Local and
Eye Surgery Arthur R. Lea
vitt, 39 Summit avenue, today
underwent surgery for removal
' of a cataract from an eye at Sa
cred Heart hospital, according to
his family. -
-" New Residents Mr. and Mss.
Walter J. Taffee, Englewood,
' Calif., have moved to Medford
and are now making their home
; with Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Bishop,
1220 East Main street, it was re
ported today.
Assume Name An application
for . assumed business name of
,', Yost Brothers and Trovillo Log-
j ging company at Shady Cove
was filed with the county
; clerk's office on April 14 by
Floyd M. Yost, Leonard J. Yost
f and J. G. Trovillo, all of Shady
U Cove.
Plan Sale Women's Fellow
ship of First Christian church
will hold the annual spring
plant and rummage sale Friday
and Saturday, April 18 ana ih
it 309 East Eighth street. Hours
are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Any
one having plants or rummage
to be picked up is ashed to call
2-8817 or 2-8750. The fellowship
nominees that donations will
be appreciated.
v From Canyonville Mr. and
Mrs. L. M. Hamilton and daugh
ter, Mrs. Mary H. Brown and
her children, Gary and Marlys,
Arnold lane, returned Sunday
evening from Canyonville where
they met another daughter of the
Hamiltons, Mrs. G. E. Stewart
and Mr. Stewart of Coos Bay.
.The family group met there to
observe Easter Sunday. Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph Applegate and daugh
ter, Portland, left the end of the
week after visiting the Hamil
tons t here. Mrs. Applegate is
Hamilton's niece.
"I' Reunion Some of the mem
bers of the F. S. Brandon family
held a reunion Easter Sunday at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bran
don; 211'VS North Ivy street.
Here for the event were their
granddaughter, Miss Judie Britt
an, of Merced, Calif., daughter
of Mrs. C. A. Tingleaf, 725 West
lark street; a grandson, Rich
ard Brandon Van Fleet, a Navy
seaman, stationed on board the
XISS Q u i n c y at Bremerton,
Wash., and the Brandon's other
daughter, Mrs. George Van
Fleet, Austin, Tex., mother of
Beaman Van Fleet. Miss Brittsan
nd Seaman Van Fleet left the
first of the week. Mrs. Van
Fleet plans to remain for several
weeks visiting her parents, Mr.
nd Mrs. Brandon, and her sis
ter, Mrs. Tingleaf.
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FOR RESERVATIONS FHONI 2-6012
Personal
Return Mr. and Mrs. Claude
Saylor, 16 South Orange street,
returned Monday from a 10-day
vacation trip to Kingman, Ariz.,
and San Jose, Calif.
Leare Mr. and Mrs. Hilding
Nelson, Klamath Falls, left Sun
day evening after visiting over
the Easter holidays with their
daughter and family; the Henry
Hertagers, Eagle Point.
Visits Daughter Mrs. Elsie
Fitzgerald, 740 South Holly
street, returned Monday after vis
iting for Easter week-end with
her daughter, Mrs. Wayne Barry
and family, Cave Junction.
To Remodel Store Harold
Frv.has received a $1,400 build
ing permit to remodel his gro
cery store at 803 West Second
street, according to records In
the city building inspector's
office.
Alarm False Firemen said
that a flue fire summons at
about 8:30 p.m. yesterday turned
out to be a false alarm. They
were called to Niantic and Lib
erty streets where they canvass
ed the neighborhood but failed
to locate a fire.
Eye Surgery Mrs. Adolph A.
Blandin, 221 Old Pacific high
way, Talent, had eye surgery to
day at Sacred Heart hospital,
the hospital reported. Fred O'
Terris, 317 Chestnut street, hurt
some time ago in an accident,
was readmitted to the hospital
yesterday for further surgery.
Margie Good, 10, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Good, 1970
Sunset drive, was admitted for
medical attention. Herman Bern
stein, route 1, box 233, Talent, is
recuperating from surgery ear
lier this week at the hospital.
Officer .Promoted Richard L.
