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I Local and Gasoline SpilldeTiii0 -gasoline spills from automobiles on downtown Medford streets' were flushed down by fire men yesterday. . Convalescing -HSid Hansen, route 3, Coal Mine rd., Med ford, is convalescing at home following surgery at Rogue Valley hospital Mrs. Hansen has reported. '. ' C - ' To Meet-Pocahontas lodge will meet Friday, June 19, at Redman Hall on Apple St.. for a potluck dinner at 6:30 p.m. A business meeting will fol low at 8 pan. .: Driver Cited- Hester Lois Tnffl. 320 Bush st.. Central Point, was cited for folldwing too close today after her vehi cle struck a truck operated by Arthur Earl- NeaL; Grants Pass, on North Central ave. at East Jackson st., Medford po lice reported. Old Timers-Members of the Old" Timers Car club' are asked to meet at 9 a.m. Satur day morning at A-W root beer stand parking lot, North Riv erside ave., at East Jackson st, for a convoy to Rogue River to participate in the Rooster Crowing contest pa rade. t - Release Fingers - Firemen were summoned to the Clay ton E. Charley residence, 3321 Forest ave.,' about 11:35 .m. yesterday when the small son of the Charleys caught his fingers in a wagon. The boy's fingers were released without injury, according to firemen. Another fire depart ment rescue mission was per formed shortly after 9 a.m, today. It involved removal of a ct from a tree. TJMEEE! What A Show! Jesse James & Billy The Kid! , "Alias . Jesse Jrras I ..-t- " J PAUL NEWMAN 4. -.- t.- .... r..w, 1 UTA MllAN nEffiflSlllri 0,0ur -mSmm .24; 1B0PHIES tUP an - -"- - - . . . Which We Carried Home From The 6fh OREGON STATE ACCORDION FESTIVAL Covering Washington, Idaho fir Oregon ' 58 STUDENTS Participated in '"' BANDS ::; A 68 STUDENTS Participated ' in . SOLOS - DUETS ORKETTES ALL STUDEMTS OF Am 517 NEWTOWN Personal la Hospital-Mrs. June Bry ant, 209 North Grape st., is a surgery patient at Sacred Heart hospital, attendants re ported today. Mrs. Carl Fetsch, Lakeview, is a medi cal patient. Revival - A series of re vival services will begin to night at Philadelphia church, 1851 Grandview ave., and will continue nightly at 7:30 p.m. Speakers will be the Rev. Ray Morken and the Rev. Leroy Wilson, missionaries to Mex ico. Trash Fire - Ashland fire men reported extinguishing a trash fire about midnignt lasi night on a lot at Iowa and Sherman sts. The blaze was apparently begun by men who had been clearing the lot and burning debris and did not put out their fire, firemen said. Great Books - The local Great Books group will meet at 7:30 o'clock tonight at radio station KMED. Tonight's sub ject will be the "Federalist Papers" and the Constitution of the U. S. Visitors are wel come. Permits - Building permits rfor six residences were issued Tuesday by " the city building department. They were valued at $83,100. The permits were issued to R. E. Marsh for a residence at 417 Willamette ave.; $12,000; M&M Develop ment company for houses at 1820 Roberts rd., $16,500; 1828 Roberts rd., $14,500; and 1836 Roberts rd., $15,500; and to Haskins and Morrison for residences at 441 Highland dr., $13,800, and 441 East wood dr., $10,800. True Story of Billy The Kid! AwAMBNOtnemi J a 1 We Took All Senior Trophies y WHICH INCLUDED SENIOR SOLOS o 2 SENIOR DUETS o SENIOR QUARTET. SENIOR BAND v; IN INTERMEDIATE COMPETITION BAND PLACED 1ST IN JUNIOR DUETS WE PLACED 1ST - 2ND - 3RD IN SUB-JUNIOR ORKETTES PLACED 1ST IN DIVISION i)BlKI y SilHlIL Obituaries SCOTT BOYER Funeral services for Scott Boyer, 81, of box 183, Eagle Point, who died " in ra : local hospital Tuesday, will be held at Perl Funeral home Friday at 1:30. The Rev. J. J. Mun shaw will officiate. Interment will be in the Siskiyou Cre matorium. Mr. Boyer was born in Ne braska Nov. 19, 1877, and had been in the Eagle Point com munity for 37 years. He was a retired blacksmith. . Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Annette Boyer, of Eagle Point; two sisters, Mrs. Anna Webster and Rose Robinson, both of Coos Bay; and several nieces and nephews. - MRS. MARJORIE BARNES Mrs. Marjorie K. Barnes, 53, died at the home of her son, Bill A. Barnes, 604 Whit man, place, this morning. Fu neral arrangements will be announced by Perl Funeral home. - r RUTH M. PROCTOR 'Funeral services for Ruth M. Proctor, 59, of Trail, who died Monday in San Pablo, Calif., will be held Saturday at 10 a.m. in the Conger Morris Funeral home. The Rev D. E. Millard will of ficiate. Committal will be in Memory Gardens Memorial park. Mrs. Proctor was born Sept. 10, 1899, in Sacramento, Calif., and in July, 1921, at Spokane, Wash., she married Frank L. Proctor . who . survives. Mrs Proctor had lived in Trail since 1936. She had gone to San Palbo about four weeks ago to visit her twin sister. Surviving, besides her hus band, are two sons, Karl M, Proctor, of Shady Cove, and Frank L. Proctor Jr., of Shady Cove; one brotfter, Earl Root, and one sister, Mrs. Esther Garrison, both of San Pablo, Calif.; and two grandsons. Pallbearers will be Homer Chamberlin, Zane Bidwell, William Wertz, Erwin Howe, George Buckholt and William Carheart. ' WILLIAM H. STABLER Ashland - William Horace Stabler, 69, of 342 High st., died in a local hospital Thurs day, June 18.' Survivors in clude his wife, Clora, and a son, Fred, Medford. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Litwiller's Mountain View chapel. " Mr. Stabler had been a resident of Ashland six years, having moved here from Klamath Falls. Fiji, in the South Pacific, is a British colony of 250 is n ri i 9 v n n Stocks in Second Good Dav of Gains - .. ... ,. .- - , New York-flJPD-Stocks scored good gains for the second straight session today in more active .trading. The rally restored around $1 billion to market values which brought the two-day gair to around $3 billion. - 1 Rails turned strong on re ports of a sharp increase in car loadings to the best level in 19 months. Heavy indus tries such as steel and alumi num also met support, as did tires and chemicals. Profit sharing brought the averages down from their best levels of the day but gains far outnumbered losses. It was the first session in a while which saw new, highs exceed ing new lows.. - DOW JONES AVERAGES New York - (CPA - Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 629.41 up 1.36; 20 rails 164.16 ap 1.07; IS utilities 86.09 up 0.10; 65 stocks 211.56 up 0.62. Sales today totaled about 3,160,000 compared to 2, 850.000 Wednesday. Today's prices on selected stocks: ''. " Allied Chemical Lll&A Alum Co. Am: L. 98V6 American Can L. 42 American Motors AT&T 38 78 Anaconda Copper 63 Armcoteel 75 Bendix. Aviation 77 Bethlehem Steel ... 53 Boeing Air : 35 Caterpillar Corp. ........105V Chrysler Corp. . .. 68 Dow Chemical ..... 84 Du Pont 245 . Eastman Kodak 84 Firestone ; 142 General Electric (xd) 80 General Foods 88 General Motors .. - 50 Georgia Pacific 53 Graham Paige . 3 Greyhound .L.. 22 Gulf Oil . 109 Homestake Mining . 42 Idaho Power 1...... i 44 1. B. M. .:....::..-..433 1 Kaiser Ind. : ; 17 Int. Paper . 118 Johns Manville 51 Kennecott Copper 105 Lockheed Aircraft 31 Katy '.. 6 Montana Power .... 73 Montgomery Ward 45 Nat'l Biscuit 50 New York Central 27 Pac Gas & Elec 59 Penney, J. C. 112 Penn RR 18 Radio Corporation .... 