Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, December 29, 1954, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextEIGHT KEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, December 29, 1954 Washinf on Pension Union Said Communist Front Organization Washington (U.P.) Atty, Gen. Herbert Brownell Jr. today asked the Subversive Activities Control Board to order the Washington Pension Union, Se attle to register with the Jus tice Department as a Communist-front organization. Brownell said the union has chapters throughout the state of Washington. He said it "is in turn directed, dominated and controlled by the Communist party and has been operated primarily for the purpose of giving aid and support to the Communist party." The Justice Department said the Washington Pension Union was set up in 1937 ostensibly to promote old age pensions and to improve the welfare of elderly persons. Jet Flight Leader Killed in Crash f Pinola, Miss. U.R) Col. Cy Wilson, who led his jet air wing on a trophy winning non-stop flight to England, died in an ap parent attempt to land an F84F jet on a highway near here dur ing a rainstorm, authorities re ported today. Sheriff Garret Mullins said Wilson crashed into a field be side Highway 20 three miles west of here last night on a .flight from Bergstrom Air Force "Base, Tex., to Turner Air Force Base, Ga. ' The. plane went down on the highway with its landing gear down after circling this Missis sippi farming community several times in the rain and bounded into the field, Mullins said. The wreckage was scattered a quar ter of a mile. Wilson in 1953 was second in command of a record breaking flight of his 20 F84 Thunderjets over the Atlantic ocean from Georgia to England, with air-to-air refueling, which won the Air Force's Mackay trophy for the. Brownell's petition to the Sub versive Control Board charged that soon after . the organiza tion's formation in 1937 "The Communist party took control of it to advance the party's aims and objectives." Under the law, a Communist front organization must register with the Justice Department the names of its officers and give a statement of its receipts and expenditures. The board- which was set up by the so-called McCarran Com munist control act, reaches its decisions only after hearings, which in the past have been extensive. Decision Upheld So far, the board has ordered only the Communist party to register as a Communist-action group under the domination and control of Soviet Russia. Its de cision was upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals here last week. Brownell's petition said that since 1937 the Communist party has maintained control of the pension union "by placing party members in key positions in the union and its chapters." The department said that the union has continued to receive financial and other support from the Communist party. It said it has also conducted campaigns to influence legislation favor able to the party and has urged its members to affiliate with the party. Truman Library Fund Over Half-Way Mark New York U.R) More than half the money necessary to build the Harry S. Truman li brary to house the .former presi dent's papers has been given and construction will probably begin next spring on a knoll in a pub lic park at Independence, Mo., the executive director of the Library Corporation announced today. David D. Lloyd, speaking be fore a joint lunch meeting of the Society of American Archivists and the American Historical As sociation, said more than $1, 000,000 of the corporators $1, 750,000 goal has been donated. He said the building, in "simple modern style, air conditioned throughout" will contain stack areas for the presidential papers, reading and study rooms for visiting researchers and of fices for the librarv staff and for outstanding flight of the year. Mr. Truman. John Wayne Top Box Off ice Star Hollywood (U.R Actor John Wayne was listed as the top box-office attraction today in the annual money-making stars poll conducted by the Mo tion Picture Herald. The Herald, a Hollywood magazine 'which will officially announce the money - making stars in . its Jan.- 1 edition, said Wayne was the first star in the history of the poll to recapture the top spot. He also won in 1950 and 1951. Behind Wayne in -the top 10 (in order) were Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Gary Cooper, James ' Stewart, Marilyn Mon roe, Alan Ladd, William Holden, Bing Crosby, Jane Wyman and Marlon Brando. Others, in order, were June Allyson, Humphrey ' B o g a r t, Burt Lancaster, Susan Hayward, Percy Killbride and Marjorie Main, Jeff Chandler, Rock Hud son, Doris Day, Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Gregory Peck, Randolph Scott, Tony Curtis, Audrey Hepburn and Esther Williams. IN Si iOWDOWN France's powerful Independent depu ties threw their support to Premier Pierre Mendes France in the two all-or-nothing votes of confidence that will decide the fate of his government and of the Western Grand Alliance. Mendes-France is reported by informed sources to be in creasingly optimistic as the showdown approaches. TEA COMPLAINT Storrs, Conn. U.R) Mrs. Margaret Etzel-Mattson, a Swed ish exchange teacher at the Uni versity ot , Connecticut, com plains that Americans say one