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Subscribers Recommended A itory about Jackaon nunty 4-H elua pre-fairi ippfin on P 12 of tod a. i Mail Tribune. To report Improper or non-delivery of the Mail Tribune phone 2-6141 before 6:45 pa daily and 10:30 a.m. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives short ly after you call please notify office thua eliminating special messenger service. FORD United Presi Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wire. 51st Year 28 Pages vON, SUNDAY, JULY 8, 1956 Price 5c No. 92 MED 1 I . ;rrr-t S - III FOREMAN PASSES Pickets at the U. S. Steel"s Gary, Ind., plant stand aside to allow a plant foreman through the gate. Some 900 supervisory personnel were permitted to en ter and leave the plant. Meanwhile, federal MM 1 BEATEN TO Youth Jailed Alter Porflander Tries To Break Up Fight Portland (U.R) A 19-year-old youth was jailed here Saturday as a suspect in the fatal beating of a 53-year-old man early yes terday morning when he tried to intervene in a teenage fight. Portland detectives planned to to question Jerry Richard Stout in regard to his alleged part in the fatal beating and kicking of John Levorson, Portland. The youth's blood stained shoes were taken to the crime laboratory for study. Police Mid that Stout was arrested early Saturday morn ing in a downtown cafe, shortly after the body of Levorson was discovered, beaten and blood smeared on the street. Ptrtially Intoxicated Stout was partially intoxicat ed at the time of his arrest, police said, but after a struggle as taken to city jail and placed in a detention room. Later he attempted ,to take his own life by hanging himself. Witnesses said the fight oc cured outside an apartment house when one gang of youths attemDted to crash a birthday party. Levorson was passing down the street and attempted to in tercede in the fight. Stout, who witnesses said was not taking part in the fight jumped from a car parked at the curb and attacked the man, beating him and then kicking him as he lay at the curb. The youth was booked on a murder charge pending filing of a formal complaint Monday. Military Bill Passes Lower German House Bonn. Germany (U.R) Chan- cellar Konrad Adenauer Satur Hav rammed his controversial military draft bill through the Bundestag (lower house) to prove to the world that West Germany is not dragging heels on rearm ing on the side of the West. The vote, on the third and cru cial reading, was 270-166 with 20 abstentions. The measure now goes to the Bundestag (upper house) where final approval is expected July 20. Approval of the measure mat inz 12 million young Germans liable for military service came after a turbulent session of near ly 18 hours, marked by often acrimonious debate. At one point, a member of the anti- re armament Socialist opposition accused Adenauer of being "dir ty as always" and the chair was forced to call the chamber to order. Richard L. Neuberger Elected Chairman of Oregon's Delegates to Demo National Convention in Chicago Salem .U.R) Sen. Richard L. Neuberger Saturday was un animously elected chairman of Oregon's 16-man delegation to the Democratic national conven tion in Chicago next month. The Democratic delegates, at an organizational meeting here, named State Rep. Alfred Cor bett of Portland as vice chair man and Walter Dodd as secre tary treasurer of the group. Surprise of the meeting was -Mm resignation of Joseph K. Portland Teacher Is Elected NEA Head Portland U.R) In a stand ing vote thousands of teacher delegates here thundered their approval of a motion to wire the speaker of the House of Repre sentatives their bitter disap pointment at the defeat of the $1.5 billion Kelley bill for school construction. Concluding their week-long annual convention, Friday night at .Portland, the NEA said in its telegram to the house: "The rep resentative assembly of the Na tional Education association deeply regrets your decision to deny urgently needed emergency funds to build schools for the na tion's children." Elections Ahead Dr. William G. -Carr's report on the Kelley bill's history in cluded a warning to congress men of election year reckon ings were in store for them. "It is probable that this means there will be nothing done in this session of congress with re spect to school building legisla tion," Carr said. "But there will be a new session and there will be a new congress." One member of NEA, Bill Johnstone, superintendent of schools in Fort Benton, Mont., a Republican, said he was oppos- Mother Appeals For Boy's Return Westbury, N.Y U.R) The mother of kidnaped five-week- old Peter Weinberger