64 Richfield Oil . ............ 81 Safeway 37 Sears J .... 47 We Won The 1959 PROFESSIONAL Trophy for most Ail-Around School Of The Year PHONE SP 2-6897 Shell Oil 79 - Socony Mobil Pil 44V4 Southern Co. . . ... 37 - Southern Pacific ....u...... 724 Standard California 50 Standard Indiana 46V6 Standard N.J. .. .. . 50 Sun Mines ; 7 ". Texas Co. :..75VS Texas Gulf Sulphur 20 Tex Pac Land Trust 24Vi Transamerica . 26 Trans World Air 24 Tri-Continental 39 Union Carbide L..141 Union Pacific .... 34 United Aircraft i.... 51 United Air Lines 38 U. S. Rubber 61 U. S. Steel 98 Youngstown S & T ...129 Portland Livestock Portland (UPI) Cattle 100. Good 770 lb. fed heifers 26.75; can ner and cutter cows 13-15.50. Calve 25. Good and low choir 270 to 365 lb. slaughter calves 36- zh.su. Hoes 250. U.S. No. 1 and a butch. ers 200 to 225 lbs. 19; mixed 1, 2 ana a lots, ibo xo 233 ids. 10-1820; sows around 11-15. Sheep 400. Mostly choice 80 to 104 lb. spring lambs 2325; some 23, and mixed good and choice 22.50; cull to choice slaughter ewes c-d, gooa ana cnoice 71 to 85 lbs. spring feeder lambs 18-18.50. Portland Produce Portland :(UPI) Dairy market: Eggs To retailers: Grade AA large, 39-40C doz.; A large, 37-38c; AA medium, 32-34c; AA small, 25 27c; cartons l-3c additional. Butter To retailers: AA and Grade A prints, 65c lb.; carton, lc nigner; a- prints, 63c. uneeae -medium cured To re tailers: A grade Cheddar single dai sies, 41-51c; processed American cneese, 3-lD. loaf, 40-43c. Farm Market Williamette vallev strawberries were in good demand at the Port land market. Ordinary quality strawberries sold at $225 a flat and poorer quality went at $1.75 a iiai or Deiow. i;auiorma canta loups sold within a range of $4.HS-0. Poultry, Rabbits Live Chickens Quoted to now. ers at Portland, Salem and south to Eugene; f .o.b ranch, No. 1 qual ity fryers, 2-4 lbs., 18c; light hens, 8c; heavy hens, 9-10. .Dressed Chickens No. 1 grade dressed to retalers: Fryers," whole drawn. 33-36c lb.; cut up, 38-41c; 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 hens. same Dasis, 38-4UC id. Breeder Turkeys To nroducers A grade hens, 24c on the same ba sis; a graae toms. 2Bc on the same basis; to retailers, A grade hens. 3U-33C ID. Rabbits (averaee to erowers f .o.b killing plants) Live white. 3-44 lbs., f.o.b. Portland, 19-2 lc; colored pelts, 5c under. Fresh killed fry ers to retailers, 56-58c lb.; cut up, tiu-bze. Portland Hay, Grain Portland Wholesale Hay Prices: New crop No. 2 green alfalfa, baled f.o.b. Portland and Seattle, $32-33 ton. Wholesale Prices as reported by the Portland USDA market news service. Basis by the ton, bulk, prompt delivery, i.o.d. track, fon land. Wheat, No. 1 white $87.00 No. 2 Milo, Eastern shipment $55.00 No. 2 corn. Eastern shipment S58.25-58.50 No. 2 Western barley. Coast $46.00-47.00 Soybean meal,' 44 protein..$74.50 Standard millrun ..$37i00-38.00 Weather FORECASTS -Medford and vicinity: Consider able cloudiness through Friday. Low tonight about 55. .High Friday near 90. Western Oregon: Fair tonight and mostly sunny Friday. Low tonight 55-60. High Friday 85-9$, except 65-75 on coast. Northern California: Fair tonight and Friday except morning fog near coast. LOCAL DATA ' TEMPERATURE: Mean yesterday 67: a Dove normal z. Record high this date 100 in 1945. Record low this date 40 In 1954. PRECIPITATION: 24 hours to midnight, none. Midnight to 10 jn. none. Total this month .18' inch, JS0 inch below normal. Total since Sept. 1, 12.74 inches, 4.74 inches below normal. HUMIDITY: Lowest yesterday 33, highest this a.m. 84. High 4:30 24 City Yester- a.m. nr. day Low Prec. Brookings 69 52 58 58 57 55 Grants Pass 87 79 85 72 Klamath Falls MEDFORD Portland Seattle - 67 52 71 51 78 47 Spokane . xaiama Eureka 68 56 Red Bluff 99 82 Sacramento 98 64 San Francisco 73 53 Los Angeles 86 64 Phoenix . 