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Maximum Security j Prisoner Escapes ! Sa)f m 'I B -A cor.vict who e-'ap'd from '.hp insx.ir urn Wur;'y ward of t:. Oregon S-'e H--p.s.S ; .' i ra a v by fCGWir.g an atte.-.dar.' a forgr-d ' pa: Vi a c! .r',h s'.".:e v.a (fl 1 13 at !sr;p V.ri.i'. . T.'.e i: .Vi-;. ear-old Ber nard W,ior.. was nut se-n leayii-g '.he grounds. Officials clas.ffd n::n " dana'TOus. Walt'.n v. a? serving a 10-year preijfij in. the 1 1 a t e prison for asnilt v:r-':-. i:,r. to kii!. How-pvf-r, r'l rrae six Trips to the $' ho;, ;.-,! for observa tion since i.e star'i-d serving sp.'ipr.f. f ir J" hruary, 1T151. Hp v. a-; fji.1. T ri o; suootu.g Lazar if:' ;.- Portlai.d in 1950. . Hospital offi'rii's said Walton was wearing a blue shirt and blue denim trousers when ho escaped. He is 6-feet. 1-inch tall and weighs about ID'l pounds with gray-gren eyes and dark brown hair. CHANGE FROM HOT TO COOL! for travel comfort. Avoid dangerous highway heat and hazards. Go in comfort on UNION PACIFICs com pletely Air Conditioned trains to Chicago and the ' Mid-West. Take the whole family and save money with j "Family Fares" . . . You'll ! arrive rested, relaxed an-! ! refreshed. Budget Figuring Now Different Than in Days of Coolidge Regime By LYLE C. WILSON United Perss Correspondent Washington - ? Back there in the Coohdae administration '1123-28 the Trea-urv treated a c.::.e ahr.c.-. " :"r- lik.- i o 1 o i n b Jg:'" ... -'- ; ''- 1 Hi- to- J 1 Gil 1 t e a w a y if possible, against reduc tion of the pub lic ncbt. Mr. Coolidge was tight with a penny him self. He expt.ct- l.wr ..ilson i"i go LTiiii.eiu ,-penders to be likewise. Oid Anny Mellon was secretary of treasury, a hard man perhaps, but quick with figures. The Pres ident and itis secretary made quite a team. And. though their boom laTf r burst in the face of President Hoover, neither Mr. Coolidge nor .Mellon ever was charged with throwing the pub lic s funds around or of support ing the government in luxury at the taxpayers' expense. Mr Cooliriae and .Mr-lion would never have believed a president ever would spin the pages of a government budget and. failing to reconcile some big figure., smile to the assem bled reporters, and say: "Now. Fred, what's S40 mil lion between friends?" Reporter Shocked 1 Fred was the late J. Fred Est-; sary of the Baltimore (Md.i Sun. a tight man himself, who had spotted what looked like a dis crepancy in FDR's first budget. Kssary was more the Coolidge type, and he came away from . Roosevelt's first budget con ie.-enee in the White House Lin coin room considerably shocked. !f this essay is leading any where, it ;s to the fact that gov ernment budgeting now and for many years past is about like weather forecasting, only not so accurate. It is true that no one actually is responsible for gov ernment spending, the President and Congress being jointly con cerned and each in a position to pass tile buck to the other. But. how aoout that 54 billion miss in estimating what govern ment would cost in the fiscal year just ended1 That's the mar gin by which President Eisen hower underestimated govern ment spending when he sent his 1956 fiscal year budget to Con gress IS months ago. Eighteen months is a long time. But S4 billion is a lot of money when viewed in light of the fact that it is spent and gone and had be longed to you and the rest of us. And. how about government re enue in fiscal 1956'.' You couldn't crowd all tiie govern ment consultants, economists, tax experts and such into the town's multitude of cocktail saloons. Ike Guessed Wrong With all of that brain power on tiie job. however, to guide him. Mr. Eisenhower guessed wrong on fiscal 1956 treasury revenue by S8 billion. He was wrong on the right side, fortu nately, but still wrong. All of this raises a lot of questions about experts, such as whether it wouldn't be about as good to use ouija boards or a good palm ist. Frail little Andv Mellon would have dissolved in shame for an error like that. Mr. Cool 1 icige would have exploded with considerable deadly fall-out among his experts. These mis-estimates, however. are not tiie most significant of I the situations revealed by the 1956 fiscal year report in which j the Eisenhower administration proudly cites its first treasury ' surplus. Painfully meaningful for the taxpayers is something ; else: in 10 years. 1946-56. the i Treasury has collected approxi ' mately S559.000.000.000. most of it from individual income tax ' payers, and still could not keep ; house on it. i It was not sufficient to sup ! port government in the style tc I which government ha? become ' accustomed. In the same 10 years, on the basis of compara tive public debt figures, tiie ; Treasury put out about S3. 