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ii "r 11 ifii Recommended WEATHER FOBECAST Partly cloudy and ivarmer Sunday; Increas ing cloudiness with showers in-the vicinity Monday. High Sunday 80. Low t Monday morning 55. High Monday 7S. Temp. Stories en the city budget to result in curtailed city services and the return of two Medford Army units after training at the Yakima Firing center ap pears on Page 12 of today's Mail Tribune. Highest yesterday ? Lowest yesterday 5S Preclp. United Press Full Leased Wire Ta 11 p.m. yesterday . United Press Full Leased Wire 28 Pages Price 5c MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 17, 50th Year No. 100 o Ulfater Coftacis SarocSoooiecfl; Talent Project Sim Worft SBate One-Sided Vote OKs Government Repayment Pads Funds to Rehabilitate District Canal System A light but one-sided vote Friday by water users of two irrigation districts in the valley approved repayment contracts with the federal government for rehabilitation of the districts' canal systems. In the Medford Irrigation dis trict the vote was 163 yes, 6 no; in the Rogue River Valley dis trict it was 96 yes, 4 no. A total of about 1,150 voters was elig ible, but only 269 cast ballots. Contract Authorized In each district, the board of directors is now authorized to enter into a 40-year, interest- free repayment contract with the bureau of reclamation, which will handle the rehabilitation work. The over-all project, which is planned to be completed over a six-year period, will cost an esti mated $1,712,000. The first phase, reconstruction of spill ways at Four Mile and Fish lakes and some of the more vital sec tions of canal rehabilitation work, will cost an estimated $350,000, which sum was appro priated by congress last week. The Friday election was the last step to be completed before the contract is signed and bids are awarded. Bids Submitted Bids on the spillway jobs have already been submitted. The R. K. Shelton Construction com pany, Roseburg,. made the low bid $69,551.50 for the two pro jects, $9,810.50 below the engin eers estimates. The other bid, for $104,345, was submitted by the E-W Construction company, Eu gene. Work on each project is to be completed within 120 days after receipt of notice to proceed. The bureau can now get other phases of the rehabilitation pro ject ready for bids. The need for work on the canal systems has been acknowl edged for several years. Breaks have "been frequent and increas ing in nursber for some time, and each represents a considerable hazard to irrigated crops on the valley floor. Ho Federal Funds ' ' The waterworks of the two districts were constructed with out the use of federal funds, and the recent appropriation is the first time the districts have sought federal assistance for any of the extensive canal systems. Four Mile and Fish lakes are the two main reservoirs, and are connected by the Cascade canal. From Fish lake,-water comes down the North Fork of Little Butte creek, and is diverted above Lake creek into.the main canal, which is jointly owned by the two7 districts,' as are the reservoirs and higher workings. The canal brings the water down to Bradshaw drop, southwest of Brownsboro, where the water is .divided between the districts. The rest of the way to the val ley floor, the districts have their own distribution systems. Moffett Field, Calif. (U.R) Navy officials Saturday identi fied the pilot killed when his jet fighter crashed into San Fran cisco Bay Friday as Ensign-Richard R. Carlston, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ellsworth Carlston of Sierra Madre, Calif. Undergarment To Missing Berkeley Girl Alameda, Calif. (U.R) Police last sight found girl's under garment which they said "could be" that of missing 14-year-old Stephanie Bryan under the home of a University of California student. Berkeley Police Captain John Laird said a brassiere was found in sand in the basement of the home of 27-year-old student Bur ton Abbott. Police Search Home , Earlier yesterday police and FBI agents, armed with pick and shovel, ' methodically searched Abbott's home, after his wife, Mrs. Georgia Abbott, 'notified police that the couple had found a purse containing identifying papers of Stephanie. Police started probing early yesterday morning and located a pair oi eyeglasses and several Sports Bulletins Roseburg Medford Cheney Studs handed