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WHAT, NO SKIS? Frolicking in the soft white snow at
Sun Valley, Idaho are Hollywood actresses Martha Hyer
(left) and Mara Corday. With nothing like this around
Hollywood, the girls didn't wait to don skis for their first
time in the snow.
New Proposals Raise
Israel Deadlock Hope
Washington (U.RI An appar
ent new approach by the United
States and Israel raised fresh
hopes today for a solution to the
Middle East deadlock.
- Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles and Abba Eban, Israeli
mbassador to Washington, were
closeted for 3 hours and 10 min
utes Sunday to discuss the ques-
-str!) ol Israeli troop withdrawals
from the Gaza Strip and Gulf
ot Aqal.
Hop Voiced
They issued a joint statement
at the end of the meeting voicing
hope for a solution "consistent
with the principles of the United
0.'atitfns."
. Apparently both sides have
eased tWeir stands on guarantees
for protecting Israel against pos
sible future Egyptian attacks.
Israel had demanded ironclad
guarantees before pulling her
troops out. The United States
had promised to seek such guar
antees after the withdrawal.
Informed sources in Israel
said one of the new proposals
that Eban took with him to
Wellington was that Israeli war
ships ptrol the Gulf of Aaaba j
to assure fiacedom of navigation
mew. ,
Tl sources said1 this "would
end nsjessity that American
Hedri A Students
Receive Gold Keys
Two Hedrick Junior High
school students have been named
winners of gold key awards in
the Scholastic Art awards com
petition for Oregon students last
week in Portland.
Hedrick gold key winners are
Nickie Mears and Gerald Boyd,
both eighth grade students.
Entries winning gold key
awards will be sent to the na
tional high school art exhibition
. at Carnegie Institute in Pitts
burgh May 10-June 2. It will
also be shown at an exhibit at
Lipman-Wqlfe in Portland from
Feb. 27 through March 9, along
with othePwork which received
honorable mention.
Seven Medford High school
students and six Crater High
students were also among gold
key winners from Jqckson
county.
Residents May Get
Salk Shots Tonight
Jackson county residents un
der the a;e of 20 may receive
free Salk vaccine shots between
7 and 9 p.m. today in the base
ment of the Elks temple in
Medford.
A special vaccine station is
being established there for the
benefit of those who were un
able to receive their shots dur
ing the regular rounds in the
county schools.
First, second or third shots
ir the three-shot series will be
administered tonight. Those re
ceiving their first or second
shots tonight may obtain their
subsequent vaccinations at the
health department clinic ' next
month.
State Police Arrest
Californian Here
Norman Eugene Cobb, also
known as Raymond Jet Logan,
30. Santa Cruz, Calif., was ar
rested in Medford by state po
lice early this morning while
operating a vehicle reported
stolen five cfitys ago from the
Sacramento. Calif., area.
Police said the vehicle, a 1955
Ford, had been reporting miss
ing from a used car lot within
15 miles of Sacramento. The
license plates, according to of
ficers, had been taken from
Roseville. Calif.
Cobb was lodged in the Jack
son county jail. He will be re
turned to Sacramento by Calif
ornia authorities.
ships enter the gulf to guarantee
free passage as proposed by Pres
ident Eisenhower.
Would Share Control
A second Israeli proposal, the
sources said, was that Israeli not
evacuate the Gaza Strip, but in
stead share control with the
United Nations.
But they said there was noth
ing hard and fast about the two
proposals and that Israel would
remain flexible concerning them.
450 Boys Tested
So Far in Special
Research Program
Second in a series of tests to
determine development of chil
dren as they grow was given
last week in Medford schools to
male students between the ages
of 7 and 15, Lee Ragsdale. super
visor of physical education in
Medford schools, reported this
morning.
The program is sponsored bv
the University of Oregon, South
ern Oregon college, the Athletic
Institute of Chicago and the
Medford school system. Included
in the program are 50 strength
measurement, a n t h r opometric
measurement, social adjustment,
aptitude, intelligence quotient
and scholastic achievement tests.
Both athletic and non-athletic
students are included in the pro
gram. 450 Tested
A total of 650 students will
have taken the tests by the end
of this school year. To date, 450
have already been tested and the
remainder will be tested in May,
Ragsdale said. Students whose
birthdays occurred within two
months of Oct 22, were given
the tests last October. Last week,
tests were given to those whose
birthdays occurrd within twoe
months of Feb. 22. All schools in
Medford, with the exception of
Lincoln school, are included in
the testing program.