appealed to the abductor - Saturday to leave the child in any church or synogogue in the New York city area. Religious authorities agreed to keep every house of worship open around tne clock to re ceive the child. The appeal was made and act ed upon as the search for the infant entered the crucial stage. Police sealed off a 16-block area around the Weinberger home on Long Island and clamped a tight secrecy lid on their activities while awaiting possible word from the abductor. Peter was kidnaped Wednes day for a $2,000 ransom. A telephone called later increased the ransom to $5,000 and the family said it was willing to pay. "any amount" for the re turn of the child. The Weinberger family said Saturday they received another call Friday afternoon from the same person who increased the ransom. The call was made af ter the family announced they would pay the higher sum. It was learned, however, that the caller had not yet identified himself in a way to make the family certain he was the kid naper. - Carson Jr., Portland, as a mem ber of the delegation. Carson's resignation was ac cepted with thanks for "a most unusual act of party harmony and good will" and State Sen. Robert D. Holmes, Democratic candidate for governor was nam ed to take Carson's place as a full delegate. Holmes, an Astoria radio ex ecutive will name his own alternate. officials, concerned about the ever mounting economic toll of the steel strike, were report ed plotting new moves to end the week-old walkout of 650,000 millworkers. NEA (See story page 5) DEATH ed to federal aid in principle, "but this is no way to kill a bill." Johnstone was referring to the attachment of the anti-se gregation amendment wfc i c h lost the votes of southern repre sentatives. Officers Elected The delegates elected Martha A. Shull of Portland, Ore., pres ident, succeeding J. Lester Bu ford of Mt. Vernon, 111. Miss Shull was unopposed. Eleven vice presidents were elected. They were James Ry an, Alaska: Anna Jenkins, Cali fornia; Donald Brooks, Colora do: Lottie Topp, Connecticut; Olin Stead, Illinois; Florence Bennett, - Minnesota;.- Chester Marshall, Nebraska; Chester Davis, Nevada; W. W. Eshle- man, Pennsylvania; Francis Beldon, Michigan; and Paul Stevens, Maryland. Next year's convention be held in Philadelphia. will Nixon Arrives in Formosa for Talks Taipei, Formosa (U.R) U. S. Vice President Richard M. Nix on flew here last night to talk with Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek on the new Red Chinese bid to negotiate the Formosa dispute.' He gave the National ist leader' a personal message of "continuing support" from President Eisenhower. Nixon delivered the message to- Chiang shortly after he ar rived from Saigon despite the lateness of the hour. "International C o m m unism alters its tactics from time to time, but we have as yet no evidence of any change in its objectives," Mr. Eisenhower's message said. Nixon delivered a similar mes sage Friday to South Viet Nam President Ngo Dinh Diem. . 1 Forster is Subpenaed To Testify Wednesday Washington (U.R) The house committee on un-American activities Saturday subpe naed the chief counsel of the B'Nai Yb'rith Anti-Defamation league to determine whether he contributed secretly to a report alleging widespread '('blacklist ing'' of left-wingers in the en tertainment world. The committee said the wit ness, Arnold Forster of New York, will be questioned behind closed doors next Wednesday in connection with its investiga tion of the report which was is sed twelve days ago by the Fund for the Republic. The fund is financed by the Ford Foundation. In his letter of resignation Carson suggested that should there be any doubt as to the le gality of his resignation, it could be approved by the party State Central committee. Carson added that the election of Holmes to fill the vacancy would enable him "to meet and know the highest ranking men and women of our party. From it all, I prophecy he will gather inspiration which will carry him to -victory in November.