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Newspaper Page TextHILLCREST LINE A Portland Gambling Control Charges Bring Conference Salem (U.R) Gov. Elmo Smith today summoned William M. Langley, Multnomah county district attorney, for a confer ence regarding charges that gam bling interests were attempting to gam control of Portland. Action on the request of At torney General Robert Y. Thorn ton to investigate conditions in Multnomah county will be de layed until persons involved haye been contacted, the gov ernor said. Earlier today Thornton indi cated he was askirfg the gover nor for authority to investigate the alleged attempts to take over the town. The charges were made by the Portland Oregonian in a copyrighted story. Call for InYestigation - "The charges made by the Oregonian call for a thorough official investigation," Thornton said. "In view of the fact that vhe charges have been directed in part against the Multnomah county district attorney's office, it would appear to be inappro priate for the district attorney to participate in this investiga tion," Thornton continued. "Accordingly I am requesting the governor to empower the attorney general's office to han dle the matter as a necessary and independent investigation under the provisions of state law," Thornton concluded. Portland (U.R) District At torney William M. Langley said today his attempts to rid Port land and Multnomah county of vice and gambling had lead to threats against his life. He said reports that he had plotted with Teamsters Union officials to "open up" the county were false. Langley said he had notified law enforcement agencies of lo cation of bootlegging dives, brothels and gambling dens and the only reaction was telephoned threats to "lay off." Courthouse Saturday Closure Hearing Set A public hearing on proposed Saturday closure of the Jackson county courthouse will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday in the county court room. The hearing is the result of a petition recently submitted by counthouse personnel asking that the building be closed Sat urday mornings. Several court houses in the state are now open only Monday through Fri day. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 504.33, off 2.22; 20 rail roads 171.72, off 0.69; 15 utilities 65.78, off 0.39, and 65 stocks 179.05, off 0.81. Sales today were about 2,210,000 shares compared with 2,470,000 yesterday. Grace and Nervous Prince Married in Eyes of Church Monaco (U.R) Beautiful Grace Kelly and a nervous Prince Rainier III became man and wife in the eyes of the Ro man Catholic church as well as the civil law today. A few hours later, they left their pink palace on their honeymoon, a lazy Me diterranean cruise on a white yacht banked with flowers. Cutting of Wedding Cakt Grace wept at one point in the colorful religious ceremony. And the bashful Prince had to have help in getting the wedding band on his bride's finger. But, after a buffet dinner and the traditional cutting of the wedding cake in the palace gar dens in the afternoon, they fin ally slipped away on their hon eymoon. When they departed from the throngs of well-wishers, family V ' i" i-.i w X v x v- X ' 51st Year Medford 26 Pages MEDFORD, House Group Votes Fund To Start Soil Bank Plan Now Washington U.R) The House Appropriations Commit tee voted today to give the Ei senhower administration $1,200, 000,000 to start its , farm soil bank program at once. The surprise action came at a secret, hurriedly called commit tee session. The vote was 36 to 7, with one Democrat, Rep. J. Vaughan Gary of Virginia, reportedly vot ing with six Republicans against the proposal. Chairman Clarence Cannon (D-Mo.) said the money would enable Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson to put into effect Electric Rates Here Are Among State, Report Shows Electric rates in Medford homes are among the highest in the state, according to a listing of residential service charges in Oregon in the current newsletter of the League of Oregon Cities. The report, which included only cities of more than 2,500 population, showed that the low est residential electric rates in the state are provided by mu nicipally owned utilities, accord ing to comparisons of typical electric bills. Valuable Paintings Stolen in Monte Carlo Monaco (U.R) Robbers strik ing during the wedding celebra tions of Prince Rainier III and Grace Kelly stole paintings worth $100,000 from the home of a wealthy doctor in Monte Carlo, it was disclosed today. Monaco police once more chose to ' be as silent as they were on thefts of some $60,000 in jewels from wedding guests at the Hotel de Paris. But informed sources disclosed the art loss, and the victim's wife declined today to deny it. Monegasque