Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, July 13, 1959, Image 11

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Newspaper Page Text' Collision - Police reports show the ocurrrence of a non injury auto collision Sunday between vehicles operated by Helen F. Stewart, Richmond, Calif., and Marjorie B. Votaw, 320 Laurel st., Medford. The collision occurred on Quince st. near Main st. Mrs- Votaw was issued a citation for fail ure to yield right of way, po lice said. Minor damage was done to both cars. mm I itiunjitMtMiidmim. ENDS TUESDAY! oorj'ir GO COLOR HflIl CANDLE ROOM S 3 Olio An HOTEL UEDFORD SWITCH TO NEW MOBILGAS E Mobileas R Is the highest octane regular in the West. That's why 1 out of 2 users of premium gasoline can now get smooth knock-free power eCNERAL. PETROLEUM CORPORATION, A SOCONY MOBIL COMPANY Fira-A fire In a car owned by Col. H. J. Meiring was re ported to have done consider able damage to the front seat, according to Medford fire de partment firemen. The fire was reported Saturday night while the car was parked at 2460 Hillcrest rd. Car struck - Norma Lee Kime, 2687 Syringa dr., Med ford, reported to city police that her car was damaged by a hit and run vehicle at the intersection of 9th st. and Central ave. - Central Point Fir-A fire hose was lost in a fire at the Cheney sawmill in Central Point last night, along with some scrap lumber and a small smoke shed. The Cen tral Point rural fire depart ment reported extinguishing the fire and said that the hose, a new one, was in the smoke shed and was destroyed before it could be removed from the shed. The fire re portedly was caused by the burning of scrap lumber that got out of hand. Three small fires . were reported also in the Central Point area. Charcoal Broiled LOBSTER TAILS especially good place to eat if dieting! W Red hot news for Western users of premium andsave6Qto'1atank. I CdDDDDD Ask your Medical Medical patient at Sacred Heart hospital is Mrs. June C. Harrison, box 266, Phoenix. ' Patient-Surgical patient . at Rogue Valley hospital is- John Lenderman, 9, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lenderman, Pros pect. Wisconsin Picnic - The an nual Wisconsin "picnic will be held in the main picnic ground of Point Defiance park, Tacoma, Wash., Sunday, Aug. 2. Coffee will be furn ished. , Egg thrown - Calvert A. Leatherwood of 2520 Merri man rd., Medford, reported to city police that two juveniles threw an egg and hit his car while it was parked at his home. ' Grass Fire-The state for estry department reported a grass fire yesterday after noon in. the Eagle Point area. The. fire burned a small out building, a pile of wood and 4 ci 5 acres of grass. Cause of the fire has not yet been determined, it was reported. Picnic The annual Mon tana picnic will be held Sun day, July 19, in upper Lithia park, Ashland. All former Montana families and friends are invited to take their food for a potluck dinner at 1 p.m. Coffee, soft drinks and ice cream will be served. l out of j Mobil deafer r- i I i ir-ni Trash- Medford, firemen were called to a trash fire early today at 412 South Oak dale ave. A trash fire was burning under supervision at the address, firemen said, and was allowed to continue to burn. Firemen during the week end washed down eight gasoline spills in the area. Two Injured As Vehicles Collide Two persons received minor injuries as the result of a col lision Saturday night, accord ing to state police. Elmer Elwood Stokes, 77, of 401 Valley View rd., Grants Pass, a driver of one of the cars, was charged with following too closely. ' . The accident occurred on Highway 99, two miles south of the Josephine - Jackson county line, according to state police. Both cars