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Well-Digger Freed from Sand Cave-In After Thirteen Hours Bakersfield, Calif. -4UPD -A well-digger trapped in a cave-in for nearly 13 hours clawed his way free from a steel and sand prison today with the help of a winch. Leslie Stafford Jr., 45, once given up for dead, was trap ped at the 20-foot level of a narrow, four-foot diameter sump hole by a steel strip which pinned his ankle and prevented rescuers from pull ing him out after tons of gra vel had been removed from above him following the cave in at 3:22 p.m. (PST) Thurs day. Cramped conditions and fear of another cave-in made rescuers virtually stop digging-He dug with his bare hands for more than eight hours be fore he was freed and was pulled from the hole at 3:57 ajn. today. The tired man, who had been forced to forego pain easing sedatives so he would be alert enough to dig his way free, was carried in a stretcher to a waiting ambu lance and taken to Bakers field hospital. Managed to Frt Self Stafford's condition was re ported as satisfactory by hos pital doctors who praised the courage and stamina of the wiry 125-pound well-digger. X-rays were taken of his right ankle and leg which had been pinned under the metal strip. Results were not im mediately available. A large hook was lowered Morse Asks for Green Peter Funds Washington-fliPD-Sen. Wayne L. Morse (D-Ore.) said today he has asked President Eisen hower 'to insure inclusion of a request for funds for Ore gon's Green Peter dam in the fiscal 1S60 budget. Morse said in a letter to the President that he has been "disturbed" by reports that the administration will recom mend against spending money on new construction starts the next fiscal year. The senator said he "cer tainly hopes" the reports are incorrect, but he said that if they are ' he thinks Eisen hower should "reconsider." Morse said the United States should continue "to go forward with new water re sources projects such as Green Peter dam, particularly be cause the Soviet Union is "so far ahead of us in hydro-electric power development." ' The senator said that the power revenues and other benefits from Green ' Peter dam would "far exceed" the cost of the project "long be fore its life span expires." in the hole connected onto the metal strip holding up tons of gravel and pressing on his ankle. A winch to which the book was attached by a steel cable managed to lift the metal a few inches. Stafford was able to free his ankle between the space opened by the winch and the frantic digging he had manag ed to do with his hands. The same strip of metal which had pinned Stafford's ankle also saved him from sure suffocation when he re mained completely covered by more than five feet of gravel during the first four hours after the cave-in. Saved By Air Pocket The metal, used to shore up the sides of the 30-foot deep sump hole, buckled un der the tremendous weight of cascading gravel when the walls of the hole collapsed. The metal strip formed a hood-like air-pocket around his head and allowed him to breathe while buried. Only one bucketful of grav el at a time could be removed because of the possibility of another cave-in and also the small space in which rescuers were forced to work. Stafford's wife, Lydia, 54, at first was told her husband was dead. She didn't learn he was alive until nearly five hours after the cave-in. s "I can't believe it," she said when he was freed. She had arrived at the scene after learning he was still alive and remained on throughout her husband's bat tle for life. A fellow worker, Ray Hal- Li ; REHEARSING for new cir cus picture, Kathryn Grant, wife of Bing Crosby, is held by Acrobat Ronnie Lewis at Hollywood studio. sell, stayed in the hole with Stafford almost continuously from the time the ground was first removed from him. He encouraged Stafford and when possible helped dig. Hot soup and water was fed to Stafford during his struggle. . Spectators Cheer About a hundred onlookers who had remained into the early morning hours watch ing the struggle let out a cheer of joy when Stafford was brought up. The spectators, at first num bering in the thousands, had dwindled to aDout a hundred in the early morning. Oxygen was pumped to him steadily from the time he was first uncovered four hours aft er the cave-in. A doctor and minister both risked their lives to enter the hole and encourage Stafford. Dr. T. Yumibe said Stafford appeared in remarkably good shape considering his ordeal. He said the man was in pain and possibly had suffered in ternal injuries. Stafford, who