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HERALD AND NEWS,' KLAMATH FALLS'. OREGON
MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1956
MARKETS AND FINANCE
STOCKS
WALL STREET
NEW YORK un Prices moved
Irregularly Monday In the stock
market with a somewhat higher
awing In the late afternoon.
Most changes either wsy were
rather narrow with an outside lim
it usually of i points.
Trading was moderate at an
estimated 1,000,000 shares (or the
day as compared with 1.930,000
shares Friday when the market
was down a shade. ,
NKW YORK STOCKS
By THE ASSOCIATED TRESS
Admiral Corporation
Allied Chemical
Allls Chalmers
Aluminum Co. America
American Airlines
American Motors
American Tel & Tel.
American Tobacco
Anaconda Copper
' Atchison Railroad
Bethlehem Steel
Boeing Airplane Co.
Borg Warner
- Burroughs Adding Mach.
California Packing
Canadian Pacific
Caterpillar Tractor
Cclanese Corporation
Chrysler Coiporatlon
Consolidated Edison
Crown Zellerbach
Curtlss Wright
Douglas Aircraft
Eastman Kodak
Emerson Radio
General Electric
General Foods
General Motors
Georgia Pao Plywood
Goodyear Tire
Homestake Mining Co.
International Harvester
International Paper
Johns Manvllle
Kennecott Copper
Llbby, McNeill
' Lockheed Aircraft
Loew s Incorporated
Long Bell A.
Montgomery Ward
New York Central
Northern Pacific
"V Pacific American Fl.sh
'"Pacific Gas li Electlio
Paclflo Tel tt Tel.
Penney (J.O.) Co.
Pennsylvania R.R.
Pepsi Cola CO.
Phllco Radio
Puget Bound P k L
Radio Corporation
Rayonler Tncorp.
Bayonler Incorp. Pfd.
Cepunllc Steel
Reynolds Melals
Richfield Oil
Safeway Stores Inc.
Fcott Paper Co.
Bears Roebuck li Co.
Sinclair Oil
Hocony
Southern Pacific
Standard Oil Calif.
Standard Oil N.J.
Studebaker Packard
Sunshine Mining
Swift & Company
Transamerlca Corp.
Twentieth Century Fox
Union Oil Company
Union Pacific
United Airline
United Aircraft
United Corporation
United States Plywood
United States steel
Warner Pictures
Western Union Tel.
Wesllnghouse Air Brake
Westing-house Electric
Woolworth Company
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LIVESTOCK
PORTLAND LIVESTOCK
' PORTLAND W ( USDA I Cattle
salable 2.200; market uneven; fed
steers very slow, early sales about
steady-weak, but some bids 2540
lower; heifers active, fully steady;
cows strong with some cutters 25-
50 higher; bulls steady; load choice
around 1,050 lb led steers IB.txi;
couple loads mostly choice 1.040-
1,137 lb fed steers 18.50; good
steers mostly 16.50-17.50; commer-
clal grades 15.00-16.00; two loads
choice 865 lb fed heifers 16.50;
several loads high good heifers
15.50-75; commercial grades 13.00-
14.00; Utility down to 10.00.
Calves salable 100: market
active, steady-strong; choice veal
era mostly 24.00-26.00; one at 27.00;
good grades mostly 21.00-23.00;
commercial 16. 00-19. 00; culls down
to 8.00.
Hogs salable 1.000; market
active, fully 1.00 higher than last
week's close; sorted lots U.S. 1-2
butchers 180-235 lbs mostly lff.SO
75; with one lot down to 16.25;
No. 3 lots down to 15.50; few lots
No. 1 150 lb weights 14.50; bows
weighing 340-400 lb 12.00-13.00; few
530-590 lb 10.25-11.00.
Sheep salable 1.000; market
active, strong-25 higher; several
large lots full wooled slaughter
lambs weighing 109-112 lb 19.20;
with one lot choice 19.00; other
good-choice wooled lambs 17.50
18.50; good-choice No. 1 pelt lambs
17.50-16.00 with one lot eood No. 3
pelt lambs 17.00; lew good feeders
15 00-60; choice Quotable to 16.00:
good-choice ewes 4. 25-6.00; few
lot utility ewes 3.25.
