Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, April 30, 1952, Image 11

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Newspaper Page TextLocal and Businesi Name R. J. Garrett, 628 North Main street, Ashland, has filed an application in the county clerk's office for the name of Barney's of Ashland, an auto wrecking, repairing, tales and arc welding business. New Company The county clerk's office has received an ap plication for assumed business name for the Summit Logging and Lumber company, a logging and timber processing business, filed by Claude J. Miller, and Wallace A. Rogers, both of route 1, box 410, Ashland. Son Leaves Frank White, Army master sergeant, and son of Mrs. Cora White, 107 Almond street, left the first of the week after visiting with his mother and other relatives. He was ac companied by his wife. They were en route from the Aberdeen Proving grounds, Maryland, to Yuma, Ariz., his new station. He was retired from the services in February, but has been recalled for another 24 months. While here they visited his brother, Wayne White and family, Cen tral Point, and his sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Otis Simmonds, Phoenix. mm i DRIVE I H tneafre TONITE - THURSDAY The Portrayal... The Cast... The Drama ef the Year) JERRY W10 Ind NORMAN KRASNA prtltnt : JANE WYMAN in THE : BLUE VEIL PLUS m COLBERT -BLYTHB nnuotnii Hiuntn-tumcim NEWS - CARTOONS Gate! Open 6:30 - lit Show, Dusk Another" good daV'5 VtOKK I Vfc kwiii- f Ano OTHER PATRONS HAVc I WON : L-v nnnr n l SKATING TONITE! Every WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY NITES DOUBLE SESSION FRIDAY NITE Admission 50c Lots of FREE Parking ROGUE VALLEY BALLROOM DINE! DANCE INif NOW! fc-.y IN PERSON! . ii The Three Smoothies vw. LOU CRANDALL fV3 Piano Gent Auitin Type Voclll BOBBY STARR Trumpet One of the Origihel Red Nichoh Five Penniei, elte known "Mr, Clifton Webb." TONY MODOFFARI Guitir Sonji in Frenkie liine Groove. Rhythm Styled For Dancine, Interteinmenl HIWAY 991 MILE SOUTH MEDFORD Phone 2-6012 ir- -A . -- Personal Convalescing Mrs. James Thompson, 855 West 14th street, is convalescing at Osteopathic hospital. She had an emergency appendectomy last week-end, the hospital reported. Grange To Meet Central Point Grange will hold initia tion in the third and fourth de grees when the group meets Friday, May 2, at 8 p.m. The Eagle Point Grange team will conduct the ceremony. Candi dates from other Granges will be welcome, it is announced. In Hospital Mrs. Fred Wol ford, Etna, Calif., is confined to Sacred Heart hospital for surgery, according to a hospital report. Patricia D a i 1 e y, 10, daugher of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dailey, Star route, box 85, Ash land, is recuperating from sur gery earlier this week at the hospital, Assume Name J. W. Ambler, P. O. Box 1383, Lew Boyd, 1018 West Fourth street, and Ed Tiiles, P. O. Box 1341, all of Mcdford, have filed an application in the county clerk's office for the as sumption of the business name of Roma Tex Brix company, Med ford, for the manufacturing and selling of bricks. Visiting Here Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Snedden, Gary, lnd are visiting their son and daughter in-law, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Sncd den, 122 Kenwood avenue, and Mrs. C. W. Snedden's sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. George L. Robinson, 18 Haw thorne avenue. Returns Mrs. Frank C. Can- trill, 602 West Fourth street, has returned from Portland where she took a Merle Norman train ing course in beauty aids. She will take over her duties as man ager of the Merle Norman Beau ty studios in the Fluhrer build ing this week. Mrs. Cantrill is a former president of Sojourners here, and has been active in Red Cross work. Begins V.'