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Private Group Asks To Build ER Center Portland BP) An organi - zation of private investors said today it will propose to the Portland city council that it be permitted to build, with private funds, an exposition center at Delta park to seat 50,000 persons and to be ready by next spring in time for the Oregon Centennial. Put Portland First, Inc., said that if the city would agree to the proposal, the in vestors would ask in return: A 50-year franchise and lease on the Delta park site at $1 per year: and an agreement that if the Pacific Interna tional should deed its prop erty to the city, then the city should, in turn, deed the PI property to the corporation. Although the city has al ready begun site clearing for its own exposition center be tween the " Broadway and Steel bridges, the corporation suggested that it buy the site on a dollar-for-dollar basis and that it would build multi ple housing there. mm ENDS SATURDAY! b if M II I liarl $1 PER CAR! I HOTEL MEDFORD DINING ROOM Friday: ft DIFFERENT ANOTHER BIG lTDAKKLTE SATURDAY NIGHT m a m m X'DFeamland Whar you greet old friends and mt naw friands. " 2nd ANNIVERSARY -nn DANCE GOLD HILL GRANGE HALL Saturday Night Music by VIG FLOOD r RHYTHM MASTERS JACKSON-JOSEPHINE COUNTIES ATTENDANCE CONTEST Fre Coffee During Intermission Come On Out and Help Us Celebrate! Dancing 9-1 Free Check Room Everyone Welcome DM El JACKSONVILLE COMMUNITY HALL Saturday Night Music by Dick Spain - Bill Lively and the Rogue Valley Boys! Featuring The Best in Western Swing LOTS of FUN for EVERYONE! ADMISSION 90c OBITUARIES ALVIN D. CAMPBELL Alvin D. Campbell, who has been a resident of Med ford for the past 14 months, died unexpectedly last night on his 81st birthday at the home of hi son and daughter-in-law, Mrand Mrs. Kenneth S. Campbell, 21 South Grove land ave., with whom he had been residing. Funeral services will be held Monday in Lincoln Me morial cemetery in Portland. Chapel Mortuary is in charge of local arrangements. Mr. Campbell, the son of Isaac J. and Rachel Wright Campbel, was born in Chat ham, Ontario, Canada, on Feb. 20, 1877.' He came to Oregon 48 years ago and lived in Eugene until 1942, and then moved to Portland. On June 28. 1907, he was married in Wilmar, Minn., to Julie E. McDonald, who pre ceded him in. death in Port land in 1955. Mr. Campbell spent most of his life as a grain elevator operator, and in later years as a night watchman. He was MUSICAL COMEDY HIT! taut Taf faNt fCUCO .UfflMT RD BIG HIT! . SAT. ONLY Robert Taylor "ROGUE COP" V FISH ENTREES Delicious, delightful and especially designed for you Children Always Welcome PER PERSON a member of the First Meth odist church of Eugene. Survivors include three sons, Don J. Campbell, Port land, Wallace J. Campbell, Bethesda, Md., and Kenneth S. Campbell Medford; one daughter, Mrs. Harris Berg, Salem; one brother, Victor Campbell, Tabor, Alberta, Canada; one sister, Mrs. Wil liam Maddaugh, Eugene; and eight grandchildren. RAY WATKINS Funeral services for Ray Watkins, 60, of 1223 Within ton st., who died Wednesday, will be held in the Conger- Morris chapel at 11:30 a.m Saturday. The Fraternal Or der of Eagles will officiate. Committal will be in the Cen tral Point cemetery. Mr. Watkins was born in Dayton, Wash., Sept. 5, 1897, and had lived his entire life in Jackson county. He was a son of the late James B. and Mary Wooley Watkins, early pioneers in southern Oregon. He was a past presi dent of Crater Lake Aerie 2093. Fraternal Order of Eagles and a veteran of World War I. He enlisted Nov. "27, 1914, at Vancouver, Wash., and was discharged June 25, 1919, as a -sergeant. He reenlisted June 26, 1919, at Camp Mills, N.Y., and was discharged June 25, 1920, New York. On June 21, 1948, at Med ford, he was married to Eli nor Tickner, who survives. Other survivors include one daughter, Barbara Tickner, at home; a ' brother, Roy Wat