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Newspaper Page Text11 Tonsillectomy - Cheryl Lea verton, 5-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Leaver ton, 1006 Hamilton st., is a tonsillectomy patient at Rogue Valley hospital. Window Damaged Susan Brish, 330 Edwards st., re ported to Medford police a window and window shade at that address were damaged with a rock Saturday afternoon. Coins Missing Emmett Wadsworth Thompson, 609 Sherman st., told Medford po lice that a S375 coin collection was taken from that address between last Thursday eve ning and early Sunday to the 14 Free Prize WINNERS Here are the Prizes They Won At Our GRAND OPENING CELEBRATION Albert Tousighenr Mrs. Lew Boyd 137 Willamette St.-Medford, Ore. 1018 West 4th St.-Medford Prefinished Wall Electric Frying Pan Cliff McGinry 1805 Roberts Rd. Medford, Ore. Cushiontone Ceiling Judy Benson 430 O'Gara Medford Terraflex Floor Ned Tucker 4921 Table Rock Rd.-Medford Sherwin-Williams Paint for Exterior of House Mrs. Ernest- Chriss . 2718 Howard Ave. Medford Combination Screen Door Caroline L. Harding Trail Combination' Screen Door A. Lindsey 819 Park-Medford Electric Frying Pan CORNER SIXTH and FIR, STREETS Lula Hepler 102 Tripp St.-Medford Electric Mixer Ted Graham . 1878 So. Peach St.-Medford Electric Mixer L. Sellers 601 Childers St.-Medford Electric Coffee Pot Ruth Kilbourn 110 Willamette Medford Electric Coffee Pot Mrs. H. D. Hess v 1955 Sunset Drive Medford Garden Soaker J. E. Russell 204 No. Ivy St.-Medford Garden Soaker Convenient, Spacious Off-Street Parking Medical Patieni-Mrs. Helen Ashley, 851 Wabash st., was admitted to Rogue Valley hos pital Sunday as a medical pa tient. Picnic Set - The Winngham family will observe its 100th year in Oregon at its annual picnic at the McKee bridge park starting at 10 a.m. Sun day, May 24. HEC To Meel - Phoenix Grange Home Economics ilub will meet Wednesday,' May 20, at the home of Mrs. Mel- vin Lattie, Phoenix-Hillcrest rd. Dessert will be served at 1 p.m. with Mrs. Oscar Gysin as cohostess. Hose, Soaker Taken-Walter DeGoff Jensen, 118 Vernada pi., told Medford police of the .theft from his lawn Friday night or early Saturday morn ing of a 50-foot length of gar den hose worth $4.49 and a 25-foot soaker hose worth S2.95. . v. Store Flooded - The Coast to Coast store, 117 North Cen tral ave., reported to Medford police yesterday that water from an upstairs apartment flooded it. Police said the water overflowed from a wash basin in the apartment of Monta W. Davis. . x Vehicles Collide - Vehicles operated by Rodney Alson Wellborn, 125 West Main st., and Frank-Leroy Wright, 1024 West 13th st., collided yester day in front of 522 North Riverside ave., Medford police reported. Police said no cita tions were issued. Mischief Reported Arthur William Glockler, route 4, box 363, informed Medford police that someone over the week end had entered the Grape st. lobby of the Lever ette building, 205 West Main st., and re-arranged the let ters on the building directory, some of them to form ob scenities. Cars Collide - A vehicle op erated by Douglas Scott Eden, 211 Genessee st., was struck early yesterday morning by one operated by Edison Den ney Pugmire, 2410 Table Rock rd., on Table Rock rd. north of Berrydale ave., Medford police reported. Police said Pugmire's vehicle continued off the road and through a fence owned by Ray R. Hen dricks, 2231 Table Rock rd. No citations were issued. "FASTEST WAY TO DELICIOUS FOOD A M-odem Electric Range! , BEV LYONS COPCO Home Service Director SAYS... "I spend most of my working hourj at th range testing recipes and demonstrating them on our weekly television programs, ' at cooking schools and other occasions. I have to prepare food fact . . . and I have to prepare it right. . . On my job and in your kitchen nothing can top the modern electric range, with its super-speed sur face elements and the controls which make it almost impossible not to cook well. . . No type of cooking appliance is cooler, cleaner, or safer than an electric range and no range is easier