Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, September 13, 1963, Image 3

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Newspaper Page TextDriver Escapes Double Collision OAKLAND, Calif. (UPD Tom Thompson, 22, started to jump Thursday when he saw a train bearing down on his truck and trailor. which stalled on two sots of railroad tracks in Oak land. As he leaned out the safe side, he snottcd another train bearing down from the other direction and he "decided to ride it out." Both trains smashed into the ric, which was loaded with 52, 8uo bottles of ketchup. Firemen had to call for bulldozers to help clean up nearly 24 inches of the gooey red stuff at the crossing. Thompson, who for a few fran tic moments thoucht he must be bleeding profusely, escaped! wnnout injury. MKDKOKU MAIL TRIBUNE, MLDKOltl), OREGON FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1963 Writer Interviews Birmingham Girls In Brick Incident HAIL HEARINGS SET WASHINGTON (UPI) - The seven-man railroad arbitration board has announced it will oncn formal hearings on Sept. 24 on the two major issues in the deadlocked rail work rules dispute. COMBINATION RANGE boVe with cool, wood, oil. electricity; or in combinotton diol-set temperature held automatically with electricity when using other fueli kpcpi kitchen warm in winter, cool in summer JOHNSTON STORES Next lo the Poly Clean Center MEDFORD SHOPPING CENTER By AL KUETTNER L'PI Correspondent You drive down a narrow street in the city of Birming ham, Ala. It is late afternoon of the second day of public school desegregation. The tem perature is in the 90s. A group of Negro youths is playing touch footbali on the asphalt street. A lanky fellow holds up his hand, signalling your car to stop. You follow instructions because these are touchy days in Birmingham. The Negro youth just wants to finish a play ; then he motions you on and the "team" throws up a greeting sign. You are looking for a certain house where a Negro girl by the name of Patricia Marcus lives. She and Josephine Powell were the two Negroes admitted to West End High School in Bir mingham, an event that touched off a demonstration and boycott ; by white students. ! Wednesday, on their way home from school by car, a brick ' crashed through the front win dow opposite the driver. Despite I the heat, the windows had been I closed a precaution being taken quite a bit in the tense city where rock-throwing at cars j is getting to be about as com- inon as jay-walking. You find the house. A Negro I youth the one who was driv ; ing the car at the time comes : out on the porch. He asks what 1 you want. He is nervous and suspicious. You are invited hesi tantly into a small living room. Both girls are there, still tense but much more composed than ; members of the families who ' are in a twitter of excitement. 1 Would the violence against them the first incident so far i against any of the five Negroes enrolled in formerly white schools of Birmingham deter ! them from further attendance at West End? They quietly say it will not. These are not mature adults but school children in their mid teens. Until recently, their names were known by few others than their families, doc tor, preacher, school teachers and a limited circle of friends. Suddenly, they are in the spot light of world attention. JWigijJ CAN'T BE J VrJH) 4 'r ?-rr yu m(,y wn i VACATION FOR TWO 1 Your choice of 6 glorious W. A. Vacations. See Your Cal Gas dealer for details. TWO ADDITIONAL MAJOR PRIZES! V)S VALUABLE LOCAL PRIZES! to be awarded here in our home town: ,?V 1964 FARMERS' ALMANAC to every family who registers During -SEPT.-OCT. 181 DIRECT FACTORY PURCHASE! DEARBORN Kingsley COUNTER-FLOW WALL FURNACE $15787 REG. $254 95 DEARBORN Kingsley GRAVITY WALL FURNACE mo. s4 $67'" DEARBORN Baronet Vented GAS AREA HEATER no. inn $67 'llllif DF!5Ul DH3JS PLUS Many Other HEATING SPECIALS! See Your CAL GAS Dealer... EVERYBODY WINS! Come in and Register today! OREGON LIQUID GAS Phoenix, Oregon 627 Main Street Ph. 535-1557 Television cameras dog their way every footstep, wait (or their every exit and entrance from school. Microphones are constantly in their faces. Reporters repeatedly ask "How did it go today?" The youngsters, disciplined and trained in the new art of leaving it to their lawyers to express their emotions, dutifully respond to every question, "No comment." The brick that smashed through the window of their cat also smashed through their bar rier of silence, if only momen tarily. "1 leaned back on some of the glass and it cut my back a little," one of the girls said. "My hair was just full of glass," said the other. Outside, you look at the car, a late model Dodge. The force of the brick had shattered the glass and torn loose a section of window trim. Upward Trend In Pesticide Sales Expected WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Agriculture Department esti mates a longtime upward trend will cause pesticides sales in the United States to increase 10 to 12 per cent in 1963. In a review of the pesticide situation in 1962-63, the depart ment said pesticide usage in the United States increased in 1962 over previous years. Exports of pesticides also increased. The department said sales of synthetic organic pesticides at the primary producer level were up . 