TEW MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Tuasday, January 22, 157
Portland Officer
Arrests Brother
For Attack on Girl
Portland (U.P; A Portland
police officer arrested his own
brother yesterday for criminally
assaulting an 11-year-old girl.
Patrolman William M. Wal
ters, member of the Portland
police bureau since 1951, said
his suspicions were aroused
when he heard the description
of the car which was used by
the assailant of the little girl.
The officer said his brother
had no previous record.
Danny Dale Walters, 22, was
booked on a charge of rape and
held for investigation under
110.000 bail. Detective Rudolph
Bauman said the arrested man
had signed a statement.
Oldar Girl Attacked
The 11-year-old girl and an
ight-year-old companion were
picked up near a skating rink
Sunday. The eight-year-old was
let out of the car after she cried.
The 11-year-old girl was attack
ed before she was let out of the
car.
Police Chief William J. Hil
bruner commended Patrolman
Walters for his action in a "most
difficult decision."
Chief Hilbruner said that
". . . he did not hesitate in doing
his sworn duty. The officer ad
vises me that when he approach
ed his brother regarding the
incident, that the brother imme
diately made an admission and
stated he intended to tell the
story to the officer Monday
evening."
Illegal Parking on
Buffalo Campus Costly
Buffalo. N.Y. (U.R) Illegal
parking costs errant motorists
a pretty penny on the Univer
sitv of Buffalo campus.
: The fine for parking in a re
stricted area, as sorry offenders
have found out, is $5; twice that
for a second offense.
The university doesn't stop
there. For any student (or fac
ulty member) who fails to
pay the fine within seven days,
the ante is upped another $5.
As a comparison, illegal park
ing on Buffalo city streets gets
a motorist a pink tag for which
he has to pay only $2.
The university, under its
rules and regulations, even can
expel a student if the fine treat
ment doesn't reform him and
he persists in careless parking.
Egyptian Film Censors
Hold Up Russian Movie
Cairo (U.R) Egyptian
censors held up the showing of
a Soviet movie intended as the
showpiece of a Soviet film fes
tival here today on grounds it
is Communist propaganda.
The film was an adaption of
Maxin Gorky's proletariat novel
"Mother."
Church Delegates
Gather at Salem
Salem (U.R) About 150 dele
gates from churches through
out Oregon gathered here today
for the opening of a three-day
convocation of the Oregon Coun
cil of Churches.
Presiding over the convoca
tion in the First Methodist
church will be Dr. Charles
Derthick, Salem Council of
Churches president.
A panel of what influences
legislators and how the council
can be more effective in legis
lation will be held Thursday aft
ernoon. Members will be former State
Sen. Philip S. Hitchcock; George
W. Brown, Portland labor lob
byist: Pat Dooley, speaker of
the State House of Representa
tives, and Freeman Holmer, as
sociate professor of political sci
ence at Willamette University.
Original Gettysburg
Handbills Donated
Gettysburg, Pa. (U.R)
One of the six original hand
bills announcing the program
for dedication of the Gettysburg
National cemetery in 1863,
where Abraham Lincoln made
his famous address, has been
presented to the Gettysburg col
lege library.
The six collector's items were
found by James D. Mack, Le
high College librarian, in a clos
et at the library- Another of the
original copies was presented to
President Eisenhower for his
farm here.
The handbills gave the "order
of procession for the inaugura
tion of the National Cemetery"
and "programme of arrange
ments and order of exercises."
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
was listed on the program as
"dedicatory remarks by the
President of the United States."
The main speech was listed on
the leaflet as an address by Ed
ward Everett, the era's foremost
orator.
Funeral Rites Held
For Salem Publisher
Salem (U.R' Funeral serv
ices for Bernard Mainwaring,
editor and publisher of the Sa
lem Capital Journal and mem
ber of the State Board of Higher
Education, were held today at
Salem First Presbyterian church.
Mainwaring, 59, died last Sat
urday after suffering a heart
attack almost two weeks previ
ously. The Capital Journal and States
man plant were closed from
2:30 to 3:45 p.m. so that staff
members could attend the fu
neral. Active pallbearers included
Don Lynch, Ontario; Hawley
Taylor and Edson Deal, Nampa,
Ida.; and Glenn Cushman, Ger
ald McFarland and Alfred C.
Jones of the Capital Journal
staff.
