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Local and Fined KeithWoodside Wray, 47, Colorado Springs, has been fined $255 and sentenced to 30 days in Jackson County jail on a charge of driving while under the influence of intoxicating liq uor. Wray had no operator's li cense, but his right to apply for one was suspended for 90 days. His sentence was to be suspended on payment of the fine. Two Men Fined Leo Shelby Callaway, 19, of 1140 Morrow rd., and Richard Joe Foulon, 18, of 1605 Biddle rd. were fined $105 each in district court re cently on a charge of malicious destruction of public property. The two men dynamited an irri gation flume last July, belonging to the Rogue River Irrigation district, according to Deputy District Attorney Gene Piazza. Accidents No one was in jured in two accidents reported by city police Friday and Satur day. A )jcycle operated by Jack Nelson Teebler, 11, of. 1871 Marsh lane, ran into the side of a car driven by Sherman Sisco Shipman, Klamath River, Calif., fat thewrner of West Eighth and Auth Front sts. A second acci dent on West Sixth st. between Grjpe and Fir sts., involved cars driven by General Andrew .Roach, 851 Wabash ave., and Franklin B. White, 2397 Corona ve. No citations weiej issued. Merry-Go-R ounderi A square dance will be held by Dance club Tuesday from 8:30 p.m. to midnight at 40 North Riverside ave. Mrs. Minnie Ro bertson will call the squares and all' square dancers are invited. Potluck refreshments will be served. Obituaries OSMOND L. SAMUELS psmond Loyd Samuels, who lived in the domiciliary at Camp White, died yesterday. Conger- Morris is in charge of funeral ar rangements. - ' ' ' WILLIAM JOHN PHELPS Services for William John Phelps, 81, who died Saturday, will be held in Conger-Morris Chapel, Monday at 1 p.m., with the Rev. J. Thomas Dixon offi ciating. . Committal will be in Wadsworth, Ohio, later this week. The deceased was born at Wadsworth, Ohio, March 30, 1874, and moved to Central Point from Ohio 11 years ago. . Survivors include four sons, Bernard J. Phelps, Wadsworth, Ohio, Stanley , J., Canton, Ohio, Leo, Central .Point,.. Ore., and Thomas A., Talent,' 11 grandchil dren and eight great grandchil dren. DONALD SOMMER Aslahd Funeral services for Donald Archie Sommer, 14, who was killed Friday afternoon in a hunting accident, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 25, at Litwiller funeral chapel here. The Rev. Maurice Tisdale, min ister of the West Side Church of Christ. Medford, will officiate, and interment will follow in the Stearns cemetery on Wagner creek. , The youth was a freshman in Phoenix High school, where he was active in athletics, and was a member of the Wagner Creek 4-H dub. He was also active in his, church's Sunday school. He was born in Ashland on Nov. 14, 1940. Survivors include lis parents, Mr; and Mrs. Wil liam Sommer, route 1, box 548; a brother, Bean, and a sister, Linda; three grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Archie Estes and Mrs., H. L. Sommer, all of Talent; two aunts, Mrs. Leon Lockwood, Tal ent, arid Mrs. Glenn Abbott, Fortuna, Calif.; an uncle, Earl Sommer, Talent, and four cous ins, Debby and Ronnie Sdmxner, Talent, and Betty and Glenda Simmons, Fortuna. .- . . , (See story on Pag 1) ; TONITE! BURF LANCASTER Pjr-t WILLIAM HOLDEN 1 A ELEANORJjARKERin Personal Parking Topic The Jackson County Chamber of Commerce roundtable will discuss off-street and other parking problems in Medford at its Monday luncheon in the Jackson hotel. Answer Calli A pumper and aerial ladder truck from the main station and the Westside station fire truck were called to. the Morton Milling company about 2:29 p.m. yesterday to a reported fire in the roof. The fire, which caused slight damage, started around a flue from ' the boiler room. About 8:45 a.m. yes terday, the Westside station truck was called to the home of Frank D. Wooten, 915 Canyon . ave., Medford, for an overheated floor furnace. No damage was report ed. Business Names Five busi ness names were retired and as sumed Friday, according to records in the Jackson county recorder's office. The business name The Mill Cafe, retired by Thomas E. and Winifred Phelps, has been assumed by Rowena A. and Jay Dee Varner. The busi ness name The Motel Cafe, was retired by Rowena A. and Jay Dee Varner, and assumed by Delia M. Hughes. The business name Rowena's Cafe, was retired by Rowena Shafer. Carl I. and Everett D. Bennett retired the business name Bennetts' Floor Sanding and Finishing, and as sumed the business name Ben netts' Floor Service. The busi ness , name Rolling Pin Donut Shop of Ashland was assumed by Carl R. and Mildred F. Gil bert. ' - Air Crash Toll Increases fo Six North Hollywood U.R) The death toll stood at six Saturday from a tragic air accident in which a private plane flown by a millionaire playboy " crashed into a North Hollywood apart ment house. The two latest deaths were those of Miss Shirley Preston, 25, and Frank Marchica, 38, who succumbed Friday night at North Hollywood hospital. Three persons were killed out-right whe nthe small -monoplane, flown by Joel W. Thome, 40, 'crashed through the roof of the apartment house last Mon day night and one other person died shortly afterwards. Four other persons injured in the air mishap remained in criti cal condition at the hospital, .. Meanwhile, funeral services for Thorne, wealthy sportsman pilot, were scheduled to be held here Saturday. Engineers Won't Back Port Orford Project Portland U.R) Army En gineers have announced in Port land, that they have recommend ed against improvements to the harbor at Port Orford on the Oregon coast. Port. Orford interests had ask ed federal funds for construc tion of a breakwater and for dredging to permit berthing of deep-draft vessels. Engineers said "the benefits that would accrue from this im provement are insufficient, com pared with the cost . ... to war rant federal participation in such a project at this time." Grand Jury Clears Arnold Y. Valencia Portland (U.R) Arnold Y. Valencia, 34-year-old transient, has been cleared of a second de gree murder charge. . The Multnomah county grand jury returned a "not true" ver dict in favor of Valencia, who had been accused of the Sept. 30 knife-slaying of 24 -year-old tijedq iiTiU'l-il in ff -li F)lMBnnIFUlleMM., I) JL Portland Police Nab Youth After Wild Chase ' Portland (U.R) Police Sat urday held an 18-year-old youth who was captured after a wild, 12-block chase following the shotgun holdup of a north end tavern by a- masked bandit. The suspect identified himself as Harold Terry, 18. He had $1857 in his pockets when po lice found him hiding in the back seat of a car. During the chase, one shotgun blast was fired but it hit no one as four men followed the bandit from the tavern. Terry did not resist when ar rested. He was booked on charg es of assault and battery while armed and assault with intent to kill. Stocks Show First Weekly Gain Since Ike Became III New York (U.R) Stocks registered their first weekly ad vance this week since the mar ket fell out of bed on President Eisenhower's illness. The gain which amounted to 13.79 points in the industrial average was the best for that figure since the post-election boom of 1954 the week ended Nov. 5, 1954. The average closed at 458.47. V : . Best Recent Gain The rail average closed the week at 151.45, up 2.98 points, best gain since the week ended Sept. 9. .Utilities finished at 62.51, up 1.03, their best rise since July 22, 1955. The 65 stock average finishing at 162.59, up 4.05, made the best gain since March 4. " v . Trading declined from the re cent pace. Many reasons were advanced for the turnabout. The principal one was on oversold condition in the market which developed last week. Also there was a big batch of highly favorable earnings re ports and dividend actions, plus more to come. Business held high. Investors returned to the buying side. Monday's market revealed a change of first-of-the-week ac tivity. The market broke its jinx of sharp Monday declines and industrials rose more than a point. ' . More than 23,000 inland Am erican communities depend solely upon motor trucks for their freight service. News About Servicemen TO ACTIVE DUTY James Powell, 18, of 1000 West 11th St., Medford, . will leave today for three years active duty in the Navy. He will report to Portland, then will go to Seattle for processing. He will be transferred to San Diego, where he will attend a 15-week storekeeper school. Powell enlisted under the Navy's high school seaman pro gram, which permits youths to en list in the reserves and finish high school prior to active duty. JOINS UNIT Bruce Matheny, post 'office box 147, . Jacksonville . has en listed in electronics division 31 5, local naval reserve unit, as a training device technician sec ond class.