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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1940)
PAGE EIGHT AT UNION CREEK Bend Wins Attendance Prize at Annual Event Queen Is Chosen. A crowd of SOO to 600 at tended the annual district Knights of Columbus picnic at the Union Creek campground of the Rogue River national for est yesterday. For the third consecutive year Bend won '.he attendance prize, thus coming Into permanent pos session of the trophy put up by the Knights of Columbus coun cils of the four participating areas, Mcdford, Klamath Falls. Lokeview and Bend. Klamath Falls won the Softball double header, beating Bend J 1-4 and Medford 5 0. Miss Marie Willis of Bend was chosen Queen of the Cascades. Selected for her court were Phyllis Smith, Patricia Sexton, Norma Earnest and Dorothy Lesmeister. of Klamath Falls, and Jane and Mary Russell, sis ters, of Medford. The corona tion ceremony was conducted by Leo J. Normand of Bend, district deputy. Music was provided by a trio of accordionists, Mary and Mar garet Moulton, Medford, and Dorothy Schuler, Talent. An open-air ma was celebrated by the Rev. Father William Cough lin, Bend. Various prizes were awarded throughout the afternoon pro gram of contests and entertain ment. The assemblage adopted a resolution thanking the U. S. forest service and the .Rogue River national forest personnel for use of the picnic grounds. threaTHill Ben Geary, widely-known Trail country resident, was at liberty on his own recognizance today pending a Justice of the peace Court hearing on two charges of disorderly conduct. A charge of threatening the commission of a felony was dis missed by Judge William R. Coleman Friday afternoon upon motion of Geary's attorney, George M. Roberts, at the con clusion of the prosecution's case. The dismissal was based on lack of evidence. The felony charge was tiled by Mrs. Florence Godfrey, Geary" mother-in-law, who al leged that Geary, while in her home on Trail creek August 11. threatened to shoot John War ner, another resident of the region. It was brought out dur ing the hearing that Geary con tended Warner had beaten one of Geary's children. The rase was prosecuted by George W. Neilsen, assistant dis trict attorney. Date of the hearing on the misdemeanor charges was to be fixed by the court later. In one complaint Mrs. God frey accused Geary of using abusive and obscene language in her home August 11 and in the other Warner charged that Geary directed the same kind of language toward him when the two men met on the same day on the Trail Creek road. E 10 5 NEW FIRES1 Fifty Camp Wimer CCC en reliefs were dispatched early this morning to help combat a series of five forest fires on slate protected land on the south side of Green mountain near the Jackson-Douglas county line northwest' of Medford. The fires sprang up suddenly last night along a half mile stretch. A crew was sent in last night by state patrol headquar ters here. The firefighters trav riled all night to reach the scene at 6 a. m. Mall Tribune aant ede. THEJj FACTORS 1 2 i 4 a 5 '' m ; ;;: coffee shop . tavern ! "H.Jf.ai . .. . T1 '.HifcfwV ric - WHEN FIVE RAM EACH An accident involving five automobiles, none of which was seriously damaged, occurred at Edwards Sts. and North River side avenue late Sunday after noon, city police reported today. The five cars were driven by Dale Haley of 110 Almond street, R. E. Frciner of Los An geles, Dorothy Haskins of Route 4, W. E. Stingley of Beagle and John Donovan of Orland, Cal. Nobody was injured as the vehicles rammed into the back end of each other. City police also reported the following five minor crashes over the week-end: A car operated by Jack E. Edmonds of 704 West Second street, traveling north on Ivy street, struck a machine being driven east on Fourth street by O. E. Kagen of Route 4 early Sunday afternoon. The Hagen car was overturned and Mr. Hagen suffered a slightly in jured left arm and shoulder. Rolland R. Todd of 334 Apple street and John Jensen of 508 Park avenue drove cars in volved In a minor mishap In