio Ball has passed.' MjZ!sf LARRY tm? FOR VOIR Water Well Problems SEE Robert Burns Well Prilling Grants Pass Bt. 1, Box 263, S. Pacific Highway First undellverable Christmas pack age of the season arrived at Medford postofflce this morning. Tr- outside wrapper was gone and the only mark of Identification indi cated the gift parcel came from Tilla mook, Postmaster Frank DeSouza said. The package will be delivered to the rightful addressee upon proper identification, he Slated. Usually one or two undellverable packages are received each Christmas season. In general parcels are wrap ped extremely well this year, Mr, De Souza said. BIKE CLUB WILL SEATJFFICERS Officers of the recently-organized V.F.W. Bicycle club will be Installed at a meeting In the Jackson county courthouse auditorium at 7 p.m. Thursday. Officers not elected at the recent organization meeting will also be chosen and appointive offices filled, it was announced by William J. Cooney, chairman In charge of the bicycle safety project for the Veter ans of Foreign Wars. Leaders of the veterans of Foreign wars will be present and Mr. Cooney urged other veteran and civic or ganizations to send representatives to the meeting to encourage the youth ful bicycle riders in their safety project. ORLANDO CANINE RITES THURSDAY AFTERNOON Funeral services for Orlando Roy Canine will be conducted from the Perl Funeral Home Thursday at 2 p.m.. Rev. c. E. Durham of Ash land officiating. Inverment will take place In the Siskiyou Memorial park. Mexican Train Wrecked, MEXICO CITY, Dec. 21. (VP) A Vera Cruz-bound passenger train was wrecked 45 miles outside Mexico City today, killing eight persons and In juring S3. Most of the passengers were excursionists or government employes on vacation. Railway em ployes said no United State citizens were among the dead or Injured. Tickets sold for the train totaled 1,034. Custom says that today Is the shortest day of the year, but meteor ologists say that tomorrow Is. Tomorrow will be the year's short est day by a mauer oi seconds, the weather bureau here said. For all practical purposes, today and tomor row will be equally short days, for tomorrow the sun will rise at 7:36 a.m., and set at 4:43 p.m., the same as today. If the time were carried out Into seconds, however, tomor row would be shorter than today, the weather bureau stated. What is more Important, however. Is that after tomorrow the days will begin to lengthen. The change will be gradual, though, and It will be a few weeks before any difference is noted, the weather bureau pointed out. T Regular monthly meeting of the Southern Oregon Osteopathic asso ciation was held Monday night at the home of Dr. W. J. Crandall In Ashland, with 13 members attending. Dr. George S. Jennings of Medford. president of the association, pre sided. Principal speaker of the meeting was Dr. Crandall. who read a highly interesting paper on "Early Diagno sis and Treatment of Cancer." Fol lowing the paper, the subject was discussed by all members. After the meeting, the entire group was entertained by Mrs. Crandall with a novel Christmas party, en Joyed by all. Next meeting will be held January 23 In the home of Dr. Blaine Prultt of Grants Pass. E Lewis Ulrich, manager of the Ore gon state employment service here, addressed the trade and Industrial educational class at the high school today. The class, under direction of Ice land Mentzer, consists of about 20 students who are working one-half day as apprentices In the various business establishments In Medford, and attending classes the other half day. . Mr. Ulrich explained operation of the employment service and the state compensation law, as pertaining to employment and Jobless Insurance. TO F Funeral services for Luther Co penhaver. World War Veteran, who passed away at Seattle, Wash., pre- I rf - ' - I .ill Equals s1 5 Heaters Installed FREE! 895 WARDS "STANDARD QUALITY". Revolving de f lector front sends heat where wanted! Twin-flow core'. . . Illuminated switch. Come in today. We'll install this heater in your car . . . quickly , , . FREE I Equals s20 Heaters Installed FREE! 139 WARDS "SUPREME QUALITY" . . . with built-in defroster I Revolving deflector front and floor warming down-draft flood your car with quick heatl (Fresh air attachment extra.) r7. i 'm higher prices and retailers have ta ken only few birds at a time. SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. SI. (API Net prices paid producer, for live poultry delivered 6an Francisco: Tur keys, young tomi, under 18 lbs., fresh. 