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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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