Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, November 27, 1959, Image 9

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Newspaper Page TextLocals Lamp Thafl An ornament al lamp was taken from the front hall of an apartment house at 119 North Central ave., Wednesday night, ac cording to city police. Screen Smashed-Raymond Wesley Brabham told city po lice someone broke the screen door at his residence, 97 Black Oak dr.. Thursday night. v Dance Slated-The Prospect Lions club is sponsoring a ' dance in the Prospect Com munity hall starting at 9 p.m. , Saturday, Nov. 29. The Elk Creek Ramblers will provide music for the public event. . Medical Patients - Elbert Nelson. 860 West 14th st., Medford, and Ira Thornburg, route 1, box 675, Eagle Point, were listed as medical patients at Sacred Heart hospital to day. . Patients - Frank Doty, 201 Chestnut st., Medford, and Corby Bennett, Grants Pass, were listed as surgery pa tients in Sacred Heart hospital today. Cited-A car operated by Daniel Dean Marques, 413 Clark st., struck a sign at North Central ave. and Court st., early this morning, ac cording to city police. Mar ques was not injured but was cited by city police for viola tion of basic rule. Permits Three permits have recently been issued by the city building department. Holiday House Trailer Sales company was issued a permit for $7,000 to remodel a com mercial building at 213 South Fir st. Bruce Houck was is sued a permit for $1,500 to erect three signs at 1182 Court st. A third permit was Issued to Electrical Products for $2,000 to erect a sign at 30 North Riverside ave. p SMASH DOulJJIJTW hero lives ns TO wSSA :t MICKIT I ftl .SjSBff 1 J -1 MOWOMJUI Y'ALL COME- DANCING Every Saturday Night To tho Music of CARROLL A SPEEDY'S LOCAL YOKELS Country-Western and Rock and Roll Music COME ON OUT Join Your Friends and Make New Ones! Located at the DERBY COMMUNITY HALL Just 8 Miles Off Crater lake Highway on Butte Falls Road O MEXICAN TACOS Z o u O X 34 Q ui WATCH!... LOOK!... AND SAVE! Jack's Blackboard Special It's Always A Red Hot Deal! Evftry day at Jack's Drive-Up a new RED HOT SPECIAL will APPEAR on the Big BLACKBOARD! Check the Blackboard each day - they're really RED HOT PRICESI "BECAUSE OF WINDOW SERVICE YOU PAY LESS!" CM Z O u Jack's Drive-Up 911 NORTH RIVERSIDE a UI u PIZZA PIE PIZZA PIE O. : PIZZA PIE Meeting Changed Med ford Altrusa club will meet Saturday, Nov. 28, at noon at the Jackson hotel rather than the Medford hotel as origi nally announced. Bicycle Stolen-Joseph Ar thur Banks, 104 Jeanette ave., told city police that his bicy cle had been stolen from McLoughlin Junior High school Wednesday afternoon. Quaker Attire-Mrs. Marie Haines, Newberg, will wear and display old fashioned Quaker attire when she speaks Sunday during the closing exercises of the Sun day school of Talent Friends church at 10:45 . a.m. Mrs. Haines will tell of her grand father's part in the under ground railroad in Ohio which antislavery Northerners used to help escaped Negro slaves reach Canada prior to the Civil war. Littrell Parts Gets County Contract Littrell Parts, Medford, has been awarded a contract to provide the county road de partment with oxygen, acety lene and carbide, the county court said today. Littrell Parts was low of two companies submitting bids Wednesday, the county court said. Littrell Parts bid $1.87 per cylinder containing 244 cubic feet of oxygen and $4.41 per 100 cubic feet of acetylene and $9.95 per lGtt) pounds of carbide. The other bidder, Industrial Air Products, also of Medford, submitted bids of $1.94 for the oxygen, $4.48 for the acetylene and $9.98 per 100 pounds for the carbide. Pauls Valley, Okla. -(UPD-Bob Martin had been hunting the source of a bad odor in his home until he went to his closet Thursday to get his hunting jacket for a Thanks giving quail hunt and dis covered one dead quail from a previous hunt still in the jacket pocket. 