Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, May 18, 1955, Image 11

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Newspaper Page TextLocal and Conralescing Mrs. flay C. Jones, 1992 Table Rock rd., is convalescing at her home from a back injury suffered about two weeks ago. Arrested Gene Ray Renfro, 22, Box 127. Phoenix, was ar rested Monday by state police on a charge of being drunk on a public highway, according to records at the county jail. Picnic Postponed A picnic meeting of Cub Scout Pack 14, scheduled for the Girl Scout Day camp Friday, has been post poned because of wet grounds. It has tentatively been resched uled for May 27. Take Name The business name Pic-Pak, with an address of 3704 South Pacific highway, has been assumed by Guy E. Clarke company, according to records filed in the county clerk's office. - a Victim Former Resident Dr. George W. Stephenson, 38, Coos Bay, who was killed in an auto mobile accident near Coos Bay last Friday, was a nephew of R. O. (Doc) Stephenson, 1115 East 10th st., he said today. The phy sician lived in Medford at one time and attended school here. - Therapy Film A film of spe cial interest to high school stu dents interested io physical therapy will be shown over sta tion KBES-TV Thursday at 5:30 p.m. The film is sponsored by the southern district of the Ore gon chapter of the . American Physical Therapy association. Merev Flight The Mercy Flights, Inc., twin-engine ambu lance plane left here luesaay for Dunsmuir to pick up its 351st patient, A. F. Hollings worth, 67, Dunsmuir, to take him to San Francisco for treatment of a skull fracture and other in juries. Hospitalized Reported at Sacred Heart hospital on Tues day were Billy Louise McKisson, 9, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Har lan McKisson, 748 Gilman rd.; Ira Childers, Route 1, Gold Hill, and Douglas Fitzsimmons, 2010 Summit dr., all surgery patients, and William P. Wright, Ash land, medical. Food Sale The Rogue chap ter. Federated Grandmothers clubs, will sponsor a cooked food sale Saturday, May 21 at the City Appliance store, 127 North Central ave. All members are . asked by those in charge" to fur nished cooked foods and baked foods for the sale. Mrs. Carl Pearson, chairman, 118 Clark St., will pick up donations for members who call telephone 2-2360.- Sale hours will be 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. ; DINNER HOUSE & LOUNGE o Finer Foods and Smorgasbord o Luncheons 0 Dinners 305 SOUTH RIVERSIDE AVE. We Close Sundays f TJTT7 n A $28W I i paSSTX 1st Drive-In v fn) H H in f YISTAVlSIOH Y siiovihg 11" J a - I Iotw.KnlHw.n)nnT L CSSZ SHOW STARTS 7:55 P.M. V Urttowuiz'Bratofiatin J f - v - r-, i t I pittstifastaaidtyBiitai - jrJil I REGULAR jlSN; I PRICES!! imawjawssL Personal Name Change John R. Bur dell and Charles L. Schuler have retired from the business name Talent Club, which has been re assumed by Burdwell, according to county clerk's records. Business Name Robert N. Harris, David L. Harris, Howard C. Lindgren and Labern F. Kel ler have assumed the business name Rogue Logging, according to records on file in the offi' of the Jackson county clerk. The business address is listed as route 1, box 421, Talent. Square Dance The Moose lodge will conduct a public square dance at its hall, 11 New town st., starting at 8 p.m. Thurs day. Fran Cronin will call. Ladies attending are asked to bring sandwiches for potluck refresh ments. Coffee will be served without charge by the lodge. Invited Dick Einch, general manager of the Home Appliance company, has been invited to at tend a banquet May 27 in Port land which will honor Ralph J. Cordiner, president of the Gen eral Electric company. Eastern GE officials will be at the meet ing and western executives and a few key dealers have been in vited to the meeting. Dryer Overheats A fire de partment truck responded to a call at the Dick Beckwith home, 206 West Jackson st., Monday, where a clothes dryer was re portedly overheated. No damage was reported. Fire Marshal Tru man