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ANXIOUS Dressed only in Kit UMdenrear, James Avolio,
65, of Paterson, N. J., anxiously awaits rescue on the
rear roof of a 2-story builflin afltr an early morning
fire broke out in his attic apartment. The policemen be
low had unsuccessfully attempted to rescue Avolio, and
are shown hailing firemen just ariving. Avolio suffered
burns on back and head.
Railroad Freight Sate Hike Rapped
Salem (UPI) Director
of Agriculture Robert J.
Steward today filed a formal
protest to the Interstate Com
merce Commission of the
three per cent general rail
road freight rate increases
whkh went into effect this
year.
Steward said that if the rate
remains in effect, it will cause
added hardships to Oregon
agriculture and further shifts
toother forms of transporta
tion. He said this was true de
spite the fact that the increase
was smaller and more selec
tive than many of the per
centage increases granted rail
roads since World War II.
The protest will be consid
ered at ICC hearings sched
uled for July in Washington,
D. C.
Steward cited as an exam
ple that in terms of every 100
acres of potatoes produced,
the railroad got 28 acres at
Ontario in 1945 and 45 acres
in 1957.
He added that rate increases
on onions shipped from Salem
grew from 37 of each 100
acres in 1945 to 57 in 1957.
Dollarwise, rail costs to New
York on pears shipped from
Medford climbed from $1.42
to $2.18 per hundredweight
from 1945 to 1957. And Hood
River apples went from $1.35
to $2.26.
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UMPU, seat postal to Orangeburg, n. y.
Bourdon Named Agent
For Insurance Firm
John C. Bourdon, 4226 Ce
dar lane, has been appointed
agent here for the Medford
office of Prudential Insurance
company, Harold D. Hamm,
district manager, has an
nounced. Bourdon is a native of New
Hampshire and attended pub
lic schools there. During
World War II and the Korean
conflict he served with the
Navy in the Atlantic, Pacific,
Caribbean and Mediterra
nean. Mr. and Mrs. Bourdon have
two children, James David,
14, and Billy Charles,, 8.
Horses still pull freight cars
over a short rail line linking
a rail junction with the Shan
nonville Mills near Clonakilty
in County Cork, Eire.
News About Books
From the Library.
Almost every circulating
book shelved in the "green
room," the large south read
ing room of the Medford Pub
lic library, has been moved
to a new position on the
shelves.
The shifting was necessary
in the installation of two new
bookstacks recently acquired
to take care of the library's
growing book collection. Mo
ving the fine arts books to
the new stacks provided space
on the wall shelves for shift
ing books in the arts, science,
language, social sciences, and
religion classes, space that has
been much needed for new
additions to these collections.
A library is not only a col
lection of books; it is even
more specifically defined as a
selection of books in an order
ly arrangement. If you are to
find books on a subject group
ed together for your conven
ience, shelf space must be
left available not only for the
addition of new volumes in
the field but for the return
to their correct place of books
brought back to the library
by borrowers. The shelvers
have been finding this an in
creasingly difficult task re
cently, especially in the fields
of science and technology.
While you will not now
find your books in their ' fa
miliar places, you will still
find them in the Dewey Deci
mal arrangement used by
most public libraries. To as
sist you further in locating
your favorites, shelf labels
have been posted, indicating
the new positions of all sub
jects, and book jackets typi
fying the subjects have ' also
been placed at the ends of
shelves.
Don't hesitate to ask for as
sistance at the library's circu
lation desk.
School Classes
Visit Library
Elementary school classes
which visited the Medford
Public library, headquarters
of the Jackson County library
at the closing of the school
year included the West Side
school's first grade and the
Griffin Creek school's second
grade.
Miss Pat Colley brought 14
pupils to make the acquain
tance of the library's junior
department when the West
Side pupils made their field
trip. With Mrs. Arnold and
28 children of the Griffin
Creek school were two of the
school's mothers, Mrs. Mer
riman and Mrs. Hufteling.
During the summer vaca
tion months the junior depart
ment will open an hour earl
ier each afternoon, from 1 to
5:30 p.m. daily except Sat
urdays, when children may
visit the library from 10 a.m.
to 5:30 p.m.
Parents who cannot attend
the library during daytime
hours are invited to take ad
vantage of the library's "fam
ily night" each Tuesday when
the children's room vis also
open from 6:30 until 9 p.m.
