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FLASHING FAMOUS SMILE, President Eisenhower leaves
car at Denver's Lowry Air Force Base to board plane for trip
to Washington. He walked to plane unassisted.finiemationay
President Arrives at
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By Cheering Throng
Gettysburg, Pa. (U.P.) Presi
dent Eisenhower, "feeling fine"
and looking it, came to his coun
try home today and got a warm
and jubilant welcome from his
neighbors.
The home folks some 8000
of them packed Lincoln Square
in the heart of this famed Civil
War community and roared a
happy "Welcome Ike!"
Mr. Eisenhower responded
with a brief speech expressing
his "very deepest thanks."
To Stay Indefinitely
The President and Mrs. Eisen
hower drove 80 miles from
Washington for an indefinite
stav on their farm on the out
skirts of town where Mr. Eisen
hower will recuperate from his
heart attack and carry on his
presidential duties.
The President, with Mrs. EL
senhower on his arm, walked
out of the White House back
door smiling and happy. Good
naturedly, both posed for photo
graphers for several minutes be
fore stepping into the President s
limousine.
Gets Dulles Report (,
The .President spent more
than an hour in his White House
office, working mostly on rou
tine matters. He received, among
other things, a report from Sec
retary of State John Foster
Dulles on the Geneva talks.
The President was nattily
turned out today in brown suit
with vest, and a brown hat which
he carried in his left hand as he
and Mamie stepped from the
White House. His face showed
some .of the color which he ap
Thornton Modifies Decision on Blind
Workers; Now Under Compensation Law
Salem (U.R) Attorney
General Robert Y. Thornton re
versed his previous finding and
held today that blind workers
in the Oregon Industries for the
Blind workshop in Portland oc
cupy a limited employment sta
tus sufficient to permit them to
come under the state workmen's
compensation law.
Workshop Closed s
The earlier ruling last week
resulted in officials of the
workshop closing down opera
tions for a short time until tem
porary insurance was arranged.
Thornton said "on Oct. 25 this
office ruled that workers in the
Oregon Industries for the Blind
are not eligible for membership
in the public employees retire
ment system for old age and sur
vivors insurance as 'stats em
parently picked up Saturday and
Sunday during some mild prac
tice work on the White House
putting green.
Mamie's Birthday
Mamie wore a navy blue cloth
coat, with a stone marten neck
piece, and a mauve hat trimmed
with pink. She responded gaily,
with a "thank you" when as
sembled reporters and pho
tographers wished her a happy
birthday. She is 59 today.
The Chief Executive after a
week end of rest and mild ex
ercise at the White House was
ready to step up his schedule a
little today
Tuesday he will go to the tiny
office in the Gettysburg post
office from which he and his
aides will conduct business of
the nation and the free1 world.
To Keep In Touch . V .
Although the time actually
spent in the 12 by 24-foot office
may be limited, the President
will be in finger-tip touch with
the government's far-flung oper
ations at all times through
massive communications system
set up in his farmhouse study.
Wall, Floor Damaged
In Fire Here Today
Fire in a davenport burned
through a wall and floor at the
home of Harper Hamilton Jr.,
2254 Aloha st., late this morn
ing causing soot damage
throughout the house, firemen
reported.
Two trucks were sent to the
scene about 11:20 a.m. Firemen
indicated that exact cause of
I the fire was 'not determined.
ployees.'
"The Oct. 25 opinion includ
ed comments to the effect that
the State Industrial Accident
Commission could not consider
these blind workers as - work
men under the workmen's com
pensation law. After further
study this portion of the opinion
is modified for the following
reasons:
"Make Work" Projects
"During the depression in the
1930s many public agencies re
sorted to 'make work' projects
to care for the unemployed and
destitute. The great majority of
cases involving injuries to those
so employed denied compensa
tion on the theory that payments
were for relief and not wages
under a contract for hire.
"In analyzing these cases I
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Lonardi Ejected
From Presidency
In Argentina
Coup Denounced
As 'Treason'
Buenos Aires (U.R) Gen.
Juan Jose Uranga denounced to
day as "treason" the palace coup
that overthrew . President Ed
uardo Lonardi and said he was
resigning from the army to have
full freedom of action to fight
the move. The -strongly worded
statement by Lonardi's trans
port minister brought into the
open the first major rift among
the military forces supporting
the revolutionary regime that
ousted President Juan D. Peron.
