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r 1 CTATORS M RY ml mm r TAKE OATH Jackson county officials, some newly-elected and some having held office before, were sworn into office this morning at the courthouse by county cierk Bereth Hopkins. Shown above, left to right, are Karl Janouch, treasurer; Thomas Reeder, district attorney; Paul Rynning, surveyor; Ralph James, county commissioner; Ray Schumacher, Mark Hatfield Takes Oath as Stale Secretary Salem (U.R) Mark Hatfield, 34, was sworn in as Oregon's 26th secretary of state at 1:45 p.m. today in the capitol build ing here. . He succeeds Earl T. Newbry, secretary of state for the past nine years. Justice William McAllister of the State Supreme Court admin istered the oath of office to the young secretary. me Bible used in the cere mony was given to Hatfield by his parents during World War n. Department Heads Present Present for the ceremony were heads of various departments of the secretary of state's office: Warne H. Nunn, who will be come assistant secretary of state; Harold Phillippe, accounting di vision; Doug Decew, auditing; Dave O'Hara, elections; Law rence Christenson, building and grounds, Clarence Ellis, fuel tax; Leolyn Barnett and Lois Sieg mund, secretaries. Former Senator Hatfield, as secretary of state, will be a member of the State Board of Control, Land Board and Banking Board. He was a former State Senator from Mar lon county. State Treasurer Sig Unander took his oath of office several weeks ago. He took the oath early due to the requirements of obtaining a large bond. Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton was sworn in at a brief ceremony here this morn ing. Today also is the day when state senators and representa tives assumed their official obli gations and privileges of office. Telephone Firm Begins Canvass Five representatives of Facific Telephone's general sales de partment today started a month- long canvass of the Phoenix and Talent areas. The survey, according to Man ager Jack Creager, is to deter mine what type of telephone ser vice present and potential sub scribers want when the new Phoenix - Talent exchange and KEystone 5 (KE 5) telephone numbers are placed in operation late in April. Creager indicated that .one, two and four-part service would be available within the base rate area boundaries of the new ex change, and that eight-party service would be available out side the boundaries. AH subscribers in the Phoe nix-Talent exchange will be able to dial directly without Ion distance charges to telephones in Medford, Ashland and Jackson ville. Making the canvass of the area which will be served by the new exchange will be J. M. Helfrich, R. A. Rivcrman, E. L. Kleinke Jr., A. T. Sonniksen and A. I. Jacques. Italy Leads United States In Bridge Tournament Play New York (U.PJ Italy led the United States by 1310 points today after the first session of the world championship bridge tournament here. Forty-eight of the 224 boards to be played in the match were completed. At the end of yester day's afternoon session of 24, Italy was ahead by 1,500, a sub stantial opening-session lead. The Americans whittled 190 points off their deficit in an eve ning of low scoring. In Novem ber, 1951, when the two teams met, the United States triumphed by 9.000 points. The Italian team it substantially the same one that 164 'VI 1 If County Officials Take Oaths of Office Today, Begin New Three new county officials were sworn in at the county courthouse this morning by County Clerk Bereth P. Hop kins. Taking office for the first time were Ralph James! county com missioner; Thomas Reeder. dis trict attorney; and Ray Schu macher, assessor. Also taking the oath of office Unsettled Weather Predicted Here Through Week Continued unsettled weather through the week with colder temperatures after Wednesday is the outlook for the Medford vicinity, the weather bureau of fice here indicated this morning. Possibility of more of the mixed rain and snow, which made Medford streets hazardous early -this morning, is foreseen by the weather station. The forecast calls for mixed rain and snow showers through Tuesday. Snow Falls A thin blanket of snow fell following a freezing rain during early morning hours. Work bound auto traffic packed down the cruncy surface making main thoroughfare slippery and dan gerous until a bright sun melted the icy layer. Only a trace of snow was re corded at the weather station at the city airport but Medford. it self, experienced a heavier fall. Road Conditions State police said this morning chains are required on the Green Springs highway, where there were two inches of packed snow. Snow plows were operat ing. Roadside snow also totaled two inches. Motorists were advised to carry chains at Prospect, where there were 34 inches of packed snow on the pavement. Snow plows have been operating. Vehicles have been getting through without chains at the Siskiyou pass, where there was an inch and a half of snow on the pavement this morning, po lice said. County Court Officials, Legislators Start Meet About 30 legislative represen tatives and members of county courts from Coos, Curry, Jose phine. Douglas. Klamath and Jackson counties began an all- dav meeting this morning in Medford. Major discussion topics were expected to include proposed legislation affecting the six counties. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York !U.R! . Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 in dustrials 493 20. off 3.02: 20 rail roads 156.44. up 0.02; 15 utili ties 69.04. off 0.03, and 65 stocks 174.26. off 0.63. competed then, while none of the Americans played then. In scoring so high earlier in Hie ua, nit; lidimiis iiiauc iiicii lbigsest single gain by winning a slam at six clubs in one room while the Americans went down by two tricks on identical hands in the other tournament room. Play continued today. The tournament ends Friday night. The finals will be televised. The American team included Charles H. Goren and William Seamon, both of Miami Beach, Fla., and Mrs. Helen Sobel, Peter Leventritt. Harold Ogust and Boris Koytchou, all of New York. assessor and Mrs. Hopkins. Of this group new office holders are James, Reeder and Schu macher. Also sworn in this morning but not pictured are Alf Mekvold, county school su perintendent and county judge Rawles Moore. Yet to take the oath are 16 deputies in the county assessor's office. Terms were four former county offic ials. They include Paul Rynning, engineer-surveyor; Karl Jan ouch, treasurer; Rawles Moore, district judge; and Alf Mekvold, school superintendent. Deputies in the various departments were also to be sworn in sometime today, Mrs. Hopkins said. Reeder announced the ap pointment of a new deputy, John C. Anicker Jr., of Tigard, Ore. Anicker received his bachelor of arts degree in business and his doctorate of jurisprduence de gree from Willamette university. The 27-year-old Anicker, who is married and has a daughter, was released from duty in the Army last month after serving in Ger many. Al Franzke will continue to be the other deputy in the de partment. Mrs. Muriel McNeil has been promoted to head secretary to the district attorney, replacing Mrs. Elsie Groves. Mrs. John R. Russell has been hired as the new assistant secretary. M r s. Russell, who was legal secretary in the law firm of Harbison and Piazza for three years, was re cently employed by Cal-Ore cor poration. Recorders Removed She has made her home in Medford for six years. The new district attorney told The Mail Tribune this morning. The secret tape recorders have been removed from the office and will not be used during my term of office." Schumacher said today that there would be no immediate changes in the assessor's office. Hellzel Resigns As Head of PUC Salem (U P.) Public Util ities Commissioner Charles H Heltzel delivered a letter of res ignation to Gov.-elect Robert D. Holmes today. The letter will be effective uoon Holmes' inauguration. Along with his PUC resigna tion, Heltzel resigned from nis post as vice president of the Na tional Association of Railroad and Utilities commissioners and as a member of a special com mittpp tn studv railroad car shortages. Heltzel has been PUC com missioner Dec. 10. 1951, when he was appointed by former-Gov Douglas McKay. Heltzel said it had been "a Drivileee" to serve the state as P17C commissioner and he wish ed the Holmes' administration well. Oregon Blue Book To Be Distributed Tuesday Salem UP.) Orceon's 1957- 58 Blue Book was off the press todav for distribution tomorrow. The 303 page book was edited bv Harrv S. Shenk under the direction of Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry. The last Blue Book contained 372 pages, but Shenk said this year's shorter book did not sacri fice any relevant information about the state. Copies of the directory may be obtained for SI from the sec retary of state's office here. Detention Home Bid , j Upening fOStponea Opening of bids bv the county for construction of the proposed juvenile detention home has been postponed, according to William H. Seibert, architect for the structure. Bids were originally scheduled to be accepted today at 10 a.m. by the county court. No reason was given for the delay. Total cost of the detention home and administrative wing is estimated at 590,000. 