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SAN FRANCISCO (UP-FSMNS)
Livestock:
Cattle salable 550. Early supply
mainly slaughter classes, cows
predominating. Opening rather
slow, early sales cows strong to
50c higher, other classes not es
tablished. Most ca liner and cutter
cows 7.50-9.50.
Calves salable 26. Market not
established.
Hogs salable 300. Early supply
mainly butchers. Opening moder
ately active, butchers 25c higher
than last Thursday, sows 50c high
er. Mixed lots U, S. No. 1 to 3
180-240 lb butchers 15.75. 300-360 lb
sows 11.
Sheep salable 700. Early supply
mainly slaughter lambs. Opening
moderately active, slaughter
lambs strong to 50c higher. Few
lots good and choice slaughter
lambs with full wooled pelts 20,
good and choice lambs with fall
shorn pelts 19.60.
MORE CONTRIBUTIONS to the March of Dimes livestock auction, to be held tomorrow after
noon, ware this sheep and hog. The porker was donated by Dell Stapp, left, Livestock Trans
portation, along with John O'Connor not shown. The wooly critter was donated by Vern How
ard, right, of Klamath Livestosk Commission. The auction will begin at 2:30 p.m. at Klamath
Stockmen's Commission Company's yard on the Midland Road. All proceeds go to the March
of Dimes.
GRAINS
PORTLAND GRAIN
PORTLAND I Coarse grains.
15 -day ablpment, bulk, coast
delivery:
Oats, No.2, 38 lb white 65.00
Barley, No.2. 45 lb B-W 47.60
Corn, No.2, E-Y shipment .... 61.60
Wheat (bid), to arrive market,
basis No.i bulk, delivered coast:
Soft White 3.18
Soft White texcludlng Rex) ... 2.18
White Club 3.18
Monday's car receipts: Wheat
8; barley 5; flour 11; corn 19; oats
5; mill feed 14.
CHICAGO GRAIN
CHICAGO Wl Oratns pushed
their way higher on expanded vol
umo on the Board of Trade Mon
day. All cereals except oats Joined
the Upswing.
Wheat was purchased on the
prospect of export business and
the possibility of restoration of 90
per cent of parity price supports.
Early easiness based on snows In
Knnsas was quickly overcome
Wheat closed 1 to S higher.
March 2.11: corn H to 1 cent high
er, March 1.29-,; oats ',, lower
to i, higher, March 66; rye 't.
2V, higher. March 1.24i; soybeans
1 to 2', higher, March 2.V,.:i,
and lard 15 to 20 cents a hundred
pounds higher. March 12.00.
WHEAT
"pen High Low Close
2 09 , 2.11 2.09 i 2 11
2.05 2.07 ',i 2.05 J, 2.07 i
1.94 3 , 1.98 1.93 s, 1.07 1.
1.97 V,, 2.00 'i 1.97 2.00 i,
2 00 2.04 I, 2.00 a, 2.04
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CHICAGO LIVESTOCK
CHICAGO Wl Hog prices con
tinued their advance Monday, both
butchers and sows gaining around
25 cents.
Most 190 to 220 pound butchers
sold at (14.25 to 115.00. Several
lots went at 115.10 and 815.25, the
top. Tills top was up 25 cents
from Friday and the highest since
Oct. 14.
Butchers scaling 230 to 250
pounds moved at (13.75 to (14.50.
Sows sold from (10.25 to (11.75.
One load of high prime steers
topped at (25.25. Most choice and
prime brought (18.50 to $34.26.
Prime heifers topped at $22.25
while good to high choice wera
taken at (16.00 to (21.00.
Most sales of good to prime
wooled lambs were it (19.50 to
(31.25.
Salable receipts Included 11.000
nogs, 19,000 cattle, 400 calves and
a,DU0 sheep. . ,
Death Takes
J. Applegafe
Miss Jean Applegate, a native of
Klamath County, youngest daugh
ter of the lale Captain O. C. Ap
plegate, Identified with Southern
Oregon history, died in a Santa
Barbara hospital following ah ac
cident in her apartment home In
that city. She was 60 years old.
