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Local and Vandalism Elmer Donahoo, 53 Rose avenue, reported to city police that vandals had torn down the chimney on a fireplace to his back yard. Return Mr. and Mrs. Ira D. Canfield, Aloha ranch, have re turned from a two months trip that took them to Guaymas, Mex., and Palm Springs and Long Beach, Calif. They were at Guaymas three weeks. - Complain Training Robert Dean Bates, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Bates, Box 155, Tal ent, is completing his Air Force basic airmen indoctrination course at Lackland Air Force base, according to a release from the base. He is a private. Washington Carnival The carnival committee of Washing ton school PTA asks that the dads come to the school gym nasium Wednesday night, March 5, with hammers in work clothes, to put up booths. The mothers are to work all Thursday on preparations for the carnival. In Service Larry Mathiesen, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Ram sey, 25 Summit avenue, left last week for duty with Air . Force. He recently enlisted. News of his first assignment has not been re ceived. He is a Medford high school graduate and member of the Eve Prentice Accordion band. Returns Laurence Cuffel, chief petty officer in the Navy, has returned to duty at San Diego after being briefly in Ko lea according to information re ceived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Cuffel, 909 North Cen tral avenue. He was stationed on the John W. Thomason during the Korean trip. Take Honors Cix grandsons of Mr. and Mrs. John Lowe, 314 Laurel street, took a big share of the honors at th . Boy Scout court of honor held recently at Crawfordsville, Ore., Lowe re ported. Among the boys, Sam, Tom, Daniel, Ron, Don and Francis, sons of Mr. and Mrs. George Lowe, got two life badges, a tenderfoot badge, nine merit badges, a one-year pin, a pair of two-year pins, two three year pins and three perfect at t ndance awards. The boys have been visitors in Medford. DRIVE H tUsatre TONITE - WED. - THURS. ' AGM'S WGKVWDf AND HANDSOME MUSiCALJ PLUS m ruTT cress 1 Pacific! 1 Mttof tl 1st kMt-ttltor : NEWS CARTOONS fetes Open 6:30; SW at 7:00 NOW PLAYING NIGHTLY AT THI - THE JOE NEWMAN TRIO with Vickie Young and Claude Roberts CHEF CLIFF FISHER'S COMPLETE DINNERS SERVED FROM 6 F.M. TO 2 A.M. For Reservations PhoiM 2-4S00 Personal Mslhara Club The Oak Grove Kindergarten Mothers club will meet Wednesday, March 5, at 7:30 pjn. in the home of Mrs. G. Knips, Oak Grove road. . .- Report d 111 W. D. Stead man, Phoenix, an officer of the Rogue Valley Irrigation district, is reported by friends as critical ly ill at his home. Mothartingers The Washing ton, school Mothersingers will meet Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. in the home of Mrs. A. C. Cameron, located at 905 Stewart avenue at the Peach street intersection. On Business Here on busi ness this week are Ralph Evans of the Eads Oakland, Calif., of flee and Vernon Evans, manager of Eads Portland office. Herb Carlton of the Upper Rogue was a business visitor here yester day. To California Mr. and Mrs. Leon Haskins, 816 West Fourth street, left yesterday for Vallejo, Calif., where they will visit for a week with Haskins' daughter. From there they plan to visit in El Centre, Calif., and Phoenix, Ariz., and other southwestern cities friends said today. - FOE Auxiliary Winners of a membership contest for the Fra ternal Order of Eagles auxiliary will be announced Thursday eve ning, March 6. The auxiliary members will meet at 8 p.m. in the FOE hall. A ritual practice will be held Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. in the ball. Leaves Norman Kerr, Oak land, Calif., left yesterday after visiting in the valley. He was recently transferred to the Oak land. Calif., offices of Eads Transfer company and his fam ily is living at Phoenix until they have located a home in the bay area, friends said today. Phoenix HOW The men of the Phoenix Neighbors of Wood craft circle will be in charge of refreshments at a meeting of the group ThursdayMarch 6, at 8 p.m. Advance night will be ob served. The Thimble club of the circle will meet in the home of Mrs. Guy Cobleigh, Friday, March 7. A covered dish lunch eon will be served. Return Dr. and Mrs. Jouett P. Bray, Lozier lne. have re turned from a two-week vaca tion trip in California where they visited three of their chil dren, Lee. a lighting engineer at Travis Air Force base; William D., at Berkeley, who will leave in July for