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o Local and Sjnmagt Sai Jobs Daugh-1 terj Bethel 56 wiil aponsor a ' rumnugt uie Tuesday, June 11. in the FeM building. Tift A bicycle was taken from St. Mary i ichool Thursday, CLeRry Eiin Cook. 813 Narrezan St . iterif'ird. has reported to city polire. i C j Tool Stoian Monroe D. Shaw, 113 E.'t 11th St.. Mod- i rd. reports to city police Thurioay tr.tt incut $20 worth i of tooin have bren taken this week from h residence. a lik Taken Phyllis Mar- zaret Patterson, 207 North Peat h st . Mdford. reported to i city police Thursday the theft of j her aon'i bicycle from her resi- denre, Abandoned Car City police ! rep rted finding an abandoned 1J41 car Thursday on South Rivernde iv in the 700 block. The car. registered to Floyd S Hawking. Jacksonville, was tow ed to a warehouse at the Med fo.'rt municipal airport, police said DUE TO US LENGTH "THE ONCE EACH AND IK Academy Awards! tr' S I 1 L f f ATT i lie vt J-"" rLU u mm. in ukm 1JT V!3 nDlVE IN RUN! ? Tally - . . . k th place to go for a pleasant SATURDAY NIGHT of DANCING and ENTERTAINMENT! featuring tfis Sensational "TUNESMITHS" At Beautiful GOLD HILL GRANGE HALL Every SAT. NIGHT Mu ;;- YIC FLOOD j; and tythm A Iw and lot! of friendly Com a out WVII mak room lomthew! Fre Chock Room. SATURDAY NIGHT dDAsns EAGLE POINT The Only Spring Floor In Southern Oregon DANCE TO THE COMBINED MUSIC OF DICK SPAIN, BILL LIVELY and The Bigue Valley Boys PLENTY OF FREE PARKING ion 0 per Ad miss Personal EUetad Scrtary Viola Rus sell of Medford was recently . elected secretary of Stewart hail, one of the tw o women's dormitories at Lewis and Clark college. She is a junior secre tarial education major and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J E Russell, 204 North Ivy St., Med-, ford. I ! Housa Dtmolished A build- inz housing five apartments at ; Tripp and East Main sis., is be- ; ing torn down to allow for more parking space at the East Side market, according to Ed Ches ney. manager. Bessonette and Graff contractors are razing the structors which was the old Wilkie place, Chesney said. Hub Caps Stolan Steven Morris. 128 Mistletoe st., Med ford. reported to city police Thursday the theft of four hub caps from a car parked on Bar- neburg rd. near East Jackson st. Foil, hub caps also were report ed stolen Thursday by Douglas Dal? Paul. 214 North Columbus ave.. Medford. from a car parked on the east side of Bartlett St., near Main st. KING & I" WILL PLAY NIGHT I". Saturday Winner ,1 BONUS HIT! Saturday Only Rock Hudson "Back To God's Country" Ho! The The Masteri ptopla for you Person . ! Dininf Room Downstairs fr i Eagle Point Man Dies in Logging Truck Thursday Marvin Gerald Sharp, 41, Eagle Point, died of an apparent heart attack Thursday while driving a logging truck near Sweet Home. D. W. Glenn Houston, Linn county coroner, said Sharp was found dead about 1:30 p.m. alongside the road in the cab of his logging truck a half mile east of the Cascade ranger sta tion on Highway 20. The coro ner said the man apparently suf fered a slight heart attack while driving on the road and pulled off onto the shoulder. Sacond Attack Sharp was believed to have suffered a more severe attack later and died. He was driving a logging truck for Ed Barton for the first time and was on his first run of the day. Houston said an autopsy would be held to determine the exact cause of death. Born in South Dakota Sharp was born June 9. 