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Tto's Flight To Russia Surprise To West Hearing on Commission Sets Oct. 25 To Discuss Highway Location Hearing Postponed Earlier This Year The state highway commission has set Thursday, Oct. 25, as the date for a public hearing In Medford to discuss location of the Highway 99 freeway be tween Blackwell hill and Ash land. A hearing had been scheduled last spring, but was postponed pending completion of a survey of a proposed route on the west side of the valley, which was requested by a number of per sons and organizations. The new survey was to obtain detailed information concerning costs on a west side route, high way department officials said. Previously, the commission aban doned consideration of a west side route because of high costs after preliminary studies were made several years ago. Other Routes Three other routes have been under consideration. They are the Hillcrest route east of the Medford city limits, the Gen nesse route Just east of Bear creek within the city limits of Medford. and a route down Bear creek itself. The Medford planning commis sion, which held a hearing at which the Genessee and Hillcrest routes were discussed, wem on record. In a split vote, favoring the Gennessee route. The rec ommendation was made with the understanding that it was based only on information available on the two routes. The recommendation also In cluded provisions that the free way, if constructed along the Gennessee route, be 300 feet wide, overpass several city streets, have standard acceptable landscaping, and have modern noise abatement facilities. Several orchardists and farm ers have formally voiced opposi tion to both the Hillcrest route and the west side route, because of damage to orchards and other valuable farm land. The highway commission earli er this year indicated that any decision made would be based on cost, dislocation of properties, the conservation of agricultural land and other similar factors. Central Point Man Hurt in Accident Central Point Noble Brown of Central Point was seriously injured in a two-car accident about 12:30 a.m. today near the Intersection of Oak st. and High way 99 in Central Point, accord ing to Police Chief Wallace Bowen. A witness said Brown, who was driving a car registered to Dorothy Kelly of Central Point, was traveling at a high rate of speed through town and struck the rear end of a ear being driven by George C. Johnstone. 423 Plum St., Medford, police said. Both Brown and Johnstone were cited for not having an operators license and Brown also was cited for reckless driving. Brown was taken to Sacred Heart hospital by Medford am bulance service. His condition was listed as good by hospital attendants this morning. F. L Somers Apparent Low Bidder on Project F. L. Somers. Medford, was apparent low bidder for .19 mile embankment repair at By bee bridge on Table Rock rd. The state highway commission opened bids this morning for several highway projects in Mar ion. Multnomah. Josephine. Yamhill. Clackamas and Jack son counties. Somers bid $48.60 for the em bankment repair project. Weather rOREC5T: Variable cloud. nes through Saturday. Chanct of ltcht shower tnnicht. Low tonight 4S. High Saturday 7. Temp. Hichrt Yesterday 74 LowrU this Morninc , ,, , T Our Skies Tonight Snorts 5 a m. Sunset . SJS p.m. Moonrts Saturday 12:31 a.m. Nw Moon - Oct. 3 PROMINENT STRS The Twin, well above the Moon VISIBLE PLANETS Saturn, sets . 7:54 p.m. Mars, tn lit couth p.m. V priii. tn Ihc rut 4:2 a.m. lupltcr, rises - 4 J J am. 51st Year Medford United Pros! Full Lapsed Win 26 Pages PRESIDENT MAY BRING CAMPAIGN TO OREGON Morse and McKay Continue Battle Without Letup Ellsworth's Role Declared Covered By UNITED PRESS President Eisenhower is ex pected to come to Oregon in mid October for a speech in Port land, a GOP official said today. William Borah, assistant pub lic relations director of Citizens for Eisnhower, said the President may come to Oregon either in the week of Oct. 14 or "close to that time." Final details have not been worked out. Mr. Eisenhower also is ex pected to speak in Seattle. Both Oregon and Washington have hot Senate races this fall with Doug las McKay trying to unseat Dem ocrat Wayne Morse in Oregon and GOP Gov. Arthur B. Lang lie trying to defeat Sen. Warren G. Magnuson in Washington. Meanwhile, the Morse-McKay battle of words continued with out letup. Mors Promises Victory Morse promised a "great vic tory" in November last night in a Portland speech and attacked McKay whom he said, would "be going back to the business of selling Cadillacs." He said McKay "helped give away tidelands; a shocking be trayal of his public trust; in Hells Canyon he tried to give away one of the greatest re sources of this country; he is the outstanding spokesman of mis representation." McKay, also speaking in Port land, said Democratic