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Local and Typewriter Missing Sister Superior Eeine of Sacred Heart hospital reported to city police Sunday the theft of a portable typewriter from the hospital. m m ' Lodged in Janl Kenneth Prentice Cox, 30, Wichita Falls, Tex., was lodged in the Jackson county jail Saturday on a charge of rape. He was arrested at Oregon City, and was returned here by Sheriff Howard Gault. V Extension Changed Upper Applegate Extension unit will meet Thursday, April 5, at the horns of Mrs. V. E. Taylor, in stead on Wednesday, April 4, as previously announced. The change was made due to a death in the community, officers an nounced. In Portland Alf Mekvold, county school superintendent, is in Portland to attend a meeting of the legislative committee of the Oregon County School asso ciation.. Meetings were scheduled for Monday and Tuesday. Mek vold is due back in Medford Wednesday. Pedestrian Hit Rudolph J- Anderson, 77, of 31 South Orange ct uae ovaminpH anH rplpaseri from Sacred Heart hospital Sat urday morning after he was hit by a car at the intersection of Eighth and Newtown sts., at 3 0:30 a.m. Driver of the car, Mabel Moore Pawlowski, route 1, box 8, Jacksonville, was is sued a citation for failure to yield the right of way, city po lice reported. Obituaries DAVID DUNN Funeral services for David William Dunn, 14, of 2444 Bid- die rd., Medford, who was killed in an accident Saturday, will be held in Conger-Morris chapel at 10 a.m. Wednesday. The Rev. D. Kirkland West of the First Presbyterian church will officiate. Committal will be in Siskiyou Memorial park. Pallbearers will include Jer ry Anderson, John Frohnmayer, Gary McGill, Henry Olson, Jer ry Schultz, and Buddy Wirth. David Dunn was born in Cres cent City on Oct. 17, 1941 and came to Medford about 10 years ago from Portland. At the time of his death he was in the eighth grade at Hedrick Junior High school, and was active in foot ball, basketball, tennis, was a member of the band and was school treasurer. He was a pa trol leader in Boy Scout Troop No. 2. 1 Survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Dunn, Medford; a sister, Delora Dunn, at home; and his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Martin, Med ford, and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hanscam, Manson, Wash. THE REV. JOHN KUCHENBECKER The body of the Rev. John C. Kuchenbecker, 70, who died Saturday while visiting at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Wil ford Pratt, Medford, is being sent by Conger - Morris funeral home to North Tonawanda, N.Y., for services and interment. Mr. Kuchenbecker was born May 18, 1885 in Hammond, Ind. Survivors beside his daughter here include a daughter, Mrs. Edward Walck, Niagara Falls, N.Y., and three grandchildren. MRS. EVELYN COMBES Funeral services lor Mrs. Eve lyn G. Combes of Jacksonville, who died Saturday in a local hospital, will be held in Conger Morris chapel at 2:30 p.m. Wed nesday. The Rev. George Walston of the Advent Christian church will officiate. Committal will be in Jacksonville cemetery. LOUIS COYLE The body of Louis B. Coyle, r65, who died Thursday at the Veterans Domiciliary st Camp White, is being forwtrded by Conger-Morris funeral home to San Diego, Calif., for services and interment in Ft. Rosecrans National cemetery. Mr. Coyle was born Dec. 1, 1S90 in Sorento, 111. He served in the Army from April 30, 1918 until December 13, 1918 as a private in the 46th Co., 12th Battalion, 153rd Demobil ization battalion. Survivors include a son. Leon B. Coyle, San Diego, Calif. eoor CCCPER - STANMK ENDS TONITE! Personal On Vacation Students and faculty members of the Elk-Trail school started a week-long spring vacation today. They will re turn to classes Monday, April 9. m m m In Hospital Mrs. Clarence Franks, 257 North Third st., Central Point, was confined to day to Osteopathic hospKal for a tonsillectomy. Chimney Fires City firemen reported no damage from flue fires about 8:40 p.m. Saturday at the Jim Stogsdill home, 143 South Keene way, and at the T. H. Neff residence, 1521 Terrace dr., about 7:43 p.m. Sunday. Firemen Stand By Firemen