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Local and Ltwd Note Medford police were told Thursday that Don na Rae Whitman, 2772 How ard ave, had discovered a lewd note on the front seat of her automobile while it was parked at that address. Permits Two Medford building permits werei ssued to Tom Whittle Thursday to erect $10,000 residences, one at 608 Carrington and the other at 34 Jeanette ave. A permit was issued Friday to Dub Parker for a $13,000 residence at 341 Havana ave. mm NOW! NOW! JEPPKEV HUNTCft AUfSICA'S fed .Ai 'MOST DEUGHlFUlYACMlor WEATHH B AT, ...and for the finest accommodations it's the Desert SfeHasifas del lllonfe HOTELS Choice of hotel rooms, cottage rooms, studio cottages with fireplace or kitchen apartments. WONOERFUt FOOD IN THE HfltTOP ROOM THREE SWIMMING POOLS (On for CtriMran) Far fitarahira, complato information and rata no your Travel Ag.nt or writ Si Slecum, managvr, DESERT SK1IS and Cositas del Monte HOTELS, PALM SPRINGS. CALIFORNIA 5 A S IV UnTCI IICnCnDn 530 p.m. till 12:00 Weekdays I1UIXL IilCUrUllU Sundays 2 p.m. till 10 p.m. Before or After Church ... This Sunday BREAKFAST Enjoy at the Hotel Medford Dining Room CHILDREN ALWAYS WELCOME Attention Eagles! FAMILY NIGHT December 19 TURKEYS - HAMS - BACON Ray CoHett, Chairman 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 Rifle Virgil Paul Kenney, 107 Jeanette st., told Medford police recently of the theft of a Winchester Model 94 30-30 rifle from his residence. Patient Stephen Hanna five-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William F. Hanna, route 3, box 194Br Medford, is con valescing at Rogue Valley hos pital following a tonsillecto my. . Theft-George Clinton Barr, 330 North Fir st, told Med ford police of the theft Thurs day of a blinker signal arm and a steering wheel knob from his vehicle while it was in the parking lot of Rogue Valley Country Club. Granddaughter Mr. and Mrs. G. Conrad Holzgang, Eu gene, are parents of a girl Carol Joy, bora Dec. 10. She weighed 7 pounds, 5 ounces Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. George Holzgang, 626 Park ave., Medford. This is the first child for the couple Dissolves Name Harold J Wehren has dissolved the as sumed business name, "Cor net Sign and Display Service,1 according to records on file in the Jackson county clerk's office Friday. The name has been assumed by Walter Sur- ber and L. N. Ellsworth, Port land. " " ' V TWO ACRE RECREATION AREA CANDLE ROOM CHARCOAL STEAKS An especially good place to eat if dieting! tQJh MYSTERY Open Throughout The Year Permits Three Medford building permits were issued Thursday to Brooks Construc tion company to erect a $20, 000 storage building at 840 North Riverside ave., and to erect residences valued at $12,000 each at 608 and 612 Benson st. Wound Reported Jackson county sheriffs deputies Fri day were investigating the re port of a gunshot wound to James Lewis Capello, 21, of box 1021 Butte Falls. A Shady Cove physician told deputies he treated Capello for a wound just above the right ankle which' apparently was accidentally self-inflicted. Obituaries ROBERT A. PUETT Funeral services for Rob ert A. Puett, 82, of 637 J st. who died Friday, will be held in the Conger - Morris Funeral home Monday at 11 a.m. The Rev. Robert G Cull, West Main Assembly of God church, will officiate. Committal will be in Pasco, Wash. Mr. Puett was born in Le- nora, N. C, Jan. 16, 1876. He owned and operated a bak ery in Bend from 1905 until 1912; and spent the following 16 years there on a ranch. He remained in the Bend area until about a month ago when he moved to Medford to make his home with his son, Rob ert. Surviving are five children, Clyde Puett, San Francisco; Joseph Puett, Salmon River, Idaho; Mrs. Alva Hatfield, Junction City, Ore.; Mrs. Wil liam Weaver, Pasco; Robert Puett, Medford; eight grand children, five great grand children; and a brother, Frank Puett, Lenora, N. C. HYOSABURO YOKOTA Funedal services for Hyosa buro Yokota, 80, of 22 Al mond st., will be held in the Conger-Morris funeral home Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. Clyn ton G. Crisman of the Med ford Friends church will of ficiate. Mr. Yokota had made his home in Medford for the past 41 years. Surviving is his wife, Kimi Yokota. JOHN W. ROBISON Funeral services for John W. Robison, 82, of 161 De- Hague ave., who died Thurs day, will be held at Conger- Morris Funeral home Tues day at 1 p.m. Captain Wil liam Ricken, of the Salvation Army, will officiate. Com mittal will be in the Central Point