to clean and keep clean I Why not visit your favorite CalOre Electrical League Dealer and see a modern electric range, styled for space-age living, tomorrow? You'll be delighted!" cal -ore :.' JZr ' t f " EVER CONSIDER REMODELING YOUR PRESENT RANGE? Do you have an older range, in good condition, which simply doesn't cook fast enough? Talk to your CalOre Electrical League dealer about bringing it up-to-date replace old surface elements with new, super-speed cooking elements. SEE YODR FAVORITE (?a(jOzc ELECTRICAL LEAGUE DEALER Young Boy Starts Fire Near Residence A Medford man yesterday afternoon reported that some one tried to set fire to his house, according to city po lice. Police said the man's 8-year-old son later admitted he placed some excelsior and matches in a crack by an air vent on the outside of the house. The boy, according to the report, said he had not intended to set the house on fire he had just wanted it to look that way, but then was unable to put out the blaze he had started and ran away. The father had doused it with a bucket of water. Boy Playi Defends Self; mate Killed West Hempstead, N.Y.-fUPB- A seven-year-old boy, momen tarily "ganged up on" by three playmates, picked up the first thing he saw - a chisel and threw it at them Sunday. The blade pierced the throat of David Shepard, also 7, killing him. The child who threw the chisel, . David's next door neighbor and good friend, was not held. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF Obituaries MRS. PHILOMENA LOUIE Yreka - Mrs. Philomena (Minnie) Louie, 77, of the Big Springs area in Siskiyou county, Calif., died Saturday morning in the Siskiyou County General hospital. Mrs. Louie was born in the Willow Creek area near Mon tague on Feb. 27, 1882. She was the daughter of the late Manuel and Marie Sylva and was married to John Louie, prominent rancher of the area, on Sept. 20, 1910, arid had spent her entire life in the Big Springs area. She was a member of the St. Catherine's Altar Society in Weed. Survivors include her hus band, Louie; four daughters, Mrs. Mary Agnes Davis of San Leandro. Mrs. Elsie Sakraida, Mrs. Gertrude Sakraida and Mrs. Catherine Sakraida, all of Provolt, Ore.; one son, El lis J. Louie, of Gazelle, Calif.; two brothers, Jess Sylva of Montague, Calif., and Joseph Sylva of Tampa, Fla., and two sisters, Mrs. Margaret Meixner of Chico and Miss Anna D. Sylva of Yreka. Funeral services will be held at the St. Joseph's Cath olic church in Yreka Tuesday at 11 a.m. with interment in the family plot of the St. Jo seph's cemetery. A rosary will be recited at 8 o'clock tonight in the church. New York - (UPD - Glowing reports on business progress offset tightening money influ ences and kept the stock mar ket on an even keel today. A small rise in rails just about offset an equally small decline in industrials and utilities. Motors, steels, and metals ruled higher. Chemicals firm ed after early irregularity. The main deterrent to the in dustrial sector was a sharp drop in American Tobacco which at its low was off ZVz points. There was slight ir regularity in the oils and electrical equipments. MRS. RUHAMA McMANAMA Funeral services for Mrs Ruhama Harper McManama, 84. who died Friday at the home of her son, Herschel Harper, Table Rock, will be held in Conger-Morris Fun eral home Tuesday at 3 p.m The Rev. Floyd H. Pollock will officiate.' Committal will be in the Antioch cemetery, Mrs. McManama was born Dec. 28, 1874, in John Day, Ore., a daughter of the late John and Anne Hodson Luce, who came to John Day in 1853. She . attended Pacific university for two years, and graduated from Monmouth Educational college. She taught school for a few years in John Day. She was married Oct. 6 1898, in John Day, to Milton R. Harper, and moved to the Rogue valley in 1910, living here until her death. Mr. Har per died Oct. 23, 1931. She was married in 1945 to B. F. McManama. who died in August, 1958. Mrs. McManama was a life long member of the Advent Christian church, and one of the first members of the Sams Valley Grange. Survivors