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51st Year Medford -full ieaso Wlt 24 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1957 No. 249 OBSERVES LUMBER METHODS Hossein Khosrovi, left, forestry department chief of the Iranian government, has been in Medford for the past 10 days observing local sawmill and logging operations, obtaining ideas on lumber production. His main interest here was the cutting and processing of cedar logs Storm Front Expected To Bring Snow Today Snow was expected to start falling in the Rogue valley area late this afternoon as a storm front moves southward from the Gulf of Alaska bringing with it a mass of cold Canadian air. Weather bureau officials here said the storm may bring mixed rain and snow early this evening, but by tomorrow morning it will be just snow in lower elevations. Snow was expected to fall in higher elevations this afternoon, been in the 30s the past few days Temperatures, which have Four Area Students Are Finalists (or Merit Scholarships Four Jackson county high school students are among 7,500 finalists throughout the United States for 700 college scholar ships valued at $3,500,000, the National Merit Scholarship cor poration announced today. Students named are Howard J. Boyd and Jacque L. Colton, Medford High school: Lawrence F. Glidden, Phoenix High school; and David C. Hatch, Rogue River High school. All are seniors. The 7,500 finalists competed among 162,000 selected high school students in college apti tude examinations in 12,500 high schools Oct. 24. Finalists now will undergo a three-hour college board exam ination Jan. 12 and intensive screening of their leadership and extra-curricular records by a se lection board. They will compete for more than 700 four-year college schol arships, many of them sponsored by business and industrial cor porations. The 700 merit schol ars of 1957 -will be named about April 25. Runnersup will receive a cer tificate of merit. Colleges and universities will be notified en abling them to be considered for other awards and prizes. Merit scholars may choose col leges they wish to attend. Value of each scholarship varies with financial need of the student, ranging from $100 to $2,200 or more per year. The merit scholarship pro gram was established in 1935 through grants of $20,500,000 from the Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The National Science Foundation and the Old Domin ion Foundation have given funds for research work. In its first year 556 merit scholars were named who are now freshmen at 160 different colleges. U.S. Files At With Nasser Washingion (U.R) ' The United States has protested at least four times to Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser against Egypt's deportation of Jews, of ficials disclosed today. Latest Protest Mad The latest protest was made j to iNasser iasi wee in uctiiu u U. S. Ambassador Raymond Hare, who has been arguing against anti-Jewish activities in Egypt for more than six weeks. The State Department be lieves that more than 4,000 nAlA I T are expected to dip into the lower 20s or high teens in the valley by morning, weather bu reau officials said. The five-day forecast calls for recurring storm activity with a warming trend early next week. Cold air sent temperatures be low zero in eastern Oregon with Baker reporting three below at 5:30 a.m. today. Bend had five above and Klamath Falls six above. Crater Lake National park reported a minimum of 11 this morning. i State police said traffic was moving over' highway passes leading from the Rogue valley without chains this morning, and that packed snow was well sanded.' Carying chains was ad vised while traveling on passes and on Highway 62 through Crater Lake park. Chains were required in the park from Annie Springs to the rim. Eight inches of new snow fell at Crater lake during the past 24 hours bringing the total depth to 50 inches. UN To Act on New Hungary Committee United Nations, N. Y. (U.R) The General Assembly meets to day to act on a 24-nation demand for a new committee to make a sweeping investigation of Soviet interference in the Hungarian re volt. Thp new assembly move came just four weeks from the day on which the U. N. body condemned the Soviet Union for intervening in Hungary and refusing to with draw its troops. The United States and Japan were among the 24 nations spon soring the new resolution. Japan was admitted as the United Na tions' 80th member on Dec. 18, and this was the ifirst resolution in which it participated. Weather FOREr A ST: Thtcfcntnj mil lowering clouds with mixret rain and snow early tonitht, changing to snow and con tinuing Thursday morn int. Partial clearing with mow flurries Thursday afternoon. Low tonight 2S. Hijh Friday 38. TEMPERATURE Hifh5t yesterday 41 Lowest this morninc . . 