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Record Highs Scorch Midwest By UNITED PRESS The hottest weather of the year baked the nation's midsec tion today with a 100-degree mid summer heat wave. Heat records tumbled through out the Midwest and steaming humidity added to the misery in the early morning hours. No immediate relief was in sight for many areas, although a cool front was expected to crack the heat wave in sizzling Chicaso by tonisht. Scorchers were feared elsewhere until this weekend. Record breaking highs yester day included 90.3 at Chicago end 101 at Milwaukee, both new tops for the date. It was an even 102 at Sioux City, Sac City and Os kaloosa in Iowa, and at Beloit, Wis., and 103 at Blythe and Dag gett, Calif. The hottest temper atures were registered at Wa mego, Kan., and Lincoln, Neb., where the 'mercury went to 105. At Cedar Rapid?. Ia., 81-year-old Knute Longfield collapsed from the heat and hospital at tendants discovered the oldster was excessively protected against the weather. ' They peeled off a pair of long woolen underwear, a wool vest, a wool sweater, and a pair of heavy pants. Longfield explained that he "luffered from rheumatism. Muddy Trench Marks Spot For Unique Project in American Military History Farmer Confuses Tax Men With Nude Photo Wichita, Kan. (U.R) . A Kansas farmer stirred up an ar gument among Internal Revenue Service agents when he sent in his income tax return. Attached to the properly filled form was another paper listing depreciation of farm equipment. This, too. seemed to be in order, but the information was written on the back of a picture of a nude woman such as is used on Hurricane, Utah U.PJ A 12.000-foot-long trench Jn a 300-foot-wide. muddy clearing atop Pioneer Mesa, three miles northeast of Hurricane, marks the location of a unique project in American military history. The trench has been trans formed into the underpinning of Local Barbers Hear Union Officials Talk Three officials of the barbers union, two of them state officers, spoke at a breakfast meeting to day of the Jackson county bar bers' local held in the Jackson hotel. Representing the state asso ciation were Ed Classen. Astoria, president, and Charles T. Crane, Portland, secretary. George Line han spoke representing the Port land association of which he is president. The two speakers brought out two points regarding the barter ing profession, one, that barber schools are not training the bar ber students properly in their trade, the other, that they are not instilling the art of handling public relations with their cus tomers. It also was pointed out that there is a shortage of bar bers throughout the state and that about three-fourths of the men who have taken up barter ing since World War II have dropped out because they lack the proper training to compete with others in the profession. calendars. "We can't figure out," said one agent, "whether the farmer thought we would be so busy looking at the girl that we wouldn't check his return thor oughly or whether he was try ing in a subtle way to show us his tax payment had stripped him." Short Sleeve SPORT SHIRTS " fL " ' Orlens, Cottons, Prints, Plaids, Plains. All Styles. ONE GROUP Reg. Values to $3.95 NOW w mm $1198 SUMMER STOAWS One Group Reg. $2.95 Value NOW 3 MEETS SfflKOIP 229 EAST MAIN STREET a rocKet siea tracK mat wui oe used by the armed services in testing ways that crews could use to escape from super-sonic aircraft in emergencies. The multi-million dollar proj- l ect is code named "Operation Smart." The name is derived from the initials of the project Supersonic Military Air Re search Track. The Utah rocket sled track will be an extension of the pio neer Navy installation near Mo jave, Calif., and the Air Force's famed project at Almogordo, N.M., where an officer recently travelled more than 600 miles an hour on a sled. The Pioneer Mesa develop ment will have one major dif ference. The old tracks were equipped so that the sleds, after travelling at high speed, stopped at the end. In Utah, the sled will stop but its