Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, October 29, 1956, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextI n Mr - f ji iiiu.ipiii.iiujju iiini.uwwnw nil ijjin . -imi i wow ' n USE 5 a fj If I SENATOR SURROUNDED Democratic U.S. Sen. Wayne Morse is shown answering a barrage of questions from four women voters gathered around him. Both Sen. Morse and his Republican opponent. Douglas McKay, attended the Candi dates Fair in Mcdford Saturday evening. Candidates Fair Draws Big Crowd Saturday Evening An estimated 1,500 Jackson county citizens filled the Mc- Loughlin Junior High school gymnasium Saturday night to meet national, jtate and local of- ' fice seekers at the Candidates Fair. The event was sponsored by the League of Women Voters and the two political parties. Ou4-of-Town Candidates - Out-of-town candidates attend ing were Democratic U. S. Sen. Wayne Morse; Douglas McKay, Republican ex-governor of Ore gon and former secretary of the Interior, now candidate for the U. S. senate; Republican Con gressman Harris Ellsworth; Charles Porter, Democratic can didate for congressman; Republi can Gov. Elmo Smith; State Sen. Robert Holmes, Democratic can didate for governor; Sig Unan der, Republican treasurer, and Monroe Sweetland. Democratic candidate for secretary of state. Nearly all local candidates were present and were intro duced. According to Mrs. Helen Thomas, chairman of the Candi dates Fair, the gymnasium was half full by 7:45 p.m.. although the fair was to start officially at 8:30 a.m. A near-capacity crowd was reported until about 10 p.m. Candidates Leav Sen. Morse left for Brookings at 9:45 p.m.. and McKay left a short time later. Most of the candidates had left by 10:30 p.m. Tlie Republican party was awarded a gavel for having the greatest number of representa tives present. The prize was sponsored by the Mail Tribune. Winning the prize as the old est voter present was H. G. Wil son, 84. Ashland. Prize for the youngest voter present went to Jim - McDonald, 24, Medford. Special prizes were presented every half hour. Firms donating prizes were Mann's Department store, Burel son's. Barker's Men's store. Bear Creek Orchards, Home Appli ance, Nortons Lumber in Phoe nix. Thrift Market in Central Point, Julie Tummcrs' Mon Desir, Weisfield's, Dave's Res taurant supply. City Appliance and Wainscott's Drug store. Man Burned To Death In Car Near Yreka Yreka, Calif. (U.PJ An uni dentified man was burned to death in a stolen car parked on the side of Highway 99 about 20 miles south of here, police reported today. Motorists spotted the blazing car Sunday night. Two of them, Edward Rake and Sam Bass, both of Walla Walla. Wash., stopped and smashed in the win dows in an attempt to rescue the occupant. The man was dead when removed from the vehicle. A check with the Multnomah county. Ore., sheriff's office re vealed the car had been stolen Oct. 22 in Portland and belonged to George W. Jones. Portland. The sheriff's office said two vagrants were suspected of steal ing the car. A cnecK at tne Dorris, Calif., inspection station disclosed that three men drove through in the car Saturday. Portland (U.R) Lloyd t. En field. 26. who escaped from Washington State prison at Walla Walla earlier this month, was arrested by state police near Mil waukie south of here Saturday. Weather FORECAST: Cloudy with ram through TuMdiy. Snow above 3S00 iteU Low tonight 3. Temp. Hi then vnterda 1 Lowest thi morning 3 Prec. To It -" toir M Our Skies Tonight Sunrise Sunset - -- Mxnrie Tuesday Miinn til p.m. a.m. ... Nov. 2 MORNING STARS vVnui nl Jup.ttr tonltht for I tnanrlr " the Two hrifht Dln .rf now both lV the ron.trlution "to e- os t h' Mlehtir of th. two. srael PRESIDENT SAID IN GOOD Washington (U.R) Prcsi dent Eisenhower's week end medical checkup turned out as he and his doctors expected with the Chief Executive giving "every appearance of being in excellent health." The President spent part of Saturday and most of Sunday at Walter Reed Army hospital un dergoing a "head-to-toe" physi cal examination. After checking everything from his teeth and eyes to his colon and the pulse rate in his feet, a group of eight doctors came up with the "excellent verdict. It w'as delivered not long before Mr. Eisenhower began a strenuous final round of reelec tion campaign speeches. Has No