leaders are persons who "do not believe in policies that will make a free society work." He said "The Democratic party has never in our time proved that it has any answers for our people except those of perpetual crisis or war." McKay Sights Controls McKay said: "In lieu of free dom and opportunity they offer government controls. In lieu of jobs in a prosperous and healthy economy, they offer the way of the dole and the security of a public welfare payment." The Al Sarcna issue also was back in the political spotlight. Sen. Richard L. Neubcrger (D Ore.) accused McKay of "distor tion of the facts" and of "cover ing up the role of Congressman Harris Ellsworth" in helping the owners get patents for the south ern Oregon mining claims. Mc Kay fired right back and accused Neuberger of shifting the empha sis in the remarks McKay made about Sen. Estes Kefauver and the claims. Oregon To Continue Work Gov. Elmo Smith told a din ner meeting in Portland last night that Oregon intends to con tinue in what he termed its role as a leader nationally in educa tion, industrial development, roads and its welfare program. He said Oregon spends $340 a year per pupil for primary and secondary education and that "only three other states spend more." Marine Held in Lakeview Shooting Lakeview U.R) A Marine Corps staff sergeant from Port land was arrested here early to day in connection with a shoot ing at Hunters Lodge near here. ! Richard Fairbanks, about 25, i was taken to Lakeview hospital with a 22 calibre gunshot wound through his abdomen. Attend ants said he was in critical con dition. Sgt. Edward Joseph Murray, 33, of Portland, was arrested by Sheriff Tom Elliott, Deputy 1 Sheriff Joe Battiste and State ; Police Officer Nick Barry. El liott said Murray would be 1 charged with assault with a deadly weapon and arraigned ; some time this afternoon, i The sheriff said the shooting : occurred following an argument at the lodge shortly after mid- Freeway Scheduled MEDFORD, OREGON, "Who's. Whistle-Stopping?" Residents Reminded Of Absentee Voting Anyone who terminates his Oregon residence before the Oct. 6 voter registration deadline will not be eligible to vote in the Nov. 6 general election by Ore gon absentee ballot, Mrs. Bereth Hopkins, county clerk, reminded voters today. She explained that legal resi dents of the state who expect to be absent on election day may make application within 60 days preceding an election for the of ficial ballot or ballots to be voted at the election. However, she emphasized, this Woman Injured in East Main Accident Mrs. Blanch Lucille Folck, 32, of route 2, box 247J, Medford, suffered lacerations and abra sions on the right side of her head about 2:37 a.m. today when the car in which she was a pass enger, operated by Jack Taylor Stallsworth, 28, of 106 Lincoln st., Medford, crashed into a stone embankment on East Main st. between Eastwood dr. and Keeneway dr., according to Med ford police. She was taken to Rogue Val ley hospital by Medford Ambu lance service. Hospital attend ants said her condition was 'good" this morning. Stallsworth was fined $50 to day in police court and sentenced 30 days in jail, which may be suspended at a later date de pending on the condition of Mrs. Folck, police said. He was ar rested on a charge of driving under the influence of intoxi cating liquor, according to police. Police added that Stallsworth was not injured. The accident happened when the Stallsworth vehicle was travelling too fast to complete a curve, police said. Salem Man Charged In Beating Mother Salem (U.PJ A 46-year-old Salem man was in fair condition at Salem General hospital today facing charges of assaulting and robbing his mother and being drunk on a public highway. Bail was set at $2,500. Gilbert Heidbrecht was booked after his mother, Mrs. Margaret Yates, complained she had been robbed of $562 yesterday, in cluding a $392 check. She said her son then forced her to give him the keys to her car. The vehicle collided with a logging truck about 4:40 p.m. on the Salem-Turner highway and Heidbrecht suffered "eight or nine" broken ribs. Officers collected the Mat tered money at the crash (cent. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1956 does not apply to those who have terminated Oregen residence and moved to another state. This is true whether or not the indivi dual has lived in the state -of his new residence long enough to qualify as a voter in that state, she said. Oregon law defines an "absent voter" as follows: (1) Any elector who is absent from the county of his legal resi dence upon the day of any gen eral, special or primary election. (2) One whose place of resi dence is more than 15 miles from the polling place in the precinct of his registration, measured by the nearest traveled road. (3) One who is physically un able to attend such elections in person and who is a qualified elector of this state. Verify Disability Mrs. Hopkins noted the law also specifies an absentee ballot application from an individual claiming to be physically un able to vote at his assigned poll ing place, must be accompanied by a statement verifying the dis ability. Absentee ballots may also be issued to qualified voters in any branch of the United States armed services, Merchant Ma rines, United States civilian em plyees and members of religious groups of welfare agencies as sisting members of the armed forces and officially attached to the armed forces. The clerk reminded voters the deadline for mailing absentee ballots is Oct. 26. Nunley Says He Plans No Action Against Pinball Machines Until After Election Jackson County District At torney Walter D. Nunley this week said he is not contemplat ing action against 21 pinball ma chines in the county, for which a $250 federal gaming tax has been paid, until after the No vember election. In a recent story In the Ore gon Journal, a survey showed 263 coin operated machines which the internal revenue clas sifies as gambling devices in the state. Of that total 21 of them were listed in Jackson county 14 in Medford, four in Ashland and one each in Shady Cove, Talent, and Jacksonville. Follows Raids The Journal's survey followed raids by special agents of the in telligence division of the inter nal revenue service in which 39 pinball machines-were seized in Multnomah, Clackamas, Wash ington and Josephine counties earlier this week. The raids by federal agents were made because no federal gaming tax was paid. The Journal story said that Price 10c Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire No. 162 47 Bolivians Ask Political Asylum From Argentina Political Prisoners Commandeer Plane Salta, Argentina U.PJ Ar gentine authorities today weigh ed an appeal for asylum by 47, Bolivian political prisoners who commandeered an airliner at gunpoint over Bolivia and flew it here Thursday. The Bolivians were being transferred from Santa Cruz, in southeastern Bolivia, to the capi tal city of La Paz when they seized control of the Bolivian Lloyd DC-4 airliner. Pistol Smuggled on Plan One of the prisoners, a retired army colonel, smuggled a pistol aboard the plane. Shortly after it took, off, he disarmed a guard carrying a machine gun while two of his companions subdued two other guards. Another prisoner, a commer cial pilot, took over the controls and flew the plane to a safe landing here. Most of the Bolivians were members of the Socialist Fa lange party which the Bolivian government charged fomented last week's hunger riots in La Paz. At least four persons were killed in the rioting which re sulted in a state of siege being imposed on the country. River Yields Youngster's Body Klamath Falls OI.R) The body of five-year-old Timothy Wegner was recovered from the waters of the Klamath river at Keno bridge at about 12:20 p.m. today. The child was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Wegner of Keno and had been the object of a search by about 100 persons, and bloodhounds. The boy was last reported seen about 3:30 p.m. yesterday playing in an apple orchard on the bank of the Klamath river. Besides the ground search, planes from the Klamath air res cue service were sent up and Sheriff Murray Britton had dragging equipment at the river. The boys' father is a Weyer haeuser Timber Company em ployee at Camp Six near BIy. Smog Alert Issued In Southern California Los Angeles U.P.) The air pollution control district called a first stage smog alert at 10:40 a.m. PDT today when the ozone concentration reached .50 part per million parts of air in the Vernon, Calif., district. It was the fourth alert called this week and the 10th of the year. Television Highlight Adlai E. StTnson, Demo cratic candidal for president, will b heard OTr station KBES-TV at 7:30 tonight. because Nunley was seeking re election "he thinks he would be accused of making raids as a bid for votes. He said he promised in his campaign four years ago to clean out gambling and that he has kept his promise, except for pinballs. "After the election,' if he still is DA, Nunley plans to start a test case on pinballs aimed at driving out of the state all pin balls. He said the high courts in 38 states have held that paying off in free games is gambling." Writes Memorandum Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton, the Journal story continued, said he wrote a memorandum in 1953 upholding the view that paying off in free games was considered gambling. Thornton said, however, there have been attempts to convict on the free-play payoff and jur ies have ruled .against the dis trict attorneys, the Journal story stated. The Journal list Included 14 pinballs in- Medford for which the federal tax has been paid. rurUMi itaf f " witiHiiirnili tW BTrff"--..r - - - OVERSIZED SUNFLOWER For weeks Earl R. Miller of Central Point