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Funeral Service Wednesday lor Milton Steinmetz Gold Hill - Milton Stein metz, 70, mayor of Gold Hill, who died Saturday, has been active in civic and commu nity affairs for a number of years. When he arrived in Gold Hill from Medicine Hat, Al berta, Canada, in 1913, he helped build the cement plant here. A graduate of Lehigh college, Bethlehem, Pa., and the Empire Automobile in stitute, Buffalo, N.Y., he was a civil engineer. He served overseas in World War I, receiving a master engineer senior grade appointment in the U.S. Army. He married Loleta Hougham in Lawton, Okla., on Dec. 25, 1917. In Oklahoma, Ala bama, and Georgia, he was active in the construction of cement plants and was su perintendent of a strip coal mine in Oklahoma. The dam projects on which lie worked were the Spavi new dam in Oklahoma and the Exchecker dam at Fres no. He moved to California in 1931 and from 1933 to 1939 he operated a gold mine east of Baker, Ore. They moved to Gold Hill in 1939. He was appointed to serve a short term on the Gold Hill city council in 1951 and was appointed mayor Dec. 5, 1955. He has served that post continuously since that date. Prior to his retirement he was active in the construc tion of airports on the coast of Oregon, Washington, and Alaska. He was born Feb. 4, 1893 in Bangor, Pa. While serving as mayor he donated his time for engineer ing projects within the city and brought maps up to date on streets, sewer and water lines. He also assisted in com piling material for a Gold Hill Chamber of Commerce brochure. He was a member of Hia watha lodge, F&AM, Hudson, Ind., for more than 40 years; Gold Hill Chamber of Com merce, the Eastern Oregon Mineral and Mining associa tion, Grants Pass Barracks, Veterans of World War I, and Gold Hill chapter. Veterans of Foreign Wars. Survivors besides his wife include three sons. Donald Steinmetz, Medford; David Steinmetz, Beaverton, and Harry Leigh Steinmetz, at home; one sister, Mrs. Edith Hinton, Bangor, Pa.; five brothers, Russell Steinmetz, Santa Ana, Calif., and Ray mond Steinmetz, Alvin Stein metz, Clarence Steinmetz, and Luther Steinmetz, all of Bangor, Pa.; and eight grand children. Funeral service will be held Wednesday, April 24, at 1 p.m. at the Conger - Morris downtown chapel, Medford. The Rev. D. E. Millard of the New Age church, Eagle Point, will officiate. Interment will be in Hillcrest Memorial park. Honorary pallbearers will include William Ferguson, Wilbur Martin. Clyde Walker, Don Morrow, Bud Force, and Len Martin. Active bearers will include Ferd Jones, Hil ton Brignall, Floyd Lance, Alva Walker, Charles Hutchi son, and Lloyd Miller. The body will lie in state at Conger-Morris funeral home until the time of the service. a TONIGHT WEDNESDAY THURSDAY Doors Open 7:30 "CURTAIN AT EIGHT" 0 ACADEMY A AWARDS ! BEST ORIGINAL STORY AND SCREENPLAY! ifeiis w wir rwaa rmiw Vlastroianni J? ! 2nd Adventure! 915 p.m. jflfV . n BHMHpi ggsav JmjIKf VbV CHOSEN MISS TEEN Pretty Judy Adams, 16, of Parma, Ohio, gets a kiss on the cheek from actor Jeremy Slate after being chosen Miss Teen U.S.A. at America's Teen-Age Fair in Burbank, Calif. She won out over five other finalists as the girl who typifies the best in American youth. She re ceived a new car, a part in a motion picture, a 51,000 ward robe and a two-weeks expense-paid vacation in Canada. (UPI) Local and Lodged-A 14-year-old Cen tral Point boy was lodged in the Jackson county juvenile detention home during the Week end after he raped an 8-year-old girl, according to Central Point police and Jack son county sheriff's deputies, who jointly investigated the incident. The boy is awaiting action by juvenile authorities. In Hospital - Norman Ca rothers, band and chorus