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o o O O o o o o o TEN MEDFORD .OREGON) KAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, November 8. 195S E-R Center at Portland Confused Portland U.R5 An exposi tion center in Portland that Ore gon had counted or as a site for its 1959 centennial celebration apparently i a long way from reality as a result of Tuesday's election. An S5 million fund 'has been vatlaijie for the project for moic than two years but the ap parent defeat flf two measures on the general election ballot doomed the project to further confusion and bickering. , A, measure that would tiave re quired half the 'eposition-rec-reation renter fund to be spent on the east side of the Willam ette river and half of it on the weit side was soundly defeated by voters. A second measure, in opposition to the first, would have restored to the E-R com mission the powers stripped - from it in the May'primary elec " tion. That, too, was being de feated but fjw a narrow margin. It had been hoped that defeat of one measure and approval of the other would have' ended E-R confusion. Defeat of both would make it worse 'and would pre sumably leave the situation as muddled as it was before the election. City Attorney Alexander G. Brofflrn said months of court ac tion may delay a final decision indefinitely. , . New Members Are Welcomed to Group Oak Grove and West Side schools tver; welcomed as new members of the Medford Grade Teacher association Monday, Nov. 5, t a meeting in the Washington School cafeteria. Robert ' Baccus of Jackson ehool, president of the associa tion, 'conducted the business meetiag. Oak Grove was award ed the prize for the betl attend ance. The sophomore trio.'fftmposed of Colleen Barr, Sue Hall and Roeemary Doolen sang three se lections accompanied by flay LwiS at the piano. Mrs. Precia Medly gave a report of tha class room teachers conference in Portland, which she attended as delegate. Miss Dorothy Wilson showed slides and told of her -recent trip to several European countries. FOLK REPUBLICANS WIN .Dallas, Ore. ,(U.R) Repub licans won out in races for Polk couaty offices in Tuesday's elec tion. Ray Rabenau, elected as county assessor, was the only Democrat to get a county office. MAYOR AT M-F . . - Milton-Freewater (U.ffl Lee Price won election, as mayor here yesterday. Voters here also . favored private operation of a .natural gas-plant rather -than city operation. ' Quick To Knit Hiiro .ra o MERCURY ON DISPLAY The 1957 Mer cury will be on display Friday at Medford Motors, Inc., Sixth and Ivy sts., Medford. The new Mercury is featured by side projectiles topping low rear fenders and terminating in V-angle tail-lights. The 1957 Mercury is wider and longer and its overall height has been reduced four inches. Head room has Been in creased two inches. A choice of a 255 horse power or 290 horsepower V-8 engine is of fered in Mercury's 15 new models in Mon terey, Montclair and station wagon series. Picture is the Mercury Montclair four-door sedan. So Slimming! I I -TT In III Spacemen Don't Cooperate On 'Flying Saucer Day' San Luis Obispo, Calif. (U.R) Residents of this city were dis appointed Wednesday night when "spacemen" failed to con tact Earth as a climax to "Fly ing Saucer Day" here. ' The Martian visitors were sup posed to contact local radio sta tion KATY through a network of 11 mobile radar and direc tional finders supplied by the California Polytechnic Institute here. Station Goes Off Air The radio station went through with its plan to go off the air for three minutes at 10 p.m., 10:15 p.m., and 10:30 p.m. in order that signals could be heard. But nothing happened each time. 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(U.R) Michigan motorists are driving just as fast now as they were before the state's new speed lim it law went into effect last Feb. 3, a state highway department of ficial said. Carl McMonagle said studies were made for three months be fore the speed law went into effect and for three months after wards and they showed motorists still average 52 miles an hour on the highway. Under the new law, motorists may not drive faster than 65 miles an hour during the day and 55 miles an hour at night. McMonagle said the number of drivers exceeding the 65 mile speed limit is about 6.9 per cent. He said about the same number of motorists drove faster than 65 miles an hour before the speed limit went into effect. One of the mobile units, lo cated on a hilltop near here, re ported sighting an unidentified flying object and a radio station in Berkeley, Calif., reported see ing a blue light in the sky. The blue light later was reportedly identified by the Air Force as a weather