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RECORD SHIP TRAFFIC A new port record was set at New York Monday when 13 liners with a total, of 6,061 passengers arrived. This record off-season ship traffic was caused by the booming cruise business . 10 of the arriving ships were returning r- " i i - ' ' - If $ Ml KENNETH R. LAWSON Desperado Sought Kenneth Lawson, Prison Escapee, Makes FBI List , Washington - (LTD - Ken neth Ray Lawson, a menacing psychopathic desperado, has Deen piacea on uie im uai I of 10 most wanted criminals. ' Lawson, who has been mck 'jiamed "Kenno" and "Cigar ' Man" by the underworld, is ities as "a shrewd, daring and very dangerous criminal." .He has been the subject of Ja nationwide search since he and four companions escaped ficom Tennessee state prison at (Nashville last April 22. SDesperalely Violent -f ! While Lawson is essentially J a" highly accomplished burg lar, the FBI warned that he Si .'has threatened the lives of J police, carries carefully con ' eealed hand guns and has be- j Lome desperately violent when cornerea. The 32 - year - old fugitive who often sports a crew-cut has been diagnosed as "a psy chopathic personality with a superior intelligence," the FBI said. While in the service, Law- son served two years in a dis iplinary barracks for deser tion and escaped and was dis honorably discharged from the Air Force. He had a police record in ML Clemens, Mich., being ar rested at Limestone, Tenn., in August, 1956, for the burg lary of a hardware store. t While his sentence was being appealed, Lawson and an ac- a supermarket in the midst V. of a burglary. J, Lawson's daring was exem y plified by a previous break f out from Brushy Mountain , cording to the FBI, he was f halted from scaling a prison 4 wall by a guard"s gun fire, but broke across the yard through a hail of bullets to gain freedom over a second wall. Recaptured, he made h i s subsequent escape from the Nashville penitentiary through cunning. He and his companions built a false wall in a railroad car in the prison grounds and were transported to freedom. Lawson was last spotted in El Paso, Texas, on Aug. 24 when he successfully eluded . a police pursuit. The newcomer to the most wanted list is a native' of Es- serville, Va. He stands be : tween 5 foot 10 inches to 6 feet and weighs from 170 to 185 pounds. He has a medium build, light brown hair, rud dy complexion and blue-gray or hazel eyes. WRITER OF LAW DIES Pensacola, Fla.-flJPD-Retired Circuit Judge L. L. Fabisin- ski, 69, chairman of an ad visory committee that wrote Florida's pupil placement law, died Sunday. EAGLE POINT Unit Plcsns Meeting By DOTTIE HARBISON later in the spring when their Eagle Point - The Eagle home is completed. D - , tt t?" j -,, j Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Nelson Point Home Extension will , , ., . ,, . .. , ! and family spent the holidays meet at the home of Mrs. Lyle in San Dieg0 with Mr; and ureeiiwouu on rupny ru. ai 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 14 Mrs. Bennie Hefley and Mrs. Leland Meyers will lead a demonstration of salad mak ing. Mrs. Don Pulley, North Main st., will be available for child care for the unit. Each youngster is asked to bring a sack lunch. Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Symens and daughter Julia, Hayward, Calif., visited over the holi days with Mrs. Symens' par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Lindsay Tibbits of Stevens rd. Dean Tibbits, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lindsay Tibbits, was also home for the holidays. Dean was enrolled at the University of Oregon as a forestry major but has changed his major to teaching and is ,now going to Southern Oregon college. Dean will stay in Ashland dur ing the winter term and com mute to Ashland when the weather is more favorable for travel. Mr. and Mrs. Pat Workman, Susanville, Calif., spent Dec. 20-21 with Mr. and Mrs. Lindsay Tibbits. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Humph rey and children motored to Fort Dick, Calif., Dec. 29 where they were joined the following day by Mr. and Mrs. Dale Goodman and children, Shady Cove; Mr. , and Mrs. David Harbison and family, Eagle Point, and Mr. and Mrs. Lester Y. Marshall, Browns boro. The Humphreys return ed Dec. 31 while the rest of the party remained until Sat urday afternoon. Ada Bonebrake and chil dren of Roseburg visited with the Don Pulley and the Ray Barrow families from Dec. 30 until Jan. 2. The Bonebrakes are former Eagle Point resi dents. Mr. and. Mrs. Don Pulley gave a snow party in honor of their daughter Darla's 11th birthday Dec. 2. Mr. and Mrs. Keith Kram beal and family spent Christ mas in North Bend with Keith's parents. Mr. and Mrs M. S. Krambeal. Sixteen mem bers of the family were. on hand for Christmas dinner. Mr. and Mrs. Dale Acker- man and family moved into their new home in time for Christmas. The Ackermans plan on holding open house Schrunk Suggests