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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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