Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, December 22, 1955, Image 15

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Newspaper Page Texto Local and Chimney Fire Firemen were called .o a flue fire about 6:50 p.m. yesterday at the Donald Reverman home, 934 Park ave They reported no damage. Denial Student Robert A. Guderian, senior in dental school ' at the University of Oregon, Portland, returned to Medford Sunday to spend the holidays with his tiarents. Mr. and Mrs Clarence A. Guderian, 1304 West 10th st. Law for Laymen The final lecture in the course "Law for Laymen" was given last Wed nesday night i?y Attorney G. W. Kellington, of Roberts, Kelling ton & Branchfield. He discussed civil procedure in the trial and appellate courts of Oregon. To Tacoma Miss Hilve John son, 51 North Oakdale ave., plans to leav Friday for Ta coma to visit Mr. and Mrs. Bar ney Bussiere, and her nephew, Lt. Wayne Johnson, at McChord Air Force base. She will be gone through the holidays. New Tricyce Found Jackson ville police report that . they found a new, red tricycle one mile from Jacksonville on the Medford-Jacksonville highway, It apparently fell out of a car, police said. The owner can re claim it by calling for it at the Jacksonville police station. St. Mary's Program Students of St. Mary's school will present a nannual Christmas program today at 8 p.m., in the school gymnasium. Students from all grades will participate. Skits, plays and pageants are on the program. Parents and the gen eral public are invited. Suits Filed Condemnation suits against five Ashland resi dents were filed at the county clerk's office yesterday by the state of Oregon. The action is to secure rights of way for high way construction, according to the suits. Named in the suits are Lydia T. McCall, Frank G. Dean, Edith B. Mars, Marvin B. Shaw and Larkin A. Deer. o From Bay City Mrs. Helen O'Neil and her mother, Mrs. C h a r 1 o 1 1 e McCullough, 1223 Queen Anne ave., returned. home Tuesday frd?n San Francisco where they had been several days. They made the trip by car and reported that when they left the Bay city across the Golden -Gate bridge that winds wre estimated at 100 miles per hour. Ends FRIDAY! Hi with WALTER BRENNAN FRED STONE-DORIS DfrVERPORT PLUS 2ND GREAT HIT1 JTiTTiRnroT d color j ms&KB Jack MAKDNET , fW CASTLE I I- - jJ-SX Ate JERSEHS J TABU DINNER HOUSE 305 S. Riverside Ave. Phone 2-2870 Wishes to extend our thanks and very best wishes to our customers and friends for a very MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR WE WILL BE CLOSED DECEMBER 25 and 26 Personal In San Francisco Lucille Copeland, 236 King st., arrived home Tuesday after being in San Francisco for several days visit ing friends. At Community Daniel Leon ard, Central Point, 7-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Leonard, had tonsil surgery to day at Community hospital. Orders Issued City Fire Mar shal Truman Nelson issued five orders 'for correction of fire hazards yesterday following in spection of four business occu pancies and one public garage. ' Building Permits A. L. Nash applied for a permit yesterday to erect a $1,500 glass shop at 417 Madrona.lane, and D. L. Pickell applied to erect an 53,000 resi dence at 413 Oregon terrace. To Move Mr. and Mrs. Rich ard Ludwig, 1407 East Main st., plan to move Dec. 28 to Port land. Ludwig, an employee of the Pacific Telephone and Tele graph company plant, has been transferred by the company. - Accident Reported A sedan operated by Charles W. Oe, 32Vz South Orange st., and a pickup truck operated by Charles E. Ronsse, route. 