Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, December 29, 1954, Image 13

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Newspaper Page TextLocal and On Leave HN2 Gene De puy, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Depuy, Rogue River, is home on leave after recently returning from a world cruise with the Navy on the USS Haven. Return Mr. and Mrs. John McDougal and family, 27 North Barneburg rd., returned last evening after visiting through the Christmas holidays with Mrs. McDougal's parents in Portland. Daughter Born A daughter, Karen Elaine, was born Dec. 5 to Airman First Class and Mrs. Ralph O. Wyant. Wyant is sta tioned with SHAPE at Paris, France. Mrs. Wyant is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralpht H. Ruff in, "Camp White, and the new father's home is at Lake Creek. Fire Alarm A truck from main fire sta'Jon was called at about 8:45 a.m. yesterday to the Wayne Carter residence, 730 Broad st., where a home fire alarm system had sounded. No fire was found, and it is be lieved that rising warm air caused it to go off briefly, fire men said. Wallboard Burned City firemen reported wallboard damaged in flue fires yesterday evening and this morning. Two pumpers went about 7:45 a.m., today to the Ralph Carmichael residence, 433 Benson st., were burning' wallboard was re moved from around the flue opening. Firemen said damage was minor. Wallboard was slight ly damaged at the entrance to the flue at the Dick Hyland home, 118 Willamette ave., about 6:15 p.m. yesterday. New Year's Eve Party HATSI NOISEMAKERS! DANCING! ALL EAGLES WELCOME REFRESHMENTS , 2D AJJ(SiE NEW YEAR'S EVE FR!., DEC. 31 At The BALLROOM, EAGLE POINT Noisemakers and Fun Galore! Music by Cli DICK SPAIN -feSgKM and the Rogue Valley featuring The Cowboy Troubadour Get the Gang Together! Dec. 31st NEW YEAR'S A nx a rvn 0 Favors - Fun - Music That's Tops JACKSONVILLE TO RUCH THEN TURN LEFT TO McKee Bridge, Upper Applegate "Music With a Beat" CHAP & JODY'S PRANKSTERS Medford and Ashland, Let's See You There GRANGE BENEFIT HAPPY NEW YEAR! TONIGHT & NIGHT! DOUBLE SESSION Thursday Night SUNDAY AFTERNOON Free Lessons From 1 to 2 SKATING From 2 to 4:30 Rogue Valley Ballroom Personal Move Here Mr. and Mrs. A. C. James and daughters, Jean nine, 12, and Marilyn, 9, arriv ed here Dec. 16 from John Day, Ore. They live at 820 South Riv erside ave., and James operates the new James Texaco Service station at Kings highway and Stewart ave. -Newcomers Mr. and Mrs. Harry Duncan and children are living at 27 Ross court after moving here recently from Reedsport. Duncan is an adjuster for the J. P. Tobin and company offices. They have five children, Patricia, Frances, Michael, Le nore and Alice. Duncan arrived here in December and the fam ily joined him during the holi days. Guests Leave Mr. and Mrs. Ted Goodlin, Anaheim, Calif., left Tuesday after visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Hunter, Cherry lane, during the Christmas week end. Also at the Hunter home for the holiday week end were their niece and nephew, Mr. and Mrs. Al Ben nett, Klamath River, Calif., who left Dec. 26. Mrs. A. W. Sullivan of Medford visited also at the Hunter home on Christmas day. Visit Parents Mr. and Mrs. Richard Thorpe and family, for mer Medford residents now of Myrtle Point, are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Pur cell, 439 North Front st. The Pur cells' son, Stanley Purcell, an Army private first class, who also has been visiting here, will leave this week end en route to New York City and Germany. His par ents plan to drive him to San Francisco where he will enplane for the east. He is with the signal corps. Boys "dis . 