Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, July 13, 1955, Image 13

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Newspaper Page TextI Local and Visiting Here Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Taylor, Nutley, N. J., are visiting here at the home of their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. James P. Asher, 1007 South Holly st. Chin Up Picnic Members of the Chin Up club and their guests will have a picnic at Haw thorne park, behind the Scout house, Friday at 6:30 p.m. Mrs. Gordon Bowman, club president, is in charge of arrangements. Business Name Ruth . Nourse, Portland, has assumed the business name Columbia Lumber Company for -a business located in Medford, according to records on file in the office of the Jackson county clerk. Assume Name The business name The Yardage Shop has been assumed by Manuel C. mmj Utarmr -TanA Wiittnn. aUIWU SUU J w according to county clerk's rec ords. The business is located at 401 East Main St., Medford. Plumbing Firm L. C. Mc Laughlin has assumed the busi ness name of McLaughlin Plumb ing and Heating Company, ac cording to records filed in the office of the county clerk. The business address is listed as 3384 Jacksonville highway. Boys Arrested Two 16-year-old boys, both from Oroville, Calif., have been arrested by city police and lodged in the county Jail on a charge of viola tion of curfew law, according to jail records. Grange Dinner A ham din ner, open to the public, will be served at the Roxy Ann Grange hall Sunday, July 17, from 12 noon to 5 p.m. This is the first of such annual events planned and the proceeds will be used toward repairing ' the Grange hall. At Si. Vincent's Friends may write Mrs. John Smith of 1Z7 Keeneway dr., at St. Vincent's hospital, Portland. She under went surgery there last Monday and is to be there for eight days. Family members said today that he Is convalescing satisfactorily. Free on Bail A 17-year-old Medford boy, arrested recently on a burglary charge, has been released from the county jail on $1,000 cash bail posted by his father, according to district court officials. The burglary allegedly occurred at the home oi cnaries B iMWUUKlUi - . -e; , Church Speaker The Rev. W. W. Brewer, pastor of the El Centro, Calif., Assembly of God church, will speak at the Med ford assembly, 1108 West Main t., Thursday, July 14, at 7:45 p.m. A women's quartet com posed of Pat and Sunny Wiest, Marilyn Cook and Leora Ny lander, will furnish songs. The meeting is open to the public. a Scout Exams Physical check ups for Girl Scouts who plan to attend the second session of Camp Low Echo next week will be done at Room 321; Medical Center building, Friday, July 15, at 7:30 p.m. Medical cards m-hich the girls received at the time of registration are required, and the forms then are to be presented to the nurse in charge when they check in at Low Echo. BIG HITS! ENDS TONTTE! SHOW AT 8:2t p.m. J0HN5OWJ 7 To:.:oitnoui! JOHN WAYNE IN 3 ii sumng SAY MILLANO JOHN WAVNE PAULETTE GODDARD PLUS 2nd ACTION HIT! JOHN DOROTHY IRELAND MALONE THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS" Personal In San Carlos Mrs. Mar- jorie Green of Burelson's store, is visiting while on vacation with a brother and his family, at San Carlos, Calif. Gold Hill Business The busi ness name Polly Crockett Articles has been assumed by Mabel R. Goodwin, Gold Hill, according to county clerk's records. From Bay City Mrs. Claire Phelan of San Francisco is vis iting for the summer with her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Lizberg, 2117 Dellwood ave. Return Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam H. Naylor, 1012. Lozier lane and daughter, Margaret, return ed this week from a three-week trip to El Paso and Big Springs, Tex., where they visited rela tives. On Vacation Mrs. Nettie El lenburg of the Central Rexall Drug store, is on vacation at the