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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (March 3, 1959)
New Radar Being Used Primarily in School Zones Here The Medford police depart ment is using the city's new radar set primarily in school zones to protect children from speeding motorists, Patrol man Duane D. Franklin said yesterday. Franklin said that motor ists exceeding the 20-mile-an-hour limit in these zones are given less leeway than they would be elsewhere. "We are calling them much closer in school zones than we are any where else," he said. On the other hand, Frank lin reported that a citation charging a driver with going , 44 m.p.h. in a 25 m.p.h. zone was dismissed in municipal court yesterday morning. He explained that the court did not consider speeding in this case to constitute a basic rule violation since the event oc curred early in the morning when traffic was light. Discusses Speeding The patrolman reminded his audience at the Jackson County Chamber of Com mere roundtable that posted maximum speeds in Oregon are not necessarily speed lim its. He explained that other conditions - bad weather, heavy traffic, the presence of children-must exist to render the speeding dangerous and so cause it to be in violation of the basic rule. Franklin said the radar is also being used in other parts of the city where conditions warrant, on a 24-hour basis. He said all Medford patrol men have been trained in its use, and each operates it at least one hour a week. The set is currently mounted in the chiefs unmarked car, he reported. Franklin stated that from Feb. 9, when citations were first issued, through Feb. 28, a total of 48 motorists were cited for violations picked up on the set. No Quotas Set But, he assured the group, no quotas are being set. "We are not out there to trap peo ple with it." He explained that radar is Boeing Makes Clamp Into 'Heat Sink' Seattle (Science Service Boeing Airplance company here has made a standard metal clamp into a novel "heat sink." It protects sensitive electronic components from excessive heat during solder ing. In soldering such com ponents to circuit cards, heat is conducted along the lead wire from the soldered joint to the component. To prevent component damage due to heat, Boeing attaches metal clamps lined with water-saturated felt to the lead wire. Thus, heat traveling along the wire is dissipated by evapora tion of water from the felt, protecting the component. Salem (CPD Don Ellis, Port land, has been reappointed a member of the State Board of Census by Gov. Mark Hatfield. considered an aid to enforce ment, and that much of the benefit arises from its psy chological effect of causing motorists to slow down and drive more carefully when they know it is in use. Franklin brought the unit with him to the roundtable, and discussed its mechanism and the methods of operating it. He said many speeders stopped by patrolmen using it are curious about how it works. He said the set is accurate within one or two miles per hour. It can be set for various ranges, the maximum being 1,600 feet for observing trucks and buses and about 1,000 feet for automobiles, de pending on their size. Mounted in Car The set is mounted within the police vehicle and nor mally faces to the rear, Franklin said. When an ap proaching motorist is ob served to be traveling too fast, he explained, the police car can pull right out behind him as he passes. The motorist's speed is re corded on a line graph, he said. The patrolman marks the graph after he issues a citation to indicate that a par ticular point designates the speed of the particular motor ist, Franklin explained. Six Arrested For Illegal Possession Four youths were arrested at The Corral at Camp White Saturday night by sheriff's officers and charged with il legal possession of liquor, it was reported. Three 18-year-old youths were lodged in the county jail and a 17-year-old Medford youth wasput in the county juvenile detention home. Arrested were William Hill, 18, who gave his address as San Francisco, Calif., where he is stationed with the U. S. Army; Galen Lee Dietrich, 18, of 727 South Central ave., Medford; Dennis Michael Lud wig, 18, of 912 South Oakdale St., Medford, and the youth. Deputy Sheriff Veryl Va noose said he stopped the youths first when he noticed the front vehicle license plate was missing. Upon further in vestigation he found they had beer in the car. Two 17-year-old Medford boys were arrested Saturday evening for illegal possession of alcoholic beverages, Med ford police reported. The pair were afterward released to their fathers pending action in Jackson county juvenile court. Police said they were ap prehended in an automobile parked on Olympic st. be tween Alameda and State sts The boys reported in signed statements that they had been sold the beer near a local drive-in from an unidentified man, according to the police record. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS On the 16th day of Febru ary of this year Senator John D. Hare of Hillsboro offered this motion on the floor of the Oregon state senate: "I move that the senate now declare that it will act on no bills appropriating money from the general fund of the state until after the tax program has been passed by the senate. rpHAT is to say: -- Senator Hare was propos ing, in effect, a new fiscal system for the state of Ore gon. Boiled down, this pro posal was this: 1. That the legislature, which is the appropriating authority, determine FIRST what the state of Oregon can afford to spend. 