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New Church A 530,000 tmilding permit has been is sued St. Luke's Church for ) construction of a new build ing at 2940 Siskiyou blvd. Reiumi Home Frank C. Meyers. 1034 West 13th, st., Medford, has returned home after being confined at a Port land hospital for five weeks following major surgery. Gaiag Fir Storagej shelves, stored articles ana the underside of the roof were damaged in a garage fire bout -4:30 p.m. yesterday at the Charles Bennett resi dence, 1433 Whitman ave., firemen reported. They said the blaze originated in a paper-lined garbage can in which ashes from a fireplace had been deposited. The fire extended along the corner of the garage to the shelves. i II In n I il : . ! Cited Zelma Heeter, 833 West Jackson st., and Mar shall Dale Sellers, 139 Perry dale ave., were involved in a collision at 10th and Lincoln sts., about 4:30 p.m. Thurs day, according to city police. They said Sellers was vited for violation of the basic rule. Rail Hit A vehicle, sus peced to be registered to a Raymond Privette, route 1, box 447, Central Point, was involved in a collision with a guard rail near the Richfield Truck stop, North Highway 99, about 6 a.m. Friday morn ing, according to city police. They said they are investigat ing the accident. ijtejj f ' I P'OnemaScopE tiij,-' - -f f Uitman COLOR 3r TONY CURTIS f' f MARTHA HYER - -nm TONITE and SAT. THE LAST WAGON if CimimaScoPE Eli CCAX3B. bs Pci." Richard WIDMARrT Felicia FARR TOMMY RETTW RD BIG HIT! SAT. ONLY Esther Williams 'Jupiter's Darling' CELEBRATE PEAR BLOSSOM FESTIVAL SATURDAY NIGHT at Walker's Dreamland Horn of Good Music and Refined Dancing Where you greet old friends and meet new friends, UPPER APPLEGATE GRANGE Saturday Nile - April 12th Music by Gene Lowe and His Orchestra Everyone Welcome SPUTNIK SATURDAY NIGHT EAGLE POINT - The Only Spring Floor in Southern Oregon FEATURING THE STRING KINGS Blasting off all your Favorite Dance Tunes , YOU ALL COME! PLENTY OF FREE PARKING 13 1 Everyone Welcome! 9 p.m. Till 1 a.m. Beautiful Gold Hill Grange Hall Saturday Nite W Music by Vic Flood & the Rhythm Masters """N Everyone Welcome i -iiilcheck Rom Free. Dining Room Open Entire Evening A 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 Per Person Patient Mrs. Frank How ard, 1105 West Fourth St., is convalescing at Sacred Heart hospital following major sur gery Wednesday. Her daugh ter, Mrs. Earl Reitsma, Cor vallis, is visiting in Medford. Matlresi Burnt Firemen extinguished a fire in a mat tress on the sidewalk in the first block of Laurel st. at 6:50 a.m. today. They said they were unable to deter mine ownership of the mat tress. Class Cancelled The classes of Bliss Heine's Jun iors will not meet this week because of participation in the Pear Blossom parade Satur day. Classes will resume the following week. Dolls on Loan Eighteen pear dolls have been loaned to the Jacksonville museum by Mrs. H. A. Davis. The dolls' faces are constructed of dried pears. They can be seen in the children's room of the museum. Museum Visits About 80 members of the Jobs daugh ter's convention now in Med ford 'visited the Jacksonville museum Friday morning. Also visiting the museum today was about 50 students from the Kerby grade school near Cave Junction. Classes To Visit Students of the Grants Pass Junior High school - will visit the Jacksonville museum on Sat urday, April 12. This will be one of the last groups of Grants Pass students to com plete the tour of the museum, according to officials. Children Convalescing at