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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 20, 1957)
f o o o I P ' 4 SUCCESSFUL LAUNCHING The United States successfully launched an Atlas Inter continental Ballistics Missile capable of dropping hydrogen fury on an enemy target oceans away and a peacetime prospect for orbiting an American satellite. Here, the huge missile, also known as the "Big A" is launched at the Cape Canaveral, Fla., mis sile center. Photo shows the missile coming out of the pre take-off blast of white smoke and steam. Live Camel Star of Church's Nativity Scene at Outdoor California Pageant Burlingame, Calif OPt A live camel named Celia that is in sured by Lloyd's of London is the star of a spectacular nativity scene and pageant staged nightly at the First Baptist church here. One of the largest outdoor pageants anywhere, it includes a cast of 45 young people, eight sheep, two donkeys and a calf in addition to the camel. jcfhyologisf Amazed cTo Discover Anguilla Obseura in Africa Br DELOS SMITH 'Unitt4 Pref Science Editor New York (IP) Imagine the 'itflmsliment of a scientist when a "f's'v canturrd eel turned out to belong to the most mys terious of the eel families, Anguilla Ob seura. If you were an eel scientist and had been in his place, you would have been as- lio Smith tonished, too. He was in South Africa; his specimen had been 'taken In the headwaters of a South African river. But Anguilla obseura Is a Pa CelfJe Ocean eel. Never before .d one of them been taken west Kew Guinea, which is some 7.000 miles east and north of South Africa. Dr. R. A. Jubb, Icthyologist of Rhodes University, Grahams town, South Africa, reported the find. 1 f 9 Travel Far to Breed Science had known eels travel great distances to breed and their offspring, while still in larvae form, repeat those jour neys in going to the places where their parents came from. But science hadn't known the distances could be anything even approaching 7,000 miles 2.000 to 3,000 miles are the establish ed routine distances for family minded eels and the resulting young. For Instance, the common American eel (Anguilla Chry sypa) go no farther than the waters southeast and south of Bermuda after leaving the coast al rivers in which they spent their adult lives. O Perpetuating the eel is a fatal business for eels. What triggers the desire is unknown. After a number of years of growing and maturing in fresh water, eels suddenly stop eating. 'T'at Provides Eel's Energy They're gorged with their own Gat, even to the point of chang ing their color. These "silver eels" slip down the rivers into the sea. Their fat provides the energy for a long journey and for breeding, and then they die. Their larvae are tiny and transparent which preserved them from enemies. They spread out over the ocean, feeding on Why Suffer Longer? When Others Fail COME TO US ACT NOW! Our Nature's HERB remedies will help yeu to rsh'm your good health. Our remedies havo bn successful in aiding the sick all over the ttt for over 18 years. Remedies for disorders, sinuses, heart, liver, stomach, gas and ulcers, constipation, piles, asthma, female complaints, kidney, bladder, blood. rfce.mati.rn. bck and headaches. For Male. Female and Children. BRANCH OFFICES: Albany Salem Eugen North Bend Newport .,: '-. ".y. ;,-. .-. : ' ' : -, ... . tfC'-;; ,. .'.VV,. .4 : 4' vL 7 " f1 The story of the birth of Christ is enacted on the church parking lot. The set is half the length of a football field with a 16-foot high background depicting the hills of Bethlehem beneath more than 100 twinkling stars. There is an inn and stable with built-in manger. A livestock pen is nearby. Despite an unwelcome rain- animals smaller than they. Slow ly they grow as slowly they cov er distances. Suddenly they shrink and stretch out and be come elvers little eels. By then they are near a coast and up the rivers they go, the grow and mature and eventually be come silver eels which repeat the process. Governor Removes Parole Conditions Salem OP) Gov. Robert D. Holmes Thursday removed con ditions under which an Oregon man was released from prison 15 years ago. Floyd Romaine was sentenced to life imprisonment June 12, 1921 from Douglas county after being convicted of first degree murder. Gov. Charles A. Sprague granted him a conditional com mutation of sentence June 1, 1942 and he was released from prison on condition he fulfill re quirements of the State Board of Parole and Probation. The Parole Board recently recommended to the governor that Romaine be freed complete ly from its control, stating that he had complied fully with their rules for 15 years. N. Y. Police Slay Thief During Rush New York (IP) Police fired eight shots through rush-hour Christmas shopping throngs Thursday night to kill a fleeing murder suspect. The man carried personal items of 15 men he is believed to have robbed but was still un identified 12 hours after the shooting. Police said his finger prints were not in New York police files and copies have been sent to Washington for checking against FBI files. He was identified as a knife wielding thief, however, by three victims. Thousands of shoppers and homebound office workers pressed themselves against build ings and into crowded door ways during the chase about 5:30 p.m. from a Madison ave. shoe store through busy East 47th st. to a Fifth ave. corner. S. B. FCNG Herb Specialist CHARLIE CHAN OFFICE OPEN SUNDAYS ONLY 12 NOON TO 4 P.M. CHINESE MEDICINE & HERB CO. 624 S. Riverside Medford storm, the pageant got underway Monday night with a minimum of hitches. An estimated 500 per sons gathered to watch the five