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Newspaper Page Texti it Gil Bib lis IQiii n Medford Tribune Walker United Frew Full Luaed Wir 50th Year 22 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1955 Cnlted Pren Full Leased W t?J Z Price 5e No. If3 P3 C o AST: Partial clearing lecreai Inr shower activi light and Saturday. Low it 45. High Saturday 7. Temp. Yesterday 62 this Morning 52 s 10 a-m. Today .30 mm t.i - 3 WaDOim iecjje ' Umideir 13: a tie i -r 2 ! I D1 TTnifa 4 Via artrantina Armv flnH KaW O UC11US nilCS ru-rj "iv j - rebelled against the government of President Juan D. Peron today at widely separated points in four provinces. The Congress voted a state of siege throughout the country. The state radio announced repeatedly that the revolt was crushed. An estimated 100 persons, most of whom were armed, were 3rrested in Buenos Aires. The city itself was calm in the face of greatly intensified military activity, But the situation was unclear outside the capitaj. Fighting was T-cnnrtPri at several Doints. with the uprisings apparently con fined mainly to Cordoba, Santa Fe. Corientes and Entre Rios provinces. These orovinces adjoin each other in an arc north and north west of Buenos Aires. A government broadcast said 300 men were arrested wnen UMC leaders Name Co-Chairmen for Home Fund Drive Mrs. Scott Davis and Mrs. Al loyal troops smashed a subver- Ltttrell have been appointed co- sfve movement by a garrison in Entre Rios Prinve: Garrison Said Shelled ' Newspapers in Cordoba City reported that troops at the artil- 1rv school near there had shelled the garrison at the infan try school. Santa Fe newspapers said .the Third Cavalry Regiment sta tioned at Gualeguay, 115 miles northwest of Buenos Aires, had rebelled. .j - She government radio said some naval garrisons were in volved in the uprising, which came three months after the abortive June 16 Navy led re volt against Peron which cost the lives of more than 200 per sons. chairmen foe the 1956 United Medford Crusade home cam naien. it was announced re cently. The city has been divided into five areas for crusade purposes, with five "colonels" heading so licitation in each'. The five ap pointed are Mrs. J. E. Collins, Mrs. Frank Van Dyke, Mrs. Ed Hoppe. Mrs. Raymond Reter, and Mrs. Leonard Mayfield. To Nam Captains The colonels will appoint cap tains whose job it is to recruit solicitors. The solicitors mafce the house to house canvass, vis iting homes which do not show the UMC sticker indicating . . -W- . . . I .: ulnoifv hppn made ruu " no I . .n address of "national interest': . The-home campaign. .wyw u run Rneada covern-1 are expected to i i j ;,;,. lolooatos I nrViorr organization is complete .v.- -..,,i rnnfpdPration of Oct. 24 will be the kick-off t.iw... ot m m But at 10:15 date for this division with ac- .uovui a. w . , t m rro, --, thi state radio, which was tivities to ciose inuv. i. j." toa tn hroadcast the speech dential canvass is designed to was playing folk music. . Preach , those who have not pre- The government oroaacasi saiu viousiy i u..u -. there were uprisings oy Army oi ousiness. garrisons at "several interior points," notably at cordooa ana Piinizu Cuatia W1 orr:iiwB Province. Some Naval garrisons aiso . . ii 1 3 4 wra involved, tne Drvuutnsj airl. Tt said ,'. loyal troops nad nirt Mprrill Wells. 42. of smashed a subversive movement portiani( was sentenced to three by a garrison at Entre Rios Pro- vears m the state prison this mi wmcn lies uuim i i .nntrimmnff to xne Parana river in the northeast. It delinquency 0 a minor. Wells said juu men and five others appeared peiore Circuit Judge H. K. Hanna to- dav Robert Hibbard Taylor, 41, oi Fresno, Calif., received a two year prison sentence on charges of obtaining money by false pre- TfVp In 1 ni i! Hi l 1 nunist China Wmcicdses Pair of American Civilians Priest, Confessed Spy Reach Hong Kong SIXTH QUIZ WINNER Mrs, Delbert E. Johnson, route 1, box 468. Talent, is shown above receiving a free one-year subscription to the Mail Tribune. She won it by submitting the best list of answers to the sixth in the series of current events quizzes being conducted by the Mail Tribune to call attention to Bargain Days, when annual subscriptions to the newspaper can be obtained at a saving of $2.50. Mrs. Dorothy Loucks, a regular Mail Tribune car rier after a substitute on a motor route during the past 15 years, is shown presenting the subscription to Mrs. Johnson. The Johnsons raise beef cattle arid hay 'on their 78 acre farm, and live in a new, ranch-style house which they built. The Mail Tribune circulation department will remain open until 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 17, to accommodate those who wish to take advantage of the Bargain Days offer. The last-minute rush may be avoided by mailing pay ments directly to the Mail Tribune office before Bargain Days end Monday. . (Landis-Shangle photo) Conference May Seal Division of Germany Five Sentenced In Circuit Court there. Trhaoa Patrol SttMiS ' Tn Buenos Aires, police mount ed guards at dawn at the tele phone exchanges and other vital nff ir throughout the city. r . ui uwkoiiiiiij """ Machine guns were set up ai tenses His wife, Pauline Ruth the post office. . Taylor, 31, was given a two year Military vehicles and anti-air- ded sentence on the same cran guns -pairuucu m o.-, ammunition from tcksat" the Non-support Defense Mininstry B u i 1 d i n g two c ases. Haro MBflrH udson - e,f rasa 34. Springfield, received an 11 Rosada month sentence, and Ralph Field" guns and anti-aircraft Henry Ownby, 22, Crater hotel, artillery ringed the building. Moscow U.R) An East German delegation was flying here today to meet Soviet lead ers in a momentous conferenc expected to discredit' West Ger man Chancellor Konrad Ade nauer and seal the division of Germany for years to come. ' The Soviets delivered a sting ihe rebuff to Adenauer Thurs day night when they bluntly contradicted his claim to speais for all of Germany and his asser tion that only a peace treaty can fix the final frontiers of Ger many. " ' Informed sources said the So viets also intended to give full credit to the East German dele cation headed by Premier Otto Grotewohl for the release of German war prisoners. Ade nauer announced Tuesday he had won the promise in four days Of hard bargaining. Aoreemeni Made Tuesday Adenauer said Bulganin and Communist Party chief Nikita Khrushchev told him Tuesday the Soviet Union would release all German war prisoners cur rently held in the Soviet Union. This was a price he had de manded for establishment of dip lomatic ties. . - . Announcement of their ver bal promise was widely hailed in the Western world as a vic tory for Adenauer. But the sud den switch which brought the Fast Germans to Moscow was seen as a resounding slap in the face for the 79-year-old chan cellor. Not Part of Bargain Western observers here said fhe Soviets would likely , dress lip" the release of the prisoners as an act of clemency following appeals from East Germany not as part of a bargain made with Adenauer. Such a move, observers said, would not only discredit Ade nauer at least in the eyes of the Communist world but would give an intense stimulus to the East German government. The impending double take was considered a switch from the "love everybody" policy which the Soviet has pursued since the Geneva Summit Con ference last ;July, . and the sources predicted it" may bring orth considerable criticism from the West. . Neuberger Proposes -Columbia Water Parley Portland (U.R) Sen. Rich ,ri T. Npuhercer (D-Ore.) to day uroDOsed a meeting of U.S. and Canadian officials to talk over efficient ways to use Co lumbia river water. Neuberger said - he hoped a meeting could be arranged be tween the Senate Interior com- a one year suspenuea sentence, Claud Wilson Ferguson, 43, Crater hotel, pleaded guilty to charges of obtaining money by false, pretenses and was held pending FBI reports. Ferguson was arrested by sheriffs officers yesterday. Stanley Edward Mayfield, ac cused of uttering and publishing a false check, pleaded guilty and was also held pending FBI re ports. " mittee, of which he is a mem- Murder Suspect Bound ber, and tne external mum nr - ,.J Corkmittee of the Canadian Par- Over fO Grand Jury He said both countries liament. have "too vast a stake in the rivdro-electric capacity of the Columbia river to permit un reasonable demands by either nation to interfere with maxi mum use of the Columbia's Ca nadian reaches for power. Portland (U.R) Donald H. Bookhultz, 40, was bound