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Opposition Arguments By Residents Across Expressed from Engine By GREG NOKES Mail Tribune Slaff Writer They like the locomotive, but they don't like where it is. Especially Mrs. Joyce Pid cock, 744 McAndrews rd., who says, "if anyone had to look at that thing morning, noon and night as I do, they would n't want it there either." "Some might say, 'well don't look at it,' but it's pretty hard not to, when it is the only thing I can see from the front of our home," she add ed. Mrs. Pidcock and her hus band own one of the three homes directly across the street from the Jackson park locomotive ' which is located in the northwest corner of the park approximately 10 feet from the right of way on Mc Andrews rd. Unwise Choice of Site She and most of the other residents of the area along McAndrews rd. feel that the city made an unwise choice of a site for the old logging engine which was donated to the city by the Medford Cor poration. Mrs. Lawrence Anderson, 742 McAndrews rd., expressed the sentiments N of the rest when she said the city should have placed the locomotive towards the southwest corner of the Dark, around which there are no homes that would be affected. The view of the park from the adjacent homes is an ugly one now because nothing has yet been done to improve the park and it is just a large dirt area, on one side of which sits the engine and on the other side the swimming pool area which is being developed. Agree lo Idea All of the neighbors agree with the city that the park is a wonderful idea and will add to the beauty of a neighbor hood that has not always had the best of appearances, but those across from the engine feel it is a shame that they cannot benefit from the im provement too. The parks and recreation commission appointed a com mittee to study the problem, after the opposition was made known, and heard its report last Wednesday. After the report was read and the issue had been dis cussed, they voted five to one, with Mrs. O. A. Eden opposed, to recommend to the city coun cil that the engine stay where , it is. 1 The commission's report and recommendation will be heard by the city council to morrow night and any action to be taken will be taken by that body. Basis for Recommendation The commission has based Its recommendation on sever al grounds. One is that publi city had been given to the move and site of the engine, and opposition could have been heard at an earlier com mission meeting, but none was voiced, previous to the move. A second reason is that the move from the Medco tracks to the park cost over $2,000, of which the majority of the money was donated by- local firms. A second move would cost, according to Robert Ha worth, city parks and recrea tion director, a minimum of $400, maybe more, and the city would have to bear this cost since it couldn't expect the same firms to donate more funds for a second move. The city also contends that the locomotive will look good once the park is landscaped, planted and completed, prob ably in about three years. Better Than Housing Another argument which the city has used is that the engine looks much better than the old Jackson county hous ing authority buildings which used to be located on the park site and have since been torn down. It has also been pointed out that the complaining residents all live outside the city. Mc Andrews rd. is the boundary at this point. Mrs. Anderson says she and her neighbors knew the - en gine was coming all right, and had no objecton to it, but they all took it for granted that it would be placed somewhere in the center of the park, or at least in a location other than ENGINE DISCUSSED Neighborhood wom en and Medford parks commissioners met yesterday at the home of Mrs. Earl Pidcock, 744 McAndrews rd., to see what could be done to make "Old Number 4" (background) a little more sightly or to move it from its. present location. The women above, in the driveway of the Pidcock home, are, left to right, Mrs. Pidcock, Mrs. Kenneth Chris tianson, Mrs. H. C. McCollum and Mrs. Lawrence Anderson. in front of their homes. Aware of Location The first time that any of the neighbors knew of the particular location of the en gine in the park was from an article in the Mail Tribune the day before the move, which did not give them much time to protest. Mrs. H. C. McCollum, 764 McAndrews rd., Mrs. Bill McHorgue, an employee at Chuck's Market, 838 McAn- dres rd., and Mrs. Kenneth Christianson, 740 McAndrews rd., also voiced their opposi tion to the engine, but said they do not feel that their complaints will change the city's mind. Because the