Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, February 20, 1950, Image 5

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Newspaper Page TextLocal and Personal Bike Stolen Darwin More house reported to city police to day that his green and white World bicycle was stolen from the front porch of his home. Installation Started Snook brothers contracting firm today began Installation of a storm sewer on Eas 10tn street be tween Willamette and Portland avenues. Insurance Men Drew P. Lawrence, Portland, and Harold B. Cunningham, San Francisco, are here representing Great American Insurance company, of New York. To San Francisco Duane L. Childs of the Phoenix-Jacksonville highway left Sunday for a combined business and pleasure visit in the San Francisco bay area. He expects to return about the middle of March. Scout Dinner Boy scout Troop 8 will meet Tuesday at 6:30 p. m. in St. Mark's Guild hall for their annual potluck din ner, according to Calvin McDon ald. Parents and friends are in vited to attend. ' 40 and 8 Members AU mem bers of 40 and 8 are asked to meet at the Legion club at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, by S. S. Humph ries, chef de g a r e, to go to Grants Pass for installation of a new voiture. Entry Attempted Robert Marion Sims. 45. and Charles Harvey Reigard, 27, are in jail for investigation of an asserted attempt to break into the Ken nedy -service station at Ninth street and Central avenue, city police reported. Held City police said that Robert Lee Smith is held in the county jail on a charge of ob taining money under false pre tenses. He allegedly passed a spurious check for S7 at the King Street market on Saturday, ac cording to police. Reserve Officers Logistical division 6310, reserve officers, will meet at 7:30 p. m. today in the Federal building. Subject for the meeting will be military law, phase 2. Instructors will be Maj. Gene L. Brown and Capt. Loren S. James. Undergoes Surgery Mrs. J. G. Kofahl, Gold Hill, who has been in San Francisco for medi cal treatment, underwent sur gery Friday at the St. Francis hospital and is reported doing nicely and will soon be able to return home. Driver Hurt F. D. Hitson, 61, Bonanza, suffered slight in juries Saturday when the sedan he was operating and a coupe driven by C. K. Williams, 1047 McAndrews road, collided on South Riverside avenue near Ninth street, according to re ports filed with city police. From Los Angeles Dr. Wal ton Hubbard, CSB, is here this week from Los Angeles. From Hollywood David A. Palmer, Hollywood, manufac turers' representative, is a busi ncs visitor here. Club To Meet Carnation club will meet Tuesday. Febru ary 21, at the home of Mrs. Vir gil Bowers, 729 West Thirteenth street. VFW Meeting Medford post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars will meet tomorrow at 8 p.m. in the VFW hall, 42 North Front street. From California Mrs. Gil bert Stuart, Berkeley, Cal., spent the week end in Medford visit ing friends and renewing ac quaintances. She is a former res ident. Schoolmasters Meet There will be a meeting of the Jack son County Schoolmasters' club at the office of the county school superintendent at 7:30 p.m. to day, according to Donald Hem bre president of the group. Get Yreka License Lome Ir win Martin, 32, Ashland ac countant, and Marq Beele Grove. 27, Ashland stenographer, se cured a marriage license Febru ary 16 in the Siskiyou county clerk's office nt Yreka, Cal. Guests Leave Mr. and Mrs. James Warnock, Palo Alto, Cal., returned to their home there this morning after spending the week end with Mrs. Warnock's mother, Mrs. William Hamilton, GeBauer apartment!). Visitors Here Mrs. Ruth O. Barnett, Pendleton, is visiting for several days at the O. H. Bengtson home, 122 Oregon ter race. Mrs. Barnett, an aunt to Mrs. Bengtson, arrived here from California where she has been visiting the past two months. Photo By Brainerd The credit line "Photo by Brainerd'' was inadvertently omitted from the Roosevelt School Fathers, Sons and Daughters club photo published Sunday. The picture was taken as a public service and the credit should have been given. HONOR COURT SET A Boy scout court of honor will be held at the Howard school Wednesday at 7 p. m. for Troop 10. A representative of Standard Oil company will give a one-hour