Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, May 29, 1955, Image 11

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Newspaper Page TextLocal and HEC Club Roxy Ann Homo Economics club members will meet Wednesday, June 1, at 1 p.m., in the Roxy Ann Grange hall. Business Name The" business name, Ace Painting company, has been assumed by William B. Henderson, 728 Dakota ave., ac cording to county clerk's rec ords. Library Closure The Med ford Public library will be open from 2 to 6 p.m. only on Me morial day, and service will be limited to reading and reference, with no books circulating, it was announced by the library staff Saturday. Mtter Broken Police re; ported that a parking meter was broken off Friday when struck by a car driven by Ellen Wini fred McElligott Doty, 1125 Maple Park dr. Officers said that the meter was knocked over when the vehicle hopped the curb on Sixth st. between Bart- lett st. and Riverside ave. while it was being parked. . Son Born Mr. and Mrs. Dave Segur of Oakland, Calif., are the oarents of a son, Michael An thony, born May 14 at Provi dence hospital in Oakland. The child weighed 7 pounds and 2 ounces. Mrs. Segur is the former Marie Laird and is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Laird of Medford. Sitters Needed Any Med ford Lady Lions club member who can serve as a baby sitter for children whose parents will attend the annual institute at Salem for instruction of parents of blind children is asked to call Mrs. Alva Perkins, telephone 2-8633. The institute will be held June 3 through 9. Shoplifting Charged A 15-year-old Rogue River boy was released to his stepfather Friday after being charged with petty larceny in a shoplifting case, city police said. The case in volved fishing tackle pocketed at the J. J. Newberry company store. . Insurance Clinic An insur ance clinic' for service officers and representatives of southern Oregon counties will be held Thursday, June 2, at 10 a.m. in the office of Charles Holbrook, Jackson county service officer, in the courthouse. The clinic will be conducted by Vere A. McCarty, service officer for the Oregon department of veterans affairs. On Furlough Sfc. Warren M. Long, Army recruiting station commander here, was to leave today for Lcs Angeles to spend a. furlough until June 10, when he will return to the office. Sergeant Long recently reen listed for another three-year term in the Army. He is a vet eran of 17 years of service. Pastes Exam Roy Stauch Jr., Grants Pass, has been informed that he successfully passed the state bureau of labor manual arc welding test which makes him a certified welder. -He recently completed his apprenticeship with the related training pro gram in Medford for plumbing. Stauch is the first student to have passed the state certified welders examination from the series of welding classes that have been conducted -by Med ford city schools. The welding classes have closed for the sum mer but will start again in the fall, according to Elliott Becken, assistant superintendent of schools. Births DAVIS To Mr. and Mrs. Donald D., 2324 Ruhl Way, May 26, 1955. boy, 6V2 pounds, at Community hospital. SEDEY To Mr. and Mrs. John, 2027 Barnett rd., May 27, 1955, boy, 7 pounds, at Com munity hospital. Motor vehicles generate 32 per cent of the U.S. horsepower. Don't Miss It! Ends TOMORROW! A Cl ) BE LUXE Qxausctfc PLUS 2ND HITI SHDGtD Fort 1 m ni nunc 11 1 ,rr STWEOPHONIC In r u . Personal Passengers Bruised Boyd George Travis, 6, Jacksonville, received a shoulder bruise and Belle L. Lowe, Portland, a leg bruise, Friday in an auto col lision at Main and Geneva sts., according to reports filed with city police. They were passen gers in a car driven by Wilma M. Travis, Jacksonville. Other auto involved was operated by Jeanette Patterson, 400 Crater Lake ave. Car