in structor at Crater High school, ... .. -.1 ct Vincent's hosnital in . Port- I land. Mrs. John Cupp, Cen tral Point, is a medical patient at Crater Osteopathic hos pital. Home Louis Miller. Horn- 1 brook, returned home Thurs-! day from the Siskiyou Gen oral hnsnilal in Yroka where he had been a patient for eight days, visiting mm ai his home on Friday was a long-time friend. Dr. Charles Haines, Ashland. Convalescing Mrs. Hattie Holland was a patient for three days last week in the Siskiyou General hospital. She is recuperating at present at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Dwain Hamner. Permit Issued The Med ford building department has Issued a permit to Rogue j Equipment company to erect a storage shed at 2920 North Pacific highway at an esti mated cost of $1,000. ' Articles Stolen Lan Dus enberry, Trail, told state po lice this morning that articles were stolen from two cars in front of his home last night. State police are investigating. Shooting Reporied James P. Smith, route 1. box 233, Talent, notified state police that shots were fired around his home last night. Some were fired into two rooms and the wood pile. Personal" Society to Meet Southern Oregon Dental Assistants' so ciety will meet Wednesday, April 24, at 8 p.m in the Josephine General hospital. The program topic will be "Miss Improper" and it will be presented by Mrs. Barbara Hayes and Mrs. Lucille Wil son. Prowlers Reported Walter Kerr, 3914 Crater Lake high way, reported to state police that prowlers were around his home last night. He told of ficers he fired at one who ran behind the Ted DeFord Mack shop across the high way. Driver Cited After Parked Car Is Hit A Yellow Cab company driver was cited for violation of basic rule Monday after his cab struck a parked car on Lincoln st. between 10th and 11th sis., according to city police. Driver of the cab, John William Bunker, 25, of 27 Myrtle St., told officers that as he turned a corner onto Lincoln st. an object on the dashboard slid off. Bunker said as he leaned forward to catch the object, the car swerved, striking a parked vehicle registered to Burt Bookout, 521 Boardman St. The accident occurred about 7:35 a.m. No injuries were re ported, officers said. 1 1 LraT 04bssbWVvLtJ ararJal 'DANGEROUS' TUNA The Food and Drug Administration has warned that tuna fish canned by the Washington Pack ing Corp. of San Francisco, in cans bearing the embossed codes "WY2" or "WY3" may be "highly dangerous." The tuna has been shipped to New York, Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Chicago and Augusta. Ga. Michael Bade, chief of the wholesale division of the bureau of foods and drugs in New York, points to the code letters on the bottom of a can of tuna after more than 2,500 cans of suspected "dan gerous " tuna were seized in Washington, D C. (UPI) ATTENTION EAGLES I NOMINATIONS 1 FOR OFFICERS W M Thurs., April 25 gnf I hhhihhhhII MEDFORD Honors Banquet Tickets Available Ticket sales for the third annual Medford Scholastic Recognition banquet are now under way. according to Bill Tope, ticket chairman of the event. The banquet is scheduled to be held at the Rogue Val ley Country club Tuesday. April 30. at 6:30 p.m. Fea tured speaker of the evening will be Len Casanova, head football coach at the Univer sity of Oregon. The banquet is jointly sponsored by various Medford service clubs to honor the top five per cent of the graduat ing seniors from Medford and St. Mary's High schools. Twenty - nine scholars will be honored by the group this year. Tickets for the dinner may be purchased at the door as well as at Drew's Manstore, Barker's Men's store, Mann's Department store and the In surance Mart. Valley Men on Education Program Carl M. Brophy. Medford lawyer, and Louis