2. That it say then to the spending departments of the state: "This is what you can have to SPEND so cut your cloth accordingly." do it otherwise now. We first prepare a budg et. This budget represents in a broad and general way what the various departments of the government of the state of Oregon would LIKE TO HAVE TO SPEND. It is then up to the legisla ture (through its joint ways and means committee) to FIND THE MONEY with which to pay the bills. SENATOR Hare puts it this way: lVlfi:ivi,,,1-iT II lllllllW f i II MIHMM In Fine Whiskey... F F IS HMANN'K M aSHiwwsaiaanivsa w is the BIG buy! 90 PROOF is why! BLENDED WHISKEY 90 PROOF 65 GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS THE FLEISCHMANN DISTILLING CORPORATION. NEW YORK CITY SB $415 "Oregon has heretofore fol lowed the policy of appropri ating the money before the people and their legislative representatives know where the money is coming from to pay the bills. We have had the cart before the horse. It is high time that this policy is reversed." I quite agree with him. ITfHAT happened to his mo " tion? It got a lot of pious ap plause, but VERY FEW VOTES. In other words, the legis lature of Oregon is not yet ready to take such a radical step. WELL Speaking personally I think the step should be taken. Perhaps not RIGHT NOW. New and radical de partures in governmental methods require thoughtful consideration and much dis cussion. Perhaps a proposal of this sort should be submit ted to popular vote. Certain ly it should be left free to be submitted by referendum to a popular vote. DUT- 13 As Senator Hare says We now have the cart be fore the horse. That is an awkward way to get places. We ought to get the HORSE BEFORE THE CART. That is a logical way to get where we want to go and I think most of us would like to get to a place where the tax load would be less burdensome. AND It ISN'T as radical as it sounds. All private budget systems rest on the sound foundation of first determining, in view of prospective income, what we can afford to spend and then seeing to it that we spend only that much. I can see no good reason why public budgets shouldn't rest on the same solid foundation. Richard A. Babcock Sought by Mother The whereabouts of Rich ard (Dickie) Arnold Babcock, 6, Medford, is being sought by his mother. He is described as having brown eyes and blond hair. Those who know of his loca tion are asked to notify the Jackson County sheriff's of fice or SPring 3-5351. The father, Richard Thom as Babcock, 34, of 1360 Beatty st., Medford, is being held in the Jackson county jail for contempt of court. He was arrested on the charge Jan. 28 and was sen tenced to six months in the county jail and fined $300, Part of the sentence is sub ject to suspension if he com plies with a court order and reveals the whereabouts of his son who he took from the Lincoln school in Ashland. The boy's parents are divorced. Charlotte Bronte, author of Jane Eyre" wrote . in such a small hand she could get 16 lines on each inch of paper. The tidal bore of the Petit- codiac river rushes past Monc ton, N. B., with a height of three to five feet. Back Stairs: Hoop Court for David By MERRIMAN SMITH UPI While House Reporter Washington - (LTD - Back stairs at the White House: President Eisenhower, . in his alternate role as grand father, has put up a basket ball court on the south grounds of the White House for David, his 11 -year -old grandson. The project did not require much doing. The surface of a tennis court, unused since days of the Truman adminis tration, was refinished, two posts with backstops and bas kets put up, and a heavy, fairly high wire fence erected around the court. David has been out several times shooting baskets alone, but if he is to develop in the game he 11 undoubtedly have to recruit some playmates from his home neighborhood in nearby Alexandria, Va. May Deemphasize Golf There are some who see the basketball court as a move to deemphasize golf in David's young life. The youngster was bearing down on golf lessons with the Pres ident's pro in Gettysburg and there possibly could have been some feeling on the part of his parents, Maj. and Mrs. John Eisenhower, that other sports were in order, too. The south view of the White House could be quite a study in recreation with the arrival of spring David drib bling away on his basketball court, the President banging out the practice golf shots to his valet, and Mrs. Eisenhow er entertaining friends on the balcony at canasta. Rarely Simultaneous Quickly, lest the White House take on proportions of a glorified sports arena in the public mind, it should be pointed out that while all of these activities really do take place, they rarely occur si multaneously. The President uses his back lawn for prac ticing only to get exercise when work keeps him from a regulation course. David naturally spends most of his time in his own home sur roundings across the Potomac Worker Killed as Tractor Overturns The Dalles-flJPD-Wilbur Ro bert Telton, 20, Beaver Creek, was killed Monday when a tractor he was operating over turned on him on a ranch about 13 miles southeast of here. The tractor upset as it went over a bank at the edge of a field, pinning the victim beneath one of the large rear wheels. river. And Mrs. Eisenhower has tried canasta on the balcony, but one afternoon a zippy breeze whisked some of the cards off the table, she pick ed up and went inside with her friends. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Tuesday, March 3, 1959 3 Empire Man Fined On Larceny Charge Wayne Reed, Empire, Ore., was fined $25 in district court for larceny by bailee. He had previously pleaded innocent to the charges of taking a 12-volt passenger car battery and cables. He later changed his plea to guilty. ENROLL NOW! NANCY TAYLOR CHARM COURSE Wednesday, March 1 1 7-10 P.M. 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