remained conscious throughout the hor rifying experience, was de nied pain-easing sedatives be cause rescuers said he had to be alert freeing his ankle. Reviewer Sees Moore Show Settling Down Cloud-Seeding Done Near Burns Vale -(UPD- Cloud-seeding crews busied themselves in below - freezing temperatures at Burns and Canyon City Tuesday in an attempt to bring on more snow and rain to the area. Ed Bates of the Vale-Warm Springs Irrigation district said precipitation is needed in the district so that a possible shortage of irrigation water for next summer can be avoided. Precipitation in the area has been unseasonably light ,he said. The crews operating the generators used butane gas and a mixture of acetone and silver iodide to launch rain jnducing particles into the sky, Bates said. LONG HAIRS Santa Monica- (UPD Of ficials of Santa Monica City College point out that not all college students are rock'n' roll enthusiasts. Eighty - five members of the student body subscribed to the 1958 con cert season of the Phil harmonic Artists Association of Santa Monica, and more than 90 students attended the San Francisco Opera when it opened in Los Angeles this fall. The nation's first beet su gar refinery was established at Grand Junction, Colo., in 1899. j " ii - i MTiTtttrr immmmmtmmm ft ii m MMiTiiHttilwiiiftifu JL. The Happiness Business People speak of saving for a rainy day. . . and family security is still the best of all reasons for having a savings account. But more and more Americans are now saving for a sunny day. . . saving to buy the good things of life that every family wants. Helping people secure a greater measure of material happiness and the peace of mind that goes with it is the business of Insured Savings and Loan Associations. CURRENT DIVIDEND 3V4 PER ANNUM December. 31st Extra Dividend Vi Per Annum Investments made by the 10th of the month earn dividends as of the first gr mi Sinus Jft FIRST FEDERAL Savings & Loaj Assn. of Medford 29 North Ivy Street Robert F. Kyle, Manager " Convenient Street Parking m By WILLIAM EWALD United Press International New York -4UPD- The CBSB TV Garry Moore hour, after an initial case of the sputters and fits of the wobbles, has settled down into an estim able addition to the Tuesday night schedule. As a variety entry, the Moore show lacks the sharp ness and occasional brilliance of the Steve Allen show, the easeful glide of the Perry I wife war, children, animals, Como" Show or the block buster guest list of the Ed Sullivan hour. But perhaps more important, it is begin ning to develop a personality of its own-genial, snug, com fortable. I guess the point of view of the Moore hour could be palled "suburban cornball." It is a show constructed about jokes around the husband- I Ufa' ri 7 gadgets, the accents of the big city slobs, and sugar-coated reminicenses of childhood. It is aimed quite frankly at the generation that grew up be tween the two great wars and is culture-conscious at about the level of the Book-of-the-Month club, which in" televis ion is pretty high. Tuesday night's Moore show was, I thought, packag ed quite attractively. Its Its guests were introduced in the costumes of strolling play ers, there was a dab of Rudy Vallee and Benny Goodman and a brief glance at the year 1929. Milt Kamen. an enor mously gifted comic, was on hand and though I had heard his routine twice before on TV, it continued to fracture me, as the cool set puts it at the Mayo clinic. When the Moore show was launched- last fall, it had an oddly halting, stop-and-go quality. The show changed producers a' few weeks back as a result, it now has flow and pace and seems all of a piece. It also continues to boast the presence of Moore, an affable, unsticky gentle man and a big asset to any TV enterprise. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medfori, Oregen, Wednesday, January 7, 195 S Two Appointed to State Forestry Jobs Salem-CPD-Two southwest ern-. Oregon logging and lum bering veterans were named to state forestry posts by Gov. Robert D. Holmes Tuesday. Paul B. Hult, owner of a Dillard lumber company, was appointed to the State Forest ry Board. He succeeds Sid Lieken, Roseburg, who re signed. George Burr, who has just completed two terms as may or of Coquille, was appointed to the Forest Conservation and Protection Committee to succeed Al Roll, Roseburg, who also resigned. Burr, has log trucker. been an active Phone SP 3-4293 DAILY'S U-DRIVE Medford Airport TAKING OFFICE as governor of Forty-ninth state, Wil liam A. Egan (right) is sworn in by Federal Judge Ray mond F. Kelly at ceremony held in Juneau, Alaska. 