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Oregon Log Truck Driver Receives PosthumousCifafion for Heroism Pittsburgh UP, The Car ncigie Hero Fund Commission today announced the award of- a bronze medal to the widow of a Oregon truck driver who gave his life last year to save several persons from a runaway truck he was driving. The award went to the widow of Robert J. Short and includes death benefits of S80 per month. She lives at 3214 Brown rd., Sal em. His faial accident occurred on Aug. 20, 1955. Short was one of 38 persons cited for outstanding acts, of heroism by the commission, which was set up by the late Pittsburgh steel magnate, An drew W. Carnegie, in 1904 with a S5 million grant. It reviews re ports of. heroic acts by Ameri cans and votes awards three times a year. Short, 23, a truck driver, was hauling a load of logs when the brakes failed as he was about to enter a thoroughfare in West Linn leading to the bridge to Oregon City. At the time pedest rian and vehicular traffic was at a noon peak. Short, sounding the horn con tinuously, steered the truck past two side streets and onto the bridge. The truck's speed in creased to 50 miles per hour on the down grade and Short waved an approaching car to the far side of the bridge. As the truck approached an intersection at the end of the bridge, the traffic signal changed to green, halting cVoss traffic. Continuing to steer the truck and sound the horn. Short moved to a standing position on the run ningboard while shouting warn ings to pedestrians as tha truck passed within three feet of sev eral parked automobiles. Leaps From Truck Then, traveling at 60 miles per hour, the truck approached a concrete abutment containing tu A ... n .. j lilt: ciiLidui.tr lu i Licuirai.1 idii luii- Inel at the end of the street. I When the truck was 75 feet ' from the tunnel, two boys em erged from the entrance and Short immediately swerved the truck away from them. Forty feet from the abutment, Short leaped .to the pavement and the truck crashed into the wall three feet from the tunnel en trance. Chains holding the load were broken by the impact and some of the logs fell from the truck, burying Short. After being re moved. Short was rushed to a hospital where he was pronounc ed dead. SEE HEAR! discuss vital issues of this historic campaign Hydro Power to Build Oregon V Cheap power means Industry and payrolls ' for Oregon. 2 Wayne Morse has persuaded congress to re- verse the McKay "no-new-dam-start" policy and start work on five dams in Oregon. 3 If Stevenson is elected president, he will save Hells Canyon for full power development. V KBES-TV 5:55 P.M. Paid tt. 3fO' DcmMNitic Cnltal Committee of 1 Orflon, Bob Boyf. Om., loyally nldg.. Portland. niTiinn i i in i Red Troops Guard East German Roads Berlin (U.R) East German Communists put their country into a state of siege Saturday in fear that student unrest might explode into open revolt as it did in Hungary. Thousands of Red troops and police guarded bridges, railways and roads throughout the east zone, and kept a check on travel ers entering east Berlin. Their jitters indicated a major fear that the anti-Russian trend which brought riots in Poland and rebellion in Hungary might spread to a restive east Germany with disastrous results. Red Cross to Set Up Hungary Aid Program Geneva (U.R) A special Red Cross delegate is en route to Vienna to set up an aid pro gram for revolt-torn Hungary, the International Red Cross has announced. In New York, a spokesman tor Radio Free Europe said the Hungarian rebel forces had given a Radio Free Europe cor respondent on the Austrian border a message appealing for medicines, bandages and blood plasma.' Tunis, Tunisia (U.R) French troops fought off Tunisian sol diers and a Moslem mob only 10 miles south of Tunis Saturday in the latest outbreak between France and its former protector ates of Tunisia and Morocco. BUSINESS GOES OS in this Pico, Cal., service station as sheet-covered body of Mrs. Peggy Smith, 46, awaits removal. Mrs. Smith was slain by estranged husband, Ivan, who later killed mother-in-law, Mrs. Rose Trujillo, 69, wounded a nephew, then turned the gun on himself. Smiths had been separated two months. (International) Around Hollywood By ALINE MOSBY United Press Correspondent WW4 Hollywood (U.R) Take a high scnool student . . . yank him out of class and make him a star in his first motion picture . . . how would he react? Hal S t a 1 master is just as excited and dazed as you would expect. One day he Aline Mosbr was just an other 16-year-old junior at Bev erly Hills High school. The next day producer Walt Disney nailed him to star in the title role in "Johnny Tremaine," which the old master hopes will hit as hard as did his fabulous Davy Crock ett series on TV and in movie theaters. Fictitious Character Johnny Tremaine is a fictional lad who falls in and out of ad ventures with true-life chsract ers such as Paul Revere in the Revolutionary War period. Dis ney was searching for a youth with an eager eye. Hal, who looks very eager, was working last summer as an office boy for his brother, a TV casting director. One agent who spotted Hal running errands got him a job in a TV film playing the Rev. .Bob Richards, the pole vaulter, as a youth. That was his first acting job. Then another agent saw Hal and reporting him to Disney. "I asked my brother, and he said it was okay," Hal siid ex citedly. Hal was born in Los Angeles but his father, the late Irvin Stalmaster, once was a State Su preme Court judge in Nebraska. At Beverly Hills High Hal studies U. S. History, English and Spanish. L "I'd always planned to go into show business, but as a producer where you get a regular pay check," he said. "When you're an actor you never know when you'll work. Now I'll wait and see what happens after this Dis ney movie comes out. I may continue acting." A SI Million Budget In reverse from the Davy Crockett movie, "Johnny Tre maine" will be shown first In movie theaters next spring. It had been "scheduled for a TV showing first in January. But Davy Crockett apparently fared sadly in theaters because he had been a television star first. This tme Disney will try to recoup his SI million budget from the aters first, and next season, splice "Johnny Tremaine" into a TV series. One disadvantage Hal has found to his new job is he has Monday, October 29, 1956 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THHEE High Freight Rates Blamed on Regulation Oakland, Calif. U.Ri Old fashioned regulations have forc ed the Western railroad comp anies to seek higher rates on freight traffic, according to Jo seph H. Hays, general counsel of the Association of Western Railways. The Chicagoan told a tri-state meeting of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen here Friday that the efforts of the railroad's to reduce the size of the West's freight bill "have been blocked because their competitors have been able to prevent certain rail road reductions." "Railroad arithmetic is no dif ferent from that of other lines of business," Hays said. "They must have volume in order to to wear long hair for his role. The kids at school call him "Elvis." Disney studio publicists hope Tremaine series will have the teen-agers going in for tri-corner hats and pony-tail hairdoes. "The boys never would, oh, no," said Hal, looking horrified. "Girls might, though." 'Oregon' Globemasler Makes First Airdrop Christchurch, N.Z. (U.R) The U.S. Globemaster "State of Oregon" made the first airdrop at the South Pole Saturday in Antarctic Expedition Deep Freeze. The plane flew 750 miles from the expedition's main base at Mc Murdo sound. It parachuted bar rens of fuel oil from a height of 1,500 feet over the Polar plateau. Maj. Gen. Chester McCarty, commander of the 18th Air Force, piloted the plane. With him were Air Force Col. Horace A. Croswell, Navy Capt. William Hawkes, and Dr. Paul Siple, who will be in charge of the Soutn Pole base. Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan (U.R) Russia has passed Brit ian to become the world's sec ond strongest naval power, the new U. S. Far East naval com mander warned Saturday. PICTURE TUBES REJUVENATED Ii your picture tubs dull and weakt Most picture tubes can be restoreo to original brightness at only -traction of the cost of replacement For further information CALL Electronic Service 18 N. GRAPE PH. 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