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21 Boy Scouts Top Mt. McLoughlin In Midnight Hike ; Twenty - one Medford Boy Scouts took part in the first or ganized midnight climb of Mt. McLaughlin recently, according to Tom Gail, correspondent for the group. "The boys were led by Martin Johnson, who was making his 14th ascent. All the boys were experienced hikers, but they had never before climbed the moun tain with full packs. Each pack weighed about 25 pounds. Disappointment ridge, so call ed because it appears from be low to be the summit, was reach ed at 9 p.m., 2 IS hours after the boys started climbing. They set of signal flares from there and were answered from Four Mile Lake and Lake O'Woods. The scouts set off flares every 15 min utes so the people watching be low would always see one. Four-Hour Climb The scouts reached the top at 10:30, having covered the six mile climb in four hours. De spite a 30-mile wind, they stood watching the sight below for a long time, Gail "said. ' The scouts slept on the moun taintop, where the temperature was below freezing. The -descent began at 9:30 a.m. following breakfast. The scouts signed an autogaph book and left it there to be signed by future climbers. Gail said they all agreed the view was the most beautiful sight they had ever seen Insurance Company Opens Office Here , The insured savings and in vestment department of Nation al Reserve Life Insurance com pany, Topeka, Kan., is opening an agency in Medford. Klamath Falls, Ashland, Grants Pass and Yreka also will be served by the new Medford district. - Milton O. Larson has been named district manager of the new office. He holds a law de gree from the University of Ala bama and a bachelor of foreign trade degree from the American Institute for Foreign Trade, Phoenix, Ariz. He also attended the University of Wisconsin and the University of Florence, in Florence, Italy. He is a veteran of World War II, having served three years in North Africa and Italy. Before and immediately following the war he was associated with West Publishing company, St. Paul, Minn. For the past five years he has been chief of registration and rehabilitation of the Veter ans Administration, Sioux Falls, S.D. Mrs. Larson is a graduate of St. Olaf college, Northfield, Minn., and has done graduate work at the University of Min nesota. The Larsons and. their three-year-old son will live at 23 South Barneburg road. ' Egyptian Swimmer Crosses Channel Folkestone, England (U.R) Adbel Monem Abdu, 27-year-old Egyptian long distance swimmer succeeded Monday on his "lucky third" attempt to swim the Eng lish Channel. The Egyptian, who twice be fore has failed to swim the chan nel, landed at 10:30 a.m. Monday on Shakespeare Beach near here after 15' hours fighting high waves and tides. ' - - CHARGES TOTS' MINDS were being poisoned against estranged father resulted in Chicago Judge Lupe permitting DetectiTe Frank Raucci to take children "by force if necessary" on outings each Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. Maria Raucci (holding Frank, 3) argued children didn't want to go with dad. (International Soundphoto) Radioactive Waste Buried In Physicist's Back Yard By BOB PARKIN St. Louis (U.R) Only an atomic physicist would dare have radioactive waste materials bur ied in his own backyard. Such is the case at Washing ton University where Chancellor Arthur Holly Compton, one of the foremost scientists in the field of atom-smashing, throws open the grounds surrounding his home to the burial about every two months. Problem Illustrated The process illustrates one of the pressing problems of the atom age: how to get rid of par tially radioactive solids and liq uids left over from smashing the atom. A. A. Schulke, engineer, in charge of the university's giarit, 80 - ton cyclotron, said the job really is not dangerous, but most people are timid about the prox "imity of radioactivity. Not so with Mr. Compton, one of the men whose research led to the A-bomb during World War II. Schulke said there's no more to housecleaning at the cyclotron than there is to a housewife's cleaning out the attic. Liquids Easy Liquids are the eastiest to get rid of, he said. Just dilute the materials in a carrier which can absorb them. Metal, dust and powders are a problem. 1 Radioactivity may wear off in a matter of seconds or may hang on for a thousand Grueling Defense Practice Completed Salem (U.R) State Civil De fense agency personnel were resting up Monday after a gruel ing week-end of mock war. . The exercise, designed to test the nation's civilian prepared ness in event of real enemy ac tion, simulated war defense ac tivity involving eight western states. Civil Defense Director Jack Hayes said between 75 and 100 persons participated in opera tions centered in state civil de fense headquarters. years. That's why the cycltron can't sell its old metal for re-use by most business concerns. "Suppose a . geiger counter manufacturer bought it,' Schulke said. "They'd have built in reaction." So every two months the eerie burial ritual takes place. Men clad in respiratory masks, rubber gloves and boots and white laboratory frocks trudge off to Compton's house with tall garbage pails of waste. One gingerly lowers recept acles of material into a pit while the other keeps tab on radioac tivity with a geiger counter. Babson Offers Scholarship Plan Roger W. Babson, who has a weekly column in The Mail Tri bune, has offered a unique free scholarship in his new college at Eureka, Kans. A student may combine col lege experience covering six weeks, with later home study covering 26 weeks. Thus, through leave of absence, the person can continue to hold his or her job. This Utopian plan of education covers salesmanship, marketing surveys, economics, journalism and other subjects paving the way to becoming a successful business executive, Babson said The college is small because Babson insists on accepting only young people of character, en ergy and ambition. The scholar ship includes full tuition and room for six weeks on the cam pus; and full tuition for the home study covering the bal ance of the year. The student need only supply books and meals while on the campus. This means "studying while earning" and getting personally acquainted with instructofs be fore beginning home studies. A reader may get a free catalogue and further details by writing Roger W. Babson, care of The Mail Tribune, or Gordon M. Trim, Babson Park, Mass. I Ufv . j koto a v . 