cemetary. Mr. Robison was born April 13, 1876, in Porter, county, Indiana. He came to Medford about five months ago to live with his daughter, Mrs. Mar tha Hammerscnmidt, on De Hague ave. Survivors include his wife, Anna M. Robison; two daugh ters, Mrs. Hammerschmidt, Mrs. Elsie Maxwell, Ridge crest, Calif.; four sons, Bill Robison and Charles Robison, Olympia, V ash.; Warren Rob ison, Springfield, Ore., and Gay lord Robison, .Eugene, Ore.; 15 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren. MARCUS G. LEGG ; Funeral services for Marcus G. Legg, 79, of 5098 Table Rock rd., who died Thursday, will be held at Conger-Morris Funeral home Monday at 9 a.m. The Rev. James W. Neely of the First Baptist church will officiate. Commit tal will be in Memory Gar dens Memorial park. Mr. Legg was born in Pen dleton, Tex., Feb. 24, 1879. He was a veteran of both the Spanish-American war and World war I. He was married leb. 24, 1907, in Texas, to Lena Pruett, who survives. He had lived in Medford for 16 years, coming from Texas. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias, in Med ford, and of the American Legion at Central Point. Survivors, in addition to the widow, include five chil dren, J. R. Legg, Mesa, Ariz.; Pat Legg, Holbrook, Ariz Jack Legg, Las Vegas, Nev.; Sam Legg, Brooklyn, N.Y.; and David Leeg. Medford. i and 10 grandchildren. Graveside services will be conducted by the Knights of Pythias, and military rites by Myers Holland post of the American Legion, Central Point. Honorary pallbearers will include C. S. Miller and John McQuade. Active pallbear ers, from the Knights of Pyth ias lodge, will include Ed Bostwick, Orrie Myers, Lew Conger, John Dodge, Harold Frye and J. B. Yarbrough. CORN REMOVER Gtvi Mjtorrt riif hem paim mix fewrjr imww ksrd twu, toft bwf tk om, celieuMt, papilloma, dvfc mrn&t. H tonloim 4 strong acid Mutter. Whwt sfl Ifcori kaw foM try mi on. Try w turns taiiof, which roiiovw pom, torwtou, swUmg Hrtt of lcowJ application. Both ramodtot told ea mony bock gvaronlM). Exclusively at WESTERN THRIFT luried Treasure by Counterfeit Confederate Weapons Flood Market Though the Confederate States of America went out of existence nearly a century ago, the number of their weap ons continues to increase steadily thanks to the de mands of the arms collectors and the willingness of certain people to satisfy them. The job of making a phony Confederate weapon that de fies detection is easy enough. All one needs is a gun that was made before 1865, a cold chisel and the skill to use it. Since the Confederacy bought any kind of a weapon it could lay its hands on, even a flint lock would do. I was reminded of this re cently when I saw a .44 cali ber, percussion six - shooter with C.S.A. stamped on the seven-inch, half octagonal bar rel. There were no other marks on the piece except the words "Columbia, Texas" on the brass back strap and the serial number 228 on the frame. , , The owner had paid $275 for it in the belief that it was one of the guns made by Dance Brothers Si - Park, a 'FARLEY ISSUE' STAMPS APPEASED COLLECTORS The "Farley issues" are a series of 20 stamps that were issued in 1935 to quiet the in dignant protests of some stamp collectors who charged that the first Roosevelt Ad ministration was favoring oth ers. The central point of the ob jections was that the favored collectors were getting sheets of new stamps signed by Post master General James A. Far ley or even by the president himself. These sheets, further more, were just as they came off the press, ungummed and unperforated. To show its fairness, then, the Administration ordered the so-called Farley issues to be sold in sheets that were also ungummed and unperfor ated "to meet the require ments of collectors and others who may be interested." Among those "others who may be interested" were some choleric individuals who felt the Administration was out to ruin the country. One such person suspected some skull duggery in ' the offer and bought the stamps, a sheet of CANVASES BY EARL AMONG VALUABLE PAINTINGS Any painting signed by After a stay of ten years Ralph Earl, sometimes spelled he returned to the United Earle, would be valuable, and states and continued painting four of his paintings that - u- j . have been lost are probably untl1 &hor before his death the most valuable ever paint- as a result of alcoholism. ' ed in America. The amount of work that he The reason is that they are turned out is prodigious, and paintings he made from his a large amount of it is un sketches of the Battles