Damaged The front of a station wagon operated by James Alfred Powell, route 1, box 321, was considerably dam aged Friday in a collision at Fifth st. and Central ave. Re ports filed at the city police station said that the other auto, a ranch wagon, driven by Gil bert Frank Austin, Salem, also suffered some damage. Officers reported that Austin was cited for failure to stop at a stop sign. Mrs. Court Hall Dies in California; Funeral Tuesday Mrs. Court (Mable Clara) Hall, 85, long-time resident of Med ford until about 10 years ago, died at her home in Palo Alto, Calif., last- week. Her body has been brought to Medford for funeral services and burial. Mrs. Hall was the mother of Seely V. Hall, one of Oregon's best-known early-day aviators, who is now an official in the transportation services division of United Air lines. She . was born in Oregon on Jan. 10, 1870. Besides her son, she is survived by two grand children, Seely Jr., Seward, Alaska, and Owen, now sta tioned with the Army at Ft. Carson, Colorado Springs, Colo. Mrs. Hall's body was flown here from Palo Alto by a special United Air lines'plane. Husband Well Known Mrs. Hall's late husband was one of the best-known men in Southern Oregon during his life time. He operated a taxi service for a time between Medford and Grants Pass, drove one of the early-day automobiles on a mail route to Klamath Falls, and was noted for his .trips to Crater lake early in the season each year. He was an ardent sportsman and a great valley booster. Seely Hall started with UAL as station manager at the Med ford airport more than 25 years ago, and since then has held many important posts for United Air lines in all parts of the west. He now lives in Menlo Park, Calif.', has an office in Denver, and annually flies some 100,000 or more miles a year on his job. Funeral Tuesday He arrived in Medford Friday and will remain until after the funeral which will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Perl funeral home, with the Rev. George R. V. Bolster, rector of St. Mark's Episcopal church, officiating., Burial will follow in the family plot in the Medford IOOF cem etery. Japanese Air Force Graduates Jet Pilots Tokyo (U.R) Japan's new air force has graduated its first five jet pilots in a modest en trance to the supersonic age. The five pilots formed the first jet class to be trained by the U. S. Air Force in a program that started Jan. 19. -Other classes have started each month since then. Japan's air ' force was dis mantled after World War II and for seven years the Allied occu pation prohibited Japan from engaging in either civil or mili tary aviation. The nation that produced kamikaze suicide pilots now is rearming on the air, sea and land with U. S. military assistance to bolster the West's defenses against Communism. v TYRONE POWER fC SUSAN HAYWARD J Richard egaiw 1 .in.i.n r" RUNAWAY TRUCK KILLS SEVEN Fire men (left), fight still flaming moving van which ran wild down hill in San Francisco's Chinatown, smashing nine autos and killing seven persons. Demolished truck of the huge Obituaries MARTHA KELLER Graveside services for Martha Lynn, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James, O. Keller, 908 Gil man rd., will be held in Siski you Memorial park Tuesday at 11 a. m., with the Rev. J. O. Morgan officiating. Conger-Morris funeral home is in charge of arrangements. Other survivors include two brothers, William J., and Mel vin L., and two sisters, Frances Ella and Mary Louise, all at home. " DIANNA ESSELSTYN Private graveside services for Dianna Esselstyn, infant daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. William Es selstyn, Rogue River, who died Thursday, were held in Siski you Memorial park. Conger Morris funeral home was in charge of arrangements. In addition to the parents, sur vivors include two