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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1.955
30 Pages
No. 182
Me
Talent Youth Dies
In Hunting Mishap;
Two Men Injured
Donald A. Sommer
fatally Wounded
A Talent boy wag killed and
two Grants Pass men hurt ja
rmnrirttr arrirlpnts in Jackson
county this week end.
The youth was Donald Archie
Sommer, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs.
William Sommer, route 1, box
548. Talent. He and his father
arid brother. "Bean, 12, left their
horme shortly after noon Fri
day for a last-day deer hunting
trip into the Grizzly peak area
southwest of Ashland. Unsuccess
ful, they returned to their pick
ud truck at about 3 p.m., accord
ing to Deputy County Coroner
Gordon Hays.
Gun Goes Off
As they were unloading their
guns, a .22 caliber rifle in the
hands of Dean Sommer dis
charged accidentally, the bullet
striking his brother on the neck
near the jaw, Hays" said. ' The
boy was not killed instantly, so
the father and brother put him
in the pickup and took him to a
doctor's office Jn Phoenix, but
he was dead on arrival there.
, The accident occurred only a
few hours before the end of deer
hunting season, at dusk-Friday.
Obituary on Page 15.
The first casualties of the
pheasant season, which opened
yesterday morning, were re
ported to the Medford state po
lice office at 7:18 a.m. Saturday.
Hit By Blrdshot .
William ' S. McConnell and
Henry Willard, both Grants
Pass, came to the office to re
port they had been struck by
birdshot while hunting along
the Medco railroad right of way
near the airport. McConnell was
hit in the -Hand and Willard in
the face, with one shot striking
him near the eye and another
going through his cheek into his
mouth. The wounds were not
thought , to be serious, police
said, afld the men went to Grants
Pass for medical treatment.
Shortly thereafter, Charles
Hewitt, 295 DeBarr ave., Med
ford, came to the office to report
. the incident. He said he and his
father, Roy, of the same address,
and an uncle, Harry Hewitt,
were hunting in the same area.
He said it was foggy. He fired
tiish thrnush some brush, he
told police, and saw no. one in
the line of fire. Police believe
that a few wild shots struck the
Grants Pass men.
Officers reported they are re
ceiving the "usual number" of
complaints from rural area resi
dents of bird hunters ignoring
rm-hunting signs and other types
ol trespass. Police cannot make
arrests on 'the unofficial "say
so" of those calling, they said,
but if complaints are signed, ar
rests will be made.
- Tn addition to officers reeular-
ly assigned to game work, traf
fic department men are under
instructions to keep an eye out
for hunting violations, it was re
ported.
' Oregon's regular 1955 deer
hunting season ended at sun
down Friday but the death toll
rose to 10 yesterday with the
finding of a man who apparently
died of a heart attack while
shunting near Burns, Ore.
f4 Foiy persons were dead from
f bullet wounds, six from heart
attacks and at least 16 wounded
in non-fatal shootings.
Found Saturday was Walter
Denstedt, about 48, of Burns.
He failed to return home last
night from a wooded section
north of town and searchers
were called out. They found
Denstedt's body near his pickup
truck.
Moroccan Party Refuses Any
Part in Planned Government
Rabat. Morocco (ufo Pre
mier Edgar Faure's peace plans
for Morocco appeared Saturday
to be foundering on the memory
of exiled Sultan Sidi Mohammed
ben Youssef.
s The powerful Istiqlal (Inde
pendence) Party which demands
the return of Ben Youssef an
nounced it would not take part
in the new government planned
by Faure.
Announce Boycott '
The Istiqlal Party announced
adboycott of Faure's four-man
throne council, formed to replace
Ben Youssef and the less popular
Sultan QSidi Mohammed ben
Moulay Arafa who also was
ousted by France.
. The immediate effect was that
Premier-designate Si Fatmi ben
Slimane balked at forming a
Moroccan government which
would not have the support of
the Istiqlal.
