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SIX MEDFORD (OHEGOW) MAIL THIBUNE
Film Colony Leaders
Seeking To Prevent
Personal Exposures
. Hollywood HP Some film misc "deal- asking leniency for
colony leaders are working full ' defendants Fred and Marjorie
steam behind the scenes to pre-1 Meade, alleged operators of Con
vent the criminal libel trial fidential s Hollywood listening
v-omiaenuai magazine
from turning into the biggest
Hollywood scandal since the
Tuesday, August 8. 1SJ7
Tatty .rbuckle case.
While the trial proceeds in
Angeles Superior Court,
1,
! nnct in ovfhanup fnr fho mapa.
' zine dropping stories about
; stars. The judge ruled such a
Ofleal' could not be enforced
' easily.
' Eut a ruling Iftira the bench
that the 100 subpoenaed stars
could not testify would prevent
Aim.
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ilmsters reportedly are pressur
ing the attorney general's of
fice and Judge Herbert Walker I tne mst sizzling trial since actor
!to have the case settled out of 1 Fatty Arbuckle was tried for the
court or at least conducted! death of showgirl Virginia
without tte lid being ripped off ' Rappe irom.a hemorrhage at a
HollywooaT boudoirs. 6vild party,in San Francisco. The
Working Full Time O ! comedian was auitted, but he
n . I fell from grace in the movie in-
: Z::Z ", ; L"1ir r.-.ustry and died in obscurity.
I Other Scandals
Other Hollywood scandals that
have rocked the nation include
the murder of director William
' I Desmond Taylor in 1922, the
I ..n i. t-.: 'i
in 1926. the mysterious death of
Monday J.udge Walker asked j Thelma Todd in 1935, and pa
both sides to submit briefs as to i ternity suits against Clark Gable,
the course of the trial, a legal Errol t'lynn, Charles Chaplin
move that may result in his rul- ! and Wallace Beery. "
ing whether defense attorney) The strategy of the defense, in
Arthur Crowley can call to the the State vs. Confidential maga
stand stars who were not in- j zine is to show the truth of its
volved irt the handful of alleged-1 articles. Even a Hollywood gos
ly libelous stories named in the J Sip columnist and other press
SUlt. t mrmhers havp hppn subDOenaed
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dio reportedly is workinc full
time trv-jprevent more than 100
subpoenaed stars from being
called to the witness stand by
the defense to test as to
.whether stories about them in
Confidential were true.
Both prosecution and defense
attorneys went to Judge Walker
before the trial with a compro-
in a' defense move to show that
newspaper gossip items are sim
ilar to Confidential stories.
CENTRAL POINT
1953 Class Plans Reunion
By DORIS HUGHES
Central Point Plans are un
der way for a class 'reunion of
.the class of 1953: There will be
a meeting at the Crater High
cafetorium, Thursday, at 7:30
p.m. All those interested in help
ing to plan the reunion are asked
to attend.
; Mrs. J. A. Lewis was hYjstess
for a pink and blue shower,
Thursday honoring Mrs. Albert
Lewis. There were nineteen la
dies present.
Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Cowie and
children went to the coast last
week end. They went to Yachats
where they visited friends.
Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Taylor of
Ashland gave a birthday dinner
party Saturday honoring Mrs.
Royal Greenman of Central
Point. Those attending were Mr.
and Mrs. Ralph Greenman and
children. Cherry and Ralph Jr.,
Mrs. Gail DuBoe, Mr. and Mrs.
Royal Greenman, and Mr. and
Mrs, H. L. Taylor.
' Mrs. Lew(U Davies and her
son, Dennis, returned recently
from Portland, where Dennis
was undergoing medical treat
ment. Dennis has been traveling
to Portland for therapy.
Visiting at the home of Mrsj
Mary Herrman is her son and
family, Mr. and Mrs. LeVdre
Herrman, and sons, Russel and
Ricky. They were en route from
Houston Texas to Portland.
