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Local and Speaker at Feast-Walter L. Lansing, Grand Master of Masons in Oregon, will be the speaker for the Feast of Tishri observance for Scottish Rite Masons and invited blue lodge guests. The meeting will be in the Masonic temple, 'Saturday, Sept. 13. at 8 p.m. Following the meeting, there will be a practice on the Fourth Degree of Scottish Rite Freemonry. 1ST DRIVE-IN RUN! mm , SHOW STARTS 7 P.M. TONITE & SAT. The story of the day the whole West burst into flams! FROM 3RD COMEDY HIT! SAT. ONLY! A niruivurf VyS AUDREY TOTTER IIU CAMUS w7, uuuiit mean AFTER BALL HELL S to y TEXAS J 1 MURRAY DIANE ffwl M VARSI CHILL WILLS 1 & M olordeluxeI PLUS! PLUS! f?S FURY ' C J EXPLODES! JutnXJ' T'll III IIT.K JACKSON HOTEL TONIGHT Orchestra Adults Only ADMISSION $1.00 CANDLE if $ ' j i Genuine Charcoal " Broiled Foods! iiriTFi MFncnon 50 PJn. tm 12:00 Enjoy the WALKER'S k POPULAR ma Gold Hill Music by Vic Flood & the Rhythm Masters 1 j2Cneck Roon Free. Dining Room Open Entire Evening Personal I Leaves for School-Richard j Henselman, partner in Goldy- I Henselman Insurance, and ; secretary of Mark A. Goldy, Inc., planned to leave this morning for Detroit, Mich., where he will attend a two- month Standard Accident In surance school. Windows Broken-Fourteen windows Tuesday and 13 Wednesday night were broken in a Jackson County Housing authority unit owned by Leon ard LeRoy West, box 369, Provolt district. Grants Pass, according to Medford police. The unit was located on Vic tory way between Priddy and Summit sts., police said. Runaway-A 16-year-old In dian girl from Montana was taken into custody and turned over to' Jackson County ju venile authorities Wednesday on a charge of being a run away, according to Medford police. She was picked up at the Robinson hotel, 104 East Main st., police said. Births CARR To Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd, 924 Kenyon aver., Med ford, Sept. 11, 1958, a girl, 6V2 pounds, in Rogue Valley hos pital. MARTIN To Mr. and Mrs. Robert, route 2, box 666X, Central Point, Sept. 12, 1958, a girl, 6 pounds, in Rogue Valley Hospital. DURHAM To Mr. and Mrs. Eldon, 134 Church st., Ashland, Sept. 12, 1958, a girl, 7 pounds, in Ashland General hospital. Flue Fire Firemen were summoned to a flue tfire at 9:15 a.m. today in the home of John F., Kennedy, 1309 Mt. Pitt ave. Portland Livestock Portland (UPI) Cattle for week 2600. Average to high choice 985 lb. steers 27; low to average choice under 1150 lb. 26.25-26.50: low to average choice fed heifers 25.75; good 24-25.50; utility cows 18-20; canner-cutter 15-1750: utility bulls 23-50-25.50; good - choice feeder steers 24-25.50. Calves for week 525. Choice veal ers 28-31: fer to 32; good 26-28; good-choice slaughter calves 25.50 28 Hogs for week 1850. U.S. 1 and 2 butchers 23-23.25: -mixed grade 22.50-22.75; sows M-20. Sheep for week 3900. Choice wooled and shorn spring slaughter lambs 20-20.25. except Washington range lambs off truck weights at 22.50 Tuesday: good slaughter lambs 18.50-19.50: ewes 3-7.50. Portland Produce. Portland Wholesale hay prices: New crop No. 2 green alfalfa, baled, f.o.b. Portland and Seattle. S26 ton with some top quality to S28. Wholesale prices, as reported by the USDA market news service: Wheat. No. 2 soft white. $66 ton; No. 2 white oats, 38-lb. West Coast delivery. S48.50-49.50 ton; No. 2 vallev white oats, 46.50-48; barley No. 2 West Coast delivery, $48.50; soybean meal, Eastern shipment. $83. ton f.o.b. Portland; standard millrun. prompt delivery, $44-45 ton f.o.b. Portland: No. 2 milo, S53.50 f.o.b. Coast; No. 2 corn. East ern shipment f.o.b. PorUand, $59- 59.50 ton. , GAME DANCE ROOM An especially good place to eat if dieting! Sundays 4 p.m. till 11 p.m. SATURDAY NIGHT EAMLAND COMING THIS MONTH OUR 30th ANNIVERSARY DANCE! Watch this ad Friday for Date All persons who attended Dreamland dance 15 years ago will be admitted as Amos Walker's personal guests. Everyone Welcome! 