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Newspaper Page Text51st Year Price 10c Subscribers Recommended A iterr about the first etwtr system In Phoenix In the 104 year history of the southern Oregon community appear on pace 10 of today's Mat) Trls unc. Medford To report improper or non-daliv-ry of the Hail Tribune In Medford phone 2-6141. Ashland J-1021. Yreka 841W. before 6:45 p.m. dally and 1030 a-m. Sunday. If regular delivery arrive! hort ! after you call please notify office thui eliminating special messenger ervice. United Press Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wire 30 Paget MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JANUARY 20, 1957 No. 258 BUNE Eisenhower Starts Second Term Today Washington U.PJ Dwight D. Eisenhower will officially begin hii tecond term as President to day by swearing, in the presence of relatives and close friends, to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." Press, radio and television have been barred from covering the historic event. The oath-taking will take place in the East Room of the White House at 10:30 a.m. (EST). It will be the least spectacular but constitutionally the most important occasion of a three- day inaugural celebration which is democracy's nearest approach to the pomp of a coronation. Prior to Oath Before uttering the 35-word Presidential oath specified in the Constitution, Mr. Eisenhower will go to National Presbyterian church and pray for divine guid ance to help him meet th chal lenges of four more years in the world's hardest job. Vice President Richard M. Nixon will be sworn in for his second term first. Both will repeat their oaths in public Monday at a solemn inaugural ceremony in front of the Capitol. The President will deliver his 2.000-word inaugural address at that ceremony which will be broadcast to the nation by radio and television. This will be followed by a 2',i hour parade down Pennsylvania ave. and by a glittering inaug ural ball which will be split into four sections to accommodate the great throng of Republican leaders, national and foreign dig nitaries who rate invitations. Administer Oath Chief Justice Earl Warren will administer both of Mr. Eisen hower's oaths. Senate Republi can Leader William F. Know land, a fellow Californian, will administer both to Nixon. The dual oath-taking is neces sary because the terms of the Salem Publisher Dies Saturday Salem, Ore. U.R) Bernard Mainwaring, 59, editor and pub lisher of the Salem Capital Jour nal and a member of the state board of higher education, died at Salem Memorial hospital Saturday. Mainwaring suffered what was thought to be a mild heart attack Jan. 9 and was removed to the hospital. . , He published the Hermiston Herald and the Milton Eagle from 1921 to 1923 and worked on the Tillamook Herald, the McMinnville News Reporter and the Albany Herald from "1923 to 1925. ' From 1925 to 1953 he and Lucien P. Arant published the Baker Democrat-Herald. In 1937 he also acquired sole interest in the Nampa, Ida., Free Press. Mainwaring, who was born in Gotham, Wis., purchased the Salem Capital Journal in 1953. The publisher graduated from Oregon State college in 1920 and received a degree of doctor of literature from the College of Idaho. He was also a trustee of College of Idaho. Surviving are his widow. a son, William, of Eugene; and a daughter, Ruth, Salem. Morse Joins Senators In Probe of Price Rise Washington (U.PJ Sen. Wayne L. Morse (D-Ore.) Sat urday joined the mounting clam or of senators and congressmen demanding an investigation of recent oil and gasoline price increases. Morse, a member of the Senate Small Business committee, wrote Chairman John J. Sparkman (D-AIa.) urging the group to in- . ....... Sports Bulletins Portland Southern Oregon college gained a first place tie in th Oregon Collegia! league her last night by trip ping Portland Stat college 57-55. Halftim score was 28 27 for SOC. Klamath Falls 51, Ashland 40. TaUnt 51. Mt. Shasta 31. Washington 63, Stanford 64 Central Point Grants Pas high subdued Crater 58 to 49, her last night to gain a share of first plao in South ern Oregon conference basket ball with Medford and Klam ath Falls. Fred Herrmann of Crater was high scorer with Grants Pass. President and Vice President ex pire at noon Sunday. It was not considered appropriate to hold the big public ceremony on a day of worship. Yet the nation could not be without a duly-empowered chief executive for 24 