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Local and Lhvh Hospital - Mrs. Alia Poley, 64 Gresham at., Ash land, has been discharged from A l h 1 n d Community hospital last week and is now i patient in the Hawthorne Rehabilitation Center in Med ford. ... Rummage Salt - The Pri. mary Organization of the Lat ter Day Saints church will sponsor a rummage sale March 5 in the Fehl building, 108 North Ivy st., Medford. between 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Chain Saw Mixing - Mrs. George Harshman, 1253 Neil Creek rd., Ashland, reported to state police Thursday morn ing that a chain saw was tak en from the Anderson Butte lookout. Has Surgery - Ernest W. Beer, 327 Edwards St., Med ford, is convalescing at Barnes General hospital following surgery there Wednesday. Two of his brothers, Kenneth Beer and Gordon Beer, former Medford residents now of Ba kersfield, Calif., are here with other relatives after being in Vancouver. Obituaries JOSEPH LAWTON Joseph Lawton, 73, of route 1, box 566, Talent, died in a local hospital last night. Fu neral arrangements are en trusted to Siskiyou funeral service directors of the Chap el in the Trees Mortuary. FRED L. JOHNSTON Fred L. Johnston, 78, of 818 Sherman St., died in Sa lem. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Conger Morris funeral directors. GAIL P. BUFFINOTON Funeral services for Gail Pope Buffington, 56, of 516 South Ivy St., Medford, who died Tuesday, will be held at 3:30 p.m. Friday in Conger Morris downtown chapel. The Rev. Harvey Coovert of Zion Evangelical Lutheran church will officiate. Masonic services will also be held. Committal will be in Boise, Idaho. Mr. Buffington was born Oct. 28. 1906, in Mabton, Wash., and had lived in south ern Oregon since 1949, where he was employed as road fore man by Jackson county for the Upper Applegate district. He attended schools at Mab ton, Wash., and lone, Ore., and Texas AScM college. He was a past master of the Masonic lodge; past Patron of Order of Eastern Star; past High Priest of Royal Arch Masons; a mem ber of the Scottish Rite; a member of the White Shrine; past master of the Upper Ap plegate Grange; and helped organize and was active in instituting the charter of War ren Assembly, Jacksonville, of the International Order of Rainbow, for girls. He was a member of the Zion Evangel ical Lutheran church. He was married Jan. 1, 1945, in Las Vegas, Nev., to Helen K. Dore, who survives. Other survivors include a son, Alan Appleton, Granada Hills, Calif.; two daughters, Lona Gail Buffington, Med ford, and Mrs. Darlecn Lewis, Modesto, Calif.; his mother, Mrs. Beulah Buffington, Pay ette, Ida.; a brother, Glenn Buffington, Boise, Ida.; an uncle, three grandchildren, a niece and a nephew. Honorary casket bearers will include George Redhead, Virgil Wilkes, Robert Stuart, George Mero, Edwin Taylor and J. E. Crawford. Active bearers will include Don Shores, Clarence Williams, Roy Picard, Al Johnson, O. L. Shores and Robert Shores. The body will lie in state at Conger-Morris until time for the services. A lBCQife Ti MVTtIj " ASHLAND 482 1321 BETTE DAVIS Nominated for Best Actress for Her Roll in... 4 . MS? Bette Davis md Joan NOW YOU CAN SEE Personal Hospitalised Mrs. Ada East, 519 King st., Medford. is a patient at Rogue Valley hospital. Mrs. East entered the hospital Wednesday as a medical patient. Permit Issued - A building permit has been issued to Harold Gilbert by the Med ford building department to add a $3,000 family room to the residence at 209 Eastwood dr. Program Planned - George Pitts, professional magician and imitator, will present a program at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 1, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 648 South Ivy St., Med ford. ... Purse Snatched An Ash land housewife reported to Ashland police at 7:15 p.m. Tuesday that a young man nearly knocked her down on Siskiyou blvd., then ran with her purse. Flue Fire Ashland fire men were summoned to a flue fire at 6:56 a.m. Wednesday at the home of Ina Davis, 185 California st. There was no damage. Wiring Damaged - Medford firemen called to a car fire about 2:25 o'clock this morn ing at Bartlett and Eighth sts. said that wiring was damaged from a fire around the carbu. retor. The car was owned by Verna E. Fagan, Ashland. a a Wins First Place - Judith Leeanne Sims, sophomore ma joring in foreign languages at the University of Oregon, re ceived first place in the lower division debate in the week end tournament at St. Mar tin's college, Olympia, Wash. The university debate team took top honors. Miss Sims is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Sims, 41 Ross court, Medford. Boys Apprehended - Two boys who ran away from a representative of ' Catholic Charities of Eugene Tuesday afternoon in Ashland, were apprehended later by Ashland police. The representative, Frank Near'ng, was en route from Yreka to