Some 60 per cent of these re
mained loyal to Peron during
the revolution.
Lonardi was replaced Sunday
by a new soldier-president, Maj.
Gen. Pedro E. Aramburu, 52,
and a four-man council consist
ing of Lonardi's army, navy and
air force ministers and vice-president
Rear Adm. Isaac Rojas,
a hero of the revolt against Per
on. Coup Without Bloodshed
The ousting of Lonardi was
accomplished without blood
shed, but the defiant statement
of Uranga and a statement by
Lonardi himself that he had not
resigned raised the possibility of
trouble ahead for the new re
gime.
Troops cordoned off the Plaza
de Mayo but no incidents were
reported. The state of siege re
strictions alreadys in effect were
somewhat tightened, but the
city was quiet.
Political observers said Lon
ardi was overthrown because
his government was ' becoming
toff extreme right.wing. In re
cent weeks his cabinet had be
come "packed" with ultra right-
wing Catholic Nationalists and
there were fears this group
would seize power.
Accident Victims
Return To School
Two Medford high school stu
dents injured early Saturday in
an automobile accident near
Roseburg returned to school to
day. Expected home today from
Roseburg are Ralph D. Stinson,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Stin
son, 1219 West 10th st., and
Kenneth Potucek, son of Mr.
and Mrs. George Potucek, 387
O'Gara st. Mr. and Mrs. Potucek
are bringing the students home.
Donald S. Wolfe, son of Mr.
Hazel Wolfe, 322 Benson st.,
returned Sunday but .did not re
turn to school today.
Those able to attend school
are Larry Tolle, son of Mrs
Jewel Tolle, 2833 Table Rock
rd., and Wolfe's brother, Arnold
Wolfe. They returned home Sun
day. The' students were returning
from Coos Bay where they at
tended the Friday night Med-
ford-Marshfield high school foot
ball game when the accident
occurred.
DOW-JONES AVERAGES
New York (U.R) Dow-Jones
closing stock averages: 30 indus
trials 484.88, up 8.34: 20 rails
161.81, up 2.21; 15 utilities 64.83,
up o.lo; bo stocks 171.90, up
2.37. Approximately 2,760,000
shares changed hands today,
against 2,000,000 Friday.
find that there is a class of 'make
work' projects Which is gener
ally recognized for purposes of
compensation. These are cases of
where the income of the worker
from the public source is depen
dent upon and in proportion to
his labor. There appears to be
no doubt but that the compen
sation of these blind workers de
pends upon their work. Under
mis acceptea test they may
therefore be considered em
ployees for purposes of work
men's compensation."
Thornton concluded, however,
that under the present wording
of the laws the blind workers
cannot be considered "state em
ployees" within the terms of the
uregon public employees re
tirement act or federal social
security.
MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, K
More
2 Deg ree Recorded 'Mere
Damage Expected
To Nut, Produce
Crops in Oregon
'Excellent' Chance
For Snow To Fall
Portland (U.R) It was cold
anywhere you went in Oregon to
day and there wasn't much im
provement in sight. Bend re
ported nine below zero. Portland
had a record low of 17 above for
this early in November.
The weather man predicted
more cold with snow said to be
on the way.
Walnut growers said from 25
to 30 per cent of Oregon's 1955
crop may have been lost to freez
ing. Other crops such as cauli
flower, cabbage and celery also
were hit.
'Western Oreonians shivered
for the fourth consecutive day.
The highest temperature forecast
west of the Cascades today was
38. East of the mountains, cold
hardened residents put a few ex
tra logs on fires themselves as below-zero
readings were reported
at some locations and Burns and
Pendleton had early-season rec
ord lows.
Snow Expected Tonight
The forecast said there was an
"excellent" - chance of general
snow flurries over Oregon and
Washington tonight as another
storm headed south from Alaska.
There was little general snowfall
in Oregon Sunday and early to
day, although Timberline lodge
reported snow, strong wind and
a reading of eight below this
morning.
Pendleton, where the mercury
went down to six above, reported
snow depth of four inches. Burns,
where it was five above, had
three inches of snow.
Most of eastern Oregon was
covered with white, while Med
ford had three inches and Port
land Salem retained a trace of
Friday and Saturday's snowfall.
Nut Check Suggested
John Trunk, manager of the
Northwest Nut Growers Associa
tion, suggested that growers
check a sample of their crop be
fore going to the expense of pick
ing. He said a similar freeze in
1936 destroyed unharvested wal
nuts and that 25 to 30 per cent of
the crop still was on the trees.
