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Newspaper Page TextLocal and To Roseburg Mr. and Mrs. Eugene P. Eberius, 113 Van couver ave., moved this week to Roseburg. Eberius was assist ant manager of Leon's store for the past two years. Square Dance The Swingin' Bees Square Dance club will hold a dance between 8:30 p.m. and midnight Saturday, Feb. 18, at 40 North Riverside ave. Min nie Robertson will call, and re freshments will be potluck. . Flue Fires Medf ord firemen were called to a flue fire about 3 p.m. yesterday at the home of T. P. Barss, 317 Ardmore dr., and Central Point rural firemen were summoned to a chimney blaze about 9:45 a.m. today at the Art Johnson home, Central Point, Jacksonville rd. No dam age was reported by either de partment. Have Surgery Several new surgery patients were reported today at Sacred Heart hospital. They are Stanley Murray, 927 Murray ave.; Thomas Darland, son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Dar land, 922 Park st.; J. C. Mc Whorter, Trail; Mrs. Irwin Lar son, 832 Marshall st.; Harry Alexander, Grants Pass; Mrs, R. J. Higgins, Ideal court; and . Mrs. Golda Semon, Rogue River. Medical Care Those reported today as medical patients at Sacred heart hospital are. Mrs, Betty Womack, 830Vfe Narregan st.; Arnel Butler, 20 North, Barneburg rd.; Mrs. Genevieve McGee, 924 Mt. Pitt ave.; Mrs Linda Taylor, Central Point Mrs. Glenn Curtis, 2585 Howard ave.; Charles Brumbeck, Gold Hill; Raymond Sutton, Butte Falls; and Richard Barnes, 10, son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Barnes, 112 Keeneway dr. Meeting Changed A meeting of the Juvenile Court Advisory committee, originally scheduled for next Monday, has been changed to Feb. 27 at 8 p.m. in the circuit court room, Billy Ab bott, chairman, announced today A film, "Why Vandalism," will be shown and James McGood- win will be moderator of a dis cussion to follow. The meeting will be preceded by a session of the executive committee in. the courthouse law library at 7:30 p.m., Abbott said. 1 ' Mii;ifi TONITE! ENDS SATURDAY1 3 GREAT PICTURES! LA WILIAM ELLIOTT GAIL PATRICK WALTER BRENNAN in "DRUMBEATS OVER WYOMING" 2nd GREAT HIT! s'4 fLk "-ri-V 4 "ROARING TIMBER" PLUS 3rd GREAT HITI SUSPENSE... EXCITEMENT! . JUN KENT DIRK I06ARDE JOHN McCAlLUM SUSAN SHAW New Show Sunday! JANE WYMAN in "SO BIG" "MEN OF THE FIGHTING LADY" J I FEBSCR'S t I THRILLING OUTDOOR 1 HOTEL MEDFORD Chopped Beef . . . Festive Fare? Hotel Medford Chopped Beef is. In fact, the Quality is most apparent in everyday en trees such as this. We use only the fin est cuts of the choicest beef nothing else. Broiled and served with a delicious Mushroom Sauce. The result?... Chopped Beef with a flair. COMPLETE DINNER .. . Open From 7 a.m. Until 2 p.m., ' 5:30 to 9 p.m. Personal Moves Mrs. Katharine Earl, until recently of 144 South Ivy st., left Wednesday for Portland to live. Meeting Postponed Gold Hill Garden club announced this morning that a meeting sched uled for Feb. 17 has been post poned until Friday, Feb. 24. To Build Pool Virgil House, 2 White Oak drive, was issued a permit today to construct a swimming pool at a cost of $7,000. - Rummage Sale Shady Cove bethel, Job's Daughters, will sponsor a rummage and "white elephant" sale Saturday, Feb. 18, at the Shady Cove .cleaners. Orders Issued City Fire Mar shal Truman Nelson inspected a convalescent home and the site of a previous fire yesterday and issued three orders for correction of fire hazards. Salesmen Meet The regular meeting of the Southern Oregon Salesmens club will be held at the Medford hotel at 8 p.m., Fri day, Feb. 17. Plans for a St. ffetrick's Day dance will be dis cussed. Square Dance The public is invited to attend a square dance Saturday, Feb. 18, beginning at 8:30 Tp.m.', in the Eoxy Ann Grange hall on Spring st. Gordon Kershaw and Kenneth Howe will call. Potluck refreshments will be served. Postpone Dance Happy Har vesters Square Dance club an nounced this morning that a dance scheduled for Feb. 17 will be held Feb. 25 instead. The club dances are held at the American Legion hall, Central Point. Girls Held Two Tacoma, Wash., girls, aged 14 and 15, were lodged in the county jail this morning as