showings, and with improved veather it was hoped that up wards to 25,000 will have view ed the spectacle when its ends Christmas Eve. But Dr. Cecil G. Osborne, church pastor, and the 100 others who worked on the pageant, are keeping their fingers crossed in hopes Celia the camel won't have to drop out of the cast. She is due to give birth "any day now," Dr. Osborne said. High Insurance The big bactrian (two humps) camel is the property of Fleish hacker Zoo in nearby San Fran cisco. Before the zoo would lend out Celia. the church had to buy a $1,000 life insurance policy on the animal for 10 days. The First Baptist Church pag eant began seven years ago as three wood figures in a simple four-foot stable and manger scene on the church lawn. Now it is one of the Christmas season highlights of the San Francisco area. Dr. Osborne, following the original scripture closely, nar rates the 14-minute pageant. The sheep and calf are kept in the pen while the camel is tied to a stake. Youngsters in flowing robes depict the coming of Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem, Mary riding a donkey, the wise men and the shepherds. No Offerings Between performances spec tators are invited inside the church for coffee and chocolate. No offerings are accepted. "It's our Christmas gift to the community," Dr. Osborne said. "It is our effort to put Christ back into Christmas." Dr. Osborne, who has visited the Holy Land four times, said great pains were taken to assure the authenticity of the nativity scene. This applied to the silhou ette of the hills behind Bethle hem, the native costumes and even the plants and shrubs. He credited the church's youth director, the Rev. Gene Turtle, v.-ith perfecting the pageant In its present form. Turtle directed the efforts of church members who built the set and the young sters who play the various roles. The nerve center of the pag eant is a small room in the church crammed with electrical equipment, tape recorders and switchboards. Here one man lis tening to instructions recorded on tape by Turtle raises and dims spotlights, gives the cues and handles the recorded music and narration by Dr. Osborne. Lloyd Sees Russian Nuclear Weapon Fear London (W Foreign Secre tary Selwyn Lloyd said today the danger of Soviet penetration around the "flanks" of the free world has increased. Possession by the West of nu clear weapons, he told the House of Commons, "is the only thing they fear." Lloyd spoke at the opening of a foreign policy debate on the heels of the NATO summit conference in Paris. The secretary said the Krem lin "wants to freeze the status quo in Eastern Europe . . . split off West Germany from the other NATO conutries ... di vide Europe from the United Kingdomiand the United States." "Their whole effort is to di minish the effectivenes of the deterrent and their attack by propaganda means is upon the possession by the West of the nuclear deterrent because that is the only thing they fear," Lloyd said. I More dirt has been moved to bury pipelines, most of which : carry oil or its products, than all j that required to build all exist I ing canals. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY FOR rent 2-bdrm. house, unfurn. S40. KE 5-2522. FOR Sale Chrome dinette table & 3 chairs S15. 3 Peke dogs. 2 fe- mal es, 1 male S50. TA 6-2 356 . D-COX D-CON Warfarin. 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Extension Worker The extension worker offers the following suggestions for keeping Christmas trees fire-safe and fresh: 1. Obtain a fresh fctree and store it outdoors until ready for use. 2. Set the tree in a stand hav ing a container for at least a gallon of water. 3. Add to the water a little antiseptic or household germi cide such as chlorox to keep org anisms from forming a scum on the but of the tree. This scum cuts down the amount of water the tree can "drink." 4. Before placing the trees in water, make a new diagonal cut on the stem at least one inch above the old cut. This exposes a fresh, moist surface to absorb water. 5. Stand the tree in the water at once and keep water level above the cut surfaces at all times. Ross also suggests the follow ing precautions ' against Christ mas home fires: Try to set up the tree in a cool place in the house away from television sets, radiators, fireplaces, or other sources of heat. Don't place it in locations that block exits in case of fire. Combustible Decorations Also try to avoid accumula tions of combustible decorations, cotton, and wrappings close to the tree. Be especially careful of materials that flash-fire. Wool and silk do not, but loosely woven cotton will. Brushed-up rayon,' used in some garments and children's bunnies, burns quickly. See that wires of electric lights on the tree are in good condition and not frayed. It is best to have a swith for these lights some distance from the tree. Avoid plugging and unplugging the lights beneath the tree. Don't leave the tree lights burning when no one is in the house. Inspect portions of the tree near the lights to see if the needles have started to turn brown if they have, change lo cation of the lights. A home fire extingunisher is a good investment, Ross concludes. Boy Scout Council Adopt! is Policy on Estate Bequest A policy that the anticipated bequest from the John R. Tom lin estate to the ' Crater Lake Council, Boy Scouts of America, be held in trust was approved by the executive board of the three-county Scout Council last week. "While we have no way of knowing at the present time the value of this bequest, we are most grateful that income from these funds will be available for special projects other than our regular