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.
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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,
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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.
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'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)
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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
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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.
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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!
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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