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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.