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TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Three Are Injured In Auto Accident j On Barnelt Road ! Lloyd Allan Shreev, 19. of 736 i Oak St.. Medford, was taken to Rogue Valley 'Community i hos-1 pitai Thur.saay niiit after the car in which he was riding went' oi.t of control and rolled about ! 54 feet on Barnett rd., two miles 1 past of Highway 99. Another pa-cngc r, James! Yindersteen. 22. of 28 Clover lane, and the driver. James Melternieh. 21, of 122 Portland ve also were injured. The acci dent occurred at 10:50 p.m. State police said the car was trav elinz east on Barnett rd. The rar rounded the first part of an "S ' curve, then onto the right shoulder of the road, officers said. After turning sideways, it ap parently went into a four-foot ditch and traveled east in the ditch for about 132 feet. Accord ing to the report, the car "jack knifed" and rolled for about 54 feet, coming to rest on its wheels. I The car was considered a total I wreck. Shreev was thrown from the Friday. July 20, 1356 rrrzrr- - Testimony Starts in Nunn's Murder Trial VOICING HER PROTEST Little Kathleen Bunton. 2, doesrTt like getting the needle from Dr. B. J. Xeiman, but this Salk vaccine might save her from crippling polio which has already struck 212 Chicago voungsters this year. In just one 24-hour period 25 new cases were reported, all in the same general area. For the same six month period the year before, Chicago reported only 35 cases of polio. Articles Filed for Coast Sales Firm vehicle and cut by a barbed wire frnce. Police said Shreev suffer ed a fractured skull, two broken vertebrae and multiple lacera tions, including severe cuts on his head and nose. His condi tion was not known this morning. Vanderstr-en was released after treatment for cuts and bruises at i Rogue Valley (Community) hos- pitiil and Metternich w as re-j leased after treatment at Sacred j Heart hospital. All three were! taken to the ho.-pitals by Medford Ambulance serv ice. Slate police said Metternich was cited for reckless driving. 33 Reach Finals in Search for Talent Articles of incorporation for Coast Sales Inc., wore filed in the country clerk's office ester-day. L. F. Crovatto. George Mc- Cune. and Lsther McCune were ; listed as incorporators and as the members of the board of di- j rectors. Coast Sales offices are i at 1158 Court st. O. H. Bcngston ! is the registered agent. Among the purposes for which , the organization was formed. ' the articles listed: to purchase, lease, or sell autos. trucks, trail ers, and motor v ehicles of all ; kinds; to sell power driven ma chinery and machinery of all j kinds; to sell and install refrig eration equipment of all kinds: to deal with personal property of every class and description: to deal in real property and all interests therein; to build houses or other buildings, and lay out and sell plat tracts: to undertake assets or liabilities of persons, firms, associations or corpora tions: to lend monev and negoti ate loans (hi i's nun account or ; as agent or broker for others; to ; engage in and conduct any and all kinds of manufacturing busi- ness. ; Capita! stock of Coast Sales ' was listed as S5.IHMI. divided into j 50 shares at a par value of S100 I each. A total of 33 acts w ill partici pate in the finals of the "Search for talent" sponsored by the Cra ter Lions club at 8 p.m. today at Medford High school audi torium. The total includes nine acts from Grants Pass and 17 winners from the Ashland preliminary. Semi-finals in the Medford area were held last night. Kive winners will be chosen from the 3il finalists. Winners w ill compete in ne Portland ; '"Mr. TaU-nt Show ' .Monday, w ith ! the finalm gouma a weeks paid ON SEARCH CRAFT engagement at Amato's supper Lt. (jg J. F. Fliegel Jr.. ex-1 club in Portland, and a chance I ecutive officer on the CSS Hoist, j to compete with the Portland was recently engaged in the winner for the grand prize. j search in New York harbor for The "search for talent" grand j the Venezuelan airliner which News About Servicemen prize winner will receive an all expense paid trip to Hollywood where the persons will be a guest was lost there with 70 persons aboard. Fliegel's ship and a minesweeper were searching an of the Ben Alexander's Dream !area of 225 square miles, but no house, tour the film capitol and receive auditions for radio per formances and screen tests. Tickets for the finals here to night will be available starting at 7 p.m. at the High school. Pro ceeds w ill be used by the Crater Lions club for local benefit. US Denies Russian Protests on Flights Washington UP' The Unit ed States has denied Russian charges that U.S. Air Force planes flew deep into Soviet ter ritory earlier this month. In a note delivered to the So viet Embassy here Thursday, the State department also brand ed as "unwarranted" and "obvi ously out of place" Soviet insin uations that Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Nathan F. Twining may have arranged the alleged flights. The note said the remarks sug grstin Twining arranged the flights during a recent trip to : Moscow hurt international rela- . tions. ; Soviet Ambassador Georgi N. Zaroubin delivered a Soviet pro . test July 10 charging that Air ; Force bombers based in West ' Germany flew as deep as 200 miles into Soviet territory on ;July 4. 