Other temperature readings in
Oregon early today were five be
low at Redmond, three below at
Burns, 12 at Klamath Falls, 16 at
The Dalles, 17 at Astoria, 30 at
Brookings, 23 at Medford, 17 at
Roseburg, 20 at Eugene, 18 at
Salem, 29 at North Bend, and 26
at Newport.
The cloud cover expected late
today probably will keep tem
peratures from falling so far
early tomorrow but below-freezing
was expected throughout the
state.
Motorists were advised to have
chains handy.
Durkin, Ex-Labor
Secretary, Dies
Washington (U.R) Martin
P. Durkin, the first labor secre
tary in President Eisenhower's
cabinet, died yesterday after a
lingering battle with a brain tu
mor. He was 61.
Durkin had been on the crit
ical list at Georgetown hospital
since August when he suffered
a relapse from his second brain
operation within a year.
Before suffering the relapse,
Durkin had recovered sufficient
ly from the second operation to
return to work.
He had been in a coma ffTr
several weeks before his death
and three sons were at the hos
pital when the end came.
Funeral services will be held
in Chicago. Arrangements have
not been completed.
Durkin, a Democrat, had a
short but explosive career as la
bor secretary. He resigned in
September, 1953, claiming the
administration had reneged on
a pledge to support his propos
als for amending the Taft-Hartley
law.
tab States, Israel
Prepare For Battle
n Refugee rrooiem
United Nations, N. Y. (U.R)
The Arab states and Israel were
expected to open a knock-down
drag-out propaganda fight today
in the United Nations special
political committee on the Pales
tine refugees problem. ;
The ad hoc, or special, politi
cal committee's annual debate
on the Palestine refugees gives
the Arabs and Israelis a chance
to air publicly their grievances
afi'd issue propaganda blasts be
fore a U.N. body.
- Each year they take full ad
Ousted Brazilian
President's Action
Eases War Threat
Rio De Janeiro (U.R) A
threat of civil war eased today
with the pledge of ousted Pres
ident Carlos Luz to accept the
new government of Brazil "to
avoid bloodshed." - - -
' Luz said he would offer no
resistance to the military coup
that overthrew him and install
ed Nereu Ramos in his place.
Tension Builds Up
Tension began building up
when Luz returned to Rio har
bor aboard the cruiser Taman
dare aboard which he had fled
the capital with a number of
supporters at the outset of the
bloodless revolt.
He remained aboard ship part
of the day and then was brought
'ashore and held in the naval ar
senal. Brazilian marines armed
with tommyguns stood guard.
He was released Sunday night
and went to his apartment.
There he gave United Press an
exclusive interview in which he
renounced any claim to the
pre: 'dency.
Feared Change of Mind
Although he had saidfeearlier
he would not resist the new
government, it had been feared
he might change his mind when
he returned to Rio and urge his
supporters in the military to
fight.
But he acknowledged, instead,
that "the presidency has passed
to Hereu."
"I plan to resign the presi
dency of the chamber of depu
ties, probably in the next meet
ing, so as to avoid any judicial
situation," he said.
Copco Not Merging
With Other Firms
The California Oregon Power
company is not interested in
merging with any other power
company, Albert S. Cummins,
president of Copco, said today.
Cummins said rumors have
been circulating that the com
pany might be considering
merging with Pacific Power and
Light company. He '-said there is
no basis to the rumors.
"Copco is not now and never
has been interested in merging
with anyone; has never discuss
ed such a possibility with any
company or individual, and its
plans and purposes over the
years have been to remain in
dependent," he stated.
Planning Commission
To Consider Rezoning
The Medford Planning com
mission will consider two re
quests for zone changes at its
7:30 p.m. meeting today.
Requests for zone changes are
on North Central ave. from
commercial to light industrial
and for a zone change at the
corner of McAndrews and Clark
sts. Also on the agenda is a con
tinued hearing on a setback
change at Eighth and Laurel sts
requested by J. H. Clabby.
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vantage of the debate to issue
charges and counter-charges and
this year's debate is expected to'
bring longer and louder attacks
because of the new tense situa
tion in the Holy Land and the
Soviet sale of arms to Egypt.
