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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (May 17, 1959)
MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Sunday, May 17, 19S9 Poplation Center Leaves Cornfield For Dairy Farms Louisville, 111. - (CPU The population center of the United States sat today some where between James Fleen er's sows and Clee Bible's pas- ture. No one was quite sure of the exact spot. "Someone probably will erect a marker on the site -when we find it," Louisville Mayor George Montgomery said. The U. S. Census Bureau anounced Friday that the ad mission of Alaska had shifted the population center 17 miles southwest of Carl Snider's Olney, 111., farm, the former center, to a point three miles northeast of this southern Illi nois town. Snider felt he had lost a dis tinction and gained a corn crop. Tourists had been tram pling his cornfield ever since he became the man in the middle, he said. Louisville - the Clay county seat and a town of 1,000 popu lation - was unaware of the switch until newsmen told them. They put a ruler on a wall map and measured three miles northeast of town. The ruler pointed to some where between the dairy farms of Fleener and Bible. Davidson Attacks Resources Policy Liberia is about the size of Pennsylvania or Ohio. Denver- (CPD -A former as sistant secretary of the in terior said here yesterday the Eisenhower admin istration has failed to meet the chal lenge of Russia's resources development. C. C. Davidson, national Democratic commit te e m a n from Oregon, made the charge in in a talk before the Western States Democratic conference in session here. Davidson urged additional development and exploitation of western resources which he said had long been neglected by the Republican adminis tration, an administration he described as one of "do noth ing for the people." Davidson also agreed with Gov. Steve McNichols of Colo rado who, in a keynote ad dress Friday night, accused the Eisenhower administration of being too occupied with in ternational affairs to devote adequate time and energy to domestic problems. . The conference heard com mittee reports from George Rock of Denver, chairman of the committee on small busi ness activities, and Joe Wal ton, national committeeman from Arizona who reported for the transportation com mittee. Walton said the federal gov ernment must help to develop maximum transportation fa cilities in the west, particu larly between the new states of Hawaii and Alaska. FRIENDLY VHjf - SERVTCE T' ilflWE-DKir EMEre .GL nnounces... The OPENING OF A NEW No. 3 LOCATION 611 East Jackson -Street Next to Modem Plumbing 844 South Riverside CONVENIENT LOCATIONS 702 Wait 6111, Ea, Main Street Jackson St. He said the time was not now "economically or polit ically appropriate" for the Democrats to enter the field of rate making, and that broad legislative develop ments in transportation sys tems should be made first. Bag Suffocation Deaths' Solution Seen in Eucation San Diego, Calif. -flJPD-Edu-cation of the public was hailed yesterday as the answer to the increasing problem of children suffocating while playing with plastic clothing bags. The seven-member Califor nia State Board of Dry Clean ers met here Friday with 25 representatives of the clean ing industry and plastic manu facturers to try to solve the problem which so far has claimed at least 20 lives. ' "I believe the plastic bag problem is one education -will cure," said Board President Harold G. Lord. "The answer is not to discontinue use of plastic bags because only 10 per cent of the bags in use to day are from the dry cleaning industry." Lord said the industry "hap pens to be one of the first singled out." Citing a National Safety council report, listing 20 deaths due to suffocation in plastic bags, Lord said he felt the board was obligated to take some form of action. The cause of suffocation in most cases was that static electricity made the bags cling to the noses and mouths of the victims, shutting off air. Operators of cleaning estab lishments said consumers wanted the plastic bags to con tinue in use. Methods of mak ing the bags less dangerous were discussed. Driver in Hospital After Police Chase Eugene-flJPfl-Dohald N. Bre shears, 29, or Eugene, was taken to Sacred Heart hospi tal here yesterday for' obser vation after he tried to run down a Eugene city police of ficer. w City Policeman. Larry Woods gave chase, to Bre shears after he was almost run down in the early morn ing hours yesterday. The chase led south and east on High way 58, where Woods was joined by a state police offi cer. - Breshears rammed the state police car, after eluding . a road block, and his car. turn ed end-over-end near 1ft e Jas per interchange. Breshears was finally sub dued, after Woods had fired a warning shot, and taken to the hospital. Police could find no apparent reason . for Bre shears' actions. Rural free delivery service was started about 58 years ago on five experimental routes, each about 17 miles long and located in West Vir ginia. ' 0g& S ' I p Jj3 XfSS,7? J wmmmm. NEW TRUCK - George Flanagan of Elk Lumber company is shown with a new 2,000-gallon fire truck, which can go almost anywhere a jeep can go. The truck, a former : tank' retriever -of World War H, is a 10 wheel drive vehicle. It also carries 200 feet of one-inch hose, 2,000 feet of 1.5-inch hose, back packs, pumping equipment and fire tools for 50 men. It will be used in Jackson county this year for fire protection through cooperation with the Southern Oregon Con servation and Tree Farm association. Hatfield Announces Eight Appoi Salem-(DPD-Gov. Mark Hat field made eight appointments to state agencies yesterday. They were: William P. Grimes, Kla math ,Falls, to the hydroelec t r i c commission replacing Frank C. Dillard, who resign ed. James W. Morrell, Portland, to the hydroelectric commis- Plymouth Dealers Indicted for Pricing '. San Franciscq -(UPD-A fed eral jury yesterday found the Plymouth Dealers association of Northern California guilty of violating anti-trust laws by fixing prices of new automo biles above those suggested by the