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Policeman, Navy Sailor Jailed
For Tro-Yeap-Old Burglary of
$60,080 from Quonset Air, 'Base
Boston U.R A policeman
and Navy tailor wera under
arrest Saturday, charged with
the $60,000 safe burglary at the
Quonset, RX, Naval Air Station
two years ago.
Two others were in custody
charged with receiving, conceal-
Emergency Board OKs
Prison Guards Money
Salem U.f9 The Oregon
State Emergency Board has al
lowed $100,000 for h i r 1 n g of
extra guards at Oregon state
penitentiary.
Will Hire 20 Guards
Warden Clarence T. Gladden
had asked the Board for $143.
028 with which to hire 25 extra
guards to fill security gaps at
the prison. Harry Dorman di
rector of the State Department
of Finance and administration,
said the $100,000 allowed by the
board would be enough to hire
about 20 new guards. Board
members told Gladden he could
appear later to ask for additional
money he considered necessary.
The Board deferred for later
action the matter of a property
bond for ROTC properties at
University of Oregon and Ore
gon State college. It said it
would give the question further
study. The Department of De
fense has ordered ROTC units
at the two schools disbanded
within year unless the state
niit nn bond to cover govern-
ment property used In the two
departments.
Approved Plans
Also annroved were plans for
a one-story and basement ser
vice building for the Finance
Department and Veterans Af
fair Deoartment: central garage
for the state motor pool; and
$37,400 for a pilot program in
the education of mentally re
tarded children.
It authorized the State Depart
ment of Agriculture and the
state health division to survey
ragweed infestation in the state
and to recommend control mea
sures.
Budget for the forest protec
tion and conservation commis
sion was fixed at $20,750.
Aviation Mechanics
Said Needed by Army
A new army specialty, avia
tion mechanics, is now open to
Army enlistees, according to Pfc.
Warren M- Long, local Army and
Air Force recruiter.
The Army needs mechanics
for airplane, helicopter or air
frame work, he said, to meet the
expansion demands of the Army
aviation maintenance program.
Those having one of three
qualifications will be eligible
for such enlistment, Sergeant
Long said. These art possession
of a diploma from a recognized
school in mechanics, a Civil
Aeronatics Administration ' li
cense in one or more of the
specialties, or at least one year's
service in the fields.
Full information is available
in Sergeant Long's office in the
Medf ord post office building.
Fire Causes Loss
Estimated at $1000
A grass fire Friday caused
damage estimated at $1,000
when it spread into a hen house,
woodshed and chicken house
owned by L. F. Rieffenberger,
1810 Orchard Home court, ac
cording to the Medford fire de
partment. The blaze occurred at about
3:30 p.m. and apparently was
started when the grass was ig
nited by sparks from a trash
burner, firemen said.
Two city trucks were sent to
the fire. They were the city's
regular alarm truck, and a
standby truck kept in reserve
for rural fires, according to the
fire department.
back nr U. 8.
Seattle (U.R Warrant Offi
cer ueorge acnroeaer oi s
lem, Ore., arrived here Saturday
aboard the transport Gen. Simon
B. buckner from the Far East.
He was the only Oregonian
among the 1659 returning serv-
icemen.
ing and disposing of stolen
money.
The FBI said a suitcase con
taining about $40,000 and ship
ped from New London, Conn., to
Miami, Fla., shortly after the
Feb. 17, 1951, burglary provided
the clue that led to the multiple
arrests.
Patrolman Arrested
Those in custody were Jack
Nipper, 22, a . Newport News,
Va., motorcycle patrolman; Wil
ton Corry Solcum, 25, a Trifton,
Ga., aviation electrician; his
father Robert J. Slocum, 55, of
Winter Haven, Fla., aviation
electrician, and Zeb Newton
Crews, 38, of West Palm Beach,
Fla.
Federal agents said Nipper
and the younger Slocum com
mitted the burglary while both
were in the Navy and stationed
at Quonset. Slocum, the father
of four children, is still in the
Navy. He was arrested at Quon
set Point, R.I., and arraigned be
fore a U.S. commissioner in Pro
vidence, with bail at $10,000 and
hearing set for Sept. 4. He re
cently had returned home from
duty in Turkey,
Nipper was summoned to the
Newport News Police headquar
ters from motorcycle duty and
was turned over to the FBI
there. He was arraigned before a
U.S. commissioner and bond was
set at $10,000 returnable at
Providence, R.I.
The FBI said the younger
Slocum, a part-time janitor at
the credit union when the rob
bery occurred, admitted rifling
files in the office until he found
the safe's combination.
Agents said the money was di
vided after the burglary and
sent to "personal contacts" in
Florida.
Discharged From Navy
Nipper returned to civilian
status after the burglary and was
hired as a Newport News patrol
man Dec. 5, 1952. According to
police and FBI officers, pre-em
ployment inquiries about Nip
per showed that "everyone'
queried -"spoke very highly of
him.
Newport News Police Chief
William Peach said Nipper
"didn t make any statement ex
cept to deny any knowledge of
it." He said he requested and re-
c e i ved Nipper's resignation,
However, Peach added, if Nip
per was acquitted of the charge
"I certainly feel that I should
take him back as a police officer."
