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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 2, 1954)
This Year's Pear Crop Under Half That of Last Year The 1954 Jackson county pear crop was less than half the size of the 1953 crop, Shelby Tuttle, general manager of Southern Oregon Sales, told members of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce yesterday at a mem bership rouhdtable luncheon at the Jackson hotel. This year's crop amounted to only 43.5 per cent of the amount produced last year, Tuttle said. He pointed out that this decrease meant a 45 per cent cut in the pear industry payroll for 1954. Chief cause of the drop in pear production in this area for 1954 was the destructive freeze which hit the Rogue valley the night of April 30 and May 1. Others Speak Other speakers at the meeting included Mayor D. L. Flynn and Don McNeil, manager of the chamber. They outlined progress of planning for the proposed Medf ord-KlamSth Falls highway. Mrs: Bert Pree gave' a report on the possibility of new industries coming to Medf ord and vicinity. Vic Milnes, chairman of the chamber's membership commit tee, conducted the meeting, the first of its kind held here. Wal ter Garner, chamber president, expressed his approval of the plan for the weekly meetings. Radio Operators Talk Defense Plans Radio operators of the Jack son County Civil Defense coti trol center met last night to dis cuss revising the alerting call system in use through the county. Attending were Earl Casebolt, Del Wright, Rid Richards, alter nate radio officer; Capt. Marella Luschen, commanding officer of the Medf ord Civil Air .patrol squadron, and Elmer Luschen, of the CAP. J. C. Winkler, former ly with the CAP squadron here, was a visitor. New quarters are needed for the control center, according to Dwight J. Albright, control cen. ter chief, and are now being sought by Col. Charles Stafford, county civil defense director. PATUXENT : - mm. . GREAT ICELAND BRIT NEWFOUNDLAND ATLANTIC OCIAH? &,AZR1 n aec.x msw PORT LYAUJIY MAP SPOTS CRASH One of greatest air-sea rescue missions in history scoured a 120 mile wide stretch of Atlantic Ocean (dotted line) from Patuxent, Md., (1) to the Azores (2) in search of a Navy Super-Constellation presumed to have crashed with 42 persons aboard. The plane, enroute from Patuxent to Port Lyautey in North Africa, carried 21 passengers and 21 crew members. Thousands With Insomnia Sound All Night-Awake Fresh " Users of new safe Dormin Sleeping Capsules have found as you can blessed sound sleep. Dormin has been clinically tested for safety and . is guaranteed non-habit forming. The world of medicine progresses to why tolerate a sleepless night that makes you tired and worn out the . next day. Now for only 6Vc per capsule you can find the rest you want. Dormin costs but $2.25 for 36 capsules so safe no prescription is needed and Dormin must help ' you or your money back! Accept ; no substitute. -There la No Substitute For- SLEEPING CAPSULES nrnnn JUUU Former Seaman Confesses Killing Pennsylvania Child ' Johnstown, Pa. (U.PJ A for mer merchant seaman with a sex crime record admitted to police today that he killed six-year-old Karen Mauk, who was abducted and suffocated as she made a pre-Halloween "trick or treat" tour near her home Thurs day night. Cambria county District At torney Fred Fees said that Harry Gossard, 39, had been booked on a charge of suspicion of murder. Body Found by Posse ' Karen's nude body was found by a posse Friday morning on the rain-swept hillside of a ceme tery seveaal miles from her home in nearby Conemaugh. The scat tered pieces of here colorful Halloween costume lay nearby An autopsy disclosed she bad not been criminally assaulted, but indicated she was the victim of a sex deviate. Gossard was arrested Monday in Philadelphia on a tip to police. He had lived with his mother in Conemaugh since returning there last May. Fees said Gossard has a rec ord of five previous offenses, including sex crimes. Jobless Negro Confesses The slaying of blonde, curly haired Karen was one of three sex crimes reported in Western Pennsylvania last weekrst?i,i -j" At Aliquippa, Pa., Elijah Thompson Jr., 22, , a jobless Negro laborer, confessed he kill ed 16-year-old Helen Bryant by crushing her skull with a rock as she walked along a lonely path near her home Oct. 25. Thompson gave no motive for the killing, but police said an attempted criminal assault had been made on the victim. A 12-year-old girl was crimi nally assaulted Sunday night at New Castle, Pa. 