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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 14, 1957)
o O o o G 0 'rewaieip (esraoN) mail tribune lewer Line Cave-in Forces Occupants in Mine Homes to Move ttl (IP Occupants of i nine" homes and five-unit apart- Went mov5 out today when a huff sewer line cave-in began Sfcreadinj and threatened to en gulf homte in its path. The original break in the 1600 Jliocfc on Ravenna blvd. occured Tuesday Jnd carved out a crater feet wide and 40 feet deep thlt swallowed up a 25-foot chestnut tree nd a light stand ard. Additional cave - ins began shortly before midnight and by early today the pit was 200 feet long and 100 feet wide and had under-mined parts of lawns on both sides of the boulevard. The city engineers office call ed out all available men in an effort to stop the spread of the cave-in. Shovel Saved Workmen barely managed to jave a power shovel from drop ping into the giantic pit and a broken gas main hampered op erations. Water backing up in drains caused evacuation of ten homes at E. 52nd st. and Ravenna ave. Heavy rains in the past few days have softened the earth and Increased the danger of further ave-ins, engineers said. Holes began- developing in nearby roadways particularly at avenna blvd. and Roosevelt Way and at 30th ave. NE and Union Bay Place. Four feet of water backed up into the basement of the John Marshall Junior High school and Principal Ray Crum announced Lodge Receives Scroll Citation at UN Building United Nations (W The Coigressional Medal of Honor Society has named U. S. Ambas sador Henry Cabot Lodge as the recipient of its first scrool cita tion in recognition of "his con tribution to the furtherance of American leadership in interna tional affairs." Lodge, permanent U.S. rep resentative to the United Na tions, receives the award today at the U.S. General Assembly building. .The society is made up of men who have received the Congressional Medal of Honor. Yes, a dividend of three extra years ageing in charred oak casks is yours in today's PLANTERS CLUB. Smoother? Yes! Richer To be sure! So Planters Club Bourbon today! P il 1U STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKY T&9& KXIOW WHiSKY 80 PROOF CONTINENTAL DISTIUNG CORPORATION PH&A, PENNA. there would be no school until further notice. Largest In City The sewer line, the north trunk sewer, is the largest in the city and was built about 1907. It is 14 feet below the street and follows natural contours of the terrain. The break caused a gradual un dermining which eventually re sulted in the cave-in, engineers said. D. A. Andersen, mainteance engineer for the city's engineer ing department, said the sewer break could have occurred dur ing the earthquake of April, 1949. City Auto Accidents Total 48 In October Car accidents in Medford amounted to 48 during the month of October with five in juries resulting from the acci dents, according to a report of the Medford police department. Seven open gates, 11 open safes, 55 open windows and 165 open doors were discovered by city police during routine night ly checks of business firms, the reports show. In addition, police reported they found 132 firms who failed to leave night lights in their offices. Found persons, animals and property cases numbered 25 for the month while 16 cases of lost persons, animals and property were recorded. Violations of the basic rule for the month amounted to 97 out of a total of 443 traffic citations for the month of October, ac cording to the police report. Sixty-nine citations were is sued for failure to stop at signs and signals during the month and 40 citations were issued for no operator's license. Three ci tations were given for reckless driving. Cars parked on the wrong side of the street were issued 49 citations and improperly parked cars were issued 29 cita tions during the month. A total of 47 other parking violations were recorded in October. Park ing meter tickets issued for the month amounted to 3,082, ac cording to the report. try IDS J" f PINT mm ce Thursday, November 14, 1S5 1 INTERNATIONAL GET TOGETHER Democratir Partv T - a-ii - (left) and Madame Vijaya l FJj mare the "Pioneer in Brotherhood" medai worn by Dr. "X r H clon Nobei winning atomic physicist. The medal was presented to Dr. Compton at a dJnner sponsored by the National Conference of Christians and Jews in New Yo?k PreS Eisenhower, m a major bid for bipartisan unity in the space race has askS Si Stevenson to head U. S. negotiations for greater Allied Lxsw Many 'Unipressers' Reminiscing About Newsman's Life on Anniversary of By DOC QUIGG United Press Correspondent New York (W In this 50th anniversary year of the United Press, thousands of present and former "Unipressers" toilers glamorous and grubby in the round-the-clock business of gleaning and winnowing the news of the world under the logotype "UP" have been remi niscing about the life a news man leads. The term Unipresser grew out of