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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.
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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
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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.
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JANUARY 2, 3 & 4
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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.
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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.
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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.
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