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Newspaper Page TextLocal and Bicyclo Stolon Kenneth Earl Morse, 36 Ashland ave., report ed the theft of his bicycle to city police Saturday afternoon. Square Dance Class A begin ner's class for square dancers will start Wednesday, June 27, at Art Smith's barn on Griffin Creek road. All interested per sons are invited to attend. Fur ther information may be obtain ed by calling NOrmandy 4-1465. BolioYtd Forged Check Ray D. Bostwick, 120 Vancouver ave., reported to city police Sat urday that he had cashed a check which he believed to be forged. The check, for S88.33. was endorsed by Carl H. Rea soned with the address given as 223 South Broadway, city. Car Collision A collision In volving a parked auto occurred on Almond St. between 7th and 8th sts., about 3:10 a.m. Sunday morning, according to city po lice. The first car was driven by Clarence Ellsworth Surber, box 542, Central Point. The owner of the other car was unknown, . Fireman Standby City fire men with the rural pump truck were called to the municipal airport about 3:55 p.m. yester day during the warmup and takeoff of a National Guard jet airplane. They had been sum moned about noon also to flush away spilled jet fuel. Legion To Moot Medford post 15 of the American Legion will meet Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the Legion home. 531 South Riverside ave. Charles Robert son will report on the recent Beaver Boys State session at Corvallis. Robertson was one of 29 Medford boys attending Bea ver Boys State and was elected as a member of the supreme court. Charles Holbrook. newly elected commander of post 15, will report on the recent district caucus. Hospitality' hour will tart at 7 p.m. Gt Certificates Robert Tay lor of Dean' and Taylor Pontiac Company and Russ Heysell of Courtesy Chevrolet Company have received the AAA Certifi cate of Civil Contribution. The certificates were given in recog nition of their participation in the high school driver training program. The awards, given by the Oregon AAA, were present ed automobile dealers who loan cars to their high schools to be used in connection with official driver education programs. Crib Damaged Firemen said that a davenport and child's crib were damaged extensively Sat urday night at the Robert Lind sey home. 1810 Spring st. They reported that the fire apparent ly was caused by a forgotten cigarette. Two pumpers were sent to a reported house fire at the Clifford Griffitts home, 1106 Niantic st., Saturday morning. An overheated flue had ignited a firtex wall covering, damag ing an area about eight inches in diameter, according to fire men. at th. WfF TOP NOTCH CAFE Hx to Cratorijn Beauty Shop Ends TUESDAY! James DEAN L-rvfj ., 1 "wSESSSr1 EJt,1V "it" ciamIa 1 IssT I I ' I Personal ' Orders Issued City Fire Mar shal Truman Nelson issued sev en orders Friday for correction of hazards found during inspec tion of four business occupan cies and a place of public assem bly. He inspected and approved for instalaltion one 1.000 gallon underground gasoline storage tank. Marey Flight Lionel Guy, 310'-i Laurel St., was flown to San Francisco this morning where he will receive treatment for a back injury at the South ern Pacific hospital. The flight was made in a Mercy Flights, Inc., air ambulance plane. Guy was a Mercy Flights patient a few weeks ago when he was taken to Portland. Today's flight, the 513th patient-trip, was necessitated when he fell at home, again injuring, his back, Officers of Legion Installed Sunday . Charles Holbrook was install ed commander of Medford post 15, American Legion, and Basil Craig was installed commander of Ashland post 14 at the joint installation ceremony held Sun day In Ashland. - District Commander Gene Orr conducted the ceremony. The ceremony was followed by a caucus of all delegates and alternates to the state convention from district 14. Included in dis trict 13 are Ashland, Medford, Grants Pass, Cave Junction and Central Point posts. Neil Allen, national chairman of Civil Defense, spoke on the need for action by the American Legion in Civil Defense and urged full participation by all posts. He described the new law before Congress to unify all Armed Forces purchasing depart ments under one head and point ed out good and bad features. Fred Dayton, Grants Pass, was elected district 13 commander and Bud Fisher was elected vice district commander. News About Servicemen GETS PROMOTION Allen D. Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Smith of 3455 Jacksonville highway, has been promoted to fireman while serv ing with the U.S. Navy aboard the heavy cruiser USS St. Paul. Court Records DISTRICT COURT Cloys Eugene Adams, switched li cense plates. 15. Robert Texas Taylor, no operators license. Sl.V Helen Delila Schmidt, violation of basic rule. $17-50. Dennis Norman Bradley, improper use of dealer's plates. Imogen Canary Johnson, failure to stop at stop sijm, Sio. Woodrow Wilson Atwood, overlaod. $93. Arthur A. Patterson, overheijht S10. Calvin A. Rosa, overload. 67. Kenneth Dean Rotan. one license plate. S6. Jerald James MrGrew, overload S4f. Douglas Jack Parkhurst. overload, SM. MUNICIPAL COURT Jean Clair Archibald, violation of ba.ic rule. SIO bail. Mary Eliza reth Brusman. illegal left turn. S3 bail. Charlotte Stearns, illegal right turn. $3 bail. John Edward Young, violation of basic rule. SIO Perry Dale Regan, disregarding sig nal. $5. Ada Delores Hooper, violation of baste rule. SIO. Pete Marion Jackson, switched li cense plates, S25. MARRIAGE MCESSB APPLICATIONS Harold Richard Kline. 30. 517 South Crape St.. and Geraldme Marjorie Geyer, 19, route 1, box 602 Central Point. Robert H. Tracy Jr.. 30. Vancouver. Wash., and Harriet Esther Armstrong, 27, box 47, Butte Fall. MIT CHUM im WRIGHT PI" MAGOO CARTOON! ujcnuccniivi mm I Atom praim : Do It Every : . ';,.' VE5-."k-w'I V 0 WDW. THIS Sr IF YOU W4NT TO YtLL T4KE TH4T YOU PU1WNJINS A COUNTRy 4(t W E4T, SET 0VEI? THERE H4M-4ND SOME J SUHOAY PICNIC OR Ka SURE GIVES YOU QUICK.' TVUT GOON J ' S4U4MI-THREE- Y AH 4MT4RCTIC EX- Ai APPETITE.' J IS G0IMG4T IT ! NO-BETTER M4KE I PEDITION? Th4T'S ( fjji "--THIS ILL ffl LIKE A PL4GUE 'J IT FOUR POUNDS OP I ENOUGH TO FEED iWL YOU GOT ? JvOP LOCUSTS J 'A MOT DOSS-WH4T J AH ARMY OF 1 DlD you S4y, HUNGRY 4C-TORSM ?WV FvTv .tv)", vyy' ? WlNDBERRy SQU4WKED 4LLTHE WAV HOME YESTEf?D4y WHEN HIS MISSUS BOUGHT THE PICNIC VITTLES- Obituaries WILLIAM JOHN CLARK The ashes of William John Clark, 86, a former Medford res ident who was fatally injured Friday evening near Redding, Calif., are being returned to Medford for services and inter ment. Conger-Morris funeral home is in charge of funeral arrange ments. MORRIS G. JOHNSBERG Morris G. Johnsberg. 72, died Sunday at his home, 213 Beatty st., Medford. Conger-Morris funeral home is in charge of funeral arrange ments. CHESTER C. PARSONS Chester C. Parsons. 53. of route 3, Eagle Point, died Sun day evening at his home. Conger-Morris funeral home is in charge of funeral arrange ments. FPC Opens Hearing On Northwest Dams Pendleton (U.R) The Federal Power Commission opened a two-day hearing here today on application of a group of North west power companies to build the. Mountain shpen and Pleas ant Valley projects on the mid dle Snake river. Th S213.0Q0.000 nrolect would be the largest ever under taken in the Northwest witn private capital. Seeking author ity to build it is Pacific North west Power Company, a combine of Pacific Power & Light, Wash ington Water Power. Montana Water Power and Portland Gen eral Electric. The FPC plans a hearing in Lewiston, Ida., on Thursday and Friday. It is gathering local views and evidence of a non technical nature. Technical testi mony will be taken in Washing ton. D.C., starting July 24. The two dams would be lo cated above the mouths of the Salmon and Imnaha rivers. Pleasant Valley dam would be 534 feet high, highest of its kind in the United States and third highest in the world. Paul B. McKee, president of Pacific Power & Light, saii more than 100 witnesses were expected to make statements in favor of the plan. Daily Weather Report Sunset tonight. 