motion picture pro gram and Neighborhood Com missioner Raymond Johnson and Troop Committee Chairman George Flanagan will attend. Flanagan will describe the Valley rorge scout jamboree that is set for later this year and a collec tion will be taken to help fi nance the trip for a local scout. Livestock Portland. Ore., Feb. 20 (U.P. Cattle 1300; market aciive on reduc ed supply; mostly 50 cent higher beet steers, heifers and cows: canner-cuiter cows steady to 50 cents higher but buyers resisting advance; bulls about steady; high good fed steers Including 1140 lb. weight $27; medium -good steers $24.50-26.30: commons $20-22; good fed heifers $24.50-25; mediums $20-23 50; common heifers $16-19; can-ner-cutter cows $13.50-14.75; common medium beef cows $16-19: few good cows to $20: good beef bulls $20-21; common-medium sausage bulls $16-19. Calves 150; market mostly steady; fairly active, good-choice light veal ers at $26-30; good 450 lb. calves $24.30; common-medium calves, veal en $15-2350. Hogs 900: market active, strong to 25 cents higher; good-choice 180-230 lb. butchers $19-19 25; few $19.30; 250 290 lbs. $17-18: good 350-530 lb. sows strong at $14.50-15.75; good-choice 113 lb. feeders $17; lighter weights to $17.50 or above. Sheep 500; market active, strong: good-choice fed wooled and No. I peit lambs under 105 lbs. $22,50-23: me dium feeders $19-20; good ewes $10. The north Portland livestock mar ket will be opened to trading Wednes day, February 22, but being a legal holiday the market reporting service office will be closed. San Francisco. Feb. 20 (U.P Cattle 400. Supply consists of around two loads and couple lots of steers and load heifers, balance cows. Trade opened fairly active with fully steady prices. Canner and cutter cows $13 13. Common $15.30-16.50. Few high common and low-medium $17. Couple common bulls $16.30. Calves $20; no early sales. Hogs 150: active. Butchers SOc low er and sows steady. Good and choice 190-240 lb. butchers $19; good sows $1350. Sheep 350: active with fully steady prices. One load good and choice No. 2 pelt lambs averaging 112 lbs. $25-25; couple good feeder lambs $23. South S. F. livestock market closed Wednesday. February 22. Washing ton's birthday. No report will be issued. Portland Produce Portland. Ore.. Feb. 30 (UP.) Butter Prices to retailers: Grade AA prints 69c lb.; AA cartons 70c; A prints 69c; A cartons 70c; B prints 66c. Egg prices to retailers: Grade AA large 45c; A large 43c; AA medium 43c: A medium 42c; small nominal; cartons 2c additional. Cheese Prices to retailers; Port land, Oregon, singles, 39-42c lb.: Ore gon 3-lb. loafs 443-45c lb: triplets 1 ;c less than singles. Premium brands, singles. 5Ubc lb.; loaf 533c lb. No. 1 western onions of medium size sold for $1.85 a 50-lb. sack on the Portland eastside farmers whole sale produce market today with large sizes selling at $2-2.10. Florida Kentucky Wonder beans were 33-35 cents a pound. Mexican peas brought $4 a hamper. Tangerines were quoted at $4 a box Parsnips were $1.23-1.50 a lug. Carrots brought $1 a lug or $1.35 $1.50 n 30-lb. sack. Turnips sold for $1 a lug. Potatoes were $2.85-3 a hundred pounds. Poultry, Rabbits Live chickens Broilers under 2 lbs.. 17c: 2-3 lbs., 22.25c: 3-4 lbs., 26-27c; 4 lbs. and over, 27-28c; fryers 2-3 lbs., 22-23c; fryers, 3-4 lbs., 25-26c; roast ers, 4 lbs. and over, 23-26c; leghorns under 4 lbs., 15-18c; 4 lbs. over, 15 16c; roosters, 25c; colored fowl, all weights, 19c; old roosters, all weights, 14-16c. Turkeys Net to growers, toms, 30 31c; prices to retailers, dressed: A young toms. 27-28c; light hens, 41-42c. Rabbits Live white 4 to 3 lbs., 17 20c: 5-0 lbs.. 15-18c: colored 2c low er; fresh dreFsed Idaho fryers to retail ers 4uc; local 4U-5Zc. Wall Street New York. Feb. 20 (U.R) Railroad shares led the stock market down today when the Obituary OSCAR ENGMAN Oscar Engman, 90, route 1, Gold Hill, passed away at his home Saturday. Funeral ar rangements are in care of Conger-Morris funeral home and a complete obituary will be pub lished later. ALBERT DOUGHTY Albert Doughty passed away at the V.A. Domiciliary center Sunday. Funeral arrangements are in care of Conger-Morris fu neral home and a complete obit uary will be published later. EVALYN SIMONS KIMBALL Mrs. Evelyn Simons Kimball, 72, died February 15 at her home in San Diego, Cal. She was born in Santa Rosa. Cal., and had resided in San Diego five years. Survivors include her husband, James W. Kimball: son, George F. Kimball, Toronto, Can., and her sister, Mrs. Scott Woolf, San Diego, formerly of Medford. 