Japan as an educa tional missionary, and Mrs. Dean S. Lundy, Berkeley. Dr. Bray will be in his office tomorrow. Return Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fanger, Jacksonville highway, returned this week from San Francisco where they accom panied their son, Richard E. Fanger. He embarked on the USS Madaket February 26 for Japan as a missionary to that country. He will live at 1778 Heyoshi honcho, Kohoku-ku; Yokohama, Japan, for some months while he studies the Japanese language, his parents said. Move Mr. and Mrs. Allan H. Donaldson moved during the week from West Second street to Eugene. He is associated with the Albers Milling company. The King Heiskells moved also from here this week to Tracy, Calif. The E. C. Halls who moved from Medford about two months ago are now located at Los Angeles, friends said today. Mr. and Mrs. Michele Rossi moved yesterday from 216 East Main street to 115 Crater Lake avenue. Church Dinner Pictures of a recent trip to Protestant missions in Mexico will be shown by Dr. and Mrs. Bert Elliott at a fam ily night dinner at the First Pres byterian church at 6:30 p.m. to day under the direction of Trin ity circle. Decorations will in clude Mexican curios and maps, and the films will also show mis sionary leaders and Mexican church officials. The public will be welcome to a service at 7:30 pjn. Son Born Word has been re ceived here of the birth of a son February 23 to SSgt. and Mrs. B. M. Thumler, at Patrick Air Force base, Cocoa, Fla. Sergeant Thumler is the son of B. M. Thumler, route 2, box 380, Med ford, and his wife is the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Jenks, Gold Hill. The baby has been named Wayne Lee. It weighed IVi pounds at birth. The sergeant is engaged in guided missile re search at the Florida base.. - French Soldier Held In Japan Bank Holdup Tokyo (U.R) Pvt. Edmond Parriel, a French soldier sought in connection with the $6,000 Senju bank robbery, was arrest ed at gunpoint Tuesday. ' He did not resist arrest, al though he carried a loaded .45 caliber automatic pistol. Parriel's arrest ended the larg est manhunt of the occupation. Army agents and Japanese police found him sitting in the back seat of a Japanese taxi parked on traffic-jammed "T" avenue in Tokyo's Kamatsugawa district. livestock Portland (U.P.) Cattle 150. Con ner and cutter cow $17 20-17.50; shells SIS and below; utility cow $21-25; low commercial cows above 126; young commercial cows $27; utility bulls $25-27; cutters $22; com mercial $28.50-29. Calves 39. Good and low choice vealers $31-35; utility and commer cial calves and vealers $22-30. Hon ISO. Choice No. 1 190-210 lb $20.50; choice 180-235 lb. $20.25; choice 400-550 lb. sows $15.50-16.30. good and choice light feeder pigs $17.50-18.50. Sheep 50. Asking around $26.50-27 (or good and choice under 110 lb. wooled lambs; choice No. 1 pelts 112 114 lb. S35-25 50; good ewes $13. San Francisco (U.P.) Cattle 25 Canner and cutter cows $16.50-20: Utility dairy-type cows $23; commer cial bulls $29. Calves none. Hogs 400. Choice 297 lb. butchers S17.50; choice 385-500 lb. sows $14 14.40. Sheep none. Portland Produce Portland (UP.) Butter: To retail ers: AA grade pints 89c lb.; cartons 60c; A prints 89c; cartons 90of B prints 87c lb. Eggs: To retailers: Grade AA large 48-49c doz.; A large 45c doz.; AA me dium. 45c dot.; A medium 44c doz.; cartons 3c additional. Cheese: To retailers: A grade Ched dar, Oregon singles. 45-51c lb.: 5-lb. loaves, 93-54c; premium brands to 58'ic lb. for single wheels and 61 'ic lor S-lb. loaves; processed American cheese. S-lb. loaves, 45 'i -47c lb. Four dozen heads of lettuce sold from $4.75-5.25 on the East Side Farmers market Tuesday; onions went from $5-5.25 for local 50-lb. sacks; cabbage priced at $3-75-5 for 85-95 lb. crates. Poultry, Rabbits Live chickens (No. 1 quality fob plants) Fryers 3,i-3 lbs. 30c lb.; 3-4 lbs. 30c lb.; roasters. 4',i lbs. and up, 30c; light hens, all weights. 18c lb.; heavy hens, all weights 21c; old roost ers 13-15C. Dressed chickens No. 1 New York dressed style to retailers; fryers, S'.i 3 lbs. 45-47C lb.; roasters 45-47c; light hens, 32-33c: heavy hens. 37-39 c; cut up fryers, ail weights. 59-63c Dressed turkeys To retailers: Frozen, winter pack A grade toms. 48c lb.; New York dressed style. B grade. 46c; A grade hens, 48c; B grade 45c. Rabbits (average to growers fob killing plant) Live white. 3!i-4 ,i lbs. 26-29c; 5-6 lbs. 22-25C colored pelts 4c lb. under; old doe rabbits. 