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News About Servicemen AT FT. LEE Sgt. First Class Gilbert E. Schrack, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Schrack, 838 Bennett ave., is at Ft. Lee, Va., where he will participate in an Army wide logistical exercise May 2 through 7. Approximately 5,000 officers and enlisted personnel will be trained in supplying com bat troops for modern warfare. Sergeant Schrack is regularly tteuior.ed at Camp Gordon, Ga., and is a member of the 504th military police battalion. He en tered the Army in March, 1943. His wife lives at North Augusta, S.C. BACK TO ADAK Alan McBeth. son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. McBeth, Jack sonville left Monday for Adak, Alaska, after being in the states about 60 days- while the ship on Which he is serving was in dry dock at Bremerton, Wash. Mc Beth, a Navy electrician, is due to return about August 1. He visited his parents last week end. 1 1 r . i 11 VA&IIVI1 Show at lJWIIC7:30 p.m. FUN AHOY! Mickey ROONEY Dick HAYMES Peggy RYAN Roy Mcdonald PLUS 2ND BIG HIT1 6-29 IT'S HERE SUNDAY! The World? ''ih. Most Jt Beautiful Animal!" DAREFOOT TESSA TECHNICOLOR TSSTT MANKIEHCZ EDMUND O'BRIEN in the role that won him an Academy Award! SKATING w COREY I Wr JNI RAlS?ON 1 1 a "Zf urn, and Sunday Afternoon 2 to 4:30 o DOUBLE SESSION FRIDAY NIGHT Clamp On Skates 25c to Children Under 12. Parents Invited FREE To Watch . . . Hat Check FREE for Skaters ROGUE VALLEY BALLROOM Local and Incorporate Articles of In corporation of Triangle B club have been filed in the office of the Jackson county clerk by Rene L. Bounds, Gloria W. Bounds and Stephen S. Bounds, SODAS A meeting of the Southern Oregon Dental assist ants is set for Wednesday, April 27, at 8 p.m., in the offices of Dr. Milo Kubalik, West Main and Summit sts. Elections will be held. J-ville 'joei, Janes A square dance will be sponsored by the J-ville Joes and Janes Square Dance club Thursday, April 28, at 8 p.m., at the Jacksonville Community hall. All persons in terested are invited. Son Born Mr. and Mrs.. Bob bie Wood, Grants Pass, are par ents of a son, Michael Robert, born April 22. Mrs. Wood is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Vosika, 2208 College Way, and is the former Miss Luella Mae Vosika. Ticket Found An airlines re turn ticket from Portland to Minneapolis, Minn., has been found in the Medford post office and is being held for the owner at the Rogue Travel service in the Jackson hotel. The name on the ticket is C. Smith. File Papers Articles of In corporation of Associated De velopment Corporation have been filed in the county clerk's office by O. R. McNeel and Mil dred M. McNeel, both of 812 South C st., Eagle Point, and George W. Plumb, 1405 East Main st., Medford. FOE Auxiliary A meeting of the auxiliary to the Crater Lake aerie, Fraternal Order of the Eagles, will be held at 8 p.m., Thursday, April 28, in the Eagles hall. The members are asked to take sandwiches or salads for the social hour after the meet ing when aerie members also will be present. Name Change Clark J. Walk er 'and Amos W. Walker have retired from the business name Walker Real Estate, and Clark J. Walker has assumed the busi ness name Clark J. Walker Agency, according to records filed in the office of the county clerk. The business address is listed as 427 East Main st., Med ford. Locked Out The fire depart ment sent two men to a trailer house on North Central ave. about 3 p.m. yesterday to make entry for the owner who had locked herself out. About 5:10 p.m. firemen were sent to the residence of Mrs. Billie Smith, 524 North Bartlett st., to check an overheated oil stove. No dam age was reported. Smoke Fills House Firemen