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rves riFTH M.T. TREASURE QUIZ WINNER Mrs. R. R. Lawton, Central Point, receives her prize of a one year free subscrip tion to the Mail Tribune from her carrier, Martin Gilkey. Martin has been delivering the same route for three years. Lawton is a state hiifhway department employee and helped Mrs. Lawton and daughter Dorothy with their entry. To them the quiz was comparatively easy because they all read the columns in the quiz. The Lawtons have lived in Central Point for 14 years and have been reading the Mail Tribune since they moved there. In their opinion the Mail Tribune prints a complete coverage -of local and national news. They say they wouldn't miss it for one night. The current series of quizzes is being conducted by the Mail Tribune to call attention to the Bargain Days event which will close Monday, Sept. 17. In order to take advantage of the savings offered, all sub scriptions must be received not later than 10 p.m. Monday. (Landis-Shangle photo). Sheehan New Demo Committee Chairman Larry Sheehan of Rogue River was elected Jackson county Democratic central committee chairman last night at a meet ing of the committee in the Esquire theater. Sheehan replaces Robert Boy er. state Democratic chairman, who resigned from the county position. Boyer said increasing responsibilities of his state job, his candidacy for the state legis lature, and his private law prac tice made it advisable for him to resign from the county chair manship. rormarlr Alternate The new county chairman is a past president of the Demo cratic social club and has been first alternate to the chairman since Boyer was elected. New first alternate to the chairman is William C. Dcather a?e, Medford attorney. SwMlland to Visit Clyde Fichtner, president of the Democratic Social club, an nounced that Monroe Sweetland, Democratic nominee for secre tary of state, will be tn Medford Sept. 28 and plans for a dinner in his honor are under way. Cecil Norris is Swcetland s cam paign manager for Jackson county. The central committee also re viewed plans for a voter regis tration drive to be conducted ntil the Oct. 6 registration dead line. The Young Democrats or ganization Is conducting ooor-io-door registration campaigns each Tuesday evening and other vol unteers are conducting similar Pendleton Man Being1;; Held for Slaying Pendleton OJ.B William Manzanares Jr.. 27, of Tacoma. was fatally wounded in a shoot ing incident here at 3:45 a m to day Police were holding Mollis C. Doe. 30. of Pendleton in con nection with the slaying. Police said Doe walked into police headquarters .at 5 a.m. to day and described how the shoot ing took place. He told officers he was driv ing past the Eastern Oregon State hospital on Highway 30 when he saw a girl in a car with several men. He said the girl was trying to get her companion to take her home but that they refused and she asked Doe to do so. Doe said in his statement to police that one of the girls friends struck him and that the f .1,1-trd to fight with him. He said he reached under the seat of his car ana 8 -bre pistol. During the fracas Manzanares was shot in the neck. He was dead on arrival at St. Anthony's hospital. Driver Escapes Serious Iniuries in Accident M LeRov Baumann. 22. , 1 ho 261. Gold Hill, suf fered only a one-inch cut on his right knee and a scratch over his right eye early today, after the truck he was operating traveled i3Tfeet in a d.tch. tore out 74 feet of guard rail and overturned aTthe north end of Rocky Point bridge on Higno . State police said Bauman was hauling a load of peaches north on the highway when he appar ently fell asleep. Officers said the "truck was totally wrecked The accident occurred at 4:15 a.m. campaigns each Wednesday and Thursday evening. Mrs. Stan Zapell was appoint ed county radio and television campaign chairman for the party. Supreme Court Grants Execution Stay for Jensen . James Norman Jensen, 28. Larkspur, Calif., convicted of the 1954 murder of Mrs. Fern Hile, a Medford housewife, has been granted a stay of execu tion by the Oregon State Su preme Court. Jensen was scheduled to die ' in the state gas chamber in Sa lem Sept. 21 after being resen tenced by Judge H. K. Hanna July 6. Case Appealed The resentencing came after Jensen's case was appealed to the state supreme court. The court decided that there was no errors in the original trial and denied a new trial. Jensen's attorney, Edward Kelly, has appealed to the U. S. Supreme Court. The state court granted Jensen a stay of execu tion yesterday until the U. S. Supreme Court decides whether to hear the case on appeal. Sentenced in 1955 Jensen was originally senten ced Jan. 7, 1955, after -a circuit court jury found him guilty of first degree murder and did not give a recommendation for len iency. The death penalty in such case is mandatory. Donald Chesley, 18 at the time of the trial, was convicted of murder and being an habitual criminal at the same trial, and was sentenced to two life sen tences to be served consecutively in the state penitentiary. His case was not appealed. Airs. Gibson Named To Lane Welfare Group Salem ;u.R Mrs. Angus Gibson of Junction City was named today by Gov. Elmo Smith as a member of the Lane County Public Welfare commission for a term ending June 30. 