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fOUn MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday. March 7. 1950 Delake 'Monster' Might Well Be Whale Shark, Expert On Fishes Says in the Day's News By Paul F. EUil United Press Science Editor New York, Mar. 7 (U.R) A man who knows his fishes said today that the "monster" washed up on the shore at Delake, Ore., might well be a whale shark. It certainly is no serpent, he said. The expert, Dr. E. W. Gudger, honorary associate in the depart ment of fishes, American Muse um of Natural History, said that a whale-shark is a harmless crit ter of the sea and that its body is shaped somewhat like a tad pole. Big Scare Recalled Gudccr. who has been inter ested in fishes and marine life for almost half a century, said that the "monster" and "sea ser pent" stories pop up every once in a while. He recalled one big scare" back in 1903 when a "terrible" serpent was seen In the bay of Tonquin, French Indo china. "Trouble is," he said, "no sci entific person has ever seen ser-Dents." He also recalled that there was a "scare" about JO years ago when a sea serpent, with an ex tremely long tail, was observed off the coast of France. The ser pent turned out to be a school of whale-sharks, or basking sharks, who were swimming along in single file. They are called basking sharks because they like to swim on the surface of the water, seemingly to bask in the sun. Whale-Sharks Harmless "Whale or basking sharks are harmless," Dr. Gudger said. "Their teeth arc only about one fourth of an inch long. They have scales, but not so the lay person could notice them. If you run your hand over the back of a whale-sharp it feels like run ning your hand over a coarse file." The technical name for the whale-shark is cetorhinus. He said it would be easy for a lay person to mistake a col umn of the sharks for a serpent as they ride the crest of waves in the ocean. The whale-shark, according to Gudger, has a bulky body and has a long tail, sometimes IS to 18 feet long. He wouldn't go so far as to say the west coast's "monster" was a whale-shark. But he agreed it appears to re semble one. Not Something New At any rate, the "monster" Is not something new from the depths of the ocean. Dr. Gudger said that sea life In the dark depths of the ocean is small bodies. The big fish, he said, stay comparatively close to the top. Multnomah Sheriff Tells Of Bribe Offers Portland, Ore., Mar. 7 U.R) Multnomah County Sheriff Ter ry D. Schrunk today said he had turned down several bribes of fered to ward off his interfer ence in gambling operations, Schrunk did not say who of fered the bribes. The largest fer he said was $20,000. WEATHER By United Press Northern California: Fair to day, tonight and Wednesday ex cept considerable cloudiness ex treme northern portion and light rain near Oregon border tonight and Wednesday. Slightly warm- today. Variable wind 8-13 MPH, mostly northwesterly in afternoon but southerly tonight and Wednesday from Point Are na north. By FRANK JENKINS Defense Secretary Johnson speaking: "No amount of money can give America 100 per cent protection from atomic bombers in the event of war. "THERE IS A RISK TO LIV ING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE 20TH CENTURY. It is a risk that every community must take in an atomic age." w HAT is the risk? Secretary Johnson spells it out like this: "Some enemy pilot with the zeal and fanaticism of a kami kaze ("kamikazes," you will re member, were Jap suicide pilots) might get through our net on a one-way suicide mission and the United States might get hurt." The suicide pilot, of c o u r s e, would be carrying an atom bomb or a hydrogen bomb. He would drop it on some city. If MORE THAN ONE suicide pilot got through, the bombs would be dropped on more than one city That is how it would work. Guided Missile With Range Penitentiary Terms Of Almost 1000 Miles Seen w HY iulcide pilots? COMEDIAN'S FATHER DIES Hollywood, Mar. 7 !U.R) Comedian Jack Carson flew here today to make arrangements to bury his father, timer L. (Kit) Carson, who died yesterday af ter a heart attack. n give caption PubliihW as mM Service r M. M. DEPT. STORE The answer to that is that AS YET Russia is not believed to have developed a plane with range enough to fly to the United States, drop its oomos ui u goi past ' our defenses) and FLY BACK TO RUSSIA. SO "Suicide" pilots would have to do the Job. They'd drop their bomb (or bombs). Then they'd crash. Or maybe they'd land on some airfield and give them selves up as prisoners of war. QR- And this is the latest