"
-A - 1
BEST IN STATE The youngsters above are members of the
Pathfinders club of the Medford Seventh-day Adventist church,
which won the trophy for being the best unit in the state last
Sunday at statewide Pathfinder fair in Eugene.' The club. has
about 70 members, but only those shown were able to make the
. trip. All are students at the Rogue River Academy, a parochial
school of the church. The group, as a whole or in units, meets
about four times a month, one of which is an outing into the.
outdoors or to visit various industries or businesses. Other
meetings are held at the church. The "MV" on the flag in the
background stands for "Missionary Volunteers," the youth
Peronistas Jailed
In Argentina; Vast
Plot Said Crushed
, Buenos Aires (U.R) Police
n the northeastern provincial
capital of Corrientes discovered
and crushed a "vast terrorist
plot" this week, arresting a
dozen supporters of ousted ex
President Juan D. Peron, it was
reported Saturday :. :
Corrientes is a port oh the
Parana river, 480" Iniles north of
here and less than 30 miles from
the border-of Paraguay, where
Peron is living in exile.
Factory, Arms Found
Unconfirmed reports said po
lice discovered a number of arms
caches and a secret factory for
the production of incendiary and
high explosive bombs in raids on
the homes of the plotters.
Informed sources said persons
arrested in connection with the
plot included B. Callejas, former
Peronist mayor of Corrientes, J.
Obarziggi, former Peronist party
comptroller in Corrientes prov
ince, and a retired lieutenant
'colonel who formerly command
ed the Corrientes garrison.
Others jailed included five
regional officials of the General
Federation of Labor (CGT) and
"several government em
ployees, the sources said.
Not Disbanded
The CGT is the only major
Peronist organization that has
not been disbanded or drastical
ly reorganized by the revolution
ary government that replaced
Peron last month. '
The Socialist party has urged
provisional President Eduardo
Lonardi to order a "thorough
purge" of the labor federation,
saying it was the "most import
ant political weapon of (Peron's)
dictatorship."
The Socialists warned that the
CGT will continue to be a dang
erous "source of counter revolu
tion" as long as its present lead
ers are "recognized, encouraged
and supported" by the govern
ment. The Istiqlal decision was an
nounced only a few hours after
police opened fire on & 300-trong
mob of Ben Youssef Supporters
on the outskirts of Rabat, kill
ing three and wounding four.
.' The Istiqlal challenge -to the
four-man throne council was
coupled with a number of con
ditions under which it said it
would join the proposed govern
ment. First, it demanded that the
government be invested with a
"high legitimate authority" such
as Ben Youssef, or a council of
Oulemas (doctors of Koranic
law) who would draw up a
proclamation making no ! refer
ence to Ben Arafa.
Second, it demanded that the
government set up a negotiating
body charged with working out
new relations between France
and the North African., protectorate.
Break Relieved Near
. 'V-
Dn Chicago Slayings
Chicago (U.R) Police of
ficials, engaged in an all-out hunt
for the slayers bf three young
schoolboys, said Saturday night
they may be on - the brink of
Police Seal Off
Frontiers of Saar
Saarbruecken U.R) The
troubled Saar sealed off its
frontiers to the outside world
Saturday and mobilized its en
tire police force to guard against
disorders in today's crucial
referendum. .
Leaders of both factions
favoring and opposing thepro
posed internationalization of the
coal and steel rich territory came
out with final passionate appeals
to voters Saturday morning.
Border guards slammed down
frontier barriers at noon" even
as the final campaign appeals
were being made. . The barirers
will stay down until Monday
morning.
Urges "German Vote'
' Dr. Heinrich Schneider, a
spell-binding former Nazi Storm
Trooper, urged his supporters to
vote no "on behalf of Germany."
Premier Johannes Hoffman
reminded Saarlanders that West
German Chancellor K o n r a d
Adenauer had called for a yes
vote.
Authorities in West Germany.
France, and Luxembourg, the
three countries bordering on the
Saar, warned travelers of "the
planned frontier closing.' But
even as the barriers slammed
down at the stroke of noon, long
lines of automobiles piled up
especially on the German side
of the border.
Would European! Area
Saarlanders are to vote on a
statute drawn up by France and
West Germany which would
"Europeanize" the Saar until an
all-German peace treaty is
signed.
