a MAIL TRIBUNE, Mtdferd, Oregon, Tueidar, February 10, 193t
A. Robert Smith Tells About
Being Named in Libel Charge
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Washington Correspondent
; Washington - A U.S. mar
shal once served me with a
ubpoena directing my ap
pearance be
fore a local
libel attorney
for question
ing about an
article under
my by-line. .
There was,
I was assured
by another
libel lawyer.
a. Kbt. smitfc nouung lioei
ous about my story. But in an
instance of harassment di
rected more at the newspaper
involved than at me, a libel
GO
suit was filed for $ J 30,000
In the normal course of
things, both sides subpoenaed
the parties in the case to
come in and give depositions-
that is. to answer questions
directed by the lawyers.
The main thrust of the ques
tioning directed at me was to
elicit the source of certain in
formation which appeared in
the story.
There is no law here in the
District of Columbia to pro
tect newsmen from divulging
their sources. There is no
such law in the state in which
the newspaper was published.
Not in Vulnerable Position
The source of my informa
tion, fortunately, was not in a
SAMS VALLEY
Centennial Program Set
By MRS. CLYDE KELL
Sams Valley-All grades of
the Sams Valley school will
join in observing the Oregon
Centennial, William Brewster,
principal of the school said.
The seventh and eighth
grades will be observing the
centennial Friday, Feb. 13,
when prizes will be given to
the boys and girl who are
dressed in the most authentic
styles of 100 years ago.
' Several of the students are
making plans to ride their
horses to school and an as
sembly will be held in the
school's auditorium at 10:30
a.m. featuring contributions
of historic significance from
all classrooms. j
John Dean's intermediate
fifth and sixth grades have
made plans to participate by
exhibiting placer mining
equipment and a covered
wagon manned by Oregon
bound immigrants. Since Lin
coln'! birthday is not to be
overlooked, these students
will also feature split rail
fencing and a log cabin in
this exhibit.
Mrs. Susan Ambrose's third
and fourth grade pupils will
represent many of the "firsts"
in Oregon, especially people
who traveled the Oregon trail,
the famous white men, In
dians, and fur-traders.
The first and second grades
under the direction of their
teacher, Mrs. Mildred Mack,
are contributing a glimpse of
Oregon before the white man
came.
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lie yuiuiKsicis wm uicscut
,
Indian enncic pamps ana
dances. They plan to take a
waik to visit the Lindsey
Houston house, a part of
which was built for a pioneer
Sams Valley family nearly
100 years ago.
Many parents, as well as
pupils of the Sams Valley
school, heard a talk given re
cently during an assembly by
Dr. Arthur Taylor from South
ern Oregon college. Dr. Tay
lor spoke on the subject of the
Oregon trail. Numerous col
ored slides of remnants of the
Oregon trail were shown at
this time by Chet Squires, Mr.
Brewster said.
they presented moving pic
tures taken while they were
touring Europe.
The films shown of Italy
and Greece were especially in
teresting to the youngsters,
Mr. Brewster said because
they had been studying these
countries in their class work.
In addition to the movies
the upper grades watched a
20-minute presentation of col
ored slides of the Holyland,
Italy and Greece and had the
opportunity to have their
questions . answered by the
Andersons.
Youngsters of the Sams
Valley school, and their teach
ers received a high recom
mendation a few weeks ago,
when Fire Chief, L. C. Lisen
bee, and the assistant chief,
Robert Mclvor, of the Central
Point Rural Fire Protection
district made an inspection
and held a surprise fire drill.
Chief Lisenbee said the out
side doors were all cleared
within 20 seconds with no
confusion. William Brewster,
principal of the school, said
that practice fire drills are
held once or twice each month
to be sure the pupils clear the
building as they should.
He stated that drills are
held when youngsters are in
the cafeteria during the lunch
hour, as well as when they
are in the classrooms, so they
will be trained to clear the
building at any hour of the
day.
Monday, Feb. 2, Mr. and
Mrs. Anderson, Sweet Home,
who were visitors in the
Rogue valley, came to the
Sams Valley school where
Talent Youth Charged
With Petty Larceny
A 13-year-old Talent boy,
who said he was shopping for
a Valentine's Day present for
his mother, was arrested Sat
urday afternoon on a petty
larceny charge, Medford po
lice reported.