-rK Mrs. Treasure McNeal, Ashland, has begun work in the Jackson county school superintendent's office as secretary. She will replace Mrs. Jonas Cox, Talent, who is re signing on May 10. Mrs. McNeal was formerly associated with the registrar's office at Southern Oregon college in Ashland. Articles Filed Articles of as sociation have been filed in the county clerk's office for the Twin Counties Electric Coopera tive, incorporated, operating in Jackson and Josephine counties, Those signing the articles were Michael Loftus, Carl Husen, John C. Porter. Mrs. J. S. Brown, Earnest Woodcock, Mrs Natalie Hall, Mrs. Ozie Burrell, O. L. Dewey and George Loftin Foresters To Meet Siskiyou chapter. Society of American Foresters, will meet Friday, May 2, at Star ranger station at 2:45 p.m. Members will inspect range resceding plot near the ranger station and will take a field trip in the Thompson creek and Upper Applegate areas to inspect effects of erosion control on skid roads. Dinner will be held at the McKee Bridge Grange hall at 7 p.m. Pre-School Clinic Pre-school physical examinations of chil dren who will enter school next September will be conducted at the Eagle Point grade school on Tuesday, May 6, by Dr. A. Erin Merkel, county health officer, it was announced today by the sponsoring Eagle Point Parent Teacher association. Hours will be from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., and from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. A physi cian's examination is required of all students before they enter school for the first time. R E D B A R N 0 BIRTHS HOUSE To Mr. and Mrs. Dick, 1040 West 13th street, April 29. 1952, a boy 74 lbs., at Osteopathic hospital. MINOR To Mr. and Mrs. Ru dolph, Jacksonville, April 30, 1952, a boy, 7',a lbs., at Osteo pathic hospital. JOHNSON To Mr. and Mrs. George, Phoenix, April 27, 1952, a girl, 8 lbs., a.t Sacred Heart hospital. LEWIS To Mr. and Mrs. William, Gold Hill, April 28, 1952, a boy, 4 lbs., at Sacred Heart hospital. BAUMGARDNER To Mr. and Mrs. Arthur, 916 East Main street, April 29, 1952 a girl, Hi pounds, at Community hospital. CORRELL To Mr. and Mrs. Paul, route 1, box 490, April 9, 1952, a girl, 6V2 pounds, at Com munity hospital. AKIN To Mr. and Mrs. James, 707 Clark street, April 29, 1952, a boy, 9 pounds, at Community hospital. COOK To Mr. and Mrs. Eu gene F., 624 Victory street, Apt. 3, April 29. 1952, a boy, 834 pounds, at Community hospital. HUNTLEY To Mr. and Mrs. Hugh, 2179 Crater Lake avenue, April 30, 1952, a boy, 7 pounds, at Community hospital. Dairy Breeders Plan Tour of Ranches The Jackson County Dairy Breeders' association will view calves and producing cows in a tour tomorrow starting from the D. M. Minear ranch, Jacksonville-Phoenix road at 10 a.m. At 1:30 p.m., the tour will move to Gilman's Dairy on the old Central Point highway. The association will furnish a free lunch for all visitors at noon at the Mincar ranch, and all dairy men and others interested in the program are invited to attend the tour. . The animals to be viewed have resulted from the artificial breeding program carried on for the last three years by the group RAID TESTSUCCESS Newark. N. J. (U.R) Civil defense officials said Wednesday that Tuesday's surprise statewide air raid test was a success, al though two persons died of heart attacks. Daily Weather Report FORECASTS Medford and vicinity: Variahle cloudiness with decreasing showers to night and Thursday. Low tonight 38 Hinh ThursdHy 05. Western Oregon: Partly cloudy to cloudy with scattered showers tonight and Thursday. Cooler tonight. Lows tonight 3R-46. Highs Thursday 55-65. Temperature a year ago today Hichest 63: Lowest 40. Total monthly precipitation .22 Inch Deficiency for the month 107 inch Total precipitation since September l, ih.4u inencs. Excess for the season 3 !14 inches Relative humidity 4:30 p m. yester day w.e 4;ju a m. today bo Tomorrow - Kimrife 5:07 a m. Sunset 7:09 p.m. 120 Meridian Time If ich Low Prec. Boise fi7 50 Boston so 44 Chicago 7R SI Denver 58 43 .78 Eureka 68 54 .24 Havre 60 40 Klamath Fall, 57 41 Lor Anecles 67 58 Medfnrd 70 51 . ,02 New York 67 48 Omaha 65 59 T Phoenix 73 54 Portland 58 50 .19 Reno 66 46 Eueene 5.1 47 .04 Salt Lake 61 48 .01 San Francisco 63 45 T Seattle 58 45 .20 Spokane ..... 