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V. ilfillnl ;.f' J vis u u MEDFOi United Pri Full Leased Wire 50th Year 18 $ ages Lcjboir "Fight Rages At Wes0ftimigbyse Strikers Tangle With Police at Gates of Plant One Dead, 80 Injured; 86 in County Jail Columbus. O. U.R) Police and strikers fought a pitched battle at the Westinghouse plant here today, leaving one man dead of a heart attack, eight per sons injured, and 90 arrested. The outburst at dawn began when officers tried to clear en trance into the plant, where about 2000 members of the strik ing International Union of Elec trical Workers massed at the plant's gates. Sheriff Ralph J. Paul said when he arrived at 5:30 a.m "there were 25 to 75 pickets at each gate armed ith clubs. They had cgment blocks stacked across the driveways, we re stored order." CgiNine persons were taken to a hospital. Troy Tadlock, 34, of nearby Grove City, died enroute. The coroner said he suffered a heart attack, Tadlock was a Westinghouse employee but had not worked since the strike be gan. Picket Line 'Murder' , Charles Clark, president of the local union, and Robert Christ oferson, a union international representative, said the ... union I "charges that murder was com-! mitted on the picket line Tues day morning. Troy Tadlock was the victim oi police Druiaiuy in voked by Westinghouse man agement." Gov. Frank J. Lausche said the union's leaders in calling for the strikers to gather at the olant in defiance of a court order limitine rjicketing was "inde fensible." He said the state would step in to maintain law and order if necessary. Held in Jail The 86 strikers who were ar rested were held in the bullpen of the county jail on charges of incfting a riot. Company attor neys said charges of contempt of court probably would be filed later. All available police and sher iff's deputies were sent to the scene. The company claimed some 1,700 hourly workers had re turned to their jobs during re cent weeks. A court order had been issued limiting pickets at each plant gate following earlier violence at the plant. Company officials charged the union with a. "complete disre- gard for law and order" in stag ing the mass demonstration. ' . "Cars were turned over, wind shields and car bodies were bat tered and destruction was aimed at anything coming in view of those pickets at each of our plant entrances," a company statement said. ' - Union Charges Brutality The union countered that the company had refused to "bar gain . in good faith" and had "millions of dollars in -c - strike breaking. The union called Sheriff Ralph J. Paul's handling of the situa tion "one of the worst cases of police brutality ever seen such a situation." Mine Cage Breaks Loose; Two Men Killed, Three Hurt Carlsbad, N. M. U.R) A metal cage lowering five miners into a potash mine fell some 300 feet today, killing two of the men aboard and seriously injur ing the other three. The dead were identified as Buford Wright, 30, and Billy Littlefield, 20. The injured, all taken to hospitals here, were Dick Morris, 30, Bill Jurney, 30, and Peter E. Haulamaki, 25. All were from Carlsbad. Rescue Operations Slowed It was more than three hours after the accident before all five could be brought to the surface. Rescue operations were slow ed because rescuers had to be lowered down a second shaft, one at a time, crawl through a MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 31956 Traffic Accidents Claim 35S Persons By UNITED PRESS, An all-out campaigner safety was credited today with saving almost 70 lives on the nation's highways during the New Year's week-end. The traffic death toll set a new record for a three-day New Year's holiday, but fell far below the grim predictions. . The United Press tally from 6 p.m. Friday untij midnight Mon day showed that 356 persons died in, traffic accidents. There were 72 deaths in fires, 12 in plane crashes, and 71 in miscellaneous ac cidents for an overall holiday death toll of 511. "It wasn't as good as we would have liked and it wasn't as bad as we had feared," said NedbH. Dearborn, president of the'National Safety council. . ' , - Good Law Enforcement Credited by Council "But the fact that the "toll ran well below our pre-holiday esti mate is, we feel, a convincing demonstration that when the people want traffic safety and the law enforcement agencies give it to