Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, February 20, 1956, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextMid kit HQ mm 1 EXPLODING IN AIR, crashing near Tracy, Cal; huge B-52 jet bomber incinerates ooaies of four crew .members. Four others managed to parachute safely.. Eight-engine Strato fortress was largest bomber in world, weighed 175 tons. , (International) Teacher Beaten, School Closed, Board Member Jailed at Scofield . Hillsboro (U.R) A dispute at the tiny one-room Scof ield school- near Buxton had resulted today in the jailing of a school board member, serious injuries to the 54-year-old teacher and temporary closure of the school. Louis Forrest, 24, was sched uled to appear before a Wash ington county grand jury today in connection with assault and battery charges.. The teacher, Mrs. Essie Robertson, suffered a broken jaw and a possible skull fracture last Tuesday. The school has been closed until . further notice. County Judge Harry Seabold bound Forrest over to the grand. Pro-Western Premier Wins Greek Election Athens U.R) Pro-Western Premier Constantine Karaman lis squeezed through to an upset -victory over a Communist-backer! pnalition in Oreece's national elections, official results showed today. The National Radical Union party of Karamanlis won 151 seats in the 3C0- member, one chamber parliament. The Demo cratic Union, which includes a coalition of the left and right, won 149 seats, official results showed. Virtually complete figures, which were subject to minor re visions, showed a total vote of 3,156,494. The Democratic Union polled 1,641,961 to 1,415,958 for Karamanlis in the country's 8, 460 precincts. The Progressive party received 62,458 votes and the Independents 36,217. ' Double Check Needed " After announcing a govern ment victory, Interior Minister George Lianopoulos informed newspapers an hour later that he had discovered a "few outly ing returns" were still, incom : plete. i-:5-F ' He also said the allocation of seats needed a double check. Both i factors, he said, conceiv ably could change the number of seats either way. The Democratic Union rolled up a big popular vote but a com plicated electoral system of (pro portional representation intro duced last December by the handsome premier gave him the victory. '..,. ' ; .- j Supported by Women v 4 Karamanlis apparently also drew support from women who voted for the first time in Greek National Guard Drive Recruits Fght Men Eight members were recruited by Medford National Guard units yesterday'' in a one - day campaign, Capt. George Ben nett, battalion training and op erations officer,' reported today. Six or seven more are expect ed to, join this week, he said. . Headquarters company in Medford is, at its authorized strength of 81 men, Capt. Ben nett said, but the 103-man Com pany A can still use more recruits....-- . . - - : ... The official drive lasts through Feb. 22. . Cannon Beach (U.R) Voters in this small coastal resort town go to the polls Feb. 24 to elect their first city council. It was de cided in a December election to incorporate the community. " . ,. .-: . . . . 1 Weather FORECAST: Cloudy with occa sional rain through Tuesday. Snow above 3,500 feet. Low . tonight 34. High Tuesday 45. '. Temp. Highest yesterday 44 . Lowest this morning :....34 Prec. To 18 sum. today . . .22 jury last Thursday. He also told other members of the "five-person school board to resign. Spe cial county police have been as signed to the area, located off the Sunset highway some 15 miles northwest of here. This move was ordered after Samuel Hanson, . 74, chairman of the school board, told the judge he feared, for his life. District Attorney James . K. Gardner said that several weeks ago Mrs. Yullah Fellas, an aunt of Forrest, had sought to have the teacher, arrested when Mrs. Fellas claimed she was beaten. He did not file charges. Mrs. Fellas serves as janitor of the history. Observers said the wom en voted more conservatively than had been expected. ' The decisive vote, came today from two remote sections of northern ; Greece Evros with six seats and Pieria with three. Karamanlis carried Evros and that victory gave him a narrow victory and a surprise one. ' The assembly meets April 2 and it is expected to produce a French - style parliamentary chaos because of the narrow margin between the two parties'. There were forecasts that a new election would have to be called soon. Maurice D. Paulson Maurice Paulson Dies In Calif. Plane Crash Maurice Paulson,, a Navy air wing jet pilot, was killed in a plane crash Friday near Bakers field Calif ., it was learned here today. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Paulson, Sardine Creek Gold Hill. , r r : The - young Navy man was graduated in 1951 ' from Gold Hill high school and was report ed to be an outstanding student by county school officials today. He . attended Southern Oregon college for about a year before entermg the service and was graduated from 'Navy jpreflight school at Pensacola, Fla. He was assigned to- Whiting field Navy auixiliary Air station, Milton, Fla., for primary flight train ing. He was at- Beeville, Tex. at the time he was killed, v Details of the crash are un known here because it apparent ly was not covered by press association dispatches. Gresham (U.R) Vernon Cook, president "of : the , Young Demo cratic Clubs of Oregon, has an nounced he would file for one of the three nominations as a Dem ocratic candidate ' for' the State House of Representatives from Eastern Multnomah county. - si: q school and also is a board mem ber. School enrollment in recent weeks at the sixth-grade school has dropped from 24 to 14. Rev. Charles Bean of the Community Church said his congregation had dwindled from nearly 40 to 12. Gardner said the teacher had alleged she was cornered in the school room after a Valentine Day party; and that she was beaten. Mrs. Fellas said she did not see any beating and that she must have been hurt walking down the road after she left school. Portland Policemen Of Oregon Traffic :: ; By UNITED PRESS - Five persons ' died in Oregon week end traffic accidents, in cluding two Portland police of ficers. A Saturday night ; crash. in southeast Portland claimed the lives of two. police dfficers when their prowl car was hit broad side by another ; car. Witnesses said the other car, driven by Donald G. Vogel, a 25-year-old soldier stationed at the Portland Air Base, was speeding -when it smashed into the officers' car. Held Under Guard" Dead in the crash were Pa'trol men Roy E. Mizner, 37, and Vernon J. Stroeder, 31. Vogel was being held under police guard at a Portland hospital, charged with negligent homi cide. r Paul W. Lee, about 23, of Cor vallis, died when his car went out of control after skidding on a frosty bridge five miles south of 'Monr jouth and careened over a bank. ';' :' 'v: . " -''.:.- :. : ; '. -Mrs. Crystal Eva Freeman, 58, Roseburg, was killed last night when the car she was driv ing hit a highway divider about one mile north of Roseburg. Astoria Woman Killed : Also the victim of a Sunday crash was Mrs.- Fanny Seeborg, 67, of Astoria.. She was killed in a head oh collision on High way 30," about 4V miles east of Astoria when the car driven by her husband, Victor, and anoth er vehicle collided. Five persons were injured in the accident. Seeborg and three other members of the party were in" serious condition in an As toria hospital and the driver of the other car, not identified im mediately, was taken to the Tongue Point Naval hospital at Astoria. ' '- ;'.. -- .. "Mrs. Seeborg was the mother of Roy and Ken Seeborg, form er basketball players at the Uni versity of Oregon.' ; I J Medford Man Elected OSC Dads' Club Director , Corvallis "(U.R) More, than 1000 fathers of Oregon State college students were on the campus here-Saturday for the annual Dads' Weekend. New officers of the OSC Dads' club included: Ursel Narver, president; A. W. Trimble, vice- president; A m b y Frederick, treasurer, and L. S. Severance, treasurer. All are from Portland- Retiring president is Albert Bauer, also- of Portland. . New directors include Harold White, Medford. Harrisburg, Pa. (U.R) The names of President Eisenhower and Sen.; William F. Knowland (R-Calif.) have been entered to day in the Pennsylvania pri Among mary April 24. . IKE TO VACATION THROUGH NEXT FRIDAY Thomasville, Ga. (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower will remain here through next Friday, the White House said today. The chief executive, who ar rived here last Wednesday, will return to Washington either late Friday or early Saturday. The reason he will not stay here over the week end is that he has a personal engagement in Washington late Saturday. : -v-; Meantime, the White House MEDFOroyrRIBUNE United Press Full Leased Wire 50th Year 16 Pages Ashland High Girl Wins First Place In Speech Tourney Mary Ann Anderson, Ashland, won first place in women's jun ior division in interviewing in the Linfield college speech tour nament held : last week end at McMinnville. . : , . ; Miss Anderson, a senior at Ashland high school, was the only student from this county to win a first place in the tourna ment. In her interview she took the parts of a job applicant and. an employer. She was "seeking" a job as a policewoman. She also won second in humorous decla mation. '. v 1 ' About 700 students from 43 different Oregon schools .were at th tournament; . - '! Medford Represented Jackspn county schools repre sented in addition to Ashland, were Medford High school Hed rich . and McLoughlin Junior High schools and Crater High school. ..,...; Other Ashland students to place high in the - tournament were Tim Keating third, senior men's extemporaneous speaking ana liynn Hales, in the" junior division for that category; Judy Schopf, Doreen Phillips, second in junior women's debates; and Tim Keating and Greg Monroe, third in senior men's divisions. Bruce West, Medford High school, was' second in interview ing in his division, and Hedrick school winners were May La B.arr, second in oratory, and Ted Lawson, second in serious read ing. .. . v;,:i . : Crater Winner Listed '.' Crater High school ; winners include B e v e r 1 y Burgoyne, second, in junior women's ora- tory. . . . . , Finalists from Medford were Greg Milnes radio; Floyd Yeats, oratory; David Frohnmayer, ex temporaneous; Eric Eitreim, im promptu; and-Harlow Head, Hed rick school, story telling. All but Head are senior high school students. :-. 