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AS TRUCK BED FALLS Warren Fichtner, who resides at the corner of Orange and 10th streets, was injured yesterday when a dump truck bed fell on him as he was attempting to trip the mechanism. According to his brother, City Patrolman Clyde Fichtner, the injured man was hauling debris from the Veterans of Foreign Wars building on Front street to the city dump grounds. After dumping his load, Fichtner at tempted to lower the bed but the mechanism failed to work. He crawled beneath the bed and tripped it by hand but failed to get out of the way of the falling bed, it was learned. He was pinned- between the cab of the truck and the dump bed. Fichtner called for help and two boys, playing in the neigh borhood, heard his cries. They were unable to extricate him. The boys called Lew Miles and Dr. R. P. Mortenson, who live nearby. They released the mechanism and freed Fichtner. He was taken to the Community hospital in the Conger-Morris ambulance and, after undergoing examination, was transferred to the Camp White hospital. No bones appeared to be broken but he suffered injuries to his chest, his brother stated. Fichtner is a veteran of World War II. L Company A, 1st battalion, local rifle unit of the Oregon state guard, the personnel of which has been on holiday leave of absence since Christmas, will resume regular drill schedule Tuesday evening, at the armory, according to Capt. O. E. Sabin, company commander. Schedules for the training program of the first quarter in 1946 will be given the company personnel so they may arrange civilian employment apgoint ments accordingly, said Capt. Sabin. Also a special service squad will be selected that will remain constantly alerted dur ing the first quarter of the year, for special escort duties, furnish ing firing details for military fu nerals, and general emergency service, he said. Girls Initiated In Junior High Tri-Y A group of girls were initiat ed into the Junior High school Tri-Y club at a recent meeting. Initiated were Jean Kyle, Eliza beth Larson, Sherry Antony, Virginia Balch, Glenda Fields, Lila Holt, Joyce Kirby, Eleanor Meeker, Nancy Lageson, Cyn thia Jackson, Pat Sether, Janis Jorgenson, Janny Lou Hough ton and Carol Lausmann. During the holidays the club sponsored a Christmas dance, went caroling throughout the community and helped at the Junior Red Cross office. News of 4-H p CLUBS Hoxy Ann 4-H Club Members of the Roxy Ann 4-H club and their parents are to meet Jan. 10 at 8 p. m. in the Lone Pine school with the Parent-Teacher association. Earle Jossy will show moving pictures and present awards to club members. Refreshments will be served by club mothers. FUGITIVE SOUGHT Los Angeles, Jan. 7 (U.R) Police today sought one of two prisoners who escaped from the Central jail by sawing a steel bar from a window. Jacinto T. Serna, 19. robbery suspect who still bears a wound from a policeman's bullet, was recap tured a few minutes after he and Joaquin A. Lopez, 21, held on a narcotics charge, escaped. Closing lime for Sunday Too Late to Classify 4 00 Saturday afternoon Please remember. II See Humphrey First" TO BUY OR SELL YOUR USED CAR Humphrey Motors Used Car Exchange 33 S. Riverside Ave. Livestock Portland, Ore., Jan. 7 (U -Pi-Livestock: Cattle 2,700. calves 123. Very slow, few early sales 25c lower but most bids 50c lower. Good fed steers $16 00-17,00; few loads good choice $17.50; good heifers $15 00. some held higher; common-medium grades $10.00-14.00; canner-cutter cows $6.00-8.50: medium-good beef cows $11.50-13 00. odd head S!3 50; bulls steady: good beef bulls $1150 12 50, some held higher: choice veal ers steady. $15 00; odd head $15-50. Hogs 300. Stead v. Barrows and gilts up to 300 lbs. $1585: tows SM.23-M75; feeder pigs above 90 lbs. mostly 815.00. Sheep 1,000. Active, steady. Good eholce lambs - $14 00-14 25, extreme ton $14.50: common grades down to $11.00: pood yearlings $11.50; good ewes $4.50-5.00. South San Francisco. Jan. 7 fU.P.) (USDA) Cattle 1.400. Early trade steers steady to 25c lower; around 12 loads offered. Load good 1013 steers $16 50; load 970 cuttery Hol steins $13.75. She-stock active. About six loads good ranee cows $13 00 13.50; few loads cutter to common cows $9.00-1 1 .00; some unsold. Can ners largely $6.50-8 00. Common to good sausage bulls $10.00-12 00. Calves:, salable 25. Steady. Choice absent; medium to good $11.00-13 00. Hogs 100. Steady. Few good to choice 200-300 barrows and gilts $15.80 ceiling. Odd good sows S1505. Week-end clearance pigs $1.00-2 00 lower; mostly 51600. Sheep 25. Nominal. Good to choice lambs quoted $14 00-14.75. Medium to good wooled ewes quoted $5.50 6 25. Chicago, Jan. 7 (UP.) (WFA) Livestock: Hogs: 9,000. Active. 