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Newspaper Page TextBombings t Integration n t ' '1 - ' TS r! ' ; ' -fl TO STATE CAPITOL Jackson county's State Senator Phil Lowry (Rep.), left, and Representative Bob Duncan (Dem.) standing, and Al Littrell (Rep.) are shown above dis - cussing proposed legislation which will be considered when the State legislature con venes Monday in Salem. Littrell and his wife have already arrived in the capitol and Dun can is leaving today, Lowry, who is to attend Jury May The case of Donald LaVerne Ambuchl, 31-year-old former Y club manager charged with il legal-possession and control of narcotics, was expected to go to the jury late this afternoon. Edward Kelly, defense attor ney, presented the last evidence on Ambuehl's behalf Thursday. Rebuttal testimony was con cluded this morning, and Al Franzke, deputy district attor ney, presented his final argu ment on the state's behalf this morning. Kelly's final argument was in progress when the court was recessed for lunch. State's Argument Walter Nunley, former district attorney representing the state in the trial, was to give the state's final rebuttal argument at the conclusion of Kelly's state ment. The jury will retire after instructions from Circuit Judge Orval Millard, who has been presiding at the trial since it started eight days ago. Ambuehl took the witness stand on his own behalf yester day and denied before the jury that he had ever taken mari juana to the apartment of Mrs. Leona (Loma) Scott. He also denied ever smoking marijuana except while in company of Mrs. Scott. Ambuehl told the jury that he and Mrs. Scott were involved in "battle" most of the time Bids Opened for Waler Supply Line Portland Everett Den Her der, Lebanon, was the apparent low bidder at $39,898 for instal lation of a water supply line near Butte Falls, according to the engineering department of the Oregon state game commis sion. Bids were called to replace a wood-stave supply line to the Butte Falls trout hatchery. The present line will be replaced with a steel pipe. Other bidders included Stand ard Construction company, Port land, $45,652: P. S. Lord. Me chanical contractor, Portland. $46,971: Engineers, Ltd.. Inc., Portland. $51,923: and W. H. Conrad, Medford, $65,951. Bids were opened yesterday and taken under advisement for action at the commission meet ing today. Estimate for the work was $45,120. Three Weather At Crater Lake Three weather records have been established this winter at Crater Lake National park, but snowfall is considerably below average, according to Tom Wil liams, park superintendent. A new record was established in October, when 87 inches of snow fell during the month with a record snow depth on the ground of 50 inches. An all-time December low of 34 inches of snow on the ground last month compares with the record maximum December snow depth of 135 inches. The third record established there this winter was a maximum tem perature of 62 degrees during December, Williams said. Park 'Plagued' Since October. Williams said, the park has been "plagued" with almost clear skies, which has resulted in little good skiing. A December snowfall of only Get Case Late Today after she purchased stock in the Y club corporation last spring. He said she resented his having anything to do with running the business after that time and re sented his having anything to do with his family. The defendant added that Mrs. Scott had deliberately run her car into his about four or five times because he said he was going to his home instead of her apartment. Private Association He also testified his only pri vate association with Raymond Eugene Kelley, Portland travel ing salesman, was on one oc- Area Officials Hold Informal Conferences Members of the Medford city council held informal confer ences with Jackson county's leg islators and the county court this week, according to Mayor John Snider. The councils executive com mittee, including Snider and Councilmen Robert Van Sickle and Don Hansen, as well as Council President Stanley Jones Jr., lunched with State Sen. Phil Lowry, and Reps. Robert Dun can and Al Littrell, to discuss matters of mutual concern, Sni der reported. The executive committee later in the week met for more than an hour with County Judge Rod ney Keating and Commissioners Chester Wendt and Ralph James. v Snider said the meetings were for no specific or immediate purpose, but were designed to lay the groundwork for future intergovernmental cooperation. Medford Student Wins Statewide Art Contest Portland (UP.) Tom Lin coln, Medford, a student at the Museum Art School in Portland, tonight will be awarded top prize in the college division of the state-wide design contest for the Oregon Printing Week post er. Lowell D. Larson, Portland, took