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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 24, 1954)
Aft OPERATION DENIED With his injured right arm ban daged from hand to elbow, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy is shown in his bed at Bethesda Naval Hospital, Md. Report that McCarthy had undergone an "operation" drew from hospital spokesman brief statement that "no surgical oper ative procedure" had been perforr?d. The senator "con tinues to show slight improvement and his condition is still sf.Msfactory." Onlv one still photographer was per mitted to photograph McCarthy on a "pool" basis for the major picture services. Retired Businessmen Seen Small Town Key Bretton Woods, N. H. U.R) Summer residents ' and retired businessmen may be the key to new successful enterprises in small towns. Vincent Dahlfred, industrial agent of New Hampshire's plan ning arid development commis sion says a surprising number of key men in successful small town businesses are those from out-of-state who have left the big city life for the quiet coun tryside. Usually, they are summer residents, retired businessmen or successful men contemplating retirement. "The determining factor in a successful business is not the place but the key man with the knowledge of markets and pro duction methods," Dahlfred said. Some of the retired officals bring contracts with them to establish businesses in places where they have spent pleasant summers. A recently completed 15-mile system of bridges over Florida's Tampa Bay is one of the longest open-water 'crossings in the world costing $22,000,000 and 4 years' work the bridges cut some 50 miles off the driving distant between St. Petersburg and south Florida cities. The central bridge is more than four miles long. There are 17 Vz miles of cor ridors in the Pentagon in Washington. OAKLAND d Maters e Priced at Only Here Is real fireside comfort. The cheerful glow of a fire place without the muss and fuss. Greater circulation, steady warmth and beauty. Solid construction with unit lined with fire brick, '.'-' '! A BEAUTY! Model 2523 is a brick lined heavy duty wood heater that is a standard model. End feed door is east iron and cast iron draft control. Flue opening has. heavy steel baffle to pre vent heat from escaping up the chimney. ..WgW-.- PRICED AT 6995 Come in and See Our Complete Stock of Other Heaters priced at $59.50 & $84.45 NO CHARGE FOR NORMAL INSTALLATION Open Wednesday Nights Til 9 Sir aim & Molir Your Home Town Hardware 225 EAST SIXTH PHONE 3-1851 Model Police Department Gives Credit to Personnel Berkeley, Calif. 4U.R) Police work in Berkeley is a personnel matter. That's the way the officers of one of the nation's' model police forces think of the business of maintaining their department's high standard of efficiency. They believe it was superior per sonnel rather than "super duper" methods that made the 49-y e a r-old department out standing in the first place. The 133-man force safe guarding the welfare of this city of 114,000 has fewer policemen per capita than almost any other department in California, yet its crime-clearance rate continues to lead the state. This rate, long considered the yardstick of police efficiency, represents the percentage of the city's major crimes, usually fel onies, cleared by arrests. Last year Berkeley cleared 30.2 per cent as compared with a figure of 26.1 per cent for some 1,706 departments throughout the na tion and 19.2 per cent for Pacific Coast police forces of similar size. Vollmer Pioneered The force's long record of ef ficiency can be traced to its unique origin and the wisdom of its founder, Lt. John A. Lind quist of the personnel depart ment believes. Berkeley had no organized constabulary in 1905, When Aug ust Vollmer, later to be recog nized as one of the world's lead ing criminologists, was elected town marshal. This meant that Vollmer didn't have to spend his time trying tq organize old-time peace officers who might have had their own ideas on how to run a police department. Instead, he was able to start from scratch by training the men he wanted to fit the uniform he thought they should wear. Vollmer believed he could teach inexperienced but intelli gent men to become his kind of officers efficient, responsible and incorruptible. Being new to his job, he worked with equal diligence in preparing himself. He read tire lessly and conferred wth law en forcment leaders wherever he went. High I. Q. Needed His contributions to the field or criminology the lie detector, the patrolman recall light, pion eering in police radio, and the inodus operandi (M.O.) file, which he brought over from Enaand earned him a niche in history. And though he left the Berke ley department in 1932, his rigid personnel requirements re mained. , An applicant for employment must have an I. Q. of 112 in or der to rate, consideration. This is believed to be the highest minimum required by any muni cipal police force in the nation. Then the candidate must go through a rigid battery of writ ten, oral, agility and psychiatric examinations. Once a member of the force, his training never ends. After two years of on-the-job school ing he still must look forward to a lifetime of "retraining" courses and classes in the latest crime detection methods. The department believes its officer is more responsible than the average policeman because he is "chief of his own baili wick" as he patrols his beat. No Other Interests He is responsible for every thing from moving traffic viola tions to major crimes as he rides alone in his own car or covers his beat on foot. If he happens to be in a metered parking zone, he leaves the issuing of