Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, March 15, 1950, Image 11

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Newspaper Page TextLocal and PTA To Meet Washington Parent-Teacher association will meet Friday, March 17 at 2:30 p.m. in the school gymnasium. . . Eagles To Meet An old-time minstrel show will be presented to members and friends when the local Eagles lodge meets Thursday at 9 p.m. There will be no charge. ( Training Vance A. , Pearce, Jacksonville, aviation v machin ist's mate, first class, is training with the fleet all weather train ing unit, a carrier-type squadron based at Barber's Point, T. H. Bicycle Stolen Harold Froh reich, 35 North Orange street, reported to city police that his blue Hawthorne bicycle was stolen from his home last night or this morning. Committee Meeting An lnter organization committee of veter ans which will lay plans for the all-veterans picnic this year will meet at 7:30 p.m. today in the. DAV office, according to James Burnett. Building Permit H. A. Ed- wardson received a permit from the city building inspector's of fice yesterday to make $1,000 renovations to a residence. Other permit applicants were Roy Heath, $500 garage at 20 North Columbia avenue and Jake Gid ney, $200 addition to a residence at 840 Dakota avenue. Good Skiing With a break able crust on a total snow pack of 128 inches, skiing at Crater Lake national park was described as good this morning by park headquarters. Roads are open but covered with ice and slush in places. Chains are recom mended for travel from Annie Springs to the rim of the lake. Art Class Approximately 60 teachers of Medford and vicinity attended the Binncy A. Smith comoanv art workshop yesterday at the Washington school cafe teria, the citv school office re ported. Miss Clio Heller, art con sultant, is conducting the class which continues today and Thursday from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Auto Damaged The fender of a car driven by E. A. Burgess, route 1, box 458 A, was torn off and the running board damaged yesterday morninc in an accident on South Riverside avenue near Eighth street, according to a re port filed with city police. Bur gess coupe and a car operated by David A. Grubb. route 2, box 394, collided, it was stated. drive-in theatre Tonite - Thurs. Donald O'Connor Gloria DeHaven In Yes, Sir, That's My Baby in Technicolor PLUS Mr. Reckless - NEWS CARTOONS Gates open at 6:30, show at 7 MEDFORD PHARMACY 127 E 6th Just Off Central 9 A M 10 30 PM For Complete Prescription Service 2-6253 if No Answer Call 2-8582 Prompt Free Delivery Baby Needs Sick Room Supplies Rentals JIM GORDON Bidgood Hudson Medford'. Own Modern Pharmacy FOR DELICIOUS FOOD "ASK ANYONE" Mon Desir Phone 122 Personal Recover! n.g Mrs. W. A Thatcher, 208 Beatty street, who has been in a local hospital since March 8 for treatment, is recovering satisfactorily, the family said today. She is not yet allowed to see visitors, Square Dane Tonight The weekly YMCA square dancing party will begin at 8 p.m. today with Dr. and Mrs. L. L. Sanders and Mr. and Mrs. John A. Carter as hosts. There will be folk dancing from 7:30 until 8 p.m. In Maneuvers Robert L. Dav idson, boatswain's mate first class, is aboard the United States navy transport USS Fremont participating in the lomt army, navy and air force war exercises in the Caribbean sea. He is a brother of James W. Davidson, 1046 Shafer lane. Quarterly Session C. A. Gu- derian, assistant director of the state annrenticeshiD council, and Myron Johnston, of the United States department ol laDor, du rpaii nf annrenticeshin. will at- tend the quarterly meeting of the state council Monday, March 20 at Klamath Falls. Headquar ters for both men is Medford. On Auto Tour F. L. TouVelle of Jacksonville and George Put nam of Salem left this morning for a two-week's auto trip dur ing which they will visit Put nam's niece, Mrs. Ken Walkey at Palisades, Cal., and will also go