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Loca! and In Hospital Mrs. David Mc Laren, Kbgue River, is in Osteo pathic hospital for medical care, the hospital reported this morning- " Surgery Patient Frank Hoff man, 820 Taylor st., Medford, is in Community hospital for surgery, the hospital reported this morning. o Inspection! Fire Marshall Truman Nelson reported inspec tions in eight business establish ments yesterday. Three orders were issued for corrections of hazardous conditions. i m Trades Council The Med ford Building and Construction Trades council will meet at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 21, at 24V2 South Grape st., according to Alvin D. York, secretary. Arriving Miss Claudia Cor um, Portland, is expected to arrive Friday to spend Christ mas with her father, George H. Corum, 324 North Front St., and other relatives. . o Amwef) Call Medford fire department was called to the residenc of Stanley Murrey, 927 Murray st., about 7:19 p.m. yesterday to check an overheat edQstove. No damage wag5 re ported. Christmas Party Medford Jaycettes will hold the annual ' Christmas party Dec. 21 at 8 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Bill Rombach on Dark Hollow rd. Members needing transportation may call Mrs. Walter Smith, 2-2298. o Daughter Arrives Mrs. Ford Knutsen arrived from Astoria, re., to be with her father, E. C. Ferguson, a patient at Sacred Heart hospital, and Mrs. Ferg uson, Evelyn apartments. Knut sen and the couple's two daugh ters will arrive by automobile Friday and the family will re main here, for the Christmas holidays. WEDNESDAY NIGHT SHOPPER SPECIAL! PUta Dinner $1.00 - Child's Plate 60c Served from 5 to 8:30 P.M. Wednesday Night Shopper's Service at the JACKSON ttotpgint Itotpgint "Hutpoint pRB- ' '''' t . O t e I o - o stin o "Jackson County's Exclusive 'HOTPOINT' Dealer" 127 North Central Avenue 137 East Main Street Medford, Oregon-Phone 3-5306 Ashland, Oregon-Phone 9-5831 t itotpoint tiufyKJint itatpcjint o Personal Trom Salt Lake Mrs. I. C. Whittaker arrived this week rom Salt Lake City, Utah, to visit her daughter, Mrs. Wil liam H. Buckingham, and fam ily, 27 Lincoln st., during the holidays. " Student Home Alfred Leav itt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Leavitt, 39 Summit st., arrived home today from Oregon State college, Corvallis, to visit dur ing the holidays. Visit En Route Mr. and Mrs. Robert Boggs, Anchorage, Alaska, visited several days with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lambo, 1389 South Peach st., en route to Los Angeles. Attends Siminar Ben H. Hathaway, Gold Hill, general agent of the Ohio National Life Insurance company, is attending a home office seminar on gen eral agency administration in Cincinnati, Ohio. The seminar will last twJ weeks. Mother 111 Mrs. Alex Tum mers of Mon Desir dining inn, is in San Francisco where she was called by the illness of her moth er. Mrs. Tummers plans to re turn Friday evening and will be accompanied by Mrs. Sonia Gor don, San Francisco, who will spend the holidays with her sis ter, Mrs. C. M. Lizberg. Trial Set Circuit Judge Pro tein Barnett H. Goldstein has set Jan. 24 as the date of trial of the Robert N. Harris vs. Herman Wexler case. Harris - is seeking a decree restaining Wexler from interferring with use of Buck horn mineral springs rd. off Highway 66 south of Ashland. y Visiting Mrs. A. Lonnstrom arrived Sunday to visit for a few days with her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. fred E. Hallgren, 1825 Orchard Home court. She, is en route to visit in Los Angeles after having been in Bangor, Maine, Detroit, Mich., and Minnesota ' the past few months. HOTEL Obituaries BERTHA GEDLICH Mrs. Bertha Gedlich, 72, of 3895 South Pacific highway, died at a local hospital Monday. Perl Funeral home is in charge of arrangements. Unusual Procedure Brings Robber $50 Portland U.R) A holdup man with an unusual manner escaped with about $50 from a service station early today, po lice reported. The robber, who held one hand in his jacket, ordered at tendant Jack Turel to take all the currency out of the till, lay it on the counter and step