tlPem, the toll will come down," Dearborn said. Dearborn cited Chicago and Cook county, 111., where there was only one week-end traffic death, as a "spectacular instance of this." The traffic death count topped the record of 320 fatalities set during the three-day, 1953 New Year's holiday. But it wasn't close to the 420 predicted by the National Safety council. , Oregon Traffic Accidents Account For Three Deaths-, , e By UNITED PRESS Oregon counted three New Year's week-end traffic deaths today compared to seven over the three-day Christmas week end;- -; -.. - ; . : :-.. A belated Teport of the acci dental death of three - year - old Darold J. Starr, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Starr of Empire, Sun day night, today raised the toll. State police said sthe boy died in a hospital three hours after being run over near Empire by a car. Officers said the boy was in the rear seat of a car driven by his father , who swerved to avoid a boy gn a bicycle, nis son was thrown against a door which opened and the boy fell on the pavement where he was struck by another car, police said. ' Motorists were hampered yes terday bv a big snowstorm m the Columbia gorge. Many Cars Stalled State police estimated that some 1000 cars were stalled at one time in a three-mile stretch near Bonneville junction. Many cars were without chains and those with chains had a hard time getting through the jam. Dallas D. Pope, 27, Portland, was killed early yesterday when the car in which h was riding collided with a truck on St. Hel ens road. Allan Cecil Kraft, 22, Albany, died when his car plung ed over a 40-foot bank on the icy Santiam pass highway east of Foster Saturday evening. In other New Year's week-end tragedies, a five-year-old girl, Nina Sqhlocker, died in a fire that destroyed her family home near Fall . City.. Everett Allen, 50, and Margaret W. Fiske, 42, died of carbon monoxide poison in a parked automobile n Port land. In Douglas county, receding waters of a creek north of Can- yonille, disclosed that a car had carried two young men to their deaths nearly a month ago. The victims were Darley Wilcox, 22, Davs Creek, and Robert Wells Graham, 30, Canyonville. tunnel at the 300-footelevel, then singly another 325 feet to the wreckage.. Officials of the National Pot- ashs Co. were investigating re ports that a cable "kinkefl" and then snapped freeing the cage for the drop of nearly 300 feet. Cage at 300-Foot Level Project EngineeV James A. Lilly said the cage was at about the 300-foot level when it sud denly broke loose and dropped to i about 625 feet before it stopped. A crew of from 16 to 18 men normally work at such shaft sinkings but 'only five were in the cage and were being low ered to nearly 800 feet at the start of their shift . Life-Saving Factors , The council credited three fac tors for the saving of lives: 1. An unprecedented national traffic crackdown, involving a small army of policemen, Na tional ' Guardsmen and even planes. They had orders to en force all laws to the limit in order to prevent another mas sacre. " '" ' . o 2. Wide publicity given to the "Black Christmas" slaughter by press, radio, and television. 3. A refreshing demonstration of safe and sane driving by holiday motorists. CaliforniaJTtoppeil this jearV death count with 38, followed by Texas with 24 and New York with 23. The six states with deathless traffic records" over New Year's had all contributed to the Christ mas toll Colorado M)th eight, Tennessee with seven, Delaware with four, Vermont and Maine with two each, and North Da kota with one. u. An average 'of 4.5 persons died every hour during the 78 hour holiday. Strangely, the death' rate was slow during the hours of greatest danger when motorists tried to mix holiday spirits with driving. But it jump ed in the later hours. A sharp shift to wintry weath er in the midlands, plus the jam of homeward-bound cars, appar ently contributed ,to the up swing. Poujade Forces Gain in France Pans U.R) The forces of rabble-rousing, anti-tax crusader Pierre Poujade and those of the Communists made sensational gains today in crucial national parliamentary elections that all but killed -hopes of a stable gov ernment for France. The Communists gained 52 seats for a total 04 146, The Pou- jadists, wnoiHeld none m the old Assembly, won 51. . ' Piefre Mendes-France's left center