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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.
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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. . ... . , '
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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.