51st Year Medford United Presj Full Leased Wire 14 Pages Poland May Against Russians, Russell Jones San, Francisco (U.R) United Press Correspondent Russell Jones, the last American news man to leave Hungary, says Po land may be the next satellite to flare up in revolt against Rus sia. "The Polish are like the Irish," Jones said in an interview Sun day. "They'll fight for fun, money or marbles and they hate the Russians." Jones, who covered the Hun garian revolt for 37 days before he was ordered out of the coun try, arrived here Sunday for a three-day speaking appearance. Although predicting possible Western Europe Cautiously Greets Ike's Doctrine London (U.P.) Western Europe extended a cautious wel come today to the Eisenhower doctrine. But the plan drew sharply divided reaction in the Middle East and Asia and bitter condemnation from Soviet Rus sia and the satellites. Official British reaction was limited to welcoming the Am erican concern over the future of the area. The British press thought the plan was too little and too late and said it failed to touch the basic problems of Mid dle East ferment Arab nation alism. French Foreign Minister Chris tian Pineau said Sunday night before flying to New York it was too early to make a final judgment on Eisenhower's pro posals but "as a whole we like it very much." Russia Attacks Plan "As a matter of fact," Pineau said, "President Eisenhower has now taken up most of the solu tions I have been defending for a long time myself." Moscow Radio unleashed a propaganda warfare against the Eisenhower doctrine as concen trated as the venom it hurled in the past on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Marshall plan. Most Soviet broadcasts and editorials emphasized the split between the United States and Britain and France and tried to widen it. But broadcasts beamed to the Arab nations took the line that America was trying to replace British and French "col onialism" with U.S. "colonial ism." Spain had no official comment on the plan, but the Catholic morning paper Ya said in Madrid that the plan could bring Russia and the United States face to face "for the clash." But it said the important thing is that "Washington has taken a defin ite attitude or responsibility to wards the fate of the Middle East." Turkey Backs Doctrine Egypt. Syria. Jordan and oth er nations linked against the Baghdad Pact were opposed to any form of "intervention." Tur key and the members of the Baghdad Pact warmly welcom ed the Eisenhower doctrine. Asian nations friendly to the United States generally welcom ed the plan. Japanese govern ment quarters hailed the plan for stating in "clear terms" where the United States stood. But the Japanese Socialist party said the authority given the President "might result in pro voking war if it is1 mistakenly used." Salem (U.R) Grant V. Mumpower of Oregon City has been named district attorney for Wheeler county. Weather FORECAST: Mixed Tain and snow showers throueh Tues day, low tonight 28. High Tuesday 38. TEMPERATURE Hieht Yesterday Lowest Thi Mornlnr - Free, to 4:30 a.m. Today 03 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise . Sunset 7:41 a.m. 4:55 pra. Moonset 11:42 pm. First Quarter Tuesday night PROMINENT STARS Square of Pegasus, north of the Moon. VISIBLE PLANETS Mars, high in south 6:06 p.m. Jupiter, low in east 11:33 p.m. Saturn, rtsei . 5:21 a.m. Venus, rises - 6:24 a.m. MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1957 Be Next Satellite To uprisings by the Poles, Jones said he did not expect a revolt in Bulgaria or Czechoslovakia because "the people are mainly Slavs, closely related to Rus sia." Saturday night, Jones told a Seattle audience the Hungarians eventually would have adopted a "modified form of socialism" if they had been allowed to fol low up their revolution with a free government. . In an address before the United Press Newspaper Editors of Washington, Jones said the Hungarians turned to former Premier Imre Nagy, a Titoist "We Forgot How It Got 64-VOTE RULE LIMITWS PfBATE am Dulles Urges Quick Congressional Action On Mid-East Doctrine Washington (U.R) Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles said today the Eisenhower doc trine for the Middle East is designed "to stop World War III before it starts.' Testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Dulles urged quick congressional endorsement of the administra tion's program of U.S. military protection and economic aid to guard the Middle East from Communist seizure. I "Until the Congress has actually spoken," Dulles said. there is doubt in the Middle East and there may be doubt in the Soviet Union. If those doubts persist, then the danger persists and grows. "If we elect to wait and see and then decide, the waiting pe riod will greatly heighten the Middle East's vulnerability to both direct attack by over whelming force, and to indirect aggression." Special Assistant The White House meanwhile announced the appointment of former Rep. James P. Richards (D.S.C.) to serve as a special as sistant to the President on Middje Eastern problems. Richards, who was chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee in the last Congress, will head a special mission to the Middle East to explain the Eisenhower doctrine, in an ef fort to break down Arab su spicion and answer Russian propaganda that it is disguised U.S. colonialism. Mr. Eisenhower outlined the new Middle East policy before a joint session of Congress Sat urday. He asked standby author ity to use U.S. troops to defend any Middle East nation which seeks