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-.5 '"!' (0) rail lis raw : Medford united freu Full Leased Wire 50th Year 24 Pages yirek Yougster Wanders To Ranger Station In Siskiyou County 15-Mile Circle Believed Completed Yreka, Calif. tOJ.K Seven--vear-old Bobby Davenport, who disappeared in a wilderness area three days ago, walked into a ranger station today, hungry, footsore, but otherwise all right. The Siskiyou County sheriff's office called off a 50-man posse which was searching the primi tive Marble Mountain area about 70 miles southwest of here. Sheriff's deputies reported the youngster wandered into the ranger station at Oak Bottom at 8:15 a.m. (PST) seven miles from the point where he was last seen. The child had been on a fishinp trin with his family and had disappeared when he left the group to look for his hat. Completed 15-Mile Circle Deputies guessed the child had completed a 15-mile circle around the Somes Bar area. They said it was rugged terrain with many cliffs and other haz ardous obstacles. Bobby told the ranger that he had been walking for three days. He said he had heard the blood- hounds that had been used in a "futile attempt to track him yes . terday, but that he could not find his way to their help. Mother at Station The child's relieved mother, Mrs. Harris Fuller of Eureka was staying at the ranger sta tion, when her son walked in. The ranger station reported the boy apoarently suffered no ill effects from his three days In the woods, except that he was very hungry when he appeared and complained of sore legs. At the end of yesterday's search, sheriff's deputies gave up hope of finding the child alive. Festival Story Told In Cards for Mailing A hrief history of the Oregon Shakespearean festival ana a schedule of this year's plays have been printed on small cards and will be enclosed in out-of-town mail by merchants in Medford and Ashland again this year. In addition. Grants Pass, Klamath Falls, and Central Point business places will use hp enclosures, according to Bert Pree, who started the practice in Medford last year. The cards are being distribut ed in Medford this week by Boy smuts and the Chamber of Com merce. Business people who use them are asked to enclose mem only in mail outside the valley. The cards point out that the southern Oregon event is cele brating its 20th year this August, and is by far the oldest Shake speare festival in America. Weather FORECAST: Partly cloudy through Friday. Mild temper atures. Low tonifht 43. High Friday 7S. Temp. Highest Yesterday 69 Lowest this Morning 40 Ford Proposal Clears Way For Peaceful Settlement Detroit (U.R) Ford Motor company has cleared the way for a possible peaceful settlement of the company-wide strike by the CIO United Auto Work ers by agreeing to the principle of paying workers during per iods of layoffs, it was learned today. Union sources said the new Ford offer, made to the union Tuesday, called for a $55,000,000 "job security" program to be set up by the company over a three-year period. Short of Union Demand The fund would be used for payments to workers who had exhausted their unemployment compensation benefits. The company offer, while still far short of the union's demand for a guaranteed annual wage, was the first break in a solid MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1955 Child! 240 Hew Polio Cases Listed in Past Week; Salk Shots Released Washington (U.R) The Public Health Service said today that 240 new cases of polio were reported in the nation during the week ended May 28. It said this was slightly less than the 247 cases reported in the previous week, but it was also the highest number of cases reported for that particular week of May in any of the last five years. The median figure for the last week in May since 1950 has been 144 cases. Total Under Last Year Total polio cases since Jan. 1 stand at 2290 campared to 2686 last year. For the "dis ease year" starting April 1, this year's toll has been 1226 com pared to 133 last year. The figures were announced as the lagging polio vaccina tion program moved toward full resumption with the govern ment's release of 200,000 Salk shots for immediate use. These shots were made by Pitman Moore and Wyeth laboratories. They were approved by the gov ernment once before but later held up for rechecking. The Health Service said that the 1226 polio cases recorded since April 1 included 80 per sons who had received Salk Vaccine, 41 "family associates" Body of Kalamazoo Youngster Sex Fiend Wanted Kalamazoo, Mich. (U.R) A state pathologist who conducted an autopsy on the body of Jeanie Singleton said today the crippled little girl died at the hands of a "sadistic sex fiend." "The brutality of the attack showed it was the work of a sa distic sex fiend who obtained sensual pleasure not only from the sexual attack but from domi nating and hurting his victim," said Dr. Charles Black. The eight-year-old girl's mutil ated body was found late yester day about 15 miles north of her home. She had been sought since Tulelake Graduate Drowns in Aulo Wreck Tulelake, Calif.