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
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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
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industry. The paraffin helps
transfer the flame from the head
of the match to the "stick."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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