over to a Multnomah county grand jury yesterday on charges of fatally stabbing Mrs. Clara Grace Simpson, who died early Wednesday id a Portland hos pital. Hate News EBuODefin Four people ware injured late this morning in two separate Jackson county automobile accidents. . Clarence Wilson, manager of Medford radio station BOY, and his cousin, Wayne A. Wilson, proprietor of West Main Retail service, were injured in a car-logging truck accident on the Greensprings highway east or Asniand. They are at Ashland General hospital. Wayne Wilson report edly received cuts about the head and neck and required blood transfusions. Clarence Wilson sustained back, shoulder and hand injuries. " In the second accident, a car driven by Sumner H. Beecher, 69, Burlingame, Calif., went over the embankment near Prospect when the car skidded on wet pavement. Beecher and his wife were brought to Community hospital by Medford Ambulance serv ice. Their injuries war undalermined. - Cool Weather Greets Pendleton Roundup Pendleton (U.R) Chilly weather greeted an opening day crowd of 7000 perspns at the 44th annual Pendleton Roundup yesterday but did not slow the pace Of the West's greatest out door ShOW. y Seven world champion rodeo riders were among the 150 con tenders competing for more than $26,000 in prize money. No arena records were broken yes terday but Glen Hone of Black foot. Ida- threw his steer in 8.6 seconds for the second best bull- dogging time, in Pendleton history. Five out of 17 contestants were thrown in the first bucking go-around and no recoWs were set. ; s Oregon Gets 25,533 Salk Vaccine Doses Washington (U.R) The Pub lic Health Service today released to Oregon 25,533 doses of Salk polio vaccine as part of a release of 3,819,621 doses nationally, Most of the new vaccine was made by the Eli Lilly Co., Indi anapolis. The rest, 448,000 doses, was made by the Pitman-Moore Co., Zionsville, Ind. It is up to states to determini how much shall go to public health agencies and how much to coaunsreial ohannela. . Dulles Faces Tough Diplomatic Schedule Washington U.R) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles comes home from a Canadian vacation today to one of - the toughest diplomatic schedules an American secretary of state ever faced. The secretary and his wife have been spending the past two weeks at their , Duck Island, Lake Ontrio, lodge and were due back in Washington "late to day." Dulles . will spend Saturday and Sunday at his office catch ing up on the world's latest dip lomatic developments, making overdue decisions, and putting the finishing touches to a speech he will deliver Monday before the United Nations General Assembly at New York. He will fly back to Washing ton Thursday or- Friday to pre pare for an American-Austral ian-New Zealand Defense Coun cil meeting on Saturday, Sept. 24. . On Sunday, Sept. 25, Dulles joins other cabinet officers on a trip to Ottawa and conferences there Sept. 26 on trade and economic matters with Canadian officials. '1 3 IN ACCIDENT DEAD Donald Lee Knoebel, 19, of Route 1, Eagle Point, driver of the car. Hong Kong (U.R) Commun ist ; China freed two American civilians today, one a Roman Catholic priest held in solitary confinement the last six weeks, another a student who said he was a spy. .- - xlong Kong : police first re ported two other Americans were at the border but the only other Caucasian to cross today was .a German woman. ; They were the first of 41 U. S citizens to be ' released by the Peiping government under terms of an agreement ' reached in Geneva talks between U. S. and Red Chinese ambassadors. Those released today: i The very Rev. Harold W. Rig ney of Chicago, the Catholic priest -who hinted the Commun ists tried to re-ducate him while he was in jail. Walter A. Rickett of Seattle, Wash., who said he had "spied' for American, Dutch and British groups before sentenced to a 10- year prison term. Wife Released Earlier Rickett s wife, Adle, was re leased by the . Communists last Feb. 27. She arrived singing the praises of Communist China and said she, too, had been a "spy, Rickett, faced by a battery of newsmen and photographers after .,hs. relae(se, was asked pointblank, "Are you" a spy." "Well, I collected information for the American consulate and other organizations," he