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Hall Raps Platform
Drafted by Democrats
It Cannot Fool
People, Chairman
Of GOP Declares
'Insincerity' on
Civil Rights Charged
San Francisco U.PJ GOP
National Chairman Leonard W.
Hall today accused the Demo
crats of writing a platform de
signed to "promise anything and
everything to anybody to win."
However, Hall told a press
conference "that type of plat
form cannot fool the people."
"I don't think any national
party has the right to write a
blank check on. the lives of the
children and grandchildren of
America." he said.
The GOP chieftain also ac
cused the Democrats of "insin
cerity" on the civil rights prob
lem. Spider Web Plank
"The civil rights bridge they
have tried to put across a gap
in the two wings of the party is
nothing more than a spider
web," he said. "The liberals
don't like it and It is apparent
that Adlai Stevenson had to take
it."
He shrugged off reports by
one radio commentator that Har
old E. Stassen is planning a
massive telegram campaign to
bombard the convention in his
dump Nixon movement
Hall said, "I can't imagine
anyone engaging in a pressure
type campaign such as that one."
Meanwhile, Stassen's nominee
for the vice presidential nomi
nation. Gov. Christian Herter
of Massachusetts announced in
Boston that if his name was of
fered in nomination at the con
vention he would withdraw it.
Nixon Due Saturday
Vice President Richard M.
Nixon, Stassen's target, is ex
pected here Saturday. Stassen
is due Friday, but Hall said he
had "no plans to confer" with
the former Minnesota governor.
Meantime. Republican bigwigs
began arriving in greater force
and Republican planners hud
dled to iron out any remaining
problems before the convention
officially opens Monday.
As for the running verbal
scrap between California Gov.
Goodwin J. Knight, who has not
endorsed Nixon, and Senate Re
publican Leader William F.
Knowland over California dele
gation backing of Nixon, Hall
said that Knowland "believes
a majority of the California dele
gation is for Nixon." He would
. not comment further.
Sfumbos, Highway
Official to Meet
The four Stumbo brothers,
who claim ownership to 16'2
feet of Highway 99 in Douglas
county, have received a "nibble"
from the state highway commis
sion. Jim McGoodwin of VanDyke
and Dellenbach law firm in Med
ford, attorneys for the Stumbos,
said he would meet at 1:30 p.m.
today with a representative of
the highway commission, who
has indicated a desire to nego
tiate for a clear title to the prop
erty. The brothers, Robert, Clair,
Harry and Allan, claim their
father, Sam Stumbo, purchased
the land about 40 years ago and
they have paid taxes on. it ever
since. Sunday they closed a por
tion of the highway for 30 min
utes in protest against the state's
"trespass" on their property, and
since have been talking about
opening a "toll road" there.
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MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1956
"And In This Corner"
Motion for New Trial
In Nunn Case Denied
Billy Junior Nunn, 28. of
Klamath Falls, convicted of the
first degree murder of Alvin
William Eacret, 15. also of Klam
ath Falls, was denied a new
trial by Jackson County Circuit
Judge H. K. Hanna yesterday
afternoon.
Judge Hanna made the decis
ion after District Attorney Wal
ter Nunley and Assistant De
fense ' Attorney A. E. Piazza
argued a motion for a new trial,
filed by Defense Attorney Sam
Harbison late Friday.
A new trial was denied, Judge
Suez Canal Plan
Presented by U. S.
London (U.R) The United
States today proposed a four
point plan for internationaliza
tion of the Suez Canal.
The plan, said to represent the
"cooridinated views" of the
United States, Britain and
France, would free the canal
from domination by any one
power or group of powers.
Secretary of State John Fos
ter Dulles laid the plan before
the 22-nation Suez conference in
the first major speech of the
meeting.
The four points were:
1. The canal should be oper
ated in accordance with the 1888
Constantinople convention under
an international board to be es
tablished by treaty and associ
ated with the United Nations.
Egypt would be represented on
the board, but there would be no
dominating by any power or
group of powers and no preju
dice to any power.
2. Egypt's right to a fair re
turn would be recognized.
3. There would be fair com
pensation to the canal's former
stockholders.