the cable address of the or ganization: Unipress. Anyone who is employed by the U.P. automatically becomes a Uni presser. And yet, the feeling per sists among its newsmen and its far-flung alumni corps that the word Unipresser connotes ex perience "under fire" in the sometimes frantic race to catch up with the news and master it. The Experience The experience can come in puzzling through a complicated B01RB0X STRAIGHT 9 5e&fy B .B J court decision or scientific paper. It can come in the tedium of vote counting, in rounding up for publication all sides of a la bor dispute. In just sitting and watching a jury which has reach ed a verdict file slowly and gravely into the box. It can come in the tinkling of a telephone bell in the middle of the night. An Example Take this instance, quoted from Joe Alex Morris' new book about the U.P.'s first 50 years, "Deadline Every Minute." Har old Guard, the press association's Plans Completed For Winter Relief Plans were completed for the annual Salvation Army Christ mas and winter relief program at the meeting of the Salvation Army Christmas committee on Wednesday at the Medford Elks club. Arrangements for the annual children's Christmas tree pro gram at the Salvation Army hall were reported in progress and it was estimated that nearly 200 families would receive baskets of food. The baskets, to be as sembled by volunteer Salvation Army workers and interested persons, will contain meat, bread, canned vegetables, coffee, candy, and nuts. The annual letter of appeal throughout the county was dis cussed with Joe Jorgensen, in charge of the project. It was reported that they would be mailed around Nov. 20. Assis tance with the letters has been gotten from service clubs and lodges. Joe Naumes, chairman, said that the Salvation Army kettles would appear on the streets in Medford and Ashland Nov. 29 and the local Corps would start receiving names of families for baskets on Dec. 2. Commitments for remembrances to patients at Jackson county home, juvenile detention home, Camp White veterans, and coun ty and city jails have already been made, according to the chairman. Committee members include Naumes, L. C. Taylor, Dick Phair, Verl Walker, .Reese Alex ander, Sam Colton, Jorgensen, and Floyd Baker. Liquor Store Curfew Set by Commission Portland (W A liquor store curfew to curb holiday drink ing on Christmas and New Year's eve was imposed here Wednesday at the regular meet ing of the Oregon Liquor Con trol Commission. Chairman Hugh R. Kirkpat rick said all state liquor stores would close their doors at 6 p.m. on Dec. 24 and probably also on Dec. 31. The Commission will suggest that bars and taverns close earlier than usual on those two evenings. Commissioners voted to con sider at their December meet ing a proposal that could mean a return to beer-by-the-pitcher at Oregon public houses. The beer industry has asked for a change in the commission reg ulation which now restricts sale of beer to containers of not more than 12 ounces. A relaxation of the ruling, however, would not mean that draft beer could be bought by the bucket to take out of the tavern, as in grand mother's day. MINNESOTA DEER St. Paul OPi Resident deer hunters in Minesota dur ing the 1956 season killed 69,434 deer for an average succes fig ure of 36 per cent according to state game authorities. J bureau manager in Singapore, was snoozing peacefully one morning the last peaceful sleep he was going to have for many months: It was the morning of Dec. 8, 1941. About 4:30 o'clock that morn ing the telephone rang. . Guard: Hello. Voice: This is Arshad, the of fice boy, sir. Guard: What's wrong? Arshad (in tears): The beauti ful teleprinter is broken, sir. Guard: What broke it? Arshad: It fell from the table. Guard: Why? , Arshad: Because the bomb came, sir. Guard: What bomb? Where did it come from? Arshad: From the Japanese airplane, sir. The Japanese are bombing Singapore, sir. The air-raid alarm sounded while Guard was pulling on his clothes. If he had not been a Unipresser before, he certainly would have become a good and true one during those moments of hauling on his pants and shirt. Support Roctfe Bakery Union May Defy Demand It Remove President Washington (IP) The Execu tive Board of the Bakery Work ers Union appeared ready today to defy a demand by its parent AFL-CIO that it remove union president James G. Cross. The AFL-CIO Executive Coun cil threatened to suspend the 150,000-member union unless it complied by Friday with clean up orders issued last month. Cross called an eleventh-hour meeting of his board today to consider a reply to the federa tion's ultimatum. He was charged by the AFL-CIO Ethical Prac tices Committee with mishandl ing union funds and making col lusive deals with employers. Meanwhile AFL - CIO Presi dent George Meany appointed his special assistant, Peter J. McGavin, to supervise the clean up campaign of the United Tex tile Workers Union. The textile workers, like