7:52 p m- sunrise to morrow 4:t6 an. FORECASTS Medford and vicinity: Increasing cloudiness tonight. Partly cloudy Tues day. Low tonight 50. High Tuesday 80. Western Oregon: Mostly cloudy to night and Tuesday morning with a few scattered showers along coast and over northern interior. Partial clear ing Tuesday aiternoon. lxw tonight 48-54. High Tuesday 69-79. Northern California : Fair through Tuesday but increasing local coastal for. LOCAL DATA i below normal 8. Recrd high this date I 105 in 1925. Record low this date 42 , in 1923. Precipitation ;24 hours to midnight, I none. Midnight to 10 a.m., none. Total this month .80 in.. .07 in. below nor mal. Total since Sept. 1, 33-40 in., 15.64 ! in. above normal. i Humidity: Lowest yesterday 24, j highest this a.m. 86V City Ui Lo Prec. i Brookings Grants Pass 72 38 MEDFORD 77 43 Portland 67 49 45 Spokane Yakima . 67 43 ... 73 44 59 49 89 65 87 57 . 68 50 .... 73 60 .. 102 76 93 61 92 60 91 75 86 75 .... 90 66 Sacramento San Francisco . Los Angeles Phoenix . Denver Chicago . Miami ... Washington. D. C. 33 FIVE-DAY FORECAST (Through June 30) Western Oregon and Western Wash tnton Scattered showers early in per iod and again near end of week. Tem peratures continuing below normal, Highs in western Washington 62-70. in western Oregon 70-88. Lows 48-52. Northern California No precipita tion. Temperatures about normal in land and slightly above normal near coast. New York (U.R) Michael Arlen, 60, author of "The Green I Hat' and other novels, plays, movie scenarios, and short stor j ies, died Sunday after a long t illness. ' Time . 4-H Club Members, Agents Return Home Nearly 50 4-H club members from Jackson county, .two lead ers and three extension service agents returned from from a 10 day 4-H summer school at Ore gon State college. This year's summer school en rollment of 1864 was the largest on record. PORTLAND LIVESTOCK Portland (UP) Cattle 2,700. Av erage to high choice led steers $22 22.25, some nigher; mixed good-choice Hunt steers $20-50-21.75; good steers $20; standard steers S17-19; choice 787 Jb fed heifers S21; canner-cutter cows $7.00-99.50; utility bulls $15.50-16.50. Calves 400. Good-choice vealers mostly $17-19, some $20. Hogs 1.200. U.S. 1 and 2 butchers 180-2J5 lb $1925-19.50; mixed 1. 2 and 3 grades $19; sows 300-500 lb $12 16. Sheep 2.500. MosUy choice spring lambs $18-50-19. some $19.50: good choice spring feeder iambs $15-15.60; cull-good ewes $2-4. , PORTLAND PRODUCE Portland (UP) Eggs To retail ers: Grade AA large. 48-49c; A large 45-46C; AA medium, 42-43c; A medium 4 l-42c; A small 29-3 lc; cartons, no charge to 3c additional. Butter To retailers: AA grade prints 67-68c lb; cartons 68-69c; A prints 67-68c; B prints 65-66c. Cheese To retailers: Grade cheddar single daisies 43'2-47?c; 5-1 b loaves, 48Ix-51c; processed American cheese 5-1 b loaf 4 J -44c. Farm Market Top quality raspberries sold 50 cents a Hat higher than late last week at $2.75-3 a flat inside the East Side Farmer's market: ordinary went at $2.50 a 12-cup fill; Willamette valley strawberries sold to $3 a flat; irost cap blackcap raspberries were $3 50 a ilat. Poultry, Rabbits Live ChicKcns To growers (No. 1 quality f.o.b. Portland): lryers 2' to 4 lbs 23c lb: at larm 22-22Vac; light hens, too few transactions for Port land price. 16c at ranch, heavy hens 5 lbs up, not enough trading for Port land price, at country 17-19c lb up; old roosters ll-12c. Dressed Chickens No .1 grade dressed to retailers: fryers. N Y style 35-3bc lb; whole, drawn 41-43c; cut up 47-50c; hens, light type NY style 29-30c: cut up 40-44c; hens, heavy type. NY style 31 -32c; whole, drawn 43-46c. Turkeys To producers: fryer tur keys, live weight. 