overtime parking tickets to another offi cer. Otherwise he's alone unless an emergency forces him to call for help. In order to maintain the de partment's reputation for integ rity, the officer is prohibited from accepting gratuities for ap pearing in court or working at any part-time job which might hinder his official duties. Vollmer, known as "the father of modern police work," is not the only famous person whose name is associated with the or ganization. Dr. Q. W. Wilson, dean of the University of Calif ornia school of criminology and chief of West Germany's police after World War II, is a "gradu ate" of the local force. Other notable alumni are George Brereton, head of the California state division of crim inal investigation; Walter Gor don, chairman of the California Adult Authority; W i 1 1 a r d Schmidt, head of the San Jose State criminology department, and V. A. Leonard, director of Washington State College's police school. J. D. Holstrom has been chief of police since 1949. No-Strike Order Issued Railroads Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower yesterday in voked the 60-day no-strike pro vision of the railway labor act in. a dispute between the Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen and most of the na tion's major railroads. - The President issued an execu tive order setting up a three- member emergency board to look into the dispute. Board members were not named im mediately.. "Under the law. the board has 30 days to report its findings. Then, under the law, there shall be no change, except by agree ment, in the status of the dispute for another 30 days. The dispute, involves three separate groups of railroads' in the Eastern, the Western and the Southeastern regions. Alaska Tin Mine Loans Investigated Washington (U.R) The Justice department may be ask ed to investigate a charge that the government has poured nearly $3,000,000 in loans into a virtually non-productive Alas kan tin mine. The charge was made by a joint Congressional committee on defense productions which looked into the operations of Un ited States Tin Corp., operator of the Lost River Mine on the Seward Peninsula in Alaska about 40 miles from Siberia. The committee recommended last night that the case be turned over to the Attorney General for "such action as he considers ad-viseable." "Black as a crow?" The Clark's Crow, named after ex plorer, Clark of the Lewis and Clark expedition, is a gray and white bird, with black trimmings. There are more than 225 destroyer-type warships now on active duty in the U. S. Navy. Youth Confesses Murder of Girl Mount Vernon, Wash. (U.R) A 15-year-old boy has confessed he fired the shot that killed a teenage girl in her home here Monday evening but Skagit county juvenile court authorities refused to identify him. Court Officer Frank Gregory said officers took a full state ment from the youth, saying he killed Sylvia Johnson, 13, while she was making a peanut-butter sandwich in the kitchen of her home. The youth was being held in detention pending a juvenile court apperance Monday. The girl was shot and dragged onto the porch of the house and disrobed while her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Johnson, were at tending a Boy Scout court of honor. The body was discovered by the girl's 84-year-old grand mother, Mrs. Anna Young, who was in another room when she heard the shot. . Wednesday. November 24, 1954 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN Surprise Witness Describes Lights In Sheppard Home Cleveland (U.R) A surprise witness in the Sheppard murder trial testified today that lights were On both upstairs and down stairs about 2:15 a.m. last July 4, shortly before Marilyn Shep pard was murdered. The witness was Mrs. Doris Bender, a housewife in suburban Bay Village, whose home is a quarter of a mile .west of the Sheppard home. Dr.-Samuel H. Sheppard, on trial for his life, has told police he could not identify bis wife's killer because only a small table lamp in an upstairs dressing room was on when she was bludgeoned to death. Mrs. Bender testified that she ana ner husband bad visited friends the night of July 3. Driv ing home, they passed the Shep pard house. She said she talked with her husband about the lights. Under cross-examination, she said the time they passed the Sheppard home must have been about 2:15 Orange Tree Thrives In New York Soil Plattekill, U. Y. J(U.R) A tree grows in Plattekill, and its owner, Ray Garcia, is having the last laugh. The tree is an orange tree, a. a souvenir that Garcia brought back from Florida. "It can't live," said the neighbors; but it does. The tree has grown and so has the fruit. And from tne secj that have fallen on the ground, "more orange trees have sprout ed." "You know," says Garcia," "I always knew the tree would live. I never doubted it. I just dug up a lot of Florida soil with the tree and had no trouble bringing it home. "Of course, I had to keep the roofs wet all the way up here, but that wasn't much trouble." Garcia's orange tree is now six feet high. Garcia plans to build a breezeway over it and put glass around it, to keep it warm through the winter. "And if the tree grows too tall, why I'll just cut it back." Mrs. Garcia and their son Butch like the tree too. a.m. or after. The light downstairs, she testi fied, was "on the east side of the house." The . one upstairs was "about the middle of the up stairs." Sheppard has said he was sleeping on the living room couch when he heard his wife call. He bounded upstairs, he said, and in the meagre light saw a "form" bending at his wife's bed and was knocked out from behind. 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