Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 15, 1957, Image 11

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Newspaper Page TextLocal and Personal VUit Dinyland Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Jorgensen of Med ford were recent visitors at Disneyland, where they speit a day and nijht, it was reported this week. . Engineer III County Engi neer Paul Rynning has been con fined to his home with the flu since Monday. He is expected to be home most of this week, sec retaries in his office reported. Hospital Call One pumper was dispatched to Rogue Valley hospital, 843 East Main St.. about 12:47 a.m. today to check the cause of an alarm bell ringing, firemen reported today." There was no fire, they said. .Lodged in Jil Darrold L. Johnson, 26, formerly of 109 Elk St., Medford. was fined $50 and sentenced to five days in the county jail after pleading guilty in -district court Monday to a charge of driving with his li cense suspended. Ovtrheattd Slov Medford firemen were called to the W. J. Schluchter residence, 832 Wood lawn ave., about 5:55 p.m. yes terday to check an overheated electric range. Firemen said trou ble apparently was caused from a faulty thermostat, and advised calling a repairman. Visits Here Mrs. Raymond Artmire of Prospect is a house guest of Mrs. Ruth Hertagcr, 47 North Orange St., Medford. Flue Fires No damage was reported from flue fires at the residences of Albert Walker, 1100 Murray St., and William Harrison, 3360 Lone Pine rd., yesterday, Medford fire depart ment reported today. Gets Sentence Keith Dwainc Mable, Portland, was sentenced to 10 days in the county jail Monday after pleading guilty in district court to a charge of va grancy. He was arrested by statu police. i Good Business Level i Predicted for 1957 Boy, 17, Confesses Slaying Young Gir! I Matador. N. D. (U.R! Author ! Hies today planned further ques j tioning of a 17-year-old pin boy they said admitted strangling Rosemary Mertes. 14. shortly ' after leaving a bowling alley j where they both worked. ! Authorities identified the i youth as Harold Joseph Nepper, who also was the first person questioned about the slaying. Nepper, a high school senior at nearby Hankinson. worked as a pin boy and the dead girl as a foul spotter in the bowling alley. Officials said Nepper had not offered any reason for the crime. The confession climaxed a week of increasing tension that saw more than-100 of the town"s 138 residents brought in for questioning. Neighbors were si lent about the atrocity, fearful that one of their friends might be tire murderer. Obituary Notices WALTER F. HULBERT Movie Wardrobe i Chief Dies in Japan In San Francisco H. D. Field, manager of the local branch of the Sherwin-Williams company, ..1229 Court St., will attend the firm's regional con ference .in San Francisco this week. The conference will held Jan. 17 and 18. Portland (U.R There will be jguuu level ui DUSlliess mivot i but the year will have more than its usual quota of uncertainties. C. B. Stephenson, president of the First National Bank of Port land, predicted here yesterday. ( Kv'oto, Japan (U.R) Leon Stephenson said there will be : Roberts, 58, chief of the Warner "few if any foreseeable increases I Brothers wardrobe department, in housing starts in 1957" in his died of a heart attack today dur "Business Forecast of 1957" de- M jnB the filming here of the movie livered before the Portland "Sayonara." Chamber of Commerce vesler-i Roberts was stricken while on day. " i STEWART PETER MONSEY Stewart Peter Monsey; 65, Portland, died Sunday morning in Portland. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 16, at McGinnis and Wiehelm Fu neral parlors in Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Monsey lived in Medford . for a bolt five years during the World War II. He was employed by the General Print ing Ink company. He is survived by his wife, Julia: a daughter. Beatrice, Port land; and two sons, Robert Mon sey, Central Point, who is em ployed by the Mail Tribune; and Dick Monsey. Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Monsey and family are in Portland to attend services. Mr. Monsey was a charter member and helped organize the Medford Printing Pressmen and Assistants local union. He was secretary of the group for sev eral years, and was employed by the Commercial Printing com pany. Consumer spending will be a little higher in 1957, Stephenson predicted, and so will govern ment spending. The two big and all important be i problems to be watched will be the Middle East and inflation, Stephenson warned. Dance for MOD Rogue Val ley Square Dance Callers asso ciation will sponsor a darue at the Medford Senior High school gym Wednesday, starting at 8 p.m. It will be the association's second annual March of Dimes benefit jamboree style dance and approximately 16 callers will appear. Retires Mrs. Maude K. Chap man, 80, retired last Friday as file clerk for Robinson-Shepard-Potter Insurance agency, Med ford, after working for the agen cy over 31 years. She started with the agency as bookkeeper and accountant. For the past five years she was a file clerk. She intends to remain home, she said. LEGAL NOTICES l.VM'AI. MEETING OF SIl.AKEHOI.ItERS. FIRST FF.OK.RAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OF MEDKIKII The annual shareholders meeting ot First Federal Savings and Loan Asso ciation of Medford will be held in its offices at 23 North Ivy Street, Wed nesday. January 16. 1937 at 2:00 o'clock P.M. NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING The annual meeting of the share holders of the Jackson County Federal Savings and Loan Association- will be held at 128 East Main Street. Medford. Oregon on January 16. 1937 at 7.30 p.m. J. H. PleLsch. Secretary Communists Suffer Defeat in France Paris (U.R: Communists in France's strongest Communist district suffered heavy defeat in their first elections since the Hungarian revolt, results of- a National Assembly bi-elcction showed today.. '. Voters in the largest single electoral district in France went to the polls Sunday to elect a successor to Radical lower house member Vincent de Moro Giaf ferri, who died in November. Julien Tardieu, fiO-y e a r-old ' fantry division in '"War Hawk," company administrator and mu- , a field training exercise in Ger nicipal counselor, runnine as an : mai1y- - indroenrtent recpiveri iniSQa! Abbott location.' He was on a truck ex amining costumes to be used in the picture. He died --in the Kyoto Red Cross Hospital. Roberts arrived here recently to supervise the costumes to be worn by the cast, starring Acad emy Award winner Marlon Brando and Miss Mieko Taka of Los Angeles. Sayonara is a romantic story of an American flier and a Jap anese revue girl of famed Tak arazuka Opera, based on a novel by James Michener. News About Servicemen IN EXERCISE . Army Pvt. Raymond .L Ab bott, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. R. Abbott, Butte Falls, recently participated with the 8th . in- votes. compared to only 62,787 i for Communist candidate Lucien j Monjauvis, although the Left ! Bank district comprising 547.690 j .'ntorc nnrmatlv .winoc hna.rit. I to the Communist candidate in graduated from Butte Falls High any election. scno1 ln 1903 an aidman in Com pany C of the division's 8th Medi cal Battalion, entered the Army last March and completed basic training at Fort Carson, Colo. The 19-year-old soldier was Virginia has given the nation eight sons who became Presi dents of the United States. They are Washington. Jefferson. Mad ison, Monroe. Harrison, Tyler, Taylor and Wilson. Births CURETON To Mr. and Mrs. James, route 1, box 26, Central Point. Jan. 11. 1957, a girl, 814 pounds, at home. MARGARET REEDER Funeral services for Mrs. Mar garet Ellen Reeder, 87, formerly of 1021 Niantic st., who died in a local hospital Saturday, will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday in Chapel Mortuary.- The Rev. Loyce C. Carver, pastor of the Apostolic Faith church will offi ciate. Interment will be in the Medford lOOF cemetery.' - Pall bearers will be Dan Haas, Bernard Haas, Clifford Batty. William Withrow, Donald Camp bell, and William Brychta. Mrs. Reeder was born in White Pine, Pa., Aug. 6, 1868. She was married in 1900 in Clearfield. Pa., to Edwin Reed er. The couple came from Penn sylvania to Medford in 1940, where Mr. Reeder preceded her in death in 1946. Mrs. Reeder then moved to Eugene, and re turned here in 1955. She is survived by a nephew, Robert Grafins, in Detroit, Mich. EVA LORRAINE HEATH Mrs. Eva Lorraine Heath. 