FOURTEEN MEDFORT) (OREGON! MAIL TRIBUNE
Wednesday. Dseemfee 29, 19S4
Employment Drops
In Portland Area
During November
Salem (U.R5 Both em
ployment ancj. weekly earnings
declined slightly in the Portland-Vancouver
area last month
but changes were confined large
ly to seasonal operations, the
State Unemployment Compensa
tion commission said today.
: Estimates showed that food
processing, lumbering and con
struction accounted for most of
the 4800 decrease in non-agri
cultural jobs from October. Re
ports from employers in the
four-county district showed 239,-
000 working, compared with
243,800 the previous month and
243,000 in November, 1953. Ma
chinery and ship repairing also
were lower than a year ago.
Changes Small
Metals manufacturing, finance
and governmental were the
main classifications reporting
gains over 953, but the chang
es were small.
Lost overtime work account
ed for the decline in weekly
earnings from $78,60 in Octob
er to $77.75 last month, but the
lastest figure was $1.80 higher
than a year ago. Food proces
sing employees were putting in
an average of 38.3 hours a week,
2.2 less than in October. Lum
ber and sawmill workers drop
ped to 35.8 hours, compared
with 37.9 the previous month. '
Printing and publishing em
ployees : averaged 38 hours a
week to earn an average of
:$102.87, higher than in any pre-
vious month.
Scientists Working
At Low Temperatures
Schenectady, N. Y. (U.R)
.Modern research scientists have
tpushed their studies of tempera
tures to within a fraction of one
degree of absplute zero minus
:459.70. .
: But no matter how far down
the average temperature goes,
there's no existing thermometer
;good enough to satisfy the ,scien
Itists working at low tempera
tures, r ' '
: More than . 130 scientists in
;the United States, "Canada and
.Europe met here recently at
I General Electric Research Lab
oratories and passed a recom
jmendation requesting establish
rnent of an accurate temperature
scale extending below the boil
ing point of oxygen.
The scientists point out that
temperature ranks . with mass,
length and time as one of the
most basic physical qualities. -
Sears, Roebuck Prices
Said Lowest Since 1950
Chicago (U.R) Prices in the
Sears, Roebuck and Co., 1955
spring catalogue, out this week,
are the lowest since 1950, the
mail order firm has reported.
Prices in the new book aver
age about ZVi per cent below
those in the 1954 spring cata
logue, Sears said yesterday.
All classes of consumer goods
shared in the price declines,
Sears said, with home appli
ances, home furnishings and
wearing apparel showing the
largest reductions.
Sheppard Spends
31st Birthday
Confined in Jail
Cleveland, O. (U.R) Dr.
Samuel H. Sheppard, who used
to get presents from his patients,
spent his 31st birthday in jail to
day with nothing but a crossed
off calendar date to mark it.
Officially, not even his broth
ers or his father could come to
see him, since visiting hours are
Friday only.
Can Arrange Visit
"But he might get a little
break." chief jailer Michael Ucel
lo said. "If his relatives come to
see him, I think we might ar
range it so they could get 15
minutes with him on his birthday."
Mrs. Dorothy Sheppard, wife
of Dr. Sam's eldest brother, Dr.
Richard N., said the birthday'
gut problem didn t even exist.
"We won't be able to do any
thing more than we have , been
doing," she said.
"We sent our Christmas and
birthday gifts in together but
they were practically nothing,"
she said. "He hasn't expressed
a desire for anything."
Parfenlal Visit Unlikely
The likelihood that Dr. Sam's
father, Dr. Richard A. Shep
pard, or his mother would visit
him pn his birthday was almost
non-existent. His father is con
fined in Bay View Hospital, of
which he was one of the found
ers, with a bad cold. His mother
suffered a stroke several weeks
ago during her youngest son's
trial.
The athletic osteopathic brain
surgeon was convicted a week
ago yesterday of second-degree
murder in the slaying of his
pregnant wife, Marily, 31, last
July 4. He was granted a stay
until his attorneys argue their
pleas tomorrow for a new trial.
Then he will be sent to the Ohio
Penitentiary , in Columbus to
start serving his life sentence
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Two Men To Wait
Grand Jury Action
In Machine Case
Two men were bound over to
the grand jury yesterday after
waiving counsel and preliminary
hearing in a case involving theft
of caody and gum machines
from the shop of the Kogap
Lumber company, Highway 99
south, according to district court
records.
The defendants were charged
with separate crimes. Luther
Clayton Baker, 57, formerly of
Shelby, Mont., was charged with
malicious destruction of per
sonal property, and Fred Joseph
Nettekoven, 48, a transient, was
charged with larceny in a build
ing. Bail on both charges was
set at $2,500.