Predicitions were that a ma
jority would vote "no." Such a
rejection, it was feared, would
cause a new flareup in French
German relations.
On the eve of the elections,
Saar authorities with the ap
proval of the Neutral super
visory commisison, imposed a
number of '"precautionary"
measures to guarantee against
any possible disorders.
The main action is sealing of
the frontiers of the 900-square-mile
territory for 42 hours.
Alfred E. Stoehr
Dies at Lakeview
Alfred Eugene Stoehr, 1103
Reddy ave., Medford, died near
Lakeview Saturday, according to
Perl Funeral home. Stoehr was
manager of the Johnson Truck
lines here. ;
Funeral arrangements are
pending at Perl's Funeral home
here. Additional details were
not available late yesterday. '
group of the church of which the Pathfinders are a part. Shown
above, left to right, rear row, are Joe Hoyt, a group counsellor;
Harold Rowell, Billy Day, Charles Erainerd, Paul Klein, Jerry
Yost, Lee Blank, Oral Tucker and Ronnie Archer; middle row,
Rhoda Tooley, Mary Loun, Gloria 'Beltz, Phyllis Gregg, JoAnn
Hoyt, Carol Sabo, Aura Lindgren, Lois Pike, Martha Thompson
and Irita Snyder; front row) Darold Bigger, Linda Archer, Dale
Barnard, Jimmie Gregg, Tommy Tucker, Mrs. Robert Gregg,
the club's director who is holding the coveted trophy, Forrest
Bigger, "deputy director, Melvin Hackworth, Keith Kendall,
Delbert Cline and Ella McCarty.: - -
breaking the case.
They said they based their
hopes on a youth who told state
police that he has been the vic
tim of a "group of men" who
frequently hold sex orgies in the
Robinson Woods . Forest Pre
serves where the bodies of John
Schuessler, 13, Robert Peterson,
13," and Anton Schuessler, ; 11;
wtreiound-JTuesday afternoon.
Lieutenant Confident "' '"
Lt. Edward Stanwyck, head of
the state police inyestigation, de
clined to. identify the witness,
but said, "as far as I am con
cerned, this is it."
Stanwyck said -the youth was
picked up Saturday and has sup
plied names of the men who have
held the Woodland sex parties.
Stanwyck said he hoped to an
nounce the arrest of the men
shortly. . ' '
The three boys are believed
to have been- the victims of sex
deviates who may have tortured
them before ending their lives
and dumping their nude bodies
in a ditch. -
. Stanwyck's a n n o u n c ement
brought top police officials con
verging in a rush , to the state
police station on the western
fringe of the city.
Large Manhunt
The youth was arrested as the
search for the slayers gained
momentum during the day and
became the largest manhunt in
the Chicago area since 1946 when
police sought the kidnap-killer
of little Suzanne Degnan.
In addition to -the large regu
lar force of five law enforcement
agencies, some 250 policemen
combed a populous northwest
side neighborhood on their off
day time in search of clues.
County Assessor Says Tax Commission's
Orders Would Force Violation of Laws
Somewhat frustrated, and con
fused by recent Tax Commission
news releases, ' County Assessor
Robert G. Fowler declared Sat
urday that he is being- forced to
violate the law by the state tax
commission.
Fowler said the county assess
ment roll should have been turn
ed over to the sheriff by Oct. 15
for collection of taxes. He has
been unable to do so, however,
because of his obligation to fol
low orders of the tax commis
sion. No Order Received -
Correction of the assessment
roll, apparently being planned
by the tax commission, can only
be made after an order authoriz
ing such corrections has been
received from the commission,
he said. Fowler stated that no
such order has as yet been re
ceived. The tax roll cannot be
turned over to the sheriff until
after the assessment roll is cor
rected and approved.
"The papers are coming out
with the statement,". Fowler
said, "that I have- received an
order from the state tax com
mission in regard to orchard as
sessments. I have never receiv
ed arty such order."
