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MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1955
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Hollywood (Family Prepares Time Capsue
Qn Case CBvoflDzatoon Snuffed Out Soon
New York U.PJ Arch
Oboler lives with his wife and
lour sons 3,000 feet up in the
Santa Monica Mountains of Cal
ifornia, where the air is soft
nd sweet and the sky is" made
fcright on dark mornings by the
Atomic flashes at the . Yucca
roving grounds 350 miles away.
The flashes got him to think-
ig. What if our civilization
vere suddenly snuffed out? What
rauld we, as a family, want to
eave behind for some family in
ie future? How about leaving
time-capsule to be opened by
civilization 1000 years from
low?
The thought has become reali-
Oboler is building the
Oboler Family Time Capsule,"
50-ton solid rock, steel, and
pement sphere to sit at the gate
way to his mountain home. It
vas designed by famed 85-year-
ild architect Frank Lloyd
fright, who also designed the
lome.
Just In Case
I don t think It s presump-
tious, because each of us lives
with himself and his family." he
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said. "The capsule is for use
if there's complete destruction
as a result of war.
"I'm optimistic enough to be
lieve mankind will remain on
this planet despite the tempor
ary sicknesses that may come
to it."
Each member of the family is
contributing. Everything will be
put on microfilm or be tape-rec-corded
and sealed in a metal
alloy case, filled with an inert
gas, in the stone sphere center.
Oboler's own selections were
guided by one question: "What's
meant the most to me personal
ly?" He selected:
Walt Whitman's poems; ex
cerpts from the music of Beetho
ven, Tchalkovski, Stravinsky,
Debussy, and Rodgers and Ham
merstein; a dictionary, and a
book of inventions from the
wheel to the latest business-machine
automaton; the United Na
tions charter, the Declaration of
Independence, the U.S. Constitu
tion, the Ten Commandments,
and the Sermon on the Mount.
His oldest son, Guy, 12, is
leaving his Boy Scout manual;
Son David, 9, his Cub Scout
manual; son, Peter, 3, wants to
leave his ' three - week - old St.
Bernard puppy. Oboler hasn't
figured how to do that.
Mrs. Oboler hasn't disclosed
what she picked for the capsule.
A plaque of lasting metal alloy
affixed to the sphere will direct
LETTING EYES ROTE, Marilyn Monroe seems disinterested in'
Novelist Truman Capote while dancing at New York cabaret. Ca
pote la author of musical hit "House of Flowers." (International)
Eddie Robinson Jr. Again Jailed as Drunk
Beverly Hills. Calif. U.R)
Edward G. Robinson Jr., 22, son
of the film tough guy actor, was
arrested Wednesday as a drunk
and spent six hours in jail before
he was bailed out for $50.
rested on similar charges, and
last Dec. 21 he was acquitted of
robbing two cab drivers. In 1952
he was freed of bad check
charges by a jury in nearby
Last July 9 Robinson was ar- Santa Ana.
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that it not be opened for 1000
years.
Oboler, a playwright and au
thor who has written extensive
ly for radio and movies, expects
to produce a Broadway play
next fall. He is finishing the
building of his 30-room, $250,000
Wright-designed home in the
mountains 60 miles from Los An
geles only because he believes
the design is a work of art. He
said it will go to the 'State of
California when his sons die.
"I'm dead serious about this
capsule," he said. "I have noth
ing to sell. I'm not in radio, pic
tures, or television, and I have
no scarlet to advertise. I think
mankind will hold and that
we're going to have a golden
age if we can just keep our
selves from committing interna
tional suicide."
A script which Oboler wrote
as an explanatory note to go in
the capsule begins:
"To a family of the future:
We, the family Oboler, living in
the year 1955 (which means one
thousand nine hundred and fifty
five years after the birth of
Christ, who some men believe is
the son of the power who made
us all, and who all men who
know him believe was a great
and good man) speak to you
across the years.
"We are putting these words
deep into the center of a great
rock, hopeful that you might
learn a little of what we thought
here in what may be, for you, a
forgotten past ..."
Central Poini OKs
Plans, for Proposed
Fire Hall Library
Central Point The Central
Point city council has approved
plans and specifications for the
proposed fire hall-library build
ing, it was announced this week.
A call for bids on the building
is scheduled for tomorrow. Bids
will be opened at 8 8 p.m. on
April 25, and will be received
by the city until that time.
Vacation by the city of an
alley has been requested by
Reno Offutt, owner of the Ross
motel. Offutt plans to enlarge
his present rental space, and to
move the present cafe, storage
building and some cabins.
Favors Vacation
The council has Indicated that
it favors the vacation requested
by Offutt, and preliminary work
on the plan was authorized.
The council has directed Po
lice Chief Oran Chastain strictly
to enforce the city's dog control
ordinance. The ordinance pro
vides for a fine for owners of
dogs creating a nuisance, and de
fines such dogs as those which
howl or bark, roam at large
around the city, bite, or chase
cars.
City officials report that num
erous complaints have been re
ceived concerning dogs killing
chickens, chasing cars, and run
ning at large.
Customer Checks Focus
To Vanishing Point
Chicago U.R) A custom
er, "checking" the focus of a
$300 camera, edged toward the
door Wednesday and told the
clerk:
"I guess you have to be a lit
tle farther back to use this pro
perly." When the clerk turned around
to get an accessory, the custom
er kept right on edging and dis
appeared with the camera.
Pilot Halts Plane
For Last-Minute Kiss
Grand Rapids, Mich. (U.R)
The pilot of a loaded plane slow
ed his engines and ordered the
loading ramp lowered Wednes
day when he saw a woman rush
ing toward the plane, waving
her arms frantically.
The woman rushed up the
ramp to one of the' male passen
gers and kissed him breathless
ly. "My husband forgot to kiss me
goodbye," she exclaimed.
Missionary, Polio Victim, Recovering
Portland U.R) David Hazen,
29-year-old missionary from The
Dalles, Ore., who was stricken
with polio while preaching
among the natives of Sofru in
French Morocco, arrived here
fTuesday to finish his recovery.
Hazen said that he became ill
shortly after he had preached
his first sermon in the Arabic
language after two years of
study. He said he intended to
return to the Near Eastern coun
try to spend the rest of his life
preaching.
Hazen, whose wife and threa
small children were with him,
was stricken with a combination
of bulbar and spinal polio. He
was treated at an Air Force hos
pital in Morocco, and the serv
icemen then helped finance his
plane fare to the United States.
He was treated for about two
weeks at Boston before coming
to Portland. His recovery is ex
pected to take about six months.
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