Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, July 27, 1959, Image 18

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Newspaper Page Textt; ' I i . t i : 1 ' MAIL TRIBUNE, M.dfonl, Or. 'A Monday. July 27, 1959 Couple Sentenced To Prison Terms San Diego-f '?D-Mr. Wanda Brogdon, 33, and her' lover, Kenneth Merriam, 36, have been sentenced to life impris onment without possibility of parole for strangling her two small sons because they were "a bother." The former Rockford, 111., couple, both found legally sane but of subnormal intel ligence, expressed unconcern about their fate Sunday when the verdicts were rendered. "I- don't care," said Mrs. Brogdon. "I don't have any one to live for anymore. I don't have my kids or any thing." Each faced a possible death sentence. The same jury of six men and six women which earlier rnn victed her and Merriam of . the May 2 strangulation of Sparkman Wants Small Firms to Get Bids Washington - (UPD - Chair man John Sparkman (D-Ala.) of the Senate small business sub-committee today demand ed that the Defense Depart ment "cut out waste" by giv ing small firms a better "e . chance to win defense con tracts. Tn a nrtoarcd speech, Snarkman told the Senate the Pentagon nractice of "non competitive, sole-source pur rhasinir has oroved itself wasteful, but said he has re ceived no indication that tne Honartment "Dlans to take the lead in mending the error of its procurement ways. HONEYMOON "NO FUN" Miami - (UPD - Mr. ana Mrs Melvin Mininson ended their two-week honeymoon in an underground bomb shelter over the week end, agreed it was "no fun," and planned to leave today for Mexico for a more conventional one. The Family Council Editor nott: The Famllj Coubci consists oi a juase. m psyctuainsr, t(i rltrfvmen a uewipapet editor a women's editor and two writers, tnree clergymen, "' .,.. Th ni rnnnrii rin Each article is a summary . " 7 A.,Yt not rive advice: it merely rcpuru - iritn by respnnsinia CLOGSTON'S Metal Weather Stripping and Screens 1 Estimates Gladly Phone SP 3-1014 Evenings Virgil Jr., 5, and David Brog don, 3, Sunday sentenced her to two life terms in prison without possibility of parole. But the panel was unable to agree on a verdict for Mer riam after two days of delib eration. Superior Judge Wil liam P. Mahedy took the mat ter in his own hands and im posed the same sentence on Merriam as rendered against Mrs. Brogdon. He explained he saw no difference in guilt between the two prisoners. Graham B. My wile doesn't want me to give my son the money. Bertha B. The boy expects too much from his father. Graham B I am in a ter rible dilemma regarding my 30-year-old son. Frank recently lost every penny in a foolisn Business venture. He nas two young children and is desperate. He wants me to set him up in a new business. I can only do this by drawing on money that was invested for my wife and me in our old age. Of course, Frank assures me that every penny will be repaid. I would be willing to do as he asks, but my wife objects. She is my second wife. Frank's mother died six years ago. My second wife is not a selfish woman but of course she can't feel for Frank as I do. Berlha B. I realize that I'm in a bad position to offer objections. People may accuse me of being a selfish stepmoth er and say I just married firaham for security. I do want security, but that isn't the only reason I advise Gra ham against giving the money. isn't rieht I also feel that Frank hasn't a good head for business. Gra ham doesn't agree, but I'm sure it's true. The Council: We don't think that Bertha is out of line in offering advice on this sub ject. It concerns her and it is nart at her resDonsibilitv to her husband to give an hon est opinion on matters he dis cusses with her. The mere fact that Graham has discussed this with Bertha is an indication that he wants her views and we think it verv likely that he wants her to voice precisely the argu ments she has given. It is very hard for a parent to turn away a child who is in need and it is hard for a par ent to think ill of his own child. In this case, we are afraid that Graham is putting this burden on Bertha Graham knows the fact that his son has made one "foolish