'I . . ' Crater high school finalists were Miss Burgoyne, Maria' Abott, Vicki ; Noel and Grace Gail..; ..';: ;',:i:-: Ashland finalists are Tim Keating, salesmanship; , Lynn Hale, junior men's impromptu; Greg Monroe',' senior men's ex temporaneous; Barbara Stod dard, junior women's tumorous Reclamation; Doreen Phillips, junior women's oration; Miss An derson and Vivian Stevenson de bate; Barbara Stoddard and Lynn Hale, junior men's debate. Bus Line Schedule Cut Effective Tomorrow The elimination of all but "rush hour" schedules in Med ford by Evergreen Bus lines goes into effect tpmorrow. Under the new schedule, buses will operate only between 7:15 and 9:15 a.m. and between ,2:15 and 6:15 p.m. daily. All Satur day service will be eliminated. The ' schedule changes will not affect service outside of Medford. - - ' . Ralph B. Matthews,' manager of the line, stated that the cur tailment ' of service was made necessary because so few people use the buses during "off hours". that it was not profitable to continue. .Evergreen operates bus serv ice on two routes " in Medford. One serves the east side, extend ing to the country club, and the other operates southwest of the downtown area. DOW-JONES AVERAGES r New York (U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 .indus trials 476.46, off 0.59; 20 rail roads 159.28, up 0.45; 15 utilities 64.93, : up 0.03, and 65 stocks 169.48, up 0.03. Sales today were about 2,530,000 shares compared with 2,840,000 Friday. I denied a report that Mr. Eisen hower would announce his sec ond term decision from Thomas ville late Friday after the New York stock market closes for the week. "There isn't a thing , to it," said Press Secretary James Hagerty. Mr. Eisenhower has indicated that he will be ready -to make a decision by the erd of this month and has prom fed not to tiM Registrars Named , Throughout County Fifteen additional registrars have been appointed by County Clerk Bereth Hopkins. She said it is hoped to make registering to vote in the coming election possible for every citizen, re gardless of their working hours. April ,17 isvthe registration deadline for the May 18 primary. - Three registrars are permitted to register voters for all county pecincts. : They are Mrs. Frank Bash, who will register voters at a Republican headquarters; Mrs. Donna V. Straus, Democratic headquarters; and Mrs. Pauline LaPlane at the Labor temple. There are 37 other registrars in addition to the deputies serving in the election department at the court house. -Fire Stations Captains at the three fire sta- tiongj-in . Medford will register voters ijitfithin the city - limits at any,-time;between 8 a.nf. and 10 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Nate Grisham offer the same service at the Central Point rural hall for pre cincts in that area. Voters must re-register if they have hot Voted in one election in the past two years, have moved within their precinct or to .another precinct, desire . a change of party, have changed name by marriage, or have changed address by order of the post office. ':; Electors must be citizens of the United States, 21 years of age, must have resided in the state six months immediately preceding election, and must be duly registered. High Flood Possible Weather Bureau Says 'Medford station of the U.S. wea'ther, bureau his morning foresaw no immediate flood dan ger in the area but w.irned that the potential is present and that ho one ! should be complacent. ; Pressure 4 areas off the coast are pointing toward rainfall and temperature conditions which could cause high water and riv ers are rising, the bureau said. The weathermen are "watching it " ' Mountain sections are "loaded"'- with snowand saturated with moisture and the flood potential will continue the rest of the late winter months, it was pointed out. , - The Medford vicinity had'only .22 of an inch of fain in the 24 hours up to 10 :a.m. today. Grants Pass, however, recorded 2.39 inches in the 24-hour period up to 4:30 a.m. Al Ullmari Democratic ; Candidate for Congress Salem . (U.R). Al Ullman of Baker filed his candidacy here today for Democratic nom ination - for . representative in Congress from the 2nd congress ional district. - James' B. Bedingfield Jr. of Coos Bay filed for Republican nomination for" state senator froji Coos and: Curry counties. Road Conditions Highway 99, Siskiyous Chains required; 16 inches of new snow. ----- Highway 66, Green Springs Chains required; 20 inches of new snow. Highway 99, north Pave ment bare. Highway 62, Prospect Raining. Slush on the pave ment; 10 inches of snow at xoadsidf i chains not required. "dilly dally" in making his de cision public. Hagerty said to day he assumed the President would hold a news conference in Washington Wednesday, Feb. 29, but he refused to indicate whether he expected the an nouncement that day. The President today also awaited response from Western European nations to his offer of American surplus farm com modities. . . ...' " FEBRUARY. 