27-28c lb; breeder turkey hens 30-3 lc lb on eviscerated basis; breeder toms 39-40c lb. Rabbits (Average to growers f.o.b. killing plant): Live, white, 34 to 4a lbs 20-23c; 5-6 lbs. 15-18c; colored pelts 4c under; old docs 10-12c lb, a few higher. Fresh killed fryers to re tailers 5 6 -58c lb; cut up 60-63c PORTLAND HAY, GRAIN Portland Wholesale hay prices: New crop No. 2 green alfalfa baled f.o.b. Portland nominally $35-36. some sales higher. New crop prices not es tablished. Wholesale prices as reported bv the US DA market news service: Wheat No. 2 soft white. S72 ton: No. 2 white oats. 38-lb test. Coast delivery $57.50 58 ton; soybean meal $91 f.o.b- Port land; barley. Coast delivery $49.50 ton: standard millrim, $43.50-44 ton; No. 2 yellow com. Eastern shipments, f.o.b. Portland. $70. Thornton To Appear for Lack of Driver Permit Salem "(U.R) Attorney Gen eral Robert Y. Thornton was stopped during a routine traffic check by Salem police Saturday and was ordered to appear in Municipal court Tuesday on a charge of no operator'! license ; on his person. Read and Use Classified Ads Tha Community's Biggest Marketplace j : HOTEL TtlAT TOUUfU TO THI By Jimmy Hatlo m Ksy ... uw vi OUT AT COME 4ND ""Xi-1 GET IT T1ME"'HE4TE ,!V'c,ui EVERVTHIMG IN SIGHT bpSSsffilP- 4ND THEM SOME i&Js h MBMT f V 5 J0 to 9:00 P. M. 1 Prime I 1 Rib of Beef A Au Jus J I ) I BREAKFAST ) AND LUNCH y 7 a-m. to 2 p.iv Wall Street New Vork (U.R) Stocks declined irregularly today in the lightest trading in about a week. All the major sections fell be low the Friday closings but none by any appreciable amount. Metal issues were harder hit than other groups. Steels lost fractions. Oils were off fractions to more than a point in Socony Mobil. Continental Oil, an ex ception, held a rise of nearly a point. General Railway Signal, an outstandingly strong issue, rose 4 points to a new high. Dow-Jones final stock aver ages: 30 industrials 486.43, off 1.52; 20 railroads 166.39, off 1.15; 15 utilities 66.15, off 0.34, and 65 stocks 172.02, off 0.82. Sales today were about 1. 500,000 shares compared with 1,630,000 Friday. Today's closing prices on se lected stocks: American T & T 179si Anaconda . . 71 l-i Chrysler , 64 Curtiss Wright 32 General Electric - 59 General Motors 447 Montgomery Ward 42' i Penn R R 23T4 Penney J C 94 Radio 414 Southern Co 21" 4 Southern Pacific - 501 5 Oil of Calif 50Vi Texas Gulf Sulphur 33 Transamerica - 40 Tri-Continental 26';4 United Aircraft - 70 U S Rubber 50' i 11 S Steel - 55 '2 Tftungstown . 87 For Your Hot Weather Refreshrnents ice cold drinks can bottle case AT LOWEST PRICES Every businessman ...should expoci a fall measure To expect and give an accurate count, weight, or measurement in buying and selling merchandise or services is the foundation ol business success. That's true fa newspaper adve'rtishg, too. Apply the same know what you get tor your money policy in mak ing your advertising investments by using A.B.C. circulation reports. Through the association of this newspaper with the Audit Bureau of Circulations, you are assured of circulation value received for your advertising dollar. A.B.C gives you full measurement of circulation facts and figures oout the audience for your advertising messages in this newspaper. Ask us for a copy of our latest A.B.C. report Monday, June 25, 1951 Births SANDERSON To Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Gold Hill, June 22, 1956, a girl, 7 pounds, 12Vi ounces, at Community hospital. BREWER To Mr. and Mrs. Charles, Shady Cove, June 23, 1956, a girl, 94 pounds, at Com munity hospital. KIMMONS To Mr. and Mrs. Douglas, route 1, box 173, Cen tral Point, June 24, 1956, a boy, 8 pounds, 15 ounces at Commu nity hospital. KNIGHT To Mr. and Mrs. Earl, 522 King st., June 24, 1956, a boy, 11 pounds, 1 ounce at Community hospital. TONEY To Mr. and Mrs. William, route 1, box 45, Ash land, June 22, 1956, a boy, 7 pounds, 13 ounces, at Sacred Heart hospital. WARD To Mr. and Mrs: Paul, P.O. Box 1109, Medford, June 23, 1956, a girl pounds, at Sacred Heart hospital. SALTMARSH To Mr. and Mrs. Richard, box 102, Jackson ville, June 23, 1956, a girl, 5i pounds, at Sacred Heart hospi tal. THOMPSON To Mr. and Mrs. George, Fourth and Pacific sts., Phoenix, June 23, 1956, a girl, 7 pounds, 7 ounces, at Sa cred Heart hospital. KYLE JR. To Mr. and Mrs. Robert, 2241 Aloha, June 24, 1956, a girl, 8 pounds, 7 ounces, at Sacred Heart hospital. THOMASSON To Mr. and