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."
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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.
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SOUTHERN OREGON
JUNIOR BASEBALL
Cub Standings
Grant Pass
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Ashland 4
Lone Pine 3
Central Point 0
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(Final)
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Medford TiKeri 9
Central Point 7
Ashland 5
Lone Pine 5
Medford Wildcats 4
Jacksonville 0
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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.
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