Osteopathic hospital follow ing tonsillectomies today are Judith Dyer, five - year - old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Don ald yer, Eagle Point, and Michael Bevens, seven-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Dar win Bevens, Prospect. i DAV To Meet The Jack son county chapter No. 8 of the Disabled American Vet erans and auxiliary will meet in the Red Cross building at 6:30 o'clock today for a pot luck dinner and meeting, a spokesman said. A film show ing the instruction of seeing eye dogs for blind veterans will be shown. Patients Medical patient at Osteopathic hospital is Euclid Martin, Gold Hill. Also a medical patient at Rogue Valley' hospital is Her bert Taylor, 886 Oak st., Med ford. Convalescing following surgery at Rogue Valley hos pital is John Daniken, two-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Daniken, Box 823, Central Point. Medford Man Taken To Josephine Jail Fred Lee Walters Jr., 22, of 89 Vashti Way, was trans ferred to Josephine county jail from Jackson county Thursday on a charge of ob taining money by false pre tense.: Sheriff's deputies here re ported Tuesday that Walters had turned himself in as ab sent without leave from the San Diego Naval hospital. He is held under $1,000 bail. Portland Livestock Portland (U.P.) Cattle for week 1850 Average choice 28 28.50: good 26-27.50; standard 24 25.50; choice heifers 26.50-27, good 24-26. standard 22-23.50; commer cial cows 20-21.50; utility 17-19; canner-cutter 15-16.50; utility bulls 22.50-24; good-choice feeders 24-26. Calves for week 275. Choice veal ers 28-31, several 32-32.50;- good 26-28: standard 22-26: good-choice slaughter calves 24-26.50. Hogs for week 1450. No.' 1 and 2 butchers 180-235 lb. 23.50-24; mixed 23-23.50; U.S. 1 and 2 sows 20-21.50; mixed sows 400-500 lb. 17.50-19.50 Sheep for week 1325. Choice fed lambs 21.50-22; good 20.50-21.50; mixed good-choice spring lambs on close 73 lb. 25.75; ewes 4.50-10.50. 7 6-Y ear-Old Arrested On Shoplifting Charge Medford police report ar resting a 16-year-old Medford youth on charges of shoplift ing Thursday afternoon after he is charged with taking several items from the East Side market, 608 East Main st. Police said the boy, in a signed statement, admitted to several other minor thefts from local stores. He was lodged in the Jackson County Juvenile Detention home pending action by juvenile authorities. Burglary Charges Set Against Smith Roger Gordon Smith, 24, of 106 Crater Lake ave., was ar raigned in circuit court this morning on an indictment charging burglary not in a dwelling. He is expected to enter a plea April 15. Smith was arrested by Medford police in connection with the theft Maarch 30 of a safe from Southern Oregon Distributors Inc., 710 South Grape st. Weaiher FORECASTS Medford and vicinity: Fair and mild through Saturday. Low to night 40. High Saturday 75. Western Oregon: Fair except patches of early morning fog. Most ly sunny Saturday. Mild tempera tures. Low tonight 38-45. High Saturday 60-72. Northern California: Fair through Saturday. Little temperature change. LOCAL DATA TEMPERATURE: Mean yester day 55; above normal 4. Record high this date 89 in 1951. Record low this date 27 in 1927. PRECIPITATION: 24 hours to midnight, none. Midnight to 10 a.m., none. Total this month .31 inch, .09 inch below normal. Total since Sept. 1, 21.78 inches, 6.97 inches above normal. HUMIDITY: Lowest yesterday 3S. highest this a.m. 94"c. High 4:30 24- City Yester- a.m. nr. day Low Prec. Brookings 65 47 Crater Lake 45 22 Grants Pass 69 36 Klamath Falls 57 38 MEDFORD 66 36 Portland 62 39 Seattle 57 40 .01 Spokane 48 32 .07 Yakima 65 33 Eureka 56 50 Red Bluff 77 57 Sacramento 78 56 San Francisco 74 51 Los Angeles 83 58 Phoenix 78 51 Denver 44 33 .04 Chicago 41 38 Miami 80 76 New York 56 35 .44 Washington, D.C. 53 42 .50 FIVE-DAY FORECASTS x (Thruogh April 16) , ' Western Oregon-Western Wash ington Above normal tempera tures. Highs 55-65 western Wash ington. 