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o Poiise Captor AGgnseil of K Llaves, N.M. (UPI) State police shot and captured alive today a bearded, crazed pros pector described by eye wit nesses as the man who for no apparent reason shot two Cuba, N.M., youngsters to death Thursday. District Attorney Paul W. Robinson said Norman A. Foose, 47, would be placed under armed guard in an Al buquerque hospital for psy- rhiatrir pvamination. Robinson said that mur der charges are pending out come of the examination. Surprised by Police A party of five state troop ers surprised Foose at dawn today. Patrolman Joe Ortega said that Sgt. Milton Mattison shouted over a megaphone to "drop your gun." Then, Ortega said, two troopers opened fire, one shot striking Foose in the foot. The fugitive rolled on the ground in agony, shouting "what's going on? What are you shooting me for?" He offered no resistance and dropped his .305 hunting rifle as police opened fire. Foose was returned to Cuba, the tiny mountain com munity he terrorized Thurs day with two sudden blasts from his powerful hunting rifle. State Police Chief Joe Roach identified the prospec- IU M M Southern Oregon's Oldest and Largest Furniture Store Ccsaa ss3 this cmczing sbsp vdaa 'Trademark smooth-fop , . mat tress 1 1 88 v'-J Full or Twin Sue Matching Sin: Low LIMITED TIME ONLY Compare Serta-Lux with other POSTURE-TYPE mat tresses priced much higher. No nuts, no - buttons. It's smooth, top and bottom ... the modern way to sleep . . . has extra levelizir.g layer for healthful spine-level rest. Come in today! GtiaroGised bv " l Good Housekeeping . Advertised in the Journal of the American Medical Association See cur ALL NSW Serta-Bi!t LIMITED TIMS $)OS3 ONLY Outstanding value in a faffed mattress Madu by h maters of tfia Stria "Perfect Sleeper"l3 Smooth-Top Moltress . Fiillor Twin Size Matching Bdx Soring Safe Low Price No Carrying Charges or Interest when you use our payment plan You pay ONLY for the merchandise ar WEEKS & CRR. M ll'i3 r r a- 8 Grazed Prospector illing Two Youngsters tor as "Foose" after a check with Utah authorities. St. George, Utah, police said the license plates on Foose's truck were traced to a man answering his description there. Released From Hospital Roach said Foose was re cently released from a mental hospital at Everett, Wash., with a history of paranoia. Thursday, night Roach warned the 35 members of his posse to use every precau tion. ' "He is a paranoid, irrespon sible for what he is doing and definitely a mental case-" Roach said. The gunman staged a onf man reign of terror in Cuba just before lunch time Thurs day, shattering the midsum HORNBROOX Return From By KATHERINE CHAPMAN Hornbrook Mr. and Mrs. Allan Jesperson returned Sat urday evening from Klamath Falls where they watched their son, Pvt. Bill Jesperson, compete in the bareback rid ing event at the Klamath Falls rodeo July 4. The previous weekend, ac companied by Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Spencer and daughter, Donna of Montague, Calif., they drove to Eureka, when Bill placed second in bare back riding at the Redwood Empire rodeo. Bill . returned to. Ft. Ord Sunday. Mrs. Lawrence Breceda, her mother, Mrs. Ellena Conley, and her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Gene Bre ceda of Ashland, drove to Sacramento July 4 where the Brecedas attended the Billy Graham services at the fair grounds that evening. The next day they drove to San Francisco, where Mrs. Conley remained to spend the sum mer with another daughter. Gordon Jacobs observed a birthday "in the eighties" Monday, June 30. To honor their father, his daughters, Mrs. Herman Pinkham, her husband and his two sons, of Chico, and Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Perry and daughter, Linda, of Lake Tahoe spent the week end with him,- and the family group had a birthday dinner at the Dardanelles in Gold Hill Sunday. Mr., and Mrs. William No thelfer of Salem spent the holiday weekend with her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Walsh and daughter, Sharee. Mrs. Bertha Bradley, ac companied by her brother-in-law, Will Rogers, of Klamath river, drove to Sacramento July 4 to attend the golden wedding anniversary of her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Archie Winders, of Santa Rosa, Calif. A cocktail hour and dinner for the hon ored couple hosted by their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Morrill of Woodland, Calif., was given July 5 at the El Dorado Hotel and Motel in North Sacra mento. Completing the family party were the Morrill's son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Ward Von Tillow and daughter, DeeAnn, of Santa Rosa, and two other sisters of