4. Any differences would be
submitted to an arbitration com
mission. Wonderland
On Relocation
A petition signed by 2,055
Oregon residents urging reloca
tion of Highway 62 between
Trail and Cascade Gorge has
been forwarded to W. C. Wil
liams, chief engineer of the Ore
gon state highway department,
by the Rogue Wonderland asso
ciation. A letter bringing the petition
to the attention of Gov. Elmo
Smith also has been mailed, the
association said.
The petition, quoted in the
letter to Governor Smith, notes
that an aerial survey and state
reconnaissance crews have sur
veyed about 17 miles of High
way 62 for relocation. The work,
completed last year, cost in ex
cess of $25,000, the petition
states.
It continues: "Inasmuch as
this much of the engineering has
been accomplished and the ac
Hanna said, because he found
no merit in the grounds assigned
as a basis for the motion.
Harbison claimed in the mo
tion that Nunn's trial was mis
handled on four counts. They
alleged abuse of discretion by
the court in refusing to grant a
motion filed by the defendant
for continuation of the case to
allow further psychiatric exami
nation; misconduct of the dis
trict attorney in his closing argu
ment; insufficiency of evidence
to justify the verdict; and the
commission of three errors in
law occurring in the trial.
Nunley argued that most of
the points of the motion had
already been decided on by the
court during the trial.
The jury found Nunn guilty of
the first degree murder charge
July 26 after 45 minutes of de
liberation. The trial began July
17. The case automatically will
be appealed to the state supreme
court.
Harbison was appointed by
the court to defend Nunn.
Ike May Campaign
For McKay in Oregon
Portland U.R) President
Eisenhower might come to Ore
gon to campaign for Douglas
McKay in the former interior
secretary's battle to unseat Sen.
Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) Howard
J. Pyle, deputy assistant to the
president, said last night.
Pyle, former Arizona gover
nor here to speak at completion
of a natural gas pipeline, said
that the president was "keenly
interested" in the Oregon cam
paign. He emphasized, however, that
nothing definite had been de
cided. "The president's travel
schedule is still in the formative
stage," he said. "Just how this
will involve various areas is still
tentative. Several plans are in
the mill."
Association Urges Action
of Crater Lake Highway
tual construction improvement
has been a critical need on this
highway for many years, we
hereby urgently petition that
you commence and, complete
relocation at the earliest pos
sible date."
The letter to Governor Smith
noted that while securing signa
tures for the petition, the asso
ciation was "gratified to note the
extraordinarily intense interest
in this project on the part of
highway users from all sections
of the state."
The association said the Jack
son county court also has en
dorsed the work, and a copy of
a letter to the highway commis
sion from the county court was
enclosed with the letter to the
governor.
The association, in a letter to
the highway department accom
panying the petition, noted that
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Republicans Move
Swiftly To Draft
Party Platform
Eisenhower Cabinet
Members Give Views
San Francisco U.R) Re
publican party leaders moved
swiftly and smoothly today to
draft a 1956 platform with the
aid of some "helpful hints" from
members of President Eisenhow
er's administrative team.
Meetings of the GOP's plat
form committee were marked by
an almost complete absence of
discord or debate. And each of
the 10 subcommittee chairmen
charged with drawing up the
tentative draft of the party's
major principles was armed with
a white envelope containing the
views of Mr. Eisenhower's cab
inet. Sen. Prescott S. Bush (R-Conn.)
insisted he solicited the recom
mendations from the President's
official family himself and that
Mr. Eisenhower did not urge his
views upon the platform draft
ers .
But the obvious fact was that
the 1956 GOP platform will be
an Eisenhower program on
agriculture, foreign policy, civil
rights and other major issues. .
150 Witnesses
Bush's resolutions committee
heard more than 150 witnesses
Wednesday and today, mostly
representatives of various spec
ial interests. They sought to
include in the GOP platform
such things as a ban on nuclear
tests, high price supports for ag
ricultural commodities and
"complete" disarmament.
But when the actual platform
is drafted this week end it is
expected to contain primarily a
summation of President Eisen
hower's four years in office and
his plans-for the next four years
if he is reelected.