hours in the present world cli mate. Mr. Eisenhower personally made the decision to bar the press, radio and television from today's cererriony. He stuck to it despite widespread protests from news media and congressmen. Some Clearing is Forecast Today in Wake of NW Storm Scattered showers and some clearing was forecast for south ern Oregon today in the wake of a storm front which brought rpin to the Rogue valley and snow to mountain regions Sat urday. Weather bureau officials here said the frontal system which caused heavy rains in the valley yesterday afternoon was expect ed to subside about midnight with conditions improving today. Cooler air is expected to lower the freezing level today to about 1,500 feet. The storm brought 1.05 inches of rain at the Medford weather bureau station up to 10 p.m. yes terday and more than five indi es of snow to mountain passes in southern Oregon. Snow Reported State police said five inches of snow was reported on the Siski yous and Green Springs at 9 pjn. yesterday, and it still was snowing. Chains were required on both passes. Highways north and to the coast were free of snow, they said. The freezing level, although near the vaUey floor yesterday I morning, rose to more than 4,000 feet last night as warm air push ed in from the south. As the front passes, cooler air will move in today, the weather bureau said. Seven inches of snow fell at Crater Lake National park be tween 8 a m. and 4 p.m. yester day, park rangers said, and it was snowing hard. Skiing was reported poor to fair, and chains were required on all roads. The snowfall until 4 p.m. yes terday brought the total depth to 63 inches, compared to more than 100 inches on the ground at this time last year. Arab Nations Reject Middle East Dctrine Cairo U.P.) An Arab summit conference rejected President Eisenhower's Mideast doctrine Saturday and warned foreign power presumably, including Russia to keep "hands off the Middle East." A communique issued last night said rulers of Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Jordan "all agreed on rejection of the vacuum' theory and decided that Arab nationalism was the sole basis on which Arab policy could be formulated." The announcement could be read as a warning to Russia as well as to the West. Egypt, Syria and Arabia also agreed to replace Britain as the financial backers of Jordan, paving the way for elimination of Jordan's last ties with the West. Washington (U.R) Rep. Al bert Thomas (D-Tex.) has urged that President Tito of Yugoslavia not be invited to the United States. Governor Holmes Leaves for Inauguration Salem U.R) Gov. Robert D. Holmes left last night for Washington, D.C., and President Eisenhower's inauguration after a week of appointments and speculation about appointments. Friday he named a complete new Liquor Control commission composed of, Hugh R. Kirkpat rick. Lebanon; Martin Buchan an. Milton-Freewatcr; and Bar ney Lucas, Gearhart, Seaside and Portland. Kirkpatrick, who served on the- liquor board for four years as an appointee of the late Gov. Earl Snell, was named chairman of the commission replacing Bruce Williams, Salem. The other two commissioners who resigned are E. Riddell Donald Ambuehl Is Sentenced to Three Years; $500 Fine Kelly May Move for New Trial in Case Donald La Verne Ambuehl, 31 of 1615 Crater Lake ave., was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary and fined $500 Fri day for illegal possession and control of narcotics. Sentence was pronouned by Ciruit Judge Orval Millard of Josephine ounty, who presided at Ambuehl's eight-day trial. The jury returned a verdict of guilty Jan. 11. Maximum penalty for illegal possession and control of narcotics is 10 years in the pen itentiary and a $5,000 fine. Eligible for Parole Judge Millard indicated Am buehl might be eligible for parole in about a year. Edward Kelly, who represent ed Ambuehl at the trial, re quested the sentence be deferred until Feb. 11, when he intends to move for a new trial. Kelly did not state the. basis for his proposed motion. Judge Millard denied deferral of sentence and ordered Am buehl taken into custody by sheriffs deputies. Al Franzke, deputy district at torney, represented the state at the sentencing. He called to Judge Millard's attention two misdemeanors for which Am buehl was convicted in Califor nia and Nevada in 1949 and 1954. One involved a gambling machine and the other charge was disturbing the peace. Franzke said a state