Smalltown Ala.
Banker Turns
Trick on Bandits
ECLECTIC, Ala., UP) — A
courageous small-town banker,
angered because two bandits
threatened tc kill him and his
family, shot one to death and ser
iously wounded the other to foil
a bank robbery here today.
The banker, 31-year-old Carl
Ray Barker, his pregnant wife and
3-year-old daughter, had been
held hostage for about an hour
before he subdued one of the
holdup men by throwing scalding
water in his face and beating him
on the head with the robber’s
own pistol.
Earlier the bandits had kid
naped a policeman and robbed a
bank of $250.
Barker, general manager of the
Bank of ECLECTIC, killed one of
the robbers with a shotgun charge
in the chest. He seriously wounded
the other, who had received the
hot water treatment, with a charge
in the hip.
The dead man was identified by
papers in his wallet as James
Bray, 24, son of a Montgomery
nightwatchman. His companion,
William D. Hayward, 26, an ex
convict, was in a serious condition.
The two men kidnaped city
policeman Maxie Taunton after
asking him to drive them out on
a highway where they could hitch
hike a ride.
“I don’t mind telling you I was
scared to death,” Taunton said.
The pair took Taunton’s pistol
and ordered him to drive to the
banker’s home.
At Barker’s home, the bandits
ordered Taunton to summon the
bank official to the door by telling
him, it was the police. They forced
their way into the house and held
the policeman, Barker, and the {
banker’s pregnant wife and -year
old daughter captive.
Bray then forced Barker to ac
company him to the bank while
other holdup man stayed in the
' house and stood guard over the
captives.
The time lock on the bank vault
was set to open at 8:30 a.m., and
Bray couldn’t budge it, so .he
grabbed a sack containing $250 in
nickels and dimes.
After Bray and Barker had re
turned to the banker’s home, the
holdup man took Taunton back
downtown with him .to get tape
so Tie could tie the hostages until
the bank vault was opened.
Barker said he suggested a cup
of coffee while he and his family
waited for Hayward, but that he
made only boiling water. Return
ing from the kitchen, he splashed
the scalding water in Hayward’s
face when the bandit held out his
cup. Then Barker seized the ban
dit’s revolver and beat him into
submission with the weapon.
When Bray and the policeman
returned to the house, the banker
had loaded a shotgun and was
waiting for them at the front
door.
Barker said he was frightened
during the ordeal, but “I got sure
enough mad, when the big one
(Bray) kept talking about killing
us.”
SATURDAY BASEBALL
National League
Chicago 5, Pittsburgh 1.
St. Louis 4, Philadelphia 3.
San Francisco 5, Cincinnati 3.
Los Angeles 7, Milwaukee 5.
' American League
Washington 9, Baltimore ’.
Boston 8, New York 4.
Chicago 8, Kansas City 3.
Cleveland 8, Detroit 7.
Pacific Coast League
Phoenix 6-12, Sacramento 5-6.
Portland 8, Vancouver 7.
Salt Lake 2, San Diego 1.
Seattle 4, Spokane 3.
New Governor of Rotary
T. E. (Tommy) Morgan, District
Governor of District 504 of Rotary
International, will visit each of
r '
Thomas E. Morgan
the 41 .clubs in Aaska and parts
of British Columbia and Washing
ton. He is one ofthe 261 governors
supervising the activities of 10,200
Rotary Clubs in 113 countries,
with 500,000 members.
He will stop at Nome on Sep
tember 21.
Mr. Morgan was elected District
Governor for the 1959-60 fiscal
year at Rotary’s 50th Annual
Convention in New York City
last June. He is retired after
forty years in the lumber busi
ness.
During the past year 374 new
Rotary clubs were organized, and
for the first time in British
Guiana, Ghana, Madagascar and
Nepal, it is reported. Since 1947
Rotary has awarded grants of
more than $3,000,000 to 1,202 stu
dents from 67 countries for a
year’s study in some other coun
try of their choice. _
I
Rivers Opposes Wildlife
Preserve Because of Loss
Of Highway Funds
WASHINGTON, UP) — Opposi
tion to establishment of a big Arc
tic wild life range in Northeastern
Alaska, unless certain conditions
are met, was announced Friday
by Representative Ralph J. Rivers
The proposal to set aside some
nine million acres for the wildlife
preserve is under study by a House
Interior subcommittee on fish and
wildlife to which Rivers directed
his statement.