Honorary pallbearers were
former Governors Elmo Smith
and Charles Sprague; George
Putnam. E. A. Brown. Salem;
Emil Siebert, Corvallis; and
John Alsip, Nampa.
Truman Sees No Plan
In Ike's Address
Kansas City, Mo. U.R For
mer President Harry S. Truman
said today that President Eis
enhower's inaugural address
was "a nice collection of beau
tiful words," but it outlined "no
plan of action."
"Peace in this present trou
bled world can be obtained only
by action on the part of the
Free World, and it will require
the leadership of the United
Slates to accomplish that ac
tion," he said. f
As he handed copies of his
statement to newsmen, Mr. Tru
man remarked, "I have had sev
eral requests for comment on
Mr. Eisenhower's message, so
I wrote this statement. That's all
I will have to say on the
matter."
Heavy Rains in Brazil
Fatal To At Least Two
Sao Paulo, Brazil (U.R)
At least two persons were re
ported dead today as the result
of heavy rains in Sao Paulo
state.
Floods caused by the rains
have destroyed bridges, washed
away railroad track, marooned
scores of vehicles and inundated
low sections of Sao Paulo and
nearby cities.
Operation, History of Housing
Authority Discussed at Luncheon
Mark Goldy, executive secre
tary of the Jackson County
Housing authority, yesterday
discussed its operation and his
tory as well as plans for con
struction of a federal armory
for the use of armed forces re
serve units on part of the auth
ority site.
He spoke at the noon lunch
eon of the Jackson County
Chamber of Commerce round
table at the Jackson hotel.
Goldy said in 1939 the Ore
gon legislature passed a statute
permitting the housing author
ity. According to an agreement
with the federal government, all
profits accruing from the auth
ority would be returned to the
government, he said.
The authority paid through
school district 49, the city and
county, about $5,000 to $6,500
a year in general taxes until
1953, he said.
Director's Salary
No directors were given a
salary until 1951 when the hous
ing authority board authorized
$150 a month to Goldy. He said
the reason for the salary was
because the housing authority
had become a business. Under
the law he is the only director
who can be paid.
Success of the authority is due
chiely to its manager and main
tenance superintendent. Mr. and
Mrs. Adolph Sterton, the secre
tary said.
He commented Mrs. Sterton
is one of the finest social work
ers he has known and that Ster
ton has kept maintenance prob
lems at a minimum.
Return Cost
Goldy noted by 1953 the auth
ority had returned to the gov
ernment nearly 70 per cent of
the original cost of the project.
After World War II a housing
emergency developed and 32
units were purchased from
Portland bringing the total to
157. Profits from the additional
units totaled about $5,000 or
$6,000, he said.
About that time the govern
ment wanted to demolish the
buildings, Goldy said, but op
position from veteran's groups
prevented that.
As a result, Goldy explained,
the Federal Housing adminis
tration made the housing auth
ority a local problem, selling the
site to the local authority for
about $16,000.
Public Entity
He said in 1953 the housing
authority became a public en
tity similar to the water board
or library board. It was the op-
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vo local t
inion of the board at this time
that it should not be in the
housing business or compete
with private enterprise, Goldy
said.
The obstacle was that law
had provided for a housing auth
ority, but had no provisions to
terminate an authority, Goldy
said.
He noted later in 1953 the
Oregon legislature passed a law
that upon dissolution of the au
thority its profits would be re
funded to the political subdivis-
Grace's Baby To Be
American Citizen
Washington (U.R) The State
Department ruled today that
Grace Kelly's baby will be an
American citizen.
The heir of Prince Rainier III
and his movie star wife also will
be a citizen of Monaco and thus
will be what is known as "dual
national."
The department sent the rul
ing to U. S. Consul General
Louis Thompson at Nice, France,
who had requested it.
"The consul general was ad
vised that since the mother is an
A.merican the child will be an
American," a department spokes
man said.
The ruling was contrary to a
declaration by Prince Rainier
that the child will be "uniquely"
Monagasque.
Porflanders Said Not
Deprived of Work
Portland (U.R) There is no
truth in reports that Hungarian
refugees are taking jobs away
from Portland workmen, Bill
Way, Portland Central Labor
Council president, told council
members last night.
Way said he investigated a re
port that an employer had dis
charged six employees to re
place them with refugees and
found it untrue.
"It seems some one is trying
to stir up trouble for reasons
best known to himself," Way
told council delegates.
ion in which it existed, in this
case, Medford.