52, died of a heart attack' in Spo kane, Wash.. Saturday. ' Mrs. Heath was the daughter of :Bert and Elizabeth Hooker, and was born in MedforrJ.Nov. 14, 1904. She was' married to Loyal Heath, who survives, in 1925. They lived in the Medford and Grants Pass areas until about 12 yqars ago. , Other , survivors include . her mother, Mrs.. Elizabeth Hooker, Medford; two sons, TSgt. Dar- old Heath, Santa Ana, Calif., and Loyal Heath Jj '.''Spokane, Wash.: three grand children; an aunt, Mrs. Eva Fredenburg. Med ford, and an uncle, H. L. Royse, Klamath Falls. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, Jan. IS, at Hull and Hull Funeral Jiome in Grants Pass. The Rev. William C. Piper of the First Christian church of Medford will officiate. Interment will be in Grants Pass. Funeral services for Walter Francis Hulbert, 37, of 628'2 North Riverside ave... Medford, who died Saturday, will be held in Conger-Morris chapel at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. The Rev. R. H. Mathewson of the Four Square church will officiate. Graveside services and interment "will be conducted by the Medford' chap ter 8 of the Disabled American Veterans in the IOOF cemetery Mr. Hulbert was born Aug. 15, 1919. in Auburn, Calif, On Aug! 31. 1946, in Reno. Nev., he was married to Gertrude Berry, who survives. He was a veteran of World War II serving fro'm Jan. 24. 1943, through May 28, 1943. Survivors, besides his wife, include two sons, Danny and David, both at home: two sisters, Mrs. Jean Shadle, Olympia, Wash.; and Mrs. Frank Knox. Medford: and parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Hulbert of Medford. Klamath Indians Issue Ultimatum ; Klamath Falls (U.R) The Klamath Indian tribe issued an ultimatum to the Klamath Coun ty Bar Association yesterday, threatening to boycott the asso ciation if legal fees levied in guardianship cases arenot re duced by the end of this month. A tribal interim committee is sued the statement at a. meet ing of tribal leaders and repre sentative bar association com mittee. . Spokesmen for the bar asso ciation replied that higher legal fees for . Indian guardianship cases were justified in that they required more work than ordi nary cases. Tlie bar association presented a new proposal after a noon re cess stating that the group would be willing to follow either the minimum rate schedule of the County Bar Association or of the Oregon State Bar. It was point ed out, however, that in either case attorneys would be entitled to payment for any extra work performed in handling Indian guardianships. Tuesday, January IS. JSS7 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVEIT Steels Lead Decline In Industrial Shares New York (U.R) Stocks de-1 United Aircraft Air Pellet Pistol Reported Taken Monday Kenneth M. Windscheffel, 220 South Chestnut St., has reported to the sheriff's office the ' theft of an air pellet pistol from the kitchen of his home some time between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Monday. Deputies said the house was apparently entered through an unlocked front door. The gun, which belonged to a friend of Windscheffel's, had been kept in a kitchen cabinet. A glass pane in the front door also was reported broken. clined again today with the steel division leading the downturn in industrial shares. Losses ranged to more than two .points. Sugar shares stood out as strong posts. American Sugar soared nine points to a new high. West Indies also made a new top ; on a smaller advance. Very few other issues managed to score gains. . Steels lost up to more than three points in Bethlehem at the lows. That issue came back sub stantially. Others made some re covery. : - Today's prices on selected stocks: Allied Chemical 854 American Can 41? A T & T 176?s Anaconda Copper 685s Bethlehem Steel ..184':4 Caterpillar Corp 91'.2 Chrysler Corp 664 'Continental Can 45? s Crown Zellerbach 56' s Curtiss Wright 46' s Du Pont 195'. -i Eastman Kodak , 88 Vi General Electric 56 General Foods ...... 41 s Genera Motors 405,a Georgia Pacific 27 Graham Paige .. l5 Homestake Mining 38 Kaiser Frazer Unquoted Kennecott Copper ...122V2 Lockheed Aircraft 55 Katy Pfd : 59 Montgomery Ward 39 New York Central 331, hPenney. J. C. 80i Penn RR 21 2 Radio Corporation 33s Richfield Oil ..- 67?s Socony Vacuum .... 54g Southern Co 21H Southern Pacific 45 Standard California . 46 Standard Indiana 593,i Standard N. J ; 58 Sun Mines ..... 74 Texas Gulf ..;. .. 30;s Tex Pac Land Trust ..... 8 i Transamerica .. 37i Trans West Air ; I8V2 Tri-Continental 27',i Un Carbide 111 Union Pacific 29'i U. A. L U. S. Rubber U. S. Steel .... 