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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (May 18, 1955)
i TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Welcome Rainfall Continues To Pound Area of Dust Bowl By UNITED PRESS Gully-washing rains kept up their downpours in the heart of the Southwest's Dust Bowl to day. Delighted farmers in the Texas Panhandle reported up to five inches of rain. More downpours fell through Texas, Colorado, Nebraska and western Kansas. But the crop saving rains were not an unmixed blessing. They were accompanied by a tornado near Chillicothe, Tex., flood threats, and violent electrical storms. Car Picked U? The Chillicothe twister near the Texas-Oklahoma border last night picked up a car from a highway and set it down neatly in a field. The driver, unhurt, sat out the storm in his car and then drove back onto the road to resume his trip. In Oklahoma, meanwhile, an area in the state's eastern cen tral section was shaken by an explosion generally believed to have been caused by a meteor. Seen in Several Towns The blast, following a flash in the sky, was heard, felt or seen in Wewoke, Seminole, Shawnee, Holdenville, Lima and Okemah. Creeks were rising in both states. A cloudburst south of Abilene, Tex., sent Elm and Jim Ned creeks out of their banks, clasing a farm road, while Brady creek was up 20 feet, 10 feet be low flood stage and only four feet under Highway 377 bridge north of Brady, Tex. ACTRESS ILL Hollywood (U.R) Actress Jean Simmons was ill today with severe attack of bronchitis. Her illness stopped production on the motion picture, "Guys And Dolls" until at least Mon day. You don't want gadgets if you have trouble hearing you need the help of an experienced, local hearing aid expert, backed by a nationwide organization producing fine in struments year in and year oat. That's what you will get for your money when you place your trust in Sonotone, world's leading hear. Ing aid manufacturer and distrib utor. 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Police Chief Al Kennedy said the plotters planned to waylay a police car carrying the postal messenger and the cash as it left the Post Office for the Union Pacific Depot. But more than a score of po lice officers, sheriff's deputies and postal inspectors pounced on three of the suspects minutes be fore the messenger car was to leave. Kennedy said" an inform er tipped them about the plot' two weeks ago. Arrested in front of the post office were George Anderson, 31, a Las Vegas poiice officer; his wife, Joyce, 24; and Robert Schomer, 29, and electric com pany employee. They were book ed on conspiracy to rob the U.S. mails. Navy Said on Threshold Of Atomic Break-Through Washington (U.R) Sen. Henry M. Jackson said today the Navy is on the threshold of "a big break-through" into at omic power for surface ships as well as submarines. A year from now, Jackson said in an interview, he expects the Navy to present "a vastly ex panded program" for construc tion of atomic submarines. ' In addition, he said, the Navy is making progress in develop ing an atomic-powered aircraft carrier. But he expressed doubt that this ship will be included in the next military budget. REBUTTAL Kendallville, Ind.- (U.R) A state highway department of ficial, ticketed for not paying a parking meter, "told off" city police, then reluctantly paid a 25-cent fine.: in retaliation, May or Andrew Milnar sent a letter to the state highway chairman, demanding that the person be reprimanded and saying, "we don't have to stand for it and we don't intend to." v WASPS AND RAMBLERS ... MEDFORD Hudson, Inc. FRONT AND JACKSON STREETS PHONE 2-6281 Wednesday, May 18. 1953 News About Servicemen FIVE LOCAL MEN ENLIST. IN AIR FORCE' Five young men from Jackson county have enlisted in the U.S Air Force, it was reported today by MSgt. Carson W. Campbell, Air Force recruiter here. They are Loyd D. Wait, Rogue River, and Michael Lewis Clark, route 1, box 290A, Robert Du ane Tuttle, 712 West Fourth st., Ray Gary Scarborough, 217' ; Beatty St., and Lapold James An- keney, route 1, all Medford. COMPLETES COURSE Airman Third Class Donald D. Stockoff, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth G. Stockhoff, 721 Bennett ave., Medford, recently completed a course as an air craft propellor repairman, . ac cording to an Air Force release. He