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.
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December 19
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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DINNERS
Main and Riverside
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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
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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.
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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.
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the junction of the St. Joseph,
Rocky and Portage Rivers.
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a regional meeting. Senior
members attending were John
Keener, John Mathes, Wil
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