The housing authority is a
non-profit organization and the
S40.000 it had accumulated
through the years were kept in
a reserve fund to cover possible
losses, he said.
Goldy stated the community
is now entitled to have the hous
ing authority removed as its buil
dings are substandard. One thing
holding back immediate elim
ination of the housing units is
the lack of local housing facili
ties to absorb families now liv
ing on the site, he said.
The 14 to 15-acre housing area
is now providing for about 100
families.
According to Goldy, the board
feels the authority profits should
be turned over to the city in the
form of a park along with a
swimming pool, as west Med
ford now lacks recreational fa
cilities.
Army engineers have been
appraising the land recently but
a purchase price with the board
has not been reached, he said.
The board will still be enabled
to build a pool and meet all
building requirements, he added.
The units on the housing site
will be eliminated gradually giv
ing tenants time to locate other
living quarters, according to
Goldy. Inception of the razing
is not scheduled for any particu
lar date, he said.
Goldy said no official notice
has been issued tenants to va
cate. Publicity was given the
matter only to prepare tenants
that soon they would have to
move, he said. The point is,
Goldy added, is "that the hous
ing authority in Medford should
get out of business."
Prisoner Designs j
Reformatory Chapel
Washington (U.R) Blue
prints for an interdenomination
al chapel at Lorton Reformatory
at Lorton, Va., drawn up by
an inmate who has never set
foot inside a real church are
being studied by authorities
here.
If the commissioners of t h e
District of Columbia approve the
project, funds for the chapel's
construction $192,000 - will
be included in the District bud
get for 1958. .
And if Congress approves this
budget item, convicted coun
terfeiter Farmer C. Thomas, the
architect, will have the satis
faction of seeing his chapel rise
at the institution.
Farmer, 30, was converted to
religion in jail and later baptiz
ed at Lorton. He and a fellow
inmate, 21-year-old Ronald Je
ter, devoted nearly 500 hours
of their leisure time to con
structing a scale model of the
chapel.
Farmer studied architectural
engineering for three years
while serving time at San
Quentin, Calif.
The $192,000 construction ap
propriation would buy what
normally would be a $500,000
building. Provision has been
made for extensive use of pris
on labor and prison-made ma
terials wherever practical, thus
greatly reducing costs.
TREE TEST
Ithaca. N. Y. (U.R) Cornell
University professors recently
completed tests on the flamma
bility of Christmas trees. They
touched off five well-known
types. Red pine burned the least
and slowest, white pine burned
the fastest and the most.
CALENDAR
Calendar notice and news for
the society section of The Mail
Tribune must be submitted in
writins and deadline for the Sun
day edition is 1 p.m. Friday. Dead
line for the weekly calendar is 9
a.m. of the day of publication and
for week day news is 5 p.m. tha
day before publication.
Tuesday
6:30 p.m. DAV auxiliary.
DAV hall, 1515 North Riverside
ave.
7:30 p.m. Bethel 55. Inter
national Order of Job's Daugh
ters, Pythian building.
7:30 p.m. Natural Foods as
sociates study group, room 28,
Medford High. school.
8 p.m. Elta Deuel Hubbs,
tent, county courthouse auditor
ium.
8 p.m. Howardi PTA, at
schoolhouse.
8 p.m. -i- Nevita chapter OES,
Masonic temple. Central Point.
8 p.m. Pythian club, home
of Mrs. Audley White, 532 North
Riverside. ,
8 p.m. Bethel 55, Job's
Daughters, Pythian building.
8 p.m. Xi Mu chapter, Beta
Sigma Phi, home of Mrs. Verl
G. Walker, 2642 Merriman road.
Wednesday:
10 a.m. Mistletoe club, with
Mrs. Frank Hussong, 56 Barne
burg rd.
12:30 p.m. Chapter AA PEO,
home of Mrs. Fred Lorish, 830
Minnesota ave.
12:30 p.m. Crater Lake aux
iliary, home of Mrs. Hazel
Rumsey, 21 Summit ave.
12:30 p.m. Townsend club.
Carpenter's hall, 123V4 West
Main st.
Retiring Agriculture
Director Gets Thanks
Salem (U.R) Republican
members of the House express
ed a vote of confidence and
thanks to retiring Agriculture
Director James Short yesterday.
Gov. Robert D. Holmes last
week named State Rep. Robert
Steward. Keating Democrat, to
replace Short following this leg-
' islative session.
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Dandy to Burn with Dry Wood
Big Double load or Single Load
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