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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 22, 1959)
Rackets CoftiiiiiUee Invites Boycott off Jukebox Dealer Washington -CPD- Thef Sen ate Rackets committee in vited major record companies yesterday to help break the underworld's grip on the juke box business by cutting off supplies to a gangster-controlled distributor in Chicago. Chairman John L. McClel- lan (D-Ark.) told reporters "it is difficult to see how they can continue to do business with an operation of that na ture." He referred to the Lormar Distributing company, which was described in testimony as gradually squeezing out other FAA Tells Reasons For Near-Collisions Washington-fCP&-The feder al aviation agency (FAA) yesterday explained a rash of near-collision reports in 12 simple words: Too many planes, too little airspace, and not enough con trol facilities. Four commercial airliners reported "near misses" with military aircraft last week. The closest call involved a Capital Airlines 'Viscount which had to dive to avoid Light Plane Led To Safe Landing Portland - (CPD - A single engine light plane trapped above an overcast near Yak ima, Wash., was guided to a safe landing at Yakima air port Friday by a Northwest Orient Airlines plane in a "seeing eye dog" rescue oper ation. The small aircraft, a Beech craft piloted by Robert D. Wiggin, Tacoma, developed in strument trouble. Wiggin was in contact with the Yakima tower but was unable to tell them his position. The Northwest Orient DC-4, flight 601 from Spokane to Portland, came upon the Beechcraft atop the overcast at 6,500 feet. Wiggin was in tructed to follow the air liner, which headed for Yak ima on instrument landing procedure and at a given sig nal the lowering of the air liner's wheels - the light plane dived through the over cast and landed without trouble. Wiggin said ,he was en route to Idaho when instru ment trouble developed. The airliner was piloted by Capt. I Jim Perkins, Spokane. The Northwest flight was about 45 minutes late getting into Portland. ' Biff Asks Removal Of Damages Ceiling j Salem-(WI)-A bill to eleml nate the ceiling on amount of damages, which may be col lected under Oregon's wrong ful death statute was intro duced Thursday by Sen. Dan Dimick (D-Roseburg.) State law now has a limit of $20,000 which can be col lected for death caused by negligence of another or by a wrongful act. Previous at temnts to abolish a ceiling have been defeated although the ceiling has been raised in the past. Oliver Goldsmith, Canada's first native born poet, was a grand-nephew of the Irish poet of the same name. a head-on collision with an Air Force B47 near Char lotte, N.C., Thursday. The air liner was on a route and at an altitude assigned by fed eral air traffic control. Friday, a Capital Constella tion and an Air Force cargo plane swerved to avoid each other over Kentucky. Both were on assigned altitudes and routes. To Investigate , American and Eastern air lines also 'reported near-collisions earlier in the week. The latest incident appear ed to be a freak. Both the Capital Airlines and the Air Force cargo plane had filed flight plans which took them over intersecting routes. The FAA will investigate why air traffic control apparently al lowed their paths . to cross without warning either of the others' presence. The agency announced Fri day night it had suspended the control tower employee on duty at the time because the FAA's preliminary inves tigation showed an "error in estimating position" occurred in the Indianapolis control air center. The man removed from duty pending further investi gation was not identified. The other incidents invol ved airliners flying under In strument Flight Rules (IFR) and military aircraft operat ing under Visual Flight Rules (VFR). Under IFR, planes fly' at assigned altitudes and routes monitored constantly by fed eral air traffic control cen ters. An IFR clearance lit erally places an aircraft in a protective "cocoon" 10 miles wide, two thousand feet deep and several miles long. But an FAA spokesman ex plained that IFR protects planes only from other IFR traffic. IFR cannot guarantee protection from planes flying VFR in good weather. And the FAA official emphasized that in good weather, any aircraft has a perfect right to fly VFR even in controlled airspace. "With our present facilities. it is impossible to put all aircraft under positive IFR control," the spokesman said. "There are literally thousands and thousands of planes in the air daily. If you tried to control all of them, you'd paralyze aviation." wholesale record firms through mobster pressure on juke box operators, who buy the records. Lormar is owned by Charles English, who was identified by the committee as a lieu tenant of Sam (Mooney) Gi ancana, a kingpin in the latter-day mob originally estab lished by Al Capone. Singer Dropped One immediate upshot of the hearing was that singer Tommy Leonetti, whose ex manager was identified as an underworld figure, said he had been dropped as a guest on a television show last night. The committee was told Friday that Leonetti's for mer manager, John Ambro sia, had tried to force juke box suppliers to push the singer's