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Dinner Postponed A fam-' ;iy dinner scheduled at the ; Iedford Eagles hall Sunday J las been postponed, accord .ng to officials. Np date has oeen set for the dinner. m Returns Home Mrs. Vic Milnes, 15 North Groveland ave., Medford, has Returned home from Sacred Heart hos pital, her husband reported today. She may have a few visitors for short periods of time, he said. She had been in the hospital about two weeks. BEST BOY! 17 Jewel Water Resistant Shock Resistant u Reg. ?3 $49.95 vgM NOW I ANDY'S Your Friendly Credit Jeweler S&H Green Stamps 15 North Central Attends Meeting L y 1 e Paull, Central Point city re corder, is attending a meet ing on city traffic in Eugene. , ' Rummage Sale Jledford Lady Lions will hold a rum mage sale at the Fehl build ing at Sixth and Ivy sts., from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 26. Portland Visit Eagle Point High School Physical Educa tion Instructor Gail Schop pert recently attended a state-wide PE Instructors con vention in Portland. Trip Mr. and Mrs. Pickell, 108 Vancouver ave left Med ford Thursday for San Fran cisco for a combined business and pleasure trip. They plan to return Monday. m DAV Meeting The local cal chapter of the Disabled American Veterans and auxil iary will hold a business meeting starting at 8 o'clock tonight in the Red Cross building on Hawthorne ave. Patients Medical patient at Rogue Valley hospital is Fred L. (Ted) Speece, 151 Nursery st. Convalescing at the same hospital following surgery are Benjamin Com piler, route 1, box 350, Tal ent, and Miss Patricia Dona hue, 1687 Spring st. Elections Crater High, school elections for new stu dent body officers are sched uled today and Friday, May 2. Primary elections are be ing conducted today with the general election scheduled May 2. New officers will serve during the 1958-59 year. TONITE! TRAPPED in i t " in n CITY ur i TFRRflR'f4 XS'V.- f5TMAM COLOR Public PIGEON MO A v JANET BLAIR VIVIAN BLAINE Starring FRED MacMURRAY DOROTHY M ALONE A UMVfdJ t-INTf N ATION A I ftCTJOf RQ BIG HIT! SAT. ONLY Rory Calhoun Jean Simmons "A BULLET IS WAITING" SATURDAY NIGHT At Walker's Popular Dreamland Always a pleasant crowd and FINEST OF MODERN MUSIC Doors Open 8:30 Dance 9:00 to 1:00 V? T I -SSL Mm Where you greet old friends and meet new friends. HOTEL HEDFORD BITO ROOM Suggestions from the Sea - For Friday Halibut Scallops Shrimp Crab MSM StUr9e0" - PraWn5 - C P3p' Swordfish Sole Cod. Children Always j Everyone Welcome! 9 p.m. TilJ, 1 a.m. Beautiful Gold HiSI Grange Hall Saturday Nife Music by Vic Flood & the Rhythm Masters JP'.x " - Everyone Welcome 1 Bl'ieC't oom ree fining Room Open Entire Evening Medford Youth Hurl In Car Accident Phillip Lee Morris, 16, of 1211 East Jackson st., Med ford, was reported in fair con dition in Sacred Heart hos pital this morning after being injured in an automobile acci dent near the Roxy Ann and Hillcrest rds. junction about 4 p.m. yesterday, according to state police. Morris suffered bruises about the face and neck, ac cording to hospital attendants. A passenger, Sandra Bates, 14, of 19 Barneburg rd., was re ported uninjured, police said. The car was travelling west on Hillcrest rd just east of the Roxy Ann rd., when the accident occurred, state po lice said. The driver apparent ly lost control of the car on loose gravel. The car skidded, struck low bank and rolled over, officers said. The car was reported seriously damaged. Public fo Take Part in Program The public will have an op portunity to participate in the regularly scheduled Jackson County Public Health associa tion's television show on sta tion KBES-TV at 5:30 p.m. Saturday. . Subject of the program will be cancer. A panel composed of Dr. Fred T. Burich, sur geon Dr. Duane I. Gillum, ra diologist; Dr: M. .Don;ld Mc Geary, physician and surgeon; and Dr. Richard W. Schwann, obstetrician and gynecologist, will discuss the general as pects of the disease, and an swer questions telephoned in by the viewers. Questions may " be t tele phoned to the station begin ning one -hour before show time and during the program. The telephone