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83 Major Offenses Are Investigated by Police Medford police during April police during April of which Investigated 83 major of- 2.268 were cleared for total 1 oi H per ceni. ! There were 65 motor ve- 1 hicle accidents reported to i fenses and cleared 19 of them for a 22 9 per cent cleared av erage, according to the de partment's monthly report. Included in the list of major offenses were two robberies, both of which were cleared, 21 burglaries, three of which were cleared, and four cases of auto theft, none of which were cleared. - The 22.9 per cent cleared is below the average for the same month during 1959, when 71 major offenses were reported and 24 of them were cleared for a 33.8 per cent av erage. A total of 2.413 cases of all kinds were reported to city Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF Back Stairs: Little Humor at Paris 'Rail Negotiations , MAIL THHUNI, H.Ht i. Of. I i Wt4iriIT, Mir IS, ltt A ' police last month in which total of 13 persons were in jured. This compares to April, 1959 s, total of SI accidents and nine injuries. Police issued 422 traffic ci tations and 3.442 parking me ter tickets during the month. Portland May Get Federal Ship Job Portland JUPt- Sig Unander, a member of the federal mar itime board, said Tuesday there is a chance for Portland to get a $7 million contract to modernize and rebuild the ship SS Leilani. Unander, former state treas urer, said ship facilities here were highly regarded by the maritime board. Bids were in vited Tuesday for purchase and reconversion of the ves sel, subject to openings June 30. The government acquired the ship last June. It is now in San Francisco. Plans call for it to be modernized so it can compete with luxury lin ers. Unander said he thought that in view of low costs of Portland shipbuilding facili ties that the city had a good chance of having the low bid when the project is let. Crater Lions Set Meeting Thursday Crater Lions club will make final . preparations for the state convention at a meeting Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the home of Dan Dwyer, 839 South Riverside ave. The con vention will be June 8, 9 and 10 at Pendleton. The club will vote on del egates and uniforms for the state meeting. Dr. Kenneth Baker of Med- ford spoke at the regular luncheon meeting of Crater Lions Tuesday at Ping's Gar dens. He discussed word im ages, television advertising and newspaper promotion. Porter Says U.S. Flags Used as Rags in Haiti Washington -0IPD- A New York city merchant has ship ped American flags to Haiti for use as dress goods, cur tains and scrub rags, the State Department confirmed today. The disclosure came when Assistant Secretary of State William B. Macomber Jr. con firmed the "sale and improp er use" of the flag in a letter to Rep. Charles O. Porter (D Ore.) who had heard of it from a returned visitor to Port - Au - Prince. Porter's in formant called the practice an "insult" to the United States. Macomber said the govern ment is considering "what easures can be taken to halt further exports of American flags for inappropriate pur poses." From Surplus Slocks The 48-star and 49-star em blems presumably are from surplus stocks. On July 4, the 50-star design becomes offi cial, although use of all older flags remains legal and proper. The New York merchant was not identified. Porter told Macomber he was informed certain nag manufacturers'' have sold flags to "many persons" in Haiti "for use as clothes, cur tains, and even scrub rags." He said his informants saw a flag thus misused and were distressed. "It was their impression that this was widely prevalent and I am asking that investi gation be made to see whether the condition still exists and what if anything can be done effectively to correct it," Por ter continued. GEORGE JEAN NATHAN could be merciless when a show bored him sufficiently. Reviewing one ill-fated musical, Nathan noted, "For the first time in my life I envied my feet. They were asleep." "Mama, mama," wailed I bride of six months, "Jos has walked out on me for good." "Calm yourself," coun seled mama. "He's walk ed before and always comes crawling back." "This time it's differ ent," wailed the bride. "He took . his bowling ball." ' Poem from Sam Himmell: "Although she calls him darling, : He's really not her flame. She only calls him that because She can't recall his name." 0 10, by Bennett Cerf. Dl.trtbuted by Kins Feature. Syndics! official said Madame de much." Tprfe ! Bf MERR1M AN SMITH UPI While Home Reporter W a s h i n R t o n-lTI- Back stairs at the White House: There was precious little humor to come out of last week's meeting of statesmen in Paris, and what humor there was had a Ipnrfpni-v In be quite acrid. In the Allied 1 publicity circles, for example, there was a new name for utter fatigue - "summit sickness causedby U2 over-exposure." And this supposedly is true. After tile acrimonious session of the Big Four during which Soviet Premie Nikila S. Khru shchev said there was no point in trying to have a sum mit conference for another six or eight months. Presi dent Eisenhower told French President De Gaulle, "that ' fellow is stalling around un ' til next Jan. 21." This referred to the day ! after Eisenhower leaves office. De Gaulle pondered the sub ject for a moment and then asked meaningfully, "What makes him so su;e "It displeases Gaulle very that the Russians probably j T- ft.... . 4 er U KCJUIUC JUIIC I would spark one crisis afte another, probably with Berlin beginning Khrushchev may have been the villain of the drama in The White House party was Paris, but he certainly won . quartered in Lisbon at the the contest with Eisenhower. . Riiz Hotel, one of the newest de Gaulle and Macmillan on of the world's major hotels. points Even the , Tlie neonle who travel with most ardent pro-Western Par- j Eisenhower have seen Just isian newspapers gave vastly about every top-flight hotel more space to Khrushchev's nf Ihe Western world and tour of the Paris suburbs than j they've never seen anything they accorded Eisenhower s ; (Q touch the Ritz. visit to Notre Dame and j There is not a hotel In the Sainte Chapelle. , United States to match it for And the estimate of 3.000 luxurious appointments. Each persons at Khrushchev's press room has an elaborate licht- I Chicago -OTP - Negotiations will resume June 1 between i the Brotherhood of Locomo ; tive Firemen and Enginemen : and the Joint