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Talent-Phoenix Career Day Slated Tuesday Afternoon Talent The first public use of the nef Talent High school building will be on the afternoon of Tuesday, April 5, when Talent and Phoenix High schools join for their second annual Career Day. Some 22 speakers are scheduled to discuss vocations with the students. - Several changes have been made in the program including the addition of a fourth career meeting for every student par ticipant. AH those interested are invited to attend and may secure additional information by con tacting John W. Loughary, as sistant principal .at Talent, or William Ruck, assistant princi pal at Phoenix. Speakers Announced Speakers participating in the program are Mrs. Lois Beach, R. N., Samuel Byrd, Medford Beauty school; Kenneth Cook, United Air Lines; J. W. Creager, Pacific Telephone and Tele graph Co.;H. C. Drew, Medford Corporation; Sgt. Tom Eaton, Oregon state police; Dick Finch, Home Appliance stores; Mrs. Marina Gates. California Ore gon Power Co.; A. D. Harvey, Harvey and Watkins Consulting Engineers, and Keva Hutchin son, California Oregon Power Co. Other speakers are DeWayne Johnson, Southern Oregon col lege, Earl Jossy, agricultural home extension service; Dr. El liott MacCracken, Southern Ore gon college; Dr. John McAulay, Southern Oregon college; Al Perkins, Consolidated Freight- ways; Fred Sadri; George Sta.cey CPA, Roy Tibets, Jackson Coun ty welfare; Jack Wood, U. S. Forest Service, and Charles Jacobi, Oregon Technical institute. A Year of Crime: Some 70 Violations Net Only About $500 for Young Eugene Man MEDFORD (OREGON) MAO. TRIBTJIfE JTFTEElf Fores! Fire Season Starts in Oregon Salem OJ.PJ The State Forestry Department said Sat urday the closed forest fire sea ion has started in Oregon and that bans on the use of fire would affect all of the 26,000, 000 acres of commercial forest land in the state. The provisions of all forest laws now are in effect, officials said. They added that they are looking toward continued co operation by the woods opera tors, industrial users of the for ests, sportsmen and jecreation ists to prevent the start of fire. The closed season requires the addition of certain equipment and precautions by mills and woods operations within one eighth of a mile from forest land. Smoking k prohibited while working or traveling through a woods operation and the burning of slashings and debris must be done under permit. Forestry officials said that in spection personnel would soon be busy checking equipment as the logging season gets under way. A series of approximately 70 crimes, all committed in little more than a year, have been admitted by a 22-year-old Eu gene Negro being held in the Jackson county jail on a bur glary charge. The man is Robert Edward Ross, arrested March 23 and charged with burglary of the Greyhound Post House, Fourth and Bartlett.sts. Ross has plead ed guilty to the charge and is awaiting sentencing. $500 From 70 Crimes City police estimate that Ross, and another 22-year-old Eugene Negro named Sam Crawford, got only aoout $500 from the 70 or so crimes. They would have made more money in a month on a job that a kind- hearted judge got for them in Lane county. Police are not absolutely cer tain that Ross has told them the whole story even yet. There's no telling when he may admit something more. For ex ample, one of the most recent admissions came when Ross told Detective Sergeant Lyle Per kins while waiting in circuit court to enter a plea to the Post House burglary charge, of a ser ies of car thefts. Ross and Crawford ioined forces about 18 months ago in Detroit after Ross, who had ser ved in Korea and Japan, was discharged from the Maiine Corps under honorable condi tions. The two had known each other since they were small youngsters. In September, 1953, they de cided they would go to Eugene to see Crawford's aunt. At the time they had $18 between hem so they stole a car, drove it to Toledo, Ohio, and abandoned it. There they took another car as far as Indianapolis, where it too was ditched. By that time, they figured they were "hot,"' so they usedj part of their $18 to take a bus I to Chicago, where they stole another car, a 1954 convertible. That 'got them as far as Idaho, where Ross went to sleep while diving and the car overturned in a ditch. Neither was hurt. They hiked into the next small town and stole still an other car, which ran out of gas after only about 100 miles. From there, they hitchhiked and took a bus into 'Eugene. Altogether, their cross country trip from De troit to Eugene took only three days. After being in Eugene for a few days, they decided to go to Seattle. In Oregon City they