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Prisoners Seek
Conference
Governor Russell
Two Minor Acts
Of Violence Reported
- Carson City, Nev. CUJO
Chilled convicts at the. Nevada
State Prison basked in the early
morning sun today determined
not to end a more than 16-hour
ritdown strike for better con
ditions until they met with Gov.
Charles Russell.
The governor, who went to
Las Vegas yesterday to investi
gate gaming conditions in that
mushrooming gambling spa, was
en route back to the capital oy
National Guard plane to take
"whatever action I deem neces
sary." He was expected to land at
Beno and drive directly to the
prison.
Two minor acts o violence
were reported, both of them be
fore daybreak this morning.
Break Into Shop
Many of the 222 convicts tak
ing part broke into a small cof
fee and ice cream shop adjoin
ing the prison exercise yard they
have Tef usTtorieve 'dx&erfr
terday afternoon and helped
themselves to ice cream.
Later they collected in a small
recreation room and began mill
ing around.. Prison personnel,
fearing they might begin fight
ing among themselves, fired a
single tear gas bomb into the
room to clear them out. - -
In neither instance was there
any evidence of rioting or de
struction of fixtures.
The convicts presented a list
of 12 demands to Warden Art
Bernard who called a regularly
elected "grievance" committee
into his office shortly after the
prisoners refused to line up for
dinner.
Conference Key Demand
The committee, none actively
engaged in the "quiet" distur
bance, said the key demand was
the conference with the gover
nor. "If they back down on
that," one of them said, "they
have lost their fight."
The men, comprising more
than two-thirds of the entire
358-inmate population, spent the
night in the yard clad only in
dungarees and thin T-shirts.
None had jackets to ward off
the chilly morning air as temp
ratnres fell below the 50-de-
gree mark.
Bernard blamed recent prison
disturbances' at Walla Walla,
Wash., and Rawlings, Wyo., for
the sitdown. He said the trouble
had been brewing for "a couple
of weeks."
' Portland (U.R) The Brit-
hh miuer HMS Superb will
dock here Friday for a six-day
-visit.
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Rural Telephone Extensions
Technical developments have
permitted extension of dial tele
phone service into- the east Sams
Valley-Beagle areas, according
to the Columbia Utilities comp
any, which serves ...the- area.
Work is now under way.
D. O. Hood, president of the
telephone firm, said that later,
probably this fall, the company
may extend its facilities furth
er north to include the Meadows
district, which has never had
telephone service.
Hood explained that recent
scientific and technical improve
ments have made these exten
sions possible without the high
costs which have been prohibi
tive in the past. Only one pair
of wires will be installed he said,
and these will be connected to
super-imposed carrier (or wired
radio) circuits. Each circuit can
serve a maximum of 10 subscnb-
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MEDFORD, OREGON,
s ditd
Mother Protesting
Drafting of Son
Ends Four-Day Fast
Miami (U.R) A "very
religious", mother who staged
a four-day . hunger strike pro
testing the drafting of her son
today gave her "consent and
my good wishes" in his mili
tary career.
Mrs. Martha' Blumenbach,
12.. last night ended her four
days of fasting. '
Her husband. Earl Blumen
bach. well to do .appliance
dealer at nearby Coral Gables,
Fla.. said his wife "is a tick
very sick woman."
Blast In Irrigation
Flume Investigated;
Crops Endangered
Jackson county sheriffs offi
cers are continuing an investiga
tion into an explosion last Thurs
day which early left more than
a thousand acres of farm land
without irrigation water.
The explosion was in Rogue
River Valley Irrigation district's
wooden flume which crosses Bear
creek jrt McAndrews jrd.pff.i
cers saicf malicious destruction
of property by using dynamite is
suspected.
Sheriff ' Howard Gault . said
several suspects have been ques
tioned concerning the dynamit
ing; without result as yet
The explosion was reported by
Harold Sexton, manager of the
district, and was discovered by
Charles O. Bousland, route 2,
box 659, Central Point, an em
ployee of the district.
