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Local and Personal Visitor Visiting at the home of Mrs. Lucy Grissom, route 3, box 75, over the week end was her niece, Miss Carolyn Nelson of Coker Butte rd. Incorporate Articles of in corporation of Weisfield's of Medford, Inc., have been filed in the Jackson county clerk's office by David Fain, Stewart Tremaine, and John J. Higgins, all of 1200 Cascade building, Portland. Building Permit B. and G. Properties, Inc., have obtained a $20,000 building permit to re model the old Crater Lake Lum ber company yards at 609 to 617 East Jackson st., into stores, according to records on file in the city building department. Cabin Entered Harry Mor ris, 160 Central ave., Ashland, has reported to the sheriff's of fice that three boys entered cab ins owned by Morris, Phil Stans bury and Ralph Koozer, all of Ashland, in the Niel creek area. The boys have agreed to pay for damages, according to the com plaint. Business Name Change Bus ter B. P. Woody and Stella C. Woody have retired from the business name Quality Produce, which has been assumed by Ra mona Terrell, Ray Lange, and Catherine Lange, according to records filed in the county clerk office. The business address is listed as route 1, box 261, Gold Hill. CARD OF THANKS We want to thank all the nice peo ple and fire department for all they did for us at the fire. Mr. & Mrs. Harold Pence. mmm J TONITE! SHOW STARTS 7:15 P.M. I PLUS 1 Agents Meet Truman Nelson, Medford city fire marshal, will speak Thursday noon at a meet ing of the Medford insurance agents in the Jackson hotel. Moose To Meet Election of officers will be held at a meet ing of the Loyal Order of the Moose at the Moose hall, 11 Newtown st., Wednesday, April 6, at 8 p.m. AWOL Phillip Allen Cox, 110 South Grape st., was arrest ed yesterday by city police and is being held on a charge of be ing absent without leave from the Army. Box Company L. G. Adams has assumed the business name White City Box company, with a business address of Box 307, Camp White, according to coun ty clerk's records. At Osteopathic Elmo Bruce Vyar, 5, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmo Vyar, Box 712, Central Point; Oscar J. Shores, Merlin; and Berle B. Elmore, Applegate, are listed as medical patients to day at Osteopathic hospital. Orders Issued City Fire Mar shal Truman Nelson inspected three places of public assembly and one apartment house yester day and issued six orders for correction of hazardous condi tions. . i At Sacred Heart Mrs. Wel lington Beelby, 695 Pennsylva nia ave., and Alexander Brad burn, Mitchell sanitarium, Jack sonville, are medical patients to day at Sacred Heart hospital, at tendants reported. Rummage Griffin Creek Grange members will conduct a rummage and plant sale Satur day, April 9, at 106 North Ivy st., from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Those having articles for the sale are asked by those in charge to take them to the building after 5 p.m. Friday, or telephone 3-4461. Condition Good The condi tion of Roy Strickland, Rogue River, who was injured in a fall Tuesday at the DeArmond Bros. Lumber company, is reported as good" today at Sacred Heart hospital. He was taken there soon after the accident. His in juries were to his nead, arm, back and chest, according to the report. News About Servicemen THREE YOUNG MEN ENLIST IN NAVY Three young Jackson county men recently enlisted in the Navy and are now taking basic training at San Diego, according to E. D. Houdescheldt, quarter master first class, recruiter here. After nine weeks of training, they will receive a leave and can visit their homes before go ing to their next assignments. They are Gerald Raymond Reed, 12 Beach ave., Ashland; Cecil Eugene Marshall, 611 East California ave., Jacksonville, and Ronald George Kaer, 205 D st., Jacksonville. WING SETS REUNION Members of the 403rd troop carrier wing, based at Portland, will attend a reunion of the wing at the Portland airport, Satur day, April 16. Their