1915. in South Dakota, and married LaVelle Wilkinson in 1936. Sur vivors in addition to the widow are one daughter, Mrs. Wilma Peters. Central Point; three sons. Dolbert, Gorton and Gerald, all at home; parents. Mr. and Mrs. Del Sharp. Prineville; three sis ters, Mrs. Edna Berglund, Prine ville; Mrs. Connie Campbell and Mrs. Dorothy Wilson, both of Virginia; and six brothers. Ottis of Virginia, Clayton, Grand Rap ids. Minn., Mel of Bonneville, Garret, Crescent City, Calif.. Lester, Ellensburg, Wash., and Gilbert, Prineville. He was pre ceded in death three years ago by a sisjer, Mrs. Edith Bennett of Minnesota. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 pm. Monday. June 10, at Niswonger and Winslow Fu neral home in Bend. Medical Patient Mrs. Chester Vreeland, 3554 Alley lane. Med ford. is a medical patient at Os teopathic hospital. Gasoline Stolen Robert Gregg McDonald, 7 Hawthorne ave., Medford. reported to city police Thursday the theft of eight gallons of gasoline from a truck while in the parking lot at the northeast corner of 11th and Front sts. Held in Jail Earl Melton Jr. 30. La Mesa. Calif., is being held in the county jail here for Cali fornia authorities in connection wth the theft of a 1957 sports car from La Mesa, according to state police. Officers said they arrested Melton Thursday on Highway 99 at the south end of Phoenix. Convalescing Convalescing at Rogue Valley hospital follow ing minor surgery is Mrs. Har ley Dressier, 414 Arcadia st., Medford. Convalescing there fol lowing a tonsillectomy is David Spuza. 17-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Souza Sr., 1001 South Third st., Jackson ville. At Osteopathic hospital are Becky Irwin, 7-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Irwin, route 1, box 297, Rogue River, and Teresa Brown, 2-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Brown, route 1, box 188, Rogue River, who had ton sillectomies. The Post Office Department has ordered 1,500 scooters for use by letter carriers. Driven by a five-horsepower motor, each scooter will carry 500 pounds of mail. DAILY WEATHER REPORT FORECASTS Medford and vicinity: Conaiderabl cloudme, mild temperature, through Saturrinv. Slipht chance of iolated light n-howers Saturday afternoon and evening Lw tonight 30. High Satur day rear 8" U'a.trn Cirmmnn ' PartJV ClOUdT in aouth portion, mostly cloudy in north portion tonicht and Saturday with chance 01 a iew inowi uiw. iw.".. Saturdav afternoon or evening. L-ow tonifrht 30-55. High Saturday 70-80 inland. 60-65 on coast. . Northern California: Generally fair through Saturday except cloudy with tome light rain likely extreme north portion Saturday. Fog and low cloudi ness on coast with drizzle likely many place Saturday morning. oo.er in land Saturday. LOCAL DATA TEMPERATURE: Mean yetterday 68: above normal 3: Record high thit date - in 1P28. Record low this date 3 in 1810 PRECIPITATION'- 24 hour to mid night, none. Midnight to 10 a m . none Total thin month none. .24 inch be low normai. Total since Sept 1. 3145 inchet. 4 3P inches shnve normal HUMIDITY Low yesterday 35. highest this am. Sj" High Brooking - Crater Lake 63 Grantt Pass 82 Klamath Falls "7 MEDFORD M Portland 66 Seattle 64 Spokane fi0 Yakima 81 Eureka 60 Red Bluff S Sacramento o San Francisco 63 Los Angeles .. "5 Phoenix 13 Denver R4 Chicaso 33 M:arni "1 Vw York 7R Washington. DC. 77 14 hr. Pree. . a.m. Low S3 3S .10 4T 51 S5 M S2 S2 S 4 S J3 fin .37 9 .01 riVF-DXV FORECAST (Throtish June 12 Western Oretrtn - Western Washing ton Temperature averacing n e r norrral through Wednesday. Chance of showers over week end and Tues day