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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. '
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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!
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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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Michigan Motorists
Still Drive 52 MPH
Grand Rapids, Mich. (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.
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Prehistoric Prints
Found in Excavation
Granby, Mass. ;U.P.) Charles
Nash, nine, and his seven-year-old
brother, Carlton, are follow
ing in their father's footprints.
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.
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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? U e
Iowa U a Minnesota
Colorado L) at Missouri o
Texas U at, Baylor c
Texas A&M at So. Methodist
Washington State at Oregon U
California at USC So. GU
Oregon State at Stanford
UCLA at Washington U 0
Mississippi State at Auburn
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