who answered a house fire alarm 4 fire had been built in an unfin ished fireplace at the David Kurtz home under construction on Forest ave. They reported that smoke came out and filled vents and room and attic. There apparently was no damage, ac cording to the firemen who took the rural pumper to the scene. Emergency Landing City firemen were called to stand by with the rural pumper yes terday about 1:35 p.m. when an Air Force F-86 jet plane report ed to the control tower that it was coming in for an emergency landing. The pilot, however, notified the tower that the me chanical trouble was under con trol and the landing was made without Incident. File Claims Two mining claims were filed in the Jackson County recorder's office yester day by W. P. Gammill, Hamilton Ecker and Boyd Kline. The claims, designated as KEG num ber one, and KEG number two, are in the Applegate-Missouri Flat mining district, west of here. The claims are in the same gen eral location as one filed by the trio Friday. No mineral was stated in the claim. At Sacred Heart Surgery pa tients listed today at Sacred Heart are Sam Naumes, 3, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Naumes, 620 Oakdale dr.; Mrs. Ida Haley, Crescent City, Calif.; Harris Holsapple, Phoenix and Ed ear Hamblin. Klamath Falls. The medical patients reported are . Donald Thompson, Grants Pass; Alfred Hunziker, 719 Ben nett St.; James O'Brien, Jack sonville; Mark Spiegelberg, 6, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Spie gelberg, 204 Valley View dr.; Hale Greenman, 2223 Aloha st., and Mrs. Jack Andrew, 877 Ross lane. Wednesday Night, Friday Niqht, Personal Injured at School Daniel Zmimerlee, route 1, box 194, Eagle Point, 12-year-old son of M: and Mrs. Richard Zimmer lee, lr at Community hospital af ter receiving an arm fracture in an accident at school, attendants said today. ' Jail Driver Webb. Holland Eurke, 38, box 92, Eagle Point, was arrested and jailed by state police on charges of driving while under the influence of in toxicating beverages. He was ar rested late last night on Route 62 near Agate rd. Runaway Boys Three Med ford youths, age 13 and 14, who left here yesterday afternoon, were apprehended in Yreka, Calif., early today by Siskiyou county sheriff's officers, Med ford police said today. Parents of the runaway boys went to Yreka today to bring them back to Medford, police said. Assume Business Name Gil bert S. and Ruby Munden, 307 North Bartlett St., Medford, have assumed the business name "Valley Shade company" accord ing to records in the county re corder's office. The business nam of "Daisy's Cafe" has been cancelled by Elvin Edward and Daisy L. Larson, 3522 North Pa cific highway, Medford. At Community Gary Ayres, 12, Eagle Point, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Ayres, is a surgery patient today at Community hos pital: Others reported there to day are Mrs. R. M. Swan, 927 Queen Anne ave., a medical pa tient; Mrs. Bernard Gunn, route 2, box 248E, Medford, and Mrs. Francis G. Hughes, route 1, box 369, both surgery patients. Vacationing Mr. and Mrs. Ira E. McDonald, 110 Lozier lane, are vacationing in south ern California. At Los Angeles Pacific college, a Free Methodist institution, they will visit Dr. Robert Cox and family. Dr. Cox, formerly minister of the Free Methodist church here, is presi dent of the college. The McDon alds also will visit Catalina island and San Diego. Church Entered Medford police reported that three rooms in the basement of the First Bap tist church, 142 North Central ave., were entered and cabinets broken into yesterday, but no thing was reported missing. Po lice said entrance was gained either through a furnace room door or an unlocked window fac ing an alley. Miss Doris Emily Ruth, 312 South Orange st, dis covered the break-in, police said. Condition "Fair" Robert W. Johnson, 38, of 311 Kennet st, is reported in 'fairly good" con dition . at Community hospital where -he .was admitted late Tuesday afternoon. Medford am bulance attendants reported that Johnson was injured while working in the woods near Pros pect for the Burrell Logging firm, when a log rolled down hill and caught him against a rock. He suffered a leg fracture, according to the drivers who brought him to the hospital. 