kins, Medford; and three sis ters, Mrs. Lona Pickell, Med ford; Mrs. Dorothy Culbert- son, Central Point, and Mrs Nora DeChastain, Riverside, Calif. Honorary bearers will be James Ross, Sidney Brisco, Donald Smith, Charles Smith, Everett Hogue and Jack Crump. Active bearers will be Theodore Wetzell, Arthur Klatt, Marvin Ricky, Eugene Edwards, Jack Satterlee and Primo Ciardi. MRS. CHARLOTTE RAYMOND Funeral services for Mrs. Charlotte Raymond, of Pat rick creek, who died Thurs day at Crescent City, will be held at Conger-Morris Funer al home Monday at 11 a.m. The Rev. D. E. Millard will officiate. Committal will be in Eastwood Odd Fellows cemetery. Mrs. Raymond was born Nov. 21, 1865, in Michigan, and had lived at Patrick creek since 1910. Her husband Fred, preceded her in death in 1927. Survivors include three sons, Don Raymond and How ard Raymond, both of Patrick Creek; and Austin Raymond, El Cajon, Calif.; a niece, Mrs. James McGowan, Medford: six grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren. CHARLES M. GILLMORE Funeral services for Charles M. Gillmore, 57, of Sandy, Ore., who died Wed nesday in Portland, will be held in Conger-Morris Funer al home at 9:30 a.m. Satur day. The Rev. James W. Neely of the First Baptist church will officiate. Commit tal will be in Siskiyou Memo rial park. Mr. Gillmore was born in Salem, June 19, 1900. In Klamath Falls, on May 25, 1932, he was married to Ruby Lowery, who survives. Other survivors include one daughter, Mrs. W. E. Knisely, Taft, California; one step daughter, Mrs. Alvy Lamb, Sandy; one sister, Mrs. Cordie Burns, Central Point; one brother, Chalmus N. Gill more, Roseburg, and three grandchildren. Births LESLIE To Mr. and Mr3. Gerald, 307 Garfield st., Med ford, Feb. 19, 1958, a girl, weight 8V4 pounds, at Rogue Valley hospital." RENEAR To Mr. and Mrs. Paul C, route 1. box 600, Talent, Feb. 20, 1958, a boy, 8H pounds, at Sacred Heart hospital. Cub Scouts Cub Scout Pack S About 200 Cub Scouts and parents attended a Blue and Gold dinner at Jefferson grade school in Medford last week. The annual dinner was potluck. Holland Hotel DINING - MUSIC - DANCING Lunches - 1 1 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dinners - 5 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Locals Flue Fir Firemen an swered a chimney fire sum mons about 4:30 p.m. yester day at the Frank E. English residence, 1809 Oregon ave. la Hospital Irwing Tur ner, 1327 Morrow rd., Med ford, has been admitted to the Veterans administration hos pital in Portland for general medical examinations. Sale Jacksonville Rebe kah lodge will sponsor a rum mage sale Saturday from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. in the Eagles hall, 217 West Main st., Med ford. Bicycle Missing Jeffery Jefferson, 527 South Holly st., reported to Medford police his bicycle was taken from the Jefferson school bicycle racks Thursday. Returns Home Mrs. Ma ble Head, box 1009, Central Point, and Ewell Gairson, 629 Gibben rd., Central Point, have returned to their homes after surgery at Rogue Valley hospital. Patient Ernest E. Peyton, 1422 Dixie lane, Medford, and Clarence Goodwin, Cave Junction, are convalescing at Rogue Valley hospital fol lowing surgery. Meeting Richard Lam, district executive of the Boy Scouts, will speak tonight at the meeting of the Central Point Grange. He will speak on the scout program and will direct recreation following the program. Building Permit E. C. Conrad and Son Construction company has been issued a $12,000 building permit fo construct a new residence at 1609 East Jackson st. Card Party Roxy Ann Grange will hold a card par ty Saturday, Feb. 22, at the Grange hall. Members are asked to take cards and ta bles. Building Permits A $10,- 000 building permit has been issued to Trowbridge and Flynn Electric for wiring the Groceteria building. A build ing permit for $35,000 has been issued to the Grocete ria, Sixth and Fir sts., for