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Newspaper Page TextLocal and WW I Vli to Meet The World War I Barracks and auxiliary" of Medford will hold an International potluck dinner at 6:30 p.m. Wednes day night. Meeting The annual meet ing and all church dinner of the First Methodist church will be held at 6:30 o'clock to night at the church. The Rev Meredith A. Groves will pre side as the district superin tendent of the Eugene district. School Party Washington school's pre - school get - ac quainted party will- be held Friday. May 23. at 1:30 p.m in the school gymnasium. All youngsters who plan to enter first grade next year and their mothers are invited to attend, those in charge reported. Breaks Leg Bonnie Row an, 12, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Rowan, 1117 West 11th st., suffered a brok en leg about 7 p.m. Monday when she fell from a tree on Thomas rd. She is confined to Rogue Valley hospital, where she was taken by Medford Ambulance serice. keep all the income. Interest from Municipal bonds is not subject to Federal Income Tax. Yon don't eren report it. Yet, next to government bonds, Municipals are traditioaallT the afest investments. f ,. Good quality, tax-exempt bonds are now available which yield be tween 3H and depending on maturity. i Foster & Marshall, as one cf the principal municipal bond under writers in the Pacific Northwest, will be pleased to discuss Municipal with you at your convenience. Just call or visit our office. Foster & Marshall ftHHH NCW YOKK STOCK IXCHANGC formerly HOGAN-ROWAN t CO. IS S. Cen. Medford SP 3-5353 SEATTLE ELCENE PORTLAND . SPOKANE YAKIMA . OLYMPIA Jpl Yr Hffl 1 " : f Personal Council To Meet The Med ford Building Trades Council will meet at 8 p.m. Wednes day, May 21, in the Medford Labor Temple, according to George Potucek, secretary. Meeting Set Delegates to the state convention in Pen dleton next month will be elected by the Medford Eagles lodge at a meeting Thursday. Initiation also will be con ducted Thursday." Bicycle Found A boy's bicycle was found under the Cottage st. bridge Monday at 5 p.m. Report was made to city police by Dennis LeRoy Brumback, 206 Cottage st. He gave officers a description to facilitate locating the owner. To Build Homes D. L. Pickell, contractor, obtained permits Monday to construct two residences. He will build a S12.000 home at 1349 For tune dr., and a S9.000 one at 907 South Holly st. To Remodel. Fred Kin- caid, 932 South Ivy st., and' J. R. Ellis, 1453 Poplar dr., took out building permits Monday to remodel their resi dence properties. Each permit was for $600. Curbing Started Central Point city officials reported that construction of curbs got under way this week on North Second st. from Pine st. to Hazel ave. The firm of Petrehn and Purdy has the contract. Mercy Flight Debbie Hol lander, 6-year-old Tule Lake, Calif., girl, was flown to San Trancisco yesterday .,-' after noon for treatment of a post operative heart condition. She was to go to Stanford Lane hospital. The flight from Tule Lake to the Bay area was made in a plane operat ed by Mercy Flights, Inc., of Medford. The little girl was the -814th patient carried by planes of the non-profit cor poration. . . ENDS TONITE mm Alan LADD iTWO YEARS THE MAST UtlftJ 5 of AMD Mm n Tvv IT3 17 n East Main and Genessee Over-the-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 Asked Bank of America 36? 38' Calif.-Pacific Utilities.... 30 Cascades Plywood 25 !i Cons. Freightway 153s Copco 313 First National Bank 47 'j Pacific Pwr. & Lt. 34 U Portland Gen. Elec. 24 U. S. National Bank. 63 United Utilities 23'i West Coast Tel. 20 Weyerhaeuser 36 !i 32U 27s 16a 338 49', 36 1 4 26' , 67 :a 25 21 J, 381. Portland Livestock Portland (U.P. Cattle 150; early supply mostly cows: trade slow; choice fed steers Monday 28.25-29.25; good-choice " heifers mostly 26-28: canner-cutter cows today liS.50-19; heavy cutters to 19.50; utility cows 20-21: utility bulls Monday 25-27, add head 27.50. Calves 50: trade slow, scattered early sales about steady with Mon day's 1.00 to 2.00 lower close; choice vealers 28-29 odd head 30; good 25-27. Hogs 300: trade slow; early sa'os steady; sorted U.S. 1 and 2 butch ers 180-235 lb. 24.50-24.75: mixed 1. 