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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TWO HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON THURSDAY, DEC. 13. 19f MARKETS and FINANCIAL STOCK AVERAGES Compile, br The Associated Tnm Net change . Thursday Previous day Week mo . Month (go -Year e$o December IS Mind. 1$ Italia H I'UL M Stork . A J ' unrh. A .1 A .1 100.1 St 1 10 .HI 3I 411 10.T ,.M0 37 J 42 S 60 S .Ml S 43 6 67.1 ..Ml 3(6 S 64 0 SALES FORCE WHEAT DOWN CHICAOO, Doe. 14 MV-Selling pressure directed at December wheat knocked that contract down mora than 3 cents at time on the board ol trade today. Weakliest In December wheat unsettled the rest ol the train market, although July wheat held steady. Last day for trading In December contract It December 10. There appeared to be liquidation In all December deliveries by longs who were not anxious to obtain grain. The downturn came In the tace of substantial export business by the private trade. Wheat closed '. lower to S higher, December $3-20'-V corn was unchanged to H lower, December 61J14-S, oau were unchanged to to lower. December 77S-H, rye was lower to 1 higher. December 61.41V soybeans were H higher. December $2.304-V and lard was 10 to 23 cents a hundred pounds higher, December $10 30. Wheat Open High Low Close Dec. 23i --3H J.W I30S- March l-JHi-H . 1-J1S JJ0-.-H May .IS,-S 3.15S 1 W -14-- July IM 1S7S l7-li7' Bept !' Stock Trading Volume High NEW YORK, Dee. 14 tflV-Trad lng volume hit the highest level ol the yea; tor the second day running today at the stock market slowly rolled ahead to a new 1949 peak. Churning action produced only minor price changes for the most part. Gains were mostly less than point, but It was far from a one way market. Railroad stocks were among the best while motors, rubbers, ah-' lines and electronic Issues found the going bumpy, The volume of business approached 2,300,000 shares, a 13-month high. Higher most of the day were Santa Fe, U. S. Oypsum, Kennecott Copper. Allied Chemical, American Woolen, Schenley, Douglas Aircraft, J. L Case and Beara Roebuck. Unchanged or a trifle lower were Bethlehem Steel, Republic Steel. General Motors, Chrysler, 8tude- Dixer, Emerson Radio, Phllco. Zenith, Goodyear, TJ. S. Rubber, and American Airlines. American Can 100S Am Power Sc Lt I44 Am Tel & Tel Anaconda Bendlx Aviation . Beth Steel Boeing Airplane . Calif . Packing Canadian Paclfio Case J I 146 28H - 3(?i - 32 23 H - 364 - IS 41S Te-lfa 1 e-l- CEOBCE MONTGOMERY ItQD CAMEHQR nun ROM All Caterpillar Chrysler Cons Vultee Continental Can Crown Zellerbach Curtiss Wright Douglas Aircraft Dupont de Nem General Electric General Poods . General Motors Ooodyear Tire . Int Harvester Int Paper Kennecott Llbby McN tc L Long-Bell -A Montgomery Ward Nash Kelvins tor Nat Dairy N Y Central Northern Pacific Pas Am Pish Pac Oas Ac Elee Pac Tel Tel Penney J C Radio Corp Rayonier Reynolds Metals Richfield Safeway Stores Sears Roebuck Southern Pacilie -Standard Oil Calif . Studebaker Corp Sunshine Mining Trans-America Union Oil Calif Union Pacific United Airlines U S Steel . Warner Bros Pic Woolworth . 36 Ti 64 ' - 10s 37. S - 7 - 66 61 - 414 48 , 70-. 43", 29'. S8 - 50 7i - 21 - S4 - 16 - 38 V. 184 134 334 .1034 - 54 124 27 214 384 32 434 604 654 244 - 10 15 274 834 - 134 264 154 - 474 SPUD BULLETIN 8 AN FRANCISCO. Dec. IS " (USDA) Potatoes: 14 broken. IS unbroken cars on track; arrivals. Oregon 4. California 4. by truck 1; market aboyt steady: Klamath Rus sets No. 1-A, 3.55; Deschutes 3.65-3.75. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 15 VPi (USDA) Potatoes : 13 broken. 19 unbroken cars on track: arrivals, Oregon 4, Idaho 6. Utah 2. by truck 24; market slightly stronger on long whites, steady on Russets; Idaho Russets No. 1-A, 3.75. Portland Wheat PORTLAND. Dec. 14 ( Wheat: Cash wheat (bid): soft white $2,204; soft white (excluding Rex $2 204; white club $2,204. Hard red winter: Ordinary $2204; 10 per cent $2,204: 11 per cent $2-04; 12 per cent $2Z Today's car receipts: wheat 39: A . v If i u.