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A A A A A A A A A A A MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1980 9 OBITUARIES JAMES A. TRAVIS James Allen Travis, 43, of Pine Central Point, died, apparently of a heart attack, Dec. 25, in Klamath Falls. Mr.

Travis had worked in the Klamath Falls area for two years prior to coming to Medford in March of this year. He was currently employed by the Mt. Pitt Lumber company, Central Point, as a forklift operator. He was born Jan. 26, 1917, in North Carolina.

Two children, his parents, and a brother survive him, all living in the east. Mr. Travis was visiting in Klamath Falls at the time of his death. Funeral arrangements are being made in North Carolina. Sheriff's department of'ficials are conducting an autopsy.

W. DOOLEY Funeral services for Fay William Dooley, 67, of 2251 Barnett who died Saturday, were held this afternoon at Hillerest Mortuary chapel on the North Phoenix rd. The Rev. Frederick R. Evans of the First Christian church officiated.

Committal was in Hillcrest Memorial park, with Conger-Morris, funeral directors, in charge of arrangements. Mr. Dooley was born June 29, 1893, in Spokane, and had lived in Medford for the past seven years, coming from Prospect, where he had lived since 1942. He was a veteran of World War servring as a private in headquarters company, 162nd infantry. He was married Sept.

9, 1959, in Nevada, to Dollie Goddard, who survives. Other survivors include a son, Wesley, and a daughter, Glenda; a brother, Clyde J. Dooley, Santa Barbara, two sisters, Mrs. Irene Bembry, Redmond, and Mrs. Lillian Ironside, Santa bara, and six grandchildren.

MRS. BELLE E. WARNER Funeral services for Mrs. Belle E. Warner, 92, of 515 South Holly who died in Central Point Sunday, will be held at Perl Funeral home Thursday at 11 a.m.

Dr. D. Kirkland West of the First Presbyterian church will officiate. Committal will be in Siskiyou Memorial park. Mrs.

Warner was born Aug. 21, 1868, in New York state, and was the daughter of Andrew and Hilda In 1893 she married Edward Warner, who preceded her in death in 1920. She was a teacher of adult Bible classes in churches where she was a member. Mrs. Warner was a charter member of the College Women's club and also a WATCH REPAIRS Have Your Watch Completely Checked Case Cleaned and.

While You Are in Pick Out New Watch Band FROM PRICED $095 Nuich JEWELERS 231 East Main charter member of the Wednesday Study club. Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Esther Pugh, Laramie, and one sister, Mrs. Dillie Mason, Shell Beach, three grandsons, three great grandchildren, and one sister-in-law, Miss Beulah Warner, of Medford. LLOYD W.

SMITH Funeral services for Lloyd W. Smith, 62, who died Friday at the Veterans Administration Domiciliary, White City, were held Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. at the White City chapel. Chaplain Roger Pryor officiated with Perl Funeral home in charge of arrangements. Committal was in the VA cemetery at Eagle Point.

Mr. Smith was born May 16, 1898, in Ohio and was a veteran of World War I. He is survived by one cousin, Robert T. Van Ostrand, of Santa Barbara, Calif. WILLIAM T.

SHANN Funeral services for William Thomas Shann, 67, who died at his residence at the rear of 131 Almond will be held at Perl Funeral home Thursday at 1:30 p.m. Committal will be private at the Medford IOOF cemetery, Mr. Shann was born July 1, 1893, and a veteran of World War I. There are no known survivors. JAMES O.

CONVILL James O. Convill, 76, of 2468 Hillcrest died in a local hospital last night. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Chapel Mor- tuary. ELMER E. GOLAY Elmer E.

Golay, formerly of Medford, died Tuesday in Portland. Funeral services will be held at Conger-Morris Funeral home downtown chapel, Friday at 9:30 a.m, Walter Jensen of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints will officiate. Committal will be in Memory Gardens Memorial park. Mr. Golay lived in Medford in 1953 and 1954.

Survivors include his widow, Rose; two sons, Dr. Vernon J. Golay, Portland; and Gary Boise, a daughter, Mrs. Loren Greenwood, Brownsboro, and six grandchildren. JOHN M.

READE Funeral services for John Meyers Reade, 65, of 418 Lozier lane, who died Monday, will be held at Hillcrest Mortuary Chapel on the North Phoenix rd. Friday at 11 a.m. Capt. William Ricken of the Salvation Army will officiate. Committal will be in the Hillcrest Memorial park, with Conger Morris, funeral directors, in charge of arrangements.

