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10 Navy Plane Crewmen Saved in Pacific Ditching Honolulu UFD All 10 crew men of a Navy Neptune patrol plane were rescued "in good condition" early today after they were forced to ditch their burning plane in the Pacific ocean 170 miles southwest of Oahu. The men were picked up by the ubmarine USS Bream at 1:11 a.m., four and one-half hours after they ditched the two-engine plane and boarded a life raft. The Navy said none of the crewmen was injured. The plane, attached to Patrol Squadron 23, was on a routine training flight from Barbers Point Naval Air station when the right engine caught fire. It ditched at 11:40 p.m. (PDT) Thursday. Two submarines and five search planes were imme diately dispatched to the area. An Air Force search plane spotted the men aboard the raft and circled the area until the Bream could arrive to make the rescue. The plane was piloted by Lt. J. F. Ahem, Framingham, Mass. His copilot was Lt.- Robert E. ,Melhorn, Manchester, N.H. The other crew members were navigator Lt. (jg) Robert L. Burns, Wall, S.D.; second navi gator Ens. Adrian D. Joki, Red Lodge, Mont.; and crewmen AL-1 D. G. Stewart, Portland, Ore.; ATAN P.J. Madigan, Red mond, Wash.; AD-2 R. J. Hardes ty, Wichita, Kan; AT-3 . G. Boyer. Payne, Okla.; AOU-2 C. W. McCabe, Englewood, Colo.; and AN T. H. Montague, Kyle, Tex. LETHAL LAWNMOWER Effingham, 111. (U.PJ Dr. S. F. Henry was recovering toda from a slight wound received when his lawn mower struck a .22-caliber bullet which -then lodged in his leg. I Y7 X- TWO 5-MIMUn WASHES, TWO THOROUGH J 1 J OfniMiUMfr IINSES, SANITARY ELECTRIC DRYING ' ffg jtwt. . V DUAL DETERGENT DISPENSER releases fresh WM i ix uwfimmmxrrmtf) . CI ,A PUSHBUTTON C0NVW.HKI-fu.ly I 1 7 -t- A, automatic operation City Am 4 1 127 North Central - Across No Promising Replenish Lagging Television Comedy By WILLIAM EW-ALD United Press Correspondent New York U.R) TV com edy has reached a state of near collapse. Such members of the funny business as Milton Berle, Martha Raye, Red Buttons and Buddy i Hackett have popped out. Jackie uieason and bid Caesar, both giants, are floundering. There are no really promising recruits in sight. Henry Youngman, a skilled craftsman in the funny business for more than 30 years, thinks he knows why. Most TV comics, he says, don't even belong in the business. What's more, says Youngman, the men responsible for putting comedy on the air wouldn't know a funny man if they fell over one. "Almost all of the guys you see on TV now are just mechan ics," said Youngman today. "They're not funny inside. They don't think funny. They don't feel funny. No Clown Inside "There are a few exceptions. Groucho Marx was always crazy on and off stage. Benney's a nat ural. George Burns is another very funny guy offstage. These guys stay in business not only because they know what they're doing, but because they know how to handle success, they know how to enjoy life." Not so of the new breed, said Youngman. "Sid Caesar is great on TV," he said. "But inside he's no clown at all. You sit down at a table with him and he doesn't even open his mouth. I "Or take Buddy Hackett. He just wasn't equipped for the job. Somebody sees him telling a couple 'of jokes he's r"?ked up somewhere and they put him on. But he doesn't last because he's not funny. "Or Sammy Davis. Everybody keeps telling me how funny he is. All he really is, is a mimic doing the same thing week after week with those two cornball FULL-SIZE... not a midget portable Can be permanently 'It Costs You JACKSON COUNTY'S EXCLUSIVE HOTPOINT DEALER" from Penney's - Medford - Phone Recruits in Sight To uncles of his. There's nothing new or fresh there. "Or Gerry Moore. He's typical of the new bunch. I don't even know ' what his audience is laughing about. All he does is play games with them." Hope Meets Approval A few comics pass Young man's inspection. "Gleason is funny ' inside," he said. "Phil Silvers knows what he's doing. Coastal Shipping Rate Cut Asked San Francisco U.R) The Pa cific American Steamship asso ciation has appealed to the In terstate Commerce commission to hold hearings on a proposed rate decrease on commodities shipped between Pacific coast points. In a telegram to ICC Chair man Owen Clark in Washington, President Robert E. Mayer of PASA said the "cut-rate freight rate slash" would cut off Pacific ports from American flag serv ice to Canada 'and Alaska. Mayer asked that Clark "per sonally review" a three times re peated refusal of the ICC to hold a hearing on the matter. He termed the refusal to even hear the complaints "a complete disregard of the need of Pacific Coast communities for a contin ued coastwise steamship serv ice." Coastwise and interooastal lines have opposed what they term "loss-leader" rates on cer tain commodities because extra transportation costs are passed on to other users. A temporary restraining or der, preventing institution of the proposed rates, has been issued by the federal court here until the court hears the com plainant's arguments as to why a hearing should be granted. 