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
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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.
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'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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Mercy Flights, Inc., air am
bulance planes yesterday and to
day carried their 721st and
722nd patients, completing . the
ninth and tenth flights made in
a seven-day period.
Yesterday evening, William
Pepper, Camp White, was
flown to Portland for surgery
in the Veterans Administration
hospital.
. This morning, one of the
planes flew to Portland to
bring Mrs. Amanda Lawton to
Medford to stay with relatives,
the Joseph Lawtons, 601 King
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