Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, June 03, 1955, Image 15

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Newspaper Page TextFiremen Stand By Thity was routine yesterday for Medford city firemen. There were no fire alarms. One pumper was called to stand by at the airport while p.n Air Force T29B plane re fueled. The standby service is routine for certain types of mili tary craft and was done at the request of the pilot. Two gaso line spills were flushed down in the business district yesterday. AH Gates Open 7 p.m. - Shows at ENDS SATURDAY! VIOLENCE AM) PASSION THE SCREW HAS SELDOM SEEN! MM IMUM n-wm Vwitrir DM IMM WOMM c i, TECHNICOLOR FOSTER KEITH WYNN ANDERSON 'PLUS . Writ tmwyfu'i News & Color Cartoon for Information and Applications CALL 2-4123 IS? fern V I mlam iitum..:1""! ENJOY YOURSELF AT . . . Dardanelle ... in an Evening of Pleasant Entertainment. FINE FOOD GOOD DANCE MUSIC FRIENDLY ATMOSPHERE Every Night Except Wednesday Ph. 5-9230 Gold Hill SATURDAY NIGHT EAGLE Music by DICK SPAIN and the Rogue Valley Boys TUNE IN TO KMED 6 p.m. Saturday HOUSE of WHERE THE STEREORAMIC PHOTO ORIGINATED North of Gold Hill AT ANY SNAPSHOT TAKEN WITHIN THE VORTEX WILL PRODUCE A 3D PICTURE. TEST IT! Summer Hours 8 to 7 Under Founder's Management Since 1930 Local and Surgery Patient Robert M. Preston, Hilt, Calif., is a surgery patient at Osteopathic hospital. Hai Surgery Former Med ford Mayor Diamond L. Flynn, president of the League of Ore gon Cities, recently underwent minor surgery on his right elbow in a Portland hospital. Trailer Home Owneri A meeting of the Organized Trailer Home Owners will be held Satur day, June 4, at 7:30 p.m. at Val ley Center Trailer court, 3410 North Highway 99. The agenda will include election and installa tion of officers. Rummage Sale A rummage and baked food sale will be spon sored Saturday, June 4, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., in the Fehl building, on Ivy st. near Sixth st. The sale will be sponsored by the Medford chapter of the Tele phone Employee Activities asso ciation, a state-wide group. The proceeds will be used by the local chapter for welfare projects in this area. Doge Hit Gerald Alvin Reeder, 306 Willamette st., Med ford, reported to city police yes terday that an automobile struck his dog and did not stop. John Dee HawleyT824 West 14th st., Medford, reported that a black cocker spaniel dog was struck and killed in front of his resi dence yesterday. The dog was not immediately identified, po lice said. CALENDAR Friday 6:30 p.m. Jolly Stitchers, home of Mrs. Don Miller, 542 North Bartlett street. Saturday ' 12:30 p.m. Chapter BE, PEO, Mrs. M. M. Morris, Shady Cove. We are starting Evening LIFE CLASSES Soon - - 404 E. AAAIkl POINT MYSTERY Open Throughout The Year Personal Lady Lions The Medford Lady Lions will meet Tuesday, June 7. at 6:30 p.m., at the Tally Ho restaurant, Talent, for a din ner meeting. ... Return Mr. and Mrs. Al Bradford and daughter, 1023 Mt. Pitt ave., returned home June 2 after visiting for three weeks in southwestern states with relatives. . Square Dane Roxy Ann Grange will sponsor a square dance at the Grange hall Satur day, June 9. at 9 p.m. Gordon Kershaw will be caller and pot luck refreshments will be served. Orders Issued Nine orders for correction of fire hazards were issued yesterday by City Fire Marshal Truman Nelson. He inspected a hospital, an apartment house, a public ga rage and two business occu pancies. Al Sacred Heart Walter Mil ler, Gold Hill, is listed today as a surgery patient at Sacred Heart hospital, and William De Rosier, 10 months, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jackson De Rosier, Pospect, is a medical patient there. Dinner Meeting Members of the Rogue Valley Pear Blossom Festival association and their wives and husbands will hold a dinner meeting at the Rogue Valley Country club at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow. Motion pictures of the recent Festival parade will be shown. . Visit Tribune Members of Pack 10 of the Howard school Boy Scouts visited the Mail Tribune plant today. Those mak ing the trip were Douglas Elliot, Loren Solin, Ronald McAvin. Robert Bailey, Scott Eaton and Charles Knighten. Mrs. Ken F. Murray, den mother, accompan ied the group. ... Name Change