to Hoover dam. Mrs. Walkey is the former Bruce Putnam and resided here when George Put nam, now editor and publisher of the Salem Capital Journal, was editor of the Mail Tribune. Livestock Portland. Ore.. Mar. 13 (U.P Cattle 200: market active, mostly steady: common-medium steers $21- 25; cutter dairy type steers down to $17.50; good fed heifers (26; mediums mostly $22-23; common dairy types downward to $17; canner-cutter cows $13.50-15.50; odd heavy Holstemi $16.50: medium-good beef cows S18-20.50; Rood beef and sausage bulls S21-22; beef bulls to $22.50; commons down to $17. Calves 50 market active, steady; Rood-choice vealers $28-33; mediums 520-25: commons down to $15. Hogs 200; market slow; early sales around 25 cents lower; good-choice 180-235 lbs. $18.75-19.25: few around 260 lbs. S18; good 350-550 lb. sows steady at $14,50-15.30; gooa-cnoice m 1h feeders $18. Sheep 150; market active; general ly asking strong to higher; buyers talking steady; good-choice fed lambs held above $24 for one lot; good-chice slaughter ewes $11.50-12.50; common ewes unsold. San Francisco. Mar. 15 (U P.) Cattle 100. Supply mainly cows, trade opened very slow, market not fully established. Few early sales canner and cutter cows weak to 50c lower. Few canner and cutter cows $14.50- 17, odd head common and low-medium $18-19. Calves none. Hogs 125. Active, butchers 25c low er, sows steady. Good and choice 190 240 lb. butchers $18: old head good sows $13. So far this week good and choice 93 lbs. down to 50 lb. feeder pigs $20-22, but trade slower than last week. Tuesday, sows steady, gooo under 500 lbs. $13. Sheep 110. No early sales. Tuesday, fully steady. One lot good and choice mostly fall-shorn lambs averaging 92 lbs. $27. Portland Produce Portland. Ore.. Mar. 13 (U.P. Butter Prices to retailers: Grade AA prints 69c lb.; AA cartons 70c; A prints 69c; A cartons 70c; a prints eec. Egg prices to retailers: Grade AA large 43c; A large 41c; AA medium 4lc; A medium 40c; small, nominal; cartons, 2c additional. Cheese Prices to retailers: Port land, Oregon singles 39-42c lb. Ore gon 3-lb. loafs 44 '3-450 lb.; triplets l'sc less tnnn singles, rremium brands, singles, 51 'ic lb.; loaf, 53' jc lb. Best Willamette Valley Burnank and White Rose potatoes sold under a $2.75 top for 100 pounds on the Port land eastsida farmers wholesale pro duce market today. Other prices were nominal. Wall Street New York, Mar. 15 U.P, Stocks rose to new highs since Aug. 15, 1946 ,in the general average on the most active vol ume in a month today. Investment buying continued after yesterday's resumption of this type of demand. Prices moved up sharply all around with the industrial group lead ing. The industrial average hit a high since July 10, 1946. Rails approached their high for the year. Utilities were at their best since June 4, 1946 and only a fraction from the highest price touched since 1931. Today's closing prices on se lected stocks: American T & T 150 Anaconda 29 V4 Chrysler 65 Curtiss Wright BMi General Electric 46H General Motors 76n4 Montgomery Ward 56 Penn R R 18 Penney J C 59 U Radio 14Vs Southern Co 13 Southern Pacific 52'i S Oil of Calif 63 Texas Gulf Sulphur 73 Transamcrica ..... 17 United Aircraft .. 27'4 U S Rubber 43 U S Steel 32 Youngstown 81 SLEEP DESTROYER? Omaha (U.R) Burglars with an eye to better sleeping robbed the W. H. Woslager home here. After ransacking the house for several articles of clothing and a radio, the slumber-minded thieves stripped the shoots off Woslager'i bed and carted them off, too. Dining Inn Central Point -.? (Acmt Radio-Telephnto) ' WORST AIR DISASTER Spectators view remains of the Tudor n lr transport which crashed near Llandow, Wales, killing 80 of the S3 persons aboard. The plane wa3 returning sports fans from Dublin to Wales, after the fans had witnessed a championship football game at Dublin. Many Requests To Bring 'Hamlet' To Medford In April Due to many requests, .the English-produced