He said the proposed land with
drawal would mean a loss of some
$275,000 in federal highway funds
for Alaska. Rivers said he would
oppose the range for that reason
unless an amendment assuring
Alaska would not lose this money
is adopted.
Numbered Duplicate Stub Tickets
For Sale at The Nugget
Brushfire Sweeps
; Resident Seetion
Of Movietown
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., W —
Twenty-eight homes are known
destroyed in a brushfire — pos
sibly touched off by an arsonist
— which swept through 1,000
acres Friday in Rollywood’s rustic
Laurel Canyon.
Fifteen other homes were
damaged. Three hundred persons
! were forced to flee for their lives,
j Most of the homes were in the
$30,000 to $40,000 class. Seven
firemen were injured trying to
save them. A woman resident and
her son suffered burns running
from their home as flames raced
down upon it. It was destroyed.
Massed men and equipment —
and backfiring — halted the fire
along the crest. North of it lay
thick brush on the downslopes
facing the communities of the San
Fernando Valley.
None of the celebrities’ homes
were reported damaged.
Egan Fires Radinsky
As Manager of Alaska
Exhibit at Oregon Fair
JUNEAU, tP — Jules Radinsky
of Kodiak was fired Friday from
the $l,000-a-month job as man
ager of the Alaska exhibit at the
Oregon Centennial Exposition at
Portland.
Gov. William Egan removed
Radinsky from the- post to which
he had been named two months
ago. He will be replaced tempor
arily by Paul Solka, special assist
ant to the governor.
Egan said the action reflected
no dissatisfaction with the Alaska
exhibit at the big exposition which
opened in June and continues
through early September.
However, the Governor said: “I
am not satisfied with the admin
! istration of the exhibit in so far
as this office has not been kept
fully informed as to policies and
expenditures.”
Egan said Radinsky had failed
to coordinate financial records
with procedures followed by the
State Department of Administra
tion.
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14& HEALTH HORIZONS
New Tasty Liquid Pain Reliever — Child’s Boon
Since ancient times the salicylates have occupied an important
place in the physician’s armamentarium as pain reliever and fever
reducing agents.
Hippocrates, the father of medicine, used salicylate-bearing bark
from a willow tree to ease pain more than 2350 years ago.
inaeea, in more recent years,
the salicylates have been used
more than ever by physicians as
the preferred analgesic, anti
fever and anti-inflammatory
agents.
However, a marked disadvan
tage of previously available
salicylates is their lack of adapt
ability to administration in
liquid foi-m. Aspirin is not only
relatively insoluble in aqueous
vehicles, but is unstable.
There has long been a meed
for a satisfactory and accepted
liquid form for the administra
tion of salicylates. This is quite
apparent, since infants and
young children do not readily
accept tablets and capsules as
they have a tendency to “gag“
and reject the medication. It is
possible, of course, to crush up
tablets or empty the contents of
the capsule and add either to
liquids, but precise dosage is
rendered either difficult or im
possible.
The effectiveness of the sali
cylates as a pain reliever or
fever reducer greatly depends on
the dosage level and the rapid
concentration of the drug into
the bloodstream. Therefore, the
above method accomplishes little
or nothing for the patient.
Recognizing the need for a
drug that would surmount these
problems, medical scientists have
researched and developed a new
cherry flavored drug; Actasal
Pediatric Drops, which over
comes to a great degree most of
the disadvantages associated
with other salicylates.
The major ingredient of Acta
sal Pediatric Drops is choline
salicylate, a newly synthesized
chemical Compoundwhich acts 5
times faster than aspirin, enabl
►
ing it to.be absorbed, more quick
ly and sustained in the blood
stream for a longer period, thus
making it more effective.
Clinical tests were recently
conducted at a selected group of
large medical centers on ap
proximately 300 male and female
infants and children (ranging in
age from 3 months to 16 years)
to determine the acceptability
and therapeutic effectiveness of
the drug. The diseases treated
were acute respiratory infec
tions, tonsillitis, headaches, ma
laise, pain associated with men
strual cramps, tooth extractions
and following immunization pro
cedures.
The medical observations indi
cated that the acceptance of the
drug was excellent as practically
all children and infants treated
readily took the drug. Actasal
proved to be as effective and
even superior to aspirin and
there were no untoward reac
tions regardless ~af the amount
of the dose.
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