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MOUNTAIN TRAGEDY Arrow points to scene of tragedy near the 10.500-foot level
of Mt. Hood near Portland, Ore., where 19 young mountain climbers fell into an icy
crevasse. One died in the mishap and the others were injured, some critically. More
than 150 mountain climbers took part in the rescue.
Eugene Firm Gets
Contract For Sewer
System in Phoenix
Phoenix The Coast Construc
tion and Excavating company of
Eugene was awarded the con
tract for a sewer system for the
city of Phoenix last night.
Tile city council awarded the
contract on a low bid of $31,890.
Engineers estimated the project
at 536.727.
The council also old to the
First National Bank of Portland,
bonds totaling 540.000 which
represents the part of the cost
of Jhe South Bear Creek Sani
tary Sewer district system which
Phoenix is paying.
The bonds will mature, pay
able 52.000 per year, in 20 years.
Interest rate will be 34 per
cent. This was the second bond
sale held on the issue. In the
first, the same bank was the mc
resful and only bidder, but an
error in publication time adver
tising the sale necessitrfed the
second sale.
Construction on the sewer tys
tem for Phoenix is expected o
ytart within 60 dav. When com
pleted, the system for the city
will be connected to the South
Bear Creek district system. Th?
contract includes the link be
tween the two. 1
Coast Construction has been
working on the South Bear
Creek project.
Other Bids Received
Other bids received on the
Phoenix sewer were P. S. Lord,
mechanical contractors. Port
land. 504.870: Warren H. Con
rad. Medford. 508.204: M. C.
Lininger and Sons, Medford.
S100.2F.0.
The South Bear Creek system
in near completion. It wUV be
connected at i's north boundary
with the proposed Sout'no:sjl
Medford trunk sewer lirae -ici
will run from the sit-e trto
Rogue Valley Mrrcvtrial Siocs-.iit!
west Barnett r i. and Bry'th alo-n.?
Bear creek.
Bids for the Revirtwi WetJ
ford line are to hp
called for by liVs ilert5frd city
council in Aiijus,-:.
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Elkins, Two Others Indicted
Jury in Multnomah County
Portland :U ? Joey S. Cie-,
mo. 2S. former prizefighter, to
day v as the fourth person to be
indicted by the Multnomah
county grand jury in its inves
tigation of alleged vice condi
tions in Portland. Clemo w?
released on .1.000 bail.
Po;
d Jr James B.
(H ,;--i. E!k:"s avd two leT
lights of rortl.ir.d's night life
crowd were indicted la'.c yester
day by t'te Multnomah county
gratia ;ury in the first report of
it
investigation of vice
artd corruption allegations in the
city.
Elkins, a key f:gur in the
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TRIP ENDS IN TRAGEDY Shown above are nine of
the 19 teen-agers who plunged down the side of Oregon's
Mt. Hood in a mountain tragedy that claimed the life of
one and injured the rest. Cycling across countrv, they
are pictured during a stopover in San Francisco. Left to
right, front: Suzanne Blum, New York; Judv Hart, Queens
Village, N. Y., and Bunny Rockland, New York. Rear:
Ronald Heinrich, Clear Lake, la.; Louise Kuflik, Forest
Hills, N. Y.: Barbara Platto, Brooklyn; Clare Mitchell,
Rego Park, N. Y.; Roy Weintiaube, Chicago, and Robert
Brawer, Fairlawn, N. J.
Association Dinner,
Events to Highlight
Festival Opening Day
Ashland Two special events
of the Institute of Renaissance
Studies and the annual associa
tion dinner will usher in the
lD5fi Oreson Shakespearean Fes
tival. The Festival starts Wednesday
night with "Richard III" and
ecmtimies through Sept. 1. with
"Koflieo and Juliet." Other plays
Sate o-f season memberships
ror fhe 19SS Oregon Shake
spearean festival closes to
night at midnight festival pa
trons were reminded today by
William Patton. general man
ager. The S15 season memberships
entitle holders to eight trans
ferable tickets to plays and
voting privileges in the fes
tival association as well as
representing a saving in the
price equal to two tickets.
