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f IF 51st Year ice 5c je Versions of Wreck Medford Vni?fi Prfr& tu.i Wut Lnited Press Full Lcnea YYir 22 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1956 No. 109 UILTY FOUND Formal Sentencing Set (or Wednesday; Appeal Mandatory Six Men, Women Out 45 Minutes Yesterday Billy Junior Nunn, convicted Thursday afternoon of the first degree murder of 14-ycar-old AKin William Eai-rct. will bp formally S'Titcuced in circuit court a' 8 'Hi a.m. Wcdittvriay. The jury of six mrn and six women returned the verdict after j unt 4.1 minutes of delib eration. Since there was no recommendation for leniency, the death sentence is mandatory. Judge H. K. Hanna and attor neys on both sides appeared greatly surprised at tiie jury's early verdict. Rquir Appeal Laws p.issed al the l.'.st legis lative session require lhat the case be appealed to the supreme court. The defendant looked straight ahead and showed no signs of emotion as the verdict was read to him. Mrs. Minn, who has oc cupied a front row seat through out the trial, burst into tears a few seconds later. It was be lieved the jurors reached their decision on the first balloting. Jury foreman was Otto Ewald aen. In proving the state's case against the 28-year-old Klamath Falls millworker. District At torney Walter Nunley put 18 witnesses on the stand and intro duced 26 exhibits. Witnesses included law en forcement officers who had worked on the case, the path ologist who examined the Eacret boy's body, the laboratory rii rector who determined through tests that the boy had been ,, , , , . saul ed parents of ; nexually the victim and individuals who had seen Alvin and the defend ant together on April 19. the day ftf the murder. Exhibits included photographs Of the body and scene of the crime near Tub Springs state park, the victim's clothing and aome of his personal effects, the belt found tightly wound around his neck and the large handker chief found stuffed into his mouth. Only evidence ottered by tne , deten.se were portions oi iape ie- cordings of conversation be tween Nunn and investigating officers in Alturas. Calif. Appointed by the court to de fend Nunn was Sam Harbison, who was assisted by A. K. Piazza. Nunley was assisted by Alan Holmes, deputy district attorney. Weather FOREC AST: hanre bun derslnrms over mnwntaiHs this rvrnint artrt .Haiti Raturrlav rvcnlns. 0thrrwir fair, low lonlshl SO. High Saturday nrar 9:. Temp. HithrM .terdav Sfi I rwet this .Mornine Pr'c. 10 4:30 a.m. Today, Trace Our Skies Tonight Ktinrip a m. Sunl r " Moonnif . p rn. l ast Quarter Mondav F.MS rlM-i 2 a m. and will H! up in tnf eal at tunrf. Vow ahout l million mllr awav. it has reached its jreate! hrilllance at a mnrn tnc star. Egyptian Government Takes Operation of Cairo iU.Ri Egypt's revolu tionary regime today took over operation of the Suez Canal, seized by President Gamal .Vo ce! Nasser in retaliation to the Western withdrawal of financial support for the Aswan high dam project. Nasser declared the nationali zation of the vital 101-mile canal in a bristling anti-Western speech to cheering thousands in Alexandria Thursday. "The Suez Canal belongs to Fept." Nasser said. He said th revenue from the canal would need to nnanre te mum n.r. A,iia hich dam'1 project on the Nile. j rmed police immediately! moved in to take over the Ca-.ro headouartcr .-.f tiie Suez Cana Company, which has operated the lifeline between East and West sine : it wa opened in 1S96. Comoanv offices and properties in Isrr.a-lia and Suez also vere O&C Control Under Forest Service in Recommendations By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington Two subcom mittees of the House and Senate today joined in recommending that the O&C lands and otiier forestry responsibilities of the Bureau of Land Management and the Indian Bureau be turned over to the U.S. Forest Service. This was the major recom mendation offered in a report on federal timber sale policies which was based on hearings held last fall in Oregon. Wash ington and California and again here early this year. Receipts Unaffected Consolidation of foreslry func tions under the Forest Service would leave " unaffected the re ceipts distribution formulas ap plicable to the O&C and tiie Coos Bay Wagon Road revested lands in Oregon which have special legislative histories," the report said. Other recommendations were: 1. Increased emphasis on Bengtson To Defend Man Charged With Tennessee Slaying Medford Attorney O. H. Eengtson left Wednesday for Chattanooga and Jasper, Tenn., w here he will defend a former ; Medford man charged with first. degree murder, .... Rent' son said the man was a sergeant in the