24c L&D&M! It's New! Fried Whitefish Fillet Patty on a Toasted Bun with Lettuce and Tartar Sauce A DELICIOUS HOT FISH SANDWICH Three Persons Appear in Court William Harrison Smith, 39, Lynwood, Calif., pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges of uttering and publishing a false check and a pre-sentence report was ordered by Circuit Judge James Main. Amil Faulkner, 33, of route 1, Lebanon, pleaded guilty in circuit court Wednesday to district attorney's information and the case was continued for an FBI report.. He was charged with taking a house trailer belonging to Boyer Kennedy Trailer Rentals, Inc., Medford, from the county without written consent. The case of George Sow ards, 1588 Springbrook rd., charged with non-support, was continued to Dec. 4. He was released on $250 bail. Obituaries ROBERT J. KETTLES ' Robert James Kettles, 78, died at his r e s i d e n c e, 819 South Peach st., Medford, yesterday. Funeral arrange ments will be announced by Perl Funeral home. LOUIS M. STONEBREAKER Newberg - Louis M. Stone- breaker, 71, former Rogue Valley resident died this morning at his home in New- Derg. tie was born March 31, 1888. in Michigan and lived in Newberg the last several years. Survivors include his wife. Margaret, and two children, Richard Stonebreaker, and Mrs. Margaret Nelson, all JNewberg. Funeral services will be held Saturday, Nov. 28, at 11 a.m. at the Brown Memor ial chapel in Newberg. EFFIE PEARSON Mrs. Effie Cordelia Pear son died Thursday in a local hospital. Funeral arrange ments will be announced by Conger-Morris, funeral direc tors. LAURA STEPHENSON Funeral services for Mrs. Laura B. Stephenson, 68, of 721 West 14th st., who died in a local hospital Thursday, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday in Chapel Mortuary. The Rev. John O. Reynolds, pastor of the Westminster United Presbyterian church, will officiate. Interment will be in Siskiyou Memorial park. Casket bearers will be Frank Elrod, Robert Elrod, Jack Russell, Jack Schultz, Nick Theis, and Ernest Wal- lin. Mrs. Stephenson, the daughter of August and Hes ter Smith, was born in Sacra mento, Calif., June 1, 1891. She was also married in Sac ramento on Sept. 25, 1912, to George S. Stephenson. Mr. Stephenson was a superinten dent for Swift and Company for 18 years, and on his re tirement the couple came to Medford 12 years ago, where Mr. Stephenson died on Oct. 27, 1957. . Mrs. Stevenson was a mem ber of the Klamath Falls Aloha chapter of the Order of Eastern Star. Survivors include one son, Ward M. Stephenson, Cottage Grove, Ore.; one brother, Ar thur N. D. Smith, Sacramen to; two sisters, Mrs. Maude Fulton, Los Angeles, and Mrs. Florence Anderson, Sun Val ley, Calif.; two grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren. One son, George W. Stephen son, was killed in World War II, and another son, Richard E. Stephenson, died in 1927. MEXICAN TACOS 24c O X in n O X ft O X o X THE PLACE TO MEET AND EAT . O PIZZA PIE Confrads Awarded For Work in Forest B. D. Greene, Ashland, has been awarded a contract by the forest service to construct a 10-man bunkhouse at Butte Falls Ranger station, Carroll E. Brown, supervisor of Rogue River National forest, has an nounced. Starr Builders of Lebanon will construct a warehouse at the new Prospect Ranger sta tion, he said. Bids will be invited Mon day for construction of a resi dence at the Union Creek Ranger station, Brown said. Contracts recently complet ed include a residence at Star Ranger station and two 10 man bunkhouses at Union Creek, constructed by E. J Fordyce and Associates of Medford. An equipment stor age building and office addi tion at Butte Falls has been completed by Rogue Valley Construction company. The contracts, along with the new Prospect Ranger sta tion, are helping to alleviate an acute shortage of housing and administrative facilities in the national forest, Brown said. SILVER COLLECTOR DIES Memphis, Tenn.-ttJPD-Mem-phis jeweler Julius Goodman, 87, well known for his col lection of old silver including the famous Hester Bateman and George II patterns, died Thursday. Over-the-Counier Western Stocks The following bid and asked quotations, from the National Association of Securities Deal ers, Inc., do not represent ac tual transactions. They are a guide to the range within which these securities cculd have been sold (indicated by the "bid") or bought (indicat ed by the "asked") at the at the time of compilation. Common Stocks Bid Asked Bank of America 47 Calif.