The charge against Netteko-
ven involved carrying away a
gum machine, and against Baker
the destruction of a gum ma
chine and one candy machine
on Dec. 26.
Booked for Larceny
In other matters, Medford
city police arrested Joseph Gil
ford Shadden, 53, general 1 de
livery, Medford, last night and
booked him on a larceny charge.
Shadden admitted in a signed
statement that he took a used
vacuum fleaner from an apart
ment house at 243 North Holly
st., about Nov. 29, which he
later sold for $2 at a local sec
ond hand store. He was taken
off . the northbound Southern
Pacific passenger train by
Grants Pass police after notifi
cation by local authorities.
A report to the sheriff's of
fice yesterday said .that about
20 gallons of gasoline was taken
frcm the property of R. B
Fowler, route 1, box 414, the
evening of Dec. 23.
Beer Offense Charged
Aaron Frances Gentry, 25, of
42V Third st., Ashland, was
booked in the county jail last
night on a charge of giving beer
to minors.
In municipal court today, Earl
Shults Potts, 48Vi North Orange
st., was fined $50 for operating
a motor vehicle without a
driver's license, city police said
His license was revoked in 1951
and had not been reinstated by
the state, police said.
Prescription Drugs
Unknown20YearsAgo
' Ann Arbor, Mich. (U.R)
Ninety per cent of all present
day prescriptions call for drugs
unknown to most doctors 20
years ago, according to John
Zugich, assistant director of the
University of Michigan's hos
pital, i ;
; Zugich,1 writing in an Ameri
can Hospital Association publi
cation, said most of the world
now was in the. "golden age
when man has provided more
relief and freedom from suffer
ing or bodily ills than ever Be
fore in his history.
Although many of the modern
"miracle drugs" are expensive,
Zugich said, they are cheap
when compared with hospital
expenses they eliminate. He said
a pneumonia case probably
would have cost a patient $400
back in 1931, whereas today un
complicated cases can be treated
at home for only $60.
; "We hear a lot about the ris
ing costs of medical care," he
said. "The truth is, the cost of
a drug today is no measure of
the cost of an illness."
Southern California
CounfiesSaid Growing
1 Los Angeles (U.R) California's
14 southern counties now have
an estimated ' population of 7,
659,000 and are expected to
have a total of 10,175,000 by
1965, according .to the Home
Builders Institute.
The adjacent counties of Los
Angeles and Orange, for exam
ple, will grow from their pres
ent 5,2l'2,300 persons to nearly
7,000,000 in the next 11 years,
the HBI said, , noting that the
southern area has 62 per cent
of the state's population, with 40
per cent ' of it in Los Angeles
county. ; .
The institute said its "guesses"
were based on an expected an
nual growth rate of 156,000 for
the two counties, but it pointed
out that the totals might be even
larger as the yearly growth rate
for metropolitan Los Angeles
in just the last four years has
been 230,000.
HBI estimators said the 14
counties grew somewhat less
rapidly in 1953 than in 1952
and that of approximately 275,
000 persons settling in the area
last year, 200,000 chose Los An
geles county and 30,000 Orange
county.
. Percentage-wise, San Diego
county has shown the greatest
growth in the period from 1940,
while Orange county has topped
the annual list since 1950.
The first successful "oil min
ing" in the Western hemisphere
was in Ventura county, Calif
in the 1860s, when tunnels driv
en into Sulphur mountain pen
etrated oil sands. ' . V
Doctor Found Dead
By Body of Patient
Atlanta U.R) A; physician
found dying beside the body of
a woman patient with whom he
had been romantically" linked
was the victim of a stroke, an
autopsy report showed today.
The autopsy on the body of
Dr. Paul D. Vella, 40, widely
known gland specialist, disprov
ed the early theory of detectives
that he had entered into a sui
cide pact with his attractive pa
tient, police said
An autopsy was planned for
Mrs. Avon Bonner, 34, whom
Vella was visiting when he died
of a brain hemorrhage, police
said. Detectives found several
empty" bottles of powerful seda
tives in the room.
The couple' was found yester
day morning by Vella's wife, the
former Thelma B. Blomstrom of
New York, when she investigat
ed her husband's failure to re
turn from an early call to Mrs.
Bonner's home.
Mrs. Vella told police that she
broke into the house and found
the woman's body and her un
conscious husband sprawled
across the bed, both fully cloth
ed. Vella never regained consciousness.
HAMMER TIP v
Portland, Me. U.R) Everett
Goddard hasn't built a better
mousetrap, but he thinks the
world should beat a path to his
door because of this startling
discovery: "If you don't want to
hit your thumb with a hammer,
nola the hammer in both hands."