manufacturers. . Sixty-seven Plymouth deal ers in six. bay area counties were affected by the action. The association faces a fine of up to $50,000. The trial before Federal Judge Willis Ritter was a test case. Facing similar action are Ford and Chevrolet deal ers in the same area. Charges that the dealers conspired to advertise "ficti tiously high discounts and trade-ins" which "grossly mis led" prospective buyers were also brought out during the trial. . : , The association unsuccess fully argued that the collec tive action did not suppress competition. On the contrary, defense attorneys said, auto mobile selling is among the most competitive of b u s i -nesses. , . Lyle Jones, head of the anti-trust division here, said the suits brought against the dealers last year were design ed to "restore1 price competi tion by striking down arbi trarily imposed restraints de signed to maintain prices at artificially high levels." ' The U.S. Department of Ag riculture was established as a separate federal government agency in 1862. M o - AY School of ,ln I c r x "ft i , I I A - .fc. ... - - -'-),) , T l bi9 k wrth 7 and tt Kh. All vnttrit 0X Wiiii 1 . 3 ! Medford ScImoI tt Hm which train nl, - W't JL th mntalhr retarded childrm Mr cammunitv - V L" V I f C h. can never be admitted into publie teheela. ' j 1 ' .. 5 and Remember 1 U'.-, - v MILKp Little fellows, retarded or not, need plenty of nourishment. Be sure you hare plenty of MILK on hand for YOUR children and insure yourself of a Happy, Healthy Family. DRIilK AT LEAST 3 GLASSES OF MILK A DAY! TICKETS Arc New Available at ROETHLER'S SHELL SERV. . 6th and Front Sts. and ' PURUCKER'S ! PIANO HOUSE ntments sion, filling a vacancy occa sioned by the death of George Joseph. Mrs. Michael Mulick, Moro, to the Sherman county public welfare commission, replacing L. P.-Haven, who resigned. Lee Nelson, Coos Bay, to the board of forestry for a term ending Dec. 31, 1959, suc ceeding Eliot Jenkins, who resigned. Dr. Richard Sullivan, Port land, to the surplus property agency, reappointment to a term ending in 1961. Dr. Harry Dillon, McMinn ville, surplus property agency, replacing Paul Waldschmidt, whose term expired. Orville Corbett, Burns, to the state board of health for a term ending March 1, 1963, succeeding Ralph Robertson, whose term "expired March 1, 1959. This appointment was subject to Senate confirma tion. Corbett was also named to the state board of phar macy to succeed Marvill M, Donell, whoe term expired. George H. Corey, Pendle ton, to the water resources board for a term ending Aug, 28, 1960. He succeeds Robert H. Foley, Bend, who resign ed to become a circuit judge, also . subject - to Senate ap proval. Steel Negotiators Prepare Arguments New York -flJPD- Steel wage negotiators, under Washing ton pressure to come up with a peaceful, non - inflationary pact, yesterday . began some serious home-work on basic contract issues. The negotiators - four from each side-recessed their joint bargaining talks until Tues day to give them time to pre pare arguments and counter arguments. The "brass tacks" bargain ing talks which began on Mon day have produced no appar ent - progress on a new con tract covering 500,000 steel- workers. The present three vear aureement expires at midnight June 30. Neither side has given an inch on the stands they took prior to the start of the joint talks. The industry wants one -year contract extension as a means of halting infla tion. The union wants sub stantial increases in wages and fringes and says the in dustry can afford to grant these demands without resort ing to a price hike. Man Sentenced For Theft of Dies Portland-flJPD-A Longview, Wash., man, Donovan Aradts, 26, was"sentenced'to 18 months in prison for burglary Friday in connection with a theft of pioneer era coin dies valued at over $250,000 from the Oregon Historical mu seum Feb. 28 His companions, Kenneth Leroy Schmitz, 25, of Sandy, and Harvey Wayne Culver, 27, of Portland, have pleaded guilty and are awaiting . sen tence. The trio broke into the mu seum and took part of a sys tem of dies used to make $5 and $10 gold coins over a cen tury ago. The dies are consid ered irreplaceable. Engineers Union, Contractors Feud Hits Defense Job Bremerton-TOPD-The dispute between the Operating Engi neers union and the Associat ed General Contractdrs hit the Navy's super drydock con struction job here yesterday and each side blamed the oth er for halting work on a de fense project. Melvin Hord, an AGC of ficial from Seattle, said the union was to blame for the shutdown here because of its action in calling a strike against severalAGC members. The contractors' group main tains that "a strike against one is a strike against all." A union spokesman, how ever, accused the AGC of a "lockout" on the Bremerton job. He said the Operating Engineers did not want the strike to affect any defense projects. ' Meantime,, the union and employers' group were await ing a National Labor Rela tions board ruling on the legality of union demands in the strike, which has halted major construction projects in western Washington and parts of eastern Washington. The AGC has filed a brief charging that the Operating Engineers had called an il legal strike. The main issue in the dis pute is the matter of hiring halls, which the AuU con tends would be illegal under the Taffr-Hartly Act. The AGC also asked for a court order to restrain further strike ac tion by the union. Miss Pendleton Crowned Friday Pendleton - (UPD - Loretta Liefeld, 20, of Pilot Rock, was chosen Friday night as Miss Pendleton over nine other contestants. Miss Liefeld is a Pendleton radio personality, The Pendleton JC's, the group which sponsored the contest, awarded her a $400 scholarship plus a trophy and two scholarships to modeling schools. She will represent Pendle ton in the Miss Oregon pa geant at Seaside June 4. Food Poisoning Outbreak in Seattle Seattle (UPD A major out break of a highly contagious form of food poisoning has hit one section of Seattle, the Seattle -King County health department reported yester day. 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