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TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Electronics Control of Washington (U.R) The time may come when the busy little electron will take over control of your car in moments of peril. "There is no reason technical ly why it couldn't, Dr. Henry M. O'Bryan said today, O'Bryan of Sylvania Electric Products, Inc., is one of 1000 en gineers attending the first an nual meeting on electron devices here. The meeting is sponsored by the Institute of Radio Engi neers. On radar-posted highways the electron already is snitching on speeders to traffic cops. O'Bryan predicted in an interview that electronic safety controls of the future may actually take over som.e functions of the driver. Scanning Device . Such gadgets, he suggested, might automatically slow the car when it approached too close to the one ahead. Scanning de vices might keep an automobile 4m straying onto the shoulder or across the center line. O'Bryan said the time may Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, the archbishop of Canterbury, when asked about the Church of England's stand on the rumored marriage plans of Princess Margaret to divorced Capt. Peter Townsend: "A reasonable church does not change its teachings every few minutes." Air Secretary Donald A. Quarles on an investigation which showed no evidence of the existence of flying saucers: "We are now entering a period of aviation technology in which aircraft of unusual configuration and flight characteristics will begin to appear." . . George P. Larrick, food and drug commissioner, on a crack down on the illegal sale of stimulant narcotics to truck drivers and juveniles: "Use of these drugs by truck drivers is particularly dangerous because they so stimulate the driver that he stays on the job be yond the point of normal physical endurance." The Duchess of Windsor on the Princess Margaret-Peter Town tend romance: . "Rjally, the duke arid I don't know anything about it." Iowa football coach Forest Evashevski on Jiis team's chances against Michigan Saturday: "We're a sick ball club. I don't know if we'll win any more games, let alone beat Michigan." Army Undersecretary Charles G. Finucane on why the United States must keep troops in Japan: 'We recognise that we can never entirely withdraw our troops from Japan until that contury is able to look after itself and does not present a vacuum into which nearby Soviet power might be tempted to enter." ' Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, former Army Chief of Staff, warn ing o "weapons of almost incalculable destruction'': 'iWe stand on the threshold of an almost unimaginable age." Mexican screen comedian Cantinflas on playing a valet in a Hollywood movie: -. . "For years I don't work in Hollywod because I don't agree'with the scripts. Not my type. They want me to change my clothes." ; lean fell you i mm OF PORTLAND AN OREGON May Some Day Take Auto at Time of Peril ccme when states will require that cars carry special equip ment which will subject them to speed control by - highway patrolmen. By twisting a dial or moving a small lever the cop would transmit electronic orders which would activate automatic equip ment forcing a speeding auto mobile to slow down. Before that comes to pass, however, O'Bryan expects to see electronic warning devices per fected which won't usurp the driver's control but will tell him quickly when he'd better go into action with the wheel or brakes. Crashes Impossible ' He also forsees a. time when airplane pilots will do very lit tle piloting. Better radar, tied in with a planers controls, will make it practically impossible to crash into mountains or dive into the ground. O'Bryan believes present elec tronic controls will be perfected to the point where a pilot almost the value of al f 7 When a house catches fire, insurance policies . . . wills . . . deeds . . other important possessions are often lost. PROTECT YOUR VALUABLES Learn how little it costs to rent a . . . Safe Deposit Box at the U. S. National , Bank ---maximum safety for little more " than a penny a dayl Rent your Safe Deposit Box now. IMS. MEDFORD BRANCH TMI UNITED STATES B.A N K SERVING OREGON Wednesday. October 26, 195S never will touch the stick or throttle, even on takeoffs and landings. The bigTiews at the meeting here, according to O'Bryan and others, has to do with develop ments in the field of microwave tubes and in so-called solid state electronics. . Microwave developments have made it possible, for example, to amplify a thousand or more telephone conversations and several television programs sim ultaneously without confusion. They permit scientists to ob serve electrical events that take place in a billionth of a second. They point to even faster and more reliable electronic brains for use in computors, guided missiles, and automatic factory controls. CONSIDERATE BANDIT Detroit (U.R) Cab driver Ed ward Grzynowicz reported to police that a bandit robbed him of his watch and $8 Tuesday but then returned the loot, plus 50 cents from his own pocket "for coffee and cigarettes because you look nervous and probably need it." - - - Court Records POLICE COURT James Raymond Crumley, no li cense plates, S10. Leland O. Meeker, violation of the basic rule. $10. Burle Stanton Griffen, violation of the basic rule. $10. Leonard Eugene Steege, reckless driving, $25. i DISTRICT COURT Joe Robert Oliver, truck speeding, 87.50. Clyde Alvin Severson. one head- iignt, sti. Stephen Gilbert Crippen. violation of the basic rule. $12.50. Harry James Jetter. failure to stop at a1 stoD siffn. $10. George Henry Paul, violation of the basic