Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, October 14, 1955, Image 15

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Newspaper Page Textand From Trip lirs. Lucy Ford, 330 North Front st., and her grandson, Jeffory Ford, return ed from a 10-day trip to Amaril lo, Tex., where Mrs. Ford visited a sister who is ill. At Osteopathic George Mitchell, Jacksonville, is a sur gerpatient at Osteopathic hos pital, and Debbie Oakes, 4, daughter of Mrs. Doris Oakes, Camp White, is a tonsil surgery patient there. Use Mail Tribune Want Ada L ENDS SATURDAY! Here SUNDAY! FIGHT PICTURES! Plus 2 Great Features! CHANDLER KEYES MnWI I Y sr News & Color Cartoon mm mm m Tall Han PLUS , Dance Saturday, Oct. 15 GOLD HILL GRANGE Music by? Chap's Roadside Rascals A 5 PIECE BAND YOU'LL LIKE Grange Benefit SAT. NITE AT WALKER'S GOOD FLOOR - FINEST MUSIC A Good Cleon Party For All the Family O OUR FAMOUS DINNERS Specializing in Prim Ribs of Beef and other delectable dishes OALA CARTE FOR RESERVATIONS - Re-Opens TONIGHT! o 0 Personal SOCRC To Meet Southern Oregon Chinchilla Ranchers club will meet at noon, Sunday, Oct. 16, at the Carpenters local union hall, 123V2 West Main st. A pot luck noon dinner will be served and a regular business session will be held during the after noon. All chincilla ranchers in southern Oregon are invited. At San Diego Among those who reported in September to Composite Squadron 35 at the North Island Navy Air Station at San Diego was Andrew F. Arney, airman apprentice in the Navy. He is a son of Mrs. Dor othy C. Arney of Phoenix. Be fore entering the Navy in June, 1955, he was graduated from Phoenix high school. New on Staff Miss Nancy L. Hodge has joined the Southern Pacific district freight and pas senger office staff as secretary. She recently arrived here from Glendale, Ore., and lives at 344 North Central ave. Miss Hodge is a 1955 high school graduate and was salutatorian of her class at Glendale. She plans to con tinue her business education at Robertson Business college. At Assembly Two Medford physicians were among 2,000 doctors who attended the sev enth annual scientific assembly of the California Academy of General Practice held Oct. 9 to 12 at the Sheraton-Palace hotel in San Francisco. They were Merle F. Foland, M.D., and Le Roy C. Jensen, M.D. They were accompanied by Mrs. Jensen and Mrs. Foland. Use Tribune W-f Ads CANDY STORE Now Open Counter Full of FRESH CANDIES For Your Selection LUNCHES SERVED Try A Delicious Rogue Valley PEAR BOWL SALAD ' WHITE'S CLOCK & CANDY KETTLE Main & Bartlett Phone 2-6766 MENU DINING INN CENTRAL POINT Phono NOrmandy 4-2513 (1(1 0. on highway 99 at Talent e With BRAD CURTIS at the piano in the Hunt Room . . . Combo for Dancing News About Servicemen FROM OVERSEAS Sgt. Bruce A. Lindgren, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Lind gren, route 2, box 202C, Med ford, arrived Saturday at San Francisco ' on the USS Gaffey from 2Vz years service with the Army in Japan and Korea. He is home on 30-day leave and his next station will be at Camp Carson, Colo. Sergeant Lind gren was a member of the local national guard unit before en tering the service. Plan Sale Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War will conduct a rummage sale at the Fehl building, 106 North Ivy st., Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 18 and 19, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Anyone having rummage to be picked up is asked to call 2-5948 or 3-1371. Return Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Funk of Cook's Beauty clinic arrived home this week from the Los Angeles area, while south they studied advance hair designing by Comer and Doran in Hollywood. Ann Bruning. 