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Sputnik I Rockel Expected To Fall San Francisco TO A group of University of California scientists have calculated that the rocket rbiting with Russia's Sputnik I will crash to earth about Dec. 11. "That's an approximate date," said Dr. Leland E. Cunningham, UC astronomer. "We can be in error by as much as three or four days." Cunningham said the predic tion of the rocket's doom was the work of electronic computers at the university's Livermore ra diation laboratory. The comput ers fed data supplied by the Smithsonian Astrophysical La boratory at Cambridge, Mass., and by Cunningham. Cunningham said he and the Livermore technicians are try ing to revise their prediction, "o make it more accurate." "About Dec. 11," Cunningham aid,- "the rocket will go into a rather steep dive all of a sud den. It's hard to say how quick ly this will be." "But we believe the rocket will be pursuing a comparative ly normai orbit one day and jjiien three or four days later it will be down." He predicted Sputnik I will remain aloft for at least another month. TOURISTS IN S.D. Sturgis, S.D. (IP) Paul Bes selievre, manager of the Black Hills and Badlands Association, said South Dakota's tourist traf fic was up eight per cent this year over 1956, and that the Black Hills were one of the six most heavily visited regions in the United States in 1957. Boy At Builders Supply pfKvi QUALITY WilPA BLOCKS Bricks, Fines. Drain Tile 127 W. McAndrews Ph. SP 2-4107 Book Tells Dramatic Story of First Fifty Years Of News Gathering by United Press By H. D. QUIGG United Press Correspondent New York, Nov. 4 HP) A book published today tells the dramatic story of how world news is gathered and brought to the public through press and radio. It is the story of the first 50 years of the United Press writ ten by Joe Alex Morris under the title, "Deadline Every Min ute." The United Press was founded in 1907 and in its golden anni versary year was serving 4,833 clients. T3ut "Deadline" is more than a story of corporate growth. It is a story of men who rode the restless crest of history in a dedi cated and often slambang quest for news the thrills, spills and adventures, solemn and gay, that occurred in reporting the great events of the last 50 years. The story abounds with foot notes to history as seen from the inside of newsmen, and de scribes their efforts sometimes hilarious, often agonizing to tell the news whole and true and to keep news sources and transmission lines open. Through the parade of events, personalities and anecdotes the author has woven the import ant story of the U.P.'s ceaseless fight for press freedpm around the world and its successful battle against monopoly in gath ering and distributing news. The author describes how the United Press was founded by E. W. Scrips, newspeper titan, who wanted to insure his own and other newspapers against any danger of monopoly by the Associated Press. The core of the early U.P. was made up of young men who were "brashly and naively mid western" as opposed to the A.P., which, Morris writes, was "oper ated by men . . long associated with generally conservative east ern newspapers . . . men of dig nity and prestige and a ten dency to conform to set habits and traditions. The men who ran the United Press hadn't been long associated with any thing. They were young and self-confident, and hungry . . . They weren't afraid to tamper with tradition or to take a chance with a new idea . . . They went at their jobs with whatever equipment they had, and if that wasn't enough, they invented something new." Four Presidents An early milestone was the fim stand of the U.P. against allying with the news cartel formed by official agencies of European countries and the de cision to build up the U.P.'s own direct coverage abroad. Another was the impact of the powerful early U.P.' client, LaPrensa of Buenos Aires, which demanded thorough coverage of the import ant and significant events abroad on a scale not then popu lar among U.S. newspapers. Four dominant personalities ANGLaAMERICAN EXERCISES The fastest and deadliest bombers of the Royal i0SE? hYS' Strateic A Comand out to determine which Ttfan li p ;A;lanta St. Louis and Was City the most efficiently. Top photo shows 2 ?n p0?? S lCm delta-g medium before takeoff from CarK Air Force Base at Fort Worth, Tex. Bottom photo shows the U. S.B-36 taking off on g) ) for duality and value OUTtOyeit WAgD G Ism t 550 Worth of Food of Your Choice with the Purchase of a Ward Home Freezer! ipWpjpw).I.MUIll,i ' ..',i!H U' ,'!. Es .