Eugene. He continued on his way. Tne boys were taken to the county juvenile home to await Lane county author'ties. To Attend Funeral-Mr. and Mrs. Claude Allen and Mr. and Mrs. William S. Rose left Medford Thursday for Palo Alto, Calif., to attend funeral services for Prentice Petty, as sistant postmaster of the Med ford post office. Services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday in the Tinney Funeral chapel with interment in Golden Gate Na tional cemetery. Mr. Petty died Monday in the Veterans hospital in Palo 'Alto follow ing a several months' illness. Prayer Day-Medford Unit ed Council of Church Women has planned the annual World Day of Prayer olservance Fri day, March 1, at 1 p.m. at As cension Lutheran church 2617 Barnett road It is open to any interested person and a nursery will be provided for small children. Other services will be held at 1 p.m. at the Veterans Administration dom iciliary, White City; at 10 a.m. at St. Peter's Lutheran church; at 2:30 p m. at Rogue Valley Manor; at 1:30 p.m. in First Presbyterian church, Ashland. Yreka High School Burglary Investigated Yreka-Burglars took about $200 in cash and a camera sometime Tuesday night or Wednesday morning from an office in Yreka High school, according to Yreka police. The cash was in a safe, which was peeled, officers said. A locked door to the of' fice was forced open to gain entry. How entry was made to the building had not been determined by police. Also reported taken were a number of gold diploma seals. NOW THRU SAT. D00RS 0PEN 6:45 InUW SIMMS :UU WHNttn mjmsr Crawford IT AT REGULAR PRICESI I S Set .! K TWA i I II ISM 11 I If U A . t tW INSPECTS GUEST HOUSE - Rep. Winton Hunt (D-Salem), chairman of Oregon House Military Affairs committee (back to camera), confers with State Assistant Adjutant Gen eral George Donald Anderson as committee Chinese Deliver Harsh Attack on Russian Leaders Tokyo fUPP Communist China, in one of its harshest attacks, Wednesday accused Russia of imposing economic and political pressures in an effort to force the Peking regime to submit in their ri valry for leadership of the Communist world. The Chinese charged the Russians with "malicious acts" and gross violations of Communist doctrine, and said they would never surrender to the peaceful coexistence policies of Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev. They accused the Russians of "great-nation chauvinism" and of "perfidiously" tearing SCHOOL NEWS Sams Valley School A tree planting demonstra tion was given by Charles Hoover at an assembly recent ly at Sams Valley school. He gave a talk and presented trees to students. Following Hoover's part of the program a film on Carls bad Caverns was shown. Miss Mieko Hayashi. an ex change student from Japan, spoke at the last meeting of the Sams Valley Parent- Teacher association. While attending school in Medford, Miss Hayashi is making her home with Dr. and Mrs. Bray. She spoke of her country, schooling and traditions there. Since the meeting was to observe Founders' Day, past presidents of the unit were honored, and Mrs. Bes sie Davis provided a Found ers' Day cake. A recent event which prov ed appealing to pupils was the appearance of a magi cian, Robert Emcrico, who was engaged by principal, Charles Fnnt Jr., to enter, tain recently. Several pupils helped the magician with his acts. They were Herbert Cou rier, Susie Burreson, Tonya Parker, and Steven Cronkite. 1 .BLO00 L . ' .-' V i.'-' WA fefti mml 6 iv I ft ifllH SIGN CARRYING HECKLERS - Several of a 16-member group of Russian clergymen talk with officials of the Nations! Council of Churches cn their arrival in Denver, NOW OPEN I SHOW I IVII I STARTS TV I I 7 PM. ftfllo MEDFORD v A. rf. " if H nHi ym I fax inspects guest house at Camp Withycombe Tuesday. State auditors claim house was remodeled with misappropriated funds. (UPI) up hundreds of agreements with the Peking regime be cause of the ideological dis pute. Guilty ef "Adventurism" The Chinese said Russia was guilty of "both the error of adventurism snd the error of capitaiulationism" in Cuba and was betraying commu nism by giving political and material support to India in its border conflict with Red China. They blamed Khrushchev and the Kremlin for the wid eening rift in the Communist camp, but they agreed with a Soviet call for bilateral and multilateral talks aimed al coordinating policy for the struggle against capitalism. The Chinese argued that the Cuban crisis and the Sino Indian border dispute proved the correctness of Peking's hard line as opposed to Khru shchev's peaceful coexistence with the capitalistic West. Delivered In Editorial The attack was delivered in a 9.000-word editorial ai the Peking People's Daily, of ficial newspaper of the Chi- Klamath Falls Man Injured in Mishap Delbert R. Jennings, 54, of route 3, box 1140F, Klamath Falls, has been hospitalized here for treatment of injuries suffered when