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PROMISING TO SEEK legislation for lowering voting age to 18, New York Governor Aver
ell Harriman gets rousing cheer following his address at state Hi-Y conference in Albany,
N. Y. Howard Shinn, Jr. (right), advisor to Hi-Y council, escorts governor. (International)
Cenfral Point Woman
Injured in Accident
Mable Martha Commons, route
2, box 171, Central Point, re
ceived knee and elbow injuries
in an auto accident at the inter
section of West Third and North
Grape sts., about 4:05 p.m., yesterday.
She was taken to Community
hospital by city police where
she was held for observation.
Her condition was satisfactory
today, hospital officials said.
Mrs. Commons was travelling
outh on North Grape st. when
her car collided with a vehicle
.operated "by Donald Eugene
Cartwright, 401 South Newtown
st. Damage to both cars was
heavy, according to city police,
Cartwright was cited by police
for failure to stop at a stop
sign.
Inr a second accident, a car
driven by Charles L. McWorter,
2990 Barbara st., Ashland, was
struck by an unidentified ve
hicle at the corner of Fir and
West Main sts., about 12:50 p.m.,
Monday, according to a police
report.
Two Mf. Shasfa Men
Killed in Accident
Weed, Calif. (U.R) The Cal
ifornia state patrol today re
ported a double highway fatal
ity that occurred last Saturday
morning on Highway 97 just
south of Grant lake in northern
California.
Dead are Virgil Hough, 56,
and his brother-in-law, Robert
Kidwell, 28. Both were from Mt.
Shasta and were en route to
hurit ducks In the lower Klam
athrea. Patrolmen said their car went
out of control on the icy high
way and plowed into a south
bound semi-trailer driven by
Charles E. TayBr, Mt. Vernon,
Wash.
Holdup Note in Pocket
Leads To Investigation
Portland (U.R) A man in
whose pocket police found a
holdup note was held for fur
ther investigation today.
Detective Lt. Bard Purcell
said William E. Parks, 26, was
arrested on a drunk charge..
When police searched him they
found a pencil-written note on
a sheet of yellow paper which
said: "This is a holdup. Fill the
bags."
PRACTICAL
Hastings, Neb. (U.R) After a
minutely detailed explanation of
her first grade pupils on the
beauty of flowers, the teacher
asked: "And who can tell us
what makes the flowers spring
from the seeds?" Came the re
ply: "God does, but fertilizer
helps too!"
Bike Licenses For
'56 On Sale Soon
Bicycle licenses for 1956 will
be on sale at the city police sta
tion Dec. 27 at 8 a.m., Police
Chief Charles Champlin an
nounced today.
Licenses are now available
only to parents who purchase
bikes for Christmas presents
and wish them to be licensed
when given to the child.
Bicycles have been licensed in
Medford for about 38 years. The
licenses, which cost 25 cents
each, are used by police to help
identitfy lost or stolen bikes.
The first 100 applicants for
Licenses Dec? 27, will draw for
low plate numbers. After lots
have been drawn for the first
100 plates, licenses will be is
sued in consecutive order.
In order to obtain new lic
enses applicants must present
identification cards, issued when
they obtained their old license,
or bring in the old plate. To reg
ister new or unlicensed bikes,
applicants must have the trade
name of the bike, the serial
number, the wheel size, name
of the brake, and the main col
or, plus trim.
The police department would
appreciate boys and girls who
have bikes to obtain new lic
enses during the Christmas va
cation, Champlin said.
KICKING MONEY
Block Island, R. I. (U.R)
After kicking around' a paper
ball, Frank and Bruce Barron,
brothers, unwrapped it and
found that it was composed of
S350 in bills. It developed that
the wad had been lost by a Con
necticut woman vacationist.
Marine Biologist
Friend of Guppies
Russell City, Calif. (U.R)
Thirty - eight - year - old Maurice
Rakwicz is the guppy's friend.
The ambitious marine biolo
gist is building a thriving busi
ness around what is one of
underwater life's rarest crea
tures, Aretimia Salina, a minute
breed of shrimp used extensively
in the feeding of domestic fin
wrigglers. The Salina, a distantly re
moved cousin of our dinner table
shrimp, is highly selective as to
its habitation. So particular, in
fact, that Maurice's briny breed
ing pond near here is the only
place in all the 48 states where
it can be found.
He and his father, E. H. Rako
wicz, one-time tropical fish mer
chandiser, are credited with
much ingenuity for having im
proved the methods of shipping
their product to the three major
markets now buying from them.
The two instituted new tech
niques for sending live Artemia
Salinas to local aquariums and
fish dealers, and are now work
ing, on new and better ways of
freezing the shrimp for ship
ment to Canada as well as
around the United States.
The father and son team also
has a secret process for drying
and cleaning the shrimp eggs
for purposes of exporting them
to all corners of the earth.
When the eggs arrive at their
intended destinations they are
placed in a salt water solution
and mature to their adult length
of one quarter of an inch.
