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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, January 23, 19S7 Disappearance of Flier in Dominican Republic Stirs Officials of Government By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington U. S. govern ment officials are growing in creasingly agitated over the se ries of events surround i n g the disappear ance of an Or egon flier in the Dominican Rep u b 1 i c, a Caribbean dic tatorship. Seven weeks have elapsed a. Robt. smith since Oeraia Lester Murphy, a 23-year-old aviator from Eugene, Ore., van ished without a trace in the Do minican capital, Cuidad Trujillo. He had ju.t quit his job with the Dominican Airline, which is owned and operated by the gov ernment of Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. Murphy's car was found abandoned on the outskirts of the capital city not far from the coast and the shark infested waters that are nearby. A month after Murphy disap peared Dominican police arrest ed a Dominican national. An tr.nia Del La Maza. who had worked with Murphy for the government airline. Several days after his arrest and deten tion, police reported to Ameri can authorities that he had com mitted suicide in jail and left a letter for his wife in which he confessed killing Murphy. Officials Skeptical American officials are plainly skeptical of the appearance of the entire affair. They recall vividly the mysterious disap pearance last March of Jesus ; Galindez, a Dominican history j professor at Columbia universi I ty who vanished from New York City. He was an avowed foe of Dictator Trujillo. No trace has ever been found of the profes sor. Diplomatic relations between the U. S. and the Dominican gov ernment are very strained, which serves to aggravate the suspicions that are harbored by State Department officials who are working on the case. De la Maza, the suspect, was found hanging in his cell from a pipe that was only six inches above his head, according to Do minican police, who have com plete authority to investigate the case locally without U. S. inter ference. They said he hanged himself by knotting mosquito netting into a makeshift rope. State Department Silent New and secret developments have occurred in the last few days, but State Department offi cials won't talk about them yet. Very probably they involve this series of circumstances: I De la Maza showed up at the ! American embassy in Cuidad Trujillo on Dec. 10 to pick up visas which he had arranged to obtain for his parents to come to the United States: Murphy, as it is now recalled, was last seen only a few days before1 this. His abandoned car was noticed Dec. 6. He had that day advertised his personal effects for sale in a lo cal newspaper prior to returning to the U. S. to be married to a Pan-American airline hostess from Miami. Embassy officials recall that de la Maza seemed highly over wrought when he showed up for the visas. His parents then left the country and now reside in New York. Police then picked him up for questioning, and a few days later reported him as a suicide. F.B.I, agents have been called into the case. They have ob tained a photostatic copy of the alleged suicide note in order to nicke a handwriting analysis and determine whether in their opin ion it is genuine or a forgery. Some officials here, who know more than they can reveal at tiiis time, believe there has been active complicity on the part of Dominican underlings of the Trujillo regime. Possibly the po litical reason for such complici ty. it turns out to be the fact, might lie in the type of hauling the Dominican Airline may have had young Murphy doing. The whole affair seems head ed for becoming a minor inter national incident between the U. S. and one of her smallest neighbors, unless a better an swer for the disappearance of the Oregon flier is found very soon. Swell PACIFIC , INDUSTRIAL"" 16 S. Central Phone 3-S308 Quick in Results! Use Tribune Want Ads March of Dimes Said Desperately in Need Of Funds for Program Chicago Polio patients of the nation would be in a dangerous position if many people had the erroneous idea ' that paralytic polio is licked at a time when the current March of Dimes is desperately in need of funds, Basil O'Connor said here today. O'Connor, president of the Na tional Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, was in Chicago to at tend a Cook County Chapter Medical Advisory Committee luncheon in tribute tc those who gave valuable assistance during the 1956 polio epidemic. Remark! Misinterpreted The danger to polio patients had been enhanced, he said, by an unfortunate misinterpretation of his remarks published on the occasion of a birthday interview recently, in which he discussed what the National Foundation might do when the polio pro blem actually had been reduced to a minimum. "Some people apparently thought that our looking ahead to the future had a direct bear ing on the present," the March of Dimes leader declared. "But, as a matter of fact, there can be no future until the problems of the present have been met. "Like any oranization dedicat ed to the public interest, we have been discussing and investigat ing possible courses of future action in serving the American ; ! people, for we know that some I day polio will be conquered now that we have a preventive j vaccine. "But to view this as an indica ' tion that our original goal al : ready has been achieved is a dis- ! tortion of the facts, at a time when our obligation to at least 80.000 old polio patients is most pressing." Scientific research for improv ed