police, however, put out an international alert for the paintings at all frontier posts, ports and air fields. The alarm was spread by Interpol, Europe's cooperative internation al police organization. Washington (U.R President Eisenhower has appointed car toonist Walt Disney and 30 other prominent citizens to a Commit tee on Higher Education. and friends, both were wreathed in happy smiles. During the church ceremony, the reluctant ring caused a nervous moment. The ring caught on her knuckle and his persistent push ing only made it worse. Moved Ring Over Knuckle Slowly, Grace's right hand stole down, moved his and work ed the ring just over the knuckle. Then she gave her hand back to Rainier and he pressed the ring on to its right position. Afterward, he tugged uncom fortably at his collar. The Philadelphia girl, a prin cess since Wednesday, and her prince met before the altar of the great Cathedral of St. Nich olas and there took the holy oath that sealed in Church the civil vowj they took 24 hours earlier. GENNESSE OR ..oDAY, APRIL under existing laws exactly the same soil bank plan that had been contemplated in the farm bill vetoed Monday by President Eisenhower. Rep. Jamie L. Whitten CD Miss.), chairman of a subcom mittee that drafted the money bill at an unannounced session this morning, said there was one exception to this. He said that, as far as he knows, Benson will not be able to make advance payments to farmers this year for soil bank commitments for the next year. Democrats had bitterly as sailed this feature of the ad- Highest in Medford rates of $10 per 500 kilowatt hours were the highest in the state, along with those in Grants Pass, Klamath Falls, Lakeview, and Roseburg. Close To Top They were also close to the top for rates for 250 kilowatt hours, $6.90, surpassed only by Nyssa and Ontario with $6.95. The rate of $3.60 per 100 kilo watt hours here was surpassed only by Ashland, Baker and La Grande. The league said use of 250 kilowatt hours per month is rep resentative of homes with elec tric lighting, small applances, re frigeration and cooking. Charges for such service in Oregon vary from $3.15 in Eu gene to $6.95 in Nyssa and On tario. The rates for Eugene, For est Grove, McMinnville and Mil-ton-Freewater all served by municipal public utilities are among the lowest in the nation, the report said. Recent Reduction A recent reduction of rates in Eugene makes electricity cheap er there for a home using 250 kilowatt hours than in any oth er city in the nation with more than 2,500 population. Forest Grove's residential rate for 500 kilowatt hours, $5, is the lowest in the nation. The 500 kilowatt hur level is the average usage for a home with an elec tric water heater in addition to other appliances. Eden To Reject Peace Moves by Russians London (U.R) Prime Minister Anthony Eden will reject any so-called Soviet "peace moves" that might split the western alli ance, an authoritative govern ment source said today. Eden invited Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin and Commu nist Party Chief Nikita S. Khrushchev for their present visit during the height of the "Geneva spirit" days when tfie Big Four met last summer in Switzerland. But he was reported approach ing Bulganin and Khrushchev with a new-found wariness based on later developments that in cluded a complete breakdown of the Geneva spirit and the opening of a new Soviet cold war offensive in the Middle and Far .East. The prime minister plunges today into the first of a series of "little summit conference" with the visiting Russians. Alto gether he will meet them seven times across the conference table. X 'X " 'V X. ST. LINE Price 5c BUNE 19, 1956 No. 25 ministration's plans as an effort to buy the votes of farmers in the 1956 presidential and con gressional elections. In testimony before the Sen ate Agriculture Committee, Ben son urged that Congress prompt ly approve new administration legislation providing for a $1, 200,000,000 soil bank with ad vance payments to farmers. Benson said the administra tion does not intend to make permanent the support price floor of 82 Vz per cent of parity for basic crops which President Eisenhower announced in his message Monday vetoing a Demo cratic bill. The bill had called for 90 per cent props for the basic crops. Heated Dispute Committee Chairman Allen J. Ellender.. D-La.) heatedly- dis puted Benson's contention that the administrative increase in price supports was justified un der the present farm law. The senator contended that the hike wasn't warranted be cause the supply and demand situation is unchanged. "If supplies had been reduced by the operation of the soil bank for 1956 crops, the recalculation of the support prices would have put those supports in the vicinity