The goal of the Republican
party in 1956 is a brief platform,
one which avoids the copious
criticism of the Democratic party
contained in the GOP platform
four years ago.
Back Up Court
On specific issues, the new
platform is expected to endorse
the Supreme Court decision on
desegregation and pledge the
Republican party to seek future
passage of four Eisenhower-backed
civil rights bills which fell
by the way-side in the closing
days of the 84th Congress.
As for agriculture, Rep. Mel
vin R. Lair (R-Wis.), said he ex
pects his sub-committee will rec
ommend flexible price supports
and will endorse the President's
soil bank program.
A proposal to offer a one-third
reduction in income taxes on the
first $25,000 profit made by a
small business was being given
serious consederation by anoth
er GOP committee.
The labor plank, according to
Sen. Irving M. Ives (R-NY), will
follow much the same lines as
the 1952 platform which endors
ed the Taft-Hartley act and
guaranteed the working man the
right to a job without first join
ing a union but also provided
for union shop agreements if
agreed to by management.
FIGURE CORRECTED
The contract for paving the
parking area and parts of the
playground at Hedrick Junior
High school was awarded to T.
R. Florey of Medford on a bid
of 53,960, instead of 39,060 as
earlier reported. The bid, the
only one submitted, was award
ed by the school board Wednes
day night.
the roadbed of the section of
highway under consideration
was established in 1923-24 and
has not undergone any substan
tial changes since.
It added: "This highway is
one of the main gateways to
Crater Lake National park. It
is subjected to increasingly
heavy tourist, commercial, and
resident traffic. In its present
condition, it constitutes an un
warranted hazard to all types
of traffic."
The association said the high
way is subject to complaint and
is a direct cause of financial loss
to the state, both from "the
standpoint of the extraordinary
but unproductive maintenance
required, as well as loss of rev
enue from potential users . . .
who decline to travel the road
in its present hazardous con
dition.' '
Bandwagon Rolls
Toward Victory
On First Ballot
Truman Continues
To Back Harriman
Chicago (U.R) Adlai E. Ste
venson was put in nomination
at the Democratic National Con
vention today as his bandwagon
rolled toward a big first ballot
victory in tonight's balloting.
Sen. John F. Kennedy of
Massachusetts, a possible vice
presidential choice, put Steven
son's name before the Democrats
with a rousing declaration that
he is the party's "best vote
getter."
That was a slap at former
President Truman, who con
Highlights of the Demo
cratic party platform, and a
story on possibilities for the
ice presidential nomination,
appear on page 10.
tinued to back the doomed candi
dacy of New York's Gov. Aver
ell Harriman. Mr. Truman has
argued that Stevenson is not a
good vote getter.
Kennedy, youthful and hand
some and serious, pleaded with
the delegates to pick Stevenson
as the man best qualified to lead
the nation "out of this crisis of
complacency."
South Is Unhappy
"The man is here and he is
ready," Kennedy said.
Stevenson, apparently sure
nothing can stop him now, 'had
irritated a number of Southern
delegations earlier by saying he
would have been happier if the
compromise civil rights plank
adopted in today's small hours
had contained an out and out
endorsement of the Supreme
Court's school integration order.
Virginia voted to give its first
ballot votes to former Gov. John
S. Battle as a favorite son candi
date. Mississippi announced it
would vote for Senate Demo
cratic Leader Lyndon B. John
son of Texas. Georgia said it
would vote for its own Ri:p.
James C. Davis.
But Stevenson had enough
firm votes to give him an easy
first ballot victory tonight.
This afternoon's convention
session, the sixth, was given over
to the nominating oratory and
the noisy and highly organi.vd
"spontaneous" demonstrations
with which candidates' support
ers try to whip up enthusiasm for
their men every four years.
Harriman, running a poor sec
ond in the preballoting delegate
count, refused to concede Steven
son had bagged the nomination.