5 and 9. Poland subse quently lodged a similar protest. Cordon Denies Part ;ln Hells Canyon Bill : Portland U.R A telegram jreceived here today from former ;Sen. Guy Cordon in Washington ;denied a published report that .'he had used his floor privileges ;in he Senate to lobby against the Hells Canyon bill. ' Cordon referred to a statement in a recent column by Drew ;Pearson. i The telegram said "the infer jence that I have used my priv ilege of the Senate floor t" in ;fluence votes against the Hells 'Canyon dam hill is wholly with .out any basis in fact." It continued. "I have never ;been on the Senate floor during ,a session of the Senate since my "term of office expired, nor have T used my former status to in Ifluence the vote of any senator on the Hels Canyon bill, or any ;other bill." Cordon characterized the Pear on column as "character assasin- Stioa." j trace of the liner was found, ac cording to a letter received by the lieutenant's parents. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Fliegel. Old Stage rd. COMPLETES TRAINING Pvt. Paul M. Dutton. 17. son of Gay V. Dutton. 411 Wood stock St.. has recently complet ed eight weeks of advanced basic antiaircraft artillery training at the Army training center. Ft. Bliss, Tex. He was trained in the main tenance and firing of the 90 mm. antiaircraft gun. Dutton entered the Army in February of this year and completed the first phase of his training at Ft. Ord, Calif. Goy. Smith Sees No Justification In Special Session Salem 'UP' Gov. Elmo Smith said today he dots not be lieve a special session of the legislature to raise salaries of state employees can be justi fied now. The governor's views were presented to the AFL-CIO Public Employees Council in answer to a telegram received from Leo Butts, council representative. Butts told the governor he had a "moral obligation to call a special session to restore senior ity and merit steps previously accrued to career employees and to establish salary advances pro viding a more realistic minimum scale." Gov. Smith f-aid the 1955 legis lature in addition to making "rather extensive improvements m our employees retirement sys tem." provided for improvement in state salaries by approving salary budgets that contained sufficient funds to provide for normal merit increases. The legislature also provided a fund of S2. 774. 000. he said, for readjustment of the compensa tion of state employees, in creased salaries of most depart ment heads, and at the same time amended the state civil service law to prov ide for a con tinuing salary survey program. "There is a need for improve ment in the salaries of some state workers." the governor con cluded. "However, many other needs call for expenditures of public funds. All of these needs should be considered by the leg islature. For this reason and be cause the legislature will soon meet in regular session, I do not believe a special session can be justified now." (Continued from Page. 1) ried to a brother of the murder victim, saw Alvin at that place and memorized a description of Alvin's companion. The descrip tion. Nunley said, fits Billy Jun ior Nunn. Xunley also said Nunn. after his arrest, wrote for officers a statement of committing the crime and later described an un natural sex act between Nunn and the Eacret boy. Following this act. Nunley stated. Nunn told of the boy's fright. "He re membered another frightened boy who sent him to the peni tentiary for a similar offense," Nunley said. Nunn spent several months in the penitentiary in 1952 for a sodomy offense involving a Port land boy. The district attorney said evidence would show Nunn first strangled the boy into un consciousness. then later wrapped a narrow belt around Eacret's neck. Handkerchief in Throat He added that Nunn shoved a handkerchief clear into the boy's throat. He said Nunn then hid some of the boy's clothes and disposed of the remainder along the way. Sam Harbison, court-appointed defense attorney, asked in his opening statement that the jury consider how the informa tion concerning Nunn and the crime had been obtained. "Mr. Nunn is not guilty of first de gree homicide," he declared. The judge, however, sustained Nunley 's objection to this state ment. "Removal of life while sod- omy is in process is second de j gree homicide." Harbison con j tinued. "The state has asked for the highest degree and can't prove its case." Following Harbison's state ment, six wilnessosvfor the state were sworn in. Mrs. LaRae Mid daugh. Sgt. Eaton, State Police Sgt. Earl Tichenor. Mrs. Eva LaMarshe and Mr. and Mrs. John Eacret, parents of the slain boy. The state's examination of