9 p.m. Till 1 a.m. Ram it if nl Grange Hall Saturday Nite Negro Youth Being Questioned In Slaying New York - (LTD - An 18- year-old Negro has been picked up in Farmville, Va., for questioning in the killing of Dr. Melvin Nimer and his wife, Lou Jean, the New York World-Telegram & Sun re ported today. The couple's 8-year-old son, Melvin Dean, is under psy chiatric examination after al legedly telling police that he killed his parents in their bed with a kitchen knife. Pre viously he had said a masked prowler choked him and killed his parents when they came to his aid. The newspaper said Mrs. Nimer had told police before OBITUARIES STEVEN G. WISELY Funeral services for Steven G. Wisely, 6-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. David Wisely, of 917 Grant st., who died Wednesday, will be held at Conger-Morris Funeral home Saturday at 11 a.m. The Rev. Orrin Martin of the Church of Christ will officiate. Com mittal will be in Siskiyou Memorial park. Steven was . born in Med ford March 15, 1958, and in addition to his parents is sur vived by a brother. Gerald Dean, and his grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Wisely, Medford, and Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Robertson, Little Val ley, Calif. CARROLL VINCENT CLARKE Carroll Vincent Clarke of Los Angeles, Calif., died in a local hospital Thursday. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Conger-Morris, funeral directors. WILLIAM HANSEN William Hansen, Little Butte Star route, Eagle Point, died ' early this morning at home. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Perl Funeral home. Minnie Bryant, Former Medford Resident, Dies Mrs. Minnie Bryant, 76, former Medford woman wide ly known for her religious, civic Tand fraternal activities in the valley, died Wednesday in Escondido, Calif., where she had been living in recent months with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Runtz. Funeral serv ices will be held at the Palm Mortuary in Escondido at 10 a.m. Monday, Sept. 15. Members of the Escondido Rebekah lodge will conduct the funeral ceremony, and Odd Fellow lodge members will serve as pall bearers. Mrs. Bryant lived in Med ford 49 years. Born in Brazil, Ind., April 6, 1882, she and her late husband came to Medford in 1908. She was an active member of First Bap tist church and of Golden Link Bible class of that church. She was a member of Medford Women's Christian Temperance union, served as local president, president of the Jackson-Josephine bi county unit and as state di rector of the Union soldiers' and sailors' program at the Camp White VA dbmiciliary. Past Noble Grand ; She was a past noble grand of Olive Rebekah lodge, a past president of. the Past Noble Grands' club and of the ladies auxiliary to Siskiyou canton, Patriarchs Militant. Mrs. Bryant was a charter member of Medford unit, American Legion auxiliary and for many years served as chairman of the auxiliary's annual poppy poster contest for school children. While her children attend ed Jackson school, M r s. Bryant , worked in the Jack son Parent-Teacher associa tion and was a past president. Mrs. Bryant is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Runtz, a son, Harry Bryant, 1312 Reddy ave., Medford, four grandchildren and four great grandchildren. 