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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 27, 1956)
BIX MEDFOP.D (OHEGOrT) MAIL TKIBUWB Menday, August 17, 1958 Prison Editor Asks For Sporting Chance Sioux Falls, S.D. 0J.B The prisoner-editor of the South Da kota penitentiary magazine be lieves that a parolee isn't given a "sporting chance." The editor of the bulletin said there are five major defects in the American parole system: 1. "The almost total lack of educational, vocation and recre ational programs in a vast num ber of penal institutions." 2. "Insufficient parole per sonnel -to supervise the pro gram." 3. "The almost total absence of a plan which enables men due for parole to begin to learn to adjust themselves to life in a free society while still in carcerated." 4. "The failure to provide employment for the parolees so he can go directly to work after release and not be forced to face the extreme difficulties of find ing a Job himself." 5. "Believing that the five or ten dollars given parolees by sfates at the time of their re lease is adequate to sustain them until they can find em ployment." AMSBY GETS RIBBON Laporte. Ind. (U.R) Mike Amsby, Orange, Calif., picked up his second blue ribbon in the 14th annual national water ski championships today. Dm Mail Tribun Want Ads Oilmen Playing Expensive Game in Australia Wastes Learmonth (U.R) Americans and Australians are playing the most expensive game of hide-and-sek in the world hre in the Exmouth Gulf country of West Australia. It's being played with Mother Nature; -the cost runs about $1,850 an hour and the prize is oil. The playground consists of mil lions of acres of shrivelled-up land bordering the Indian Ocean where the mercury bubbles up to 1 24 degrees in mid-summer, and Florida-type hurricanes scythe their way across th land each year. Perhaps nowhere in the world have oil men faced great er problems, particularly logis tic, than in Western Australia. Already $30,000,000 has been spent in the search. The West Australia operation is unique in that oil was hit by the first well, the Rough Range No. 1. Since then 13 more wells have been drilled, all dry. The sarch, being conducted by the West Australian Petroleum company, is of the greatest im portance to Australia. Although traces of oil have been reported as far back as 1854, Australia never produced a gallon of its own until Rough Range No. 1 was brought in three years ago. Sharas. Up and Down Coal has been the source of Australia's power, and her lack of petroleum her greatest weak ness. Like Japan, she has been forced to import all petroleum supplies. Thus when the first drilled well struck an excellent quality paraffine base crude at 3.600 feet, it was the California Gold Rush all over again, i Oil share stocks that were sell mg for $1.12 a share were grabbed up by enthusiastic bar gain-hunters at $12.00 a share, They are now back down to a realistic $1.75. Investors were not the only ones fooled by the new gusher. WAPET engineers visioned a great new oil field in West Aus tralia, and moved rapidly to de velop it. More and heavier equip ment was brought in from the United States, the permanent headquarters was built here on the Exmouth Peninsula and a corps of engineers, drillers, ge ologists and technicians was im ported from both the United States and Europe. There were no holds barred, and the budget went out the window as the Aus tralians and Americans moved to exploit their find. Where and How Much? So far their enthusiasm has been premature and expensive. Hole after hole has been drilled with out success. New locations were mapped, and wells were spudded in at the most promising spots. In one area it was neces sary to build a highway deep into the Rough Range mountains 1. WHERE KIDNAPER ABANDONED BABY Police van, containing tiny casket, parks at the exit of the Northern State Parkway near Plainview, N. Y. near the spot where the tiny body of kidnaped month-old Peter Weinberger was found. The body was found in wooded area off to right of where road turns in background. Confession by Angelo John LaMarca, 31, led police to the site. Truck Driver Strike Idles Produce Crews Watsonville, Calif. (U.R) A strike of AFL truck drivers Sat urday brought the Salinas valley produce industry to a standsill. Drivers and other union work ers connected with the move ment of lettuce from the fields to cooling plants struck at 12:01 Saturday, following a day' of married negotiations. Some 400 teamsters and 80 industry grow ers were involved in the dispute which has been under negotia tion for three months. The major issue was reported to be wages. Drivers, who now make $1.80 an hour, were