27 PRECIPITATION To 4:30 a.m. today 03 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise ..1:41 a.m. Sunset 4:57 p.m. . Moonset Thursday 1:47 a.m. Full Moon Jan. 15 VENUS, which has been rU- . ing later and further south each morning since early in Sep- : tember, will leave the morning sky in February. Venus is now about 149 million miles away. Least Four Protests on Deportation of Jews Jews already have '"left" Egypt since the attack on Egypt by Israeli, British and French forces. Most of these were de ported. But some left Egypt on their own initiative, believing that they would have to do so sooner or later anyway. Tolerated and Respected Egypt's pre - invasion Jewish population was estimated at be tween 40,000 and 45.000. Egypt had tolerated and respected its Jewish citizens for many years. Most were middle class bank ers and merchants. . . .. . Price 10c Tribune United Preu full Leased Wir and some of the time was spent at the Gulf Red Cedar company north of Central Point. He is shown above talking with the mill's manager, Bernard Parent, about the operation of a cut-off saw. Most of the mills in Iran are outdated and their woods opeartibns are pow ered by horses, according to Khosrovi. Iranian Lumber Official Visits County Sawmills An Iranian lumber official is j in ivieaiora uus weeK studying local lumber mill operations un der the government point four program ' whereby the United States cooperates with other countries in an exchange of na tional ideas. " ... Hossein Khosrovi, chief of management and wood utiliza tion of the Iran forestry depart ment, is observing lumber prac tices while in the United States before returning to Iran. After returning he will man age a new lumber mill there being built with American funds. When completed it will.be the biggest mill in the country. Visits Mills Khosrovi arrived in the United States four months ago and has been in Medford 10 days. Dur ing that time he has visited the Double Dee Lumber company. Timber Products company, Elk Lumber company "and the Gulf Ked Cedar company. His observations in this county include new methods of select ing and cutting timber, and methods of transporting, process ing and reproducing timber after it is cut. Khosrovi said Iran lacks ade quate machinery to log timber by American standards, and added there are no mechanical saws there. Only hand saws are used. Iranian mills also are much smaller than American mills, he said. After cutting, the lumber is transported to access roads by horses and mules where it is taken to mills by trucks, he said. According to Khosrovi, water ways are seldom used in Iran for log transportation. He leaves Medford Saturday for Klamath Falls. He has also toured lumber mills' in Wiscon sin, Indiana and Kentucky, and plans several inspections of Cali fornia mills. Khosrovi returns to Iran in April after eight months in the United States.. Otto Bohnerf Named President of RRYID Otto Bohnert was elected president of the Rogue River Valley Irrigation district at the annual meeting Tuesday. Leonard Freeman was elect ed vice president and C. H. Tay lor; director. . Frank . Van Dyke was" reappointed attorney and Harold' Sexton,' was' reappointed, secretary-manager of the district.- . Taylor was vice president for the district last year and resign ed from "the position. Freeman was a director last year. - " During the last two weeks or so officials said, there have been indications that Nasser may be "slowing down" on recent anti Jewish moves. Orders for some deportations have been reversed following appeals, and some Jews being deported have not had their property sequestered as was the case earlier. Will Remain 'Alarmed' Officials said the United Slates would be "alarmed" so long as any Jews are being up rooted and ousted from Egypt for unjust reasons. s Denies Narcotics Sale to Ambuehl Defense in Trial Starts Late Tuesday Defense Attorney Edward Kelly this afternoon gave no tice of his intention of moving for a mistrial in the narcotics trial of Donald Ambeuhl in circuit court. . Raymond Eugene. Kelley of Portland, itinerant salesman, this morning denied before a cir cuit court jury that he had ever sold marijuana to Donald La Verne Ambeuhl, former Y club manager now on trial charged with illegal possession and con trol of narcotics. Mrs. Leona (Loma) Scott, first witness for the slate, previously testified that she had witnessed Ambuehl purchase narcotics from Kelley last May. Attorney Edward Kelly started the defense case Tuesday after noon. In his opening statement, he told the jury he would prove Ambuehl was lured into the com mission of an offense by Mrs. Scott, who was acting with the knowledge and cooperation of the police. Discuss Business He said evidence would show Mrs. Scott lured Ambuehl to her apartment the morning of July 18 to discuss business