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EIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, November 16. 1954 TAKING TIME OUT from training, lightweight boxing champion Paddv DeMarco helps dress doll of young admirer Michelle Musura at Bermuda Palms training eamp in Ban itaiaei, vao. DeMarco defends title November 17 at San Francisco Cow Palace against Jimmy Carter, the man he won it from. (International) Sheppard Death Room Pillow Said To Give Murder Weapon Hint Cleveland QJ.R) Coroner Samuel R. Gerber testified to day that he found the 'impres sion of a surgical instrument" in a large bloodstain on the pillow in the bed where pretty Marilyn Sheppard lay bludgeoned " to death last July 4. Dr. Gerber, Cuyahoga county coroner since 1936, was the ninth state witness in its attempt to send Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard, an osteopath-surgeon, to the elec tric chair. ... -" Dr. - Gerber testified that he went to the Sheppard home in 'Lemai YGold' r Search Continues v . Burton, Wash. U.PJ Resi dents of this Vashon Island community have been searching for,"Lemai's gold" for 75 years. Lemai was an Indian woman who apparently didn't think much of her son-in-law, a big, blustering Swedish logger nam ed Lars Hanson. Lemai was a well-to-do woman and among her possessions she had a bag of gold pieces, minted by the gov ernment and worth at that time in the neighborhood of $800. The coins now would be worth about $1,380. ' . , . . Lemai's daughter, Katie, lov ed Lars, but Lars' main interest in the girl was . the. mother's gold. , ' . Wise old Lemai realized this when she went to live in Lars' home and didn't take her gold with her. She -was supposed to have buried it somewhere along Judd Creek not far from the stream's mouth. Not long after she hid her gold, Lemai became sick 'and died suddenly without having disclosed the location of her horde. For 75" years, many persons have searched for the gold. Judd Creek's banks have taken on the atmosphere of the Cocos Islands. Treasure-seekers from all parts cf Puget Sound anchor their boats off the mouth of the stream and start slinging picks and shovels. Even scientific equipment has been brought into the search. Merchants of this area think It would be a good- thing if the gold were never found. In the cummer, when the gold-search ing season is at its best, they do a thriving business from the treasure-hunters. Most of them will admit, however, that they too have been down there dig ging just like their customers. suburban Bay Village at about 7:50 on the murder morning. Mrs. Sheppard, 31, had been beaten to death sometime be tween 12:30 and 6 a.m. Weapon Not Found ' He went to her bedroom and examined the body. There was one pillow v on the bed. Turning it over, he said, he found two large blood stains. In the middle of the larger, he testified, ." there'! was "the im pression of a surgical instru ment." The murder weapon never has been found. The state contends Dn Sheppard, a brain surgeon, bludgeoned . his wife to death with nearly 30 savage blows after quarreling with her about his affairs with Susan Hayes, 24, a medical technician, and other women. . Surprise .Testimony . The coroner s testimony hit the courtroom like a bombshell. The Bay Village policechief had testified earlier that police had searched for a semi-sharp weap on, perhaps a large file. Dr. Ger ber's testimony was the first in dication that a surgical instru ment could have been used by the murderer. Dr. Gerber was called as a wit ness after the defense had cross- examined Larry Houk, 16, son of the Bay Village mayor. Young Houk testified that the boys in the neighborhood had looked up to Dr. Sheppard "like a big brother." The athletic doctor had instructed the boys in water ski ing. '. Man-Eating Squirrels Shooting War Target Arlington Village, Va.U.R) This suburb 'had to declare -a shooting war against "man-eating squirrels" after they attacked four persons.- . . County Manager A. T. Lund berg called the county board into emergency session and appointed Shirley Stanford as special game' warden. With the permission of property owners, Stanford was empowered to shoot marauding squirrels on sight. The Arlington Health Depart ment conducted tests ' on the squirrels he shot, but none was found to have rabies. . An explanation of the 'squir rels' aggressiveness was given reporiers Dy junaDerg. . "If the people feed those squir rels and then they don't feed 'em, they don't like it and get ram bunctious," he said. "Then there's nothing to do but shoot 'em." . WHY HOME DRY CLEANING IS DANGEROUS AND WASTEFUL There are voluminous files in the Fire Prevention Squad's offices, complete wtih gruesome photographs of people maimed and dead from trying to do their own dry cleaning. Let rhe cite for you the kinds of things that happen. Putting a pan full of cleaning solvent on the stove to heat it before immersing the garment. Impossible? It happened. People died. Speeding up the drying of saturated clothes with heaters. Stupid? No dangerous and disastrous. Home burned, tw children seriously hurt. It happened. For heaven's sake, why should anybody try to do his or her own dry cleaning? .There, are so many different types of fabrics and dyes, so many different kinds of stains, so many different kinds of solvents and spotting preparations, and so much complex assortment or procedures involved in doing a cleaning job right, than no layman emphatically NO layman can hope to learn to do it right for him self. It takes several years of training to turn out a good spotter or finisher, ' and more still to produce a plant operator. And what do you save? You save less than 5c. That's right less than 5c. One lousy nickel. Because that's all that the average -cleaner earns before taxes on the garment you bring in to be cleaned. BE SMART. CALL OR BRING THEM TO - - ' MEDFORD CLEANERS . 