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e TEW MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday. August 28, 1957 . I r,'';,''," r "- 44U STUCK Carl Melanese, 3, of San Diego, tears streaming from his eyes, waits for the hacksaw removal of an old wagon wheel hub from his neck. Carl, who managed to slide the hub over his head but couldn't get it off, offers a kiss of gratitude to fire CapL Wallace Eiter (right) who freed the youth from his trap. Defense Attempts to Prove Only Truth in Magazine Libel Trial Hollywood lfl Defense at torney Arthur J. Crowley today resumes his efforts to establish that Confidential magazine authenticated its spicy yarns and rejected "vicious" stories about such big names as Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and Marilyn Monroe. " The defense strategy in the Confidential criminal libel trial Tuesday was directed at at tempting to show the so-called scandal magazine printed only the truth and rejected false hoods. The" key defense witness was- New York attorney Albert De Stefano. De Stefano was expected to end his testimony in today's ses sion. He is a member of the New York law firm of Becker, Ross and Stone, which was hired to check potential Confidential stories for libel and obscenity. Attorney Testifies The attorney testified that an article submitted about Mrs. Roosevelt, widow of the late president, was turned down on the advice of his firm because it was " a vicious story that went several years." He said former Confidential Editor Howard Rushmore carried on a running battle" with him in an attempt to get the story printed. Rushmore appeared earlier in the tiral as a prosecution wit ness. He testified that he quit Confidential when the maga zine "began specializing in pornography." ' De Stefano said he had many arguments with Rushmore over changes in stories. "We also argued about a story dealing with Marilyn Monroe and a photographer named Sam Shaw," De Stefano said. "I re jected it because it was written on hearsay." Launches Battle Crowley, prior to calling De Stefano to the stand, launched an all out battle against prose cution testimony that Mrs. Mar jorie Meade, co-operator with her husband of Confidential's movieland listening post, tried to "blackmail" film producer Paul Gregory. Gregory testified earlier in the trial that Mrs. Meade demanded between $750 and $1,000 to keep a story about him out of Confidential. The defense called four sur prise witnesses in an effort to impeach the producer's testi mony. The angered Crowley made it clear he was out to ob t a i n a perjury indictment against Gregory. Sisters Give Birth In Alaska, Same Day Two sisters who formerly liv ed in Medford recently gave birth to daughters on the same day in an Anchorage, Alaska, hospital. Mrs. Griffith Quinton, the former Laurice May Peters, and Mrs. Tom Torkelson, for merly Shirley Helen Peters, both had daughters August 5. Cynthia Laurie Torkelson was born at 8:22 a.m. in Providence hospital, Anchorage, and weigh ed 7 pounds, 8 Vt ounces; her almost twin cousin, Jodie Linn Quinton was born three hours and IS minutes later and weigh ed 7 pounds, 5 ounces. It was the third child for the Quintons and the second for the Torkelsons. The two women are daughters of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Yates, who returned to Medford from jchorage this summer, and granddaughters of Mrs. Ada Klassen, 719 West 10th st. Oth er relatives living in the valley are Mrs. W. V. Martin, 1114 West 11th St., and John Klassen, Phoenix. Negotiations Continue To Avert Phone Strike New York TO Negotiations reached the last-ditch stage to day in efforts to avert a strike by 23,000 telephone equipment installers in most of the nation. More than 30 installers walked off their jobs Tuesday in Rawsonville, Ann Arbor and Detroit, Michigan Bell Tele phone company said. Joseph Dunne, spokesman for the Communications Workers of America, said the union will be "pretty close to a strike" against Western Electric com pany if no significant progress is made today. "We just can't stand at a dead-locked position," he said. The old contract expired at midnight Sunday. The union has demanded a 58-cent-an-hour package increase and the com pany has offered a four- to nine cent raise. Open School Doors In Talent District Talent grade school opens at 8:40 a.m. Sept. 9, according to Francis E. Farthing, Talent ele mentary school principal. School buses will run on the same schedule as last year. A full day s session will be held Sept. 9 for second through eighth grades. Hot lunches will be served in the cafeteria. First grade pupils' parents are asked to accompany their children the first day, Farthing said. First graders will be dis missed after they register. Both birth and medical examination certificates must be- presented