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MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1960 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. A 11 Local and Fire in Ties-City firemen were summoned to the South ern Pacific railroad tracks north of Bear Creek packing plant about 2:25 p.m. Sunday to a fire burning in old ties. Grass Burns-A 15 by 20 foot grass fire was extin guished by firemen about 9 p.m. Saturday behind 924 South Central ave. Surgery Patients - George M. Mitchell, 3528W Highway 99, south, Medford, was listed as a surgery patient today at Sacred Heart hospital. In Hospital Lujuan Grant, 4 -year -old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. Grant, post office box 651, Central Point, en tered Rogue Valley hospital today as a tonsillectomy pa tient. A surgery patient there is Mrs. Dwight E. Crosier, 1206 East Main st., Medford. Program Set - The Moose lodge junior drum corps will present a 30-minute program in the library park Tuesday, Aug. 30, at 3 p.m. sponsored by the Moose lodge here. Fea tured will be the youngest drum corps bass drummers, Bonnie Webster and Rickie Hawlay. Bliss Heine is direc tor. Shoplifter Caught - James Murray Callahan, 52, tran scient, was charged by city police with petty larceny Sat urday evening after he' was apprehended at a local gro- TONITE & TUESDAY , It's Jerry's Hilarious Best as Wie 43$? - A Paramount Rla C CO-FEATURE i unm cm it mom 'force oiv. WEDNESDAY : WEDNESDAY! WEDNESDAY! BlHi.MMMIiliHMil KM fiTiJi ir Th rtLl IN MAGNIFICENT COLOR AH AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL PICTURE The BASED ON THE NOVEL BY Hound FTH SIR ARTHUR C0NAND0YU BasMervuKS theat TM&tMICOUOM tme Kt J.H67 Ends TUESDAY! PORGY aivd JESS TECHNICOLOR SJONEY POITIER DOROTHY DANDRIOGt! - SAMMY DAVIS. Jr.- PEARL BAILEY 2ND sSsne HIT "THE TRAP" TCCWSCOUW' MTU1IL -PLUS- l A arr',.f,r"Mfj IASE0M I I imiin , Personal eery store shoplifting two cartons of cigarettes. Callahan admitted the theft, police said. Hits Parked Cm - City po lice cited Willa Lee Seitz, 42 of 603 West 11th St., for fail ure to have a driver's license after the car she was operat ing struck and damaged a car parked near the intersection of Sixth and Ivy sts. about 8:09 p.m. Saturday. Damage to both vehicles was described as moderate, police said. Cars Collide-Cars operated by Walter Edward Matthews Jr., 44, of 914 Ross lane, and Warren Wayne Parks, 17, of 1212 East Jackson st., collided Sunday about 12:15 a.m. at the intersection of Ejghth st. and Oakdale ave. Both drivers told police the traffic light was amber for them when they entered the interesection. Damage was moderate, there were no injuries reported and no citations were issued. Driver cited - Ciiv cited Lloyd Allan Lovell Jr., id, oi 13U4 Keddy ave., for violation of the basic rule Sunday after the vehicle Lovell was operating collided with a parked car and knock ed it into a tree in front of 1211 Queen Ann ave. about 3:56 a.m. Police said i savy damage was done to both cars. Weather FORKCASTS Medford and vicinity: Variable c oudiness tonight and thickening clouds Tuesday with a chance of a few showers late Tuesday, Low tonight 48-50. High Tuesday 85. Western Oregon: Southern half fair through Tuesday except late b wuuunicsB aiuilK coast. Northern half mostly cloudy ionium ana mesaay with scattered 56. High Tuesday 75-85. and Tuesday except fog and low 65; below normal 4. Record hiRh this date 102 in 1944. Record low in is aaie tu in Precipitation: 24 hours to mid night 0. Midnight to 10 a.m. 0. Total this month .03 in., .13 in. below normal. Total since Sept. 1 15.96 in., 2.16 in. below normal. Hiimiriitu- T n.u.cl I.... . highest this' a.m. 74. CITY Yester- A.M. hr. Low Prcc. Brookings 79 P.ranie Pact OO 4!) Klamath Falls 7fi Medford 7 Portland 77 Seattle 66 Rnnlinn Tn 50 81 55 60 50 53 64 57 52 6J - 76 53 75 80 71 74 Yakimrf 'ZZ"ZZ 'Z- 75 fjurexa 61 RrH Rlnff o Sacramento 93 San Francisco 60 Los Angelee 80 Phoenix 100 Denver 80 Chicago 87 Miami Beach 87 New York 89 Washington, D.C. .. 