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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 29, 1957)
G O G ft,, " i ' mill ' "Vm ,1 ??''rr',,Kf I .y - - ti I "J 1 inly i ' P il 'fi l ' CLAMORING FOR a Cuban rebel hero is part of a crowd, above, which stormed police lines on New York waterfront seeking to release Luis Miranda, Cuban rebel refused anctuary in U. S. Miranda, being returned to Cuba, says he faces death. (International) Atom Driven Ship Held on Plans Washington w The Navy's second nuclear-powered aircraft carrier was reported Saturday f nave been abandoned on the "planning table of President Ei- Smuggled Dog Contacts Rabies Hinsdale, 111. TPI A rabid dog that bit eight persons before dying "was cute and playful, just like any other puppy," ac cording to his coed owner Sue Ann Opler, 19, confessed the had no idea 2,000 college stu dents would be affected when he smuggled "Freckles" into fcer room at the Alpha Omicron Pi Sorority House at Florida Southern college. Another sorority sister had fciven" Sue Ann the dog as a Thanksgiving present, she said. For four weeks, the puppy es caped the attention of the watch ful house mother, she said. As for Freckles' habit of nip ping people, it must have been "just in fun," she said. College authorities are notifying 2,000 students they may have been ex posed to Rabies. Eight are al ready taking Rabies shots. "I guess he was a mongreal nothing," the coed said. "But very sweet. "He was never at any time mean or vicious. When I left for vacation, he had a little cold that's all." senhower's missile-heavy defense budget for next year. Informed sources said that the Navy has agreed to hold off plans to begin full-scale con struction of the giant ship in order to have funds to step up work on its missile-armed sub marine fleet. The move indicated sharp Navy policy shift. Navy Secre tary Thomas S. Gates, Jr., had said early this year that the atomic carrier held top priority in the Navy's ship-building pro gram. It had been planned to lay the keel of one new "flattop" each year for 10 years. This country's first atomic air craft carrier already is under development for possible launch ing in 1961. At 85,000 tons and with four acres of deck area, it will be 25,000 tons heavier than the new oil-burning U.S.S. For restal and U.S.S. Saratoga. The eight nuclear reactors will drive the ship faster than 35 knotes. Budget officials were reported to have vetoed Navy plans to begin construction of the second ship in the year beginning next July 1. There is an average of one mile of railroad track for every 7.8 square miles of land in the United State. First commercial air condition ing plant in the U.S. was in stalled in a brewery in Alex andria, Virginia, in 1880. MEETING IN KOREA, Francis Cardinal Spellman, New York, and Comedian Bob Hope exchange quips at Camp Casey, U. S. Seventh Division headquarters. (International) Health Specialist To Make Survey Of Mouse Problem Washington (IP) Assistant Surgeon General Theodore J. Bauer Friday advised Sen. Rich ard Neuberger, (D-Ore.), that Alva R. Kinney, specialist from the U. S. Public Health Service communicable disease center in San Francisco would go to Kla math Falls Dec. 30 to study the mouse infestation in that area. Kinney will survey the size and character of the rodent pop ulation, and continue the surveil lance of tularemia found in ro dents to detect other disease haz ards and to recommend control measures to augment those al ready in use. Bauer told Neuberger that about 200 live and dead rodents were collected by Fred Prince, chief of the San Francisco sta tion, and Dr. Leo Kartman, a member of his staff. Bauer said "tularemia has been found to be killing off rodents from two or three localized areas. It ap parently is being spread in the rodent population mainly by cannibalism at the present time." Bauer emphasized that "no plague has yet been found and few flea vectors were seen on the rodents." He said tests for plague are in progress at the communicable disease center on the animals and ectoparasites collectde. Lumber Price Index Shows Slight Drop Portland (IP) Crow's lumber price index report for a two week period ending Friday show ed a drop of 25 cents due to soft ness in small squares and short timber items in Douglas fir. The index also reported that standard and better green fir di mensions held their price ground, and some plants were asking a dollar or so more