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FOURTEEN MEDTORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday, June 17, ISS5 Balles Dam, Lookout Point Funds Restored as House Soils Pork iarrel Every Dollar Of Ike's Requests Restored in Vote Washington U.R) The House rolled the pork barrel yesterday and added 580,000,000 to a bill calling for $436,000,000 worth of reclamation, flood control and navigation projects.' Pork barrel project are loca' ones which congressmen fre quently consider as important , for political reasons as for the improvements involved. There is a general agreement among members that "I'll vote for yours if you'll vote for mine" when the projects come up for consid eration. Requests Restored In revolt against cuts imposed by its Appropriations Commit tee, the House restored to a pub lic works appropriation bill every dollar originally requested in President Eisenhower's bud get. Then it added a few more projects for good measure! The action was taken in adopt ing fwo amendments to the bill late yesterday.. One added $32, 220,000 to a $113,821,000 com mittee recommendation for con struction by the Bureau of Recla mation. The other added $47,- 732,000 to a $322,262,000 con struction fund for the Army En gineers. Bill Goes To Senate The bill now goes to the Sen ate, which in recent years invar iably has allowed more for rec lamation and rivers and harbors work than the House. Following are affected flood control and navigation projects', the new funds authorized and the amounts originally recom mended by the Appropriations Committee: . California: Folsom Dam $4, 150,000 ($2,650,000); San An tonio Reservoir 5530,000 ($330, 000); San Antonio and Chino Creeks $700,000 (none). Idaho: Lucky Peak Reservoir $500,000 ($250,000); Port Neuf River and Marsh Creek $500,000 (none). Oregon: The Dalles $63,500, 000 ($58,000,000); Lookout Point Reservoir $200,000 (none). Washington: Chief Joseph Dam $18,000,000 ($16,000,000). Lower Columbia fish sanctu ary program Sl.400,000 ($900, 000). Coon Hails John Day Planning Appropriation Washington (U.R) Rep, Sam C.oon (R-Ore.) today hailed in clusion of $500,000 for planning on John Day dam in a public works appropriation bill. The money was restored when the House voted yesterday to al low all budget requests for Army engineer and reclamation projects. Coon said the money would allow a start on plans for the dam by early next month. He said he feels confident the fund also will be allowed by the Senate. Offering the best of fine 5:30 P.M. each r t- i Introducing at the SEQUIN ... . for o limitd Engagement The MAR-LOWE DUO Superb music, versatile entertainmen. Dancing from 9 a.m. to 2 a.m. ach evening, Tuesday through Sunday . . . plus 2 SHOWS NIGHTLY. For an enjoyable evening of dining and dancing, may we suggest an evening at the Grants Paw, Ore. . . . under new management. May we have of serving you and making your acquaintance? Mr. and Mrs. General Motors Forced To Close Six Plants Because of Strikes Detroit (U.R) General Mo tors Corp today closed six plants, employing nearly 23,000 work ers, because wildcat strikes have caused material shortage in the plants. It was the second time the strikes, which began shortly be fore the company reached a new contract agreement with the CIO United Auto Workers early this week, had forced the com pany to close some of its plants. A week ago GM halted opera tions in 20 Chevrolet plants and sent 60,000 workers home be cause of material shortages. The strikes which caused the original shutdown were staged by the workers to show the company the union meant busi ness in its demands for a guaran teed wage in the new contract. The wage guarantee was grant ed but some of the strikers re mained off the job in disputes over local issues. Those strikes have caused the second shut down, officials said. Nine Plants Idle Latest tabulations showed 25, 300 workers still off the job be cause of strikes in nine plants across the nation. But the num ber of workers idled by strikes Daily Weather Report DATE June 17. 