business venture" is not ex aetlv an indication of his hav ine a good business head. He also knows that the young man shouldn't be coming to him at this stage of his life for fi nancial aid if there is any Newspaper Says 2,000 Cairo, U.A.R. - (UPD - The Damascus newspaper Al Jama- hir reported Sunday that "about 2,000 persons" were killed in the "Kirkuk massa cres" in Iraq two weeks ago when Communist elements W.Mr. A ;M MA.rrrar I fXIIICU III IIIUNUtl rebelled against the govern ment. The newspaper said the death figure came from an "official source" and that the figure was arrived at by a commission sent to Kirkuk to Transistors have made Jt possible for the'U-S. Army to mfne detector which weighs less than half as much as the kind used in K.orea. study the causes of the up rising. Previous death toll esti mates ranged from 20 to 500. im against giviuji mc . .,;j;- t i t,ov r.ts possible way of avoiding it 1 icei men, a j. ana .-".t,v-. .. . tMm,inh from his father. The common sense thing to i cn ..,., hi. do is very often the kindest health isn't too good. A heal- thing as well. If Frank s new thy man of 30 shouldn't come Dusmess wea is uuu to his father for money. It it should be possible for him OFF TO MOSCOW Vice President and Mrs. Richard Nixon wave goodbye as they board their plane at Fnena- shin Airnnrt Md for their flight to MOSCOW. The vice president will preside at formal opening of the American ...... . . - -m W - A Tri 1 1 exhibition in Moscow, meet rnme Minister juirusncuev, and visit a number of Kussian cities. MO YOURBUCKS if MERCURY 0 hi tn tret a bank loan or other financial backing. If it is not a tfood one. the quicker Frank is forced to recognize tnis tne hetter. A refusal from his father at this time may be just what Frank needs to pull himself together. When he comes to his father he is saying in a sense. "I'm a helpless child, I can do nothing but depend I nnnn vou." Graham s answer should be, "I have confidence in your I ability to come out on top in this thing. You don't need me because your earning poten tial is far greater than mine. The future lies with you not me. (Convvrighi 1959. General Features Corp.) Pushbutton Phones Being Developed New York -(Science Serv ice)- A pushbutton telephone Hpvice. which may replace tne rotary dial, is being devel oped at the Bell Telephone Laboratories here. The tiny transistor, be cause of its ability to amplify electronic signals while using little power and producing no heat, makes the pushbutton calling Dossible. v . Each telephone contains a transistorized oscillator that generates two coded musical tones for each of the pnone s ten buttons. The tones are sim ilar to those sometimes heard while a long-distance connec tinn is heine made. Simultaneously, the tones are transmitted to a central switching office, from where the call moves on to the recip ient. This routing is similar to that of present switching sys tems, which, however, do not understand the "two-tone lan ffnaze " To make use of exist ine switching systems. Bell has developed a machine to translate the tones into usa ble signals. CLEAN-UP SALE! We've jumped the gun on our annual Mercury housecleaning-vve're closing out the fabulous Fifty-nines at year-end prices now! For three til the floor is hare vou aet a dazzling 59 Mercury miwiiuy wcm w. w . , at a price that's been drastically scalped. Mercury 59-tne car that leads its field in every dimension that counts. This big pow-wow won't last long, so come in now and save! jed. Mercury sy-rne car inaT MERCURY Dehydrated Hay Booming Business In Nebraska Area Morning Star II Launched Sunday Tillamook- (UPD -The Morn ing Star II, a replica of the first ship registered in Ore gon, was launched Sunday in to the waters of Tillamook Bay at Garibaldi, north of here. The ship, Tillamook coun ty's major contribution to Oregon's Centennial ceieora tion, will be outfitted and will then sail up the coast to As toria and on up the Colum bia river to the Centennial Exposition in Portland. Mrs. Lena Vaughn Gooa- enped. daughter of one of the i ' . . - - - builders of the origmai Morn ino Star, smashed the sym holie bottle on the bow of the boat in christening cere monies. The ship will sail in aweek More than seven million U.S. families own more than 1ft million Darakeets. accord ing to French's Pet Bird In stitute.