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STRICKEN DURING NIGHT with intastinal inflammation after attending press photog
raphers' dinner. President Eisenhower is taken by ambulance to Walter Reed Hospital.
Mrs. Eisenhower, accompanied by son. Major John Eisenhower, is entering hospital
Smiling picture of President was made at dinner. (International Soundphoto)
Astrolabes Guided Early
Voyagers Into the Unknown
Washington In S c o Hand's j on sun and stars and found their
Dudhope museum in Dundee ships' latitude. Astrolabes, the
. . .-c. ;i,. 'first scientific instruments for
rests a curious brass disk, eight .
position-finding on trackless
inches across, engraved witnsea5 made possible the first
numbers near its rim, and fitted ; great voyages of the age of ex
with a movable pointer. ploration.
The device is a mariner's as- j Pointer to the Heareni
trolabe. It bears the date 1555, In simplest form the astrolabe
recently authenticated by ex-1 was a suspended disk or circle
ports. Believed to be a relic ol . " meiai or wooa. t-ivoting ai its
the Spanish Armada, wrecked on
the coasts of Britain and Ireland,
it holds claim as the oldest navi
gational instrument in existence
center, the pointer swung up or
down. By aiming along the
pointer, the mariner determined
elevation of the sun or a star.
With similar instruments, I and thus could compute his dis-
from the heaving decks of cara
vels and galleons, vasco de Ga
ma. Christopher Columbus, and
other daring navigators sighted
Singing Stylist
'Arrives'; Youths
Take Clothing
New York (U.P.) Comedians
are starting to make jokes about
Elvis Presley and his "rip-'em-up
style of singing.
Someone chalked this note on
a New York sidewalk recently
"Elvis Presley, Go Home." In
short, Presley has arrived.
Wherever he appears, scream
ing crowds of teen-age girls , Srea number of astrologers
make his entrances and exits a I 'here. "They have their astro
test of strength, and the young labes- he wrote, "upon which
rock-n-roll hillbilly, or "rock- "e described the planetary signs,
billy." invariably ends up minus the hours, and their several as-
tance above or below the equa
tor. - .
Still used today in extremely
precise instruments for measur
ing the earth's surface, the prin
ciple of the astrolabe was known
2,000 years ago, making it per
haps the oldest scientific instru
ment in the world. Its invention
is sometimes credited to Hippar
chus, a Greek astronomer of 150
B.C., and sometimes to Apollon
ius of Perga, a century earlier.
Knowledge and use of the as
trolabe came down through the
Dark Ages in the hands of Arabic
astronomers. During the Crus
ades, Saracen instruments that
could take the elevation of stars
and mountain summits were
treasures to be sent home to
Venice, Paris, or London.
When Marco Polo visited the
city of Kanbalu, he noted the
Oregonian Sued
By Teamster Head
' Portland (U.R) A libel
suit demanding 300,000 in pun
itive and compensatory damages
was filed in Circuit Court here
today against the Oregonian
Publishing Co. and three others
by Clyde C. Crosby, head of the
Teamsters union in Oregon.
The union chief also named
Wallace Turner, and William
Lambert, Oregonian reporters,
and James Elkins Portland night
life figure, as defendants in the
action.
Crosby claimed that an article
in the newspaper published Ap
ril 19 under the by-lines of Tur
ner and Lambert and an editor
ial the same day brought him
into public scandal, ridicule and
disgraced
The article was one of a series
published by the newspaper in
which purported to be an ex
pose of vice conditions in Port
land. ,
Crosby recalled that as a re
sult ot fhe Turner-Lambert teri
ies he was asked by Mayor Fred
L. Peterson to resign from Port
land's exposition commission.
The Teamsters official charged
that Elkins supplied Turner and
Lambert with material for their
articles for the purpose of de
faming Crosby.
There are more than 420.000
miles of natural gas pipelines in
the U. S. -
Flood Waters in India
Chase Many Families
New Delhi. , India (U.R)
More than 150,000 persons have
been driven from their homes by
the flood waters of the Kosi
River, it was reported today.