Word of her death was received
hero over Ihe weekend by rela
tives and friends. A niece, Mrs.
Thomas R. (Elizabeth) Barry, lives
at 2120 Applegate. Numerous other
relatives live here and elsewhere
on the West coast.
Miss Applegate was an instruc
tor in English and dramatics In
the Santa Barbara High School,
serving on the staff from 1930 until
her fata) accident. She had been
in ill health for some time.
Information from relatives with
her at the time of her death, stated
she was warming milk during the
night when a sleeve of her dress
ing gown caught fire. She suffered
first, second and third degree
burns over most of her body.
Cremation followed funeral service.-..
Hor ashes will be interred
in the Junction City cemetery, near
her youngest sister, Mrs. Rachel
Applegate Swan.
WOOL MARKET
NEW YORK (UP) Wool top
imures on tne New York Cotton
Exchange today opened up 3 to off
12 potms.
Opening prices follow: March
159.50: July 161.00; Oct. 161.00;
Dec. 160.50; March (1057) 159.80;
May 159.00.
Wool futures opened 2-7 points
lower; March 131.50; Mav 132.10;
July 132.00; Oct. 131.80: Dec.
131.50 March (1957) 130.30
129.30.
May
POTATOES
CHICAGO POTATOES
CHICAOO i.fi Potatoes: Arri
vals old stock 238; on track 291;
tolal U.S. shipments Friday 728,
Saturday 507 and Sunday 7; mar
ket about steady for Russets, firm
for Reds. Carlot track sales, old
stock: Idaho Russets (4.10-4 25;
Utilities (2.85: Minnesota-North
Dakota Pontiacs (3.40-3.50; washed
and waxed) Colorado Red Mc
Clures (4.10 washed and waxed.
Gordon Trial
Jury Picked
A Jury of five women and seven
men was selected shortly before
noon Monday to hear a charge of
statutory rape against Jack Gord
on, 34-ycar-old construction worker
in Circuit Judge David R. Van
denberg's court.
Oordon was arrested last Sep
tember and subsequently indicted
by the county grand Jury. Ho has
since been held In the county Jail
in lieu of (7.500 bail.
Defense Attorney U. S. Balen
tlne, while Interrogating prospec
tive Jurors, said he will present
evidence to show that the mother
of an 8-ycar-old girl Involved In
the case unlawfuly co-habitated
with Gordon over a long period
of time.
The case is being prosecuted by
District Attorney Richard Beesley
and Deputy District Attorney P.
K. Puckett.
Members of the Jury are Ella
Rogers, Graco Hajicek, Harold
Gclgcr, John M. Owens, Virgil E.
Davis, Albert M. Lvnch. Vern C.
Clifford. Bruce Wirth, Isabel Lem
ler, James Barnes. Phyllis P. Rut
ledge and Emma Morclock.
Funeral Held
For Caldwell
Funeral services were held at
3 p.m. today from Ward's Klamath
Eastern Oregon Generally fair I vomeral Home for Chines F
Oregon Weather
Western Oregon Partly cloudy
In north, Increasing cloudiness
with occasional rain In south Tues
day; clearing and cold Monday
night with patches of valley fog.
Highs 32-42; low Monday night
20-30. Coastal winds Tuesday
southeasterly, 8-15 m.p.h.
through Tuesday. Highs 20-30; low
Monday mgnt o-io except locally
down to -lo in some high valleys.
Northern California C 1 o u d y
through Tuesday; rain beginning
Monday night In Ukiah-Marysvllle
area, snow In mountains; warmer
Monday night. Variable winds
near coast, becoming southeast
erly, 12-25 m.p.h., Monday night.
Grants Pass and vicinity In.
creasing cloudiness Monday night
with occasional rain lnte Tuesday.
low Monday night 28; high Tues
dav 42.
Baker and vicinity Clear Mon,
day night with patchy valley fog.
Low Monday night 0-5 below: high
Tuesday 20-25.
Accused Rapist
Waives Hearing
Ralph Edward Bennett. 55-year-
old mill worker, charged with
rape, waived preliminary hearing
Monday when arraigned before Dis
trict Judge D. E. Van Vactor. He
was ordered hold for the grand
Jury. Bail was set at $20,000.