A total of 190 corrections in
the assessed valuations of Jack
Cpl. Bayes Found
Guilty on Charge
Of Collaboration
San Francisco (U.R) Cpl.
Thomas Bayes Jr., . 32, of Flat
Lick, Ky., was found guilty by
a court martial Saturday of col
laborating with the Chinese
Communists while a prisoner in
the Korean War. He was sen
tenced to five years at' hard
labor. ' . v ' ;
irThe- seven-officer' Presidio
court-; also, found ..Bayes .guilty
of an additional , charge of
"speaking against American par
ticipation in the Korean con
flict" but , acquitted him of
charges of promoting disloyalty
among fellow POWs.
The sentence, subject to re
view, included a dishonorable
discharge and forfeiture of all
pay and allowances. The court
could have returned .a life sen
tence. Bayes received the . verdict
stoically. His wife, Fondei, 32,
sat in the front row of the almost
empty hearing room, directly be
hind her husband.
Following announcement of
the verdict, Defense Counsel Col.
Max W. Hazelhurst urged that
the sentence be light, noting that
Bayes had received a meager
education and that "anyone
would have a breaking point"
under Chinese , Communist tor
ture and brainwashing. :
Chancellor Adenauer
Reported Recovering
Bonn, Germany (U.R? '
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer is
"making further promising pro
gress" ; in his recovery from an
attack of bronchial' pneumonia,
an official West German spokes
man said Saturday.
son county orchards were made
as a result of hearings held here
recently by representatives of
the state tax commission, acting
in place of the county board of
equalization, according to news(
stories originating in Salem.
According' to State Tax Com
missioner Sam Stewart, Fowler
will be ordered to change the
existing individual valuations to
conform with those found by the
commission. . ,
Fowler declared, however,
that he has not received the cor
rections nor the order authoriz
ing him to make corrections.
Affidavit Filed
V An affidavit filed by Fowler
Oct. 15 with the county clerk's
office states that the tax rolls
were ready to be turned over
to the sheriff on that date and
explains , why he was unable to
dO SO. . . '
The controversy between
Jackson county fruitgrowers and
the tax commission goes back to
last spring, when the commis
sion first ordered the value of
orchards be included in the tax
able value of orchard properties
in. Jackson county. They had
never been so included before.
The orchardists claim that the
trees should not be taxed, any
more than various other crops.
Dulles Seeks Assurance from
Italy Concerning HATO Stand
Doctor Says Ike
May Leave Hospital
Between Nov. 5-12
Healing of Damage
Now on Schedule
Denver (U.R) Dr. Paul
Dudley White, famous Boston
heart specialist, said Saturday
President Eisenhower should be
able to leave the hospital and
fly back east to his Gettysburg,
Pa., home between November
5 and 12.
Dr.' White told a news confer
ence that it may be two or three
months before the president's
physicians can tell how com
pletely he recovered from the
heart attack he suffered Septem
ber 24.
Dr. White said that in all prob
ability the flight to Gettysburg
for convalescence will be broken
by a day or two in Washington.
Now On Schedule
Dr. White also confirmed that
the' President's heart healing
was a little behind schedule dur
ing the first part of his recov
ery, but has now caught up. He
said he considers it certain that
rthe President will convalesce at
his Gettysburg .farm
However, during that period,
he said the President should be
able to attend meetings with
the cabinet and other officials
from time to time in either
Washington or Gettysburg.
The gray, mustached heart ex
pert gave a detailed, up-to-date
report on the President's pro
gress at a packed press confer
ence in the temporary White
House, headquarters -'. at Lowry
Air Force base. - '
, He was flanked by other
members of the President's medi
cal staff. Dr. White said Mr. Eis
enhower "has done and is doing
well" but that we will have to
"wait another two or three
months before we know how
complete his recovery will be."
. Dr. White flew to Denver
early Saturday . to examine the
President for the third time since
his heart attack and to consult
with Maj.- Gen. Howard Mcc.
Snyder, the White House phy
sician, and' other members of the
medical staff at ' Fitzsimons
Army hospital.
