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n MAP PLANS D. S. State Secy. John Foster Dulles (left) meets with French FoTeignMin
ister Antoine Pinay (center) and British Foreign Secy. Harold MacMiUan at the French
o Foreign Ministry in Paris. They met to plan for forthcoming Geneva talks with Russia.
MAT Alliance (Lends Support
o PacEtage Plan off
Paris U.R) The NATO alli
ance threw its full support today
behind the Big Three package
plan for peace at the forthcom
ing Geneva conference with the
Soviet Union,
- The foreign minister of the
United States, France and Brit
ain outlined the planned West
ern strategy to the members of
the NATO council in two secret
meetings, held in the Palais de
Chaillot.
Plaas Presented
Secretary of State John Fos
ter Dulles presented the plan
for German reunification and
European security. British For
eign Secretary Harold MacMii
lan discussed disarmament.
French Foreign Minister An
toir Pinay made proposals for
more East-West contacts.
The details of these proposals
were drawn up by a committee
of experts in recent months and
were endorsed by the Big Three
ministers yesterday.
The smaller members of the
NATO alliance spoke their
minds about the clans and asked
for more details. This brought
about two sessions today instead
of one, and forced the Big Three
foreign ministers to scrap plans
for talks this afternoon on the
explosive Middle East.
But when the second NATO
. council meeting ended,, a British
spokesman said: "There was
complete agreement."
The package plan for reunifi
cation of Germany and assuring
the security of Europe was
agreed on at a 5Vfe hour, meeting
among Dulles, . British Foreign
Seoretary Harold MacMillan and
French Foreign Minister An
toine Pinay.
Full Agreement Cited
A conference spokesman said
there was "full agreement" on
the four points the foreign min
isters will tackle when they sit
down with Russia's tough-bargaining
V. M. Molotov in Geneva
Thursday. These points are Eu
ropean security; German reuni
fication; disarmament; and in
42 Ordered Arrested
In Drugs Crackdown
"Washington (U.R) The gov
ernment ordered 42 persons ar
rested today in the start of a
sweeping, nationwide crack
down on the illegal sale of
"goofball" drugs to truck driv
ers, youngsters, and others who
don't need them.
Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell
Jr. announced that bench war
rants have been issued charging
3 individuals with the illegal
saie of stimulant drugs tp truck
drivers.
- The action followed a year
long undercover inquiry by in
vestigators of the Food and Drug
Administration. Officials said it
is just the beginning of a nation
wide effort to enforce laws
which restrict the use of the
drugs.
The 42 individuals were named
in 22 criminal actions filed in
six states, Virginia, North Caro
lina, Georgia, HUinois and Indiana.
JYlar jorie Smith's Al leged
Lover Tells of Murder Plan
McMinnville (U.R) -Victor
Laurence Wolf, 45-year-old ac
cuser of Marjorie Smith in slay
ing of her attorney husband, told
a packed courtroom today a story
of love and intrigue that he has
claimed eventually led to the at
torney's death by a home-made
bomb plafited in his car.
Tells of Making Love
Wolf told of making love to
Mrs. Smith. Speaking calmly
and with slowness, he said she
first suggested killing her hus
band while , the two of them
played a game of scrabble in the
living room. He testified he told
her he was opposed to the idea
and that she asked him to think
it over and give her an answer
the next day.
Mrs. Smith was obviously un
der great strain u sha sat ia th
creased contacts between East
and West.
. Dulles won support from Ger
many and France despite a Saar
referendum that threatened to
reopen their ancient enmity. He
asked the sa'me support from the
smaller powers.
The Big Three plan offered
Russia a security pact but only
in exchange for a no-strings re
unification of West and East
Ike Takes First Steps
Since Heart Attack
Denver ' (U.R) President
Eisenhower passed an important
milestone in his recovery from
a heart attack today by taking
his first steps and being photo
graphed in his suite at Fitzsim
ons Army hospital..
It was the first time he actu
ally had walked since he was
stricken nearly four. and one
half weeks ago. And it also was
the first closeup picture taken
of the President in his room,
although a few long range photo-
Office of U.S.
Marshal Reopens;
Hanlin To Return
The U. S. Marshal's office in
Medford has been reopened and
Deputy Paul Hanlin is being
transferred . back here, t was
announced today in Portland
by U. S. Marshal Harold Sexton.
Hanlin was transferred to
Portland after the recent an
nouncement of ' closure of the
local office.
The Southern Oregon Bar as
sociation and other groups pro
tested to Federal Judge Claude
McColloch, . who wired the ad
ministrative office of the U. S.
courts in Washington, D. C, pro
testing inconvenience of the
closure.
