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o O O O t. o o c . o O O w O O C O O o 0 o i O o o o o o o EIHT MEDFORD. (OREGON) : Motion Filed to Disqualify Judge Attorney Ed Kelly filed a mo tion in circuit-court Friday aft ernoon asking that Circuit Judge CH. K. Hanna be disqualified from presiding at "the trial Wednes O day of Donald LaVerne .Am oehl, 31, of 1615 Crater Lake ave. o Ambuehl is charged with un lawfully gealing in narcotics. Kelly said his motion was bas ed on an affidavit of prejudice o filed by'Ambuehl after his trial dale was changed from Jan. 8 0o to Jan. 2. " . o District Attorney Walter D. o Nunlcv told the Mail Tribune on oDec. 20 hat the trial Was re scheduled so It could take place O O before he leaves office Jan. 7 q and llet request for the change was made ry police officers. c Kelly said he and his client objected to Judge Manna's re scheduling of the tnnl on this basis and lhat -they felt the ac O tinn indicated Ambuehl would - not have a fair trial. 0 :Tfie judge was' out of town C and could not be contacted for comment this week end. The dis trict attorney said Saturday sev eral nthT trials scheduler! be C fore Amburhl's had been post- pored an1 indicated that ad 0 vancenient nf a trial under cir q cumstances was not unusual. Ambuehl's trin! is scheduled for 9:30 a m. Wednesday. Union Pacific Tells "Personnel Changes Two changes in traffic person nel for the -Medford office of Union Pacific railroad will take effect Jan. 1. company officials announced today. John C. Strnmberg. presently district freight and- passenger agent here, has been promoted to the newly created position of as sistant general freight agent in Portland. -, Stroaiberg will be returning to Portland after sr year and a half absence while district freight nd passeinger agent, in Med ford. He entered the railroad's service at Portland in 1942 and occupied positions of tariff in spector and freight traffic agent. Robert D. Toomey. who is now -traveling freight agent at Port land, will assume new duties as general traffir agent with hrad qunrtets in Medford. Toomey joined Union Pacific -Mar 19. 1938.. at Portland and held various Clerical positions before being promoted to travel ing passenger agent in 1944. He has also served as traveling freight and passenger agent at Yakima and Eugene, and freight traffic agent in Portland. 3 All-Oregon WAC Platoon Planned Art All-Oregon WAC platoon will be enlisted during January, according tn the Army recruit ing station at Portland, o The women will work and take basic training at Fort Mc Clellan, Ala." They will later engage In such specialized jobs o as accounting, surgical and den tal technical work, photography, communications, and public re lations. o To qualify for WAC enlist CTrent a woman should be be tween the ages of 18-35, single, a high school graduate pr able to pass a high school equivalent test and be in good physical con dition. Further . Information Is available at the Army recruit oing station in the Medford post xiffice buildipg. 9s BEST WISHES FOR... c Happy; Prosperous NEW YEAR "fes'and we're maka, but it is NEW GENERAL ELECTRIC 5 1 NEW SHIPMENT JUST ARRIVED MAIL TRIBUNE Polio Victim Needs Medford Home Before Classes Start Mervil Hutchinson, 21-year-old Burns, Ore., polio victim, hopes to begin training for a career at Robertson School -of Business in Medford tomorrow but he can't unless he finds a place to stay. Hutchinson, who suffered a polio attack four years ago and was hospitalized in Nyssa, Ore., for one vear, is unable to climb stairs and can move around only News About Servicemen AT SCHOOL Gilbert F. Liddell. son of B. F. Liddcll, 712 South Newtown St., will attend a 26-week Navy den tal school for training in pros thetics starting Jan. 3 at San Di ego. Calif. Liddcll, a dental technician j third class, is married to the for ; mer Miss Janet Wisely, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd W. Wise ly, 724 West Jackson blvd., Med j ford. The Liddells are now living in j San Diego where he is stationed at the Naval training center. ! GETS PROMOTION Ronald Singler, son of Mrs. i Eva Singler. 3138 Dark Hollow rd., has been promoted to air ! man first class. He is a radio and radar maintenance man for C 124 Globemasters. His most re cent flight was to Hawaii. Singler is stationed at Lar son Air Force base and spent a brief holiday leave in the Rogue valley with relatives and friends. FINISHES COURSE Marine Pfc Lyle Keith Yocom, son of Mrs. Georgia Jack, 625 Cherry St., Central Point, has completed the 17-week aviation electrician's school in Jackson ville, Fla. Yocom enlisted in the Marine corps in Medford on Dec. 20, 1955. He completed his basic training in San Diego, Calif., and an eight-week aviation techni cian's course in Jacksonvile, Fla. TRANSFERRED Ted Braun, son of Albert Braun, 104 Queen Anne ave., Medford, and Mrs. Suzanne Bak er, Oakland, Calif., has been' transferred from Ft. Louis, Wash., to Korea. Braun, a private in the Army, recently completed specialist school at Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo. COMPLETES COURSE Army Pvt. Robert G. Lance of Gold Hill, recently completed the nine-week general drafting course at engineer school. Fort Belvoir, Va., under the Reserve Forces act program. The 17-year-old soldier, son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd G. Lance, attended Crater High school at Central Point. PROMOTED Private First Class Ronnie L. Hanson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter W. Hanson. 