000, i 000.000 more than it took in. 250 Said Dead in India Earthquake Bombay. India ili.R. Of ficial reports today put the death toll in Friday's earthquakes at Aniar in Western India at 250. It was one of the worst earth quakes ever to hit the area. Nearly 800 persons were in jured in the q.uakcs and more than 1.000 houses destroyed, re ports said. The quakes struck during the night at Anjar, about midway between Bombay and Karchi, Pakistan. Death Erases Pending Drunk Driving Charges Sanford, N.C. 0J.R) Wil liam Albert Sellers. 25. of Lee county, was convicted of several months ago. but he was allowed to keep his driver's license be cause of a pending appeal to the Superior Court. Tiie appeal will never be heard. Neither will Sellers ever have any more need for tiie driv er's license. Sellers was killed in a high way collision today. 22 Bodies Found in Ambushed Train Rangoon. Burma (UP ' Search crews recovered 22 j bodies from tiie wreckage of a; train ambushed by Karen rebels! Friday on tiie main Rangoon- Promc line, officials reported Sunday. Twenty-four other persons were hospitalized with injuries from the blowing up of the train or in the armed attack that fol lowed. Tiie train carrying -some 1.000 passengers were en route to Prome when it hit three mines near a bridge some 50 miles north of Rangoon. The blasts derailed the engine, ten der and seven coaches. Karen rebels surged out of the forests on both sides and poured bullets into the train. Several coaches were put to the torch. Monday. July 23, 1956 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE Defense Officials Animal on Alaskan Agree That Nation Shore Proves Mystery Could Survive Blow Yakulat. Alaska iU.Ri Alas- skull measures 5' 2 feet wide. Frozen poultry thawed before cooking by dry heat cooks more evenly and with less fuel than that which starts cooking while hard-frozen. A straight pitch -for you -From Johnny Podr&s the boy who put the joy in Flatbush He's the power behind the thrown. He's the ball-tosscr of the year! He's ij-year-old Johnny Fodre. miner's fon, -whose strong left arm whipped the Yankees in the deciding game of the 1955 World Series. After all the Series' shouting was over and Brooklyn had settled down to somewhat near normal, a reporter asked Podres what his plans were. Said Johnny: "I don't p'an to do very much except maybe go out and buy some wore U. S. Savings Bonds irith my share of the World Series hot." And those were some of the biggest and best plans that Johnny could have made. It's essential for all of us big sports stars or fans to be concerned with future finan cial security. And the best way to insure having it, is to invest your money in U. S. Savings Bonds. Here's why. Your principal invested in Bonds is safe not subject to market fluctuations. Your returns are sure Bonds pay an average of 3r'r per year, irhcn held to maturity. Your Bonds are liquid savings you can cash them after 2 months, should an emergency arise. So take a tip from World Series Star Johnny Podres. Go out and buy some more U. S. Savings Bonds on the Payroll Savings Plan where ya work w at your bank. For the big things in your life - with U. S. Savings Bonds . , t" Z7T t - Vf ! .. Si ri A;- rhf I'.j. ;. mxjtt at ?oE hv p&j tt On gSerii-ias. The Treasury Department thanki. ior their patriotic donation, th Advertising Councd and U. S. Natiotuvi Bank Leonard Electric Company Tm-Mix Concrete Company Robert P. Templeton l-umbet Qi. Harry anil 3id, Inc. Lambt-Voeftly Lmlef Ck Trail Creek L.tmibr CompaBy JorgeTisen Dairy Pfoduet Hubbard Bros.-Hutbrd-Wrsj Reter Frait Cany First National Bank California-Pacific Utilities Co. Rogue Valley State Bank Medford Corporation Joe Hearin Logging W. H. Daugherty, White City Div. Nye & Naumes Packing Co. Mann's Department Store Alley Lumber Company DVoe Lumber Sales Co. Timber Products Company Rogue River Orchards Fluhrer's Bakeries Elk Lumber Company Cascade Wood Products Ross Lumber Company Littrell Parts Company Barker's Men's Store Medford Lumber Company Associated Fruit Company Emergency Press Headquar ters ;U.P Civil Defense offic ials today agreed that a nuclear attack such as the one which mythically devastated 75 targets in "Operation Aleit 1956" would deal the nation a "savage blow but by no means a fatal one." Tiie appraisal on the fourth day of tiie six-day exercise said the many "perplexing and some times desperate" hypothetical problems which arose after the mock attack were beginning "to assume manageable form.'' Final Review Wednesday The summation came in the last press release issued before this emergency news center shut down operations today. Presi dent Eisenhower will conduct a final review of