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bs UNABLE TO PROCEED because of heavy snow, 75 trucks are stalled near Mendota, III. Below zero temperatures have gripped large areas of central United States. Locals Medical Patient - Luther Calame, Bandon, Ore., is a medical patient at Rogue Val ley hospital, the hospital re ported today. , Lights Shot - George Wil liam Field, 829 Murphy rd., reported to city police Tues day that two street lights had been shot out in the Mont Crest subdivision within the- past -10 days. Father Dies-Paul Gasparot ti, 701 Park st., left yester day for Moberly, Mo., where he was called by the death of his father, John Gasparotti. The Medford man will return next week. Permit Issued - A Medford building permit was issued Wednesday to James V. Mc Goodwin, 1507 East Main st, . to convert a garage to a bed room and bath at a cost of 51,000 at that address. Itemi Taken - Belle L. Col lings, route 2, box 76, Jack sonville, reported to city po lice Tuesday afternoon the theft of several items from her pickup while it was parked at Luman's, 26 North Front st., Medford. Meeting Set - The Jackson and Josephine county bar and tavern operators will meet at 2 p.m. Monday, Feb. 2, at the Rogue Riviara, Gold Hill, ac cording to Jim Clithero, presi dent of the Rogue River Val ley chapter of the Oregon Licensed Beverage associa tion. Named to Club - Wayne Safley, Medford representa tive of the Aetna Life Insur ance company, has been named to the Aetna Life Lead ers club, national honorary organization of the company's top 200 producers. Safley is associated with the Plaisted and Harpster General agency of Portland. Collision Mrs. Louise Con ner Day, route 2, box 360, Gold Hill, was cited by state police Wednesday evening for passing at an intersection following an accident at the intersection of Table Rock rd. and Gregory rd. Police said the station wagon oper ated by Mrs. Day attempted to pass a vehicle driven by Donna Kathleen Vandeventer, 246 West Gregory rd., when the Vandeventer car started to turn west onto Gregory rd. Both vehicles were slight . ly damaged, police said. Thompson, Conn. -(CPU- It cost Philip Choquette more dough after an argument with his wife, Choquette was fined $18 for tossing a pizza at her. mm OPEN TONITE! mm m wx IHESTON LEI GH WELLES . KSn UUIU - MM TJUHWff Tint Stan" KUyKKTMJM SI UM ANTHONY STEELE roar ar- THE GL0UDS: jjSjgg j h EASTMAN COiOt -Jj An TV rAfTS!U41 HftTFI llPnrnnn 5:30 p.m. tiU 12:00 Weekdays tut " i, ' ' ' Dr. Eaton Named To Scout Group Dr. Orval Eaton has been appointed council activities committee chairman of the Crater Lake - council, Boy Scouts of America, J. A. Mc Dougall, council president, has announced. Dr. Eaton, Medford optom etrist, recently moved here from Astoria where he served as mayor for eight years and three terms as state repre sentative. His family plans to join him on his ranch near Eagle Point at the end of the school year. He is a former member of the Oregon Liquor Control commission. A member of the Jackson County Chamber of Com merce Greeters committee, Dr. Eaton and wife have two children, a 17-year-old daugh ter who is a senior in high school, and a 21-year-old son at the University of Oregon. The council activities com mittee is rsponsible for all special activities of the Coun cil, including the council's circus in May, Webelos Day in July, the annual meeting in November, and Scout Week in February. Members of the committee include Ed Culbertson, Med ford; Homer Hought, Grants Pass; H. K. Lange,' Yreka, Calif.; Dr. Elmo Stevenson, Ashland; Richard Dempster, Medford; Elmer