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MED FORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. SUNDAY. AUGUST 14. I960 The Week in California Woman Arrested for Fake Bomb Report; Space Capsule Found A navy frogman plucked a 27-by-33 inch capsule from the ocan last week in a historic first recovery of an object from space. The tiny capsule and its mother rocket had been fired from Vandenberg Air Force Base on the California coast line earlier in the week. Other developments around the state: Bomb report: The FBI ar rested Miss Themis B. Doerr, State Nears End 01 Its Case in Finch Retrial Los Angeles - (UPD - The prosecution Saturday ap proached the conclusion of its case in the Finch-Tregoff mur der retrial, with what may be the final week of state's evi dence starting Monday. Most principal witnesses for the prosecution already have reappeared to testify concerning the alleged plot of Dr. R. Bernard Finch and Carole Tregoff to kill the sur geon's wife . Barbara Jean Finch, 33, a west uovtna socialite, was killed on the night of July 18, 1959. Finch, 43, and Miss Tregoff, 23, first were brought to trial in December, but the jury failed to reach a verdict and was dismissed. Most of the remainder of the state's case, it was indi cated, will Involve technical testimony and evidence pre sented by investigating offi- cers. Capt. William Ryan of the West Covina police, chief investigating officer, and sheriff's chemist Clifford C. Cromp were among witnesses Friday. Ryan was questioned by de fense attorneys on why he did not include in a report of his investigation a statement by Marie Anne Lidholm about finding the doctor In the gar age on the night of the shoot ing. I According to Miss Lldholm's trial testimony, she found Finch in the garage with a gun in his hand and that he "shot toward me." Ryan said he dictated the report rapidly following his preliminary Inquiry as he pre pared to leave for Las Vegas, where Finch was arrested in Miss Tregoff's apartment the day after the shooting. Finch claims the shooting was an accident which occur red after he disarmed his wife. He said he was throw ing away the gun when It dis charged, fatally wounding his wife. CUBA "NOT COMMUNIST" Moscow-IUPI) - Soviet First Deputy Premier Aanastas Mi koyan said Friday night that Premier Fidel Castro's Cuban regime is not Communist be cause it promises to pay for seized property. If the Cuban regime were Communist, he said, "they would have acted as we did in 1917 . . .We took over the property of capital ists, both our own and foreign ones, without paying any com pensation for it." of Los Angeles, on charges of making a false bomb report that caused delay and search of a jet airliner headed from Los Angeles to Philadelphia. She was the 29th person ar rested on like charges during the last several months. Finn: The flying Finns of Los Angeles got back in the news. First, Charles Finn put a fight when officers tried to arrest him in the mistaken belief he was his brother, George. Later, George was carted off to jail to serve a 15-day sentence for three traf fic citations. Robbery: A calm, business like bandit robbed a savings and loan branch office in Nortl(ast Fresno and escaped with $$1,534. Manager Rob ert Thomson of the Fresno Gurantee Savings and Loan association branch said the bandit strolled into the of fice and then strolled out again after the holdup and drove slowly away in a 1954 car. Insect: The slate department of agriculture ebang an all out war on the oriental fruit fly after one was discovered in an orange tree at Anaheim. It was the first time the in sect had been found on the U.S. mainland, although it at tacked fruits and vegetables in Hawaii, , Water: Gov. Edmund G. Brown and Harvey O. Banks, director of the department of water resources, announced that a contract will be ready soon for delivery of water to the Metropolitan Water Dis trict of Southern California. The water would come from Northern California under the state proposed $1.75 billion water bond. Moore: Dr. Barbara Moore. famed for her cross-country walk across the United States this summer, ran into trouble with American customs of ficials in San Francisco. They oojected to her bringing fruit and vegetables, her main diet, into me country alter com pleting a' walk across Aus tralia. Suits: 'Two off-beat law suits showed up in Los An geles courts. ' Las Vegas' Flamingo Hotel was sued for $253,000 by furniture dealer Benjamin Satz. He claimed he was drug ged on to the hotel's stage by a chorus girl against his will and then kicked by the girl for the purpose of "amusing other guests and spectators." And John Shelton Walker. 