back. Then he picked .up the bills. After that he ordered Turel to do the same thing with the half dollars and quarters. ' The robber told Turel it was his first holdup. Depoe Bay Telephone Loan Said Approved Washington U.R) Rep. Wal ter Norblad (R-Ore. said today the Rural Electrification Ad ministration had approved a $136,000 loan for the Depoe Bay, Ore., Telephone Company with which to install dial tele phone service for some 430 fam ilies in the area. Christmas Dinner Southern Oregon Dental Assistants society will hold its annual Christmas dinner Wednesday, Dec. 21, at 7:30 p.m. at the Dardanelle. Members may bring guests and dancing will follow the dinner. Dress will be formal or semi formal. . . . Bulletin Available A bulletin on "Safety Hints for Christmas" is available at the Jackson Coun ty Public 'Health department; according to Miss Dorothy Hus key, health educator. The bulle tin suggests types of toys for various age groups, as. well as safety ideas. Persons wishing bulletin may obtain them at the department. Bulletins will be mailed if addresses are furnished the department. Births MONROE To Mr. and Mrs. Levi. G., Central Point, Dec. 19, 1955, a girl, 7 pounds, at Community Hospital. STAGG To Mr. and Mrs. Harold, Jacksonville, Dec. 16, 1955, a girl, 9 pounds, at Osteo pathic hospital. VIELBIG To Mr. and Mrs. Jerome, Butte Falls, Dec. 19, 1955, a boy, 6 pounds, at Osteo pathic hospital. We're Overstocked 52 Gallon WATER HEATERS so... Out They Go This Month! Regular ...... $129.95 Upright 30.00 Discount NOW ONLY 99.95 Regular $144.95 Table Top 35.00 Discount NOW ONLY . .109.95 THESE HOTPOINT WATER HEATERS ARE STILL IN THE CRATE! Fores! Seedling Requests Mount Salem (U.R) Requests re ceived for forest tree seedlings since late in November for the purpose of planting on privately owned lands have exceeded the total ordered for the same' pur pose during the entire 1954-55 planting season, Charles H. Ladd, senior farm forester with the State Forestry Department, said today. During the one month period the orders have totaled nearly 1,500,000 trees, with the pros pective planters asking for the Noble, Grand and Douglas firs. The supply of the first two has already been exhausted but the Douglas fir will probably be ade quate to meet the demands. "The strong demand for the Noble and Grand firs" is prompt ed by the rapidly increasing acreag that is going into Christ mas tree plantations, especially in the Willamette valley," Ladd said. "These trees have long been the favorites -with the holi day, trade and bring premium prices. School Christmas Program Scheduled The annual Christmas pro gram of Roosevelt grade school will be held in the gymnasium of nearby Hedrick Junior High school this year, according to Principal John Childers. He as sured parents and friends of the youngsters there will be "plenty of room to sit down" this year, in contrast to prior years. It will be at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 21. ' The program will be present ed by the fifth and sixth graders, and all members of those two grades who wished to will have a part in its presentation.. Theme of the program will be "Christmas Here and Abroad." Portland Heating Firm Elects Vice President Portland (U.R) Directors of Portland Gas & Coke Company announced today they had elect ed Charles R. Holloway Jr., as vice-president in charge of mar keting. Holloway, considered . one of the leaders of the heating indus try in Oregon, will be in direct charge of Gasco's record-making expansion to handle marketing for the new natural gas due to arrive next summer through the new pipeline from the south west. with Inc. News About Servicemen Five Valley Men Enlist In Army Five Jackson county men who enlisted recently in the Army will leave Wednesday, Dec. 21, for enlistment processing in Portland. The men will return home for the holidays and will report after New Year's for eight weeks basic training at Fort Ord, Calif. Following basic they will be assigned . to the second infantry division, Fort Lewis, Wash. With the second division they will go to Alaska in July, 1956. The men are Richard Delos Walker, son of John