sugges tion: They'd ball out AFTER ALERTING THE NEAREST COMMUNIST CELL. They'd hope that when they landed they would be Dicked uo by their communist friends, concealed and eventually smuggled back to Russia to do it all over again. We must bear this in mind: In the event of war with Rus sia every communist in America will be a suicide enemy in our midst whose life will be pledged to doing us all the damage he can in anv way he can REGARD LESS OF THE RISK IN VOLVED. gECRETARY Johnson goes on: "Even it the U. S. put all its defense money now 13 billions a yea r into air defense it Washington. Mar. 7 (U.R) A guided missile with a ground-to-ground range of nearly 1,000 miles is possible with present American knowledge and exper ience, the army disclosed today. But Brig. Gen. Leslie E. Simon, chief of army ordnance and development, said an imme diate program to make such a missile would mean "freezing design" at the present stage of development and concentrating on production rather than research. Year of Work Under present conditions and if ample funds were on hand, it was indicated, it would tako about a year to carry out neces sary work in design and engi neering production. Simon said the services nave been working on the long-range guided missile about five years and "we have solved many of the basic scientific problems" in this field. He said the so-called "Wac Corporal" fired last year at the White Sands, N.M., proving grounds could have been hurled more than DUO miles if it had been fired for maximum range. Instead, Simon said the two stage missile in which one mis sile travels a certain distance and then releases a smaller one was fired vertically so it would fall safely within proving ground limits. It was fired to a height of 25 miles. Witness To Progress "That flight was a substantial I accomplishment and bears wit ness to the progress made be- yond the elementary stage at ; which the Germans were stopped on V-E Day," Simon j said. He said the Germans rushed I guided missiles into production I prematurely while the United States is concentrating on re search and development. This process, he said, has "led to a number of highly efficient surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles." Simon said much of the credit for missile development should go to the General Electric com pany, Bell Telephone Labora tories, the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion lab oratory, and Gsrman scientists brought to this country at the end of the war. About 100 V-2 rockets were brought to the United States aft er the war, Simon said, and 50 of them have been fired at White Sands. These rockets saved the Unit ed States money with their availability for use in testing instrumentation, operational: techniques, and as carriers of in struments for research institu-1 tions. Given Two Felons Circuit Judge H. K. Hanna yes terday imposed prison sentences on two admitted felons and ar raigned a third in an anernoon court session. Louis Roy Valdez, charged with larceny from an auto, was sentenced to four years in the state penitentiary, and William Frank Collins, charged with Grand larcenv for the theft of a wrist watch from Brophy's jewelers, was given a one-year sentence, Both had pleaded guilty. Farley Orval Pollock was ar raiened on a grand larceny charge involving theft of a power saw and asked that his case be continued for a few days before he pleads on a district attorney s information. He has waived grand jury indictment. Heartbroken Boy Seeks Body Of Lost Dog So He Can Give It Proper Burial - Broken-hearted over the ap- day and Tuesday mornings and parent death of his pet dog, hopefully hurried out to look in which fell into Bear Creek and the dog's box, thinking he might Acme Hardware's 5th Anniversary Sale NOW In Progress B I G Value, I B I G Savings I P"" We've put all our bargains together in one whopper of a tale. There are super values in all departments prices you've been waiting for on all the things you want. Big Values! Big Savings! Like these below ... fete Fine English Bone China Cups end Saucers, Salad Plates, Sugar and Creamers, and Mutlin Plates. First Quality. Beautiful Patterns. Regular $3 95 price. For this vent.. $1.98 ..tti. . Lawn Mower $17.95 Reg. $19.95 Smooth running, tiy cutting liwn mowtrt, 16" blidct . . ball bosiring. HANDY 7" BOKER SHEARS For all your wing nttds. Rg. $2.19, Special $1.19 Firemen Organize New Group Here An organization of regular and volunteer firemen was effected last night when about 33 men met at the city fire hall and elected Barry Bigham president. A