26,000 Reported Idle In Northern Counties Portland, Ore., Feb. 18 (U.R) Bad weather and post-holiday layoffs idled 26,000 in Multno mah and Columbia counties dur ing January, the Oregon em ployment service said today. The labor force during the pe riad was estimated at 60,197. Alamosa, Colo. (U.R) The Ila mosa postmaster put up a notice that postage rates on Christmas cards would be higher this year. He was immediately swamped by residents who looked at the sign and said they wanted to buy some. The sign he had posted said: "Unsealed Christmas cards two cents each." soft coal miners refused to re turn to their pits. Some of those who had bought the rails last week on the belief the mines would resume sold today. Prices declined fractions to more than a point and other sections of the market declined moderately with the carriers. Rails made a new high since Nov. 8, 1948, on Saturday. Dow Jones closing stock aver ages: 30 industrials 203.47 off 0.50; 20 railroads 55.65 off 0.35; 15 utilities 42.73 off 0.05; 65 stocks 73.84 off 0.23. Sales today approximated 1,420.000 shares, compared with 1,940.000 traded last Friday. Today's closing prices on se lected stocks: American T & T .....14914 Anaconda 30 '4 Chrysler 64s Curtiss Wright ..- 9 General Electric 4fifp. General Motors 75Ta Montgomery Ward 59 Pcnn. R. R 175s Penney, J. C 60 Southern Co 127i Southern Pacific 53s4 S. Oil of Calif 62 Texas Gulf Sulphur 72a Transamerica 1738 United Aircraft 27 '4 U. S. Rubber 43 "4 U. S. Steel SO't Youngstown 79 BIRTHS RUTH To Mr. and Mrs. Irv ing, 311 Ashland avenue, Feb. 17, 1950. a boy, 8' 4 pounds at Sacred Heart hospital. HENRY To Mr. and Mrs. Al len D.. box 290 Central Point. Feb. 17, 1950, a girl, 7j pounds at Sacred Heart hospital. NIEDERMYER To Mr. and Mrs. Dale, route 2, box 404, Feb. 18, 1950, a boy, 7 pounds, at Community hospital. WEHDE To Mr. and Mrs. Le roy. Trail, Feb. 18, 1950. a girl, BAa pounds, at Community hos pital. ' JAMES To Mr. and Mrs. Milton, Jacksonville, Feb. 18, 1950, a boy. 8i pounds, at Community hospital. WALKER To Mr. and Mrs. Merl, route 2, box 20, Feb. 18, 1950, a girl, B'j pounds, at Com munity hospital. SMITH To Mr. and Mrs. Ce cil, Trail, Feb. 20, 1950, a girl, 7 pounds, at Community hos pital. Court Records Police Court Harold McCabe Von Stein Jr., void licence plates, bail $5. Edward Potter and Harley Harper, parked In post office zone, fine $2 each. Justice Court Edward W. Earnest, improper muffler, fine $1 and costs. Jerry P. Meadows, failure to stop at stop sign, fine $1 and costs1. William R. Windsor, no opera tor's license, fine $1 and costs. Daily Weather Report FORECASTS Medford and vicinity: Portly cloudy tonight with valley Jog early Tuesday morning. Increasing cloudiness Tues day with some light ruin. Western Oregon: Mostly cloudy: a few light rain showers tonight and Tuesday. Little temperatura change. High Tuesday, 45 to 32; low tonight. 32 to 40. LOCAL DATA Temperature a year ago today Highest 5H; Lowest 47. Total monthly precipitation 1.04 inches. Deficiency for the month .33 Inch. Total precipitation since September 1. 1949. 12.44 inches. Excess for the season 1.46 Inches. Relative humidity 4:30 p.m. yester day 84 ", 4:30 a.m. today 87. Observations Taken At 4:30 A.M., 120 Meridian Time High Low Prec. Boise 30 31 T Boston 42 7 .01 Chicago 23 15 Denver 67 34 Eureka 49 37 Havre 40 7 Klamath Falls 31 29 Los Angeles 67 49 Medford . 31 31 New York 43 10 Omaha 43 26 Phoenix . 