Northern Plains
Gets Blizzard
By UNITED-.PRESS
A mounting blizzard drove
out of Canada into the Northern
Plains today.
The storm was already in full
force in Southern Saskatche
wan, where severe blizzard con
ditions were reported. Blizzard
and cold wave warnings were
hoisted in this country for parts
of the Dakotas, Wyoming, and
Montana, and heavy snows were
reported in South Dakota early
today.
Elsewhere, up to five inches
of rain forced the evacuation of
40 persons near Kent, Wash,,
and caused landslides which
shifted the foundations of homes
at Astoria, Ore. A desert-born
"heat-wave continued to bring
summery temperatures to South
ern California, but the East
shivered in cold which included
a scant 1 degree above zero
at Elkins, W. Va.
Flood conditions were easing
around Kent, 10 miles south of
Seattle, after rowboat crews
were forced to take 40 persons
from their farm homes yester
day. Water stood two feet deep
on the floors of some homes
and fields and basements were
flooded.
Four to five inches of rain
pounded Astoria during the
week end, setting off landslides.
Damage was relatively light,
however, and no injuries were
reported.
In marked contrast to the
rainy, wintry weather, Los An
geles reported a balmy 78 de
grees yesterday and expected
more of the same today.
Two Arraigned In
Court For Burglary
Roy L. Thurman, 58, and Earl
B. Schneider, 56, 1728 North
Riverside ave., were arraigned
in circuit court Saturday on
charges of burglary not in a
dwelling. The two are charged
with entering Valley Lockers,
Talent, Nov. 24.
Florence Emaline Doney, 46,
Talent, was arraigned on a
charge of concealing stolen prop
erty, in connection with the Val
ley Lockers burglary.
Mrs. Doney is being held in
the county jail under 51,500
bond to appear for preliminary
hearing later.
Thurman also is to appear for
Tuesday December 13, 1955
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE
US Cotton Program
Creates Brazil Problem
Rio de Janeiro (U.R) The
Bank of Brazil said Monday that
the United States surplus cotton
disposal program is "creating
serious difficulties" for Brazil
and other countries where cot
ton is a basic export product.
The bank's export bureau
said with the United States
scheduled to dispose of nearly
one million bales of surplus cot
ton in world markets next
month, it may prove "good bus
iness" to start shipping Brazil
ian cotton to Communist China.
preliminary hearing. Schneider
waived preliminary hearing and
waa uuunu over to grana jury.
Rome Teachers Plan
Strike for More Pay
Rome (U.R) Some 91,600 sec
ondary school teachers planned
today to go on a new seven-day
strike for higher wages starting
Thursday.
The teachers recently staged
a three-day strike in as effort to
force the government to give in
to its wage demands. But the
government has said the teach
ers want more money than it
can afford to pay.
Better animals, better care,
more feeding and improved beef
types account for a 38 per cent
increase in cattle productivity in
the United States since 1924.
38 Building Permits
Issued Last Month
Thirty-eight building permits
were issued during November
for construction costing an esti
mated $162,243.
The total for last month was
somewhat less than for October
when 51 permits were issued for
S195,019, but showed an increase
over a year ago when November
permits totaled S123.948.
In addition to permits issued
the city building department
conducted 745 inspections dur
ing November.
Dead line Sunday Classified Is at 8
noon Saturday; 10 a.m. Monday for F)
ivionaay; otneraays 5:30 Dreviousday.
New Child Safety
Bulletin Available
A new child safety bulletin,
"Safety, Your Child's Heritage,"
has been received by the Jack
son County Public Health de
partment. The book is available
at the office, or by asking by
phone that it be mailed, accord
ing to Miss Dorothy Huskey,
health educator at the depart
ment. Also available is a home safety
check-list covering hazards
which often occur in homes with
small children.
Blueprint Becomes
Finished Product
Washington (U.R) A revo
lutionary electronic device now
turns a blueprint into a complex
finished product.
This device, called a "cam"
machine, automatically produces
an intricate mechanism which is
the heart of a jet plane engine's
fuel-control system.
Planes, official publication of
the Aircraft Industries Associa
tion, says this new method of
producing vital parts for Ameri
ca's jet engines is now doing a
job in two to four hours that nor
mally required at least 5 to 10
weeks' production time. Here is
the way the blueprint is con
verted into the finished product:
Coded information on the spe
cial blueprint is punched onto a
paper tape and fed into an elec
tronic computer. The computer
reads the data as to the shape
of the required cam, sending in
structions through the servo-mechanisms
to the tool that does
the actual cutting of the part
being produced. The computer
also checks itself for error, mak
ing any adjustments required
while the machine tool cutting
process is underway.
WOOD TRIUMPHS
Brattleboro, Vt. (U.R)
Seventy-six years ago two
bridges were built here. One
was of iron; the other, wood.
Five years ago it became neces
sary to replace the iron span.
The wooden bridge is still
sound.
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