Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, August 16, 1957, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextV o EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) City Council Rezones Land on Crater Lake Ave. After Hearing A strip of land 200 feet deep along the east side of Crater Lake ave. was rezoned from "single family" to "limited com mercial" by the city council after public hearing last nigh The strip extends from 150 feet north of Stevens st. to Buck shot Hill rd. After (Jwo other public hear ings, the council approved pav ing an alley in the Willeke addi tion, and contuiued a hearing on a sanitary sewer for Woodlawn dr. The council did choose a method of assessment to pay for the sewer. Property owners will pay on a one-half square foot plus one half connection charge basis. . Exchange of Land The exchange of city land on,insurance from West coast Life Alabama Negroes Fear KKK Attacks Maplesville, Ala. (- Ne groes of this small town lived in terror today because of floggings here and 100 miles to the south by bands of robed and hooded Ku Klux Klansmen. A Klan attack on four negroes including two ministers eight days ago near the Florida line came to light while Maplesville authorities made a seemingly fu tile investigation of a flogging of six Negro men. Mayor Henry Clary Nix said three Negro families have fled and there are indications that others are preparing to leave in fear of a return visit by a horde of Klansmen who staged dem onstrations last Friday night. Other Negro families are living behind locked doors, he said. Sheriff James M. Brock of Conecuh countjPmeanwhile dis closed details of the attack the previous night upon the Negro motorisft who stumbled upon a Klan highway rendezvous spot. The Rev. Clifford Sheppard. a Baptist minister, gdd he, anoth er Negro preacher and a Negro man and wife were chased down and beaten after they stopped at what they believed was an acci dent sgp-ie to offer help. Four Men Escape As Boat Capfizes Taft, Ore. (IP) Four Port land, Ore., men escaped serious injury O Thursday when their fishing boat capsized aSout 100 yards from the mouth of the Siletz river. All four of the men were wearing life jaets and cone was seriously injured. The four men had been, fish ing in the morning and were returnifg shortly before noon when the boat was caught in some rough water and capsized. They wtfte identifield as Charles Krolft, 40; Dave Lans- bery. 31; William Denlield, t3,and Cecil and Betty stirewait. and his son f red Denfield, 35. The men jwere in the water about 20 rrllnues before Ricky McKinney og Taft. an employee of the Russ Baily Boat Moorage at Taft, pu jed them from the water. i SAVE! 4 Labor Day Seat Cover Beautiful Howard Zink seat covers keep your car neat and sleek, yet require so little care. Mostly, it's WHISK with a damp cloth, and they're like new again. Come see 'em at these special pay check stretching prices! Fiber Seat Covers Specially Priced at INSTALLED BETTER FIBER SEAT COVERS $14.95 PLASTIC Seat Govers Beautifully Styled Reg. $22.50 NOW $1895 Burks S&H Green Stamps for MAIL TRIBUNE the north side of Barneburg hill for land at the crest of the hill was approved by the council, as requested by the city water commission. City land involved is a 130 by 180 foot tract fronting on Black Oak dr. and Neito Way. It will be conveyed to Mont Crest De velopment company in exchange for a 90 by 150 foot section at the top of the hill. The water commission ex plained that crest land was need ed for construction of a stand pipe to provide water service to Barneburg hill. The city manager was author ized to negotiate a city em ployees' insurance plan. Included are group term me Insurance company; basic serv- ice medical insurance irom Rogue Valley Physicians serv ice; and major medical insur ance from Equitable Life Insur ance company. Final contracts are subject to council appruvai. Employees Preference Duff said a poll of city em ployees indicated preference for the three types of insurance ap proved. Companies chosen sub mitted lowest rates. The council adopted plans and specifications developed by the engineering department for pav ing Juanipero Way from Murphy rd. to Mira Mar. Stop signs both ways on Eighth st. at the Holly st. intersection were approved. Five companies received the right to bid on the city's storm sewer project, by council ap pral of prequalification state ments. They are F. L. Somers, M. C. Lininger and Sons, and W. ft. Conrad Inc. all of Med ford; Coast Construction and Ex cavating company, Eugene; and Salem Sand and Gravel com pany, Salem. Loading Zone Approved