Mrs. Middaugh. first witness, was interrupted by A. E. Pia?.za. assistant defense attorney. Piaz za voiced an objection to intro duction of further evidence and asked that the indictment be dis missed. Judge Hanna overruled the objection and denied the motion for dismissal. Mrs. Middaugh told the jury she was attending a family pic nic at Tub Springs park on April 29. She said she and two teen-age relatives left the rest of the party to hike up a trail. She said she saw near the trail I the body of a nude man. "I screamed and started to run back to the others," she said. "The other girls also saw the body and followed me." Mrs. Middaugh, 13-year-old Klamath Falls housewife, said she told some men of the dis covery and accompanied them part way back up the trail. "One man took along a Bible." she said, "and said a few words over the body. Another man took some blankets to cover the body." She was shown a photo by the distiret attorney and identified the photo as a picture of the place where the body was found. Next witness, Sgt. Eaton, told of receiving a call at the Med lord state police headquarters concerning discovery of the body. He said he and a superior officer. Lt. Paul Morgan, went to the scene after notifying the district attorney and sheriff's office. He described the terrain in which he saw the body and de scribed a photograph as a "true picture" of the area. It was later pointed out one object, a box, was not present at the time he arrived on the scene. Judge Hanna ordered the box removed from the picture and Nunley removed it with a razor blade. The photograph was then given to the jury. He identified another photograph as a picture of the boy's clothing at the place where it was found. Sgt. Eaton later drew for the jury a diagram of the area surrounding the body at the time he arrived. He identified two more photo graphs of the Eacret boy's body. (The district attorney was I ordered to establish whether or not anything had been changed Aurora Centennial Celebration Under Way Aurora. Ore. U.R Aurora's centennial celebration will get under way at 8 p.m. tonight with the coronation of 72-year-old Amy Hurst as queen. Former Gov. Charles A. Sprague will crown the queen. A two-part historical pageant will follow. before the photo was taken. ! Eaton could only testify that the i picture was a true one of cir ! cumstances at the time he arrived. I The officer also told the jury of the investigation conducted by state police officers and Chief Deputy Sheriff Joseph Walsh. Included in his testimony was j a report on identifying the body ! as that of the Eacret boy, who i had been listed as missing from his home since April 19. The I body was identified by the boy's i parents. Sgt. Eaton said descriptions of i Eacret's companion when he left Klamath Falls were obtained from several people, whom he named. He told of determining i Nunn's name and address, ob taining a photograph of him through the state bureau of iden tification, and of learning of Nunn's arrest by officers in Alturas. The trial was to resume at 1:30 p.m. this afternoon. Sgt. Eaton was ordered to return with the Eacret boy s clothing which has been held at the Medford state police headquarters. The trial will recess this after noon for the week end. Smith Elected Head Of Northwest Council J. A. Smith, of Seattle, presi dent of the Wenatchee-Okano-gan Co-op federation. Wenat chee. Wash., was elected presi dent of the Northwest Horticul tural council here this week. The council represents all fresh fruit organizations in the northwest. Sidney Reese of Yakima was elected vice president; Ernest Falk was reelected manager and Martin Foster is secretary. Fos ter also is secretary -manager of the Wenatchee Valley Traffic association. Ray Reter of Medford, retir ing president, was named direc tor of the U.S. National Fruit Export council. Dead tine Sunday Classified 1a at noon Saturday: 10 a.m Monday lor Monday; other days 5:30 previous day. 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The 13 letters purported to identify 27 establishments where illegal operations were in pro gress. Langley said the letters were sent to the two officials in his effort to stamp out vice in Mult nomah county. At the same time. Langley stated that in his anti-vice pro gram he had been forced to hire paid informers to gather infor mation about vice spots in the county because he was not per mitted to hire his own investiga tors. He asserted that it was his conversation with these inform ers on tape recordings that had been heard by the county grand jury investigating vice. Langley has declined to testify before the jury. Use Tribune Want Ads Low in Cost! QUICK and EASY! Just Call 2-6141 Mel Cnmmv i-Possenger 4-Door R'vri Switch the Pitch - The Boy Meets The Girl At CHINESE TEA ROOM 4Tht Chine Mejni Good Luck All Year Areun YES, IT'S GOOD LUCK WHEN YOU EAT AT THE CHINESE TEA ROOM! Mm. rhru Thur. 11 t.m. r Up Fri. ad Jar. - 1 1 i.m. 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