William A. Hughes and George Campbell have retired from the business name C&H Garage, which has been assumed by Campbell, ac cording to records filed in the office of the Jackson county' clerk. Trie address is listed as 104 West Sixth st., Medford. m v v Hospitalized Soren Maass of the Maass Real estate offices was taken Thursday to Commu nity hospital by Medford ambu lance service attendants where he was admitted as a medical patient. Carie Christian of Eagle Point also was taken to the same hospital by the same service aft er she received a hip injury in a fall. . . At Community Mrs. Edward Bunnell, 111 Portland ave., and William Bittle, 139 North Co lumbus ave., are medical pa tients at Community hospital, attendants reported today. Sur gery patients reported today in clude Raymond Niehaus, 1450 Biddle rd., Mrs. Elin Parsons, 3594 Roberts rd., Mrs. Leonard Chesnut, 3747 Hilsinger rd., and Thomas Michael, route 2, box 112, Central Point, 8 -year -old son of Mr. and Mrs. Everett H. Mich'ael. Daily Weather Report DATE June 3, 1955 Sunset tonight 7:42 p.m. Sunrise to morrow 4.36 a.m. Medford and visinity: Cloudy and mild tonight, becoming partly cloudy Saturday afternoon. Low tonight 48. High Saturday 78. Western Oregon: Partly cloudy in southern interior, otherwise mostly cloudy with local drizzle tonight and early Saturday; becoming partly sunny and warm Saturday afternoon. High Friday 64-74 except 55-60 on coast. Northern California: Mostly fair to night and Saturday and probably Sun day with occasional high cloudiness extreme north. Codler near coast Saturday. TEMPERATURE: Mean yesterday 59: below normal 3. Record high this date 99 in 1926. Record low this date 35 in 1917. PRECIPITATION: 24 hours to mid night, none. Midnight to 10 a.m., none. Total this month none, .08 below normal. , Total since Sept. 1. 8.84 inches, 8.09 inches below normal. HUMIDITY: Lowest yesterday 20. highest this a.m. 74 7c. CITY HiALowPrec Brookings 72 48 . Crater Lake 56 Grants Pass 79 36 52 46 54 51 Klamath Falls , 71 MEDFORD 78 Portland 60 .17 Seattle 55 51 .03 Spokane . 70 5 Yakima 76 54 Eureka 57 49 Red Bluff 91 67 Sacramento 90 57 San Francisco 76 48 Los Angeles 70 53 Phoenix 85 Denver 78 58 49 68 Chicago 79 Miami 88 68 FIVE-DAY FORECAST (Through June 8) Western Oregon Temperatures about normal with highs 65-75 and lows 40-50. Occasional lieht rain in northwest part beginning of period ad a few showers about Monday. Northern California No precipita tion. Temperatures near or above normal. DDARTCIE SATURDAY NIGHT At Walker's Popular The Finest of Modern Music I Good Floor Good Crowd ENJOY AN EVENING OF FUN! Accordion Band Wins First Prize in Parade Mrs. Eve Prentice today re ceived a check for S50, repre senting a first prize her accord ion band received in a parade in Victoria, B.C., May 23. The prize was for being the best in the "other bands" cate gory. The parade was in obser vance of Victoria day in the British Columbia captal. Mrs. Prentice has also received several letters from personages in Victoria, compilmenting the band on its behavior and ability. One of them is from the mayor of the city. BIRTHS CHRISTIE To Mr. and Mrs. Walter L., Rogue River, June 2, 1955, a girl, 7Vi pounds, at Osteo pathic hospital. KILLIAN To Mr. and Mrs. Verne J., Shady Cove, June 2, 1955, a girl, 714 pounds, at Com munity hospital. KLUMPH To Mr. and Mrs. Royal, 426 Benson st., June 3, 1955, a girl, 8 pounds, at Com munity hospital. WALL STREET New York (U.R) Railroad shares came within a few cents of their high since Oct. 26, 1929, in a moderately active week end stock market cession today. The industrials were within a little more than two points of their all-time high. Dow-Jones Averages Dow-Jones final stock aver ages: 30 industrials 428.53 up 2.73; 20 railroads 161.34 up 1.08; 15 utilities 64.41 up 0.33 and 65 stocks 160.45 up 1.02. Sales today were about 2,590, 000 shares compared with 2, 610,000 shares yesterday.- Today's closing prices on se lected stocks: American T & T 1844 Anaconda 6314 Chrysler 77 Curtiss Wright 205,s General Electric 5234 General Motors 98 '4 Montgomery Ward 79 V2 enn. R. R 28 V2 Penney, J. C 92 Radio 54?s I Southern Co 20 Vi Southern Pacific 6OI2 S. Oil of Calif. '. 76 Texas Gulf Sulphur 44 Transamerica 39 Tri-Continental 26Vi United Aircraft 7034 U. S. Rubber .' 