front of the Junior high school Saturday afternoon. Machines driven by Harry E. Powell of Central Point and Bert Grant of 1024 East 11th street collided with minor dam age on North Riverside avenue near Jackson boulevard Satur day afternoon. R. B. Langston of Central Point and T. R. Kenton of Med ford drove machines Involved in a slight accident on Newtown street near Main street Saturday afternoon. C. V, Frazier of Jacksonville and John R. Larwood of Med ford were operators of cars in volved in a minor crash on West Main street in front of the Hotel Medford Saturday afternoon. AGED HERO SAVES Tl T Silver Lake, Ore., Aug. 19. (IP) Oscar Parreln, 80. and vol unteer firemen were the heroes of Silver Lake today after pre venting explosion of a 200-gallon gasoline tank In a fire last night. Parreln, owner of a service sta tion, stood in Its burning ruins dousing fire pumps and the tank with bucket after bucket of water. Officials credited Parrein with preventing an explosion which would have wrecked this town of 120 persons. Meteorological Report ne r. a. rtTiim ncartr I'oreeajits Medford and vicinity: Pair tonight and Tuesday, little change Id tem perature. Oregon: Pair tonight and Tuesday and fotary or cloudy on coast, and In morning In western ysllevs. little change In temperature, moderate northwest wind off the coast. local Data Temperature a year ago today: highest 104. lowest 63. Total monthly precipitation, none: deficiency for the month. .11 Inches Total precipitation since Septem ber . 1938. 3160 Inches; eacesa tot the season. 4 69 tnchee. Relative humidity at 6 p. m. yes terday 16 percent: 6 a. m. today. 64 percent. , Tomorrow: sunrise S 34 a. m.. sun et 7:06 p m. Obserrattons Taken si 4:30 a. m. 1.0 Meridian Time. h m a J u U 9 o f g o S ! i 3 Hots 6 I Bnston 60 i Chicago , 73 j Denver s 1 Kureka 61 63 66 65 64 M 61 69 61 71 53 76 60 60 59 70 57 56 56 74 M r Cloudy Cloudy Clear P Cloudy Cloudy j Havre 65 Lne Anrrlea. 93 Med lord 96 New Tuck 77 I Omaha 73 I Phoenti lne. Portland 94 I He no . .. 96 Roseburg 94 I Salt leke 6 j San Pranclsco 75 Clear Clear Cloudy P Cloudy Clear Cloudy Cloudy Clear Cloudy P Cloudy Clouoy P Cloudy Clesr Cloudy P Cloudv Seat 11 sa Apokane 96 Wsah . D. C... M Yakima 96 OF HOTEL IMPORTANCE! COMFORTABLE ROOMS GOOD StRVICt FLEASANT SURROUNDINGS SENSIclI RATES 'l3Vi4!Kuv) - frees ,jO(mbt) MEDFORD MAIL FINAL PLANS FOR GOLD HILL FAIR E Loud Speaker Obtained for August 31 Event Many Donations. Cold Hill, Aug. 19 Spl.V Many Important Items were taken care of Friday evening In readiness for the Northwest Jackson County Fair to be held Aug. 31st. Judges for all depart ments have been secured and a loud speaker car from Medford will be used for parade music and announcements during the day. Representatives of other fairs to be held in Jackson and Josephine counties in September will be invited to make an nouncements over the loud speaker also. A. A. Walker will again offici ate at the crowning of the queen and presentation of the key of the city to Chairman Wm. Howes. Flower show and flower dis plays will be exhibited at the city hall instead of the hotel dining room as previously an nounced. Mrs. A. A. Walker reported that donations for the barbecue are nearly complete and a list of the various stores and busi ness places will be displayed in a store window soon. Everyone planning to attend the barbecue is requested to bring their own service. Another meeting will be held on Aug. 23 at which time the drawing of the various Granges for placement of their booths will be held. Obituary George Wllsman Mrs. Carl Dennhardt of 806 West Main street received word recently of the death of her grandfather, George Wilsman, who is said to be the last Union soldier who survived the ordeal in Andersonville Confederate prison in the Civil War, Friday in Evansville, Ind. He was 97 years old. Serving nearly four years during the Civil War, he spent 13 months in the military prison camp at Andersonville, Ga , after cap ture at Snodgrass Ridge, Chica maiiRa. The last member of the Jack son post, Grand Army