-Pacific Utilities 38 Cascades Plywood 34 V Cons. Freightways 20 Vj Copco 33 First National Bank 5714 50 39 36 21 35 61 33 38 38 22 27 70 39 26 Morrison-Knudsen 3Hi Northwest Pwr. & L,t 35 i Pacific Pwr. & Lt. 35 Permanente Cement 21 Portland Gen. Elec 26 U. S. National Bank 66 United Utilities 37 Vx West Coast Tel. 24 Investment Funds Noon Quotations on selected funds supplied by the Medford branch of Foster & Marshall, mem bers New York Stock Exchange. Fund Bid Asked Bullock 13.05 14.30 Chem Fund 11.35 12.28 Pnlnnlol Rnm 12 39 13.54 Eaton Howard' Stk 24.33 26.01 Fidelity 18.38 17.B3 Group Sec Avia-Elec 9.11 958 Group Sec Com Stk 12.40 13.58 Rrmm S Pptr 9 5(1 1(141 Group Sec Steel 10.75 11.77 iroupec xoDac .oa o.oi Keystone B-3 15.78 17.22 Keystone B-4 9.50 10.37 Kpvitnne K.2 15.14 16.52 Keystone S-l 19.01 20.74 Keystone s-z 11.02 iz.bB Keystone S-3 14.01 15.29 Keystone S-4 13.10 14.29 Mass Inw Grth Stic 14.21 15.36 TV-Elec i 15.70 17.11 Value Line Inc 5.49 6.00 Wellington 14.43 15.72 Portland Livestock Portland (UPD USDA Cattle for week 1150. Choice to prime 1162 lb. steers 27.75. choice 1195 lb. 27; mixed good-choice 26.50; utility 17.50-21; cutters 15-23.50; utility cows 13.50-15; canners-cut-ters 10-11; utility bulls 20.50-21. Calves for week 200. tood- choice vealers 28-32; standard calves and vealers 26-27; cull-util ity 11-19. Hogs lor weeK 1383. u. a. i ana butchers 180-235 lb. 14.50-15: mixed 1. 2 and 3 lots 13.50-14.25; sows 300-550-lb. 10-1250. Sheep for week 1525. Good- choice wooled lambs 16.50-1750; shorn 15.50-16.75; good-choice feeders 14-15.25; cull-good ewes 3-5. Portland Produce Portland (UPI) Dairy market: Eees To retailers: Grade A A ex tra large, 48-51c; AA large, 46-47c; A large, 43-44c; AA medium 38-39c; AA small, 27-32C; cartons l-3c ad ditional. Butter To retailers: AA and grade A prints, 70c lb.; carton, lc higher; B prints. 68c. Cheese, medium cured To re tailers: A grade Cheddar single dai sies, 41-51c; processed Ameri can cheese, 5-lb. loaf, 41-43C. Weather FORECASTS Medford and vicinity: Generally fair through Saturday with vary ing amounts of high cloudiness with chances of gusty winds this evening. Low 30-33; high Saturday 55-58. Western Oregon: Increasing cloudiness tonight, mostly cloudy Saturday with a few showers mostly along the coast and in the north portion. A little cooler along the coast Saturday. Low tonight 35 45: high Saturday 54-64. Northern California: Fair through Saturday. LOCAL DATA TEMPERATURE : Mean yester day 43; above normal 1. Record high this date 64 in 1949. Record low this date 13 in 1919. PRECIPITATION: 24 hours to midnight, none. Midnight to 10 a-m., none. Total this month .16 inch, 2.11 inches below normal. Total since Sept. 1. 1.06 inches, 3.77 inches below normal. HUMIDITY: Lowest yesterday 49, highest this a.m. 92. High 4.00 24- City Yester- a.m. nr. day Low Free. Brookings Crater Lake . 75 48 55 54 55 55 48 26 27 20 25 26 Grants Pass Klamath Falls MEDFORD Portland Seattle Spokane Yakima . 48 32 36 22 44 18 Eureka Red Bluff Sacramento San Francisco Los Angeles 73 77 72" 77 86 45 38 56 54 40 12 26 69 40 44 Phoenix Denver Chicago Miami Beach New York Washington, D. C. 73 28 33 75 42 48 Quotes From the News United Press International Paris - Folies Bergere chorus girl Colette Langolce, trav eling to America for a staging of the Folies at Las Vegas, Nev.: "I see America as an immense, luxurious place, filled with eligible young men." San Francisco - Kevin Richard Gale, 35, arrested charges of embezzling up to $2 million in Australia: "I never counted it. The Australian newspapers claimed it was $500,000 and the auditors later fixed it at two million. I guess that was it. Anyway, it was a lot of money." London Earl Mountbatten, Britain's highest ranking military officer,' calling President Eisenhower a great com mander in war and a president of peace:. "He