Oregon coast, Corvallis and Seattle. She will be away for two weeks and left last Satur day. Mrs. Ellenburg is visiting her mother at Corvallis, and daughter at Seattle. Leading Agency Ben Hatha way, general agent for. the Ohio National Life Insurance com pany, Gold Hill, has been noti fied that his agency is one of the company's leading producers for the month of June. Hatha way .and his family live at Gold Hill.1 , -Flown o Portland Clarence Myers, Shady Cove, was flown to Portland for medical treat ment by . Mercy Flights, Inc., yesterday. He had suffered from a stroke, it was reported. The flight was made in the non profit organization's twin-en gine Cessna aircraft, with Lee Flink as pilot and Tom Smith as- co-pilot and attendant. LWV Parry An annual mem bership luncheon party is set by Medford League of Women Vot ers for Friday, July. 15, at 12:30 p.m., at the home of Mrs. John S. Day, Table Rock Estates. Friends of the league and all interested in attending are in vited and are asked to call Mrs. Fred Carr, telephone 2-6619, if they plan to attend. Hostesses will be members of the board of directors. May Have Visitors Mrs. Minnie' Applegate; 816 West 13th st., now is convalescing at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Thomas J. O'Harra, 2325 Garden st., Klamath Falls. Mrs. Applegate underwent two major surgeries in June. She now is convalesc ing satisfactorily and may have visitors, and particularly appre ciates greetings and letters from friends here, her granddaughter, Bonnie O'Harra, wrote the Mail Tribune. Manhole Installed City work men have completed the installa tion of a manhole and cover on Front st. between Main and East Eighth sts., according to Vernon Thorpe, city public works director. The manhole was installed in an old sewer line constructed- about 1910, Thorpe said. The manhole was placed on Front st .to complete the sewer line and to shorten the distance "between -the pres ent manholes. Daily Weather Report DATE July 13. 1953 ' Sunset tonight 7:47 pjn. Sunrise tomorrow 4:48 a.m. FOKECASTS Medford and vicinity: Hot through Thuisday. Chance of afternoon thun derstorm in mountains. Low tonight 60. High Thursday 98 to 100. Western Oregon: - Mostly sunny and continued warm through Thursday, except cloudy during night and morn ing hours along coast. Low tonight 50-60. High Thursday 80-80. except 98 extreme southern interior and 60 70 on coast. Northern California: Fair through Thursday except for coastal fog and probably a few scattered afternoon thunderstorms in mountains. Little temperature change. LOCAL DATA TEMPERATURE: Mean, yesterday 76: above normal 4. . Record high this date 106 In 1938. Record low this date ,43 in 1913. PRECIPITATION: 24 hours to mid night, none. Midnight to 10 a jn., none. Total this month trace. JO inch be low normal. - Total since Sept. 1. 1.88 inches, 9.01 inches below normal. HUMIDITY: Lowest yesterday 18, highest this a-m. 78. cm mm low free. Brookincs 60 53 Crater Lake Grants Pass Klamath Falls MEDFORD Portland Seattle Spokane Yakima 75 100 . 86 49 55 37 60 60 54 61 36 53 67 63 60 61 65 79 66 67 . 81 77 . 87 3 . 59 98 . 95 79 Eureka Red Bluff Sacramento San Francisco . Phoenix Denver . Chicago .104 . 92 . 84 , 87 84 84 .02 Miami New York Washington. D.C. Hot Weather Special! 4tjj$3i . COOL AND APPRIZING - . S fruit sRe 'imztem SALADS.... : Chilled for Summer Freshness and Displayed in Our Refrigerated Salad Cos The Clock JJ" Obituaries FRANK CARSON Christian Science f uneral'serv ices for J. Frank Carson, a Butte Falls resident for the past 45 years who died in a local hos pital today, will be read at Perl funeral home Saturday at 10:30 a.m. Members of Medford Elks lodge will conduct services at the chapel and cremation will fol low at Siskiyou crematorium. He was a barber and a mem ber of the Medford Elks lodge. Survivors include his wife, Mat tie, Butte Falls; two sisters, Mrs. Lottie