-U.R) Alice Loretta Pitts, 18-year-old Tule lake girl who received her high school diploma last night, drown ed early today when her car overturned in about two feet of water between here and Dor ris, Calif., the sheriff's office re ported. The girl still had on her grad uation dress when her body was taken from the car. Siskiyou County Deputy Sheriff F. A. Dobson said the girl, who was traveling alone, apparently lost control of the car and it over turned and came to rest upside down. He said she was on her way to Dorris to pick up a f rienci. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Pitts, Tulelake. industry front against the prin ciple of setting up any payments for auto workers beyond those they receive from unemploy ment compensation programs. CIO President Walter Reutfr er, who also heads the huge auto workers union, flatly had said he wouldn't sign a new contract that didn't provide financial help for workers during the sea sonal lay offs which often plague the automobile industry. Reuiher's Feelings Unknown Reuther's feelings on the new .offer or whether he considered it a possible basis for settlement could not be learned. But he offered twice this week to re duce the union guaranteed an nual wage demand. The union has said definitely a strike will start Monday un less agreement Is reached. ;i. united Pr Fouinid of vaccinated children, and 10 persons who "had some degree of prior contact with a vaccinat ed child." The report also disclosed new data on the incidence of polio among children innoculated with vaccine from the Cutter labora tories in California. Among 309,000 children who received Cutter vaccine, it said, 33 polio cases were reported be tween April 16 and May 7 com pared to the two cases which might have been expected, on the basis of statistical averages, in this group. Same as Expectation Since May 7, however, the report said that the number of polio cases in the Cutter-vaccinated group "have been the same" as the normal statistical expecta tion. The Health Service said that all sections of the country have had a greater incidence of polio since April 1 than they had dur ing the comparable period of last year. The Public. Health Service said the flow of vaccine will pick up quickly from now on. It ex pects enough shots in the next 30 days to take care of all first and second grade children. (See Story on Page 16) Located; she vanished while walking home form school May 23. Police said there was a chance Jeanie had been raped and slain by the same person responsible for the sex-slaying of Barbara Gaca in Detroit. The seven-vear- old Detroit girl's body was found in a dumD last March about a week after she disappeared while walking to school. Black, who conducted an au topsy last night, released his re port in Lansing today. He said he also had consulted the doctor who had performed a post mor tem on the Gaca girl and found "several similarities" in the two cases. "Both girls were molested by a sex fiend," Black said. "Both had been strangled. However, the Gaca girl had been stabbed while Jeanie was not." Strangled by Strong Person Black said bruises on the bodies of the girls indicated they both had been strangled by someone 01 iar superior strength." Detroit police who investi gated the Gaca case already were in Kalamazoo to study reports in the Singleton case. State pb- lice Detective Otto Buelow said, "we want to investigate the pos sibility that both girls were slain by he same person." Local police said they had sent out an all-points bulletin on a 1949 or 1950 model, two- tone blue car which was report ed seen frequently in the area where the body was found since Jeanie was first reported missing nearly two weeks ago. Police said the partial autopsy showed the girl had been killed the day she was reported missing and her body apparently had been dumped immediately after death. Deputy Sheriff Hughes Accepts New Position The resignation of Guy Hughes, chief deputy sheriff, was an nounced this morning by Sher iff Howard Gault. The resigna tion became effective today. Hughes, who has been asso ciated with the sheriff's office for the past five years, is resign ing to accept appointment as a state livestock theft investiga tor, Gault said. In his new position, Hughes will serve in Jackson, Josephine Douglas, Coos and Curry coun ties, and will be subject to call to any part of the state. He will be stationed in Medford. .dUNE - full Leased Wire Price 5c No. 63 Cool Heads May Bring Release Of Other Fliers Both Sides Said Making Effort To Retain Calm Washington (U.R) Eleven U. S. airmen still held by Red China may be released soon if cool heads and calm tempers prevail on both sides of the Bamboo Curtain, diplomats said today. They addad that a temperate diplomatic climate also might lead to freeing other Americans held captive by the Chinese Com munists. Both sides, the diplomats said, apear to be making an ef fort to maintain calm. Reds 'More Reasonable' , According to , information available here, Red China's leaders, Hao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai, were "unquestionably more reasonable" in manner when they conferred recently with India's roving ambassador, V. K. Krishna Menon. One diplo mat said there was no "table thumping" and the Reds made no harsh demands on Formosa as they had in the past. The Eisenhower administra tion itself is refusing to use any tough talk about Red China even though the Chinese Com munists still hold at least 52 American citizens. First Step for Negotiations Diplomats familiar with be hind the scenes jockeying also believe the release of the 11 airmen could be regarded along with the freeing of four others Monday as the first step toward U.S. - Red China negotiations on easing Far East ern tensions. Both nations have expressed interest in such talks, but no thing has been done to arrange them as yet. The State Department an nounced Wednesday that low level talks had been held with the Red Chinese on up to 63 prisoners believed still held by the Communists. The meeting took place Monday in Geneva between U.S. Consul General Franklin C. Gowen and Red Chinese diplomat Shin Peng. (See Story on Page 2) Scotland Yard Enters British Rail Strike London j(U.R) Scotland Yard called out its reserves today and asked help from the provinces to keep London's vital lifelines open in Britain's nationwide railroad strike. The Yard alerted the 400-man "first reserve" of volunteer re tired officers for immediate traf fic duty as Britons took to the roads instead of the rails in the snowballing crisis. Tt alsn asked for police rein forcements from outside London so that officers who have been working 12-hour shifts can be given longer rests. Simultaneously, organized la bor pressed peace moves in a race , against mounting unem ployment and growing economic losses threatened by the five-day-old walkout of 70,000 rail road engineers and firemen in a demand for premium" pay. Officer Gets Goat, Goat Gets Officer State police got somebody's goat and vice versa this morning. Now they want to give it back as soon as pos sible. The Medford slate police of fice still hasn't received all the details, but it all started with a report that a billy goat was chasing a woman around the yard at Daley's motel, south of Ashland. An officer was sent to in vestigate. He unsuccessfully tried lo find the owner, and ended up with the goat chas ing him. That was the last re port received by the Medford office. The chase may still be going on. Be this as it may, state po lice have a massage for the owner. "Come get your goat quick. THEN AND NOW Fifty-nine years of Med ford High school graduations are symbolized in the photograph above, which shows the commencement programs for Medford High school for the years 1896 (left) and 1955. The old program is owned by Walter W. Ferguson, Central Point real estate man, who was one of the eight members of the graduating class that year. Tonight, 210 members of the senior class at Medford High school will graduate 62nd Annual High School Graduation Scheduled Tonight The 62nd annual commence ment ceremony for Medford High school will be held at 8 p.m. today in the high school stadium. The graduating class numbers 210 students. Dr. O. Meredith Wilson, pres ident of the University of Ore gon, will give the address. He will be introduced by E. H. Hed rick, superintendent of Medford schools. Many Awards Lester Harris, principal, will announce the long list of awards and scholarships going -to gradu ating seniors in various categor ies, and Mrs. Moore Hamilton, chairman of the school board, will award the diplomas. The invocation and benedic tion will be by the Rev. Kenneth F. Korby, pastor of St. Peter's Lutheran church. Music during the ceremony will include the traditional "Pomp and Circumstance" by the Medford High school band as the processional; a number by the senior singers with a solo by Macy Overstreet, other num bers by the band, and singing of the "Alma Mater" song by the senior class accompanied by the band. The recessional will also be "Pomp and Circumstance." Officers Listed Student body officers this year have been Michael DeVore, president; Kathleen Guiley, vice president; Emily Gannaway, secretary; Suzanne Reichstein, treasurer, and Glenn Peterson, business manager. Senior class officers are Lorin Jacobs, presi dent; Donald Robinson, vice president; Marion