our help, and permission to supply military and economic aid to the area at a rate of about S600 million over the next three vears. Plan Misunderstood Dulles said the first reaction of Arab countries to the Eisen hower doctrine was "not favor able." He said these countries were bombarded by gross Soviet "misrepresentations" of the plan and therefore did not under stand it. He said, however, that he has "good reason" to believe that all the Arab nations, including Egypt nd Syria, will soon "wel- Communist, during their "five days of freedom" because he was the only national figurehead acceptable to all. If the Nagy government had been allowed to remain in of fice, the correspondent said, a "continuing sweep to the right" would have followed until event ually the Nagy form of Commu nism was replaced by a form of socialism similar to that in Great Britain. Instead, Jones said, the "five days of freedom" ended with the attack by Soviet troops and tanks and Nagy was forced out of office. There, But It's Sacred" come" the President's plan. The atmosphere of antagonism to the program, he said, has already "markedly changed" since the Arab nations read the President's speech to Congress. Dulles said a Communist break-through in the Middle East would be a "major disaster" for the world. In addition to its im mediate harmful effects, he said, it would encourage Soviet rulers to "resort everywhere" to more aggressive policies. (See stories on page 6) Boy, 14, Charged With Murdering Girl Fairfield, Calif. (U.R) A 14-year-old boy faced a murder charge today for stabbing an 8-year-old girl 115 times with his "pocket knife in an attack that apparently had no motive. "I don't know, said sandy- haired Roger Brown when po lice asked him why he killed Rose Ann White. "I just did it." The girl had been missing from her Suisun home, where Roger had often been a baby sit ter, since late Saturday. Her body was found at 3:30 a.m. Sunday under a clump of weeds near a railway track one mile east of Fairfield. The girl's head had been smashed by a jagged rock and her body slashed by "so many stab wounds thai we weren't able to count them all," a sheriff's deputy said. Perkins Continues Testimony Today Lyle C. Perkins, city police detective sergeant, was expected to conclude his testimony this afternoon in the narcotics trial of Donald LaVerne Ambuehl. Ambuehl, 31-year-old former manager of Stan's Y club, is charged with illegal possession and control of narcotics. Testi mony in the trial started Friday morning. The session was re cessed Friday afternoon until 1:30 p.m. today. Sgt. Perkins, third witness for the state, took the witness stand Friday afternoon. He described events of Ambuehl's arrest on July 18, near the Plaza apart ments in Medford. Price 10c Tribune United Press Full Leased Wine No. 247 Flare Up Declares Jones said his most "frighten ing" experience in Budapest came when he and another cor respondent were arrested at gunpoint as "spies." But the two men were re leased after a search by a So viet Secret Police officer. Jones stayed on to cover the Hungarian revolt and for half of his 37 days in Budapest he was the only American news man in the strife-torn country Hungarian authorities finally refused Dec. 5 to grant an ex tension to his visa and he was ot2crd out of the country. Merchant Vessels Trapped in Suez Due at Port Said London (U.P.) Thirteen mer chant vessels trapped in the Suez Canal since the Anglo-French in vasion are expected to reach Port Said Tuesday or Wednes day in a slow and cautious tran sit of the partly-cleared water way. United Nations sources re ported today. Rear Adm. Youssef Hammad. director of Egypt's Ports and Light Houses Administration, an nounced in Cairo that naviga tion in Port Said harbor will be resumed Tuesday. He said in coming ships should notify Egypt 24 hours m advance. Crisis Not Over But there were mounting indi cations the canal crisis was far from solved. Middle East dis patches said Egypt was attach ing new conditions: to a formal reopening of the canal including Israeli evacuation of the Gaza Strip. Israel was reported de termined to hold the strip. Israel also was embroiled in a new dispute with Jordan over the operation of Jordan-based Egyptian fedayeen commandos who blew up a main railroad track near Jerusalem last week end. Israel complained to the United Nations and warned Jor dan against harboring such gangs. An Egyptian ship arrived in Naples Sunday with 967 state less Jewish refugees from Egypt, vanguard of 40,000 who may be deported by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. They told of being herded into concentra tion camps and beaten by Egyp tian police. Portianders Die in Wreck Near Alturas Alturas, Calif. (U.R) Two men were killed early Sunday in a one-car accident on High way 395 between Davis Creek and New Pine Creek, a few miles south of the Oregon bor der. The California Highway Pa trol identified the victims as Terry K. Flansburg