Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, August 06, 1957, Image 11

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Newspaper Page TextI r Local and .M,et Medford Barracks of Veterans of World War I and the auxiliary will meet Wednes day. Aug. 7, at 8 p.m., in Red man hall for business sessions. 1lfuli,ntJ- B- Pae- 820 West 1 1th st., Medford, is reported an satisfactory condition at Sacred Heart hospital after suffering a heart attack Friday. Page is manager of J. C. Penney com pany here. Recuperating M. Georgiana Beier, Medford, who has been a patient at St. Vincent's hospi tal, Portland, is now recuperat ing at the home of her sister, Mrs. Margaret Wolff, 31 Cftirch St., Ashland, it was reported to day. Swimming Party Medford Jaycettes will hold a swimming party Wednesday. Aug. 7, at 8 p.m., at Jackpn Hot springs. In addition to swimming therp will be games with prizes. Refresh ments will be served by Mrs. naries Jones. Mrs. Calvin Mc Kibbcn and Mrs. LfOard Howe. Assumed Business Namii Business names have been as sumed bv several vallpv rpsi dents according to records in the county clerk s office. Assuming business names are Dora E. Wright. Roeue River. Dora's Gift and Hobby Shop; Harold Elbert i-llis, 1924 Stratford a ve.. Med ford, Hal's Associated Service; and James and Geneva Horn, 3490 South Pacific hiehwav Medford, for H and B Trailer Sales. Mrs. Oil Reindicted By Douglas Jury Roseburg W - A- Douglas coujity grand jury reindicted Mrg. Howard Ott on a charge of secona aegree murder, county district attorney Avery Thomp son said Monday. The seven-member panel re turned the indictment charging specifically that on June 14, Edith Ott killed her adopted daughter, 19-month-old Korean orphan Wendy Kay Ott, by strik ing her with her hand, or "with an instrument unknown to the grand jury.'i The first indictment was re referred to the grand jury by Circuit Judge Cary E. Wimberly because the jurors had not been "specific" in describing how the girl allegedly died. Obituaries MRS. CARRIE RIVERS "" Funeral services were held in Hayward, Calif., Aug. 5 for Mrs. Carrie May Rivers, 81, former Medford resident, who died July 31 in Hayward. Survivors include her hus band, Harold Lawrence Rivers, Hayward; daughters. Mrs. Ethel Rayner and Mrs. Esther Har low, Portland; sons Ivan L. Smith and Robert G. Smith, Medford; brother, Alex Ander son, Medford; and sisters, Mrs. Effie Guches, Portland, Mrs. Mary Ellen Ownes, Seattle, and . Mrs. Lucinda Johnson, Medford. Mrs. Rivers was born in Med ford Oct. 8, 1875, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Ander son. Her mother was the former Elyza Jane Hamlin. She resided in Jackson county until about 1940, when she and her husband moved to Cali fornia. Interment took place at Mt. Eden cemetery, Hayward, fol lowing funeral services at Pratt Flierl mortuary. HELENA GAGE . Ashland Helena Grace Gage, 55, of 517 Iowa st., died at Ash land General hospital today. Fu neral services will be held at Holman, Hankins and Rilande funeral home in Oregon City. Her husband, Waltc, sur vives. ' ALICE ANDREASEN Ashland Alice Andreascn, 1193 Siskiyou blvd., died at Ashland General hospital today. Funeral services will be . an nounced by Litwiller's Funeral home. KNUTE ELLEFSON Knute Ellefson, 54. of Butte Falls, died this morning in a lo cal hospital. Funeral arrange ments will be announced by Conger-Morris funeral home. MATTIE M. GOFF Mrs. Mattie M. Goff, of Minam, Ore., died last night at the hcAie of her daughter, Mrs. Frank Hoffman, 820 Taylor st. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Conger-Morris funeral home. ENDS TONITE! Dean em tj r ' MARTIN VI.TM TOUKS mm Personal Ashland Businesses Paul M. and Bernice O. 'Mathews, 360 Kearney st., Ashland, have as sumed the business name Paul's Appliance Repair Service; and Howard L. and Dorothy A. Adamr 2400 Siskiyou blvd., ! Ashland, have assumed the busi Incss.name of Bell view Business Service, according to records in the county clerk's office. o Businesses Donald E. Tack ley, 127 Tripp St., Medford, has retired the assumed business name of Telesound Productions according to county clerk rec ords. Alfred E. Bailey, 835 South Riverside ave., has retired the business nam Al's Repair and Machine Shop and assumed the business rftme of Bailey's Rich field according to records in the county clerk"? office. 1949 Mrs. America Possible Suicide San Diego, Calif. Hfl Police feared today that Mrs. Frances Cloyd, Mrs. America of 1949, might have committed suicide because she was despondent over not being able to support ner live children. Mrs. Cloyd was reported miss ing yesterday shortly after her mother, Mrs. Jonathon Becker, received a telegram from her daughter. Mrs. Becker said the telegram said in part; 'I plan to kill myself. I'm sorry to cause so much trouble because life is not worth living, Please take care of the chil dren." Mrs. Cloyd gained a final di vorce from her husband, Arthur Thomas Cloyd, in 1955. Her mother said Mrs. Cloyd had been worried over the inability to support yie children. News About Servicemen TRAINS IN RESERVE Lt. Col. John G. Crawford, 835 East Main St., is among the 164 United States Army reserv ists taking annual field training at Fort Lawton, Wash., as fac ulty, staff and students in the command and general staff de partment of the USAR school program. The USAR schools operate as an Army college, with depart ments of instruction correspond ing to the various branches of the Army. TO VISIT SEATTLE Robert C. Sprout, radarman 3 c Medford, and -Eugene - D. Wright, boilerman 1c, Butte Falls, will visit Seattle, Wash., Aug. 8-12 during the annual sea fair. Sproul, son of Mr. and Mrs, Lester - C. Sproul, 326 North Bartiett St., is aboard the radar picket destroyer USS Forster. Wright, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert E. Wright, is aboard the escort vessel USS Rombach. Twenty-two Navy ships will visit the port during the 10-day pageant in Puget sound. ON GUAM Marine Pvt. William M. Long mire Jr., son of Mrs. Violet Moore, 2588 Corona . ave., is serving at the Marine barracks in the Mariana Islands, Guam, according to a service news re lease. Longmire, who entered the service in January, was em ployed by the Medford Bowling lanes. Women's Clothing Repc off ed Stolen - Articles of women's clothing valued at S13 were stolen Satur day night from a clothes line on South Central ave., according to Medford police. It was the third report of theft of women's clothing received by police in recent days. Births COMPTON To Mr. and Mrs. Harold, route 3, box 202, Med ford, Aug. 5. 1957, a boy, 9V4 pouds, at Sacred Heart hospi tal. HAMILTON To Mr. and Mrs. Jay, 844 East Ninth st., Medford, Aug. 5, 1957, a boy, 84 pounds, at Sacred Heart hospital. BROWN To Mr. and Mrs Theodore Jr., route 2, box 199A. Central Point, Aug. 2, 1957, a girl, 7.i pounds, at Sacred Heart hospital. ARANT To Mr. and Mrs. Donald, 1504 Terrace dr., Med ford, Aug. 2. 