balloon. Although the radio station did not contact any space ships it was flooded with calls during the evening from flying saucer enthusiasts. Radio stations from such places as Corpus Christi, Tex., and Calgary, Canada also kept their listeners posted on the event by conducting tele phone interviews with KATY. Madhouse' at Station "It was a madhouse here," veteran KATY Tadio announcer Hugh Harling said. "Everyone wanted to know about the space men. I didn't know that there are that many flying saucer en thusiasts in the country." The preparations for greeting the possible but not probable landing of men from outer space began following a report from "saucer scientists" in Paris and London that a landing of space men could be expected the night of Nov. 7 in Southern Califor nia. The "scientists" also said the visitors would attempt to contact Earth through a radio or television station which was willing to tune in. - Twelva-month fashioji! 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For a month they watched the excavation for a new school being dug on the shore of what was once a prehistoric mudflat. Then they found what they were loking for, the tracks of a Grallator gracilis, a small two legged dinosaur that roamed this area 100 minion years ago. They brought them home to their father, Carleton Nash Sr., who has his own private quarry where he diss and sells dino saur footprints. Ready-Made Bridge Assists Engineers Watertown. N.Y. U.PJ Engi neers on the St. Lawrence River seaway project had a ready made bridge at the downstream approach to the Grasse River. The only drawback was that the bridge was at the bottom of the river. The engineers in sounding the south channel of the river, came across a 50-foot section of a bridge that apparently had fal len into the river during con struction of the Roosevelt bridge. The Roosevelt Bridge project was begun more than 80 years ago. Ambulance Driver Repays Good Turn Buffalo, N. Y. (U.R) An Emergency Hospital ambulance driver recently got his chance to repay a month-old good turn to a rival hospital driver. . Russell Sparcino, 49, the Emer gency driver, suffered a frac tured: nose and forehead lacera tions when his ambulance col lided with an auto. A Columbus Hospital driver, Sigouri Lynch, 25. who was near the accident scene, took. Sparcino to the hos pital and then finished the lat ter s run. A mofith later Sparcino came to Lynch's rescue after Lynch's ambulance and a panel truck collided. Sparcino rushed Lynch, suffering arm and leg injuries, to the hosDital and proceeded to complete Lynch's run. Chilomonas Can Live On Alcohol Alone Los Angeles !U.R) Man may not be able to live on alcohol alone though some try but the University of California at Los Angeles has uncovered a lit tle member of the lower echelon of the animal kingdom that can do it. Its name is Chilomonas and its ability to live on alcohol alone makes it an ideal subject for uni versity scientists studying how certain organisms develop resist ance to certain drugs. The al coholic" organisms are unable to develop an immunity to sulfa drugs in the second generation because of unknown chemical changes which are being studied. CAR WRECK FATAL Camas. Wash. (U.R) Ken neth Towers, 26, Camas, was killed last night when his car left the road and struck a tree just north of here, the Clark county sheriff's office reported. The victim was. alone in the car. Southport, N. C. (U.R) A haggard young fisherman, plucked starving from the sea after 12 days adrift with no water and little food, told a har rowing account today of how he lay in the arms of the dead com panion he finally tossed into shark-infested waters. Douglas Wilson Sessoms, Laur inburg, N. C, was rescued from almost certain death Wednesday by the tanker Hess Patrol which spotted his 16-foot homemade skiff, a speck on the horizon 150 miles off Savannah, Ga. Sessoms was transferred to a Coast Guard patrol boat and brought here. On Fishing Trip He said he and a friend, J. Eddie Boone, also of Laurinburg, embarked on a fishing jaunt two weeks ago but got caught in a nor'easter that raked the coast. Their skiff, its motor clogged with salt water and out of com mission, drifted to sea, but there the drama of life and death in an open boat began. As his friend lay dying of hunger and thirst, Sessoms said he watched one ship after anoth er appear on the horizon, but never close enough to spot their little craft. ' , Caught Rainwater Their meager supplies of three cans of beans and two soft drinks soon were exhausted. Eddie got so weak he couldn't move," Sessoms said. "Then he went crazy and kept trying to get out of the boat over the side." Sessoms finally got Boone set tled