34: over 18 lbs., fresh, 33-24; young liens, fresh, 30-31. Livestock TO F.D.R. this glazed brick on which W. G. Fraser (above), a London artist, painted the fa mous bust of Princess Nefcrtcte is to be sent as present, for his home. Portland. PORTLAND, Dec. 21. (AP-USDA) j HOGS: 200; active, fully steady with j Tuesday's best time: good-choice 169 w aiu-iD, an veins, m oo; 335 to 3SO lb., 7js7.50: light lights and slaughter pigs. $7.00ff7.3fl; packing .sows. $6.00 3 6.25; feeder scarce; choice lightweights quo'. able $8.25. CATTLE: 100. Including 28 direct; calves. 25; steady on kinds available; medium -good fed scarce, salable $7,50d.OO: few good light stocker ateera, $7.00; common heifers, $5.23 ?6.00; cutters, $3.50; good fed heif ers up to $7.50 and above; load 882 1b. late Tuesday, $7.25: low cutter and cutter cows. $2 .50 r 3 .75; common medium, $4.00(5 5.00; few good beef cows. $5.5O8.00; bulls. $4.735.50: medium-good vealers. $7.00 8.00; choice quotable $8.50. SHEEP: 50, steady, few good trucked in lambs. $7.50 $7.75: common-medium. $6.50 n 7.00; choice fed wooled lambs In carload lota quotable $8.25; few yearlings and wethers, $4.00(9 5.50; good 125 to 145-lb. slaughter ewes, $3.75, vlously announced for Wednesday afternoon have been changed to Friday at 2 p. m.. at the Perl Chapel. Rev. Joseph Knotts of the Final Methodist church will officiate. Interment will be in Siskiyou Memorial Park. Medford Post No. 15, American Legion, will have charge of the services at the cemetery, and Compony A, Medford National Guard will flro a salute over his grave. E TAKEN BY DEATH Emma Peterson, 61, passrd away at her home, on South Chestnut street, early Tuesday morning after a lingering Illness. She was born at Braken, Sweden, August 4, 1877, and came to the United States with her parents at the age of 14. She had resided In Medford for the past ten yeni She leaves six children, four sons and two daughters, Edward Andrew, of Alberta, Canada; Emll Paul and Arthur H. Peterson of Medford; Mrs. Ed riarlyon, Owasso, Mich., and Dorothy Jennings. Los Angeles, also six grand children, her father, Paul A. Bllxt. Medford. and her brother. Alfred Blixt, Superior, Wis. Funeral services will be held at the Perl Funeral Home. Thursday at 10:30 a.m. Captain R. H. Vin cent of the Salvation Army will have chntfje of the services. Inter ment in Siskiyou Memorial Park. 4 Princess Turns Actress LONDON (AP) Princess Indira of Kapurthala has broken away from Indian tradition to become an act ress on , the London stage. She Is playing the part of a Turkish slave girl in a new play. OF PORTLAND. Dec. 31. (AP) Ap proximately 340 carloads of turkeys reMrsentlng about 10,300.000 pounds haw been Bhlpped from Oregon this season. Handlers said the movement probably would establish a record. The figures were compiled from November and December statistics and did not Include previous move ments. A shortage of birds, especially hens, continued here with prices Btlll ad vancing. An active resale was re ported at 30 cents for hens and 37 cents for toms. Offerings have been limited at the Discover the tunny lids of the world . . . Hawaii, FIJI, New Zealand, Australia... where plcturetqui beauty, gaiety and adventure bound. Visit the conti nent of strange contrasts, what fht itaions art rtvtrsed. Frequent sail ing, from Vancouver or Victoria on the modernized Aorongl or the Niagara, via Honolulu. Economical ll-eipenae tours. . .and low-cost round trip fares... First, Cabin and Third Class. For llteratur set YOUR TRAVEL AGENT or W. H. Deacon, General Agent, 626 S. W. Broadway, (American Bank Building,) BR. 637. Portland. parchment wrappers. 314c lb. In cartons: B grade, 30c lb. In parch ment wrappers. 31c lb. In cartons. BUTTEHFAT: Portland delivery buying prices A grade, 9(j39'3c lb. Portland deliver; B grade, IV3C leu; O grade, 6c lb. less, country delivery, 27ic lb. for A grade. EGOS: Wholesalers' buying prices Specials, 32c doz.; extras, 30c doe.; .standards, large, 20c doz.; extra me diums. 