brothers, Douglas and Clifford Dwight, and the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Schroder, Pendleton, Ore.; and Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Esselstyn, Echo, Ore. Coon Found Guilty Of Klamath Murder Klamath Falls (U.R) Florin M. (Curly) Coon, Klamath Falls barber, has been found guilty of second degree murder for the fatal beating of his wife last Oct. 11. The verdict was returned by an 11-member jury. The jury continued one member short after Mrs. Amy Brown became ill. Circuit Judge David R. Van denberg remanded Coon, 51, to the custody of Klamath County Sheriff Murray Britton. He set sentencing for Tuesday at 10 a.m. Coon was charged with beat ing his 51-year-old wife, Lily, to death at some point during an all-night drinking party at a local hotel. DENTIST TO DENTIST Lima, O, (U.R) Dental tech nician Oscar Shaffer, charged with practicing dentistry without a license, got a continuance from his scheduled appearance in Municipal Court Friday. He said he had a dental appoint ment. STAR -By CLAY ARIES MAR. 22 JK Your Daily Activity Guidu JK According to fht Stan. To develop message for Sunday, read words corresponding to numbers of your Zodiac birth sign. 1 Thert'rt 3! Lirtlt 61 Place 2 You 32 Aniwor 62 Or Q)24-28-37-4d yf TAUMJS ( MAY J1 3 Indieotioni 33 Mingle 63 T a inrj in 4 Keep 5 Today 6 Cleor 7 Of 8 Take 9 You'll . 10 Have 11 Surprise! 12 Of 13 There'ei 14 Could. 15 Would 16 Bring 17 Contrary 18 A 19 A 20 Trie, 21 Be 22 You 23 Much 24 All 25 Uncover 26 Spiritual 27 Do 28 Your 29 Good 30 Fatiguing (Good GEMINI MAY 12 JUNE 22 H); 2-15-27-4S 65-71-78 CANCER JUNE 23 JULY 23 Q 4- 6-1M i-gy 48-75-87-891 1IO JULY 24 AUG. 23 52 Toke T)26-35U9-52 N61 -64-81 -83 04 TOU 55 For 56 Hove 57 People 58 Aid 59 Not fcO The VIRGO AUG. 24 1 113X42-46-53 M- 58-62 68 Advene Beautiful ... ROGUE RIVER LODGE Opens Saturday, May 28 Dine "On the Terrace" DELICIOUS DINNERS Featuring Fried Chicken and Steaks Mile Above Trail on Crater lake Highway Your Hostess Montana Gilhousen KF Vet Hospital Urged by Heuberger Washington (U.R) Sen Rich ard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) has asked the senate appropriations subcommittee to revive plans for a proposed Veterans Adminis tration hospital at Klamath Falls, Ore. The hospital was authorized in 1948, Neuberger said, but later cancelled. He said the need is greater now than ever. Veterans Administrator H. V. Higley told the group that an in crease of $18,500,000 voted by the House over the administra tion's budget requests for veter ans hospitals will be devoted to a modernization program. He urged the subcommittee to ap prove the $30,000,000 figure vot ed by the House. Higley said his agency has found that about 40 per cent of ailing veterans are suffering from mental illness. Underground Garage Planned at Portland Portland (U.R) A San Diego construction firm proposes to build a- 300-car underground parking garage in downtown Portland. Mayor Fred L. Peterson said the proposal was handed him Friday by Francis E. Young, president of F. E. Young Con struction Company of San Diego. The firm also submitted archi tect's plans for the four-floor underground structure, which would be located beneath the northermost of the south park blocks. Young asked to lease the site for no fewer than 40 nor more than 50 years. The garage would revert to city ownership after the lease expired. HEATH TRANSFERRED Virgil T. Heath has been trans ferred f rom.Washington, D. C, to Portland to serve as Bureau of Land Management supervisor for Oregon, it was announced this week. Heath served in Medford as temporary district forester in 1952 during the absence of E. K. Peterson. In 1953, Heath was transferred to Washington, D. C. as BLM assistant chief forester. He succeeds Gwynne H. Sharrer, who resigned recently, in