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TEW MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, January II. 1958 yggested Compromise Eases Tension in Short Creek Polygamy Incident Angry Neighbors Defy Officials On Stale Visit . Short Creek, Utah 4U.R) A uggested compromise between state law and religious belief to day eased tensions in this desert village when angry neighbors defied welfare workers sent to take custody of eight children of a polygamous family. Husky members of the "Fun damentalist" cult, which advo cates polygamy, stood shoulder to (ihoulder Tuesday and turned back a sheriff and welfare work ers sent to take custody of eight children of Leonard Black and Vera, one of his three wives. The children, ranging in age from 4 to 19, started to cry after the sheriff arrived to take them from their unpainted cinder Jjlock and stone home. All were Pressed in their best clothing. Six -year -old Wilford Marshall Black wailed, "I'm not going, momy, I'm not going." Ten -year -old Eslie clung to the family cat and declared she would take it with her. Neighbor Block Sheriff The neighbors stepped for ward in the crowded basement kitchen of the house and block ed off the children from the sheriff. Sheriff Roy Renouf of Wash ington county had been instruct ed not to use force and he left empty handed. State officials decried the i'n- cident as "open defiance" of Utah law and said they would net drop the case. Atty. Gen. E. R. Callister said, "We can't stand idly by and per mit the Blacks to defy the law." The case was started in 1954 as a test to determine who should have custody of children belonging to parents arrested in a polygamy raid in Short Creek in 1953. Leonard Black, among those arrested, pleaded guilty to conspiring to live in polyga my and was placed on proba ' tion. i " Refused To Sign Affidavits The Black children were sur rendered to authorities after their parents refused to sign af fidavits promising 'not to prac tice or preach polygamy. They were returned to their parents when a court test began. The Utah Supreme court ruled against the Blacks and the U.S. Supreme court ' refused to re view. Possibility of compromise was reported to V. Pershing Nelson, AVashington county attorney, who would be responsible for the next legal move by the state. Nelson said he was in formed indirectly of a proposal to modify the affidavit to make it more palatable for the "Fun damentalists," many of whom are excommunicated from " the recognized Latter Day Saints church, which disavowed po-( lygamy in 1890. He said he "will wait and see" what develops before con tinuing court action to take the youngsters. CRIPPLED OVER OCEAN, this four-engine Globemaster lands safely at Hickham Air Force Base, Honolulu, with two engines dead. Ten men were aboard world's largest land based plane, piloted by Major Joseph C. Parton, Salt Lake City. ( International) Midwestern Scions Rap Farm Program Washington (U.R) A bloc of Midwestern Republican congress men have sent word to President Eisenhower that they are un happy about his farm program. Thev said they want more immediate relief for hard-pressed farmers. The farm-state congressmen said the administrations pro gram built around a "soil bank! is fine for the long run.' But they pointed out the voters will go to the polls this November. Some of the congressmen urged easier credit for farmers Others proposed more federal meat buying to hold up cattle and hog prices. The Midwesterners dumped their complaints on House Re publican Leader Joseph W. Mar tin Jr.. Tuesday at a secret meet ing. The complaints were ex pected to be passed to the White House. Transportation Funds Approved By Non-High Board The non-high school boafd re cently approved payment ' of transportation costs for the first school quarter, reviewed attend ance problems and explored the possibility that federal funds might be available to the dis trict. The board approved payment of 57,405.12 to high school dis tricts for transporting 675 stu dents from those districts which have no high schools to a high school. Largest Payment The largest payment of $1,808 was made to Medford high dis trict. Eagle Point received $1,575 and Grants Pass, $1,533. The board reviewed seven re quests from students for release from the state attendance laws- and discussed attendance prob lems. The board decided to further study the possibility , that dis tricts in the board's jurisdiction might .be eligible 'for federal funds under a law that provides some aid to districts where there is federal property. Non-High Districts The board also discussed a law passed by the 1955 state legisla ture which provides for elimina tion of non-high districts by July, 1958. The law requires that all school districts ' without high schools by that date must direct ly provide high school tuition. At present tuition is paid by the non-high district, which includes 13 other districts in Jackson county. County School Superntendent Alf B. Mekvold said that the non- high board here has functioned very well and he felt the law was designed to handle situa tions in other parts of the state. John Day Hearings Scheduled Jan. 19 Portland (U.R) A second hearing to consider a corps of engineers1 report recommending storage modifications at the pro posed John Day dam will be held in Washington, D. C, Jan. 19, according to Brig. Gen. L. H. Foote, North Pacific division engineer. Lower Storage Capacity The report, previously con sidered last September, recom mends a lower dam pool eleva tion than that contained in the original report. Originally, the John Day plan provided for 2, 000,000 acre feet of flood' con trol storage between normal pool elevation 255 and elevation 292 feet. The modified plan would provide for a normal op- which opponents to the larger pool said it would make indust rial development infeasible or impossible in that area. Handicap To Facilities . Witnesses at the hearing also claimed a large fluctuation in the pool would