Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, November 12, 1954, Image 10

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Newspaper Page TextTEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE rlday, Nortmbcr 12, 19S4 Mi IP if I! ORDEAL Pale and strained, Bay Village Mayor J. Spencer Hou leaves Cleveland court room after testifying for the State in the first degree mur der trial of Dr. Samuel Shep pard. HoUk testified he pleaded earlier with Dr: Sam to confess his wife's murder "if you did it" but the oste opath insisted he was in nocent No Evidence of Intruder Found In Sheppard Case Cleveland (U.R) The: first police officer to investigate the July 4 bludgeon-murder of Mari lyn Sheppard testified it her hus band's trial today. he found no evidence to support a defense contention that an intruder com mitted the crime. The witness, Bay Village pa trolman Fred Drenkhan, told the results of his investigation in crisp, calm language. Dr. Sam uel H. Sheppard, Tvho once call ed nrenkhan "a frirnrt T pan trust," stared at the witness as the damning evidence . accumu lated. , Sheppard, 30, an osteopath surgeon, is charged with first de gree murder for the Independ ence Day crime. He has denied the charge, and says the murder was committed by a "bushy haired" intruder who beat him up when he answered his wife's cries for help. The state claims Sheppard murdered his wife after they ar gued over his attentions to "oth er women," principally a 24-year-old '. laboratory technician named Susan Hayes. Tti-otilrVifin 0i4 Via ftii n -J ciAAaij aoiu lie xuuiiu ivn -3. Sheppard sprawled on a twin bed. Blood was ' "all over the room" he said.. Drenkhan: said he found no trace of forcible entry into the room. . ' ' - Drenkhan said he knew the Sheppards both professionally and socially. "I feel the relationship be tween them as normal as be tween any man and wife," he said. "I'd say it was about like myself and my wife:'' -. To another question, Drenk han said he had never seen Shep pard lose his temper "get mad .or lose his head." One of the state's key wit nesses, Dr. Lester Hoversten, prepared to tell for the. first time in court of "other women" in Sheppard's life. Passenger Train Jumps Tracks at Nashua Station Nashua, N. H. (U.R) A Mon treal to Boston passenger train was derailed in Union Station here today, killing at least one person and injuring 23 others in the twisted wreckage of over turned cars. The Boston & Maine Railroad eight-car train, the Red Wing, was thundering down a straight away into the bustling station when, without warning, the cars toppled over with a deafening roar. ' . -. Engines, One Car Upright Only two back to back diesel engines and a rear baggare car remained upright. The other cars fell over on their sides or were tilted at grotesque angles. Mrs. Mary Buckley of Man chester, N. H., was killed when she was pinned beneath, an over turned coach. She was taking her daughter, Catherine, 11, to Children's Medical Center at Boston for treatment. The girl was injured and was taken to a hospital. Tracks were ripped and twist ed and piled spaghetti-like over awide" area. Mail bags were strewn about. The ground was covered with fuel oil from the engines. Near Express Office The head engine came to a halt at an oblique angle within '25 yards of the Railway Express of fice at the station. The train left Montreal at 8:25 last night and was due in Bos ton at 8:25 a.m. today. It was on schedule into Union Station when it jumped the. rails. "The first thing I knew my car was flipping over," said head conductor Harry Sanborn. "Then it was all hysteria. I was tossed around, but not hurt. He said all other crew mem bers also escaped serious