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Putnam Asks Retirement
From State School Post
SALEM (AP) Rex Putnam,,
stale superintendent of public in-1
struetion since 1937, announced
Tuesday he would resign Jan. 31 1
or as soon afterward as is con
venient for the governor.
Gov. Mark O. Hatfield said he
would confer with' the state Board
of Education before making an
appointment.
In a letter to the governor, Put
nam said he would "like to be
relieved of the ever-increasing
responsibilities. stresses, and
strains involved in its administra- i
tion in order to conserve my
health. "
Hatfield said:
"Rex Putnam has given selfless
service to the state of Oregon for
nearly a quarter of a century,
during which time he has earned
a warm spot in the hearts of us
all with whom he has been asso
ciated. "He has given dedicated lead
ership to new programs, anil re
turned with renewed vigor from
illness. He carries with him the
best wishes of the people he has
served." i
Putnam's successor will be ap-
pointed to serve until the 1962 gen-1
eral election. The office is non
partisan. However, Hatfield is asking the
legislature to change the office
urn. ai.in mtm f man m i i
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RbX PUTNAM
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from an elective one to one filled
by appointment by the governor.
The Legislative Interim Com
mittee on Education recommends
that the superintendent be ap
pointed by the slate Board ot fca-ucation.
Punam was appointed Sept. 1,
1937. bv then-Gov. Charles 11.
Martin. He had served in school
executive positions in Albany and
Eastern Oregon.
He said in his letter to Hatfield
that he would always be ready to
serve Oregon in any way, especi
ally in the educational interests
of its youth.
8 Evicted Sharecropper
Families Live In Tents
SOMERVfLLE, Tenn. (AP)-A
line of tents to house evicted
sharecroppers, defended by Ne
groes as an emergency measure
and denounced by white residents
na . ...1 . ... ,,.J in
grow today.
Negro leaders said the lent city, I
now housing eight families, was
set up to keep a roof over share
croppers who lost their leases be-
Anonymous Gift
St art s Memorial
NEW YORK (AP) An anony
mous gift of SI. 000 has started a j
memorial fund for Stephen Baltz,
11, the boy whose fight for life I
after an airplane collision won the!
sympathy of the nation. j
The money was sent to the
Methodist Hospital of Brooklyn,
where the boy died 27 hours after
the crash that cost 135 other lives
here Dee. 16.
The donor was described at the
hospital only as "an elderly maid
en lady."
The gift, along with other money
being received in the boy's mem
ory, mostly in denominations of
SI to S5, will be used to establish
a memorial room on the children's
floor of the hospital.
Fire-blackened coins found in
the boy's clothing five nickels
and four dimes will be fused into
a memorial plate to be hung in
the room.
The Rev. Donald Stockdale Sta
cev. the hospital's field chaplain,
said the hospital has been
"swamped with mail from all
parts of the country." .
Some letters contain contribu
tions, but most represent expres
sions of sympathy.
cause they registered to vote.
More families were scheduled to
move in today.
White farmers said the leases
were terminated because mech
anization replaced the sharecrop
pers. They said the Negroes were
given plenty of advance notice.
The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals
in Cincinnati will hear a govern
ment plea Ihursday to stop evic
tion of 700 sharecroppers from
Fayette and adjacent Haywood
County farms.
Last week, U. S. Dist. Judge
Marion S. Boyd of Memphis re
fused the plea on grounds that
the 1957 Civil Rights Act does not
empower him to rule on contract
and property rights. Most share
croppers work on yearly contracts
with landowners.
The Justice Department Civil
Rights Division claims the evic
tions resulted from Negroes reg
istering and votine in numbers in
the counties for the first time.
Justice Department suits are
pending in U. S. District Court at
Memphis charging a total of more
than 150 white residents and lour
banks in the two counties with
economic reprisals against Ne
groes. Bolh counties have a 60-40
ratio of Negroes to white persons
Most of the tents measure 16
by 24 feet. Furnishings arc piled
up outside. Beds rest on mud
floors. Between them are wood
stoves and kerosene lamps.
Food is provided through John
McFerren, Negro grocer and pres
ident of the F'ayelte County Civic
and Welfare League, an organiza
tion that pushed Negro voter reg
istrations earlier this year.
Writer Charges
TV Show Rigged
HOLLYWOOD (AP) A free
lance writer charges in a national
magazine article that there were
at least 40 rigged episodes on the
television show "It Could Be
You" between 1956 and 1958. He
s.ays he rigged them.
