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ARRIVES IN MEDFORD S. J. Stephenson (on steps) is greeted
by Ben Trowbridge of Trowbridge and Flynn Electric company,
as he arrives in Medford to study local market conditions and help
. prepare for the election campaign broadcasts to be sponsored by
Westinghouse Electric corporation. Stephenson is manager of
Westinghouse'i portable appliance division.
Firm Official to
Study Market Area
Stan J. Stephenson, manager,
portable appliance division of
the Westinghouse Electric cor
poration, is in Medford this week
to study local market conditions
and to help prepare for the elec
tion campaign broadcasts which
Westinghouse is sponsoring na
tionally. - Stephenson is one of a team
of three executives of Westing
house's consumer products div
ision moving throughout the
Northwest this week. They are
among 125 Westinghouse offic
ials that are devoting this week
to contacting dealers all over
the country.
During this week, Westing
house will effect "Operation
Landslide," a $10,000,000 mer
chandising event planned for the
electrical merchandising in
dustry. Westinghouse is investing S5,-
000,000 in television and radio
coverage of the political conven
tions this fall, Another $5,000,-
000 Is being Invested in . mer
chandising and advertising pro
tects to make sure that retailers
capitalize on the broadcasts at
the local level, according to
Westinghouse.
Chicago Continues
To Battle Polio
Chicago U.R) Every effort
was being made today by Board
of Health authorities to crush
the polio outbreak in Chicago
before the peak polio season ar
rived in less than a week.
The polio count neared the 600
mark despite the all-out inocu
lation campaign launched against
the crippling disease.
Since Jan. 1, there have been
582 cases of polio and 13 deaths
from the disease. .
The outbreak was the worst
in Chicago's history and ran far
ahead of 1955 when 161 cases
and 10 deaths were reported dur
ing the same period. In 1952.
when the city's previous biRgest
polio outbreak occurred, only 76
cases and three deaths had been
reported in the corresponding
period.
Meanwhile, health authorities
pressed a drive against itinerant
food and confectionary vendors
on the polio-infested West Side.
Dr. Herman Bundesen, Board of
Health president, said the action
should not be construed as
meaning that all street vendors
should be considered unsanitary.
"We just don't want to take
any chances," Bundesen said.
SEAL'S ALL WET
Orlando, Fla. (U.PJ The
next time James F. Divine sees
a bargain, he'll be a little more
wary. Arriving late Monday at
a county' land auction. Divine
bid for four lots, which he fin
ally purchased for $705. The
shock came when he went to
look at his new properties near
the edge of town and found them
right in the middle of - Lake
Olive.
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Cypriot Gunmen
Scheduled To Die
Nicosia, Cyprus (U.R) Gov
Sir John Harding today con
firmed the death sentences of
three Greek - speaking Cypriot
gunmen, who probably will
hang within 48 hours.
The EOKA underground was
expected to retaliate for the
executions of Andreas Zakos,
Charilaos Michael and Iacovos
Patatsos by murdering any Brit
ish captives who fall into their
hands.
The underground seized a 78-year-old
schoolteacher last week
and threatened to kill him if
the three men were hanged. The
underground eventually releas
ed him, however, at the request
of one of the doomed men.
Two power stations on this
strategic Mediterranean island
failed Monday night, perhaps as
a result of sabotage, and two
time bombs were set off at the
Radio Cyprus studios. The
bombs caused no casualties and
only slight damage.
The bombs were an apparent
attempt to retaliate for the offi
cial station's broadcast of a de
nunciation of EOKA by Dro
soulla Demetriadou, a Greek girl
whose Maltese fiance was mur
dered and whose mother was
beaten up by the underground.
Convicted Red
Refused Payments
Washington (U.R) The Board
of Veterans Appeals today re
fused to reinstate disability pay
ments to convicted Communist
Robert G. Thompson. It said
that Thompson's speeches dur
ing the Korean war aided the
enemy.