1953 Sunset tonight 7:50 p.m., Sunrise to morrow 4:34 a.m. FOKECASTS Medford and vicinity: Considerable cloudiness tonight and Saturday. Pos sibility of scattered liEht showers early this evening. Little temperature change. Low tonight 45. High Saturday 79. Western Oregon: Considerable cloudiness tonight and early Saturday. partly sunny Saturday afternoon. A very few light showers early tonight. Low tonight 42-43. High Saturday from 70 north to 80 south except about 60 on coast. Northern California: Mostly fair to night and Saturday and probably Sun day except occasional cloudiness with scattered light showers extreme north and coastal fog night and morning. LUtAL DATA TEMPERATURE: Mean veaterdav 60: below normal S. Record high this date 97 in 1945. Record low this date 38 in 1919. PRECIPITATION: 24 hours to mid night, trace. Midnight to 10 a.m.. none. Total this month trace. .63 in. be low normal. Total since Sept. 1. 8.81 inches, 8.64 inches below normil. HUMIDITY: Lowest yesterday 12. highest this a.m. 76. CITY High Low Prec. Brookings ... 60 45 Crater Lake Grants Pass Klamath Falls MEDFORD Portland 82 70 . 7!) . 63 70 73 41 45 47 53 50 51 51 46 62 52 49 J6 65 50 61 73 70 64 Seattle . Spokane Yakima . Eureka 55 Red Bluff 90 Sacramento . 86 San Francisco - 70 Los Angeles 71 Phoenix 93 Denver 84 Chicago 83 Miami 84 New York 90 Washington, D.C. 85 .34 .11 FIVE-DAY FORECAST (Through June 22) Western Oregon Maximum temper ature averaging below normal being generally 60 in north and mid-70s in south, near 60 along coast. Lows near normal ranging 46-54. Highs rising somewhere near end of period. Pre cipitation amounts above normal oc curring as scattered showers today and again at beginning of week. Northern California No precipita tion except possibility of a few scat tered thunderstorms in northern mountains. Temperatures near normal. feed for the particular person. evening until 1 1 :30. 1 QUI M was decreasing daily and com pany officials said production probably would be returned to normal by Monday. The shutdowns will affect 10, 500 workers at three Chevrolet plants at Tonawanda, N.Y., and one at Buffalo, N.Y. Another 8,900 will be affected by. .the closing of a Chevrolet plaiit at Flint, Mich. The Fisher Body division plant at Flint also .will be closed, idling another 3500. Meanwhile workers at the Fleetwood Body division plant in Detroit have asked interna tional union officials to settle their difference with GM. The Fleetwood Body division is the only Michigan plant still : on strike. The Fleetwood strike has held up a return to full production at the Cadillac division plant in De- PORTLAND LIVESTOCK Portland (U.P.) Cattle lor week 2650. Choice led steers 23-S24.25; good 20-&22.50; utility-commercial cows 11.50-S13, voung cows 13.50-$14.50; canners-cutters y-S11.50, some down to S8; utility-commerciai duus w $17.50; cutter-utility 12.50-S14. Calves for week 460. Good-choice vealers 20-S22. few S23: commercial 17-S19.50; commercial-good slaughter calves 16-S13. . Hogs for week 1600. Bulk choice 1 and 2 180-235 lb. barrows and gilts 22-S23: choice sows 15-S17. Sheep for week 6800. Bulk good choice spring lambs 18.50-S19.50; choice-prime Washington range lambs to 20: utility-good 16-S18: old crop good-choice shorn lambs 12.30-S13.50, early to $14.50; utility-good shorn ewes 3-54.50. PORTLAND PRODUCE Portland ( U.P.) Eggs To retail ers: Grade AA large. 53-54c doz.: A large. 47-49c; AA medium. 47-48c doz.: A ,J ; . . fin, A email 35- 40c doz.; cartons. l-3c additional. Butter To retailers: AA grade prints, 65c lb.: cartons. 66c: A prints. ooc; canons, ooc; a prims, doc. Chese Retailers: A grade Cheddar, Oregon singles. 42 ',2-45 'ic; 5-lb. loaves 46'2-49'3c. Processed Ameri can cheese. 5-lb. loaf. 39',a-49',2C lb. Farm Market Best local strawberries were $3.00 a 12-hallock flat ' today with best Walla Walla and California berries quoted by wholesalers at $3.83-4.25 a flat; local lettuce sold at $2.50-3 a crate. .. . Poultry, Rabbits . ' Live Chickens To growers (No. I quality f.o.b. Portland): Fryers. 2'j to 4 lbs., 31c; at farm. 30c lb.; light hens, 17-18c; heavy hens, all wo,.. 20-21c lb.; old roosters. 12-14c lb. . Dressed Chicken No. 1 dressed to retailers: Fryers. New York style,- 41 42c lb.; whole drawn, 51 -52c lb.: cut up, 55-57c lb.: hens, light type. New York style, 30-31c: ' cut-ups. 41-46c; hens, heavy type, N.Y. style, 32-33c; whole drawn. 43-45c 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 retailers, A grade young 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.; fryer turkeys, -4-8 lbs.. 49-5lc. Rabbits (average fo growers f.o.b. killing plants: Live white. 3?4-4'i lbs.. 21 -23c up; 5-6 lbs.. 17-19c: color ed pelts, 4c under; old does, 10-12c lb., a few higher. Fresh dressed fryer to retailers. 