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TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Pinnacle Directors Mourn Passing of Reginald Parsons The board of directors of the Pinnacle Packing Co., Inc., this week adopted a resolution mourning the death recently of Reginald H. Parsons, of Seattle and Medford, who was the presi dent of the firm. - The resolution follows: WHEREAS. Reginald H. Parsons, familiarly and lovingly known to us as 'Reg-', a most highly respected and patriotic citizen of Seattle. Wash ington, who for many years has had extensive interests and ' has contrib uted to many charitable and civic enterprises in and has been closely connected with the fruit Industry in the Rogue River Valley, and has been associated with this corporation as its President, has passed to the Great Beyond, and WHEREAS, we, out of respect to the memory and great public service rendered by Mr. Parsons during his long career and in various respon sible positions of trust, ara moved to adopt suitable resolutions commemor ating his life and public service, and WHEREAS, he was recognized as and was a highly talented, most capable and efficient business man, and at all times was ever faithful to his friends and associates and to every public trust, and was possessed or nigh ideals, of sterling moral fibre and was a devoted husband and father, and WHEREAS, this corporation, the family of Reginald H. Parsons, and his neighbors and friends, as well i the general public, have suffered great loss by reason of his death. NOW. THEREFORE, BE IT RE SOLVED by the Board of Directors of Pinnacle Packing Company, Inc. . that we will ever cherish the mem ' ory. friendship and unblen-ished rep utation of Reginald H. Parsons, and the example set by him for honesty integrity, faithfulness and applica tion both to private and public duty. ana the many virtues displayed by him both in public and private life, and we deeply mourn his loss and feel that we have lost a most valuable member of our organization, his fam ily a most affectionate husband and father, his neighbors and friends a close friend and associate, and the i public a noble respected citizen, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the minutes of this Board and copies presented to the family and press for publication. Wall Street New York OJ.PJ Steel is sues bounced high today when the union and U.S. Steel arrived at a wage agreement which would end the 12-hour strike in the steel industry. The steel rise brought an en thusiastic response from the, en tire marxei wnere iraaing in ' creased sufficiently to cause tick er lateness for a brief period .around noon. Oil issues mounted quickly. So did metals and chemicals. Other departments followed in .a more orderly fashion until the -whole list showed gains of 1 to 3 points. Then the inevitable profit-tak ing in advance of a three-day holiday set in. It reduced gains but the market ruled higher through the day. Dow-Jones final stock aver ages: 30 industrials 453.82 up 2.44; 20 railroads 161.42 up 0.47; 15 utilities 64.48 up 0.14, and 65 stocks 165.54 up 0.69. . Sales today were about 2,540, 000 shares compared with 2,370, 000 shares yesterday. ! Today's closing prices on se lected stocks: American T & T 182?s Anaconda . 71 Chrysler , ' 8Q'-8 Curtiss Wright . ; 2034 General Electric ., .. ' ' 53 General Motors 109 !Montgomery Ward Penn R R ..... Penney 4 C . 81 .'28 . 94Vi Kaaio 52V Southern Co 19 64Vs B7V 43V4 . 44Vs 27 ...-'711g ..... 48 '2 .Southern Pacific S Oil of Calif .. Texas Gulf Sulphur Transamerica Tri-Continentai ........ United Aircraft U S Rubber U S Steel .... 54 .... 83 Vz Youngstown PORTLAND LIVESTOCK Portland (U.P.) Hog prices were down this week. Cattle for week 3200: market opened low but was active later: some early sales as much as 50c lower: choice 1020-1027 lb. fed steers S24. other good-choice 521,23.50: utility-commercial S13-20: good-choice feeders $19 20.50: mostly choice fed heifers S22.25: good $20-21.50: utility-commercial heifers S12-19: canner-cutter cows S8-10.50: utility-commercial bulls $14 50-16. i Calves for week 600: market active, strong: good-choice vealera $20-23; odd head S23.50: culls down to S10. Hog; for week I860: market closed fully S1.00 lower: choice 180-233 lb. butchers S21-22.50: few earlv. to $2i; heavier and lighter weights mostly 819-19.50: choice 350-600 lb. sows S12 50-14.50. Sheep for week 5025: market most ly 50c lower on spring lambs with elder classes about steady: good with some prime spring lambs $19. few se lected lots S19.23: good-choice $17.50 18.50: good-cohice feeders $15-13.50; good-choice yearlings $12.50-13.50; utility-good ewes $3-4.50. culls down to SI .50. PORTLAND PRODUCE - -. Portland (U.P) Efts to 'produc ers: Candled f.o.b. Portland; ungraded large 43c doz.: AA large 4 8-4 9c: A large 42-44c; AA medium 41c: A me dium 40-41c; A small 30-35c. ' Live Chickens To growers (No. 1 quality f.o.b. Portland): Fryers. 