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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 15, 1957)
o Local and Festival Plays Tonjjht: "Two Genlle- men o"Verona." Friday: "Henry VIII." Saturday: "As You Like It " It. q Sunday: "Othello." Curtain time for all plays is 8:30 p.m. Rummage Sale St. Anne's Altar society will hold a rum- masje sale frOKi 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday and Saturday in St. Mary's gym at 11th and Holly sts. Fall clothinc. housewares and furniture will be sale, those in charge announced. New Schedule The Jackson county sheriff's office will be open all day Saturday and Sun day, from now on, it was an nounced today. Previouslv the office closed at noon Saturday then reopened at 7 p.m. Saturday I and remained open until 3 a.m. Sunday. Searched For Mrs. J Freeman, Sar-ramento, Calif, no tified sheriff's officers this week that she is seeking Joe L. Free man believed to be in this area. Since there has been a death in the family, he is asked to contact her. Freeman is de scribed as 44 years old. five ft!, 10 inches in height, weighing 145 pounds, having black hair and dark eyes, deeply tanned and driving a 1941 black Packard se dan with license number JUS 082, according to deputies. 2 ACTION KITS! wm 1st DRIVE IN RUN! mil 1 mm SLEEPSMf yiLUHu ! ijji mmw inM If a hTlCMMICOLOIt 'JfZ ' Oarlton HEST0N JpN fcvSL- Amg BAXTER rffY!slw GilbeTi ROUND CITY X A LITTLE STORE WITH BIG STORE PRICES! PORK SHOPS PORK CHOPS Center Cuts . . pork chops I EnlCuls PORK LOIN Roasts ... - ONCE AGAIN - Worthrnore Bacon ftl by Swift, I lb. pkg. 07 ea. BORDEN'S SALADS, pint size IDEAL GARLIC SEEDLESS GRAPES .... 2 Free Delivery on Orders Over $3. Personal i Building Permit A building permit for S3. 000 has been is sued Trowbridge and Flynn Elec tric company for electric wiring of the Edsel Ford building now under construction at 31 West Sixth st. Orders Issued City Fire Mar shal issued eight orders for cor rection of fire hazards yester day. He investigated two com plaints of hazards in residential districts, and inspected five busi ness occupancies and one public garage. Grandparents Mrs. Naa Lan- ford, 214 Willamette ave., and Mr. and Mrs. IJonald Ferguson. Gold Hill, are grandparents of a son, .Jeffrey Vaughn Lanford. oborn Aug. 12 to Mr. and Mrs. I Jack V. Lanford of Hillsboro. He weighed 8 pounds, 5 ounces. gEquipmenl Taken Andrew Nash Hawver reported to city po lice tf!at his 1957 model station wagon had been broken into while it was parked on South Front .st. between 10th and 11th sts. Twi, ?3;neras, a pair of binoc- ulars and papers were taken, po L. I lice said. Accident A car driven by Dale William King, 1045 East Main st., Ashland, was damaged when it struck a steel post and ran into a culvert Thursday morning on North Modoc ave. and East Main st., city police said. Building Damaged City fire men said a small boy playing wit, rrtatches was responsible for a 3'2-acre grass fire at Hill way and Waverly dr. which damaged a small vaeant build ing. Two pumpers and seven firemen were dispatched to the fare. Owner of the buildirtg is Joseph Moore, 1219 Woodrow lane. Vehicles Collide A car driven by Edwin Andrew Olscn, 190 Clover Lane, Medfortl, and a truck driven by Frank Albert Woods, 214B Lincoln st., Med ford. collided at the intersection of Huston rd. and Coleman Creek rd., according to state police. Woods was cited for fail ure to yield right of way, police said. Driver Cited John Sheridan Hughard, 3273 Biddle rd.. was cited by city police for failure to yield the right of way after his car was involved in an acci dent with one driven by Har land Lee Miller, 1019 West 12th st., city police reported today. The accident occurred at Sixth st. and Oakdale ave. Wednesday morning, according to police re ports. mrrmmt GROCERY BARGAINS 63 LIBBY'S FROZEN BREADED SHRIMP lb. 8 oz. pkes. jir lb. Gerber's Strained BABY FOODS . . . 