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o Local and Sal Planned Medford Toast- mistress club will hold a nun- mage sale Thursday, Oct. 6, at 106 North Ivy st., from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. At CommitY Mrs. Walter Hoeflin. Gold Hill, is reported today as a medical patient at Community hospital, and Frank Hoffman, 820 Taylor st., is there for surgery. To Los Angeles Mr. and Mrs. Robert Corbin are to leave by air for Los Angeles tomorrow where Corbin will attend a con vention of the National Theater Owners of America. They expect to be there three or four days Corbin is manager of the Oregon California theaters here. Car Leaves Hoad Tracy Ba ker, 20, of 22 Willamette St., an Armv man. was the driver of a car which left the road early to day at the intersection of Ram sey Canyon rd. and the old roaa into Sams Valley, according to state police. Damage to the car was reported and police saia "very minor" personal injuries were suffered by Baker and Joan Bennett, Beverly Rock and , Clark Wright Jr., all of Medford, - who were passengers in the car. Shingles Ignite Shingles ig nited from an overheated flu at the home of Mabel Roberts, 327 West Second st, about 7:30 a.m. today, firemen reported Thev said minor damage result ed. Two pumpers were sent when the alarm was given. Con siderable smoke damage was caused in the house when a washing machine moto shorted out about 9:30 a.m. today at the William Laren residence, 634 J st.. according to firemen who used a smoke ejector. X-Ray Clinic The outpatient x-ray clinic sponsored by the Jackson County Health associa tion, will be open between the hours of 2 and 5 p.m., Thursday, Oct 6. The clinic at Sacred Heart hospital is operated week ly on Thursdays between- the same hours and is a service to the public for the purpose of de termining cases of tuberculosis In the county: Heart disease and other abnormal chest conditions also are determined through the x-rays. All residents of the area are eligible for this public service. Rummage Sal Medford Business and Professional Wom en's club will holda rummage sale Friday and Saturday, Oct. 7, 8, in the Fehl building, 106 North Ivy st? Sale hours will be 6 to 9 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday.' In addition to clothing, articles on sale will in clude electrical appliances such as stoves and an automatic wash er. Donations are to be taken to the building Thursday evening and those wishing pickup service are asked to call Mrs. Marian Wood, 2-4537; Mrs. Frida Bur ger, 2-8563, or Mrs. Cozette Jones, 2-4131. OMAR'S Restaurant Ashland Will Be -CLOSED-OCTOBER 4th thru 11th REOPENING October 12th at 4:30 P.M. TONITE! SHOW STARTS 7 P.M. GARY COOPER-LANCASTER VERn"CRUZa I HMOU) XKHT prtMsMios wM TlCHMICOtOR. DENISE DARCEL-CESAR R0MER0- Personal Wrist Injured Mrs. George Belton, 201 Portland ave., was treated today for a wrist injury at Sacred Heart hospital, atten dants reported. Has Surgery Con DeVore, 25 Louis st., well-known retired valley meat market operator, un derwent surgery today at Sacred Heart hospital, according to at tendants. Flown Here Martin Colby, Happy Camp, was brought by private plane to Medford today for treatment of injuries re ceived when a log rolled on his foot, according to Sacred Heart hospital attendants. Building Permits Building permits were issued Elwin J Fordyce, 215 North Keeneway dr., for erection of an $8,000 res idence, and "Medford Neon Signs, 1202 North Riverside ave., for erection of a $1,200 sign. 