F. Schultz Jr., Grants Pass, will be among the many speakers at the spring session of Oregon State bar's program on cur rent problems in taxation. The course will be held in Eugene at the University of Oregon from April 25 through 27. Some 600 lawyers are ex pected to attend the post-graduate course. Brophy will lecture Thurs day morning on sale and liqui- d a 1 1 o n of partnerships. Schultz's talk will be Friday morning on tax problems of farmers. The conference is sponsor ed by the Oregon State bar through its standing commit tee on continuing legal edu cation. Three tax specialists from New York and Califor nia will join 24 qualified Ore gon practitioners in present ing the course. Weather FORECASTS Medford and vicinity: Cloudy to night and Wednesday. Low tonight 35 High Wednesday 38. Western Oregon: Cloudy through Wednesday. Chance of a few show ers Wednesday. Low tonight 35 to 45. Hieh Wednesday 33 to A3. Northern California: Fair throuch Wednesday. LOCAL DATA TEMPERATURE: Mean yester day 46: below normal B. Record high this date 82 in 1934. Record low this date 28 in 1920. PRECIPITATION: 24 hours to midnight, none. Midnight to 10 a.m.. none. Total this month 1.90 inch, 1.08 inch above normal. Total since Sept. 1. 23.08 inches. 6.42 inches above normal. HUMIDITY: Lowest yesterday 34',. nigneit tnis a.m. High 4:00 24 CITY Yester- a.m. nr. day Low Prec. Brookings 60 40 Crater Lake 40 10 Grants Pass 61 Howard Prairie .. 49 Klamath Falls 50 MEDFORD 58 Portland 58 23 27 31 Seattle 53 Spokane 34 Yakima 63 44 37 38 46 Eureka Red Bluff Sacramento San rrancisco Los A n gclcs Phoenix Denver Chicago Miami Beach .. New York . 36 64 Washington. MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. J IJ ruLJBfciM - HH J ENTERS COURT Former film star Mary Pickford is shown as she enters Los Angeles County Courthouse for an appearance as plaintiff in a suit to determine the value of a North Carolina television station in which she has an interest. (UPI) OBITUARIES IDA LOUISE WRIGHT Recitation of the Holy Ro sary for Mrs. Ida L. Wright, 132 First St., Jacksonville, who died Sunday, will be conducted Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the Chapel in the Trees Mortuary, within Siski you Memorial park. The Rev. William MeLcod of Sacred Heart Catholic church will of ficiate. The funeral service will be conducted Thursday at 9 a.m. in Sacred Heart church, Medford. Interment will follow in Siskiyou Me morial park. ALBERT E. HERMANSON Funeral service for Albert (Al) E. Hermanson, 75, of 502 South Grape St., who died Monday, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Perl Funeral home. The Rev. Fredrick Evans, pastor of First Chris tian church, will officiate. In terment will be in Siskiyou Memorial park. Mrs. Hermanson was born on Feb. 20, 1888 at Ishpeming, Mich. He came to the Rogue valley from Michigan in 1910. From 1925 to 1935, he owned and operated a feed store in Central Point, then moved to Medford in 1935 and was em ployed at Medford Ice and. Storage until his retirement in 1945. In 1915 in Ashland, he was married to Rose Morris, who survives. Other survivors in clude three daughters, Mrs. Jerry Mansfield, Medford; Mrs. Grace Wright, Medford; and Mrs. Jean Carr, South Nyack, N.Y.; five grandchil dren, several nieces and neph ews. MARY CALDWELL Funeral service for Mrs. Mary Anna Caldwell, 73, of 403 Second st., Pnoenix, who died Sunday, will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Memory Gardens Funeral home. The Rev. William Saladin, pastor of the Presbyterian church, Phoenix, will offic iate. Elders of the church will serve as pallbearers. At the graveside, in Memory Gardens Memorial park, Neighbors ol Woodcraft will conduct burial ceremonies. Mrs. Caldwell was born on June 30, 1889 at Wappinger's Falls, N.Y., the daughter of John William and Alice Martha Bradbury. In 1904, her family moved to Kansas. She married in Culver, Kan., on Dec. 28, 1910, Walker Mc- in Medford, he's Eddie Butler, now playing nightly at the Colony restaurant's Florentine Lounge. Eddie's Music at the organ it superb . . . and the additional sound effects are terrific. Don't miss him stop in soon! OREGON m Clure Caldwell, who survives. Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell moved from Minneapolis, Kan., to Phoenix more than 25 years ago. Mrs. Caldwell was a mem ber of the Phoenix Presbyter ian church, belonged to the I Presbyterian Women's associa tion, and was a deaconess of the church. She also was a member of the Phoenix Fire auxiliary, a charter member of the Phoenix Garden club, and a member of the Neigh bors of Woodcraft. Survivors, besides her hus band, include two sons, Wil liam Edwin Caldwell, Phoe nix, and Lewis Walker Cald well, Medford; two daughters, Mrs. Horace (Wilma) Root, and Mrs. Richard (Neva Mae) Marsh, both of Medford; two sisters, Mrs. Maude Smith Haskins. Pbocnix, and Mrs. Alice Martha Luppold, Fen. ton. Mo.; and five grandchil dren. LEELAND B. SLATTER Lecland B. Slater, 49, for merly of Medford, died Sun day at Eugene. The funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday in Hillcrest Memo rial chapel, on the North Phoenix rd., with Conger Morris funeral directors in charge of arrangements. WENDELL W. ELMGREN Funeral service for, Wendell W. Elmgren, 87, of 204 Ber rydalc ave., who died Satur day, will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday in Conger-Morris downtown chapel. The Rev. Harvey Coovcri of Zion Lu theran church will officiate. Committal will be in Hillcrest Memorial park. Mr. Elmgren was born May 26, 189S, in North Branch, Minn., and was a veteran of World War I, serving from May 9, 1918, to Aug. 4, 1919, almost a year of which was overseas. He was married Oct. 9, 1920, in Newport, Ky., to Thelma Auth, who survives. He had lived in southern Ore gon for two years, coming from Shelton, Wash. He was a member of the Veterans of World War I. Survivors besides his wife include a son, Charles Elm gren, Medford; two daughters, Mrs. Neil Sasse, Central Point, and Mrs. Roy Gamache, Monroe, Ore.; three brothers, Theodore Elmgren and Oliver E. Elmgren, both of St. Paul, Minn., and Arvid F. Elmgren, THE MUSIC MAN Fourth and Front (fata ranarimanf jiaiM iepai imsm Official to Turkey Doyle k. Casey, who has been vacationing in Medford since returning from a U.S. Department of State assign ment in Africa, leaves today to accept an assignment in Turkey. Casey will fly to Washing ton, D.C., for 30 days' brief ing before continuing to An kara. He will spend two years as an administrative advisor to the department of agricul ture of the government of Tur key in the Turkish capital, Ankara, and in Adana in southern Turkey, a cotton growing area. A resettlement project is under way In southern Turkey and Casey will serve as an ad visor in a government train ing project as well as in as sisting with the agricultural program. Mrs. Casey and their five daughters will remain In Med ford until the end of the school year. Portland Produce Portland (UPtl Dairy market: Eggs To retailers: A A extra large 40-44c: AA large 38-41c; A large 37-40c; AA medium 33-37c; AA small 39-32c; cartons 1 -3c higher. Butter To retailers: AA and A prints flflc: cartons 3c higher: B prints 63c Cheese (medium cured: To re tailers: 46-48c: processed Ameri can 5-10 lb. loaf. 43-43C. Portland (UPll Dressed chlck esn No. 1 grade dressed to retail ers 32-38C H.: cut-up. 37-2c lb.; hens, light type whole drawn 23 27c lb.; light type hens, cut-up 25 19c lb.; heavy whole J-ac lb. Over-the-Counfer Western Stocks Bv United Press International BIO ABKCQ nana: or America es-ia Cal Pac Utll 2J14 Con Freight 12". Cyprus Mines 22 Equitable S 6c L 33 1st National Bank 69 Jantzen 34V, Morrison Knudsen (xd) 30 Mult Kennels 44s N w Natural Gas 36 Oregon Metallurgical .. 