1957, a girl, IV2 pounds, at Sacred Heart hos pital. JONES To Mr. and Mrs. Harold.1525 South Ivy St., Med ford, Aug. 3, 1957, a boy, 7li pounds, at Sacred Heart hos pital. HARPER To Mr. and Mrs Earl, 517 Albert St.. Medford. Aug. 5, 1957. a boy. 54 pounds, at Sacred Heart hospital. PEYTON To Mr. and Mrs. Clarence, 907 South Peach st., Medford, Aug. 5, 1957, a boy, 6'i pounds, at Sacred Hea rt hos-pitaL IS ft1 QUEEN FOR A DAY Mrs. Larry Cunningham, La Puente, Calif., 'Queen for a Day," is shown arriving at the Medford airport yesterday afternoon to visit Jackson county and attend the Oregon Shakespearean festival plays in Ashland. Mrs. Cun ningham, accompanied by her husband, will attend all four of this season's plays and will visit points of interest in the valley. The "Queen',' was greeted by Mrs. John Cotton, president of the festival association, and Miss Jean Cartwright (foreground) actress in the festival company. Vernon Williams. Ashland, is chairman of the Committee from the Ashland-Talent Motel group which is hosting the Cunninghams during their valley visit. "Queen for a Day" is heard over Mutual-KWIN daily. 10-Day Membership Drive for Chamber Reaches Mid-Point A concerted, 10-day drive for memberships in the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce is now at the mid-point, and con siderable success has been re ported, chamber officials said today. The drive which includes mailed invitations to participate in chamber activities, explana tions of the purposes and accom plishments of the chamber, and personal calls, began Aug. 1 and will continue through tis week. More than 600 business firms and professional men are now chamber members. The drive is intended to interest an estimated 1.000 additional firms and in dividuals 'throughout the county in chamber work. Literature Provided Loterature being provided to non-members points out what the chamber has done in the fields of transportatibn, tourist promotion, merchandising, gov ernment, new industry, agricul ture, and a wide variety of other fields which accrue to the bene State Librarian Visits in Valley, Attends Festival Among visitors to the valley and to the Shakespearean Festi val this week were Miss Eleanor Stephens, state librarian, and Miss Loretta Fisher, head of the reference and circulation depart ment of the Oregon state library. The librarians attended the Shakespearean plays each eve ning and visited the Jacksonville museum Sunday afternoon. They also conferred with trustees and librarians of the Ashland and Jackson and Jose phine county libraries, to outline plans for extension of library services to rural residents of southern Oregon. Funds to pro vide more equitable library serv ices to readers now without ac cess to public libraries were re cently appropriated by congress and the Oregon state legislature under the leadership of Con gresswoman Edith Green and State Sen. Philip Lowry. It is not know exactly when these will, be made available Three Bookmobiles Miss Stephens announced that the state library has purchased three bookmobiles which are to be awarded on a demonstration loan to areas of the state which submit approved applications for such projects. During her visit here she in vited such applications and con ferred with library officials as to what grants of money would be required to staff the book mobiles, supply them with books, and cover mileage ex Klemsen Resigns as Stale Repre sentative Salem (IP Rep. Robert Klemsen, St. Helens Democrat, today submitted a formal letter of resignation to ' Secretary of State Mark Hatfield. Klemsen had been mentioned as a strong contender for speak er of the House in 1959. In his letter Klemsen said: "I have