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o Western f Mil f 1 Wmw ' , v A sM. - - 1 5 LIKE IKE OF OLD President Eisenhower flashes his famous smile as he is IfJf-i m i s,pu.?f Ms temPorar7 office in Gettysburg, Pa., by Secy, of Commerce Sinclair Weeks (right) and Budget Director Rowland R. Hughes (left). Morse Says GOP Misleading Public In Power Picture Heppner, Ore. '(U.R) Sen. Wayne Morse (D.-Ore.) today ac cused top officials of the Repub lican administration of an at tempt to mislead the public with a distorted picture of power de velopments in the United States during the past 50 years. Not Republican Invention In a speech prepared for de livery before the annual meet ing of the Columbia Electric statements of Interior Secretary Douglas McKay and Undersecre tary Davis that 27 partnership power projects had been built during the past 50 years, mostly by' Democratic administrations, and that partnership was not a Republican invention. Morse said that most of the projects, referred to in the Re publican statements had been "pigmy" projects that altogeth er generated not more than 287, 000 kilowatts in the 50-year pe riod. Morse said "over half of them were regular reclamation proj ects with the partners, so-called, the water users." Morse also replied to the Re publican claim that only in fed eral power areas such as the Tennessee valley and the Paci fic Northwest were there threats of power shortage. The Eugene Democrat said "let me tell you that the power shortage is not created by fed eral programs, but by the stran gulation of federal programs here in the Northwest by the Re- 1-1 u.m... kntp Vioii- -i 1 - puuilUdll uia now onu w"." lies, the private power com panies." e SP Places Large Freight Car Order Portland (U.R) Southern Pa cific railroad officials announced here today that the line had placed an order for 10,700 more freight cars at an estimated cost of $90,000,000. SD. J. Russell, president of the line, said the order was the largest ever placed by SP and brought the total of new freight ars acquired or on order in i955 to 14,725. Russell said deliveries of the cars was expected to start next year. The SP will build roost of the cars in its own shops at Sacramento and at Houston, Tex. Russell called the new order "part of our continuing plan to match industry and agriculture stride for stride." Three Egyptian-Arab Border Clashes Told Tel Aviv, Israel (U.R) Israeli officials today reported three border clashes with Egyptian and Jordan Arabs. Authorities said a patrol yes terday afternoon killed two Egyptian scouts in a chase along the border of the Gaza Strip. Infiltrators from Jordan tried to blov up a house on the out skirts of the Bet Kama settle ment near the border, a military spokesman said, and tracks of four men were found leading back to Jordan. Maj. Dan Gov said another Egyptian force attacked the Bee airy settlement in -the Negev Desert but was driven off. Only casualties reported were in the Gaza Strip skirmish. LJ New York (U.R) Great North ern Paper Co. has announced it will raise its newsprint prices $5 a ton effective Feb. 1. Prosecution Sticks To Damaging Story in Abbott Case Oakland, Calif. '(U.R) De fense attorneys tried unsuccess fully today to shake the story of a balding ex-typewriter re pairman who has presented the most damaging testimony yet in the kidnap-murder trial of Bur ton W. Abbott. The witness, William Russell, repeated emphatically and posi tiely that he saw. Abbott in a doughnut shop near the spot in Berkeley where the slain Steph anie Bryan was last seen alive. Russell also insisted he was cer tain he saw Abbott in the shop on April 28. the day 14-year-old Stephanie disappeared. Russell refused to retract any part of his story despite inten sive cross-examination by de fense attorney Harold Hove. Sticks To Testimony "Do yqu recall that you told newsmen you were not sure of the date you saw Abbott," Hove said. "That is not true," Russell re plied. Hove then tried to establish that Russell was being so posi tive in his testimony against Ab bott because Russell allegedly thought he might be under sus picion himself. "Do you deny that you said you were under suspicion your self and had put a noose around Girl Wrestling Ban Held Unconstitutional Oregon City (U.R) A new Oregon law which says women can't wrestle is unconstitutional class legislation, according to Attorney James Goodwin. Goodwin appeared in Oregon City District Court to argue a demurrer filed in the case of Jerry Hunter, one of two women wrestlers arrested here recently for violation of the new law. Miss Hunter has pleaded inno cent. Goodwin said the Oregon Leg islature made it illegal not only for women to wrestle but also to act as referees, managers or sec-J onds. He said he knew of no other state where women were forbidden from engaging in wrestling exhibitions. District Judge