88 38-45: 66"'s Youngstown S & T 1114 PORTLAND LIVESTOCK Portland (U P.i Cattle 400. Mostly good 1008 lb. fed steers 20; standard steers 17-18; good with some stand ard heiters 730 lb. 18; canner-cutter cows 8-9.50; utility cows 12-13; util ity bulls 14.50-16. Calves 35. Good-choice vealers around 23-23: standard vealers 15-21. Hogs 150. Mixed 1 and 2 butchers 19.73-20.25; mixed 1, 2 and 3 grade 180-235 lb. 19-19.50; sows 300-500 lb. 13.30-17.50. Sheep : 650. Choice wooled lambs 18.75-T9; : uocwJ-choice shorn Iambs 1 6.50-17 .50 with choice fall shorn to 18 25.;- . . Auto manufacturers use more cotton each year than the makers of carpets, rugs and shirts combined. Swept -Wing Dodgt . . . only 4' A feat lew and all dynamite! Step into the wonderful world of AUTODYNAMICS It breaks tlir ougK th.e vibration barrier! 3- It unleashes a hurricane of power It tames a tornado of torque tt is swept-wing mastery of motion Right off the bat. you'll realize there's something entirely diftercnt about driving the new Swept-Wing Dodge. You know it's the slickest piece of live action you've ever driven. The most responsive and easiest handling, too. But the thing that really hits you is the silence.' Why. all the irritating noises, all the annoying road sounds common to automobiles have vanished! For Autodynamics has introduced a revolutionary new suspension system Dodge Torsion-Aire that cushions you in a "Realm of Silence." Thick cushions of "live rubber" isolate engine vibration, noise and road shock at its source. Actually, everything is new in the Swep-Wmg Dodge from new race car torsion bars lo new .' Push-Button TorqueFlite, from new 310 hp. .V-8 engine to new Total-Contact Brakes. !' This is Autodynamics in action ... yours in- the most exciting car that's ever come up the" pike. See and drive the Swept-Wing Dodge today! Nowl TWO dlfrmt full-hour Lwrne Wmk Show aach wk on TVI "Dnelng Prty" nd -Top Tumi end Nw Tlnt" ABC-TV. PARSONS MOTORS o 315 East Fifth St. PORTLAND PRODUCE Portland ( U.P- Ekrs To retail- er: Grade AA large, 45-47c; A large 43-46; AA medium. 40-43c; A-medium. 39-43c; A small, 37-38c; carton, l-3c additional. - . Butter To retailers: AA jprade prints, 69-70C lb.; cartons, 70-7 lc; A prints. 69-70c: B prints, 67-68C. Cheese Medium cured To retail ers: A erade cheddar. - sinele daisies. 45,2-52c: -3-lb. loaves. 51'2-57c; pro- -ceued- American cheese. p-Lb. loaf. 41 i?-44c. Farm Market ' - Prices -were mostly unchanged trading today; one wholesaler was taking orders for a new shpiment of No. 1 Idaho jumbo white onions at 5.50 a 30-tb. sack. Poultry, Rabbits ' Live Chickens Quoted growers (No. 1 Quality, f.o.b. Portland i: Fryers, 2'2- 4 lbs.. 21c lb.; light hens, too few transactions for Portland price; 10-1 lc lb. at ranch: heavy hens. 5 lbs. up. not enough trading for Portland price: at country. I3i4c id.; old roosters, -c. Dressed unicKens ro. i graae dressed to retailers: Fryers, whole drawn, 39-41c lb.; cut up, 4-46c: hens. lignt type, cut up. 3-jjc; neavy type, whole drawn. 37-4 le lb. Turkeys To producers: Fryer tur keys, live weight. 27-2 8c lb. Dressed Turkeys To retailer: A grade hens. 45-48c lb.; eviscerated; A grade toms to 24 lbs., 44-46c lb.; over 24 lbs., 46-52C lb. Rabbits (Average to growers, f.o.b. killing plant! : Live white. 34-5 lbs., f.o.b. dressing plants, Portland, 2 1-2 4c; colored pelts. 4c under: old does, 10 12c 'lb.; few higher. Fresh killed fry ers to retailer, 56-53c lb.; cut up. 80-63c. PORTLAND HAY, GRAIN Portland Wholesale Hay Prices: No. 2 green alfalfa baled f.o.b. Port land. S34-35. Wholesale prices as reported by the USDA market news service: - Wheat, No. 2 soft white, $83.50 a ton: No. 2 white oats. 38-lb. West Coast delivery. S57; .No: 2 Vally white oats. S52 ton; soybean meal. S77.J0 ton, f.o.b. Port land; barley No. 2. 