the Oregon post. GAZEBO! R. POLLAN- UMA SEPT. 23 OCT. 23 SCORftO OCT. 24 ( NOV. 22 ' 34 Success 64 Of 35 Valutt 65 Work 36 Coming 66 Today 37 Efforts 6? Srtnify 38 From 68 Advic 39 Luck 69 Horn 40 Favors 70 Or 41 With 71 In 42 Soma 72 Affection 43 At 73 Too 44 ResourCM 74 Public 45 Best , 75 And 46 Call 76 Into 47 With 77 Afield 48 Pcopl 78 Private 49 Should 79 Realized 50 After 80 Before 51 More 81 Materiel 8.19-20-33iTi 141-60-74 HA SAOITTAMUS NOV.2J DEC 22 1- 136-38-82-84 CAPRICORN DEC 4 16-18-31-5111 67-76-86-8M 82 Top 3- 7-11V1 V2 AQUARIUS JAN. 21 FEB." If Jft&5 53 Encouraging 83 Onn 84 People 85 Much 86 Your 87 Possible 88 Life 89 Enemiee 90 Activity 5295$ (JjNeutral 5-14-21-X 60-73-85-90 PISCES FEB. 20 MAR.2I 13.29.39-43 69-7077 'm r van is just behind the China Chef panel truck (center). Truck driver William" Russell Mo Gandless died in the flaming wreckage. Others killed included a police patrolman and one woman. Three other persons were injured. Vaccine Plentiful For Second Round Portland flJ.R) Surplus vaccine from the first round of anti-polio shots in counties around the state will probably be used in . those counties for second - round shots, according to Dr. Harold M. Erickson, state health officer. Although the vaccine - techni cally belongs to the National Foundation for Infantile Paraly sis, the foundation is expected to okay its use for completion of the free two-shot series for Ore gon's first and second graders. Dr. Erickson said he has only to wait' for completed inoculation figures from participating coun ties before he orders vaccine from the national foundation for second-round shots. , Children from all counties ex cept Curry in southern Oregon will face -the needle again in from two to four weeks. Ia Cur ry, authorities went ahead with inoculations when the vaccine controversy was at its hottest. Now they have announced that second and final shots in the series have been completed with vaccine left over from the -first shots. "THE OLD OREGON" CATERING To Banquets and Private Parties Phoenix Ph. 2-7018 TONITEmX , The Fightin'est Battiecrx of Them All! Frank lOVEJOY Richard CARLSON Anita LOUISE PLUS MORGAN Patricia NEAL Sttve OGHRAN twmt rsTiivii. 1 I iDennis ft 'to Sunday, Mty 29, 1955 Vaccinated Children With Polio Reaches 173 Washington (U.R) The number of confirmed cases of polio among vaccinated children has risen to 113 with reports of two new cases in Texas and Maryland. The Texas case was non-paralytic and involved vaccine made by Eli Lilly Co.. IndianaDolis. The one in Maryland was para lytic and - involved vaccine by Wyeth Laboratories. , Of the national total, the vac cine used was Cutter in 69 cas es, Lilly 29, Wyeth 11, Parke Davis two, and Pitman-Moore two. ...... Dead line for Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday. CONTINUOUS TODAY FROM 12:45 1 rYTrrTv iiwi'U'tmyasfc I A Drifter with a Prison JP iK ? Record. ..a Score to zJ Settle. ..one a Gun V Jm to Back Him - . muumount new color ly TECHNICOLOR "JOHN DEREK VIVECA UNDFORS JEAN 2ND DANGER'S OWN T I lit CLARK ryw WOttlt PLUS: CARTOON- NEWS LIVE IT IN l2 Tomorrow! Memorial Day Matinee from 12:45 p.m. ONE COMPLETE SHOW ONLY AT f FiATEHIAM THE Holly Theatre CONTINUOUS From 12:45 p.m. MEDFORD tOSIOOin KAB. TWBTJK1 ZLEVEM Fire Consumes Truck; Passengers Escape Salem (U.R) Mr. and Mrs. John Seliger of Portland escaped serious injury when their pickup truck carrying 50 gallons of gas oline was consumed by flames eight miles south of Salem Fri day. It was the first Salem area traffic accident of the Memorial Day week end, and cancelled the couple's planned fishing trip to Coos Bay. Mrs. Seliger suffered arm cuts snd was knocked unconscious when she struck her head after leaping from the truck to escape the flames. 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