Ralph Edwards, who owns the
siiow, immediately denied knowl
edge of any such improprieties.
So did the National Broadcasting
Lo.
Al Blake. 73. wrote in Confiden
tial magazine that he supplied
people to play parts on the day
time show, which sypcars five
uiues a weeK on miL.
"It Could Be You" is an audi
ence participation show in which
stories involving members of the
audience are unfolded. The sub
jects are then brought on stage
and given surprises.
Blake said he rehearsed his
landlady, his newsboy and friends
and - acquaintances for roles on
the program,
lie said members of Edwards
staff, including producer Stefan
Halos, knew of the alleged rig
ging. He did not say Edwards was
aware of it.
Edwards said he has affidavits
from Hatos and his present staff
denying that they were in any
way in collusion with Blake."
"Never did he at any time slate
to staff members that he was
manufacturing the situations as
he states in the article," Edwards
said.
Edwards said Blake was never
a member of the show's staff and
never wrote for it. The staff got
information from many sources,
Edwards said, and Blake was one
of them.
In August 1958. Edwards said.
"we suspected the facts in one
of his (Blake's) contributions and
discontinued accepting material
from hiin."
Blake acknowledged in his story
that he was annoyed at the Ed
wards organization because it did
not pay him what he thought he
had coming for contributions to
th show.
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Constellation Said
In Sloppy Condition
NEW YORK (AP)-City Fire
Commissioner Edward Cavanagh
Jr. says the aircraft carrier Con
stellation was in such .sloppy con
dition that he would have "or
dered work stopped and the prem
ises cleaned up if it had been a
civilian project. "
Officers at a naval court of in
quiry looking into the disastrous
Dec. 19 carrier fire listened for
2' hours as Cavanagh criticized
Navy safely procedures. An esti
mated $75 million damage was
done to the Constellat'on and 49
persons died in the fire at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard.
"Messy, deplorable and sloppy"
were Cavanagh's words to char
acterize the housekeeping aboard
the ship. Evidences of this, he
said, wore 42 minor fires that pre
ceded the disaster.
"If this had been a civilian
project under our jurisdiction we
would have vacated this project
as imminently perilous to life,"
he said.
He called the ship a "fully
loaded bomb which needed only
ignition" and said he was sur
prised the tragedy hadn't oc
curred earlier.
Previous witnesses testified that
the housekeeping and fire-prevention
practices on the Constellation
were belter than average for
' Navy ships.
'Riting Railroader
Detering Objects
To Art Hemming
SALEM (AP) Gerald Deter
ing, president of Ihe Oregon
Farm Bureau Federation, is op
posed lo having the secretary of
health, education and welfare,
Arthur S. Flcmming, become
president ef the University . of
Oregon.
"Flemming's ill-advised action
against cranberries brought
about a ' tremendous loss to Ore
gon growers, followed by similar
attacks on milk and capons in
what was termed the 'food of the
month' plan," Detering said Tues
day. On Nov. 9, 1959, Flemming an
nounced that the 1958 and 1959
cranberry crops were contami
nated by a weed killer. Later,
the Oregon department of Agri
culture said Oregon cranberries
were not contaminated.
The state Board of Higher Ed
ucation has said it is considering
Flemming for the university pres
idency. Detering added that "Flem
ming's irresponsible action in re
gard to several important crops
has not improved his stature as
an administrator. Certainly, his
action caused great loss lo Ore
gon producers, and was not in the
best interest of our slate and its
people."
He said the Farm Bureau be
lieves that Flemming has "alien
ated the farmers of Oregon." and
that the university president
should have the backing of all the
people.
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Hatfield Asks Proposal To Help
Conserve Salmon Spawning Beds
PRESENTING A COPY of the third work, "Roils West", in his railroad trilogy to City
Editor Bill Henley or The News-Review is George Abdill, Roseburg railroad engineer turn
ed writer. (News-Review Photo)
Roseburg Author Turns To Civil War
For Material For Book On Railroads
By BILL HENLEY
News-Rsview City Editor
Roscburg's 'riting railroader,
Gecrge Abdill, has laid his third
stretch ot track on one literary
project. And he's now past the
roundhouse on a new one.
Abdill has recently had publish
ed "Rails West," the third book
in a trilogy. The others were "Pa
cific Slope Railroads" and "This
Was Railroading." And he'll now
concern himself alone in his field,
he believes with the Civil War.