'Jffik . $279.95 Value! 411 DUAL DETERGENT DISPENSER -releases fresh detergent automatically into each wash PUSHBUTTON CONVENIENCE-fully automatic operation CONVENIENCE CONTROL permits you to - vary cycle, even warm plates SERVICE-FOR-8 CAPACITY-with easy loading from the front EXTRA WORK SURFACE in your kitchen installed whenever desired Less to Buy the Best" SP 3-5306 137 E. Main i Buttons is cute. Gobel has a sense of humor. Carney is a clev er man, but I don't think he's able to work by himself. "Bob Hope is pretty funny, but he's the guy who stole my style of short jokes. He stole my writers, too. "But you take Mickey Rooney. He's an actor. He's "not funny, yet he tries to do comedy. Ten nessee Ernie Ford? He stinks all around. Dick Shawn takes 40 minutes to get started. None of these new guys have heart the sort of thing a Bert Lahr has. What we have is a world of mediocrity." A large part of the trouble, said Youngman, lies in the men responsible for programming. "The advertising man and the guys who put shows together don't know 'what's funny them selves. That's why .they're in trouble all the time. There are too many people in this busi ness who don't belong in it. "Now me, I enjoy my work and I play 40 weeks a year. So I've got no worries. And I'll tell you, after looking at some of these other guys on TV, I think I'm a million dollar potential." Ike Scales Down Foreign Aid Appeal Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower made a strong ap peal to Republioan and Demo cratic congressional leaders yes terday for passage of a foreign aid program of at least $3,80, 000,000 for fiscal 1958. Senate Republican Leader Wil liam F. Knowland said after the White House conference of more than 90 minutes that Eis enhower probably will submit his detailed program to Congress early iext week. The President originally ask ed $4,400,000,000 for the mutual security program. Today, he scaled it down to $2,800,000,000 for military assistant and $1,080, 000,000 for economic aid. re Ashland - Phone MU 9-5831 The Medical Roundup When To Go to a Physician In a recent issue of the Ameri can Journal of Medicine, there is an amusing story by Drs. Bur- well, Robin, W h a 1 e y and B i c k e lmann about a 263 pound execu tive who, for years, had had a tendency to d r o p . off to sleep at inop portune times. Alvarez What finally caused him to go to a hospital for strenuous treatment was the fact that, while playing poker, he fell asleep as he was being dealt three aces and two kings. When he woke and looked at his cards too late to bid them he decided that it was high time he went to a doctor! Years ago I had a patient something like this one who came to me when he had to quit playing poker. His difficulty was that whenever he got a wonderful hand, he got so ex cited that his face turned scarlet and everyone at the table knew enough not to bid! The Need for Keeping Family Record of Illness Every so often when I suspect that a patient's epilepsy or men tal disturbance is based on an attack of encephalitis or menin gitis or brain .fever, I am unable to learn if, in childhood, he ever had any serious illness, with severe headache and mental con fusion, perhaps following an at tack of measles. The patient says he doesn't know, and his mother may say that, with; eight chil dren, she cannot remember what each one had. Similarly, if it looks as if the few convulsions a man had might be hereditary in nature, and I ask him if there was anything like epilepsy in his family, again, he is likely to say "I don't know." As I write this, in comes a fine young man who is plan ning to marry in the next few months. There has been .a case of what looks like epilepsy in the immediate family, and the young couple, both able and highly intelligent college gradu ates, are wondering if they should have children. These young people know much about what their parents and uncles and aunts were like, but they know almost nothing about their grandparents and their great uncles and aunts. Without the necessary information, it is hard for a genetic counselor to help them. Week after week I get letters from people saying, "Should I marry my cousin, and if I marry her, should we have children?" Again, all depends on whether there is hereditary disease of any kind in the family. Often the young people cannot answer my questions, because they have no family records. , Back in 1884, Sir Francis Gal ton, one of the greatest men Eng- a couple of blank-page books, one called Record of family faculties, the other, Life History Album. He felt so strongly that one of the great things that all intelligent heads of families should do . would be to record in such: a book all that was known about the illnesses and, particularly, hereditary illnesses, in tjie family as far back vas information was available. Moth ers should keep a record of the illnesses sustained by their chil dren, with notes on what the doctor said at the time. Reopening of Tied 'Cords' Men