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f Sea wolf Emerges From Ocean Depths After Record Trip Aboard Skylark at Sea. Via Radiophine - (LTD - The atomic submarine Seawolf came up from the depths of the At lantic Ocean today after being submerged for 60 days. ' The submarine rescue ves sel Skylark, New London, Conn., home base of the nu clear undersea fleet flagship, stood by as the Seawolf came into view in a mighty up- Autumn Fete Set By Pythian Group The annual Autumn cere monial and Eighth order show fort he Dramatic Order of Knights of Khorassan will be held here in Medford on Saturday, Nov. 1, instead of in Roseburg as had been pre viously announced, a spokes man said. The ladies' auxiliary,. No mads of Avrudaka, Santhas ' of Medford and Roseburg will join with the D.O.K.K. in the ceremonies, parade and other festivities. A large class of Tyros are to be initiated, it was reported. An attendance of well over 200 persons is expected for the November first event, lodge members said. Many high officers of both -orders -the D.O.K.K. and the Knights of Pythias - are ex pected to attend the conven tion here. Deputy Royal Vizier Eddie Bostwick, general chairman, will appoint the various com mittees after tonight's meet ing of the Talisman lodge, Knights of Pythias, the par ent order. A similar convention was held here in October, 1955 and in May this year when the Imperial Prince Frank A. Wood of the D. O. K. K. was guest of honor from his home city of Youngstown, Ohio. BUTTE FALLS 158 Students By MARY JO HARRIS Butte Falls-The Butte Falls schools have a total enroll ment of approximately 158 students. In grade school there are 144 and in high school 44. , The grade school has intro duced an elementary band program under the leadership of Dean Boggan. Students from the fourth grade up maintaining grade level are elegible for band. High school class advisors are Bob Cupples, senior; Mrs. Bob Cupples, junior; Dean Boggan, sophomore, and Walt Doherty, freshman. The traditional bonfire was held on the school grounds Sept. 19. The fire announces the official opening of initia tion for all freshmen, spon sored by the sophomore class. Following the fire and initia tion, a party was held in the school for all high school stu dents. The Butte Falls PTA held Its first meeting of the year Sept. 8 at the Butte Falls High school. Officers are Mrs. Elmo Ellefson, president; Mrs. Virgil Conley, vice president; Mrs. Henry Tygart, secretary; Mrs. Gordon Walker, treas urer. , Committee c h a i r m e n an nounced were spiritual, Mrs. Howard Simmonds; health, Mrs. Charles Ferguson; hospi tality, Mrs. Charles (Red) Ca pello; membership, Mrs. George Bray; magazine, Mrs. Donald (Porky) Smith; pro grams, Mrs". Leonard Stratton; publicity, Mrs. William Har ris; room representative, Mrs. William Lytle. i George Bray, superinten dent of the Butte Falls schools, and a teacher at the high school, introduced the remainder of the high school staff. They are Bob Cupples, Dean Boggan, Walt Doherty and Mrs. Bob Cupples. Leonard Stratton, principal and a teacher at the grade school, introduced the remain der of his staff: Miss Barlow, Mrs. Roger Harris, Mrs. Ralph Curtis, Miss Sheldon, Mr. Pep ple and Dean Boggan. The Wandering Jew plant which has been awarded in the past to the class having the largest percentage of par ents attending regular PTA meetings was discussed and voted down. Thoughts were given on pictures or ice cream parties as a possible stimulus for' PTA parent attendance. The majority ruled on the ice cream parties which they felt students of all ages would be in favor of. These parties will be held one evening after school . by the class having won it. Next regular meeting of the PTA will be held Monday, Oct. 13, at the Butte Falls High school. Executive board meeting will be held Wednes day, Oct. 8, at the grade school at 3:30 pjn. heaval of foaming sea The Seawolf came up about 15 miles south of Block Island, R.I. During its underwater record cruise she traveled more than 15,700 nautical miles. Still operating on her first nuclear core, the Seawolf has traveled more than 65,000 miles to date. The Nautilus was refueled after 62,565 miles. Welcome Messaged As soon as she leveled off, the deck hatches opened and Cmdr. Richard B. Laning, Amherst, Va., its skipper, took his place on the bridge. A blinker signal on the Skylark messaged a welcome to the 3,260-ton sub, its 11 of ficers and approximately 89 crewmen who got their first breath of outer 'air since leaving New London Aug. 7. Capt. Laning set a course for home, where families and friends, Navy and civic digni taries waited at State Pier to give them a rousing greeting and to whisk them off to a 90 car parade and a reception afterwards at Mohegan Hotel. Air Conditioned During their long time sub merged, the men lived with the same air that was aboard when the sub was sealed and dived into the waters of