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Newspaper Page TextLoca I a n d Hubcaps Samuel Wilson Steele, route 4, box 372A, noti fied city police Tuesday morn ing of the theft of four hub caps from his car. HorsesHobart Amos Dits worth, 2596 Buckshot Hill rd., notified city police yesterday morning that horses were in his hayfield at that address. , Grass Fir The Medford . fire department reported that a trash fire ignited grass, burning an area about 150 feet by 250 feet in a lot occupied by Harold Rohlman at 2137 Springbrook rd- Tuesday morning., . Permits Building permits issued by the. city building department Tuesday included . one to Gordon S. MacKenzie, 1618 East Main st., $1,000 to remodel garage into a utility room;, and a $10,000 permit to D. A Parker to erect a residence at 2465 Edgemont st. That! Two aluminum lad ders, one 24 feet and one 16 feet, were reported stoled from the Electrical Products company," i228 Court "st, some time Tuesday night. The lad ders of telescopic type, were valued at $100. . Bitten Jocelyne Claire Pendergast, 715 Grant st., notified city police Tuesday morning that her child, Gary Lee Pendergast, 8, has been bitten on the right leg by a dbg owned by Wallace Wayne Nelson, 932 Mt'. Pitt ave. Po lice reports show that the in cident occurred at the Mt. Pitt ave. address and that fol lowing the biting the dog was tied. Other youngsters in the area told police that the Pen dergast boy had been throw ing rocks and teasing the dog earlier. DjuGIB SHEy.;. IKIIE 0 (HE HOLLERED FOR HELP) 616 YOUNG 6IA SCALA MCI LEKSSR ES&J2 I . . fz ii.k mill h i ; JK: Shopping! i iv tut: OPEN SATURDAY UNTIL 5:00 P.M. Daily: .8 to 5:30 Corner 6th and Fir Streets Pe rsb ria I , Spills-The fire department reported flushing down seven gasoline spills on downtown streets Tuesday. : - ; - . .' Date Set-Medford chapter, Oregon United Nations ; asso ciation, will hold the annual picnic Thursday, Aug. 6, in Ashland Lithia park, officials have announced. ' ,.: 'J Grass Fire-The Medford fixe department was called to' a grass fire yesterday afternoon along Bear creek just south of the Jackson st. bridge. The fire, about 20 square feet, was out on thens, arrival. Trash Flre-A trash fire on the 500 block on Edwards st. was extinguished last night by 'the Medford fire depart ment. Firemen reported that a permit had been issued but that the -burner apparently had neglected ( to extinguish the fire. ;-; " Attempted ' Entry - Harold Burdelt Mercer, 417 J' st., re ported to city , police yester day that two juvenile boys were attempting to steal pro duce from the Oakdale Mar ket, 11th st. and Oakdale ave. Police were unable to locate the youths involved. Patients The following pa tients were admitted yester day to Sacred Heart hospital: Mrs. Katherine E. Bryson, 4677 Crosby ave., Klamath Falls, medical; Mrs. Pearl Sla ter, .1242 -Bense lane, Med ford, surgical; Mrs. Janette Joslin, 343 West -Second st., Medford, surgical. i Grain Field Fire The state forestry department reported extinguishing a 9-acre fire in a grain field on Beeson lane near Talent Tuesday . after noon. No damage was report ed. The Talent rural fire de partment assisted in putting out the fire? - - . -v. ' - , Eagle To Meet-Final plans for a club room bowling tour nament will be made at a meeting of the Eagles at 8 o'clock tonight in the ball, 219 West Main st., Medford. The bowling tournament will start Friday between the Eagles and Moose . at the Eagles club room at 7:30 p.m. - -Collision L e w i s William Phillibert, 