The reply said the office,
which has jurisdiction over U. S.
marshals, had not made plans
for immediate closure of the
office although the "matter had
been considered."
' Sexton was quoted by United
Press as saying "I sincerely re
gret there has been a misunder
standing regarding my efforts
for economy and efficieny in
operation."
Sexton announced in Septem
ber the office would be .closed
'for economy reasons" on Sept.
30, and ordered Hanlin to Port
land. Hanlin has been U. S.
deputy marshal here for the past
17 years.
Bobo Olson-Robinson
Title Match Postponed
Chicago-j(U.R) The Bobo Olson-Ray
Robinson middleweight
championship fight scheduled
for Nov. 4 has been postponed
until Dec. '9 due to ankle injury
suffered by Robinson, the Inter
national Boxing club announced
today
courtroom while Wolf began his
story.
Wolf testified that it was just
after Mrs. Smith first suggested
that her ex-husband, Oliver Ker
mit Smith, was "worth more
dead than alive," that he made
love to her.
Gave Money for Wedding
He said Mrs. Smith made plans
to remarry her husband, whom
she had divorced earlier.1 "I gave
her $80 for the wedding which
she used to buy flowers and
champagne," he testified.
,He. said he got to. know. Mrs.
Smith when he boarded at her
rooming house in Portland.
Mrs. Smith broke down yes
terday and cried when pictures
showing the remains of her 34-year-old
husband and his bombed
car were shown at her triaL
Big Three
Germany. The new Germany
would be free to, choose its own
allies.
The Western plan would draw
a demilitarized buffer zone down
the middle of Europe on both
sides of the Oder-Neisse line
now dividing East Germany and
Poland. It would offer an all
European non-aggression pact to
calm Soviet fears of aggression
from the West.
graphs have been made of the
chief executive on the terrace
outside his eighth floor room at
Fitzsimons.
Eleven photographers and
one reporter, Jack Horner of the
Washington Star, were . in the
group that went upstairs to Mr,
Eisenhower's suite 'shortly be
fore 11 a.m. (MST) to take the
pictures of the chief executive
The picture taking session was
held on a terrace outside the
President's room. The President
looked "very healthy" . for his
first formal picture.
He looked "almost as well as
he did before he went-into the
hospital," United Press Photo
grapher Stan Tretick said.-.
Earlier, the President's doc
tors had reported in their mid
morning medical bulletin that
Mr. Eisenhower had taken his
first few unassisted steps today.
An easy chair was moved near
his bed. The President got out
of bed alone and walked what
Hagerty described as "one or
two steps" to the chair.
He repeated this performance
several times during the mor
ning.
Meantime, the latest medical
bulletin continued to report sat
isfactory progress. He was given
an electrocardiographic examin
ation this morning and the re
sults showed a stable pattern."
(See Story on Page 14)
Work Under Way on
$41,000 Warehouse
Alberts Milling company was
issued a city building permit yes
terday for construction of a $41,-
000 warehouse at 330 North Fu
st. The structure will be the new
location of Medford Feed and
Seed company, a subsidiary of
the Albers firm.
Work is underway at he con
struction site. Frank Fairweath
er, Medford, is general con
tractor. The feed and seed firm is now
located at 224 North Fir.
George Barr, manager of Med
ford Feed and Seed, said it is
hoped to have the grand opening
at the new site around the first
of next year. The building will
be of concrete block. The feed
room will have about 7,000
square feet of floor space and
the sales room about 1,600 feet.
The permit was one of five is
sued yesterday by the city
building superintendent's office.
Total value of projects was listed
at $56,400.
Godfrey Terminates
Services of Aides
New York (U.R) Arthur
Godfrey has "terminated the ser
vices" of Larry Puck, co-producer
of the "Talent Scouts" pro
gram who recently married
Marion Marlowe, a former sing
er on Godfrey programs. . '
- Godfrey also released the
musical conductor of the "Talent
Scouts" program, Jerry Bress
ler and announcer George Bry
an. Weather
FORECAST: Variable cloudiness
with scattered light showers
'tonight..' and . Wednesday.
Cooler. Low tonight 42. High
Wednesday 62-65.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday 1
Lowest this Morning 35
Missing Persons
Checked To Learn
If Hostage Taken
Corvallis Man Shot;
Condition Critical
Corvallis, Ore. (U.R) Police
said today a 23-year-old escapee
who terrorized two families at
gunpoint and critically wounded
a man here might have- seized
one or more hostages and fled in
a car.