asking for a 20-cent-per-hour raise. Jack Bias, president of the grower-shipper association, said his group had offered a 10-cent-an-hour raise, plus another five cent raise to become effective July 1, 1957. OUT AND IN Omaha, Neb. (U.R) Douglas County deputies rushed to the police headquarters when they discovered three prisoners had escaped the previous night. They didn't have far to look for two of them. The men had been picked up for routine question ing by city police and had been in the city jail for eight hours before anyone even knew they were missing from the "escape proof" county jail. before drilling could begin. The highway alone cost $100,000, and the well turned out to be a duster. Another well cost $938,000 and was dry. Every scientific device for the detection of oil is being used by WAPET, but the engineers frank ly admit the structure of "the country has them stumped. Land contours which usually follow a set pattern for thousands of feet below the earth's surface are shifted all over the subterranean area of the Exmouth Peninsula. This year should tell the story. A total of nearly $10,000,000 has been budgeted by WAPET for its West Australian exploration in 1956. This is the "go for broke" effort. Caltex, which owns 80 per cent of WAPET'S stock, probably will continue its oil search in Australia even if this year produces only anothr as sortment of dusters, but it will be on a much smaller scale. The geologists insist that there has to be oil in West Australia, and they have the producing Rough Range No. 1 to prove it, but there are two big questions Where is it? How much of it is there? ' - ' ' SAFETY BELT SAVED THE DAY Gus Ehrman flips his MG-TF into hay bales on first lap of feature race in national MG championships at Marlboro, Md. Ehrman's only in jury was a scratched elbow. His seat belt and safety helmet prevented serious injury. CASK OF HERYEt Kalamazoo, Mich. (U.R) Vir ginia Somers, 17, pulled her car up at the county building to take a driver's license test and smacked right into the fender of Deputy Sheriff Gilbert Russell's car. Russell awarded Miss Som ers her license anyway, saying: "She was a very good driver once she got over her case of nerves." Builders Supply Buy At QUALITY BLOCKS Bricks, Fines, Drain Tile 727 W. McAndrew Phone 2-4107 Coast Guard Searches For Man on Life Raft San Francisco (U.R) The Coast Guard continued its search Saturday for a man reported drifting in a life raft 200 miles out in the Pacific ocean off San Francisco. ' t No trace of the raft or any wreckage was reported. The Coast Guard said the search by the cutter Ewing would prob ably continue at least through Sunday, depending on weather conditions. A Coast Guard plane also searched the area Satur day. The man was sighted Thursday on a life raft, amid what appear ed to be wreckage, according Church Declared Winner Over Toyor in Idaho Boise, Ida. (U.R). Frank Church, 32, has been declared official winner of Idaho's Dem ocratic Senate primary, defeat ing former Senator Glen Taylor, the ballad singing lawmaker who deserted his party briefly in 1948 to become Hendy Wal lace's running mate on the Pro gressive party ticket. The State Board of Canvassers gave Church a 200-vote lead over Taylor. -Lincoln, Neb. (U.R) Insecti cides are deadly to insect pests and to humans too unless handled with care. Safety ex perts at the University of Neb raska said the manufacturer's in structions should be followed to the letter, even if the insecti cides are being used for just a few seconds. to a report by an armed forces radar plane. The Coast Guard said Friday, after a night and day of searching, that it appear ed doubtful there had been a man of the raft. Price Daniel Leads Texas Democrat Runoff Dallas, Tex. (U.R) U. S. Sen. Price Daniels, a Democrat who bolted to Dwight Eisenhow er four years ago, held a modest lead Saturday in a Democratic runoff primary for Governor of Texas. , . The election may serve as a guidepost to how the state will go in the presidential election two months from now. In 1952, it followed the lead of Daniel and Gov. Allan Shivers and went Republican. A tabulation by the Texas election bureau of returns from 231 of the state's 254 counties, in cluding 203 complete, gave: Dan iel 682.946 and Austin lawyer Ralph Yarborough 686.610. ' Novel Method Used To Cheat Executioner Chelsea, Vt. (U.R) Mrs. Re becca Peak, sentenced to death here in 1836 for the poison mur der of her stepson, used a novel method to cheat the gallows. For several nights prior to the execu tion day, she was allowed small doses of opium because she com plained she could not sleep. 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