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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-
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.