committee to draw up by-laws and another committee to plan social activities were named. Other officers elected were Clyde Fichtncr, vice president; LcRoy William5. secretary-treasurer, and Virgil Swanston, as sistant secretary-treasurer. Acting Fire Chief Leo Wcid ner said that hereafter volunteer firemen will be known as "call men.'' Ho stressed that as far as the local department is con cerned there is no real difference between the callmcn and the reg ular firemen. The entertainment committee named last night will plan for a social event in April open to firemen and their wives. Services Arranged For Mrs. Liza Jane Cook Ashland. Mar. 7 Services for Mrs. Liza Jane Cook, who died at her Talent home Sunday, will be held Thursday at 1:30 p.m. at Litwiller funeral home with interment at Mountain View cemetery. She had been in failing health for several years. Mr. Cook was born March 22, 1875. at YVorth ington, la. She came to Talent three years ago. Survivors are her husband George: three sons. Holland, Tal ent: Milo, Medford.'and Wendell Loos Bay; six brothers and sis ters, Melvin and John Brrakey. Mrs. Nellie Deach and Mrs. I. M. Schessel, all of Nora Springs. Ia.: Ralph Breakey, Portland, and Mrs. Louis Glassell, Brea, Cal.. and three grandchildren. wouldn't guarantee 1 m m u nity from atomic attack. This is w hat we can and WILL do instead: "Build a strong air defense. . . niHke enemy raids costly so costly that the enemy will' find himself unable to continue his attack. . . we can make RKTIit BUTION so deadly he will wish he had never started." flcme ALUMINUM ANNIVERSARY SPECIALS! REYNOLDS polished aluminum cooking utensils, ruggedly built fer lasting service. TRIPLf. THICK! 6 Quart Dutch Oven Reg. S5.95 Special SJ.7J 2 Quart Vegetable Pan, Reg. 4$ Special 2. 73 10 Inch Skill. I . . Rtg. 1.95 Special .69 REGULAR WEIGHT ALUMINUM 2 Quart Saucepan, Reg. SI. 39 Special ,S9 1 Quart Saucepan, Reg. 1 .4 S , Special Dish Pan, 1 Quart SI. 39 I Inch Cake Pan Square 49 Angel Food Cake Pan 1.29 sVCup Drlp-o.laior 1.19 "Specialist In Homewores" COMPANY QRIM? Sure It's grim. Death in any form is grim. That train wrrrk back on Long Island, when hu man beings were ground up like sausage meat, wasn't nice. BUT WK D1K ONLY ONCE. Let's keep that in mind. It lakes away some of the grimncss. VyilEN a bridegroom throwing " a party on t lie night before his wedding dav CAN CHOKE ON A FRIED EGO and die as dead as if he had got in his sole person the whole explosive pow er of a hydrogen bomb, it rather puts a new light on the whole business. So far as he was concerned a fried rgg was as deadly as an II bomb. There have always been fried eggs. Happy Is The Day When Backache Goes Away A, w. rt -Mr. ttrw en.t strain ov.r. xrii,.-,, Tmokmr or xiHMir In "!Hl,mw .' .km n Win. fnn--li"M. Tin, i,i,y kml niAiiv f.-lfc . ir. nm pl.ln ol nag. me iw. k..-i. Vm ,4 ts-p an, tnm , hi.t.'W nn.l ,limnf-. lir.;ne m nieht, ,.r frpitn m.v icuU 1rm min..r tiVldrr trrtuihin, ifvi. u. f,;j, simimPM tir itivlarr in.ji,' r: ion,. If ,.ur .i'i,vm(,m ,1 if to lrir ri. d"n't aii. Irv IKin IMte. a rt'iM diiirrtr.'. f.pj ,,-,,.,( ,,liv fcr n,.r,...iM f,.r 10 vr.r. V, hi, thr-r , mr: i , m.v r-fl,e vitmwt-f wrur, H .muting b- w rn.n,- tuvM IK.an liiM.,' ,,:.,( (Ih oat .!. Wl lKn'a Ti.a !)! disappeared Sunday, 11-year-old Duanc Denney has made an ap peal to the Tribune to help him find the animal's body in order that he may bury it. "While playing in Bear Creek park Sunday afternoon I saw my dog fall in the water under Bear creek bridge," Duanc wrote. "Then he was washed over the falls at the west end. He never came out of the whirling water. If someone finds my little pal washed somewhere along the bank please let me know. For this information I cannot pay, but will thank you sincerely," the boy's note concluded. Was Blue Terrier The dog. which Duanc called Diablo, was a blue terrier with white markings. He wore a rabies vaccination tag No. 117598 and a 1950 license number on his collar. Duanc's mother. Mrs. Laura Denney. 