Bloodhounds early today
tracked Martin Reyes, San Fran
cisco, to a schoolyard here and
gave up the scent. Police theo
rized there may have been an
automobile in the schoolyard and
that Reyes might have seized it,
Missing Persons Checked
A check was being made for
missing persons. Police said the
schoolyard was a favorite park
ing spot for Oregon State Col
lege students.
Reyes and a companion identi
fied by police as Jose Mitchell
Benesa, 21, escaped last night
from the city jail in Eugene
They had been arrested on a sto
len car charge. The man identi
fied as Benesa gave his name as
Sonny Shadd, 17. He was cap
tured. '
As they were being searched,
Reyes pulled a .45 automatic on
Jailer Robert Lockard and
Under-sheriff Nelson Whipps,
The two locked Lockard and
Whipps in a cell and escaped in
the sheriff s office car.
Medford Man Stopped
At Junction City, Ore., they
used the police car's siren and
light to stop a station wagon
containing H. H. Littlefield, 66
Medford, and his wife and three
daughters, aged 2, 3, and 5.
The pair pulled the radio
equipment from the sheriff s car,
locked the Littlefield family in,
and fled in the station wagon,
Police said Shadd balked at
this point and Reyes slyt him in
the.foot to force"' him. to continue
the escape". The pair "got as fair
as the edge of Corvallis business
district where they crashed the
car.
Corvallis police closed in and
captured Shadd. Reyes escaped
on foot to the north end of the
city where he accosted Jimmy
Applegate, 39, or Corvallis, and
his three children, Elaine, 16,
Susan 9 and Dotty, 16, at a serv
ice station.
Gun Surrendered
Officer William C. Bottemmil
ler surrendered his gun to Reyes
when he threatened to shoot his
hostages. The fueitive then lined
up the officer, Apple, and his
girls m front of the service sta
tion. Police said Applegate appar
ently tried to rush Reyes and
was shot three times. Reyes fled.
Annleeate was taken to a Cor
vallis hospital in critical condi
tion.
Lane and Benton county
possees as well as all available
city police were called in tcr aid
in the seach for Reyes who was
believed to be out of ammuni
tion.
Citv directories list the H. H.
Littlefield residence as 222 Ash
land ave., Medford.
Mistrial Plea Denied
In Sherry Fong Case
Portland (U.R) Two defense
motions for mistrial were turn
ed down by Circuit Judge Alfred
Dribson today as selection of a
jury continued in the first de
gree murder trial of Sherry
Fong.
Defense Attorney Irving Good
man asked for the mistrials be
cause of a reference of Prosecu
ting Attorney Howard Lonergan
to Mrs. Fone's previous convic
tion, and one reference made to
her "character."
Judge Dobson directed pros
pective iurors to disregard Lon-
ergan's remarks and ordered
them stricken from the recora.
Bv noon a panel of 12 prospec
tive iurors had been selected for
Mrs. Fong's second trial for the
slaying of 16-year-old Diane
Hank.
Driver Gets $255 Fine, '
Suspended Jail Term
Claude Neal. 27, South Fort
Smith, Ark., was fined $255 in
district court yesterday on a
rharce of driving while under
the influence of intoxicating
iquor.
In addition to the fine Neal,
who was arrested bv Phoenix
city police Saturday, was sen
tenced to 30 days in the county
jail and had his driver's license
suspended for 90 days. The sen
tence is to be suspended during
good oenaviour, upon payment
ox ine une.
22 Pages
Medford
50th Year MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER
Imperial Valley
In California
Feels Earthquake
25-Mile Section
Sways Light Fixtures
Brawley, Calif. (U,R) The
second earthquake in California
in three days, a light "one jolt"
rocker, shook a 25-mile section
of the .rich agricultural Imperial
Valley near the Mexican border
today, setting electric light fix
tures swaying but causing no
damage.
Temblors Unrelated
It followed by two days a
moderate quake that shook the
San Francisco Bay area, seme
600 miles to the north, to the
tune of a reported $1,000,000 in
damages. The two temblors were
unrelated in cause, however.
They occurred on different fault
lines in the earth's rock struc
ture. A "rumbling like four diesel
freight trains," preceded the
mid-morning jolt, which ' was
felt from Westmoreland to El
Centro, a 25-mile stretch in a
cluster of small farming cities
stretching south' from the Saitoh
sea to the Mexican border in
California's "deep south." '
No Power Interruptions
Seismographs in Pasadena,
180 miles distant, picked up the
quake.
Police received no immediate
reports of power interruptions
or gas line breaks. , .
El Centro residents timed the
jolt at 10- seconds and said it
had "a sort of rolling action.1
"It came right through the
chairs in the office," said a staff
member of the El Centro Post-
Press. "We felt it good." .
