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Railroad Union
Spokesmen Attack
Line at Hearing
M:s-Schedu!ing,
Indifference Charged
San Francisco (U.Pj Repre
sentatives of railroad unions at
tacked the Southern Pacific Mon
day for trying to curtail its pas
senger service.
The attacks came in the course
of a hearing ordered by the Cali
fornia Public Utilities Commis
sion on SP's passenger operations
in California. The hearing re
sumes here Wednesday and then
shifts to Los Angeles on Friday.
Consolidation Asked
Commissioner Matthew J.
Dooley ordered the hearing after
the railroad asked to consolidate
the Lark and Starlight night
trains between Los Angeles and
San Francisco and to reduce its
San Francisco-Portland sched
ules from seven to three trains
a week.
William Ellis, legislative rep
resentative of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen, criti
cized the SP for closing down its
Fresno ticket office at 11 p.m.,
although four trains are sched
uled through the city between
then and 7 a.m.
Robert Gilmore, assistant SP
vice president in charge of pas
senger traffic, said: "Not many
people buy tickets that late at
night."
But Ellis said that on Sept. 19 j
more than 40 passengers were in
the Fresno depot at 2:30 a.m.
with nobody there to help them.
Mis-Scheduling Charged
George W. Ballard, attorney
for the Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen, accused SP of "delib
erate mis-scheduling of passen
ger trains in California in order
to discourage passenger traffic."
SP attorney Charles W. Bur
kett Jr. "unequivocably denied"
this charge. He said it is SP pol
icy to continue service that the
public needs. He said the com
pany merely wants to "consoli
date service" and make '"season
al adjustments" of service on less
patronized routes.
G. R. Mitchell of Los An
geles, representing the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers,
claimed that SP's competitors,
notably Santa Fe. have increased
passenger patronage.
Desire To Fill Needs
"These other railways have
imagination and a desire to ful
fill public needs," Mitchell said.
Burkett said the SP's passen
ger losses amount to $43 mil
lion a year. He said if these losses
continue, they will inevitably
force a rise in freight rates.
In addition to consolidating
the Los Angeles-San Francisco
trains and curtailing service be
tween San Francisco and Port
land, SP also seeks to curtail
service between Sacramento and
Los Angeles and Sacramento and
Gerber.
Registration Totals
Expected This Week
Voter registration totals in
the county for the Nov. 6 gen
eral election are expected to be
compiled within a "couple of
days," elections department of
ficials said today.
Addressograph plates for voter
pamphlets have been completed.
Officials said the addressograph
machine was in operation eight
hours a day for about three
weeks before the plates were
finished.
Owner Claims One Dog;
Collie Killed by Car
Yesterday morning 12-year-old
Denise Stevens had two
dogs. Last night she had none.
Sunday afternoon - Denise,
who lives at 1208 Saling ave..
found a Scotch terrier tied in
a sack and abandoned in a
field near Hedrick Junior
High school. It was the second
lime she had found dogs aban
doned in this fashion. Al
though Denise and her moth
er. Mrs. Frances Webb Stev
ens, already owned a pedi
greed collie, Denise planned
to keep the little terrier.
However, the owners claim
ed their pet. which had dispa
peared from their home. Two
hours later. Queenie, the collie,
was struck by a car and killed.
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Newbry Asks Opinion
On Pamphlet Mailing
Salem (U.R) Secretary of i
State Earl T. Newbry said today
he had asked Attorney General
Robert Y. Thornton for an opin
ion on whether he should stop
distribution of voters' pam
phlets as requested by Multno
mah county District Attorney
William Langley.
Should Stop Distribution
Langley charged in Multno
mah Circuit Court yesterday
that distribution should be
stopped because of alleged "pre
judicial material" published in it
by Thornton, a candidate for re
election. Newbry said that until he re
ceived an opinion from the attor
ney general or received a re
straining order from the Circuit
Court he was "obliged by law"
to continue mailing the pam
phlets. He said about one-third
of them already had been dis
tributed. "This is a matter for the courts
to determine," Newbry said.
"Until then, we will go right
ahead with the mailing."
Newbry said he had received
Autopsy Reveals Cause of
Death Was Encephalitis
The autopsy performed last
week on Fay Walter Ferris, 56,
who died in the Medford city
jail Tuesday, revealed that he
died of "'some type of encepha
lopathy," according to District
Attorney Walter Nunley.
