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Accidents Increase
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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.
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UNSCHEDULED ACT Actress Mary Martin staged this unscheduled act while posing
for publicity pictures for her San Francisco opening in "Annie Get Your Gun." The
whole thing almost ended in "a horse on her", when the horse she and co-star John
Raitt were to ride on a treadmill became frightened. Here, Miss Martin is helped into
the saddle (left) by Raitt as trainer Ben Johnson tries to calm the horse. Miss Martin
"bails out" (center) and scampers offstage (right) as Raitt and the horse go down.
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.
Contract Awarded for
Construction of Bridge
Portland IUV-The bureau, of
Indian affairs office here an
nounced Tuesday award of a
$35,446 contract to Owen Broth
ers of Port Angeles, Wash., to
build a bridge on the Quinalt
Indian reservations.
The span would complete the
Moclips-Taholah road, the single
access to the outside world for
the Indian fishing village of
Taholah.
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