engine is about the only thing they can see from the front of their homes, Mrs. Anderson, Mrs. Pidcock, and Mrs. McCollum, do not see how the improvement of the rest ofthe park will help them, because they could not see it anyway. Mrs. McHorgue and Mrs Charles H. Clark, whose hus band owns Chuck's Market, are not affected by the engine directly, except for the noise, but sympathize with then- neighbors, who they say are not the type to complain about things. Just as Adamant Both, said that they would be just as adamant in their opposition if they had to live across from the locomotive. Mrs. McHorgue is also wor ried about children playing on the engine. Although the city has erected a fence between the locomotive and the street, she does not feel that it is yet well enough protected from much - traveled McAndrews rd., on which are many log ging trucks and other com mercial vehicles. She thinks children will still be runnng inadvertently into the street while playing on and around the engine. The neighborhood is not the best in the city. Mrs. Ander son said, but neither is it the worst, and the type of neign- borhood should not give the city any right to put a locomo tive in their front yaras. "Of course we live outside the city," Mrs. Pidcock said, "but we are being affected by something the city is doing, so even though we do not have any votes in city elections, we still have the right to protest, Besides, this particular area will be part of the city some day anyway." she added. Back from Road Mrs. Pidcock does not agree with the city that the housing authority buildings looked worse than the locomotive. "They looked bad all right, but at least they were set DacK from the-road a proper dis tance," she said. Mrs. Clark said, "It is a fine monument, but the location is very bad. For some reason the city seems to think this is a tourist area. Well, it's not. Mc Andrews rd. is a busy thor oughfare and there are no con venient places to park near the locomotive so tourists could not stop and park even if they wanted to." "Another thing," she said, "the park department, or somebody from the city, came up with a survey that not more than four children had been playing on the engine at any one time for the last six weeks. Well, the weather has been so wet, foggy and cold lately that, of course, children aren't playing on it, but wait 'til summer, then take a sur vey." Almost Blind Corner Both Mrs. Anderson and Mrs. Clark expressed dismay that the Clark st. intersection with McAndrews rd. has now become a blind corner with the locomotive almost com pletely blocking the view to the left for a car coming onto McAndrews rd. They both drive Clark st. quite frequently, they said, and have to pull almost onto McAndrews rd. in order to make sure there is no traffic coming. Commission Members Russ Jamison and Verl Walker, along with Haworth, went to the home of Mrs. Pidcock Tuesday afternoon and met with her and her four neigh bors to discuss the issue at hand. The commission members presented the city's view to the women and the women presented their views to the commission members, but nothing was decided, and the issues remained pretty much as they were before the visit. However, Jamison told the women that their objections would be included in the re port to the city council Thurs day. Mrs. Pidcock summed up the views of the neighbors when she said, "we feel that if any other property owner in the city, commission mem bers included, had this thing in front of their homes, they too would protest." Local and Personal OBITUARIES ROY E. HIGH The body of Roy E. High, 64, who died at the Camp White Domiciliary Thursday will be forwarded by Perl Funeral home to Mikeworth's Peninsula Funeral , home in Portland for services. Inter ment .will be in Willamette National cemetery. Mr. High was born Aug. 14, 1896, at Cummings, Kans. He is survived by a son, Frank High, Portland. Mr. High was a veteran of World War I, enlisting Sept. 2, 1918, and being discharged June 7, 1919. ASHLAND PHONE Mtl. 9-I7U TONITE ONLY "CURTAIN AT EIGHT-THIRTY" A Climax Every Woman Win Remember - V aw m M unooonai txpenence! i female , aid ADULTS If flesh An UMFO nkott ADDED "VISTAVISION VISITS MEXICO" MRS. ROSE WINKELMAN Mrs. Rose M. Winkelman, 3279 Biddle rd., Medford, died at her residence Tuesday eve ning. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Perl Funeral home. MRS. MARY SHINAR Mrs. Mary Shinar, longtime Oregon resident, died at Siski you General hospital, Yreka, Jan. 19 after a short illness. She was 87. Born June 10, 1872 in Jack sonville, Mrs. Shinar was the daughter of pioneer parents, Charles and Ema Lee Block well. Her grandparents, the Deckers, had settled in Jack sonville before the days of '49. Mrs. Shinar's m a t e r n a.1 grandparents came from the East via the old Oregon Trail. Her father left his job as a banker in Washington, D.C. and made the voyage "round the Horn" to Oregon. She married Ellsworth Parr in January, 189 0 at Fort Jones, Calif. The couple later moved to Snohomish, Wash, but returned to Fort Jones, where Mr. Parr died in June, 1894. In 1896, she married a min er, Jonn sninar, at xiappy Camp, Calif., Mr. Shinar pas sed away in 1933 and Mrs. Shinar later lived in Klamath Falls for many years. Mrs. Shinar's survivors in clude three sons, George Ells worth Parr, Burney, Calif.; Thomas Parr, Seattle and John C. Shinar, Hornbrook; three daughters, Mrs. Mar guerite Riness, Hornbrook; and Mrs. Emma Kinney and Mrs. Edna Clawson, both of Klamath Falls. Other survivors are Mrs. Shinar's sister, Mrs. Priscilla Augsberger, Hornbrook; a granddaughter, Mrs. Allen Abner, Klamath Falls; three grandsons, John E. (Skip) Shinar, Glen E. Shinar and Harvey Shinar, all Hornbrook, and a great-granddaughter, Kelly Shinar, Hornbrook. Mrs. Shinar s-funeral will be held at 2 pjn. Saturday at the Hornbrook Methodist church, of which she was a member. Arrangements are being handled by the Girdner funeral chapel, Yreka. Inter plot at Henley cemetery. Hornbrook NELLIE MAY CLARKE Eagle Point - Word has been received here of the death Jan. 19 of Mrs. John (Nellie May) Clarke, 64, in Lakewood, Calif. Mrs. Clarke lived in Eagle Point for a number of years prior to moving south two years ago. 1 She was a member of Eagle Point Grange and Community Bible church. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 9:30 a.m. at St. Cypirean church in Lakewood. Survivors, in addition to her husband, include six sons and one daughter, all of south ern California. Estimated Million L.A. Flu Victims Los Angeles-(UPD-An esti mated one million residents have been stricken in Los An geles' epidemic of Asian flu and officials called a special press conference for today to discuss "serious develop ments" in the 10-day-old out break. One of the developments expected to be announced was the high incidence of pneu monia among those infected. The health departments were known to have been inves tigating reports that pneu monia cases in the area were higher than average and may be the result of a compila tion of Asian flu. Major Surgery Mrs. Char les Hall, Happy Camp, Calif., is a major sugrery patient at Medford Osteopathic hospital, it has been reported. Trash Samuel William Bateman, 250 Beatty st., told city police Tuesday that per sons have been throwing old fish heads, beer cans and other trash in his back yard Gas Taken - Alphia L. Lem- ley, 125 East Valley View rd., Ashland, reported to sheriff's deputies that gas was taken from the Rodney Keating or chards near Ashland. Thefi Bicycles owned by Allen Curtis Bell and Dale Roger Bell were reported tak en from a shed at the Bell residence, 237 Berrydale ave., sometime last week end, city police report. Medical Patients Mrs. Georgia Dickerson, 111 Clov er lane, Medford, and Mrs John F. Bennett, 801 North Central ave., Medford, are listed as medical patients at Medford Osteopathic hospital Hospital Patient Ann Buehling, 5-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bueh ling, 910 Huener lane, Jack sonville, is a tonsilectomy pa tient at Medford Osteopathic hospital. Meat Gone - Sheriff's depu ties are investigating the theft of beef and frozen chicken from the Harold Lee Grubbs home at 2678 Beall lane, Cen tral Point, last week end. Food Stolen Mrs. Irene McCleary, 255 Beatty st., Medford, yesterday reported to sheriff's deputies that fuse boxes and food were stolen from two homes in Gold Hill recently. Rubbish Dumped Rogue River police department has informed the sheriff's depart ment that rubbish is being dumped along Old Stage rd. between Gold Hill and Rogue River. Theft William Randolph Glass, 2130 Hillcrest rd., noti fied city police Tuesday that approximately $100 worth of shrubbery was taken from a vacant house at 425 Earhart st. . . . To Speak Dr. Leonard B. Mayfield, superintendent of Medford public schools, will speak on his trip to Europe and Russia at a meeting of the Pomona Grange at the Eagle Point Grange hall at 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 23. The public is invited to attend. Damaged Two bicycles were reported damaged late Monday evening while parked near the Roosevelt school gymnasium, according to city police. The bicycles belonged to Don Cranston, 218 Ashland ave., and Gene R. Kadin, 928 