TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Sunday. December 19, 1954
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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. (U.R) The
highway department wishes peo
ple weren't such creatures of
habit. Traffic counts taken
since a new $6,000,000 four-lane
bridge across the Columbia rivj
er was opened to tralfic shoC v
60 per . cent of the traffic stilfc
uses the old, two-lane span. "
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