Republican Front ran bet ter than expected, but it trailed the Right-Center. Front of Pre mier Edgar Faure and Foreign Minister Antoine oPinay . The remnants of the Gaullists were nearly wiped out. ." Coalition Necessary 0 e " The results meant that no sin gle party gained a majority of seats in the new National As sembly. The only hope of form ing a new government will be another coalition, perhaps by the ,forces of Mendes-France and Faure or of Mendes-France and the Communists. Mendes-France, however, already has rejected a Communist offer to join forces, describing the suggestion as'an "insult." ... . , The French voters registered a massive protest against their humpty-dumpty governments of the past 10 years. They threw out 110 deputies from the last Assembly in disgust. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York -a-dJ.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 485.78 off 2.82, 20 rail roads 162.21 off 1.08, 15 utilities 63.73 off 0.43, 65 stocks 171.70 off 1.0 f. Sales today were about 2,390,000 shares compared with 2,820,000 Friday. Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire Price 5c No. 243' Administrator 01 Welfare ' Department 'Fired' Dismissal Is Outcome Of Audit Investigation 'Mrs. Blanche Lyman, admin istrator of the Jackson county welfar department, has been discharged by the state welfare commission, according to Mrs. Loa Howard Mason, state ad ministrator. In a brief announcement, she said Mrs. Lyman's dismissal is "in relation to the administra tor'g action or ' lack of action relating to her responsibilities," according to United Press, which said Mrs. Mason declined to elaborate. Members of the Jackson coun ty welfare commission, however, have been advised , the action was taken as the outcome of a field audit investigation of the department, following the November, 1955, conviction of Harley. Huebner, a former em ployee of the department, on a bad check charge. At the time he was convicted, District Attor ney Walter Nunley declared Huebner had also misappropri ated funds in connection with his welfare department work. Summary Dismissal 0 The summary dismissal is ef fective Jan. 13," and Mrs. Lyman, who has, been caseworker and administrator of the local 'de partment for 21 years, has been suspended without pay until that date. - In .a letter to Mrs. Lyman, Jack Luihn, chairman of the state commission, said Mrs. Ly man had "failed to fulfill the administrative responsibility of your office, lacked loyalty to the department, and directly hindered the effective perform ance of the state governmental' ; functions of the state welfare commission ..." The letter, a copy of which went to County Judge Rodney Keating, listed seven specifica tions, six of them dealing with Mrs. Lyman's actions regarding Huebner,' in which, the letter declared, she failed to keep her superiors informed of his misap propriations, and in helping him to make; partial restitution. The seventh alleged loose adminis trative procedures in financial accounting. Department Meets The local welfare department was to meet late this morning to review the action, and to meet with two state, department representatives who arrived to day0 oto take over the local de partment. They are Richard Hagar, acting administrator, and William Smythe, field adminis trator who conducted the inves tigation following Huebner's ap prehension, and who prepared the report on which Mrs.' 'Ly man's . discharge was based. Members of the commission here include Judge Keating, County, Commissioner L. G. Morthland, H. D. Christensen, all Medford, and Mrs. , A. P. Klomhaus, Rogue River, who are in town, and Alfred S. V Carpenter, County Commission er Chester Wendt and Mrs. R. J. Keeney, who are out oftown. Parts of Oregon Hit by Heavy Rain By UNITED PRESS Parts of Oregon were hit by heavy ram, last night and more was forecast today but major streams which caused heavy flooding last month still were in their banks. A total of 3.34 fnches of rain fell at Newport in the 24 hours ending at 4:30 ajn. today while Astoria got .'1.93 and Portland 1.14. But in contrast Eugene had only .16 of an inch and Roseburg a trace. The forecast called for more rain with locally heavy amounts late today. The Willamette river was well below flood stage at all points and the Santiam at Jefferson was 2.3 under the flood mark at 8:30 