treatment, rehabilitation and polio vaccines, as well as profes sional education to train urgent ly needed physicians, therapists and other medical experts and care of new patients this year, all depend upon continued public support of the 1957 March of Dimes. O'Connor said. "I wish I could issue some kind of victory statement, now that we have come this far in the fight against polio," he add ed. "There are many elements of victory in existence reduced polio incidence last year, the in oculation of more than 44,000, 000 children and adults with at least one shot of Salk voccine, improved patient care. But I am afraid that talk about victory to day would be dangerously pre mature. Victory means the end of a fight and the tragic fact is that the polio fight is far from over. I am sure the American people intend to fight it to its end." Sttj07 of Vim BOKN TOO SOON foo yea-Olo MAZLENE OLSEH or BUffUN&TDN, MASS. ... MiT BY POLIO JUST S TVIE NATION WAS GETTING ITS tRST SALK VACCINE ...SVlWaOLlZCS TVIE COUNTRY'S POLIO VICTIMS WUO STILL. NEED MAZCH OP PIMES HELP erRtCKEN WHEN SUB WAS THREE, MAUEWC WEA3S A BRACE ON HER R.16HT LF.0 AND MEEDS CRUTCHES TO GET AROUND. DOCTORS SAY SHE'LL NEED CONTlNUINQ CARE "FOR THE NPtfT FEW YEARS' -V "V "V V . VWtLENE HAS MADE : LIP HER f.lNDSHE 1 vvw PAP 1 CAPTAIN ARNQLO OLBVH, AN ARMY bom bee PtLOT, WAS AWARDED THE pfSVNOUlSHED PUWCWS LAST MAY FOR TOP SECRET WORK IK KOREA i 1 1 m mum ... i PROSPECT WCTU To Send Gift Boxes By GENEIL SPRUILL Prospect" The WCTU met Tuesday at the home of Hope Hedgepeth. The ladies finished a quilt top they were making and decided to send each local boy in the service a box of candy and cookies. Their next meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Joe Colley. ard Chandler, Miss Merrilyn Lewis and Miss Mary Lou Hap-per. Mr. and Mrs. Don Owsley and daughter, of Eureka, Calif., who were called here due to the death of Kiser Owsley, have been vis iting with Mrs. Owsley's parents, the Grants. Six members fd the birthday club met Thursday with Mrs. Kennitji Edwards the honored guest. Mrs. Robert Ells won the door prize. Twelve new chairs have been purchased for the use of the club. The ladies are now trying to raise money to buy a piano. Area Farmers Reminded of Social Security Changes Miss Kathy Dilley has been out of school for several days due to illness but is again back at school. ' The Home Extension group met Jan. 16. About 28 ladies attended. A hot dinner was served by Mertis Chandler, Tressie Vaughn. May Richard son and Ann Gillespie. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Halft from Port Orford are spending sev eral days at the Lewis Robert son home. Mrs. Roy Vaughn was hostess Jan. 7 at a birthday dinner hon oring Mrs. Ray Gillespie. On Jan. 23, the Prospect school children and any one between the age of six months and 20 years will be given polio vaccine free of charge. Llpyde Moore is confined to a Portland hospital, where he underwent a lung operation Fri day at 1 p.m. He was accom panied by his wife and his broth er and family from Lakeview, Ore. Miss Yvonne Struck and San dra Poole have been absent from school recently due to illness. J The grade school basketball j team has been doing well this ; season, winning 15 games out of 16 played. J Mrs. Paul Mather and Mrs. Vernon Govenor were hostesses Tuesday, Jan. 15. at a pink ami blue shower honoring Mrs. Rus sel Shoemaker. After opening the gifts refreshments were served. Those attending were Mrs. Spencer Lewis. Mrs. Spen cer Lewis Jr., Mrs. Gene Wil liams, Mrs. Eugene Carrico, Mrs. Clifford Snodgrass, Mrs. John Hansen, Mrs. Clarence Pearce. Mrs. George Govenor, Mrs. Len- SCHOOL DAYS Ogden, Utah (U.R) City em ployes here are going back to school and apparently enjoying iU Officials say 300 of Ogden's 350 city workers have taken part in personnel administration, government administration, pub lic relations and similar courses offered at Weber College. The classes are optional, but college credit is given for those who want it. U A-' v IEAMING TO DRIVE? look for AUTOMOBILE DRIVING SCHOOLS TOWING SERVICE in Jk f -sr 'uow mil 3 Farmers of Jackson and Jose phine counties who will be fil ing a combined income tax and social security return for 1956 are reminded that the social se curity provisions for reporting farm income have been changed to the farmer's benefit, W. V. Nusbaum, district social secur ity manager, said today. The revisions are designed to provide the small farmer par ticularly with a more favorable basis for figuring his social se curity payments, he said. The new law permits a farmer with a gross income of S1.800 or less during 1956 to use either his actual net earnings for social se curity purposes, or two-thirds of his gross farm income. If his gross Income exceeds SI. 800, but his net earnings are less than S1.200, he may report his net earnings as 51,200. The new method may be used by farm partners as well as by in dividual farm operators, Nus baum said. It applies to farmers who keep their records on the accrual basis and those who use' the cash method, he added. The self-employment tax on 1956 farm income is 3 per cent of the net earnings up to the maximum of 54,200. For the years 1957 through 1959 farmers will pay ZH per cent 6f their taxable farm income. While the 1956 social security law in creased the self-employed tax I rate starting with 1957, farmers mis year will Be reporting on 1956, income and therefore the tax rate is still 3 per cent, Nus baum said. EASY JOB Gloversville, N. Y. (U.P.) 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