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 90e Per Person of New York Couple she died that she' and her hus band had risen in answer to young Dean's cries and had been stabbed by a full-grown man wearing a white hood Her story apparently sub stantiated the one first told to officers by the youngster. Transcript Printed The newspaper gave no in dication of what led police to the Virigina youth, whom it identified as William Fletcher Jr. It said he had been stay ing with his mother in a rented Manhattan room, miles from the Nimer's Staten Is land home, and had "disap peared about two days ago and returned to Virginia." ALTA LUCILLE DOAK Services for Alta Lucille Doak, infant daughter of Mr and Mrs. Iven Doak, of 608 North Riverside ave., who died Saturday, were held this afternoon a t Conger-Morris Funeral home. The Rev. D. E. Millard officiated. Com mittal was in IOOF cemetery. Survivors, besides the par ents, include a brother, Ron nie, a sister, Connie, and grandparents, Mrs. Lulu Jen hings, Rogue River; Mrs. Ira Flynn, Tye Valley; and Clar ence Doak, Grants Pass. . MRS. BONNIE JEAN AYERS Memorial services for Mrs Bonnie Jean Ayers, 28, who was fatally injured in an au tomobile accident near Ala- gondes, Mexico, Aug. 23, will be held at the Siskiyou Mau soleunv Monday, Sept. 15 at 10 a.m. Dr. D. Kirkland West of the First Presbyterian church will officiate. Mrs. Ayers was born in Gold Hill Feb. 2, 1930. For the past three years she has lived in Portland. Survivors include her moth er, Clara Dell LeVeille, of Medford; two brothers, Ross Biles -of Cowiche, Wash.; Rob ert Biles of Arlmgton, Calif.; one sister, Mrs. May Brecount of Rogue River;- one niece, Barbara Kay Biles, of Wash ington; and three nephews; Gene and Gerry Van' Dorn both of Rogue River and Roger Biles of Washington, Perl Funeral home is in charge of arrangements. Weather FORECASTS . Medford and vicinity: Variable cloudiness tonight and Saturday. Mild temperatures. Low tonight 55. High Saturday 78. Western Oregon: ParUy cloudy tonight and Saturday with showery periods Little temperature change. Low tonight 45-55. High 70-80 in interior, 65 on coast. Chance of a few .isolated . afternoon, thunder showers. " Northern California: Mostly fair witn some nign cloudiness xonignt and Saturday. A few scattered thunderstorms likely in Sierra Ne vadas afternoon and evening. Lit tle temperature cnange LOCAL DATA TEMPERATURE: Mean yester day 62; below normal 4. Record high this date 100 in 1948. Record low this date 34 in 1921. PRECIPITATION: 24 hours to midnight, none. Midnight to 10 a.m., trace. Total this month .22 in., .10 in. above normal. Total since Sept. 1, .22 in., .10 in. above normal. HUMIDITY: Lowest yesterday 39; highest this a.m. 84. High 4:00 24 City . Tester- a.m. nr. day Low Free. Brookings ... . 66 50 Grants Pass 73 52 '' Klamath Falls 68 43 MEDFORD 71 55 T. Portland 72 .... Seattle . 72 54 Spokane 79 ' 56 Yakima 80 50 Eureka 67 54 Red Bluff 77 64 Sacramento . 80 59 San Francisco 73 62 Los Angeles 84 61 Phoenix 84 61 .16 Denver ... 90 58 Chicago 62 51 Miami 88 74 New York 67 52 Washington, D. C. 69 53 FIVE-DAY FORECAST (Through Sept. 17): Western Oregon -Western Wash ington Recurring rain with total precipitation more than normal. Temperatures averaging near nor mal. Highs 65-74 in western Wash ington, and in low 70s in western Oregon. Lows in 40s or low 50s. Northern California A ..few showers at beginning of period but no precipitation otherwise. Tem pertures below normal early in pe riod but near normal otherwise. New York - (UPD - Rudolph Rocker, 96, writer and lectur er, died . Wednesday at his home here. New York - (UPD -The Chase Manhattan Bank has hiked the prime rate the rate charged on loans to highest rated customers from ZVz to 4 per cent. V The newspaper printed a transcript of Mrs. Nimer's questioning by a detective as she lay dying in the Public Health hospital after the stab bing early Sept. 2. Her hus band had died moments after reaching the hospital, ap parently without making any statement. Q. Can you tell anything she was asked. Mrs. Nimer mumbled: "A mask . . . & mask . . ." Q. Can you tel anything else? A. A hood ... a hood . . . Q. What kind? A. White. Same Size As Husband Q. Slits in the eyes? A. Yes. Covered full head. Q. How tall? A. Tall as my husband, same build. Q. Why did you get up? A. Heard boy scream. Q. Where did you see the man? Hallway? A. Yes. Q. What did you do? Put on the light? Mrs. Nimer was unable to answer. She lapsed into un conscousness and was taken to the operating room where she died, apparently without speaking again. Boy in Hospital Richmond County District Attorney John N. Braisted Jr., who Wednesday night an nounced that young Dean had told officers Saturday, and twice since, that he was the murderer, said Thursday that Mrs. Nimer had described her assailant as a man about her husband's size. Braisted said he considered it possible that she had seen her husband go ing down the stairs and mis taken him for an intruder. Braisted and top police of ficials revealed late Thursday, a few hours after Dean had been sent to Bellevue hospi tal for mental examinations as a material witness that they were exploring out-of-town a new lead which did not in volve the boy. Medford Police Receive Reports Of Nine Thefts Nine thefts were reported to Medford police Wednesday, of which at least five occurred that same day. ' - ' - Garv Eueene Kirsch, route 4, box 358B, reported the theft of a Fiesta hubcap, val ued at $8, from his car while it was parked on Highway 99 across from the Big Y. Jack Eugene Miller, Camp White, told police a Kodak box camera valued at $19 was taken from his vehicle in a parking lot on East 13th st. between Front st. and Central ave. Suitcase Taken Donnell' Edwin Koenig, route 1, box 233, Talent, said his suitcase containing $35 in clothing was stolen from the loading dock of Bertolino pro duce, at the northeast corner of Second and Fir sts. Elmer Floyd Mogel, 401 North Berkeley way, reported the theft of three Fiesta hub caps, valued at $24, from his car while it was parked by the Apostolic Faith church, Third st. and Central ave. Ten squash were reported taken from the garden of Rob ert Lyle Balch, 2 East Clark st. A theft occurring between Monday and Wednesday was reported by Richard Wendle Ackerman, 330 North Holly st., who said a barrel-shaped can containing $50 in quarters was missing from his apart ment. . Dorothy . Margaret Dorff, 108 Elm st., told police a Navy flying jacket valued' at $25 was taken from the office of the Pinnacle Packing com pany, Front and 11th sts., last WAIT FOR THE BIG ONE WITH HIS BRAZOS VALLEY tSti Monday, Sept. 15 DANCING 9 pm til l pm mam Over-lhe-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 .... 39Ti 42 Calif.-Pacific Utilities.. 30 'i 32", Cascades Plywood 262 ' 28 Cons. Freightways 17 18' Copco 33' i 35 '-4 First National Bank 484 51'i NW Natural Gas 16 - 11', Pacific Pot. & Lt So's 38 Permanente Cement 23 3t 24 ' PorUand Gen. Elec. 25 'a 27 U U. S. National Bank .... 69 74 United Utilities 264 28'i West Coast Tel. 21 '2 223.4 Weyerhaeuser 41 i 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 12.67 13.89 Chem Fund 18.30 19.79 Eaton Howard Stk '21.39 22.87 Fidelity . 