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FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Meeting May Start Another Round in o Dr. Sheppard Case Columbus, Ohio to A meet- ing later this week between four defense attorneys of Dr. Sam Sheppard may start a new round of legal battle to gain the con victed wife killer his freedom. Lt. Gov. Pauf'Herbert, one of Sheppard's lawyers, said he and the others will sit down this week to decide whether to press murder charges against I londa convict Donald Joseph Wedler. Last month, wedler told au thorities he murdered a womjn in Bay Village. Ohio, on the same date ti!at Sheppard's wife, Mar ilyn, was found brutally beaten in the bedroom of her fashion able home. Wedler later signed a confes sion which Herbert has locked in his vault. Freedom Sought Sheppard's lawyers, Herbert, William Corrigan, Arthur Peter ilg, and Fred Garmone, all of Cleveland, have contemplated filing murder charges against Wedler as a way to free Shep pard from the Ohio Penitentiary . where he is serving a life sen ; tence for the slaying. Herbert said a final decision on whether to press th charges 1 against Wedler would be reached ; during the meeting. The lieutenant governor re- cently returned to Ohio from a ; meeting of the American Bar As- sociation in London, England, . and a tour of Europe. , During his absence, Corrigan went to Florida to question Wed- ler personally. Cleveland author ' ities, who also flew to Florida ' to talk with Wedler, have brand- ed the confession a "hoax." Last Resorts The case gained national prominence again when mystery ! writer Erie Stanley Gardner's .' "Court of, Last Resort" asked ; Gov. C. William O'Neill to per " mit them to give Sheppard a lie i detector test. ; The governor first approved the test but later withdrew per ' mission after Gardner reported ' there were major discrepancies in Wedler's story. J Gardner told O'Neill, how ; ever,, that the test showed Wed ' ler was telling the. truth or ' "what he believed to be the ( truth." Herbert, who handled" Shep ' pard's unsuccessful appeal to the i Ohio Supreme Court, told the ', United Press that the American people "don't want an innocent j man punished for something he ; didn't do." He said the meeting between the attorneys would be held as soon as "the schedule of four busy lawyers can be arranged." Eastern Firm Gets : Contract for Reactor Lemont. 111. HP Argonne Na- ! tional Laboratory today an nounced it has awarded a con- ; tract for the detailed design of a boiling reactor facility to be con- I structed at the National Reactor Testing Station, about 50 miles west of Idaho Falls, Idaho. Business manager J. H. Mc- 1 Kinley said the contract for the Argonne boiling reactor, or ar bor, facility, was awarded to United Engineers and Construct ors. Inc.. Philadelphia. The facility will provide the physical plant for experiments to gather performance and opera tional data for various types of boiling reactor concepts, McKin- ; ley said. BEKU- 139 South Fir, Medford 240 4th Street, Ashland i iii.hi will miim $fflfe (I J Two Injured In Wreck As Truck, Car Collide Mrs. Casey Wierzbinski, Box 308, Rogue River, and her 13- 1 year-old daughter Joan were in- ijured when the car in which ; they were .riding and a truck ' and trailer collided on Hiehwav j 99t a half-mile south of Rogue River yesterday. Driver of the r was C:..v Wierzbinski, 41, Rogue River, I ed y Chamber officials follow and Milton John Hilkey. 28, ! lnf a membership team break route 1, box 560, Central Point, I fast lhls mrning. was the truck driver. I Tne membership campaign be- State police reported exten- she damage to the car and mi nor 'damage to the car. The , ambul j nee was not called. Crew of Tanker Parachute Safely Bovina. Tex. P A KB50 tanker pltene crashed during practice refueling operations to day but all six men on board managed to parachute safely. Mrs. Pete Davies, a rural mail carrier who was out on her route with her 9 and 13-year-old sons, said the plane almost hit her. "A jet plane came in real low in front of my car," she said. "I looked in my rear view mirror and saw this other plane hit the road a few hundred yards be hind me. "It glanced off the road and crashed into a field. It scared me so bad I couldn't talk about it right away." The KB50, a four-engined plane used as a bomber in the Korean War. crashed 12 miles northwest of Bovina within a quarter mile of the home of Dean McUallum. a farmer. Bovina is within sight of the New Mexico border. Maj. Clarence Cone of Cannon Air Force Base, at Clovis, N.M., said the plane and its crew were from Langley, Va., Air Force Base and stationed temporarily at Cannon for training. Griffin Creek Expects An Enrollment of 300 An enrollment of 300 pupils