Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, May 11, 1956, Image 14

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Newspaper Page TextFOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday, Mar II, 1958 j Wa 5treet Valley Man Receives Surveying Certificate P. F. Robinson, Medford, has gineering examiners, received a certificate to practice Robinson was. one of 11 to professional land surveying, ac-1 receive certificates after examin cording to E. A. Buckhorn, sec-1 ations for professional engineer retary of the state board of en- ing earlier this month. Holland Hotel Wooden Shoe Restaurant Featuring Fine Food Reasonably Priced Open Daily 6:30 A.M. to Midnite A Friendly Place to Dine" 7 4-H Club News Len Pin Thimbalinu Lone Pine Thimbalinas met at the home of the leader, Mrs. Paul Gasparotti. New officers are: president, Georgia Mitchell; vice president, Eddie Applegate; sec retary, Leigh Hinz; program chairman, Kathryn Gasparott sons leader. Susan Hall, and news reporter, Kathallee Apple- eate. The club meets every Tuesday afternoon. Kathallee Applegate, Reporter. TABU DINNER HOUSE Special Mother's Day DINNERS Smorgasbord Dinner With PAN FRIED SPRING " m Qj CHICKEN. All You Can Enjoy ItOJ TABU ALSO FEATURES: Thick Steaks Prime Ribs ' Sea Food Maine Lobsters And numerous other delicious entrees. All in cluding smorgasbord. TABU DINNER HOUSE 305 South Riverside Medford PORTLAND LIVESTOCK Portland (UP.) Cattle for week 310O. Choice fed steer S19.30-20.50 with 867 and 1103 lb. S20.75; good steers S18-1S: commercial S16-17.50; choice fed heifers S18.75-19.50; good $17.50-18.50 commercial $15-16.30; canner-cutter cows S9-11. some Ml. 50; utilitv cows SI 1.50-13 50; conv mtrnil 114-14.50: utility bull S15.50- 1S.50; some to S17.50; light cutters $12-13.50 . Calves for week 500. Choice veal em S25-27: aood S20-24; commercial ci-lfl- mils rinwn to S9. Hosi for week 2675. U.S. 1 and 2 hutrh-r 180.235 lb. S 17.75-18 25; Iat tr nw hi?h since October: No. 3 down to $17; ow 300-500 lb., U-50-$15. Sheep for week 2950. Choice-prime S25-25.50; few $25.75-26; good-choice wooled lamba $17-19; No. 3 pelt lambs mostlv $18.50-18.75; cull-good ewes $2-5.50. PORTLAND PRODUCE Portland (U.P.t Eggs To retail ers: Grade. AA large, 48-49c; A large, 45-4Rcv AA medium. 42-43c: A me dium. 42c; A small, 32c; carton, 2-3c additional. Butter To retailers: AA grade print. 68c lb.; carton, 69c; A prints, 68c: B print. 66c. ! dar. single daisies, 43'2-47'2c; 5-lb. loaves, . 48'.a-3l '.sc. processea Ameri can cheese," 5-lb. loaf. 42-44. Farm Market First Willamette valley green onions traded at 65-75 cents a dozen bunches today; local rhubarb prices were at lowest level of season with wine rhubarb at three cents a pound in lettuce crates but some volume sales at l'z cents. ATTENTION All Organizations Clubs And Interested Individuals Your are cordially invited to make an entry in the PHOENIX FESTIVAL PARADE Saturday, May 26 ?hone 2-7915 to Register Prizes will be awarded for the best entries in the following floats: Floats for Trophy Prize ' Commercial & Oddity Float Marching Group Children's Division Ponltrv. Rabbits Live Chickens To growers (No. 1 quality f.o.b. Portland i. Fryers. 2'- 4 lbs.. Z4c: at larm, zjc; iigni- nen. to few transactions for Portland price: 17-13c at ranch; heavy hens 5 lbs. up. not enougn trading lor i-ori-land price: at country, 20-2 lc up; old roosters. 11-14C. Dressed Chickens No. 1 dressed to retailers: Fryers. New York style, J6 37c lb.; whole drawn. 42-44c; cut up, 46-50c; hens, light type. New York style, 29-30c: cut up, 40-4 lc; hens, heavy type. N.Y. style, 34-35c; whole drawn, 43-47. Turkeys To producers: Fryer tur kevs, 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 plantl: Live white, 3;!i-4'i lbs., 23-26c: 5-6 lbs.. 18-21c; colored pelts. 