1958. She succeeds Mrs. A. J. McAdams of Eugene. Also appointed today was Clyde Laughlin of Dayville who was named a member of the Grant County Public Welfare commission replacing C. H. Mc Krula of Mount Vernon. Oregon Man In Mass. Is Given $1,000, Gloucester. Mass. (U.P An Oregon man who was hired by mail to teach school here was given SI. 000 and sent home when he proved to be a Negro. City Councilor Manuel F. Lew is called today for a "complete public investigation" into the payment made last Thursday for transportation of the teacher. Warren McClure. 34. from his Eugene home to Gloucester and back. No school official would say McClure's color influenced the decision to terminate his con tract. Howeer. Superintendent of Schools L. Munro Grandy ac knowledged he did not know McClure was a Negro until the President Calls For End to GOP 'Apathy' In 1956 Gettysburg Picnic Rally Opens Campaign Gettysburg, Pa. UPJ Presi dent Eisenhower put the spurs to his own party today to combat admitted GOP 'apathy' in the 1956 campaign. From the President on down through the ranks of Republi can state leaders, the cry from Gettysburg was, "get 'em reg istered, then get 'em to vote Republican." The President personally sounded a call for an end to GOP complacency in a speech opening his reelection campaign at a picnic rally on his own farm here. Republican professionals from every state crowded a big tent on Mr. Eisenhower's east pasture to listen to an afternoon of party pep talks and picnic with Mr. and Mrs. Eisenhower on fried chicken, roast beef, ham and potato salad. Mr. Eisenhower's central theme was "Get out the vote." Wants Everyone Registered Calling for record registra tion, he said "it would be tragic'' if the Republicans whip up the public's zeal by election day only to find that "half of the people couldn't vote." Earlier Vice President Richard M. Nixon and GOP National Chairman Leonard Hall hit hard again and again at Democratic standard bearers Adlai Steven son and Estes Kefauver. They also took some swings at former President Truman. Nixon accused Stevenson of "political fakery and irresponsi bility" for asserting that the United States is losing the cold war and for advocating repeal of the draft as possible. Hall said Stevenson has been posing for "foolish pictures" and making "silly statements.' "I feel confident the people of the United States will see through the sham and hyproc risy of the Democrat song-and- dance team of Adlai, Keef and Harry," he said. Hoffman Bids Low On Siphon Projects Lee Hoffman construction company. Beaverton. submitted a low bid of $187,903 today for construction of Osborn Wash and Wyant Wash siphons, part of the Medford and Rogue River Valley irrigation districts rehab ilitation project. J. A. Callan, project engineer of the Bureau of Reclamation, announced five bids were re ceived by the deadline of 10 a.m. today. The five came under the second bid invitation. TJo bids were received in the first call. The engineer's estimate for the two construction jobs was S108. 348. Other bids received were Alton B. Phillips, Seattle, S210, 905; P. -S. Lord, Portland, 0219, 074.45; Engineers Limited Pipe line company. El Cerrito, Calif., $221,689.30: and George R. Stac ey. Klamath Falls, $271,860. Bids will be forwarded to the Bureau of Reclamation regional office in Denver, Colo., for fur ther action. Chinese Reds to Return Navy Airmen Hong Kong 0J.R) The Brit ish consulate in Shanghai report ed by telephone today that the bodies of two U. S. Navy airmen recovered by Chinese Communi ists will be sent to American au thorities in Yokohama. Japan, on the first available ship. Red China Wednesday an nounced recovery of the bodies of William F. Haskins. Westport. Conn., and Jack A. Curtis, Kosse. Tex., who were aboard a U. S. Navy patrol plane shot down by Communist fighters off the China mainland Aug. 23. Hired as School Teacher J teacher arrived here. McClure was hired by the school department at $4,200 a year. Because of Massachusetts antidiscrimination laws, the de partment could not request in formation as to his color on the application form. On Aug. 37 Grandy announc ed that McClure would teach the sixth grade at Babson