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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."
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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
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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.