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Local and Claimi Wilburn K. Dodd and Gerald D. Erlinger have filed six mining claims in the West Fork Evans Creek mfning district with the county re corder's office. The claims are in the Raspberry Creek area north of Bybee Springs. Benefit Dance A benefit dance wilP be held Nov. 27 in the Dreamland dance hall in Medf ord by the Veterans of World War I, a spokesman an nounced. Music will be fur nished by Musicians Union Lo cal 597 of Medford. o Meets Tonight Jackson county No. 8 Disabled American Veterans and auxiliary will meet at 8 p.m. today in the new Red Cross building on Hawthorne ave., a spokesman announced. A business meeting will be con ducted. After this week's meet ing, future DAV sessions will be held on the second and fourth Fridays of each month. The change in meeting dates was caused by a conflict in sched ules, a DAV spokesman ex plained. CARD Or THANKS Many thanks to the wonderful people of Medford. Dennis Dunham ENDS TOMORROW! TtoLAsrTiME Jtyn 1 oAW lJABJS m, Elizabeth TAYLOR Van JOHNSON Wiita DinrrnM fanna RFFfl fSmSltM Humphrey B9GART Fredric MARCH Holland Hotel (TU . AJ&l r SP 24203 nnmm J mm I?! ,lzjfwMmF DINING - MUSIC - DANCING Lunches - 1 1 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dinners - 5 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Drive to Grants Pass Thanksgiving Day for TURKEY DINNER With All the Trimmings Plus Smorgasbord All You Can Eeat ADULTS $2.25 CHILDREN $1.25 OREGON INN South of Caveman . Bridge Reservations Appreciated But Not Necessary. Call Grants Pass GR 9-9252 WTO! FURNITURE BARGAINS At JLHM oors Personal Correction The Salvation Army Home league will meet Friday. Nov. 29. rather than LDec. 6 as was stated in Sunday's issue. The league meetings are held in the Salvation Army halL Central Point Central Point city firemen had their first run in 67 days last night. They were summoned to a flue fire at the George J. Johnson home on Oak st. No damage resulted, firemen said. Flat Overturns Jfedford firemen were dispatched about 7:45 p.m. yesterday to extin guish a fire on the pavement at 10th and Front sts. Oil from an overturned flare was burning. There was no damage from a flue fire about 9:30 p.m. yester day at the home of Joseph Mad sen, 103 Louis ave., firemen stated. National Guard Plane Crash Fatal to Four Juneau, Alaska (IP) Seven Alaska Air National guardsmen were recovering in a hospital here today from injuries suf fered in a plane crash at Gus tavus Air Base 45 miles north west of Juneau Saturday night. The C47 was en route from a National Guard conference at San Francisco to Anchorage and Nome, Alaska. The plane crash ed during an instrument landing at the remote base. Four men were killed in the accident. The survivors were flown out Sunday morning by Coast Guard amphibian. Killed were Capt. Bob E. Kaf ader, 37; 1st Lt. Dennis V. Sta nley, 29; Sgt. Floyd S. Porter, 29, and David O. Dial, 34, all of the Anchorage area. The injured victims were also Alaskans. Survivors said there was no indication of trouble prior to the crash. Alaska Air Command in vestigators will attempt to find out the cause of the crash. South Dakota is known both as the Coyote State and the Sunshine state. CIP X The Wooden Shoe Featuring 'The Eddie Smith Trio" pen Tuesday - P $225.00 DAVENO AND CHAIR &Z9 9 will be given away ABSOLUTELY FREE. Come in and register Auto Crash Results In $50,000 Suit; Complaint Filed Iantha Eddings, Butte Falls, has filed a complaint in circuit court asking $50,000 general damages and S3, 000 special dam ages of Eva Mae Irwin and Frank Pierce Irwin, both Butte Falls, for injuries received in an automobile accident Nov. 