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Churchill Recalls Days as Journalist For London Paper London OJ.R) Sir Win ston Churchill reminisced on his old war correspondent's exper iences today in commemorating the 100th birthday of the Daily Telegraph and Morning Post which served as his springboard to prominence in world affairs. The former British prime min ister, in a letter to the editor, recalled those days of nearly 60 years ago when his journalistic exploits led to a seat in Parlia ment and eventually to a hallow ed place in modern history. Oldest Staff Members "As the oldest surviving mem ber of the Daily Telegraph and Morning Post staff,'' said the 80-year-old statesman, "I'm glad to send my warmest greetings and congratulations to the paper on reaching its century." Churchill was a 23-year-old 2nd lieutenant in the British army when the Daily Telegraph -hired him to cover a native re bellion on India's northwest fron tier. Foreshadowed Destiny The dispatches he authored foreshadowed his destiny as a writer, diplomat and statesman. A civilian by 1899, he was commissioned by the London Morning Post to cover the Boer War in South Africa. Churchill was captured by the Boers, but escaped in one of the great exploits of the war. He came home a hero and immed iately won a seat in Parliament. Later the Daily Telegraph and Morning Post amalgamated. The Gjoa, the tiny sloop in which Capt. Roald Amundsen pioneered the Northwest Pass age, is preserved as a memorial in San Francisco's Golden Gate park. 4 mm c STANDING OVATION Former President Harry Truman receives a standing ovation as he prepares to address delegates at the 10th anniversary session of the UN in San Francisco. Even Russia's V. M, Moiotov (arrow) joins in the applause. Oregon Declared Free of Organized Prostitution Portland (U.R) Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton said in a speech here yesterday that the state was just about free of organized prostitution. Thornton said he had received several complaints of syndicated prostitution which were veri fied when he first took office. He said the clean-up was made possible by the education of pub lic officials who formerly held mistaken ideas about organized vice. "An astonishing number of people had swallowed old myths," Thornton said, "about the desirability of controlled, segregated prostitution." He said the American Medical Association had found that there was no safe medical supervision of prostitutes. All Medford LUMBER DEALERS and MILLWORK HOUSES Will Be CI SAY., SOW., BAON. JULY 2nd through 4th So That Their Employees May Enjoy A Three-Day Vacation Over July 4th BE SURE TO FILL YOUR LUMBER AND MILLWORK NEEDS BEFORE FRIDAY NIGHTI General Motors Contributing to Special Trust Fund Detroit (U.R) General Mo tors today began contributing to a special trust fund to pay sup plemental unemployment comp ensation benefits under terms of a newly-effective contract with the CIO United Auto Workers. The union notified the com pany Tuesday that the contract had been approved by more than 90 per cent of GM's 350,000 wor kers. Terms of the contract call for company contributions of five cents an hour per worker to a fund which will insure workers of between 60 and 65 per cent of their take home pay during 26 weeks of layoff. Pay Increase The contract also calls for pay increases ranging from 6 to 24 cents an hour for GM workers. The increases are effective im mediately. Both the trust fund contribu tions and the pay increases are retroactive to May 29, the form al contract date. The retroactive payments will be made in a lump sum on the workers' next pay day. The three-year pact was reach ed by negotiators June 13. It had to be ratified by today to become effective. Meanwhile, Chrysler Corp. of ficials met with two separate union negotiating ' teams in an effort to work out an agreement similar to the GM pact and one reached earlier with Ford. Rehearing Ordered In Pinball Cases Portland (U.R) Presiding Multnomah County Circuit Judge James W. Crawford yes terday assigned Judge Charles W. Redding to conduct a rehear ing into an attempt to bar police seizure of non-coin-operated pin ball machines. The rehearing was made nec- Lincoln County School Superintendent Dies Newport, Ore. (U.R) Jo sephine Tillman Longfellow, for six years Lincoln county school superintendent, died early today as the result of a heart attack suffered last Thursday. The 65-year-old educator serv ed 13 years as superintendent of Oregon City schools before com ing to Newport. He is survived by his wife, Ruth, a daughter, Mrs. William Bradshaw of Ore gon City; three grandchildren and a sister, Esther, of San Fran cisco, Calif. Longfellow was born in Neb raska and graduated from Wash ington State college in 1916. Funeral services will be con ducted Thursday afternoon here. FCC Grants Permit For Portland TV Washington (U.R) The Federal Communications com mission today granted North Pa cific Television, Inc., a permit for a new TV station at Port land, Ore., on Channel 8. The FCC denied competing ap plications for the same channel by Westighouse Radio Stations, Inc., and Portland Television Inc. It dismissed another channel 8 application by Cascade Televis ion Co., which had been held in default