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LcoDs Turkey Stolen - Robert Gil- man, 940 Ross lane, Medford, told state police Saturday morning that someone took a turkey from his farm. He add that he had lost at least two others recently. Tlx, WhMl Stoln-A spare wheel and tire were stolen re cently from Bruce J. Weber, ,348 Worth 5eventn st., cen tral Point, recently, police re ported. The car was parked near the high school when the theft occurred, police said. Mating Postponed - The - Jackson county juvenile coun cil will not meet Tuesday, Jan. 20, as previously sched uled, Mrs. Kay Crowell, Jack son county juvenile depart ment director, has announced. . Son Born Mr. and' Mrs. David Campbell, Eugene, are parents of a son born Dec. 28. Mrs. Campbell is the for mer Miss Monte Middlebusher of 1098 Hilton rd., Medford. Both Mr. and Mrs. Campbell attended schools in Jackson county. Daughter Born - Mr. and Mrs. Richard Pflugrad, Ban don, Ore., are parents of a daughter born Jan. 14. Grand parents are Mr. and Mrs. Ar nold Pflugrad, 1117 Murray st- Medford, and Dr. and Mrs, Cornell Sabo, 257 Winema way, Medford. - 7 . -, Safe Found - Jackson coun ty sheriffs deputies were no : tified that an empty safe was found on the Dark Hollow rd ' three miles from Talent. The safe had probably been there for three or four years they said. The land was Durchased ; and cleared of brush when . the safe was discovered and ' deputies notified Saturday. ! r Xlub to "Organise - People i contacted to join the Central tPoint 20-30 club are asked to ' be at the Central Point Ameri- j ean Legion hall Thursday at -! 7:30 pjn., a club spokesman '; said. Members of the Medford chapter will direct the meet- J ing when the club will be pre r tented a new charter, it was .reported. ' Rummage Sale -The Jack son County Democratic party will hold a rummage and baked foods sale at the Fehl building, 108 North Ivy st., Medford, Friday and Satur- J .... T. - A J mjt 1 4 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Contribu tions will be received at the building between 7 and 9 p. m. the evening before, accord ing to Frank Christian, Tal ent, chairman of the party. Businesses The business name Morrison's Men's Wear ' has been assumed by P. R, and Leonora G. Morrison, 1517 Wilson place, Medford, ' according to "records in the county recorders' office. Also assumed was the name J e will Leasing and Investment com- mnv hv A Tan IT TAinatt A South Groveland kave., and Charles W.'HilL route 2. box 417, Medford Matawan. N. J. -flJPD- Indus- trialist van Winkle Todd. 66. board chairman of the Han ' son -Van Winkle - Munning Company, died in Monmouth 1 Medical Center. Lone Branch. Jan. 15. Todd is survived by , his wife and four daughters. M1BI - -' fr'-Mfc, ENDS TONITE! A-l raU-IBH-BIBI ? ma m m OHIEX - fHAXDS UABV1X TOffN 45 JUtl 0M I A IttfflBMUIlfLAJl HOUSE of North of Gold Hill AT as M - On Display One of the West's Finest Collections of Gold Dust and Nuggets . ..... . i. Winter, Hours 9 to 5 .V - ...... i Closed on Mondays . . Under Founder's Management Since 1930 - Obifuaries CHARLES N. HORN Funeral services for Charles Nick. Horn, 86, who died Fri day, will be held at Conger Morris Funeral home Monday at 2:30 pjn. Cimmittal will be in Jacksonville cemetery. CORA CROW Mrs. Cora Crow, a former resident of Medford, died in San Francisco Friday. Funeral arrangements will be an nounced by Conger-Morris Funeral home. ROBERT N. FINNEY Funeral services for Robert Nelson Finney, 69, who died Thursday at his home in Jack sonville, will be held at Conger-Morris Funeral home Mon day at 10 ajn. The Rev. W. F. Irby of the Jackesonville As sembly of God church will of ficiate. Committal will be in the' Jacksonville cemtery. ' Mr. Finney was. born Feb. 20, 189, in the Steamboat dis trict on the Upper Applegate river, son of the late Wilford and Lottie Finney. He had lived in southern Oregon all his life. Survivors include his wife, Evelyn, and a step-son, Ver non Schulz, of Portland. A daughter, Frances, preceded him in death. RENA E. WALDRON Funeral services for Rena Waldron, 65, of .305 Liberty st.;. who died Friday, will be held in Conger-Morris Funeral home-Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. The Rev.; George , Roseberry of the First Methodist church will officiate. Committal will be fc Rogue River cemetery. Mrs. Waldron was born on April 12, 1893, in Butte, Neb. On July 18, 1943, in Florence, Ore., she was married to Charles E. Waldron, who sur vives. ' Survivors beside her hus band, are two brothers, eWndt ConwayMedford; and Thom as Conway, Lakeview; two