down and began figuring out how to ration the food there was no water and trying to repair the boat's motor which stopped after a wave washed over it. He removed the top from the Nine Chicken Pox Cases Reported Last Week Medford was the only city in Jackson county to report chicken pox during the week ending Nov. 3, according to Dr. A. Erin Merkel, public health physician. Medford had nine cases of chicken pox and one case "of mumps Gold Hill and Prospect each -reported one case of mumps. Ashland reported five cases of influenza and one case of rheumatic fever; Rogue River, one case of pneumonia; and Jacksonville, one case of impetigo. motor and let the rain pour into it to wash it out. He used the top to catch rainwater, their only drinking water during the 12 days. Sessoms tied his T-shirt to a board as an S.O.S. signal, but the wind blew it away. He replaced it with a two-toned shirt. Boone, meanwhile, became de lirious. Sessoms, who is 20, was barely conscious himself. He spent most of the time taking care of his companion, welting his lips with salt water. Many Sharks Come Then the shark's came, in such numbers that they pounded their heads against the bottom and sides of the boat. "The sharks and no water that was the worst part," Sessoms said. Six days after they were set adrift, Boone died. Sessoms laid his body in the bottom of the boat. "Finally, I got so weak I laid down in his arms. "For two nights I lay in his arms. Then I pushed him over. Alone, Sessoms spent the last four days in a twilight zone be tween unconsciousness and semi consciousness, watchingwhen he could for a rescue ship'. . , "I gave up hope once, but I ftept praying to the LorC d hope came back." Sessonuwade one pledgfrcSn his bed: O "Good Lor,!, tay with me, I'll never go again. What) I i't walk acros,.rll never croSs." Quick Decision Saves County $20 Detroit U.R) It cost Wayne county $30 to spend S200. County supervisors claim it was actually an economy. If it hadn't been for a quick decision, the cost might have been $50, they explained. Approval by the Board of Supervisors' special committee on full employment was needed before the county could hand over $200 as its share of a clin ic on defense contracts. Each of the five committeemen gets $10 for a meeting. Three members appeared and, as Committeeman Willis H. Hall explained: "We quickly adjourned the meeting before the other two showed up so we could save $20."' "DEATH" ANNIVERSARY Beacon, N. Y. (U.R) Deputy Sheriff John Yaccarine of Os borne Hill recently celebrated the 38th anniversary of his "death." He was erroneously re ported killed in action in Ger many during World War I. He has the official "death certifi cate" hanging on a wall in his home. Oil Company Income Said Up 18 Per Cent Dallas, Tex. (U.R) Net in come among 70 oil companies ' for the first six months of 1956 compared with a similar period last year was up 18 per cent, the Petroleum Engineer, a trade magazine, reported. A survey taken by the mag azine said the growth of sales and earnings in the petroleum i n d u s try contiues remarkably steady. "In the first half of 1955, net income for 50 companies in creased 12 per cent above the same period in 1954. For the total year 1955, net income was 17 per cent above 1954. "In 1956, for the first six months 70 companies had an in crease of 18 per cent in net in come over 1955." Dividends also are up, the sur vey showed. Of the 70 companies surveyed, 40 had the same divi dends for the first half of 1956 as for 1955, and 28 had increased dividends while two had less dividends this year. The magazine predicted $7.4 billion capital expenditures this year among the 70 companies. Grid Play-Off Location Changed Portland (U.R) After exam ining the- turf on the Lincoln high school football field, the Oregon School Activities associ ation announced yesterday that the quarter-final state A-l play off game between Lincoln and Marshfield will be shifted to the Franklin high school field. The two clubs are scheduled to meet Nov. 16 in a night con tests. Spokesmen said that the Lin coln field was "too muddy", to be suitable for a playoff game. ELECTED EUGENE MAYOR ' Eugene (U.R) John J. Mc Ginty, a 54-year-old appliance dealer, was elected mayor of Eugene. o Three Perfectf Bikers Football Content G ll.oi of 11 o W. W..Deakins, 2008 WesUrtand Q ' Harry Johnson, 60 Morse, Ashlaifd Frances' Srayton, 37 QuinceSf. o ' O o O BAR KE R ' S . FOOTBALL CONTEST INSTRUCTIONS: Check the team you pick to Srtn. If you pick a tie game, check both teams. All slips must be at the store by 5:30 Friday evening. November 10th Harvard at Princeton :lllinois at Michigar? 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