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10 MAIL TRIBUNE, MedforJ, Oregon, Tuesday, April 29, 1958 Graham Surprises Crowd With Remar! On Commandments San Francisco 1? Billy Graham laid it on the line Monday night to churchgoers. He provoked a gasp of sur prise when he told a near capacity crowd of 14,00 that they had each broken every single one of God's command ments. "You'll not be condemned at judgment for today," he thundered. "You are under sentence now. That's the rea son you have not found peace and happiness." Graham's crusades are us ually aimed at those who be long to no church but who feel a spiritual emptiness in their lives. But Monday night he invited churchgoers to at tend an "all church night," the first night meeting of his six-week crusade. 150 Church Groups In the audience were 84 busloads of people, some of them who came from as far as Los Angeles to hear the evangelist's message. There were 150 different church groups present. If they thought they were going to get off easy because they go to church, they were mistaken. Graham read them the Ten Commandmants from the 20th chapter of Exodus. He empha sized the third, "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain." "The Commandments are the law," he said. "When God gave them to you, he knew you could not keep them. He gave them to you as a mirror to see how far short you were falling. "There is not a person in this room who has not broken every single Commandment." VODKA MARTINI Make it with the Vodka of Vodkas . if th greatest name in VODKA SO and 100 Proof. Dist. from grain. Ste. Pierre Smirnoff Fls.(Div.ofHeublein)Hartford,Conn. Studebaker 33.956 jf Official mileage mark for full Economy! that's precisely what the Studebaker Scotsman was built for. And this sturdy, full-sized sedan, equipped with overdrive, proved its mettle the hard way in the Studebaker Scotsman Mile-A- Get an these outstanding featares with the highway -proved Scotsman! Full-sized! Holds six adults in comfort. Full power en regular gasoline. New color-styled interiors. Modem engineering -Safety-Built body. Variable ratio steering. Automatic transmission optional. See the complete line of Studebaker-Paclcard sports cars, hardtops, Pay only local taxes, H any, and transportation from South Bend. (3D VHiTirWeSBe 'DE' LEIGH MOTORS - 134 South Riverside, Medford, Ore. 1953, SMdfcatr-?sckard Corporation A murmur swept through the audience. "You are all lawbreakers." Word for Lawbreaking He said the Bible has a three-letter word for law breaking sin. "You are separated from God, you peo ple of the Bay Area," he said. "You ask, how can I be forgiven my sins by good work- No, you can do good work all your life, but that will not save your soul, unless you repent." Earlier, Graham noted that there were about 2.000 empty seats in the Cow Palace. On Sunday, every seat was filled and there were about 2,500 standees. But he called Monday night's turnout "encourag ing." "After Sunday, people got the idea they couldn't get here without getting into six miles of traffic jams," he said. The California Highway Pa trol reported that traffic mov ed smoothly and there were no delays. , Klamath Delays Pinball Action Klamath Falls UP) An injunction delaying a crack down on free play pinball ma chines in Klamath county was granted Monday by Cir cuit Judge David R. Vanden berg. The crackdown has been ordered in early April by Dis trict Attorney Richard Bees ley on grounds that the at torney general had ruled that such machines were illegal. A request was filed immed iately for a restraining order by attorneys representing pin ball operators. Klamath Falls City Attorn ey Henry Perkins appeared in court and spoke in favor of the restraining order. He said the crackdown would place the city in an ambigu ous position. He said city po lice are obligated to cooperate with the district attorney and that the city would be sub ject to possible damages if the machines had been picked up and then found to be legal by the State Supreme Court. Dorena Lumber Plant . m Ceases Operations Cottage Grove (IP) The Booth Kelly Lumber plant at Dorena on the Row river east of here has ceased oper ations. The mill, which has operated for the past 17 years, employed 105 men with a cutting capacity of 125,000 feet per day. Officials said about 20 men have found employment elsewhere. SCOTSMAN sets new record miles per gallon average Studebaker Scotsman Mile-A-Thon course was from San Francisco to Bangor, Maine... 