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Local and Meeting The past Noble Grand club will meet Thurs day at 8 p.m. in the Girls Community club: Patients Mrs. Harry I. Irwin, Grants Pass, and Mrs. Fred Hackworth, route 4, box 350, Medford, were listed as surgery patients at Medford Osteopathic hospital today. Roof Ignited Sparks from an overheated flue at the res idence of Earl Shepherd, 400 South Peach St., burned a six-inch-square area of roof, about 4:10 p.m. yesterday, city firemen reported. Anoth er flu fire occured about 7:55 p.m. yesterday at the home of Joseph M. Ropar, 11 North Columbus ave. Births BETHANY - To Mr. and Mrs. William, route 1, box 27, "Jacksonville, April 7, 1959, a girl, weight 8V2 pounds, at Medford Osteo pathic hospital. WENTWORTH - To Mr. and Mrs. Eric, 217 Windsor ave., Medford, April 7, 1959, a boy, weight 8Vz pounds, at Rogue Valley hospital. JOHNSON-To Mr. and Mrs. John William, 9 Lewis ave., Medford, April 8, 1959, a boy, weight 714 pounds, at Rogue Valley hospital. BEST BUY! 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Taken Stephen Jackson Cline, 5752 Table Rock rd., Central Point, reported to city police Tuesday after noon the theft of license ta bles from his truck while it was parked in the vicinity of Medford. Cited Mrs. Edith Doro thy Eden, 211 Genessee st., was cited by city police Thursday morning for failure to yield the right of way fol lowing an accident between her vehicle and one operated by Weston Asheby Worden, route 2, box 470, Medford. The accident occurred at the intersection of Fifth st. and Central ave. Colonel Receives Commendation Lt. Col. Albert C. Gaddis, son of Earl C. Gaddis, 815 East Jackson st., and former Medford mayor, recently was presented the Air Force com mendation medal for meritori ous achievement. Colonel Gaddis between September, 1957, and May, 1958, was an inspector in the supply branch, materiel in spection division, directorate of readiness and materiel in spection of the inspector gen eral. He was assigned to eval uate the effectiveness and ef ficiency of supply activities at bases and depots of the Air Force in three overseas areas and in this country. During one survey, he rec ommended discontinuance of the air materiel .command close support policy at one overseas depot with an esti mated savings of $25 million annually to the Air Force. His assignment covered the Pacific and Atlantic areas, Spain and North Africa. mm JOHN GAVIN . LISA PULVER DeFORE KEENAN WYNN - GILBERT ROLAND Dryrny Kin im wkiiiun nun jdy si Himque Imtatwn V Buy a Landstead for you and your family! - Send a Landstead to friends in other states! his unforgc table memento ' certificate of ownership in a wonderland. A notarized, fully-legal, bargain and al Am A - lisnJenn. ... V. C- : r- uMiiuouuit cuuugji ivii naming fNn titles you to an undivided interest in . "vv 1 hi luii arr of the Within 25 miles of your CENTENNIAL LANDSTEAD f- are the snow-capped peaks of the Three Sisters and Mt. 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View cem etery. ANNA MORGAN Anna Morgan, 49, of 107 North Peach st., Medford, died in a local hospital Sunday. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday at Litwiller's Mountain View chapel, Ashland. Interment will be in Mt. View cemetery, Ashland. Mrs. Morgan was born March 2, 1910 in Pe Ell, Wash, Survivors include her hus band, William P. Morgan; a sister, Mrs. Helen Stockmel, Los Angeles; two brothers, Alvin Rombalski, Los Angeles and Frank Rombalski, Peell, Wash. HOWARD BASORE Private funeral services for G. Howard Basore, 74, of 611 West Fourth st., who died un expectedly at his home yes terday morning, will be con ducted at 1 p.m. Thursday in Chapel Mortuary. The Rev. George Roseberry, pastor of the First Methodist 1 church, will officiate. Interment will be in Siskiyou Memorial park. x:- Mr. Basore, son of George and Ida Thayer Basore, was born in Franklin, Ohio, on Feb. 5, 1885. He was also mar ried in Franklin on Nov, 28, 1908, to Anna S. Sauter, who survives. The couple came to Medford