East' Jackson st. The bicycle tires were cut, saddle bags stolen, and nu merous accessories broken, police said. Bitten Carol Marie Allen, 4- year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Allen, 349 Black Oak dr., was bitten by a dog at the intersection of Sandy terrace and Cerritos ave., according to city police. The incident occurred about 2:40 p.m. Tuesday and was not considered a serious wound, it was reported. The dog is owned by the Mark E. Boyden family, 2541 Sandy terrace. Flue Fires Firemen an swered calls to flue fires yes terday afternoon and evening at the residences of Richard A. Loros, 804 Broad st., Mrs. Marion Preston, 522 North Front st., and W. D. Sorenson, 928 Winchester st., and about 8:20 a.m. today at the home of Henry F. Padgham, 2707 Springbrook rd. Sparks ignit ed two small spots on wood shingles at the Preston home yesterday evening. Patient Mrs. Joe Mark ham, 660 Oak st., Ashland, is convalescing at Rogue Valley hospital following surgery. Limbs Burning Firemen dispatched about 7:35 a.m. to day when a brush fire was re ported in the 2300 block of Roberts rd., found that Cham berlain Tree service was burn ing a pile of limbs. There was no probable damage and burn ing was allowed to con tinue. A trash fire burning during highwind and during prohibited hours was extin guished by firemen about 6 p.m. yesterday in the 2000 block of College Way. Births HENSELMAN To: Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lee, 2108 Wood lawn dr., Medford, Jan. 19, 1960, a girl, 7xi pounds, at Rogue Valley hospital. WAGLER To: Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Lee, Trail, Jan. 19, 1960, a girl, 6V2 pounds, at Rogue Valley hospital. STORY To: Mr. and Mrs. Vernon F.. 415 Laurel st., Central Point, Jan. 19, 1960. boy, 534 pounds, at Rogue Valley hospital. SUITER To: The Rev. and Mrs. Glen O., star route box 430, Shady Cove, Jan. 20, 1960, a girl, 734 pounds, at Rogue Valley hospital. WOODARD - To Mr. and Mrs. Ray D., 3063 Merriman rd., Medford, Jan. 20, 1960, boy, 7 pounds, at Sacred Heart hospital. Over-fhe-Coiinfer Western Stocks The following bid and ask ed quotations, from the Na tional Association of Securi ties Dealers, Inc., do not rep resent actual transactions. They ae a guide to the range within which these securities could have been sold (indi cated by the "bid") or bought (indicated by the "asked") at the time of compilation. Common Stocks Bid Asked Bank or America 49 'a ualif.-Facmc utilities.. 20 Cascades Plywood 3514 Cons. Freight ways 20 Copco 33 '4 First National Bank 58 V Morrison-Knudsen 32 Northwest Nat. Gas 17 '4 .Paciiic Pwr. & L,t 36'a Permanente Cem. Co. 22 Portland Gen. Elec 28 Vi U. S. National Bank 66 United Utilities 39 ti West Coast Tel. 25 Weyerhaeuser ' 37?i 51', 22 37V2 213 34?8 62 34"b Wa 38 24 30 Va 70 5a 42 4 26 Va 40 Portland Livestock Portland (UPI) USDA Ca'tUe 150, holdover 40. Good 823 lb. heifers 23.50; utility cows 15.50-16; canners-cutters 12-14. Calves 25. Good-choice vealers earlier this week 28-33. Hobs 200. U. S. 1 and 2 butcher 190-220 lb. 15-15.25: No. 2 and 3 237-260 lb. 13.50-14. Sheep 100. Hieh good-choice fall shorn 107 lb. rye grass lambs 19.75. Portland Produce The following price Quotations are from the agricultural market ing service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Portland. Eggs: Prices to retailers, deliv ered, cartons. X large AA 51-55; large AA 47-51: large A 45-50: me dium AA 43-48; small AA 37-42; Prices to producers: X large AA 40-42 U: large AA 38-40"!,: large A 34-35; medium AA 34-36;2; small AA 30-32 i. Butter: Prices to retailers, No. 1 prints delivered, AA and A 68, B, 66. Poultry: Prices to retailers, de livered, for grade A quality, fry ers, whole 38-40, cut up 43-45; light type hens, whole 27-28. cut up 31-33; heavy type hens, whole 35-37. Investment Funds Noon quotations on selected funds : Fund Bid Bullock 13.00 Chem Fund 10.S9 Colonial Ener 12.60 Eaton Howard Stk.. 23.94 Fidelity 15.66 Group Sec Avia-Elec 8.83 Group Sec Com Stk 12.49 Group Sec Petr .... 