'Poor' Condition Floyd Pence, Route 1, Jacksonville, who suffered critical injuries Saturday evening in an automo bile accident at Central Point, is reported today in "poor" con dition, at Sacred Heart hospital. Ashes Burn Hoi Firemen were dispatched to the Richard B. Smith residence, 214 Vancou ver ave., yesterday when ashes from a cigar fell onto the arm of an overstuffed chair. They reported that a small hole was burned in the arm. Loaves Hospital J. G. Hib- bard, who has been a patient in Community hospital, was taken to his home at 1220 Corona ave. yesterday, the family reported. Friends were asked to make no visits or telephone calls to the Hibbard home for at least 10 days. . Assume Nam The business name, M and M Market, has been assumed by Harvey C. and Geraldine L. Maxon and Forrest F. Martin, according to records in the Jackson county recorder's office. The business is located at the corner of South Stage rd. and Griffin Creek rd. Steam Blows Wire trouble was suspected when steam filled the boiler room at the Mason Ehrman warehouse north of Medford about midnight last nieht. according to Central Point rural firemen. Steam was found to be blowing out of a safety valve. A fireman entered and shut off the burner. At Sacred Heart Mrs. Wil liam Sanderson, 411 West Jack son st.,; Mrs. Eugene Brooks, 336 O'Gara st.; Mrs. Stephen Sher man, Box 44, Seiad, Calif., and Mrs. Donald Beisecker,. 1402 Eu clid ave., ali are listed, today as surgery patients at Sacred Heart hospital. William H. Hittle, Gold Hill, and Miss Hilda Dovre, 2418 Hillcrest rd., are medical pa tients there. BURT 1 News About Servicemen TRANSFERRED News has been received here that William Roger Bradley, who has been serving with the Navy on the USS Hamul has been transferred to the Navy electron ics school at San Diego. While in school there he will study gyro compasses, synchros and Navy amplifiers. Upon' comple tion in January, Bradley is to fly back to his ship which will be at Yokosuka, Japan. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Stevens, 3672 South Pacific highway. The USS Hamul is a repair ship with the third division and spends seven months of the year in ports of Japan, and at Hongkong, China and Pearl Harbor, Ha waii. Bradley entered the service in Aug. 1954. Obituaries MARTHA BETZ Martha Anna Betz, 84, died in a local hospital today. Conger Morris funeral home is in charge of funeral arrangements. JOE H. EUDEY Ashland Funeral services will be held at Litwiller's Moun tain View chapel here Friday at 2 p.m. for Joe H. Eudey, 62, who died yesterday. Services will be conducted by the Rev. Wendell Herbison of the First Christian church and interment will be in Mountain View cemetery. The deceased, a fruit dealer for over 20 years, was born in Farrin county, Texas, on Feb. 28, 1893, and came to Ashland in August 1944. On Jan. 4, 1914, at Childress, Tex., he was married to Mary Messengill, who survives. Other survivors include three daugh ters, Mrs. Joe Murray, Tilla mook; Mrs. John Croskell, Eagle Point, and Robbie Sue, Ashland; two sons, Spurgen, Maynard, la., and J. M., Rockford, 111.; 13 grandchildren, a sister and five brothers. BIRTHS SNOOK To Mr. and Mrs. Stanley, route 2, box 366, Med ford, Oct. 4, 1955, a boy, 9V pounds, at Sacred Heart hos pital. BOOTH To Mr. and Mrs. Henry, route 1, box 319, Central Point, Oct. 5, 1955, a boy, 7 pounds a' Sacred Heart hospital. ZIMMERMAN To Mr. and Mrs. Joseph, Drew, Oct. 4, 1955, aJsoy, 8V4 pounds at Community hospital. ALLEN To Mr. and Mrs. Carl, route 2, box 207T, Central Point, Oct. 5, 1955, a girl, 6 pounds, at Community hospital. Portland Produce Portland (UP..) Eggs to produc ers: Grade AA large 53-54c: A large 4B-S3c; A medium 43-44c; A small 26-32c. Eggs To retailers: Grade AA large, 62-63c; A large. S5-58C. AA medium, 51-52C. A medium, 50-51-c doz., A small. 37c; cartons, l-3c additional. Butter To retailers: AA grade prints, 66c lb.: cartons, 76c; A prints, 66c; cartons. 