61 50 Washington. D.C 64 51 Yakima 63 48 .04 Announce Dinner Ladies' auxiliary to Siskiyou canton, Patriarchs Militant, will serve a .ham dinner Saturday, May 3 at the lOOF hall between the hours of 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. The public is invited to attend. Visit Here Sgt, First class and Mrs. Sterling W. Gants were recent guests of Mrs. Nevah Hoi man, 1211 West Main street. Sergenat Gants was en route to Ft. Lewis, Wash., from San Antonio, Tex., where he Joined Mrs. Gants after being stationed in the Marshall islands. Sergeant Gants was stationed at Camp White here in 1943. TONITE! trait's. 4 v4 CIMt COHINNJ TIERNEY CALVET PLUS 2ND BIG FEATURE WEBB BENNETT CUMMINOS livestock Portland (U P 1 Cuttle 2V. Choice 1045 lb. steers $34; lighter steers $33. utility dairy type iteers $27; canner and cutter cows $18-21 SO. Calves !S0. Choice sealers $35-3(1, Hoffs 250. Choice No. X lightweight butchers $10.75: choice 300-375 lb. tows $16 50-17; fat type sows $14; good and choice feeder pigs $17-1B. Sheep 50. Choice 85-00 lb. sprint lambs $30; Rood and choice wooled lambs $27-27.50; good wooled ewes $13. Portland Produce Portland (UP.) Butter; To retail; ers: AA grade prints 7tic lb.; cartons 77c; A prints 76c; cartons 77c; B prints 74c lb. Eggs; To retailers: (trade 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. 52-55c; premium brands to Sfl'jc lb. for single wheels and 61' jc for 5-lb. loaves; processf-d American chese. 5-lb loaves, 46-47 aC lb. farm Market Cauliflower went at $2 75 for No. 1 crates: rhubarb went at 75 cents to $1 an $18-Ih. box on the Portland whole sale Farmers market Wednesday. Poultry. KahMts Live Chickens (No. 1 aunlitv. f ob. plants) Fryers, 2'a-3 lbs., 2ftc; 3-4 lbs. 29c up; roasters 4'j lhs. and up. 2fc; ngnt nens, all ww . 1 7-1 Re lb : heavy hens, all wts, 20c lb.; old roosters, 14- 15c. Dressed Chickens No. 1 New York dressed style to retailers: Fryers all weights, 44-45c lb.; roasters, 44-45c; ight hens. 32-33c; heavy hens, 36-37c; cutup fryers, all weights, 60-6 lc. Dressed Turkeys To retailers. Froz en winter pack A grade toms. 45c lb.; New York dressed style, B grade, 42c. Kanmts (Average to growers, f.o.b. killing plant. i Live white. 3J-4a lbs.. 26-2!ic; 5-6 lbs . 22-25c; colored pelts. 4c lb. under; old doe rabbits, 12-16c; few higher; fresh dressed fryers to retailers, 62-65c, some higher. WALL STREET New York (U.R) Prices declined fractions to around a point on the Stock Exchange Wednesday in quiet dealings. Wall Street generally ignored the steel strike, Investors held to the sidelines pending further developments. Market experts pointed to the old adage, "Never sell on strike news." Dow Jones closing stock aver ages: 30 Industrials 257.63 off 1.73. 20 rails 92.81 off 1.07. 15 Utili ties 48.43 off 0.17; 65 stocks .21 off 0.74. Wednesday sales 1,090,000. Tuesday sales 1,170,000. Today's closing prices on se lected stocks: American T & T 154 Anaconda 43 Chrysler 73Mi Curtiss Wright 7 General Electric 57 General Motors 53 H Montgomery Ward 5934 Penn R. R 18 Penney, J. C 66 Radio 2534 Southern Co 137's Southern Pacific 717s S. Oil of Calif '54 V4 Texas Gulf Sulphur 103 V4 Transamerica 25's United Aircraft 28V4 U. S. Rubber 75 U. S. Steel 38 Youngstown 44 'A MEDIATION ASKED Tacoma (U.R) Tacoma Transit Co. bus drivers have re quested a federal medialor step in to aid contract negotiations which became stalemated at an early morning meeting Wednes day. C23t THE MMdUN DISTUIINO 0, INC, HERE'S SOMETHING 35 NEW FA MILY NITE Every Wednesday Gr Thursday! For Mom & Pop and All the Kids! -ON SCREEN! E5& tail me In NUE bat men ftckKl 0 SUM OFFER LIMITED TO PARENTS Medford Hotel Obiains Remodeling Permit Owners of the Mcdford hotel, 406 West Main street, have ob tained an $8,900 building permit for remodeling of the lobby of the building, according to rec ords on file in the city building department. Harry Watson, manager of the hotel, said the permit in cludes removal of decoratis'e wood In the lobby, lowering of ceilings and redecoration with plaster and wood. The project, part of an overall remodeling of the hotel, is expected to be completed about June 15, he said. Remodeling of the lobby will complete about half of the pro jected modernization of the hotel, Watson stated. The hotel lounge, registration desk and front exterior are also scheduled for remodeling In the near fu ture. Remodeling of the exterior will include resurfacing with plaster and marble, the manager stated. Hatchet Killer Pays For Murder in 1950 Lincoln, Neb. (U.R) Bible reading Roland D. Sundnhl walk ed calmly to his death in the electric chair Wednesday for the hatchet