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o o o o 0 0 o o o o o 1 o o O O o. o o 8- o ft o TV.'ELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday, November 1, 1957 1 O Near-Tragedies, Fun fytark Halloween jn Portions or Country By UNITED PRESS Near tragedy marked Hallo ween celebrations in parts of the nation, including Chicago where a bonfire exploded, injuring a little girl and endangering about 800 other persons. A policeman was shot in the leg at Bethesda, Md., by a man who demanded protection from '"prowlers." In Georgia, bandits seized the opportunity to don masks and terrorize merchants in robberies. And in Miami, a prankster in terfered with tower operators guiding planesjnto Miami Inter national Airport. On the liQiter side, Hallo ween funsters put a "for sale" sign Q front of the old gov ernor's mansion in Columbus, Ohio. It was removed by a real estate Qirm before any prospec tive buyers showed up. Little Girl Injured Nancy Maloney, 3, of the Chi cago suburb of Merrionette Park, suffered a head injury Thurs day night when a towering Hal loween bonfire exploded during that community's celebration. Authorities at Bethesda, Md., said they received a call from a 72-year-old man seeking pro tection from Halloween prowl ers WhcKi officer Richard T. Rus sell avrived to investigate the complaint, the man stepped from behind bushes and shot Russell in the leg.O Escape artist Ralph Cozzolino put on a Halloween costume and robbed a Birmingham, Ga., su permarket of 81,500. He was captured a short time later in another store. Two bandits in Halloween cos tumes also robbed a rural gro cery store at Spartanburg, Ga., fleeing with about $4,000. A Halloween prankster with apparent disregard for human lives-.disrupted the control tower at trie Miami airport b)Obroad casting piercing screams over various radio wave lengths. The unidentified persons, believed to navp been in an airpiane, namp erei' efforts to guide planes in landing ancKtaking off at the airport. Collections for the UNICEF children's fund aroundOthe na tion by Halloween trick-or-treat-ers are expected to net the or ganization about SI million. Six-year-old Theresa Ditucci of New York symbolized the na tion's first Halloween trick-or-treat collector for Ahe children's Contract Awarded For Tabulating Cards Salem (IP Contract forOBO million tabulating cards was awarded to Bushong and Com pany, Portland, Finance Direc tor John Richardson announced today. Richardson said it was the first time the contract hasgone to an Oregon firm and that it represents the beginning of an entirely new (Jype of printing production within the state. Rain, Snow, Cover Northern Plains By UNITED PBESS A cool air mass from the Pa cific spread clouds, rain and snow flurries across the Rockies ard Northern Plains today to usher in the first day of No vember. Snow flurries were largely confined to the Northern Rock ies during the night while rain showers pelted the Northern Plains. Drizzle and showers also hit much of the desert Southwest and the Central and Southern Rockies. Clearing skies prevailed over most of the easteriwthird of the country with the departure of a widespread rain system. The only precipitation reporteoMn the East occurred over pans of Eastern Virginia and Eastern North Carolina during the night. The absence of a cloud cover in the East brought cooler tem peratures to the area, but some what warmer weather movSl into the Mississippi Valley and the Southern Plains. Forecasters p r e rti c ted con tinued scattered Wowers and snow flurries in je Rockies to day and rain in parts of the Northern Plains east U Lake Superior. Fair to partly cloudy weather is expected along the West Coast with partly cloudy and mild weather seen over the rest of the country from the Plains states to the Atlantic. fund. She and fire other kids roamed the corridors of the In stitute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the New York Univeity-Bellevue Medical Center to collect 29 fromQel low patients. The ,cards will be used by litby the resignation of Robert M. separate agencies in Portland, Saiem, Eugene and Corvallis. 