handicap the operation of port facilities, grain elevators and Columbia River barge traffic. The Corps of Engineers said the original John Day storage was included in its "308" re port regarding the comprehen sive development of the Colum bia basin, which proposed stor age facilities capable of control ling a flood of the magnitude of the 1894 disaster. Engineers said any storage loss resulting from the modified lkes Lieutenants Secretl y Informed More Immediate Help Needed On Midwest Farms Washington flj.R) . Some Midwest Republicans have sec retly insisted to President Eis enhower's congressional lieuten ants that Midwest farmers need Court Records POLICE COURT Peter S. Petko, iwitched license plates. $25. Betty Lee Eccleston. failure to re gard warning signal, S5. Roy Clyde Price, violation of basic rule, S15. Vernon C. Baldwin, violation of basic rule. S10. James Wallace Spradling, no driv er's license, S5. Ellsworth Johns Hallenbeck, fail ure to stop at a stop sign, $5. to DISTRICT COURT Willard Wilson Summer, failure signal for turn. S6. Loyd Phell Black, no operator's li cense. $10 (bail forfeiture). John Henry Mallow, violation . of basic rule, S10. Wilburt White Lull, inadequate muf fler, S15. e Raleigh Mathews, failure to stop at a stop sign, S10. more immediate nelp than is provided in the administration's new farm program. They generally agreed the administration's program is fine for the long run but complain ed it does not provide enough immediate relief. Several urged more govern ment meat buying to bolster sag ging prices for hard-pressed far mers having trouble meeting payments on bank loans. Three-Hour Meeting These and other suggestions were put forward, largely by Mid-westerners, at a secret, three hour meeting late Tuesday at tended by about 30 House Re publican strategists and larm ex perts from all sections of the country. .' House Republican Leader Jo seph W. Martin Jr., (Mass.), in vited to the meeting the House Republican Policy committee and all Republicans on the House Agriculture committee and the .House Agriculture Ap propriations subcommittee. Martin apparently wanted to insure support of Republican farm specialists for the Presi dent's program in advance of calling all House GOP members behind closed doors today to dis-. cuss it. 'Soil Bank' Main Feature The main feature of the ad ministration's many - faceted farm program is a "soil bank." It would provide payments to farmers to take land out of pro duction with the ultimate goal of eliminating price-depressing crop surpluses. . Martin told a reporter he thought all of the members generally approved the Presi dent's progrem." The decline in hog prices has worried Midwest Republicans more than anything else- Farm prices for hogs averaged $10.(?0 per hundred pounds in mid December compared with $17 a year earlier. era'ting pool level of about 262 I John Day plan could be compen- elevation, but not to exceed 265 feet, with a storage capacity of 500,000 acre feet. The revision came out of a public hearing at Arlington, Ore-, in September, 1953, at Ironwood, Mich., is farther west than St. Louis, Mo., while Port Huron, Mich., is farther east than Greenville, S.C. Reference Service At Library Starts A special reference service has been set up at the Medford Ptiblic library for Monday, Tues day, and Wednesday evenings, between 4 and 9 p.m. The ap pointment of Mrs. Joyce Fuller, Ashland, to the library staff on a part-time basis makes the ser vice available, Miss Helen Web ster, librarian, said. Mrs. Fuller is a graduate of the University of Washington li brary school and attended South ern Oregon College and the Uni versity of Oregon. She has had library experience in the Pierce College rural library, the Mid- Columbia regional library, and the library of Southern Oregon college. Residents wishing reference are urged to inquire between 4 and 9 p.m., when they can be answered by a librarian free from interruptions. Two other assistants have been added to the staff on a part-time and substitute basis. Mrs. Wilma Eubanks recently moved to Med ford from Empire, Ore., where she was employed in a branch of the Coos county library. The experience of Mrs. Elaine Miller has been chiefly in college libra' ries. DONT LET ARTHRITIC -RHEUMATIC PAIN RUIK YOUR LIFE! a There's bo seed to suffer yoa CAX get relief QUICKLY -with AR-PAN-EX. Most pain will subside ... YOTJ, and your loved ones can rejoice like thousands who are aov relieved. Everywhere, victims of sciatica, hmbago and neuralgia are discovering our "-wonder tablet" and tbankinjc heaven for the . SURE RELIEF AR-PAN-EX brings. Ach- ' ing muscles, stiff joints way beeotBe Hreber again. ' I'm sorry I didn't try AIUPAN-KX rootihs a?o.iZ3t think of the asonie I could have avoided." -writes one. Yes. indeed ! But thousands who read this will NOT act . . . will DOUBT our HOXEST WORDS. We say BELIEVE in A R-PAN-EX and we sincerely teH yon . 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The packages, placed in the locker by George Steiner, co owner of a lumber company that had refused a job to Ellis, contained clipped newspapers with dollar bills on the ends. Warning by Telephone Steiner said he first received a telephone call from a man who identified himself as "Mar tin." He said he was told during that and subsequent telephone calls that his "children would be without parents" if he did not produce S100.000. Steiner said he told the caller that he could raise only 510,000 cash. Arrangements were then made to put the money in a lock er and place the locker key be hind the coin slot in a specified telephone booth. Police plainclothesmen watch ed Ellis retrieve the key and take the packages 'from the locker. He was arrested as he left the depot. sated for at -other points in the river system where develop ment projects are under way or proposed. CIRCUIT COURT Hailet A. Anderson vs. Ila Mae An derson, divorce decree. Linnea J. 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