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Medford and Jackson County
History from the (lies ot The
Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40
and 50 veari age.
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 11, 1951 (Thuriday)
The Medford post office has
received between 70 and 75
cards from aliens in this area
who are required to comply
with the alien registration act
of 1040.
Warrants have been issued
for the arrest of two Jackson
county restaurant operators
accused of the possession of
gambling devices.
20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 11, 1941 (Saturday)
"Old Bill" Brown, once a
range king In Central Oregon,
died today in a Methodist old
people's home In Salem. He
was 80.
From Arthur Perry's "
Smudge Pot" column: "The
Oregonlan was late Saturday
a.m., and many old subscrib
ers ate their breakfast with
out it. When the paper truck
goes in the ditch, they feel
worse than if the coffee pot
was out of whack."
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 11, 1931 (Friday)
The Medford Hi-Times has
won the award as the best
high school paper in the state.
The Jacksonville city coun
cil gave as Its reason for ban
ning dances in the city "too
much hilarity on Saturday
night."
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 11, 1921 (Sunday)
' A local citizen has driven
a car from San Francisco to
Medford in 15 hours; a new
record.
A. S. V. Carpenter has re
lumed here after spondtng
the week end at an auto show
in Portland.
SO YEARS AGO
Jan. 11, 1911 (Wednesday)
George H. Millar was elect
ed to the Medford city coun
cil yesterday, and thereby be
comes the first member of the
Socialist party ever elected to
a city council In Oregon.
Dr. J. F. Reddy said today
he will ask the city council
at its next meeting for a
franchise to construct an
Inter urban trolley line In
Medford.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nine or ten correct li suaerier:
seven ot eight is excellent: five er
hi ii good.
1. A writing in cipher is
called a c m?
2. Who followed Saul as
King of Israel?
3. At which French naval
base was the French fleet
scuttled during World War 11?
4. James E. Oglethorpe was
the founder of which of the
American Colonies?
. 5. In which State is Ml.
Whitney?
6. Is Ihe United Slates
census provided for by Con
gressional action, by Execu
tive Order or by the U.S. Con
ititution? 7. Where is the Isle of Man?
8. Is "Ihe bends" a disease
caused by working In high or
low atmospheric pressures?
0. The Romance languages
are derived from what com
mon language?
10. Which it the plural
form: alumni or alumnus?
Answers: 1. Cryptogram. 2.
David. 3. Toulon. 4. Georgia
S. California. 6. Constitution
7. Irish Sea. t. High pressure.
I. Latin. 10. Alumni.
Quesada's
General Elwood Quesada, administrator of
the Federal Aviation Agency who will be leaving
ornce next week, has had a tough job to do.
He was the first head
created from the Civil
tion, given added authority, and charged with the
immense task of supervising all civil aviation. in
all phases, plus considerable control of military
aircratt using the airlanes.
The job is tremendous, because of the in
creased number of planes in the air, because of
the advent or near-sonic
quantum jump in air travel brought about by big
ger transport planes, and because of all the secon
dary problems brought
ones.
f IVEN a job of this magnitude, it is inevitable
-that Quesada would step on toes and make
enemies, rle has certainly done so.
In the current issue of Harper's magazine he
states his own case, sort of a swart song for the
job he will soon leave.
He sets forth his position vigorously, intelli
gently, and without mincing words or sparing
those he criticizes. It is
his stewardship, a slashing; attack aerainst some
of his organized opposition, and a clear statement
of the necessity of making safety one of the para
mount considerations in the administration of
the airlanes.
THE article was written before the crash of a
'jet airliner with a propeller-driven airliner
over New York, with a
Since that event Quesada has come under re
newed criticism, and it
concerning air safety ring
larly in view ot the fact that his own agency has
yet to be cleared of at least a portion of the blame
tor the crash.
Thus Quesada will
something of a cloud, which is too bad for a man
who obviously is a dedicated public servant. But
that "too bad" pales
measured against the heart - rending tragedy
which brought the commercial aviation death-toll
during 1960 to its highest point.
CEN. Clair Engle of California, a pilot himself,
has long been critical of Quesada and some of
his rulings. (Many of them, incidentally, are argu
able whether a tlat retirement age should be
enforced, whether medical examinations should
be permitted only by certain physicians, and
so on. There are legitimate arguments on both
sides.)
However. Encrle's criticisms this time are not
addressed to these arguable matters, but more
closely to the heart of the matter the organiza
tion, efficiency, responsiveness and effectiveness
of the'FAA itself.