gave the order to go on D-Da?, and I believe that single order was one of the greatest orders anyone was called upon to give, and history has shown how right that decision was." Chicago - Coroner Walter McCarron, announcing that a blue ribbon inquest jury will start hearing testimony on the 11-death crash of a TWA cargo plane into a crowded resi dential area near Midway Airport: "Midway Airport was there first. We want to know why more homes were allowed to be built there." Two Accidents Reported Here Accidental brushing against an automatic shift lever caused an accident yes terday on Crater Lake High way near Eagle Point, state police reported. Mr. and Mrs. Gene Rannis Watkins, Douglas City, Calif., had stopped along the highway to change drivers. Watkins hit the shift lever with his arm as he slid along the seat. Shifting into re verse, the car knocked down Mrs. Watkins as she walked behind the car, police said. The car went across the highway and into a shallow ditch on the east side. Police said Watkins accidentally hit the shift lever again causing the car to shift into "grade retard" gear. The car went forward into a culvert filled with water. Watkins' head hit tiie windshield, which was broken. Watkins was treated at Sa cred Heart hospital for a cut forehead. Mrs. Watkins was apparently unhurt, state po lice said. In another accident, John Iver Gustafson, route 2, box 188, Central Point, suffered a cut on his head when his car went out of control on Vilas rd. near Table Rock four corners yesterday. The car went 154 feet into a private yard after crossing the highway, police said. St. Albans, England -flJPD-Job Lowe complained Wednes day night the local golf club refused to let his nine-year-old son join because he could beat all the adult members. Lowe, head bartender at the Batchwood Hall golf club, said club officials ruled the boy was too young to join. "It is not because he is too young. Members are afraid a child might beat them," said the father. ATTENTION EAGLES! Sadie Hawkins Dance Saturday, Nov. 28 JACK'S MELODY TRIO Eagles and Guests Welcome AT THE ASDS SATURDAY NIGHT With Dick Spain Bill Lively and the Rogue Valley Boys Western Music at Walker's ITMB TP SATURDAY NITE Come, join the crowd for an evening of good fun at the DREAMLAND Always Good Music REAL COFFEE Served at the Snack Bar MM CD IE VFW Hall in Rogue River Every Saturday Nite 9 to 1 Music by VIC FLOOD & the Rhythm Masters ' Hardwood Floor Enlarged dining facilities Check Room Free Large Parking Area SPONSORED BY VFW EVERYONE WELCOME N on Woman Arrested For Passing Checks A pregnant woman told city police this week she was responsible for a number of bad checks passed in Medford recently. Police said the woman gave her name as Mrs. Barbara Jean Parker who came here from California six months ago. Police estimate she passed $300 to $400 worth of bad checks here over the past two weeks. ' She opened an account at a local bank two weeks ago with a bad check from a Cal ifornia bank. She has since drawn checks on the account, according to city police. Police had earlier ques tioned Mrs. Parker in connec tion with the checks, but they said she denied writing them at that time. Earlier this week she walked into the station with her lawyer and admitted the checks were hers, police said. She waived a preliminary hearing in district court and was released on her own re cognizance, according to po lice. Phoenix Firemen Seek Broken Toys Phoenix Phoenix volun teer firemen are seeking bro ken toys to repair for distribu tion to needy families, Leo Furry, fire chief, announced today. Those having toys should bring them to the fire station next to city hall in Phoenix or call Lloyd O. Nikodym, 416 Pine st., Phoenix, KEystone 5-1388, for pickup. Last year the fire depart ment distributed toys to 25 youngsters in six families. EAGLE POINT A TVMT A Prizes! Fun! Frolic! E. B. LEMON To Speak in Medford . Payola Probe Seen End of Rock 'n Roll Memphis, Tenn.