Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, April 10, 1956, Image 11

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Newspaper Page Textt Local and Residence Planned W. Ben ton Smith was issued a permit today to erect a S12.000 resi dence at 1548 South Ivy st. DAV Meeting Disabled American Veterans and auxiliary will meet at 8 p.m. today at the DAV hall, 1515 North Puverside ve. Memorial Day arrange ments are on the agenda during the business meeting. Office Cloied Republican headquarters in the Leaverette building will be closed Wednes day afternoon for the funeral of Mrs. Everett Faber, Mrs. Frank Bash, chairman of Jackson County Republican Central com mittee, has announced. Mrs. Fa ber was a precinct committee- woman, and was active in Re publican affairs for year. ENDS TONIGHT! l7T?TCiT mum hi i. iip Plus c . ITH'.riFT LTw BOOSES tlfiBD-0 OPENING THURSDAY APRIL 12 Treat yeurielf to a delicious, re freshing, nen carbonated Orange Juliui drink, you'll love itl 4th at Riverside mm Now OLD Straight or Blend-as you prefer! SAME PRICE FOR EACH I ' li -rz $180 C & KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY "SNArfC-- THE OLD SUNNY BROOK COMPANY. DIVISION OF NATIONAL DISTILLERS PRODUCTS CORPORATION tOUISVILLE. KY. BOTH 86 PROOF. KENTUCKY BLENDED WHISKEY CONTAINS 65X GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS Personal Design Selected Members of the Jackson county 4-H club council Monday night selected a design for roadside signs wel coming visitors to Jackson coun ty. The design was selected from six others submitted by mem bers of the council. To Practice The staff of Pythian Sisters will practice Wednesday, April 11, at 7 p.m in the Pythian building. The practice is in preparation for a district convention to be held in Roseburg April 14. Rummage A sale of rum mage and plants will be held Thursday, April 12 from 9 a.m to 5 p.m., by Women fellow ship of First Christian church The sale will be conducted at the Fehl building, 108 North Ivy st. Bound Over Prentice Ken neth Cox, 30, Wichita Falls, Tex., was bound over to the grand jury this morning after a preliminary hearing in district court. Cox is charged with rape involving a 15-year-qld Wichita Falls girl. Three Are Patients Three new patients were reported bv Osteopathic hospital this morn ing. Merle J. Galatian, Clear Creek, Calif., underwent major sureerv Mondav mormne and Mrs. Irene Norton, 207 West Main st., minor surgery Monday afternoon. Mrs. Chris Kenney, Jacksonville, is in the hosoital for medical care, the hospital stated. To Meet Jackson County Motel and Trailer Court associa tion members will meet Wednes day, April 11, at 12:15 p.m. at Jackson hotel. Mrs. Bert Pree, chairman of tourist promotion, Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, will be guest speak er. Mrs. Wyles E. Berry, presi dent, will preside and all motel and trailer court operators are invited. Falls From Car Mrs. Virgil Nelson, 23, of 521 Palm St., suf fered shock and bruises Monday night when she fell out of a car on West McAndrews rd.,'at about 8:30 p.m. Mrs. Nelson was riding with her husband and a friend when the door flew open and she fell out. She was kept over night at Community hospital, where she was taken by Medford am bulance. City police and the sher iff were notified when a resident at 808 West McAndrews rd., re ported finding the accident vic tim's wallet, a pair of women's shoes and similar articles on the roads.de. The United States has more than . 