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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.