SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Tuesday, April 25. 1950
Ask Tighter Law
On Transmission
Of Gambling Data
Washington, Apr. 25 (U.R)
Chairman Wayne Coy of the fed
eral communications commission
asked congress today for a tight
er law than the one proposed by
the justice department to outlaw
interstate transmission of gam
bling information.
Coy told a senate commerce
sub-committee that the justice
department bill is too vague and
would be "impossible to admin
ister by any government
agency.
Federal Crime
He offered instead a draft of
a proposed new bill drawn up
by the FCC. It would make the
interstate transmission of infor
mation on wagers, bets, odds or
prices a federal crime.
That type of data, Coy said, Is
the "basic information" which
Drofcssional gamblers now ob
tain over interstate telegraph
and telephone wires.
The justice department bill
would not interfere with news
paper publication of any sport
ing information or its transmis
sion by the major wire services.
It would require, however, that
radio and television broadcast
ers observe a one-hour time lag
before broadcasting race results,
odds or prices.
The FCC proposal would re
move that blanket exemption for
the wire services; newspapers
would not be permitted to re
ceive over Interstate facilities in
formation on bets, odds or prices,
and broadcasters would not be
allowed to air such information.
Coy was called before the sub
committee to help the senate
crime investigators tracK down
the operations of services that
supply horse race results for
bookies and horse parlors.
Elders Asked To Walk.
Carefully in Traffic
Chicago (U.R) People over
65 are 11 times as likely to be
killed while walking in traffic
as persons In the 25-44 age
group, the Chicago Motor club
gays.
The main reason, the club
finds, is that they are slowed
up more by wet and icy streets.
Also, they aren't always as care
ful. "Elderly pedestrians frequent
ly depend upon motorists to
slow down or stop for them,"
said the club president, Charles
M. Hayes.
"While most drivers are glad
to do so when they can, it is a
dangerous mistake to count on it.
Sometimes automobiles just can
not stop in time.
Older people should cross
streets in bad weather only when
they can reach the other side be
fore a vehicle approaches, he
said, because if they try to hurry
they are likely to fall.
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FIVINfi SAUCER 1927 VINTAGE Tte above drawing, which shows saucer-shaped objects
moored and one coming' in lor a landing, is the idea of a Dutch-born engineer and sculptor. Alexander
Q Wcygers ol Monterey. Call!., whe dreamed It up in 1927-iong oefure the first flying saucer report
came out of Oregon in 1841. Weygers flying disc which he call! a -dlscopter ' was patented in 1944 and
rejected during World War II as "too advanced." He lays the idea Is areonautically sound.
SOC Educators Assist
With School Contacts
Ashland, Apr. 25 Dr. Elmo
N. Stevenson, president of South
ern Oregon college; Dr. John
Schulz, director of guidance, and
Don Lewis, business manager at
the college, are assisting in tne
high school contact work of the
state system of higher education
this week.
Dr. Stevenson is contacting
graduating seniors of high
schools in Brookings, Gold
Beach, Langlois, Port Orford,
Bandon, Roseburg and Myrtle
Creek; Dr. Schulz is visiting high
schools in Grants Pass, Rogue
River, Eagle Point, Medford,
Ashland and Klamath Falls and
Lewis is meeting seniors at
North Bend, Coqullle, Sutherlin
and Myrtle Point.
Dr. Schulz will also visit in
Klamath and Lake counties the
first week in May.
The contacts are arranged by
the high school contacts coordi
nator, Dean Anderson, of the
extension division, to explain
high educational facilities of the
state system and to help seniors
plan their future educational
programs.
WIFIE CHECKS UP
Memphis. Tenn. (U.R) The
elderly, well-dressed man went
into a cafe and hastily ordered
something to eat. He seemed
harried and probably had a right
to be his wife was outside in
their car, watching his every
move through a telescope.
Sutton Named Editor
Of Navy Newspaper
Ernest R. Sutton, son of Mr.
and Mrs. R. J. Sutton, Medford,
has resumed the editorship of
The Harbor Times, official pub
lication of the navy base at Pearl
Harbor, according to a release
from the naval receiving station.
Sutton enlisted in the navy in
April, 1948, for a thrue-year
hitch, and was assigned to a job
as reporter with the Harbor
Times because of his journalism
experience in Medford senior
high school, the release suid. In
about a year he had worked his
way from reporter to editor of
the publication and was sent to
the navy school of journalism
at the Great Lakes training sta
tion where he completed a 12
week course in newswriting,
photography, layout and make
up. He was graduated eighth in
a class of 27.
He returned to Hawaii recent
ly and resumed the editorship
of the four-page tabloid. Sut
ton's navy rating is journalist-seaman.
BUILDING VOLUME DOWN
Medford's dollar volume of
building for March $301,700
was a decline of 41 per cent from
the amount of building reported
here in March, 1049. Building
permit values at that time
amounted to $508,410.
Principal items that boosted
the total of last month's building
volume here were a S25.000
clinic building and a $31,000 ad
dition to a cold storage building.
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FCC Announces Radio
Operator Examination
Portland, Apr. 25 Federal
communications commission
field engineering and motoring
division here has announced ra
dio operator examinations to be
held at the Klamath Falls city
council chambers on Saturday,
May 13.
Two exams will be at 8:30
a.m.: radiotelegraph, all classes
code and written examinations,
and radiotelephone, first and sec
ond class. Class A and B ama
teur tests are set for 11 a.m.
There will be no variation in
schedule.
Pens, pencils, ink and rulers
must be furnished by applicants.
Those desiring code tests must
bring telephone receivers. Appli
cation forms are available from
the FCC office, 307 Fitzpatrick
building, Portland 5.
Zinfandel grapes are widely
grown in California.
Employment Jump
Shows Improvement
In Labor Picture
Washington. Apr. JS .UPV-:
The bureau of labor statistics re-j
ported today that industrial and ;
commercial t m p I o y incnl in
creased by 636.000 brtwwn mUt
February and mid-March t re
flect a "continued improvement"
in the labor piciure.
The mid-March total was 42.
323.000 workers.
The bureau said about hall the
increase resulted from the end
of the soft coal strike with the
remainder, for the most part,
coming in manufacturing and re
tail trade industries.
"A significant factor in this
year's favorable trend." the re
Dort said, "is the record-breaking
pace in residential construc
tion." Creates Secondary Demand
It said the home-building boom
has created "secondary demand
in furniture, household appli
ances, television, building ma
terials and a host of related in
dustries." Although the mid-March total
was 600,000 below the figure of
a year ago, the bureau said, the
cumulative gain since January
was somewhat under 100.000,
compared with a 500.000 drop
luring the same period last year.
The gain from February to
March, it said, "reflected a con
tinued improvement in the na
tion's employment that first be
I came evident at the start of the
i year."
WHY STUDENTS QUIT
I Pullman, Wash. (U.R) Money
problems and low grades are the
major reasons students drop out
of school at Washington State
college here. In a survey. 16.5
per cent of 1.000 students polled
cited financial difficulties for
leaving school. Low grades were
named by 15.3 per cent; mar
riage. 8.6 per cent; poor living
conditions, 7.1, and full-time
jobs. 6.8.
MAKE MIND BETS
Ithaca, N. Y. U.R) Students
in a class at Cornell university
know what it's like to play
around with a lot of money. Each
has $10,000 to invest but only
on paper. As part of their "cor
poration" course, they make
mythical transactions on the
New York stock exchange, curb
exchange or the bond market to
learn whether they are good investors.
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