Memberships will be on sale
at the First National bank,
Medford, until 5 p.m. today
at the festival box office in
Ashland until 9:30 p.m.
include "Love's Labour's Lost."
"Cymbeline." and "Titus An
dronicus," Among dignitaries who plan
to attend opening night are Gov
ernor and Mrs. Elmo Smih and
Miss Fatty Berg of Eugene. Miss
Oregon of 1936. Miss Berg will
arrive in Medford at 10:25 a.m.
Wednesday and leave Thursday
morning.
Gov. and Mrs. Smith are sched
uled to arrive in Medford '.ate
probe, was booked at county jail
last night on 10 misdemeanor
charges. Also booked were H. E.
tSweciei Ferguson. 66. and
Charles E. Canady. (alias Chuck
Brown) 29. Two misdeameanor
counts were filed against each
of them. Both have previously
been cited for operating after
hours establishments.
Thfe three were among nine
persons secretly indicted by the
grand jury on 32 separate
charges in a "partial report" to
Circuit Judge Alfred P. Dobson.
The jury resumed its delibera
tion today.
County officials declined to re
lease the names of the others
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this afternoon, and remain in
the valley to attend opening cere
monies for the Festival.
The annual association dinner
will be held starting at 6 p.m. in
Lithia park Wednesday.
Wednesday noon, in the Par
ish hall of the Trinity Episcopal
church in Ashland, the first in
a series of weekly Trinity noon
readings will be held. The read
ings are from Elizabethan and
modern works presented by the
members of the Festival com
pany. The first reading will be a
condensation of "Richard II" by
Actor William Oyler. The Beta
Sigma Phi sorority is sponsor
ing the noon readings.
The second special event will
be held at 4 p.m. Thursday in
the assembly room of the Ash
land public library, and is the
first in a weekly series of Gres
ham lectures featuring Festival
director. B. Iden Payne. His
talk will concern "Aspects of
Elizabethan Theatre."
Playing the lead role in the
first night's production. "Rich
ard III." will be Don Gunderson
of Chicago. He played Anthony
in "Anthony and Cleopatra" in
1950.
Other leading roles in the
play are done by Nancy Pick
hardt and Irene Bairci. both from
Carnegie Tech: Joan Kitgell. Un
iversity of Texas: Michael F.
Kasdan. New York City: and
David O'Brien, Stanford. Allen
Fletcher of Carnegie Tech is di
rector. by Grand
Vice Probe j
named in the indictments until i
they were taken into custody.
Specific nature of the charges ;
against Elkins. Ferguson and !
Canady was not released and the !
only information made public !
were the warrants which accused j
the three of "committing an act
grossly disturbing the public:
peace, outraging public decency ;
and injuring public morals."
All three surrendered volun-;
tarily to county officers las' .
night after word got out they ;
had been named in the indict-
ments. i
Elkins w as released on S5000 j
bail. S500 on each count. Fergu-!
son and Canady posted 5-500 on :
each count.
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Treasury today "temporarily''
froze all assets in this country
of the Suez Canal Company and
the Egyptian government.
The order was announced
shortly after Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles left for Lon
don by plane to join British and
French officials in urgent con
sultations on the crisis resulting
from Egypt's nationalization of
the canal.
MEDF0RDJfct
United Press Full Leased Wire
51st Year 22 Pages
Sfassen Invites
Punishment for
'Dump Nixon' Move
Washington (U.R- Harold E.
Stassen today renewed his dump
Nixon drive with a challenge to
Republican party leaders to
"punish me if you wish."
Speaking out for the first
time since he was given a four
week leave of absence from
President Eisenhower's Cabinet,
Stassen said he had "expected"
to bring down the wrath of the
GOP organization leaders on his
head when he set out to disrupt
their "well laid plans for a cut
and dried convention."