Blast In Evening
- Sheriffs officers said the ex
plosion occurred between 9:30
and 10:30 p.m., and apparently
one stick of dynamite was placed
or floated into the flume about
half way across the creek. They
said the dynamite exploded
about a foot below the water
Llevel, doing considerable dam
age. Recent repairs to the flume
prevented more serious loss,
which Sexton said could have
been disastrous to crops.
The north side of the flume
west of the water gates was dam
aged, causing a leak, and two
check boards were blown out but
were not extensively damaged.
Publication of news about the
explosion was voluntarily with
held by the Mail Tribune during
the preliminary investigation by
sheriff s officers.
Weather
rOKKCAST Fair a4 warm
threafh Wednesday. Law te
alfht SS; high Wednesday 91.
Tern.
Highest yesterday
Lowest this morntng .
Progress Allows
equipment is being installed, so
that each subscriber hears only
one ring in additionto his own.
In cases where no power ' line
pole attachments are involved,
no additional rings are heard,
Hood said.
Columbia Utilities recently
completed a major project pro
viding new dial telephone ser
vice to the Brownsboro, Lake
Creek, Salt Creek, Dead Indian
and McAllister Springs commun
ities. The new service replaces
a "farmer line cooperatively
owned system which has been
out of commission for several
years due to increased electric
power voltage in line parallel
ling the circuits.
The carrier subscriber circuits
were also used in this area to
provide the service to most sub
scribers. Similar installations are
now in service in the McLeod-
Prospect sections, Hood said.
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TUESDAY, JUL.
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Ike's Stop Order
May Apply Only
To Few Projects
Democratic Senators
Denounce Statement
Washington U.R) President
Eisenhower's stop order on new
water, navigation and power
projects voted by Congress may
apply to as few as a half dozen
units, it appeared today.
Congress added 107 projects
to administration recommenda
tions in passing a public works
appropriation bill. The Presi
dent, in signing the bill last
Friday, said funds would be
withheld for any of the added
projects on which detailed en
gineering and cost studies
haven't been completed.-
Democratic senators denounc
ed his statement yesterday, call
tog the implied fund impound
ment a "usurpation" of congres
sional power. They indicated
they thought work couldn't be
started on any of the 107 proj
ects under the President's order.
Later in ' the day, Budget
Director Rowland R. Hughes
said no funds had been. im
pounded? Hngheslatement said: !
No Funds . Impounded
"The President said IfoVini
tiation of the added projects
cannot be undertaken until the
detailed engineering plans have
been completed and we have
: sound basis ; for the cost
estimates. No funds have ' been
impounded and no action r to
impound any funds by the bill
is contemplated."
This came after Sen. Allen J.
Ellender (D-La.) who handled
tne appropriation bill in the
Senate, said engineering is com
plete on all but a half dozen
of the added projects. If the
Budget Bureau t hai the same
estimate as Ellender only those
would be held up.
- llendersapparently was mak
ing an estimate, and did not
name the half dozen.
Aimed at Democratic Projects
One Democratic source said
the President's statement was
aimed at such Democratic spon
sored projects as the Yellowtail
Dam in Montana, for which Con
gress allowed $4,000,000.
-However,; until the Budget
Bureau makes 'a more definite
statement, all 107 projects added
by Congress to the original
budget estimates apparently are
in doubt.
Included are the following
projects in Oregon: . '
Columbia river at mouth,
9730,000; coos Bay, $200,000;
Cougar reservoir, $500,000; Hills
Creek reservoir, $300,000; Til
lamook bay and bar, $200,000.
The presidential order did not
affect the $150,000 in planning
money voted for the Talent proj
ect in southern Oregon. The
order concerned only construc
tion money.
Move To Postpone
Hells Measure Loses
Washington U.R) The
House Interior committee today
rejected, 13 to 11, a move to
postpone indefinitely further ac
tion to authorize federal con
struction of the Hells canyon
dam.
It was a party line vote with
Democrats voting against and
Republicans for.