Howard Blan ing took the case under advise ment and said he would give an opinion the first of the week. School, Road Funds To Get Forest Money Division of $191,510.16 of for est preserve rental funds, re ceived recently by the county was anonunced today by County Treasurer Karl Janouch. The funds were divided ac cording to law with 25 per cent, at $47,632,62, allocated to the county schools, and 75 per cent, amounting to $143,632.62, allo cated to the general road funds. The forest preserve rental funds are derived from 25 per cent of the receipts from the Rogue River National forest, which is distributed among five counties according to the forest acreage contained within county boundaries. Weather FORECAST: Considerable cloudiness with occasional rain showers in valleys and snow showers in mountains tonight and Saturday. Slowly rising temperatures. Low to night 35. High Saturday 4S-50. Temp. Highest Yesterday 36 Lowest this Morning 33 Pree. to 4:30 a-m. Today 14 Witness your neck because you came home early from work that day?" Hove asked. "I said no such thing," Rus sell answered.' "Do you deny you told us that your own mother had accused you of the crime?" Hove said. Russell's face flushed, he leaned forward in the witness chair and shouted, "I certainly do deny that." Under questioning by Asst. Dist. Atty. Folger Emerson Rus sell charged that Hove had told him he had better be "sure" about his testimony. "Otherwise he (Hove) said he could make it tough on me," Russell said. The testimony by Russell, a former typewriter repairman for the Berkeley Public School system, appeared to be the most severe .setback, the .defense lias yet received. E. R. Young Found Guilty of Charge Elbert Ray Young, 59, of 512 Pennsylvania ave., was found guilty in district court at noon today on a charge of failure to yield right of way. Young was the driver of an Evergreen bus involved in an accident Sept. 15 which' resulted in the death of one person and the injury of 16 others. Donald Lee Knoebel, 19, Eagle Point, was killed when the car he was driving was involved in a head-on collision with the bus as it was turning into the Camp White entrance. The trial began yesterday morning, witnesses who testified at the trial included the driver of a school bus and a state police officer who witnessed the acci dent. DOW-JONES AVERAGES By UNITED PRESS Dow-Jones final stock aver ages: 30 industrials 482.91 off 2.35; 20 railroads 160.05 off 0.99; 15 utilities 64.89 off 0.11, and 65 stocks 171.01 off 0.81. Sales today were about 2,320,000 shares compared with 2,310,000 yesterday. Steady Increase in Medford Means Classroom 'Surplus' Leonard Mayfield, Medford school district superintendent, spoke this morning at the first of a series of tax study meet ings being conducted by the legislative committee of ' the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. The meetings are being held to survey the entire field of local taxation, and later sessions will have as speakers city and coun ty officers having to do with budgets and taxes. 6,338 in Six Years Mayfield pointed out that the principal problem faced by the Medford school district is the increasing number of students, and as an example compared the 288 seniors who left Medford High school last June with the 528 first graders who entered the system in September. There are at present 4,744 students reg istered in Medford schools, he said, but by 1961, six years away, this will ' have grown to 6,338 on the basis of school census fig ures, not counting any young sters who may move to the area. As a result of recent school construction, the system now has a capacity for 436 more students than are registered, lie said, but Medford United Press Full Leased Wire 50th Year 24 Pages OPERA DIVA Chicago '(U.R) Famed operatic ghini-Callas, her eyes flashing and her "" jo- no flying, played the starring role last ull throated row with eight process servr The process servers tried to sl: va two summonses just after she had takeK . call fol lowing her final appearance for the N the Civic Opera House. Madame Callas shouted a resonant prott. flying wedge of tenors, baritones, and opera lovers moweu Am the process servers. When the smoke cleared, the summonses were lying on the floor Chartered Craft Crashes Into House In South Seattle 27 Bodies in Morgue; 47 Survivors Listed Seattle U.R) A DC4 air plane chartered by soldiers re turning home from the Orient crashed into a house and burned on the southern outskirts of Seattle during a snowstorm ear ly today and 27 of the 74 per sons aboard were killed. Coroner John P. Brill Jr., said there were 27 bodies in the morgue. Forty seven survivors were accounted for. The Army said 25 of the dead had , been identified as soldiers. Two other bodies were unidentified. One of the unidentified dead was believed to oe Jari ivic Grath, a pilot who was "dead heading" a ride with his wife and three children. Possibility of Sabotage Several survivors said an ex plosion occurred in the plane before the crash. Others said one of the craft's four engines came loose and crashed into the fuselage. The crash occurred shortly after the non-scheduled plane had taken off from Boe ing field,- an airport inside the Seattle city limits. The possibility of sabotage was being investigated. The soldiers arrived here yes terday aboard a Navy transport vessel from Japan where they had been on duty. Most of them were planning joyous Thanksgiving! reunions with their families. Crashed After Takeoff The plane sheared off the tops of several towering fir trees be fore it smashed into the dwell ing occupied by Mrs. Colin Dearing and her five children. The house burned but Mrs. Dearing and her children es caped. Her husband was not home at the time. The crash scene was close to a heavily populated shopping cen ter. Wreckage and bodies were strewn over a path 400 yards long. this "surplus" capacity will van ish by 1957, when there will be 44 more students than capacity. In 1958, he stated, the deficit will be some 337 students, and by 1961, if no new classrooms are built, the system will have 1,158 more students than it can handle according to state standards. This represents the equivalent of 38V classrooms, he said. Must Plan Ahead To meet " this influx of stu dents, it is necessary to plan two or three year's ahead, Mayfield explained, for the voting on bond issues and the actual construc tion of facilities takes about that long, x He pointed out that while a large portion of local property taxes go for school purposes, the position of school taxation in all taxes paid, local, state and fed eral of all types, is far down the list in Oregon, representing approximately S64, 750,000 out of a total of $896,500,000. He added that Medford taxes, including those for city, county and school district, are among the lowest in the state for cities of comparable size. Medford residents are paying about 7 mills for school construction on MEDFORD, r CLP soprar I- More Active Salvage Programs Urged in Douglas Fir Eugene (U.R) Congressmen taking testimony on federal tim ber policies moved to Eugene to day for the fifth in their series of hearings in the Northwest. The joint congressional com mittee on interior and insular affairs concluded its Roseburg hearings yesterday afternoon after hearing at least two lum bermen declare that there is Simpson Reelected y Advisory Board L. L. Simpson, secretary, man ager and forester for the South ern Oregon Conservation and Tree . Farm association, was elected to his third term as chair man of the Medford district ad visory board to the bureau of land management this morning. B. L. Nutting, manager of Medford Corporation, was re elected vice-chairman. The board was meeting at the BLM offices in the Medford city hall. In its other major action this morning, the board voted to go on record as objecting to a pro posed change in marketing area boundaries in southern Douglas County. The Roseburg district advisory board had asked for a study of possible realignment to permit some Douglas county mills to bid on O&C timber in the Josephine marketing area. The board was to continue its discussions this afternoon. Two Freed Americans Due In Hong Kong Saturday Hong Kong (U.R) Two of the three American civilians Com munist China promised to release are scheduled to arrive in Hong Kong tomorrow, diplomatic sources reported today. The two are the Revs. Martin Vincent Garvey, Union City, N.Y., and Marcellus White, Wal tham, Mass. Both have been im prisoned since 1952. School-Age Will Disappear a continuing basis, for the re tirement of bonded debt, he ex plained, which is also among the lowest of any major school dis tricts. If property taxes this year had remained on the same basis as in previous years, Mayfield stated, the increase in school taxes would have amounted to about 4.2 mills, he said, or ap proximately $10 on a $10,000 residence. Cecil Posey, executive secre tary of the Oregon Education as sociation, who attended the meet ing, pointed out that assessments of utilities are conducted by the state tax commission, and have been reduced this year, placing the burden on other types of property. (A check with the county tax department this morning showed that California Oregon , Power company's tax payment this year was $403,547 compared to $423,126 last year; Southern Pacific's was $86,936 this year and $93,311 last year, and Pacific Telephone and Tele graph, which has completed con siderable construction and addi tion to its properties within the past year, paid $164,380 com pared to $161,085 last year.) United NOVEMBER 18, 1955 JH PROCESS SERVERS outside the soprano's dressing room while she held forth in full voice and several languages inside. "Chicago