.1 U .. ...ill (Unir !
wurie wicjr vui mane uttu
home..
Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Asher are
the parents of a girl born Aug.
l. She has been named Julie Rae.
She is home from the hospital
now and visiting at the home of
her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
Glenn Higinbotham of Central
Point Market rd.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Anders gave
a potluck dinner party Saturday
evening honoring Mrs. Victor
Noel on her birthday. Guests to
the event were Mr. and Mrs. Jim
Anders and son, Craig, Mr. and
Mrs. Harley Dressier, Mrs. Ber
nice McCue and Patricia McCue,
Mrs. E. E. Scott, Mr. and Mrs.
Gordon Mekvold, Mr. and Mrs.
John Pinkham and children, Mr.
and Mrs. Victor Noel and Mr.
and Mrs. Ray Andres.
Thursday evening Mr. and
Mrs. G. F. Brood gave a lawn
dinner party at their home. Party
guests were Mrs. Kyle Kent and
son, Stephen, of Deadwood, S.D.,
Mr. and .Mrs. John Kent and
daughters of Medford, Mr. and
Mrs. A. O. Walker and daughter,
and Mrs. Jerry Sheman and son,
Craig.
Guests at the Charles Hughes
home Sunday were Mr. and Mrs.
P. E. Simmons, Elwin and Terry
Simmons, of Medford, Mrs. Mil
lie Johnson of Central Point,
Mrs. Mollie Phillips of Seattle,
Mrs. Herbert Combs and chil
dren of Talent, and Mr. and Mrs.
A. C. Hooker of Medford.
Recent guests at the G. F.
Brood home were Mrs. Brood's
sister, Mrs. Henry Harvey from
Wood, S. D., her granddaughter,
jMiss Jeanine Gere of . White
River, S. D., Mrs. Brood's sister,
X.Irs. Rosa Travis of Redding,
Calif..' and her granddaughter,
Miss Viki James, of Eugene.
- Mr. and Mrs. Jftmes Clark and
Jamfe recently moved here from
Vibodburn. Clark is a barber. He
has opened a barber shop at Four
Corners.
Paul, Hess and son, Scott, re
turned Monday after camping
overnight at Fish lke.
; Mr. and Mrs. To W. Harvey
and son, Billy, returned Monday
.after camping t Diamond lake
and rish lake.
Mr. and Mrs. Delmar Smith
jpf Crater Clock Museum have
(fnade two trijjj to Bend tately.
Smith was instructing a class at
Skyline Lodgfor the Juvenile
Grange camp. There were about
60 children between 10 and 14
attending the classes.
Indictments Against
Langley Dismissed
Portland lift The dismissal
of three indictments against for
mer Multnomah county District
Attorney William M. Langley
for "technical" reasons was an
nounced Monday by Circuit
JTidge Charles M. Redding.
The dismissal request was
made by John Nichols of the
attorney general's office.
Two of the indictmens were
for malfeasance in office and the
third one was for conspiracy to
hinder and obstruct public jus
tice. Nichols said.
He explained the request for
dismissal of the indictments in
that since Langley already has
been removed from office, the
malfeasance charges no longer
apply, and the third indictment
has been superseded by another
similar indictment.
W. A. VICE
Resident Manager
Manager lor Eugene
Firm Named Here
W. A. (Al) Vice, 527 Barnes
ave., has been appointed resi
dent manager for Interstate
Tractor and Equipment comp
any of Eugene for the Jackson
Josephine county area.
He came to Medford about a
month ago from Portland where
headquarters for the heavy ma
chinery firm is located.
Vice has been with Interstate
since 1943 as general parts man
ager and territory manager with
time out for service as a captain
with the corps of engineers dur
ing the war. He is married and
has four children. '(
The company is" one of the
largest home-owned and home
operated, machinery firms in the
state, employing more than 100
people in its two plants, in Port
land and Eugene, according to
Vice.