18, of Los Angeles, was grant ed $35,000 damage because a sponge was loft in his ab domen during an appendec tomy. Study of Moon's Surface Completed to Aid in Finding Landing Sites; Man Would Live There Like a Mole : V TERMINAL TO SPACE This is the Bell Telephone Laboratories "telephone terminal to outer space" at Crawford Hill in Holm del, N. J. Signals were bounced from here, via Echo I communications satellite, to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Goldstone, Calif. In foreground at right is the unique "horn-reflector" antenna used as a receiver for the satellite communication system. The transmitter, a 60-foot "dish," is at top left. (UPI Telephoto) POLIO RATE DOWN Washington-tlJPll-Thc Public Health service reports that the usual late summer increase in polio cases has failed to oc cur thus far in 19(i0. Health officials said Friday "there were 110 new cases reported in the week ended Aug. (i, one less than the previous week, and 301 less than in the same week in 1959. The fart that new cases appeared to be hold ing steady was viewed as an encouraging sign. Thus far in I960, total polio cases num bered 951, less than 40 per cent of the 2,447 during the same period a year ago. House to Reconvene, But 1st Week To Be Slow Washington - (UPD - T h eaid. Both Senate and House House reconvenes Monday but will mark time for a week be fore getting down to pre-election business. Even though the chamber took a longer political conven tion recess than the Senate, it is much farther along with legislation to be completed be fore sine die adjournment about Labor Day. No business was scheduled next week and only a very few committee meetings on minor legislation were plan ned. In view of the lull, many members will not return until Aug. 22. The House already has passed three of the five major bills on the Democratic lead ership's "must" agenda for the short session. The only two re maining are housing and farm legislation. The House agriculture com mittee will meet Aug. 23 on a voluntary plan to cut the 1961 acreage of wheat and possibly other surplus crops. Key committee members this week rejected any idea of a pre-election increase in gen eral price supports on 1960 crops on grounds It was too late In the season. . i An omnibus $1.36 billion housing bill Is stymied In the House rules committee, which also is blocking another bill on federal ichool construction have passed separate school bills, but the conservative dominated rules committee has refused to permit a con ference to work out a compro mise. The rules committee will be under pressure to free both measures when the H o u s e swings into full-scale action. Chairman Howard W. Smith j (D-Va.) has agreed to call a j committee meeting, "if ncces- j sary," but he made no predic tions on the outcome. : Two House-approved must ' bills, Increasing the federal ! minimum wage and providing ' medical care for the aged, are j awaiting Senate action. ; Since the Senate is expect ed to strengthen both, joint conferences will be required ' to Iron out the differences. High on the House agenda is a Senate-passed bill which would clear the way for tele vision debate this fall between the two presidential candi dates. Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Sen, John F. I Kennedy. The measure would suspend , the so-called "equal time" law ii for the presidential campaign I so that television networks1 could offer time to the Repub- j lican and Democratic candi dates without having to pro. ! vide comparable time for splinter party nominees. Judge Revokes Michigan Mart's Probation, Gives Him Four-Year Sentence Circuit Judge James M. Main Friday revoked the pro bation of Charles Lavonne Coffey, 22, Michigan, and sen tenced him to four years in the Oregon correctional insti tution. District Attorney Thomas J. Reedcr had charged that Cof fey had violated his probation by leaving the state for per manent residence in another state without permission of his supervising probation of ficer. He charged also that he bought numerous cars which he drove without receiving the consent of his probation officer and that he failed to make restitution for the crime for which he received a three year suspended sentence. Coffey had admitted to en-1 tcring the Bonner Birdsong residence on Blackwell Hill rd. on Oct. 3, 1959 and taking a number of guns. Judge Main took under ad visement Friday a motion by the district attorney's office requesting revoked probation for Lester Lee Price, route 1, Eagle Point, charged with as sault. Price is charged with beat ing Jerrel