28c doe.; extras, small, 25c doz. TURKBY8: Selling prices Dressed, new crop hens, 280 30c lb.; toms. 26 28e lb. Buying prices New hens, 26 q27c lb.; toms, 23c lb. POTATOES: Yakima Oems. $1.20 cental: local, $1.00?tl.l0; Deschutes Gemc. $1.20erl.40 cental; California Sweets. $1.2501.60 per 50-lb. crate; new California Triumphs, $2 00 per 50-lb. box: Klamath Falls No. 1 Gems. 91.60. Cheese, country meats, ive poultry, onions, wool, hay steady, unchanged. Atch. T. 4c S. F. Bendlx Avia Portland Wheat South San Francisco SOUTH 8AN FRANCISCO, Dec. 31. f (P-USDA1 HOGS: 1.000; butchers 10c higher; top and bulk 175 to 220 lb. californlas and Oregons, $7 05; packing sows steady; good grades, $6.23; plain kinds and extra heavies down to $5.75. CATTLE: 25; market quoted nomi nally steady; medium to good slaugh ter steers quoted mainly $8.000 00; medium to good beef cows salable $5.00(0.60; medium bulls quoted up to $6.00. Calves: 10; nominally steady; odd head light calves and vealere, $8 00 i 10.50. SHEEP: 1,250; lambs strong f 25c higher; weighty kinds in least de mand; double good 81-lb. Idaho wooled lambs. $9.00; sorted 50 head average 104 lbs. at 8.00; 3 doubles ood around 92-lb. wooled Oregons 98 50 straight; fat ewes quoted up to $4 .CO. Chicago CHICAGO. Dec. 21. (AP-Ufl. Dept. Agr.) Hogs 21,000, generally 10-20 higher than Tuesday's average; top 7.65; good light and medium weight packing sows 6.40-70; extreme heavies down to 6.00. Cattle, 9000; calves 1200: steers mostly steady with recent sharp ad vance; few early sales choice and prime offerings strong on shipper ac count, but market cooling off a Uttle on medium to good grades selling at 11.00 down to 8.60; all aho stocks firm and active; most beef cows 5.50 6.76. Sheep 5000; late Tuesday fat lambs 36-60 lower than Monday after 25-36 lower start; bulk to packers 8.75 0.00: top slaughter ewes 4.40; today's trade fat lambs strong to U5 higher than Tuesday's close; bulk 9.00; choice 9.25: good yearlings 7.00-60; sheep steady; native ewes 8.75-4.00. PORTLAND. Dec. 21. p) Grain: Wheat: Open High Low Close May 654 65 65; 6S Dec 64 64 64 64 Cash grain: Oats. No. 2. 38-11). white, $27.6C; No. 2, 38-lb. gray, nominal. Barley. No. 2, 45-lb. B. W.. $23.00. Corn, No. 2, E. Y. shipment, $26.00. Cash wheat (bid) : Soft white, 66V3C: western white, 65c; western red, 64c. Hard red winter ordinary. 63c; 11 per cent. 63c; 12 per cent. 64c; 13 per cent, 67 He; 14 per cent, 71ic. Hard white, Baart ordinary. 664c: 11 per cent unquoted; 12 per cent, 66 Uc; 13 per cent, 67c; 14 per cent. 68lc. Today's car receipts: Wheat. 50; barley, 1; flour, 6; corn, 2; oats, 8; mil! feed, 4. Chicago Wheat CHICAGO. Dec. 21. Wheat: Open High Low Close Dec - 631,4 64 83 ft 63 March 657 65 65 65 May 66-4 66 66'4 68 July 66, 66 66 66 San Fran rlsco Butter SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 21. P) Butter: 92 score, 29c. SACRAMENTO. Dec. 21. (H Churning cream butterfat: First grade, 32c; second grade, 30c. Portland Produce PORTLAND, Dec. 21. (IP) BUT TER: Prints A grade, SOo lb. in Wall St. Report MEW YORK, Dec. 21. ffl A tall spin In aviation shares gave the stock market uneasy momenta today and prices mostly headed a Uttle lower. Some aircraft shares at one tlmo were off more than 3 polnta but they recovered a bit with the list genoral'y in late dealings. Lacking moro adequate explanation for the liquidation, some brokers ascribed the - drop In aviations to profit-taking following recent specu lation for the rise on prospects a big air defense program would be pre sented to the new congress. Transactions hv stocks approxi mated 1,100,000 shares. Today's closing prices for 33 se lected stocks follow: Al. Chem. & Dye 18'.4 Am. Can ,.....100 Am. ic Pgn, Power.......... 3T4 A. T. & T. 148 Dethlehem Steel Caterpillar Tractor . Chrysler Coml. Solv , Curtlss-Wrlght DuPont . - Gen. Electric ... Gen. Poods ... ........ Gen. Motors .... ... 48. Int. Harvester ...... 6fl I. T. tc T 8i . 88 87 (4 lay, 74 , 44 . 80 i, 8'i t 148 43 3814 Johns-Manvllle Monty Ward North Amer. Penney (J. C.)- Phillips Pet - Radio Southern Paclflo , Std Brands ........ Std. Oil Cal. Std. Oil N. J. Trans-America ,. Union Carb. United Aircraft U. 8. Steel .108 -. 554 31 , ia 13 Us 18V. 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