2 and 3 lots 23.50-24: sows scarce, salable around 18.50-22. Sheep 500. holdover 175; trade slow; few spring lambs weak to 50c lower: few lots mostly choice fed lambs Monday to 17.50; few good feeders 14-15; cullrgood ewes 3-9. Portland Produce Portland (VP.) Eggs To re tailers: Grade AA large, 45-48c doz.; A large. 42-45c; AA medium, 39-43c; A medium, 38-42c; AA smalls, 30-33c; carton l-3c addi tional. Butter To retailers: AA and Grade A prints, 66-67c lb.; carton lc lb. higher; B prints. 64-65c. Cheese (medium curedt To re tailers: A grade Cheddar single dai sies, 40-51c: 5-lb. loaves, 51',j-57c; processed American cheese, 5-lb. loaf, 40-43c. Farm Market , Name brand California lettuce was quoted to retailers at mostly 4.50-4.75 a carton with mid-Colum-bit and Yakima lettuce at 4-4.50; first Imperial valley watermelons booked for Wednesday delivery at 10 cents a pound. Poultry, Rabbits . Live Chickens Quoted to grow ers at Portland, Salem and south to Eugene, f.o.b. ranch No. 1 quality fryers, 2T-4 lbs., 21-22c; light hens, 15-16c; heavy hens, 5 lbs. up, 20 21c; old roosters, 7-8c lb. Dressed Chickens No. 1 grade dressed to retailers: fryers, whole drawn, 38-43c lb.( cut up, 44-48c; hens, light type cut up, 37-40c; heavy type, whole drawn, 43-46C-. Dessed Turkeys A grade breed er hens, net to producers on an eviscerated basis. 29c lb.: turns, same basis, 25c 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, 3'2-4'i lbs., f.o.b. Portland. 22-25c; colored pelts, 4c under. Fresh killed fryers to retailers, 59-61c lb.; cut up, 62-65c. Portland Hay, Grain Portland Wholesale Hay Prices: No. 2 green alfalfa baled, f.o.b. Portland and Seattle, nominally $24 a ton. Wholesale prices are reported by the USDA market news service: Wheat, No. 2 soft white. $73 ton; No. 2 white oats. 38-lb. West Coast delivery, S54-54.50 ton; No. 2 Val ley white oats, $50.50 ton; soybean meal, $84 ton f.o.b. Portland: bar ley, .No. 2 West Coast delivery, $47.50 ton; standard mil 1 run, wrompt delivery, $38.50-39 ton, f.o.b. Portland: No. 2 Milo. Eastern shipment, f.o.b. Coast, $53.50-54 ton; No. 2 yellow corn. Eastern shipment, lo.b. Portland, $61.25 61.75 ton ' mm HI DAY-FRIDAY ATU'BDAY at the ifm Steel Outstanding In Current Market New York 0?i Stocks more than wiped out the losses of the past two sessions today. Leadership improved with the steel shares the outstand ing features. U.S. Steel reach ed a new high for the year and along with Armco, Jones & Laughlin. Youngstown, Lu kens and Eastern Stainless, gained more than a point. American Telephone met investment demand with its price rising to a new high. Aircrafts strengthened all along the line with Chance Vought and Temco at new highs for the year. Gains in the group ranged to more than a point. Railroad ' shares advanced fractions to more than a point with Nickel Plate a strong feature when the directors or dered the usual dividend. New York Central firmed de spite its four-month report showing a net loss of $20,650, 291 which compared with a net income of 58,000,494 a year ago. Metals moved higher with Alcoa up nearly 2 points in the aluminums and Phelps Dodge up more than a point in the coppers. Richfield rose 2 to a new high in a firmer oil sections. Du Pont with a gain of more than a point led the chemicals higher. Philip Mor ris headed a rise in the tobac cos and made a new 1958 high. .' ' ' DOW JONES AVERAGES Dow-Jones final stock av erages: 30 industrials 459. 