Navy Submarines
Crash Off Coast
Of Connecticut
New London, Conn. HP
Two Navy submarines collided
underwater at dawn today in
the Atlantic ocean about 100
miles south of here, but dam
age was minor and there were
no injuries, the Navy reported.
A spokesman at Atlantic Fleet
Submarine headquarters said
USS Tusk and USS Cobbler
were "returning to port under
their own" power."
The Tusk, a New London based
craft and the Cobbler, a unit
of Submarine Squadron 6 out
of Norfolk, Va., collided at 12:30
p.m. (PST) the Navy said.
Engaged in Maneuvers
The two submarines were en
gaged in maneuvers at the time.
Each craft has a crew of 74
men and 8 officers.
The Cobbler, built by the
Electric Boat Division of Gen
eral Dynamics Corp., at nearby
Groton, was commissioned in
August, 1955.
The Tusk was commissioned
at year later and was the last
submarine to be built by the
Cramp Shipbuilding Co., Phila- h
delphia, which turned out sub
marines during World War II.
Japan Pays Respects
To Hiroshima Victims
Hiroshima. Japan W The
Japanese nation, joined by its
royalty and the people of many
countries, appealed for an end
to nuclear weapons today on the
12th anniversary of . the atom
bombing of Hiroshima.
Prince Mikasa, brother of Em
peror Hirohito, and Princess Mi
kasa, led 20,000 Japanese at Hir
oshima in paying respects to the
memory of those who died in the
world's first atom-bomb.
In Tokyo, 200 foreign and Jap
anese delegates opened an inter
national conference dedicated to
seeing that there would be "no
more Hiroshimas."
Public School Office
In Ashland Moved .
' Ashland The central office
of the AshlaPd public schools
has been moved to the building
east of the junior high school.
Superintendent Howard Baldef
stone has announced. V
The building was formerly
used for shop classes.
Teachers of the Ashland sys
tem wil meet Tuesday, Sept. 3?
to begin an "in-service" pro
gram of orientation, discussion
of school policies, review of ma
terials from the state depart
ment of education and organiza
tion for the coming year.
Schools will register first
grade pupils Wednesday eve
ning, Sept. 4, and all other stu
dents will be registered before
Sent 5. Dr. Balderstone said.
f)ne-half day of school will be
held Sept. 6, and classes begin
Sept. 9.- , - . ...-
Accident Results
In Minor Injuries
Tom and John Papageorge,
both of Camas, Wash., received
minor injuries in an accident in
volving a tanker truck on High
way 99 between Medford and
Ashland Monday, state ' police
reported.
State police said a sedan
driven by John Tom Papageorge,
23, was slightly damaged when
it turned sharply to avoid col
liding with the tanker driven by
Elbert W. Marberry, 47, Port
land, and a car owned by Tom
George Papageorge, 20, which
was being towed by the sedan,
was thrown into the back of the
tanker. ,
All three vehicles sustained
minor damage, police said.
The two men were treated
and released Monday.
There's a reason the skunk re
lies entirely on his two large
glands sometimes called "smell
guns" as his chief armament
of defense against man and na
tural predators. The skunk isn't
quick or strong enough to defend
himself any other way.
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Chamber Progress Is
Reviewed at Luncheon
A $50,000 annual budget and
an increase of 250 members are
aims of the Jackson County
Chamber of Commerce, a cham
ber roundtable luncheon group
was told yesterday.
Dwight Houghton, assistant
manager of United States Na
tional bank and chairman of
the chamber finance division,
was the speaker at the Jackson
hotel meeting.
He discussed Medford's last
20 years' and its future.
Houghton said the chamber
operated on a $5,000 to $7,500
budget in the late- 1930's. The
budget goal for 1960 is $50,000.
Put Town on Feet
Camp White, when it was in
stalled, gave Medford a "trans
fusion," Houghton stated. "It put
this town on its feet." And, he
added, business did not decline
as expected when the camp was
taken out.