0 Hedrick Group(Jours Plant atAail Tribune Members of Hedrick Jun ior High school journalism clas3 and their advisor Mrs. Dorothy Sloniger recently toured the Mail Tribune office and plant. The Bzz-ette staff members making the tour were Mike Wiggins, Kenneth Wise, Joe Rail ton, Jim Frake.QCathleen Allen, Beclgj Barlow, Mike Gannon, Sharon Dixon, Beverly Klimko, Judy Hooper, Rick Nissen, Stan ley Dowson and Nancy Duncan. The Hollywood Scene rs FHitnr' note: ernon Srott is on vacation. Today Kirk Douglas relates his experiences in r.urope nnne making a pair of pictures across the Atlantic. (e) BY KIRK DOUGLAS Written for the United Prestj Hollywood (IP Like several hundred thousand other Ameri cans, I spent the summer in Europe. Although most of them were on vacation, while I was there to work, I did have enough time off to play the tourist and gape at monuments, take a crack at ordering meals in foreign lan guages, and expose a lot Vi film. Since I obviously can't invite you all into my living room to look at the home movies, I would like to talk about somef the things that impressed me most. Favors Long Lunch I was definitely in favor of the 90-minute lunch hour. Europeans do not understand, and won't even try to, the American short order quick-snack grab-it-on-the-run noontime meal. They enjoy eating and they like to savor each mouthful. Once I got used to it, I found I was for their quiet and casual acceptance of life's normal de lays. While we were shooting "Paths of GlorT a friend in America cabled that he was sending a script to me airmail special delivery and wa3ed an immediate reaction. Two days passed and still no script. I rushefl to the Munich postof fice and Qemanded an exDlana- Mon. The9 official shrugged his snouiaersQana saia, sometimes it happens this way." Maybe this attitude prevents the Europeans from accomplishing as much as Funeral Monday for Oregon PT&T Official Portland OP) Funeral services will be held? in San Francisco next Monday for Fred Scholl, general commercial man ager in Oregon for the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Com pany until- his retirement Sep tember 1. School. 65, died Wednesday in a local hospital follong an extended illness. BROTHERS DIE Providence, R. I. (IP) For mer U.S. Senator Peter Gerry, 78, died Thursday after a long illness. A few hours later, his brother, Robert L. Gerry, 80, a real estate developer, died at New Delhi, N.Y., also after a long illness. Buy 'Rat Car For 150 Less? CHANCES It TOO CAN If Qli BSC OUI UNIQUE STATE FA "UNI PUIT It might seem impos sible, but yoa may be able to save this kind of money on almost any new or used car through low bank rates, rock-bottom in surance costs and by becoming a cash buyer. Ask about the Bank Plan soon. o o ITATi Kill INIDIMCl Medford Aganta: JOHM A. CARTER VIRGIL R, WILKES Q133 SoC Central Tel. SP 2-9322 DONALD E. DAY 1671 Grand Tel. SP 2-S038 State Qrm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Home Office, Bloomington, Illinois. By VERNON SCOTT United Press SYriter we do, but I also noticed they do not gulp pillsQrith each meal, nor do they need sleeping tab lets or wake-up lozenges or anjw of the other artificial boosters so many of us seem to require. High Regard for Artists I wjTS for candlelight on the dinner tables, the gas-saving park-easy small cars, the high re gard for artists, musicians, op era singers, composers, writers and actors. The question most asked, of course, is: What about European women? I will,ay this; Ameri can women are better dressed, better groomed and do far more with what they've got than their across-the - seas sister Not a word more. After all, I married a Europe' an, and after surviving WorlcQWar I battlefields of "Paths of Glory" and the 10th Century wars in "The Vikings" I don't intend to get clobbered now. FORMER COUNSEL DIES New York (IP) Charles P. Grimes, 53, died Thursday of a heart attack. Grimes formerly was counsel to the Senate In ternal Security Subcommittee. Prosecutor Named In Roseburg Hearing Roseburg (IP Circuit Judge Carl WimbertV has appointed former state (senator Paul Ged des to act as special,-prosecutor in - a quo1 warranto "proceeding aimed at testing the right of Douglas County District Attorn ey Avery Thompson to hold of fice. u Thompson, a Democrat, was appointed by Gov.