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o o o Ousted Nebraska Jail Chief Critisizes Way Latest Riot Handled Lincoln, Neb. (U.R) George Morris, ousted head of the dis sention ridden Men's Reforma tory here, Saturday criticized his successor and Board of Control officials for their handling of the latest not at the institution. Morris, in a scathing attack, said if Supt. M. L. Wimberley and Board Administrative As sistant Harold Peterson had taken the advice of top staff members at the Reformatory, the riot and fire Friday would not have occurred. No Fore The staff members, Morris said, recommended that no force be used to break a sitdown strike which mushroomed into a full Marine Libel Suits Filed in Portland Portland (U.R) Six marine libel actions were filed in Fed eral Court here Friday against owners and masters of motor boats charged by the Coast Guard with violating the fed eral motorboat act. The Columbia - River Packers Association is defendant in five of the suits. The other defend ant is R. D. Voile, a Warrenton fisherman. The government asks $1100 in fines for alleged violations which include failure to have proper safety equipment aboard The motorboat act requires such equipment and other safe guards. The Coast Guard is charged with enforcing the act and has power to assess fines. In the six cases filed Friday the Coast Guard claims the de fendants have failed to pay fines levied against them. The eight drownings during the recent lower Columbia river salmon derbies drew attention to the federal law which seldom has been invoked. which First Uranium Ore Shipped from Lakeview Lakeview (U.R) The first shipment of uranium ore mined In Oregon about 400,000 pounds will leave here Sept. 22 when new rates for the min eral go into effect on Southern Pacific's line from here to Ka lunile, Utah. The four carloads of ore, al ready stockpiled by the .Lucky Lass mine, will be destined for the Vitrol Company smelter at Kalunile. The shipment is intended to show whether or not mining of ore in the Lakeview area will be economically feasible. Une Washington and one Idaho firm have been shipping ore to smelters for some time, but this will be the first ship ment from Oregon. scale riot and a fire caused $35,000 damage. Wimberley, commenting on the Morris attack, said: "I guess everyone has a right to his own opinion." "We exhausted every means and used force as a last resort" to stop the riot, he said. Morris has advocated a "get tough" policy in handling riot ers, but said this should be done before they get out of hand. One inmate shot in the Friday riot, Luis Morales, 28, San An tonio, Texas, was reported , in fair condition at a Lincoln hos pital Saturday. Wimberley said all the 300 in mates of the institution were "quiet all night and Saturday morning." 1 He and Peterson conducted newsmen on a tour of the re formatory Saturday "so you can see the bidden corners of this institution and form your own opinions." Locked Up . . The Superintendent said 25 suspected leaders in the upris ing were locked in segregation The process of shaking down the inmates involved in th riistnrh- ance has been completed, he said, and several work details were put back into operation. Morris said Saturday penal ad ministrators must be "tough but fair" in handling inmates. A strong and outspoken critic of state penal practices and ad ministrators, Morris said: "I can not understand the thinking, if you could call it that, of the Board of Control, Peterson, or anyone in the Governor's office who might have been involved in a decision to use force when force was not needed." "They deliberately, by that decision to use force involved 150 men in a disastrous effort to combat that force which se verely wounded one of the men." "Even if Wimberley and Pet erson had been experienced, qualified persons they would not have been able to handle that situation yesterday, walking into it cold like they did," Morris said. "But had they been exper ienced they would have taken the advice of top staff members who have been at the institution more than 10 years, who know the individuals they're dealing with and who understand a group's potential action. TJiey were advised by such staff members not to use force but disregarded that advice." Uia Force Officials used teargas and gun fire to break the hour-long riot, forcing about 150 men back into their cells. Officials said about two dozen men led the rebellion which developed from a sitdown strike early Friday in which in mates protested the firing of Morris, complained of food, and about letter writing privileges. - . ' ' ' - ' ' ' - ' jj&f'ikr, ' - - ..," v. yt-l J,,;;; ; ;:;:;y ' -j "P -jab cc, g cb, ' FIREFIGHTERS SAVE TOWN California State Forestry firefighters set a backfire just west of Hawkinsville in an effort to stop forest fire from destroying nearby Yreka. Their efforts paid off and the flames were stopped 4Vfe miles from the town of 3500 residents. Almost 170 square miles of California forest lands have been destroyed by fires in a week, 'Star1 One of Three Most Abused Words In, Show Business, Hollywood Writer Says By JACK GAVER United Press Corespondent New York (U.R)- The three most abused words in the show business lexicon are "star," "comeback" and "Cinderella." Hollywood's publicists and journalistic homers long ago robbed "star" of its true mean ing with a thoroughness that caused even those not toiling in the celluloid vineyard to be infected. An actor who takes time out to go around the block for a parcel of cigarets better make it a fast trip lest he be hailed as making a comeback upon his return. This season the historians of Broadway are on a Cinderella kick. There are more Cinder- ellas than the- best-heeled prince would care to supply with slip pers. The one attracting the most attention because of the eminence of her sponsors is Judy Tyler, a petite, pert burn- ette singer with a truly viva cious charm who will be the ingenue lead in the new Rich ard Rodgers-Oscar Hammer- stein m u s ic a 1 play. "Pipe Dream," their first new