Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, August 10, 1955, Image 11

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Newspaper Page TextQ Local and Gasoline Spills Four gasoline spills were flushed down yester day in downtown city streets by Medford firemen. W . w Sprains Ankle Lawrence Rose, city carried at the Med- ford post office, is confined to his home this week with a sprained ankle suffered while Oplaying softball at the annual clerks-carriers picnic at Tou Velle park Sunday." o Correction Through an error in makeup, a credit line for Lan- dis-Shangle studio which should have appeared under the pic ture of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Cheever in Sunday's issue of The Mail Tribune was instead run under the picture of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Crowl. O . . e. Oq Atlend Races Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Zacharisen and Miss Ann Rice, owners of City Appliance, and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Craten have returned from Seattle where they attended the annual Gold Cup motor boat races. The Zacharisens and- Miss Rice at- (Jbnded the races as the result of having won a contest staged by the Hotpoint company. Returns Richard Hamilton, son o Mr. and Mrs. Scott Ham ilton,"' Central Point, who has been in Alaska working on a sur vey crew since early summer, re- turned home by plane last week end. Young Hamilton, who will be a senior at Crater High school this fall, was stationed on the Yukon, anl he reports that trout fishing there is saperb if you can find time to go fishing. A ENDS TOMORROW! VICTOR MATURE IEAN SIMMONS BURT LANCASTER Pirate let Hriwa I r CUAiaiinn I i BV III IW TTIIIJ STARTS FRIDAY! FOB w TECHNICOLOR M JOHN DMEK VIVfCA UNDKMS raiWHOwT wmjt I mm O SMORGASBORD - $2.25 Includes Barbecued Spareribs 0 WONDERFUL DINNERS Special Prime Ribs of Beef O ALA CARTE MENU FOR RESERVATIONS Phone NOrmandy 4-2513 The Management and Staff of all the members of Medford" Newest Business Center "PARK VILLAGE" 601 to 621 EAST JACKSON STREET wish to thank all of our friends and neighbors for participating in our Formal Opening. The following members wish to congratulate and extend their 3 thanks to MRS. RUTH REID of Lake Creek, Oregon, for the name "PARK VILLAGE" which she submitted ... to be picked by the Judges. Mike's SEAT COVER CENTER EKERSON'S PAINT & ROOF STORE GLASSHEAT OF SOUTHERN OREGON "ALL TREES" LUMBER BROKERS EAST SIDE BEVERAGE MODERN .PLUMBING & SHEET METAL o Listed below are the winning numbers or names of the door prizes offered: MODERN PLUMBING & SHEET METAL ($50.00 in Merchandsie) Paul Gasporatte No. 098906 O EAST SIDE BEVERAGE (Merchandise) Glen Fabric. EKERSON PAINT & ROOF STORE (Two 5-Gal. Orders Paint) Nos. 070628 & 070660 MIKE'S SEAT COVER CENTER (Custom Seat Cover Job) No. 070563 0 PARK rO Personal FOE Meeting Members of the Fraternal Order of Eagles will meet Thursday evening at the lodge hall, 217 West Main st.. when initiation ceremonies will be conducted. They also will serve a lunch after the meeting. Inspections Fire Marshal Truman Nelson yesterday in spected fine business occupancy, three apartment houses, and one building of public assembly. Twelve orders for correction of hazardous conditions were is sued by the marshal. Reckless Driving Eugene Darnell Wheeler, 1217 Winches ter ave., was arrested and con fined to the city jail last night on charges of reckless driving, according to the city police de partment. Wheeler posted S100 bail and was to appear in court at 1 p.m. today, police added. Returned Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Satterlee and son, Brent, and daughter, April Lee, have returned to their home at Santa Rcsa, Calif., after visiting his mother, Mrs. James D. Fleming, 311 South Laurel st. They were here for about 10 days and made side trips to Roseburg and Gold Beach. Son Born A son, Steven Gor don, was born Aug. 9 at Port Angeles, Wash., to Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Gallacci, grandparents