runaways, ac cording to . sheriff's officers. They were remanded to the juve nile department. Man Sought City police are seeking the whereabouts of Wal ter E. Johnson, Medford, follow ing a call from - relatives in Klamath, Falls asking they con tact the man concerning a death in the family. ' Chin "Up Meeting Members of - Jackson county chapter 4, Chin Up club, will meet Friday at 8 p.m. at Girls Community club, 229 North Bartlett st. It is the regular monthly social meet ing and anyone interested in the handicapped is invited, accord ing to Mrs. Gordon Bowman, president. ' Radio Stolen Robert E. Baize reported to city police yesterday the theft of a car radio which was removed from a car on the Dean and Taylor Pontiac lot, 130 West Sixth st., within the past two days. Arthur W. Klatt, 204 Medford heights, reported yes terday the theft of a spare tire and white wheel from his car. Correction Butte Falls Grange will hold a social meet ing Saturday, Feb. 18, at Butte Falls High school. It was incor rectly stated in yesterday's issue that the Grange would serve re freshments for a basketball game Friday night at the school. Cards and games are planned for the social evening, to begin at 8 p.m. and the public is invited to at tend. Women attending are asked to take sandwiches, and the Grange will serve coffee. , Sales Meeting F. B. Connelly company, Portland, will conduct a sales meeting for distributors of Norge ranges, Sunday, Feb. 19 at 1 p.m., in the Jackson hotel. Wives of the men also are invited and dinner.will be served at 4:30 p.m. About 50 persons are expected from Klamath Falls, Ashland, Roseburg, Grants Pass and Medford. Hal Kruger of Feldman and Olson company, is ' in charge of arrangements. Portland officials of the com pany, Tis Ward and Wally Shields, will attend. Drivers Cited Joseph A. Bowdoin, route 2, Central Point, and Ernest J. Breckenridge, route 2, Central ' Point, were cited by Medford police yester day after vehicles they were driving collided at Court st. and McAndrews rd. Bowdoin was cited for illegal left turn and Breckenridge for no operator's license. Another driver, Mary E. Kunkel, 28 Highland dr., was cited for no v operator's license following a collision at Eighth and Holly sts. involving her car and one driven by Marjorie B. Votaw, 320 Laurel st., city police reported. " . $50 Medford Youth Has Rare Heart Surgery A 20-year-old Medford youth underwent rare heart surgery this morning at Mayo clinic, Rochester, Minn., according "to reports received shortly before noon by the family. Dr. John W. Kirtlin, heart surgeon for the clinic,' perform ed the operation on Leon Mc Dougall, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. McDougall, 315 Perrydale ave. Mrs. McDougall reported that she talked over the telephone with her husband, who stated young McDougall had survived the operation, during which both a mechanical heart and a mechanical lung were used, and had been "on his own" for an hour. Mrs. McDougall said . she learned from the telephone con versation that the surgeon found a "large : jagged hole" from the left auricle to the ven tricle which, too' large to be closed surgically, was plugge i with a sponge. It was said that the condition, present since birth, had caused the blood to circulate in a re verse fashion through the heart. The operation required about 6Vi hqurs, McDougall told his wife, and it was reported that young McDougall would not be completely out of danger for some time. Eugene Woman on UNESCO Commission Eugene (U.R) Mrs. Jennelle Moorhead, well-known Oregon PTA leader, has been appointed to the national commission for UNESCO, according to word re ceived from the State Depart ment. Mrs, Moorhead was named to a two-year term, ending with the closing of the commission's 1957 meeting. She will be one of 15 persons on the 100-member 'com mission representing state and local' governments. ".. - r The national commission was established in 1946 to advise the state department on U.S. participation in UNESCO; which acts as a type of clearing house for information in .' education, sciences, arts and mass com munications. "N - Plane Believed Flown By 'Whitey' Dahl Lost Halifax,' N. S. -(U.R) Cana