DeArmond, now serving with
the Army In east central Korea,
has been promoted from second
to first lieutenant, his wife was
Informed this week. She is mak
ing her home with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. D. E. DeArmond,
1103 Queen Anne avenue. Lieu-'
tenant DeArmond is a Medford
high school graduate, and later
graduated from Oregon State
college, Corvallis, where he
earned his Army commission
through the reserve officers
training corps program. He has
been in service about 15 months.
COMMUNICATIONS
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the name and address ot toe wrltei
although under certain circum
stances the use of a pen name or
Initial for publication is permis
sible. The Mail Tribune reserves
the right to edit all letters -with n
view to clarification and conden
satlon. Letters submitted for pub
llcatlon must not exceed 400 words
Wants Lawyer To Leave Town
To the Editor:
Just finished reading the front
page article in tonight's Mail
Tribune in which Walter Nunley,
someone I never heard of before,
states that "Jackson county is be
coming a less desirable place in
which to live and to raise chil
dren, etc." A rather rash remark
for one to make who has been
here less than two years. I don't
know of anything that should
keep him here if he feels that
way, We have the finest commu
nity; in the world in .which to
live, the prettiest country, the
most equitable climate and the
finest people, In fact everything
that makes for an ideal place to
live and raise children. That is
why hundreds of HIGH CLASS
people from all over are coming
to the Rogue River Valley to
make their home. As a young at
torney I would say that Walter
is starting off on the wrong foot
and a change of residence might
do him good.
E. C. Jerry Jerome
i Old Stage Road
P.S. I just heard Mr. Nunley
over KMED and he stated that
the only complaints Mr. Havi
land had signed were cases of
contributing to the delinquency
Of a prostitute. I don't know how
this can be done but Mr. Nunley,
being an attorney possibly can
enlighten me.
E.C.J.
Toppenish, Wash.-4U.R) Louis
Wanger, 70, Spokane, was killed
Tuesday night when he was
struck by an oil truck near here.
' Dead Jin Sunday Clanifleda m at
noon Saturdays.
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Obituary
GWENDOLYN WOODCOCK
Funeral services for Mrs.
Gwendolyn Woodcock, of 324
King street, who died in a local
hospital Sunday, will be held at
Perl funeral home Thursday at
2 p.m. with the Rev. George R.
V. Bolster, rector of St. Mark's
Episcopal church, officiating. In
terment will be In Siskiyou Me
morial park. Reams chapter of
Eastern Star will participate In
the services.
The deceased, who had been
a resident of Medford for the
past 29 years, was born In Gold
en, Colo. She was a past worthy
matron of the Eastern Star, a
member of St. Mark's Episcopal
church and. of the Daughters of
the Nile.
Survivors Include her hus
band, Jesse; a non, Dick, Med
ford; a daughter, Estell Bobbett
Woodcock, San Francisco, and
a brother, F. N. Evans, Berkeley,
Calif.
MARGARET BAILEY
Graveside funeral services for
Margaret H. Bailey, a former
Medford resident who died In
Durango, Colo., will be held in
Siskiyou Memorial park Friday
at 11 a.m. with the Very Rev.
John M. Berger of Sacred Heart
church officiating. Perl funeral
home is in charge of funeral
arrangements.
Portland Produce
Portland fU.P.) Butter: To retail
ers: AA grade prints 78c lb.; cartons
79c; A prints 78c; cartons 79c; B prints
76c lb.
Eggs: To retailers: Grade AA large
52c doz.; A large 48-49c doz.; AA me
dium 48-49c doz.; A medium 47c doz.;
cartons 3c additional.
Cheese: To retailers: A grade Ched
dar. Oregon single 47-52c lb.; 5-lb.
loaves, 53-55c; premium brands to
HSliC lb. for single wheels and 61 ljC
for 5-lb. loaves; processed American
cheese, 5-lb, loaves, 46-47 jc lb.
Best cauliflower sold mostly at
$1.85-2 on the East Side Farmers'
market Wednesday; radishes sold at
73-85 cents and local green onions at
45-50 cents a .dozen; mid-Golumbia
green onions were at 55-60 cents;
Sunnystde district asparagus went at
17-18 cents.