cargo instruments or dum mies, with human passengers ex cluded will be shot on off into space, in a duplication of the effect of ejecting a pilot's cock pit from a jet fighter or bomber. The south end of the mesa, where the track will end, is a sandstone cliff. The "cap-rock," geologists call it the Shinerump formation, forms a wall some 200 feet straight up and down. Below the cap rock, the rock and sluffed-off sand descends so sharply that the test capsule need be shot only a few hundred feet off the end of the mesa to have a vertical descent of 1,500 feet. That is why the Pioneer Mesa was selected for the develop ment after studies that included surveys of a score or more pos sible sites in this country and even on oceanic islands. Preliminary work, including carving of .a 10 per cent grade road up the cliff, began last fall under an over-all contract let to the Coleman Engineering Co., Los Angeles. Water Essential The Las Vegas, Nev., firm of Lembke, Clough and King had the major contract for prepara tion of the sled track itself and the work which began early in the year, was to have been fin ished about June 1. So far, scrub cedar atop the mesa has been cleared on the track site and in areas to be oc cupied by supply structures and the enclosed firing revetment, from which the experiments will be controlled by crews protected from rocket blasts by thick walls. Instrument mounts now used by surveyors but later to hold cameras have been carefully installed at 28 locations on the edge of the clearing. The track, six feet, eight inches wide when finished, will be in the middle. The mesa is generally level, but considerable work still must be done to fill in a few gullies and blast off some rocky pro jections to make the site perfect. Already completed is a three inch pipeline carrying water from a pumping station on the Virgin River, below the mesa, up the rim rock to the sled site. Water is vital, lor all operations, particularly that of filling a trough that serves as a brake for the speeding sled. Most of the construction work ers now live in Hurricane, three miles airline to the southwest; LaVerkin, just north of Hurri cane; or Virgin, a few miles southeast. A few reside in St. George, Utah, 20 miles to the southwest. Vlanl Note Uol BUY THE NEW G E Water Heater AUTOMATIC ELECTRIC Wash a Load of Clothes EVERY HOUR -AH Day Long- ONLY $5.00 A MONTH NOTHING DOWN HOME APPLIANCE IIS EAST MAIN Authorized Dealer tENERAlOu"Tlie Water Heaters SPORTS Medford Grabs Intermediate League Mantle SOUTHERN OREGON JUNIOR BASEBALL Cub Standings Grant Pass Medford Ashland w. ... 2 ... 2 ...0 ret. l.nno .fifi" .000 Intermediate Standings (Final) W. Medford 3 Ashland 4 Lone Pine 3 Central Point 0 L. Pet. Pee Wee Southern (Final) W. Medford TiKeri 9 Central Point 7 Ashland 5 Lone Pine 5 Medford Wildcats 4 Jacksonville 0 I.. 1 3 5 S a 10 .833 .R67 .500 .000 Prt. .900 .700 .500 .500 .400 .000 Wayne Lemley Wins at Ashland Ashland For the second race in a row at the Ashland speedway, it was Wayne Lem ley in Bryant's 57 driving a hard and fast race Saturday night to take the A-Main on the local oval. Lemley, starting in the 14 spot in the 20 car race worked his way through the pack, and in the 16th lap jumped out to the number one spot. Race results: 1st heat, Crock Hunter, A-15; 2nd heat, Wayman Core, C-16; 3rd heat. Bob Meyer, A-16: 4th heat, Elmer Sisemore, M-39; B main, Crock Hunter. Next scheduled race to be held at the speedway will he Satur day night, July 30, with the time trials startinng at 7 p.m., and and races at 8 p.m. Wednesday, July 27, 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINE Medford smacked Lone Pine 8 to 1 yesterday to sew up the Intermediate championship of the Southern Oregon Baseball League and the Medford Cubs were battling this afternoon to keep hopes alive in their cir cuit. The local hurlers, Johnny Jones and Lawrence combined for a one-hitter in bouncing the Piners. Lone Pine got its bingle off Jones who was relieved after tiring in the fourth frame. Med ford collected only four hits off