"Rails West", one of the. works
in the trilogy which was three
vcars in the building, concerns it
self with a Mississippi River start
and works its way through to tlie
Pacific Coast. In effect it covers
a lot of the material which author
Abdill didn't have a chance to get
into the two earlier volumes.
Photos Outstanding
Printed by the Superior Publish
ing Co. of Seattle. Wash., on its
usual standout letterpress paper,
"Rails West" is a 191-page work of
bolh text and illustrations. As al
ways, the Roseburg locomotive en
gineer relies on a library of old
time railroad photographs which
he has carefullv built up and in
creased through the years, some of
them completely original in the
printing and many rarely appear
ing before.
Among his photos is one extend
ing over two pages, in itself a
character" study of an early-day
Montana construction gang and
ing." But it hasn't been excluded. I authors and works dealing with, in
either, with the representations
from the Oregon Pacific Hallway,
the narrow gauge Walla Walla and
Columbia River Railroad, and from
other lines in the Pacific North
west and West.
Abdill's books consistently sell al
the top of the Superior line. The
Seattle firm specializes in factual
District Bully
Admits Slaying
Bv EDWARD NICKERSON
NEW YORK ( AP) Robert Gui
tarri, 14, Christmas tree delivery
boy murdered Friday night, was
stabbed by a neighborhood bully
trying lo extort money lrom nun,
police say.
Acting Chief of Detectives Fran
cis Robb said Edward Vogt, 11,
a slender, good-looking youth with
a crop of brown hair worn in t
luxuriant pompadour, admitted
the killing Tuesday.
Vogt told police he stabbed t-ui-lpy tnat he has
i mill. n ninn.innl, hunlin.i"1'
its words, "Western Americana"
the 1960 rosier included works on
Indian primitives, Pacific lumber
ships, and other subjects.
Abdill's now turned, in these Cen
tennial years, lo Civil War Rail
roads. Nobody's done that, exclus
ively, before and he doesn't think
any of his colleagues are at work
on such works now. He s Doner
than half way along, with an April
1 publisher delivery date, he said.
This time he figures on a new
format. This will be in a bound vol
ume. permitting pull-out pages and
allowing lor greater flexibility in
Ihe sizes of photographs
His avocalion you could almost
call it more than that now. (hough
he takes his shift at the Southern
Pacific throttle has given him
unique honors. He's one of a select
few listed in "Who s Who Among
Pacific Northwest Writers, for
instance.
After the. Civil War work-
Well, there's another story which
needs telling which lies got in
mind.
George Abdill always has a rail
road slory in mind, seems like.
And a lot of readers appear, hap
Dr. Dooley Returns
To Enter Hospital
I a ri i with a nine-inch huntint
knife aller the boy refused hisi
Wemand, "Give me all your mon
ey."
Young Guilarri had only two
quarters in his pocket, tips from
Christmas tree deliveries.
Pli.n ciirl Vnul lIH thnm ha
such hanpprs-nn as Indian tribes-h-.A L,nn ciiintr rhridmaG t..ci NEW YORK (AP)
in the upper West Side when he R . . j um,Vy
saw Cuitarri "lugging a big;'""1 """"J- "'"c" "ll
iio oiri h ii...i,i (i, w0nent Tuesday night and entered
wouid "be an easy touch," and e. A'P'11""?' Ccn,er for Canccr
followed him into the building, of- Al ' u'sc"ses;. .
fering to help carry the tree. . Dr: Om', -he American
By Vogt's account, as reported Mle doctor ot Laos was strick-
ny ponce, tne two went up in an
there
men; many engines of varying
types scattered over many areas;
such early-day railroad hallmarks
as a Northern Pacific brick round
house at Billings, JUont., and an
old-time Bismarck. N. Dak., hotel
and Northern Pacific depot; a head
on crackup; and other features.
At Top Of Line
The Pacific Noilhwesfc doesn't
predominate here. It did. in the
first volume, "This Was Railroad-
Protestants Draw
Catholic Praise
WASHINGTON (AP) The
Roman Catholic Church has ex
pressed gratitude to Protestant
and Jewish leaders who defended
it during the I960 presidential
campaign.
A year-end report Tuesday bv
the National Catholic Welfare
Conference spoke of the year as
"a prosperous, it stormy one.
Commenting on the rampaign
in which a Catholic was elected
president for the first time, the
report said: "Hundreds of thou
sands of pamphlets were distrib
uted across the country maintain
ing thai a man must have divid
ed loyalty if he is Catholic as
well as American.
"Church officials, faced with
the decision whether to cruiage in
open controversy to answer (he
attacks, for the most part chose
silence.