During the past month, 199
volumes were added to the
library, of which 53 were se
lected for junior readers, and
146 for adults. Gifts account
ed for 20 of these, the donors
including Arthur H. Thomp
son, Mrs. W. H. Roberts, Haz
el M. Goodrich, and Mrs. Guy
Jones. Eight-two new titles
were included, of which 60
were listed in the last publi
cation of this column.
Twenty-two new titles added
more recently include:
Adventure: Walk the Wide
World, Knies; The Wooden
Horse, Williams; Sagebrush
Swindle, Field.
Other non-fiction: The Days
Before Yesterday, Crehan;
Yonder One World, Moraes;
The Edge of April, Swift.
Humor: St. Dingan's Bones,
Lee; Cheers, Major Barlow,
Fain.
Romance: The White Room,
Coatsworth; Kate Cavanaugh,
Downes.
Science Fiction: The Black
Cloud, Hoyle; The Martian
Chronicles, Zradbury.
Historical Romance: Bugle
in the Wilderness, Burress;
Pharaoh, McGraw.
Mysteries: The Execution
ers, Millar; The Lost One, Ly
on; Death of A Spinster, Dun
combe. Teen-Age: The Light, Saint
Marcoux; Florian, Salten; A
Dream to Touch, Emery; The
Star Seekers, Lesser.
Other Fiction: A Bromfield
Galaxy, Bromfield.
Church Urged
To Speak Out
San Francisco (UPI)
Evangelist Billy Graham says
the church must speak out to
day on the problems of race,
alcoholism and mental illness.
Graham told a near-capacity
crowd of 18,000 persons
at the Cow Palace Tuesday
night that "the church must
take the lead" in all moral
and social issues of the day.
One of the major purposes
of the church, he said, is to
be an influence for good in
the community.
Its purpose is ,to glorify
God, to provide fellowship
and to strengthen religious
faith.
"Christ predicted the tri
umph of the church," he said.
Before his sermon, singer
Ethel Waters was introduced
to the crowd. She sang, "His
Eye Is On The Sparrow."
Miss Waters told newsmen
she came to San Francisco to
appear with Graham "because
my child needs me, so I came
out here to smile at him and
let him know he was on the
right track."
Graham's total attendance
to date is 603,225.
The crusade ends this Sun
day, to be climaxed by a giant
rally in Seals Stadium on
June 22. '
Some of the old Hebrides Is
lands off the west coast of
Scotland are, linked to the
mainland by air services.
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THAT'S RIGHT. Only 1 patient out of 3 is a subscriber.
The other two must pay.
Any resident living within 1 JO miles of Medford, Ore
gon, can and should b a subscriber to Mercy Flights. At
$4 a year per family, it is the only way that a wage
q earner can afford air ambulance service for his family.
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Accidents don't just happen to "someone else." The most
common comment by Mercy Flights patients is: "1 never
thought that WE would need Mercy Flights."
If the time ever arises whn your family is saying this,
wouldn' it be better to be a subscriber? For a non-subscriber,
the fee is $70 for every 100 miles the patient
is flown.
NO OTHER
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in the United States has a service like
Mercy Flights. The three twin-engine
planes are operated for only one rea
son, and that is to save your life.
Don't wait until it's too late! If you are
not a subscriber, send your $4 today
to:
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' Box 522
Medford, Oregon
86 Major Cases
Reported to City
Police in May
A total of 86 major offenses
were reported to the Medford
city police during May, ac
cording to the monthly depart
ment report. Traffic citations
totaled 490 and miscellaneous
services, 855. ,
Fifty-five major offenses
were reported in May, 1957,
and 64 in May, 1956.
Major offenses investigated
by the department, of which
21 per cent were cleared dur
ing the month, were 1. aggra
vated assault, which was clear
ed; 11 burglaries, 3 cleared;
8 larceny-theft of $50 or over,
3 cleared; 61 under S50, 10
cleared; and 5 auto theft, 1
cleared. -
Miscellaneous offenses in
cluded 41 drunkenness, all
cleared; 13 embezzlement and
fraud, 6 cleared; 13 assaults,
9 cleared; 5 vagrancy, all
cleared; 4 disorderly conduct,
3 cleared; 2 forgery and coun
terfeiting, neither cleared; 1
violation of liquor laws, which
was cleared.
While 1,567 total cases were
reported during May, police
cleared 1,451 cases, including
those pending from past
months.