14.23 15.38 Gas Ind 13.47 14.72 Group Sec Avia 10.06 11.02 Group Sec Com S'.k .. 12.03 1371. Group Sec Elec 7.59 8.32 GroupSec Petr 11.14 12.20 Group Sec Steel 8.80 9.64 Group Sec Tobac 6.53 7.16 Keystone B-3 15.71 17.15 Keystone B-4 .. 9.35 10.21 Keystone K-l " 836 9.34 Keystone K-2 11.75 12.83 Keystone S-l 16.20 17.68 Keystone S-2 11.17 12.19 Keystone S-3 12.48 13.62 Mass Inv. Tr 11.95 12.92 TV-Elec 12.16 13.25 Value Line Inc 5.18 5.66 Wellington 13.05 14.23 FORMER MAYOR DIES Montreal - (UPD - Camillien Houde, 69, former Montreal mayor and one of Canada's most controversial public figures, died Thursday. Portland Hay, Grain Portland (UPI) Eggs-To re tailers: Grade AA large, 60-62c doz., A large, 5o-oac doz.; AA me dium, 46-48c; A medium, 45-47c; AA smalls, 30-32c doz.; carton l-3c additional. . Butter To retailers: A A and Grade A prints, 67-68c lb.: carton lc lo. nigner; a prints, bo-bbc. Cheese (medium cured) To re. tailers: A grade Cheddar, single daisies, 39-51c; processed American cheese, 5-ib. loal, 4U-4JC. Farm Market Extra fancy red Delicious apples of 88 to 1UO sizes were quoted Dy retailers today at 6.25-6.50 a box: hydro-cooled corn sold within a 1.85-2 range for 5 dozen ears. Poultry. Rabbits . Live chickens Quoted to grow ers at Portland, Salem and south to Eugene, f.o.b. ranch. No. 1 Quality fryers, 2?4-4 lbs., 17c lb.: light hens. 10c: heavy hens. 5 lbs. up, 13c lb..; old roosters, 7-Bc lb. Dressed chicken No. 1 grade dressed, to retailers: fryers, whole drawn. 34-38c lb.; cut up, 39-43C hens, light types, cut up, 34-36c; heavy type, whole drawn, 39-41c lb. Dressed turkeys A grade young hens, buyers offering 30c lb. to pro ducers on eviscerated basis; A grade young toms, 2oc lb. eviscer ated: young hens to retailers, most ly 41-43c lb. on an oven-ready basis: A grade toms, 34-37C Rabbits (average to growers, f.o.b. killing plants) Live white. 34 4'i lbs., f.o.b. Portland. 21-23c; col ored pelts, 5c under. Fresh killed fryers to retailers, 57-60c lb.; cut up, 61-64C. Saturday. Josephine Louise M a 1 o t, 3009 Table Rock rd., told po lice a blanket, tire and wheel worth $50 had been stolen from a vehicle parked on South Central ave. between 12th and 13th. sts. Police received through the mail a report from Catherine L. Sand, Seattle, that on Aug. 29 clothing, jewelry and other personal belongings had been stolen from a vehicle parked in front of the Tabu, 305 South Riverside ave. Funeral Flowers and Hospital Bouquets GROCETERIA FLOWER SHOP Ph. SP 2-81 79 Charge Accounts Welcome Free Delivery David t Evelyn Chase, Owners ANDY'S BEST BOY! Ladies' Watch ' Reg. $49.50 17-Jewel Yellow Gold now c S&H Green Stamps ANDY'S Your Friendly Credit Jeweler 15 North Central $ Q88 i " Stocks Lose Ground To High Money Rate New York - (UPD - Stocks today fought a lesing struggle against the odds of higher money rates and the week end holiday. Late in the day irregularity replaced early strength. Coppers, some of the steels, chemicals and special issues held gains ranging to more than two points. Food packing issues' were active, particularly Libby, McNeil & Libby which set a new high. . Several rails developed activity, including Pennsyl vania, Southern Pacific, and New York Central, all firmer. Office equipments enjoyed another good day with , gains at the outside running to nearly three points. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (CPU Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 519.43, off ; 1.00; 20 railroads 132.34. off 0.15; 15 utilities 80.36. up 0.49; and 65 stocks 177.72, off 0.05. 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