2616 West Main st., a former employee of the clinic also has returned to work at the shop. ' Visiting Mrs. Claire DuBois, former Medford resident, and her son, Lt. James Wright, are visiting from the Presidio, San Francisco with Mrs. Leonore Estes, 515 Pennsylvania ave. Also here is Mrs.'Este's sister-in-law, Mrs. John J. Estes, of Eugene. The visitors plan to be here for about 10 days. ( To Portland Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Leonard left today for Portland where they will live in the future. The Leonards, who were Medford residents for the past 5 years, recently sold their florist shop, Leonard's Flower? and in Portland Leonard will operate the Foster Road Lumber company which he has purchas ed. The Leonards, who made their home here at 829 Minne sota ave., will live at 11822 Fos ter rd., Portland. They were ac companied to Portland by their daughter, Mrs. Marvin Rosette, who is with her parents while her husband, Second Lt. Rosette, is serving with the Army engi neers at Kitzinger, Germany. New Try Made To End Phone Strike San Francisco (U.R) Fed eral Conciliator Arthur Viat met again today with both sides in a new attempt to find some way of settling the telephone strike. The first round of talks be tween the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company and the CIO Communications Workers of America ended yesterday in ap parent failure. "So far as the company is concerned, we're making no pro gress," said a PT&T spokesman. ' "We did not resolve any is sues," said A. T. Jones, in charge of bargaining for the CWA. The strike began Monday mor ning when 22,000 operators, maintenance men, . commercial and accounting employees left their jobs.in Northern California and Nevada. . Actually, three unions are in volved In the dispute. The CWA represents more than 17,000 op erators and maintenance work ers. More than 4000 other em ployees are represented by the United Brotherhood of Tele phone Workers of Northern' Cal ifornia and Nevada. The CWA is demanding a $3 to $3.50 weekly raise for oper ators and $4.50 or more for plant men. The union has offered from $2.50 to $4.50 but wants to main tain area and classification dif ferentials. Read and Ui Classified Ads. . . The .Community's Biggest Marketplace WALL STREET New York (U.R) DuPont capital stock scored a gain of nearly 6 points in an irregular stock market today. Strength in that one issue sus tained the industrial average. There were smaller gains in such stocks as American Can, Chrys ler, Bethlehem Steel, Standard Oil of New Jersey and U. S. Steel. Dow-Jones Averages Dow-Jones final averages: 30 industrials 44.68 off 0.23, 20 rails 148.47 up 0.53, 15 utilities 61.48 off 0.39, 65 stocks 158.54 off 0.05. - Sales today were about 1,640,- 000 shares compared with 1,980,- 000 .yesterday. Today's closing prices on se lected stocks: American T & T 177V4 Anaconda 63 Va Chrysler '. 92V2 Curtiss Wright 22 Vz General Electric 47 General Motors 131V4 Montgomery Ward 86 Vi Penn R R 24 Penney J C 94 Radio 43 Southern Co 19V4 Southern Pacific 54Vs SOU of Calif 8312 Texas Gulf Sulphur '37 Vt Transamerica 39 Tri-Continental 24 Vs United Aircraft 56 U S Rubber . 