burglarized three places and stole a sawdust truck. A police man stopped them in the stolen truck because they; had only one headlight, but they managed to talk themselves out of trouble, returning the truck to where it belonged. , Slugged a Man Going on to Seattle, they were hard put for cash, so they slug ged a man a few blocks from the bus depot and took his billfold with $30. On their way back to Eugene, they stopped in Van couver where they "pulled three jobs" one night within a radius of four blocks. They were in terrupted by a night watchman in the middle of the third bur glary, and after he chased them out of the building they moved on and pulled off two more in Vancouver. Because, Ross says, they found it so easy to commit bur glaries, they took them up in Eugene. They also beat up a man in a strongarm robbery. However, their 'career of crime almost came to an end vhen they were picked up in a stolen car while en route to California. However, they got off with a probationary period, and the judge even found a good job for them in the Lane county shops. The pay from this job, plus the proceeds from some more burglaries, bought themitist church and an old car, and they again de A Ncho's Worth of . . . Comment On This and That By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Prett Ftatm WriUi Washington (U.R) The news- schooner, Reservoirs in Bend Area Will Be Vital Redmond, Ore. OJ.PJ Reser voirs will make the difference this year for farmers and ranch ers in the Deschutes river basin, it was reported at a water fore cast meeting here Friday. Those who have access to stored water for irrigation pur poses should have enough1 throughout the next six months with careful use but those de pending on natural streamflow face some shortages. The forecast was made by W. T. Frost, of the Soil Conserva tion Service, and Larry Zim merman, U.S. weather bureau river forecast center. Harman Nichols papers here 100 years ago were more concerned with what went on in St. Louis than in the Capitol. One paper threw a har poon in the direc tion of St. Louis which had just adopted a res olution on Sunday drink ing. The Wash ington paper said: "According to the Morning Herald published there (St. Louis), a resolution has been passed requiring vendors of beer and liquor and lager beer to close their doors on the Sabbath . . . and so heavy were the penalties of disobedience that they were forced to comply . . . the conse quence was that for once St. Louis saw a sober Sunday . . . gloomy as was the day, it was morally a glorious Sabbath." The Treasury Department was worried, and said so in print, about a rash of smuggling that had been reported from New York. Agent Collector Redfield was the man who uncovered the hor rible fact that 1700 cigars had been smuggled in on the gocd ship Mary J. Kemball. After Redfield heard the report some thing else came up and it was a while before he got to the dock. He found that only a small part of the loot still was aboard. "Some of it," he said, "had been sold and a lot more smoked up by the crew." Anyhow the agent-collactor collared the captain of the Show Start. 7:10 M- -TONlTE! I (hub mo izT"yLJtl PLUS Mystery! I Adventure! I PTfeCHNlCOLPR.' Cornel Mel Rita WILDE FERRER GAM ALSO LATE WORLD NEWS AND COLOR CARTOON The Treasury Department con eluded that everything came out all right since the captain forked over $510 "twice the value of the cigars. The department got a sample of the loot and they weren't very good smoking cigars, anyhow." The 34th Congress closed up shop this week, 100 years ago. On the last day of the session, there was some unfinished busi ness but the law-givers shrugged that off. Rep. Stanton of Tenn essee offered a resolution, which was passed, calling for all pri vate bills left over to be handled by the Court of Claims. The National Intelligencer commented editorially that the Court of Claims was not yet or ganized, and that only one of the judges was in town. Another paper commented on the editorial page that: "We observe with pleasure that certain members of the late Congress have offered them selves for re-election, and regret that certain other members have declined to do so . . . those we are speaking of are the Democratic members." . Real Bargains Right under this little piece was a paid advertisement for parasols "every shade and quali ty. Also straw bor ets an " dozen linen cambric hankies at $1.50 a dozen." Another merchant had to offer eight cases of bonnets, received from the North, Every variety and style "from 75 cents to $8. Also a fine selection of collars and sleeves." One person it seems that week was concerned about a missing general. An announcement said: "Anyone having knowledge