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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, Novtmber 11, 1954 Mysteries of Freighter On Sea Bottom Near Solution Copenhagen (U.R) The 200-year-old mysteries of the armed freighter on the sea bot tom off the Danish coast of Ska gen are nearing solution. The recent finding of a Rus sian kopeck coin from 1757 in dicates, occording to experts, that the ship was of Swedish or Rusisan origin. A professional wreck-hunter, Sigurd Dammgaard, 59, is do ing a detective's job on board his ship. Sankt Georg, assisted by his son, Siguard, 24, and a diver, Borge Bohus. Beside his investi gation on behalf of the museums and historians, he runs his busi ness, fishing from wrecked ships along the Danish coast tons of Iron and other metals for sale. . Damgaard, known among fish ermen as "the pirate" because, they say, he looks like one, is spending hi3 life exploring wrecks. He knows them all and all about them, and he has made a living out of them for 44 years. Every day when weather per mits, he is fishing materials from the more than 100 wrecks on his " list. - "I shall never be out of work," he said. "The sea bottom is al most oak-planked by s h i p wrecksV' , j The armed freighter now under investigation was hidden for 200 years while the sandy land tongue, belabored by wind and sea, was moving about 1,500 meters from east to west, thus passing over the ship which ap peared on the other side. The ship is not yet identified, but its secrets are being wrested from it, one by one. The kopeck museum of Copenhagen, with coin is one of the clues that might lead to indentification. The 1757 coin, worth about half a cent, bears the initials of Em press Elizabeth of Russia, who reigned 1741-62. In the earlier part of her reign she made war against Sweden, and, as the load of the wrecked ship mainly con sists of war materials, experts in dicate the ship was Swedish or Russian, probably the latter. It was, however, no warship; more likely a transport carrying fort ress equipment. The shipment includes, besides tons of gun ammunition, dozens of iron-made fire-bombs that have much in common with fire bombs used by the British Navy during the bombardment of Cop enhagen in 1807. Damgaard has picked up a gun marked "anno 1735" and several other things, all sent to the arms which he cooperates without compensation. This summer he hopes to go after a big treasure in gold sup posed to have been on the Brit ish ship St. George which was wrecked and sank with 1,700 men on Christmas night, 1812, off the western coast of Den mark. More than 10 years ago, after .having checked with the British Admiralty, which con firmed his information, he found the vessel, half buried in the sand. According to a story told by several survivors a chest contain ing gold went down with the ship. Every year Damgaard has inspected the St. George wreck, and this summer he will make an attempt to get into its cabins to seek the chest. NEW FORDS SHOWN The 1955 model Ford automobiles, including the new Fairlane series. All models feature wrap-around wind- CLIFF'S MEATS 608 East Main St. Phone 2-6805 Open until 6:30 p.m. Week For your protection and as- Days. Till 7 p.m. Saturdays, surance of Quality we soil Closed Sundays, and Holi- only Inspected and U.S. days. . Graded Meats. Order Your Thanksgiving Poultry NOW! Don't Forget Double Northern Stamps with Tour Holiday Poultry '' fa-- ... .'.t.. -.jI. a ... j - ,iiv,va,iivii4mv;) i shields, and other features of design. Three engines, two V-8s and a six, are offered. ? 1955 Model Fords On Display Friday; 1955 FORD TRUCKS The Ford Motor company in its 1955 models are offering 24 series of trucks, with a total of 190 models. The tandem axle "Big Job" is shown above. 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Two huge trailer trucks with their heavily padded cargo make the journey in two and a half days. Since drivers, by regula tion, may only be on the road 10 hours a day, the trucks had to maintain a 30 -mile an hour average despite occasional traffic tie-ups, stops for lunches and un predictable weather. ; - Loading the pianos took 16 hours . and 300 heavy double pads, collectively long enough to cover a tKird of an acre. Ray mond Schmidt, 38, a piano-moving expert supervised a series of complicated maneuvers at the factory in which the pianos are wrapped and stacked on trucks without marring the finish. They had to be tightly taped against inevitable jarring during long trek. The 1955 models of Ford au tomobiles will go on display to morrow. Crater Lake Motor com pany will be showing them dur ing the day and will stay open in the evening to permit others to view the new cars. An entirely new line, the Fair lane series, .will be introduced with the '55 models, which also come in three other series. Much of the styling developed by the "Thunderbird" personal car ap pears in the new Fords. All will retain many, of the characteris tics which Ford has developed over the years; but the new cars have wrap-around windshields, and new and lower silhouettes. First Under 5 Feet The Crown Victoria, a new model, is the first Ford sedan under five feet in overall height. Three new engines are being offered, a high-compression Y block V-8; another Y-block V-8, and an I-block six. Dual exhausts to provide extra power, are stan dard, on all Fairlane V-8 and station wagon models. , Integrated air conditioning and heating systems are being introduced in the , 1955, models. The system will be installed by dealers. , j., . The. new cars have concave grills, composed of a plated grid. Chrome . trimline starts on top of each front fender at the headlamp, and follows the curve of the fender down, then sweeps backward to the tail : lights. Hooded headlights- give' the -ef fect of foiVard thrust, and rear fenders , form a reverse angle above larger tail lamps. A flat ter hood and longer rear deck is featured. '' --'V Other new features include improved Fordomatic transmis sion; larger brakes; "turbo ac tion" sparkplugs which burn off carbon deposits, and others. Tubeless tires are standard equipment. Brazil, Ind (U.R) When Emil Glineur Sr., 80,, collapsed in his chair from apoplexy, his dog, Bubbles, ran to an adjoining bedroom and pawed at the cov ers of a bed until Glineur's son the 1 awakened and went to his fath er's aid. J xK 'Wfljy&fiV himself and drink ' Hoppy's favorite .XC:;V4 U Mr V rfSFS : you the kind of energy: Hoppy .has. 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Messen ger, associate professor of psy chology at Southern Oregon college, discussed the emotion al problems capable of existing in a classroom, factors that could multiply them, and methods of dealing with them by both the teacher and child guidance clin ic. . , Mrs. Walter Bish, chairman of the "mental health committee, conducted a discussion of par ent study groups active in Jack son County. How they are started, how parents could be urged to join or form new ones, the aims for parents to meet, discuss and study mutual prob lems of child development, and the relation of the study group to school PTA's, were items dis cussed. . " A list of resource material used by these study groups was made, and .included newspaper clippings, magazine articles, par-1 ticularly the PTA magazine, study courses made available by the public - health department, films, and professional persons such as teachers, nurses, doc tors and ministers. Miss Dorothy Husky, Jackson county health educator, present ed sample displays of study courses and pamphlets on child development and mental health that are available. The training program was concluded with an nouncement of Retarded Chil dren's week, which begans Nov. 17, and the film forum to be held in the county during January.'.-. Major Disaster Areas Declared in Alaska Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower today declared as ; major disaster areas ' those parts of Alaska "adversely af fected as a result of the disas trous fishing season of 1954." j t Mr. Eisenhower telegraphed Alaskan Governor B. F. Heintz leman that he , is "deeply con cerned with the hardship and suffering caused some Alaskans" and is allocating "such funds as are necessary" for federal aid. 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