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o O O O o o o '$0 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SundT. July 14. 19S7 CAMP ACTIVITY Medford boys attending YMCA summer camp at Diamond lake this summer will have the chance to learn a lot about handling a sailboat or a canoe. Boating is one of the favorite activities. Other forms of recreation- include swimming, archery, camping, games and hiking. Registration for summer camp, to be held for Medford boys from July 28 to Aug. 11, is still open. O Four Weeks Camp Starts Today at Lake for Y Boys Today marks the date when four weeks of resident camping for Medford boys begins at the Young Men's Christian associa tion's Diamond lake camp. Herb Partridge, camp direc tor, announced that the first two weeks. July 14-28, will be held in cooperation with the Roseburg YMCA. The Roseburg Y will send 65 campers and the Medford Y 10 campers for each of the first two periods, Part ridge said. The last two weeks of boy's camping, July 28-Aug. 11, will be composed of Medford boys. The Diamond lake camp is set up to service 72 boys per week. Staff for this year's camp in clude Partridge, camp director; Harold Walker, Roger Hunti nian, Keith Bates Jr., unit di rectors; Dean Crumley, water front director, John Reynolds, and the Rev. Kenneth F. Korby, program specialists. There are nine tents to be used, with eight boys in each tent. AU tents will have a tent counselor in charge of the group. Some of the activities the boys plan to take part in are swim ming, archery, riflery, nature lore, games, camp craft, boating, canoeing, outpost camping, hik ing and craft. Each camp per iod will be highlighted by a trip around Diamond lake and a mo tor hike to either Crater lake, Mt. Bailey or Mt. Thielsen. Registration for camp is still open, but parents are urged to register as soon as possible to assure their boy a place in the camp. Additional information may be obtained at the YMCA, 522 West Sixth st., or by tele phoning SP 2-6295. Trading Picks Upon Stock Market in Week AEC Delays Firing Device 24 Hours Las Vegas, Nev. (IP The Atomic Energy commission Fri day night delayed firing of a below nominal yield atomic de vice for another 24 hours because of unfavorable weather. The shot, dubbed Diablo, was rescheduled for 4:40 a.m. (PDT) today. The AEC said strong winds Saturday would have carried the fallout into a populated area lorth east of the test site. The test had been set for Fri day but was postponed 24 hours for technical reasons. The Diablo shot originally was scheduled on Jrne 28 but it failed to go off because of a power failure. By ELMER C. WALZER UP Financial Editor New York flfl Stocks reached new highs since last Aug. 10 during the past week. Trading picked up to the most active pace since the week end ed April 26. Daily average vol ume of 2,649,136 shares com pared with a daily average of 2,314,355 shares last week. Traders talked inflation but guided their market operations on more tangible things such as better business ahead, a revis ion upward for auto output this year, talk of a record year for steel, high energy fuels a new industry rising to a billion dollars in a decade prospect of a natural gas bill this year, and statements by Secretary George M. Humphrey that the economy is free of the excesses that wrecked us in 1929. Income Fixtd . Railroads outperformed the other major groups. With their income fixed by rules of the In terstate Commerce commission the rails are considered any thing but an inflation hedge. Neither are the utilities and they enjoyed good markets from time to time and gaineds lightly on the week. The Street pinned hopes on a freight rate increase for the roads and hoped faintly the natural gas bill would pass by a wider margin than it met in the House committee. Olin Mathieson provided the romance in its high energy fuel which it is producing for the Air Force. It is constructing a $36 million plant to turn out the fuel, a product of borax found in vast quantities in California and Nevada. Chemicals Hightr Olin ran up a new high and then met profit-taking. The big borax producers U. S. Bor ax, America Potash and Stauffer Chemical had some wide moves on the exotic fuel pros pects. The performer of the week pricewise was Superior Oil of California which sold at a new record high on Friday at $1,850 a share. That was a gain of $155 points on the week. It closed at $1,830 up $135. That stock sold as low as $1,210 earlier this year. Tigh earnings helped the issue this week. General Motors got into action Friday when it led the market in activity and set a new high. It gained 25s on the week and Tord, soldem changed more than a fraction, rose more than a point. Chrysler, strong at times, lost