the Atlantic. A constant recondi tioning of this air made it possible for the men to be as comfortable, and work as ef ficiently as in the open atmo sphere. The record made today sur passed the previous one made by USS Skate last May which was 31 days five and one-half hours. - Conventional type sub marines have equalled or sur passed the number hours sub merged, but they were equip ped with snorkels which per mitted them to replenish their fresh air supply from the out side. Enroll j.ions ana families had a chicken fry supper at the Community hall Sept. 24. Fol lowing supuper, the Lions and auxiliary held short meetings, ine auxiliary discussed va rious ideas as money-raising possibilities. A joint meeting of Lions and auxiliary was held Thursday, Oct. 2 at the Community hall. The Bill Rodgers family were recent overnight guests in the home of the K. J. Rodgers of Eugene. The Bill Rodgers .returned to Butte Falls via the coast route. The K. J. Rodgers are an aunt and uncle of Bill and are for mer residents of Butte Falls. Chester Brown and family of Denver, Colo., recently spent a short time at the Fran cis Brown residence. Chester and Francis are brothers and had not seen each other in 51 years. The Chester Browns were en route to New Mexico before returning to their home in Colorado. Mr. and Mrs. Don Jolliffe and son were hosts at a fare well party recently at their home for the Leo West family of Medford. The Wests will make their new home at Long Beach where Leo, chief radar man in the Navy, will be sta tioned. Guests attending were Mr. and Mrs. Bill Dunlap of Eagle Point, Mr. and Mrs. Ken Dun lap and family of Central Point, Emel Nelson of Seattle, Wash., Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hansen and Mrs. Charles Wooten and son of Medford, Mrs. Clara Kent, Homer Kent and Frank Hogarth of Butte Falls. A family picnic was held recently at the Indian Lake resort, Crowfoot rd., where guests picnicked and swam. Attending were Mr. and Mrs. Leth Meadows of Medford, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Brabbin of Talent and Mr. and Mrs. Jess Rodgers of Butte Falls. Recent week end visitors in the Francis Brown home were the Manford Richman family of Redding, Calif., the Don Brown family of Klamath Falls and Miss Kay Brown of Medford. Don, Mrs. Richman and Kay are the son and daughters of the Francis Browns. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond (Bud) McComb are parents of a son born Monday, Sept.. 22, at Sacred Heart hospital. Birth weight was 7 pounds, 15 ounces and the baby has been named Steven Leigh. The Mc Combs are former residents and Bud is a brother of Mrs. William Harris of Butte Falls. Recent visitors in the Gene Irwin home were Mr. and Mrs. George Miller and daughters, Patty and Cindy, of Medford. Mrs. Irwin and Mrs. Miller are sisters. Tillamook Burn Search for Lost Hunter Halted McMinnville-flJPD-A search for a Portland hunter, Donald Shimmer, 20, was called off temporarily late Sunday in the rugged Tillamook Burn country of northwest Yamhill county, according to the Yam hill county sheriffs office here.- Sheriffs deputies said the search was discontinued about 9:30 p.m. after state po lice, sheriffs posse and the Norman Wilson bloodhounds of Dallas, Ore., ran into a dead end in the craggy open country. ' Search parties had waited until sufficient dew was on the ground Sunday afternoon so the bloodhounds could follow the scent. About 6 p.m. they resumed the search over a wide area. Track Followed The bloodhounds followed the youth's scent for several miles until they came to a recent campsite. The dogs stopped and went around in circles. The sheriff's office said the boy had probably been there but it was not believed to be his camp. They said it was the camp of other hunters. Shimmer left two compan ions about 4 a.m. Saturday and was supposed to return to the Gobblers Knob area by 8 p.m. but failed to show up. When he didn't show up, his companions, Alwood Page and Dan Zorn; notified au thorities. Page and Zorn joined po lice and rescue units in the search. The Wilson blood hounds were brought in but they couldn't work in the dusty area. They picked up the trail only when the ground was moist. " Shimmer, a dishwasher, was described as short and stocky and in good health. He was carrying a candy bar and his rifle when he dis appeared. An air search failed Sun day, but it may be resumed later, the sheriffs office reported. Coos County Gets New Fish Farm An experimental natural "fish farm" for salmon is be ing constructed on the east fork of the Millicoma river in Coos county, it has been announced jointly by the Ore gon fish commission and the Weyerhaeuser Timber com pany. The project, the third and largest fin the state's efforts to supplement and establish fish runs in coastal streams, was created when the timber company recently changed the original channel in re-l( eating a private logging