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o Local and In Hospital Mrs. Herman DeGroot, Phoenix, is in Sacrd Heart hospital for major sur gery, it was reported today. Lear for Alaska Randall A. Olson, 423 Plum St., end George C. Johnstone, 31 North Orange St., Medford. left re cently to work in Anchorage, Alaska. Lone Pin PTA Lone Pine Parent-Teacher association will meet Tuesday, March 19, at 7:30 p m. in the school gymnasium. Officers will be elected. Meeting The Fleet Reserve association will meet Wednes day, March 20, at 8 p.m. in the VFW hall, 40 North Front St.. Medford. All Fleet Reservists, Marine Corps personnel, and their wives are invited to attend. Lodged in Jail Jerold D. Couch. 908 Beekman St., Med ford, is being held in county jail on a charge of being AWOL from the Navy. He was arrest ed over the week end by Med ford police. He will be picked up by Navy authorities. Choir Tonight The Seattle Pacific College a cappella choir will give a concert tonight at 8 p.m. in the Medford High school auditorium. The concert is sponsored by the Free Meth odist church and the public is invited to attend. Flue Fire Two pumpers were dispatched to the residence of Mr. and Mrs. John Turner, 1154 Court St., Medford. Saturday, when a flue fire extended to a wall, according to the Medford fire department. Firemen said only damage to the residence was a 2 by 4 inch hole burned in the wall. Rummage Sale The friend ship committee of the Women of the Moose will hold a rum mage sale at the Moose hall, 11 Newtown St., Medford, on Tues day, March 19, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Anyone having rummage to donate may call Mrs. James Robert. Medford 3-4392. for pick-up service. Motorist Cited Marvin Jon as Williams, Ashland, was cited for failure to leave information at the scene of an accident over the week end by city police when he was involved in a col lision with another car at Court 5t. and McAndrews rd., accord ing to city police. Operator of the other was Roger Duane Simpson, Trail, police said. 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NO rruinim..v veuf UAIN THI rCTS . . . It. embernuta z- MACON ASH! - r e- Personal Fevnd City Fire Marshal Truman Nelson issued six orders for correction of haz ards following inspection of four business occupancies and two apartment houses on Friday. Ciiatien Issued Glen Wayne Evans, 230 Bcatty st.. Medford. was issued a citation for driving while his driver's license was suspended over the week end when he struck a Copco power support pole at 210 Beatty St., according to city police. 79 Herefords Sold at Auction Forty-six bulls and 33 heifers were sold Thursday at the an nual Cal-Oregon Hereford sale at the county fairgrounds in Medford. Champion bull, consigned by Ralph Cook, Medford, brought a price of $960. Purchaser of the polled bull was W. M. Williams, Klamath Falls. Reserve champion bull, con signed by David Holmes. Med ford, was purchased by Irl Da vis. Canby, for S535. Champion heifer consigned by Norman and Lois Jacobs, Mer- ril, was sold to E. P. Standley, Camas Valley, for S400. Reserve champion heifer, con signed by R. H. and Nettie Field, was purchased by Standley for $360. Average sale price for the 46 bulls was $314 and average price for the 33 heifers was $198. The top 10 bulls sold for an average price of S498. Ellis White. Ontario, was auctioneer for the sale, which was preceded by a show" on Wed nesday. Lyle Hoyt, western rep resentative for the National Polled Hereford association, was among those attending the sale. Vancouver Wreck Delays Rail Traffic Vancouver, Wash. (U.R) Continuous rail service between Seattle, Wash., and Portland was disrupted as a result of