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OA, (gAIL TRIBUNE, Medforc!, Oregon, Friday, May t, 1938 T . V , . 1 '.Z.&f,'' ' f '.a. K 7 A WORKMEN RECOVER BODY Workmen in Pasadena JuU body of Bill Yancey, 47, excavating contractor from etve-in of a sewer excavation which collapsed and buried llim. Yancey, a hero in the 1949 Kathy Fiscus tragedy, ied a mile and one-half from the spot whert he labored 3 hours in the unsuccessful attempt to ricu tht littlt jjirl from a welL tiixon Absent at Argentine Rites Buenos Aires (W Arturo Frondizi was sworn in Thurs day as president of Argen tina at a glittering joint ses sion of Congress. But Vice President Richard M. Nixon, who traveled all the way from Washington, missed the .ac tual oath-taking ceremony. Nixon and representatives of 57 other nations were here to see Frondizi and Vice Pres ident Alejandro Gomez take over control of the govern ment following their victory in Argentina's first complete ly free presidential election in 30 years. Aides at the U.S. Embassy said Nixon arrived at the Congress building promptly at 10 a.m. but found the cere mony had started earlier than scheduled. - ffCI The aides said that when he arrived at the Congress, Nix on was able to reach his seat only with the greatest diffi cultp. Hence, he was overlate for the actual swearing-in ceremony. fwo Given Honors By Broadcasters Los Angeles (IP) Dr. Lee forest, the "father of radio," (gnd singer Dinah Shore, cho Sen as television's outstanding female personality last year, tyere honored by the National Association of Broadcasters Thursday. Delegates at the closing ses; (gjon of the 36th annual con vention gave the 85-year-old inventor of the vacuum tube g standing ovation and pre (jjnted him with a scroll re counting his contributions. "Without his work, we would certainly not be at our present point of advancement, and we just might not be here at all as broadcast engineers," said A. Pr5se Walker, mana ger of tngineering for the NAB. Miss Shore was described by Harold E. Fellows, presi dent of the NAB, as the "first lady" of television for her five Emmy wards the indus try's highest recognition. He presented her with a sil ver punch bowl. SPELL TAKES EFFECT Westacre, Southern Rhode sia (IP) A native robbed of his life savings of $4.62 used a local method of getting it back today. The money was returned in no time when he had his witchdoctor lay a spell that the thief would die of a terrible disease. Cotton Maid Gives Shirts To Benson Washington (IP) The cot ton maid of 1958 called on Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson Thursday to in vite him to the Memphis Cot ton Carnival and give him eight $5 shirts. Jean Carter, 20, a red haired beauty from Atlanta, Ga., stopped off for two days in Washington before com pleting the last leg of a six month tour that will take her finally to Canada and Europe. "We didn't talk about cot ton at all," Miss Carter, an undergraduate at Vanderbilt University. "We talked about Salt Lake City," Benson's home town. Miss Carter said "the secre tary was surprised that we knew his shirt size." The gift shirts, she said, were 100 per cent cotton, drip-dry and the gift of the National Cotton Council. Missionary Uses Sound of Jungle To Lull Self To Sleep After 27 Years on River an By LOUIS CASSELS United Press Correspondent When city noises keep him awake, Leo Halliwell plays extraordinary lullaby on the tape re corder beside his bed. The back ground music is the soft lap ping of water against the the side of a boat. There is a steady obli- Loui Cassels gato of alliga tor grunts, punctuated occa sionally by the scream of a prowling jaguar or the rau cous cry of a tropical bird. These are the sounds of the Amazon jungle at night sounds that lulled Leo Halli well to sleep for 27 years. Halliwell and his wife, Jes sie, are Seventh Day Adven tist missionaries. From 1931 until they retired a few weeks ago, they plied the Amazon river aboard a 30-foot boat, bringing medical care and the Christian gospel to people who had never heard of either before they came. Mrs. Halli- Britain Planning K-Bomb Rocket London (IF) Experts said today they are working on plans for a 70-ton H-bomb rocket capable of being launched from Britain at tar gets in Russia, Eastern Europe or the Middle East. A statement issued by the Sperry Gyroscope Co. and two British firms working on this country's "Ultimate De fense System" estimated it should be ready for action in two or three years. "Captive" tests of the new rocket's engine will be made at an isolated research station in Spadeadam, north of Lon don. The missile will be flight tested at Woomera in the Australian desert. itii i'"ifTi B O D OK fe f for Vfeilue for 4T for Thrills T oCX m ec Example: The Buick Special 2-Door 6-Passenger Sedan is priced below 27 models of the "low-price three" yet this Buick gives you a long list of extras at no extra cost that are charged for by other