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Shock of Killing Nothing Hew To Louisiana State University Baton Itouge (CPD Louisi ana State university, a 101-year-old school that is "shock ed" by the bludgeon-slaying of a woman professor, has a history of shocks beginning 35 years ago when another professor's skull was caved in. Currently, the campus is agog over the charge that the dean of its graduate school, Dr. George H. Mickey, club bed to death Dr. Margaret Raymond McMillan. It will probably survive this, just as it has survived another professor's murder, Huey Long, and a president who tried to corner the wheat market, along with various more minor irritants such as racial rows. In 1925, the school fidgeted as police scrutinized the 27 students who made up agro nomy 23. They were looking for the person who took a hatchet and mutilated the head of agronomy professor Oscar Turner. Professor Turn er's body was found in a dark hallway of the agronomy building. Investigators said they were sure one of the students in agronomy 23 got caught by the professor while steal ing final examination ques tions and killed him rather than be exposed. But they never did find out who did it, and the murder is still unsolved. Enier Huey Long The legendary Kingfish, Huey P. Long, took an inter- Do you realize that LIBERAL INCOME RETURNS are available from TAX-FREE BONDS? Most bonds issued by cities, counties or states are exempt from Federal income tax. Territorial bonds of Alaska and Hawaii (before statehood) and of Pureto Rico are usually exempt from both state and Federal taxation. In many cases, actual income from good municipal bonds is higher than income from quality common stocks. Currently, many bonds are selling to yield 4 and over to maturity. I ilkaSmither&Co. 14 South Central Medford, Oregon Phone SP 2-61 19 E. John Rossi Richard E. Watson, Manager Other Offices: Oregon Portland, Salem, Eugene, Coos Bay, Hood River, The Dalles and Astoria Washington: Seattle, Longview and Vancouver Please send me FREE booklet "The Story Behind Municipal Bonds." Name Address-City Zone.. State. est in the school and began building it up until it was known as the "school Huey built." But Huey wanted it run his way. After the murder of the professor, things rocked along on a reasonably even keel un til 1934, when Huey decided it would be good experience for the students to hold a mock election for a state sen ate seat that was then open, The students thought it would be fun and so, in a spirit of fun, they elected a football hero. Huey apparent ly thought that was so fun ny that he tried to get the football player sworn in as senator for real, not for fun. The football-playing sen ator-elect balked and so did the student body. Someone wrote a nasty let ter to the Reveille, the Stu dent paper, chastising Huey for trying to use an "uncon stitutional election" to get a football player made a sena tor. Paper Censored For that, Huey ordered the paper put under strict cen sorship. This incensed the stu dents so that they had the temerity to complain verbally to Huey. This resulted in seven journalism students being ex pelled and about 28 others suspended from the school. The Reveille wasn't published for several weeks when what remained of the staff quit in protest. Huey Long was removed from the scene by an assassin, and things went quietly again until 1939. Then a bomb burst. President Imprisoned James Monroe Smith, presi dent of LSU, having dropped more ' than $100,000 of the school's money trying to cor ner the wheat market, fled to Canada. But he was arrest ed, brought back and sent to Angola prison, where he spent his time chopping sugar cane. On the heels of that it is all known as the great Loui siana sandals and even a gov ernor went to jail a con tractor, George Caldwell, was sentenced to a federal prison term for misappropriating WPA funds earmarked for a new football stadium. His partner killed himself. School News Howard School Mrs. Margaret Mann has two new boys, Robert Darling from Fairbanks, Alaska, and Neil Edmonds" from Bend, Ore. Now Mrs. Mann's room has 26 students. Mrs. Audrey Berry's room in social studies is learning about clothing. We have learned that our clothing is made from materials coming from plants, animals, or is man made such as plastic, rayon, nylon, o r 1 o n and dacron. We are learning to multiply and find it fun. Multiplying is the short way of adding like numbers. We have enjoyed the snowy weather and have made snow flakes and snowmen to deco rate our