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o o ian 8i? nip Vr'fSjSS c: o Pi 2 : K O iry ane Dionne eriously ernicious Montreal U.R) Marie Di onne, the frailest of the four surviving Dionne quinteuplets, was reported to be in "very pre carious condition" with perni cious anemia at a church-operat ed hospital. But hospital offi cials denied she was there. Unconfirmed reports said the 21-year-old girl who left the cloisters of a Quebec city con vent Wednesday for the second time in 16 months entered the Notre Dame de l"Esperance hos pital Saturday. Blackout Believed Ordered It was believed Marie's family ordered a news blackout on her condition and nuns at the hos pital where Cecile and Yvonne two of her sisters, are training to be nurses, agreed to withhold news of her admission there. A switchboard operator refused to put through calls to Cecile or Yvonne. It became known over the week end that Marie, who took the name of Sister Marie-Rachel when she became a novice in the convent was staying at the hos pital in St. Laurent, a Montreal suburb. But in Callender, Ont., Oliva Dionne, her father said "I don't think she will ever return to the hospital. Thus the story of the Dionne quintuplets took still another turn in the well publicized road which the family tried to avoid since the girls were born. Marie originally entered the order Nov. 3, 1953. She served a six-month term as a postulant before being elevated to a novice. Reentered Convent She left the convent for the first time in July, 1954, because Weekend Rainfall Totals 2:17 Inches Precipitation so far this month was 1.60 inches above normal for Medford and vicinity today following a week end' of heavy rainfall. Medford station of the weath er bureau reported a total of 2.17 inches from Friday night through 4:30 a.m. today. The rain brought total precipitation for November to 3.32. Of the total, 1.33 inches fell Saturday. Bain fell throughout the day Saturday and most of Sunday. Total precipitation since the agricultural year began Sept. 1 has been 6.34 inches, 2.06 more than normal. No serious flooding in this area was noted by the weather bureau which said, however that there may have been local spot floods. Rogue river crested much lower than had been anti cipated. Crest at Gold Ray dam was 7.35 feet Sunday. Report Whiskey Theft At Local Legion Hall More than two cases of- whisk ey were stolen from the Ameri can Legion hall, 531 South Riv erside ave., sometime last night, according to city police. Police stated that entrance to the building was gained through a window that opened from a rest room onto a driveway at ie rear of the club. Central Point police reported that Faber's Market, Fourth and Pine sts., Central Point, was en iered about midnight, Friday, by someone who forced sliding doors on the east side of the building, apart. About fifty car tons of cigarettes, seven flash lights, and a clock radio were stolen. DOW JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow- Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 477.30 off 5.61; 20 railroads 159.50 off. 0.055; 15 utilities 64.73 off 0.16; and 65 stocks 169.66, off 1.34. Sales to day were about 1,960,000 shares compared with 2,320,000 Friday. S About $200,000 in Work Said Necessary To Make Shakespearean Building Safe Ashland William Patton, general manager of the Shake spearean Festival, has reported $100,000 to $200,000 worth of work on the building will be necessary to make the building safe for actors and workers. Patton made the announce ment after the state fire mar shal declared the building un safe. Wiring in dressing rooms is faulty, Patton said, and will have to be relocated and ex panded, additional stairways are Said 61 rom nemia MARIE DIONNE Reported in Hospital of "poor health, loss of appet- tite and extreme homesickness and stayed at the family home in Callender. Marie stayed at home with her parents for almost a year, was assumed to have regained her health, and reentered the convent last fall. That was after she turned 21 and with her three other sisters each came into $200,000 as their share of the quints' estate. Baghdad Treaty To Be Inaugurated At Defense Meeting Baghdad, Iraq (U.R)' Four Middle Eastern nations and Brit ain met here today to 'inaugur ate the Baghdad pact, a mutual defense alliance against Com munist aggression that seals off the southern borders of the Sov iet Union. The alliance of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and Britain plugs the holes in a.. Western. .