83; up 3.85; 20 railroads 112.65, up 1.18; 15 utilities 77.79, up 0.08, and 65 stocks 157.87, up 1.16. Sales today were about 2,500,000 shares compared with 1,910,000 shares Monday. ' Today's prices on selected stocks: Allied Chemical 76 American Can 468 Investment Funds Noon Quotations on select ed funds supplied by the Med ford Branch of Foster & Mar shall, Members New York Stock Exchange. Fund Bid Asked 11.58 12.70 15.93 17.27 18.55 20.90 12.48 13.49 12.17 13.30 9.18 10.06 11.20 12.27 6.21 6.18 10.48 11.48 6.90 7.57 6.19 6.19 15.55 60.97 9.06 9.89 8.15 8.89 10.09 11.01 14.78 16.13 9.99 10.90 10.64 11.62 10.55 11.41 10.47 11.41 4.67 5.10 12.35 13.47 Bullock Eaton Howard Stk Group Sec A via . Group Sec Com St Group Sec Elec Group Sec Petr . Group Sec Steel . Group Sec Tobac Keystone B-4 . Keystone K-2 Keystone S-l Keystone S-2 Keystone S-3 Mass Inv Tt TV-Elec Value Line Inc ill AT&T 1774 Anaconda Copper 43 3, 4 Bethlehem Steel 40Ts Caterpillar Corp 615s Chrysler Corp 463& Continental Can 491s Crown Zellerbach - 48?s Curtiss Wright 23Vz Du Pont . ...177V2 Eastman Kodak 104V2 General Electric 5834 General Foods : 57 XA General Motors 37Ts Georgia Pacific 3634 Graham Paige ............... 1?8 Homestake Mining ;. 4434 Kaiser Frazer 9 Kennecott Copper 87'4 Lockheed Aircraft 47 Va Katy Pfd 47 Montgomery Ward 35V2 New York Central 14V2 Penney J C 94 Penn R R 13V2 Radio Corporation 33 Richfield Oil 70 Sears 2914 Socony Vacuum 50V4 Southern Co 29V4 Southern Pacific 445 Standard California 4834 Standard Indiana 423,4 Standard N J 53 Sun Mines 77a Texas Gulf 19 Tex Pac Land Trust 10 Transamerica 39 V? Trans West Air 11 Tri-Continental 33V2 Union Carbide 85 Union Pacific 29 United Aircraft 62V4 UAL 24 U S Rubber 33 U S Steel 63 Youngstown S & T ........ SiM Prize Winners at Home Show Announced Mrs. Lou Rickman, 515 J st., Medford, won the chil dren's play house at the third annual Medford Home Show Sunday. The four-day show ended Sunday night. Fred K. Deuel, 1018 South Oakdale ave., Medford, re ceived a deep fat fryer at the home show. Watican City (IB Pope Pius XII, in a speech made public Saturday, endorsed the North Atlantic Treaty organ ization as a modern necessity on ground that the West must "face reality" and be pre pared for surprise attack. Weather FORECASTS Medford and vicinity: Variable cloudiness through Wednesday. Low tonight 55. High .Wednesday 88. , i Western Oregon: Fair'tonight and Wednesday, except for morning cloudiness or fog along me coast. Low tonight 45-55. High Wednes day 80-90 interior, 65-70 along the coast. Northern California: Variable high cloudiness tonight and Wednesday. Chance of a few scat tered thunderstorms over the high mountains this evening. Low over cast on the coast. Little change in temperature. LOCAL DATA TEMPERATURE: Mean yesterday 71: above normal 11. Recordl high this date 92 in 1947. Record low this date 36 in 1920. PRECIPITATION: 24 hours to midnight, none. Midnight to 10 ajn. none. , Total this month .16 inch, .58 inch below normal. Total since Sept. 1, 22.08 inches. 5.69 inches above normal. ' HUMIDITY: Lowest yesterday 33, highest this a.m. 88. Huh 4:00 24- City Yester- a.m. hr. nay low Free. Brookings 65 Crater Lake . 61 Grants Pass 85 Klamath Falls 79 MEDFORD 85 Portland 76 50 39 52 47 53 53 Seattle 72 53 53 48 52 61 57 57 62j 77 52 53 76 62 63 .01 Spokane 79 Yakima 85 Eureka 62 Red Bluff 88 Sacramento 86 San Francisco 68 Los Angeles 81 Phoenix Denver ... Chicago Miami New York Washington, D.C. ..103 .. 77 ,. 72 .. 