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' HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
THURSDAY, DEC. 22. 1049
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GRAINS PUSHED LOVER TODAY
CHICAGO. Dec. 31 Weather and gorernment crop reporU
helped to push grains lower on the board of trade today. Tha market
puttered along until near tha close without much price change, but
selling pressure then got the best ot prices.
Early support cam from mills, reflecting better domestic flour
business, and exports. Moisture In th winter wheat belt was also ex
pected to aid the 1950 crop, which the department yesterday forecast
as only slightly under this year.
Trading became very active In the closing minutes with numerous
stop-loss orders touched oft as the market plunged downward.
Wheat ended 1 to S lower, March M17V-S. corn was I1,-!5,
lower, March tU0-H, oau were 1T to cents lower, March 71S. rye
was IV-4S lower. May U41S-V soybeans were J to J1, lower. March
$.,, and lard was unchanged to & cent a hundred pounds higher,
January 110.65.
Wheat Open High Low Close
March 3.18w-T 330 111', 1.17-S
May 2.13 2.14 1111, .11S-J
July 15 195S lj . 19-1W.
8ept liH!. 1J5' 1J3, 12
Stock Trading
Slow Today
NEW YORK. Dec 21 Ml In
the slowest trading day of the
month, the stock market slipped
lower today.
Losses ran from fractions to more
than point among th leading
lames.
The total volume of trading was
t the rate of UOO.OOO shares for
the entire day, a sharp contrast to
the 2,000,000 shara days of last
week.
Selling wsj not centered particu
larly In any of the major groups.
American telephone lost more
than a point Directors today voted
to make the third stock offering to
employe of subsidiaries since the
plan was authorized three years
ago. At the same time A. T. T.
directors authorized a new issue of
debentures amounting to $-00,000,-
000.
Studebaker stood out with a gain
ot mora than a point while other
motors remained virtually un
changed. All ot the steels were
fractionally lower. Superior Oil of
California Jumped up 10 points to
220.
Lower were Santa Fe, Bethlehem
Steel, Goodrich, Montgomery Ward,
American Can, Anaconda Copper,
Standard Oil (N. J.). Loews, and
Allied Chemical. '
On the higher side were U. S.
Gypsum. Union Pacific, Gulf Oil,
Dow Chemical, du Pont, Lockheed
and Zenith,.
American Can .. K
Am Power Lt , , , l.li
Am Tel At Tel 144
Anaconda
Bendix Aviatioa .
Beth Steel
Boeing Airplane .
Call! Packing
Canadian Pacific
Case J I
Caterpillar
Chrysler
Cons Vultee
Continental Can
Crown Zellerbacb
Curtlss Wrigh:
Douglas Aircraft
Dupont de Nem
General Electric
General Foods
General Motors
Goodyear Tire
Int Harvester
Kennecott ...
Libby McN & L
Long-Bell "A"
Montgomery Ward
Nash Kelvin-tor
Nat Dairy
N Y Central
Northern Pacific
Pac Am Fish
Pac Gas Elec ,
Penney J O
Radio Corp
Rayonler
Rayonier ?fd .
Reynolds eMtals .
Richfield
Safeway Stores
Sears Soebuck
Southern Pacific
Standard Oil Calif .
Studebaker Corp
Sunshine Mining .
Trans-America
Union Oil Calif
Union Pacific
United Airlines
U S Steel
Warner Pros Pic
Wool worth
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SPUD BULLETIN
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 21 AP
TJSDAI Potatoes: 16 broken, 19 un
broken cars on track; arrivals. Call
tornia 4. Oregon S. market about
steady: Klamath Russets No. 1-A,
WJO; Deschutes tt.40-.SS.
LOS ANGELES. Dec. 21 (AP.
USDA) Potatoes: IS broken. 23 un
broken cars on track: arrivals, Utah
3, Oregon 3, California 2. Idaho 14.
by truck 26: market slightly stronger
ou long wnnes, steady on Russets;
Idaho Russets No. 1-A. 3.7S.
Portland Wheat
PORTLAND. Dec 22 UPi c,h
grain: oau No. 2-3 lb. white
oariey no. 3-4S lb. B. W
46.00: No. 1 flax 3.95.
Cash wheat (hide soft white
I-164; soft white excluding Rext
2.18': white club .18.
Hard red winter: ordinary 2.184:
21' nt 2.184: 11 per cent
2.20: 12 per cent 2.21.
Today's car receipts: wheat 49
barleys: flour 6; corn 2; mlllf eed 7
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BUN VOrAGE-rollowInf a simple wedding ceremony In a white-palntrd country church at Stuart.
