Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, July 18, 1956, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text0 1 f mi J Medford United Press Full Leased Wire 51st Year 22 Pages euberger Charges Pressure Brought Senator Declares White House Asking For Negative Vote Reports Denied By Five Senators Washington (U.R Sen. Rich ard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) charged today the White House is pressuring Republican sena tors to vote against a bill to authorize a high, federal dam at Hells Canyon. Neuberger said several Re publicans whose support he sought for the proposed high dam told him they couldn't go against President Eisenhower's wishes. They have been informed of the President's interest. Neu berger said, in phone calls from White House officials. Other re ports were that I. Jack Martin, a presidential aide, had made personal calls on some senators to seek opposition to the bill. Other calls were made to Re publicans by Interior Depart ment officials, it was said. The "pressure" reports were denied by five Westrrn Repub lican senators questioned by a reporter. The five said they had not received any calls on the bill from the White House and had not heard of any other sen ators receiving calls. The Senate scheduled debate starting later today on the bill to authorize a S308.000.000 dam on the Snake river on the Idaho Oregon border. A final vote probably will be delayed until Thursday. Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) in a speech prepared for delivery aid the administration was ad vocating "permanent waste" of the site in favoring its develop ment by a private utility. He said a plan for three small er dams in the Hells Canyon react, being constructed by the Idaho Power Co. under Federal Power Commission license, "of fers less water storage, less flood control, less power, less recrea tion and imperils fish and wild life conservation." Sen. Arthur V. Watkins (R Utah) defended the FPC for act ing in favor of the Idaho com pany. He called it a "great in dependent expert agency." "No committee of congress," Watkins said, "can match the ex perience, know how, and infor mational background that went into the Federal Power Commis sion's consideration of the two conflicting proposals to develop the Hells Canyon reach of the Snake river in the best public interest." Bulletin '-"Washington (U.R) The fnitd States tonight an nounced plans to pull its major military commands out of Japan in on year. 'Hey, Bud MEDFORD, OREGON, Against 13 Dismissed From jury Duty; Case Is oved to Thirteen people have so far been dismissed from jury duty in the trial of Billy Junior Nunn, 28-year-old Klamath Falls millworker, charged with first degree murder in the April 19 slaying of William Alvin Eacret, 14, Klamath Falls. The case was moved this morning into the newly-completed circuit court room in the courthouse annex. Nunn's trial will be the first held in the new court room. The move was or dered because ventilation was considered better in the new room than in the old one. Examination of the jury be gan Tuesday morning. Judge H. K. Hanna, presiding over the trial, said he had no idea when the jury selection would be com pleted. Preemptory Challenge By noon today, the state had exercised its preemptory chal lenge right three times and the defense six times. The court ex cused four jurors. The preemp tory challenge right entitles the state to dismiss six jurors and the defense 12 . without stating reasons. Twelve jurors and two alter nates must be selected before the trial gets under way. Questions directed at the jury in the examination cover a wide range. Some of the more com monly asked questions included: (1) If you were the defendant or prosecution would you like to have all 12 members of the jury in your present frame of mind? Formed Opinions (2) Have you formed any kind of opinion in this case? (3) Do you conscientiously ob ject to the death penalty? (4) Are you familiar with de grees of crime and with the term "leniency"? (5) Does the presence of sex in this crime seem objectionable BASEBALL AMERICAN (1st game) Detroit 8 12 1 New York 4 7 1 Foytack and House; Stur divant, Larsen (6) and Berra. Home run: Mantle, New York. Kansas City 4 7 2 Boston 7 11 2 Herriage, Krivian (8) Shantx (8) and Ginsberg; Parnell and While. national (1st game) Philadelphia S 10 4 Chicago 4 11 4 Roberts and Lopata; Hack er, Brosnan (7) and Landrilh. Home run: Fondy, Chicago. How About A Lift?" 18, 