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o TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, August 4, 1957 si " lrfS fer ,,f4 7 ko JUr.i': -J - HIA TetepkoM GO TAKE A JUMP FOR YflURSELF That's what Darrell Branstetter, 25-year-old ex-paratrooper has been telling college students. They took him so seriously in the sport that a meet has been arranged between the University of Georgia and Georgia Tech. Above, Branstetter is help ing Frances Anderson into her harness as they prepare for a jump at Atlanta. Branstetter is going to Yugoslavia in September to take part in international competition. Eisenhower Clan Observes John's Birthday Saturday Washington rat The Eis enhower clan gathered for a rare Washington week-end last night to celebrate the 35th birthday of Maj. John Eisenhower, only on of the President and First Lady. Mrs. Eisenhower flew back to Washington from a six-day stay in Denver where she visited her mother and attended the dedi cation of a park named In her own honor. : The President played golf yes terday morning at the suburban Burning Trees club. Late In the afternoon they Do-lf-Yourself Movement Saves Small Coal .Town Cecil, Pa. HP) A do-it-yourself formula has saved Cecil from becoming a ghost town. Three years ago dismay swept this western Pennsylvania com munity when U.S. Steel Corp oration shut down National No. 3 coal mine. This meant the loss of jobs for 600 miners. "Old No. 3" wasaworked out. Sympathy mounted for the residents. Congressmen and senators pledged aid. But 'in time the sympathy ebbed. Witfi Cecil residents fac ing economic disaster, their only alternative seemed to be to move out of the town where thev had lived for years. The end of "Old No. 3" was another in a series of financial disasters that included bank scandals and fires. Finally the residents emerged from their numbness. They real ized that if anyone was to save the town thev were to do it themselves. The churches started the movement towards recovery. The drive gained impetus with a "Save Cecil Committee." The efforts were climaxed by find ing new Jobs for the 600 idled miners. Firms Move In There is visible evidence of the movement's success. The new $100,000 United Presby terian Church rises from a knoll on the edse of the town. The red brick edifice trimmed in white replaced the old church which was destroyed by fire during Easter 1954, the town's blackest period. At the other end of town is a new recreation hall with large picture windows. A spacious store fire house erected by vol unteer - labor and financed by public donations is another example of community spirit. The huge mine tipple was torn down, and on the site sev eral hundred new homes were built. Several Pittsburgh firms have been moving to Cecil to take advantage of a low tax rate. U.S. Steel sold' the 157- acre site of "Old No. 3" to a chemical firm that is constantly exDandinz. A road-building firm has lo cated in Cecil because of the availability of supplies from the mountainous slag piles. The skilled labor pool, good transportation (only 30 minutes from Pittsburgh), the low tax rate and dozens of industrial sites are Cecil's selling points. "Other mining towns have given up and died, but not Ce cil," is the way the CecU story va summed up by John Quinn, president of the industrial de-j velopment group. were joined at the White House by Maj. Eisenhower, his wife, Barbara, and the three oldest of their four children .David, 3, Barbara Anne, 8, and Susan, 5. 6 The President's brother, Dr. Milton Eisenhower, came from Baltimore with his daughter to join the party. Dr. Eisenhower, president of Johns Hopkins un iversity, will leave for Mexico today as the President's person al representative on a commit tee set up at the Panama confer ence of American presidents. The President's sop. is current ly assigned to temporary duty as a military aide in the White House staff. He will begin a new assignment at the Pentagon next month. He recently moved his fam ily into a house at Ft. Meyer, just across the Potomac in Vir ginia, from their former post at Ft. Belvoir, Va. A traditional birthday dinner, with a big cake and presents was scheduled at the Vhite House. I C 4 1 V 1 - v - x VrJ let' s SITTING in Los Angeles jail cell, Mrs. Naomi G Lee, mother of seven, ad