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Local and DAV Meeting The Disabled American Veterans will hold a business meeting at the DAV building, 1515 North Riverside ave., at 8 p.m. today. Flue Fire City firemen were called to the residence of W. C. Earhart, 1015 South Riverside ave., when a flue fire was re ported at about 5:45 p.m. yester day. No damage was reported. Kiwanis Meeting The Med- ford Kiwanis club meeting this week will be held at the Jack son hotel Pioneer room instead of at the Rogue Valley Country club. The noon session is to be held on Wednesday. Returns Mr. and Mrs. Ed mund Hass and son, Morgan, have returned from Seattle Wash., where he attended an an nual sales meeting of the Pacific Northwest company. Hass is Medford branch manager of the investment securities firm. Visiting Parents Jacqueline Garrett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gary Garrett, route 3, box 54, Medford, will spend the Thanksgiving holiday with her , parents. She is attending school at the Dominican convent at San Rafael, Calif. Daughter Born Mr. and Mrs. John J. Brugman have received news of the birth of a daughter to the Herbert Smiths of Pilot Rock, Ore. Mrs. Smith is the former Miss Betty Brugman, She was a staff member of radio station KYJC for some time and until her marriage. Buy El Rancho Mr. and Mrs. John F. Schultz, who arrived in Medford last Thursday from Santa Monica. Calif., have pur chased the El Rancho motel, North Pacific highway, from Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Lambert. The Schultzes have a daughter, Marilyn, 12, who began school Monday in the seventh grade at St. Mary's school. Schultz for merly was in surgical supply business. The Lamberts left here for California, planning to visit at Sacramento and Long Beach before making an extensive trip . Mexico, it is reported. HOT LUNCHES! Try One of Our Oil I JinC Delicious UHkHUU Or- Taste-Tempting: niC Home-Made lit WHITE'S CLOCK & CANDY KETTLE Main & Bartlett - Ph. 2-6766 Closed Thursday - Thanksgiving Villi wdnnirii'ity WEDNESDAY NIGHT SHOPPER SPECIAL! Plate Dinner $1.00 Child's Plate 60c Served from 5 to 8:30 P.M. A Wednesday Night Shopper's Service at the JACKSON HOTEL THANKSGIVING THURSDAY NIGHT - NOV. 24 at Walker's Popular Party Favors and Fun For All Finest of Modern Music A Good Clean Party For All the Family Plan Your Next Banquet or Christmas Party at 1 V infill, V.CIN I KAL In the FRENCH ROOM, Now Available for Private Parties Complete Dinner, $2.00 FOR RESERVATIONS - Phone NOrmandy 4-2513 SPECIAL THIS WEEK ONLY! Tonight 7 to 10 p.m. Thursday 7 to 10 p.m. Friday 7 to 10 p.m. 10 to 12:30 p.m. Sunday 2 to 4:30 p.m. Rogue Valley Ballroom tii?iiiiiiiiii'iif'i-'V'OTf'ir-f -iir-mii-rnium r- - 11 r- -tthiit Personal Delinquents Two 14-year-old Medford boys were held in Jackson county jail Sunday for juvenile authorities on a charge of delinquency, according to a sheriffs office report. Leg Broken Jerry Bianconi, 30, of Box 143, Central Point was taken to Sacred Heart hos pital by Medford Ambulance service at about 2:30 p.m. yester day. Bianconi suffered a broken leg in an accident at a service station on Highway 99 north of Medford, according to ambulance attendants. Attend Meeting About 55 members of the Medford unit of the Ground Observer corps at tended a meeting held this week at the GOC headquarters at the Medford Municipal airport. Those awarded wings were Hel en Paul and Jerry Jantsy.' A film was shown concerning GOC work. Accidents An automobile and a Trailways bus collided at the corner of East Fifth and North