re modeling the store building. City officials said another $35,000 permit for the store was issued last fall. Three Vehicle Collision Cars operated by Edland Keith Witt,' 44 North Orange st., and Kenneth Fich Murry, 3734 Crater Lake highway, and a pickup truck operated by John William Shaw, 525 South Riverside ave., were involved in a collision at Fourth and North Grape sts. about 2:14 p.m. Thursday, ac cording to city police. They said Murry was cited for dis obeying a stop sign. Weather FORECASTS Medford and vicinity: Variable high cloudiness through Saturday. Chances of occasional light rain Saturday. Mild temperatures. Low tonight 42. High Saturday 58. Western Oregon: Mostly cloudy tonight and Saturday with a little rain near coast tonight and occa sional rain most sections Saturday. Continued mild. Low tonight 44-30. High Saturday 55-65. Northern California: Rain in Crescent City-Eureka area tonight, spreading over interior area Satur day. Snow level around 5,000. Cool er Saturday. LOCAL, DATA TEMPERATURE: Mean yesterday 53: above normal 9. . Record high this data 70 in 1923. Record low this date 24 in 1929. PRECIPITATION: 24 -iours to midnight 0. Midnight to 10 a m. 0. Total this month 3.15 in., 1 69 in. above normal. Total since Sept. 1 1T.42 in., 5.09 in. above normal. HUMIDITY: Lowest yesterday 49, highest this a.m. 98. Hleh 4:00 24- City Tester day Brookings 60 Crater Laka 42 Grants Pass 65 Klamath Falls 52 MEDFORD 82 Portland 62 a.m. nr. Low Free. 47 27 42 32 40 43 46 38 37 45 51 49 51 54 49 , 36 26 44 22 22 Seattle 57 Spokane 54 Yakima Eureka Red Bluff Sacramento San Francisco . Los Angeles 59 60 72 SS 62 73 65 irnoenix Denver Chicago 67 30 Miami 59 New York 33 Washington, D.C. 37 FIVE-DAY FORECAST (Thronrh Feb. 26): Western Oregon - Westers Wash ington Temperatures averaging much above normal. Highs mostly 55-65; lows 38-48. Frequent rain with precipitation moderate too heavy, totals averaging b to 1.5 inches inland. 1-2 on coast. Northern California Recurrent rain, except snow in mountains. Temperatures averaging above normal. The Wooden Shoe ov f s M THE REFRESHERS Firm Tone Develops As List Strengthens New York Iff) The stock market developed a firm tone near closing time today. Strength in a few pivotal Is sues helped sustain the in dustrials. These included Du Pont, General Electric, Amer ican Can, and U.S. Steel. Rails changed little except for Nor folk & Western, off more than a point, and Union Pacific off nearly a point. Utilities held about unchanged. A few bright spots de veloped here and there. Ken necott declared the usual divi dend of $1.50 and the stock rose more than that. Ameri can Motors turned very active and firm when its president said the company plans to seek credit arrangements which will permit it to make dividend payments. Reservations Set For Kiwanis Show Seats for three of the four performances of the Medford Kiwanis Kapers may be re served starting Monday, Feb. 24, at Barker's Men's store, Show Chairman Glen Allen announced. "Krazy Kaperi of 1958" is scheduled for Wednesday through Saturday nights, Feb. 26 through March 1, at the Medford High school aud itorium. Reserve seats are be ing sold for Thursday, Friday and Saturday presentations. Kiwanians will have a put together rehearsal of the skits, gags and musical pro duction Sunday afternoon. Dress rehearsals will be on Monday for the first act and on Tuesday for the second. The show has a magazine re vue theme. Albany Accidents Leave Two Dead Albany, Ore. (W A three- year-old boy and a woman were injured fatally in sepa rate traffic accidents in the Albany area Thursday. Randall Hahn, 3, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Hahn, Al bany, was injured fatally when struck by an oil de livery truck while riding a tricycle near his home. The driver, James C. Myers, Al bany, told police he had stopped to make a delivery and felt a thump when he started up. He said