Delos Walker, box 427, Gold Hill; Kenneth Wyman Bailey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer W. Bailey, box 466, Gold Hill; Roger Wil liam Genaw, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Genaw, box 474, Gold Hill; Donald Albert Hall, box 636, Central Point; and Delbert Wayne Mayfield, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Mayfield, route 1, box 507B, Central Point RECRUITING TRAINING Sfc. Warren M. Long, local Army recruiter, has returned from a four day recruiting train ing meeting in Portland. ON FURLOUGH Pfc. Gerald Robertson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Robertson, Prospect, is home on a 20-day Christmas furlough. Robertson, who is with the 34th Engineers, attached to the second infantry division, arrived in Medford with the division convoy enroute to Fort - Lewis from Louisiana which passed through Medford Sunday morning. ENLISTMENT FURLOUGHS Men who enlist now in . the regular Army will be sworn in and returned home on furlough for the Christmas holidays, Sfc. Warren M. Long, local army re cruiter, has announced. After New Year's the new recruits will report for basic training. HOME ON LEAVE Among Navy men who are on 14-day leaves from San Diego, Calif., are Ralph Miller and Donald Tosh, both of 1916 Grandview ave.; Virgil Evans, 1130 Niantic st.; Dale Living ston, 513 King st.; and Charles Lewis'. They will return to San Diego, Calif., Dec. 29. RETURNED Alexander J. Macknicki, a Navy chief engineman, husband of the former Miss Audrey M. Galbraith, route 3, Medford, re turned recently to San Diego, Calif, from the Far East on the radar picket submarine, USS Raton. The ship recently com pleted a six-month cruise in the western Pacific and visited For mosa, . Japan, Hong Kong and Korea during the tour. AT WICHITA Glen P. York, an Air Force first lieutenant, has entered B-47 transition phase training at Mc Connell Air Force base, Wichita, Kan. Upon completion, he will return to his regularly assigned wing of the Strategic Air com mand where he will undergo fur ther B-47 Stratojet training. FIRE BRICKS Buffalo. N.Y. (U.P.) The first fire bricks, foundation of the modern metals, glass, cement and ceramic industries, can be traced back to . the Tower of Babel. Bricks found in the town were discovered to be "very well burned," say researchers of Electro Refractories & Abrasives Corp. Daily Weather Report Sunset tonight 4:41 p.m. Sunrise to morrow 7:46 a.m.' FORCASTS Medford and vicinity: Partial clear ing tonight. Fog Wednesday morning. Fair Wednesday afternoon. Low to night 38-40; high tomorrow 60. Western Oregon: Scattered showers tonight and Wednesday with brief periods, of partial clearing. A little warmer in extreme north portion to night. High 44-56; low tonight 34-44. Northern and central California: Mostly cloudy with occasional rain from Monterey and Stockton north ward today, tonight and Wednesday except snow in the mountains. Little change in temperature. FIVE-DAY FORECASTS: Western Washington and Oregon: Recurring rains totaling more than normal, amounts one to three inches in interior valleys with temperatures near the normal high in the 40s- in western Washington and 45-55 in west ern Oregon. Lows i the mid-30s. Northern California: Occasional rains, snow in the mountains. The high temperature near normal. Low temperature above normal. LOCAL DATA TEMPERATURE: Mean yeiterday 46; above normal 8. Record high this date 59 in 1947. Record low'this date 19 in 1935. PRECIPITATION: 24 hours to mid night, .60 inch. Midnight to 10 a.m., .18 inch. Total this month 4.06 inches. 2.08 inches above normal. Total since Sept. 1. 10.93 inches, 3.72 inches above normal. HUMIDITY: Lowest yesterday 58 , highest this a.m. 100 . . CITY High Low Prec. Brookings 55 48 .74 Crater Lake 32 28 l.Oo Grants Pass 51 44 .40 Klamath Falls 42 35 .08 MEDFORD 53 39 .72 Portland 33 30 .9o Seattle . Spokane ' Yakima . 44 31 23 37 26 10 .53 .15 .23 Eureka Red Bluff Sacramento San Francisco Los Angeles - . 59 56 . 58 . 60 60 56 53 53 57 49 .92 .78 2.42 1.15 Phoenix Denver . Chicago 78 59 . 14 76 37 39 43 33 6 55 15 20 Miami Tuesday, December 20,. 