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Maximum Security
Building Damaged;
Escape Prevented
- Salem U.K Eleven fir Is at
Hillcrest school for girls, appar
ently incensed at being crowded
-into a room intended only for
10, tore up the interior of the
maximum security building at
the institution and escaped from
their cells last night, but were
unable to escape from the school
grounds.
The rioting started after two
other girls had fled from the
school during the outside recrea
tion period. The two girls were
. still missing today.
- . The 11 girls who broke out
of the maximum security build
ing were brought under control
by state police, a Marion county
deputy sheriff and male employ
ees of the school. They-were
brought to the Marion county
jail , in downtown Salem for
overnight housing.
The 11 girls used their steel
beds as battering rams to smash
their way through the plaster-
over-tile brick walls; They
broke into other rooms, hurled
storeroom, supplies around,
poked holes through door win
dows leading outside and de
stroyed furniture. '- "
But none of them escaped
from the building. '
Officers fought their, way
through hurled mattresses and
other objects thrown by the
girls before subduing them.- The
girls were escorted handcuffed,
two at a time, from the maxi-
mum security building to the of
' fice of Superintendent Marjorie
McBride. -
Board of Chamber
Supports KBE5-IV
Move Application
The board of directors of the
y Jackson : County - Chamber of
Commerce adopted a number
f of resolutions, and took action
i on several chamber matters at
w a breakfast meeting today.
The board: 1. Unanimously vo
. ted to write Congressman Har
' ris Ellsworth in support of the
; application of KBES-TV to move
its transmitter from Blackwell
Hill to Soda mountain, to provide
a better picture and better ser
vice to viewers. The chamber
i -also;, will 'write the federal com
V munications commission in the
J same regard.. Everett Faber of
; the station explained the need,
and the fact that action on the
i application is being held up by
- the FCC A hearing on the mat
'. ter may be held soon.
' .Protest Highway
2. Unanimously adopted res-
olution protesting to the state
" highway commission the "dis-
graceful" condition of the Crat
' er Lake highway, and asking in
strong terms for reconstruction
of the "hazardous" flounce rock
. section before the tourist season
of 1956; the immediate comple
tion of a survey for the entire
route, and higher maintenance
standards for the highway be
tween Trail and Crater Lake na
tional park.
3. Unanimously adopted am
endments to the chamber by-
laws calling for earlier board
. and officer elections to permit
new chamber officials to get fa
miliar with their problems' be-
' fore taking office on the first of
the year. ' 4 ;
To Print Brochure
4. Voted to print 9,000 copies
of a new "facts and ..figures"
brochure, which gives many de
tails of Jackson county common
ly requested by those seeking in
formation. '
5. Approved the appointment
of Glenn Jackson as a chamber
. representative on the bureau of
; land management advisory com-
: mittee for the -Medford district,
r 6. Heard a report on Transoc
i ean airlines' plan for a chamber
t tour to Hawaii early in Sept
ember, which will cost $274 plus
- tax per seat Three free seats
I will be, provided the chamber,
ana uiese trips can be provided
as prizes in a forthcoming cham
ber membership campaign. The
flight to the islands will leave
from the Medford airport.
IOOF Installation Set
In Medford Tuesday ,,
Tom Banks, Phoenix, will be
installed as noble grand at a
meeting of Medford Lodge, IOOF
at the lodge hall on Sixth st. at
8 p.m. July 19. Other officers to
be installed are E. B. McNew,
vice-grand; John Daniel, secre
tary, and Charles Swingle, trea
surer. Appointive . officers will
be named and installed at the I
same time. Harry Smith, district
deputy grand, master, will of
ficiate. - : -- - - - -
'- Refrshments will follow the
ceremony arid all Oddfellows,
local or visiting, are invited.
A gallon of water is formed
for each gallon of burned gaso
line. .
Ground Observers Mark Third
Anniversary; Mayor Proclaims
Gratitude to Many Volunteers
Today is "Operation Sky
watch" day.
"Operation Skywatch" is the
code name given to the Ground
Observer's. Corps. Today is the
third anniversary of this na
tion-wide civilian defense organ
ization.
Mayor Earl Miller, In a pro
clamation, set it aside because
"we owe a lasting debt of grati
tude to this group of citizens.
Volunteers maintain a 24-hour,
seven day a week vigil scanning
the skies for signs of aircraft
that "may have our cities, our
homes, ourselves as targets," he
said.
