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FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday, November 5, 1954 Perilous Game of Cat and Mouse Being Played Off Coast of China Taipei, Formosa U.R) Two powerful military' forces are playing a perilous game of cat-and-mouse off the China coast today. The Chinese Communists are making probing attacks against three little groups of islands, just off their coast, which are held by the Chinese Nationalists. Cruising in the waters around the islands is the United States 7th Fleet. The Reds are keeping the Na tionalists and Vice Adm. Alfred Melville Pride, commanding the t 7th Fleet, guessing as to whether they will attack the islands in force. Pride is keeping the Reds guessing as to whether, if they do attack, he will put his potent fleet into action against them. Specific Orders Pride has specific orders to de fend Formosa, the island bastion of Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, against inva sion. What is not known, outside r the 7th Fleet command and the ' Pentagon in Washington, is ' whether Pride also has orders ; or authority to defend the off- coast islands as outposts of Formosa. It did happen, when the Reds showed signs last May that they intended to attack the Tachen . Islands, northernmost of the ; Chiang outposts, that a powerful ; formation of 7th Fleet warships . appeared in those waters. The Reds quieted down immediately. ; Since early in September the ; Communists have been making pinprick attacks. One day they I shell the Quemoy group with . their batteries on the coast only I four miles away. The next day they may send Russian-made MIG fighter planes over the j Tachens, 300 miles to the north. The third day they may mass junks, the small Chinese coastal 1 New Food Service : Firms Opens in City , The Beaver Food service, a ; firm new to Medford, was open , edNov. 1 at 1110 North River- side ave., in the former location of the Classic studio. Operating 'the business are Albert J. King and Joe C. Walker, who recent ly moved here from Portland. The Kings live at 205V2 Sum mit ave., and Walker, who has I no family, lives at 1115 East 2 Main st. i The firm deals in home freez- ers and frozen food supplies. The head office is the Beaver - Appliance company. . Daily Weather Report FORECASTS Medford and vicinity: Mostly cloudy . . tonight and Saturday with showers - Saturday. Gusty south winds Satur day. Low tonight 40. High Saturday 60. Western Oregon: Mostly cloudy with intermittent rain in north half tonight ; spreading to extreme south by Sat J urday. Rain and windy Saturday. Low tonight 52-36. High Saturday 55-60. i LOCAL DATA Temperature a year ago today: Highest 56; Lowest 39. Total monthly precipitation, none. Deficiency for the month .32 inch. Total precipitation since September 1. 1954. 1.75 inches. Deficiency for the season 1.13 inches. r Relative humidity 4:30 p.m. yester day 37Te; 4:30 a.m. today 94. Observations Taken At 4:30 A.M., 120 Meridian Time High Low Prec. Boise 60 34 Boston 56 42 Chicago . 42 29 Denver 63 ' "34 Eureka 54 46 Grants Pass 62 34 5 Havre 63 48 p Klamath Falls 64 25 Los Angeles ........... 72 55 31cdford 66 31 jNew York 52 Omaha 45 26 5 Phoenix 82 51 Portland 61 52 Reno 69 23 -Eugene 20 45 Salt Lake .' 62 29 San Francisco 65 47 Seattle ; 56 52 .69 .Sookane 50 38 Washington. D.C. 47 40 .16 Yakima - 53 39 ' Tomorrow . Sunrise 6:51 a.m. Sunset 4:58 p.m. FIVE DAY FORECAST (Through Nov. 10): Western O r e g o n Recurring rain mostly occurring Friday and early Saturday and again first of week. Total amounts 1-2 inches, except 2-3 inches on coast. Cooler Saturday with rising trend beginning of week with temperatures above normal. Highs mostly 55-65. Minimums generally in 40s. except locally in 30s over week end. Northern California No appreciable 'precipitation but some light rain at times extreme north. Temperatures near normal. craft, opposite the Matsu group midway between Tachen and Quemoy. Probing Plan Some military observers here believe that the Reds are trying to find out how far they can go without inviting the intervention of the -7th Fleet. Some believe the Reds definitely plan to try to capture one or all of the coastal outposts. It is generally predicted that the Reds would have about a 50-50 chance of taking one of the groups if they tried. The Communists have an army of more than 100,000 men in the coastal area opposite the islands. Russia has supplied them with a small