3434 North Pacific highway, was cited by city po lice for failing to stop at a red light Tuesday evening follow? ing , a collision between his vehicle and one operated by Johnnie Hubert Bobbins, 144 South First st., Talent. The in cident occurred at the inter section of Sixth and Fir sts.' Southern California Bigger Than Texas Lbs Arigeles-dJPp-The popu lation of Southern California now; exceeds that of tne en tire population of "Texas. Researchers of the Security- First National Bank, casting about for. a comparison, came up with that one' today involv ing the nation's second largest state. The population of South ern California's. 14 counties is about 9,600,000, the bank reported,' and added that if it were a state, it would be the fifth largest on a population basis. - - Lumber Hardware .Paints. ' Carpenter tools . Electrical Supplies A Plumhiao SubbIim. t i ,w- Tools No Change Due in zing Portland-flJPD-The local ad ministrator for the Bureau of Land Management denies that the transfer of Virgil T. Heath to . another job might mean abandonment of a program to eliminate overgrazing on pub lic lands in eastern Oregon Heath, state supervisor here for BLM since 1955, has been named coordinating officer in Salt Lake City for Utah, Ida ho, Arizona and Nevada effec tive Aug. 10. James F. Doyle, BLM area administrator, said the trans fer will lead to "no change in the policy of the "bureau and the department to conserve and improve, the range val ues." J. C. (Jack) Binford, speak ing for the Izaak Walton League, charged Heath's transfer was "an. attempt to remove a conscientious public servant from a policy making position." He said he believed Heath was transferred partly because be had a more "broadminded concept" of range management problems than does the BLM office in Washington, D. 6. Wagoneers Dine on Sourdough Cakes Vale -(DPD-Oregon's wagon train headed west today after a breakfast of sourdough pan cakes and a restful night un der "guard" by local Boy Scouts. The modern day pioneers were up at 5 ajn. Today they were to roll on to Jamison, about IS miles from here on the. John Day highway. Memories of pioneer days were recalled here Wednes-. day as some 200 cattle "stam peded" on the street, as this eastern Oregon city paid hon or to the men and women who have traveled from Independ ence, Mo., since April 19. The Rev. Vincent Egan, a cowboy priest, joined the wag on train members in paying tribute to John D. Henderson, who died on the Oregon Trail in 1852 a mile southeast of here. Neuberger Suggests Douglas McKay Dam Washington-fUPD-Sen. Rich ard L. Neuberger suggested today that Green Peter dam on the south fork of the San tiam river in Oregon be nam ed Douglas McKay dam in tribute to the former Oregon governor and interior secre tary who died Wednesday. "Douglas McKay was one of the 42 original members of the Willamette Basin Project Committee, which has been instrumental in securing fed eral authorization and con struction of such projects as Cougar, Hills Creek, Detroit and Green Peter dams," Neu berger said, v It He said Green Peter was "not a particularly historic or traditional name and could easily be spared." ASIA 'SUMMIT' SOUGHT Seoul -(DPD- A high diplo matic source said today that the Republic of Korea will seek a summit conference of Asian leaders in the near fu ture to discuss formation of a regional anti-Communist alliance. ' '.' BIG HUES UDDER CO. ONE-STOPShopping Center for all your building and remodeling supplies: . Roofing- Insulation KHchoe) Cabinets Ornamental 'J Wrought Iron .