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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 28, 1957)
six medfc (cqi TSTtxnre .VSlnAT- August 28, HS7 Accidents Increase a Records Point Out The number of traffic acci dents in Medford are running about 25 per cent above last year's figures, according to po lice department records. At tins time last year thege were 1)2 traffic accidents re corded while figures complete as of last Monday show a total of 436 accidents so far this year. Injuries are also running ahead of last year's totals. De partment records show that last year at this time injuries to talled 57 while the injury list as of Monday totalled 77 people. One year ago Medford showed no deaths as result of traffic ac cidents. As of Monday, police have recorded three. Depart ment officials said that the in creasing number of cars on streets accounted for some of the additional accidents but most traffic accidents are still caused by carelessness. They also pointed out the safety council does not recog nize the words "traffic acci dent". The council says all acci dents are collisions and there fore are avoidable. Phoenix Youths Fined For Liquor Possession Two Phoenix boys, 17 and 18 years old, were fined $5Q plus $5 court costs in district court Monday after pleading guilty to illegal' possession of intoxicating liquor. The two were arrested by sheriffs officers in Phoenix Monday. Anpther 18-year-old in volved was to appear in district court this morning after posting $50 bail. Curtis Ray F'.rd, 22, of 342 Berrydale are., was fined $150 plus $5 court costs for furnish ing liquor to minors in the same case. He was also given a three month jail sentence and pa-rolled. Submarine Tarpon Sinks Under Tow Norfolk, Va. Iff) The junk yard never got 'the submarine Tarpon, honored veteran of World War II. The Tarpon sank nine Jap anese merchant slyps during the war. The sub,' old at the age of 22. was sold for salvage. She was being towed from New Orleans to Baltimore, Md., by the tug Julia C, Monday. Suddenly the Tarpon, with no one aboard, sank in 150 feet of water 35 miles south- southwest of Cape Hatteras, N. C. SHADY COVE -TRAIL Farewell Party Given Shady Cove-Trail Mrs. Max Hawks of Shady Cove was host ess at her home Friday evening, Aug. 23 for a larewell party honoring Mrs. Leonard Thomp son who has beens pending the summer at their home next to the Dolf Larsons on the River road. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson left Saturday for their home in Mon rovia, Calif., but plans to spend most of the summer next year at their home here on the Rogue. Bridge was played during the evening with prize for high score going to Mrs. Clara Thur man of Shady Cove and for low score to Mrs. Carroll Watson. Guests present were Mes dames Dolf Larson Bob Vincent, Clara Thurman, Carroll Wat son, the honored guest, Mrs. Leonard Thompson and the hostess, Mrs. Max Hawks and her daughters, Pat and Maxine. a farewell gift from the group was presented to Mrs. Thompson. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Nork and sons, Benny and Stephen, have just returned from a three-week vacation trip to Honolulu, Ha waii. They made the trip over on the Matsonia from San Fran cisco and returned home by plane. While in Honolulu they stayed at the Hawaiian Village and also visited with friends, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Hedbigs. Among the many places of in terest they saw were the pine apple fields, factories and mu seums. They took the Pearl Har bor cruise. Mrs. Clayton Knotts and chil dren, Susan and Jan, of Shady Cove, will live in Eugene this winter. They are staying with Knott's brother and his wife. The monthly social meeting of the Shady Cove Grange 931 will be held on Wednesday evening, Aug. 28 and will be a potluck picnic at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Travis Littlefield on Rogue River drive, Shady Cove. All Grangers and friends are welcome. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Leekey and children, Mary, Judy, Susie and Marcela, have just returned from a five-day camping trip in the High Sierras, where they indulged in fishing, hiking and general relaxing. Mr. and Mrs. H. Gibbons and children, Glenna, Patty and Kathy of Corona, Calif., and Mr. and Mrs. Al Peckert and children. Bill, Diane and Ken neth, of Downey, Calif., spent three days visiting with Mrs. Adeline Carl oi Shady Cove. Mrs. Gibbons, and Mrs. Peckert are cousins of Mrs. Carl. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Cook of Medford spent Saturday eve ning visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Watson of Shady Cove. Other recent visit ors were Mrs. Rex Milligan and sons, Dan and Timmy, of Whit tier, Calif., who spent Wednes day evening with the Watsons. Mrs. Sam Reynolds and son, Cornelius, of Shady Cove, have left for Klamath Falls, Ore., where Mrs. Reynolds will at tend Teacher's Institute there before going to Sprague River, Ore., where she will teach again this year. Mrs. Reynolds and son have just returned from attend ing the Pilgrimage held every year at Crooked Finger near Mt. Angel. Mrs. Jacalyn Langston and son, Johnny, of Sacramento, Calif., are visiting with her mother,- Mrs. Clara' Thurman, of Shady Cove. Mrs. Mary Boatwright and sons, Wayne and Wilbur, have left for a visit to California and expect to be gone about three months. Mr. and Mrs. Art Levulett, of Shady Cove, have had Diester drill a new well for them and have a good flow of water now after going 257 feet. Mr. and Mrs. Athel Dudley, of Shady Cove, made a trip to Redmond,. Ore., over the week end, where Mrs. Dudley attend ed a school reunion,' being one of the pupils of professor Rex Putnam who taught at the old John Tuck grade school for nine years. Putnam is now State Su