he did not see the boy. A woman identified as Jo- ann Brooks, 33, Seattle, was killed just north of Harris- burg about 9:45 p.m.' Thurs day when she was struck by a car driven by State Sen. Donald R. Husband, Eugene, State Police reported. He told officers he had just passed a truck when he saw the woman walking on the high way ahead of him. He put on his brakes but was un able to avoid hitting her. Po lice said she apparently was hitchhiking. x TRIP PLANNED Jerusalem, Israel (W Is raeli Foreign Minister Mrs. Golda Meir will leave Sunday for a month-long goodwill trip through West Africa and Europe, it was announced to day. Mrs. Meir will visit Liberia, Ghana, Abdijan, Ni geria and Dakar, and will meet heads of Israeli missions in Europe before returning home March 25. She will be in Ghana for the first anni versary celebrations of the country's independence. CRAB and Chicken Dinner COMMUNITY BENEFIT YOU WANT Rogue River Lodge SAT., Feb 22 Served From 7:00 p.m. Till ? Sponsored by the Shady Cove Trail Lions Club Everyone Invited Live Music - While You Eat t Remember the Place Rogue River Lodge it Trait. On the Crater Lake Highway Today's prices on selected stocks: Allied Chemical .... 75T's American Can 43 AT&T 1721s Anaconda Copper 41 3,i Bethlehem Steel 39 Caterpillar Corp 608 Chrysler Corp 5Vt Continental Can 43V4 Crown Zellerbach 45 Vz Curtiss Wright 25 Du Pont 17734 Eastman Kodak 101 Vi General Electric 60 Ti General Foods 54 2 General Motors 34?g Georgia Pacific 29 Graham Paige 1M Homestake Mining 373,4 Kaiser Fraser Kennecott Copper 795s Lockheed Aircraft 40 Katy Pfd 35U Montgomery Ward 33 New York Central 14 Penney J C . 90 Perm RR 54 Radio Corporation 34 Richfield Oil 58 Sears 263,4 Socony Vacuum .... 46 Southern Co 26 Southern Pacific 38 Standard California 44 Standard Indiana 35 Standard NJ 48 Sun Mines 13A Texas Gulf 16 Transamerica 37 Va Trans West Air 12 Tri-Continental 29 Texas Pac Land Trust .. Union Carbide . 89 Union Pacific 26 United Aircraft 54 14 UAL 26 U S Rubber 32V2 U S Steel 57 Youngstown S & T 79 V4 Portland Produce Portland (UP) Eggs To re tailer: Grade AA large, 43-44c doz; A large. 38-40c; AA medium, 37 38c; A medium, 35-37c: AA smalls, 29-33c; carton l-3c additional. Butter To retailers: AA and A grade prints. 68-69c lb.; carton, lo lb. higher; B prints, 65-S6c. Cheese medium cured To re tailers: A grade Cheddar, single daisies, 40-51C 5-lb. 'oaves. 51 , 57c; processed American cheese, 5-lb. loaf, 41,i-44e. Farm Market Fresh top quality California and Arizona lettuce sold to retailers at mostly 3-3.25 while cleanup sales of ordinary heads were generally 2.25-2.75 a carton; California name brand avocados sold 25-35 cents a flat higher: western Oregon on ions were 1.50 a 50 lb. bag for No. 1 medium sized. Poultrv Rabbits LIVE CHICKENS Quoted to growers as ranch No. 1 quality fryers, 2V-41bs.. 21c lb.: light hens, ll-12c lb., ranch; heavy hens, 5 lbs. up, nominally 18-19c lb.; old roosters, 7-8c lb. DRESSED CHICKENS No. 1 grade dressed to retailers. Fryers, whole drawn, 38-42c lb., cut up, 43-47c; hens, light type cut up, 34-36c; heavy type, whole drawn, 40-45C lb. RABBITS (Average to growers, f.o.b. killing plants), live white, 3'i-4i lbs., f.o.b. Portland. 22-25c lb.; colored pelts, 4c under. Fresh killed fryers to retailers, 59-61C lb.; cut up 62-65C lb. Portland Livestock Portland (UP) Cattle for week 1957. Choice steers 27 for part load 917 lb. other choice 26.25-26.-85; good 25-25.75; standard 23-25; utility-commercial cows 17-20.50; canners-cutters mosUy 13-15.50; utility bulls 20-22.50. Calves. for week 285. Choice veal ers 31-34; good 27-30; standard 20 26; good-choice slaughter calves 23-26; cull-utility claves and veal ers 13.50-18.50. Hogs for week 1585. Sorted U.S. 1 and 2 butchers 180-235 lb. 23-23.