-j fuj-ii DeWsIt work ihop power tools YES! Our Store is 4y -for cjour Drop in and brbwsie around . . v enjQy shopping in cool jcomfort . r lots of Free ' Parking, too, plus a wide selec tion of quality merchandise priced to suit your wallet. EASY TERMS r Buy Now! Pay Later! ; V IN THE RACK Governor Long of Louisiana sits-in the bread rack of a grocery store in Tularosa, N. M., and eats "the best meal I've had since I "went to Galveston." Long was on his way back from Ruidoso Race Track where he allegedly launched such a tirade that track officials tact fully eased him out ' Profit Taking Slows Stoc k Ma r New York -TOPD- Profit tafc ing slowed the stock market advance to a crawl, today but it couldn't prevent the indus trial average from reaching a new all-time high. ' Best gains were by issues outside the group used to com pile the averages. Brunswick Balke and American Machine & Foun dry, the two major manufac turers of bowling equipment, helped brighten the day. The former was up around 6 at ats high and the latter rose more than 3. The steels were firm on bal ance, wltn Youngstown lead ing with a gain running past points at its best. The drugs were in favor, with American Home Prod ucts up more than 2, and Merck and Vick up more than a point each. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York-DPD-Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 in dustrials 664.63, up 0.25; 20 railroads 178.09, up 0.20; 15 utilities 89.63, up 0.05, and 65 stocks 221.35. up 0.13. Sales today were about 3,310.000 shares, unchanged from Wednesday. Today's prices on selected stocks: Allied Chemical 1261. Alum Co Am . 115 American Can ; 43 Va Anferican Motors' 45 AT&T 80V4 Anaconda Copper . Armco Steel Bendix Aviation ... Bethlehem Steel ... 62 791. 81 56 Va 34V8 Boeing Air ...... Caterpillar Corp 113 V Electrical tools Drills, etc. Houtecleanini aids Fireplace units Barbecues and ' tables . Fencing Floor Tile' comfort ket C I i m b Chrysler Corp . 693A Continental Can 47 Crown Zellerbach ... 54V Curtiss Wright .. 355 Dow Chemical .. 87 Du Pont :256 Eastman Kodak 96Vi Firestone .147 General Electric : 81 V General Foods. .. J. 9434 General Motors 56V Georgia Pacific , 51 Graham Paige ; 2 Greyhound 22 Gulf Oil 1083i Homestake Mining 42 Idaho, Power i 47Vi IBM - .436 Kaiser Ind '.. 19 Int Paper . 125 Johns Manville .. 56 Kennecott Copper .103 Lockheed Aircraft 29 Katy ...... 6 Montana Power Co ; 75 Montgomery Ward 49 Ttfat'l Biscuit 52 New York Central 29 Pac Gas & Elec 63 t-enney J u ixz Penn RR 18 Radio Corporation , 67 Richfield OU ; 82 Safeway .. 37 Sears .. : 47 Shell Oil . ... 77 Socony Mobil Oil .. 43 Southern Co 38 Southern Pacific 70 Standard California 51 Standard Indiana 45 Standard NJ . . 50 Sun Mines 6 Texas Co 81 Texas Gulf Sulfur 19 Tex Pac Land Trust 22 Transamerica 1 30 Trans World Air 22 Tri-Continental ... 42 Union Carbide ..........146 Union Pacific 33 United Aircraft 53 United Air Lines ' 43 U S Rubber ... 66 U S Steel . 101 Youngstown S & T ......143 Woman Has Answer, To Gas Tax Question Boston -TOPD- President Pat rick B. McGinnis of the Bos ton & Maine railroad asked a luncheon gathering: "How. many here know how much they pay.for state and Federal gasoline taxes?"' He was surprised when the only woman in .the room promptly answered: "Nine cents." . Asked how she knew, Miss Emily-Roekelt explained: "When ;you pay on 500,000 gallons a year, you know." She owns a Boston taxicab company. Senate Confirms Stewart Promotion Washington - (UPIf - The Senate today confirmed