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Friendly Farmer Learns of Error: Loses Mash, $250 Dallas U.R) Oscar Nelson, a friendly Falls City farmer, thought it was legal to make whiskey for home consumption. So, he set up a still and turned out liquor he drank and served to friends. But he discovered his error, when, after a party for some friends, he found a shotgun and other items missing, he called police. Proud of his operation, he showed his still to the officers and offered one of them a drink. The police said there wns nothing they could do but report the matter to the Oregon Liquor Control commission. A commission agent, accompanied by Deputy Sheriff R. G. oLefors, arrested Nelson, dumped 40 gallons of mash and confis cated the small, crude still. Nelson told Lefors he didn't know it was illegal to make whiskey as long as- he didn't sell it. An unsympathetic Justice Court fined him $250 and costs for illegal possession of mash. Thornton to Appear More Grand Jury Portland (U.R) Multnomah county grand jurors, investigat ing charges that evidence of bribery in the Oregon Liquor Control Commission was "cov ered up," Friday heard testi mony of Harland L. Plumb. Seattle, Wash., a former rep resentative of the distillery in dustry. ' Details of Plumb's and other witnesses' testimony were not revealed. Thornton To Appear Oregon Attorney General Rob ert Y. Thornton, who charged that bribery evidence was hid den at the end of an investiga tion into the OLCC ordered by Gov. Paul Patterson, will ap pear before the grand jury Mon day.' Gov. Patterson has denied there was any cover-up. Also heard by the jury was testimony from Gunner Gund erson; Portland, another form er representative of the dis tillery industry. -. Karl Glos, former OLCC hear ing officers who resigned after a tavern operator charged he offered" to peddle his influence to obtain a liquor license, was heard from as was assistant liq uor . administrator Thomas Sheridan who was suspended 30 days from his post when it was charged he let the beverage in dustry pick up a $40 hotel tab for him. Ordered By Judge Plumb, a veteran Seattle news man and public relations coun cil, appeared here on an Order of Judge H. G. Sutton of Kitsap County Superior Court in Port Orchard, Wash. . Multnomah County District Attorney .William Langley had asked he testify and the judge issued the order to Plumb under terms of a reciprocal agreement between the two states regard ing witnesses. Plumb had declined to appear earlier as .a voluntary witness after telling Oregon authorities he had already .given them a complete statement regarding an OLCC employe who allegedly tried to solicit a bribe from him but could not do eo. Police Give Woman Card To Pv She Is Not Kidnaper Los Angeles (U.R) Mrs. Rosemary Noble answered so well the "buxom blonde" de scription of the woman who kidnaped infant Robert Mar cus in San Francisco that she was stopped four times Fri day by downtown police as she carried her own three week old baby girl in her arms. In desperation, Mrs. Noble appealed to homicide officer Lt. R. E. Giece. Giese obliginly typed out a card and signed it. It read: "Mrs. Rosemary Noble states she has been stopped several times by policemen suspecting she might have kidnaped the San Francisco baby. I have examined the situation and find that this female child was born at Sea side hospital. Long Beach, on Aug. 31. 1955." Body of Man Found In Creek Near Maupin Maupin (U.R) The body of a man believed to be Robert Mil lard Meeks, 40, Los Angeles, Calif., was found at the Oak Brooks fish hatchery two miles west of here Friday. Wasco county sheriff's dep uties said Meeks had apparently tried to jump a freight train Thursday night and the speed of the train had thrown him against a fence post and some rocks. The body was discovered about 9 a.m. by Kenneth Mc Adams, an employee of the SP & S railroad. Elks Plan Observance Of Newspaper Week at 'Old Timers' Program National Newspaper week will be observed Sept. 29 by the Med ford Elks lodge in a special pro gram in connection with their Old Timers' night, according to C. Aubrey Sander, exalted ruler of the Medford lodge. The Thursday program will start at 5:30 p.m. with a fellow ship hour, followed at 7 p.m. with a banquet. Master of cere monies will be Manville Heisel, and John Dellenback will be the speaker. This is the seventh year in 0 HI - ! 