Local and
Gum - Alfred Charles Lu
cas. 216 Central ave., Ashland
reported to Medford police '
the theft last Tuesday night of j
a gum machine valued at j
S28.40 and containing about i
$5 in cash and 3 worth of
gum from its stand in front
of Van Lee's 88-cent store,
227 East Sixth St., Medford.
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Merry Christmas
Get enough RICH MAID ICE
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JANUARY 15
Stock Up Your Home Freezer or Your
Locker Before Christmas Eve!
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ICE CREAM STORE
415 N. RIVERSIDE
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"? From Christmas Until January 15
5i for Plant Modernization
CANDLE ROOM &
HOUSE of
North of
Gold Hill
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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
GENUINE
CHARCOAL STEAKS
' From Our
NEW CHARCOAL BROILER
Complete Sea Food Menu
Dinners Served from 5 p.m. to 12 p.m.
Personal
Cited - Charles Alvin Cof
feen. 341 Haven St.. was cited
by Medford police Friday for
failure to yield the right of
way following a collision be
tween his vehicle and one
driven by Alta Claudine Stock
of 1310 Queen Anne ave., at
the intersection of Fifth and
Bartlett sts.
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WE ARE REMODELING
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DINING ROOM
MYSTERY
Open
Throughout
The Year
MCHES
Served from
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Delectable, well balanced dishes that satisfy the ap
petite! We pride ourselves on creating nourishing
lunches economically.
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I Permlis - Medford building
I permits were issued Thurs
t day to Richard E. Marsh, . to
! erect a $15,000 residence at
2100 East Main st. and to Tom
Whittle Jo erect a $10,000 resi
dence at 204 Jeaneite ave.
Rod - Jack E. Rowbotham,
1541 Jasper St., told Medford
police of the theft Thursday
evening of a S20 hand-made
fiberglass fishing rod from
hij vehicle while it was park
ed in front of 1103 North Riv
erside ave.
Hubcaps Charles Wesley
Luman, 624 North Central
ave., reported to Medford po
lice the theft of four hubcaps
valued at $8.50 each from his
vehicle while it was parked
Thursday night at that ad
dress. Battery - Richard Earl
Eatherton, 733 Queens dr., in
formed Medford police of the
theft last week of a six-volt
battery valued at $10 from
his tractor while it was park
ed at 335 East McAndrews rd.
Generator Paul William
Johnson, 119 South Newtown
st., told Medford police of the
theft Thursday of a $7.95 gen
erator from his bicycle while
it was parked in the bicycle
rack at Washington school,
610 South Peach st.
Dealers To Close-Members
of the Medford New Car Deal
ers association will close at
noon Wednesday for the
Christmas holiday, representa
tives of the organization have
announced.
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Gifts Presenled-Girl Scout
Troop 44 presented a scrap
book to the pediatric depart
ment of the Rogue Valley
hospital Friday. Christmas
stockings were given to every
patient in the hospital by the
Salvation Army, the hospital
reported.
Party Planned-The Frater
nal Order of Eagles will hold
its children's Christmas party
this afternoon in the Eagles'
auxiliary hall at 217 West
Main st. Santa Claus will be
in person with something for
the children, a lodge spokes
man said.
Tools-Robert Samuel Mead
ows, 3479 Chicory lane, Cen
tral Point, told Medford police
of the theft Thursday night
of over $30 in tools and a
S5 blanket from the rear seat
of his vehicle while it was
parked at Dad's Hide-A-Way,
1184 Court st.
Congratulated - William C.
Duesler, sales vice president
of J. I. Case company recent
ly congratulated Early Elmore
of the Davenport Farm Ma
chinery company, Medford for
an outstanding sales perform
ance. The event was a special
president's dinner honoring
dealers with notable sales rec
ords. The reception was held
in tropical Nassau in the
Bahama Islands during the
company's World Premiere of
32 farm and utility construc
tion machines.
Lights Stolen-Two thefts of
outdoor Christmas lights were
reported to Medford police
Friday morning. Both cases
reportedly occurred the night
before, from addresses just a
few blocks apart. Dorothy
Marie Watkins, 701 West
Jackson st., said ten lights
with a total value of ?2 were
taken from a bush .in her
front yard. Donna Gayel De
Voe," 823 Pennsylvania ave.,
said four lights worth 25
cents apiece were taken from
the front porch at that address.
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GEORGE T. COOK
Ashland - Funeral services
for George Theodore Cook, 84,
of 153 Granite St., Ashland,
will be held Tuesday, Dec. 23,
at 11 ajn. at Litwiller's Moun
tain View chapel, Ashland.
Mr. Cook was killed Dec. 17
while walking on the highway
south of Phoenix. ,
The Ashland Masonic lodge,
will be in charge of the fun
eral service. Interment will
be in Mountain View cemtery.
TWILA DIZICK
Funeral services for Twila
Dizick, Gibbon rd., Central
Point, infant daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Galen G. Dizick, will
be held in Conger-Morris Fun
eral Some Monday at 1 p.m.
The Rev. Raymond W. Hum
of the Church of the Nazarene
will officiate. Committal will
be in Siskiyou Memorial park.