In a recent letter to the Washington (D.C.)
Post, he said :
"... The conduct of three separate groups In con
nection with this accident will be under careful scru
tiny - the crew of the TWA Constellation, the crew
of the United Airlines jet, and FAA's ground control.
Each had a responsibility.
"General Quesada says that his ground radio and
radar equipment was functioning properly. This it
a self-serving statement. The decision as to whether
or not it was functioning properly will be made by
the Civil Aeronautics Board which has the responsi
bility of reporting formally on the accident. General
Quesada said the United Airlines plane was 11 miles
off course. Evidently it was. But why? These ex
perienced and professional pilots are not trying to
commit suicide.
"Certainly we do not provide radar surveillance
for the sole purpose of giving the radar controllers
a ringside seat on mid-air collisions. Why would the
radar controllers sit and watch two blips in their
screen move on a collision course without doing
something about It? If everyone is where he is sup
posed to be, we don't need radar equipment. Thii
expensive installation is provided to give positive
control and radar surveillance when things aren't
going right.
"This is the first accident that has occurred where
positive control was supposed to be exercised at all
times and all aircraft in the area were supposed to
be under radar surveillance. General Quesada's
FAA will have to explain why the system they set
up permllled this kind of collision to occur. General
Quesada is not prosecutor, Judge and Jury In this
matter - and he should not be sounding off to the
public as If he is."
WE ARE inclined
Rnn-ln'c rnrnnrVc
But we also feel that
almost-impossible task when he took over the
FAA and not solely because of the problems
involved in air traffic control and safety.
We declared at the time that one of his maior
difficulties would be the second-level bureaucrats
inherited by the FAA from the CAA the men
below the policy-making level and above the
operational level who have a vested interest in
the status quo, so long as their own little empires
continue to grow.
This level of government is the one which
keeps the wheels of government turnintr. if it is
composed of alert, dedicated, progressive public
servants, it is also uie
heels if it thinks it is being threatened.
JUDGING by the record of the FAA, (including
the burgeoning of offices, and bureaus, and
rules and regulations which have only the most
tenuous connection with air traffic safety), the
latter is what has happened in the FAA under
the administration of General Quesada.
He may be right in banging the heads of tlie
Air Line Pilots Association and the Aircraft
Owners and Pilots Association, as obstructionists.
But the sort of thing Senator Engle is talking
about is evidence that he could well have spent
some time profitably banging hlads in his own
agency. E.A.
Swan Song
of the FAA, which was
Aeronautics Administra
let n anes. because of the
about by these principal
an impressive defense of
toll of 137 lives:
makes some of his boasts
a little hollow, particu
be leaving office under
into insignificance when
to agree with Senator
Quesada took on an
level which can dratr its
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'OOKT Ttt MAR3A.RET! SHE KEEPS
WLLIrt Mtr lime JACK HOWfcK. '
Communications
Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of (he writer
althouah under certain circumstances the use of a nen name or iniial
for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to
edit all letters with a view to clarification and eondensaton. Letters
submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words .The letters
printed in his column do not necessarily represent the views of thi
paper; In fact the contrary is often the case.
Busts and Benches
To the Editor: It has been
reported to me by one of our
short-wave radio enthusiasts
that a broadcast, purportedly
to have originated in Grants
Pass, was heard at noon on
Friday, Jan. 6, to-wit or words
to this effect: There is a per
son, sex unknown (to me, that
is) which says that he, she or
it will furnish, tree of charge
to the poor town of Medford
a bench for the poor people
of Medford to sit on while
awaiting a bus, at every one
of the bus stations throughout
the antiquated bus system.
Not only will this 'thing'
furnish and deliver the
benches, but will paint and
keep them in good repair.
Maybe it may also be pre
vailed upon to put one down
near that 'den of iniquity',
where the old veterans are
forced to await the limited
(limited to three or four a
day) to the Domiciliary.
The action by your eity
council puzzles me. At White
City one gets tour months re'
striction for minor infractions
of rules. But, for downright
breaking of regulations, they
get what we call "The Gate",
or out for six months. Your
brave council put both limou
sine companies on six months
probation.
They should have let Mrs.
Mary Jones and Mrs. Ruby
Rogers, the two ladies who
have so bravely voiced their
complaint in your communi
cations columns about no
benches, sit as judges in this
case. My respect and moral
support to them.
Malemute Slim
White City, Ore.
