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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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