Twila Dizick was born July
13, 1958.
Survivors, besides her par
ents, are three sisters, Gay
lene, Carol, and Teressa, all
at home; her grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Vincent,
Gold Hill, and Mr. and Mrs.
Criss Dizic, Medford, and a
great grandmother, Mrs. Will
Hanscans, Medford.
D WIGHT L. BROWN
Grants Pass D w i g-h t L.
Brown, 55, of Grants Pass,
died in his Grants Pass home
Friday. -
Mr. Brown was born in
Bells, Tex., on Dec. 11, 1903,
His family moved to the
souvhern Oregon area later
and attended high school in
Central Point. "
Survivors include his wife,
Ruby D. Brown, Grants Pass;
three sons, Douglas, Kevin
and Clyde Brown, all of San
Diego, Calif.; one ' stepson,
Burris Hammons, Grants
Pass; four brothers, . C W.
Brown, Greenwich,, Conn.,
Ted and Gerald Brown, both
of Turlock, Calif., and Mac
Brown, of San Francisco;
three sisters, Eulala Beaves
and Geneva Vaughn, both of
San Jose, Calif. r Jean Wester
gaard, Brookings, Ore., and
three grandchildren.
Graveside services will be
held at 11 ajn. Monday, Dec.
22, in the Central Point ceme
tery with the Rev. Wayne Mc
Millen, Grants Pass, officiat
ing. Hull and Hull Funeral
home of Grants Pass is in
charge of arrangements.
SMELTZER To: Mr. and
Mrs. Duane, box 176, Butte
Falls. Dec. 19. 1958. Eirl. TV
pounds, at Rogue Valley hos
pital. SCHLUCHTER To: Mr. and
Mrs. Warren, 1832 Woodlawn
ave., Medford, Dec. 19, 1958,
girl, 6V4 pounds, at Rogue
Valley hospital.
Worst Brush Fire
Now Under Control
San Juan Capistrano, Calif.
-d'PD-Firefighters Friday night
brought under control Cali
fornia's worst brush fire of
the year after an intensive
six-day battle.
Richard Johnson, U.S. for
est Service fire prevention of-J
iicer, caiiea tne maze, wnicn
blackened more .than . 100
square miles of brush, "one
of the granddaddies of all
times."
Official control was announ
ced at 8 p.m. Friday night aft
er a crew of 2,700 men halted
the advance of several ma
jor hot spots along the nor
thern perimeter.
Johnson said, however, that
scouting parties would be
held in the area until the first
substantial rainfall.
Nineteen homes and cabins
were destroyed in the : blaze
which consumed an average
of 500 acres of dry N under
growth and timber an hour.
Joe Adams, a ranger from
Prescott National Forest,
Ariz., was the only fatality re
ported. He was killed Thurs
day when he was leading a
hotshot crew of Hopi Indians
on a scouting mission and a
sudden shift of winds envel
oped him in flames, the For
est Service reported.
Head-On Collision
Kills Lebanon Man
Corvallis (LTD A head-on
collision 11 miles south of
here Saturday afternoon
claimed the life of John Paul
Wirth, 42, of Lebanon, and
injured three other persons,
one of them critically. -
Marlin E. Redfield, 66, Eu
gene, was listed in critical
! condition at a uorvaius nos-
pital. Less seriously hurt
were Harry W. Weaver, 20,
and his wife Loretta May, 21,
both of Eugene.
State Policeman Jay Crooks
said the Weavers and Red
fields apparently were travel
ing south and Wirth north
when the accident occurred.
Wirth was en route to Cor
vallis to get his wife who had
been staying with her mother,
Crooks said.
Wirth, a salesman "for the
Gross Logging Supply com
pany of Eugene, died in a
Corvallis hospital about one
hour after the collision.
Team Manager's
Daughter Injured
Judy Ann Gordon 18, of
1809 Lindero rd., Sacramento,
Calif., daughter cf Joe Gor
don, manager of the Cleve
land Indians baseball team,
was reported injured in a traf
fic accident a half mile north
of the Big Y store Saturday
morning, Medford police said.
Medford Ambulance attend
ants said the girl identified
herself as the daughter of the
famed second baseman and
now baseball manager. She
was taken to a local hospital
where she was treated for
cuts and released.
The injuries resulted in a
three-car rear-end collision on
the North Pacific highway,
police said. The girl was a
passenger in a car driven by
Jerad Claude Ede, Natana,
Calif., Medford city police
said. Richard Bihlmaier, 1252
Beach st., Eugene, a German
exchange student, also was
riding in the Ede car, and was
treated for injuries.
A car driven - by Cecil
Clair Stater, 1242 Bens lane,
Medford, had stopped to make
a left turn off the highway,
police said. The car in which
Miss Gordon was riding stop
ped behind him when it was
struck by a car driven by
Ford Denver Ralph Ladd,
1121 Pinecroft st., Medford.
The force of the collision
drove the Ede car into the
first car, city police said.
Ladd was also taken to the
hospital for treatment.
New County, City
Maps Available !
The Jackson County Cham
ber of Commerce last week
published 10,000 copies of a
new and revised city and
county map.