injury. Strauss Says Weapons Program Unaffected Washington U.R) Chairman Lewis L. Strauss of the Atomic Energy Commission testified to day the atomic weapons pro gram is expanding at an unpre cedented rate and has not been hurt by the Dixon-Yates contro versy. Testifying before the congress ional Atomic Energy Committee on the controversial power con tract signed yesterday, Strauss was asked about the effect of the issue on the weapons program. "There has never been a de gree of expansion in our produc tion comparable to that which we are presently enjoying," he said. ... But, as always, he said, he could not give production fig ures on weapons.'- .- Russia Orders Book On Northwest Resources Portland (U.R) George. Hail ing, general manager of the J. K. Gill company, said today the Russians are apparently shov ing an interest in resources of the Pacific Northwest. Hailing said the firm has had three orders from Soviet Russia recently for a book published by Oregon State College entitled "Atlas of the Pacific Northwest r Resources and Decelopment." Protest Censure Move Washington (U.R) More than 3000 supporters of Sen. Jo seph McCarthy protested the censure move against the Wis consin Republican last night at a rally marked by singing, slogan chants and placard waving. . Yeggs Take Big Safe Containing Some $2000 Portland U.R) 'Burglars to day stole an 800-pound safe be lieved to contain some $2000 in cash from the offices of the Mc Call Oil Distributors here, police reported. It was the third safe burglary here in the last 10 days and detectives said the method of operation appeared the same. WANTED TO LOOK BEST San Francisco U.R) Pretty model Pat James, 21, kept res cuing firemen waiting atop an extension ladder while she re turned to her smoke-filled apart ment for a prized possession her lipstick. Daily Weather Report forecasts' Medford and vicinity Fair tnnivht: Increasing high cloudiness Saturday. Considerable valley foe in the morn ing. Low tonight 34; high Saturday 60. western Oregon t? aruy cloudy witn valley tog tonight; mostly cloudy with occasional rain Saturday. Cooler to night with lows 38-46: hichs Saturday 52-60. Five day forecast, through Wednes day: Western Oregon Recurring rain with temperatures near seasonal nor mal. Lows 36-46; highs 50-56. Total precipitation 1 to IV2 inches in in terior valleys. Northern California Occasional rain over week. end. possibly in north portion in the mid-week. Tempera tures near normal. LOCAL DATA Temperature a year ago today: Highest 58; Lowest 38.. Total monthly precipitation .44 inch. Deficiency for the month .47 inch. Total precipitation since September 1. 1954, 2.19 inches. Deficiency for the season 1.28 inches. Relative humidity 4:30 p.m. yester day 93 4:30 a.m. today 95'i. Observations Taken At 4:30 A.M, 120 Meridian Time High Low Prec, Boise . Boston Chicago Denver . Eureka .... Grants Pass Havre Klamath Falls . Los Angeles Medford New York r Omaha ..... Phoenix . Portland Reno. 1 Eugene Salt Lake San Francisco Seattle 67 57 62 55 55 48 52 49 68 '51 53 64 89 58 . 59 72 60 49 57 56 48 44 35 30 47 38 31 36 61 44 45 41 59 50 . 39 43 50 59 48 42 36 42 .15 .02 1.83 .48 .28 1.02 .38 .38 .33 .01 .26 JO .05 Spokane Washington, D.C. Yakima 56 42 .01 Tomorrow -' Sunset 6:59 a.m. Sunset 4:51 p.m. Portland Livestock Portland (UJ.) Cattle for week 2585. Good fed steers $21-23: commer cial $17-19; good fed heifers $18.50 19.75; utility-commercial heifers $10.50-17; canner-cutter cows $6-8; utility cows $9-11; commercial $12; utility-commercial' bulls $12.50-14. , Calves for week 435. Good-choice vealers $17-21; some $22; good-choice above 40 lb. calves $15.50-16.50. light er weights to $18; utili ty-commercial calves and vealers $8.50-15. Hogs for week 2260. Choice 1-2. 