upon enrollment. According to Oregon school law,' children who have reached their sixth birthday by Nov. 15 are eligible to enter school. Oth ers must be tested to determine their readiness for starting school, Farthing added. Further information may be obtained by calling the Talent elementary school, KE 5-1372. Car Runs Over Boy Twice; Not Injured Pryor, Mont. (IP) Sealmer Red Star, eight-year-old Crow In dian, showed no ill effects after being run over twice by the same car in one day. Red Star hitched his sled be hind a car driven by Fred Bird Hat, also a Crow. Bird Hat, who did not know the boy had hitched on, stopped and backed up. The boy slid off the sled and a rear wheel passed over his body. Several persons witnessed the accident and began shouting at Red Hat. He thought he was go ing to back into something so he pulled forward and again the wheel passed over the boy. Red Star was rushed to the hospital. Although shaken, he was proclaimed in sound condi tion. In 1772, citizens of Baltimore forced the captain of the Peggy Stuart to burn his boat and its cargo of tea as a protest against the tea tax. II APPUAMCES Last 3 Days of Sale! Refrigerator Refrigerator . Range-Admiral Range-Gibson Oven Was $299.95 Was $549.95 Was $389.95 Was $269.95 Was' $399.95 Range Monaroii 2 Range-Monarch Clothes Dryer Used Deluxe, , TemperatorM Clothes Dryer Was $299.95 New Range-Apt. Size, Like Hew Small Appliances -Was $259.95 Now $19995 Now 39995 Now 24995 Now 17995 Now 22500 Now 19995 How 9950 Now 18995 Now '8995 l2 Price! Judge Refuses to Issue Injunction 1 Hillsboro (W Circuit Judge J. S. Bohannon Tuesday refused to issue an injunction banning use of Bernard's airport near Beaverton. . Citizens living in the vicinity of the Held had sought the in junction against the field on the grounds of excessive noise and the danger of crashes. Judge Bohannon denied the petition, observing that vehicu lar traffic on nearby county roads made more noise than many of the planes and he also commented that there had been only one crash on . complainant property in the 30 years the field has been in operation. The judge did require, how ever, that excessively noisy planes, such as one cropduster, cease using the field for ascent or descent to the north. RECORD RUN The "Roaring Raindrop," experimental MG EX-181 racing car driven by Stirling Moss, flashes across the Salt Flats at Bonneville, Utah, during one of its international class F speed record runs. The best mark set by the famous British driver was 245.64 mph in the flying one kilometer, 41-.34 mph better than the old mark. PHOENIX f Woman To Run Laundromat Parolee Brought Back Following Charges Arthur Vern Maxwell, 22, Sac ramento, is jn the county jail after being brought from, Sac ramento by county sheriff How ard Gault last week. Maxwell is charged with vio lating probation. He was ar rested in Sacramento and held for local authorities when he al legedly violated the terms of "a two-year suspended sentence is sued in Jackson county circuit court in October of 1955. He was sentenced then for burglary not in a dwelling, officers said. .Marine 220 WEST MAIN PHONE SP 2-4922 it Three Names Used In Referring to Flu Virus Are Accepted Washington (IF) Is it Ori ental flu, Asiatic flu or Asian flu? All three names have been used since the new virus was discovered in Hong Kong last April. There is no "official" name, 'but the U. S. Public Health Service has recently settled on the term "Asian flu." This usage is now rapidly becom ing standard in medical and scientific papers. But "Asiatic flu" is all right, too. Many of the Public Health Service doctors use it in conversation. For the scientifically-mind- fed, the really correct name is "A-Hong Kong 1-57" mean ing it is a train of . the A prime type of influenza and was first noted in Hong Kong this year. AT LEAST HE TRIED Garfield, N. J. IW George Earles, 41, tried too hard to be helpful Tuesday. He grabbed a burning bedcover from a neigh bor's apartment, put it in his car and drove to a fire house where the blaze was put out. Police later arrested Earles on a drunken driving charge. By LILLIAN KNIGHT Phoenix Mr. and Mrs. James Teets and their three boys, of Hilsinger rd., are moving to Central Point, where Mrs. Teets is taking over the Laundramat at 49 Second st., formerly oper ated by Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Ekdahl. The Teets are retaining their home here, haying resided here since 1951, and will rent it. The boys will enter Central Point school this term, the older one being a student at Crater, the, middle in . junior high, and the youngest one will enter school for his first term Teets is in Seattle now going to a Union Oil company school and will be at the Union 76 sta tion across from the domiciliary at ' White City after completing the