Maurer of LP. The victory gave Medford a 5-win 1-loss record. Ashland finished with a 4-2 standing in second place with a 5 to 4 nod over Central Point. Win A Must Win was a must for the Med ford Cubs this afternoon if they were to gain even a tie for a championship. Grants Pass went into the fray unbeaten while Medford has a previous setback. The Grants Pass nine has a make-up with Ashland on Fri day. Medford Tigers have already been crowned Pee Wee south ern division champions. They play the Grants Pass champions next Tuesday for the overall mantle and likely will" add two or three of the better players Waltonians Have Tickets On Sale Tickets are now on sale for the Sportsmen's show to be staged on Tuesday, August 9, by the Jackson County chapter of the Izaak Walton League of Am erica. They may be purchased at Lamport's and Sam's Sporting Goods stores. The shows is scheduled for evening at the Medford senior high school stadium. There will be exhibits of sporting goods, golf, fly casting, spin casting, archery, retriever dog, horse packing and dog obedience dem onstrations will be on the program. from the Wildcat roster for the game which will be here. A smaller Pee Wee squad was to play a practice mix with Grants Pass this afternoon. Short Score: R H E Lone Pine 113 Medford 8 4 0 Maurer and Penwell; Jones, Lawrence and Clark. Of the total U. S. rural road mileage, the percentage that is surfaced has risen from less than eight per cent in 1904 to some what more than 60 per cent as of the current year. Trabert Opens Bid at Meadows Southhampton, N. Y. (U.R) Wimbledon champion Tony Tra bert, anxious to atone for a sur prise defeat here last year, opened his bid for the Meadow Club Invitation tennis tourna ment title today with a second- round match against Dr. Jack Geller of Purchase. N. Y. The Cincinnati, Ohio, star was the only player in the field to draw a bye in Tuesday's first round and was expected to sweep through Geller, a firmer Princeton player, with ease. But last year Trabert was sim ilarly favored and was upset in the semi-final round by Eddie Moylan of Trenton, N. J., who went on to win the champion ship. Moylan, only second-seeded in defense of his crown, opened successfully with 6-1, 6-2 victory Tuesday over Van Renssalear of Greenwich, Conn. Hiram, O. (U.R) The Cleve land Browns today asked waivers on center Pat Canamela and end Jim Greer. Halfback Aramis Dandoy injured his knee during Tuesdays drill and joined end Carlton Massey on the sidelines. Massey has a slightly pulled leg muscle. There is one motor vehicle for every 700 feet of every lane in both directions of all the streets and highways in the United States today. Steel production in the U.S. has now spread into 27 of the states. Speiser Makes Television Debut Chicago (U.R) Chuck Spei ser, a former college boxer whose pro career was inter rupted by two years of military service, gets his first television appearance tonight, and the 25-year-old battler was determined he wouldn't lose to well-rated Willie Pastrano. The scrappers tangle in the Chicago Stadium ring for a 10 round encounter and Pastrano, appearing in the feature bout for the third time, was a 9 to 5 favorite. .Pastrano, 19-years-old, has won 31 bouts, lost 4 and drawn 4 with 8 knockouts. He expected to weigh in about 176 pounds for the match while Speiser antici pated going in at 170. STAFF FULL STRENGTH South Bend, Ind. '(U.R) The Notre Dame football coaching staff was returned to full strength today when Bernie Witucki was named as an as sistant to. head Coach Terry Brennan. Witucki will replace Bill Earley, who resigned re cently to join the coaching staff of the Toronto Argonauts. fel fwmf 111 a SEAT Perfect for Summer Driving Installed FEATURE GIGDSTEX The Royalty Line of Ready Made Auto SEAT COVERS INSTALLED 1 Seat Covers Made to Order in Any Color Combination Medford Auto Upholstery New Phone 2-2119 303 North Bartlett Next Door to Selby'i Never ecasierr -then Oft! DTl STE IP O IP TO O D i Iff ill M V ' hi ''; . 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