The board:-upheld the VA's
Central- Committee on Waivers
and Forfeitures in an earlier
action denying the disability
benefits. ,
Thompson was one of the first
11 top Communist leaders con
victed under the Smith act of
conspiring to advocate the over
throw of the U.S. government
by violence. He is in the federal
penitentiary in Atlanta, Ga.
Thompson s payments were
stopped under a provision of
public law 144 which permits
the Veterans Administrator to
cut off the benefits if he
convinced that the recipient is
guilty of mutiny, treason, or of
rendering assistance to the
enemy.
Payment of $30.15 monthly to
Thompson's wife and children
will not be cut off. But the $67
a month disability payments
Thompson would receive will be
stopped.
Thompson, a World War II
veteran, was awarded the Dis
tinguished Service Cross for
heroism ih battle. He contracted
pulmonary tuberculosis after be
ing wounded. The disease is now
arrested, a VA spokesman said.
Seven American
Soldiers on Trial
On Rape Charges
Wuerzburg. ' Germany (U.R;
Seven American soldiers go on
trial today for the mass rape of
a 15-year old German girl. The
verdict could have an important
effect on recently disturbed
German-American relations.
The seven Americans, four of
them teen-agers, were accused of
raping the young girl in a woods
near here on July 9. The act
brought to a head a wave of Ger
man criticism of brutal actions
by U.S. and other troops sta
tioned along the Iron Curtain in
West Germany.
Equal Interest
The Communists and the non
Communists were observing the
trial with almost equal interest
the Communists for powerful
propaganda material and the
non-Communists to see a test of
American policy and friendship
with the West German republic.
Every German newspaper on
both sides of the Iron Curtain
was giving the trial wide publi
city. The trial was before a mili
tary court, with five Army law
years appointed to defend the
men. The seven accused faced
death by hanging if convicted.
Investigating military police
have reported all made "impli
cating" statements.
Could Renew Demands
Observers said if the seven
are given light sentences, or sen
tences lighter than the German
public thinks they desrve, a nw
wave of demands is expected to
swell across Germany calling for
the expulsion of all foreign
troops.
The Army named Brig. Gen.
Parmer Edwards of St. Louis to
head the nine-man court. Maj.
John F. Kearns of Fonda, N.Y.,
was designated law officer.
The men, all members of the
85th Infantry Regiment of the
10th Division, were: Pfc. Edward
L. Brown, 18, of Norwalk, Conn.:
Pvt. Melvin F. Carter, 24, of
Harrisburg, Va.: Pfc. James E.
Wilson, 18, of Wilmington, Del.:
Pvt. Clifton Franks, 20, of
Omaha, Neb.; Pvt. James Gor
don, 23. of Alachua, Fla.: Pfc.
Fred Chandler. 21, of Kansas
City, Mo.; and Pfc. Raymond I.
Kasey, 18, of Roanoke, Va.
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COLONEL KEHOE
Assigned to Medford
Girl, 12, Quizzed
In Death of Boy
Milwaukee (U.R) A 12-year-old
girl was questioned by police
and juvenile authorities today
about the fatal shotgun shooting
of Kenneth Dykes, 11, Milwau
kee. Dukes died at a hospital here
Monday afternoon, a few hours
after the girl shot him because
he was teasing her, police said.
The girl was expected to face
juvenile court trial on a police
charge of homicide by reckless
conduct with a firearm.
The girl told police Dukes was
throwing a rock at a house in
which she, another girl and a
boy were playing. She said she
pointed the shotgun out of a
window and told him to stop.
Dukes persisted, she told po
lice, and walked yj a flight of
stairs to the house. The girl
came out holding the shotgun
and told Dukes she would give
him to the count of five to leave.
"That old gun won't shoot
anyway," she quoted Dukes as
saying.
She told police she counted
to five and pulled the trigger,
but added she did not know the
gun, which belonged to her
father, was loaded.