Doubts Dr. Paul Dudley White, the Boston specialist who treated the President after his heart attack. said that in view of the results of the week end tests he had no doubts about Mr. Eisenhower's ability to stand up under the rigors of the political campaign. White said that the results of his part, of the examinations, the cardiovascular portion of the tests, provided "excellent news' on the President's condition, par ticularly "after a period in wnicn me r resident was very busy. ' ftir. tisennower nimsclf was feeling demonstrably well as he left the hospital. He walked down the steps of Waller Reed Sunday afternoon with Mai. Gen. Leonard D. Heaton, com manding officer of the army medical center, and Mai. Gen. Man's Body Found Lodged in Tree Pinkey E. Vines, 61, Grant rd. Central Point, was found dead Sunday evening. His body was lodged about 40 feet up in a pine tree on the Table Rock estates. Carlos W. Morris, Jackson county coroner, said Vines had died apparently of a heart at tack. - According to 'state police, he left home about 10 a.m. Sunday to look for a pine tree he had considered as a deer hunting lookout point. His wife notified a friend. Joe Buchanan, Gold Hill, when Vines failed to return home Sunday night. Officers said Buchanan was familiar with the area and had been there previously with Vines. He found the body braced by limbs in the tree. State police and sheriff's depu ties were called to investigate the case. Services are pending at Conger-Morris funeral home. UMC Contributions Now Exeed $847000 ' United Medford Crusade con tributions now total $84,818.30, which is 72.3 per cent of the $117,000 goal, it was reported today. Solicitors brought $11,611.36 to the final "report luncheon" of the campaign today at rthe Elks club. About 267 Home Cru sade workers have collected $3, 237. which is 92.1 per cent of their $3,300 quota. Committee chairmen will meet each Monday noon at the Jack son hotel until the UMC goal is reached, it was reported. On Nov. 17. all UMC workers and their guests will attend a party and dance at the Rogue Valley Country club. Portland Doctor Found Safe on Hunting Trip Astoria (U.R) Dr. Forrest Bennett, Portland, was found safe by a search party last night after being reported lost while elk hunting on Sugar Loaf moun tain southeast of Cannon Beach. SIGNS AUTOGRAPH State Sen. Robert Holmes, Democratic candidate for governor, took time out Saturday night to auto graph some campaign literature for 11-year-old Jean Solin. Jean is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Solin, 942 Park st. Mrs. Holmes watches at right. Forces : HEALTH Howard McC. Snyder, the White House physician. Asked how he felt, the Presi dent said, "fine, fine." Feels Fine Physically "At least, I feel physically fine," he added. "Now, if they could just get those other wor ries off my head." Snyder and Heaton signed the medical report, but the White House explained that the find ings were subscribed to by the six other participating ' physi cians plus the department' heads at Walter Reed. His current'" weight is 172 pounds, compared with 168 be fore he underwent abdominal surgery last June 9. While he was in the hospital recovering from the ileitis operation, his weight dropped to 158'2 pounds. He weighed 178 immediately prior to his 1955 heart attack. The physicians found that he had made an "excellent recov ery" from the June surgery on his colon. District Director Petitions Due Now Today was the final day for petitions to be filed for director of the Talent, Rogue river val ley, Medford, Gold Hill and Eagle Point irrigation districts. incumbents filing petitions for another term include Otto Bohn ert. Rogue River Valley Irriga tion district; Paul Culbertson, Medford Irrigation district; E. M. Bigham, Eagle Point Irriga tion district; and Homer Moore and Evan E. Rasmussen, Talent Irrigation district. Rasmussen's term will be for one year. He was appointed di rector last September to fill the position vacated by Henry Owens, who moved out of the district. Terms of the others are for three years. Only election expected to be .held in any of the irrigation dis tricts will be in the Eagle Point district. Bigham will be opposed there by Ed Greenwood, who has also filed a petition. The election will be held Nov. 13. Director Lester Parker of the Gold