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FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Killer of Mates Gets Life Term Tulsa. Okla. fU.R! Grandma Nannie Doss, who poisoned four of her five husbands, today was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder. The plump defendant, who pleaded guilty last week, chewed gum as usual and listened with a fixed smile as District Judge Elmer Adams read the verdict. Adams said it will still be pos sible for another state to prose cute the 50-year-old self - made widow. She is charged with mur dering four husbands in Kansas, North Carolina and Alabama. She was charged here with the murder of Sam Doss, her fifth husband and a state highway de partment employee, who died last Oct. 10 after eating break fast prunes she had seasoned with rat poison. She confessed she killed four of her husbands by giving them arsenic. Authorities suspect she had a hand in the suspicious deaths of nine other relatives, in cluding her mother. Clover Resistant To Stem Disease Developed Champaign, 111. 0J.R) A new variety of medium red clov er, resistant to northern anthrac nise, a stem disease, has been re leased by several midwest agri cultural experiment stations after 10 years of testing. C. N. Hittle of the University of Illinois' agricultural school said a limited amount of seed will be available in 1956. The new clover, named Dol- Lou KNOW HIS NAME as Con yc-tiame him? He invented the swivel chair, a plow, the shooting tick, and an indoor weather vane. As a Congressman, he wrote a suggestion for a deci mal monetary system which gave us the penny, the dime, and the dollar yet strangely enough, his face appears on the two money units he did not suggest. They are the nickle and the two-dollar bill. And now you know him Thomas Jefferson, born 212 years ago. You might think it strange that this busy man whose mind was engaged with so many practical things should also have written the most inspiring words in American history our Declaration of Independ ence. But Thomas Jefferson knew that independence is a practical thing. Yoifknow it, too. And you are acting in the spirit of Jefferson every time you invest another dollar in our nation's Series E Savings Bonds. For Savings Bonds can be your personal Declaration of Inde pendence. They offer you one of the world's surest ways to save. And they pay good interest 3 com pounded semiannually when held to maturity. Don't let all of Thomas Jefferson's good dollars you receive slip through your fingers! Take the first step toward security and financial independence today by joining the Payroll Savings Plan at your company. Or invest in Savings Bonds regularly where you bank! Want your interest paid as current income? Invest in 3 Series H United States Qovemment Series H Bonds are new cur-' Tent income Bonds in denominations of $500 to $10,000. Redeemable at par after 6 months and on one month's notice. Mature in 9 years, 8 months and pay an average of 3 Per annum if held to maturity. Interest paid semi annually by Treasury check Series H may be purchased through any bank. Annual limit: $20,000. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE SANTEE ON SPOT Accord ing to a report in The San Francisco Chronicie, track star Wes Santee took "far more than legitimate expense money" in recent appear ances in meets at Los An geles, Modesto and Fresno. Santee (above) in Los An geles, denied the charges, stating: "I have done nothing to affect my amateur stand ing. Every dime I've received has been according to the book." The Amateur Athletic Union will investigate the charges. lard, has shown up exceptional ly well in the northern two thirds of Illinois, out-yielding other varieties when anthracnose is present. well as your ow n. The V. S. Government doee not pay for this advertising. The Treasury Department thanks, for their patriotic donation, x the Advertising Council and Thursday, June 2, 195S Forks of Salmon Kids Tell Thanks Story Describes Trip The Jackson County Chamber of Commerce has received a letter of thanks from the eight youngsters at Forks of Salmon, Calif., who were guests of the chamber for one magnificent day of adventure in Medford recently. 