-defense arc curving thousands of miles around Russia from the Arctic Ocean through NATO to the Philippines through the South east Asia treaty organization (SEATO). , US To Have Close Ties The United States, though not a member, will have close pol itical and military ties with the group which forms the "north ern tier" of defenses along the southern border of Russia. Tur key and Iran have common fron tiers with Russia. Today's meeting, was expected to be largely one of organiza tion. But Turkish Premier Ad- nan Menderes hinted the group may try to settle the dispute be tween Israel and its Arab neigh bors. Other important decisions may be taken, for Iraq is an Arab state and two others, Leb anon and Jordan, were watch ing with interest and may join later. May Halt Expansion One of the first problems fac ing the pact nations was the at tempts by Russia to extend its influence into the Middle East. Western observers believed the pact might be able to halt this expansion. British Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan flew in from London Sunday for the meeting. The United States was represent ed by official "observers," Am bassador Waldemar Gallman, Adm. John Cassady, command er-in-chief of U. S. naval forces in the Eastern Atlantic and Med iterranean, and Brig. Gen. For rest Caraway. Manager Named For Ashland Bank Portland (U.R) Floyd E. (Jack) Holt, former manager of the Gold Beach branch of the First National Bank of Portland has been appointed assistant manager of the Ashland branch, President C. E. Stephenson an nounced today. needed, the concrete foundation needs reshoring and the switch board and sound equipment should be relocated into a build ing behind the audience. Last season, Patton said, 23 actors used the small dressing rooms and the highly inflam mable costume room. The only exit is an old narrow stairway, he said. The switchboard i under the front of the stage, and four people use & light and sound X - 1 IpTFfy 'A I Medforlv United Press Full Leased Wire 50th Year 20 Pages Program To Expand Toil-Free Dialing Throughout Valley Tentative Effective Date February, 1957 Major plans to extend direct, toll-free telephone calls in the Rogue valley were outlined by the Pacific Telephone and Tele graph company in a proposal sub mitted today to Public Utilities Commissioner Charles H. Helt- zell. J. H. Creager, manager, said the proposed service improve ment would establish direct dial ing and elimination of long dis tance charges between Medford and Gold Hill and Ashland. The program also would consolidate Phoenix and Talent into a new exchange with direct, toll-free dialing to Medford, Ashland and Jacksonville. Direct dialing also will be in troduced between Central Point, Gold Hill and Jacksonville, Cre ager said. Effective Dale Tentative effective date for the new service is February, 1957, Creager said. Once the change is made, Med ford residents will be able to dial some 22,300 telephones; Ashland residents, 19,250; Gbld Hill, 16,000; Central Point, 17, 200; Jacksonville, 18,600; and White City, through Columbia Utilities company, 16,000. The new plan will make some 4,900 additional telephones av ailable to Medford residents, without charge, in Ashland and Gold Hill. . Ashland customers will have 15,150 additional telephones in Medford and Jacksonville; Gold Hill residents some 15,600 addi tional phones in Medford and Central Point; Jacksonville cus tomers some 1,650 more in Cen tral Point, and Central Point some 1,100 additional telephones in Gold Hill and Jacksonville. Customers in the proposed Phoenix.Talent exchange will be able to dial 19,850 telephones in Ashland, Medford and Jackson ville. However, Creager said there no longer will be toll-free dialing from customers in the Phoenix area to Central Point and White City. - The proposed inter-city calling plans, Creager said, would be an expansion of similar service im provements introduced between Medford and Jacksonville in 19 52, between Medford and Colum bia Utilities company exchange at White City in 1954, and be tween Medford, Central Point and White City last April. Service Provided In addition to providing a wid er calling range, the new propos al will provide "city grades" of service one, two and four party lines for subscribers who now have suburban service in the area to be served by the Phoenix-Talent diaL exchange. Creager said mileage charges now being paid by some subscri bers in the Phoenix-Talent area will be reduced or eliminated. Telephone rates applicable un der the company's proposal to Heltzel will be the same as those in Medford. Creager said the company an ticipated a hearing in this area would be held to determine pub lic interest in the improvement program. The hearing would be held by the Public Utilities com mission. Gearhart (U.R) Hubert Wil- loughby of Harrishurg, Ore., was elected president of the Western Livestock. Association at its annual meeting here. booth. He said they t could be trapped by equipment during performances and would have no means of escape in case of fire. Patton