Hill Irrigation district is expected to file his petition to day. Elections will not.be held in districts where there is no con test. Work at Railway Crossing Under Way The north half of Main st. at the Southern Pacific railroad crossing was closed to traffic today while SP crews repair the crossing there. . The work will continue until Friday. SP crews are relaying and retying tracks at the cross ing. They completed work on the south half of Main st. last week. Repair work at the 11th, Fourth and Jackson st. cross ings is planned. City police posted no park ing signs on the south half of Main st. this morning to provide two lanes of traffic. Six Reno Escapees Taken at Red Bluff Reno ;U.R) Six of eight pris oners who escaped from the Washington county jail here by burrowing through a brick wall with broken shower pipes were recaptured early today by Red Bluff. Calif., police, Sheriff C. W. Young reported. Young said he had been in formed that the fugitives-, who had armed themselves with two sawed off shotguns, two pistols and a rifle, were spotted shortly after midnight while parked "in a Red Bluff residential area by a patrol car. They apparently of fered no resistance to arresting officers. (St story pagt 6, section 2) 51st Year Medf... United Presi Full Leased Wir 20 Pages Poland Purging Those Opposed To Gomulka Regime Warsaw, Poland (U.R) Po land's new Communist Regime was reported purging its ranks today of men who opposed the new leader, one-time Titoist Wladyslaw Gomulka. The new leadership Sunday night announced it had freed Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski and restored him to his post as Catholic primate of Poland. The announcement came 25 months to the day after he had been stripped of his religious office and placed under confinement. Soviet Union Criticized At the same time, the Zicie Warsawy, Poland's second larg est newspaper, sharply criticized the Soviet Union for treating Poland as a "second class cousin." It said Poland's for eign policy "can be different from that of the Soviet Union. Informed sources said Gom ulka, the new Communist party leader, had been carrying out the purge for almost a week and that nine first secretaries had been fired in district branches for suspected antipathy toward the Gomulka regime. The sources said firings of the officials appeared to be based on the premise that if they were not with Gomulka they were against him. Gomulka took over as party leader two weeks ago follow ing a bloodless coup which saw the ousting of Stalinists from the government. Crosby Contempt Request Studied Portland (U.R) Circuit Judge Frank J. Lonergan today had under advisement a motion by two assistants to the attorney general asking that Clyde C. Crosby, Oregon Teamsters union leader, be cited for contempt of court. The motion came Saturday at the close of a hearing in Judge Lonergan's court. At the hearing nine Teamster officials and pin ball industry figures attempted to show that they had not been given proper warning about their constitutional rights before appearing before the grand jury this summer. Judge Lonergan announced that the hearing would be adjourned until an in definite date. The prosecutors accused Cros by of "delaying tactics" and abuse of judicial processes. Clif ford O'Brien, Crosby's attorney, accused Assistant Attorney Gen eral John Nichols of "trying to make the Sunday newspapers." State Has No Multnomah Probe Costs. Thornton Says Salem ;U.R) The state has no legal authority at this time to pay any of the expenses of the investigation or prosecutions of alleged vice and crime in Mult nomah county. Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton advised Gov. Elmo Smith today. Governor Asks Ruling Gov( Smith asked the attorney general for a ruling following re ceipt of a request from the Mult nomah county commissioners that the Emergency Board allo cate funds to pay expenses at tendant to the investigation and prosecutions. In his letter to the governor. Thornton quoted an Oregon stat GREETING VOTERS Among GOP candidates at the fair Saturday were Gov. Elmo Smith, candidate to succeed him self, and Sig Unander, treasurer seeking reelection. Shown greeting voters are, left to right, Mrs. Smith, Gov. Smith and Unander. SS"acn MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1956 ussian