the civil defense exercise Wednesday, when fed eral agencies call a halt to their practice operations at widely scottercd secret hideaways. The report said many diffi cult problems still remain to be dealt with. Bu' it said: "Best judgment today appear ed to be that the presumed at tack had dealt the nation a sav age blow, but by no means a fatal one. and the country's re sources were far from exhaust ed." Bona Fide Aciion Meantime, Secretary of Inter ior Fred A. Seaton reported one bona fide action which his agen cy will take as a result of mock developments in "O peration Alert." He said lie plans to ask Con gress for money to provide more adequate protection for Hoover Dam and other major hydroelec tric installations in the West. He said lest "bombings" showed an enemy attack "could raise the very hob" with the nation's sup ply of power, as things stand now. He suggested two possible pro tective devices: Nets in rivers.; to catch bombs, set adrift by a j saboteur, and Nike anti-aircraft sites near dams. I kans wondered today what kind of animal a huge, hairy-coated monster would be which has j been washed up on the shore of j the Gulf of Alaska. The carcass was discovered on tiie beach 60 miles southeast of here two months ago by Earl Flemming. a veteran Alaskan guide. Conservative estimates 1 place the size of the monster as more than 100 feet in length and 15 feet wide at its broadest vis- ible point, j Prehistoric Monster I It has been suggested that the I animal could be a prehistoric : monster which had been encased : in a nearby glacier for centuries. Others have speculated that it could be some warm-blooded sea animal. At Seattle, retired University of Washington zoologist Trevor Kincaid said the description did 1 not resemble any prehistoric .beast he knew about. He said I the fact it had hair meant it i could not be a member of any ! living whale or elephant fam ilies. Kincaid suggested that some effort be made to preserve a portion of the animal's skele ton, or its hide and hair in ef forts to identify the creature. Skull 5 ii Feet Wide Witnesses said the monster's It eye sockets are between seven and nine inches in diameter and are about 3' 2 feet apart. Red dish brown hair about two in ches in length covers its thick hide. Much of the carcass now is buried 111 the sand 125 feet from the ocean's edge. At high tide, water reaches about the middle of the animal. However, a weather observer stationed at the Yakutat airport said the beach sands shift rapidly and a storm or high tide could carry the carcass out to sea. The carcass is in a remote area which can be reached only by a small land plane. WINS AT RACES Inalewood, Calif. (U.R Here's one way to beat the races: A thief broke into the office of racing secretary, John Malu vius at Hollywood park Satur day and took S500 in property, most of it in office equipment. Wool producers should use paper twine never binder twine for tying fleeces. RELIABLE CLEANERS O Also NORTHERN STAMPS 1826 West Main PHONE 2-6670 DEAH and BILL Cox 46 Indictments Against Illinois Auditor Scheduled Springfield. III. U.R The Sangamon county grand jury to day luars t lie state's attorney present 46 indictments against former Illinois Auditor Orville , E. Hodge involved in a huge check scandal. ! Each of the indictments pre ! pared during the week end was j based on a state check cashed ! under "suspicious" c mditions. ' Officials estimated all such checks may involve close to Sl, 000.000. Today's grand jury session came two days after a surprise indictment of Hodge by a feder al grand jury meeting in Chi cago. He was charged with mis applying S875.677 in federally insured bank funds. Could Get Life If Hodge were convicted on all 46 indictments, he could be im prisoned for life. The 276 counts included in the indictments car ry a maximum penalty of 920 years in prison. The federal in dictment could cost him another 270 years behind bars as well as a top fine of S275.000. Included in the 54-count fed eral indictment were Edward A. Epping, Hodge's chief aid in the auditor's office, and Edward A. Hintz, resigned president of the Southmoor Bank and Trust Co. in Chicago. Hintz. being hunted as a fug itive by sheriff's deputies in Chicago, planned to give himself up in Springfield today, his at torney said. Hunt Missing Funds The Southmoor bank is said to have cashed a number of the questionable checks. Hintz re signed soon after some payees listed on state checks said they had never received payment al though the checks had been cashed. Accountants began searching today for huge sums of unclaim ed bank deposits entrusted to Hodge from banks closed during the depression. 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