He said he was ready to ac
cept political '"punishment," but
he will keep on warning his par
ty that Vice President Piichard
M. Nixon's name "will detract
millions of votes" from the GOP
ticket this fall.
Liability To Ticket
In a speech prepared for de
livery before the Netional Press
club. Stassen said Uiat in all the
"barrage of high level criticism"
which fellow Republicans have
fired at him. "no one has denied"
his basic premise that Nixon
would be a liability to the ticket
if renominated as President Ei
senhower's running mate.
Neither, said Stassen. has any
GOP leader denied that Stassen's
choice for vice president. Gov.
Christian A. Herter of Massachu
setts, is "a man of greater ex
perience and proven ability."
Unlike Nixon, he said. Herter
is "not a controversial figure and
will not detract" from Presi
dent Eisenhower's "very broad
popularity."
Speech Said Not Approved
The White House said Stas
sen's speech was not submitted
to President Eisenhower in ad
vance for approval.
Republican National Chair
man Leonard W. Hall, who has
repeatedly predicted another Eisenhower-Nixon
ticket this year,
issued a statement in which he
affirmed Stassen's right to "sup
port any candidate he chooses."
Hall said both the President
and Nixon have "publicly staled
they want an open convention"
and Nixon has "never altered his
position that he 'would be happy
to abide by any decision made
by the President and the con
vention'." "So far as I am concerned."
Hall added. "I hope Mr. Stassen
or any delegate in his behalf
will come before the convention
to place any name he desires in
nomination . . . I'm sure the
convention will weigh all factors
carefully and come to a wise de
cision so thai we can proceed
with the fundamental business
of electing a Republican admin
istration and a Republican Con
gress, which is what I am in
terested in."
Granted Leave of Absence
Stassen Monday asked, and
was granted, a four-week leave
of absence without pay from his
post as President Eisenhower's
disarmament adviser. The leave
begins Thursday. He sought the
"temporary" leave to have a
free hand in pressing his anti
Nixon drive until the Republi
can Convention in San Francisco
is over.
Mr. Eisenhower himself has so
far said nothing publicly about
Stassen's campaign. But he will
have an opportunity to do so
Wednesday at his first news con
ference since his abdominal op
eration in June.
Stassen told the Press Club
audience that he started the
dump Nixon campaign "rrluct
antly' bccaiff he was convinced
that the Republicans must not
so into the election with a ticket
that would "inevitably cause at
leat a partial shift of the issues
away from the President's rec
ord, away from his policies and
program, and over to other issues."
uanal, Egypt Assets Froze
The treasury said U.S. assets
of the canal company and the
Egyptian government have been
"placed under licensing proced
ure pending determination of
the ownership of these assets
and of the existing situation."
The order means that "all trans
actions with respect to such as
sets will be subject to Treasury
licence" until further notice.
"This action does not in any
way affprt private Egyptian
MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1956
en's Place on Wrestling
at Preserved by Court
!
Saiem OJ.R) The State Supreme Court
struck a blow for the "manly art" of wrestling
today and upheld as constitutional a statute pro
hibiting female grunt and groaners from public
wrestling exhibitions.
Justice Walter Tboze. in affirming a decision
of Clackamas County Circuit Judge Ralph M.
Holman. pointed out that the statute was enacted
by men in the interest of "public health,
safety, morals and welfare."
"It seems to us that its purpose, although
somewhat selfish in nature, stands out in the
statute l:ke a sore thumb." the high court said.
"Obviously it intended that there should be at
'east one island on the sea of life reserved for
man that would be impregnable to the assault
of woman."
"On This Order For A New Typewriter Ribbon
Did You Know You Forgot To Stamp It 'Secret'?"