4 The letter was addressed to "Dear Chamber of Commerce." and concluded, "Thanks again for everything." It was signed by all eight of the children who made the trip. Paper Tells of Trip Enclosed with the letter was a copy of the "Papoose," the school paper at Forks of Salmon, which is a five-page, duplicated publication. One full page is devoted to a description of the trip and its thrills for the young people, none of whom had ever been to a "large city" before. Here are excerpts from the story: . "Have you ever dreamed of something wonderful that you thought would never, never happen to you in this world and then out of a clear blue sky have it come true? ... ". . . It happened in Medford, Oregon, Thursday, May 20th. It happened to us because Katharine George wrote a letter to the Medford Chamber of Commerce asking them for information concerning points of interest . . . We talked quite a bit about it at school but we thought maybe nobody cared too much about us little 'hill-billies' until finally a letter arrived and Katharine brought it up to school and the teacher read it to us and we selected the things we would like most to see and do. That of course wasn't hard because we had never seen nor done too many things. Then more correspondence and finally the day THE letter arrived asking us to Medford as guests of the Chamber of Com merce!.' No More Lessons "There were no more lessons that afternoon because we planned what to wear, what day to go, what time to leave, what to do if Rachel got car sick because she said 'I'll get car sick, Mrs. Brown, you just wait and see!' (She didn't.) Raymond and Hoop said, "Do you think they will really let us ride in the police car or are they just stringing us kids?" Dreams, you see, that we thought could never happen! "Finally the day arrived and we left the Forks of Salmon school house at 5 a.m. all dressed up and off to Medford. And a day of surprises and wonder wonder that people could be so kind to us because, after all, they rine or Mrs. Brown at all. Peggy and Betty wanted to shop in a real store, so the manager of Mann's Dept. Store welcomed all the girls like queens, and gave them a discount on what they bought. Sam's Sporting Goods store gave the boys bait boxes for their fishing. Mrs. Pree gave Katharine and Mrs. Brown lovely earrings as remembrances of Medford (as if we needed to remember such a time). The newspaper of Medford gave the children many copies of the papers, and lead type with their names on them. The Presi dent of the C of C gave them gifts from the bank and lunch at the Jackson Hotel, from the C of C. It was delicious what elegant apple pie. The radio station gave us soft drinks when it was so warm and stars' pictures. Wonderful City "In fact, we think Medford is a wonderful city where the people are just like those on the Salmon, kind, helpful and full of fun. Big cities aren't so scary after all. They are like the Forks, only more of - it. "Fire Chief Gordon Barker and Police Sgt. Clyde Fichtner spent the whole day with us. We liked both of them very much and we think they were tired, too. We were tired but so happy that we just had to sing all the way back to the Forks. We got home at midnight. We are shy and we know it, but we will never forget that day in Medford and all the people who smiled at us andwere so good to us. We thank everyone so very much and hope we will see all of you again." NeW Red China Military Machine Has Youth Accent (Editor'! note: Red China, with more than 2,000.000 men in uniform, has announced it will start drafting loon. Why? The following dispatch is a study of the likely reasons behind it.) Br WENDELL MERICK United Press Correspondent Hong Kong (U.R) Red China has blueprinted a new mil itary machine with the accent on youth and brains. Later this year, the National People's Congress is expected to give rubber-stamp approval to compulsory military service in China. The project appears de signed to: 1. Reduce the size of the stand ing army and therefore reduce defense expenditures, and at the same time, build , a massive trained reserve. 2. Increase the navy and air force. 3. Suck into the military tech nicians and specialists, a cate gory which has avoided service. 4. Weed out the battle-weary veterans of the long battle to conquer China and substitute energetic youths, able to master modern battle techniques. The Communists freely admit their army costs too much to support despite the fact that troops in garrison grow their own food. Clothing and pay, minute though the latter prob ably is, nevertheless are a drain on the economy. Further, the Chinese do not have the equipment now to give every soldier, a rifle or a ma chine gun or enough ammunition to fire them. In Korea, attacks usually found the first waves un armed or if they did have weap ons, when they fell, the second wave scooped them up. The Chinese lack, if not planes, then pilots to fly them. They lost heavily in Korea, for one thing, and educated replacements are hard to come by. Likewise, their fledgling navy needs technicians to man whatever warships they can pry loose from the Russians. Just'as Chiang Kai-shek's army gets older, so does that of the Communists. They need replace ments for the veterans, some of whom date back 20 years. Some of the generals have been active even longer. And the Reds need to streamline their forces, mak ing them aware of modern strat egy and tactics. The gradual process has al ready started. Last Nov. 1, the Reds began drafting 450,000 men into