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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.
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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.
In one version of his story, he
said at the head of the stairs he
saw a form and was knooked
out.
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