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.
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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
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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.
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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. Money that was
not claimed by depositors was
turned over to the auditor and
held by him.
; feaM
NUTRITION RESEARCH
Berkeley, Calif. iU.R) A
group of physicians from the
University of California and the
San Francisco Veteran's Admin
istration hospital have been
' doing extensive research on pro
I viding better nutrition for pa
! tients undergoing surgery of the
j intestinal tract and stomach.
I They have reported some success
' in using a fat emulsion for in
: travenous feeding, and have car
. ried out research on the emul
! sion for the past 18 months. It
! has been uied successfully on 30
j patients.
Twenty thousand Norwegian
men. who will be 19 years old
this year, are scheduled to re
port for military service during
the next few months,
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