111 89 57 60 80 52 92 Denver 88 66 83 Chicago Miami Beach M .01 J.0 New York 58 Washigiton, D. C. 68 Over-the-Counier 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 actua1 transactions but are Intended as a guide to the approximate price range. Common Stocks Bid Asked Bank of America Calif.-Pacific Utilitie Cascades Plywood Cons. Freightways 47 49 38 37 26V. 36 V 34 y 24 ya 35 Va 52 V, Copco 37i First National Bank Morrison-Knudsen 58 39,i 37 V Northwest Nat. Gas 17 18 14 Pacific Pwr. 8c Lt.. 38 'i 40 Permanente Cem. Co 25 Vi 263 Portland Gen. Elec 27 ,i. 29 U. S. National Bank United Utilities West Coast Tel. - 67 2 71 Vj 28 22 441. 20V 23 y. Weyerhaeuser 46 Californians Dies On Cdnadian Vacation Kamlons, B.C. - (DPD -M. J Alden, 73, Ontario, Calif. diedTuesday while vacation ing at Mahood lake near Kam lops. He died soon after Pacific Western Airlines plane brought a Kamloops doctor to his assistance in response to an emergency appeal by the Forestry Radio Service. His son, Warren Alden of Albany. Ore., was with him at the Friday Events at Centennial Told Portland (DPD - Following is the schedule of events at the Oregon Centennial Ex position for Friday, which is Japan Day and Lions Day: 10 a.m.-Dedication of floral clock, placing of plaque. In ternational Gardens. '. . 12 noon - Exposition gates open. -.' ; 12:20-1 p.m. - Red's Gang, KOIN radio show, live from Forest Products Pavilion. 2 p.m. - Trade Fair opens to public. 2-4 p.m. - Japanese dances and music at International Theater, Japanese tea cere mony demonstration, Interna tional Gardens. Japanese flow er display demonstration at Japanese Exhibit. 2:30 p.m. - Ice Capades mat inee. 3 p.m. Mather Air Force Band at Bandstand. 7- 4-8 pjn.-International films featuring Japan, Internationa Theater. . 7:30 p.m. - Japanese trade reception at Congress h6tel. 8:10 p.m. - Japanese dances and music, Judo demonstra tion, International Theater. 8:15 p.m. - Ice Capades. Old House Being Razed for Parking A residence built more than a half-century ago at 136 North Oakdale ave., is being torn down to make way for a parking lot for Perl Funeral home. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Perl, who have occupied the resi dence, have, moved to the Barnes apartments at 11th and King sts. Perl, manager of the Fun eral home, said that he had lived in the house for 30 years. It was bought with the mortuary property at Sixth st. and Oakdale ave. by his father John Perl in 1924. The two structures report edly were built about 1903 by Edgar Hafer, a founder of Lowa'Lumber and Box com pany which became Big Pines Lumber company. The home which has been occupied by the Perls formerly served as residence for employees of the occupants of the large house, which ; is now the mortuary. Perl said that removal of the smaller structure will make parking lot room for 30 to 35 cars. J,ohn Gearhart, Shady Cove, is razing the house for the salvage. Concrete Wall Falls; Workman, 41, Crushed Wenatchee (DPD Lewis D. Hetu, 41, .was crushed to death at the site of a new building construction project Wednesday when a section of pre-fabricated concrete wall fell shortly after being put in place. Two other men were in jured, but not seriously. BIRTHS RITZINGER - To Mr. and Mrs. Eugene, 770 Iowa st., Ashland, June 16, 1959, a