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cIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) Officers Seek To Link With Unsolved Deaths Jeffersonville, Ind. OP Au thorities today sought to linka gunman, who with a companion shot and killed two state troop ers, with the unsolved murders of five persons in California and New Mexico. Victor Wayne Whitley. 26. Granger, Tex., was captured Tuesday near North Vernon, Ind., s'fter a night-long search by a force of about 250 police officers. His arrest climaxed one of Indiana's greatest man hunts since the days of Dillin ger. State police sent Whitley's picture and fingerprints to west ern points as a suspect in the murder of two El Segundo, Calif., policemen last July, and the slaying of two young women and a man in New Mexico two days later. Cross-Country Spree The tall, blond bandit, held in jail here under a heavy guard, admitted he and his slain accom plice staged a cross-country crime spree before their wild two-state flight that began Mon day afternoon in Michigan. In their wake the killers left irxaf" A. 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Call your Housewarmer VALLEY 26 West Main MAIL TRIBUNE one state patrolman dead and o& wounded seriously in Michi gan, and another state police man dead and two police of ficers wounded, one critically, in Indiana. o Also killed was Whitley's part ner in crime, Ralph Walker Tay lor, 36, of near St. Alban's, W. Va. Taylor was wounded fatally by a volley of police bullets when the two bandits crashed a road block south of North Vern on shortly before midnight Tues day night. Whitley shoved the body of his dead accomplice from the car and drove away, but aban doned his bullet'riddled get away car a short time later to take cover in a nearby woodland. A small army of police ringed the wooded area during the night keeping him "pinned down," and then flushed Whit ley from the woods shortly after daylight. Whitley, his hands up and unarmed, surrendered meek ly. Whitley blamed the slayings nf the trnnnprt in TVTirhigan and 'Indiana on Taylor. n JS I M. I From a mecuora avuti your Standard Heating Oil Distributor or local Standard Man STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA FUEL CO. Phone SP 3-1576 Wednesjjs, Ce ?, 1957 Gunman in West 'I guess Ralph was j-y-st no good," the guHHia said, wryly. Whitley also admitted that he and Taylor committed at least 20 armed robberies ia 13 states since last June, police said. Authorities in Michigan, meanwhile, indicated they would be willing to have Whitley tried for murder in Indiana where he would face death in the electric ch.iir. The maximum penalty in Michigan is life imprisonment. Icy Calm Unruffled Whitley, his icy calm unruf fled by intensive police question ing, signed three statements ad mitting his part in the murders and four months of "pulling armed robberies." He said they held up loan com panies, liquor stores and super markets at New Orleans and Shreveport, La.; Atlanta, Ga.; Covington, Hopkinsville , and Louisville, Ky.; Wilmington, Del.; Frederick, Md.; "Union town, Pa.; Chattanooga, Tenn.; Greenfield. S. C; Morgantown, W. Va.; Trinidad, Cape Girar deau and Kansas City, Mo.: El Dorado, Ark.; Terre Haute, Ind., and Omaha, Neb. Skating Party Slated For Gold Hill Schools j Gold Hill According to Gil- I bert A. Mack, principal of Gold Hill schools, the first skating ' party for the Gold Hill schools will be given Friday, Oct. 4. I Busses will leave at 6:20 p.m. j Parents are requested to be at the school to pick up children I returning from the party by 10 i p.m. or earlier. The party is limited to fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students and Gold Hill freshmen. The restrictions will eliminate overcrowding of buss es and too great a spread in age groups, according to the school officials. . There will be two busses. Su pervising teachers will be Dean Roberts and Gilbert A. Mack. PREACHER DIES New York OP) The Rev. John J. Endler, 65, a well known j Roman Catholic preacher of No- venas, aiea monaay. ABER FUEL (0. 401 South Fir Idiot Machine' Aids aw Pilots 'Loft Bombing' Means China Lake, Calif. OP) A Navy carrier pilot in an FD4 Skyhawk skimmed across the sagebrush of the Mojave desert at 500 knots, pulled up into a half loop and slung a practice bomb in the general direction of the moon. The young jet jockey was fly ing through' the "idiot machine" to learn how to send an H-bomb toward the enemy in a special way. It is known as "loft bombing." It sends the bomb through a three-mile arc like a long punt from the 10-yard line. By the time it explodes, the pilot is miles away. Loft bombing and another maneuver known as "over-the-shoulder" bombing are the only means of safely delivering a nu clear weapon from low altitude. In the latter technique, a pilot flies over his target, then zooms up, flinging his bomb some 12, 000 feet straight into the air. He then has about 40 seconds to put distance between himself and the target. On Target Until the invention of the "idiot machine," however, these techniques were hit - and - miss maneuvers. Today, after a four day course at this naval ord nance test station, it's a pretty poor pilot who can't "punt" his bomb three miles and deposit it in a target the size of a football stadium. The "idiot machine" is a com plex electronic system which measures the pilot's speed and draws out the fexact profile of his pull-up with an ink line on graph paper. It was devised by three China Lake civilian scientist-engineers, Dr. Newton E. Ward, head of aviation ord nance; Rod McClung, instrumen tation