Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 23, 1955, Image 11

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Newspaper Page TextTheyTl Do It Every - VPa MOLTrvlWALLET K TWEMSELVES-WEU. Vj HE'S BEEN A : . i I'll! Ill I ill I lUll Sfl HAVE A WCiRT ATTACK, UVWO OFf MfS W g" V 8T05 HE WRIGGLES H AND TUEVU.Be LEFT JJ REPUKEA T PSST- V-- . OTflOW UNDER-- JjUXtiS TMESACK'? TRajM WMDCW : rur-Y5- www jiz wm f i r ar & 1 a i a & a i - a a - . BUI k ail a.a w " 1 . 1 1 1 II Salt' I I I W tSH M ong-Wfssng Picture of Lincoln Found On Shelf of Paint Dealer in Illinois jp Springfield, 111. . (u.R) -Discovery of a photograph of Ai raham Lincoln,- believed to be long-missing , "Picture , No. . 72" taken almost a century agof was reported found Saturday. ' '" The Illinois State Journal and Register said the photo, which portrays Lincoln at the age of ' about 50 with a short beard, was found in the store of a paint dealer who bought it from a cus tomer for $3.50. ' . . ..' .- An associate of the late Her bert Wells Fays, long-time cus todian of Lincoln's tomb in near- by Oak: Ridge cemetery and a collector of Lincolniana, s.a i d Fay searched for' this photo for many years? and valued it at $10,000, the newspaper said. , v The Journal and Register gave this account of the photo's his tory and recent re-discovery. ".' Photographer Thomas Peaker took : the photo of Lincoln in Parker's studio here in 1859 or 1880. Lincoln gave the portrait later to a Negro laundress who worked in his fiome. She, in turn, gave it to a Springfield boy several years later. Then it disappeared. 'J. Fifteen years ago, paint store owner Paul Redeker was mea suring a room for wallpaper when his yardstick struck a pic ture framed on the wall and the jjhoto fell to a couch. - -i During a discussion with the woman of the house, Redeker mentioned he did a lot of picture framing and sometimes had calls for Lincoln pictures. The woman said she'd be glad to sell the photo and quoted Redeker a price of $3.50. JUmained on Shell & . f Redeker bought it and took it to his store, where he put it on a shelf. He had no buyers for It and it remained there through the years. Last week, Van A. Graham, 1955 ASC Program Starts in County - The 1955 Agricultural Sta bilization and Conservation committee program is now ; un der way in Jackson county, ac cording to Albert Straus, chair man. ' ' ; The initial signup period ends Feb. 4, but' farmers' may .request assistance for; projects ' covered by the program at any time be fore work is started. - - Handbooks of 1955 conserva tion practices included '.'in, the program will be in the mail in a few days, Straus said. !-; - Don't Read This Ad Unless You Are Tired of Hard Work in the Garden J. i " NEW 55 MERRY TILLER is Here, Better Than, Ever r TERRIFIC SPECIAL To introduce you to the kinr of all tillers we are offering for January only a brand new 20" Ball Bearing Rotary Mower Attachment tor flMO, with the purchase of a Merry Tiller. Even if you think yon won't be needing a machine for a long time drop over or call us and get the dope. MERRY TILLER OUTPERFORMS $58 TILL ERS. Don't confuse it with cheap Mail Order imitations. Merry Tiller mows hay, makes ditches, plows snow, ; etc. -GRANDMA CAN RUN IT. You may have -heard our com petitors knocking the machine but it still outsold all others in the U. S. a year ago. Why pay more? WE GIVE S&H GREEN STAMPS TOO. . Johnson's Berry 2400 HIWAY 66, ASHLAND PHONE 9-5611 Open Daily Except Sat. You Can Call Us in the Evening Time .-. Tuscola, -111., a' friend and ex assistant to Fay when 'Fay was tomb custodian, dropped by Red eker's store to talk to him about some calendars. - In their conversation, Redek er, recalling ; Graham's associa tion with Fay, remarked he hap pened to have "an old. picture of Abraham Lincoln,' and "may be you would like to see it." . Portland Woman Gets Letter From Brother Held by Reds On Charges He Was a Spy Portland, Ore. (U.R) The sister of an American airman held by the Chinese Communists as a "spy - said' Saturday she received a letter from' him last week saying he slept on a plank bed onlv 30 inches wide. : Mrs. Donald V. Dehle said the letter from her brother, Airman 2-C Daniel C. Schmidt, was the first direct word any Portland member of " the family, had re ceived from him since a round of letters dater Sept. 9 and deliv- Downward Trend in Farm Income Seen Corvallis (U.R) - The downward trend ;in farmers' , in come will continue in 1955, M. D. Thomas, extension service ec onomist at Oregon State college predicted Saturday.