Roseburg a S to 1 defeat in a Southern Oregon league baseball game here last night. The teams will play the second game of the series at 2 p.m. today. Sacramento, Calif. (U.R) Carlos Banner's single and and Bob Hall's triple drove home two runs in the top of the 10th inning to give the Hollywood Stars a 5-3 victory over Sacramento Saturday night to enable " Bob Gar ber to become the first Pacific Coast League pitcher to notch 14 wins. Kansas City (U.R) The Washington Senators spotted Kansas City six runs in the first inning, then worked up bill the rest of the way to emerge with an 8-7 victory in an American League baseball game here Saturday night. , Mindszenty Said Freed by Hungary; Details Awaited ; Vienna, Austria - . (U.R) Communist Hungary announced Saturday it has released Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty after near ly seven years of imprisonment. Budapest radio said the Hun garian government agreed to a suspension oi the Hungarian primate's life sentence on charges of treason "because of his bad health condition and his age." "His- place of residence is a church building selected by the Hungarian bishops," the broad cast said. The announcement indicated the Communists did not plan to let the 63-year-old archbishop who became a martyr of the Ro man Catholic church resume his religious activities. May Be Confined Presumably he would be care- ully confined to a certain locality in much the same manner as Yugoslavia paroled Aloysius Cardinal Stepinac in his native village. Mindszenty was the first prince of the church 'to face a civil court in modern times. His arrest and conviction after a five-day show trial before a peo ple's court made him Catholic ism's greatest living symbol of Communist persecution. Mindszenty, Roman Catholic primate of Hungary, was arrest ed by the Communist govern ment in Budapest Dec. 27, 1948, on charges of treason, espionage and black market dealings. He was convicted and sentenc ed to life in prison on Feb. 8, 1949. All persons who took part in the cardinal's prosecution were excommunicated by , Pope Pius xn. Washington (U.R) Officials said Saturday that Red Hun gary's reported release of Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty undoubted ly was timed to coincide with the Communist world's pre-Geneva peace campaign. The State Department with held comment pending receipt of a complete report from the U.S. legation at Budapest. . Officials want to know . if Mindszenty actually has been freed and if so, what conditions if any were tired to his release. Gives Clue schoolbooks beneath the floor boards in the basement, which they said had definitely been identified, as those of the young girl, missing since April 28. Laird, said that Abbott's re cord was ' "clear" of any past criminal offenses. Questioned by Police ' Abbott was being questioned by police and the Alameda coun ty district attorney's office about the brassiere, the: eyeglasses and the books. -....-.,. Stephanie had been the object of a widespread search since she disappeared on her way home from school, April 28. She was feared a kidnap victim when witnesses told police a young girl was seen struggling to free herself from the grasp of a man driving a gray sedan near the Bryan horn. - . Appropriation to Be Diverted to Job Plans, Bid Drawing Construction Funds Expected in Year The Talent project is included in the bureau of reclamation's work schedule for fiscal 1956, Harold T. Nelson, Boise, Ida., regionaldirector of the bureau, said Saturday. Congress has appropriated $150,000 for Talent. It was orig inally intended for advance planning on the Howard Prairie dam, a main canal tunnel below the dam, and the Green Springs power plant, Nelson told United Press. But, because advance planning is already virtually complete, the money will be di verted to preparing job plans and specifications for bid, he said. Construction Seen Sooner Construction funds have not yet been authorized for the Tal ent project, but the action an nounced yesterday means that tne work can be put out for bids immediately after construction funds become available, prob ably a year from now. It is ex pected that actual construction can be under way by the fall of 1956. The schedule of the bureau for fiscal 1956 (July 1, 1955 to June 30, . 