and that she asked him to move the mari juana for her. Kelly said this was how he happened to have it with him before his arrest. The attorney also said he would disprove Mrs. Scott's testi mony that she had seen Ambuehl buy marijuana from Kelley. Kelley brought with him some papers he said were duplicates of records he kept for his company concerning his business travels. Both on direct and cross exami nation he traced his week-day travels in Oregon during May and June. He indicated his visits in Medford were brief and that his only personal exchange of money with Ambuehl occurred at a time when he obtained a $20 loan from Ambuehl. Prerious Convictions Kelley said he had been con victed cf petty larceny, burglary not in a dwelling and possession' of narcotics in Portland between 1948 and 1953. He also testified he , had had no connection with narcotics during the past four years, , i First witness for the defense was H.E. (Arthur) Elliott, Grants Pass bookkeeper and account ant. He" said he handled books for the Y club and held one or ganizational share in the cor poration. He stated Mrs. Scott purchased 51 shares of corpora tion stock, which previously be longed to E. S. Lynch. Elliott said he handled the transaction for her and that Mrs. Scott did not want it known that she was purchasing the stock. He quoted her as saying she didn't want Mrs. Ambuehl or her customers to know about the transaction. Second witness for th defense was Mrs. Edna Jones, who has been janitress at the Y club for several years. She denied exist ence of some containers on a shelf in a back room at the Y club. Mrs. Scott had testified Ambuehl kept narcotics in some speed-bar containers on a high shelf in a room behind the dance floor, before moving the nar cotics to her apartment last June. Chef Testifies Raymond Carroll, chef at the Y club while Ambuehl was man ager of the establishment, said no speed-bar equipment had ever been stored in the club's back room. He said some speed-bar equipment had been brought to Medford from Grants Pass, where Ambuehl formerly oper ated the Sequin club, but said it was kept outside the Y club. Victor David, owner of David's Restaurant Supply and Equip ment company, testified this (Continued on Page IS) "We Must Protect Minority Rights Senators, That Is" France Will Never Abandon Algeria, Mollef Declares No Business of UN, Prime Minister Says Paris (U.R) Premier Guy Mollet warned Algerian rebels and the United Nations today that France "will never abandon Algeria." Mollet served notice that the United Nations should keep out of what France regards as none of its business. . The United Nations is consid ering a debate on Algeria later this month, and the rebels in that North African territory have in tensified their 26-month-old in surrection in an effort to focus" world attention on their demands at a time of U.N. discussion. Mollet gave his warning in a 30-minute declaration to re porters at his official residence, before having it broadcast later over the government operated radio and television networks. Cabinet Approves The declaration was formally approved by the Cabinet earlier in the day. It contained little that Mollet has not said before. But it was a formal restatement of the gov ernment's intentions toward Al geria on the eve of the proposed U.N. discussion. One new element was a strong er emphasis on the rights of Al geria's two communities, the 1.2 million Europeans and the 8.5 moslems. ' Up to now, the government has held to a fading hope that the two communities could' be come one through common rights and common interests. But increased violence by the rebels and heightened hostility by the Europeans in such things as anti-Moslem. riots have all but ended that hope. Senate Leaders Join To Curb Filibusters -Washington ' (U.R) ' The Senate's Republican and Demo cratic leaders joined today in a new effort to curb filibusters. Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas and GOP Leader William F. Knowland of California jointly sponsored a "middle ground" modification of the Senate rule on limiting debate. Present rules require the votes of 64 "senators, two-thirds of the Senate membership, to wind up debate on any issue. The John-son-Knowland proposal would provide that this could be done by two-thirds of the members present and voting. , 1 Their proposal also would rule out as unconstitutional a Section of the filibuster rule which permits unlimited debate on a motion for the Senate to consider any bill. Motorists Reminded of Prohibited Parking Public Works Director V e r n Thorpe has reminded motorists that parking is prohibited be tween 4:30 and 6 p.m. in front of the Medford post office on Sixth, St. The space has been made available for use for the drive-up mail box, Thorpe said. Parking will be prohibited there