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3 ENTRENCHED ABOUND NAVAL BASE at Rio Santiago, these troops, loyal to govern ment of Argentine President Juan Peron, are firing on rebel positions. (International) Oregon Liquor Probe Resumes in Portland Friday Portland U.R) There was a lull in testimony before the Multnomah County Grand jury today but it planned to resume its probe into affairs of the Ore gon Liquor Control commission in earnest tomorrow. District Attorney William Langley said members of the OLCC staff would be called be fore the jurors to tell what they know about charges of bribery in the commission affairs. On Monday, Oregon Attorney Gen eral Robert L. Thornton will be Invited to present "legal evi dence" of so-called law viola tions among commission person nel. It was Thornton who recently charged that Gov. Paul L. Pat- terson had suppressed evidence of bribery accepted by OLCC employees. Gov. Patterson de nied the charge and himself ap peared before the grand jury to report the findings of an inves tigation he had ordered into com mission affairs. The probe was interrupted last month by a legal technicality but resumed yesterday with the tes timony of two former FBI agents now involved in the controversy. Howard Bobbit, former feder al agent now practicing law in Portland, was one of two at torneys who conducted the gov ernor's investigation. He . did not disclose the nature of his testimony. Also before the jury yesterday was C. C. spears, anotner form er FBI man who is now a special prosecutor for Langley in con nection with the OLCC case. Fescue Growers' Vote To Wait Ballot Boxes Salem (U.R) Counting of votes in the fescue commodity commission referendum now in progress will not get under way until all ballot baxes reach Salem, the State Department of Agriculture said today. Balloting started in 15 coun ties yesterday and will continue through tomorrow. J. F. Short, director of agriculture, said it would probably be Monday or Tuesday before all ballot boxes reach Salem. Family Sought In Montana Hungry Horse, Mont. (U.R) Efforts were being made to day to locate a construction wor ker, his wife and their three-year-old daughter missing from their home nearly eight weeks. At the same time another "missing persons" mystery was cleared up. Sheriff Dick Walsh said Ray Phillips had been missing since Aug. 8 when he left here to meet his 27-year-old wife who had been hospitalized in Spo kane. . Two older children were left with friends here when Phillips and the three-year-old left for Spokane. Walsh said he was "sure" Phil lips did get his wife at the hos pital and that the three left Spokane. But nothing has been heard from them here since Aug. 8 although Phillips had planned to return that night. Another western Montana mystery was cleared up when End ward Plummer, 38, Kelso, Calif., called Walsh to report he was safe and "didn't even know I was supposed to be missing." A search was scheduled to start for him after he was reported missing on a trip he began from Yakima,Wash., which he began Sept. 12 Plummer told Walsh he just "stopped en route." Sixty-five to 70 per cent mois ture is the desirable level for crops, according to the North Dakota agricultural marketing service. Both quality and feed value depend on correct, mois- Nickel Lost Under Bed Brings Fire Department Long Beach. Calif. (U.R) The next time nine-ytar-old Marie Peary loses a nickel under her bed she'll leave it there. -. When Marie lighted a match to look for the nickel Wednes day, the cloth covering on the bed's springs caught fire. Nine pieces of fire equipment rush ed to the house, but the fire had burned out. The only job left for firemen was to re trieve the nickel. Chris Shempp Named By Beverage Group Gearhart (U.R)' James W. (Woody) Sannes of Portland was elected president of the Oregon Licensed Beverage association yesterday at the concluding ses sion of the group's 18th annual convention here. Sannes succeeds C h a rl e s Schuss of Klamath Falls. ' Other officers named were Ralph Younger, Milton-Freewat-er, vice-president; Al Harris, Portland, treasurer, and Miles Brandson, Portland, national di rector. Elected alternate for Ban don was Chris Schempp of Med f ord. Among resolutions adopted by the association were one support ing Gov. Patterson proclamation urging observance of Constitut ion Week, and one authorizing the secretary - manager to rec ommend to all liquor licensees that they close on Christmas eve and from noon to 3 p.m. on Good Friday. 1 66 Fm counting on you '.The -UNITED BEDFORD CRUSADE . Is Now On! $e?w- I ' '"IMQ an i i''ii SmUuMt niPVm,,., j P47 Hp Published in cooperation with the United Medford Crusade by the makers of (FINE BAimr. 