Flaming Cross
Found in Yard
Los Angeles (U.R) A sev
en foot high cross was erected
and burned on the front lawn
of meat dealer Nelson N. Soil,
44, who offered to help a Negro
facing execution in Louisiana.
Soli, father of three children,
reported to police that the cross,
made from two inch lumber,
flamed in front of his house
early yesterday morning.
Soil volunteered to help fi
nance legal aid Saturday for- a
former Los Angeles resident, Al
ton Clifton Poret, who adver
tised in a local newspaper that
he was condemned to die in the
Southern state for a rape offense
he did not commit.
The classified advertisement
placed by the 28-year-old pris
oner last Thursday read: "I am
without funds to fight for my
life. I swear I am not guilty.
Won't someone please help me?"
Soli said he wired Poret at
Parrish Prison, New Orleans,
that he could help and to send
him the history of the case im
mediately. He has not received
an answer yet, Soli said.
Defeated Candidate
May Protest Vote
Washington U.R) Demo
cratic Rep. Samuel W. Yorty
has charged that he lost his Sen
ate race to Sen. Thomas H. Ku
chel (R.-Calif.) because of "de
ception" and warned that his
election "may" be protested.,
Yorty said last night that the
Democratic organization in Cali
fornia may protest the seating
of Kuchel in the 84th Congress.
If made, he said, the protest
would be based on letters circu
lated to Democrats that were
"designed to give the mislead
ing impression they came from
the official Democratic organiza
tion and that the organization
was supporting Kuchel."
"There is no doubt," Yorty
said, "that enough Democrats
were fooled by this deception to
affect the election result.
Kuchel defeated Yorty by
some 275,000 votes. Any protest
has to be made to the Senate it
self. '
Yorty in a statement also criti
cized Kuchel for voting against
the condemnation of Sen. Joseph
R. McCarthy (R.-Wis.).
Services Tuesday
For Mabel Roberts
Ashland ' Funeral services
will be held Tuesday, Dec 7, at
3 p.m., at the Litwiller Mountain
View chapel at Ashland for
Mabel Anita Roberts, who lived
in Ashland for 38 years. Inter
ment will be in the Hargardine
cemetery at Ashland and the
Rev. Jim Jondrow will officiate.
Pall bearers will be members of
the Knights of Pythias lodge
from Medford.
Mrs. Roberts was the widow of
L. A. Roberts, Ashland attorney
and justice of the peace for sev
eral years. He died in 1940.
Survivors include a daughter,
Rowena Myers, Ashland.
Mrs. Roberts was a member of
the Ashland Presbyterian church;
Medford Pythian Sisters; Eastern
Star; Rebekahs; Neighbors of
Woodcraft; Women's -Relief
corps; Daughters of Union Vet
erans and Women's Civic club,
Ashland.
She came to Oregon in 1891
from Iowa and was married to
Mr. Roberts in 1892. They moved
to Ashland from Myrtle Point.
Two Auio Accidents
Reported in County
Two one-car accidents were
reported in the Medford-Ashland
area yesterday and this morning,
. and slick pavement apparently
was responsible for both, accord
ing to state police.
The first mishap, reported at
about 6:25 p.m. Sunday, involved
a car driven by Rex Merle Cog
gins, Dark Hollow. Coggins' car
went out of control on Phoenix
Jacksonville highway and over
turned after going over an em
bankment. He received minor in
juries, police said. -
Early today a car operated by
Noble Day, Phoenix, went out
of control after hitting slick
pavement at the foot of Billings
hilL north of Ashland, on High
way 99. The car went over an
embankment, but Day was not
injured, according to investigat
ing officers' reports.
Livestock Production
Increase Seen Possible
Lincoln, Neb. U.R) Forest
Service researchers in the U. S.
Department of Agriculture say
scientific management may increase-livestock
production on
the 950,000,000 acres of range
land in the nation.
The experts say that by reduc
ing competing plants and then
seeding at the proper rate and
depth, ranges now dense in sage
brush can be made to yield 10
to 20 times more forage.
They also found that moderate
grazing produced an average in
come per section of $1,238, or
$255 more than obtained under
heavy grazing.
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Emergency Ferry
Spans Snake River
Nyssa (U.R) An emergency
ferry service is being operated
across the Snake river here by
Nyssa merchants today following
collapse of the interstate bridge
between Oregon and Idaho.
One section of the 170-foot
bridge collapsed Saturday under
an unloaded logging truck. The
truck and its driver reached safe
ty. The ferry service, operated
without toll, was set up to ac
commodate Idaho residents
working at the huge Amalga
mated Sugar company plant at
Nyssa, and at other Oregon
firms.
Some 300 passengers were car
ried by the 10-passenger ferry
Saturday afternoon and evening.
and it is expected to handle 600
persons a day until a temporary
bridge span is completed.