keep writing to say that years ago, because of a wife's illness, they . had a vasectomy; which means they had their tubes cut and tied the tubes that carry sperm from the testi cles up to the base of the blad Or A GIFT FOR MOTHER... I y ' j&lpii I J No Bufcy Sows! No Dangling Cords! DIST. SOUTHERN OREGON 242 So. Central Avenue Friday. May 10, 1957 Emtritui Consultant In Medicln., Mayo Clinic Emeritus Professor of Medicln. Mayo Foundation der. This operation does not bother a r,v, in any way. Now, the man has ludrried again and his new wife wants greatly to have a child. Can the tubes be opened up again? It is possible, but able urologists, to whom I have talked, say the -operation seldom works, and so they hate to attempt it. Similarly, I get many requests from women who once had their fallopian tubes cut and tied and who now want them opened again. Gynecolo gists tell me that this operation is hardly worth attempting. Compassion for the Dying A hundred times, when I have wanted to give some morphine to a dying person who was suf fering greatly, the devout fam ily objected; they were so afraid that the sedative might shorten the person's life even by a day or two and then they, would be responsible before God. Always, in these cases, I have told the family what I feel sure is true, and this is that medicine that relieves pain is likely to length en life; suffering can only short en it. Now, I am so pleased to read that the Pope a kindly man who has always had a good understanding of the problems of medicine has said that it is all right for doctors to give opiates to the dying. This pro nouncement from the head of the Catholic church should do much to strengthen the hands of physicians when they want to help suffering people. Dr. Alvarez hopes his readers will understand that it would be impossible for him to an swer requests for information or to attempt to diagnose by mail. (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate. 1957) Father, Son Drown In River Tragedy Grundy, Va.-U.PO--A father attempting to rescue his son from the waters of the Levisa river drowned with a boy Thurs day. A girl the son had play fully pushed into the water, touching off the tragedy, was revived with artificial respira tion: The victims were identified as David Blankenship, 34, and his son, Thurman, 14, of nearby Har'man, Vai' Police said the two were fish ing along the river when Lydia Endicott, 14, and Bertha Mul lins, 14, began wading nearby. Young Blankenship playfully pushed Lydia into the water and then fell in himself. When David got into water over his head, the boy's father dived in to save him. A passing bus driver rescued Lydia but the bodies of the fa ther and son weren't found for a half hour. They were locked together. ' Primate of Poland Visits Vatican CityT Vatican City (U.R) Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, primate oi Poland, began a round of vishs today to various Roman Catho lic groups, and fellow cardinals! Vatican sources said he prob ably would not be received by Pope Pius XII until early next week because of the Pope's heavy schedule. They said the Pope probably would bestow the red hat signi fying the office of cardinal 6a the Polish primate before their private conference. ' Cardinal Wyszynski was ele vated to cardinal in 1953 but did not come to Rome for the ceremony for fear he would not be permitted by the Communist Warsaw government to return to Poland. If She Is Hard of Hearing Just Say: Wear Your Hair In Any Style - - wHh NEW HEARING GLASSES ' by y4((Ut0 Nothing In The Ear Wear your hair in any sty It y prefer No need to cover your ears because with Maico Hearing Glasses there is nothing in the ear. Ideal for bone conduction. MAICO OF MEDFORD Ph. SP 2-7418 MEDTORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE House Voles Raise For State Officers Salem (U.R) House bill 649 raising the salaries of top state officials passed the House by a narrow 32-27 margin late Thursday as the House handled 42 bills, a record for the session. The bill, which now goes to the Senate, raises the governor's salary from $15,000 to $17,000 a year and provides him with $400 a month in expense money. Salaries of the secretary of state, state treasurer and attor ney general all would go from $11,000 to $12,500 and the com missioner of labor would get $11,500 instead of $9,500. Objection to the hikes was voiced by Reps. Robert Stewart. Keating, Democrat, and Jc Rogers, Independence Democrat. Stewart said this was not the time to raise top salaries due to the financial condition of the state. Rep. Vernon Cook, Gresham Democrat, supported the in creases on the theory they would attract high caliber people into state government. He advocated pay increases of at least 50 per cent for all elected officials. Approves Budget Ashland The Ashland city council Tuesday night approved Sl,094,595 ,city budget for 1937 58 which calls for an overall in crease of $82,369 in expenditur es as compared with last year. 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