The motion, which in effect
would have killed the authoriz
ing legislation at least' for the
time being, was offered by Rep,
A. L. Miller R-Neb). ... .
Miller's motion was to post-
none indefinitely further com
mittee consideration of a bill by
Ren. Grade Pfost (D-Ida.), to let
the federal government, rather
than private power, develop the
Snake river in Idaho through
construction of a $350,000,000
IBUNE
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Fate of Convicts
In Walla Walla ;
Beating Studied
Inmates Declared . Too
Drunk To Interrogate'
Walla Walla (U.R) -4- Wash
ington state prison officials
opened an investigation today
to determine what to jdo with
two convicts who seized and
beat two prison employees yes
terday. ;
Officials at St. Mary's hospital
here reported that Arthur M.
Thompson, one of the victims
of the beatings, suffered - rup
tures of both eyes. Thompson
was going into- surgery today,
hospital attendants said. '
Convicts Too Intoxicated
Warden Lawrence Delmore
said prison officials had to post
pone questiomnmg of the con
victs until. today because they
were too intoxicated to inter
rogate after" the attack: of the
prison employees. :i
The warden said the convicts,
Robert J. Sheean and Thaddeus
Dupuy, became intoxicated on
a home-made liquor they ap
parently concocted in the prison
ice plant where they-were work
ing. The assault on Thompson
and John Bates, a prison repair
man, followed the drinking
bout. ,
Delmore said it had not been
determined if Sheehan and Du
puy employed Weapons in their
assault or used only, their fists
on Thompson and Bates. '
Attacked in Laundry , .;..,,
Sheehan and Dupuy entered
thUla-un4lry aHdr. .attacked
Thompson, Delmore Said. Then
they grabbed Bates and beat
him before they were seized by
other officers and locked up.
Delmore said "as far as we
know" Sheehan and Dupuy
were not connected, with . the
prison rebellion two weeks ago.
Sheehan, is serving seven, and
one-half years from Clark coun
ty for robbery, the warden said,
Dupuy is serving an eight-year
term for robbery. f
Paving, Zoning
Matters Slated
The city council wui hold a
public hearing on paving Ken
wood ave. at its 7:30 p.m. meet
ing tonight, and will consider
ordinances calling public hear,
ings on two zone change re
quests. . .'
One request is from J. S. Good
win that a section of Queen
Anne addition be rezoned from
single to multiple family resi
dences, and the other is from
Mrs. Dorothy Sneed for rezon
ing East Jackson St., between
Hawthorne and Genessee sts.,
from multiple family to commer
cial.
Also on the agenda are three
reports from City Manager Rob
ert Duff and a discussion of the
proposed. South Bear Creek San
itary district contract Reports
from Duff will be on removing
a crosswalk on South Riverside
ave. : opposite Tabu restaurant;
on a request from Mrs. N. B.
Leslie, 1036 Court ft, for zone
change; and on the East . Japk
son st. right of way. - .
The council also will receive
a recommendation for change
of set back for Homer J. Bringle
on Eighth st' at Orange st.
Ileuberger Opposes
Beaver Marsh Project
- Washington U.PJ Sen. Rich
ard L. ' Neuberger announced
his "firm opposition" today to
the Beaver marsh power project
on the upper McKenzie river in
Oregon. '.:'
; He said in a letter to the Fed
eral Power Commission that the
project, proposed by the Eugene
City Water Board, would mean
a "loss in scenic, wildlife and
recreational values on one of the
most picturesque streams -. of
North America." . 7
It not only: would imperil fish
life in the aera but would dras
tically reduce the value of the
Koosak and Sahalie waterfalls,
be said. . .. . ,
United States Never
To Wage Aggressive
l"Jarv Bulganin Told
Geneva XU.R) President Eisenhower, in an earnest effort to
remove Russian fears of a reunified Germany, today solemnly
assured the Soviets that NATO was planned as an agency of peace
rather than war and- that the United States never would wage
aggressive war,
The American chief executive addressed his assurances and his
appeal for a more tolerant Soviet attitude towardNATO directly
to Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin and his World War n ally and
comrade, Marshal Georgi Zhukov now Soviet defense minister.