34 N. HOLLY PHONE 2-6500 FOR FREE PICKUP AND L5L1VERY Robr. C. Wright O. M. DeHart Truck Rack Snags Powerline; Woman Dies, Mate Hurt Ontario, Ore. (U.R) An Ontario woman was electrocut ed and her husband severely burned and shocked yesterday afternoon after their truck snag ged a low-hanging powerline near Ironside, Ore. The dead woman was identi fied as Mrs. John McNulty. She died immediately, according to Malheur county Coroner George Beechler. Her husband was re ported in "satisfactory" condi tion at Holy Rosary hospital here. Rack Catches Powerline State police said the ranch couple, described as being in their mid-fifties, were driving on Rose creek road about three miles from Ironside when the rack of their cattle truck caught the powerline, which was hang ing low across the road. McNulty immediately stopped the truck and he and his wife started to leave the cab. Mrs. McNulty was electrocuted as her feet touched the ground. McNulty, although receiving a severe jolt of electricity, man aged to fall away from the met al truck. Bad Burns on Feet McNulty received bad burns on his feet, but he was able to walk to Ironside to report the accident. Coroner Beechler said no official investigation of the tragedy would be held until Mc Nulty recovered sufficiently to describe the events. . The cattle loaded in the truck were not harmed. SPARKED UP SPARTAN San Jose State's Roy Hiram (22) gees around Stanford's right end for a seven yard gain before being tackled by Indian Center Jerry Goldberg in first quarter at Palo Alto. The sparked up Spartans beat Stanford for the first time in their history of games with the Indians, 19-14. , ' . Mica Scrap Fortune At Bottom of TVA Lake Spruce Pine, N. C. JOJ.R) A fortune in scrap mica washed down by swift mountain streams may lie at the bottom of a Ten nessee Valley Authority lake near Greenville, Tenn. ,TVA officials have offered ..to contract for someone to recover the estimated 900,000 tons of the valuable mineral on ,a royalty basis. Sampling of silt from Noli chucky Dam Lake near Greene ville indicates up to 20 per cent scrap mica contents Mica is used for electrical and heat insulation,' lubricants, roof ing and other purposes. . The scrap mica in Nolichucky Lake was washed down from mica mining operations in this area by the Toe. and Cane rivers and their tributaries. Rock eros ion in the rugged country also dumped mica, feldspar and kao lin into the streams. GREY SUNSHINE Louisville, Ky. (U.PJ It turned out to be a grey day, for Sunshine Starling in police court when Patrolman Ernest Claxon charged she bit him, clouted' an other cop with an umbrella and cursed them when they tried to arrest her for reckless driving without a license after she hit a parked car. Judge M. D. Elston fined Miss Starling $200. Griddle Converts To Giant Unit for 25-qt. utensils . in the NEW ELECTRIC RANGES. Electric deck controls oven, appliance outlet, up-down Deepwell Electricook er. Big Lamp. . - $32995 NJJJ Hal Krueger A I Tl I XT I RCA VICTOR I T I TV Radios i . BinnM 237 E. Main Ph. 2-2456 BOSS WOMAN Hartford, Conn. (U.R) Judge Nicholas F..Rago may be "boss" in police court but not at home. When Joseph Gallo, 24, was brought before him on a breach of the peace charge resulting from a family squabble, Rago told him: "My wife bosses me around and I like it. You'll find that you will be happier having someone boss you." Rago nolled the charge. Football Player's Settlement Approved Milwaukee U.R) A football player at Wisconsin State col lege in Whitewater appeared in civil court here for approval of a $25,000 insurance settlement resulting from an automobile accident. Wallace Wiese, 18, of Water ford,. Wis.said his hearing had been impaired as the result of a brain concussion received in the accident. . Judge Thaddeus J. Pruss ask ed him how he could hear sig nals on the football field, if his hearing was impaired. "I don't," answer Wiese. "I give 'em. I'm a quarterback," The judge approved the settlement. California Record Cited by Governor , Sacramento, Calif. (U.R) Gov. Goodwin J. Knight says California's record is so glowing that natives of the state just can't help talking in superla tives. Knight cited that: "... California has the highest point in the United States, Mt. Whitney, and the lowest only a few miles away, Death Valley. California is the nation's lead ing agricultural state, with a farm income of more than $2, 250,000,000 annually. Eight of California's cities have populations of more than 100,000 persons, the most of any state in the union. Eleven ckies have ' popula tions between 50,000 and 100, 000, more than any other state. There are 17 cities with popu lations of 25,000 to 50,000, the second, largest number in the country. And 75 cities with 10,000 to 25,000 persons, the most in the nation. But California is 33rd on the list of states with cities of popu lation under 2,500. "Apparently our cities just won't stay small," Knight com ON VACATION Topeka, Kan. (U.R) Lester A. Hansford, a farmer, came to Topeka to buy insurance, but the agent he . wanted to deal with was on vacation. Three , days later fire destroyed 3,800 bal.es of hay and the barn on Hans ford's farm where it was stored. Loss, $5,000. No coverage. Albany, N. Y. 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