Carriers Confer- ence Committee, it was an nounced today. H. t. Ciilbort, the unions mediation board will meet with the Brotherhood's wage committee and the carriers in a renewed bid to settle a union request for a 14 per cent wage increase and other benefits. The carriers have proposed that the firemen take a 15 cent an hour wage cut. The dispute was turned over to the president, .said the national I NMB on Dec. 1 around then, himself?" Large Turnover in Police Officers Noted by Champlin Turnover at the Medford i Champlin recently called a eitv nolice deDartment is atimeetin? ol all the mcmoers , ing lunch on time. oi me lorce ana asKca wiem conference is on the eonserva tive side. The attendance was so great that French officials dashed around the building where it was held - the Palai du Chaillot - in worry that the floors might collapse. When Elsenhower contin ued on to Lisbon for a brief state visit after the Paris con ference, Portuguese reporters said the collapse of the sum- he'U be mit and Khrushchev's strong- Employees of the Elysee Palace in Paris knew the Big Four meeting was in dire trouble last week when the conferees remained in session beyond one o'clock. "Nothing but the worst sort of emergency would keep General de Gaulle from hav- palace arm tactics distureea tncir people Rreatly. In the shops and hotels, Americans traveling with the President were asked fre quently, "will there be war?" And on this somber sub ject, one of the American par ticipants in the Paris attempt at negotiations told friends privately that he did not know the answer, but he felt ina system that would drive most American electricians ! daffy. All lamps and over Ihead lights can be controlled I from four centrally located ; master switches. ! The bathrooms are plumb- per capita income. ing marvels, too, with separte cubicles for tub, shower and toilet, plus a large central bathroom. At one end of the tub is a special coil of chrome plated pipes circulating hot water to keep the bath towels warm. Full meal service also is available in the rooms 24 hours a day. a service that does not exist in American hotels. The luxury of the Ritz is rather ironic since Portugal is at the bottom of the Euro pean scale when it comes to j tn aauvy tLfum , r-j PER DAY WERE SETTLED BY Uliv-s JTATE FARM IN 1958 I i ' fv . S5 Each yir Stat Farm settles nearly two million claims quickly and fairly. You get servic likt thii day and night from our 9,000 aqents and claim representatives from coast to coast. And you get it at rock bottom rates too! Find out about tho big service and savings of State Farm insurance. Call me today. 133 DON DAY So. Central SP 3-6695 STATE FARM MUTUAL HOME OFFICE: BLOOMINGTON. ILLINOIS AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY P59S29 Aix-Lcs-Bains, France fUPD The death toll has reached seven in the collapse of a tem porary bridge which tumbled 60 auto racing spectators into the paths of the speeding cars. Distilled from grain 80 Proof Schenley Distillers Co., N. Y. C. ' if! E m m K I f i' WlIUm'lhymM 11 r I s:B(a:)it.eo fow i v.i-. 1 ill - ,&rxalci wjo.., 1 its highest peak in years. Since last September seven police officers have' resigned and the department is having difficulty in replacing them. For the past several months the department has been oper ating with two and three men less than its normal size of 37 police officers. Of the seven men who have quit, four quit for better pay ing jobs, two by mutual con sent and one to go to college. The department is having difficulty in replacing these men for two main reasons, ac cording to Chief of Police Charles P. Champlin. One, the pay is unattractive, and two, few applicants meet the stand ards which the department re quires of its officers. Pay Problem Noted Pay is a problem, Champ lin notes, but no more so in Medford than in most other cities. Medford police officers will get a S20 per month pay raise in the 1960-61 budget as will other city employees, according to the present plans of the administration. Actually. Champlin said, pay in the Medford police de partment compares' quite fa forably with the pay in most other police departments throughout the state. A patrolman with the Med ford department receives a starting salary of S330 a month and in three years can reach a maximum of $410 a month. Both figures would be increased by $20 If the raise goes through. v Average Length of Service The average length of time which the seven police offi cers who resigned had spent with the local department is 3.2 years. Individual service with the department among these men ranged from nearly nine years to Just over two months. Champlin points out that it takes at least one year to train a police officer, so when men quit who have spent a number of years with the de partment they not only reduce the department by manpower but also by experience. To gain employment with the department an applicant must be between 21 and 30 years of age. be at least 5 feet 9 inches tall and of propor tionate weight. He must have a high school diploma or equivalent education and have a reasonably high intelligent quotient. In addition he must pass a rigid physical fitness test and pass four psychological and intelligence tests which are given for the department at the Medford school .superin tendent's office. He is also judged on his personality, temperament and courtesy. Comments on Standards "Our standards may be high for a city of this size." Champlin said, "but we never theless think they are neces sary if we are to give the citi zens of this city the kind of service and protection which they need and want." if they felt the standards should be lowered so that re placements could be obtained more easily and swiftly. Al most to a man. he said, they stated they would rather bear an increased work load be cause the department is short handed, rather than work with someone of lesser quali fications and ability. EDITORIAL WRITER DIES Kingston, NY. - IUPD - Adin Ballou. 78, a poet and newspa per editorial writer who for many years wrote the New York Herld Tribune's regu lar Sunday editorial on na ture, died Tuesday. What would you say the finest Vodka should cost? (If you said 3.95-you're right) People who are need to paying more for Vodka get the surprise of their Ufa when they taste Schenley Vodka. It's finer, smoother, dryer, yet generally costs lea than other vodkas. Amazing? 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