At the completion of this
year"s tests, development of the
boys included in the program
will be traced by further testing
as they continue in school. The
program will not be extended to
students other than those tested
this year.
Administering the examina
stion here last week were Dr.
H. Harrison Clark, research pro
fessor at the University of Ore
gon and general director of the
research program: Kay Peterson,
graduate assistant at the Univer
sity of Oregon and general di
rector of the research program;
Kay Peterson, graduate assistant
at the University of Oregon and
official in charge of the program
for Medford students; Ted
Schopf, Southern Oregon col
lege professor; two SOC students
and six University of Oregon
students.
Heart Association
Still Counting Funds
Officials of the Medford Heart
association today said more than
SI. 500 was collected yesterday
in the association's Heart Sun
day door-to-door drive to col
lect funds for the 1957 Heart
Fund.
Mrs. Manville Heisel, chair
man of Heart Sunday, said con
tributions were still being
counted this morning. She said
it appeared unlikely the 33,000
goal established for the Heart
Sunday drive in Medford would
be reached. However, she noted,
$1,500 counted so far from the
campaign exceeds last year s
Heart Sunday contributions by
S200. Results of the final count
will be announced Tuesday, she
said.
Mrs. Heisel commended vol
unteer fund solicitors for their
door-to-door work despite un
favorable weather conditions.
She also commended residents
for their "warm reception" to
volunteer workers.
Ike Cau
Broadcast Tells
01 Communism's
Threat To
Region
Resolution Designed
To Bring Stability
Washington (U.R) Presi
dent Eisenhower warned the
people of the Middle East to
day to stand clear of the "men
ace of international Commun
ism" lest it "smash all their hard
won accomplishments over
night." Designed to Bring Stability
Mr. Eisenhower reiterated in
a special shortwave broadcast
beamed overseas that his Mid
east resolution, now pending in
Congresses designed "to help
bring stability" to the troubled
areas. "We must face that fact,
that, while we are trying to help
build a world of freedom and
justice among sovereign people,
the President said, "the masters
of international Communism are
working constantly to tear down
this kind of world."
The President spoke as U.S.
officials voiced hope that the
Israeli troop deadlock may be
broken.
New U.S. Approach
Israeli Ambassador Abba Eb
an conferred for'three hours and
10 minutes Sunday with Secre
tary of State John Foster Dulles
on the issue of withdrawal of
Israel's troops from the Gaza
Strip and Gulf of Aqaba.
Apparently a new American
approach was being worked out
to the question of guaranteeing
Israel against future Egyptian
attacks. Israel also was said to
have modified its demands for
safeguards before pulling out of
Egyptian territory.
Joint Statement
After their talk, Dulles and
Eban issued a joint statement
expressing hope for a "solution
. . . consistent with the princi
ples of the United Nations."
The Presidents speech mark
ed the 15th anniversary of the
Voice of America. It was deliv
ered from the overseas broad
cast studios here and was relay
ed by short wave around the
globe.
City Gets Second
Heaviest Rainfall
The Medford vicinity had its
second heaviest rainfall of the
year yesterday. Total precipita
tion measured at the weather
station at the municipal airport
was 1.1ft inches.
Saturday and Sunday rainfall
amounted to 1.35 inches and
brought the monthly and season
totals to more than normal. Oc
casional rain is expected through
Tuesday, weathermen said.
Rainfall Sunday compared to
1.41 inches on Jan. 19, heaviest
for one day so far in 1957. Feb
ruary total up to midnight last
night was 2.02 inches, .28 above
normal and the amount since
the agricultural year began on
Sept. 1, 1956 is 14.26, or 1.65
more than normal.
Grants Pass rainfall was 2.03
inches in the 24-hour period up
to 4:30 a.m. today.
DOW-JONES AVERAGES
New York (U.R) Dow
Jones final stock averages: 30
industrials 466.90. off 0.03; 20
railroads 141.26, off 0.96; 15 util
ities 70.53, up 0.19, and 65 stocks
165.21, off 0.16. Sales today
were about 1,710.000 shares com
pared with 1.680.000 shares
Thursday.
Gunmen Turn Home Into Torture Chamber To
Learn Hiding Place of
McKecsport, Pa. U.R) Po
lice today sought four gunmen,
led by a "sadist," who turned
the home of .a local meat packer
into a medieval - like torture
chamber to learn the where
abouts of hidden money and
jewelry.
Manacled to Post
The gang manacled Frank
Rendulic. 40. to a cellar post
with handcuffs and chains, then
beat him with blackjacks and
burned him with a heated meat
hook to make him tell where
his money was hidden.
