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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
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Wholesale Boycott
Starts at Clay by
White Students
Other Schools Return
To Normal Classes
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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.
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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
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Friday 85.
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Moonset
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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.
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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?"