1956) also includes initial work 'on the rehabilitation of the canal systems of the Medford and Rogue Valley Irrigation dis tricts. A total of $350,000 for this work was authorized by con gress. Vote Oks Contract -The. last hurdle to the rehab ilitation project was, cleared Fri day when water users of the two districts overwhelmingly voted authority to their directors to enter into repayment contracts with the bureau.) The announcement that the $150,000 for the Talent project means that the $22,000,000 pro ject is nearer than it ever has been, and almost a" full year closer than was expected after Congress cut a proposed $500, 000 appropriation back to $150,000. Dr. Sleeler Rites Will Be Tuesday , Funeral services for Dr. Rob ert W. Sleeter, well known Med ford physician, will be held at the First Presbyterian church at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday. The Rev. John Reynolds will officiate. Dr. , Sleeter died suddenly Thursday morning in Arco, Ida., while on a trip with his wife and a daughter. Interment will take place in Siskiyou Memorial Park with officers of Medford Elks Lodge 1168 holding graveside services. William A. Barker, H. D. Christ ensen, Curtis Barnes, Charles Barnes, A. N. Potter Jr., and Otto Frohnmayer will' be honorary pall bearers. Active pall bearers include Drs. Oscar T. Heyerman, Roland. M. Mayer, William J. Miller, Otto R. Emig, John T. Brandenburg and Charles W. Lemery. . The Jackson County Medical Society will attend the services as a group. Friends -desiring to pay last respects Dr. Sleeter mayv'call at Perl funeral home on Monday evening. '. . The Medford ' Clinic, in the Medical Center Building, Sixth st. and Central ave., where Dr. Sleeter practiced, will be closed all day Tuesday in his memory. Boy's Underwater Game Nearly Costs His Life Milwaukie, Ore (U.R) An 11-year-old boy's game of "under water demolition expert" nearly cost him. his life Friday. The boy, Robert Draper.'was swimming underwater at the Milwaukie Junior High school pool when water suddenly pene trated the face 'mask he was wearing. ... -i - . - , -'- - . -- "Young Draper collapsed, sink ing to the bottom of the pool. He was rescued by, lifeguard Rich ard Westby. " who arretted arti ficial respiration until firemen arrived. Draper, who said he was imi tating his father, Harry Draper, an underwater demolition work er, was in (rood condition at a Portland hospital. President Arrives At Geneva for Big Four Parley Soviet Delegates Expected Sunday Geneva (U.R) President Eisenhower arrived here Satur day night for next week's top level Big Four talks, bringing with him "the good will of America, the great hope of America, the desire of the Amer ican people for peace." The U. S. President was the last to arrive of the three west ern chiefs of government who will join Russia in a historic quest for atomic-age peace. His special plane landed at Cointrin Airport at 7:56 p.m., shortly after the arrival of Prime Minister Anthony Eden and Pre mier Edgar Faure. Mr. Eisen hower is the first U. S. chief ex ecutive to visit Europe since the Potsdam conference which marked the splitting of East and West. Russians Due Sunday The Soviet conferees were not expected here until early Sun day. Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bul ganin arrived in East Berlin by plane from Moscow. In a brief speech at the airport, Bulganin said the Russian dele gation was going to Geneva "with the sincere wish to find means for lessening tensions and the restoration of trust in the relations among states as well as for the settlement of unsolved questions." The Soviet premier, accomp anied by Communist party secre tary Nikita Khrushchev and De fense. Minister Georgi Zhukov, made the stopover in East Berlin to confer with East German Pre mier Otto Grotewohl on the sum mit meeting. Two U. S. Air Force helicopt ers hovered over the airport for 45 minutes before the President landed, readyto deal with any suspicious activity or to offer aitf in rase ot a crash in landing". 