wives and friends also are invited. Those serving with the unit now, and those who have been members in the past, may at tend. Dancing, refreshments and entertainment are on the pro gram. Among those attending will be Maj. Gen. Chester E. McCar ty, former commander of the wing, now commanding general of the 18th air force; Maj. Gen. Robert B. Landry, commander of the 4th Air Force, and Col. Jo seph Stromme, first commander of the Portland Air base. "v ' ff ' J 'f SIGNING CONTRACT covering 15,000 workers In 16 plants, Dave Beck (left), president of International Brotherhood of Team sters (AFL) and Sewell Avery, chairman, Montgomery Ward & Co., exchange quips during Chicago meeting. Beck said union would vote Its stock for Avery In control fight. (International) MacArlhur's Aide Disputes Report coming ' FRIDAY ! EKJ1 Plus JOHN WAYNE in "THE DARK COMMAND' Return Mr. and Mrs. Eu gene Thorndike, 55 South Berk eley way, returned yesterday after being on vacation in Eur ope for about 2V2 months. At Community Miss Carol Wikstrom, 2216 Dellwood ave., Mrs. Lee D. Pinkham, 378 Stew art ave., and Lynn McConnell, 6, whose parents are Mr. and Mrs. Ernest McConnell, Eagle Point, are surgery patients to day at Community hospital. Picked Up Two Washington boys were arrested here early today by city police and jailed on delinquency charges. They were a 16-year-old from Blaine, Wash., and a 17-year-old from Renton, Wash. A 16 -year -old Modesto, Calif., boy was picked up yesterday by city police and is being held as a runaway. Cars Collide Vehicles oper ated by Bert E. Simmons, 322 South Orange st., and Earl L. Sweek, 844 Stewart ave., were involved in a collision at the in tersection of Main and Ivy sts. at about 12:45 p.m. yesterday, according to city police. Sweek was cited for failure to yield right of way. Powerhouse Jobs Job va cancies as powerhouse operators for the federal government in plants in Oregon and Washing ton will be filled through civil service, examination, according to the civil service commission. The jobs pay from $2.06 to $2.46 hourly. Application forms and other details may be obtained at the Medford post office. t From $60 a person in 1913, the 'U.S. national debt rose to about $1,970 per capita at the end of World War II. f litlii :" :-:; iiinf u-i ;V4:?W' .) , JJ'2 THE TUNESMITHS Now in the HUNT ROOM Playing Nightly Except Monday Hie jalhHHlo ON HIGHWAY 99 AT TALENT Southern Oregon's Unique Dining Room and Supper Club Good Food Good M usic Dancing New "York (U.R) A spokes man for Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur disputed last night an Army historian's report that the general Knew about ana ap proved efforts to obtain Russian military aid in the wind-up of the war against Japan. A statement issued by Maj. Gen. Courtney Whitney, Mac- Arthur's chief aide, was the latest exchange in a controversy that arose last week with publi cation of the Yalta papers. Mac- Arthur has been pictured as one of a group of military lead ers who recommended to the conferees at Yalta that Russian aid be sought against Japan. Whitney's statement was in answer to an article in the cur- Eisenhower, Brother Play Round of Golf Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower and his broth er, Edgar, played a round of golf today. Edgar, a Tacoma lawyer, was here for a meeting of the John Marshal Bi-Centen-nial commission whose members lunched at the White House. Wall Street New. York (U.R) Specialty issues featured a generally high er and quiet stock market today. Gains in the specialties rang ed to more than a point. In the main list, price improvements were limited mostly to the frac tional zone. Steel shares, yesterday's mar ket leaders, sparked today's advance. Today's closing prices on se lected stocks: American T & T ... Anaconda . Chrysler Curtiss Wright ; General Electric General Motors Montgomery Ward 78 Vz Perm R R 27V4 Penney J C , 9V Radio ..... , 43 Va Southern Co 21 Southern Pacific........ unquoted S Oil of Calif ... 