Pachydermia
To the Editor:
The Pachyderm Is dressed
in skin
That overflows by yards.
By Jovel He'd look more
handsome in,
A pair of leotards.
H. W. Robertson
103 North Central ave.
Medford
Kennedy, Labor and Bears
To the Editor: We wr-re ell
steamed up to devote this
letter to that npu's-rflpnoH nl.
fcr of President-elect Kennedy
to the dark-skinned "Al Ca-
pone" like boss of Chicago's
east side, for the cabinet post
of Postmaster General. Obvi
ously, It was just goodwill
shadow-boxing for the black-
block vote that gave Kennedy
his shadow-thin winning of
the USA rjresldenrv. Rut what
a surging uplift it must have
oeen to me black-block voters
to see one of their race grand
iosely wave the cabinet post
offer away. Of course, all con
Try and
A MOTORCYCLE COP stopped a car and pulled out his
summons book. "I clocked you at 65, Mister," he said.
The lady in the back teat cackled gleefully, "Just you glva
him ticket, Officer.
Serves him right I've
told him for years he's a
reckless, terrible driver."
"Your wife?" inquired
the cop. The driver nod
ded glumly. The cop
snapped hit summons
book shut and murmured
sympathetically, "Drive
on, brother."
e e e
John Charles Daly, who
has declared at least a
thousand time on TV that
he abhors puns, assured
frcderlco Habcock of Cgl-
oesfo, "A bun Is the lowest for.
e
Max Bhulmui tells about the sophomore who sowed his wild
oats en Isturday night and went ts church Sunday to pray for
cm failure.
O Ski. t leooeU Cert DlstrlbuUd t Kins reature Syndicate
cerned, including the Kennedy-brother-team,
knew that
the offer would fail passing by
the senate.
We also wanted to comment
on the answers we got from
some very VIPs as to why the
continuing strike - threatened
demands of organized labor
lor more raises in pay, pea
sions, fringe benefits, etc.,
wnen we are in an acknowl
edged recession, o f profit
shrinking and burgeoning
bankruptcies? Of the answers
received, one gave a near an
swer. Columnist Lyle Wilson
who pinned it squarely on
FDR's help in giving the union
labor bosses a stranglehold on
industry's neck. (By the way.
where is the old do-re-mi com
ing from for that $2,500,000
memorial to FDR? Tax dol
lars? There'll be some loud
hollering at that.)
But we did need some
briefing up on grizzly bears
and such, so wheeled out south
Holly street to friend Ansel
Hutchinson, whose years as
forest ranger in that big
Hungry Horse country o f
Montana gave him some very
close acquaintanceship with
that "leave me alone and I'll
leave you alone," near-extinct,
shaggy beast. We looked for
"big, fine old house with
character" like his wife had
wished. But we found them In
a most modern ure-piacea
home, and despite some ques
tioning mixed with coyotes,
elk. moose, mountain - lion,
bears, etc., we still don t Know
why the little woman was de
prived of the house of her
choice. But her lovely needle
work of tatting, etc., kept her
and my dear one in quite an-
other world on that Sunday
afternoon visit.
F. J. Clifford,
Route 2, Box 200F,
Central Point, Ore.
Nominations Are Sent
To Senate by Ike
Washington -(DPI)- President
Eisenhower sent hundreds of
nominations to the Senate
Tuesday, 10 days before his
administration goes out of
office.
The proposed appointments,
all subject to Senate approval,
Included 1,160 nominations
for postmastcrshlps. Many of
the others were routine, ap
pointments and promotions In
military and foreign service.
UNHAPPY BUSINESSMAN
London-itlPll-A London busi
nessman dictated the follow
ing letter to his wife via a
new British typists pool which
operates over the telephone:
Now that I have no secre
tary, I hope you are satisfied."
Stop Mo
.i CERF-
of wheat"
'Alice in Wonderland' tewstoCto
Still Creates Worldwide Propaganda Stir
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Newt Analyst
"Alice in Wonderland," U.S.
Ambassador James J. Wads
worth said of Fidel Castro's
charge that
the United
States plans
to invade
Cuba.
A dec a d e
e a r 1 i e r, his
predeces s o r,
A m b assador
Warren R.
Austin, used
(8
Nawsom even less nice
ty to denounce a Soviet
propaganda attack in the
United Nations.
"The big lie" is what Austin
called it.
While the world shrinks al
most daily with new com
munications developments to
ascertain the truth, diplomacy
of the big lie and the uncheck
ed charge expands in usage.