Expansion Told
The third anniversary of the
GOC marks an expansion of the
program, the growth of active
volunteers from 118,522 in 1952
to 317,010 in 1955, and the ac
quiring of new capabilities.
Medford' s Ground Obesrver
station, located on the corner of
Jackson st and McAndrews rd.,
is but one part of the air de
fense pattern that plans to have
Bridges' Lawyers
To Question Pair
About Testimony
San Francisco U.R) Two
of the government's star wit
nesses will be grilled today by
attorneys for . Harry Bridges,
West Coast labor leader faced for
the fourth time with losing his
U. S. citizenship.
The defense said it would re
call John Schomaker and David
I. Saunders, former Communist
party waterfront organizers who
testified that they knew Bridges
as a Communist
False Claim Charged
Bridges, 54-year-old president
of the International Longshore
men's and Warehousemen's un
ion, is charged with falsely de
nying ever having been affiliated
with the Communist party when
he was granted U.S. citizenship.
TheAustralian-born labor lead
er has steadfastly denied any af
filiation with the Communists
throughout four government at
tempts to have him deported.
Bridges objected -vehemently
yesterday to .prosecution at
tempts to show discrepancies be
tween testimony given at early
trials and that presented at the
current one.
At one point the longshore
leader erupted at Asst. . U. S.
Atty. Lynn Gillard, who read
from Bridges' testimony in his
1949 and 1939 trials as he ques
tioned Bridges about his ties
with the Marine Workers Indus
trial union.
Seems Unfair
"Maybe this procedure is le
gal," Bridges said hotly. "It's
awfully unfair it seems to me
. . . I don't even know if he's
reading it correctly."
Federal Judge Louis E. God
man directed that Gillard show
Bridges the previous testimony
and the longshore, chief com
plained that it was only part of
his answer at the time.
: Bridges attributed some of the
inconsistencies to the passage of
years.
When. Bridges stepped down
after two and one half days of
testimony, the defense called
Matthew J. Meehan, 59, Interna
tional representative for the
ILWU for Oregon and a longtime
friend of Bridges.
Meehan testified that as far as
he knew, Bridges had never been
a - Communist,, nor had he ever
expressed sympathy for the
Communists nor advocated the
violent overthrow of the Ameri
can government. -
TID Wafer Scarce;
Careful Use Asked
Talent Water in the Emi
grant and Hyatt lake reservoirs,
supplying the Talent Irrigation
district, is below levels of recent
years, Secretary-Manager. Rob
ert Kent has reported. However,
Kent added, if k careful useage
continues, the district may- be
able to supply all essential
water for the current season.
On July 11,' Hyatt reservoir,
capacity of 16,000 acre feet, con
tained 7,730 acre feet Emigrant
lake, on July 7, held 3,684 acre
feet Capacity is 8.000. .
Lack of snowfall at upper ele
vations last winter has account
ed for the shortage, according to
Kent Neither reservoir filled to
capacity at any time this year.
-Kent expressed the district's
appreciation to water users for
their excellent cooperation in
conserving water thus far...
over a million aircraft spotters
and air defense filter center vol
unteers manning the GOC by
1956.
Sgt B. B. Moore, U. S. Air
Force man in charge of the local
observation operation, reported
that the Medford post, one of
24 in Jackson county, averages
Norwegian Tells
Of Part in Dope
Smuggling Plot
San Francisco (U.R) A
teenage Norwegian sailor told
yesterday how he got mixed up
in a bizarre plot to smuggle
$3,000,000 worth of heroin from
Hong Kong to San Francisco.
The seaman, Truls Halversen,
17, decided in mid-voyage not to
take, part in "such dirty things"
and on the advice of a Brooklyn
minister, Leif Aagard, turned
the naroctics over to the master
of his ship, The Fernhill.
First Witness
Halvorsen was the first wit
ness in the opening of the nar
cotics conspiracy trial of Frank
Lew, 57-year-old Chinese accused
of being the San Francisco con
tactman for the narcotics ring.
Lew was caught last May in a
trap set by U. S. Customs agents
and Halvorsen. He was seized
while accepting a dummy pack
age from the Norwegian youth. :
Halvorsen said he was lured
into the plot in Hong Kong by a
Chinese tailor who' came aboard
to sell him a suit When Halvor
sen said he did not have enough
money, the tailor then "asked me
if I wanted to make some easy
money .smuggling opium into the
United States."
