Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, September 12, 1955, Image 3

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Newspaper Page Texto r"- P . .- , i ,,. , ,. JWI- DRIVING HUNDREDS FROM HOMES, stubborn brush and forest fire in Santa Barbara, ' y Cal. area causes authorities to declare state of emergency in combatting' blaze. Canyons through which flames are sweeping are identified at top. Santa Barbara is at extreme left of aerial photo looking south toward Pacific 0 cean. ' (International Soundpkoto) Quotes From the News .. By UNITED PRESS Willie Beal, fed up with rowing the mail from the mainland to the tiny island community of Beals, Me., after 29 years voted to end his Job as the -nation's only rowing postman: fit don't hardly pay nothing." - . - . - Nobel Prize winning noTolii William Faulkner describing American juvenile delinquents as "emotional orphans": . "When they gat a zip-gun and shoot somebody, they are driven not by a desire to kill, but a basic natural hunger to belong solid ly to some clan where they can feel secure, something they don't get at home." , . - - - President Eisenhower on his first visit to the Air Force Acad emy in Denver reminisced about his student struggles with en gineering drawing at West Point: "I darn near foundered ... I couldn't keep the darn ink from running under the rulers." i U.S. military experts on recant Communist announcements Of heavy manpower cuts: ' "We don't want to jump to any hasty conclusions. We don't know whether they are just 'paper' cuts or a reduction in the actual number of men under arms." -.A British newspaper reporting that a palace official informed Airman Peter Townsend in Brussels that his romance with Prin ces Margaret is off: "It was thought best that he should be told where he stood before his visit to London last week." Secretary of Air Donald A. Queries of the Nevada desert "torture school": "We feel we should expand it, because present facilities can not handle all the men who should have the training." Republican National Chairman Leonard W. Hall questioned on tax reductions next year: e "Tax cuts are very popular in an election year." The bride of 29-year-old Carl Matzger, paralysed from the neck down by a swimming accident: "Well spend a real romantic honeymoon." Attendance Marks Portland W.R) Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D.-Ore.) defend ed the attendance of Oregon Democrats in Congress yester day in a speech to a Clackamas county party picnic. "Average attendance at roll calls by Oregon's three Demo crats during the first session of the 84th Congress was far better than that by the three Republi can members of Oregon's con gressional delegation," he said. Neuberger was replying to criticism made last week by Re publican state central commit tee chairman Wendell Wyatt. Wyatt had attacked the attend ance record of Sen. Wayne L Morse of Oregon. ' Neuberger quoted from Con gressional Quarterly reports to show that Oregon Democrats had better roll call participation in 1955 than Republican con gressmen from the ' state. He added that the Republicans "have made a fetish1 of attend ance because they have no gen uine party program." The junior senator pointed out that ' attendance was not neces sarily an indication of service as there were legitimate reasons for being absent. ... "But because the Republicans of Oregon always raise their at tendance matter, they are going to hear lots about it from now on," he said. Nation's Crops in Fine Shape In Spite of Floods, Droughts .Washington (U.R) The nation's crops are in fine shape and record yields are expected despite last months floods and drougths, the Agriculture De partment reports. In its monthly crop report Friday, the department estimat ed the harvest this year would be second only to the bumper crop of 1948. Trim Corn Prospects Drought conditions trimmed corn prospects by about 10 per cent, however, and this year's crop of the key feed grain will be fifth on record, with an esti mated 3,133,467,000 bushels. The continued dry, hot weath er in the Midwest and Central Liquor Bring Outlet Aid s uianons Portland U.R) Three dis tributors and two breweries were cited Saturday by the. Ore gon Liquor Control commission for allegedly giving financial assistance to retailers in viola tion of state law. Hearings on the charges will be held today and Wednesday at OLCC ' headquarters near . Mil waukie, a spokesman said. - Accused of giving financial assistance to retailers we: Lucky Lager brewery, . Vancou ver, Wash; Sick's Brewery, Seat tle, Wash.; Brownson Distribu tors, Portland; Valley Distribut ing company, Salem, and New Italian importing company, Portland. Kienow Food stores was cited on a charge of accepting finan cial aid at two of its stores. , APPOINTED BY BANK Washington U.R) The Fed eral Reserve board today an nounced appointment of Warren W. Braley of Portland; Ore.; to be a director of the Portland branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. FINDER KEEP CANDY Miami (U.R) A classified ad in a Miami paper read: "Lost Wednesday, upper denture in candy bag." Great Plains during August also whittled the estimated size of the grain