will hear about this horrible thing they have done to me tonight!" she cried. "I think this is the worst insult to Chicago and Chicago opera lovers that has ever happened!" - The law officers emerged from the fray claiming a moral vic tory. The summonses had touched the hem of Madame Callas' gar ment, they said, and she was therefore legally served. Both summonses concerned suits brought by a New York attor ney, E. Richard Bargorzy, who claims he discovered the New York born singer and signed her to a contract guaranteeing him 10 per cent of her substantial earnings. Region enough salvage timber still in the forests to stabilize the econ omy of the douglas fir region. Paulus McKee, general man ager of the Trico Timber Corp. and allied firms at Roseburg, and Norman Pfeiffer, Yoncalla, Ore., both urged more active sal vage programs. They were among 16 witnesses heard yes terday at Roseburg. Access Roads Hit Pfeiffer said he operated solely on logs left behind by other operators. He said he be lieved slash should be put up for bid after it had had its initial logging by original timber pur chasers on federal land. Sen. Richard L. Neuberger CD- Ore.) representing the Senate side at the hearings, said the most significant testimony pre sented so far was that given by Donald Wimple, representing the chamber of commerce at Pow ers, Ore. Wimple told the committee that business in his town was slack, that trade was dull and work slow. He asserted that log gers were leaving Powers for other areas because vast amounts of timber could not be reached with present access roads and that vast amounts of timber were controlled by large companies. Walsh Speaks Out Neuberger said the principal problem was to save other com munities from such a slump. William E. Walsh, Coos Bay attorney representing the port cities of Bandon, Umpqua and Coos Bay, urged the committee to maintain present marketing area restrictions to permit local areas to cut their own timber. He said that since a large amount of money has been pour ed into port facilities and since marketing areas already exist they should be maintained.- Walsh called for sound for estry practices, more access roads and a reappraisal of the allowable cut. Population by 1957 Mayfield reported that the Medford school district's bonded debt is now about $2,269,000, of which $189,000 is being retired this year. The district has only reached about 41 per cent of its bonding capacity, he said. He also pointed out that school building costs in Oregon are among the lowest in the nation, and that in Medford are among the lowest in the state. Sees Continued Increase He said that continued in creases in school taxes will be necessary in years to come, sim ply to keep up with the increas ing number of students, but he indicated that future construc tion might be amortized on a basis which will keep debt re payments at about the present level. Factors which may change this forecast, he pointed out, are the possible consolidation , of school districts, necessity of transporting students, and others. But just on the basis of keeping up with current needs, he said, a guess at next year's school budget would be that it would go up less than $100,000. Next meeting of the group will be at 7:30 ajn. Friday, Dec 2. Tribune Press Full Leased Wire Price 5c No. 205 Personnel On Way To Atomic Testing Site Die in Nevada Air Force Plane Rams Mt. Charleston Las Veeas. Nev. flJ.R) An Air Force bomber reported "no sign of life" today around the charred wreckage of an Air torce transport which crashed near the top of snowy Mt. Charleston with 14 persons aboard. The bomber flew over the 11.. 910-foot mountain as a ground party set out afoot after their radio-equipped truck was stop- pea Dy snow. En RouteJTo Test Site The big four-motored C54 carrying Air Force and Atomic Energy Commission personnel slammed into the mountain yes terday during a snowstorm. It was en route to the AEC nuclear weaDOns test site north nf hpre When it was reported more than seven hours overdue, a search was launched. Maj. J. E. Manch, pilot of the B25 bomber which flew over the site this mornine. said he saw "no sien of life." The nlane was "fairly well" intact, only one motor being sheared from its wings. It was charred badly, he said. Hits Near Peak Maunch said the plane appar ently sweet throueh the snow and at a last split second tried to climb over a ridge when the mountain loomed in front of it. It hit a ridse about 500 vards hp- low the peak on the southeast side. Maunch said it apparently slid about 50 feet before burstina into flames. The ground rescue party of seven Armv men was renort.ed four miles below the wreckage in a steep ravine. Huge boulders and deep snow 'in the pockets were making the going rough. The Air Force said it appeared it would take at least 10 to 15 hours to reach the site becanse of