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TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, November 20, 1355 Highway Interim Committee To Probe Charges Against Coos Weightmaster Salem U.R) Charges of "bar baric conduct" against a weigh master in Coos county will be investigated further by the Leg islative Highway Interim Com mittee next month, with accusers and accused appearing to testify under oath. Harry Huber of Milwaukie, representing the United Log Truckers Association, Inc., pre sented a statement by Lynne W. McXutt, Coos Bay attorney, that Eugene Cramer of Myrtle Point was stopped at the coaledo scales south of Coos Bay last July 12 and he had a 4900 pound group axle overload. He was or dered to legalize by the weigh master. McNutt said Cramer drove his truck into an area near the scales, broke the binder chains and logs rolled off the load onto him. Knocked Unconscious McNutt's statement said: "My information is that the trucker was knocked unconscious and pinned under the log. Cramer's wife was in the truck and hap pened to be expecting a baby shortly thereafter. She and an- OR ROBERT E. LEE OPTOMETRIST JQ9 EAST BTH ST. .SIX. Years of specialized study with practice for preventative vis ual troubles make possible highly satis factory results with lenses and treatment. Special attention to children's eye problems. other trucker were refused the assistance of a radio to call for a doctor or an ambulance, by the weighmasters, although there was a radio in the truck sitting adjacent to the weigh shack. This caused the trucker to have to drive to the nearest telephone to place a call." But Ralph B. Sipprell, of the State Highway Department un der which the weighmasters op oreate, said his information was that the weighmaster on duty and the driver of another truck being weighed rushed to Cra mer's side when they heard the crash of the logs, and imme diately sought assistanoe, the truck driver going to the nearest house and telephoning for an ambulance, and the weighmaster calling, for aid from state police. The United Log Truckers group wants the weighmasters trans ferred from the highway depart ment to state police. Present Setup Satisfies Charles Ogle of the Associated Forest Industries of Oregon stressed that his group was sat isfied with the present setup, under the highway department, having only a difference occa sionally about the accuracy of the scales, and these differences, he said, are straightened out. Robert Knipe, representing Oregon Motor Carriers, and Gene Laird, representing Grey hound busses,' said they also had no quarrel with the present set up under the highway depart ment. Because of the seriousness of the charges in the Cramer case, the Interim committee headed by Sen. Warren McMinimee of Tillaii.ook decided to request Cramer, his wife, the weighmas ter and the state poilceman called to appear to testify under oath. GOING TO OFFICE for first time since heart attack, President-Eisenhower confers with Secretary of Commerce Sin clair Weeks in Gettysburg, Pa., post office. (International) Vancouver Woman Hurt When Heater Explodes Vancouver, Wash. U.R) Marie A. Kautz, 69, was hos pitalized here Saturday when a homemade steam heater exploded Mrs. Kautz, who was sitting about four feet away from the heater, was treated for a frac tured arm and other injuries. Her husband, Detlav Kautz, es caped injury. The blast demolished the cou ple's apartment and damaged the building's foundation. Joyita Passengers, Crew disappear; Investigation Launched By Government Suva, Fiji Islands U.R) The ghost ship Joyita was tow ed into port Saturday and the government officially denied newspaper reports that its 25 passengers and crewmen were murdered by Japanese fisher men. The ship was to undergo a de tailed examination under strict est secrecy in an effort to solve the mystery surrounding the disappearance of its cargo and passengers. The ship, missing for five weeks in the South Pacific, was found drifting and deserted far off its course. Speculation immediately star ted as to what had happened. Two Fijian newspapers, the Times and the Herald, quoted an "irreproachable source" as saying the missing persons had been murdered by crewmen ot a Japanese fishing boat. Natural Cause But Colonial Secretary A. F. R. Stoddard, in a radio broad cast to the island, declared that the disaster was due to a natur al cause. He suggested that the In Argentina Press Censorship Ends - .M,,,",, ' ,,,,U,, .M ,,., 1 Half its Horsepower is for Safety ! A pretty steep hill, you'd say? Well, not so far as this gentleman is concerned, lie just gave the accelerator a little encouragement with his toe . . . and swept from bottom to top so effortlessly he was scarcely aware of it. For he's at the wheel of a beautiful new 1956 Cadillac. And beneath that long, sleek, graceful hood rests the smoothest, most powerful engine in Cadillac history. The fact is that this great new Cadillac engine is powerful and dynamic jar beyond the require ments of normal usage. In the course of ordinary motoring, it is entirely possible that the driver will never put the accelerator down to the floor board. But how wonderful that extra length of throttle will be if he does need it! 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An end to censorship with restora tion to freedom of the press and public opinion has been guar anteed the people of Argentina by President Pedro E. Aram buru. Aramburu moved Friday to destroy the propaganda machine created by ousted Argentine Dictator Juan D. Peron during his 10 years of "iron rule" over this South American republic. Aramburu ordered the Secre tariat for Press and Cultural Activities, established by Per on in 1948, abolished. He nam ed Adolfo Lanus, a former edi torial writer for the newspaper La Prensa, to supervise the liq uidation of the propaganda ma chine which maintained a hold on the nation's press, radio and movies under Peron. Lanus also was named press secretary for the presidency of the republic, a post of limited power in contrast to the Per onist secretariat. "Freedom of the press and ac cess to the sources of informa tion is an essential requisite in the life of the Argentine people as it is in the lives of all free peoples," Aramburu said. Joyita may have been caught in a freak storm with its engines dead. The Joyita was towed to the docks for a minute examination by marine experts of the Fijian government. Extra guards were placed around the air base to insure secrecy. The Times and the Herald, in dispatches published yesterday, said the Joyita wandered into the midst of a Japanese fish ing fleet and "the Joyita's peo ple saw something the Japan ese did not want them to see." The newspapers said an arm ed party of Japanese sailors boarded the trading vessel at night and murdered all aboard. Michell Woman Dies Of Motel Fire Burns Grants Pass, Ore. (U.R) Mrs. Hazel Spoo, 57, of Mitchell, Ore., died in a local hospital Saturday from burns suffered two weeks ago in a motel fire that also re sulted in the death of her hus band. 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