Fla, New .arks Mayor William ODwyer and his br.de. the former Miss Sloan Simpson, wavVa, they
leave tor a seven-day honeymoon crae aboard the yacht Almar IL
LIVESTOCK
PORTLAND. Dec. 21 CAP-USDA)
Sslable cattle 850: market moder
ately active, mostly steady; few me
dium steers $: common $16.50
20.00: medium stackers 18 00: odd
-- ooa iea neiiers (22J0; medi
um mostly $18.00-20.00:
!4 00-17iW: light cutter dairy type
heifers downward to $12 50: canner
cutter cows mostly $11.00-12-0-shells
down to $10.00 or below; common-medium
beef cows $13.00-1600-
ooq good beet cows $17.00-18.00:
good beef bulls $17.50-18.00: ran.
mon-medium sausage bulls $14 00
16 00: cutters down to $12.00: aim
salable 100; market active, steady;
good light vealers $23.50-25.00 : 360
40C lb. calves $23.00-24.50: common
medium calves and vealen $1400
20.00: culls down to $9.00.
8alable hogs 150: market about
steady: good -choice lan - twi n,
butchers largely $17.00; several lots
IJS-17U 10. weights $15.00-1600:
good 350-500 lb. sows $13.25-14 00:
good-choice feeder nigs salable
around $16.00-17.00; few medium
$15.00.
Salable sheen 300: market rather
slow, mostly steady: .ood-ehntre
jw id. iambs J20.5O: io lbs. 120.00
medium-good light weights $19.00.
2000: common down to $17.00: few
common feeders $15.00; good ewes
up to S700; common down to $4.00.
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO. Dee.
3- i AP-U5DA) Cattle, salable 30;
holdover 25: moderately active,
steady: small lot medium 671 lb.
neiiers s.i.oo; lew common cows
$14.50-15.00; canners and cutters
$11.00-14.00: single good 560 lb. feed
er neuer $19.00: no calves.
Hogs, salable 150: active, butchers
25 cents higher: sows steady: good
and choice 190-240 lb. butchers
$1730: good sows $1350.
Sheep, salable none, market nom
inal.
Tip Probed
In Missing
Youth Search
WALLA WALLA. Dec. 22 i
Acting on the tip of a Spokane
hunter, rescue units seeking to leam
the fate ot 18-year-old Donald Mc
Donald planned today to move into
a small canyon below Black Snake
ridge in the snow-covered Blue
mountains.
The hunter. Cecil Kenney, told
the state patrol he had heard cries
of help and shots coming from the
canyon adjacent to the ridge where
tlie Walla Walla youth disappeared
a week ago.
Kenney said he tried to investi
gate the shots and shouts but was
forced to turn back because of an
oncoming buzzard-
Sheriff A. A. Shtck said he would
send more men Into the canyon
area today.
Fleetronle Searcher
Meanwhile, P. E. Grtswold of Ya
kima, inventor of the so-called
electronic bird dog." said his de-
POTATOES
CHICAGO. Dec. 21 fAP-UsnAi
Potatoes, arrivals 90; on track, 279;
total U. 8. shipments 446; supplies
moderate: demand fair; market
about steady; Colorado Red Mr.
Clures $2.95-3.10; Idaho Russet
Burbanks $4.20 - 50: Minnesota
North Dakota Red River Valley
Pontlacs $3.20 washed, red varieties
$3.00 washed: Nebraska Bliss Tri
umphs $325.
To Buy or Sell Use the Want-Adsl states,
There are about 400 oil refineries
In the United States, located In 30
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T)0NT EXPECT BABY UNTIL FEBRUARY ActreRUa Hay-
"" ,-- .j xviiau, mn in ner cream-colored
convertible outside the Chateau Dorlgny at Lausanne. Switzerland,
during press Interview In which she Insisted that "I don't expect to
i,veb"7 February- Miss Hayworth. who waa married last
May 27. has maintained all along that the birth would come in Feb
ruary, contrary to reporta for the last two weeks that her conllne
ment was "Imminent.
TO WED Senorita Carmen
Franco Polo (above), 23-year-old
daughter of the Spanish
dictator, has become engaged
to Cristobal Martinez y Bor-
diu, Marquis of Villaverde.
The announcement was made
by Generalissimo Francisco
Franco over the Spanish Na
tional Radio from Madrid. The
29-year-old marquis is a doc
tor attached to the Spanish
Red Cross. The above picture
of his fiancee was made last
year.
vice hsd picked up a trail. He said
he and his helpers. Henry Des
mcrais of Yakima and Frank Green
of Prosser. had "found tracks," and
had followed them until darkness
halted the search. He planned to
resume the tracking today.
Grtswold declined to state def
initely that the tracks were those
of the missing youth, but said the
device has been proved successful.
Want Ads dont cost they payl
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Show Delights
Big Audience
If you want Stardust In your eves
for th hnlid.y srawn, see "Th
Toy Shop Fantasy" which will again
b presented at 116 o'clork tonight
al Klamath Union high school as 111
schools Christmas gift to th nub
ile. From th first swish of pink
spangled tarlatan, to the last note
of th Russian sailor's danc from
"Th Red Poppy, ' Ih show Is a de
light to th heart, balm to th
soul, and a .'east to Ih eyes.
Mr Gift
Btudrnta and tacuily hav com
bined to gl the public th nicest
Christmas gift possible.
Clusters of bright, red polnsettlas
to th leads. Howard Cain, Tom
Whlrtler, Jsni-s Lucas, Ann Subke.
