Medford mail tribune., August 21, 1953, Image 15

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SHOKT EXILE Wearing dark glasses, Shah Mohammed Ren
Pahlevi of Iran and bis wife, Soraya arrive in Rome, Italy, after
forced exile by Iran's dictatorial Premier Mohammed Mossadegh.
Ia Rome the shah received the news of an Army coup by loyal
Army and police that overthrew Mossadegh. If ouster of the premier
can be made to stick, Shah Pahkvi will return to power.
Four of Biggest Guns of
Battleship Tirpitz Raised
Tromsoe, Norway U.R)
After an unprecedented hard
winter one of the world's most
peculiar salvage works was reJ
sumed here.
The salvage company, Hoevd
ing Skipsopphugging'AS, began
by bringing to the surface four
of the biggest guns from the
former German battleship Tir
pitz. The guns, each weighing
150 tons, had been buried in six
meters of mud on the bottom of
Tromsoe Fiord off the island
of Kvaloya (Whale Island)
By using a German floating
crane the only one in Scan
dinavia capable of taking up to
200 tons they were moved
to a rock-bottomed part of the
fjord, where they will remain
till it has been decided what to
do with them.
Sunk by RAF
The Tirpitz was sunk in the
fjord Nov. 12, 1944, by British
planes after an earlier attempt
by two British midget sub
marines in the Alta Fjord, far
ther north, had failed.
The huge battleship lay up
side down off Kvaloya for three
years, with its hull sticking 12
meters out of the water. It was
marked as a separate island on
Norwegian maps, and after the
war became a big attraction for
tourists who came to walk on
the bottom of former German
man-of-war.
In 1947 the hull was bought
by Hoevding Skipsopphugging
AS, and the work of salvage
began early in 1948, with the
assistance of German experts.
Twelve of the 32 men now work
ing on the hull are Germans, and
much of the equipment has been
brought from Hamburg.
So far 16,000 tons of steel
have been broken up and sold to
Norwegian iron works, to plants
in the Ruhr district, and to the
Swedish Bofors company, Elec
tric pumps, 60,000 meters of
electric cable and other equip-
fioof Hill Competition
For Eisenhower Museum
Abilene, Kan. (U.R) Eisen
hower Museum may eventually
be Abilene's biggest attraction
for the tourist trade. But it has
competition from Boot Hill.
A committee has gone to work
to restore Boot Hill, famed in
history and fiction as the burial
ground of gunmen who fell in
outlaw battles when. Abilene was
the northern terminal for Texas
cattle trails.
A monument is planned to
the memory of Wild Bill HIckok,
the early marshal of Abilene
who was credited with having
restored order to the Kansas
community.
ment have also been taken from
the hull and sold.
1956 Goal
A . painting of the Tirpitz
which was found was given to
the Royal Norwegian air force,
which presented it to the RAF
as a tribute to the British pilots
who bombed and sank the ship.
The salvage company esti
mates that 40,000 tons of steel
plates ere still left, and they do
not expect work to be concluded
before 1956. Huge quantities of
ammunition still left in the
wreck have been a great prob
lem, although only minor mis
haps have occurred so far.
One of the most difficult op
erations was to bring the guns
to the surface. When the Tir
pitz sank the cannon towers were
flung deep into the mud. The
steel-plated towers were built to
withstand great explosions, and
the divers had much difficulty
in blowing them up to get the
guns free.
Serving as a lighter to bring
the scrap steel from the wreck to
nearby Tromsoe is another form
er man-of-war, the Norwegian
frigate Aalesund. . When salvage
operations are completed, the
Aalesund will be scrapped.
Tickle in Bobby's Hat
Cause for Rapid Action
Porihleven, England (U.R)
Police constable Frank San
dercock, 48, was pedaling his
bicycle along a road near here
when he had a flat tire.
He took off his heavy
bobby's helmet, fixed the flat,
and was rolling along again
when something tickled his
head.
Sandercock removed his
helmet again and looked in
side. He found a 15-inch
Adder. Britain's only poison
ous snake.
"I have a good crop of hair."
Sandercock said later. "I tup
poe that's what saved me."
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TABLE ROCK ROAD
Opposite Midway Auction
Phone: Central Pt. 41x3
did you know?
That for Value, Service, Qualify and Satisfaction you art
invited to bring your prescriptions to McLain's, your
Professional Pharmacy.
Prescriptions delivered free within city limits
or immediate vicinity at any time and promptly
McLain's Drug Centre
Brophy Bid No. 8 North Central Ave.
Mehfin Peterson, Reg. Ph., Manager
Richard Sherrill, Reg. Ph.-Wayne Mack, Reg. Ph., Prop.
Phone 2-7113 Open dairy from
Night Emergency f 8:30 a.m. to
Phone 2-2701 or frAiQ 10:30 p,m
2-8330 or jA& Sundays and
2-7305 e-BTO , Holidays.
10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
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MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1953
Pages 1-6
Joe Poggi Indicted
Burglary Charge
Salem U.PJ The Marion
county grand jury has indicted
Joe Poggi, recently released
from the Oregon state peniten
tiary after serving what proved
to be an illegal sentence, on
a charge of burglary not in a
dwelling.
Poggi is charged with enter
ing the Cottage Street grocery
here recently after the store had
been closed for the night.
Poggi was recently released
from the prison after the courts
held he bad served nearly 20
years on an illegal sentence as
a habitual criminal.
LEARNING OF HOPE by Paul Henry Haley, 6, Denver, victim of
Incurable cancer, that he might see President in person, Mr!
Elsenhower calls on lad who wears cowboy clothes as he plays
with new set of trains received later In the day. (InUrnatoonml)
'Open Highway' Leads
In Traffic Deaths
Salem (U.R) The "Open
Highway" is the scene of four
fmes more Oregon traffic
deaths than the congestion of
city streets, traffic records show
ed today.
The State Traffic Safety div
ision said 80 per cent of the 460
victims of fatal accidents last
year died in mishaps that took
place outside the limits of any
incorporated city or town. More
than three-fourths of the death
dealing smash-ups were trace
able to driver error, a factor
also noted most frequently in
city fatalities.
Excessive speed is listed as
the most common driver mistake
in rural crashes.
Con)ir.'jn'isf Official Said Allsck VtcHm
Panmunjom, Korea UJ9
The Communists freed 450 Al
lied war prisoners yesterday to
push "Operation Big Switch "past
the halfway mark, and then
charged that a Communist Red
Cross official was "insulted and
attacked" in South Korea.
Among the 89 Americans
freed was a Congressional Med
al of Honor winner, Japanese
American Sgt Hiroshi Miya
mura, Gallup, N.M., who killed
40 Communists single handedly
in a heroic lone stand before he
was captured.
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