fleet of light war ships, and they have a steadily growing force of Russian-made MIGs. They also have vast num bers of junks, fishing smacks and landing boats which could be used in an amphibious attack. The Nationalist islands are strongly defended. But the big question is the 7th Fleet. ARRESTED The Justice Department in Washington announced the arrest of Ramon Mirabal Carrion, 41 (above), secretary general of the Communist Party of Puerto Rico. He was arrested for advocating the violent overthrow of the United States Government. Dixon-Yates Speedup Request May Be Held Washington (U.R) Sen. Clin ton P. Anderson expressed doubt today that the House-Senate Atomic Energy Committee will approve an administration- requested speedup for the con troversial Dixon-Yates contract. The New Mexico Democrat, who is expected to become chairman of the committee when the Democrats assume control of Congress in January, said he believes some Republicans are shying away from the contract after reading Tuesday's election results. He said the contract was a "great political issue" in the campaign. The administration has asked the Joint Atomic Committee, which is conducting hearings on the proposed power deal, to waive a provision requiring the contract to lie before Congress 30 days before it is signed. An derson is against the waiver and contends it should not go into effect before the new Congress meets in January. Disabled Transport Plane Makes Landing Washington (U.R) An Ameri can Airlines Convair with 16 per sons aboard made an emergency two wheel landing here today after circling Washington na tional airport for more than two suspenseful hours. The plane, with a crippled nose wheel, no brakes or steer ing mechanism, nosed over after lolling along the ground for about 100 yards. The plane had burned up most of its 600 gallons of gasoline in its circles around the field. There was no fire although emergency fire fighting apparatus and other equipment was standing by. FOOTWORK Watertown, Mass. 0J.R) They told Joan Trott she would go places when she took a job at a local plant two years ago. Since then, comely, 26-year-old Joan has traveled some 6,000 miles all on foot. Her job was walk ing tester for (Hood) footwear takes her on a 2.2 mile course around the plant six times a day. Total fair attendance in the United States topped 85,000,000 in 1953 equivalent to half the United States population. Wall Street Portland Produce Portland (U.P.) Eees To retail ers:: Grade AA large. 44-46c doz.; A large. 41-43c d6z.: A medium. 32-34c: A small. 25-26C doz.; cartons. l-3c additional. Butter To retailers: AA grade prints. 66c lb.: cartons. 67c: A prints. 66c: cartons. 67c; B prints. 64c. Cheese To retailers: A grade Ched dar Oregon singles. 42,,i-45,ic: 5-lb. loaves, 46",i-49v2c. Processed Ameri can cheese, 5-lb. loaf, 39',i-41c lb. Farm Market Most central Oregon No. 1A pota toes sold at $3.25-3.75 a hundred weight in wholesale trading today: name brand lettuce sold at So.aO-6 with ordinary crates at $4.75-5. Poultry, Rabbits Live Chickens To growers No. 1 quality, f.o.b. Portland): Fryers and roasters, all wts., 25-26c lb.: at farm. 24- 25c lb.: light hens. He; heavy hens, all wts., 13c: old roosters, 10-1 lc lb. Dressed Chickens No. 1 dressed to retailers: Fryers, 36-37c; roasters. 37 30c: light hens. 22-23c: heavy hens. 25- 26c; cut up fryers, all wts., 48-50c; whole drawn. 42-44C lb. Turkeys Paying prices to produc ers for 1954 turkeys: Heavy tvpe hens 34-34 bc lb. f.o.b. farm on N.Y. dress ed basis; toms, same tasis. 26c lb.; light-type hens. 36c; I'jht-type toms. 3Cc; gryer-roasters, 31c lb. live. To re tailers: A grade hens, ready to cook, 49-50C N.Y. dressed 40c lb.: A grade toms. oven-ready, 41-44c; light type, A grade hens, oven-ready. 51-52c; light toms. 47-48c lb. Rabbits (average to growers, f.o.b. killing plants) Live white. 3?i-4i lbs.. 18-20C lb.; 5-6 lbs.. 14-16c: colored pelts. 4c under; old does. 8-10c lb.; few higher. Fresh dressed fryers to retailers. 54-57c cut up, 60-63C Portland Gash Grain Portland Prices as reported by the USDA market news service: Wheat No. 2 soft white, $77.50 a ton bulk, prompt delivery f.o.b. Portland. No. 2 white oats, 33-lb. test. Coast deliverv. S56 ton; Portland delivery. $52-53 ton: No. 2 Western barley. $53.50. Coast delivery Soybean mean. $96 a ton, cars, prompt delivery. Portland; std. millrun. prompt shipment, f.o.b. Portland. $43.50 ton; No. 2 yellow corn. $71 ton, f .o.b.