53 lb. tobisco Vanilla $4 00 Wafers, 5 Vi oz. pkgs. Jorgensen's Brick k ICE CREAM Frozen High West $400 PEAS, 10 pkgs. for. . I 33 ea. PRODUCE 49 GREEN lb. PEPPERS ibs. 2 5 FRESH LOCAL CORN Prices Effective Thursday Eve., Friday, Saturday f HeJurn John Detweiler of The Fisherman's Shop, 522 Ed wards ave.. returned today from a business trip to Portland. Patient Convalescing at Rogue Valley hospital is Kurtis Hamm, 8-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. James Foster, 734 Garfield St., who had minor surgery. BIRTHS MULLIX To Mr. and Mrs Donald, 29 West 11th St., Med- ford, August 10, 1957, a girl. 6' 2 pounds, at Ashland General hospital. Obituaries FRANCES DALE JONES Funeral services were held in Portland today for Frances Dale Jones, 44, a resident of the Med ford area for 10 years. Mr. Jones died in Portland Aug. 10. He was born Nov. 10, 1913. He is -survived by his wife, Rachael Jones, Medford, a son, John E. Jones, his mother, Rita Furrow, two sisters, Mrs. June Wise, Portland, and Mrs. Marie Whitmore, Portland, and two brothers, Virgil G. Jones and Clifford Jones. MRS. CATHERINE A. LANDING Funeral services for Mrs. Catherine A. Landing will be held at Perl Funeral home Saturday at 9 a.m. The Rev. H. O. Martin will officiate. Inter ment will be in Siskiyou Memo rial park. Mews About Servicemen IN MANEUVER ' Keith E. Paschke, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Paschke, 892 Stewart ave., Medford, recently participated in the Marine heli copter invasion maneuver at Barking Sands, Kauai, T.H. Paschke, a corporal in the Ma rines, is stationed at Kaneoke Marine Air station in Hawaii serving with the first Marine bri gade. Eastern Oregon Range Land Burns Vale W Fire fighters have been fighting a range fire which started from a branding fire in Nevada and spread into eastern Oregon, according to the Bureau ff Land Management. The fire, which started Tues day, covered an estimated 10, 000 acres of land, mostly in Ne vada. On Wednesday. 46 fire fight ers from the Vale district con trolled a 40-acre area of the fire which had threatened to eat its way into the Owyhee river counr try. 1 49 . ea. 5 ea. 35 t doz. 00 - Sp 2-5818 in if 'doz. 40 Stocks Unsuccessful In Attempt New York W Stocks to day made several unsuccessful attempts at rallying from Wed nesday's sharp break. Late in the day losses ranged to two points in a long list of issues. The few firm spots included Adams-Millis, American Home Products, Boeing Airplane, Hav eg Industries, Pittston. Co., Sharon Steel, and U.S. Gypsum. None is included in the group used to calculate the averages. In that group many issues lost a point or more while one issue-, National Steel, rose more than a point. DOW-JONES AVERAGES Dow-Jones final stock aver ages: 30 industrials 487.30, up 1.37; 20 railroads 142.20, up C.02; 15 utilities 68. 50. up 0.16. and 65 stocks 168.75, up 0.35. Sales today were about 2.040, 000 shares compared with 2, 040,000 shares Wednesday. Today's prices on selected stocks: Allied Chemical American Can AT&T Anaconda Copper .. Bethlehem Steel Caterpillar Corp. .. Chrysler Corp .... 84 .... 43 ....172'. s .... 597s .... 458 .... 84 .... 