school. McClure arrived here last Thursday and, after talking with school officials, agreed to accept $1,000 for transportation and termination of his contract. He left for home next day. Eugene (U.P.) Warren Mc Clure, who was hired by mail to 51st Year MEDFOEDISiJ United Press Full Leased Wirs 24 Pages Wholesale Boycott Starts at Clay by White Students Other Schools Return To Normal Classes By UNITED PRESS Two Negro children attended an almost empty school today in Clay. Ky., where white pupils responded to integration with a wholesale boycott. Mayor Herman Z. Clark of Clay said the school would re turn to a segregated status as soon as National Guard troops leave town. Only the principal and six teachers or a normal staff of 13 showed up at the school this morning. White parents had ask ed teachers as well as pupils to stay away until the guards men, bivouaced on the school grounds, leave. Crowd Forms A crowd began forming this morning but found "schoolhouse hill" blocked by 500 National Guard troops. Until national guardsmen arrived, the crowds had kept the Negro children from reaching the school. Fewer than 10 white pupils came to school this morning. Only two white pupils arrived Wednesday after the Negroes were admitted and they left. At Slurgis, a former scene of racial riots 11 miles away, things returned to normal. The once-troubled town of Clinton, Tenn.. also settled down to normal school routine with a dozen Negroes attending classes along with nearly 700 white students. All but about 60 of the hun dreds of white students who had at first boycotted the Clinton school had re-enrollcd and at tendance officers were investi gating the remaining absentees. Surprise Request The school board at Mobile. Ala., got the surprise problem of a socially prominent white wo man's request to enroll her Ne gro "foster child" in a white school. Mrs. Dorothy D. Da Ponte, a wealthy, middle-aged widow, said 12-year old Carrie Mae Mc Cant has been educated with whites in European schools and is qualified in every respect for "integration." The school board, authorized by new Alabama laws to assign Negroes to Negro schools for sociological and psychological reasons, turned the application over to an attorney. Woman Falls trom Crooked River Bridge Bend (U.R) The body of Mrs. John H. Bruns, 56, reported missing. from her home at Camp Sherman on the Metolius river, was found by state police today who said she apparently had fallen from a railroad bridge in the deep Crooked river gorge. Mrs. Bruns had been reported despondent after the death of her sister. Mrs. John t. Kil kenny. 67, who police said took her own life by leaping from the St. Johns bridge over the Willamette in Portland last July 22. Mrs. Bruns was reported miss ing last night. State police lo cated the body after Mrs. Eruns' car was reported abandoned at the parapet in Peler Skene Og- den park between the railroad bridge and the bridge that spans the Crooked river on U.S. High way 97. State police were bring ing the body out of the rugged canyon this afternoon. Sent Home teach school in Gloucester, Mass., then giveh S1.000 and sent home when he proved to be a Negro, attended summer school at Un iversity of Oregon here this year and stayed in a Eugene apart ment. His landlady here. Mrs. Harris Holton, said McClure had not returned to Eugene, and may have gone to Stockton or Sacra mento, Calif., where he formerly lived. She said she had not heard from him since he gave j up his apartment here to go to to Gloucester. McClure earned his AB degree in 1948 at Pepperdine college and his master's degree in 1953 at College of the Pacific. 1VCAXT MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1956 4 1 . 1J K - I II ? I I &lf - YyJ if P: 1 . i ' " -s c "lib- . -, , - . s - I S NEW RESUSCITATOR Police Chief Frank Carter of Jack sonville demonstrates the oxygen control valve on the resusci tator recently acquired- by the Jacksonville fire department at a cost of S322. The compact unit is considered invaluable in rescue work where -victims are suffering from shock or suffocation, and even includes a vacuum operated stomach pump (the long white tube seen in the case). Chief Carter said the machine would be available to the upper Applegate area. Supreme Court Asked To Disbar Attorneys Portland (U.R) The board of governors of the Oregon State Bar yesterday filed recommen dations with the State Supreme Court that three attorneys be permanently disbarred. Included in the trio was L. B. Sandblast, Portland, who re ceived more than 100,000 votes for justice of the state Supreme Bulganin Sends Note to President Washington (U.R) Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin has sent a new message to President Eisenhower on East-West prob