Norman Kirklin on the head with a claw-hammer causing five deep cuts and a slight concussion while Price was on probation. He had re ceived a suspended sentence for grand larceny. John Dennis Fuller, 37, Canton, Ohio, was arraigned on district attorney's informa tion Friday charging him with contributing to the delinquen cy of a minor. Kenneth G. Denman, Medford lawyer, was appointed his counsel. James Jesse Roberts Jr., 27, Independence, Ore. pleaded guilty in circuit court Friday to charges of obtaining money by false pretenses and impo sition of sentence was sus pended for five years. Proba tion was granted providing he make restitution for three false checks issued and pay through the county clerk's of fice an amount to be deter mined by his probation offi cer. Roberts is charged with is suing a bad check for $87.10 to Triangle Service, Rogue River. Deer. bear, arouse, duck. woodcock, pheasant, snow shoe hare, cottontail rahhit squirrel, coon, fox and wild cat are among the species sought by hunters in New nampsnire. By GAYLORD P. GODWIN United Press International Washington -tUPD- The Geo logical Survey has completed a study of the moon's surface to provide Army engineers with guides in selecting pos sible landing sites for Amer ica's spacemen, it was reveal ed Saturday. The findings were gloomy at best. In addition to risking dubious landing spots, the first moon men would have to survive heat and cold so in tense they would have to go underground immediately. The study also will be used in designing telemetering in struments and a "lunar sur face vehicle." Col. Leonard Haseman of the Army engineers, and max im Elias, military geologist for the Geological Survey, briefed reporters at a defense department conference on the $30,000 year-long study. They exhibited three maps a photomosaic of the moon, a physiographic map, and a gen eralized photogeologic map of the planet. The maps were pieced together from photo graphs taken of the moon's surface during the past 50 years. Thousands were exam ined, and 64 finally were used to make the final three. The geologic scientists reached these conclusions: -No general area was deter- LOWER INTEREST RATES Washington - OIPII-The Fed eral Reserve board has author ized the fifth of twelve fed eral reserve banks to lower its interest rate on loans to commercial banks. The board Friday reduced the so-called discount rate at Minneapois from ZVz to 3 per cent as part of an effort to ease credit to businessmen and consumers. On Thursday the board ap proved lowering to 3 per cent the rates charged by reserve banks in New York City, Cleveland, Richmond, Va., and Kansas City, Mo. mined to be best for a land ing. Also, there was no clue where a soft landing could be effected - where men could move out of a lunar vehicle. Need for Photography -There is a big need for more and better photography of the moon, probably from a high altitude, such as from a satellite. -There, are highlands, low lands, lava areas, volcanic cones, and huge craters on the moon. -No new indentations have shown up in the last 50 years. And there was no indication the Russians blasted a new crater with a lunar probe. -About 60 per cent of the moon's surface is visible. The moon has a wobble, or vibra tion, and the same surface is not always visible. Higher Than Everest -Peaks silhouetted on the moon's horizon appear to be 30,000 feet high or higher. These are higher than earth's Mt. Everest. -To survive on the moon, a person would have to go un derground at once. The two week long day is subject to temperatures up to 260 de grees Fahrenheit. The equal ly long night, or shadow time, has temperatures down to 270 degrees below zero Fahren heit. It is conceivable that a man sitting half in a shadow and half in the sun could freeze on one side and broil on the other. The change in temperature from daylight to darkness is quick. -There may be some gravel on the moon, which would be easy to dig. Live Like a Mole -A person on the moon would need some sort of breathing apparatus to enable survival while he was dig ging in. In short, if a man were on the moon, he would have to live like a mole. -Impediments to travel on the surface include faults, es carpments, cliffs, mountains, and lava beds among other things. There are no rivers, oceans, or swamps because there is no moisture. Haseman smiled when ask ed what a person would do when he got to the moon be sides worry about getting back to earth. He pointed out that every two years, every square me ter of the moon's surface is hit at least once by a meteor. 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