Aker and Mrs. Lon Lemon both of Kansas City, Mo., and a brother, Wilson, Medford. WILLIAM JAMISON Funeral services are pending at Perl Funeral home for Wil liam James Jamison, father of Mrs. Jack Brophy of Eagle Point, who died at Grants Pass yesterday. SYLVIA ROSE Funeral services for Mrs. Syl via Lund -Rose, 83, who died Monday in Berkeley, Calf ., will be held in Conger-Morris chapel Friday at 1:30 p.m. with the Rev. G. Herbert Hillerman of Zion Lutheran church officiating. Committal will be in Siskiyou Memorial park. The decftsed was born Aug. 31, 1871, in Hardanger, Norway, and came to this country in 1893. She was married in 1898, in Far go, N.D., to Louis G. Rose, who died in 1942. She came to south ern Oregon from San Francisco in 1938, living here until 1952, when she returned to Berkeley, Calif., to live with her daughter, Mrs. Clara Burdette. Other survivors include two sons, Leonard and Lewis, San Francisco, five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. BESSIE JONES Bessie S. Jones, 80, of 710 Sherman st.,. died yesterday in a local hospital. - Conger-Morris funeral home is in charge of fun eral arrangements. CARL ALTHOUSE Carl Culver Althouse, 78, of 123 Florence ave., a resident of Medford for the past 31 years, died at his home today. Funeral arrangements are pending at Chapel Mortuary. - At Community Mike O'Shea, Jacksonville, is a surgery pa tient at Community hospital, at tendants said today. Gun Stolen Lynn Bucklin, 2845 Elliott St., Medford, re ported to Jackson county sher iff's office that someone stole a gun from under the seat of his car parked on the lot at Big Y Supermarket recently. . Damaged Boxes Jackson county sheriff's officers are in vestigating a report that mail boxes along Spring st. were damaged by vandals last night. Officers said persons in cars ap parently damaged . the boxes while driving along the street. At Sacred Heart Three new patients were reported today at Sacred Heart hospital. James D. Ward, 508 Fairmount st., is there for medical care. Mrs. Thayer Klesser, 2365 Victory st., and Mrs. George Knowles, 512 King St., had surgery. Permits .Issued Building permits have been issued to Mrs. Jim Edge, 240 South Central ave. for the $4,500 addition and re modeling of an office building; to Electric Products, 120 East Main st., for the erection of a $2,500 sign, and to Waisfields jewelers or the erection of a $1,600 sign at 118 East Main st according to records on file at the city hall. x Still Critical Orville A. Wil liams, 45, of 936 Newtown st., was reported today at Sacred Heart hospital, as still in critical condition; but did spend a "fair night." He was taken to the hospital about 12:30 p.m. Tues day, after he was injured when the logging truck he was driving rolled over a bank on the Cop per rd., about two miles above McKee bridge. . e e Heyday Tickets Tickets for the annual Bard's Heyday to.be held this year Sunday, July 17, at 5 p.m., in the Oregon Shakes pearean Festival theater at Ash land, may be purchased . from any Tudor guild member .or at the First National bank.' . The fee will Include dinner which will be catered by Omar's cafe in Ashland, and entertainment A smaller charge will be made for children under 12 and en tertainment .also will be in cluded for children. BIRTHS BRYANT To Mr. and Mrs. Richard, 2857 Lone Pine rd., July 13, 1955, a boy, 7 pounds, at Community hospital. Equipment Bids on Rural District's Needs Submitted Central Point Action on awarding contracts for equip ment for a White City fire sta tion was delayed by the board of directors of the Central Point Rural Fire. Protection district last night for further considera tion. Several bids were opened at noon yesterday for a 1,000-gal-lon pumper truck, a 1,000-gal- lon tank truck, 4,500 feet of fire hose, 20 turnout coats, 20 hel mets and several special hose gaskets. Station Authorised The White City