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r ,1: aWKWKfcy'"1' I' " ' """" ""'I Mi Wmmt .. . J-.- - - '.a-. ll i'l 1 'if It T J II V3: Constitutionality Of Portland State Education Committee Conducts Hearings . , Salem U.FD The question of constitutionality of locating an autonomous ;' state college in Portland was raised tcxjay at a hearing before the Senate Edu cation committee, on the so-call ed WUhelm bill which would create an urban institution here. Sen. Rudie Wilhelm Jr., Port land Republican, said the legis- College Questioned , lative counsel which had drawn . his bill had assured him : that recent court rulings on location of the medical and dental schools in Portland seemed to indicate that Portland State college could constitutionally ; be established ' without a vote of the people, There is a constitutional provi- r sion that state institutions must be located in Marion county, ex cept by vote of the people.'"' Full-Fledged Institution - - Wilhelm's bill, one of the two now -before the legislature, would - establish ; the Portland State extension center as a full- fledged, degree-granting institu tion beginning in the fall of 1955. ' f Full support for the bill came at a hearing yesterday from the ' State Board of Higher Educa tion, the Oregon Federation of : Labor, the . Oregon Education ' association, the CIO, and from ; a delegation of Portland State college students. . ' ; Only opposition ; was express ed by F.' Ellis Johnson, a Salem farmer who listed a long record ' of service as an - educator in : midwest colleges. He objected to the expense of what he termed duplication of laboratory and li brary facilities already in exist ence at other state institutions. : Dr. R. E. . Kleinsorge of the . State Board of Higher Education - said it is the board's aim to de- , velop Portland State in an or derly fashion and. as. rapidly as the need is demonstrated. The school, he said, is already badly overcrowded and the board this year, will ask an appropriation for new construction. He said the school meets the . needs of the working student in the Port- land metropolitan' area.-5--- : A considerable number of res ervations have been made for this evening's annual member ship dinner of the Jackson Coun ty Chamber of Commerce, it was reported this morning ; by the chamber office. ' ; Speaker will be Dr. O. Mere dith Wilson, president of the University of Oregon, ' whose topic will be "The, Lengthened Shadow." The dinner will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Pioneer room of the Jackson hotel with -Jimmy Dun levy as master of ceremonies. In vocation will be given by Father Nicholas Dies. Guests from other communities will be introduced, as will 1954 committee chairmen and outgoing board members. Greensprings, Lake Highway Plans Rejected ) Portland (U.R The State Highway - Commission ..today turned down a plan for improv ing . the z Greensprings highway and Lake oV. Woods highway, ,r. both In Jackson and;. Klamath counties. The commission said cost of the projects were too high. ManyRese New Mystery Alan Contest Starts; Woman1 Identified ! A fourth Mystery Man in the March of Dimes contest was an nounced today after Edward Young, route 2, lord, correctly box 519, Med identified the . NEW MYSTERY M f ?;;Prisea ih PoU Contest; third mysterious person ai Bert PreS Medford women's apparel SHew Mystery Han was bom in Slif ofnia in 1904. He E2?m? aBeaver in 1941 and ISTto the Rogue valley xn 3?8. He taafettfr- A due tato i OTTO EWALDSEN Earns Award From Jaycees Otto A. Evaldsen Named for Award By Local Jaycees Otto A. Ewaldsen has been named as ; winner of the dis tinguished service award of the Medford Junior . Chamber of Commerce for 1954, it was an nounced today. . Ewaldsen, manager of Swem's, was chosen by a panel of judges from a Jist of nominations sub mitted earlier. The award is for men between the ages of-21 and 35 who ' have contributed ' the most to community welfare and civic enterprise during the year. Last year's award winner was Attorney . John Dellenback. Activities Listed Ewaldsen, 34, is a member of the school board of District 49; is a director of the Jackson County' Chamber of Commerce; belongs to the board of the Jackson- county Red Cross chapter; holds the rank of major in the Army active reserve, and has been active in the Lions club, Retail Merchants association, the Lutheran church and Rotary club, of which he is vice-presi dent.; " ''l"-2 A- T-r- "v- r4 . He. will, be honored ata. no- host banquet Feb. 8, in the Pio neer room of the Jackson hotel, at which past award winners will : be ; introduced."';. The public is invited. ' T-' :":': Came Her in. 1942 ? V "'--''- Ewaldsen lias been a resident of. Medford since 1943, when he was " stationed ' at Camp White with the Army. He returned here in the fall of 1945 to make his home. He is a native of Syra cuse, N.Y. V'- :-' . ' -' . Mr. and "Mrs. Ewaldsen make their home at 20 Ross court, and are the -parents : of two sons; Eric, 11 and Hans. 8,' an " a daughter, Karen', 4. r :" Mrs.