7? THRILLS, TENDERNESS, HEART TUG and LAUGHTER! YouVChr ...a Great Guy ..p Great Pace .a Greof Pidvref Bsa EflH Portland Produce Portland (U.P.) Eggs To retail ers: Grade AA large. 31c doz.; A large 49c doz.; AA medium. 49c doz.; A medium. 48c doz.; A small, 42-4 4c doz.: cartons. l-3c additional. Butter To retailers: AA grade prints, 66c lb.: cartons. 67c: A prints, 66c: cartons. 67c; B prints. 84c. Cheese To retailers: A grade Ched dar. Oregon singles, 42i-451'aC: 5-lb. loaves. 461,i-481jc. Processed Ameri can cheese. 5-lb. loaf, 392-41e lb. Farm Market Willamette valley wine rhubarb sold 'off jobber's floors at S2.25-2.50 for 30 lbs. today; Willamette valley cauliflower sold at mostly $2 a let tuce crate at the East Side Farmers' market; spinach, in surplus supply, sold at 75-80 cents a dozen bunches. Poultry, Rabbits Live Chickens To growers (No. 1 quality f.o.b. Portland): Fryers 2'3 to 4 lbs., 26c lb., at farm. 25c: roasters, 26c. Portland, 25c ranch; light hens,, 18-19c; heavy hens, all wts.. 21-23C lb.; old roosters. 12-14C lb. Dressed Chicken No. 1 dressed to retailers: Fryers. New York style. 40 41c lb.: whole drawn, 46-48c: cut-up, 51-53c lb.: roasters. N.Y. style. 41-42c; 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 lb. Rabbits (average to growers f.o.b. killing plants): Live white. 3s,i-4,i lbs.. 21-23C up; 3-6 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 Livestock Portland (U.P.) Cattle 250. Com mercial and good steers $18.50-21; good with odd choice 1105 lb. S22.50; good-choice heifers S21.50; utility commercial heifers mosUy $13-18; canner-cutter cows S9.50-ll.50; few S12; utility cows $12.50-14.50: com mercial grades $15-16: utility-commercial bulls S15-17.35; heavy bull $18. Calves 50. Good-choice vealers $23 27: utility-commercial grades $14-22. Hogs 250. Choice 180-235 lb. butch ers $19.25-20.50; choice 1 lots above S20; choice 240-290 lb. $17.75-19; few 150 lb. $18: choice 350-550 lb. sows around $14.50-16.50. - ' Sheep 100. Good-choice wooled lambs $17-17.50: choice grades up to $18.50; utility to choice shorn ewes $4-6.50. Portland Cash Grain Portland Prices as reported by the TJSDA 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 deliverv $54 ton; Portland delivery. $51: No. 2 Western barley. $53.50 ton f.o.b. Port land Coast delivery; soybean meal S87.50 ton. cars, prompt delivery Port land: standard millrun. S45 ton cars, prompt delivery Portland: No. 2 yel low corn. $67.75 ton f.o.b. Portland. Wholesale hay prices: Market nominal. Style Review A style re view and luncheon will be held Thursday, April 28, from 12 neon to 1 p.m., at the Jackson hotel. Retail merchant women of the city sponsor the event the last Thursday in each month and business women and out-of-town shoppers in particular are in vited, though the event is open to all women interected. Reser vations for the luncheon should be made by calling the hotel, telephone 2-6231. TO OVERHAL LSTs Portland (U.R),-r- The Navy has assigned two LSTs which have been in active Korean serv ice for overhaul here during the next two months. RUMMAGE SALE! "Bigger and Better Than Ever" GUILD HALL Thurs., April 28th - Friday, April 