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Local and Personal Corpi To Meet Medford Ground Observers corps will meet tonight at 8 o'clock at the courthouse auditorium. No Smoke Found Firemen summoned to the 100 block of Almond st. about 11:35 p.m. yes terday said that no fire or smoke was found. A trash fire on Val ley View dr. was extinguished Saturday evening. It was burn ing after dark when fires' are prohibited. Motorcycle Struck Carrel Eugene Hawis, Grants Pass, has reported his parked motorcycle was struck by a vehicle regis tered to Padgham Glass and Millwork, 1309 Court st., on South Bartlett st. Saturday Medford police have reported. No citations or injuries were reported. Alumnae To Meet Kappa Alpha Theta alumnae of Med' ford, Ashland and Grants Pass will have an informal luncheon meeting Friday, May 25. It will be a no-host event at Rogue Val ley Country club at 12:30 p.m. Those not contacted may make reservation by calling Mrs. James Rowan, 2-5859, or Mrs. John Dellenback, 2-6855. mmm Ends Tonight! ""coco. ,?f 1 wmm y4 JOHN PATNI tONtlD lUfiM J0PSCOPI I MONO FUMINO Permit Iuued A. R. Dubs, 1901 Strafford way, was issued a building permit Saturday to erect a $10,500 residence at 425 Groveland st. Bike Stolen Thomas Todd Kersten, 135 Vancouver ave., has reported the theft of his bicycle from the Medford Bowl ing Lanes Saturday, Medford po lice report. Meeting Sam's Valley Beagle soil conservation district board of supervisors will meet in the county extension office of the court house at 8 p.m. to night to discuss county conser vation practices. Hit and Hun A car operated by Leroy Nicholas Martin, 344 North Central ave., was involved in an accident with an unidenti fied hit and run vehicle early this morning on South Fir st. between Main st. and Eighth st., according to Medford police. No injuries were reported. Meeting Medford Post 15 of the American Legion will hold its regular meeting at the Le gion home at 531 South River side ave., at 8 p.m., Tuesday. Plans will be made for partici pation in the Memorial Day events. , Nomination of officers will be held. ' Meeting Cancelled A meet scheduled for Monday, May 28, for Southern Oregon Hammond Organ society has been can celled because of the death yes terday of James A. Grigsby, co owner and manager of Puruck er's Piano house. .The meeting was to have been held at the piano store. Cut Hands Two persons were treated at Sacred Heart, hospital today for cuts to their hands suffered in accidents at their homes. Timothy Root, son of Rep. and Mrs. Robert Root, 229 Bradford way, received his injury at home Saturday and was taken to the hospital today for treatment. Mrs. Opal Reams, 219 Jeanette st., received her in juries today. She was treated and released. Hit and Run A ear operated by Eldon Seldon Miller Jr., 319 Avery it., wai involved in an accident with an unidentified hit and run vehicle Sunday at Central ave. and Maple st., Med ford police have said. No in juries were reported. Boy Injured Scott Holmes, 9, son of Mr. and Mrs. David Holmes, route 3, Medford, is re ported in satisfactory condition today at Sacred Heart hospital where he was taken Sunday aft er a horse stepped on his head. He also suffered a leg fracture in the accident, family members said today. Cars Collide Motorists in volved in a collision Sunday on Dakota ave., between Beckman stand Newtown St., were Eliz abeth Eckerman Deffley, 353 O'Gara st., and Robert Charles Glover,fll62 Janes rd., city po lice reported today. No injuries were reported and no citations were issued. New Machine F. B. Ca- rothers, manager of Carothers Shoe service, 125 East 6th st., has reported the installation of an automatic heeling machine in his establishment. The new ma chine, a Comet-10 Model Auto- Soler, is capable of re-heeling shoes in three minutes, Caroth ers said. Driver Cited Ivan Chester Shruck, 822 East Ninth St., Med ford, was fined $10 in police court today for failure to yield the right of way in connection with an accident Saturday on West Sixth st., between Oakdale