16, 1956. The accident occurred, accord ing to the complaint, on.U. S. Highway 199 in Del Norte coun ty, Calif., approximately six miles north of Crescent City. The vehicle, owned by Mrs. Irwin, was being driven by Frank Irwin with the plaintiff a passenger in the automobile. The complaint charges Mrs. Irwin with negligence for per mitting Frank Irwin to operate her automobile when she had previous knowledge of his black out spells. Frank Irwin, the com plaint states, is charged with negligence and carelessness and failure to keep a proper and careful lookout. The plaintiff claims to have suffered severe injuries when the automobile in vhich she was riding left the highway and hit an embankment. The plaintiff is represented by the Medford law firm of Neff, Frohnmayer, and Lowry. North Syracuse, N.Y. (TP) Policeman Francis E. Letterman arrested two suspected jewel thieves and took a satchel full of gems into custody. But he had to keep' the jewels overnight until FBI agents could be noti fied in the morning. After some consideration, he finally took them home, stuck them under his bedroom bureau and went to bed. "But," said the weary-eyed officer the next day, "you just can't sleep with $250,000 worth of diamonds stashed away in your bedroom. DAILY WEATHER FORECASTS Medford and vicinity: Variable high clouds above fog in valleys tonight and Tuesday morning. Fog clearing Tuesday afternoon. Low tonight 30. High Tuesday 46. Western Oregon: Cloudy in south half tonight and Tuesday but local fog in valleys persisting through Tuesday morning. Considerable cloudi ness over north half with a little light rain or drizzle tonight becoming partly sunny Tuesday afternoon. Low tonight 38-44, except locally 32 in southern interior. High Tuesday 46-54. Northern California: Fair tonight and Tuesday but some coastal cloudi ness. Little temperature change. LOCAL DATA Temperature: Mean yesterday 39; below normal 3. Record high this date 68 in 1938. Record low this date 19 in 1952. Precipitation: 24 hours to midnight 0. Midnight to 10 a.m. Trace. Total this month 2.28 in., .20 in. above normal. Total since Sept. 1 4.72 in., .08 in. above normal. Humidity: Lowest yesterday 69, highest this a.m. 100. High 4 24- City Yester- a.m. nr. day Low Prec. Brookings 57 41 Crater Lake 60 33 Grants Pass '. 39 34 .04 Klamath Falls 52 28 MEDFORD 49 30 Portland 52 44 .05 Seattle 48 46 .02 Spokane 48 37 Yakima 53 32 Eureka 56 45 Red Bluff 67 38 Sacramento 63 39 San Francisco 62 43 Los Angeles 80 56 Phoenix 74 43 Denver 63 34 Chicago 41 27 Miami 81 76 New York 52 37 Washington, D C. 58 44 FIVE-DAY FORECAST (Through Nov. 30) Western Oregon-Western Washing ton Temperatures averaging near to slightly above normal. Highs in mid 405 or low 50s. Lows 35-40, except locally 30. A few rain periods with total precipitation generally .5 to 1 inch, except 1-2 inches along north Washington coast. Northern California A moderate amount of rain during latter half of week. Temperatures above normal. $65,000 STOCK Miss Hanley Goes To Roseburg Meet Miss Claire Hanley, Jackson ville, president of the South ern Oregon Historical Society, was in Roseburg last week where she attended a meeting of the Douglas County Historical So ciety. At the meeting she stressed the value of a museum as a tour ist attraction and mentioned the increased in tourist attendance at the Southern Oregon Histori cal Society's museum in Jackson ville. She stated that visitors from all 48 states and many for eign countries had visited the museum during the past year. The figures showed an increase of more than 700 visitors this year over 1956. At the Roseburg meeting the Douglas county society was awarded possession of original