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STORE OFFICIAL DIES MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. C Wednesday, Au. 16, 1959 Quotes From the News - ' 1 , " Lebanon, Pa. (UPD Albert Coons, 68, vice president of the department store chain of Allied Stores Corp., died Tues day. Coons also was president of Pomeroy's, Inc., a chain of Pennsylvania stores owned by Allied. United Press International newspictures are transmitted around the globe. Regular de liveries of pictures over radio photo channels are made daily from New York to Europe and South America, and from San Francisco to Japan and Australia. By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Chicago-'Tidelito," 9-year-old son of Cuban Premier Fidel Castro, telling what he thought of his first major league base ball game andhis vacation trip around Chicago: "I am having a fin time, but I know people pay all atten tion to me because my father is a great man." Johnsville, Pa.-One of the seven U.S. astronauts being trained for space flight, Leroy G. Cooper of Carbondale, Colo., describing his reactions to a simulated flight in a centrifuge: "I felt a little dizzy, but not bad." Pugwash, N.S.-Sir Robert Watson-Watt, one of the inven tors of radar, disclosing the existence of a toxic substance so powerful that eight ounces of it could kill everyone in the world: "This is only one item in the biochemist's chamber of horrors." Lubbock, Tex.-Harry Raymond Pope, one of the FBI's 10 most wanted men, after being seized by federal agents who moved so fast he didn't have a chance to grab any of his three guns: "It was just a bad day all around." V M X. . i u -. 4 jttMOv A. aoe db. a& i The first gasoline powered automobile was built in Springfield, Mass., by the Duryea Motor Car Co. So Superior BRANDISHING STICKS, Africa, against increase in Shakespeare Scenes Scenes from the Oregon Shakespearean Festival's 1959 production of "Antony and Cleopatra" will be broadcast at 7 o'clock tonight over radio station KMED, Medford. The 60 - minute program, which was taped at the Fes tival theater earlier this month, features members of the current company. Andrew G. Love, radio pro ducer and winner of two Pea body awards, produced the program. Love has supervised the radio production for the Western Auto 25 South Riverside Ave. Will Be CLOSED Thursday, Aug. 27 To Prepare For Their Big Grand Opening SALE Watch Thursday's Mail Tribune If 33 more than 1,500 native women demonstrate in Natal, South poll tax imposed by government. Police dispersed . them. To Be Broadcast past nine years. "Antony and Cleopatra" is one of four plays being pro duced in repertory fashion, which allows the tourist to "Stay four days S ee four plays." Other plays are "Twelfth Night" and its prp logue "Maske of the New World," "King John," and "Measure for Measur e." Nightly performances contin ue through Sept. 5. 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He was described as a good stu dent at Jefferson high school. Clyde Alexander, 21, told police he was returning home and saw a car with two per sons inside parked near the dead boy's home. He said he later heard two shots. The Heads boy died from wounds in the chest and stom ach. MAKE A DEAL) DeSoto 8th Astronaut Describes 'Space Flight' in Simulated Orbit Johnsville, Pa. -(UPD- "A little dizzy but not bad" was the way one of America's sev en astronauts described a four-hour "flight" into simu lated orbit 150 miles from earth Tuesday. Leroy G. Cooper, Carbon- dale, Colo., made the trip and returned in a specially built centrifuge designed to give the feeling of space flight. It was the first experiment of this type that newsmen were permitted to witness. 'Very Normal Cooper described the simu lated flight and re-entry as very normal-the same as we have been practicing the last few days." The astronaut said he felt no pain and experienced the opposite of weightlessness. 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These sensations including the simulated effect of a par achute opening at 60,000 feet, a second parachute at 15,000 feet, and the impact on water while traveling at 35 feet per second. Penalty Meted Errant Aviator Columbus, Ohio -(UPD-Capt. John S. Lappo, an aircraft commander of the Strategic Air Command, has been grounded indefinitely for fly ing a six-jet B47 bomber be neath the Straits of Mackinac bridge in Michigan. The SAC revealed Tuesday that Lappo, Muskegon, Mich., father of four, pleaded guilty in a courtmartial to flying the big . plane April 24 be neath the bridge connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas. There is about 150 feet clearance between the bridge and the water. Lt. Col. Bill G. FendalL information officer at Lock bourne Air Force Base, said a decision on Lappo's penalty was reached last week. "GOING TO DISAPPEAR" Steven Rockefeller, son of New York s Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, and bis bride, Ann Mane, arrive at New York IdyewiM Airport from Some, Norway, where they were married. "They're going to dis appear, with your co-operation," Gov. Rockefeller told newsmen who gathered at the airport to interview the honeymooners. v 4 . a 7 LINDA EDNA MARTIN Leads to Killer Lacking Police Checking To Obtain Leads In Woman's Death . Los Aigeles - (UPD - Police today checked known sex criminals and both men and women friends of slain Uni versity of Southern California coed Linda Edna Martin for clues to her killer. Police admitted they were without any substantial leads in the knife slaying of the 21-year-oldi . USC music student fronr-Rockville Center, N. Y., who had a fear of dying young. Woman Possibility : - "We're not dismissing the possibility a woman was the killer," said Inspector Thomas Reddin. "And we're not dismissing the : possibility ' that . it was a sex fiend,, a friend, or a prowler, either." Miss Martin, nude ; and bleeding to death from three stab wounds, was found Sun day night oh stairs leading to the apartment of her bearded fiance, Glenn Robert Kinzie, 27-year-old USC graduate art student! Kinzie has "passed" a lie detector test and been cleared of the slaying. Previously Married Miss Martin was previously married. Her former husband, John. Lewis Taylor, 24, told United Press International in Chicago . Tuesday .that Miss Martin had a premonition she "wouldn't live very long." "I just kidded her," he said. "Just sloughed it off. You know how women are She was an artist, a musician. Most creative people go through periods of depression they don't have a constant emotion al pitch." Nixon To Attend Dam Dedication The Dalles-fflPD-Vice Presi dent Richard Nixon has ac-; cepted an invitation to be the main speaker at dedication of The Dalles dam . 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