include a daugh ter, Mrs. Geraldine Greb, Eagle Point; four sons, Her schel -Harper, Table Rock; Verne Harper, Eagle Point: Melvin Harper, Norwalk. Calif.; M. C. Harper, Portland; a brother, C. F. Luce, Alder- wood Manor, wash.; nine grandchildren and six great grandchildren. Pallbearers will include Larry Hull. John Morris, Roy Dorn, R. E. Nealon, Harold Greb, and Dobe Greb. mm m t ENDS TUESDAY! WEBB DOROTHY McGUIRE r" mvmvnmwt THE 1912 BULL MOOSE convention's official program fea tured photographs of Teddy Roosevelt and his running mate, Gov. Hiram Johnson, on the front cover. A couple of million programs had core e off the presses when the publisher suddenly discov ered he had not secured per mission from the copyright owner to use the photos in question. Faced with the possibility, of a costly dam age suit, he grimly wired the owner: "Considering use of your photographs on cov ers of three million conven tion programs. Publicity break of a lifetime! What will you pay for this?" The owner of the pictures wired back: "Will pay five hundred dollars and not a cent more." The relieved publisher answered, "Your offer ridiculously low, but being pressed for" time, we accept." One thin? of which you may be sure: he who laughs last doesn't work for the fellow who told the story! 1959, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate. Minneapolis Men Plead Guilty in Court Two Minneapolis, Minn., men pleaded guilty in district court this morning to charges of petty larceny. The cases were continued to Thursday, May 28. The two men, Richard Ward Knight, 32, and Charles Ralph Cable, 37, were arrest ed Sunday on charges of taking gas from a truck parked on the Siskiyou sum mit. They were observed taking the gas by a state po lice officer and arrested by both sheriffs officers and state police. They admitted siphoning five gallons of gas into a can, police said. Business Reports Keep Market Even DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York - (UPD - Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 633.53, off 1.00; 20 railroads 166.22, up 0.32; 15 utilities 91.95, off 0.15, and 65 stocks 215.51, off 0.18. Sales today were about 2,970,000 shares com pared with 3,510,000 shares Friday. Today's prices on selected stocks: Allied Chemical 11734 Alum Co. Am 87 American Can 43 American Motors ,. 38V2 AT&T 244 Vs Anaconda Copper 67 V4 Armco Steel 72 V4 Bendix Aviation 87V& Bethlem Steel 52 Vz Chicago Trains Collide, 75 Hurt Chicago - (UPD - Two Logan Square branch line elevated trains collided today and more than 75 persons were treated at hospitals for in juries. , Both trains were crowded in the rush hour traffic and were headed for the Loop, the city's downtown section Police said that' a train made up mostly of new cars was struck from the rear by one made up primarily of old equipment. One of -the cars protruded over the e.dge of the elevated structure after the collision, but did not fall. Passengers either were taken from the elevated struc ture by fire ladders, or walk ed a catwalk to a station plat form. Boeing Air 39 V4 Caterpillar Corp 110 Chrysler Corp (xd) 70J2 Continental Can ' 47V4 Crown Zellerbach . 54 Curtiss Wright ... 34 Dow Chemical 87 Du Pont 25314 Eastman Kodak 83 Firestone 147 General Electric SVA General Foods 83 General Motors 51 Georgia Pacific 63 Graham Paige 2 Greyhound 22V2 Gulf Oil 115 Homestake Mining 216 Idaho Power . 47 B. M 587V4 Kaiser Ind IAY2 Int. Paper 119 Johns Manville 56 Kennecott Copper 114V4 Lockheed Aircraft .. 32 Katy 6V4 Montana Power Co. 75 Montgomery Ward 48V6 Natl Biscuit 51 New York Central 28 Pac Gas & Elec ..... 64 Penney J. C 111 Penn RR 17 Radio Corporation . 66 Richfield Oil B6M Safeway .. 37 Sears . .. 44 Shell Oil ... 87Vfe Socony Mobil Oil 44 Southern Co 37 Southern Pacific 69 Standard California 56 Standard Indiana 49 Standard N. J. 52 Sun Mines Texas Co. . 84 Texas Gulf Sulfur 21 Tex Pac Land Trust 23 Transamerica 27 Trans World Air 23 Tri-Continental 40 Union Carbide 144 Union Pacific 34 United Aircraft (xd) .... 62 United Air Lines . 