a.m. today. The forecast called for slight rises in main streams and slight to moderate rises in tributary streams dur ing the next day or two. Icing was reported again this morning on parts of the Column bia river highway from Bridal Veil to Cascade Locks but state police said it was starting to show signS of thawing. A 'heavy snowstorm hit the gorge yester day, stalling hundreds of cars. The five - day outlook ""called for recurring rains. ' READYING FOR CONGRESS Cloak room attendant, James T. Gibson, 66, wipes dust from the seats in the House of Representatives in preparation for the opening of Con gress. Gibson has been employed in the capitol 43 years and is the oldest employee assigned to the doorkeeper's office. Police Led Chase; Three Cars Are Fred Ernest Hutton, 35, of 1808 Spring si, Medford, was arrested by state police Sunday night after a chase of about 25 miles with speeds ranging up to 95 miles per nour on High way 99 between Medford and Rogue River. Hutton was arrested about 7:25 p.m. at the junction of High ways 62' and 99- after the car he was driving damaged two ethers, including a patrol car, and sheared off an intersection warning 1 signal during the 15 minute 1 chase. Both sides of a new Cadillac, belonging to Skin ner's garage here, were dam aged. - . ' Hutton was being held in Jackson county jail today. He was booked on suspicion of lar ceny of an automobile. Police said the . chase started about halfway between Gold Hill and Rogue ' River near Miller's Gulch bridge, when Hut ton passed a patrol car,, at a high spee d.. The patrolman aarlier -saw the CiSillac parked at a cafe, and 'radioed the. local state police office for a check on. the car. The patrol car pursued the Cadillac at speeds up to 95 miles per hour, police said.s Police said the Cadillac struck a car operated by Vernon Waldo Buseman, 29, of 221 Vancouver ave., Medford, near Blackwell Hill, on the left rear fender, then straightened out and con-s tinued south. Buseman was able to control his vehicle, and neither he, nor his wife and two daughters, who were passengers,, were injured, police said. Hutton lost control of the car near the Willow Springs inter section, police said, and knocked over the yellow signal light at the south end of the cloverleaf, damaging the left side of the Cadillac. He regained control of the car, and continued south. Police radioed ahead and ad ditional patrol cars converged Talen! Girl Burned By Synthetic Slip A six - year - old Talent girl, Melody Mullihs, is recovering at - Community hospital from burns of the lower back suffered Friday night when her synthetic slip exploded. ' The girl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Mullihs, route 1, box 9, Ashland, was standing in front of the fireplace when the slip caught fire. Her father was treated for burns on the hands and arms after h attempted to tear the blazing clothes from the child Relatives reported that j. the girl was fully clothed and warm air from the fireplace apparent ly raised her circular skirt, and heated the frilly slip. Rogue River Couple Parents of 1956 Baby Only one New ' Year's day baby was reported by Medford hospitals. A 7-pound daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Lester C. Porter, Rogue River, at 4:02 p.m. Sunday at Community hos pital, the hospital reported this morning. The Porters have one child, Cherie, who will be two-years-old in March. Weather FORECAST: Cloudy and windy 8 with rain tonight and W ednes day. Wind decreasing by Wednesday morning. Low to night 42. High Wednesday 50. Temp. Highest yesterday 55 Lowest this morning 39 Prec. To '4:30 a.m. today trace On 95-MPH, 25 Mile along the highway ahead of Hutton. One patrol car near Crater High school in Central , Point turned around and was picking up speed in Central Point when the Cadillac passed him, hitting the patrol car in the left rear, police said. The officer was able to control the car, and continued south after the Cadillac. Approach Medford As the cars approached Med ford, Hutton attempted to make left turn onto Highway t2, police said. The patrol canwhich picked up . the' pursuit, at Cen- Bonfire Scheduled To I n aii (j urate MOD A huge bonfire of discarded Christmas trees, to be ignited at 7 o'clock tonight at the site of . the proposed Rogue Valley Memorial hospital on Barnett-rd. will Mpk off the month-long 