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.PAGE TWO niRALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON FRIDAY, DEC. 23, 1049 MARKETS and FINANCIAL STOCK AVERAGES Compiled by The Associated Peteiiibei 22 Net chant Thursday Previous dsy Week ho Month uo Year ago Mind. IS Bails lll'lil M Storks ..A1.0 A. A 1 A.T .100t St t 43 J 11 1 ..HI M4 43 0 70 4 .1001 311 43 TO I 971 36 1 43 T HI MT 3t I Mi Hi GRAIN TRADING LIGHT TODAY CHICAOO. Dec 33 WOralns drifted alone In quiet dealings en the board of trade today. It was a typical pre-hollday market. For most of the session the tendency was for feed trains to show a slight tain and wheat to show a slight loss. Toward the close, horn, ever, wheat made up Its lost ground. Wheat closed - higher, March 12 18S-S. corn mas S to 1 cent higher, March tlJlTvl. oat were S-l", higher, March 73',. rye was higher, Msy tl.41 '. soybeans mere S- higher. March $2J14, and lard wag IT to 33 cents a hundred pounds lower, January 10.47. Wheat Open High Low Clot March '- 3.1g' JITS 118S-i May 1.11't-l.U 313'; 3111. 3.13V. July ' l-Wi l MS-Vi Sept. J !' Uli 13'. Stocks Upped By Purchases NEW YORK. Dee. 33 W Mount ing buying demsnd came Into the stock market today and sent prices tip by fractions to around 3 points. The show of strength reversed a three - day downward movement and spread to Tirtually all sections of the list. The volume cf trading was at the rate of about 1,800.000 shares tor the entire day That is the best mark of the week. Rails stepped out smartly early In the day and accumulated gains running from fractions to more than 3 points. Oils, with Rxblleld at a new nigh, added tractions. Steels also were In demand with fractional gains. Motion pictures held back In the procession and showed some small losses. American Telephone stayed on he losing aide most of the day but at times crossed over to the plus column. The decline of the last three days was attributed to profit taking the year-end tax selling. Stocks Going higher Included Santa Fa, Standard OU (NJ), U. 8. , Steel, General Motors. Goodrich, Lockheed, Admiral Corp, Ameri' can Smelting, Du Pont, American Can. American Woolen, Internation al Paper (new). Pan American Air ways, V. S. Gypeum, and Celotex. American Can 102Vi Am Power ft Lt 15 'i Am Tel & Tel 1454 Anaconda Bendix Aviation . Beth Steel Boeing Airplane . Calif Packing Canadian Pacific Case J I Caterpillar . Chrysler uons viutee Continental Can Crown ZeUerbach Curtlss Wright Douglas Aircraft Dupont de Nem General Electric General Foods General Motors Goodyear Tire Int Harvester Kennecott Libby McN ft L Long Bell -A" Montgomery Ward Nash Kelvlnator Nat Dairy N Y Central Northern Pacific Pac Am Fish Pac Gas ft Elec Pac Tel ft Tel Penney J C Radio Corp Rayonier Rayonier Pfd Reynolds Metals Richfield Safeway Stores Sears Roebuck Southern Pacific Bundard OU Cal . Studebaker Corp . Sunshine Mining . Trans-America Union OU Cal Union Pacific United Airlines V 8 Steel Vamer Bros Pio . Woolworth 38 S5S 31 34 3bi 154 38'. 35 85 Ti - 10 38 39 7H 70 - 61 41 57 70 43 37 50 7 31 . 54 1ST, - 38 - 10 19 13 33 -.100 - 55 13 25 - 30 - 30 41 31 - 43 . 49 . 68 . 26 . 9 . 16 . 27 . 83 . 13 . 26 . 