14 per cent. The value of exports of all kinds of pesticides was up 22 per cent. Weather Has Effect Infestations in the United States were average to below normal in 1962 with no major outbreak of pests. A severe mid winter freeze throughout the Southern States early in the year, the cold rainy spring while grasshoppers were hatch ing in the West and Midwest, and the prolonged summer drought in the Northeast all con tributed to reducing the control operations usually needed against a number of major pests. The department said sales of synthetic organic pesticidal chemicals by primary producers in 1962 amounted to $346.4 mil lion. This compared with $303 willion in 1961. DDT Production Down I Production of some major pes-1 ticides was less in 1962. DDT ; production was down 2.6 per , cent, methyl parathion was ; down 12.8 per cent, and benzene ; hcxachloride gamma basis was j down 56 per cent. The depart ment said this indicates the growing importance of proprie tary chemicals produced by sin gle firms. The department said insecti cides accounted for 59.2 per cent of pesticides sales in pounds in 1962. Fungicides accounted lor 15.2 per cent, herbicides 15 per cent; fumigants, 9.8 per cent; and rodentieides 0.7 per cent. LII.Y THRIVES Susan and Frank W. Jaeger III admire the results of their mother's green thumb a 10-foot-high lily growing in the back yard of their home in Kirkwood, Mo. Mrs. Jaeger planted the bulb two years ago and the stalk reached a height of six feet last year. The stalk, which is an inch thick at the base, has never been staked. The first of the 14 blooms of the For mosan lily appeared two weeks ago. (UPI) University Study of Korean Cities Processed Class Catalog Is Available in Area Portland A catalog of both credit and noncrcdit evening courses available through the Division of Continuing Educa tion of the Oregon state system of higher education, and a time schedule of fall term classes to be offered throughout the state are now available, according to Dr. R. Duane Andrews, direc tor of the DCE continuation centers. Included in the catalog are details on courses offered via evening classes in liberal arts, the sciences, and technical fields during the 1963-64 three term academic year. Instruct ors also are listed, and expla nation made of fee schedules, facilities, and other points of concern to persons who are con sidering enrolling in evening classes. DCE evening classes include courses and instructors from other member institutions of the Oregon slate system of higher education, including Ore gon State university, the Uni versity of Oregon, Southern Oregon and Eastern Oregon colleges, Oregon College of Education, and Oregon Techni cal Institute. Though many persons parti cipate in evening classes who are not seeking graduate or undergraduate degrees, Dr. An drews noted, credits may be earned toward degree programs through the satisfactory com pletion of such courses. Details on the transfers of DCE-award-ed course credits may also be found in the catalog. Persons interested in obtain ing a 1963-64 bulletin of evening classes and the fall term time schedule should contact the Ashland Continuation Center, Division of Continuing Educa tion, college campus, Ashland; EUGENE The data on a Uni versity of Oregon study of Ko rean cities and their patterns of economic development have been processed, and a full re port will be ready for publica tion and transmission to the Ko rean government in January. The study is being conducted iiy Dr. Forrest R. Pitts, associ ate professor of geography, who has spent the past summer pro cessing the data through two electronic computers at the University of Chicago and Northwestern university. The data processing was done under a $1,500 grant from the Western Management Science Institute of the Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of California at Los Angeles. Material Gathered Material for the study was gathered by Dr. Pitts in '1959-60 when he was a member of the University of Oregon advisory group to the Korean govern ment. The study is aimed at find ing out the ways in which Ko rean cities differ in the goods and services which they provide. Preliminary results have shown that, except for the largest cities, Korean communi ties fall into one of two cate gories. They either cling to a "very traditional," undeveloped economic pattern, or they have moved into a "very progres sive," economically well-developed stage, according to Dr. Pitts. The report will pinpoint the historical and economic reasons for these differences and sug gest ways in which the Korean government can improve its country's allocation of resources, he said. Small Worlds Around Us By lynn W. Watkim lletlitr & Tribune Syndicate, !!; Trails, Campgrounds Reported in Good Condition in Forest LUCKY KITH SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (UPI) Friday the 13th doesn't scare Roy Egglcslon. Roy, a fifth grader at the Carew Street School, celebrates his 13th birth day today with a party at his home. He is the 13th child born to Mr. and Mrs. Archie Egglc slon. The Egglcstons had 17 children but only 13 survived. Science Tips Over That Applecart With Our Ideas "Tipping over the applecart" is becoming a daily procedure, for this is the