1 PGE 36 PP8cL 36 U.S. National Bank . .. 74 West Coaat Tel 33 7 13', 33 37 68 36 33 4 3B 1 37 38 78 34ii 31 Weyerhaeuser 30 Investment Funds Noon quotations on selected! noun; Fund Bid Ask Bullock 13.39 14.67 Chemical Fund 11.03 13.00 Colonial Energy .... 1331 13.45 Eaton Howard Stk 13.83 14.09 Fidelity 16.65 11.14 Fundamental B.76 10.70 Hamilton C7 5.06 5.53 Keyatone B-3 18.43 17.03 Keystone B-4 0.03 10.83 Keystone K-3 3.17 5.65 Keystone S-l 31.81 33.80 Keystone S-3 13.98 14.16 Keystone S-3 14. .13 13.83 Keystone S-4 4.19 4.58 National Growth .... 7.84 8.37 Stocks 18.65 30.16 TV-Elec 7.41 6.08 Value Line 3.33 3.83 Variable 6.63 7.16 Wellington 14.49 15.79 Portland Livestock Portland! UPIiUSDA Cattle 330: mixed good-choice steers 23.75-34.50: heavier good 32-33 .w. standard dairy bred 10.80; utility cows 13, beef breeds 19; commer cial bulla 30-25. Calves 25; good-choice vealers 30-31: good-choce 28-30. Hoga 200: mostly No. 2 butchers 13.50. Sheep 100; mostly choice wooled lambs 19; no other early sales. St. Cloud, Minn.; two sisters, Mrs. Hilding Swanson, Brai nerd, Minn., and Mrs. M. E. Finch, North Hollywood, Calif.; 10 grandchildren and one great granddaughter. PEACE CORPS PLACEMENT TEST APRIL 27, 1963-8:30 A.M. Post Office Building West Sixth at Holly St. Medford More than 4,000 Peace Corps Volunteers are needed to meet urgent re quests from developing nations in South America, Africa and Asia. To be considered for training programs beginning in June, July and August, you should take the non-competitive placement test April 27. Either send a completed application to the Peace Corps before the test, or fill one out and submit it at the time you take the test. For an application, or more information, write the Peace Corps, or see your local Postmaster. PEACE CORPS Washington 25, D. C. Published as a public service In cooperation with The Advertising Council 49-18 TUESDAY. APRIL 6L T'.aaaJ' '-'- tB LbY -Lb bbhbbbv." "aVasfkaV .aVKflsl L daH aV a4afl DaaaVggT at srJU gfl W JT aVamaS "1 srafl aaaaaaw ' .atfatrafl Lbf Jadl 0 T Jraa6jfl Lr aafl COMFORT SOUGHT Uncomfortable as he may look now, this scientist is trying to make things as comfortable as pos sible for U.S. astronauts as he goes through one of many tests conducted on experimental space suits at the life sci ences laboratory at Republic Aviation Corp. at Farmingdale, N.Y. (UPI) Klamath Falls Police Seek Man Who Escaped Medford city police have been notified by Klamath Falls police that a parole vio lator who had been in custody there has escaped. The escapee, Roger Dean Ballard, 20, got away from Klamath Falls authorities about 11:30 p.m. Friday. He is believed headed for Califor nia. Medford police recalled that Ballard, who had been sought locally about two years ago, escaped from a Medford off! ccr, and later was in a high speed chase, making his get- away. He was apprehended a few days later in Albany, officers' recalled. THEATRE INFORMATION 773-7323 r ENDS THE BIO SO A W I I STARTS TOMORROW WEDNESDAY H -a- CHARLTON I HlST0N II Wi P-. MIMIEUX I f K'Bjp CHAK IRIS Hafc ? NO YEN ' ' J v DARREN 1 mfifcA i. Diamond head PANAVISION - (NONCOMPETITIVE) 23, IMS A 13 Births HAAS - To Mr. and Mrs. Bernard, 2750 Corey rd., Med ford, April 15, 1963, a boy. 8' ; pounds, at Rogue Valley hospital. Fortune Cookie Say . . NOT EVERYONE EAT AT ftfrG'S Fr dfliver at Ph.n.. 773-4343 TONIGHT In tht dramatic story ol one man') rae to power' Eastman COLOR ACoLuuiiAncruacsntitAlE aBBBBgtaBsTaWeaaaMaaaeaaal