Beverly Pounds. Jean Fttawatrr, to
Grace Caldwell for her "Dancing
Doll" Interpretation, to the little
"mice," Jean West and Dick Pack
et t, to Clown Dallas Baldwin and
Oene Strode, the incomparable Jark
In th Box. and to dosens of others
loo numerous to mention, for last
night s show.
lt should be even better tonight,
lt that be possible.
One of th prettiest of all scenes
waa from the nrnment the Stardust
falrlea entered to scatter dreams
and turn The Little Pour Qlrl Into
a princess. It Imd all th nostalgic
charm of fairyland and If, for a
split second, vou have stopocd be-
M...... m. ,.mr. you r. now a ' b-.y p-terson reported, but that
Holdup Hoax
Confessed
In Tulelake
TtlI.El.AKK- A nlglilwatchman
at th Hporlsiiian's hotel In Tulr
lak and a young Iran-lent worker
were being transported to Yrrka
this afternoon In connection with a
reported robbery at th hotel about
midnight.
Hubert A. CrowUiers, it. Ui
translrnt, has nisde statement to
Tulelake police saving til robbery
ass a huax and implicated Wen
dell Peterson, it, th hotel nulit-wsu-hinsn.
Crowthers Is bonked for robbery,
Peterson for cuipu-y to rob.
First Krpwl
At U 05 a. m. Peterson reported
to Tulelake police that a nun came
into Ih hotel lobby, struck him and
look a sack of silver containing It'
ll gav a description al his sup
posed assailant from which officers
arrested CrowUiers. Police Chief
Pete Pedersen said the dc-criptlun
was perfect.
But when Crowthers was brought
before th nightwauhmsn, Peter
son said h could nut Identify hun.
However, Crowthers and Petersuii
room together at the Clyde hotel
and Crowthrra declared Ills room
mate was the actual Instigator of
th robbery.
H said, according to Tulrlskr
pollc. that Peterson planned theft
of the money to look like a rubbery
becau he needed money fur
Christmas.
Crowthers said Ih money was
not taken from th hotel in a roo
sion. Th aili'HMinn prlr has bn-n
set al 3- cent per couple and )
rente stag. Music by Mlkt Hhad
Insures a good evening.
AtlulL iimI- fur tha .,!. ...
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Include Mr. anil Mis. Matt Klnni.
gun, Mr. and Mis James I'lnnl-or
Mr. and Mrs. John Brhubert, anij
Mr. and Mis. fstn Hmllh.
HI HO FUN SHOW
This Saturday Morning!
Doors Open at 9 a. m.
Praise goes unreservedly to the
chorus, th orchestra and to Ronnie
Tarr who played Tschaikowsky's
"Maaurka" for the Sleeping Beauty
ballet. The nius.u came from the
Incomparable "Nutcracker Suite"
by Tschaiko-vsky. from Strawin-
sky's "Dans Rmne" from "Pe-
trouchka," and Ollrre's selection
from 'The Red Poppy" which was
tne tlnal number
Two rihows
Two shows were given last night,
th first for the young fry and
their parents, the second tor the
school's guests. Tonight the show
will again be repeated at 1 15 sharp
There Isn't a dull moment, the show
moves forward In perfect coordina
tion with th orrneslra and chorus,
and It's yours to enjoy, iL.8.)
Municipal Court
Royd Chocktoot, drunk. Fine. 130
or 10 days.
Alvln Beal. drunk. Fine. 110 or
t days.
Wilbur Harrington, drunk. Fine.
150 and li days.
Wilbur Harrington, po-sesston.
Fine. 135 or IJ'j days.
Darel C. Mason, reckless driving.
Fine. 150 or 35 days.
Edmund Dick, drunk. No judg
ment. I
Peterson brought it to his ho-n
room In the Clyde and It was di
vided there.
Half of the money waa found on
Crowthers when he was searched at
the Tulelake Jail. Peterson has re
fused to talk and th other half of
th money had not been found at
noon.
Knorked (lut
Peterwn told officers he
"out" for five minutes. He Is a
former Klamath Fails resident snd
had been employed al Hie Sports
men's hotel as night clerk for about
six weeks.
He said his assailant came Into
the fully-lighted lobby, leaned over
me counter and struck a blow which
knocked Peterson unconscious.
Police Chief Pederson. Deputy
Pete Sorenaen and Pollc oilirer
Orrald Tumi made the Investigation.
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THf fUHNISST
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Teen-Age Club
Dance Planned
Th Teen-Age club is sponsoring
a Christmas dance at the armory
for all teen-agers Friday night. Club
President Harold Howard announces
that Jackie Rob trek ta chairman
for the evening, and she has ar
ranged a floor show for Interims
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TOMORROW NIGHTi
SEARS ROEBUCK CO.'S
BIG CHRISTMAS EVENT
ON OUR STAGE
3 ON THE SCREEN
A spectacular epic of
ih French Revolution
in great tradition of
"Marie Antoinette"
"A Tale of Two Cities"
"The Scarlet Pimpernel"
Filmed with thousand j
in its cast against
the turbulent fury
of a world
gone mad!
CXTRA!
TOMORROW
NIGHT AT l:M
SEARS ROEBUCK'S
BIG CHRISTMAS
EVENT
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