16 - 47 Next time you make coconut kiss es try adding a teaspoon of grated lemon rind to the cookies before baking. LIVESTOCK PORTLAND. Dec 23 m (USDA. Salable cattle today 50: scattered sales of cows about steady; other classes scarce: good steers quotable to monday's top of 35.50: canner cutter cows 10.50-13.50: few medium cows 15.00-16 00: one good buU 17.60. For week: Salable 3845. Market gen erally steady to strong, some early sales 25 cents higher. Medium-low good fed steers 33.00-25.00: load 1050 lb. experimentally fed steers 25.50: kiw medium grass type 31.00-23.00: common 16.00-30.00: few stockers and feeders 17.00-20.00. Medium good fed heifers 22-5-23.50: low medium 18.50-21.00: common 14 00 1800. Canner-cutter cows largely 11 00-13.50; common-medium 13.00 160: good young cows 17.00-50. Good beef bulls 17-0-18.00; odd head 18-0: common-medium sau sage bulls 14 00-16.50. Salable calves today 10: steady; few medium-good vealers 20-0-34 00. For week: Salable 490. Market strong, extreme top vealers 1.00 higher. Good calves-vealers 23 00 25.00; odd choice vealers 26.00-37.00; culls down to 9.00. Salable hogs today none; nom inal; good-choice 180-330 lbs. quoted up to 17.00: choice 64 lb. feeder pigs 17.00. For week: Salable 1330. Mar ket mostly steady. Generally one price market at 17.00 for good-choice 180-230 lb. weights: load mld-wesst-ra hogs early 175; heavier-lighter weights 15.00-16-0. Good 350-600 lb. srws 13.00-14.00: lighter weights to 1450. Good-choice feeder pigs 16.00-17.00; medium 15.00. Salable sheep today none; market quotable steady; good-choice fed lambs 20-0-21-0: good ewes quoted 6.50-7.00. For week: Salable 1350. Market steady to weak. Good-choice wooled and No. 1 pelt lambs 20-0-31.00; load 97 lb. weights early 21-5: few above 105 lbs. discounted at 19.00-20.00: good feeders 17.00 18.00; fleshy feeders to 19.00: com mon down to 14 00. Good slaughter ewes 6-0-7X0; common down to 4X0. SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. JP) (USDA) Salable cattle 10 lor week 1150; market uneven; good steers scarce: others steady to weak: canner-cutter cows steady, spots 50 cents tower; au other classes steady: load and a halt high medium 1040 in. steers 25.25; half load medium 860 lb. yearlings 24.00: other medium downs to 22.00; common steers 17.00- 22.00CP) load medium 890 lb. heifers 22-0: odd head low medium 18.00; uw good cows 17-0-18-0: common. medium 14-0-17.00: canners-culters 11.00-14.00; medium-good sausage bulls 17.00-20 00; one good 1790 buU oo: good 735 lb. stock heifers 18.00. Salable calves today none: for week 30: light supply generally steady; medium 350 lb: range calves Salable hogs today none: for week 1650: compared to last week's close butchers 75 cents higher; sows steady: good-choice 60 lb. feeder pigs 18.00. Salable sheep today nine: for week 1630: slaughter lambs and ewes steady; good-choice 93-95 lb. lambs 23; short load good 94 lb. wooled lambs 22.50; deck medium-good -z oo; Medium-good ewes 7.00-9X0. V-rr SANTA'S WORKSHOP Dan Vinson (center), real-life Santa Claus, talks with two helpers who are busy in Oklahoma City. OsJa, turning out stacks of cloth dolls to be distributed to needy children of cenrtcu on Christmas. -Uncle Dan- guesses there are 10.000 people taking part in the project, which started five yeara ago now means hundreds of thousands of gifts for children In 46 states. Robe ReubeU (left), a buUdlng contractor, puts dolls through silk acreen press to paint faces on them. while Mrs. J. L. Sturgeon, a house wife, e-anunc them for defect. SPUD BULLETIN SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 22 (AP- USDA) Potatoes. 13 broken. 