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Newspaper Page Texto PI RACKETS - 15) 11 I!M STOR CONFLICT 4 I 1 Israel o Hitch Develops In Negotiations With Hammarskjold United States Hopes To Solve New Impasse .By UNITED PRESS Israel was reported ready to day to evacuate its positions O alyig the Gulf of Aqaba, but a hitch developed in negotiations beUft;en Israeli Ambassador Ab ba Eban and UN Secretary-general Dag Hammarskjold over the Gaza Strip. The United States hoped to 8lve the new impasse today l?5 introducing a resolution in the UN General Assembly call ing for UN control, of both the Gaza Strip and the Israeli-held area along the Aqaba Gulf. Warning in Clause The resolution would omit any direct call for sanctions against Israel, but the draft of O the resolution was understood to carry a carefully worded clause warning that the Assembly would consider sanctions if Is rael persisted in its refusal to quit Egyptian territory. Eban, who broke off his talks Tuesday with Hammarskjold and rushed to Washington for a 90-minute conference with Sec retary of State John Foster Dul les, was expected to see Ham marskjold again today in New Yoik. Israeli sources said that Ham marskjold's "legal niceties" were blocking a Gaza settlement. They defined these "legal nifties" as Hammarskjold's in sistence that the 1949 armistice agreement ending the Palestine war provided for Egyptian oc cupation of the Gaza Strip and that he could do nothing about it. o Cites cdayeen Raids Israel's position was that it will not give Egypt control of the disputed territory because of the long scries of Egyptian Fed ayeen raids launched on Israel Irom the strip i violation of tmV-armistice agreement. Israel has insisted on guaran tees against such attacks and guarantees of f re'j passage in the Gulf of Aqaba before giving up Qcontrol of the aras. Egypt used the Sharm el Sheikh area to blockade Israeli shipping in the Gulf of Aqaba. Valley Has Early Season Thunderstorm An early season thunderstorm yesterday evening was a weath er feature for the valley. Thunder and lightning were noted after 6 p.m. mainly in the hills to the northwest, although one flash of lightning was seen to the southwest about that time. The storm moved to the east. CLittle rain was recorded at the weather station at the airport at the time although precipitation totalled .87 of an inch for the day yesterjlay. A weather bureau spokesman said that the thunderstorm was a bit early in the season but not unusual for this late in Febru ary. Such weather is more like ly in March or April, it was pointed out. Weather bureau officials said the Rogue river crested at 14.8 feet at Grants Pass late yester day afternoon. Flood stage there is about 17 feet. Streams were expected to continue receding they added. Washington (U.PJ Sen. Richard L. Neuberger, (D-Ore.), has been appointed to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Commission which directs com memoration of the late presi dent. Area Students to Attend Model UN General Assembly Fourteen Medford High shool students w?U attend a O plenary session of the model Un ited Nations general assembly during the annual Oregon High school International Relations leag&e conference Friday at the University of Oregon. 3 Medford High delegates will be Eddie Albright, Ken Arnold, Jim Boyd, Kaye Christian. Bill " Frake. Sue Gray. Tim Hiller Qnan. Jonna Lou Henson. Harold O'Conners. Dianna Russell. Dick Corum, Henry Harbcrt, Nancy Wilson and exchange student John Hansen. Secretary of State Mark Hat field will speak at the opening of the conference. O. Meredith Wilson, university president, will welcome students. Pkst of Kind About 500 Oregon high school students throughout the state will participate in the model UN session, the first of its kind ever conducted on the high Reported E?eady To Evacumte Aqaba tc,f. 7&rjT a CITATION AWARDED A citation for meritorious service for employment of the physically handicapped was awarded to the Veterans' Administration Domiciliary at Camp White at a Rotary club luncheon in the Jackson hotel Tuesday. E. K. Rick er, left. Domiciliary manager, received the citation.from Richard Smurthwaite of the U.S. department of labor, who was acting on behalf of the governor of the state of Oregon and the president of the United States. The award was made because of the large number of disabled employees hired by the domiciliary, which -range from double amputees to blind persons, who otherwise would have- difficulty finding employment. The citation was signed by Governor Holmes and Melvin J. Maas, -U.S. Marine