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Distributive Ed Club Notes Week This is Distributive Educa tion Week in Oregon and the Medford Distributive Educa tion club, known as the Tor nado Merchants, is publicizing its program as part of the ob servance. The Medford club has 65 active members at the present time and they are working part time. They also are pre paring for a state leadership convention that will be held in Milwaukie March 29 and 30. The Tornado Merchants won the Best Club of the State award last year at the convention which was held here. This year's class is anx ious to keep the traveling tro phy by winning again this year, Rilla Kaye DenHerder, vice president of the club, not ed in reporting the week's observance. Twenty members are pre paring for the state leader ship tournament. Servicemen News VISITS MOTHER Dennis D. Owen, laboratory technician, who was stationed for V,i years at St. Albans hospital. Long Island, New York, spent the past two weeks in Jacksonville, visit ing his mother, Mrs. Don Owen. He left Tuesday for Port Huenemae, Calif., for further assignment in the Navy. Investment Funds Noon quotations on f 1 e c t a 4 itoch Fund Bid Ask Bullock 12.62 13.83 Chemical Fund 10.58 11.51 Colonial Energy .... 12.06 13.18 Eaton Howard Stk ., 13.30 14.48 Fidelity 15.01 16.23 Fundamental 9.32 10 21 Group Sec Avia-Elec 6.97 7 64 Group Sec Com Stk 12.70 13.91 Group Sec Petr .... 12.34 Hamilton C7 5.03 5 30 Keystone B-3 15.87 17.32 Keystone B4 ,... 9.8I 10.71 Keystone K-2 5.01 5.47 Keystone S.l . 21.26 23.20 Keystone S-2 12.33 13.46 Keystone s-3 13.69 14 94 Keystone S4 4.0a 4 47 Mass Inv Growth .... 7.73 8 45 National Growth .... 7.92 8 66 Stocks 17.80 19.24 TV-Elec 7.29 7.95 United Actum 13.68 14.95 United Canada 17.59 19 12 United Continental.. 6.63 7 23 United Income 11.86 12.96 United Science 6.37 6 96 Value Line 3.15 5.63 Variable 6.36 6 88 Wellington 14.21 15.49 Over-the-Counfer Western Stocks By United Press International Bid Asked Bank of America eia Cal Pac Util 26'j sen Con Freight 13;, 143, Cyprus Mines 22'8 2334 Equitable S & L 33' 33', First National Bank .... ti2'4 83 Jantzen 26 28 Morrison Knudsen 31 Ji 33a Mult Kennels 3Ta 4'2 N.W. Natural Gas 34 2 3ti'f Oregon Metallurgical .. l'i 138 PP&L - 26'i 27'b PGE 267t 28i U.S. National Bank .... 75 79'2 United Util 36, 38 West Coast Tel 20J 21 3, Weyerhaeuser (xd! 265 284 Portland Produce Portland (UPI Dairy market: E?gs To retailers: A A extra large 50-55C; AA large 4832c: A large 47-30c: AA medium 45-49c: AA small 30-39c; cartons l3c higher. Butter To retailers: AA and A prints 66c; cartons 1c higher; B prints 65c. Cheese (medium cured Tc re tiilers: 46,3-47,3c; proces&etf Am ei L-an 5-10 lb. loaf, 43-45c. Portland (UPIj Dressed chick ens No. 1 ?rade dressed to re tailers: Fryers, whole drawn. 32 39c lb.; cut-up. 39-Mc lb.; hens, light type, whole drawn 22-26c lb.; liaht type hens, cut-up 25-30c lb.; heavy whole 36-39c lb. lfIDQITf I S ASHLAND 432.3321 DICK 1 If iKlLUUt OF dilUOR AND MMItuR! EDGAR ALLAN POE'S PANAVISION'tnd COLOR VINCENT PRICE PETER LORRE BASIL RATKBONE v- DEBRA PAGET I ...ill thit rtii l 1 Mr. tiUtwt."-MC ffi 1 w 11 v. tL. ' 1 r."rv- -'A MHS. N. W. FICK Diet in Washington Mrs. Nellie Fick, Long-Time Area Resident, Dies Mrs. Nellie William Fick, 75. a resident of southern Oregon since 1911 and an ac tive participant in the civic life of Jacksonville and Med ford for many years, died at the Kennewick General hos pital Wednesday in Kenne wick, Wash. She had been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Leo Miazga and family, in Pasco, Wash. Memorial services in Med ford will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. in St. Mark's Episco pal church following inter ment Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Siskiyou Memorial park with Adarel Chapter, Order of Eastern Star, officiating. Mr.