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.
He said a person on the moon
in trying to escape the me
teors would in effect be play
ing a game something like
Russian roulette.
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