1' U ? " THURSDAY Eagles Sen. Byrd Favors Holding Line on Taxes Washington (U.R) ' Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D-Va.), slated to be chairman of the Senate Fi nance committee in the new Congress, thinks there would be a "hold the line", policy on taxes until the budget is balanced. "I have never believed in any program which, reduces taxes while the . budget is unbalanc ed," Byrd said. For this reason, he said, he supports President Eisenhower's proposal to defer reductions in. corporate income and excise tax es now scheduled for April 1. Byrd said he still is opposed to a Democratic proposal to raise personal income tax ex emptions from $600 to $700. Visiting Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Peterson, Hockey Ford, Colo., are visiting Peterson's sister, Mrs. Elsie Lewis, and her fam ily, 830 Dakota ave. - a a ' Medical Patienls Reported today as medical patients at Sa cred Heart hospital are Mrs. Donald Kendall, Ashland, and Kenneth Johnson, Glendale, Ore. Ai ' Osteopathic Tommy Wyatt, Route 2, Gold Hill, is a surgery patient today at Osteo pathic hospital, and Mrs. Vernal Hicks, Grants Pass, is receiving medical treatment there, atten dants reported. In Community Two surgery patients were reported at Com munity hospital today, Mrs. Edwin Lemire, 1196 Ross lane, who received minor surgery and Archie McKillop, Trail, major surgery. Richard and. Karen Schulz, children of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Schulz, 1015 Whitman st., underwent tonsile surgery there today. To Texas Maj. and Mrs. Don ald Grigsby, who have been vis iting here with his parents and other relatives through the hol idays, will leave this week end for his station at El Paso, Tex., accompanied by the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Grigsby, 613 East Eighth st. Major Grigsby's sister, Mrs. Donald Wiley, lives in Med ford and his brother, Richard Grigsby, lives in Central Point. To Japan -Mrs. W. L. Proc tor and children, William Lee Jr., 10, and Sandra, 8, plan to leave Jan. 4 for Okinawa, Ja pan, tp join Proctor, a master sergeant stationed there with the Army. Mrs. Proctor and the children have been living since last ADril at the home , of her father, Lorenzo J. Dow, 437 Laurel st. The family will re port to Ft. Mason at San Fran cisco, and will leave by plane from Travis Air Force base. - At Sacred Heart Ruth Wal ker, 15, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Walker, Talent, is convalescing at Sacred " Heart hospital after emergency appen dectomy there yesterday, atten dants said today. Others who have had surgery ' there this week. are. Anita Louise Brenner, 8, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. War ren Brenner, 2208 East Main st.; Merna - Van Ortwick, 2, ."daugh ter, of Mr. and Mrs.. Clyde, Van Ortwick, 1074 Biddle rd.; Char lotte and Dennis Roberts, chil dren of the David Roberts, route 1, Central Point, Bonnie Jean nette Petty, 13, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Petty, Ashland, and Mack Richard (Griffin, Jack sonville. " ' . ' ' ' : - '. : Daily Weather Report FORECASTS Medford and vicinity: Mostly cloudy through, Thursday with scat tered light showers tonight. Patches of fog early Thursday. Little tempera ture change. Low tonight S3. High Thursday 40. Western Oregon: Mostly cloudy with a few showers tonight and Thursday. Little temperature change. Low tonight 33-42. High Friday 42-50. LOCAL DATA Temperature . a year ago today: Highest 41; Lowest 31. Total monthly precipitation 1.38 inches. Deficiency for the month 1.48 inches. Total precipitation since September 1. 1954. 3.81 inches. Deficiency for. the season 4.28 inches. Relative humidity 4:30 p.m. yester day 91; 4:30 a-m. today 109. Observations Taken At 4:30 A.M., 120 Meridian Time High Low Prec. Boise Boston Chicago Denver Eureka 25 19 T , 58 , 37 24 50 , 41 ..41 32 : 58 38 58 32 57 45 33 48- 29 48 45 33 63 52 30 8 43 37 -6 26 " 42 34 48 14 29 38 .17 -42 16' 40 42 31 52 22 .03 .03 .12 .02 '.04 .7 .2 Grants Pass Havre Klamath Falls Los Angeles Medford New York Omaha Phoenix , Portland .06 .03 Reno Eucene Salt Lake San Francisco Seattle Jl .14 .12 Spokane Washington. D.C. xaKima . 