on 2x4 and 2x6. But demand was slow, the report said. The word "maelstrom" came into English as the name of a celebrated whirlpool off the Norwegian coast. The vortex was once believed to suck in all ships within a wide radius. Pay Television Proposal Now Before FCC Members 41P1- The first Washington application for ' pay-as-you-see television test broadcasts Satur day was up for consideration by the Federal Communications Commission. The application was filed by the Philadelphia Broadcast Co., which plans to operate on ultra high frequency channel 29. The FCC announced last Oct. 29 it would accept applications for subscription, or pay-as-you-see TV to operate on a limited basis but would not act on the applications until March. Subscription TV is not to be confused with the closed circuit type of pay-TV programs in Bartelesville, Okla. TV pro grams there are carried by wire on a closed circuit. They are not broadcast and therefore do not come under FCC control. The Philadelphia firm pro posed to use the Skiatron sys tem of pay TV. The subscriber would use punch cards to record his program selections. The firm said it planned to charge home subscribers an an nual fee of $30, plus one dol lar for each special events pro gram. A commercial firm using toll TV would be charged 100 annually, plus S5 for each spe cial events program. The application said a sub scriber must attach either a converter-decoder or a simple de coder to his regular TV set. If a subscriber did not pay his bill submitted in quarterly install ments the station would not send him a new set of decoder cards. For the annual fee, a sub scriber could receive basic sports coverage on the Philadel phia Phillies, Philadelphia Ea gle, and Philadelphia Warriors baseball, football and basket ball. In addition there would be some of the sports schedules of various colleges. Extra - charge special events would include stage presenta tions, major sporting events, current movies, symphonies and "other spectaculars." Standards Claimed Okay For Salk Polio Vaccine Sunday, December 29, 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN t y SEEKING NEW TRIAL on basis of last-minute evidence, L. Ewing Scott (left), 61, found guilty by Los Angeles jury of first degree murder of wealthy wife, Evelyn Throsby Scott, 63, confers with Attorney Tom Williams after verdict. (International SouTidphMo) Oakland, Calif. (IP) Dr. Jonas E. Salk says the standards he set up for the manufacture of Urgent Orders Given for Birds Portland (IP) City officials here Saturday placed emergen cy orders with drug supply firms for any antibiotic that might save Portland's dwindling penguin population. Seven of the rare Antarctic birds have died in Portland of a fungus disease called aspergillosis. Two other birds have died in Balti more, one in Vancouver, and one in San Diego, all of them part of the original 66 penguins captured in Antarctica Dy Port land Zoo Director Jack Marks. Dr. E. M. Dickinson, head of the Oregon State College de partment of veterinary medi cine, was one of several special ists summoned to Portland in a desperate effort to save the sur viving birds from the fungus type disease that apparently is spread by air-borne dust par ticles. But Dr. Dickinson examined the temporary penguin quarters in Peninsula Park here and said they were adequate. "There is no possible source of infection locally so far as I an deter mine," he said. The specialist commented that "as long as the area is sprayed with fine mist as Jack Marks is doing now and as long as we have high humidity and rain there is virtually no chance of aspergillosis spore being car ried into Peninsula park." While the antibiotics were ordered with no assurance that they would be effective, zoo officials were relying on the only known therapy abundant food and vitamins to build re sistance to disease. his polio vaccine two years ago were adequate to ensure a vac cine free of live virus. Salk made this statement in a deposition introduced Friday in a $365,000 damage suit filed against Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley. The suit was filed by the par ents of two children who con tracted polio after v receiving inoculations of Cutter-made Salk" vaccine. The children are Anne Eliza beth Gottsdanker, 8, Santa Bar bara, and James Phipps, 4, Mon rovia. Melvin Belli, attorney for the plaintiffs, and Walter . E. Sedg wick, lawyer for Cutter, went to Pittsburg, Pa., and