He received the report late
yesterday. It was prepared by
Dr. Helen Beeman of Jackson
Tower Medical Laboratories,
Portland, a pathologist, and in
dicated that it was impossible to
tell which type of encephalitis
was responsible for his death be
cause the body had been em
balmed before the autopsy was
performed.
Preliminary Report
But the preliminary report
indicated that any other cause
of death was ruled out on the
basis of the examination Nun
ley stated. The bruises for
which he was treated were said
to be of a minor nature. But
there was evidence of both old
and more recent brain damage
due to the disease, which might
have been caused by some toxic
substance, perhaps alcohol. Nun
ley said the report indicated. A
past history of heavy drinking
might have been responsible, he
added.
According to a detailed inves
tigation of the circumstances of
the case, conducted by the Med
ford police department after
Ferris' death, he was reported to
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a letter from Langley asking
that he stop distribution of the
pamphlets, but that the letter
had no bearing on his adminis
trative duty to get the pam
phlets out. He added that he
turned the matter over to Thorn
ton as his "proper legal counsel
and the counsel of all state of
ficials." Langley is under indictment
on charges of malfeasance in of
fice and conspiracy to permit
gambling, growing out of the
Multnomah county vice investi
gations. The investigation was
headed-up by Thornton.
Authority Given for
Small Business Loans
Seattle U.R Robert F.
Buck, regional director of the
Small Business Administration
for this area, announced today
he has been authorized to ap
prove small business loans on
his own authority up to $100,
000 when a bank is taking at
least a 25 per cent participation.
the police the morning of Mon
day, Oct. 8, to be staggering.
When an officer arrived, Ferris
was lying on the ground, bleed
ing from a small head wound.
Orders Ambulance
The officer ordered an ambul
ance, and Ferris was taken to
Sacred Heart hospital where his
wound was treated by a doctor,
who also examined him for
other possible injuries, and re
leased him, either to go home,
or, if adequate care was not
available there, to jail for con
finement for his own protection.
He gave evidence of being in
toxicated. The man was returned to jail,
and spent the night there. The
jail, as it customary, was
checked each hour during the
night, and Ferris showed no un
usual symptoms or evidence of
undue distress, according to the
statements gathered by the po
lice from officers and other
prisoners.
About 8 a.m. the following
day, not long after Ferris had
spoken to an officer during 'one
of the checks, another occupant
of the jail noticed he appeared
to be dead, and called an offi
cer. Immediately the state po
lice, sheriff's office and county
toroner were notified.
Nunley said Dr. Beemna had
indicated that symptoms of
encephalitis are readily con
fused with mild intoxication.
Eisenhower Starts
Trip To Northwest
Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower, who revised his
plans at the last minute to include California, starts today his most
extensive campaign trip yet in his drive for reelection.
The President will visit five crucial states in a five-day, 5,850
mile aerial swing accompanied by Mrs. Eisenhower.
He departed at 8 a.m. (EDT) for Minnesota where he is expected
to pay special attention to the farm vote. He was to make brief
speeches in Minneapolis and nearby St. Paul and then fly to
Seattle, Wash., arriving there tonight.
Council to Decide
On Annexation Vote
At Meeting Tonight
A decision as to whether or
not the Berrydale annexation
proposal will remain on the
Nov. 6 general election ballot
will be made by the city council
at 7:30 p.m. today.
The proposed annexation elec
tion was added to the council
agenda after a number of Berry
dale area residents, at a recent
meeting with city officials, pro
tested that they had not been in
formed about the proposed an
nexation.
Other Berrydale residents said
boundaries outlined on the orig
inal annexation petition had
been extended to include more
residents than had originally re
quested annexation.
The council will also consider
calling a public hearing on the
proposed annexation to Medford
of the First Free Methodist
church property, 1266 South
Peach st.
Calling a public hearing on
establishment of an agricultural
zone also will be considered.
The council will consider pre
sentation of a petition to a con
gressional committee gathering
evidence in regard to a flood
control survey of Rogue r'ver
and its tributaries. The petition
would ask that Bear creek be in
cluded in the survey.
The committee will hold a
hearing in the federal court
room at the Medford postoffice
Friday. The Army corps of en
gineers will hold a hearing in
Grants Pass Oct. 25 on flood
control, and a similar petition
would be presented at that
hearing.