said. : He ., added in an undertone, Therefore I am a spy." , ; Asked if he had been' "indoc trinated" by the Chinese Com munists Rickett hesitated and asked that the question be changed to were you "educated." Rickett said he had been in contact with another American, Miss Harriet Mills of New York. "She is in excellent health and will be released soon," Rickett said. ' Appeared in Good Health . Rickett, dressed in tan slacks and sport shirt, - appeared in fairly good health. Rigney wore a gray suit, open neck shirt and a tropical pith helmet. " "I waited two years and two months for this day," the priest said. The priest told newsmen the Communists informed him last Sunday he would be released. Rigney said a Chinese ' judge asked him what he was going to do and he said he replied he was going to get my teeth fixed and apply for an exit permit." Rickett and ' Rigney were among 10 American civilians whose prison terms were short ened by the Communists so they could. . be released under the agreement reached by U.S. am bassador U. Alexis Johnson and Red Chinese Ambassador Wang Ping-nan in negotiations at Ge neva. (See story on Page 14) DR. REX PUTNAM Stat Superintendent Dr. Rex Putnam Speaker Sunday at School Dedication 33 Greenlease Ransom Money Bills Recovered St. Louis (U.R) A total of 33 of the missing Greenlease ran som money bills have been re covered, the FBI here an nounced today. The latest discovery of one of the $20 bills in a total of $303, 720 was made by Mrs. Charles E. Weirbauch, wife of a retired farmer, at Norris City, HI. Dr. Rex Putnam, state super intendent of public instruction. will be the" principal speaker Sunday at the dedication pro gram for the new E. H. Hedrick Junior Hifih school. The program will be held at the school, on East Jackson st. star tine at 2 p.m. Dr. Putnam has been state superintendent of public instruc tion since 1937. He started as a teacher in the Springfield pub lic schools in 1915, and later taught in Salem and served as superintendent of schools in Red mond and Albany. Dr. Putnam has served as an officer and member of several national education croups and other organizations. -. Branchfield To Preside Presiding at the program will hp Edward Branchfield, chair man of the Medford board of education. The Rev. Thomas Mc Camant, pastor of the Medford Congregational church, will give the invocation and benediction. Other sneakers will include Otto Ewaldsen and Frank Bash, members of the board of educa tion, and Vincent P. Bevis, prin cipal of the new school. Music will be provided by the Medford High school band, under the direction of I. A. Mirick. ' The new Hedrick school, named for E. H. Hedrick, who retired recently after 30 years as Medford superintendent of schools, was designed by R. J. Keeney and Jack Edson, Med ford architects. Cost $894,497 Containing 89,706 square feet of floor space, the building was constructed at a contract price of $894,497.00. It is estimated that a total of $120,000 in addi tion to contract and site costs will be spent for furnishing the building, completing work on the grounds, sidewalks and road ways, and for architects' and legal fees. Based on existing state stand ards, the building will house an enrollment of approximately 900 students. The auditorium - gym nasium will seat 3,000 people as an auditorium, and 2,750 as a gymnasium. The iriginal site of seven acres for the school was purchased in 1930. In recent years, additional lots were obtained, bringing the total acreage for the site to the present 9V4 acres. Adenauer Convinced Soviets Desire Peace Bonn, Germany U.R) Chan cellor Konrad Adenauer said, to day his Moscow talks convinced him the Soviets urgently desire a long period of peace to enable them to overcome internal prob lems. The - chancellor appealed to the free world to accept this So viet need as a "reality." . "It may lead the world on two possible paths,"-he told press conference. "It may lead the world to realize that it is better for it to develop peace fully, or it may lead to a return to the old methods. "But the free world, with all watchfulness and caution, must accept this Soviet need as reality in world politics.",: INJURED (All in bus) George P. Siapreton, 68, Camp White, head injuries, condition critical, at