39 U. S. Rubber 62 U. S. Steel 94 Youngstown S & T 123 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Monday, May 18, 1959 Portland Livestock Portland (UPD Cattle 1150. Low to average choice fed steers 29.25-29.75, some higher; good steers 28-29; mostly choice heifers 28 28.50; good 26.50-27.50; utility-commercial cows 18-22; standard 23; canners-cutters mostly 14.50-17: utiht bulls 23.50-24.50. . Calves 150. Good-choice vealers 31-36: cull-utility 18-25. mors i4uu. no. i ana 2 Dutcners 190-230 lb. 18.75-19; some 19; 202 lb. 19.25; mixed 1. 2 and 3 lots 180-235 lb. 18-18.50; mixed 300-550 lb. sows 13-15.50; mixed 300-550 lb. sows 1315.50: 282 lb. 16.50. Sheen lzuo. Mostly choice 90-103 Iv. . l 1 n .")) ae. i 78-90 lb. 21-22.30: mixed Rood- choice No. 1 pelt old crop lambs 18.50; good 90-88 10. No. Z pelts 17.50-18; cull-choice ewes 3.50-6.50. Portland Produce Portland (UPD Dairy market Eggs To retailers: Grade A A large 35-37c; A large 34-36c; AA medium 32-34c: AA small 28-29c; cartons l-3c additional. Butter To retailers: A A and Grade A prints. 65c lb.: carton, lc higher; a prints. 63c. Cheese Medium cured To re tailers: A grade Cheddar single daisies, 41-51c; processed American cheese, o-io. loai, 4u-4Jc. Farm Market California tomatoes sold within a wide range with larger two layer lugs to retailers at 3.25-3.35 and smaller down to 2.2s a lug: California dry onions retailed for as low as 10 cents a pound; Dalles- port, wash., lettuce quoted to wholesalers and truckers at 1.75 1.8a a 2-dozen head carton. Poultry, Rabbits Live Chickens Quoted to grow ers at Portland, Salem and south to Eugene: f.o.b. ranch. No. quality fryers, 23,i-4 lbs., 17c; light nens, a-sc; neavy nens, lu-nc. Dressed Chickens No. 1 grade dressed to retailers: Fryers, whole drawn, 32-35C lb.; cut up, 37-40c; hens, heavy type, whole drawn, 35-38c; light type, cut up, 29-34c lb, Dressed Turkeys To retailers Frozen, ready to cook A grade young toms, 40-43c lb., according to weight; A grade young nens, same basis, 38-4UC 10. Breeder Turkeys To producers (Nominal) A grade hens, 23c on an eviscerated basis; A grade toms, 23c on the same basis; to retailers, A grade hens, 35-36C Rabbits (Average to growers f.o.b, killing plants): Live white, 3i-4V2C lb. f.o.b. Portland, 20-23c; colored pelts. 5c under. Fresh lulled try ers to retailers, 57-60c lb.; cut up, 61-64C. Weather Lutheran Synod Opens Convention Gearhart -flJPD- The Pacific Synod of the United Lutheran Church in America opened its 59th annual convention here today. The convention includes pastors and lay delegates from 65 congregations in Alaska, Washington, Oregon and western, Idaho. Main order for business scheduled is to elect a presi dent to succeed Dr. L. H. Steinhoff, who has reached the constitutional limit of two terms. money: itX women andGUNS glUEMHSCOPE Portland Restaurant Damaged by Flames Portland -(UPD Fire Sunday night caused about $6000 dam age to the Embers restaurant here. Firemen said they believed the blaze was caused by paint fumes ignited by electrical wiring. A janitor had been painting in the basement'. FORECASTS Medford and vicinity: Variable cloudiness with chance of scattered showers tonight and Tuesday. Low tonight 38-40. High Tuesday 65. Western Oregon: Mostly cloudy with rain tonight and Tuesday. Con tinued cool. Low tonight 38-44. High Tuesday 55-65. Northern California: Fair tonight and Tuesday, except partly cloudy extreme north portion Tuesday. Lit tle temperature change. LOCAL DATA Temperature: Mean yesterday 53; above normal 6. Record high this date 91 in 1954. Record low this date 33 in 1938. Precipitation: 24 hours to mid night, trace. Midnight to 10 ajn., trace. Total this month 1.18 in., .49 in. above normal. Total since Sept. 1 12.34 in., 3.93 in. below normal. Humidity: Lowest yesterday 41, jiigiieai mis a.m. &lvc. High 4:30 24 City Yester- a.m. nr. day Low 'Prec. Brookings 60 44 .03 Crater Lake .t 35 21 .51 Grants Pass 62 39 Klamath Falls 53 29 .02 MEDFORD 62 42 T Portland 61 45 .18 Seattle 56 40 08 Spokane 56 40 .34 Yakima 59 38 .09 Eureka 57 47 .08 Red Bluff 72 47 T Sacramento . 