4,000.095 miles, with distance and fuel used measured by NASCAR. Thon. Over a twisting, turning, coast-to-coast course, it crossed the finish line April 17 with an average of 33.956 miles per gal Jon, certified by the National Association for Stock Car Advancement and Research! MILE-A -THON CONTEST GRAND PRIZE WINNERS! First Grand Prize: Third Grand Prize: John E. Ward Willa J. Russell Cleveland. Miss. St Helens, Ore. Second Grand Prize: Fourth Grand Prize: Gordon C. Foster G. H. Laing Milpitas, Calif. Americus, Ga. - Plus 21 other winners! S tudeb aker-Packard CORPORATION lj L C .A r... READY FOR HALLOWEEN Sheriff Merritt R. McBride, of Elkton, Mich., models spaceman's uniform designed by three youths and used by them to scare the wits out of motor ists. One of the three youths would don the outfit and stand by the side of the road until a passing motorist would see the weird costume and take off for parts unknown. If the motorist was brave enough to investigate, he would find no one on the road as the boys left the scene in another car. The ensemble included luminous blue hip boots (not shown) and long underwear painted the same color. The football helmet has flashing lights and the gloves and cape also glowed. Sheriff McBride confiscated the outfit and sent" the boys home with a warning. State Aeronautics oard Charges CAP In Portland (IP) The State Board of Aeronautics charged the Civil Air Patrol Monday with hindering the search for Mrs. Bruce Davis of Fresno, Calif., last week through in discriminate broadcasting of rumors. Earl Snyder, director of the State Aeronautics Board, said at Salem that once, CAP ra dioed the mission was com pleted when in fact trie air force helicopter (that rescued Mrs. Davis) had only arrived at the scene of the operation." He also charged that conduct of the CAP slowed down the rescue of the woman who spent three days and three nights in the wilds of central Oregon while her husband went for help. CAP 'Shocked' Major Stanley Sharp, Ore eon CAP wing operations of ficer, said he and other mem bers of the CAP were "shock- Scotsman 2-door Sedan just $1795 - sized car! sedans and station wagons. s ng Search ed." He said he could categori cally deny the charges. "Our members are so shock ed at these false accusations from a state official that we demand a complete investiga tion of these charges," he said. Sharp also called on the State Board of Aeronautics to pro duce evidence to substantiate the charges. A CAP spokesman said that in past years the CAP and state have disagreed on search techniques. Still in Hospital The Davises' Cessna crash ed eight days ago in eastern Oregon during a flight from Fresno to Spokane to visit rel atives. Mrs. Davis suffered a pelvis fracture and severe frostbite in her hands lower legs and feet. Both Davis, an orchestra leader, and his wife remained in a John Day Gen eral hospital. Davis said it would be "several weeks" be fore they could return to Cali fornia. Florida Officials Press Probe of Bomb Incidents Jacksonville, Fla. (IP) Angry state officials pressed today for use of the "full force" of state investigative agencies in an effort to solve terrorist bombings of a Jewish installation and a Negro school. There was similar reaction in Birmingham, Ala., to Mon day's abortive attempt to blow up a synagogue. Staff Offered Florida Gov. Leroy Collins Monday offered to local au thorities the assistance of his personal investigator and the staff of the state sheriff's bu reau if needed "to bring the guilty hoodlums to justice." Thunderous explosions, only three to four minutes apart, damaged an auditorium sec tion of the Jacksonville Jew ish Center and a Negro junior high school about four miles away shortly after midnight Monday. Shortly before noon Mon day, a Negro janitor found 54 sticks of dynamite in a window well at Temple Beth El Synagogue in Birmingham. Police said rain apparently ex tinguished .the fuse of the charge shortly after it had been lighted. Plea Made for Law Police Commissioner Eu gene Conner of Birmingham issued a plea that the next Legislature enact a law calling for the death penalty for any one convicted of dynamiting "any house, school or church." Bill Lyerly, director of the Alabama Highway Patrol, of fered on behalf of Gov. James E. Folsom a $2,000 reward for information leading to convic tion of the person or persons who placed the bomb. Hatfield, Gill Clash on Issue Of Sales Tax Portland (IP Secretary of State Mark Hatfield and State Sen. Warren Gill, two candidates for the Republican nomination for governor, clashed on the sales tax issue here Monday. They appeared at a Repub lican gathering along with Orval Rasor, a third candi date, and Mrs. Sig Unander, wife of the state treasurer who also is a candidate. Unander was unable to at tend because of prior com mitments. Hatfield said advocacy of a sales tax represents "offer ing a sales tax as a panacea for all tax evils." What Good? Hatfield said that although taxes were too high "what good do you do if you elimin ate one tax and slip in an other one that you'll collect a few pennies at a time?" Real tax reduction, he said, will only follow reduction of expenditures. Gill said a three per cent sales tax with groceries, medicine, farm supplies and services exempt, would bring in about 70 million dollars a year. He said he had found the sales tax idea popular among both Republicans and Democrats in his travels over the state. Gill Critical , Hatfield also scored pri mary campaign tactics which he said might help defeat the Republican winner in Novem ber. Gill has been critical