age of skepticism. Sometimes it's a terrible shock to have believed in something all one's life, then to have some scientific discovery or invention knock the props out from under it, by proving it wasn t true in the first place. And today, the "applecart-tippers-over" are so busy that the old applecart has been upset so many times it just might right itself by natural revolution. Unenlightened The unenlightened must have viewed with disbelief the idea that "behind the clouds the sun was shining." To him, it didn't seem logical. It took years, too, to prove the stars really didn't twinkle at all, that it was just a trick man's eyes played on him, but they sure seemed to twinkle. Even many pretty bright adults had the idea they could hear the roar of the sea when they held a seashell up to their ear; they must have been disappointed when they discovered the same roar was there when they substi tuted an empty tin can. The early Chinese, supposed to be pretty smart, thought the ebb and flow of the tide on the ocean beach was the breathing of the earth monster. It took many generations of men and an array of facts and figures to prove what was right and what was imagination. Horsehair Snake It's discouraging lo the small boy to find out that a horsehair I left in a tub of water, does not turn into a horsehair snake, or j that the groundhog hasn't the j slightest idea of what he is do-1 ing, weathcrwise, when he peeks : out of the burrow opening on February second, to see whether i or not he casts a shadow. Probably the smug adult feels pretty worldly and extremely wise when he can assure the small boy or girl that science discredits such silly ideas, and can prove there was never any truth to them. Dig Disappointment That very young girl is sure to be a little disappointed when she learns there is no Santa I Claus, or that the bunny rabbit doesn't lay colored eggs on Eas-! tcr morning; or that there really i is no good fairy that leaves a coin under a pillow, lo repay one for losing a tooth. Man himself, grown lo adult hood and very wise, is constant ly having many of his old ideas shattered, too, by some expert who with the aid of some new machine or process can prove how very wrong we have been all this time. For a typical ex ample, who would know about that little faucet in our stomach that drips, drips, drips acid in ; such copious amounts. Pretty re vealing; makes us realize that right to a little while ago, we were all cluttered up with silly ideas with which we have lived with some degree of comfort, only to have science come along and "tip over the applecart." All facilities are open and will remain open until cold weather forces a shutoff of wat er in the campgrounds on the Applegate district of the Rogue River National forest, the Med ford office reported today. Issuing a summary of condi tions to September recreation ists, t h e foresters described roads, trails and campgrounds as in good condition throughout the forest. Some wildflowers are still in bloom on Dutchman Peak in the Applegate district but they are disappearing with the ap proach of autumn. Man Finds Leak But House Wrecked ATLANTA (UPI) - Smelling gas in a vacant house he own ed Thursday, Charles A. Wigley, 68, struck a catch to sec if a small gas heater was working. The resulting explosion wreck ed the six-room house, broke windows in neighboring homes and hospitalized Wigley with burns from the waist up. Firemen said the fumes were escaping from an open gas pipe in the kitchen where a stove had been removed Wednesday. All lakes are open, but fish ing in lakes and streams is list ed as fair at best and poor on the Butte Falls and Applegate districts. Heavy Logging Traffic There is heavy logging traf fic to be watched for on Thompson creek road and mod erate logging on Sturgis, Mid dle Fork and Beaver Creek roads where dust has made visi bility poor. neavy uuck trainc in connec-1 lion with the ski development in the Mt. Ashland ilea makes travel slightly difficult on the i Tolman-Bull Gap and Ashland Loop roads, the forest service reported, asking motorists to exercise caution. j The nights arc now cold on the Butte Falls ranger district with Mt. McLoughlin in the background and campers are advised to take along warm clothing. Blue Rock road has! been surfaced and is in good condition. j On the Union Creek district, i there is heavy logging traffic on the Douglas-Jackson county line roads and the Wizard creek road. The huckleberries are ripe but they are few and widely scattered. Norblad Objects To Portland Bypass WASHINGTON (UPI - Rep. Walter Norblad (R-Ore.) com plained Thursday that Portland had not been included among West Coast cities at which gov ernment - sponsored foreign trade conferences will be heldi Norblad, in a letter to Com merce Secretary Luther Hodges, said he was "shocked" that it was not included. The conferences, announced by the Bureau of International Commerce, will be held in San Diego, Los Angeles, San Fran cisco and Seattle, as well as In 23 cities in other parts of the country. HYDRO-BRUSH QUIK CAR WASH CAR WASH CAR WAXING EASY TO FIND: Ri9h Be hind Picko D' Albj and 4-H-FFA Center in the Fairgrounds. 271 Don't Miss the FUN! Join the BANDJL TODAY! PSjl? 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