43 U S Steel . 54 Vs Youngstown 91 PORTLAND LIVESTOCK Portland (UP.) Cattle for week 3225. Good and choice 929 lb. fed steers with good grades $20.50; choice 959 lbs. 23; good steers $20. carrying choice end $22.50; utility and low commercial steers $11-17.50; good and choice fed heifers $19-22.50. Canncr and cutter cows $6.50-8, few to $8.50 with beef type to $9; stock cows $8 9.50; utility $9.50-11.50, commercial $12-13; heavy bulls $13-14.50. cutters down to $10.50. Calves for week 525. Good and choice vealers $17-20, similar calves $16.50 to $18; utility and commercial $10-16. culls down to $. Hogs for week 2235. U. S. No. 1 and 2 butchers 180-235 lbs. $17.50-18, No. 3 down to $17 and under; sows 350 550 lbs. $13.50-15, lighter weights to $16 early. Sheep for week 3685. Good and choice lambs $17-18; mostly choice range lambs $18.50 with heavy feeders sorted out at $16.50; other good and choice feeders $13.50-15.50; good and choice ewes $3.50. PORTLAND PRODUCE Portland ; (U.P.) Eggs To re tailers: Grade AA large. 59-60c; A large 53-56c; AA medium. 47-49c; A medium, 47-48c; small, 36-38c; cartons, l-3c additional. Butter To retailers: AA grade prints. 66c lb; cartons, 67c; A prints, 66c; carton. 67c; B prints, 64c. Cheese To retailers; A grade Ched dar, Oregon singles, 40'a-451,bc; 5-lb. loaves, 461,i-49',2e. Processed Amer ican cheese, 5-lb. loaf, 39!i-41c lb. Farm Market Local dry pack, three-dozen heads of lettuce went at $2.75-3 with cabbage steady at $3-3.50 at the -East Side Farmers market today; beets brought 65-70c a dozen, green onions 60-65C and turnips $1.10-1.25; Jonathan ap ples, loose pack,, were offered at $3.25-3.50 and Starking Delicious, loose, at $4-4.50 for. medium and $5- 5.50 for large. Poultry, Rabbits Live Chickens To growers (No. 1 quality f.o.b. Portland) : Fryers, 2 '.2 to 4 lbs. 23c; at farm, 22c: roosters, 27c lb.; light hens. 17-18c; heavy hens, all wts. 19-20c; old roosters, 11-14c. Dressed Chicken No. 1 dressed to retailers: Fryers, New York style, 36 37c lb. whole drawn, 42-45C lb: cut up, 47-50c lb; hens, light type. New York style, 27-39c; cut-ups, 40-46c; hens, heavy type, N. Y. style, 28-31c; whole drawn, 40-44c. Turkeys To producers for A grade young hens, f.o.b. farm, N. Y. dressed, 39c lb.; A grade toms, 31c; live weight basis, toms, 29c. A grade hens, 35',ic: A grade young hens ready to cook, 55c; N. Y. dressed. 48-49c lb; fryer turkeys, 4-8 lbs. 56c; cut-up toms, 46 50c. Rabbits (Average to growers, f.o.b. killing plants) Live white. 39i-42 lbs. 25-26C up; 5-6 lbs, 20-21c: colored pelts, 4c under; old does, 10-14c lb. a few higher. Fresh killed fryers to re tailers, 58-61c; cut up, 62-65C. Births TALBOTT To Mr. and Mrs. Robert, Lake Creek, Oct. 13, 1955, a girl, 8 pounds, at Com munity hospital. , KRESS To Mr. and Mrs. George, 313 South Grape st., Oct. 15, 1955, a girl, 7 pounds, at Sacred Heart hospital. JAMES To Mr. and Mrs. Elmer, 1126 Niantic st, Oct. 12, 1955, a girl, 8 pounds, at Sacred Heart hospital. TURNBAUGH To Mr. and Mrs. ponald, Applegate, Oct. 13, 1955, a girl, 8 pounds, at Sacred Heart hospital. McINTIRE To Mr. and Mrs. ErrolL 268 Mace rd., Oct. 14, 1955, a boy, 6V4 pounds, at Sac red Heart hospital. FORD To Mr. and Mrs. John, route 2, box 178C, Cen tral Point, Oct. 13, a girl, 9 Lpounds, at sacred .Heart nospit- Bit LYONS To Mr., and Mrs. Leonard, 1304 Beatty st., Oct. 13, 1955, a boy, 6Vi pounds, at Sacred Heart