records of the securing of the Veterans hospital for Roseburg and a copy of the pen used for signing ovjer the hospital in 1930 by President Herbert Hoover. Man Cleared of Manslaughter Charge Genoa, Italy (W An Ital ian American from Portland, Ore., who accidently ran over his 90-year-old mother during a visit to his native land, was cleared of manslaughter charges Saturday by a Genoa court. Nicosa ORossi, 63, was acquit ted on grounds that his action "did not constitute a crime." The verdict was by an appeals court. A lower court already had acquitted him on grounds of "lack of proof." The accident happened June 9 1956, a few days after Emigre Rossi returned to Italy for the first time in 43 years to intro duce his wife and three children to his aged mother. Rossi was reversing his car down the lane outside his moth er's home at Cogoleto near Ge noa when he ran over the aged woman and killed her. Rossi did not attend the ap peal hearing. The original trial was held Feb. 14. Sno-Cats Rate High In Antarctic Work Medford - made Tucker Sno Cats are proving themselves in the Antarctic, according to word received by E. M. Tucker, presi dent of the local manufacturing concern. The over-snow vehicles are being used by polar expeditions of four nations, Great Britain, France, Belgium and the United States, in the current antarctic work. There are 52 of the ve hicles in use now on that conti nent. A cablegram received today from the British base at Shackle ton said that a recent Inland trail trip of 400 miles, with 60 miles of crevasses, started with one Sno-Cat and 4 "weasels." It returned with the Sno-Cat, but ony one weasel. Traction and performance of the Sno-Cats was excellent, the cablegram said, and added that in a few days the trans-polar ex pedition would be started, using Sno-Cats as well as other ve hicles. East Lansing, Mich. (IP) Lichens, the greenish-gray plant growth often seen on trees, rocks and old plowed fields, are sensitive to the atmosphere and can be used to detect air pollu tion, according to Dr. Henry A. Imshaug, Michigan State univer sity botanist. HIGHWAY 99 NORTH, CENTRAL POINT 10 a.m. that's all you have to do. Obituaries THOMAS DORICH Thomas Dorich, 69, of route 2, box 489, Medford, died in a local hospital Sunday. Funeral services will be announced by Conger-Morris funeral directors. ELVIRA BORAKER Funeral services for Mrs. El vira Boraker, who died in Port land Nov. 20, will be held at Conger-Morris Funeral home Tuesday, Nov. 26, at 10 a.m. with Rev. Loyce Carver, assist ed by Rev. George A. Seeley of the Apostolic Faith church, of ficiating. Interment will be in the Med ford IOOF cemetery. Mrs. Boraker was born Dec. 24, 1874, in Aurora, Mo. Her husband, Wesley E. Boraker, preceded her in death in Janu ary, 1925. She was a member of the Apostolic Faith church of Medford. Survivors include one daugh ter, Mrs. Susan Stelle, of Puyal lup, Wash.; three grandchildren, eight great grandchildren and one great great grandchild. Pallbearers will be from the Apostolic Faith church of Med ford. RUPERT F. CRANDALL Services for Rupert Floyd Crandall, 62, of 209 North Grape St., who died in Portland, will be held in Camp White chapel Tuesday, at 9:30 a.m., with Chaplain. Perry Johnson officiating. Burial will be in Camp White cemetery, with Conger-Morris Funeral home in charge of arrangements. Crandall was born May 10, 1895, in Cambria, Wis., and was a veteran of World War I, serv ing from Feb. 6, 1918, to May 7, 1918, as a private in the Army. Survivors include five sons, Glenn Crandall, Medford, Royal Crandall, in the Army at Ft. Lewis, Wash., Eugene Crandall and William G. Crandall, both Medford, and Robert Crandall, address unknown; three