Rendulic finally gave in. three
hours after the torture started,
when the gang threatened to
burn out the eyes of his four
a 1st Year
Medford
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GUY MOLLET
'Things A Utile Better'
Nolle! 'Hopeful;
Arrives for Talks
With Eisenhower
New York (U.R) French
Premier Guy Mollet said after
whispered conversation with his
ambassador today that he had
"just been told things are going
a little better," in Mideast ne
gotiations.
Mollet said he was "hopeful"
that a solution to Arab-Israeli
difficulties will be found. - '
The French Premier arrived
by plane from Paris for confer
ences with President Eisenhow-
, the first between chiefs of
state of the United States and
its Big Three allies since the
Suez crisis.
He will leave later today for
Washington in President Eisen
hower's plane, the Columbine.
He was met at Idlewild Air
port by French Ambassador to
the United States, Harve Al
phand, who give him a whis
pered briefing on the Middle
East situation after newsmen
asked for comment on it.
He had said earlier that he
preferred to make no "declara
tion on the crisis until after he
sees Mr. Eisenhower.
The Eisenhower - Mollet talks
start a round robin series of
"summit" conferences . among
the Big Three chiefs of state on
the breach in the Western alli
ance. The French Premier will be
in Washington for two days be
fore returning to New York and
Canada.
His visit will clear the way
for Mr. Eienhower and Secretary
of State John Foster Dulles to
begin work on another "sum
mit" conference next month
with British Prime Minister
Harold Macmillan at Bermuda,
starting March 21.
James Redden Begins
Pro-Tern Judge Duties
James Redden, Medford attor
ney, assumed duties this morn
ing as pro tern municipal judge
in the place of Miss Noreen Kel
ly, regular municipal judge,
who is on vacaton.
Redden will replace Miss Kel
ly for about three weeks. He
was appointed to the position
earlier this month by the Med
ford city council. He is a mem
ber of Roberts, Kellington and
Branchfield law firm.
children with a heated poker.
Earlier, a similar eye-gouging
threat failed to break Rendulic's
silence.
The robbers got away with
about $5,000 in cash and 55,000
worth of jewelry. They left Ren
dulic's back, legs and face a
mass of bruises. His right eye
was swollen shut.
Bound and Gagged
Rendulic's terrified wife, Jo
sephine, 39, and the couple s
two sons and two daughters
were left bound and gagged in
an upstairs bedroom but were
not harmed otherwise. Mrs. Ren
dulic freed herself after the men
left and called police.
Rendulic, who operates a
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MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1957
Legislature Opens
7th Week; 21 Bills
Wait Final Action
Capital Punishment
Proposal Considered
-4Salem U.P.) The Oregon
legislature started its seventh
week today with 21 bills set for
final action and the House Judi
ciary committee scheduled to
consider a proposal to ban capi
tal punishment.
Gov. Robert D. Holmes asked
the legislators to prohibit capi
tal punishment in Oregon as
"unenlightened and uncivilized"
in his inaugural address.
New Bills Introduced
Nine new bills were intro
duced in the House in a heavy
work day today including one
by Rep. Ole Grubb, Bend Demo
crat, to permit a school district
or districts to set up two-year
community colleges throughout
the state.
Also introduced in the House
was legislation appropriating
$350,000 to the State Board of
Control to build a centralized
water and heat system for sev
eral state institutions in Salem
and to make building improve
ments at Fairview home. .
Would Add Barbiturates '- ' -
Rep. Winton J. Hunt, Wood
burn, introduced a bill that
would add barbiturates to nar
cotics and liquor as an offense
while driving. Under the bill, if
a person accidentally killed
someone while driving under
the influence of barbiturates he
would be subject to manslaugh
ter charges.
Also relating to drivers was
a bill providing that failure to
appear within 30 days would
presume a conviction for pur
poses of driver license suspen
sion in all traffic citation cases
except illegal parking.
Ex-Grants Pass
Man Said Missing
A former Grants Pass man.
Army Capt. Paul Omann, 33,
now residing in Sacramento,
Calif., has been reported missing
since Saturday in an Army T-33
believed down" in the Sierra
mountains. . ,
Reports indicated the flight
originated in Cheyenne, Wyo.
The plane was scheduled to land
at McClellan Air Force base,
Sacramento, Saturday, but was
not heard from after radio con
tact was made over Reno, Nev.