12.16c. few higher: fresh dressed fry ers to retailers 62-65c. some higher. Wall Street i New York U.R) Stocks ad vanced "vigorously Tuesday and registered their, best average gain since last July 5. Net gains ranging to more than 3 points were spread -over a broad list with oil, rail, television and chemical groups the leaders. Dow JoneS closing stock aver ages: ' Thirty industrials, 263.95 up 3.87; 20 railroads, 86.89 up 1.75; 15 utilities, 49.11 up 0.42; 65 stocks, 98.77 up 1.49. Sales Tuesday amounted to 1, 750,000 shares compared with volume of 1,020,000 shares Mon day. Today's closing prices on se lected stocks: American T & T . 1561,4 Anaconda :. 50 Chrysler ....... 69 Curtiss Wright ..... ..i 8V2 General Electric . 56 General Motors . 51 Montgomery Ward 62 Penn R R 18 Penney J C . 67V Radio 25 Southern Co 13 Southern Pacific .... . 64 S Oil of Calif ...... . 51 Texas Gulf Sulphur ... 107 Transamerica . 23 Tri-Continental .;. ... 14Vz United Aircraft ; 30 U S Rubber .. : 79 US Steel.. . 39 Youngstown ... 46V2 OAV Club The DAV Sewing club will meet Thursday at 12 noon in the James Lilly home on Court street Visiting Mrs. Gene Dunagan and children, Connie and Ronnie, Chico, Calif., are visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Hickman, 539 North Holly street. Released George Halberton, 620 Pennsylvania avenue, was released today from Community hospital where he has been a na- tient for the past three days, ac cording to a hospital report New to Vicinity Mr. and Mrs. Paul Wilson moved Jiere last month from Portland and nnw live at 712 Kins street. He i a I salesman for Medford Feed and Seed comnanv. and until comine here he was a beef feeding spec ialist with the Albers Milling company. MEDFORD HOTEL BREAKFAST - LUNCH DINNERS 7 A.M. to 2 P.M. 5:30 fo f P.M. RING THI CHILDREN , They Are Always Wake ma FREE PARKING 'Subversive' Teachers May Be Discharged Washington U.PJ The Su preme Court has armed states and cities with clear constitu tional authority to fire "subver sive" public school teachers, pro vided they are first given a hear ing. Legal experts placed the broad interpretation ' Tuesday on the court's 6 to 3 ruling upholding New York state's anti-Communist Feinberg law. But authorities agreed that no constitutional significance could be read into another 6 to 3 de cision, affecting public schools, which the court handed down Mjuday. - ' In that action, the court threw out the complaint of two New Jersey parents who challenged a state law authorizing Old Tes tament Bible readings and reci tation of the Lord's prayer at school opening exercises. Newly-Found Star Doubles Brightness Berkeley, Calif. (U.R) A star has been discovered which doubles in brightness within 10 minutes, according to the Uni versity of California astronomy department. Dr. Olin J. Eggen, while mak ing observations at the Com monwealth Observatory in Can berra, Australia, discovered the star, which has the shortest vari ation cycle known. It changes from its dimmest to its brightest every 80 minutes, and at the peak of the cycle doubles its brightness in 10 minutes. Dr. Eggen pointed out that the 80-minute changes he ob served actually took place on the star 120 years ago because it is 120 light years away from the earth. Daily Weather Report FORECASTS Medford and vicinity: Showers and some clearing tonight and Wednesday. Snow in the mountains. Low tonight 35, high Wednesday near 50. Western Oregon: Few brief showers and partial clearing tonight and Wednesday. Little change in tempera ture. Low tonight 32-40. High Wed nesday 40-50. Five-day forecast: (through the aft ernoon of Sunday, March 9) Western Oregon: Recurring precipitation, most ly showers, with total rain of between one-half and one inch. Temperature near or slightly below normal. Highs 45-55, lows 30-40. Northern and Central California: Few scattered showers Wednesday Recurring rain Thursday through Sunday with heavy amounts in the north portion. Temperatures below normal except near normal on the coast. LOCAL DATA Temperature a year ago today: Highest 33. lowest 23. Total monthly precipitation .05 inches. , Deficiency for the month .11 inches. Total precipitation since September 1. 1951. 17.03 inches. Excess for the season 5.20 inches. Relative humidity 4:30 p. m. yes terday 55; 4:30 a. m. today 90. Observation Takein at 4:30 A. M. 120 'Meridian Time High LowPrec. Boise 40 29 .03 Boston 37 27 Chicago , 35 32 .48 Denver 28 3 .05 Eureka 52 40 .25 Havre . 44 12 .11 Klamath Falls 38 21 .01 Los Angeles : 61 48 MEDFORD .. .. 