454,000,000 acres under cultivation, the largest area of any country in the world. you can enjoy 11 Or PT. $if35 45 QT. L Obituary MARIE TERPENNING A requiem mass for Mrs. Ma rie Terpenning, mother of Mrs. Cedric Rambo, of Rogue River, who died in an airplane crash near Pittsburgh Sunday, April 1 will be offered by the Rev. Wil liam McLeod at Sacred Heart Catholic church at 9 a.m. Wed nesday. Recitation of the Holy Rosary will be held Tuesday at 8:15 p.m. in Conger-Morris chapel. Committal will be in Hawthorne Memorial park, in Grants Pass. Mrs. Terpenning was born August 7, 1898, in Brockton, Mass. For the past five years she had made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Rambo. Pallbearers will include, Ri chard DeArmond, Edmund Schrecengest, Robert Wievesiek, Richard Korner, Ralph Bosse and R. E. Hopper. ' Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Cedric Rambo, Rogue Riv er; two sons, L. R. Doyle, Mid dleton, Mass.; and D. A. Doyle, Belmont, Mass.; one brother, Louis de Grandmont, Worcest er, Mass.; two sisters, Mrs. George Irwin, Braintree, Mass.; and Mrs. J. J. Vadasz, Bethle hem, Penn.; and seven grand children. Tittle Jack Little' Of Radio Fame Dies Hollywood, Fla. (U.R) An autopsy was ordered today to determine the cause of the death of John Leonard, a radio enter tainer famed as "Little Jack Little" of pre-television days. Leonard, onetime songwriter, singer and orchestra leader, was found dead late Monday at his home where he had moved near ly eight years ago. He was 55. Superintendent Selected For Klamath Reservation Portland (U.R) The Bureau of Indian Affairs, Portland of fice today designated Martin Zollar as acting superintendent of the Klamath Indian Reserva tion. Zollar, who has been adminis trative officer for the reserva tion, will serve in the absence of Superintendent Allen W. Gal braith who suffered a heart at tack last week. 4-H Club News Antelope Livestock Club Antelope 4-H Livestock club will hold a box social with the next meeting at the Eagle Point Grange Friday, April 13, at 7:30 p.m. All friends of 4-H are in vited, those in charge state. Women attending will prepare boxes and the men will buy them. Sale Announced Roxv Ann Grange will hold a sale. of rum mage, plants and baked food Thursday, April 12, at' the Grange hall on Spring street, be ginning at 9:30 a.m. ,1 BRAND KENTUCKY BLENDED WHISKEY Several Positions Open in Various Civil Service Jobs The U. S. civil service com mission has announced examina tions will soon be held for sev eral government positions. Jobs include lumber inspec tor, paying S4,90 a year, for duty in western United States; clerk, paying $2,690 to S3.175 a year, for duty in Idaho, Mon tana, Oregon and Washington; electronic engineer (wire com munications) for duty at Seattle, Wash., paying $7,575 a year; ca ble splicer, central office re pairman, electrician, electronics mechanic, liquid fuels gauger, office machine repairman, paint er and refrigeration mechan ic, paying S2.29 to $2.70 an hour for duty on Guam. Qualified persons are urged to file immediately for the posi tions, according to C. W. Silli man, at the Medford post office. Examination Close Receipt of applications for the clerk examination closes on Ap ril 30 and for lumber inspector on June 7. Applications are also being re ceived for transportation tariff examiner (freight), paying $4,525 a year in the Interstate Com merce commission, Washington, D.C. To qualify; applicants must have had appropriate experience and must pass a written test. Ap plications will be accepted until further notice by the Board of U. S. Civil Service Examiners, Interstate Commerce commis sion, Washington 25, D.C, Silli man said. Printer- proofreader and printer (slug machine operator) positions paying $2.93 an hour in the government printing office, Washington, D.C, are also avail able. Applications Will be accepted until further notice by the board of U. S. Civil Service Examin ers, Government Printing office, Washington 25, D.C Further in formation and application forms may be obtained from Silliman. Wall Street New York (U.R) Industrial shares on the Stock : Exchange suffered their widest break in six months today. . Losses in a few elected indus trial issues ranged to three points, losses generally, how ever, were around a point or slightly more. Railroads also joined in the slump. Aircraft manufacturing issues fared better than other depart ments. They were virtually un changed. A few of the oils were down more than two points. Today's closing prices en se lected stocks: American T & T .... ...182 Anaconda 77 Chrysler 73 Curtiss Wright ...... ,.:... 