20, 1956 Snarls CENTERING in'city of Iqui tos on Amazon River, revolt . has broken out against govern ment of Gen: Manuel Odria; Peru president.' (International) isfs Preparing Strike ' Lima, Peru (U.R) Official reports indicated today loyal Na val and air units are preparing to strike at the "jungle redoubt" of the army rebels who hold the city of Iquitos and part of remote Loreta province. . r v A government; . communique said the "Amazon Fleet" is block ading Iquitos, a river port 500 miles northeast of here. The of ficial radio warned the people of the city to listen for instructions on means of "avoiding damage by government action" presum ably meaning air attack, i '-- The communique declared also that garrisons elsewhere in Peru rejected rebel Gen. Marcial Mer ino Pereyra's appeal to them to join the revolt! No late word was heard from the rebels' Radio Loreto, and gov ernment restrictions on tele phone service made it impossible to obtain information direct from Iquitos. ' . -i '. -i Shady Cove Residence Destroyed by Fire ' Shady Cove The two-story home here occupied by-. Mrs. Cora - Train was destroyed by fire early today. The blaze was reported at 7 a.m., and the vol unteer firemen responded imme diately, but the fire was too far advanced to save the house, it was reported. The home is upriver from the business section of Shady Cove, Mrs. Train was away from home at the time. Firemen believe the fire may have originated with a faulty stovepipe. - Reports indicated the home was partly covered by insurance, Senate Committee Votes To Reopen Public Hearings on Case Contribution Washington (U.R) T h e special Senate committee inves tigating a gas lobbyists' $2500 contribution to Sen. Francis Case (R-SJ3.), decided today to resume public hearings on the affair. ; . The announcement came amid a jurisdictional squabble among' four . other . Senate committees for the right to conduct a full scale inquiry into lobbying , ac tivities. Asks $300,000 Budget A three-man Elections Sub committee headed by Sen. Al bert Gore (D-Tenn.), ' voted to ask for a $300,000 budget. This would finance a-broad investi gation of any "improper at tempts" to influence legislation through big campaign contribu- The Chief Executive announc ed Sunday that this nation was ready to make surplus agricul tural products available to the countries of western Europe now 'suffering one of the most cruel winters of the century. Such details as whether , the commodities will be. giyen or sold and the quantities to be involved depended first on the desires of the western European- nations and a determination of their needs. . United Press FuU Leased Wira Price 5c No. 284 Siskiyou Highway Reopened After Sacramento, Calif ' (U.R) A wind - whipped snow storm dropped up to 41 inches of snow over the Sierra Nevada and Sis kiyou Mountains today, snarling traffic and closing one trans continental highway. , ; The Weather Bureau said mod erate to heavy snow would con tinue throughout the day, be coming intermittent snow to morrow above xne d.yuu ioox level. U. S. 40, Donner Summit, was blocked to all . traffic, while light traffic only was passing slowly on U. S. 50 . over Echo Summit. The summits had about 141 inches of snow on the ground. ' . Highway 99 Reopened U. S. 99, between Redding and Yf eka in California, was reopen ed by snow ..plows, today after being closed yesterday. Some 28 inches of . snow was reported, with high winds. ; t ' V. State police said chains were "absolutely necessary" for travel over the Siskiyou pass. The road was reported open at 11 a.m. but state police . said it was alter nately open and closed during the night. - -. : : .-- L Meanwhile, heavy rains and howling winds, reminiscent oi Northern California's disastrous Christmas week floods, returned to the area today. , ; Three inches of rain-' pounded a small community north of San Francisco in 11 hours and minor flash floods and mud slides were reported at San Rafael and Kent field. -;'-" iy Yuba City Gets Rain - Yuba City,' which is recover ing from the Christmas week floods, was belted with rain, wind and low temperatures as townspeople began their belated yuletide. j-'".;..' v'!rwXW' Only 1000 persons attended church services in the large white tent set up downtown to serve as the center of the week long holiday. On Wednesday downtown stores will reopen oi ficially and residents will enjoy free band concerts, carnival rides and a circus. ; - The "Christmas in February" observance will be climaxed Saturday, Feb. 25, when Santa. Claus will distribute to . the area's 15,000 children presents donated by many civic groups, military camps and individuals. Anti-Fluoridation Group : Files Petition at Bend Bend (U.R) Anti-fliiorida- tion forces today filed petitions containing . 