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.
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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.
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OPEN IN
NEW LOCATION
Wakefield Drapery
1100 Crater Lake Ave.
Same Phone 2-6010
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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.
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