9.61 Group Sec Steel 10.50 Group Sec Tobac 7.60 Keystone B-3 15.48 Keystone B-4 9.67 Keystone K-2 14.16 Keystone S-l 18.81 Keystone S-2 11.57 Keystone S-3 13.95 Keystone S-4 13.15 Mass Inv Grth Stk.. 13.83 TV-El ec 15.62 Value Line Inc 5.59 Wellington 13.82 YE OLD FASHIONED HOSPITALITY Before a Cheery Fireplace Vealhor Services Set for Li, Comdr. Stanley Funeral services for Lt. Comdr. Henry A. Stanley, 82, of 35 Crater Lake ave., Med ford, who died in an Ashland hospital Monday, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday. The ' J-ow temperatures tonight 26-32 in Rev. Duane Alvord of St. Mark's Episcopal church will officiate. Interment will be in Siskiyou Memorial park. Commander Stanley was bom in Los Angeles, Calif., Aug. 2, 1877, and had been a resident of this area for 32 years. He was a veteran of the Spanish American War, the Philippine Insurrection, the Boxer rebellion, and World Wars I and II. He enlisted Feb. 24, 1893, and retired in November, 1945. He was a member of the Legion of Valor, Retired Of ficers association, the North Sea Mine Force association, the Masonic lodge of Seattle, Wash., and the Medford Elks lodge. " Survivors include his wid ow, Gladys Stanley, Medford; two sons, Lt. Comdr. Harry C. Stanley and Comdr. Donald C. Stanley, both in the Navy. The Medford Elks lodge will participate in graveside services. Pallbearers will in clude Warren Bayliss, Ed Nave, Bert Thierolf, Sam Richardson, Theodore Taylor and Vince Nicoletti. FORECASTS Medford and vicinitv: Cloud v to night and Thursday with occasion al rain tonight. Heavier rain Thursday. Gusty wind diminishing Thursday. Low tonight 42. High Thursday 50. Western Oregon: MosUy cloudv with a httle rain at times tonight and Thursday, except freezing rain at times north interior and ,i-awy ram on coast Thursday north and 32-44 in smith Hirh in 38 in north and 50-55 in south. Northern California : Rain spreading to Monterey and Sacra mento this evening then continuing off and on through Thursdav. Heavy amounts locally in north. Snow in mountains. Slightly warm er temperatures. Gale warnings on coast with southerly winds 30-50 mph. at times. LOCAL DATA TEMPERATURE: Mean Yester day 43: above normal 6. Record high this date 60 in 1912 Record low this date 8 in 1937. PRECIPITATION: 24 hours to midnight, none. Midnight to 10 a.m., none. Total this month 2.07 inches, .52 inch above normal. Total since Sept. 1. 4.40 inches, 5.51 inches below normal. HUMIDITY: Lowest yesterday 489c. highest this a.m. 46. High 4:00 24-Yester- a.m. nr. day Brookings 54 Crater Lake 25 Grants Pass 47 Klamath Falls 39 MEDFORD 50 Portland 32 City SeatUe 37 Spokane 16 Yakima 24 Packed Snow on Oregon Highways Salem -UPD- Packed snow was reported today at Gov ernment Camp, Warm Springs, Portland, Wilson riv er and Sunset summits, Cas cade Locks, Troutdale, Salem, Salmon river, Detroit, The Dalles, Hood River, Shaniko, Sisters, Ochoco summit, Brothers, Lapine, Silver lake, Willamette pass, Chemult, Quartz mountain, Paisley, Meacham, Baker, John Day, Austin, Seneca, and Burns. There were icy spots at Basque, Ontario, Lakeview, Bend, Cave Junction, Green Springs, Siskiyou, Eugene, Corvallis and Astoria. Russians Fire Weather Rocket Moscow -(UPD -A Russian ship has fired a weather rock et in the Western Pacific area, apparently as part of the So viet plan to test a series of powerful new missiles. The Communist party news paper Pravda said today the research ship Voeikov launch ed a weather rocket in the Western Pacific Sunday. The actual missile tests, de signed to try out a powerful new rocket-perhaps the most powerful ever launched-are to take place any time now. The Soviets said they would be fired into the Pacific test ing area between Jan. 15 and Feb. 15. Eureka 58 Red Bluff 49 Sacramento 55 San Francisco 54 Los Angeles 63 Phoenix 58 Denver 26 Chicago 38 Miami Beach 74 Low Prec. 48 21 37 32 48 30 .13 34 2 J 3 .07 56 43 41 49 47 34 5 13 45 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Wednesday, Jan. 20, I960 News of Twin Boys Too Much for Dad Columbus, Ga. (TPI) Wallace E. Evans, 23. it liv ing proof that childbirth is sometimes harder on fa lhers than mothers. Evans fainled when told by a doctor thai he was the father ef twin boys., When he hit the floor, he broke his nose, cut his lip, knock ed out a tooth, sprained his back and was admitted to the hospital as his wife was being wheeled out of the delivery room. FIVE-DAY FORECAST (Through Jan. 25): Western Oregon - Western Wash ington Recurring periods of pre cipitation mostly in the form of rain totaling more than normal. Below normal temperatures with slowly rising trend over week end. Highs 35-45 in western Wash ington and in 40s or low 5ls in western Oregon. Lows from upper 20s to low 30s. Northern California Recurring rains with snow in mountains. Temperatures near normal. CHARCOAL STEAKS TILL MIDNIGHT CANDLE ROOM 1 I HOTEL Medford 1 Open Daily 5:30 P.M. to Midnight Sundays 4. P.M. Till 11 P.M. mm mm and COFFEE SHOP 450 S. CENTRAL TITOS., MM. 21 Hours: 9:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. Closed Sundays Judge Fails To See Salesman's Joke Milwaukee (UPD Maga zine salesman Mark B. 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