is anticipated for Griffin Creek school when it opens Sept. 9, ac cording to Principal Myrna Frink. Lunch will be served in the cafeteria the first day. The price will be the same as last year. In preparation for school open ing the building has been clean ed, several rooms redecorated and new tile laid on three class room floors. All children entering the first grade must be six years old be fore Nov. 15, the principal re minded parents. Birth and medi cal examination certificates must be presented. This year's faculty includes Joan Wiliiams, and Charlotte Stearns, first grades: Edith Ar nold, second: Lois Stable, second and third grades: Mariece Lind say, third grade; Alma Austin and Shirley Routh, fourth grade: Harriet Eitemiller, and Howard Lindstrom, fifth grade: Lynn Jenkins, sixth grade; Charles Jones, seventh grade: and Rol land Griffith, eighth grade. Coaches are Rolland Griffith, Lynn Jenkins and Sirley Routh. Steve Whipple is music director. Other school employees include Stanley Robbins. maintenance: Elsie Gamaehlich, in charge of cafeteria, assistants Dorothy O'Conner and Lorraine Wasden; Helen and Bob Daun, custodians; Bob Daun and Steve Whipple, bus drivers, and Norma Smith, secretary. BEKINS MOVING is available between certain cities when required. Inquire at any Bckins office about Vanlincr schedules covering Pacific Coast states and to and from the East. DAVIS ' TRANSFER & STORAGE CO. MOVING 'STORAGE PACKING SHIPPING local Agent For - Phone SP 2-6273 Phone MU 2-8552 l i j i 1 1 Wednesday. August 28. 1957 Eighty Firms Join Following Drive By County Chamber Eighty business firms have be come. new members of the Jack- i son County Chamber of Corn- mcrce mis momn, it was report- "an AuS- 1 to Duild a broader - participation and greater sup- port of tne Chamber program. Increased activities of the Chamber in the field of indus trial research, efforts to stimu late wholesale expansion and spe cific promotional efforts to in crease diversified, year round payrolls will require more mon ey than in the past," according to Miller Huggins, chamber president and campaign chair man. High man for the campaign was Dr. Merle Foland who brought in 20 new members. Next highest was Mrs". Bertha Gammill who successfully se cured 14 new members in sup port of the chamber program. This was closely followed by Ken MacDonald with a count of 12 new members. "Congratulations are in order for a job well done," Hu'geins said at the wind-up breakfast meeting. "You have turned in an enviable record. Probably, no other group has ever equalled in importance the job you have just accomplished." Those serving on the member ship contact teams were William Abbott, captain; Gene Ferrell, Frank Benesh, Harold Soballe, Bertha Gammill, Bob Balk, Wayne Struble. Paul Hornbeck Marie Pierce, Frank Morgan and Ken Cook, John Dellenback, cap tain; Jennings Pierce sub-cap tain; Bill Leever, Dick Dempster, Chris Schempp, Harold Snod- grass, Robert Stokes, Ron Gan- dee. Ken MacDonald, Wayne Safley, Bill Singler and Fred Robinson. Dr. Merle Foland, cap tain; Dave Franklin, captain nowara coya, captain; wmara Hunter, Lowell Chamberlain, Bill Frake, Al Gandt. Cliff Love joy, Larry Schade, Bob Agard, Granvil Brittsan. Although the count of 80 new members was totalled at the breakfast meeting a number of contacts not yet returned . by team members mayncrease this amount to nearly 100. Board Asks FPC To Delay Action Portland ilPl The State Wa ter Resources board decided Tuesday to ask the Federal Power commission not to issue permits for proposed Mountain Sheep and Pleasant Valley dams on the Snake river until it can complete a seven-month survey. The board will make a $50,- 000 survey of the middle Snake where five dams are proposed, three in the Hells Canyon reach by Idaho Power company and the Mountain Sheep and Pleas ant Valley projects by Pacific Northwest Power company. The board earlier had assert ed jurisdiction over granting of state licenses for the three Hells Canyon area dams. Lewis Stan ley, state engineer, said Tues day the application for state li censes for Mountain Sheep and Pleasant Valley dams soon would be before the board. Ah FPC examiner had recom mended approval of licenses for Mountain Sheep and Pleasant Valley dams but the FPC has not announced a decision. . Gov. RoberfD. Holmes called for the middle Snake survey in a letter to the board. Holmes criticized the Mountain Sheep and Pleasant Valley dams for their "single-purpose nature and limited storage." - L. C. Binford, of Portland, chairman of the board, said the board did not not have an idea it could veto an FPC permit but that it hoped persuasion might block granting of a permit after the study. Bids Opened for Work On Access Highways Portland !W Power