hospital. NICHOLS To Mr. and Mrs. Dannie, 20091 North Pacific highway, Qct. 13, 1955, a boy, 8 pounds, at Sacred(Heart hos pital. ARCHULETA To Mr. and Mrs. Joe R., Toketee Falls, Oct. 14, 1955, a boy, 8 pounds, at Sacred Heart hospital. EATON'S DINNER HOUSE S12 Crater Lake Ave. Ph. 2-4464 ITALIAN AND AMERICAN DINNERS SPECIAL All the Spaghetti and Homemade Ravioli you can eat. ilelndes Home Made Bread, Butter and Coffee. f QQ TCOURSE ITALIAnTdINNER $1.50 Open 5:30 P.M. Till 9 P.M. Every Day Except Thursday Daily Weather Report FORECASTS: Medford and vicinity: Variable high cloudiness through Saturday. Con tinued mild. Low tonight 48. High Sat urday 75. Western Oregon: Partly cloudy north portion, fair south portion with late night and early morning fog or low cloudiness tonight and early Sat urday. Cooler . in interior Saturday. Low tonight 45-50. High Saturday 65-75 except 60-65 on coast. Northern California: Fair tonight and Saturday. Cooler Stockton. Merced northward. LOCAL DATA TEMPERATURE: Mean yesterday 65; above normal 9. Record high this date 87 in 1945. Record low this date 31 in 1925. PRECIPITATION: 24 hours to mid night 0. Midnight to 10 a.m. 0. Total this month .94 in., 26 in. above normal. Total since Sept. 1, 1.77 in, 44 in. above normal. HUMIDITY: Lowest yesterday 35. highest this a.m. 98 . CITY high low Free. Brookings 68 49 Crater Lake 64 41 Grants Pass 79 49 Klamath Falls 76 42 MEDFORD 84 47 Portland 75 49 SeatUe ......68 46 . . Spokane ... 61 42 Yakima ; 69 . 39 Eureka 64 49 ' Red Bluff 92 61 Sacramento 89 53 San Francisco . 78 52 Los Angeles ..69 59 Phoenix 68 63 . Denver ; . 65 37 Chicago 64 43 Miami 84 70 .01 New York 65 53 . .T Washington, D.C. 78 57 4.54 FIVE-DAY FORECAST (Through Oct. 19): - . Western Oregon Mild weather with temperatures averaging normal through Wednesday. Showers likely tonight and rain Sunday or Monday. Total amounts less than one-half inch in interior valleys. Highs 65-75. Lows 45-50. Northern California No precipita tion. Temperatures above normal be coming near normal about Monday. PORTLAND CASH GRAIN Portland Wholesale Hav Prices: No. 2 green alfalfa, baled, f.o.b. trucks. Portland and-Seattle. $35-36. Prices 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. $49.50; No. 2 Western barley, $47 f.o.b. Port land Coast delivery; soybean 'meal, SRS SO tnn pars nrnmnt H.i;.n, T3 land; No. 2. 'milo, f.o.b. Portland, oi.au ton; standard millrun. $44-45 cars; No. 2 yellow corn. Eastern ship ments, f.o.b. Portland, $58.75. Obituaries ILLANA BROWN Funeral services will be held at Patterson, Calif., for Illana Kaye Ann Brown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Orshal W. Brown, 214 North Holly st., who died at a local hospital yesterday. Perl funeral home is in charge of local arrangements. The deceas ed was born at Crow's Landing, Calif., on Nov. 19, 1954. Besides the parents, survivors include two brothers, Gerald and Philbern; a sister, Wayna Fay; the paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Brown, Tah laquah, Okla., and the paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Cochran, Colcord, Okla. EDITH BUNDY Funeral services for Mrs. Edith Belle Bundy, 86, a long time resident of Medford, were held today in Conger - Morris chapel. Committal was in IOOF cemetery. Survivors include a son, Park er Bundy, Tacoma, Wash.; a daughter, Mrs. Doris Newman, Grants Pass; three brothers, Gus and Clifford Parker, Eugene, Ore.; and