80 .78 82 .02 .14 .72 AMY'S BEST BUY! 549.50 USE ANDY'S EASY CREDIT TERMS Take 58 Weeks in '58 To Pay!. ANDY'S Your Friendly Credit Jeweler S & H Green Stamps 15 North Central Other y Obituaries LOU DELLA BOS WELL Funeral services for Mrs Lou Delia Boswell, 86, who died in Tillamook Monday will be held at the Medford Mausoleum at 2 p.m. Thurs day. Dr. Aldis L. Webb of Tillamook will officiate. Mrs. Boswell was born in Hartford, Iowra, June 4, 1871, and on Feb. 19, l'888, she was married to Dr. Walter S. Jones. In the fall of 1888 they moved to Medford where he practiced medicine until March 29, 1908, when he died. She was a life member of the First Christian church of Medford. She helped build the Chris tian church when it was on Holly st., and later the pres ent structure on South Oak dale ave. Mrs.' Webb, wife of the min ister who will conduct serv ices, was choir director at the First Christian church at the same time Mrs. Boswell was pianist. She was president of the Ladies Aid, pianist for the church for 35 years an active member of Reames Chapter OES. She was married on Jan. 15, 1925, to Robert Boswell, and they lived in Grants Pass until Jan. 11, 1941, when Boswell died. In the spring of 1943 she moved to Tillamook to live with her daughter, Mrs. Ackley. Funeral services for Mrs. Boswell will be held at the First Christian church in Til lamook at 11 a.m. Wednesday. Perl funeral home assisted with the local arrangements. HERBERT VanGORDON Funeral services for Her bert Phelps VanGordon , 78, of 407 Oregon Terrace,, who died in a local hospital Sun day, will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Chapel Mortu ary. The Rev. John O. Rey nolds, assistant pastor of the First Presbyterian church, will officiate. Private inter ment services will be in Plea sant Valley cemetery near Merlin. Honorary pall bearers will be Charles Shaggerty, Ed ward Hirsch, Orie Moore, Al bert Sims, Howard Hietz, and Richard Woodson. The body will lie in state at the mortuary throughout this afternoon and evening. Mr. VanGordon, the son of Boyd and Olive Abbott Van Gordon, was born in Detroit, Minnesota, on Feb. 10, 1880. On Sept. 26, 1911, in Cove, Ore., he was married to Wil ma Wertman, who survives. The family came to the Med ford area in 1935, where Mr. Van Gordon has been employ ed at Timber Products comp any. He was a member of the Roxy Ann Grange, and a former member of the Woodmen of the World. Besides his wife, he is sur vived by three sons, Lyle VanGordon, of Grants Pass, Lucian VanGordon, Medford, and Clarence VanGordon, also of Medford; one daughter, Mrs. Phyllis Mulhollen, Med ford; two brothers, Howard VanGordon, Battle Ground, Wash., and William VanGor don, Spokane; four sisters, Mrs. Kittie Young, Vallejo, Calif.; Mrs. Ottie Elliott, Eur eka, Mont.; Mrs. C. Roy Lance, Northridge, Calif.; and Mrs. Norman Buoy, Eugene, and 12 grandchildren. LESLIE J. CROY Leslie J. Croy. 55. of Pros pect, died unexpectedly yes- treday while at work. Funeral arrangements will be- an nounced by Conger-Morris, funeral directors. MRS. JOSEPHINE LYTLE . Mrs. Josephine Lytle, about 84,. daughter of a pioneer Jack sonville family, died in Port land yesterday. She, was a member of the Joseph Wet- terer family, of Jacksonville. Wetterer operated a brewery here for many years. ' She is survived .by one daughter, Regiene Lytle, Port land, v . ' ? Funeral .services will be held at St. Joseph's Catholic church, Jacksonville, at 10 a.m., Wednesday. . , . Pallbearers will " include Paul Godward, Charles LOfr fenbacher, Albert Hackert, Harold Reed, Raymond (Duke) Lewis, "and Bert Hudson. PAUL D. LeCLAIR Funeral services for Paul Dwight .LeClair, 36, of 1320 Thomas rd.; who died Sunday, will be held at Conger-Morris MILITARY BALL SATURDAY May 24th Rogue Valley Country Club Sponsored by R.O.A. Tickets May Be Purchased ar Swem's ' 1 " 1 "" i '.wii"'.i,i"H DR. D. I. VANDERPOOL To Speak Tonighl 400 Delegates Are Registered for Nazarene Meeting More - than 490 delegates registered Monday for the Oregon Pacific District Naza reen Foreign Missionary" so ciety meeting being held in Medford at the First Church of the Nazarene. At the morning session the president's report showed that the Oregon Pacific dis trict was a "star society." This means that the district has reached the goals it set for the tyear. , Monday afternoon