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.
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HARVARD MONEY
Cambridge, Mass. (U.R) .
Harvard university's endow
ment fund now totals 442,000,
000, the largest in its 300-year
history.
About 41 per cent of North
Dakota farm families had home
food freezers in 1954.
Oregon Man Held
In Sacramento for
Extortion Attempt
Sacramento, Calif. (U.R) A
jobless Oregon man was arrest
ed here last night in an attempt
ed $100,000 extortion of a weal
thy lumberman.
Police said William Jesse El
lis, 27, Hillsboro, Ore., claim'ed
he needed money to feed his
three children. Officers quoted
him as saying he had been in
Sacramento for three months
and had been unable to get work.
Ellis was arrested after he
took bundles purported to hold
$10,000 from a Greyhound bus
depot locker.
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. Matthews vs. Glenn
Thomas Matthews, divorce decree.
Dale Harris vs. Lorraine Harris, di
vorce decree.
Odessa Davis vs. George Davis, di
vorce decree.
Frank Woods vs. June Woods, di
vorce decree.
Jenice L. Metz vs. Henry E. Metz
Jr., divorce decree.
James L. Foster vs. Jeanetta M.
Foster, divorce decree.
Peggy Ann Bennett vs. Fred L.
Bennett, divorce decree.
Carol Marie Dyer vs. Lloyd Edmus
Dyer, divorce decree.
Virginia LaVonne McDonald vs. Ed
ward Gilbert McDonald, divorce de
cree. Earl L. Hess vs. Leona May Hess,
marriage annulment complaint.
MARRIAGE LICENSE
APPLICATION
Lendel Carl Buttram,
Cove, and Janet Anne
Shady Cove.
18. Shady
Stuart, 18,
SNAKE GETS JOLT
Brisbane, Australia (U.R)
A snake blacked out 14 Bris
bane suburbs Tuesday night. Of
ficials said the four-foot snake
crawled into a powerhouse
transformer and got a 19,000
volt jolt.
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London U.R) Two London
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The Daily Mirror's columnist
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