-' : 1 Thomas said big supplies, low er price supports, production re strictions and high marketing costs all point to a, smaller take from farm sales in 1955. He said the hardest hit would be the grain growers 'who are facing a farther rollback on wheat acreage, plus lower price supports on all grains. 1 Dairy income will.be ; down, he said, because there is little chance to recover the drop in market milk prices that follow er Thomas took a more optimistic view on fruit and livestock mar kets which, ;,he; feels," will hold up during the coming, year. SURVEY BIDS SOUGHT. . Portland a- (U.R) The Corps of . Engineers Saturday invited bids for furnishing two four man survey parties to work on a flow line survey of the Cou gar Reservoir on the -South Fork of the McKenzie river. rT AITACHAIINT. A IKWHKB UHtt v MOT A .NttW MOWa By Jimmy Hatlo JIWS DISASTER ABOUT TO OCCUR' iCr "THE. RAT1P U4T- -feCywiMU jacklbs. svkacuss.n . Graham declared on. looking at the framed portrait "That's the Lincoln picture No. 72" the only one missing in a series of photos taken of the Civil War President. '-.- -f: He confirmed the identity of the photo on closer examination. Graham said Fay searched for this photo for years and rated it to be worth $10,000. ; ered early in November. Would Like To Go Schmidt.'s mother, Mrs. Nel lie V. Peters, also lives here and said T sure wish I could" go to Red China to visit her son. The Chinese said they would permit families, of 17 imprisoned Am ericans to visit them in prison. . Mrs. Dehle said her brother talked " "mostly? about how y he would like to get home 1 to his wife."; Una in Boise, Ida. . Tells of Plans' ;" v . She said Schmidt commented that his : bed" consisted . of one inch planks nailed together to make a cot six feet long and 30 inches wide. He asked to be told names, of current boxing cham pions and described in detail plans for a house he would like to build when he returns. ; :;: . Schmidt grew up' in Coeur D'Alene, Ida., and never has lived in Portland. But his moth er, sister and brother, Lawrence, now reside here. Another broth er, Jim, 18, joined the Air Force in December. . .-:, ! - , "i w. Salem (U.R) Av er age weekly; earnings of some 120, 000 production workers in Ore gon reached a new high of $87.40 in December, $6.34 above a year before, the State Unemployment Compensation ' Commission said Saturday . ' . : Employers' reports '. showed average hourly pay of $2.20 was unchanged . from November, 1954,' but the-work week jumped to 39.8 hours, compared , with 38.S in 1953. : . . ; . , y Production, '.'workers in ply wood mills and other .wood pro ducts put in an averagevof 43.2 hours, a week to gain earnings of $95.60, almost as high as printers and construction employees, who have;' beeri - leaders for "many months. Logging a n d' sawnaUl workers averaged $92.66, . out their, work-week averaged . only 40 hours, still 1.9 hours more than : a year; before. 7 . CIO To Attend ' Portland (U.R) -Oregon members of the CIO are expect ed to crowd the state capitol at Salem : next .Wednesday to en dorse ' labor-supported -' legisla tion. VVV .vi ;: ': ;'--:'':' Chef Dusten, ; assistant CIO regional director, said the "CIO day in-, the legislature" was or ganized; to arouse "grass, roots" support for. labor 'measures. Dusten, at a CIO meeting here Friday, isaid labor was getting a false sense of security by as suming that "all was well in the Legislature." Re said oppo sition to was more serious than union realked.-ii' v-:?;'.; '.' The "march" tor the capitol will serve to acquaint CIO, union members of pending policies and legislation. - ;.;...;.' AIDS MARCH OF DIMES Jackson county - chapter of the Chin Up club Saturday con tributed $25.11 to the March of Dunes fund raising .: campaign to combat polio. The money was raised during "games night" at the , club's meeting at Gisls Community club rooms Friday night. Gordon Bowman, 2402 Table Rock rd., was grand prize' Average Wages High Four Local Men Return From Duty In Far East Area Four valley servicemen are scheduled to arrive at Seattle Monday at 8:30 a. m. on the transport, Gen.