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o G o O o o G O o CALENDAR Tuesday: 10:30 ajr.-12:30 p'.m. Med ford League o Women Voters, iwim party at home of Mrs. O John Day at Cold Rey. 12:30 p.m. Jacksonville First Presbyterian church V omen's association, with Mrs. John Keaveny, Hueners lane. 1:30 p.m. Medford League of Women Voters, with Mrs. John Day, Gold Rey. ENDS TUESDAY! mmm FIRST RUN! r r Stfirtrj ttnb Pott. DIRK BOGARDE STANLEY BAKER I MICHAEL CRAIG BARBARA MURRAY Campbells H m mm If kuamuM Drama of Today's Young People ! 4aaannt WnArlwarri i JEFFREY HUNTER curort unoTU ,. :,WlJr .jnknu. nun in imr y TflUV BlUriM I 1 luni muiunu. 17-ewel Voter & shock resistant leg. $49.95 S&H Green Stamps ANDY'S Ygur Friendly Credit Jeweler '15 North Central !0 i i stji 4 ftfi j l Li O A free Service of THE MEDFORD Ha mi MAlL TRIBUNE I JS9 ANDY'S ESTBIIY! 83 v ... - - -.- ffprgp .mmm Of I Local and Kiwanis Picnic Kiwanis club members and their fam ilies will picnic Wednesday, July 30 at McKee bridge. The picnic supper will be at 6:30 p.m. Donald E. Faber is chair man in charge. ' End Visit Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Morris, Mt. Home, Ark., have returned to their home j after visiting Morris's aunt, Mrs. Rose Davis, Evelyn apart ments. Morris' grandfather, the late Daniel Brooks, was a Medford pioneer. a Grass Burns A 25 by 50 foot plot of grass and brush along Bear creek in the 400 block of North Riverside ave. was burned about 4:50 p.m. yesterday. There was no dam age, according to firemen. Cause was not listed. Visit Brother Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kissinger and son Don, Mankato, Kans., are vis iting a few days with his brother, Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman St., Medford, ac cording to Bert Kissinger. The brother and family will return home by way of Central Cali fornia. Baby Arrives Carl and Joan Ellis, now in Japan, have a daughter, born July 18, ac cording to word received by Mr. and Mrs. Byron Ellis, 820 Crater Lake ave., parents of Carl Ellis. Mrs. Ellis's parents are Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Wick, 1975 Sunset drive, Med ford. Carl Ellis is stationed in Japan with the Navy. He and his family expect to return to Medford Christmas. . Picnic Scheduled The Home Economics club of Eagle Point Grange will hold its picnic at 12 noon' Wednes day at the home of Mrs. Agnes Hubbell, Sunset On the Rogue. Picnic is to be potluck. Those planning to attend are asked to bring their own table serv ice. Coffee and cold drinks will be furnished by the host ess. Roll call will be answered by the "kind of vacation I would enjoy." i Car Fires Firemen said wiring from the starter over heated about 2:45 a.m. Sun day when a car operated by Leland Weaver struck a pow er pole in the 700 block of South Riverside ave., causing the starter to stick. Firemen cut the wiring. Backfire through the carburetor was re ported as cause of a car fire at Fourth and Holly sts. about 4:20 p.m. Saturday. Firemen listed an Ernest McAllister as owner of the car and said no damage resulted. Vacation VACATION SERVIC , to the Office. XT lllllllllllllll rJ2 S Medford Mail Tribune VACATION Circulation Department PAC a Medford, Oregon ORDER ' Complete This Please save my Mail Tribune while I am on vacation, beginning Vacation-Pae 5 " . and deliver all of them to me B Order Today WBen I "turn on . (If date un- OP phone the 5 certain, please call Mail Tribune when you return). pj Circulation : Name : o.P, S sp 2-6141 S Address 5 a Personal Oven Blaze Fire in an oven at the Don Gunderson home, 215 Chestnut St., was out on arrival of firemen about 10:45 a.m. yesterday. Short City firemen were summoned about 8:45 p.m. yesterday when a short oc curred in the wiring and the transformer of a neon sign at Western Thrift store, 30 North Central ave. Only the wiring and transformer were damaged, firemen stated. SEAVER To Mr. and Mrs. Foster, 1715 Parker st., Ash land, July 25, 1958, a girl, IVz pounds in Ashland General hospital. LIVINGSTON To Mr. and Mrs. Laddie, 59 Sixth St., Ash land, July 25, 1958, a boy, 9 pounds, in Ashland General hospital. HOWARD To Mr. and Mrs. Richard (U. S. Navy) 341 Vista st., Ashland, July 26, 1958, a girl, 8 pounds, in Ash land General hospital. MORGAN To Mr. and Mrs.Jerold Joe, 308 Olive st., Medford, July 25, 1958, a boy, in Sacred Heart hospital. . McLEOD To Mr. and Mrs. William Donald, 54 Woods rd., Central Point, July 26, 1958, a girl 5 pounds, in Sa cred Heart hospital. BEADNALL To Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wayne, 1620 Grand st., Medford, July 26, 1958, a girl, 6"4 pounds, in Sacred Heart hospital. WALCH To Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Alfred, Box 504, Cen tral Point, July 26, 1958, a boy, 73i pounds, in Sacred Heart hqspital. ROWDEN To Mr. and Mrs. Joe Byron, route 2, Wil son rd.,Central Point, July 27, 1958, a girl, 6 pounds, in Sa cred Heart hospital. News About Servicemen LEAVES BOOT TRAINING San Diego, Calif. Ronald E. Bowser, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar C. Bowser of ai2 Alice st., Medford. completed recruit training July 25 at the Marine Corps recruit depot, San Diego, Calif. The 11-week course in cluded instruction in all basic military subjects and infan try weapons. Boood? ENJOY EVERY VACATION MINUTE . . . but before you leave ask for the Mail Tribune We will hold the Mail Tribune while you are on your vacation. Each issue will be held in our office while you are away and will be de livered to you personally by your carrier upon your return. VACATION PAC SERVICE IS FREE! No papers to pile up on your porch. You will be able to catch-up on all local news and special features when you return. When you leave on your vacation just complete this handy order and either give it to your carrier . . . mail it ... or just bring it in WE WILL DO THE Ktil .... anes GEORGE POTTER Private services for George Potter, 69, of Gold Hill, who died Saturday, were held this afternoon at Conger-Morris Funeral Home. Burial was at Siskiyou Memorial park. Mr. Potter was born Feb 19, 1879, in Big Rapids, Mich, He was a veterans of the Spanish-American war, serv ing with the 30th Battery, field artillery. He had lived in Gold Hill since 1926. Survivors include his wife, Bertha, of Gold Hill. ARCHIBALD FRANCIS Funeral services for Mr, Archibald C. Francis, 62, who died Friday at the Veterans Administration Domiciliary, Camp White, will be held at the Camp White Chapel at 9 a.m. Tuesday. Chaplain Perry Johnson will officiate. Burial will be in the Camp White cemetery with Perl funeral home in charge of arrangements. Mr. Francis was born August 27, 1895 in Rock Springs, Wyoming and was a veteran of World War I. Survivors are' his father Mr. Harry T. Francis, Depoe Bay, Oregon. FRANK JOHNSON Frank Oscar Johnson, ' 77, of 311 B st., Ashland, died Friday, July 25, after a brief illness. He was born Feb. 26, 1881 at Smolen, Sweden. Mr. John son was a member of the Lutheran church in Ashland. He came to America from Sweden when 17 years old. He settled in Central City, Neb. On June 21, 1907 at Central City, Neb., he mar ried Augusta Enquist, Palmer, Neb. They lived in Palmer until 1929.. Then they moved to Kimbel, Neb., where they owned a hotel for 18 years. In July, 1956, they retired and moved to Ashland where sev eral of their children live. Survivors are his wife, Au gusta, Ashland; two daugh ters. Mrs. Julia Wassner, Ash land. Mrs. Jobeyln Fricke, Kimbel, Neb.: three sons. Wal ter J. and Harold, both of Ash land, and JoseDh of Kimbel,, Neb. One son, Leslie, preced ed him in death and also a grandson, Billy- Johnson. Eleven grand children sur vive him also and one brother and two sisters living in Swe den. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Litwiller's Mountain View chapel. Ash land. Burial will be in Moun tain View cemetery. The Rev. James Sinclaire of the Ash land Lutheran church will of ficiate. SUSIE McDOUGALL Mrs. Susie McDougall, 85, who has been a resident of PAK Spurt in Copper Rescues Stock New York (UPD Cooper shares rescued the stock mar ket from a decline today. They advanced one to more than two points as the House Interior committee approved a S600 million minerals sub sidy program designed to en courage domestic production and protect U. S. miners from lower cost imports. New highs appeared in An aconda, Kennecott, Cerro de Pasco, Miami. Hudson Bay Mining, and Copper range. Jacksonville 'for the past eight years, died there last night. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Chapel mortuary. EDNA KINDRED Mrs. Edna L. Kindred, 78, of Grandview ave., Medford, died Saturday in a local hos pital. Mrs. Kindred was born in Woodvine, Iowa, on June 27, 1880 and was a resident ol the state and of this com munity for the past 31 years She was a member of the Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, a retired member of the Eastern Star, and a member of the First Christian Church. Survivors include her husband Walter C, Kindred, Medford; two sons, Burdette Kindred, Hood River; and Bryce Kindred, Drexel Hill, Penn.; fine daugh ter, Mrs. lone Larson, Salem; two sisters, Mrs. G- G. Wil son, Greely, Colo, and Mrs. Helen Howarth, Woodvine, Iowa; one brother, Leslie Hull of Cordell, Okla.; and seven grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at the Perl funeral home Wednesday, at 9:30 a.m. The Rev. William C. Piper of the Medford First Christian church will officiate. Burial will be in the Medford I.O.O.F cemetery. Over-fhe-Counler 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 . 38T 41 Calif-Pacific Utilities 30 32'i Cascades Plywood 25'i . "27? Cons Freightways .... 163i 18 Codco .' 32' 34' First National Bank 47'2 50 Pacific Pwr & Lt 3i3 36 ?i Permanente Cement .... 19 'i 20 l,i Portland Gen Elec 25'ii 27 US National Bank 68 'i 73 United Utilities (N.Hi) 245 26 West Coast Tel 21 3, 22 si Weyerhaeuser (N. Hi) .. 42 44 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 Bullock 12.44 13.63 Chem Fund 17.35 18.77 Eaton Howard Stk 20.80 22.30 Fidelity 13.76 14.88 Gaslnd 13.18 14.40 Group Sec Avia .... 10.02 10.98 Group Sec Com Stk 11.81 12.93 Group Sec Elec 6.92 7.59 Group Sec Petr 11.34 12.42 Group Sec Steel ....-8.09 8.87 Group Sec Tobac 6.35 6.97 Kevstone B-3 .. 15.37 16.27 Keystone B-4 9:35 10.20 Keystone K-l 8.60 9.39 Kevstone K-2 ..... 11.08 12.09 Kevstone S-l 15.72 17.1S Keystone S-2 10.73 1171 Keystone S-3 11.93 13.02 MassInvTr 11.51 .12 44 TV-Elec .: 11.48 12.51 Value Line Inc 4.97 5.43 Wellington 12.94 14.11 Weather FORECASTS ' Medford and vicinity: Clear to night. Partly cloudy Tuesday with a chance of evening thunderstorms over mountains east and south. Low tonight 62. Slightly cooler Tuesday with high 95-98. Western Oregon: Possibility of isolated thundershowers over Cas cades this evening. Cloudy along coast and over interior iate tonight ?nd Tuesday morning. Clearing in land Tuesday afternoon: but re maining cloudy along coast. Lpw tonight 50-60. Much cooler Tues day with highs 75-85 inland. 60-70 along coast. Northern California: Mostly fair through Tuesday, except night and morning fog on coast. Little tem perature change. LOCAL DATA Temperature: Mean yesterday 83; above normal 9. Record high this date 102 in 1923. . Record low this date 46 in 1955. Precipitation: 24 hours to mid night 0. Midnight to 10 a.m. 0. Total this month 1.35 in., 1.18 in. above normal. Total since Sept. 1 26.95 in., 8.99 in. above normal. Humidity: Lowest yesterday 20 , highest this a.m. 74 c;c . High 4:00 24- Clty Tester- a.m. hr. day Low Prec. Brooking 62 Grants Pass 108 Klamath Falls 93 MEDFORD 105 Portland 102 52 58 60 fi5 66 67 67 60 51 77 61 59 63 82 53 72 82 70 73 Seattle Spokane Yakima . 95 94 . 99 61 ...108 . 99 ... 73 ... 82 ...109 ... 71 ... 86 89 ... 78 87 Eureka Red Bluff Sacramento San Francisco Los Angeles Phoenix Denver . Chicago . .54 .15 Miami New York Washington, D.C. .14 FIVE-DAY FORECAST (Through Aug. 2): Western Oregon-Western Wash ington Little or no precipitation. Temperatures averaging above to much above normal. Highs gener ally in 80s or low 90s western Washington and mostly in 90s west ern Oregon. Northern California No rain. Temperatures near normal. Magma Copper rose more than two points. Aluminum is sues held steady to firm. Some favorable earnings re ports sustained the rails and several of them rose to new highs for the year. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (IPD Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 502.81, up 1.05; 20 railroads 131.80, up 0.96; 15 utilities 79.64, off 0.10, and 65 stocks 173.82, up 0.44. Sales today were about 3.940,000 shares com pared with 4,430,000 shares Friday. Today's prices on selected stocks: Allied Chemical ; 87 Vi American Can 48Ts AT&T ISOVs Anaconda Copper 49 Bethlehem Steel 45 Caterpillar Corp 75Vs Chrysler Corp 51V4 Continental Can 50 Crown Zellerbach 50 Curtiss Wright 29 Du Pont 195 Eastman Kodak 114V4 General Electric 63 General Foods 66 General Motors 43 Vi Georgia Pacific 40 Vs Graham Paige IV2 Homestake Mining .... 40 Vb Kaiser Frazer HVa Kennecott Copper' 95 Lockheed Aircraft 51 V Katy Pfd. 54 Montgomery Ward 38li New York Central ........ 18V4 Penney, J. C. 52 Penn RR .......... I3V2 Radio Corporation .......... 35Va Richfield Oil 95 V4 Sears J .... 30V4 Socony ' Vacuum 4914 Southern Co 32Vs Southern Pacific 51 Standard California ...... 51V4 Standard Indiana 49 Standard N. J 54 Sun Mines 8 Texas Gulf HVs Tex. Pac. Land Trust 11V4 Transamerica Xd. 24V2 Trans West Air 13 Tri-Continental 361-8 Union Carbide 103 Union Pacific 31 United Aircraft 67 U. A. L 29 V4 U. S. Rubber 38 U. S. Steel 70 Youngstown S & T 100 Portland Livestock Portland (UPI) Cattle 2150. High good to average choice around 900 and 1040 lb. steers 27.50: good steers 26-27; around 1120 lbs. stand ard and good grass steers 24, lightly sorted at 23; standard and good grass heifers 25; mostly commer cial cows 20; utility cows 18-19. Canners and cutters 16-16.50; light cutter bulls 19-21. Calves 250. Good and choice around 350-450 lb. stock steer calves 28-20; 318 lbs. 30; common Holstein stock steers 19. . Hogs 1000. U.S. 1 and 2 grade butchers 180-235 lbs. 25-25.25; mix ed 1, 2 and 3 grade, 24-24.75; 240 to 270 lbs. and 160-180 lbs. 23 24.50: U.S. 1 and 2 grade sows 270- 370 lbs. 20.50-22.50; 350-550 lbs. 18.50-20.50. Sheep 1500. Choice 85-105 lbs. spring slaughter lambs 20.50-21; range lambs above 21.50; good slaughter lambs 19-20.50; good shorn yearlings 15-15.50; good and choice 70-85 lb. feeders 18-19; cull to good slaughter ewes 3-7.50. Portland Hay, Grain Portland Wholesale Hay Prices: New crop No. 2 green alfalfa, baled, l.o.o. .Portland and seauie, szo ion. Wholesale prices as reported by the USDA market news service: Wheat. No. 2 soft white. S66 ton: No. 2 white oats, 38-lb.. West Coast delivery, S48-50 ton; No: 2 valley white oats, $47 ton; barley No. 2, West Coast delivery, $47.50-48; soy bean meal, Eastern shipment, $101 ton, f.o.b. Portland; standard mill run, prompt delivery $38-39 ton f.o.b. Portland; No. 2 milo, S55.50 ton, f.o.b. Coast; No. 2 yellow corn. Eastern shipment f.o.b. Portland, $62-62.50. Portland Produce Portland (UPI) Eggs To re tailers: Grade A A large. 53-jBc doz.; A large, 49-53c doz.; AA me dium, 42-47c; A medium, 42 -46c AA small, 29-32c; 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 cured To re tailers: A grade Cheddar, single daisies, 40-51C; 5-lb. loaves, 51'2 57c; processed American cheese, 5-lb. loaf, 40-43c Farm Market Too aualitv F-M variety corn from Yakima sold mostly at $2.25 2.50 for a dozen ears. Best Wil lamette valley corn sold at $1.85 2 for 5 dozen ears. The season's first volume shipment of new crop Willamette valley carrots sold at S3.60 a pack of 4 dozen one-pound cellophane pack for large size with smalls down to $3.50. Two layer lugs of Milton-Freewater tomatoes sold at $1.75-2.15. Poultry, Rabbits Live Chickens Quoted to grow ers at Portland, Salem and south to Eugene, f.o.b. ranch No. 1 quali ty fryers, 2-4 lbs., 21-22c; light hens, 13c; heavy hens, 5 lbs. up, 17c; old roosters. 7-8c lb. Dressed Chickens No. 1 grade dressed to retailers: fryers, whole drawn, 39-41C lb.; cut up, 44-46c; hens, light types cut up. 36-38c; heavy type, whole drawn. 42-45c lb. Dressed Turkeys A grade young hens, nominally 35c lb. to produc ers on eviscerated basis; to retail ers, mostly 45-58c lb. on an oven- ready basis. Rabbits (average to growers f.o.b. killing plants) Live white, 3?4-42 lbs., f.o.b. Portland, 21-23c; colored pelts, 4c under. Fresh killed fryers to retailers, . 