(rl) Robert Holmes to fill the vacancy left Stultz, the previous district at torney who was' a' Republican. James G. Richmond, Republi can" Central committee chairman in the county, immediately chal lenged the legality of the Holmes appointment 'Jout his court ac tion war' dismissed because quo warranto proceedings (by what right do you hold office?) must be instituted by a public official, not a private (Citizen. Witnesses Protest 8 Freight Rate Boost Salem (IP) Witnesses pro testing a proposed 12 per cent increase in rail freight rates within Oregon appearedat a hearing before the. public utility-J commission here Thursday. CSeveral witnesses, including E. A. Stoker, traffic manager of the Amalgamated Sugar com pany! Nyssa, sought tK prove that the rate increase would not have the desired effect of in creasing the railroads' revenue. Railroad have argued that the rates Care necessary on the basis .of urgently needed reve nue. Last summer, the Interstate Commerce commission granted interstate rail lines a 12 per cent freight rate boost. Suit Seeks Damages For Injuries in Fan Darlene M. Paulazzo, the'Wasper ave., Medford, has filed complaint in circuit court gainst Harry arQi David Bear Creek Orchards asking $88,954 05 damages for injuries received in a fall Nov. 29, 1956. The complaint states that Mrs. Paulazzo suffered severe and lasting akock to her nervous system and injury to her spine which resulted in partial paraly sis of her legs and arms when she slipped on a slippery hall way while she was employed by the company. Hugh B. Collins is attorney lui tut; laiutiix. V Talent Boys Enrolled In Home Economics PARIS IN DECEMBER Candid photo of President Eisenhower shows him dur ing Washington press con ference when he announced Yhat he will attend1 the first meeting in history of the heads of state of the 15 member North A 1 1 a n t i c Troty Organization in Paris in December. Talent Seven boys are en rolled in a Talent High school Home Economics cooking class. according to (Airs. Mildred Briggs, instructor. "gie boys are makii cookies but will soon learn Aow to pre pare meats; vegetables, salads and other items, Mrs. Briggs said. The boys 'H hold a coffee hour fofthe high school faculty later in theear. The special course was initiat ed by demand of the seven boys who expressed interest in the program, she said. o Vienna GjP) Russia will help Romania construct one of the biggest electric plants on the Danubthe Romanian press re ported today. gie Soviet Union will ship machines and engineers to hc build the $1,300,000,00 plant at the so-called "iron on the Danube near the Romanian-Yugoslav border, the newspapers said. Construction will take sixo eight ears. Tor Sale1 Sign on Residence on Nixon's Street Stirs Capital Washington (W A "for the option was on a $75,000 sale" sign nailed to a tree inLhouse in Nixon's neighborhood. frnnt r f a Inniiea er Proci.rMivnn ire cT-rtv1i, 1.i.1.aJ U front of a house on Vice Presi dent Richard. Nixon's street has the carjtial abuzz todav. P Just about evervone is won dering if this is the place a Georgia "resettlement group is reported to hav? singled out to move in a Negro family with "10 or 15 kids.' Real estate sonrces saicjs) a WYdo-iQ Mary H. Renshaw, has accepted an option onQhe im pressive English Tudor home. Who took the option to buy it was not disclosed.. But she was describedvSas "srek" over the matter. The imnressive, six-bedroon?, three-b a t h stucco Renshaw house is lotted at 4341 Forest Lane, N.W., in Washington's rather exclusive Wesley Heights section. Nixonj S75,000 gtylish French provincial house, wjnich he bought early this year, is a few doorQaway at 4308 on the dead-end street. Sudden Interest Interest suddenly concentrat ed on the street after the white "American ResettlenOnt Foun dation," which said previously it would try to locate Southern Neffroes in swanb- w-tv.