Mr. Reade was born Nov. 3, 1895, in Ft. Wayne, and had lived in Southern Oregon since 1936. He was a veteran of World War serving in the U.S.

Navy from June 14, 1917, to Aug. 9, 1919. He was a member of Steelhead Post, V.F.W., of Shady Cove. He was married May 26, 1936, in Vancouver, to Iva A. Smith, who survives.

Other survivors include a step-son, Ray Johnson, Whittier, a brother, David D. Reade, Tucson, and a sister, Mrs. Catherine Williams, Camas, Wash. JOHN F. MITCHELL Hornbrook John Frederick Mitchell, 52, of Hornbrook, died Dec.

27 at his residence following a illness of several months. He was born Sept. 3, 1908, in Indianola, Iowa. Mr. Mitchell operated a ranch on Cottonwood creek, arriving in California in 1933 and to Siskiyou county in 1949.

He was originally the TONITE ONLY "CURTAIN AT 8:30" distinguished foreign films John Lusk at the ASHLAND PHONE MU. 9-8761 Baldwin Organ 8 p.m. JUNE LAVERICK ISABELLE COREY INGE SCHOENER "IT HAPPENED IN ROME" A Gay Comedy in the Continental Manner "IT'S NAUGHTY -IT'S NICE -IT'S BREEZY Co-Starring Filmed in VITTORIO DE SICA Technicolor HOLIDAY I 3 HITS! KE. 5-1462 HERE I DRIVE IN TONITE! HOUND-DOG STARRING COLOR CINEMASCOPE by De la MAN FABIAN CAROL LYNLEY 20. ROBERT MITCHUM MICKEY ROONEY hunted like a STEVE COCHRAN wild animall MAMIE VAN DOREN THE ANGRY HILLS ThE BIG ELISABETH MUELLER CINEMASCOPE OPERATOR STANLEY BAKER N.

PELEASE CINEMASCOPE manager of the C. D. Draucher ranch and. held that position for three years, He resumed his work as a certified public accountant when he purchased the Mail-Me-Monday company of Yreka. He was a member of the Elks lodge and Rotary club, Yreka, Mr.

Mitchell was an ardent sportsman and was a member of a bowling league. Mr. Mitchell is survived by wife, Mary Ann Mitchell, Siskiyou county, two sons, James Frederick Mitchell, Hornbrook, and Rodney A. Mitchell, Los Angeles, two brothers, W. Kenneth Mitchell and Jack Mitchell, three sisters, Mrs.

Ruth Johnson, Mrs. B. M. Connely, and Mrs. Harry Richmond, all of Los Angeles.

Funeral services will be Thursday, Dec. 29, at 2 p.m. at the Girdner Funeral chapel in Yreka. Interment will be in the Henley Holbrook cemetery. Locals Window Broken--Kenneth Carico Kerr, 151 reported to city police Tuesday that someone broke a four by eight foot window at Continental Interiors, 1222 South Riverside ave.

Equipment Missing--George Robert Tenborg, Eugene, told city police Tuesday that someone took two sets of climbing tools from his truck while it was parked at Ninth and Front sts. The tools were valued at $45 per set. Legion Meets American Legion Post 15, Medford, will meet at 8 o'clock this evening in the Legion home, 404 Walnut to discuss plans for its New Year's Eve dance and smorgasbord. Proceeds from the dance will go to the Legion memorial building fund. Machine Stolen Gene Meril Mosser, 1123 West Main an employee at Roethler's Chevron Service station, 600 East Jackson notified city police this morning of the theft of a cigarette machine from the station sometime last night.

The machine is valued at $150. In Hospital Daniel M. Ansted, 5-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald L.

Ansted, 535 Pearl Medford; Francis P. Morrison, box 437, Gold Beach, and Gale L. Myrick, 362 Orr Central Point, were listed as medical patients today at Sacred Heart hospital. Car Recovered A car stolen in Ashland Monday has been recovered at Ludlow, according to state police. California state highway patrol arrested two juveniles who had the car, state police said.

The car was registered to W. P. Robinson, of Yreka, who has been staying in Ashland. Flue Fire Central Point rural firemen were called at 3 p.m. yesterday when a flue fire occurred at the home of J.