police car was damaged to the extent of $160 in a collision with Am buehl's car on July 18, imme diately preceding his arrest. Injuries in Crash He added that Police Chief Charles Champlin received a slight head injury, and State Po lice Lt. Paul Morgan is believed to have sustained a permanent heart injury from the collision. Franzke noted that Ambuehl could have committed a more serious narcotic offense than the one for which he was convicted, but recommended no leniency. Kelly recommended that Am buehl be placed on probation and emphasized to the judge that reformation rather than punish ment is the prime consideration in the system of justice. He said Ambuehl would give up night club and tavern work and engage in manual labor if placed on probation. Kelly add ed he thought it would not be fair to blame Lieutenant Mor gan's heart attack on Ambuehl since the lieutenant was work ing long hours on another case when he became ill. Kelly also said he thought restitution could and should be made for damage to the state police car. No Evidence In pronouncing sentence, Judge Millard noted there was no evidence to indicate Ambuehl had ever been a seller of nar cotics. He said selling narcotics to a child, resulting in addiction of the child, would be worse than being a user. The judge said to Ambuehl, "Your record shows you've been a cheater for a long time. . . . You've done everything but try to earn an honest living." He added that Ambuehl had shown considerable ingenuity r in his business and stated, "If that in genuity had been applied to a lawful business, you wouldn't be in the situation you're in now. British Lawmakers Call for U.S. Meeting London (U.PJ British Law makers Saturday called for a conference between Prime Min ister Sir Harold Macmillan and President Eisenhower, prefera bly in London. After Making Lage, Hood River, and Lowell Seaton, Albany. Kirkpatrick and Buchanan are Democrats. Lucas is a Republi can. , The appointments left the fate of Administrator William H. Baillie, Salem, in doubt, but it was thought he might be re placed. The governor said he was leav ing the decision up to the new commission. Baillie earns $9,000 a year. Gov. Holmes said in his inaug ural message that he favored a fulltime paid liquor -administrator rather than a part-time com mission. But he appointed the new commission to get operation of the $55 million a year liquor Health Authorities Close Isolation Ward Immingham, England (U.R) Health authorities have decided to close th isolation clinic in this small Lincoln shire harbor twon because of lack of business. It has had only on patient in th 45 years sine it was built. Leaders of Revolt In Hungary Hanged After 6-Day Trial Decision of Court Reported Unanimous Vienna (U.R) The two top leaders of the Hungarian rebel lion were executed Saturday, Budapest radio announced. The radio said Jozsef Dudas, former chairman of the all-Hungary Revolution Council and Janos Szabo, his right-hand man, were put to death after a six-day trial. It said they were found guilty of "trying to overthrow the Hun garian Peoples Democracy by organizing an armed uprising." A "Military Tribunal of the Hungarian Supreme Court" found that Dudas had set himself up as president of the all-Hungarian Revolution Committee and Supreme Commander of the armed forces of the counter-revolutionaries. The broadcast said Dudas had wormed his way into the Com munist party and had been un masked as a "provacteur" in 1946 and jailed in Romania. The decision of the court was unanimous. The radio said Du das and Szabo were denied clem ency and hanged early yester day morning. The executions were part of the crackdown ordered by pup pet Premier Janos Kadar to smash the last elements of re sistance to Communism- in Hun gary. Since a martial law decree went into effect more than one month ago, a number of "counter-revolutionaries" in the- Oct. 23 uprising have been executed after trials before military tri bunals and civilian kangaroo courts. The government extended its campaign Saturday to newspap ermen, ordering tne dissolution of the National Association of Hungarian Journalists. Coos Bay Teenagers Arrested in Valley Three North Bend-Coos Bay teenage girls en route to San Francisco in a stolen car were arrested by state police Satur day morning after the vehicle in which they were riding went into a ditch on Highway 99. The girls, ages 13 and 14, ad mitted stealing the car at Ten Mile, Ore., near