dian and U. S. planes spanned the Far North today hunting a war surplus DC-3 transport car-" rying three men and believed piloted by American soldier of fortune Harold " E. : "Whitey" Dahl. j .; - . A spokesman for RCAF Search and Rescue headquarters said "a man named "Dahl" was flying and possibly owned the plane that was on a classified mission supplying equipment to the strategically important Defense Early Warning radar line. .The others on board were, not im mediately identified. Veteran pilots at Mont Joli, in Northern Quebec, and other points on the far-flung radar network said the only Dahl they knew of was "Whitey." Daily Weather Report Sunset tonight 5:44 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:05 a.m. FORECASTS Medford and vicinity: Cloudy with light snow tonight and Friday. Low tonight 20. High Friday 38. Western Oregon: Intermittent snow tonight and occasional rain Friday. Chance of freezing rain north portion tonight. Warmer. Low tonight 20-32. High Friday 35-42. ' , Northern California: Fair tonight and Friday except partly cloudy with a few snow flurries near Oregon bor der. Continued, cold with freezing temperatures in most places tonight. LOCAL. DATA TEMPERATURE: Mean yesterday 27; below normal 16. Record high this date 69 in 1943. Record low this date 14 in 1956. PRECIPITATION: 24 hours to mid night .03 in. Midnight to 10 a.m., none. Total this month .03 in., 1.08 in. below normal. Total since Sept. 1, 21.55 inches, 9.57 inches above normal. HUMIDITY: Lowest yesterday 46, highest this ajn. 79. CITY High Low Prec. Brookines I .... 47 27 :02 Crater Lake 16 Grants Pass 40 -7 14 7 14 18 Klamath Falls 25 MEDFORD : Portland 35 31 .03 Seattle Spokane . Yakima 24 13 10 -7 24 1 Eureka Red Bluff Sacramento San Francisco Los Angeles 43 51 54 51 59 36 30 33 39 48 Phoenix Denver . Chicago . 61 32 31 76 46 63 51 13 26 71 28 34 .05 Miami New York Washington. D.C. .10 Everyday Take-Out SPECIAL! Reg. 25c Deluxe HAMBURGERS These are our DELUXE HAMBURGERS with Mustard, Lettuce, Onions, Pickles, and a BIG patty of Fresh Ground Beef on a Toasted Bun! Tou Can Get These DAILY At PARK PLACE CAFE 302 W. MAIN ACROSS FROM THE OLD CITY PARK Elmer Deeiz Says Amount Demanded In Suit Not Owed Canby. (U.R) State Rep. Elmer Deetz, candidate for the Republican nomination for the United .States Senate, said today he doesn't owe the $7511 de manded in a lawsuit filed against him in Portland yesterday. The suit seeks payment on a promissory note made by Deetz in 1954, the year he. conducted his personal vendetta with the State Milk Marketing adminis tration and campaigned success fully for a seat in the state leg islature. :' - The suit seeking payment , on the note was brought by M. F. Keller, a Portland salesman who purchased the note from Attor neys Norman L. Easley : and Stewart M. Whipple. For "Legal Work .Deetz claimed the note had been made on a "contingency" basis and was for legal work in connection with his battle to re peal the Oregon milk market ing act. He said there had been an understanding the note would not be foreclosed. Whipple, however, denied there was a "contingency" agree ment and said the note was for legal fees in connection with Deetz' defiance of the state milk law in , the courts. Whipple said legal work on the milk act repealer would have been valued at $12,000 but that that . fee was not included in the $7511 value of the note. Bound Over After Court Appearance Robert Lee Smith, 37, 308 Chestnut st., was bound over for grand jury and held under $1,000 bail yesterday following appearance in district court on a. charge of obtaining money un der false pretenses. He was arrested by Central Point police on charges of cash ing a check at a Central Point service station when he had no bank' deposit. C- B. Baity; 43, Curry coun ty, received a six-month sus pended sentence late last week on a oharge of making a false statement in writing to procure benefit. The charge involved a $25.65 check given R. H. La Fleur, Medford. . Sheriff's deputies also jailed Howard Leslie Osborne, 3.0, 728 'Summit ave., on a charge of ob taining money under false- pre tenses,- they reported . today,-j-i PORTLAND LIVESTOCK Portland (U.P.) Cattle 