daugh ters, Mrs. Violet Phillips and Mrs. Lola Hodgson, California; and Mrs. Ruby Carlisle, Med ford; and nine grandchildren. VIRGIL KELTS Virgil Kelts, who was injured in an accident while at work on the log deck at Lithia Lumber company in Ashland Nov. 15, died at 2:10 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 24, in a Medford hospital. Mr. Kelts, who is survived by a wife and three children, lived at 343 Patterson st., Ashland. Litwiller Funeral home is in charge of arrangements. ETHEL McINTIRE Ashland Mrs. Ethel Mcln- tire, 66, wife of A. M. Mclntire, Ashland, died early Monday morning, Nov. 25, at Ashland General hospital. Mrs. Mclntire was born in Musselshell, Mont., Nov. 16, 1891. She is survived by her husband, her mother, Mrs. Julia Smithy, three brothers and two sisters. Litwiller Funeral home is in charge 'of funeral arrangements. DAISY D. BODGE Private graveside services for Mrs. Daisy D. Bodge, 80, of Cen tral Point, will be held at the Siskiyou Memorial park Tues day at 10:30 a.m. with the Rev. John Reynolds of the First Pres byterian church officiating. She died in Salem on Nov. 21, 1957. Mrs. Bodge was born in Ada, Ohio, on Sept. 5, 1877, and was married to John Edwin Bodge in 1895 in Ada, Ohio. In 1896 they moved to Medford. Mr. Bodge preceded her in death. It is the request of the family that no flowers be sent to the serv ices. Survivors include one daugh ter, Mrs. John Holmer of Cen tral Point and one brother, Frank Stockwell, of Geneva, Ohio. MYRTLE E. BRYAN Funeral services for Mrs. Myrtle E. Bryan, 76, of 223 Meade st. in Ashland, who died Sunday, will be held at the Perl Funeral home Wednesday at 2 p.m. with the Rev. James W. Neeley of the First Baptist church officiating. Interment will be held at the Mt. View cemetery in Ashland. Mr. Bryan was born in Rose burg Sept. 15, 1881, and lived in the state most of her life. Mr. Bryan preceded her in death 10 years ago. She is survived by one daugh ter, Mrs. Mervyn Chastain of Medford; two brothers, Cory Dunham of Long Beach, Calif.; John Dunham of Happy Camp, Calif.; three sisters, Mrs. Lou Chambers of Roseburg; Mrs. Hattie Simmons and Mrs. Nancy Homfeldt, both of Compton, Calif.; one granddaughter, Ju dith Chastain of Medford. Atlantic City is built on an island one mile wide and about 10. miles long. It was deserted until about 1852. Worry of FALSE TEETH Slipping or Irritating? Don't be embarrassed by loose false teeth slipping, dropping or wobbling when you eat. talk or laugh. Just sprinkle a little FASTEETH on your plates. This pleasant powder gives a remarkable sense of added comfort and security by holding plates more firmlv. No gummy, gooey, pasty taste or feeling It's alkaline (non-acid). Get FASTEETH at any drug counter. Monday, November 23, 1957 Oils Pace Stocks to Higher Session Today New York API Oils paced stocks higher for the fourth straight session today in moder ate trading. The list met support around noon after a lower opening. In dividual gains ran to more than 2 points in a number of pivotals, particularly in the oil group. Gains pf around 2 points or more appeared in Gulf Oil, Bar ber, Cities Service, Continental Oil, and Union Oil of California. There were a number of oils up around a point or more. Lukens featured a mixed steel NEWS ABOUT SERVICEMEN CADETS VISIT BASE Two students from Southern Oregon were among 60 Willam ette university Air Force Re serve Officers Training Corps cadets making a flight to Mc Cord Air Force base, Tacoma, Wash., recently. Jim Busch, Ashland, and Greg Milnes, Medford, were among the group housed on the base and shown the fighter, trans port, radar and radio, mainte nance and weather facilities. Maj. Kenneth