93 .02 FIVE-DAY FORECAST (Throuth Sept. 3): western ureeon Temperatures averaging below normal with highs 63-75, except near or slightly be low normal in southwest Oregon with highs 75-85. Lows 45-55. Pre cioitation more than normal in re. curring rainy periods. Northern California No nrncini- tation. Temperatures near normal except below normal in extreme north interior. Portland Livestock Portland (UPIl Livestock: Cattle 1900, includes 18 loads fed steers, 5 load heifers; fed steers not established under sharply low er bids; fed heifers around 50 cents lower; cows steady to weak; few utility cows 14-14.50; canners and cutters 10.50-12. calves 200: trade active, fully steady; good and choice vealers 24-27; standard 20-23; good and choice stock calves 24; medium and good 18-22.50. Hogs 800; trade-slow; scattered sales 1-1.25 lower: few No. 1 and 2 butchers 190-230 lbs. 17.75-18; no. z and 3 lots 17; few 250-350 lb. sows 15.50-16 hheep 2,200; trade slow; slaugh ter sprint? lambs steadv to 50c low er; feeder lambs steady; slaughter ewes strong to 50 higher; load choice with some prime 95 lbs. range spring lambs 17.35; bulk choice nearby 85-110 lbs. 16.50 with wo. and 2 pelt Kinds 16-16.25; good and choice 75-85 lh. feeders 14-15.50; cull and utility ewes 2.50-4. About 740 million acres in 17 Western states almost 40 per cent of the area of the continental United States gets too little rain to support general agriculture. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF MR. BIRDSEED threw restraint to the wind and bought himself a four-sealer airplane. Came a bright Sunday and he invited the bachelor next door to go up in it with his wife and himself. "The great thing about flying up here in the wide blue yonder," he exulted to his bachelor friend, "is that I don't have to worry about traf fic jams, crazy pedestri ans or traffic lights and best of all, there's no back seat driving." Just then his wife, seated in the rear, looked out of the window and cried, "Robert! Look out for those birds!" Overheard tn a Hollywood studio: "That prooucer i Just about as Important as a parachute on a submarine!" ..... Overheard in the garment center: "I wanted my son to inherit my business but the government beat him to it. A throat doctor has Just bought a fine new home In Providence. He calls it Gesund Heights. e I960, by Bennett Cert. DUUibuted b King restores Syndic! vfeWlfc. . "... . -C i4fh) . -tv will V vr Ml A -a u "-I'M LONG WINS AGAIN This is former Louisiana Gov. Earl K. Long on the stump. His political lile was saved Satuday when he successfully ran for the House of Representatives FESTIVAL PLAYS Tonight: "The Tempest" Tuesdays "Richard II" Wednesday: "Duchess of Malfi" Thursday: "Taming of the Shrew" Friday: "Julius Caesar" . Curtain time 8:30 p.m. Bus leaves Medford hotel at 7:30 p.m., and Jackson hotel at 7:35 p.m. for Festi val plays. Investment Funds Noon quotaUons on selected funds: Fund Rid Asked Bullock 12.75 13.97 Chem Fund 11.46 12.40 Colonial Ener 12.50 13.66 Eaton Howard Stk 12.16 13.00 Fidelity 15.52 16.78 Group Sec Avla-Elec 9.30 10.19 Group Sec Com Stk .. 12.30 13.49 Group Sec Pctr 9.21 10.09 Group Sec Steel 9.20 10.07 Group Sec Tobac 8.66 9.49 Keystone B-3 15.59 17.01 Keystone B-4 9.61 10.50 Keystone K-2 15.41 16.82 Keystone S-l 19.64 21.43 Keystone S-2 11.1)9 13.09 Keystone S-3 13.48 14.71 Keystone S-4 12.90 15.0B Mass Inv Grth Stk 15.02 16.24 TV Elec 8.26 9.00 Value Line Inc 5.32 5.81 Wellington 14.26 15.54 Over-the-Counfer Western Stocks The following bid and ask ed quotations, from the Na tional Association of Securl ties Dealers, Inc., do not rep resent actual transactions. They are 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 of America 45l,i 48 Calif.-Pacific Utilities .... 