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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.