-a - n''; KJ li & Chest Freezer... 5 20 CU. FT. , g. E fS)95 Chest Freezer... 3 V Upright Freezer . . U V 20 CU. FT. t ri q Zl Upright Freezer . . "419 13.2 CU. 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Bartholomew became president and general manager in 1955. Many Anecdotes The wealth of anecdote packed into its 256 pages should make "Deadline Every Minute" a treasure-h o u s e of newspaper stories for years to come. Every chapter crackles with excite ment coverage s tratege ms, scoops, wars, revolutions, code messages, pellmell adventure, the incidents crowd each, other across the pages. Here are some: Roy Howard scoring a beat on the 1910 Johnson-Jeffries heavyweight championship fight in Reno with his homemade in vention for dictating to two te legraphers simultaneously over the noise of the crowd. This was a rig-up of eight feet of old fashioned gramaphone rubber tubing with earpieces on one end and an ear trumpet spliced to the shouting end. Bill Shepherd, one of the first of the great U.P. writing reporters, watching and hearing death as 62 workers from the burning Triangle Waist Co. fac tory leaped one by one to the sidewalk in front of him. "Thud dead! Thud dead! Thud dead!" his story started out. And his famous answer whenever anybody asked him how he managed his simple touch in writing: "There's nothing to it. I just write for the milkman in Omaha." William Philip Simms, In Paris at the start of World War I, witnessing the first airplane bombardment of a big" city. (The German pilot of a small mono plane, leaped out and tossed a bomb by hand.) " Clapper and Harding Bob Bender, Washington bureau manager, when every re porter in town was trying to check the rumor that "Princess Alice" Roosevelt Longworth was pregnant, showing his staff the importance of the direct ap proach in news coverage. He telephoned her: "This is the U.P. Are you pregnant, Mrs. Longworth?" "Hell, yes," she re plied. "Isn't it wonderful?" Ramond Clapper prowling 1920 GOP convention hotel cor ridors keeping vigil until a sen ator emerged after midnight and told him Warren G. Harding would be the presidential nomi nee. Clapper's "sraoke-f i 1 1 e d room" is now part of the politi cal vocabulary. The Billy Mitchell court-mar tial, in which the U.P. reporter flashed a guilty verdict, while others waited after hearing one up-off question from the court. Paul Mallon exposing sen tors votes during closed sessions, a series of stories that brought an end to the Senate system of secret sessions. Harry Ferguson sweating out 18 minutes waiting for the Hauptmann jury to enter the courtroom after being informed the A.P. already had flashed the verdict (the wrong one, it turned out). H. Allen Smith in & nudist camp. (He broke a prudish pre cedent by writing about his ad ventures there.) Tremaine and Pearl Harbor Harold A. Peters in Bar celona breaking the news that the end of the Spanish war was at hand by reading (as the cen sors' listened) a long and boring dispatch by phone to London and, without changing tone, in terpolating one phrase into the middle of it: "Big shots scram med Franceward." Frank Tremaine awakening in his hilltop Honolulu home on Dec. 7, 1941, with a roaring in his ears and looking down on Pearl Harbor exploding before his eyes, t Frank Hewlett, who later was the last correspondent off Corregidor, getting the bulletin by phone about Pearl Harbor at 4 a.m. in Manila, immediately calling the local U.S. Navy about it and being told: "Bunk. Tell your Pearl Harbor correspond ent to go back to bed and sleep it off." - Walter Cronkite crash-land ing in a glider with the para troopers in a World War II ac tion and crawling of across the battlefield only to find 12 para troopers were crawling after him. He had, $n the landing con fusion, clapped a major's helmet on his head. X MARKS THE SPOT Petoskey, Mich. (IP) Yellow X's has marked the spots where sidewalks in Petoskey need re pair. City officials said the yel low marks were painted in