- .' Matheny recently returned from active duty at Annapolis, Md., where he was an instructor in link trainers. He qualified midshipmen in aeronautics. He was on active duty four years. OFFICER TO LEAVE Second Lt. Leonard J. Keene will leave Sunday, after spend ing a three week furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs, Ches ter B. Keene, 142 -Glenwood rd., Medford. Lieutenant Keene is with the 11th Airborne "An gels" division at Ft.. Campbell, Ky., soon to go to Germany for two years. ; EMERGENCY SURGERY . Airman Arnold Gene Pence, son of Mr. and Mrs. George H. Pence, 604 Berrydale ave., Med ford, underwent emergency sur gery for appendicitis last week, his mother reported. He was inducted into the Air Force only'cbout two weeks ago, and became ill only a week after arriving at Parks Air Force base in California. He did not let his parents know he was ill until after the operation was ' per formed successfully. Jesus Avalos in a tavern brawl. Valencia had claimed self de fense. . . ' EATON'S DINNER HOUSE tit Crater Lake Ave. Pal 2-44(4 ITALIAN AND AMERICAN DINNERS SPECIAL All the Spijtaetti and Homemade Ravioli you can eat Include! Home Made Bread, Batter and Coffee. 4 QQ 5 COURSE ITALIAN DINNER $1.50 Open 5:3 PJM. Tin 9 P.M. ' Every Day Except Thursday Reserves Warned To Get Results Or Face Discharge Ft. Benning, Ga. U.R) Army Secretary Wilbur M. Brucker warned commanders of military reserve units Saturday to push the administration's reserve pro gram or face discharge. He told a news conference the thousands of unit commanders throughout the nation are ex pected to play the key role in building up Army reserve forces in 1,692,335 men. "There's no reason they should not accept this job" of getting young men into the reserves, Brucker said. "We're going to put it right up to the unit com mander that he's the guy." Must Produce If a unit commander does not produce over a period of . time, "there is no reason why he should expect to . continue as a unit commander," he said. Brucker delivered his warn ing at a time when the Army is under intense criticism from the Reserve Officers Association for ordering a sweeping re-organization of the reserve structure. It is wiping out several hundred reserve units, organized chiefly for wartime supply and post-war occupation duties, and substitut ing combat units. The ROA con tends the move is ill-timed and will hamper reserve recruiting. Mother of Tiny, Abandoned Polio Victim Boston (U.R) Sentimental police and charitable organiza tions teamed up Saturday in at tempts to reunite an unidentified mother with her abandoned polio-stricken baby boy by offer ing her aid andta promise not to prosecute. "We are not arrest-minded . . . the police would like to help the mother," said Pplice Sgt. Joseph D. McGillivary who heads the search for the admitted poverty stricken widow, mother of an 18-day old tot reported recover ing from polio at Boston City Hospital. Hard bitten and obviously moved policemen combed the low-rental Roxbury section where the child was found in a paperbag on a doorstep Oct. 6 the day after he was born. He was stricken with polio four days ago with his arm partially par alyzed. Dr. John F. Conlon of City Hospital said the baby "possibly" may be suffering, too, from pneu monia in the upper left lobe of one lung. Boston newspapers circulated an open letter to "dear mother of baby OC" from Augustine H. Parker Jr., president of United Community Services, . offering "the facilities of all red feather agencies will go into immediate action to help you." His appeal came only hours after the woman wrote hospital authorities identifying herself as a poverty-stricken widow who abandoned her infant so that he SHE T HE 1 NOT ONE, BUT TWO TOP FEATURES WITH GREAT STAR CASTS! BOTH IN CINEMASCOPE & COLOR! A CLOUDBURST 'k'Sym ALL DteBIMl LMOHAEL IIDD i Cliii4AfTAC4 Smv M Soest R fc) eta st bh aa at inn sa . mt ra nn Ships Collide In Puget Sound Bremerton" (U.R)- A tanker and a ferry collided in the fog shrouded waters of Puget Sound Saturday but no one was report ed injured and damage to both vessels was slight. ' " Passengers aboard the : ferry Chippewa said they were alerted to the danger of a collision by frantic shouts of "Look out, we're going to hit!" " Passengers in -the bow of the ferry, which was en route from Seattle to Bremerton, said they saw the tanker Dispatch . loom out of the fog only 300 feet away. The Chippewa veered to port as passengers rushed to the stern to brace themselves against the impending ' collision.. The ferry took the impact on her starboard bow and the Dispatch right on her bow. The ships grated past each other, but . both . vessels were able to proceed. The ferry went on to Bremerton while the Dis patch went to Seattle. Rivers carry two and three fourth million tons of disolved materials into the oceans every, year and even more of the sus pended materials.. The