45-lb. West Coast delivery, 85 1 .50; standard mill run, prompt delivery. S46.50-47.50 ton, f.o.b. Portland: No. 2 yellow corn. Eastern shipment, f.o.b. Portland, $63 DAILY WEATHER REPORT FORECASTS Medford and vicinity: Mostly cloudy with a few light showers tonight and Wednesday. Patches of valley fog to night and Wednesday morning. Low tonicht 34. High Wednesday 48. Western Oregon: Mostly cloudy with scattered showers of rain or snow tonight and Wednesday. Cooler. Low tonight 32-36, except 25-30 north ern interior. High Wednesday 36-44. : Northern California Cloudy with scattered ' light rain tonight and Wednesday. Little change in tem perature. LOCAL TEMPER A-TUR E : Mean yesterday 44: above normal 7. Record high this date 55 in 1951, Record low this date 2 in 1930. PRECIPITATION: 24 hours to mid night, trace. Midnight to 10 a.m. .01 inch. Total this month .35 inch, .80 inch below normal. Total since Sept. 1, 10.11 inches, 44 inch above normal. HUMIDITY: Lowest yesterday 53, highest this a.m. 97. CITY High 4 30 a.m. 25-hr. Yesterday low recip. Brookings 51 Crater Lake 27 Grants Pass 45 Klamath Falls .. 40 MEDFORD 52 Portland 42 47 23 39 32 41 35 7f ,80 .19 .01 .01 .03 Seattle .' 38 33 T Spokane : 20 18 -03 Yakima 30 23 T Eureka 52 49 - .74 Red Bluff 53 47 .04 Sacramento 58 47 T San Francisco 59 47 X3 Los Angeles 62 48 Phoenix 70 4 T Denver 48 1? Chicago' - 8 2 .02 Miami r. 83 60 New York .24 0 Washington, D C. 30 . . . 14 ; . . No Clues Found in McDonald Kidnaping Hollywood (U.R) Chief of Police William H. Parker said today an exhaustive investiga tion of actress Marie McDonald's kidnap story had produced "ab solutely negative results." Parker said his detectives had virtually reached a dead-end af ter working on thet bizarre case for more than a week. "We have checked out every bit of information in the case and have failed to find any positive evidence," Parker said. "We can neither substantiate nor dis prove her story." Parker has said that he would like to clear up what he con siders to be discrepancies in Miss McDonald's story of how she was abducted from her nearby Encino home Jan. 4 by two men and re leased some 24 hours later on the desert. Miss McDonald said tearfully Monday she was tired "of being treated like a criminal by the police" aund offered a S5.000 re ward for information leading to the arrest of the two men she charged' kidnaped her. Angry Father-To-Be Punches Young Lover Ashton-Under-Lyne, England !U.P.) Love and marriage tangled over a telephone here Monday with both physical and financial consequences. Eric Monton, a married in surance man, paid a S5 fine for breaking the nose of the lover, 18-ycar-old- Thomas Cooper. Monton told the court he wait ed nervously 20 minutes outside the telephone booth to call the hospital where his wife was to give birth. Cooper was inside pleading with his girl friend to patch up a quarrel. Finally Monton said he could stand the suspense no longer. He pulled open the door, drag ged Cooper out and slugged him. Mrs. Monton and child were reported doing fine. Russian Attache Expelled From U.S. Washington (U.R) The United ; States has expelled an. assistant Soviet military attache for "im-: properly" buying electronic equipment and trying to pur chase "classified military infor-' mation," it was announced to- j day. In a terse note delivered Mon day night, the United States de clared Maj. Yuri P. Krylov per sonna non grata unwelcome and demanded his "immediate de parture." , i The State Department said, in : announcing the ouster, that Kry lov had improperly purchased electronic equipment. "On various occasions, Maj. Krylov had purchased such ma terials through American inter mediaries," the department said. "In addition, Maj. Krylov had attempted to purchase classified military information." In the note itself, the United States said these were "highly improper activities incompatible with his diplomatic status." Robert Montgomery Rumored for Navy Post .Washington (U.R) Navy Secretary Charles S. Thomas to day declined to confirm or deny reports that Robert Montgom ery is being considered for a post as assistant secretary of the : Navyv THE FOOD IS JUST GREAT! BARBECUES HOT LUNCHES Or Just a Snack THE CLOCK Main at Bartlett. Phen 2-6766 EM II TUNIGHl Doors Optm 6:30 FRESH, HAPPY STORY ' OF TODAY! Tab . HUNTER . Natalie WOOD fa IheGirl He Left Behind" ..IUT NOr TOO FA UHIN01 a wAtNa uos ncnmi PLUS , 21 If E I. "I'JTRICW f ' rC3pSSS COBB -MEDINA CMST! Edward ARNOLD aJYS3 I MIU'J I I ' HELD OVER . BUT ENDS SOON! 177- jL A GIANT OF A PICTURE! I Mil Jiiglf itffr I J ONLY 1 SHOW TONITE DOORS OPEN 6:30 SHOW 7:15 VARSITY ASHLAND WEDNESDAY Doors Open 8:00 HA B0HEME,' 'OTHELLO ."THI IAMEI f itp m jficorai COlOt BY ncHNicoiet WIDE-SCUEN GREAT Ml Stirs! Music! Story! PLUS "THE SWAN LAKE BALLET" Organ Concert 8:00-8:30 Dorothy McOuit at the Console of Our Mighty Wurlifrer.1 Courtesy Carner's Organ Studio, Grants Pass.