mits fatal poisoning of her second husband in Frank fort, Ky., according to. the police. (International) Utah Stale Prison Inmates Hold 14 ' Women as Hostages Point of the Mountain, Utah W Sixteen Utah state prison inmates were held in segrega tion cells Saturday while au thorities investigated a brief and bloodless riot in which 20 per sons, including 14 women, were held hostage Friday night. Acting Warden Walter D. Achuff , who cut short a vacation to return here, said he was "ex tremely pleased" with handling of the disturbance. A major riot rocked the 'prison only last Feb ruary. Achuff said the flare-up was not a riot but the work ol a hard core of long-term inmates. "A great majority of the prisoners actually feel chagrined over the actions of the few," he said. Capture Women The trouble began Friday evening when a small band of convicts, armed with knives and baseball bats, charged onto a recreation hall stage. As host ages they took 14 women mem bers of a "Kitchen Rhythmette" band who were entertaining in mates with numbers played on wash tubs, scrub boards and and kitchen utensils. Also captured briefly were three men who accompanied the women to the prison and three prison officials. All hostages were released un harmed after prison guards car rying sawed-off shotguns and pistols threatened to rush the troublemakers. Achuff said he thought only a few of the 16 segregated in mates actually were behind the trouble. They will face a dicipli nary board Monday. The acting warden said none of the inmates had given an ex planation for the disturbance. "Normally you might think this was an attempt at escape or for bargaining, b;it net in this case," he said. He said morale at the prison was high today and most inmates appeared glad the troublemakers had been taken irom their midst. King's Visit Biggest Clipping Bureau Job New York HP tVlovie stars seem to be most frequently in the news, but the three biggest jobs ever tackled by Luce press clipping bureau concerned a king, a labor union and a key note speech. The bureau collected over 30, 000 newspaper clippings in a single month on the American visit of Saudi Arabia's King Saud. The largest previous order was for a labor union that want ed clippings about a 1956 strike. More tlian 16.000 clippings were sent in a month. Democratic key noter Gov. Frank G. Clement, of Tennessee, also pulled 16.000 clippings for his convention speech in 1956. Grasses Convert Once-Wasted Lands To Livestock Feed New York (IP) America Is undergoing a "grass revolution" that is enabling farmers from Florida to California to convert millions of acres of once-wasted land into a rich source of live stock feed. Steelways, official publication of American Iron and Steel In stitute, said there are now 4,000 known varieties of grass and that within a generation or two the geneticists and chemists may double that number and put tens of thousands of idle acres to work and add income and stability to the farm opera tion. The publication said that steel machines that plant and harvest grass can create as much change in the land and eco nomic practices of the United States during the next half cen tury as the automobile " created during the past 50 years. It added: Yield Tripled 'They enable deserts, moun tains and dunes tp become rich cropland, tripling the yield of half the nation's lands and de veloping them as the largest livestock producers on earth." Steelways said the national grass crop last year was valued at more than IS billion dollars equal to the combined incomes of the mining and chemical in dustries. From it came nearly three-fifths of all our foods, much of our fibers and hundreds of other useful products. It said the changes created in Bermuda grass, once a major pest of the South's cotton fields, are typical of the .grass revolu tion sparked by a few hundred scientists and the new machines. Steelways says that these changes now mean that more livestock can be carried on less acreage and will enable this country to fatten the 500 million food animals which are annually required to keep pace with the population increase and the rise in living standards. Burgess Says Higher Interest Rates May Help Check Inflation i Washington Of! Undersecre tary of the Treasury W. Ran dolph Burgess said Saturday the higher interest rates invoked by the Eisenhower administration will save the- nation from "in finitely" higher inflation. 