Ike Halts Delivery
Of Jets To Yugoslavia
Washington (U.R) President
Eisenhower is halting delivery
of more than 200 jet fighter
planes and other military equip
ment to Communist Yugoslavia.
Mr. Eisenhower disclosed the
ban in declaring a new policy on
aid to Marshal Tito's regime.
The President said that for the
time being U. S. aid for Yugo
slavia will be limited to econom
ic assistance, chiefly food grants,
and minor military equipment.
Mr. Eisenhower said the ban
on delivery of the jet planes and
other heavy military equipment
will be maintained until the
status of Yugoslavia's current
relationship with Russia "can be
more accurately appraised."
John Pletsch. Elected
By Savings-Loan Group
Portland (U.R) John H.
Pletsch of the Jackson County
Savings and Loan Association,
Medford. was named president
of the Oregon Savings and Loan
League here today.
Georgia Coasf Pummeled
By Storm From Florida
Miami (U.R) An Atlantic
storm pummeled the Georgia
coast with heavy winds and
high seas today, leaving at least
two dead and heavily damaging
Florida tourist beaches.
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paign drive in the Far West that
will cover three states Wash
ington, Oregon and Colorado
where there are close senatorial
races, and California, where
party leaders are concerned
about the fate of that state's 32
electoral votes.
Revises Plans
The President revised his
plans at the last minute Monday
to include California, stretching
what started out as a four-day
trip to five days and scheduling
a speech at Los Angeles for Fri
day night.
Even before this addition, the
trip was the longest of Mr. Eis
enhower's ""' second-t e'r m " cam
paign. Heretofore, none of his
political jaunts have been of
more than overnight duration.
With the election just three
weeks away, the quickened
pace of the GOP campaign was
further emphasized by Mr. Eis
enhower on Monday night when
he launched a new series of five
minute GOP TV shows.
Features Cabinet Officers
The recorded show was the
first in a series of 33 that, from
now until the Nov. 6 election,
will . feature cabinet officers,
Vice President Richard M. Nix
on and others.
Mr. Eisenhower appealed to
the public to listen to the tele
casts and then "decide, by your
votes, how you will live, work
and prosper during the next
four years."
Water Board Ends
Hearing at Roseburg
Roseburg (U.R) Oregon's
powerful new Water Resources
Board today completed taking
testimony here that will be the
basis for the first basin-wide
water use plan in the state.
The precedent-setting hearing
was adjourned shortly before
noon after taking testimony for
a day and a half from industry
representatives health officials,
sportsmen and municipal au-.
thorities from throughout the
Umpqua river basin.
Don Lane, executive secre
tary of the board, said recom
mendations for a comprehensive
plan of water rights allocations
for the basin probably would not
be formulated until after the
first of the year.
Governor Plans Stop
At Medford Airport
Gov. Elmo Smith was sched
uled to stop briefly in Medford
this afternoon.
The governor, who is the Re
publican nominee for election
opposing State Sen. Robert
Homes of Gearhart, was due at
the Medford airport between
3:30 and 4 p.m., and planned to
make a talk there. Word of his
planned arrival did not reach
here until this morning, but ef
forts were being made to publi
cize his talk.
It was understood he would
spend only about an hour here.
The governor is a former state
senator and John Day newspaper
publisher. He succeeded to the
office on the death of Ex-Gov.
Paul Patterson last spring.
Salem (U.R) Twa Salem
magazine dealers charged with
selling indecent literature plead
ed innocent in Circuit Court
here Monday.
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REFIT BOAT These Medford boys, members of Ship III of
the Sea Scouts, have a lot of work ahead of them, sanding,
caulking and refitting this 26 ft. whale boat given to them by
the Navy last July. In order to raise money to buy paint and
other supplies, the boys are collecting deer hides, which they
will sell to a tanning company. According to the skipper,
Randy Gifford, about 50 hides have been collected so far,
and he urged anyone having unwanted deer hides to call
2-6435, 3-1758 or '2-2877, or leave them at Kliever Machine
shop. Surveying the boat are left to right, Jerry Garris,
George Schuler, Don Greaves, Gerald Mallams and crew
leader Chuck Flanagan.
Light Plane Reported
Down in Clackamas
Portland (U.R) A light air -
plane was reported to have gone
down in a wooded canyon a
mile west of Willamette in
347,996 Visitors
At Lake This Year
A total of 59,210 people en
tered Crater.Lake National park
during September, according to
Park Superintendent Tom Wil
liams. The total is about 10,000
more than the number entering
in the highest previous Septem
ber, which was in 1954.
