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T vryxvf rum1 -miXpypT. m iiij.wii.umw aw i www if w w. jpi yww35ygH) v rsr-r' r '' - -i CARRYING UNEXPLODED BOMB, police experts emerge from New "iork's Paramount Theater, latest target of "Mad Bomber" who has planted 32 in recent years. Truck is carrying bomb found in Grand Central Station earlier in evening. 'Jntmatwrud) PATHETIC PLEA FOR thrown in his face on New York street He lost sight of one ave the other. Attack followed argument over woman. Rattlesnakes' Publishes Reptile Study Berkeley, Calif. (U.PJ The "Dr. Kinsey" of the rattlesnake world is a heavy-set 72-year-old engineer from San Diego named Laurence M. Klauber. Klauber, who has been study ing the snakes as a hobby for more than 3u years, has set down his observations and research re sults in a definite work, pub lished by the University of Cali ' fornia Press. The work, entitled "Rattle snakes," and sub-titled "Their Habits, Life Histories and Influ ence on Mankind," fills two heavy volumes of 1.476 pages and includes 58 tables and 245 Illustrations. The book is intended to be an encyclopedia of the rattlesnake and it is hard to think of a bet about rattlers that Klauber's book would not settle, including the most intimate details. Despite the scholorly detail with which the subject is treated HewDoctrineWouId Enslave, Reds Say Moscow (U.R) The Soviet communist organ Pravda charged today that the proposed "Eisenhower doctrine" for the Middle East would "enslave peo ple" and set up the United States as a "gendarme." Pravda gave the first detailed Soviet comment on the plan in a dispatch from New York. It described the proposal as "a plan for strengthening American colonial domination, worked out by Secretary of State John Fos ter Dulles . . . proposing to the Middle Eastern countries that the United States 'defend' their territory and providing for so called 'economic aid' In exchange for an agreement to accept American military 'guardian ship'." Pravda said the plan would also give the President authority to take economic, political and If necessary military measures to oppose any Soviet aggression in the Mideast. "The lying nature of the pro claimed goals of the new Ameri can plan are especially striking in connection with . . . the par ticipation of Britain and France the recent aggressors against Egypt even though in the posi tion of poor relatives." Attempted Thefts Reported to Police An attempted theft Sunday of a 25 cent contribution from a March of Dimes envelope on a Christmas tree at the yard of Thomas Oliver Mulholler, 407 Oregon terrace, Medford, was cleared with the interrogation of a 14-year-old Medford boy, according to city police. The boy was released to his parents with instructions to ap pear before county juvenile authorities. WATCH FOR NORFIELD'S JANUARY CLEARANCE SALE! BEGINNING FRIDAY, JANUARY 4 HELP is shouted by Robert Johnson, 32, after bucket of lye was 'Dr. Kinsey' (66 pages and 20 illustrations on the rattle, 87 pages and 27 illustrations on the snake's poi son apparatus) the books are written with a keen sense of humor and an eye for the points of interest to the average reader. "Rattlers, despite or maybe because of their sinister reputa tions, will always bridge a dull spot in a dinner conversation," the author observes. And the volumes are dedicated to his wife, "who not only en dured a basement full of rattle snakes for more than 30 years, but also suffered the annoying imposition of austerity that goes with research in the home." Klauber blasts the misconcep tions that humans have built up concerning the rattlesnake that they always travel in pairs (they don't), that if one snake is killed its mate will seek out and bite the killer (the snakes are no where nearly that intelligent), fnat mother snakes swallow their young in times of danger (rat tlers have almost no maternal instinct and the feat is anatom ically impossible). He discusses the functions of the rattle, the food of the snake, its hibernation habits, swimming ability, reproduction, locomotion and methods of securing prey, as well as treatment of snakebite, control of rattlesnakes, the rela tionship between Indian tribes and the snakes and how to keep from being bitten by a rattler. His conclusions are contained in two paragraphs at the end of the second volume. He admits the snake is dangerous and should be destroyed, but vehe mently denies that the rattler has any especial enmity for man kind. "It could not, through the ages, have developed any especial en mity for man, since the first hu man being any rattlesnake may encounter is usually the last," Klauber concludes. IS THIS TRIP NECESSARY? La Junta, Colo. (U.R) City Manager Tom Russell re plied Monday to the Colorado Industrial commission which had decided that the 54-year-old La Junta police and fire station should have another stairway as a fire precaution. "If you feel that your order must be com plied with, please advise us at once so we can get the work done before the building is torn down," he said. Another attempted theft of MOD contributions from a Christmas tree envelope was re ported Sunday by Albert C. Walker, 1100 Murray st., Med- j ford, officers reported. He said two boys about 12 were attempt- j ing to steal the contributions j from the tree. j The trees were being picked ! by Members of the Medford : Moose Lodge and Boy Scouts Sunday during a county-wide Chiistmas tree pickup. eye and doctors are trying to (International