Bank deposits today are about
20-'times what they , were that
many years ago, Houghton said.
The chamber is operating on a
$30,000 annual budget today,
and no longer finds it necessary
to "pass the hat."
Reviewing - Chamber activi
ties, Houghton said the organ
ization has purchased 68,000
folders, pamphlets and like ma
terial to advertise the area; has
paid for economic research and
development in connection with
a new hospital and the chip sup
ply and pulp manufacturing
situation, and has secured a
study of water uses in the Rogue
river basin, now being made by
the Oregon State Water. Re
sources board.
Chamber committees have
pressed for an equitable tax pro
gram and a new route to Klam
ath . Falls, secured an industrial
water supply for the Mason Ehr
man industrial site, promoted a
new armory, and made strides
toward off street parking. .
To "build a better business
climate" in the community, the
chamber intends to attract wood
waste using industry, expand
wholesale warehousing, work to
ward an equitable tax plan to
bring industry and hold invest
ment capital here, promote rapid
skip-stop air service to Portland,
create greater diversity of indus
try and jobs, secure county zon
ing, acquire more tourist dollars
and double Medford's conven
tion business, and bring more
income from use of water re
sources. In accomplishing these aims,
Houghton said, the chamber
needs tools: "the brains of man,
and his money."
A membership drive is under
way through which the organiza
tion hopes to add 250 to its
present 660 membership. A re
cent study revealed that approxi
mately 900 businesses or busi
nessmen in the area are not
chamber members.
George Buried
In Native Soil
Vienna, Ga. OPl Former
Sen. Walter F. George, his
statemanship in foreign affairs
praised by the nation's leaders,
was buried in Georgia clay late
Monday with this tribute by his
minister:
"He hath showed thee, O man
what is good and what doth the
Lord require of thee, but to do
justly, and to love mercy and
to walk humbly with thy God?"
The Rev. L. C. Cutts quoted
this passage from Micah VI, 8,
in his 45-minute' service for
George in Ihe First Baptist
church packed with dignitaries
from Washington and the Geor
gia Democrat's local friends.
Hundreds 6f persons heard the
service over loudspeakers out
side. George died Sunday follow
in? a six-week illness from heart
disease. He had been appointed
President Eisenhower's personal
envoy to NATO on retiring last
January after 34 years in the
Senate.
Fire Mopped Up; Another Erupts
Pendleton OP) John Ku
icera, fire control officer for
the Umatilla national forests,
said late Monday he had good
news for one section of the
area and bad news for the oth
er. The majority of crews in the
Pomeroy district fire, about 45
miles northeast of here, were
pulled out Monday night as 22
firefighters were left behind to
mop up the remainder of a burn
ed out fire that scorched about
160 acres.
But, he added, the fire danger
in eastern Oregon was increas
ed as reports of a fire were re
ceived near Grand Ronde river
at Elder Creek, about 20 miles
south of Elgin, Ore. - A fire there
was being fought by forest ran
gers and loggers from Tollgate,
Ore., and by smoke, jumpers of
Winthrop, Wash.
An immediate estimate of the
number of acres being burned
by the new fire was not avail
able. ,
The U. S. maintains military
and naval bases in the Philip
pines under the terms of a 90
year agreement. In the interests
of international security the
bases are available to the U. N.
New Mexico, the nation's 4th
largest state, has an area of
121,666 square miles. Of this,
more than 13,000 square miles
are forest lands. Indian reserva
tion account for more than 8,000
square miles.
Actor Pleads Innocent
To Drunken Driving
Maliba, Calif. HP) Actor
Allen Jenkins 57, Monday plead
ed innocent to a drunk driving
charge in Malibu Justice Court
and was ordered to appear for
trial Sept. 5. -
Jenkins was arrested Satur
day after his truck hit a car in
this' movie resort colony. Jen
kins remained free on $263 bail.
Boulder, Colo., owns a glacier
from which it gets it own water
supply.
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