79 Vi Continental Can 45 Crown Zellerbach 51 'i Curtiss Wright 39V4 Du Pont 193 Engineers to Tour Copco Power Project A group of 70 professional engineers will tour California Oregon Power company's Big Bend hydroelectric project on the Klamath river Friday after neen. The Rogue Valley section of professional engineers of Ore gon will sponsor the tour. The visiting engineers will be conducted on tours in small groups guided by Copco engi neers into the construction area of the dam. They will inspect the Klamath river steel pipe waterway crossing, 11,000 feet of concrete flume now under construction and the power house which will generate 80, 000 kilowatts when completed. A hotel dinner meeting will be held in Klamath Falls Friday evening. John Boyle, Copco vice presi dent and chief engineer, will dis cuss the Klamath river develop ment, and Harry Czyzewski, state president of the profession al engineers of Oregon, will re view the purposes of the organ ization of the sections. LIVESTOCK Portland (UP) Cattle 100. Stand ard grass steers 19-20.50; standard heifers 17-19.50; utility cows 13.50-15; canners-cutters 11-12.50, few to 13: utilitv bulls 17.50-18.50. Calves 25: Choice vealers 23-25, good 20-22. Hoes 100. U.S. 1 and 2 butchers 190-220 lb. 23.50-23.75. Sheep 300 Choice 119 lb. wooled slauehter lambs 21.50: other choice wooled slaughter lambs 20-21; good 18-19.50; choice 82 lb. shorn lambs with No. 2 and 3 pelt and 20 sorted off at 10: good-choice 65-85 lb. feed ers 16.50 - 17.50: cull-good shorn slaughter ewes 3-5. PRODUCE Portland UPi Ees to retailers: Grade AA large. 54-5fic; A large. 50 52c: AA medium, 46-47c; A medium. 44-46c: A small, 29-31c; carton, l-3c additional. Butter To retailers: AA 9c A grade prints. 67-68c lb.; carton, lc a pound hipher: B prints, 65-66c. Cheese, medium cured To retail ers: A ftrade cheddar, single daisies, 45 1 i-52c: 5-lb. loaves. 5 1 -37c 'proc essed American cheese, 5-lb. loaf, 412-44c. Farm Market Large Miiton-Freewaterd istrict to matoes sold at 2.25-2.75 a two-layer lug: Wapato and mid-Columbia dis trict tomatoes held firm listing at mostlv 1.50-1.75 with a few sales to 1.90 a flat; Willamette valley slappey peaches sold at 2.50-2.75 for 28 lb. boxes: best lettuce sold at 4.50-5 a 36-head crate; watermelons were mostly 2z cents a pound to retailers. Poult. Rabbiti Lave Chickens Quoted to jrri Towers. No. 1 quality, at ranch, 213-4 lbs., 24c lb.; light hens 9-1 lc. 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.; light type, cut up. 34-37c; heavy type, whole drawn. 36-41c lb. Turkeys To producers: Fryer tur keys, live weight, 27-28c lb.; young hen turkeys, A grade, 27'2-28c on eviscerated basis. A grade toms, sala ble at 23'2c on same basis. Rabbits Averace to growers, f.o.b killing plants): Live white, 3'2-5 lbs., f.o.b. dressing plants Portland. 23-26c: colored pelts. " 4c under: old does! 10-12 lbs., a few cents higher. Fresh killed fryers to retailers, 59-64c lb cut up, 62-65c lb. GRAIN Portland Wholesale Hav Prices. New crop. No. 2 green alfalfa, baled, fob. Portland and Seattle, 524-25 a ton. 1 Wholesale Prices as reported by the USDA market news service: Wheat No. 2 soft white. $78 a ton; No 2 white oats 38-ib. West Coast de livery, nominally $47-48 ton; No. 2 Valley white oats. S45 ton: sov bean meal. $80.50 ton, f.o.b. Portland: bar ley No. 2, 45-lb. West Coast delivery $44.50 ton: standard mill run. prompt delivery, $37-38 ton f ob. Portland; No. 2 yellow corn. Eastern shipment f.o.b. Portland, $62-25-62.75. WON&ERFUL FOOD PROMPT SERVICE Sandwiches THE CLOCK HOT ISpilP LUNCHES yggMT Refreshing JjujCaL p a nr sTAlVTlTltnlH . jMLMUj To Rally Eastman Kodak 101-Vi General Electric 663-s General Foods 47Tj, General Motors 44 Georgia Pacific 3 lis Graham Paige l3.a Homestake Mining 351 4 Kaiser Frazer 12a Kennecott Copper .'.100 LocTcheed Aircraft 3k Katy Pfd 55 Montgomery Ward . 36' 2 New York Central 308 Penney, J. C 78 Penn RR 20 Radio Corporation ....Unquoted Richfield Oil , 73-4 Socony Vacuum 5614 Southern Co 24 Is Southern Pacific 43U Standard California 5434 Standard Indiana 483s Standard N. J 62 'g Sun Mines .. 