78ii Texas Gulf Sulphur 40 Transamerica . . 40 Tri-Continental . 27 United Aircraft .: . 7334 U S Rubber .. 43 Vb U S Steel .. 81 Youngstown .. 78 180 61 72 22Vs 50 95 rent issue of The Reporter maga zine by Dr. Louis Morton of the Army's Office of Military His tory. . , PORTLAND LIVESTOCK Portland (U.P.) CatUe 300. Com mercial and low good steers $19.50 20.75; medium and good stock steers $17-18; good with some choice 724 lb. fed heifers $21.25; utility heifers $12 15; canner-cutter cows mostly $9 10.50; few $11; uUlity cows $12-14; young commercial cows up to $16.50; 2000 lb. Holstein bull $17.50; cutter utility bulls $12-15.50. Calves 50. Good and low choice vealers $23-26; cull and utility grades $8-16. Hogs 200. Choicel80-235 lb, butch ers $19.25-20; 245 Jb. $18: 61 lb. $18.50; choice 340-525 lb. sows $14.50 $16. Sheep 300. Good-choice fall shorn lambs $20; choice full wooled lambs above $21; choice 74 lb. spring lambs $26.50; good-choice slaughter ewes $8-9. PORTLAND PRODUCE Portland (U.P.) Eggs To retail ers: Grade AA large, 51c doz.; A large 49-50c doz.; AA medium. 49c: A me dium 47-48c doz.; A small. 44c 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. 4212-45tic: 5-H. loaves. 46,,i-4912C Processed Ameri can cheese, 5-lb. loaf, 39',i-41c lb. Farm Market First local cauliflower is due at East Side Farmers' market today with price expected to be around $1.75 a. standard crate; Roseburg cauliflower selling at $2-2.25; season's first mus tard greens brought 65 cents a dozen bunches to growers. Poultry, Rabbits Live Chickens To growers (No. 1 quality f.o.b. Portland): Fryers 2V2 to 4 lbs., 30c lb., at farm 29c; roasters, ranch: light hens, 18-19c; heavy hens. ail wts., 21-22c lb.; old roosters. 11- 12c lb. Dressed Chickens No. 1 dressed to retailers: Fryers. New York style. 41- 42c lb.: whole drawn, 51-53c. cut up 5B-58C lb.: roasters. N.Y. style, 4Z-43c; hens, light-type. New York style, 30- 31c; cut ups. 42-45c; hens, heavy type. n.y. style. 33-34c: whole-drawn. 44- 46c lb. Turkeys To retailers: A grade hens, ready to cook. 48-50c: N.Y. dressed. 37-38c lb.; A grade toms, oven ready, 40-44c; N.Y. style. 34-35C. Rabbits (average to growers t.o.o. killing plants) Live white, 3 ',4-44 lbs., 21-23c up; 5-6 lbs., 17-19c: colored pelts, 4c under; old does, 10-12c lb., a few higher. Fresh dressed fryers to retailers, 57-60c; cut up, 62-65C. PORTLAND CASH GRAIN Portland Prices as reported by the USDA market news service: Wheat, No. 2 soft white. $80.50 a ton bulk, prompt delivery f.o.b. Portland. No. 2 white oats 38 lb. test Coast delivery $54-50.55 ton: Portland delivery $52- 53; No. 2 Western barley, $52.50 ton f.o.b. Portland Coast delivery; soy bean meal, $88-89 ton, cars, prompt delivery Portland; standard muirun, S41 50-42 ton pars nromnt dpliverv Portland; No. 2 yellow corn. $65 ton f.o.b. Portland. Wholesale hay prices: No. 2 green alfalfa, baled, f.o.b. Portland. $38-40 ton; truck or rail. Timothy mixed hay, $40 a ton, f.o.b. rail car, Seattle. Portland grain exchange: Tuesday s close: Bid Soft white 1... , $2.38 Soft white, no rex , 2.38 White club . 2.38 Wednesday April 6' 195s MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVEN LUNCHEON 1 1 :30 A.M. to 2:30 P.M. REGULAR LUNCHEON OCc Trier Start t ' EVENING DINNERS Prices Start at BEGIN AT 5 P.M. Serving the Finest and... Largest Selection of Food At Sensible Prices! Under the Supervision of Chef August "Gus" Bruynee! TABU DINNER HOUSE 305 South Riverside O DANCE O BILLY MAY ORCHESTRA (Currently playing at the Hollywood Palladium) With Popular Sam Donahue directing Vocal stylings by lovely Sherry Kay Full sixteen piece band coming THURSDAY, APRIL 7 - GRANTS PASS ARMORY S.E. 9th Street Get your advance sale tickets at SWEMS RECORD STORE MUSIC MART Advance Sales Adults $1.50 per person Students, $1.25 per person All box office tickets $1.80 per person .Dancing 9 -1:00 ojclock Obituary NEWELL MCINTIRE Funeral services for Newell Dean Mclntire, 34, of Garber ville, Calif., who died in King