2 'i to 4 lbs.. 33c (nominal) at farm 33-33c lb ."light hens 18-19c: heavy hens, all wis.. 20c up: old roosters. 12-14c. Dressed Chicken No. 1 dressed to retailers: Fryers New York style. 41 42c lb.: whole drawn. 53-37c lb.; cut up. 59-62c lb.: hens, light type. New York style. 29-30c; cut-ups. 41-45c; hens, heavy type. N.Y. style, 31-32c lb.: whole drawn. 42-43c lb. Turkeys To producers for A grade breder 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 bens, ready to cook. 48-5 0c: N. Y. dressed. 37-38c lb.; A grade toms. oven ready. 40-44c: N.Y. style. 34-35c lb.; fryer turkeys. 4-8 lbs.. 49-51C - Rabbits (average to growers f.o.b. killing plants): Live white. 3i-4',i lbs.. 21-23c up: 5-6 lbs.. 17-19c: colored pelts. 4c under, old does, 10-12c lb.; a few higher. Fresh dressed fryers to retailers. 57-61c; 'cut up, 62-65C. Farmers Market Portland I U.P.I Bert Willame e I valley strawberries. brought - S2.M- Portland Police Seek Toothless Gunman Portland A tooth less young man drank six beers for "courage" yesterday and then held up a Portland tavern of about S150. The gunman handed a not demanding the money to pro prietor Mrs. Helen Dor an af ter finishing his last glass of beer and "shoved big black gun" An her face. Army Sets Up New Anti-Aircraft Area In Western States Colorado Springs, Colo. (U.R The West Coast region and the vast central portion of the Uni ted States today were named regional Army anti-aircraft com mands in a move , designed to protect America with a "steel ring" against possible' enemy bombers. Lt. Gen. S. R. Mickelsen, commanding general of the Army Anti-aircraft Command at nearby Ent Air Force Base, said the designations followed a pol icy of gradually integrating all army units allocated to the air defense of the nation into com pact, workable administrative regions. Mickelsen said the West Coast region was designated as the Sixth Anti-aircraft .Regional Command with headquarters at Fort Baker, Calif. The command will be headed by Maj. Gen. Hobart Hewett and will super vise the Nike guided missile nd anti-aircraft artillery de fenses of such -vital cities as Los Angeles. San Francisco and Seattle. Mickelsen said the Central Anti-aircraft Regional Command would be headquartered at Grandview Air Force Base, Mis sun, under the command of Col. Donald J. Bailey. That com mand will coordinate defenses ranging from Carswell Air Force Base, Texas, to Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, he said. Mickelsen said there would be no personnel changes in the con solidation move. Revised Flight Times Listed by Southwest Southwest airways . has an nounced two schedule changes effective today for Medford flights according to Malcolm Dickerman, Station Manager. The new flieht times ' provide earlier arrivals in San Francisco and better connections for con tinuing trips, he said. The early morning southbound Flight 31 will leave here at 5:50 a.m. and will arrive San Fran cisco at 9:52 a.m. via Crescent City, Eureka-Arcata, Santa Rosa and Oakland. The late afternoon southbound Flight 35 will leave at. 4:30 p.m. and will arrive in San Francisco at 8:30 p.m., along the same route. The " two ' mid day 'southbound flights, 33 and 23, remain unchanged, depart ing at 11:35 a.m. and 12:50 p.m. with arrival in San Francisco at 3.42 pjn. and 4:54 p.m." Knowland Proposes , Hot 'Cold' War New York (U.R) Sen. Wil liam F. Knowland (R-Calif.) to day proposed a "hot" cold war to halt Communist aggression. ' Knowland outlined his strate gy in an article in the July issue of the Catholic Digest released Thursday. He charged that the U.S. has so far substituted gulli bility and fear for common sense in its fight against international Communism. Knowland's proposals Included an announcement to the world the U.S. limits of appeasement have reached and that this coun try intends to retreat no further in the face of aggression. " Popsicle Money Needs No Accounting Chicago (U.R) Judge Elmer Hahngren ruled Thurs day that Mrs. Dorothy Kra tochviL 37, doesn't have to ac ' count to her ex-husband for the . popsicles she burs her five children. -: The former husband. Charles Stanek. had complained that she was using part of his 120 . weekly support payment for . his two sons to buy popsicles for her three ether children by another marriage. 