18 unbroken cars on track; California 3. Oregon 7, Nevada 1, arrived: market steady; Klamath Russets No. 1-A. (3.40-3.65. LOS ANGELES. Dec. 22 (AP- USDA) Potatoes. 19 broken. 17 unbroken cars on track: Oregon 6. Idaho 2. Utah 3. arrived; 27 arrived by truck; market firm; Idaho Rus sets No. 1-A 83.75. POTATOES CHICAGO. Dec 23 (AP-USDA) Potatoes: arrivals 33. on track 233: total U. S. shipments 503; supplies miner ugnt; demand light: market about steady: Colorado Red Mc- Clures 83.05-10; Minnesota-North Dakota, Red River Valley Ponuacs 12.50 unwashed. 83.00-10 washed. Merrill Rebekahs Sing, Give Gifts MERRILL - Merrill Rebekahs met December 19. In the IOOP hsU for a gift exchange and community stag. Plans wete discussed for the annual community Christmas party in the high school gym Thursday evening, December 22. This affair ir sponsored by the Rebekahs and CddfeUows and Is for all the youngsters In the com munity. The American Legion, VFW. volunteer fire department. Theta Rho girls, and Lions club will assist. Portland Wheat PORTLAND. Dec 23 (P Cash train unquoted. Cash wheat (bid): soft white z.m's; soit white (excluding Rex) i.iB',; wmte club 3.18. Hard red winter: ordlnarv 2 lt 10 per cent 2.18; 11 per cent 220; per cent i. Hard white Baart: unquoted. Today's car receipts: wheat 38 barley 3: flour 4; corn 2; oats 5; uiiu icea a. FUNNY BUSINESS lOUICKAIQ HOSPnVM.' "I undtrttand you hiv patint who iwallowtd a gold Miff llnlrr" BIG BLAZE CATHLAMET. Wash, Dec. 23 A tavern and some apartment were destroyed early today by a fire that for a time threatened to spread to an entire block. The loss wss esti mated at between 835,000 and 840.-000. ,1. t Stocks Hold Steady Course NEW YORK. Dee. 13 (Wllh a show of moderate activity, Uie stock market held staady course today. The volume of trading was at the rale of l.soo.000 shares for the en tire day. Gains and losses mere fairly well distributed throughout the list with the plus signs a little thicker. The market started out with a burst of activity that dwindled down to a moderately fast pare. Stocks moving higher Included U. S. Gypsum. Pan American Air mays, Gulf Oil, Western Union, Ana. ronda. Homeslake Mining, Dow Chemical, American Woolen, Good ear and Philco Radio. Lower were Santa Fe, Standard Oil (NJ, Allied Chemical. American Smelting. Bethlehem Steel and lot kneed. Symington, Hope Fly to Alaska SEATTLE. Dec. 33 ttPvComedlan Bob Hope and Air Secretary Sym ington flew northward today for a white Christmas In Alaska. They took off In the personal plane of Brig. Gen. Frank Arm strong, the air force commander In Alaska. Hope la going north to entertain air force units on the Christmas week-end. He is taking his wife and two adopted children, Linda. 11, and Tony. An Alaska announcement said Symington was to make a check up of winter living conditions In Alaska. .. (Pit. 4 Taliphial . CLARK GABLE WEDS Movie Actor Clark Gable and his bride, the former Lady Sylvia Stanley, widow of Douglas Fairbanks Sr. smile happily following their surprise wedding ceremony at the ranch home of a friend near Solvang, CaL They wUl honeymoon in Hawaii Gables Sail For Hawaii SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 33 () Clark Oable and his bride had to elbow their msy Ihrouah a crowd to reach their stateroom aboard the Honolulu bound S. 8. Lurllne to. night. Movleland's bildal couple arrived at the dork and scurried up the gangway as n.