1334 Texas Gulf 26 Vi Tex Pac Land Trust ' 7U Transamerica 35 Trans West Air 12'a Tri-Continental 313g Union Carbide :.112Vi Union Pacific ' 28','i United Aircraft . 61 U. A. L 26 U. S. Rubber .': 42r's U. S. Steel Unquoted Youngstown S & T 98 Searchers Doubtful Of Finding Woman, 85 Elk River, Idaho ITOSearch ers who combed rugged country near here for an 85-year-old woman missing since Sunday re ported today they had covered the area so thoroughly they were doubtful she would be found near where she wandered away from a berry picking party. Sheriff's officers gave little hope that Mrs. Rose H. Jewett, Juliaette, would be found alive, but a partial search was continu ing at the request of Mrs. Jewett's 'daughter, Mrs. Nellie Wymore, Boise. 4- CLUB NEWS General Arts Club The Ruch 4-H General Arts club met at the home of Ricky Davis last week. First year elec trical club members brought their completed exhibits, and a general discussion group was led by Jerome Peterson, junior leader. John Ramsay, junior pho tography leader, discussed tak ing pictures and developing them, and after, the meeting the camera club members went to the Big Y and developed pic tures. Everyone enjoyed swim ming after the meeting at Davis' house, and ice cream and cake were served. The next meeting will be late this week at Jerome Peterson's home in Medford, and a field trip is planned for that day. Ruch Dairy Club The Ruch Dairy club held the last meeting before the fair at Shirley Dunlap's Monday eve ning. They talked about decorat ing at the fair, and made other plans, too. Fred Straube, junior leader, talked to the club about testing and vaccinating calves. Miss Kay Adams was a guest of the club. Ice cream was served after the meeting. Robert Ziegler, Reporter. MONTOOMCRY WARD Appliance Sale 12.2 cu. ft. Freezer-Refrigerator 2 door combination Reg. 349.95 9.2 cu. ft. Refrigerator Push burton defrost. Pastel interior Reg. 239.95 ........ 12 cu. ft. Upright Freezer Pastel interior Reg. 329.95 .... 2 ONLY! h.p. Air Conditioners - 110 volt. Reg. 229.95 and 199.95 Thursday, August 15. 1957 Navajo Living Standard Declared Decreasing Despite Gash Reserve San Francisco 0P Testi mony by a government witness in the Colorado , river suit has disclosed that the standard of living for the Navajo Indians in Arizona is "decreasing" despite the fact the tribe has a cash re serve of S50 million. ' William Head of Gallup, N.M. director of the . Navajo, Hopi and Zuni reservations, testified in federal court Wednesday in Howard Students to Obtain School Slips Non-high school slips must be obtained by all ninth graders, students new to the district and those who have changed either addresses ' or schools, Howard school district officials said to day. ..... The slips may be obtained from Mrs. Jonas C. Cox, Howard school district clerk, said. Hours starting Monday will be from 8 a.-m. to 11:30 a.m. and from 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m, All students .must- obtain an identification' card from Mrs. Cox which will allow them to ride the Evergreen bus again this year, officials said. School starts in the Howard school district Monday, Sept. 9, with the cafeteria serving lunch the first dav. Disabled Plane Pilot Avoids Business Area Grand Prairie. Tex. (W A pilot stayed with his flaming jet until it cleared an industrial district Wednesday night and then ejected himself before the plane dived into a home, killing one person and seriously injur ing another. Killed was Fred H. Kreger, 74. He and his semi-invalid wife, Retta, 67, were caught in the house. Mrs. Kreger was in seri ous condition. The pilot, Marine Reserve 1st Lt. R. P. Stuart, 