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.
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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
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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.
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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)
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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
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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
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LEADING prospect to suc
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ported to be Joe Cronin
(above), Boston Red Sox
general manager.
Sweet basil grows to about
two feet in height and needs
little care.
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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.
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