of discovered. A substantial por Lexington and Concord. He tion of it consists of historical was on the spot at the time, scenes and there are also some When the fighting was over landscapes, he hastened back to Hartford, He was not the only mem Conn.,, painted the pictures ber of his family to paint, and had engravings made however, and it is well to re from them any one of which member that though the three today is probably worth other Earles did not do such more than its weight In gold, valuable work, any paintings He was only 25 then, but of theirs would also be well already he was famous worth having, throughout New England as The other three are: his a portraitist. Justly so, for his son, Ralph E. W. Earle who ability was so great that soon was good enough to paint at after the Revolutionary War, least two of our Presidents; when he went to England to his brother, James Earle, also study, the British greeted him with open arms. Within three "years after his arrival King George III sat for him and later he was made a member of the Royal Acade- my. Births MISENER - To Mr. and Mrs. Edwin, 510 Wilson rd., Central Point, Dec. 12, 1958, girl, S3A lbs., at Rogue Valley hospital. . WEATHERLEY - To Mr. and Mrs. Maurice, 410V Ken wood ave., Medford, Dec. 12, 1958, girl, Vz lbs., at Rogue Valley hospitaL TIMBER ROOM CAFE Banquets 4 firm of Texas gunmakers. It may have been, but the rifling in the barrel looked so good to me that I couldn't help thinking it might have been made only two or three years ago by any one of sev eral gunsmiths in the country who have turned out masterly reproductions of old weapons, some of them being so good they were probably better than the originals. It is possible, of course, that the barrel was an original. A gun will last indefinitely if given proper care. But since other, weapons I have seen that were attributed to the Columbia, Texas, firm did not have the C.S.A. stamped on the barrel, the piece was sus pect so far as I was concerned. Quite possibly the seller had taken an old gun and put on both the initials of the Con federacy and the words "Col umbia, Texas," too. If so, he may actually have prevented himself from get ting a much larger sum for the piece. The gun may have been made by one of several 19th Century arms makers who are still not known. each, in the hope that he might, uncover whatever trick there was to it. It cost him a total of $160.30 and he found out exactly noth ing. His attention was divert ed elsewhere by another act of FDR's, and he put the sheets in a drawer and forgot about them. Which was mighty lucky for his son, if not for him. Be cause, after the old gentleman died a couple of years ago and the son discovered the stamps in the drawer, their value had risen as indicated by cata logue prices, to $1656. The son was delighted at the discovery, of course, but he still had something to com plain about. "They would have been worth so much more," he add ed, "if the old boy had only swallowed his pride and had Farley sign the sheets." How much more they would have been worth, I don't know. It will probably be some time yet before any of the sheets that were signed by FDR or any of his cabinet officers comes on the market. a portraitist, and his nephew, Augustus Earle, who acquired a substantial reputation as a painter of marine and his- torical scenes, (Released by McCIure Newspaper Syndicate) Telephone subscribers in Turkey have almost tripled in the last six years. Almost 87 per cent of Turkey's tele phones are automatic. A piston-operated fire en gine, used about 350 B.C., is described in writings by Hero of Alexandria. A one-eyed person actually has less visual fatigue than a normal person with two eyes, according to the Better Vision Institute. Private Parties STEAKS, CHICKEN and HAM DINNERS Main and Riverside hi nnleinii i i i ifci , . I SMILING HAPPILY, Harry Bridges, longshore boss and bride, Noriko Sawada, 35, leave office of Justice of Peace William Beemer in Reno after ceremony. At left is Attor ney Sam Francovich who helped them obtain court order permitting marriage despite Nevada law banning mar riages of Caucasians and persons of Asiatic descent Morgan Grants West Coast Tel Half Its Request Salem - (LTD - Public Utility Commissioner Howard Mor gan yesterday granted West Coast Telephone company about half of the increase of $834,660 requested for its Beaverton, Coos Bay and La Grande districts. At the same time he strong ly urged the company to se cure the services of a "thor oughly competent and ex