yitting "No, No, Men Just West Looks for UN Action Against Russia United Nations, N.Y. (U.R) British Ambassador Sir Pier son Dixon said today the West was "looking for action" in bringing the Soviet Union be fore the Security Council for using troops against Hungar ians. The United Slates, Britain and France Sunday convened an em ergency session of the council to file a formal protest. The council voted to consider the Hungarian question despite Sov iet objections and a Yugoslav ab stention. The council was to meet this afternoon to take up France s charge that Egypt has smuggled arms to Algerian rebels in what it called interference in France's domestic affairs. The Sunday session lasted five hours and 34-minutes without a break. It heard the Western Big Three supported by all other members except Yugoslavia and Iran call for an end to Soviet suppression of the Hungarian rebellion. Russian Ambassador Arkady A. Sobolev charged that the Legal Authority To Pay ute stating that the county was required to pay the "costs, fees and other expenses" of 'the in vestigation and its resulting pros ecutions. He noted that the lan guag'e of the statute was specific. No Legal Authority "Accordingly, until the legis lative assembly, in its wisdom, sees fit to change the law. it is my opinion that the state has no legal authority at this time to pay any of the expenses of the investigation o r prosecutions which have been, or will be sub mitted to the Multnomah county commissioners for payment," Thornton said. However, he added that "in Egyptian Bases -r Price 10c j- y rrice iuc mJTRIBUNE oldiers H The One On The End" United States actively backed the rebellion through congress ional appropriations of more than $125 billion to back anti Communists in the Iron Curtain countries. He charged that the three Western powers raised the Hungarian issue in the UN as a "propaganda maneuver" and that it was tied in with the U.S. presidential elections. U: S. Ambassador Henry Cab ot Lodge Jr., retorted that "there is a limit even to the absurdities of Soviet propaganda." Unidentified Plane Crashes; Two Killed Pembroke, Ga. U.R) An unidentified plane, believed to be a four-engine jet, crashed and exploded near here today. Two men aboard were reported killed instantly. The Highway Patrol said the plane apparently was from Mitchell Air Force Base on Long Island N.Y. A spokesman said a Mitchell insignia was on the plane. . , view of the extraordinary finan cial burden placed on Multno mah county by these impending prosecutions, I intend to recom mend to the 1957 Legislature that serious consideration be given to assisting the county in the matter with a state appropri ation to cover one-half the cost of such prosecutions." Could Allocate Funds The State Emergency Board is empowered to allocate funds to any state agency between ses sions of the legislative assembly to carry on an activity required by law for which an appropria tion was not made. , MANY ATTEND FAIR An estimated crowd of 1,500 attend ed the Candidates Fair, sponsored by the League of Women Voters and two political parties, Saturday night at McLough lin Junior High school. National, state and most local candi dates were in attendance. United Press Full Leased Win No. 188 ungary Budapest Rebels Laying Down Arms, Reports Indicate Vienna (U.R) Rebels In Budapest have begun to lay down their arms and Russian troops and tanks are leaving the battle-scarred city, Radio Buda pest announced tonight. ' The broadcast said Russian troops "will complete their with drawal from Budapest 24 hours after all resistance groups have delivered their arms." The broadcast, if it could be believed, indicated an agreement had been reached between the rebels and the government of Premier Imre Nagy. But the first announcement. by Badapest Radio was treated with caution. There have been several broadcast reports that the revo lution was over, peace restored and order reinstated. Each such announcement was followed by a new outbreak in fighting. No Direct Confirmation "Resistance groups in Buda pect have started to deliver their arms to the Hungarian troops," Radio Budapest said. There was no direct confirma tion from Budapest. Communications between the Hungarian capital and the West were still cut off, with only sporadic contact during the morning. A