Poultry, Rabbits
Live Chickens (No. 1 quality, f.o b.
plants) Fryers 2'fe-3 lbs., 29-30c: 3-4
lbs. 29-30c; roasters, 4,j lbs. and up,
29-3(lc; light hens, all wis., 19c lb.;
heavy hens, all wis., 31-22c; old roost
ers 14-lSc.
Dressed Chickens No. 1 New York
dressed style to retailers: Fryers, all
wts.. 44-45c lh.; roasters 44-45c; light
hens, 32-33c; heavy hens 35-37c; cutup
fryers, all wts., 60-61c.
Dressed Turkeys To retailers:
Frozen winter pack A grade toms.
46c lb.; New York dressed style, B
grade, 43c.
Rabbits (Average to growers, f.o.b.
killing plant) Live white, 3-4 i
lbs.. 26-29c; 5-8 lbs., 22-25c; colored
pelts 4c lb. Under; old doe rabbits,
12-lflc; few higher: fresh dressed fry
ers to retailers, 62-63c, some higher.
livestock
Portland (U.P.I Cattle 150. Fed
steers $34.50; commercial steers $32;
utility and low commercial grass
steers $28-30; utility heifers $22-27;
ennner and evitter cows $17-21; utility
cows $21.50-23; commercial bulls
$28.50-29. .
Calves 50. Choice - vealers 35-37;
titilitv and commercial trades $22-30.
. Hogs 400. Choice 200-220 lb. butch.
ers szo; enoice no. i ana o. ibu
235 lb. around $19.50; choice 285 lb.
$1,0.25; choice 165 lb. $19; choice 380
460 lb. sows $16-16.50; good and choice
feeder pigs $17-17.50.
Sheep 100. Good and choice wooled
lambs $27; choice and prime $27.50;
good ewes $13.
San Francisco U.P.) Cattle 50.
Choice 615 lb. slaughter steers $33.25;
good slaughter heifers $31.50; canner
and cutter-cows $17-21.
Calves none.
Hogs 300. Choice No. 1 and 2 180
240 lb. butchers $19; choice 255 lb.
$18.25.
Sheep none.
WALL STREET
New York (U.R) Prices rose
fractions to around a point on
the Stock Exchange Wednesday
In moderately active dealings.
Oil issues and selected rails
led the advance which was con
sidered mostly technical because
of the sharp decline in the past
two sessions which wiped out
around $2,000,000,000 in market
valuations.
Dow Jones closing stock aver
ages: 30 industrials, 261.44 up
0.15; 20 railroads, 90.10 off 0.18;
15 utilities, 49.09 off 0.06; 65
stocks, 9.32 off 0.06.
Sales Wednesday totaled 1,-
490,000 shares compared with
1,720,000 traded Tuesday.
Today's closing prices on se
lected stocks:
American T & T 154V4
Anaconda 44 Vs
Chrysler 7 2 '4
Curtiss Wright 8
TONITEf "The Importance of Being Earnest"
The VINING
tomorrow!
Curtain at 8:30 p.m,
Stirring
RICHARD
GRAHAM
and
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BOWMER
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OREGON
FARM MARKETING
IN 1949 DOLLARS
225 MILLION
1925-29
Discounting Inflation, value of Oregon's farm products are more
than 70 percent greater than they were 23 years ago. Today, farmers
are selling more, better products from about the same amount of crop
land. Much of the planning that led to this shift was charted 28 years
ago on the Oregon State college campus during a statewide conference
of farm leaders. A similar economic conference Is scheduled March
27, 28 and 29 at OSO.
River and Fire ...
With the glow of spring in the
old pine days of Michigan and
the melting of snows on a thou
sand branches of the great lum
ber rivers the Saginaw, the Tit
tabawassee, the Cass, the Rifle,
the Au Sable, the Thunder Bay,
the Muskegon, Manistee, the
Menominee, the Ontonagon and
others the king-jacks of white
water pulled on their spiked
boots, unlimbered their peaveys
and swarmed the rollways. v
There at the river side the
logs were banked from 20 to 30
feet above the stream, beside it
in the case of swift waters like
the Au Sable, from bank to
bank in slow and small rivers.
