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" VF.RALD ANT) NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
'Happy' Couple Found Dead
PALO ALTO (UP) Police to-1 But yesterday police found the
day sought (or the reason a prom-1 wife's body on her bed with a .38
inent San Francisco Insurance caliber bullet hole In her head,
broker apparently murdered his In a nearby bathroom was Bridfte
wife and then kliled himself over ford, who had apparently blown
tlft weekend. ' his head off with a 16-gauge shot-
Neighbors said Alan P. Bridge- gun.
forff. 34, and his wife. Betty, 30,
appeared to b"the happiest mar
ried couple In the world."
SEATTLE Wl Boeing's 707 Jet
transport flew to Omaha, Neb.,
liom Seattle Wednesday In 3 hours
19 minutes, and hit a top speed of
(59 miles an hour on the 330-mile
leu from Ephrata, Wash., to Butte,
Mont., the company announced. .
Average speed for the 1,380-mile
pre-breakfast flight was S93 miles
an hour. The four-engined plane,
first prototype Jet airliner built In
this country, carried a crew of
three and 12 passengers.
The flight was a demonstration
for officers of the Air Force Stra
tegic Air Command headquarters
at Omaha. Boeing is building an
advanced version of the 707 for
the Air Force as an aerial tanker
for refueling other Jets aloft.
The couple had been dead at least
since Monday night and Police
Chief William A. Hydie said a pre
liminary investigation convinced
him Bridgeford had killed his wife
while she slept and tncn com
mitted suicide.
Police found the bodies after
Bridgeford's stepmother. Mrs.
Dorothy M. Bridgeford, San Ma
teo, became worried when he
failed to leport for work at the
insurance brokerage office where
he was a partner both Monday and
Tuesday.
Neither the stepmother nor the
couple's friends could assign any
reason for the action.
Folsom Prods
Insurance
NEW YORK W Secretary of
Welfare Folsom Wednesday prod
ded the insurance industry to use
its "traditional enterprise," in ex
tending coveragepf private health
insurance and pension plans. -.'
"As you in private enterprise
mflet the needs of the people, ' Fol
som told the Life Insurance Assn.
of America in a prepared speech,
"then the people will not find it
necessary to resort to broad gov
ernment action."
Folsom said he is convinced that
voluntary health insurance is a
''sound and practical means" of
increasing security against medi
cal costs which he said now total
more than 10 billion dollars a
year.
Only two billions of this Is met
through insurance benefits, the
cabinet officer said, "but insur
ance can and should meet much
more than 20 per cent.''
Folsom said' about two out of
three Americans are covered by.
some kind of health insurance, but
that "the great bulk of the people
still are unprotected against the
crushing costs of severe and pro
longed illness.'1 .
The welfare secretary said the
Eisenhower administration be
lieves "some form of reinsurance
or other methods of pooling or
shariPc risks" will speed the ex
tension and improvement of volun
tary health insurance protection.
However, Folsom did1 not say
whether the administration plans
to renew past recommendations
that the government-help get such
a reinsurance system started.
Those recommendations so far
have gone unheeded by Congress.
Police Gather
200 Cyclists
. SAN FRANCISCO UP1 A
bunch of the boys were whooplns
It up at a moloi cycle club saloon
and the police today were filled
with dtemay because the jail had
lost all its room.
More lhan 200 men, memoers ol
the San Francisco Motorcycle
Club, were rounded up last night
in a raid on the group's clubhouse.
Police said they confiscated nine
'reels of pornographic movies in
the clubroom. distinguished by a
bar at one end and framed pic
tures of motorcycles on the walls.
It took 13 officers and 20 paddy
wagons to get all of the guests
carted off to Jail and police said
they thought "quite a few" scram
bled out the clubroom windows.
Sgt. Robert Woods, who led the
raid, said he believed women en
tertainers also had performed at
the lewd "smoker" but there
weren't any around when the raid
was staged.
Those arrested were booked as
visitors to a lewd and indecent
show" and ball was set at S50
each. That is, all except Jim Sta
torn, road captain of the cycle
group, who was booked as keep-
of the house.
Statom, whose bail was set at
(600. protested he had nothing to
ao with the show.
"Why put the finger on me?" he
asked, "Other guys arranged for
the girls, brought the movies and
handled the tickets."
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GREYHOUND t-SIVER HONORED recently was Pacific grey
hound Lines driver George A. Wright, left, of Sholl Beach,
California. Vright stands in front of the message he has fol
lowed for 20 years. Wright is shown being congratulated by
the company's director of safety, Robert E. Gocke, for operat
ing passenger carrying buses for 20 years without an accident.
Former Wife Faces Trial
Neurologist Links Alcohol With Severe Brain Damage
BERKELEY UP Dr. S. A. j removed from the patient and re
Skillicorn. University of California I placed by air. The air eventually
dence today that severe alcoholics
may be susceptible to uncurable
brain damage.
Dr. Sillicorn, whose report ap
peared in the journal, Neurology,
said he conducted studies on six
retired naval veterans who had
clinical sisns of severe damage to
the portion of the brain beneath
and behind the main part of the
brain. The patients were confirmed
alcoholics
The portion which showed dam
age was the cerebellum while the
main portion of the brain Is knowu
as the cerebrum. However, Dr.
Sklllicoin's observations indicate
that the entire brain mmht be af
fected in some cases of extreme
alcoholism.
The doctor emphasized that he
had found no evidence to suggest
moderate "social" drinkers might
develop the condition and said It
occurred only infrequently in asso
ciation with prolonged overindul
gence. The same damage may be
suffered by severe sunstroke, heat
stroke, and with sensitivity re
actions to some drugs, tie said.
Damage to the cerebellum re
sults In loss of control of coordi
nated m o v e m e n t, a condition
known as ataxia, which starts in
the legs. Dr. skillicorn confirmed
clinical observation of the past 50
years that damage to the cere
bellum sometimes Is associated
with alcoholism. He also ' per
formed air studies to confirm clin
ical signs.
In such studies, spinal fluid is
rests In spaces within and sur
rounding the brain which can be
photographed by X-ray. In addition Psychological testa were given
to the cerebellar damage, the doc- as well and. In all cases, the tests
tor found in all the six alcoholic confirmed that the brain had
patients ; evere end generalized Incurred generalized physical
shrinkage, or atrophy, of the brain, damage.
CASPER, Wyo. HI Mrs. Rose
Alexander, stocky mother of two,
must stand trial on a charge she
murdered her husband's second
wife and buried the body in the
cellar of an East Casper home.
Mrs. Alexander was held with
out bond in the county Jail where
she has been a prisoner since
Thursday.
The balding husband. James, 48,
also was held Tuesday on $10,000
bond as a material witness.
Justice of the Fence Alice K.
Burridge held the two for District
Court action after a long prelim
inary hearing at which state attor
neys sought to trace the involved
relationship of the pair and of
Barbara Alexander. 27, whose skel
eton was chipped from a concrete
tomb in the basement of the Alex
ander home.
District Court Is expected to
meet late next spring.
Rose, 42, testified at an Inquest
last Thursday that Barbara,
blonde divorcee, died in an acci-:
dent at the home July 18. 1933. :
She said she buried the body two
days later, and that Alexander j
knew nothing about ft.
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