1953 Sa?t0i-PnrKed J- Green aeft) has been appointed assistant general business manager of United Ptp Hth headquarters in New York. SucleedSg Seen? Pacific SSS Anfffn adquarters if San riandsco s SfSS 1A5 t$J dm business mana r Weyerhaeuser Crews Accept Wage Offer Portland (U.R) Weyer haeuser Timber Company em ployees have voted "overwhel mingly" to accept the firm's wage offer, according to a vote tabulation announced today by the International Woodworkers of America. . The IWA balloting committee here said 92 per cent of the 7000 employees affected in Oregon and Washington mills favored the Weyerhaeuser offer of a 4Vfc cent wage boost plus fringe ben efits. The settlement will be ap plied immediates, retroactive to Dec. 1. The Union estimates placed the cost of the settlement to the company at 22 V2 cents an hour. WALL STREET New York (U.R) The age of jets intrigued Wall Street today. The aircraft stocks ran up one to more than two points while the remainder of the market made an irregular decline. As market men saw it, the air craft industry will be the big industry of 1956, an industry turning out jet planes for the airlines as well as for the mili tary. , Today's closing prices on se lected stocks: American T & T 178 Anaconda 7OV2 Chrysler 87s Curtiss Wright : 28 General Electric 55 General Motors 45 Montgomery Ward 94 Penn R R 25 Penney J C 97 Radio ....45 Southern Co 19V2 Southern Pacific 56 S Oil of Calif 90 12 Texas Gulf Sulphur 37V4 Transamerica 417s Tri-Continental 25 V4 United Aircraft 60 U S Rubber 497s U S Steel : 57 Youngstown 97 PORTLAND LIVESTOCK Portland (U.P.) Cattle 450. High good with some choice around 900 1025 lb. fed steers $19.25-19.50; low good grades out at $17.50; cutter-utility steers $9-11, top steers $20 for good-choice 107 lb.; commercial-good heifers $15-16; good-choice 805 lb. fed heifers $17.35; good heifers mostly S16-17; canner-cutter cows $7-9; cut ter bulls $10-11:50. Calves 50. Good-choice vealers $18 22; high-choice vealers $24; good heavy calves around $15.50-16 or above; culls down to $7. Hogs 200. U.S. 1 and 2 butchers $13.50-13.75; No. 3 lots S12.50-12.75; sows 300-550 lb. $9.50-11.50. Sheep 200. Choice early shorn slaughter lambs $17.50; good-choice $16.50-17.50; high choice to $18 and $18.50; good-choice feeder lambs $14.50-15.50; good-choice ewe $4.50 $5.50. PORTLAND HAY, GRAIN Portland (U.P.) Wholesale hay prices: No. 2 green alfalfa, baled, f.o.b. trucks, Portland and Seattle, $39-40 ton. U.S. No. 1 Timothy hay, $48 ton, f.o.b. Seattle; No. 1 Timothy mixed hay, $41-42 ton, Seattle. Prices as reported by the USDA market news service: Wheat. No. 2 soft white, $74 ton; No. 2 white oats, 38-lb. test. Coast delivery, $51; No. 2 Western barley, $46-46.50 f.o.b. Port land Coast delivery: soybean meal S77 top, delivered, Portland: standard millrun, $41.50-42: No. 2 yellow corn. Eastern shipments f.o.b. Portland, $62.25. Dead line Sunday Classified lJ at noon Saturday: 10 a.m Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 Drevious day Reservations Now For the Family's MON DINING INN cpcri&i Christmas Christmas Day DINNERS Dining Room Open 3 For Reservations Phone NOrmandy 4-2513 17 MEOFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIFTEEN Steam Locomotive Contracts New End Washington (U.R) A contract for what may be the last steam locomotives ever to be built in this country now is nearing com pletion, according to the Gen eral Services Administration. The Baldwin - Lima - Hamilton Corp., Philadelphia, now is in the process of . delivering 50 steam locomotives to the govern ment of India for the Foreign Operations Administration (now under the International Coopera tion) with GSA acting as pur chasing agent. Not a single steam locomo tive had been built in the United States since 1949, but a year ago the Indian government ask ed industrial countries to fur nish 100 of the steam-powered giants. India, with a lot of coal, is better suited for this type of transportation that for diesels. Fifty of the engines were ordered from the United States, 25 from Britain and 25 from Japan. India also ordered 8,730 freight cars from firms in the United States, Britain, Japan, France