City j Electric, Inc., Spokane, today j submitted an apparent low bid i of S74.179 to Bonneville Power ! administration for construction ; of access roads and a six-mile transmission line on the Mc- ! Nary-Richland loop. , The project will corhplete the ' link between McNary dam and j Richland and energization - is planned for the fall of 1958. Other bidders include Dukes Electric company, Pasco, Wash., i $77,770; Nichols Construction ! company, Grandview, Wash..! S80.000: Sierra Electric com- : pany, Portland, Ore., $81,070: Tyee Construction company and Lee Hoffman, Seattle. S81.481: Fischbach and Moore, Inc.. Seat tle, $89,054; Collins Electric j company, Inc., Stockton, Calif., i S92.359; North Idaho Construe- ! tion company, Coeur d Alene, Ida., S95.644; R. C. Hughes com pany. Spokane., Wash., S97.850, and W. L. Ridge Construction , company, Spokane, Wash., i r i.S-3 ft? TESTING MECHANISM This mechanism mounted on a front bumper is used for testing a driver's quickness in braking a car to a stop. A pull on a string held by a front seat passenger trig gers the gadget which detonates a .22 shell. As the driver's foot hits the brake pedal a second shell is exploded, dropping a blob of bright yellow paint. Distance from where the driver hits the brake and final location of stopped car. is measured to deter mine quickness of reactions. Such a test is "given Pacific Tele phone and Telegraph employees who drive for the company. It may also be given local groups of drivers if a course in defen sive driving is established here. T ' BRAKING CHECKED Paul Hoff, manager of the Grants Pass Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company office brakes a com pany car smoothly to a stop even with a standard. Testing him is Leonard B. McKellar, responsible for the defensive driving training and examination of telephone company employees in Oregon. This test will be included if a defensive driving course is established locally for public groups. President's Doctors Used High-Pressure Washington IIP) President Eisenhower's doctors had to re sort to high-pressure tactics to get him inoculated against As ian flu. Here's the backstage story of the President's flu shot. The White House staff tried earlier this month to persuade Eisenhower to let himself be inoculated. They argued that he is clearly in the "essential work er" category for which the Pub lic .Health service recommends priority. But the President adamantly refused. As he told a news con ference, he was determined to wait for his shots until supplies were available to "ordinary peo ple." A member of the White House staff got on the telephone and talked to a Public Health Ser vice official. A short time later, Surgeon General Leroy E. Bur ney publicly declared his be lief that the President should, be among the first inoculated. Fails to Budge Burney's statement failed to budge Eisenhower. More telephone calls followed, and last Saturday the Public Health Service put but a special statement to the press. The re Don't Break It! It's a childish prank ' to break the bank When funds are running low. ' It'll bring a tiff We'll give you a lift. So come to us before you "" go! Loans From REPAY IN CONVENIENT 25 '2.500' AUTOMOBILE FURNITURE ' SALARY COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL FINANCE CORP. Phone SP 3-4564 Sparta Bldg. Medford For Shot lease baffled reporters because it'merely emphasized what Bur ney had said many times before that older people who have had chronic diseases, like heart trouble, should be among the first inoculated. , This statement, it can now be revealed, was really addressed to one ex-heart patient Dwight D. Eisenhowef. But the President still was not moved. Then desperate White House aides told Eisenhower that lu; had apparently been exposed to Asian flu. Dr. Gabriel Hauge, the Presi dent's economic adviser, came down with what were described as symptoms of the diseases last week : shortly after conferring with Eisenhower. This argument finally induc ed Eisenhower to let the doctors vaccinate him Monday. NOMINATION APPROVED Washington OP) The Senate approved today the nominations of William F. Quihn to be gov ernor of Hawaii and of Farrant L. Turner to be the territory's secretary. MONTHLY PAYMENTS .00 Defensive Driving May Be Taught Here A meeting is tentatively scheduled for Sept. 12 with city and school officials to duscuss setting up a defensive driving course here, it was announced today. ' Instructor for the proposed course would be Leonard B. Mc Kellar who is responsible for teaching defensive driving to employees of Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company through out the state. Defensive driving is just what me name implies driving m a manner to prevent accidents re