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Doctor Seeks To Proe Strangulation As Cause of Death Minneapolis (U.R) A young baby doctor returned to the stand in the Dr. A. Arnold Axil rod murder trial today to defend his contention that pretty Mrs. Elizabeth Mary Moonen was killed by a strangler. The baby specialist, 29-year- T"1 : . T 1- ... . . . ering heavy cross-examination fire when the sensational first degree murder trial recessed Thursday. Chief defense counsel Sidney W. Goff indicated he would press Brauti on whether Mrs. Moonen could have died as a result of an attempted abortion, a heart at tack, or an air bubble. Three-Months Pregnant The body of Mrs. Moonen, three months pregnant, was dis covered in a driveway of the fashionable Lake of the Isles district last April 23. Brauti as sisted at the post mortem. He testified in place of the chief pathologist, who is hos pitalized, and insisted that his observations led him to believe (Mrs. Moonen, 21, died of manual strangulation. .The prosecution charges that Axilrod, 50, drugged and se duced Mrs. Moonen when she came to his dental office. He strangled her in his car when she threatened to "tell the world" that he was the father of her unborn "baby, it is charged. k - ffni ii" "ii iti ii 6 fcepjjrj - -- ----- ' Your outdoor quiz. A score of 55 is fair; 7u is good; u is excel lent; 90 super-excellent. Answers follow questions. 1. As far as I know, all mam mals and birds make sounds. What do you call the sounds these, animals make: 1. cocks, 2. cows,' 3. crows, 4, donkeys, 5. droves, 6. ducks, 7. elephants, 8. frogs, 9. geese (tame), 10. geese (wild), 11. hens, 12. lions, 13. -owls, 14. pigs, 15. sheep. (Four points for each right answer 60 if all are right.) JI. What is the correct use of these words: 1. If you were shown a picture of a malamute, you would think right away of: arairplane, a dog team, an out jigger canoe, a caterpillar trac .tor, tlae Amazon jungle. . 2. The words humus is used correctly in one of the following sentences: "My, but it was real humus this past summer"; "A few pounds of humus will do wonders for a garden"; "Three important bones in the leg are tibia, fibular, and humus.". 3. You could be arrested if caught selling one of the follow ing in le U.S. today: saddle soap, ' aigrettes, antimacassar? , hot-house spinach, platinum golf tees. - 4. If you had a pilchard, you would: drink out of it; eat it; play a game with it; dance in it; scratch it. 5. Kittens can't sleep comfort ably in a cat's cradle because it is: constantly rocking; too high up on a mast; a child's game; monopolized by the mother. cat. (Eight points for each correct answer 40 if all are right.) ANSWERS: 1 Crow, 2. Moo, low; 3. caw, croak, 4. bray, 5. Gfcoo, 6. quack, 7. trumpet, 8. ' croak, 9. gaggle, gabble, cackle, hiss; 10. honk, 11. cackle, cluck, chuck; I?, roar, 13. hoot, screech; 14. squeal, grunt; 15. bleat. II. 1. Dog team; 2. "a few pounds . . . etc.; 3. aigrettes; 4. eat it (it's s? sardine); 5 a child's game, played with .string, re Omember? McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement :with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of .judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wild life, a complete 30-volume set of Jthis world - famous reference "work in a handsome Sealcraft .binding. Each week new submis sions will be considered. Sorry, J simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: IS THAT SO! c'o Medford .Mail Tribune, Box 575, jSausalito, Calif. Portland Pedestrian 29th Traffic Fatality I Portland U.R) A 78-year-bid woman died Saturday night jn a Portland hospital in Ore jgon's only reported traffic death jof the week end. . J Mrs. Bertha Willey, Portland, was injured fatally when struck Jby- a car driven by Edward M. Tombrowe,(31, Amboy, Wash. It jwas Portland's 29th traffic fatal ity of the year. irk i Monday, October 17. 1955 WORLD'S FIRST GUIDED MISSILE CRUISER The USS Boston makes her way down the Delaware River heading for drydock in the Philadelphia Naval Base prior to her commissioning Nov. 1. She will be used primarily as a launching station for the Navy's new needle-nosed anti-aircraft missiles (Terrier) seen just above the tug. Bank, Financial Writers Take Look at Tax Aspect of TV's $64,000 Question' By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington U.R) Ballyhoo for television's $64,000 Question program is turning up in the strangest plac es, such as the monthly letter of New York's First National City Bank. There's a plug for it, too, on the editorial page of the current Satur d a y Evening Lyle C. Wilson Post. The Wall Street Journal has taken note of the program. Fi nancial writers as a group are in terested in it. The bankers are interested because they and many others believe The $64,000 Question is, an effective argu ment against what they- regard as a bad tax law.- i The bank calculated that a contestant who was single and had an income of $4,000 annual ly would have to win $448,711.11 to acquire $64,000 of actual, take-home prize money. Long, Last Step Such single person attaining the $32,000 rung of the prize ladder would be assessed a tax of $15,400, reducing 'the actual prize money to $16,600. If the contestant took the last, long step and doubled the $32,000 into $64,000, the additional tax bite would be $23,292. The take home prize would be increased by only $8,708. The foregoing figures are from the bank's let ter, which added: "Thus he is risking an assured $16,000 for a chance to win an additional $8,708." The program has been esti mated -to reach up to 55,000,000 persons with a spectacular dem onstration of the tax bite on relatively high' income. The bank argues that the same tax situation which discourages njunes Result From Three Accidents In Area Three persons suffered minor injuries in two of three acci dents reported to state police yesterday. Dean Allen Akins, 24, of route 2, box 502, Medford, and Dale Lero'y Smith, 19, of Butte Falls, were injured. slightly when their vehicles collided on Highway 62 about 2:32 a.m. State .police said the Smith vehicle ran into the rear of the Akins car dur ing a heavy fog. Max D, Zimmerman, 506 Al len st., Medford, suffered a sprained ankle when the car in which he was riding collided with one operated by Leonard Burdahl, 54, of 528 Pearl st., Medford, at