1956 Hells Canyon New Room to you to the point that it might hinder your ability to serve on this jury? (6) Do you have children, and if so would having them influ ence your judgment in this crime since a young boy is the victim? Pleads Innocent Nunn, married and the father of one child, is accused of stran gling the Eacret boy at Tubb Springs state park, near the Green Springs highway, after sexually assaulting him. Investi gators said he admitted the crime. He has pleaded innocent to the charge. The state has ask ed for the death penalty. Sam Harbison was appointed by the court to defend Nunn. Assisting with the defense is A. E. Piazza District Attorney Water Nunley is handling the state's case, assisted by Alan Holmes, deputy district attorney. Medford Couple Hurt In Oklahoma Crash Charles Joseph Haas, 83, and u:.. ...:r a eo I tu n I his wile, niuri id, uuiu ui Medford, were seriously injured in an automobile accident north of Enid, Okla., Tuesday morning, it was reported here late yester day. Two other persons were Kiiiea in me cnji-iueiiL. j News of the accident was tele phoned to the Mail Tribune by Bill Sheets, of the Enid News and Eagle. Sheets said Mr. and Mrs. Haas were taken to Enid Gener al hospital where they were re ported in serious, but not criti cal, condition, he with a broken hip and she with cuts and bruises, Sheets quoted investigating of ficers as saying Haas had pulled the car he was driving off the road during a driving rainstorm, went back on to the highway, and crashed head-on into another car. The driver of the other car, Capt. George H. Weidman, Ft. Riley, Kans., and his wife, were killed instantly. Their three children all were seriously in jured. Sheets reported. The accident occurred on U.S. Highway 81 north of Enid. Mr. and Mrs. Haas' address is listed as 802 West 11th st. Sheets is the son of M. F. Sheets. Route 3, Medford. and brother of Mrs. Don Elliott, Medford, he said. Explosion Reported In Area Last Night H. C. Ingle. 338 Bessie st., reported this morning that an explosion jarred his house and vibrated the trailer house in his back yard about 8 p.m. yester day. He said the blast appeared to have happened northwest of his home, where he saw smoke ris ing. The explosion caused lights in the house to flicker, he said. City and state police reported they had no information about an explosion. San Francisco (U.R) The U. S. government has obtained a temporary stay of execution of an order forcing them to return sailing papers to seamen barred by Coast Guard screening boards. Weather FORECAST: Hot and drv with irioitv fire hazard fhrouth Thursdav. I.w toniiht 60. High Thursday near 100- Temp. Htchot Yestprdav 101 Lowest this Morning SO Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 4:50 a.m. Sunset 7:43 p.m. The Moon set Thurs dav 2:08 a.m. and rid lovr. rili inon . July 22 PROMINENT STR itair. high in south ..l2:lfi a.m, VISIBLE TLANETS Jupiter, sets :03 p.m. Saturn, in the south west , lt.fl? p.m. Mar, risen 1:49 p.m. Venus, rises 3:04 a.m. JBUNE United Press Full Leased Wire Price 5c No. 101 Khrushchev Leaves On Unannounced Trip by Plane Free World Attacked Prior To Departure Moscow (U.R) Soviet Communist party chief Nikita S. Khrushchev left Moscow by plane today on an unpublicized mission. There was no announcement of his destination. His plane flew off toward the east. Khrushchev came to the Cen tral airport with other Soviet leaders to bid farewell to the East German government dele gation which came to Moscow for top-level talks. Attack on Western World At a farewell banquet for the German visitors Tuesday night, Khrushchev made a rigorous at tack on the Western world. He derided their concepts of free speech, press and elections and said "nothing could tempt us to rejoin the so-called free world." Also on hand to see the East Germans off were Soviet Pre mier Nikolai Bulganin, Foreign Minister Dmitri Shepilov, De fense Minister Marshal Georgi Zhukov and former Premier Georgi Malenkov. Twenty minutes after the East Germans took off for Ber lin, Khrushchev boarded a twin engined Soviet passenger plane alone and flew off eastward. Newsmen Hear Tirade Khrushchev delivered his sca thing attack on the Western world and its ideas of democracy at a glittering reception for the visiting East German delegation in the great Kremlin palace. His audience included members of the diplomatic corps and West ern newsmen in addition to So viet and Communist dignitaries. "A free world, in the