road The 10-acre pond is expect ed to hold some 500,000 sal mon fingerlings with supple mental feeding under natural conditions. When they are ap proximately one year old the fish will be. released from the pond. The experiment is designed to lower current costs of raising fish in hatcheries by placing fingerlings in im pounded waters with a natur al food supply. Although the principle of fish farming is not new, the experiment in Oregon is de signed to compare relative merits of artificial feeding and raising of migratory fish in hatcheries. De Gaulle Works On Election Plan Paris - (UPD - Premier Char les de Gaulle today worked on his final decisions on how France will elect its new Fifth Republic parliament next month. The new constitution be came law Sunday when its text was formally published in the government's Official Journal. Today Minister of Justice Michael Debre places the official seal on a copy em bossed on vellum and files it with the previous 14 constitu tions that France has had since 1789. A' decree issued by the De Gaulle cabinet last week under the c o n s t i t u t i o n's "strong-man" powers went into effect today civine do- lice sweenins new authnritv to crush any fresh outbreaks of Algerian terrorism in France. De Gaulle returned to the capital, Sunday night from a triumphant four-dav tour nf Algeria and France. The first - important an nouncement was exreeted from the cabinet Tuesday on .trance s new electoral frame work. . Wichita. Kansas, ranks first in the nation in the manufac ture of airplanes for person al use. Little Rock School Corporation Hopes To Start Classes Little Rock, Ark.- (UPD -The Little Rock Private School Corp. hopes to start operating private classrooms this week with public contributions if the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refuses today to Invpnfor Found; Fame, Fortune Hinges on Plan Los Angeles -(UPD- Debt-ridden Elmer Meukel, 41, the in ventor who deserted his home for a hobo jungle to escape his creditors was on the threshold of possible fame and fortune today." An electronics firm, Pola ris Engineering company, wanted to discuss as soon as possible Meuker's idea for a device to prevent in-flight airplane collisions. If everything works out, the self educated inventor could receive as much as S35.000 a yeaFin royalties for his electronics device plus a salary as consulting engineer for its development. Wants Working Prototype Polaris said that the govern ment had expressed interest in spending millions on Meu kel's concept for preventing aerial collisions if a working prototype could be developed. The lanky, hawk - nosed 'dreamer returned home Sun day after three months of a life as a hobo hitchhiking and hopping freights in a journey that ended at a hobo jungle near Reno. Waiting for Meukel was his wife, who had taken a job to hold the family together, and their three children, Chris tine, 11; Eric, 6, and James, 3. "Bills were piling up," he said in explaining his decision to leave home last June 23. "I guess I was in a mental funk." Before he left, Meukel had tried to interest Polaris in his invention, a device which had sent him deep into debt to support his family as he worked on it. Recently, executives of the engineering company contact ed Mrs. Meukel in hopes of finding the inventor to devel op his device. She hadn't heard from him for weeks. Meukel was preparing to hitchhike back'to Los Ange les and to the modest home which his family had obtained after eviction from .their old one when a reporter found him. Arson Suspected In Portland Fires Portland-rtlPD-A four-alarm fire early today caused grow ing concern among firemen who said it, too, could be the work of an arsonist. A Sun day fire was termed clearly the work of an incendiarist. Today's blaze swept through a vacant building and sparks from exploding power trans formers threatened nearby properties. Seventeen pieces of fire equipment were called to the fire. The block-long building had been at one time a machine shop and it contained aome equipment but had not been in use. Electric power in the vicinity was out for some time as utility poles and transformers were damaged. Loss was estimated tentative ly at about $35,000. On Sunday the Norene Tire and Battery company on Southeast Union ave. was ex tensively damaged and the Lincoln Street Baptist church also in the southeast district of the city, suffered about $12,000 damage. That fire, however, was blamed on an overheated electric heater. The Missouri river, longest in the U. S., travels 2,466 miles from Montana to St. Louis. LYING in car, body of Phil (Wildcat) Kim, ex-top wel terweight boxer, is found in Los Angeles parking lot. He 'had four bullets in bis body,. let it take over the closed high schools. "We won't know what we can do until after the court hearing," said Ben Isgrig Jr., secretary of the corporation, "but we hope to have the schools opened this