stood by with a pumper truck early Sunday while gas com pany repairmen repaired a leak in a gas main in the 600 block on East Main st. Police reported the leaky main to firemen about 12:05 a.m. Skiing Trip Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Brooks and their daughter, Cynthia, 415 Oak st.; Jack Hanel, Ashland, and Leonard Vaughn, Trail, have returned from a week end at Mt. Hood skiing. They attended the Far West Kandahar ski competition. In Hospital Surgery pa tients reported today at Sacred Heart hospital included Austin Betz, Eagle Point; Judge Florey, 1005 East Main st.; Curtis Stock still, 2070 Houston rd.; M r s. Marion Yarnell, 2348 Camp Ba ker rd.; and Mrs. William Mc Kinney, Eagle Point. Mrs. Amy Stubbe, 42 Rose ave. and 1-year-old Raelene Roy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Roy, 10614 East 12th st., are medical patients. Community hospital reported that Mrs. James W. Lehrrrann, box 142, Rogue Riv er, is a surgery patient. Investigation Continues In Stolen Property Case Marion Ben Day, 45, was bound over to circuit court to face charges of concealing sto len property, and investigation on a petty larceny case against Jimmy Howard Day, 19, was continued until April 5, when both appeared in district court this morning. Both reside at 417 King st Jimmy Day was accused of stealing 143 pounds of copper wire from the Copco shops in Medford Saturday night, March 25. He pleaded guilty to the charge Saturday. A juvenile who was reportedly with him at the time of the theft was turned over to juvenile auth orities. Marion Day, accused of con cealing the stolen wire, is be ing held on $1,500 bond. He waived preliminary hearing. BIRTHS BO WEN To Mr. and Mrs. Arthur 115 North Oakdale ave., March 30, 1956, boy, 4 lbs., at Sacred Heart hospital. PRETTYMAN To Mr. and Mrs.' John, Talent, March 30, 1956, girl, 8 lbs., at Sacred Heart hospital. HALE To Mr. and Mrs. Don ald, 924 Alta st., March 31, 1956, boy, 5V2 lbs., Sacred Heart hos pital. HOLLOWAY To Mr. and Mrs. James, 10 Willamette ave., March 29, 1956, a boy, 7& pounds, at Community hospital. WINNINGHAM To Mr. and Mrs. Eugene, P.O. Box 287. Prospect, March 31, 1956, a girl. 53. pounds, at Community hos pital. MALONEY To Mr. and Mrs. Earl, 106 E st.,' Jacksonville, March : 31, 1956, a boy, ' 73,4 pounds, at Community hospital. BENNETT To Mr. and Mrs: Theodore, 2292 Lozier lane, April 1, 1956, a boy, 9Vz pounds, at Community, hospital. " WOOLRIDGE To Mr. and Mrs. Allen, 525 South Central ave., Mar. 30, 1956, a boy, 8 pounds, at Osteopathic hospital. Of the 70,000,000 Americans taking a vacation trip during 1955, four-fifths will have trav eled in the family car. CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our sincere ap preciation to our many friends and neighbors in -ne recent loss oi our husband, father and brother, for their many acts of kindness,' floral offerings and notes of sympathy. Such thought fulness can never be forgotten. Mrs. Delorls Troutman. Sharon, Rose Marie and- Raymond Herbert Trautman - ; Emil TYoutman Alvan TYoutman Albert Troutman Mrs. John Anhom " Mrs. Dale Bartley. Best Hunch for a Delicious Lunch Sandwiches, Salads, Plate Lunch. Name your lunch choice. We'll make it . . . fast! Smiling service, good food, makes eating here a pleasure all ways. Top Notch Cafe Next to Craterian Theatre 4-H Leaders Delay Meeting to April 10 The regular meeting of the Jackon County 4-H Leaders' as sociation has been postponed from April 3, to 8 p.m. April 10 because both county agents are attending a state -wide 4-H agents meeting in Corvallis, it was announced here. The program will be entitled "Demonstration Time." Leaders who have club members with demonstrations that might be used in the program are encour aged to get in touch with the county agent's office. The meeting will be held at Bigham hall at the county fair grounds. Near Record Stream Flow Forecast for John Day Canyon City (U.R) A near record stream flow in the John Day river for the next six months was forecast here Satur day at the annual water forecast meeting. Danger of any immedi ate flood in the area was not seen, given normal weather