1956 March of Dimes fund-raising campaign in Jackson county. The trees were, gathered in the county Sunday by members of Medford lodge 178, Loyal Order of Moose, assisted by members of the Boy Scouts of America. Persons - placing the trees on their porches or -in their yards were asked to- affix a contribu tion to the March of Dimes. Aub rey Loper, : county - campaign treasurer, said this morning that $621 nad been contributed to the fund through the tree pickup. Still Can Contribute Loper said several people had reported that they had not placed their contributions on the dis carded tree because of rainy weather or because they were away from home and still de sired to contribute. He said any one wishing to do so may mail the contribution to him at the United States National bank, or may bring it personally to the bank and it will be credited to the tree pickup fund. V Loper also reported this morn ings that advance gifts totaled $330. to date Jerry Lausmann, county MOD chairman, said the figure was considerably below previous marks and reminded business and industry to send their advance gifts in soon. Jerry Gastineau, Medford cam paign chairman,, said today that approximately 4,000 coin cards had been mailed to homes in the city and the remainder of the cards will be in the mail this week. The Medford chapter of the National Secretaries Associa tion is addressing the cards, with cooperation of the , Medford water department. Gastineau pointed out that the cards con tain return addressed envelopes and asked recipients to fill the cards and send them in as soon as possible. .- ? Members . of the ; Medford Active club are distributing coin Council To Consider Zone Change Tonight A call"-for hearing on a change of zone in the Mingus subdivision will be considered at the regular city council meeting a 7:30 p.m. today. The proposed .change of zone is from single family to heavy iritiustrial on property owned by Marrs Gibbons. : The council, will also consider a recommendation on the meth od of "assessing the Eastwood Capital ave. sanitary sewer; transfer of budget items; grant ing' of a right of way to South Bear Creek sanitary: district; and a request of Franklin Trans fer and Storage company for parking privileges. Damaged tral Point crowded the Cadillac into the curb to stop it. Hutton attempted an escape out of the right side of the Cadil lac, but other officers partici pated in the chase caught him as heegot. out of the car. : Police said Hutton attempted several times to ram the patrol car which finally crowded the Cadillac into the curb. An esti mate of damage to the patrol car was' being made today. Police said the Cadillac be longed to Skinner's Garage here, where Hutton had been em ployed. ' collectors to downtown places of business with he distribution expected to be completed today Businesses missed but desiring counter .Coin collector may .call Gastineau. at 3-5148 or 3-3026. " " A town-by-town breakdown in the Christmas tree pickup, as re ported by Loper, follows: ' Ashland $95.20, Jacksonville $27.42, Eagle Point $2, Butte Falls $2, Central Point $47.10, Rogue River $1, Gold Hill $3.75, Talent : $19.37, Shady Cove $11.78, "Trail $11.75 and Med ford $399.63.' Wade Howell Home Fire this morning destroyed the Wade Howell . residence, about two miles north of Eagle Point. The fire started about 9 a.m. in an oven where Mrs. Howell was rendering lard. She went for her husband who was working in an outbuilding. When they returned the house was in flames. All of their possessions were lost in the fire. The Howells were renting the house," which was on the ranch which Howell is employed. They have three children, Larry, 8, Louis, 6, and Gordon, one. The house was owned by Frank Brahs, Grenada, Calif. ' ' : Members of the Shady Cove volunteer fire department pre vented the blaze from spread ing to barns and outbuildings. The Medford rural fire de partment at 2:33 a.m. Sunday sent one truck to the Earl Etters residence, Coalmine rd., where a fire under the fireplace burnt a hole in the floor, and carpet. Destroyed By Fire Flurry of Proposed New Bills Opens House Session Washington (U.R) - The House opened its 1956 session today with a flurry of proposed new legislation. - The bills introduced included proposals to set up " federallj sponsored disaster insurance. Rep. Peter Frelinghuysen