1 He said the President's recov
ery at the end of the fourth
week "is almost exactly on
schedule." Mr. Eisenhower
should be able to stand up and
possibly take a few steps for
the' first time today, Dr. White
said. - :
Plans Going Ahead
For French Elections
, Paris (U.R) Premier Edger
Faure pushed ahead Saturday
with his plans for December gen
eral elections which he hoped
would give France a new Nation
al Assembly capable of dealing
with the "serious issues" con
fronting it
Further, they maintain,, if orch
ard trees are to be taxed, they
should be taxed everywhere in
the state (they say this is not
being done), and add that a fair
valuation must take many fac
tors into consideration. The val
uations placed on trees by the
tax commission, the orchardists
say, have been arbitrary and not
based on" proper considerations.
The situation is being further
complicated by pending litiga
tion. Last week a number of or
chardists petitioned the state su
preme court to issue a writ of
mandamus ordering Fowler to
deliver the assessment roll to the
sheriff, after deleting the tree
valuations placed thereon by
the tax commission. The court
has ordered arguments to be
submitted by noon Monday.
Other legal action by the
fruit men is in the offing. It
was unclear Saturday what ac
tion the (tax commission would
take" with regard to the assess
ment rolls, now overdue in the
sheriffs office so he can begin
preparing tax statements.- First
installment taxes are due on or
before Nov. 15, little more than
three weeks away.
(A statement giving the orch
ardists' position in some detail
appears on Page 8).
Sports Bulletin
St. Mary's High school ef
Medford captured the Jackson
County B league title for the
second consecutive year last
night, with a decisive 46 to 6
victory over Jacksonville. Bill
Carey made the longest touch
down run for St. Mary's 91
yards. Jack Daley scored
Jacksonville's only, touch
down. ' St. Mary's halfback
Laval Meunier probably was
lost for the rest of the season
when he dislocated an elbow
on the opening kickoff of the
game.
Status of U.S.
Marshall's Office
Here in Question
Is the Medford office of U.S.
marshal open or "isn't it?
Officials of the U. S. Depart
ment of Justice ' disagree al
though Paul Hanlin, deputy
marshal, here for the past 17
years, has closed the office,
moved to Portland, and reported
for work there last Monday. '
U. S. Marshal Harold Sexton,
Portland, announced in Septem
ber the office would be closed
for economy reasons" on Sept.
30, and ordered Hanlin to Port
land.
But on Sept. 28, Chief Judge
Claude McColloch, of the Ore
gon federal district court, wired
a protest about the proposed
closing to Henry P. Chandler,
director of the administrative
office of the U. S. courts in
Washington, D.C. , ,
Chandler was out of town,
but when he returned to his of
fice he wired Judge McColloch
that the S. attorney general's
office has not closed the Med
ford office. This was after Han
lin had left Medford.
S. A. Andretta, assistant to
the attorney general, wrote a
letter to Chandler's office, with
a copy to Judge McColloch, on
Oct. 12, which stated: "This is
in . response to your letter of
Sept. 29, inclosing a copy of
Chief Judge Claude McColloch's
telegram opposing the immedi
ate closure of the deputy's office
at Medford. While the matter of
closing the Medford office has
been under consideration, this
is to advise you that there are
no immediate plans to close that
duty station."
According to the Portland
Oregonian, Marshal Sexton said
earlier, last week that the Med
ford office is no longer function
ing, and had been - closed by
authority of the attorney gen
eral's office. He could not be
reached for comment Friday
after. Judge McColloch disclosed
the information in his communi
cations from the department of
justice. -
Judge McColloch pointed out
the office had been located in
Medford for 40 years, and that
it has been of great convenience
to the public and lawyers having
business with the federal court.
. "The " government has spent
probablyv $500,000 on a federal
court house in Medford,'! he
said, "of which sum $300,000
has been expended for additions
and betterments in recent years
. . . Now that we have a full
complement of judges for Ore
gon's federal court, we will
probably be able to try many
more cases upstate, in keeping
with long established policy in
this district court to take our
court . to the people and save
them and their lawyers from 200
to 300 miles of travel. ,
''The court requires time and
opportunity to evaluate these
and -othar factors before the
Medford office is closed, and we
are at a loss to understand why
a matter so pertinent to judicial
administration should be hur
ried without consulting us."