A 75-foot loading zone on Fir st., north of Fourth St., was ap proved. A loading dock now on the sidewalk will be removed by the owners, Duff said. The council acepted the, offer of Jackson County Housing au thority to dedicate Columbus ave. from Jackson st. to Mc .indrews rd. for street purposes. The street will be part of Med ford's arterial street program. At Duffs suggestion, the coun cil authorized installation of a sprinkling system at the fair grounds park, at a cost not to exceed $1,500. The park is spon sored by the Kiwanis club and the coujnty. Dispensers Licenses A class A dispensers license was approved for The Hi-Way, 12 North Riverside ave., owned by Merrill E. and Cora E. Ostef houdt, and James H. and Nora A. Saulsbury. Council approval was given a request for class B dispensers li cense for the Timber Room, 3 South Riverside ave., owned by Gaylen H. and Alice D. Shaw, Councilman James Dunlevy asked that speed control signs be installed on Barnett rd. from Crestbrook rd. to Murphy rd. Duff said he would request the state speed control board to es tablish speeds for the section. Cause for Celebration! New miracle fabrics, .modern decorator colors. Old cars brigh ten up, new cars stay nice in side with factory - fresh seat covers. Special prices now to Labor Day! ALL Car Cushions 10c 0 off a? your seat cover needs 314 E. Main IB50 Friday, August 18, 1957 Rocket Withstands Friction in Diving Into Atmosphere Washington HP) The Army has scored an important techno logical triumph in its race to beat Russia to the punch in per fecting long and intermediate range ballistic missiles, it was learned. Informed sources said Thurs day night an Army rocket fired several hundred miles high withstood tremendous friction and did not disintegrate in strik ing back into the earth's atmos phere. It was reported that the nose cone of the three-stage rocket, which sped a distance of 1,200 miles, plunged into the Atlantic ocean a mere 400 yards from its target. This performance was describ ed as "phenomenal" for such weapons, which can carry atomic warheads. Third Stage Recovered The third stage of the rocket, which one source reported trav elled at a speed of 15,000 miles an hour, was recovered. Previous reported speeds for test rockets were 9.000 to 12,000 miles an hour. Reentry of a high speed rocket into the atmosphere without dis integrating has been one of the most perplexing problems fac ing scientists. The temperature at which the nose cone reentered the atmos phere could have been as much as 20,000 degrees, one source said. What the material was th?t can withstand that kind of heat was not revealed. The Army refused to comment on the rocket, fifth in a test series fired at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla. !s That So? Much of the pleasure an out doorsman gets is how his words got their meanings words such as blizzard, earthquake, hippopotamus,' mercury, and porcupine. Even though btizzara seems such an appropriate word it is a new word as words go. A hundred years ago it was sel dom used and it did not become widespread until great-grandfather's days, in the 1880s. There were several cold, hard winters in the '80s, and the New York Nation said: "The hard weather has called into use a word which promises to become a national .Americanism, namely 'blizzard.' It designates a storm of snow and wind which men cannot resist away from shel ter." Quite likely the word is relat ed to the German 'blitz," mean ing lightning. As for earthquake, when we are sick with chills and fever, we shake. When the rock inside the earth slides into a different : position, the ground shakes and there is an earthquake. Tlje old English word for quake was Cwacian; quite similar to the Danish Kvakle, to German quackeln, and to Dutch kwak ken. Thank goodness, it didn't become earth-kwakklelen! Usually an earthquake is caus ed by the perfectly normal shifting of layers of rock along what is called a fault a break in the rock. Thousands of earth quakes occur each year but us ually in uninhabitated places where little damage results. . In the early days, the hippop tamus was thought to be a horse so the Greeks named him 'riv er horse' from hippos, meaning horse, and potamos, meaning river. The Romans changed the third o to u and made it hippopo tamus. We use this Latin word now although in earlier times I it was called in the English lang i uage hippotame, ipotayne, ypot- ayne. Same Names Mercury and quicksilver are the same names for a quick moving metal once it is drop ped. Mercury was a Roman god who wore a winged cap and sandals and was fast as quick silver