- Cozad. Neb. - (UPD - They're , really making hay these days in central Nebraska. Dehydrated hay, that is. Taking most of the water content out of alfalfa grown in lush fields of the Flatte River Valley is a big business, a business that's getting big ger every year. Th thousands of tourists who annually drive along U.S. Highway 30, particularly in Dawson county from Lexing ton through Cozad and Goth enburg, can't miss it. The "de-hy" plants - trucks streaming up to them, green H.ict snouting from the StOCKS, huge storage elevators and strings of hopper cars Deing loaded-are easy to spot. And they're even easier o smell. TVip odor of the dehydration plants has a character all its own. It smells something like a pile of sun-decayed lawn clippings, mixed wixn Dunn toast. Some folks like it. Oth ers say it makes 'em sick. Diameter of Pencil Last year, America's proc- oosino centers turned oui, slightly more than one mil lion tons of dehydrated anaim peHets-green pellets the diam eter of a thick pencil and varying in length irom one- quarter to a full men. Nebraska topped the na tion with a production oi about 300,000 tons. Ohio was next, with Kansas right along in the running. . The process of lire-orying its nutritional val- ciuaii v ues would be preserved longer was started at Leiano, m. not long after World war i. t parlv 1920's. the pio- neer plant was moved to the Kaw River Valley of Kansas. Word of its success spread north and Nebraska s nrsi plant was constructed near Elm Creek, 35 miles east of Cozad, in the mid-iuzu s. Nebraska now has slightly under 100 ' plants - most of them in this area. The Platte River Valley, ac cording to Jack Dillard, own er and operator of the Nebras ka Alfalfa Farms, inc., at t-. near f!nzad. is particu- uaiij AiwM ' t - larly good for growing alfaiia because of its sou struciuic. Overlays Gravel Bed We have a loam-type son, Dillard explains in a voice still sweet with tne orawx ox his native Dixie, "that over lays a bed of gravel. The grav- w - I i t . 4-1-1 A el is only five teet dgiow c.rfapp on the banks of the Platte, ranging up to 18 feet under up by the hius. a tremendous sub-irrigation system. Alfalfa roots sometimes go oown as feet in their search for water. Here, they find plenty of it, most of the time." The industry was started not only as a means of im proving winter feed for live stock but as a way oi leveiius nff the alfalfa market, and finding a summertime use for natural gas brought tnrougn pipelines in huge quantities to combat Nebraska's severe winter cold. So.me of the processing plants are privately owned. Others are cooperatives. Some ship only pellets. A few re- erind it -and sell a complete, mixed feed. The" more inte grated, progressive establish ments have their own live stock, feeding cattle their own pellets. Platte Valley farms yield four to five tons of hay, against a national average of two to two and one-half tons, an acre and always produce four, sometimes five cuttings of alfalfa a year. Favored va riety of alfalfa in the region is "Ranger," developed by the University of Nebraska. The anrual crop is valued at $15-20 million and is be coming more valuable every year. !of the Century J hi a i t r i ni n i n vi l i luv i i i iim rv t mi- w i kk m nrn ini.ni a nu i.ni nuunnuii nni.nr i. nn r niiiisr A - IS vacation do mnar I ENJOY EVERY VACATION MINUTE . . . but before you leave ask for the Mail Tribune VACATION PAK mmll ) SERVICE We will hold the Mail Tribune while you are on your cation. Each issue will be held in our office while you are away and w.ll be delivered to you personally by your carrier upon your return. VACATION PAC SERVICE IS FREE! No paper, to pile up on your porch. You will be able to catch-up on all local news and special features when you return. When you leave on your vacation just complete this handy order and either give it to your carrier . . . mail it ... or ust bring it in to the office. WE WILL DO THE REST MEDFORD MOTORS, INC. 225 SOUTH RIVERSIDE Healthful! 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