the car he was driving skidded on Highway 62 near the Butte Falls inter section, throwing him out of the auto and on to the pave ment about 9:30 p.m. Wednes day. His condition was reported as satisfactory at Rogue Val ley hospital today. Jennings was alone In the car, according to state police, and attempting a right hand turn on to the Butte Falls highway when the accident occurred. The car continued into an embankment after he was thrown from the vehicle, police said. if", ft '' I ' I4AV EVERY NITE! ITTTt IHT Jttin FORREST-6RIFFITH - PROWSE Kill in MTTER'SCOTT JIM CIWNGS OSCAR S!A CfCH W HJ'CfN .. T 'ej. m m i is ?ih . i m m ', & , -w mt. il v i kFv;, m MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. WIT i . ML ' 1- IB . i alv .fAi nese Communist party. Brief excerpts of the editorial were reported by the New China News Agency Tuesday and the full text was broadcast Wednesday. The Moscow-Peking rift has been developing for the past several years, but only in recent months has it reach ed the point where some West ern foreign affairs experts have predicted a possible break in the Communist camp. Windows Reported Damaged by Shot Two cases of windows dam aged by BB guns were In vestigated by Medford police Wednesday. David Nelson Fraysher, 2035 Sunset dr., notified offi cers that three windows at Dave and Vern Fraysher Service, 404 East Fourth st., were broken sometime Mon day. The second incident was re ported by Warren Benny Cole, 865 Olympic ave., at his residence. One window was reported broken, believed to have occurred iometimes this week. Paint Sprayer Said Missing from Firm A paint sprayer was taken from the Rogue River Pav ing company's substation off Interstate 5 near Talent last night or this morning, the sheriff's department reported. The theft was discovered this morning. The thieves also broke into a dump truck at the station and removed the front seat and two signal lights. Eighteen gallons of gas was taken from the 1.000-gallon storage tank, according to Gale Kimbell, one of the three owners, the deputy sheriff's report showed. i" i ) : t SWEEPS JMlmi Colo., Wednesday, while they are picketed by sign carrying hecklers. The Russians are here at the invitation of the National Coun cil to take part in theological talks. (UPI) SOME PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD JUJ.TUVE10 BE TAKEN!" Sidney Poitier a raisin in the sun QjiroiA VLNeilRl'by Dee OREGON Idaho Officials To Pick Up Youths Authorities from Idaho are expected here today to return to Weiser two juveniles ar rested by state police Wednes day morning and charged with escape from the Wash ington county jail, theft of six cars and two burglaries in Oregon. The two, David Dennis Clark and Mike Gotham, are held in Jackson county jail. Since they are Juveniles, both 17 years of age, there will probably be no prosecu tion of the Oregon offenses, officials here indicated. No warrants had been re ceived from the counties in which the cars were stolen and all had been recovered Thursday. An electric razor, a movie camera and beer were taken from i residence at The Dalles, officers said. The youths admitted robbing a place of business near Hermis ton but did not say what they took from it. They ligned papers of ex tradiction Wed n e s d . y, and District Attorney Alan Holmes contacted the Wash ington county sheriff In Ida ho, who said authorities would leave there this morn ing for Medford. Two Accidents Are Reported in City Two traffic accidents were reported to Medford police Wednesday. One occurred at 12:40 p.m. on Court st. between Ohio st. and Highway 89. According to police, operators of the ve hicles were Suzann Carol Hall. 20, of 2773 Elliott ave., and Merle Le Roy Carden, 43, of 2455 Siskiyou blvd., Ash land. The second accident occur red at 11 p.m. when vehicle operated by Charles Arthur Martin, 17, of 620 West Sec ond St., hit a street sign post on Rose ave. near Palm st. Martin was lodged in the county jail on a charge of drunk in public. He was also cited by police for failing to obtain an operator's license and violation of the basic rule. 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Keystone S-3 Keystone 5-4 Mass Inv Growth 7.30 National Growth 7.73 mocks 17. 7n TV-F.lec 7.11 united Accum iii.as United Canada 1730 United Continental.. B SO United income 1 1 .73 a 2i s .1.1 a 311 1404 United Sc enie Value Line, lnc Variable Wellington Fund ... Weather FontcASTs Medford and icinltv: General rain tonight Mostly cloudy w:lh showers Friday morning, becom ing partly cloudy Friday afternoon and clearing Friday nignt Low to night near 33. High Friday .13-80. Western Oregon: Partly cloudy with scattered showers tonignt on 1 Friday. A little cooler Friday. Low tonichl 3.1-43. High Friday 44-51 Small craft warnings displayed on cot. Northern California: Fair tonight and Friday, except psrMy cloudy extreme north. Little tcmperatute change. I.Of'AI. I1AT1 TLMPF. MATURE' M-an vaster- dav 41. below normal 3 necorrt high this date 72 !n 1923. Rerord low this date 19 tn Ills. PRECIPITATION: 24 hours to midnight, none. Midnight to 10 a.m. trace Total this month 2 48 Inches, .13 Inches above normal. Total since Sept. I. 20 29 tnches. 