second place in the college division. High school winners were Pat Groening, Lincoln high "school, Portland, first place; and Jim Gordon, Medford, second. The contest is sponsored by the Oregon Printing Industry, Inc. Records Set During Fall 46 inches, lowest in 10 years and one inch short of the all time low, coupled with less than a foot of snow in November, has accounted for the fifth low est total snowfall up to Jan. 1 on record. The 25-year average for the period September through De cember is 199.59 inches, about 16 23 feet, which is almost 39 per cent greater than the 144 inches this season. . Williams pointed out that the low snowfall is not well reflect ed in precipitation. A heavy De cember rain brought total pre cipitation up to slightly below the average of 28'i inches, and precipitation for December was about an inch above average for the month. The record maximum depth of snow. 218 inches, or 18 feet, occurred in March, 1952. Aver age annual snowfall at Crater Lake is 52 feet the Senate caucus Sunday night, will leave some time between now and Sunday noon. An attempt to break the 15 to 15 standoff in the Senate will be made at the caucus Sunday, ac cording to Lowry. All three men expressed concern over the deadlock and agreed that the important thing is to not let it interfere with state business. casion when the two of them went to the Rogue Valley Ball room to hear a western band. Mrs. Scott had testified Am buehl purchased narcotics from Kelley last May. Ambuehl said he had gone to Mrs. Scott's apartment the morn ing of July 18 to discuss busi ness with her. He said she rolled a marijuana cigarette as soon as he got there and they both smoked it. He said she asked him to dispose of the marijuana in her apartment for her and slated she intended to move from the Plaza apartments. He told the jury he decided to take only two vials of the narcotics and intended to throw them away. He added that he moved a paper sack full of the drug from the kitchen, where Mrs. 'Scott had left it. to the closet of her apartment. Ask Source The defendant said he had asked Mrs. Scott the source of the marijuana he had seen in her apartment and quoted her as saying she got it from a man she identified only as Rudy. He also testified concerning his arrest by several police of ficers dressed in plain clothes as he left Mrs. Scott's apartment. "A bunch of men jumped out of the car behind mine with guns and I immediately had the feel ing someone was going to kill me ... I knew I'd been framed so threw the vials out of the car window," he said. He denied immediately know ing the men were police officers. He said he was attempting to get away from them and intend ed to go to the police station if he had succeeded. Previous Conviction Ambuehl also admitted under cross examination that he had been convicted of possession of slot machines at the Y club sev eral years ago breach of the peace in Las Vegas and vag rancy in California. Mrs. Scott was called as a rebuttal witness for the state after Ambuehl's testimony and repeated her earlier testimony that she had never smoked marijuana in her life. In his final argument for the state, Franske told the jury that Raymond Eugene Kelley was convicted four years ago of sell ing and transferring narcotics. Kelly had previously testified he had been convicted of poses sion of narcotics. Russ, Chinese Red Meet With Hungarian Moscow (U.R! Soviet and Chinese Communist leaders met with Hungarian Premier Janos Kadar in Moscow Thursday to discuss measures to strengthen the Communist bloc, an official communique announced today. Present at the meeting were Soviet Communist party chief Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet Pre mier Nikolai Bulganin, Commu nist Chinese Premier Chou En lai, Soviet First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan and Soviet Foreign Minister Dmitri T. She pilov. Neuberger Attacks Partnership Power Plan Washington (U.R) Demo crats today attacked President Eisenhower's re-endorsement of the government's "partnership" policy for developing water and power projects. Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) called the partnership approach "discredited." Macmillan Gives Top Priority To Patching Alliance Washington Trip Expected Soon London (U.R) Prime Minis ter Harold Macmillan gave top priority today to patching up the Anglo-American alliance. There were persistent reports he would go to Washington soon for talks with President Eisenhower. Macmillan scheduled a quick move into the No. 10 Downing st. residence of the prime minis ter today from his house next door. Then he was expected to begin selecting the top ministers of his new government, possibly before the day is over. But he already had taken up the break in Anglo-American re lations with Sir Roger Makins, British ambassador to Washing ton from 1953 to last November, who spoke up for Secretary of State John Foster Dulles at the height of transatlantic friction last fall. A Good Indication The conference came barely three hours after Queen Eliza beth summoned Macmillan to Buckingham Palace to appoint him as successor to Sir Anthony Eden. American observers saw the conference as a firm indica tion of Macmillan's intention to restore British and American re lations to pre-Suez unity. Eisenhower's State of the Union Message Thursday gave Macmillan's plans a boost. The President said "America alone and unaided cannot assure even its own security" a reminder, in the British view, that Ameri ca's most powerful ally In the long run still is Britain. Diplomats believed President Eisenhower may already have been in personal communication with Macmillan and they ex pected prompt arrangements for "Big Two" talks on the alliance which was badly damaged when Britain invaded Egypt without informing Washington. Bids Called for Plant Generator In Talent Project Bids will be opened Feb. 6 on providing a 16,843 kilovolt- ampere generator at. the Green Springs power plant in the Tal ent project, the bureau of reclamation has announced. The power plant will be located near Highway 68 on Emigrant creek southeast of Ashland. Included in the Talent project in connection with the power plant will be a 9,600-foot penstock, which will drop about I, 700 feet across the Green Springs highway near its steep est point. The power plant is one of sev eral construction items of the $22 million Talent project. Bids already have been opened for several jobs, including construc tion of Howard Prairie dam and delivery canal. Work To Start Bureau of reclamation of ficials said work is expected to start as soon as possible in the spring on the dam. Bids will be called in Febru ary or March on two reclama tion jobs in the Medford Irriga tion district, reclamation of ficials said. They are for .con structing the 1,100-foot Osborne Wash siphon, and the 1.970-foot Yankee creek siphon. Previous bids were rejected because they were" too high, reclamation of ficials said. The Osborne Wash siphon will eliminate a flume and about II, 500 feet of canal, a section which has considerable seepage. The present Yankee creek siphon, a 48-inch woodstave structure, has decayed in sev eral places. It will be replaced with a 57-inch precast concrete siphon. The two latter projects are part of a $1,712,000 rehabilita tion five-year program under taken by the Medford and Rogue River Valley Irrigation dis tricts. Weather FORECAST: Cloudy with oc casional rain in valleys and mow in mountains throuth Saturday. Low tonijht 32. High Saturday 4. TEMPERATURE HlEht Yesterday , Lowest This Mornine PRECIPITATION To 10 a.m. Today . 2 Our Skies Tonight' Sunrise 7:40 a.T Sunst 4:M P-m. Moonet Saturday 3:58 a.m. Full Mon Jan. IS . JUPITER is the hrifht MiUr" sen in the east at midniphU Now a bit brighter than Siriu. this planet is about 467 million miles away. Its brilliance will continue to increase this winter. 51st Year Medford United Pros TuU Lewo Wire 20 Page . MEDFORD, Hall To Important Federal Job Expected To Go To Chairman Successor Expected To Be Named Jan. 22 Washington (U.R) Leon ard W. Hall said today he will quit as Republican national chairman Feb. 1 and authorita tive sources said he will be given a high federal job. Hall's successor as party chief probably will be disclosed Jan, 22. After Hall's announcement, President ' Eisenhower issued a statement crediting the retiring chairman with revitalizing the Republican party. "I sincerely hope," the Presi dent said, "that his wisdom and his long years of experience as legislator, judge, and chairman will continue to be available not only to the party but to the na tion in the yearj ahead." Silent About Plant High administration sources said this means Hall will get an important federal post, possibly of . Cabinet rank. Hall himself would not discuss his reasons for resigning or his immediate plans, except to say he will take a vacation of six or seven weeks in Florida. Hall will appoint a subcom mittee at. a meeting of the Na tional Committee Jan. 19 to con fer with Mr. Eisenhower on a new party chairman. .The sub committee will submit its report to the full committee Jan. 22, Hall said. At that time he will formally submit his resignation. Republican leaders who have figured in speculation on Hall's successor include New York State GOP Chairman L. Judson Morehouse, Ohip State. Chair man Ray Bliss, Treasury Coun sel Fred C. Scriber jr. of Maine, and Meade Alcorn, Connecticut member of the National Com mittee. SP&S Strike Settled At Portland Conclave Portland U.R) Agreement