He insisted on being put in nom
ination. In the meantime, while some
of the Southerners insisted on
casting first ballot votes for fa
vorite sons and others, key Ohio
threw off its favorite son com
mitment and announced for
Stevenson. I
' Gov. Frank J. LauscTie with
drew as Ohio's first ballot choice
and told the delegates to vote as
they please. Ohio will cast most
of its 58 votes for Stevenson.
Magnuson Nominated
So the big show was all but
over, with the main interest
veering toward Friday's vice
presidential balloting.
Before Stevenson's nomina
tion. Sen. Henry Jackson (D
Wash.) placed the name of his
colleague. Sen. Warren Magnu
son, in nomination.
Jackson said "we are proud to
call this man our favorite son
. . . " He said Magnuson's rec
ord in Congress for the past 20
years shows he is "a man of the
people. The people's cause is his
cause."
When Jackson finished his
nominating speech, Washington
delegates broke out in a demon
stration for their man.
The Democratic delegates
staged their quadrennial family
fight over civil rights Wednesday
night and early today. At zuo
a.m. (EDT), after a long and
noisy wrangle, the convention
approved its Platform Commit
tee's compromise plank, to which
the South objected but knew it
had to take. .
A drive by Northern liberals
to write a tougher plank, pledg
ing the party to carry out Su
preme Court decisions against
school segregation, was shouted
down by a voice vote.
Weather
FORECAST: Fair and mild
through Friday. Low tonight
50. High Friday 85.
Temp.
Hi chest Yesterday 85
Lowest this Morning S2
Our Skies Tonight
Sunrise
, 5:19 a.r
7:11 p.r
1:49 a.r
.... Aug. ;
Sunset
Moonset Friday ,
Full Moon
PROMINENT STARS
Arcturus, in the west 9:11 p.i
Fomalnaut, low in south
east J0:08 p.i
VISIBLE PLANETS
Mars, rises 9:06 p.r
Saturn, in the sotftsi-"
west :9 P-
Venus, rises 2:15 .
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HARVEST UNDER WAY Rogue Valley's
harvest of Bartlett pears got under way in
several orchards late last week and early this
week, and is expected to be in full swing in
less than a week. Some orchardists are pick
ing only the good-sized pears, leaving smaller
Highway 230 Crash
Fatal to Woman;
Deer Said Cause
Mrs. Susanne Garrett, 85, of
Rogue River, was fatally injur
ed in a one-car accident about
15 miles north of Union Creek
on Highway 230 about 8:10 p.m.
yesterday. Four other persons
were injured less seriously.
Mrs. Garrett died about 1:15
a.m. today at Rogue Valley hos
pital.
State police said Donald Jer
ome Schava, 23, of Gold Hill,
driver of the car, suffered deep
facial cuts and broken ribs; Plu-
ma Jane Garrett, 42, of Rogue
River, suffered scratches; Ward
Guy Garrett, 47, of Rogue River,
suffered broken ribs, facial cuts
and an injured neck: and Mar
tha Ohm, 20. of Salt Lake City,
Utah, suffered cuts and bruises.
Taken To Hospitals
Medford Ambulance service
took Mrs. Susanne Garrett and
Schava to Rogue Valley hospital,
and the other three to Sacred
Heart hospital. Mrs. Garrett and
Miss Ohrn were listed as being
in fair condition today, and Gar
rett was listed as more serious.
Garrett is the son of Mrs.
Susanne Garrett, and Martha
Ohrn is the daughter of Mrs.
Ward Garrett.
State police said the vehicle,
a 1955 model, was traveling
south about nine miles inside
Douglas county on the Diamond
Lake highway, when a buck
deer jumped onto the highway
and hit the left side of ,the car.
The deer, which was killed
almost instantly r. smashed the
hood locking device. The hood
raised, blinding the driver, po
lice said. The car went off the
left side of the highway, over
a bank and hit a sugar pine about
four feet in diameter.
Bids for Siphons,
flumes Scheduled
Rids for construction of two
rnnrrete siohons. and removal of
existing metal flumes, on the
main canal serving the Medford
and Rogue River Valley Irriga
tion districts will be opened at
10 a.m. Wednesday. Aug. 22. it
was announced today.
The bid opening will be at
thp Camo White office of the
bureau of reclamation, which is
doing the rehabilitation work
for the two districts under a con
tract between them.