"I didn't say no,' Halvorsen
replied. He said he was promised
$1,200 if he would follow orders.
Instructions Given
. Halvorsen. said the tailor led
him to four Chinese, who gave
him five pounds of heroin in 10
small sacks and told him how to
smuggle it off the ship.
They also took his picture and
gave him half a coupon which
he was to match with the "con
signee" in San Francisco.
Once at sea, Halvorsen began
to worry about what he had got-'
ten into. He wrote his minister
in Brooklyn a letter which said
in part:
"I cursed myself for having
wanted to take part in such dirty
things."
Halvorsen said the minister
wired back, instructing him to
turn the narcotics over to the
ship's i' master, which he did.
When the ship docked, Halvor
sen arranged with American au
thorities to trap Lew.
Salem (U.PJ Dr. Fred L. Hut-
ton, recent graduate of Oklaho
ma A. and ' M. College, has
joined the veterinary staff of the
Oregon Department of Agricul
ture.
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about 2,000 reports a month. The
reports are sent on a "cluster
line" telephone system that is
directly connected with the irf elected clerk,
defense center in Fortlana. Mrs.
Irene Timm, wife of the Tou
Velle state park caretaker, alone
reported 10,000 planes last year,
Sergeant Moore added.
100 Units
. Sergeant Moore's area, which
covers Jackson, Josephine and
parts of -Siskiyou and Douglas
counties, contains more than 100
different twits. Besides the 24
GOC posts here there are 50
more GOC posts that are part
time, 14 state forest patrol look
outs, 10 federal forest lookouts,
and mobile units of the Southern
Oregon Conservation and Tree
Farm association.
According to Mrs. Lucille
Brock,' chief Medford GOC ob
server, there axe more than 225
volunteers in the Medford post.
They are mill workers, weather
men, women with babies, grand
mothers, businessmen, office wo
men and people from every walk
of life, Mrs. Brock said. She
pointed out that the post has
25 active boys and girls, some
who have watched from the
"very first." Medford's post has
been in use for about a year and
a half. ..
Don't Sense Need
Mrs. -Brock added the quota
tion, "it's not that they're less
patriotic, they just don't sense
the need," in giving her views
on people who have spare time
but don't use it as civil defense
observers. .. -
She expressed the post's need
for people who could help out
at night on a two-hour shift.
The immediate need is be
tween midnight and 6 a.m., al
though help "at any time" would
be appreciated. Volunteers wish
ing to donate time to the pro
gram may do so by calling Mrs.
Brock at . 2-8217, , or Sergeant
Moore at 2-9704.
Ed Branchfield Is
Elected Chairman
Of School Board
Edward w. Branchfield was
elected chairman of the Medford
school board at a meeting Tues
day night Other officers include
Otto Ewaldsen vice-chairman,
and Mrs. Rebecca Jensen was re-j
The board awarded a contract
to Hughes and Dodd company of
Medford for sidewalk, curbs and
guttering along Holmes ave. and
on a 276 feet extension of Alta
st Hughes and Dodd s bid was
1283.70.
A bid of $2,097 by Virgil O.
Anderson, of Medford was low
and the board awarded the con
tract for base material and gran
ite surfacing on Alta st. exten
sion and portions of Holmes ave.
The board accepted resigna
tions from Mary Anderson, Anna
Lou Salladay, Niles B. Smith,
William Potts and Earl Rogers,
and elected Curtis Kinney to
teach in the high school com
mercial department
School Superintendent E. H
Hedrick was authorized to pre
pare a letter for Medford city
council and Medford Planning
commission recommending that
Jefferson school site south of
Stewart ave. and streets owned
by the district be brought into
the city.
Hedrick said annexation of
the site would provide less ex
pensive insurance rates, in addi
tion to increased city services.
Fabrics Class Under
Way in Rogue River
Rogue River- A class in op
hols tery, draperies, slipcovers
and bedspreads is now in ses
sion in Rogue River, according
to John B. Harr, Rogue River
superintendent of schools.
The class, consisting of 30
hours of instruction, is taught
by Mrs.: Frye. The fee will be
approximately $5. Registrations
are still being accepted for the
class, which will be completed
on Friday, July 22.
The class is being held in the
Rogue River grade school gym
nasium. -
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