con ditions through the spring months. Snow cover in the John Day basin was described as one-third higher than the 15-year average. At an earlier meeting in Burns, prospects for the Harney basin were described as bright for irrigation crops and range forage, compared to last year's shortages. PORTLAND LIVESTOCK Portland tUPt Cattle 1600. Low to average choice fed steers around S21: choice 1132-lb S20.50: mostly choice 984-lb S20; good around 975-1150-lb fed steers 18.75-S19.25: com mercial around 1150-lb holsteins $1750: mostly choice 832-lb fed heif ers S20; mostly choice heifers around S19.50; canner-cutter cows mostly 9 S1050, few $11; utility cows mostly 11.50-S13. Calves 100. Choice vealers 25-S28. some higher; good vealers 20-S24; cull-utilitv calves and vealers 7.50-S14. Hogs 1100. U. S. No. 1 and 2 180-235-lb butchers 17.50-S18: No. 3 butch ers 17-S17.25; around 280-lb No. 3 butchers SIB. Sheep 900. Choice 78-lb spring lambs $21; choice wooled old crop lambs averaging 102-lbs S19.25; other good-choice slaughter lambs mostly 17-S18; good slaughter ewes $5.50. PORTLAND PRODUCE Portland (UP) Eggs To retail ers: Grade AA large. 55c; A large. 52 53c: AA medium. 50-52c: A medium. 50-51c: A small, 38-41c; cartons, 2 to 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, single daisies. 40 '2-45 '2c; 5-lb loaves 46'2-49'2C Processed Ameri can cheese, 5-lb loaf. 39-41c lb. Farm Market All green asparagus from southern California sold to retailers at 8.75 to mostly $9 a pyramid today; first Yak ima asparagus not expected until April 15; Northwest potato and onion prices held unchanged: best California cabbage sold to retailers at 4.50-S5 a crate. Poultry, Rabbits Live Chickens To growers (No. 1 quality f.o.b. Portland): Fryers 2'i 4 lbs 23c, at farm 22c: roasters 23c lb f.o.b. Portland; light hens 19c: heavy hens 5 lbs and up 23-24c lb; old roosters 11-1 4c. Dressed Chickens No. 1 dressed to retailers: Fryers. New York style. 36 37s lb; whole drawn 41-43c; cut up 45-49c: hens, light type. N Y style 30 31c: cut ups, 41-44c: hens, heavy type N Y style 35-36c: whole drawn, 44-47c. Turkeys To producers: Fryer tur keys, live weights 27c lb. Dressed Turkeys To retailers nom inally A grade young hens 55-56c lb: eviscerated, depending on weight; eviscerated fryer-roasters 57c lb. Rabbits (Average to growers f ob. killing plants) Live, white. 334 to 4j lbs 23-26c; 5 to fi lbs 18-2 lc: colored pelts 4c under; old does 10-14c lb. a few higher. Fresh killed fryers to re tailers 58-61c lb; cut up 62-65c. PORTLAND HAY, GRAIN Portland Wholesale Hay Prices: No. 2 green, alfalfa, baled, f.o.b. Port land 43-S46 ton: some sales higher. Wholesale prices as reported by the USDA market news service: Wheat, No. 2, soft, white, $74.50 ton: No. 2 white oats, 38-lb test Coast delivery 54.50-S56 ton; No. 2 Western barley S50 ton. f.o.b. Portland Coast delivery; soybean meal, $78 ton. delivered Port land: standard millrun, 40.50-$41.50 ton: No. 2 yellow corn. Eastern ship ments f.o.b. Portland, $66.50 ton. Daily Weather Report Sunset tonight, 6:38 p.m., sunrise to morrow, 5:51 a.m. FORECASTS: Medford and vicinity: Mostly cloudy through Tuesday with a few light showers. Continued cool. Low tonight 35-38. High Tuesday 55. Western Oregon: Mostly Cloudy to night with a few showers. Partly cloudy Tuesdav. Little temperature change. Low tonight 38-44. High Tues day 52-62. Northern California: Mostly cloudy with occasional light rain tonight and Tuesday. Slightly warmer tonight. LOCAL DATA: Temperature: Mean yesterday 44; be low normal 6. Record high this date. 83 in 1933. Record low this date, 25 in 1945. Precipitation: 24 hours to midnight, trace: midnight to 10 a.m., trace. To tal this month, trace. .04 in. below normal. Total since Sept. 1, 27.78 in., 13 26 in. above normal. Humidity: Lowest yesterday, 33; highest this a.m. 85. City Hi Lo Free. Brookings .... Crater Lake 56 31 56 ..42 52 41 11 39 24 39 j40 40 29 J34 46 45 42 46 42 trace Grants Pass Klamath Falls MEDFORD trace .02 Portland 55 Seattle 51 .01 Spokane 49 i Yakima 59 Eureka 51 64 65 57 Sacramento . San Francisco Los A n geles - 60 .19 Phoenix ... Denver 69 70 68 77 54 59 46 34 62 69 39 43 trace .23 Chicago Miami New York Washington. D. C. Court Records DISTRICT COURT Frank Koch, failure to stop at stop sign. $10. Elmer D. Richardson, failure to stop at stop sign, $10. Robert E. Walsh, violation of basic rule. $10. William M. Swift, angling wthout a license. S15. Robert L. Bretches, violation of basic rule, S6. Billy D. Hooper, truck speeding, $10. MARRIAGE LICENSE j APPLICATIONS j Frederick Lee Griffith. 