Corps, ret. Prospect School to Discuss Special Tax Prospect Registered voters in the Prospect school district have been urged to attend a public meeting here Monday to discuss feasibility of levying a special tax to increase salaries of Prospect school teachers. The meeting will be held at R p.m. Monday. March 4, at Prospect High school. Members of the Prospect school board met with a local citizen's committee earlier this week to discuss the possibilities of a special tax. The public meet ing was set to determine "feel ings of citizens' in the school district on the matter. according 16 Directors Named To Resources Group Grants Pass Sixteen Rogue valley residents were elected to the board of directors of the Rogue Basin Flood Control and Water Resources association last night at a meeting in the Jose phine -county courthouse.' W. L. Jess, Eagle Point, was reelected president of the board. Elected vice-president was Ben Hilkon, Grants Pass. Wally Mar tin, Grants Pass, was appointed secretary-treasurer. Directors serving five-year terms will be H. F. Norwood, Rogue River; A. A. Walker, Gold Hill; F. I. Bristol, Grants Pass; and Jess and Hilkon. Serving two-year terms will be H. L. Gebhard, Central Point; M. H. Williams, Shady Cove; Francis Krouse, Upper Apple gate; County Judge R. T. Lath rop of Josephine county; and W. D. Woodcock, Mcdford. One-year term directors will be J. E. Bartlett, Grants Pass; C. L. Bartlett, Grants Pass; County Commissioner Chester Wendt, Jackson county; Jennings Pierce, Mcdford; County Judge Rodney Keating, Jackson county; and C. O. Nystrom, Merlin. The association will meet March 25 at 8 p.m. in the Jack son county court room in Mcd ford. school level. The IRL confer ence is sponsored by the Oregon Education association and the University of Oregon. Medford is representing three Indochincse countries, Laos, South Viet-Nam and Cambodia. The delegates have tentatively planned to introduce several res olutions concerning the coun tries. The 14 students have been at tending extra-cirricular classes the last two months for back ground information on Indo Chinese problems as well as or ganization and parliamentary procedure of the United Nations. Advisor to the local delegates is Mrs. Joanne Smith, head of social studies department at the Medford High school. They will leave at noon Thursday and re turn to Medford Saturday eve ning. Charles Koburger, graduate student at the university, will be secretary general for the UN session. to Kenneth Vannice, superin- 1 tendent of Prospect schools. I Vannice explained Prospect schools have had a problem for j several years in providing in I centive for teachers to come here. Since Prospect is far from a metropolitan area it is at a nisadvantage in competing with Medford area schools for teach ers, he added. The proposed plan would in crease taxes in the school dis trict, about . one t mill annually, Vannice said. The school super intendent pointed out teachers for the 1957-58 school year are to be retained in March and there is a possibility of 'losing seme during the "turn-over." There are now 11 elementary and seven high school teachers in the district. The tax levy would increase wages for teach trs in both the elementary and high school, according to Van nice. Present salary schedule for Prospect teachers is similar to or the same as that of Medford area teachers, he reported. Suit Asks Damages Against Grants Pass Portland (U.R) A suit asking damages against the city of Grants Pass and the Calif ornia and Oregon Coast railroad was taken under advisement here yesterday by Federal Dis trict Judge Gus L. Solomon. The suit, brought by. the S. H. & W. Lumber company, the Chapman Lumber company and John Bakshas, asked damages for abandonment of the 2Vj-mile railroad without permission. The Interstate Commerce Commission permission for ab andonment of the line became effective Monday. The plantiffs contend they are due damages for extra costs they incurred while the rail line was inopera tive and before permission for abandonment was granted. The line was built 40 years ago and went into receivership in 1925 and was abandoned in October, 1954. South Santiam Highway Closed Due To Slide Salem (U.R) The South San tiam highway is closed 4V4 miles east of Mountain house, due to a slide, the State Highway Department reported today. The Central Oregon highway was closed in the Juntura-Vale section. The Old Oregon Trail highway remained closed at the bridge across the Malheur river. Weather FORECAST: Considerable cloudiness tonight, becoming partly cloudy Thursday with chance of a few showers. Low tonight 45. High Thursdav 58. Temp. HUhest Yesterday 63 Lowest thi Mnrninz 45 Prec. to 4:30 a.m. Today .47 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 6:51 a.m. Sunset 5:5 p.m. Moon rise Thursday 6:00 a.m. w Moon March 1 PROMINENT STAR Betelpeuse. high in south 7:36 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Mars, in the west 9:19 p.m. lupiter, high in south east 11:29 p.m. Saturn, low in south east .. 