seven years ago from Los Angeles, where Mr. Basore was manager of one of the Safeway stores. He had been in the grocery business, owning or operating grocery stores most of his life. He was a member of the Methodist church. Besides his wife, he is sur vived by one son, Richard E. Basore, Martinez, Calif.; one daughter, Mrs. Lucille Hoppe, Medford; two brothers, Guy Basore, Santa Monica, Calif., and Earl Basore, Franklin, Ohio; one sister,"' Mrs. Bessie Miller, Dayton, Ohio; a grand daughter, Mrs. Darlene B. Mancuso Jr., Whittier, Calif., and two great grandchildren. Portland Hay, Grain Portland Wholesale Hay Prices: No. 2 green, alfalfa, baled, f.o.b. Portland and Seattle. 532-33 ton with top quality to $35-36. Wholesale Prices as reported by the Portland USDA market news service. Basis by the ton, bulk, prompt delivery, f.o.b. track, Port land. Wheat No. 1, soft white $68.00 No. 2 Milo, Eastern shipment $52.50 No. 2 corn. Eastern shipment $56.50-57.00 No. 2 wh. oats. 38-lb. Coast $51.00-51.50 No. 2 Western barley, Coast .. 49.00 Soybean meal, 44 protein S78.50 Standard Millrun $42-43 of Oreeon is a eenuine Cascade Mountain scenic ri rin a ma nr rnnnrarv famed McKenzie River. I A fabulous fishing streams. From Out-of-State! andstead Deeds are also on sale Abbixm Cm Im. Market Irregular On Profit Taking New York-(UPD-Profit tak ing brought irregularity into the industrial list today but railroads and utilities met sup port. The steels were under pres sure most of the day with U.S. Steel off more than a point. Chemicals showed losses of around a point each in Du Pont and Union Carbide. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York-flTD-Dow-Jones final slock averages: 30 in dustrials 606.44. off 3.90; 20 railroads 162.53, off 0.09; 15 utilities 93.64. off 0.05, and 65 slocks 209.61, off 0.86. .Sales today were about 3,260,000 shares compared with 3,020,000 shares Tues day. Today's prices on selected stocks: Allied Chemical 10234 Alumn Co Am ... 83 American Motors 36J AT&T 247 Anaconda Copper 67 Armco Steel 68V Bendix Aviation 76 . Bethlehem Steel .'. 5034 Boeing Air 40 Caterpillar Corp 88 Chrysler Corp ..... 63 z Continental Can 46 Crown Zellerbach 56 Curtiss Wright 38 Dow Chemical 86 Du Pont 223 Eastman Kodak 155 Firestone 144 General Electric 83 General Foods 78 General Motors : 46 Georgia Pacific . 65 Graham Paige 1 3 Greyhound 20 Gulf Oil 113 Investment Funds Noon Quotations on selected funds supplied by th M-dford Branch of Foster & Marshall, mem bers New York Stock Exchange Fund Bid Asked Bullock ... 14.00 15.34 Chem Fund 10.63 11.49 Eaton Howard Stk ....24.14 20.81 Gas Ind 13.81 15.09 Group Sec Com Stk 13.67 14.97 Group Sec Elec-Avia 10.90 11.94 Group Sec Petr 11.63 12.74 Group Sec Steel 10.10 11.06 Group Sec Tobac 8.02 8.79 Keystone B-3 16.54 18.05 Keystone B-4 10.25 11.19 Keystone K-2 14.35 15.65 Keystotne S-l 18.65 20.35 Keytsone S-2 12.82 13.99 Keystone S-3 14.93 16.29 Keystone S-4 13.13 14.33 Mass Inv Grth Stk 13.65 14.76 TV-Elec 15.48 . 16.87 Value Line Inc 5.96 6.51 Wellington 14.20 15.48 Over-the-Counfer Western Stocks The lollowuig bid and asked prices on selected Western ' securi ties, provided by the Medford branch oifice of Pacific Northwest Company are unofficial and do not represent actua transactions but are intended as a guide to the appro-'irjat" price range Common Stocks Bid Asked Bank of America 474 503, Calif.-Pacific Utilities 36A 3878 Cascades Plywood 34 37 Cons. Freightways 22li 235,i Copco 37 40 First National Bank 55 5834 Norhtwest Nat. Gas . 17 18V2 Pacific Pwr. & Lt 38'i 41 " Permanente Cement... 263 28,4 Portland Gen. Elec. 29 a.8 31' U. S. National Bank. 67 'i 71 "2 United Utilities 33 3534 West Coast Tel 25 2658 Weyerhaeuser 451s 47 Weather FORECAST Medford and vicinity: Clear to night and Thursday. Slightly warm er. Low tonight 34 at airport. High Thursday 80. Western Oregon: Fair and warm er tonight and Thursday. Increasing cloudiness along coast late Thurs day. Low tonight 36-46. High Thurs day 70-80 inland. Cooler on south coast. , Northern California: Fair through Thursday. Little change in tem perature. LOCAL DATA TEMPERATURE: Mean yesterday S3; above normal 2. Record high this date 83 in 1951. Record low this date 27 in 1919. PRECIPITATION: 24 hours to midnight, none. Midnight to 10 am. none. Total this month none, 28 inch Total since Sept. 1, 10.49 inches, 4.20 inches below normal. Humidity: Lowest yesterday 8, highest this a.m. 74. High 4:30 24 .City '. Tester- a.m. nr. day Low Prec. Brookings .. 