Mrs. Winder's, Mrs. E. T. Roeder of El Cerrito, Calif., and Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Ter rell of Sacramento. Mrs. Brad ley and Rogers returned home on Sunday. Guests this week at the Ed Smith home are Mrs. Irene Cooney of San Francisco who arrived Tuesday, and Mrs. Winifred Lane of San Carlos, Calif., who arrived in Med ford by plane July 4. That afternoon, the . Smiths, their daugher, Dorothy, son, Bob of Roseburg, and their guests drove to Ft. Jones for a fam ily gathering at the home of Mrs. Smith's sister, Mrs. Bur nell Burton. Visiting last week at the Matt Johnson home were Mr. and Mrs: William "Fraser of Oakland, Calif. Mrs. Ella Rose made a trip to her old home territory on Williams creek last week. Her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Courtland Rose of Ashland, took her up to visit friends on July 1, but she was disappointed in finding few of them at home. ; They re turned to Ashland, where she spent a few days visiting her sister-in-law, Mrs. Edith New comb, and other friends, and came back home on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. E. Bunkern of Ft. Jones, Calif., were July 4 guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Leo King. v . Not many, people here abouts can say they froze ice cream for their Fourth of July picnic using snow for the freezing medium. But, if mer quiet of the small log ging community with two rifle shots that killed Arlene Cebada, 12, her cousin, Eddie Cebada, 16, and wounded her mother. Then he escaped in a green jeep pickup truck traced to a Norman A. Foose, St. George, Utah.- ' Indians Guide Posse Indian police from the Ji carilla Apache reservation guided the posse. Thursday night to the campsite. One posse member, Sam Hill, Ber nalillo; was wounded in the shoulder by the gunman who then vanished in brush east of his campsite. Posse 'members, armed with rifles and tear gas, laid low under Roach's orders Thurs day night, taking no further KF Rodeo you take your freezers and drive to the top of Mt. Ash land, you can do just that.; To continue this Bray fam ily tradition of many years standing, Mr. and Mrs. Loren Cummins took their children, Jennifer and Loren Howard, accompanied by several friends and relatives, on their annual ice cream - freezing spree. In the group were Mrs Cummins' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Howard, who moved here recently from Seattle, Mr. and Mrs. Harley Baker and Karen Sue, and Mr. and Mrs. Lauran Paine and son Lornie. The kids in the party reported the ice cream "luscious" and the snow perfect for sliding. Miss Sherrie Adams of Lakeview, Calif., arrived by bus July 3 to spend the rest of the ' summer with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Ardon Burns. George Sloan is a patient at Siskiyou General hospital in Yreka. He suffered a heart at tack induced by heat prostra tion, while helping hay at the ranch of his son-in-law, Tony Lemos, last Monday. He was taken to the hospital by Tom Collister in his station wagon. Conductors Hall Threat of Strike New York (UPI) A threatened strike of conduc tors against the New York Central Railroad was called off Thursday. The Order of Railway Con ductors withdrew its strike no tice and agreed to resume negotiations at the request of Federal Judge William B. Herlands, who presided over a hearing on a motion by the railroad for an injunction to restrain the union from strik ing. The 'union . had threatened to strike to protest transferral of sleeping car duties to con ductors. The jobs of Pullman car conductors who previous ly handled sleeping car chores were eliminated July 1. Court Records MUNICIPAL COURT Marionann Lausmann, violation of basic rule. S10. Robert Lynn Malcom,- improper right turn, S5. Carl Erwin Vogel, violation of basic rule. S10. Monte Marie Shaw, violation of basic rule. $10. Verlin Finley Jerome, violation of basic rule. $10. Foster Henry Greb, violation of basic rule, $10. Harry Alvin Flynn, disobeyed red light, $5. Herbert Dormer Good, violation of basic rule, $10. Bobbie Gene Porter, disobeyed red light. $5. Oscar Darrell Leek, violation of basic rule, S10. David Milton Setness, excessive pipes noise, $5. William Eakins. disobeyed red light, S5; no operator's license in no operator's license in possession, $7.50. Jack Alexander Wilson, no op erator's license in possession, $5. Larry Lee Nored, disobeyed stop sign. $5. Jack B. Gundlach, disobeyed stop sign, $5. Bert Leroy Johnson, disobeyed stop sign, $5. Stewart Alonzo Eidman. follow ing too closely, $10; expired op erator's license. $5. Sidney Jones, disobeyed stop sign, $5. v t DISTRICT COURT Dale Harris, overload. $137. Wayne H. Harris, improper turn, $15. Nolan C. Vaughn, overload. $93. Vernon Buck, overheight, $15. Eldon L. Baird. overload. S20. Reed F. Daugherty, violation of basic rule. $15. Charles R. Petrie, illegal passing, $10. Robert A. McCauley, fail to op erate on the right side. $7.50. James A. Browning, overwidth, $15. Everett D. Stevens. 