Pennell from Willamette AFROTC was the executive officer and Douglas Rodes, cadet captain, was group commander. LIVESTOCK Portland U.P. Cattle 1,200, in cludes 9 loads fed steers and 3 loads fed - heifers; early sales steady to strong, some sales fed steers and beef cows 2oc or more higher; average choice fed steers held above 23.75; load mostly good 1013 lb. fed steers 23; lad low to average choice around 850 lb. fed heifers 22; standard heif ers 17.50-19.50; canner - cutter cows mostly 11-12.25; few heavy cutters to 13; light shelley cows down to 9; few commercial cows 16-16.50; utility bulls mostly 16.50-17.50. Calves 225; market active, steady; few choice vealers 26-28: individual high choice held higher; good vealers 22-25; mixed good-choice slaughter calves 21-22.50. Hogs 1,300; trade active; sorted 1 and 2 butchers steady to 25c higher; mixed lots 25-50c lower; sorted 1 and 2 butchers 19-19.25; mixed lots 180 235 lb. lots 17.50-18.50; sows 300-500 lb. steady, 15-17. Sheep 50; strong to 50c higher than last Monday; choice wooled slaughter lambs 85-105 lb. in limited supply 20.50-21; good wooled lambs 19.50-20; part deck mostly choice shorn lambs with fresh shorn pelts 19.75; ewes cull-good 3.50-7.50, few choice to 8. PRODUCE Portland (UP) Eggs To retailers: Grade AA large, 54-55c doz.; A large, 52-53c; AA medium, 48-49c: A me dium, 47-48c; A small, 36-39c; car ton, l-3c additional. Butter To retailers: AA and A grade prints, 68-69c lb.; carton, lc a pound higher; B prints, 65-66c. Cheese medium cured To retailers: A grade Cheddar, single daisies. 45 ',4- 52c; 5-lb. loaves, 51Va-57c: processed American cneese, 5-lb. loaf, 411,2-42c, Farm Market Willamette valley cauliflower was under pressure at the East Side Farm ers market today and wholesalers purchased standard flats for as low as 1.35, with lettuce crates of un- trimmed heads at mostly 1.50: Cali fornia tomatoes were up 75 cents a lug in some cases with large sized at 5-5.50. Rabbits, Poultry Live Chickens Quoted to growers at ranch, No. 1 quality frvers 24-4 lbs.. 19c lb.; light hens. 10-llc lb. ranch: heavy hens, 5 lbs. up, 13-14c lb.: old roosters, 7-8c. Dressed Chickens No. - 1 grade dressed to retailers. Fryers whole drawn, 34-37e lb.; cut up, 40-44c; hens, light type cut up, 33-36c; heavy type, whole drawn, 37-40c. Turkeys To producers: Young hen turkeys, 28c to mostly 30c lb.; evis cerated A grade toms, 24c lb.; evis cerated basis, depending on weight. Turkeys To retailers: Frozen A grade young hens. 38-41c lb., on evis cerated basis; A grade young toms 35-39c lb., on same basis: fresh dress ed birds 1 to 3 cents a pound higher. KaoDits I Average to growers, t.o.b. killing plants); Live white, 3'a-5 lbs. f.o.b. dressing plants Portland 22-25c lb., colored pelts 4c under. Fresh kill ed fryers to retailers, 59-64c lb.; cut up, 62-65c lb. Portland Hay, Grain Portland Wholesale hay prices: New crop, jno. i green ailalla baled f.o.b. Portland, $24-25 a ton; some sales to $26. Wholesale Prices as reported by the USD A market news service: Wheat No. 2 soft white $78 a ton; No. 3 white oats 38-lb. West Coast delivery, $49.50 ton; No. 2 Valley white oats, $47.50 a ton; soybean meal, $76 ton,' f.o.b. Portland; barley No. 2, West Coast de livery. $34-35 ton f.o.b. Portland; No. 2 yellow corn. Eastern shipment f.o.b. Portland, $56-56.50. Thanksgiving d ner served i festive atmosphere, Thanksgiving dinner is more fun less bother when you eat out! It's a delightful way to treat the family ... to dine with friends. Enjoy our special-holiday dinners, in addition to the regular menu. . . DARDANELLE 99 HIGHWAY, at Gold Hill Overpass MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THIRTEEN group with a gain of more than 2 at its high. Nonferrous metal issues came back sharply from their lows and ruled firm near the close. Chemicals also over came earlier weakness to rule higher. Ford was the weak spot in the motors. Allied Chemical 75 14 American Can .. 