180 235 lb. butchers $20.50-21: choice No. 3 down to $20; heavier and lighter weights $18.50-19.50: choice 350-550 lb sows $15.50-17; lighter weights to $17.50. - Sheep for week 3340. Choice and prime wooled .lambs $1750-18; good choice $16-17; choice-prime . shorn lambs $16.50-17. some $1750 for early shorn: range lambs to $15: 90 lbs. to $16; common-medium light feeders $8 $12: good and. choice slaughter ewes $450-550. Plan for Availability Of Salk Vaccine Told Spokane (U.R) Salk polio vaccine will be made available to 9,000,000 persons next spring if it is found to be effective i preventing paralytic polio, Mrs. Beatrice Fuerst, assistant direc tor of women's activities of the National Foundation for Infan tile Paralysis, told the national Grange today. She said there will Jje no sci entific comment on the effective ness of the nationwide test until the full report is available from Dr. Thomas Francis Jr., who is director of the vaccine evalua tion center at the Univesity of Michigan. If the vaccine is proved ef fective, she said, it will be avail able without charge to all chil dren who participated in last spring's field trials and who did not receive the vaccine, to preg nant women, and to every child in the first grade of school. ' WHAT A LOBLOLLY! Crossett, Ark. (U.R) A lob lolly pine growing near here is more than 150 years old and is 130 feet high and four and one half feet in diameter. It's esti mated the tree "contains-enough lumber for a fjye room house. Wall Street New York (U.R) Industrial stocks came within a whisker of setting an all-time high in another 3,000,000 share session on the Stock Exchange today. The industrial average was less than one per cent from the 381.17 level touched at the close on Sept. 3, 1929, ..the highest stock market in the nation s history. Today's closing prices on se lected stocks: American T(& T 174 Anaconda 43 Vz Chrysler Unquoted Curtiss Wright Unquoted General Electric 44 General Motors 92 Vb Montgomery Ward . 71 Penn R R ... loVi Penney J C 86 Radio ................. 36 Southern Co - Unquoted Southern Pacific -TJnquoted S Oil of Calif Unquoted Texas Gulf Sulphur Unquoted Transamerica Unquoted Tri-Continental Unquoted United Aircraft Unquoted U S Rubber ........ Unquoted U S Steel Unquoted Youngstown ; 6254 Portland Produce Portland frj.P.1 Eggs To retail ers: Grade AA large, 46c doz.: A large, 42-43c doz.; AA medium. 35c: A me dium, 33-34c: A small, 27c doz.; car tons, l-3c additional. - Butter To retailers: AA grade prints. 66c lb.; cartons, 67c: A prints, 66c; cartons. 67c; B prints, 64c. rhwse To retailers: A grade Ched dar Oregon singles 421,i-451,ic: 5-lb. loaves, 46 ,i -49 ,ic. Processed . Ameri can cheese, 5-lb. loaf, 39&-41C lb. Farm Market Trade sources -said today lettuce nrices are due for more increases in the next few weeks with local let tuce about gone and rains complicat ing -harvest in California: tomato prices were firm with good grades 3.85-450 a lug. - Poultry, Rabbits Live Chickens To growers No. 1 aualitv. f.o.b. Portland): Fryers 2 V to 4 ,2 lbs., 25c lb.; at farm. 24c lb.: roast ers, 4 '2 lbs .ana up, za-zic id. i.o.d. Portland; 25-26c at ranch; light hens. 11c; heavy hens, all ts., 13c; old roost ers. 10-llc lb. Dressea cnickens no. l aressea to retailers: Fryers, 37-38c; roasters. 37 39c; light hens. 22-23c; heavy hens, 26-27c: cut uo fryers, all wts- 49-51c: whole drawn, 44-45c lb. Turkeys Paying prices to produc ers for 1954 turkeys: Heavy type hens. 34-35C lb. f.o.b. farm on h.y. aressea basis: toms. same basis.. 