Jr. (R-N.J.), introduced a bill pro posing a constitutional amend ment to give the Supreme Court authority to determine when the President is unable to carry out his duties as President. Constitution Said Vague He said he acted to deal "with problems highlighted by Presi dent Eisenhower's ; heart ; at tack" Sept. ; 24.; The Constitu tion, he1, said, is vague on who determines that a President can not carry out his duties. Other ' bills were ' introduced by: " . - Rep. Thomas J. Dodd, (D Conn.), to set up a federal cor poration, with $50,000,000 capi Rayburn, Nixon Bang Gavels To Call Lawmakers Political Pot Beginning To Boil Washington (U.B The second session of the Tlemorrnt- ic-controlled 84th Congress 'op ened today in holiday mood but with election year politics al ready beginning to simmer. Gavels callme the lawmakers to order were banged promptly at noon (EST) by veteran SDeak- er Sam Rayburn in the House ' and by Vice-President Richard M. Nixon in the Senate. Chap-; lains prayed, the rolls were called, and Congress was ready for business. Nothing much besides routine was on the opening agenda. This was just as well, since members milled in , the aisles, shaking hands and exchanging greetings, almost precluding the trans action of business. . The good feeling, as always at the start of a session, was bi partisan. The exclamations of pleasure and well wishing weje in apparent disregard of party lines. . Await President's Message - This seemed unlikely to last. The political charges and coun ter charges of a presidential and congressional election year al ready were beginning to sound, and were sure to get steadily louder. House members lost no time in starting to drop in the hop per bills on some of the issues ' that will be fought steadily be tween now and election day. Senators, by custom, don't in troduce bills until after the President's State of the Union Message. The message will be read by clerks Thursday rather than de livered personally by the Presi dent, who is recuperating from his heart attack at Key West, Fla. Both chambers' planned to re cess after today's brief sessions until Thursday. The lawmakers figured that the outcome of presidential and congressional balloting on Nov. 6 may hinge on what they do this-year- on .such controversial.. vote-getting issues as cutting taxes, boosting farm income, lib eralizing social security, and building new highways and schools. Democrats were relying heav ily on congressional investiga-. tions under their management to hit at the administration on such issues as big business in government, conflict of interests,, and alleged "giveaways" of the public resources. . Politics in Foreign Policy Politics inevitably was color ing early debate also on foreign policy, despite pleas by , both sides for a bipartisan stand in the face of renewed Communist hostility. House Demo Leader John W. McCormack (Mass.), even before the gavels fell at opposite ends of the capitol, jumped squarely into the fray on both domestic and overseas issues. In a statement written for the United Press McCormack charg ed that the Geneva summit talks were a failure, that the cold war never had ceased and the Re publican administration "unfor tunately" allowed Americans to be lulled into unwarranted com placency about the Communists. On the home front, McCor mack called on President Eisen hower, to disregard ', Republican interests in making his decision on whether to seek a new term. (See Stories on Page 10) Olympia (U.R) Washing ton closed out 1955 with 460 traffic deaths, 47 more than it recorded in 1954, the state patrol said. tal, to provide disaster insurance that private companies cannot finance. Rep. Frank Thomson Jr. (D N.J.) for a federal program of disaster insurance to be handled by the Civil Defense adminis- , tration. , , Rep. Patrick J. Hillings (R Calif.) proposing the death pen alty for any person who sabo tages a civil aircraft. Result. of Plane Incident Hills said he introduced his measure providing for the death penalty for sabotaging planes as a result of the recent dynamit ing o' a United Air Lines pass enger plane in Colorado which killed 44 persons. Under federal law, "the pen alty for such an offense only in volved a ' fine and prison sen tence," Hillings said. "A youth accused of the Colorado crime is being tried for murder, how ever, under state law.