number ' is SPring 3-4581. Visiting Mrs. Lester Bon ham, of Los . Angeles, is cur rently visiting her sister, Mrs. Nina Curry, 742 West 14th St., Medford. She will be join ed by her husband later when they plan to visit other rela tives in the northwest. . Assembly Planned The annual assembly for explain ing the armed forces will be held at Crater High school to day in the school gymnasium. Members of the Air Force, Army and Navy will discuss the services with junior and senior students. ' ... Weather FORECASTS . Medford- and. -. vicinity: ) Partly cloudy through Saturday. After noon showers in mountains. Low tonight 34. High Saturday 65. Western Oregon: Partly cloudy through Saturday. Scattered after noon and evening showers. Isolated late afternoon thundershowers. Little temperature change. Low to night 34-42 High Saturday 55-65.. jNorthern cahtorma: Mostly lair through Saturday. Little tempera ture change LOCAL DATA TEMPERATURE: Mean yesterday 47: below normal 7. Record high this date 91 in 1926. Record low this date 30 in 1924. PRECIPITATION: 24 hours to midnight, none. Midnight to 10 a.m. none! - Total this month .40 inch, .56 inch below normal. Total since Sept. 1, 21.87 inches, 6.50 inches above normal. HUMIDITY: Lowest yesterday 31, highest this a.m. 95. High 4:00 24- City Yester- a.m. hr. day Low Prec. Brookings 61 40 Crater Lake 37 12 .12 Grants Pass 63 33 Klamath Falls 51 25 MEDFORD 60 ' 33 Portland .., 57 41 3 Seattle 57 39 Spokane 54 33 .07 Yakima 61 30 .01 Eureka 55 49 Red Bluff 70 44 Sacramento 70 42 San Francisco 65 49 Los Angeles 75 56 Phoenix 82 55 Denver 41 28 .01 Chicago 63 39 Miami 83 69 New York 68 53 Washington D.C... 73 57 '.29 FIVE-DAY FORECAST (Through April 30): Western Oregon - Western Wash ington Warmer trend with tem peratures averaging near normal. Precipitation light with scattered showers occurring mostly first half of- period. Highs 56-64 in western Washington and 58-68 in western Oregon. Lows 35-45. ' " Nbrthefti .California Little rain likely in -north portion early next week with snow in higher moun tains. Little or no precipitation otherwise. Temperatures near or below normal. Florida Man Taken To Penitentiary Theodore Benjamin Cros by, 22, of Florida, was taken to the state penitentiary this morning ; by Sheriff Howard Gault to start serving a three year sentence for grand lar ceny. He was sentenced Monday by Circuit Judge Edward Kelly in connection with the theft of a 1958 Buick from Skinner's garage in Medford April 4. Prospect Youths Fined in Court Two 17-year-old Prospect youths pleaded guilty in dis trict court this week to charges of petty larceny and illegal possession of liquor. One was sentenced to 30 days in the county jail on the petty larceny charge and a S25 fine was suspended for il legal possession of liquor. . The other was fined S25 for petty larceny and a S25 sus pended fine for illegal possession. Obituaries CLYDE SHULTS Funeral services for Clyde Shults, 26,. of Ashton, Idaho, were held on April 21 in Ash ton. Burial was in the family plot. Shults was the youngest son of Sherman Shults of Medford. he is survived by his father and. several aunts and uncles. Shults was not married. MRS. IDA ANDERSON Ashland Mrs. Ida Estella Anderson, 73, of 215 Old Pa cific highway, Talent, died April 24. She was born in Lane county May 13, 1884. Mrs. Anderson was married Feb. 26, 1913, in Albany, Ore., and the couple moved to Ash land in 1924. They moved to Talent in 1946. She was a member of the First Christian church, Ashland. . She is survived by her hus ban, Christian G. Anderson, Talent; two daughters, Mrs. Shirley Hoffman, Portland, and Mrs. Helen Williams, Med ford; a brother, Halbert Haw ken, Boring, Ore., and four grandchildren. A son serving in the Navy. Funeral services will be held Monday, April 28, at 1:30 p.m. at Litwiller's Moun tain View chapel, Ashland. The Rev. Everett McGee will officiate. Interment will be in Memory Garden. RAY ZULAUF Ray Zulauf, of 307 First st.,' Phoenix, died yesterday in a local hospital. .'Funeral ar rangements will be announced by Conger-Morris, funeral directors. DOROTHY A. WILLIAMS Funeral services . for Mrs. Dorothy Aleene Williams, of Prospect, who died .Wednes day, will be held at Conger Morris Funeral home at 8:30 a.m. Saturday. James H. Morse, from the Ashland con gregation of Jehovah's Wit nesses, will officiate. Commit tal will be private. Mrs. Williams was born July 27, 1928, in Red River county, Texas. She was mar ried Dec. 24, 1947, at Reno, Nev., to Gene Williams, who survives. Other survivors include her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gene Montgomery, Noti, Ore.; two sisters, Mrs. Billy Welch, Eu gene, Ore.; and Mrs. Thelma Miller, Eugene. LOUIS H. LANG Funeral services for Louis Henry Lang, of Shady Cove, who died Wednesday, will be read by a Christian Scientist at Conger - Morris Funeral home Saturday at 9:45 a.m. Committal will be in Siski you Memorial park. Mr. Lang was married Dec. 29, 1917, in Ventura, Calif.; to Fern Olga Smith, who sur vives. Other survivors include two sisters, Mrs. Bessie Tus ant and Mrs. Annette Sherman and three brothers, Hugo W. Lang, "Ernest A. Lang, and Arthur E. Lang, all of Port land. . , Jacksonville Community Hall SATURDAY N2GHT . . . MUSIC BY . . . Dick Spain Bill Lively And The Rogue Valley Boys Featuring The Best. In Western Swing LOTS OF-FUN FOR "EVERYONE AdmissiSa 90c Per Person 6 Si KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS jinuaDCrab (Feed Friday, April 25 St. Mary's Gym 5 to 8 p.m. Come and Crack Em Adults $1.50 Hi School 75c Grade School 35c Tossed Salad Choice of Dressing . French Bread . Garlic Bread Hors D'Oeuvres Coffee Milk Proceeds to go to the Boys of St. Mary's Boys Home in Beaverton Stocks Rise After Early Brief Chill New York HP) Stocks resumed their rise today af ter a brief chill early in the day when the list felt the im pact of a big batch of adverse corporate news. This bad news included a S15 million first quarter loss and a dividend cut of 75 cents to 25 cents for Chrysler, a halving of Bethlehem"s first quarter profit, a dividend cut for Electric Auto Lite and a sharp decline in Jones & Laugnlin's income. All of these except the Chrysler dividend cut had been anticipated. The Chrys ler incident ent that issue down to a . new low of 44 off 25s points,. from which it ral lied. Other motors were steady to firm with General Motors at a newhigh for the year on a rise of nearly a point. Today's prices on selected stocks: Allied Chemical ..... 73T's American Can 4634 AT&T 177 Anaconda Copper 44 Bethlehem Steel 395s Caterpillar Corp 60 Chrysler Corp. 40 Continental Can 47 Crown Zellerbach Curtiss Wright 24 Du Pont 177V Eastman Kodak 107 General Electric 59 General Foods 5334 General Motors 38 Georgia Pacific 35V4 Graham Paige 1 Homestake Mining 44V4 Kaiser Frazer 9 Kennecott Copper 83 Lockheed Aircraft 45Vs Katy Pfd -'- 46 Montgomery Ward 35J8 New York Central 15V4 Penney, J. C. - 94 1 Penn R R 12 ' 4 Radio Corporation 32' Richfield Oil 63 V2 Sears 27 Vs Socony Vacuum 52 Southern Co 29Vs Southern Pacific 4114 Standard California 497s Standard Indiana 42 V4 Standard N. J 55V4 Sun Mines 7 Texas Gulf 1814 Pilot Rock Woman Drowns in Creek Pendleton (IP) Mrs. Alice Wheeler, 35, Pilot Rock, slip ped off a footbridge across flooded McKay creek near here Thursday and drowned. Her body was found today by Joe Doherty, a rancher in the area, as authorities start ed dragging operations. The body was found about five miles south of McKay dam. Transamerica 40 Trans West Air 12 Tri-Continental- 32 Tex Pac Land Trust 9 Union Carbide 86 Union Pacific 28 United Aircraft 58 U. A. L 24 U. S. Rubber 33 U. S. Steel 60 Youngstown S & T 83 '8 Portland Produce Portland (U.P.) Eggs To re tailers: Grade AA large, 49-50c doz.; A large 46-47c; AA medium 44c; A medium 43c AA smalls, 35 37c; carton'. l-3c additional. Butter To retailers: AA and Grade A prints. 66-67c lb.: carton, 7c 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 Some stores used asparagus as a sales leader today, selling under wholesale listings; California and Arizona lettuce firm to strong with name brand cartons of two dozen heads at mostly 3-3.50; Mex ican watermelons were down to 11 to 12 cents a pound. Poultry, Rabbits Live Chickens Quoted to grow ers at ranch No. 1 quality fryers, 23i-4 lbs., 21c lb.; light hens. 14 16c; heavy hens, 5 lbs. up, 19-20c; old roosters, 7-8c. Dressed Chickens No. 1 grade dressed to retailers; fryers, whole drawn, 38-40C lb.; cut up, 43-45c; hens, light type, cut up, 37-40c; heavy type, whole drawn. 