-,. Fick was a native of Logan, Iowa, the daughter of Floral and David Williams. She was graduated from Iowa State Teachers college, Sioux City, Iowa, and taught her first school in Harlan, Iowa. In 1910 she moved west and taught in the Yakima and Aberdeen, Wash., schools. She moved to southern Ore gon in 1911 and was married in 1912 to Frederick J. Fick, who preceded her in death in 1950. He had operated a hardware store in Medford for many years. In earlier days, Mrs. Fick was active in Jackson county public health work as a mem ber of the Jackson County Public Health association and served on the Jacksonville school board, when the fam ily lived in the pioneer town. She was worthy matron of Adarel chapter, Order of East ern Star, in Jacksonville, for four terms, and held office in the Daughters of the Nile, Zu leima Temple, Ashland. She was an active participant in church work throughout her life. She is survived by her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Miazga (the former Virginia Fick of Medford) and a grandson, Michael, in Pas co. Wash.; sisters, Mrs. Bess Edmonsan, Texarkana, Tex.; Mrs. Blanche Twamily, White Lake, S. D.; brothers Wade Williams. Portland; Dr. C. D. Williams, Genoa, Neb.; Dwight Williams, Lake Worth, Fla., and several nephews and a niece. There will be memorial services at the Episcopal church at 7:30 o'clock tonight in Pasco, Wash. Friends may pay their re spects to Mrs. Fick Friday in Medford at the Chapel in the Trees, Siskiyou Memorial park, from 7 to 9 p.-".. Births PALM - To Mr. and Mrs. Raymond, post office box 152 Linn rd.. Eagle Point, Feb. 5 1963, a boy, 73,i pounds, at Rogue Valley hospital. NOW THRU SIT. DOORS OPEN 6:45 SHOW STARTS AT 7:00 2ND THRILLER "CIRCUS OF HORRORS" :8a OBITUARIES LaNEDA NAN MARLOW Ashland - Funeral services for Mrs. LaNeda Nan Marlow, 31. of 108 North Second St., Ashland, who died Saturday will be held at 1:30 p.m. in the Mountain View chapel. The Rev. Fred Riemer will officiate. Interment will be in the Mountain View ceme tery under direction of the Litwiller Funeral home. Mrs. Marlow was born Feb. 5, 1931. at Crawford, Nebr., and had been a resident of Ashland since 1959. She is survived by her hus band, Robert; three children, Daniel Lee and Linda Diane, at home; and David Joe Mc Cooy, Fremont. Calif.; her mother, Mrs. Grace Henke, Vancouver, Wash., three sis ters and a brother, Mrs. Al berta Weisenfluck, Vancou ver, Wash., Mrs. Roger Gil lette, Roseburg, Mrs. Demaris Marquis. Salinas, Calif.; and Monte Joe Wehenkel, who is with the Army in Germany. CLAUDE CLOSE Funeral services for Claude Close, 68, longtime Jackson county resident, who died at Lodi, Calif., last night, will be held Feb. 8 in Lodi, Calif. He is survived by his wife, Fleta, of Lodi, and a son, Leon. He had lived in Lodi for the past year and recently had purchased a home in Rogue River. He and Mrs. Close had planned to move there this month. Mr. Close was a past master of the Shady Cove Grange, a member of the Live Oak Grange at Rogue River, was a member of the Masonic lodge and had been a builder and carpenter. For many years he had lived on Butte Creek out of McLeod, and has lived in Shady Cove, Medford and Rogue River. MRS. ESTHER OLSON Mrs. Esther Olson, 76, for merly of Medford, died yes terday in a Grants Pass nurs ing home. Funeral arrange ments will be announced by Memory Gardens Funeral Home. WILLIAM STEVENS Private funeral services for William Stevens, 87, of Tule lake, Calif., who died Tues day, were held this morning at Conger Morris downtown chapel. The Rev. George Rose berry of the First Methodist church officiated. Committal was in Hill crest Memorial park, Grants Pass. Mr. Stevens was born June 3, 1875, in Noble county, Ohio, He had lived in Grants Pass from 1928 to 1935, and WINNING 'NASTY' WAR - of .2ff, tells a news JSB3 e.-j..m)mm V --y-TTe .... .fi- . tt - - the U.S.-backed forces are winning a "nasty tough little war" in South Viet Nam. But he said the Communists can intensify the conflict by increasing outside aid. The general recently returned from a tour of the liuliting area. (UPI) .fit GREAT PICTURES! UlilWU'AllM I Stewart GRANGER MEDFORD since then in California. Survivors include two sons, Henry Stevens, T u 1 e 1 a k e Calif.; and R. R. Stevens, Bar. stow, Calif.; a daughter, Mrs. Dale Locke, Medford; a sister. Mrs. Sadie Boyle, Marietta, Ohio; six grandchildren, and seven great grandchildren. VICTOR NEWMAN Ashland - Victor Emanual Newman, 65, died Feb. 5. He was born Nov. 21, 1897, in Owensville, Mo., and had been a resident of Medford for 16 years. He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Duane Allen, Portland, and Mrs. Douglas Sawyer. Eugene, and by a son, Richard Newman, Klam ath Falls; two brothers, Carl Newman, Evansville, Ind., and Charles Newman; Glad stone, Ore.; two sisters, Mrs. Lydia Herman, Swan River, Manitoba, Canada, and Mrs. Estrella Emit, Evansville, Ind., and six grandchildren. Memorial services were held this afternoon in Trinity Episcopal church in Ashland with the