rule, siu; insuincieni cin ders on a load, $15; overwidth, $10; overload. $137. Charles Drew Hopkins, violation of the basic rule. sio. Roland Jess Allen Sr., permitting an unlicensed minor to operate a motor vehicle. S15. Gene William Weitman. no declared weisht receipt in vehicle. $10. Lloyd Joseph Mynatt, overload; S109. Karl Merritt Proctor, overload, $26; overwidth load, $15. , Max Rivers, no operator's license, $7.50. Richard Lee Bell, violation of the basic rule, $10. Leonard Arthur 'Nelson, overload $41. Thomas Jefferson Short, overwidth load, $15. CIRCUIT COURT Jesse Archibald Storm vs. Irene Storm, divorce decree. Frank L. Farmer vs. Vivian L. Farnv er. divorce decree. - Winifred Maxine Weixel vs. Theo dore Weixel. divorce decree. Gladys Mathias vs. Verdo B. Ma- thias. divorce decree. Golda Elvina Upchurch vs. Glenn H. .Upchurch, divorce decree. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS - Ormel Wright Derrick. 70, Fossil, Ore., and Anna Lorraine Jones, 58, of 420 Boardman st. Dead line for Sunday Classified Is noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 orevious day. DIRECT BRANCH OF NATIONAL SANK OF PORTLAND Savings, Loan Assets More Than Trebled Chicago (U.R) Assets of sav ings and loan associations have more than trebeled in the years since World War II, according to U. S. Savings and Loan League. : Assets have doubled in the past five years, the League said, and in 1954 alone, increased by S4,500,000,000, or 18.2 per cent. At the year's end they totaled S31,500,000:000. Total savings deposits at the end of last, year were $27,300, 000,000 a gain of 20 per, cent over the total at the start of the year. . Savings associations also are the biggest single source of home mortgage funds, the league said, currently financing 36 per cents of all home purchases each year. Last year they loaned almost SS,000,000,000 for the purchase of homes, about 15.5 per cent more than in ,1953. Sheriff's Radio Frequency Fouled Montello, Wis. (U.R) Atmos pheric conditions occasionally cause the Marquette County sheriff's department radio fre quency to become crossed with one on which an unknown police department in the far south is operating. Radio engineers have yet been unable to explain the mixup. Recently, Traffic Officer Don Neilson was trying to get an important message through to one of his squad cars in Wis consin, but he was stymied by the slow drawl of the southern officers on the same, wave length. One of the southern po licemen cut into the squabble with: "Doggone it, Rufe, I can't hear a thing you're saying. Some dog gone mushmouth Yankee keeps breaking in." Ninth and Bartlett Streets TheyHDoIt Every BUCK.THE REAL ESTATE S4LESM4S, COULDN'T SEE AW GOOD IN THIS HOUSE ( HIS FIRM DIDN'T HAVE THE LISTING ) . Wf JUST BETWEEN USI DON'T THINK YOlSD BE I THIS ISHT TOO GOOD A LOCATION THE FOUNDATION IS SHOT,. AHD IT H4SNT BEEN KEPT UP WELL AT, CD Representatives Plan Widesperad Test Santa Rosa, Calif. J.U.K) Fif ty representatives of various federal government agencies throughout the Far West met at the Regional Civil Defense ad ministration headquarters today to plan a widespread test of their emergency operations. Philip D. Batson, regional ad ministrator for the FCDA, said the test will be held Dec. 6 and 7. It will involve about 80 fed eral activities in the eight West ern states and Hawaii and will be called "Operation Uncle." Salem (U.R) With a $324,000 flax inventory on hand, the State Board of Control has elim inmated contacting for planting of flax for 1956. They're today's most modern Work Styled to match the job! facts about our deal before you sign on anybody's dotted line I (DiEiEvmaDiLiE'rr T lme "Tonav IT MIArr Railroad Spending in Event of War Figured . Portland- (U.R) Col. Rob ert Haynes told the National Re sources conference here yester day that American railroads would have to spend about .five billion dollars to meet transpor tation needs in the event of an other war. Haynes, a lecturer from the industrial college of the armed forces, said the railroads did a "superb job" in World War II, but he said they might have broken down in another year. The colonel said a recent of fice of defense mobilization study indicated that for a three year wartime buildup, the rail roads would need 215,000 freight cars and 11,477 switch engines. rn ' fF"r . . T 'Ar'mSS-. . Ml w SI w u irfa a I ouNniTinw..M 1 Ln linn mil i-.. . - . Portland Man Killed In Highway 99 Wreck Boseburg (U.R) A Portland equipment company .executive was fatally injured 18 miles north of here yesterday when his automobile went off the road in a heavy rainstorm. Dead on arrival at a local hos pital was Luke Dean Miller, 44, vice-president of the L-M Equip ment company of Portland Physicians said he died of chest injuries. Miller who was alone in the car, was driving north on High way 99 when his vehicle hit a slick spot on the pavement. The car skidded across the highway and crashed into a bank. Survivors include his wife. Thelma. . trucks Get full mated Mtefr V STRIKE SAVES GIs Fort Dix, N.J.-r-U.fi) Basic trainees at Fort Dix who 'have yet to receive their traditional, close-cropped "GI" haircuts were jubilant today. Some 50 union barbers went on strike Tuesday, demanding that the post - barbering concession rec ognize their union. - SPECIAL! Winterize Your Car How! ALL MAKES MODELS WE WILL Flush Cooling System Tighten All Hose Con nections Check Water Pump Adjust Fan Belt Check Thermostat Check Transmission Check Differential Check Brakes . Install 6 qts. Prestone ALL THIS CcrrOS CAD ' . 1 ONLY COURTESY CHEVROLET 9th and Bartlett Sts. 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