Swelled by heavy monsoon
rains. India's "River of Sor
rows" surged over its banks, in
undating some 150 villages in
the Darbhanga and Saharsa dis
tricts. The river usually reaches
the flood state in late July.
The government rushed food
and medical supplies to the
flood-stricken areas.
Veterans Reminded
Of Educational Aid
. Salem (U.R) Oregon war
veterans returning to summer
school this week and next were
reminded today of their possible
entitlement to state educational
aid benefits.
Raymond E. Pettey. educa
tional officer for the State De
partment of Veterans' Affairs,
said eligible veterans should ap
ply for their state benefits when
they register in school.
Pettey also warned World
War II veterans that Dec. 31 is
the last day they may start
schooling under the state pro
gram. There is no deadline for
Korean veterans.
Four Persons Hurt
In Portland Fire
Portland (U.R) Three fire
men and a service station op
erator suffered burns when fire
destroyed a service station here
today.
Jack Scherer, 38. one of the
partners in the station, suffered
second-degree burns about the
face and hands. His partner.
Glen Wright, said Scherer had
driven a car onto the lube rack
when the engine backfired, set-
' ting accumulated grease and oil
ablaze.
Three firemen suffered minor
burns fighting the blaze which
engulfed the structure in a mat
ter of minutes. Damage was es
timated at $20,000. .
Second Meat Inspection
Program Nearing End
Salem (U.R) The State Agri
culture Department's second
pilot meat inspection program
in 11 plants in Marion, Polk,
Yamhill and Washington coun
ties will end Thursday.
Dr. Rolla Sexauer, supervisor
of the field program, said the
second round should determine
if sanitary standards required
during the first round have been
maintained.
Next week inspectors will
move into Columbia. Clatsop,
Tillamook, Lincoln, Clackamas
and Multnomah counties, Sexau
er said.
Youth Grabs Branches .
To Save Self in Fall
Salem (U.R) A 10-year-old
Salem boy was saved from
drowning yesterday by grabbing
low-hanging branches as he was
swept from his feet in swift-running
Mill creek.
stepped into a hole and lost his j tnls year'
balance. His shouts while cling
ing to the limbs brought Mar
garet Slater and Alyce Robert
son who rescued him unharmed.
15 Cents Per Pound
For Strawberries
Salem -U.R) Prices of 15
cents a pound were quoted today
to Willamette valley strawberry
growers following a 3-cent break
in the California market.
Independent Salem area
growers had opened early this
month with 16-cent prices. A
year ago a price of 15V4 cents
held through the season.
Independent processors said
there was a good deal of confu
sion as a result of the California
price decline and growers vere
warned that all berries would
be received subject to "price
change."
Processors said they didn't
think the lower prices would
change the agreed picking prices
Beauty Contest Would
Be Disgrace To Pakistan
Karachi, Pakistan (U.R) The
wife of Pakistan's . president
bowed to centuries old custom
Monday night and asked that
the country's first nationwide
beauty contest be cancelled.
Begum Iskander Mirza said
the holding of a contest to pick
Ralph Morgan, Veteran
Actor, Taken by Death
New York (U.R) Ralph Mor
gan, 72, veteran actor of stage
and screen, died at his home
late Monday after an illness of
2' 2 years, it was announced to
day. He was a brother of actor
Frank Morgan who- died seven
years ago.
Collision Fatal
Near Sweet Home
Sweet Home (U.R) Mrs.
Myrtle Horan, 35, Sweet Home,
was killed near here early today
when a car driven by her young
son crashed into an empty log
truck.
Five other occupants of the
Horan car were hospitalized, in
cluding the driver, 16-year-old
Leonard E. Horan; Helen Horan,
14, and May Horan, 11; David
Payne, 14, and Jack Payne, 15,
both of Foster, Ore.,
Harold R. Wodtli, . Sweet
Home, driver of the truck, ap
parently was unhurt. Police said
the accident occurred on the
South Santiam highway when
the truck made a left turn into
a service station and collided
with the Horan car.
Leonard Horan was transfer
red from Langmack hospital in
Sweet Home to a Eugene hospit
al for treatment of a fractured
skull and a crushed hip. Hospit
al attendants said his condition
was "very serious."
The other injured youngsters
were in less serious condition.