cars. Example: Buick alone has air-cooled ALUMINUM front brakes which Sports Cars Illustrated Magazine says are a "100 improvement over conventional Detroit brakes. These air-cooled aluminum brakes the year's greatest safety advance are optional at slight extra cost on the Special, standard at no extra cost on all other Series. Example: Every B-58 Buick gives you the smooth, surging response of the B-12000 engine with its 12,000 pounds of thrust behind every piston's power stroke. And in any B-58 Buick you can have the fabulous performance of Flight Pitch Dynaflow that switches the pitch a million ways. Flight Pitch Dynaflow standard on Limited and Koadmaster 75, optional at extra cost on all other Series. For Your Top Buy During AUTO BUY WEEK- SEC YOUR LOCAL AUTHORIZED BUICK DEALER NOW-mon than ivir-Whtn bettar automobiles ara built Bulek will build them 143 So. Rivcrsido Medford, Oregon well is a trained nurse. But her husband had had no medi cal training when they, were sent to northern Brazil to es tablish an Adventist mission at Belem, near the mouth of the Amazon. They learned that their "parish" included the whole Amazon basin, a roadless tan gle of tropical rain forest al most as big as the continent of Europe, inhabited by alli gators, poisonous snakes, mos quitos, and 2 million of the most primitive people on earth. They also learned that those ; people were desperately in need of medical care and there was not a single licensed doctor to serve them. Halliwell returned to Amer ica and took a six-month course in tropical medicine at an Adventist hospital. It was all the time he felt he could spare. Then he hurried back to Belem, and built a shallow bottomed motor launch, which he named the Luzeiro Portu guese for "light bearer." For nearly three decades, the Halliwells operated the Luzeiro as a floating clinic, travelling an average of 10, 000 miles a year up and down the vast Amazon and its hun dreds of tributaries. Still Pliei Amaion Today the Luzeiro Is still plying the Amazon, staffed by another team of Adventist medical missionaries. But it is no longer unique. There are 12 carbon copies of it, doing the same work. When Halliwell prepared to 1t Irasil after 27 years of practicing medicine without a license, he was summoned to the capital at Rio de Janeiro. T h government presented him with its highest civilian decoration, the Brazilian Cross. And it notified him that it will henceforth appro priate 390,000 annually to support the growing fleet of floating clinics. "This is wonderful news," said Halliwell softly. "With that money, we can have 15 or 20 more boats." The Halliwells are natives of Kearney, Neb. They were in Washington, D. C, this week reporting to Seventh Day Adventist world head quarters. Soon they will go to visit a married daughter, Mrs. Marian Ermshar, who lives in Tyler, Tex. Then they will head for California to "hunt a place to retire." Halliwell, who is "only 66, explained that he did not re tire because of age. He has cataracts on both eyes and was no longer able to navi gate the Luzeiro on the Ama zon's tricky currents. Poison Oak? .Try a Bottle of ZEMACOL You must b satisfied or your money cheerfully refunded. Get a bottle today at WESTERN THRIFT Motorist Locates Wife's Stolen Car Pensacola, Fla. HP) De tective W. E. Dickson was driving to headquarters in a car that he had found aban doned a few minutes earlier. Suddenly there were re peated horn blasts from a car behind him. Dickson pulled over. "What's wrong?" the detec tive inquired. "That's what I want to know," snapped the horn blowing motorist, H. L. Ever age. "That's my wife's car." Everage cooled down when he learned the circumstances and his wife reclaimed the vehicle, which had been stol en two days earlier. o J DUST PALLIATIVE ROAD MIX Mm MULTIPLE LIFT & Din m Phone SP 3-4331 Keep-MforcTs coiiomy Boiling! YO TO P. Oil Y WW Medfprd's big "Auto Buy" campaign is now underway! Thirteen of Medford's automobile dealers are spearheading and sponsoring this COMMUNITY program to KEEP Medford's Economy Rolling! During these days participating dealers will make it doubly attractive for YOU to buy a new car . . . there'll be $50.00 IN CASH as a "Prosperity Booster" award so that you can spend ten $5 certified checks for whatever you want in Medford's stores and shops. There will be added prizes for those who make the closest estimate to the Medford Automobile Dealers' total 1957 dollar volume Five dollar bills for those who answer the 'phone with "You Auto luy Now" instead of the conventional "Hello." During the next ten days you'll have the opportunity to boost local business conditions while treating yourself to real bargains in automobiles and in other merchandise featured by alert Medford business firms. And, of course, you'll be able to make the best buys if you follow the "Keep Medford's Economy Rolling You Auto Buy Now" campaign advertising in the Medford Mail Tribunel YOU AUTO BUY NOW!