perintendent of Schools. Ap proximately 250 of his ex-students gathered to honor Prof. Putnam who was there with his wife and son. A buffet supper was served to 530 persons in the evening and a school as sembly was held. Tom McCall, radio and TV star and former pupil of Putnam's acted as com mentator, The reunion was held at the John Tuck grade school. Bill Slater, of Trail, was In volved in a one-car accident Saturday when his car ran off the road and hit a tree above the Rogers Ranch on Elk creek. Bill was taken to the Osteo pathic hospital where he is con fined with a broken nose and .possible internal injuries. Gail Hannan, niece of Mrs. Ole Hornseth, of Shady Cove, has returned to her home in Burns, Ore., after a visit with the Hornseths. NEW LEATHER-TRIMMED CORDS! Mi 1 I 4.1 1 s. 1 iJllO.rrrr.rr UaJ r 0a r r r i'Wt II LEVI'S IVY CINCHBACK Leather-Trim CORDUROYS Classic Style gets New Touch I It's LEVI'S popular cinchbacks, with smart new polo pockets in front, trimmed with washable leather. ..and leather trim on hip pockets, too! 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Devices Overrated, Attorney Declares San Francisco (IPI The ef ficiency of new electronic eaves dropping devices has been over rated, even before Congress, ac cording to a former Philadelphia district attorney. The attorney, Samuel Dash., said he reached the conclusion in preliminary findings of a $50, 000 Ford Foundation study he has been conducting across the nation for the past year. "There has been much discus sion by so-called experts before gullible legislators of extraord inary devices that sent them home in terror," Dash told the National Association of County and Prosecuting Attorneys Mon day. He said one "expert" told Congress there was a device for mindreading. He told the law- Gos Profits Expected To Rise in Washington Aberdeen, Wash. (IP) Gas profits from Sunshine Mining company's oil project here are expected to double eventually, A. F. Wynn, the firm's petro leum manager said Monday. Gas contract negotiations are under way, he said, and Sun shine hopes to begin selling gas after its second well is complet ed. Construction on the well is to begin Sept. 10. makers doctors have an electron ic instrument which records the brains waves, but Dash said he admitted after the hearings that there is no device to translate the brain waves. Turning to more practical de vices which record conversation over telephones or in homes and offices, Dash said the best equip ped people in these fields are the racketeers. "As prosecutors you may have a few thousands dollars invest ed in such devices," Dash said. "Many racketeers have 10 or 15 times as much money tied up." Electrical Union To Refuse Cooperation San Francisco (IP) The left wing Electrical Workers Union will continue its refusal to co operate with the Senate Rackets committee, President Albert J. Fitzgerald said l.-rnday. "It's discouraging to see AFL CIO officials knocking each other down to pledge coopera tion to a Senate committee headed by a man who is notori ous for his anti-labor record," Fitzgerald said at the opening session of the union's 22nd an nual convention. Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) is chairman of the committee. Entry Dates Set For New Students New junior and senior high school students in Medford who were not registered last spring are asked to register on certain days. . . Those attending McLoughlin or Hedrick Junior High schools and Medford High school should register during one of three per iods: Thursday and Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., or Thursday eve ning from 7 to 9 p.m. Student counselors will be on duty dur ing these times, a school official said. Incoming high school sopho mores should have physical ex aminations by family physicians prior to school opening, the spokesman reminded. Additional examination forms may be ob tained from the Medford sen ior high school office. Students from the non-high school districts- should obtain a tuition card from the county school superintendent's office in the county courthouse prior to registering, he urged. Students from Oak Grove and West Side districts do not need tuition cards this year, it was stated. New elementary pupils need only report to their schools the opening day, Monday, Sept. 9 with their last report card or attendance record, he added. Iowa Scientist Says Boy, Girl Embryos Identified Stanford, Calif. API An Iowa State University scientist said Tuesday he has distinguish ed between boy and girl em bryos as early as in the third week of their development. The scientist. Dr. Emil Wit- schi, claimed he has advanced the time for the possible recog nition of human sex by about four weeks. He reported his work to the American Institute of Biological Sciences. Witschi also said that an em bryo can change sex occasional ly during the early weeks of pregnancy. He said changes in germ cells from various causes, such as overripeness of the egg at fertilization, are responsible. Witschi said he availed him self of a technique developed by a Canadian neurologist, Dr. Murray Barr, to determine hu man sex. Barr had found when he stained certain cells in the heart of an embryo that "male" and "female" patterns showed. Applying Barr's techniques with a number of preserved human embryos less than an inch in length, Witschi found that developing sex can be rec ognized well before the differ entiation of male and female sex glands. Two years ago, Witschi report ed that he and a colleague, C. Y. Chang, could induce sex re versal in a toad. Using a female hormone, they caused male em bryos of the toad to become egg laying females, thus making it possible for reproduction of the species without needing the nor mal male. 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