Ballot Measures Portland-OIPB-Mayor Terry Schrunk wants Portland vot ers to decide if power dams should be built at the city's Bull Run water system. Schrunk, in his annual re port to the people Monday, also suggested two other bal lot measures. One would "up date" the city's charter and the other would give Port land standby authority to fi nance and operate a mass transit system if the need arises. Schrunk also endorsed a proposal to appear on the May primary ballot which would increase the city's tax base by $3 million. Advisory Board Member Is Named W.J. Roderick, 1160 Oak st., Ashland, has been named to the advisory board of Guide Dogs for the Blind, Inc., San Rafael, Calif., Robert H. Schnacke, president, has an nounced. Among other Oregonians who have been reelected to the board is Glenn Klein, Med ford, Jackson county 4-H agent. from warm-climate cruises. The ships, from top to bottom, are the Homeric, just pulling into a pier, Gripsholm, Ocean Monarch, black stack, just visible behind the Italia; Queen Elizabeth, Mauretania and the Berlin. (UPI Telephoto) Mrs. Jack Silvers, former Eagle Point residents. The Nel sons visited Tijuana, and Dis neyland, toured the Los An geles zoo and celebrated New Year's Eve in San Francisco. They stopped at Marine Land and Knotts Berry Farm en route home. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Youree and daughter Dianna; Mr. and Mrs. Bill Smith, Portland: Mr. and Mrs. Rex Jacobs and son Michael, Steam Boat Springs,' Colo., and Mr. and Mrs. Keith Ayers and son David, Medford, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Canter bury over the holidays. Youree and Mrs. Jacobs are brother and sister to Mrs. Canterbury. Mrs. Youree ac companied the Jacobs to Port land for an indefinite stay with her brother and family. Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Sim mons entertained with a fam ily dinner and later a card par ty and New Year's Eve watch night at their home on South C st. Walter Simmons, Med ford; Mr. and Mrs. George Peters, Mt. Rainier, Wash., and Mr. and Mrs. Lew Philli ber, Medford, were dinner guests. Walter Simmons is the father of Clayton Simmons and Mrs. George Peters and all. are former Eagle Point residents. Following dinner, Dick Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Thompson and A 1 v i n Sim mons, all of Eagle Point, join ed the group in an evening of card playing. Mr. and Mrs. Lester McFall also dropped in after a previous engagement to play cards. Among the many students who were home from college for the holidays were Norman Hooper, Roger Hooper, and Gary Kaiser, Oregon Techni cal institute; Ellen Callaghan, Carol West, and Bert Nelson, University of Oregon; Dick Brown, Ben Knork, Dale Casey, Fred Jossey, Larry Meyer, Ken Bitter ling, Roy Regan, Jack Esp and Bill Hub bard,' Oregon State college, and Bill McClure, Georgia Weidman, Dean Tibbits, Dean Weitman and Neal Dusen bury, . Southern Oregon college. 8 P.M. THURSDAY - JANUARY 7th at '. Medford Senior High School Auditorium South Oakdale, Medford Under the Auspices of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Medford, Ore. All are Welcome Small Worlds S0 Around Us Don't Add To Rabbit's Troubles By Using Ears As Handles Recorded history never bothers its scholastic., mind about such silly things as who that misguided individual was who first advocated the stupid idea that a live rabbit was supposed to be picked' up by the ears. Probably it was the same person, or one like him, who maintained that everything on the face of this earth, animal, vegetable or mineral, was placed here on . this ' nearly round spinning globe especial ly for the benefit of man. Of course, the same indi vidual, as stupid as he was, never followed up his idea and tried lifting a mule the same way," apparently over looking the fact this creature's ears are also out of propor tion with the body, if It's Cruel Picking and lifting a live rabbit up by the ears is. cruel. It hurts the rabbit as much as if someone picked a man up the same way. When in flight, which oc curs constantly in rabbit life, this animal must be aiert and ready to "run for its life" at the first sign of danger. It must always be able o hear what is going on behind it, for that's where the pursuer is. So the rabbit's ears are laid back on the shoulders in such a position that thy pick up the sounds from the rear.. When not in full flight the House Fly Would Become Extinct if Cholesterol Lacking By DELOS SMIXH UPI Science Editor New York - (UPD -beings may have to lose excess cholesterol h o u s would : e x t i ic t if there were no cholesterol. C o m-fc 1 e t e lac k .?of the chemical m i g hft effect hum a ns the .same way, Deios smith but that can't be shown in the neat and con clusive way it has been shown for the most pesty ofv'all in sects, musca domestixja, by Ronald E. Monroe, insect sci entist employed by the-, U. S. Department of Agriculture in its Beltsville, Md., tlabora tories. 