of the Re public at Dale, Ind., he also is believed to be the last Civil War veteran who was living in Evans ville. Mr. Wilsman was born in Cincinnati, O.. in 1843. With two companions, it is said that he played hide-and-seek as a youth inside the untenanted frontier cabin of Abe Lincoln, between Gentryville and Dale. He is survived by many rela tives, including four greatgrandchildren. Here Soon! Our Annual Subscription Party! BIG SAVINGS Plan NOW To Take Ad vantage of Low Subscrip tion Rates! AND REMEMBER) All subscribers must be paid up to September 1, 1.40 le entitle them to Bargain Rate. TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. LIVESTOCK fort land Portland. On., Aut t IAP-ua D A I Hogs: aalabl 1B00. total 3230: market opened 10 15c ebore Friday; later trad only taaj: carloads 10c below lut Monday: few opening sale 170-316 lb. drtn-lns 6735 4.60: carloads S7.60: later Mite drt-e-lna 7.35 down: 230-390 lb. weights 66.60 7.10-, light light meetly se.60w.75; pecking eowi 64.79) 6: lightweight to 63.36 and above; lew good-choice feeder pig 66 35) 76. Cattle: Salable end total 3300: calve salable and total 150: market uneven, mostly steady to 35c lower, some hetfers off more: best light steer off leaat: veelera uneven, moet ly ateady; erees-fat tteers 66.30 a) 936: few to 66.50: few bead ehort fed steere $10: common steer down ward to as.50; medium (res heifer $7 m .75: common grades down to 65.35; canner -common cows 63.35) 4.78: fat dairy type cows to SS epar Ingiy; good beef cows 66.76 6.35; few early to SB SO; common-medium bull 65.75 a 6.75; good beef bull 67o).3S; good-choice vealer 610 .50: electa to 611. Sheep: Salable 1550. total 3S00: market ateady: good-choice trucked In aprlng lamb 67.75 at 6: no car load finished lamb offered but quotable to 66.35: medium-good grades 67.35) .50; feeder lamb 66 60 7.25: good-choice shorn lam be 66 00 7: good slaughter ewee S3 .50; common grades down to 6130. South Pan Franrltco South San Francisco. Aug. 19, IAP-USDA1 Hog: aalabl 400; most ly 10 20c higher than Thursday on about 300 head 183-M5 lb. Call for nlaa at 17.00 to smalt killers; packers top $?JM, sort 7; odd packing sows IS down. Cattle: Salable 700; largely grass era, quality medium: steers opening alow, near ateady, large salable W 85 9 35; red steers absent, quoted $9.75; two cars good 1.070 lb. range cows 96.75 9 7; around three loads dairy cow $4.50 r 5.60. few ca liners 3 50; bulls steady, mostly 96 7. Calves: salable 15; nominally steady; good to choice vealers quoted 910 50 1150; slaughter calves 99.50 3 10 50. strong. Sheep: salable 1.400; steady, large ly shorn lambs; odd package wooled 75-80 lb. California-. 98.50a. 75: shorn lambs eligible 98 down; shorn ewes abaent, quoted 91.503-40. Chicago Chicago. Aug. 19 (AP-USDAt Hogs: 13.500; moderately active; mostly ateady with Friday's average, top 67.05: bulk good and choice 30o 340 lbs. 66.75 7: 340-370 lbs. largely 66 40t.S0: bulk 370-300 lbs. 66.45: some 300-360 lbs. 65.75 6.10; smooth packing sows 330 lbs. down 65 50a .75: 360-450 lbs. mostly 64 90535; ome heavier welghta 64 .60 60. Cattle 15.000: calvea 1.000; fed steer and yearling steadys to 25c lower: yearlings moetly steady: llht helfera and mixed yearlings active; liberal supply strictly grain fed steers here, top 613 40; several loads 612 25 and 613.35: best long yearlings 611.50; heifer yearlings 611.25; 1621 lb. Neb raska fed steers 612: medium to good grades light steers getting fair action; but weightier kinds mostly 25c lower Sheep 6.000; not enough spring lamba sold to establish market: hold ing best natlrea and westerns around 69 50 or 35c or more higher: early bid ateady to unevenly lower: fat heep scarce, ateady. DIAL 4923 for Quirk, Denenilahl Service Unique Cleaners lintel Allen Hide Bud La-rrr.il lk (oV Xw OREGON. MONDAY, AUGUST 19. 1940. Portland Produce port Ian Portland, Aug. 19. (AF) Butter: Prints, A grade, 32c lb. In parch ment wrappers. 33e In cartons, B grade Sic in parchment wrappers, 93c In cartons. Butterfat: first quality, maximum of M of 1 percent acidity, delivered Portland. 