lems, it was announced today. Bulganin's message was deliv ered to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles by Russian Am bassador Georgi N. Zaroubin. Asked whet her the messa ge had to do with the Suez crisis, Zaroubin told reporters: "No, it is the answer of Mr. Bulganin to the President of the United States' letter of Aug. 4." Mr. Eisenhower wrote to Bul ganin Aug. 4 calling on the Soviet Union to help create a "new spirit" in East-West rela tions. The President particu larly mentioned the need for progress in the fields of disarma ment. German unification and contacts between East and West. Mr. Eisenhower and the Soviet leader have had a long exchange of letters on disarmament and general East-West problems. Their correspondence began about the time of the President's heart attack last fall. Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE Baltimore 4.6 0 Cleveland 1 5 1 Johnson and "Triandoi: Aguirre, Narleski (7). Houtte man (9) and Naragon. Horn runs: Avilla. Cleveland: Tri andas, Baltimore. (2). Polio Cases. Dropped Again Last Week Washington 'U.R) The Pub lic Health Service reported to day that polio cases dropped last week for the second straight week. It was furtlicr evidence that the 1956 season has passed its peak. The service said 847 new cases were reported in the nation last week compared to 887 for the previous week. It was the small est total for a comparable week of any year since 1947. In another hopeful note, the service said that the percentage of paralytic cases last week was 34.5 compared to 43.2 per cent for the disease year which began April 1. In Chicago where there was a severe outbreak this year, there were 54 cases last week com pared with 62 for the previous week. It was the fourth consecu tive week in which the new cases have fallen off. A Court in the May primary. i-ike recommendations were made in the cases of David C. Pickett. Portland attorney, and Elmer G. Baldwin, Roseburg. Misconduct In all three cases, the board of governors recommendation was based on alleged "profess ional misconduct." The attor neys have 60 days in which to petition the Supreme Court to reverse or modify the recom mendations. The board of governors said that a three-man trial commit tee had conducted hearings in the cases of Pickett and Sand blast. In the case of Baldwin, the state bar grievance commit tee for Douglas county conduct ed an investigation. Sandblast said today he would ask the Supreme Court to re verse the action. "I expect to get it reversed, of course," he added. Sandblast, a member of the bar since 1916, retained Will H. Masters as his attorney in the case. Moral Turpitude Masters said the charge against Sandblast was for violation, of one of the canons of the bar "but there is no ques tion of moral turpitude involv ed." Masters said it involved an allegation that Sandblast pur chased real property at a judi cial sale without consent of his client. He added that the client was at the sale and was not a complainant in tiie case. Baldwin is serving a term in the state penitentiary for em bezzlement. Director Evaluates High School Program Cliff Robinson, director of secondary education of the state department of education, arrived in Medford yesterday and will be here Ihroueh tomorrow con ferring wth the county school superintendent and making high school evaluations. Robinson is working on the state evaluation program which covers all public high schools in Oregon. He and Alk B. Mckvold, county superintendent of schools, will make evaluations of McLoughlin and Hcdrick jun ior high schools. Jacksonville, Talent. Eagle Point and Crater high schools. Weather FORECAST: Fair through Frt dav. Low tonight 45. Hi Kb Friday 85. Temp. Hiehst Yesterdav - 19 Lowest Urn .Morning 4t Our Skies Tonight Sunrise . . 5:49 m m. . 6:35 p.m. Sunset Moonset 1:43 p.m. Full Moon - Sept. 19 EVENING STARS Venus is now passing to the east of Uranus, a distant planet rarely seen without the aid of a telescope. L'raquk is much larger than Venus and is now more than 23 times as far lrom the Earth. Price 10c Tribune United Press Full Leased Wiia No. 149 Stevenson Works On His Campaign Speech Broadcast 30-Minute TV Talk Slated as 'KickofP Harrisburg, Pa. (U.R) Adlai E. Stevenson worked on his cam paign "kickoff" speech today and his running mate. Sen. Estes Kefauver, denounced Republi can "get poor quick" policies. Stevenson delivers a 30-minute talk over all three national tele vision networks and four radio networks at 9:30 p.m. EDT to signal the formal start of his Democratic presidential cam paign. Between 5,000 and 10.000 per sons are expected to pay S50 a piaie ai a cold buffet dinner to hear Stevenson's speech in the Farm Show Building here. Declines Comment Press Secretary