4c under: old does. 10-14c lis., a few higher. Fresh killed fryers to retail ers, 58-6 lc lb.; cut up. 62-65c. PORTLAND HAY, GRAIN Portland Wholesale Hay Prices: So. 2 green alfalfa, baled, f.o.b. Port land. $43-46c: some sales higher. Wholesale prices as reported by the USDA market news service: Wheat. No. 2 soft white, S74.50 ton; No. 2 white oats. 38-lb. test. Coast delivery, $58.50 ton; soybean meal. $89 ton, de livered Portland; No. 2 Western bar lev. Coast delivery, $49 ton; standard m'illrun. S44-44.50 ton: No. 2 yellow corn. Eastern shipments, f.o.b. Port land. 370.50. r-. i C . I ri(iari it at noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday tor Monday; other days 5:30 previous day. SUNDAY-MAY 13-IS it's o Tradraoim To Bring Mother To . . . . DINING INN JUST EAST OF CENTRAL POINT On HER Day. Mather's Day Dinner out! A real treat for all the famity ... mi otrMcialty a vacation for Mom! She'll enjoy the luxuries of Mon Desir's thoughtful service, restful surround ings, our savory cuisine. Of course, we'll have children's plates so make it a real family affairl Special MOTHER'S DAY DINNER SERVED SUNDAY STARTING 3:00 P.M. PHONE NOrmandy 4-251 FOR RESERVATIONS New York (U.tt Stocks made further declines in the first hour of trading today and then rallied steadily through the remainder of the session. Several issues registered net gains of two points or more. Most of the others ynre up frac tions to more than a point. Chrysler recovered an early loss that had brought it to a new low. General Motors regained part of a loss running to nearly a point. Ford had a small gain. Bethlehem rose more than a point and led the steel group higher. Dow-Jonei Average Dow-Jones final stock aver ages 30 industrials 501.25, off 0.31; 20 railroads 177.97, off 0.03; 15 utilities 66.38, up 0.14, and 65 stocks 180.66, unchanged. Sales today were about 2,450, 000 shares -compared with 2,850, 000 yesterday. Today's closing prices on ie lected stocks: American T & T . 181 Vs Anaconda ... . 77 Chrysler 64V4 Curtiss Wright ... 3454 General Electric . 60 General Motors ......... 43 Montgomery Ward Unquoted Penn. R. R ... 263s Penney, J. C. .... ... 89 Radio .; 45 Vs Southern Co. ..; 2114 Southern Pacific . ... 5534 S. Oil of Calif. 109 Texas Gulf Sulphur : 35 Vs Transamerica 44 V4 Tri-Continental 27Vb United Aircraft 70 Vi U. S. Rubber .... 55s4 U. S. Steel .. 5854 Youngstown 96V2 Bible Willing To Be Reelection Candidate Reno U.R) Sen. Alan Bible of Nevada has announced he would accept - a draft making him a candidate for reelection. The 46-year-old Reno Demo crat announced last fall he would not seek reelection, pre ferring to return to his private law practice. Bible, a freshman senator who served for eight years as Neva da's attorney general, is serving out the uncompleted term of the late Sen. Pat McCarran. But he said that since he an nounced he would not be a can didate for reelection, he has re ceived hundreds of telegrams, letters, telephone and personal calls from Nevada voters asking him to change his mind. Judge Keating Speaks At Legion Meeting Here Jackson County Judge Rodney Keating, an active member of the Naval reserve unit here, dis cussed the electronics unit at a meeting of American Legion post 15 of Medford this week. The Legion post observed "Navy night" with other guest speakers including TSgt. Paul H. Dupras, of the Marine recruit ing office here. Daily Weather Report FORECASTS Medord and vicinity: Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday. Low tonight 36. High Saturday 62. Western Oregon: Partly cloudy through Saturday with late night and morning overcast along coast. Low to night 34-40. A little warmer Satur day. High 36-62. Northern California: Fair and warmer tonight and Saturday. LOCAL DATA TEMPERATURE: Mean yesterday 47: below normal 11. Record high this date 93 in 1936. Record low this date 28 -in 1916. PRECIPITATION: 24 hours to mid night .77 inch. Midnight to 10 a.m., .01 inch, i Total this month 2.08 inches, 1.68 inch above normal. Total since Sept. 1, 3030 inches, 14.48 inches above normal. Humidity:- Lowest yesterday 73, highest this a.m. 94. CITY High Low Pree Brookings 55 40 .30 Crater Lake 34 17 3B Grants Pass 57 39 54 Klamath Falls 45 32 .09 MEDFORD : . 53 40 - .78 Portland 57 43 .09 Seattle S6 38 .06 Spokane 54 35 .19 Yakima 59 33 Eureka Red Bluff Sacramento - San Francisco Los Angeles- .. 52 44 57 42 . 61 .46 60 49 - 66 52 55 45 54 71 50 60 51 .51 .10 .04 .40 .13 Phoenix : 80 Denver .. 