202 West i Clark St.. and Patricia Ann Vail. 28 Geneva st. ; Thomas Arthur Rupp. PO Box 764, i Central Point, and Euth Marie Prevo, 4 Precinct Polls Election Listed Following are the polling places in Jackson county's 94 pre cincts for the May 18 primary election ballot, as announced by the county clerk's office. The eight single counting boards are marked with an asterisk, all others are double boards. NO. NAME POLLING PLACES 1 Ashland Public Library 2 Ashland City Hall 3 Ashland Legion Hall 4 Ashland.: Armory 5 Ashland First Presbyterian church 6 Ashland Calvary Baptist Church 7 Ashland Junior High School 8 Ashland 715 North Main Street 9 Ashland . Lincoln School 10 Ashland Briscoe School 11 Ashland . 130 4th Street 12 Ashland Walker School 13 Ashland S.O.C.E. Gym 14 Ashland West Valley View School 15 Barron . Klamath Junction Cafe 16 Belleview Belleview Cafe 17 Pinehurst Lincoln School 18 Colestine . Sis. Q. Maint. Station 19 Lake Creek Lake Creek Store 20 Butte Falls ; Town Hall 21 Eagle Point North Teen-Age Club 22 Eagle Point South High School Gym 23 Flounce Rock Prospect Community Hall 24 Trail . Trail Creek School 25 Shady Cove Shady Cove School 26 Reese Creek Dinner Bell Cafe 27 Derby : Derby School 28 Howard Howard School 28- A Howard Haupert Tractor Co., N. Pacific Hwy. 29 Howard East Main Building Airport 29- A Howard East McCormic Farm Equip. Co., 2232 Biddle Rd. 30 Roxy Ann 1060 Crater Lake Ave. 31 Hillcrest Hillcrest Orchard Home 32 Medford Pythian Building, 141 N. Grape St. 33 Medford....Free Methodist Church Annex, 337 West 10th St. 34. Medford City Hall 35 Medford Eads Transfer, 123 N. Front St. 36 Medford 610 South Central Ave. 37 Medford Lincoln School 38 Medford 1116 North Riverside Ave. 39 Medford Latter Day Saints Church, Ivy and Monroe Sts. 40 Medford Court House 41 Medford 701 Park St. 42 Medford .Mike's Seat Cover Center, 621 East Jackson St. 43 Medford Boy Scout Headquarters 44 Medford 1112 East Main St. 45 Medford Roosevelt School 45- A Medford , Church of the Brethren 46 Medford Hedrick Junior High School 46- A Medford 2415 Lyman Ave 47 Medford Washington School 47- A Medford ..., 706 Beekman St. 48 Medford New Fire Hall, 8th and Lincoln Sts. 49 Medford Assembly of God Church Annex 50 Medford 25 Summit Ave. 51 Medford ;. Jackson School 52 Medford 548 Fairmont St. 53 Medford St.. Mark's Guild Hall 54 Medford Parish Hall Catholic Church 55 Medford Senior High School Girls Gym 55- A Medford ., 605 Dakota Ave. 56 Medford '. First Church of Christ. Scientist 56- A Medford 1315 Bundy St. 57 Orchard Home East Jefferson School 58 Orchard Home West 1840 Stewart Ave. 59 Phoenix East Presbyterian Church 60 Phoenix West Phoenix New School Gym 61 Phoenix Southwest Grange Hall 62 Talent West Old School Gym 63 Talent East : City Hall 64 Griffin Creek Griffin Creek School 65 Jacksonville North TJ. S. Hotel 66 Jacksonville South City Hall 67 Perrydale North Oak Grove School Gym 68 Perrydale South Temple Baptist Church 69 Central Point West Townsend Hall 70 Central Point N. East Crater High School Gym 71 Central Point S. East East Legion Hall 71-A Central Point S. East Junior High School Old Gym 72 Willow Springs Willow Springs School 73 Mound Adm. Building, Camp White 73-A Mound Table Rock School 74 Sams Valley Sams Valley School 75 Wimer Grange Hall 76 Rogue River East Grange Hall 77 Rogue River West V.F.W. Hall 77-A Rogue River West Homers Associated Station, 4830 S. Pacific Highway, Grants Pass 78 Gold Hill North City Hall 79 Gold Hill South..... 