The drives went down to the
hungry saws of the mills at the
rivers' mouths, then moved, on
again as lumber from the ship
ping docks to supply the build
ing needs of a growing country.
A market demand that rose
steadily in terms of per capita
lumber consumption until 1905
kept calling for pine in a voice
that would not be denied.
Curs of the Land
What happened on the land
after the axmen and sawyers,
skidders and drivers passed on
to new stands of virgin timber?
The answer is , in the one
word: Fife.
Men still talk and write about
the Peshtigo fire, which in the
summer of 1871 burned over 1,
300,000 acres and took 1,500
lives.
In the same year a Michigan
forest fire ravaged 2,000,000
acres but without noted loss of
life. Ten years later another
Michigan fire blazed through a
million acres and killed 138 per
sons. In the fall of 1894 a Min
nesota fire burned only 160,000
acres but it destroyed the town
of Hinckley and left 418 dead.
The Cloquet, Minn., fire of 1918
burned 250,000 acres and took
438 lives.
General Electric 5534
General Motors 53 4
Montgomery Ward 60Vs
Penn. R. R 18
Penney,' J. C. 67
Radio 27V
Southern Co 13
Southern Pacific 71V4
S. Oil of Calif 55V
Texas Gulf Sulphur .102',
Transamerlca 25 '4
Tri-Continental 14
United Aircraft - 29
U. S. Rubber 78
U. S. Steel 38Vs
Youngstown 44Vi
REPERTORY
AT THE
LITHIA
THEATRE,
ASHLAND
Reserved
Saati
$1.80 t $1.20
Unreserved
60e
On Sale In
Medford at
Pruitt't and
at Purucker'i
man
380 MILLION
TnUI itw
1945-49
These were the sensational
disasters that continued to high
light the basic problem of forest
economics in all the regions of
frontier lumbering. The hun
dreds of thousands of fires set
by the settlers who came after
the lumbermen were seldom im
portant enough as news to get
more than a column headline.
But in 1952 they still form the
toughest fact that forest man
agement has to face in the Lake
States. . ;
Jackpine and Popple ...
Not lumbering but efforts to
clear and farm land that was
good for nothing but trees was
the basic cause of the destruc
tion of the white pine and red
pine (Norway) forests of the
Lake States to such a wide ex
tent. It is true that the lumber
man left tops and branches as
a hazard on the cutovers, but he
also left hosts of unmerchant
able pines and seedlings on the
land.
Had such a zoning law as that
of present-day Wisconsin . been
in effect in all the Lake States
in 1880, the speculators would
have been barred from luring
"colonists" by the trainload into
futile efforts to burn off the
stumps and the seed trees and
turn the sand plains into farm
crop fields and. pasture land,
Today farm, fires remain the
major problem on the 55,000,000
acres of Lake States lands that
are fit for tree growing above
all other uses. And added to the
farm fire menace is that of the
tourist and the recreationlst.
And so- many million acres re
main jackpine and popple coun
try in the Lake States.
BIRTHS
JONES To . Mr. and Mrs.
Shirley, 514 Haven street, April
16, 1952, a boy, 7Vi lbs.,at Com
munity hospital.
HOUSE To Mr. and Mrs. Er
vin, Shady Cove, April 15, 1952,
a girl, 7'4 lbs., at Community
hospital.
GRISHAM To Mr. and Mrs.
George, 111 Almond street,
April 15, 1952, a girl, SVi lbs., at
Community hospital. .
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EAGLES ANNUAL
GRAB FEED
Thursday, April 17
5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
O
PAST PRESIDENTS'
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Your Paid-Up Receipt Is Your Admission!
DON'T MISS IT!
Wednesday. April 18. 1SS1 .
Eagle Point Native
Daughter Passes
Mrs. Lelah F. Jones, 72, who
was born in Eagle Point, Ore.,
died in Los Angeles, Calif, re
cently, It was reported here to
day. Funeral services were held
In Pomona, Calif., yesterday.