'At least 3o American security agents patrolled the field while the President was there, alert for any sign of trouble. None de veloped. Mr. Eisenhower said he was "deeply touched" by the warmth of the welcome he received in this temporary World Capital. "It is barely 11 years ago thai I came to Europe with an army and navy, with the single pur pose of destroying Nazism," he said. "I come with the forma tions of war, under the circum stances that were surrounding war. "This time I come with some thing more powerful the good will of America, the great hope of America, the desire of the American people for peace." Mr. Eisenhower said he came to Geneva "to find if it is not pos sible to lead the world to a more tranquil, better fuller way of life." The crowd at the airport list ened to the President's speech in absolute silence, then roared its applause. ' - , Mrs. Parsons Funeral To Be Held Monday Funeral services . for Mrs. Maude Bemis Parsons, who died Friday at -the family home on Hillcrest rd. will be held at 4 p.m. Monday in St. Mark's Epis copal church. The Rev. George R. V. Bolster will officiate. - Mrs. Parsons was the wife of the late Reginald H. Parsons, Seattle. Honorary pall bearers include George Roberts, Alfred Carpen ter, Fred Bayliss, Robert Frame, Donald Clark, Eddie W. Carlton, Robert Ruhl, H. B. Murpyh, Ed die Burgess, and Dr. C. L Drum mond. Active pall bearers i will be Robert Norris, .William New hall, Bayard- GetchelL. Warren Bayliss, Clyde Sturgill and W. H. Reichstein. It Is the request of the family that flowers be omitted at the services and, in lieu, a contribu tion be made to the Rogue Val ley Memorial hospital. Concluding services will be held at Seattle. Perl Funeral home is in charge of local ar rangements. Maybe Junior's Cat Is Still in Commode Longview, Tex (U.R) " Longview plumber ' Tommy Daniels said he got a hurry-up ' call Saturday from a frantic woman who told him: "Junior just flushed our ca down the commode. He's holding Us tail to keep it from going all the way down. Please hurry." The woman hung up before, Daniels could get her or address. Riof Psychiatrist Takes Stand in Murder Trial of White . Defense Witnesses to Testify on Monday The trial of Bernice Hampton (Tex) White, accused of first degree murder, was recessed Saturday until 9:30 a.m. Mon day. Reason for the delay was the inability of def ense witness es to testify until then. The Saturday session lasted slightly over an hour. Dr. Ger hard Haugen, M.D., a Portland psychiatrist, was called to the stand by the state. Consent of the defense and judge was nec essary as the state had already rested its case. White is charged with the first degree murder of Eugene Raymond Birk, 32, Phoenix Birk died in an Ashland hospit al March 2 after being fatally injured by blows over the head. He received the' injuries March 2 at a Talent mill where both he and White were employed. Condition Rare Dr.. Haugen, a practicing psy chiatrist since 1936, testified that "temporary insanity" is a rare . condition, but does occur. Such a condition would include a "cloudy consciousness," he said. The person afflicted would have "no memory of what hap pened" during the time of its effect, the doctor declared. District Attorney Walter Nun- ley asked if it is possible for a man with petit mal epilepsy to bring on seizures voluntarily. In some cases,-the-doctor testified, it was. In determining the pres ence of an epileptic condition, Dr. Haugen said, electroenceph alograph (EEG) tests are helpful but not conclusive proof. Lack of Awareness , Under cross-examination, the doctor said that people can have "psycho-motor . seizures" and walk about, normally. But they would afterwards be "absolute ly unaware of what took place during that time." Violent be havior is possible during such seizures, the psychiatrist added. Under repeated questioning by the defense, Dr. Haugen stated that it was his "corroborated" opinion that unless there is loss of memory, the condition in question cannot be considered an epileptic seizure. Defense At torney Robert Duncan then quot ed a Los Angeles neurologist writing in a recent issue of a medical magazine. "Violent . behavior . without amnesia," Duncan read, "has been termed, epilepsy but must be confirmed by a EEG." Examinations Described In Friday afternoon proceed ings, Dr. James C. Luce, Eagle Point neurological surgeon was called as a witness for the de fense. He testified concerning examinations given White June 8 and other times since he was jailed. These included general physical exam, neurological ex am, pumping air into his spinal column and brain, taking X-rays of his head, and testing with an EEG.'