79 49 Crater Lake 47 25 Grants Pass 76 32 Klamath Falls .... 61 35 MEDFORD 75. 34 Portland 67 37 Seattle 60 Spokane . 56 Yakima :.. 62 Eureka 70 Red Bluff 82 Sacramento 80 San Francisco 64 Los Angeles 68 45 35 28 46 54 47 51 57 56 27 50 73 52 57 Phoenix Denver Chicago Miami Beach New York Washington 64 40 71 80 61 74 .34 .13 FIVE-DAY FORECAST (Through April 13) Western Oregon - Western Wash ington Temperatures much above normal through Thursday. Marked cooling about Friday. Highs 65-75 western Washington, 70-80 western Oregon, lowering to mid-50s west ern Washington and low 60s west ern Oregon over week end. Lows mostly in 30s. A few showers be ginning about Friday. Northern California One or two days of rain extreme north. Tem peratures near normal. BIG CENTENNIAL COSTUME Jackson Hotel Pioneer Room FRIDAY -APRIL 10 at 9:30 p.m. Bearded men welcome Sponsored by Arthur Murray Studio Homestake Mining 43 Idaho Power 44 IBM . 550 Kaiser Ind i.. 14 Int Paper 119 Johns Manville 54 Kennecott Copper 111 Lockheed Aircraft' 39 Katy .". 6 Montana Power Co 73 Montgomery Ward 44 Nat'l Biscuit 54 New York Central 29 Pac Gas & Elec 66 Penney J. C 109 Penn R R 17 Radio Corporation 54 Richfield Oil 93 Safeway 38 Sears . .; 44 Shell Oil 85 Socony Mobil Oil . 46 Southern Co 36 Southern Pacific 65 Standard California 53 Standard Indiana 49 Standard N. J 51 Sun Mines ...., 7 Texas Co 70 Texas Gulf Sulphur 23 Tex Pac Land Trust 17 Transamerica 27 Trans World Air 21 Tri - Continental 40 Union Carbide 129 Union Pacific 34 United Aircraft 64 United Air Lines 37 U.S. Rubber 54 U. S. Steel 89 Youngstown S & T ........120 Concrete Planters Placed Downtown Twelve concrete planters were placed in downtown Medford along Main st. Mon day as a project of the land scape architect committee of the street tree committee. The planters are part of an expected 54 to be placed along Main st. west from Riv erside ave. It was reported there will be approximately 10 trees per block. The planters are a joint project of a tree committee, retail merchants and the Jack son County Chamber of Com merce. . Twelve trees are expected to be planted soon. Each planter will be filled with gravel and dirt, with green ery planted around the tree at the top of planter. The two species of trees to be planted will be Japanese privet, an evergreen, and ar bor vitae, committee members said. It had previously been planned to Tiave the Japanese privet along the entire street but they were not available at present, it was reported. Once the trees have been planted they will be ' main tained by the merchants, it was explained. The cost of the planters and trees are also being paid by the merchants. Plumbers Contract Is Clarified Here Plumbers in Jackson and Josephine counties were get ting $3.75 an hour before the new contract was agreed upon instead of $3.55 an hour, Jim McCord, of Modern Plumbing and Sheet Metal, chairman of the employers' committee, said todays The contract in Portland ef fective March 1 gave .the plumbers there $3.88 an hour plus fringe benefits, McCord explained. T h c employers here offered a 13 cents an hour increase to bring the wage scale even with Port land's, then the employees walked out, ne said. The new base scale is $3.70 an hour beginning April 1, plus 10 cents for health and welfare, plus 10 .cents for paid vacations, McCord said. Be ginning Oct. 1 the base pay is $3.80 an hour, April 1, 1960, S3.90and Oct. 1, 1960, $4. The 20 cents, in fringe bene fits applies also in each of the periods. Deputies Probe School Burglaries Jackson county sheriff's deputies today are still in vestigating the