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SECTIOK C PAGES 1 to 12 Medford Tribune MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1963 Mailman Tortured Zip Code Gives Dick West Early Jump on Christmas Gift Shopping By DICK WEST WASHINGTON (UPI) - As one of the last holdouts against the digitization of the human race, I have re fused to tell my zip code number is. But now I am beginning to see U -II.. - t f 'h m I these obstruc I 1 1 tionist tactics. LJ' II Despite my west efforts to main tain secrecy, several mail order houses have been able to learn my zip number, presumably by kidnaping my mailman and torturing him until he squealed. As a result, this year's Christ mas gift catalogs are being de- anyone what ! livered anywhere from 24 to 36 hours ahead ot last year s crop. For a person who likes to do his Christmas shopping early, as I do, every minute counts. So I suppose I should apologize to the Post Office Department for having been such a sore head. As usual, the catalogs are filled with wonderful gift sug gestions, and I can hardly wait to get at the order blanks. One item that caught my eye is a "beer can launcher." Using a .22 caliber blank for propul sion, it will hurl an empty beer can as far as 100 feet. The catalog touts the launch ers for target practice, but I see them as splendid gifts for motorized drinkers who are always throwing eer cans from car windows. American Airman Dies in Barracks Brawl in France EVREUX, France (UPI) -U. S. Air Force officials today stepped up their investigation into the death of a white air man killed during a barracks brawl which involved Negro paratroopers. Airman 1. C. Robert R. Pad gett, 23, of Woodlawn, Va., died following the fight last Friday and French newspapers said flatly that a racial squabble pre cipitated the incident. "We all read the newspapers and know what is happening in the states," an Air Force spokesman said. "There is no confirmation so far this brawl reflects the racial troubles ther but we are, of course, investi gating that possibility." Clubs Wielded Padgett was battered to death when five soldiers attached to the 557th Quartemaster Co., wielding clubs, entered another barracks occupied by five air men. Fighting developed be tween the two groups and the five airmen wound up at a hos pital at Saint Michel where Pad gett died of injuries. The four others were treated and dis charged. The Air Force spokesman said the incident was the first case of serious violence record ed at the base. But he said security arrangements will be tightened "especially at week ends to prevent any repetition. An informal survey of t h e opinions of both white and Ne gro servicemen here tended to blame drinking for last Friday's fight. Evreux is a city of 20,000 per sons about 60 miles west of Paris. About 4,000 American airmen are stationed near it. Although dormitories at the base have been desegregated for years, both its servicemen and the citizens of Evreux have long recognized the color line in the city's bars. The segrega tion there is voluntary but it strikes the non - serviceman as if it were mandatory. The launchers will enable them to litter suburban lawns that are presently beyond their range. Should make beer can disposal infinitely more satisfy ing. Another attractive item is a box of "magic birthday can dles . . . huff and puff with all your might but you can't blow them out." Imagine the fun you can have watching your child get blue in the face trying to extinguish the candles on his birthday cake. As a companion gift, I rec ommend a mouthpiece adver tised in one catalog as an aid in mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, And here's a nifty: An ice tray that freezes just enough cubes for one drink! Just the thing for your friends who are soli tary drinkers Or how about father-and-son money belts. Helps teach a lad to be as miserly as his old man Having these suggestions on hand now gives each ot us big jump on Christmas. And we owe it all to zip code Attempt Being Made To Acquire Part of Will for U.S. Hotel An attempt to obtain part of the $173.0OO-estate of the late Robert Vinton Beall, Rogue val ley photographer and rancher for restoration ot JacKsonviue, has been announced by William Mansfield, Medford lawyer who was attorney for the Peter Britt Gardens Music and Arts Fes tival association Under the provisions of Beall's will, the bulk of his estate was left to the regents of the Uni versity of Oregon, to establish a memorial to pioneer women of Oregon. University officials last year said that they hoped to erect some building on campus, part of which would serve as the memorial, thereby meeting the specifications of the wills. A suit was filed later by rel atives of