sorghum crop by 15 per cent and the soybean crop by 8 per cent. ( Congressman To Study Discharge Of Woman Marines El Toro Marine Base, Calif. (U.R) A congressman sought' to learn today if the rights of any women marines are being vio lated in "a Marine Corps investi gation which has led to five women receiving undesirable discharges as the result of mor als charges. ' ' Charges against the women were reported to involve homo sexuality ; Some 250 women ma rines are stationed at the base. . Rep. James B. "Utt (R-Calif.J said he ' would ask Brig. Gen. Alexander W. Kreiser Jr., El Toro : Base commander, for a "study" . of complaints some women marines had made to him. Utt. said the women told him . the charges against them were false. ..... Interested in Rights ; "I'm interested in knowing if these girls' rights are being vio lated," said Utt, whose congres sional district includes the base. 'If they're not receiving the kind of discharge to which they, are entitled; I want to know about it," Following Utt's announcement that he -would seek the study, the -base issued a statement. It read: "Five women marines have received undesirable discharges in the last two weeks under or ders of the Marine Corps or Department of Defense in Wash ington. Further investigation is being made in other cases. In addition, other women marines are in protective custody at this time at their own request after threats from other person or per sons unknown. They are in cus tody at the base." CHRISTMAS CARD ALBUMS OF NAME IMPRINTED CARDS Now On Display , ' On the Balcony . Choose Early and , Get Exactly the Card You Want OPEN WED. NIGHT For Your Shopping Convenience tUJff.tt- But with big surplusses on hand the losses do not point to any shortage in any of the three crops. The estimated soybean yield would still be a record one. The sorghum crop would be second largest.' Losses Outweigh Damage Crop losses from the drought far outweighed rain and flood damage on the East coast. Flood and water damage was . most severe en tobacco crops , in the Connecticut River Valley and vegetable crops in New Jersey, Southern ' New York, Connecti cut and Massachusetts. ' ' WJiile corn was taking a beat ing from, drought, spring wheat prospects farther north improv ed by almost six million bush els during the month to 227,000, 000 bushels, 27 per cent larger than last ' year. Changes in . other crop pros pects from' a month ago include increases for rice; oats, peanuts, sweet potatoes, sugar beets, su gar cane dry beans tobacco and broomcorn and. decreases for hay, flaxseed, barley and pota toes. ' : ' ' - ' - Mother of Slain Negro Boy Urged To Avoid Trial Chicago-(U.R The mother of a Negro boy slain in Mississippi said today she had been urged to ."stay out of Mississippi" and not testify at the trial of two white men indicted for her son's murder. But Mrs. Mamie E.- Bradley said not until she receives a written invitation to appear at the trial will she make up her mind as to whether she -will be a witness. Her son, Emmett Till, 14, was kidnaped from the home of his uncle during a vacation trip to Money, Miss., Aug. 28. The boy's weighted body was found sev eral days ' later in the Talla hatchie river, badly beaten and with a bullet in his head. -'Wolf Whistle' Blamed Two half brothers, Roy Bry ant and John W. Milam, have been indicted at Sumner, Miss., for murder of the boy. Young Till's offense which led to the kidnaping allegedly was a "wolf whistle" at Bryant's wife. Disk Atty. Gerald Chatham said testimony of Mrs. Bradley would be valuable to the "state. The two men have admitted the abduction of the boy, but said they released him unharmed. "I won't even begin deciding until I get the invitation in writ ing along with assurances beyond a - shadow of a doubt that it would be safe," Mrs. Bradley said. Chatham has promised any "reasonable protection" asked by Mrs. Bradley. "I've got nine relatives' who have put their feet down," Mrs. Bradley said. "They don't want me to testify. Mrs. Bradley said she has been "flooded" with telephone calls, letters and telegrams urging her to stay out of Mississippi." Fairchild Officers Killed in Air Crash Cle Elum, Wash. (U.R) Three officers from Fairchild Air Force Base in Spokane were killed Sat urday when their small private plane crashed over Snoqualamie Pass near here. Dead were the pilot, Ma. Ed ward J. Botteen Jr., Castro Val ley, Calif., Lt. Col. Granville H Wright, Sun Valley, Calif., and Maj. Hugo W. Roberts, Boone- ville. Mo. Civil aeronautics administra tion officials at Spokane said the men had departed from Calkins air terminal there for Neah Bay on the coast to go fishing. All three officers were with the 325th bomb squadron at Fairchild Base. Col. Wright was commander of the squadron, Maj. Botteen was a B-36 aircraft commander and Mai. Roberts was a B-36 engineer. A crew from the U. S. Forest Service were sent to the scene to extinguish a small forest fire which flared up as the plane burned. HIDDEN MONEY SAFE . Detroit (U.R) Donald Hard- wich, 26, hid $800 he had won at a race track in his billfold Saturday before he went to a bar to celebrate. 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