1304 North Riverside ave., drunk on public highway, $30. CIRCUIT COURT Ronald J. Martin vs. Patricia M. Martin, divorce complatint. Frances Rose vs. Wayne Rose, divorce complaint. Betty Marie Barlow vs. Clyde M. Barlow, divorce complaint. Carmen D. Presher vs. Franklin E. Presher. divorce complaint. Agnes M. Hoffer vs. Fred Hoffer, divorce complaint. The University of Georgia was the nation's first state university. Located at Athens, Ga., it was chartered in 1785. chances on being shot by the prospector who had been working in this area for the past three months. Store owners who received his business said that he was "surly, didn't talk to any one." , - Why he shoved his rifle from the pickup and shot his three victims in Cuba was not known. Weldon Vernon, 16, a grocery clerk and ' eye witness, . described the shoot ing and declared "he must be nuts." . Madame Chiang Visions tragedy Ann Arbor, Mich. (UPI) Madame Chiang Kai-shek said Thursday night it is a tragedy that some "powerful minds" in the world believe Commu nist domination is preferable to nuclear war. The basic issue is that' of right and wrong, not mere survival as slaves stripped of human dignity, she said at a special convocation of the University of Michigan at which she received an honor ary degree of doctor of laws. Lodge Schedules No Meetings in Summer There will be. no meetings of the Fuhat Burkan Temple 224, Dramatic Order of Knights of Khorassan (Do kays) in July and August, lodge officials have announc ed. The next meeting is sched uled Saturday, Sept.' 6, in Yreka, Calif. The October meeting will be held in Medford and the annual autumn banquet, cere monial and eighth order show will be staged in Roseburg, Nov. 1. FLAG INSULT CHARGED Moscow (UPI) The So viet news agency Tass charg ed today two U.S. servicemen tried to tear down the Soviet and Belgian flags at the Rus sian pavilion at the Brussels World fair in a "provocatory act" Wednesday. The dispatch from Brussels called the serv icemen "uncontrolled Amer ican hooligans" and said the act was part of a campaign to "undermine the authority of the Soviet Union and sow discord 'in Soviet-Belgian re lations. BLOWS BIG BUBBLE Chicago (UPI) Carl Pfarr 13, beat out 200 others in the bubble gum blowing contest at the city's free fair by blowing an IIV2 inch bub ble to capture the champion ship for the second year. III! n UKffi to auto insurance Fact-filled booklet shows what each . auto insurance coverage can do for you. 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Home Floods, Winds Buffet Portions Of Four States By United Press International Rain-fed floods, high winds and ".thunderstorms buffeted portior- of four states Thurs day night and early today, leaving at least four persons dead in their wake. . At Atchison, Kan., one of the hardest hit of the weather stricken communities, a wom an and a Negro man, both un identified, drowned when up to seven or eight inches of rain cascaded flash floods into the streets of the downtown district beginning shortly aft er midnight. Helen East,. 12, drowned in a ravine near To peka when her family fled its trailer home. Water pulled her from her father's grasp. Killed by Lightning At West Milton, Ohio, Don ald Overholser, 14, was hoe ing the family tomato patch rnd was killed by a bolt of lightning. Winds clocked at up to 92 miles an hour caused damage in Western Missouri and East ern Kansas, snapping wires. uprooting trees and blocking some highways. In Eastern Ohio, a heavy downnour brought flash floods into the Salinesville area of Columbiana county and civil defense units helped evacuate about 200 families, Portions of Indiana recently plagued by flooding" reported heavy rainfall, but no new in undations. Creeks and rivers swollen by high rains pushed over thousands of acres of cropland in Southeast Nebraska. Area Organizations Plan Picnic in GP Members and their families of the Knights of Pythias, Pythian sisters, Sunshine Girls. Bov Scout Troop 16, Dokeys and Nomads of Avru- daka have been invited to a picnic at Caveman park in Grants Pass Sunday, July Those attending should brine table service nd a pot- luck meal. Coffee and other soft drinks will be furnished. Games, swimming and other entertainment are scheduled, according to Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Welsch, chairmen of the Grants Pass organization The same groups will hold a picnic in Hawthorne park, Medford, Sunday, July 20. 