burglary of Hanby and Patrick schools in Gold Hill Monday night. The thief or thieves broke windows on the outside doors of each of the classrooms and forced others with a screw driver, deputies said. A total of $6 to S7 was taken from the two schools, some from a teacher's desk and $4.50 from an office desk. Senate Committee Votes 1.5 Per Cent Compensation Fund Salem - (UPD - The Senate Labor and Industries Commit tee voted 4 to 3 Tuesday to put the minimum rate of con tribution to the. unemploy ment . compensation fund at 1.5 per cent of taxable pay rolls. Republicans voted against the 1.5 rate, favoring a 1.2 per cent minimum figure. ' Sen. Carl Francis (R-Day-ton) said .the minority would file a report and bring to the floor the question of whether the rate should be 1.2 or 1.5 per cent. The minimum is now 1 per cent. Proponents of the increase, headed by Chairman Dan Dimick (D-Roseburg), said the higher rate would make the fund more sound. Earlier Bill Tabled The Committee earlier agreed to raise the taxable in come from S3600 to $3800 un til the fund reached a figure of $63 million. At that time the tax then would apply to the first $3600 of taxable in come. The Committee earlier ta bled a bill providing for a so- called "payroll decline plan',' Portland Livestock Partlan d (UPD Cattle 250. Choice 1091 lb. fed steers 18.50; sorted at 17.50-18; standard-good around 1050 lb. 26.25; utility cows 17.50-20; commercial and standard fed cows Tuesday 23; sorted at 22; canners-cutters 15-16.50. Calves 50. Choice vealers 33-34, some higher; good 30-32; standard 24-29; culls down to 17. Hogs 300. U.S. 1 and 2 butchers 190-220 lb. 18.25-18.50; mixed 1, 2 and 3 at 17.50-18; sows 13-15.50. Sheep 150. Utility-choice year lings 11-15; cull-utility ewes 4-6. Portland Produce Portland (UPD Dairy market: Eggs To retailers: ' Grade AA large. 37-39C doz.; A large, 36-37c; AA medium, 34-35c; AA smalls, 31 32c; cartons l-3c additional. Butter To retailers: AA and Grade A prints, 66c lb.; carton, lc higher; B prints, 64c. Cheese medium cured To re tailers: A grade Cheddar single dai sies, 41-51c; processed American cheese, 5-lb. loaf 40-43C Farm Market . Willamette valley cauliflower sold lower for as low as 1.75; 15 lb. flats of wine type rhubarb brought growers 1.50; Willamette valley radishes and green onions were down to 50 cents a dozen bunches at some quarters. Poultry, Rabbits Live Chickens Quoted to grow ers at Portland, Salem and south to Eugene: f.o.b. ranch. No. 1 quality fryers, 23,i-4 lbs., 17c; light hens, 10c; heavy hens, 12c. Dressed Chickens No. 1 grade dressed to retailers: Fryers, whole drawn, 31-33c lb.; cut up, 36-38c; hens, heavy type whole drawn. 37 40c: light-type cut up. 33-35c lb. Dressed Turkeys To retailers: frozen, ready to cook, A grade young toms, 39-40c a pound, ac cording to weight: A grade young hens; same basis, 38 to 40c lb. Breeder Turkeys To producers: A grade hens 24-25c on an evis cerated basis; A grade toms, 26-27C on the same basis; to retailers: A grade hens, eviscerated, 35-37c; A grade toms, 37-39c. Rabbits (average to growers, f.o.b. killing plants) Live white, 3-4l,2C lb. f.o.b. Portland, 20-23c: colored pelts. 5c under. Fresh killed fryers to retailers, 57-60e lb.; cut up, 61-64c. . HOTEL MEDFORD GRAND SPRING REOPENING What A Bargain! of f mancing unemployment I compensation. The action was taken in executive session. Employers had objected to the bill. Under the plan, employers would have contributed 2.7 per cent of their taxable pay roll until the fund reached 6 per cent . of the total annual payroll of the state. Then merit . rating would go into effect and as the fund in creased above the 6 per cent employers would get tax cred its for good employment rec ords.' Not in Effect Now Under present law merit rating is not in effect now be cause the fund has dropped be low 3 per cent of the taxable payroll of Oregon. When it goes up above 3 per cent em ployers again will get merit rating. The Committee has voted "dp pass" on a bill to tighten up on benefits in unemploy ment due