perienced" firm of manage ment and personnel consult ants to develop improved ex ecutive, employment and cus tomer relations. The new rates will be ef fective with the billing cycle on and after Dec. 13 and will produce additional gross tele phone revenues of $440,083 and additional net income af ter taxes of $193,284. Net rate of return for the company under the new rates will be 6.15" per cent. Morgan described this as being in the "lower ranges of the zone of reasonableness." Morgan said that complaints were received at PUC hear ings held at North Bend, Mil waukee and La Grande as well as Salem, that West Coast's public relations were "not what they could be. News About Servicemen ABOARD DESTROYER Dale C. Matthews, seaman with the United States Navy, is serving aboard the destroy er, USS Wilkinson. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Matthews, 914 Ross lane, Med ford. His wife also makes her home at the Ross lane address. Matthews, who completed his indoctrination training in April at the U.S Naval Train ing Center, San Diego, is cur rently on a five months cruise to the Orient. INDUCTED Three Medford men were inducted into the Armed Ser vices by the ' local selective service board revently. They are Ronald Jene Martin, Rob ert Donald Sefarly, and Rob ert RusseH Erickson. Eagle Point Firemen's CHARITY DANCE Saturday, Dec. 20 9:00 P.M. OASIS BALLROOM 75c PER PERSON Prizes Prizes Music Elk Creek Ramblers SANDWICHES COFFEE COLD DRINKS Proceeds for Merry Christmas to Needy Families Man Found Dead, Hanging by Neck George William Wichten- dahl, 34, of 3277 Cottonwood dr., Medford, was found dead hanging by the neck from a tree Saturday afternoon near the site of the Old Military bridge in the Table Rock area, Jackson county sheriff's offi cers reported Saturday. The Jackson county cor oner's office said death may have been caused by the hang ing. A belt had been secured around the man's neck .and to the limb of the tree which was blown over. State police were called from the Table Rock store at 3:12 p.m. Satur day and both state police and sheriff's deputies investigatT ed. Wichtendahl's body had not been hanging from the tree too long a deputy said. Wichtendahl was Identified by a relative who was called after officers found a list of phone numbers in the dead man's pocket. He is a mill worker for Kogap lumber company, south of Medford, a sheriff's deputy said. ' A post-mortem investigation will probably be held Monday, he added. Motorists in the U. S. pay $4 billion a year for state li censes, gasoline taxes, 'special city and county levies, all in addition to bridge, ferry, and toll road fees. COMING! Big DANCE & SHOW featuring SAT., DEC. 20 Jacksonville Community Hall Plus Rogue Valley Boys Admission $1.25 Per Person iW' ----- MAIL TRIBUNE. Medford. Oregon, Capt. W. Ricken Chaplain of CAP Capt. William Ricken of the Salvation Army has ac cepted the post of chaplain in the Medford squadron, Civil Calls of the sharp-tailed grouse include chickenlike cacklings and a gobbling note. In courtship, males utter short, deep "coos" not unlike the mourning dove's call. Baobab is one of the largest trees known, its stems reach ing to 30 feet in diameter. It grows in Africa, and its trunks are often 'dug out to make homes for families. Three Rivers, Mich., is at the junction of the St. Joseph, Rocky and Portage Rivers. TODAY MON. TUES. REX HARRISON , f KAY s KENDALL EMASCOPE' PLUS DANNY KAYE 'AfeiWi PUR ANbtll mm: ClNCMASCOFK i Ml TIOCOIOI THEATRE INFORMATION SERVICE CALL SPring 3-7323 FOR FULL INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR THEATRES STARTING TODAY CONTINUOUS FROM 1:00 9JA. WHO CAN FORGET ANDY GRIFFITH IN "NO TIME FOR SERGEANTS" THIS ONE IS EVEN FUNNIER R Only two things 0 II troubled Onionhead..." )CHC8ERD tfenfae 1 '. ANDY GRIFFITH FELICIA FARR ERIN O BKItN WALIfcK PLUS A REAL WESTERN THRILLER A HIRED GUNS AGAINST i -x-v BLACKFOOT, S3 feMirfe-- SAVAGES? Iplli arrows to 1 ' f"l .!"WL tj?v Wtlt fitVi I f : J scottTrady )))! WW5iaST'Si Sunday, December 14. 1958 t Air Patrol, it was announced last week. A group of CAP members flew to Portland recently for a regional meeting. Senior members attending were John Keener, John Mathes, Wil liam Florey. Glenn Wright, Richard Chapman, Arnold Dillon, John Gregory and Mrs. O. J. Miller. Jerry Kest erson was the only cadet mak ing the trip. ANDY'S BEST BUY! DIAMOND SOLITAIRE Full cut, brilliant stone in I4K gold mounting. S1H Green Stamps ANDY'S Your Friendly Credit Jeweler 15 NORTH CENTRAL . ' W IWMIinMV . 1 I