- AedsTake .,dme for Poznan Revolt Last Week Party Paper Charges 'Irregularities' Berlin (U.R) The Polish Com munist party Saturday took the blame for the Pozon revolt in a confession of "irregularities" and "mistakes" that apparently provides the' basis for the cur- re-' purge of party members, government officials and police in the city. In its efforts to soothe dissat isfied workers, the party accused local leaders of neglecting to heed legitimate complaints. The President of Poland promised new freedom in "ever growing measure" for all citizens. Fill Prison Cells Western travelers arriving from Poland said the purge of authorities who either support ed the rebels in last week's up rising or who failed to crack down quickly enough had filled prison cells. They said security police made wholesale arrests in a series of raids on homes of suspect of ficials. More arrests are being made daily and as many as 3,000 per sons, both rebels and . official supporters, have been jailed, they said. The party backed up its ac tions in an article in the official Poznan party paper "Trybuna Ludu." It charged party and union bosses with "bureaucratic irre0ularities," "confusion" and "mistakes." The paper accused local lead ers of being responsible for the uprising by failing to alleviate poor conditions in the city. "The workers had reasons for bitterness," it said in an edit orial believed to reflect the opinion of a commission set up to investigate the revolt. Federal Judge Dies Of St. Louis U.R) Federal Judge Rubey M. Hulen, who presided at the recent trial of Matthew J. Connelly and T. La mar Caudle, died Saturday aft er he was found in his yard with a bullet wound in his head. Hulen died in the operating room at Barnes hospital where he had been taken for surgery in an attempt to save his life. Police said he had not been able to make a statement before his death. Clayton officers said they were unable to determine whether the shooting was acci dental. They said he apparently was shot by a bullet from his own .32 caliber pistol which was found at his feet. St. Louis Coroner Patrick Taylor said an inquest would be held at 9:30 a.m. Monday to de termine circumstances of death. Hulen was scheduled to rule on motions and sentence the two high Truman administra tion officials July 19. The two were convicted last month of charges of conspiring to defraud the government in the handling of a tax case. Mrs. Kelly Appointed Campaign Chairman Mrs. Edward C. Kelly, Med ford, has been appointed the Jackson county finance and cam paign chairman for Senator Wayne Morse, County Democra tic Central Committee Chairman Robert Boyer has announced. Mrs. Kelly, Boyer said, will undertake appointments for sub chairmen and assistants in the county's cities and towns. The job is one of coordinating the campaign and raising funds for the campaign in this area. Boyer was notified of the ap pointment by Hugh Hearle, Port land, state finance chairman of the Reelect Senator Wayne Morse committee. Elected to committee posts were: - Monroe Sweetland and Rep. Edith Green, platform and reso lutions; Gene Conklin, creden tials: Lloyd Rhea, permanent or ganization; State Sen. Walter J. Pearson, rules and order of bus iness; Multnomah County Com missioner Jack Bain, notifica tion and presidential nominee, and Jason Lee, notification of vice-presidential nominee. Pilots Association Sets Deadline for West Coast Airlines Chicago (U-.R) The Air line Pilots, association Satur day set Wednesday midnight as a new strike deadline against the West Coast Air lines following collapse of eon tract negotiations. The airline's 65 pilots orig inally were set to walk out June 27, but postponed that strike date at the request of the National Mediation Board pending renewed negotiations. Campaign Starts For Vaccinations With Salk Vaccine A week-long campaign to en courage vaccination with Salk antipolio vaccine was inaugurat ed today by the Jackson county chapter of the National Founda tion for Infantile Paralysis. With the polio season in this area approaching, a recipient of the vaccine may receive consid erably immunity,, it was pointed out. The vaccine is administered in a series of three shots, the first two spaced a month apart and the third from seven months to a year later. The eligible group is from infancy to 19 years of age and expectant mothers. Supplies Sufficient Vaccine supplies in the county are now sufficient to give a pro tective shot to all eligible per sons, officials said. Dr. A. E. Merkel, county health officer and chairman of the chapter's medical advisory committee, estimated a little more than half the eligible group in the county have received shots. - A former theory that vaccine should hot be administered dur: ing hot weather or during the polio season has been proven false Tir. Merkel said. Those eligible to receive the trar.