movie star James M. Stewart's pro motion from colonel to brig adier general in the Air Force Reserve.. " , The same promotion" was approved for Sen. Barry M. Goldwater (R-Ariz.), an Air Force Reserve officer. Both were included in a list of Air Force promotions. Births McKINNIS To: Mr. and Mrs. Richard, 225 Mistletoe rd., Ashland, July 21, 1959, a girl, 6V pounds, at Ashland General hospital. SCHLEDEWITZ To: Mr. and Mrs. Herman, 6009 Harris rd., Central Point, July 22, 1959, a boy, 434 pounds, at Sacred Heart hospital. . The teeth' of rodents never stop growing. Portland Livestock Portland TJPI) USD A Cettle 100. Utility cows 18.50-18; canners cutter 13,50-15.50; heavy cutters to 1650. - Calves 25. Standard-good vealert 22-27; low choice 28. Hogs 250. No. 1 and 2 butchers 190-220 lb. mostly 16.25, : ome 16.75; mixed 1. 2 and 3, 180-235 lb. 15.25-16; mixed grade . 300-350 lb sows 10.50-13. !- . Sheep 400. Mostly choice 63-106 lb. spring slaughter lambs 19.25 19 JO; choice 92-89 lb. high yielding lambs 19.75; mixed good-choice spring lambs 1850-19. including shorn lambs at 1850; good-choice above 75 lb. feeder lambs 18-17; cull-good ewes 250-5. i .- Portland Produce Portland (UPI) Dairy market: - Eggs To retailers: Grade AA large, 47-48c dot.; A- large, 44-47c; AA medium. 37-40C; AA small, 27- 38c; 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 dai sies , 41-5 lc; processed American cheese, 5-lb. loaf, 40-43c Farm Market - ' Red raspberries brought S2.75 a flat today. Loganberries went at $225 and boysenberries were down to $2 a flat. Yakima Moorpark apricots went at $2.25-250 a 28 pound box and The Dalles Til tons went at $2.85. . . . Poultry, Babbits j - 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.. 18-19c lb.: light hens, 7c; heavy hens, 9c. Dressed Chickens No. 1 grade dressed to retailers: Fryers, whole drawn, 32-36c lb.; cut up, 37-41c; hens, heavy type whole drawn, 35 38c; light-type cutup, 29-34c lb. Dressed Turkeys To producers for, A grade fryer-roaster turkeys, mostly 28c lb.,' on oven-ready ba sis. To retailers, 39-43c on eviscer ated basis. Rabbits (average to growers f.o.b. killing nlantsl Live white. 3-4Vz 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 green alfalfa, baled, f.o.b. Portland and Seattle, $32-33 ton; some to $35 at Portland. Wholesale Prices as reported by the Portland USDA market news service. Basis by the ton. bulk. Erompt delivery, f.o.b. track, Port ind. Wheat No.. 1 white $6650 No. 2 Milo, Eastern shipment $5050 No. 2 corn, Eastern shipment 137.73-58. No. 2 white oats, Coast ..... $53. No. 2 Western barley. Coast $44. Soybean beal, 44 protein SBB.5U Standard millrun . $38-39. Weather FORECASTS Medford and vicinity:' Consider able cloudiness with cooler temper atures through Friday. Good chance of evening thundershowers tonight and Friday. Low tonight 68. High Friday 95. Western Oregon: uouay on tne coast, partly cloudy in the interior tonight and Friday. Scattered show ers or thundershowers and cooler in the northern interiors. High Fri day 75-85 except 95 in southern in terior and 55-65 on coast. Low to night 52-62. - Northern California: Probably a few light showers tonight. Scattered thundershowers in the mountains. Otherwise partly cloudy tonight and Friday - with slightly cooler temperatures. LOCAL DATA TEMPERATURE: Mean yesterday 83: above normal 10. . Record high this date 105 in 1928. Record low ttus date 44 in ivzz. PRECIPITATION: 24 hours to midnight, none. Midnight to 10 ajn.. none. Total this month none, .14 inch. below normal. Total since Sept. 1, 12.85 inches, 5.08 inches below normal. HUMIDITY: Lowest yesterday 19, highest this a.m. 53. High 4:30 24 City . Tester-a.m. hr. day Low Free Brookings 65 Crater Lake Grants Pass Klamath Falls 95 55 69 73 63 MEDFORD 103 Portland 91 Seattle 92 63 68 74 55 79 64 56 66 83 60 71 76 71 75 Spokane 100 Yakima 10- Eureka 63 Red Bluff 105 Sacramento 91 San Francisco 65 Los Angeles 76 Phoenix . 