Police said the boy admit
ted in a signed statement that
he had taken a jeweled dice
key chain from Van Lee's 88-
Cents store, 227 East Sixth st.
The case was referred to
the Jackson County Juvenile
department and the boy re
leased to his mother by po
lice.
YOUNG PREACHER
Reform, La. -0JPD- Warren
C. Vaughn, 13, has become a
licensed preacher. Warren, a
seventh grader, was licensed
by the Hebron Baptist church
vulnerable position. He could
not be hurt professionally by
his identity bein disclosed.
He told me to go ahead and
name him if the question
came up, and I did
The suit never went to
court. The man who sued
would have settled for $1, in
stead of $150,000, if the paper
had agreed not to print a
story on his retreat. The paper
refused to hush up the settle
ment, settled for S100, and
printed a front page story
about the matter,
Had the circumstances been
only slightly different, my di
lemma would have been the
same as that of Marie Torre.
the columnist who recently
went to jail for 10 days when
she felt obliged to protect her
source because of his vulnerability.
The person who sued me
for libel was a former govern
ment official, a lawyer who
knew how to use the law to
his advantage even though he
didn't have a libel case. He
was in the news because of
his position as counsel for a
local public power board in
which there was an internal
struggle going on for suprem
acy between two factions.
Formal Complaint
My story named this man as
one who had made a formal
complaint to the Government
against two board members
who were also employed by
the Department of the Inter
ior. He claimed they were
guilty of improper outside ac
tivities which interfered with
their government duties.
The point of recalling these
details is this - the Interior
Department steadfastly re
fused to divulge the name or
names of those who made the
complaint.
Interior Department offici
als said their policy was to
protect these sources of infor
mation. They said that even a
court could not compel the
department to identify its
sources of information.
What I am advocating is
that newspapermen have the
same privilege to protect
their sources of information.
This will make newspapermen
no less responsible than they
must be today, for a libel ac
tion could still be taken
against them for reporting
false and damaging informa
tion. But it will offer a safe
guard for free flow of more
candid information about gov
ernment than is often found
in the official press releases.
Alabama, Arizona, Arkan
sas, California, Indiana, Ken
tucky, Maryland, Michigan,
Montana, New Jersey, Ohio
and Pennsylvania have all
recognized the merit of such
a law, and have provided one
covering their courts.
The Oregon leg i s 1 a t u r e
could well give this serious
consideration.
PRESS MAN DIES
White Plains, N.Y. - (UPD -Don
O. Gilbert, 46, chief of
the New York Bureau of the
Canadian Press, died Monday
while undergoing surgery for
a stomach ailment.
Radium's activity lasts for
centuries and even after 2.000
or more years is only one-half
dissipated.
Severe Weather
Climax in Change
Of Circulation
Suitland, Md., (Science
Service) The severe weath
er that has crippled much;of
the country recently is the
climax in a change of world
wide circulation to a more
stable pattern.
Beginning of the chain of
events leading to the devas
tating storm can be traced
back several weeks, Jerome
Namias, head of the Weather
Bureau's extended forecast
section here, told Science
Service. He said this does not
mean that the birth, growth
and path of any individual
storm since then could have
been predicted then or can be
forecast today more than a
day or two in advance. .
Orderly Series
It does mean, he said, that
there was an orderly series
of atmospheric events that
set a stage favorable to de
velopment of the crippling
storm.
The developments consist
of gradual changes in the pat
tern of the planet-circling
belt of winds high in the at
mosphere that seems to con
trol surface weather. Known
as the planetary wave, this
belt shows up as a wavy line
of troughs and crests on me
teoroligists' maps of the up
per atmosphere.
During November, the
planetary wave had four
crests and four troughs, one
of which was located just
east of the Continental Di
vide. Today it has five crests
and troughs, Namias said. As
part of the. changeover, the
troughs stretched so far apart
that the one over Texas
"crashed," and a new one has
taken its place.
Warm Pacific Air
Associated with this exces
sive spreading out, Namias
explained, is an inflow of
warm air from the Pacific
When the trough breaks
down, or "crashes," cold air
spills in from the polar re
gions.