the services. The. draft, a one-shot affair, was scheduled to be completed Feb. 28. Indefinite Reserve Status This contingent likely will form the nucleus of the "new" army, acting as cadres for future draftees. The cream of this crop probably will be, tabbed for big ger things. The proposed conscription os tensibly is being studied at city in Note; didn't know us kids or Katha and provincial level now and will be introduced for consider ation when the People's Con gress meets later this year. It calls for soldiers to serve three years, airmen four years, navy personnel five years. In addition, once discharged, the draftee automatically goes into the active reserve for an in definte period. No hint was given as to the size of the draft. But it seems likely that in the first year it probably will not exceed 500,000 men. The scarcity of persons to tram them is the biggest prob lem, since these presently being drafted need a year or two to be trained as well. For the time, the Russians may supervise the training program. Judging from the proposed set up, as outlined in the Communist press, the army will be modeled after the Soviet military. Busy Building Has Meditation Room Memphis, Tenn. (U.R) In the center of a busy office building there is a room for meditation and prayer. It is a place where clerks, stenographers, janitors, office managers, salesmen and visitors to the building can find peace and quiet and escape the frantic pace of the business world. "The Light." as the mnm i called, was the inspiration of jane Fatrick, a vivacious bru nette of 28 who works in the building. iMiss Patrick is chief clerk of Draft Board 86 here. Often she had wished, for a quiet and se cluded spot where she could reassure the troubled people who came to see her. Last December, when she learned a room was being set aside in the Capitol in Wash ington, D. C., for prayer and meditation, Miss Patrick asked herself, "Why not here?" She talked it over with businessmen in the M.G.M. Building, and, with the help of a Tuesday night Bible study class, raised $405.51. "The Light" is a room of soft lights, growing plants, bright draperies and cool gray walk. It is non-denominational. Miss Patrick is not resting on her accomplishment. If we could put a room like this in every office building in Memphis," she said. "I know they're crying for one in another building." She plans to try to help them get one. But there will be no gifts from churches. "Business should do the job she said. War Correspondent Memorial Scheduled Washington 'U.R) A Me morial to the 15 American and foreign war correspondents who lost their lives in Korea soon will be unveiled at the Defense department beside the one now honoring 44 who died covering U.S. forces in World War II. The memorial to World War II correspondents is the large Pentagon pressroom where the Washington reporters who cov er military affairs do their work. Photographs of the 44 World War II reporters are mounted on a 6 by 12 foot map of the world on a wall of the press room. Pictures as far as possible are placed on the map over the geographic area where the re porters died. At the top of the map is a commemorative plaque sur mounted by the Defense depart ment seal and carrying the leg end "War Correspondents 1941 1945," and the traditional "30" which signifies the end of a story. Little Woman Chases Would-Be Holdup Man Minneapolis (U.R) A stickup man approached Mrs. Mary Mc Glyrih, about 50, at her grocery store here. "There's going to be no rob bery here," she shouted at him. "I'll hit you over the head with a bottle first." She proceeded to shoo him out and chase him down the street screaming, "That man tried to hold me up. Follow him.." Two neighbors nailed the would-be bandit, a six-footer weighing 280 pounds. Mrs. Mc- Glyn stands five feet, two inches. 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Butler Would Greet Southern Demo Rebels Chicago (U.R) Democrat ic National Chairman Paul M. Butler said last night he has "no intention" of keeping South ern "rebels" out of the party's 1956 convention. Butler thus lined up behind Adlai E. Stevenson, the party's 1952 candidate, who said recent ly that the Democrats should' take back "those who have strayed and return in . good faith." Butler also had the implied support of Stephen A. Mitchell, the former party chairman who caused a controversy recently by saying three of the "rebels" should not be admitted as dele gates to the convention. Butler made his statement at a news conference in Mitchell s office after conferring with him all day. The two men apparent ly reached agreement on how to handle the Southern problem IfitMIM Start saving two ways - Shop Oakdale for quality - Get valuable premiums Free with Northern Stamps . See the display at Oakddlo ib. as You Pkg. 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