2.60 a flat to producers today; first Northwest dry onions, from Walla Walla area, sold to wholesalers at SI .60 a 50-lb. sack: MUton-Freewater Bins; cherries sold at 30 cents a pound top., .. . - DdtfYU-Drin Medford Airport., Friday. July 1, 195S Judge Turns Down Defense Motion In Oveross Trial Salem U.R) Defense attor neys asked that all testimony based on the questioning of Cas per Oveross concerning the fatal shooting of Ervin Kaser near Silverton that was taken be tween thetime officers entered the Oveross cabin in Silverton until his release be stricken from the record of his murder trial. Defense attorneys moved that the testimony be stricken on grounds that -Oveross was il legally held from about 2 a.m. until about 10:35 a.m. Feb. 18. Kaser was shot to death as he sat in his car in the driveway of his home near Silverton on the night of Feb. 17. 1 Motion Denied The defense motion was de nied by Circuit Judge George Duncan, just before the rifle which the state says was the murder weapon was introduced in evidence. Larry Wacker, 12, of Salem, took the witness stand and testi fied that he found the rifle, which he identified on the wit ness stand from the serial nv ber, from Pudding creek on Mother's day, May 8. Neil Beut ler, 11, and Ralph Beutler, 9, said they were looking in the creek for fish and crawfish when Larry spied the butt of the gun at water level and pulled the rifle out of a few inches of water. Alcoholic Anonymous Open International Convention St. Louis (U.R) -More than 5000 members of Alcoholics Ano nymous, dedicated to staying sober and helping others get that way, today began the A.A's first international convention in five years. The three-day meeting comme morates the 20th anniversary of the organization, which tries to put alcoholics on the water wagon by bringing them togeth er with others who have already licked the bottle. The convention business ses sions will be devoted to work shop sessions and to reviewing the growth of the fellowship from two members in 1935 to more than 150,000 recovered al coholics today. Bill W. Steps Down The-climax will come at the final meeting Sunday when Bill W., the A.A.'s surviving co-foun der, will ask permission to step down from leadership. Bill's full name is masked in keeping with A.A.'s traditions of anonymity. The A. A. came into being after Bill W.', a New York broker, had miraculously achieved sobrie ty" on his own. Bill W. discovered that his yen for heavy , drinking vanished when he worked with other prob lem drinkers. But, when a prom ising business venture fell through, he was tempted to hit the bottle again. Safe In Companionship Seeking another alcoholic to talk with, the. broker ran into Dr. Bob S.L an Akron, Ohio, sur geon 'who 'had drank away his practice; : Restraining Order Against Dam Issued 1 Olympia , (U.R) rA restrain ing order : against Tacoma City Light in connection with con struction of a dam at Mayfield on the Cowlitz River was modi fied by Thurston County Su perior Judge Charles Wright yes terday. ' .; The judge said the city would go ahead, at its own risk, and carry out issuance of $15,000, 000 inbonds it has sold on the project, - and at the same time do ' preliminary engineering work and establish an access road to. the dam site. A hearing on whether a . per manent . injunction against con struction of the dam shall be issued is set for Aug. 8. ; DUST OILING ROAD MIX CONCRETE WORK CURBS and GUTTERS All Types of Asphalt Work Mugheo & Dodd Go. Medford - Phone 3-4221 Mine, Mill Smelter Workers Go on Strike Denver (U.R) Mine, Mill and Shelter Workers in non ferrous metals industries span ning the United States began their biggest walkout since 1951 today after union contracts ex pired at midnight. t The strike, engineered by the International Mine. Mill and Smelter Workers Union Ind., was centered mainly in the West, particularly in, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Mon tana. But installations in 16 states from the Atlantic to the Pacific, involving an estimated 60,000 union workers were in volved. Hopes for Settlement Rod 'Holmgren, a mine-mill official, estimated that there were from 40,000 to .50,000 workers off the job. However, he said the union had "genuine hope of some kind of settlement sometime during the day." At Perth Amboy, N. J.. 1800 employees of the American Smelting & Refining Co., went on strike at 6 a.m., and other walkouts followed in rapid-fire order. In Contra Costa County, Calif. 