prize - winning film "Hamlet" will be played here for three days, April 17, 18 and 19, it was announced today by Robert Corbin, manager of the Robert L. Lippert theaters here and in Ashland. The film will be shown one day in Ashland at a date to be announced later, Corbin said. Matineei Set The film will be shown at the Esquire theater, and special mat inee performances will be ar ranged for school students, ac cording to Corbin. He said he hopes to make arrangements whereby students buying specially-priced matinee tickets may be excused from school. The picture will be shown at advanced prices because of re quirements of the producers, Corbin said. "Hamlet" was produced and directed by Sir Laurence Olivier, who also plays the title role in the Shakespearean play. The picture has won critical acclaim and awards for excellence in most of the nations of Europe and North America. DAY Election Fills Two Vacant Offices Charles G. Goold was elected vice commander of the local chapter of the Disabled Ameri can Veterans at a meeting last night. He succeeds Kenneth W. Ambrose, who resigned the post due to illness. Also named to fill a Vacancy was Raymond P. Staggrs, who was elected executive commit teeman replacing Ira D. Comp ton who has moved to California. James P. Lillie, commander, presided at the meeting. BIRTHS NAVE To Mr. and Mrs. Ed ward. 15 Highland drive, March 12, 1950, a boy, 6V4 lbs., at Com munity hospital. CANNON To Mr. and Mrs. N. C, 47V5 East Main street, Ashland, Mar. 15, 1950. a boy, 6V4 lbs., Sacred Heart hospital.; THANOS To Mr. and Mrs.. Lewis, 1205 South Stage road, March 15, 1950, a boy, 7 lbs., at Sacred Heart hospital, MAXWELL To Mr. and Mrs. A. C, 315 Apple street, March 15, 1950, a girl, 8V4 lbs., at Sac red Heart hospital. HAMILTON To Mr. and Mrs. Milton, route 1, box 332, Ash land, March 14, 1950. a girl, 9 lbs., at Sacred Heart hospital. MILNES To Mr. and Mrs.; Victor, 724 East -Jackson blvd., March 14, 1950, a girl, Vi lbs.,! at Sacred Heart hospital. REGINA SAYS B-R-Rl ! Regina, Sask. (U.R) People here, nursing frost-bitten ears, I weren't surprised when the j weather man told them January was the coldest month in city history. The overall temperature for a month was 20.6 degrees be low zero. Use Mall Tribune Want Ads DANCE Central Point American Legion Hall O SATURDAY MARCH 18 9:00 P.M. FEATURING LEE MASTERS AND HIS ORCHESTRA - jar. Butte Falls Butte Falls, Mar. 15 The two one-act plays put on by the PTA last Friday night were a huge success and attended by a large crowd. Mrs. Frank Tygart and -Jimmy from Brookings, Ore., visit ed her son and daughter-in-law Mr. and Mrs. Henry Tygart here last Thursday and Friday. A visitor at the Bill Thomas home last , week was his sister and nephew from Brookings, who made the trip with Mrs. Ty gart. Mt. Pitt club will hold a pot luck dinner Saturday evening, March 18, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Tungate. Mem bers and their husbands are in vited to attend and bring own service. After dinner the club plans on attending a dance. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hodgson visited their daughter and fam ily. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Driskell and Jimmy here Sunday. Gun ciub members worked on the trap house and a garbage pit at the shooting range Sunday. Jim Arnold has returned to work after being ill with a knee injury for several months. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Carson are visiting friends on the Ore gon coast. Mrs. Bill Roynane and chil dren left Sunday for Los Ange les where she will visit the next two weeks with her parents and her husband's parents. Bill Roy nane, who works with the forest service, will be working in Klamath Falls. Butte Falls high school will have a public dance in the high school gym Friday night, March 17. Music will be by Don Baker's orchestra. Mr. and Mrs. Ross Aarnt are owners of a new Plymouth. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Casev, Dale and Danny, Mr. and Mrs. Barney Leabo, of Shady Cove, visited here Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Casey. Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Stoddard visited Sunday with Mrs. Clara Cleveland in Medford. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kincaid entertained at a canasta party Saturday evening. Attending were Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Pingle from Mil Mar ranch, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Green, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jenkins, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Tungate, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Casey and the host and hostess. , Gold Hill Grange SAT., MARCH 18 sr,"r Entertainment in the Dining Room 4:30 to 8:30 DINNER THRIFT PRICED 75c Children's Plates 50c Tickets available at the door SPECIALST. PATRICK'S DANCE STARTING 9 P.M. USUAL PRICES The EXACT SAME whiskey as us distillers drink! PRICE REDUCED on Wilken Family Blended Whiskey! 10 ' 4S QT. $195 A PINT 16 PROOF. 70 GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS. THE News of 4-H (3 CLUBS Dairy Record Keeping 4-H club met March 13 in the 4-H building at the fairgrounds, called to order by President Jack English. Or leader, Keith Alsup helped us plan a demon stration to be given at the spring lamb show. There was also a dis cussion on the type of booth to have at the fall fair. Lelia Franklin and Geraldiue Hayes found out the butterfat percentage for all the members' cows milk samples with Bernice Bigham keeping records. One member brought the re freshments and it was decided that each member would take turns serving rather than eating out at the close of the meeting. Geraldine Hayes, Reporter Court Records Police Court Warren G. Lesscg, failure to stop at stop street, fine $5. William A. Shaffer and Fred N. Stevens, failure to yield right-of-way, fine $5 each. George L. Morey, no opera tor's license, fine $5. Ernest Mullis, driving while under influence of intoxicating liquor fine $100 and operator's licenso suspended one year. A special bargain ticket sold only in America for $3.50 per mits American tourists to travel without limit for a week throughout London and its su burbs on all British railway trains, buFes, trolleys and sub ways. St. Patrick's Home Cooked HAM DINNER Jacksonville Presbyterian Church Friday, Mar. 17 Serving From 5:30 P.M. Sponsored by Mariner's Club Plan Now to Attend The Famous OLD FASHIONED SAUSAGE SUPPER T'ltl Mm WIUIN FAMILY CO., IAWRINCEBURG, IN Wedneiday, March 15, 1950 .... AROUND Br VIRGINIA United PreU Hollywood, Mar. 15 (U.R) Producer Sid Rogell opened a "campaign button drive today lo cheer up the Hollywood crepe hangers who're worried about the box office slump. He's passing out little white buttons for movie moguls and theater ex h i b i t ors to stick in their laDels. VtrrtnM They read: "I MacPherwa am a booster." That's all. But they're supposed to make people ask about 'em. And that's where Rogell's "sun shine theory" comes in. "It's psychology," he said. "A little gimmick that's swung Daily Weather Report FORKCASTS Medford and vicinity: Increasing. nlmirtin,.., tnniehl. CeltCrnllV I'lOUd.V Thursday with some light rain. Wttrm er tonight. Western Oregon: Cloudy with rain tonight and Thursday. Little change In temperature. L,ow tonignt u 10 High Thursday 4a to ,18. l.Ot'AI, 11 ATA Temperature a year ago today: High est 58; Lowest 44. Total monthly precipitation .34 inch Deficiency for the month .37 inch. Total precipitation since St.T.mbei 1, 1U48, ia.ua mcnes. Excess for the season .60 Inch. Relative humidity 4:30 p.m. yester day 5B'r: 4:30 a.m. today !3'r. Observations Taken At 4:31) A.M., 120 Meridian Time High Low Prec Hoise 45 33 Boston 3(1 Chicagov u 41 23 26 44 13 Denver 46 Eureka 52 Havrt 30 Klamath Talis 48 Los Angeles 6H Medford 5J New York 3" Omaha 4H Phoenix 74 Portland 52 Reno 52 22 37 Eugene . Salt Lake San Francisco Seattle Spokane Washington, D. C. Yakima .... .14 .... 