murder of a teen-age car hop. Sundahl, the 21-year-old father of two, was pronounced dead at 12:07 a.m. (CST) after 2,250 volts of electricity surged through his body. His death ended pleas for com mutation of his sentence which had set back his execution date four times since he was convict ed of murdering Bonnie Lou Merrill, 16, of Silver Creek. Neb., in 1950. The stale pardon board ruled against commuting Sundahl's sentence to life imprisonment 11 days ago and closed his last avenue of hope. Young Marine Cited For Reckless Driving Donald Fred Patterson, 1518 Bryant street, a 19 -year -old Marine, was fined $10 yesterday in police court on a charge of reckless driving, city police said today. Officers stated that Pat terson was the driver of a car which struck a fence ownud by Cal - Ore Machinery company, 944 South Central avenue, and overturned at about 2 a.m., yes terday. About 30 feet of wire fence was knocked down in the acci dent, according to police records, and some damage was reported to the car. Patterson was not injured, officers said. No other vehicles were involved in the accident. WEATHER By United Press North California: Occasional lain, llluMiy ugiii "will kjnti uuol and Sacramento norm Wednes day, and cloudy elsewhere; scat tered showers Thursday. AN AMERICAN FAVORITE IN OREGON v $395 $250 45 QT. PINT NIW T0IK, flKIN, IUINOIV, SAN lltNOSCO FOR MEDFORD! ADMITS THE WHOLE FAMILY! 2 BIG HITS! WHIP WILSON and Fuzxy Knight in "NIGHT RAIDERS" AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN Wednesday. April 30. 1952 Oregon Generous, CARE Man Reports Portland - Oregonians con tributed $755,399 for CARE food packages and other supplies in the past six years, it was re ported today by the Rev. Gilbert B. Christian, Oregon CARE di rector. The six-year anniversary of CARE is next month, and Mr. Chri.-lian reported that during this time Americans have or dered 11.000.000 CARE packages for needy people in Europe, the Near East and Asia. They have included food, clothing material, blankets, wool, houshold linen, soap, coal, plows, agricultural tools and books. Nearly 76,000 of these pack ages were ordered by Oregon people. CARE packages are still avail able, Mr. Christian's report pointed out, ranging in price from $4 to $18.75. Smoked Hams Burned In Packing Firm Fire Salina, Kan. (U.R) Thirty three hundred pounds of smoked ham "got a little too hot" and literally went up in smoke. Fire in the smoke house of the C. K. Packing Co. of Salina Tues day destroyed smoked hams val ued at $1,500 and did $200 worth of damage to the building. ENDS TONITE! TOMORROW! 9 William POWELL Julio ADAMS OioiIh DRAKE Htnry NULL IVIIIAl IMtfJATiOHl PICHlir 2ND HIT! Thlr Funniest. Vmtl i IK." BOB TDSROJH fOPE n LAiVOUR Gates Open 6:30 Show at 7:30 IHLAND i I ACT Pa WHAT R W1 1 I Thisfe 1 - MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVEN Power Shortage Seen In .Winter Months Seattle (U.R) Defense Elec tric Power Administrator James Fairman forecasts another "tight" winter in national power supplies despite the fact the na tion's generating capacities will be increased "considerably." Fairman told delegates at the annual convention of the Amer ican Public Power association Tuesday night that power sup pliers predict an increase of 9,000.000 kilowatts in power rie-! mands by next December. This . would be 13 per cent more than; present power facilities produce. ! The DEPA chief said Installs- j tion of new generating capacity almost will be enough to meet ! the demand. However, he added that the equipment for nearly 3,000,000 kilowatts of new gen eration may not be delivered until 1953. A CHAMPION'S FURY IN HIS FISTS! A NAKED LONGING IN HIS HEApT' CURTIS JAN STERLING MONA FREEMAN with WALLACE FORD FROM M-G-MI HOLLY-SATURDAY Shady Cove Man Hurt Shady Cove Lester Lowery, 18, Shady Cove, received a flesh wound in the shoulder yesterday afternoon when his gun acci dentally discharged, it was re ported by sheriff's deputies. Lowery was on his way to target practice when the accident hap pened. The wound was not serious, and Lowery was said to be in sood shape after receiving treat ment by a doctor. Vacuum Cleaners SERVICE & REPAIR ALL MAKES Dust Bags, Filters etc. Phone 2-4998 IS COMING! TECHNICOLOR! i,