T. Bowling, 4340 Hamrick rd. They were summoned also yesterday morning when a house full of smoke was reported on East Gregory rd. A back draft on the fireplace was thought to have been the cause. Lights Gone- -A total of 44 Christmas tree lights were reported missing to city police Tuesday.

Robert Maynard Bestual, 1217 Winchester reported the theft of 24 lights, and Eugenia Slossie Antley, 1124 Winchester said that 20 had been taken from that location. Two boys, ages 12 and 13, admitted to police they took and broke the lights from the Bestual tree. Surgery Patients Surgery patients listed at Sacred Heart hospital today include Charles Dauster, 4074 South Pacific highway, Phoenix; John S. Henshaw, post office box 61, Butte Falls; James R. Cox, 13-year-old son of Mr.

and Mrs. James D. Cox, 1410 East Jackson Medford; and Frederick Vigil, 8-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Vigil, 1100 Spring Medford.

College Meeting Friends of Lewis and Clark college and interested persons have been invited to attend a "get no-host dinner at the Mark Antony hotel, Ashland, at 7 p.m. Thursday. Guest speaker will be Dr. John R. Howard, recently named president of the college.

Reservations and additional information can be obtained by contacting Mrs. Clifford C. Voight at SPring 2-2669, or the hotel. QUEEN KNIGHTS YANK London- UPD Jack Warner, head of Warners Brothers film company, has been designated an honorary commander of the order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth, it was announced Tuesday night. The award was based on service to British interests in the United States.

SHELTER TOMORROW YOU RAYMOND CHESSMAN'S ARE THE WILL BE STOP TATE NOT -NO DE EXECUTIONS! IN MORE WIN EXECUTIONER KILLED PLANNED EXECUTION PROTESTED Four women mond L. Cartier. The pickets represent the Los Angeles pickets bear placards capital punishment parade Citizens Against Capital Punishment, an organization that in front of the state protesting, building in Los Angeles in a has protested similarly before every scheduled execution plea to prevent the execution of convicted murderer Ray- this year. (UPI Telephoto) Medford Patchy valley fog tonight and Thursday morning. Partial clearing Thursday afternoon.

Low tonight 26-28. High Thursday near 45. Western Oregon: Fair tonight and Thursday except night and morning fog in some valleys and warmer on coast. Low tonight 24-32 over interior and 32-42 on coast. High 50-60 on coast and 40-52 in interior.

Northern California: Fair tonight and Thursday but occasional light snow in southern Sierra's today. Strong northeast winds tains. Little temeprature "change. LOCAL DATA TEMPERATURE: Mean yesterday below normal 4. Record high 61 1937.

Record low this date 16 in 1930. PRECIPITATION: 24 hours to midnight, trace, Midnight to 10 "Total none. this month 1.71 inch, 1.06 inch below normal. Total since Sept. 1, 6.97 inches, 1.03 inches below normal.

HUMIDITY: Lowest yesterday highest this a.m. High 4:00 24- CITY Yester- a.m. hr. day Low Prec. Brookings 62 41 Crater Lake 31 12 Grants Pass 47 24 Klamath Falls 39 26 MEDFORD 35 28 Portland 48 26 Seattle 41 32 Spokane 27 13 Yakima 29 16 Eureka 53 37 Red Bluff 60 47 Sacramento 59 44 San Francisco 58 52 Los Angeles 68 48 Phoenix 67 36 Denver 28 .36 Chicago 27 21 Miami Beach 72 70 .01 New York 40 11 Washington, D.

C. 44 18 FIVE- DAY FORECAST (Through Jan, 2) Weather Western Oregon Western Washington- Temperatures will average near normal highs 40-50 and lows 30-42. Precipitation above normal. in northwestern western Oregon and Washington near normal southwestern Oregon with recurring periods of rain after Friday, totals amounting to 1-2 inches in western Washington and northwestern Oregon and .25 to .75 of An inch in southwestern Oregon. Northern California Possibility of rain in extreme portion Sunday or Monday; otherwise no precipitation.

Temperatures near normal. Oregon State Gets Grant of $200,000 Corvallis- -The National Science Foundation has given Oregon State college a 000 grant to start construction on a giant electronic computer and a computer research center serving the entire state. The computer, which is capable two 15-digit numbers in one-millionth of a second, will cost a half-million dollars when completed in three or four years. It will do the work of commercial computers costing nearly $10 million, according to Dr. A.

T. Lonseth, head of the mathematics department. Louis N. Stone, head of the electrical engineering department, and Dr. Lonseth are in charge of the program.