Oregon and Idaho highway of
ficials, at an emergency meet
ing here yesterday, said a tem
porary span would be ready for
use Friday. A new bridge is
planned for next spring.
Postmaster Asks
Bundling of Cards
Slips designed to aid handling
of Christmas mail were sent to
day to all patrons of the Medford
post office, according to Post
master Moore Hamilton.
The slips read "The cards in
this bundle are all for out of
town delivery,'" and "The cards
in this bundle are all for local
delivery."
Hamilton " asked that those
sending Christmas cards bundle
them according to local or out of
town delivery and attach the
proper slips to the bundles.
Either string or rubber bands
may be used to tie the cards to
gether, as long as the bundle is
secure, Hamilton said.
If the bundles are too large
for the regular letter boxes, they
may be placed in the package
drops, the postmaster stated. He
pointed out that bundling the
cards together with the proper
slips "will greatly cut clerical
work and costs."
Additional slips may be ob
tained at the post office or at
local print shops and stores sell
ing greeting cards.
'Bronchitis' Turns
- Out to be Hardware
Tokyo (U.R) Eight-month-old
Kunio Shitae's mother
said today she look her baby
to a doctor recently when ho
developed complications fol
lowing an attack of bronchitis.
Surgeons extracted 230 nails,
screws and fish hooks from
Kunio's tiny stomach in an
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SCIENCE AT WORK
New York (U.R) According
to Edmund Bergler, M.D., one
way for the scientist to make
enemies is to "explain anything
that has been taken for
granted."
By "anything" he referred
generally to human develop
ment and specifically to the phe
nomenon of artistic creative
ness. Regarding the former, he
quoted the German dramatist,
G. E. Lessing, that "the great
est miracle" is that "true and
genuine miracles appear to us
banal, every-day occurrences."
"The miracle of individual
human development is a case in
point," he said. "We see the
baby; a score of years later we
look at the man, observe that
he has become an adult, and as
sume that he has 'developed,'
taking the miraculous process
quite for granted. There is a psy
chological enigma here; how did
the transition from passive,
parasitic baby to active, provid
ing man occur?"
This, certainly, is an enigma
worthy of scientific exploration,
yet "explaining the 'self -explanatory'
arouses resentment
and uneasiness,' ne continued.
" 'Aren't there enough riddles in
life' the scientist is asked fret
fully. 'Why make a mystery
where there is no mystery by
questioning the self -apparent"
Psychoanalysis '
His point was two-headed.
From parasitic baby to active,
providing man hardly is a pro
cess that is in any way self-apparent.
Yet the one science
which explains its intracacies
and complexities that science
being psychoanalysis. arouses
more hostility than any other.
Why it does is much more
than an innate hostility to "ex
plaining the self-explanatory,"
or, rather, there are cogent and
hidden reasons in the minds of
all of us for insisting that some
mysterious and strange pheno
mena are neither mysterious nor
strange and so need no explain
ing. ;-
And this brings us to Dr. Bergt
ler's specificity the phenome
non of artistic creativeness. That
it is a phenomenon has always
been recognized - Dr. Bergler
quoted Plato, "poets utter great
and wise things which they do
not themselves understand."
How did Shakespeare know
more about man than most men
have known before or since? He
was neither scientist nor' schol
ar but a poet. By "poet" Dr.
Bergler meant the artistic crea
tor unknowingly making use of
mind-materials which we usual
ly call "intuition" or "inspira
tion." '
Book Re-issued
These mind-materials can be
defined, and the definitions are
part of the meat of Dr. Bergler's
book, "The Writer-and Psycho
analysis" which . was first pub
lished in 1950, went out of print
quickly, but it is now being re
published in a second edition.
Medically Dr. Bergler finds
creative writers tobe persons
who have fourid "self-cures" for
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specific neurotic illness when
the self -cures no longer work,
the illness becomes active and
its syndrome is "the writer's
block." But his book has much
j wider value it is one of the
clearest existing expositions of
the geography of the human
mind. The emphasis is on the
dynamics of the unconscious
segments which influence the
conscious even in the healthiest
of minds.
Dr. Bergler Is a psychiatrist
and, of course, a psychoanalyist.
His scientific standing is of the
highest although, as he himself
states plainly, some of his prem
ises are not accepted by all his
colleagues. The layman mis
understands the controversies of
psychoanalysis. They exist be
cause it is a new science and
many of its values are far from
being fixed. But controversies
do not destroy basic truths, since
truth is indestructible. The basic
truth of psychoanalysis is that
there is an unconscious mind in
all of us, and it is actively at
work all the time for good or
ill.
TED MAY BE BACK
New York '(U.R) Ted Wil
liams is a good bet to be back
with the Red Sox in 1955, Boston
boss Tom Yawkey said today.