30 301 ,o lb.; premium quality (maximum of .35 of one per cent acidity), Jlc; valley routM and country points 2c less or 38 4 c. second quality 3c under first, or 38 Se lb. Cheese: Selling price to Portland retailers: Tillamook, triplets 39c lb.: loaf 31c lb triplets. 18c lb.; losf 19c fob. Tillamook. &gs: Buying prices, extras, large aiVjC doc.; standards, large 17ic; extras, medium 30c; do, standards. 17c dozen. Country itests: Selling price to re tailers, country killed hogs, best butchers 125-150 lbs., 9Hal0e; Tell ers, fancy 13Slc; light thin. 11c 13c; heavy 10 lie; lambs, spring lSaflStc; ewes 4 a 7c: good cutter cows 94 10c; canner cows B'i 9c lb.; bulls 10 lie lb. Live Poultry: Buying prices. No. 1 grade Leghorn broilers 14 to 3 lbs. 15c; fryers, under 3 lbs. 15c: fryers. 3'i to 4 lbs. 17c; roasters over 4 lbs. 18c: Leghorn hens over 3 '4 1 bs . 11c; Legh orn hens, under 3'j lbs. c; colored hens over five lbs. 13c; colored bens, 1 to 6 lbs. 13c. Dressed Turkeys: Nominal, old crop selling prices: old hens. No. 1. 18c: toms, 13 14c; new crop 33e lb. Potatoes: Eastern Oregon-Washington. 91.40ttl.60 cwt. Hay: Selling price to retailers: al falfa No. 1. 914414 50 ton: oat-vetch 910 ton: clover 911 ton: timothy, eastern Or iron 91718 ton; valley timothy 914 ton, Portland. Wool: 1940 eastern Oregon range 20-24c; crossbred 37 38c; Willam ette valley, 13 months, 33o lb. Chicago Chicago. Aug. IB. ( AF-tJSDAI Potatoes, arrival 06, on track 190. total U.S. shipment 357 for Satur day, 31 Sunday. Supplies moderate, demand alow; market about steady on best stock, weaker for stock show ing heated and a decay a tew sales, Idaho Russet Burbanks VS. No. 1, 63 05 JO: Idaho. Bliss Triumphs C. S. No. 1. 61 SO .70: Oregon long whites 0 8. No. 1, 61.65s.75. Portland Wheat Portland, Aifg. IB. (APt Wheat: Open High Low Close Sep 70 .70 .70 .70 Cash uraln: Oats. No. 3. 38 lb. white 933.90. Bsrley, No. 3, 48 lb. bearded white 930. Flax. No. 1. 91S1'.. Cash wheat bid: Soft white, western white 70',c; we tern red 70c. Hard red winter: ordinary 69 Vic. 11 percent 70c; 13 percent 71c; 13 percent 73c; 14 percent 73c. Hard white, Baart, 13 percent 77c, 13 percent 79c. 14 percent 8tc. A. L. VROMAN PLUMBING and HEATING No. S Hawthorne Ave. Dial 2538 CRANE d..p well J.l and shallow well water systems Big Todays car receipts: wheat 160. barley U. flour 39, corn t, oau 13. hay I, mtUIeed 14. cbiwht i Chleags Chicago. Aug. 191 API After (ailing a much aa IS cent to within about a cent or the seasonal low established last Friday, wheat price today rallied, recorertng part of the loss. (wheat) Open High Low Cloee Sep. M .69 ' .86 .66H Dee. .70' .Tit, M .70S May .Tit, .73 .70' .71 H Wall St. Reports New York. Aug. 19 IIP) Bulls and bears were tamer than usual in today's stock market and the majority dozed through a slightly uneven session. The list lacked a trend from the start. Negligible declines were plentiful and numerous is sues held at Saturday s final quotations. The war remained as the dom inant question mark for specu lative forces. Wall Street seemed more hopeful regarding British chances with the Nazis. Today's closing prices for 34 sel ected stocks follow: Al. Chem. & Dye unquoted Am. Can nq.mtH A. T. 6c T. 15B", Anaconda 19's Atch. T. S. T. 14', Bendlx A-l. 28 Beth. Steel 74 Caterpillar Tract. 42, Chrysler 69 , Curtis-Wright 6', Douelaa Acft. . ,., . 68"; DuPont 161 Oen. Elec. 33'4 Oen. Poods 39i Oen. Mot. 44", Int. Harvest. 41 '4 Johns-Man. 57 'j Kennecott ... J . Monty Ward No. Amn. Avn. . North Amer. Penney (J. C.) . Penna. R. R. Phillips Pet Radio Sou. Pac. 39', 15', 18H ..unquoted - - 19'i 33 4S 7H a Std. Brands . St. oil Cal. st. on n. j. . 17'. 33 , 4 671, 34 1, Trans. Amer. Union Carb Unit. Aircraft United Airline 15 V. S. Steel 50'4 FREE PICTURES SCENIC VIIWS-RUDT FOR FRAMING No wonder so many motorists are framing Standard's Scenic Art Prints they're so beautiful! The selection was made from over 4,000 natural color photographs! They're free! 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