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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 23, 1955)
3 O 3 O o o o 3 o o O o o o o o. o D O O o o o o o G c? o o o Q O 0 o o J o o n n O O 8 o Oa C5 f O t J O o o GO Q t-. O o G EIGHT MEDFORD (ORZGOW jj DRIVEN FROM HIDING by tear gas, Richard Carpenter, 26, accused of slaying one Chicago policeman, wounding another, is searched for weapons by captors. He held family of four hostage for 24 hours while defying police. (International) A Nichol's Worth of . . . Comment On This and That By HARMAN W. NICHOLS ' United Prwa fmttmrm Writer Washington OJ.R) What's new in Washington: Secretary of Treasury George s M. Humphrey apparentl misses his bud dies who used to put on the bib with him at lunch in his private dining room when Congress was still about. Now, it is a rather common Harman Nichol sight to see the secretary and one of his assist ants, Andrew N. Ov'erby, follow ing the common herd, trays in hand, through the line in the cafeteria bean soup, ear corn, (Jiver and onions, ice tea and a slab of pie. And matching for She checks. 0 , . . j Q The Civil Aeronautics Admin (fetration hardly knows how to 2 nswer a letter it got from a man o In New York. The fellow wrote: "In connection witn your recent plan to tend a satellite into space Cj . . I am assuming that space travel may become a reality soon. Would you please tell me how I can buy some land on the (ftioon?" The promoters of the Carter Barron Ampitheater here have been plagued with bad weather, with one hurricane after another, so for the Ice Capades this week they have brought in some man- made weather. Twenty-five tons of snow. Kids have been invited 'in Virincr their sleds in the mid- die of the summer and have a lot of fun. Lyndon Johnson, the majority leader in the Senate, is up and about and plans to celebrate his birthday on his ranch near John son City, Tex., on Aug. 27. His medicos are having a time put- o ting a halter on the tough boy from the long horn country, but O they say he is getting along right well, and is a "fairly" good pa- tient? The junior senator from Ken- Q tucky, Alben W. Barkley, the former vice-president, has been O taking it easy in Washington but 8 plans to get away quick to his S little farm outside of Paducah. g The Veep maybe will look at his o oittle and might even pitch a little hay. His secretary for q many years, the lovely Mrs. Flo Bratten has advised her boss to S take it easy on the pitching of o Happy Camp Man Jailed For Starting Forest Fire Yreka, Calif. U.P.) A 39- o year-old Happy Camp mill work- o er was sentenced to six months in jail and placed on two years' probation for setting a forest fire which caused damage estimated Oat $85,000. Archie Sneaden pleaded guilty to setting the fire on Aug. 13 near here, which burned some 2, 000,000 board feet of timber Gvalued at $50,000. Cost of fight ing the blaze was $35,000. Sneaden was arrested by For ciest Service investigators. Search of Dead, Blind Man's Room Nets $34,000 Cambridge, Mass. (U.R) Ev erybody felt sorry for blind 63- eyear-old Wallace Andrews. O Apparently almost penniless, he went to his job each day at the Work Shop Industry for the (Blind. Andrews died unexpectedly Qhe other day. A search of his $3-d-week room revealed hidden cash and securities totaling $34,000. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for Monday; other days 5:30 previous day. MAIL TRIBUNE hay. She admonished: "I have pitched some of that. And it's hard work. Before chow time, you are worn out and so hungry you could eat some of the hay in the field." The phone rang the other day in Vice-President Nixon's office when hurricane Connie was com ing in. Drusilla Nelson answered and it was the Weather Bureau, wanting to know how much rain fall was in the hole across from the Senate Office Building where a new edifice is being built. Miss Nelson said she was too busy with her wedding plans to run across the street in the rain and measure the puddles. They weren't very big puddles, any how. President Eisenhower doesn't even have to take stick in hand to win a golf tournament. The chief already has been declared "honorary winner" of the $50,000 open championship tourney at the Shackamaxon Country Club, Scotch Plains, N. J., Sept. 6-11. Court Grants Delay In Dueling Charge Santa Barbara, Calif. (U.R) The arraignment of a former German army lieutenant on charges he forced a 58-year-old real estate man to agree to a duel over a young woman has been continued until Friday. Municipal Judge Frank P. Ker ny granted the delay Monday to Arno Spitz, 35, an anti-tank unit officer for Germany in World War' II, who asked for time in which to get an attorney. The judge continued Spitz' $800 bond. Spitz was booked here Satur day on a dueling charge after William A. Allen, 55, German born Santa Barbara real estate man, signed a complaint charg ing Spitz with forcing him at knife-point to agree to fight a duel. Spitz accused Allen of "im punging the honor" of Annalese Hubrich, 33, another German now working in a Los Angeles hospital. Chief Mate Succumbs Aboard Freighter Pearl Harbor (U.R) The chief mate of the freighter Alamo Vic tory died en route to the Far East 900 miles northeast of Mid way island, the Navy reported today. The Navy said it has diverted the Gen. Daniel Sultan, a mili tary Sea Transport Service ship, to pick up the body and return it to San Francisco. The victim's identity and cause of death were not immediately released. 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