'CYCLE CLUB MEETS New Orleans (UPI) About 100 memb'ers of the Motor Maids of America a motorcycle club for women gathered here Thursday for their annual convention. The group's president, Mrs. Dot Robinson, rode into town car rying her 71-year-old mother in a sidecar. COMPANIES Co. with independent assets Office: Skokie, III. 1 Airplanes Continue Hunt for Nose Cone, Mouse in Atlantic Cape Canaveral, Fla. (UPI) Three search planes criss crossed 'the vast South Atlan tic today in a "last resort" effort to locate -an experimen tal nose cone and Mia II, the white mouse blasted into space at the tip of a hybrid rocket. But the Air Force indicated that whether or not the little passenger is recovered, the nose cone passed the crucial test of re-entry into the earth's atmosphere in a flight of more than 6,000 miles the range of an intercontinental ballis tic missile. Accuracy Assured Air Force officials said search planes saw the nose cone of the Thor-Able rocket returning to earth from space minutes after the missile was fired Wednesday night. That meant . the U.S. can deliver larger nuclear payloads more accurately. But efforts to find the rocket tip and its tiny captive passenger proved futile Thurs day, and Air Force officials said the search task force would be reduced to" only three planes to comb the im pact area 5,500 miles south east of here near Ascension Island. The rocket's wee voyager was no ordinary house mouse, and she was treated accord ingly. Air Force Pentagon of ficials, who at first would not confirm the mouse was ASPIRIN 19c 100 USP 5 Gr. 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Mia II won her nickname as the second "mouse in able," after the Thor-Able rocket. The missile, a com bination of the Thor IRBM first stage and the second stage of the Vanguard, was created specifically for the re entry test. AND IT'S STILL RISING Atlanta (UPI) Modern consumers aren't the only ones "who have been alarmed at the high cost of living look at the plight of Atlan tans of 49 years ago. A story in the ' Atlanta Journal of Sept. 9, 1909, beefed that prices h' d risen to "iVi cents a quart for milk, 28 cents a dozen for eggs, four cents a loaf for bread and cents a pound for bacon. SALT TABLETS With Dextrose 100 23c 1000 $1.4? POISON OAK? vAK $4 59 NATURE'S Own antidote AT TOW MUOeiST TAN, DON'T BURN SEA & SKI, 5Vi-oz. 1.49 TARTAN, 6-oz. ' 98c BRONZE TAN $1.25 $1.00 SUN TANGEE 59c 4 for 98c of 400 Lotion 8 PRINT ROLL 12 PRINT ROLL Fast ELECTRIC RAZORS o REMINGTON $31.50 R0LLECTR1C .With CIO QK Trade I?l3i33 $33.50 AUTO-HOME With OOl QC Trade V 0 $24.95 NORELCO OLD (With CM QK o MODEL Trade) 0 " $29.95 SCHICK With Trade $IS.S5 S3 1. 50 SUN3EAM SHAYEMASTER $17.88 CASH PRICES WITHOUT TRADE ADD $2.00 Add Federal Excise v "-"'y ii MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Spuinik Rocket. Lafe Over Portland Portland (UPI) The rock et of Sputnik III appeared over Portland : about 25 min utes later than scheduled Thursday night if that's what it was. . Members of the Moonwatch team were about to give up when the rocket did not ap pear', on schedule near 9:20 p.m. The bright object- was sighted about 9:46 p.m. Robert Boardwell, head of the Moonwatch team, said that apparently calculations were off or the object seen was the satellite itself instead of the rocket. o CARPET e LINOLEUM How much arc you paying for your FLOOR COVERING? 1223 No. PI J ) ' "Next to CAN SAVE YOU MONEY! Contractor Prices timm. Estimates GUdlv & sX A i, ,X " 3 Pint RUBBING ALCOHOL 29c : . ALARM CLOCK $1.93 LUNCH KIT With Pint Vacuum Bottle ... 52.29 T mm . FILM DEVELOPING AND PRINTING Jumbo Jumbo 0 Service Regular Prices NEW (With C7 K MODEL Trade) n , 1 13 I ft - 1 is ' Tax on Taxable Merchandise ii iii i iii iii . mill. .1 iii Oregon, Friday, July if, 1958 5 Bike Rids Injured When Hit by. Auto Portland (UPI) Leroy Freman, 15, Brightwood, was in serious condition in Provi dence hospital today after be ing struck by a car while rid ing lib bicycle. Driver, of the car, Michael Salo, 42, : of Bend, said the boy rode out of his- driveway into the path of the car on Highway 26. Salo said, he turned into the oncoming lane to avoid hitting, the boy, but the youth turned at the same time-t The auto tipped over into a ditch landing on its side. Mrs. Salo, a passenger, and Salo both were uninjured. fit TILE Do it yourself Prices Improvement Loans . i t ' n t- H-9 w -J ' 11 1.- ii - lanolin rwscKro HAND CREAM S2.G0juSI.( I J.' 1 52.00 LILT 60c PRELL Both Now $2 $1.75- 1 6-OZ. HUDNUT EN3!CKED CREME ' SHAMPOO WITH' EGG For All Types Hair 51.10 la! TUSSY PermastiCk Attractive Shades Reg. $1.10 Now 6C! ,75c EVENING IN PARIS 'STICK DEODORANT 2 for $1.00 Free Delivery in Medford i J I hi. " f I mmam 4