Mon day through Saturday. There have been 15-minute parking spaces provided on North Holly st. along the post office build ing. For in MYSTERY SAFE A 400-pound safe, rusty and badly marred, which was found along the Butte Falls highway three milest west of Butte Falls Friday, has had Jackson county Sheriff's deputies baffled in their attempt to find out how it came to be there. The office has checked all local safe thefts and has sent out an all-points bulletin to other law enforcement agencies on the coast but, so far, there are no clues. The door to the safe has been "peeled," according to deputies, in a manner used by pro fessional safe, crackers. Above, Deputy Joe Walsh examines the cash box found inside which appears to have been "jimmied." Hungary Intellectuals Kadar Terror Targets Budapest (U.R) Dictator-1 Premier Janos Kadar opened a new campaign of terror against Hungarian intellectuals today by indicting 11 patriots for pub lishing and distributing free newspapers after the Nov. 4 at tack by the Soviet Army. Two of the nation's better known writers were among the 11 accused of "counter revolu tionary activity for publishing or distributing the paper. The two writers also were accused of inciting a Dec. 4 demonstration by Hungaf ian. :.w.om.e, against - Kussian tanks. Simultaneously, the Workers Council on the powder keg . in dustrial Island of Csepel in the Danube south of Budapest an nounced if was resigning in pro test against interference by the Kadar government The Csepel council, which de fiantly led the nationwide sit down strikes against the Com munist regime, took extraordin ary measures to ensure that news of their new protest reached the few Western correspondents per mitted in Budapest. The Workers Council at the sprawling Bejolannis electrical plant also was reported to have resigned and other Budapest workers councils were expected to follow suit. The resignations were in pro test against attempts by Kadar's Reds to infiltrate and seize con trol of the councils that sprang Press To Be Barred When Ike Takes Oath Washington (U.R) The White House today barred all press, radio, and picture cover age of the ceremony Sunday, Jan. 20," when President Eisen hower takes the actual, oath of office for his second term. Previously, Press Secretary James C. Hagerty had agreed to limited coverage by reporters regularly assigned to the White House, and to pooled television, radio, and picture coverage of the White House oathtaking. Today, however, Hagerty said coverage requests had "gotten out of hand," and the White House decided to make the cere mony completely private. A public-inaugural ceremony will be held in the Capitol plaza Monday, Jan. 21. Medford Man Pleads Guilty in Court Today Lawrence Edward Johnson, 38, of 2746 Lone Pine rd., Med ford, pleaded guilty in district court this morning to charges of driving while under the. influ ence of intoxicating liquor. He was fined $255, given a 30-day suspended jail sentence on good behavior, and his driver's, li cense was suspended for 90 days. Johnson was arrested by state police about 3:30 p.m. yesterday after the car he was operating was involved in an accident with one driven by Robert Aubrey Cabler, 27, of 1009 South Third st., Jacksonville, at the inter section of Crater Lake ave. and Buckshot Hill rd. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 493.21, off 0.65; 20 rail roads 156.80, off 0.31; 15 utilities 69.42, up 0.22, and 65 stocks 174.12, off 0.11. Sales today were about 2,330.000 shares compared with 2,230,000 shares Tuesday. into being to run the nation's in- dustries during and after the re volt. Exact political repercussions from the surprise move which coincided with Kadar's attack against Hungary's firebrand writ ers was as yet unclear. . Foreign observers had consid ered the councils as a group rep resenting the strongest obstacle to Kadar's Soviet backed at tempts to throttle the last gasp of Hungary's revolution. - Rehearing Petition Filed by Jensen - James Norman Jensen, 28. Larkspur, Calif., has filed through his attorney, Edward C. Kelly, with the clerk for the U. S. supreme court a petition for rehearing of an order dated Dec. 17, 1956. A district attorney's motion to dismiss Jensen's appeal to the highest court was granted in December. It was based on want of substantial federal question to warrant a new hearing. The new petition asks "on such rehearing that the order of dis missal be vacated and appellant's appeal be considered. Jensen was first convicted in October, 1954, of the first de gree murder of Mrs. Fern Hile, a Medford housewife. He re ceived the death sentence. Since then Kelly has taken the case through every possible legal channel to save Jensen's life. The case was first appealed to the state supreme court. That court failed to find error