Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 18, 1960, Image 7

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Newspaper Page TextCape Canaveral Space Age Of Frontier Town Cape Canaveral, Fla -(UPD- Cape Canaveral, America's doorway to space, is a space age version of the old frontier boom town. It is a wild mish-mash of packed bars and nightclubs, genuine religious feeling and Home life, sick jokes, press agents, scientists, sunburned construction workers, mil tary dash and precision, and everywhere the talk of rockets. Ten years ago, there was nothing on this long, skinny sandspit in the Atlantic but the sleepy little village of Cocoa Beach, sandspurs, sea gulls and the old Banana Riv er naval station, Then on July 24, 1950, the Air Force fired a German V-2 rocket from the isolated Cape. There were then only 1,133 residents of Cocoa Beach. Now, about 36,000 people live or work on the Cape itself. Almost every night windows are rattled by a rocket's boom. The 30-odd swank hotels are full of ar riving or departing scientists, public relations men and the plain curious. The bars, fea turing night club entertainers from Miami Beach and New York, are packed. Services for Workers The Rev. Milton Stohs mov ed to the area in 1953 as the first Lutheran pastor in Bre vard county. Now there are six Lutheran churches in the county, and Stohs helps con duct services for missile workers each Sunday in the auditorium of the newest and most lavish hotel on the beach. "Missile people are very ehurch-conscious," he said. "More so than many others." The Rev. Hamilton was sent to the area only two years ago by the Southern Presbyterian church. He had no congregation to start with, but now his worshippers have built a $40,000 sanctuary and urgently "need more room. Many of the church officers are rocket scientists with fam ilies who live in the less fran tic environs of Cocoa, eight miles inland from the beach. Cape Canaveral, a largely barren area of sand, is at the north end of the island. Pat rick Air Force base, head quarters of the Air Force Mis sile Test Center, is about 15 1 . n U .Mitk ury motels and beach houses of concrete block. New ones rise every day. The motels and bars reflect the general mood. Their names are Polaris, Sea Mis sile, Vanguard, Satellite and the like. There even is a gift shop named "Terra Luna." Public relations men for any company that makes any part of a missile swarm to the Cape on advance of an Air Force test of their prod uct. Everyone is a "source" for some choice tidbit of in formation about the trouble or success that this or that missile or rocket is having. Almost everything but the rockets is made of concrete block or aluminum because the constant spray from the sea can turn just about any other metal to rust in days. Everything is painted in viv id, gaudy colcrs. Conversation There are restaurants that would be the envy of a Pari sian gourmet, but the conver sation in. them is not of food. It consists of phrases like "pounds of thrust" . . . "the transponder failed" . . . "sec ond stage separation" . . . "solid propellant." The requirements of outer space force a constant change in the physical makeup of the island. The roads were paved only recently, but most of the new houses and motels still have no pavement because there isn't time. Residents make their own roads through the sand. If the huge new Saturn rocket is brought here by barge from Huntsville, Ala., an entire bridge over the Cape Canaveral barge canal will have to be demolished to make way for it. Traffic up and down the island is constant throughout the day and night since many of the rocket firings are pre dawn affairs. The restaurants for the most part stay open around the clock. 35 Adult Education Classes to Start in Med ford Next Month A total of 35 adult educa tion courses for the winter term will start the week of Feb. 1, Lindsay Vinsel, direc tor of adult education for Medford public schools, has announced. Registration will take place the first class meeting date, and classes with insufficient enrollment will be cancelled, he stressed. Tuition fee does not include textbooks or sup plies. Hobby and craft classes scheduled include landscape design, Tuesdays, Medford High school, Mrs. Maryl Lor ish, instructor; oil painting, Tuesdays, McLoughlin Junior High, Jack Teeters; basic mo saic, Tuesdays, Medford High, Mrs. Audrey Sims; figure and still life drawing, Mondays, Medford High, Warren Wolf; photography, Tuesdays, Med ford High, Edward Klimko; small boat seamanship, Thurs days, Medford High, Harvey Brown; beginning judo, Mon- Quotes From the News ROCK MARATHON OFF Lemington Spa, Eng.-flJPD- The Lemington Spa Youth Center cancelled a rock 'n' roll marthon because: Welfare workers condemn ed the event as "dangerous exhibitionism," doctors said it was harmful to health, and alderman resigned from . the youth center's board of the controversy and teen-agers re in between are bars, lux-1 fused to participate By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL London-British Minister of Traffic Ernest Marples, dis cussing American traffic control after completing a tour of the United States: . "It really is incredible how the American motorist obeys the lane rules. He has to. or he soon hears about it from other motorists as I was unfortunate enough to do at one point. Baton Rouge, La-Defense Attorney Robert L. Kleinpeter, protesting a district attorney's expressions of doubt concern ing the alibi of Louisiana State University Dean George H. Mickey, charged with murdering a woman biology professor: "It's unfair to my client, his family, the town and to LSU for District Attorney J. St. Clair Favrot to be making state ments he can't back up." Sandringham, England-Patricia Green, 13, one of a group of children who got involved in a snowball fight with Brit ain's Prince Charles and Princess