Rev. Duane Alvord officiating. Cremation fol lowed. Litwiller Funeral home was in charge of ar rangements. Weather FORECASTS Medford and vicinity: Variable cloudiness and mild through Fri day night. Southerly winds in some areas. Chance of a little rain tonight and fog patches Friday morning. Low tonight 35-40. High Friday 65-70. Western Oregon: Mostly cloudy with occasional rain on coast and a few showers over interior to night or early Friday. Partly cloudy Friday afternoon. Low to night 40-50. High Friday 58-68. Northern California: Rain from Ukiah northward tonight, spread ing to Santa Rosa and Chico north ward Friday. Increasing cloudiness elsewhere tonight and Friday. Cooler north portion Friday. LOCAL DATA TEMPERATURE: Mean yester day 52; above normal 12. Record high this date 67 in 1054 1963. Record low this date 13 in 1020. PRECIPITATION: 24 hours to midnight, 03 Inch. Midnight to 10 a m., none. Total this month 1.20 Inches, .65 inches above normal. Total since Sept. 1, 19.03 inches, 6.80 inches above normal. HUMIDITY: Lowest yesterday 46(t. highest this a m. 100. tilth 4:00 24- C1TV Yester a.m. nr. day Low Prec. Brookings 61 Crater Lake 44 Grants Pass 69 Howard Prairie .. 55 Klamath Falls .... 58 MEDFORD 67 Portland 55 30 30 38 33 32 35 39 46 32 30 48 51 53 Seattle 62 Spokane 46 Yakima 4 2 Eureka 68 Red Blutf 67 Sacramento 73 San Francisco .... 67 Los Angeles ........ 8 2 Phoenix 87 Denver , 63 Chicago 46 Miami Beach 72 New York 50 Washington, D. C. 34 34 30 50 34 29 Gen. Earle G. Wheeler, Army conferen Washington TONITE OPERATION AMSTERDAM MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD, LAST TRAIN DISAPPEARS The caboose of the last Western Pacific train through the Oroville dam site disap pears up Feather River Canyon as men and equipment start tearing out the rails and clearing the way for con Federal Operation Keeps Bad Driving Risks Off Roads By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington - (Special) - A couple of convicted"" drunk drivers from Oregon were recently trip ped up by a battery of IBM comput ers in an at tempt to hide their bad records and obtain new drivers per mits in other smith siaies. r-saen- tially, these two men - like thousands all over the coun try - ran afoul of a new fed eral operation designed to help the states keep bad driv ing risks off the highways. In the cases involving the two Oregon men, both had their permits suspended dur ing 1962. Neither was eligible for another permit until later this year. One went to Idaho and applied for a new license. The other went to Texas and did tile same thing. Neither told authorities in tnese stales of their bad record in Oregon. Both Idaho and Texas auto matically sent copies of these applications to a little-known aecnev in Washington, D.C., called the Office of Highway Safely, which is in the Bu reau of Public Roads under the Commerce Department. Under a bill enacted by Con gress in 1961. this office es tablished a National Driver Register Service, basically composed of names and iden tifying features of drivers who have lost their licenses for either drunken driving or involvement in an accident which resulted In a fatality. This growing register now contains over a quarter mil lion names. Fed Into Computer When the search requests arrived from Idaho and Texas amid thousands more from all over the nation one day last month, the information on the two men was fed routinely into the giant computers by nightfall. By next morning when the staff returned to work they found the electron ic marvels had scored hits by finding the records the men were trying to hide. The computer was able to accomplish this because when the two men had their licenses suspended in Oregon, this in formation was dispatchd from Salem to the Office of Highway Safety, where it u.r,s fed into the "CKWVy bank" of the IBM machines. When the machine scored these hits, not only Idaho and Texas officials were advised, but Oregon officials as well so they would know what these offenders were up to. Before lllis register was created, an individual state had no efficient way of check int on a license applicant if 1 it suspected he might have an ouljf-!lle record It could ; write to nearby stales, ur all the states, but this was time consuming end awkward. Because the service is avail able to all the states and ter ritories, the computers auto matically search records from throughout the nation so that a check is completed within 24 hours. Thus