Beall, charging that there were no regents for the university since it is now admin istered by the state board of higher education. The court They'll Do It Every Time .n By Jimmy Hatlo The ladies laughed and -mem But wouldn't old ponce get a some, at the story of ponce, chai36e out of them in the beaut the seeker of youth salons ? dont asm. j! .so v SAY, DEAR f DO YOU HAVE THAT NEwT HA-M4-.it ALWAYS STRUCK I MIRACLE-REJUVENATION -r-- ME FUNNY THAT A J 1 CI3EAM,LA BANZAI ? MRS. fi K WAS IT M MAN BELIEVED IM SUCH A 1 f BI6DOME SAVS IT MADE I Il?EALLYTCUETHIN&.'HEH-WEH...ffl6HTy HER LOOK TWENTY A I I THAT PONCE 1 MRS. 6I6DOME ? j VEARS YOUNGER I : L"y Tp3, AT ZTiflV THE HATLO UAT TO a 73 J 1 s (APv 'S 0 C-HMS&kiP0Zg JIM TOLLEY, QJ)($ tQ, jP 'HITA awarded jurisdiction of the funds to the University of Ore gon Development Fund, Inc., Eugene. An Appropriate Memorial In a letter to Wolf von Otter stedt, lawyer for the fund, Mans field explained that the restora tion, maintenance and operation of the historical site of the U. S. Hotel in Jacksonville would be an appropriate memorial to pioneer women who settled Ore gon prior to 1860. He suggests hanging a painting or photo graph of Beall's mother in the hotel's lobby. The building would be avail able for non-profit activities of historical interest and to activ ities devoted to the arts, Mans field's letter states. The letter continues that such a plan would not only benefit Jacksonville, but Jackson county as a whole. It would restore and maintain the most important historical building in town, provide a focal point for the many historically oriented organizations in the community, provide a center for wintertime community activities for the people of Jacksonville and the entire Rogue valley, provide a center for the sum mer, tourist-oriented activities that the community undertakes, and provide a living memorial to the pioneer women, the intent expressed in Beall's will to give focus of interest to present and future generations. The U. S. Hotel could be re stored for an estimated cost of $40,000, according to Jack Sut ton, president of the Siskiyou Sites Foundation. The building, if restored, would include meeting rooms for civic groups, art gallery, mu seum rooms for permanent or rotating displays, recital hall, little theater activities, senior citizens meeting facilities, teen age center, hobby shop rooms, box office for the Music Fes tival, welcome rooms and facil ities for visitors, lecture hall, and usable hotel rooms for visit ing dignitaries. President Rutherford B. Hayes spent a night in this old hotel during the gold mining days of the 1880s. Mansfield notes that Beall's will provides for the establish ment of a small trust to main tain the family burial lot in the Jacksonville cemetery, indicat ing his family ties with the town. to please any cat, all tuna liver 'n meat chicken fish meaty mix kidney 'n meat mm Everybody's Favorite! Resolution Urges Viet Nam Aid Hall WASHINGTON (UPI) - The first indication of congressional anger at the Ngo Dinh Diem government's action against the Buddhists came today when resolution was offered in the Senate urging that all U.S. aid to South Viet Nam be cut off, Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho) who sponsored the resolution said Americans were "dismay ed" at the Dien government's "cruel repression" of the Bud dhists. "Such grisly scenes have not been witnessed since the Christian martyrs marched hand-in-hand to the Roman arenas," he said. Church rejected arguments that U.S. aid was needed to stem the Communist tide in South Viet Nam. He said that if the Diem government did not change its policy the country would fall to the Reds anyway. "To persist in the support of such a regime can only serve to identify the United States with the cause of religious per secution, undermining our moral position throughout the world," he said. Specialist Returns To State CD Agency SALEM (UPIWoseph Vogt has resumed his duties as com munications specialist for Ore gon's civil defense agency. Vogt quit two weeks ago to take a job in Alaska, but re turned to Oregon alter deter mining the cost of living was too high in the far north state. Metnwhile, it was announced the federal government had ap proved $3,000 in matching funds for Oregon CD. All federal matching funds had been cut off when the legislature slashed the state agency from 18 tn 3 persons. The federal funds will be used for surplus property and other purchases, and for civil defense schooling I PiSiffl """" 1 M Sv. I Ty Y ) I f f i! If J v W&tf&W y We've taken the wraps off our 2-lb. CANISTER! Whisk the label off MJB's new two-pound can of coffee, and look what you've got! 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