1, Talent, collided yesterday at 8th and Holly sts., according to a city police report. No injuries were listed. Vaccine Credited For Polio Decrease ' New York (U.R The number of eight-year-olds admitted to hospitals for poliomyelitis- dur ing' six months of this year was 52 per cent below the same period in 1954, almost certainly because of the protection of the Salk vaccine, the National Foun dation for Poliomyelitis an nounced today. Dr. Hart E. Van Riper, medi cal director of the foundation, said a study of hospital records from June to November showed the decline in admissions for in fantile paralysis was 17 per .cent in the general population. Admissions of seven-year-olds, also in the age group which re ceived the vaccine, declined 40 per cent. Admissions of children 15 through 19 years old declined 12 per cent. "Usually, seven and eight year olds are among those with the highest polio attack rates," Van Riper said. "The rate for eight-year-olds has fallen so sharply that it may wind up in 1955 below the rate for 10 to 14 year olds." - Van Riper said that 1955 was a lighter polio year on the whole than 1954 but that the -overall decline "would not account for this change in age distribution." Obituaries JAMES EDWARD WALTER Funeral services for James Edward Walter, 74, Medford, who died Monday in a Salem hospital, will be held in Conger Morris chapel Saturday at 9 a.m. with the Rev. G. Herbert Hiller man of the Zion Evangelical Lutheran church officiating. Committal will be in Siskiyou Memorial park. Mr. Walter was born in Tiffin, O., April 2, 1881. He served in the Navy between March 27, 1917 and May 17, 1917. Survivors include a nephew, Edward . L. Walters, - Central Point, and several nieces and nephews in Ohio. MARY and HUGH LAPPIN and the ENTIRE STAFF of News About Servicemen FROM LOWRY BASE Charles T. Winters, an Air Force airman second class, ar rived home Tuesday from Lowry Air Force base, Denver, Colo., to spend the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Winters, 15 Lindley ave. He is instructing in electronics at the base. The squadron to which he is attached served as an honor guard for President and Mrs. Eisenhower when they were in Denver recently. Air man Winters was graduated in 1954 from Medford High school and entered the service that year in August. FROM GERMANY Cpl. William J. Grow arrived Saturday from Germany to visit on a 30-day leave with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred T. Grow, 210 Charlotte Anne rd. He is serving with the Army engineers at Karlsruhe. Corporal Grow is a Medford high school graduate. He received basic training at Ft. Ord, Calif., after entering the Army in August, 1954. Later he received training at Atlanta, Ga. He left for Germany last March. The trip from Germany was made by plane. Stevenson's Son Faces Surgery as Aftermath of Crash . Goshen, Ind. (U.R) An am bulance today carried Adlai E. Stevenson and "his youngest son homeward where the youth will undergo surgery in the after math of a traffic crash which killed two college companions! The presidential candidate comforted his son on the 100 mile trip to a Chicago hospital where 19-year-old John Fell Stevenson's shattered knee cap will be repaired by a bone specialist. Condition Said Good His condition was described by hospital officials as "good." A grand jury, meanwhile, promised an early report on whether it will press charges against a truck driver blamed for the head-on crash. The truck driver, 29-year.-old Fred Gill of Detroit, was held without charge pending the Elk hart county grand jury action. Indiana state police quoted him as saying "it was my fault." Stevenson, the 1952 Demo cratic candidate for president and an avowed candidate for his party's presidential nomination next year, stayed in Goshen overnight to be near his stricken son. Two Hours at Bedside The Democratic leader flew to Goshen from Chicago in a char tered plane after the crash near Goshen Wednesday. He spent two hours at the bedside of his son, and then issued a statement saying he was "heartbroken" over the deaths of the two other youths. Young Stevenson, who was at the wheel of his father's car when it crashed, also suffered a fractured lower jaw, facial cuts, and the loss of five of his upper teeth. But doctors said he would probably not be permanently handicapped. The two youths killed in the smashup