of both Hatfield and Unander. Rasor blamed "southern senators" for withholding funds for access road con struction in Oregon. Mrs. Unander said she and her husband have been en couraged because of a "dis tinct upturn in political in terest among voters" which she termed different "from when we started campaign ing in January." Head-on Collision Of Planes Told Las Vegas (IP) Prelimin ary findings by the Civil Aeronautics Board have con firmed that a F-100 jet and a United Air Lines DC7 col lided almost head-on over the Nevada desert a week ago. It was believed at first that the jet went out of control and plunged straight down onto the New York - bound luxury liner. Forty nine per sons were killed in the crash. Phil Goldstein, head CAB investigator on the scene, said Monday the right wing of the Super Sabre jet sliced through the airliner wing like a giant knife, severing about an eight-foot section of the tip. The investigation will con tinue to determine the exact angle of impact, Goldstein said. However, early findings indicate the jet was below rather than above the air liner and veering away from it when the leading edges of the wings collided., The CAB's official findings will be presented at a pub lic hearing here when the study has been completed, within two to five weeks. Station Operator Beaten by Thugs Portland (IP) A' service station operator who was robbed and beaten by several men on March 8 was robbed and beaten by three or four men again Monday night, po lice reported. Ed Law, who operates a sta tion on NE Sandy blvd., told police he fired three shots at his assailants as they fled and might have wounded one. He was hospitalized with unde termined injurie's. Police said his clothing appeared to have been slashed with a knife. The till and safe at the sta tion both were emptied. On March 8 five men invaded his station and robbed it, leaving Law with a head injury and a knif e wound in the abdomen. Law said three or four men assaulted him Monday night. Portlanders Organize Fun-Making Group Portland (IP) The nation has a new fun-making organ ization. Now available for publicity - making horseplay are the Portland Rainmakers who aim to promote, publicize and duly honor "the most out standing and beneficial asset" of the City of Portland namely its rainy weather. , The Rainmakers, limited to a membership of 50 promi nent Portlanders, will be marked by red Tyrolean hats, green ties, and green and white umbrellas. Members will be known as rain drops and they'll hand out bottles of 180 drops of rain water to visitors to the city. Is That So? No mineral is more preci ous than salt it is essential to life and it is certainly one of the commonest. Historially, it was consider erd so important the Romans named a vital highway for it, the Via Salaria. Also, our word salary comes from sal- arium, salt money or part of a Roman solider's pay. Animals are so attracted to it that if you want to photo graph them, just set up a rock salt lick. It attracts anything from a moose down. But check you state's laws first. It may be illegal. In the oceans, the average of salt is about one pound to" four gallons of water, but the salt content varies. In the polar regions sea water is least salty because of scanty evaporation and dilution by rivers. The Sargasso area of the Atlantic is the saltiest part of the oceans because of intense evaporation and little influx of fresh water. For example, the saline content off the Florida coast is 10 per cent greater than off Cape Cod. But despite the immense salt content of the seas, it is profitable to mine it from the land. North American salt beds have been found with a thickness of several hundred to 2,000 feet. .Salt has tremendous indus trial value as well as nutri tional. It is needed for manu facture of glass, pottery, soap to name a few things. As for its use at table, it was considered so important it determined seating arrange ments. "To eat above the salt" meant to sit with the honor ed guests. In the old days a huge salt cellar was put in the middle of the table. "To sit below the salt" meant to sit at the end with those Jess honored. (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: -By special s arrange ment with the editors of the Encyclopedia Americana, my Portlanders Held On Drug Charges Portland (IP) Two Port land men, Wey Him Fong and Jung Jim, also known as Kim Lee, were arrested by federal narcotics" agents here late Monday and charged with selling heroin. Fong was held in lieu of $50,000 bond and Jim, $20, 000. Fong and his wife Sherry were tried and acquitted in the 1954 death of Diane Hank, 16-year-old babysitter for the Fongs. The case has never been solved. Fong operates a curio shop and Jim runs a cafe. The two men were given preliminary hearings before U. S. Commissioner Claire Mundorff and bound over to the federal grand jury. An undercover narcotics agent testified he made purchases of heorin from them. O SEE WEDNESDAY'S MAIL TRIBUNE SEE WHY YOU AUTO BUY! 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