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New Night Course Listed at SOC Another course has been added to the list of night classes scheduled for South ern Oregon college, it was announced today by college officials. Speech 239, oral interpreta tion, will be instructed by Dr. Dorothy Stolt, starting at 7 p.m. tomorrow. This class will meet every Tuesday night in room 3 of the college library. Students may r register to morrow night or may contact Mrs. Mabel W. Winston, regis trar. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford", Oregon, Monday, Januiry 5, 1939 7 f What Is The TUs column is prapartd as a public isrTic by th Collag of Law, Willamatt UniTarsily, Salam, to ax plain basic legal principles, not to proTide legal adrica. The reader is cautioned not to apply these cases to his own problems without an attorney's advice, for dif fering facts may change the outcome. TONIGHT 5 to 9 Specials! jj urn i, iimnii hit fa''r'X& . e TESTIFY IN COURT Daniel Williams is on trial for the murder of his wife by strangling her after a heat ed quarrel. Two people were present at the time of the homicide. One is the small daughter of Williams, age six. The other is an uncle of Wil liams who is now in the State Hospital, " having : been de clared insane afer the killing. At the trial, the district at torney wants to place each of these two witnesses on the stand to testify but Williams' attorney objects, claiming that the child is too young to ap pear and that the fact that the uncle is insane disqualifies him from testifying. What should the judge do, permit them to testify? Neither age nor insanity are a bar to testifying. Capac ity to testify as a witness de pends on a certain minimum ability to observe, recollect and tell what he has observed and remembers. Intelligence Is Test There is no technical rule that disqualifies a child below a certain age limit. Intelli gence, and not age, is the test. Nor is there any technical rule that disqualifies an insane person from appearing as a witness. People mar be placed in mental hospitals for any num ber of mental illnesses. Some of these are in no way 're lated to one's capacity as a witness. Others may be suffer ing from a type -of mental dis ease that impairs the memory and the person affected may be unable to recall accurately. - Capacity of a witness to testify is a question of fact for the judge to decide in every case. Frequently, he will have the Jury leave the room ond then talk to any child in volved, questioning him about his understanding of the im portance of telling the truth. In ruling on the capacity of a witness who is now insane, the judge may seek the coun sel and advice of a doctor. He wants to determine the ability of the insane person to recol lect and recount what he saw and heard. LAMPREY-KILLER . , St Paul-flJPD-A new "super weapon" against the lamprey has been developed by con 'ervationists. It is a chemical "Iamprocide" designed to kill the eel-like parasites before they wander from the stream beds where they are born, Hjalmar O. Swenson, fish eries chief of the Minnesota Department of Conservation, recently watched a demonstr ation of the "lamprocide." The chemical was spread over a stream bed. Within three hours, the young lam preys were dying. Swenson said the chemical is non-toxic to other fish. While it is ex pensive now, it will become more economical as cheaper means of production are found. . CHURCHILL TO VACATION ; Marrakech, Morocco - (UPD -Sir Winston Churchill and his wife will arrive here Jan. 12 for a three or four-week vaca tion in the sun, it was dis closed today. lit fwhfS. NEW PRESIDENT Dr. Manuel Urritia (shown in file photo) has been named as provisional president of Cuba by rebel leader Fidel Castro, to succeed deposed dictator Fulgencia Batista. Now Many Wear FALSE TEETH With Mere Comfort FASTEETH. a pleasant alkaline (non-acid powder, holds false tee in more firmly. To eat and talk In mora comfort, just sprinkie a little FftS TEETH on your plates. No gummy, gooey, pasty taste or feeling. Checks "plate odor" (denture breath) . Get FASTEETH at any drug oounter. CELEBRATING OVERTHROW of Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship, mobs run wild through streets of Havana. This littered street is outside Plaza Hotel's casino. Jokesters Busy Dusting Off Old Texas Gags, Crediting Them to Newest State By FRED DANZIG United Press International Alaska comes in with a smile. ' For the past few months, the jokesters have been busy dusting off old Texas gags, re furbishing cold climate stories, and crediting them all to Alaska, the newest state in the union. Some samples: Noting that Alaska's 586,-400-square miles make her the largest ' of our 49 states (Texas, the deposed champion, has a mere 267,339), Sen.