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Student Uses Scrounged' Items In Seismograph; Gets Top Award A bag of cement, a aheet of aluminum, some old piano wire, a wax candle, second hand phonograph needle, and a few other "scrounged" items. E 1 g h t e e n-year-old Dale Peterson, M e d f o r d Hieh school senior, put them all to gether and made a seismo graph which he sold last week to the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Port land. The unique Instrument, duui over tne past few months with $32 and a great enthusiasm for geophysics, won the Medford student a top award in the Oregon Science Talent search and is now on display at the museum. Awaits Announcement Its young builder is await ing announcement of his rating among the four top winners or the talent search, and he is also expecting to settle soon on a price for his unusual entry. It is to be placed in a special housing at the museum and will be used as an exhibit and teaching device. Final announcement of winners in the Oregon talent search, sponsored by the Mu seum of Science and Indus try, will be made May 27 at a science award dinner at Portland State college cen ter. Westinghouse corpora tion sponsors the national talent search project. Young Peterson, an honor student in the major work group at Medford High, has worked with encouragement , from his science teacher, Ryder Berg, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne L. Peterson, 418 South Oakdale ave., and from others on the school staff. Guidance from Notebook Guidance for construction of the seismograph came from a well-worn blue notebook containing information Dale has gleaned from every source listed in the Northwest Bibliography center. Other help has come from press reports on earthquakes throughout the world, and from periodicals which the student has gathered in his search. Dale describes himself as a "master moocher," for "he has collected all kinds of pos sibly useful items from a varied group. of older frends. ' The seismograph, a "Borsch Omari horizontal type," rests on three slabs of cement which Dale, himself, poured. The slabs are joined by iron . rods fastened in the cement. A deisel piston filled with lead, and a copper vane in a pan of heavy-weight oil are important parts of the struc ture's pendulum. Brass tubing connects the pendulum to a recording stylus, which marks vibra tions on smoked paper cover ing the rotating drum. - The 18-year-old connected a clock to the parts so the hour, minute and seconds of vibrations can be recorded. Dale has decided that the Rogue valley is a poor place to use a seismograph, be cause it rests on a loose base and reacts like a bowl of jelly to the earth's vibrations. Now he is looking for a solid spot in the valley, where he might place a ce ment pier in bed rock, and sometime in the future ' he hopes to install his latest proj ect a smaller electronic type seismograph, not so cumber some as the one just com pleted. But the "master moocher" has to spend some time first gathering more miscellany for the machine. A special model record player, pro duced by Phllco about 1944-48, is the most important missing part. He hopes to find that as a long-forgotten cast off in someone's local attic, and then perhaps the sale of the first model to the Port land museum will help fi- j nance the heavier expenses of electronic parts for the second. At anv rate. Dale is opti mistic about completing the latest model soon, and per haps the sale of that will help with expenses at the Colorado School of Mines which he plans to enter this fall. Two Juveniles Are Taken Into Custody Two 13-year-old Medford girls were taken into protec tive custody by Medford po lice Thursday after they ad mitted to stealing a woman's billfold containing $8 from a local store. Police said the billfold was hvnn frnm a table at the Singer Sewing Machine com- j pany, 318 East Main si., aooui 3 o.m. Wednesday. Police said a school book belonging to one of the girls was found at the scene of the theft and this led them to the suspects. One girl was con fined In the Juvenile detention home and the other was re leased to the custody of her mother. 1 -.mmum'mmm'wmfmmwwmiimitmmm'' ... , s 1 f V 1 4 HIGH SCHOOL SEISMOLOGIST The "infernal machine" above, shown with its builder, 18-year-old Dale Peterson, Med ford High school student, was constructed from $32 worth of miscellaneous material and sundry articles young Peterson says he "scrounged" from friends. Peterson is holding a wax candle which he uses to smoke paper covering the drum which re-. cords vibrations. A stylus connects via brass tubing to the pendulum, made of a diesel piston filled with lead, and a copper vane. The student declared that the earthquake-proof Rogue valley is a poor place to test a seismograph. His award-winning apparatus is now on display at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, which will soon be its new owner.: Medford Tribune SECTION D MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 14, 1961 PAGES 1 to 8 Subcommittee To Coordinate Work By Study Group A coordination suhrnmmif. tee of the Jackson county home rule charter committee was appointed Thursday night. ' The subcommittee will Ho. termine Doints ffpnomiiv agreed upon by the charter committee members and de termine what areas ronnirA more study. The group will prepare a questionnaire giv ing the various alternatives presented in the study so far. Members are Philip Humph reys, chairman, Dr. Arthur Kreisman and William Jess. Charter CommittPH rhnlr. man Mrs. Thomas Rutter read a Damrjhlet. "Tho Now T.nnir on Home Rule" covering the problems associated with pre paring a charter and the basic philosophy involved. Main Reasons Listed The booklet indicated main reasons for charters failing are: (1) political parties- are hostile s i n c erthey feel the home rule charter will weak en the party stauding In the county, (2) people oppose non partisan elections, (3) charter committees don't follow through, (4) charter commit tees too often sharply dis agree after the charter propos al is prepared, (5) the citizen members of the charter com mittee don't know how to wage an effective political campaign for their charter proposal. The charter committee re viewed the last Benton coun ty charter committee minutes. Benton county has received a petition for a county mana ger form of government. The committee has been thinking of a nine-man county council type of administration. Six of the council would be select ed geographically and three at large. The group also discussed the Missouri plan for appoin tive offices. The county coun cil would appoint department heads, then