150. Good choice around 750 lb. fed Tieifers $16.50; utility cows $11; canner-cutter cows mostly $7.50-9.50; utility bulls $14-15; light cutters down to $11. - Calves 25. Good-choice vealers $21-28. Hoes 100. U.S. 1 and 2 butchers 180-235 lb. $14-14.50; No. 3 grade $13 13.25: one 410 lb. sow $11. Sheep 50. Choice fed wooled lambs $17.50-18; good-choice slaughter lambs $16-17; good-choice ewes $5-6.50; cull- utility $2-4.50. PORTLAND PRODUCE Portland (U.P.) Eggs To retail ers: Grade AA large 50-53c: A large 47-50c; AA medium 45-47e; A medium 45-46c; A small 36-41c; cartons 2-3c additional. ' Butter To retailers: AA grade prints 66c lb.; cartons, 67c; A prints, 66e: cartons. 67c: B prints. 64c. Cheese To retailers: A grade Ched dar, single daisies, Wit-ioMe: a-iD. loaves, 461,i-491,2C. Processed Ameri can cheese. 5-lb. loaf, 39-41C Farm Market Some handlers predicted that North west potato prices would advance further before declining or leveling off in the sprin when California long white spuds start arriving; lettuce sold higher. ' Poultrv. Rabbits Live Chickens To growers (No. 1 quality f.o.b. Portland) x Fyers, 2li-4 lbs.. 24c; at farm, 23c; roasters, 24c lb.; f.o.b. Portland; light hens. 17c; heavy hens, all wts., 22c; old roosters, ll-14c. Dressed Chickens No. 1 dressed to retailers: Fryers. New York style. 36- 37c lb.: whole drawn. 41-44c: cut up 46-49c; hens, light type, New York stvle, 30-31c; cutups. 40-43c; hens, heavy type. N.Y. style, 35-36c; whole drawn. 44-47c. Turkeys To producers: Fryer tur- kevs, live weights, nc ic. Dressed Turkeys To retailers, nom- inallv A irrade voune hens. 55-56C lb eviscerated, depending on weight; eviscerated frver-roasters. o7c lb. Rabbits (Average to growers, f.o.b. killing plant: Live white. 3-4i lbs., Z3-26c; 5-6 lbs., ib-zic; coiorea pens, 4c under; old does, 10-14c lb., a few higher. Fresh killed fryers to retailers, 58-61C lb.; cut up, 62-65c. PORTLAND HAY, GRAIN Portland Wholesale Hay Prices: No, 2 green alfalfa, baled, f.o.b. Portland, $41-43 ton: some sales higher. Wholesale Prices as reported by the USDA markt news service: Wheat, No. 2 soft white, $74 ton; No. 2 white oats, 33-lb. test. Coast delivery, $54; No. 2 Western barley, $47.50-48 ton, f.o.b. Portland. Coast delivery; soybean meal. $75 ton . delivered Portland; standard millrun S41.50-42 ton; No. 2 vellow corn. Eastern shipments f.o.b. Portland, $63. Read and Use Classified Ads The Community's Biggest Marketplace FOR 95' Obituaries FRANK JOHNSON Funeral services for Frank Thomas Johnson, 53, Seattle, Wash., who died unexpectedly Tuesday night while visiting his sister, Mrs. Ralph Gillmore, Med ford, will be held in Conger- Morris chapel at 11 ajn. Satur day. The Rev.- Glenn S. Wade of the Berean Baptist church will officiate. Committal will be in Siskiyou Memorial park. Pallbearers will include John Morris, D. V. Piatt, Walter Nor ton,. Fred Landers, Vern Chap man and D. R. Zimmers. Mr. Johnson was born Feb. 26 1902, in Bonner Spring, Kan. He was a member of the Nation al Maritime .' Union of America and the. Eagles Lodge Aerie No. 1. . ' ,.. ''..-'. ' '' ' ' " Survivors include ' his sister, Mrs. Ralph Gillmore, Medford; a brother, Orville Johnson, Oceanside, Calif.; his step moth er, Mrs. Josie Johnson, Medford; and four nieces, and one nephew. CARL REED The 'body of Carl M.- Reed, 53, who died Friday in the Vet erans Administration Domicil iary at Camp White, is being forwarded by Conger-Morris to Salisbury, N.C., for services and interment there. Mr. Reed was born Oct. 23. 1902 at Waverly, Mo. He served in World War I as a private in the Army -Quartermaster corps and in World War II as a motor machinists mate, in the Navy. Survivors include a son, Larry Jarrett, Charlotte, N.C. Births PERRY To Mr. and Mrs. Jo seph R. Jr., route 2, box 545, Central Point, a boy, Wi pounds, at Community hospital. RUDDICK To Mr. and Mrs. Orbie, P. O. box 93, Butte Falls, Feb. 15, 1956, a girl, 7 pounds, at Sacred Heart hospital. . GOUCHER To Mr.' and Mrs. Max 903 West 10th st., Feb. 15, 1956, a girl, 8 pounds, at Sacred Heart hospital. . . . , RUTH To Mr. and' Mrs. Ted, 1502 Prune st., Feb. 15, 1956, a boy, 8 pounds, at Sacred Heart hospital. ECKSTEIN To Mr. and Mrs. Harry, Phoenix, Feb. 16, 1956, a boy, 8 pounds, at Sacred Heart hospital. n Ionia, Mich U.R) Only one of the 24 men who escaped from the Michigan Reformatory here during 1955 still is at large, pris on .officials said, Nineteen of the 24 are back, behind bars here while four others are serving time in others prisons. jHrH'Hd'JI'fiT HHJilN.flilil TONITE! HERE'S REAL ACTION! IP n...' ill m t m PLUS LOST BEHIND ENEMY LINES! The slug-H-wt ' story of the glory of the fighting Gl! - stofffng RICHARD CONTE PEGGIE CASTLE CHUCK CONNORS , Thursday. February 16. 