a fraction. Cains Rang The chemicals had gains ran ging to 1 2 li points in Schering End there was talk this company would be marged with Revlon, an active feature. U. S. Borax rose 1714 points on the week, American Potash 7 and Stauf fer 3' in the borax group. Penn salt Chemical was up 5'i and International Salt 6 points. Al lied Chemical rose 7's and Du Pont 3'2. Olin rose 37s. In the rails gains of more than 2 points were set by Baltimore and Ohio, Atlantic Coast Line, Chesapeake and Ohio, Virginian Railway rose 10' i points. International Utilities rose 7'.4 points and Eastern Gas and Fuel was up 4V'4 in the utilities. Johnson and Johnson gained 14 in the specials: Asiatic Flu Leaves 200 III in Iowa Iowa City, Iowa W An epi demic that felled 200 youths at a religious conference at Grin- nell college has been diagnosed as the same disease that swept the Far East taking hundreds of lives. Dr. Albert McKee, University of Iowa, said Friday tests have shown the disease to be Asiatic flu. The mild outbreak at Grin nell was the second known ap pearance of the disease among the civilian population in the United States. The first .epidemic developed on the University of California campus in the last week of June, shortly before the Grinnell con ference held early this month, hospitalizing some 200 girls. Grave of Headless, Handless Man Believed Crabb Still Unmarked By DANIEL T. GILMORE United Prtu Correspondent Portsmouth, England OR The headless, handless corpse of a man officially believed to be intrepid British Frogman Com-1 mander Lionel (Buster) Crabb lies today in a still unmarked grave on the shores of this busy naval base. There has been no time yet to erect a tombstone over the fresh ly covered mound. And few peo ple, including his relatives, know what to put on it. If the body below is Crabb's no one knows or is saying precisely when he died or how or why he died. One school of thought is that the "real" Crabb is still alive. This is the school that classi fies the body in the grave as "the man who never was" a phony planted by Russian sub marines. . . But there is no official encour agement for this, or any theory, regarding Crabb. And there probably never will be. British officials are close-mouthed about their secrets. And in this case, even they might not have all the answers yet. Last Dire The story of Commander Li onel Crabb, 46 years old when he made his last known dive more than a year ago in this harbor of treacherous tides, outdoes any intricate exercise of the most im aginative fiction writer. It is a story that inevitably makes the full circle and comes back again to a classic nowhere. One thing is certain: Crabb's last mission rocked the British government and had repercus sions in Moscow and Washing ton. Commander Crabb, a war-time hero who in hazardous underwa ter missions de-mined allied ships as fast as the Germans and Italians attached mines to them, was last seen alive here in Portsmouth at the Sallyport Hotel on April 19, 1956. That was the day he checked out of the somewhat seedy ho tel with a mysterious "Mr. Smith." The hotel register pages with their names was later torn out by British C.I.D. agents. Soriet Cruiser In the harbor were the big So viet cruiser Ordzhonikidze and two escorting Red Fleet destroy ers. They had just brought So viet Party Chief Nikita Khrush chev and Premier Nikolai Bul ganin on a state visit to Britain. Then there was silence until Moscow sent a querulous note to the British government a few days later: "During the stay of Soviet warships in Portsmouth, at 7:30 hours on April 19," it said, "sea men on board the Soviet ships observed a frogman floating be tween the Soviet destroyers. "The frogman, who wore a black lightweight diving suit with flippers on his feet, was seen on the surface of the water for one to two minutes, and then dived again alongside the destroyer Smotryashchy. . ." The' Admiralty, which controls all official British frogmen in cluding the frogman training school here in Portsmouth, in sisted Crabb was not working for it at the time. Yet it was the Admiralty which first announced on April 28 last year that Crabb was "missing and presumed dead." Persistent questioning in Par liament on what made the Ad miralty "presume" Crabb's death if the admiralty didn't know what he was doing brought no answer. Nothing further developed un til a headless, handless body dressed in a black frogman's suit was washed up at Chichester Harbor near hear a month ago. An inquest June 26 after 59 minutes deliberation, ruled that the body was Crabb's. "I am satisfied the remains found were those of Command er Crabb," Chief Coroner George Bridgman said. One last bizarre note: At Crabb's funeral here, Crabb's swordstick re-appeared