said the association hopes to construct public rest rooms and a concrete and steel wardrobe vault, although it is not required by fire laws. The Festival wardrobe, he said, has been built over nine seasons, and without it the Fes tival could not continue. The original wardrobe was destroy ed by fire in 1940. MEDFORD, OREGC ' 7 J-n 1 X I NlTf ITT ! I -"vf - I k I I X. ucoroo I " oc"F- J I "t " talC IT ' ' CXCMlNtt - v i K . I AS ML AN ft EXPANSION PLANS Above is a map show ing proposed expansion plans of toll-free dial ing in the Rogue valley for Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company subscribers. The dot ted lines indicate proposed projects, which Gold Hill Hunter Drpwns As Boat : -, Upsets Near Tolo Jackson county sheriff's of ficers and state police continued to search today for Meritt Gar old Davis, 49, of Gold Hill, who apparently drowned while duck hunting on Rogue river in the Tolo area Sunday morning. State police said Davis, and his son, Richard Logan Davis, 17, were hunting about 300 yards upstream from the mouth of Bear creek when the boat ap parently hit a snag and capsiz ed. ' Swims Ashore Richard Davis, who managed to swim to shore, told state police he saw his father go into the water as he was swimming for shore. He told police he and his father were traveling down stream when the accident, hap pened about 10:45 a.m. yester day. Richard summoned aid from a farm house. State police sher iff's officers, five members from the Central Point Rural Fire Protection district and sev eral other searchers combed the banks of Rogue river in the Tolo area until 4' p.m. yesterday. The search was abandoned then be cause of darkness. Search River , Other volunteers were expect ed to join state police and sher iff's deputies, in the search to day. The search was centered in the river downstream from where the boat capsized. State police said the 12-foot plywood type boat was ' found smashed to pieces below Gold Ray dam. Two Teen-Agers Die In Albany Collision Albany (U.R) Two teen agers were killed yesterday when the car in which they were riding rammed a cattle truck eight miles south of here. . Three other teen-agers in the car were injured. Police identified the dead as Patricia Roberts, 17, Aumsville, and Gay Lesley, 19, Stay ton. William Weddle and Larry Freres, 19 - year - old Stayton youths, were critically injured. Dora Mindown, 18, Sublimity, was seriously hurt. Police said the teen-agers' ve hicle, driven by Weddle, slam med into the rear of the cattle truck which was stopped on the highway. A truck and trailer had jack-knifed on the slick road, and was blocking traffic when the accident occurred. Weddle was hospitalized at Al bany. Freres was taken to a Portland hospital. re Z3 o a 2 . tfnited 'EMBER 21, 1955 JlSOfJ MEDFORD AND VICINITY Ike at Camp David Council Conferences Gettysburg, Pa. (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower left his farm today and motored to his Camp David mountain retreat, 22 miles away, for a meeting with the National Security Council. Helicopter-borne members of the cabinet and of the National Security Council planned - to drop down at Camp David, the President's hideaway in Mary land's Catoctin Mountains, for sessions with the Chief . Execu tive this afternoon and Tuesday. Mr. Eisenhower recuperating nicely from his heart attack was to drive the 22 miles to the secluded and closely-guarded camp while his chief lieu tenants were being whirred through the air from Washing ton in three Air Force "flying banana" helicopters. The meeting of the National Security Council, the top-level advisory body on defense and foreign policy, came first. Cabinet ' Session Tuesday His session with the cabinet will be held Tuesday. To prepare himself for the Na tional Security Council session, Abbot) on Drinking Binge, Witness Says Oakland, Calif. U.R) 1 A Wildwood, Calif., innkeeper to day testified that Burton W. Ab bott indulged in a nine - hour "drinking binge" the afternoon and evening of the day follow ing the kidnaping of teen-ager Stephanie 'Bryan. Delbert Cox, Wildwood tav ern keeper, was . the first wit ness to take the stand as the third week of Abbott's kidnap murder trial got under way. Cox, who said he had known Abbott for nearly three years, said he had never seen him "drink so heavily before" the afternoon and evening of April 29. Abbott came into the tavern between "two and three o'clock" in the afternoon "and stayed until I closed up shortly before midnight," Cox testified. He said Abbott -was joined a short time later by a Wildwood mill worker, Tom Daly, and that the pair "drank continuously" thereafter. , Roseburg (U.R) Loren W. Koch, 22, Roseburg, is being treated in a Roseburg hospital for a gunshot wound suffered when his .32 caliber