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Quotes From the News By United Press International West Yellowstone, Mont.-Madison County Sheriff V. H. Eowman, speaking of the death toll of the earthquake and massive landslide that are known to have killed at least 10 and possibly 12 vacationers: "There might be 100 people under that slide or there might be only a few. Probably we'll never know." New York-Rodman Rockefeller, son of New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, explaining why he and his brother Michael took no gifts with them as they left for Norway to attend the wedding of their brother Steven to Anne Marie Rasmussen: "In our family, we always find out what they need and then we act accordingly. You know what happens if you don't do that. They get 27 ashtrays." Tokyo-U. S. Army Maj. Gen. William Biddle, chief United Nations command delegate on the Korea Military Armistice Commission, demanding punishment for Red pilots who fired on an American plane in June: "I demand that the persons responsible for this barbarous and unprovoked attack on an aircraft of our side be ade quately punished." Washington-Sen. Jacob K. Javits, R-N.Y telling what he believes was shown by government figures on the steel strike which were claimed by both sides as supporting their positions: "There can be 'give' on both sides." Electric Car To Be Placed On Market Within Year Los Angeles (UPD A car that uses no fuel but must be plugged into an electric outlet each night for recharging . . . Another car that zips from zero to 60 miles per hour in five seconds with a kerosene burning engine . . . An "air car" that skims over land and water with equal ease and no danger of crashing. Crazy dreams? By no means. They're all ideas that manu facturers are testing even now to revolutionize private trans portation. Walt Woron, editor of Mo tor Trend magazine, has sur veyed the field and come up with a time-table on when these vehicles may be ready for the public. The first one is an electric car - an idea which goes back to grandpa's day. It got short circuited early in life by the greater range of the gasoline engine which does not have to go home to roost beside its battery charger at night. On Market in Year The Charles Motor Corp., of San Diego, Calif., plans to have its Charles Townabout, a full -sized car powered by four-12-volt batteries, on the market within a year It has a light-weight, moulded, glass resin body. Hugh Waldman of the Charles outfit says the car is not intended to replace the gasoline auto. It's what its name "Townabout" implies -a vehicle for getting around in the city. As Waldman sees it, conditions which contrib uted to the demise of the elec tric car years ago - cheap gasoline and high-cost electri city now hav? been re versed. Grange News Shady Cove Grange The Shady Cove Grange met Saturday in the Shady Cove school gym. Both Master Ed Houston and Overseer Ed Strother were absent so the Grange was opened by Lec turer D. A. Littlefield, who later turned the meeting over to Past Master Cecil Kee. The following committees were reported on, legislative, agriculture, chuck wagon breakfast, and HJS.C. Hirf! chairman. Ola Hous ton, reported about the noon Dicnic at the Reed McKays Aue. 11. The pie social held in July netted $26. Mrs. Isabel wan- derlic ' was appointed chair man of the Grange table ex hibit for the Garden club for SeDt. 4 which will be held in the Shady Cove school evm. The next HEC meeting will be Sept. 8 in the Ed Strother home in Shady Cove. T. M. Littlefield and Cecil Kee reported on progress made for the chuckwagon breakfast Sunday, Aug. 23, from a jn. until noon at the Shady Cove school cafeteria, Kee reported on the visita tion night program. The resignation of Master Ed Houston was read and ac cepted. Houston is ill. Phil Motsenbacker was elected to fill the unexpired term. The first and second de gree obligations were given Mrs. Ada Boyington and the third and fourth to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Wheeler. ' Lecturer D. A. Littlefield cave Mrs. Walter Cross shopping bag with something from the Grocery store ana asked each member to guess the contents. There were no correct answers. The bag con tained narakeet food. Richard Wheeler was elect ed to fill the vacancy on the executive committee when Phil Motsenbacker resigned and then both Motsenbacker and Wheeler were installed. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Deister and Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Kee served watermelon. The "Townabout" resembles a big Karmann - Ghia, the Volkswagen with the sporty body. It has an 80-mile range, a top speed of 50 miles an hour and acceleration com parable to a Volkswagen. It has two direct-current motors on the rear axles and is sup posed to require far less me chanical upkeep. It is priced, to start with, at $2,895, com plete with charger and built in cord for plugging into regu lar 110-volt outlet. To Take Longer It'U take a little longer, 5 to 10 years, to get a turbine driven auto, although major manufacturers have been working with them off and on for years. Engineers list many advantages, over the pis ton engine, the main one be-. ing that a turbine which pro duces the same horsepower available in today's big piston engines weighs half as much. Turbines can be made to operate on almost any com bustible fuel and have only one-fifth as many parts. They have terrific acceleration, a standard 160-horsepower job being able to dust off a piston engine nearly twice as power ful. - Ford is testing turbines in a Thunderbird and a truck. The 1960 T-bird would accom modate Ford's new 704 tur bine engine, and a few will be so outfitted, but only for road testing. General Motors and Chrysler also are testing turbines for passenger cars. Morning Star Crew Jailed af Rainier Rainier (UPD The Tilla mook Centennial schooner Morning Star TL sailed into this Columbia river port Wednesday and the- entire crew was promptly thrown into jail. But it was all in fun. . A committee representing Rainier Daze, a local celebra tion, filed charges against the crew of: (1) Disturbing salm on in Rainier precincts, and (2) Bringing cheese not prop erly labeled into Rainier. Each crewman, to get out of the pokey, had to eat a big portion of "Rainier cheese." Mayor Loren McKinley of Tillamook, one of those aboard the Morning Star II, said they found out later it was ' their own Tillamook brand. A community dinner was held at the VFW hall Wednesday night. This morning the ship set sail for Kalama, Wash. The two master replica is en route to Portland for the Centen nial Exposition. Three Fishermen Drowning Victims Sekiu, Wash. -(UPD Three fishermen drowned Wednes day afternoon after their rented 15-foot outboard boat apparently struck a sub merged rock off Slip Point and capsized. The dead were identified as Ralph Stockwell, about 60, Gene StockwelL about 28, and W. W. Schaeffer, about 30, all of Shelton. There were no witnesses to the accident. Three Coast Guardsmen who man a light house at Slip Point became aware of it when they saw young Stockwell standing on a rock offshore. They then noticed two bodies in the water. While they were trying to recover the bodies, young Stockwell fell off the rock. He was pulled from the water, but artificial respiration failed and he was pronounced dead after two hours. The other two bodies were recovered later by Coast Guard boats. McElligott Speaks Af Legion Picnic Cave Junction-Richard Mc Elligott, past commander of Fr. Francis P. Duffy Post, American Legion, Killarney, Ireland, addressed about 100 Legionnaires and friends Sun day when Glenn Morrison Post held a potluck picnic. McElligott, member of the American Legion for more than 40 years, is now member of Grants Pass post. He spoke of his experiences in the Le gion both here and in Ireland. Bruce Davidson, Josephine county commissioner, spoke on the duties of the county court and discussed the coun ty road program, breaking down into figures the value received in the Illinois Valley on the Rocky Dale and Deer Creek rds. He also stressed the fact that residents must support the.Winnemuca to the Sea highway or lose it to an other location. The air-car, or more prop erly "ground proximity ve hicle," probably" will take longer than 10 years before being marketed widely, al though some experts think it may make a surprising spurt. The vehicle is not an air plane or .helicopter. It rides on a cushion of air but is designed to go no more than a foot off the ground, per haps only inches. It will not hop fences or trees. Its main advantage is that it can skim over both land and water, needing no roads. Models currently under- de velopment for military and research purposes would pre sent a problem on city streets -they'd blow pebbles, old cig arette butts and other debris on innocent bystanders. Chrysler is testing an aerial jeep for the military. It is about 23 feet long, 10 feet wide and is driven by a 250 horsepower engine that spins two 8.5-foot fans located hori zontally fore and aft. It can do 50 miles an hour. Curtiss -Wright is working on an air-car that looks like a flying saucer. It has a 65 horsepower aircraft engine which hurls a blast of air out its bottom and through side louvers. Designers believe it could be big boon to farmers, hunt ers and even fishermen. DOWNTOWN MEDFORD Super Purchase! 