57-6lc; cut up. 62-eac. PORTLAND CASH GRAIN Portland Prices as reported by the USDA market news service: Wheat, No. 2 soft white, S83 a ton bulk, prompt delivery f.o.b. Portland: No. 2 white oats 38 lb. test. Coast delivery. $54.50-55 ton: Portland delivery S3 1 . 50; No. 2 Western barley. S3S ton f.o.b. Portland Coast delivery; soy bean meal. S82 ton. cars, prompt de livery. Portland: standard millrun. $47 cars; No. 2 yellow corn. Eastern ship ping points. $70 ton. Wholesale hay prices: New crop. No. 2 green alfalfa, baled, f.o.b. trucks Portland. S32.33. ; the OPENING of Serving from - the pleasure D. S. Lynch troit, which receives bodies from Fleetwood. Union negotiators, meanwhile, continued talks on the local level with . American Motors Corp. at its Milwaukee, Wis., plant. The talks, which negotia tors said dealt only with "non economic" matters, were being conducted during a recess in the principal talks between the com pany and the union in Detroit. The full-scale talks with AMC will be resumed Tuesday. Wall Street New York (U.R) Market op erators today turned to new and recently untried groups of stocks in an irregularly higher, quiet stock session. Buying came into such groups as the tobaccos, rail equipments, container issues, papers, and glass stocks. There were many strong specials too. DOW-JONES AVERAGES Dow-Jones final stock aver ages: 20 industrials 444.08 up 1.60; 20 railroads 161.16 up 0.09: 15 utilities 64.22 up 0.06, and 65 stocks 163.42 up 0.37. Sales today were about 2,340, 000 shares compared with 2, 760,000 shares yesterday. Today's closing prices on se lected stocks: American T & T ...184 Anaconda .' 70V2 Chrysler ; 79 Curtiss Wright 20 General Electric 5354 General Motors 104 1 6 Montgomery Ward 793,4 Penn R R 297s Penney J C : 973B Radio 53 k Southern Co ....:..;. 1934 Southern Pacific 60?s S Oil of Calif 81 Texas Gulf Sulphur . 43 s Transamerica . : . 43 Tri-Continental . 27 United Aircraft . . .. . 72 U S Rubber ...... . ... 48a U S Steel ...... . 50 DUD enifitAOO This is a Buick a 2-door, 6-passen-ger Special Sedan. It packs a walloping 188-hp V8 engine under the hoodis carried on a strap ping 122-inch wheelbase rides with the luxury cushioning of all-coil springing, the solid steadiness of a full length torque-tube drive, the extra safety, and silence of tubeless tires. It's big and brawny and road-steady and roomy each seat cushion meas ures over five feet in width. Yet this broad beauty as the price we show here proves delivers locally for DRIVE FROM FACTORY SAVE UP TO $18Q00 See Your BUICK Dealer Capf. Applegate's Daughter Succumbs In Eugene Hospital . Junction City (U.R) Rachel Applegate Swan, daughter of one of the principles in the Modoc Indian Wars, died Wednesday. She was 68. She was the second daughter of Capt. Oliver Cromwell Apple gate, who led the battle against Captain Jack and his Modoc In dian renegades in the costly Modoc Wars. Mrs. Swan was the author of a history of Klamath county. - She is survived by her three brothers, Frank of Medford; Roy of Portland, and Oliver of San Francisco, and a sister, Jean, who lives in Santa Barbara, Calif. : - Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at Junction City and interment will be there. Mrs. Swan was born in Klamath Falls and taught Latin in the high school there for 27 years. Mrs. Swan died at the Eugene Sacred Heart hospital after being there for about two weeks for a severe heart condition. Her husband, John Swan, died three years ago. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Applegate were in Eugene - to visit Mrs. Swan and returned Tuesday afternon. At Junction City now from here are Frank Applegate and his daughters Miss Ella Ap plegate and Mrs. Thomas Barry. Mrs. Swan is survived also by three stepchildren, Mrs. Marga ret Foster and Robert and John Swan, all of Junction City, and a foster daughter, Mrs. Theodore Henningson. TREE FALLER KILLED Oregon City (U.R) Christian Richter, 73,, Oregon City, was killed yesterday while cutting timber alone on his farm near here.- Clackamas County Coro ner Leslie Peake said Richter died of a broken neck wherr tree fell on him while he was cutting down a second tree. t .1 f - -rv IV, it or. ..1 70: H"''.