0i my vital tosl,...-v ... l'1" - V rvtO- . jmy morning rresn gives you in. Cfer Famous "E" Formula. Reach for osk tor Morning Fresh ! AT YOUR GROCERS YMfl mm Kaiser Sees Boat Tampering Attempt To Take His Life Lake Tahoe, Calif. (U.R) Mil lionaire industrialist Henry J. Kaiser said some of his enemies possibly Communists tried to murder him by tampering with two of his high-powered speed boats. ' . Thirty . minutes before Kaiser was to Rave piloted one of the 169-mile-an-hour boats in the Lake Tahoe Gold Cup race Sun day the tampering was dis covered. Propeller Shaft Cu Kaiser's executive assistant, Robert C. Elliott, said the pro peller shaft of the 32-foot aluminum-hulled Hot Metal had been sawed in two and bolts, nuts and rags had been stuffed into the craft's carburetor and blower. Five gallons of gasoline had been poured into the hull of Kaiser's other speedboat, Elliott said. Both speedboats were entered in the races. "This was a murderous at tempt upon my life," Kaiser said. "Pouring gasoline in a boat is just plain, cold murder as far as I'm concerned. "It could well be 4he Commu nist influence. Some of these people have been very critical of me. Some of them have even said publicly they wanted me elimi nated. This is a Russian idea," he said vehemently. "We in American don't have ideas like this." Explosion Possible Elliott said the propeller shaft of the Hot Metal would have pushed through the deck of the boat probably killing any occu pants as soon as it was started The scattered gasoline and the stuffed carburetor and blower might have exploded, setting fire to the boats, he said. Tahoe City Constable Harry Johanssen said, the tampering may have been the work of someone who'd become fed up with the noise the high-powered boats have been making in prep aration for the races. r t -sr i BIRTHDAY PORTRAIT Her Royal Highness Princess Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise, daughter of Queen Elizabeth II. blew, out both candles on her birthday cake with the first puff at a small birthday party in Balmoral, Scot land. Princess Anne is shown here in a portrait made for hex birthday. Monday, August 18, 1952 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Around Hollywood Hollywood (U.R) Even the sexy billboards are being cen sored in Hollywood: Actor Gene Evans sighed Monday that a nice big close up of himself had to be painted r i g ht off the posters for 'Park Row' because the caption be neath the pic ture blared in red letters: "Watch Gene die a woman." "I was driving down Sunset Boulevard the other day to show my date the billboard." said the red-haired actor. "The girl said Aline Mosby Evans manhan- Optometrists Plan Seminar Tuesday An. eduoational seminar on vis ual care of the pre-school child Tuesday at the Rogue Valley Country club is expected to draw optometrists from all over southern Oregon and northern California. The seminar will be conducted by Dr. A. M. Skeffington, direc tor of the Optometric Extension program's Graduate Cli.iic foun dation. He has long been recog nized as one of the nation's fore most authorities on the psycho physiological processes of vis ion. Yearly for the, last 12 years he has grouped together top scien tists to discuss problems relating to vision. These problems are then discussed by optometrists at Ohio State" university. In addition to this meeting in Medford, Dr. Skeffington will hold two other annual meetings in Portland. Masked Bandits Rob Beaverton Market of Cash Beaverton (U.R) The Wash ington county sheriff's office said Monday two masked men and a woman companion held up the Columbia food market here late Sunday night and es caped with between $6000 and $7000. The three entered the store at about 11 p.m. flashing guns and announcing that "we mean busi ness." Employees in Cooler They herded two employees, identified as a Mr. and Mrs. Cowgen, into a meat cooler and locked the door after telling the pair they would call the man ager from Corvallis. One of the robbers wore a green mask and the other a woman's stocking over his fea tures, the employees reported. The Cowgens were released when- the manager received et telephone call from an unidenti fied person. He was unable to trace the source of the call. Dead line on Classified Ads: 5:30 p.m. for following day; 10 a.m Mon day: noon Saturday for Sunday a.m By ALINE MOSBY United Press Correspondent we ought to go back to get a camera and take a picture of the poster to send home to my moth er. But by the time we got back with the camera," he said, "the picture of me was gone. "I called the producer, Samuel Fuller, and he said some people had objected so he had to change the entire poster." Billboard People Object The billboard now reads, "Park Row" the movie with guts!" The movie-makers, added the actor, originally wanted to use the tag line, "Blood . . . Ink . . . and Guts!" for the picture about early newspaper days. But the billboard people themselves ob jected to that one. ' , The' picture got away with the longest continuous kiss in cellu loid history, though, Evans beamed. In the movie, Evans and Mary Welch play rival newspa per publishers who battle both romantically and business-wise. Censors Complain In one love scene I start kiss ing her hand and go up to Jier mouth. The camera pans by from one of those railings in the news paper office," Evans said. When the censors saw it, they complained the kiss ' was too long. But Fuller pointed out that every time the camera went by one of the bars in the railing, we were out of view and the kiss could have been broken. It never could be proved whether we kissed all that time." Con vicf Pig Tender Returned to Prison Salem U.R) Selmer Mont gomery, 41-year-old convict pig tender at the Oregon state peni tentiary, was recaptured early Monday, a few hours after he had walked away from the pri son annex south of Salem. Montgomery was received from Josephine county in 1951 to serve three years for larceny. 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