50 30 .05 New York 38 35 T Omaha . 86 4 Phoenix : 61 42 Portland 48 41 .85 Reno i. 49 29 .06 Eugene ; 51 36 .26 Salt Lake 30 20 ' San Francisco 55 46 .29 Seattle .. 45 39 .32 Spokane ...... 37 30 .22 Washington, D. C. . 37 35 .02 Yakima 37 32 .13 Tomorrow Sunrise 6:39 a. m. Sunset 6:06 p. m. Dead line Sunday ClassMleds is ar noon Saturdays. PHONE 24900 LAST TIMES TONITE! "COLORADO SUNDOWN" TOMORROW! MARK STEVENS PEGGY DOW "REUNION IN RENO" PLUS IG FURNITURE GIVEAWAY VI flflV m. m sat ss - -w w m r in at f 1 iCEJafcZ.Hg3- 1 '.fl nmvnm-'MaNATiCTm new 8:30P.L1T0lJI ANOTHER GREAT MAJOR STUDIO Medical Talks Draw Civil Defense Leaders Col. Charles E. Stafford, Jack son county civilian defense di rector, and Dr. A. Erin Merkel, county health officer and head of the CD medical program here, were among 65 civilian defense workers of the state to attend the second institute on the medical- aspects of civil defense held in Portland last week-end. Sponsored by the Oregon State Medical society, the State Board of Health and the medi cal department of the Oregon Civil Defense agency, the meet ing featured a talk by Dr. Har old M. Erickson, who pointed out that medical organization for defense purposes is also ap plicable to peacetime uses. Dr. Erickson described the way in which medicine has been organized in the counties of the state, and said "the organizing and planning stages are about over. Now we need to concen trate on training and realistic exercises." fffcfon Telephone Rate Hearing Set Salem tu.w state Mimic Utilities Commissioner Charles H. Heltzel Tuesday ordered a hearing held at Elkton March 31 on application of the Elkton Telephone Co. for an increase in rates. Heltzel said the requested rates would bring the company in an additional i -venue of about $2,400 a year. The company also proposes to increase its hours of operation to 24 hours a day and seven days a week. Spring Opening Plans Told by Merchants Members of the Medford Re tail Merchants association will hold their annual spring opening Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week, it was announced today. Special window displays will follow the theme of "Dress Up for Spring." The displays will feature a variety of products, in eluding ready-to-wear clothing, gardening, tools, lawn furniture and other spring merchandise items. Use Mall Tribune Want Ads 3EE53 PHONE 3-1902 LAST DAY! If STARTS THURSDAY Sam rm r tome nietg rum aw tnitum x rT m nnH; "t i ff y vx vW , jsjJ H' CiMbM-limhrt-liriiMia nMSBMsaaBHBBSBSSSssssssssssssMBSasa Tuesday, March 4. 1S53 Obituary MINA JOHNSON Mrs. Mina Rachael Johnson, 61, died Monday at her home, 214 Third street, Central Point. Funeral arrangements are in care of Conger-Morris funeral home. EDNA POMEROY Mrs. Edna Pomeroy, 73, of 2098 Spring street, died Monday in a local hospital. Funeral ar rangements are in care of Conger-Morris funeral home. MRS. P. H. COKER Mrs. P. H. Coker died today at the home of her sister, Mrs. Sid Richardson, on the Old Stage road. Funeral arrangements are in care of Conger-Morris funeral home. Purchase of Thrifty Lunch Announced Today Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Calkins announced today the purchase Use Mail Tribune Want Ads TOMORROW KITE AT 9 P. II AT YOUR MEDFORD THEATRES - mm T nAUELUI JUST BE AT ANY OF THESE THEATRES CRATERIANo HOLLY Rl ALTO ESQUIRE GO jet v wWi l r?T K3 LAWYER "1 I So confused th ALi LW ff KSf4P forhutbandl " Xp - I 4!B of the Thrifty Lunch at 13 North Fir street, from Howard Jami son, who has operated it for over two years. - x They plan no changes' except in hours, which will be from 9 a.m. to midnight They will spe cialize in steaks at reasonable prices, and in short orders, they said. The restaurant has been re decorated in red and cream col ors and changes have been made 4 1 V V PI I In Pfffva ASHLAND Doris Day Danny Thomas Si ,B yj'TLL SEE YOU Xj III MY DREAMS" VI Color by Technicolor Given Away J LrQ K A BEAUTIFUL SlV.0 U Charles of London J by HELLER & FRANKLIN FURNITURE CO. 42 North Riverside So So FRANCES DEI KAY COLUNS 10BHCKSON MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINE in kitchen equipment Mrs. Dorothy Johnston will be chef, Calkins said. ! ENDS TONIGHT! the HAPPIEST film in years! P GEB6 JEANNE LINDA CRAIN DARNELL ANN SOTHERN "A LETTER TO THREE WIVES" 1 T warm! So surprising! richly entertaining! . . . you'll mark it as one of the screen's most glorious events! BeasfVsaaHBKsHBBBHSSBB wl a 1 Ills n sslsssafemaaasssssassasBBssB 71 3 AflMiaift!ii.m I VI - ALSO 9