Nelson yesterday inspected six business occupancies, a pub lic garage, and the site of one fire. He issued 10 orders for cor rection of hazardous conditions. Man Injured Arthur Johnson, Jacksonville, was hospitalized at Sacred Heart shortly before noon Tuesday as the result of an automobile accident, the hospital reported. Johnson was brought to the hospital by Paul Miller, Central Point, driver of the sec ond car involved in the accident, acprding to hospital sources. The accident occurred about two miles out of Ruch on Highway 238, it was said. FOE Meeting The Fraternal Order of Eagles will meet Thurs day at 8 p.m. in the hall at 219 West Main st., to be followed by special entertainrtient. ..At the last meeting delegates to the state, convention, to be held in Roseburg the latter part of June, were named, including Past Staje President Al Lucas Past President . Jack Meacham Jack Webber, Ed Olson and Fred Johnston, Worthy 'President Ray Collett, Worthy Vice-President Floyd Leith, Chaplain Everett Sybrant and Conductor Barney Garrett. Furnace Overheats Firemen f were summoned about 9:15 a.m. today to check an overheated , lloor lurnace ai xne nome 01 Marvin W. Sloan, 224 Haven st. They reported no damage. At Osteopathic Robin Campbell, 6, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Campbell, 518 North Riverside ave., un derwent surgery today at the Osteopathic hospital. Treated Roy Van Ortwick, 1369 Poplar dr., received treat ment last night at Sacred Heart hospital for rib, wrist and hand injuries suffered while working at Medford corporation, attend ants reported this morning. m m Issue Permits Building per mits have been issued to Austin Murray, 1709 Lenora dr., Med ford, to erect a residence valued at $9,000; to Chuck Risse, 820 West Fourth st., Medford, for an addition to a residence valued at S6.000; and to Electrical Prod ucts, 1228 Court st., Medford, to alter a building valued at $4,000. To Elect Ladies' auxiliary to the Fraternal Order of Eagles will elect state convention dele gates at a meeting set for Thurs day, May 19, at 8 p.m. Saturday, May 21, the auxiliary will hold a sale of cooked food, aprons and fancy work beginning at 9 a.m. at 217 West Main st., the Eagles hall. The group plans a potluck dinner Saturday, May 21, at 6:30 p.m. at the hall. Return Several valley per sons returned this week from Long Island, Kan., where they were called by the death of L. E. Clason. They are Mr. and Mrs. Louis S.Crammer and daughter, Bobbie Lou, of the Applegate; and Mrs. H. L. Burton and Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Clason, Medford. Mrs. Crammer, Mrs. Burton and H. E. Clason are children of the deceased man. Extension Unit Officers of the Lone Pine Extension Unit will be installed Thursday, May 19, at a meeting of the group at the home of Mrs. M. R. Archi bald, 2451 Roberts rd. The ses sion will open at 10:30 a.m., and Miss- Eula Wintermote, county home extension agent,will be in charge of the lesson, which con cerns "living within 24 hours a day.i' Child care will be pro vided. Mrs. B. McGinty and Mrs. Bur'le S. Griffin will assist Mrs. Archibald. At Community Patients listed today at Community hos pital include Mrs. Brooke Adkin son, 526 Palm st., emergency surgery; Daniel, 5, and Sandra Dale, 4, children of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hufteling, Pros pect; Mrs. Lew J. Cooley, route 2, box 740, Central point, and Oliver D. Martin, 2410 Table Rock rd., all surgery; and Gail Gladfelter,'3V&, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Gladfelter, 911 Reddy ave.; medical. ' . Manager Appointed R. A. Johnson, Portland, has been ap pointed as manager .of. the Med ford office of the General Elec tric, company, apparatus depart ment, in the Leverette building. Johnson will replace Robert Temple who will be transferred to Seattle as the result of a pro motion. Temple and his family will move to the northern city after the present school term is completed. The Temples have two daughters, Debra, in kinder garten, Barbara, a third grader at Roosevelt school, and a son, Martyn, in the sixth grade at Roosevelt. They live at 2146 Hill crest rd. Johnson and his family will move here in the near future. Idaho Firm Awarded Budworm Spray Contract Salem (U.R) Bowler Air Service of Orofino, Ida.