has been keeping his eye on his sunflower patch and this large blossom head is one of the reasons why. When he harvested it this week, it measured 18 inches across and weighed nine pounds. (Note the baseball used for com parison.) Miller had no explanation for such a vigorous sun flower crop. Some of the stalks reached a height of 14 feet. Korea Vice President Shot in Murder Try Seoul. Korea (U.R) A young Korean today shot and slightly wounded Vice President John M. Chang in a bold assassination at tempt against the bitter political opponent of President Syngman Rhee. Police rescued the would-be assassin from an enraged crowd of about 1,000 persons who fell upon him with fists and sticks after the attack. He was not identified immediately. Single Shot Heard Chang drove to a downtown theater to attend a national meet ing of his opposition Democratic Party. A single shot rang out as he stepped from his jeep. Chang clutched his hand and rushed into the theater, where some 800 party members were holding their meeting. A crowd listening to conven tion speeches broadcast over loudspeakers outside the theater, pounced on the gunman and Man Sentenced for Assault, Battery Ralph Amos Rodkey, 937 South Ivy St., Medford, was sentenced to 50 days in city jail today in police court as the result of a citizen's arrest at 4:30 a.m. this morning. Dorothy Barton Walling, 937 South Ivy St., Medford, charged him with assault and battery, ac cording to Medford police. Police said the citizen's arrest followed a call from her made at 1:17 a.m. while she was at Dad's Hideaway, 1182 Court St., Medford, that she needed police assistance. At 3:10 a.m. this morning she told police that Rodkey was in volved in a hit and run accident with a car operated by Emmett L. Herrman, 518 Putnam st., Medford, on Putnam st. between Niantic and Pine sts. He was ar rested by Dorothy Walling at 4:30 a.m. today. Rodkey is also being held on charges of forgery on a com plaint and warrant from How ard county, Ind., police reported. Bail was set, as stipulated in the warrant, at $1,000. Police said his present sentence will be sus pended upon arrival of informa tion on him from police in Ko komo, Ind. He will then be ar raigned here on a fugitive's war rant and returned to Indiana, police said. They are Medford Bowling lanes, Fred J. and Norma Ander son; Medford hotel, Asa Arns berg; 90 and 9 Tavern, Bill Barnes; Elks lodge; Bohemian club, Thomas A. Dwyer; High way tavern, Merrill E. and Cora E. Ousterhaudt and R. D. Stumpff; Dad's Hideaway, Linn Houck, Tavern, L. Keller; Whis tle Stop, F. W. and Hazel L. Kirk; Spot, William B. and Bar bara G. Konopasek; Brown's Bil liads, K. W. Pellett; Union club, Christian and Mary K. Schempp; Veterans building, corporation; Rogue restaurant, Al and Ella White. Others listed in Jackson coun ty include Cook's reception, Er nest G. Childreth, Ashland; Bo hemian club. William H. Hamp ton, Ashland: Omar's, Kenneth and Bonnie L. Wilkinson, Ash land; Steak House, Roy C. Mc Cleary, Ashland; Talent club, Samuel Prough and Thomas A. Dwyer Jr.; Mom's Hideaway, F. R. and Myrtle Wilkinson, Jack sonville; and Olive and Mary Bigelow, Shady Cove. began beating him. Police moved in quickly to res cue the would-be assassin from probable death at the hands of the incensed crowd and hustle him off. The theater is only 150 yards from national police head quarters. Censure Votd The attempted assassination followed by a day a motion push ed through the National Assem bly by Rhee's Liberal Party to censure Chang for his criticisms of the president after the inau guration. Nixon Advocates T-H Law Change En Route With Nixon U.PJ Vice Pjesjdent Richard M. Nixon today advocated amending the Taft-Hartley Act which he said is not a perfect law." The vice president moved through Tennessee and on to Cincinnati in a whirlwind cam paign swing during which he de fended the Eisenhower adminis tration's "partnership" power policies for his Tennessee listen ers and defended its labor poli cies for Ohio voters. In remarks prepared for a Cincinnati audience, Nixon said that labor relations have been better under the Eisenhower ad ministration than at any time during the past 25 years. He said the Taft-Hartley Act should be amended because it is "not a perfect law." But he did not say how he thinks it should be altered. Suez Compromise Said Up To Nehru Cairo (U.R) Semi-official Egyptian sources said today a Suez compromise lies almost ex clusively in the, hands of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India. Nehru sent his roving- Ambas sador V. K. Krishna Menon to Cairo last week for conferences with Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser on the dispute over the canal. Krishna Menon since has flown to London to confer with British officials. The sources said that a "work able compromise solution" might be produced during Nehru