80 58 Portland 47 38 Reno 54 31 Eugene 53 39 Salt Lake 54 33 San Francisco 54 44 Si.ntlle 40 36 Spokane 40 28 Washington, D. C 43 19 1 Yakima 30 24 Tomorrow Sunrise 6:59 a.m. Sunset 5:51 p.m. .01 .01 Monday, February 20, 1S50 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE Christmas Seal Sales, Chest X-Rays In County Break Previous Records More Christmas seals were of the Medford Health group, sold and more chest x-rays were taken during 1949 than in any other previous year, reports made by the Jackson County Public Health association showed today. Mrs. Claude Thompson, chair man of the county seal ;k com mittee, said that $8,700 las been realized from the sale of ;i. so far, and more returns are coming In daily as reminder cards are mailed out. She ex pressed her appreciation to the county chairman who helped with the sale. 10,525 X-Rayt A total of 10,525 chest x-rays were taken here last fall, accord ing to a report given by Mrs. Jack Walker, chairman of the 1949 survey. Of these, 10.086 were negative, 328 were recalled for larger films, while 104 of the 1949 subjects were shown to have disorders other than tuber culosis. Only seven films were unreadable. Mrs. Walker said that final and complete results have not yet been tabulated. Mrs. Dwight Findley, Medford, president of the association, pre sided at a meeting of the group here last Thursday, and intro duced Mrs. Frank Conner, a re cent arriver here, as new co chairman of the social hygiene committee. Miss Helen Bullis read a letter of appreciation for the gifts of the association sent to sanitorium patients. Mrs. Paul Skinner, president gave a report on the local phases of the seal sale campaign. Nurses Introduced Mrs. Blanche Frisbie, super visor of nurses with the Jackson county health department intro duced Miss Kathryn Berberet and Mrs. Ethel Mae Kancleer, who have recently joined the staff. Miss Berberet will be in charge of the areas including Jacksonville, Applegate, Pros pect and Phoenix, while Mrs. Kancleer will have Gold Hill, Rogue River, Oakgrove and one quarter of Medford. Mrs. Fris bie also stated that the well-baby clinics were again being resumed in the larger areas in the county. Mrs. Mike Gibbons gave the report of the committee which tabulated the youth serving agen cies in Jackson county for the Governor's Committee on Chil dren and Youth. Mrs. Aubrey Sanders was chairman, and as sisting her were Mesdames Alan Perry, O. J. Halboth, Bernard Hughes, Otto Frohnmayer and Francis Cheney. Mrs. Sanders re ported that health associations throughout the state had been requested to gather this informa tion, which is to be compiled for a directory of welfare and youth serving agencies for the entire state. Concluding the program, Mrs. Frank Conner and Mr9. Ches ter Guchcs gave reports of the social hygiene conference held recently in Portland. Several Cities to Adopt Business, Occupation Taxes Snlem, Ore., Feb. 20 U.R) Several cities throughout the state indicated today that they will adopt business and occupa tion taxes now that the Oregon supreme court has ruled that similar taxes imposed by Port land are constitutional. Salem city officials predict ed that the capital city will adopt ordinances similar to Portland's to finance municipal operations. The Oregon supreme court ruled Wednesday that Portland's tax on business and professional men, estimated to raise $1,900, 000 a year, is constitutional. The high court held that the state six per cent constitutional lax limitation applies only to property taxes. Feet Increased Portland's new taxes were In the form of 22 ordinances amend ing the city's license and busi ness code. Half of the new ordi nances increase existing license fees on certain businesses and occupations. Some of the others create new classifications, such as retail merchants, wholesale merchants, manufacturers and food processors, and levy license fees on a basis of percentage of NOTED THROAT SPECIALISTS REPORT on 30-Day Test of Camel smokers ... Not one single case of throat irritation due to smoking CAMELS ! ill QL yJm Yes, thai wr the findings of noted throat specialists after a total of 2,470 week examinations of the fhreafi of hundrttefs of men and women who smoked Came and only Camels for 30 consecutive day. MAKE A NOTE... REMEMBER YOUR THROAT! 1 BRILLIANT YOUNG SOPRANO OF THE METROPOLITAN OPERA NADINE CONNER ft J'-. ji')'-) "! 'i- VOICE COACH Rot Campbell: 'I tried many brands before I found the cigarette that agrees with my throat. The 30-Day Test convinced me that Camela are mild cool and mild!" SCHOOL TEACHER Miry Turner "Giving daily lecturet isn't easy on my throat. I smoke Camels-they agree with my throat. Wonderfully mild. Won derful1 tawing, tool" Start your own 30-day Camel MILDNESS test today! j I l ! HOUSEWIFE P0II7B.rlc.r1 f IWIVrVMW i I ' v if. 1 "Cigarette mildness counts with m m . jk fL " I SJSSfFcJZ My CIGARETTE MUST BE V AVs :'vCf m They're the mildew, best-tut- f V l crv, I MlLD. CAMELS AGREE f ..v Y ESa (JF jV I DEFINITELy PREFER Ojb J If lO kriW V EM roR TASTE " AH M' ' Glldo in "RigolMlo". . . Raima A S ' V A M'-V S V i m&'f ' W i In "Barber olSevill."