3:21 a.m. Ike, Mollef Agree To Oppose Cuts In NATO Forces Need for Defense Against Russia Seen Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower and- French Premier Guy Mollet have agreed to oppose proposed cuts in NATO forces, informed sources said today. The sources said the two lead ers agreed it is necessary to maintain North Atlantic Treaty Organization strength at present h.vels at this time because Russia continues to be as great a threat as ever. European NATO members particularly Britain are under considerable pressure at home to cut their NATO commitments as a means of trimming defense expenses. Final Round Today The President and Mollet to day planned a second and final round of their talks which start ed Tuesday. Mollet and French Foreign Minister Christian Pi r.eau planned to meet with Sec retary of State John Foster Dulles. Besides current NATO plans for European economic integra tion, Tuesday's talks covered creation of an atomic energy au thority for Europe (Euratom) and the Middle East. Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said afterward a good deal of agreement was reached on problems other than the Middle East. He said he could not elaborate on the Middle East crisis. American officials said later both the United States and France are seeking a solution of Middle East problems without resorting to UN sanctions against Israel. McMillan Receives Jail TermFine In Circuit Court Carl W. McMillan, 50, of Cen tral Point, was sentenced in cir cuit court yesterday to six months in county jail three years on probation and fined $500 on two charges arising out of an accident last July on Highway 99 near the Mason Ehrmann rd. The eight-week-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hanshew of Medford was killed when the vehicle McMillan was driving collided with the jeep in which the Hanshew family was riding. Circuit Judge Orval Millard of Grants Pass pronounced sen tence after McMillan pleaded guilty to negligent homicide, a reduction of an earlier charge. The grand jury last fall returned an indictment charging involun tary manslaughter against him and he was to stand trial on that charge. Reduction of Charge District Attorney Thomas Reeder said reduction of the charge was agreed upon by Judge Millard and McMillan's attorney, Edward Kelly. In lieu of a grand jury indictment for the new charge, McMillan plead ed guilty to an order of infor mation presented by Reeder. The district attorney recom mended leniency and against sentencing him to the, state peni tentiary. The sentence also was on a charge of driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor in connection with the same accident.. He pleaded inno cent to the charge but was found guilty by a district court jury last August. Kelly appealed the case to cir cuit court and the appeal was granted. A circuit court jury found McMillan guilty of the charge on Feb. 16. In issuing the three year sus pended sentence Judge Millard stipulated that McMillan refrain from drinking intoxicating liq uor or the suspended sentence could be revoked. McMillan is married and has five children, three of whom are attending school. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York U.R) Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 in dustrials 466.26. off 1.46: 20 rail roads 141.04. up 0.11; 15 utilit ies 70.53, up 0.05, and 65 stocks 165.03, off 0.24. Sales today were about 1,620.000 shares com pared with 1,580,000 shares Tuesday. Chicago (U.R) Gen. Al fred M. Gruenther former NATO commander, predicted that if war were to break out today, "the other side would lose." 20 I MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1957 No. 291 TURNCOAT, 'SOURED' ON SOVIET ACTIONS, BACK IN FREE WORLD Hong Kong (U.R) American turncoat Samuel D. Hawkins re turned to the free world from Red China today, saying Russia's crushing of Hungary soured him on living in a Communist coun try. Smiled Broadly The 24 - year - old ex-soldier from Oklahoma City, Okla., who defected to Communist China after his capture during the Korean war, crossed the border into this British colony at 1 p.m. (8 p.m. PST Tuesday). He was