Bartlett sts. about 5 p.m Sunday. Operator of the car was Virgil Paul Kinney, 107 Jean ette ave. The bus was driven by Lee Wilson Sellers, Portland Neither driver was cited, accord ing to city police. Vehicles Collide Albert F Johnson, 62, of 640 Oakdale dr.. and Robert Collins, 31, of 1817 Stratford way, were drivers of vehicles which collided at about 12:30 p.m. yesterday at the in tersection of Oakdale and Stew art aves., according to state po lice. Minor damage to both ve hicles was reported and there were no injuries. Thefts Two thefts were re ported to Medford police Sun day. Rex Merle Coggins, 2751 Dark Hollow rd., reported the theft of several articles from his car while it was parked at 201 West Jackson st., Saturday night. Keith Babcock, 1308 East Main st., reported the theft of a coil, valued at $16, from the Thrift Auto Supply company, 409 North Riverside ave. Food Sale Members of the chapter of Epsilon Sigma Alpha sorority, will hold a baked foods sale Wednesday, Nov. 23, at the Home Appliance store, 115 East Main st. Featured will be a cook book compiled by the local mem bers with 2 00 favorite recipes. Offices pointed out proceeds will go to the Crippled Chil dren's Hospital school in Eu gene, a state project for all chap ters of the sorority. They also said $4,000 has been given through the sorority for each of the last two years. Several Jack son county children have attend ed the school and others are there at present. At Community William rich er, 3, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Eicher, route 1, box 576, Central Point, had tonsil surgery today at Community hospital. At Home- Miss Laura York, 517 West 10th st., is convalescing at home from surgery which she underwent recently at Commun ity hospital. Friends may call on her. Thanksgiving Story Mrs. Joanne Weatherford, acting county home demonstration agent, will speak on little known facts abouf the origin of Thanks giving and give Thanksgiving dinner advice at 4:40 p.m. today, on radio station KMED. News About Servicemen ASSIGNED Army Specialist Third Class Robert E. Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs. Vern Brown, Williams is assigned to the Aggressor force in Exercise Sage Brush now be ing held in Louisiana. He is a mechanic in battery B of the di vision's 94th field artillery bat talion, and is regularly stationed at Ft. Hood, Tex. He entered the Army in January, 1954. SCHEDULED Robert P. Graham, Navy chief quartermaster, son of Mr. and Mrs. John P. Graham, 175 Jean- nette st., is scheduled to return to San Diego, Calif., Nov. 13 on the destroyer, USS Buck. The ship is completing a six-month cruise in the Western Pacific, and ports of call included Yoko suka, Japan; Subic Bay, Phil ippine islands; Pearl Harbor, T. H.; Hongkong, BC.C.C; Mid way island; Okinawa and For mosa. COMPLETES COURSE Sgt. Roger A. Adams, son of Mrs. Ada Adams, route 2, box 175B, Central Point, has com pleted a two-week course in at omic, biological and chemical warfare at the El Toro Marine corps air station at Santa Ana, Calif. Before entering the service in July, 1952, he was graduated from Central Point high school. IN MANEUVER Rex T. Moore, an Army spe cialist third class whose wife lives at 333 East Jackson st., is par ticipating in Exercise Sage Brush in Louisiana. He is a weld er in Service company of the 8th infantry division's 61st regi ment and regularly is stationed at Ft. Carson, Colo. Moore was graduated in 1952 from Eagle Point high school and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford H. Moore, route 1, Eagle Point. GRADUATED