In the trial and denied a new hearing. Jensen was returned to Jackson county for resentencing and was scheduled to die Sept. 21. Kelly then appealed the case to the U. S. supreme court and won a stay of execution until the U. S. court investigation could be completed. The filing of this last petition by Kelly will postpone Jensen's return to Jackson county for re sentencing. Radio-TV Highlights President Eisenhower's Stale of the Union message will be carried by radio stations KYJC, KMED and KWIN and station KBES-TV tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. December Sets Record for Number of Heavy Fog Days December set a new record for tiie number of days on which heavy fog was reported, accord ing to the weather bureau's monthly summary. Heavy fog was recorded on 23 days, the highest total for De cember since records have been kept at the Medford weather bureau starting in 1911. The highest previous occurrence was 18 days in December, 1933. Along with fog were lower than normal temperatures. The average temperature last month was 34.4 degrees, which was 4.1 degrees below normal. . The highest was 59 degrees on Dec. 13, and -the lowest 17 on Dec. 7. There were nine days with ther maximum 32 degrees or below,' compared with a nor mal of one day. There were 21 days with a minimum tempera Move Seen Sudden Surrender To Foes 01 Suez Policy' Butler, MacMillan Seen Successors 'London (U.R) Prime Minis ter Anthony Eden, resigned to day. The move was a sudden sur render to opponents of his ill fated Suez policy. With a giveaway faint smile on his face, the 59-yearld statesman walked out of a Cabi net meeting at No. 10 Downing st. and went to Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace to give her his resignation. Eden's sudden decision caught both people and politicians by surprise. It meant the virtual end of his career as a statesman. The Queen did not immedi ately summon another man to be come Prime Minister. Possible Successors Political observers expected the call would go out later to night or early Thursday to R. A. Butler, the lord privy seal and House of Commons, majority leader, who is 53, or to Harold MacMillan, chancellor of the ex chequer and former foreign min ister. ' Buckingham Palace announced that Eden "tendered his resig nation jfs Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury which her majesty was pleased to ac cept." Only 19 months ago, on April 5, 1955, it was Sir Winston Churchill who made the same trip to Buckingham Palace. Then it was Eden, the famed elder statesman's protege, who got the royal summons to succeed Chur chill. Eden presided over a full Cab inet meeting after meeting Tues day night with the Queen at her Sandringham estate in Norfolk. The Queen herself suddenly cut short her Christmas vacation and drove to London, arriving a few minutes before the Cabinet meeting began. - The Cabinet session lasted 20 minutes. When the Prime Minister re turned from his Jamaica vaca tion Dec. 14 he told parlia mentary back-benchers that he intended some ministerial changes in the new year. Costly Suez Venture But both before his vacation and immediately after his return he said he had no intention of resigning himself, despite a Con servative party split over his Suez policy and violent objec tions to it from the Laborite op position. Eden has been under intense pressure at home and abroad ever since he and French Pre mier Guy Mollet launched the short lived invasion of Suez in October. The military operation cost Britain millions of pounds, re sulted in Egypt's blocking the canal and cut off vital Mideast oil supplies to Britain. Gasoline v rationing resulted. The opposition Socialists, be fore the Christmas adjournment of parliament, insistently de manded that Eden resign because of the "chaos." New Klamath County Welfare Head Named Salem (U.R) Gov. Elmo Smith today announced that Martin Swanson, Klamath Falls, had been designated chairman of the Klamath County Public Welfare Commission to succeed the late Fred Peterson, who was fatally wounded by a welfare recipient at a commission meet- I ing last Friday. ture 32 degrees or below, com pared to 15 days normally. Precipitation measured 2.32 inches, which was .81 of an inch below normal. The greatest rain fall in 24 hours was .96 of an inch on Dec. 10-11. Snowfall dur ing December measured 2.1 inches, with the' greatest fall of 1.5 inches on Dec. 6. The great est depth of snow was 2 inches on Dec. 6. Glaze was reported five days early in the month. There were 28 cloudy days, compared to a normal of 25; one clear day and two partly cloudy days, compared to a nor mal of two clear days and four partly cloudy. Two days were reported with half an inch or more of precipi tation, five days with .10 of an inch or more, and 13 days with. .01 inch or more.
