TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Tuesday. March 1, 1955
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Rescuers Battle
Avalanche Country
To Reach Stranded
By UNITED PRESS
The fading winter kept 200
skiers marooned in snowbound
Utah Mountains today and sent
death-dealing weather into the
East.
The skiers, trapped high in
the Wasatch Range by the Far
West's worst blizzard of the
year, faced no immediate dan
ger. Forest Rangers fired howit
zers at towering drifts in an at
tempt to rescue them.
In the Calfornia High Sierra,
however, a rescue team fought
through "avalanche country"
trying to reach a young man
and woman who were spotted
chest deep in snow.
Snow Lashes Idaho
A new threat was posed in
the West as a fresh storm roll
ed out of the North Pacific to
wards Cent: al California. Wind
whipped snow lashed Idaho and
there was up to 10 inches of new
snow today in the Colorado
Mountains.
Utah's 200 marooned skiers
found comfortable refuge in
four lodges in the Alta area, but
the road to the lodge was block
ed and rotary plows could chew
their way through only four of
five miles of drifts Monday.
One of the snowbound 200,
publisher Robert S. Howard of
the Pocatello (Idaho) State Jour
nal, said "Most guests are de
lighted with the enormous
snowfall and ideal skiing condi
ditions they're enjoying it to
the hilt."
Young Skiers Snowbound
Elsewhere in the Wasatch
range, rotary snow plows broke
through to free 75 skiers ma
rooned in the Brighton area.
But in California, officials
were fearful for the two skiers
lost , 60 miles northwest of
Bishop in the High Sierra.
The skiers were identified as
Frank Dunn, 21, of Sunland,
Calf., and Janice Off, 24, Los
Angeles, Calif.
The new western storm,
meanwhile, threatened to bring
rain as far south as San Fran
cisco and Sacramento, Calif.
Flood waters had already forced
evacuation of 10 families from
a labor camp near Fresno, Calif.
Floods in West Virginia
Far worse floods plagued West
Virginia, where rains which be
gan Saturday night,- sent the
Guyon, Tug and other streams
Man Leaves Homes To
'Education of People
Boston (U.R) Author Charles
Hammond Gibson, who died
last Nov. 17, directed in his will
that his Beacon Street home and
the estate, "Forty Steps," at
Nahant and their contents he left
intact as "complete examples of
the period from 1859 to 1900."
The 79-year-old writer said
he wanted his homes to become
museums "for the education of
the people."
Medford Squadron
Of CAP Wins 2nd
Membership Prize
The Medford squadron of the
Civil Air patrol has won sec
ond prize in the 1955 Oregon
wing membership contest, it was
announced today.
The squadron received a check
for $15 from Col. Kenneth S.
Jordan, Oregon wing com
mander, who commended the
unit highly on the building as
well as the increase in member
ship through the efforts of the
senior members in the organiza
tion. Based On Nmbers
The contest was based on the
number of new senior members
joining CAP as well as the num
ber of old members renewing
from Texas to Korea. Members
of CAP may continue their mem
bership even though they are
in the military service.
Senior member Robert E.
Wright, who renewed his 1955
membership from Korea, is now
home on leave, and senior mem
ber Albert Eaton is now in mili
tary service in Texas.
Competition between the 24
CAP units in Oregon was stiff,
with the only other winners in
the contest being in the Port
land area. First prize was won
by Portland Squadron 3, third
prize was won by Portland
Squadron 2, and fourth prize
was won by the Vancouver
squadron.
over their banks.
National Guard troops evacu
ated 100 families from low-lying
areas around Logan. Williamson
was all but isolated by flood
waters. The waters blocked' traf
fic between Bluefield and
Princeton and several schools
were closed in Mercer and
Yyoming counties.
Oxnam's Part in
Matusow Case
Sought by Solon
Washington (U.R) Sen.