fire station, which will be built without cost to the .district by the White City Realty company, was authorized in a special budget election in the district recently. The dis trict will supply and maintain equipment. Bids on the pumper truck in cluded American LaFrance Foamite corporation of Elmira, N.Y., $22,995: Coast Apparatus incorporated, Concord, Calif., $17,214; Howard Cooper corpor ation, Portland, $20,441.05: Van Pelt Equipment company, Oak dale, Calif., $18,267.76;' General Fire Truck company, Detroit, $19,982.5; and W. S. Darley and company, Chicago, $18,025. ... Offers on the tank truck were iunsi pparaius, $,ooi; How ard Cooper, $7,550, and Neep Equipment company, Portland, $7,002.30." Low bid on fire hose was American LaFrance, $4,330. There were eight other bids. Rogue River Theft Listed by Sheriff Burglars took about 12 auarts of beer from Robinson's grocery in Rogue River last night, Jack son county sheriffs officers re ported, today. Officers said the burglarly oc curred about 1:50 a.m. todav. The grocery, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Lewis T. Robinson, was entered by forcing a rear door open. Only the beer was dis turbed, oficers said. An attempted burglary across the street from Robinson's Groc ery in Homestead Tavern was reported to sheriff's officers. bhade Combs and William H. (Herb) Gregory, owner of the tavern, discovered the attempted break in. Officers "said an' air condition er was removed from a window and nails holding a screen were partially removed. Officers said the attempt was made about 1:30 a.m. today. Control Expected In Wyoming Fires Laramie. Wyo. flJ.R) With luck and no high wind, Forest Service officials believed thev could finally put out two forest fires in Medicine Bow National Park forest today. B.ut in the past week, more than -4000 acres of timber has been destroyed. The Weather Bureau at Chey enne foresaw little or no rain in the forest today, but neither did it predict any high .winds. Twice last week, high afternoon winds swept the fire past fire lines and ruined the efforts of several hundred men to contain the flames. PRODUCTION TEST V A registered hnlatsiin.friectan cow, Eipperhurst Sunslope Ideal, owned by Far Hills farms, Eagle Point, has completed a one-year production test, according to the Holstein-Friesian Association of America. She produced 17,013 pounds of milk and 581 pounds of butterfat during 'the. test period, being milked twice daily, with an 'average of 22 auarts of milk daily. . 4-H FAIR SET The Bellview-Valley View 4-H Community fair will be held to morrow at the Bellview Grange hall. The event will start at 10 a.m. and showmanship and judg ing contests will be held during the day. NOW HOTEL, GROCERY ft PATIO CAFE Crattr Lake Highway (62) Shady Cove " FEATURING O Fresh Trout- (Caught Daily) Steak Dinners FOR YOUR FISHING PLEASURE FISH at Our Commercial Trout Ponds O Pony Rides Picnie Grounds ' , Dance Floor with Juke Box Music . Housekeeping Cabins by Day or Week ' Trailer Park Merger Proposes Lewis-Clark Markers Washington U.PJ Sen. Rich ard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) intro duced bills yesterday to estab lish national monuments at two historic spots along the trail of the Lewis and Clark expedition to the Pacific Northwest. He pointed out the 150th an niversary of the expedition is being celebrated this year. '; One ' monument would' be created on the original site of Fort Clatsop in Oregon near the: mouth of the Columbia river. The other would be on the Lolo trail above Lochsa fork of the Clearwater river in Idaho., Wall Street New York (U.R) This being the 13th, an unlucky day for superstitious Wall Street, trad ing in stocks lightened sharply from the recent pace and prices slipped lower. " Sears Roebuck directors ap parently squelched the splitup fever temporarily yesterday when they merely declared the usual dividend and let a splitup go for the future, if ever. Dow-Jones Averages . Dow-Jones final stock ave rages: 30 industrials 457.40 off 5.57; 20 railroads 157.53 off 1.52; 15 utilities 64.98 off 0.02 and 65 stocks 165.29 off 1.57. . Sales today were about 2,360, 000 shares against 2,630,000 shares yesterday. ' Today's closing prices on se lected stocks: American T & T . 