or Wednesday. Little or no pre i cipitation southern Oregon interior. Highs 72-82 western Oregon and 65 72 western Washington, except near 65 on coast. Low tonight 46-54. Northern California No precipita tion except possible licht ram ex treme rorrn esrly in we"k Tempera turot belrtw nnrrr,il extrne north HI- j tenor, near noma! eisewher. J 53 Prospective j Blood Donors Listed! Thirty-two more persons made appointments yesterday to give blood when the Red Cross blood mobile is in Medford Wednes day, June 12. Total prospective donors is now 53, according to Red Cross volunteers. Medford's quota is 290 pints, requiring 350 donors to allow for those rejected. , Making appointments yester day were Bill Wright, John Ness. Dale Cobleigh. Terry Hersher. Larry Hortnn. Rhoda Williams. Phylis Williams. Mrs. Earbara Jean Brownell, George Brownell, Mrs. John Aeschli man. Mrs. Cecil Hughes. Rich a'd Keene, Roland Kruggel, Hel en Fagone. Mrs. R. P. Green, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Erbes, Kathryn South, Mrs. W. G. Preston, Bruce Lindgren, Mrs. M. W. Walser, Marilyn Whitman. Bev erly Sunderson, Perry Johnson, G. M. Greeny, George Holbert son, Jack Miller, Mrs. John Jon es, Gordon Stephen, Pamela Rogers. Erma Laurence, Char lotte Bullion and Gaile Lewis. Appointments may be made by calling bloodmobile head quarters, SP 3-3813. Man Hospitalized With Severe Burns Cecil Howell. 1474 Grand ave., suffered severe burns on the upper portion of his body while lighting a barbecue fire about 6 p.m. yesterday, accord ing to reports from firemen and Sacred Heart hospital. The hospital this morning de scribed Howell's condition as "fair." Firemen said that How ell apparently was using gaso line to start the fire. Fy-emen dispatched a pumper, truck to the Grand ave. address. The alarm was turned in as a garage fire. City fire equipment was sent out yesterday to extinguish two grass fires which began from trash blazes. One occurred about 1:10 p.m. and also involved brush on a hill between Hillcrest rd. and Cherry lane. The fire covered from 20 to 30 acres. A pumper and a pickup truck from the Medford department and a state forestry department pumper answered the alarm. The other fire burned off an area of about 50 by 50 feet at the Clifton Friend home, 252 DeBarr ave. Medford Man Hurt In Logging Mishap Irwin R. Wooster, 1641 Bar nett road, Medford, was taken to Sacred Heart hospital at 10 a.m. today following a logging accident, according to hospital officials. Wooster. who is employed by the LeRoy Edwards Logging company, was reported to be suffering from a fractured leg and bruises. No further information was available at press time. Former Mayor Speaks To Council Thursday E. C. Gaddis. mayor of Med ford from 1923 to 1924, last night spoke to the city council about several things, among them that Berrydale had a sani tation problem even when he was mayor. He told the council they were "doing a good job." Discussing the knowledge his period in office brought him about city government, the for mer mayor said the council always should remember, if nothing else, "to collect the money and later pay the bills." Births ' BROPHY to Mr. nd Mrs. Carl M., 1587 Terrace drive, Medford. June 6, 1957, girl, 8Vi lbs., at Sacred Heart hospital. SCHULZ to Mr. and Mrs. Gordon, route 1, Talent, June 7. 1957, girl, 6"i lbs., at Sacred Heart hospital. KASTNER to Mr. and Mrs. T. W 215 Willamette drive.. Medford, June 7, 1957, girl. 734 lbs., at Sacred Heart hospital. a a MINKS to Mr. and Mrs. Billy. 