entered the Air Force last Septemmber, receiving basic training at Parks Air Force base. He graduated from the propellor course with honors, the release said. BACK FROM GERMANY Pfc. William Clegg, son of Mr. and- Mrs. W. B. Clegg, 2235 Oakwood dr., returned home last week end after spending 23 months in the Army, more than half of which was spent in Germany. He was separated last week at Ft. Lewis, Wash. Young Clegg is a graduate of Medford High school, and attended Southern Oregon college before joining the Army. HOME ON LEAVE Sgt. Charles W. Cook Jr.. son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cook, 143 Kenwood ave., arrived here Monday-to visit for about a week while on leave after returning recently from Japan. He was overseas about 30 months and has been in the service about three years. Sergeant Cook at tended Medford High school. LEAVE FOR BASE Airman Third Class David T. Egan left Sunday after visiting last week with his mother, Mrs. ,Cora Egan, and his grandmother, Mrs. Ina Stockman, 1211 Niantic st. He was here on leave after completing basic training in the Air Force at Parks Air Force More that's new different, better! It's Hudson with exclusive Double Strength Single Unit construction that is twice as safe with the most seatroom and head room and the widest wrap-around wind shield in the business. No wonder Hudson sales are way up! Come in; see for yourself! MOST BEAUTIFUL PERFORMERS W Fred Kohlenberg has a dealership in Bridge port, Conn. Miller and Kohlenberg were among 24 Oldsmobile dealers selected from throughout the United States to represent their sales zones at the two-day meeting. Sin-Favoring Mayor Elected in Galveston Galveston, Tex. (U.R) George Roy Clough, 64, elected mayor on a platform that fav ored sin, took office today but the once notorious Galveston red light district he proposed to re open remained shut down. Clough's proposed meeting with all the gambling operators in town to find out how "the boys" think the city should be run, apparently had been post poned indefinitely, too. The tall, dignified owner of radio station KLUF who decided to run for mayor because the city once cut off his water when he had cancelled checks to prove he had paid a big water bill, said he was a man who has been "terribly misquoted by the press." Grange Upper Rogue Grange Upper Rogue Grange met in regular session Thursday eve ning, May 5, with Master Herb Carlton presiding. Eagle Point Grange officers joined Upper Rogue officers in the seating drill. Brother Harold Barber was elected delegate to the state Grange at Klamath Falls in June. There were six masters i present. Mabel Wertz of Eagle Point Grange, Pearl Burns of Upper Applegate Grange, Isabell La Vander of Griffin Creek Grange, Ray Cameron of Live Oak Grange, Melvin Laddie of Phoenix Grange and Herman Kamping of Gold . Hill Grange, also state juvenile chairman Willie McLean of Gold Hill; After a nice program by Eagle Point Grange these officers also closed the meeting. There were 110 members present. base. Calif. His next station is Scott Air Force base in Illinois where he will study radio main tenance work. Egan enlisted Jan. 20 this year for a four-year per iod. He attended Medford High school and will receive his diplo ma next month for completion of his school work after entering the service. Airman Egan worked at the Big-Y market and also was a Mail Tribune carrier be fore going into the service. OF THEM ALLI r ,4V. I Roberts Funeral Arrangements Set Phoenixville, Pa. U.R) Pri vate funeral arrangements were made today for former U.S. Su preme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts whose term on the high court was marked by conflict with many of the New Deal, policies. i Roberts, who died Tuesday at i the age of 80 following a heart attack at his nearby Bryncoed farms home, had served on the nation's highest tribunal for 15 years, most of them during the Franklin D. Roosevelt era. In 1924. President Coolidge appointed Roberts as a prosecu tor in the Teapot Dome scandal. As late as 1941, President Roose velt named him head of the gov ernment commission which in vestigated the attack on Pearl (, . I, i i . i I j i iimii niirt'L I i Just imagine the extra brightness and beauty you can give your home with exten sion telephones in sparkling new colors. 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