- Ewaldsen is the former Miss-Phoebe Swem of Medford. They were married 12 years ago this month... V " : . ns ; The Medford post office sub station located in the Trade Fair (Pennywise) Drug store, 323 East Main st., reopened - yesterday, according to Postmaster Moore Hamilton. - - " The substation, had been closed since Jan. .7 when a fire damaged a stock room at .the drug store.' All post office ma terials were removed without damage and there was no fire damage in the postal area. ,; . ; The; drug store's fountain was reopened today, but it was un known when the drug depart ment would be reopened. x identity is "Some officials con ceal, evidence. A prize witn a value of at least $25 .starts the contest and a new prize and an other clue will, be added' each day .that he is unidentified. In order to enter the contest, persons are; asked to write their name,- address vand . telephone number to March of Dimes Mys tery Man Contest, PO Box 531; Medford. A contribution to the March of Dimes may be included. A name will be drawn each day and a call made over one of the valley radio stations or telephone station." Tonight's call comes from station KBES-TV at . 7:30 p.m. and Wednesday's call comes from station KBOY at 4:45 pan. Persons entering1 .the contest are reminded that writing the mystery person's name on their entry blank does ,not -qualify them for the prizes, committee men said. Sending their ' name, address and telephone number only qualifies them to be called if their name is drawn,' it was stated. A coupon for the conven ience,' of those desiring to enter appears on page nine Those desiring to contribute prizes for the contest are asked to telephone John Duffy at Med- Massachusetts Prison Convicts Seize Five Guards Mass Escape Attempt Seen by Authorities Boston (U.R) Ten of ; 22 convicts who revolted and seised five guards as hostag es at Massachusetts State Pris on today surrendered nearly eight hours later. J At least 12 convicts were ' believed still holding out. These prisoners included four . ringleaders who spurned a chaplain's appeal to surrender without bloodshed.. Boston (U.R) Twenty two nardened convicts seized - five guards in Massachusetts State Prison today in an apparent mass escape attempt from the 152-year-old institution's solitary confinement block. - Scores of state troopers, - arm ed with not guns, rifles and tear gas, rushed to the high-walied prison and nreoared to storm the punishment section. City police massed outside , the prison. Guards Identified The seized guards were iden tified as Warren L. Harrisone- ton, Thomas M. Mulkern, Bos- ron; Joseph E. Ryan, Girard V. Kadlec and Eugene Wills. Warden John J. O'Brien said he believed some of the convicts had weapons, nossiblv suns and crude knives fashioned in ' the prison workshops, v The warden said the convicts "were hollering back and forth but he said no ultimatum was received from them. Escape Plan Believed '; ' "I believe they were planning to escape when the guards dis covered it," he said. He said there were 22 convicts in the Cherry Hill section, an area of ceils reserved -for incorrigible prisoners. t; : - O'Brien said one of the riot ringleaders was Theodore (Teddy) Green, notorious bank robber and escape artist. " v Lattimore Perjury s Washington .UJJ Federal Judge Luther W, Youngdahl o-. day, for, tne second time,' tossed out the government s main per jury charges against Owen Lat timore. ; Youngdahl labeled two main charges against the Far Eastern expert - as "formless and ob cure." He. said that : for Latti more to go to trial on such counts "would be unprecedented and would make a sham of the Sixth Amendment and the fed eral rule requiring : specificity of charges. ' : The two key counts in the gov ernment's . seven-count , perjury indictment are that Lattimore lied when he told Senate inves tigators in 1952 that he was not a follower of the Communist line or a promoter of Commun ist interests. " '-: a When. Youngdahl dismissed the key count in the first indict ment, U.S. - Arty Leo A.'- Roves accused him of bias in favor of Lattimore and asked him to disqualify himself from presid ing at Lattimore's trial.' ; ,. . Youngdahl indignantly re- fused,a and termed Rover's re quest "scandalous.?. V- ; ; ' 'Calm' Reported in Costa Rica Revolt ? San Jose, Costa Ricar-U.PJ The government reported "com plete calm" throughout Costa Rica early today, and it ap peared the arrival of four out dated , U.S. fighter planes had broken the back of an eight-day revolt. . . Two American-buit AT-6 train ers two-thirds of the . known rebel "air force' fled to Nica ragua and were interned there Monday, shortly after the F-51 fighters landed in San Jose., The only rebel plane hot accounted for is a .U.S.