1PK(Q)EDU(DS Thursday, September" 22, 19SS MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINE Indian Timber at Gold Beach Sold For $1,175,1 Portland (U.R) Two North west Indians today are ' worth half-a-million dollars apiece as a result of yesterday's auction of their Oregon timber holdings. Gold Beach, Ore., Indian trust lands belonging to Jasper Grant of Portland and Harold F. Thornton of Klamath, Calif., were sold by the Indian Bureau to Evans Products Co., Coos Bay, Ore., for $1,750,000. Fraudulent Sales Four years ago the same lands were sold fraudulently for $135, 000 and three men served fed eral prison terms as a result. The two Indians will split the proceeds of the sale equally but control of, their new-found wealth will be in the hands of a conservator. The timberlands had been held in trust by the Bureau of Indian , Affairs since 1900. In 1951 they were sold in a sale arranged by Clyde W. Flinn, realty officer for the Indian Sod House Now Memorialized . . ; - . .' Colby, Kan. (U.R) A new his torical organization was launch ed here Aug. 21 to memorialize the sod house built on the great plains of mid-America. "The Sons and Daughters of The Soddies, Inc.," with V. A. Kear of Colby as its guiding spirit, already has membership requests from coast to coast. Kear, born in a sod house, started the organization when he noticed the unusual interest in a small replica of one at the Colby fairgrounds. - He decided to build a real sod house and furnish it with the tools, furniture and utensils used by the pioneers. Last year more than 8,000 persons stopped here to look at the house. So far this year, 24,000 tourists have been through it. More Than a Million With that kind of Interest, Kear decided to form an associa tion to the memory of the sod structure. Membership is for those who were born or reared in a "soddy" or attended school in one. ' Kear said there were more than 1,000,000 sod houses built on the plains during the' west ward movement, but that there are only 11 still standing. He hopes the Colby structure will become a shrine to that "great legion of courageous persons who homesteaded : the treeless plains." .- . A sod house was built of blocks of prairie sod two feet long, a foot wide and 3V& inches thick. The sod was laid while damp with the grass side down, making walls two feet thick. Kear said it took 89 tons of sod to build the house, not in cluding a layer on the roof. Long, handmade wooden spikes were used to secure rafters and other fittings into the sod. "Settlers could live comfort ably in a sod house," Kear said. "They were cool in the summer and warm in the winter, and there was never any danger of fire, because sod won't burn. Algae Blamed For Fish Deaths Appleton, Wis. (U.R) Techni cians believe they have found the culprits responsible for the wholesale death of fish in some of the nation's lakes and rivers. The fish-killers are algae, lit tle water plants which absorb so . much oxygen there isn't enough left for the fish, accord ing to tests made by the Sul phite Pulp Manufacturers- Re search League in Wisconsin. The league's technical men began investigating when fish suffocated without apparent cause at a Fox river point where repeated measurements showed that dissolved oxygen was ade quate for fish life day after day. The '- technicians finally re membered a peculiar ability of algae. These tiny plants give off oxygen during sunlight hours and absorb oxygen from the water at night. "We wondered if the algae could be reducing the oxygen i under cover of darkness to levels too low for fish life, and then restoring the oxygen to less sus picious levels by the time the chemists came around for sam ples," said Averill J. Wiley, the leagues technical director. So technicians sampled water in the Fox River every hour for one whole day. . ."Sure enough," said Wiley, "when the sampling started at 6 p.m. the oxygen supply in the water was 3.05 parts per mil lion, high enough, to support fish life." Wiley said that by 6 a.m. the oxygen dropped to 0.4 parts, which is too low for most desir able fish .species. Then as the sun rose, the oxygen started up ward and reached 3.3 parts at 5 p.m. Farm fertilizers and residues from sewage ' treatment plants are increasing algae growth and creating troublesome problems Bureau. He was convicted of fraud and sentenced to a federal prison term along with John C. Blan ford, former Oklahoma attor ney, and Fred Marsh, Lebanon timber buyer. Five Bidders There were five bidders at yesterday's sale. The Evans firm paid 10 per cent of its bid with a certified check and agreed to pay the balance within 30 days. Indian Bureau officials said there were few precedents for taxation of such sale proceeds but they believed that Grant and Thornton would enjoy their windfall tax free. Grant is Thornton's uncle. The original trust allotments were made to Grant's parents and sisters. He and his nephew are the' sole heirs. Grant is a bachelor but Thornton has several children. o Buy At Baildsrs Supply QUALITY BLOCKS Bricks. Floes Drain Tilt -Y27 . W. McAndrewa Phone 2-4111 HAMS Whole or Half Shank LooEt FROM PAULSEN'S THRIFT MARKET CENTRAL POINT Baby Beef Family Order! 10 lbs. Roasts o 5 lbs. Sf esk o 5 lbs. Short Ribs 5' lbs. Ground Bssf STEWING mm. PAN READY 3 LONG HORN GREEN CRISP i Celery U c) ea. 13 1 TOKAY Grapes SWEET JUICE Oranges LARGE HEADS Lettuce for STOCKTON TOMATO Catsup FACIAL Tissues Yes-4O0 Count ARMOUR'S CHOP IBEEF can Frozen Orange JUICE T. Ounce II Ca I PRICES GOOD FRI. AND SAT. ONLY PAULSEN'S THRIFT MARKET CENTRAL POINT'S MOST COMPLETE SHOPPING CENTER We Reserve the Right to Limit Quantities Lots of Free Parking Space in many U. S. lakes and riven,. Wiley said.