on all three items involved in the recent strike of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers against the Spokane, Portland and Seat tle Railway was reached here yesterday. E. H. Showalter, general msn ager of SP&S, and A. F. Kum mer, assistant grand chief en gineer of the brotherhood, re leased a joint statement an nouncing the agreement. A hearing on the strike issue had been scheduled before an emergency board appointed by President Eisenhower for Jan. 14 in Portland. Plans for Detention Home Slated Soon Plans for the county juvenile detention home should be avail able for the county court by Jan. 15, County Judgpe Rodney Keating said today. Plans will receive a final study by the court and the ju venile court advisory commit tee. Specifications probably will be ready for prospective bidders Jan. 18, with the opening of bids tentatively scheduled fos Feb. 15. Plans for the building include an administrative wing.. Sherwood Bank Robbed By Armed Holdup Man Sherwood, Ore. (U.R) A man, armed with a revolver, held up the Sherwood branch of the U.S. National Bank of Port land at 11:35 a.m. today and escaped in an automobile. State police and Washington county sheriff's officers immedi ately set up roadblocks. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 493.81, off 1.70; 20 railroads 1.57.33, off 0.34; 15 utilities 69.62, up 0.06, and 65 stocks 174.47, off 0.41. Sales to day were about 2,340,000 shares compared with 2,400,000 shares Thursday. Warsaw (U.R) Communist China Premier Chou En-lai has arrived here from talks with Kremlin leaders and said he was glad Poland and Russia recently strengthened "friendly relations." OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1957 Quit GOP Post "Well, It'i Sort icoMjNdl JfS! Il Unsettled Weather. Forecast for County Unsettled weather with rain in the Rogue valley and snow above about 3,500 feet eleva tion is forecast through tomor row as the second storm front in two days moved across south ern Oregon this morning. A comparatively weak front moved southeastward yesterday morning, but the front moving inland today is expected to bring heavier amounts of precipita tion, weather bureau officials said. The storm has' been hovering off the coast for a couple of days, and may receive an added push from cool Canadian air which started moving into the Pacific from British Columbia early today, the weather bureau said. Temperatures in southern Oregon are expected to become cooler by Sunday. Snowing Today It was snowing in most moun tain sections around the valley this morning, and was expected to accumulate during the next day or so. Four inches of new snow as Plane Bomber To Die in Colorado Tonight Canon City, Colo. (U.R) John Gilbert Graham, still calm and cooperative in his death cell, will pay with his life tonight for the bomb deaths of 44 persons aboard an airliner near Long mont, Colo., Nov. 1, 1955. The confessed timebomber will enter the state's lethal gas chamber at Colorado State Prison here at an hour yet to be disclosed. He has requested no special consideration. The 24-year-old saboteur saw his wife, Gloria, for the last time Sunday. She isn't return ing, she said, "because it's too hard on both of us." Carpenters Give $50,000 to School Portland (U.R) Mr. and Mrs. Alfred S. V. Carpenter of Medford have presented a gift of 550,000 to St. Helen's Hall in Portland, the Rt. Rev. Benjamin D. Dag well said today. The money will be used to start a permanent retirement fund for teachers and staff of the Episcopal sponsored school. The gift to the 88-year-old school will be known as the "Bishop Dagwell Endowment Fund." Carpenter is a prominent pear orchardist in the Medford area. Elizabeth Invited To Visit United States London (U.R) President Eisenhower has invited Queen Elizabeth to make a "non-political" visit to the United States in October, it was reported to day. The London Daily Mirror said the official invitation will be extended by retiring U. S. Am bassador Winthrop Aldrich be fore he leaves his post later this month. Price 10c Tribune United Press Full ieasea Wir No. 251 Of New With Us" reported at Crater Lake Na tional park in the past 24 hours, bringing the total depth to 48 inches. Chains were required on all roads through the park this morning. State police said mountain passes, although spotted with ice, were comparatively free of packed snow early today. Packed snow was reported at Prospect, but highway department crews had sanded the highway and traffic was moving 'without chains. . Highway 199 near Patrick's creek was open to one-way traf fic at a slide location. Traffic was prohibited from using the highway at night because of the danger of more slides. Blue Crutch Day Scheduled Saturday Saturday will be Blue Crutch Day in