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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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and Telegraph company subscribers. The dot
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Gold Hill Hunter
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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.
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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.
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- 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.