1832 North Riverside ave.. Medford. June 7. 1957, girl, 6'.2 lbs., at Sacred Heart hospital. GUNDERSON To Mr. and Mrs. Don, 209 Lincoln ave., Med ford, June 7, 1957, a girl, 72 pounds, at Osteopathic hospital. After Dinner or the Show The Nicest Place To Spend The Balance of The Evening Is . . . At WALKER'S DREAMLAND QJ) Always a Congenial Crowd Former Southern Oregon Resident Dies in San Diego Word has been received here of the recent death of Mrs. Fred (Mary Frances) McMullin Jr., 30, former southern Oregon resi dent, May 10 in San Diego. Calif. The McMulIins were residents of Grants Pass and McCullin was a Boy Scout field executive for Grants Pass and Ashland un der Clifford Hanson. Hanson was then Boy Scout executive for the Crater Lake area council. Several Activities While in Grants Pass the Mc MulIins were active in the First Christian church and Mn. Mc Mullin was a member of the Rotary Anns. They moved to San Diego in the fall of 1955. when McMullin accepted a position as field executive with the San Diego Boy Scout council. Mrs. McMullin was born in Portland on April 27. 1927, and attended Oregon State college and Reed college and received her degree in English literature from the University of Oregon in 1950. She was married in 1948. She reportedly died of meningitis. Survivors Listed Survivors in addition to her husband include two sons, Scott and Kirk; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. McHenry, Portland; sister, Florence Anne McHenry, Santa Barbara, Calif ; and her grandmother, Mrs. Mary Mc Henry. Delhi, Minn. Memorial services were held in the Vist LeMesa Christian church of San Diego and the Moreland Presbyterian church of Portland. Burial was in Rose- burg Memorial Gardens, Rose-Jj burg, on May 16. Obituaries THOMAS G. RUSSELL Ashland Thomas G. Russell, 66, of 66 Alida St.. Ashland, dyed at his home early Wednesday. He was born Dec. 22, 1890. in Speers Ferry, Va., and moved to Ashland from Bend last year. During World War I he served as a corporal in Battalion C. 37th Field Artillery, with the U. S. Army. He is survived by thnee chil dren, Mrs. Virginia Ferguson, Ashland, Thomas V. Russell, Bend, and J. Veril Russell. Prine ville; his father. Patton Russell, Speers Ferry, Va.: three broth ers, four sisters and seven grand children. Funeral services will be held at the Winslow Chapel in Bend Saturday, 'June 8, at 10:30 a.m. with the Litwiller Funeral home in Ashland in charge. Interment will be in Greenwood cemetery in Bend. CLENNA FRANCIS McNUTT Clenna Francis McNutt. 209 East Main St., Talent, died at his home June 8. Arrangements will be announced later by Lit willer's Funeral home in Ash land. MRS. IRMA WOOD Mrs. Irma Wood. 79, of 208 Vancouver ave., died this morn ing at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. I emv f nine 1421 Euclid ave. Chapel Mortuary is in charge of funeral arrangements. FREDERCK J. SCHUMACHER The body of Frederick J. Schu macher, 91, Central Point, who died Wednesday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Katherine Wehmann, is being sent today to Brooklyn, N.Y., for services and interment. Mr. Schumacher wai born March 11, 1866 in Germany and has been a resident of this com munity for the past 15 years, ex cept for occasional visits to the east. He was a retired cafe owner. Survivors include one. son, Louis Schumacher, Vancouver, Wash.; two daughters, Mrs. Hugo Wehmann, Central Point, and Mrs. Leonard S. Alley, Upper Lake, Calif.; one sister, Mrs. Fred Aldag, New Jersey; three grandchildren and six great grandchildren. Perl Funeral home is in charge of local arrangements. DWELLINGS INSPECTED City firemen inspected 91 Medford dwellings yesterday and made 50 recommendations for correction of hazards. They found no hazards in 54 resi dences. Firemen stopped at 150 houses and found no one home at 54. Occupants of five homes turned down the inspection offer. Each year about two million young people in the US start their first jobs. 7 SAT. 2d NITE Finttt of Modern Music Friday. Julr 7. 