the bakers, have been warned they face suspension from the federa tion if they fail to replace offi cers accused of corruption. To comply with the ultimatum the textile workers executive board accepted the resignation of union president Anthony Va lente and Secretary-Treasurer Lloyd Klener both accused by the council of misusing union funds. The textile board also agreed to accept a monitor named by Meany to direct other reforms. Cross has said he would be guided by any decision the board makes. But in a prepared state ment last week he said follow ing the clean-up orders would violate the bakers' constitution. "We are resigned to leaving the AFL-CIO, if we are forced out of it," he said. SMALL LOAN Syracuse, N.Y. (IP) Frederic Rapp, 14, . stranded downtown with no money, went into a bank, negotiated a 15-cent loan, took the bus home. if Builders Supply QUALITY BLOCKS Bricks, Flues, Drain Tile 727 W. McAndrews Ph. SP 2-4107 These two escaped but 70 million others re main captive behind the Iron Curtain. And these are the people at whom Radio Free Europe beams its daily broadcasts. Escape is not its aim. Radio Free Europe penetrates the Iron Curtain to spread truth ... to strengthen hope and resistance. Said the youths above, "It ( Radio Free Europe ) added courage and strength to strained nerves." "It offered us ... a hope for a better future," said a young nurse who fled to die West Free Europe Semi your Truth Doners to CRUSADE for MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE LONG DISTANCE U. S. Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Curtis Lemay (above) hung up a new record for the Air Force by flying a KC-135 jet tanker plane nonstop from Westover Field, Mass. to Buenos Aires, a distance of 6350 miles, in 13 hours and seven minutes. Paper, Radio Confirm Thai Laika's Dead Moscow (IPI A Soviet sci entist and a Mscow Radio com mentator Wednesday night con firmed that Laika, the Soviet space dog, is dead. Dr. Vladimir Chernigovsky, a noted physiologist who helped train the animal, said Sputnik IPs canine passenger had not been expected to live more than a few days in the first place. "Under the conditions of this experiment the animal had to perish since the Sputnik isn't intended to return to earth," he said in an article in the tri weekly Moscow News. OIL LEASES W Any U. S. Citizen, over 21. can A k profit in oil leasts. Many people J f ore doing so today. A $ 1 50 invest- J w ment (plus $10 assignment fee) L ould be paying you tenfold every A f potential oil and gas leases paid A up tor i years can be purchased s It's good speculation because f current oil production of newly de- a veloDtna Utah Oil country is 14.000 1 w barrels per day; expected 1958 4 W production is 100,000 barrels per A r tinv lncc ovni InK'a nr in tti 1 P oil producing region si References. 4 For information write to Win. 5. A uniess. J 1017 AMERICAN BANK ILDft. 1 rort toner, ore. They had never flown before. But early one morning Zdnek Machilner, 19, and Karel Kucera, 20, tied up a Czech guard anr wobbled to die safety of West Germany in a stolen plane. "Everybody is listening even the Communists," said an escaped Czech skating champion. From 29 powerful transmitters, Radio Free Europe broadcasts up to 20 hours of truth a day to five key satellite countries Poland, Czecho slovakia, Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria, And how the Communist bosses fear Each dollar you contribute of Truth on Radio Free Europe. many minutes will you give? FREEDOM o La LeMay Completes 5,204-Mile Trip Washington (IP) Gen. Curtis E. LeMay completed a 5,204-mile trip from Buenos Aires in 11 hours and 5 minutes Wednesday to establish a hard to beat speed mark for a nonstop jet flight. LeMay Tuesday set a new long distance record of 6,300 miles from Westover Air Force Base, Mass., to Buenos Airies. LeMay, Air Force vice chief of staff and former head of the Strategic Air Command, made the two-way flight in a four-jet KC135 tanker plane. He said it proved that U.S. bombers can "go any place you want" and will not be out moded by missiles for a ''long time to come." The Buenos Aires to Wash ington flight Wednesday estab lished the first speed record for a nonstop jet flight between the two capitals. The Westover to Buenos Aires hop set a long distance record for jet planes without refueling. The feats coincided with n 8,100 mile flight from California , to the Philippines by three B6g bombers of the Tactical 4ir Command in another show of glogal strength. These plang, were refueled enroute before landing in the Philippines. ' TRAVEL STUDY TO BE MAD Washington (IP) The White" House announced Wednesday it has directed the Departments of State and Commerce to conduct a study of barriers to interna tional travel. Clarence B. Ran dall, sptcial assistant to the Pres ident, will conduct the study. BUSINESS TRAINING Gives Confidence; 3 Confidence , Gives SECURITY! J-3137 iti sponsors a Minute How o