front of 72 homes. If the property owners fail to fix the sidewalks, the city authorizes the repairs and bills the homeowner for the work, plus a 10 per cent penalty. Wednesday, November 8, 19S7 EAGLE POINT Contest Winners Announced By LAURA A. McFALL Eagle Point Winners in the big buck contest at Town and Country lockers have been an nounced. Winners were ones whose deer had been weighed, dressed and processed through the plant. The winners are: large mule buck, weighing 239 pounds Tom Short, 628 South B. st., Eagle Point; small mule buck weighing 60 pounds John Ma haffey, Jackson st., Medford; largest ' blacktail buck, 182 pounds Larry Nelson, 112 West Fifth st.; Eagle Point; small blacktail buck 64 pounds, Charles Gansel, Lake Creek. A total of 300 pounds of beef was given to the winners. The Lady Lions board meet ing was held Monday, Oct. 28, at the home of Mrs. Dean Col lette with eight members pres ent. Christmas plans were dis cussed "with the Lady Lions vot ed to sponsor on of the Blue Bird groups with Mrs. Don Ger en and Mrs. Hoyle Jordon as club representatives. Refresh ments were served by the host ess, Mrs. Hoyle Jordon. Next meeting to be at the home of Mrs. Clarence Davies, Alta Vista- rd., Wednesday, Nov. 13, with a potluck dinner at 7:30 p.m. The Eagle Point Parents, Tea chers, Student association auc tion was postponed due to influ enza in the area. A date will be set later. Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Weidmari, Ronnie and Vance, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Allen arid Mr. and Mrs. Homer Freymeyer, Medford, re cently went to Warner Valley area to hunt. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond B. Chamberlain have named their daughter, born on Oct. 22, Ann Rene. Ann has a sister, Petra, and brother, Rick. The grand parents are Mr. and Mrs. Ed ward B. Ciamberlain and Mr. and Mrs. Martin Hagen of Port land. Mrs. Hagen arrived in Eagle Point Oct. 27. Mr. and Mrs. John Hagen and family ar rived Oct. 31 and all returning to Portland on Nov. 2. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hisey of Redmond, and Mr. and Mrs. Don ald Hisey of Klamath, Calif., were week end guests Oct. 26 of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Brown. Oth er callers during the week were Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Burdett of Shady Cove, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Huson and Billy, Medford, and Mr. and Mrs. Peter Fick of Jacksonville. . Mr. and Mrs. Jake Olsen went to Vancouver, Wash., the week end of Oct. 26 to visit their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. William Lacey, and family. Jim Wallis flew to Louisville, Ky., then went by bus to Leitch field to drive his father and mo ther, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Wallis, home after his father was in jured in an accident. They ar rived home on Oct. 22. Robert Hayes, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Hayes, attending Oregon State college, has receiv ed a scholarship from Sears, Roe buck and company for $192. Robert was the alternate for the scholarship. Mrs. John Lucas is reported improved from her recent operation. Anyone interested in purchas ing the building at 112 North A st., may do so by contacting Glenn Hale at the Eagle Point High school by Nov. 14. The school will soon be using the grounds for playground purpos es, t The Eagle Point Jaycettes will meet Nov. 7 at 8 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Ed Kimmel with Mrs. Glenn Nelson and Mrs. Dave Harbison as cohostesses. Vernie Matthews and Helen Fields were among those attend ing the masquerade dance at Gold Hill Grange hall Saturday, Nov. 2. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Thdmpspn and family are in Brookings where he is employed. Residents have been remind ed of the spaghetti dinner on Friday, Nov. 8, sponsored by MORPHINE STUDY Los Angeles (IP) UCLA chem ists report thy are growing ra dioactive opium poppies. Pur pose: to determine the way in which morphine is formed and perhaps give a clue to its func tion in the plant. the Eagle Point elementary school Parent-Teachers associa tion. Tickets are on sale by the executive committee and at Ol sen's, but may be purchased at the door. Parents of Eagle Point students have been asked to do nate a pie ample to serve six. j Voluntary kitchen help is still needed, and interested persons may contact Mrs. John Huffman at. VAlley 6-3793. Cathy Carrol, home economic major at Oregon State college, arrived home Friday, Oct. 25, to spend the week end at her parents home, Mr. and Mrs. Kermit Carroll. Early Thanks giving dinner, was served as Miss Carrol will be at the National 4-H convention at Chicago dur ing the latter part of November. Kenneth Bitterling, son of Mr. j and Mrs. Bob Bitterling, and Robert Hayes, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin B. Hayes, were home over the week end of Oct. 25. A birthday luncheon was giv en Sunday, Oct. 27, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Cham berlain in honor of Mrs. Don Beiberstedt and Cecil Key of Shady Cove. Those attending were Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Key and Celia, Mr. and Mrs. Don Beiberstedt, Dennis and . Paula Jean, and the host and hostess. Mrs. Beiberstedt and Key are the Chamberlain's daughter-in-law and son-in-law. A dinner party was given Sat urday, Nov. 2, for J. D. Brown in honor of his 73rd birthday. Those attending were Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hisey, Redmond; Mr. and Mrs. Peter Fick, Jackson ville; Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lofland, Williams Creek; Mr. and Mrs. Ray Huson and Billy, Medford; Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Lusk, Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Chamberlain, Mr. and Mrs. Lester McFall, and the honored guest and hostess, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Brown. Week end guests Oct. 26 at the Lester McFall home were Mc Fall's cousin and family from Springfield, Mr. and Mrs. Mor ris Pitts. Sunday dinner guest were Mr. and Mrs. Dave Hanna ford and Janet and Jimmy. Mrs. Lindsay Tibbet, 108 West Fifth st., is confined to Sacred Heart hospital following major surgery this past week. Mrs. Tibbets is reported to be improved. Mrs. Paul Force has been vis iting in Sacramento the past 10 days, returning to her home on Sunday, Nov. . She has been visiting her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Gene C. Bishop and son, David. Clarence Webster has return ed to his daughter-in-law's home from Sacred Heart hospital af ter having pneumonia. He is im proved and is at the Lester Mc Fall's home. Dinner guests Sunday, Nov. 3, were Mr. and Mrs. Ted E. Holmes and family from Medford. The halloween Dartv sponsor ed by the elementary school parent-teacher association of Eagle Point was attended by 200 chil dren and parents. Donna Geren won the prize for the prettiest costume, Ricky Martinson won for the funniest, and Billy Mc Cracken for the most original costume. The judges were John nie Johnson. 29 West Sixth st., Martin Jorde, Butte Falls high way, Mrs. Frank Putman, Mrs. Hoyle Jordon and Mrs. H. Schermerhorn. The master of ceremonies was- Don Pulley assisted by G. Lee Hayes. Mrs. Pulley and Mrs. John B. Huffman-. Refreshments of cider and i doughnuts were served by the PTA and furnished by the Eagle Point Lions and Lady Lions. An earlv Thanksgiving dinner was held bv Mrs. Elizabeth Ot- tosen at the home of her son-in- law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. rismr Frei. Those attending were Mr. and Mrs. Harold Otto- sen and family, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Leeuwenburgh and family, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Frei and fa mily and the hostess, Sunday, Oct. 27. Mrs. Ottosen left by plane on Sunday, Nov. 3, to San Francisco and met her sister-in-law, Mrs. Goldie High, and went to Costa Mesa, Calif., to spend the winter. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer George son and family and Mr. and Mrs. Victor Hanson left Sunday, Nov. 3, for Camp Douglas, Wise, for the winter months. . MT '..-CASH? Tell us how much - We like to say "YES!" You will be glad you chose Oregon Finance. Here we have no hard and fast rules. You deal direct with the owner as we are home owned and man aged. Get fhe deal you. want. See Gene Thomas, Manager Oregon Finance Co., 45 So. Central. Phone SP 2-4433. MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINE If InrO Inrfl D 3- 0 I I 2 3