. Dr. Luce said that he found "a significant abnormality com patable with a convulsive state." His diagnosis, he said, indicated convulsive seizures on the basis of probable degenerative chang es within the brain, compatable with changes that follow a re mote injury. ;He expressed the belief that there would be periods when White's behavior would not be normal on an inconsistent pat tern. - , '" Typical Cue On cross examination, Dr. Luce described White's condi tion as a typical case of epil epsy, with the exception of the brain tissue degeneration. . He said he had no way of ' deter mining whether White is sane or insane. He admitted, hesitantly, that by taking several deep breaths, thus increasing . the amount of oxygen in the body, it might be possible for an epileptic s to bring about . a seizure of the type with which White is most frequently afflicted. Pittsburgh (U.R) A prac tical joker spilled shampoo into a fountain in this city's new gateway center yesterday. The fountain's .. "Forever Blowing Bubbles." . .0 . : : "V V ! Evening aMM v Guard BEAUTY BY THE DOZEN -From here, there and every where the world's contestants for the title of "Miss Uni verse" are arriving at Long Beach, CaL, these days. This group is being greeted by Miriam Stevenson, 1954 contest . winner, lower left. Lower right is Margaret Rowe, Miss Eng land and between the two is Leonor Carcache, Miss Ecuador. Miss Universe Girls In Native Costumes Long Beach, Calif. (U.R) Seventy five beauties from 32 nations and 42 states paraded in native costumes at Veterans Memorial stadium last night in their first public appearance of the 1955 Miss Universe pageant to receive the city's welcome. " The stadium, with a capaicty of 10,000, was nearly filled with spectators who paid up to $3 each to i see the cream of the world's feminine beauty. Pro ceeds went to the Children's Memorial hospital fund. uirii reriecuy urocmea Despite an ever-increasing pace of rehearsals, fittings and posing for pictures, the girls ap peared perfectly groomed and composed in the march around the stadium with an escort of military color guards . bearing state and national flags. They were led by Miriam Stevenson, current Miss Universe.' ' V The feature of the evening was an exchange of gifts be tween Mayor George M. Ver million and the contestants. The mayor presented each wjth a key Sutherlin House Fire ' " Claims Second Victim , Roseburg (U.R) - Death toll of a fire that destroyed the four-, room Charles B. Williams home east of Sutherlin Friday reached two when two-year-old "Preston Wilkerson died in a Roseburg hospital of burns suffered in the blaze. '" '' ' The tofs younger brother, Benton Wilkerson, one died in the fire. Their grandmother, Mrs. Charles B. Williams, 46, was also hospitalized with sev ere burns suffered when she tried to rescue the children,;: The boys were the sons of Mrs. Mollie Wilkerson of Har risburg. "" : Rodney Keating Named To Centennial Commission Salem (U.PJGov. Paul L, Pat terson has appointed nine mem bers of the Oregon centennial commission, whose terms begin today an end Dec. 31, 1961. The members are Anthony Brandenthaler of Baker, Rod ney eKating of .Medford, Jack likely of Springfield, and S: F. Woodbury, W. Wheeler, Bruce Bishop, Howard Lane, Morrie Sharp, and C. B. Ste phenson all of Portland. ; . - Washington (U.R) The Se curities & Exchange Commission will issue new regulations Mon day designed to curb phony dime- s-chare uranium stock offerings. Qoovict i ' ''''" I to the city and received a gift from every girl, plus many kisses. The mayor's wife- gave each girl a rhinestqne bandolier. Among presents the mayor re ceived were a bottle of cham pagne from Miss France, cul tured pearl cuff links and tie pin from Miss Japan and a pair of water skis from Miss Mew Hampshire. One of the highlights of the program was a' ritual in which the stadium was darkened en tirely except for a single beam shining on a huge globe, symbol of the pageant, while the girls recited, the Miss "Universe creed. Darrell Miller Jlamed To Budget Committee Darrell M. Miller, '317 South Groveland. ave., has been ap pointed to fill the vacancy on the citizens' budget committee cre ated when 'A. C. Fries Jr. re signed recently, Mayor Earl Mil ler has announced. Darrell Miller served on the Klamath Falls city -council and council committees prior to mov ing to Medford in Nov., 1952. He holds a law degree from the University of Oregon and was admitted to the bar in 1940. He owns and operates the Oldsmobile garage, 