the terrain. No list of victims was released pending notification of next of kin but the Air Force said in a preliminary report none of the AEC men was a top ranked scientist. William Floyd Long Gets Five-Year Term William Floyd Long,' 18, of 1902Vi Hazel st, was sentenced to five years in Oregon state pen itentiary this morning in circuit court on a charge of grand larceny. Young was charged with hav ing stolen a 1948 automobile from Leever Motors, Inc., 315 East Fifth st., on June 26. Road Conditions Highway 99 north to Port land Pavement bare, some rain. Prospect Slush and snow pack starting to break up. No new snow. Oregon Mountain, Highway 199 Pavement bare. Siskiyous -Highway icy in spots. Four inches of new snow. Greensprings Ground fog. Pack starting to break up. Two inches of new snow. Klamath Falls Pack start in to break up. Four inches of new snow. Highway 99 in California Chains mandatory from Mt. Shasta to Dunsmuir as of 7:50 a.m. today. j. - Portland Traffic Snarled by Snow; Worst Said Over Frozen Ground Turned Into Quagmires Portland (U.R) The bis freeze in western Oregon was followed today by the big thaw which left much of the area in a big mess. But young man winter, who made his appearance more than a month early, left his calling card with a storm yesterday afternoon which dumped .5 inches of snow on Portland and brought freezing rain, snow and just plain rain to other areas. The temperature in western Oregon moderated during the night with the low at Eugene 38 and Roseburg 42. Salem had . had a below-freezing mark of a i ana Portland got down tf24. The temperature in parts of the Rose City went above freezing this morning for the first time since a week ago although the 8:30 a.m. reading at the airport was 31. Worst Said Over Rllt thp wnrct -urae m,Ar . . ... v v ci , uic weatherman said. The five-av outlook called for occasional showers and seasonal tempera tures in western Oregon with some snow and cool, but not frigid, readings in eastern Ore gon. Yesterday afternoon's snow- storm brought three inches to Pendleton, four to Seattle, fiv,e to Toledo, Wash., three to Ho- quiam and five to Spokane. Traffic in Portland was snarled badly and motorists without chains or snow tires were strand ed in many cases. Police said, nowever, there were remarkably few accidents. The snow brought tragedy to one Portland family. Seven-year-old Jimmy Farris drowned while playing in the snow when he slipped into Johnson creek. Power Cut Off 0 As the frozen ground thawed out and snow melted, the ground turned into quagmires of mudn ana siusn m many areas. A big power outage, poiffibly resulting from the storm, oc curred in much of western Ore gon yesterday afternoon. Power was out from a few seconds to minutes over a large area, caus-f ing numerous inconveniences ' such as stalled elevators, fouled up traffic signals and stopped clocks. BPA officials were in vestigating the cause. Coldest official temnerature in Oregon early today was 12 above at Burns. The weather bureau said east winds in the Columbia coree still persisted early today but were expected to moderate when warm air reached The Dalles. Two Small Boys Die In St. Helens Fire St. Helens, Ore. '(U.R) Two small boys burned to death, here last night and a brother of the victims was in critical condition with third degree burns. The victims were Michael Bee son, 9, and his brother, Victor, 7. Hospitalized in Portland was Nichols, a twin brother of Vic tor. , Also hospitalized in St. Hel ens, were parents of the boys, Mr. and Mrs. Edmond Beeson. Four other children of the Beeson family also were hospi talized here. The flames, which gutted the family's five-room house, were discovered by neighbors, who came home about 10:30 p.m. and saw the fire burning inside. The two young victims and Nichols were trapped in a tiny rear bedroom of the house. Fire men managed to reach Nichols but were unable to get the oth ers because of the heat. Their bodies were removed after the flames subsided., Mrs. Beeson also was suffer ing from shock and exposure. Ike Will Continue Seeking World Peace Gettysburg, Pa. (U.R) Pres ident Eisenhower will keep "plugging and plugging" for a peaceful solution' of world prob lems despite Russia's blocking tactics at Geneva, a high official in a position to know Mr. Eisen hower's views said today. The official is familiar with conclusions reached by the Presi- Ldent and Secretary of State John e oster Dunes in tneir discussion Thursday of the Geneva confer ence. Mr. Eisenhower acknowledged privately that the foreign minis ters conference was disappoint ing in its failure to produce agreements between Russia and the West on major differences, the official said. But the Presi dent is determined to continue his quest for a durable peace and feels there must be further efforts to work out a soluti' to world problems with Russia.