Soundphoto) Visitors Win $1 Million al Sands Las Vegas :!U.R Nearly 42, 000 visitors to the swank Sands Hotel have broken all rules of Lady Luck and won more than $1 million in the hotel's casino during the last 72 hours of the biggest pre-New Year's celebra tion in the history of this desert resort, General Manager Jack Entratter disclosed early today. Entratter said the $1 million loss by the hotel was in addi tion to a costly New Year's Eve party held Monday night in the Copa Room where Frank Sinatra is currently appearing. Each woman in the crowded Copa Room was given 25 newly mint ed silver dollars in an expensive velvet bag. The hotel donated 500 cases of free champagne, turning out nearly 8,000 glasses of New Year's Eve toasts to visitors in the last six hours before mid night. More than 100,000 persons poured into this desert resort town over the week end to spend the holiday. Hotels re portedly were jammed and the Chamber of Commerce esti mated that the city enjoyed one of its biggest holiday periods in its history. Entratter and Sinatra, a part owner in the Sands, felt the hotel got off lucky in the wake of giving away $1 million at its gambling tables. They said that nearly a quarter of a million dol lars was won by visitors in the first six hours the hotel was open in 1952. Low River May Cut Bonneville Power Portland U.R) Bonneville power administrator William A. Pearl said today that BPA can be sure of supplying only one fourth of the interruptible pow er it holds contracts for in Jan uary. Pearl said the Columbia river is so low that since early De cember some of the normal in terruptible loads have had to be cut off. Aluminum companies and other concerns using inter ruptible power have had to buy higher cost power from other sources to remain in produc tion. Interruptible power contracts cover 12 big electro-process in dustries in the Northwest. At present BPA is supplying about 250,000 of the 480,000 kilowatts these companies normally take. Hubbard Bros. I MAIN AND RIVERSIDE Will Be Closed WED..THUR.-FRI. JANUARY 2, 3 & 4 For Inventory In Case of an Emergency PHONE 2-6189 Children Read Ship Logs Instead Of Fairy Tales Nantucket, Mass. (U.R) Chil dren in this one-time whaling port don't read fairy tales. They read ship logs and learn all about family skeletons. The famous Globe mutiny is one of the blacker pages. It was led by Samuel Comstock, tough young harpooner who rebelled at the harsh discipline of the 19th century whaler. Comstock used an axe to mur der the captain and then smashed the first mate's skull The third mate was shot through the throat and while still alive was pitched overboard, The mate managed to grab a rail post and held on begging for mercy. Comstock, his blood up with the killings, stamped on the mate's hands until he fell screaming into the water. Months later Comstock met the same end when his fellow- conspirators killed him on a Pa cific island. The Franklin Another Nantucket whaler, The Franklin, is remembered by island historians as the unluck iest ship that ever sailed past Brant Point lighthouse. Before the ship had been at sea a week, three of the crew were dead, two in falls from the rigging, and a third from tuber culosis. Another man was carried overboard during a squall and the first mate died off Cape Horn after a falling spar crushed his insides. . The ship was headed for home. Three days later the cap tain was dead of scurvy and in the next few days the disease carried off five more men. Tragedy was not done with the Franklin. After riding out a wild storm, the ship suddenly leaped in agony as she struck treacherous Diego Roderiguez Reef off the coast of Chile. The crew was saved but the ship was battered to pieces on the reef. The Essex Nantucketers are still reluct ant to talk about the Essex, a whaling ship that was sunk by a maddened whale in mid-Pacific in 1820. Survivors took to the boats to set out on one of the longest open-boat voyages in the history of navigation. One of the boats was lost, two others were final ly rescued after sailing hundreds of miles. During that time starving sur vivors were forced to eat the men who died. Ironically, they had headed away from the Mar quesas islands because of their fear of cannibals. One survivor, George Pollard Jr., was interviewed years later Tsy a Boston newspaperman. He asked Pollard if he knew his grandfather, who had been a sailor aboard the Essex. "Know him," the salty Pol lard replied. "Hell, Son, I et him." New Documents Ask Rehearing on Motion Portland U.R) New docu ments asking a rehearing of his motion to set aside indictments against him were filed in cir cuit court here yesterday by Multnomah County District At torney William Langley. Langley is under indictment, returned by the summer-long vice-probing grand jury, charg ing him with malfeasance in of fice 'and conspiracy to open gambling in the city. Earlier mo tions filed by Langley were de nied last week. Principal contention in the new documents filed by the dis trict attorney is that grand jury witnesses names were not en dorsed on the indictments. Langley said that the trial of David Nance, recently acquitted of a perjury count, brought out that Nance had been a witness in the testimony taken in respect to the district attorney. Langley said the indictment did . not show this and said further that the omission of the names of witnesses nullified the validity of the indictments. SELLING AUTOS JoHan na Linebarger, 19, won