She was born in Eagle Point
on July 7, 1879, and was the
youngest daughter of James J.
and Luvica Fryer, early pioneers
of the Rogue River Valley. She
married Charles Jones in Los
Angeles In 1897, and they lived
in Seattle for many years, mov
ing to Pomona in 1928, where he
died a few years later. Since
then Mrs. Jones made her home
with her eldest sister, Mrs. Arg
lie F. Green. She was a frequent
visitor to Jackson county.
Survivors include Mrs. Green
and another sister, Mrs. Gladius
F. Pearce, Jacksonville, Ore.;
two nephews, Ansil F. Pearse,
Klamath Falls, and Vance A.
Pearce, with the Navy in San
Deigo; two nieces, Mrs. Dorotha
Straus, route 2, box 381D, Med
ford, and Mrs. Ruberta Le Conte,
Belmont, Calif., and two great
nephews, Wayne and Warren
Straus, Medford.
Resumed Prisoner
Negotiations Eyed
Panmunjom, Korea (U.R)
Truce negotiations on Russia and
airfield issues lasted only 20 sec
onds Wednesday, but there was
a growing belief that recessed
prisoner discussions would be re
sumed soon and reach a show
down. Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy nev
ertheless continued" to delay his
reply to a Communist proposal
to renew discussions on whether
war captives shall be permitted
to refuse repatriation.
It was believed the U, N.
Command was polishing what
ever decisions It has made In
secret during the 12-day recess.
TWO FINED
Two Medford residents were
fined $5 each In police court
today on charge! of allowing
dogs to run loose during a re
stricted period. City ordinances
forbid allowing dogs to run at
large during April, May and
June. Fines were levied against
Paul Johnston,; 310 Haven
street, and H. L. Taylor, 815
West 10th street.
Dead line on Classified Adsi
Monday for Monday, noon Saturday
5:30 p.m for following day; 10 bid
tor Sunday
Plant & Rummage
SALE
APRIL 18 & 19
309 EAST 8TH ST.
9 i.m. to 5 p.m.
First Christian Church
"When you mean BUS, toy
Continental Trallwaysl"
CONTINENTAL
TRAILWAYS BUS DEPOT
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MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVEN
Daily Weather Report
FORECASTS
Medford tnd vicinity: Cloudy nd
mild through Thursday. Low tonlgm
38. High Thursday 72-75.
Western Oregon: Fnir tonight. In
creasing cloudiness Thursday. Lows
tonight 33-43. High Thursday.
LOCAL DATA
Temperature a yenr ago today:
Highest 76; Lowest 47.
Total monthly precipitation .22 Inch.
Deficiency for the month 31 inch.
Total precipitation since September
1, 1952. 18.40 Inches.
Excess for the season 4.50 inches.
Relative humidity 4 30 p.m, yester
day 22; 4:30 am. todtiy 88'r.
Observations Taken At 4:30 A.M.,
120 Meridian Time
Ilieh Low Prec.
HOIS ,.. 57 34
Boston 47 .18
.01
Chicago - 52
35
35
43
Denver
55
Eureka ,
Havre
Klamath Falls
Los Angeles .,
Medford ..........
New York ,
Omaha
H4
. 57
54
....... 63
33
50
Phoenix 83
Portland - 64
Reno fl2
Eugene 64
Salt Lake 47
San Francisco 65
Seattle RO
Spokane 59
2R
37
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Oregon State Fair
Opening Date Set
Salem (U.R) Oregon's state
fair will again open this year the
Saturday before Labor Day,
And it will run for eight days,
the State Fair commission de
cided at its meeting at the state
fairgrounds here Tuesday.
The idea of opening the Sat
urday before Labor Day was
tried for the first time last year
and the experiment proved emi
nently satisfactory, commission
members agreed. Before the 1951
fair, the event opened on Labor
day and continued one week.
Dr. B. E. Stewart of Roseburg
was reelected chairman of the
commission.
WflBhlnston, D.C. 58 42 .14
Yakima 66 SI
Tomorrow
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