before a hearing on the contest closed. The FCC's decision upholds a recommendation by Examiner Elizabeth Smith a year ago to award the TV permit to North Pacific. North Pacific stockholders own Portland radio stations KGW and KGW-FM. A 60 per cent interest in North Pacific is held by the King Broadcasting Co., which has AM-FM and TV stations in Seattle, Wash. Violent Deaths of Five Discovered , On Wyoming Ranch Cora, Wyo. U.R) A forest ranger, a coroner, a telephone operator and a lineman today pieced together a handful of clues in an attempt to learn events that led to an afterribon of horror, and five violent deaths, at the ranch home of a neighbor. The time of the horror was es tablished by a rural telephone operator. She said she noticed at 4 p.m. last Friday that the tele phone at the ranch of Jack Alexander was off the hook. She thought it was out of order." Line Disconnected A few hours later a Pinedale telephone repairman disconnect ed the line leading to the Alex ander ranch. Others on the line had complained their telephone service had been interrupted. The repairman didn't take time to go on to the Alexander ranch. He was called away on other important work. Yesterday forest ranger Dar rol Fluckinger went to the Alex ander home to check "some graz ing permits. He was met at the gate by the Alexander dog. "He seemed very friendly, just like he was glad to see some body," Fluckinger said. Then the ranger saw a man who appeared to be "just relax ing in the shade." Bodies in Yard The "man" was the body of F. X. O'Brien of Miami, Fla., Alex ander s father-in-law. Fluckinger then found the bodies of Alexander, his wife, Patricia, 4; his daughter, Grace, six; and finally his mother-in- law, Mrs. F. X. O'Brien, strewn around the sun-baked ranch grounds. A deer rifle lay beside Alex ander's body. Mrs. O'Brien's body was found beside the dis connected telephone. She ap parently had been shot , as she screamed into it for help. Sublette County Coroner Fran cis Turner said Alexander ap parently shot the other four. then turned his deer rifle on him self. The slayings, he said, were apparently comitted by Alexan der in some unexplained rage. Portland Man Killed In Tigard Collision Tigard (U.R) Olin Fish Ford, 75, Portland, was killed here last night when his car struck the rear of another vehicle, po lice reported. Driver of the other car, Frank W. Kayton, 58, Portland, was uninjured. Wednesday. Jun 29, 19SS MEDFORD (OREGON! MAIL TRDJUHStZTEH essary by the death last Friday night of Circuit Judge Lowell Mundorff, who had not had time to make a decision in the case. VOUR JndqMndentlii Owned 145 o o fat SLT,,veit th elecnVry ba?ket 35r l fryer. Bi 4 a.c5c f7 Pan into a d Jeam vefetabfesoK ccsaPacity B,ch "7 table with bakpii beautiful metal nii abouVVr?61 Cireaoirii diMhir HOME TOWN HARDWARE 225 East Sixth Copter, Plane Join Search for Body Eugene (U.R) A helicopter and a plane were pressed into the search today for the body of Earl Smith, 62-year-old Sacra mento, Calif., auto dealer lost with two companions in a Mc Kenzie river boating tragedy. Bodies of Aram Adams, 48, Bakersfield, Calif., and Milo Thompson, 64-year-old veteran McKenzie river guide, were re covered from the stream yester day. Their broken boat was found nearby. The accident occurred near Blue River some 40 miles east of here. The trio had put their boat in the McKenzie there at 11 a.m. Monday and were to be near Vida about 5 p.m. When they failed to show up search was started. State police said the aircraft would give searchers a better view of the river. Colgan Gets Term on Charge of Extortion Portland (U.R) Glen H. Colgan, 22, was sentenced to a year in prison yesterday after pleading guilty to a $10,000 at tempted extortion plot against a large retail store chain here. Colgan withdrew a previously entered plea of innocent in Mult nomah County Circuit Court. F KNOW HER? TWs attrac tive strawberry blonde was found by Chicago police, an apparent amnpga victim. Un able to talk, a telegram in her purse was addressed to Mrs. Betty McKostu of Stockton, CaL Stockton police have been asked to nelp identify ner. The extortion attempt, against Fred Meyer, Inc., was one of a series of bomb scares which swept this area last spring. Charges Reduced By Klamath Jury Klamath Falls (U.R) A Klamath county grand jury yes terday reduced the charges against Leon Gale Pearson and Melvin Chiloquin when it re turned indictments for assault with a dangerous weapon instead of the 'former" manslaughter count against them The two were previously in dicted for manslaughter in con nection with the death of John Madrueno, 25-year-old railroad worker, whose body was found in a snow bank in northern Kla math county. District Attorney Frank Aid erson had moved for dismissal of the indictment and resubmis sion to the grand jury. Pearson and Chiloquin were arrested in February. Bail was set at $2500. Indicted at the same time was Velda Pearson, 26-year-old wife of Leon Pearson, who was ac cused of attempting to aid her husband's escape from jail by bringing him a cherry pie laced with hacksaw blades. Indicted as her accomplice was 19-year-old Phyllis Hill. The pie was intercepted by Jailer Fred Cal-fee. 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