of the figures named by the President," Benson testified. Cave Junction Man Indicted by JF Jury San Francisco--(U.R)-The fed eral grand jury here yesterday indicted two men on charges of dealing in illegal gold traffic. The men indicted were Elbert S. Osburn, 49, of Cave Junction, Ore., and Guy W. Pye, 59, of Auburn, Calif., in the mother lode country where the illegal gold was believed to have been "high graded." Pye and Osburn were charg ed with selling 78 ounces of gold for $2000 to undercover secret service agents. Paul .Paterni, head of the San Francisco office of the secret service, said the two men were part of a state wide ring that has been smug gling gold to foreign countries. They were arrested April 14. KBES-TV Owners Apply For Klamath Permit Washington (U.R) Applica tion' was . made to the Federal Communications Commission to day for the transfer of the con struction permit for KFJI-TV to California.-Oregon Television, Inc. , ' California-Oregon now oper ates KBES-TV in Medford and KIEM-TV in Eureka, Calif. asebail NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh 3 10 1 New York 2 7 0 Kline and Atwell; Worth ington, Wilhelm (8) and West rum. Katt (8). AMERICAN LEAGUE Kansas City 4 11 1 Detroit 15 1 Shantx and Ginsburg; Gro mek, Foytack (6). Marlowe (7). Maas (9) and House. . Home fun: Torgeson.Detroit New York 3 7 3 Washington ..' 7 9 0 McDermott, Byrne (5) and Berra; Siobbs and Fitzgerald. Home runs: Lemon, Wash ington; Howard, New York. rn Israel, Egypt Agree To Terms, UN Announces Jerusalem (U.R) Israel and Egypt have agreed to a cease fire, the United Nations an nounced today. The agreement covers a com plete cease fire along their much troubled borders, the of fice of the U.N. Truce Supervis ory Organization here said. . The agreement came as a re sult of the current peace mission to the Middle East by U. N. Secretary-general Dag Hammars kjold. Its acceptance by Israel and Egypt means that the key objec tive of the mission ' assigned Hammarskjold by the U.N. Se curity Council has been achieved. Eases War Threat It will prevent further clashes between the two sides and damp en the possibility of an Arab Israeli war, which had threat ened to set 'the whole Mid-East aflame. A U.N. spokesman said the Is raeli and Egyptian governments notified Hammarskjold that as from yesterday evening orders were in force on both sides that "no military or para-military forces, including non-regular forces,, may. shoot across, the de marcation line or pass over that line for any purpose whatso ever." The U.N. chief was reported to' have worked it out in his ses sions the past two days with Prime Minister David Ben-Gur-ion and last week with Egyptian Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser in Cairo. ' No Interim Announcement George Smith, Hammars kjold's spokesman, told the United Press in Tel Aviv that the secretary general would not make any interim announce ment on his talks with Arab and Israeli leaders until he reports to the U.N. Security Council that sent him here. This did not appear to pre clude announcement of the cease fire, however. Government circles said Ben Gurion decided to get his cabi net to sanction the agreement because of some of the conces sions he made during his talks with Hammarskjold. A principal one concerned the drawing back of border patrols along the Gaza Strip boundary and another gave more freedom of movement for U.N. truce ob servers, the sources said. (See story on Page 11) Man Found Innocent Of Larceny Charge A circuit court jury found Richard Dale Akins, 30, Canyon ville, innocent of a grand lar ceny charge here Wednesday. . Akins was charged with theft of a side slot combination tool owned by Goff Brothers well drillers, 225 West Main st,, Med ford. Defense attorney was O. H. Bengston. Attorneys for the state were Walter Nunley, district at torney, and Arthur A. Franzke, deputy district attorney. Judge Alfred T. Goodwin of Eugene heard the case. Mrs. Alberta Governor, 23, of 903 West 11th st., and Doyle Trapp, 22, of 25 South Orange st.f were given suspended two year penitentiary sentences this morning on charges of writing checks with insufficient funds. Otto Holmes, 46, Klamath Falls,- was also given a suspend ed two-year sentence on a charge of obtaning money under false pretenses. All three pleaded guilty. Consolidation To Be Effective July I Medford, Oak Grove and West Side school districts will be consolidated, the county school boundary board decided Wednes day. Consolidation of the three dis tricts was overwhelmingly ap proved by voters at an-election April 9. . ... . , ' C ASHLAND 111 Trapped elieved Sunnyside, Utah -l (U.R) A federal mine inspector esti mated today it would take from 16 hours to five days to reach