room. Mrs. Huldah Fisher's third grade is beginning the study of multiplication. In science, we have learned about animals, mammals, rep tiles, amphibians, insects, fish and birds. We have also stud ied about magnets. We have some interesting library books in our room. We can read them in our spare time. Standard School Broadcast on Hawaii National park in stiired Duoils in Mrs. Nita Birdseye's room to plan a bul letin board about the 50tn state. Each pupil painted an original picture about ha waii. We plan to take the best ideas and combine them for our bulletin board which will be made from torn paper. We have been seeing mm strips about famous men This helns us to remember what we read in books. Ronald Quackenbush's room has a new girl. Her name is Vicki Harper. She came to us from Central Point. We are planning to make salt and flour maps of South America. We plan to show the physical features of the land We would like to thank our room mothers, Mrs. Poole and Mrs. Carpenter, for refresh ments served at the Christmas party. POPULATION DENSITY Washington-Belgium is the mOst densely populated coun try in Europe. Its 653 persons per square mile is 21 times greater than the population density of the United States. TO ASK CONFERENCE New York - (UPD - The presi dent of the Inter - American Press association today was under instructions to confer with Cuban Premier Fidel Castro "concerning press problems in Cuba." The asso ciation's executive committee issued the instructions in the wake of a series of incidents in Cuba involving the arrest and detainment of U.S. newsmen. v holds ots mm LIKE DT MLG TO Latest figures from National Market Reports, Inc-official source of automobile resale data-show Wide-Track Pontiacs recover more of heir original value than any other car In their price class! Add imm this to the hundreds of other apparent reasons for becoming jp HAltOW HACK- -w w" ' wy OIIU JW J IWm Wide-Tratk widens H stanc mrt the car. Wit the widest track of any PONTIAC THE ONLY CAR WITH WIDE-TRACK WHEELS. ESSSEEt SEE YOUR LOCAL AUTHORIZED PONTIAC DEAlIt . . . WHO ALSO SRLS GOODWILL USED CARS WITH MORE BARGAIN MILES PER DOLLAR DEAN & TAYLOR PONTIAC CO. Back Stairs: Many More Trips for Ike By MERRIMAN SMITH UPI White House Reporter Washington - (UPD - Back stairs at the White House: Give or take a. few hours, President Eisenhower has pre cisely one year left in the -H NEWS Antelope Clothing And Cooking The meeting of the Antelope Clothing and Cooking 4-H club was held at the home of Elaine and Gloria Meyer recently. Jo Anna Malloroy, junior cooking leader, checked to see if the assignments had been completed. Each mem ber gave the recipes which she had made before the meeting. New assignments were giv en and everyone is to give a report at the February meeting. Reports are to be about a favorite recipe each ,one and her family liked. As a help to younger girls in the club, Paulette Ander son gave a demonstration on ouick mix Dlain cake. The recipe is in the main dish meals project book. Lola Ackerman. song lead er, led the club in some songs from the 4-H song book. Jennifer Nevin gave a dem onstration on care of the hands. Jennifer showed some manicure instruments and told what they were used for. Jo Anna Malloroy is going to get a window for a display during National 4-H Week. She is also in charge of find ing a guest club to attend one meeting. The Antelope club has invited new clubs in the past. Mrs. Don Anderson read an article about wool. She stress ed the Doint that 4-Hers are not pressing their clothing enough as they make it. She also mentioned a new woolen fabric which is machine washable. At the next regular meet ing, which will be Jan. 30, Alice Woolfolk and Karen Jossy will give a demonstra tion on how to fit patterns. The next meeting will in clude a planned meal of soup, celery sticks, carrots, biscuits and honey, and cupcakes. Karen Jossy had a serious operation on her leg so the club sent her a gift. The meeting Jan. 30 will be at Donna Geren's house. Judy Hill, Reporter Kandy Kids The reeular meeting of the TCandv Kids Cooking club was held Jan. 13 at the leader's home. The" erom finished ' plan ning the year's events and the club activities were also plan ned. The junior leader, Mar sha Watson, read and explain ed the 4-H by-laws and con stitution. The next meeting will be held Feb. 10 at' the leader's home, Doreen Bradshaw. Carolee Kuest, Reporter. White House, and during that year he can be relied upon to make many more trips of the type he made last week to