69 Chicago .. 69 Miami 84 New York 74 Washington, D.C. 75 FIVE-DAY FORECAST (Through May 16) - Western Oregon Scattered showers and brief sunny periods through Wednesday. Temperatures averaging below normal. Lows 35-40. Highs mostly in 60s. - Northern California Showers like ly middle of next week. Tempera tures below normal, except near nor mal early in" week. One Injured Slightly .. In Accident Yesterday Florence Pahlka, 215 Haven st., suffered a bruised leg yes terday when the car in which she was a passenger, operated by Gerald Yawn, Crescent City, Calif., collided with cars operat ed by Dorene Plankenhorn, 806 Grant st., and Catherine -Berna-dette Sakraida, Grants Pass, at Sixth st. and Holly st., Medford police reported. Miss Pahlka was taken to Sa cred Heart hospital by Medford Ambulahce service. Her condi tion is not serious, police said. A citation was issued to Miss Plankenhorn for not carrying an operator's license with her, it was reported. Accused Slayer of Policeman Critical Portland OJ.R) Ralph Pyatt, 36-year-old Bandon logger ac cused of slaying State Patrolman Richard O'Connor Tuesday night, remained in critical condition today at Emmanuel hospital. Pyatt was wounded in the head by O'Connor before the officer died from .22 caliber bullet wounds. He was flown here late Wednesday. A murder . charge was filed against Pyatt in Co-quille. Number of Pamphlets Destroyed Is Reduced The number of voter pamph lets which have been destroyed at the post office because-of in correct addresses has been re duced in Jackson county to 1,391 this year as compared with 5773 in 1954 and 13,817 in 1952, Mrs, Bereth Hopkins, county clerk, has announced. ' Since law prohibits forward ing of incorrectly addressed pam phlets, they must be destroyed by post office personnel, she ex-! plained. Mrs. Hopkins pointed ! out that compiling, printing and j mailing costs amount to approx imately 30 cents per pamphlet. The clerk said a concerted effort has been made here in recent years to maintain up-to-date information on voters. With cooperation from local newspap ers, radio and television stations, voters who have moved since registering have been reminded to corrert their addresses at the elections department. The effort has resulted in considerable sav ing of public expense, she said. The number of voter pamph lets bearing incorrect Medford addresses has been reduced this year to 837 compared with 2,800 in 1954 and 9,654 in 1952, the pointed out. J 19 Homes Inspected By Medford Firemen . Forty-five of the 119 homes checked by city firemen on in spection duty yesterday were found to be free of common fire hazards. For other residences inspected firemen issued 93 recommenda tions for correction of unsafe conditions. Three crews of fire men are checking homes on Medford's east and west streets. Ayrshire Breeders In Annual Convention Portland (U,R) The 81st annual convention of the Na tional Ayrshire Breeders As sociation was under way here today with some 150 persons from 21 states attending. Portland's Meadow-Land dairy herd of some 450 Ayrshire cows, heifers and bulls was recognized as the largest of this breed in the United States. ' NAACP Membership Bought by Iowa Governor Des Moines, la. W.R) Repub lican Gov. Leo A. Hoegh has purchased a $5 member ship in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He said he thinks all state gov ernors should join the NAACP, which has "made a fine contri bution to equal opportunity and equal justice under the law." Knight Wants Pep In Republican Parley Washington (U.P.) Gov. Good win J. Knight of. California wants some pep put into the Republican National Convention in San Francisco. Knight talked yesterday to Na tional Republican Chairman Leonard W. Hall about arrange ments for the convention. He said that most of the discussion was about making the convention proceedings attractive to televi sion viewers. Eagles Mother Day Program Scheduled The annual Mother's day; pro gram, conducted by the Crater Lake aerie, Fraternal Order of Eagles, and auxiliary will be held in the Eagles hall, begin ning at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 