Capt. Omann has several rela
tives in the Rogue valley, in
cluding his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Omann Sr., Grants Pass;
one brother, Norbert Omann, 211
sisters, Mrs. Lewis Buckley, 630
South Holly St., Mrs. Chester
McQuigg, 533 Austin St., Mrs. L.
K. Stevenson, 618 Victory st.,
and Mrs. Howard Fry, Grants
Pass. Other relatives include
his wife and son of Sacramento.
Salem (U.R) The Central
Oregon Highway was closed
from Juantura to Cair junction
and the John Day highway was
closed at Vale, the State High
way Department said today.
Money and
slaughter house behind his home
said that he and his wife were
watching television Saturday
night when their doorbell rang.
He answered it and four men
pushed their way in.
Thought It Was Gag
"Three had socks pulled over
their faces and the fourth had
on a white mask. Each one had
a gun," Rendulic said. "I
thought right away it was some
of my friends playing a gag."
Three of the men forced him
into the cellar while the fourth
ordered his wife upstairs where
their two sons, Fred, 5, and
Frank, 8, were in bed.
The couple's daughters. Joan,
13, and Janet, 11, returned
'Man, You Must Be
Knowland Asks Russia
To Lift Iron Curtain
United Nations, N.Y. (U.R)
Sen. William F. Knowland (R
Calif.) called upon Russia today
to permit free access to Eastern
Europe so the world can learn
the facts of the Soviet "myth
of U.S. intervention" there.
Knowland spoke for the Unit
ed States in the U.N. Special
Two Chinese Red
Prisoners Claimed
Intelligence Agents
Washington (U.R) An ousted
official of the U.S. Information
Agency has charged that at least
two of the 10 Americans impris
oned in Red China are agents of
the Central Intelligence Agency.
The former official, Charles
Edmundson, suggested Sunday
that the State Department may
have banned American news
men from visiting Communist
China to cover up the true activi
ties of some of the prisoner.
'Agents' Identified
Edmundson, who was fired
from his USIA post in Korea for
publicly criticizing U.S. foreign
policy, said that "certainly" two
of the men he identified only as
"Downey and Fecteau" were CIA
agents. The State Department
has identified two of the impris
oned AmericaVis as John T.
Downey, New Britain, Conn.,
and Richard Fecteau, Lynn,
Mass.
Known To Communists
Edmundson said the fact that
some of the prisoners are CIA
agents is known to the Chinese
Communists and the CIA. He
criticized the administration for
picturing these men as "simple,
innocent Americans.".
He said they may be innocent
of the Red charges "but they are
CIA agents." Such distortions
"create tensions of a type that
lead nations to war," he said.
Jewelry
shortly from a skating rink and
also were taken to the bedroom.
In the cellar, the three gun
men handcuffed Rendulic's arms
around a steel post and chained
his legs. Then they took turns
beating him with blackjacks and
singeing his skin with a heated
meat hook.
Money Belonged to Children
"You'd better tell where the
money is. This guy's a sadist,"
one thug said, pointing to a man
who acted as leader.
He said about $1,000 of the
money taken by the men be
longed to his children, who had
held a lucky number in a church
I lottery.
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Out Of Your Mind"
Political Committee. He denied
Soviet charges that Washington
seeks to establish American
"colonial domination" in the
Middle East and elsewhere
through the Eisenhower doc
trine. Defeat Expected
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minis
ter Vastly V. Kuznetsov asked
that the assembly "condemn
subversive activities of the Unit
ed States against other states"
and call upon Washington to
"stop the. subversive activities
against and interference in the
internal affairs of other states
under any pretext whatsoever."
Kuznetsov's resolution was
expected to be defeated by the
80-nation committee.
knowland called Kuznetsov's
charges "a disagreeable old
story brought up to date" and
said the United States was con
fident they would be "recog
nized as false by this General
Assembly and by the whole
Free World."
"The - very- term, 'Soviet
item,' " Knowland said, "has be
come a synonym to U.N. delega
tions for a propaganda offensive
against the United States.
Trying To Divert Attention
"By reviving these charges,
Ihe Soviet Union is merely try
ing to divert world attention
from its own year in and year
out program of using foreign
Communist parties to subvert
and undermine the government
of free countries all over the
world.
"Also, no doubt, the Soviet
Union would like to obscure the
truth revealed; in recent discus
sions by the assembly of the
situation in Hungary and for
that purpose produce its own
myth of U.S. intervention in
Eastern Europe. Once again, we
call upon the Soviet Union to
permit free access to Eastern
Europe, and thus to' the facts."
