Medford mail tribune., July 17, 1955, Image 28

XHniTEEH MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Sunday, July 17. 195S
HANGING DRAWS CROWDS Huge crowds mill around
London's Holloway prison as blonde Mrs. Ruth Ellis is
hanged inside for murder of one of her two lovers. The
28-year-old mother of two children was executed for pump
ing six pistol bullets into race driver David Blakely.
Turncoats Still in
China Said Anxious
To Return to States
Kobe, Japan (U.R) An
American turncoat returning to
the' United States says that all
VS. ex-prisoners who. refused re
patriation at Panmunjom after
the Korean war now want to go
home.
. He said 18 more Americans
who chose to stay with the Com
munists will be crossing the
Hong Kong border "in the very
near future." -
Otho G. Bell, 24, Hillsboro,
Miss., broke away from the
leadership of "sDokesman'j-Wil-
liam Cowart and told his story
aboard the liner President
Cleveland.
Others Are Afraid
Only Communist intimidation
nnH tho fear of U.S. courts are
keeping the rest of the ex-prisoners
in Red China, Bell said. .
T 4a oil tt tViom Wnra
I left," Bell said. "They are very
afraid. They" told me they just
Parents Sentenced
For Child Neglect
.Portland (U.R) A judge sent
a Portland laborer and his wife
to jail for a year yesterday for
causing their children to become
dependents- of the state. .
The sentence was imposed on
John and Marjorie Childers who
were arrested earlier this week
on child neglect and drunken
ness charges.
District Judge Ray Shoemak
er, who overrode a defense plea
for suspended sentences, said:
"In all the time I have been in
the courts, since 1919,' I have
never .before heard of - a case
where children were abandoned
in such a condition as this."
.The couple was arrested by
city police after neighbors had
complained that their six chil
dren, ranging in age from six
months to eight years, had been
left alone for two days. The six-month-old
child was said to still
be in serious condition. ' "
. - Judge Snoemaker said what
becomes of the children is up
to the juvenile court.
didn't have the guts to face U.S.
military courts."
Bell said Communist Chinese
officials informed all American
ex-prisoners they, had been sen
tenced to death by the U.S. Su
preme Court.
: . The exclusive United Press in
terview with Bell was conducted
on the President Cleveland,
which stopped here today on its
voyage from Hong Kong to San
Francisco. '
- Bell and two other turncoats,
William Cowart of Dalton, Ga.,
and Lewis Griggs of Jackson
ville, Tex., are traveling home in
a third class dormitory on the
liner. They stepped out of Red
China at Hong Kong Sunday af
ter 17 months with the Commu
nists.
Only Two Roads
Bell said the American turn
coats still in Red China are being
used in "brain-washing . experi
ments."
The Americans still in China
are "all fouled up beyond all
reason" and do not know what to
do any more, Bell said.
"The Reds can turn your
heart to steel," : he continued.
"They give them only two roads
one, to be a good comrade, the
other, death. This uncertainty
is keeping American ex-prisoners
in Red China, today."
Bell said he did not know
what he was going to do when he
first returned to the United
States, but that he hoped his
young wife, Jewell, and a four-year-old
daughter he has never
seen will meet him in San Fran
cisco.' They have been living in
Olympia, Wash. -.,
Beesley Appointed
Klamath County DA
Salem (U.R) Gov. Paul L.
Patterson Friday appointed Rich
ard C. Beesley of Klamath Falls
as district attorney for, Klamath
county.
Beesley succeeds Frank Alder
son, who resigned to accept a
post as deputy-district attorney
of Lane county. , Alderson had
had prolonged differences with
Klamath County Circuit Judge
David R. Vandenberg.
'Rubber Roads' Test
Waited With Interest
Chicago U.R) The American
Public Works Association says
highway officials are awaiting
with interest the outcome of
tests of "rubber roads." . ., .
During the last five years ex
perimental patches of surfacing
containing rubber have been laid
on selected stretches of roads
throughout the country, the asso
ciation said.
Connecticut, Louisiana,. Ne
braska, Ohio, Utah and Wiscon
sin are among states that have
such experimental patches of
road.
Proponents of "rubber roads"
hope they will prove to be
longer lasting, skid-proof and
more resilient.
But a major disadvantage, the
association said, has been the
high cost. However, researchers
hope they . have this, problem
licked. .-
Originally, asphalt and rubber
were mixed at a chemical plant
and shipped hot in insulated
trucks or railroad tank cars to
the construction sites. This lim
ited the shipping range to a 24
hour trip from the plant..
But now, rubber pellets no
larger than a pencil eraser have
been developed. They can be
packed in bags, thus cutting ship
ping costs and eliminating re
strictions on shipping distances.
A combination of tar and syn
thetic rubber has been tested in
Connecticut. Near Milwaukee,
Wis., experiments are underway
oh two half-mile strips of rubber
bituminous concrete paving.
Older Workers Said
Efficient Employees
Chicago (U.R) The Civil Ser
vice Assembly says anew study
shows that , older workers are
as efficient or better than em
ployes under 60.
The assembly cited a study
made and evaluated by the Uni
versity of Illinois,' which rated
a sampling of workers on over
all. performance, absennteeism.
dependability, work quality, out
put, andebility to get along witn
others.
The university contracted su
pervisors in 20 companies who
told what they thought of the
competence of 1,025 workers in
their 60s and 70's.
In - over-all performance, su
pervisors rated 16 per cent of
the older workers as excellent,
32 per cent very good, 36 per
cent good, 15 per cent lair ana
1 per cent poor.
The supervisors reported that
70 per cent were absent less
nfton than vouneer workers, 23
per cent about the same and 7
per cent more often.
On dependability, oo per cem
were judged more dependable
than younger employes, and 6
per cent less dependable.
Comparative percentages . for
work quality were 36 per cent
better, 57 per cent aooui we
same and 7 per cent poorer.
More than 75 per cent of the
older workers had production
records equal or higher than
those of younger workers.
Thirty-three per cent get along
with others better than younger
workers do," the study showed.
Sixty per cent are on a par with
vouneer emDloyees in this'stand-
ard and seven per cent do now
fare as welh
Baker Stud Mill
Destroyed by Flames
Baker-UU.R) Fire fanned by
gusty winds Friday destroyed
the Shannon stud mill here and
threatened other buildings, in
cluding a powder house.
i Loss was estimated at $30,000
A child born today has a five
times better chance to grow to
maturity than a child born 30
years ago. Females can expect
to live to an average of 72 years
and males can expect to live to
be 68. ; - - - '
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