Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, December 16, 1954, Image 12

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Newspaper Page TextTWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE - Thursday. December 18. 195 4 Oregon 4-H'ers Win National Honors SIX OREGON 4-H Club members were announced as national winner in the 1954 4-H award programs at the National 4-11 Club Congress in " Chicago. Each received a $300 college scholarship. Their names, the pro erams in which they were honored, and the donors of their awards are: Harold Betty Timothy Beroer . Clina Baglay Harold Hofehl'rM Ella. Mitch. II Harold Hotchkiss, 17, of Bums, Tractor, General Petroleum Corp. - Ellen Mitchell, 18, of Zig Zag, Girls Record, Montgomery Ward. Harold Berger, 17, of Hillsboro, Health, Kellogg Co. Betty Cline, 19, of Independence, Garden, Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co, Tractor Division. Timothy Bagley, 17, of Clatsop, Forestry, American Forest Products Industries, Inc. Judith Gates, 13, of Hillsboro, Entomology, Hercules Powder Co. Over 1,200 4-H Club boys and girls from the 48 states, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Canada attended the Congress, along with young people and youth leaders from 25 foreign countries. A highlight of the Congress was the major policy address by Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles at Judith Gate the opening banquet. Thus tb 4-H'ers learned more of their Congress theme, "Working Together for World Understanding," from the ' Nation's No. 1 diplomat. During the week, the delegates' participated in discussions, heard other outstanding speakersmet top stars in the sports world, enjoyed top-flight entertainment at banquets and major meal events, attended the International Live Stock Exposition and Horse Show, took part in pres.: conferences, radio and TV appear ances, toured the city and visited the museums, and attended a party at the Aragon Ballroom. The National 4-H Club Congreea is a cooperative effort of the Agricul tural Extension Service, business and civic organizations, and the National Committee on Boys and Girls Chib Work, Chicago. Detroit (U.R) Santa Claus kepi a date in toyland with more than 200 boys and girls Wednes day night. Many of them never had seen Santa before. Many never will see( him for the rest of their lives. They are blind. But they tenderly stroked his snow-white beard and laughed when he whis pered strange promises in their ears. Some cried. , More than 60 of the children at the annual toyland party spon sored by the Ernst Kern depart ment store were the sons and daughters of blind parents. For the sightless, Toyland was only a world of strange and wonderful sounds, the touch of a cuddly panda bear; the feel of the smooth, straight lines of Navy Secretary Clears Nixon Los Angeles (U.R) Secre tary of the Navy Charles Thom as has' denied that Vice-President Richard Nixon was respon sible for the Navy refusing se curity clearance to Dr. Edward U. Condon. Thomas told the Los Angeles Chamber , of Commerce yester day that Nixon was in no way involved ; in the action against Condon, former chief of J the Bureau of Standards.. f "The Condon case came up before a regional board in New York and he was cleared," Thomas said. "The people in my office said I should take a look at the file. I did and withdrew clearance." Condon resigned last Monday as research director of the Corn ing Glass works, stating he felt he could not secure "a fair and independent judgment" in a government review of his secur ity status. ' Thomas" statement was in re ply to a' charge by the atomic scientists of Chicago that Nixon had intervened in the Condon matter. - The group charged "political abuse of the personnel security system has finally forced the resignation' of Dr. Condon. Prize-Winning Play Planned at Crater central Point Tne pnze- winning play, "You Can't Take It With You," is being presented by students of Crater High School tonight and tomorrow evening. About 20 are in the cast, and the production is be ing given in the school's cafe teria-auditorium. Donald Lacy, instructor of drama and speech, directed the play. All classes in the school are participating in the produc tion. -Tickets are on sale at the door. I Speed Detection Units .Hunt Down Lawbreakers Fond Du Lac, Wis. (U.R) .Motorists are used to radar equipped traffic police, but the new speed detection units are how hunting law-breakers on water and rail. The Fond du Lac police de partment flags down speeding motorboat operators on Lake Winnebago and it plans to use radar to get the goods on locomo tive engineers who race their giant vehicles through the city. Mayor Edwin F. Weis said the city always has had a speed limit for boats in the harbor, but it has been difficult to tell how .fast the craft were going. . "But now with radar, we can tell exactly how many miles an hour they are making," he said. Rhode Island Indians Remember Swamp Fight West Kingston, R. I. (U.R) Rhode Island Indians have never forgotten the Great Swamp Fight one of the bloodiest massacres in 17th century America. Armed forces of