-flJPD- Band leader Teddy Phillips said today the investigation of disc jockey payolas would mean "the death - permanent - of rock and roll music and all those other crazy beats." Phillips, who also composes ballads and popular music, said disc jockeys now are afraid to take money to play the rock and roll music. He said composer.? of "good music" will benefit. He also said he believes the investigations will bring back the music of Tin Pan Alley greats like Irving Berlin and Cole Porter. ; Births JONES - To Mr. and Mrs. Charles D., 1936 Table Rock rd., Medford, Nov. 27, 1959, a girl, 6 pounds, in Sacred Heart hospital. D'OLIVO-To Mr. and Mrs. David, 401 Beach st., Ash land, Nov. 27, 1959, a boy, 6V4 pounds, in Sacred Heart hospital. St. Anne's Altar Society CHRISTMAS LUNCHEON AND o BAKED FOODS & GIFT SALE Sa niea assortment of dried plant material for arrangement Girls Community Club House 229 North Bartlett Monday, Nov. 30th -12 Noon to 9 P.M. Luncheon Served 12 till 2 FABULOUS FABIAN IN HIS FIRST MOTION PICTURE. ..WITH THAT GORGEOUS "BLUE DENIM" GIRL I PJIrTannmn: I n wj lull i ill s r iv i COLOR by D.LKX. OnemaScop r A n I A k. I FABIAN STUART WHITMAN - ARTHUR O'CONNELL AND INTODUCING DODIE STEVENS - STEVE BROPIE ' LYN THOMAS MARK DANA AtmarmmmuM SPECIAL MATINEE SATURDAY 1:00 P.M. THEATRE INFORMATION SERVICE CALL SPring 3-7323 FOR FULL INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR THEATRES WHAT A PICTURE! Doris DAY - SPECIAL MATINEE Rotary District Governor to Talk At Local Meeting The Medford Rotary club will be host to Dean E. B. Lemon of Corvallis, governor of district 511 of Rotary Inter national, Monday, Nov. 30, and Tuesday, Dec. 1. Lemon is making his annual visit to each of the 26 Rotary clubs in the district. He will speak at the Tues day noon luncheon meeting of the Medford club. Monday night he will confer with Club 1 President Kenneth W. Cook, Secretary William M. Cald well and other officers and committee heads. - Lemon recently retired as dean of administration at Ore gon State college after serv ing the college for 48 years. He has for many years been an educational leader in the west and civic leader in Cor vallis. Last month, he Was named chairman of the newly-established state committee on college scholarships. Elected District Head He was elected as a district governor of Rotary Interna tional for 1959-60 at Rotary's 50th annual convention in New York City last June. He is one of 261 district gover nors supervising the activities of more than 10,200 Rotary clubs with a combined mem bership of nearly 500,000 busi ness and professional leaders in 113 countries of the world. Objectives of Rotary are to develop better understanding and fellowship among busi ness and professional men, promote community - better ment undertakings, raise the standards of business and pro fessions, and foster the ad vancement of good will, un derstanding and peace among all the peoples of the world. V TONIGHT AND SATURDAY ONLY -" . THE 11UI 0ENW STAI 1 Oo. 'CAROL LYNLEY km CO-FEATURE - TONITE & SATURDAY DONT MISS IT! Rpa HUDSON Foofoose bchlor...butlful career girl... and trie werld'e meat fascfitaffnf puttmul COLOR MMa-TMRflTffi A UNVBSLMBNMIONtt KUkM SATURDAY 1:00 P.M. MAIL TRIBUNE, Madford, Or. A Friday, Nov. 27, 1959 ' MISSES ATTENDANCE Sherman, Tex. -(UPD- Lloyd Cleary won the monthly Sherman Lions club attend ance prize, but didn't receive it. The day it was to be award ed, Clearly was absent.. This Evening LOBSTERS SEA SCALLOP PRAWNS Charcoal Steaks CANDLE ROOM HOTEL MEDFORD 5:30 p.m. till Midnight Saturday 10:23 A.M. Tha Silver Theatre Matinee Bring Your Silver Dollar Stamps Filled Theatre Cards. They Will Admit You Free A GREAT ACTION FEATURE "Challenge OF THE Wild" Plus Lots of Cartoons and Chapter 9 "PIRATES OF THE HIGH SEAS" TONITE A SATURDAY t'ONDEtftL T, , ALSO THEATRE INFORMATION SERVICE CALL SP 3-7323 FOR FULL INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR THEATRES !.Q0 PER CARLOAD TONITE 4 SAT. ONLY - PLUS - King -m CiNEMASeor COMLOft Added Saturday Only 3rd BONUS HIT BOB HOPE MARILYN MAXWELL in "OFF LIMITS' in I SHBaVaiiiiiSHBSSJ AcoyTH PACIRC W6HMJL r BED BUTTONS MMK KUirjjf: muni ttTKTi nam igf' j-y mm ttum nsa now