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CAREFUL ATTENTION Is given by Andrei Vlahlnaky (left), chief
Soviet delegate to United Nations, as Semyon K. Tsarapkln, his
deputy. Imparts Information before debate Is resumed on pro
gram for setting up Korean peace parley. (InUnationat)
Cordon Slates Junket1
To Equatorial Jungles
Of Hot Belgian Congo
Br A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Correspondent
Washington The way is now
clear, technically, for a shake-up
in the top echelon of the Bon
neville Power administration.
No changes have yet been
made by Secretary of Interior
Douglas McKay in the region's
power marketing agency, al
though he has acknowledged
that a successor to Administrat
or Paul J. Raver has been under
consideration.
The Civil Service commission
this past week placed Raver's
job and two others at BPA into
what is called "schedule C"
a new civil service category set
up by the Eisenhower adminis
tration to comprise all positions
in government of a policy-determining
character. Anyone
whose position is placed in
"schedule C" can be removed
at any time.
Raver previously had been in
a similar category under the
past administration. But not all
Ike Completes List
Of Appointees to
Special Commision
Denver (U.R) President
Eisenhower Saturday completed
his appointments to a special
commission assigned to improv
ing American international
trade and finance and dispatch
ed one of his chief economic ad
visers to Paris for a brief study
of the European economy.
To Attend Conclave
The summer White House an
nounced that Mr. Eisenhower
was sending Dr. Gabriel Hauge
to Paris next month for confer
ences with the economic com
mittee of the Organization for
European Economic policy, tell
ing the appointees that their
mission was "one of the most vit
al before our country."
The President recently ap
pointed Clarence E. Randall,
chairman of the board of Inland
Steel Corp., as chairman of the
commission. . Saturday's ap
pointees were:
Appointees
. Jesse W. Tapp, a Democrat,
executive vice-president of the
Bank of America at San Fran
cisco; John Jay Whitney, a Re
publican, senior partner of J. H.
Whitney and Co., New York:
David J. McDonald, a Democrat,
president of the United Steel
Workers of America (CIO), Mt.
Lebanon, Pa.; Cola J. Parker,
a Republican, chairman of the
board of the Kimberly-Clark
Corp.; Neenah, Wis.; prof. John
H. Williams, Republican, profes
sor of political economics at
Harvard University; and Lamar
Fleming, Jr., Democrat, presi
dent of Anderson, Clayton and
Co., Houston, Tex. .
FIRE GIVES ALARM
Bow, N. H. U.R)-- A short
circuit -that started a car fire
also gave the alarm. The blaze
started because of the short cir
cuit and started the automobile
horn to blow.
his BPA associates could have
been replaced, for some were
protected by competitive civil
service regulations. .
Now the positions of adminis
trator, his private secretary, and
the BPA executive secretary are
classed as policy-making jobs.
The assistant administrator,
chief engineer and chief counsel
are barred by law from civil ser
vice protection.
All told, McKay has asked
the Civil Service commission to
put 400 jobs in his vast depart
ment in "schedule C" but the
commission has rejected his re
quest on well over half. Only 62
4ostitions have thus far been ap
proved.
When Congress adjourns has
tily in mid-summer, one of the
reasons for the speedy action is
to get away from the terrible
summer heat in the nation's cap
ital. And not a few congression
al junkets abroad offer an at
tractive climatic contrast to
Washington, D.C. Sen. Guy Cor
don for example, might have
gone to' Alaska for hearings on
statehood. But where is he go
ing this week? Africa's Belgian
Congo which straddles the
equator.
Later he may get to the Pac
ific islands under U.S. trustee
ship, whose reputation for balm
iness is more fiction than fact.
By the time Cordon gets back
to Washington, he should be
thankful for the moderate cli
mate on the banks of the Potom
ac, probably enough to keep con
sidering spending another six
years here.
Portland General Electric Co.
has received another blow in its
long fight to build the contro
versial Pelton dam in the De
schutes river, which fishing in
terests backed by the Oregon
State Hydroelectric commission
have opposed.
Because the project has been
licensed by the Federal Power
commission the state ha; taken
an appeal to the federal courts
to block construction. The FPC
license was granted Dec. 21,
1951 and the case is still tied
up in court.
Like many private utilities,
PGE meanwhile got a rapid tax
amortization certificate from the
Office of Defense mobilization
permitting them to write-off
against federal income taxes
$14,469,000 over a five-year per
iod, or 65 per cent of the esti
mated cost of the dam.
But this past week ODM in
formed PGE that it was cancel
ling this tax favor on grounds
the project had not been started.
ODM requires that certified pro
jects get underway within six
months from the time they grant
a tax certificate. The govern
ment had twice given PGE six
months extensions. It denied a
third request for an Extension
last week. '
, Secretary McKay Isn't being
a bit shy about his newly issued
power policy statement. His of
fice is sending a copy to every
member of congress. And just
to make certain, Interior dis
patched three copies to . Sen.
Wayne Morse via special mes
senger.
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