Anne: "It took a bit of courage to snowball a real prince and princess. Miami-Mrs. Alice Steel Taylor, expressing her belief that her missing husband, William, took the place of ex-convict Dr. Robert Spears on a National Airlines plane that crashed in the Gulf of Mexico Nov. 16: "It could have been that he (Spears) could have hypno tized my husband." Script Writers in Hollywood Strike Hollywood - (UPD - Script writing activity was at a standstill today at major Hollywood movie studios. The 3,000-member Writers Guild of America called the strike this week end against all major motion picture studios and an alliance of television film producers. But the guild has no immediate plans to picket the film com panies. Some 425 writers at work on TV assignments and 90 scripting movies are affected by the dispute. It was the first such strike called by the writ ers since the guild was formed in 1933. A guild spokesman said there was no immediate threat to film production but a tieup could result if the strike ex tended over a period of weeks. The key issues involve pay ment to writers for post-1948 movies sold for viewing over television and plans for com pensation from films shown on pay television if that comes into existence. NO BED OF ROSES London-(UPD - Lionel Swift fired all 12 mattress makers at his bedding factory for ly ing down on the job. One of the mattress makers, George Asling, admitted they used to stretch 10-minute tea breaks to 30 minutes because "you get worn out, working on beds all day." on t T. the best beef deserves the finest spaghetti how to Wash 36,500 DISHES . . "Another Tip On How To Make Your Home Happier, Compliments Of Your Favorite CoOr Electrical League Dealer. v. i v it in rr- o WITHOUT PUTTING YOUR HANDS IN THE SINK! Statistics show that the average homemaker washes 100 dishes and utensils every day. This adds up to 36,500 pieces a year! Recipe for a nightmare, isn't it? Enough to make ; you stop counting sheep and start counting dishes. . But beginning right now, you can wake up smiling in the morning, without a dishwashing worry in the world. All. you need is an automatic ELECTRIC DISHWASHER in your kitchen! Modern dishwashers, pamper your favorite china (it's safer in a dishwasher than in your hands)... and at the same time scald it almost entirely bacteria-free. You can't do that by hand-washing! " s ' Se Your Favorite Appliance DeaUr ... Ask About Easy Terms days, Medford High, Tom Ball; mining and prospecting, Tuesdays, Medford High, Nor man Peterson; flower arrange ment (two classes), Tuesday mornings and Wednesday eve nings, 22 South Groveland ave., Mrs. Lillian Gentner. General Courses General courses include business law, Mondays, Med ford High, Brian Mullen; pub lic speaking, Wednesdays, Hedrick Junior High, Jerry McDougall; business letter writing, Thursdays, Medford High, Mrs. Barbara Tomlin son; world culture, Wednes days, Medford High, John Smock; publicity techniaues. Tuesdays, Medford High, Russ Jamison; ancient history, Thursdays, Medford High, Ro bert Huff; beginning Spanish, Tuesdays, McLoughlin Junior High, Howard Gang; and ra dio workshop, Wednesdays. m- radio station KMED, Barker. Homemaking classes elude tailoring, Mondays, Mc- Liougmin Junior High, Miss Ruth Osborn; beginning cloth ing, Wednesdays, Hedrick Junior High, Mrs. Dorothy Sneed; Bishop clothing II (two classes), Mondays at Medford High, Wednesday mornings in YMCA social hall, Mrs. Jean Hood; millinery (two classes), Tuesdays at Medford High, Thursday mornings at YMCA social hall, Mrs. Lucille Col lins; cake decoration (two classes), Tuesdays at Medford High, Friday mornings at YMCA social hall, Mrs. Bar- fa a r a Vinsel, international foods (two classes), Tuesday mornings and afternoons, YMCA social hall, Mrs. Julie Tummers; and upholstery, Monday and Friday evenings, 917 West McAndrews rd.. Harry I Heinz Bertram. Commercial classes include briefhand, Mondays, Medford High, Gerald Eurich; begin ning typing, Mondays, Med ford High, Mrs. Marjorie Ten ney; intermediate typing, Tuesdays, Medford High, Mrs. Janet Goodrich; beginning shorthand,- Tuesdays, Medford High, Carl Bergman; interme diate shorthand, Thursdays, Medford High, Bergman; be ginning bookkeeping, Wednes days, Medford High, Gerald Eurich; business machines, Thursdays, Medford High, Miss Gertrude Frederickson. Trade preparatory courses offered include blueprint and mechanical drawing, Wednes days, Medford High, Harold Soballe; internal combustion engines I, Wednedsdays, Med ford High, Fred Gardner; fuel system and carburetion I, Tuesdays, Medford High, Er- vin Goltz; and automotive chassis I, Mondays and Thurs days, Medford High, Edward Reed. Information concern ing time, tuition and room lo cations may be obtained from the adult education office at Medford High school, tele phone SPring 3-5341. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. J Monday, Jan. 18, 1960 The trade preparatory class es are 12-week courses, and upholstery class is for five weeks, and international foods, figure and still - life drawing, small boat seaman ship and publicity techniques are eight-week courses, Vinsel said. All other classes are for a 10-week period. FOR RENT OR SALE Adding Machines Calculators TYPEWRITERS - DICTAPHONES "Standard Portable Electric Norelco Stennorettc Ask About Our Rental Purchase Options VOIGHT'S Medford Office Equipment Co. "Voight will give you a better deal" 41 South Grape Phone SP 2-4100 EASY PARKING Wli Y not cook up n old (fashioned with plenty of savory potatoes, carrots, .. IsiC wh 30f' - C t onions, turnips, rutabagas, celery, cabbage, Ng SJ S "arSn'')S C "m"mm delicious! J Groceteria fQjQW see s-s lujiuiuu k y v y iu. POTATOES I AA WEEK TILL 9 P.M. - -- TUIffllPii Local - Firm Tasty 2 - W Firm-Crisp Sweet CARROTS In Bulk .9 1 b r u lb. :IITABAGA! 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