Medford when the 20-30 club will sell the little lapel tags on downtown streets with receipts to go to the March of Dimes. . Doug Rehder, project chairman,' said the sales areas will be throughout the down town area and at the Big Y market. Other Saturday projects - for funds to continue the fight against polio include the Junior Chamber of Commerce steer "giveaway" and the Eagles Lodge's "bottles of states." - At Central . Point, the Boy Scouts and Crater high school students will compete in a "Mile o' Dimes" on Pine st., starting at 9 a.m., according to O. W. Pan ter, chairman. Hungarian Militia Fires on Demonstrators Budapest (U.R) Hungarian militia backed by Russian tanks opened fire today to crush a series of anti-Communist demon strations by- thousands of Buda pest workers. At least two workers were reported killed and an uncount ed number injured. As far as could be seen, the Russian tanks did not fire on the crowds. Former Deputy DA Joins Boyer in Medford Law Firm TV '' :' J I , i ALAN HOLMES Joins Medford Firm Negro Minister Leaders Arrested By Atlanta Police State of Emergency Set in Montgomery Br UNITED PRESS Mass bombings in Montgom ery, Ala., and arrests of Negro minister leaders in Atlanta halt ed all integrated bus riding in the Deep South today. In Montgomery, the oniy Deep South city in which Negroes had established right to sit any where, authorities halted buses during a state of emergency fol lowing a wave of dynamite blasts. Atlanta Negro leaders, lix of them free on $1,000 bonds after ' a police roundup, called off their defiance of a local bus seg gregation law until their cases can be settled by the courts. A grand jury in Atlanta may be asked today to indict the ministers charged with making a "test" ride in the White section of a trolley two days ago. The Montgomery City com mission following its declaration of a state of emergency imposed a midnight curfew for children, both White and Negro. Emergency Exists "An emergency exists and . . . it is necessary for the life, health and property of the citizens for the city of Montgomery that bus service be temporarily stopped," Montgomery Mayor W. A. Gayle said. "It is requested that parents of all teen-aged children, white and colored, male and female, know the whereabouts of their children at all times and have them home by 12 o'clock mid night unless accompanied by parents." Gayle said 20 extra policemen hired after a rash of gunshots at buses several days ago were be ing placed in the regular iorce. He said all auxiliary police had been called into action. In Atlanta Thursday night more than 1,000 Negroes gath ered for a second mass meeting in two night. They sang hymns, prayed, and heard Attorney S. S. Robinson declare: - "This would be tough job but with, the help of the preach ers (who were arrested) and you, it will be a pushover." A. T. Walden, Negro attorney, for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said the arrests have pre pared the way, by getting up a test case, for making "present day segregated travel illegal." Remain Calm "We will not get excited," Walden said. "We will not carry a chip on our shoulders, that doesn't get anyone anywhere. Let the law follow its due course." H. I. Bearden, pastor of the Big Bethel AME church, told the Negroes the desegregation move ment in Atlanta "has a secret leader whose name will be re vealed when the victory ig achieved." Bearden said the movement has three units, two of which are "secret." He said the public unit is code-named "Jesus." The Rev. William Holmes Bor den, "public" leader of the movement, urged the Negroes "not to talk on -street corners so much about all this, just keep your big mouth shut. " "Get to work a little earlier, stay a little later and scrub those floors a little cleaner, and don't answer any questions your boss asks you," he said. Oregon Director of Finance Resigns Post Salem (U.R) Robert R. Johnson, director of the State Department of Finance and Ad ministration, announced his resignation today. It will be come effective not later than Feb. 1. Robert Boyer, Medford attor ney, has announced that Alan Holmes, 29, former deputy dis trict attorney, has joined his law firm at 28 North Oakdale ave. ' The firm will be known as Boyer and Holmes, he said. Holmes' association with the firm became effective Jan. 7, the day his resignation from the dis trict attorney's office became effective. Holmes has lived in Medford since June, 1955, and was deputy district attorney from Septem ber, 1955, until last Monday. He is a 1955 graduate of Val pariso university in Indiana, admitted to the Oregon Bar in 1955 and is a member of the American Bar association. He and his wife, Rowean, re side at 649 J st. Mrs. Holmes is home economics teacher at Phoenix High school.