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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. . . .. .
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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
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"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.