were north bound on Highway 99 when the car, driven by Robert Cyril Thorpe, 16, Grants Pass, stopped to allow southbound traffic to clear before making a left turn v into a private driveway. Stokes was not able to stop to avoid colliding with the rear of the Thorpe car, officers said. Kathy Thorpe, 11, passen ger in the Thorpe car, receiv ed a bump on the head. Effie Stokes, also of Grants Pass, and a passenger in the Stokes car, suffered minor bruises. BIRTHS HOFFINE-To Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd, 20 Portland ave., Med ford, July 11, 1959, boy, 8 lbs., at Sftcred Heart hospital. gasoline 1K9I " v t 1 I ' uj, Ambulance Firm Starts Branch The Medford Ambulance Service is opening a branch in Ashland July 20, according to Dale Waltennire, owner of the firm. ' The branch, to be called Siskiyou Ambulance and Sick room Supply, will be located at 399 East Main st., in Ash land. Waltermire, who will man age the Ashland firm for .the first several months, report ed that two ambulances, in cluding one new vehicle, will be operated in the area. Walt ermire will be in charge of the Medford service. -: Waltermire explained that the local service has handled calls in the Ashland area and with the new branch will be available to supply more fully southern Oregon with ambu lance service. Sick room equipment, now supplied to the area from the Medford of fice, will be available in Ash land. The Ashland firm will em ploy three or four persons in area, Waltermire said. The Waltermires have op erated the Medford Ambu lance Service for five years. Church Services Held for Wagoneers ' Buhl Idaho - (UPD - Unusual Sunday morning services for the On To Oregon covered wa gon train were conducted by the Twin Falls, Idaho, state mission of the Latter Day Saints church at the state la bor camp here. Missionary Lee McCracken delivered a special sermon in honor of the covered wagon train in which he compared the modern day trek to that taken by his forefathers 100 years ago in their journey to Utah. The service Sunday was only one of many held for the seven -wagon cavalcade since it left. Independence, Mo., on April 19. Trail officials haye tried to have Sunday morn ing services conducted by a different church or denomi nation each week. Sentry Satellite Due for Launching Los Angeles-(UPD-A military reconnaissance Sky Spy moon capable of scanning every foot of the earth's surface may be the first satellite launched from the Navy's Point Arguel lo range, it was reported to day. Western Aviation magazine said an October completion date has been set for the first launching pad for the Project Sentry satellite at the facility of the Pacific Missile range. March tentatively has been set for the first launching of the Sky Spy because it will take five to six months to complete electrical installa tions at the site, the magazine said. Point Arguello, about '150 miles north of here, borders on Vandenberg Air Force base, launching point of the Discoverer satellites. Fireman Examination To be Given Aug. 7 Civil service examination for Medford city firemen will be held Aug. 1, at the Central fire station, Third and Front sts., at 8 a.m., de partment officials reported today. Persons interested in tak ing the examination may ob tain application forms at the Central station. Persons be tween the ages of 21 and 35 are eligible to apply. . , Reno Newspapers Still Strike Bound Reno - (UPD - The American Newspaper Guild's strike against Reno Newspapers, Inc., entered its third week today. There was no indication when talks would be resumed to settle the dispute. The Guild is seeking an "agency shop" clause in a new work pact. thru July 26 ILL HARRAM rMntt h m I 11 mm MM wfth DODDY WINTERS