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The National Park Service hopes to create similar seashore parks at a Chopsfick Used To Thwart Rapist Torrance, Calif. -(UPD- A 20-year-old housewife saved her self from a would-be rapist Wednesday with the use of a souvenir chopstick. Mrs. Martha Larson of nearby Lawndale told police a six-foot man with a knife jumped in her car at a signal light, forced her to park in a secluded area and tried to rape her. "The man took my ignition key and then started to at tack me. My cheek brushed something hard ami I re membered the bamboo chop stick on the seat I was keep ing as a souvenir. "I grabbed the chopstick, said a prayer and drove it with all my might against his side near his heart," said Mrs. Larson. "He gasped and pulled away and I jumped from the car and ran." The would-be rapist ran in the opposite direction and was sought by police today. SUB LAUNCHING SEPT. 22 Groton, Conn.-fUPD-The sec ond American nuclear subma rine equipped to fire Polaris ballistic missiles will be launched Sept. 22, it was an nounced today. The 5,400-ton Patrick Henry is due to be come operational next year, the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp. said. The nation's first atomic Po laris sub, the George Wash ington, also is scheduled for completion in 1960. (I V 9 i 'j number of other suitable. scenic coastal sites. "I was very much encour aged by the operations of the Park Service," Porter said. "They certainly know how to handle such an area." Porter drove the entire 80 mile length of the Cape Hat teras area, saw slides at a park service museum, had a jeep ride over the sands, was escorted about by the park superintendent, and talked with natives of the area. "Nobody was complaining about it," Porter said of local residents. He noted that the state of North Carolina is planning to invest $3 million in a bridge across Oregon Inlet, a body of water which separates two of the islands which make up the Outer Banks. "That shows how much the state thinks of it," he said; Viewing Cape Hatteras, he said, gave him a better vision of what could be done at Ore gon Dunes. He said he pictur ed museums of natural his tory, nature talks and beach walks conducted by park rangers, long . beaches un touched b y commercializa tion, swimming in the fresh water inland lakes as well as the ocean. - "I can see a museum of the sea at Florence," 'said Porter. He obtained a set of slides showing Cape Hatteras which Reedsport Man Accident Victim Coos Bay -UPD- A 41-year-old Reedsport man died Tues day from injuries suffered in a tractor accident in the Coos Bay area at North Lake. Fatally injured ' was Rich ard Fred Schreur. He was be lieved to have been operating a tractor which began to slip toward the lake. He was thrown beneath the tractor as he tried to jump clear of the vehicle and landed on the tractor track. Schreur is survived by his widow, Bernice; a stepson, Kyle Coats of Reedsport; his parents, and a sister, Mrs. Dan Kelly of Coos Bay. AM- We Give. GREEN STAMPS ELLIS MARKET 820 Crater Lake Avenue SHOP TOMORROW 9:30 a.m. lo 5:30 p.m. Possibilities for Cape Hatteras Tour he said he plans to send to Oregon to be shown in the communities in the area of the Oregon Dunes. Porter hopes to arrange House hear ings in Oregon after Senate hearings in October.' Porter still thinks, how ever, that the precise bound aries of the Oregon Dunes National Seashore should be described in legislation auth orizing it. No boundaries are described in the legislation as introduced . by him in the House and Sens. Richard L. Neuberger and Wayne Morse in the Senate. Neuberger Defends Idea Morse has been especially critical of the idea of letting the Secretary "of Interior de termine where the exact boun daries shall be, without Con gress having any check over that authority. Neuberger has defended the idea of allowing the Interior Department to use its own discretion. Joe W. Penfold, conserva tion director ' Izaak Walton IMS-TO-SPiil S GROUP I M J3k I Fashioned WX Fitting! WOOL - 'ff0f . FLANNEL W II I II : can SKIRTS - ' ?,: The skirt you'll wear every- ' t I where . . with everything! , J j Basic straight-line styling, - IR I j tailored in all wool flannel 'x Br 1 ... Seat lined, with back t 1 I I Lr.u d:,U fc.il- I I H 1 GROUP III rxiirv picui ixiwii imm B t I V I colors. Sizes 8 to 18. I f U i iv Super Bargain at Penney's! in mm . League of America, takes Neuberger's side. His con servation organization is pro moting the seashore bills. 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