ave., and Ivy st., city police re port. Driver of the other car involved in the accident was Ezra Edward Weaver, route 1, box 488, Central Point. No in juries were reported. SPEBSQSA News An inter chapter picnic of the Society for the Preservation and Encour agement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America will be held in late August in Grants Pass city park and units from Central and southern Oregon and north ern California will attend. A parade of quartets, or concert, is planned here for late fall. An earlier announcement stated that the parade would be held in late August. Big Pines District Scout Camp-o-Ree Sets New Record A new attendance record was the ribbon award presentation wnw a JlA. 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TELEVISION "Where TV li a Business, Not a Sideline" 40 South Bartlett Phone 2-9824 set at the Agate Desert Camp-O-Ree grounds when 483 Scouts and Leaders participated in the Big Pines District Camp-0-Ree over the week end, according to Robert Church, Big Pines dist rict chairman. The 19 Scout Troops and three Explorer un its were from Gold Hill, Central Point, Prospect, Shady Cove, Jacksonville, Phoenix, Talent, Ashland and Medford. The Camp-O-Ree started with registrations Saturday at 10 a.m. and concluded Sunday at 3:30 p.m. after the awarding cere mony. N. H. "Duke" Gladfelter, Big Pines district commissioner and the commissioner staff conduct ed the Camp-O-Ree and Harry Chipman served as chairman. Lawson Scott directed the regis tration and served on the judg ing staff. James Grigsby con ducted the Camp-O-Ree events. Actual Experience , The purpose of the camp was to give the Scout Troops actual experience in good Scout camp ing so that they would be able to conduct their own camping trips closer to good camping standards. The Scouts set up their camps on a patrol basis and were judg ed on how they camped, their patrol cooking, patrol organiza tion, camp sanitation, participa tion in activities and how clean and neat their camp was during the entire session. Saturday afternoon was spent arranging and setting up their camps by patrols in troop stes that the Scouts selected. They also identified trees, shrubs and had mapping projects to com plete during the day. A large campfire was held in the evening under the direction of Jack Holmes, assistant Camp McLoughlin director. Each troop gave a stunt interspersed with songs lead by Dick Lamb, assist ant Scout executive. Bruce Nel son told several Indian lore stor ies of Crater lake and other local Indians. Lighting of the camp fire was done by the Order of the Arrow. A Protestant Scout church ser vice was held Sunday morning with the Rev. John Reynolds of the First Presbyterian church conducting the services. He was assisted by Dick Swinney, who lead the responsive readings. Catholic Scouts attended Mass at Camp White. The Camp-O-Ree events fol lowed the church services. Judging of the patrol , camps was under the leadership of Shir rel Doty and Ted Garhart, assist ed by Jim Baumer, John Patton, J. A. McDougall, council com missioner; Harry Barneburg Scott; Gladfelter, Grigsby and Chipman, Clifford J. t Hanson, Scout executive, assisted in the over-all program. All patrols who participated received ribbons denoting the rating received. This was one of the finest jobs of camping that the patrols have done' and the standard was ex ceedingly high this year," Ted Garhart, who was in charge of I ceremony, said. ! Explorers Assist 14, Posts 8 and 13 and Explor ers from Troops 6 and 9 assisted in the events and judging. This was one of the two Camp-O-Rees held in the Crater Lake Area council this week end. The Roaring Rogue District, Jose phine county, held their affair Friday and Saturday in the Grants Pass City Park with 150 Scouts attending. Trust Forum Set Tuesday Evening Another in U. S. National bank's 1956 estate and trust forum series will be held in Med ford in the Pioneer room of the Jackson hotel Tuesday, starting at 7:30 p.m. Allan F. Perry, manager of the Medford branch, will preside .at the meeting which features a four-man team from the bank's head office. The current series marks the seventh year that U. S. National has presented the informative series throughout the state. Last year more than 2,500 persons at tended the 21 forums. - The importance of estate plan ning, practical distribution plans that have been used successfully and the need for sound estate management will be the topics for discussion during the Tues day meeting. Speakers will include trust of ficers, W. D. Hinson and LeRoy B. Staver, and assistant trust of ficers, William R. Bradshaw and H. E. Butler. A question and answer period and social hour will conclude the forum, Perry stated. Luncheon The Mistletoe club will hold a dessert luncheon and public card party beginning at 1 p.m., Wednesday, at the Girls Community club. Ai Sacred Heart Mrs. May mie Botts, 768 Agate rd., Frank Hanson, Talent, Charles Bowen, Central Point, and Alva Mur phy, 616 Franquette st., all are listed today as medical patients at Sacred Heart hospital.' Those reported there for surgery in clude Mrs. Donald Dunlap, Jack sonville;. Mrs. Marie Mills, 314 Vancouver ave.; Harriet Clough, 12, daughter of Mrs. David Clough and the late Mr. Clough of Yreka, Calif., Claude Harris, 903 South Holly St., and Mrs. Cleo Strickland, Rogue River. Heart Attack Fatal To Piano House Owner-Manager James A. Grigsby, 63, Med ford business man who was own er-manager of Purucker Piano house, died last night at a Med ford hospital after an illness of only three hours. Death was at tributed to a heart attack. Mr. Grigsby, his wife and two friends, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Sears of Greeley, Colo., returned about 1 p.m. from a fishing trip to the coast and about 5 p.m. he became ill and was taken to the hospital. . Mr. Grigsby, born June 23, 1892, in Paducah, Ky., first came to Medford in 1911 with his family. Later the family lived in California, Kansas and Oklahoma, and in 1946 Mr. and Mrs. Grigsby came here from Greeley, where he had been as sistant manager of the Metro politan Life Insurance company, to take over the managership of the Purucker Piano house. The Grigsby home was on Long Mountain road, Eagle Point. Survivors include his wife, Edith, to whom he was married in 1932; four sons, James -A. Jr., Irving, Tex., Richard S., El Paso, Tex., John L., Mt. Vernon, Calif., Donald, Chicago; a step son, W. B. Johnston of Bordeaux, France; three sisters, Mrs. Bur ton B. Lowry and Mrs. Leonard Foley, Medford, and Mrs. Ralph Britton, Palo Alto, Calif., and 11 grandchildren. Funeral arrangements are in charge of Chapel mortuary and the service has been tentatively set for Wednesday afternoon. PORTLAND LIVESTOCK Portland (UP) Cattle 2300. Low choice light steers $19.50; high choice held around $20.50 or above: choice heifers $18.50: some above $19; can-ner-cutter cows $8-9.50. few $10: utility cows $11-12.50; commercial cows above $14; utility bulls $16-16.50. Calves 2225. Choice vealers $21-23; good vealers $17-20. Hogs 1200. No. 1 and 2 butchers 180 235 Jb $20-20.50; mixed No. 2 and 3 grades $19.50; 300-500 lb sows $11.50 16.50. Sheep 1500. Good-choice with some prime 80-95 lb spring lambs $24-24.50; choice-prime $25; chocie-prime $25; good-choice No. 2 pelt old crop lambs $17-18: utility shorn lambs $15; utility-good slaughter ewes $3.50-4.50. PORTLAND PRODUCE Portland (UP) Eggs To retail ers: Grade AA large 49-50c; A large. 4b-4c; aa medium 43c; A medium 42,c; A small 32c; carton, 2-3c addi tional. Butter To retailers: A A grade prints 68c lb: cartons 69c: A prints 68c: B prints 66c. Lheese lo retailers: A grade Ched dar, single daisies 431i-47,ic; 5-lb loaves 4812-510; processed American cheese. 5-lb loaf, 42-44c. Farm Market California strawberries brought $4.50 a 12-cup fill today; one Canby grower indicated Willamette berries may show up this week; Willamette valley cauli flower sold to wholesalers at mostly $3-3.25 a lettuce crate; Hood River as paragus quoted f 25 cents a pyramid lower and went to retailers at $5.25 a 30-lb crate for bunched spears. Poultry, Rabbits Live Chickens To growers (No. 1 quality f.o.b. Portland): Fryers. 