24, .Joshua, Tex., suffered minor injuries when he parachuted abouj. four miles from where his plane crashed. DAILY WEATHER REPORT FORRCASTS Medford and vicinity: Fair through Friday. Low toright 52. High Friday 86. Western Oregon: Fair tonight and Friday except coastal and early morn ing fog- or low clouds. Little tempera ture change. Low tonight 50-56. High Friday 78-88 .in interior, 65-70 on coast. ' Northern California: Fair through Friday except coastal log. Little temperature change. LOCAL DATA Temperature: Mean yesterday 68; below normal 4. Record high this date 107 in 1933. Record low this date 44 in 1924. Precipitation: 24 hours to midnight 0. Midnight to 10 a.m. 0. Total this month Trace in., .06 in. below normal.- Total since Sept. 1 21.65 in., 3.63 in. above normal. Humidity: Lowest yesterday 20, highest this a.m. 79 . Hlih 4T3O 24" City lester- a.m. nr. day Low Prec. Brookings 65 55 T Crater Lake 65 40 Grants Pass 84 48 Klamath Falls 83 44 .MEDFORD ; 86 51 PorUand 77 57 Seattle Spokane Yakima 73 """""'"LI 83 Eureka 62 Red Bluff 97 Sacramento 92 San Francisco .. . 65 Los Angeles 91 Phoenix 102"" Denver 91 Chicago 78 Miami 89 New York 74 Washington. D C 87 278.88 149.77 249.88 99.88 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIFTEEN support of the government's case for the Indians' rights in the controversy over Colorado river water. Principal litigants in the com plicated suH are Arizona and California. The government and several other state organizations have claims to be evaluated by Special Supreme Court Master Simon H.-Rifkind. Congress Considers Action On direct examination by Wal lace Kiechel Jr., Department of Justice attorney, Head testified Congress was considering wel fare measures for the Navajos in an effort to improve their lot. However, Arizona Attorney Mark Wilmc- brought out on cross examination the fact that the tribe recently received S33 million for signing gas leases on reservation lands and the na tural resources on the reserva tion included three uranium mines, oil and coal deposits. Head also said under cross examination by California's counsel Northcutt Ely the Nav ajos; cash reserve on deposit with the Federal Treasury was estimated at $50 million. Steam Plant Planned Head said a large steam gen erating plant was to be located j on Indian lands which would ' produce power "over much of the western part of the United States." He said the ready ac cessibility of large coal deposits makes the project feasible. The Indian director estimated the number of Navajos having reservation rights to be about 82.000. but hp admittpd unrtor cnoss examination he did not who actually live on the reser vation. . " Head explained that even if an Indian left the reservation STARTS TODAY Burt Lancaster -Kirk Douglas u KIOWA JO VAN Kill . TECHNICOLOR SsSTSft, mm CO-FEATURE LosTibwaix A.WJ I ; jfa'Xv t f rtrri ...IN 4 WOSIO OF HAD! : ClNtMA5cOP - GFXREE NAE9 WTUEIHtHl l!Ki!l 1 f-TTT! TTrn b TWO BRAND NEW THRILL HITS! WE DARE YOU TO SEE THEM! The ikyrsgi Ifafilfefiifissf will hauirt ysu fsrevsr! SOON you'll meet UNDER 20- (MSjf 'jprr- one . H ..T j " who II j i--M lived if-iVf describe I WA WAWNCRCOLOff j l-TWtf1foil-j,iM j 21 MEN IN HER LIFE... , he was still considered a mcirt' ber of the tribe and entitled to all tribal rights. NOW SHOWING JAMES MASON-JOAN FONTAINE HARRY BELAF0NTE-JOAN C0LUNS MICHAEL RENN'E DOROTHY DANnRIDGE ! B f jjt IT KILLS... BUT CANNOT BE u KILLED! DUN JAGGER MARIANNE MAUNS SMI IliMVli BUT SHE LISTS GUK-STBEAXED. SCOTT MtlA nu I ' IMSY - POWERS WUiAMS I Mrl ELIZABETH TAYLOl if v HOCK HUDSON J f Vi JEFF , . ' CHANDLER f I A GREAT WESTERN - 5 1 " I I WARNER COLOR VIMM I (Kill " ..I mmm. H I Mam at Barttett n. ir z-ooo j ' f