Roseburg, after burning out the motor of another car they had stolen at Coos Bay. According to officers, they left the first stolen car at Ten Mile. Officers said the trio went to the Central Point police sta tion about 3:30 a.m. and asked assistance in removing the car from the ditch. The 14-year-old driver told officers she dropped her purse and went off the road while attempting to find the purse in the car. The girls ad mitted the car thefts to a state police officer who was summon ed by Central Point police. The girls told officers they left Coos Bay and headed for San Francisco after attending a school basketball game Fri day night. The 14-year-old girl was lodg ed in the county jail and two 13-year-olds -were placed in a juvenile shelter home. They will be returned to Coos county, officers said. President's Appointments business closer to the governor's office, Also appointed last week were State Rep. Robert Steward, who will replace J. F. Short as di rector of agriculture after the current legislative session and Howard Morgan, who replaced Charles Heltzel as public utili ties commissioner. The governor reappointed Col. Arthur M. Sheets as state direc tor of Civil Defense. . . Still unfilled are two top gov ernment posts those of director of finance and administration and director of motor vehicles. Members of the governor's staff said there would be no new appointments until the governor returns to his desk Wednesday morning- Senate Adjourns Still Deadlocked On Its President 108th Ballot Saturday Follows Night Session Salem U.R) The Oregon senate adjourned. Saturday after taking its 108th ballot to find a senate president. It will con vene at 10 a.m. Monday. The failure to choose a sen ate president almost left the state without a governor since Governor Robert D. Holmes left for Washington, D.C., for the in auguration of President Eisenhower. A ruling by the state attorney Robert Y. Thornton, however, names Pat Dooley, speaker of the house, as governor of Ore gon until Governor Holmes , re turns. The votes were evenly divided with 15 Democrats voting for one Democrat and 15 Republi cans voting for another Demo crat. Sen. Warren Gill, Lebanon Re publican who was the first choice of his party for Senate president, released his pledges late Friday. The vote was 15 for Sen. Walter J. Pearson, Portland Democrat, 14 for Sen. Gill and ; one vote for a Democrat in ' turn, Sen- Phil Brady of Port land, Sen. Harry D. Boivin, of Klamath Falls and Sen. Ward Cook of Portland. Previously, Sens. Boivin, Brady and Cook had said they were not candidates for the pres idency and reaffirmed that they were solidly behind Pearson. Try New Attack The Senate recessed shortly before 6:00 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. And when the session convened. the Republicans took a new at tack. They voted solidly first for Boivin, then for Cook, then for Brady, Democrats all. So ballot after ballot, until the number reached 86, it was 15 for Pearson, 15 for Boivin: 15 for Pearson, 15 for Cook; 15 for Pearson, 15 for Brady. At last call Friday night, the Democratic senators reiterated that they were solidly behind Pearson as their choice for pres ident. The effort to organize the Senate has proved to be the longest since the turn of the century. But the senators did take time out from their effort to elect a president to vote un animously to install their other officers Mrs. Zylpha Zella Burns, chief clerk; Mrs- Medda Coen, assistant chief clerk; Mrs. Elaine Steele, calendar clerk; Rex Adolph, reading clerk; Vera Drager, sergeant - at-arms; Elmer Ernst, door keeper, and Charles Johnson, mailing clerk. Electricity May Have Caused Blast Olympia (U.P) Static elec tricity, possibly from friction of wool clothing, was the most likely cause of a dynamite blast that killed six workers at the Pacific Powder company plant, Ed Sorger, Washington state safety supervisor, said Satur day. Sorger conducted a three-hour hearing Friday with his chief powder inspector, C. B. Jacobs; three company officials and five members of a safety committee of employes. The exact cause will never be known, Sorger said, but it was the concensus of those at the hearing that static electricity probably triggered the tragedy. All six workers in the "jelly house" of the plant 11 miles south of here were blown to bits by the blast Friday. Four others in neighboring buildings suffered minor injuries. Sorger said all conditions