week. It will be late in the week, how ever." Contributions Come In "We are working as hard as we can to get them going," Leon Catlett, attorney for the corporation, said. "Contribu tions are coming along fine. We should get a big bundle this week." But neither Catlett nor Is grig would estimate total con tributions. Their reason is that they flow in "to so many places." The corporation plans to take the contributions and set up classes with retired and volunteer teachers in office buildings, rumpus rooms and churches in Little Rock. Alternative Plan - The plan is an alternative to an earlier plan to lease the four closed high school build ings and reopen them as pri vate, segregated schools, us ing state funds to pay the tui tions of students. This is the sixth week that more than 3,000 high school students have not been able to attend classes. If they stay closed six more weeks, it will be past the point of "no re turn" for the 1958-59 session, school officials said. ; HALT RESCUE Belgrade, Yugoslavia- (UPD -Authorities called off rescue operations today in Yugo slavia's worst postwar mine disaster. The final death toll was 61. The UJS. Government does not 'Yard' Seeks EOKA Leader London - (UPD - Scotland Yard today ordered its "terror twins" to fly to Cyprus to "get" the elusive Colonel Grivas, leader of the anti British EOKA terrorist or ganization. Chief Detective Inspector Thomas Butler and Detective Inspector Peter Vibart, two of the Yard's top detectives, were sent to Cyprus police to find Grivas and smash EOKA. "Both these men have un paralleled experience in the art of interrogation," a spokeman for Scotland Yard said. "They know when a man is lying. They know the tricks which put criminals off their guard. If they are successful, it could be that one or more Yard men might join them.'' The order sending the two men to Cyprus followed a plea by Cyprus Governor Sir Hugh Foot, who blamed EOKA for the death last week of a British Army sergeant's wife the mother of five chil dren. British Angry The murder outside a food market in Famagusta raised an angry outcry in Britain and a declaration of ven geance among British soldiers on Cyprus. A government announce ment said two Greek Cyp riots died, 250 were injured and 750 more were arrested in the roundup of suspects. The Lilliputian land of Liechtenstein covers 61 square miles and has a popu lation of only 15,000 people. Sweden's steel production was a record of 2,500 tons in 1957 and exports worth $120,000,000 also set a record. 1 . I , , JF U ? l'v'if . V I r-i rs y , , s i if?v?f h jrii I l i ! - K-- 'V ? i i t . ; J t 1 i ' : ; . I U : -1 I "1 L - i Biij !sJ k i - . 1 ' t S' -V '- & mi' 1 t IIIIH1 Hill IMII ttnJl mi i-TO-AmmreJ 0 f"&,-tmtKft Strengthen America's Peace Pp pj fpf pfpl ppl r ty r Buy U.S. f. VP'S "Jf t'A Tvf'yX-., pay for this advertising. The Treasury Department thanks, for their INDICTED Lawyer Thurman A. Whiteside leaves Fed eral District Court in Washington, D. C, after pleading innocent to charges he conspired with former FCC Com missioner Richard A. Mack to influence the FCC award of TV Channel 10 at Miami. Whiteside's bond was set at $1000. Mack was too ill to appear and won a delay of at least a week. GONE HUNTING! Brooks Electric & Plumbing WILL BE CLOSED UNTIL OCT. 13 Savings Bonds MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Monday, October , 15 IS A?y Builders Supply QUALITY BLOCKS Bricks, Flues, Drain Tile 727 W. McAndrewt Ph. SP 2-4107 Power. . . patriotic donation, The Advertising Slide Area To Be Readied for Winter Salem- (UPD -State Highway Engineer W. C. Williams said a 200-acre slide area 12 miles north of Brookings in Curry county would be seeded and fertilized by air today to pre vent erosion next winter. He said a helicopter would spread about 5,000 gallons of liquid fertilizer and three tons of grass seed over the relocated highway project be tween Brookings and Gold Beach. Last winter a section of the area slid into the ocean. Williams said the surface was too rough to permit seed ing from vehicles. The work will be done by Dean Johnson Inc., McMinn ville. STUDY MONEY REQUEST Cairo (UPD The Arab League Council has decided to consult member govern ments on the request of the Algerian provisional govern ment for a budget of $33,600, 000 to carry on the Algerian war against French forces, it was announced today.' Free Book on Arthritis And Rheumatism (lOW TO MOID CRIPPLING DEFORMITIES An amazing book entitled "Arthritis and Rheumatism" "will be sent free to anyone who will write for it. , , It reveals why drugs and medi cines give only temporary relief and fail to remove the causes of the trouble; explains a specialized non-surgical treatment which has proven successful since 1919 : You incur no obligation in send ing for this instructive book. It may be the means of saving yon years of untold misery. 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