24-25C lb.; light weight hens. 36c; lightrtype toms. 30c; fryer-roaster, 32c id. live, io re tailers: A grade hens, ready to cook, 50-olc lb., N.Y. dressed, to 45c lb.; A grade toms. oven-reaay, n-c: ugni tvne. A erade hens, oven-ready. 52- 53c; light toms, 48-49C lb. Rabbits (average to growers i.o.d. kiUincr plants) Live white. 3 -414 lbs., 18-20c lb.: 5-6 lbs.. 14-16c: colored pelts. 4c under; old does, 8-loc id.; a few higher. . - Portland Cash Grain Dni4Ini4Prraia QC ronnrtpri Viv the USDA market news service: Wheat No. 2 soft white. $77.50 a ton bulk, prompt 'delivery f.o.b. Portland. No. 2 white 'oats, 38-lb. test. Coast delivery, $56-57 ton; Portland delivery. $53-54 ton; No. 2 Western barley. $5350. Coast delivery Soybean meal. $95 a ton. cars, prompt delivery. Portland; std. millrun. prompt shipment, f.o.b. Porland. $43.50-44 ton; No.-2 yellow corn. $6950 ton, f.o.b. Portiana. Wholesale Hay Prices: : No. 2 green alfalfa, baled, f.o.b. Portland. $32 trucks: $34 rail. ' Portland Cash Grain, T h u rs d a y cJose: . Bid Soft white . Soft white, no rex .34 White Club 2.34 H R winter, ord. HOLIDAY Fashion Show InnneiT i' . Pioneer Room .Jackson Hotel TUES., NOV. 167 P.M. $2.50 Per Plate For reservations Phone 2-9881 Sponsored by Crater Lions Au. Sleep Well at the . . . . PLAZA HOTEL Broadway at Washington . IN DOWNTOWN PORTLAND Lookout Dam Generator To Be Ready By Dec. 15 Eugene (U.R) The first of three generators that will event ually produce 120,000 kilowatts of power at Lookout Point dam will be ready to go "on the line" Dec. 15, according to Tom Black, district supervisor of the Bonne ville Power Administration here. Capacity generation of the Lookout Point potential will be achieved by next June, Black said, with the other two genera tors slated for activation in March and June. PRESS ADMITTED . - - Washington . (U.R) News men covering -the pro-McCarthy rally at Constituiton hall Thurs day night were given compli mentary admission cards with the word "press" penned on them in ink. The printed cards bore the notation: "Admit - one anti-Communist." . ' ' - THE INDIAN WAY Muskogee, Okla (U.R) Turner Bear, a full, blooded Creek Indian from Checotah, Okla. got .his deer Thursday in an area where some hunters have been using bow and arrow. Asked if he had used that weap on, Bear replied: "No, that white man's way. Indian "use 30-30." Coal content is approximately 60 per cent carbon. ; Marilyn Monroe To -Leave Hospital Today Hollywood (U.R) Film ac tress Marilyn Monroe was ex pected to be released today from Cedars, of Lebanon hospi tal where she underwent sur gery to correct a routine female ailment. Her ex-husband, retired baseball star Jae DiMaggio, has been a daily visitor. Use Mail Tribune Want Ada P DINE at ... - WORLD FAMOUS Dinners Served from 6 p.m. Till 11:30 p.m. . Closed Tuesdays .... , , w For Reservations Call Central Point 122 RED INK SALE DROPS Janesville, Wis. U.PJ Things are looking up. The Parker Pen Co. has reported that its sale of red ink throughout the nation dropped 21 per cent this year. - DR. SAFETY FIRST Miami Beach (U.R) Dr. Safe ty First' and his wife of Tulsa, Okla., today were attending the convention here of ; the. Ameri can College of Cardiology. r SAT. MG1HTT AT WALKER'S POPULAR I3DISlISArv2ILAKIID) Follow the crowd for an evening of Real Enjoyment . . . Dancing to the liveliest music in town Your favorite tunes. New and Old BRING THE FAMILY. P Good Floor o Good Music T W s ! I ill : iri'jiin-iiiri'ii yi ty it t tit w -v sxs vwv int, tjr? -- - - ma. YOU GET All 07 PIECES Electric Locomotive . Cool Tender O Oil Cor Gondola O Caboose Meovy Trons former Track Connector ; U 33-Pc Trestle Set 39-Pc Uthoboord Set of Railroad Acces in Full Color 18 Sections of Track PHONE 2-2472 MS CYCLE mi in 0 IU1 n Of 23 NORTH FIR ST. Next to Mail Tribune