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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 5, 1958)
y ' L, M J J X, Hi SAVED Nadine Nutley, 20, gets an enthusiastic welcome from her parents after res cuers brought her down from Mount Rainier, in Washington. Nadine had become ill if ter making the long hike to the summit of the mountain, and spent three nights waiting help. With the help of experienced climbers, she was able to walk out by her-Klf. Horse Race Betting at State Fair May Top Million Dollars Salem-(UPD-A million dollar handle for racing at the 1958 State Fair looked certain to day. Betting hit $104,902 Thurs day bringing the total to date to $779,936. During the last two days of the 1957 fair, some $248,264 was bet and fair officials said little short of rain could pre vent the $220,064 needed this year from passing through the pari-mutual windows. Attendance Thursday was 16,538, compared with 20,021 for the same day last year. But that figure wasn't count ing an estimated 14,410 youngsters who got in free for the second ''kids day" of the fair. Fair Manager Howard Ma ple said he thought it was French Communists Mobilize Troops To Battle De Gaulle Paris -(UPD-The Communists mobilized their itorm troops today for all-out battle with Premier Charles de Gaulle ber fore France votes Sept. 28 on his "strong man" constitution for the Fifth Republic. Communist organs warned De Gaulle the Communists will be laying for him where ver he appears in a projected campaign tour of the provin ces. Mob Attack Fails The Communists launched their campaign Thursday with a mob attack that tried and failed to break up a mass meeting in Republic Square at which De Gaulle formally presented the proposed char ter to the people. Twenty-four riot policemen were jnjured in the battle with some 10,000 Communists who charged the crowd of nearly . 150,000 persons which had assembled to hear De Gaulle. A Communist demand for protest strikes was ignored : by subway and bus unions, re flecting the ebb of Commu- Stale Legislators To Attend Meeting Portland - (DPI) - Seven Oregon' legislators and three legislative staff . members plan to attend the National Legislative Conference in Boston Sept. 16-20. They include Senate Presi dent Boyd Overhulse (D Madras), State Sens. Jean Lewis (D-Portland), Walter J. Pearson (D-Portland), and Francis Ziegler (R-Corvallis); House Speaker Pat Dooley (D-Portland), and State Reps. George Layman (R-Newberg) and William Holmstrom (D Gearhart). Staff members go ing will be Mrs. Zylpha Zell Burns, chief clerk of the Sen ate, Mrs. Edith Bynon Low, chief clerk of the House and Mrs. Wanda Miller, chief clerk of the House Rules Committee. 7 7 Men Go To Lot Of Trouble To Rob Cob Driver of $10 Chicago-CPD-Eleven men want to a lot of trouble lo Tob cab driver John E. An derson of $10 Thursday. Anderson said four men he drove lo a west side cor ner paid their fare and gave him a 15-cent tip, then got into a nearby car with seven other men and the 11 started chasing Ander son's car. During the chase Ander son's cab got stuck on a railroad track, a train nar rowly missed him, a police squad car passed by but left when the 11 men as sured the officers every thing was fine, and finally Anderson was robbed. The bandits left him the tip. nist strength in the French labor movement. . About 45 million French men at home and abroad will be eligible to vote on the con stitution, and about two-thirds of them are expected to ap prove it. The charter is designed to stabilize France's shaky po litical system by giving the country a president with strong executive . powers in place of the present ceremon ial figurehead. There is little doubt De Gaulle will be the country's first president un der the new system. LeMay Says Trip, Crisis Not Linked Honolulu - (CPD - Gen. Cur tis E. LeMay, scheduled to de part for Formosa Saturday, says his visit has nothing to do with the present crisis at the Chinese - Nationalist stronghold. "There is no possible, way you can connect my visit with the Quemoy situation," the strategic bombing expert told newsmen Thursday . when he arrived here by jet tanker. "I am making the visit at the invitation of Gen. Tiger Wang Chu-ming Wang,, chief of the general staff of the Chinese Nationalists' Ministry of National Defense," LeMay said. "The invitation was issued in May." After visiting Formosa, LeMay will go to the Philip pines, Japan and Alaska. Hotel Fund Drive Over 50 Per Cent Portland - (UPD - The cam paign to raise $3 million to ward construction of a new Hilton hotel here passed the halfway mark Thursday. A meeting of some 300 busi nessmen heading the local drive for debenture sales an nounced that purchases now totalled $1,543,000. Construc tion of the 16-story conven tion hotel now awaits only the Portland contribution since all other financing has been arranged and plans have been completed. Mayor Terry Schrunk and members of the city council Thursday afteroon interrupt ed their meeting in council chambers to purchase $100 debentures. the biggest kids day in the history of the fair. Girl Wh s Again Judging continued in the 4-H division with Mickye Bressler, Salem, winning the grand champion 4-H sheep showmanship title. Earlier she had been selected Jersey cattle club queen of the fair. Intermediate champion was Rex Newell, 15, also of Sa lem. Dick MaGruder, Clat skanie, was named top junior showman.