It is generally agreed at the
United Nations that Castro
fabricated his U.S. invasion
charge as a cheap, flag-waving
stunt designed to unite the
Cuban people, who show in
creasing signs of bemusement
and bewilderment.
Worldwide Propaganda
But for two weeks - this is
the third time it has been done
- the big lie has been drum
med into headlines around
the world, Inflaming anti
American opinion where
there is a field for such in
cendiarism. Nothing really has been
done about it.
The United States formally
and vigorously denied it had
sent a letter to Latin Ameri
can countries openly advertis
ing an intention to invade
Cuba.
The idea patently was
ridiculous. Even had there
been such an intention, the
last thing would have been to
announce it in advance.
Cuban Foreign Minister
Raul Roa took up two days of
the Security Council's time to
throw the diplomatic kitchen
sink at Washington. He final
ly admitted all he knew
about the alleged letter on
which the Cuban charge was
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
From Washington:
A nation once torn asunder
by a civil war opened the
100th anniversary of that
tragic era Sunday with solemn
pageantry and prayer. One
theme was dominant in these
opening ceremonies of our
Civil War Centennial:
Our nation has been able
to REUNITE itself after the
war.
A SOLEMN thought:
fa. Suppose our nation HAD
N'T been able to unite itself
sfter these four years of
bloody war.
In that event, this nation of
ours wouldn't now be the
UNITED States of America,
one nation, indivisible, with
liberty and justice for all. At
the very least, it would be
TWO nations. It is highly
probable that if our nation
HADN'T been able to reunite
itself after the Civil War the
area that is now the United
Stales of America would be
broken up Into an unpredict
able number of small nations.
somewhat com parable to
Europe.
We sometimes think that
things are In a mess. But
WHAT A MESS it would have
been if that had happened.
WHY Sunday, January 8,
as the opening date of
our Civil War Centennial,
when the actual shooting start
of the war didn't come until
three months later, when Con
federate troops shelled Fort
Sumter in the harbor of
Charleston, South Carolina?
The answer is that Presi
dent Eisenhower chose the
Star of the West incident as
the date for the opening of
the Centennial. The Star of
the West was a Union supply
ship en route to Fort Sumter
with supplies designed to
strengthen the federal forces
there. It was fired on bv
South Carolina cadets and
turned around and returned
to its base in the north.
At the time of the Star of
Ihe West incident. South Caro
lina was alone in secession.
It had taken the bull by the
horns, had withdrawn from
the Union and had set Itself
up as an Independent republic.
Its ordinance of secession was
adopted on December 20,
1880.
The shelling of Fort Sumter
started on April 12, 1861.
ITOW did it all happen?
"The answer In tragically
simple.
THE HOTHEADS TOOK
CONTROL.
IHK lesson of it all?
A We musfn't EVER AGAIN,
no matter what the provoca
tion, permit the hotheads to
gain control and push us Into
tragic decisions that could be
b'oided by giving rffore time
to cooler heads.
based came from a newspaper
dispatch.
Quite rightly, the Security
Council refused to act.
Soviet Ambassador Valerian
A. Zorin gave a new twist to
the big lie diplomatic tech
nique. All right, he said in effect,
the United States says it has
no intention to invade Cuba.
Let them prove it.
Were Advance Reports of Red
Leanings
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington - (UPI) - Sen.
George A. Smathers (D-Fla.)
demands a house-cleaning and
fumigation of
the State de
perament but
opposes a con
gressional in
vestigation to
illuminate the
facts in the
case.
That would
be unfair to
Wilson the stockhold
ers in the Department of State,
who can be identified in gen
eral as the tax paying citizens
At 40 West Finds,
Ambitions Die, Life
Doesn't Really Begin
By DICK WEST
Washington - (UPI) - Away
back there when I could still
observe a birthday without
getting the
cold sweats,
some clown
wrote a book
alleging that
life begins at
40.
Well, sir, I
recently at
tained the age
of nativity al-
1 u d e d to in
this volume and I am think
ing now of suing the author
for breach of promise.
I have heated the water and
called in a midwife, but so
far nothing has happened in
the way of a renaissance. I
don't feel any better than I
did at 39. In fact, I don't feel
anything.
I am just sort of numbed by
the thought that all those
things I had planned to do by
this time haven't been done.
Dun, Bradsfreet
Book Lists 825
Medford Firms
There are a total of 825
business in Medford according
to statistics released by J.