sisters, Mrs. Sarah .Boisvert, Albany, Ore., and Mrs. Arlie Zimmerlee, Prineville. NELSON W. McKEE Nelson W. McKee, 34 of 718 Grant st, Medford, died in a Eugene hospital Friday. ' McKee spent most of his life in Medford and in Rogue River where he was born on June 8, 1906. Survivors include his wife, Clara, Medford; twin chil dren, Romer and Rena, both 18, of Medford; sisters, .Mil: dred E. Daughtry, Eugene, Beatrice I Hall, Oak Ridge, and Emma Vandenburg, Mar shall, Mich.; and brother, Charles McKee, Oak Ridge. . Graveside services , will be held in the Rogue River ceme tery at 1 pjn., Tuesday. Eng land funeral home, Eugene, is handling the arrangements. ROCK VALIQUETTE Rock Charles Valiquette, 88, a resident of Jacksonville for about four years, died there Friday. A Requiem Mass will be conducted at 9 a.m. Wednes day in Sacred Heart Catholic church, with the Rev. William McLeod officiating. Interment will be in the Catholic section of the Jacksonville cemetery. A recitation of the Holy Rosary will be held at 7:30 pjn. Tuesday in Chapel Mor tuary; Mr. Valiquette. the son of Joseph t. and Olive Richey Valiquette, was born in Fall River, Mass., Aug. 2, 1870. He was married in 1889 in Grand Rapids, Minn., to Anna Hanson, who died the follow ing yeai by drowning. In 1894, also in Grand Rapids, Minn., he married Elizabeth Hanson, who has also preced ed him in death. "Rocky" came to Oregon in 1920 and settled in Klam ath Falls, where he lived until 1930. He then came to the Ruch area, where he lived a number of years before com ing to Medford. He spent most of his life as a cook in a num ber of logging camps. He was a member of the Catholic church. The only known survivors are two nieces, who are Cath olic nuns in Seattle. MYSTERY Open Throughout The Year Hi l I tor,- 'V- V "V tt I PRESENTED GIFT-W. J. Warner, presi dent of the Jackson County Federal Sav ings and Loan association, left, presents a gift to Glenn O. Taylor, vice president and attorney, right, at a recent dinner at. -the Rogue Valley Country club honoring Taylor. John H. Pletsch, secretary-manager of the association, is shown between them. Taylor has been a director of the associa tion since 1929. Taylor noted that at the Bills Filed (Continued from page 1) Sen. . Monroe , Sweetland (D-Milwaukie) and Reps, d Whelan (D-Portland) and Ed Benedict : (D-Portlahd) - intro duce, a special emergency bill to pay unemployment com pensation and state employe checks pending the certifi cation of a secretary of state. Under this proposal, auth ority to draw a check or war rant would be . vested in the supervisor of the division of audits of the secretary of state's office. . This bill would . terminate April 6 or whenever the high court determines who is sec retary of state. - Sweetland said he thought this bill could be given emer gency treatment the first of next week. Reducing Tax Rates rA bill reducing personal In come tax rates 1 per cent up to $4,000 2 per cent up to $8,000 and 2.5 per cent above $8,000 wqs introduced in the House at the request of the Committee on Taxation. It would eliminate some current deductions, however. -.-Establishment of a state interdepartmental board of health, education and welfare to co-ordinate care and edu cation of mentally ill or de ficient persons was provided for-in a bill introduced in the Senate. Under terms of the" bill, the board would be composed Of eight members including the chief administrative of ficer of the board of control, a juvenile judge, two persons eac hfrom the boards of health, education and public welfare commission. Day Care Centers The bill carries a proposed appropriation of $304,000 out of which grants would be giv en for establishment of com munity day care centers. Rep. Grace Peck (D-Port-land) and others introduced bills authorizing school dist ricts with 12 or more retard ed children to provide special instruction for them and also scholarships for persons training to teach mentally retarded children. Rep. Peck also had a bill requiring public welfare rec ords be kept confidential. -A bill providing that the state board of education ap point a superintendent of pub lic instruction was introduced in the House by the House Committee on Education. The superintendent now is elected. It would require an amend ment to the Oregon consti tution. Hatfield's Request Gov. Mark Hatfield had asked that superintendent of public instruction be appoint ive along with the attorney general and the labor com missioner. Rep. George Van Hoomis- sen (D-Portland) introduced several House bills regarding jail sentences. One provides for a possible lesser penalty of