A total of 1,166 cases were
reported to city police in
May, 1957, and 1,116 in May,
1956.
Of the traffic citations is
sued, 92 were for failure to
stop at a sign or signal;
violations of basic rule;
parked on wrong side
street; 136 other improper
parking; 34 no operator's li
cense and 23 void vehicle li
cense. Four persons were arrested
for driving while under the
influence of intoxicating
liquor. The remainder were
for miscellaneous violations.
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MINUTES BEFORE DEATH Mrs. Lucia Downey, 85, of
Oakland, Calif., presents a flag to Bob Hale, 12, at a flag
raising ceremony at the new Tyrell Junior High School
in Hayward minutes before she collapsed and died. Mrs.
Downey was giving the school a flag which had been used
on the grave of her son, a war casualty. Apparently the
excitement was too much for her. r
Custodian Breaks Fall of Girl, 5
115-ManStaff
Makes 20 Pounds
Of Material Daily
i Model City, N. Y. (UPI)
A plant in this tiny western
New York community has a
115-man production force that
works a three-shift, seven-day
week but turns out only 20
pounds of material weekly.
On the surface, it would ap
pear much effort was going to
waste. But the work of pro
ducing, the dark grey powder
known as boron 10 is extreme
ly complicated.
The four - million - dollar
Atomic Energy Commission
installation here, operated by
the Hooker Electrochemical
Co., is the only full-scale
plant producing boron 10 in
the United States and Canada.
Boron 10, according to the j
AEC, is a form of the non
metallic element boron. Pos
sessing the property of read
ily absorbing neutrons with
out itself becoming radio
active, it is suitable for use in
nuclear-reactive shielding and
control mechanisms.
The installation here, gets
its boron in the form of a gas,
boron trifloride, from certain
chemical companies. It is
found fairly widely in nature
as a mixture of boron 10 and
boron 11. i
The work of separating the
two is accomplished through
use of fractionating towers,
similar to those used in the
petroleum industry.
Precautionary measures of
a high degree are taken to in
sure that none of the material,
worth $1,200 a pound, escapes
the plant.
All workers in the process
ing area wear gloves to pre
vent the possibility of even
minute particles being carried
off under the fingernails. Also
all worn clothing, floor sweep
ings and other waste is re
tained and burned periodical
ly to recover small amounts
of boron 10.
Hooker points out ' that a
prime use for the product will
be to help protect persons
who operate nuclear reactors.
Currently, require shielding
for reactor structures is ac
complished through use of
tons of lead or concrete.
"The relatively minute
quantities of boron 10 re
quired to provide neutron
shielding may simplify reac
tor design," said Hooker.
Pickets Removed
At Burns Plant
Burns (UPD The Hines
Lumber company of Hines is
back in operation after pick
ets from the International
Woodworkers of America
closed the plant for 12 hours
Monday, a Hines official at
Burns said Tuesday.
The IWA local is still strik
ing at the Westfir operation
of the Hines company.
The Westfir strike began
when the Hines company re
fused to renew existing con
tracts. The company sought
to negotiate on pay to fallers
and buckers.
Portland (UPI) Karen
Jan Olson, 5, .Buffalo, Mont.,
fell 12 feet from a stairway
landing at the Forestry build
ing here Tuesday but escaped
serious, injury when the fall
was partially broken by the
custodian, V. E. Saunders,
who tried to catch her.
She suffered shock and pos
sible head injuries. She told
police she slipped on the top
step of the model forest look
out tower and slid headfirst
to a landing where she went
through the railing 'and then
dropped another 12 feet to
the floor. Saunders saw her
as she- slid downstairs.
GRAFLEX MAN DIES
Rochester, N.Y. (UPI)
Chairman Nelson L. Whitaker
of Graflex, Inc. manufac
turer of photographic equip
ment died at 79 in Genesee
hospital here on Monday. He
was president of the Oswego
County Trust company from
1929 to 1944.
ASTOR'S MOTHER DIES
New York (UPI) Lady
Ribblesdale, first wife' of the
late Col. John Jacob Astor,
died at her home here on
Monday. She was 89. She was
89. She was the mother of
Vincent Astor. Lady Ribbles
dale was one of the leaders
f "otf Dciety for more
thn SO years. She was fam
ous both for her beauty and
for her sfcill as a sportswom
an. Iowa, California, Pennsyl
vgnit and Minnesota lead the
nation in their annual produc
tion of eggs for market.
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