course. Mrs. Grace Workman and son Charles and her daughter,. Mrs Theodore Hickman, of Klamath Falls, recently returned home after going to Bremerton, Wash. to visit J. C. Sweet. They went by the coast highway and came back by way of Rainier park and report that they encountered cold and foggy weather most of the trip and that at the top of the park they ran into a snow storm. Mrs. Grace Workman is the new representative in this com munity for the Avon Cosmetic products. Mrs. Albert Weyer is able to be up and around after having a heart attack Aug. 16. Mrs. Glen Yorton went to Se attle last week for an extended visit with her mother. The packing house finished packing Bartlett pears last week and are now on the DeAnjous with a full crew working. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Germer and family returned Friday after San Francisco, at Lake Tahoe, Mt. Lassen national park, and in Reno, Nevada. - WARNED TO 'CLAM UP Mrs. Gertrude Arnold (above), ex-wife of the late boxer Chalky Wright, claims' she received an anonymous telephone call warning her to "clam up" after she was subpoenaed as a witness in the criminal libel trial of Confidential magazine in Los Angeles. Wright was a scheduled witness in con nection with a Confidential story about Mae West. Lieutenant Mrs Gary Denzer and daughter, Patricia Jean, ar rived by boat from the island of Guam Aug. 10 and were met by Mr. and Mrs. Bert Stancliffe. Since then they have been fisit ing relatives and friends in the valley. They went to Crater lake and Klamath Falls with is father and family, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Denzer. On Aug. 18 a family reunion of the Stancliffe and Denzer f am ilies was held in Lithiu park in Ashland. The occasion also was to celebrate the birthdays of five members of ' the families whose birthdays, were this month. Present were Mr. and Mrs, Ray Stringer and daugher Sally, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Stringer and two children, Jeri Lee and Darrell, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Stan cliffe, Lt. and Mrs. Gary Denzer and Patricia Jean, Mrs. Barbara Isaacs and four children, Steven, Sharon, Linda, and Robert, Mrs. Beverely Reynolds and children, Donna Jean and Terry, and Mrs. Minnie Detrick and daughter Mae Delores. ; Lt. Denzer took his wife and daughter to San Francisco yes terday morning -where she will board a' train for West Palm Beach, Fla., to visit ttu mother, Mrs. Vera Muller, for. a couple of weeks. Lt. Denzer will return to continue his visit here and then will report , to Hill Field in Ogden, Utah, where he will be stationed. Mrs. Denzer .and daughter will join him therS Recent overnight guests at the Bert Stancliffe home were Mr. and Mrs. Bert Hoidal and chil dren of Nez Perce, Idaho, who were on their way to a vacation in California and Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Smith and two children of El Sobrante, Calif., who were on their way home from their vacation in Idaho. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Furry returned Thursday from their vacation spent visiting at Jack son Hole, Wyo., Yellowstone na tional park, Salt Lake City, Reno, Nev., and points of inter est in Idaho. . Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Sloan and family, of Menlo Park, Calif., left Friday after visiting for several days with Sloan's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Delno Sloan. Other recent guests at the Sloan home were the Sloan's other son and family, Mr. and Mrs. Weldon Sloan of Wilson ville, Ore., Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Critchfow and two daughters of Bremerton, and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Critchlow of Los Angeles. They also visited Mr. and Mrs. Roy Clark. Mrs. Sloan, Jerry and Bill Critchlow. are sisterJ and brothers. Mr6. Bob Huffman and three children came by plane from Fairbanks, Alaska, for an ex tended visit with Mr. and Mrs. Salem Company Low On Water Main Bid ' Portland HP) Salem Sand and Gravel Co., on a base bid of S97,240 with an alternate of S105.700, was apparent low bid der on three miles of the Ore gon City-West Linn water main on the Clackamas river near Portland General Electric Com pany's $17,900,000 North Fork hydroelectric project. Husband Leaves Wifa On Her Suggestion North Platte, Neb. m A woman told police here that she and her husband had an argu ment while traveling and she had informed him he could just take her bags out of the cat and go on without her. He did just that. The woman asked police to help her find her husband. Delno Sloan and Mr. and Mrs. ! Roy Clark and. her father in : Rogue River. I Mr. and Mrs. Robert Furry went to Huckleberry lake last weekend and report the berries almost gone there. 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