a driver who lost his license on a drunk rap in the Panama Canal Zone last summer and tried to get a license in Arizona lat month was nailed by the com puter. Making Substantial Un Wendell G. Eames, who came from the Federal Bu- OREGON reau of Investigation to man age the new service, said that some 9,000 law violators have been detected who might oth erwise have been given new permits in states which were ignorant of their records until the register was checked. All but four states - Delaware, Georgia, Florida and Massa chusetts - are using the serv ice. About 38 states are mak ing substantial use of it, he said. Some slates check out every permit applicant, oth ers check out only those they suspect. The number of search re quests has increased 654 per cent in the past year, ne added. Some state officials were apprehensive that this might lead to a federal driving license, but Eames said his office is not trying to preempt the state's traditional author ity in this field. The service is free, he said, and the states are free lo use it or not. How they use the service is also up to them. Insurance companies also want to check records of ap plicants for coverage, he said, but his office requires them to get it through their states. Those states that charge for such information don't want to lose the revenue. Eames has received various complimentary letters from state authorities indicating how they use the service. One from Texas reported that of 3.400 new license applicants, 17 were detected as drivers who could not qualify for a permit. One of these 17 admitted he had been licensed pre viously in North Carolina hut said he had never been con victed for drunken driving or other violations. This was true with respect to his record in North Carolina, but he failed to reveal that in South Carolina he had a record of four drunken driving viola tions, two convictions for driving without a license and one for reckless driving. Falsa Statement Case All of this information came out of the computers because South Carolina had sent in the man's record. Within eight days, Texas authorities had started a false statement case against the applicant. Because of the success of the program, Congress is ex pected to consider legislation to expand tiie legisler to in clude names of violators in such other categories as state i officials wish lo report, such as reckless driving, lilt ana run driving, driving while under influence of drugs or habitual violators. Because the register is limited cur rently to drunken driving and fatality accident cases, it cov ers only about S4 per cent of license revocations, Eames said. The administration supports this extension of the regis ter's service. "The more a state uses this program," observed Eames, "the bedT it will he for high way safety." DINE & DANCE IN THE CROWN ROOM Ivff'y Saturday Night to the music ol Rjlph Leh and Caesar Munioli! All new menus, same hijh qual ity food. Dancing afler Nine every evening TltokAntomj MOTOR MOTH Ph 482-1721 struction of the world's highest embankment dam. Trains that began running over these rails in 1909 are now re routed around the area to be flooded by the dam. (UPI) Local and Collision - Vehicles oper ated by Charles Paul Skroch, 27, of 1322 Murray st., and Joseph Carter, Mynatt, 55, of route 1, box 401, Eagle Point, collided at 6:50 p.m. Wednes day at the intersection of Highway 62 and Linn rd., ac cording to state police. Ac cording to police, the Mynatt car was westbound on Linn rd. and made a left turn onto Highway 62 when the acci dent occurred. Bandy Honored - Awards honoring Greyhound Driver Norman E. Bandy, 312 Ash land avc., Medford, have been authorized by Stan A. Oss man, director of safety for Greyhound Lines' western di vision. Bandy has driven more .than 750,000 miles over a 10 year period without an acci dent. Bandy will receive a safety award certificate, a uni. form emblem and a gold watch. The awards will be orcsentcd at a safety meeting of Greyhound drivers in this area. Rental Group To Meet-The Jackson County Property Owners Rental association will meet at the city library in Ashland at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 19. Maurice Ritchey, program chairman, will have a repre sentative from the Security Insurance agency present as speaker. Executive members of the Rental association re cently met at the home of Mrs. Mark Boydcn, president, to draw up the charter and by-laws which will be pre sented