-, was low bidder for aerial spraying of 150,000 acres of spruce budworm infested forest in Northeastern Oregon, Miles Compton, in charge of the work for the State Forestry Department, said today. Bowler bid 43.8 cents an acre and will use some 10 aircraft in the work. At Sacred Heart Surgery pa tients reported today at Sacred Heart hospital are Mrs. George Woodcock, 814 East Jackson st.; Mrs. Everett Beach, 335 Alder st., Central Point; and George Burg, Eagle Point. Mrs. Robert Gale, 246 South Ivy st., is a med ical patient there. Bids Invited Medford con tractors wishing to submit bids for construction of the proposed new Medford armory may do so through the Oregon National Guard office in Salem. Deadline for bids is 2:30 p.m. June 8. Plans and specifications may be ob tained for $25 per set. The ad dress is U.S.P.&F.O. Office, 504 State Office building, Salem, Oregon. News of Death News of the death this morning of Ora Mur ray, Compton, Calif., was re ceived today by J. T. Peters, 512 Mary pi., a brother-in-law. Mur ray visited here frequently and has many friends in the vicinity. The funeral will be held at 2 p.m., Saturday, May 21, at Comp ton. The family home there is at 1219 South Tamarind st. Wall Street New York (U.R) Aircraf ts led stocks higher today on mod edately higher volume. Net gains in the aircraft sec tion ranged to more than 2 points. . , Other so - called defense stocks such as metals, steels, shipbuilding issues and some specials moved ahead rapidly. Dow-Jones Averages Dow-Jones final stock aver ages: 30 ' industrials 417.13 up 3.71; 20 railroads 155.83 up 1:38; 15 utilities 63.45 off 0.02; and 65 stocks 156.35 up 1.15. Sales today were about 2,010, 000 shares compared with 1,900, 000 shares traded yesterday. Today's closing prices on se lected stocks: American T & T .183 Anaconda 60 Vi Chrysler 76 Curtiss Wright 21 General Electric . 503,4 General Motors .................. 95 Vi Montgomery Ward 77 Penn. R. R 27 Penney, J. C 9H2 Radio 47 V2 Southern Co. 20 Vi Southern Pacific . 60 Vi S. Oil of Calif. 77V2 Texas Gulf Sulphur 403i Transamerica 40 Vs Tri - Continental 25Vi United Aircraft 71 U. S. Rubber . (XD) ............ 45 Vs U. S. Steel 73 PORTLAND LIVESTOCK Portland (U.P.) Cattle 350. Choice 852 lb. slaughter steers $23: 1095 lb. good $20.50: low .choice around 690 lb. fed heifers $22: good S20: utility cows $13-14; canners-cutters $10 $12.50; high commercial heavy bulls 18; uUlity $14-14.50. Calves 75. Good-hoice vealers $22 24: commercial slaughter calves S16. Hogs 275. Choice 190-235 lb. barrows and gilts $19.50-20.25; choice up to $20.50; choice 350-550 lb. sows $14.50 15.50. Sheep 150. Choice 111 lb. wooled old crop lambs $17.75. PORTLAND PRODUCE . Portland (U.P.) Eggs To retail ers: Grade AA large. 50-5 lc doz.; a large 48-49c: AA medium 47-48c doz.; A small. 40-44c doz.; cartons le to 3c additional. Butter To retailers: AA grade prints 65c lb.: cartons 06c: A prints 65c: cartons 66c; B prints 63c. Chese To retailers: A grade Ched dar, Oregon singles. 42 14 to 45 'ic; 5 1b. loaves 46'.2-49',ic. Processed Amercan cheese 5-lb. loaf, 39-41c lb. Farm Market Large No. 1 asparagus sold mostly at $5-5.50 a 30-lb. pyramid today; vol ume lots of local rhubarb sold at 3 to 3!i cents a pound to producers with range to retailers at 3c to 4'2c. Poultry, Rabbits Live Chickens To growers (No. 1 quality f.o.b. Portland): Fryers 2i to 4 lbs. 27-28c lb., at farm. 26-27c; roasters. 27-28c. Portland. 26-27c ranch: light hens, 19-20c; heavy hens, all wts.. 23-24c lb.; old roosters, 12-14c lb. Dressed Chicken No. 1 dressed to retailers: Fryers. New York style. 37 38c lb.; whole drawn, 48-50c: cut-up, 52-54c lb.; roasters. N.Y. style. 39 40c: hens, light type. New York style.