San Francisco (U.R) Build
ing inspectors continued their
rounds today of structures. shak
en by the San Francisco Bay
area's latest earthquake.
They concentrated particu
larly on the East Bay, which
suffered the most damage during
the Sunday evenmg temblor.
Anthony Eden Dodges
Marriage Question
London (U.R) Princess Mar
garet kept her secret today about
whether she intends to marry
Group Capt. Peter Townsend.
Prime Mmister Anthony Eden
avoided a formal reply to a par
liamentary question designed to
smoke out the status of the ro
mance. .
Eden briskly answered a series
of questions leading right up to
loaded question No. -61 put by
Laborite M. P. Marcus Lipton. It
asked if the government intended
to try to repeal or amend the
royal marriage act of 1772.
Eden got to No. 59, toyed with
it tantalizingly, laid aside his
loose-leaf binder, answered a few
supplementary questions on the
scope of the defense ministry,
and then sat down without going
to No. 61. ' .
Something like a sigh went
through -the House of Commons.
DA Files Brief
In Jensen Case
District Attorney Walter Nun-
ley's brief for the appeal of the
James Norman Jensen case was
mailed last night to the clerk
of the supreme court in Salem.
Jensen was convicted last
year of the murder of Mrs. Fern
Hile, Medford housewife, and
sentenced to die in the Oregon
State gas chamber. A notice of
appeal, filed by defense attorney
Edward Kelly, acted as a stay
of execution.
Kelly has said that he will
ask for additional time to file
a reply brief, probably 30 days.
When all the briefs are in, the
Supreme court will set a -date
for the arguments. .
WHO AM'I? Horseplay and fun, as well as the serious business
of raising money, have marked the weekly report luncheons of
the United Medford Crusade workers. At the last 'of the meetings
yesterday, a "Who Am I?" game was played, in which each work
er had a name pinned to his back, and to-get lunch he had to find
out from others who he was, asking only questions answerable by
yes or no. Left to right, above, are George McGill (Bre'r Rabbit),
Cliff Ayres (George Gobel), both still puzzled, and cigar-smoking
"Winston Churchill," (Frank Bash), who had discovered his iden
tity. The 'UMC drijve topped 71 per cent yesterday.
, (Landis-Shangle photo)
8th Grader Excused To
Keep House for Hubby
Prineville (U.R) The Crook
; county : 4 chool board : has - ex
cused a 14 -year - old eighth
grader from further, classes.
She has to slay home to keep
house for her 16-year-old hus
band. All Corrections of
Tax Rolls Not Here
' All of 190 assessment roll cor
rections had not yet-been re
ceived from the state tax com
mission this morning, according
to Robert G. Fowler, county
assessor.
; The corrections,' made as a
result of hearings held here re
cently by members of the tax
commission in relation to - dis
puted orchard tree assessments,
must be made on the tax roll
before it can be turned over to
the sheriff's office for collection
of taxes. ,
The tax'roll should have been
turned over to the sheriff by
Oct. 15, according to law,' but
the assessor's office was unable
to do so because corrections had
not been received.
The first of the corrections
were received yesterday. Fowler
stated that he didn't know how
long it would take to make the
necessary corrections and rec
omputations in the- tax roll. .
London (IT.R) - Premier U
Nu of Burma arrived today in
Leningrad on - his official visit
to the Soviet Union, Radio Mos
cow reported.
11-Year-Old Accident Victim
Critical Condition; Family
Eleven - year - old Joe Willie
Haynes, injured almost a week
week ago in an automobile acci
dent, is still in critical condition
at Sacred Heart hospital.
Hospital attendants said this
morning that his condition is
unchanged since he was taken
to the hospital early last Wed
nesday morning. He has been
unconscious since that time.
Hit by Car
The child was injured when
he was struck by a car on High
way 99 near the Gold Hill over
pass. At the time of the acci
dent, he an& other members of
his family were helping push
their car, which had .stalled. .
Lowell DuBois, Grants Pass,
driver of the second vehicles,
didn't see the Haynes vehicle
m the early -morning darkness
until he was almost on top of
it. He swerved at the last min
ute, but his pickup truck struck
the boy, knocking him to the
pavement;
Jo Willie received bead tn-
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Pleura
Price 5c
Tribune
25, 1955
No. 184
UMC Contributions
Reach 71 Percent
Of 5109r000 Goal
Contributions to the United
Medord Crusade now total $76,
979.06, or 71 per cent of the
$109,000 goal, UMC workers
were told a the last of a series
of weekly report luncheons
yesterday.
The new total represents col
lections of $12,214.03 made with
in the past week, up from 59
per cent reported a week- ago.