thing and actually mean some thing else. When you Amen cans give an informal tea you serve punch or coffee never tea," she said. o PAULSEN'S o o Thrift market CENTRAL POINT Lots of Free Parking Space! BORDEN'S - QUART SIZE Mayonnaise if LARGE CAN HALEY'S BEEF STEH for o Prize Vinnlng Juice Values! i Orane It's Delicious! e Juice for TUBE lie radges FANCY NAVELS DOZ. U vid NO. 2 li ibs.!gjc GROUND BEEF No Water No Cereal ib. 3 ikiS' nurriTion nv GOOD GRADE eff 11 4i FINE WITH BEANS IA DALE'S CASH MARKET HANDLES ONLY GRADED & INSPECTED MEATS PRICES GOOD THURSDAY AND FRIDAY ONLY! Central Point's Most Complete Shopping Center WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO LIMIT QUANTITIES 1954 Said Average Earthquake Year - Pasadena, Calif." U.R) The year of 1954 has been about an average earthquake year for the world, seismologists at the Calif ornia Institute of Technology re ported today. Drs. Beno Gutenberg and Charles Richter said they record ed 20 major earthquakes during 1954. There has been no huge quake since the one that shook Japan Nov. 25, 1953, they added. The Caltech Seismology Lab oratory has kept a record of earthquakes throughout the world for several years. ' ... Tester Expects To Speed In Trip on Sled Los Angeles - (U.R) Lt. Col. John P. Stapp, who became "the fastest man on earth" by travel ing 632 miles an hour on a rocket - powered sled, prediqted today man will exceed the speed of sound on land by going 1,200 miles an hour. The 44-year-old Air Force of ficer said he would try to break the sonic barrier at sea ' level (760 miles an hour) in a future sled test to decide man's toler ance to sudden wind blasts when a plane's canopy is fired off in abandoning jet aircraft. Sensations Described The daredevil aero - medical scientist spoke yesterday at. a press conference, describing his sensations in traveling at ' the record land speed and then stopping in a second and a half. The record test, conducted Dec. 10 aj Holloman Air De velopment Center in , Alamo gordo, N.M., was to determine the acceleration and decelera tion1 effects on a pilot in high speed aircraft. "I've taken 29 such rides since I started these experiments in 1947," the officer said, "and the next one (an attempt to ex ceed land speed of sound) will be. my' last. I've had itF : To Experience Forces . He said that in his last test he wants to experience wind pres sure forces of more than 15,000 pounds on his body. "This will call for a sled speed of about 1,200 miles an hour, which will be the equivalent of bail-out conditions at 2,000 miles per hour at 35,000 feet," he added. . " Stapp said that such a speed could be attained with the pres ent sled, but that the track on which it streaks would have to be extended beyond the 3,500 foot length. A Nkhol's Worth of . . . Comment On This and That FY ' By HARMAN . United Prow Washington (U.R) The only way to avoid a hangover is not to premeditate it! . If you don:t drink on New Year's E v e,. the worst you can wake up with is a stom ach ache from too much straight egg no g g or too many s oft drinks or - too much popcorn Harman Nichols and potato chips. Or too many olives wrapped in tired strips of bacon. - I have been going through the files of the Distilled Spirits In stitute, which likes the public to take a short one once in awhile, but advocates holding of the horses before the wobbles set in. . In the files are recipes for men and women of no sense. Also in the files of the institute is a famous quotation from Wil liam the Conqueror who woke up, holding his head, the morn ing after the celebration of the Battle of Hastings. Said the Conqueror: . "I care not who makes these barbarians' wines. Show me the man who can remove the bee hive from an overwrought brain." - - Plenty of Remedies ' Around our town, some of the barkeeps have some remedies of their own, although few of them ever touch the stuff they peddle. In one of the finest hotels the bartender suggests that after a hard and, long night a body ought to partake of a full quart of milk. And, while you are still in your PJs the next am take another quart this one of but termilk. It helps to remove the tarnish of the night before." . . . The quotation without identi fied, author about the "egg in your beer," is repeated by anoth er man in a white apron. This rascal suggests something awful for . a cure of the quivers. He says that you ought to make the beer a stale one. And please beat up the egg. The Safest Method Yet another barkeep says that the thing to do if the tummy won't sit still is to take a jigger of rye and a demitasse cup filled with hot tomato soup. There also are those who tell you to take some tomato juice, add a good-sized jigger of Vod ka, the juice of half a lemon and a squirt of tabasco sauce. But. if you have time to listen curl up on the sofa and take a lesson from an old lark. The best way to spend New Year's Eye is to cuddle up with a good book. Read "The Raven" W. NICHOLS Future Writer 1 and maybe some Shakespeare. And if you are still awake at the stroke of midnight, have a pink lemonade, pull the handkerchief out of your lapel pocket, open the sash and in a whisper wish one and all a happy one. You can't get very bad hurt that a-way. ' Invade Portland Home Portland U.R) The