1956 , Michigan Bridge To Withstand Gales " St. Ignace, Mich. (U.R) The $100,000,000 Machinac bridge will be able to withstand "any gale or hurricane that can con ceivably occur," its designer said. Dr. D. B. Steinman'of New York said the five-mile span "will stand like the Rock of Gi braltar" after it is completed in November, 1957. Steinman said the bridge's 552-foot main towers were un moved by winds of 76 miles an hour during a recent storm even though they were not yet en tirely riveted or weighted by the completed bridge structure. "They withstood the storm with strength to spare," Stein man said. The 76-mile-an-hour winds were within two miles per hour of the highest velocities ever recorded at the Straits of Mackinac. ' WALL STREET New York j(U.R) Trading in stocks got back .to . the recent norm today after a 3,000,000 share session yesterday. Many stocks gave up part of the previous session's gains. In dustrials .and rails lost ground on average. Utilities had a mod erate rise. Among the leading groups, chemicals, motors, and oils slip ped lower on balance. Steels were mixed and other metals firm. Today's closing prices on se lected stocks: American!" & T . 182 Anaconda ...... 69 Chrysler . ... 72 Curtiss "Wright .... .... - 28 General Electric 56 General Motors 43 Montgomery Ward 88 Penn. R. R. .. 23 Penney, J. C 96 Radio .. . 42 Southern Co - .. 20 Southern Pacific . . 53 S. Oil of Calif.'........:...'. .. 89 Texas Gulf Sulphur 35 Transamerica ' 39 Tri-Continental . 25 United Aircraft ... 67 U. ' S. Rubber ........... 53 ' U. S. Steel ... 53 Youngstown ......... .........i. 86 Use Mail Tribune Want Ads Fish 'n Chips and Jumbo Fried Shrimp at McDuffie's COFFEE POT DRIVE-IN 1132 North Riverside n STRRHGER UIITR HIS BRCK TO THE UIRkIf...RnD R 6UNPRCH RT HIS HEELS! RAY MILLAND MARY MURPHY -WARD BONO RAYMOND BURR ALAN HALE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE PIFTEEH War Games Bolster Anti-Communist Cause Bangkok, Thailand (U.R) Rear Adm. Lester K. Rice, com mander of American forces tak ing part in this week's South East Asia Treaty Organization's war games, said today the huge military exercise has bolstered the cause of anti-Communists in Asia.' . Rice told United Press in an exclusive interview that the op eration "has ended any . doubts among SEATO nations, or any body: else" regarding effective ness of the anti-Communist mili tary forces. . " After the biggest day of the exercises, the soft-spoken Pacific GRAND OPENING FRIDAY NIGHT Orchids for the Ladies . .... .. o Now Playing SENSATIONAL NEW SHOW CORTEZ BOYER TRIO Direct from Mapes Hotel, Reno . . one of the finest live comedy units in the west! . '. It Now Under New Management! NO COVER CHARGE Also Featured "Double Aires" Norm and Clair SlanYj Club AT 9 ,fiM. A BRAND NEW TOP TREAT ENDS TONITE! K STORY ir IT'S LUCY AND DESI THE STARS OF "I LOVE LUCY" AND "THE LONG LONG TRAILERl" LUCILLE DALL desi mm James A HONEYMOON OF A PICTURE... with America's favorite clowning couple! VN combat veteran termed the man euvers an "unqualified success, especially considering it was an unrehearsed show." ; ' Rummage Sale FRIDAY & SATURDAY " Feb. 17-18 9:30 to 5 Sacred Heart Parish Hall 326 So. Oakdale - Free Parking S.O.S.C. Southern Oregon Salesman DINNER MEETING Medford Hotel FRIDAY, FEB. T7 7:45 P.M. "IMPORTANT" Please Be There! ' T Hurry! Tonight's your last chance to see this great, and unusual show! CHARLES LAUGHTON ?P5r. MIJMIIL'I.'IJ. rg? STORYfl ;ieas6d Tut uNrreo Atnsrs .';yffll DOORS OPEN 6:45 P.M. MAJOR STUDIO n IflllK fAIHPPW Jt) r t JOHN EMERY JOHN HOYT NATALIE SCHAfER ALSO SELECTED SHORT SUBJECTS i! ' If .