1 House flies are never both ered by cholesterol because their body chemistry is inca pable of making it or any of the related compounds. This is the reverse of human body chemistry, which makes it readily whether or not. it is contained - in the diet. But whatever cholesterol the fly gets, it eats. . No Weakness Found . Monroe investigated to see if this could be a , weakness in the house fly - a weakness that people could use-.against it. Despite the efforts of many decades, science has yet to find a weakness in the animal which could be exploited for long as an anti-fly weapon. Attend a FREE Lecture :iuman tliet to cut the fiy Become "Christian Science: The Science of ft Seeking and Finding Truth' by Joseph Lingen Wood, C.S., of Vancouver, B. C. Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts animal's ears are raised, there by becoming more direction al,' tuned to sounds . coming in from the ; front or sides. Fortunatey, the rabbit has one single defense against complete annihilation. This one accomplishment alone has kept the race of rabbits more or less plentiful down through the years, in spite of persecu tion by a wider range of pre dators than has any other an imal. This factor is its phe nomenal ability to reproduce itself. Of all the game animals in this country, the rabbit is the most universally distributed. In places like Australia, where few of his natural en emies are present, the rabbit's numbers have reached almost uncontrollable proportions, as example of, - man's bungling with the laws of checks and balances. Without these natural con trols, some species of animal actually can become an en emy even unto itself. The rabbit folk ocupy a little-to-envied position in the world of living animals, for Nature evidently intended it to be food for a host of preda tors, great and small. It's all the more reason why we, who are always a hundred times large and stronger than he, should not be so stupid as to add to his multitudinous troubles by picking the poor little guy up by his ears. (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1959) He put newly emerged adult flies into screen cages and fed them synthetic foods in order . to know the precise chemical nature of everything they ate. Some flies had cho lesterol, added to this richly nutritional diet, others did not. . ' When the flies began laying eggs, the eggs were collected and put on moist paper ' in dishes. Both the eggs which hatched into new flies and those which turned out to be sterile were counted. The eggs of the flies which had' cholesterol in their diet turned out to be 82 to 96 per cent fertile. The eggs of the flies which ate no cholesterol were only five per cent fer tile. These fly-babies were reared into egg-laying adult hood, and . only about half I their eggs were fertile. . ' No Effect on Egg-Laying When flies which had been getting cholesterol were de prived of it, the hatching per centage dropped at once, and it kept, dropping sharply as the cholesterol-deprivation of the egg-laying flies continued. When cholesterol was re stored to their diet, the per centage started going up again and soon reached 83 per cent. Lack of cholesterol had no effect on egg-laying itself -the flies who got and who didn't get' it, laid approxi mately the same number, of eggs. ' Monroe was impressed that the harmful effect was to the fertility of the egg. He noted ' that even when the H M They'll-Do It Every Time . -.,..,.o- . . Bv Jimmy -Hatlo OUST LEAVE VOUR WELL.IW LOCAL-DON'r; The new ' sealeo bids,gentle- ( see how anybody cam Z- ' SCHOOL WAS MEN WE'LL J-E7" you V BEAT MY PRICE -vU, SO WHO GETS THE JOB? A LOCAL GUY? NOPE-USUALLV "THE BUILDER FROM THOUSINDS OF MILES f AWAY TrUNX4ND OUR HAT IS A Su ui-i- iu ium VLeJ. rr--u.ir- WATERFORD, .-, N.Y. Back Stairs: By MERRIMAN SMITH While House Reporter Augusta, Ga. - (LTD - Now that Vice President Richard M. Nixon looks like a shoo-in for the GOP presidential nom ination, politicians will won der if President Eisenhower will give him jobs to build him up for the campaign next fall. As long as Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York looked like a rival to Nixon, any presidential assignments for the Vice President would have been viewed with sus picion as a breach of Eisen hower's neutrality pledge. - Since Rockefeller has bow ed out, anything the President does to help Nixon now would be regarded merely as a boost to the prospective presidential nominee of his own party. Many Assignments Eisenhower has given Nix on many assignments, both at home and abroad. The Vice President's good-will missions have taken him' to the Far eggs were put in a medium containing cholesterol and its related compounds, hatching still was inhibited. How this can be used against house flies is not yet apparent. Depriving the house fly of cholesterol in its natur al environments, such as kitchens and cow barns, would be rather complicated. However, Monroe is continu