31 General Electric 61 Vs General Motors 45 Montgomery Ward ..... 92 Penn. R. R 264 Penney, J. C 92 Radio ..... 46V& Southern Co 21 Southern Pacific 54Vi S. Oil of Calif .....105 Texas Gulf Sulphur 36Vi Transamerica ; 39 Tri-Continental 27 United Aircraft 69 U. S. Rubber 57 U. S. Steel 59 Youngstown 100 PORTLAND LIVESTOCK Portland (U.P.) 00. Around 850 lb. started feeder steers grading high good from slaughter standpoint $19.25; good 1082 lb. steers $19; choice 786 lb .fed heifers $19; mostly choice $18.50; good 785 lb. heifers $17.50; canner-cutter cows mostly $8.50-10; utility cows $11-13; utility bulls $15-16. Calves 50. Good-choice vealers $29 28 50; cull-utility vealers $7-13.50. Hogs 300. No. 1 and 2, 180-235 lb. $17-17.0; No. 3 butchers around $16 16.50; sows 300-500 lb.. $11-14.50; good-choice 104-111 lb. feeder pigs $13-13.50. Sheep 100. Choice No. 1 and 3 pelt shorn lambs $17-17.25. , PORTLAND PRODUCE Portland (U.P.) Eggs To retail ers: Grade AA large, 50-51c; A large, 47-49c; AA medium, 46-49c; A small, 38-39c: carton, 2-3e additional. Butter To retailers; AA grade prints, 66c lb.; cartons, 67c; A prints, 66c; carton. 67c; B prints. 64c. Cheese To retailers: A grade ched dra. single daisies 40Vz-451.-jc; 5-lb. loaves, 46;i-49'2c. Processed Ameri can cheese, 5-lb. loaf. 39i-41c. Farm Market Top California cauliflower sold at $4.75-4.85 for lettuce crates of 18 heads today; strictly No. 1A Kern county, Calif., potatoes were quoted at $9 a hundredweight at shipping points with volume lots due around April 23. Poultry, Rabbits Live Chickens To growers (N.o 1 quality f.o.b. Portland): Fryers, 2 Va -4 lbs., 23c; at farm, 22c; roasters, 23c lb. f.o.b. Portland; light hens, 19-20c; Portland. 18-19c; at ranch; heavy hens, 5 lbs. and up, 23c lb.; old roosters, 11 14c. Dressed Chickens No. 1-dressed to retailers: Fryers, New Ysrk style, 36 37c lb.; wholedrawn, 41-43c: cut up, 45-49c; hens, light type. New York style. 30-31c: cutup. 42-44c; hens, heavy type. N.Y. style, 35-36c; whole drawn, 44-48c. 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.o.b. killing planti: Lvie white, 33,i-4Vi 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, 58-61C lb., cut up, 62-65C. Use Tribune Want Ads! Easy, Just Dial 2-6141 House To Debate Washington (U.R) The House today headed into a debate on a S2,000,000,000 military construc tion program. The program includes new fa cilities to work on ballistic mis siles and on atomic-powered planes. Actual voting on the measure starts tomorrow. The . bill authorizes SI, 100, 000,000 for the Air Force, in cluding $11,600,000 for a giant runway to test an atomic powered plane at Idaho. Falls, Ida. The Army would get S304, 000,000 including 57,300,000 for an.Army aviation center at Camp Rucker, Ala. The Navy's share would be S401,000,000, including a new jet training base at Meridian, Miss., and a new jet operating base at Lemoore, Calif. The measure includes a 300, 000 combination ofice, home and communications center for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The authorization would pro vide $36,600,000 for facilities for testing and developing guided and ballistic missiles. O&C Timber Brings More Than Appraisal ' Roseburg (U.R) Three tracts of O and C timber totaling more than 7,000,000 board feet were sold for 50 per cent over the appraised value in a Bureau of Land Management sale here yes terday. The Douglas County Lumber Company paid $52 a thousand for Douglas fir near Drain for the highest bid of the day. Court