the de railment of 12 Union Pacific railroad freight cars two miles north of here early yesterday. The 45-car train bound for Se attle jackknifed off the tracks and 12 cars were wrecked. No one was reported injured. More than 100 feet of track was torn up. Passengers en route to Seattle were taken by bus from Port land to Kelso. Wash., where they were placed on trains. I About fur hours after the inci dent, the head 10 cars and the triple diesel continued on to Se attle. Cause of the wreckage was not immediately known. Telephone Building Contract Awarded Myrtle Creek California Pacific Utilities company has awarded a contract to the South ern Oregon Construction , com pany of Grants Pass , for con struction of a two-story building here to house the business of fice, dial equipment, toll switch board and operators' quarters. Total cost of the entire pro ject, including the automatic dial equipment, will exceed $200,000. Completion of the building is ex pected in July. Sandcrjord, Norway, is the world's principal whaling port. Hotel Medford TUESDAY, MARCH 19 Inquire at desk Com, warn It' mo It convenient.' W1! an. clyr. your uftolt jcalp trouble- absolutely FRES. If Kent Scalp Specialists can help vour cast, u-e ll explain the HOMI TREATMENT that has nelpcd thousand grow thicker. naif. APPOINTMENT NEEDED! BALDNESS! . . your tca'p c'ttnttd of tht atari of 0 thick growth I . re.ionebit. 1 9 A ip n I . I Q&yQiffiaiSfe I iHcRWCiPliras I 4001 Ivsk Doctors Consider Diet For 18-Pound Baby Agrigcnto, Sicily (U.R) Doc tors today were considering putting a new-born boy on a re ducing diet. The son born to farmer Croce Consiglio and his" wife Saturday weighed 18 pounds, one ounce. Doctors said both the baby and the mother are doing fine. Obituaries LUCILE JOHNSON Mrs. Lucile Rose Marie John son. 51, of 907 Cherry St., and wife of Philip R. Johnson, mail carrier, died at home on Sun day. Chapel Mortuary is in charge of funeral arrangements. CHARLES V. JONES Charles V. Jones, 67, of 734 West McAndrews rd., died Sun day. Funeral services will be held at Perl Funeral home Tuesday at 11 a.m., with Dr. Raymond Bal comb of the First Methodist church officiating. Interment will be at Siskiyou Memorial park. Mr. Jones was born July 8, 1889 at Mound ville, Ala., and has been a dairyman in this community for the last 20 years. Survivors include his five daughters, Mrs. Fannie Thomas, Medford, Mrs. Louise Clark, Shelter Island. N.Y., Mrs. Eve lyn Leamy,' DeVol, Okla., Mrs. Alice Buckmaster, Medford, and Mrs. Gladys Earl. Medford; two sons, Andrew V. Jones and Aaron W. Jones, both of Med ford; 20 grandchildren and four great grandchildren. FASEL INFANT Funeral services for the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rob ert Fasel, 841 Roxy Ann place, who died Saturday, are pending at Perl Funeral home. MRS. ARTHUR MARSH Mrs. Arthur Marsh, 73, of 48 Hawthorne ave., died Sunday. Funeral services are pending at Perl Funeral home. CHARLES J. HOWE Funeral services for Charles J. Howe, 60, of Grants Pass, whose body was recovered from the Rogue river Saturday, will be held in the Conger-Morris chapel Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. The Rev. Thomas McCamant of the Community Congrega tional church will officiate. Committal will be in Siskiyou Memorial park with the B.P.O. Elks No. 1584 of Grants Pass of ficiating. Mr. Howe was born April 18, 1896 in Illinois. He was em ployed by the W. A. Darling Real Estate agency in this area. On Oct. 24, 1955 in Reno, Nev., he was married to Cecila C. Cochran, who survives. Other survivors include a daughter, Lois Taylor, Dixon, 111.; a half-brother, Paul Hen drix. Rock Fall, 111.; and a half sister, Dorothy, Rock Fall, 111. GEORGE LINKHART Grants Pass George William (Bill) Linkhart, 54, Grants Pass, former resident of Medford, died recently in Grants Pass. Survivors include his wife, Clco, Grants Pass; two daugh ters, Mrs. Frank Gebhard, Cen tral Point; and Ruth Ann Link hart, Grants Pass; two brothers, Fred Linkhart, Grants. Pass; and Ralph Linkhart, Klamath Falls; a sister. Mrs. Charles Winter, Medford; and his mother, Mrs. Emma Linkhart, Grants Pass. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Halls Fu neral home in Grants Pass. In terment will be at Granite Hill cemetery. Grants Pass. V.. ;y f -J ; HAIR AND SCALP CONSULTATION We'll Show You How to GROW THICKER HAIR A TESTED, PROVEN METHOD FORMULA BY WORLD'S LEAD. ING HAIR AND SCALP SPECIALISTS 1 ri:r.?5i 1 Drivt e Sacramento 21, Calif f ; 1 lit:. - -.ft - .i - - tit- SPEAKER Clifford R. Nyse wander of Indianapolis, Ind., will speak Tuesday, March 19, at 8 p.m. in the Medford High school auditorium. His subject will be "Christian Science: Prac tical Christianity Revealed and Demonstrated." The public is invited to attend. Investment Firm Notes Anniversary Equity Fund, Inc., the first mutual investment fund in the Pacific northwest last week cele brated its 25th anniversary, ac cording to Ed Hass, Medford. Hass is vice-president and manager of the Medford office of the Pacific NorfYiwcst Com pany, investment bankers, an af filiate of Equity Fund. One of the first mutual funds in the nation, Equity Fund, Inc., is managed and underwritten by the investment securities firm, which has headquarters in Seat tle, and branch offices in 11 oth er Washington and Oregon cit ies, including Medford. News About Servicemen GET PROMOTIONS Two men from Medford and Grants Pass, have recently been promoted from captain to ma jor of the 417th engineer brig ade. Army Reserve station, Medford, it has been announc ed. They are Ted Christensen, 324 Mary st., Medford, and Theo dore Gerow, of the Josephine county sanitary unit. Major Christensen will be in charge of brigade supply and Major Gerow will be part construc tione ngineer. TO ATTEND COURSE Maj. Harry G. Entwistle, hus band of the former Virginia Keith of Talent, was selected recently to attend the regular course command and staff school, Air Command and Staff college. Maxwell Air Force base, Ala., beginning next Au gust. Maj. Entwistle is currently as signed to the education branch, plans and operations division of his headquarters. Air Force ROTC, at Maxwell. IN TOURNAMENT WAC Pfc Deborah Nelson, daughter of Mrs. Ruby Nelson, 24 Chestnut st., Medford, Ore., recently played in the Fifth Army Domen's Army Corps bas ketball tournament at Fort Riley, Kan., with the Headquar ters, Fifth Army team, of Chi cago. Pvt. Nelson Is regularly as signed as a clerk-typist in fifth Army headquarters in Chicago. She entered the Women's Army corps in August, 1955, and com pleted basic training at Fort McClellan, Ala. Pvt. Nelson attended the Uni versity of Oregon. GRADUATES Allen Ford, son of Mr. and A. W. Ford, 200 West Jackson ave., Medford, was graduated from the U.S. Navy machinist's mate school last month at Great Lakes, 111. Ford is a machinist's mate fireman. .1 ii. 1 ri ' n'inwi 1 SEATTLE 1 $232 Plus Tax sjuisrcoisr y untunes y Oregon Per Capita Income Falls Under National Average Portland Oregon's per capita income fell below the national average in both 1954 and 1955, according to the latest estimates of personal income released to day by James E. Maxwell, busi ness analyst in charge of the Portland office, U.S. Department of Commerce. Per Capita Income Oregon's per capita income in 1954 averaged S1.762. In 1955 it averaged SI, 834. This com pares to U.S. averages of $1,767 in 