National Guard Unit
Gets Superior Rating
Headquarters company. 186ih
infantry regiment of the Oregon
National Guard, Medford, has
been selected as the top unit in
Change Announced
In Morse's Visit
A change in Sen. Wayne
Morse's visit to Medford Satur
day, Aug. 4. was announced to
day. Senator Morse will arrive in
Medford at 9:05 a.m., and will
meet with the local Independent
Service Station operators at 9:30
a m. at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Edwin C. Kelly, 906 Fourth
st. The meeting previously was
scheduled for 7:30 a.m. at the
Medford hotel.
The rest of Senator Morse's
schedule will remain the same.
He will be guest at a no-host
luncheon at the Medford hotel
at noon to which the public has
been invited.
Visits to surrounding commun
ities have been scheduled during
the morning as time allows, and
during the afternoon between
3:30 and 4:30 p.m. Senator Morse
will be in Jacksonville at a spe
cial "Morse" booth at the Gold
Rush Jubilee.
He will leave Medford Sunday
morning for Eugene.
funds," the Treasury announce
ment said.
A Treasury spokesman said
that subjecting assets of the
canal company and the Egyp
tian government to Treasury
licensing procedures was tanta
mount, in non - technical lan
guage, to "freezing" or "block
ing" withdrawal of these assets
without Treasury approval.
The Treasury declined imme
diate elaboration on the terse
Commenting
the state of Oregon from ratings
established during summer camp
at Ft. Lewis, Wash., by sixth
Army headquarters in San Fran
cisco, Capt. S. J. Fagone, com
pany commander, has an
nounced. This is the third straight year
Headquarters company has re
ceived a superior rating, Fagone
said.
Fagone explained that while
at camp. Guard units were
scored on ability to match regu
lar Army units in performance.
Other factors on which the scor
ing was based. Fagone said, were
strength of the unit, military
courtesy, training and quarters.
Fagone commented that Head
ouarters company has so far this
year met with all qualifications
necessary to win the Eisenhower
trophy presented at the end of
the yiar. The trophy is the high
est award a Guard unit can earn,
he said.
Former Medford Man
Given Life Sentence
Jasper. Tenn. (U.R) Charles
Edward Clark. 43. formerly of
Medford, Ore., yesterday was
convicted of the slaying of a
Jasper peace officer and imme
diately sentenced to life in Ten
nessee state penitentiary.
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order, but further details were
expected later.
London U.R) Britain readied
an aircraft carrier and made
"caretain naval moves" at both
ends of the Suez Canal today.
The British show of force coin
cided with a sudden Washington
announcement that Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles would
join London talks on the Suez
crisis.
Tribune
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on women's progress from de
mure ways to bobbed hair and sophistication, the
black-robed justices said: "She has already in
vaded practically every activity formerly consid
ered suitable and appropriate for men only.
"In the field of sports she has taken up,
among other games, baseball, basketball, golf,
bowling, hockey, long distance swimming and
racing, in all of which she has become more or
less proficient, and in some she has excelled.
"In these circumstances, is it any wonder that
the legislative assembly took advantage of the
police power of the state and its decision to halt
this ever-increasing feminine encroachment upon
what for ages has been considered strictly as
manly arts and privileges? Was the act an unjust
and unconstitutional discrimination again wom
en? Under the circumstances, we think not."
Premier Summons
Cabinet To Discuss
'Grave Situation'
Rangoon, Burma. U.R! Sev
eral hundred Chinese Commu
nist troops were reported today
to have invaded and occupied
Burmese territory along 500
miles of the northeastern fron
tier. The mountainous frontier has
been only vaguely mapped for
many years and has been the
subject of years-long disputes be
tween the two countries.
Premier U Ba Swe called a
meeting of his cabinet and the
chiefs of the armed services for
urgent consultation on the
"grave situation resulting from
this flagrant violation."
The "invasion" of Burma
ranges from Putao southwards
to Kulon ferry on the Salwecn
river.
60 Miles Penetration
A Burmese spokesman ac
cused the Chinese Communists
of blandly ignoring the "five
principles of coexistence" which
form the basis of friendly rela
tions between the two govern
ments. Burmese sources said the Chi
nese troops were strung out on
a wide arc in the eastern fron
tier states cf Kachin and Wa and
pentrated up to 60 miles of Bur
mese territory.