Cantrall, sec retary; Donna Shore, treasurer, and Leah Watson, student coun cil representative. Woodbury Company Purchase Announced Portland (U.R) Purchase of the $2,000,000 Woodbury & Co., and its three subsidiaries in Portland, Eugene and Medford by Adsco Northwest Inc., was announced today. Adsco Northwest is a new cor poration subsidiary to Adsco In dustries of North Tbnawanda, N.Y. The purchase was announc ed by Sidney F. Woodbury, founder and board chairman of the Portland - headquartered in dustrial equipment and hardware distribution companies; and John L. McGara, executive vice presi dent of Adsco Industries. The purchase includes the five-story, quarter - block head quarters building here; the Eu gene warehouse and leases on the Medford warehouse and the 165,000 square-foot plate shop at Swan Island here. Portland (U.R) Multnomah county commissioners have au thorized modification in Dlans for the new Morrison street bridge here to provide ground level parking for several hun dred cars beneath the west approaches to the span. ' Portland (U.R) Marty Montana, movie and television cowboy, will be grand marshal of Portland's Rose Festival par ade June 11. 4 !" Six Truckavay Firms Sign Wage For Break in Strike Los Angeles (U.R) Negotia-1 tions between striking AFL Teamsters and the California Trucking association resumed to day on the heels of the first major break in the two-week-old walkout. Six auto truckaway firms, which haul new cars from as sembly plants in Southern Cali fornia, announced last night they had reached agreement with the teamsters and would resume op erations. Most pf Demands Met H. L. Woxberg, head of AFL Teamsters Local 224, said the six firms met most of the union demands, including an immedi ate 10-cent hourly increase with eight cent hikes for each of the next two years. The agreement will permit Chrysler Corporation and Stude-baker-Packard Corporation to reopen their plants here, which were forced to shut down when new cars jammed all available storage space. The break came as most of the 51 teamster locals in the Western states were voting against a 24-cent three year package increase offered by the CTA last week. Federal Concili ation Commissioner John Fen- ton was to, reopen negotiations today with CTA and teamsters representatives. Portland (U.R) Teamster union members in the-Portland area last night rejected employ er offers to bring to an end the Fire District Budget Committeemen To Meet Central Point Central Point Rural Fire Protection district budget committeemen will meet Monday, evening to determine what action is to be taken as the result of defeat of a special tax measure in a Tuesday election. Voters rejected a proposed special tax of $8,629 to defray expenses for establishment, equipment and maintenance of the district and to pay indebted ness. A meeting was called last night but not all budget commit teemen were able to attend. Baseball AMERICAN Baltimore 3 6 1 Cleveland 9 11 0 Rogovin, Johneson (4), Kret low (6), McDonald (7) and Smith; Score and Foiles. NATIONAL Milwaukee 2 t 0 Brooklyn 13 14 0 Buhl, Jolly (8), Vargas (8), Edelman (8) and Crandall; Loes and Campanella. St. Louis 3 11 3 Pittsburgh 12 17 1 Haddix, Lawrence (3), Tie fanauer (5), LaPalme (6), Smith (8) and Sarni; Surkpng and Peterson. Cincinnati 3 6 0 New York 6 9 1 Collum, Klippslein (3), Pod bielan (7) and Burgess; An tonelli and Xatt. 3L in the 62nd annual ceremony. Other members of the 1896 class were Zoa E. Burns, Helen Holtan, L. May Phipps, Floyd M. White, War ren .L. Cameron, Ida H. Weaver and Edith M. White. Ferguson said that as far as he knows he is the only remaining member of the class, the third to graduate. G. A. Gregory was superintendent of schools that year, Knute Jacobs was assistant, and Miss Elva Galloway was high school principal. (Photo by Brainerd) Agreement long-haul trucking strike that is entering its third week. Union officials said the re jection vote was unanimous. Bal loting involved some 1,000 team ster union members and followed votes in other Western states in which 51 other locals also re jected offers. Sen. Lowry Named To Tax Study Job Salem State Sen. Philip B. Lowry, Medford, has been named to the state legislative interim committee to study the state's taxes, it. was announced today by Senate President Elmo Smith. Other members of the com mittee are Senators Rudie Wil helm, Portland; Lee Omart, Sa lem; John Housell, Hood River and Lowell Steen, Pendleton. House members of the group have not yet been named by Speaker E. A. Geary. In making the announcement, Smith said "Senator Lowry was the only freshman member of the taxation committee in the Senate and established himself as one of the. outstanding fresh man legislators of recent years." Lowry was one of the leaders in the losing battle to place a sales tax