opinion of the monopolists, is one where there is freedom to plunder the people and everything can be run according to the will of the monopolists," Khrushchev said in an impromptu speech. Leaders of the Western na tions, he added "often like to call their countries the free world.", "But this is the same free world from which we freed our selves 39 years ago, and since then we have built socialism," he said. "Today nothing could tempt us to rejoin the so-called free world." Late News Briefs NEGOTIATIONS RESUME Pittsburgh (U.R) The steel industry's Big Three, back after a one-day secret conference in New York, resumed negotiations with the Steelworkers today to end the 18-day strike. There was nothing to indicate either side would substantially alter its position. 'THIRD FORCE' SEEN Brioni, Yugoslavia (U.R) Observers speculated today that a new "Third Force" in world politics may emerge from to day's meeting of the top leaders of three "uncommitted" nations in the cold war. Indian Prime Minister Jawa harlal Nehru was scheduled to join Yugoslav President Tito and Egyptian President Gamal Ab del Nasser in a 24-hour confer ence that may forge a new neu tralist block poised between the East and the West. AT&T TELLS STOCK PLAN New York (U.R! Ameri can Telephone & Telegraph com pany today announced plans for floating the largest stock offer ing in the nation's corporate his tory. It plans to raise its authorized stock by 40.000.000 shares and to offer 5.750.000 shares of capi tal stock to its stockholders at S100 a share on the basis of one new share for each 10 shares held. Washington (U.R) The Sen ate Judiciary Committee has ap proved a bill to authorize 35 new judgeships to help meet the growing case load in federal courts across the nation. GRIM-FACED MEMBERS OF COURT sit for photographer at opening of trial of Staff Sgt. Matthew C. McKeon, accused of manslaughter in drowning deaths of six Marine recruits during night march at Parris Island, S. C. From left: Major John Demas Lt Col. Daniel J. Regan, Lt. Col. Nicholas A. Sisak, Col. Edward L. Hutchinson, presi dent of court; Lt. Col. Duane Fultz, Major Edwin T. Carleton, and Lt. Bentlev . Nelson, U. S. N. Court is sitting at Parris Island. (International SoundphoU) if; - - - i :Vf ; 5 " VV-' f - - f CONFERENCE IS HELD by Staff Sergeant Matthew C. McKeon and Emil Zola Berman, his New York civilian at torney, as Marine's trial by general court-martial for the drowning of six recruits gets under way at Parris Island, S. C, where deaths occurred. (International Soundphot-o) Amendments to City Traffic Ordinances Adopted by Council The Medford city council last! be fined S10 on the first offense, night adopted amendments to and not less than $25 on other several "tity traffic ordinances offenses. as part of a modernization plan (See other ccunril story page 16) for codification of ordinances inaugurated since the city re tained the services of a full-time attorney. One amendment exempts fed eral, state, county and city ve hicles from parking meter re quirements and provides for af fidavits for dismissal of penalty if a meter is out of order. Before it was approved, the council deleted a section ex empting specified vehicles from meter requirements on the basis that it would encourage abuse However, the amendment failed to pass with only the provision for affidavits for out-of-order meters. Reconsider Amendment The council then reconsidered the entire amendment, which was approved 4 to 2. City Attorney E. R. Bashaw pointed out the amendment will provide a means of disposition for most tickets issued govern ment agencies. In case of abuses, he said the city could still prose cute. The section providing an affidavit that a meter is out of order will assist the police department in its accounting of traffic violations. Other amendments passed pro hibit drag racing within the city limits, excessive muffler noises, and provide that an operator's license must be in the possession of any driver. Bashaw pointed out the amendments comply with state laws. ' The muffler measure provides that persons guilty of excessive noise because of a muffler will Where There's Smoke There's Not Always Fire, CPRFD Learns Central Point rural firemen found out early this morning that where there's smoke there's not always a fire. At 2:49 a.m. the rural dis trict station at Central Point received a call from state po lice that someone had reported a fire at Southern Oregon Equipment company on High way 99 