records. Leonetti de nied any knowledge cf Am brosia's background or tac tics. He has a different man ager now. His appearance had been scheduled on the "Dick Clark show" over the American Broadcasting company's net work. His press agent said the network promised to let Leonetti appear when, in her words, "this cools down." Grabbed Off Business Witnesses testified that Lor mar has grabbed off 90 per cent of one competitor's bus iness even though it charges a nickel apiece more for rec ords. Some operators said they were required to buy 50 to 90 per cent of their rec ords from Lormar. "The people who sell to Lormar certainly are now alerted to the character of the operation it is," McClellan said. He said the committee would "watch and await with interest" any action that rec ord makers take in regard to Lormar. , Boycott Justified He said He believed a boy cott would be justified be cause record makers have a legitimate right "not to sup port a racket operation.' ' Chief Counsel Robert F. Kennedy said "some of the biggest companies in the country" do business with Lormar. Onfario, State Police Searching for Burglars Ontario-OT-City and state police here were searching for burglars who stole a safe from the Plaza tavern early yesterday. Burt Davis, operator of the tavern, said the safe -contained about $1260 cash and some $4600 in payroll checks. Learn how to live . .. .fc u . : tree money ax nIy?NIYLAfOn ...where Ws almost fun to borrow money! 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Rodney Hanley, Jacksonville, the new executive officer of the Med ford squadron of the Civil Air Patrol, according to 2nd Lt. Viva A. MacManama, cadet in formation officer. The positions were an nounced Feb. 16 at the regular CAP meeting. EMERSON TO WED Burbank, Calif . -(UPD- Ralph Waldo Emerson III, 28, great grandson of the famed author, will marry Dolores Cooksey, 27. The North Hollywood couple have not yet set a date for the ceremony. . COMING DOWN The Oakdale market building, a Medford landmark for more than 50 years, is currently being razed to provide parking space for customers of the new market recently constructed directly to the south. A corner of the new store, now open for business as the new Oakdale Big Y market, is visible at the far. left in the picture above. The market is owned by M. O. Bessonette. BLM OFFICES - This new building, going up at 1133 South Riverside ave., Medford, will house the office of the bureau of land management. It has been located in the city hall for more than 20 years. The new building, measuring 44 by 206 feet, will contain 14 offices joined by a hallway lead ing both directions from the main entrance. The structure is being built with shale brick and will feature glass brick "win dows." It is in Office Park, South Riverside ave. and Barnett rd., owned by O. L. Wil liams, who is building it to General Serv ices administration specification. The BLM is scheduled to occupy the new building before April 1, according to District Mana ger Ross Youngblood. Arraignment Is Postponed Week Oregon City-flJPD-Attorneys for Duane Marvin Anders, 17, Estacada, filed a motion in court here Friday, deferring for at least one week arraign ment of the teen-ager on first degree murder and' second degree arson charges in the death of his father. Young Anders was indicted by a Clackamas county grand jury Thursday in connection with the death of Hector An ders, 58, whose body was found two weeks ago in a barn destroyed by fire. The Anders youth told Clackamas County Sheriff Joe Shobe that he had gone into the ' barn to shoot rats, had accidentally shot his father while tumbling from a hayloft and panicked after ward and set fire to the barn. Defense attorneys were granted the motion by Judge P. K. Hammond after point ing out that the name of at least one witness before the grand jury did not appear on either of two true bills. The judge set next Friday as time to argue the motion. There are three million more women than men voters in the U. S. Canadian Navy Ships To Pay Portland Visit. Portland-IUPD-Mayor Terry Schrunk said Friday that six ships of the Royal Canadian Navy will visit Portland dur ing the Oregon Centennial Exposition and International Trade Fair which opens June 10. Schrunk said the ships will be in the harbor from June 9 to 15, the same time .that the Rose Festival will be in progress. 1 Ferry Employees' Severance Pay Urged. Salem 0IPD Sen. Dan Thiel (D-Astoria) introduced a bill Thursday calling for sever ance pay for employees of the ferry at Astoria should the ferry be abandoned by con struction of a Columbia river bridge there. The bill was requested by the Oregon AFL-CIO. COP TURNS ROBBER Solo, Java -(UPD- Ex-village chieftain Darsosuwarno has received a 20-month jail sen tence for converting a police man into a robber. Authori ties said Darsosuwarno, while chief, paid $33 to a constable to break into his house to steal the village funds and return them to Darsosuwarno secretly to cover up a shortage. Twin Plunges Pool Opens for Business Ashland Twin Plunges swimming pool in Ashland opened Friday after repairs were made on the plastic bub ble covering the pools. 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