recently accepted a position with the Pacific Tele phone and Telegraph Company which will necessitate moving from Columbia county. ''Because this move takes me from the district from which I was elected, I am herewith sub mitting my resignation as repre sentative from the 2nd legisla tive district." - ; fit of the entire county. It also points out that the chamber can only be as effective as its membership is broad, and invites non-members to partici pate in its activities. In addition to past efforts, the letters tell of the current proj: ects on which work is being done, including the attraction of wood waste using industry here, expansion of wholesale ware housing, studies of Oregon's tax position and its relationship to new business, rapid skip-stop air service to Portland, greater di versity of industry and jobs, county zoning to safeguard both industrial and residential prop rties, more tourist dollars and increased convention business, more income from broader use of water resources, and other continuing projects. A telephone call to the cham ber office, SP 2-6293, will pro vide" added information, cham ber officials said, including the tax deductibility of chamber membership dues. penses. Regular library budgets for 1957-58 do not include such provisions, so far as Jackson county is concerned. Among the reasons the state library hopes to initiate an ex tension project In Jackson county, Miss Stephens stated, was the fact that a rural popu lation of approximately 50,000 utilizes such service to best ad vantage generally, and that she feels that in this county there is fine professional 'leadership in Miss Cora Mason of the Ashland Public library and Miss Helen Webster, Jackson County libr arian. Miss Webster formerly di rected a bookmobile operation in Grays Harbor county, .Washing ton, prior to assuming the Jack son county position. DAILY WEATHER REPORT FORECASTS Medford and vicinityi: Partly cloudy tonight. Clear on Wednesday. Low tonight 50: high -Wednesday 82. Western Oregon: Partly cloudy in sourhern interior. Mostly cloudy on the coast and over northern interior tonight and early Wednesday. Partly sunny and warmer Wednesday after noon. Low 48-56 in interior and about 70 on the coast. Northern California: Fair through Wednesday, except lew showers ex treme north tonight. Coastal overcast and fog. Little change in temperature. LOCAL DATA TEMPERATURE: Mean yesterday 60: below normal 13. Record high this date 103 in 1932. Record low this date 44 in 1931. PRECIPITATION: 24 hours to mid night, trace. Midnight to 10 a.m., none. Total this month, trace. .01 inch be low normal. Total since Sept. 1, 21.64 inches. 3.67 inches above normal. HUMIDITY: Lowest yesterday 38, nighest this a.m. 77 HiKh 4:30 21 City Vester- a.m. hr. day Low Prec. Brookings 58 54 .92 Crater Lake 54 35 .26 35 55 45 52 59 56 58 47 53 64 , 56 56 65 78 64 48 72 58 59 Grants Pass ..: . 4 Klamath Falls 68 MEDFORD 74 Portland 76 Seattle ... Spokane Yakima . 73 76- 80 Eureka 65 Red Bluff ... 81 Sacramento 81 San Francisco 70 Los Angeles 82 Phoenix 95 Denver 89 Chicago 73 Miami 87 New York 76 1.10 Washington. D.C. 82 T Proved by xiiotilK ttstV - ONLY iO A ROLL 1 Stocks Not Selling; Prices in Decline New York W Nobod wanted stocks today. So they drifted down steadily until the market hit a new low since June 24. Not long ago buyers were willing to pay about $10 more a share than today for Du Pont, S24 more for Lukens Steel, S23 more for Kennecott, $26 more for Newmont Mining, and S22 more for Mclntyre Porcupine. Price was no object today. The