were both socially prominent young Chicagoans and classmates of the younger Stevenson. They were William S. North III, 19,. of Suburban Lake Forest, 111., and William C. Boyden Jr., 19, Chicago. A fourth -Harvard student, James Gilligan, 19, Nebraska City, Neb., was riding in the back seat and suffered appar ently minor injuries However, an attending doctor said he was "a little worried about the boy" because he complained of a neck pain. Home for Holidays The four collegians had set out from Harvard Tuesday to. drive home for the holidays. They kept driving all night, taking turns at the wheel, and the younger Stevenson was driving 1 when the gift-loaded car was turned into a mass of twisted metal on U.S.' 20 10 miles north east of Goshen. Stevenson's car was going up a railroad overpass just as Gill, driving up the other side of the overpass, swung his truck into the oncoming lane of traffic. Gill was attempting to pass a second truck, which was churn ing slowly up the incline. The trucks were almost side by side when they met the oncoming Stevenson car at the top of the overpass. Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport -Help Fight TB ... Buy Chrisfmes Seals.. Wall Street New York (U.R) Stocks missed by a narrow squeak in setting a new record high in industrial shares today. Traders neglected the issues that make up the averages and bought many others, notably the aircrafts. The latter showed gains ranging to more than 3 points at the highs with new tops in North American Avia tion, Grumman, and United. Today's closing prices on selected stocks: American T & T 179 Anaconda 7034 Chrysler 89 Curtis Wright ... .-...29 General Electric ...... 55 General Motors 46T4 Montgomery Ward 9a?s Penn. R. R. 25Vs Penney, J. C. ..... 96V4 Radio 46 Vs Southern Co 19 Southern Pacific . 56 S. Oil of Calif. 8934 Texas Gulf Sulphur 38 '4 Transamerica 425s Tri-Continental 25 United Aircraft ." 73 U. S. Rubber ., 57 U. S. Steel - 57 Youngstown 97V4 PORTLAND LIVESTOCK Portland (UJM Cattle 100. Util ity steers and heifers S10-14: canner cutter cows mostly $8-9.50; utility cows $10-11. Calves 25. Good-choice vealers S19 23: good-choice slaughter . calves S15.50-16.50 or above; cull calves and vealers down to $7. Hogs 100. U.S. 1 and 2 butchers 180-235 lb. $13-13.50; No. 3 lots $12.25 12.50: sows 350 500 lb. $9.50-11. Sheep 200. Choice with some prime 112 lb. slaughter lambs carrying No. 1 pelt $18.50; good-choice lambs $16.50 17.50; good-choice feeder Iambs $14.50 16; good-choice ewes $4.50-5.50; cull utility $2-4. PORTLAND PRODUCE Portland (U.P.) Eggs To retail ers: Grade AA large, 64-esc; A large, 62-63c: AA medium, 60-62c; A me dium, 60-62c; small, 51-52c; cartons, l-3c additional. Butter To retailers: AA grade prints. 66c lb.; cartons. 67c: A prints, 66c: cartons. 67c; B prints. 64e. Cheese To retailers: A grade ched dar. Oreeon singles. 40 ',4-45 Vie: 5-lb. loaves, 46?2-49,2C. Processed Ameri can cheese. 5-lb. loaf. 39;z-lc io. Farm Market Trading was moderately active to day with prices steady; topped Calif ornia carrots sold lower at $6 and below for four-dozen packages; local carrts were so -75 and below. Poultrv. Rabbits Live Chickens To growers (No. 1 qualitv f.o.b. PorUand): Fryers, 2Yz to 4 lbs., 22c: at farm. 21c: roasters 24c lb. f.o.b. Portland: light hens, 16c; heavv 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.Y. style, 34 36c; whole drawn. 44-47C lb. Turkeys To producers: A grade hens, eviscerated, 41V3-43c: eviscerat ed toms, 33-34 Vac lb.; fryer turkeys. live weignts. ei-to los., 3c io. Dressed Turkeys To retailers. A grade young hens, 55-56c lb. eviscer ated; A grade young toms, 46-60c lb. eviscerated depending on weignt; eviscerated fryer-roasters. 57c lb. Rabbits (Average to growers f.o.b. killing plant) Oave white. 