Bennett Is alleged to have as
saulted an 11-year-old girl. He was
arrested by state police. The de
fendant was represented at the ar
raignment by Attorney L. Orth
Sisemore.
Twenty-Seven
Attend VFW Meet
MERRILL Twenty-seven mem
bers were present at the regular
VFW Auxiliary meeting held re
cently In the recreation hall, at
8 p.m.
The members voted to donate
$10 to Uie Flood Relief In the Med
ford and Grants Pass area. Glen
na Walker gave a financial re
port on the kindergarten sponsored
by the auxiliary.
The annual crab feed dinner was
discussed but no date was set.
June Oren. Margie Waldrip. Mary
Francis Hammond and Dean
Marks have been appointed to the
entertainment committee for the
dinner.
Refreshments were served by
Marlon Knox and Joan Trotman.
STRICKEN
MALIN Earl McVey. well
known rancher of the Malin dis
trict, was taken to Hillside Hos
pital about 1:30 a.m. this morning
by the Tulelake ambulance. McVey
has been In 111 health for some
time.
Potato Shipments
SEASONS M-5 S5-S
Dally Truck Ore. g
"Dally Rail Ore. 3
Dally Truck Calif. 3 1
Dally Ball Calif. u 17
Dally Total
ORE. CALIF. 30 JJ
Monthly Total eao 1084
Season's Total 3660-4047
Caldwell, former resident of this
city, who died January 24 a:
Parma, Idaho. His unexpected
death followed a brief Illness from
pneumonia.
Services were read by the Rev.
Marshall A. McKlnnle, pastor oi
the Congregational Church. Final
rites and Interment were in Klam
ath Memorial Cemetery.
Survivors include h I s widow.
Mrs. Ethel Caldwell, - Parma, Ida
ho: a stepson, Ronald Provancha.
Harlln, Iowa; two- sisters. Mrs.
Agnace Lowe, Klamath Falls and
Mrs. Katurah Ray, Tekameh, Ne
braska; also five brothers, Clyde
Caldwell, of this city, Earl Cald
well, Blair, Nebraska. Chester
Caldwell, Torrlngton. Wyoming.
Edward Caldwell. Atlanta, Georgia
and Kenneth Caldwell, Denver,
Colorado.
MARTYRS DAY
NEW DELHI, India IIP) India
Monday observed Martyrs Day, in
honor of those who died In this
country's struggle for freedom.
Tile observance fell on the anni
versary of the death of Mohanda3
K. Gandhi who was assassinated
in New Delhi eight years ago. For
two minutes almost all activity
In India came to a halt as Indians
observed a silent memorial to
Gandhi and others.
Schweigert
Funeral Set
TULELAKE -Carl Fred Schwei
gert, 59. native of Krem. North
Dakota and resident of Tulelake
for. 13 years, died January 29 at
a local hospital. Ha had been In
III health for the last several
months.
Mr. Schweigert followed the car.
penter trade most of bis adult life.
Survivors include his widow,
Mrs. Katherlne Schweigert, Tule
lake: three sons. Hllmer, of Cush-
Ing, Minnesota, Walter of Klamath
Falls, and Dennis Schweigert of
Etna, California: three daughters,
Esther DeMartinl of Concord, Call
fornia, Eleanor Ewlng of Redding,
California and Janet senweigen,
Tulelake; brothers, Ed of Monta
eue. California. John of Elalaka,
Montana and Joe of Moses Lake,
Washington; sisters, Reglna
Krause of Portland, Oregon, An
tonia Grumn of Boise, Idaho. Au
gusta Schweigert of Des Moines,
Iowa. Marie Smith of . Dallas,
Texas. Maggie Wallander of Beu
lah. North Dakota, Anna Schwei
gert of Arthur, North Dakota and
Ida Schweigert of Los Angeles.
Funeral services will be held
from the chapel of Ward's Klam
ath Funeral Home on Wednesday,
Pebruary 1 at 2 p.m. with the Rev.