four miners trapped and believ ed killed in a cave-in at a Sun nyside coal mine. Inspector C. T. Hallett, Trini dad, Colo., reported rescue crews were within 80 to 100 feet of the men trapped beneath tons of coal and rock three miles in to the bowels of the Kaiser Steel Co. No 2 mine. Hallett explained the cave-in at 1:40 p.m. yesterday was caus ed by the weight of rock. It had been believed previously the mine collapse was caused by pressure of accumulating gas in the tunnel. Operations Suspended He said there was an "outside chance" the four men had sur vived in a pocket in the cave-in but it was more likely they were crushed to death or suffocated. Mining operations were sus pended as each shift of 20 to 30 men equipped with a mechani cal digger and automatic shut tle car tunneled toward the four trapped men. If Hallett's most optimistic hopes were realized, Combined Armory Bid is Approved The federal government has approved a $353,154 combined bid of.Wiley company, Ashland, and L. C. . McLaughlin, Medford, for construction of a new two unit memorial armory in Med ford, according to state National Guard headquarters in Salem. Contracts are being prepared and work is expected to begin within 30 days. ' The two-unit armory will be constructed on the county fair grounds to replace the old Med ford armory at Jackson and Bartlett sts. which was extensive ly damaged by fire several years ago. State, federal, county and city funds will finance the project. The announcement of the ap proval was made by Gov. Elmo Smith following a conference with Maj. Gen. Thomas E. Rilea, adjutant general of the National Guard. . Kefauver To Speak In Portland Saturday Fortland XU.R) Sen. Estes Ke fauver, candidate for the Demo cratic nomination for president, will give his answer to President Eisenhower's veto of the farm bill when he speaks here Satur day , night, his Oregon support ers said today. Kefauver's address will be the climax of the 25th annual Young Democratic state conven tion which opens here tomorrow. 63 Lumber Industry Representatives Attend Foremen Fire Fighting School About 63 lumber industry rep resentatives from southern Ore gon are attending a foreman fire fighting school today at the state forestry department's district headquarters on Table Rock rd. At least 50 men are expected to attend tomorrow for similar courses in large fire organiza tion, radio procedures and prac- J tice, timing and safety on large fires. Also scheduled are dem onstrations of fire behavior and use of water. Cooperative Efforts The school is being conducted through cooperative efforts of in dustry, state and federal agen cies and the Southern Oregon Conservation and Tree Farm as sociation. ' At an orientation session this morning, George Flanagan of EftST Miner Kille the men could be reached late tonight. The four were identified as Joe Otterstrom, 55, and Lloyd Allel Heath, 36, both of Sunny side, Lavell Marion Golding, 39, Wellington, and Joseph A. Arch uletta, 43, Dragerton. Archulet ta is the father of two children, Heath has four and Golding six. Three other miners, Frank Corrales and Raymond Stowell of. Wellington and Garth Frand sen of Price, left the area short ly before the cave-in. Tried to Run . Hallett said 16 feet of coal and rock had been removed from the debris clogged tunnel. The mine inspector believed rescue workers were within on ly 10 feet of a "continuous min er" and mobile loader the four trapped men had been using be fore they tried to run to safety. Morse Ordered To Answer Suit On Registration Eugene (U.R) Senator Wayne L. Morse has been ordered to ap pear in Circuit Court here April 30 to answer a suit filed by his primary' election opponent Woodrow Smith if Hood River and defend his registration as a Democrat. . .. Circuit Judge Frank Reid said yesterday that he had is sued the order. Lane County Clerk Harry Chase also was or dered to appear to show cause why Morse's Democratic regis tration should not be voided. Smith challenges Morse's change in registration here in February last year. Said Truly Republican The Hood River service sta tion operator has charged that Morse is not truly a Democrat but in effect is a Republican. An earlier suit brought in Marion county circuit court was thrown out. The question arose from Morse's change in registration. In 1950 he was elected as a-Republican, then subsequently de clared himself an independent and later registered as a Demo crat. In Portland, John C. Beatty Jr., Morse's attorney, said he did not regard the order as a serious threat. Weather FORECAST: Variable Hiph cloudiness tonight and Friday. Low tonight 42. High Friday -76. Temp. Highest Yesterday - 78 Lowest this Morning 43 Elk Lumber company pointed out that through the cooperative