proposal before the voters of Oregon. Santo, Barbara Graham Pleas Rejected by Court Los Angeles (U.R) The California Supreme Court today denied convicted murderess Barbara Graham's petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The court also denied a stay of ex ecution for Jack Santo and Em mett Perkins. The three are scheduled to 'be executied tomorrow. Portland Area Milk Supply Cut Off Because of Strike Portland (U.R) Major dairies in the Portland area were shut down today as. a re sult of a strike against the May flower Milk Distributors plant, cutting off the city's 318,000 quart per day. milk supply. Members of the Portland Milk Distributors Association said they would handle no more fresh milk. However, Association At torney William Luberskey said hospitals were being checked to determine their Requirements so some plan may be worked out. Schedule Negotiation Fails The strike against Mayflower was called after failure of nego tiations between dairies and the AFL Teamsters Union over schedules of drivers and plant men. Employers took the posi tion that a strike against one was a strike against all and the city-wide shut down resulted. Federal Mediator G torn Plan of Equitable istribulion for Oregon Required Shippers Getting Only 50 PerCent of Needs Portland (U.R) An emer gency order requiring railroads to assure equitable distribution of available box cars was issued late last night by Oregon Public Utilities Commissioner Charles H. Heltzel. At the same time, there were reports that the 1995 version of Western Oregon's annual rail car shortage had grown to the point where shippers were get ting only 50 per cent of the ears they needed and that some saw mills were cutting back produc tion and work shifts as track sidings become glutted with lum ber. To Add Field Inspectors Heltzel announced that several new field inspectors would be added to his staff to check load ing points between Portland, luamath Falls and Ashland. In spectors will particularly affect the Southern Pacific railroad, ne said. In addition to lumber opera tions, grain and seed shippers were also hard pressed by the growing shortage, according to reports in Heltzel's office. Fewer Freigh Cars Heltzel said "the nation has 60,000 fewer freight; cars than a year ago, while shipping de mands have risen to new highs." He added there was little the Southern Pacific or other rail roads in Oregon could do to com bat an acute nationwide short age. An emergency conference was scheduled for June 10 in Eugene for meetings between railroad ers, shippers and Anthony F. Ar- pala, interstate commerce com missioner. Elks Convention Opens in Ashland Ashland An estimated 1,500 Elks were arriving here today for the annual Elks state con- vention, largest ever held in Ashland. Gaily decorated streets and buildings are heralding the event. Ashland Lodge. 944, host to the visiting Elks, is also cele brating its own golden anniver sary. Roland Parks, chairman of the convention committee, has announced a full slate of activi ties for the four-day meeting. Highlighting the convention will be a parade and barbecue Satur day afternoon, a two-day golf tournament at Oak Knoll Coun try club, and a barbecue in which the Elks will be hosts to an expected crowd of nearly 3000. The convention headquar ters will be the Lithia hotel, with the Elks lodge as an aux iliary headquarters. The formal Elks banquet Fri day evening is for exalted rul ers, state association officers, national officers and honored guests. Ex-Sanitarian Working On Mosquito Program Walter Sutherland, former Jackson county sanitarian who is in charge of the county mos quito control program this year, is in Eugene today, in connect tion with the program, accord ing to officials at the county health department. They said Sutherland is ob taining material which will be used to test the county's new spray equipment. The equip ment, which was constructed in the county shops, is scheduled to be placed in operation as soon as tests are completed and spray material is obtained. Walker hurriedly called both sides together yesterday but a conference produced no settle ment. It was recessed subject to call. Walker said the two sides deadlocked on routes and sched ules. . The union wants a voice in making of routes and schedules and management insists such de cisions are its alone. About 500 Workers Idle About 500 workers in the city's milk plants were idled as a result. It is the third major strike now underway in the Portland area. Long - haul truck drivers are out as. a result of an 11 -state dispute and carpenters in the Portland area went on strike for higher wages yester day. Dairies said fresh milk will be diverted into powdered milk. It was estimated farmers would lose about $25,000 a day htfuute of Um sbut down. -:'iV UNIX's--! mil mm ; IB". -y