Marine Pfc. Raymond D. Hults, son of Mr. and Mrs. Per cevil W. Greeley, route 2, box 288L, Medford, was graduated Oct. 14 from the Airman pre paratory school at the Navy air technical training center at Jacksonville, Fla. ATTENDS SCHOOL James D. McCamant, son of the Rev. Thomas McCamant, 300 Oakwood dr., is among 348 Mar ines attending the 14th officer candidate class at the Marine corps schools at Quantico, Va. The 10-week course is designed to train selected qualified per sonnel for service as Marine corps officers. Upon completion, students receive commissions as second lieutenants in the Mar ine corps reserve. ON LEAVE Robert Griess, son of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Griess, 321 North Columbus ave., is visiting here through the holidays on a 10-day leave. He has just completed basic training in the Air Force and arrived from Parks Air Force base, Calif. He is an air man third class, and is a 1955 Medford High school graduate. From here he will go to Barks dale Air Force base. Strategic Air command, near Shreveport, La. The nation's most important deposits of chromite are in Still water and Sweetgrass counties in Montana, according .to surveys by the U. S. Bureau of Mines, present estimates indicate. TABU DINNER HOUSE Will Be Open For 1 P.M. To 9 P.M. COMPLETE TURKEY DINNER INCLUDING SMORGASBORD Tiny Tots $1.00 Children $1.65 Adults $2.25 305 South Riverside Church Announcements Deadline Wednesday Because of the Thanksgiv ing holiday, it is requested thai church announcements for Friday's issue of the Mail Tribune arrive at the news paper office not later than noon Wednesday, Nov. 23. Unemployment Pay Meets Open To Public Salem (U.R) State Unem ployment Compensation Com mission hearings are generally open to the public, Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton saiJ today. But in rare cases, his opinion said, the commission has discre tion to hold a closed session. The opinion followed a recent hearing by a representative of the commission in Roseburg to which a reporter on a Roseburg newspaper was denied admit tance. The commission asked Thorn ton in effect if a member of the public could be excluded from a hearing upon a claims or con tribution matter. He replied that such hearings are quasi-judicial functions of the commission and statutes gov erning them provide for a fair hearing. Wall Street New York (U.R) Strength in railroad shares helped the stock market restore yesterday's losses in a more active session today. Railroad issues registered gains ranging to more than 6 points in Union Pacific. Ad vances of more than a point to more than 2 points were regis tered by others. Du Pont, weak spot yester day, came back smartly. The is sue lost 9?4 in the previous ses sion because directors saw fit to sidetrack a stock split that Wall Street had been anticipating. At today's high of 234 it was up 5Vi points net. Today's closing prices on se lected stocks: ' American T & T 18034 Anaconda ' 74Vs Chrysler 972-s Curtiss-Wright 29 General Electric 52V8 General Motors 50V2 Montgomery Ward 10336 Penn. R. R 25 Vi Penney, J. C 101 Vi Radio 46?8 Southern Co 19 Southern Pacific 57 S. Oil of Calif 86 Vi Texas Gulf Sulphur 37 Transamerica 42 Tri - Continental 26 United Aircraft 65 U. S. Rubber 47 U. S. Steel 58V2 Youngstown 97 PORTLAND PRODUCE Portland (U.P.) Esss To retail ers: Grade AA large, 58-59: A large. 55-56 2 AA medium, 51-52c: A me dium 50-51c; small, 42-43c; carton, l-3c additional. Butter To retailers: AA grade prints, 66c lb.; cartons, 67c; A prints, b6c: cartons, 67c; B prints. 