Virgil' H. Evans family - of Portland wonders if the story of "Goldi locks and the Three Bears" isn't more than just a fable. . ; Evans reported to police that while the family was away for a day someone broke into his house, ate a wicker, basket of popcorn, picked over the re mains : of ' a Christmas ; turkey, opened a can of olives, made a pot of coffee, slept in three downstairs beds and then neatly rearranged the bedding. The intruders left a tube, of toothpaste which didn't belong to the Evans, in the bathroom, a partly empty; carton of soft drinks in the Jtitchen and a cracked phonograph record in the living room. " Evans said no. valuables were missing and all his relatives had been accounted for during the time the family was gone. - Recover Record Sum For Federal Treasury Washington U.R) The Jus tice Department recovered a rec ord $30,000,000 for the federal treasury this year. The money was recovered, in suits against individuals and cor porations where the government felt it had been cheated in trans actions such as the housing scandals and World War II sur plus ship deals. The department also reported that in fighting suits against the government, awards , were held to $23,000,000. This was less than 10 per cent of the $259, 000,000 originally sought. Girl Can Return Home; Pet Cat Has Been Round Milwaukee, Wis. (U.R) Three-year-old Cheryl , Louise Mee can return to her Connec ticut home now. Her pedigreed cat has been found. Cheryl Louise, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Austin Mee, Old Mystic, Conn., refused to return home after her cat disappeared while she was spending the Christmas holiday here with her grandparents. ' .' A neighbor found the pet Tuesday two blocks from the home of Cheryl Louise's grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roland Westfahl, and returned it to the child, Red buoys mark the . right hand sides of channels of water ways, entering from seaward. jSiis JOINS 49er$ Norman (Red) Strader (above) is all smiles in San Francisco after signing to coach the 49ers pro football team. He signed for "more than a year" and more than $20,000. Arab-Israel War Claimed Possibility Seattle U.R) World war of the atomic variety might be touched off at any time over the dispute "between the Arab states and Israel, Eric Johnston said here last night. . ' Johnston,' a Spokane native currently serving as President Eisenhower's personal represent ative to advance a development program in the Near East, said there still was no peace in Pal estine between the Arabs and Jews, v ' , ' " ; :: ' "This is one certainty in the whole complex and perilous sit uation the certainty of danger to the world," Johnston said. "Any, flame of conflict, occur ring in this area," he added, "the Kremlin would be quick to fan. The Kremlin's principal ally is chaos." ; a mm - ' - - Uixon- Yales Power lAnfrarf hanAiinArl ' vviiii uvi isvfiiuuillvU ; . Washington (U R) The American -uduc .power Association- and Citizens for TVA, Inc., : today denounced the-proposed Dixon-Yates power con tracts as a threat to public pow er systems. They asked the Se curities and Exchange Commis sion not to approve it. APPA said the project has many similiartities to untility company practices which lead 20 years ago to passage of a law regulationg private utility hold ing companies. Citizens for TV A said the pub lic interest "requires, mainten- nance of the Tennessee Valley uncorrupted by the introduction of energy., from; sources, not 3 AT A t. 1 t uuuer uie sj'siem s. tuuuui. Portland Chief Calls For Safer Driving ' Portland U.R) Police Chief Jim Purcell, describing the Christmas week end traffic rec ord here as "discouraging" and "alarming,"" today called for a concerted effort for safe driving over the New Year's holiday. A near-record total of '126 traffic accidents were reported here during the Christmas holiday. , Oregon City Editor Wins Story Award Oregon" City U.R) D a y Churchman, news editcr of the Oregon City Enterprise-Courier, has been awarded $50Q for his story of Joseph Poggi, who went to prison for life-after being convicted of stealing junk metal worth $2.50. The story , will be dramatized on " the radio-television "B i g Story" feature. ; - : ... : Churchman helped in getting . Poggi released from the state penitentiary. . . t, 1 , The radio version of the Big Story will be broadcast Jan. 12 with televising scheduled later. The United States exoorted about 37 per cent of its cotton crop in 1952. PERMANENT WAVES From COMPLETE CUT and $ET Anyway you desire it . . CRATERIAN BEAUTY SHOP 41 South Central Phone 2-4830 ExtentB. Memrtnest Y ) We Two Gunmen Hold Up Bank in Mississippi Flowood, MISS. tU.PJ TWO slender gunmen today - robbed branch bank in this tiny com munity of between $30,000 and $35,000 and sprinted into a wooded area nearby. Highway patrolmen and peaee officers converged on the com munity about four miles east of Jackson within minute after the daring daylight holdup abput of Ross Lane - Winners of the Maple v.- GENERAL ELECTRIC Automatic Uaslier and Clothes Ds yosJ 1st Prize in Our Merry Christinas Contest We also congratulate the many other win ners of prizes during our Christmas-season contest, and thank one and all who par ticipated, v 115 east ma PHONE 2-4505 io:30 aon.