187 Anaconda '. 68 Chrysler . 87 Curtiss Wright .. General Electric General Motors .. 20V6 53Vs 124 80ss Montgomery Ward Penn. R. R. ... .. Penney, J.C. . Radio Southern Co. ... Southern Pacific ... S. Oil of Calif. 28V4 95 .... S0a 20 62 92V3 Texas Gulf Sulphur 41 Transamerica . . ; -.. 4634 Tri-Continental i 27V4 United Aircraft 67 U. S. Rubber 46V4 U. S. Steel .... 53 Youngstown ...87 PORTLAND LIVESTOCK Portland (U.P.) Cattle ' 450. Choice steers above $23.50; utility dairy type steers $13-16; canner-cut-ter cows mostly $9-10.50. few $11; utility-cows $11.50-13; commercial $14-15; utility-ocmmercial bulls $14.506.25; light cutters down to $12. Calves 200. Good-choice vealers $20 22; . some $23; ' utility-commercial calves $12.50-19. Hoes 250. U.S. No. 1 and 2 butchers 180-235 lb. $22-22.50: No. 3 mostly $20.50; choice 296 lb. sows $17. Sheep 1000. Choice with some prime sDrine lambs $19: choice-crime 98 lb. lambs $19.50; good-choice grades $17.5018.50: good 98-102 lb. shorn vearlines $12-13: utility srades down to $9; good-choice feeder lambs io 15.50; - eootf-choice : slaughter ewes $3.50-4.30. PORTLAND PRODUCE Portland rUJM Hzen To retail ers: Grade AA large. 3B-37C doz.: a large Sl-52c; AA medium, 48 -49c doz.; A medium 47-48c doz.; A small 38c doz.: cartons. 1 to 3c additional. - - Butter To retailers: AA grade prints 65c lb.; cartons sec; A prints 65c: cartons 66c; a prints 63c. . Cheese To retailers: A grade cnea dar. Oregon sinele. 4214-45 Vic: 5-lb. loaves. 46i-49',4c. Processed Ameri can cheese. 5-lb. loaf. 39,i-49VaC lb. Farm Market Raspberries sold at 2.50 a flat too at the East Side Farmers" market to day with cleanuD sales down to $1.75-2. Poultry, Rabbits Live Chickens To growers (No. 1 quality f.o.b. Portland): Fryers. 2 i to 4 lbs., 30-31c (nominal) at farm. 29-30c lb., light hens 17-18c; heavy hens, ell wts.. 19-20C uo: old roosters. 12-14c. Dressed Chicken No. 1 dressed to retailers: Fryers. New-York style, 43 44c lb.; whole drawn, 54-56c lb.; cut up, 58-61c lb.: hens, light type. New York style. 28-29C: cut-ups. 41-45c; hens, heavy type. N.Y. style. 39-31e; whole drawn. 42-46c. 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 erade voans" hens, readv to cook. 48-50c; N.Y. dressed. J7-38e lb.: A grade toms. oven reedy, 40-44c: N.Y. style. 34-33c lb.; fryer turkeys. 4- lbs.. 49-Slc. Rabbits (averaee to erowers f.o.b. killine plants) Liva white. 3i-4i lbs.. 21-23C up; 5-8 lbs.. 17-19c: colored pelts, 4c under; old does. 10-12e lb.: a few higher. Fresh dressed fryers to retailers. 57-61c: cut up, 62-5c. - PORTLAND CASH GRAIN ' Portland -WnnlMjla hav ericas: New crop No. 2 great alfalfa baled, f.o.b. trucks. Portland, $32-33. races es reported by the , vsda market nwa utn;if WhML No. S soft white. $76.60 ton: No. a white eels 38 lb. test. Coast delivery. $5130 a ton; Portland delivery. $so ton; No. 3 Western barley. $49.50-50 ton f.o.b. Portland Coast delivery; soybean meal, $81.57 ton, cars prompt delivery. Portland standard millrun, $46.50-47 cars; No. 2 yellow corn. Eastern ship ping points. S69J0-70. Dee1 line Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday; 10 ajn. Monday for Uonday: other days SdO previous day OPEN Wednesday. July 13, 1955 Pip llf c- p? r? v tm mm ri .. PROTEST Clenched fists and hard looks mark this meeting Liege, Belgium, as some 30,000 Catholics marched in protest buiwi xcxuiiu uiu, which wouia era on tunas trom parocmai scnoois. A mass demonstra tion against the Socialist Liberal government proposal paralyzed the city of Brussels in a