The 36-year old Williams said
he was "all through with base
ball" when the season ended
three months ago but Red Sox
officials are making plans to
have him back in the Boston out
field next season.. "When the
time comes, Ted will be sent a
contract along with the rest of
our players," Yawkey, here for
the major league meetings, said
Sunday night.
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Sheppard's Brother
Due Back on Stand
Cleveland XU.R) Dr. Stephen
A. Sheppard, the glib member of
the Sheppard family, goes back
to the stand toCay in his self
appointed role of his brother's
keeper for a rapping cross-examination
of his activities when
the brother's wife was mur
dered. Dr. Stephen was under fire by
Thomas J. Parrino, the assistant
prosecutor who already has
drawn from him the admission
that he testified to something
that was "not true." . .
The trial of Dr. Samuel H.
Sheppard, 30, for the murder of
his wife, Marilyn, 31, entered
its eighth week with the first
defense witness, Dr. Stephen,
34, still on the stand. It was his
third day as a witness and he
was expected to be at it until
late today, when his wife, Betty,
may be called.
Innocent Pleas Made
On Contempt Charges
Portland (U.R) Three Port
land men pleaded innocent in
federal district court here Sat
urday to charges of contempt of
Congress.
They were Donald M. "Wol
lam, John R. McKenzie and Her
bert Simpson. All are accused of
refusing to answer certain ques
tions put to them at a House
Un-American Activities subcom
mittee hearing here last June.
The three refused to testify
on constitutional grounds that to
do so would tend to incrimmin
ate them.
Judge George Boldt, Tacoma,
who is presiding in the cases, set
Jan. 17 as trial date. Defense
attorneys were given 20 days to
file motions in regard to the in
dictments. Strike-Bound Ship
May Carry Yule Trees
San Francisco (U.R) Mat
son Line officials will tell strik
ing CIO radio operators today
whether the company will take
up a union offer to sail a "Christ
mas tree ship" to Hawaii.
The American Radio associa
tion offered yesterday to put a
radio operator aboard the Haw
aiian Packer, thereby letting it
sail to Hawaii with 100,000
Christmas trees aboard.
The offer was in response to
a plea from territorial Gov.
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Monday, December 6, 19S4
Party Unify, Attacks
On Ike When 'Wrong
Promisee! by Butler
New Orleans (U.R) New
ly-elected Democratic National
Chairman Paul M. Butler today
planned new party unity and
bold attacks against President
Eisenhower in an attempt to
win Democratic control of the
government in 1956.
Butler, in his first interview
after winning the chairmanship,
attacked the President's leader
ship and left the party's door
open for recalcitrant Southern
Democrats.
' Butler, 49-year-old South
Bend, Ind., attorney, indicated
that Democratic leaders would
shed their velvet gloves here
after in dealing with Mr. Eisen
hower. He promised that politi
cal barrages would be leveled
at the Republican President and
not just his party.
"It has been apparent month-by-month
that the Eisenhower
administration and the Republi
can Party have lacked the cap
acity to lead, and unite the Am
erican people and it will become
more apparent in the next 24
months," he said.
To Voice Differences
"We shall speak out frankly
where we differ but will support
him (Eisenhower) openly and
most enthusiastically when we
agree."
Butler, who was elected Sat
urday to succeed retiring Chair
men Stephen A. Mitchell, also
told a press conference Sunday
that the doors : were open for
southern Democrats who bolted
the party in 1952. Chief among
the bolters were Govs. Robert
F. Kennon, of Louisiana; Allan
Shivers of Texas and James
F. Byrnes of South Carolina. "
Butler said he was pleased
that the national committee
which met here this week end
ditched the controversial loyalty
pledge that split the party in
1952. An expected fight between
the north and south factions of
the party did not develop after
the rules advisory committee
said no one should be required
to make a pledge of loyalty.
Even Sen. Hubert Humphrey
Samuel Wilder King, who also
asked the union to release the
Hawaiian Craftsman. The union
has made no decision on the
Craftsman.
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MOTORS
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(D-Minn.), one of the - sponsors
of the 1952 loyalty pledge, came
out against any similar oath for
the 1956 party convention.
Names Issues
Butler said the proper solu
tion of issues was more impor
tant for elections than party or
ganization and party know-how.
Those issues, he said, were the
Dixon - Yates power deal and
the purported firing of thous
ands of government workers for
security reasons.
.' The incoming chairman, who
is a friend of 1952 presidential
candidate Adlai Stevenson, said
he planned an early conference
with former President Truman
at Mr. Truman's convenience..
Stevenson told delegates here
on Saturday night, "If I cannot
participate in public affairs as
vigorously as in the past, I hope
you will understand and forgive
me." He said he must devote
more time to "my concerns."
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inspiration and encouragement
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