and LOIS RAY Lelghton Noblc-'s Orchestra Market Traders lanore Old Axiom New York - (LTD Stock market traders ignored an old Wall Street axiom today and sold steel shares on strike new. The axiom says: "Never sell on strike news.". Today the action of the steel shares, with declines ranging to nearly 3 points in U. S. Steel, was the reverse of what market men had anticipated. Chemicals fell sharply- with wider losses than the steels. At the lows Allied Chemical and DuPont were off more than 2 points. Aluminum issues ruled strong all day. Reynolds Metals ran up nearly 4 points at its best. Alcoa set a new high on a gain of more than a point. Strength also was noted in Kaiser and Alum inum. Coppers lost 1 to nearly 3 points on lower prices for the metal. Glen Alden was active and firm and so was Fair banks Whitney.' DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (liPD - Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 657.35, off 6.21; 20 railroads 170.46, off 1.76; 15 utilities 88.58. off 0.20, and 65 stocks 220.09, off 1.85. Sales today were, about 3,360,000 shares com pared with 3,600,000 shares Friday. Today's prices on selected stocks: Allied Chemical ...117 Alum Co. Am. ... HOVs American Can 46 American Motors .... 46 AT&T . 80 Anaconda Copper ... 61 Armco Steel ; ............ 76 4 Bendix Aviation .... 82 Bethlehem Steel .... .56. Boeing Air, ... 35 Caterpillar Corp. ...116 Chrysler Corp. 68 Continental Can .. 47 Crown Zellerbach 52 Curtiss Wright . 36 Dow Chemical ..... 90 Du Pont .255 ; Eastman Kodak 90 Firestone . : ..147 General Electric 81 General Foods . . 94 General Motors u. 56 Georgia Pacific .... 42 Graham Paige : 3 Greyhound 23 Gulf Oil '. 111 Homeststake Mining 43 Idaho Power 47 I. B. M 440 Kaiser Ind 18Ts Int. Paper . 122 Johns Manville 55 Kennecott Copper .. 103 Lockheed Aircraft .... 30 Katy 6 Montana Power Co 73 Montgomery Ward 49 Natl Biscuit ., '. 52 New York Central .. 29 Pas Gas & Elec 60 Penney J. C. .......... 113 Penn RR .. . ........ 18 Radio Corporation 67 Richfield Oil ......... 85 Safeway ..... . 37 Sears 48 Girl Blamed for Fatal House Fire Elmira, N.Y.-UPD-An attrac tive 15-year-old girl was un able today to explain why she deliberately set fire to her home, killing six of her sis ters and a brother whom she loved "very dearly," ;. police reported. Psychiatric tests were sched uled for sandy-haired Jane Shusko, one of 10, children, who admitted she threw a lighted match on some papers in a clothes closet late Satur day night. The ensuing fire swept her family's half of a two-story, two-family house in a middle-class neighborhood, resulting in the asphyxiation of her sisters and brother, ranging in age from 2 to 12 years. Queen, Philip Near End of Camp Stay Kamloops, B. C.-(UPD-Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip today, began the final day of their sojourn at this remote fishing camp, 40 miles from the nearest town. o h ism Shell Oil ..' ..... 77 Socony Mobil Oil 43 Southern Co 37 Southern Pacific 73 Standard California 51 Standard Indiana 46 Standard N. J . 51 Sun Mines 7 ft. MAE iCAdS VU ... VOS Texas Gulf Sulfur 20 Tex Pac. Land Trust 22 Transamerica Trans World Air ....... Tri-Continental Union Carbide Union Pacific ... 29 ... 21 ... 42 . 146 ... 34 United Aircraft . ...... 51 U S Rubber 67 U S Steel 100 Youngstown S & T 132 Portland Livestock Portland (UPI) Cattle 1250. Mostly low choice around 1050 lb. steers 29.75; around 1150 lb. 29.25; good steers 28-28.50; mixed good choice fed heifers 28.25; good heif ers 27.50-27.75; utility grass cows 17-18.50; canners-cutters mostly 14 15.50; utility bulls 23-24.50. Calves 150. Good-low choice veal ers 26-29. Hoes 1750. U.S. 1 and 2 butchers 190-225 lb. 17.25-17.50; mixed 1, 2 and 3 lots 180-235 lb. 16.59-17; No. 3 lots down to 15.75; No. 1 and 2 sows 304 lb. 15; other mixed 1. 