The storm feeds on the en
ergy of this strong tempera
ture contrast. Moist air over
runs the cold, resulting in
snow, sleet and strong winds
where the two air masses
clash.
The new regime set up by
the five - trough planetary
wave is likely to be a stable
one, Namias said, bringing
moisture and storminess to
the East Coast. The four-
wave pattern, he noted, was
stable for awhile as long as
the westerlies remained
strong, but broke down when
the westerlies weakend.
Federal Agency
Positions Open
A variety of positions in
federal agencies are open, ac
cording to the Eleventh U.S.
Civil Service regional office
in Seattle.
These positions include
management analyst and bud
get examiner, stock control
clerkv clerk, electronic scien
tist, metallurgist, physicist,
leacher, livestock inspector,
and air reserve technician.
For additional information
contact the Medford post of
fice.
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RETURNING TO FAMILY after being given reduced sentence for desertion, Wayne
Powers is looking for work at Mont D'Ongny, France. Yvette Bleuse sheltered him for
14 years while he was fugitive from U. S. Army. Their five children are, from left:
Dorothy, 12; Jimmy, 10; Freddy, 2; Haxry, 5, and Douglas, 8. Yvette supports family.
Senior Activity Center
Announces Weekly Events
Events scheduled atl the
Senior Activity Center were
recently announced at the
monthly meeting of the board
of directors of the Rogue Val
ley Council on Aging.
Showing of travel pictures
began this week and will be
shown each Monday from
10:30 a.m. until noon. Dr.
Frank Roberts, who took the
pictures to be shown the first
several weeks, will show them
and will include seven Euro
pean countries.
A shuffleboard game has
also been included in the ac
tivities and is held Fridays
from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m.
along with j other informal
types of entertainment. The
hostess, Mrs. Elsa Walker, is
on hand to help those who
wish to learn the game.
Records suitable for the in
termediate level of dancing
are needed for the Thursday
morning dancing class, ac
cording to James Forbes, in
structor. The class is continu
ing its instruction in basic
dance steps - waltz, fox-trot.
and two-step. The class meets
from 10 ajn. until noon.
Any gifts of records may be
left at the center, 601 East
Jackson st.
Also needed at the Center
'Blue' Salt Aids
In Making Rain
New York - (Science Serv
ice) - "Blue" salt in th at.
mosphere may play an im
portant role m making rain,
a Canadian scientist tnlH tho
American Meteorological So
ciety meeting here.
Dr. Henrv M. Parp nt Vio
division of applied chemistry,
iationai research Council,
Ottawa, said lahoratnrv stu
dies showed '''blue", salt -absorbs
water vapor much more
readily than normal salt. The
"blue" or activated salt, he
suggested, is formed in the
atmosphere by "radio-chemical
excitation."
He prepared the "hlup"
salt by treating microcrystals
of sodium chloride with ra
diofrequency waves. The sur
face of the treated salt de
creases much more slowly
than that of normal sodium
chloride when exposed to
water vapor. Dr.. PaDee re
ported.
The blue color is due in
colloidal sodium on the outer
surface and is "remarkably
stable" at room temDeratures.
he said.
Whether rain is formed hv
the melting of ice crystals or
the growth of tiny drops of
water vapor, there must he a
minute particle around which
tne crystal or the raindrop
forms. Weathermen rail such
particles condensation nuclei.
JJr. Papee reported that the
treated salt would provide a
"much more efficient conden
sation nucleus" than ordinary
salt.
is a piano in order that vari
ous musical activities may be
started. An orchestra is being
organized by Edward C. Root,
a member of the Center co
ordinating committee, it was
reported., It will be formed as
soon as a piano is located.
All persons interested in
learning to play a musical in
strument or participate in mu
sical activities may contact
the Center at SPring 2-4163.
Visiting Program
The second training session
of the Friendly Visiting pro
gram will be held Feb. 25,
Mrs. S. D. Earhart announced
at the meeting. She explained
that about 50 more volunteers
are needed for this program
that visit nursing homes in the
area.