in the Elk City area. Prepared for the worst, 15 firemen dashed to the scene with six units of firefighting equipment. On arrival they found a dense pall of odd smelling smoke but could lo cate no fire. They set out to trare the source of the (make and soon found it. less than a mile away. It was the Jackson county mosquito control spray er truck, with County Sanitar ian Walter Sutherland and a driver hard at work. .j! '"' t 1... , - BifMBiiMi' t-Mifr-a4a Meeting Urged to Consider Program Mayor Earl Miller last night urged a meeting of the. finance committee to consider means of financing a capital improvement program in Medford. No date has yet been set for the meet ing. The improvement program would include an arterial street program costing an estimated SI, 656, 100 and a storm sewer project estimated to cost about S380.000. City officials have indicated that an off-street parking might also be included in the overall plan. The city council tentatively approved the 10-year arterial street program at the June 19 meeting. The arterial street program was prepared under the super vision of Vernon Thorpe, public works director, as an alterna tive to a 1954 plan which was estimated to cost the city about S4, 130.000. The same basic plan was adopted for the modified program. The program, along with a proposed 5380,000 storm sewer program, was submitted to the council's finance committee to study financing. City officials hope to finance the program over a 10-year period, with abcut 10 per cent of the cost being paid each year. Fire Hazard Listed As Serious Here Medford station of the U.S. weather bureau warned today of a serious fire hazard through Thursday. Forecast was for hot and dry weather. Dry easterly winds over the mountains are responsible for the danger. The weather bureau said that the hazard extends all the way to the coast. A 102 degree temperature was foreseen for this afternoon with a 100 degree reading predicted for Thursday. Maximum tem perature yesterday was 101 de grees. Reading at. Grants Pass yesterday was 102. Portland (U.R) More than 200 fires, 100 of them in Malheur county, were reported in nation al forest lands in Oregon at noon today. rimmc jeiycam Risked Own Life, Attorney Claims Parris Island. S.C. (U.R) A court martial was told today that Marine Sgt. Matthew C McKeon led his recruit platoon into a tidal stream where six drowned "not for sadistic plea sure but for the dedicated pur pose of making Marines." When McKeon saw panic sweep over the outfit when one man slipped in the water, he risked his own life repeatedly in an effort to save every one, McKeon's attorney said, "The first man in was the last man out," the lawyer said. Issue Chief Defense The issue of how stiff Leather neck training should be thus was made the chief defense for the 31-year-old drill instructor who was on trial for manslaughter and cruelty in one of the most celebrated military trials in re cent history. McKeon's counsel, New York lawyer Emile Zola Berman, made his plea to a seven- man court of combat veterans after winning the right to poll former Marines from all over the na tion about their views on boot training at this and other Mar ine encampments. Ex-Marines Rally As the third day of the court martial got under way ex-Marines were rallying to McKeon's support in leading his platoon into a tidal creek in the dark of night. In his opening statement Ber man described the "march of death" platoon as "laggard" and said their drill instructor only was trying to whip them into shape. McKeon routed the men out of their barracks for a surprise night march into the marshlands nearby "to give them morale, Berman said. McKeon is on trial before a court martial composed of seven officers who have fought in the ranks of U. S. Marines on war time battlefields. He is charged with manslaughter, cruelty, dis obeying regulations and bring ing discredit to the armed ser vices by drinking, on the day of the march, in the presence of a recruit. Mosquito Spraying In Progress Here Fogging and spraying against mosquitoes has been in progress the last several weeks accord ing to the local health depart ment. Areas that have been treated several times include the Table Rock area, Roberts rd., and the airport. Dr. A. E. Merkel, county health officer, stressed that the demand for fogging and spray ing has been greater than the department's supply of equip ment. There is only one unit for the entire county. The health officer also noted that