60-70 western Oregon. Lows 36-44. More than season pre cipitation. Totals one-half to one inch except one-fourth to one-half in southwest Oregon. Rainfall most ?v nrcurrinff about Sunday and Wednesday. Northern California Possibly Possibly some light rain in ex treme north later in period. Other wise no precipitation. Tempera tures above normal. Rail Issues Pull Stock List Higher New York (TP) Railroad is sues got up a good head of steam late today to pull the stock market into irregularly higher ground. Trading was moderate. ' Aircrafts met support late in the session, which helped to give the market a much better appearance. The market had moved cau tiously most of the day, but when buying came into the rails it spilled over into some of the other groups. Gains of around a "point or more appeared in Baltimore & Ohio and Southern Rail way. A number in this group added major fractions. Doug las rose more than a point in a firm aircraft group. Motors were a bit easier. Today's prices on selected stocks: Allied Chemical 7312 American Can 45 AT&T 1744 Anaconda Copper 42? 4 Bethlehem Steel 367s Caterpillar Corp 56 V2 Chrysler Corp 47V4 Continental Can 47 Crown Zellerbach 43 34 Curtiss Wright 22 Du Pont 17212 Eastman Kodak 103 General Electric 573,4 General Foods 554 General Motors 35V4 Georgia Pacific 32'.4 Graham Paige 114 Homestake Mining 39 Kaiser Frazer 9 Kennecott Copper 83 Lockheed Aircraft 43 Vs Katy Pfd 42 V2 Montgomery Ward 33 New York Central 1414 Penney, J. C. 8814 Penn RR 12 Radio Corporation 31 Richfield Oil 62V4 Sears .'. 2634 Socony 48 Southern Co - 29 Southern Pacific - 38 Standard California 47 Standard Indiana 39 Standard N. J 52 Sun Mines 7 Texas Gulf 17 Transamerican 38?s Trans West Air 12 Tri-Continental .. 31 Texas Pac Land Trust.... Unqt. Union Carbide 86 Union Pacific 27 United Aircraft 572 U. A. L 23 U. S. Rubber 32 U. S. Steel 56 Youngstown S & T 76 Here's te AUDIE MURPHY LISA GAYE "DRUMS ACROSS THE RIVER" PLUS LOTS OF CARTOONS And CHAPTER NO. 1 OF A BRAND NEW SERIAL TWO OF YOUR FAVORITES "BATMAN" AND "ROBIN" IN THRILLING ADVENTURES Over-the-Counfer Western Slocks The following bid and asked prices on selected West ern securities,- provided by the Medford branch office of Pacific Northwest Company, are unofficial and do not rep resent actual transactions, but are intended as a guide to the approximate price range. Common Stocks Bid Asked Bank of America 353i 37's Calif.-Pacific Utilities.. 30 32'j Cascades Plywood 23 25 Cons. Freightways 157i 17 Copco 32 34 First National Bank 45:),i 49 Pacific Pwr. & Lt 33 35 PorUand Gen. Elec. 24 i 255i U.S. National Bank 64 68 2 United Utilities 22 i 24 West Coast Tel. 197 21 Weyerhaeuser 34 T 37 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Ore., Friday, April 11, 1958 15 Investment Funds Noon quotations on selected investment funds, supplied by the Medford branch of Foster and Marshall company: Fund Keystone B-3 Keystone B-4 Keytsone K-2 Keysone S-l Kevstone S-2 Keystone S-3 Keystone S-4 Bullock Mass Inv Tr Fidelity Eaton Howard Stk Value Line Inc Gas Ind ... Wellington Chem Fund TV-Elec Group Sec Com Stk Group Sec A via Group Sec-Elec