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Local and Patient - Mrs. William E. Prentiss, 926 Grant t., is con valescing at Rogue Valley sospital following emergency lurgery last week. Recognized H. M. von 5tein, Medford, has been se lected for membership in the National Writers club, Denver, Colo., an organization of free lance writers for his work in creative writing.' Bazaar Providence Guild of Sacred Heart hospital will hold their annual bazaar Tuesday, Dec. 9, on the first floor of the hospital. The event will start at 9 a.m. and will include handmade Christ mas gifts and baked foods. . To Attend Conference Gerald RI. Gastineau, district manager in Medford for The Equitable Life Assurance So ciety, plans to attend a five day conference in Monterey, Calif., starring today. The con ference will be on methods of gent recruiting in life insur ance. Tire, Wheel Taken - Leon ard Halfhill, 3178 South Paci fic highway, reported to sher iffs officers Friday afternoon that a tire and wheel were taken from the trunk of his car parked at his residence. He told sheriffs deputies he had just returned home after being gone for two days and noticed the theft. NOW! NOW! mlANZA"BlYTH? ANDY'S BEST BUY! DIAMOND SOLITAIRE Full cut, brilliant stone in 11K gold mounting. S&H Green Stamps ANDY'S Your Friendly Credit Jeweler IS NORTH CENTRAL MLLW if?! JOHNDEREK - V ELAINE STEWART OPENING TIMBER ROOM CAFE Main at Riverside Steak Sandwich . . $2.00 Fried Chicken .-.....$1.25 Hamburger 25 Lunches Free Coffee Saturday and Sunday HOUSE of North of Gold Hill AT On Display One of the West's Finest Collections of Gold Dust and Nuggets Winter Hours 9 to 5 Closed on Mondays Under Founder's Management Since 1930 Personal Patient - Mrs. Nellie More house, 1063 Court st., Med ford, is convalescing at Sa cred Heart hospital following surgery. Patient - E. W. Segessen man, Shady Cove, is a medi cal patient at Sacred Heart hospital, the hospital reported Saturday. ' " Brushes Thomas Newton Yancev. Grants Pass. reDorted to Medford police the theft Thursday night of several paint brushes from the site of construction work at Medford High school. - Foundation to Meet - The Siskiyou Pioneer Sites Foun dation will hold its December board meeting at 8 p.m Thursday, Dec. 11, in the Jackson county courthouse auditorium. All interested persons are invited to attend Rescue Dog Medford fire men reported they rescued a small dog from a well Satur day' morning located on the Fern W. Crippen property Using a rope and piece of wire they fished the dog out of the 25-foot well, firemen said. Cited - Robert Francis Hig gins, 30, of 1012 Murray st., suffered a bleeding nose and was cited by Medford police for an illegal left turn Friday as the result of a collision be tween his vehicle and one driven by Warren Harland Conrad, 53, of 1118 Spring st., on McAndrews rd. near the Southern Pacific railroad tracks. Shot - The third case of dog shooting in the past month in one east side neighborhood was reported to Medford po lice last week. Harry C. Chip man, 1808 Roxy Ann pi., said his dog had been shot in the leg Wednesday with a BB or pellet gun. The previous cases, one of them fatal, occurred Nov. 7. To Hold Rummage The Li censed Practical Nurses' asso ciation is having its Christ mas rummage sale on Thurs day, Dec. 11, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Fehl building at 108 North Ivy st., according to Vida Morse, secretary. Per sons having items to contri bute may contact Hazel Mund lin, SPring 3-3284, 826 Taylor st., Medford or Ellen Hanson, SPring 2-5551, 863 Marshall ave., Medford, she said. Falls Off Train-James Wil liam McDermott, Oakland, Calif., fell off a Southern Pa cific train south of Ashland about 1 a.m. Saturday, Jack son county sheriffs officers said. He was found in a ditch just south of the overpass on Highway 66, deputies said. The transient suffered a bloody nose and black eye from the fall. He told deputies he had been drinking wine and was riding the train en route to