Harry White, district manager
of the Portland office of Dun
and Bradstreet Inc. This total
is based on a physical count
of the January, 1961, edition
of the Dun and Bradstreet
Reference book.
The book also lists the num
ber of business firms in other
communities of Jackson coun
ty. In addition to Medford,
Ashland has 182, Central
Point 65, and Rogue River
38 businesses.
The Reference book lists
those manufacturers, whole
salers, and retailers who seek
or grant commercial credit,
but it does not include some
of the service and professional
businesses such as beauty
shops, security dealers and
real estate brokers. Therefore,
the figures for total business
would be higher than quoted
above.
According to While, each
January business concerns in
all parts of the United States
are asked by Dun and Brand
street for copies of their fi
nancial statements. This year
requests are being sent to ap
proximately three million con
cerns. When the owner or officer
of a business enterprise, or his
accountant, fills in and mails
his financial statement to Dun
and Bradstreet, it becomes a
part of the credit report on
his business and a factor in
determining the credit rating
of his business.
Corinne Griffith Asks
Kennedy To Join Drive
Hollywood - H!PP - Corrine
Griffith, former actress now a
wealthy real estate operator,
sent a telegram Tuesday to
President-elect John F. Ken
nedy asking him to join her
campaign against income
taxes.
Miss Griffith, longtime foe
of the yearly taxes and hon-
orary president of the "Plan
to Abolish Individual Feders$
Income Tax," said in her tele
gram that she felt Kennedy
recognized excessive 1 n d 1
vldual taxation a? a majg
cause of "the (trowing reces
sion and increasing unemploy
ment." Q
O .
He did not say how tke
United States cojild prove it
did not intend to invade. Cea
trarily, it could prove an in
tention to stage aa invaeiea
by doing so.
Roa made wide -swinging
charges about alleged invasion
bases in Florida and Guate
mala. The United Nations has the
power to investigate such
by Castro Given?
of the United States. More
over, it could be unfair to all
or to many of the officials of
the department.
What Smathers proposed
was that the department be
swept clean from top to bot
tom of all officials who used
bad judgment in making pol
icies which determined U. S.
relations with Fidel Castro's
Cuba.
As the Truman administra
tion was accused of losing
China, so the Eisenhower ad
ministration now is accused
of losing Cuba. Smathers
should be more specific.
For example: any well in-
What is worse, I can realize
now that I never am going to
do them.
The hard truth is that what
begins at 40 is not life but a
molting season during which
we shed the aspirations that
had been accumulating over
the years.
This sloughing - off process
began for me the moment I
passed this milestone. Looking
reality squarely in the eye, I
accepted for the first time the
harsh verdict that I am:
(1) Never going to be the
captain of a bobsled team, (2)
Never going to learn to figure
skate, (3) Never going to
dance the tango, and (4) Never
going to play "In the Hall of
the Mountain King" on a
flugelhorn.
These are ambitions that I
had carried with me since
childhood, but, for various
reasons, didn't get around to
fulfilling. Numbers (1) and (2)
came about as a result of
watching news reels.
When I was a lad In Texas,
which lies in the intemperate
zone, no newsreel was per
mitted in the theater unless it
had a shot of a bobsled team
and of a couple figure skating.
I resolved then and there
that I would one day move to
a wintry climate and experi
ence these thrills, but only the
first part came to pass. Now
my only ambition is to move
back where it's warm.
I also acquired ambition
number (3) at the movies, dur
ing a Fred Astaire picture. I
saw this same picture on tele
vision the other night and that
quenched the fire. I wouldn't
attempt a tango now even if
Ginger Rogers offered me free
lessons.
As for ambition number (4),
I can't recall when It came
upon me and I wasn't aware
of its passing. I just know that
the musical world has lost a
potential flugelhorn player.
It is not that I think I am
too old to do these things. It's
just that the shock of reaching
40 has undermined the desire.
Even if I memorized tha
collected works of Norman
Vincent Peale, I couldn't think
positively about it.
Fellowship Winner
Faces Prison Term
Redwood City, Calif. (WD
Mitchell Strucinskl. who won
a Stanford university fellow
ship while serving his seventh
prison term, today faced an
eighth trip to the penitentiary.
The husky ex-convict was
Tuesday sentenced by Super
ior Judge J. A. Branson to
concurrent terms of one to 15
years after being convicted on
two counts for the theft of
rare land grant maps from the
San Mateo county assessor's
office.