to pregnancy. A motion was adoptea which will speed up work in the current legislative ses sion. The upper ' chamber agreed to suspend rules to per mit all House and Senate bills to be read the first and second time on the same day. Sen. Boyd Overhulse (D Madras) made the motion, saying he wanted to "speed up this lagging session." . Vote Machine Bill OK'd A report of the Senate Elec tions Committee on a bill to permit counties to issue bonds to purchase voting machines was approved. The bill is sponsored by Sen.. Alice Cor. bett(D-Portland). A bill to give some property tax relief to elderly persons passed by a 24-6 vote. It now goes to the House. All persons . who are 70 years or older and have an income of less than $2500 an nually would be given a prop erty tax exemption of $5000 on their homes. The bill was sponsored by Sen. Alfred Cor bett (D-Portland). . A board of inquiry to ex amine the governor of Oregon in the event of disability that prevents him from carrying on his duties would be cre ated under another bill. The board wuld consist of the chief justice of the State Supreme Court, the superin tendent of Oregon State hos pital and the dean of the Uni versity of Oregon Medical school. . Could Declare Unfit By a unanimous vote the board could declare the gov ernor physically unfit to con tinue in office. The president of the Senate would then take over as governor. A bill providing for inaug uration of the governor on the CANDLE ROOM Charcoal Broiled STEAKS An especially good place to eat if dieting! HS&fS ffOUTH PACIFIC HIGHWAY TWO OF THE YEAR'S GREATEST HITS! AT ONLY $100 PER CARLOAD FRANK SINATRA MOVIES DEAN ..K.n thc MARTIN UNDER THE glRLEY stars Mac LAI NE felf" PF! Speakers , MODERN f-ffe 7V, Your Car BAR ..:some B CAME no RUNNING MCTtOCOLOK CINEMASCOPE BABY b mm Mi:. SITTER MARTHA HEYER fi I nUrv rL.lNlNLLI mjiuctjb rTi ii in i r-k i n i rrs MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Wednesday, April 8, 1939 11 New Committee Meeting Today The first meeting of the newly organized Rogue River National Forest Advisory com mittee was scheduled this aft ernoon in the forest service office here. The committee was set up to advise Forest Supervisor Car roll Brown on board policies in the administration of the national forest. Members include B. L. (Bud) Nutting, Medford; Law- j rence L. Shaw, Klamath Falls; 1 Dr. Elmo N. Stevenson, Ash-; land; Katheryn Heffernan, ! Ashland; Frank Drew, Klam ath Falls; Tom Watters, Klam ath Falls; Frank Van Dyke, Medford; Eric W. Allen Jr., Medford; V. Aubrey Norris, Medford; Armin Richter, Med ford; Harlan P. Bosworth Jr., WHAT A BREAK! Chelmsford, England - (CPD Charles Gooch, driving his wife to the maternity hospital in a hurry, ran out of gas and got out to flag a passing car. The first one that came along was an ambulanoe-delivery accomplished. day the Legislature meets for its biennial session after elec tion of the governor was pass-, ed. At present there is no law j which says when the governor I shall take his oath, although' by practice he has done so in the past on the opening day of the session. APRIL 26th Philharmonic CONCERT C Major Symphony by Bizet and other Compositions Adults $1.50 Children 50c Tickets at Music Mart, Purucker's or Box Office at High School Auduitorium THEATRE INFORMATION SERVICE CALL SP 3-7323 FOR FULL INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR THEATRES EftDS TONITE! BEST STORY and BEST PHOTOGRAPHY Susan HH) Ivmtw ton CURTIS jry rw-JOtT1 -i PomER " ."o I NrSr " Victor MATURE Susan HWWARD feiafwJ 1 DRIVE -IN r j The most electrifying film subject you've seen in a long ,, long timely. Medford; Bill Hallin, Rose burg; Col. Paul H. Weiland, Medford, and Eugene BurrilL Prospect. Each of the forest rangers in charge of the six ranger dist ricts of the national forest were to explain the resources, activities and problems of .the districts. ' Electrical Wiring & Repair Industrial Commercial Residential Call Jack Henbest ROGUE ELEC. SERVICE SP 2-6603 104 S. 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