A government source said the
Chinese Communists used the
pretext that the border had not
been formally marked.
Burmese sources said there
was every indication the Chinese
planned "permanent occupation"
of the territory.
There were no reports of
fighting.
Bloodmobile
May Be Made
Appointments for the Blood-
mobile will be accepted starting
Wednesday, Aug. 1, at the Red
Cross office in the county court
house. The Bloodmobile will be
in Medford Wednesday, Aug. B,
between 1 and 5 p.m. at the Elks
temple.
Anyone between the ages of
13 and 59. in good health, can
be a donor, according to the
Rrri Cross.
Red Cross officials have em
phasized the need for blood to
replace that used for recent vic
tims of accidents involving local
residents.
They noted that John Latiiron
ico. veteran of World War I, of
Ashland, is now at the Veteran's
Support Asked
r r.
ror Meyenson
At Convention
Move Said Made
For Unity of Party
Washington ;U R Sen. Estes
Kefauver today pulled out of
the race for the Democratic
presidential nomination. He en
dorsed Adlai E. Stevenson. 1952
nominee and the man who de
feated him in the crucial presi
dential primaries.
The Tennessee senator mada
his announcement at a suddenly
called news conference in Wash
ington's Willard Hotel.
The latest United Press tabu
lation of known first ballot
preferences of Democratic Na
tional Convention delegates
showed Kefauver with 1671;
convention votes, out of 686' i
needed for nomination.
ESTES KEFAUVER
"... A United Front'
Stevenson was far out In front
in the tabulation with 426Vi
votes, and New York Gov. Aver
ell Harriman followed Kefauver
with 145.
If all of the Kefauver dele
gates switched to Stevenson. Ste
venson's first ballot strength aj
of now would be 604, only 82',-j
votes short of victory. On that
basis, Stevenson now would
look like an almost sure winner.
Kefauver spoke before news
reel cameras in a sober tone,
but showed none of the bitter
ness of defeat which marked
him four years ago when he lost
the presidential nomination to
Stevenson on the third ballot at
the Chicago Democratic Nation
al Convention.
The Tennessean, reading from
a prepared statement, said that
when he decided last winter to
enter the presidential primaries.
he was determined to campaign
with all the vigor at his com
mand. Sees United Front Need
Since the primaries, he said,
his travels have convinced him
that there is a predominantly
widespread feeling that the
Democratic party can win the
coming presidential election if
it can present a united and
aggressive front to the voters."
"Surveying my present situa
tion realistically," he said, "I
have concluded that I can make
a great contribution toward that
unity and eventual victory for
the party by withdrawing my
name from consideration for the
office of President at this time
and asking my supporters to
wholeheartedly give their back
ing to Gov. Adlai Stevenson
who alone, with me, was will
ing to take his cause to the peo
ple in almost as many primaries
as I did myself."
Former Salem Atforney
Permanently Disbarred
Salem (U.R! Walter S.
Lamkin. former Salem attorney,
was permanently disbarred to
day by the Oregon Supreme
Court upon recommendation of
the board of governors of the
Oregon Bar.
Lamkin recently pleaded
guilty to embezzling a client's
funds and was sentenced to a
term in the state penitentiary.
Appointments
Wednesday
hospital in Portland with a
broken hip, and has received 10
pints of blood. His sister, Miss
Rose Latronico, is asking for
help in replacing the blood, ac
cording to the Red Cross.
Red Cross officials also noted
tnat J. B. Mead, county resident,
recently had surgery in a Los
Angeles hospital. He used 10
pints of blood at a cost of S45
rcr pint plus administration
charges. Red Cross officials said.
Replacements may be made in
his name and will be forwarded
to Los Angeles under a recipro
cal agreement with the hospital.
Appointments for donating
blood may be made by telephon
ing 3-3813.
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