mysteri ously. It came in a cardboard box. Inside was a spray of white carnations and a card with an in scription in French, taken from the sword of St. John of Arc. It said: "It was there at the fight so it is fitting it should be there at the glory." Sagittarius Is Visible in Southern Milky Way Area By FAY BENTLEY Low in the southern Milky Way, to the left or east of The Scorpion, lies a constellation known from ancient days as Sagittarius the Archer. Accord ing to legend this star group rep recents Chiron the Centaur, a creature half man and half horse, that is holding a drawn boy with an arrow aimed straight at the heart of The Scorpion. Most of the Centaurs were rough mannered, quarrelsome, and always ready to fight. But the Noble Centaur, Chiron, was different from the others. He was a kindly tutor who had in- the Scorpion. The stars forming the Archer lie to the left or east of Scorpius in the Milky Way. First look for the short handled Milk Dipper, so-called because the Milky Way runs through it. This Dipper, tilted to the right or west from the perpen dicular is hanging cup down ward. Four stars form the bowl and one the short handle of this asterism which makes up part of Sagittarius. Triangle of Stars After locating the Milk Dip per notice the triangle of three stars to the right or west of the imperfect rectangle that repre sents the bowl or cup of the Dip- structed many of the Grecian per Combine the Milk Dipper heroes, including Aesculapius. Long Journey Returning from a long jour ney after accomplishing one of his Twelve Labors, Hercules entered the cave of one of the Centaurs who offered him food, but stated that the cask of wine was hidden and could not be opened until Bacchus, god of mirth, came to visit. But Her cules was insistant. "What will Jupiter say when he hears that you re'used wine to a thirsty traveler?" he asked. The Centaur, feeling that the gods of hospitality should be honored as well as Bacchus, fi nally opened the cask. As the pleasant odor drifted out of the cave, other Centaurs quickly en tered and' began drinking the wine. Soon they became like wild creatures, and forgetting the rites of hospitality and that Hercules was an old friend, at tacked their guest. One Centaur boldly aimed an arrow at Her cules, who shot in return, acci dentally killing Chiron, the Noble Centaur. Overcome with Remorse Overcome with remorse, the brave young man prayed to Ju piter for help. Taking Chiron to heaven, the ruler of the gods placed the Noble Centaur in the sky as the beautiful sumjner constellation, ? Sagittarius the Archer. To locate Sagittarius look di rectly south about 9 p.m. "and find the sparkling red star, An with this triangle and a perfect teapot is formed. The cup of the Dipper is the handle of the teapot, the trian gle forms the spout and the one star forming the handle of th Dipper is the top of the teapot. Many people always think of this constellation as. The Tea pot, but, like the Milk Dipper, the Teapot is only part of Sagit tarius the Archer. Dipper Forms Chest By employing the imagination and the stars scattered around The Teapot, the Centaur, a horse with human head and shoulders, holding his hands a drawn bow and arrow may be distinguish ed. The cup of the Milk Dipper forms the chest and the stars just above the cup the head of this strange creature. He is rid ing towards the west with the arrow pointed in the direction of The Scorpion This area of the heavens is filled with objects of greatest interest. Faint hazy patches of light visible to the naked eye in dicate distant star clusters. This region also contains dark nebu lae or masses of cosmic dust and gas. Here, too. the Milky Way is most brilliant. As we look towards Sagitta rius the Archer, we are gazing towards the center of the huge mass of billions of stars that we call the Milky Way galaxy and out beyond to the opposite rim, and therefore through the great est masses of stars possible with- tares, known as the "heart" of ' ing this galactic system 1 SIC It ROOM SUPPLIES Medford Ambulance Service OXYGEN EQUIPMENT FOR RENT Wheel Chairs Walkers Hospital Beds with Mattresses Commodes Crutches Resuscitator Available Order your sick room supplies by calling SP 2-7151 DAY OR NIGHT Frees you forever . . . from washing fir drying drudgery! The New Westinghouse Automatic Wash N Dry LAUNDROMAT! O First . . . It Washes! O Then . . . It Dries! All Automatically in one complete unit with a revolving agitator that Washes Cleaner, rinses better and cleans itself! Now WAS $529.95 5IIOI95 ' - th . S50.00 Trade-in Allowance for Your Old Washer EASY TERMS you ca i suE...r rT'sA'estingJiouse TROWBRIDGE & FLYNN ELECTRIC CO. MINIM W . . 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