John Parker, Chehalis, Wash., and four grandchildren. NOTICE Daughters of trie British Empire1 SALE MEN'S -WOMEN'S and CHILDREN'S . ' - GARMENTS -Many Other Items PRICED TO SELL ' SATURDAY, OCT. 15 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. GIRL'S COMMUNITY CLUB 229 N. Bartlett Medford Saturday Night 0Mn EAGLE POINT The Only Spring Floor in Southern Oregon Dance to the Combined Music of DICK SPAIN, BILL LIVELY And the ROGUE VALLEY BOYS! Featuring HAROLD WILLIAMS . . On the Steel Guitar . Tune in . . . Bill's Western Round-Up Time KW I N Friday, Oetober 14. 1955 KF Firm Enters Low Bid on Timber Weyerhaeuser Timber como- any of Klamath Falls was low bidder on a tract of timber of fered for sale by the Medford district of the Bureau of Land Management yesterday. Weyerhaeuser bid $30 n e r thousand for Douglas fir, $49.50 tor ponaerosa pme, and $10.20 for white fir. The total bid of $85,919.40 was the highest made by the five bidders who partici pated in the: oral sale. The tract, which contains an estimated 2,047,000 board feet, is located at the proposed How ard Prairie Reservoir site in east ern Jackson county. The next regular BLM sale in the Medford district Nov. 17 will consist of two tracts containing an estimated 7,116,000 board feet. One tract is located near Buck lake in western Klamath county and the other is near Wilderville in Josephine county. Further information concern ing proposed sales may be ob tained from the district forester's office in Medford city hall. Use Mall Tribune Want Ada o ASH LAN Do William HOLDEN Jennifer JONES CirwnoScop C3 t fohflHHI TMNKCUU a beta) SCUT M : F DANCE Sat. Night BOBBY CHAMPION AND HIS MELODY WRANGLERS Finesr Western Music in the Pacific Northwest. See and Hear Them . Every ' Saturday Nite. . : 6:30 - 7 P.M. - KBES-TV Itogue Ualley BALLROOM (9 2. W iT M cMft.iouK Amis: y71 PLUS MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIFTEEN 4-H Club News Trail 4-H Club The . Sewing . and Cooking Circle met for their first meeting Tuesday, Oct. 11 at the Elk-Trail school. The meeting was conducted by our leader, Mrs. Dorothy Hume, until our president was elected. Those elected were:' president, Doris Darrohn; vice-president, Willie B. Poitevint; secretary, Joey Hume; reporter, Jacky Hume, song leader, Carol Sands' We have 10 members in ' our group. Gates open S:30 p.m. Show at 7 DJn. TONITE & SATURDAY m. 1 PLUS- Walt Disney's Switzerland and - HUNTED... HOUNDED... 1 ruioufcui usuron UMH NELSON WKHI .IIMUUIUIMl TAkllTB AND SAT. DONALD O'CONNOR .AwmaMUNTmuraNU Fieiua ' PLUS . OUTLAW LOVE! a iiMwMSMwnitunestsi Rery CALHOUN Colleen MILLER TONITE sun. SO WONDERFUL! 1 V V, Little Boy Lost PLUS DW -'-- I I3E2JBBI rob Jam? . 5d JBt'- iilif lb Books and materials were civ. en to us by Mrs. Hume. lhe next meeting will be at the Dusenberrv home Oct. an at 2 p.m. Toiii Miller arid Kathy" Meyers will be hostesses. Reporter, Jacky Hume. DOORS OPEN 12:30 P.M. TOMORROW AT I P.M. FOR ALL KIDDIES SIX TO SIXTY Selected From CHILDREN'S LIBRARY OF FILMS By Parents Magazine PLUS , 3 CARTOON 4 HITS 'O and CHAPTER No. o "AFRICAN ADVENTURE" TONITE fir SAT. NITE r DOORS OPEN 6:30 P.M. JOHN WAYNE LAUREN B AC ALL OnbmaSScoPET WarnerGouor -STARTS ' ? llVIt ilk VI FOR THE FIRST TIME . . . the screen bares the secrets of the " psychiatrist's V- couch! VIM IMMN . OUSUS BACALL BOYER. i niMi ! is """wan i 7J mm wmt r Uf Aim - Ml If 3 M NOW IN COLOR Mb a 3 11 IMUB MUM