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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday, November 30. 1956 Eisenhower Keeping In Cfose Touch With Middle East Crisis Augusta, Ga. (U.R) The White House said today Eresi- aent Eisenhower is keeping in close touch with the Middle East 3 crisis althoush trfere are nn new indications it 'will explode into World War. III. The President, taking his first rest since his reelection, has con Gferred by telephone daily with State Department officials since he arrived for a golfing vacation at the Augusta National Golf Club here earlier this' week. Talked To Heaver The President talked long dis tance Thursday with acting Sec o 3 retwy ol State Herbert Hoover Jr. in Washington. White House Press Secretary 0 GjJfnrs Hagerty met with report ed fits shortly afterward ahd refused to tad a general war outlook into recent reports from the Mid dle East. " e e However, Hagerty refuse to cothment on the disclosures of Soviet arms shipments to Syria. Hitgerty had said Wednesday thai the White House considered the Suez Carta) crisis eased. IS ftcle of Golf Although Mr. Eisenhower has sfnt much of his time on tele- phone conferences regarding the Walker's Turnstile Pays Off Belter e, o Than- Parking Lot Dallas, Tax. (U.R) Elbert (T) K. Norton got tired of pedet ifiani cutting through his downtown parking lot in such numbers they hampered the routine " business of parking automobiles. To discourage sham, ha sat Sup a i turnstile and started chatging each pedestrian five cents to cut through the lot. He estimated they saved three T. blocks of walking. Today v as coins jingled, a happy sound, he said ha has been missing out on a" good thing all along. . "It fcagins . Is look lika there's mow money in running ;j this pedestrian sheiicut than (y in parking cars," he said. The turnstile- was put In. operation Wednesday. Within (j an hoajr. 100 s parsans paid the nickel and passed through : tn turnstile. f!e explained thaf parking customers get to use the short cut for free. ' explosive Mideast crisis, he's managed to play 18 holes of golf almost daily. However, his game is "off," according to his part ners. One of his best scores to date in this golfing capital has been a 44 on the last nine holes of the Augusta National Golf Club. Forged Securilies Jenience Mefed Portland (U.R) Federal Judge Gus J. Solomon yesterday sentenced 44-year-old Robert Ed ward Alkire of Seattle to 15 years in a federal penitentiary on 12 indictment counts charg ing transportation of forged se curities in interstate commerce. Alkire, who is married and the father of five children, had pleaded guilty on all counts. They involved eight indictments in the northern district of Cali fornia, one in Montana, one in Oregon and two in Utah. Alkire who was arrested by Portland police last June, was accused of using more than 50 names in defrauding banks of at least $50,000 in a three-year period. Alkire operated by becoming friendly with officers of banks and by making small deposits of S50 of a few hundred dollars. Then he would deposit fictitious checks for as high as S8000 and withdraw a large part of the phoney deposit. The court said a small part of Alkire's loot went to his family-Hia wife supported their chil dren by teaching school. Bribery Charged To Hil'sboro Judge Hillsboro (U.R) The Wash ington county grand jury has in dicted County Judge Harry M. Seabold on a charge of "reciv ing and agreeing to receive a bribe, being a judicial officer." A secret indictment was re turned Wednesday. It was not made known until yesterday when Judge Seabold posted $1, 000 bond. He was indicted earlier this year on a charge of accepting a commission for the sale of county-owned property. This indict ment was dismissed in August. In the new indictment Judge Seabold was accused of giving money to pay back taxes on some land that had been on a tax fore closure list. He also was charged with obtaining a deed to the land from a couple and of delivering the deed to another couple with the agreement that they would log the land and pay a percent age to the judge. Judge Seabold, 63. a Republi can, was defeated this month when he ran for reelection. CD Disaster Workshop Held in Douglas County Boseburg (U.R) A Douglas county disaster workshop was held here this week and civil defense leaders throughout the county were told that Douglas county would be responsible for aiding some 25,000 evacuees should an H-bomb be dropped on Portland. The workshop was designed to acquaint CD and shelter man agers with ways of preparing for disaster. Do not refreeze thawed foods. After they are cooked, however, they may be returned to the freezer. Harry Cain Named In Divorce Suit Los Angeles (U.R) Former Sen. Harry P. Cain of Washing ton has been named corespond ent in a cross-complaint for di vorce filed by a prominent Re dondo Beach, Calif., physician. Dr. Emanual Madden, 58, charged Thursday in Superior Court that the former Republi can senator was one of 10 men who held clandestine meetings with the doctor's wife, Alice Eleanor, 45. Cain, reached in Dayton, Ohio, Thursday night said: "I'm not denying anything. I think it would be preposterous to even acknowledge anything like that. Anyone who knows Mrs. Madden would know any such charges by her husband were just ridiculous." He said he never had been in Mrs. Madden's home and had met her only infrequently, "per haps at a dozen very congenial and pleasant political gather ings." He branded the su:t "abso lutely preposterous" and said he didn't even know Madden and had not seen the doctor's wife for more than a year. , jr X '.VVirr L tik w,-- wrfn j . f: tlVtJ J, I IPs tir"''' tfiii frr-iami',1 iMi -ia- ,v-'n il I ' HM,,i Miliianf Order of KKK Being Organized Birminghak, Ala. (U.R) A s a E. (Ace) Carter, Alabama's most ouCspoken White supremacist, helped today to organize a mili tant new order of the Ku Klux Klan of the Confederacy," which has applied for incorporation here. Carter said the new version of the KKK will be dedicated to the preservation of White su premacy" and will not be "side tracked in other issues." He said he will remain as head of the North Alabama Citizens Council. The papers filed with Jeffer son county officials listed the organization as the "original Ku Klux Klan of the Confederacy." The incorporators said it is "na tional in scope" and has among its goals the assisting "in avoid ance of racial tensions and by Russian-Yugoslav. Troop Clash Told - Bonn, Germany. (U.R) The West German newspaper. Run nachrichten of Dortmund f epart ed today from Vienna that So viet and Yugoslav troops clashed recently on the Yugoslav front ier. It said 18 Russian soldiers were killed. The newspaper said a, unit of Russians commanded by a ser geant crossed th frontieY.frora Hungary into Yugosvia ti search of food. It said the Rus sians invaded several farms and plundered them. The farmers alerted Yugoslav troops who found th'e Russians in a farmhouse stealing food, the reports said. CUSTODY BATSLE Los Angeles (U.R) Arlie L. Lamb, 42, and his wife, Jean, 32,o'iave agreed to share Diablc pending trial of her divorce suit. A Superior Court Thursday ap proved the agreement under which Mrs. Lamb will have cus tody of Diablo on week days and iamb on week ends. Diablo is a chihtiahua. l's Mail Tribune Want Ad rhe Wommunlty'i Bluest Marketplace friendly discussion to bring about understanding between the races." 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