Albany, Ga. Eisenhower now accepts the jet age and intends to live in it. He sped from Washing ton to : southwest Georgia in less time than it takes him to motor from the White House to his farm in Gettys burg. His government 707 jet transport puts good weather within close reach of Wash ington when measured in fly ing time, and the President is not expected to spend too many week ends cooped up by bad weather. The clue to Eisenhower's JOKE ON A JOKESTER Dallas, Tex. (UPD W. C. Jack, who his fellow workers said was a harmless practical joker around the office, had all his teeth pulled by a den tal surgeon. His co-workers Monday sent him: a pound of peanut brittle, six packages of corn chips, corn on the cob, salted peanuts and tooth picks. hunting trip to the Georgia estate of W. Alton Jones .was available well in advance, but few people recognized it as such. The week end before he flew south, the President was out on his skeet range in Gettysburg, sharpening up his shooting eye. He rarely uses the skeet range unless he plans to do some hunting or wants to try out a new gun. In this case, it was both because he brought back several inviting gift guns from Europe. Could it be a sign of world conditions? Frequently, a t weekly intervals, an official of the Central Intelligence Agency comes to the White House for a highly secret briefing on hot spots around the globe for the benefit of ranking members of the President's staff. This is in addition to the daily situation report for the President from CIA and the CIA reviews before the Na tional Security Council. The President very much dislikes the pigeons that on occasion dirty up his glisten ing clean barn roof In Gettys burg. He's been known to take out after them with his shotgun. Now, hes after birds' of another feather - starlings at the White House. The parks service has been trying out a new anti-starling spray. It worked with some success on the South Grounds of the White House where the trees were drenched with the new potion. Recently the North Grounds were sprayed and what hap pened? The starlings moved across the street to the old State Department building. So, the spray program had to be widened to include the MAIL, TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Wednesday, Jan. 20, 1 960 7 trees around Old State and therein lies a new problem: The spray apparently has run most of the pesky birds away from the White House, but to where? Next door. The park people, to be fair about the whole thing, may have to end up spraying an awful lot of downtown real estate. By the time they reach the suburbs, the spray at the White House will be worn off the trees, the starlings will be back and the process will have to start all over again. Seems sort of hopeless. aVM flip J & 3 9? Grease Squirters The second meeting of the Applegate Grease Squirters was held at the home of David Christensen. Terry Miller, president, called the meeting to order. The group discussed build ing a carry -all rack which would operate by the hydraul ic behind the tractor and one that would not operate by the hydraulic system. They also discussed the building of a dump hook-up on the tractor which would improve the present commercially sold racks. The club would do this to raise money for a future en tertainment and to give the members of the club exper ience with the operation of machine shop equipment. It was decided to have the jun ior leader draw up the plans for the rack. The president appointed Tommy Herriot and David Christenson to try to get some one to sponsor the group. After the discussion, record books were discussed. Some of the members received their books at the meeting as there was a shortage of them. Mrs. Christensen served re freshments. The members divided into groups for various games con ducted by the game leader. The meeting was adjourned at 9:30 a.m. David Pittock, Reporter. Teen-a-Paige The regular meeting of the Crater Teen-a-Paige 4-H club was held at the home of Shar on Thompson, Central Point, last week. The future meetings were discussed and told where they would be held. Also the new goals for the year were dis cussed. A demonstration on laying a pattern was given by Sharon Trautmen and Sharon Thompson. m 35 mm si PROJECTOR. 300 Watt Blower Cooled, Kodak Readymatic Changer . . . 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The next meeting will be held at the home of Carolyn Sidener on Hanley rd., Cen 6th and Grape Medford tral Point. 232 East Main Street Sue Higinbotham, Reporter. Phone SP 2-5646 rail