64c. Cheese To retailers: A grade Ched dar. Oregon singles. 40I.2-451,2c; 5-lb. loaves, 46',2-491,2c. Processed Ameri can cheese. 5-lb. loaf, 39',2-41c lb. Farm Market Dry onion prices held unchanged to day; California White Wax offerings topped the market at S4-4.25 a 50-lb. sack; No. 2 potatoes in limited sup ply sold higher at $1-1.25 a 50-lb. sack or above. Poultry, Rabbits Live Chickens To growers (No. 1 quality f.o.b. Portland): Fryers. 2?2 to 4 lbs., ZJ-Zic; at larm, zz-z6c; roasters 25c lb. f.o.b. Portland: light hens 18c: heavy hens, all wts. ,22-23c; old roost ers. ll-14c. Dressed Chickens No. 1 dressed to retailers: Fryers, New York style, 34 35c lb.; whole drawn, 44-46c: cut up, 48-51c; hens, light type. New York style, 33-34c: cut-ups. 42-46c: hens, heavy type. N.Y. style, 33-34c; whole drawn, 43-47c. Turkeys To producers for A grade young hens, f.o.b. Farm, N. Y. dressed, 37 lb.; A grade toms. 28c: A grade hens, eviscerated, 41',ic; eviscerated toms. 31',2C lb.; fryer turkeys, live weight, 612-10 lbs., 34c lb. Dressed Turkeys To retailers, A grade young hens, 53-5c lb. eviscer ated; A grade young toms. 45-52c lb.; eviscerated depending on weight; evis cerated fryer-roaster. 57c lb. Rabbits (Average to growers, f.o.b. killing plantl Live white. 34-42 lb. 23-26c up; 5-6 lbs., 18-21c: colored pelts. 4c under: old does, 10-14c lb.; a few higher. Fresh killed fryers to re tailers, 58-6 lc; cut up, 62-65C. PORTLAND HAY, GRAIN Portland Wholesale hay prices: No. 2 green alfalfa, haled, f.o.b. trucks, Portland and Seattle. S38 ton. Prices as reported by the USDA market news service: Wheat. No. 2 soft white, S72 ton; No. 2 white oats. 38-lb. test. Coast deliverv, $50; No. 2 West ern barley, S46.50 f.o.b. Portland, Coast delivery; soybean meal $79 ton, deliv ered Portland; standard millrun. $44.50 cars; No. 2 yellow corn. Eastern ship ments, f.o.b. Portland, $60.50. Phone 2-2870 Births ROBINSON To Mr. and Mrs. Robert, route 1, box 545, Talent, Nov. 21, 1955, a girl, 6V2 pounds, at Sacred Heart hospital. MOSSER To Mr. and Mrs. Eugene, 410V2 Kenwood ave., Nov. 21, 1955, a boy, 7 pounds, at Sacred Heart hospital. JENKINS To Mr. and Mrs. Robert, 755 Marshall ave., Nov. 21, 1955, a boy, 8V2 pounds, at Sacred Heart hospital. AVERY To Mr. and Mrs. Harley, 2815 North Pacific high way, a girl, ZVz pounds, Com munity hospital. HAERTLE To Mr. and Mrs. Harry, 208 Haven st., Nov. 21, 1955, a girl. 6V2 pounds, Osteo pathic hospital. LADY To Mr. , and Mrs. Donald, Phoenix, Nov. 21, 1955, a boy, 9 pounds, Osteopathic hos pital. Rescue of Stranded Tower Visitors Due Boston U.R) The sea-going tug El Sol was en route to day to pick up 37 visitors strand ed five days on the nation's first Texas Tower, some 100 miles off the tip of Cape Cod. A spokesman for the Ray-mond-Delong Corp., which set the radar and weather observing station in the sands of Georges Bank, said the visitors, Air Force technicians and observers, to Quincy, Mass., by tomorrow morning. Winds of hurricane force have battered the triangular-shaped steel tower since the visitors reached it last Thursday morn ing. Waves 30 to 35 feet high have been pounding into it. The platform of the station rests 70 feet above the water on three concrete-filled legs. PORTLAND LIVESTOCK Portland (U.P.) Cattle 200. hold over 250. Good-choice light steers S18 22.25, latter for truck lot 1108 lb.; good heavy steers $18; utility steers $10-12; good heifers mostly $16-17.25: few to S18; canner-cutter cows $6.50-8, few S8.50, shells down to $5; utilitv cows $9-11; commercial to $12.50; light cut ter bulls $9.50-11. Calves 