The maps show new city
boundaries to include recent
annexations and includes a
street directory, information
about the city and county, and
an outline map showing coun
ty's location in relation to
the other five western states.
The chamber said it felt a
new 1 map was needed, not
only to bring up to date re
cent changes for local use,
but also to be ready for in
creased demand for, a current
map during the Centennial
year.
The maps are blue and
black on white. Incorporated
cities are shown in light blue
with rivers and lages a dark
blue.
Chamber officials said the
map was published at cost
and are available at 15 cents
each in lots of 25 or more.
They will cost 25 cents per
copy individually.
Wheeler Sentenced
For Theft, Abduction
Portland -flJPD- John Mar
shall Wheeler, 43, of Port
land, Friday was sentenced to
five years in the state prison
for unarmed robbery and the
abduction of a service station
attendant Oct. 12.
Earl's service station in
Northeast Portland was rob
bed of $25 and the attendant,
Jerry C. Clayton, was forced
to ride with Wheeler in a get
away car before Clayton was
released.
Plan Now
To Join Us
for a
Happy
New Year!
MAKE YOUR
RESERVATIONS EARLY
News About
Servicemen
COMPLETES COURSE
Pfc. Rex T. Moore, 24, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford H.
Moore, route 1, Eagle Point,
recently completed the car
rier equipment repair course
at the Army's southeastern
signal school, Ft. Gordon, Ga.
A 1952 graduate of Eagle
Point High school, he entered
the service in June, 1953.
COMPLETES TRAINING
Airman Harold V. Cady.
son of Harold T. Cady of
route 1, Willows. Calif., has
completed Air Force basic
training at Lackland Air
Force base, Tex. He has been
selected to attend the tech
nical training course for Air
craft , Mechanic at Sheppard
AFB, Tex. Airman Cady at
tended Milo Academy at Milo,
Ore.
While in the Medford area,
Cady lived wifh Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Clark.
Cousins Sentenced
For Burglary Try
La Grande - (UPD - Two cou
sins, Alonzo William and Eli
jah Dean DeClue, were sen
tenced to two years each in
the Oregon state prison Fri
day by Circuit Judge W. F.
Brownton after confessing to
an attempted burglary last
month.
The two cousins, both from
La Grande, were arrested
Thursday by La Grande city
police and admitted attempt
ing to rob the Angel Metso
pulous grocery store Nov. 19.
Alonzo, 20, and Elijah, 21,
told police they entered the
store with a loaded .38 re
volver and demanded money.
The two were scared off by
Metsopulos and his wife after
the man told the DeClues he
didn't know how much mon
ey was in the store and his
wife went to a back room to
check.
DEC. 25
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Children's
CHRISTMAS PARTY
Sunday Afternoon
DECEMBER 21
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the famils pleasure on Christmas Dayl
Bring them here for our delicious tra
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Four Area Youths
Get Scholarship
Spokane - (UPD - Four boys
from Northwest states were
picked by the Northwest se
lections committee in Spokane
Saturday night to receive two
year Rhodes scholarships at
Oxford university in England,
beginning next fall.
The four picked are Erik
S. Ronhovde, a student at
Harvard university from Mis
soula, Montana; Bryce E. Nel
son from Boise, Idaho, and
also at Harvard; Rodger
Young from Sacramento, Cal
ifornia, a student at Reed col
lege; and Cadet Bradley Hos
mer of the Air Force Acad
emy, representing North Da
kota. The four were picked by
the committee from a field of
12 representing six district
states Washington. Oregon,
Idaho, Montana, Wyoming
and North Dakota.
The committee was headed
by Benjamin H. Kizer of Spo
kane. There are seven other
selection committees across
the nation, which will each
make a selection of four boys
to receive the Rhodes schol
arship a total of 32 will
receive the honor in this coun
try. The boys will get an auto
matic two year scholarship,
and possibly three years of
study at Oxford.
E levator Shaft Fall
Proves Fatal to Man
Portland (UPD Jim Smith,
65, Portland, died in a hos
pital here Saturday of injur
ies suffered Friday night
when he fell down an eleva
tor shaft at the Geneva hotel.
Smith was found in the ele
vator shaft lying unconscious
and police were called. The
man had apparently opened
the elevator doors on the
first floor and stepped into
the shaft thinking the eleva
tor cage was on the. same
level.
Canada's first steam rail
way operated in 1836 between
La Prairie and St. Johns, Que.
CHRISTMAS DEC. 25
Thursday Night
Jacksonville
Community Hall
Music by
DICK SPAIN - BILL LIVELY
And the Rogue Valley Boys!
CpCCf 40 copies of Christmas
rilEEt Issue of True West Maga
zine given away Free to the first
40 people!
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Large Cattle Ranch Purchased in Weed
Weed, Calif .-fl-TD-The large
cattle ranch owned by Mr,
and Mrs. A. E: Richardson on
Grouse Creek road near Cal
lahan, Calif., has been pur
chased by Mr. and Mrs. Al
Crisp of Compton, Calif.
The purchase price was not
disclosed. The transaction in
cluded all ranch equipment
and some of the registered
Hereford cattle. Mr. and Mrs.
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