Army, but did not discuss details of the case nor reveal the name of the man before he left. He said, however, that infor mation available indicated the sergeant was absent from his post and became involved in "an affair wherein a police officer was shot." resulting in the first degree murder charge being filed against the man. Renrtson said he nrobablv .,.nillf. h. ot,p abollt two weeks. The United Press reported this morning that Charles Ed ward Clark, 48. who was report ed to be a native of Oregon, is being held in a Jasper, Tenn., jail. The service reported that Clark is accused of the pistol slaying of Marion County Con stable Raymond Hatfield June 7 in a tavern near the Tennessee Alabima state line. Sheriff Nel son Dan Hooser told the United Press that Clark has denied his guilt, and has refused to take a lie detector test. Clark is being held without bond, the service tv,. i:V,;t Pr, unerlable resource" of the 745,000- uwniu - stated that Clark, when arrested had an honorable discharge from the Army and an Alabama driv er's license. Clark had worked at the tavern about a month be fore the shooting, the UP re ported. It added the case probably would come up for trial next week. Suez Canal taken over. Naval units already were in position at both ends of the canal. The Suez Canal Company is a nominally private company with headquarters in Paris. The Brit ish government, however, is the biggest stockholder. News of the seizure stunned both London and Paris. Prime Minister Anthony Eden imme diately summoned French and American diplomats to discuss possible counter-measure5 All a-r's of the company in Egypt and abroad were frozn and all employees ordered re " their .tobs un,er threat of fine w imprisonmpnt by tne talization decree Mm ' rs in the nationalized company will riMnpensated on the basis of the closing prices on the Cairo stock exchange Wednesday. (& Stery em Fag 14) building access roads and obtain ing access rights to reach and develop federal timber. 2. Increase number of small and medium size timber sales. 3. Advance announcement of timber sales programs and pro visions of more opportunities for com petition. 4. Increased salvage of dead and dying timber. 5. Improve timber inven tories. 6. Increase development of new timber species. "The joint committee finds that although the three federal agencies, forest service. BLM and Indian Bureau, are perform ing the same timber-management functions in the same areas." the report stated, "there are confusing differences in policy, method and procedure. There is duplication, overlap ping and waste. "Under these circumstances the forest products industry finds it difficult to cope with the problem of dealing with differ ent agencies administering the same resource. Hie existence of separate and independently man aged agencies has led to three uncoordinated and inconsistent forestry programs. Managed Largest Area "The Forest Service managed ' by far the largest area of the ; federal timber domain. It is ' the most experienced of all the j federal timber agencies. It per-! forms the basic forest research i for all agencies of the federal ; government and is technically ; equipped to assume even greater j responsibilities. "The joint committee believes that this agency, by reason of experience, trained personnel, and technical facilities, is the logical choice to undertake the direction of a consolidated and integrated forestry program em bracing all commercial timber lands now under federal juris diction.'' The committee recommended that BLM and the Indian Bu reau retain their other functions, but simply turn over timber functions to the Forest Service to achieve "optimum economic development of the region and achievement of maximum sustained-yield production." 'Immediate Action' Asked In a separate recommendation, the subcommittee asked for 'im mediate action" to prevent what it said could be the practical destruction of an Oregon forest owned by the Klamath Indian tribe. The report said that a law passed by the last congress re leasing the tribe from federal wardship could mean the' valu- acre forest could be lost. It said the Interior Depart ment should recommend steps to prevent overcutting in the for est and promised that "congress will not delay in enacting ap- propriate legislative measures." 