James O. Eastland said today he
wants to check into Methodist
Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam's
connection with the case of turn
about witness Harvey Hatusow.
Eastland (D-Miss.) summoned
Matusow for another day of
questioning by the Senate In
ternal Security Subcommittee
about his claim that he lied under
oath in accusing persons as Com
munists. Complete Picture
Eastland promised newsmen
that when his group gets through
with Matusow, "You'll have a
complete picture of his motives,
reasons, who's using him and
why."
Eastland said he wants to ex
plore any link between Oxnam
and the publishers of Matusow's
forthcoming book.
The publishers, Angus Cam
eron and Albert E. Kahn, are
scheduled to testify in public
later. They jhave already ap
peared in closed-door hearings.
Eastland said both invoked the
Fifth Amendment on questions
of Communism.
Want Facts
Eastland said the subcommit
tee had no plans to call Oxnam,
the battling bishop who tangled
last year with members of the
House Un-American Activities
Committee.
But he told newsmen: "We
want the facts on who contacted
Cameron and Kahn. That's a
matter the record should show."
Matusow testified last week
that he told Oxnam and the
bishop told the press that he
gave false testimony and was
looking for a publisher for a
book about it. Matusow said it
was sometime after this he got
an offer from Cameron and
Kahn.
'Liar' Charge Shouted
Eastland said the subcommit
tee set no date for hearing Eliz
abeth Bentley, ex-Communist
who Matusow charged in a
stormy session was a "liar" and
"unstable."
Matusow also shouted the
charge of "liar" at ex-Commu-nists
Paul Crouch and Manning
Johnson. But he admitted under
questioning that he could name
no specific case in which any of
the trio gave false testimony.
Mother Killed; Homes Damaged
By Tornado in Youngstown, O.
Youngstown, O. (U.R) A
baby twister cut a 100-foot wide
path through three city blocks
in an East Side residential dis
trict this morning, killng a 34-year-old
mother, hospitalizing
nine others, and causing damage
estimated at more than $125,000.
The body of Betty Fallat, mo-
Army Exercise
To Begin Sunday
Los Angeles (U.R) Major
amphibious exercises by Army
and Navy task forces will be
conducted on the West Coast
beginning next Sunday, the
joint services announced today.
Dubbed "Operation Surf
board" the exercises will include
heavy pre-assault ship and air
bombardments and defenses
against electronic and nuclear
weapons.
The operation will start Sun
day with combat loading of the
6000-man Regimental Combat
team at Point Solo, Fort Lewis,
Wash., which is to be considered
advance base at sea for purposes
of the exercise.
Units will move south to Cor
onado, Calif., with aircraft car
riers and submarines guarding
the fleet. After a rehearsal at
Coronado March 18, the fleet
will sail to San Clemente island
for practice bombardment of an
"enemy beach" set for March 19.
An assault landing is planned
on the beach at San Simeon bay
March 21.
Stale Police Officer
Promoted to Sergeant
Russell H. Brendle, 3595
Table Rock rd., a member of
the Medford detachment of the
Oregon State Police, has been
promoted to sergeant effective
today, according to Capt. Paul
Parson, commanding officer of
the district.
Sergeant Brendle has been
with the office here for. about
12 years. He was promoted to
take over the duties of Sgt.
Bruce G. Lattin, who has been
assigned to the Klamath Falls
office as an assistant to Sgt. E.
W. Tichenor, in charge there.
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found next to her. demolished
home. Four others were leveled
and 12 others were ripped from
their foundations.
Homes Part of Project
All the homes were part of
a four-year-old housing project
and were valued at between
$8,000 and $10,000.
The twister came at the
height of a violent electrical
storm that ripped through Ohio.
The Ohio Highway Patrol re
ported that a lake near Olive
Branch, O., in southwestern
Clermont county, which touch
es Kentucky, was threatening to
break through a dam.
The patrol said the dam was
moved from its original base
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fortified by recent heavy rain
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