-Portland. Wholesale Hay Prices: No. 2 green alfalfa baled f.o.b. Portland $32-34. Portland Grain Exchange: Thursday's close: Bid Soft white ! $2.33 Soft white, no rex 2.33 White club . 2.33 a. R. winter, ord. 2.34 Buffet Dinner ' . . Sunday, Nov. 7 Serving from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Even BIGGER and BETTER Than Our Anniversary Buffet! All This DELICIOUS TEMPTING FOOD For Only $1.95 Early Reservations Appreciated COME EARLY STAY LATE Dinner Music Dancing at 9 P.M. OPENING TONIGHT "The Key-Men' 2 FLOOR SHOWS NIGHTLY STAN'S ? CLUB Balboa, Canal Zone (U.R) A rock slide plunged from Con tractors pill into the Panama Canal today, bottlenecking traf fic into a single, one-way lane. . New York U.R) Railroad shares set a new high since Oct. 4, 1930, in an active stock mar ket session today, wiile indus trials receded. Profit taking came into some of the recent favorites after the sensational advances following the election. t i; . - . a ir i .Realizing came into xne motors i and the leaders sagged. Today's closing prices on se lected stocks: American T & T 1724 Anaconda 4H'4 Chrysler 66 Curtiss Wright Unquoted General Electric 4334 General Motors 911 4 Montgomery Ward 72 Penn. R. R 1VA Penney, J. C 8514 Radio : 35V4 Southern Co. 16 Southern Pacific 46 S. Oil of Calif 71 Vz Texas Gulf Sulphur 112 Transamerica 34 Tri-Continental 23 United Aircraft 65 U. S. Rubber 39 U.S. Steel . 59 Vi Youngstown ; 58 HIGHEST PAID Breaking salary records for baseball catchers, New York Yankees' Larry (Yogi) Berra lets out a low whistle after signing con tract for an estimated $45,000 at New York. Rayburn, Johnson Confer on Congress . Bonham, Tex. (U.R) House Speaker-designate Sam Rayburn and Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson conferred to day on organization of a Demo cratic Congress and Rayburn put the burden of cooperation squarely upon the administra tion. "Some Democratic leaders are rather bitter about the charges of 'pinks' and 'left-wingers' in the party," Rayburn said. "We feel that there are just as many patriotic Democrats as there are patriotic Republicans. "Cooperation between the Democratic House and adminis tration will depend a great deal upon the attitude of the admin istration. If they are willing to work together for the benefit of the country, we will." Jersey GOP Rejects Demo Recount Bid Newark, N. J. (U.R) Republi can state leaders today rejected a Democratic invitation to join in a voluntary bipartisan recount of votes from last Tuesday's dis puted election for U. S. senator. Latest tabulations in the con test give Republican Clifford P. Case a lead over Democrat Charles R. Howell by the hair-V line margin of less than two tenths of 1 per cent of the total vote. Democrats made their request for a recount Thursday through State Chairman George E. Brun ner. He asked GOP State Chair man Samuel L. Bodine to join in a request that all voting ma chines and ballot boxes be impounded. ntLf KA AiLMAe hf U Man Arrested, Admits Burglary at Market V OTw iVIaWlliriwS W OUIvl Medford city police arrested. packs of cigarettes, Have Speeded Tally In Oregon Election Portland (U.R) One of Ore gon's most dramatic elections in history might not have been so dramatic if the state had vot ing machines. The election saw Democratic Richard L. Neuberger come from behind in the tabulation to over take Republican Sen. Guy Cor don and finish with a margin of some 2,000 voles. This was be cause of the way the votes were counted. Key in Mullnomah Multnomah county held the key in the race. Neuberger had nearjy a 17,000-vote edge in the thickly populated district. So, if Multnomah county votes had been tabulated sooner, Neu berger would have gone anead early. As it was, Cordon jumped out to better than a 13,000-vote margin. The big drama came when the Multnomah county tabulation showed Neuberger catching up and finally going ahead. The suspense created across the country by the late tabula tion has brought comment from many sides that voting machines should be installed, especially in populated areas. Eugene had one voting machine and that prec inct's votes were in a few min nutes after polls closed. During the early hours of Monroe, DiMaggio Date Over Week End Hollywood (U.R) Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio had a date last week end, the blonde admitted today, but she insisted "there is no reconciliation." "Joe and I are friends and I hope we'll always