750 workers struck the Selby plant and the federated metals division of American Smelting & Refining. Approximately 2500 were idled at the Santa Ritamine and the Hurley mill and smelter in New Mexico after negotia tions with the Kennecott Copper Corp., bogged down. Strike -in Arizona At Hayden, Ariz., 180 workers , Dr. Bob sobered up and stayed dry as a result of his meeting with Bill W. Then, to insure their own sobriety, the two men start ed to work with other alcoholics in the Akron area. The movement has spread across the country since then and has become one of the surest re fuge for the person who can't stop drinking by himself. - Members are pledrd to turn out at any hour to help someone who feels the , old urge for a drink coming on. Their guiding rule is that there can be no such thing as "just one" drink for them, since once an alcoholic starts drinking he can't stop. Two Men Jailed on Drunk Driving Charges Ted Amos Bates, 52, Shady Cove, was arrested by state po lice and jailed Thursday evening. He was booked on charges of driving while under the influ ence of intoxicating liquor, and failure to leave his name at the scene of an accident. .. The . police office reported Bates was arrested shortly after an accident where the car he was driving struck the rear of one driven on the old Crater Lake highway by Gwendolyn Wilson, Table Rock rd., who had signalled for a left turn and slow ed down. Officers said Bates left the scene immediately, but was arrested a few minutes later at the home of a relative in Eagle Point. The accident resulted In minor ... - damage to both cars. No injuries were-listed. Another driver, Raymond Wayne Hicks, Grants Pass, was arrested south of Talent last eve ning and jailed on a drunk driv ing charge. . American Admirer Sends Check to Diem Saigon, Indochina (U.R) South Viet .Nam's Premier Ngo Dinh Diem received a $5 check Thursday from an American admirer-to help him in his "fight against Communism. Officials at- the premier's - of fice identified the sender as a Miss- Georgine Roberts of Flori da. The check was accompanied by a brief message saying "This symbolic gift is to aid you in your fight against Communism. :We. are praying for your suc cess.": ' ; - . struck the American Smelting and Refining. However, more than 2000 members remained on the job in the Coer d'Alenes, Ida., dis trict until after an election at the Bunker Hill & Sullivan op erations as demanded by the CIO steel workers. A Phelps-Dodge spokesman in Arizona said strike negotiations would be resumed later today. The union had rejected a 12 Vi cents an hour wage offer earlier and a general strike went into effect in Phelps Dodge opera tions in Arizona today. Another 250-300 workers struck the Ken necott Ray Mines in Arizona. Women Pilots Set For 'Puff' Derby . Long Beach, Calif. (U.R) Women pilots and their crews put the finishing touches today on 54 aircraft set to take off to morrow for Springfield, Mass., in the ninth annual "Powder Puff" Derby. . The first plane in the handi cap event was scheduled to leave here at 9 a.m. (PDT.) Planed will depart in one-minute intervals. This year's all-woman trans continental air race is the long est of the nine-a distance of 2800 miles. The route goes through Blythe, Calif., Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz., El Paso, Midland and Wichita Falls, Tex., Tulsa, Okla., Springfield and St. Louis, Mo., Terre Haute, Ind., Dayton, O., Wheeling, W. Va., and Read ing, Pa. Race officials said 92 pilots will participate. - Midland, Tex., and Reading, Pa., were designated "must" stops ' for all contestants. All contestants will be required to clock in at one of the official stops one-hour after sun-down at one of the route cities and re main there ..overnight. Second Ball Puzzles Golfer Knoxville, Term. (U.R) Fred