and Austria. Deliveries of the equipment to rehabilitate India's transportation system are to be completed in the near fu ture. A GSA spokesman said the project meant a lot of designing and redesigning before con struction could start because the Indian railroad is based on Brit ish and European standards. He said it also meant calling out of retirement many of the few remaining experts on steam locomotive Construction. "These may be the last steam locomotives built in the United States," he said, "that is, unless some country needs more of them. Then the experts will have to be called back from retirement again." PORTLAND PRODUCE Portland (U.P.) Eecs To retail ers: Grade AA large, 64-65c: A large, b2-63c; AA medium, 60-62c: A me dium, 59-60c; small, 51-52c; cartons, l-3c additional. Butter To retailers: AA grade prints, 66c lb.; cartons. 67c; A prints, 66c: cartons, 67c; B prints. 64c. Cheese To retailers'. A grade Ched dar, Oregon singles, 401,i-45',2c: 5-Ib. loaves, 461i-49'2c. Processed Ameri can cheese, 5-lb. loaf, 39;,2-41c lb. Farm Market Trading was slow today; quotations for most top quality fruits and vege tables held steady to firm; local cello phane carrots sold at $4-4.50 for four dozen bags with name brand to $6. Poultry, Rabbits Live Chickens To growers (No. 1 quality f.o.b. Portland): Fryers, 2',i to 4 lbs., 22c; at farm, 21c; roasters. 24c lb. f.o.b. Portland; light hens. 16c; heavy hens, all wts., 23c; old roosters ll-14c. Dressed Chickens No. 1 dressed to retailers: Fryers, New York style, 34 35c lb.; whole drawn, 42-44c; cut up, 47-49c; hens, light type. New York style, 29-31c; cut-ups, 41-44c; hens, heavy type. N.. style, 34-36Ci whole drawn, 44-47c lb. Turkeys To producers for A grade young hens, f.o.b. farm. A grade hens, nominally 36c lb.; A grade toms, 29c; A grade hens, eviscerated. 41',ic; evis cerated toms, 31l,ic lb.; fryer turkeys, live weights, 6V2-10 lbs.. 34c lb. Dressed Turkeys To retailers, A grade young hens, 55-56C lb.: eviscer ated; A grade young toms. 46-50c lb. eviscerated; depending on weight; eviscerated fryer-roasters. 57c lb. Rabbits (Average to growers, f.o.b. killing plant) Live white. 33,i-4',4 lbs., 23-26c; 5-6 lbs., 18-21c; colored? pelts, 4c under; old does. 10-14c lb.; a few higher. Fresh killed fryers to re tailers. 58-61c; cut up. 62-65c. Make Holiday Dinner at Di Central Point Eve & P.M. Emotional Stability Necessary for Diet Ithaca, N. Y. (U.R) If you plan to go on a diet to reduce, make sure you're emotionally stable before you start. That's the advice of two Cornell Uni versity psychiatrists. Dr. C. Douglas Darling and Dr. John Summerkill tested 29 students who undertook a super vised diet and found that emo tionally stable persons had four times as much chance of success ful dieting as those who showed sign of emotional instability. The scientists pointed out that nearly all excess weight comes from over-eating, and that what often causes over-eating is a minor emotional stress. But a serious emotional stress may be made worse when a person tries to cut down on eating. - The tests showed that a lew of the Cornell dieters appeared tense or distressed, did not have . as many friends at school and were not happy at home. The successful dieters were: alert, had many friends, and had con tented home lives. They had adjusted to being over-weight, but had decided to reduce to "look better." -.'' Alaska Bush Pilot Killed in Air Crash Anchorage, Alaska U.R) -Herb Haley, 54, one of Alaska's best known bus pilots, was killed Monday when his dyna mite laden plane crashed into a . cliff in the Big Mountain ' area, 200 miles southeast of here. The dynamite did not explode nor did the plane burn. . HOT LUNCHES! Delicious Salads Home-Made Pies Medford-Made Candies ' Wrapped for mailing WHITE'S CLOCK & CANDY KETTLE Main & Bartlett Ph. 2-6766 Open Wed., Thun., Fri. Til 9 Shoppers Special THE Craterian Theater Bldg. HflHI A SWELL HOLIDAY SHOW IRVING BERLIN'S" GEHQiM Doors Open 6:45 P.M. y Butter , Ip Baked S3 Top Notch $ fS&7 JUDY CANOVAj Xf IT'S LOADED WITH , V IF -"ft UUGHS AMD MUSIC! ' VIH ROBERT LOWERY . 3 fMNKM I1M COMtTAIKt New York Washington, D.C.