and Jack Offerman, both of Portland, Ore. Offerman was killed instantly and Flansburg died a few hours after the accident. Patrolmen said the accident occurred about 6 a.m. but wasn't discovered until after 10 a.m. when a vacationing Idaho fam ily stopped to view scenery. Officers said the car hit the right shoulder of the road, skid- ed across the highway and over the embankment. ' ' Medford Jaycees Name 6th Service Award Finalist The Medford Junior Cham ber of Commerce today an nounced Glenn Jennings, 2397 Jacksonville highway, has been named an additional finalist for the Distinguished Service award to be presented Jan. 25 at a banquet at the Rogue Valley Country club. Other Finalists Other finalists for the award are Robert A. Johnson, 20 Val ley View drive; Dr. William J. Thompson, 209 Fluhrer bldg.,; Ray Johnson, 117 Vernada place: Clifford M. McGinty, 2110 Whittle ave.; and Clifford Ouel- lette, 1532 Terrace drive. Jennings last spring assisted in organizing the YMCA's Men's club, the service club branch of the YMCA, and is secretary of the group. He is an officer in the local Toastmaster club and it an officer of the boys Hi-Y Russian Tanks Appear To Enforce Kadar's Statement Return To Stalinism Told in Announcement Budapest, Hungary U.R) Anger surged through the Hungarian people today in the electric atmosphere that fol lowed announcement of the na tion's return to the chains of a dictatorship of the proletariat." Soviet tanks appeared before Budapest's public buildings again to enforce announcement by Dictator-Premier Janus Ka dar that aroused new fears of a nationwide purge. The Kadar announcement all but crushed the last hope of the Hungarian patriots for political freedom. Any optimism that Hungary would become another Poland vanished. Warning to Satellites The defiant 10,000-word state ment of the return to Stalinism was a blunt and brutal warning to the other satellites Czecho slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Al bania and East Germany to be content with their lot. The declaration was drafted in a four-day Budapest meeting of satellite leaders with Soviet Communist party Secretary Ni- kita S. Khrushchev and former premier Georgi Malenkov. As the announcement was broadcast, Rusian tanks clanked into position before the modern headquarters of the secret po lice the first target of the revo lutionaries in their October re volt. The nation waited tensely for reaction among the workers, for the Kadar resolution defiantly ignored or rejected all demands they have made. The resolution pushed back the clock even beyond the some what eased political situation just before the revolution began. While it ruined Hungarian hopes for limited political freedom, it shattered Kadar's last shred of popularity. It left Kadar dependent only on Soviet armor to remain in power in his heavily-guarded parliament building. Accused Nagy of Treason The Kadar government for the first time openly accused former Titoisf Premier Imre Nagy and his regime of "treason." Previ ously Nagy had been decribed as a "weak" man who made the "mistake" of permitting revo lutionary elements to seize con trol. The declaration a 1 1 ac k e d "Western imperialists," but it held out hopes for Western aid to help restore the $1 billion losses it said the nation had suf fered through the revolution. It also promised major financial help from the Soviet Union and the Communist nations. Holmes' Inauguration Seen Despite Dispute Salem (U.R) Oregon's slate Legislature, one week away from convening, appears likely to go down to the wire with the prob lem of which party will organize the Senate unresolved. The first meeting of all 30 senators has been called for 7 p.m. next Sunday at the state capitol. Leaders on both sides say there appears to be little chance of a settlement before that time. Republicans and Democrats, each with 15 senators elected to the chamber, are backing favor ite candidates for president of the Senate. Some members were predict ing now, however, that if the Senate organization battle con tinues, it would not hold up the scheduled inauguration of Gov. elect Robert Holmes. They say that even though the Senate has not been organized, it could meet in joint session with the House under a temporary chair man to stage the inaugural. club. He also spent his vacation ast summer as a volunteer counselor in the YMCA camp. Other Aciiviiiei Jennings has also worked on the YMCA auction committee and the young adult committee. He also has been treasurer of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, chairman of the chamber's tal ent show and assisted with the shopping tour for underprivil eged children. He is outdoor chairman of publicity for the United Medford Crusade and has undertaken a new pro gram, "Uncle Bill," on station KBES-TV. The award is presented an nually to a man between the ages of 21 and 35 who has been outstanding in community lead ership rad service during the past year.