revolver accidentally discharged. Tribune Press Full Leased Wire Price 5c No. 207 C O 0 E - MttENT CXTtMOEO CHUN ROUTES are tentatively set for operation about Febru ary, 1957. Solid-lines make up the present long-distance dial system. The plans were an nounced today by general manager, J. H. Creager. the President scheduled a pri vate conference in Gettysburg earlier today with Allen W. Dulles, director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Vice-President Richard M. Nixon who has been presiding at cabinet and council meetings during Mr. Eisenhower's illness, flew back from a Florida vaca tion to attend the two sessions. ' Besides the regular members of the security council Mr. Eis enhower, Nixon, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, De fense Secretary Charles E. Wil son, and Defense Mobilizer Ar thur S. Flemming a score of other government and military leaders were to attend. To Attend Meeting Also asked to sit in on the NSC meeting were: Treasury Secretary' George S. Humphrey, Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr., Budget Director Rowland Hughes, Atomic Ener gy Commission Chairman Lewis L. Strauss, Harold E. Stassen, special presidential assistant on disarmament matters; Theodore F. Streibert, director of the U. S. Information Agency; Undersec retary of State Herbert Hoo ver Jr.; John Hollister, director of the Internation Cooperation Administration; Gen. Nathan F. Twining, Air Force chief of staff, representing Adm. Arthur W. Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Allen W. Dulles, assistant Secretary of State for policy planning Robert R. Bowie; and presidential aides Sherman Adams, Joseph M. Dodge, Nelson Rockefeller, Dil lon Anderson, and Col. Andrew Goodpaster. Mr. Eisenhower was reported in fine shape for the meetings. He has conferred individually with most members of - both groups since his Sept. 24 heart attack but has not attended a full session of either. Bus Driver Fined $105 For Failure To Yield Elbert Ray Young, of 512 Pennsylvania ave., was fined $105 in district court today on a charge of failure to yield the right of way. Young, who was found guilty by district court judge Rawles Moore, Friday, was the driver of an Evergreen bus which collid ed with a car driven by Donald Lee KnoebeL 19, Eagle Point, on Crater Lake highway Sept. 15. Knoebel was killed and 16 occupants of the bus were injured. WEATHER FORECAST: Partly cloudy to night. Valley fog Tuesday morning. Increasing cloudi ness Tuesday with rain by evening. Low tonight 33. High Tuesday 45. Temp. Highest yesterday 42 Lowest this morning J3 Prec. To 4:30 a.m. today . 65 Communist China Said Seeking To Undermine U. S. Retreat From West Pacific Said Aim Taipeh U.R) Nationalist China's Premier O. K. Yui said today Communist China and Russia were seeking to under mine U.S. leadership in Asia by forcing America to retreat from the Western Pacific. ' Premier Yui told the United Press any Red Chinese renounce ment of force would be insincere and only a temporary arrange ment. Don't Keep Promises "We know that it makes very little difference whether or not the Chinese Communists will re nounce the use of force on any of their objectives," the. premier said. "The Communists are never known to keep their promises. Whenever the Communists can gain their objectives by political means, they will naturally not want to resort to force. "If the Communists agree to renounce the use of force for the time being, it doesn't mean that they will never use force when their political means fail to ob tain their immediate objective." Attack Not Predicted Yui would not predict a Com munist Chinese armed attack on the Nationalist Chinese offshore islands but said the "possibility always existed." "The immediate aim of the Communist world is to divide the free nations and put them on the defensive," he said. "We shall redouble our efforts to alert other free nations in Asia to the increasing danger of Com munist aggression and work for closer cooperation. "The Russians and Chinese Communists are seeking to un dermine United States leader ship in Asia by forcing her to retreat from the Western Pa cific." County Court Back From O&C Meetings Members of the county court returned Saturday from .meet ings of the Oregon and Califor nia land grant counties and Oregon counties association in Portland. County Judge Rodney Keat ing returned to Portland this morning to attend a meeting of the O and C advisory committee in connection with current con gressional hearings on O and C lands practices. Keating was reelected to the O and C advisory committee in Portland, Tuesday. Election of officers and routine matters were taken up at the meeting, according to County Commis sioners L. G. Morthland and Chester Wendt. County Judge