The Arab states outnumber
the Israelis six to one since only
two of the eight-nation Arab
League are not members of the
United Nations. But, the Israelis
are expected to hold their own
on ' the subject, considered one
of the sorest points between
Israel and her Arab neighbors.
RULING evidence was insuf
ficient, Iew York judge dis
misses the disorderly conduct
charges, preferred by detec
tive, against Dr. Clark Kuebler
(above), provost at U. of Cali
fornia at Santa Barbara. He
claims frameup. (International)
County Officials
Attend Conferences
Members of the county court
left today for Portland where
they will attend meetings this
week.
County Judge Rodney Keating
and county commissioners Ches
ter Wendt and L. G. (Shy)
Morthland will attend a meet
ing of the association of Oregon
and California Land Grant coun
ties in Portland tomorrow.
Wednesday, Thursday and Fri
day, court members will attend
an Association of Oregon Coun
ties meeting.
Saturday, court members will
attend a meeting of the Execu
tive Committee of O and C coun
ties. County Engineer, Paul Ryn
ning, will leave for Portland
tomorrow to (attend a meeting
of the County Engineers asso
ciation, Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday. He will remain in
Portland Saturday to attend the
second day of a two day meeting
of the Oregon Professional En
gineers association.
Texas Man Dies Of Gas
Fumes In Trailer Home
Bedford Forrest Unger, 55,
Longview, Tex., was found dead
in his trailer house at 611 South
Riverside ave., at 1:30 p.m. Sun
day. Cause of death was listed as
gas aspyhxia by sheriff's depu
ties and a deputy coroner.
Unger registed at the court
Nov. 11 as Kurt Von Ungren. He
told the manager he intended to
remain about a week.
Time of death was established
at some time Friday night, by
Carlos Morris, coroner.
Conger - Morris funeral home
is in charge of arrangements.
- New York (U.R) Navy ships
today towed a fire-blackened ra
dar sentry vessel, the USS
Seacher, toward a ship yard
here where experts will search
for the cause of a fire in which
three seamen died and two oth
ers were injured.
Cold
Weather
FORECAST: Considerable cloud
iness with brief clearing per
iods. Mostly cloudy Tuesday
with accasional light snow.
Continued cold. Low tonight
20. High Tuesday near 40.
Temp.
Highest yesterady 38
Lowest this morning 22
Prec.
To 4:30 a.m. today 23
mi Way;
Cold Accompanies
4.7 Inch Snowfall
In Medford Sunday
Chains Advised For
Mountain Highways
The Medford station of the
weather bureau reported a
record November snowfall Sun
day when a white mantle blank
eted the Rogue river valley.
A total fall of 4.7 inches was
recorded at the airport weather
station. Depth of snow on the
ground was three inches at 10:30
a.m. yesterday. t
Heaviest previous November
snowfall recorded here was in
1911. Two inches fell Nov. 10,
the first year weather data was
kept here. Medford had a one
inch total Nov. 12, 1918.
With and following Sunday's
snow storm also came the cold
est temperatures of the season.
The official thermometer at the
weather station registered 30 de
grees yesterday morning and this
morning fell to a seasonal low of
22. Lowest previous temperature
this fall was 32 degrees.
The snowfall yesterday fol
lowed traces of snow at the air
port Friday and Saturday.
Continued cold with occasion
al iignt snow and a minimum
temperature of 20 degrees is the
forecast for Tuesday. Consider
able cloudiness with brief clear
ing periods is foreseen for to
night.
Four inches of new snow was
reported at Crater Lake Nation
al park in the 24 hours ending
at 8 a.m. today, bringing the
total of snow on the ground to
16 inches.
Chains or snow tread tires
were advised for both the south
and west entrances and the rim
road, which was closed tempor
arily early today.
Temperatures at Crater Lake
ranged from a maximum of 20
yesterday to 3 above early to
day. At 8 a.m. today, the tem
perature was 8 above.
The west Diamond Lake road
was closed at 10 p.m. yesterday,
according to state police. The
east Diamond Lake road from
Klamath Falls remained open.
State police said chains or
snow tires were recommended
on Oregon mountain, the Green
Springs and the Siskiyous. Traf
fic was moving without chains
at Prospect, they said.
Other Amounts
Prospect reported two inches
of new snow with a total of
nine inches on the ground, while
three inches in the Siskiyous and
two" in the Green Springs left
totals of nine inches in both
areas. ,
Packed snow and ice was re
ported on Highway 66 over the
Green Springs and Highway 99
over the Siskiyous, but state
highway department crews were
sanding both highways.