were "favorable to static electric ac tion." The humidity reading was one of the lowest of the year, he said, and cold weather en couraged the wearing of wool clothing. Gas Prices Increase One-Half Cent Gallon Standard Oil company of Cali fornia Thursday posted price in rrpaow: of one-half cent a eallon on. gasoline, stove and' heating oils, other petroleum ons mciua inir riiosel and liauefied Petro leum gas, according to company officials. General Petroleum corpora tion has announced the same price increases effective Friday. Union Oil company and Shell Oil company announced price in creases in the Portland area Fri riav. ReDresentatives of both companies anticipated a price increase in southern Oregon, but had received no otficial word. they said. Gomulka Support "Shouldn't We Have Reins Or Something On It?" rii'li'llllll'li;IITl1iLfeMlli'r'-iitriteilMlLLJiK Safety Council Makes Annual Awards Friday Three Medford men were pre sented safety awards for 1956 at the Medford Safety council's annual awards banquet Friday night in the Jackson hotel. Bud Palmer, outgoing president of the council, presented awards. Award winners were Grant C. Bourquin, in eharge jof opera tions of the control tower at the Medford airport, and Tom Oliver, general manager of Tim ber Products company. Dr. William Roberts. Boy Scout leader of Troop 9, Med ford, won the save-a-life award. Price Shafer, assistant scou: leader of Troop 9, related how Roberts helped save the life of two Boy Scouts trapped on a Attorneys Named For Guy Cramer Klamath Falls U.PJ Two court appointed attorneys were named Friday to represent Guy Earl Cramer, 76-year-old pen sioner accused of first degree murder in the slaying of a Klam ath County Welfare Commission official here early this month. Circuit Judge David R. Van denberg named Donald A. W. Piper and Arthur Beddoe to rep resent the elderly man who was arraigned on three charges Fri day. Cramer is accused of shooting to death 76-year-old Fred Peter son, chairman of the commis sion, in a rage after he appeared at a commission meeting and had his plea for an increased pension go unheeded. Other charges against Cramer charge him with assault with in tent to kill and assault with a dangerous weapon. Two persons besides Peterson were struck by the hail of bul lets Cramer allegedly fired at the hearing. Both are recover ing. Judge Vandenberg granted un til Jan. 28 at 10 a.m. the entering of a plea. Washington (U.R) Jordan probably will still seek addition al U.S. financial aid despite a three-nation Arab agreement to provide her a $33.6 million year ly subsidy, American, officials said Saturday. Weather FORECAST: Snow showeri, gradually decreasing Sunday morning. Partial clearing with scattered showers Sunday att ernoon and evening. Hixh to day 40, low 27. High Monday 42. Highest Yesterday .. 35 Lowest Yesterday 26 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 7:36 a.m. 5:10 p.m. Sunset Maonris 11:12 p.m. Prominent Constellation . Orion, in the soutnwest 7:29 p.m. will be In the southwest at mid night. VISIBLE PLANETS Jupiter, leads the Moon. Mars, low in west 10:57 p.m. Saturn, rises 4:35 a.m. Venus, rises S:44 a.m. Warns Voters to Friendship Plan river bank after they had fallen during a hike last June. The ac cident occurred on the troop's hike along the Illinois river near Agnes. With Boys Dr. Roberts stayed with two boys all night while two other scouts, Robert's son, Mike, and Roger Johnson, went ahead on what the forest service had called an impassable trail to find a telephone, Shafer said. The scouts telephoned from a ranger station the next day after hiking several miles. A boat took the injured scouts to Agnes where they boarded a Mercy Flights plane for Medford. Mike and Roger were also awarded commendations. Bourquin has been chief of the control tower at the airport 15 years, in which tiirie there has never been axhargeable ac cident recorded. Last year the control tower trafficked 55,000 planes in and out of the airport. Oliver was commended for safety meetings and first aid classes Timber Products holds for employees. As a result of the company's safety program, according to Oliver, accidents were reduced 35 per cent at the plant during the first 11 months of 1956, compared to 1955. Aubrey Loper, of the Med ford branch, U.S. National bank, was installed 1957 president of the council. Other new officers are B. B. Bigham, vice chair man; and Bob Baccus, secretary. Clyde