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O O 0 FOUHTtt MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, October 25, 19SS Lie Detector Tests Scheduled for Pair In Chicago Slayings Chicago UR) Police sched uled lie detector tests for two "hot suspects" today and grilled a parade of known sex perverts in their dogged hunt for the killers of three young boys. The lie tests were planned for a 26-year-old man with a sex record involving young boys and for a 23-year-old male friend A police spokesman called them "the hottest suspects thus far." The suspects were picked up hi a giant roundup of men with sex records. It was then dlscov ered that the two friends owned cars siilar to ones spotted in a forest preserve a short time Offstreet Parking Discussed at JCCC e Roundtable Session Offstreet parking was the sub ject at the regular Jackson County Chamber of Commerce roundtable, conducted yesterday at the Pioneer room of the Jack son hotel.. Speakers favoring and oppos ed to municipally controlled off street parking facilities took part in the discussion. Opposed Those opposing municipal fa cilities pointed out that existing privately owned parking lot fa cilities in Medford are rarely filled to capacity. This, they said, Indicates there is no justi fication for municipal facilities. Offstreet parking facilities should be developed privately when it becomes profitable to do so. they declared. Those in favor of municipally controlled offstreet parking stat ed that private enterprise is de sirable, but that it does not in sure use of offstreet parking facilities in the future as park ing lot sites become valuable for other purposes and traffic situations become worse. Registration High - They pointed out that regis tration of automobiles in Jack son county shows there are about two cars per family. They also noted that no additional on street parking facilities have been added in downtown Med ford during the past year, while approximately 140 have been withdrawn. Next week's roundtable topic will be sanitation problems in the Medford fringe areas. before the boys' naked bodies were found stacked in anearby ditch last Tuesday. Suspect Was in Area Also, the 26-year-old man ad mitted being in the northwest side area where Robert Peter son, 13, John Schuessler, ,13, and his 11-year-old brother, Anton, are believed to have been slain cn the night of Oct. 16, police said. The older man attend the Schuessler boys' wake, even though he professed not to know them, and his friend visited the woodland lot where the bodies were found, officers reported. Despite the new lead, top po lice officers for the first time voiced frank pessimism about prospects for an early solution. The boys' stricken fathers have left their jobs to join the manhunt and reward money ap proaches the $30,00081. But the week-long investigation has failed to turn up a single tangi ble clue. Lt. Patrick Deeley, in charge of a 52-man special detective unit assigned to the case, glum ly admitted that so far nothing had come of it. Alibis of a sort Even the two men scheduled for lie tests today had alibis of a sort, police said. . Meanwhile, Coroner's pathol ogist Jerry Kearns provided a new insight into the case with a report that only two or more "powerful sadists" could have beaten the boys so brutally. . Bobby Peterson was killed by a vicious judo blow to his adam's apple, instead of being strangled as previously reported, Kearns said. The Schuessler boys were strangled John by a noose and Anton in some other fashion. ' Kearns concluded that the boys were the victim of adult sadists men who derive pleas ure from inflicting pain Governor Appoints Fescue Commission Salem --(U.R) Gov. Paul Pat terson has appointed seven mem bers of the chewings fescue and creeping red fescue commission. Named to represent growers are Clayton Fox of Imbler, L. H. Hagen of Oregon City, Tom De Armond of Hubbard, J. Dale Standley of La Grande and Carey Strome of Junction City. ' Named to represent handlers are Dwight Hopkins of Imbler and Robert White of Salem. President Looked Healthy At Photographic Session, News Photographer Asserts THEY'RE IN THE MONEY New York po lice detective sergeant Barney Arluck is con gratulated backstage after winning $50,000 on NBC's TV show, "The Big Surprise." The lucky family are, left to right, sons Gregory, 7, Billy, 13, Sgt. Arluck and wife, Frances. Next week he will try for the $100,000 jack pot but he keeps the $50,000 even if he misses. Unfair Competition Hearings Under Way Portland (U.R) Hearings on unfair competition charges against eight major ice cream companies opened here yester day under auspices