-i..nno A Nicholas Worth of . . . Comment On y HARMAM United mm Washington (U.R) The pretty little blue-eyed blonde greeted me in her father's office. "I'm Patty Pace." she said. "I'm a writer." v Of course I wanted to know what Patty Pa tricia Anne Page fea ture wrote about. People, dogs, little Harroan Nichols kids, bone bro ken the hard, or unusual way . that sort of thing, she said. "I have the goop of the youth," she said, whatever that means. To an 18-year-old, if you can understand the lingo, it must mean' something. Our Patty . Page, a little sweetie, sings also an alto. She was graduated from Immaculata School here just a few days ago. Patty has a trophy case at home. Her pappy, Paul Page, once a wneei m tne legal section of the Maritime Administration, and now a successful lawyer in private practice, says that Patty has won: A lot of honors for public j speaking. A scholarship to St. Mary of the Woods, Ind., for her college prepping. Was offered four others. Leading her class from the sandbox on up, most of the way. "The only thing against me," Patty told me, "is my weight." It's 103. This correspondent, who puts a considerable crimp in the springs of any scale couldn't see anything wrong with 103 pounds. . I asked Patty how she goes about writing a feature story. She said that performance isn't easy, even with the very young. . "You have to get an unusual lead," she . said. "The sisters edited my copy. I wrote a column (i U" K just about the price of the well-known smaller cars even below some models of those very same cars. Buick Sales Art Soaring To New Best-Seller Highs That, for sure, is one reason why Buick sales go higher and higher and higher. More and more people are finding that you can buy a Buick for the price of a smaller car, so more and more people are getting this bigger buy for theirmoney. They want the bigger package of sheer automobile for the money that they get in Buick bigger in power thrill, in roomy comfort, in riding steadiness, in structural solidity. They want the added prestige and pleasure of owning Buick styling and Thrill of tfto jfexaris Butefe 143 SOUTH RIVERSIDE This and That W. NICHOLS Fartaro WriH called 'Under My Hat, By Pat ty.'". ;.: "I would give a lot of the gos sip around the school. I would say who was dating whom etc." Patty said. "The sisters would say that that wasn't nice. Well, I knew what I was talking about. And I won't tell you how, but I got it printed. It didn't hurt any body." One thing about the business of working as a columnist on a high school paper, Patty said,' is that you don't have to worry mlich about the law of libel. "So long as you don't make anybody too mad," she said, "or say things about their ancestors, or their canaries, you don't have too much to worry about." . DRIVER ARRESTED Yreka, Calif. Carl A. Ek dahl, 61, who lists his home ad dress as Medford, Ore., was jail ed here Tuesday in lieu of a $289 fine after being arrested on charges of driving while under the influence of liquor and not having his operator's license in his possession. He was ordered to pay the fine or serve 144 days in jail.; ' iirrafs (Safe FOOD SERVED 6 A.M. - 9 P.M. Diningroom Service-Families Welcome! Bill and Jane Invite You to Come in -and Try Their Good Food Choice Steaks 9 Mexican Food Merchants Lunches Served from 11:00 A.M. to 70 fM. BREAKFAST SERVED ALL DAY Closed Sundays ' HottostoMine Buick te Motety No wend.r you m w many '55 lukki on Hi. nignwyt they're rolling up biggor mhm than ovor baforo in I tapping the popularity that bat alrMay Mud tvick into the top cirde of Anwrie' bait nUere. size and the added safety and sure ness of Buick roadability and handling ease. " ' They want, too, the spectacular per formance and better gas mileage of Variable Pitch Dynaflowf easily . yours at modest extra cost. And they certainly want the choice Buick offers of a car in every price range, with each one the buy in its field the low-price Special, the supremely-powered Century, the extra-roomy Super, and the custom built ROADMASTER. Why don't you come in for a visit and see how much real automobile your money can buy here?. fDyiuloui Drift is sUtniti on Rosdmssttr, optionsl txtrs cost on othtt Strits. WHIN SfTfft AUTOMOMB AM tUHT WICK Will IUI10 THfM PHONE. The sewellel, commonly call ed the mountain beaver, is not a beaver at all.' Neither is it a typ ical mountain animal. Native to the western coast of the United States, this small rodent has no living relative but is the last sur vivor of a primitive race of ro- 4fintr TEEN-AGE DANCE CENTRAL POINT LEGION HALL . TONITE (and every Friday Night) 9 til 12:30 p.m. ' MUSIC BY "Ths Aristecrcb d Swiss" '.' 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