24 U 26 li Cascades Plywood 2(il,2 28 li Cons. Freightways 12 1.1 Copco 3fiy 39 Cyprus Mines Corp 25 26b First National Bank 53 57 '.a Morrison-Knudson 32 Vt 35 U Northwest Pwr. & Lt. 23 24R Pacific Pwr. & Lt 40U 42H Permanente Ccm. Co 19 U 20 U Portland Gen. Elec 313,i 33 U.S. National Bank 72 77 United Utilities 45i 4R'& West Coast Tel 26 2818 Weyerhaeuser 353,i 37si Portland Produce The following price quotations are from the agricultural marketing service of the U. S. Department of Agriculture in Portland. v,fes: Prices to retailers, cartons, X large AA 53-57; large AA 51-54; large A 48-53; medium AA 44-46; small AA 30-33. Prices to pro ducers: X large AA 45-50,,2: large AA 43-48 a; large A 34-40; medium AA 33-37Va; small AA 20-23 lb. Butter: Prices to retailers, No. 1 : prints delivered, AA and A 68, B 66. Poultry: Prices to retailers, de livered, for grade A quality, fryers, whole 36-38; cut up 41-43; light type hens, whole 27-30. cut up 32 35; heavy type hens, whole 41-43. j OUT AT FIRST First Baseman Sister Carmelyn employs some fancy footwork to take a high throw from her shortstop in lime for a putoul on hustling Sister Regine, Daisy's Thumbs and Fingers A new 4-H sewing club has been organized by Mrs. Sam Lupini with Mrs. J. R. Wilson Rotary Needs YOUR Help 1 M r..,s; if t dm from the state's eighth Congressional district. After his victory was announced, he immediately entered a hospital for treatment of a "a touch of ptomaine." (UPI Telephoto) xl i v assisting. The club has been named Daisy's Thumbs and Fingers. Meetings are held at Mrs. The Medford Rotary Club, cooperating with the American Field Service, sponsors a boy or girl from another country for a full year at Medford High School. This fine program, part of a nation-wide movement to foster world understanding, il financed in part by an annual sale of used suits. That ii why Rotary asks YOU to contribute one or more man's used suit, top coat or slacks for the . . . USED SUIT SALE September 9 and 10 RED CROSS BUILDING-MEDFORD O Please help us by giving that' seldom worn article of clothing to your cleaner now. Thank you! -MEDFORD ROTARY CLUB mm -J. 1 tt I .'' '-, t, who legs il toward sack trying for a scratch hit. Action came. in one of Chicago's city parks as some 900 nuns participated in Nun's Friday. (UPI Telephoto) Sam Lupini's home, 493 North Sixth st., Central Point, every Fr'dayi(j2 garff Reporter ' MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Servicemen COMPLETES COURSE Lt. Col. Thomas A. Culbcrt son, 2615 Hillcrest rd., Med ford, finished a tour of active duty at the Aircraft Mainte nance Officer course, Satur day, at Chanute Air Force Base, 111. ASSIGNED FOR TRAINING Second Lt. Walter G. Gar ner, son of Walter G. Gar ner, 2009 East Main St., Med ford, has been assigned to the James Connelly Air Force base, Texas, for pre-flight and primary basic navigator train ing. SHOOTS IN MATCH Army Sgt. First Class Ver non K. Richardson, 37, son of Mr. and Mrs. Berrill A. Rich ardson, 308 West Park St., Grants Pass, is participating in the 1960 National Cham pionship Rifle matches at Camp Perry, Ohio. The 10-day competition is scheduled to end today. VISIT KOBE .. Joe T. Anderson, radarman third class, of 109 North Ivy st., and Cloyd E. Golden, ma chinist's mate third class, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Golden, 966 Gilman rd., all of Med ford, visited the Japanese city of Kobe last week. The two are stationed aboard the radar picket destroyer, USS Higbee, a unit of the Seventh Fleet operating in the Western Pa cific. ENTER NAVY Three area men recently were sworn into the Navy at Portland. They are Clude De Vere Pentland, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Pentland, 264 Beach st., Ashland; William Willis Fifer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer W. Fifer, Ft. Jones, Calif.; and Marvin Nor man Kopf, son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman T. Kopf, Greenview, Calif. They are now under going basic training it San Diego, Calif. Births STARKEY - To Mr. and Mrs. Clarence A., 631 Palm St., Medford, Aug. 27, 1960, a girl 8'4 lbs., at Rogue Val ley hospital. MACY - To Mr. and Mrs. Bill Clyde, 812 She man st., Medford, Aug. 28, 1960, a girl, SVz lbs., at Rogue Valley hospital. ROUSEY-To Mr. and