Bulganin, responding to the President's strongly phrased reas
surance, said he "trusted" Mr. Eisenhower's statements. But he
argued the time is not yet ripe for German reunification.
In spite of the Soviet objections to prompt reunification, the
heads of governments agreed to instruct their foreign ministers
to abandon their discussions of the conference agenda and plunge
at once into a detailed study of how Germany might be reunited
on a basis satisfactory to all.
The foreign ministers were, instructed to begin .'their study at
tomorrow morning's meeting and report back to the summit
delegates tomorrow afternoon.
Armed Troops Keep
in
Casablanca Streets
Casablanca, Morocco (U.R)
Thousands .of armed police and
troops in armored cars patrolled
the narrow blood-stained streets
of the city, today enforcing an
uneasy truce between the Euro
pean colony and the natives.
The major rioting and terror
ism, in which at least 65 persons
Yreka A Medford woman
and her - Yreka companion
left Casablanca after the cur
rent rioting 1rok out. it has
been reported here.
Mrs. Clifford Aldrich. Med
ford, who operates Miss Pat's'
Dance studio,' and Karen
Johnson, daughter of the Sis--
eourjtr recorder,; have?
een touring . Europe an ;
North Africa. In a telegram
.to Mies Johnson's father, they ,
reported they arrived there
shortly - before the rioting
' started.
have' been killed appeared to
have subsided under the guns of
the tank-supported government
forces.
Night Watchman Killed
The bomb-killing of a night
watchman Monday was the latest
in a series of violent deaths that
have resulted from the race riots.
Five days of murder, arson end
pillage have followed the tossing
Of a bomb into a crowded cafe
last Thursday.
At least 200 persons have been
injured in the outbreaks. Unof
ficial reports have put the death
toll as high as 200, with the
bodies of many more victims be
lieved to be concealed in the
winding back streets of the na
tive quarters.
Curfew in Force ' ,
Martial law and the curfew
were still in force. The newly-appointed
military commander of
the city, Gen. Andre Franchi,
toured the new and old Medinas
Monday night with the Pasha of
Casablanca, the city, highest
Arab leader. :
French Resident General Gil
bert Grandval kept in close touch
with Premier Edgar Faure at the
Big Four conference in Geneva,
advising him of developments in
the situation. The violence was
regarded as the worst in the
North African territory in many
years. '
Jail Escapee Found
And Returned Here
Floyd Earl Denno, 25, who es
caped from Jackson county jail
Aug. 8, 1953, was returned late
yesterday from Soledad, Calif.,
jail where' he completed an 18
month sentence for second de
gree burglary. ' '
Denno was convicted in cir
cuit court here on larceny by
bailee, and while waiting sen
tence he escaped from jail. He
was accused of renting a floor
sander from Haggard Lumber
company in Phoenix and selling
it to a dealer of used articles.
Denno was convicted of a sim
ilar charge in California and
completed serving time when he
was . brought to Jackson county
yesterday.
Sheriff's officers said Denno
has a record of renting or bor
rowing equipment and then sell
ing it.
- Salem (OR) ' Gov. Paul
Patterson ' has appointed Paul
Brunskill, Tillamook, as a memb
er of the State Board of .Phar
macy . - . -
UneasyTruce
Conference in First
Shirt-Sleeve Session
Mr. Eisenhower's direct ap
peal to the Soviet delegates, to
listen carefully and to consider
his remarks on NATO and Ger
man unity came during the
course of this afternoon's first
shirt sleeve working session of
the summit conference.
Mr. Eisenhower repeatedly as
sured the Russian delegation that
the Soviet Union has nothing to
fear from German, reunification,
so far as the United States is
concerned. - s
He also appealed directly to
his World War II ally and com
rade, Soviet Defense Minister
Georgi Zhukov, for a more toler
ant Russian attitude toward the
North Atlantic Treaty Organiza
tion in the interest of speeding
Germanreunification. i -
The conference session was de
voted to the problem of German
reunification, which was given
top priority on the conference
agenda by agreement of the Big
Four foreign ministers. t
The President appealed direct
ly, to - Zhukov Jo. obtain ..Russian
acceptance of NATO as an instru
ment of real peace. .