- ' neighborhoods. annoiinrprf it had taken "an opjn on a house in a laree Ampriran r-itr" ns-M. I o- . tifcj ileal Ktne of the nation's "1 ponents of integration." j Q FIG o Life Insurance Is One of the Most Widely Used Forms of Thrift in America. We feel that we havea duty to help preserve the purchasing power of the dollar. HTONGT INFLATION IS OPTS 0 o Q. o Abbott, Charles W. West Coas'fj Life Ins. Co. 201 Masonic Bldg. James P. A Asner Prudential Ins. Co. O 133 S. Central Atkinf Wm. Edward Provident Life Ins. Co. 328 S. Central 0 Curl, Clifford W. Q Business Men's Assurance Co. P.O. Box 783 - CP O o Baker, Edith E. Standard Ins. Co P.O. Box 623 , O G3 0 Elliot, Robert A. Connecticut Mutual life Ins. Co. Hotel Medford q FbricGlenL. Standard Ins. Co. 216 E. Main Gastineau, Gerald M. EqStable Life Assurance Society 212 f3hrer Bldg. O O o Bennett, Charles A. John Hancock Mutgspl Life In. Co. 107 E. Main Bringle, Homer F. Business Mesij's Assurance Co. 204 WMain Burpee, Jack F. Northern Life Ins. Co. Goldy Bldg. Caldwell, Wit M. Occidental Life Ins. Co. Bror?y Bldg. Carton, Donald W. Standard Co. 216 E. Main Crick, Joe G. Provident Life Ins. Co. 921 N.E. Campus, Grants Pass Gordon, F.(G. V. Franklin Life Ins. Co. P.O. Box 662, Grants Pass Hopkins, Curtis L. Aetna Life Ins. Co. P. Box 449 Jones, Charles E. Sun Life Assurance Co.,-Canada 30 Summit St. McCollough, Glenn Providence Life Ins. Co. 29 Keenway McNeil, Robert J. Prudential Ins. Co. 133 S. Central O'Harra, Robert W. Mutual Life Ins. Co. of New York 42 E. Main, Ashland O Organ, Robert H. Great West Life Assurance Co. Sparta Bldg. Porter, Norris K. O' Penn Mutual Life Ins. Co. P.O. Box 1461 Rickard, Tom o Great West life Assurance Co. Sparta Bldg. Safley, Wayne H. Aetna Life Ins. Co. 107 E. Main Salade, William A. Phoenix Mutual Life Ins. Co. P.O. Box0571N Savard, Arthur M. Equitable Life Assurance Society 212 Fluhrer Bldg. Sears, Fred S. Prudential Ins. Co. 18 N. Front Sodaro, Alfred A. United Benefit Life Ins. Co. Sparta Bldg. Vaughn, Leonard R. Great West Life Assurance Co. Sparta Bldg. Webster, Joseph H. Lincoln National Life Ins. Co. 4425 So. Pac' Hwy. Wilkes, Virgil R. State Farm Life Ins. Co. 135 S. Central Rogue Valley Life Underwriters Assn. c Our Members Are Your Source of Sound Life Insurance Counseling ARE WE KEEPING TOMMY FROM BECOMING A DOCTOR? , Nixon has strongly backed the 1953 Supreme Court school de segregation ruling. a. Real estate advertisements listed the asking pri for the Renshaw house at $65,000. They also said it has a library, powder room, maid's room with bath and a two-car garage. Another House There is one other house on t street up for sale. Itelongs to retiring Attorney General Herbert Brownell, whou en- gineereddminiSration strategy in the Little frock, Ark., school integration dispute. But offSials said it has been sold yet. 0 Nixon was hom(? in bed with 1JOU VUllllJH.il lr tU V-l.-ti WAX lilt- resettlement group's campaign. But sonie key figures on Capi tal Hill regared it as a tongue ip.rcheek venturer calculated to publicize the segregationist O o publicize the segreg views! its sponsors. , Tlqjre was also the feeling that it was unlikeljthe project, if true,Would be carried out. First ecause it was considered unlikely a Negro familycould be found to take such a place under white auspices, and sec &dly because of its obvious po litical advantages to Nixongio isxonsider3 likely tb be. tap- as the 1960 GOP presidential . Toaray doesn't know it but the way things look now, he may not get that M.D. after his name. And that's too bad for Tommy, and too bad for us! Tommy's the kind of kid who'd make a great doctor. But Tommy, you see, lives in ne of our communities where there's a serious shortage of classrooms, teachers and up-to-date schoolbooks. Thatcpieans Tommy is O n getting a lot less schooling than he needs. ' Let's be sure this doesn't happen to the children in our schools. Join with the other good citizens of the community to back up our School Board, attend PTA meetings and school conferences. For a free booklet telling you more about what you canQlo, write to: Better Schools, 9 East 40th Street, New York 16, N.Y. i WE iViUSoT HAVE FIRST-RATE SCHOOLS O s Medford Mail Tribune The Augusta, Ga Heraid-saidl candidate W O G O