of the whereabouts of Gen. James Hamilton, formerly governor of South Carolina, and a seebnd in the Clay and Randolph duel will very greatly oblige the under signed by forwarding his infor mation to the undersigned ad dressed to the post office, Al bany, Ga." Oh, yes, and Mr. Gilmore of Concord, N.H., reported that he lost his carpet bag containing $63,000 in railr ' bonds on the express train from New York to Hartford. Freighter, Navy Ship Collide; None Killed Cape May, N. -. J.; --(U.PJ A commercial freighter and a Navy destroyer escort collided in the Delaware Bay. Thursday night, severely damaging the warship j but causing no loss of life. I Two Navy men were injured I seriously when the freighter I Mormacspruce rammed the USS William T. Powell and ripped a gaping 10-foot by 10-foot hole in the starboard side of the naval vessel, a Navy spokesman reported. Portland (U.R) Govs. Paul Patterson of Oregon and Arthur B. Langlie of Washington will be the first two witnesses at the hearing here next Wednesday on the Hells Canyon dam bill. cided to go to California. The two left without reporting to their probation officer. Car Broke Down At King City, Calif., the car broke down "and they sold it, stealing another vehicle at Paso Robles. They abandoned that one near Fresno, where they swiped another, but were forced to abandon it after only four blocks when police gave chase. The following morning they were picked up by police and were held on suspicion of bur glary because they were carry ing some tools they had stolen from a. construction truck. The two men were released after about 14 days. They rode a freight train to Sacramento, where they stole eight cents from a shoe shine stand and a dollar from a news stand in the post office. At the edge of town they broke into a warehouse, only to find it was vacant. At Dunigan, Calif., they broke into a house, stole $6 and some jewelry, prepared themselves a meal, and after finding some keys, stole the family car and used the farm gas pump to fill it. That car got them as far as Weed, where they left it after being followed- by a state police car. Bus To Medford They took a bus as far as Med ford, where they "cased" the Greyhound depot, and then re turned to Eugene, where they resumed the burglaries One night in Roseburg they were picked up by a policeman after committing two burglaries. He took them into the station, where they stole $2 in parking meter funds while his back was turned. The policeman took them to the edge of town and released them in a rain storm. That made them mad, and they hitched a ride, followed the po lice car back into town, and committed four more burglaries. A dispute in a Corvallis bur glary, when Crawford wanted to take a gun found in a safe, and Ross wanted to leave it, re sulted in their splitting up. Crawford pulled three jobs alone in Junction City and made a total of 75 cents on the three. Ross pulled more burglaries in Eugene and decided to come to Medford to "knock over" the Greyhound depot. He. got here about 9 p.m. and went to a moving picture, getting out around midnight. First he broke in to, the Bap- ransacked it vnoui iinaing any money. Then, at about 3 a.m., he, went to the Greyhound depot, where he bought a ticket for Rose burg and asked when the next bus would leave. When told it would leave in a matter of min utes, he said he would rather wait for. the '5 a.m. bus. Ransacked Office He went to the rear of the building and broke into the Post House, ransacking the office and then trying the cash register. Ross was taking money out of the register when he thought the man next door in the depot had seen him, so he left hur riedly, dropping a $10 bill and two ones. Ross caught the 5 a.m. bus for Roseburg, and the burglary was reported at 5:30 a.m. Invest Igating officers found him to be a prime suspect, so at 7:28 a.m. they asked Roseburg po lice to remove him from the bus. Ross was arrested at 7:55 a.m. when the bus arrived in Roseburg. Police found he had a large sum of cash, including a $1 bill with a hole in it which could be identified as having been taken from the Post House. Un der questioning by Medford city police, he admitted the two local burglaries. And that's what he's been doing ever since. Making admissions. EATON'S DINNER HOUSE 813 Crater Lake At. ITALIAN AND AMERICAN DINNERS SPECIAL All the Spahetti and Homemade Ravioli you can eat. Includes Home Made Bread. Butter and Coffee. QQ 5C6URS( i iT ALLiAN DINNER $1.50 Open 5:30 P.M. Till t P.M. Frl.. Sat, Sun., and Mon. Only ASHLAND life""1 VfeRTtCRUZ VI with DEMISE DARCEL fcjWllW pOGOOOOOOOOO ooooop oo oo oo oo oo 7 o CONTINUOUS FROM 1:00 P.M. 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