Sacramento, Calif, Deputies said they sent him on his way. SHORT PAUSE Dorset, Vt. -(DPD Benjamin Oliver Parker won five new automobiles to be delivered at two-year intervals over the next 10 years. But it will be a while before the 11-year-old seventh grade student can drive off in any of his prizes. MYSTERY Open Throughout The Year Med Treasure by (k 9 Copper Coins and Tokens Taken West by Migrators Pennies never had much oijt vogue in the Old West, most of whose people couldn't be bothered with coins that weren't gold or" silver. Nonetheless Easterners and Southerners passing through to California must have brought a fair amount of the big coppers with them, along with a percentage of the merchants' tokens that also saw use as currency. At any rate, that is how a friend of mine accounts for his having come across an accumulation of the big pen nies he bought recently in northern New Mexico. There were about 100 of them. The owner said they had been saved by a storekeeper who had to accept them but who refused to give them out in change and didn't think them worth banking. What clinched the story in my friend's eyes was a brass token, put out by a New Or leans clothing dealer of the 1830s. When he saw that, he FOREIGN STAMPS AID KNOWLEDGE OF HISTORY A friend of mine who is not a stamp collector has in sisted that his children take it up and with special emphasis on foreign stamps. "It's for the very practical reason," he told me, "that that way they'll learn a lot more about other countries, and some day the knowledge will come in handy." He felt strongly on the sub ject because of the convic tion that knowledge he had gained as a youthful philate list, had given him the edge in an Argentine business deal that had paid off handsomely. My friend took out his bill fold and removed a cello phane envelope containing the Corrientes stamp he carried as a good luck piece. The item issued in 1856, is not strictly Argentine. At the time, Cor rientes. now a province along the Brazilian - Paraguayan border, was an independent PONTIL MARK ON GLASS IS A punty or pontil is an iron rod glassmakers used for manipulating hot glass, and a punty or pontil mark is a small roughness in the glass where the object was broken off from the rod. Generally when one finds such a mark on a piece of well-worn design, it may be interpreted as a sign of age. It means that the piece was probably produced before glass - making techniques got out of the relatively crude state in which they were up to the 1850s or a little later. I was reminded of this when a friend discovered that one piece in a set of glass ware she had inherited was far older that the others and much more valuable. -The design of the set was what is known as bellflower. The expanse of . the glass is ribbed by many narrowly sep arated, parallel lines . across which weaves a vine with an occasional flower rising from it. Glass of this type may be found in various colors or in clear glass. This one had a silvery coloration and the var ious pieces gave off a good ring. ' All except one a covered WELCOME NEWS ' he will not hang f or : 35-yearold murder is given Guido Grassi, 78, by Father Di Lia ih. Washington State Prison at Walla Walla. Originally found insane, Grassi recently was found to have recovered and death sentence was jn prospect until governor commuted it to life imprisonment He now hopes .to obtain pardon. Before or After , Church . '. . breakfast' at me Hotel Medford r: n fining rtoom CHILDREN ALWAYS WELCOME no longer hesitated to pay the $50 asked for the batch of pennies. In the center of the face of the coin was an American eagle with outspread wings, The legend was "N. C. Folger, 17 Old Levee, Cor. Custom House St., New Orleans." On the reverse was a sales mes- sage advertising "Clothing store Youth, Boys and Children's clothing, caps, blankets and plantation goods." The token is not so rare as one which Nathan C. Folger put out in 1837 when he had his establishment at a dif ferent New Orleans address, but it was rare