in delivering his messages. Because of this the Romans gave his name to a metal which they also called argentum vivum, (liv ing silver. When spilled it does seem to have a life of its own one cannot pick it up with the fingers). In translating ar gentum vivum into Anglo-Sax on it was called cwicseolfor. In modern English this is quick silver. Porcupines when left alone are harmless and will not at tack but in self-defense they will strike with their tails and that can be painful because the loosely-attached spines may pen etrate one s skin. When disturbed, the porcupiiv makes his long, sharp needles Producer Tells of 'Blackmail' Attempt by Hollywood (W A Hollywood producer testified today he was "blackmailed" by agents of Con fidential magazine who demand ed $1,000 to prevent publication of spicy stories about a wild filmland party attended by Rob ert Mitchum, Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester. The witness for the prosecu tion in the criminal libel trial of Confidential and Whisper magazines was producer-director Psul Gregory, of the stage-readings "John Brown's Body" and "Don Juan in Hell." 'Variable Annuity' May Peg Pensions To Dollar Buying Power Washington OP) Retirement conscious Americans soon may be able to peg their pensions to the buying power of the dollar. The plan is called the "varia ble annuity." Its merits have split the conservative insurance industry wide open. Under the plan the payment received each month by the pen sioner would reflect the ups and downs of the economy,, hence the "variable" title. Supporters of the plan are in viting those interested in retire ment to hitch their wagons tort the rising economy, and at the same time cushion themselves against boom-born inflation. The variable annuity works like this: A person desiring to set up a retirement plan through regu lar monthly payments would put part of his payment into a straight annuity. This would give him a partly fixed income By EUSENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist stand on end which gives him bushy look, as plump as a hog. The nanrie actually means spine hog"; in Middle English it was porkepyn, and earlier pork despyne; from Old French pore espin which in turn came from the Latin, porcus meaning pig; and spina, a spine or thorn. (Copyright, 1957, by Eugene Burns) (Released by McClure Newspaper Cyndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will, award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, or the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife, a complete 30-vol-ume set of this world-famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week new submissions will be con sidered. Sorry, I - simply can't answer your many friendly let ters. Please address your letter to: Is That So! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausa- lito, Calif. Georgia Youth Wins Tee-Age Driver Laurels Washington HP) Charles Earl Hopkins, 19, an Atlanta, Ga., youth picked as the top teen-age driver in the nation, today ex plained his formula for safety on the road: Courtesy and no hot rodding. The blond, crew-cut youngster admitted, however, he may have been a little lax in always fol lowing his own advice. He con ceded he has had "a lot of traffic tickets." Committee Approves Columbia Dredging Washington (IP) The Sen ate Appropriations Committee Thursday night approved an al location of $475,000 for dredging the Columbia river shipping channel from Vancouver to The Dalles to a depth of 27 feet. Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D Ore.) said he was notified of the Committee's approval of the funds following his apeparance to urge restoration of the item which was deleted last week by a conference committe from the regular appropriation bill. Virginia Shipyard To Build Atomic Carrier Washington (IP) The Navy today assigned construction of its first atomic-powered aircraft carrier, an 8D,uuu-ion giani, to Newport News, Va., Shipbuild ing and Drydock Co. The Navy said that the ship, to be the largest ever built, was awarded to Newport News with out bids but the award is "sub ject to acceptable contract nego tiations." Buy At Builders Supply Bricks, Flues, Drain Tile 727 W. McAndrews Ph SP2-4K" Mfhsl QUALITY WlWA BLOCKS Confidential Agent He told the court that a wom an he identified as Mrs. Mar jorie Meade, one of the West Coast agents for Confidential, met with him in. 1955 and told him he could "buy off' the con tract of the writer of the article and it would not be published. Gregory said she told him the article would be "scandalously injurious" to Gregory and his associates. He