Martin, Mon tague, Calif.; Andy Schmidt, Medford; Ray Frisbie, Med ford; and George Grennen, Medford staff advisor. Lombard to Serve In Bar Program Ben T. Lombard, Ashland attorney, will provide techni cal legal service to the state legislature as representative of the Oregon State Bar's pub lic service program from Feb. 2 to Feb. 13. Lombard is one of 20 attor neys who will serve in the program. He will aid legislators in drafting new bills, amend ments and minor changes in present laws. He also will an swer inquiries as to constitu tionality of proposed, or ex isting legislation. Lombard, associated with Lombard and Cottle law firm, Ashland, graduated from the University of Oregon and re ceived his LLB from North western. He was admitted to the bar in 1930. He is past president of the Jackson County Bar associa tion and a member of the American Bar association. Investment Funds ' Noon' Quotations on selected .funds supplied by to" M-dford Branch of Foster & Marshall, mem bers New York Stock. Exchange Noon Quotations on selected funds supplied by the Medford Branch of Foster & Marshall, mem bers New York Stock Exchange. Fund Bid Asked Bullock 13.64 Chem Fund 19.81 Eaton Howard Stk 23.68 Fidelity 15.88 Gas Ind 14.86 Group Sec A via ... 11.40 Group Sec: Com Stk 13.41 Group Sec Elec 9.52 Group Sec Petr 12.05 Group Sec Steel 10.47 14.95 21.47 25.32 17.17 16.17 12.48 14.68 10.43 13.20 11.47 8.66 17.88 11.40 14.75 20.35 13.60 15.61 12.65 14.10 15.28 6.48 Group Sec Tobac r7.40 Keystone B-3 Keystone B-4 Keystone K-2 Keystone S-l 16.39 10.45 13.52 18.68 12.46 14.30 Keystone S-2 ., Keystone S-3 Keystone S-4 .... 11.59 Mass Inv Grth Stk 13.04 TV-Elec 14.02 Value Line Inc 5.93 Wellington 1354 15.20 One inch of water on one acre of surface amounts to 27,154 gallons. CHARCOAL STEAKS especially good place to eat if dieting! Sundays 2 p.m. till 10 pan. T"Z" T ' - -AV-i Portland Livestock Catte 10C. Standard cows 21 21.50; utility 17.50-19; canners-cut-ters 14.50-16.50; Holstein cutters to 17.50; cutter bulls 20-22.50. Calves 25. Good-choice vealers around 29-35; 500 lb. good-choice stock steer calves 30 Hogs 100. No. 1 and 2 butchers 200 lbs. at 19; 230 lb. 18.50; 350 lb. sows 15.50. Sheep 25. Choice lambs Wednes day 18.50 mixed good-choice 1750-18; good-choice feeders 16.50- 18; ewes 4-y. Portland Produce Portland (UPI) Dairy mar ket: Eggs To retailers: Grade AA large, 46-48C doz.; A large, 4o-4tc; AA medium. 41-44c; A medium. 40-44c; AA smalls, 35-36c; cartons l-3c additional. Butter To retailers: AA and Grade A prints. 67-68C lb.; carton lc higher; B prints, 65-66c. Cheese medium cured To retailers: A grade Cheddar single daisies, 41-51c; processed American cheese 5-1 b. loaf 4U-42C. Farm Market Most prices were steady and un changed today except top quality California lettuce was up 25 cents a carton at some quarters; orange prices gained 10 to 25 cents a carton Poultry. Rabbits Live chickens Quoted to grow ers at Portland, Salem and south to Eugene, f.o.b. ranch. No. 1 qual ity fryers, 2-4 lbs., 18-20c; light hens, 10-llc: heavy hens, 15-17c. Dressed chickens No. 1 grade dressed to retailers: Fryers, whole drawn. 36-38c lb.; cut up, 41-43c; hens, heavy type whole drawn, 40 42c: light-type, cut up, 32-34c lb. Dressed turkeys (Prices mostiy nominal to producers.) Fresh froz en young hens to retailers, mostly 39-40c lb.; A grade toms,. 