man," Ariz., March Jtt, Will be held at Perl funeral home Thurs day at 1:30 p'm. with the Rev. J. Thomas Dixon of he First Methodist church officiating. In terment will be in Siskiyou Me morial park. Survivors include his mother, Mrs. Jessie Linton, Medford; two brothers, Enroll, . Medford, and James Roy, Crescent City, Calif.; a sister, Mrs. Gladys McKibben, Brookings, Ore.; and three chil dren, Carol Jean, Newell Jr., and Susan Jessie, all of Kingman. CHARLES ARMOND Funeral services for Charles F. Armond, 83, of 1035 Cherry Lane, who died Monday, will be held in Conger-Morris chapel Friday at 1:30 p.m. with the Rev. M. Homer Thompson of the Ash land Assembly of God church of ficiating. Committal . will be in Siskiyou Memorial park. The deceased was born Nov. 6, 1871, in Norway, and came to this country at the age of 12. He had lived in Medford for the past four years. Survivors include two sons, Larry, San Mateo, Calif., and Roy, Medford and two grandchildren. ARTHUR JANES Arthur D. Janes, 62, died yes terday at the V.A. Domiciliarv. Camp White. Conger-Morris fun eral nome is in charge of fun eral arrangements. ' GEORGE HUMBARD George R. Humbard, 58, died last night at the-V.A. Domicil iary, Camp White. Conger-Morris funeral home is in charge of funeral arrangements. About 3,000,000 Americans are taking special courses for adults provided by the public school systems. y j i v 1 1 in ASHLAND TONITE ONLY! , tovTifl V K W I CAN S. , Mr J ma a 3 T7- MAN A... 7J aTJ Mrtce or t ...OR A KING Of SCOUNDRELSI . X7lm KlWiAKD BUR I UN JOHN DEREK M Guardian Brings Suit For Boy's Injuries The guardian of a small boy injured in January, 1954, in an automobile accident, has brought suit for $30,163 against Mr. and Mrs. Harley Monroe Finney, ac cording to circuit court records. The suit was brought by Helen Corbett, guardian of Michael Dunagan, who at the time of the accident, was 32 months old. The youngster was struck by a veh icle operated by Finney and in which wife, Geraldine M. Fin ney, was a passenger. The -complaint states that the boy was permanently injured in the accident. It asks $163 special damages for medical ex penses, and $30,000 general dam- ages. , Rogue River Church . Building Plan Told Rogue River The congre gation of Hope Presbyterian church has decided to go ahead with preliminary plans for con struction of a new church buil ding, according to members. Sites for a building and meth ods of financing the project still are being studied. . - The church has obtained an option to buy a piece of prop erty adjoining the present church building, but no decision has been reached on whether the op tion will be used. mm HURRY Tomorrow "THE DRAMATIC THUNDERBOLT OF THE YEAR!" -IOOK MAGAZINE "BING CROSBY GRACE KELLY WILLIAM HOLDEN ffl c Va bi A PERLBERG-SEATON Pmtew THE PretiooR I far WILLIAM PERLBERG Wnfta for the. Screen &od Directed hf GEORGE SEATON FfoathtphrbrCWonlOfcli A Pmmoool Pfehrt m OPEN DAILY AT 6:45 ENDS TONIGHT MMB M MAZM WIIO MATTO GDOSSO COUNTRTt XL PLUS SELECTED SHORT SUBJECTS ANOTHER 2 OUTSTANDING ATTRACTIONS SIGHTS FEW HEM HAVE EVEB SEEN! DANA ANDREWS-PIPER LAURIE a uMvwwHimmWHM went tOnniMraMMM JflUU MM CARTOON O PLUS O LATE NEWS EVENTS Minimum Wage Said 'National Scandal' Washington (U.PJ The CIO last night labeled the 75 cent hourly federal minimum wage "a national scandaL" The union repeated its de mand that Congress raise the wage minimum to $1.25 an hour and extend its coverage to addi tional millions. In its monthly "economic out look," the CIO said increases in living costs and worker produc tivity since the 75 cent minimum took effect in 1950 in themselves justify an increase in the mini mum wage. 7 Gates opes 6:30 p.m. Show at Dusk mum. THURSDAY FRIDAY Pi 13! All the Drang, Supra oid Adviitirt of At Great Book Storm to tbtScrtMl acouMuncnat TH3 m PLUS MV MTfMATIONM f AUMtvmu. MTfMATIONM C "Si RpiIkT.mNES m m orrv suckmrs v&i WDDT HAOnT-HUG OWaN ADUJM$-T0MltOWII r a i ii T..!!. 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