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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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