35 to 60 cents higher than last week-end. Most advance on weights over 250 lbs.; all good and choice 100 to 300 lb. hoes now at $14.83 celling; sows 35 to 50 cents higher, mostlv $13 85 to $14 00. Cattle: 13,000. Calves: 1.000. Fed steers and vearlir.es and vearline heifers 25 to 50 cents higher; mostly SO cents up with good and low-grades snowing most advance; cows strong to 25 cents higher mostly strong; bulls and vealers scarce, firm; large ly steer and heifer run; bulk steers $15.50 to $18.00; about 40 loads at $18.00: two loads 900 lb. choice heif ers $18.00; bulk heifers $13.50 to ;i .uu. Sheep: 5,000. No early action on slaughter lambs, asking- fully steady or ud to $15.00 for Eood and choice wool-skin; scattered early bids as mucn as 23 cents lower; mature sheep fully steady; load choice fed western ewes held above $7.63. Portland Produce Portland, Jan. 7 (U.P.) Whole sale marKei prices: Cabbage Oswego $3.75 crate. Cauliflower Local $1.75 crate. California $1.65 crate. S. F. DAIRY PRICES San Francisco, Jan. 7 (U.R) Dairy market: Butter: 93 score 48V4, 92 score 48, 90 score 47. Cheese: Loafs 28.2, triplets 27.2. Eggs: Large grade A 50V, medium grade A 45V4, small grade A 41 ',4, large grade B 45V4. Wall Street New York, Jan. 7 flJ.PJ A runup in rail shares helped the full list of stocks today after a hesitant start. Shortly before the close gains ranged to more than a point. Carrier shares had advances of a point or more in such lead ers as Santa Fe, Baltimore & Ohio common and preferred, Illinois Central and Chicago & Eastern Illinois. Atlantic Coast Line had a 2-point rise. Late In the session bullish sentiment was bolstered by ru mors in Wall Street that the pending Jan. 14 steel walkout may be averted through new and successful collective bargaining. Steel shares were firm. Specialties were in day-long demand. Gains in such issues ranged to 8 points in American Woolen preferred. American Woolen common was up nearly 2 points. Food Fair Stores gain ed more than 3 points. Hiram Walker rose more than 2 points in the liquors. Air Line shares had a small response to a Washington report tnat all first-class mail soon may be transported by air. Preliminary closing Dow Jones stock averages: Industrials 191.77, up 0.30; Rails 63.12, up 0.31; Utilities 38.38, up 0.03; 65 Stocks 72.01, up 0.17. Sales totaled 1,230,000 shares compared with 1,070,000 Friday. Today's closing prices on se lected stocks: American Tel 4 Tel 189 Anaconda 4334 Chrysler 134 Curtiss Wright , 734 General Electric 4634 General Motors 74'4 Montgomery Ward 72 '2 Penn. R. R 42 Phillips Petroleum J. C. Penney . Radio , . 564 .1494 19 '4 Southern Pacific Standard Oil of Calif. Texas Gulf Sulphur 587's 47'8 48 Transamenca 20 United Aircrafts U. S. Rubber . U. S. Steel 34 '4 66 ii 80 ?i THE GRANGE Jacksonville Grange Jacksonville Grange will meet Jan. 8 at 8 p. m. in the hall, with new officers in the chair for this first meeting of 1946. All officers not previously in stalled are urged to attend tha meeting. GRUESOME FIND San Bernardino, Jan. 7 (U.R) Blood-spatfered women's cloth ing found in a suitcase at a local hotel was analyzed by sheriff's , deputies today for a possible connection with the nude, mutil ated body of a woman found near Arrowhead Springs Jan. 1. Sheriff Emmett Shay said the suitcase was left by a man who visited the hotel Jan. 4. The Absinthe House Bar in New Orleans' French Quarter is known to have been a haunt of Andrew Jackson and Jean Lafitte In days of yore. 1 BODIES OF YANK FLIERS EATEN BY Washington (U.R) A corrobor ating account of Japanese canni balism in New Guinea is told by the Indian Information service here. The report came from a Gur kha s u b e d a r (commissioned junior officer) and a lance-naik (corporal) who are now recuper ating in Ceylon from months spent as Japanese prisoners of war in New Guinea. This was the account related by the two, Subedar Chhunba dur and LN Rangin Singh: At a time when food supplies were short on the island, an American plane was shot down. The crew of five were shot and