1954 and $1,847 in 1955. Idaho's per capita personal in come amounted to $1,1440 and $1,462 respectively. Per capita income for Washington reached $1,964 in 1954 and $1,987 in 1955. The new publication esti mates Oregon's total personal income in 1955 at $3,090 million. Wage and salary payments ac counted for $1,994 million or nearly two-thirds of this total. Proprietor's and property in come supplied S538 and 5366 million respectively to Oregon's total. Sources of Income Approximately one -third. S656 million, of all wage and salary payments in Oregon came from manufacturing industries, including lumber. Wholesale and retail trade, in second place, accounted for $405 million. Complete information on the growth of personal and per capita income by states is con tained in a new publication of the office -of business economics entitled Personal Income by States, Since 1929. Copies are available at SI. 50 from the Port land Field Office, U.S. Depart ment of Commerce, 217 Pioneer Post Office building, Portland. Nixon in Tunis On Goodwill Tour Tunis (U.R) Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon arrived in Tunis from Rome today on the last leg of his three-week goodwill tour of Africa. Accompanied by Mrs. Nixon, the vice president was greeted by Tunisian President Habib Bour-Guiba and high Tunisian officials. They were cheered by a large airport crowd. Before he left Rome, Nixon promised there would be "in creasing consultation" between the United States and' Italy on critical world problems. Sunday Nixon was received in private audience by Pope Pius XII who expressed praise for the good will of President Eisen howr and the American people and the American people and prayed to God to give the Presi dent "health and comfort in the arduous duties of his office and his unremitting labors in the cause of world peace." The United States and the Vatican do not have formal diplomatic relations. About 115,000 school buses are in use in the U. S. Portland Hay, Grain Portland Wholesale Hay Prices: No. 2 Rreen alfalfa, baled, f.o.b. Portland, $32: some lots discounted $2 ton. Wholesale Prices as reported by the USDA market news service: Wheat No. 2 soft white. $88.50 a ton; No. 2 white oats, 38-lb., West Coast deliverv, $55 ton: No. 2 Valley White oats. $50.50 ton: soybean meal $76.50 ton. f.o.b. Portland, barley No. 2. 45-lb.. West Coast delivery, S50 ton; standard mill run. prompt delivery, $42.00 43.00 ton, f.o.b. Portland; No. 2 yellow corn. Eastern shipment, f.o.b. Portland, $61 $61.50 ton. DAILY WEATHER REPORT LOCAL DATA TEMPERATURE: Mean yesterday 48. Record high this date 78 in 1934. Record low this date 23 in 1924. PRECIPITATION: 24 hours to mid trace. Midnight to 10 a.m. .10 in. Total this month 3.04 in., 2.09 in. above normal. Total since Sept 1, 17.49 in., 3.85 in. above normal. HUMIDITY Lowest yesterday 42, highest this ajn. 98. Hlch 4:30 24 City Yester- a.m. nr. dav Low Prec. Brookincs 60 47 .11 Crater Lake 29 21 .39 Grants Pass 58 43 .02 Klamath Falls 48 32 .03 MEDFORD .... 54 43 .04 Portland 58 33 Seattle 51 34 Spokane 44 30 35 Yakima 57 4 1 .03 Eureka 63 43 Red Bluff ....59 39 .01 San Francisco 59 46 Los Angeles 57 50 ' Phoenix 70 53 Denver 47 24 Chicago 40 35 . Miami 82 68 New York 58 36 Washington. D. C 68 46 FIVE-DAY FORECAST (Throufh Saturday. March 23): Western Oregon Temperatures near or slightly below normal through Saturday. Moderate showers mostly occuring latter part of week. Total precipitation to 1 inch in interior valleys. High temperature generally 50-58. Lows 38 to 44. , Northern California Occasional rain latter part of period. Tempera tures below normal. ems Best in Food & Entertainment DANCING EVERY NIGHT in the KWAN YIN