a jail sen tence for larceny. The pres ent penalty is a prison sen tence. Change Penalties They also would increase the maximum penalty from 5 to 10 years for burglary in a building, reduce the max imum penalty for forgery from 20 to 10 years and make vS-i -r x --( ll "Q IIRTFI nFMTflRfl 5:30 p.m. till 12:00 Weekdays IIUIEU MCUrUnil Sundays 2 p.m. till 10 p.m. mim Firis m nr. mr m in State Legislature persons sentenced under the habitual criminal act, four felony offenses, ineligible for parole. Saturday noon ' closing of county offices at. the discre tion of county courts or com missions and authority to pro vide life insurance to county employees are contained in two bills introduced by Sens. Monroe. Sweetland and Rich ard' Groener " and Reps. Beu lah'J. Hand," Tom Monaghan and" Juanita N. Orr, all of Clackamas county.. '; . . The Saturday, closing bill provides that a skeleton crew obtained by weekly rotation of county office employees Unemployment Claimants Still Must File Reports Salem-(UPD - While unem ployment insurance - checks are temporarily held up, the unemployment compensation commission has cautioned claimants that they must still make regularly reports at their Oregon state employ ment service office." To qualify for compensa tion, an unemployed person must register for work each week. This requirement has to be filled to protect benefit rights, even while benefit pay ments may be delayed. Payment of benefits stop ped Friday morning for the first time in the 22 year his tory of the commission. "The commission tried to avoid the delay, but has used all the money which was available," Commission Chair man Cecelia P. Galey said. "We now must wait until the proper recepits can be signed to use the funds trans ferred from the U.S. Treas ury," she said. Both the secretary of state and the state treasurer must sign recepits before the fed eral money can be used, un less some emergency legisla tion can be pushed through the state Legislature to per mit payment of funds. Two bills along this line are being considered. Welfare Officials Approve Limitations Portland-OIPD - The state public welfare commission at a special meeting here Friday night authorized limitation" of public welfare expenditures, for the time being to emer gencies, primarily food and essential medical care. The action, another out growth of the secretary of state case : now before the State Supreme court, was tak en after commissioners .ex pressed concern over a pos sibility that they could be held personally responsible financially for expenditures which later might be declared illegal and not payable from state funds. The emergency expenditures will be made through the is suance of requistions for food and essential medical servjee, the commission said. CANDLE ROOM CHARCOAL STEAKS An especially good place to eat if dieting! - time he became director assets were less than a million dollars, and the association has grown to almost $15 million. Others attending the dinner included Mrs. Taylor, Mrs. Gordon Warner, ' Warner's daughter-in-law, Vice President and Mrs. H. J. Field, Director and Mrs. John Moffat, Director Seth M. Bullis and his sister, Miss Helen Bullis, Mrs. Pletsch and Director and Mrs. Edwin H. Singmaster. (Brainerd's Photo) could . be maintained to give necessary service to the pub lic. Insurance Plan : The insurance bill empow ers the county court or com mission to make a contribu tion to the insurance plan ad opted for county employees. -, Sen. Dwight Hopkins (D Imbler) said he was introduc ing a bill to abolish the Ore gon state fair commission and place its duties under the state agriculture department. .The Joint Ways and Means committee has requested a conference with Gov. Hat field on an Oregon 'Centen nial commission request' for $2,046,000 for Oregon's 100th birthday celebration this year. Sen. Alfred Corbett (D Portland) said there was no purpose J in granting the money until the governor's views were known. ' The state board of control notified the legislature of its resolve to close the Eastern Oregon TB hospital at The Dalles and' . use the facility for mentally deficient chil dren or perhaps for aged per sons. Labor Officials Express Concern Portland-HUPD Concern was experessed at the Portland Labor Temple about failure of the unemployment com pensation commission to pay weekly benefit checks. The officials of the Build ing Laborers union planned a meeting yesterday to decide whether to take any action. Ed Ryan, dispatcher for the Union, said about 600 of the Union's members are out of work and depend on. the weekly compensation check for their