Local 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
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(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
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vi. AGE
RAINS
HENDRIX
CAREY
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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.
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