-elect Ernest Gruening of Alaska American Gamblers Hibernating; Wait To Revive Business Havana (UPD American gamblers were hibernating behind their smashed casinos and shuffling for a deal to re vive their multimillion dollar business under Cuba's new revolutionary regime.. But even the canniest of these 200 oddsmakers-who in clude such men as Meyer Lan sky and George Raft-are not ready to call the turn on their Cuban future. , Cuba's rebel leaders have pledged the provisional gov ernment will protect America business, but they haven't yet pronounced their policy in re spect to legalized gambling. While most gamblers are reluctant to speculate openly on the future, Lansky, a long time gambling wheel in both the United States and Cuba, was more sanguine. "All we know now is that there is a new government in power and we want to do everything possible to coop erate with it," he said. "I have reason to believe that all ca sino operators want to do likewise." Lansky and many of the gambling colony erroneously were reported to have fled the country when President Ful gencio Batista went into exile in the early hours of New Year's day. If the revolutionary govern ment elects to revive the casi nos, it seemed certain only a few would be ready for oper ation before the winter tour ist season comes to a close. Mobs of vandals, taking ad vantage of the temporary breakdown of law enforce ment following the Batista flight, stormed into most of Havana's casinos and wreck ed them. Furniture was smashed, gambling wheels were wrecked and bars were ransacked. -.- Owners estimated it would require a month or two to re equip and refurnish the sa offers his favorite definition of claustrophobia: "The way an Alaskan feels when he visits Texas." Will It Melt? In Texas, of course, it's only a temporary setback. "We'll just wait 'til Alaska starts melting," they say. ; ' Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson offers this word of solace to his fellow Texans: "Texas is still the biggest state south of the North Pole." He added, "we now have an outlying state one that can out-lie Texas." Heard about the millionaire oil man in Texas who install ed well-to-well carpeting on his ranch? Now meet the wealthy Alaskan who furnish ed his igloo with walrus-to-walrus carpeting. Or how about the Alaskan who cut a hole in the top of his igloo so he could stand up when he hears "The Star-Spangled Banner?" Jack Paar had the answer for a new American flag: "Why not 48 stars and an ice cube?" Found Southern Hospitality Singer M o n i q u e Van Vooren said Alaska must be a driver's paradise because they have no parka problem. Rob ert Q. Lewis told of two Alaskans who visited a friend in Maine and, overwhelmed by his kindness, said "now we know what they mean by southern hospitality." Singer Johnny Desmond tells about the Martian who landed in Fairbanks, Alaska, buttonholed a passerby and said, "take me to your heater." Church May Face Shortage of Clergy Washington -UPD- The Epis copal church, traditionally proud of its highly-trained ministry, may soon face a shortage of clergy. This warning was issued by Dr. Clifford P. Morehouse, editor of the Episcopal Church annual. The yearbook showed that the number of baptized persons in the Episcopal church grew 3.5 per cent in 1958 to 3,274,867. But the number of clergy increased only 2 per cent to 8,234 and of these, 1,073 are on the retired list. FARM PHONES De Moines-(UPD-Iowa leads the nation in the number of farms with telephone service. Nine out of 10 farms in the state had telephones at the end of 1957, the State Depart ment of Agriculture said. The total number of phones was 174,000. - , An inexpensive process re cently developed extracts a wax semilar to carnauba from sugarcane. 4-H CLUB rIEVS Phoenix Knitwiti The Phoenix Knitwits met at the home of Mrs. Jeanett Grove in Phoenix recently. Refreshments were served by Nedra Harris. The next meeting will be held Wednes day. MARILYN KANTOR, Reporter. ASSEMBLING ON STEPS of Virginia's State Capitol, crowd of 1,000 Richmond Negroes demonstrate with prayer, hymns and resolutions for end of 'Virginia's anti integration policy which has closed nine schools. " , CELEBRATING INAUGURATION as New York's gover ernor, N. A. Rockefeller and wife dance at Albany balL Dancer Gretchen Wyler tells of the Texan who visited Alaska and was told by a proud Alaskan that there's enough gold in Alaska to build a solid gold bridge all the way to Texas. The Texan thought a moment- and said: "Okay, start building it. If I like, I'll buy." 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