67c; B prints. 65c. Cheese To retailers: A grade Ched dar. Oregon singles, 4 lb., 45 Vic; 5-lb. loaves, 46ii-49V2C Processed Ameri can cheese, S-lb. loaf, 39 !i 41c lb. Farm Market - Five-dozen ear sacks of corn were offered at $1.75-2 at the East Side Farmers' market today: No. 1 flats of Dicklinr cucumbers were $1.35-1.50 with No. 2 at $1.15-1.25: Elberta Deaches brought $1.75-2 a lug with a few to $2.50; Hales sold for $1.65 1.75 for flats; Oregon Hermiston Kus sett notatoes brought $2.25 for U.S. No. Is; eastern Oregon and Idaho yel low onions were 91.su-1.33 lor su-id. sacks. Poultry, Rabbits Live Chickens To growers (No. 1 Quality f.o.b. Portland): Fryers. ,i to 4 lb... 24c; at farm. 23c: roosters, 28c lb.; light hens, 17c; heavy nens, au wts., 18-20c up; old roosters. ll-14c. Dressed Chicken No. 1 dressed to 37c lb.; whole drawn, 44-47c lb.; cut up. 49-52c lb.: hens, light type. New York style. 27-28c; cut-ups. 40-45c; hens, heavy type. N. Y. style. 28-30c; whole drawn. 41-45C Turkeys To producers for A grade young hens, f.o.b. farm, N.Y, dressed, 39-39 lie lb.: A grade toms. 32'ic; live weight basis, toms, 28c; A grade hens, 35c; A grade young hens ready to cook. 51-52c: N. Y. dressed. 4 5-4 6c lb.; fryer turkeys, 4-8 lbs.. 49-51c. Rabbits Average to growers, f.o.b. killing plants) Live white. 3-4,4 lbs., 25-26c up; 6-6 lbs., 20-21c: colored pelts, 4c under; old does, 10-14C lb.; a few lusher. Fresh killed fryers to re tailers, 58-61-c; cut up, 62-65c. JOEL vis rr i .i' 1 1 McCBEA L ECJ UIROSIAVA Crawfords Reveal Sale of Interest In Mann's Store - Mr. and Mrs., John G. Craw ford have announced the recent sale of their interest in Mann's Department store to John P. Mof fat, manager of the store and president of the corporation which owns the establishment. Mrs. Crawford is the former Janet Mann, daughter of the late John C. Mann who came to Med ford in 1910 and started the store the same year. She was born and raised in Medford, and married Crawford in 1943, while he was in the Army. Crawford returned to Medford from service in the European theater of war in 1945, and be came the manager of the men's department of the store, a post he held until recently. He served as vice-president of the corpora tion from the time of its forma tion in 1950 until December, 1954. The Crawfords had a sub stantial minority interest in the firm. Mr. Mann's other daughter, Margaret Mary (Mrs. C. R.) Holmgren, Tulsa, Okla., retains her interest in the company. The Crawfords plan to remain in Medford. Dash Into Street Fatal To Young Girl Nampa, Ida. (U.R) An eight- year-old Nampa girl was killed this morning when she reported ly ran in the path of a truck hauling corn into the city. Acting Canyon County Coro ner H. E. Bradley said the girl was Connie Lane, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Francis N. Lane, who live about a mile outside the city limits. Bradley said the youngster ap parently was running to catch a school bus when she dashed across the road and was hit by the truck. Wall Street New York U.R) Stocks ran into profit taking in the late trading today after a substantial recovery in all departments of the list. The late selling brought Gen eral Motors old stock down to a small net loss from an early rise of Vi points. Du Pont touched 216V, up two, and closed at 2151.. New York Central held 1 or a 2 point rise. Dow-Jones Averages Dciw-Jones final. stock aver ages: 30 industrials 461.14 up 2.29; 20 railroads 153.10 up 0.90; 15 utilities 62.66 up 0.08; and 65 stocks 163.69 up 0.75. Sales to day were about 1,920,000 shares compared with 2,020,000 yester day. Today's closing prices on se lected stocks: American T & T ..il 7 9 V& Anaconda .:.;. 