Smith was a bit startled when he made a short putt on a course near here and two golf balls dropped into the eup. Earl Helms, teeing off 225 yards behind Smith, had scored a hole-in-one on the par-four hole. . Starting Today, Friday, July 1st That Delighted Rogue River Valley Folks In RecentlYears:At:L.;.;-'--':v Every Night Except Tuesday-S:30 Under the Personal Direction of . Julie Tummers. Plus MON DES I R'S Famous Dinners! Plus NEW ALA CARTE MENU! SO THAT YOU MAY SELECT YOUR SUMMERTIME MEALS ' FOR RESERVATIONS Phone NOrmandy 4-2513 : - Maritime Group, Union Negotiations Go Into Recess San Francisco (U.R) Ne gotiations between the AFL Sea farers International Union and the Pacific Martimine Associa tion were in recess today while shipowners studied the union's wage proposals. The union is seeking a master contract for 6000 unlicensed sea men aboard West Coast ships. It offered two proposals yesterday at the first meeting between the two sides. One proposal would increase the monthly base pay from $302 to $450,, but would eliminate penalty pay. The other was for a straight across-the - board in crease ranging upward from $35 a month. The union also proposed that, wages for cooks and stewards be brought up to the level of sailors and engine room' work ers. - Shipowners asked for a recess until Wednesday to decide which approach they favor the new one without penalty time or the traditional approach. The union told J. Paul St Sure, president of the maritime association, that it would spell out its new aproach in detail jf the PMA decides it is interested. Mosquitoes Plague Portland Region Portland (U.R) Mayor Fred Peterson of Portland, today ap pealed to Clark County, Wash., officials to join a mutual ' de fense pact with counties in the Portland metropolitan area against "countless thousands" of mosquito invaders. Mayor Peterson said the Aedes . floodwater mosquitoes were, reared in Clark County, across the Columbia river from the' Portland area. John H. Huber, insect abate ment supervisor here, said Clark county had 15,000 acres of ex cellent breeding grounds for the Aedes. He estimated it would cost between $5000 and $8000 to spray the area to destroy mos quito larvae before they can mature. Mayor Peterson said that while "some of the mosquitos stay home and sting people in Vancouver, a good portion of them migrate to Portland." Oregon DDflEJDMdn $500 Reward Posted By Smith Family Eugene (U.R) A $500 reward has been posted by the family of Earl Smith, 62-year-old Sacra mento, Calif., auto - dealer, for recovery of his body from the McKenzie river. Smith has been missing since Monday when a boat carrying him, a river guide and another Californian apparently capsized in the turbulent stream. Bodies of the other two have been re covered but search parties, which employed an Air Force helicopter, have been unsuccess ful in the search for Smith's body. ; The reward was posted by Charles Smith of Turlock, Calif., brother of the missing man.. FOUND INNOCENT La Rochelle, France (U.R) A U.S. court martial found Pfc. Carlos Matta of East Chicago, Ind., innocent Thursday of the knife slaying of a fellow Amer ican soldier. The board took 10 minutes to reach its decision in connection with the June 6 stab bing of Pvt. Guy K. Lambert of Chicksaw, Ala. . - IF FOOD SERVED 6 A.M. - 9 P.M. Diningroom Service-Families Welcome! Bill and Jan Invite You to Com in - and Try Their Good Food , - Choice Steaks Mexican Food -' Merchants Lunches - Served from 1 1:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. BREAKFAST SERVED ALL DAY Closed Sundays s ORIGINAL DDiEsnm Contract Awarded for Right of Way Project Portland (U.R) Zacharyf Construction Company, Everett. Wash., has been awarded a $147,675 contract for clearing 29.5. miles of right of way lor two ransmission lines, Bonne ville Power -Administration an nounced today. The transmission lines in volved were the Sandy-Oregon City sections of the 287,000-volt Big Eddy line and the 345,000 volt Big Eddy-Bethany line. i ; AnnounciRG Price Incrcatt Effcclivo J:I I llsircals IJQ Chilirca (uS?r) 1.23 Hours: 9 AM. - 6 P.M. Closed Monday local 269, Barbers Unlet. - 99 Next to Southern Oregon Equipment ' Specializing in the Finest V- MEXICAN FOODS Prepared the Way You tike Them DELICIOUS STEAKS Also A Variety of Other American Dishes to 10:30 All the Delicious . Food You Can Eat At One Price