of the Fed eral Trade commission. L. C. Paulson, government at torney, said 17 witnesses have been subpoenaed to testify here. The local hearing was expected to last a week. After the local hearing Exami ner John Lewis will move to Seattle, San Francisco and later to eastern cities to take more testimony. Preliminary hearings were held earlier in Washington, DC. Among the eight firms charg ed with unfair competition are Carnation Milk company and Arden Farms. Safety Belts Credited With Saving Two in Crash Fort Dodge, la. (U.R) Sen. Thomas Martin (R-Ia.), and his. wife credited automobile safe ty belts today with saving them from death or injury when their car missed a curve near here Monday and overturned. The car was badly wrecked but the senator and his wife un hooked their safety belts and climbed out without a scratch. Highway patrolmen took them to their destination. Two out of three cars on the highway today are equipped with radios, compared with one out of three in 1941. I (HEPS fEB amp 03376 CH3EB umatoT QS5 &mm flame mm vvvyvyyvvvvvyvVvvvvvvvYYWw S tTi7 Cam3 VTC modest a priet! 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Olson and his manager, Sid Flaherty, were sued by Herbert Campos, Honolulu dairyman and fight manager, whp claims he signed a contract with Olson in Honolulu July 20, 1949 giving him "sole and exclusive" man agerial powers for 10 years and one-third of the fighter's net earnings. Engineer Hondred For 25 Years Service Portland (U.R) Engineer Theodore Edward Zanders was honored by the Northern Pacific Terminal company yesterday for more than 52 years of service without an accident. Company officials said he had never been so much as reprimanded for a rules infraction and never had lost a day because of an on-the-job injury. Loel Sentencing Set for November 1 Oklahoma City (U.R) Sen tencing of convicted slaver Otto Austin Loel has been DostDoned until Nov. 1. Assistant Countv Attorney Joe Martin Jr. said today. Loel was scheduled to be sen tenced formally todav to die in the electric chair for the hunt ing knife slaying of Mrs. Eliza beth Jeanne Henderson. Comn ton, Calif. A jury fixed the death penalty last Friday night. Loel, 45, is a former Sandy Ore., police chief. Mrs. Henderson's body, stab bed 13 times, was found in an Oklahoma City motel in Janu ary, 1954, Loel was arrested in Florida a year later. CARDS COULD UPSET Chicago (U.R) Coach Ray Richards of the . Chicago Cardi nals today predicted his team has "a good chance for an upset" over the Cleveland Browns next Sunday. "If Cleveland comes here just a little bit fat-headed, anything can happen," he said, Read and Use Classified Ads. . . The Community's Biggest Marketplace Editor's Vote: Stan Tretick, veteran United Press Newspictures photog rapher, was in the group or camera men that took the first pictures per mitted today of President Eisenhower In his hospital suite. His story follows: - By STAN TRETICK United "Press Photographer Denver (U.R) President Eis enhower looked very healthy for his first formal meeting with photographers today since he became ill almost four and one- half weeks ago. He looked almost as well as he did before he became ill. His eyes were very bright but the sun was also very bright on the west" terrace of the hospital where he posed for us. When he was wheeled ' out onto the terrace to meet us, he said, "It's so nice to see all of you again." 10 Minutes of Posing We were allowed to take pic tures for about 10 minutes and then White Press Secretary James C. Hagerty told us that would be all. Personally, I don't think the President could have stayed out much longer because the sun was so hot. It was an ideal day for us, however, to take these impor tant photographs. . The President was wearing a reddish I believe maroon- colored pajamas and as I re call, a blue cowboy tie. . Too Busy With Work I really was too busy taking pictures to pay much attention to details. I got each picture, size four by five, and- between 15 or 20 other pictures of him with a Leica 35-mm. camera with a 1.35 lens. We knew he wouldn't have much time so I was taking pic tures with the two cameras as fast as I could go.- Before we went up to the President's suite, Press Secre tary Hagerty warned us "There will be no shouted orders. Re STORY SUPPORTED , Brenner Pass, Italy (U.R) Border police allowed circus ac robat Leopold Stovcek, 30, to cross into Austria without a pass port Monday after friends of the performer backed up his story that an elephant swallowed his papers. member that He also informed us that Mrs. Eisenhower would not" be present. 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