2t to 4 lbs 24c; at farm 23c; light hens, too few transactions for Portland price; 17-18c at ranch: heavy hens. 5 lbs up. not enough trading for Portland price; at country zo-zic up; old roosters, 11-12C. Dressed Chickens No. 1 dressed to retailers: Fryers, N ,Y styse 36-37c lb; whole, drawn 42-44c: cut up 46-50c; hens, light type, N Y style. 29-30c: cut up, 40-44c: enhs heavy type N Y style, 33-34c: whole drawn 43-46C. . Turkeys To producers: Fryer tur keys, live weight 27-28c lb: breeder turkey hens 33c lb on eviscerated basis; breeder toms 38c lb. Dressed Turkeys To retailers nomi nally A grade young hens 55-56c lb; eviscerated, depending - on weight; eviscerated fryer-roasters 07c lb. Rabbits (Average to growers f.o.b. killing plant): Live, white, 3 to 4 la lbs 23-26c 5 to 6 lbs lS-ilc; 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 hav prices: No. 2 green alfalfa, baled, f o b. Portland, nominally $43-46. some sales nigner. Wholesale prices as reported by the USDA market news service: Wheat, No. 2. soft, white. $74 ton; No. 2 wnite oats. 38-lb test. Coast delivery, $58- Monday, May 21. 1956 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL' TRIBUNE ELEVEN Medford Student Gets Fellowship Charles P. Anderson, ?18 Win ema way, Medford, student at Willamette university, has been appointed to a Danforth Gradu ate fellowship for 1956-57, ac cording to an announcement by Donald Danforth, president of the Danforth foundation in St Louis, Mo. He was one of 77 successful candidates from several hundred applicants. To receive Danforth Graduate Fellowships, which were esta'b- lished in 1951, candidates are nominated by their undergrad uate colleges, Danforth said. A council of seven eminent educa tors chooses the winners on the basis of their academic ability, personality qualifications for teaching, and Christian charac ter. Danforth Fellows may attend the graduate school of their choice and continue study for their doctorate degrees. The Danforth Fellowship assures the student financial assistance up to an annual maximum of $1800 for single men and $2400 for married men. Voters Defeat Tax Base Increase Ashland Voters in Ashland Friday defeated a proposal to in crease the city's tax base from $48,000 to $60,000. Not a single precinct voted to increase the tax base. Against the proposal were 1,233 votes and only 401 were cast in favor of it. Ralph Koozer, chairman of the city tax committee, earlier stated that the city councilmen were Obituaries VIRGINIA HUKILL Mrs. Virginia Hukill, route 1, box 385H, Medford, died yester day in a local hospital. Conger Morris funeral home is in charge of funeral arrangements. GREGORY A. BUCHANAN Gregory Allen Buchanan, 6, son of Mr. and Mrs. Willard Bu chanan of Roseburg, died there Saturday. Conger-Morris funeral home is in charge of funeral arrangements. JAMES STEWART Funeral services for James Stewart, 79, who died Sunday, will be held in Conger-Morris chapel Tuesday at 3 p.m. The Rev. James W. Neely of the First . Baptist church will officiate. Graveside services will be held by the Knights of Pyth ias at the JOOF cemetery. Mr. Stewart was born Janu ary 27, 1877 in Medford. He was a life member of Knights of Pythias, the D.O.K.K. and the Pythian Sisters. Survivors include one son, George A. Stewart, Whittier, Calif.; four daughters, Mrs. Wil liam Stricklin, Medford; Mrs Loren Farlow, Eureka, Calif.; Mrs. Frank Klingle, Lake Creek, Ore.; stepdaughter, Mrs. Eugene Jackson, Klamath Falls, Ore.; four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. JAMES A. G. ANDERSON James (Jim) Augusta Garfield Anderson, 75, resident of Jack sonville between 1930 and 1937, died last Thursday at his home in San Bernardino, Calif. Mr. Anderson, who was born in Wexford county, Michigan, has been a resident of California for 24 years. He was a retired carpenter. Survivors include the widow. Helen Eva; two sons, Walter J. of San Bernardino and Herman W. of San