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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 28, 1955)
iJ ix s . ' m "' NIXON'S GUARD INCREASED Vice President Richard Nixon leaves Senate Office , Building under increased 24-hour guard of Secret Service men. Prior to the President's ! illness a single agent was assigned to Nixon during office hours. . Former Myrtle Point Policeman Sentenced Coquille U.R) Circuit Judge Dal M. King yesterday sentenc ed Richard .E. Vines, 1 former chief of police at Myrtle Point, to three .years in the Oregon state penitentiary. The 38-year-old ex-policeman pleaded guilty to conversion of public funds in the amount of $39. The money was bail funds received in Myrtle Poftit police station. ' ' Vines also was fined twice the amount of money involved, or $78. The judge said he would not consider probation in the case, although District Attorney John J. Picket had asked the court to weigh probation for Vines. He had been police chief at Myrtle Point for three years and had previrusly served as a patrol man in Myrtle Point, Springfield and Coos Bay. Ho was arrested July 23. Dmd line for Sunday Clarified is t noon Saturday Osteopaths Elect Dr. Healheringlon D.. J. S. Heatherington was elected president of the Southern Oregon Society of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeon at a meeting Monday evening in the new office and clinic building of Dr. Howard Ferguson at Shady Cove. Dr. C D. Lemley is the new vice-president ' and .. Dr.' Milton R. Snow, secretary-treasurer. All the officers are from Medford. The October meeting will be held at the home of Dr. and Mrs. G. A. Dierdorff, when a dinner will be served and a . business session scheduled. Dr. Lemley will present a professional paper at the meeting. ' The session Monday was the first in the fall schedule of monthly meetings. Construction of the world fa mous Washington monument in Washington, D.C., was com pleteded by the Army Engineers- Death Takes Oregon 'Official' Pioneer Portland (U.R) Mrs. Pauline Smith Quaid, whose grandpar ents crossed the plains and set tled near what is now Lebanon, Ore., in. 1848, died Monday at the age of 97. Funeral . services for Mrs. Quaid, one of the last three sur viving "official". Oregon pio neers, will be held here tomor row. . , - ; Mrs. Quaid's grandfather, father and husband are credited with contributing much to the early economy of the Oregon Territory and later to the state. The Oregon Pioneer Associa tion said there now are only two official pioneers left in the state. The association said it consider ed an official one who was born or had lived in Oregon before the end of 1859. Three of Russia's seven major rivers the Ob, Yenisei and Lena flow northward into the Arctic Ocean. Portland Evacuation Test Declared To Be "Fabulous Success7 Portland (U.R) Evaluation of the largest surprise evacuation in the nation's history was un derway today and first reports indicated it was a "fabulous suc cess." Test sirens wailed at 3:10 p.m. yesterday. Just 34 minutes later thousands of vehicles and de destrians had completely evacu ated a 970-block area in the heart of Portland, leaving the streets deserted and rain-swept. The all clear sounded at 3:59 p.m. From atop a downtown office building, raincoat-clad Gov. Paul Patterson pronounced the evacuation termed Operation Green Light a "very observ able success." Civil Defense di rector Jack Lowe was full of praise for the cooperation of public and news media. Praise came too from A. M. Sheets, Oregon CD director, and Adm. Daniel E. Barbey, Washington CD chief. Partly Due To Rain CD officials said part of the exercise's success was due to a downpour cf rain which kept many people out of the down town area. Many stayed home because the tt was impending. Unofficial estimates indicated about 60,000 persons evacuated the "critical target area." Thous ands of them walked out. One death marred , the test. Alden E. Erickson, 50, a. traction company employee, collapsed from a heart attack at his civil defense observation post. Police said a -rash of minor traffic brushes occurred on the slick streets, but only major bottlenecks were on the bridges across the Willamette river. One collision on the Broadway bridge tied up traffic for 10 min utes. It was clear by 3:46 pjn. Aerial Survey Hampered An aerial survey of the opera tion was hampered by rain and a "ceiling" of only 400 feet. Heli copters remained grounded by the poor visibility. Some 75,000 school children took part in the test, and filed out of classes in orderly fashion. One large school, Lincoln high, was in the target center area. 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Leaks Considerable One hitch was that a large number of people began leaving the downtown area before the sirens sounded. Civil defense planners said "leaks" of the time for the test must have been con siderable. Hundreds of , persons had to be advised beforehand so they could take their posts. Gov. Patterson indicated he was surprised by the degree of cooperation. "I thought there would be a large minority who would mark the exercise up as a childish endeavor and refuse to cooperate. It is extremely gratifying to discover that my fears were unfounded," he said. Wednesday. September 28, 195S MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Rural Firemen Aid at Wreck Central Point " Calif ornians yesterday had an example of the helping hand offered by the Central Point Rural Fire depart ment. Fire Chief Richard Krupp and Battalion Chief Jim Scott, re turning from a business trip to Oakland, Calif., directed traf fic around a wreck on a curve south of Dunsmuir for about one hour last night. The two men were traveling kin the rural district s pickup truck. Krupp manned the radio in the truck and Scott the port able pack set to move traffic past the accident site. A truck with a load of shakes was in volved. Krupp and Scott had gone to Oakland to check on the construction of a tank truck for the district. They found fabrica tion of the vehicle finished. The truck went into a paint shop yes terday. Delivery is expected about Oct. 8. Dead line Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday; 10 a m Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 previous, day. Not All Hot-Rodders Are Road Menaces. Lawton, Okla. (U.R) Not all hot-rodders are road menaces. The group of Lawton souped-up car enthusiasts known . as the "Gasoline Cowboys" are an ex ample of how to enjoy the sport and stay in bounds. The boys wanted a place tq test their autos and blow off steam, so they obtained a lease from the city on a strip of land at the old municipal airport. 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