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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FridayJanuary 18, 1957 Grand Jury in Marie McDonald Kidnaping Case Undecided; Recesses Until Tuesday Hollywood !U.PJ A Los An geles County Grand Jury today weighed Marie McDonald's story of how she was allegedly kid naped, beaten and held captive for 24 hours Jan. 4. The jurors, after listening to more than nine hours of testi mony, delivered for an hour Thursday before adjourning un til Tuesday. Police earlier this week placed the case in the laps of the Grand Jury after two weeks of investigation failed "to prove or disprove" that the blonde actress was kidnaped from her home. The furors reportedly decided to take no immediate action be cause of "a lack of agreement." Mat B7 Wilding The actress told the jurors that for 24 hours she was kept captive by two "Latin-type" men who abducted her from her home. Before entering the clos ed session, she said "This is one last ordeal in my fight to bring my kidnapers to justice." Miss McDonald has said that the two men beat her, then rushed her out of their car in a desolate desert area. During her testimony Thursday, the actress said she "cleared up dis crepancies" in several versions of her kidnaping story that have puzzled police. After testifying, Miss McDon ald was met by actor Michael Wilding and her attorney, Jerry Giesler. "The jury wondered about certain discrepancies in the re port I made to police at Indio, Calif., after the kidnapers re leased me, and the report I made after I returned home," Miss McDonald told newsmen. Said She Wat Drugged "I told them that the discrep ancies were caused by the fact that I was in a drugged condi tion when I arrived at the hos pital after being found by a truck driver," she added. Miss McDonald indicated she had criticized the police han dling the case. She said "the jury asked me lots of questions the police never asked . . . the jurors were very kind. "I told them (the jury) that the police had never given me a chance to read a statement they took from me in Indio. That statement was made under seda tion and I was promised a chance to study it. I was never given that chance," the actress said. Meanwhile, Detective Sgt. Al Ortiz said he told the jury in re buttal testimony that Miss Mc Donald was examined by a doc tor and was found to be perfect ly rational before he questioned her in the hospital. He said notes that he read to the jury "dis proved" her testimony. Western Nations Step Up Planning To Bypass Suez London (U.R) Western ship ping nations are stepping up long-term planning to by-pass the Suez Canal because of fears that there will be no prompt settle ment of the waterway dispute with Egypt, it was reported to day. Informed sources said mem bers of the 15-nation Suez Canal Users Association (SCUA) have been warned to base ther plans on the strong possibility that the canal may remain a questionable oil route much longer than ex pected. SCUA members were under stood to be studying the possi bility of building super-tankers under a point finance program. The tankers would carry mid east oil around the South Afri can cape. Alternative Pipeline The shipping nations were said also to be considering sug gestions for the establishment of alternative Near East oil pipe lines, through Turkey and Israel, to bypass the canal. The chances for early resump tion of direct talks between Brit ain, France and Egypt, under auspices of the United Nations, were considered slim. Even when they resume, the talks were expected to be difficult. For these reasons, it was be coming necessary to prepare an interim solution which might have to cover a long period, the sources said. The whole question was said to be in the early stages of "official thinking." Alaskan Landmark Destroyed by Fire Anchorage, Alaska (U.R) The old Malemute Saloon, an Alas kan landmark, and three other buildings were destroyed by a fire which raged out of control here for several hours early to day. Damage was estimated at $200,000 and one unidentified fire fighter collapsed from smoke inhalation and was treat ed at a local hospital. The Pay and Take It Grocery, a floor covering establishment and an electrical supply store were also destroyed in the blaze which for a time threatened oth er buildings in the downtown business district. Heavy fog and 5 to 10 above zero weather hampered city fire men and Elmendorf Air Force Base personnel who fought the blaze. Cause of the fire was not known. The fire broke out about 1 1 p.m. Thursday in the grocery and was not brought under con trol until several hours later. NEW IMPORTED CAR The Swedish built Velvo, powered by a 70-horsepower engine, will be on display this week end at Dean and Taylor Pontiac company, local dealer for the car. The vehicle, Which reaches 92 miles per hour in 45 seconds, offers several safety features, including more powerful brakes in relation to weight. The car shown is a five-passenger family sports car. Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS London New British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan reaf firming British - American friendship in his first speech to the nation: "We don't intend to part from the Americans and we don't in tend to be satellites." Defuniak Springj, Fla Confederate Civil War veteran Wil liam Allen Lundy reflecting on "The War Between the States" on the eve of his 109th birthday: "It would have been better if the South had won, but I don t hate the Yankees. If a Yankee trooper came by today, I'd ask him to set spell." Washington Secretary of State John Foster Dulles testifying to Congress on how President Eisenhower will employ the Eisen hower Doctrine: "I think there can be an absolute conviction that the President would lean over backward not to interpret the facts as justifying the use of armed forces unless there was real danger to the United States." Tallahassee. Fla. Gov. Leroy Collins urging local authorities to take "immediate and effective" action to prevent further vio lence in the Negro campaign to integrate buses In the Florida state capital "This kind of lawlessness is inexcusable and it must be slopped. It is essentially a local problem and should be remedied by local action to protect persons and property and to prevent further em barrassment to this community and the state." Paris Actress Ingrid Bergman answering a question as to whether she will enjoy her first visit to the U.S. after a self-imposed exile of eight years: Yes. It will really be very amusing." Washington Sen. Edwin C. Johnson (D.-Colo.) who seven years ago demanded that Ingrid Bergman never be permitted to set foot on American soil again and labeled htr our most popular but pregnant movie queen." commenting on her return: "I guess I'm glad she's coming back." Middlesbrough, England The wife of a mental patient who won $84,000 in a football pool and gave all but $2,800 of the money to a fellow patient who made his selection for him, announcing she will visit her husband for the first time in 15 years: "I am not trying to grab the money, but I have had a hard life and am entitled to some of it." Cincinnati Dr. Edward L. Borti, associate professor of medi cine at the University of Pennsylvania, describing people as "eat ing themselves into old age" and becoming old "because they are bored": "Give people the proper diet, give them something to do, and they could easily expect to live to be 100 or more." Union Oil Company Ups Gasoline Prices San Francisco (U.R) Union Oil Company today raised gaso line prices in the San Francisco Bay area to 32.4 cents a gallon for regular gasoline and 36.4 for premium, following the lead of . Standard Oil Company of California. The half-cent increase matches Standard's price boost. How ever, the increase affects only regular gasoline in the Los An geles area, a Union spokesman said. In some areas of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Utah the in creases will be .6 to .7 of a cent higher than here. Shell Oil Company said it was also studying a price increase and Tidewater Associated an nounced it was undecided. Gen eral Petroleum Corp. announced it would make its decision today or Saturday. ' Famed New'Orleans Jazz Musician Dies New Orleans (U.R) George Girard, 26, one of New Orleans' outstanding young jazz music ians, died today. The trumpet player and jazz band leader died at the home of his sister after a long illness. Girard became one of the most popular figures in New Orleans jazz circles. He was active in music until an operation for can cer last January. His band, the Basin Street Six, recorded for Circle and Mercury records and became nationally known. Oregonian Aboard One of Bombers In Record Flight March AFB, Calif. (U.R) A commander and two pilots were aboard each of the B52s which completed the record breaking round the world flight today for the Strategic Air Command. In overall command of the flight, flying in the lead plane, was Maj. Gen. Archie J. Old Jr., 50, commander of the 15th AF Headquarters at March AFB. Crew of Plane No. 22 The list of crewmen: Plane No. 22: Capt. Charles W. Fink, 34, Dennison, Iowa, commander; pilots, Lt. Col. Marcus L. Hill Jr., 36, Seymour, Tex., and Capt. J. G. Backman, 35, Eden, Utah; navigators, Capt. Cecil H. Ding well, 27, Castle AFB, Capt. Michael Stevens, 33, Castle AFB, Capt. Edward M. Hollacher, 37, Oklahoma City; ECM (electronic counter measure) operator: 1st Lt. Joseph B. Tyra, 24, Uvalde, Tex.; tailgunner, Sgt. James L. Bushoom, 24, Pocatello, Ida.; crew chief, T.Sgt. Joseph D. Armstrong, 28, San iDego. Lead Plane's Crew Plane No. 11: (lead plane, landed first): Lt. Col. James H. Morris, 40, San Antonio, Tex., commander; pilots, Capt. Earnest E. Camp bell, 34, Merced, Calif., and Capt. Rene M. .Woog, 35, Petersburg, Va.; navigators, Maj. Albert S. Wooten, 32, Ingleside, Tex., and Maj. Anthony Dzierski, 32, Wind- ber, Pa.; ECM, Capt. Quintis L. Hinkley, 35, Ft. Scott, Kan.; tail gunner, M.Sgt. Carl H. Ballew, 28, Marion, N.C.; crew chief, T.Sgt. Donovan W. Higginboth am, 23, Lansing, Mich. Klamath Man Aboard Plane No. 44: Maj. George C. Kalebaugh, 36, Klamath Falls, Ore., commander; pilots, Maj. Salvador E. Felices, 33, San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Capt. Capt. James H. Walsh Jr., 36, St. Louis; navigators, Capt. Gerald Rusch, 30, Atwater, Calif., 1st Lt. Byrum W. Cooper, 27, Atwater, and Capt. Alfonso Maj. Billy M. Beardsley, 37, At water; tail gunner Airman 1C Eugene N. Presiss, 21, Baldwin, Mo.; crew chief, T.Sgt. Albert Romero, 24, Merced. Singer's Husband Ruled Twins' Father Los Angeles (U.R) Moises Vivanco; 39, husband of Peruvian singer Yma Sumac, has been ruled the father of twin two-year-old girls born out of wed lock to his wife's former secre tary, Maureen Shea, 24. Superior Judge Jesse J. Framp ton Thursday ruled that Vivanco, arranger-manager for his wife, was the father of the girls after an 11-day paternity suit. Miss Shea charged in the suit that she and Vivanco became in timate after he hired her as his wife's secretary. Vivanco testi fied that he had engaged in intimacies but claimed their re lationship broke off before the twins were conceived. Miss Shea asked $500 monthly support of the girls. 