boy, 8 pounds at Ashland Gen eral hospital. DALY-To - Mr. and Mrs. Don, 1015 B st.i Ashland, June 16, 1959, a girl, 8Vi pounds, at Ashland General hospital. UHALDE-To Mr. and Mrs. Jean, 341 High st., Ashland, June 18, 1959, a girl, IVi pounds, at Ashland General hospital. RASHE-To Mr. and Mrs. Tom, 203 Granite st., ' Ash land, June .18, 1959, a girl, 6V4 pounds, at Ashland Gen eral hospital. MOONEY-To Mr. and Mrs. Clyde, 115 Gibson st., Talent, June 17, 1959, a boy, 9Va pounds,' at Sacred Heart hos pital. Investment Funds Noon Quotations on selected funds supplied by th -dford Branch of Foster tt Marshall, mem bers New York Stock Exchange Fund Bid Asked Bullock 13.88 Chem Fund 11.19 Eaton Howard Stk 24.00 Fidelity 16.58 15.21 12.10 25.66 17.92 14.12 12.08 14.78 11.67 11.71 8.48 18.00 11.14 15.70 20.88 13.95 16.69 14.57 15.03 17.32 6.42 15.53 Gas Ind. 12.92 Group See Avia Elec 11.03 Group Sec Com Stk 13.50 Group Sec Petr 10.65 Cioup Sec steel 10.69 Group Sec Tobac 7.74 Keystone B-3 16.50 Keystone B-4 10.21 Keystone K-2 1459 Keystone S-l 19.14 Keystone S-2 12.78 Keystone s-3 is.au Keystone S-4 13.37 Mass Inv Grtn Stic 13.hu TV-Elec .. 15.89 Value Line Inc 5.87 Wellington . 14.25 THE DANMOORE HOTEL 1217 SW Morrison St. PORTLAND, OREGON All transient guests. All these whe eeme, return. Rates net high, net lew. Free garage, TV's and radios. Reputation for cleanliness. Reservations by long distance refunded on request upon arrival Pioneer Frost Forecaster Dies In Los Angeles News has been received here of the death June 16 in the Los Angeles area of Floyd Young, pioneer in fruit frost forecasting. .. Mr. Young came to Med fqrd in 1917 after western fruit growers had obtained a small congressional appropria tion for the investigation of frost protection methods and devices, r - . Tor the next;j.10 years he came to the valley each spring and during that time conduct ed extra research which forms the . basis for ;. most of . the knowledge on orchard heating today. - , His work: included . deter mination of critical tempera tures . for . various fruits, at various .- stages of develop ment; and studies of inversion at Medford and elsewhere, both in free air and in heated orchards; efficiency of various types of orchard heaters and of the most practical ways of using them; effect of soot on pollination; fuel oils and oth er orchard heating fuels; use of tents and other covers for frost protection; temperatures recorded in various types of instrument shelters; and for mulas for the prediction of minimum. temperatures. . ..... . ' During the time of Mr. Young's fruit forecast serv ice, he saw it grow as horti culture in the west expanded. At the time of his retirement in 1956, all citrus fruit grow ing districts of Arizona and California had representatives of the Pomona forecast of fice working through the win ter frost season. The repre sentatives were assigned to the most important deciduous fruit districts of California, Washington, Oregon and Ida ho in the spring. Mr. Young visited Medford annually on his spring inspec tion trips from 1927 until his retirement. Senators May Discuss Progress of Libby Dam Washington-(DPD-Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho) said today that Northwestern senators and the International Joint Commission may meet in Spo kane later this year to dis cuss progress on the proposed Libby Dam. After a meeting between the Senators and the IJC Wednesday, Church said it "revealed the constant atten tion and effort the commis sion is giving this problem which means there are high hopes for a not too distant agreement