Visitors thus far this year to
tal 347,996, Williams said. The
figure exceeds by more than
1,000 the cumulative total for
the first nine months of 1954.
the previous year with the great
est number of visitors.
Since July, 1955, travel which
passes directly through the park
on Highway 62 and which does
not proceed to Crater lake itself
has been omitted from the visi
tor log, Williams said. Previous
ly all travelers were included
in the log.
In connection with the in
creased attendance, several im
provements and expansions are
planned under the park service's
Mission 66 program. Included
in the program are expanded
campgrounds, picnic accommo
dations, better and wider roads,
and adequate personnel housing.
Work at Crater Lake already
has started on expanding camp
sites and other improvements.
Tax Statements Being
Prepared for Mailing
An estimated 33,578 Jackson
county tax statements for the
1956-57 fiscal year are being
placed in the mail this week,
according to Mrs. Elva Jennings,
county assessor.
In order to be eligible for the
3 per cent discount, taxes must
be paid on or before Nov. 15.
Seventy-four of the tax state
ments are for reforestation; 27,
880 real estate: 5,302 personal
property and 322 utilities.
Ad valorum tax on real estate
is expected to total $4,838,243.49
in the county. Total of taxes and
liens is expected to be ?5,153,
464.14. Three tax- department em
ployees and the county court
secretary began preparing state
ments for mailing yesterday.
They were expected to be work
ing on the project through Wed
nesday. Weather
FORECAST: Cloudy tonight
with occasional light rains to
night and Wednesday fore
noon. Low tonight 44, high
tomorrow 60.
Temp.
fflehrst Yesterday 9
Lowest this Morning 37
Our Skies Tonight
Sunrise
Sunset -
IMoonset Wednesday
Full Moon
PROMINENT STAR
Capella, low in north
east VISIBLE PLANETS
Saturn, sets
Mars, ui the southeast
Venus, low in east
Jupiter, low in east...
6:35 a.m.
5:28 p.m.
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Friday
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8:47 p.m.
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1 Clackamas county today and au-
thorities began a search for the
wreckage. It may have carried
four persons.
Number Aboard Unknown
The CAA here said it was be
lieved the plane was a Tri-Pacer
aircraft piloted by a "Mr.
Cramer" of San Jose, Calif.,
which took off for San Jose by
way of Medford at 8:39 a.m. to
day.
It was not determined Immed
iately how many were aboard.
An employee at the airport said
he had seen four persons in the
plane when it took off, one or
two of them women.
The CAA said that a wing had
been found with a number that
matched that of the small plane.
Several persons in the Wil
lamette area saw the plane
plunge toward the ground short
ly after 9 a.m. and some spoke
of hearing an explosion.
3 Named To Medford
Rogue Basin Hearing
Washington (U.R) Three
Interior Department officers
were designated today to testify
Friday at Medford at a hearing
on the Rogue river basin.
Interior Secretary Fred A.
Seaton said Interior testimony
would be presented by Arthur
M. Piper, U. S. Geological Sur
vey staff scientist and chairman
of the Rogue river task force
survey group; O. M. Browne,
Bureau of Reclamation, Boise,
regional project development
engineer, and Doren E. Wood
ward, Fish and Wildlife service.
supervisor of river basin studies
for the regional office at Port
land.
The hearing will be conduct
ed by the Senate Interior com
mittee under Sens. James E.
Murray of Montana and Dennis
Chavez of New Mexico.
Radio-TV-Highlights
President Eisenhower will
be heard over Italian KBES
TV at 6:30 tonight. Former
Governor Thomas E. Dewey
.will speak over station KYJC
(1230) at 8:30 p.m.
Full Accreditation Given
Sacred Heart
Sacred Heart hospital has
been fully accredited, according
to notice received from the
board of commissioners of the
joint commission on accredita
tion of hospitals, Sister Reine,
administrator, announced today.
The commissioners' report
also commends the hospital for
maintaining standards deserving
of accreditation and for the con
stant effort to improve quality
of patient care. Sister Reine said.
Sacred Heart hospital was in
cluded in a list of provisionally
accredited hospitals released
earlier this year by the joint
commission.
