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MEDFORD (OREOOK) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE To 18 Inches of flew Snow (Promised for iafcteiretl flew York M Tuesday, February 11, 1958 Up To Speak The Rev. Thomas McCam ant will talk on birds for a meeting of Roxy Gardeners "Wednesday, February 12, at the home of Mrs. F. W. Fogel quist, 1312 Queen Anne ave nue. It is set for 1 p.m., and Mrs. Vernon Nelson will assist the hostess. 3s o For your Friday QFeb 14 a the best and freshest candies of alii VALENTINE HEARTS Sparkling red foil heart filled with a pound of delicious Other ASSORTED CHOCOLATES lib. rr"wcz Central 3?aS Drug RELIABLE PRESCRIPTIONS MAIN & CENTRAL FRE E With Every Gift Purchased From Us You Get to Select Any Valentine FREE From Our Large Selection! Regular Prices From 15c to 50c. 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Farrell was sealed into a three by five foot "space ship" at 9:35 a.m. Sunday for a seven-day ordeal of lonely confinement to test man's ability to meet the rigors of travel into space. Doctors at Randolph Field said today they are "very happy with the way things are progressing." The Bronx, N.Y., airman looks well and appears alert, they said. He's doing very well in the tests flashed to him to determine how mental ability is affected by the dis orientation of life in a closed chamber, the doctors said. Farrell ate a light meal late Monday night and then dozed for several hours. Col. George H. Steinkamp, chief of the Department of Space .medicine of the Air Force School of Aviation Medicine, said Farrell is "holding up beyond our ex pectations." Farrell cannot see out of the chamber, but doctors can watch him on a closed televi sion circuit or, if desired, through a one-way vision panel in the chamber. He receives instructions from the outside by flashing lights. The periods in which he is instructed to work or take tests, or is free to eat, read or sleep, are varied from day to day as a part of the testing. Dr. Hubertus Strughold, re search adviser, said the pur pose of the variation is to "see just how 'much a space flyer has to sleep and work." He said preliminary re search showed that a man can work well in "days" as short as 18 hours or as long as. 26 hours. He said he believes an 18-hours "day" would permit a man to do better work than a 24-hour, day in space flight and would also make it pos sible to operate with fewer men, an important considera tion in cramped nus"'" Farrell can send radio mes sages from his seaiea .... er, but he has been deliverate ly deceived about their recep- Stir Central Point, Oregon tion. He was told they would be recorded and played back later for the scientific obser vers. Actually they are heard directly by the scientists as he sends them. The deception was planned to increase his sense of isolation. Bandit Escapes With $5,000 at Las Vegas Hotel. Las Vegas TO A welt dressed bandit lifted a guard's gun and $5,000 from a swanky hotel's gaming room, kid naped two women and escaped in broad daylight Monday, po lice reported. The women, whose car was commandeered for the get away, said the bandit directed them to a busy intersection a few blocks from the hotel, hopped out and disappeared in the crowd. Police said the hold-up was the first on record from the "strip" of luxury hotels on the outskirts of Las Vegas. Cashier Gets Note The bandit entered the ca sino of the ( Riviera Hotel shortly after 2 p.m. and hand ed cashier Bob Valentine a note which read: "Have gun in bag. Get money from cash er's cage." Larry E. Jaegg, a guard from the neighboring Sahara Hotel was standing at the counter cashing chips. The bandit reached for his gun. Jaegg said he thought the man was drunk and acting playful. Jaegg pushed him away, only to discover he had been successfully disarmed. The bandit then scooped up the $5,000 before the startled eyes of gamblers at dice tables and slot machines, held Jaegg's gun and his own on the cashier and guard and walked to the door. Outside, Mrs. Mildred Le vin, a San Francisco attorney and wife of Manuel Levin, a prominent theater owner, was iust drving up to the hotel. With her was Mrs. James B. Lima, of San Jose, Calif., also the wife of a theatre man. Ordered To Drive The bandit jumped into the car and ordered Mrs. Lavin to keep driving. She told police she asked him over and over: "Where do you want to get out? Where do you want to get out? "I wasn't about to drive out on the desert with that guy," she said. But the bandit didn't stay with them long. A few blocks from the hotel he directed .her to stop and jumped from the car. Mrs. Levin said she had planned to feign hysteria if ordered to drive much further. Multnomah Land For Industrial Use Portland (IP) Multnomah county transferred 295 acres in Mocks Bottom to the Port of Portland Monday for de velopment of a new indus trial district. At a transfer ceremony at tended by Gov. Robert D. Holmes, Port Commission President Frank M. Warren Jr. said the acquisition pro vided needed area for indus trial and warehousing expan sion in an "ideal, "close-in lo cation." The first area to be put on the market will be the up stream end of Swan island, an area of about 40 acres known as tract A. Prime land is valued at $25,000 per acre. Warren said none of the land will be sold but that individ ual plots will be made avail able on lease to private enter prises. Officers to Be Named For Male Chorus Group Ashland With election of officers scheduled today in Churchill hall at Southern Oregon college, the Southern Oregon Male chorus will as sume the status of a perma nent organization, according to Louis O. Clayton, instructor of voice at the college and director of the group. "Though response from cur-- rent and prospective members has been most encouraging," Clason said, "we need more singers in all sections." 7 7 French Miners Die In Plunge Down Shaft Lens, France (IP) Eleven coal miners were reported killed instantly at a nearby coal mine today when the elevator cable snapped and they, plunged 200 feet to the I bottom of the mine shaft. . 54 Deaths Blamed On Cold; South Gets Ice Storms By UNITED PRESS Blizzard- battered sections of New York State braced to day for up to 18 inches of new snow and winter's worst cold wave touched off a haz ardous ice storm from Texas to Alabama and Mississippi. The death-dealing cold wave ranged from the Rock ies to the Atlantic Coast with no relief in sight. A United Press survey showed at least 54 deaths blamed on the cold, snow, icy roads and fires since last Thursday night when the wintry weather invaded the nation. At least 17 persons died in the New York blizzard that dumped 38 inches of snow at Syracuse and choked high ways with six-foot drifts. Eleven victims were reported in New England, 8 in Texas, 7 in Oklahoma, 5 in Pennsyl vania, 2 in Ohio and 1 each in Illinois, South Dakota, Tennessee and Wisconsin. Cold Moves South The sub-zero cold in the North whipped into Dixie, triggering ice storms Monday that coated highways from the Texas Panhandle into Ok lahoma, Louisiana and Missis sippi. Weathermen warned the freezing rain will be follow ed up by a cold rain in Lou isiana today and ice storms in central and southern Ala bama and Mississippi. More freezing drizzle was expected in northern Texas and the Texas Panhandle. Near zero weather followed up a- two-day blizzard in western New York and wea thermen predicted 7 to 18 inches of new snow today for some parts of the region.- ' Near Baldwinsville, in cen tral New York, searchers tramping across towering drifts Monday heard a car horn blowing beneath their feet. They dug out the buried car and found Henry Allen, 46, dead and his wife Blanche, 44, suffering from frozen legs. Mrs. Allen said they had been marooned in "'the drift since Saturday. Keep Thruway Open Highway crews battled drifts throughout the area, and managed to keep the New York State Thruway open al though speeds were reduced to 35 miles per hour in blow ing snow. Squalls forced the Buffalo, N.Y., airport to close down for a time Monday aft ernoon and trains and buses reached the city as much as 90 minutes late. Over night temperatures again plunged below zero from North Dakota east through Minnesota and most of the northern Great Lakes. Readings of about . 10 degrees above were common along the Ohio river and the - temper atures dropped to the 30s in most of the Southland. Sufficient Vaccine For Each in Oregon Portland (IP) About 1, 966,00 cubic centimeters of Salk vaccine have been shipped to Oregon since the polio preventive measure was approved for trial use in 1954, the State Board of Health said today. On the basis of Oregon's latest population estimate of 1,769,000, the shipments equal 1.11 shots per person This is below the national average of 1.23 shots per per son, the department said. Both Washington and Idaho are slightly ahead of Oregon with identical ratios. of 1.14 shots per capita, and Califor nia lags with a ratio of 1.07. Dr. Harold M. Erickson, state health officer, said more than one million cc's of Oregon's supply went to commercial outlets, 707,781 to public agencies, and 98,376 to the National Foundation for In fantile Paralysis. Earl L. Lawson, M.D. Duane I. Gillum,M.D. , Radiologists Announce the Removal of Their Principal Office from ... Medical Center Building t0 . -PROFESSIONAL CENTER 842 East Main Street, Medford Suite 10 Telephone SPring 3-6251 Entrance on East Main Street Parking on Myrtle Street Gigantic Display of Northern Lights Visible Across Nation Br UNITED PRESS The most brililant display of the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights in many years flashed across northern skies Monday night and early today in a spectacular elec tronic fireworks show that was seen as far south as Florida. Intense atmospheric elec trical disturbances that ac companied the lights disrupt ed network television and long distance telephone cir cuits.. Worldwide radio com munications also were upset. Bright Red Glow The display featured a bright red glow that gave the appearance of a forest fire on the horizon. Thousands of persons called their local po lice stations, newspapers