3-42 lbs., 23-26c; 5-6 lbs., 18-21c; colored pelts 4c under; old does. 10-14c lb. a few higher. Fresh killed fryers to retailers, 58-6lc; cut up, 6Z-65C. PORTLAND HAY, GRAIN Portland Wholesale hay prices: No. z 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. $42, Seattle. Prices as reported by the USDA market news service: Wheat. No. 2 soft white, $74.50 ton; No. 3 white oats. 38-lb. test. Coast delivery, $a 51.50; No. 2 Western barley, $46.50 f.o.b. Portland delivery; soybean meal $78.50 ton, delivered Portland; stand ard millrun, $41.50-42; No. 2 yellow corn. Eastern shipments, f.o.b. Port land, $63.25. BIG CHRISTMAS EVE SATURDAY, DEC. 24 featuring in Person Alvadean & Sandy COKE R and the Coker Band ABBOTT Recording Artists PLUS A TERRIFIC SHOW and DANCE Christmas Night Dec. 25th Starring-The COKERS & the Melody Wranglers Plus Many Local Artists DONT MISS THESE 2 BIG NIGHTS Come Out and Enjoy Yourselves! Rogue Valley Ballroom Injuries Result From Two Accidents Two street department em ployees were hospitalized and a woman was treated at Com munity hospital this morning following two auto accidents. ' Clyde M. Travaskis, 44, of 615 West Jackson st., suffered severe facial and head cuts, and Jack J. Gillaspie, 39, of 636 West Fourth st., received knee and mouth injuries when the city of Medford truck Gillaspie was driving struck a parked pickup on South Riverside ave. Police said the two had been working on city streets during the night and it was believed fatigue was the cause of the collision. The parked truck was owned by Calvin W. Wold, 549 Fairmount st. Mrs. Myra Louise Conner, 436 Berrydale ave., was treated at Community Hospital this morn ing for knee bruises and bleed ing after the car in which she was a passenger collided at West Main and Fir sts. with a sedan driven by Ernest E. Mc Keen, Portland. ... Her husband, J. D. Conner Jr., was the other driver, police said. Vehicles in both accidents sus tained considerable damage. Union Pacific Men Taking Strike Vote Omaha (U.R) Union Pacific officials here said today they are aware a strike vote is being conducted which would affect brakemen and conductors in mostly the Northewst division of the railroad. Spokesmen said such an ac tion, which is being taken by the Brotherhood of Railway Con ductors and Brakemen, has no connection with a contract. They explained the present contract has about two years to run. - However, they said they be lieved union officials in Salt Lake City were trying to bring about a strike vote to back up "time claims." It is understood the union wants to present a grievance to the company, claiming em ployees were not paid for time put in on certain runs, spokes men said. Silt washed into Lake Mead back of Hoover dam is estimated to amount to 500,000 tons per day. For the benefit of our employees who have worked hard during the holiday rush we will be CLOSED Christmas Day and Monday to give them a 2 day holiday To Our Guests We extend our sincere wishes for a bountiful measure qf the best things in life THE Top Notch Craterian Theater Bldg. CI n it ol IN X I rri 1 Thursday, December 22, 1955 Ike Sends Hopes for Stevenson's Recovery Chicago ,U.R) Adlai E. Stevenson's office reported to day that President Eisenhower had sent his "prayerful hopes" for the speedy recovery of Stev enson's son, John Fell, who was injured in a car-truck collision yesterday. .- Roger Tubby, Stevenson's press secretary, said the Presi dent sent the telegram from the White House yesterday to Stev enson, his Democratic opponent for the presidency in the 1952 election. "Distressed to read on the ticker that your son John has been seriously injured," the tele gram said. "I send you my most prayerful hopes that he will soon recover." Daily Weather Report Sunset tonight 4:42 p.m. SunrUa to morrow 7:38 a.m. FORECASTS Medford and vicinity: Lowering cloudiness with rain tonight and Fri day morning. Partial clearing with showers Friday afternoon. Low to night 40-45. High Friday 50. Western Oregon: Showers tonight and Friday with brief periods of par tial clearing. A little cooler ' tonight and Friday with low tonight 35-46 and high Friday 44 to 54. Coastal- winds southwest to