- John Pope,; ac cording to. the United Press. . - Three of the men are from Medford. They are CpL Rich ard A. Bradley, Pfc. Richard W. Imhausen and Cpl. Frederick E. Reich Jr. Bradley is unlisted in local directories ' or Mail Tribune files. Imhausen entered the Army in March, 1953, and completed basic training at Ft. Ord, Calif . He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Imhausen, Route 3, Medford.. He served the 45th infantry divis ion and the 7th division in Japan and Korea. , Reich, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred' Reich, Stewart ave., has served with the 160th' Army in fantry regiment with the 40th infantry division in Korea. The fourth man returning is Donald W. Mitchell, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. MitcheU, 509 Fifth st, Phoenix. He entered the Army in Feb., 1953, and ar rived overseas the following No-J vember. He was a personnel ad ministrative specialist in service company of the 24th infantry di vision's 19th' regiment. ..One, of the several hundred men aboard the transport vessel will be the 500,000th veteran to have arrived in the port of Se attle from the Far East since the start of the rotation program in May, 1951.- Another will be the 1,000,000th man to be pro cessed for return to the U. S." by the Inchon replacement depot in Korea. Names of the, two are not yet known. ; : Portland Schoolboy Awarded Medal Pittsburgh (U.R) A -16-year-old Portland, Ore. school boy was one of 14 persons cited Friday night by ; the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission for .out standing acts of heroism. William H. Winton of . Port land . was. credited . with saving on 11-year-old boy from drown ing, near Barton, Ore., July 1, 1952. He was awarded a Bronze 'medal for: the act.- '. .: A written citation i accom panying the medal said the 15-year-old Oregon youth waded 30 feet into the Clackamas River and swam 60 feet cross-current to save 'Donald F. Silcox, who could not swim' and" was drifting- downstream, -X 4 v ' Winton, freeing himself from the other boy's frantic grasp, towed - him 50 feet to shallow water. Both boys recovered. Man Saves Cafs'Life; Cat Returns Favor -m Portland U.R). A Port land man said Saturday a cat whose life hY saved returned the favor earlier this week. Ray C. Moys told this storys He was drying his hair in his kitchen when he became overpower ingly sleepy. As he nodded, his pet Siamese cat, Sammy, jumped on him and clawed at his face and neck. It made him alert enough to realisse the gas liad been left on in the stove. Moys said a short time ago he saved Sammy's life by get ting him to a veterinarian af ter the cat had eaten some spoiled meat. ' NOW PLAYING Sheldon Allman LIMITED ; ENGAGEMENT . Shtiitm is well kmwa la Mi fei4 at he WM.feriMrly writ tea 'TeVs Ryl Gearas. He it aew eetaf a MsinleM ni m frMter . than . ever. Hit acr it eiiHrtly NEW an DIFFER ENT! o Also o "The Mystery Group" This Qaartette It toekief hr S mom! Nam tfclt btmi tmi ecaiva a baaatiful . Iwtova, Watch. Ta aMrtcMta tham ym mutt hear tham aa cam aa aat. TWO SHOWS NIGHTLY . V ; - Cloud 'Taaadayt STAN'S Y ' : . CLUB Survey of Oregon's flndusftial Possibilities Depends on Cash aaiem A compre hensive survey of Oregon's in dustrial possibilities will, be made by the Stanford Research Institute if the Legislature ap proves an appropriation of $60, 000 for the job. A tentative agreement with the institute has been reached by the Oregon Development Commission, and Joseph Smith, Convicts Face Added Terms Of Up to 40 Years Boston. (U.R) Four mu tinous convicts already doomed to spend most , of their lives in prison, now face possible new sentences of 40 years each for holding 11 men hostage more than 81 hours after an escape at tempt collapsed, authorities said Saturday.. Trial Slated "Massachusetts "Attorney Gen eral George Fingold said the men who. mutinied at the state prison would go on trial by March 15.- They face new sen tences for assault attempted es cape : and violation of the state hostage act, he said. i- The rebellion, second longest of its kind in the nation,' collap sed Friday when a citizens com mittee convinced ' the rebels to surrender. ' ' .' 'i - Authorities ' saida there 'might be otrier defendants in the trial. An investigation was under way to. determine how the rebels got their 11 hostages, including five the guns they, used to menace guards. -" - r.