38 Tomorrow Sunrise 7:30 a.m. Sunset 4:47 p.m. Portland Cash Grain Portland Prices as reported in the USDA market news service: Wheat, No. 2 soft white, $78.50 a ton bulk, prompt delivery f.o.b. Portland. No. 2 white oats, 38-lb. test. Coast delivery. $5750 ton: Portland delivery. $53.50 ton. No. 2 Western barley. $54.50 f.o.b. Portland. Coast delivery. Sovbean meal, $95.50 a ton. cars, prompt de livery Portland. Std. millrun. prompt shipment, i.o.b. Portland, $4450 ton; No. 2 yellow corn. $68 ton. i.o.b. Port land. Wholesale Hay Prices: No. 2 green alfalfa, baled, f.o.b. Portland. $34-35c trucks. $36-37 rail. Portland Grain Exchange: Tuesday's close: , . Bi,j Soft white y 34 do no rex n 34 White club . ' a'34 H. R. winter ord.. 11 per cent 2.36 oo 12 per cent ,.,, 2.45 WALL STREET New York . (U.R) Stocks crossed the 400-level in the in- i dustrial average today in the most active trading since Dec. 18, 1950. Steel shares featured with TJ. S. Steel the most active of the ! group. General Motors led the autos higher. All sections of the ; market joined the rise which got underway with a vengeance Jate yesterday after a substantial de cline Monday. Today's closing prices on se curity stocks: American T & T ...... ...17458 Chrysler ........... 7034 Curtiss. Wright --17 General Electric . 4534 General Motors . 97 Montgomery Ward . 77 V Penn. R. R. ...... 2494 Penney, J. C. 87 Radio ' .......J 38-s Southern Go. . - 1734 Southern Pacific ,. .. 54Vfc S. Oil of Calif. ..... . 74 Texas Gulf Sulphur ......J..123 Transamerica ......40 Tri-Continental . .. 26VS United Aircraft .... .. .77 U. S. Rubber ; ,44 U. S. Steel . 775s Youngstown 723s PORTLAND LIVESTOCK Portland (U.P.) Cattle 300. Com mercial and good shortfed steers $20 21.50; cutter-utility steers $11-17; good fed heifers $18.50-19; cutter-utility heifers S1C-15; canner-cutter cows mostly $7.50-9.50; utility cows S1050 11.50; one 1575 lb. commercial bull $14.60. , Calves 50. Good-low choice vealers $18-21 Hogs 250. Choice 180-235 lb. butch ers $20-20.50; choice 270-325 3b. sows $16.75-17.50; 585 lb. down to $15. Sheep 50. Good-choice 87 lb. shorn lambs $1750: choice-prime wooled lambs $18-18.50. The North Portland livestock mar ket will be closed Friday. ... PORTLAND PRODUCE Portland (UJ.) Eggs To retail ers: Grade AA large, 43-45c doz.; A large, 41-42c doz.; AA medium, 40 41c; A medium 39-40c: A small. 32-33c doz.; cartons, l-3c additional. Butter-rTo retailers: AA grade prints. 66c lb.; cartons. 67c: A prints C6c; cartons. 67c: B prints. 64c. Cheese-To retailers: A grade Ched dar Oregon singles, 42i-45'.ic; 5-lb. loaves, 46 ',2-49 lie. Processed Ameri can cheese. 5-lb. loaf. 39Va-41c lb. . Farm Market Most wholesale dealers quoted higher prices for Calitorn;a celery and lettuce today. Willamette valley cab--bage was in ample supply with prices unsettled and easier: most whole salers now making volume purchases of medium cabbage at $1.50-2 with wholesalers quotating at $2-2.50 per crate range to retailers. Poultry, Rabbits Live Chickens To growers No. 1 quality, f.ff.b. Portland): Fryers. 2:2 to 4z lbs., 21c lb.; at farm. 20-2 lc lb.; roasters. 4 Va lbs. and up.- 21c lb. f.o.b. Portland. 20-21c at ranch; light hens, 10-llc; heavy hens, all wts.. 13c lb.; old' roosters. 10c lb. Dressed Chickens No. 1 dressed to retailers: Fryers, 34-35c lb.: roasters, 36-37c; light hens. 21-22c; heavy hens. 26-27c; cut up fryers, all wts 45-46c; whole drawn. 40-41C Turkeys Paying prices to produc ers for 1954 turkeys: Heavv type hens. .29c lb. f.o.b. farm on N.Y. dressed basis; toms same basis. 25 lbs. uo. 24c; under 25 lbs., 21c lb. Beltsville hens, 31c; light type toms. 25c; fryer-roaster, 27c lb. liveweight. To retailers. A grade hens, ready to cook. 48c: N. Y. dressed to 43c lb. A grade' toms, oven ready, 40c. Beltsville A grade liens, oven-ready to 52c; Beltsville toms, 49c lb. Rabbits (average to growers, f.o.b. killing plants) Live white. 33,i-42 lbs., 18-20c up; 5-6 lbs.. 14-15c: color ed pelts, 4c under; old does. 8-1 0c lb.; a few higher. Fresh dressed fryers to retailers. 