Dr-. Re miss Rehfledt, international executive' secretary, and the Rev. Hubert Helling, mission ary from Japan, spoke. , At the evening session, the local Nazarene church choir sang. Speaker at 7:30 o'clock to night will be Dr. D. I. Van derpool, general superintend ent from Kansas City, Mo. He also will speak at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at the annual dis trict assembly meeting. The public is invited to the eve ning sessions. Following the closing of the annual society meeting today, the district assembly will meet continuing through Friday. . The joint missionary and pre-assembly service will be held which will include con gregational singing tonight. - Tokushima, Japan (IP) A rat killed an elephant in the Tokyo Zoo, authorities dis closed today. Tokuko, a nine-year-old elephant, was so frightened she bolted and fell into a ditch surrounding her enclosure. She died two days later of severe injuries to her chest. funeral home at 9 a.m. Wednesday. The Rev. Claude A. Miller of Temple Baptist church will officiate. Commit tal will be in Siskiyou Mem orial park. Pallbearers will include Wil- lard D. Rollins, Cleon G. Bots ford, Clifford E. Spencer, Charles H. Walden, Don F. Lafon, and Glenn D. Unger. Mr. LeClair was born Jan. 27, 1922, in Delphia, Mont. He was a veteran of World War II and the Korean War, serving from Dec. 28, 1941, to Jan. 16, 1946, as an am phibian tractor leader, Marine corps, also from May 22, 1947, to May 21, 1952, as a staff sergeant, headquarters 13th Marine corps reserve district. He was married Jan. 27, 1946, at Escondido, Calif., to Imogene Day, who survives. Other survivors include a daughter, Diana Lynn; his father, William LeClair, Bil lings, Mont.; two brothers and three sisters. - Ta The featuring BROILED STEAKS CHOPS and CHICKEN o MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon. Tuesday, May 20, 1958 9 Barbecue School Set Af Fairgrounds A chicken barbecue school led by Charles Fischer, poul try specialist at Oregon State college, will be held at 9:30 a.m. Friday, May 23, at the Jackson county fairgrounds. Persons interested in or- Travel Show Stated In Medford Thursday J. W. Kemp, director of tours for Greyhound lines, San Francisco, will present a travel show at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 22, in the Pio neer room of the Jackson hoteL The show, which will in clude color slides on Mexico and various films on vacation spots in the United States, is open to the public without charge. CALL SP 3-7323 For Information about . Pictures Playing and Time Schedules At Your Theatres ENDSnpNITE THE LAUGH OF TOUR LIFETIME! DON'T GO NEAR THE WATER KTnoceun GLENN FORD CO-FEATURE EDWARD ARNOLD LEE J. COBB IN "MIAMI EXPOSE" ENDS TONITE "ANNIE GET YOUR G0N CO-FEATURE Jjcbcl JOHN PAYNE in. RUTH ROMAN 41 y oirrHiiiriCHHww vi M m ROMAN m "A HETEROSEXUAL EXPLOSION!" I 66' Mm " A drama of i v 39 rj v MARINE F MAGAU OA NT ' ROBINSON VALLONE Noel Carrel starring DINING Beginning Wednesday, May 2 1st Breakfast and LuncK Served 7 A.M. - 3 P.M. (Except Sunday) Dinner Served Daily 5:30 P.M. to 12 Midnight ganizing their own barbecue and serving a barbecued chicken dinner are invited to attend the class by register ing with the county extension office, SPring 3-6211, exten sion 211. A class fee of $3 will be charged. "Organizing a barbecue" will begin at 9:30 a.m. and the final section of the school will end at 2:30 p.m. A com plete barbecued chicken din ner will lje served at noon. FINAL SHOWING DOORS OPEN TONITE 7:15 Show Starts 7:30 CO-FEATURE NELSON' ENDS TONITE AMERICAN ACES WHO WORE FRENCH UNIFORMS! TAR 4-IIIWTPD ETCHIKA CHOURAU A WARNER ROi HCTURt CO-FEATURE REED SCOTT BRADY ANNE BANCROFT 20- unvnje UAki TIME MAGAZINE loneliness and desire Wednesday Only "CURTAIN AT 8:30" In the Holland Hotel, Corner of 6th & Fir Streets ROOM f lmiLl n i im - fie K "i tarrina I