50 U. S. Steel Unquoted Youngstown 79 PORTLAND LIVESTOCK Portland (U.P.) Cattle for week 2300. Low to average-choice fed steers S22.50-23.25; good S20-22: commercial S17.50-19.50; good-low choice fed heif ers $20-21: commercial-low good $17 10.50; utility-commercial cows $12.50 15; canners-cutters S9.50-ll.50; utility commercial bulls $15-17. Calves for week 465. Choice vealers $23-24: commercial and good S17-22: utility $14-16; utility-commercial slaughter calves $13-16; bedium-good stockers $16-18. Hogs for week 1625. Bulk choice 180-235 lb. barrows and gilts $19.50 20.50; choice one $20.75-20.85: choice 2and 3 S19-19.75: choice 250-550 lb. sows S14-16. some over 550 lb. $12 $13.50. Sheep for week 2200. Choice-prime soring lambs $21.50-22; good-choice S20-21: good-choice shorn old crop lambs 14-15' cnnrl -! mi. AhntM wnnlarl ! Id crp lambs $15-16.25: utilitv-eood ewes $4-5. PORTLAND PRODUCE Portland (UJ.) Eggs To retail ers: Grade AA large. 52c doz.: A large 47-49c: AA medium 47-48c doz.; A medium. 46-47c doz.: A small, 36-42c doz.: cartons. l-3c additional. Butter To retailers: AA grade prints 65c .lb.; cartons 66c: A prints 65c: cartons.' 66c: B prints 63c. Cheese To retailers: A grade Ched dar. Oregon singles. 42'i-45'ic: 5-lb. loaves, 46i-49',2c. Processed Ameri can cheese. S-lb. loaf. 39j-41c lb. Farm "Market California strawberries sold mostlv at $3.75-3.90 a flat with very best at $4-4.25 today; best carrots were quoted to $7 a six-dozen bunch crate. Poultry, Rabbits Live Chickens To (rowers (No. 1 quality f.o.b. Portland): Frvers 2', to 4 lbs. 29-30C. at farm. 29-30c: light hens. 19-20c: heavy hens, all wts., 23 24i lb.: old roosters, 12-14c lb. Dressed Chicken No. 1 dressed to retailers: Fryers. New York style, 38-39-40c lb.; whole drawn. 49-50c: cut up. 53-55c lb.: roasters, N. Y. style. 41 42c: hens, light type, New York stvle. 31-32c: cut-ups, 43-46c; hens, heavy type. N.Y. style,' 34-35c; whole-drawn, 45-47c lb. Turkeys To producers for A grade breeder hens, f.o.b. farm. N.Y. dressed, 26c: eviscerated. 31c: A toms. N.Y. style, 31c lb.; eviscerated. To retail ers. A grade young hens, ready to cook 48-50c: N.Y. dressed. 37-38c,1b.; a grade toms, oven ready, 40-41c; N.Y. style. 34-35c lb.; fryer turkeys, 4-8 lbs.. 49-51c. Rabbits (average to growers f.o.b. killing plants): Live white. 33,4-4'2 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. S82 a ton bulk, prompt delivery f.o.b. Portland: No. 2 white oats 38 lb. test Coast de livery S55 ton: Portland delivery. $51-52; No. 2 Western barley. $57 ton f.o.b. Portland Coast delivery: soy bean meal $80 ton. cars prompt de livery Portland; standard millrun. S48.50-49. cars: No. 2 yellow corn. Eastern shipment, full billing, deliv ered North Coast points. S67.75 ton. WHOLESALE HAY PRICES: Mar ket nominal. Curry County Forest Fire Under Control Salem (U.R) The State For estry department today report ed the state's largest forest fire of the season in southern Curry county had been brought under control. ' The blaze burned over some 280 acres of slashings along the Chetco river before foresters succeeded in trailing the area. The fire spread from burning sawdust pile on the old Peterson mill operation. Affected were holdings of the L and P Lumber company and Burr Logging com pany. Amount of damage has not been determined. AN EMBARASSED HYDRANT Bridgeport, Conn. (U.R) Firemen doused a blaze at a fire hydrant. They explained that fumes from an underground gas line had seeped up about the hydrant base. Obituaries LARRY MANUEL Remains of Guy Larry Man uel, 48, Hospital Man, Chief, of 3378 Bellinger lane, Medford, who died Tuesday while on duty aboard the U.S.S. Compton at Newport, R. I., are being return ed to Medford for services and interment with Conger - Morris funeral home in charge of ar rangements. The deceased was born March 19, 1907, in Kinsley, Kan. He served with the U.S. Navy for five years prior to 1940, and was manager of the Grants Pass Chamber of Commerce at the time of his reenlistment in March, 1940. He also served in the Pacific theater during World War II and saw service in the Korean wi.r. He would have re tired from the Navy next July after serving 20 years. He was a member of Grants Pass Lodge 84 AF & AM, Hillah Temple of the Shrine at