buyers just weren't there and the sellers weren't willing to get rid of their stock at a con Festival Plays Tonight: "Othello." Wednesday: "Two Gen tlemen of Verona." Thursday: "Henry VIII." Friday: "As You Like It." Curtain time for all plays is 8:30 p.m. August Looming as Worst Traffic Month By UNITED PRESS August was off to A strong start today as potentially the worst traffic fatality month of the year, in Oregon as two more deaths raised the toll to 14. Pablo Arizpe, 28, an employee at Simplot farms, Jamison, Ore., was found dead Monday beside his wrecked truck on the John Day highway 16 miles north of Vale. Sheriff. John Elfering said the man apparently was killed Sunday night. He said Arizpe ap parently fell asleep at the wheel. Edd 'Johnson, 50, Eagle Point, was killed when struck ' by' i logging truck 12 miles north of Medford on Highway 62. Threat of Further Cracks in Dams Eases Las Vegas, N. M. (IPI Clear skies today reduced the threat of further large cracks in three up river earthen dams that sent a flash flood' through Las Vegas and nearby communities Mon day. Huge pieces of the dams gave way under the strain of recent rains in the Sangre De Cristo Mountains, drowning two per sons. Searchers late Monday recov ered the bodies of Emil LaPorte of Sapello, N. M., and his 10- year-old daughter, Laura.. LIVESTOCK Portland (U.P.) Cattle 300. Aver age choice 1120 lb. ted steers 23; gooa steers 23-24.50; standard 15-22; most ly good 758 lb. fed heifers 22, stand ard 18-21; canner-cutter cows mostly 11-12; utility cows 14-15; utility bulls 17.50-18, few to 19. Calves 100. Choice vealers 22-24; few 25; standard and good 17-21; good 305 lb. slaughter calves 21. Hogs 250. U.S. 1 and 2 butchers around 24-24.25. Sheep 550. Choice spring slaughter Iambi 85-105 lb. 19-19.50; some higher; mixed good-choice No. 2 pelt 18.50: good-choice 65-85 lb. feeders 16.50 l?.50r common and medium "45-60 'lb. 14-16; cull-good shorn ewes 2-6. PRODUCE Portland (UP.) Eggs To retail ers: Grade AA large, 54-56c; A large, 50-32c; AA medium. 45-47c; A me dium, 44-4tic; A small, 29-31c; carton, l-3c additional. Butter To retailers: AA Sc A grade prints. 67-68c b.; carton, lc a pound higher; B prints, 65-66c, Cheese medium cured To retail ers: A grade cheddar, single daisies, 452-52c; 5-lb, loaves. 512-57c; pro cessed American cheese, 5-lb. loaf, 412-44c. Farm Market No. 1 tdmatoes were mostly 2.30 2.75 today with 'No. 2s at mostly 1.50 a lug with a few to 1.75; Willamette vailev pre-cooled corn was quoted mostly at 2.50-2.75 for five dozen ear packs. Poultry, Rabbits Live Chickens Quoted to grower No. 1 quality, at ranch, 2'2-4c lb., light -hens, 9-llc lb.; at ranch, heavy hens, 5 lbs. up, 12-13c lb.; old roosters, 7-9c lb.; f.o.b. Portland. Dressed Chickens No. 1 grade dressed to retailers : Fryers, whole drawn, 42-45c lb.; cut up. 47-50c lb.; hens, light type, cut up, 34-37c; heavy type, whole drawn, 36-4 lc lb. Turkeys To producers: Fryer tur keys, live weight, 27-28c lb.: young hen turkeys. A grade. 26-26 2c -on eviscerated basis. A grade toms salable at 23-23 J2c on same basis. Rabbits (Average to growers, f.o.b. killing plants): Live white, 32-5 lbs., f.o.b. dressing plants Portland. 23-2 6c; colored pelts, 4c under; old does, 10-12 lbs., a few cents higher. Fresh killed fryers to retailers, 59 -64c lb.; cutu p. 62-65c lb. GRAIN Portland Wholesale Hay Prices: New crop, No. 2 green alfalfa, baled, f.o.b. Portland and Seattle. S26 a ton. Wholesale prices as reported by the USDA market news service: Wheat No. 2 soft white. $79 a ton: No. 2 white oats 38-lb. West Coast delivery, nomi nally S48 ton; No. 2 Valley white oats, $45.50 ton: soy bean meal; $79.50 ton, f.o.b. Portland: barley. No. 2. 