west 15-30 mph tonight and Friday. Northern California: Storm warn ings with south winds 30-50 mph from Halfmoon bay northward and south erly gales at times over northern California through Friday. Bain to night and Friday. Heavy at times in north portion. Snow level 6,000 to 7.000 feet. LOCAL DATA TEMPERATURE: Mean yesterday 51: above normal 13. Record high this date 61 in 1919. Record low this date 16 in 1948. PRECIPITATION: 24 hours to mid night, 2.27 inches. Midnight to 10 ajn., .78 inch. Total this month 6.74 inches, 4.55 inches above normal. Total since Sept. 1, 13.61 inches, 6.19 inches above normal. HUMIDITY: Lowest yesterday 82, highest this a.m. 100. CITY High Low Prec. Brookings Crater Lake 42 34 4.44 Grants Pass 61 56 2.14 Klamath Falls 51 47 .84 MEDFORD 57 52 3. 02 Portland ..: 60 51 1.94 Seattle . 52 45 .93 Spokane . 46 40 .83 Yakima 35 ii .95 Eureka 65 60 .99 Red Bluff 60 57 .20 Sacramento 62 58 1.06 San Francisco .; 63 58 1.32 Los Angeles 66 54 Phoenix 78 41 Denver 59 40 Chicago 27 21 Miami 75 65 - New York 18 12 Washington, D.C 27 19 0 Reservations Now I For the Family's MON DINING INN cpfc-iai Christmas Christmas DINNERS Dining Room Open 3 P.M. For Reservations Phone NOrmandy 4-2513 in MADCAP RIOTERS PAINTING THE SCREEN WITH They'fe perfect models of craziness in their funniest, girliest comedy ever! DOROTHY ALSO "TWIN RIDING CHAMPS"-C0L0R MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE -FIFTEEH Nehru Accuses Soviet Leaders of Twisting History New Delhi, India (U.R) Prime Minister Jawaharlal Neh ru accused Russia's leaders today of "twisting history" in anti- Western speeches during their recent tour of India. Delegates at a closed meeting of Nehru's Congress party said the Premier declared he was "embarrassed" by some of the things said by Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin and Soviet Communist party chief Nikita Khrushchev. . Nehru Embarrassed Nehru said the Russians twisted history in charging that the Western Allies sent Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union in the early days of World War II. Nehru said he was embar rassed by this particular speech, informed sources reported after the Congress party session. But he told the party members he was not embarrassed by the Russians' references to Kashmir and Portugese Goa. Nehru said he divided the Bul-ganin-Khrushchev speeches into three catagories: No Specific Issues 1. Speeches in which they crit icized the West on general lines without directly attacking spe cific issues. Nehru said he did not mind these, 2. Speeches in which they made direct attacks. -He said he took particular objection to these, and especially regretted the attacks on Britain. 3. The Russian comments on Goa, which India wants freed of Portuguese control, and Kash mir, a border territory in dis pute between India and Pakis tan. Nehru was reported to have said he was not embarrassed by press reports of these speeches. In about 1942 only 22 oil re fineries were producing 100 octane gasoline or its compon ents. Now there are more than 100 modern plants in the U.S. engaged in producing this fuel. Holiday Dinner at .DESIR Central Point Eve & Day n MALONE . EDDIE MAYEHOFF Trio ... J EVA GABOR . ANITA EKBERG '. GEORGE WINSLOW ;;, Wait Disney To Id egad National Wildlife Week Washington (U.PJ Stovie pro ducer Walt Disney, who has captured hundreds of wild ani mals on film, will.heai National Wildlife Week next year. The National Wildlife Federa tion announced today that Dis ney will be chairman of tha annual program opening March 18. HOT LUNCHES! Delicious Salads Home-Made Pie Medford-Made Candies Wrapped for mailing WHITE'S CLOCK & CANDY KETTLE Main & Bartlett Ph. 2-6766 Open Wad., Thurs.,. Fri. 'Til 9 T flow! Doors Open 6:45 P.M. 1 A PLUS STARTS SUNDAY! "TOWN i TAMER" Frontier Style! JAN" STERLING TON ITE THE PERFECT HOLIDAY SHOW! I LAUGHTER! . SHIRLEY MacLAINB s 9 7l ktm TBCHittce W n,ii mm commki lAINt . BRASSELU . TOWBI mum "J 5SS m. CARTOON - LATE NEWS