at the Ashland meet ing. Association Meeting - The Southern Oregon Egg Farms association will meet Feb. 7 In the Rogue Food shop dining room in urants rasa ai cou p.m. Further egg promotion will be discussed, a spokes man said. Mutual problems of southern Oregon egg pro ducers also will be discussed. Theft - Robert J. Shreeve, route 2, box 30A, JacKson vllle, notified sheriff's depu ties Wednesday that two miles of electric wire was taken from his residence. Washington Man Hurt in Accident William Dean Adkins, 41, j Enumclaw. Wash., was treated as an out-patient at Rogue i Valley hospital Wednesday fori cuts and bruises he received j in a Iwo cer collision on Bid I die rd.. according to city po-1 lice reports. j Adkins was the driver of a j car which coilided witii a vc-, hide operated by Sheila Gwynne Justice, IP, of 719 Bennett st., about 1:10 p.m. Miss Justice was cited tor im proper lane usage. In a second accident Wed- ncsday. vehicles operated by Ncal David Tects. 18. Central ! Point, and Blanche Charlotte : Foy, 61, of route 4, box 324, i collided about 3:02 p.m. on Riverside avc. between Me Andrews rd. and Kennet st. Police said there were no in juries and no citations were issued. Ashland, Ore THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 7. 1963 Personal Linebackers Meet - Med ford Linebackers club will meet at noon Friday at North's Chuck Wagon for their regular weekly lunch con. Caseys Return - Mr. and Mrs. Forrest W. Casey of the Hawthorne apartments have returned after spending three weeks in Honolulu, Hawaii. Electric Permit - The Med ford building department is sued an electric permit Wednesday to A. J. Cox to do work at UU4 Alta st. at an estimated cost of $1,000. At Sacred Heart - The list of patients at Sacred Heart hospital today includes Mrs Gordon F. Johnson of Cres cent City, Calif., a surgery patient; Mrs. James A. Doren, Sr., 829 West 11th St., Med ford, a medical patient, and Mrs. Roy J. Williams, Klam ath, Calif., who Is In the hos. pital for surgery. flggjiigjlj Bette Davis and Joan Crawford ni F5 ' I Seven An$ Presents An Associates and "WHAT EV!f HAPPENED mum Mmrfto WARNER o ( Sites i What's if like fo be married to one of the most successful and zany comedians in the nation? Patti Lewis, wife of star showman, business ..ycoon, uovu'ied father mid familyman Jerry Lewis, answers in this intimate, heart-warmin? love letter "Jerry Lewis, My Funny Valentine" in the FEBRUARY 10TH Family Vlree7cly with the Valentine Cover by arliil Homer Hill with your MEDFORDtlfcTRIBUNE 9 Faculty Members At Portland Event Ashland Dr. Bill A. Samp son, president of the Oregon Association for Student Teach ing, and Mrs. Dorothea W. Bushnell, executive commit tee member representing the southern district, attended a meeting of the OAST in Port land recently. Both are South ern Oregon college faculty members. Dr. Sampson appointed a nominating committee, re viewed the fall conferenca which was conducted in Bend, and announced a slate of ac tivities for the year. It was also decided to ac tivate the fall conference plan ning committee, and that the opportunity of presenting the OAST program to the fall meetings of the Classroom Teachers association, Superin tendents association, Second ary Principals association, and the Elementary Principals as sociation, should be requested. Program Activities Reviewed in Salem Ashland-Dr. Bill A. Samp son, chairman of the South ern Oregon college education division, and Dr. Chester C. Squire, assistant professor of education, attended a meet ing in Salem recently to coor dinate Oregon Program ac tivities, particularly relating to tlie internship program. Mrs. Joy Hills Gubrer, as sistant superintendent of pub lic instruction, and Dr. Wil liam T. Ward, director of teacher education for the Ore gon Program, were in charge of the meeting. Dr. Ward is pn leave from SOC to serve with the slate department of education in the project. Basically, the Oregon Pro gram has been planned by a number of Oregon educa tors to seek the improvement of education on all levels with local high schools to assume an active role in training teachers. Portland livestock Portland (UPU USDA Ctut 75. No early teal. calves 23. no early teat. Hobs 75. U.S. 1 and 2 barrowa and gilts 105 lb. IS; 1 and 3 gradl lBO-iso in. 17. Sheep 25. No early lesu TONIGHT Set It From the Beginning Shows if 7:00 and 9:30 W5 Aldnch Production BROS. copy of fhe 7 V i m i Hk -tJL J CI f r 9 rrCT' ' V ill
