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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 30, 1955)
Reporter Probes Background of With BEAUTY TREATMENT Bukit Mertamam, Malaya (U.R) Two women members of Communist terror bands sur rendered to police Tuesday and asked for government amnesty. They went straight from the po lice station to a beauty parlor for permanent waves. SNAKE GETS JOLT Angola, la. U.R) A rattle-" snake practically knocked itself out in striking the leg of a Louisiana State Penitentiary convict and other inmates easily killed the reptile, the prison newspaper reported. The con vict's leg was a wooden one. rc: illing of iatron in Escape at etention iiris Ohio D Home Editor's note: The killing of a matron at an Akron. O., detention school in the escape of five young RUls is an other shocking manifestation of the extremes of what is called juvenile delinquency. The Akron Beacon Journ al assigned reporter Robert Kotzbauer to find out what in the background of these girls could harden them to homicide. The following dispatch is an adaptation of ibe story Kotzbauer wrlfQ for his paper. QOron, O. (U.R What in pO brief span of 15 or 16 years Gould condition a girl to take a human life? "What callousness or dgjving urge could bring girls barely in their teis to stuff an ammonia Coaked rag in the mouth of a (Sound and helpless woman and ave her to suffocate? Here are reports fom proba tion office record on the five girls who escaped Sunday night worn the detention home here Qnd left the matron they had overpowered, Mrs. Eula Bon (5am, 59, to die. Medford Tribune Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1955 Pages 1-8 Zelda De Cost, 16.. One of 'line children, she was married years ago to a boy wanted fTr rape. Their honeymoon last- ed 26 days until he was arrested by West Virginia police, con victed and sent to a prison farm. He escaped and Zelda went to Cleveland in what police think was a search for him. This month Qhe came to Akron for a "visit" with a boy named "Smitt Col lins." Authorities picked her up Friday in a cabin, believing she was an escapee from some institution. irley Shinger, 15. Already on probation as a juvenile delin quent, Shirley ran away from home last montlgjShe came back a week later and told her par ents she had been visiting friends in Medina, O. Under questioning by a probation officer, it was discovered Shirley had been staying at the home of man in Wayne county. The man's wife is in a mental hospital. The hus band had been "entertaining" young girls in his cabin. The pro bation officer said boys also had been going to the cabin every night for drinking and sex par Ruth Eeichler, 16. Her juve nile delinquency record dates back to the time when she was about 10. She had been held in the Delaware Girls' Industrial School until last Wednesday when she was brought to Akron to testify at a trial against three Mirl Cain, 15. Last month she and another girl carne to police with a story that an older man had raped them. Subsequent in vestigation brought to light an entirely different story, accord ing to probation officer Joyce Spencer. She said Mirl and the other girl had been drinking with an older man. The man had a knife and, after leaving the bar, Mirl seized it and held it against the man's throat, order ing him to give them his wallet. The man escaped. The girls con cocted the rape story, fearing they would be arrested for at tempted robbery. Margaret Nicholson, 15. She is what authorities called a "very disturbed girl." She had been in the detention home three times before for running away from home. She met her boy friend right after escaping and, along with Mirl Cain, was persuaded to give herself up after hearing of the matron's death. Said probation officer Miss Spencer: "All these girls were badly damaged girls and had little chance for rehabilitation." MAKING BREAK FOR LIBERTY, five teen-age girl inmates of Akron, 0., detention home strangled Matron Eula Bonham, 59, (above). Four were recaptured in few hovLTS.(lnternationalj Preliminary Surveys For Dams Completed Howard Todd farm. Eaele Point: men charged witr4b4ftg-Uix.-acres 0n the' John Walch to the delinquency of minors.. She had run away from the Dela ware school several times before. Preliminary surveys for con struction of four irrigation reser voirs were completed recently by the Soil Conservation service, 33 North Riverside ave. Conservation service officers also gave technical assistance for leveling 38 acres of land for irri gation and construction of a small dam recently. Surveys for construction of dams were made on the farms of Bob Humphrey, Eagle Point; Lester James, Sams Valley; W. E. Hammel, Eagle Point; and Earl Harris, Eagle Point. Each of the dams, which will be con structed next year, will furnish water for irrigation of between 10 to 15 acres. Thirty acres of land was leveled for irrigation on the A small, earth irrigation dam was completed recently on the G. W. Bishop farm in the Meadow's area of the Sams Val ley district. Tie dam will pro vide water to irrigate about 10 acres. farm, Lake Creek; and two acres on property owned by Sams Val ley orchard. Stenographic Errors Increase With Heat Chicago (U.R) A. survey dur ing an August heat wave here showed that stenographic errors increased 1,000 per cent when the temperature rose from 78 to 96 degrees. Among typists, errors went up from 11 per hour to more than 95. According to medical research, there's a simple explanation for the reasons behind these figures. The heart rate increases -as. the temperature and humidity go up, and fatigue and lowered output result. 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