Clayton Fritchey declined to comment on the topic of the speech but said it will "develop one of the important themes of this cam paign." While Stevenson worked on his speech, Kefauver was sched uled to drive 25 miles to speak at the county fair at York in the same congressional district as President Eisenhower's Get tysburg farm. Nearly Ike's Neighbors In his prepared speech, Ka fauvcr noted his listeners were "practically neighbors" of Mr. Eisenhower, He said he felt sure they would "welcome him back to Gettysburg next January and to the retirement he so richly deserves." Kefauver observed that in dis cussing farm policies at his press conference Tuesday, the Presi dent spoke out against "get rich quick" schemes. Kefauver charged the Presi dent was talking "in completely cynical fashion about Demo cratic efforts to maintain a pros perous family farm economy." The Tennesseean said the farm policy of Mr. Eisenhower and Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson has been a "get poor quick" policy. Wafer Distribution Discontinuance Set Distribution of water in the Talent Irrigation district will be discontinued Saturday, the TID directors announced today. Increasing dew fall, the fact that most irrigated crops have been harvested, and the need for conserving storage water for next season were the reasons for the decision. Manager Walter Hoffbuhr said that by Saturday Hyatt Lake re servoir will contain about half of capacity, and that Emigrant reservoir will be drawn down to the bottom of storage. A re serve at Hyatt is necessary, he said, because only twice since it was built in 1924 has it filled from empty to full in one sea son. The second such occasion was last year. BOARD TO CONVENE The non-high districts school board will meet to make final tuition payments to the county high schools at 3 p.m. in the county school superintendent's office tomorrow. "Anything In Soviet Diplomats Indicate Similar Stand on Waterway Conciliatory Words Voiced by Dulles London U.P Egypt served notice on the West today that any attempt by a "users associ ation" to take over operation of the Suez Canal "means war." Soviet diplomats in London voiced a similar warning. They said Russia wants to avoid any such conflict over Suez, but at the same time they let it be clearly understood that Russia would be among those na tions providing Egypt botli with volunteers and arms. The Egyptian warning came in the midst of an angry inter national exchange of charges and counter charges in which the only conciliatory words came from Secretary of Slate John Foster Dulles. Dulles Against War Dulles said at a press confer ence in Washington that the United States docs not intend lo shoot its way through the Suez Canal or enter any shooting war if Egypt tries to block the can al. In the House of Commons in London, during the second day of debate over the British and French plan to set up a "users association" for the canal. For eign Minister Sehvyn Lloyd made it clear the government had no intention of backing down from its stand that it will not allow the international wa terway to remain under the sole control of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. He hinted that, with one of the pilots from the old Suez Canal Company aboard, a Brit ish ship might challenge Egypt to permit a passage using neith er Egyptian hired pilots or oth er normal facilities controlled by Egypt. He said the new Anslo-Frcnch Suez association will hire the European pilots now quitting in Egypt and "keep them at work." (See Slory Page 12) Gas Committee Head May Testify Washington U.R) Sen. John L. McClclIan said today it "might be desirable" to recall Matson Nixon, chairman of the "General Gas Committee," for closer questioning about the or ganization's role as a lobbying organization. The Arkansas Democrat, chair man of the special Senate Lobby ing committee, said earlier testi mony by Nixon about the gas committee's role appeared to be in conflict with that of major oil company officials who testi fied Wednesday. However, McClclIan told newsmen, no definite decision has been made on whether to recall Nixon when the commit tee resumes public hearings Oct. 8. McClclIan said the committee expects lo branch out into "other fields" of lobbying at the next hearing. So far the committee's investigation has concentrated on lobbying in connection with the vetoed natural gas bill. Nixon told the committee on May 1 that the General Gas Committee, formed by the gas and oil industry, was primarily an "educational" organization riot connected with direct lobby ing. But officials of Gulf Oil Corp. and .Humble Oil and Refining Co. told the investigating group Wednesday they considered the committee a lobbying organiza tion. Sight Yet?"