68 Chrysler : 95 Curtiss Wright . 23 General Electric . 49 General Motors 138 Montgomery Ward .. 88V Penn. R. R 25V Penney, J. C 97 V Radio : unquoted Southern Co 20 Southern Pacific- 57V S. Oil of Calif 49 Texas Gulf Sulphur ZWa Transamerica 42 Tri-Continental . 251. United Aircraft 55 U. S. Rubber 45 Ys U. S. Steel ; ... 57 Youngstown 97V Portland Livestock Portland .(UJ.) Cattle 300. Choice fed steers about $23.50; good steers about $21: light utility steers down to $11; canner-cutter cows mostly $6.50-8; few $825; utility cows $9.50 11; few mixed utility-commercial grades 12; cutter-utility bulls $11 $14.50. Calves 100. Choice 270 lbs.. $19; commercial-good heavy calves $13.50 $17 . Hogs 200. U.S. 1 and I butchers 180 235 lb. $18.50-19; No. 3 lots down to $17.75; sows 285-550 lb., $14-16: Sheep 500. Mostly choice central Oregon lambs $18.50, other good choice mostly $17-18; good nearby feeders mostly $14-14.50: good-choice range feeders about $15; good-choice ewes $3.50-5. THE YEAR'S TWO GREATEST ADVENTURE HITS! UTHOM IN TKE SADDLE... (I CREASED UEHTi;;:;Jr,TTHKIS ...thtrt nm rodf a man ti match Mm! THE" STRANOCR Hi town Qovt him 12 hours to live! E3 Deer, Deer Everywhere. But They Weren't Hunting La Grande (U.R) Unlike thousands -of others in Oregon, Mr.1 and Mrs. John N. Tschopp, of Milwaukie, Ore., weren't even looking for a deer yesterday. But they saw enough to last them a long while. While driving east on the Elgin-Weston highway, Tschopp said, a whole herd of the beasts stepped into the highway in front of his car. He swerved to miss them and collided with a gasoline tank truck. The Tschopps were treated in Elgin for cuts and bruises. The deer escaped without injury. Habeas Corpus Writ Dismissal Affirmed Salem (U.R) Dismissal by the trial court of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus by Ber nard L. Alexander, Oregon state penitentiary inmate, was affirm ed today by the Oregon Supreme Court Alexander was indicted in Jef ferson county for burglary and was arraigned and pleaded in nocent. He was confined in jail at Bend in Deschutes county and while there appeared with his attorney before Judge Ralph S. Hamilton and requested permis sion to change his plea to guilty and for immediate sentence. He was sentenced to a term of five years. In answer to Alexander's con tention that the sentence was unconstitutional and void be cause imposed in another county, the high court in an opinion by Justice James T. Brand said that, in view of Alexander's express request and waiver, no constitu tional right was violated. ip of Tongue Aids Quiz Winner ?Iew York (U.R) A slip of a tongue could be credited to day with boosting a roly-poly Irishman up the ladder on TV's "The $64,000 Question." Patrick Keough, 62, plant manager from St. Louis, falter ed momentarily last night on a baseball question worth $16,000 on the giant CBS giveaway show. But he was able to pro vide the answer after Emcee Hal March inadvertently let part of the answer slip out. Another contestant, Don E. Self, El Paso, Tex., successfully want through a series of queries in the category "Mythology" to run his winnings to $8,000. Godfrey Settles Plane Incident - Washington U.R) Televi sion star Arthur Godfrey made a $500 civil compromise settle ment with the Civil Aeronautics Administration today in con nection with a plane incident in Chicago Sept. 7. But he empha sized the payment "is not to be construed as an admission , of guilt." ' Daily Weather Report Sunset tonight 5:46 p.m. Sunrise tol morrow. 