He was arrested In Novem
ber after an estimated $50,000
worth of old volumes on
Americana disappeared from
the Stanford university li
brary, Strucinski was accused
of transporting the volumes
across the state lines. The
Stanford charges wer subse
quently dropped when the
San Mateo county charges
were filed.
A probation report stated
that the 38-year-old Strucinskl
had also stolen valuable docu
ments from Monterey, Placer,
Santa Cruz. Santa Clara
San
Francisco, and Nevada coun
ties. Strucimgi won his err
tjye fellowship to Swiford
while-vlng a term Ismail
thjnjt and forgery in McNeil
Island (Wash.) federal penitentiary.
c iw jam. It eetsM seae a i
missien for a first-hand loeec
ketk here aaa ekread. Bu
taat would net have suited
Castro's purpose and probably
would have brought a Seviet
veto.
The feeling grews in diple
matic ranks that it is not
enough to sweep unchecked
charges under the carpet. The
United Nations should investi
gate them.
formed U. S. senator should
know that U. S. intelligence
agents were aware during the
three years preceding Castro's
entry into Havana that the
Beard was likely to be in
business with the Russian
Communists.
Any U. S. senator who ia
not so informed, should in
form himself. A senator could
accomplish that by a couple ot
telephone calls, one to FBI
Director J. Edgar Hoover, the
other to Allen W. Dulles, boss
of the' Central Intelligence
agency. '
The next step for the U. S.
senator would be to learn
what the FBI, for example,
did with the information it
possessed on Castro's fellow
traveler background. The in
quiring senator would learn,
your correspondent believes,
that intelligence reports on
Castro's Communist sympa
thies had been submitted in
detail to the White House,
the State department and to
the Pentagon.
The senator with questions!
next should seek the answer
to this one:
"Did policy-making top of
ficials at the White House,
State department and the
Pentagon have full access to
all of this intelligence infor
mation and-or did they know
anything at all about it?"
What Happened
If the intelligence reports
were submitted, but never
reached President Eisenhow.
er, Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles and other top
officials, who did finally re
ceive them? Why were they
diverted from the top men?
If they were diverted, then
by whom?
These are fair questions and
they should be answered. The
word in Washington is that
intelligence reports on Cas
tro's Communist orientation
were submitted regularly for
the information of administra
tion policy makers.
There is some evidence that
they never reached the top
where the decision was made
upon Castro's capture of Ha
vana to recognize the revolu
tion immediately.
Midway Auction
Reports Record
Sale Last Week
Midway auction yard on
Table Rock rd. had a record
sale on Friday, Jan. 6, accord
ing to Bill Bray, owner.
The sale of 1,057 head of
cattle makes it the largest
regular Friday sale ever held
at Midway. Consignor! total
led 175 and the sale lasted
from 1 p.m. to 10:15 p.m., Fri
day. The market was strong with
whiteface steer calves, 400 to
500 pounds bringing $25 to
$26.70 per hundred weight.
Yearling steers weighing 550
pounds to 700 pounds brought
$24 to $25.40 per hundred
weight. Feeder steers, 700 to
900 pounds, sold at $23.50 to
$24.50.
Heifer calves, 350 pounds to
400 pounds, sold at $23 to
$24.10 and yearling heifers
$22 to $23.40.
Fed heifers, choice, 800 to
900 pounds, sold at $23.50 to
$24.40; good 1,000 pounds to
1,100 pounds told from $22
to $23.10. Steers, good to
choice, all weights, sold at
$22.50 to $24.70; standard to
good. $19 to $22.
Cows sold at the highest
prices in 10 months, Bray re
ported. Standard sold at $19
to $20 per hundred weight;
utility $16 to $18.60; cutters,
$14.50 to $15.75; and canners
from $12 to $14.
Choice veal sold at $24 to
$27 per hundred weight. Good
to choice heavy calves sold at
$23 to $26; and medium calves
$20 to $22.
Stock cows and heifers sold
at $150 to $195 per head.
Cows with calves at side sold
from $175 to $202.50 per pair.
Posf Office Forgets
Address in Albany
Albany. N.Y.-IUM-The Al
bany post office apparently
has forgotten its own address.
City Treasurer Collins A.
Thomas reported a wster bill
for the rtrt office was re
turned thre2 times that hi d
been sent to the federal build
ing here. The envelop
markg) "sfJHref urt!yicVe"
The post office is l9Bf?)
in the federal bulld(tf
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