38-42c lb., depending upon size. Rabbits (average to growers, f.o.b. killing plants) Live white, 3?4-4'2C lb., f.o.b. Portland 20-23c; colored pelts, 5c under. Fresh killed fryers to retailers, 57-60c lb.; tut up, 61-64C Portland Hay, Grain Portland Wholesale hay prices: No. 2 green alfalfa, baled, f.o.b. Portland and Seattle. $32-33 ton with top quality to $35. Wholesale prices as reported by the PorUand USDA market news service. Basis by the ton, bulk, prompt ' delivery, f.o.b. track, Port land. Wheat. No. 1 soft white S68.25 No. 2 Milo, Eastern shipment $50.75 No 2 corn. Eastern shipment $55.50-36.00 No. 2 wh. oats, 38-lb. - Coast $52.00-54.00 No. 2 Western barley. Coast ..$51.50 Soybean meal, 44 protein ..$82.00 Standard miUrun $44.00-45.00 Weather FORECASTS Medford and vicinity: Occasional rain mixed with snow in the valley tonight. Showers Friday with clear ing period. Low tonight 32. High Friday 40. Western Oregon: Cloudy with rain except snow in mountains to night. A few showers and partial clearing Friday. A little . cooler. Low tonight 35-44. High Friday 42-50. Northern California: Brief rains spreading southward as far as San Francisco and Sacramento tonight. Snow in nothern mountains above 3.500 feet. Otherwise partly cloudy tonight and clearing Friday. Little temperature. LOCAL DATA TEMPERATURE: Mean yesterday 41: above normal 2. Record high this date 64 in 1928. Record low this date 13 in 1950. PRECIPITATION: 24 hours to midnight, trace; midnight to 10 a.m. .02 inch Total this month 1.91 inches, 56 inch below normal. Total since Sept. 1 6.75 inches, 3.88 inches below normal. HUMIDITY: Lowest yesterday, 55, highest this a.m. 98. High 4:30 24- City Yester- a.m. nr. day Low Prec. Brookings 56 40 Crater Lake 25 9 .08 Grants Pass 55 32 .05 Klamath Falls 37 23 T MEDFORD 50 30 T PorUand .. 49 41 .05 Seattle . 45 37 Spokane , 35 28 Yakima 49 28 Eureka 54 41 Red Bluff 57 36 Sacramento 59 35 San Francisco 58 48 Los Angeles .. 69 52 Phoenix 68 38 Denver 55 - 25 .37 Chicago 32 28 Miami Beach 82 65 New i'ork 38 25 Washington. D.C. 38 33 Over-the-Counter Western Slocks The following bid and " asked prices on selected Western securi ties, provided by the Medford branch office of Pacific Northwest Company are unofficial and do not represent actua? transactions but are intended as a guide to the approximate price range. Common Stocks Bid Asked Bank of America 44 U 47 Calif.-Pacific Utilities 36 38'i Cascades Plvwood 33 35 ' Cons Freightways 204 21 a Copco ?. 37'2 39" First National Bank 57 'i 61 Northwest Nat. Gas 18i 19" Pacific Pwt. & Lt. 41i 44 Permanente Cement 26 28'i Portland Gen. Elec. 29 i 31 ' U.S National Bank 70 74 'j United Utilities 30 32 West Coast Tel. 25 26i Weyerhaeuser 45!,i 48 HEART SURGERY AID Bethesda, Md. -UPD- A tech nique for evaluating the ef fects of heart-valve surgery while it is still in ' progress has been developed at the U.S. Public Health Service's Na tional Heart Institute here. Stock List On Profit New. York -4.TD- Stocks ral lied today until the last hour when new profit taking devel oped and drove the list down from its highs. At the best levels of the day, the industrial average had shown ' a recovery of about half of Wednesday's losses. At their highs gains run ning to three points appeared in such stocks as Westinghouse Electric, White Motors, Seib erling Rubber. Motorola, Mon tana Power, Walt Disney, American Machine and Met als, M a y t a g, 'international Salt, National Acme and Phil adelphia & Reading. New York-TPIi-Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 in dustrials 590.40, up 1.87; 20 railroads 161.13, off 0.22; IS utilities 90.48. off 0.43. and stocks 204.58, up 0.15. Sales today were about 3,470,000 shares compared with 4, 190,000 shares Wednesday. Today's prices on selected stocks: Allied Chemical $ZV Alum Co. Am '....: 82 Vi American Can 