support. "I don't know how they're going to be able to get enough to eat," he said. Ryan said members of the Building Laborers, organiza tion are angered by the fact that they are denied checks because of a political wrangle in Salem. Births MORRISON To: Mr. and Mrs. John W., box 104, Tal ent, Jan. 13, 1959, boy, 8 pounds, at Sacred Heart hos pital. AUSTIN To: Mr. and Mrs. Alexander J., route 4, box 369B, Medford, Jan. 16, 1959, girl, 7Vfe pounds, at Sacred Heart hospital. . MORGAN To: Mr. and Mrs. Buckley W., 619 Benson st., Medford, Jan. 16, 1959, boy, 6H pounds, at Sacred Heart hospital. GOVERNOR To: Mr. and Mrs. Virgil, Elk Creek route, trail, Jan. 16, 1959, boy, 7 pounds, at Rogue Valley hos pital. RICE To: Mr. and Mrs. David, 725 Brookdale ave., Medford, Jan. 16, 1959, boy, 8 pounds, at Rogue Valley hospital. . Before or After Church . . . tl:. c i-.. Enioy (Served Anytime) at the Hotel Medford Dining Room CHILDREN ALWAYS WELCOME Nixon to Help Oregon Celebrate Its 100th Birthday Portland (DPD Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon will help Oregon celebrate its 100th birthday Feb. 14, and will appear both at Salem and later at Portland. Nixon will attend ceremon ies, in the rotunda of the state capitol in Salem during the afternoon on Valentine's day then he and Gov. Mark Hat field will journey to Port land for a Statehood banquet sponsored by the Sons and Daughters of Oregon Pio neers. Nixon will be asked to make a major policy address at the banquet, which will be held in the block-long lobby of the U. S. National bank. In addition to seats for 14 at "the head table, there will be 480 other seats. Of these 226 will go to members of the ancestral pioneer group at $5 each. Others will pay $7.50 per seat. Among those who probably will receive invitations to the banquet are former presi dents Herbert Hoover and Harry Truman, the Oregon Congressional delegation, ex governors of Oregon, the state board of control, Ore gon legislators, the governors of other northwest states and members of the Oregon Cen tennial commission. 'Protected Vice' Hinted by Schrunk Portland-(UPD-Mayor Terry D. Schrunk said yesterday that a narcotics ring broken on the west coast by federal acents may have been the off shoot of "protected vice oper ations. The mayor said, :'I have at tempted to explain, how pro tected vice operations in our community do not just mean 'bankrolling' the operation of a so-called ; innocent gambling joint, or after-hours bootleg ging establishments, but rath er it brings with it prostitu tion, narcotics,, acts of vi olence, safe burglaries, hold ups and a long list of other criminal act including black mailing' and corruption of government on all levels." Schrunk said he has at tempted to point out that the use and peddling of narcotics in Portland was a serious problem. He said the Portland police have, for the past two years, been working on the dope! problem i n Portland "with considerable success." Schrunk said the fight against vice will continue in Portland. County Officials Speak at Meeting E. Marvin Madden, Jack son county clerk, and Ralph James, county commissioner, discussed techniques and problems of county govern ment at a meeting of the Jackson County Democratic Central committee last week. Also speaking was Karl Janouch, county treasurer. Leonard Ward of precinct 63, Jim Poole of precinct 29A and Bruce Manley of precinct 83 were elected at the meet ing, which was conducted by Frank Christian, Talent, chair man. Mrs. Edward Kelly said plans for the 1959 Roosevelt Memorial dinner are progress ing, and that three speakers had been contacted. Neuberger Invites Royalty to Oregon . Portland-(0PD-In a telegram to Prime Minister John George Diefenbaker . of Can ada Friday, Sen. Richard L. Neubemer (D.-Ore.) invited Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh to visit Port land on their proposed trip through the Pacific North west in June. . The Senator pointed out that Oregon is celebrating its 100th birthday in 1959. "It would dramatically symbolize the international understanding and unison of our continent if her Majesty and the Duke of Edinburgh could visit Oregon during its Centennial year," Neuberger said. . ,?g?L ST?"V. -r V ' zV"l' Liquor for Ant i-Freeze Saves 'Human Ice Cube' Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. -SJPD - A "human ice cube," who doctors said was kept alive for 12 hours in zero weather because of a heavy concentration of alcohol in his blood, fought for life yes terday. " Dr. William . F. Mertaugh said it was a nip and tuck bat tle against death for William Korbi, 55, whose