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Actress Withdraws Battery Complaint Hollywood OJ.R) Blonde ac tress Jil Jarmyn has withdrawn a request for a battery com plaint against film star Susan HaJyward which resulted from a brawl in the bedroom of actor Don Barry's apartment. The young actress signed a statement yesterday saying, "I hereby withdraw my request for a complaint ... at this time." She said she cancelled her ac tion because "I've been through a humiliating experience and I want to forget it." The blonde film player had accused her redhaired rival of hitting her with a hafr brush, knocking her against a coffee table and threatening her with a lighted cigarette. Dead line for Sunday Classified Is noon Saturday: 10 a m Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 orevious day 4-H CFub News Gold Hill Livestock Club The Gold Hill 4-H Livestock club met' at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Gail on Nov. 8, at 8 p.m. There were 18 members and several parents and friends present. The principal business of this meeting was the election of offi cers for 1956. The following were elected: Lois Biles, president; Jim Biles, vice-president: Terry Gail, secretary; Larry Eskew, treas urer, Marie Jones, Historian; Grace Gail, song leader: David Carter, reporter and Norman Gail, club leader. It was decided to have the Christmas party the second Wednesday in December, at the home of David Carter. Each per son to bring a small gift. : David Carter Reporter Wednesday, November 16, 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE TTVM Priests, Fireman, Whisky Credited With Saving Life of Would-Be Suicide in S.F. G San Francisco U.P.) Two priests, a fireman and a pint of whisky were credited today with saving the life of a would be suicide who teetered for more than an hour on the edge of a building 12 stories above a crowded downtown street. The man, Armand Fred Esca lante, 30-year-old cleaner and dyer horrified a huge throng of downtown shoppers yesterday as he clung to the base of a flag staff at the edge of the roof of the Veterans administration building. The 'entire incident occurred Riverside, Calif. -U.R) Police said today John Henry, 36, prob ably set some kind of a record with his car. Henry was booked on various traffic charges after his auto was involved in six separate collisions all Tuesday. in the full view of the United Press San Francisco bureau lo cated on the top of the San Fran- Horse Chases Truck; Driver Lands in Jail Ann Arbor, Mich. (U.R) A somewhat shaken farmer called police Tuesday when he observed a damaged truck speeding down a highway with a horse in hot pursuit. State police joined the chase and arrested the two men in the truck, one on a charge of being drunk and disorderly and the other for leaving the scene of an accident. It seems the horse was bounced out of the truck box when the truck sideswiped a car and was only trying lo catch up, police said. cisco News building across the street. . Escalante began his exhibi tion at about 3:15 p.m., and within minutes the streets were jammed with firemen, police and curious onlookers. Hatles and with his tan trench coat whipping in the wind, Esca lante alternately stood on the ledge and sat on the brink with his legs hanging in space. As 20 firemen held a circular rescue net on the sidewalk 120 feet below, Escalante screamed and cursed his would-be rescu ers and held them at bay with threats of "Keep back "or I'll jump." An hour later, the man drank a cup of coffee and smoked a cigarette, offered by Father Jo seph Wong of nearby St. Pat rick's church. Battalion Fire Chief Joseph Dykes then offered Escalante a pint of whisky. The man reach ed out gingerly and took the bottle. He pulled some money from his pocket and offered it to Dykes in payment. 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