H. M. Warnke of the Zion Luther
an Church officiating. Commit
ment service and interment will
be in Klamath Memorial Park.
LMorty Meekle
Weather Table
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
24 hours to 4:30 a.m. Monday
Max. Mb). Prep.
Baker 27 7 .09
Bend 32-4
Boise 28 14 .18
Eugene 45 26 .02
Klamath Falls .... 25 5 -
Lakeview 28 12 -
Medford 45 27
Newport 42 29 .05
North Bend 40 32 .26
Pendleton 23 14 .10
Portland (Airport) 37 22 .01
Roseburg 44 25 .01
Salem 45 22 .01
Spokane . 18 0
'Vendor' Demands
Pre-Hearing
Eugene James Wltherspoon, 31-
year-old accused "hot steak" ven
dor, demanded a preliminary hear
ing Monday when he appeared be
fore District Judge D. E. Van Vac-
tor on a charge of burglary.
The defendant, operator of the
Chartreuse Room, an eating estab
lishment on Atamont Drive, was
arrested by state police after he
was alleged to have stolen half a
beef from the Super Packing Com
pany plant.
Officers say the purpose of the
alleged burglary was to replenish
the supply of steaks at his rest
aurant. Wltherspoon, who Is represented
by Attorney Edwin E. Driscoll,
was remanded to the county Jail
pending the hearing.
KIN PRETTY, )
I V WELL.WHAtWA
KNOW. THrp STUFF V5&J3r
AIM by Ntt ImIm tM. UALU
Moral: Don't
Pass 'Patrol Car
Carl Bert Malotte, 5206 Worden,
was cited by State Police late Sun
day afternoon when he attempted
to pass a police patrol car and
went into the path of an oncoming
auto driven by Richard Leroy
Thompson, 4300 Anderson Avenue.
Malotte was cited by the officer
he attempted to pass for failure
to yield right of way to a vehicle.
The incident occurred on South
Sixth Street in the vicinity of the
Little Sweden nightclub. There
were no injuries.
In another weekend accident.
city police reported that autos
driven by Leslie Paul Arnett, 2135
Radcllffe, and Nina Keffcr, 4344
Avalon, collided shortly after noon
Saturday at Seventh and Main
streets. Amett was cited for fail
ure to yield right of way to a
vehicle.
Accident Brings
Suit Against KF
The city of Klamath Falls Is
being sued for $9,231 by one of Its
residents as the result of a fall
on January 29, 1954.
Mrs. Thelma H. Morris, 2061 Eb-
erleln Street, alleges in a com
plaint filed in circuit court Friday
that she tripped and fell on a
rough sidewalk in front of 2232
Wantland Street. She charges that
the sidewalk was rough due to
negligence on the pari of the city.
She Is asking (9.000 general
damages and $231 special dam
ages. Her attorney is Donald A.
W. Piper.
Safe Stolen
From Tavern
A "safenaping" at the Drum
stick Tavern, 1038 East Main
Street, was reported today by
Klamath Falls police.
The theft of the safe, loaded
with a large amount of small
change, occurred sometime be
tween 1:10-7:10 a.m. Sunday. Po
lice did not disclose the amount of
money in the safe, but said that it
was substantial. Mostly, it consist
ed of nickels, dimes and quarters.
The theft was discovered when
Officer Walter Conrady, on routine
patrol, noticed that a window had
been broken out of the front door
of the tavern. After radioing head
quarters to request the owner,
Lloyd Ryser, 2224 Main Street, to
come to the scene, he entered the
tavern.
Conrady said he and the owner
discovered that the safe, weighing
approximately 250-300 pounds, had
been dragged across the inside of
the building, lifted through the
broken window, dragged across
the sidewalk and lifted into an
auto. Some other money, and a
hand gun had been left at the
tavern.
The double-locked front door had
not been opened, Conrady said.
PARKS RETURN
FORT ROCK Mr. and Mrs.
Bud Parks and sons Bill and Alan
returned Sunday from a trip to
tire Midwest where Parks attended
the National Rural Electric Coop
erative Association meeting at St.
Louis. The family visited with her
parents, the Rev. and Mrs. A. E.
Barrow, at Liscomb, Iowa.
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