out over a field of 30 girls to become "Theme Girl" for the 31st Auto Show to be held in San Francisco's Civic Auditorium Jan. 5-13. Five Minor Vehicle Accidenls.Reported Five minor collisions were re ported in Medford Monday and Tuesday, according to city po lice. No injuries were reported in any of the accidents. Cars operated by Willie Har old Fischer, 920 West 11th St., Medford, and George Washing ton Sconyers, 122V4 Almond St., Medford, were involved in a col lision at East Main and Holly sts., Monday, police said. Scon yers was cited for failure to yield the right of way. No Citations An' accident occurred on Fourth st. between Front st. and Central ave. Monday involving vehicles operated by Muriel Lew plla Friend, 635 Pennsylvania St., Medford, and Edmund Willet Pease, 130 Veranda Place, Med ford, officers reported. No citations were issued after a collision today involving cars operated by Arlon Edward Skin ner, 30, Portland ave., Medford, and Walter G. Pfandl, Palo Alto, Calif., at South Riverside ave. and Barnett rd., police said. Cars Collide Vehicles operated by Robert. Leon Semon. 2616 Sandy Ter race Medford. and John Edward Givl'er, 910 West 11th St., Med ford, were involved in an acci dent on East Main and Orange sts. today, it was reported. A narked car registered to Hel en C. Phillips, Albany, was in volved in a collision with cars operated by Norma Deneault, 1001 Winchester ave., "Medford, and Sovina Hazel Amstead, Eagle Point, at West Sixth and Grape sts., police said. MRS. STEELE DIES Portland (U.R) Mrs. Gor don G. Steele, wife of the former head of the Portland Traction company, died here yesterday, at the age of 62. Her husband retired from service with the transit company last August aft er a lengthy service. In Operation! OUR NEW- This NEW machine, with its flex ible hose, enables us to deliver sawdust directly to your storage bin . . . around or over or through barriers that ordinarily makes direct delivery impossible. Thus, we eliminate waste of YOUR time and extra work on your part . . . saves your yard and flower beds. No mess, no bother! Try it! Let us deliver your next load of sawdust or chipmix. DA! I. 3TA-6-4081 Immediate Delivery Tuesday, January I, 1957 Pro Football Player Critically Stabbed In New Year's Party Houston, Tex. (U.R) Paul Carr, all-conference defensive back of the San Francisco Forty Niners football team, was criti cally stabbed Monday night to climax a New Year's reunion of former University of Houston grid stars. Carr, 25, was taken to Metho dist hospital with two stab wounds in the chest from a switchblade knife that barely nicked his heart, doctors said. His condition was rated as "poor." Police arrested but did not immediately charge a 25-year-old ex-convict who was hosting a second New Year's Eve party in the swank Western Skies Mo tel where the stabbing occurred. Man Identified Police identified the man as James R. Chambless, 25. They said he served prison time in Oklahoma on a narcotics charge in 1950, and got 18 months in Houston in October, 1954, for the auto death of a seven-year-old shoeshine boy. Police said Chambless refused to make a statement. Police said Carr was stabbed when he got into an altercation with Chambless when the two celebrations, in rooms facing each other across a corridor, somehow merged. Celebrants said Carr and Chambless got into an argu ment in the hall and that Chamb less called Carr a "very foul name." Jack M. Chambers, 25, host of the first party and a former University of Houston back, told police: "We separated the men and Paul started back into our rooms. Then Chambless said something very foul to him and Paul turned back and swung on him. He had the man down on a couch and was about to hit him again when I saw a knife flash in Chambless' hand. Then there was a lot of blood on Paul's shirt." Switchblade Police said they found a pearl handled, switchblade knife at the scene and witnesses said it be longed to Chambless. Carr's wife, Pat, was at the party. Carr returned to Houston only a week ago after the close of the professional football sea son. The party of former Univer sity of Houston grid stars includ ed J. D. Kimmel, All-America tackle and co-captain of the Hou Kindergarten Place to Start Teaching Economy East Lansing, Mich. (U.R) Kindergarten is the. best place to start teaching economics, ac cording to Dr. Leland E. Tray wick, a Michigan State Univer sity economist. Traywick said he firmly be lieves youngsters should get their first taste of basic economics, ac the age of five. He suggested teaching kindergarten pupils the basic skills of buying, and the rudiments of insurance, housing, saving and investing. On Green Slab MEDFORD (OREGON) ston team in 1952, now with the Washington Redskins; Bobbie Dorsey, 26, a Cougar end in 1953; Ken Wind, 22, a Houston back in 1955, and Ronnie Emberg, 27, an end during the season just ended. Also jailed for investigation but not charged were these other members of the Chambless party: Jesse E. Long, 20; Robert A. Jazwick, a salesman; John E. Brewer, 28, Waco and Sidney L. Hughes, 26. PtL " 1 Y1 We're Expecting You on TUIS. Jon. 8 Served 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Ey the West Side Extension Unit BEFORE THE SHOW AT OUR STORE FREE SHOW STARTS 1:30 mBmcmmsm It's Gay! It's Exciting! It's The whole family will enjoy this delight ful picture, specially filmed for our John Deere Day audience. 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