Sacred Heart hospital. Elbert Ray Young 59, of 512 Pennsylvania are., driver of the bus, broken hand, possible chest and back injuries, at Community hospital. . . Kellen B. Miller, 63. Camp White, injuries unknown, at Camp White hospital. Carl E. Einkopf, 56, Camp White, eye puncture wound, lacerations, at Camp White hospital. ' Mrs. Ruby Stowell, Eagle Point, lacerations, possible head injuries, at Community hospital. Mrs. Leoia Buigess. Eagle Point, lacerations, treated and released at Community hospi tal. Mrs. Jesse May Tyeer, route 1, box 680, Eagle Point, treated and released at Com munity hospital. Stanley E. Gage, 48, Camp White, cuts and bruises, treated and released at Camp White clinic. ' Robert Parry, Camp White, cuts, treated and released at Camp White clinic James L. Duncan; 40, Camp White, cuts and bruises, treat ed and released at Camp White clinic. Burrill D. Douglas, 48, Camp White, cuts and bruises, treated and released at Camp Vhite clinic. Victor H. Spaulding. 61. Camp White, cuts and bruises, treated and released at Camp White clinic. Percy L. King, 35, Camp White, cuts and bruises, treat ed and released at Camp White clinic John W.- Hall. 66, Camp White, cuts and biuises, treat ed and, released at Camp White clinic. Olai Stensager, 67,- Camp White, cuts and bruises, treat ed and released at Camp White clinic Joe L. Bonner. 44, Camp White, cuts and bruises, treat ed', and released at Camp White clinic Head-On Crash at Camp White Kills Eagle Point Man Camp UNINJURED Charles H. Pavey, 62, While, passenger in bus. Vincent Trevor Winnington, 64. Camp White, passenger in bus. Unidentified girl, about 14 years of age, passenger in bus. Fred Larson, age and ad dress not listed, passenger in bus. Benson Cites Plight Of American Farmers Washington (U.R) Secretary of Aericulture Ezra T. Benson charged today that "prophets of gloom and aoom" are trying to make a "political football" out of the current plight of Ameri can farmers." Although he didn't mention the Democrats, 'the secretary aimed his comment squarely at their claims that the Republicans are -to blame for a decline in farm prices, and income. Benson told a news conference he is "deeply concerned about the problem but he deplored the efforts of some groups to make a political issue out of it. "Farmers are in a cost-price squeeze and it's real . . ." Benson said. . But he declared his firm con fidence that American agricul ture is basically sound and that solutions will be found to cur rent problems "despite what is said by propHets of gloom and doom and the political depres sion that seems to be on." Nearly $4,500,000 Worth of Timber Lost In Siskiyou County Brush, Forest Fires Yreka Nearly $4,500,000 worth of merchantable timber was destroyed in the early-September forest and brush fires in Siskiyou county, according to estimates made this, week by R. W. Bower, supervisor of Klam ath National forest. Some 350,500,000 board feet of timberonly slightly less than the annual average timber cut in the county, was destroyed, ac cording to Bower's estimate. Cost Not Included These figures do not include ti tramandou cost oi fighting the blazes, which include mov ing in thousands of men, tons of equipment, and food and sup plies. A detailed survey of the dam age has been started, Bower said, and will be completed in about two weeks. Helicopters are flying over the burned areas to assist the survey. -Rain. Helps , Fires are still smouldering in some of the burned-over areas, although the worst of the blazes b,ave been doused by heavy rains of the past few days. The fires may oontinut hoi until a long, drenching rain soaks the ground and snags thoroughly, and for esters pointed out that if there is : another protracted period without rain, some of the fires could again flare up. Rain Dance ' Credit for the heavy rains. which had not been predicted by the weather bureau, was given by some to Zuni and Apache Indian fire fighters, wno staged a rain dance after they arrived It lasted all one night and part of the next day, stopping only when rains began to zaU. Domiciliary Member In Critical Condition One man was killed and 18 other people were injured yes terday afternoon in a grinding head-on crash between an Ever green bus and a coupe at the en trance to Camp