Records CITY COURT James Patrick O'Duane, violation of basic rule, $10. Donald Keith Pearce, violation of basic rule, $10. Harry LeRoy Lawrence, excessive noise, $10. Jay Leslie Goodman, failure to sotp at stop sign. $5. - UISXKICI COURT Bernard Austin Wild, failure to operate on right side of highway, $10. Dorothy Eveline Davis, failure to yield right of way to oncoming traf fic. $6. Frank Andrew Tycksen, failure ot stop at stop sign, $10. Harold William Bartol, violation of basic rule, $7.50. Carl Norman Jantzen, inadequate muffler, $15. Arthur Engstrom, failuure to dim lights. $6. William Henry Breese, violation of basic rule, $12.50. George William Baker, voilation of basic rule, S10. Harry Sumner Note, naming logs in prohibited hours, $7.50. Edward Farley, no muffler, $10. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS Gerald Franklin Bartz. Portland, and Ruth Jeanene Findley, Portland. Robert Merrill, route 3, box Z66U. Medford. and Karen Dale Olson, route 1, box 358A, Medford. Daily Weather Report Sunset tonight 6:46 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 5:39 a.m. Medford and vicinity: Considerable cloudiness tonight becoming partly cloudy Wednesday. Scattered rain showers tonight. Low tonight 40; high tomorrow 60-65. Western Oregon: Partly cloudy north half, and mostly cloudy with few spotty showers and with a chance of isolated thunder showers south half tonight. Partly sunny Wednesday. Cooler north half .Wednesday. Low tonight 40-46; high Wednesday 55-65. Northern California Occasional cloudiness tonight and Wednesday. FIVE-DAY FORECAST: Western Oregon Little or no pre cipitation. Temperatures near or slightly below normal. Lows 35-45. High mostly 54-68. Northern California Occasional light rain extreme north and possible showers elsewhere. Temperatures be low normal. LOCAL DATA TEMPERATURE: Mean yesterday 56; above normal 5. Record high this date 85 in 1949. Record low this date 28 in 1929. PRECIPITATION: 24 hours to mid night, none. Midnight to 10 a.m., .04 inch. Total this month .03 inch, .33 inch below normal. Total since Sept. 1, 27.81 inches, 12.97 inches above normal. HUMIDITY: Lowest yesterday 25, highest this a.m. 84. CITY High Low Prec. Brookings 51 47 Crater Lake 55 33 Grants Pass 79 44 Klamath Falls 70 43 MEDFORD 76 45 Portland 54 42 - Seattle 61 44 - Spokane 66 42 Yakima 70 38 Eureka 54 47 Red Bluff 80 50 Sacramento . 73 38 San Francisco 58 48 Los Angeles -. 69 57 Phoenix . 85 58 Denver 50 30 ' Chicago 51 38 Miami 71 60 .33 New York 53 36 Washington, D.C 58 39 PORTLAND HAY, GRAIN Portland Whoelsale hay prices: No. 2 green alfalfa, baled, f.o.b. Portland, $43-46 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, S57.50-58 ton; No. 2 Western barley, S50.50 ton. f.o.b. Portland. Coast de livery: soybean meal, $81.75 ton, de livered ' Portland; standard millrun, $42.50-44 ton; No. 2 yellow corn. East ern shipments f.o.b. Portland $68.90. Read and Use Classified Ads SAN FRANCISCO BALLET An Entire Company of Surpassing American Dancers Hedrick Jr. High -Friday, Apr. 13 HURRY! NOT MUCH TIME LEFT! Tickets en Sale "While They Last" At . . . PURUCKER'S - SWEM'S HUDSON'S PHARMACY America's most dynamic dance spectacle! Tuesday, April 10, 1958 Jim Rowan Elected President of RVHM Founders Group Jim Rowan was elected presi dent of the Founders Organiza tion of the Rogue Valley Memo rial hospital at a meeting of the board of directors this morning He succeeds the late Diamond L. Flynn. Roiyan was the group's first vice president. Frank Mor gan was elected to succeed him. Col. Charles Stafford has been named office manager of the campaign organization by the hospital board, an .cion which was approved by the founders group this . morning. ' Stafford will be in charge of the. office on Bartlett st. First call for pay ment, of pledges taken during the fund-raising campaign for the hospital