-built F-47 fighter. Another blow to the rebel cuse was the reported death; of Capt.' Teodoro Picado Jr., West Point-trained son of an ousted ex-president; Picado was the re puted ' leader . of the insurgent army. . . . ' - U : Motorists : were going over the Siskiyou mountain pass' this afternoon, state pilice re ported. However, chains are required for travel over the Greensprings route, across Oregon mountain on the Red wood highway, and in the Dunsmuir area, where the highway, closed earlier by snow, has been reopened. Highway 99 to the north was dear. . Chains were either required or 1 advised on - most other mountain routes in Oxagon. Charge Dismissed ; United Pr Full Lewd Wire A -j. : "y '' VjSyX: . . 49th Year 14 Pages - , MEDFORD, OREGON TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1955 nn 51." d IIUo 0 Attempts Cannot Go On Forever, ; Dulles Declares ; Hammarskjold To Give Report on Mission Washington " (U.R) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said today that if United Nations ef forts fail to free American air men imprisoned by Red China the United States will deal with" the matter itself. - Dulles made the statement in disclosing at . a news' conference that he will meet here tomorrow with Dag Hammarskjold, U. N secretary -general, and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.', U. S. ambassa dor to the United Nations for first-hand report on Hammars- kjold's recent mission in Peiping in an effort to get the Ameri cans out of jail. - , , Dulles described the imprison ment of the U. S. airmen as in defensible and said he does not believe the United; States v can let the JU. N attempts to free them go on forever. -' - f He did not indicate how; long this country would ;wait before it took matters into its:; own hands. Nor did he hint how this government would deal with' the situation in that case. Aside from the military- pris oners,. Dulles said the United States would take ; independent action to " obtain;, the' Release of two-Americah civilians nbse cases were not being taken, up the the United Nations. : ' . The two civilians are John' T. Downey of New Britain, Conn., and Richard G. Fecteau of Lynn, Mass., both of whom received jail terms. ; Dulles said the United States intends to get out all imprisoned American civilians in Red China. Dulles also told a news con ference it is premature: to pass final judgment at this stage on whether , the UJJ. secretary-gen eral's free the fliers mission to Red China was a success or fail ure. . y ' " Higher Letter Mail Rates May Be Asked Washington U.R) The ad ministration is expected to ask Congress ' for a penny boost in the price of mailing local letters as well as those sent out of town, it was learned today. - The charge for both local and out of town letters now is the same, three cents for the first ounce.' The administration . in 1953, and 1954. proposed a four cent charge for out of town let ters .which,..: with, increases in second class,' third class and air mail routes, would bring . in around $250,000,000 a year. . In his budget message yester day. President Eisenhower call ed for an increase of about $400,- 000,000 a year in mail rates, but gave no details on how the extra money would be raised, r ; A four-cent charge on local letters could make up the dif ference. Pedestrian, Complains; Driver Fined by Judge A driver was fined $10 in mu nicipal court this morning after oleadine ' guilty -to", failure to yield -Tight of way to a pedes trian,' according to court records. Mrs. Lois F. Badley, 2209 East Main st..' who was cited into court by a complaint signed by the pedestrian, told the judge that ! she didn't rememoer ine incident and ' hadn't : seen the pedestrian. . The complaint was signed Dy Mary K. Preston, 940 Winches ter ave., who said that the Bad ley; vehicle entered her cross walk at the intersection of Sixth st. and Central ave. while she had a "walk" light, police re ported. . .v- TJ ; ! .- . f- Tonight's Council i -1 Session Said Routine" "v: T?nutin husiness will be otr the agenda of tonight's Medfo city council meeung at; 7:3. o'clock hi the city halL' aecoroV,, ing to the city manager's office Bids for , supplymg . the v r x i with gasoline for the year. wl ft be presented to the coiuu-L Iff PJ lllla;lo! -ra II frVl II. fri1C Odllb U IUI ISJtSIS, sa;1 fl-iA I f I II 11 FLAMES HIT CENTRAL POINT.MILL-The sawmill of the Continental Lumber . Co. near;,' . ' pond is; in: the. . wemrai . reui: t was : aaiuageu Monday Morning, with an estinukted- $25Q, loss. The. picture above,; taken Washington 'U.R Oregon's two senators today .opposed ; in eluding their area in the admin istrations "partnership policy for development of power , re sources. Other, sections . of . President Eisenhower's plans for resources development drew, criticism from a , Democratic congress man. But an influential . House Republican- defended resource sections in the budget delivered to Congress yesterday. ; . -Morse Sees Inadequacy .. Sen. Wayne Morse (Ind.