29th - Sponsored by . . . POWER tfauvue 0'HAHA 32 tobert FRANCIS Plus-Droopy Cartoon Wall Street New York MR) Stocks lost all of yesterday's gains in a sec ond hour profit taking flurry to day and spent the remainder of the day recovering partially from the lows. Traders sought out issues be lieved to be behind the general price level. Tobaccos got a whirl on reports of higher cigarette sales. The cements moved ahead on the big road building plans. Dow-Jones Averages Dow-Jones final stock aver ages: 30 industrials 428.10, off 2.54; 20 railroads 160.35 off 1.19; 15 utilities 64.85 off 0.14, and 65 stocks 160.32, off 0.92. Sales today were about 2,660, 000 shares compared with 2,720, 000 shares yesterday. Today's closing prices on se lected stocks: American T & T . 181V& Anaconda .... 61 V Chrysler '81Vz Curtiss Wright ; 21V2 General Electric . 52 General Motors 9834 Montgomery Ward . 754 Penn. R. R 277-s Penney, J.C. . 91V2 Radio 44 Southern Co. 20 Southern Pacific .". 604 S. Oil of Calif 80 Texas Gulf Sulphur 40 Transamerica .. '.. 41 Tri-Continental 26 United Aircraft 7434 U. S. Rubber 46 U. S. Steel . 87 Youngstown 80 Daily Weather Report DATE April 27, 1953 Sunset tonight 7:06 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 3:11 a.m. FORECASTS Medford and vicinity: Thickening and lowering cloudiness tonight. Vari able cloudiness with occasional light showers mostly in mountains Thurs day. Low tonight 33-35. High Thurs day 55. Western Oregon: Cloudy tonight with rain along coast and over inter ior of northern- half late tonight and Thursday morning, clearing partially with a few showers Thursday after noon. A little warmer tonight. Low tonight 32-40. High Thursday 50-58. Northern California: Increasing high cloudiness in north portion to night, spreading southward Thurs day. Light rain north of Ukiah and Red Bluff Thursday. LOCAL DATA TEMPERATURE: Mean yesterday 39: below normal 16. Record high this date 93 In 1928. Record low this date 27 in 1955. PRECIPITATION: 24 hours to mid night .06 in. Midnight to 10 a.m., none. Total this month 69 in., .35 in. below normal. Total since Sept. 1, 8.28 inches, 7.17 inches below normal. HUMIDITY: Lowest yesterday 38, highest this a.m. 96. CITY High Low Prec. Brookings 51 34 .11 Crater Lake . 21 1 .34 Grants Pass 30 28 .10 Klamath Falls 36 17 MEDFORD 45 27 .04 Portland 51 35 .11 Seattle ... 53 34 .09 Spokane 45 28 .19 Yakima 51 30 .11 Eureka 48 35 .18 Red Bluff 57 33 Sacramento ....1 . . 60 39 San Francisco 56 38 .01 Lor- Angeles 62 47 .01 Phoenix 82 55 Denver 83 41 Chicago . . 66 45 Miami .. . 89 59 New York 48 45 .08 Washington, D.C. . 53 49 T CORNER OAKDALE AND FIFTH 9 A.M. to 8:30 P.M. 9 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. St. Mark's Church Doors Open 6:45 P.M. Shows 7 & 9:30 P.M. "ry 'i-&i?jf vssjftSB : SLTOCil .. Technicolor DonoW CRISP Ward BOND Betsy PALMER Phil CAREY LATEST NEWS Wednesday, April 27, 195S Obituary ELLA WILLIAMS Graveside funeral services lor Mrs. Ella Smith Williams, 84, who died Monday, will be held at Lakeview, Ore., Sunset cem etery Friday at 2 p.m. Ashland Mortuary is in charge of funeral arrangements. The decased was born July 11, 1870, in Covington, Ky. She moved to Colville. Wash., when she was a young woman, where she was married on April 27, 1898, to Thomas H. Williams, who 'preceded her in death in 1937. She has been a resident of Oregon since 1918, living in Portland and Lakeview, and lived in Ashland since 1948. Survivors include one daugh ter, Mrs. William P. Chisholm, Ashland, and two grandchildren. The family has requested that friends omit flowers and instead make a contribution to the Can cer Fund. BESSIE ROWAN Funeral services for Mrs. Bessie Ethel Rowan, who