Salem (U.R) Public Util
ities CommissioneV Howard Mor
gan has been appointed to the
National Association of Railroad
and Utilities commissioners'
special committee to study rail
road car shortages, it was an
nounced here today.
Weather
FORECAST: Occasional rain
through Toesday. Goaty
southerly winds tonight. Low
tonight 40. High Tuesday 50.
TRMPFRATURE
Highest Yesterday 51
Lowest this Morning 42
TD B-riPTT ATIHN
To 4 JO a.m. Today
.71
Our Skies Tonight
Sunrise
S:54 a.m.
5:5f p.m.
5:3 a.m.
.March 1
Sunset
Moonrise Tuesday
New Moon
PROMINENT STAR
Cape 11a, high overhead 7:05
sunset.
VISIBLE PLANETS
Mars, high in southwest at
iron set.
Jupiter, low In east Jt:09 p.m.
Saturn, rises 2 :24 am.
Two Grants Pass
Foresters Killed
By Falling Trees
Heavy Rains, Winds
Batter Entire State
Jittery residents of flood rav
aged Eastern Oregon kept their
fingers crossed today and prayed
for cold weather to halt the flow
of mountain snow packs that
turned streams into rivers and
rivers into torrents yesterday.
Heavy week end rains and
high winds battered the entire
state. Two men were ki'led near
Grants Pass Saturday when
trees fell on their jeep. Wind
gusts up to 70 miles per hour
were reported at the Columbia
river lightship yesterday.
Coffer Dam Washed Ot
The coffer dam at Idaho Pow
er company's Brownlee project
was washed out about 4:30 a.m.
today when the diversion tun
nel could not handle the huge
flow of water.
Bernard Frost, area manager
for Idaho Power, said the loss
would set construction back
about 30 days.
Sheriffs officers reported that
hundreds of acres of farm land
in the Vale area were under
water. More than 100 cattle
have been lost and scores of
sheep also were claimed by the
swollen rivers.
Water Recedes
Residents along the flood line
from Enterprise to Vale and
west to Baker reported the wat
er had receded this morning
from crests late yesterday that
sent several hundred people
from their homes and flooded
homes, business establishments
and left washed out bridges and
highway closures in its wake.
States police at Vale reported
today that waters which had
stood nearly five feet dejp in
many sections of the town had
started to recede slowly.
Between 700 and 800 residents
of the town were forced efrom
their homes and emergency
quarters were set up in the high
school and churches.
Bridge Washed Out
Most business buildings in
the downtown section were
flooded. Waters from Billy creek
plunged over the creek's banks
into the west side of the town
while the Malheur river spilled
over its banks into the east side
of the city.
A 100-foot bridge spanning
the Malheur river on highway
201 was out, closing traffic on
that route between Vale and
Weiser, Ida. Highways between
Vale and Burns were also cut.
The town of Harper southwest
of Vale was isolated by the
waters.
Prairie creek, swelled by fast
melting snow, rushed into the
town of Enterprise yesterday but
officials said today that the river
was holding its own and iad
started to go back toward its
banks slowly.
Many Roads Out
About 30 persons "were forced
to flee their homes last night
and about 18 inches of water
stood in most of the town. Roads
were out in nearly every direc
tion with six bridges reported
out. Hundreds of residents turn
ed out yesterday to battle the
rampaging waters with sand bags
but met little success in holding
the flood waters out of the town.
The weather claimed two lives
in southwestern Oregon over the
week end when two wind-toppled
trees crashed across a jeep.
Two Grants Pass foresters, Wil
liam R. Brinsfield, 33, assistant
manager and chief forester of
the Bate Lumber Company, and
Fred Michelotti, 28, were crush
ed in the wreckage of their ve
hicle.
Forecast Causes Anxiety
Continued heavy rains and the
forecast of more caused anxiety
in western Oregon. The North
and South Umpqua rivers in
Douglas county were reported
running high but were expected
to remain in their banks. A slide
near Anlaif resulted in one-way
northbound traffic on Highway
99 about 10 miles south of Cot
tage Grove. Another slide was
reported 25 miles west of Drain
on Highway 38.
Automobile Safety
Series Starts Today
Are modern autos too fast
and loo flimsy? Should your
car b' equipped with seat belts
for safety? Will new highway
designs reduce traffic acci
dents? Robert Serling, United Press
writer, answers these and
many other questions on the
growing traffic problem on
highways of America. The first
in a series of five articles ap
pear on page 6 of today's Mail
Tribune.