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. ' -
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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.
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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.
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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.
Thomas E. Mclntee and Charles
P. Duncan, who escaped last
Wednesday, are still at large.
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RAY BOONE, Cleveland short
stop, says, "30 days of smoking
convinced me Camels are the
cigarette for steady smoking.
They're mild and taste great!"
VERNON STEPHENS, Red Sox,
has been smoking Camels for
years. He knows why people"
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MIKE GARCIA, Cleveland In
dian hurler, reports, "I've
smoked Camels a long time and
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"PREACHER" ROE, Brooklyn
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ferent leading brands. Says
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DICK SISLER, St. Louis Cardi
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made a hit with me. I'd walk
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HANK BAUER, Yankee out
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BILLY COX, Dodger inficlder,
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