65. Good-choice vealers $18 21; one at $22; cull-utility vealers $7 11; medium stock calves $14. Hogs 50. U.S. 1 and 2 butchers around 200 lb. $14.60; U.S. 1 and 2 butchers around 200 lb. $14.50: asking around $13.50 for No. 3 lots: sows around $11.50-12.50 or above. Sheep 300. Good wooled lambs $16 16.50: good and choice feder lambs $14-15: 81 lb. range feeders $15.50; ewes $5 for good. Daily Weather Report Sunset tonight 4:44 p.m. Sunrise to morrow 7:11 a.m. FORECASTS Medford and vicinity Rain tonight. Showers Wednesday morning, snow above 3.000 feet. Partly sunny Wednes day afternoon. Low tomorrow morn ing 36, high Wednesday 45. western uregon Considerable cloudiness with scattered showers to night and Wednesday. Low tonight 34 42, high Wednesday 42-48. rxortnern California Increasing cloudiness north Dortion tndav with rain Eureka northward Wednesday. Local morning fog in central valleys. Good chance of fair weather Thursday. (Throuffh Sunday) Western Oregon Temperatures ave raging below normal with highs most ly in the 40s and lows in the 30s. Pre cipitation occurring mostly as ram Wednesday and again ebout Satur day totalling about one half to 1 inch. Northern California Rain in the north portion late Wednesday and again near the end of the period. Temperatures slightly below, normal. LOCAL DATA TEMPERATURE: Mean yesterday 41: below normal 2. Record high this date 68 in 1926. Record low this date 20 in 1938. PRECIPITATION: 24 hours to mid night .01 in. Midnight to 10 a.m.. none Total this month 3.33 inches, 1.52 inches above normal. Total since Sept. 1. 6.35 inches, 1.98 inch above normal. Humidity: Lowest yesterday 65, highest this a.m. 100. CITY High Low Pree. Brookings 52 39 .03 Crater Lake 24 14 .32 Grants Pass 51 34 .01 Klamath Falls 35 14 MEDFORD 47 33 Portland 46 36 .01 Seattle . 43 34 Spokane 31 22 Yakima 28 15 Eureka 51 37 .01 Red Bluff 57 37 Sacramento 58 36 San Francisco 55 41 Los Angeles N-. 60 49 .74 Phoenix 71 49 Denver 69 35 Chicago 45 37 Miami 77 70 New York 48 37 Washington, D.C 61 33 SPECIAL TONITE AT 9 P.M. MAJOR STUDIO SNEAK f PRE iV OF A BRAND NEW COMEDY ROMANCE ALSO TONITE & WEDNESDAY j Tuesday, November 22, 1S53 Easy Northwest Growth Said Over Portland (U.R) The Pac ific Northwest's period of easy growth is past, a Seattle banker warned today at the closing bus iness session of the Inland Em pire Waterways association con vention here. Miner H. Baker, vice-president of the Seattle First National bank, said "many of us have been deluding ourselves in recent years about the progress of our region. We have accepted rather uncritically the thesis that the West is a unit and that all the West, including the Pacific Northwest, is borne along on a tide of inevitable motion." Baker said that real progress has been made. But he said much of the prosperity has been trace able to big federal appropria tions. He said also that the rate of growth has slowed down mar kedly. FOR THANKSGIVING THIS GENTLEMAN PREFERS GIRLS! GREAT ON THE STAGE I TERRIFIC AS A MOVIEI Ttap What (vtry girl sett for very man! from M-G-M Itgrnng ffllSlM in COLOR and CINEMASCOPE! HOLLY THURSDAY ASHLAND Randolph scon RAGS at DAWN TECHNICOLOR POWERS TUCKEH f PLUS Pearl of the South Pacific SUPERSCOPE Virginia Mayo Dennis Morgan Technicolor IB Si W " - j4. mm mm m MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIFTEEH About 2,800.000,000 barrels of oil were consumed in 1954 to meet American rtemanri Thi is equivalent to the Droved crude oil reserves, as known today, of the entire state of Louisiana. 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