Bulganin," in his opening ad
dress to the conference yester
day, had outlined a Soviet plan
for European : security which
would require the West to scuttle
NATO, the key to West Europe's
defense, in exchange for aban
donment by the Communist East
of the alliance of Russia's East
European satellites. . . "
How the Russians reacted to
the American assurances and to
Mr. Eisenhower's appeal for ac
ceptance of NATO was not imme
diately disclosed. '
But reporters noted that both
Bulganin and Soviet Communist
party chief Nikita ' Khruschev
looked more serious on leaving
the conference room in the old
League of Nations Palace than
they were when they went in at
the start of today's session.
President Eisenhower told Bul
ganin there was no justification
for any tendency to delay Ger
man unification.
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Nixon Calls Cabinet
Meeting for Friday I
Washington (U.I?) Vic
President Richard M. Nixon to
day called a . meeting of Presi
dent Eisenhower's cabinet : for
Friday morning at the White
House. ... .
It was learned yesterday that
the Vice-President was planning
to preside at the session in Mr.
Eisenhower's absence.
Nixon emphasized that there
is no "emergency" about the
session. It was described as a
regular meeting. .
Vancouver, Wash. (U.R)
Barbers here have hiked the
price of - haircuts to $1.50 in
line with a recent increase in
Portland prices.;-' -
Horticultural ; Fi?ld Day Slated Friday;
Tours, Demonstrations in Fruit Work Sot
" A horticultural field day,
featuring demonstrations of pro
gress, in 'various phases of fruit
raising -and equipment, and
tours of orchards, will be held
all day Friday, July 22, it was
announced' today. ", ,
The event is being held under
the sponsorship of the Fruit
Growers league with , the coop
eration of the Oregon State Hor
ticultural society, the state ex
tension service and the ' South
ern Oregon. Experiment station.
Paul Culbertson, : president of
the league, has invited all grow
ers, their wives, and others in
terested in the fruit industry to
attend. :
'The day will start at 9 a.m.
at the experiment' station at
Talent. (Buses lor those wishing
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REAL COOL DOG. COOL As
100 at Dallas, Tex., a six-year-old Pomeranian took to a
pan of ice-water, cocked a wary eye at the rising mercury.
White Ma.? ase
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6 IPossSbDe
The Bernice H. (Tex) White
murder trial went to the jury
at 10:10 a.m. today.
Actual trial of the case was
completed yesterday afternoon
with the final statements of Dis
trict Attorney Walter Nunley
and Defense . Attorney Robert
Duncan. The 40 minutes the
court was in session this morn
ing were - taken up with the
judge's instruction to the jury.
Claims Insanity
White is accused of first de
gree murder in the March 2
slaying . of Eugene Raymond
. Birk, . Phoenix. White has not
denied the killing, which was
done with a two by four piece
of lumber, but has pleaded tem
porary insanity. Much of the
testimony d u r i n gthe,;triai
wBicn"Tegan a"week ago yester
day, has concerned White's medi
cal record, his epilepsy, and his
"seizures," several of which
have .taken place in the court
room. . . .
'.The defense has claimed the
fatal attack took place during
one such psycho-motor seizures,
and that White has no recollec
tion of parts of the action re
sulting in the death of Birk,
a fellow employee at the Talent
mill.' '
Six Alternatives.
