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.
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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
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who have seved as U.P. presi
dents are treated at length in
the book Roy W. Howard, the
dapper and energetic innovator
who guided the service through
birth, growing pains, muscle
flexing in World War I, and ex
pansion into foreign markets;
Karl A. Bickel, who saw the
long view of historyin current
events and took the U.P. into
maturity in the 1920s; Hugh
Baillie, the dynamic boss who
roamed world newsfronts and
urged his men to keelhaul the
opposition; Frank H. Batholo
mew, who came up on the news
side in the Far West and Pacific
areas, carrying his typewriter
and briefcase to the battlefronts
and extending the domain of his
company. 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. .
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