gardless of the other fellow's faulty driving or nonobservance of traffic laws. The defensive driver (is prepared for lack of road signs weather conditions and unexpected happenings. Vdord McKellar was in Monday to check telephone com pany employees on. their defen sive driving techniques. While here he contacted Jennings Pierce, chairman of the local chapter of Highway Life-Savers league, upon the recommenda tion of E. C. Sammons, Portland, president of the U.S. National bank of Portland. Sammons is head of the state organization of the Life-Savers league. McKellar, while here, met with representatives of press, radio and television, to explain his program and how it has been applied to other localities. Such a course includes a check on 86 points of a person's driv ing. This would cover proper hand and mechanical signalling, observance of traffic regulations, alertness in relation to various traffic hazards and possible col lision threats from other drivers. Speed of a driver's reflexes in stopping a car is measured also. This is done by an ingenious de vice attached to the front bumper of a car. It consist of a trigger mechanism containing a blank .22 caliber shell and a second one filled with a charge and yellow paint. - The examiner rides with the driver and holds a string by which the mechanism is trig gered. At a steady 20 miles per hour the string is yanked sud denly exploding the first shell signalling the driver to stop. As the car is braked the second shell is discharged spattering the pave ment with a blob of yellow paint. This indicates the spot where the driver's foot hit the brake pedal. A measuring tape is ex tended from the mark to where the car finally halts. It not only indicates the quick ness off reflexes but gives the driver a graphic picture of the space required to brake a car. "A driver with his foot on the brake as the car approaches a dangerous traffic situation can stop quicker than the non-prepared one," McKellar points out. "This is especially true at inter sections, where, by the way, it is unlawful to pass another car." Among other equipment used in tlie course is a set of collapsi ble standards for 'a car maneu vering course. 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Burden of safe driving rests not on the car's safety features but with the driver, McKellar emphasizes. Everything depends on how quickly a driver can spot a hazard, brake to a stop or otherwise avoid impending col lision. Defensive -driving also means peing preparea psychologically f nd e.uiPment-wise. Don't drive if worried or when apt to have your mind on other matters than the road. Make a careful daily check of the main equipment of a car. which includes windshield wiper, tires, fullness of gas tank, turn signals, headliehts. tail- lights and stoplights. A flat tire 1 ! may Place a driver n a danger- j vua ui c-v.iiaiiswg &pui on UJc road, McKellar pointed out. I "Always remember you can aim a rifle much easier than a j car, and according to statistics, , the second is much more danger- ' ous," McKellar cautions. "Re- j member, too, that at 20 miles per hour, the car travels 22 feet j before a driver can hit the brake ; pedal and it requires 20 more feet in which to stop, making a j total of 42 feet. . Ashland Fire Burns Area at Twin Plunges Ashland A grass f.re in Ash land burned a small area near Twin Plunges, according to Ash land fire department officials. The fire, reported at 10:15 a.m. Tuesday, was started from a trash barrel, firemen said, that was placed in a patch of weeds. ; control of his vehicle i-elreslimeiit .4 't , PEPSI-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY OF MEDFORD Under appointment from Pepsi-Cola Company, New York OH THE STRETCHER BE YOURS! f i. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Search Continues For Missing Couple Walla Walla If) A rein forced search party planned to resume today one of the most in tensive hunts ever made in the Blue Mountains southeast of here. Missing are Lillian Fay Hodges. 16, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hodges. Kenne wick, and Barney Blackwell, 35, Kennewick carpenter. Both dis appeared on a picnic and rock hunting expedition Sunday. Umatilla County Sheriff Roy Johnson said the search will be concentrated in the Mill Creek watershed and Indian Ridge areas in Walla Walla county. MONEY At Crater Finance you may borrow for any worthwhile purpose on your FURNITURE - AUTO SALARY and repay in monthly Install ments. You may choose the terms most suitable to you up to 24 months. Loans mar be paid in ad vance oi in full at any time. Crater Finance CORPORATION 135 Pine St. - Central Point . Phone NO 4-1273 Frank Wilkinson, Mgr. Convenient Parking six lomi CAKTO (Plot DapotiO $103,639. 1 e o