1957 Camp Adair Site To Be SAGE Center Portland W Western Electric Company Thursday con firmed award of a contract to Ross B. Hammond Company of Portland for construction of a SAGE installation at the ter mer Camp Adair site. Western Electric said the Ham mond bid was in excess of. $5, 000.000. Equipment to be installed in a three-story windowless Wuilding at the site "will help assess in formation from radar warning in-stallations, ground observers and other sources," Western Electric said. A convplex array of high-speed convputerg and other electronic devices will be used. Construction is to start with in 10 days. PORTLAND LIVESTOCK Portland fU P.) CaUl. for week. 2825. Average-chrce led tteers 23.75. other choice to 17.10 lbs. 23-23.30, good s:eers 21.75 to 22 75. standard beef steer 19 to 21. Utility mostly 14.50 to 15 ."0 with mitxed utility and stand ard Holstetns tr 17; mostly choce fed heifers 23. Otiser Rood and choice 21 50-22 75; standard mostly 18-20, utilitv down w 13.50: canner and cut ter rnu-s l l-l- 50 hpavv cutters to 13 and 13.50. utility ' 14-13.50. commercial to 16.50 and tandara to is inn in.o: utility hull 17.50-19 few 1 50. lipht cutter dovjn to 14. Oood feeder down steers 19-20, medium grassy feeders 15.50. Calves, for week B5. uooa ana choice v refers 21-25. early to 27; culls dowmvaiM to 10; good stock steer calves 13 50-20; heifer calves 17.50-19. Hoes, for week. 1775. U.b. ao. 1 and 2 bulfhers 180-235 lbs 22 50-22. 5, some 23, new high since June 1955, ixeti 1. 2 and 3 lots 21.50-22.ZS; sows 300-;VhO lbs. 16.50-19, No. 1 light weieiis 1950. Sheep, for week. 5250 Choice spring lambs late 21 50-22, earlier sales to 22.50 with some 23; good and choice 24.50-21; ood and choice spring feeder lambs 18-20. some lor mint srowers to 21 and 2l.2.-; Rood with some choice No. 2 pelt old crop Iambs 16 50-17: cull to good shorn siaugmer ewes 2-5, wooled ewes to 6.50. f PORTLAND PRODUCE Portland (U P I Eces To retail ers:: Grade AA large. 4()-41c: A large. 3ft-38c; AA medium. 34-3fir; A me dium. 33-33c: A small, 27-29c; carton, l-3c additional. Butter To retailers: AA grade Erints. 67-6Re lb.; carton, lc a pound tgher; A prints, 67-68c; B prints. 63 66c Cheese medium cured To retail ers: A grade Cheddar, smgle daisies. 4V3-52c: 3-lh. loaves. M'-STe, pro cessed American cheese, S-lb. load. 41'2-44c. Farm Market Willameite valley berry growers of fered their strawberries at unchanged to slightly lower prices today on the East Side Farmer's market. Very best packs of Nothwest and Shasta variety berries were selling to the genera trade inside the market building at $2 with good ones at S1.8S for volume lots Some Portland area merchants buy ing berries direcUy from growers were selling them to consumers for as low as SI 49 a 12 basket flat. One Vancouver. Wash., market did a land office business at SI .39 a flat. Poultry, Rabbits Live Chickens Quoted to growers No. 1 quality, f.o.b. Portland: 2 ''.-4 lbs. 2512-26 lb.: light hens, too few transactions ot Portland price, ft-llc lb. at ranch: neavy nens. 3 ins. up. not enough traling for Portland price: at countrv, iz-uc 10.; 01a roosters. 