8 30 inrhes above normal HUMIDITY Lowest yesterday 40'r, highest this a ni 98"- lllth 4 no 74- I.ITV Veslar- a m. hr. day l.ow Free. Brookings Cra'er lake .... Grants Pass Houard Prairie Klamath Fails MLOFOnil - Portland ScafUe Spokane Yakima hi 4.1 1.1 17 37 22 27 3 14 il nt 38 "44"" 48 II 11 17 ""ll 19 77 .17 22 28 . 43 ... 3 . 3 .. .vf" .10 . ,17 F.ureka .1.1 Red Bluff 72 Sacramento ..., 81 San Franrlseo .... 80 Los Angeles 78 Phoenix - 70 Denver 47 Chicago 28 Miami Besch 87 New York 31 Washington. D C. 31 Portland Livestock Portland 'UPI iUSDA Cattle 30: mostly high good 160-loos lb. steers 23 21 Calves none Hogs ,10; one lot mostly 1 and 2 butchers steady at 16 30; good feeder pigs 13-11. Sheep none. TheyH Do It Every 7- v Elmo LOOKS LIlE TOCkmA ( 705 CEAL DOCTORS D0NT D?HU - D ) (DOC BETTER THAN RAVMONDrSz!:. 6 PATIENTS-J I lcto x V ? S Hja-- - ' I.mesootX X the onlv one I I " I ' ' r- w 1 u 7. I U NOTA.tX)CTOR.' I -Ti "fc 4-H Club News Fun to Sew The Central Point Fun to Sew 4-H club prepared a dis play for the library window at the meeting recently. The display will be . street scene of lltterbugs with dolls and model cars and will be on dis play at the Central Point li brary window during 4-H week March 2 to 10. At our next meeting March 9 a trash can will be painted green and placed near the ele mentary school. In the near future, a model meeting will be presented for the PTA meeting. The next meeting will be March 613 Cherry st. at 2 p.m. Jane Ayres, Acting Reporter. 9 at Buiien Susien The second home meeting of the Buzzen Duzzen 4-H club was held at the home of Christina Yawn recently. The meeting was called to or der by the president and roll call was answered with rules of good manners by each girl. The club decided that they would have a Mothers Tea In May and also a swimming par ty mis summer but no definite plans were made at this lime. After the business meeting, the girls worked on their projects. Our next meeting will be held at the Evans Val ley school March 4. Judy Gllmore, Reporter. Goody Coekeri The February meeting of the Jacksonville Goody Cook ers 4-H club was held at the home of our leader, Mrs. Dun lap. Th main purpose of the meeting was to judge some thing that each of us baked. We all learned how to correct the mistakes. Many general baking problems were cleared UP' ... We also received some in formation on the fair. Next meeting our record book will be checked. Our next meeting will be March 9. Wesltlde Blocker. The February meeting of the Wcstslde Blockers 4-H Sheep club was held at Mrs. Gibson', home In Central Point. The meeting was called to order by President Carolyn Barnes. Flag salutes were led by Janet Lee. Roll call was answered by if we had any lambs yet. There were 13 member, and one visitor. The visitor was Mrs. Williamson. New members this year were Georgina Hatfield, Wayne Debrick, Mary Williamson, and Linda Fabcr. Our community project was discussed. We decided to wall until the spring lamb show to put in a window instead of a window for 4-H week. Re ports were given by Susan Truly and Connie Moore on officer, training school. It was moved and seconded that our secretary. Jan Main write a letter of thanks to Jackson County Federal Savings and Loan association and thank them for the 4-H calendars. Clint Cibson gave a report on the feeding program. Car olyn Barne. gave . report on judging sheep in various breeds. Our next meeting will be held at Donna Hammond's March 21. There will also be a day for judging and show manship at Linda Kaber's March 2. The meeting was adjourn ed and refreshments were served. Janet Lee, Reporter Livestock Club A recent meeting of the Antelope Livestock 4-H club ws called to order by Jary Hansen. Pledges were led by Mike Lehman. Roll was call ed and minutes were read by Secretary Cheryl Sw.im. mat Hansen talked about the leadership papers that were not In yet. He alio encourage as many beef member, a. possible to THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 28. 1363 Time join the Hereford association. BUI Bigham talked on get ting the Sheep club organized and Mr. Lathrop will be the leader. John Bohnert told the club members how much a pig should weigh and how old it should be. Ron Anderson signed up the members who wanted to be in the sheep club. Then he said for the members to start filling out their record books. The Beef club will meet on March 21 to work on record books. The meeting was adjourn ed and then Bill Bigham In troduced Bill David and George Barr who were from Alber's Feed store to show some films on beef. 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