6:14 am. FORECASTS Medford and vicinity: Clear tonight and Thursday. Increasing high cloudi ness Thursday afternoon. Low tonight 35-57 with danger of frost in cold spots. High Thursday 65-68C Western Oregon: Partly cloudy to night. Patches of fog early Thursday, otherwise partly sunny with clouds increasing during day. Cooler tonight with lows 35-45. Patchy frost in inter ior valleys. High Thursday 55-65. Northern California: Generally fair through Thursday but increasing cloudiness in extreme north and occa sional light rain north of Cape Men docino late Thursday. Warmer north ern interior Thursday. LOCAL DATA TEMPERATURE: Mean ' yesterday 57; below normal 2. Record high this date 63 in 1953. Record low this date 30 in 1913. PRECIPITATION : 24 hours to mid night, trace. Midnight to 10 a.m.. trace. Total this month, trace, .20 inch be low normal. Total since Sept. 1, .83 inch. .02 inch below normal. HUMIDITY: Lowest yesterday 46, highest this a.m. 83. CITY High Low Prec. Brookings 55 45 .48 Crater Lake 34 25 .91 Grants Pass , 61 41 T Klamath Falls 54 35 T MEDFORD 63 46 T Portland 60 44 .57 Seattle 57 52 61 47 37 38 .41 .18 .04 Spokane Yakima . Eureka Red Bluff Sacramento San Francisco Los Angeles 61 79 78 67 70 52 53 50 53 58 .02 Phoenix Denver , ',, . , Chicago Miami New York" Washington'. D.C. 87 80 73 88 69 66 48 64 76 57 .67 .06 Portland Cash Grain Portland Wholesale hay prices: No. 2 green alfafla. baled, f.o.b. trucks, Portland and Seattle. $35-36 ton. races as reported by the usda market news service: Wheat. No. 2 soft white. $73.50 ton: No. 2 white oats. 38-lb. test. Coast delivery, $49; No. 2 Western barley, $47 f.o.b. Port land Coast delivery: soybean meal. $88.50 ton, cars, prompt delivery Port land: Mo. 2 mile, f.o.b. Portlan-, $57.50 ton: standard millrun. $44.50 cars; No. 2 yellow corn. Eastern ship ments, l.o. D. jfortiand, ssu. (HEMORRHOIDS ) w ones bktai saossea nc-rtD vrruour moswtm. oftJunoN 40 STOMACH AND COLON f coNVMiMr oka MSf tOOKUT m Cst PHONE J-MU ee. REYNOLDS Tit REYNOLDS CLINIC Nsturopsthic tntS ChifOprtb'e Physicians SOUK, M KH. I. 3 00 I'U CCNTCI tTtCS Wednesday, October 5. 195S Californians Buy East Evans Ranch Mr. and Mrs. Norman B. Wade and Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Spencer, all formerly of Sacra mento, Calif., have purchased the Newton Bros. Cattle ranch near Wimer in the east Evans Creek area. The ranch formerly was known as the "old" Wil liams Bros, ranch. The sale was transacted through the Medford office of the Southern Oregon Land com pany by Gib Barbee and Ken Callison, who stated"" that this is one of the largest property sales in this area during the year. Wade formerly was a cattle rancher in Texas. . The couples traded extensive real estate holdings including a 40-acre subdivision near Sacra mento, according to the agents. Haystack Project Bids To Be Called Washington U.R) Secretary of Interior Douglas McKay said today the Bureau of Reclama tion will call for bids on $51, 000,000 worth of major con struction by next June. Included with be. $11,000,000 worth of construction on nine new projects authorized by the last Congress Calls for bids to initiate work on six of these new starts will be issued by Janu ary, and the other three in March. Jobs on which bid calls will be issued include: Haystack dam and equalizing reservoir, Deschutes project, Oregon. An earth-filled dam 83 feet high and 1,250 feet long on Haystack creek near Madras, Ore. . - 216th Polio Case Reported in Idaho Boise U,R)The Idaho Divi sion of Public Health today re ported the 216th polio case of the year and the fourth this month that of a 35-year-old woman in Coeur d'Alene. Two new cases were reported yesterday afternoon. They were a 44-year-old man in Latah coun ty and a 23-year-old woman in Twin Falls. Phoenix PTA Meeting The first meeting of the Phoenix PTA will be