13. O. H. Bengtson is chairman of the event and will give the wel coming address. The Rev. N. K. Tully, pastor of the Jacksonville and Central Point Presbyterian churches will offer the invoca tion and benediction. All mothers .. interested, and friends are invited to attend. Dr. John D. McAulay, direc tor of education at Southern Ore gon college, will give the Moth er's day address. Music will.be furnished by Coleen Barr, Rose mary Doolen and Sue Hall, with Raymond Lewis, " director. The trio is from McLaughlin Junior, high school. The 1956-57 auxiliary mother will be presented and others to be. presented are the retiring auxiliary mother and Gold Star Mothers. . Grand Opening TAKE AWAY HAMBURGERS S31 U. Central & S30 Se. Riverside Saturday, May 12th , From I to 5 P.M. FREE - Cones to Everyone! Wo Sorvo Sour Dough Hot Cakes Percolated Coffee Arden Ice Cream Oh 7 A.M. Daily thru Sat. 11 A.M. on Sunday Many Tax Returns Sent Without Money Salem (U.R) State Tax Com mission Chairman Ray Smith said today that 9,505 state tax returns had been received with out enclosed remittances and' he predicted that the total would run over 10,000. Smith said the number of re turns without money was double that of last year. He said he thought that both the 45 per cent surtax and the reduction of ex emptions were to blame. The penalty for filing without sending any money is $1 plus five per cent of the total tax due plus J,2 per cent interest per month, Smith said. The commission would write all non-paying taxpayers and offer a system of monthly pay ments or other arrangements, he added. Use Tribune Want Ads (4 Especially fbr( Ax, On Her Day May 13th DINNER In the Beautiful Pioneer Room At the JACKSON HOTEL Delightful Menu, especially prepared just for Mother's Day. Children's plates $1.00. : No reservations needed. Small private dining rooms available for family groups. NOW OPEN Chinese Tea Room Hiway 99 Central Point Phone NO 4-1059 Featuring REAL CHINESE DISHES and AMERICAN FOOD ORDERS TO GO OUT! Special Arrangement! for Parties Open Daily 1 1 a.m. to 2 a.m. Sun. Noon to 2 a.m. JOHN H. CHU, Manager Boombocrf Pilot's Body Found in Pond Port Orford, Ore. (U.R) The body of H. K. Welch, 40, Sixes, was recovered from a mill pond here yesterday. Welch, a boomman for Port Orford Ply wood Corporation, was killed when his boomboat exploded in the millpond yesterday. It was not known whether he drowned or died as a result of the blast. Linfield Dormitory Loan Given Approval McMinnville (U.R) Prelimi nary, approval to a request for a $210,000 loan for construction of a new men's dor.mitory on .the Linfield College campus has been granted by the Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency, Dr. Harry L. Dillin, school president, said today. - ' . For Action, Use Tribune Want . Ads Easy. Just Dial 2-6 14 1 $BMt Compared to Mother love, A mountain is but an ftnP ant hill, an ocean a ciip of water. l'X . . Ill II lCf i I IF I BL ! at th ifiLurunu nu cl Fresh Shrimp or Crab Cocktail 25c SELECTIVE DINNERS Chicken Broth with Rice or Chilled Tomato Juice Cocktail Hearts of Lettuce or. Fruit Jello Salad (Choice of Dressing) ROAST LEG O' LAMB $1-50 Served with mint jelly and it's natural gravy. SLICED PRIME RIBS OF BEEF ROAST .... $2.25 Served in the drippings of it's own juices. ROASTED TOM TURKEY - $1.50 NEW YOKK CU I b I cAtv . cccc TCKincDi him crrFAK' $2 75 ft) II UIL.L.I l-l ' w .... . -- -i . (2) PAN BROILED FRESH TROUT .......... $175 FRESH OCEAN KING SALMON, pan fried $1.50 Potato . : Vegetable . ' Choice of Beverage A Choice of Desserts that are light and good for the soul fT5 PanAACA kit Hmnrt Open A.M. until 9 P.M. FOOTLIGIITERS - Present: GOOD HOUSEKEEPING 3-Act Comedy at the FAIR GROUNDS THEATER MAY 11-12 Curtain 8:30 p.m. Adm. 50c and . $1.00 tax included 7 . ' '' '' ' ' ' L -' I - ft DON'T MISS THIS BIG DANCE and SHOW At Tht Rogue Valley Ballroom SATURDAY NITE, MAY 12th featuring IN PERSON TOMMY DUNCAN with the Melody wranglers Adm. $1.50 - Lots of Proe Parking DarKing fil 1.00-Come On Out! Wotch for tht Melody Wrangler on KMS-TV-Evory Sat. from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.