739 Dakota ave., Medford. has been pro moted to specialist third class. He is stationed with the 10th AAA missle battallian at Fair child Air Force base in Spokane. Hanson will be discharge in Feb ruary after serving two years in the Air Force. He is a graduate of Medford High school. HOME ON LEAVE Pvt. Freddie White, whose wife Norma resides at 828 North Central ave.; Pvt. Lanny Zwan, whose parents live at 2240 Camp Baker rd.. and Pvt. Donald Rob inson and Pvt. David Robinson, whose parents live at Gold Hill, are all home on leave from the Army this week. Pvt. White is assigned to Co. "A" 11th infantry division for basic training at Fort Ord. Cal. doing something to make it so for you. Prosperity is not how much you how much your money will buy . . . how much you can save! Reg. S49.95 Sunday, December 30. 1956 in a wheel chair or with crutches, In fact, he has only been able to use crutches since starting physi cal therapy treatments in Ash land last summer. Living With Cousin He is still taking treatments ; and is currently living in Ash j land with a cousin, Mrs. Claude I Moore, route 1. box 162. He must find ground-floor liv ing quarters with no stairs to climb. "What I'd like to find would be a place where I could have room and board, but I real ize that's a pretty big order," he commented. The room doesn't have to be near the business school, he pointed out, since a friend has volunteered to trans port him to school from any place in Medford. Waiting For Call Friends have tried to help find him a home, but so far have been unsuccessful. He has also advertised, but this, too, has been of no avail. Now. with time rapidly running out, he is mak ing a final appeal for a home. He will be near the telephone (Ashland 2-8093) all day today awaiting an offer of a home in Medford, which will enable him to start his business course on schedule. Skin Grafted From Small Boy to Girl Chicago (U.R) Little Cindy Evans, 3, Decatur, 111., was re ported in satisfactory but criti cal condition Saturday morning following an operation in which skin from a 3-year-old Christmas traffic victim was transferred to cover burns over a large part of her body. A team of surgeons worked for five hours Friday transferring skin from the body of 3-year-old Gilbert Case III, Chicago, to the little girl who has hovered on the brink of death since Nov. 27. The drastic operation provid ed a temporary biological cover ing for the little girl who was burned from her chin to her knees after her dress caught fire when she reached for a box of crackers on a gas stove. The skin from the dead boy now covers 90 per cent of the burned area and surgeons said Cindy had a fighting chance to live. The skin was a bitter Christ mas gift from Gilbert's parents. On Christmas Eve, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Cae were taking four of their five children to a Chi cago department store to see Santa Claus. A car swerved out of a line of traffic and hit them headon. Gil bert and his parent; were in jured and the boy died a little over 24 hours later. 73,000 Japanese Girls Sold to Slave Traffic Tokyo (U.P.) Poverty-stricken Japanese parents have sold more than 13.000 girls this year for white slave traffic, police of ficials announced Saturday. They said the total was more than 30 per cent higher than last year's rate. In Hokkaido alone, hit hard this year by frost and snow, farmers have sold 1,250 of their daughters in the past 12 months, police said. Fvt. Zwan is a member of Bat tery B. third battalion, Fort Bliss, Tex., and is attending the Army's 42-week guided missile school. Pvt. Donald Robinson is in his sixth week of basic train ing in company "A" 38th in fantry division, and his brother, David, is in his fourth week of basic training in company "B" of the same infantry division. Both are stationed at Fort Lewis. Wash. MODEL 63 Deluxe HOOVER Was $124.95 SPECIAL $8388 Air Lift of 9,700 Refugees May Be Completed Jan. I Washington U.R) The Air Force said Saturday it will com plete the air lift of some 9,700 Hungarian refugees to the United States on New Year's Day with the arrival of a Mili tary Air Transport Service plane at McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey. Another 5.100 refugees will arrive in the United States by naval transports during Janu ary. Two Navy Military Sea Transport Service ships are now at sea with 3.400 refugees aboard. The first of the trans ports, the USNS Leroy Eltinge is scheduled to arrive in Brook lyn Monday with 1,747 refugees. With the completion of the air and sea lifts, "Project Safe Hav en" ordered by President Eisen hower will come to a close. The Defense Department said, how ever, it will make available further air and sea lifts in event it is decided