told her, he testi fied, that "This was character assassination and blackmail and I intend to report it to the proper authorities." He testified she re- on retirement. The rest of his payment, some companies recommend one-half, goes into a mutual investment fund that buys blue chip com mon stocks. The result would be retire ment payments made up in part oi a fixed return from the straight annuity, plus a varying return from the mutual fund based on how the economy is doing. Brokers and other securities dealers resent the invasion into the mutual fund field they long have promoted. Many insurance firms feel they have no business in it and warn that the "varia ble" part of the annuity could sink to almost nothing in a de pression. Behind the controversy are two facts: Insurance companies are con cerned about dwindling returns on their investments, largely be cause they are sharply restricted by law from participating more fully in the booming market. There also is a potent tax angle. Each dollar paid in for a fixed income annuity is a dol lar earned by the insurance com panies and is taxed that way. But a firm selling variable an nuities would only be taxed on that portion of the pay-in that went toward a fixed income. Since it is investing the rest for the annuity holder, it would not be taxed on it. Multnomah Grand Jury Criticizes Portland Jail Portland (IP) The Multno mah county grand jury Thurs day criticized the, city jail and complimented the county jail in its final report after a three- month summer session. ! City jail facilities were said to be "grossly inadequate and overcrawded." The county jail at Rocky Butte was described as one of the best kept facil ities of its type." HARVEST CATASTROPHIC Vienna (IP) The Czechoslo vakia Agriculture Ministry today described the Communist coun try's harvest situation as "cata strophic." Radio Prague saicl col lective farms throughout the country are far behind in their harvest work. Night shifts will be formed and volunteer work ers will be brought to the farms to assist, the broadcast said. JOHN DEERE CRAWLER TRACTOR for More Work Lower Cost Per Moor Compact, powerful, and low in first cost, the "420" Crawler is built to deliver years of dependable service at very low cost per hour. Rugged, easy-to-start, valve-in-head engine; fewer parts to wear, easily serviced, very low fuel consumption; puts about 25 horsepower on the drawbar. Smooth, fast-working, versatile hydraulic system. Provision for standard power take off (560 rpm) and high-speed drive (1850 rpm). Your choice of 4- or 5-roller frame, with track shoes to fit your needs. Matched working equipment available for practically all jobs. SEE OR PHONE US FOR FURTHER DETAILS: HUBBARD-V.RAY CO., Inc. MEDFORD plied that it was "not black mail but that 'she was merely trying to prevent publication of an article injurious to me'." Mitchum in the Nude Gregory said no further con tracts were made and he did not see her again until he an swered the prosecution subpoena today and recognized Mrs. Meade as one of the defendants in the case. Confidential subsequently pub lished an article titled "Robert Mitchum The Nude Who Came to Dinner," an article about a scandalous Hollywood party which claimed Mitchum cavort ed in the all-together. Gregory was one of two "bombshell" witnesses in court today to refute or substantiate the truth of articles in the two scandal-mongering magazines. - Gregory said later out of court that the article Confidential printed on Mitchum was not the I same as the one he referred to in testimony on the stand today. He said he did not know wheth er Confidential ever printed the story about Laughton, Mitchum and Miss Lanchester, who is Laughton's wife. Under cross-examination by defense counsel Arthur Crowley, Gregory said Mrs. Meade "did not ask for money." 'She told me about the writ er's commitment and that if that were paid she was sure the article would go by the way side," Gregory testified. Usher To Testify On tap for the defense was the usher at Grauman's Chinese ineaier wno reportedly saw Maureen O'Hara romancing a boy friend in a theater seat. The defense was ready to fol low the end of the prosecution case today by putting on James Craig, an Irish national and part- time bit. player in the movies. Craig was an usher at Grauman's Chinese Theater when Miss O'Hara, according to a story in Confidential, held a spooning session in row 35 that was "so hot it bothered the air condi tioning." Craig purportedly was the man who shined the flashlight on Miss O'Hara and her Latin lover, and then wrote it all down for Confidential. The defense is