dispatch filed byUnited Press Staff Correspondent An thony Cavendish from Budapest today said that "Soviet troops are still here." But a great number of tanks and infantry were pulling out of the cjty Sunday night as Cav endish walked in following a flight from Warsaw. Not Fast Enough Budapest Radio itself com plained today that Soviet forces were not leaving fast enough. Departure of the Russians left the city open for the triumphal entry of victorious revolutionary forces now demanding negotia tions for a democratic govern ment with the frightened Nagy. Nagy's party mouthpiece, Sza bad Nep, said the revolution was a "full victory" for the Hun garian people. And it rejected Soviet charges hat "American imperialist circles" were behind the upris ing. Such a charge is an "insult to our people," it said. The revo lution was a "national uprising directed by the free will of the Hungarian people." (See Story on Pag 7) Malheur Forest Land Withdrawn by Interior Washington U.R) The In terior Department today an nounced withdrawal of three separate tracts embracing 360 acres of public land in the Mal heur national forest in Oregon and the Coconino and Tonto na tional forests in Arizona for use of the Forest Service as adminis trative sites. The order closes the lands to staking of mining claims and to mineral leasing except for oil and gas, provided that no part of the surface of the withdrawn lands may be used for propect ing, mining or removal of oil and gas in a manner which will dis turb the surface. Operation Claimed Necessitated by Continuous Acts Jerusalem, Israel (U.R) An Israeli Army communique to night announced that Israel de fense forces penetrated and at tacked Egyptian "suicide com mando" bases near a road junc tion leading toward the Suez Canal. "This operation was necessi tated," the communique said, "by continuous Egyptian mili tary attacks on citizens and on Israel land and sea communica- Washington (U.R) News ef today's Israeli attack on Egyptian positions was flashed immediately to President Ei senhower and Secretary of Stat John Foster Dulles. Thr was no immediate comment from U. S. govern ment spokesmen. But high of ficials mad no attempt to hide their concern. tions, the purpose of which was to cause the destruction and de prive the people of Israel of the possibility of a peaceful exis tence." ' The communique said that units of the Israel defense forces "penetrated and attacked Feda yeen suicide commando bases in the Kuntilla and Ras El Naqb area and have taken up positions w est of the Nahel Road junction towards the Suez Canal. Kuntilla is about seven miles inside the Egyptian border west of the Israeli Negev Desert. It is a good 125 .miles southwest of Jerusalem. . Ras El Naqb is also within Egyptian territory, some 10 miles northwest of the Israeli port of Eilat on the Gulf of Akaba in the extreme south. Reference To Highwsy Mention of the road junction "towards the Suez Canal" was actually a reference to the high way leading from Muntilla west across the Sinai Desert to Port Suez, southern junction of the waterway which Egypt's Presi dent Gamal Abdel Nasser nation alized last July 26. Kuntilla is about 110 miles from Port Suez. There was no immediate indi cation that the Israel force's were moving west towards the canal. American Evacuation Machinery Set Up Washington (U.R) The United States today set up ma chinery for evacuating Ameri can dependents from the tense Mit'dle East and consulted with Britain and France on how to prevent an outbreak of war there. President Eisenhower said Sunday the United States views the situation with "grave con cern." He disclosed that he had sent two urgent and personal appeals to Israel not to touch off a Middle East war. Cottage Grove Blast Claims Fireman Cottage Grove U.R) Wayne Franklin McCall, 29, fireman burned when a butane storage tank of the Cottage Grove Gas Co. blew up a week ago, died last night in a local hospital. Harold Dean, fireman taken to the Sacred Heart hospital in Eugene with burns suffered in fighting the fire that followed the explosion, w'as reported still in critical condition. Some 20 persons were injur ed in the fire, which also destroy ed an adjacent house. Radio Highlights An address in th interests of the Democratic party will b heard over station KYJC (1230 kc) at 8:30 tonight. .