South Bend., Wash. (U.R) A
spruce log measuring 18 feet
in diameter was taken from
Pacific county woods last week
by the H. Brix Logging company.
Supreme Court Sidesteps
Interracial Marriage Rule
Washington (U.R) The-Supreme
court sidestepped today a
ruling on the constitutionality
of state laws forbidding inter
racial marriage.
The high court, in a brief
opinion, threw out a Virginia
Supreme court ruling upholding
the state's statute prohibiting
marriage between whites and
non-whites.
But the court made clear that
it did not mean, by this action,
to strike down all such laws as
unconstitutional.
The court said the "inade
quacy of the record" before it
"prevents the constitutional is
sue of the validity of the Vir
ginia statute on miscegenation
tendered here from being con
sidered in "clean cut and con
crete form."
In another action bearing on
Insurance Plof
Involving Mother
Claimed Admitted
( Denver Man Held;
Faces Murder Charge
Denver (U.R) The govern
ment claimed today a faithless
son had confessed to insuring
his mother for $27,500 and then
planting a dynamite bomb '
aboard a United Air Line
DQ-6B airliner that crashed in
a flaming explosion Nov. 1, kill
ing her arid 43 other persons.
The suspect, a once-convicted
forger, was identified by the
FBI as John Gilbert Graham,
23, who worked with his mother,
Mrs. Daisy King, in operating
a drive-in restaurant here. He
is married and the father of
two small children.
Defense Utility
Graham faces a preliminary
hearing before U. S. Commis
sioner Harold, b. uaKes on a
technical charge of violating a
section of the federal code
which makes it an offense to
sabotage a national defense ma
teriel establishment or utility.
A commercial aircraft is defined
as a defense utility, the FBI
said.
But it appeared that if Gra
ham's connection with the bomb
plot crash of the big airliner,
which fell in a flaming explo
sion in a sugar beet field, near
Longmont, Colo., less than two
weeks ago, could be proven,
he could be charged in state
courts with the murder of any
or all of the 44 victims. ,
Possibility Considered
Two Colorado district attor
neys said 'they were considering
such a possibility. . 0
Denver District Attorney Bert
M. Keating said he planned to
confer with federal authorities
on the state's possible role in
the sabotage case. The plane
took off from the Denver Muni
cipal Airport and crashed some
eight minutes later.
District Attorney Marc Smith
of Greeley, Colo., who has juris
diction over the territory where -the
plane crashed, said he would
await the advice of federal au
thorities before taking any steps
in the case.. Smith said he was -certain
if there were sufficient
evidence to warrant filing of
murder charges, Graham would
be turned over to the state's
custody.
The penalty for sabotage of
a national defense utility is a
$10,000 fine or. 1,0 years in pris
on' or both, but if Graham were
convicted of murder in a state
court, he would face the max
imum penalty of death in the
gas chamber.
Still Being Questioned
Graham, a husky, six-footer,
with black, crew-cut hair, was
still being questioned by the
FBI's offices at the new Custom
House building here.
At the time of his arrest,
Graham had been making
monthly payments as restitution
after being convicted in Novem
ber, 1951, of forging $4200 in
bad checks. His five-year sen
tence was suspended on condi
tion that the money be repaid.
Mrs. King repaid $2500 of the
amount and $105 remained to
be paid when Graham was ar
rested today.
William A. Young
Dies At Home Here
William A. (Billy) Young,
well - known Medford resident,
died at his home, 815 Bennett
st., Sunday evening. Mr. Young
retired recently after operating
a garage on North Front st. for
several years G
He was active in the Medford
Gun club.
Conger - Morris funeral home
is in charge of funeral arrange
ments. racial relations, the court left
standing a lower court's deci
sion forbidding Oklahoma offi
cials to place the word "Negro"
after the name of a Negro can
didate for office in a state elec
tion. Stock Option Plan
The court also:
1. Agreed to rule whether em
ployees of a company must pay
extra taxes when they buy stock
at a cut rate under a stock op
tion' plan such as many corpora
tions now have in force. .
2. Agreed to rule whether the
states have the right to tax flfi-vately-operated
housing projects
in military bases..
3. Refused for the second time
to review the income tax eva
sion conviction of Arthur H. Sa
mish, California liquor lobbyist.
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