'My Fair Lady' Ruckus Threatens Road Show New York (U.R) The con troversy between the producer of "My Fair Lady" and Actors Equity flared anew today, and may threaten the road company's nationwide tour. Herman Levin, the producer of the hit musical, wants to bring over three British actors for roles in the road company cast which is scheduled to begin its tour March 18 in Rochester, N.Y. The Britains are Ann Rogers who would play Eliza Doolittle and Hugh Dempster who would play Colonel Pickering. Equity does not feel that the three actors are so qualified that they should deprive three of its own members. CHAIRMAN AGAIN Washington (U.R) Rep. Thomas J. Lane (D.-Mass.), who served a jail term last year for income tax evasion, was renam ed Thursday chairman of the House Judiciary subcommittee on federal claims. 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Of course, it was the Creator who did it by endowing this continent so richly in natural resources. I like the speech delivered in Toronto on December 13 by Jean Lessage, that country's Minister of Northern Affairs: "We have come to realize that our present productivity and prosperity are not due to innate virtue of our own. They are not due to any superiority over oth er peoples. But rather they are due to our having been endowed with the great and varied re sources we have. As we have rec ognized that fact, we have come to realize that unless we con serve those resources well, and unless we continue to have re sources that are economically usable for decades to come, our Frightened Woman To Be Protected - Washington (U.R) Sen. John L. McClellan said today Senate investigators "have ways" to protect a frightened woman whose testimony linked certain union officials with a hoodlum indicted in the acid blinding of labor reporter Victor Riesel. McClellan did not specify what protection could be afford ed Mrs. Geraldine Taylor of Bay onne, N. J. He said he would leave that for the union officials "who were present and listening" to her testimony Thursday to figure out. Mrs. Taylor, fearful of gang vengeance, told McClellan's sub committee that she feared what would happen to her if she told all she knows about John Dio guardi, alias Johnny Dio, and of ficials of New York City Local 227 of the now -defunct AFL Auto Workers. The subcommittee, which is conducting a broad investiga tion of labor racketeering, later questioned Mrs. Taylor behind closed doors. prosperity will not go on unend ingly. We know as we never knew before, that it is our re sources that have made our economy great." Would that some Americans might learn the wisdom of these words! Yet they herald them selves as superior people be cause they are richer than oth ers. We must remember that Lewis and Clark went West only 150 years ago; our country is that new. Many lands of Europe have been settled for 2000 years. What will be the condition of our resources 2000 years from now? How rich will we be then? Why We Are Worried Ever since becoming a mem ber of the Senate I have been warning that, while Oregon is not gripped by depression, Ore gon is far from participating fairly in the so-called Eisenhow er boom. Here are percentage changes from 1955 in department-store sales for all Western cities surveyed by the Federal Reserve Board, during two stra tegic weeks of the Christmas season of 1956: Pec. 22 Dec. 29 Up 137. Up 21 To " 16 " Wo io- 38 " 8- " 81 " 14 To " 43 To "15 " 25 7c " 18 To " 27 To " 17 " 17 "The Wall Street Journal" of Jan. 8, 1957, relates that Idaho Power's $20 million bond issue for construction carried an inter est rate of 4.55 per cent. The story continued: "Bank ers said tiie borrowing wai the costliest on utility obligations of comparable quality since Oc tober, 1934." This high-cost money means that Idaho Power rates for Hells Canyon power might be higher than the 6.69 mill per kilowatt-hour cost esti mated by the Federal Power Commission. At any rate, it will be far higher than the 2.7 mill power from a Federal Helli Canyon dam. Denver Los Angeles Oakland Portland Salt Lake City San Francisco Seattle Spokane These figures confirm my fre quent warnings that Oregon is j falling off the pace economically. ; We' are not sharing fully in the national prosperity. Stern reme- I dies are needed to restore our j lost ranking as a state in which income levels substantially ex-! ceeded the national average. Nor ; should we forget that Portland probably is somewhat ahead of ; the rest of Oregon in business j conditions. j During the next few years, I j intend to "major" in matters and issues which could have benefi cial effect on our state's econo my. That is where my emphasis shall be. 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