-;n are ureed to contact family physicians. Defeat Predicted For Canyon Bill Washington (U.R) A shift of sentiment on the part ot two southern Democratic senators re garding a bill for a high dam in Hells Canyon was reported here Saturday and caused observers to predict defeat for the Democrat-sponsored measure if it is brought to the Senate floor for a vote. Majority Leader Sen. Lyndon Johnson of Texas was reported trying to dissuage Sens. Wayne Morse of Oregon and Warren Magnuson of Washington from bringing the bill to a record vote. The measure, authorizing fed eral construction of a high dam in the Hells Canyon reach of the Snake river on the Oregon Idaho border, is scheduled to,be called up July 17 with , a vote about three days later. The vote shift by Sens. Russell of Georgia and Eastland of Mis sissippi presumably would be enoueh to defeat the bill since a winning margin of two votes had been predicted on the basis ot un-official polbng. Drowning Victims Wash Ashore in Washington Seaview, Wash. (U.R) Bodies of Carol Veach. 15. of Van couver, Wash., and Bert C. Eaeley, 46, Portland, were wash ed ashore here Saturday. They were discovered by Joe Graw of Portland and W. D. Skelton of Vancouver, while they were clam digging on the beach. - The girl was caught in an un dertow and drowned on June 24 Bagley lost his life trying to rescue her. Weather FORECAST Continued fair ind warm through Monday. High Sunday 93-95, low Sunday night 55, high Monday 90. Possible thunderstorms Mon day. Temp. Highest yesterday 99 Low eat yesterday ..53 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise . Sunset . 4:42 a.m. 7:50 p.m. 8:11 p.m. Moonset First Quarter July 14 Mars rises 11:15 p.m. vand It now about 54,000.000 miles fro mthe Earth. Last year at this time it was nearly 25, 000,000 miles away. irooress loo uoiry "Maybe We'd Better I! Irrigation Districts Schedule Field Trip A field trip for users of water in the Medford and Rogue River Valley irrigation districts will be held Saturday, July 14, accord ing to Jack Hoffbuhr, secretary manager of the Medford district. The trip has been scheduled to acquaint users with the upper system structures which are scheduled for replacement later this year. Hoffbuhr said another trip will be planned next season to allow users to inspect new structures for comparison. Starting Time The trip will start at 8:30 a.m. and patrons participating will meet at the intersection of Cra ter Lake Highway and Antelope rd. at Camp White. Users on the field trip will con voy by cars to Bradshaw Drop, where water is divided between the two districts, From there, the group will go to Lake creek for inspections of the proposed Wyant Wash siphon, the existing Lake creek flume and site of the proposed replacement, the exist ing South Fork flume and site of the replacement, and the new Culbertson flume, which is in op eration for the first time this season. Coffee and sandwiches will be served by the districts at noon, Hoffbuhr said. ' Few Familiar Hoffbuhr said the field trip was planned because "only a small percentage of the users are familiar with the delivering sys tem," and the districts "felt that it will be be eficial to all, and possibly develop closer harmony between1 the districts and the users." Sports Bulletins Luther Carr smashed a three-run homer , and Gary Moore a two-run roundtripper last night as the Washington Cheney Studs subdued the Medford Cheney Studs 6 to 2 in a semi-pro baseball game here. All scoring in the game was in the first three innings. Monte Geiger threw seven-hit ball for the Washington club and Don White pitched a nine hitter for Medford. The clubs collide at the fairgrounds again at 2 p.m. today. Sacramento 'U.R) The Sacramento Solons held off late inning rushes by the San Diego Padres last night and defeated the visitors 6-5 in a Pacific Coast league game here. Seattle (U.R) Portland de feated Seattle 11-7 last night to drive the Rainiers into sec ond place half a game behind the Loi Angelet Angels in Pacific Coast League play. ' -Vancouver, B.C. (U.R) Jim Pisoni'stwo run homer in the last half of the 11th inning gave the Vancouver Mouniies a 5-3 victory and an even split in the Saturday doubleheader at Capilano stadium. San Fran cisco won the afternoon ball game. 5-L . on Crash Fasten Our Seat Belts" Bids on the Bear Creek siphon are scheduled to be opened July 17, and work on other rehabilita tion projects in both districts is expected to be started later this year. Phoenix Calls Bids For Sewer System Phoenix Bids for the con struction of a sanitary trunk and lateral sewer system in Phoenix will be received until 7:30 p.m. July 30 at the city hall in Phoenix, according to Dan H. Adams, Phoenix mayor. General obligation bonds to taling $40,000 to finance instal lation were approved last year by voters here. , The contract will cover ma terials as well as installation. Forms for pre-qualifications may be received from the engin eers,' A. D. Harvey and