to admit additional Hungarian refugees to the Unit ed States. During the three-day airlift, MATS planes made 110 trans Atlantic flights with more than 6.000 refugees. Commercial transports, under contract to the military, made 46 flights carry ing 3,341 refugees. The government took two ad ditional steps last night to aid the Hungarian refugees. It ordered local public hous ing officials "do to whatever their local situations permit" to house refugees in 16,000 vacant public housing units. It also di rected that nearly S2 million worth of excess military cloth ing, bedding and similar equin ment be shipped to refugees in Europe. Interest Rates on Savings to Increase New higher bank savings de posit interest rates ranging from 2'2 to 3 per cent will become effective Jan. 1 at the Medford branch of the U. S. National bank of Portland, according to Allen Perry, manager. Three-year certificates of de posit, issued after Jan. 1, will draw interest at 3 per cent, pay able at the expiration of the three year period. All regular savings accounts, regardless of size, will earn 2'z per cent in terest starting Jan. 1. C. E. Hedberg. manager and vice president of the Medford branch, First National bank of Portland, announced last week that the same interest rates for savings deposits and three-year certificates will also become ef fective at that bank Jan. 1. Interest on savings deposits will increase from 2 to 2'4 per cent per annum effective Jan. 1 at Rogue Valley state bank, it was reported last week. Depos its made up to Jan. 10 will draw interest from Jan. 1, bank of ficials said. Mexico's Illiteracy Rate Being Reduced Mexico City (U.R) Mexico's illiteracy rate has been reduced from 80 to 46 per cent in the past 10 years, an official of the United Nations Educational and Scientific Council said Saturday. Gabriel Ansola, Unesco's ad viser to the education ministers of the Central American coun tries, said the drive has been so successful that other Latin American nations are using Mex ican technicians as advisers. Clyde C. Crosby, Lloyd Hildreth, Frank Malloy, William Goebel, Harry Arnsberg, Danny Matin, Lou Dunis and the Coin Ma chine Men of Oregon. KIRBY New price $188.50 Used Only a Few Times WE INVITE PRICE COMPARISON Miller Lists Several Suggestions for New Mayor, City Outgoing Mayor Earl Miller has listed several suggestions to the new mayor and city council on problems and proposed proj ects that will face the new ad ministration during its term in office. "I believe," Mayor Miller said "the traffic situation is Med ford's number one problem." The 10-year capital improve ment plan, approved by city vot ers at the recent election, should be carefully analyzed and car ried out on schedule with prior ity on certain arterial streets," he said. The mayor added the plan for storm and sanitary sewers should be given equal attention on the same priority basis and carried out on schedule. Council Policy He urged the new mayor and council to retain the present council policy in regard to wa- ! Bremerton Man Hurt In Highway 99 Crash Clifford Charles Sallee, 22, of Eremerton. Wash., suffered a bruised collar bone Saturday morning when the car he was operating was involved in an accident with two other vehicles on the Tolo overpass, Highway 99, about three miles north of Central Point, according to state police. He was taken to Rogue Val ley hospital by private car, po lice said, where hospital attend ants said his condition was not serious. He was released later Saturday. Also involved in the crash were cars operated by Clarence Arthur Hundeby, 58, Portland, and Norman Rodrick Jones, 21, Riddle, Ore. Jones suffered face abrasions, it was reported, but did not need hospital treatment The accident occurred when the Hundeby car went out of control on icy pavement, and the other cars struck it, police said. Pineau Stresses Importance of Unity Paris U.R) French For eign Minister Christian Pineau summed up the results of his policy in a "year end" address over French National Radio system Friday night and stressed the importance of greater West ern European unity. . He also attacked the role of Egyptian President Gamal Ab dcl Nasser and again expressed French regret that the United Nations saw fit to act in the Suez dispute in a manner differ ent from that in Hungary. Pineau said the summing up could be divided into four policy sections: North Africa, Middle East, Hungary and the building of unity in Western Europe." Concerning North Africa, Pineau said "in 1956 France gave independence to Tunisia and Morocco, demonstrating the falseness of the accusations of colonialism by countries which could learn from us lessons in Democracy and social progress." At the same time, he went on, France is fighting in Algeria to "reestablish order and permit reforms to be put into operation which are awaited by the Mos lem population." WEATHER By UNITED PRESS Northern California: Fair Sun day; little change in tempera ture. $88 50 Guaranteed One Year Council ter and sanitary districts outside Medford limits. The city should not annex areas where those facilities have already been pro vided, he