and weather bureaus to inquire about the strange lights. From some places the Aurora appeared to be a steady, bright glow, cherry or fire red. At others, streaks of green and white light were visible also. "It was the most spectacu lar Aurora Borealis I have ever seen in 20 years as an astronomer," reported Gerald P. Kuiper, director of the University of Chicago Yerks observatory at Williams Bay, Wis. James S. Pickering, assist ant astronomer of the Hayden planetarium in New York, said he had "never seen such complete redness" in the Northern Lights. The - Weather bureau said the lights were seen over most of the U.S., and as far south as Vero Beach, Fla. Normally the Aurora is sight ed only in northern latitudes, but scientists said cold weath er and dry clear air made it visible over unusually wide areas. Television Interrupted The- American Telephone and Telegraph company said in Salt Lake City that the electrical disturbance gener ated up to 130 volts in its low voltage long distance circuits, causing widespread service disruption. Three network television lines, NBC, CBS and Mutual, were reported knocked out at least seven times between 7 p.m. and midnight (m.c.t). Some TV viewers received Speech Contest Won by Arant Neal Arant, Equitable In surance company representa tive, with his speech "Y o u Are a Lion," won the final berth in the Jackson Toast masters speech contest, it was announced. Next Monday, Arant will compete with George Tro bough, Robert Harland, Ross Gilkison, Wilbur Fish, and Larry Horton to determine three finalists for the Med f ord contest. The three top speakers will compete with three from the Medford Toastmasters Satur day, Feb. 22, to determine an entry from each club for the area contest in Medford in March. The area contest will include speakers from Ash land, Yreka, Grants Pass, Kla math Falls and Medford. Other contestants in the contest were Wayne Vene kamp, with his speech "Throw Away the Crutch," and Art Lusk with his "Hands Up" speech. Toastmaster of the morning was Robert Harland and news item topics were presented by Curt Butterfield. Guests at the meeting were Howard Hopkins, Gus Witty, Bruce Nelson, and Mac Mc Calley. Washington (IP) City Commissioner Stanley W. Earl, of Portland, Ore., filed a $500,000 libel suit against columnist Drew Pearson in Federal Court here Monday. He charged that Pearson libeled him in articles last March 2 and 15. channels other than those they had tuned in in Boston. Telephone officials also re ported phone troubles in New England. Over Barstow, Calif., the lights "had beautiful stream ers of pink, green, purple and yellow threading through them," a United Press report er said. At El Centra, Calif., radio announcer Mike Russell of Station KXO reported the "lights seemed to move about like search lights for a while, then settled down to a steady bright glow, almost cherry red." Another Display Possible Dr. Clyde Tombaugh, an astronomer at New Mexico A&M college in Southern New Mexico, said the lights were a rare type and might be followed by an even more vivid display. The Weather Bureau said the Northern Lights occur in the ionosphere, a layer of thin air 50 to 500 miles above the earth's surface, with most displays originat ing 55 to 80 miles up. They often follow a period of in tense sunspot activity such as was reported last 'week end. Scientists believe the Aur Jus ak minute and check J? this list of lovely gift sug- Jl I gestions for the "Sweet- ft 10 heart" on your list ... She will be thrilled with every Jj one ... Vfcin9 Bird ' s V forl V Lovely Blouses . (f fwh L 1 V New Capri Pants Ul V Van Raalte Slips Jyy p Vlr jfhl an Raa,te Gowns VJ? J$ V a Lr StUme A? y$mart. BagS li J; V Comfy Slippers 1 For beautiful gifts 'Skirts & Sweaters' J Parker Woods' &! Lover soft new pastels I ' I jl fgt , . . from Woridemere . . . II QRnTiC ff with skirt, to match! l!VCU 1 J jT . ' : 21 N. Central ora lights result from charged electrical particles emitted by the sun which penetrate the atmosphere, causing it to glow. The displays are con centrated in bands around the north and south poles be cause the particles art be lieved to be deflected by the earth's magnetism. At 4:30 a.m. (EST) red and white lights still were visible above midtown New York, where a red glow appeared to the southwest, a streaked white halo was directly over head and another red area hung in the northeast. The display began about 9 pjn. Monday. Portland (IP) Residents in dozens of Oregon commun ities Monday night saw the reddish hues of the Northern lights and flooded switch boards at radio stations and newspapers reporting the phenomenon. The U. S. Weather Bureau in Portland said it was a "very fine display" of the Aurora Borealis. Some thought it might be the glow from a gigantic fire. In Corvallis, residents report ed the lights had a reddish blue cast, "almost rose color." Greenland's icecap, a great flat dome crevassed on the edges, covers 700,000 square miles. In some places the ice is more than 10,000 feet thick. YOU CANT MISS! Finding fvst the right kind of 6IBS00 IwatmeBaaif