SOC Gymnasium Plans Approved
Portland (U.R) The State
Board of Higher Education to
day approved' final plans for a
physical education building at
Southern Oregon College, in
Ashland.
The board called for bids for
11 a.m. June 19. In the first call,
bids all were rejected as too
high and the plans were revis
ed. If a satisfactory bid is receiv
ed in the second call the State
Emergency Board will be asked
to release $450,000 for the pro
ject. The board authorized issue of
$1,000,000 in general obligation
bonds for financing the Student
Center building at Portland
State College. Bids for the buil
ding will be received by the
board Aug. 3.
A building fee of $8 a term
will be charged to each full-time
student to meet principal and in
terest payments on the bond is
sue. The board also granted auth
ority for proceeding with con
struction of the Architecture and i
Allied Arts building on the Uni
versity of Oregon campus on
S533.500 available from legisla
tive appropriations. It also or
dered that the remaining $1,735,
000 appropriations for the Agri
cultural and Biological Science
building and the utility tunnel
at Oregon State College be re
leased and construction proceed.
The board also said bills for
a new dormitory on the Uni
versity of Oregon campus would
Be received July 27.
Chief Joseph Dam
Officially Dedicated
Bridgeport, Wash. (U.R) The
$160,000,000 Chief Joseph Dam
on the Columbia was to be dedi
cated this afternoon.
Dedication speaker was Har
old E. Stassen. special assistant
to the President. Delegations
from Indian tribes in the area
will take part in the ceremony.
Work on the dam 15 miles
downstream from Grand Coulee
began seven years ago. The last
ol 16 generators is scheduled to
go on the line in 1958, giving
the plant an output of 1,728,000
kilowatts which is second only
to Grand Coulee's output. The
dam's spillway is 922 feet wide.
Its top is 205 feet above the
river.
We wish io Thank.. .
tht following firmi (or theii dona
nationa to the Gold Hill Juniot
Dairy Show. With their intarest I
the help ol many other frienda,
the show wat a great tucceia.
Putman Bros., Eagle Point
Monarch Seed & Feed, Medford
Big Y Feed & Seed, Medford
Grange Co-op, Central Point
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JERSEY CATTLE CLUB
a Pakistani girl for the Miss Uni
verse contest at Long Beach,
Calif., would disgrace Pakistan
in the eyes of the Islamic world.
Pakistan custom decrees that
women be concealed ,by veils.
Births
BIGGER To Mr. and Mrs.
Robert, 206 Cottage st., June 12,
1956. a girl, 8 pounds, at Com
munity hospital.
RAY To Dr. and Mrs. Eu
gene, 28 Summit ave., June 11,
1956, a girl, 7I-z pounds, at Sa
cred Heart hospital.
FRANZ To Mr. and Mrs.
Jack, 1504 West Main st., June
12, 1956. a girl, 81; pounds, at
Sacred Heart hospital.
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UNION PACIFIC
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
Announces
Withdrawal of the 16-acre tract of the Veteran's
Administration Hospital (parcel 1) previously
scheduled for sale by auction on Friday, June 15.
THE AUCTION scheduled for Friday, June 15,
2 p.m. Hotel Umpqua, Roseburg will include: An
8-acre portion of the Veteran's Administration
Hospital property . . . a portion of the Medford
Military Reservation . . . five tracts at the Cottage
Grove Reservoir, and four tracts at the Dorena
Reservoir, both in Lane County.
JOSEPH P. DAY, INC.
Auctioneer
Local Representative: Earl Wiley, Hotel Rosa
Building, Roseburg. Phone: Or. 3-3401
a jacket, shirt and tie,
At present, RCA Victor's re
cording star has one of the top
selling albums in the business.
His "single" record releases are
among the best-sellers in every
pects.
Yet seamen's astrolabes came
into use relatively late, at the :
dawn of the age of exploration, j
They may have been known dur- j
ing the time of Prince Henry the
Navigator in the early 1400s.
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try and western.
And he's just a growing boy
of 21.
When performing
known to have used one about
1483.
For the next two centuries.