'tSBm WOFfllilYoWs, JiaSTEVEHSagr California ranks first in air plane production and third in ship building. The Wood Boats ... The finest of the Douglas firs standing tall and true in the up land forests were logged down to provide keel timbers for the hulls of minesweepers and sub chasers in the big war. Lesser grades of lumber made boats for the island landings, from the Aleutians to Rabaul. Common boards with spike knots, pitch pockets, stain and wane were worked into mountains of box and crating lumber to pack sup plies ior the invasion. Construc tion lumber was piled on the beaches of blood and sand. Kenneth Dodson's novel, "Away All Boats," now in its eleventh printing, is a powerful story of the great Pacific battles in which wood was an humble servant of the fighting men who brought home the victory. The novel is a recital of the voyages and adventures of an attack transport, the Belinda, whose main battery was not guns but 32 boats. That is, not steel but timber. "The entire mission of the Belinda," Dodson's Captain Win- throp Gedney says, "is to carry a combat-loaded battalion land ing team of some 1400 officers and men, and to land them, to gether with all necessary equip ment, as it were in the laps of the enemy." The Navy Did Well ... :."Away jUI, .Boats" is a. story with innumerable points oi dis tinction. Its statements of tech nical and other factual items are as convincing as the kick of a mule. Their source is a per sonal experience that earned nine battle stars on a real attack transport. , The good in garbage grinder, seamen, petty officers, ensign, chaplain, captain, admiral, is made to shine forth from the evils of war, which are simply the evils of mankind itself. The work of the Navy is their com mon good, the salvation of all, as Dodson shows it. ' . Andhere, for the first time in my reading of war stories, the Notice to Prospective Irrigators Talent Division, Rogue River Basin Reclamation Project, Oregon Persons having land not presently irrigated from Talent Irrigation District's system, but which can be served by the District from its laterals or extensions of laterals other than the Fredrick and Upper West Laterals, are invited to fill out the following questionnaire and mail to Talent Irrigation District, Talent, Oregon, before November 15, 1954. If more space is required, please use additional sheets. Name in full I ..... ..... ........ .. ............. .... Address . . ............. Location: Sec Twp Range Total acres in farm or tract :........;. .......... ..... How many acres of dry land do you wish to irrigate How many acres having a private water right do you wish to irrigate from proposed Talent Irrigation Dist. system NOTE This is only for the purpose of securing information as to the total acreage of new lands which will be served by the new Talent Project. Filling out of this form does not commit the landowner to anything. Actual signing up of new lands to be included "will come later. I endless labor of the military chaplain is told. Chaplain Hughes is no hero, no heel, no dope, no miracle man in this story. He is simply a Navy man who works like hell. And there you have it, the fighting Navy that was a work ing team all through the great war. "Away All Boats," is, in its life blood and human spirit, more a Navy product than a literary creation. It is a book to build faith in our nation's Navy of today. Kamikaze ... As an adventure narrative it is a work of art. The story's movement is from battle to bat tle. One climax carries on to another with electric suspense. The terror and tragedy of Kami kaze, a force of attack, on our ships that was vitally more dev astating than we knew, surges and thunders through the final 50 pages. Auuovii a v x v A va vv-ovi. iiivv. writing is faithful even in the mort dramatic passages with the realism of his technical knowl edge. He tells of the terror of fire and blast from the "divine wind" that struck the Belinda, in these terms: " . . . a sputter and crackle of improperly exploded flak as a 60-round cylinder of 20-mm am munition fell into the flames from the deck above and went off like a string of firecrackers. Somebody screamed with pain. There were men moving in on the fire, not waiting for a cap tain's orders . . ." That is how Dodson does it. A fiery story-teller who never forgets the facts. Scarlet Fever Listed With Health Department Three cases of scarlet fever, two in Central Point and one in Medford, were among 13 cases of communicable disease report ed to the county health depart ment last week.: :. Others were four' cases of chicken pox, all in Central Point; one of pneumonia in Ash land; three of influenza, one in Central Point and two in Med ford; one of whooping cough in Jacksonville, and one of Vincents angina in Medford. Brothers Purchase Ashland Car Firm Ashland S&W Motors here has been sold to L. B. (Lund) Jones, Medford, and his brother, Myers D. Jones," Areata, Calif., and will be known as Ashland Motors, Inc., it was announced today. L. B. Jones has been with Dean's Pontiac in Medford for the past yesr. He and his wife and three children who have lived at 1908 