48 American Motors 37 AT&T : 230 Anaconda Copper 66 Armco Steel 71U Bendix Aviation' 67 Bethlehem Steel 52 M Boeing Air 43 Vb Caterpillar. Corp. 87V4 Chrysler Corp. 52V4 Continental Can 54'2 Crown Zellerbach 5634 Curtiss Wright 27 Dow Chemical 78 Du Pont 208 FLOOD EVACUATION Coast Guard boat carries flood refugees to high ground in Meadvaie, Pa., where an estimated 20 per cent of the town's population has been evacuated from inundated homes. Some 25,000 persons have been forced from their flooded homes in Ohio and Pennsylvania and damage is estimated at more than $100 million. Snow Forecast for Valley Tonight Residents of the Rogue val ley may note a blanket of snow on the ground when they awaken Friday morning but it won't be a thick one, according to weather bureau forecasts. The Medford station of the bureau has predicted occa sional rain mixed with snow in the valleys tonight. Colder air expected this afternoon and the lower nighttime tem peratures could make the snow stick but not more than ah inch of snowfall is ex pected to cover the ground. Wetness of the ground and rain kept snow from staying this morning. Showers are anticipated in the area on Fri day. One inch of new snow was reported at Crater Lake Na tional park during the 24 hours ending at 8 o'clock this morning. The total depth is 63 inches. Chains are advised on the south and west en trances, and required from Annie Springs to the rim, the park service said. Sweelland Offers Scholarship Bill Salem -ITD- Sen. Monroe Sweetland (D-Milwaukie) in troduced a bill providing scholarships to state colleges and universities for Oregon students. Under terms of his bill, each member of the Legisla ture would be entitled to is sue one scholarship and each county in the state also would be entitled to one. No scholarship could be more than S200 in value. An appropriation of $80,000 to fi nance the scholarships dur ing the next biennium is in cluded in the bill. ZIONIST LEADER DIES Jerusalem, Israel - (LTD - Jo seph Sprinzak, 73, speaker of the Israeli Knesset (parlia ment) and veteran Zionist leader, died Wednesday of a heart attack.. Washington (UPD Thirteen Republican senators,, repre senting both the conservative and liberal viewpoints of the party, joined President Eisen hower today at a "good fel lowship" breakfast at the White House. Down Taking Eastman Kodak 142 Firestone 135 - General Electric 78 General Foods ' 772 General Motors 48 Vi Georgia Pacific .59J8 Graham Paige 22 Greyhound 18?-s Gulf Oil 124 Homestake Mining 47 Idaho Power 4'j Kaiser Ind. .-. L 1314 Int. Paper- , 119V2 Johns Manville : L 52 Kennecott Copper ....lOS1, Lockheed Aircraft 62 Katy (New) 63 s Montana Power Co. .... 67 Montgomery Ward 4 Nat"l Biscuit 537-s New York Central 27 V2 Pac. Gas & Elec 62 Penney, J. C. Ill 'Perm RR 17 lb Radio Corporation 46 Richfield Oil :...105 Safeway 39V4 Sears 43 Shell Oil 85Vs Socony Mobil Oil 50 Southern Co. 35 V4 Southern Pacific 65 Standard California .... 59 Standard Indiana 48ip Standard N. J. 56Vs Sun Mines 8V4 Texas Gulf 23i Tex, Pac Land 15V2 Transamerica 29 1 2 Trans World Air- 17 Ts Tri-Continental 39 Union Carbide 125 Union Pacific 36V4 United Aircraft - 61 United' Air Lines 3514 U.S. Rubber 48 U.S. Steel 94 Youngstown S & T 125V2 Hearings Scheduled On 308 Report Portland -(UPD- Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) receiv ed word today that the Army engineers' board for rivers and harbors would hold four public hearings in March on the revised 308 report. President Plans Two Vacations Washington -(UPD- President Eisenhower was making plans today for two trips southward -a