enough, as my friend well knew through having acquired another of a somewhat later date when Folger had merged with an other man to form the firm of Folger & Blake. Despite its somewhat worn condition, he had no difficulty in getting $75 for it. state, as Buenos Aires was and which two years later be gan to issue stamps of its own'. The stamp is a blue one with considerable reserrv blance to some of the early French issues. Its design con sists of a female head, in pro file, left. Above it is the name CORRIENTES, below are the words UN REAL, M.C., mean ing one real in Corrientes money. Its value today is only $15 or $20 in contrast to that of several of the early Argen tine Republic issues some of which are valued at $1,000 or more. "But that isn't important, my friend pointed out. "What matters is that my knowledge of Argentine history gave me a valuable contact and an edge on my competitors. And I sure wouldn't have had ' it except for the hobby of stamp collecting as a youngster." SIGN OF ITS AGE compote on a high standard It not only gave a dull sound when tapped but its sheen when viewed carefully was somewhat different from that of the others. That difference became fully apparent when the own er discovered that the com pote had a pontil mark where as none .of the other pieces had. Usually it is disappointing to discover that a set is in complete because of a "ring er." But not so in this case. The set itself was compara tively new, probably made in the 1880s or a little earlier The compote, however, though of a poorer grade of glass was much more valuable than any single piece in the set. The quality of glass and the crudeness of its make, as shown by the pontil mark, indicated that the piece was among the earliest made in that design and probably among the earliest pieces of pressed glass produced in the country, maybe as early as 1840. As to its value, It would probably bring from $75 to $90. (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) v (i Obiiuaries MARGARET LYDIA BOUNDS Funeral services for Mrs. Margaret Lydia Bounds, 521 West Second st., Medford, who died Friday will be held in the First Christian church at Myrtle Creek, Monday, at 1 p.m. The Rev. Lawrence Baird of Gresham will offici ate. Interment will be in the IOOF cemetery of Myrtle Creek. Conger-Morris, funeral directors are in charge of ar rangements. Mrs. Bounds was born in Calistoga, Calif. Survivors include four daughters, Mrs. Gladys Rice, and Mrs. Margaret McMannis, both of Medford, Mrs. Lelia Childers, Myrtle Creek, and Mrs. Ruth Relvis, Folsom, Calif.; two sons, Jess Bounds, Medford, and Edmund Bounds of Myrtle Creek; one brother, George Peters, A 1 s e a, 10 grand children, who include Mrs. Katherine Alsing, of Ashland, and Mrs. Tresa Mat lack, of Medford, and 15 great grand children. Her husband, V e r n i 1 e Bounds, preceded her in death in February, 1942, and one daughter, Mrs. Josephine Marsh, preceded her in death in August, 1956. AMELIA L. HOLMES Ashland Funeral services for Mrs. Amelia L. Holmes, 61, of 1300 Butler Creek rd., Ashland, who died Friday in Ashland General hospital, will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Litwiller's Mt. View chapel. The Seventh Day Adventist church will be in charge of services. Interment will be in Mt. View cemetery. Mrs. Holmes was born March 1, 1897, in Oakland, Calif., and was married to Howard Holmes on July 26, 1920, in San A'Drays, Calif. A resident of Ashland for 22 years, she was a registered nurse and an anesthetist at Ashland General hospital. She was a member of the Seventh Day Adventist church, Ash land. Survivors include her hus band, Howard; two brothers, George Lassen, St. Helena, Calif., and Henry Lassen, Vina, Calif.; a sister, Mrs. John Cox, Yuba City, Calif. AERIAL ASSAULT Hartford, Conn.-(DPB-Sixty-five state and local civil de fense officials were holding a conference on survival in an atomic attack when the meeting suddenly broke up. The officials were attacked by a swarm of mosquitoes. GOOD LOCATION Yuba City, Calif.