54-57c; cut up, 60-63c. HOLLY-STARTS SAT. I vnnmmZS T'S A nftMpMihX WITH NT Enjoy I ' ' aoneanmuIiaai-nMutT . I jL - ' -v Ift & M12f Ml IVIi SOHI WjJVik . pRMItltM MM If IONS C ftf V wMartini Lews h ' V-,- J wAiirV .dZSAZSAwVCHKqusy -4 -W-'Eai'WBI' TECHNICOLOR J .11 ' www jy PARTY AT O 3 Piece Orcheitra O Lots of Favors O Special New Year's Eve Dinner FOR RESERVATIONS Phone Central Uranium Mine Sale Unconfirmed ' Monticello Utah. Oi.R)- The reported sale of one of the rich est . uranium producing proper ties on the Colorado Plateau the fabulous Happy Jack Mine aroused considerable specula tion in the Plateau area, today despite a ". denial by owner Fletcher Bronson. Bronson,. jovial sheepherder turned miner, laughed at re ports last night his Happy Jack Mine had been sold for $16,000, 000 and told United Press "It just isn't true. We intend to mine it ourselves for a while at least. i A report from Casper, . Wyo., had said the Mountain -Mesa Uranium Company had purchas ed the Happy Jack for the larg est price yet paid for a western uranium property. . Mountain Mesa . controller Louis England said the purchase "was not finalized yet" but in sisted he could see no reason for the sale not to be consummated. Firemen Ask Clarity In Fire Reporting Firemen today appealed to business people turning in fire alarms to give the name of their business, as well as the street address. The appeal came following a call this morning, reporting a fire at 101 North Riverside ave. Firemen dispatched could find no fire at that address, and then checked 101 South Riverside ave. It later developed there had been a fire at 1201 North River side ave., where leaves in a sump .had been ignited. Smoke damage only was listed. Bird Hunter Found Dead Near Heppner , Heppner U.R) -. Moses E. Duran, 52,. who had been re ported missing on a bird hunting trip since Sunday, was found dead yesterday at the wheel of his jeep, the sheriff's office here reported. Officers said Duran, a local butcher, was found by Harold Campbell near Campbell's farm in the Butter creek area north east of Heppner. Officers said he apparently had suffered a heart attack. ' r . ADVICE ON HENS , Lincoln, Neb. . (U.R) Hens can . be kept warmer and drier during the . winter by using straw lofts in chicken houses and cloth over windows accord ing to poultry experts. However there should be open louvres above a straw loft to permit the passage of moisture and yet re tain a good portion of the heat. Fiberglass insulation also is suit able for removing moisture."' REGULAR 3 RING CIRCUS ... A MILLION LAUGHS PER RING! Your Point 122 DESIR : -MSN;:. Wednesday, December 29, 1954 LULU BROWN ; , Funeral services for Lulu W. Brown, 69, of 17 Hawthorne ave., who died in a local hospital Tuesday, will be held . at Perl funeral home Thursday at 2 p.m. with the Rev. D. Kirkland West officiating. Entombment will be in Medford Memorial Mauso leum. The deceased, a Medford res ident for the past 20 years, was born in Winfield, la., on Sept. 24, 1885. She was a member of P.E.O. Sisterhood, Wednesday Study Club, Knife and Fork club and Presbyterian church. Her husband, the late Harold L. Brown, died in 1951. . Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Margaret Ann Leever, Med ford; a son, Dr. John Welch Brown, Oakland, Calif., and four grandchildren. NORMAN DUNFORD Funeral services for Norman Alexander Dunford, 59, of Eagle Point, who died in a local hospi tal Dec. 22, will be held at Peri funeral home Friday at 3 p.m. with the Rev. D. Kirkland West officiating. Cremation- at Siski you Crematorium will be pri vate. Central Point Masonic lodge will participate in services at the chapel.. ' : , . In lieu of flowers, the family has asked that , contributions be made to the Oregon Society for Crippled Children at Portland. . The, deceased, a southern Ore gon resident for the past 14 years, was born at Burleigh Falls, Ontario, Canada, on May 11, 1895, and served with the Canadian army in World War I. He had been employed by Med ford Corporation for several years. ' He was a member of Masonic Lodge, AF&AM 135, Central Point; AFL Lumber and Saw mill Workers Union, 32nd de gree Mason, '-Scottish Rite, and was an honorary . member of Veterans of Foreign Wars.. Survivors include bis wife, Mildred Elizabeth, Eagle. Point; a daughter, Kay Luella, Univer sity of Oregon; a son, Norman Boyd, U.S. Army; six brothers, Ira, Wellington, Walter, Gordon, Sherman