2 and 3 sows 350-550 lb. 9.50-12. Sheep 3250. Mostly choice 85-100 lb. 20-20.50; good-choice No. 3 pelt spring lambs 19.25; cull-utility ewes 2-3.50. Portland Produce Portland v (UPI) Dairy market: Eggs To retailers: Grade AA large 44-46c doz.; A large 4-43c; AA medium 35-37c; AA small 27-28c; cartons l-3c additional. Butter To retailers: AA and Grade A prints, 65c lb.; carton, lc higher; B prints. 63c. ' Cheese Medium cured To re tailers: A grade Cheddar single daisies, 41-51c; processed American cheese, 5-lb. loaf, 40-43C. Farm Market Pasco area apricots sold down to 2.25 for 28 pound's to retailers to day; first Yakima corn sold to re tailers at 3-3.25 for 5 dozen ears; California tomatoes of large size topped market at mostly 3.25 a lug; Yakima pickling, cucumbers sold to 2.50 for a 25 pound lug. of mixed sizes. Poultry, Rabbits Live Chickens Quoted to grow ers at Portland. Salem and south to Eugene; f .o.b. ranch. No. 1 quality rryers, 2-ei-4 ids lac id.; iignt nens, 7c; heavy hens. 9c. Dressed Chickens No. 1 grade dressed to retailers: Fryers, whole drawn, 34-38c lb.; cut up. 39-43c; hens, heavy type whole drawn, 35-38c; light type cut up, 29-34c lb. Dressed Turkeys To producers for A grade fryer-roaster turkeys, mosUy 28c lb., on oven-ready basis. To retailers, 39-43c, on eviscerated basis. Rabbits (Average to growers f.o.b. killing plants) Live white, 33,i-4i lbs. f.o.b. Portland; 19-21c; colored pelts. 5c under. Fresh killed fryers to retailers, 56-58c lb.; cut up, 60 62c. Portland Hay, Grain Portland Wholesale Hay Prices: New crop No. 2 ereen alfalfa, baled f.o.b. Portland and Seattle. $32-33 ton: some to S35 at ForUand Wholesale Prices as reported by the PorUand USDA market news service. Basis by the ton, bulk, Jirompt aenvery, i.o.d. and. Wheat. No. 1 white track, Port- $66.50 No. 2 MUo. Eastern shipment No. 2 corn. Eastern shipment ; No. 2 white oats. ..S54.00-54.50 ..$57.00-57.00 Coast $53.00 No. 2 Western barley. Coast $43.00-43.50 Soybean meal, 44 per cent protein sou.au Standard millrun ..$36.00-37.00 Weather FORECASTS Medford and vicinity: Fair through Tuesday. Low tonight 52. Hith tomorrow 88-90. Western Oregon: Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Low night 52 58. Few degrees warmer inland val leys Tuesday. Northern California: Fair tonight and Tuesday except coastal over cast. LOCAL DATA Temperature: Mean yesterday 77; above normal 5. Record high this date 106 in 1938. Record low this date 45 in 1913. Precipitation: 24 hours to mid night 0 in. Midnight to 10 a.m. 0 in. Total this month 0 in., .10 in. below normal. Total since Sept. 1 12.85 in., 5.04 in. below normal. Humidity: Lowest yesterday 25, highest this a.m. 78. High 4:30 24-Yester- a.m. nr. day Low Free. City Brookines .'. 66 50 Grants Pass 92 59 Klamath Falls ; 89 . 58 MEDFORD 95 58 PorUand 79 58 Seattle 72 57 Spokane 91 57 Yakima 75 60 Eureka 60 55" Red Bluff ..103 68 Sacramento 92 59 San Francisco 66 56 Los Angeles 91 66 Phoenix 106 84 Denver 85 60 Chicago 79 - 64 Miami Beach 88 77 New York 79 71 Washington, D.C. 78 '68 FIVE-DAY FORECAST (Through July 18): Western Oregon-Western Washington- A few showers late in the week in western Washington and northwest Oregon with no precipi tation in southwest Oregon. Tem peratures averaging near or slightly below normal. Highs in western Washington 65-75. Western Oregon, 75-85. Low 50-60. Northern California No precipi tation with temperatures near nor mal. fi.j ...en If U Sf THC LANCERS OEBRA HAVCS AND HER MADMEN ..tndintht Saitlint Loung JERRY COLONNA ARTHUR ELLEN ISH KABBIBLE HANK PENNY-SUE THOMPSON CO. Over-the-Counfer Western Stocks The touowine bid and ' asked prices on selected Western securi. ties oro video by the Medford branch orfice ot Pacific Northwest Company art unofficial and do not represent attua transactions but are intended as guide to the apprcnEiHT" price range Common Stocks Bid Asked Bank of America 48 'a Calif-Pacific Utilities 35 U Cascades Plywood ... 