protest staged by more than 150,000 person: California Boys Arrested by Police Medford police arrested two California youths early yester day morning on charges of cur few violation, according to po lice department records. - The boys, both 16, were ar rested and jailed after two Med ford and Central Point youths reported to police that the two had threatened them . with a knife and -beer opener. Police added that all four boys had been to a party' earlier that night; and had quarreled. . y . The breaking and entering of two service stations was discov ered 'by city police, early this morning.. . " ". Roethler Shell Service station, 101 East Sixth St., was entered through a window broken with a piece of concrete. Police added that the . thief had apparently cut his hand on the broken glass as he reached in to release the latch. Nothing was missing police saidv Cantrall's " service station, East Fourth St. and North Central ave., was also entered this morning. A book of green stamps valued at $15 was the only item taken, police said. July Believed Unlucky For Service Station Man Portland KU.K) Service sta tion attendant Donald R. Scott said today must be his unlucky time of the year. V Scot told police that a about 4 a.m. today he was held up by two men who escaped with about $50 from the station where he works. At 11 p.m. on July 12 of last year just one year and five hours before today's holdup Scott was robbed of . $80 by a lone gunman at the same place. . I O SMORGASBORD - $225 - Includes Barbecued Spareribs O WONDERFUL DINNERS , Special Prime Ribs of Beef O ALA CARTE MENU FOR. gZSEXVATIONS Phona NOrmandy 4-2SU TONITE! I i GATES OPEN 6:30 H Shows at Dusk . p ei ftS W ' Vl V ; h a. I - C I I .i J -111 I PLUS MEDFORD (OREGON) sW 3 Drivers Cited After Accidents City police issued three right1 of way citations yesterday fol-' lowing accidents involving seven automobiles, according to the po lice department.:. "Early yesterday, cars driven by Burnath Maurice Morgan, of 1204 Gold Hill, and James Ros well Vinson, 613 North Holly st, collided at the intersection of Third and Fir sts. A parked car owned by. Howard G. Skinner, 135 Clover Lane, was also in volved : in the accident, police said. A citation was -, issued to Morgan for failure to yield the right of way. 2 . . .. Cars driven by Carol ; Marie Atkins, 1634 Orchard Home dr., and ' John Russel ! Winn,' 2540 Willow Way, collided at the in tersection of Stewart and Oak dale aves. ' Winn was cited by police for failure to yield the right of way, police said. Cars driven by Carold Marie Dyer, 424 East Jackson st., and Phillip Harold Ward, Medford, collided at the intersection of 11th and Grape sts., police re ported. A citation was'- issued to Ward for failure to yield the Carnival 'losf Items Returned to Sheriff . . Several wallets, two sets of car keys and one First National Bank of ' Portland bank book have been turned into the Jack son county sheriff's - office by West Coast shows, Sheriff How ard Gault said today. . The items were picked up by employees of the show, which completed a five-day : perform ance at the Jackson county fair grounds Sunday night. ' Sheriff Gault said the items may . be ' identified by owners at his office in the court house. DINING INN CENTRAL POINT A .. rrv i WITH MICKEY KNOX J ' AND INTRODUCING . ; . ' -fvWt.TAXfTTJ n'UlD A AND INTROOOCINC ' 0'HARA eBBBB.sjjaxaaB.' tlVW&ilalASVW W fr.y . at a REAL Nudist " under the supervision Jr X x 1m and with the approval THE AMERICAN SUlSfBATHIlWj?W MAIL TRT3TJITE THntTEEH k of antagonistic groups in against the government's ' - right of way;-.police added. N' injuries ' were reported. Doors Open 6:45 p.m. W O IV ! CHMUSR.mOIM m tne seven Marilyn Monroe jTOM EVVCLL PUIS O 3- WAIT PIS WtTS rWM PLUS O at m venccua . ' -SUM MMVIW . . - ss - ea. .; , J ff J . Park Vr of Avvy WHl r 7l "JANE WYMArl-7?" JC POCK HUDSON I 4l ' '"' :" ;