-s camera flash lights clirked. The deck of the liner was crowded with well-wishers. As Oable forced a path for his bride, the former Sylvia Hawkea Ashley Fairbanks Stanley, a report. er asked how was the trip from his Encino ranch to San Francisco. It was wonderful." the screen lover shouted and grinned broadly. KUHS Musical Popular A packed house greeted the third presentation of Klamath Union high school's Christmas gift to the public, 'Toy Land Fantasy," In the auditorium ls.-t night and those who saw all programs termed this delightfully finished production. Andrew Loncy Jr. directed the production a vis ted by various members of the music department. cooperating with all departments in the school. titraf On Ow Seagal siam aoiiucK co.-i Hate Af lei1 BIG CHRISTMAS gSM EVENT Y3TUgjl 1 2 FEATURES! THI P1ACI TO tot TOUR TULITIDE SHOW! go a Wl 4 Epic Front LITTLE EAVES) 'I.RlriP RvrforPirfo a I r ' i jg wmmm er Dramalvlrr' VWS "W J m sr-" ' rcV-s-rrri VZM M JOflUUE Dnu Wh LirN.Av f)? V VltTOI McLAGlfN MILDRED NATWICK "TOY" nxffjlfjkt n p GEORGE O'BRIEN ARTHUR SHIELDS ' TINKERS" U,o'J v,mm ford L-J l'hTTflfg 7T't CotiHnuotii from ia;3ftAf..SUM..M0NV' Lake Schools Enrollment Up this Year LAKEVIRW Brhool census In Lake county Increased 30 In over that of liMd accnrdlng to tig urea released Inni the olflce of Mrs. Anne Sprague, county school suiwrlnteiideiit. The Iims figure Is mo as comiured to 1740 In M. The census la taken as of Oi to iler 3ft each rai. Hume rural ills trlrta were lale in sending their re turns to Mrs. Sprague, hence the de lay In the report. Cains Six districts showed gains In school ceiuus (all children between six and IV Inclusive, whether attend ing school or nut) totaling 103. How ever, 11 districts showed losses to taling it for a net gain of 3d. The largest gain was in Bchixl District No. 1 Lakevlew, which In creased from 1130 III ltMg to 1204 in IMS. an Increaie of g. The great est loss wss In School District No. 5, Union wlilrh dropped from 71 to U. a loss of 16. huse Clulitiuss parly. The party s'arts promptly at 7 JO p. m. with a program of musles daiiring, visit from Ssnta Claus and I treats. Teen-sgers will enjoy a hnlldsy party at t o'clock In the armory, Want Ads dont cost they pay! Teacher Shortage Seen Continuing 8ALEM. Dec. 33 Ml The state board of education decided yester day that the teacher shortage will last at least through the IDM-M school year. The board voted to continue the Issuing of emergency certificates to teachers. These certiorates are giv en to teachers who do not meet the normal teaching requirements. The board look no final action on accrediting more colleges fur teacher training. It said It would accredit more schools In the nrar future. HI HO FUN SHOW This Saturday Morning1. Doors Open at 9 a. m. Kids' Christmas Party Tonight Children of the tnmn wilt be en tertained tonight at the Klamath Falls armory wh.-n the Moose lodge j and Junior chamber team up In a V2r I riua This dwell gesture I A -MlOMDIi" ttt I MLONDH" tvnr REGULAR PRICES ROBERT CUMMIMGSl g iah ial j a ' frTlT) I. II (' BIG CHRISTMAS Y55f24, 4 IH , ufl 3 1 DBIl:HAIH:.i.giPBjj?g E ONI OF THE FIRST IN THI WORLD TO SEE ITI ' m . , a3 'lf J. kT 1 M. f 7 . j r .'zs s r r, . V A. '3 e a las ' ':i irTr . . "wmt i 'i if: isw. vfZMri atit t t m :. laijv -I ,v a. i aMtsf N r v-aggs m TYRONE POWER - ORSON WELLES - WANDA JENORIX MMtrini fcrtl Fvwrcft SIoim Hating Pniwo Felix Aylmer I -mV Vt HENRY KING SOL C. SIEGEL I V7! 2a WHsWMaI ConHnuetig from 12:30! ' SAT.-SUN..MON. '