the' United Colonies taking part in King Phillip's War, the Narragansett Indian fortress in southern Rhode Island's Great Swamp on Dec. 19, 1675. Wigwams were burned; hun dreds of Indian women, children and old men were slain. Descendants of Rhode Island Indians meet annually at the Great, Swamp to pay tribute to the memory of their slain ances tors. Blind Children Keep Date Willi Santa At Detroit Department Store's Party Agriculture employs 40 to 45 per cent of the total Japanese population. an electric train. A lot of free hot dogs, ice cream, pop and some kiddie-land rides were toss ed in for good measure. Eighth Year It was the eighth consecutive year the big department store has thrown open its doors to blind families after regular shopping hours. "My two children can see, but I'm blind," one young mother explained. "I came to this party last year and had a chance to inspect some of the toys my chil dren wanted by just feeling the toys and trying them put.' But no sales are ever made at the department store" party. Store officials say it would be "too- commercial." ' ' The parties were suggested in 1946 by Harry Hunter of Detroit, himself- blind and president of the Associated Blind Activities. He has worked each year with the store officials to make the party a success. Hunter's wife, Olga, is also blind, but they have two children with good vision. The Lions Club furnished transportation to the affair. Clothesline' Pranks Of Bird Brought To End " Westbrook, Me. (U.R) A long-suffering housewife blew the whistle on a "big, black bird" that made wash day hard er than ever for weeks. Mrs. Elaine Poitras asked po lice to drive away the bird, which hung around her back yard, snapping open clothespins with his beak and happily watch ing freshly washed clothes fall to the ground. . .' Mrs. Poitras described the bird as "bigger than a. crow." Police solved the case by ask ing neighbors to stop putting out pans of food for the feathered prankster as they had been doing since it arrived in the neighborhood. Clerks at the store volunteered their services to stay overtime as hosts and hosteses. Wait To 'See' Santa Long lines of children waited to "see" Santa. ' Some were frightened when placed on his lap. Others tenderly stroked his white hair and his red velvet suit.. A freckle-faced chap tried to bite Santa's nose, but the jolly old man ducked in time. Four-year-old Linda Hamm, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hamm, approached San ta cautiously in her dark world. Her mother and father, also blind, encouraged her from the sidelines. When Linda climbed from Santa's lap she felt for the wait ing arms of her. parents, and laughed joyously when she told them of getting a box of candy from the old gentleman. "Well, did you see Santa Claus?" her father asked inno cently. . , - - "Yes, I did," the little girl shouted. "I said I wanted a pi ano when I saw Santa." Surrounded by Christmas trees and .tinsel and all greens and reds and yellows of toyland, the little girl looked straight ahead in the darkness. Christmas Cards All Types and Kinds Singles and Boxed Assortments Wrap and Ribbon Ocean Harvest Brings Income To Residents a. Portland, Me. (U.R) An ocean harvest of pulpwood, dumped into the Atlantic by hurricane tana ana swept asnore by re turning tides, is bringing unex pected income to coastal resi dents of Maine. Forty thousand cords of pulp- wood, worth $20 a cord, went swirling - down - the Kennebec River when a retaining boom broke during the Sept. 11 hurri cane. About half the wood went into the ocean. Owners offered a $5 reward for each cord turned to Augusta. Piano Movers Forgot One Small Matter Schenectady, N. Y. (U.R) Judson Gardner figured the sim plest way to move a piano from second-story apartment was out a window. With the aid of neighbors, he decided to place two planks from the window to a truck .below, tie a repe around the piano and let it slide down as they let out the rope. They tugged and pushed the piano through the window as planned. But seconds later pow er lines snapped -and a window was smashed. Police said Gard ner and his assistants forgot one thing the rope. Dead line Sunday Classified fe at noon Saturday : 10 a.m. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 previous day re- Practical Joke Costs Ohio Women Damages Toledo, O. (U.R) It cost two local women $1,500 to frighten a i companion with a lifelike rubber lizard. Mrs. Mary Lewis testified in common pleas court that when she got into a car with two com panions to accompany them to church, one of the women put, the lizard on her lap and the other called her attention to it. Mrs. Lewis said she was fright ened and threw herself backward so .violently that she broke a bone in her back. A jury agreed the women conspired to frighten Mrs. Lewis and awarded her $1,500 in damages. Greenland Appearance Surprises Explorer Boothbay Harbor, Me. (U.R) Read Adm. Donald B. MacMillan the Arctic explorer, says one of the sights that surprised him ; most on rus autn voyage xo me far north this year was Thule, Greenland. 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