-31-32c: cut-ups. 43-46c; hens, heavy tvpe. N.Y. style. 34-35c; 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. Babbits (average to growers, f.o.b. killing plants): Live white. 3i-4i lbs.. 21-23c up.; 5-6 lbs., 17-19c: col ored 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, $81.50 a ton bulk, prompt delivery f.o.b. Portland. No. 2 white oats 38 lb. test Coast delivery $56 ton: Portland delivery. S51-52c; No. 2 Western barley. S55.50-56 ton f.o.b. Portland Coast delivery: soybean meal. S81.50 ton. cars prompt delivery Portland: standard millrun. $49.50, cars: yellow corn, $69.75-70 ton f.o.b. Portland. Wholesale Hay Prices: Market nominal. I' A EilttMS Alwm Carry TUMSI Taos telier sssj BesrtDarn, acid in digestion in record time. No water, no wh W Otifyf Mill Thunderjets Set Non-Stop Trip Record From To kvo To Australia Newcastle, Australia (U.R) Four U.S. Air Force F84 Thun derjets streaked here today from Tokyo on a record-breaking 4,-800-mile non-stop flight that demonstrated American ability to strike anywhere in the Pa cific. The flight of the fighter-bombers which are capable of carry ing an atom bomb from New York to Moscow was marred by the crash in Japan of one of two escorting planes. The pilot was not seriously hurt, but was hos pitalized. The 4,800-mile flight was the ! longest ever made by single en gine jets. They refueled in air over Guam, Port Moresby and Townville, Australia; from KB 29 Flying Tankers sent ahead to demonstrate the Air Force's long range plans. 'Operation Handclasp' The arrival at Williamtown Royal Australian Air Force base touched off a two week "Oper ation Handclasp" goodwill visit to Australia which also carried the assurance that the big U.S. Far East air forces stand by. to aid Australia as in the last war or move into troubled Southeast Asia quickly if needed. The four planes left Tokyo at 4:31 a.m. (11:31 a.m. PST) Tues day and landed here at 5:32 p.m. local (11:32 a.m. PST) Wednes day, an elapsed time of 12 hours and one minute, an hour and one minute more than the Air Force had estimated. Average flying speed was roughly 400 miles per hour. The four pilots making the flight were: Col. Harold M. McLelland of Avon Park, Fla., deputy com mander of the 49th Fighter -Bomber group who commanded the flight. He is a World War II veteran of the war in the Pa cific. His mother, Mrs. Donna McLelland, lives in Avon Park. Daily Weather Report DATE May 18. 1955 Sunset tonight 7:28 p.m. Sunrise to morrow 4:46 a.m. FORECASTS Medford and vicinity: Fair through Thursday with some high cloudiness. Low tonight 45-47. High Thursday 80. Western Oregon: Partly cloudy to night and Thursday except consider able cloudiness and a few showers along coast Thursdav. Low tonight 45 52. Hijrh Thursday 68-78 except 60-65 on coast. Northern California: Fair tonight and Thursday except increasing cloudiness near Oregon border Thurs day. Patches of coastal fog from Ft. Bragg northward Thursday morning. LOC AL D VTA TEMPERATURE: Mean yesterday 60: above normal 1. Record high this date 91 in 1954. Record low this date 33 in 1938. PRECIPITATION: 24 hours to mid night .01 in. Midnight to 10 a.m.. none. Total this month .16 in.. .51 in. be low normal. Total since Sent. 1. 8.79 inches, 7.48 inches below normal. HUMIDITY: Lowest vesterdav 40 "i. Lhiehest this a.m. 93 Te. city Hish Low Prec. Brookings 59 47 Crater Lake 50 33 Grants Pass 74 45 MEDFORD 71 47 Portland 66 56 Seattle v 63 52 Spokane 66 40 Yakima 66 45 .02 Eureka Red Bluff Sacramento . San Francisco Los Angeles ... 60 84 84 69 79 48 60 62 48 61 Phoenix 85 Denver 62 Chicago 63 Miami 84 New York 64 Washington, D.C. 64 65 45 42 70 50 45 .18 .35 Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday : 10 a.m. Monday for Mondav: other days 5:30 previous day OPEN I. ii-mn.M mmi mi jgtjiiydiiijn Mr i l iilil J r MDW EIWME Another Great Double Bill! IT'S THE ONE ABOUT THE RED-HEADED SCHOOL TEAOSEK! GKttKGAKoUN ROBERT RYAN BARRY SULLIVAN RCMM MYDN BMMM UWKNCE JUKI Top Secret Danger! It Blasts the Screen With Thrills! (BENE KELILY in "CREST Off 4e'fAVP PLUS - CARTOON Wednesday. May 1. 