34 Cons Freightways 27 Copco ; 37 'i First National Bank 56 'a Morrison-Knudsen 36 'j Northwest Nat Gas 17 'i Pacific Pwr & Lt 39 5g Permanente Cement 27 1 2 51 37 , 36, 28', 39 60 384 18 42 29 "4 30 . 73i 33 25T. 49 U Portland Gen Elec . US National Bank United Utilities West Coast Tel Weyerhaeuser 28 a . 69 2 31 ' . 24' 46 4 Obituaries DELBERT SHINAR Hornbrook-Delbert Shinar, 40, of Hornbrook, died sud denly July 12 at his home. He was a lifetime county resident. Mr. Shinar is survived by his wife, Betty, of Hornbrook; four children at home; two sons of the Bay area; his mother, Mrs. George Parr, Burney; a sister, Mrs. Curtis Peters; two brothers, Ted Shinar and Walter (Irish) Ladd, all Hornbrook. Another brother, Jim Ladd, was killed during World War II. A niece, Linda Peters, was killed June 29 in an automobile accident in the area. Funeral services will be an nounced by Girdner chapel, Yreka. MRS. FLORENCE SHALES Mrs. Florence Shales died Saturday at her home on Elk Creek rd. in Trail. Funeral arrangements will be an nounced by Conger - Morris Funeral home. JUDY ANN HUNSAKER Judy Ann - Hunsaker, ,10- week-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herschel Hunsaker of Butte Falls, died Sunday in a local hospital. Arrangements will be announced by. Conger Morris Funeral home.- JESSIE KOUNZ . Mrs. Jessie W. Kounz, 66, of 805 Taylor st., and a resi dent of Medford for the past 13 years, died in a local hos pital Saturday. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Chapel mortuary. FRANK N. MOREFIELD Graveside services for Frank N. Morefield, 78, who died in Eugene July 9, were held at the Darby cemetery today at 10 o'clock with the Rev. William C. Piper of the First Christian church, Med ford, officiating. Perl Funeral home was in charge of ar rangements. Mr. Morefield was born in Clay county. 111., on Sept. 17. 1880, and had been a resident of the state for the past 50 years. Survivors include his wife, Louella Morefield. Eugene; 4 sons, Allen Morefield, Ukiah, Calif.; Harlow Morefield, Pen dleton; John Morefield, Pierce Idaho; Orville More field, Eugene; four daughters, Mrs. Lena Kimberley, Med ford; Mrs. Mildred Shurbert, Columbus, Ga.; Mrs. Thelma Reynolds, Medford; Mrs. Zel da Antrom, Welcome, Calif; 21 grandchildren and 24 great grandchildren. JAMES B. STARKEY James B. Starkey, 73, of 457 Fairmont st., died this morning at a local hospital. Funeral services will be an nounced by Perl Funeral home. BESSIE M. DUDLEY Funeral services for Mrs. Bessie Maud Dudley, 103 Lozier lane, who died in a local hospital Saturday eve ning; will be held at the Girdner Funeral home in Yreka, Calif., on Wednesday, July 15 ,at 10:30 a.m. daylight savings time. Interment will take place in the Evergreen cemetery in Yreka. Perl Fun eral home is in charge of local arrangements. Mrs. Dudley had been a resident- of this community for the past IVi years, mak ing her home with her daugh ter, Mrs. Carl W. Norris. Sur vivors besides Mrs. Norris, are two grandchildren, Mrs. David Shaffer and Mrs. W. C. Clawson, both Medford; two great grandchildren; three sisters and one brother. a HAL WALLIS rtODUCTIOM. II Investment Funds Noon Quotetiont on selected funds supplier bv th "-dford Branch of Fostei A Marshau, mem bers New York Stock Exchange . Fnnt n-. ... 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