4l 47 3!1 31 30 28 43 58 Tomorrow Sunrise 6:12 a.m. Sunset 6:18 p.m. Dead line Sunday Classified la i Noon Saturdays WEDNESDAY REALTY VIEWS i "Son, if I had my life to live over, thers's one change I would make for sure. That would be to own my own ' home while I was still young," re ( marked a Med- f H 'or father re- m cently. J vSfc dfe I. "Our whole : j life has been one f Si- long cnain or ,v vr , moves. Just about , ,s the time we t,,, 4 mm quainted in Fred Chei neighborhood, we would have to move. Lots of times we were forced to live in poor dis tricts and bleak apartments. It has disrupted our lives continually: "It seems like we could never find a place to rent that was entirely satis factory. Something always needed fixing up. But the landlords didn't want to make changes just to suit our taste, so no place was ever right. It was always irritating. "And the worst of it Is it was so unnecessary. We had lots of chances to buy a house of our own but we always found some excuse for spend ing tne down payment money on some thing else. Believe me, son I wouldn't i make that mistake again." You should buy your own home, too. Call us today to SEE the best selection of home values in Medford. : ALWAYS DEAL THROUGH A , REALTOR. HOME AGENCY Realtors JOSEPH CHEI, Broker I Nerth Riverside Phone 2-S124 or 2-2905 FRIDAY, MAR. 1 7th GRAND RE-OPENING RAIN or SHINE YOU'LL ENJOY THE MOVIES UNDER THE STARS! o Doors Open SHOWS 6:15 P.M. Start 7P.M. MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNEELEVEN HOLLYWOOD MacPHERSON CorreiptHuJant thousands of political campaigns the lowly lapel button. The minute anybody asks what they are tot out industry leaders can launch mlo some uood sales talks about movies. It'll cheer people up. Including, Rogell hopes, the movie Moguls. He's a little peev ed at all the negative talk that's floating around Hollywood these days. Sponsor Sunshine I guess we 11 have to re-sell motion pictures to everybody,"! he said. "Including the boys at i the top. They all ought to get to-! gethcr and sponsor a little sun shine and good will. Movie bosses may handle mil lions every day, Rogell added, but they can out-moan anybody when it comes to howling the blues. "Only a fool would have ex pected the box-olfice income to stay at the record peak of the war years," he said. "And yet, when it started to get back to normal again, the Hollywood mourners were already starting to hold a wake and lower the bodv of movies into the grave." This, said Rogell, is downright dangerous. Can Be Passed On "This kind of talk can be pass ed on and on and on until it has evervone in the dumps includ ing the customers. And then business will get bad." Later on, Rogell wants every body to wear one of his little white buttons. "I'll sell 'em for $1," he said, "to everybody in the industry; ushers, studio chiefs, projection ists, actors, directors, truckdriv- First Medford SHOWING et LOVE vi. tOYAtTY.' of YOUTH vi. AGE RAINS HENDRIX CAREY ft I It)! Ml ANDREA KINS V ers, press agents, everybody. "we can have movie spokes men speak to the chamber of commerce and service clubs and wham in with some good solid sales licks for pictures. This'U not only help business it'll shame a lot of Gloomy Gus moaners." The dollars he collects will go to some charity. Unless the cam paign flops. If that happens, he may have to keep 'em to feed the crepe-hangers. IilLi.ii IffflCiSt PATRICIA MEDINA 7A!II PITTS , DAV ml I INC leas' "HAMCIS," IM TaHUac trail Mult NEW POLICY Week Day Matinees DOORS OPEN 12:45 P.M. ADMISSION 40c NOW iACfCX thee Km Cieat While Wol Cent frank KELLY SINATRA VERA-ELLEN ANN MILLER. Today VALOR DEVOTION SACRIFICE! THE STORY OF CORREGIDOR! S3 MOUTH mn BLYTH PLUS lisp! BEmMRSETT WeS. 2 IULES MUNSH1N lil4f m I GLENN FORO 1 CLAIRE TREVOR r JU EVELYN KEYES 1 EDGAR BUCHANAN J kssssssssssssHBttHHia. mm I V