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r TEH MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, January 24, 1957 tJrapplers Locate Children's Bodies In Frozen River Cranford, N.J. OJ.R) Grap plers recovered the bodies of two of three missing children j from the Rahway river Wednes- j day night near a dam which had been a death trap for other i youngsters. ' Police and volunteers search ed with searchlights in sub freezing weather early today for the third child, fl-year-old Rich ard Johnson. The frozen bodies of Richard's sister. Martha, and Philip Har rington Jr., both 7, were found by search party where two other children drowned in 1952 and 1948. , Arms Outstretched The children's rigid bodies, their arms outstretched for aid. were hooked with grappling irons under the South Avenue Bridge, a quarter mile upstream from Droescher's Mill Dam. The dam has been one of the community's winter play spots for children for years. Two-year-old Joseph Behan plunged through the ice of the river and drowned March 27, 1952. Peter Shoukimas, 5. had drowned in a similar accident Jan. 14. 1948. No Action The township had ordered a study of how to prevent further mishaps after the drownings but no action had been taken. The children's parents said they had warned them just last week to stay off the river's ice. The victims were the chil dren of Mr. and Mrs. Malcom Johnson and Mr. and Mrs. Phil ip O. Harrington. .Johnson is a locally prominent attorney, and Harrington is a ship superinten dent for the Bethlehem Ship building Corp., in Staten Island, N.Y. Police Mobilized for Violence in Havana Havana W.F9 The govern ment ' ordered police reserves mobilized for active duty today as an added step asainst politi cal violence. A rising wave of terrorism allegedly sponsored by opponents of President Fulgen cio Batista prompted the govern ment to suspend constitutional guarantees and establish censor ship nine days ago. Oakland Blast" Fire Kills Two Oakland. Calif. iU.R) Pa cific Gas and Electric Company officials estimated damage at $300,000 today, from .an explo sion and fire that killed two men and destroyed a company warehouse in downtown Oak land. Six other were injured, two so seriously they may die. The four-alarm fire broke out shortly before 1 p.m. Wednes day. It forced 175 employees who were in the two story, block long building to flee. One man rushed from the building with his hair on fire, screaming in pain. Seconds lat er, the building exploded in a "sheet of flame." Assistant Fire Chief Bernard Dooley said the explosion and fire took place when a workman from a sheet metal firm uncap ped a two-inch pipe while in stalling gas heaters in a ground floor office. An electric heater in a corner of the office ignit ed the fumes. . . The dead were identified as Francis Trombley. 42, of Oak land, and C. O. Helmuth, 62, of Concord, employees of the util ity. The seriously injured were Theodore W. Erickson, 62. of Concord and Aubreay Duesbury, 63. of Berkeley. , Ted Brown Named Salem Publisher Salem (U.R) Edward A. (Ted) Brown was named publisher of the Salem Capital-Journal yes terday, replacing Bernard Main waring, 59, who died last Sat urday. Brown, 61. also was named vice president of the Statesman Journal Publishing company, the firm which publishes both Salem daily newspapers. Brown has been advertising director of the Statesman-Journal company since the two papers merged. Before that he was advertising director of the Statesman. He is a veteran of 37- years on Salem newspapers. Announcement of Brown's new position was made by Charles A. Sprague and . Mrs. Jennie Mainwaring, co-owners of the Statesman-Journal. - - ,r-i v " 2 r ' i GLEN JENNINGS f y . - , . H ' -r I- I : . DR. WILLIAM J. THOMPSON -'A I s . t 'I'M 4 ? . i X I . ' ! '. - "'-i I -It - , CLIFFORD M. McGlNTY RAY JOHNSON CLIFFORD OUELLETTE . ? v . ILlirW-mffl lll . ii in- lliiirMWI ROBERT A. JOHNSON Distinguished Service Award to Be Presented at Jaycee Banquet The Medford Junior Chamber sade, Girl Scout activities, the of Commerce will present its an- Jackson County Chamber of nual distinguished service award ! Commerce industrial and mem- Vn i her nf thf iuianic clnh at a banquet program at Rogue Valley Country club Fri day, Jan. 25. The award will be presented to one of six finalists. They are Glenn Jennings, 2397 Jackson ville highway; Robert A. John son, 20 Valley View drive; Dr. William J. Thompson, 209 Fluhrer building: Ray Johnson, 117 Vernada place: Clifford M McGinty, 2110 Whittle ave.; and Clifford Ojellette, 1532 Terrace drive. Speaker at the banquet will be Mark Hatfield, new secretary of state. Presented Annually The award is presented annu ally to a man between the a s of 21 and 35 who has been out standing in community leader ship and service the previous calendar year. The winner may not necessarily be a member of the Jaycees, the committee in charge pointed out. Robert Johnson, an engineer and manager of the General Electric company apparatus sales division here, has been ac tive in the United Medford Cru- Jennings has been active YMCA work, is an officer in the United Medford Crusade. Council Director Dr. Thompson has been direc tor of the Medford Safety coun cil, an executive board member for the governor's state commit tee on children and youth, a sup- local Toastmaster club and has i porter of the local Boy Scout been treasurer of the Jaycees. j program, and a past president of He also has been active in I the Medford Toastmaster's club. Ray Johnson, station manager ford Crusade and Boy Scout at KMED, was active in the Rogue Valley Memorial hospital drive, is a board member of the Medford Pal club, chairman oi the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce Roundtable, Kiwanis club board member, Chamber director and vice president, and was active in the United Med- activities. Board of Directors McGinty, owner of McGinty Fuel company, is a member of the YMCA board of directors i ' trustees. Crater Lions club; the Red Cross blood committee, a member of the Lone Pine school board, chairman of the Grandview water district board, and is active in St. Peter's Lu theran church. Ouellette is a member of the law firm of Skyrman, Ouellette and Heisel. He was chairman of the local March of)imes cam paign last year, and is a direc tor of the United Medford Crusade. Drifting Stations To Aid Arctic Research London iU.R) Soviet scien tists engaged in Arctic research will" use automatic drifting wea ther stations on a large scale, Moscow Radio reported today. The broadcast heard here said about 20 stations were being set Up on drifting ice floes in the central polar basin. Drinker Gets 'Non-Intoxicated' Score In Drunkometer Test; Ruling Awaited Miami U.R) William C. Rose, a husky bachelor, went back to his "routine" pint today, awaiting a judge's decision on whether the 20 shots Rose tossed off in his courtroom without tatting an eye were enough to discredit a drunkometer. Rose. 6-foot, 238-pound ex Navy flier, breezed through a drunkometer test with a "non intoxicated" score after his five hour bout with the bottle Wednesday and walked a straight line out of the court room proclaiming he was "as sober as the judge." Told to "Sleep it Off" The judge, Francis A. Sobi eski, ordered a friend to drive Rose home and also instructed Rose to "sleep it off for a while" before getting behind a steer ing wheel. Rose, however, contended there were no serious" effects from the 20 jiggers of straight whiskey he put away. His phone went unanswered Wednesday night. Sobieski promised a ruling by Friday on whether the 44-year-old retired real estate man was actually too drunk to drive when arrested last week on the basis of a .246 drunkometer reading. A reading of .150 is con sidered the point of intoxication. Rose contended the "seven or eight" drinks he had before his arrest far from did him in, de spite the drunkometer. He won a round in the court test when, with a pint and a quarter of 86- proof whiskey under his expan sive belt, his breath only brought the indicator to .122. 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