4Gec, It's Time To Vary in Reports By Passengers 1,698 Known Survivors Landed at New York New York tU.Ri The last survivors of the sinking of the Italian liner Andrea Doria, in cluding one previously reported dead, disembarked here today from the seriously damaged Swedish liner Stockholm amid conflicting reports that negli gence contributed to the tragic collision of the two liners. The number of known fatali- Additional stories of the Atlantic ship dis aster may be found on page 8. tics resulting from the ramming of the Italian line luxury flag ship by tiie Stockholm off the Massachusetts coast Wednesday night was reduced to six by the surprise appearance of 14-year-old Linda Morgan among the 556 Andrea Doria survivors who arrived shortly before noon (EDT). She was believed pre viously to have gone down with the liner. Another Andrea Doria passen ger. Paul Watriss. 50. Manas quan. N.J.. died of a heart at tack shortly after he was taken aboard the Stockholm from a lifeboat. Officials of the Italian and Swedish American lines imme diately began an investigation of the causes of the baffling sea accident in expectation of an official probe. There was a possi bility that human error or negli gence, not freak atmospheric conditions, may have been re sponsible for an apparent radar blackout on both vessels. Survivors gave widely differ ing versions of precautionary measures taken or overlooked on both vessels. An Andrea Dona survivor.! Mrs. Ernest LaForit. llanford.j Calif., said .-:ie heard fog horn : blasts every few- minutes before the collision. She said many of' the passengers "already were I very jit'.fry long before tiie acci-' dent I'ccurreo. j A Monterey. Calif., passenger. Mrs. Beulah McGowen, charged that the first three lifeboats launched from the Andrea Doria contained all crew members. Reports on Radar Capt. Gunnar Nordenson, mas ter of the Stockholm, said on ar rival here that he does not "want to biame anybody" for the col lision. Nordenscn said his radar was in "tip top" condition when he left New York and just after the collision but he refused to answer questions about whether the equipment was working just before and during the collision. The arrivals aboard the Stock holm brought to 1.698 the num ber of known survivors of the 1.706 passengers and crewmen aboard the S29.000.000 Italian luxury liner. The Andrea Doria sank nearly 11 hours after the collision. State Fair Tickets On Sale Next Week Salem U.R Advance mail order and box office sales of reserved seat tickets for three Oregon state fair events will open next Monday. J. W. Simeral, fair ticket man ager, said orders for tickets for the combined rodeo and horse show:, the stage revue and horse racing should be addressed to the state fair. Salem, Date of the fair is Sept. 1-8. Go Crusading Again'1 School Officials Plan Legislation For Validation Medford school officials said today thev plan to have legisla tion introduced at the next leg islature to validate the consoli dation of the West Side and Oak Grove districts into the Medford district. Validation by the legislature was considered bv school offi cials as the most desirable wav of acquiring assurance of bond sales in the future because of an irregulant v in publishing the notice of election lor consolida tion. School officials pointed out that the oistnct is valid in all respects with the sole exception that bonds could not be sold, ac cording to John Shulcr of the legal firm Wmlree. McCulloch. Shulcr and Savro of Portland. The firm specializes m bonding. Advises District Shuler advised the district that the number of days required from the first publication of no tice to the actual election starts the dav following the first publi cation, not the day of publication of notice. Validation of the consolidation by the state legislature, school officials said, would satisfv re quirements of the bond attor neys and bonds could be issued if the need arises. Officials said there are at pres ent no plans for issuing bonds for school purposes within the next vear. giving time for neces sary documents to be prepared for submission to the legislature. n1erc in Oal,- Grove West. I Side and Medford districts ao- proved consolidation at a spe cial election last April 10 after petitions were submitted to the county boundary board request ing consolidation. Stassen Gives Partial List of Poll Backers Washington ;U.R) Harold E. Stassen disclosed Thursday that several prominent Republicans will help finance his new poll to determine the relative politi cal apneal of Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Christian A. Herter. Stassen, President Eisenhow er's disarmament advisor, an nounced the poll as the latest step in his campaign to put the Massachusetts governor on the ballot in place of Nixon in No vember. j The list of backers which Stassen said is incomplete in j eludes two GOP national com i mitteemen. Bailie Vinson of Oklahoma and Elroy W. Brom wich of Missouri. Both are dele gates to the GOP National Con vention. He later disclosed the partial list of backers, including: H. F. Johnson, Racine. Wis., president of the Johnson Wax Co.. and a convention delegate; Adolph Toigo. an active Republi can and president of Lennen Newell. New York, and Carl Steifel. convention delegate at large from Missouri. Salem U.R Floyd McGlmn. manager of the state- employ ment offire here, has announced that bean pickers are in demand in practically all sections of the Willamette valley. j Washington U.R The Fish land Wildlife Service said Thurs Iday that the carcass of a "mon I ster" in Alaska is definitely that cf a beaked whale. I : t wmmm f -frrnf i cu'i -fruiir '-rrrtriiir" nrmnninri"irjf LUXURY LINER SINKS The Italian luxury side ana stern. The center photo shows the liner Andrea Doria went to a watery grave Andrea Doria as she slipped to the bottom in the Atlantic ocean vestcrdav after a col- of the ocean nearly 11 hours after the col lision with the Swedish liner Stockholm, 45 lision. In the lower photo the Stockholm, miles south of Nantucket Island. The top badly damaged, limps toward port in New photo shows the Italian vessel listing sharply York. with rope ladders hanging limply from her Jacksonville Man Sentenced in Court Wilbur Raymond Johnston. 48, Jacksonville, was sentenced to 30 days in the county jail Thurs day after pleading guilty in dis trict court to a charge of making false statements to obtain unem ployment benefits. The unemployment commis sion reported Johnston had been employed at Crater Lake Motors during a period for which he had also claimed he was unem ployed. An investigation by R. E. Northcutt. commission offi cial with headquarters at Grants Pass, resulted in Johnston's ar rest by sheriff's officers. This was the first case of its nature in Jackson county for several years, the commission re ported. Northcutt said he is cur rently checking several other leads, some of which may result in court action. District Judge Rawles Moore said Johnston may be paroled for good cause if restitution is made to the state. College Teachers Granted Pay Raises Palpiri (U.R) Teachers in state colleges and universities today were granted raises of from $200 to S"2 a year by the State Emergency Board. Total raises will amount to $494,000 a year. Vote on the proposal w-as 5-2. State Sen. George Ulett and Rep. Henry &e.on voting against it it ,nir 'Tiiiliirnri.1 rr iifrf --n -ttfrrrrTrtrr rr irinfriiinTimirriT r 'rTi'iTrnirtiiiiTiMtiirrtaiiBf 1 Steel Pact New York (U.R; The United Steelworkers of America and the steel industry today signed a three-year no-strike agreement calling for a total increase of 45.6 cents an hour in wages and other benefits over the life of the contract. The agreement provides for a package increase the first year of 20.3 cents an hour: 12.2 cents in the second year and 13.1 cents in the third year. The new contract will add SI. 322. 000. 000 to the industry's Frank DeSouza To Be Honored at Picnic Frank DeSouza. former post master in Medford, will be hon ored as Democratic "King of the Day" at the Jackson County Democratic picnic at TouVelle State park on Table Rock rd. ' Sunday, July 29, Thomas J. ' Reeder. co-chairman of the event, has announced. Robert D. Holmes. Democratic candidate for governor, will be i principal speaker at the picnic I which starts at 12 noon. The pic j mc. which will be potluck, will j be served buffet styie. I Others who plan to attend in i rhide Charles Porter. Demo ! rratic candidate for congress from the fourth district, and Robert A. Boyer, state Demo cratic chairman. ttvmi-v?- :;k. . itii iiritnirtMiiflrTBYrt rfl.iiifriATm.M-iiirt.i irnim mImT'i 'TIS K 4 ifiimni-- (itilf'n total labor costs. Approved by Union The nation's 650.000 steel workers will receive a direct wage increase of 10.5 cents the first year, 9.1 cents the second vear and another 9.1 cents in the third year, a total of 28.7 cents in wages. Their average hourly wage under the old contract was S2.47. The "basis for settlement" was approved unanimously by the union's Wage Policy Committee. However, the 27-iay steel strike will not end until details of contracts between the union and the individual companies have been completed. McKeon Defense Asks Lt. Puller as Witness Parris Island. S C. 'U.R) De fense counsel Emile Zola Ber man today requested the Marine Corps to produce famed Lt. Gen Lewis B. (Chesty) Puller, out spoken advocate of tough train ing methods, as a witness for Sgt. Matthew C. McKeon. Bermen requested that an order be issued for the produc tion of the retired fighting vet eran who won the Distinguished Service Cross and five Navy crosses for heroism in action in Korea, four World War II cam paigns and expeditionary servira in China, Nicaragua and Haiti- Signed