it was impossible to kill the mosquitoes 100 per cent in any area but by treating the areas every 10 days or two weeks the number of the insects is greatly reduced. Recalled Multnomah Sheriff Plans To Seek Reelection Portland (U.R) Mike Elli- wait until 1958. Sheriff Terry ott, the one-time sheriff of Mult nomah county who was recalled from office, was back in Port land today. Three things were on Elliott's mind upon his return to the Rose City. First the grand jury had summoned him to appear yes terday and tell what he knows about alleged vice conditions in Portland. Then Elliott also an nounced he plans to seek re election as Multnomah county sheriff. And that Columbia Pic tures is planning to make a film based on his life. If Elliott is seriously consid ering seeking the law-enforcement post again, he will have to Investigation Ends In Chasef Arrest Of Donald Arnbuehl Marijuana Declared Narcotic Involved Donald LaVcrne Ambuehl, 31. of 1615 Crater Lake ave., oper ator of the Y-Club in north Med ford, was arrested this morning on suspicion of illegal posses sion of narcotics, according to Police Chief Charles Champlin. The chief said Ambuehl will be formally charged in I com plaint in circuit court here to day. He said marijuana is the narcotic involved. Ambuehl was arrested about 6:30 a.m. today after an odd wrong-way automobile chase in the western portion of Medford, the chief said. First Suspicions First suspicions in the cas were aroused last week, Champ lin reported, when an officer of Burns Detective agency reporU ed a "tip" on the matter to state and city police. Several days of intensive investigation on the part of city and state officers followed, including an all-night investigation last night. Chief Champlin said the in vestigation pointed to Ambuehl. They followed him to the Plaza apartments, and this morning as he was leaving the building, they confronted him. He saw the officers, the chief said, and ran to his car, which was parked at the southeast corner of 10th st. and South Oakdale ave. To get away from the officers, he backed his car rapidly across Oakdale, down 10th past King st. to Laurel, and down Laurel to 11th, where he attempeted to get it in a position to move forward. Rams Vehicle It was at this point, Champ lin said, that the state police car in which he was riding, driven by State Police Lt. Paul Morgan, rammed the Ambuehl vehicle, bringing it to a halt. Champlin said he jumped out and covered the suspect, who was immediately placed under arrest by Morgan and Champlin, assisted by Police Detective Sergeant Lyle Perkins, who ar rived in another car. Ambuehl was not armed and offered no resistance. Both Morgan and Champlin suffered minor injuries in the collision. Ambuehl reportedly was unhurt. He was taken to the Medford police station where he was questioned during the morning. Narcotics Agent The police chief said a fed eral narcotics agent in Portland is aware of the investigation, and has said a federal "hold" order will be placed against Am buehl for narcotics law violation when the agent arrives in town, probably Thursday or Friday. Officers participating in the cooperative investigation were Champlin, Morgan and Perkins, and Medford officer Ray Seely, and State Police Privates Rob ert Wievesiek and Donald Cain. Ambuehl made no written statement to police in connection with the case, the chief said, but he declared he has orally admit ted possession of the drug. Champlin said Ambuehl threw two vials out of his car during the "backward" chase, which have been recovered, and which contained substantial amounts of marijuana. Gold Hill Residence Burns Late Yesterday A residence belonging to M. C. Hancock, North Pacific high way, Gold Hill, burned to the ground late yesterday and also burned about three acres of grass land in the vicinity, ac cording to the state forest patrol. The fire was extinguished by the state forest patrol, they re ported today. Schrunk has two years to serve yet and should he be successful in his campaign for Mayor of Portland, the county commis sioners would appoint a new sheriff. Also appearing before the grand jury yesterday were Schrunk and James 6. Elkins, Portland nightlife figure whose allegations touched off the probe. Elliott was recalled in 1949 by the voters when it was learned he had lied about his age, service in the marines and educational qualifications in run ning for office. He currently is on probation for a Los Angeles county charge cf forgery.