be friendly," the actress said. She said they got together to celebrate the 12th birthday of Joe's son, Joe Jr. However, friends of the base ball hero and America's favorite blonde were betting that the pair will make headlines with a re conciliation before her divorce decree becomes final Oct. 27. They said the former Yankee ball player is trying to win back the sweater girl who accused him in divorce court of being "cold and indifferent. counting Tuesday night, snap tallies were taken in Multno mah county. These were incom plete returns from scattered precincts that actually had Cor don ahead in the county for a time By the same token, Tom Lawson McCall led Edith Green in the early hour for Congress from the third district. Purpose of the snap tallies was to try to show a trend. It worked in the governor's race and many others. But it didn t in the Senate and the third district races. Swing To Democrats When the completed precinct tallies were taken in Multnomah couniy, it showed a swing to the Democrats. Some said this was because many who normally vote Democratic cast ballots late in the day, after work. It wasn't possible in many cases for tired people on the counting boards to wade through the many ballots in more populated pre cincts and come up with early complete figures. Voting machines would have changed this. James Theodore Larsen, 20, Tim ber, Ore., last night and charged him with burglary at the Oak dale market. Larsen, in a signed statement, admitted that he pried open the screen doors at the market and took 11 cartons and six loose police said. He later attempted to sell them at the Ross Mobil Service sta tion station, 11th st. and Cen tral ave. Larsen was arrested while at tending the Craterian theater last night. He was expected to appear in court today, police said. Chin Up Club's 4th Annual HOBBY SHOW & SALE WITH COOKED FOOD SALE EAGLES HALL 217 W. Main St. Tonight Until 9 P. M. Saturday 10 A.M. to 9 P.M. Plaza Cafe "ON THE PLAZA" in Ashland Your Hosts Edna and Ray VanBlarcom YOU WILL ENJOY OUR VARIED MENUS STEAKS - CHICKEN SEAFOODS, ETC. Special Attention to Children HOURS 6:30 A.M. - 11 P.M. PHONE ASHLAND 7051 NO LIQUOR CLOSED MONDAYS art ... I II I I "I'M 1 ' " fl I"? REMINDER TO THE MEMBERS OF Rogue Valley Country Club ARTHUR LEE SIMPKINS Internationally Known Tenor x Will Be Appearing With 2 Shows Nightly - -At Your. Club- -Tues., Noy. 9 through Sun., Nov. 14th Singing songs ranging from the latest popular rhythm tunes to arias from "Aida" Pagliacci and La Tosca. . Mr. Simpkins also will appear at the MEDFORD SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL Tuesday, November 9 at 8 P.M. This appearance is for the United Medford Crusade and is under the auspices of the Rogue Valley Country Club. Portland Livestock Portland (U.P.) Cattle for week 3275. Choice 968 to 1.1G7 lb. steers $24.25-25.25; heavier choice down to $23. Good steers mostly S2 1-22.50; good .heifers $18.50-19.25; utility and commercial grass heifers S10.50-16; some $17.50; canner and cutter cows $6-7.50. few S8: utility cows $9-11. commercial S12.50-13.00; utility cows ?9-ll: commercial S12.50-13.00: utility and commercial bulls $12.50-14.00. few $14.50. Calves 590. Good and choice veal ers $17-20; odd prime $22: good and chcice above 400 lb. calves $15-16.50. few $17.00: good and choice stock calves $15.50-17. Hogs for week 2550. Choice 1 and 2 180-235 lb. weights $20.25-20.50. early to $21.00 and choice 3 kinds down to $19.75; heavier and lighter weights mostly $18.50-19.50: choice 325-550 lb. sows $15-17; choice 540-600 lb. stags $13.50-14. Sheep for week 2640. Choice and prime fed lambs $18.50: most good and choice woolskins $16-17: choice with prime end $17.50-18; good and choice shorn lambs $15-17: latter with few prime; good and choice feeders mostly $13-14; eart . ysales $14.50; good and choice slaughter ewes $4 5.50. culls down to $2.00. SADIE HAUKIMS 'Chap & Jody's Pranksters'' Say "Thanks! to the wonderful crowd that made our opening such a success. Won't YOU join us this Saturday night?" Prizes for Costumes More chances on the turkey and trimmins' to be given to some lucky winner Noy. 20th Jacksonville to Ruch then turn left to MC KEE BRIDGE-UPPER APPLEGATE GRANGE BENEFIT $1.50 Couple J V For gracious living ... the hest'tasting toUisUy .in ages! Your enjoyment of tnis great American wnisty gives eloquent testimony to your good taste. 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