sober faced when met by British, U. S. and Red Cross FLOODS HIT EASTERN OREGON Early spring thaws sent flood waters raging through ( eastern Oregon rivers. Here the usually placid Malheur river overflows into the southern Holmes May Request Disaster Rating for Eastern Oregon By UNITED PRESS Gov. Robert Holmes said to day he may ask that parts of eastern Oregon be declared flood disaster areas as the region counted up the damage from un seasonal freshets. Holmes said Maylor Scott, state civil defense operations of- Police Report Woman Threatened Boy Mrs. Buelah D. Jackson, 420 Marie St., Medford, reported Tuesday that a middle-aged woman threatened her young son with a kitchen knife after he and a neighbor boy had been playing with a dog in an alley behind the Jackson residence yesterday, according to Medford police. Wayne Grant Jackson, 8, told his mother a woman, about 50, caught him- after a chase in the alley, police said, according to Mrs. Jackson the boys were play ing with a neighbor dog when the woman approached them with the knife in his face and told him she would "cut his throat" if she ever caught him playing with a dog in that man ner again, police said. The boy indicated he was not being cruel to the dog, police reported. Daughter's Birth Causes Excitement In Fred Dofnan Home Birth of a daughter. Julie Ann, was the cause for excite ment this morning at the horn of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dornan. 14102 West 10th street. The Dornans planned to go io Sacred Heart hospital when it appeared the girl's arrival was near. But Julie didn't give them a chance to get on their way and the youngster was born at home. Dornan did what he could to assist with the arrival and to keep his wife and new daughter warm. The doctor arrived about 10 minutes later. Mother and daughter then were taken to the hospital. - The girl, who weighed eight pounds, is the second child of the Dornans, who have lived here since last August. They have a son, Graham, 14 months old. - Dornan is an assistant golf professional at Rogue Valley Country club. 'ATT official, but smiled broadly when he received newsmen at the Princess hotel an hour later. He frankly admitted he was a "turncoat." Seemed 'Wanton Killing' Asked why he had left Com munist China after three years, Hawkins said: "Mostly because of the Hun garian situation," he said. "I did not like the way it came about. To me it seemed to be wanton killing by Soviet soldiers." Hawkins' wife, Tanya, a Rus sian whom he married in June 1956, did not come with him ficer, and Federal Civil Defense Administrator Paul Spaeth of Seattle would go to eastern Ore gon today for a flood-damage survey. There was no over-all damagt. estimate available from hard hit areas around Vale, Baker and Enterprise but officials expected it to run high. An Ontario official. City Su periritendent Herbert L. Derrick, said Malheur county damage might be figured in the millions. The Weiser river in Idaho was causing concern tqday as it sur rounded some 36 homes along its banks at Weiser, just across the Oregon border. But it was not expected the main portion of the town would be flooded. A few persons there remained cut of their homes last night. Damaged highways and com munications interfered with mop-up operations in the Vale area, hardest hit by the flood ing. Health authorities were on hand to offer any help to local authorities. Streams in eastern Oregon had gone down although water still stood in some areas. Holmes sent a telegram to President Eisenhower saying "Ii "Wonder Why We're Price 10c .Tribune United Pre -full Lifted Wit because the United States would not guarantee her an entry per mit until proper application is made. Unless Hawkins can get her an entry permit to the United States, British authorities will refuse to let her into Hons Kong. Learned From Radio Hawkins told inquiring news men he had learned of the events in Hungary from radio broad casts by the British Broadcast ing Company the Voice of Amer ica and the U. 5. armed torces but mostly from Hungarian stu dents in Peiping. end of Vale. Hundreds of acres of ranch land have been covered with water up to five feet deep killing more than 100 cattle and scores of sheep. may need to ask you to declare this a disaster area, depending on a more thorough review of the situation." Espey Is Nominated To Marine Academy David Laurence Espey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Laurence V. Espey, 619 Park ave., a senior at St. Mary's High school, is one of 10 Oregon youths nominated to the United States Merchant Marine academy