The cathedral at Rheims, in northeastern France, damaged in two World Wars, was begun in 1211 and completed a century later. RANDALL To Mr. and Mrs. David, Ft. Jones, Dec.

22, 1960, boy, 8 pounds, at Siskiyou County General hospital. SIMAS To Mr. and Mrs. Harold, Raymond Yreka, Dec. 24, 1960, boy, pounds, at Siskiyou County General hospital.

BURR To Mr. and Mrs. Paul, Greenview, Dec. 25, 1960, boy, pounds, at Siskiyou County General hospital. Births GILLESPIE To Mr.

and Ray, post office box 102, Prospect, Dec. 27, 1960, a boy, pounds at Rogue Valley hospital. WOLFORD To Mr. and Mrs. Henry, 1005 Ashland, Dec.

27, 1960, a girl, pounds, at Rogue Valley hospital. BATEMAN To Mr. and Mrs. William, Kings highway, Central Point, Dec. 28, 1960, a girl, pounds, at Rogue Valley hospital.

EGGERS-To Mr. and Mrs. James, Grant Ashland, Dec. 28, 1960, a boy, pounds, at Ashland General hospital. Portland Produce The following price quotations quotations are from the agricultural marketing service of the U.S.

Department of Agriculture in Portland. Eggs: Prices to retailers, cartons. large AA 60-65; large AA 58-62; large A 57-60; medium AA 54-57; small AA 40-46. Prices to producers: large AA large AA large A 44-45; medium AA 43-4712; small AA Butter: Prices to retailers, No. 1 prints delivered, AA and 70, 68.

Poultry: Prices to retailers, delivered, for grade A quality, fryers, whole 34-37. cut up 39-43; light 35; heavy type hens, whole 39-43. type hens, whole 28-30, cut up 33- Over-the-Counter Western Stocks The following bid and asked quotations, from the National Association of Securi ties Dealers, do not represent actual transactions. They are a guide to the range within which these securities could have been sold (indi. cated by the or bought (indicated by the at the time of compilation.

Common Stocks Bid Asked Bank of America 49 515 Utilities 193 211 Cascades Plywood 22 231 Cons. Freightways 101 Copco 43 Cyprus Mines Corp. 23 First National Bank 611 65 Morrison-Knudsen 33 Northwest Nat. Gas 253 Pacific Pwr. Lt.

41 433 Permanente Cement 193 Portland Gen. Elec. 31 333 U. S. National Bank 64 68 14 United Utilities 461 West Coast Tel.

291 5 Weyerhaeuser 33 JOIN OUR YEAR'S PARTY! NEW -New Year's Eve atMON DESIR DINING INN -Central Point A delicious smorgasbord served For Reservations starting 6 p.m. Favors, noisemakers, balloons, special music Phone 9 p.m.-till All this for onlyfor your dancing pleasure after NOrmandy $4 per Person 4-2513 Pear Blossom Room For Private Parties Job-Finding Group Formed in Portland Portland (UPD An organization to help professional and semi-professional administrative personnel find jobs is being formed in Portland, according to Ray A. Ziegler, director senior worker division of Oregon state the bureau of labor. He said the executive or supervisor often has more trouble obtaining suitable employment than other persons, mostly because of a lack of job hunting experience. The organization, called "Experience Unlimited of Oregon" is to be patterned after similar successful groups in other areas, he said.

News About Servicemen AIRMAN GRADUATES Theodore H. Stamper, airman apprentice, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Stamper, 310 Mary Medford, graduated recently from the aviation familiarization course at the Naval Air Technical Training center, Memphis, Tenn.

Graduates are advanced to one of many technical schools at the center. choice lb. lambs 17.50." Portland Livestock 23: good slaughter heifers 22-23; 250. Good steers 25; standard 20- canner-cutter cows 12.25-14; utility 14.50-15.50. Calves 100.

Good-low choice vealers 26-28; stock heifers 22. Hogs 400. U.S. 2 butchers 19.75-20; 2 and 3 lots 16-18; 1 and sows 15-16; good-choice feeder pigs 20. Sheep 150.