106 91 89 Denver Chicago .79 .47 .07 Miami Beach 79 New York 85 Washington, D. C. 89 Over-the-Counter Western Stocks h nlln li Mil -n MlCMi nrices on selected Western securi ties psovidea by the Medford branch Office of Pacific Northwest Company are unofficial and do not represent actual1 transactions but are intended as a guide to the aDDro--at price range Common Stocks . Bid Asked Bank of America 48 i 51 V Calif.-Pacific Utilities P-asrariec Plvwood . 35 . 37 37, 39V4 26a 39 62 38 "2 19 i 41 87 29 73 30 27 49 Cons. Freightways . 24 . 37' . 58 'i . 36 .18 . 39 . 26is . 27 i . 6914 . 30i . 23i . 46 First National Bank Morrison-Knutsen .. Knrthwpst Nat. Gas copco Pacific Pwr. & Lt. Permanent Cement Portland Gen. Elec. U. S. National Bank TTnlted Utilities West Coast Tel. Weyerhaeuser Investment Funds Noon Quotations on selected funds supplied by th- "-dford Branch of Foster & Marshall, mem bers New York Stock Ezchanse Fund Bid 14.23 11.94 25.09 17.16 13.09 Asked 15.60 12.92 - 26.83 ' 1855 12.35 15.23 11.71 12.81 8.69 . 17.68 11.28 16.71 22.15 14.53 1738 14.16 15.73 18.06 652 16.07 Bullock .. Chem Fund Eaton Howard Stk . Fidelity ; Gas Ind Group See A via Elec 11.28 Lrroup Sec com t u.ai Group Sec Petr Group Sec Steel Group Sec: Tobac Keystone B-3 Keystone B-4 Keystone K-2 10.69 11.70 7.93 16.20 10.34 15.31 20.30 1331 15.93 12.98 1455 1657 5.97 14.74 Keystone S-l - Keystone s-z .. Keystone S-3 Keystone S-4 . Mass Inv Grth Stk TV-Elec Value Line Inc Wellington There are about 51,000 dairymen in the New York New Jersey milkshed area. NOTICE ALL MASONIC BODIES DIPlVll4 SUNDAY, JULY 26 I I W IN I 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Jackson Hot Springs FREE: Swim Tickets Ice Cream Pep Coffee Bring your own Picnic lunch All members of Masonic Bodies & Guests Welcome McKay's Eyes Help Others See Salem-flJPD-Douglas McKay's concern for his fellow men exerted its influence beyond his death and as a result, two persons again could see with both eyes today. McKay, ex-Secretary of In terior and former governor of Oregon whose friends said his chief concern had always been for his fellow men,- had specified that his eyes should go to the Good Samaritan hos pital eye bank in Portland. Arrangements for use of his eyes were made, and after his death here Wednesday; the eyes were removed and rush ed to Portland. As soon as they arrived, the corneas were removed and transplanted in two "persons, each of whom had one bad eye. As a result of the transplants, full vision was restored to each of them. - Mrs. Mabel McKay said she thought it would be a "won derful thing" for her husband to donate his eyes." She said the decision was made last January after she and McKay had investigated an eye resto ration bank . in New .York City. ' . . ini ii ( h ,v 1 l ADMITTING at least. 