ROOM DIANNE and LEE Playing Your Favorites TRY OUR SPECIAL CLUB Dinner Steak $2 OR OUR TASTY CHINESE FOOD Open Every Day of the Year on Highway 99 South Monday. March 18, 1937 Stocks Hit New Low Since October 23 New York U.R) Volume in stocks fell off today to a new low since Oct. 23. Prices declin ed irregularly with a rallying tendency visible near closing time. Uncertainties in the Middle East plus a decline in steel oper ations helped reduce interest in the market. International oils were the first to decline. Their losses at the lows ranged to nearly two points. Coppers were hard hit for a time on further efforts to curtail production. They, too, re covered part of their decline. Today's prices on selected stocks: Allied Chemical .. 88V4 American Can 42 '4 AT&T 177 Anaconda Copper 6214 Explosions Rock Liberian Vessel Miami, Fla. U.R) Two vio lent explosions rocked the 445 foot Liberian tanker Perama 175 miles southwest of St. Peters burg today, but the crew aban doned ship without injury, the Coast Guard reported. The Esso Bermuda, another tanker, radioed it was on the scene and was alongside two lifeboats carrying about 25 men. The Coast Guard said that the Perama was wallowing low in the water with its decks nearly awash and was in a near sinking condition. Its engine room and several compartments were flooded. The Esso Bermuda said the chief officer of the stricken ves sel was hopeful that the Perama could be saved and was trying to arrange to have the big tanker towed to port. The Perama was en route from Thames Haven, England, to Galveston, Tex., loaded with a "dry cargo" when the mishap occurred. Elkins in Portland; Says Truth Sought Portland (U.R) The star witness before the Senate Rackets Committee, Portland racketeer James B. Elkins, re turned here over the week end and proclaimed that the com' mittee was really after the truth. Elkins described his trip to Washington as "anything but a pleasure jaunt," but added that he got the impression the com mittee "wanted the truth and that the witnesses had better give them the truth regardless of where the chips fall. The self-confessed gambler said he did not know what was in store for him next but specu lated that the vice probing Mult nomah county grand jury might wish to talk with him again this week. PORTLAND LIVESTOCK Portland (UP) Cattle 1400. Average choice 1094 lb fed steers 23; good under 1000 lb. 21.50. lightly sort ed at 20; good 893 lb. 21; standard 18.S0-20; good-choice 884 lb fed heif ers, 20.50; canner-cutter cows 11-12.50; heavy Holsteins 13-1330: utility bulls 15-17, cutters down to 12. Calves 175. Good-low choice veal ers 24-28; high choice above 30. Hoes 900. U.S. 1 and 2 butchers 190 220 lb. 20.25-20.50; SOWS 300-5000 lb, 15-16.50. Sheep 700. Good-choice wooled Iambs 20.50-21.50; 106 lb. 21.75: choice around 125 lb, higher; good-choice 94 99 lb. No. 1 pelt to fall shorn lambs 21; cull-good ewes, 730-8. PORTLAND PRODUCE Portland (UP) Eggs To re tailers : Grade AA large, 45-46c; A large. 43-44c: AA medium. 42-43c; A medium, 4 1-4 2c; A email, 35-36c; car ton, l-3c additional. Butter To retailers: AA grade prints, 69-70c lb; cartons, 70-71c; A prints, 69-7Qc; B prints. 6 7-68 c. Cheese Medium cured To re tailers: A grade Cheddar, single dais ies. 45ii-32c; 5-lb loaves. 51 ',i-57c; processed American cheese, 5-lb loaf. 41 V3 -4 4c. Farm Market Portland (UP) Name brand cabbage sold at 5.25-5.75 a crate to day with ordinary down to 4.75; large Sacramento valley asparagus was 7-50-7.75 a 3 2 -lb pyramid. Poultry. Rabbits Live Chickens Quoted growers (No. 1 quality, fob Portland); Fryers, 22-4 lbs., 24c lb; light bens, too few trans actions for Portland price; ll-13c lb at ranch; heavy hens. 5 lbs up. not enough trading for Portland price; at country, 14-16s lb; old roosters, 7-9c lb. Dressed Chicken No. 1 grade dressed to retails: Fryers, whole drawn, 42-45c lb; cut up. 47-50c; hens, light type, cut up. 35-39c; heavy type, whole drawn, 38-42c lb Turkeys To producers: Fryer tur keys, live weight. 