body temp erature had been down to a few degrees above freezing. "Stiff as Board" Korbi was frozen "stiff as a board" when he was found along a road on Drummond island in upper Michigan early Friday. Mertaugh said alcohol was s o concentrated : i n Korbi's Blonde Sought As Vice Witness Portland -'(CPD - Portland police yesterday were search ing for an 18-year-old blonde wanted as a key witness in 10 vice indictments returned by the Multnomah county grand jury Thursday. Wanted is Sherrie Lee Smith, who reportedly came to Oregon from California. Her husband has custody of the couple's three children and has filed for a divorce. Deputy District Attorney Oscar Howlett indicated that the girl's safety may be threat ened in view of reports that she has been, beaten when she attempted to contact the district attorney's office. The report came from a 16-year-old girl who was, con nected with recent vice raids on Portland establishments. Howlett said the FBI is questioning the 16-year-old girl and a 15-year-old girl from Seattle regarding pos sible violations of the Mann "white slave" act. Sherrie Lee Smith came to Portland in the company of a man who since has been sen tenced to prison for robbery, according to Howlett. Burglar Takes Valuable Coins Klamath Falls -(UPD- A bur glar who apparently knew his way around looted the home of Maurice Miller, circulation manager of the Klamath Falls Herald and News, of a large part of his extensive coin col lection, police reported yes terday. Miller, president of the Klamath Coin and Stamp club, estimated his loss at $10, 000. He told police that when he returned home early yes terday, the lock on the front door had been pried loose and a pane of glass broken. The burglar showed famili arity with the premises by going to the safe in the base ment which contained the greater part of the coin col lection. This safe was secured only with a padlock and was entered and looted. Another safe in an upstairs bedroom which contained the rest of the coin collection showed evidence of tamper ing. A bolt was broken off but the safe had not been opened. . ANTHROPOLOGICAL FIND Baldwinsville, N.Y. (UPI) A workman digging a ditch at a construction site uncov ered a human skeleton which an anthropologist said had been buried about 1,100 years. Dr. Harry L. Schoff said the bones belonged to a male In dian. He said the deteriora tion was surprisingly low. The bones, which have been given to the Onondaga Coun ty Historical Ass ociation, were found at a depth of six feet. About 750,000 persons emi grated from Great Britain be tween 1946-50 and about 17 per cent went to theU.S. ANDY'S BEST BUY! DIAMOND ONYX RINGS. Jet onyx, with glittering diamond; for him or her. Priced from $2950 S&H Green Stampt ANDY'S Your Friendly Credit Jeweler 15 NORTH CENTRAL MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, blood stream it literally acted as anti-freeze and prevented the blood from icing and bursting the blood vessels. . Korbi was enroute to a friend's house on the island when he stopped to rest along the road. ' Two surveyors, John Hew. ett of Sault Ste. Marie and LeRoy Adams of Detour, rushed him to War Memorial hospital. Mertaugh said temp erature at his ankles was 39 degrees and in the toes prob ably was at the freezing point. Kept Taking Drinks Mertaugh theorized that af ter sitting down in the snow, Korbi kept taking drinks from two bottles of liquor until his arms became so frozen he couldn't raise the bottle. The two nearly empty bottles were found beside him. He was conscious when found, but un able to move.' It would take several days, perhaps as long as two weeks, to determine whether it would be necessary to amputate any arms or legs, the doctors said. u 1 iwm ANOTHER GREAT 1959 HIT! SUSAN HAYWARD old torrid and true! The storv of Barbara Graham -The lost but never lonely sinner who got the roughest deal life ever dealt! THEATRE INFORMATION SERVICE CALL SPring 3-7323 FOR FULL INFORMATION ABOUT TOUR THEATRES STARTING TODAY CONTINUOUS FROM 1:00 P.M. SAINTS and SINNERS! The lusty, brawling characters mt 0m mmm! hauaI mrna A km CrYAAnl caw rouai ' JEFFREY HUNTER DIANNE FOSTER PAT O'BRIEN BASIL RATHBONE JAMES GLEAS0N JOHN CARRADINE CO-FEATURE 1 .1.-.. 11 a. Y ' ? Av RICHARD KILEY CARMEN SEYIllA JOSE GUARDIOLA Sunday, January 18, 1959 IS DONALD LAWDER Old Greenwich, Conn.-fGPB Donald Lawder, 69, former automotive advertising man ager of the New Yorker maga zine died of a heart attack Thursday. Lawder was wih the New Yorker from 1926 until 1955 when he retired from the magazine. 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