Federal district court in Med
ford is conducted in a large
court room on the 'second floor
of the post office building. The
deputy marshal's office was just
across the hall from the court
room.
Before ordering Hanlin to
Portland, Marshal , Sexton an
nounced that he had accepted
the resignation of Leo McLain,
who had served for many years
as a deputy in the Portland of
fice. But McLain has contended
that he was coerced into signing
a resignation, ' and later with
drew it, seeking an appeal to
the civil service commission. He
contends he was removed to
make room for Hanlin in . the
Portland office. .
Conference Called
Important Prelude
To Paris Meetings
Secretary of State
May Visit Tito
Rome (U.R) Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles Satur
day sought assurance from Ital
ian President Giovanni Gronchi
that Italy will notswing toward
Tieutralism" between west and
east.
The . American statesman met
with Gronchi" for an hour and
conveyed a message from Presi
dent Eisenhower. He said the
meeting was an "important pre
lude" to NATO talks in Paris.
which will precede the Geneva
foreign ministers conference
which opens Tuesday.
Assurance Expected '-
Italian leaders said in advance
that Dulles would get every as
surance tnat Italy would stand
fast to its alliance with the
North Atlantic Treaty oreanis
tion and would not be lured by .
advances from the Kremlin. ',.
After the meeting with Gron
chi, Dulles said "I had a verv
agreeable and profitable ex
change of views with President"
Gronchi.' He made some verv
valuable suggestions with re
spect - to . some matters comine
up at Geneva, i
'We discussed the importance
of European integration and the
close economic and cultural ties
which exist between our two
countries. I feel the talks were
very useful and an important
prelude to further talks which
I will be having in Paris," Dul
les said.
May Visit Tito .
A state ".'department "official
travelling with Dulles said that
there also has been "some dis
cussion" Of a meetim? between
Dulles and Marshal Tito in Yu
goslavia next month after the
Geneva conference.
The disclosure that a possible
meeting with Tito has been dis
cussed took on special signifi
cance. Yugoslavia has re-established
friendship with the Soviet
bloc. ,
SATURDAY
SCORES
WEST
Oregon Slate 14, Waihing-
ton State 8. :
Lewis and Clark 28, Chico
State 13. (
Washington .7, Stanford 7.
Southern California 33,
California 6.
Wyoming 23. Utah 13.
Montana 19, New Mexico 14.
Montana State 20, Colorado
Western 6.
Colorado A and M 26, Utah
State 9.
SOUTHWEST
Oklahoma 56, Colorado 21.
Texas A and M 19, Baylor
7.
Texas 32, Rice 14.
. Houston 7, Texas Tech 0. '
Tulsa 21. Cincinnati 21.
MIDWEST
Tndiana 9ft. VrvtriMa
14.
Michigan State 21, Illinois
7. .... , ; .
Notre Dame 22, Purdue 7. '
Ohio State 26. Wisconsin 16.
Michigan 14, Minn t sola 13.
Kansas State 9, Iowa State
7. .
Nebraska 18, Missouri 1Z.
. Southern Methodist 33,
Kansas 14.
SOUTH
Tulane 14, Georgia 0.
V.P.L 17. Virginia 13.
Wake Forest 25, North Caro
lina 0.
Tennessee 53. Dayton 7.
Pittsburgh 26, Duke 7.
Georgia Tech 34, Florida'
State 0.
Mississippi State 26. Ala-,
bama 7. -2
Auburn 52, Furman 0.
. Mississippi 17. Arkansas 7.
Kentucky 10, Florida 7.
EAST
Navy 33, Pennsylvania 0.
North Carolina State 34,
Villanova 13.
Maryland 34, Syracuse 13.
Delaware 26, Connecticut
14.
Rhode Island 19. Brown 7.
Colegate 7, Yale 0.
Princeton 26, Cornell 20.
Army 45, Columbia 0. 1
" West Virginia 21. Pena
Slate 7.