7-flc lb Dressed Chickens No. 1 grade dressed to retailers: Fryers, whole drawn. 42-4.ic lb.: cut up, 48-50e: hens, light type, cut up. 34-37c; heavy type, whole drawn. 36-41C lb. Turkeys To producers: Fryer tur keys, live weight, 27-28c lb.: breeder hens. 24c lb. to producer on oven ready basis: breeder toms. 24c on same basis. Rabbits f Average to growers, f.o.b. killing plants: Live white. 33.-4zC lb.: f.o.b. dressing plants Portland. 23 26c; colored pelts, 4c under: old does. 10-12 lbs., a tew higher. Fresh killed fryers to retailers, 59-64C lb.; cut up. 62-65C lb. Portland Hay, Grain Portland Wholesale hay prices: New crop. No. 2 green alfalfa, baled, fob Portland. S27 a ton. Wholesale prices as reported by the I'SDA market news service: Wheat No. 2 soft white. S86 a ton: No. 2 white oats 38-lb.. West Coast delivery, nominally $49 ton; No. 2 Valley while oats, S46 ton: soy bean meal, S76 SO ton, f o.b. Portland: barley No. 2. 45 Ib. West Coast delivery. S43 SO ton; standard mill run. prompt delivery. S43-44 ton f.o b. Portland: No. 2 yel low corn. Eastern shipment f.o.b. Port land. S60 25-60.75. ENJOY GENUINE CHARCOAL BROILED FOODS In th CANDLE ROOM at the Medford Hotel TONIGHT I Scott BRADY KHLSCIK 5t2 s-. dickinson jJjbwL. VaassssaaawaaaafKaWl-wT'Ki' r. ' MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THTRTEEft" Market List Higher On Increased Volume New York U Stocks ad vanced today with industrials around their best levels of the year on sharply increased vol ume. Best levels of the day were set in mid-morning. A decline from the highs carried on for a time and then prices turned up again with the industrials lead ing. DOW-JONES AVERAGES Dow-Jonts final stock aver ages: 30 Industrials 505.E3. up 1.08; 20 railroads 145.04. up 0.09; 15 Utilities Oil 03 SIOCKS 175.44. up 0.23. Sales today were 2.380.000 shares, compared with 2,300. 000 Thursday. Today's prices on selected stocks: Allied Chemical 877s American Can 413,4 AT&T 177 Anaconda Copper e'-i Rethlehrm Steel 47 1 4 Caterpillar Corp 95'2 Chrysler Corp 735s Continental Can 47 's Crown Zellerbach 5212 Curtiss Wright 42 Du Pont 194' .2 Eastman Kodak 103 General Electric 69 General Foods 45'i General Motors 42 Georgia Pacific 34 "s Kaiser Frazer 16 Kennecott Copper Ill1 2 Lockheed Aircraft 42 Katy Pfd 57 Mor.tgomery Ward 36!2 New York Central 324 Penney. J. C 7838 Penn RR 20' 4 Radio Corporation 3634 Richfield Oil 76 Socony Vacuum 62 Southern Co. 24 ',2 Southern Pacific 43 Standard California 467s Standard Indiana 56 Standard N. J 653s Sun Mines 9'i Texas Gulf 26si Tex Pac Land Trust 7Ts Transamerica 38 Trans West Air 143i Tri-Continental 33V4 EMI llil For The Saturday FUN SHOW Another Swell Picture About A Great Horse RODDY MeDOWALL PRESTON FOSTER in "Thunderhead Son of Flicka" Plus CARTOON CARNIVAL and Chapter 2 "CONGO BILL" n SATURDAY ONLY SAMUEL FULLER'S PLUS 1 and his Band and k WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19 9 to 1 A.M. ROGUE VALLEY BALLROOM Gun-Streaked Fury Sweeps the Screen! Koto POWERS Bill WILLIAMS 33 U. A. L 27"., U. S. Rubber 45 'j U. S. Steel 67' Youngstown S Jy T 106' TONITE & SATURDAY NOTICE DUE TO LENGTH ONLY ONE SHOW "GIANT" STARTS 8:45 HUDSON J' JAMES 'DEAN TONITE & SATURDAY ENDS TONITE mmmn LUX BARKER MARA COROAV CNtmu COLOR PLUS- SATURDAY ONLY 3 GREAT FEATURES Hit No. 1 TURNING POTNTlI Hit No. 2 Hit No. 3 JAMES LYDON GLORIA WINTERS A Thriller HOT ROD ELIZABETH TAYLOR Wviifl ( GlRljQ J tuow JJ i fJ E ilill 1 I