operating budget," J. A. McDougall, Council President, said. "It may be at least two years before the Crater Lake Council will benefit from this estate, but it is our feeling that we should go on record now indicating the importance of placing these funds in trust so that the public will understand that this bequest will not be outright," McDougall explained. Approval Given Approval was given at the ex ecutive board meeting to the plan for the 1958 sustaining membership program which is needed to take care of the ex pected shortage in the current year's operating budget as the result of allocations and short ages in some independent and federated campaigns. L. E. Mc Eachron is chairman of the coun cil finance committee. Plans also were approved for the Boy Scout week window dis play contest from Feb. 7 to 13, a house - to - house distribution "good turn" for Mercy Flights next March in Jackson, Jose phine, and Siskiyou counties, and district expositions to be held next May. New members of the Council Commissioner staff in Jackson county were approved by the executive board. They are L. A. Pritchard and Paul Gasparotti, assistant district commissioners; and Dr. Gene Chamberlain and Walter Marquees, neighborhood commissioners. NOW THEY BELIEVE Syracuse, N. Y. OP) Dectiv tives Manuel Leone and Harold Flavin were frankly skeptical when Robert Lyman, 4, told them he was responsible for the shotgun blast that ripped a hole in his family's apartment ceil ing. They asked to be shown. So young Robert picked up the shotgun, climbed atop a dresser to get a shell, loaded and cocked the gun, aimed and . . . The of ficers quickly grabbed the shot gun. (u. ft. aft TURBOPMTIC Washer & Reg. $39995 Boys' 26 in. Bike ON DISPLAY ONE ONLY SAVE 10 21 in. TV Suburban model, blond finish,. . .ONLY 21 in. TV Suburban, mahogany finish ONLY ?17495 4 Star Washer with suds Saver.... one only 519995 I ALSO OTHER Friday, December 20, lJTi 7- Gold Melter Misses ZV2 Days of Work During 62 Years With Same Company By DOC QUIGG United Press Correspondeni New York (IP) Herman Diemer, a Brooklyn boy who has melted down 2,000,000 pounds of gold in the last 62 years, who inhales a bit of the precious stuff every day and washes about 10 cents worth of the dust from his hands every night, is retiring with a work record that is also golden. Sixty-two years, day in and day out, melting and alloying the makings of 25 to 30 million wedding and engagement rings. There is a stint for you. But the startling part of it and this is confirmed by the company rec ords is that he missed only days in 62 years because of ill ness. How come you goofed off that way, Herman? Blasted Flu Epidemic "It was that blasted flu epi demic of 1918," he explained. "One day when I stepped away from the heat of the melting fur nace I had a chill. They told me I better go home, and I was laid Tragedy Orphans Eight Children Los Angeles (IP) Bleak Christmas days without their parents were the prospect today for eight children orphaned by the death of Mr. and Mrs. Faus tina Abella. Abella and his 29-year-old wife, Jennie, were drowned Thursday when their car plunged off a bridge in nearby Long Beach and landed in 10 feet of water. Death of the couple orphaned eight children, four here and four in St. Louis, Mo. The four here, Susan, 9, Mary 10, Gloria, 12 Mrs. Abella's children by a previous marriage and Gaus ton Jr., Abella's 18-month-old son, were taken to Juvenile Hall. Four others, Sammy, 8, Bobby, 9, Charles, 13 and Claude Capps, 15, are staying in St. Louis with their maternal grandmother, Mrs. Minnie Icke. Police said Mrs. Abella was driving her sailor husband back to the tanker USS Navasota when their car stalled on a bridge approach. A car behind assisted with a push. Apparently the accelerator stuck in the Abella car. It ran out of control, ripped up 30 feet of bridge railing, hit an abut ment and plunged into the water below. Divers recovered the bodies two hours later. Chest Freezer One Only Dryer Combination . . . NOW ONLY SEE IT! TRY IT! POSSESSED BYEH DISPLAY MERCHANDISE AT REDUCED PRICES 40 SOUTH MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN up three and a half days with the flu." His feat of health and loyalty should be something for the rec ord books. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. estimates that the average working man loses eight days a year (women lose 12) in illness and accidents. Under that figure, Diemer was entitled to 496 days of illness if he had been an average man. To what does he attribute his remarkable stay-well record? "I believe good humor has a lot to do with it," he said. "A good smile is worth a lot. I walk around here every day telling people to cheer up." Even when he walks, he's on gold. You can see flecks and specks of gold embedded in the factory floor. Diemer is the melt er for J. R. Wood & Sons, larg est U.S. maker of wedding and engagement rings. They turn out more than 500,000 rings a year. Handles a Billion Dollars It is estimated that the gold which passed through Diemer's hands in his long melting span amounted to around $1 billion worth of retail rings. Diemer takes $5,000 bars of "fine gold" 24 carat stuff and turns it, by melting in alloys, into 14 carat gold suitable for ring mak Da You're a Santa . . . with big plans for Christmas (but short of ready cash). Give Us A Call ... - LOANS FROM - ?25 00 $ to Automobile Furniture COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL FINANCE CORP. Phone SP 3-4564 40 South YOU'LL BUY IT! mm Wood Heater DISPLAY MODEL WAS $109.93 Now $10495 CENTRAL ing. 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