200 burglaries, Gordon E. Atter berry, 24, is returned to Los Angeles from Reno, Nev, where he was captured. Whaler Survives Medical Concoction New Bedford, Mass. -flJPD-Benjamin Boodry, on a four year whaling voyage and free to use his ship's medicine chest, made the following en try in his journal: - "Feb. 22, 1853 - had a very sever attack of cramp. Took opium, laudanum, castor oil, blue pills, Attwood's- Bitters, but to no -eflRt. Could not find relief til 10 o'clock. At 11 had a relapse. Felt very poor ly indeed." J I A bit of research at New Bedford's Whaling Museum revealed that Boodry survived all this treatment and lived to a ripe old age. Sardines Will Be On Military Menus Chicago-(Science Service) - Canned sardines have receiv ed a big okay from the U. S. Army Subsistence Market Center here. From now on they will be included as an optional item on the overall U. S. military master menu beginning in January, 1960. Individual commanding of ficers will have the final say as to whether their Army and Air Force installations use the canned sardines or not. . The Diesel' engine was pat ented in 1892 by a German named Dr. Rudolf Diesel. Have you heard Bob Coverly Playing all ; Requests at tho NEW y. PIANO If not ... Why not . . . Drop in Say Hello! Danny Msrme, Manager HOTEL MEDFORD BAR Obifuaries . . . MARION SIMMONS. .'' ' : Funeral services for Marion Simmons, infant son of' Mr. and Mrs. Charles Simmons, Clanton, Ala., were held this afternoon in the Conger-Morris Funeral home with 'X-t. David Peterson of the Salva tion Army officiating. Com mittal will be in Hillcrest. Me morial park. " Surviving, besides tLe par ents, are two brothers, Robert and Charles; two sisters, Caro lyn and Patricia; . grandpar ents, Mrs. Vera Green and William Simmons, : both of Alabama. Portland TV Station Sale Authorized Washington -(DPD The Fed eral Communications commis sion today authorized, George Haggarty of Detroit to . sell Portland, Ore., 'Channel 12 TV Station KPTV to the NAFI Corp. of Oakland,. Calif, for $3,761,864. ' ! The purchasing company has named crooner Bing Cros by as chairman of the new TV station and Kenyon Brown, part owner of the Detroit Ti gers baseball club, as presi dent of the Portland TV out let. ' . TWIN CELEBRATION West Hartford, Conn. -(DPD Joseph Torneo wasn't too surprised when his wife gave birth to twins. After all,- he's a twin, and it was his birth day. " .; oauid..u., THE NATION'S A "DIGGEST 1959 y EXPOSITION 3 DAYS ONLY Thurs., Fri.f Sat. America's Foremost Entertainer A llfeni fntrprim. Inc. f roduciio TONICHT PHIL STEM Evenings 3:15 .- ' General Admission ." $2.00 Reserved $3.00 Box . $3.50 Coming July 26-30 . ART LINKLETTER -v - - ...( In Person Matinees 2:00 P.M. Admission SOc ' i t BIGGEST KAMILY i P FUN-TIME k ' ATTRACTION IN OREGON'S HISTORY mm WITH 'J BP DORIS DAY JACK LEMMON ERNIE KOVACS All of thm great in th funnlsst film of th yaarl , It Hf-fep m GREAT FUN 71AM IN THE YEAR'S HAPPIEST MOVIEI 43 MAIL TRIBUNE, Mefor, Or. Thursday, July 23, 1959 The average British .male used 10.1 pounds of tobacco in 1958, compared with 9.8 pounds in 1956. For women, the. average rose from 3.1 pounds to 3.3.- 25th Annual DAKOTA PICNIC Games Fun Awards Noon July 26 Tou Veil -STATE PARK ENDS TONfTE IUTs-m- rusnszKsrcta O ALSO O TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE I DAVE LOVC DAWN ANDERSON J THEATRE INFORMATION SERVICE CALL SP 3-732J FOR FULL INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR THEATRES $1.00 PER CARLOAD NOW SHOWING CttCOff JH FfCXSIMr,0:iSBAXER COUNTRY in TECHNICOLOR TECHNIRAMA UAN UUKTtA Ui -JAMCTTPIIKI. lJUv-. Mcc6RMACK ENDS TONITE Fred MacMURRAY Jean HAGEN CO-FEATURE NOW SHOWING OMnm ss THE "BIO- tua m urns awe CO-FEATURE I QNseoP MirK.. ' fT..S in s2 r B0B HOPE IV M' JlAWES N.-i i COLOR..-, iff! Acowficiutt STEVE FORREST CO-FEATURE LOUIS KEE1Y XX PRIMA0 SMITH