Diego; three, daugh ters, Mrs. Lois M. Gray, Ban ning, Calif., Mrs. Melva M. Ham ilton, Klamath Falls, and Mrs. Waneta E. Harrington, Eugene; and three grandchildren. Funeral services were held Saturday morning in San Ber nardino. Interment was at Moun tain View cemetery. EDWARD PREFONTAINE Edward Prefontaine, resident of Rogue River, died at a local hospital Sunday. Arrangements are pending at Perl Funeral home. Wall Street New York KU.R) The stock market met support today when the industrial average neared the 490 level, a figure not seen since early March. For a time the whole list was down with losses ranging to nearly one and a half per cent in the railroad department. In dustrials broke to a new low since March 2. Utilities lost a few cents. A long list dropped two points or better. The decline spread over, the whole market with gainers almost non-existent. Dow-Jones Averages Dow-Jones final stock aver ages: . 30 industrials 491.62, off 4.77; 20 railroads 172.49, off 2.68; 15 utilities 66.13, off 0.04, i and 65 stocks 177.00, off 1.76. J Sales today were about 1,-1 940,000 shares compared with! 2,020,000 Friday. Today's closing prices on se lected stocks: ! American T & T . lSOi Anaconda 77T Chrysler ; 6234 Curtiss Wright .... 333 General Electric 583,4 General Motors 42 Montgomery Ward 8714 Penn R R 25 V Penney J C 88 Radio 43 '$ Southern Co 21'i Southern Pacific 53T S Oil of Calif 105 Texas Gulf Sulphur 34 Transamerica 433i Tri-Continental . 26 Vi United Aircraft 66 U S Rubber 53Vi U S Steel : 55V4 Youngstown 90 to say "How proud you are!" See our complete selections. not in favor of increasing taxes but the measure would be the only way to meet rising city gov ernment costs. The immediate needs for the proposed funds would have been used for street repair, extending water lines and meet demands for a summer recreation pro gram. County Heart Fund Contributions High Jackson county contributions to the Oregon Heart association this year totaled $3,436.25, the third-highest county total in the state, it was reported today. Only Marion and Lane coun ties exceeded the Jackson coun ty total. Multnomah county was not included in the compilation. Mrs. Earl Bigalow was chair man of the heart drive in this area this year. Contributions throughout the state totaled $43,199.83. Of Jackson county's total, $3, 358,25 came from Medford, $60.50 from Ashland, $15 from Central Point, and $2.50 from Talent. Daily Weather Report FnRFP ASTS Medford and vicinity: Fair and warm through Tuesday. Low tonight 45. High Tuesday 88. Western Oregon: Fair tonight and Tuesday with patches early morning clouds. Warmer in afternoon. Low to night 44 to 52. High Tuesday 76-86; ex cept 65-70 on coast. Northern California: Mostly fair to night and Tuesday but morning fog on coast, unance oi a lew rcanerea thundershowers in Sierra Nevadas. Little temperature change. LOCAL DATA Temperature: Mean 62; above nor mal 2. Record high this date, 95 in 1941. Record low this date 30 in 1918. Precipitation: 24 hours to midnight. none; midnight to 10 a.m., none. Total this month, 3.98 in., 3.18 in. above normal. Total since Sept. 1, 32.38 in.. 15.93 in. above normal. Humidity: Lowest yesterday ZB, m. 93. City HI Lo Prec. Brookings 66 51 Crater Lake 59 31 Grants Pass BO 47 Klamath Falls 76 49 MEDFORD 78 4B Portland 65 48 Seattle 66 48 Spokane 78 49 Yakima 79 44 Eureka 59 53 Red Bluff : 90 62 Sacramento 85 52 San Francisco 65 S2 trace Los Angeles 76 57 Phoenix .. Denver Chicago Miami New York Washington. D. C. 96 64 80 53 .49 71 59 . trace 82 73 67 50 Volume for volume, aluminum weighs one third as much as steel. 58.50 ton: soybean meal S93; barley. Coast delivery. $49.50 ton; standard millrun. $44-44.50 ton: No. 2 yellow corn. Eastern shipments, f.o.b. Port land. $70.25. SAN FRANCISCO Money-saving joint fares For schedules or faros call 2-6161 or your Travtl Agont 3 HOTEL Mass 7. TSUT YOUMILf TO THi . 1 1ST W AIEMU 5 JO to 00 P. M. 1 ig'' " m , Roast Turkey I $TIM ll Cranberry II I 1 Souc . 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