here were advised today. They are Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Gallacci 104 Lincoln st. The boy is their first grandchild. He weighed 6 pounds, 12 ounces. The Gordon Gallaccis live at Nash Bay, Wash. New Cily Maps A new sup ply of up-to-date, revised maps of Medford has been received by the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce offi.ee at 5 South Riv erside ave., it was reported to day. On the back, the map has a list of all members of the cham ber. More than 5,000 of the maps are distributed annually through the chamber. . Hit and Run The left rear door of a car registered to the Yellow Cab Co., 105 East Eighth street, was damaged at the park ing lot of Bud and Lucille's Cafe, 1182 Court st., last night, ac cording to city police records. The driver, Virgil Paul Kenny, 107 Jeanette st., was inside the cafe to pick up a customer when the accident occurred, police said. Driver of the hit-and-run vehicle is yet unknown, they added. . To Eugene Miss Beverly Norris, Crater High school, will leave this week end to attend a student council workshop at Erb Memorial Union building at the University of Oregon camp us in Eugene. About 125 Ore gon high schools, all members of the Oregon Association of Student councils, will be repre sented. The workshop, first of its kind to be held in Oregon, will be conducted by the OASC with assistance from the school of education at the university, the Oregon Association of Sec ondary school principals and the state department of education. DINING INN CENTRAL POINT VILLAGE - ENJOY CLOWN Touring Russian farm experts dis carded the farm topic in Mineapolis as they attended the circus. Aleksandr Tulupinkov (left), Boris Sokolov (center) and Petr Svechnikov (partially hidden) enjoy some cotton candy as circus clown Emmett Kelly is content to sample some cabbage. Births KELLER To Mr. and Mrs. Berkley W., Trail, Aug. 9, 1955, boy, ZVz pounds, at Community hospital. WATERS To Mr. and Mrs. William, Williams, Ore., Aug. 9, 1955, a boy, 9 pounds, at Osteo pathic hospital. At Community Darold Big ger, 11, son of Mr. and Mrs. For rest Bigger, route 1, box 202, Central Point, is a surgery pa tient today at Community hos pital, attendants said today. General Alarm Medford fire men responded to a general alarm at 4:04 p.m. Tuesday when a fire was reported in a ware house at Eighth and South Bart lett sts. Firemen discovered that cause of the alarm, a small blaze in the rear of White Cycle shop, 36 South Bartlett st., had slightly damaged a wall on a storage shed. It had been extinguished when they arrived. At Home F. J. Clifford 1211 West Main st.. is confined to his home as the result of an injury received last Thursday in a fall. He is improved but unable to work. Friends are invited to call on him. He received the injury while getting camping equip ment down from an overhead storage space in his garage. A board broke and Cliftord ten io the floor of the building striking a shoulder and his back. Imtjroved Wayne Moss, 20, Richland, Wash., Oregon State college athlete who suffered eye injuries Tuesday while working for the forestry department, is reported to be improved today, and it is believed that no perma nent injury will result from the accident. Moss was working in the, Diamond lake area and was attempting to put out a fire when fluid from an extinguisher was blown into his eyes. To Leave Mr. and Mrs. Ford Knutsen and daughters, Mary and Barbara, plan to leave Thursday for their home in As toria after visiting with Mrs. Knutsen's parents, Mr. and Mrs. v. c. Fereuson. Evelyn apart ments. The family returned here Monday after visiting in ban Francisco. En ioute they stopped at Yosemite park and Lake Ta, hoe. Mrs. Knutsen and their daughters had been in southern nrpsnn for several weeks when Knutsen joined them and the group continued to Lamornia. o o o 601-621 East Jackson Alice A. Rowland Services Friday Private funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, Aug., 12, for Mrs. Alice A. Rowland, 62, who died unexpectedly Aug. 3 in San Francisco. She was a Medford resident from 1914 tov1929, and was well known here as Mrs. Alice R. Bowne. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Ruth Bowne Walker; a sister, Mrs. E. G. Bur gess, Eden Valley orchards, and a brother, R. S. Rowland, Plain field, N.J. The service will be at Perl funeral home, and interment will follow in the Siskiyou Memorial mausoleum. Obituaries GEORGE EATON Funeral services are pending at Chapel mortuary for George Eaton, 79, a resident of the Ap plegate area who died at a local hospital yesterday. Huge Wave Capsizes Japanese Mail Boat Tokyo (U.R) One person was killed and at least two oth ers were missing today when a huge wave upset an overloaded mail boat in Japan's scenic In land Sea. The boat was carrying nearly three times her 20-person capa city. Survivors were reported to have said that all passengers rushed to one side of the deck when the wave hit. The unbal anced load was believed to have caused the ship to capsize. Daily Weather Report DATE August 10. 1955 Sunset tonieht 7:19 n.m- Suni-iK tomorrow 5:13 a.m. FORECASTS Medford and vicinity: Fair through Thursday. Low tonight 56. High to morrow 95. Western Oreeon: Considerable cloudiness tonight and Thursday morn ing becoming mostly sunny during afternoon. Cooler over interior Thurs day. Low tonight 50 to 60: high to morrow 60 to 65 on coast; 57-80 in northern section: 85 in southern interior. Northern California: Fair today, to night and Thursday, except for fog on coast. Little change in tempera ture. LOCAL DATA TEMPERATURE: Mean yesterday 75: above normal 2. Record high this date 102 in 1929. . Record low this date 43 in 1926. PRECIPITATION: None. Total this month none: .05 in. below normal. Total since Sept. 1. 8.89 inches. 9:12 inches below normal. V tit : hi ry-rir . . i o . r-t highest this a.m. 68. CITY High Low Prec. Brookings 56 50 Crater Lake 76 46 Grants Pass 97 47 MEDFORD 96 54 Portland 80 57 Seattle 73 53 Spokane 83 57 Yakima 88 - 49 Eureka 55 50 T Red Bluff 102 70 Sacramento 95 55 San Francisco 64 52 Los Angeles 86 68 Phoenix 98 80 Denver 86 59 Chicago . 82 70 Miami 92 78 New York 76 64 Washington, D.C. 73 67 ARMSTRONG TIRES are what you need Unconditionally Guaranteed! , Alcoa Employees Given Wage Increase Vancouver, Wash. (U.R) An average 15-cent hourly wage increase covering 1400 hourly rated production and mainten ance employees at the Alumin um company of America's plant here was announced yesterday. The increase was agreed upon by the company and the AFL Aluminum Trades Council of America's plant here was an nounced yesterday. The increase was agreed upon by the company and the AFL Aluminum Trades Council of Vancouver. It is retroactive to August 1. Wall Street New York (U.R) The stock market was becalmed today as many traders left Wall Street to batten down the hatches against a strike by Hurricane Connie. Trading dropped to the light est level since last Sept. 3, the session before Labor Day. Prices of industrials and rails showed small gains in their averages thanks to a few strong spots, in cluding coppers and such indi vidual issues as Santa Fe in the rails, DuPont in the chemicals, Goodyear in the tires, and United Aircraft in its department. Dow-Jones Average! Dow-Jones final stock aver ages: 30 industrials 450.29, up 1.45; 20 railroads 151.66, up 0.44; 15 utilities 65.43, off 0.16; and 65 stocks 162.30, up 0.35. Sales today were about 1,580, 000 shares compared to 2,240,000 yesterday. Today's closing prices on se lected stocks: American T & T 1S3V& Anaconda 70 Chrysler .. : 82 Curtiss Wright 19 General Electric 504 General Motors 129 Montgomery Ward 1'- Penn. R. R 26 Penney, J. C 93?s Radio 4612 Southern Co 20 Southern Pacific 59 S. Oil of Calif Unquoted Texas Gulf Sulphur 39M Transamerica .: 42 Tri-Continental 26 Vz United Aircraft . 74 U. S. Rubber .... 45 Vi U. S. Steel . 