bayoneted. The skull of one man was split from behind. When the bodies were given to the prisoners for burial It was noticed that fleshy parts of the bodies had been cut off. "Our comrades In the cook house told us afterwards that this flesh had been given to them for boiling and had been eaten with rice by the Japs," the subedar said. "After that they regularly killed off men for the same pur pose. Sometimes they would strike down an Indian soldier as he returned from his day's work, and sometimes they took a man to the cookhouse, pretending that they were going to feed him, only to kill him when he arrived. I myself saw 10 men in my own section killed like this, and when the bodies were handed to us to bury, the same parts were always missing." Fisherman Catches 2-Pound Bass Atop Rural Light Pole Myrtle Beach, S. C. (U.R) Lane L. Bonner, clerk of the South Carolina state senate, re ported that he bagged a two- pound bass atop an electric light pole while vacationing at Myrtle Beach. Bonner spotted a hawk diving into the water near his beach house. By the time he grabbed his rifle to take a shot at the bird, it had flown to the top of a nearby light pole. Ho shot and missed the hawk but the bird was so frightened it dropped the two-pound bass it held In its talons right in Bon ner s front yard. Nude Drawings On Forearms of Boys Disgusts Parents Elkhart, Ind., (U.R) Jess O Banion recently was fined $35 by police court for "embellish ing the forearms" of 16 youtljs with forms of nude women. The charge was assault and battery for permanently mark ing minors without the consent of their parents. One of the mothers of a decorated youth forced her son to return to O'Banlon to clothe the indelible. figure with a dress, the probation officer said. SOLD TO CHINESE Shanghai, Jan. 7 (U.R) Amer ican headquarters announced to day that most of the U. S. army stocks and fixed installations in West China had been sold to the Chinese for $25,000,000 in U. S. money and 6,160,000,000 Chinese dollars. TRANSPORTS DUE Los Angeles, Jan. 7 (U.R) Two transports were due at the Los Angeles port of embarkation today with 5.188 Pacific veter ans, port officials announced. The USS Fayette sailed from Saipan with 1,974 veterans and the USS Marine Tiger from Leyte with 3,212 army men aboard. L C. TAYLOR CO. pays the HIGHEST MARKET PRICES It you have a CAR or TRUCK to tell, we advise telling It now. Call or Phone Dodge-Plymouth Dealer L. C. TAYLOR CO. Phone 2963 63rd Wedding Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Vroman of -122 Tripp street celebrated their 63rd wedding anniversary Christmas day with a family din ner at the home of a son, Clinton Vroman, near Phoenix. Twenty five children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren were present. The Vromani were married in Mankato, Minn., coming to Medford in 1910 where they have since resided. Four Mayo Patients - Suffocate In Fire Rochester, Minn., Jan. 7 (U.R) An inquest was scheduled today in the deaths of four persons, all patients at Mayo clinic, who died of suffocation when flames swept a two - story Rochester boarding house. The dead were: Salvation Army Major and Mrs. E. Frederick Giles, San Francisco; W. H. Carrothers, Glenboro, Manitoba; Charles Flenn, Maiden Rdck, Wis. TURKEY CROP GOING TO MARKET EARLIER Turkey" shippers of tlie valley report that the 1945 crop will be killed and on their way to market by January 15, a month earlier than last year. A consid erable portion of the birds will go into storage and some will be sold to the January and Febru ary trade on eastern and Cali fornia markets. There is also quite a smoked turkey demand, a business that was suspended during the war, and is now be ing resumed. Use Mall Tribune Want Ads. Captain W. L. (Swance) Swanson AMERICAN AIRLINES American Airlines flier 4' Anniversary THIRTY DAYS METED FOR STEALING SIGHT Floyd Kinney of Medford is serving a 30-day jail sentence in the county jail following convic tion in justice court Saturday on a petty larceny charge. According to city police, who arrested Kinney Saturday, a tele scope sight was taken by Kinney from a footlockcr belonging to George J. Moore, G i 1 hi a n's Dairy, route 2. MEDFORD MEN OPEN NEW ASHLAND STORE Ashland, Jan. 7 O. E. Sabin, for the past 12 years manager of the Colyear Motor Sales Co. in Medford, today opened the Ashland Auto Parts store here. R. B. Hooper, who operates