43-46c. Dressed Turkeys A grade breed er hens, net to producers on an eviscerated basis, 29c lb.; toms, same basis, 24c lb. To retailers: A grade hens, mostly 37 cents, oven ready dressed; toms, 32c lb. Rabbits (average to growers f.o.b. killing plants) Live white. 32 4'i lbs., f.o.b. Portland. 22-25c; colored pelts. 4c under. Fresh killed fryers to retailers, 59-61c lb.; cut up, 62-65c. ERE'S THE m CARD OF THANKS Our heartfelt thanks to all who extended comforting sympathy and help in our recent sorrow. For the beautiful service, floral offerings, and other kindnesses, we are deep ly grateful. The family of Grace Luman CORNEL WILDE ANN FRANCIS in "THE SCARLET COAT" PLUS LOTS OF CARTOONS and CHAPTER 3 "BATMAN and ROBIN" Over-fhe-Counfer Western Stocks 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 Bank of America 363 Calif.-Pacific Utilities... 30 Cascades Plywood 24 Cons. Freight ways 157i Copco 31 2 First National Bank 47 Pacific Pwr & Lt. .. 34 't Portland Gen. Elec 24 U.S. National Bank 63 'i United Utilities 23 s West Cast Tel 20' 4 Weyerhaeuser 34T8 Asked 38 ' 324 26 ' 17. 33'2 SO's 36'4 253a 66 2 24 ss 21 5s 37 Portland Livestock Portland (U.P.) Cattle for week 1650. Average to high-choice fed steers 29.25. good 26.50-27.50, standard 24.50-26: choice heifers 27-27.50; good 25-26.50: standard 22-24; standard cows 22-22.50. com mercial 20-21: utility 17.50-20; can-ner-cutter late 15-17. Calves for week 225. Choice veal ers 31-32; few 33-33.50; good 27-30; utility-standard unevenly 17-26; good-choice heavy calves 25-29. Hogs lor week 1400. No. 1 and 2 butchers 23.25-23.50; 100 lb. Mon day 23.75; mixed 22.50-23; sows 300-400 lb. 19.50-21. Sheep for week 1065. Choice 22.50-23.25: shorn lambs mostly choice to 199 lb. 19.50, earlier 95 105 lb. choice to 20.50 with 98 lb. 21; ewes 3.50-9.50. Portland Hay, Grain Portland Wholesale Hay Prices: New crop. No. 2 green alfalfa, baled, t.o.b. Portland and Seattle, S24 a ton. Wholesale Prices as reported by the USD A market news service: Wheat, No 2 soft white. $74 ton; No. 2 white oats. 38-lb. West Coast delivery. S54-54.50 ton; No. 2 Val ley white oats. $50 ton: soybean meal, $94 ton, f.o.b. Portland: bar ley No. 2 West Coast delivery, $47.50-48 ton: standard mill run, prompt delivery. $38-39 ton, f.o.b. Portland; No. 2 Milo. Eastern ship ment, f.o.b Coast, $54 ton; No. 2 yellow corn. Eastern shipment, f.o.b. Portland, $60.75-61.25 ton. TONITE & SATURDAY WINNER OF SEVEN ACADEMY AWARDS WILLIAM HOLDEN ALEC GUINNESS r s THE QW THi mm cotuMtr nenm MAIL TRIBUNE. Medford, Oregon, Friday, April 25, 1S lt Investment Funds Noon quotations on selected investment funds, supplied by j the Medford branch of Foster ! and Marshall company: I Texas is the largest state in production of asphalt. Fund Bid Keystone B-3 15.57 Keystone B-4 9.05 Keystone K-2 96 Keystone S-l 14.66 Keystone S-2 10.05 Keystone S-3 10.44 Keystone S-4 ' 7.51 Bullock 11.51 Mass Inv Tr 10.42 Fidelity 12.33 Eaton Howard Stk .. 19.31 Value Line Inc 4.58 Gas Ind 1151 Wellington 12.25 Chem Fund 15.79 TV-Elec 10.45 Group Sec Com Stk 11.08 Group Sec Avia 9.01 Group Sec Elec .. 6.23 Group Sec Petr 10.54 Group Sec Steel 6.76 Group Sec Tobac 5.93 Asked 16.90 9 88 10.76 15 99 10.97 11.40 8.20 12.62 11.26 13.33 20.63 5.01 1 13.02 13.36 17.08 I 1 1 .39 12.14 1 9.87 . 6.83 , 11.54 ; 7.41 6.51 ! BIRTHS ( SMITH To Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gibson, 2361 Kings Highway, Medford, April 23, 1958, a girl, 834 pounds, at Sacred Heart hospital. KRUEGER To Mr. and Mrs. Leroy, 321 Ashland ave.. Medford, April 25, 1958, a boy, 9'2 pounds, at Rogue Valley hospital. SCHMELZER To Mr. and Mrs. Everett, route 1, box 78, Talent, April 24, 1958, a boy, 7'2 pounds, at Ashland Gen eral hospital. Tonite & Sat. Only! jipl JERRY WALD'S . 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