1,228 signatures in their drive to seek a repeal here I of an ordinance authorizing flu- oridation of Bend's water supply. tions, as well as its Tegular elec tion year investigations. The Government Operations Com mittee and ". subcommittees ' on Campaign Contributions and the Judiciary also werefi? vying ? for position to launch : inquiries of their own. -.. " Agreeable Solution. Seen -: ; Senate W Democratic ' Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas told newsmen he was certain;' an "agreeable" solution , will be found, but there were indica tions the Senate itself may have to decide which committee is to take on the job. The decision to renewt , , the hearings, which were suspended last . week, was announced after a closed meeting of the four-man committee headed by Sea-Walt Traffic Huge Airliner Rams Sandhill on Airport Approach 12 Persons Survive Pre-Dawn Accident ' ' Cairo (U.R) A French air-' liner on its way from Indochina to Paris dipped too low in ap proaching Cairo airport today, hit a desert sandhill, crashed and burned, killing 52 of 64 persons on board. It was 12 hours after ; the crash before', officials of the ' French Airline were able to con- . firm and announce that 64 per sons were aboard. : Survivors Critical The officials said the four en gine DC6B carried 55 passengers and nine crew members. Only 12 of the 64 survived, six crew,, members " and . six passengers. Most of the survivors were in critical condition. All but possi bly one were expecte to re cover. ', .. . . ' ' , , Pilot Capt. Charles Billet was among the survivors. He said his co-pilot was bringing the plane in low over the desert toward the airport : in pre-dawn . dark ness when "he became too low." Flying Too Low . , "When I realized he was fly ing too low it was too late to avert the crash,". Billet said. The plane banged belly first into a low . desert hillock and burst into fire.. ? . ; "The red light was on warn ing us to fasten, our seat belts," said a French Army officer who survived. "I was ; struggling to get mine fastened when there came a terrible crash." "I woke up on the ground some distance from the burning plane. Arab Bedouins were wrapping me in blankets- and trying to give me bananas and oranges." . .. , Many of the passengers were children. Most were French. Third Major Disaster t The disaster was the third ma jor one to strike world aviation within three days. The death toll in the three crashes was at least 139. : ..' Friday, 40 Marines were kill- ' ed when a Marine corps trans port plane smashed into a ridge near. Oakland, Calif. :r .. . Saturday a British York trans por t plane carrying British troops home to England from the Suez canal zone crashed on takeoff near Valletta, Malta, killing all 50 men aboard. Most of the victims were Royal Air Force men. Sam Hersh Named Big Y Market Head Sam Hersh,-Ashland, recently appointed manager . of the Big Y Markets, Inc., of Medford and Eugene, met today with other of-, ficers of the firm to 'discuss fu ture plans and policies of the company. He succeeds the late L. A.- McCormick in the post. Announcement of Hereh's ap pointment was made" from the Eugene offices of the company by M. O. Bessonette, president. Hersh resigned Feb. 14 as president and general manager of : Frideger Grocery company, Ashland, but remains a stock holder and director of that firm in an advisory capacity. He is being replaced by Wil- . liam CannelL who was assistant manager. Hersh came to Ashland eight years ago from San Francisco. He will continue to live in Ash land. Cannell arrived from Bakersfield, Calif., five years ago and has been associated with Hersh for more than 20 years in the wholesale business. . Mr. and Mrs. Hersh plan to leave March 8 for South Ameri ca on a 30-daj vacation trip. ; Portland : (U.R) The State Board of Health said today that 236 persons died in Oregon from lung cancer last year, compared with 256 for 1954. er F... George (D-Ga.). George said that the first wit ness at the new hearings may be Donald R. Ross, who resign ed iast week as U.S. district at torney for Nebraska. . - Ross resigned after it was dis closed that he had introduced lobbyist John M. Neff to Sen. , Carl T Curtis (R-Neb.). - ' Rejected Contribution Neff, a Lexington, Neb., "law yer and ldbbyist for the Super ior" Oil Co. of California, had touched off the investigation by offering a $25000 contribution to Case's campaign while the Senate was considering the con troversial natural gas bill. Case rejected the contribution -and reported it to the Senate.