Plans and SDecificatlons for
th wnrlc have been made avail
able to prospective bidders, the
bureau said. The job is located
in the Brownsboro area, about
16 miles east of Medford. ine
work includes removal of three
nM mptal flumes, and earthwork
and concrete for two siphons.
one 350 feet of 60 inch pipe at
Wyant wash, the other aoout
1 10(1 feet of 54 or 51-inch pipe
at Osborne wash. Also included
are two concrete bench flumes
and a concrete wall and spillway.
Attendance at Park
Pool About Average
Attendance at the swimming
pool in Hawthorne park has
been about average for this
time of the year, according to
Darel! Huson, city finance direc
tor. Between 400 and 500 per
sons have been using the pool
daily.
The pool is scheduled to close
the day following LaborDay.
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PICKING PEARS Crio Fuentes Carrillo of Comala, Colum
bia, Mexico, shown in both pictures, is among the Mexican
National labor force . obtained for orchardists through the
Rogue Valley Traffic association for .help in harvesting the
valley's crop. The agricultural employment office said demand
and supply of labor is well balanced thus far with an esti
mated 1,500 working in orchards and an equal number in
packing houses. Applications for harvest work are not being
accepted, employment officials said, since employment in the
harvest is based on a first-come, first serve basis. Harvesters
are sent to orchards as they apply for work and are needed.
(Brainerd's Photo)
Marion County Prisoners
Continue Hunger Strike
Salem U.R) Fifteen inmates
of the Marion county jail con
tinued a food strike today for
more commissary privileges, but
jailers thought the boycott
would not last much longer.
Sheriff Denver Young said
the men refused last night's
supper and also turned away
this morning's breakfast. He
said the men were quiet and
orderly they just weren't
hungry. '
The inmates submitted a
penned note to the sheriff de
manding more commissary priv
ileges and also charging there
had been no improvement in
jail food for the past' six months
except removal of macaroni and
cheese from the menu.
- The protest note asked daily
access to fruit, candy and news
papers. Now they have commis-
Herfer Won't Permit
Name in Nomination
Boston U.R) Gov. Christain
A. Herter said today he will
ask that his name be withdrawn
if it is placed in nomination
for vice president at the Repub
lican National Convention.
Herter, who had been boosted
by Harold E. Stassen, as Presi
dent Eisenhower's running mate,
said "The continued use of my
name as a candidate for vice
president is entirely unaccept
able ..."
"As I have already stated, I
am happy to place in . nomina
tion the name, of Richard M.
Nixon for that office," Herter
said in a statement.
Portland (U.R) Attorney
General Robert Y. Thornton has
left for California for a two-week
tour of duty with the Army.
ones to increase in size before picking. Pick
ing of other varieties is expected to start in
about a month. Extension office officials said
the crop will be a good one based on earlier
estimates.
(Brainerd's Photo)
Wife
sary rights two days a wek.
"We cut off their purchase
of newspapers," Young said,
"because they have been in the
habit of rolling the papers up,
poking them through the bars
and damaging adjacent Venetian
blinds."
Young said candy had been
withdrawn because of "some
bad experiences in the past."
Duff's Assistant
Assumes Duties
Gilbert J. Gutjahr, 27, of 135
North Columbus ave., assumed
his duties yesterday as adminis
trative assistant to City Manager
Robert Duff.
Purpose of the new position
is to relieve the work load of
the city manager. Gutjahr ev
entually will become municipal
personnel director, now one of
Duff's duties. Gutjahr's appoint
ment has been approved by the
city council.
He has done graduate work
at the University of Oregon
where he was a research assist
ant He is now working on his
master's degree thesis and ex
pects to receive the degree some
time next spring.
Gutjahr received his bachelor
of arts degree from the Univer
sity of South Dakota, where he
majored in government, special
izing in public administration,
and has attended the University
of Denver. While in South Da
kota he worked with bureau of
municipal research with the uni
versity. He also served four years with
the Air Force in Germany and
was discharged in 1952. Gutjahr
is married and has a four-year-old
boy.