-Ore.) said' the budget1 is woefully in adequate to the urgent needs of the Pacific Northwest." He said the" "administration has - failed "once again"' to recommend a major dam in the Pacific North west "where hydroelectric pow er is so badly needed;" ;" ' He criticized a. proposal to allow money for joint-construc tion of ' two" Oregon dams by local public or, private interests.' Storm Winds Rap Portland and Eugene i. By UNITED PRESS '. .Storm. winds that reached 104 miles per hour yesterday after noon and grounded a Japanese freighter on; the northern Cali fornia coast off Eureka: reached Portland last night; greatly (dim- inisned in strength. " ;: " . The, weather bureau at Port land said the . winds; had . weak? ened .considerably" after moving inland, and to the north; , "V . " Eugene reported gusts of wind tip to 46 miles per hour, while ortland had 40 MPH gusts last night." , - . At Vancouver, Wash., winds dropped a tree, limb across two 12,000?volt lines and caused a 45-minute power outage over a widej area..-. '.;;.;, ' I The weather bureau predicted snow in Oregon's mountain areas today;- and - general' showers throughout the rest of the state. FORECAST: Jpr t ly ,ctoady i - throath Wednesday. Lo w J to " ,BlfM 25;:hlsh'Weatday 42., t. - "" ' . Temp. Hljhet YMterdajr ' ": : '- 4C .-west this Morning 28 T. to 4:39 a.m. Today, Trace JiL. Oregon Solons Say Morthves's Needs Inadeq uate in Ike's BudgeC' United mi mmmmm m . uy .- w " c eu ly lourin major , at the height"' ; " .'; l:" v The ' projects, Green Peter 'and Cougar, were; approved by the Em Mmm last Congress- as federal proj-J project was in the budget. ects while "bills for partnership i "They didn't put in r development failed, ? he said, He - also compiamed that a $500,000 planning fund suggest ed for ' J ohn - Day -Dam on the Columbia river is "inadequate He : said it : was "unfortunate" that ' no funds " were requested for the Talent project in Ore gon. :"J"' ;;.:; However;.. Rep. . Ben Jensen (R-Ia.), chairman last session of the - House Appropriations Sub committee handling reclamation funds; said the : President's : op- inst an Paris U.R) Britain lined up with West Germany and Hol land today in a. move that prac tically . doomed : a . bold French plan . to put the proposed .Euro pean arms pool under a single agency.- - r:; j . ; - A weak compromise : on the French -( plan began ; to f emerge, however, s before -Frances, part ners officially went to work on demolishing the single - agency idea.v i;;?). w4il ' lniormedi sources ' said some sort pf arms pool definitely will grow out of a seven-nation7 con ference being held here, t . ;: "U These sources said -Germany, Britain, and Holland would turn down the ; French' ' plan J at the meeting : today -: with - German Economics v Minister " Ludwig Erhard outlining his country's official view. ; .- v-s ,-v:.f Gale-Force Winds Gale force , s winds :were :; re corded in the valley yesterday. ". The-, weather bureau . at . the airport measured1 the winds in the 30 mile per hour category, with guests ranging up to 55 miles per hour. The force," ac cording to - official designation, would be between "gale" and "whole gale" velocity. Hurri cane force winds are over 72 MPH. Some damage was reported to the weather bureau. One roof in the Coker , butte-Roxy Ann area was reported .blown off, and other wind damage, mostly tminor, was reported.- ----- , 1RIBUNE Prei FuU Leaed Wire Price 5c No. 259 $Mm of the. fire, -shows the mill' in flames. The log foreground.' The fire was the mm lire in iu:KSoa coumy in - "';! (Photb by Ernest Piercy) ponents -are "quite unfair"- in J complaining' that no new major many ,newi starts when they were in power," he said. : . . . . Sen. Richard L.' Neuberger (D-Ore.) said, federal assistance in the., budget ' for new hydroelectric- plants; , "is tied specifi cally to the discredited partner ship scheme." He also criticized the fact that ho money, was put in the budget for deepening the ship channel over the Columbia river bar. DOW-JONES AVERAGES, ; New -York (U.R) Dow-Jones final stock average: 30 indus trials 390.98 up 2.78; 20 rail roads 139.06 up 1.22; 15-utilities 62.09 up 0.03; and 65 stocks 145.33 up 0.94. Sales today were about 3,020,000 shares compared to 3,360,000 shares traded yes terday. - ; - i. V, ' " yj. 