Group Sec Petr Group Sec Steel Group Sec Tobac Bid Asked 15.16 16.55 8 81 9.61 9.54 10.41 14.20 15.50 9.70 10.58 10.07 10.99 7.22 7.88 11.19 12.27 10.01 10.82 11.84 12.80 18.77 20.02 4.53 4.95 11.93 12.34 1153 13.01 15.40 16.65 10.19 11.11 10.73 11.75 8.78 9.62 6.08 6.67 10.03 10.99 6.31 6.92 5.82 6.39 Saylor Gets Charges Of Assault, Battery Winford C. Saylor, age and address not given, was re leased on $50 bail this morn ing following appearance in district court on a charge of assault and battery. Judge James Main said trial date would be set on or before April 17. Saylor turned himself in after the complaint was filed by his wife, Phyllis, the court reported. HOTEL MEDFORD DINING ROOM O DIFFERENT 0 FISH ENTREES Delicious, delightful and especially designed for you Children Always Welcome Friday: TONITE AND SATURDAY WINNER OF -7 ACADEMY OF AWARDS INCLUDING BEST ACTOR - BEST PICTURE WILLIAM ALEC JACK HOLDEN GUINNESS HAWKINS CLORY STORY i the FIGHTERS! SESSU! HAYAKAWA .JJIUtII Aj TECHNICOLOR, a cc!c-2 f mm DRIVEMM COUTH PACIFIC HIGHWAY Portland Produce Portland (U-P.) Eggs To re tailers: Grade AA large. 46-49c doz.: A large. 43-46c; AA medium, 42-44c; A medium. 41-43c; AA smalls. 33-37c; carton, l-3c addi tional Butter To retailers: A A and Grade A prints, 66-67c lb.; carton lc lb. higher: B prints, 64-65C Cheese medium cured To re tailers: A grade cheddar single dai sies, 40-51c: 5-lb. loaves, 51',i-57c; processed American cheese, 5-lb. loaf, 40-43C. Farm Market Yakima valley asparagus sold mosUy at 5.50 a 30-lb. pyramid or from 17li to 18 cents a pound off the jobber's floor for No. 1 spears today; some growers are selling 30 lb. boxes of Willamette valley strawberry rhubarb around six cents a pound with wine-type ahnnt two cents hieher: radishes brought mostly 75 cents a dozen I bunches. Poultry, Rabbits Live Chickens Quoted to grow ers at ranch No. 1 quality fryers, 24-4 lbs.. 21c lb.; light hens, 13 14c lb. heavy hens, 5 lbs. up, 20 21c: old roosters 7-8c- lb. Dressed Chickens No. 1 grade dressed to retailers: Fryers (whole drawn. 37-40c lb.: cut up, 43-45c lb.: hens, light type cut up, 37-39c; heavy type, whole drawn, 43-46c lb. Rabbits (average to growers, f.o.b. killing plants) Live white, 3'2-42 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 Hay, Grain Portland Wholesale Hay Prices: New crop. No. 2 green alfalfa, baled, f.o.b. Portland and Seattle, $24 ton Wholesale prices are reported by the USDA market news service: Wheat. No. 2 soft white, S75 ton; No. 2 white oats, 38-lb. West Coast delivery, $51.50-53.50 ton; No. 2 Valley white oats. S48 ton; soybean meai $92 ton. f.o.b. Portland; bar ley. Nc. 2 West Coast delivery, S48 ton: standard mill run, prompt de livery. S38-38.50 ton. f.o.b. Port land: No. 2 Milo, Eastern ship ment, f.o.b. Coast. S54.50: No. 2 vellow corn. Eastern shipment, f.o.b. Portland, $59.50-60 ton. coacy SP-3 STARTS TONITE SPECIAL MATINEE SATURDAY 1 P.M. "...much more than American audiences are used to see- I ing of what 23- year-old girls -are made of!" feJ devil my fim. invented i;k wl 111 mkX r" SPECIAL MIDNITE SHOW TOMORROW SATURDAY ONLY ADULTS ONLY ALL TICKETS 90c MIDNIGHT SHOW STARTS AT 12:20 COME AS EARLY AS 10:00! LA A A AH m t- lO--.. A Jaw w . x "a phenomenon you have to see to believe!" Crowther, N.Y. 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HUNTZI weo itisi$ I 5 w ff HOOUCTOH LJ HIT NO. 3 RICHARD BASEHART " PHYUIS Tonite and Saturday THE TRUE STORY Of THE AMERICAN. GLENN FORD 2 a cowm ncrutt - PLUS mm HELMUT DANTINE. DONNA MARIEU. CliT-rr ic II nil