-rti? j . ICYPT'S AIR DEFENSE . Modern twe-motored Egyptian Air Force svarplanee fly ever a mosque minaret during a demonstration of Egypt's military and air strength in fairs. ! , kf JA awr; o BAZAAR WORKER S Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks (left) tnd Bebe Daniels sell goods at a teen-age stall of the London Christmas bazaar for the National Girls' and Mixed Clubs fund. barley 4; flour S; corn 1, oats t: millfeed 6. Portland Potatoes Potatoes Oregon Deschutes Rui sets. No. 1A. $3.75-350; 25 lbs.. $1.10; 15 lbs.. 57-70c. No. Is extras $4.25 35. Wash, netted gems. No. 1, $3.75-90; large bakers, $425-50; No. 2, 50 lbs., $1.15-20. LIVESTOCK PORTLAND, Dec. 14 (AP-USDA) Salable cattle 350, market active steady to strong; sorted load good 1060 lb. fed steers $25.00: medium $21.00-23 30; few medium hetfers $18.50-21.00: common mostly $15.00- 17.00; light cutters down to $1130; III llffil WW canner-cutter cows $11.00-12.50 common-medium beef cows $13.00- 16.00; good light cows up to $16.50 good bulls $1730-1800: common' medium sausage bulls $14.00-1630. Salable calves 100; market active, strong: good-low choice vealers $23.00-25.00: one lot medium-good 400 lb. calves $22.00: bulk common medium calves and vealers $14.00 20.00: culls down to $9.00. Salable hogs 125; marxet rather slow, about steady with Tuesday's average; good-choice 160-230 lbs largely $17 00; few fat type and medium grade kinds $1630: good choice 250-300 lbs. $15.00-50; good 350-600 lb. sows $13.00-14.00: lighter weights up to $14.50: medium-good feeder pigs $16.00-17.00; choice quotable to $1730; good SIS lb. stags $12.00. Salable sheep 300; market active, fully steady; good-choice fed lambs mostly $21.00; medium $19.00; com mon down to $17.00; medium year lings $1500; good slaughter ewes salable $630-7.00; common down to $5.00. SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 14 (AP-USDA) Salable cattle 125: supply mostly cows; early sales fully steady; Tuesday load medium 914 lb. steers $25.00 small lots high medium 650 lb. heifers $23.26: load good 1060 lb. beef top cows $18.50: calves none: Tuesday odd medium vealers $24.00-26.00. waTiwtc t4e EV.NIHA arte i ilii 1 V If ileum lunmi CDNTF CHRTFXA IK I. . IHIIM COfiR-I4WRFMRF iici IHIE . miium MITCIELL tslrsl UOM IBBOI. la, "I Csa't tSHai" fsasre Csrtosa, . Kw- John Hessig Dies After Operation John Humboldt He If. 70. Klam ath pioneer and fur several years a resident of Weed, died Wednes day at 3:30 p. M. In a San Jose, Calif., hospital where he had emer gency surgery last Tuesday. Mr. Hessig developed a heart condition following the operation. Final rites will be held In Yreka, time to be announced later. Mr. Hessig la survived by his wife, Augusta, two daughters, Joey Hessig of Los Angeles and Mrs. Charlotte Hornburkle of San Juse, and one ton, Richard of Klamath Falls. Born In Hydesvtlle. Humboldt county. Calif.. June 16. 1HH0, John was the son of Louis and Charlotte Andrea Hessig who moved their family to Siskiyou county by park train and wagon In 1883. Shortly after they moved on to Llnkvtlle, now Klamath Falls, arriving here on June 20. 1884. The elder Hessig ran rattle for years In the Klam ath Hot Springs section where he had taken an option on land, over the line In Siskiyou county, but in 1898 moved with his cattle to Fort Klamath where he opened a gen eral store two years later. Tills he operated for 12 years under the name of L. Hessig and company. until 1912. He died In 1914 at Fort Klamath. Mrs. Hessig hsd died In 1889 In Siskiyou county. Kehooling John Hessig attended schools In Siskiyou county and was graduat ed from Hrald's Business college In San Francisco In 1902. For years he and hla brother Joseph were actively Interested in the develop ment of communications by the Morse rode which developed Into his hobby of telephone work. He installed the first telephone In the county near To pay on Topsys grade, and placed one of the (lrt resident telephones In the Wood River valley In the home of tne late Ltnsy Slsemore the year of the birth of hit son, Orth, now a Klamath Falls attorney. The Hessig brothers disposed of their telephone system in July, 1928, to West Coast Telephone company. Mr. Hessig served as gen eral manager of the Klamath Tele phone and Telegraph company which he and the late Hiram Mur doch Incorporated In 1904. First School Board Mr. Hessig was a member of the first county school board, served as Justice of the peace In Word River precinct, helped organize the town of Chtloquln. serving as pres ident of the city council and later as mayor In 1927-28. He was a York Rile Mason. Klamath chapter, R.A.M., Knighta Templar of Yre ka. and Ben All temple, AAONMS. Sacramento. After his retirement from active business In Klamath county, Mr. and Mrs. Hessig purchased a dairy ranch at Weed where they were living at the time of his death. Californians Disagree With Kinsey SACRAMENTO. Calif , Dec. 15 i1 A California legislative committee politely disagreed today with Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey on how to tat-kle the sex crime pn.blem. "We have mora than adequate laws to cover the situation," the noted University of Indiana re searcher and author told a subcom mittee. He ursrd that the IrulMa ture not pais laws during a period of hysteria: reduce, not Increase, the penalties' and spend money on research Into cmises. The subcommittee then passed his advice along to an assembly Ju diciary committee which thereafter placed Its stamp of approval on alx proposed bills to Increase penalties, Including death In the stale's gas chamber. Two recent shocking sex crimes. Involving the sUylng of little girls at Los Angeles and near Fresno, touched off a rlilng tide of demands that the legts..tttre art. The violat ed victim near Fresno waa only 17 months old. Administration sources today ex pressed confidence that the legisla ture will adopt acceptable lobbyist controls before ending the special session. Delays and maneuvering have cast some doubts as to the future of the governor's program. Firestone Officials Visit Here Two West coa-t officials of the Firestone Tire company are I n Klamath Palls Thursday conferring with local employes of the Fire stone store. 6lh and Pine. E. J. Stevens, Portland district manager and K F. Braver of Lot Angeles, assistant West coast divi sion manager, slated that the visit was a routine irj.iectlon of the com pany's Installation here. They are slated to leave this afternoon. KF Livestock Auction Cattle, salable 688 head. No fat steers. Fat heifers, $1725-19 80: fat erws $1330-18 50: top calves. $27.70 most calves $18 00 - 22.75: canners and cutters. $1025-13 30; feeder steers. $1930-22 20: bulls $17 00-18 80. Hogs, salable 103 head. Fat hogs $16.10-17.00; sows $12X10-14 60: feed er pigs $16 20-17.10. Southwell Wins Speech Award Hob Suutliwtll was awarded first place In the high school r;eerh eon. teat at the re-wlar meauug of Mo. due Toast masters club Wednesday evening. - Second place wat won by Beverly Uurke and third by Dewey Lam bert. The trophy won by Boulhwell will be on display in the high school trophy rase. The contest Is spon sored each semester for the out standing high school speaker by the Modoo 'luastinaateri club, lllll Mug. ley presided. The nest 7oslmaatert meeting will be held Julully with the Mc. Lauthlln chanter and the ToaaU mlslreaa club a' 6 30 p. in. Wednat day in the WllUrd hotel. The National Geographic society sayt an Alaskan sealskin la so pll able It can be passed through a napkin ring. Want Ads don't cost Ihsy payl HERE'S A GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING! A CEIEIAL E1ICTIIC OASIEI VK 4Vn"M j gate cotes M0I! IMPIOVtD FUTUItJ (Mb ftkpeMtty WIMMisf JfUfce.rtJ Pf-ihla fcHfn rm Q-skii empryUt jmp fM UfHi proHetiv lAirf $99V179 FYOCK'S 1001 Mdln Beating of Kejsar Necessary, Claim Of City Policemen (Continued From Page One) and dragged him to the paddy wag on. Nelmt said Kejsar refused to walk. "Necessary Beating Currier. Oordon, Nelms, Officer Jesse Ballard, 41. all testified that In their opinion Kejsar waa drunk. All declared Kejsar't beating was necessary to subdue him and all denied emphatically that he waa held and beaten later at the city police station. Attorney Simons tried to get photographs purporting to show the extent of Kejsar't Injuries before the Jury but the pictures a ere not accepted. Only police testimony entered Into the trial. No defense wat offered. Kejsar did not tpeak during the trial. City Attorney Henry Perkins handled the prosecution and con tended the officers were doing only their sworn duty In subduing and arresting Kejsar, and his conten tion was seconded by the Jury vote. Joker Balentlne, summing up for the defendant, pulled out a Joker In the form of an Oregon law which pro hibits arrest for a misdemeanor charge on Sunday unless by war rant and with endorsement by a Judge permitting the Sunday arrest. It was about 1 :30 a. m. 8unday when Kejsar was arrested. Common prac tice has overridden the statute men tioned by Balantlne. Pounds, whose arrest started the trouble, posted $15 ball for dis orderly conduct and did not figure In the fight. Members of the Jury were Oomer Jonea, BUI Wentworth, Burge Mason Jr., J. Truman Runyan, T. W. Bech tel and William Auxler. Klamath Basin Potato Shipments 1948 1948 December 14 27 $3 Month to date 271 458 Season to date 2209 2590 POTATOES CHICAOO, Dec. 15 (AP-USDA) Potatoes, arrivals 68, on track 227; total U. 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