1 seamen relied on astrolabes to
Presley is , guide them safely along lines of
like a steam engine. One mo
ment, the fires are banked. The
next moment, he's tearing up a
sound-track. His legs begin to
shake. He jumps. His head
snaps up and down. His hair
whips the air. He jiggles his
leather-covered guitar like a
bartender working a cocktail
shaker.
The Presley story began in
Memphis, Tenn., when he play
ed his guitar and sang for high
school audiences. He enjoyed
nerformine for his classmates.
but figured he would do better I eeling for we(,;her
latitude to land falls far below
the horizon. Then as the science
of navigation gradually evolved,
that early star-finding instru
ment gave way to cross staff,
back staff, and finally the early
quadrants and octants, forerun
ners of today's sextant.
Without Instruments
There were far voyages made
without astrolabes, of course
indeed, without instruments of
any kind. Polynesian and Micro
nesian sailors came thousands of
miles across the open Pacific in
outrigger canoes, with only their
sea. and
1S-
stars to guide them to new
land homes.
Yet it was the simple circle of
the astrolabe that gave the great
venturers of Renaissance Europe
hope of setting out across the
oceans and finding their way to
new worlds.
by becoming an electrician.
Paid For Recording
To earn money for this career,
Elvis became a truck driver. One
day, however, the urge to make
a record got the better of him
and he walked into the office
of the Sun Record Company, a
leading independent country la
bel. Elvis, an admirer of the Ink
Spots" style, recorded "If I
Didn't Care" at his own expense.
"After that I went home and
put away my guitar." he said.
"I didn't touch it again until
about a year later when Sam
Phillips called me up and asked
if I'd like to make more sides
at his expense."
Phillips, the 32-year-old guid
ing .light behind Sun Records,
took the boy into a studio and
concentrated on bringing out the
rnrrent Presley style.
After a batch of hit records i families
for Sun. Elvis tried to land a
spot on the Arthur Godfrey
Talent Scouts" TV program.
He was turned down.
He went back to Memphis, but
bv the time RCA Victor has
seen the smoke and was on his
trail. Six months ago. his con
tract was purchased for the phe
nomenal sum of S40.000.
He recently passed a screen
test for Paramount, and. he has
been kept busy with a full
schedule of night club, theatre
and TV dates. All this hasn't
helped him shake the fingernail
biting habit.
" It's all happening so fast.' he j An average wage earner in
said, "that some nights I just I the U. S. today lives to an age of
can't fall asleep. It scares me, 70 years as compared with 46
you know. It just scares me." years in 1909. s
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DienBien Phu Angel
Married in France
Paris U.R) Genevieve de
Galard. the "Angel of Dien Bien
Phu." Monday secretly married
the man she fell in love with on
the Indochina battlefield.
The "civil marriage took place
at the Town Hall of the 12th Dis
trict of Paris. The bridegroom
was Capt. Jean de Heaulme, a
paratrooper.
Only members of the two
and witnesses were
present. Miss Galard wished to
svoid the crowd that would have
resulted if the press had known
of it.
However, the religious cere
mony still is slated to take place
Thursday in the battle-decked
shrine of France's military
great, the Church of Saint
Louise des Invalides.
The heroism , of the brunette
nurse as the only woman caring
for the hundreds of wounded
soldiers in the doomed French
fortress in Indochina catapulted
her to fame.
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Road tests are taken periodically by
George Greenlaw and other telephone
drivers. These stress safety, alertness,
quick reaction, and rules of the road.
Vision checks with a precision instru
ment are scheduled every two years
another important part of our defensive
driving program.
Your telephone gives you better serv
ice because telephone people are trained
to work safely ...which helps keep skilled
people on the job to serve you.
Meet George Greenlaw a safe driver. An important part
of George Greenlaw's job as a telephone man is driving this installer's
truck safely. And like the thousands of other telephone drivers, he
took a special course in what we call "defensive driving." As a de
fensive driver, it's a habit with George always to expect the unex--xted
... to put his foot on the brake at all intersections, yield the
right-of-way cheerfully, and keep a sharp eye out for pedestrians.
As a result, George Greenlaw and other Pacific Telephone drivers
roll up millions of miles a year with one of the best safety records
in the country. Safety like this pays off for telephone people and
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