362 2nd St. 80 Foots Creek Community Hall 81 Applegate School Gym 82 Union old Ruch Store 83 Watkins Route 2, Box 67A, Upper Applegate 84 Sterling Old Sterling Creek School I-IU MIIHI 1I.IJMIIIIII L1III-IIIU.I1 1 . REFUSING to tell about secret East -West trade agreements, Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks offers to give the Senate probers data at a secret hearing. ( International 223 West Jackson St., Medford. Horace Tharp Mann. Arlington, Va., and Ethel Lorraine Cummings, Alex andria, Va. CIRCUIT COURT Shirley Ann Wilkinson vs. Erwin LeRoy Wilkinson, divorce" complaint. Mary Elizabeth Robbins vs. John Hubert Robbins, divorce complaint. "A Friendly Wall Street New York (U.R) Prices on the Stock Exchange started April with a rush today, mov ing industrial shares to a new all time high and carrying rail road issues to their best level in more than 26 years. Gains in the main groups ranged to t w o points. Aluminum issues stole the spotlight. Alcoa spurted more than 1 points at one time. Al uminum Ltd. ran up more than five points. Du Pont sparked this section with a gain of around four points. Today's closing prices on se lected stocks: American T & T 182 Anaconda 80 Chrysler 76 Curtiss Wright 305fe General Electric 46 Montgomery Ward 90Vs Penn RR 275,'s Penney J C 97V4 Radio 48 Southern Co 22 Southern Pacific 56V2 S Oil of Calif 104 Texas Gulf Sulphur 37 Transamerica 40 Tri-Continental 27 '4 United Aircraft 69 U S Rubber 60 Holland Hotel Wooden Shoe Restaurant Featuring Fine Food Reasonably Priced Open Daily 6:30 A.M. to Midnite Place to Dine" Monday, April 2, 1938 BURYING ATLANTIC STATES under heavy blanket of traffic in major cities. This is New York's 44th Street and Mill hii ma ii.iii lilt- it iVltrxv IN THE NICK OF TIME Mrs. Mary Tillado, 31, holds hands with a neighhor and is eyed anxiously by her weep ing daughters, Sonia, 6 (left), and Virginia, 7, as she is administered oxygen in her Brooklyn apartment. Mrs. Tillado and the girls were found near suffocation when gas refrigerator flames consumed oxygen in the tightly sealed apartment. Oceanographic Cruise La Jolla, Calif. (U.R) Oceanographers from Japan, Canada and the United States recently discussed preliminary results of the largest single oceanographic cruise ever un dertaken. Last summer a fleet of 19 oceanographic vessels sailed a course of approximately 55,000 miles over a pre-arranged pat tern in the North Pacific. They were the ships of the North Pa cific cruise. The area explored was about one and a half times the size of the North American continent, the region covering about one Parents Keep Album Of Children's Voices Pittsburgh (U.R) Mr. and Mrs. Charles Renner keep an al bum of their children's doings, but it is not the conventional photo album. They are blind. Their album consists of re cordings of the voices of their children, Larry, 13, and Janet, 12, who have full vision. The Renners have micro phones hidden in their home at Ben Avon to catch the unre hearsed recordings of the chil dren's voices. "I wish I could see the looks on their faces when we play back the recordings," said Ren ner, a piano tuner. U S Steel 60V Youngstown 102Vb OPEN IN NEW LOCATION Wakefield Drapery 1100 Crater Lake Ave. Same Phone 2-6010 1 QnemaScOPC -0j I Color by ) f Technicolor r Results Discussed sixteenth of the surface of the globe. From the results, oceano graphers hope to draw up the first atlas of temperatures and ocean currents of the region as they existed over a short period of time. Of the vessels participating, 11 came from Japan, seven from the United States and one from Canada. BREAKFAST AND LUNCH 7 .m. to 2 p.m. : HOTEL Ll 1 S JO lo 9:00 P. M. V j Baked Chicken ( $50 J .1 Sage I f Dressing I The famed Pulitzer Prize play... on the screen at last I COLUMBIA PICTURES prmn ViiLUAM Hold en -Kim Novak Brrrv FkuSuan Stoasbmo Rosalind Russell 22112 now. MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NTNB snow, winter storm paralyzes Second Avenue, (International) ASHLAND PLUS HELL'S HORIZON JOHN IRELAND MARL INGUSH TONITE & TUESDAY ISSZSSIPPI Gambler Pihr T AITRII 'm&S Jul' ADAMS Ulaklkrfn . , PLUS JilMiJJMiiiJ OI NOWI NOWI H1P-SUNGER vs. WHIP-SUNCOH V V RAIPH MEEKIR W ERNEST BORGNINt " JL if TSY tlAlft tKum mi ! unni 7 PLUS V vOKILBRIDi L . . , i Js mow ijgj TONITE & TUESDAY V jMffi mm 1X1