-rtJPB-In a building directly across the street occupied until recently by both the Democratic and Republican county central committees, repairman 1 How ard Lolmaugh recently dis covered a dusty old whisky still. you SEEBURG Now you can hear the true realism of stereo . the last word in music magic We have just installed the sensational new SEEBURG TWO-CHANNEL STEREO MUSIC SYSTEM. Plan Now with 'your friends for an evening of ENJOYMENT in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of the Hotel Holland's Wood en Shoe Dining Room and Lounge. The finest Cuisine from Our Grill and the NEW CHARCOAL BROILER. LUNCHES - 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. DINNERS - 5 p.m. until Midnight. News About Servicemen ABROAD DESTROYER Charles R. Perdue, gunner's mate seaman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert T. Perdue of Medford, is serving abroad the destroyer, USS Ed son. He recently completed a seven week course in damage con trol procedures at Newport, R. I. RECEIVES TROPHY Pvt. Gordon K. Mekvold, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alf B. Mekvold, route 2, box 803, Central Point, received a rifle-marksmanship trophy for scoring 226 of a possible 250 points in recent rifle matches at Ft. Ord. Calif. He is a 1954 graduate of Crater High school, Central Point, and at tended Oregon Technical In stitute in Klamath Falls be fore going into the service. INDUCTED Two Jackson county men were inducted by the local se lective service board recently. They are David Richard Bliss, Prospect, and Donald Eugene Clay, Medford. REASSIGNED Army Specialist Third Class Donald H. Martin, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. James H. Mar tin, route 1, Rogue River, is scheduled to leave Germany for the United States in mid December for reassignment at Ft. Riley, Kans. A 1955 grad uate of Rogue River High school, he entered the Army in March, 1956. FAULTY ALIBI New Britain, Conn. - (nPD When police asked William Stubbs, 23, what he was do ing up in a tree, he explained he was looking for apples. It was a cherry tree. Dual Installation of Officers Crater Lake. Chapter No. 32 Royal Arch Masons and Table Rock Council No. 1 5 Royal and Select Masters Porluck Dinner at 6:30 p.m. Open Installation at 8:00 p.m. All Masons Their Families and Friends Cordially Invited to Attend Medford Masonic Temple Tuesday Evening, December 9, 195S are invited to ...THE SENSATIONAL TWO-CHANNEL SYSTEM . Ai I LEADING prospect to suc ceed Will Harridge as Amer ican League president is re ported to be Joe Cronin (above), Boston Red Sox general manager. Sweet basil grows to about two feet in height and needs little care. STARTS TODAY GARY COOPER la TrrM THIS CB!.Se0c,ei JULIE LONDON LEE J. COBS hear MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Sunday, December 7. 1931 11 JAWBREAKER Donelson, Tenn. - (UPD-Mrs. Jim Hagowood threw her jaw out of place while yawning. A doctor set it but on the way home from his office sighed, yawned and threw her jaw out of place again. rAMmv r i'" HOTEL MEDFORD SU fJgtS THEATRE INFORMATION SERVICE CALL SPring 3-7323 FOR FULL INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR THEATRES STARTS TODAY CONTINUOUS FROM 1:00 ?M. sS Bf TO OT Yjk (HHuHUTi If 'Makes 'And God Created in.; woman Like a Nursery Tale Sfwfot i BR1GITTE BARDOT Stephen Boyd Altda ValH THE NIGHT HEAVEN FELL MM tr MO 1 UVT BncM kf R06ER torn mm mt xn nr CO-FEATURE " ' ffi KlCHAKP LtiAn aa.a ab mt .. aAaii WAITER MATTHAU -ARTHUR CTC0NNQ1 HELD OVER - BUT HURRY! LAST 3 DAYS CONTINUOUS TODAY FROM 1:00 P.M. stf $t cary GRANT M sophia L0REN Uftf N l&f y4 l,,'7 MORE FUN Pi tiri )l V Thn CWrrl MARTHA HYER HARRY GUARDINO SOME CHANGES MADE Fort Greely, Alaska-D Specialist 2c Carmen Gon zales of Porterville, Calif., was transferred to this arctic outpost from the Chemical Corps Tropic Test Activity in the Panama Canal Zone. CHARCOAL STEAKS An especially good place to eat if dieting! 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