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o O o 0 Medford y- r TV RIBUNE United Preii Full Leased Wire United Press Fall Leased Wire Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1955 Pages 1-1? fS0 1 POINTING THUMBS DOWN University of Pittsburgh football players show what they think of Georgia Governor Marvin Griffin who is trying to block Georgia Tech from play ing i the Sugar Bowl if Pittsburgh's Negro player, Bobby Grier, is part of Panther team. Players are (from left) Bob Kiesel, Nick Carr, Jim McCusker, Don Agafon. (International) Canton Retailers Go For 'Capitalist'Plan Tokyo (U.R) Peiping Radio said today half of the private retail t.Qders in Canton have switched their businesses into "state capitalist" enterprises. More than 71 per cent of the city's retail trade is now being handled by state capitalist shops, the broadcast added. It said state trading companies have almost replaced private wholesale deal ers, who now account for only 4.5 per cent of the total. Mountain Ranges Said To Affect Weather Los Angeles' (U.R) Sharp, high mountain ranges such as California's High Sierras are be lieved to affect the whole na tion's weather. The U. S. Air Force and the Office of Naval Research have financed a study of what effect mountains have on the weather To carry out the study "flying laboratories,'.' gliders have been sent over the peaks. So far scientists have learned: pomiskw , I i if n'y only 3Va hrs. M UNITED Leave at 7 a.m., 11:00 a.m. or 5:35 p.m. Convenient connections to"All the East". 1 Air flowing over long, high mountain ranges plunges down ward over the leeward side, then upward and downward again in a series of waves that often reach well into the stratosphere. 2 These violent up-and-down drafts are accompanied by larg er scale horizontal waves which flow across the country like a river. 3 Where the air flowing across the mountain descends, it is compressed and heated but on rising again it cools and expands. If the air . cools sufficiently for water vapor to condense, clouds form. This indicates that mountain ranges are not merely, local weather factors but have appli cation to the entire range of weather research, according to project scientists. Morse Sees Pooling Of Power Important Portland (U.R) Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) testified before a special water ana power re sources subcommittee yesterday that he was just as opposed to a federal power monopoly as he was to a private power monop oly. Morse told the subcommittee he believed "multi-purpose dams should be built by the govern ment and the low head dams by private utilities." He said the key to economic progress in this area was the pooling' of the power from public and private agencies. Salem (U.R) The legisla tive interim committee on local government will open the first of a series of state-wide public meetings in the city hall here tonight. The DAN PATCH o 2080 WEST MAIN STREET DECEMBER 5TH JANUARY 5TH Douglas Authorities Investigate Explosion Roseburg '(U.R) A violent explosion heard over a 15-mile radius. Saturday night was being investigated by state and Doug las county authorities today. The blast was audible from Oakland, Ore., to Myrtle Creek to the south, and from Nonpareil west to Tyee. State police said one man re ported seeing a large ball of fire in the vicinity of Tyee Moun tain west of Sutherlin at the time of the blast. The explosion occurred at 9:47 p.m. Saturday. A check of the Portland filter center' re vealed that no jet aircraft was in the area at the time. A police check of all powder magazines indicated that dyna mite had not been used to cause the explosion. Motorist Tells Weed Police of Beating Weed, Calif. (U.R) Louis Tu pen, 32, Woodland, Calif., was hospitalized here today for treat ment of injuries he told police were inflicted by two men who appropriated his car, beat him and dumped him from the ve hicle. . " Tupen said the incident occur red between 2 and 3 a.m. Monday on Highway 99 between Weed and Mt. Shasta. Tupen was taken to the hospital by Mt. Shasta police, suffering from a lacerated knee and multiple bruises. Later, a wrecked car which turned out to be Tupen's was found five miles north of Weed on Highway 97. Officers were searching for the two men. CO., Inc. ' H $ o AVE! SAVE! $ Get a Discount on Your ... ROOFING SIDING WEATHER STRIPPING Master No Draft Interlock Metal Weather Stripping Pabco Windprdof Roofing Shingles Pabco Asbestos Precision Panels Shake Siding Of With The 0 DISCOUNTCoupon Below Bids Called on Two Area Highway Jobs Two Jackson county highway jobs will be among 21 on which bids have been called by the state highway commission for its meeting in Portland Dec. 19 and 20. One is for the production of about 14,000 cubic yards of crushed rock or gravel, stock piled on the Pacific highway between Ashland and the Calif ornia state line. The other is for lighting of six intersections on Highway 99 between Central Point and Rock Point. It calls for about 25 wood poles, 2,000 lineal feet of conduit, 18,000 li neal feet of conductor, 29 mer cury vapor lamps, and ballasts. Lefitist Leaders Rap Faure's Censorship Paris (U.R) Former Pre mier Pierre Mendes - France banded with other leftist politi cal leaders yesterday and at tacked Premier Edgar Faure on grounds he had imposed an "un scrupulous censorship" on French radio and television net works to aid his reelection cam paign. Mendes-France teamed with the Socialists, the Republican Socialists and the Social Demo crats (UDSR) in a solid leftist bloc to attack Faure in Mendes' newspaper L'Express. The line up indicated the lines were being solidly drawn for the forthcom ing campaign. NO OBLIGATION FOR ESTIMATES Designate on the Coupon Below What You Are Interested In. The Dan Patch Co., Inc. 2080 West Main Roofing Name Address Date .... Time House Q Siding Weather Strip Apartment Q Motel Check One DEFENDING General Motors business ethics in Senate Anti Monopoly Subcommittee hear ing, Harlow Curtice, company president, says "relations be tween General Motors and the majority of its dealers is on very high level." '(international) THE GWT OF Tew HEARING AIDS Brighten the life of a hard-of-hearing friend or loved one for only $50! Visit or phone today for complete information. It's so easy . so thoughtful! . GEORGE E. WHITE - HEARING AID3 131 West Main, Medford Plea Changed in Death Of Chiloquin Logger Klamath Falls --(U.R) Mar- cellus John Norwest, 26-year-old Sprague River logger, has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of manslaughter for the slaying of Jackie Howard Jones last August. Klamath County Circuit Judge David R. Vendenberg ordered a pre-sentence investigation.' Norwest today withdrew a plea of not guilty to a second de gree murder charge in connec tion with the death of the 24-year-old Chiloquin logger, and entered the other plea. The shooting took place on a Chiloquin street during an ar gument over the sale of a case of beer. Norwest claimed he shot at Jones merely to frighten him. No Survivors Seen At Wreckage of C-45 Meodon, Utah (U.R) The first members of a ground party reaching the wreckage of an Air Force C-45 in the Wasatch Mountains near here yesterday confirmed preliminary reports that neither occupant of the C-45 sirvived Wednesday's crash. Government Camp (U.R) Portland area Boy Scouts Sun day dedicated their $5,000 Mount Hood home near Nanitch point at the southern base of the mountain. The Ohio river starts at the junction of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers at Pitts burgh, Pa., and ends at Cairo, 111., where it joins the Missis sippi, a distance of 981 miles. 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