51 Youngstown 8934 PORTLAND LIVESTOCK Portland (U.P.1 Cattle 400. Util ity steers $11.50-15: utility-low com mercial grass heifers S10-16: canner cutter cows mostly $8-9. few $9.50; fed dairy type cows down to $8: util ity beef cows mostly $10-11.50: utility commercial bulls $14-15.50. Calves 65. Good-choice vealers $17 19: utilitv-commercial $11-16. Hogs 300. 191 lb. No. 1 butchers $19.85: other No. 1 and 2 butchers 180-235 lb. $19.50-19.75. few No. 3 $18.75; choice 350-535 lb. sows $12.50 $15. Sheep 1000. Good-choice spring lambs mostly $17-18. choice with some prime $18.50; choice-prime central Oreeon lambs $18.75; good-choice feeders mostly $14-15. heavyweights $15.50 and light feeders down to $10; good 105-135 lb. yearlings $11-13; good-choice slaughter ewes $3.50-5. PORTLAND PRODUCE Portland U1.) Eggs To retail ers: Grade AA large 60-61c doz.; A large. 51-55c: AA medium 49-50c: A medium 47-49c: A small 34-35c; car tens. l-3c additional. Butter To retailers: AA grfade prints. 65c lb.: cartons. 66c; A prints 65c: cartons. 66c: B prints. 63c. Cheese To retailers: A grade Ched dar. Oregon singles. 42'i-45I-!c: 5-lb. loaves. 46',i-491ic. Processed Ameri can cheese, 5-lb. loaf. 3912-490 lb. Farm Market Willamette valley cucumbers brought growers a seasonal low of $1.50 a flat today: best local zucchini squash brought $1 a flat and sold to retailers at $1.25-1.50; Willamette val ley cabbage sold to wholesalers at $2.50 a crate with best cauliflower bringing growers $1.50 a standard crate: two-layer lugs of eastern Ore gon tomatoes were $2.50-2.75 with No. 2 grades and small sizes down to $1.75 a lug. Poultry, Rabbits Live Chickens To growers fNo. 1 quality f.o.b. Portland): Fryers 2'2 to 4 lbs.. 29c; at farm. 28c lb.: light hens. 17-18c: heavy hens, all wts., 19-20c up: old roosters. ll-14c. Dressed Chicken No. 1 dressed to retailers: Fryers. New York style. 39 40c lb.: whole drawn, 51-55c lb.: cut up. 56-59c lb.: hens, light type. New York style, 28-29c: cut-ups. 40-46c; hens, heavy type. N.Y. style. 29-31c; whole drawn. 41-44c. Turkeys To producers for A grade young hens, f.o.b. farm. N.Y. dressed, 32-33c: A toms, N.Y. style. 312-32c lb. to retailers, A grade young hens ready to cook. 50c: N.Y. dressed. 37 38c lb.; A grade toms. oven ready. 41-45c; N.Y. style. 34-33c lb.: fryer turkeys. 4-8 lbs., 49-51C. - Rabbits (average to growers f.o.b. killing plants) Live white. 23'i-i,'i lbs.. 21-22c up; 5-6 lbs.. 17-19c: colored pelts. 4c under: old does 10-1 2c lb.; a few higher. Fresh dressed fryers to retailers. 57-61c; cut up. 62-65c. Tickets on Sale At Purucker't Piano House MEDFORD HIGH SCHOOL STADIUM Sponsored By Medford Active Club I Tires. y HM1 Wednesday. Augus 10. 1953 UP TO DATE Patrolman Edward Nevin (right) 'wears a uniform on his beat in San Francisco's Chinatown for the first time in years. An era ended as the old plainclothes police squad was abolished in Chinatown after almost 70 years. Previously officers worked in plainclothes because they could easier break up tong wars which are now a thing of the past Adams To Speak For Jersey Club Lester Adams, manager of the Oregon Milk Producers league, will be the guest speaker Sun day, Aug. 14, at the monthly meeting of the Rogue River Jer sey Cattle club, it was announc ed today. The meeting will be preceded by a picnic at noon at the W. D. Pearson farm adjoining Star Ranger station in the Upper Ap plegate area. Adams will discuss activities to the last session of the state legislature in relation to produc tion and marketing of milk. Also on the program will be Frank Schutzwohl, club member from Grants Pass, who returned last month from a visit by air to his childhood home in Bavaria. He will describe highlights of Steps Under Way To End Copper Strike San Francisco (U.R) The International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers today worked on details of a tenta tive agreement to end a 40-day-old strike against 12 American Smelting and Refining Co. plants but no back to work move was in sight. Maurice Travis, the union's