The Lion Hearted division of
iuna drive workers, with Elliott
Becken as chairman, again was
leading with 92 per cent of its
$7,500 quota collected. Low was
the plant chapter division, Wil
liam Prentice chairman, with 63
per cent of a $41,428.43 goal.
From cow on, leaders of the
divisions will meet each week,
in place of the luncheons for di
visional workers. The meetings
will be at noon Mondays at the
Jackson hotel. . , .
The luncheon yesterday was
at the YMCA and was sponsored
by the Elks club. . ' "
Injured OSC Student
In 'Good Condition'
Salem U.R) James R. Law
rence, 19-year-old Oregon State
college student injured in an ex
plosion in his room at Corvallis
yesterday, was reported in
"good" condition at Salem gen
eral hospital today. '
Doctors said Lawrence lost a
hand and; the sight of one eye.
He had been conducting a chem
ical experiment in his room.
juries, and underwent surgery
at the hospital.
Meanwhile, the Haynes fam
ily and others traveling with
them have experienced consid
erable difficulty in finding a
place to stay in Medford. They
are Negroes. -
However, several private par
ties have aided them. Three fam
ilies took in , members of the
group for three days until more
permanent arrangements could
be made. They are now living
in a house provided by a Med
ford man, who also has given
them help in the form of food
and money.
' Friends of a Medford woman
who provided a home for mem
bers of the group said that she
experienced some 'personal
abuse in the form of telephone
calls, comments, and people
driving by the house at all hours
and yelling at her.
Representatives of radio sta
tion KBOY, which last week I
broadcast an appeal for help for
Meetis
SeocfiDdirD
Benson Announces
Effort To Bolster
Sagging Prices
Move Gives Lift
To Hog Raisers
Washington (U.R) Leaders
in the nation's hog belt gener
ally applauded the administra-,
tion's new pork buying program
today but some said it is too
little and too late. -
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra
T. Benson announced the pro
gram late yesterday in an effort
to give - sagging hog ' prices a
boost and to give Midwestern
hog raisers a political lift.'
To Assist Farmers
Under the program, the gov
ernment will "as soon as prac
ticable" begin buying about $85,-
000,000 worth of dressed pork
and lard to "assist farmers in
adjusting their , production to
market demand."
E. Howard Hill, president of
the Iowa Farm Bureau Federa
tion, said "I'm glad they're mov
ing on it. This is a good move."
But Fred Stover, president of
the Iowa Farmers Union, called
the action "entirely too little
and too late." -
Republicans Relieved '
Jake Moore, . newly elected
chairman of the 12-state Mid
west . Democratic Farm Confer
ence, said "I'm. glad to see Sec
retary Benson responded so.
quickly in taking action that
could have been taken by his
department many months ago."-;
Republican members of the
Senate Agriculture Committee,
in Minnesota on a grass roots
survey of farm opinion, were
reported relieved at Benson's an-'
nouncement. Sen. Karl E. Mundt
(R-S.D.) predicted the program
will "stop the slide and start'
prices upward." . ,
NLRB Hearings May
Last Through Week
A national labor relations
board hearing on alleged unfair
labor practices in the lumbering
industry continued here today
and it appeared that sessions
would last through this week.
The charges were filed by lo
cals of the International Wood
workers of America CIO, against
Red Blanket Lumber 'company
of Eagle Point and Prospect, the
Pine Industrial Relations com
mittee of Klamath Falls and four
Central" Oregon firms. Charges
arise out of strikes between June
and October of 1954.
Chester L. Irving, Klamath
Falls, . PIRC secretary-manager,
was the first witness called, and
a large part of the time has been '
taken up producing PIRC rec-;
6rds. -
Martin S. Bennett, San Fran
cisco, is NLRB hearing examiner.
Proceedings opened at the city
hall yesterday and moved to tiie
post office building today. Hear
ing scene is expected to shift '
to Bend when sessions are con
cluded here. , - - ' '
Still in
Given Aid
the Haynes family, reported this
morning that offers of aid are'
still being received.
. Meanwhile, it was reported
that Joe Haynes, the boy's fa
ther, has obtained temporary,
employment here and has a job
waiting for him at his home uiq
Corcoran, Calif. The local job
is filling in for a man who is
ill, and is expected to last for
only a few days.
A church group has offered
to provide some aid in connec
tion with medical expenses and .
also has been active in other
forms of help.
Four members of the group
are planning to return to Cor
coran as soon as possible be
cause of work waiting them
there, and, a Medford fraternal
group has provided help to make
the trip possible.
The Haynes family was re
turning to Corcoran when the
accident happened. They had
been working in the hop harvest
at Independence, Ore.