504'2 North Grape street, said that Duane and a companion were playing in the park and were skipping rocks along the banks of the creek. Diablo had been trained to fetch rocks and sticks, and when one went too far and f:Il into the water, he rushed after it. The two boys and Mrs. Den ney spent about two hours searching alollg the edges of the creek after the accident, the mother said, but no trace of the dog could be found. She said Duane and the dog had been constant companions for three years, and the dog had been trained to ride in a basket on the boys' bicycle. Duane got up early both Mon- not have drowned and might have come home during the night, she said. "The reason Duane is so anxi ous to find the pet and bury the body Is because Diablo was fol lowing orders when he was drowned," Mrs. Denney ex plained. "This really means a lot to Duane." The Denny's telephone num ber is 2-8390. Ashland Lumber Firm Bids High On Timber The Red Blanket Lumber com pany, Inc., Ashland, yesterday was successful high bidder for about 11 million feet of timber placed on sale in the Whiskey creek area of Rogue River na tional forest. The Red Blanket firm bid a total of $114,727 for timber on two blocks of land in the area. The forest service had set a minimum price of $88,382 on the sale. Red Blank Lumber company was represented at the oral auc tion by William Mattson and there were competitive bids from the Ross Lumber company and Skeeters and Skeeters Logging company. . Marines To Organize Drill Team Locally A drill team which will take part in the coming Armed Forces celebration, will be organized by the marine reserve unit, VTU 13-21, it was announced today by Capt. William O'Brien. A meeting will be held Thursday, March 9, at 8 p.m. in the armory building to organize the team. Captain O'Brien stressed that any young man interested in drilling with the team is invited to attend, and said they are not required to be members of the reserve unit. tXln QUALITY fefiVaf IIAUTY flrAT WEAR $529 Bel. ! J Some varieties of cactus in Arizone are found nowhere else in the world except in Palestine. Us. Mail Tribune Went Ada to HUBBARD BROTHERS, Inc. MAIN at RIVERSIDE Phone 2-6189 Man Held In Jail On Car Use Charges Authorities here are holding Richard Laverne Augustine in county jail in lieu of $2,000 bail on a charge of taking and using an automobile without authority. Central Point Police Chief Doug las Sawtelle, who filed the com plaint, said Augustine took a car owned by Oran W. Van Dyke, Central Point, on March 4. The case has been continued for hearing. In the meantime. Augustine is serving a 60-day jail sentence for being drunk in a public place. He was sentenced in county jus tice court yesterday by Judge W. P. Tucker. Manila. P. I.. Mar. 7 (U.R) Moderate to light temblors shook several central Philippine islands today but caused only slight damage. Several persons were reported injured in Iloilo city when they ran from theaters in j fright. GOING ABROAD? SEE Rogue Travel Service FOREIGN TRAVEL Air and Steamship TICKETS SOLD AT Published Tariff Rates WE HELP WITH PASSPORTS, VISAS, ENTRY REQUIRE MENTS, AND ALL DETAILS RECEIVE IMPARTIAL ADVICE. Phone 2-6779 LOBBY, JACKSON HOTEL let's get the facts STRAIGHT! SHOWROOM OPEN Evenings until 9 p. m. "A i,il: h. V " V Mercury and only Mercury wa the-Sweepctakef winner in the Mobilgas Grand Canyon Economy Run at 26.52 miles per gallon. Some of the crs which have been making "me too" claims didn't even come close. If you've been reading the "victory" statements made by various automobile manufacturers claiming to have won the Grand Canyon Economy Run, you're probably pretty well confused. And we can't blame you a bit. Everybody's trying to get into the act Mercury's act. It's true some other cars did take certain "class" prizes. But the grand prize . . . and the Sweepstakes Trophy . . . went to Mercury and to Mercury alone. On a pound-for-pound basis the basis upon which the American Automobile Association judged this . famous economy test Mercury outperformed every other car entered. That's right, every other stock model car entered regardless of price, size or horse power. Mercury's actual mileage 6gure was a big, juicy 26.52 miles per gallon! And that over the world's toughest 751 mile course at an average speed of more than 41 miles per hour. And how did a car the size of the big new Mercury do it? Mercury's gu-saving Touch-O-Matic overdrive helped and so did careful driving. But let's not overlook the main fact. The 1950 Mercury won because it was built to he thrifty. We've been bragging to folks around here about the amazing efficiency of Mercury's "Hi-powet compression" and new "Econ-o-miser" carburetion and it sure looks like we weren't kidding. But don't just take our nord for it Come in and drive the new Mercury yourself. See whit it's like to set jour hands on a real Grand Prize winner. And don't put off that pleasure until "tomorrow." Do it today i Drive America's No. 1 economy car the 1950 Mercury t J ir OHJ twetrsTAMS WMan AMnl N 1 hm, Car MEDFORD MOTORS 6th & Ivy Phone 2-6157 ji 3 WEST STRh3 UP u ! 1 j I St - 4,