held Thursday at 8 p.m. in the grade school gymnasium. O OUR FAMOUS DINNERS Specializing in Prima Ribs of Beef : ' and other delectable dishes O ALA CARTE MENU MON EDESDR ifN FOR RESERVATIONS - Phone NOrmandy 4-2513 TODAY White Heat m SAVAGE PASSIONS! THEY FOUND FORBIDDEN LOVE IN A. JUNGLE OF FEARI s jf j! WILL MAKE ' Tn '- pCm SKIN CRAWL! I j9HiaBE7 i fJrfAU He fought the greed of ruthless men .... T" x wiril hi OWB kind il-nt rvn8' MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUWE THTRTEEJC Speaker Slated By Cattle Club "Vitamin Fortification of Dairy Feed," will be the topic of a discussion at the October meeting of the Rogue River Jer sey Cattle club Sunday, Oct. 9. Keith Hockersmith, representa tive of the Grange Cooperative Supply association of Central Point, will be the speaker. . Club members and guests will assemble at the D."W. Mongold ranch near Eagle Point for a noon potluck luncheon to be fol lowed by a business session and program. Those who plan to at tend should take table service. No Change Planned For GOP Convention Washington '(U.R) Repub lican National Chairman Leon ard W. Hall said flatly' and em phatically today the GOP nom inating convention will be held, as planned, in San Francisco starting Aug. 20. Hall announced at a news con ference that he had signed today a final contract with San Fran cisco's Cow Palace, where he predicted "we are going to nom inate the next president of the United States." He said the con tract contains no escape clause. . Hall also told newsmen: 1. His choice for the GOP tick et still is President Eisenhower and . Vice-President Richard M. Nixon. He declined to speculate on an alternative ticket in event Mr. Eisenhower does not run. 2. Recent declines in the stock market, paralleling the an nouncement of Mr. Eisenhower's heart3 attack and, later, that he was not feeling so well, indi cate that "there is great faith in President Eisenhower.' Be yond that, he was not prepared to discuss the stock market re actions to the President's ill ness. JUDGE OPPOSED Greenwich, Conn. (U.R) The judge who sentenced Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray to the electric chair in 1927, following one of New York's most notor ious murder trials, says he's al ways been opposed to capital punishment. Townsend Scudder, 90, who retired 19 ' years ago, called it a "barbarous ' perfor mance" but explained the death sentence was mandatory. Explodes! TTlhlTr 'TT T.rVT.T. wm I Dietrich Disappoints Throng at Las Vegas Las Vegas (U.R) Marlene Dietrich strutted down burlesque-type runway for her $25, 000 a week nightclub show last night, but clothed from neck to toe In a masculine outfit that hid her famous figure. The 50-year-old grandmother, had promised in advance that she would leave the stage of the Sahara hotel in this gambling capital to give the customers a better look at the usually near nude Marlene. But, true to the showmanship that has made her a top head liner here, she pulled a surprise and underplayed it For most of her show she ap peared in a $9000 gown of nude colored transparent fabric em broidered with white feathers on one side. The other side had but one bead to keep the censors away. EATON'S DINNER I&OUSE 812 Crater Lake AT e. Ph. 2-44M ITALIAN AND AMERICAN DINNERS . SPECIAL AU the Spachettt ana Homemade Ravioli von can eat Includes Home Made Bread, Batter and Coffee. f QQ - COURSE ITALIAN DINNER $1.50 - Open 5:3 PJL Tin t PJt. . Every Day Except Zhorasi-y TONITE-, Door Open 6:45 P.M. Mry.Tei-ra ALFRED HtTCHCOCK-S TO CATCH VI A TH1CF TECHNICOLOR T0.1ITE & TllUnS. CLOSED TEMPORARILY ' FOR tm-Pam a in KCrAllw ii GATES OPEN 6:30 PM. SHOW STARTS 7 PM. 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