died in a local hospital Tuesday, will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Friday in Chapel Mortuary, with the Rev. D. Kirkland West, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, of ficiating. Interment will be in Casper, Wyo. The deceased was born in Fair mont, Neb., on March 23, 1884. She was married in September of 1906 to Albert Gale Rowan, who preceded her in death in 1941. She came to Medford seven years ago, where she has made her home with her son anl daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Rowan, 1117 West Eleventh st. She was a member of the First Presbyterian church of Medford. Other survivors include a son, Robert Gale, Fort Washakie, Wyo.; two daughters, Mrs. Vera M. Vots, Midwest, Wyo., and Mrs. Grace Bloem, Douglas, Wyo.; two sisters, Mrs. Ruth Carr, Olympia, Wash, and Mrs. Lillian West, Longmont, Colo.; 11 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. mmmm O DOORS OPEN AT 6:45 THRILL UPON THRILL! GIGANTIC SU SHOW! TERROR GRIPS CITY! MONSTER ESCAPES! ry-KW AGWLCa KELSON.jttJN BSGSSFIELD Wlhai Thrill HIT! CHANGED TO A THING starring) MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THIRTEEJI Notices MYRA BIGHAM Mrs. Myra Bigham, 66, died last night at her home, Route 1, Box 86, Eagle Point Conger Morris funeral home is in charge of funeral arrangements CLARENCE DODGE Funeral services are pending at Chapel Mortuary for Clarence Dodge, 53, of Talent, who died in a local hospital today THOR RAMSTEN Remains of Thor V. Ramsten, 49, who died Saturday at the V.A. Domiciliary, Camp White, will be forwarded tonight by Conger-Morris funeral home to Portland for services and inter ment in Willamette National cemetery. The deceased was born May 24, 1906, in Sweden, and was a veteran of World War II, serving from Nov. 3, 1942, to Nov. 16, 1945, as a private first class, Medical Department. , Survivors include brother, Carl, Portland. ORRIE McGREW Funeral services are pending at Perl funeral home for Mrs. Orrie McGrew, Phoenix, who died at a local hospital today. STOLE!! On 1-4 H.P. M.W. Bench Grinder with 2 grinding wheels. On 8V4" Mall Saw, en extra blade in green metal case. On 15" and One 12" Pip Wrnch ' These tools were taken between March 18 and April 25, 1955. If the reader has been, ap proached or has bought either grinder or saw, please get in touch with LES GRAFFIS, Gold Hill, Hwy. 99 Phone 5-9047 $25 Reward for information leading to recovery of these tools a FAITH DOMERGUE RICHARD LONG MARSHALL THOMPSON KATHLEEN HUGHES Civil Service Exam Scheduled for Positions New civil service examina tions for auditors, clerks and ac countants, paying from $3,400 to $10,800, and for agricultural marketing specialist, paying $4, 205 to $9,600 in the Department of Agriculture, were announced todEy. The U.S. Civil Service com mission also announced contin uing need for stenographers for positions paying $2,750 to $3,175 a year, and typists for positions paying $2,750 to $2,950 a year. Vacancies exist in various fede ral agencies in the Washington, D. C, area. Further information and ap plication forms may be obtained at the civil service office in the Medford post office building. Salem (U.R) The House yes terday passed a resolution con gratulating the U.S. Forest Service on the agency's 50th. an niversary. The resolution wu sent to the Senate. 1 TPTme otea j MllllllLSC TONITE i THURSDAY 7? La i 4 ' I " TOMS -T I MUTUI LiUUULiO E0 SQ300 ROBERT - ELEANOR TAYLOR - PARKER Victor McLAGLEN RussTAMBLYN Jeff RICHARDS James ARNESS PLUS OPENS HERE TONITE! M y'JL' if GARSOM- ANDREWS MTOBllSSni PLUS iiv-i. , 2 3 ASHLAND W w MBJ1 V VJ MUSICAL jrA WCTB 7a .wrr- WHMMM V . I JOHN MOM fry. I uroNMu v I nwmM "MiL J PLUS CARTOON - NEWS