Fichtner will continue as treasurer. (See story page 5) Hospital Employees to Receive Salk Vaccine Members of the Rogue Valley Memorial hospital board of di rectors last week approved allo cation of funds to purchase Salk vaccine for all hospital em ployees. Three shots will be given to each staff member. Shots will be administered free of charge by medical staff members working on a voluntary basis. About 3,600 Youngsters Receive Salk Innoculations About 3,600 Jackson county youngsters received Salk anti polio innoculations last week in the first part of a county wide campaign to innoculate all youngsters under the age of 19. Dr. A. Erin Merkel, county health officer, said an average of 720 children per day were innouclated in schools and at the health department office last week. On Friday, 120 innoculations were given in the health de partment, 25 at West Side school, including 15 students and 10 others; 153 at St. Mary's school, including 141, students and 17 others; and 204 at Lincoln school in Ashland, including 141 stud ents and 63 others. Dr. Merkel said a large num ber of school and kindergarten students at West Side school had received Salk vaccine prior to the current campaign. By Fri Polish Go to Polls In 'Free' Postwar Elections Today Address Supports Chief's Candidates, Warsaw (U.PJ "Liberal" Communist Party Chief Wlady slaw Gomulka warned voters last night on the eve of a "free" parliamentary election to sup port his program of friendship with Russia or see Poland "cross ed from the map of Europe." Gomulka bitterly denounced in a broadcast to the nation both the anti-Communist and Stalin ist opposition which seeks to oust him from power. Urges Country He urged the country to ac cept the "road mapped out for Poland in the October Days" when as a Titoist he bloodlessly took Over from the" Stalinists and charted a more independent course while remaining friendly with the Kremlin. Gomulka emphasized in his 13-minute address that voters must support his candidates if Poland is to keep the "most vital" friendship of Russia. Opponents of his regime, he said, "are well aware that only Socialist Poland can figure on the map of Europe as a sovereign and independent state." To Crossroads He thus brought his country to the Communist crossroads. Some 18 million voters, taking part in the first "free" postwar election in the country, must choose between Gomulka and his followers and the diehards who would restore the old Iron disciplined Stalinist regime. Gomulka had the backing of the Roman Catholic church in his efforts to continue his inter nal "Democratization" program. His address, delivered just 11 hours before the polls open this morning, emphasized that his Polish United Workers (Commu nist) Party is "The first guaran tor of Poland's independence) and at the same time of friend ship between the Polish nation and the Soviet Nation . . ." Wheelbarrow Race Postponed Saturday The March of Dimes wheel barrow race, originally sched uled for yesterday by the Med ford Kiwanis club and Medford Lions club, was postponed until 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26, ac cording to Dick Knight, Med ford March of Dimes chairman. Knight said the postponement was due to unfavorable weather conditions. Kiwanians and Lions will op pose each other in the race from Main to Sixth st., on Central ave. Each team will have a wheelbarrow carrying a large container and will advance one foot for each dollar collected. Other organizations, including youth groups, performed March of Dimes benefit functions in Medford all day yesterday, de spite rain and snow. Activities included shining shoes and wash ing cars. London (U.R) The Yemenite legation charged Saturday Britr ish "invaders" from Aden have advanced 25 miles into Yemen to besiege the town of Harib. day noon and estimated 88 per cent of students there had re ceived the vaccine. Dr. Merkel Monday, Jan. 21, 9 sum. until noon: Talent Elementary school. Shady Cove school. Crater High school. Central Point; Jefferson school, Med ford; Ashland High school. said the percentage of West side students receiving Salk shots was among the highest in the county. Dr. Merkel commended doc tors, nurses and other volunteers who have been working in the health office and at vaccination stations to help make the pro gram a success. He added there is still time for those who have failed to make application for the vaccine to do so before the campaign ends.