Mrs. William, route 1, box 449, Talent, June 24, a girl, 7 pounds, 4 ounces, . at Sacred Heart hos pital. MEEKER To Mr. and Mrs. Leland, 091 Janes rd., June 25, 1956, a boy, 8 pounds, 11 ounces, at Sacred Heart hospital. Grange Upper Rogua Grange Upper Rogue Grange held their quarterly dinner June 21 with a large attendance, after which the meeting was called to order by Master Caroline Harding. The charter was drap ed for sister Lucile Milter- who died in Salem June 17. An application for member ship was read and accepted for Mrs. Robert Conger. Sister Peg Anderton was re ported quite ill in the Commun ity hosptal. Master Caroline Harding, Pomona Master Herb Carlton and Sister Carlton gave reports on the session of State Grange convention which they attended in Pendleton. MARKET 1202 North Rivanid OPEN EVERY NIGHT TIL MIDNIGHT Thb nowipopor it o moW of AtrfH time of Cfto lotion, o cooporsfivo, nonprofit osiaciorioo of pubhshort, odvortison. ood oWui( agooeioi. Oor tirculotioa audited by ojiporioocoo A-I C cirailetion oudrtor. Ow A.B.C. roport ihow how ojock amitotioo n kavo, wboi k goot. how obtauoo ood otbor facte lost oeWiMn what th7 got for thoir nono? whoo thoy th pooor. The Medford Mail Tribune Miss Minnie Given 20 Years in Prison Norfolk, Va. (U.R) M i n n i e Mangum, who learned how to do good things for people while teaching a Sunday school class, was sentenced to 20 years in prison today for embezzling al most $3 million so she could help friends and relatives. Miss Mangum, who was known as "Miss Minnie," was working as head bookkeeper for a build ing and loan association when an argument she was having with an employee raised the sus picions of an examiner. Corporation Court Judge H. Lawrence Bullock read the sent ence which included 10 years each on two indictments to run consecutively and two years each on 11 other indictments to run concurrently with the longer sen tence. Court observers indicated this procedure would affect Miss Mangrum's chances for parole, but that she will be eligible for parole after serving five years. McMinimee Withdrawing From Senate Presidency Tillamook (U.R) State Sen. Warren A. McMinimee of Tillamook said today he was withdrawing as a candidate for president of the Oregon Senate in the 1957 Legislature. McMinimee said, "I have a race in the general election and simply cannot take the time from my work both to campaign and to make the contacts nec essary to plan with members the work for the coming ses sion." iiilLi.ii ENDS TONITE! mm STARTS TOMORROW TREMENDOUS! Ntttfat tin H Wfml TH fgRffr RICHARD BURTON - FREDRIC MARCH CUIIE ItOOM DANIEL! DAKIBIX With YIUJLJ- 11 Jim MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINE Manufacturing , Employment Up Washington (U.R) The Cen sus Bureau, in a preliminary report on a 1954 census of manu facturers for Oregon, said today that manufacturing employment totalled 134,900 in that year, an increase of 28 per cent from 1947 when the last previous similar census was taken. Manufacturing payrolls ' to talled $564,000,000, up 77 per cent from 1947 compared with an increase of 67 per cent The bureau said the figures were preliminary and that some data was subject to revision In final state reports. The three leading major in dustry groups in 1954 based on value added by manufacture! were: Lumber and wood prod ucts $585,100,000; food and kin dred products, $120,900,000, and pulp, paper and products, near ly $65,000,000. These industry groups also ranked first, second and third respectively, in 1947. Manufacturing establishments numbered 5880 in. 1954 com pared with 3075 in 1947. Num ber of larger establishments, having 100 or more employees, increased from 233 in 1947 to 282 in 1954. ZEES ASHLAND .1 ANYTHING MiL technicolor JEANMAIRE r., PHIl HARRIS Gates Open 6:30 p.m. SHOW AT DUSK GH9 PHONE 2-6507 I'LL 6RY & ) IbMORROW SIKiM UaVWior. nam CONIE ox. ALBERT PLUS " James CAGNEY TICHrwtCOlOt,, iW is Horn rtflM uttM PHONI 2-5529 K..:.:-' ".M 2 IBMcote (f0T PLUS with Maria Montez John Hall Ion Chancy i tRfVEfM ft? . PLUS eH GIANT Of Alt, t