took deposi tions from Salk last Monday. A first, Salk was reluctant to testify in the case. However, he changed his mind after hearing that Dr. Howard J. Shaughnessy, a Cutter witness, said a "built in" safety check devised by Salk proved to be wrong. But Salk remained firm in his insistence that "live" virus, capa ble of causing polio, should not be found in his vaccine if it were made properly. "Were the minimum require ments in 1955 safe and ade quate?" Belli asked. "Yes, if they were compliance with all povisions of the require ments," Salk replied. The jury of eight women and four men heard two-thirds of Salk's depositin. It will hear the rest on Monday. Paper Industry Gets Inquiry By FBI Men Washington (IP) FBI agents have begun an investi gation of the newsprint industry in this country, a justice depart ment spokesman said Saturday. The investigation, for the double purpose of getting infor mation for a report to Congress next year and to seek evidence of possible illegal price-fixing, is being carried out under the anti-trust division of the Justice Department. - The federal agents are exam ining the records of a number of American newsprint firms and American companies affiliated with Canadian paper companies. The checkup does not affect Canadian newsprint firms, that supply a large portion of the paper used by newspaperi in this country. There have been complaints about the newsprint industry for some years, based on a pattern of identical prices charged by the manufacturers and nearly simultaneous decision! to raise prices. The FBI agents are carrying letters stating the investigation's purpose is to gather information for the attorney general's quar terly report to Congress under the defense production act and to look for anti-trust law vio The present rate of erosion is sufficient to reduce the level of the entire Mississippi river drain age basin of about 1.25 million square miles, or one foot in 6,000 years. East Main Si. TteVieeoje ' DAIRY-SMITH at Genessea SOMETHING TO CHEW ON 'A glad heart makes a cheerful countenance, bur by sorrow of heartthe spirit is broken." Proverbs, Holy Scripture. Four Youths Receive State Death Penalty New York (ffl Four youths, ranging in age from 17 to 22, stood before the bar of justice. Each in his turn heard the same solemn words from Judge James P. McGrattan. "This court sentences you to die in the electric chair in Sing Sing prison the week of Febru ary 10th may God have mer cy on your soul." It was the first time in Queens County Court history that four defendents were sentenced to death for one murder. The four were convicted Dec. 11 by a jury of 11 men and one woman for the holdup slaying of delicatessen proprietor Wil liam Boser, 61. The jury failed to recommend mercy making the death sentence mandatory. Thomas Frye, 20, was the first to appear before McGrattan Fri day for sentencing. He appeared calm but flinched noticably as the grim-faced judge intoned the death sentence. William Wynn, 17, whose wi dowed mother, Clara, was the only close relative of any of the defendants in court, gulped ner vously when sentence was pronounced. Ralph Dawkins, 22. seemed self possessed and maintained an outter calm. Only Jackson Turner, Jr., 21, appeared blase. He strode into the courtroom grinning jauntly. He also was the only one to ad dress the court before sentence was pronounced. "When this trial first started we requested that Negroes be put on the jury," Turner told the court. "There were not enough Negroes called to be chosen -and that, your honor, is a violation of my constitutional rights." EGYPTION PROMOTED Cario (IP) President Gamal Abdel Nasser has promoted War Minister Maj. Gen. Abdel Hakim Amer to lieutenant general, it was announced Saturday. Amer negotiated the agree ment in Moscow last month un der which Russia agreed to loan Egypt 175 million dollars. Puerto Rico with 544 persons per square mile is about 4,000 times more densely populated than Alaska. One of every six excessive drinkers is a woman. LOCALLY OWNED 117 N. CENTRAL Nv f-VL NATIONALLY ORGANIZED PH.' SP 3-17S9 OPEN AT 8 A.M YEAR END SPECIALS! Congoleum Rugs 9x12-5 Patterns $C99 v e. Extension Cords 9 fr.-Reg. 59e - Now 6 ft.-Reg. 49e Now 36c 29c Duro Tilting Arbor Table Saws-8 it Heavy Duty Reg. $70.00 -Now Standard Reg. $59.95 - Now $5700 49M OPEN MONDAY NIGHTS! mm NERAL EL ICTRIC PR " ry' .y , . if py CTS! 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