Harney County Rancher
Cattleman of Year
Prineville (U.R) " Oregon's
1954 "Cattleman of the Year"
is Lloyd Hill of Harney county.
Hill was awarded the Herman
Oliver trophy for winning the
title at the annual dinner spon
sored by the Oregon Cattlemen's
association here last night.
Ralph Br eese of Prineville
placed second in the contest.
Columbia Basin Land
Available To Veterans
Saletn (U.R) Twenty-one
farms will be released in the
Columbia . basin with a 45-day
preference to veterans inr the
first release of land in that pro
ject scheduled for 1955.
Vere A. MeCarty, Oregon De
partment of Veterans' Affairs
service officer, warned today
that for : preference, : veterans
must file their applications with
the Bureau of -Reclamation at
Ephrata, Wash., before 2 p.m.
next Jan. 31.
The farms are located in the
country adjacent to the town of
Othello, Wash., 130 miles south
west of Spokane and in the
heart of the Columbia Basin rec
lamation project.
DELAYED ACTION
St. Joseph, Mich. JftJ.R) Mrs.
Jennett Kerr told police . she
didn't report theft of her wrist
watch for three months because
she thought maybe an "honest
person" would return it.
Dworshak Says Budget
Should Be Balanced
Washington U.R) Sen.
Henry C. Dworshak (R- Ida.),
said today that the Eisenhower
administration can have "no leg
itimate reason" for failure to
balance next year's budget.
' Dworshak, a member of the
Senate Appropriations .commit
tee, commented on administra
tion predictions of a deficit in
the budget to be submitted to
Congress next month.
He said the United States is
not engaged "in either a cold or
a hot war rightf now" and call
ed for a "retrenchment in fed
eral spending" to balance the
1956 budget. "If we can't bal
ance it now we can never bal
ance it," Dworshak said.
Annexation To Eugene
Defeated by Bethel
Eugene U.R) Proposed an
nexation to the city of Eugene
was turned down, 723 to 620,
yesterday by . the Bethel Water
District. :
Bethel, an area of three
square miles containing some
4,000 persons, lies just north
west of Eugene.
The district previously had
defeated a proposal to incorpor
ate as a separate city and had
voted down an earlier annexa
tion measure.
If the Bethel district ' had
voted to go into the city of Eu
gene, v the Lane county seat
would have gone above the 50,
000 figure in population. :
Proposed Increase
For Physician Fees
In Welfare Cases
Portland (U.R) A yearly in
crease of some $120,000 was
suggested today in a proposed
new medical fee schedule for
physicians' care of welfare re
cipients.- ;
The new schedule,1 devised
by represeetatives of the Ore
gon Medical Association,- was
presented to the State Public
Welfare Commission here. It
would replace a schedule drawn
in 1937.
The schedule was referred to
a special committee of the com
mission for further study and
will be presented for official
approval during . the January
meeting of he commission.
The new schedule would pro
vide payments of two-thirds of
the Oregon Physicians Service
scheduled in fees up to $50 and
50 per cent of the OBS fees for
those more than $50. It provided
that there be no fee over $150.
Medical association represen
tatives said the new schedule
was drawn' on a "realistic cost
basis." They said that a phy
sician actually is "losing money
out of his pocket" under the
present schedule, . and - that ex
penses have greatly increased
since 1937.
Lady-bird beetles kill and eat
various soft-bodies insects.
Mrs. Luce To Discuss
Problems of Italy
New York (U.R) Clare
Boothe Luce, American ambassa
dor to Italy, arrived . by plane
today from Rome to discuss the
"serious and deep rooted," Ital
ian economic problem in Wash
ington with President Eisenhow
er and Secretary ef State John
Foster Dulles.
Mrs. Luce, accompanied ' by
her husband, publisher Henry
Luce, said she would spend "a
few brief days of vacation" in
New York before "going to the
Capital. - , .
Mrs. Luce said that although
economic conditions in Italy
were pernaps lar more serious ,
than in any country in Europe" -
tremendous political strides hadt
been made in the last year.
Nixon Not Available
For Bend Convention .
Washington U.R) The '
annual state convention of the
Oregon Junior Chamber of Com-.
merce at : Bend probably will
have to get along without Vice
President Richard M. Nixon.
Chamber Prexy Keith Shep-
ard of Bend invited Nixon to
address the convention."
But the Vice-President's office ,
said today that he rarely ac-;
cepts speaking engagements
during a session of Congress
and that when he does he limits
them to areas close lo Washing-,
ton. ' .
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