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Wednesday. August 28, 1957
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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.
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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.
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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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