will be-made , in June. - Latham Appointed It was reported this morn ing that more than $15,000 in pledges have been made toward construction of the hospital since the drive closed early this year. Plans and specifications for the building will "be com pleted early in May, and bids are scheduled to be Jet in June, with groundbreaking ceremonies to follow. Jerry Latham was named to be in charge of arrang ing these ceremonies. The board adopted a resolu tion in honor of Mr. Ffynn, who was one of the most active and successful workers in the hos pital campaign, and had been temporary office manager for the organization. KefauYer Denies Stand on Oregon Portland (U.R) Managers of Sen. Estes Kefauver's Oregon campaign said here today that their candidate had denied Sat urday reports from Linden, N. J., that he had decided "not to make a contest" in the Oregon primary with Adlai Stevenson. The candidate for the Demo cratic presidential nomination wired William L. Josslin and Jack Bain that his New Jersey statement had been misconstrued and that he had referred only to the fact that his national cam paign organization would not take active charge of the write- in campaign in Oregon. The telegram said "I authorize and encourage your state organ ization to use every effort in my behalf for the write-in cam paign." The message concluded, "I will be with you on April 21 for the Young Democratic dinner and other meetings and hope to re turn again prior to your pri mary May 18." WRESTLING NOTE Springfield, 111. (U.R) The Illinois State Athletic Commis sion requires that folding chairs used at wrestling matches must either be bolted to floor or fast ened together in groups of not less than four. That's so excited fans can't grab a single chair and throw it to express displeas ure with the proceedings in the ring. BREAKFAST AND LUNCH 7 a-m. to 2 1 : HOTEL Ai J V m 5 JO to 9.-00 P. M. t ROAST BEEF I $11 50 II Natural II I. Gravy H I m ''W I MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVEN Two Dairy Herds For March Listed Dairy herds owned by Rich ard Westerberg, Victor and Nita Birdseye, Glenn and Edna Chase, P. K. Nelson and J. E. Parsons were rated as the top five Jackson county herds in the Dairy Herd Improvement asso ciation March summary. In -Westerberg's herd of 41 cows, three were dry, average milk production was 901 pounds and butterfat production 44.4 pounds;' Birdseye's 52 cows, 4 dry, milk production 770 pounds, butterfat 39.0 pounds; Chase's 23 cows, 1 dry, milk production 989 and butterfat 39.0; Nelson's 26 cows, 2 dry, milk production 763, butterfat 38.5; and Parsons' 36 cows, 5 dry, milk production 671 and butterfat 37.9.- Top ten Jackson county cows were No. 50, owned by Gilman's Dairy farm, '2294 pounds milk, 89.5 pounds butterfat, 56 days in milk; Punky, owned by W. C. Higenbotham, 2283 pounds milk, 86.8 pounds butterfat, 30 days in milk; Jessie, owned by James A. and Neola Edge, 2492 pounds milk,' 84.7 pounds butterfat, 54 days in milk; Carlislie, owned by Frank B. Hopewell, 1290 pounds milk, 83.9 pounds butter fat, 84 days in milk; Stilts, own ed by Minear Bros., 1290 pounds milk, 83.9 pounds butterfat, 84 days in milk; Nickelette, owned by Richard Westerberg, 1469 pounds milk, 80.8 pounds butter fat, 53 days in milk; Janice, own ed by E. B. Poyer, 1609 pounds milk, 80.5 pounds butterfat, 51 days in milk; Sylvia, owned by W. C. Higenbotham, 2430 pounds milk, 80.2 pounds butterfat, 75 days in milk; No. 73, owned by Gilman's Dairy farm, 1513 pounds milk, 80.2 pounds butter fat, 32 days in milk, and Gale, A REAL MEAL! Bai-b-que Ham, Beef or Pork Served on a Large French Roll 50 im CLOCK " Main al Bartlett. Phone 2-6766 o ASHLAND o ANNA MAGNANI am BEST ACTRESS jj OF THE YEAR V PLUS V7 LIBER AC E- v7 Joanne ORU Dorothy MALONE HURRY! HURRY! POSITIVELY ENDS TONIGHT! 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