a radiator service in Medford and Grants Pass, is a partner in the new enterprise. In the early days of World War I, airplane pilots of enemy countries threw bricks at one another, hoping to hit the pro peller of the other's plane. Some were actually brought down this way. No wonder airline captains get accustomed to effort less power, the smoothest motors in the world ride the nation's skyways. And Captain W. L. (Swance) Swan son of American Airlines has found how to get that kind of performance on the road. Says Captain Swanson During the- war we found new ways of rearranging petroleum molecules to make gasoline blending agents that unleashed extra speed, range, power for the sky ways. Now, tailored for cars in Chevron Supreme, they put the same kind of plus performance on the highway. Do you hate to carry a pocketful of cash? Your Chevron National Credit Card takes care of that gives you an accurate record of motoring expenses, too. If you haven't applied, ask today at any Standard office or wherever you buy Chevron Supreme Gasoline. .. STANDARD OP CALIFORNIA V AT CHEVRON GAS STATIONS, GARAGES, AND STANDARD WATER NEAR RIM Emigrant dam, in the low Siskiyous, chief source of Irri gation water supply for the Tal ent irrigation district, is now within three or four feet of full, due to the recent melting snows and heavy rain, Watermaster Clinton' Smith reports. It will be kept at this level. The dam is now being used as a flood con trol medium for Bear creek, the watermaster further explained. At the height of the storm, the spillways were opened. Measurement of the water in Four Mile lake will be taken soon. Fish lake now has 700 more acre feet than at this time last year. It is anticipated that the late winter snows in the high hills will deposit sufficient snow to fill all Irrigation reservoirs for the coming growing season. Snow survey measurements by Arch Work of the soil con servation department and other cooperating agencies will be made this month, some of them with the Tucker Sno-cat. P.-T. A. Activities Eagle Point P.-T.A. Eagle Point Parent Teacher association will hold its regular meeting Jan. 9 at 8 p. m. This meeting is being held In the evening, since it is to be Father's Night, and all fathers are urged to attend. Refreshments will be served. The P.-T.A. study group Is to meet at 1:30 p. m. Jan. 9 in the band room at the school. Lone Pine P.-T.A. A meeting of the Lone Pine Parent-Teacher association will be held Jan. 10 at 8 p. m. Pre sentation of awards to Roxy Ann 4-H club members will be made and moving pictures will be shown by Earle Jossy, county 4-H leader. Club mothers will serve refreshments. The term "lynch law" Is be lieved to have originated when residents of Franklin County, N. C, hanged Major Lynch, a royal tax collector in 1767 after a summary trial. learns a highway trick two . . . born Monday, Jan. 7, 1946 BIRTHS PAGEL To Mr. and Mrs. Erwln H., Rt. 1, Box 454, Cen tral Point, Jan. 7, 1946, a girl, eight pounds, at Osteopathic clinic. O'DELL To Pfc. and Mrs. Ralph, 329 Beach St., Ashland. Jan. 6, 1946, a boy, 7 pounds, at community hospital. ANDERSON To Mr. and Mrs. Donald, Rt. 3, box 480, Jan. 6, 1946, a boy, 7 pounds, at Community hospital. JOHNSON To Capt. and Mrs. F. L.. 32 Ashland Ave. Jan. 6. 1946 n firl 7 rtnnnHc at Community hospital. DAVIDSON To Mr. and Mrs. Harry, Rt. 1, box 152H, Jan. 7, 1946, a boy, 7 pounds, at Sacred Heart hospital. UfcAL YOURSELF REFRESHMENT! A cool, sparkling, zestful glass of ACME makes any game more enjoyable ... adds a gracious touch of hospitality to any evening's entertainment. ACM tKWUICS. Son rToaclKO LOST RIVER DAIRY, INC. Medford R. C. Woodruff Airline ace thinks Chevron Supreme sets the pace 1 "When I tried Chevron Supreme Gasoline in my car, I found I got the same dependable power, the easy get away and freedom from knocking that Chevron Avia don Gasoline gives aircraft." Right, because Chevron Supreme's a highway version of this great flying fuel. GASOLINE on the skyways . . . tailored to the highway! MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Ohio artist Mn. R. D. Ogles by says Mexican Indian art la a combination ot primitive Indian with Spanish and Euro pean elements. The Indian artist, she says, does not imitate "he transforms." I0M0KHOW AllleHI 4-VIOITAIU tAXATIVI V00d and Coal Combination HEATERS Younger's Appliance 31 N. Bart left miles STATIONS 2 up