"The silence proved beneficial
when Protestant and Jewish lead
ers moved forward lo repudiate
the attacks, and repeatedly asked
that the man and his policy rath
er than his religion be the decid
ing factor in determining the
vote."
The Welfare Conference is an
agency of American bishiips
which coordinates common aciiv
ities of the Catholic Church in this
country.
Dr. Tom
elevator to the sixth floor,
Vogt demanded the boy's money.
Vogt said he pulled out a hunt
ing knife. Guilarri tried to run,
but Vogt grabbed him and stabbed
him repeatedly in the back.
Vogt then ran to the roof with
out taking the 50 cents from the
boy's pocket and made his way
acioss the roof tops to his own
apartment building.
Robb said Vogt was arrested
because of complaints from many
boy's in the neighborhood that he
had been extorting money from
them by threats.
Vogt has a lengthv nolice record
that includes conviction in 1958 for
molesting a 12-year-old girl, and
charges of mugging, petty, and
grand larceny.
a with cancer in 1959, and had
been described as cured aflcr sur-
ery.
Kecent tests in Hong Kong
showed that he was suffering
Irani a degeneration of the bone
structure of the spine not offi
cially dulcrmined as cancerous.
Dr. Dooley, clad in pajamas
beneath an overcoat, could only
sbuillc down a ramp at Idlewild
Airport, where he was met by his
brother, Malcolm, executive di
rector of Medico, a nonprotil
medical organization founded by
the doctor. The organization gives
medical assistance lo underdevel
oped nations.
SAI.F.M (Al) Gov. Mark O.l
Hatfield told Ins Natural lie-1
sources (.ommillee Tuesday he'
wanted it to come up with a pro- i
posal that would hcln protect I
salmon spawning beds no-,- being
destroyed through sand and
ravel dredging. i
Ike Sends Message
To Boycott Victim
NORTH PROVIDENCE. R I
(Al') President Eisenhower says
the goal of equality before the law
for all men "will be one day at
tained. "
In a letter to James Gahrielle.
whose family attempted to break n
white boycott of ' an integrated
New Orleans school, the President
said:
'Our nation must continue hor
steady advance toward equality
before the law for all men, anil
each one of us must do his share
to make certain that we have a
government of laws, not of men. I
If all of us will, like yourself and
your tamily. stand up to be
counted in the cause of human
dignity, even though personal sac
rifice be involved, these goals will
one day be attained."
Mrs.t Gabricllc braved the while
boycutt to take her daughter Yo-
landa, 6, to school out threats and
unpleasantness finally forced the
family to come norm to join
Rhode Island relatives.
Hatfield said that millions are
spent on artificial propagation
and that it would be an economy
measure lo preserve natural
spawning areas.
Hatfield, however, rejected a
proposal of the Fish Commission
for Ihe right to veto saml and
gravel dredging permits if spawn
ing beds were endangered.
The governor said this was sim
ilar to a pmixjsal that did not
even get nut of committee in the
last Legislature.
"I personally think that (the
veto) is bad adminislnnon." he
said, adding that he opposed as
signing a task to one agency and
then giving another a right to
veto.
He said it was obvious there
was a difference of opinion, but
said Ihe coinniillee should he
able In come up with a flexible
proposal that would help answer
the question.
Hatfield said the .and Board
has no legal authority lo consider
spawning when it leases the sand
and gravel beds. The revenue
from the leases goes to the com
mon school fund.
Hatfield asked for a proposal
that would incorporate these
three principles: provide a pro
gram to cover streams over
which the land board has juris
diction, aim at a more compre
hensive law covering public and
private lands, amend the land
board law to give the board au
thority to eonsult the Fish and
Game commissions before grant-,
ing the leases.
Up to
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Judge Frees Idaho City
Of Accident Liability
BOISE, Idaho (AP) U. S
District Judge Fred M. Tavlor
freed the city of Nampa Tuesday
of liability for tr.affic accident in
juries to an Oregon student who
filed suit for S.W.OOO damages.
Ta,vlor took under adv'scment a
motion for a judgnvnt freeing
Ronald Mills of ('.ability also.
Mills was Ihe driver of a car,
owned by William Mills of Kenne
wick, Wash., which was involved
in the accident.
The suit against Mills and Ihe
city of Nampa. Was brought hy
Mellon Dow of Huntington, Ore.
He was a passenger in a car
driven by Fred Dow, also of
Huntington. The accident occurred
during a parade by Northeast
Nazarcne College students.
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