1956 Chrysler sales to owners of other makes
are going up! Percentage of owners switching
to Chrysler from the six major competitors in
our price range is up 48.9 over 1955! Here's
proof that Chrysler is the biggest buy of all
fine cars! Come in . . . and see for yourself!
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THE YEAR AHEAD CHRYSLER
Colonel Assigned
Advisor for Units
In Medford Area
Vancouver Barracks, Wash.
Regular Army Lt. Colonel Frank
M. Kehoe, recently returned
from 14 months in Korea, has
been assigned as the senior ad
visor for Army reserve units in
the Medford area. Colonel Wil
lard B. Carlock, chief of the Ore
gon Military district has an
nounced. Colonel Kehoe is coming to
Medford as a result of increased
Army reserve activities by the
activation of the 417th engineer
aviation brigade and the Armed
Forces Reserve act of 1955 which
permits youths 17 to 18' 4 years
of age to enlist in the Army re
serve. As the senior unit advisor in
this area he will also be responsi
ble for Army reserve units in the
Klamath Falls and Grants Pass
area.
A veteran of more than 14
years service, Colonel Kehoe
served in France, England, Ger
many, the Philippine Islands and
Japan during and after World
War II. In 1949 he returned to
Germany where he served until
1953 with the Hanau and Rhine
engineer depots.
Colonel Kehoe and his wife,
Madge, with their . two sons,
Stephen and Philip, will make
their home at route 1, box 363C,
Medford.
COOL, MAN, COOL
Chicago (U.Rj The Drake Ho
tel has announced the comple
tion of a 100 per cent air condi
tioning program started in 1954.
The system consists of a 100-ton
refrigerating compressor, a wa
ter chiller, a circulating pump,
and an evaporative condenser.
The individual room units are in
stalled in the closets and vary in
power with the size of the room.
BRING BACK THOSE BELLS
Grand Rapids, Mich. ;U.R)
Mrs. Allen E. Waite appealed to
police to help find her husband's
bar-bells and weights before he
starts adding more weight. Mrs.
Waite told police her 230-pound
husband, a contractor, "is lost
without them." The bar-bells
were taken from the Waite home
while they were away. . "
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Sullivan To Miss
Sunday TV Show
Derby, Conn. (U.R) TV star
Ed Sullivan has not improved
"'rapidly enough" from traffic in
juries to appear on his Sunday
night program, a hospital medi
cal bulletin said today.
Comedian Phil Silver will sub
stitue for Sullivan on "The Ed
Sullivan Show" this Sunday and
until Sullivan is able to return,
the Columbia Broadcasting Sys
tef announced. A CBS spokes
man said it was expected Sulli
van would return to his program
Aug. 19.
A. J. Deluca, administrator of
Griffin hospital, issued the bul
letin 32 hours after Sullivan was
injured in a two-car accident at
Seymour, Conn.
The medical bulletin said Sul
livan "spent a comfortable night.
Temperature normal. Condition
has not progressed rapidly
enough to warrant his appear
ance on the TV show scheduled
for Aug. 12."
Deluca said he did not know
how much longer Sullivan would
be required to remain in the
hospital. i
WHO IS ELVIS?
New York (U.R) Elvis :
Presley may have the sympathy
of 71 per cent of the nation's ;
teen-agers and the idolatry of 11 ;
per cent. But 18 per cent hasn't
the vaguest idea who "The Pel
vis" is. A youth research insti
tute survey said many of the
18 per cent never had heard of
the rock-'n'-roll singer, while j
others misidentified him as a
comic strip character. Southern ,
senator, evangelist, mystery nov-
el detective and radio news com-j
mentator. i
FATHER St SON
Boston (U.R) For the first
time in its long history, the uni
formed branch of the Massachu
setts state police now has a
father-and-son combination Lt.
William J. Sullivan and rookie
Trooper Richard Sullivan.
BAR BELLS STOLEN ,
Tampa, Fla. (U.R) Police :
searched today for a muscle
bound burglar who stole William
Nunally's set of bar bells over
the week end.
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