seeking to prove the magazine .printed the truth about the alleged sexual activi ties of filmland's stars, Gregory said as he came into court: "I am going to testify that nothing in the Confidential story about Robert Mitchum is true. Mitchum sued Confiden tial for one million dollars over the article Portland Man Held Following Wife's Death Portland (IP) Jack A. Johnson, 32, today was arrested and held on an open charge fol lowing the death of -his wife, Geraldine Johnson, 20. Deputy Coroner Ross Wood ward said the woman died after a fight at the Johnson home. Woodward said Johnson admitt ed that he and his wife had fought Thursday night. The bed room and hall of their home was spattered with blood. Johnson and neighbors sum moned a doctor early today but the woman was dead by the time the physician arrived. GRANTS PASS Johnny Deo Accused Of Failure To File Income Tax Return New York HP! Income tax evasion charges, the downfall of many a top mobster, today add ed to the woes of racketeer John (Johnny Dio) Dioguardi, self styled labor "consultant" whose empire began to totter with the acid blinding of labor columnist Victor Riesel. Filing of the tax charges Thursday came on the heels of Dio's recent conviction for sell ing labor peace. And it followed by a week the 43-year-old racketeer's appearance before the Senate Labor Rackets Com mittee, during which he in voked the Fifth Amendment 141 times in reply to questions about Peddicord Accuses Wife of Bombing . Portland (IPl William Peddicord, the blind man con victed of bombing the Meier & Frank department store here, Thursday accused his wife of the crime by contesting her divorce suit against him. Peddicord, who is serving a 20-year prison term for the bombing, answered his wife's di vorce action with a statement saying "the plaintiff well knows she is guilty of the charge for the defendent is incarcerated. He asked dismissal of the suit and petitioned the court to deny his wife custody of their five children. Previously, Mrs. Peddicord had attempted twice to confess the bombing but on both oceas ions police had discounted the confessions and Peddicord had insisted that he and his wife's younger sister were solely re sponsible. SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME Chicago (IPl The University of Illinois Business Review re ported today that a move is be ing made to brighten up the barnyard. The Review said an agricultural station has devel oped a new and more efficient plastic silo shaped like a wed ding cake. takes it wmm skill! It's one thing to produce a fine whiskey when price is no object... but to produce a whiskey that's smooth as Kessler at the price of Kessler that takes a skill born of generations of experience. The Smooth as Silk whiskey JOUUS KESSIEJ CO . UWRPICEBWG. IttO. BLENDED WHISKEY. 86 PROOF 727, 6BIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS. his labor activities. Accused as Mastermind Dio broke into the headlines a year ago in the Riesel case. The government accused Dio of be ing the mastermind behind the acid-blinding of the crusading columnist. Subsequently, how-, ever, his trial was postponed when two convicted henchmen refused to testify as prosecution witnesses in fear of reprisals. Then last month Dio was con victed of conspiring to extort $30,000 from two partners in an electroplating firm. He is now in jail awaiting sentencing on the charge, for which he could receive two years in prison and a $1,000 fine. In addition, Dio faces trial this fall for allegedfy shaking down two firms for $11,500 in his posi tion as a labor "consultant." If convicted as a second felony of fender, he could be sent to prison for 30 years. In 1937, Dio was sentenced to a 3 to 5 year term in Sing Sing prison for the same crime. Failure To Report Otherwise, however, Dio, aside from a 60-day jail term for failing to file a state income tax return, has managed to steer clear of the law. In the indictment opened Thursday, Dio is charged with failing to report at least $63,333 in income taxes in 1950, 1951 and 1952, and evading $20,168 in taxes for those three years. If convicted on the income tax evasion charges, Dio could re ceive up to 20 years in prison and a $40,000 fine. Multnomah County GOP Chairman Resigns Portland (IP) Francis I. ISmith Thursday resigned as chairman of the Multnomah county Republican Central com mittee. The resignation is ef fective the last week ,in Sep tember. He said his resignation was dictated by press of private business. Only announced can didate for the Dost so far is I Larry Landgraver, Portland at torney. 's Qt. 3! 1 '2'?,. . A $ i00 wmr...