at Kings Point, N." Y., by Sen. Richard L.. Neu berger. This is the first year mem bers of Congress have had the opportunity of naming young men to the Merchant Marine academy. Senator Neuberger said. It is one of five federal service academies which pre pares young men to become of ficers. The Merchant Marine acad emy is an accredited four year, degree granting college, Senator Neuberger noted, and nomina tions are based on merit from scores obtained from the United States Civil Service designation examination. Not Keepinj Pce?' Elkins, Seattle Woman Differ on Vice Plans Story Senate Committee Investigates Charges Washington (U.PJ A drawling western racketeer and a middle-aged madam gave Sen ate investigators clashing testi-. mony today over a reported plan to open a string of bawdy hous es in Portland, Ore. The racketeer, James B. Elk ins, said the plan was cooked up by Joseph McLaughlin and Thomas E. Maloney, two Seat tle racketeers whom he said were dispatched by a high of ficial of the Teamsters Union to take over vice and gambling in Portland. The madam, Ann Thompson of Seattle, said the plan originated with Elkins as far as she knew. But she also said Elkins "dis couraged her" so much that she gave up the idea. She said no one mentioned to her any plan for the union to share in profits of the proposed houses. They testified before the Sen ate Rackets committee which is investigating charges that the Teamsters Union, gamblers, and the district attorney formed an unholy alliance to entrench racketeering in Portland. Sensational Testimony Elkins, a tough slow-talking Texan with a record of shoot ing arrests in Arizona aijd Ore gon, said he participated in the alliance but finally got fed up. Now he was matter of factly giving some of the most sensa tional testimony heard in the ornate Senate caucus room since the famous crime investigations of 1950-51. In quick succession today s session produced: 1. A dramatic announcement that Elkins' older brother CarU a Phoenix businessman, had re ceived telephone warnings that the witness had better "shut up. 2. Testimony by the witness himself that Frank W. Brewster, teamsters vice president and head of the union's Western con ference, had personally threat ened himi with death if Elkins "embarrased" Brewster's "boys." The witness said he had received other death threats. Quietly he said: "I know they're going to do something to me." Once Wat Beautiful Miss Thompson, a tall, gray haired woman who obviously was a beauty in her youth, pro vided the first challenge to El kins' detailed, testimony. She shielded her face with a black purse until Committee Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark.), ord ered photographers not to take her picture. Elkins testified that Maloney and McLaughlin had him meet Miss Thompson at the airport when she came from her home in Seattle to discuss opening call houses in Portland. Elkins said he quickly told the madam that "I couldn't do her any good." He said several weeks later she called him, returned to Portland, and he saw her in a hotel, he quoted her as say ing: "I don't want to operate. I want you to tell Maloney and his people I was here and talk ed to you, but we couldn't get together. Tells Different Story "She said she couldn't oper ate one or two or three places on the small percentage she'd get," he continued. "If she had a whole hatful of places, she might make it."" Miss Thompson told a differ ent story of her trips to Port land. She said Maloney met her in Seattle and "asked me to call Jimmy Elkins. He said, 'Jim El kins . . . had something interest ing for you.' " She said it was Elkins who invited her to Poortland. But once she got there, Elkins gave her no encouragement. He did not call, she said, so she called him and returned to Portland. Story Challenged "He said, "There Is not much we can do," " Miss Thompson testified. "He was discouraging and talked me out of it." McClellan challenged her "story, asking why Elkins would have asked her to come to Port land only to discourage her. "Ask Jimmy," she said. Committee counsel Robert F. Kennedy commented that Miss Thompson's testimony "corrob orated" Elkins' statement that Maloney was the first to contact the bawdy house proprietress. Pelton Cofferdam Has Minor Damage Bend (U.R) Minor damage to earthen cofferdam and a fish barrier on the Pelton dam con struction project was reported today following flooding in the Deschutes river. Salem (U.R) Both employ ment and average pay in the Portland-Vancouver area declin ed somewhat last month but re mained slightly above January, 1S56.