Not fully established: choice lb. wooled slaughter Junior First Citizen Selected at Portland Portland (UPD Patrick D. Dignan, 29, assistant to the vice president of Northwest Natural Gas has been named Portland Junior First NEW YEAR'S EVE DANCE OASIS BALLROOM Eagle Point MUSIC BY THE VALIANTS Featuring the BIG BOPPER from Ashland CHARCOAL STEAKS TILL MIDNIGHT CANDLE ROOM HOTEL Medford Open Daily 5:30 P.M. to Midnight Sundays 4 P.M. Till 11 P.M.

RATERIAN SPring 2-6424 TOMORROW-THURSDAY THE SECOND WALT DISNEY HOLIDAY FESTIVAL SHOW Two and 3:15 HIS AND THURSDAY ONLY MOST WONDERFUL CARTOON FEATURE WALT DISNEY'S eeping Beauty KENNEDY'S PILOT- Lt. Col. James Swindal, 41, shown in his office at Andrews Air Force base, is slated to become elect inauguration John day, F. Jan. Kennedy's 20.

Swindal personal is pilot commander shortly of Presidentthe 200-man Special Air Mission unit that operates the three presidential jet planes out of Andrews. He will succeed Col. William Draper, who flew President Eisenhower all over Jasper Post Office, Store Destroyed Springfield, Ore. (UPD) Fire today destroyed the Jasper Lumber Co. store and lumber yard and also the town's post office.

The blaze broke out shortly before 8 a.m. from an undetermined cause. A quantity of lumber and plywood and the stock of hardware in the store building were a total loss. There was no immediate monetary damage estimate. Ben-Gurion To Take Leave of Absence Jerusalem, Israel-(UPDPrime Minister David BenGurion will take an extended leave in anger over his party's handling of the controversial Lavon said affair, highly sources today.

They said Foreign Minister Golda Meir probably would not submit a letter of resignation she prepared in protest against Ben-Gurion's stand. The Lavon affair, biggest internal political controversy in Israeli history, blew up last Sunday at a stormy cabinet meeting. Ben-Gurion, it was learned, criticized a ministerial committee that absolved former Defense Minister Pinhas Lavon of responsibility for a 1954 "security mishap." TO BE SUPERINTENDENT Dallas, Ore. -(UPD-Elton Fishback will succeed F. O.

Green as superintendent of Polk county schools Jan. 1. Medicare Program Gets Endorsement Salem (UPD) The Governor's Advisory Committee on Medical Care for the Aged today unanimously recommended a $13 million federal-state medicare program in Oregon beginning July 1, 1961. But the program appears overshadowed by the possibility that the federal government may not approve it because it includes the use of deductibles and co-insurance. The committee said in its report to Gov.

Mark Hatfield that the State Welfare Commission is asking the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare about this phase an integral part of the committee's proposal. CONFERENCE SET Salem Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton said today some 250 persons have been invited to the second statewide Oregon Crime Prevention Conference here Jan. 19-20.

Investment Funds Noon quotations on selected funds: Fund Bid Asked Bullock 12.36 13.55 Chem Fund 11.07 11.97 Colonial Ener 12.74 13.92 Eaton Howard Stk 12.15 15.72 12.99 16.99 Fidelity Group Sec-Avia Elec 8.83 9.68 Group Sec Com Stk 12.06 13.21 Sec-Petr 9.85 10.79 Group Sec-Steel 8.27 9.06 Group Sec-Tobac 9.07 9.94 Keystone B-3 15,44 16.85 Keystone B-4 9.15 9.99 Keystone K-2 15.10 16.48 Keystone S-1 20.29 22.13 Keystone S-2 11,46 12.50 Keystone S-3 13.01 14.20 Keystone S-4 12.69 13,85 Mass Inv Grth 15.15 16.38 TV-Elec 7.73 8.43 Value Line Inc 5.09 5.56 Wellington 13.83 15.08 TONITE AT THE TOWER BIG MID- WEEK DANCE PARTY Dance to the Trio-Bob, Bill, Hammy PLAN NOW TO ATTEND OUR GALA NEW YEAR'S EVE PARTY Tower Trio Floor Show Appetizers Prizes Direct Radio Show Only $2.50 per person SP. 3-5474 for Reservations WAIT I TECHNICOLOR. PRODUCTIONS The Glorious Music of Children 35c Tchaikovsky and Five Others 65c Delightful Song Hits! ANOTHER WONDERFUL FEATURETTE "ALASKAN SLED DOG" HOLLY SPa Tonite One Show 1902 8 P.M. MGM'S Presentation of WILLIAM WYLER'S. DE TECHNICOLOR.

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