expert, and Duane Mack, range engineer. Mack, whose crew operates the instruments from a control tower at the end of China Lake's "Charlie Range," explained that the machine consists of two main components. The Components First is a "sky screen array," a series of photoelectric cells placed at 1,000-yard intervals STANDARD HEATING OILS Phone SP 2-4449 To Learn along a 14-mile approach path These give the exact ground speed of the plane. The second component isthe "profile tracker," a pair of pow erful binoculars on a power driven gun mount with which the operator can follow the ma neuvering plane on its exact arc. This information is also transmitted to graph paper in the tower. Once a pilot has practiced loft-bombing with the guidance and correction from the tower for four days, he is equipped to do it without the machine. With the exception of an automatic bomb release, the entire loft maneuvr is strictly a matter of pilot skill. Five Appointed to Hospital Board Ashland The appointment of five men to the Ashland Gen eral hospital board was ap proved Tuesday at a city coun cil meeting.- Appointed by Mayor Richard Neill were "Walter Bosshard, Ar nold H. Bauder, Gerald Leonard, Richard Herndobler, and Ed ward Singmaster. Alfred Paul son will remain as the general manager of the hospital, officials said. The board members will serve for one and two-year terms which will be decided by the members. They also will elect the chairman. Interest in Trailer Mart Sold By Bates Keith Bates, 1714 East Main st., has announced sale of his interest in the Southern Oregon Trailer Mart, 3434 North Pacif ic highway, to Sterling Tucker of the Tucker accounting agency. Tucker will be associated in the business with Roy Abbott who has been a member of the firm. Bates said his plans for the future are not definite He in tends to remain in Medford. Driver Pleads Guilty To Homicide Charge Payette, Ida OH-- Raleigh Williams, 22, Opportunity, Wash, today pleaded guilty in District Court here to a negligent homi cide charge in connection with the auto accident death of an Oregon family of four. , Williams was accused of driv ing the pickup truck in which Mrs. Marjorie L. Holmes, 26, and her three children were killed July 15, 1956. After entering his plea, Wil liams was immediately sentenc ed to one year in Payette county jail. Forf Lewis Units To Be De-Activated Washington nn The Army said Tuesday that elements of the 2nd Infantry Division .sta tioned at Fort Lewis, Wash., will be deactivated on or about Nov. 8. The units include an infantry regiment, a field artillery bat talion and part of a second, an artillery headquarters division, and an artillery medical detach ment. The units normally have about 4,000 men. The Army said 1,900 of them were permanent per sonnel who will be assigned to other units at Fort Lewis, used to fill overseas, levies, or as signed to .fill vacancies else where in the 6th Army area. Portland Coffee Prices Show Decline Portland HP) Retail coffee prices hit their lowest levels in two years here today with new three-cent-a-pound price cuts. Retail price . for name brand tins now stand at most large markets with loss leader coffee and house brands in paper bags proportionately lower. The cuts were in line with wholesale re ductions caused by a bumper crop of green beans. TYRA WITH KNICKS East Orange, N.J. OF Char lie Tyra, 6-foot-8 center from the University of Louisville, has clinched a berth with the New York Knickerbockers of the Na tional Basketball Association af ter a strong showing in workouts with the club. Tyra came to the Knicks in a deal that sent vet erans Harry Gallatin and Nat (Sweetwater) Clifton to the De troit Pistons. IXVISIOH OF mane PACIFIC INDUSTRIAL 16 S. Central Phone SP 3-5308 Night Classes af SOC Are Listed Ashland Night class offer ings for the fall term at South-1 em Oregon college have been J announced by Mrs. C. D. Win-j ston, registrar. Enrollment will be at the first class meeting, and must be com pleted by the end of the second class period. Classes include: Painting, 2 hours credit, Britt student center, room 111, Tues days, 7-9 p.m., first class Oct. 1. Appreciative aspects f of art, 3 hour credit, student center, room 112, Mondays, 7-9 p.m., first class meeting Sept. 30. Orchestra, 1 hour credit, Band hal, Monday 7:30-9:30 p.m., first class Sept. 30. Psychology of learning, 3 hours credit, Churchill hall, room 203, Mondays 7-9 p.m., first class Sept. 30. First aid, offering classes in the new physical education and health plant, 3 hours credit, Thursdays, 6:45 p.m. first class Oct. 3. Social dance, 1 hour credit, Tuesday at 6:45 p.m., ballroom of Britt student center, first class Oct. 1. Roller skating, Tuesdays at 6:45 p.m., Skateway, 2 hours of credit, first class Oct. 2. , Night classes in second year Spanish will meet 7:30-9:30 p.m. Tuesday for 2 hours credit with the first meeting Oct. 1 in the library - classroom building, room 1. DAV Says Magazine Salesmen Not in Area Patrick Graham, service of ficer for the local chapter of the Disabled American Veterans. I said today the organization has no magazine salesmen in this area. He said he had received re ports that magazine salesmen have been soliciting subscrip tions as part of a DAV project. Graham said the DAV chapter is not sponsoring any salesman. heck UNIVERSAL FOOD CHOPPER $4.25 Clamps firmly to table, won't slip! Reversible blade . . . and fine, medium and h ea v y plates. Tinned cast iron resists rust. PYREX Mixing bowls 7-INCH FRY PAN All-aluminum fry pan with copper colored cover. 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