Established Agency
The joint commission' is an
agency established by five
health organizations' to conduct
hospital survey and inspection
program initiated by the Ameri
21 Minutes Needed
To Evacuate All
After Touch Down
Craft Comes Down
Near Weather Boat
San Francisco (U.R) A
crippled Pan American Airways
Stratoclipper ditched and broke
in two today in the "calm" Pa
cific ocean 1,045 miles south
west of here and all 31 persons
aboard were rescued.
All Rescued in 21 Minutes
Twenty-one minutes after the
four engined plane en route from
Honolulu to San Francisco
touched down atop the four-to-five-foot
swells at 8:16 a. m.
(PST), the last of the 24 pas
sengers and seven . crewmen
were taken aboard the U. S.
Coast Guard weather, cutter
Ponchartrain in a dramatic sea
rescue that brought this radioed
congratulation from the com
mandant of the 14th Coast
Guard district:
"Handled the rescue like a
bunch of champions . . . Well
done.
Radioed reports from the cut
ter, which is stationed at theor
etical weather point midway be
tween here and Honolulu, said
that "all 3 1 persons were in good
condition." A few suffered what
the Ponchartrain said were
"minor" injuries.
Transferred to Ship
The 31 survivors were to be
transferred to the destroyer USS
Johnson, which was some 150
miles from the scene at the time
of the ditching. The Johnson
will proceed to San Francisco
where it is expected to arrive
between 7 p.m. and 10 p.m.
Thursday.
The big four engined Boeing
Stratoclipper came down in the
four-foot swells, described by
air-sea rescue authorities as "ex
cellent" for such..water4QUch
downs, under . the split-secona
control of Capt Richard Ogg of
Saratoga, Calif.
It hit alongside the Ponchar
train. The ship's crew of 135, train
ed in air-sea rescues, had four
boats over the side by the time
the plane, which was forced to
ditch after losing two engines,
hit the water.
Liferafis Launched
The plane remained afloat
long enough for the crew to
launch two liferafts and to trans
fer the 24 passengers of the mix
ed tourist-first class flight to the
lifeboats.
Five minutes after the last
passenger and crew member
left the split plane, a Transocean
airlines plane over .the scene re
ported that the front section of
the broken ship had sunk.
. The ditching came after the
plane's captain circled above the
Pontchartrain. The plane circled
for more than four hours dump
ing gasoline and awaiting "more
favorable" ditching conditions.
Pan American World Airways re
leased the following list of passen
gers and crew aboard the "iar.e.
Hiroshi Shiga. Tokyo: Mitsuoi Shin.
Tokyo: Lt. Cmdr. Kenneth .Strickler.
Piedmont. Calif.; Louise Walker. Oak
land. Calif.: Ruby Dami. Oak-land: Re
becca Jacobe and her daughter, Joan.
Redwood City, Calif.
Manuel PanRan. Honolulu: Mrs.
Norma Scott. Sacramento. Calif.; Paul
Bird. New York City; Hendriclt Pratt.
Rotterdam: Frank Dorner. North
Hampton. Pa.: Richard Gordon. Sil
ver Springs. Md.. his wife Jane and
their two daughters. Maureen and
Elizabeth.
Herbert Ho. Malaya: Chick-ren
Chu. Taipeh: Hiroshi Hineno. Tokyo:
Albert Spear. Davisville. R.I.: Tjort
g-soen Lai. Djakarta: Cleto Cortez.
Philippine: Freda Dix. Jasonville,
Ind.: Marcel Touze, addresa . not
known.
The crew :
Cant. Richard Ogg. Saratoga. Calif.;
l.t Officer G. L. Haaker. San Mateo.
Calif.: 2nd Officer Ricriard L. Brown.
Belmont. 'Calif.: Flight Engineer
Frank Garcia. Mt. View, Calif.: Pur
ser Patricia Reynolds. San Mateo.
Calif.: Stewardess Mary E Daniel, San
Francisco, and Stewardess K. S.
Araki, Honolulu.
Hospital
can college of surgeons in 1919.
The five organizations are the
American college of physicians,
American college of surgeons,
American hospital association,
American medical association
and the Canadian Medical asso
ciation. Hospitals are rated on certain
basic requirements such as safe
physical plant free from fire
hazards, proper supervision and
review by the medical staff of
the clinical work done, matern
al, infant and anesthetic death
rates that are not excessively
high, adequate medical records,
ethical practices, investigation of
all tissues removed at operation,
mortality rates that are within
reasonable limits, proper nurs
ing care, and proper administra
tive and medical staff organiza