to make possible Libby. Dam and a- solution to the flooding in the Bonners Ferry area." Dog Catchers Strike For Increase in Wages Tacoma (DPD Six city dog catchers and kennel-workers went on strike here Wednes day against the Tacoma-Pierce County Humane Society for higher wages. The workers, recently af filiated' with the Teamsters Union, want a $30 monthly wage boost." The society of fered $25 per month, but the union rejected the offer and the workers left their jobs. CRATER LAKE HIGHWAY -STARTS FRIDAY- ONE OF THE YEAR'S FUNNIEST! NOW, THE . ONE MOVIE YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR! rrrrr ends tonite mMS iirUWro RUSSELL SS&sX&l L FORRESTTUCKER CMWKifc I'n I 'MS ' FRED CLARK 1 1 I W :i lilJifk A ' . V MAlAfOWERS HILARIOUS CO-FEATURE howr w, cfmrtY-ot ww LOADED r JOSE FERRER. EXCITING CO-FEATURE J SSSbial ' nvPn 1 1 i Th i !: m-WAA SENA ROWLANDS 'W l Bend Court Pays Visit To Portland Portland -UPD- Members of t h e Bend " Water Pageant Court were Portland visitors today and Friday for a fast round of press, radio and tele vision appearances, including visits to the Centennial Expo sition, a Beaver baseball game Friday night, , and a tour of the Jantzen Knitting Mills. The five young high school princesses, their chaperone and Pageantarian escorts were to arrive at the Portland Chamber of Commerce vis itors information center at 2 p.m. today to be. met by Chamber officials. ", . They brought - with them a six-foot bat to present to Gen eral Manager Tommy. Heath of the Portland Beavers base ball club Friday evening. The over-sized 'bat was made in Bend especially for the occa sion, .of pine lumber stock. ' The visitors planned to in vite all of Portland to attend the Centennial Water Pag eant to be held in Bend July 2-4. '. 1 Liberace Faces Further Action i'V London -(DPD- Liberace, vin dicated by a British jury in his libel suit against the tab loid Daily Mirror, today faced further legal action before he could collect his $22,400 in damages. He was awarded the money Wednesday from the Mirror and its columnist, William "Cassandra" Connor; on the grounds Connor implied in a 1956 article that he was a homosexual. : The Mirror, which spent an estimated $45,000 fighting the case, filed notice of an appeal. If the appeal, is granted, it would mean a new trial. Payment of damages was being upheld pending the out come of the appeal action. Idaho Local Votes On Pact Renewal Lewiston. Idaho -(OPD Mem bers of Local 10-364 of the International Woodworkers of America have completed vot ing on a proposed two-year extension of the work con tract with Potlatch Forests, Inc. Union and company nego tiatine committees approved a wage clause providing an across-the-board increase of IVi cents an hour this year and 2 3A cents next year for employees at operations at Lewiston, Potlatch, Coeur D'Alene, Deer Park, Kooskia Kamiah, and Pierce - Head quarters. ; The ballots will be sent to Portland to be counted with Northwest regional ballots. Ironworkers Serve Notice of Strike Vancouver, B. C. -(DPD-Iron-workers served official strike no'tice on the Structural Steel Association of British Colum bia Wednesday. No strike date was set, but they will be able to walk out after noon Friday. Traveling time and the em ployers' desire to import labor from Alberta were the main issues in the dispute; DRIVE-IN 1 ACTILs I MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. 1 1 Thursday, June 18, 1959 .. NOW SHOWING She yearned tor a man... AND CAME ltd UltTU " '3 1 t CQLOrl SANDRA DEE JAMES DARREN . 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