-il .'v; ,: Promises Prosecution ,-iv;:? ' "We'll prosecute ahyonej re sponsible for getting contraband into the prison," Fingold said. The convicts, bank robber Theodore (Teddy) ; Green , 38, gunman Walter it. (Super Troop er) Balben, 37, rapist John H. Flaherty, 32, and' cop-killer Fritz Swenson 32, were locked up in separate cells: They were removed from the Cherry, Hill solitary confinement section, where, the revolt broke out. :"::.' -L-t Portland Chamber ' . L Backs; Basin Plan 'Portland iJJX) Thboard of directors of the Chamber of Commerce here Saturday en dorsed the proposed Columbia interstate compact and urged approval by the . state Legisla ture. Vr:---V -:" -:c;':::.,-V . : A statement by the board said th compact is a necessary first step toward development of the, Columbia Basin . and additional power : facilities. : The - statement said that wif and when federal money is available, 'federal pro jects probably would .De favor ed .because of lower 'cost' of fi nancing." s . The proposed compact was at tacked, last week by State Sen. Robert Holmes, Gearhart Demo crat ' .:;.v:-;-S'--'; Dead line. Sundays Oawifled la at noon Saturday ; 10 ajn. Monday fot Monday: othardaya 5:30 oreviousday HURRY! It Will Be Here Only A Few More Days . CONTINUOUS TODAY FROM 12:45 fM. . ' Dean Oaaa 12:30 a.m. o ' "STAR IS I0RN" 12:4S - 4:00 - 7:00 10 p.m. tt 7 TOM N00NAN l - ;. ..'.' a?vL arai Sunday. January 2. 18SS: commission chairman, who met with a ways and means subcom mittee Friday to r seek approval of -a $130,379 budget; for; the next:' bienmum. including; the $60;00O rfor . the aurvey xSmith said the survey : actually ;will cost around $80,000 but the bal ance of the - cost would ' come from- contributions from private concerns. '--J '-".. Twice 1953 Budget a ; " The cdriimissidn's budget re qiiest;'is for mdre than twice the 'amount appropriated by the 1953 Legislature," although the gbvemor's -" budget department slashed some $43,000 from the amount : originally ' sought I Its aim' is to attract diversified in dustries, to Oregon. ' , , s ;. The senate has iour bills, all. brief, up for' final action' Mon day. One has to do with the ac quisition of lands ; by the State Board 1 of Forestry specifying that all deeds or other instru ments purporting to affect real property acquired by the: state of Oregon through its State Board of Fofestry shall be suf ficient in I law; to .-coivyey :vthe title without further, action. - Another - authorizes the - war den of the . penitentiary or the superintendent of a correctional institution to deliver, at the in stitution any witness the sheriff of any county wants to produce in court The sheriff is respon sible until he returns .the wit ness, who is taken and returned to the: institution at xio'.costt to the state.-; -; - ; . Another authorizes -the su perintendent, of a state institu GOLD -ANNOUNCE- Arrowf Lkundiy & Dry Cleaners 520 S. Riverside ; .' . -.: : -. " .. . . . v. art joining tha athar Bragraulve marchant 'Vfa thit elaitjrfi! GOLD ARROW 1 . ' STAMPS ? Double Stnm ps Given Until Feb'. 5 cm all work at th't) V ARROW LAUNDRY ' r : : DRY CLEANERS - - .ASHLAND krj tSBiH&t - $mmVdC OaVAM.. tm, miSamm twccow utmhmo Jjoooa MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUWS ELEVEH tion to deposit with the state treasurer as a trust account , any funds received for use or bene fit of the ward. And the final measure up for third reading Monday provides that any , reputable person - in the : state having 'knowledge, of a child who. appears to be either dependent ; or delinquent may file with the clerk of the court having jurisdiction in the . mat ter, petition . in writing, set ting forth the facts. This amends a statute which ? provides that such information be given only from a' reputable : person con cerning knowledge of depend ence or delinquency of a child in his own county. The House has nothing up for final action Monday. The heavy work in both Houses Monday will be :in . committee . rooms with several committees sched uline sessions throughout the day. -. . - EATON'S DINNER HOUSE 1Z Cuter lAke Ave. r ITALIAN AND ' . AMERICAN DINNERS ! SPECIAL AU the "Siuhetti 'and Homemade Ravioli yon can eat. Incladei Home Made Bread, Butter and C ollee. QQ S'C6URSB'ITAU.IAN 'PINNU , $1.50'-. -. , Open S:3 PJ.T1U tPM." Friv SaW San and Mon. Only CONTINUOUS FROM 1:00 TERRIFIC FOR LAUGHS! r J;7 S IT,SSnART...TART..;'AtlD , , TERRIFIC COMEDY. . . tVrV i WITH THAT K:ZtKST&M :'k -i;1 fN OCT, ) mils' 3ft S.?:.5-:. 'XYiA 1 mmm' rwm .. adventure before its tune becomes ; motion picture to be remembered forever! I ,5f r, j,szr "-r I Icily Vcdnc:cby WEATHER ; By United Press Northern California: Fair Sun day except .occasional cloudi ness extreme north and . local morning fog in valleys. .; ' ; ? r-'i ro Medford't Family o THEATRE O ADULTS 50c CHILDREN U to 12 Years - " .'.PRER -r tykea Accaweaalad . ' If Parents . vENDS TON ITE ? MaHnae 2S PM. " Evening Shows 7 P.M. -Mnta - -aaa - ttcsi.msai JACK LEMMON - fConMoV Fmd of tfia Yaor) - KIM NOVAK ; "WINTER PARADISE" technicolor Featurette 'CARTOON -NEWS written a nundred yean 1 yil - plus - i 1 A 1 w m. -.? 'i : . -r : 1 m.m a mzM aaa aa . v. 1 a JF"Tr..T...::J I- I winner.' tl it t 3 . . . 1 r