Judge H. K. Hanna, in in
structing ; the jury, gave them
six alternative possibilities for
a verdict. The first two are first
degree murder, with or without
recommendation for leniency.. A
verdict without such a recom
mendation requires the death
penalty; otherwise life imprison
ment is 'mandatory. Either of
these two verdicts must be
reached unanimously by the
jury. ;
The other four, possible ver
dicts can be reached by at least
10 of the 12 jurors. They are
second degree murder, man
daughter, not . guilty,! and not
'guilty by reason of insanity. ,
DA Sees Motive
In his closing statements yes
terday, Nunley described the
grand jury indictment, and de
clared that motive for murder
existed in the ill-feeling between
White and 'Birk, arising from
a dispute about rest period re
lief at the mill. Birk, Nunley
said, resented the fact that the
defendant discussed the matter
with the boss instead of the fore
man, and said, "So, you went
crying to the boss." Another
time, the district attorney said,
White was involved in a fight
with another of the mill hands
over the incident. -
Nunley questioned what he said
were discrepancies in White's
transportation : will ' leave - from
the courthouse at 8:30 a.m.) At
the station there will be dis
plays, demonstrations and ex
planations . of soil moisture
measuring equipment, miticides,
insects, commercial chelate pro
ducts, antibiotics, leaf color ex
tracts and pear russet and in
jury slides. Spider' mite control
plots will be shown. .
Morning tours, between 9:30
a.m. and 12:30 pjn. will be to
the. Steve Nye orchard, the, Art
Wilson' orchard and 'the Med
ford Experiment station to view
effects of chelated iron on lime
chlorosis, and pruning methods,
dormant spray, sod plots, .thin
ning plots, russet plots and weed
eontroL
--At-l -pj-a picnic lunch will
mm
the thermometer hit an i
to Mvy9
VeireHScfis
testimony. He said that if Birk,
just before the killing had oc
curred, had attacked the . de
fendant and struck him four or
five times, as White ; testified,
there should have been marks
on White's body. He said that if
the two had been fighting, Rich
ard Dale Blunc, an edger picker,
should have seen it Blunc had
testified he saw the two men
talking angrily, but not fighting.
Claims No Evidence
Nunley closed by saying that
in the 23 years of White's medi
cal history, there is no evidence
he had ever had an psycho-motor
seizure.
Duncan, in closing for the de
fense,, showed pictures of the
mill, showing how White and
Birk could have fought without
attracting Blunc's notice. He also
reierrea to tne Mann corps
medical report which described
White as an epileptic, and a
"menace" to his fellow service
men.' -. : :
The defense attorney empha
sized the fact that Blunc had re
membered an "odd" smile on
White's face just before the kill
ing. This, Duncan said, was the
same expression Dr. James C
Luce, a neurologist, testified he
had seen during White's seizures
in his office.
Cites Seisure Evidence
' Duncan stated that the inabili
ty of the defendant to remember
striking Birk more than once,
his denial of repeating "111 kill
the . V and the testi
mony of mill hands that he kept
tying and . untying -his apron
strings after the attack, all were
evidence that White had been
suffering a seizure. ...'
In his final rebuttal, Nunley
asked the jury for "justice." He
said the state had proven White
to be an ordinary epileptic with
out psycho-motor seizures or
iciiijjuihi jr insanity, ana umh u
the jury returned a verdict of in
nocent, it was at the same time
saying in effect, that all epilep
tics are liable to commit such an
act of violence. ?
Forest Patrol Crew
Puts Out Small Fire
A state forest patrol crew this .
morning' put out a snlall fire in
the old Itoundtop burn near the
head of the East Fork of Evans
Creek, it was reported. .
The blaze was in a logging op
eration, and forest patrolmen
are continuing an investigation.
An inspector was in the .area
and reported the fire, and a
pump truck and , crew from
Medford, and ' the' . Salt Creek
warden, put out the'fire. :
be served at TouVelle State
park by the ladies of the Phoe
nix Grange,' with the Fruit
Growers league as hosts. A dis
play of orchard equipment will
be on view at the park.
Between 2:30 and 5 p.m. tours
will view hybrid pears, perma
nent cover crops, sawdust plots
and dwarf apples.
Dr. Louis Centner and Dr.
those explaining the - displays
and experiments. Others attend
ing will be Harold Bushue,
Gresham, new president of the
Oregon State Horticultural : o
ciety, . and Dr. ' Spencer Apple,
new head of the horticultural
department at Oregon State col
lege succeeding Harry Hartman,
who retired July L
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high lemel- dam. .
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