L. Ray, Baker county, was elected president of the Oregon Counties association, which met at the Imperial hotel, Portland, No. 16-18. Sentenced To 30 Days For Peffy Larceny George Edison Moore, 24, of 1063 Court st., was sentenced to 30 days in Jackson county jail, in district court today, on a charge of petty larceny. Moore, who was arrested Nov. 19 by a Sheriff's deputy, was charged with the theft of three tubs of scrap metal from a local firm. Eugene Area Stranded By Eugene U.R) A frozen river and deep snow have stranded a party of Eugene area elk hunt ers in the remote Salmon river country of central Idaho. Mrs. Everett Spaulding of Eugene, wife of a well-known McKenzie river guide, said she was informed the party's situa tion in a telephone call from an Idaho rancher. Hunters Identified Mrs. Spaulding identified the hunters as Tex Braatz, Miles McKay, and the Matthews brothers, all of Eugene; Idaho guide Ralph Smothers, and her husband who was assisting Smothers. The. group put into the main Salmon river at Shoup, near the east-central Idaho border, Nov. Private Citizen Drafted To Assist Police Fires Shot Accomplice Lodged 0 In Polk County Jail Salem U.R) The attempted holdup of a Rickreall tavern turned into a gunf ight last night in which a private citizen drafted to help a state police officer shot and killed one of the holdup men. State police identified the dead gunman as Wallace C. Cunning ham, 35, of Portland.His accom plice, Robert Scott Kennon, 31, of Portland, was lodged over night in the Polk county jail at Dallas. 8 Salem state police said the wife of the Rickreall Barbeque proprietor telephoned them from a storeroom while the holdup was in progress. The desk ser geant immediately radioed a pa trol car in the area and dis patched it to the scene. State Police Officer John Mek kers, who had driven past the tavern a ' few minutes before, rushed to the scene. He thrust his rifle into the hands of 23-yer-old Herschel Greenwade, who was standing in front of the building, and instructed the man to cover him when he entered the tavern. Kennon immediatelv surren dered his weapon when the offi cer entered. But Cunningham, who had not been noticed bv Mekkers, started shooting, hit ting the officer twice in the left arm. As Mekkers was, spun around by the force of the bullets, his unofficial deputy fired twice, one heavy rifle slub killing Cun ningham instantly. The tavern owner's wife, still in telephone contact with the Sa lem state police, kept upoa run ning description of the affray. When the shooting was broad cast over the police radio, Mek- ker's brother, Wallace, a state police officer in the adjoining district, rushed to Rickreall and took Kennon into custody. Mekkers was taken to a Salem hospital, where physicians said he was in good- condition. Ken non was scheduled to be charged with attempted armed robbery in. Dallas today. And as for Greenwade, state police said he was "a real hero." Officers said he was reported to be the best rifle shot in the area, and his chance deputizing by Mekker probably saved the wounded officer's life. Shady Covte House Destroyed By Fire Shady Cove A house occu pied by Mrs. Irene Rogers Dukes, near the Cove here, was gutted by fire this morsing. A few per sonal possessions and part of one room were saved by volun teer firemen, but in the rest of the house only walls remained standing. The building was ablaze when firemen were called, and they had some difficulty getting the truck to the fire because of a steep road. Mrs. Dukes is now staying at the home of her daugh ter, Mrs. Wayne Buttram, next door. The loss reportedly is partly covered by insurance. Volunteer Fire Chief Athel Dudley pointed out that this is the third major fire in Shady Cove in the past week, and asked residents to use extreme caution with fire hazards. Two of the blazes have originated as flue fires, he said. Miami, Fla. (U.R) Gov. Paul L. Patterson of Oregon was one of several speakers scheduled to address mayors and local offi cials from throughout the na tion here next week. New York (U.R) Mrs. Ann Woodward, who accidentally shot her sportsman husband to death last month, left a hospital today. ' Elk Hunters Snow and Ice 9," and planned to travel 125 miles down river by boat into elk country. Horses had been spotted along the overland trail at intervals to help carry out any kill. The hunt was to end at Riggins, near the Oregon-Idaho border. , Storms Prevent Return However, Mrs. Spaulding said the group was to have returned from the Salon "loop" hunt yes terday, but was prevented by heavy storms that made over land and waterway routes im possable. Mrs. Spaulding said that the rancher told her the hunters were not in any danger, and could be flown out of the re mote area by plane when th weather cleared.