57-60c lb.; cut up, 61-64c. Salem 1UPD Rollin E. Bowles, Portland attorney, has been appointed to the State Game Commission. . He succeeds Don M. Mitchell, Taft. A MOTHER'S PLEA Monroe, Conn. (UPI) While her 19-year-old son was being tried for speeding, Mrs. Allen N. Jones stood up in court and asked the judge to be "more severe with young drivers." WINK Eurlyne Howell of Louisiana has a confident wink for the camera after being named Miss U. S. A. at the Miss Universe contest in Los Angeles. Explorer IV Sends 'Wonderful' Signals Washington (UPD Explorer IV whirled around the world today with its important radio signals "coming in wonder fully" and sending back valu able information on deadly ra diation. The largest U. S. satellite was scheduled to pass over Russia again today. It shot across Soviet skies Sunday marking the first appearance of an American earth moon over that country. The Naval Research Labora tory said the satellite's course today also will take it over points in China, New Zealand, French Guiana, England, Aus tralia, Mongolia, France, Ye men, Japan and Uruguay. Baghdad Pact Gets New Strength London (UPD The United States agreed to give the Baghdad Pact new strength today by joining in separate alliances with the member na tions to protect Middle East "defense and security." Secretary of State John Foster Dulles pledged these formal new ties in a declara tion signed with Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and Britain after a one-day session here with the premiers of those countries. The declaration also open ed the way to closer liaison between the Baghdad Pact nations and NATO and pos sibly SEATO the other major Free World alliances. September Draft Call Set at 11 ,000 Washington (UPD The Army will draft 11,000 men in September, 1,000 more than in each of the previous three months, the Defense Depart ment announced today. A Pentagon spokesman said the slight increase was within normal limits and had nothing to do with the Middle East crisis. He pointed out there has been no increase in authorized manpower ceilings for the armed fortes. The September call, like those for previous months, is the number consid ered necessary to meet Army needs "after allowances have been made for enlistments and reenlistments," he said. OUTSIZE EGG Orchard Park, N.Y. (UPI) Mrs. Catherin Wantuck re ported one of her Plymouth Rock hens recently laid a 4Vs-ounce egg 3V2 inches long. It had a triple yolk. She said the egg was the largest she'd seen in 36 years of chicken raising. .. NUDIST PROPERTY Milton, Vt. (UPI) Nudist colony members here want their own "place in the sun." International colonists have petitioned for the purchase of their camp site area now used on a rental basis. CANDLE IT HOTEL MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Monday, July 28,' 19SS 11 ' Wendt Selected for State Committee Job County Commissioner Ches ter Wendt has become the fourth Jackson county official selected to serve on a com mittee during the National Association of County Offic ials' convention in Portland Aug. 10-13. Wendt will serve on the housing committee under the chairmanship of Multnomah County Clerk Si Cohn. Pre viously notified of their com mittee assignments were County Judge Rodney Keat ing, Commissioner Ralph A. James, and County Clerk Ber eth Hopkins. Even Break for Suckers Advised Kent, O. (UPD Owners of young trees are advised to give this slacker an even break! It's the sucker or "water sprout", that defaces trunks of newly planted trees in early summer, said Davey tree ex perts. Suckers serve to in crease deficient leaf areas and help in building sturdy trunks. But to prevent un sightly scars, it is best to re move them before attaining size and gradual thinning is recommended when growing in large numbers. TBuckers develop on. many varieties of fruit trees and on such shade and ornaments as lindens, soft maples an(J li lacs. SHOW TUESDAY KIIM-IT 9 P m to 1 a. m. at DREAMLAND with ERNIE FREEMAN and THE COASTERS Funeral Flowers anc Hospital Bouquets GROCETERIA FLOWER SHOP Ph. SP 2-81 79 Charge Accounts Welcome Free Delivery David & Evelyn Chase, Owners ROOM Genuine Charcoal Broiled Foods! An especially good place to eat if dieting! SasV? p.m. ART AT AMHERST Amherst, Mass. 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