4 FAILING to win reconcilia tion with husband, Sandy Glass, Hope Holliday, of a New York hit musical cast, is taken to hospital after slashing her wrists with a razor. (International) Ivy League Man Says Let the Kids Pay Cambridge, Mass. (IPI Dr. Seymour E. Harris of Harvard University thinks he has the an swer to the problem of higher education. He would let each student foot the entire bUl. Right now, he said, too many parents are getting what amounts to a free ride on the coattails of either the universi ties or the taxpayers. "In any Ivy League univers ity," he said, "tthe average fam ily income runs from $12,000 to $20,000. Yet the college charges $800 to $1,000 tuition and then subsidizes each student for an other $1,000 out of its endow ment. "I think that every student should pay the full cost of his education. If he is poor, then.he should pay all he can at the time. The rest he should pay out over his lifetime." Dr. Harris, chairman of Har vard's economics department, has been given a $70,000 grant from the Fund for -the Advance ment of Education for an extend ed study of the economics of private education. He wound up a week-long ap pearance before the senate fin ance committee with defense of the administration tight money policies after an attack by Sen. Robert S. Kerr (D-Okla.). The committee wants to know what is behind the policy. Kerr, a committee member, declared that Burgess and for mer Secretary of the Treasury George M. Humphrey had hand ed taxpayers and interest pay ers "a long legacy that will reach 15 billion dollars" in a bigger debt through higher interest rates. . Kerr, who charged in a recent senate speech that President Ei senhower had no "fiscal brains," said Eisenhower wpuld not be able to fully explain his own administration financial policies "if his life depended on it." Retiring Soon Burgess, who is retiring from office soon, said history had shown that hiking interest pay ments was an effective means of checking inflation. "If this country does not fol low policies of this sort," he said, "the cost of inflation will cost it infinitely more than any increase in interest rates." Kerr, who questioned Burgess for hours, praised his ability and noted that he had succeeded in putting more policies in effect while in office than anyone ex cept Secretary of, Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson. Benson's Policies But Benson's policies resulted in "practically liquidating" the family size farm, Kerr said, while Burgess had been able to crash the "barrier of the four per cent interest rate" on gov ernment securities. Under questioning, by Sen. George W. Makme (R-Nev.) Bur gess agreed that cutting down on government appropriations would help check inflation. Malone said "congress is re sponsible for inflation" because "we appropriate the meney." He added that it is worse for a Re publican administration to spend so much because "Republicans ought to know better." 1 got mad at what the Demo cratic administration was d5 ing" in . past years "and I'm madder now because we're do ing it." Malone said. CYRUS WAS TREE MAN Kent, Ohio (IB One of the earliest landscape architects was Cyrus, the Great, founder of the mighty Persian empire. Accord ing to Davey three researchers, he loved trees so much he plan ned formal plantings and actual ly laid out the ground and cared for many of the trees himself. 1 HUG IS IN ORDER after Scott Ply, 21 months, is rescued from 24-foot deep cesspool into which he had fallen at Temple City, Calif. Mrs. Carol Ply holds soft moment after fire department effected rescue. (International Sowdphtt) UNAVAILABLE SALT r Johannesburg ttf! Loch Ma ree, second biggest salt lake in the world, lies 160 miles north of Upington, in the northeast of Cape Province. Experts calculate that the salt in the lake is worth about 20,000,000 pounds, clear and pure enough for domestic use. The one snag in the way of exploiting this great deposit said to be four feet deep is th vast area of shifting sand dunes surrounding the lake. The dunes make transport of the salt impossible. f CHRISTIAN 1 I SCIENCE . J Station KWIN 1400 K.C Sundays 10:15 A.M. 11 Pi IGNORING