said, unless the dist ricts are dissolved upon annexa tion. Miller also proposed that the new mayor and council oppose one of the recent findings and recommendations of the legisla tive interim committee on local government. The 'committee recommended to the state legislature they pass legislation permitting county courts to establish service dist ricts. Miller said this, in his op inion, would retard the growth of any cit; where a service dist rict was allowed in an area that in the future might be contigu ous to the city. Airport Zoning He stated the proposed airport zoning regulations should be ad opted "soon in order that Med ford's most important transpor tation facility will be protected from hazards. Parking facilit ies at the airport should be im proved, he added, and the ter minal should be landscaped. As Med ford's population growth has brought a shortage in recreational facilities for chil dren, according to Miller, Med ford should be surveyed in order that plans for additional play grounds can be formulated. The city should give more study to the "acute" parking sit uation in downtown Medford so that a solution will be found for improvement, Miller said. He cautioned the new mayor and council not to adopt a pol icy that would hinder Medford's growth, and to be conscious of local developments that could strengthen Medford's economic balance. RETIRED EDITOR DIES Tucson, Ariz. (U.R) Sevellon Brown, 70, retired editor and publisher of the Providence, R.I., Journal and the Evening Bulle tin and founder of the American Press Institute, died Friday after suffering . a paralytic stroke while vacationing here. 1 ' A K DRINKwjf A AT LEAST 13 1 a, GLASSES OF -MILK K No Negligence Found in Fire Fighters Washington U.R. forest Service investigators have found no evidence of negligence on the part of individuals who fought the Nov. 25 fire in the Cleveland National Forest in California. Forest Service Chief Richard E. McArdle said Friday a top investigating team was unable to determine the precise reason why the fire started its flash run up the side of the San Diego River canyon. The service speculated that unburned gases, trapped in the chimney-like ravine, suddenly ignited. In the flash fire, 11 of 18 firefighters were trapped and killed. McArdle said the firefighters were all experienced men, "yet something happened here an happened in a few minutes0that caused the fire unexpectedly to blow up." Rep. Clair Engle (D-Calif.) said the incident indicates "the Forest Service doesn't know its business as a fire fighting orgagi zation." He said he will order a congressional investigation of the Forest Service's handling of this and more recent California fires. Five Loans Awarded . Commercial Fleet ' Washington (U.R) Secre tary of Interior Fred A. Seaton has announced the awarding of five loans to help commercial fishermen finance their opera tions and improve their gear. They were the first loans made out of a new $10 million fish eries loan fund. The five loais totalled $41,500. They went to an applicant in Massachusetts, two in California and two in Alaska. The loans will become final when the fishermen sign the terms of the loan agreements. They run for a maximum of 10 years at an interest rate of five per cent. The department said names of the recipients will not be made public until the papers are signed. Seaton said 70 other applicants have applied for similar loans totalling $2.3 million. Use Tribune Want Ads n Ml unj KKW vwrn : Enjoi) the (lolliaijJ Q "Male it MflT j -0UI ' K c HAPPY NEW MILK producers league Budapest Marriage Snow Large Increase Vienna Ol.ft Young couplea o?re being married in Budapest at three times the rate before tha Oct. 23 Hungarian uprising, ac cording to Radio Budapest. The broadcast said weddings are beiag celebrated in the Hun garian capital on an average of one every 15 minutes. Radio Budapest also said persons whose wives or husbands have fled tht country may start divorce pro ceeding Jan. 1, when the courts resume work. e- Embezzler May Be Court's Wifn&fo Norfolk, Va. (U.ft Im-Q oned iulti-millin dollar em bezzler MrVIinnie C. Bfengum may appear as0 a witness in a civil suit heft Moniay to testify jtbout money sp allegedly gavaO to her relatives. q O O Michael B. 'agenhlm, named as special Qmaster7 to hgir the suit, said Saturday he will ask Judge Walu?f"QE. Hoffman frta writ of habeas corpus t4produce Miss Mangum as tftjj coSrt's wffc ness. o o The suit is an attempt to re cover 5128,295.36 whicfcShe Fed- eral Savings aijd Loan-. Insur-""'' ance CorporationQ ftiirits Miss Mangum gave to hir sister, Mrs. Ola M. Vail of Suffolk, VsQnd her faniily. The Vails derw re ceiving embezzled funds. O MissOManrum, 59 - ycafl-&H former Sunday scho(g acher, O is serving 2 yeiirs at the state industrial term for women jilt Goochland, Va. She; was assistant Secretary treasure of the now -(defunct Commonwealth 0BuildiifjD and Loan Association oil Norfolk at the time0 a shnUafre of S2.884, 000 was imcovered lagj year. q0 2 Bihrg WmHrs no. w . Xi diiUnra toorftr b When in me ianirw trov. I n c r f nw. 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