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TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday. December 19, 1954 J (FiA Jl t - y-': 1 ,4:--; 1 FOR ANTARCTICA Shown are. two modified Model 743 Tucker Sno-Cats which have been, built to order for the Paris, France expedition to Adelie land in the Antarctic. The units are equipped with 235 horsepower engines. The two vehicles will cost, with special equipment, about $30,000. Each Sno-Cat will pull a large trailer loaded with gas and supplies. The ver hides will be trucked to San Francisco by motor freight and will be shipped to LeHavre , on the M. S. Winnipeg. Special bodies . and arctic equipment will be installed in France, and the vehicles will be winterized for 65 degree below zero temperatures. Specially-Built Sno-Cats Off For French Antarctic Journey Two big Tucker Sno-Cats, built to order for a French Ant arctic expedition, were shipped from Medford Tuesday. . The two over-snow vehicles are destined for the Expeditions Polaires Francaises, of Paris, and-will be used on an expedi tion to Adelie Land. They were shipped by Pierce Auto Freight lines via flat trucks and "will be Six People Injured In Traffic Accident , , Portland U.R) A three vehicle accident Friday night on the Sunset highway resulted in injuries to five Tongue Point sailors and a Jewell, Ore., man. None was reported in serious condition. Police said ice was responsible for the accident. Injured were John Mc Goughey, Jewell, and the sea men, identifed as Jose Martinez, Alan Matin,- Bob Abels, Eduar do Maestas and Nicholas Lente. The mishap occurred just east of the Sunset tunnel. loaded aboard the Motor Ship Winnipeg for LeHavre. Circuit Judges Have Problem Over Robes - Salem (U.R) The circuit Judges of Marion county ap parently are not agreed on whether they will wear robes in court, as recommended, by the Oregon Circuit Judges As sociaiion'in a recent Portland meeting. Judge George R. Duncan, presiding Marion county cir . cuit judge, said it would be cumbersome for him to wear a robe in court. Judge Joseph Felton made it plain he would not wear a robe while hearing juvenile cases. ' . Circuit Judge - elect Val Sloper said he had not made up his wind whether he would wear a robe while holding court. 1 Judge Duncan said he un derstood the decision of the circuit judges association was advisory and not mandatory. They are models 743, of the same type which the Tucker Sno-Cat company makes for use by the Air Force in Alaska. They have been reported to be able to push over trees up to five inches in diameter. The vehicles are powered by 235 horsepower V-8 Chrysler engines with fluid drive. . Each costs $15,000 including special equipment. On. the mod els being shipped to France, cabs have been omitted to keep ship ping charges down, and special bodies and arctic equipment will be installed in France, where they will be equipped to with stand .temperatures as low as 65 degrees below zero. Each can pull a large trailer loaded with gas and supplies. The Sno-Cats are manufac tured at the Tucker plant on the Pacific highway south of Medford. U.S. farms use 16.6 per cent of all domestic petroleum products. Use Mall Tribune Want Ada Dead line for Sunday Classified la at noon Saturday. Seve-nFersomis Killed! Odd Series off testes Milwaukee, Vfis: (U.R) A small plane's flaming crash in a snow-covered field Friday night snuffed out the lives of wealthy Milwaukee brewer Frederick C. Miller, his son, and two pilots. Miller, 48, a one time All-Am-erican tackle at Notre Dame who later helped bring the Boston Braves to Milwaukee, died of severe burns and other injuries about five hours after the crash. His son, Frederick Jr., 22, and the two pilots brothers Joe Laird 39, and Paul, 32, were killed in stantly, their bodies burned be yond recognition. In another plane crash Fri day night, three airmen were killed when their light plane ap parently overshot a runway and smashed into the top of a tree nearx Delhi, La. . Dudley Sets Appeal Of Discharge From Industrial Council Salem (U.R) J. Russell Dud ley, released this week as man ager of the Salem Industrial Council, said Saturday he plans to appeal to the courts. Dudley contends that assur ances were given immigration authorities when he was brought here from Canada a year ago amount to a three-year contract. The industrial council, made up of 24 businessmen, has given no indication that it considered Dudley under contract. Dudley left a job as executive for a similar industrial program and chamber of commerce in New Brunswick on the east coast of Canada to come to Sa lem for the job here. Dudley said that in order to come here outside the immigration quota, he was required to show a cer tificate of unemployment speci fying terms and salary for three years. The industrial council, did not disclose reasons behind the dis missal, although some members said there was a . "personality clash" involved. Dudley said "I cannot recall clashing with any member of my council other than over the discussion of my personal affair with Mr. Hogg." (Chairman Carl Hogg.) Dudley said he was leaving" Saturday for Vancouver, B. C, to discuss the legal action with his attorneys and he and Mrs. Dudley will remain in. Van couver over the holidays, Two of the dead were identi fied as M-Sgt. Bernard Hartley, 27, and Pfc. Wilbur Farmer Jr., 22, both of Delhi and stationed at Maxwell Field, Alai The third airman was not immediately id entified. Constellation Crashes At Brampton, Ont., "a Trans Canada Airlines Super Constel lation from Tampa, Fla.,' crash landed when an engine caught fire, but none of the 23 persons aboard was seriously injured. The Milwaukee crash occurr ed a few minutes after Miller and the others took off from Milwaukee's Mitchell field in a twin-engine Ventura executive model. The younger Miller had driv en from South Bend, Ind., with two Notre Dame classmates. He and his father were bound for Winnipeg, Canada, 'V for a pre Christmas hunting trip. It was snowing and foggy, but the weather was not believed to have caused the crash. Smith Names Heads Of Committees for 1955 State Senate John Day (U.R) Elmo Smith, Grant County ' publisher and president-designate of the 1955 Oregon Senate, . has named the senate committees.- Smith named State Sen. Paul E. .Geddes, Roseburg, to head the natural resources commit tee. State Sen. . Warren A. Mc- Minimee, Tillamook, was named chairman of the roads and high ways committee, and State Sen. Warren C. Gill, Lebanon, chair man of the judiciary committee. All three -are attorneys. Worked on Compact Geddes, who was chairman of the judiciary committee in his first Senate term during the last session, has served for the past two years as a member of the Columbia Compact Commission and had had a voice in drawing up the legal definitions of the proposed compact. The measure will be presented to. the 1955 leg islature. ... : McMinimee will be serving his second senate term. He was elected from Lincoln and Tilla mook counties in. 195,2. He was district attorney for Tillamook County for 12 years. ; ? Gill was elected to his second term! in the senate last Novem ber and has served one term in the house. - t-:? Atomic Expansion Plan Said Complete ; Washington . ' (U.R) - The Atomic Energy Commission plans no more building projects in the multi-million dollar cate gory for the immediate future. "We'll always be spending some millions of dollars on con struction," Chairman Lewis L. Strauss said Friday. But plans for major expansion 5 are1 com plete "as far as we .know," he said. y. -. . y ". '. .. y T His statement "clearly - meant that when current plant expan sion is completed, U.S. atomic in stallations will be turning out nuclear weapons and fuels rapid ly enough to meet all anticipated military and peacetime needs. The wartime- atomic plants cost $2,200,000,000. Since the war, there have been three huge expansion programs costing a to tal of nearly six billions. The AEC has added huge new plants at Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Hanford, Wash., and built three new production facilities, each in the $1,000,000,000 class, at Savannah River, 'S-C, Paducah, Ky., and Portsmouth, Ohio. Use Mail Tribune Want Ade HABIT Kennewick, Wash. 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