45-lb. West 'Coast delivery. $44-44.50 ton; standard mill run. prompt delivery. $37-38 ton .o.b. Portland: o. 2 yellow corn. Eastern shipment f.o.b. Port land, $63-6330. FROM THE STAGES OF TWO CONTINENTS . THE FABULOUS TALENT FOR THIS REMARKABLE AND ORIGINAL IDEA IN SUPERB ENTERTAINMENTI jsu m unvata World of Musical Wonders! IrMTATiorj a ,v I JUI.II. ft fc.rJjWrTJ.IIl-J imnir1"" ------ Tuesday, August I, 1957 ' cession ranging to three or four points in some instances. DOW-JONES AVERAGES Dow-Jones final slock aver ages: 30 industrials 494.13. off 6.E5; 20 railroads 147.16, off 2.09: 15 utilities 69.63. off 0.25: and 65 stocks 172.00. off 2.06. Sales today were about 1,910.000 shares compared with 1,790.000 shares Monday. Today's prices on selected stocks: . , Allied Chemical 88V2 American. Can , .'...... 43 ' AT&T ;...:.:.....,........i72Ts Anaconda. Copp.er . 62:t4 Bethlehem Steel 4534 Caterpillar Corp 87 Chrysler Corp 77 Continental Can 4512 Crown Zellerbach 5034 Curtiss Wright Du Pont 19634 Eastman Kodak 103 General Electric. 6633 General Foods -. .. 481-s General Motors 44 Georgia Pacific 327s Graham Paige 1 f Homestake Mining" 35 Kaiser Frazer 127s Kennecott Copper IO5V2 Lockheed Aircraft .;. 36' Katy Pfd 56 V2 Montgomery Ward 36 V2 New York Central 32 Vz Penney J C 78 Penn R R 20V4 Radio Corporation ....... 347 s Richfield Oil .........'............. 76V8 Socony Vacuum 59 Vi Southern Co . 2434 Southern Pacific ...1.,.... . 433.i Standard California L 56 Standard Indiana 50-";4 Standard N J t 653s Sun Minrs , 13V2 Texas Gulf 26'14 Tex Pac Land Trust 7V2 Trajusamerica 35 Trans West Air :. 13Vi Tri-Continental 32V4 Union Carbide 116 Union Pacific 29 'i United Aircraft 60 UAL 28?s U S Rubber 43 V4 U S Steel 67 Youngstown S & T IOOV2 NOW SHOWING FRED ASTAIRE, CYD CHARiSSE Star- 'cy-friUed! ilk ltockings OnemaScop I mrmounuwrtt PKTim I JANIS PAIGE-PETER LORRE -GEORGE TOBIAS-JOSEPH BUOfF : I PLUS WEDNESDAY "CURTAIN AT EIGHT-THIRTY" prur a km y TOUOYA icon YOUSKEVITCH r Fancy-fnuea: 1 sS lorn LOSTI LOST I jX ...IN WORID Of HAI f efT Vl NOW PLAYING Be a til S'iV1? run. DOUGLS LCTyVO"1" ALEXIS SMITH - CO-FEATURE MlJfcJJJ I BARTOK 1 0H 5 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVEN TAKES UP DUTIES Copenhagen, Denmark (IT) New U S. Ambassador to Den mark Val Peterson took up his duties today. Peterson, who has Danish ancestors and who had been in Denmark seven times before,, arrived by air Monday with his vife. THURSDAY ONLY 2 SHOWS 7:00 & 9:00 UflfiGDE Identification Bracelets -To All Girls! AND ON THE SCREEN GAMMA-RAY CREATURES LOOSE! COLUMBIA FiCTUKS pruents PAUL DOUGLAS EVA BARTOK the gamma people Starts Wednesday IS m FREE! 1 wym 1 WEST COAST PREMIERE THE OUTCAST THE YOUNG COUPLE tWsMm Lite He played Santa for the kids! . They found love's miracle! .ASrSTaK WALTER BRENNN a Kwiscopf. picture &, JOHN HOYT MARiON ROSS JESSE WHITE " rroamt r SM HCISH 1 b, WI.IUM F. CLUTCH . ScitnvUr bi WMlK fWflCIS ROYAL 1 Itpl fiiM. lac PrMvelM . RtltlHd by KWl Ccflt'Jryfli PLUS CO-FEATURE Edinburgh, Scotland, has a population of 500,000. NOW SHOWING MOKES STrWHT imm a. - Mall.L5,TTWg mi JAMES DEAN IN TWO GREAT HITS 1KU UKHVV Mt plus WARNtRCOi-OB J. ii. - plus - MARLON BRANDO JEAN PETERS IN "VIVA ZAPATA" Starts Wednesday THE MINISTER LOUIE THE LUMP His greatest prayer was answered! He turned from stealing to giving! IllglJ 1 I James DEAN f I HP