work in more than two years. Had TV Experience Miss Tyler- (she's married to Colin Romoff, vocal coach) A LITTLE LATE New Britain, Conn. . flJ.R) The temperature was 85 degrees when four fire companies raced to the scene of an automobile fire. A car owned by Walter Campbell caught fire when the radiator's anti - freeze "overflowed. comes most recently out of tele vision, although she had had some minor movie and stage ex perience. This summer you've seen her on NBC's "Caesar Pres ents" on Monday nights. Before that she was, of all things, In dian princess Summer Fall Winter Spring on the "Howdy Doody" program. Caesar had visions and a contract to bolster them of using Miss Tyler on his own program during the fall and winter, but when she came out on top in the auditions of many singers held by Rodgers and Hammerstein, he graceful ly bowed out of the picture. She'll reciprocate by making some guest appearances for Caesar during the new season. Tammy Grimes is another of the so-called Cinderellas. This 22-year-old is scarcely bowed with experience, but she did have the important assignment of filling in for Kim Stanley as leading lady of "Bus Stop" for several performances recently. Tapped For Title Role Tammy has been tapped for the title role in "The Amazing Adele," a musical comedy adapt ed by Anita Loos from a French play. Miss Loos first discovered her leading lady in a student production at the neighborhood playhouse last spring. Another virtually unknown actress assigned to an important chore is Jacqueline Scott of Sikeston, . Mo., who has been studying around here for some time and finally was spotted by playwright Moss Hart in a Hun ter College production. She has been cast as the 19-year-old girl who plays a prominent part in EflDflD dDdD IB FOR ANYONE WHO CAN DISPROVE THAT Fortune Is Finest Grade Gasoline On The Market MLUJS FREE FdDM OCT. 26 "FREE WE EVERY WED). NO NEED TO BUY TO TRY AT FORTUNE WHY -PAY MORE For GASflDUNE? IT'S FUN TO BUY GAS AT On the Point South Central at South Riverside Ford Tickets from So. Ore. Fortune Stations, McLain's Drugs, Central Market, Crater Lake Motors and Bell Motors "The Wooden Dish," Edmund Morris' serious drama starring Louis Calhern which is due here Oct. 6. Then, of course, there is the buxom Jayne Mansfield of Hollywood who came out of no where to grab what could be one of the plums of the season leading lady in George Axel rod's new comedy, "Will Suc cess Spoil Rock Hunter?" No professional stage work at all. There is even a pair of twins in the act, Dran and Tani Seitz, a toothy but handsome pair of blondes who have had bits in two Broadway shows in the past two . seasons. Now, suddenly, Tani has ah important role in the new drama, "Island of Goats," and Dran has taken over a leading role in the established musical, "Plain and Fancy." . "It's a lucky thing the pump kin crop was good this year." Sunday, September 11. 19SS MEDPORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE S EVE! Senanator Morse Asks ICC Car Supply Probe Washington, D.C. (Special) Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) has announced that he has asked the Interstate Commerce com mission to conduct "a very searching investigation and study of the freight car shortage problem." . "For several weeks my office has been in touch with the Inter state Commerce Commission as well as other agencies, both public and private, in an effort to assist Oregon businessmen who are now subjected to the severe handicap of the freight car shortage. However, the blunt fact is that these agencies have not been able to resolve the problem: it has grown pro gressively worse," Senator Morse said. Referring to charges of dis crimination against Oregon ship pers and alleged favoritism of California shippers on the part of the Southern Pacific company in distributing freight cars, Sen ator Morse pointed out that the information he has received in dicates that the car shortage is most acute in the areas of Ore gon where the Southern Pacific Railroad offers the sole source of rail freight transportation. He observed, "If the Southern Pa cific is in fact discriminating against Oregon in the distribu tion of freight cars, it is a prac tice that cannot be endured much longer by Oregbn lumber pro ducers in the category of small business." Senator Morse requested the 'Kitchen Karavan' Display Scheduled Four complete kitchens in stalled in a mobile home will be on display in Medford Monday. The Crane company "Kitchen Karavan" will be at Stuart Plumbing and Mechanical, Inc., 518 West Sixth st.,' from 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. it will be at Modern Plumbing and Sheet Metal, 613 Fast Jackson st. The "Karavan" will tour most of the United States in the next five months and return to Chi cago in February of 1956. ICC to investigate the freight car shortage and the slowdown in the railroad car repair program. In addition, he asked ICC to reap praise the whole rail freight transportation system at the ear liest possible date. After referring to figures showing extremely favorable net railway operating income aver aging over $1,000,000,000 per year for American class one rail ways between 1950 and 1954, Senator Mprse commented, "These figures lend strong sup port to the tft-repeated charge that the American railroads are concentrating ' too heavily on amassing profits and too little on rendering the American public the kind of rail service to which it is entitled." TYPEWRITERS 4 ADDING MACHINES Repaired MEDFORD OFFICE EQUIPMENT COMPANY 41 S. Grip Phoaa 2-4100 m. WWW kV'M M h ". EE 00 OC7GQ9 Now's the lime to take in ventory of your finances ... make plan for the coming year and consolidate your debts with a long-term, low. cost LAND BANK LOAN through your local National Farm Loan Association. SOUTHERN OREGON NATIONAL FARM LOAN ASSOCIATION Member Federal Land Bank System Hotel Holland Bldg. - 37 N. Fir St. Medford, Oregon F. E. Bowman Secretary-Treasurer DIRECTORS: J. W. Bigham Eagle Point A. E. 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