largest ocean steamers can travel 1,000 miles up Brazil's Amazon river during the . low water period. Being Sought might" have life instead of pov erty and someone w h o could "aford (sic) to give him at least a shirt and a diaper." Funeral Services Held for Hodiak Hollywood (U.R) John Ho diak, 41, known as one of Holly wood's few quiet, retiring and modest actors, was buried Sat urday after what might have been Hollywood's most quiet and conservative funeral service. There was no teeming crowd, no noisy onlookers and no Holly wood touch. The private services lasted only 10 minutes and were held at a small mortuary's chapel with about 200 persons present, many of them film industry friends of Hodiak. Some 50 persons looked on from across the street.- The Catholic ritual was said by Fr. Lavinus, a Carmelite priest from the Church of Our Lady of Grace in nearby Encino. Those attending included actress Anne Baxter, divorced wife of Hodiak. She dried her eyes several times with a hand kerchief and later avoided pho tographers by quietly slipping out a side door. . s There are 95 different makes of motor vehicles on the Austral ian market. OF ENTERTAINMENT! BLUE-SKIES and SCNSfflKS '.' 'j tto lewMto (Mtt. i, -V -',.- J if mm am mnm-awmsmnm-mum Sundar October 23, 1935 News About Books From the Library By MISS HELEN WEBSTER - Medford Librarian As the world-wide observance of the 10th; anniversary of the United Nations reaches its high point in the United . States, on Oct." 24," American libraries feel they have a particular reason for celebrating it. One of the great accomplish ments of the United Nations dur ing the past decade is its cham plionship of a principle to which libraries are dedicated, "the free dom to read." . , Uneseo Work Cited "Unesco's library projects, established where there were none before, and making all the facts available to all the people, have become both a symbol and a useful work," says Ransom Richards, editor of the Bulletin of the American Library associa tion. "To1 libraries the words of the UN General Assembly are as blood and bone: "The Freedom of Information is the touchstone of all Freedoms to which the UN is consecrated!" -Libraries on their part can do no better than help to make the achievements of the United. Na tions more widely known. ' UN Information Your Medford Public library offers you Eichelberger's "UN: the First Ten Years," a picture in a few bold strokes of the de velopment of the UN and the crises with which it has to deal. You may'1 also borrow Trygve Lie's book, "In the Cause of Peace," a record of political ac tion on the highest level, and an SQUARE Hed rick Junior mm SATURDAY NIGHT OCT. 29 Benefit for the Jackson County Disaster Car. Guest Callers from Northern California and All of Southern Oregon. $1.50 Per Couple. Spectators Welcomed! frizes! t O OUR FAMOUS DINNERS Specializing in Prim Ribs of Beef and other delectable dishes OALA CARTE MENU mon desir FOR RESERVATIONS - Doors Open 12:45 p.m. CONTINUOUS TODAY JT ADVENTURE-PACKED SAGA of a PIRATE LEADER! HIS STRANGE LOVES and STIRRING LOYALTIES! JAN LUST1G MARGARET FITTS TiZZST fBlTZLANC JOHM HQUSEMAM MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FITTEM account of the personal exper iences of a secretary-general. The Lie memoirs are candid, in formative, and highly readable. Written chiefly for young peo ple but of interest also to adults is Thomas Gait's "How the United Nations Works," a his tory of the development of the United Nations organization and an analysis of its functioning. You'll find this an indispensable background book. Other UN : Books " ' " ' Men and women who are in terested in the world in which they live will find it worth while to read Dorothy Canfield Fish er's "A Fair World for All," with its interpretations of the 30 articles of the Declaration of Human Rights, and in Kathleen McLaughlin's "New Life in Old Lands," entertainingly written vignettes of some of the day-in and day-opt jobs being done to improve life for millions in under developed countries. It demonstrates what the technical assistance programs of the UN have done in the battle against ignorance, famine, and disease. In Carle ton Washburne's "World's Good: Education for World-Mindedness," the author presents methods that can.be used to help young people grow up as citizens of the world. He also points up the work that the UN is doing to further the feel ing of world-mindedness. Any of these titles will be gladly reserved for you at the Medford Public library. : . 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