short vacation in Thomas ville, Ga., next week and a meeting with new Mexican President Adolfo Lopez Ma teos in Acapulco Feb. 19 and 20. The visit between the two presidents at the beach resort will be informal. This will eliminate the ceremonies which would be involved in a state visit to the Mexican cap ital, Mexico City. A visit to Mexico City also would subject Eisenhower to altitudes of more than 7,000 feet. This is considered too high for a person- with a his tory of heart trouble. Vanguard Rocket Launching Waited Cape Canaveral, Fla. - (UPE The Navy is expected to fire its eighth Vanguard rocket soon in another attempt to put a 21-inch weather-forecasting satellite into orbit. The lean Vanguard, the only American rocket de signed specifically for satel lite launching, has made good only once in seven tries. All three stages of the last rocket fired on schedule Sept. 26, but the artificial moon did not achieve an orbit. News About Servicemen COMPLETES COURSE Pvt. Leslie W. Kellow, 18, son of Mrs. Feme A. Kellow, 2910 Sunnyvale rd., Central Point, recently completed an eight-week basic Army ad ministration course at Ft. Ord, Calif. He entered the Army in September, 1958, and completed basic combat train ing at Ft. Ord. He is a gradu ate of Crater . High school. . Youth Conservation Program Proposed Washington -(UPB- Congress was asked pday to establish a 150.000-member youth con servation corps. Sponsors of identical bills in the House and Senate said the plan would ."put young brain and muscle to work on a broad scale in the field of conservation." Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.) said the idea would pay for . itself in terms of "urgently needed" protection of natural resources. "I also would act as a pow erful influence toward pre venting juvenile delin quency," he said. Rep. John A.- Blatnik (D Minn.) supported the proposal by introducing a companion bill in the House. The legislation would make it possible for youths between 16 and 22 to work in federal and state forests and parks. They would receive pay of 78 a month. Roseburg Mayor Enters Guilty Plea Roseburg (UPI) Mayor Arlo Jacklin of Roseburg appeared in court again today, this time before Circuit Judge Charles S. Woodrich, and changed his plea to guilty on a charge of possessing and operating a game of chance. Mayor Jacklin . was con victed in District Court Mon day. On Wednesday he was sentenced to 30 days in Doug las county jail. Sentence on his later plea in Circuit Court will be pronounced by Judge Woodrich Monday. The mayor remained free on bail. New Storm Dumps Snow in Rockies By United Press International A new storm dumped up to 10 inches of snow in the Rockies today and then whip ped across into the Plains States, where four inches were forecast for Friday. Heavy snow warnings were out for portions of Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, South Da kota and Minnesota, and the Chicago Weather Bureau said the storm may move eastward into the northern Great Lakes states. A brief but potent snow fall blanketed Utah with from 2 to 10 inches. Main highways were clogged, causing a rash of minor accidents, and high winds disrupted telephone and telegraph communications. Five inches had fallen in Denver. San Francisco -(UPD- George W. Yee, 53, Chinatown cloth ier here, has been arraigned in U.S. District Court in con nection with an alleged multi million dollar Chinese nar cotics ring. Their ; - ' f J day of X iiilMs terror, . under. OaOfl desert q jT sun! j A ( Oiy m i ..j. jl: ja mmm i il OrMENIASOFE JfelVICTOR MATURE ft LEO GENN ' LUCIANA PAIUZZ1 Would-Re Pane -a- Left Stranded Washington - (UPD - Embar rassed Northern Democrats wondered what to do today about a would-be page boy a Negro-left on the Capitol doorstep by an elusive Chi cago congressman. The boy-14-year-old James A. Johnson Jr., of Chicago flew to Washington under the impression that Rep. Barratt O'Hara (D-Ill.) had arranged an appointment for him as a House page boy. But all indications were that he would not get the job. Key -Democrats denied that O'Hara. had the job to give. Chairman Francis E. Walter (D-Pa.) of the Demo cratic Patronage committee said he informed O'Hara of this last Friday. Walter said that he told O'Hara, before knowing that Jimmy was a Negro, that there was no job available and O'Hara should not have the youth come to Washing ton. Jimmy, standing on the Capitol steps, said: "The Southern Democrats are against me." O'Hara, finally contacted after a day and a half search, said that the whole matter was a "sad misunderstand ing." He insisted that the situ ation could be straightened out by March 1 at the latest. But he didn't say how. Births CARROLL - To Mr. and Mrs. Glenn, 409 North Barne burg rd., Medford, Jan. 28, 1959, a boy, weight 8V4 pounds, at Rogue Valley hos pital. MAHONEY - To Mr. and Mrs. Patrick W., post office box 392, Camp White, Jan. 29, 1959, a boy, weight 6V2 pounds, at Sacred Heart hos pital. M-M-M-Good! Bring the family to dinner. Come this Sunday with the whole tribe. Special dinners for the little ones. Papa and Mama can have a COMPLETE. DINNER for as SI Q little as.. Iil3 or try our Deluxe Dinner for $1.49 Open 6 a.m. to 8 p.m., includ ing Sundays and holidays. Top Notch Cafe Craterian Theater Building Holland Hotel rL. Wooden Shoe fev B&y DINING-MUSIC-DANCING The Finest Cuisine from Our Grill or NEW CHARCOAL BROILER LUNCHES 10 a.m. to S p.m. DINNERS 5 p.m. to Midnight MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford-, Oregon, Earlier Election Poll Opening Asked in Bill Salem -(LTD- Sen. Alice Cor bett (D-Portland) introduced a bill Wednesday which would have election polls open at 6 a.m. instead of 8 a.m. They would continue to close at 8 p.m. Duncan Suspect Changes Plea Ventura, Calif. (UPD- Luis Moya, 20, accused with two other defendants in the slay ing of pretty Canadian nurse Olga Kupczyk Duncan, 30, last Nov. 17, today withdrew his innocent plea in a sur prise move. Moya retained his plea of innocent by reason of insan ity and was ordered by Su perior Judge Charles F. Black stock to return April 25 for a hearing on the sanity issue and for a decision on the pen alty. Moya's attorney, Burt Hen son, said the defendant took the action "after prayerful" consideration. Henson said his client was not entering 'a guilty plea but it was, in ef fect, his admission of complic ity in the case. INDIAN EXPERT Grove, Okla. - (UPD More than 50 years ago, Dr. C. F. Walker learned to read and write the Cherokee Indian language. As a young doctor among the tribes, it was the only language in which he could make himself under stood. Today, at the age of 83, Dr. Walker is one of the few white men in the country who can understand the language. ANDY'S BEST BUY! 1 OVcHkUuT INTERLOCKING J"i, DIAMOND RINCS Mir CONVmitNT cum dininott hriitinj mi Aid ing of mp w rwr fingac. Row. rout Diamondl will wffyj ifojf io ptflttl poiihott! r ka mmi knr-i Istibi boi lM CWW SUM S&H GREEN STAMPS ANDYS Your Friendly Credit Jeweler 15 North Central DICK HART TRIO Live Music & Records are All Stereophonic Sound .... STARTS TONIGHT! A SPINE TINGLING ALL' ACTION SHOW! The Tall p-fit S. 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