Mrs. James, 229 North Ivy St., Medford, Aug. 28, 1960, a girl 6'4 lbs., at Rogue Valley hos- pital. BROWN - To Mr. and Mrs. Theodore H., post office box 152, Hilts. Calif., Aug. 28, 1960, a b B't lbs., at Rogue Valley hospital. MICHAEL - To Mr. and Mrs. Cart L., 1001 West Sec ond St., Medford, Aug. 28, 1960, a boy, 6V4 lbs., at Sa cred Heart hospital. VANDER - To Mr. and Mrs. Edward W., 124 North Colum bus ave., Medford, Aug. 28, 1960, a girl, 5 lbs., at Sa cred Heart hospital. ALLISON - To Mr. and Mrs. Rex G., 925 Grant st., Medford, Aug. 28, 1960, a girl, SVi lbs., at Sacred Heart hospital. PEARCE - To Mr. and Mrs. Robert L., Pine at., Rogue River, Aug. 28, 1960, a girl, 6 '4 lbs., at Sacred Heart hos pital. GUSTAFSON - To Mr. and Mrs. Richard K., 190 Blgham dr., Central Point, Aug. 28, 1960, a boy, 8V lbi., at Sa cred Heart hospital. OBITUARIES JOSEPH C. BARNES Private funeral services for Joseph Curtis Barnes, 84, who died Saturday in a local nurs ing home, were held today at Siskiyou Memorial park with Dr. D. Kirkland West of the First Presbyterian church of ficiating. Perl Funeral home was in charge of arrange ments. Mr. Barnes was born Feb. 25, 1876, in Kentucky, and had been a resident of this area for the past 50 years. He was a pioneer realtor of Med ford. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Flora E. Barnes, Med ford; two sons, Charles Barnes, Medford; and J. Cur tis Barnes, Fern Valley rd.; six grandchildren and two great grandchildren. JOSEPH J. TUCKER Funeral services for Joseph J. Tucker, 84, who died in a local nursing home Saturday. were held at Perl Funeral home today with Dr. George Roseberry of the First Meth odist church officiating. Com mittal was in the Jacksonville cemetery. Mr. Tucker was born Oct. 1876, in Richmond, Va., and had been a resident of this area for 46 years. Mr. Tucker attended the Military School in Baltimore, Md., was a member of the South Meth odist church and a foreman of the Earl Fruit company. Survivors include four sons, Floyd and Warren Tucker, El Centro, Calif.; Donald Tucker, Los Angeles, Calif.; Harold Tucker, Burbank, Calif.; four daughters, Mrs. Margaret Oakes, Downey, Calif.; Mrs. Ethal Shaffer, Long Beach, Calif.; Mrs. Helen Spivey, El Monte, Calif., and Mrs. Jose phine Hansen, Culver City, Calif.; 15 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren. One son, Harry Tucker, pre- ceeded him in death In World War II. LaVELDA McKINNEY Mrs. Nellie LaVelda McKin- ncy, of Rogue River, died Sun day morning in a local hospi tal. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Conger- Morris, funeral directors. Happy Camp Teacher To Miss First Week Happy Camp - James Tris tan, music teacher in both tain, music teacher in boh elementary and high schools In Happy Camp, will not be back for the first week of school, according to Mrs. An gle Thompson, a close friend of Mr. and Mrs. Tristan. Tristan is taking a summer class at San Jose State and will not finish until Sept. 2. CHARCOAL STEAKS TILL MIDNIGHT CANDLE ROOM V l :1& nuiti. I k I Medford Opm Dslly J:J0 .M. Midnight Sunasyt 4 P.M. Till 11 P.M. DlfSDllOrailllM! I i, sands.f j-. If VlitviH'houUdjU. J imr UiSlI Girxx'3 dean JAGGER Arthur KENNEDY- shirley JONES mPA6E-r,BR00KS-RoSMiTH; mMumrrm tMtmtn fn iMtri mrl MMtflMofcua LARSON INFANT Graveside services for th infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Rodney G. Larson, of 916 East Main St., who died Friday, were held Saturday at Hill crest Memorial park. Th Rev. John E. Simon of St. Peter's Lutheran church of ficiated. Conger-Morris fu neral directors were in charge of arrangements. Survivors, besides the par ents, include a brother, Rod ney Jr.; two sisters, Janis Ray and Rene Marie; and grand parents, Mrs. Maudie Larson, Las Vegas, Nev.; and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Robinson, Elko, Nev., and a twin broth er, Douglas George Larson. HARVEY B. PITTS Harvey B. Pitts, 63, died Sunday in his room at the Lake hotel. 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