Additional activities sched
uled at the Center include
Monday, Great Decisions, 2
until 4 p.m.; Tuesday, oil
painting, 1 until 3 p.m.;
Wednesday, woodcarving and
clay modeling, 1 until 3 p.m.;
Thursday, intermediate dance,
10 a.m. until noon; and Fri
day, shuffleboard, magazine
exchange, reading and visit
ing, 10 a.m. until 1 pjn.
GOLD HILL
'Pioneer' Day Planned
Eager Fireman
Forgets Tillerman
Pittsburgh -(UPD- A damage
suit pending today against the
city attested to the eagerness
displayed by one fireman at
getting to the scene of the
fire.
Driver Joseph Conrad of
Engine Company 24 streaked
his long ladder truck out of
the firehouse en route to a
fire when the rear swung out
and struck two parked auto
mobiles. Much to his dismay,
there was no driver handling
the rear of the double-jointed
truck.
' The shocked drived saw his
tillerman chasing the vehicle
down the street on foot.
By MRS. CLYDE KELL
Gold Hill - Youngsters of
the Hanby and Patrick schools
in Gold Hill will observe the
Oregon Centennial, Friday,
Feb. 13, when children of all
grades, who wish, will come
to school dressed as pioneer
boys and girls.
An assembly program fea
turing the centennial theme
will be held between 12:30 to
1:15 p.m. Special selections
will be provided by the music
departments. Gilbert Mack,
principal of the two schools,
said that Valentine parties
will be held in the classrooms
following the assembly.
Refreshments will be serv
ed by the room mothers. Oth
er parents who wish to assist
with the room parties may
contact the room mothers in
their youngsters classroom.
All principals in district
6-C are now working on their
school's budget.
EAT AND RUN
Kentfield, Calif. -4DPD- Au
thorities today sought three
youths who dropped by the
"Eat and Run Drive-in" and
took the name literally. They
ate $4.50 worth of hamburg
ers and milkshakes and . ran,
without paying.
The month of February has
many activities for Mr. Rus
sell Carr's eighth grade stu
dents. Several hearts, with
the date of each event, are
posted on the bulletin board
in the classroom.
On Friday, Feb. 13, the
Huskies will meet Rogue Riv
er here for a game at 7 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 14, is "mystery
night" between 7 and 9 p.m.
Another game is scheduled
here Feb.. 20 at 7 p.m. The
boys will hold a candy sale
on Thursday, Feb. 26, and on
Friday, Feb. 27, the Huskies
will go to Rogue River for a
game at 1 p.m.
The geographyof the moon
is called selenography. Over
30,000 moon craters have been
identified by astronomers.
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SELBY
Dean Roberts, seventh
grade teacher, said that the
boys in his seventh grade
shop classes are working on
tool boxes made of pine and
planters made of pencil cedar.
The boys in the eighth grade
snop class have completed
plastic dishes, gun racks and
jewelry.
The seventh grade social
class are doing committee
work at this time on Africa.
An old-fashioned Valentine
party is being planned by this
group of students, in keeping
with the centennial.
DEDICATE DUKE MANSION
New York -(UPD The James
B. Duke mansion, former res
idence of the tobacco manu
facturer and a New York land
mark, was dedicated Monday
as the new home of the Insti
tute of Fine Arts of New York
University.
An average retail food mer
chant earns only about one
cent on every dollar that is
spent by consumers.
CONTEMPORARY
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DISTRICT COURT
Millroy N. Charley, no operator's
license. S5.
John F. Zimmerlee, overload,
3152.
Joseph J. Gmet. improper light
ing, S6; no operator's license. $10.
Ravmnnri R Rrmi-n.
S65.
license, $10.
Jack J. Magel, driving while em
braced. S6.
Dewey V. Hikard, failure to op
erate On the riffht ciri nf rnA
$15.
Guy R. Zehrling, violation of
basic rule, $15.
Warren T Krw, n it.
cense. $10.
Marvin Maloney Jr, no oper
ator's license. $10.
Harry I. Hagar Jr., no public
utilities commission permit, $5.
Rosazetta M. Coyle, no oper
ator's license. $15.
CrRCUIT COURT
Alva .Tan TVTilltiran ir -l .11 T
Milligiin, divorce complaint.
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