386 AT&T . 1673s Anaconda Copper 43 Vs Bethlehem Steel 385s Caterpillar' Corp. 65 Chrysler Corp 68 Continental Can 4lVz Crown Zellerbach 41V Curtiss Wright . 28V$ Du Pont . 178 Eastman Kodak 98 General Electric 63Vs General Foods 45V General Motors . . 36 Georgia Pacific 265b Graham Paige 1 Homestake Mining 33?s Kaiser Frazer 8V4 Kennecott Copper ... 8414 Lockheed Aircraft 35?s Katy Pfd. .I... 36 Vi Montgomery Ward 311-s New York Central 17V4 Penney, J. C 83s4 Penn RR 137s Radio Corporation . 30 Richfield Oil 62 Socony Vacuum 49 Vz Southern Co .23Vt Southern Pacific 3534 Standard California 48 Standard Indiana Standard N. J Sun Mines Texas Gulf Transamerica . Trans West Air Tri-Continental Tex Pac Land Trust .. Union Carbide Union Pacific United Aircraft U. A. L . U. S. Rubber U. S. Steel Youngstown S & T ..L. 39 503s 85s 16V2 313s ll5s 293s 6 93 251 5534 2238 36V8 553,4 79 Manhunt Launched For Accused Killer Denver (ffl The FBI launched a manhunt throughout the West today for Albert Kos tal, 37, accused murderer who made a spectacular escape from Colorado county jail last week. The Denver FBI office alert ed its offices in Kansas City, Omaha, Butte, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Phoenix and Al buquerque for Kostal. Kostal was believed to have fled Den ver in a stolen car. He and Arthur Watson, 30, were scheduled to go on trial Dec. 9, for the murder of Ray Isley, a Wheat Ridge, Colo., mer chant policeman; They escaped from the : Jefferson county jail at Golden, Colo., Thursday night by picking the locks on their maximum security cells and then threatening a guard with a revolver made of soap. Denver police cornered them in a residential section after their stolen car was wrecked. Watson gave up, but Kostal vanished. DONATIONS SCORED Howard, S.D. (IP)- The state of South Dakota is peeved be-' cause the city of Howard is giv ing free light bulbs to its elec tric customers. State Comptrol ler John Penne said the city is "without authority" to give bulbs to customers who pay their light bills in full. He called it, in effect, "donations of cash." ROGUE RIVER LODGE Open Every Night Except TUESDAYS Rain in Laboratory Moscow ilP) The news paper Zarya Vostoka said today Soviet scientists have produced rain clouds in the laboratory by use of radioactive elements. "A complex electrical and radiochemical process produced tiny droplets of water that grew and were transformed into rain clouds, the paper said. It said rain actually was made to fail from the clouds, produced in a special chamber under direo tion of scientist B. V. Deragina. in mm America's lar$att Sailing TOILET TANK BALL Noisy running toilets con wole over 1000 gallons of water a day. The efficient, patented Water Master tank ball instantly stops the flow of water after each flushing1. 75C AT HARDWARE STOKES ENJOY GENUINE CHARCOAL BROILED FOODS in the CANDLE ROOM at the Medford Hotel NOW SHOWING Sky suspense beyond belief! Dana ANDREWS Linda DARNELL Sterling HAYDEN Only 0M s JYl among tluw I jgj crippled siflOTt elroy (ciazyuos) unap . PEGGY KINS twumw stum CO-FEATUCE SHORT CUT TO HSLL NOW PLAYING One Complete Shew 'A Face in the Crowd' 7:27 P.M. "Pajama Game" 9:33 P.M. STARTS TODAY DORIS DAY JOHN CAROL ,W- RAITT.HANEY ytAMEKOUK ArmtH. EXCITING CO-HIT IDOL OF A MILLION WOMEN !X ANDY VI GRIFFITH i . I GET THE V. 1 f I GENUINE II A II I Daily I r unr-r tm m m f ) 3 Jftff MM-1 tbuV&ton f hJ!"' I -IP 53: VI