415 South Riverside ave. Fries resigned from the com mittee to move to Ashland, where he will manage the new U. S. National Bank. Newsmen Given Inside Look dt Los Alamos Los Alamos, N.M. (U.R) Newsmen were permitted Satur day their first glimpse of the scientific wizardry of the Los Alamos scientific laboratory that produced the dread atomic and hydrogen bombs and inaugurat ed the atomic era. . -Their visit marked the 10th anniversary of mankind's first nuclear explosion. -Blast Anniversary It was on July 16, 1945 that the first atomic bomb, developed here and long since 'made ob solete, was detonated in the southern New Mexico desert near Alamogordo. Since that fateful, day,, the United States has set off more than 60 atomic or hydrogen ex plosions, all but two scientific tests. Thosa two were A-bombs Ui Third Hostage Held; Governor Barred From Cells 20 National Guardsmen Added to Armed Cordon Rawlins, Wyo. (U.R) Eighty convicts who rioted at the. Wy oming State prison won their major point last night when Warden Deane Miller announced that two .hated guards had .been fired. . But the convicts still refused to release one of their three hos tage guards, although he was sick. And they would not agree to allow Gov. Milward. Simpson into the cell block where they are barricaded. . Simpson called up 20 National Guardsmen in the Rawlins area and added them to the armed cordon surrounding the belea guered cell block. But he gave no indication that he intended to force the issue and risk blood shed. . Talks With Spokesman Miller talkect several times last night by prison telephone to Norman Hodges, one of the four spokesmen selected by the rebel convicts to air their griev ances and negotiate with prison . officials.' Miller told Hodges during his latest telephone conversation that the board of charities and. reform had fired cell block cap tain Ben Reeves and guard BUI Coppenger, against whom the convicts vented months of sup pressed fury with their ; im- -promptu insurrection yesterday morning, v ;,; ;:. Reeves, broke away from, the convicts who jumped him, and Coppenger was not in the cell block when the riot began. No official comment has been made on the charges made by the con victs that Reeves and Coppenger were tyrannical malefactors who treated prisoners like "dawgs. The convicts blacked out the cell Block last night and stacked ma i. tresses near tne winavwm. But prison officals did not know whether they were' erecting bar ricades against an assault, or intended to burn the mattresses in another demonstration of ire. Simpson, prison and state of-' ficials and newsmen were all gathered , in t h e prison office while Miller made trip after trip to the switchboard trying to ar range a second parley. Yester day afternoon the convicts de manded that Reeves and Cop penger be "immediately dis charged and spelled out a nunV ber of other grievances to Mil . ler and other officials who sub mitted to search before entering . the cell block. ... But Governor Simpson de ' manded that the hostage guard who had been taken ill appar ently not seriously be released and that an armed guard ac company him to a bargaining conference. To this the convicts would not agree. Newsmen, who expected to go to the second parley If it could be arranged, listened over Mil ler's shoulder' when he first spoke with Hodges by telephone fist -night But Miller had no time to explain what the inmate spokesman had said, so reporters heard only one side of the dis cussion. . - - - The spokesman for the prison-, ers complained of treatment by. two guards, poor food, improper medical care and lack of recre ation. '; Laboratory which tumbled down on Japan and ended the Pacific war. ' The bulk of the work which: produced the devices was done by scientists inside the heavily guarded $128,000,000 laboratory which sprawls over 77 square miles and includes more than 300 buildings and installations, v Work Top Secret The intricate and amazing nu clear workshop, operated under ' contract for the Atomic Energy Commission by the University of I California, first was opened in dui lis worn remainea top secret until the bomb was drop ped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Today, 12 years later, the gates of the technical areas were un locked for the first time to news- men and to families of the 3,009 scientists and technicians who work bert. . . V.-