72 44 San Francisco 60 51 Los Angeles ..- 74 59 Phoenix 95 65 Denver 77 47 Chicago 72 55 T Miami Beach 85 75 .78 New York 62 - 54 Washington, D.C. 74 57. - FIVE-DAY FORECAST " (Through May 23) Western Oregon-Western Wash ingtonPrecipitation heavier than normal in showers occurring most ly after middle of week. Tempera tures averaging slighUy below nor mal with slowly rising trend. Nor mal highs in interior western Wash ington 65-70, western Oregon 68-75; on coast 35-65. Normal lows 45-50. Northern California A few scat tered showars in extreme north portion from time to time. Other wise no precipitation. Temperature aughtly below normal. CANDLE ROOM Charcoal Broiled LOBSTER TAILS An especially good plac to eat if dieting! $ & - 'fi --3 Pits 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 Portland USDA market news service. Basis by the ton, bulk, prompt delivery, f.o.b. track, Port land. Wheat. No. 1 soft white $69.00 No. 2 Milo. Eastern shipment $54.50 No. 2 corn, Eastern shipment $57.75-58.00 No. 2 white oats, 38-lb. Coast S52.00-54.OO No. 2 Western barley. Coast $50.00-50.50 Soybean meal,44 protein $76.50 Standard millrun .S43.00-44.00 9 Two Plead Guilty n Municipal Court Two members of a trio of Medford youths apprehended by Medford police over the week end for illegal posses sion of intoxicating beverages pleaded guilty to the offense in Medford municipal court today. Tlje third member, who pleaded innocent, is sched uled for trial Friday. Thomas Anthony Brauner Jr., 18, of 917 Jasper st., and a 17-year-old youth were each fined $35 each. They were arrested in a car on Washing ton st. between Main and Eighth sts. Saturday evening, police report. Police said Edwin Bryce Cripe, 18, of 2682 Crater Lake. ave., ran from the car but was apprehended Sunday. Local Man Pleads Guilty to Charges Harold J. Kelly, of 111 East Main st., Medford, re ceived a six months suspend ed sentence in district court Friday on charges of issuing a false statement in writing. Kelly pleaded guilty to the charge of issuing a bad check for $3. He was ordered to make restitution. WE CURE SICK WATCHES mm Exiwt nptirs TrMhupsdiM AB work (utrtstsei S&H GREEN STAMPS Your Friendly Credit Jeweler 15 North Central BBS TONIGHT AND TUESDAY Over-the-Counler Western Stocks The following bid and asked prices on selected Western securi ties, provided by the Medford branch office of Pacific Northwest Company are unofficial and do not represent actua transactions but are intended as a eiide to the appro-"iraatf price ranee Common Stocks Bank of America . Calif-Pacifc Utilities Cascades Plywood Cons Freightways copco . First National Bank . Morrison-Knudsen Northwest Nat Gas Pacific Pwr & Lt Permanente Cera Co Portland Gen Elec US National Bank United Utilities West Coast Tel Weyerhaeuser Bid Asked 44', 48 361 35 37, 22's 24 37 a 38,, 54 ' 58 39 '2 42 i 18 193( 41 ' 43$i 243. 261, 29i 30 69i 74 33 35 23'i 24 'i 42 2 45;, Investment Funds Noon Quotations ' on selected funds supplied by th "dford Branch of Foster & Marshall, mem bers New Vork Stock Exchange Fund Bid Asked Bullock .-14.20 15.56 ChemFund 11.24 12.17 Eaton Howard Stk 24.54 26.2"3 Fidelitv 16.89 18.26 Gas Ind - 13.79 15.07 Group Sec A via -Elec 11.48 12.57 Group Sec Com Stk 13.54 14.12 Group Sec Petr 11.38 12.46 Group Sec Steel' 10.52 11.56 Group Sec Tobac 7.54 8.27 Keystone B-3 16.46 17.96 Keystone B-4 10.22 11.15 Keystone K-2 14.92 16.22 Keystone S-l 19 30 21.07 Keystone S-2 12.95 14.13 Keystone S-3 15.43 16.84 Keystone S-4 13.72 14.98 Mass Inv Grth Stk 14.13 15.28 TV-Elec 16.15 17.60 Value Line Inc 552 6.47 Wellington 14.45 15.75 f PLUS MASON CAMBRIDGE CRAWFORD pjkCMrrH PACIFIC MlflHWAyf $1 per Carload NOW SHOWING TWO BIBLICAL GREATS Academy Award Winning Susan Hayward in a Great Rola Paul Newman in the Role That Madt Him a Star. HURRY LAST 2 DAYS HfiY! HEY! FILMED IN A HAYSTACK WHERE IT HAPPENED DEBBIE REYNOLDS TONY RANDALL PAUL DOUGLAS f V-' "f"l3tm.it - w FRED QM-UNA MERKEL HOTEL MEDFORD fV2 W i-mfli " " r rLt crjt m METROCOLOR . I I COLOR