s talks with President Eisenhower in the United States. Nehru is scheduled to visit Washington later this year. Sweetland to Speak At Meeting Tonight Monroe Sweetland. Demo cratic candidate for secretary of state, arrived in Medford this morning, and will visit in Jack son county the rest of the day. He will speak at a meeting of the Democratic Social club at the Medford hotel at 7 p.m. to day. Other engagements in the county included a luncheon with Southern Oregon college faculty members and an address at a combined faculty and student assembly at SOC at 1 p.m. today. . He will be available at Demo cratic headquarters in the Es quire theater until this evening. Washington (U.PJ President Eisenhower told the world bank today that "international coop eration is the key to peace." Washington-U.PJ The Comp troller of Currency has called for a statement of condition of national banks u of Sept 26. Soviet Leaders Against Khrushchev Program Suspected Tito May Be Taken To Support New Line London U.PJ Marshal Tito'i amazing flight to Russia set off reports today that some of the Soviet Union's collective leaders may have turned against the Khrushchev program to vilify former Premier Josef Stalin. The Yugoslav capital of Bel grade and the Western capitals were taken by surprise when Tito rushed off by plane to the Soviet Union Thursday with So viet Communist party boss Nikl ta S. Khrushchev. Khrushchev is the No. 1 lead er of the plan to "de-Stalinize" Russia and it was believed he may have taken the once-balky Yukoslav leader back with him to Russia to support the new line in talks with other Communist leaders. Diplomats In Moscow offered the alternative theory that Tito was drastically dissatisfied with the Soviet follow up to agree ments last year and this June for close economic and ideologi cal cooperation between the two countries. No Official Explanation Moscow radio said Tito and Khrushchev had arrived in Yalta, site of the "Big Three meeting" of World War II. Earl ier Moscow disclosed that Pre mier Nikolai Bulganin and For eign Minister Dmitri Shepilov were at Sochi, a Red army health resort 300 miles from Yalta across the Black sea. There was no official explana tion of the trip other than Bel grade and Moscow announce ments that Tito and Khrushchev "will be resting" along Russia's Black sea coast, a subtropical area long famous as a winter re sort. The facts pointed to one con clusion: Something of extreme seriousness brought on Khrush chev's mysterious trip to Yugo slavia and Tito's even more amazing flight with him to Crimea. A surprising feature was Tito's decision to fly. He has not flown since World War II when the Allies evacuated him from Yugo slavia by air after Nazi troops surrounded his mountain hide away. Usually he travels by car or armored train. Visited Moscow In Jun Whatever brought on the Jour ney has arisen since Tito's state visit to Moscow in June when close accords were signed be tween rha governments and the ' Communist parties of the two countries. And it appeared to serious Khrushchev could not settle it during his eight days of talks in Yugoslavia. Belgrade dispatches frankly quoted Yugoslavs as being puz zled by the trip. But there were indications that Khrushchev's determined campaign of down grading Stalin might lie at the root of whatever brought on the Tito visit. The reconciliation of Tito and the Soviet were be lieved to have been one result ot the campaign. Pressing for Extension Tito was known to be pressing for extension of the program to Russia's Eastern European satel lites where only Poland has achieved the slightest measure of freedom and that almost nil by Western standards. Yugoslav Communists have complained recently that the old Stalinist puppet leaders and their policies were still in power in Hungary, Romania and Albania, Yugoslavia's neighbors. Two Iowa Youths Lodged in County Jail Two Spencer, Iowa, teen-age boys were lodged in the county jail as runaways Thursday after they were accused of beating a 25-year-old Central Point man and tying his shoelaces together. According to Central Point police, victim of the beating was Cyril Spence, who claimed the youths, ages 16 and 17, accosted him at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday north of Central Point on Kirk land rd. Central Point officers stated they were called later Wednes day evening by Medford police, who said the boys had asked for lodging overnight in the city jail. After further investigation, the youths were transferred to the county jail and booked as runaways. According to the report, a passing motorist saw the youths beating Spence and reported the incident to Central Point police. Spence was contacted by offic ers and verified the complaint. Portland. Ore. U.R) C. H. Close of the California Youth Authority has been elected presi dent of the Western Probation and Parole Association.
