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.
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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.
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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-
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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
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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.
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