White. The acci dent occurred at about 3:45 p.m. De3d was Donald Lee Knoe bel, 19, of Route 1, Eagle Point. , He was the driver and only occupant of the car. Sixteen out of about 20 occu pants of the bus, including the driver, were injured, one or more of them critically. Officer Sees Crash Eyewitnesses to t$e accident included a state police officer. and Camp White medical of ficers and domiciliary guards. The doctors gave emergency treatment to Knoebal, but the youth died minutes after the ac cident. An ambulance was sum moned almost immediately by the state police officer. The state police offfcer on the scene said the car sjriven by Knoebel - was southbou on Crater Lake highway at "a mod erately high rate of speed" which he estimated at 55 to oO miles an hour. The bus was traveling north at a speed Driver Elbert Ray Young, 59, of 512 Pennsylvania ave., esti mated at 35 miles an hour. Collide Head-On ' . The officer said the bus made a left tarn at the Camp White entrance, directly in the path of the Knoebel car. Knoebel did not have time to apply the brakes, the officer said, and the two vehicles collided head-on. Reports indicated that Young had been watching a southbound school bus, which turned into the domiciliary driveway. The bus driver apparently failed to see Knoebel's car, which was . directly behind the school bus. Most seriously injured of the bus passengers was George P. Stapleton, 68, a Camp White member. He was taken to the Camp White inf irma-, and then lance to Sacred Heart hospital, where his condition was listed as critical. Mrs. Ruby Stowell, Eagle Point, was taken to Community hospital by private car. She re ceived lacerations and possible head injuries and is being held for observationO Carl E. Einkopf, 56, a Camp White member, received a punc ture wound to the left eye, and other lacerations.. He is being treated at the Camp infirmary. Bus Driver Hurt Young, driver of the bus, re ceived a broken hand and pos sible chest and back injuries. He was taken by Medford Ambu lance to Community hospital. Knoebel is survived by hit Binger, Okla., and an uncle, Roy K. Knoebel, Eagle Point. ' Donald- Knoebel came to Eagle Point from Kansas on June 3, and had been living with his uncle. Coneer-Morris funeral home is in charge of arrangement. Spokane-Cafgary Route Sought by WCA Seattle (U.R West Coast Airlines yesterday-filed an ap plication " with the Civil Aero nautics Board to provide air service from eastern Washing ton, eastern Oregon and Idaho points it now serves through Spokane to Calgary, Alta. The company applied for eith er a permanent or temporary certificate to ' transport pas sengers, air express, air freight and mail between Spokane and Calgarv "on a non-stop basis or bv wav of such intermediate points as the board might de cide would be required in the public convenience and neces sity." ' West Coast now serves 44 communities along a 2,200-mile route in Washington, Oregon and Idaho. Aberdeen, Wash. (U.R) A miniature "hurricane" damaged trees, windows and utility lines in the east portion of Aberdeen yesterday. which are' pending. Chrysler Workers Revolt Against CIO Detroit U.R) A rebellion by skilled workers against the CIO United Auto Workers union to day stirred walkouts at Chrysler Corp. plants which the company said might hamper the introduc tion of its 1956 models. - The revolt against the inter national union started yesterday shortly after a local union executive board suspended a shop - committeeman and two -stewards from their union posts on grounds that they had joined or aided a rival union. About 300 skilled tradesmen walked out at the company's Vernor plant and soon were joined by 120 workers at Chrys ler's Mack Plant. The walkout at the Mack Plant forced the company to send home an additional 470 workers. '. School Crossing Gets Hew Traffic Signal A new traffic signal has been installed at the intersection of Stewart ave. and Holly st. where the Holly st. extension continues to Jefferson grade school. The signal is to be in opera tion today and through the week end on a 24 hour basis to allow drivers to familiarize themselves with it before school opens Monday. Charles Champlin, chief of po lice, urged this morning that drivers and students exercise special caution 'la the signal area.