committee chairman, said a "substantial agreement" was reached last night. Asked when work could be expected to resume, Travis said, "It will be a few days yet. We're in no hurry." Douglas H. Soutar, company representative at the talks, said the tentative settlement was "some kind of agreement." No details were released. Fi nal agreement will be subject to union ratification. The union struck the com pany's plants here, at Selby in Contra Costa county and 10 others across the nation to back demands for a 20-cent hourly pay raise and fringe benefits. Some 7000 workers were af fected. PORTLAND CASH GRAIN Tntinnj whnlical0 TTav Prices: New crop No. 2 green alfalfa baled, f.o.b. trucks, Portland, j4.o. Prices as Reported by the USDA market news service: Wheat. No. 2 soft white. $74.50 ton; No. 2 white oats. 38-lb. test. Coast delivery, $51.50 a ton: Willamette valley oats. Port land delivery. $50; No. 2 Western bar ley, $46 ton f.o.b. Portland Coast de-i;.a,-ir. tnvhoan mol SR3 ton cars prompt delivery Portland: No. 2 milo. f.o.b. Portland, so.ou ion; sianaara millrun. $4650. cars; No. 2 yellow corn. Eastern shipment, f.o.b. Port land. $6650 ton. L OPENING Thursday August 11th RAYMOND and LEE "Fun with Feathers" Just Closed with The Amatos in Portland Also- Dance to the Musical NORM CLARE And His Double Aires STAI1 S UCLUB MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUftE ELEVEK his trip and will show pictures taken on the journey. The meeting will be open to the public. Those attending are asked to take picnic lunches and table service. Two Damage Suits Filed Here; Seek Total of $61,000 Two cases filed in circuit court are asking a total of more than $61,000 in general and special damages as a result of accidents. . Paul Donner filed suit against Edgar Johnson, the Johnson Produce company and Leon S. Miller asking $45,000 in general damages and $625 in special damages. Donner claims he sus tained permanent injuries when a produce company truck driven by Miller went out of control at North Riverside ave. and Mc Andrews rd. and crashed into a combination filling station grocery store building. Donner was a passenger in the truck. The accident occurred Sept. 22, 1953. Phillip F. Holt filed suit against Ross Lumber company for $15,000 general and at least $500 special damages. Holt claimed he was permanently in jured when he slipped and fell on a pile of lumber while he was employed as a chain puller for the company. Holt also is asking for wages lost as a result of the accident, which occurred Oct. 20, 1954. ad3T jjLl.il LADIES ONLY! Intimate Matinee TOMORROW THURS. at 1:00 JAY CLARKE J LA AMERICA'S FOREMOST MENTALIST He Will Answer Your Questions for 1 Hour Doors Open 1 2:45 P.M. JAY CLARK ON STAGE 1:30 to 2:30 P.M. On the Screen ROBERT YOUNG DOROTHY McGUIRE 'ENCHANTED COTTAGE" Down Payments on New Cars Unchanged Detroit (U.R) Despite all the talk about "crazy credit" in the booming automobile market, Americans buying cars on cred it as a whole are making just as big down payments as they have done in the past 10 years, a study of new car financing in dicated today. O The survey was made by Uni versal C.I.T. Credit Corp. New York, whose business is financ ing automobiles. It claims to be the largest independent automo bile finance agency. It reported it found that in the 10 years since the end of World War II, the American public has bought. $107,000,000,000 worth of new cars on time. Of this amount, 22 per cent was handled through down payments and the other 78 per cent financed. THAT LAY OF PLAY S THE SCREWS SMASH OP SMASHES! "CinemaScopS WUJNECOUD wtov .TAVFS "WILLIAM P daLft. o viiBn mm PHIL CARET IfflMOf PRODUCED BY LELAND HAYWARI PLUS ON THE STAGE UaYCLARKEi i v X Jn'Pmon. Ii At 9:15 P.M. TONITE Th st!rl' Story of the ROYAf W0 VI Dbbbso PLUS fX Tblma Strap's Great Koi I r . CnmRS to life! tarring RAYDMILLAND JOHN WAYNE PAULETTE GODDARD TONITE & THURSDAY (HUP Mutt CHARLTON HEST0N UZAUTH SCOTT A COUJM1U KTUtf ' ' T71 ft a . w - I PLUS MV3 :