11 IWH fYOUR INVESTMENT REPRESENTATIVE IN MEDFORD Call me for recent information on: Cascade Plywood Oregon Portland Cement 1st Nafl Bank of Portland U.S. Nafl Bank of Portland Would You like Us to Analyze Your Present Securities or Savings Program? Please phone Medford 2-7471 for any investment information or to set up an appointment either at your office, your home, or Zilka, Smither and Company's office. Mr. Watson and Mr.. Hoogs, of our Medford office, bring you financial information based on the complete facilities of the Zilka, Smither or ganization. Out-of-town residents please call collect. INVIITHINT f ICtiatTIIS (vV Manager jj JAMES HOOGS I 14 S. CINTRAL AVENUE PHONE 2-7471 MEPFORO-CREGON Alio efficm in: Portland, Solm. Eugn, Coos Bay, Vancouver, Wn. which the Elks have paid trib ute to the press nationally dur ing National Newspaper, week. Included in the Medford Elks program are recognition of ra dio, television, and theaters, in addition to newspapers. The slogan for National News paper week this year will be "Your Newspaper Fights . for Your Right to Know," and the Elks observance will be built around that theme, according to Sander. The national observance of the week was called by John L. Walker, Roanoke, Va., who is grand exalted ruler of the na tional Elks organization. In call ing for the observance, Walker declared newspaper week is "a good tradition, because it en ables the Order of Elks to dem onstrate its unqualified support of the free press, which is the surest guarantee of the safety of American freedom." Honor Old Timers The annual Old Timers night honors those members who have been in continuous membership for 25 or more years. Those members who will receive lapel buttons showing their length of service in the Elks order are: 25-Year-Members Michael Beck, J. R. Bierma, and J. W. McDuffie Sr. 30-Year-Members J. F. Erick son, Dewey S. Hill, and I. B. Walther. 35-Year-Members E. C. Bon ham, Everett Y. Carkin, Will Hansen, Edward H. Judd, Albert Piche, Russell D. Semon, and E. H. Sleight. 40-Year-Members H. L. Al ford, W. A. Gates, Larry J. Schade, C. A. Winetrout, and W. A. Young. . 45-Year-M embers H. K. Hanna, John A. Perl, and F. L. TouVelle. . ' , 50-Year-Members Frank G. Clark Sr., and Thomas J. Fuson. Last year advertising book matches and wooden matches used 18 million pounds of paraf fin ' produced by the petroleum industry. The paraffin helps transfer the flame from the head of the match to the "stick." $Jew Government off Argentina Expected To (Be Anti-America . Sunday, September 25, 1355 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Coast Guard Finds Bodies of Two Men (Editor's note: What atti tude will the new government of Argentina take toward re ligion? Toward freedom of press and speech? Toward the United States? Those and oth er questions are answered in the following dispatch. The writer for 12 years was United Press vice-president for South America with headquarters in Buenos Aires. He recently re ported to U.P. World head quarters in New York as vice president and assistant gen eral manager). By THOMAS R. CURRAN United Press Correspondent Signs are that the new gov ernment of Argentina will be devoutly Catholic, democratic, and anti-Communist. But it also will be anti-American. The Provisional President, Gen. Eduardo Lonardi, hasn't yet picked his cabinet. He has already announced, however, it would be lareelv composed of civilians. Those civilians will be picked from the parties opposing Peron and all of them have felt for some time past that Uncle Sam was playing footsy with the Argentine dictator. I talked to the civilian revolu tionary leaders in' Uruguay only last month. At that time they were unanimous in their feel ing that the U. S. State Depart ment was propping the totter ing house of Peronism. Those are the men who will form the civilian backbone of the new government. Loses Support One thing the successful re volt revealed was that Peron had lost the support of: 1. The majority of the work ers. Over the years he gave them wage increases in return for their loyalty and their votes. But those wage increases set in motion a spiral of inflation. Higher prices cut into their take home pay. The value of the peso dropped from 25 cents to three cents. 2. The women of Argentina. They are devoutly Catholic and they broke away from Peron last November when he started his camaign against the Catho lic church. They were horrified when Peron's strongarm squads sacked and burned churches in downtown Buenos Aires on the night of June 16. Hope for improvement in re lations between the new govern ment and the United States rests with a .change of ambassadors and the prospect that the new Argentine officials, once they are in the saddle, will be able to take a new viewpoint and get a broader picture. Better Chance The return 5s that the new government offers a far better chance for normal relations, both, political and economic, than the capricious maneuvers of Peron. Peron's word could never be fully trusted. When he was changing the constitution to permit his own re-election, he