criticism of cam paign gifts to. Republican party, M. H. Gluck, Ken tucky merchant, says- he plans to accept appoint ment as ambassador to Cey lon. (International Soundphoto) Missouri River Dams Set Production Records Omaha (!P) Gavins Point and Garrison Dams on the Mis souri River set new production records for a single month in April. , " The Missouri River Reservoir Control Center here said power generated at Gavins Point to taled 36 million kilowatt-hours and at Garrison, 90 million kilowatt-hours. Total production on the four Missouri River dams Gavins Point,-Garrison, Fort Peck and Fort Randall was 250 million kilowatt-hours two million few er than the all-time record of last August. - Now THREE Agencies For i COMPLETE INSURANCE SERVICE One Phone, SP 3-3659 WLlf.,llllMillJlll.i.lUllliJWII 1 i S ' IT . v 'W t Dick House Cole Holmes Where Insurance Is A Business, Not A Sicfefine e The R. A. Holmes The Dick House Agency Agency Sine 1909 , HOLMES and HOUSE OF INSURANCE 116 South Centra! Ava. Medford WRONG NUMBER WAS RIGHT Bay City, Mich. (IPI Mrs. Robert E. Treece made an error but not a mistake when she awoke at night and smelled smoke. ' She decided to call her husband who works the night shift for a manufacturing com pany, but got the police instead. The police dispatched the fire department. MWN1NGS LOTS OF HEAT STILL LEFT! ORDER NOWI METAL or CANVAS FREE ESTIMATES VALLEY SHADE CO. 307 North Bartlett Phone SP 3-4620 ymnraeir PRICES SLASHED TO ROCK BOTTOM . . CHANDISE . . . ALL FIRST QUALITY . MONDAY . . . DOORS OPEN 9:30 A.M. 0s ytis . STILL LOTS OF TIME TO ENJOY THIS FINE SUMMER MER COME EARLY FOR THE BEST SELECTIONS . .-.-STALE STARTS . . BE HERE EARLY! Boys' Oxfords and Loafers VALUES TO $4.95 Black loafers or brown oxfords. Long weiring neolito soles. Medium widths in sizes SVi to 3. Your choice $299 Ladies' Canvas Play Shoes Regular $3.98 Hood brand "Sun Steps" in slip-ons, or 1 strap wedgie styles. Colors are white, red, black and navy. Ladies' Summer Dresses . Ladies summer sheers eni summer cottons. Values from 5.95 and up. Out they go in our summer houtecleaning. Sizes 9 to 15, 10 to 20, and 14'2 to 24'i.,200 to choose from. 3" 0,2 for $264 Men's Summer Caps Clot. out. All summer sport caps in cool straws, cloth and mesh weaves. Values to 1.49. Your choice. 44 Men's Nylon Stretch Hose 9c VALUE Light colors and mesh weaves. Fit all sizes from 10 to 13. Plain and fancy patterns. Out they go. 44 MEN'S Butcher Linen Sport Coats VALUES TO $9.90 Sizes 36 to 46 in navy, charcoal, light blue, and rust. Out they go at $494 Boys' Swim Trunks Closing out our entire stock. Plaid reversible, satin lastex, Helenca stretch nylons. All colors. Sizes 6 to 18. $33 Ladies' Cotton Skirts VALUES TO $4.95 Fancy drip dry prints. Also plain colon. Full skirted or fitted styles. Good range of sizes. Your choice Ladies' Swim Suits Largs (election of the very latest styles in Ladies' Swim Suits. All styles and colors. Nearly all sizes. Our entire stock cut to Rock Bottom. Reg. 5.9&-Now $3.88 Reg. 6.95-Now. $4.44 Reg. 8.95-Now ........ .$4.99 Boys' Dress Jackets $.9S VALUES Just 10 left in size. 6 and 8 only. Full zipper. Lay back cellar. Splash gabardine. Cut to $2 Men's Short Sleeve. Sport Shirts Closing our our entire stock of $2.98 and $3.98 sport shirts. Lots of outstanding patterns to choose from. Cut to $244 $266 Little Girls' Play Clothes S9c TO $1.98 VALUES Shorts, pedal pushers, halters, blouses. Plain and fancy patterns. Sizes 2 to 14. 44e ..$177 Summer Yardage Specials Figured voiles, figured nylon sheers, plain nylons, flock dotted, nylons and other summer yardage. These are all regular 69c and 79c yd. materials. Cut below cost to only .44 yd. Men's Swim Trunks Out goes our entire .rock of regular $2.98 and $3.98 swim trunks. Fancy reversible with side leg ilita. Helenca stretch nylon., atin lastex stretchies. $99 Children's Barefoot Sandals $1.98 VALUE Broken size, from Infant 5 to Child', size 3. white or brown. Reduced to Red, $44 LADIES BOUFFANT Nylon Petticoats Just arrived! Large shipment of gorgeous bouffant nylon petti coats. Yards and yards of material and lace in these. $298 $398 LADIES' Summer Shoes VALUES TO $4.95 Flattie sandals and wedgies. Not all sizes. A real bargain, and lots of rime to wear them. Cut to $83