1953. Lt. Col. Virgil K. Meroney, Pine Bluff, Ark., commander of the 7th Fighter-Bomber squad ron. He has a record of 10 en emy planes destroyed in 85 com bat missions over Europe during the war. 1st Lt. William E. Miller, Co lumbus, G. 1st Lt. Gerald J. Robinson, Carbondale, Pa. The Air Force announced that 1st Lt. Ted K. Case of Safford, Ariz., one of two escort F84s which took off with the flight from Tokyo early today landed on Guam as scheduled. 1st Lt. Wilford R. Ladd of Georgetown, Ky., was the pilot who was forced to parachute from his fuel-less plane over Ja pan. The Air Force said Ladd ran into engine trouble on the flight to Guam and was unable to land at Iwo Jima because of bad wea ther. He circled back to Japan and ran into bad weather again. Ladd circled until he ran out of fuel and then parachuted to safety west of Nagoya in central Japan. Japanese reports said t h e Obituaries ALVIN CARMAN Private funeral services for Alvin "Red" Carman, 60, who died Sunday, will be held in Conger-Morris chapel Thursday at 10 a.m. with the Rev. William C. Piper of the First Christian church officiating. Committal will be in Siskiyou Memorial park. The deceased was born Oct. 18, 1894, in Liberty, Ky., and was a veteran of World War I, where he served from July 23, 1917, to June 29, 1919, as a private first class in the 146th Field Ar tillery, Battery "E". Survivors include a brother, Everett, Wolf Creek, Ore.; seven sisters, Mrs. J. C. Shelby, Mrs. Noah Lenderman and Mrs. Cecil Barker, all of Medford; Mrs. Har ry Kellogg, Sacramento, Calif.; Mrs. August Dorsey and Mrs. Glen Sloat, Hood River, .Ore., and Mrs. John Sparleder, Ken newick, Wash., and several nie ces and nephews. ARIE HAINES Funeral services for Mrs. Arle A. Haines, 78, who died Tues day, will be held in Conger-Mor lis chapel Thursday at 1:30 p.m. with the Rev. Leo Wine of the Faith Temple at Ashland offi dating. Committal will be in Sis kiyou Memorial park. The deceased was born in In diana on Sept. 8, 1876, and had lived in southern Oregon for the past eight years. She lived in Ashland from the spring of 1948 until about two years ago, when she moved to Phoenix. She was a retired U.S. Government "civil service employee. Survivors include a son, Al bert M., Portland; a grandson. Robert; a brother, Grant R. Da zey, Orlando, Fla.; and a sister, Mrs. Mayme Bookwalter, In dianapolis, Ind. PAUL HACKETT Funeral arrangements are pending at Conger-Morrig funer al home for Paul Hackett, Cen tral Point, who died yesterday at Mt. Shasta, Calif. 6:45 MNESS KX THOMPSON TM CONSMK NEWS MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE EUEVTH ditched plane damaged four houses and injured one person when it smashed into a crowd ed residential area. The Far East air forces did not confirm this. The Air Force said Ladd was j not seriously injured, but was taken to a Japanese hospital in Matsumoto. BIRTHS ARCHIBALD To Mr. and Mrs. Jean, 2236 Ruhl Way, May 18,' 1955, a girl, 73,i pounds at Community hospital. RICHARDSON To Mr. and Mrs. Wallace, 415 Western ave., May 18, 1955, a boy, lOVi pounds at Community hospital. SOCIAL HELD The annual ice cream social and 'carnival was held at the Howard school gymnasium Sat urday, May 14. Diane Cummings and Earl Cooper were chosen king and queen, and were crown ed by last year's king and queen. There were several for the chil dren and three booths of refresh ments. Mrs. I. A. Spires won the blue ribbon for her prize cake. A variety show was given by the students. LOC MEETING SET The League of Oregon Cities will hold a regional dinner meet ing at the Rogue Valley Country club June 2. Former Mayor Dia mond L. Flynn, president of the league, will be present. The pro gram will be announced later. mm TOIow! Two Year in the Making! A DRAMA OF TEEN-AGE Terror r BLACKBOARD JUNGLE Stirring GLENN FORD ANNE FRANCIS LOUIS CALHERII m MARGARET HAYES AN M-G-M PICTURE HOLLY FRIDAY! 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