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
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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.
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