and Garnet, all of Canada, and two sisters, Mrs. Ida Phillips and Mrs. Bertha Moore, both of Canada. JOSEPH FAIRFIELD - Joseph M. Fairfield, 79, died yesterday at the VA Domicili ary, Camp White. Conger-Morris funeral home is in charge of fu neral arrangements. iinoi.ii ONE DAY ONLYI FRIDAY SNEAK PREVUE OF ONE OF THE TOP MUSICALS OF THE YEAR! GAY, GLORIOUS ROMANCE OF SONG AND DANCE I ' itarfiitf ' r- , ! TONY CURTIS GLORIA DEHAYEN GENE NELSON f,jCORINNECALYET CONTINUOUS FROM 1 PJtt. pfloHo V c-lo I o nl NnilnlllKlnilllnlllll HIY KIDS! KIday SHOW TOMORROW at 1 P.M. Color By Technicolor . TnUNDERHEAD "son of FLICKA" with Roddy McDdwaU' Preston Jester i i MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THIRTEEN Security Exchanges To Operate on Friday By UNITED PRESS Major security exchanges In the United States will operate a full day this Friday, New Year's Eve. . Commodity markets, however will operate only a half session.. These include the markets for New York and New Orleans cotton, New York wool, cocoa, commodity, coffee and sugar ex changes, the Chicago Board of Trade1 and other Chicago mar kets. V Births CHAPMAN To Mr. and Mrs. Richard, 722 Beekman st., Dec. 28, 1954, a girl, 7 lbs., at Sacred Heart hospital. STINSON To Mr. and Mrs. Lester M.', 626 West Fourth st., Dec. 28, 1954, a girl, 9V4 lbs., at Sacred Heart hospital. CHAPMAN To Mr. and Mrs. James, 205 Girard dr., Dec. 28, 1954, a boy, 7Vz pounds at Com munity hospital. . ... - PAPAL DISPENSATION V : The Rev. Nicholas Deis, pas tor of the Sacred Heart church, said . today , that because New Year's eve is on Friday this year that a papal dispensation has been made relieving members of the Catholic church from cus tomary abstinences on Fridays. NOW HE KNOWS Keene, N. H.-4U.R) On June 4, Francis A. Hebert installed a calculator on the screen door of the house , where he lives with his wife and two children. When he removed the instrument on Nov. .2, it showed the screen door had been opened an closed 23,718 times. Hebert's curiosity is now satisfied. ; ' ., ',.." Dead line for Sunday Classified is noon Saturday: ' 10 a.m. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 ore vious day ASHLAND CLARK GABLE LANA TURNER VICTOR MATURE in BETRAYED j in Technicolor U IRVING i & & A - BING Tr- DANNY CROSBY MYE CIONEY VERA.ELLEN tectolor: .v-DEAN JAGGER.JRVING BERLIN rhcriw ROBERT EMMOT DOWN -ob,MlCHAELCURTlZ ewotorfktaaiNMibMSbrMwiAlH. - Wrtw to. . mm. b, NORfMN KRASNA NORMAN fANAMA m MEDIN TWO OF THE SCREENS . GREATEST ANIMAL STARS! JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD'S "YUK0I1 .lAIIIIIiHT" with -- Kiiby Grant A and the - Wonder Dor Old Boston Hotel Being Torn Down Boston-' (U.R) An old hotel that once was the home of John L. Sullivan and Sarah Bernhardt is being torn down in Boston. After its erection in 1869, the Langham Hotel in the South End was pointed to with pride by res idents of The Hub. . Spokesmen of the dav rallid the hostelry "one of the finest ornaments in architecture of which Boston can boast." It was ' lavishly endowed with white marble and fine old paintings.1 Yt XI - f , I . . j , - 1920's set in the Laneham wasa gathering for Boston's - blue-' bloods. ; The elevated "railroad in the ; South End marked the begin ning of bad days for the Lang-v ham. Real estate prices declined : and the clientele changed. Fash--ionable clothing stores and res- -taurants became bars and fly specked hash-houses. . At last the once-proud Lang-, ham was condemned as unsafe . and languished unwanted and. forgotten. Now the wreckers are . cleaning, the site, which is to be come a parking lot.. s SAFETY RECORD " ' Brockton, Mass. U.R) ' George P. Petrulis of Brockton has never had an accident in 25 years of driving trailer trucks: more than 1,000,000 miles. mm Box Office Opens 6:45 HURRY!XFew Humphrey EOGIXT AvaGJUOt Edmond O'BRIEN; e plus e CARTOON - NEWS BERLINS J . nisttnto THROUGH VISTA MOTION PIC1W1 1 KWM-BOtUTY , I TECHNICOLOR ", ISION AU IP 1 12 Great Song Hits ROSEMART FRANK - A PARAMOUNT PICTURE i O REGULAR O ADMISSION DOORS OPEN 12:30 1 j I ) i - A ittWl