Ashland, and the First Baptist church in Grants Pass. He was married on Sept. 23, 1939, in Grants Pass, to LaVona Nelson, who survives. Other survivors include two sisters, Mrs. Oscar Evans, Port land, and Mrs. Wallace Lang worthy, Coos Bay. HURRY POSITIVELY ffl ENDS TOMORROW! Great story of today's Air Force! STRATEGIC coonurn ItCHNICOLO FRANK LOVEJOY BARRY SULLIVAN STARTS SUNDAY VI TWO GREAT STARS $ I WHO WERE BORN TO DANCE TOGETHER! DnemaScoPE TERRY MOORE THEUU RITTSR Continuous Shows Sat. & Sun. From T 2:45 PM. Q.EGSS ft Friday, June S, I95S Shady Cove -Trail News Shady Cove-Trail Mr. and Mrs. Harold Isherwood of Sa lem spent the Memorial Day week end visiting with their neice and family, Mr. and Mrs. Dolf Larson of Shady . Cove. While there they made a trip to Crater Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Lacey and Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Hanson of Elk Creek, Trail went over to Klamath Falls to visit their sister and family, Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Childers and to attend the high school graduation of their nephew, Ernest Childers. Robert Greer of Shady Cove has just returned from a trip to Phoenix, Ariz. O n Friday and Saturday of 4-H Club News Anttlopt 4-H Club Antelope 4-H Livestock club members held their annual live stock tour May 28. Tvo delegates from Burma under the Interna tional Farm Youth Exchangee program joined us at a few of the ranches and took pictures to take back with them. Lunch and a short business meeting were conducted at the ranch of Mr. and Mrs. Don An derson. .The next meeting will be held June 10 at the Edwin Hayes ranch, where a class in dairy judging and showmanship will be held. Mr. and Mrs. Bitterling. Wool- folk and Hayes will furnish the refreshments. Bob Hayes, Reporter. GATES OPEN 6:30 P.M. Bring the Family Out Early THE KIDDIES WILL ENJOY FREE TRAIN RIDES! Starting SATURDAY NITE! g TONITE CWy AND Vjj pr frMIMMMJA10' SAT. VI t !k O Where tfca fcoriert fvil "1 vi xx Jr taUaf I !assr a PSf WM j ' PT mi ITT TT irfT mm I TONITE and SAT. JCMlY WAHM DID " W,W MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIFTEEN last week, a number of the ladies of the VFW Auxiliary to Steel head Post No. 6881 were seen about Shady Cove and Trail and at Camp White selling "Buddy" poppies. A group of ladies comprising the committee of Our Lady of Fatima club for the Chapel Bene fit Father's Day dinner to be held from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, June 19, at the VFW hall, held an afternoon meeting preceded by a luncheon at the home of Mrs. Ernest Segessenman in Shady Cove. Final plans were made for the dinner which will feature either fried chicken or baked ham with a salad buffet. The next regular meeting of Our Lady of Fatima club will be held on Tuesday, June 7, starting at 8 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Wil liam Leekey of Far Hills Ranch, Shady Cove. Appreciation is ex tended to all those who have been helping with the' work on the chapel especially to those men from Medford who have devoted so much of their time on week ends to helping. The concrete forms have now been poured and work is progessing. Catechism classes will start on Monday, June 6, at the Shady Cove school gym with sisters from St. Mary's school in Med ford coming out for the instruc tions. 'THE OLD OREGON' CATERING To Banquets and Private Parties Phoenix Ph. 2-7018 SHOW AT DUSK! OUR XOST REGULAR PRICES AUOIL Mi i Mar i oi ;VT" ."T ! jlXITTTTfi- yi 'T".- W 5? sum ZRD HOOT MONI Pilot Mound, la. (U.R) An aged owl serves as a good watch dog at the William Ferri farm near here. The 34-year-owl, named Pete, hoots when anyone approaches. - Smorgasbord Moose Hall 1 1 South Newtown, Sat., June 4 S P.M. to 9 P.M. Adult. $l.2S Children Under 12 SOc Dancing for Moose Members and Friends at 9 P.M. OPEN 6:45 TONIGHT fir SAT. NITE Thrills and Beauties By the Hundreds! HOWARD HUGHES present SO F starring BALE KSaiSW-SAUT fOEST UUnCTI-VCEMTPCCE T7PSCOl ""JBPBjPeW I PLUS SELECTED SHORTS 101 SPECIAL MATINEE 12:30 P.M. - ON THE SCREEN - If MHlMH STEOJCSTODOf ) wu ROGERS, Jr. NANCr OLSON PLUS Black Arrow No. 2 4 - CARTOONS - 4 STARTS SUNDAY DEADLY PURSUIT ON THE HIGH SEAS! ASHLANDo scon STAXWYCK HAGAM O PLUS O Ms Ml iw"8" CI -I Vli movus- f r' (UDMST yr DATS!