'Appliance Wall' Displayed at Home Furnishings Show By MARGUERITE DAVIS United Press International Chicago - (UPD - A 12-foot long, 27-inch deep "appliance wall," which does virtually everything but serve the food, was displayed today at the annual January International Home Furnishings Show. The wall is not yet k manu factured for sale, but when it is the housewife gets the benefit of automation in plan ning her dinners. She may choose a menu suggested on a perforated card, place the food ready for cooking on the burners and in the oven, and insert the card in a master control panel. The card will set off the necessary heat, au tomatically shut off the elec tricity when, the food is cooked; and trigger a buzzer to announce that dinner is ready. Closed, the wall appears to be just that. Opened, it dis plays a refrigerator and freez er, a dishwasher-sink-disposal unit, and cooking equipment including two ovens, four sur face units and a griddle. Tiny Oven The manufacturer, Hot point, also exhibited a midget of an oven which can be used to prepare a meal for 10, any where in the house, and which now is in limited production. A 25-pound turkey fits easily into the glass-doored oven. Four electric burners may be pulled down from the oven's sides for surface cook ing, then snapped back into place to provide more work ing space. The range fits on a counter top, large hostess cart or room divider. Another counter top appli ance now ready consists of a single electrical unit which serves three purposes. It can be used as a deep well cook er, raised to become a dutch oven, or transformed into a 25-cup coffee maker. Special Features Another manufacturer, Westinghouse, displayed a series of thermoelectric units which, when re'ady for the market, will provide: -A refrigerator designed to serve as a divider between the cooking and dining areas, with enamel panels on one side and wicker-faced doors on the other, so that it can be opened from either room. Food is stored in the counter-top box in lazy susan arrangements, and drawers on the kitchen side of the unit provide freez ing space. -A hostess cart, with a battery-operated oven to keep ap petizers warm and a refriger ating compartment to keep drinks cold. -A supersonic dishwasher which uses sound inaudible to the human ear to agitate soap or detergent and scour metals without scratching. -And a bottle warmer, at tached to an alarm clock, which keeps baby's bottle re frigerated until feeding time and then warms the formula to the specified temperature. If baby oversleeps, mother can, too. The bottle is main tained at the desired tempera ture for four hours before the warmer switches back to be come a refrigerator. Studies on Umatilla Dam Near Complete Pendleton -(UPD Studies on a proposed Thornhollow dam on the Umatilla river will be completed at the end of Jan uary, according to John Man gan of the bureau of recla mation's Spokane office.' Mangan told the Upper Umatilla River Improvement association Tuesday that pre liminary estimates place cost of a Thornhollow dam at about 29 million dollars. He said the final draft of the Thornhollow dam study asked for last year will be forwarded to the Boise office of the bureau and then re leased to the public after final approval. Thornhollow dam would be in lieu of a Mission dam fur ther downstream, near Pen dleton, which has been urged for years by the Army Engi neers and the bureau of recla mation. A Mission dam has been vigorously opposed by the Umatilla Indian Federation. Meter Maid Starts Work in Pendleton Pendleton -flJPD Pendleton's first Meter Maid went. on the job Tuesday. She is Mrs. Mary Chase, 37. Mrs. Chase studied for sev eral weeks in Portland's Meter Maid division. NOTICE! Is your Haviland China Pattern listed here Annette Arcadia Arlington Bel Air Berkeley Birchmere Cambridge Green Cashmere . Chantilly Delaware Festival Fleurette Gainsborough Garden Flowers Georgia Glendale Gloria Gotham Gramercy Greenbrier Hamilton Kenmore Lauria Red Leeds Louise Milford Naomi Pasadena Pemberton Pink Spray Sanford Springtime Wilton Windsor Yvonne ' A special production of these patterns is scheduled shortly. To complete your service, order now! ORDERS MUST BE IN BY JANUARY 20TH January White Sale Special Extra heavy, extra large 24x46 BATH TOWELS Solid colors with dobby check border. Green, aqua, white, yellow, rose. Slight seconds If first quality would sell for 1.98 ea. Newberry's, low price. HAND TOWELS to match. 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