-50: sows 300-500 lb. 16-20.50. Sheep for week 1285. Choice slaughter lambs 23-23.50, fewv to 23.75; good - choice feeders 19J50 22; ewes 4-9.50. Portland Hay, Grain Portland (UP) WHOLESALE HAY PRICES: New crop. No. 2 green alfalfa baled f.o.b. Portland and Seattle, $24-25 a ton. WHOLESALE PRICES as report ed by the USDA market news serv ice: Wheat No. 2 soft white, $76 ton; No. 2 white oats. 38-lb West Coast delivery, $49.50 ton; No. 2 Valley white oats, $48 ton; soy bean meal, $76.50 ton, f.o.b. Port land; barley No. 2 West Coast de livery .$47.50 ton; standard mill run. prompt delivery, $40-41 ton f.o.b. Portland; No. 2 yellow corn. East ern shipment f.o.b. Portland, S54 54.50 ton. FEED or Friday. February 21, 1SS8 Fire Levels Large Shed at Klamath Klamath Falls (IP) A spectacular fire Thursday night and early today destroy ed a shed about three blocks long and a large amount of finished pine lumber at the Car-Ad-Co Company mill on the northwest outskirts of the city. John Moehl, manager, said there was no immediate esti mate on monetary loss. Cause of the blaze was unknown. The blaze broke out about 10:30 p.m. and was still burn ing brightly five hours later. A fog settled in about 3:30 a.m. One estimate said there was more than one million board feet of finished lumber .in the shed. Firemen saved a mill, a box factory, two large tur pentine storage vats and near by homes. City firemen were helped by volunteers, the Ore gon Tech fire department, the Merrill fire department and the local Air Force. Five Arraigned In Circuit Court Five men were arraigned in circuit court Wednesday afternoon before Judge Ed ward C. Kelly. Two entered pleas of guilty and sentencing was continued until the ar rival of Federal Bureau of Investigation reports, and at torneys were appointed for the other three men. Pleading guilty to burglary not in a dwelling was James Turney Gustafson, 36, Med ford, while Lloyd Harold Gar man, 33, Medford, pleaded guilty to uttering and publish ing a false check. LeRoy E. Beebe, 31, Al bany, charged with burglary not in a dwelling, was ap pointed Paul Haviland for an attorney, and Fred W. Jessert, 27, Darby,' Mont., was as signed Stanley Jones to repre sent him. Jesser is charged with uttering and publishing a false check. Manville Heisel was appointed to represent Ronald M. Mason, 31, Span- away, Wash., who is charged with obtaining money by false pretenses. San Francisco FOOD& ATMOSPHERE in Medford at MON DESIR OPEN EVERY EVENING Except Monday Ph. NO 4-2513 sAt.ERES THE MITZI GAYNOR JEFFREY HUNTER KEEFE BRASSELLE in "THREE YOUNG TEXANS" - PLUS -CARTOON-CARNIVAL and CHAPTER 9 "The Vigilante" I TONITE & SAT. iGREAT SPORTS CAR THRILLS! ThS: JDevfJs TECHNICOLOR .f?1 milm Wilde-Wallace Efl I - fAmOvmi nenm ADVENTUROUS CO-HIT Mombasa mizm i MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVEX Driver Training To Salem (fft Prospects that high school driver education courses will be offered to a record number of Oregon boys and girls this fall appear good, state traffic safety offi cials said today. Starting July 1, financial assistance will be available for the courses to the extent SATURDAY IANA JEFF i - Turner-chandler , HE'S GOT HIS ARMS AROUND HER ALL A'rOUND THE WORLD! -RICHARD 0ENN1N6 ANOfi MASTttt TONITE AND SATURDAY TWO ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATION PICTURES IN A GREAT DOUBLE BILL Twelve Angry Men" BEST PICTURI AND DIRECTION Batchelor Party" CAROLYN JONES BEST SUPPORTING ROLE IT EXPLODES LJflQ U LIKE 12 STICKS OF DYNAMITEI HENRY FONDA LEE S. C0B8 ED BEGLEY E. G. MARSHALL JACK WARDEN PLUS EXCITING CO-FEATURE -you a i DON MURRAY e a BARGAIN PRICES - Be Offered To Many of 75 per cent of the cost up to a limit of $20 per pupil. Funds come from an addi tional $1 fee on each driver and chauffeur license issued by the state. To qualify for money, a school district must conform with standards by the state department of education. - MARCH 15 TONITE AND SATURDAY ONLY uMvwunKrWMSMMU rtcM JWW PAWS scOL MARSHALL PATRICIA SMITH ADULTS. 65c CHILDREN FREE If With An Adult