the 'intersection' of Highway 62 and 401 Orchard rd., about 2:35 p.m. Police said the Burdahl vehi cle stopped at a stop sign, then pulled out onto Highway 62 in the path of a vehicle operated by William Stanley Avist, 25, of 506 Allen st., Medford. Damage was slight. , Cars operated by William Lyle Sutherlin, 32, of. 1041 South Third st., Jacksonville, and - Mervin Wilmot Johnston, route 1, box 27, Jacksonville, collided at the Ruch intersection on Highway 238 about 3:02 p.m. yesterday. Police said there were no injuries. . contestants from reaching from $32,000 toward $64,000 applies to businessmen with venture capital who refuse to risk it by reason of tax limitations on their possible return. Magazine Editorializes The Saturday Evening Post editorialized: "What high taxation is doing to free enterprise is a- subject which is about as interesting to the average man as a treatise on medieval metaphysics." But the Post contended that the famous ' TV show would "cause millions of persons to give some thought to the effect of the tax laws on business." "Perhaps," the Post suggested, "TV could make the thing even more dramatic by putting an in dustrial tycoon on the screen and letting him decide before millions of people whether it's worthwhile for him to go after another million dollar's worth of business or create 20,000 new jobs by building a new plant." Beaverton Welcomes Visitors With Beef Feed Beaverton, Ore. U.R) An estimated 8000 persons ate 2060 pounds of barbecued beef yester day as Beaverton held "Opera tion Welcome." Visitors also in spected schools and new homes and were entertained with a band concert and variety show. MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Let's discuss for a few minutes today the subject of cotton. No cotton is grown in Southern Ore gon or far Northern California. So we have no direct interest in it other than as taxpayers. But it offers an interesting exam ple of what happens under a system of guaranteed high prices REGARDLESS OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND. THE department of agriculture has just announced its latest estimate of the 1955 cotton crop. It indicates production this year of 13,920,000 bales. When that is added to our present surplus of 11,121,000 bales it brings the present supply up to just over 25,000,000 bales. Domestic and export markets are expected to take more than 13,000,000 bales. So we can count up on our fingers that when the 1955 cotton crop is harvested we will have on hand approximately two years supply. SHELL YOUR OWN NUTS! Murfreesboro, Tenn. U.R) Sheriff George Sharpe warned farmers today to stop paving sections of rural roads with their walnuts to get them hulled by the wheels of passing cars. He said it is against the law. Detroit industries uses . more than 10 per cent of the nation's steel. TTOW about acreage reduction to hold down the surplus? ' That is an interesting subject in itself. Under this year's pro gram, cotton acreage was re duced to the smallest level in more than 75 years. The permit ted acreage this year was 14 per cent under the permitted acre age last year. But - - The department of agricul ture's estimate indicates in spite of the 14 per cent reduc tion in acreage that this year's harvested cotton crop will be two per cent ABOVE last year's harvested crop. TTOW come? The answer lies in increas ed efficiency on the part of the cotton growers. This year's esti mate indicates an average yield per acre of 405 pounds. Last year's cotton crop averaged 341 pounds per acre, and it broke all previous records. Cotton growers have been pouring on the fertilizer. They have been using better machinery. They have been using better insect control methods. The result of all this has been an average increase in produc tion per acre that more than offsets the 14 per cent reduction in cotton acreage. The NET re sult of it has, been another huge addition to the cotton surplus. IlfHERE is all this new cotton " coming from? Is it coming from the Old South? The answer, by and large, is NO. A lot of it is coming from new cotton lands in western Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California. Most of this new cot ton land is IRRIGATED. It is irrigated largely from wells. These wells are drawing on UN DERGROUND water storage, which has been accumulating for centuries. This water to irrigate cotton is being pumped out faster than the underground reservoirs are being replenished. THAT is to say: Tf this crnpe nn tho timo will come when the underground res ervoirs will be drained and when water is no longer available for them the land that has no other source of water than wells that tap the underground reservoirs will go back to desert. ' All to produce a crop that is being grown for sale to the gov ernment at guaranteed high prices IN THE FACE OF A STEADILY ACCUMULAT I N G SURPLUS. T'HE big question: When will it end? And what will happen when it does end? - , 'Chimney Inspector Turns Out To Be Thief Portland U.R) A man pos ing as a "chimney inspector" who stole $95 from a dresser at the home of William R. Scho f ield was sought by police today. Schofield said the man told him to go outside and watch the chimney while the phony in spector checked it from the inside. Incorporate Real Estate Firm Here Salem U.R) Articles of in corporation have been filed here for Siskiyou Rental, Inc., Med ford real estate firm. They were signed by Richard V. Finch. Randall M. Gifford and Allen D. Sterton. The firm was formed for the purpose of purchasing a building in Ashland which has been leased to the Home Appliance company for a new store there. The two-story building is located at 101-115 East Main st., and also houses the Greyhound tav ern. The new business will be lo cated for the present in the sec tion which is now vacant. Remod eling work is under way in that section and the new store is to open in early November, officers' stated. Wedon Kline Named To Logging Congress Weldon Kline, 18 South Groveland ave., has been named a member of the board of di rectors of the Pacific Logging congress. He was named at the 46th session cf the congress in Victoria, B.C., recently. Kline is employed by the W. H. Daugherty c o m pa n y at White City. Seven other Ore gonians were named as direc tors of the 47th congress. 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