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SIX MEDrORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuetday, April 1. U57 Awards Presented To Truck Drivers At ATA Banquet American Trucking association awards for safe driving were presented on March 28 to 19 Pierce Freight Lines drivers at an ATA banquet held at the Tally Ho restaurant, Talent. The awards, in the form of gold and silver lapel pins, rep resented a total of 119 years of driving without an accident. Guest Speaker Guest speaker was Ben Heinz, Transport Indemnity company. Other speakers were Charles Champlin, Medford police chief, Sgt. Floyd Craft of the state police and Frank Henlay, chief agriculture agent for the Cali fornia border patrol. Ed Smith, Pierce general manager, was master of ceremonies and pre sented the ATA awards. More than 60' guests attended the pro gram. President George P. Davis of Pierce Freight Lines said the Medford drivers helped the trucking firm log 4,491,043 miles during 1956, equal to abou: 180 trips around the earth. Other awards were given to 132 driv ers throughout the Pierce sys tem last month, according to John Castner, safety director for the company. Drivers receiving awards' were Arthur Davis, 20 years of safe driving; Sam Steele, 19 years; John Clark, 11 years; Bob Cosier and Rufus Younger, nine years; Virgel Rose and Robert Guthrie, eight years; Charles Ward and GSorge Dunphy, six years; Harry Hawley, Glenn Kier and Ray Schnorr, four years; Leonard Negles, three years; Fred Simcox and Joseph Cave, two years; W. J. Birk heimer, Lee Sherman, O. O. Caster and John Tompkins, one year. A FAST DRINKER Britton, Mich. U.R) Ira I. Earnhardt, 25, Milan, Mich., to day was serving a two-day jail sentence for drinking and driv ing at the same time. Police said they arrested him for driv ing 80 miles an hour and drink ing beer at the same time. ' v A if fr' Aw SAFETY AWARDS Nineteen drivers for Pierce Freight Lines last week received safe driving awards from the American Trucking association." Shown above, left to right, are Police Chief Charles P. Champlin presenting 20-year award to Arthur Davis and Virgil Rose receiving eight - year award from Ed Smith, Pierce general manager. Clyde Knight, local manager, watches at extreme right. (Brainerd photo) 1S00 JAPANESE HOMELESS Niigata, Japan U.R) Brisk winds fanned a fire through 250 homes early today and left 1, 500 persons homeless in the town of Bunsuimachi in Niigata prefecture. Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS Washington: Chairman Richard B. Russell of the Senate Armed Services committee, rejecting Sen. Joseph McCarthy's objections to a promotion for Gen. Ralph W. Zwicker: "There is nothing in the record to warrant the Senate destroy ing the life and recard of a man whose record has been outstanding." Dickson, Tenn.: Haskell L. Daniels, civilian Air Force employee at Langley Air Force Base, Va., on how he got out of a B25 which exploded and crashed: "I don't know if I was blown out or jumped. I think maybe I was blown out." London: Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, reporting to Parlia ment on his recent talks with President Eisenhower at Bermuda: "It would be absurd to suppose that in a few days we could find a solution of all the problems that confront us." New York: Former Los Angeles gambling czar and underworld gun. target Mickey Cohen on his lalk with. Evangelist Billy Graham: "I thought he was craxy. I told him the only Billy Graham I ever heard of was a boxer. Pretty soon, though, we became good friends." Young TV Whiz Reading Papers At Age of Three; Typing at Age of Four Mysterious Voice Delays TWO Airliner Chicago (U.R) A myster ious voice which warned, "49 will not reach San Francisco," halted a TWO Constellation pre paring to take off today and sent airline officials and police on a search for a hidden bomb. An airline spokesman said a switchboard operator received f h P pall parlv tnrfav onr nrnmnl I ly notified the field authorities. Officials at the field radioed the pilot of TWA flight 49 which was at the end of a runway at Midway Airport about to take off on a non-stop flight to San Francisco. i The plane was ordered return ed to the ramp where it was thoroughly searched. After a two hour delay, in which no bomb was found, the plane took off with 41 passeng ers aboard. BY WILLIAM EWALD United Press Correspondent New York (U.R) Robert Strom, a 10-year-old phenomop pet who houses a giant brain in side a lilliputian frame, resumes his chase tonight of a quarter of a million dollars. Rob, a 51 inch, 65 pound fifth grader from the Bronx, N. Y., is the youngest who safely tucked away S64.000 on CBS TV's "The $64,000 Question." Under the re vised rules of the show, Rob was permitted to shoot for three more $64,000's or $256,000 in all. ' In his second go around, Rob, a former Quiz Kid, has reached the $32,000 level, giving him a tentative $96,000 total. .He has climbed to this giddy height by polishing off a series of science questions over seven weeks in categories as chewey as electri city, math, astronomy and chemi stry. Reading At Three What makes Robbie tick is one of those imponderables. He was reading the New York Times when he was three. He taught himself to type at four. He wrote a 96 chapter novel, "Unger's grocery Store," at the same age. He could use a soldering iron ex pertly at six. He's an expert in photography and is studying to be a ham oper ator. He'll soon launch a mime ographed magazine, "Jr. Scien tist." His reading matter runs from "Treasure Island" to ab struce tracts on engineering and calculus. On the other side of the coin, photographic memory theory. he exhibits all the traits of any normal 10 year old. He plays the outfield on a little league team He's an Elvis Presley fan. He likes to play the harmonica and plays only passable piano. Un like many other child bonders, he is well-behaved, the reason may be that his parents, Albert and Beatrice Strom, spank him when he gets out of line. Analytical 'Mind His father, a man who earns $8000 a year teaching electric motors at a vocational Ji i g h school here, and his mother, a Phi Betta Kappa, discount the Stanford Arthritis Specialist Succumbs Sausalito, Calif. (U.R) Dr. Willard G. Snow, chief' of the arthritis clinic at Stanford Uni versity hospital, died at his home here Sunday after an illness of several months. Be was 43. Snow was with the Navy in World War II, serving as a medi cal officer with the Marines in the Pacific. He willed his body to the Stanford medical school. He was survived by his moth er, Mrs. Clarence Groesbeck Snow; a sister, Dr. Dorothy Snow, and two brothers, Dr. El iot Snow and Dr. Robert G. Snow, all of Salt Lake City. His sister is a Ph. D., his brothers MDs. "He has an analtyical mind and all of the questions he has been called upon to answer thus far have required him to give the kind of answers that would show he knows what he's talking about," says Albert Strom. "He was. always a curious boy," says his mother. "Anything with the quality of mystery, the unknown, just fascinates him. When he was nine he saw a book on shorthand in the public li brary, he was so fascinated he taught it to himself. Self Taught Hebrew "A friend of mine speaks Heb rew. Rob heard her and now is teaching it ' to himself. He has heard me speak Hungarian so he's trying to learn that, too. It's the quality of 'x about any thing that thrills him." Rob himself is unaffected by his fame. His parents screen his mail and the newspapers so he won't suffer from ego bloating. They have him on rations of $2.50 a month, most of which he spends on books or tape for his magnetic tape recorder. 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