at the end of their terms of office they would be up for election. SOC Students Are Accepted at Schools Ashland - Dr. Marvin D. Coffey and Dr. Lloyd D. Pen nington, co-advisers to pre medical and pre-dental stu dents at Southern Oregon col lege, have announced that several students have been ac cepted to professional schools for the coming year. m They reported that the rate of acceptance to such schools for SOC students was nearly 100 per cent. The students are Philip Mongrain, Medford, a senior accepted to Stanford medical school; Robert Kubick, Grants Pass, a junior accepted to the University of Oregon medical school, Portland; Len Dobry, Malin, a senior accepted to the University ' of Oregon dental school; Lloyd Bendick son, Medford, a junior ac cepted to the University of Oregon dental school; and Elizabeth Pramann, a junior accepted to Loma Linda col lege of medical evangelists for physical therapy. Openings Noted For JESSI Program At Oregon Schools Portland - School students in the 10th, 11th and 12th grades will be admitted to the sixth annual Oregon Junior Engineers and Scientists Sum mer institute (JESSI) up to the opening day of the ses sion, or until the roster is filled. Stanley H. Shirk, executive director of Scientists of To morrow, announced that the date of the Oregon State uni versity JESSI for boys is June 11-24, and the Willam ette university JESSI for girls is June 18 to July 1. The institute is a guidance activity in sciences and en gineering for high school stu dents of college caliber, he explained. It is designed "to help -remove the guess from college program and career decisions." Enrol leei are under tute lage of the science and engi neering staffs of host campus es, who introduce students to broad fields of pure and basic engineering sciences and to sub-divisions of each. Total cost of the two weeks on campus is $105, and in cludes tuition, board and room, supervision, insurance and program incidentals. Boys and girls who plan to enroll are urged to send ap plications to the campuses as soon as possible. Additional information may be obtained from Scientists of Tomorrow, 309 New Fliedner building, Portland 5. The or ganization is non-profit, op erating to activate JESSI ses sions on college and universi ty campuses throughout the country. Engineer Joins Corvallis Company Wilbur L. (Bill) Warren. Medford, former assistant chief engineer for California Oregon Power company, has joined the regional engineer ing firm of Cornell, Howland, Hayes and Merryfield, Corval lis, the company has an nounced. Warren has been with Cop co since 1953, first as resident engineer on hydroelectric projects and for the past two years as assistant chief engi neer. He formerly served as resident engineer with the City of Medford Water com mission- He is a graduate of Stan ford university. His first as signment in the new post will be as resident engineer on the Kingsley Air Force base re construction project, Klamath Falls. - The firm has the design and construction supervision con tract for the $2 million proj ect to rebuild military run way and taxiways at the air base. Three E's Reviewed By Wa rmoutli At Safety Patrol Event Every member of the com munity has "a share of stock in the Traffic Safety Corpor ation" and a responsibility to see that the "corporation" is successful, according to Ed Warmouth, manager of the traffic safety division, Oregon department of motor vehicles. Warmouth spoke Friday night at the annual school pa trol banquet honoring school patrol members in the Med ford school district and of St. Mary's school. The event, sponsored by the Medford Safety Council and participating service clubs, school organizations and fra ternal organizations, attract ed about 450 persons at Hed rick Junior High auditorium, according to Elliott Becken, Medford public schools, gen eral chairman of the dinner. Warmouth, in addition to drawing the parallel of suc cessful safety programs to suc cessful corporations, pointed out the importance of t h e "three-E's," engineering, edu cation and enforcement as they relate to' traffic safety. Good Examples He called on the school pa trol members to be good ex amples to their fellow stu dents and to set an example of safety consciousness for the whole community to follow. School patrol members, 225 in all, received individual badges, denoting their rank in the school patrol as well as a pen and pencil set from the Medford Safety Council. Presentation of awards was made by Mayor John W. Sni der. Russ Jamison, Medford, served as master of ceremo nies. Rudy Tetreault, president of the Medford Safety Coun cil, complimented the stu dents on their safety activi ties and commended the com munity for their support of the banquet. It was the largest attendance ever recorded, Tet reault said. Booklet Designed For Forest Users Six Persons Appear in Circuit Court Thursday Six persons appeared in circuit court Thursday before Judge James M. Main. One of them, Dennis Wil liam Smith, 29, of general de livery, Medford, was sentenc ed to two years in the Oregon state penitentiary for obtain ing property by false pre tenses. Lawrence Delano Isgrigg, 20, Ashland, had imposition of sentence suspended for five years under the supervi sion of the state board of pa role and that he make restitu tion. He is charged with lar ceny in a dwelling house. Also appearing on a simi lar charge was Leslie E. Boss, 18, of 63 Oak dr., Medford. Don Hanson was appointed his attorney. Wilburn Dell Crawford, 39, of Modesto, Calif., appeared on a charge of uttering and publishing a false check. He pleaded guilty to the charge, and the case was continued for sentencing. Stephen Allen Love, 60, of route 1, box 16, Rogue River, had San Harbison, Medford lawyer, appointed to repre sent him. He is charged with attempted rape. Bernice Anne Phillips, 39, of South Grape St., Medford, pleaded guilty to a charge of larceny from a person. Her case was continued pending receipt of a pre-sentencing report. WE ARE OPEN TODAY! PANSIES YOU DIG I) Dozen Portland - A new booklet designed to give Americans a better understanding ot how their national forests are man aged Is available from the U. S. forest service, according to J. Herbert Stone, regional forester. The department of agricul ture booklet, "Multiple Use The National Forests and Your Family," was written especially for forest -users. It describes sustained-yield multiple-use of the national for ests in nontechnical, down-to-earth language. The 23-page, pocket-sized book is illustrat ed with drawings and photo graphs, many of which wera taken in the Pacific North west. 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