- , Linda Erb, 16, Salem, ex hibited the grand champion Guernsey and won five other division championships in the breed. Today was Oregon Pioneer Day at the fair with Oregon pioneers staging their annual reunion at a noon picnic. A seven-month-old south down crossbred lamb was judged grand champion 4-H market lamb. It was owned by Keith Cyrus, Sisters. Other Winners Listed Reserve champion 4-H mar ket lamb honors went to a southdown lamb exhibited by Charlotte Middleton, Port land. In open class sheep judg ing, David Lewis, a Canadian breeder from Calgary, showed both champions in the hamp shire breeds. Another Canadian breeder, Dan P. Hays, also of Calgary, showed the champion Suffolk ram, but Clarence Bernards, McMinnville, won with his Suffolk ewe. Maxine Andres, 17, Keat ing, won the 4-H animal show manship trophy for the sec ond straight year, edging out Diane Wagenblast, 15, The Dalles. Owen Faxon, 14, Philo math, won the grand cham pion 4-H swine showmanship title. Floyd Jenks, Tangent, won a prize for the best display of game birds. ' Magnetics Disrupt Communications New York -(UPD-Severe at mospheric conditions him pered international Commu nications, including transmis sion of news, in various parts of the world early today. Radio and telegraphic com munications between Japan and the rest of the world were cut off several hours The transmission - of news from major news agencies also was disrupted. RCA Comunications here said that "severe magnetics" had disrupted its operations in Europe. Communications in the Western Hemisphere were proceeding normally, a spokesman said. Portland Woman To Head Legion Auxiliary Chicago TJPD Mrs. Charles W. Gunn, Portland, Ore., was installed as national presi dent of the American Legion Auxiliary Thursday. She was installed at the 38th annual convention by Mrs. Hubert Goode, also of Portland, who served as aux iliary president ten years ago. HURRY! HURRY! Enroll NOW in the NEW TUESDAY MORNING NANCY TAYLOR CLASS Starts Tuesday Sept. 23 40 North Riverside Phone SP 3-6403 New Buying Center Due in Portland Portland -(CPD - A Portland firm announced Thursday it will build a $750,000 west side shopping center at the site of the old Portland Ice arena. . Robert Coates and Associ ates announced it had bought the arena from University of Portland for $152,000 and will call for bids immediate ly to wreck the block-square structure. A bowling alley will be included with the shopping center, the firm said. The building was closed by the Shipstad and Johnson Ice Follies when the fire marshal ordered extensive renovation and it was later given to the University of Portland. Farmers in southwest Asia began to cultivate cereals about 7,000 or 8,000 years ago. In Virginia there are rivers named Cowpasture, Bullpas ture and Calfpasture. Television's Kingfish Ordered To Hospital Los Angeles - (UPD - Harry (Tim) Moore, 70, the loqua cious Kingfish on television's Amos 'n'-Andy program was in Metropolitan hospital for a series of tests. Moore's doctor ordered the actor hospitalized Sunday aft er diagnosing his condition as "general exhaustion." About 75 per cent of the nickel produced in the free world during 1957 came from Canada.- New Aufo Strikes Idle Over 6,200 Detroit-UPD-The auto indus try, faced with its lowest weekly car output in a dozen years, was hit by a new wave of strikes Thursday which idled more than 6,200 work ers. Walkouts at the Fisher Body division of General Mo tors in Marion, Ind., the Chev rolet frame and stamping plant in Flint, Mich., and Chrysler's Amplex plant in MAIL TRIBUNE, Mcdford, OrefM, Friday. September S, 1938 9 Detroit ended a brief "truce" period that existed over the holiday week end. The Fisher Body walkout idled 3,500 workers, Chevro let walkout 2,500 workers, and the Amplex walkout 215 workers. Continuing strike by 2,300 workers at the Buick-Oldsmo-bile-Pontiac plant at Kansas City and by 2,150 workers at two Chrysler plants in De troit boosted to 10,665 the number of workers idled by walkouts. 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