ing his investigation. V 3 4 ' Tremendous Savings for ALL Come Early-Starts Tomorrow at 9 A.M. FOR WOMEN Air Steps Life Stride Value to 13.95 90 Now Women's Girls' Sport Oxfords & Flats Values to 7.95 3 Now Women's BOYS' Now only Values BUSTER BROWN SHOE Fluhrer Bldg. ; - f WE BRING. BIG TOOLS fffi .11 "FLm -iHT i? ( ALL WAY FROM ALASKA- ) jfi Cv - ib-V THROUGH PANAMA yf 1-1 F- Will Ike Help East, Africa, Latin America and Russia. While there is no reason to attribute a political motive to the assignment to Russia, the Vice President's climb in the public opinion polls can be dated from that trip last year. The President seems to have staked out the field of person al diplomacy as his own for this year with trips in the works to the Western summit meeting at Paris, to Russia and to South America. To Head Committee Nixon has two assignments now which might bring him publicity. He was named by the President to head a com mittee to discourage racial discrimination in employment b y government contractors, and the cabinet committee on economic growth and price stability. Some Democrats felt that the economic committee would give Nixon a chance to lay out an eye-catching do mestic program of his own. Its reports so far, however, have failed to win much atten tion. President Eisenhower's year-end trip to Augusta was his 26th to his Georgia holi day retreat since he was elect ed to the White House in 1952. Thus it easily rates as his favorite vacation spot. While not always warm, its winter temperatures are gener ally warmer than' Washington and Gettysburg, Pa., where he of G&BaBaGOGll 790 (5)90 House Slippers 1.90 4 90 i90 Hose VaIuestol35now59cpr. SHOES 90 J90 to 9.99 Nixon? ten goes for week end visits to his farm. And he has ready access to a magnificent golf course that has all the privacy he wants at the Augusta Na tional Golf Club where he is quartered. HORNBROOK School Principal Returns By KATHERINE CHAPMAN Hornbrook - School princi pal and Mrs. Harley Baker and daughter Karen returned Monday afternoon from a holiday vacation spent in Bakersfield, Calif., with her mother, Mrs. Ora McCool, and in Oxnard with her sister and other members of her family. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Watt Jr. and sons Tommie and Ron nie drove to Portland on Sat urday where they spend the week end visiting his family and her family. En route home, they visited friends along the Oregon coast, arriv ing in Hornbrook Monday evening. - Returning from San Fran cisco Monday evening were Mr. and Mrs. Loren Cummins, who had made a quick week end business trip to the city. While they were away, their son Loren . Howard stayed with his friend Lornie Paine in Ft. Jones, and their daugh ter Jennifer divided her time between her two grandmoth- FOR MEN Roblee and Pedwins Value From 12.95 to 15.95 Now u Childrens Shoes Values to 6.99 and 7.99 Now 4J90 Women's Handbags All for only 290 plus tax DON'T MISS THIS SHOE SALE! When Buster Brown has a Sale, It's Sayings for ALL MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Tuesday, Jan. 5, 1 960 ' ' Time Device Holds Bank Safe Closed Port Townsend. Wash.-fllPD-Officials at the First Ameri can Bank here were a little red-faced Monday after learn ing they had miscalculated the automatic timing device on the bank safe when they closed it last Thursday. The timing mechanism is on the inside of the vault door and officials have no idea when the safe will open. In order to transact business Monday, money was borrow ed from the Sequim Bank before the First American Bank here could open its doors. Officials said it is just a matter of time until the door to the vault will pop open but they had no idea when that will be. Ashland Woman Is Creator of Song Mrs. Diane Cowdrick, 2253 Highway 99, north, Ashland, is creator of the song, "I Want to See Santa," which was pub lished recently by the Nor dyke Music Publishing com pany, Hollywood, Calif. The company said the song is being displayed in local mu sic stores, and copies of it have been sent to bands and orchestras in this area. ers, Mrs. Rob Cummins and Mrs. Ivon Howard. After spending the holiday here with her mother, Mrs. Ida Sloan and brother Len nard Sloan, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Moore and son Gerry left Sun day for their home in Areata, Calif. Other holiday guests were Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Lew is and children of Ashland, Mr. and Mrs. George Sloan of Montague, and Mrs. Chris Shinar of Seiad Valley. Len nard Sloan's band played New Year's Eve for the fireman's ball at Happy Camp. His mother attended the dance, spent the week end in Seiad Valley with her brother, and returned home Sunday. Mrs. Fred Mills returned home Monday after spending the week end in Medford with relatives and friends. Napoleon was promoted to brigade general at the age of 24, after the capture of Toa- lon from the Royalists - m 1793. ...-- 90 and 2,90 STORE 15 So. Central