told U. S. Ambassador James Bruce that he wouldn't put in Article 40 which gave him the right to take over any foreign business at any time, paying only the value he himself fixed. Nevertheless Article 40 was in the constitution when it came out. Peron explained to Bruce he had it put in "for nationalistic reasons but I'll promise you that I won't 1 enforce it." "Fine," said Bruce, smiling, "now I have two of your promises." So far as relations with -the Catholic church are concerned, Lonardi is a devout Catholic. He and his wife are both from Cord oba, the Catholic Stronghold of the country. In his opening speech Lonardi said he hoped to arrange a concordat with the church a treaty between Argen tina and the Vatican something Rome has been eager to get for more than 100 years. To Medford's Finest! ON THEIR GRAND OPENING Engineered and Equipped By the OLSEN--QUIGECC0. , 1 Eugene, Oregon The note of austerity and hon esty, was also clearly present in Lonardi's first address. He said Argentina was going to fight inflation by cutting down public spending and that his govern ment was going to protect pri vate savings by building back the value of the Argentine Peso. Since the revolution the Peso has firmed in all world money markets. Unlike the resplendent Peron, whose chest was usually covered with . meaningless medals and ribbons, Lonardi appeared on the balcony of the Pink House in a simple olive drab uniform. After the swearing-in ceremony instead of going to one of Peron's three plush Presidential resi dences, Lonardi drove back to the modest apartment he lived in as an insurance salesman after Peron forced him out of the army four years ago. Lonardi was in disfavor for lining upfarmy opposition to the i candidacy of Evita, Peron s wife and partner, for Vice-President at the last elections. Lonardi told other officers: "Should Pe ron die, Evita as Vice-President would take over. How'd you like to have a commander-in-chief in petticoats?" Hopes are high that the new i government will be Democratic. It has already announced that it j wants the co-operation and sup- port of all parties except the ! Communist. All announcements j have stressed complete freedom j of assembly, radio, press and re-1 ligion. For another thing the j Argentine people, always proud-' ly independent and individuals-; tic, were angry and unhappy ' with their dictatorship. All that they needed to regain their civil j libprt fs was the necessary fire power and in Lonardi they found j an army man, capable of lining I it up. The Army Generals in Buenos Aires supported Peron, not only in the first phase of the revolt ! on June 16, but also they tried j to sustain him last week. The i Minister of the Army, General Franklin Lucero, piously claimed he did so in defense of the con stitution. As a matter of fact he was defending himself against the threat of an investigation of how he got so rich on a general's salary. Lucero owned two big ranches which Peron had en abled him to acquire. When the rebels won, Lucero rushed to a foreign embassy in Buenos Aires to seek asylum. - Reedsports (U.R) Bodies of two Florence, Ore., business men were found by the Coast Guard Saturday about a mile and a half off Siltcoos outlet on the Southern Oregon coast. Two members of the Coast Guard station at Umpqua, Ore., found the body of Charles Rich ard Russell, 42, about 10 a.m. Shortly after noon, the body of Jesse T. Keene, 42, was also discovered. Coast Guardsmen reported the men crossed the Siuslaw bar in the 40-foot commercial fishing boat Selmas Saturday morning. When found, both men were wearing two life jackets and had air sacks tied to their belts. Their life jackets were inflated and both had removed their shoes. The Coast Guard was still conducting a search by air and sea for the fishing boat. Co. Jackson Graham New District Engineer Portland (U.R) Col. Jackson Graham, a native Oregonian and graduate of Oregon State Col lege, has reported for duty as Portland district engineer. 'He succeeds Col. James U. Moorhead, who has been trans ferred to the Far East Command with headquarters in Tokyo. Col. Jackson was born at Mosier, Ore., June 27, 1915. He attended Benson Tech in Port- f land and graduated from Oregon State in 1936. State he was student body colonel of the He entered While at Oregon presMcat ec the and was cadet ROTC. military service following his graduation. When the Moors conquered southern Spain in 71 A.D. they also captured the vineyards and the secret of making sherry wine. Although, religious prohi bitionists, the Moors tended the vineyards' and preserved the sherry processes for 553 years before turning them back to the Spaniards in 1264 A.D. Your Future? 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