effort of agencies and industry fire losses are being reduced. He noted that timber grows about 2 per cent annually, and the fire loss can be kept to two-tenths of one per cent annually through cooperative efforts. Jack Wood, supervisor of Rogue River National forest, told the foremen that the area pro tected by fire-fighting groups in southern Oregon, if rolled into a one-mile wide strip, would reach from. New York to San Francis co and north to Portland. The total area covers about 4,000 square miles. Eugene Peterson, district for ester for the bureau of land man agement, said that BLM timber covers about 400.000 acres in this area, and the BLM pay Public Hearing on Alternate Freeway, Routes Nexl Month Other Routes Are Virtually Eliminated A public hearing on two pro posed alternative routes for a Highway 99 freeway in the Medford area will be held here sometime next month by the state highway department. The two routes now being con sidered are shown in the map ' appearing in the adjoining col umns on this page. According to information re ceived from the highway com mission by Medford city offi cials, the state has virtually elim inated from consideration other routes which have been sug gested since it became known a freeway was planned for this area. Two Proposals The two proposals, as shown on the map, are for a line east of Medford, known as the Hill crest route, and one through lower east Medford, along a line roughly parallel to Genessee and Cottage sts. In either event, the freeway would be a four-lane highway, with access limited to interchanges. These would be at Seven Oaks, North Medford, Crater Lake highway and South Medford (Barnett rd.) on the Hillcrest route, and at the same locations, plus a South Medford interchange near Barnett rd. and Stewart ave. on the Genes see route. Further south, the Hillcrest proposal would . have inter changes at Fern Valley rd.. North Ashland, Oak st., Green Springs and South Ashland, and the Genessee route would have them at Phoenix, Talent, North Ashland, Oak st., Green Springs and South Ashland. At least four other - routes have been discussed locally: 1. An elevated route parallel to Bear creek and along the west edge of Hawthorne park. 2. A depressed route along the Bear creek channel, with the creek confined to a concrete bed. 3. An elevated viaduct over the Southern Pacific tracks through the city. 4. A route to the west of the city, either parallel to Lozier lane, -or further to the west in the Old Stage rd. region. Not Considered These four, it is believed, are no longer under active consider ation by the highway commis sion. Whether discussians at the public hearing next month will be limited to the two highway department proposals, or wheth er' other routes , will , also be brought up for discussion, is not know here at present. It has been reported that the estimated costs of the Hillcrest and Genessee routes are similar. Gambling Evidence Told in Lane Couniy Eugene (U.R) The Lane coun ty grand jury today issued a report on gambling in which it claimed there was extensive evi dence of gambling in private clubs and taverns in the county with a net profit in excess of $400,000 per year. The report said one fraternal club realized a profit of $90,000 from gambling devices. The jury said gambling was also con ducted in Lane county card rooms and beer parlors. Profits from card games was listed as about $70,000 per year. The jury said it found more than 150 pinball machines in operation in the county but not a single slot mcahine. Chiropractic Group Against Fluoridation Southern Oregon Society of Chiropractic Physicians Wednes day voted against fluoridation of city water, officers have an nounced. The decision was made at a meeting attended by representa tives from Grants Pass, Cave Junction, Ashland and Medford. They made their decision on the basis of research which they have done and the results of the findings, it was explained. Other business at the session concerned applications for mem bership. Next society meeting will be at Grants Pass. I about $60,000 annually tor tire I protection. Timber sold brings in about $1,500,000 annually to the county from O and C lands. Attending School Among those attending the school today are Earl Harrison, captain of the Medford fire de partment, and Richard Krupp, chief of the Central Point Rural Fire Protection district. Curtis Nesheim, warden of the southwest district, presided at today's introduction and orien tation. The school for 'training fore men in fire fighting resulted from last September's forest fires in Jackson county, and is the first of its kind conducted in the forest industry. Other such schools have been attempt ed,' but have been unsuccessful, according to school officials.