... fa, ; f fX " fV' ilik - fJWl ' lovely Metropolitan star 4 ' .PI nJ- tSrt'Ai W L if JJ . Nadir Conner hat odder ',t - i f UffQ'L n. 1 JL' 'XHJCM Wtvj role after role lo her v ,v . . , ' . JT, j Vl V.. JFsS- Vj&r JTJ H operolicriumph,. . UjUZftt HEM'S TNI TMTI Smoke onl? Camels for 30 dsy( Compare them in roof "T-Zone" (T tor throat, T for tawe). See if too don't agree that Camels are the mildest, best-tastiof cigarette. gross income. Other now classi fications have fixed license fees. Ted Garbade. president, and Frank Boynton, director of the Portland Retail Trade bureau. brought suit against the city of Portland and several of its of ficials seeking -to have the 22 ordinances declared unconstitu tional and void. Circuit Judge James W. Crawford of Multno mah county found It constitu tional and Garbade and Bovnton appealed to the supreme court. in us ruling Wednesday the su preme court affirmed the Mult nomah county court. As an indication of the wide spread and active interest among Oregon municipalities in the case, several city attorneys filed a brief as "friend of the court" in support of Portland s conten tion that the ordinances are con stitutional. Among the city attorneys fil ing the brief were: Chris J. Jo witz of Salem, James L. Hope of Astoria, Charles K. McCol loch of Baker. Charles G. Schnei der of Gresham, Paul Patterson of Hillsboro, John N. Mohr of Hood River, Carl G. Helm Jr. of L,a urande, Raymond G. Wood of Occnnlnke, Edgar L. Martin of Sandy, Marvin O. Sanders of Springfield, David O. Bennett of St. Helens and Neal W, Bush of Vernonia. c In an ODinlon written bv Jus tice J. O. Bailey, the supreme court held: The city council. In enacting the license and business code and the 22 ordinances amenda tory thereof, was not exceeding its authority. There is conferred bv the citv charter on the coun cil 'power and authority, sub ject to the provisions, limitations' contained in tne cnarter, to 'grant licenses with the object of raising revenue or of regula tion, or both.' . . . The ordl-, nances under attack arc in ac cord with the requirements of the Portland city charter and are not violative of the Oregon constitution." Nothing In Record rne ruling concluded: "There is nothing In the rec ord before this court which would justify us in holding that the license tax imposed upon various classes of businesses, professions, trades and callings, is in violation or. me equai pro tection, due process or uniform ity clauses of the state and fed eral constitutions." Larceny From Auto Charge Jails Man Harold Hcnrv Gorskl. 21. of 2504 Jacksonville highway, is held In the county jail charged with larency from a vehicle last night, according to city police, who said .they caught him si phoning gasoline at Hobbs' serv ice station just west of Medford. Officers said thev summoned a state policeman to the scene since the alleged larceny oc curred outside the city limits They stated that Gorski had pa role papers irom tne united States penitentiary, McNeil Island, Wash. ft 9. KtrrAis lWrto Co., Wtultt M. C White City Cafe wishes to express our thanks and appreciation shown by our many friends and busi ness associates , for their kindness and fine workman ship in making this opening date Feb. 22, 1950, possible. We endeavor to serve the highest quality of food pos sible which has been a merit set by the many merchants that we have had the pleas ure of being associated with in the past years. Sincerely Yours, EDWIN C. and MILDRED M. HUDSON. Unique Army Concept Employed In War Games With American-Canadian Ar my Maneuver Forces in Yukon Territory, Feb. 20 (U.R) A unique U. S. army concept called smacks a little bit of Russia, is being employed in the Canadian American winter war games with great success. The aggressor republic Is a jost war invention which or ginated with the army field forces. It is a hypothetical total itarian country which has had the United States under attP"'T for the past three years. Court House News Divorce Complaint iiurge, Emma vs. Pearl T. 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