'y 'y :.; , 9 JVlen Appear In Court on Nine men appeared in. circuit court before Judge Orval Mil; lard this ' morning ,on : felony charges. '; :;,.v 'Kf; : y . Frederick Joseph Nettekoyen, 48, a : transient, ' was sentenced to three years in the state prison on a charge of larceny of a gum machine and a candy machine from Kogap. ' Luther Clayton Baker, 57, a transient, was sentenced : tti 90 days in the county jail on a charge of malicious destruction of personal property.. The charge involved the vending machines stolen by Nettekoven. Admit School 3urglary , Donald Lee Biggers, 19, ; St Helens, and 4 Oscar - Freeman Stallsworth Jr., 20, route 4, box 250, Grants Pass,; were arraign ed and pleaded ; guilty to a charge that they ; were . involved in af; burglary several months ago ?at Rogue - River grade schooL The cases were continued for sentencing and Stallsworth's cash bail was continued at $500. Steve s Gamelial ? Rosier, 31, Reedsport, was arraigned and pleaded : guilty to a non-support charge." Judge Millard suspend ed passage of sentence for two years on the condition that Ros ier provide $35 a month support for his minor son. ' James C. Brown, 49, of 24 North Orange ft, Medford, was i ong. Hold Conferences On Grave Situation Nationalist Defenders . . . . m j Give Up, Radio Claims . Taipeh, Formosa- (U.R) Red China today hurled an amphibi ous invasion force against the small Nationalist outpost island of Yikiangshan, in the Tachen group, and Communist Peiping - radio claimed the Nationalist defenders have' surrendered. . -The Red radio said the barren, rocky island fortress, 20 miles off the China mainland, fell to the invaders at 11 p.m. (PSD a few"- - hours after . Communist landing craft hit its beaches. Reports received in Taipeh be fore' . the Communist broadcast was -heard indicated thai the lightly , defended : island had fallen. ' . . Generalissimo C hiang Kai shek's high - military 1 command met in a hurried, secret confer ence to discuss the grave situa tion created! by the invasion. Eisenhower Conference If the Red claims of capture of Yikiangshan prove correct, it would mark the, first successful Communist Chinese invasion of any of the string of Nationalist- held : offshore islands i whfch formthe . outer defenses of Chiang's Formosa fortress. In Washington, president Eis enhower briefed Republican congressional leaders on the sit uation created by the invasion thrust. , . : .. Senate Republican ; Leader William F. Knowland of Califor nia refused to tell reporters whether the President expressed concern "over the new - develop ment in the tense East Asian -area! . - : -: Military observers in Tokyo speculated that the Red invasion might prove : the first round in a battle for control of the stra tegic Tachen island group 200 miles north of Formosa. ' Test for Fleet ' 'V : u ; . Other i sources . believed ' the Chinese maneuver was ,intended -more as a test of the intentions : of the 5J3r Seventh fleet in that area : than - a ' serious -effort by Red-China to seize valuable ter ritory., y ; ; Yikiangshan 4 had been ' used by Chiang's forces as a forward position from which Nationalist troops in the Tachens carried out nuisance . raids against the coastal area of Chekiang prov ince. The island also served as a base for Chiang's naval units in their raids on shipping in the Formosan Straits. : A large American detachment is based on Tachen island, main island of the Tachen group, lo cated just 12 miles south of Yi kiangshan. . There ;; were no Americans on Yikiangshan is land, U.S. sources said. ; - . Old Grenade Found; -Police Aid Asked Medford city police yester day were - requested to assist in - removing . a hand- grenade from a cabinet during a house wrecking project at 322 East 12th sL , - ' ; : : The grenade's pin was found removed, police said, and it was taken by National Guard personnel, who disposed of it in the Camp' White area. This Alorning 05 given a two-year suspended, sen tence on a charge of concealing stolen" property The charge in volved" a wrench taken from Rogue Service and Supply com pany. V Siir v: vZA :--;-: ! . Aaron Trances Gentry, 25, of 42 Vi Third st, Ashland, was ar raigned and pleaded guilty to a 'charge "of contributing to the delinquency of a minor boy by giving him whiskey Judge Mil lard suspended, passage of sen tence for one year. l . Lawrence Eades, 56, Sawyers Bar, Calif was arraigned on a charge of altering, a $5- check. He waived counsel and is to en ter a plea to the charge Wednes day. . : -Case Continued t ' t Fred Warden, 31, of route 1, box 350K, Medford, charged with manslaughter, in the hunt ing accident death of Philip Ste phen Minear, 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Minear, route 1, box , 331, appeared in court and his case was continued indefinitely. " Warden's case was continued because of the illness of Circuit Judge HI K. Hanna, who will hear a plea from the defendant. Judge Hanna is in Sacred Heart hospital receiving treatment for a kidney infection. His condition was reported this laornin as : improved. ; - - - - j ' -y - - Felony Charg ?9K