27-28c lb. Rabbits (Average to growers, fob killing plants): Live white, 34-4',2 lbs. fob dressing plants. Portland. 23- 66c; colored pelts. 4c under; old does, i lu-iz id.; a tew mgner. rresn Kuiea fryers to retailers, 59-e4c lb; cut up, 62-65C. 'pllf -fSG Tiir Bethlehem Steel 4H4 Caterpillar Corp 91 Chrysler Corp . 763s Continental Can 44',s Crown Zellerbach 5 Hi Curtiss Wright 41V4 Du Pont 1794 Eastman Kodak 847s General Electric 56 General Foods 43 General Motors 39vs Georgia Pacific 26V Graham Paige 1 V nomestake -Mining 3554 Kaiser Frazer 1314 Kennecott Copper 109 Lockheed Aircraft 45 Katy Pfd 60'4 Montgomery Ward 3734 New York Central 29 Penney, J. C. 84V4 Penn RR 20 V 33 Vi 65U 52 21V4 42 454 51 Radio Corporation . Richfield Oil Socony Vacuum .. Southern Co Southern Pacific Standard California ... Standard Indiana Standard N.J. 56's Sun Mines : 7Vi Texas Gulf , 30V8 Tex Pac Land Trust 8V2 Transamerican 38 V2 Trans West Air 16?4 Tri-Continental 28 Union Carbide ....110 Union Pacific 2734 United Aircraft 75 14 U. A. L 30 U. S. Rubber 40 U. S. Steel 58 Youngstown S & T 101 145 Persons Make Millionaire List Washington U.R) A total of 145 persons formed the most ex clusive club in America in 1953 by reporting incomes of more than a million dollars. New Yorkers and Texans dominated the membership list. Some 58 million other taxpay ers failed to make it. Total in come tax payments in 1953 amounted to $29 billion or $230 billion in earnings, according to the Internal Revenue Service. The service reported Sunday night that 53 residents of New York state and 18 from oil-rich Texas signed up for the 1953 millionaires' club. Delaware, home of the powerful Du Pont family, placed 11 in the inner circle. Other states with members in the fraternity included Califor nia. 3. The millionaires were not named. Russian Nuclear Blast Blamed for Radiation Portland (U.R) A Portland radiologist believes that the re cent March 8 nuclear detonation by the Russians is probably the cause of radioactive rain which has been falling over Portland. Jim Deer, radiological defense coordinator for Multnomah coun ty civil defense said the rain is not heavy enough to constitute a health hazard. Congress established the U. S. Department of Justice in the year 1870. o OPENING 'Los Latinos" Trio Entertainment of in the Latin Wooden Shoe Your Choice of . . . ic Vi FRIED CHICKEN ic HAM STEAK, FRUIT SAUCE Jr; NEW YORK STEAK DELMONICO 14-OZ. ir; JUMBO PRAWNS Includes: Hot Rolls Baked Potato Salad Coffee (Special Steaks by Request) New Dining 7 A.M. to 2 PJVI.-5 Beck's TttanUH? Bakeries a local industry, satisfying local appetites for the past 30 years V tt ? STARRING? GALE STORM and CHARLES FARRELL each TUESDAY at 8:30 p.m. KBES-TV, MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINE Births DAVIDSON To Mr. and Mrs. Eldon, 1340 Ross lane, Med ford, March 16, 1957, a boy, 9V4 pounds, at Sacred Heart hospit al. Save 15 to 20 On Tour AUTO INSTANCE See JIM ZACK At CLARK J. WALKER AGENCY 427 E. Main St. - Ph. 2-6721 rllMlIi NOW SHOWING HAS ALL THE TRIGGER-SUSPENSE OF "SHANE"! VIVIEN LEIGH KENNETH MORS ENJOY GENUINE CHARCOAL BROILED FOODS in the CANDLE R00?,1 at the Medford Hotel TONIGHT Its best, presented manner, at THE V AlanLADD jyf 4 Virginia MAYO M 7 Edmond " PLUS L W rSs'fwii B 4 to II In Holland Hotel Fir and 6th St. DINNER MENU 51.50 Room Hours: P.M. to 12 Midnight KOTI-1V