S. C. Watkins, Medford. Plans and specifications may be obtained at the office of the engineers, room 12, Goldy build ing, Medford. A contract with South Bear Creek Sanitary Sewer district was approved in May. The Phoenix system will use the dis trict's trunk line facilities and connect with the Medford sys tem to the disposal plant at Camp White. Olive Branch Awarded Founder of Bank Chiavari, Italy (U.R) This Riveria town awarded its Gold en Olive branch last night to the late Amadeo P. Giannini, found er of the Bank of America. The award was created to hon or native sons of the Italian Riv iera who have made good. Washington (U.R) Sen. James H. Duff (R-Pa.), has pro posed that the government sell 24 coal-burning Liberty ships to a West German firm solely to carry U. S. coal to Europe. Prospect Youth Collects $43 In Porcupine Bounty Adin Hannon of Prospect is believed to be holding the July lead in Jackson county's' war against "porky". County Treasurer Karl Jan cuch reported Friday that Han non brought in 43 porcupine noses in one day and collected one dollar bounty for each nose. He t Id the treasurer he gather ed them while walking up and down one logging road in the Prospect area. ' Janouch said a total of 64 bounty orders had been brought to his office between Monday and Friday of last week. The Jackson 1 county court recently authorized a one-dollar bounty for each porcupine nose. Tha Median! Kiwanis chib sod nlIOS United Not Told TWA Plane Near Collision Scene CAB, CAA Officials Questioned Saturday Las Vegas flJ.R) A con gressional inquiry was told Sat urday that a United Airliner never was notified of the proxi mity of the TWA plane it pre sumably collided with because "air traffic control procedures do not require it." Rep. Oren Harris (D-Ark:) said the statement was made during the closed session of his subcom mittee which is investigating the crash of the two airliners in. Grand Canyon with history's greatest con.mercial aviation toll, 128 persons. Andrews Testifies The public morning session of the day-long hearing brought tes timony by William K. Andrews, director of the CAB bureau of safety, that in his opinion the disaster was caused by a mid-air collision. , He and other witnesses said the TWA's Super-Constellation was advised the UAL DC-7 was uic vicuuiy, dui uaa com munications did not notify either the UAL pilot or his rnrlin ground headquarters that the TWA plane was due to fly over virtually the same spot at the same time last Saturday. Andrews testified that while the TWA liner was told by the CAA control room that UAL was flying st the 21,000-foot lev el and UAL was indication of .blame-one way or -the-other. - "Both pilots, under CAB reg ulations, had the responsibility of looking out for their own safety under the visual flying condi tions existing out of air traffic control channels at the time of the crash." One-Day Hearing Harris wound up the one-day, one-the-spot inquiry by the nine man committee after 7V hours of questioning more than a doz- - eh witnesses from the CAB and CAA. ' As the hearing was held, heli copters and mountain climbers worked to recover pieces of bodies from the wreckage of the two planes only a mile apart in the Grand Canyon. Only 12 bodies have been iden tified. There was no indication when the task of body-recovery on the walls of the canyon, would be completed. , Senate Rules Group Votes Inquiry Funds . Washington U,R) The Senate Rules committee Satur day voted $300,000 to finance a major investigation of the na tion's foreign aid program. The inquiry, if approved by the full Senate, will be conducted by the Senate Foreign Relations committee. The committee has recommended the study to deter mine whether the aid program still is needed and, if so, whether it is headed in the right direc tion. The rules committee acted after Senate - House conferees agreed late Friday on a' $4.1 bil lion foreign air ceiling for the government year which began last Sunday. the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce are also jointly sponsoring a year-long contest for youngsters 12 through 18 years of age. Prizes totaling $500 are being offered to the ones killing the most porcupines and a grand prize will be offer ed after June 30, J957 to the champion porcupine killer for the year. Contest entrants and others desiring bounty should skin the nose off the dead porcupines, salt the noses, attach strings to them and bring them to the county clerk's office. The clerk will issue a bounty certificate and the cash can be collected in the treasurer's office. Contest entrants should retain their certificate.