Stratford ave., will move to Ashland' soon, as will his brother and family. The company has the Buick and Pontiac franchises from General Motors. Former owners were Joe Sinko and Ray Wynne, who with other employees will remain with the firm for the present. Tuesday, November 2, 1954 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THIRTEEN Einsenhower Repeats Cordon Endorsement Salem U.R) President Eisenhower repeated his in dorsement of Sen. Guy Cordon's Republican campaign for reelec tion to his U.S. ' Senate post yesterday in a 'telegram to Gov. Paul Patterson. The telegram expressed the President's hope that Oregon's "fine Republican congressional candidates" would be elected, and offered "good luck and best wishes" to Gov. Patterson. . "Your cooperation in bring ing the issues of the campaign to the people of Oregon has my hearty approval," ' JMr. , Eisen hower's wire said. . . . -, . Man Repents for Theft Of Left-Footed Shoes Ludlow, Vt. U.R) A man who stole two left-foot shoes a long time ago repented by send ing a letter with $20 to the chief of police in Ludlow. "Please use this money for worthy charities so I may be at peace with the world," said the letter which was signed "A. J. E." and postmarked Ludlow. The writer explained that while a member of the CCC 20 years ago he snitched two shoes from a display, outside a store in Ludlow. Upon reaching a se cluded spot, he said, the thief learned that both shoes were for the left foot. He wrote that he dumped them in a trash can. London Dock Men " Vote To Resume Work London OJ.R) Wildcat" waterfront strikers voted, today, to resume work tomorrow, end ing a walkout that had pulled some 5000 longshoremen off the, docks here. The back to work vote check ed the spread of a new strike., that had been developing along' the lines of the walkout that paralyzed . major British ports last month. . The new strike,-touched off by a dispute about non-union-truck drivers, began yesterday a few hours after 44,000 long shoremen ended a 27-day walk--out protesting compulsory over time. ... ;i :" Court Records POLICE COURT V Richard Joe Melster. 411 Lozler lane. reckless driving, $90 bail forfeited. cnester w. vreeiand, James H. Riehtimire. Fred Fletcher Starnes and Clyde Thurmond Mouser. violations of basic rule, $10 each. jonn ju ijaruei, unnecessary noise (muffler), $10. James Vincent McGowan. failure to stop at red light, $5. Robert Allen Griess. disregarding red light. $5. . Beverly jean LaComb. failure to yield right-of-way, $10. Colonel Johnson Savior, illegal left turn, $5. Charles Grant Campbell.' no oper ator's license, $5. - John Great, narked in no nark ing zone, $5. ' . mcie m. spangier ana o. j. ial both, improper parking, $2.50 each. Arnold W. Wilkinson, parked on wrong side of street, $2.50. Kenneth Wayne Williams, expired vehicle license, $5. DISTRICT COURT Walter W. Reinschmidt. failure to stop at red light, $10. Roy v. Deutscnman. overwidth load. $10. tan r. jjeiiree. overload. S93. Tom B. Scott, overload. $1750. Kenneth R. Cobbs, failure to stop at stop sign, $10. wudut .Benson. xauure to stop at stop sign, $10. Roy J. Holioway, overload. $56. Charles L. Brewer, overload. $29. David D. Legg, overload. $29. Charles F. Keen, overload. $66. Dwain A. Richardson, no motor ve hicle license, $5. Sidney G. Knox, violation of basic rule. $20. William J. Grosslin. violation - of basic rule, $20. Clement J. Niehaus. failure to stop at stopign, $10. George M. ueatn. overwidth. 510: no oversize permit, $6; overlength, $15. Lloyd S. Beers, overwidth. $lo. Vilas V. Hastings, overload. $1150. Noel M. Pence, overload, $47. . Cleo Carl Epps, overload. $35. James W. Stewart, overload. $30.50. Richard A. Saltmarsh, overwidth, $10. ........ Walter C. Peterson, overlength, $10; no oversize permit, $6. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS Harold LeRoy Ells, 25, Medford, and Eileen Davine Valline, 17. Applegate. Billy LeRoy Toews, 20. and Sarah Effie Bishop. 19, both Medford. Guy F. Kelly, 47. Cloverdale. Calif, and Margaret - Jeanne . O'Malley, 34, Woodland, Calif. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday : 10 ajn. Monday for Monday; other days 530 previous day. C HUBBARD BROS. Always Have a Complete Stock ."v'-: of mm Model 100 -rtftV WITH THE ROOTER Now you can tool wood like the big millwork shops and furniture makers . . . give that professional finish to your home work shop projects. Guild Router offers all the features of the commercial models at a price you can easily afford. A good production tool for carpenters, too for hinge butts, inside trim, and many millwork operations. MAKES Alt THESE CUTS. ..AMD MOttt at a el.- .li .iii 9 -jp U SEE THE AMAZING NEW GUILD ROUTER ON DISPLAY HERE Wit i Upholsfery Fabrics' come MIRACLE CLEAN Glamorene. 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